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Baudelaire ------------------------------------------- king of the gramatically incorrect, last of the two finger typist------------------------the truth, uncut funk, da bomb..HOME OF THE SIX MINUTE BLOG POST STR8 FROM BRAINCELL TO CYBERVILLEAll-Mi-T [Thought Crime] Rawdawgbuffalohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08843040863123899426noreply@blogger.comBlogger1306125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17646926.post-70221297717650907402017-01-18T13:04:00.002-05:002017-01-18T13:04:37.583-05:00My New BlogMy <a href="http://wsenmw.blogspot.com/">NEW Blog</a>, do follow.All-Mi-T [Thought Crime] Rawdawgbuffalohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08843040863123899426noreply@blogger.com397tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17646926.post-50613496733391463142014-07-23T15:10:00.006-04:002014-07-23T17:43:20.553-04:00American-Israeli Politics: Where Bullying is Called Self-Defense<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">“</span></b><b style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And I stand shoulder to shoulder with Israel
as it defends itself against this shocking violence.” <a href="http://www.booker.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=102">Senator Cory Booker</a></span></b></div>
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is entitled to take the steps necessary to protect itself from destructive
rocket attacks from Hamas that are aimed at all Israeli civilians, regardless
of their religion,” said <a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2014/07/palestinian-unification-survival.html">Senator Charles Schumer</a></span></b><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">"We support Israel's right to self-defense.”
<a href="http://www.scpr.org/programs/airtalk/2014/07/22/38484/hillary-clinton-on-ukraine-gaza-and-the-hard-choic/">Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton</a></span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">It was <a href="http://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/william-t-sherman">General William Tecumseh Sherman</a>,
whom after conducting his devastating campaign against Georgia’s civilian
population and burning the city of Atlanta, who said, “War is Hell.” This
statement is likely the most concise and appropriate description of war
recorded in modern history since the publication of </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><a href="http://www.clausewitz.com/">Carl von Clausewitz</a>'s great
military-theoretical classic <a href="http://www.amazon.com/War-Indexed-Carl-von-Clausewitz/dp/0691018545/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1406141879&sr=1-1&keywords=on+war+carl+von+clausewitz">On War</a> published in the 1873. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> I despise war and the carnage it results in
regardless of the factions involved. But what is next in line that I personally
find as upsetting, is the cosmetic over simplification used by many, often the
oppressor in these exercise, to sanitize what is barbaric brutality in its
purest form.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The recent re-start of the incessant
military engagement between <a href="http://www.un.int/wcm/content/site/palestine/cache/offonce/pid/11600">Israel and Gaza</a> (one that has been going on since 1949),
has reared its ugly head again. And as usual, the result is the same, the mass
slaughter of mostly innocent civilians, mainly women and children, which
outside of newspeak, resembles ethnic cleansing more than a military engagement.
However, as noted in the opening quotes, it is the retro chic position of the moment
to describe Israel’s actions as<a href="http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Self-Defense"> SELF-DEFENSE</a>. This misappropriation of the term
SELF-DEFENSE defeats reason, logic and any operational definition used in the
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">By
definition, </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">a noun, self-defense refers to the
use of reasonable force to protect oneself or members of the family from bodily
harm from the attack of an aggressor, if the defender has reason to believe they
are in danger. Consequently, the force used in self-defense may be sufficient
for protection from said perceived harm such to stop any danger from attack,
but cannot be an excuse to continue the attack or the use of excessive force. Thus
self-defense cannot include killing or great bodily harm to defend property or
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The present
actions of the <a href="http://www.idfblog.com/">Israeli Defense Forces (IDF)</a> do not meet any of the
aforementioned operational definitions.
Even under the purview of “<a href="https://studiegids.leidenuniv.nl/en/courses/show/32974/just-war-theory">Just War Theory</a>”, which asserts military personnel
must take careful aim at his military target and away from nonmilitary targets,
and one cannot kill civilians simply because he finds them between himself and
his enemies. Simply not to intend the deaths of civilians is not the pragmatic
objective in this sense, but rather paramount is to save civilian lives even if
it means risking soldiers’ lives.</div>
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What is obviated from the discussion is that self-defense
means that if the people of a nation are suffering aggression, oppression, or
genocide, and are themselves capable of stopping it, they are morally entitled
to respond militarily. Unfortunately
Israel cannot claim this position, given that aggression from another nation
can only be described in self-defense if it is a last resort, which
historically we hasn’t been the case (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Pillar_of_Defense">2012</a>, <a href="http://fas.org/sgp/crs/mideast/R40101.pdf">2008</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Intifada">etc</a>.). In addition, the
self-defense notion under the assumption of military action being a last resort
cannot be met also because every other conceivable avenue outside of using
military force has not been tried. Moreover, the kidnaping and murder of three
innocent individuals, usually a police action cannot be perceived as a last
resort or the impetus to start aggressive military action. But when these
standards are not met, the result is Gaza: an innocent populous is the victim
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Another point of contention is that self-defense is
virtuous and practical. What Israel is practicing is more like a George
Zimmerman style of self-defense. Instead of self-defense, the actions of Israel
are more akin to bullying. <a href="http://www.stopbullying.gov/">Bullying</a> is unwanted, aggressive behavior that
involves a real or perceived power imbalance. The behavior is repeated, or has
the potential to be repeated, over time. Bullies intend to harm their targets
and usually are continuous and sustained. This means that they (bullies) target
their victims multiple times, frequently with the same act over and over. More
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.5pt;">I say this because the assertion of
self-defense avoids the historical reality of colonial occupation of Gaza by
Israel which prevents effort on behalf of the Palestinians living in what has
been described as an open air prison, the ability and human right to establish
a proper, free society. If Israel was trying to avoid civilian deaths, they would and could, but this is not their desire. They are possessed with an evil
dogma of annihilation similar to that we saw in South Africa during apartheid.
