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A Very Funny Video

January 27th, 2008 by admin

I saw this last night on Mad TV and was appalled and found it very funny too. Unfortunately the parody depicts the true state of our Country and the nature of its leaders. I want to make it clear I endorse no candidate and find it very stupid of the Democratic Party that they would allow a Black Man and a Woman to run against each other with in the party. What moron in the DNC allowed this to happen. As far as the Republicans go 8 more years of their ignorance and I’ll start the revolution my self. Here’s the vid:

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Are We Headed For Another Depression?

January 26th, 2008 by admin

Hello good People. I recieved this today in my email and it got my attention so I decided to share this with you.

“January 26, 2008Dear People,

You can’t lead a horse to water, but when he gets thirsty and
hungry, he will follow you anywhere. I pray dear people that you
are all smarter then the horse and see the approaching storms
that are coming.

http://history1900s.about.com/library/photos/blyindexdepression.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression

http://www.markswatson.com/Depression1.html

http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9037849/Great-Depression

http://www.gusmorino.com/pag3/greatdepression/
It is the same old plan. Recession, Depression, and then WAR!!!
Will we ever learn from our mistakes????

Stay tuned and if you care, really really care, it would be
prudent to prepare yourself and others around you every way you
can.

THIS IS NOT A MESSAGE YOU SHOULD IGNORE.

There has been this possibility we all knew could come
some day. Most people did not think that day would be
sooner rather than later. And even more choose total
ignorance and continue to drink the fluoride in the
water and watch TV mind-control PROGRAMS.

Here is the story of the first bank failure and a
sense from this story that there will be more. I truly
hope and pray that everyone pays attention to what is
happening. You will not read this in your papers or
see it on TV.

Click on this story below and read it well and
understand what this really means if it continues:

http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/government/banking_and_taxation_irs/news.php?q=1201320363

It will be easy to forward it or go back to it later as it is
stored on this note.”

Well these links are food for thought so maybe we should start thinking.

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The True Dangers of Scientology

January 21st, 2008 by admin

Due to the recent exploits of Tom Cruise and John Travolta, among others, I found it necessary to write this post.

many years ago in the early seventies, as a young man living in Austin, I was working as a full time musician. As you might think being such, I would often meet Young Ladies, and being a normal Young Man often it would lead to intimate encounter. Of course on occasion, I would play on the street (busking) and meet people in that manner. One day I met such a young woman and we began to hang out. After some time she invited me to her room in a hostel she lived in. We got intimate to a point and then she would stop and talk about this new thing she was in to called scientology (I choose not to capitalize). Well needless to say I was intrigued, she made it sound really great, like it was the end all. After a time she talked me in to getting and “Audit”. Even to this time I still didn’t see what the big deal was except that after a long list of questions I was told that I needed to take some classes and I would be on my way to being clear. for a fee. Well having studied some Buddhism and other ancient philosophies I saw through the bunk. I didn’t think much else about it until one day I ran in to the young woman and she invited me up to her place. Of course I obliged, after we had a meal we sat down to relax and she opened up to me in an intimate way as we progressed she began to cry. Of course I asked “what’s wrong?” but she wouldn’t say, after coaxing her for while she finally told me in so many words that THEY had told her to use sex to lure people in to the church of scientology. I was aghast, stricken and appalled for this young woman. I told here that no one had the right to ask that of her and that she should leave the church immediately. After that day I never saw her again or ever heard from her, and to this day I wonder what became of her.

Several weeks later I was speaking to a friend of mine who was a devout Christian and she was intrigued by the events I told her of this incident. With her encouragement we went down to the local scientology building to check it out from the inside. When we first walked in it seemed harmless enough but after a moment I began to feel uneasy. I noticed some books on a rack nearby, one of them being the CoS’s bible, Dianetics by L Ron Hubbard, the founder of the church. As I skimmed the pages I recognized information from many cultural places, Religious philosophies from not only Native American Teachings but Hindu and Buddhism as well as a bit of Churchward’s teachings on Lemuria. When we were approached by a younger member of the church, I engaged him in conversation about the fact that the book was full of borrowed information. As we progressed in our conversation I could see him grow more uncomfortable with the lack of knowledge he had about my questions. Excusing himself he said he would be right back with someone more capable of helping me. After a moment we were approached by two “suits” older fellows, as one positioned himself directly in front of me and engaged me in conversation the other took a position directly behind me where I couldn’t see him. While the one in front asked me what my questions were I began to point out what I found in the book and questioned him on it’s validity in so many words. As the conversation progressed I began to feel an irritating feeling coming from behind me and realized that the other fellow was peering in to my mind and trying to intimidate me with thought. It was at that moment I turned to my friend and said “Let’s leave” I thanked them and we proceeded to make a a quick exit. I never went back again and steered clear of the place for as long as it was there.