Their objective is to destroy and kill all who are in the way of their
imperialistic desire to control and occupy all of Gaza, inclusive of it rich
natural gas and oil reserves. For example, it is a well-known fact that </span><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 13.5pt;">The IDF calculates
the number of calories Gaza's civilian
population needs to just survive on a daily basis and transports foods into Gaza accordingly. This is not self-defense, it is bullying with the objective to occupy territory
accordingly </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.5pt;">break up the will and lands of the Palestinian
people. Ironically, it closely the plan of </span><a href="http://arlindo-correia.com/180105.html" style="line-height: 13.5pt;">Adolf Eichmann</a><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.5pt;">, the architect of
ethnic cleansing, for Hitler. And anyone that cannot accept this, I’m cool, but
facts are facts: </span><a href="http://www.sahistory.org.za/topic/june-16-soweto-youth-uprising" style="line-height: 13.5pt;">Soweto 1976</a><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.5pt;"> is no different than Gaza 2014.</span></div>
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Since the 1990s, Israel has repeatedly
failed to meet and even broke all of the conditions outlined in documented
agreements with both parties. They
continue to play this shell game that gives them the privilege to ignore the
natural human rights that Palestinians have like all other peoples in the
world. There is an aggression of the
worse kind: one that indicates they will always be against a two-state
solution, while knowing this is what the majority of Palestinians have agreed
with and desire. They should just admit they desire to ethnic cleanse Gaza, and take thier<a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/war-and-natural-gas-the-israeli-invasion-and-gaza-s-offshore-gas-fields/11680"> oil and natural gas</a>.<o:p></o:p></div>
All-Mi-T [Thought Crime] Rawdawgbuffalohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08843040863123899426noreply@blogger.com116tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17646926.post-48814642306685573382014-07-19T15:42:00.000-04:002014-07-19T15:43:02.531-04:00Average Jewish Response to Deaths of 4 Kids in Gaza<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />All-Mi-T [Thought Crime] Rawdawgbuffalohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08843040863123899426noreply@blogger.com70tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17646926.post-276869292334385702014-07-14T10:23:00.001-04:002014-07-14T10:23:56.837-04:00The False Gaza Narrative and the Dwight Coward Story<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Used to be a time that African American athletes had
character, integrity and stood on what was right more than how much they were
paid.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">This was also the period of
intrepid investigative journalism.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Now,
both have gone the way of extinction as it was with the dinosaurs at the close
of the <a href="http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/msese/earthsysflr/mesozoic.html">Mesozoic Era</a>. Men such as <a href="http://www.natcom.org/CommCurrentsArticle.aspx?id=936">Muhammad Ali</a>, <a href="http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/dissertations/AAI3477371/">Arthur Ashe</a>, <a href="http://life.time.com/culture/black-power-salute-tommie-smith-and-john-carlos-at-the-1968-olympics/#1">Tommie Smith and John Carlos</a> are rare indeed today, as too are men like <a href="http://www.c-span.org/video/?187106-1/investigative-journalism">Dan Rather</a>, <a href="http://dca.lib.tufts.edu/features/murrow/exhibit/">Edward Murrow</a>, <a href="http://www.pbs.org/weta/reportingamericaatwar/reporters/cronkite/">Walter Cronkite</a>, <a href="http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/web/woodstein/">Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">As it stands, honesty and integrity, with the
exception a few in the media and sports is dead and gone. Now instead of reporting on the facts, we are
often given <a href="http://www.mrconservative.com/2013/12/29605-watch-conan-obrien-releases-indisputable-proof-that-mainstream-media-is-scripted/">scripted news reports</a>, funneled from the top of some main office
often word for word as dictated by the political powers that exist. As such, today, with the exception of a <a href="http://www.wired.com/2014/07/greenwald-q-a/">Glen Greenwald</a>, we would never have stories reported honestly in the manner in which
<a href="http://www.pierretristam.com/Bobst/library/wf-200.htm">Seymour Hersh reported on the My Lai Massacre</a> in 1968. Seems as if with the
exception of donating to charity, helping their neighborhoods few if any modern
African American athletes have the courage to address controversial political
issues, regardless of political affiliation. There are a few bright spots, like
former NFL wide receiver <a href="http://www.takepart.com/video/2014/05/28/nfl-star-donte-stallworth-talks-drones-nsa-gitmo">Donte’ Stallworth</a>, who frequently speaks out publicly
about political issues, the <a href="http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/10/03/nfl_wide_receiver_donte_stallworth_s_secret_life_as_a_policy_wonk">economy and even the use of drone</a>s, but these individuals are few and far between in their
respective fields.</span></div>
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mainstream U.S. media is presenting a false narrative on the situation in
Gaza. No matter where you look the focus
is on <a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2014/07/israel-itself-palestinians.html">Israel</a>, <a href="http://www.dailyjournal.net/view/story/8ad72df2e598477bba6de8b7ebe689ed/US--United-States-Israel-Congress/#.U8PkifldWSo">their right to self-defense</a> and <a href="http://freebeacon.com/national-security/dermer-hamas-deliberately-targets-civilians-israel-does-not/">Hamas targeting</a> the man-made
nation state with hundreds of rockets.
Never is there a mention of the disproportionate number of air attacks
the Israeli defense forces (IDF) rain incessantly upon innocent civilians,
rarely are their pictures of the horrendous deaths on the mostly <a href="http://www.imemc.org/article/68429">female and children civilians</a> being ripped apart and rarely, is there any narrative to
place the entire situation in
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">They never mention that Palestine, or the people in
Gaza do not have an Army, Navy or Air force, or that from 2009 to 2018, the
United States has committed to GIVE <a href="http://visualizingpalestine.org/infographic/end-30billion-Green-Jobs">Israel 30 billion in military aid</a>. To be
more exact over the past 60 years it is estimated that the U.S. has given
Israel more than a quarter trillion in military aid. In 2013 alone the Obama
administration sent <a href="http://fas.org/sgp/crs/mideast/RL33222.pdf">Israel $3.1 billion in military aid</a>. <a href="http://www.hrw.org/news/2009/03/25/israel-white-phosphorus-use-evidence-war-crimes">Israel has used white phosphorus on Palestinians</a> before, and now it’s being reported by many
officials that banned <a href="http://www.rense.com/general84/docsd.htm">DIME weapons</a> are being used against civilians in Gaza, a
controversial weapon that emits super heated micro-shrapnel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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outlets even create the narrative against all evidence and fact. Fox news wrote
a story called “<a href="http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2014/07/09/gaza-rockets-aimed-at-israel-what-would-do-with-just-15-seconds/">Gaza rockets aimed at Israel: What would you do with just 15 seconds?</a>” They also, fabricated a television byline using bombed building in
Gaza destroyed by Israeli missiles with the caption: "Militants fire
rockets on Israel." And it just isn’t Fox; Diane<span style="background: white;"> Sawyer of </span>ABC News told its viewers that <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-m4PlW-KgI">scenes of destruction in Gaza were in Israel</a>. Ironically a segment in which the news anchor starts by saying “We take you overseas now to the rockets raining down on Israel today as
Israel tried to shoot them out of the sky.” Next to her is video footage not of
Israel or even Israelis, but rather of the destruction caused by IDF airstrikes
on Gaza.</span></div>
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professional athletes? Well, on July 12, 2014, Dwight Howard, an NBA all-star
who makes more than $21 million annually tweeted #FREEPALESTINE. However, within
minutes, it is clearly the powers that be mad him reverse course for which I posted
another tweet that read: “<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">I apologize if I offended anyone with my previous
tweet, it was a mistake.....previous tweet was a mistake. I have never
commented on international politics and never will</span></span>.” Why would this be so
problematic for the star?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The great writer Voltaire wrote, "If you want
to know who rules over you just ask yourself who cannot be criticized."
Maybe it was NBA Commissioner <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Silver">Adam Silver</a> or <span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Alexander_(businessman)">Leslie Lee Alexander</a>, the owner of the Houston Rockets who made that telephone call,
after all both are Jewish. In a similar vein, we know that <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Iger">Robert Allen Iger</a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white;"> the current chairman and chief executive officer
of The Walt Disney Company (owns ABC) is also Jewish. Which gives substantial support
to the premise of <a href="http://www.amazon.ca/Forty-Million-Dollar-Slaves-Redemption/dp/0307353141">William C. Rhoden’s</a> book, Forty Million Dollar Slaves: The
Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete: meaning </span>the
easiest answer is that is all about the money. Athletes or the owners, teams or
leagues for which they play, do not want to lose it.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Clearly Dwight Howard had someone whisper in his
ear, enough so to make him ask for forgiveness and beg for redemption in the
manner in which slaves often were made to do so by their masters in the Antebellum
south. For a single moment, Howard was a
man, and said what he realized was what was humane in his heart. But it only
lasted long enough for master to crack that whip and return him to the coward
he actually is.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
All-Mi-T [Thought Crime] Rawdawgbuffalohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08843040863123899426noreply@blogger.com36tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17646926.post-66245328962229162412014-07-10T10:09:00.000-04:002014-07-10T10:09:20.470-04:00I.O.U.: Iraq, Obama and Ukraine<div class="MsoNormal">
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security advisers have a few bad poker hands they are in the process of
playing. The first regards all the <a href="http://www.pogo.org/our-work/straus-military-reform-project/defense-budget/2014/americas-one-trillion-national-security-budget.html">trillions they have spent on National Security and the NSA</a> yet not foreseeing the collapse and routing of the <a href="http://www.armytimes.com/article/20140612/NEWS05/306120066/Ex-U-S-commander-defends-U-S-training-Iraq-forces">U.S.trained Iraq Army forces</a> by Sunni jihadists, and second, the blind eye turned
toward the <a href="http://consortiumnews.com/2014/04/20/ukraines-neo-nazi-imperative/">Ukraine</a> by supporting <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svoboda_(political_party)">Neo-Nazis</a> whom just so happen to be conducting
<a href="http://www.sott.net/article/281274-Ethnic-cleansing-proceeding-nicely-Heavy-shell-strike-caught-on-street-camera-in-Ukraine/">ethnic cleansing</a> among the Russian speaking populous of the East. Although
Obama has openly stated that his administration and national security staff has
been working continuously on options for dealing with <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/07/10/what-the-rise-of-isis-means-for-other-isises//">ISIS</a>, and that he has
proposed additional sanctions upon Russia, nothing has been done and nothing
has been effective.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">First looking at Iraq, albeit our
problem began with <a href="http://rawdawgb.blogspot.com/2007/01/true-meglomania.html">President George W. Bush</a>, <a href="http://rawdawgb.blogspot.com/2014/06/us-foreign-policy-civil-war-here-civil.html">Obama</a> has done little to reduce
the blood shed that has been occurring in Iraq for the past two years and like
the mainstream news media, he and his administration have ignored all of the
chaos in the nation and placed it on the back burner, as if it was a done deal
and the war was over. This is one reason that the President was caught slipping
and leaves the question, was it that they did not see this as a possibility of
occurring, given how unstable the country has been since the <a href="http://www.nationaljournal.com/magazine/nuri-kamal-al-maliki-strong-man-20111013">U.S. appointed Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki</a> took over? Or was it that the <a href="http://cnmnewz.com/us-intel-caught-by-surprise-by-isis-sweep-in-iraq/">US intelligence community didn’t see the threat coming from ISIS</a>? Either way,
regardless of who is in the executive office, both are unacceptable. Moreover,
things were made worse when last year, President Obama openly and falsely
claimed and took credit for saying <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2014/06/16/9-quotes-from-obamas-2011-remarks-on-the-end-of-the-war-in-iraq-that-show-his-total-lack-of-foresight/">the war in Iraq was over</a>, just as it was
when Bush made the claim a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_Accomplished_speech">few months after he started the war</a> and <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/03/19/bush.iraq/">again in2008</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Based on this alone, one should ask how
can the U.S. administration install a friendly government in Iraq and but
cannot even get them to accept to extend an agreement or form an inclusive
government when you giving said nation billions annually? I know, defeats
reason. <a href="http://rawdawgb.blogspot.com/2014/05/14-years-of-same-ish.html">The Obama administration</a> explicitly detailed that he wanted such but in
the same breath asserted they would scale back support involve if the <a href="http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2008/04/iraqi_government_mov.php">Sadrists</a>
were a significant player in any Iraqi government: all in congruence with his
desire to use both Iraq and forces on Syria at the forefront of his desire to
topple President Bashar al-Assad.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Maybe we would be better off asking why any
sensible person in leadership would commit more U.S. blood for a lost cause
that was previously lost. To do such in any form or fashion is an embarrassment
and exhibits that the administration’s policy was really no policy at all, but
instead one without specific and tangible aims or outcomes. Let’s be clear, in
a few days, the gains that America and coalition forces made over a decade of
occupation, resulting in nearly <a href="http://www.antiwar.com/casualties/">5,000</a> American lives and <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/03/AR2010090302200.html">$3 trillion</a>, are gone
and we didn’t see it coming. Thus far, it is clear that the administration was
moving the Iraqis faster than they should have seeing it is clear the military
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">But what is more troubling, is trying to
figure out why Washington selected Nouri al-Maliki, after all he is one of the
few Iraqi political leader who doesn’t have any clout, I mean, he doesn’t have
a militia like other Iraqi leaders, does he? The fact is that <a href="http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2013/11/iran-us-changing-game-influence-iraq-maliki.html">Maliki is dependent on Iran</a> for his power and Iran is backing Syria, both of which in
many respects have been keeping him in power, I am sure Obama knew this, yet he
appointed him against all the desires his Syrian and Iranian foreign policy
wish to accomplish. The record shows that <a href="http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=122237">Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel met with leaders of Arab countries in Saudi Arabia</a> a few months backs in which all
party’s agreed that ISIS in Syria and Iraq was a real threat, but no plan were
developed on how to address these events.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">And just like in Iran where Obama’s
foreign policy is out of sync with the realities in the region, the same
consistency is evident in the Ukraine. The entire world knows that Yanukovich’s
democratically elected government was removed by military force instigated by
right wing neo-Nazi and Neo fascist via U.S. and E.U urging. Yet, just like his
administration was supposedly caught by surprise at the rate in which the
well-armed and highly trained <a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-latest-debacle-in-iraq-black-flags-over-mosul/5386821">ISIS fighters took over Mosul</a>, they said the same
in February, when it failed to foresee <a href="http://lorenzoae.wordpress.com/2014/04/01/obama-whitewashing-iraq/">the events in Crimea</a>. Likewise as we observed in Iraq and Syria,
where the rise of ISIS negate Obama’s claims of a happy ending to the war in
Iraq, the recent moves of Russia has proffered the same, moreover, it makes one
query how effective will his success be in Afghanistan since he will employ a
carbon-copy the of the same strategy for withdrawal there by 2016.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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President <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/06/04/remarks-president-obama-and-president-elect-petro-poroshenko-ukraine-aft">Obama considers Billionaire Petro Poroshenko</a>’s victory a good thing.