For many years after that I was, on occasion, apt to warn people about the CoS when ever anyone would show an interest and, went so far as to tell people that it was a dangerous place and organization.

Since those times the CoS has grown to be a very powerful entity with controlling assets in many powerful places and people. People have died and many lives have been ruined because of the CoS. Recently Tom Cruise has begun a campaign of promotion for the church and again people are apt to get hurt. Please feel free to check for yourself, and I offer this group of videos that reveal information that has not and will not get in to the main stream media. There are parts of this group that resemble pre war Nazism and anyone who would say I was crazy or insane needs to check for them selves. For many years I warned people about this group and now we are faced with a huge Monster. The ORG is not an entity to be trifled with and it will take strength and determination to confront this entity. Fear is not an option. here are some videos for your perusal, you decide for yourself.

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The Truth Shall Set You Free: The Destabilization of Pakistan

January 16th, 2008 by admin

A friend of mine emailed this report to me. It’s entitled the Destabilization of Pakistan. I felt it important to reprint it here for your consideration . There is evidence that the U.S. is up to no good and they are using Terrorism as an excuse to work there ways in the Middle East.

The Destabilization of Pakistan

By Prof. Michel Chossudovsky

– The assassination of Benazir Bhutto has created conditions which contribute to the ongoing destabilization and fragmentation of Pakistan as a Nation.

The process of US sponsored “regime change”, which normally consists in the re-formation of a fresh proxy government under new leaders has been broken. Discredited in the eyes of Pakistani public opinion, General Pervez Musharaf cannot remain in the seat of political power. But at the same time, the fake elections supported by the “international community” scheduled for January 2008, even if they were to be carried out, would not be accepted as legitimate, thereby creating a political impasse.

There are indications that the assassination of Benazir Bhutto was anticipated by US officials:

“It has been known for months that the Bush-Cheney administration and its allies have been maneuvering to strengthen their political control of Pakistan, paving the way for the expansion and deepening of the “war on terrorism” across the region.

Various American destabilization plans, known for months by officials and analysts, proposed the toppling of Pakistan’s military…

The assassination of Bhutto appears to have been anticipated. There were even reports of “chatter” among US officials about the possible assassinations of either Pervez Musharraf or Benazir Bhutto, well before the actual attempts took place. (Larry Chin, Global Research, 29 December 2007)

Political Impasse

“Regime change” with a view to ensuring continuity under military rule is no longer the main thrust of US foreign policy. The regime of Pervez Musharraf cannot prevail. Washington’s foreign policy course is to actively promote the political fragmentation and balkanization of Pakistan as a nation.

A new political leadership is anticipated but in all likelihood it will take on a very different shape, in relation to previous US sponsored regimes. One can expect that Washington will push for a compliant political leadership, with no commitment to the national interest, a leadership which will serve US imperial interests, while concurrently contributing under the disguise of “decentralization”, to the weakening of the central government and the fracture of Pakistan’s fragile federal structure.

The political impasse is deliberate. It is part of an evolving US foreign policy agenda, which favors disruption and disarray in the structures of the Pakistani State. Indirect rule by the Pakistani military and intelligence apparatus is to be replaced by more direct forms of US interference, including an expanded US military presence inside Pakistan.
This expanded military presence is also dictated by the Middle East-Central Asia geopolitical situation and Washington’s ongoing plans to extend the Middle East war to a much broader area.

The US has several military bases in Pakistan. It controls the country’s air space. According to a recent report: “U.S. Special Forces are expected to vastly expand their presence in Pakistan, as part of an effort to train and support indigenous counter-insurgency forces and clandestine counterterrorism units” (William Arkin, Washington Post, December 2007).