Consequently, he immediately began bombing the Russia speaking regions of
<a href="https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=606718.280">Donetsk and Lugansk</a> to deal with the so-called “terrorist” with the approval of
our Nobel Peace prize winning president. Even more peculiar is that through
this support, Obama has placed his administration in violation of the U.S. law
he has mentioned several times over the past six years that prohibits
financially aiding any coup installed government such as the case in Ukraine.
Think about it, the Obama administration didn’t see what happened in Egypt as a
coup, so the military aid to Egypt kept flowing to the tune of <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/01/14/us-egypt-usa-aid-idUSBREA0D16Z20140114">$1 billion plus</a>\.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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is in the midst of an extremely tenuous situation. The most significant is
ISIS: especially not knowing the group’s true strength and how to respond.
Particularly, the fact that the U.S. currently has NO intelligence on <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/middle-east/Abu-Bakr-al-Baghdadi-caliph-of-Islamic-State-appears-in-video-for-first-time/articleshow/37851363.cms">Abu Bakral Baghdadi</a>, the leader of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), who was
once held by the US in Camp Bucca Iraq (the <a href="http://www.papamiket.com/?p=74439">Obama administration shut down the Bucca</a> prison camp and released its prisoners, including Abu Bakr al Baghdadi in
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Ukraine, Russian foreign policy appears to be the lone consistent winner.
Although President Obama has stated he will invest $1 billion in stepping up
the US military presence in Eastern Europe based on the tension in the
Ukrainian, since March, the White House has approved more than $23 million in
security assistance to Ukraine and is now saying it will give Kiev an additional
$5 million aid. Meanwhile, <a href="http://www.themoscowtimes.com/business/article/china-russia-sign-16bln-deal-on-siberian-lng-project/503249.html">China and Russia</a> are in the midst of a <a href="http://resourceinvestingnews.com/67406-us-dollar-gold-goodman-currency-russia.html">massive Gold buying spree</a> plus the deals with the nations mentioned above, makes any sanctions
mentioned by the present administration an effort in futility.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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President to promise the impossible of ending a war in which his policy has
virtually flamed Sunni and Shiite sectarian violence. Then remains the question
many have yet to ask, why was such a vile person considered fit to be released
into the world, when times before at closings, administration’s would just
relocate such person to Gitmo? Yes the administrations have some cards it must
play and they may not produce a winning hand.
Bluffing and inconsistencies in foreign policy have seemed to put the
U.S. all over the map. One the one hand
we are aware that the Iraqi leadership is backing Syria against the U.S.
supported militants yet say little if anything about it, and on the other that
Maliki continues to implement repressive attacks on and against Sunni in Iraq.
In both Iraq and Ukraine, it may be best for the administration let things go
as they will and take an I.O.U., because America has messed things up enough
already in both regions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
All-Mi-T [Thought Crime] Rawdawgbuffalohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08843040863123899426noreply@blogger.com27tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17646926.post-82100934613311464272014-07-08T14:19:00.000-04:002014-07-08T14:24:04.613-04:00Interactive Map: Relocations of Unaccompanied Immigrant Minors<iframe frameborder="0" height="350" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="https://www.google.com/maps/ms?msid=215860821987081633721.0004fd39453513c9dc418&msa=0&ie=UTF8&t=m&source=embed&ll=38.993572,-95.405273&spn=29.283014,54.404297&output=embed" width="425"></iframe><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Now before some zealot,
pro-black/pro-white only progressive liberal republican starts to attack me, I
just want to say that I am pro-people, all people and that I practice the use
of logic and reason as opposed to emotional invective to present my perspective
on what think.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">For the record, I am an
infectious disease specialist, with a stern history of <a href="http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ztXR6GoAAAAJ&hl=en">FUNDED</a> research from
institutions including but not limited to the National Cancer Institute, the
<a href="http://archives.drugabuse.gov/pdf/arp/NIDAdec2006.pdf">National Institutes of Health</a>, the<a href="http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a385416.pdf"> U.S. Army Medical Research</a> Centers and the
Centers of Disease Control and Prevention.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">My academic career began running a child survival and maternal health
project for more than a year in <a href="http://www.africare.org/our-work/where-we-work/nigeria/index.php?gclid=COW73bzTs78CFZRj7AodO2IAbA">South Eastern Nigeria with Africare</a>, from which I would spend
the next 16 years of my teaching and <a href="http://archives.drugabuse.gov/meetings/Bridging/BridgeAbs1.html#Stephens">Research</a> with the <a href="http://www.emory.edu/EMORY_REPORT/erarchive/2002/April/erApril.15/4_15_02profile.html">Emory University RollinsSchool of Public Health</a> followed by a brief period with the Morehouse School of
Medicine.</span></div>
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narrative that is not sensational enough for the mainstream media to detail,
for it does not provide the entertainment values of protestors jousting for
position like they were in some medieval arena.
Nor does it have the emotion required to engender the words racist,
bigoted, or hatred, which seems to be top billing for most news outlets.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the tens of thousands of undocumented immigrants crossing the U.S. border is
the issue of public health. Basic public
health and safety (which in my locution are the same) should be the paramount concern
addressed more than humanity, economics, mothers and even children. Now I will say for the record, I have a
problem with folk who have more compassion for people coming to the U.S. than
the<a href="http://nchv.org/index.php/news/media/background_and_statistics/"> homeless veterans</a> and <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeanmichel-giraud/americas-homeless-childre_b_4310821.html">children</a> we have on our streets currently; and I find
it funny that the folk who want to provide for these people (whom are
definitely in need), are the same ones who will call the police on a homeless
man asking for change, or who forget about the <a href="http://www.familyhomelessness.org/children.php?p=ts">1.6 million homeless children</a> we
have on our streets who were born in America, whom have yet to see the
government provide for them in the manner in which these new arrivals have been
provided for. And this is in particular directed to the black folk who display
anterograde amnesia seeming to never ask for similar provisions for the 800,000
African American kids living on the streets. In the 2011 school year,
enrollment statistics in preschools and K-12 programs reported a figure of
<a href="http://www.firstfocus.net/news/press_release/us-hits-record-number-of-homeless-students">1,168,354 children in public schools known to be homeless</a>. In the nation's capital alone, the
<a href="http://www.standupforkids.org/WashingtonDC/News.aspx">Public School System reports that over 3,000</a> of its students are known to be homelessness.
Plus, California, New York, Texas and Florida are among the hardest hit by the
homeless youth crisis, and presently these states are also dealing with the
brunt of the recent immigration influx.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Yet still, mine is one of public health.
When I say public health, I am referring to the practice of protecting and
improving the health of individuals, communities, and populations, locally and
globally. This is accomplished via focusing on preventing disease and injury by
promoting healthy lifestyles in concert with implementing educational programs
and policies developed in an effort to achieve these goals: specifically, as
they regard preventing and controlling the spread of infectious disease.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">What has been barely mentioned with this
massive surge in undocumented persons entering the United States, is the rate
in which infectious disease, many of which are <a href="https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2193.html">tropical, inundate theirhomelands</a>. This is a threat that should be taken seriously and sounded so that
all of the citizens in America can take the necessary preventive precautions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">With 52,000 plus and growing, it was
only a matter of time before communicable illness started being documented
among the new immigrants. Last week, San Diego’s Local 1613 of the National
Border Patrol Council issued a press release announcing a <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqmzh0QBgTBhHMAmM9jOPe-5Y3PKZll4i7X6NjbegC7QmaMva78vOGo2tSftm3WtV3aEML3UvtUD5jmiYrJeGN8tZfwcWWXkyhNFwlOr18_-9Y8XNGsTJfCUCvq-NdWj23ArAu/s1600/Presser20140704.JPG">Border Patrol Agenthad contracted scabies</a>, a contagious skin infection caused by mites. This happened in connection with the transfer of detained illegal unaccompanied alien children
from Texas’ Rio Grande Valley, while they were being processed in Otay
Mesa, California. Before this, an unaccompanied <a href="http://www.valleycentral.com/news/story.aspx?id=1062380#.U7rSDPldWSo">minor was hospitalized anddiagnosed with H1N1</a> (swine flu), after being housed at Joint Base San
Antonio-Lackland, Texas, a facility run by the U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services. Also in Texas, U.S. Border Patrol agents in have discovered
<a href="http://www.topix.com/forum/city/brownsville-tx/TFKN741V7RLJQOVQN">four cases</a> of the <a href="http://www.laprensasa.com/309_america-in-english/2612626_2-cases-of-swine-flu-detected-in-immigrant-children.html">H1N1 flu</a> strain among illegal immigrant children held at two
detention centers in Brownsville.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Not only have we seen the
aforementioned, but <span style="background: white;">California is in the middle
of a whooping cough epidemic, with more than 3,500 cases of <a href="http://www.mercurynews.com/health/ci_25957753/california-whooping-cough-cases-now-labeled-an-epidemic">whooping cough</a> reported
between Jan. 1 – to June. During the last two weeks of June, the California
Department of Public Health</span> reported more than 800 new cases (more than
all the cases reported in 2013).</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I am not writing to scare anyone but
rather to alert concerned individuals of the outcome that may happen if we
continue to ignore the impact this mass immigration may have on public health outcomes
in our community. These are just a few of what has been documented among others
including <span style="background: white;"><a href="http://www.abc15.com/news/national/immigrants-bringing-diseases-across-border">chicken pox and MRSA staph infections</a></span>. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I wont even mention
Cutaneous Leishmaniasis, Rift Valley fever, Schistosomiasis or <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2014/07/07/immigration-crisis-tuberculosis-spreading-at-camps/">anti-biotic resistant Tuberculosis</a>. </span>The reality is that these events have major and sever potential of
becoming a public health crisis. In particular since that many of these individuals
live in the tight spaces in which the children are contained on their way here
and are housed in small congested areas in detention centers where they are
housed in the U.S. Not only do these increase chances of spreading communicable
diseases to other children but to <a href="http://www.texastribune.org/2014/06/24/health-officials-docs-raise-concerns-about-immigra/">border guards as well</a>, and the general