The official justification and pretext for an increased military presence in Pakistan is to extend the “war on terrorism”. Concurrently, to justify its counterrorism program, Washington is also beefing up its covert support to the “terrorists.”

The Balkanization of Pakistan

Already in 2005, a report by the US National Intelligence Council and the CIA forecast a “Yugoslav-like fate” for Pakistan “in a decade with the country riven by civil war, bloodshed and inter-provincial rivalries, as seen recently in Balochistan.” (Energy Compass, 2 March 2005). According to the NIC-CIA, Pakistan is slated to become a “failed state” by 2015, “as it would be affected by civil war, complete Talibanisation and struggle for control of its nuclear weapons”. (Quoted by former Pakistan High Commissioner to UK, Wajid Shamsul Hasan, Times of India, 13 February 2005):

“Nascent democratic reforms will produce little change in the face of opposition from an entrenched political elite and radical Islamic parties. In a climate of continuing domestic turmoil, the Central government’s control probably will be reduced to the Punjabi heartland and the economic hub of Karachi,” the former diplomat quoted the NIC-CIA report as saying.

Expressing apprehension, Hasan asked, “are our military rulers working on a similar agenda or something that has been laid out for them in the various assessment reports over the years by the National Intelligence Council in joint collaboration with CIA?” (Ibid)

Continuity, characterized by the dominant role of the Pakistani military and intelligence has been scrapped in favor of political breakup and balkanization.
According to the NIC-CIA scenario, which Washington intends to carry out: “Pakistan will not recover easily from decades of political and economic mismanagement, divisive policies, lawlessness, corruption and ethnic friction,” (Ibid) .

The US course consists in fomenting social, ethnic and factional divisions and political fragmentation, including the territorial breakup of Pakistan. This course of action is also dictated by US war plans in relation to both Afghanistan and Iran.

This US agenda for Pakistan is similar to that applied throughout the broader Middle East Central Asian region. US strategy, supported by covert intelligence operations, consists in triggering ethnic and religious strife, abetting and financing secessionist movements while also weakening the institutions of the central government.

The broader objective is to fracture the Nation State and redraw the borders of Iraq, Iran, Syria, Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Pakistan’s Oil and Gas reserves
Pakistan’s extensive oil and gas reserves, largely located in Balochistan province, as well as its pipeline corridors are considered strategic by the Anglo-American alliance, requiring the concurrent militarization of Pakistani territory.

Balochistan comprises more than 40 percent of Pakistan’s land mass, possesses important reserves of oil and natural gas as well as extensive mineral resources.

The Iran-India pipeline corridor is slated to transit through Balochistan. Balochistan also possesses a deap sea port largely financed by China located at Gwadar, on the Arabian Sea, not far from the Straits of Hormuz where 30 % of the world’s daily oil supply moves by ship or pipeline. (Asia News.it, 29 December 2007)

Pakistan has an estimated 25.1 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) of proven gas reserves of which 19 trillion are located in Balochistan. Among foreign oil and gas contractors in Balochistan are BP, Italy’s ENI, Austria’s OMV, and Australia’s BHP. It is worth noting that Pakistan’s State oil and gas companies, including PPL which has the largest stake in the Sui oil fields of Balochistan are up for privatization under IMF-World Bank supervision.

According to the Oil and Gas Journal (OGJ), Pakistan had proven oil reserves of 300 million barrels, most of which are located in Balochistan. Other estimates place Balochistan oil reserves at an estimated six trillion barrels of oil reserves both on-shore and off-shore (Environment News Service, 27 October 2006) .

Covert Support to Balochistan Separatists
Balochistan’s strategic energy reserves have a bearing on the separatist agenda. Following a familiar pattern, there are indications that the Baloch insurgency is being supported and abetted by Britain and the US.
The Balochi national resistance movement dates back to the late 1940s, when Balochistan was invaded by Pakistan. In the current geopolitical context, the separatist movement is in the process of being hijacked by foreign powers.