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All-Mi-T [Thought Crime] Rawdawgbuffalohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08843040863123899426noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17646926.post-91057314157356880232014-07-02T14:57:00.003-04:002014-07-02T15:01:37.452-04:00The Yale-Harvard Supreme Court: Us versus ThemOver the past few weeks, the <a href="http://www.supremecourt.gov/">Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS)</a> has rendered several major decisions. These have either been applauded or vilified depending on which side of the political spectrum one is on. Personally, I could care less about the decisions, which from my perspective have less to do with legalities than compared to the tactics of divide and conquer as practiced by Oligarchs for centuries. But what is disturbing, is the sever lack of universal representation that currently, and in the past has comprised the jurist that sit on this nine person corpus. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Since 1956, at any given time, there have NEVER been less than three justices from Harvard and/or Yale sitting on the <a href="http://www.scotusblog.com/">SCOTUS</a>. And since the appointment of <a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/justices/kennedy.bio.html">Anthony Kennedy</a> in 1988, Harvard and Yale graduates in concert have comprised a majority of the court. When Elena Kagan was confirmed, it made all sitting on the SCOTUS had either attended Yale (<a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/justices/thomas.bio.html">Clarence Thomas</a>, <a href="http://www.usnews.com/news/national/articles/2007/10/01/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-samuel-alito">Samuel A. Alito Jr</a>., <a href="http://www.biography.com/people/sonia-sotomayor-453906">Sonia Sotomayor</a>) or Harvard (<a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/746/000099449/">John G. Roberts Jr</a>., <a href="http://jonathanturley.org/2009/05/12/heres-a-quarter-call-your-moma-and-tell-her-you-arent-going-to-be-a-clerk-justice-scalia-tells-american-student-that-she-has-little-chance-for-clerkship-because-she-is-at-wrong-school/">Antonin Scalia</a>, Anthony Kennedy,<a href="http://prospect.org/article/ruth-bader-ginsburg-retirement-and-value-term-limits"> Ruth Bader Ginsburg</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Active-Liberty-Interpreting-Democratic-Constitution/dp/0307274942/ref=la_B001IOFHTG_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1404327034&sr=1-2">Stephen Breyer</a>) for law schools. Can you say American aristocracy? </div>
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<br />I say this because in Washington of recent decades, it appears that the prevailing assumption as it pertains to the SCOTUS is that, the best minds and smartest people for the job graduate from either Yale or Harvard. Albeit a possibility of fanatical truism, in reality such never has, or will be the case. As such, unlike representative bodies like the Senate or the House of Representatives, the SCOTUS is not representative of AMERICA at all. Sure you got black and Latino persons, and some white men and white women, but that just doesn’t cut the cake and rather too simplistic in a diverse population inclusive of regional distinctions in thinking as ours. <br /><br />This disproportionality in the number of justices from Harvard and Yale is frightening and should be to all. It is a form of legal aristocracy because there is none when it regards diversity of the legal educations of the folk who happen to be on the most important political body in our nation. I mean is it impossible to find a great and smart legal mind from the halls of Duke, Stanford, Northwestern, University of Virginia, William and Mary or the University of Tennessee? Nope, the Yaleharvarification of the SCOTUS aint about quality of the mind, but moreso of the Presidents whom appoint them and the legal field good ole boy network. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br /><br />In simple terms, this is all about limited access networking. First, for the past 26 years every president has been a graduate of Yale or Harvard. This may be why among other things; all of the sitting members of the SCOTUS are either Catholic or Jewish. And it seems that all clerked on the Supreme Court once upon a time ago. If this constitutional republic is to function at full capacity and utility of its citizenry, diversity of education at the highest ranks of government, in particular the SCOTUS is paramount and a matter of survival. <br /><br />When our elected officials, the folk who are responsible for making these sections and appointments to government positions we did not have a say of choosing and working on behalf of the citizenry, limit their pool to a small body, it works against the best interest of the nation. I mean, we saw what happened when African Americans and women were added, so why restrict the applicant pool in this instance? <br /><br />The danger is that under the present results of this process, we get a narrower perspective on life because people in the restricted pool are reinforced to think the same and have more in common than different. <br /><br />Imagine where our nation would be if we did this in all fields. <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CB0QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcontent.time.com%2Ftime%2Fspecials%2Fpackages%2Farticle%2F0%2C28804%2C1988080_1988093_1988082%2C00.html&ei=pFS0U58RyajIBMHjgcAK&usg=AFQjCNENlhbY9slmCIbUf2mwrotv7WSX8w&sig2=BWeJtRH__uTv1lIhYXBTfg&bvm=bv.70138588,d.aWw">Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard</a>, <a href="http://www.referenceforbusiness.com/biography/S-Z/Smith-Fred-1944.html">Fred Smith of Federal Express</a> attended the University of Memphis for his MBA, <a href="http://news.rapgenius.com/Steve-jobs-commencement-address-at-stanford-university-annotated#note-1634167">Steve Jobs dropped out of Reed College</a> and <a href="http://gobigred.unl.edu/featured/husker/Warren_Buffett/">Warren Buffet went to University of Nebraska</a>. I guess if you are starting a business or not looking for a job there are different requirements compared to obtaining a SCOTUS appointment. Could you imagine a field of Business dominated by just two schools? Oh that is right, you can, and well argue the observation in the affirmative since it were the Harvard and Yale Finance MBA’s that blew up and crashed Wall Street and the national and global economies. <br /><br />Where would we be if science, technology and medicine operated in this manner? This would mean no University of Tennessee Medical Center or St. Jude Hospital in Memphis, no John Hopkins, Duke, Stanford, Cornell, Chicago, Vanderbilt, Berkeley, Cal Tech, MIT and Washington University in St. Louis. <br /><br />The entire ideal of just two schools running the decision that will impact the entire nation is feculent. It is clear that other factors may be involved that may not even benefit the citizenry but rather the government and corporations since they are people now legally as a consequence of several recent court decisions. Most should be able to detect how many modern SCOTUS decisions benefit global plutocrats more than us, and in concert with the media and the criminal behavior of bankers and financiers; like the other two branches of our government, the SCOTUS seem to repeat a narrative of a future that <a href="http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2011/06/george-orwell-and-ideology/">George Orwell</a> would have described as being manufactured to serve the interest of all and everything except justice, truth, virtue, and liberty. If my corollary is correct, this will not result in anything good for America.</div>
All-Mi-T [Thought Crime] Rawdawgbuffalohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08843040863123899426noreply@blogger.com31tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17646926.post-40484419456361387922014-06-25T12:33:00.002-04:002014-06-25T12:33:21.220-04:00U.S. Foreign Policy: A Civil War Here, a Civil War There<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I am so glad cats like John McCain and
John Kerry didn’t win the Presidency. Likewise I am just as sad that George W.