British intelligence is allegedly providing covert support to Balochistan separatists (which from the outset have been repressed by Pakistan’s military). In June 2006, Pakistan’s Senate Committee on Defence accused British intelligence of “abetting the insurgency in the province bordering Iran” [Balochistan]..(Press Trust of India, 9 August 2006). Ten British MPs were involved in a closed door session of the Senate Committe on Defence regarding the alleged support of Britain’s Secret Service to Balcoh separatists (Ibid).
It would appear that Britain and the US are supporting both sides. The US is providing American F-16 jets to Pakistan, which are being used to bomb Baloch villages in Balochistan. Meanwhile, British alleged covert support (according to the Pakistani by Senate Committee) contributes to weakening the central government.
The stated purpose of US counter-terrorism is to provide covert support as well as as training to “Liberation Armies” ultimately with a view to destabilizing sovereign governments. In Kosovo, the training of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) in the 1990s had been entrusted to a private mercenary company, Military Professional Resources Inc (MPRI), on contract to the Pentagon.
The BLA bears a canny resemblance to Kosovo’s KLA, which was financed by the drug trade and supported by the CIA and Germany’s Bundes Nachrichten Dienst (BND).
The BLA emerged shortly after the 1999 military coup. It has no tangible links to the Baloch resistance movement, which developed since the late 1940s. An aura of mystery surrounds the leadership of the BLA.

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Baloch population in Pink: In Iran, Pakistan and Southern Afghanistan

Washington favors the creation of a “Greater Balochistan” which would integrate the Baloch areas of Pakistan with those of Iran and possibly the Southern tip of Afghanistan (See Map above), thereby leading to a process of political fracturing in both Iran and Pakistan.

“The US is using Balochi nationalism for staging an insurgency inside Iran’s Sistan-Balochistan province. The ‘war on terror’ in Afghanistan gives a useful political backdrop for the ascendancy of Balochi militancy” (See Global Research, 6 March 2007).

Military scholar Lieutenant Colonel Ralph Peters writing in the June 2006 issue of The Armed Forces Journal, suggests, in no uncertain terms that Pakistan should be broken up, leading to the formation of a separate country: “Greater Balochistan” or “Free Balochistan” (see Map below). The latter would incorporate the Pakistani and Iranian Baloch provinces into a single political entity.

In turn, according to Peters, Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province (NWFP) should be incorporated into Afghanistan “because of its linguistic and ethnic affinity”.

Although the map does not officially reflect Pentagon doctrine, it has been used in a training program at NATO’s Defense College for senior military officers. This map, as well as other similar maps, have most probably been used at the National War Academy as well as in military planning circles. (See Mahdi D. Nazemroaya, Global Research, 18 November 2006)

“Lieutenant-Colonel Peters was last posted, before he retired to the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence, within the U.S. Defence Department, and has been one of the Pentagon’s foremost authors with numerous essays on strategy for military journals and U.S. foreign policy.” (Ibid)


Map: click to enlarge
It is worth noting that secessionist tendencies are not limited to Balochistan. There are separatist groups in Sindh province, which are largely based on opposition to the Punjabi-dominated military regime of General Pervez Musharraf (For Further details see Selig Harrisson, Le Monde diplomatique, October 2006)

“Strong Economic Medicine”: Weakening Pakistan’s Central Government

Pakistan has a federal structure based on federal provincial transfers. Under a federal fiscal structure, the central government transfers financial resources to the provinces, with a view to supporting provincial based programs. When these transfers are frozen as occurred in Yugoslavia in January 1990, on orders of the IMF, the federal fiscal structure collapses:

“State revenues that should have gone as transfer payments to the republics [of the Yugoslav federation] went instead to service Belgrade’s debt … . The republics were largely left to their own devices. … The budget cuts requiring the redirection of federal revenues towards debt servicing, were conducive to the suspension of transfer payments by Belgrade to the governments of the Republics and Autonomous Provinces.

In one fell swoop, the reformers had engineered the final collapse of Yugoslavia’s federal fiscal structure and mortally wounded its federal political institutions. By cutting the financial arteries between Belgrade and the republics, the reforms fueled secessionist tendencies that fed on economic factors as well as ethnic divisions, virtually ensuring the de facto secession of the republics. (Michel Chossudovsky, The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order, Second Edition, Global Research, Montreal, 2003, Chapter 17.)

It is by no means accidental that the 2005 National Intelligence Council- CIA report had predicted a “Yugoslav-like fate” for Pakistan pointing to the impacts of “economic mismanagement” as one of the causes of political break-up and balkanization.
“Economic mismanagement” is a term used by the Washington based international financial institutions to describe the chaos which results from not fully abiding by the IMF’s Structural Adjustment Program. In actual fact, the “economic mismanagement” and chaos is the outcome of IMF-World Bank pre scri ptions, which invariably trigger hyperinflation and precipitate indebted countries into extreme poverty.

Pakistan has been subjected to the same deadly IMF “economic medicine” as Yugoslavia: In 1999, in the immediate wake of the coup d’Etat which brought General Pervez Musharaf to the helm of the military government, an IMF economic package, which included currency devaluation and drastic austerity measures, was imposed on Pakistan. Pakistan’s external debt is of the order of US$40 billion. The IMF’s “debt reduction” under the package was conditional upon the sell-off to foreign capital of the most profitable State owned enterprises (including the oil and gas facilities in Balochistan) at rockbottom prices .

Musharaf’s Finance Minister was chosen by Wall Street, which is not an unusual practice. The military rulers appointed at Wall Street’s behest, a vice-president of Citigroup, Shaukat Aziz, who at the time was head of CitiGroup’s Global Private Banking. (See WSWS.org, 30 October 1999). CitiGroup is among the largest commercial foreign banking institutions in Pakistan.

There are obvious similarities in the nature of US covert intelligence operations applied in country after country in different parts of the so-called “developing World”. These covert operation, including the organisation of military coups, are often synchronized with the imposition of IMF-World Bank macro-economic reforms. In this regard, Yugoslavia’s federal fiscal structure collapsed in 1990 leading to mass poverty and heightened ethnic and social divisions. The US and NATO sponsored “civil war” launched in mid-1991 consisted in coveting Islamic groups as well as channeling covert support to separatist paramilitary armies in Bosnia, Kosovo and Macedonia.
A similar “civil war” scenario has been envisaged for Pakistan by the National Intelligence Council and the CIA: From the point of view of US intelligence, which has a longstanding experience in abetting separatist “liberation armies”, “Greater Albania” is to Kosovo what “Greater Balochistan” is to Pakistan’s Southeastern Balochistan province. Similarly, the KLA is Washington’s chosen model, to be replicated in Balochistan province.

The Assassination of Benazir Bhutto

Benazir Bhutto was assassinated in Rawalpindi, no ordinary city. Rawalpindi is a military city host to the headquarters of the Pakistani Armed Forces and Military Intelligence (ISI). Ironically Bhutto was assassinated in an urban area tightly controlled and guarded by the military police and the country’s elite forces. Rawalpindi is swarming with ISI intelligence officials, which invariably infiltrate political rallies. Her assassination was not a haphazard event.

Without evidence, quoting Pakistan government sources, the Western media in chorus has highlighted the role of Al-Qaeda, while also focusing on the the possible involvement of the ISI.

What these interpretations do not mention is that the ISI continues to play a key role in overseeing Al Qaeda on behalf of US intelligence. The press reports fail to mention two important and well documented facts:

1) the ISI maintains close ties to the CIA. The ISI is virtually an appendage of the CIA.

2) Al Qaeda is a creation of the CIA. The ISI provides covert support to Al Qaeda, acting on behalf of US intelligence.

The involvement of either Al Qaeda and/or the ISI would suggest that US intelligence was cognizant and/or implicated in the assassination plot.

Michel Chossudovsky is the author of the international bestseller America’s “War on Terrorism” Global Research, 2005. He is Professor of Economics at the University of Ottawa and Director of the Center for Research on Globalization.

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Presidential Campaign Fiasco

January 14th, 2008 by admin

OK so for the first time in History we have a Woman and a Black Man running for president. Unfortunately they are both running on the Democratic ticket. So what’s wrong with this picture? It’s just another example of how the political system is designed to confuse and separate the masses in to factions. What would happen if Americans actually had a Presidential candidate that they all liked and didn’t rely on raising tons of money just to run? The first problem is the fact that a candidate doesn’t stand a chance without millions of dollars just to run. What does this say about the validity of our system? Is it any wonder that Globalists and major corporations are running the show? They have all the money, it’s a no brainer.