Bush and Barack Obama won the presidency and if there is a God, I am certain he
would let Sponge Bob Square Pants ascend to the Presidency before Hillary
Clinton. And all of this is stated in objective terms, the most prominent being
that the Bush and Obama Administration’s foreign policy when implemented only
results in civil war, no matter where it is practiced, but especially in the
Middle East and North Africa.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Case in point, this past Sunday, during
a joint press conference with </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Egypt’s
newly elected President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">, </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://legalinsurrection.com/2014/06/kerry-u-s-not-responsible-for-current-iraq-crisis/">US Secretary of State John Kerry</a> said, <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">"The
United States of America is not responsible for what happened in Libya, nor is
it responsible for what is happening in Iraq today."</span> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the same briefing, he later stated, </span><em><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">"<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">US
is not engaged in picking or choosing any one individual... it's up to the
people of Iraq to choose their own leadership</span>."</span></span></em><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Both of these statements are a complete
and utter ignorance of the facts from a historical and temporal context or
either blatant lies. Although vilified for stating such, Iran's Supreme Leader
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/22/iran-opposes-us-intervention-iraq-khamenei">Ayatollah Ali Khamenei</a> correctly accused Washington of just exploiting the
violence in Iraq and Syria to regain control of Iraq by placing it once again <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“</i><em><span style="font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">under its [U.S.] hegemony”</span></em> and rule of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“</i><em><span style="font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">its stooges</span></em><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">.” </i>This has always been the premise of plutocratic desires under
the storm cloud of nation building and implementing democracy, as amorphous a
concept as it is. In 2003, I read that “</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
war in Iraq was conceived by 25 neoconservative intellectuals, most of them
Jewish, who are pushing President Bush to change the course of history” – <a href="http://www.texemarrs.com/102003/jewish_neocons_covert_enemies.htm">Ari Shavit, April 5, 2003</a> Haaretz News Service-Israel. I find this statement, with
the Semitic tone aside both accurate and consistent with history insofar as we
can evaluate the aforementioned from the perspective of the foreign policy
statements and practices of the last two U.S. executive administrations. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">T</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">he general
problem is that regardless of political affiliation, the neo’s (<a href="http://rawdawgb.blogspot.com/2012/03/introduction-to-o-bushian-nationalism.html">neoconservatives and neoliberals</a>) have a greater concern in their <a href="http://rawdawgb.blogspot.com/2014/04/wifing-politicians-i-dont-love-these.html">corporate financiers</a> interest
than the citizenry of America, and this my friend is regardless of political
party and or the race of the President. Their preference is to place an
inordinate amount of focus and attention on places like <a href="http://rawdawgb.blogspot.com/2013/07/foreign-policy-or-road-kill.html">Syria</a>, <a href="http://rawdawgb.blogspot.com/2012/09/obamas-neoliberalism-bites-him-in.html">Libya</a>, </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://rawdawgb.blogspot.com/2014/03/again-or-still-iraq-pakistan.html">Iraq</a>, <a href="http://rawdawgb.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-doo-doo-chasers.html">Ukraine</a> and other foreign nations, than the needs of
U.S. citizenry. Instead, they apply the same standard to us as a foreign
nation: drones, massive intrusive spying, domestic economic destabilization and
labeling the average man a terrorist simply for exercising liberties guaranteed
via the Bill of Rights.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">This is clear to see for the thinking
person.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let us examine the first example
of President George W. Bush and </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://kirkuknow.com/english/index.php/2012/04/de-baathification-leaves-negative-impact/#ixzz35TGPkHh8">de-Baathification</a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Shortly after the fall of the Saddam regime, via L. Paul
Bremer, as head of the <a href="http://www.iraqcoalition.org/regulations/">Coalition Provisional Authority</a> (CPA), in one of his
first things President Bush introduced was the de-Baathification program to
remove members of the Ba’ath Party from their positions of authority and to ban
them from future employment in government. They [the Bush Administration]
selected <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/chalabi-could-be-the-countrys-next-prime-minister-2014-6">Ahmed Chalabi</a> to head of the De-Baathification Committee, which had
the goals of preventing the Baath from regaining power, avoiding and retribution
against Baathists and isolating the majority of Baathists from their party
leaders.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This process of de-Baathification was
supported via the forfeiture and seizure of all party assets and property, which
was to be held in trust by the CPA for the use and benefit of the Iraqi people,
albeit there were no real Iraqi citizens involved, just an Iraqi
de-Baathification Council (IDC), composed entirely of Iraqi nationals formerly living
in the U.S. and Europe mainly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">From the beginning <a href="http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/politics/2013/01/de-baathification-10-years.html">de-Baathification</a>
was a very incongruent and f##ked up process for lack of a better phrase. Not
only did it not achieve it aims, it also polarized Iraqi politics and worse,
made the Iraqi military and government even more unstable after U.S. military
intervention and occupation. Then it brought in al-Qaeda, to a region where it
had never existed before as well as driving a wedge between <a href="http://rawdawgb.blogspot.com/2007/01/true-meglomania.html">Sunni, Shia and even Kurds</a> in Iraq. And after all of this, Barack Obama came in, and when you
thought his promise to end the war would make things much better, they actually
followed the <a href="http://rawdawgb.blogspot.com/2014/05/14-years-of-same-ish.html">GWB foreign policy playbook</a> and made things even worse.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Taking U.S. policy a step farther,
the </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Obama
Administration took up the doings of the fat cats of <a href="http://rawdawgb.blogspot.com/2011/03/obama-hesitant-in-libya-because-saudi.html">Saudi Arabia and Qatar</a>
along with big banks of the West and have in effect declared war on Shiites the
world over. Now to be clear, I would like to see Obama, Bush, Cheney, Blair,
Brown, Cameron, Rice, Kerry, Rice, and tried, as War Criminals and should be.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Kerry
comments only reinforce the failures of America’s Manifest Destiny foreign
policy. As such, no past Administration or current one will ever take responsibility
for a foreign policy of endless wars of aggression and regime change. It may
even be more appropriate to call U.S. foreign policy as the policy of civil
war.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Where ever we insert our political
nose abroad, the result is the destruction of a stable nation and civil
war.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We see it now in the Ukraine where
Obama supports the <a href="http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/ukraine/poroshenko.htm">fascist </a><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/ukraine/poroshenko.htm">Poroshenko</a>’s new
government,</span> as well in the outcome via our interference in Libya, Iraq,
Nigeria, and Pakistan or wherever the <a href="http://rawdawgb.blogspot.com/2012/10/from-eisenhower-to-obama-war-is-money.html">U.S./NATO</a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> decided to involve themselves
without request. Again, categorically, I repeat, the US is responsible for
Libya, Tunis, Egypt and <a href="http://rawdawgb.blogspot.com/2012/07/syria-another-progressive-proxy-war-on.html">Syria</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">And
now the fine mess of Obama policy has by intent, morphed into a sectarian Sunni
versus Shia conflict. Strangely, all in nations for the most part which were
secular governments. The Obama administration has consistently taken a foreign
policy approach in the Middle East and Africa of over-throwing secular
governments, this time it is Syria. This was done by intentionally arming and
letting groups like ISIL grow stronger and stronger. He openly complains
against Assad in Syria, and Iran, but ignores how Sunni leaders in <a href="http://www.shiarightswatch.org/en/press-release/37-report/208-shia-target-of-inhumane-treatment">Bahrain</a> and
Saudi Arabia violate the human rights of their majority Shia populations. Think
about it, several months ago when the Iraqi government asked for U.S.