The first mistake we all are making is believing America is a Democracy it is a Constitutional Republic of a Democratic Nature.

The Constitution itself guarantees a “republican form of government”, at Article 4 Section 4, it states: “The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government,”

America is a Republic, a constitutional Republic of a democratic (one man - one vote) nature. However, we are not a democracy where the majority rules. That is government propaganda designed to condition you to accept their injustice and believe that there is nothing that you can do about it. The difference between a Democracy and a Republic is that in a Republic there are certain things that can never be done no matter how many people want to do it ! The rights of no individual or group can ever be removed or diminished (because that group may be currently unpopular (for whatever reason)), regardless of how many people vote to do so. In a Republic, even if the vote is 250 million to 1, that one cannot be thrown into slavery. In a pure democracy 51% of the men can vote the other 49% back into slavery if they wish. Or, they can vote to steal your property (sound familiar), but not in a Republic (if the Constitution or the law forbids it, which ours DOES). Our founding fathers hated democracy, recognizing that it is nothing more than social slavery to the popular hysteria of the masses (sound familiar). They wanted a representative (democratic) system, but not a pure democracy, and they did not establish a democracy in the Constitution, they established a Republic, a Constitutional Republic.

The present Administration is constantly crying “We are bringing Democracy to the rest of the world!” but this too is propaganda in view of the fact that we lack true Democracy here. Perhaps the entire Presidential Campaign Fiasco is designed to confuse us further and distract us from the fact that someone else is choosing our President and perhaps that some one else are the very people who make the money from all this campaigning. Is there anyone out there that you know who has ever seen where all that money goes? Is there any place where we, the Citizen, can see every expenditure and who receives the money spent by every candidate? I doubt very seriously if anyone would want to wade through the paper work, but if someone did, they may find a horror story of the truth.

As the great Noam Chomsky has pointed out and as I have always believed. America is a one party system with two factions. In the history of our country there was a party at one time called the Democratic Republican Party, founded by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, the Democratic party was created by Andrew Jackson, who by the way was one of the largest slave owners of the time and was responsible for more suffering by the Indigenous citizens than any other president.

Here’s a wonderful quote from Alexander Marriot “Republic? Democracy? What’s The Difference?”

“In the long run though, a democracy will always become a tyranny, either by majority, or if the majority screw things up so badly and a tyrant seizes power from the ensuing chaos. The overriding characteristic of democracy is subjectivism and that is its fatal flaw. In other words, reason is irrelevant, whatever the majority wants, it gets and regardless of how unprincipled or objectionable it may be. Rights cannot exist in such a system in the long run because they can be voted away on a whim at any time. So if you’re interested in freedom at all you must cast away an ugly term like democracy and accept that freedom requires reason, objectivity, and law, which can only be satisfied by a republican government.”

Unfortunately the pseudo Republican party no longer represents the ideals of it’s historical states rights roots “Republican Party”, as this administration purports to bring Democracy to the world. Then who are we to trust? Could it be that the conspiracy theorists are right in accusing the present administration of bringing Tyranny/Police State to the U.S.? The entire concept of Globalist Government run by Banking and Corporations is not new to this country, but Tyranny is.

Let’s look at the facts, GW Bush has just made a trip to the middle east under the pretense of peace. In fact the whole trip was to reassure Israel that we intend to confront Iran.

“On another key issue, Mr. Olmert praised President Bush’s stand on Iran, a country that has threatened to wipe the Jewish state “off the map.”

He said Mr. Bush sees Iran as a major regional threat, despite the recent U.S. intelligence report that Teheran halted its nuclear-weapons program four years ago. The prime minister said even though Mr. Bush only has a year left in office, the president remains committed to Israel’s security and will do all he can to remove the Iranian threat. “ Robert Berger, Jerusalem, 13 January 2008 VOA.com

JERUSALEM (AFP) January 14 2008 — Israel warned on Monday that all options were on the table in preventing Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, echoing Washington in ratcheting up the rhetoric against their arch foe.

“We are not ruling out any option,” a senior government official quoted Prime Minister Ehud Olmert as telling parliament’s foreign affairs and defense committee.

“Anything that can lead to preventing Iran from nuclear capability is part of the legitimate context when dealing with the problem.”

His comments coincide with US President George W. Bush’s Middle East trip, which is aimed in large part at mustering the support of Washington’s regional allies in his campaign to isolate Iran.”

Comments like this and the fact that a recent new secret report accuses Iran of building nuclear weapons is the real reason that GW Bush went to the middle east. This is the legacy that this administration is leaving for who ever gets in to office. It doesn’t matter what party they are from. Has it occurred to anyone else that every time a President is in their last days in office suddenly Peace in the Middle East becomes the big thing. As far back as I can remember, back to my childhood (I’m 54 years old) every president has declared “There will be peace in the Middle east” and very time something very different occurs.

Whether you are in favor of a Republican or a Democrat candidate, the issues at hand have nothing to do with party line. The very fact that whom ever gets in office has a world that no longer looks to us with respect on their hands, is the biggest issue of all. We can become isolationists but, Globalization will not allow that.

The very issue of Undocumented Immigrants has been caused by NAFTA and the Globalization of our continent. I do not blame the people who come here to make a better life fro themselves but the American Corporations that take advantage of slave labor and the Mexican Government that allows it. Why must the poor people be the criminals, because they are easy prey. It is easier to hunt down the immigrant than to hold the Mexican Government or Major Corporations accountable. As the campaign goes on I will be writing more on my opinions and the Fiasco Of the Election for now I think I’ve said enough. And in the words of the Commander and Chief,

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A Great Explorer and Man Leaves This World

January 11th, 2008 by admin

In 1953 a team of men scaled the tallest mountain in the world. On May 29 two months before I was born 2 of those men Edmund Hillary and Tenzig Norgay reached the summit of Mt Everest and spent 15 minutes there, it was the beginning of a long career of exploration for Sir Edmund Hillary. On June 6th 1953 he was Knighted as Knight Commander in the Order of the British Empire, in 1987 he was made a member of the Order of New Zealand, and in 1995 he was made a Knight of the Order of the Garter.

Born in New Zealand on July 2oth 1919 to a family of British settlers, as a young man Hillary showed and interest in climbing and completed his first major climb in 1939 when he and some friends reached the summit of Mt Oliver in the Southern Alps
After Everest he climbed 10 other peaks in the Himalayas during the late 50’s and the 60’s, he was also involved in many expeditions to the Arctic and the Antarctica. By 1985 he became the first man to have stood at both Poles as well as Mt Everest.
Tenzig Norgay at The Summit 1953

(From Wikipedia)

“He devoted all of his life to helping the Sherpa people of Nepal through the Himalayan trust, which he founded and to which he had given much of his time and energy. Through his efforts he had succeeded in building many schools and hospitals in this remote region of the Himalayas. He was the Honorary President of the American Himalayan Foundation, a United States non-profit body that helps improve the ecology and living conditions in the Himalayas.

Sir Edmund Hillary angry with mountaineers who left British climber to die
Hillary spoke of his disdain for the attitudes displayed by many modern mountaineers. In particular he publicly criticized New Zealander Mark Inglis and 40 other climbers who, in various groups, left British climber David Sharp to die in May 2006. He said:
I think the whole attitude towards climbing Mount Everest has become rather horrifying. The people just want to get to the top, it was wrong if there was a man suffering altitude problems and was huddled under a rock, just to lift your hat, say good morning and pass on by.
He also told the New Zealand Herald that he was horrified by the callous attitude of today’s climbers:
They don’t give a damn for anybody else who may be in distress and it doesn’t impress me at all that they leave someone lying under a rock to die. “

In an age where our heroes are becoming drug addicts, over paid arrogant buffoons and selfish individualists, the loss of a great man like Sir Edmund Percival Hillary is an even greater loss. A great Adventurer, A Great Man and a Great Human Being, you are making the greatest climb in your life.

Sir Edmund Hillary

Born July 20th 1919 Died January 11th 2008

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Is George Bush an Idiot A Thought Provoking Video

January 11th, 2008 by admin

After watching this I began to wonder if GW plays dumb on purpose. The questions posed by this video are valid and quite frightening. Watch for yourself and you decide. Leave a comment and let us know what you think.

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