airstrikes to repel ISIS, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/12/world/middleeast/iraq-asked-us-for-airstrikes-on-militants-officials-say.html?hp&_r=1">Obama refused</a>, which was probably the first time he
refused such an offer from an allied government. I mean, he didn’t even ask for
approval to conduct illegal airstrikes in <a href="http://stpeteforpeace.org/factsheets/obama.html">8 other countries</a> under the guise of
fighting terrorism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even stranger was
observing President Obama refusing to acknowledge that our closer allies in the
region (Qatar, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia) have been giving hundreds of millions
of dollars to the Islamic extremist terrorist group invading Iraq and attacking
the Syrian government.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Lastly,
the assertion that the U.S. believes that people have a right to decide if they
wish to govern themselves is only true when the U.S. say’s so, for we have seen
them place many in power whom the nations had no interest in being brought to
power as we recently saw with <span style="color: black;">Poroshenko in the
Ukraine, Nouri al-Maliki in Iraq, Hamid Karzai in Afghanistan and to a certain
extent, </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Egypt. S###,
the U.S. even installed </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Saddam
Hussein.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
American policy will never be in a position to address the multitude of
issues in the Middle East whether it pertains to the Israeli-Palestinian issue,
Indo-Pakistani conflict, or the rise of Islamic radicalism in Pakistan, Yemen,
or Somali. I don’t know what world Kerry and the present administration, nor
the prior administration live. I guess it is like <a href="http://www.psywarrior.com/Goebbels.html">Joseph Goebbels</a>, Minister of
Propaganda for Hitler’s Third Reich said: “Tell a good lie enough times and
people will think it is the truth.”<o:p></o:p><br />
All-Mi-T [Thought Crime] Rawdawgbuffalohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08843040863123899426noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17646926.post-20809801023179856302014-06-17T20:42:00.003-04:002014-06-17T20:42:58.815-04:00Dissent in A Fear Society<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In his book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Case-For-Democracy-Overcome/dp/1586483544">THE CASE FOR DEMOCRACY</a>, Natan Sharansky,
a former Soviet political prisoner released from prison by <a href="http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1990/gorbachev-facts.html">Mikhail Gorbachev</a> in
1986 wrote “A society is free if people have a right to express their views
without fear of arrest, imprisonment, or physical harm.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He also added, “A society that does not
protect dissent will inevitably be based on fear.” Although it is clear his
perspective is based on his personal experience growing up as a Jew in the
former Soviet Union, it strikes me as if he is writing about America today.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Since the start of this century, the focus of the US
federal government, in all aspects has been directed toward encouraging uniformity
and conformity, in view, belief and idea of all its citizens, specifically by
playing on the emotional projection of being either “with or against us.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This mentality gained its maximum utility of
expected outcomes when the U.S. began its famed “war against terror.” Terror being
singularly contrived from emotion representing in its basic understand an
extreme fear. I say this because no two individuals, let alone all humans for
that matter are the same.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some may have
an extreme fear or water, others may not; some may have an extreme fear of
snakes and insects, others may not. However, this is the desire of the powers
that function in the highest capacity of both political and corporate
leadership in America. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Now there are many that would argue against my thesis,
however, they would most be those individuals that consider themselves
<a href="http://rawdawgb.blogspot.com/2012/08/black-progressive-is-oxymoron.html">progressive</a> and would in the same sentence disavow the historical truth that their
views are rooted in socialism, specifically <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/02/cultural_marxism.html">cultural Marxism</a>. They will also in
the same sentence admit that no one has the same identical experiences,
backgrounds, views, preferences and/or intelligence, yet cannot accept that
others may not agree with them based on the aforementioned. The point being,
the notion of a complete and uniform homogenous society defined by a severe
ideological commitment to uniform collectivist values, ideas, views and beliefs
is as realistic as the Easter bunny.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The reality of individual differences I speak of is
a social pariah in today’s America. Dissent, even based on fact or personal view
is currently equated to being the enemy. And there are many examples to this. Let’s
us take global warming for example, which has been conveniently changed to
climate change. Now from my experiences and readings, I understand that even
before the <a href="http://geography.about.com/od/climate/a/glaciation.htm">Wurm glaciations</a> (before man existed), there has always been
climate change on the Earth – this is a scientific fact. However, with this
said, if I don’t accept it is due to man, or that no single factor has ever
been the sole cause of any phenomena, I am ridiculed by the majority; and
instead of being disproven by discourse and data, called names and ridiculed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">For me, not relying on the words of a politician,
specifically that carbon is a pollutant and man is the SINGLE cause of these
changes, is my death nail. Why because in my argument I include the sun and its
<a href="http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/6174/20140225/sun-unfurls-powerful-solar-flare-year-4-million-mph-coronal.htm">recent periods of strong coronal mass ejections</a> and <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/news/storms-on-sun.html">solar radiation storms</a>,
stronger solar flares and increased UV radiation of the past few decades, in
formulating my perspective. I also include the observation that these events we
experience Terrestrially cannot be caused by man or “carbon pollutants” alone
if it is well documented they are occurring on <a href="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap080523.html">Jupiter</a>, <a href="http://www.exohuman.com/wordpress/2011/07/global-warming-on-saturn/">Saturn</a>, <a href="http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2002/pluto">Pluto</a> (<span style="color: black;">Pluto is undergoing global warming, as evidenced by a
three-fold increase in the planet’s atmospheric pressure during the past decade
plus)</span>, <a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/02/070228-mars-warming.html">Mars</a>, Triton (<span style="color: black;">Neptune’s largest moon)</span>,
and other celestial bodies which don’t have SUVs or humans driving them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And
don’t ask them to compare the <a href="http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/solar/venusenv.html">Carbon dioxide rates of Venus to Earth</a> in terms
of Carbon dioxide density, then they only curse more for you having dissenting
and differing ideas of your own. Especially if you ask, <span style="color: black;">if Saturn, Mars, Jupiter, Pluto and Triton all "appear" to be
warming, how can we be sure that Global Warming is man-made let alone a
function of carbon dioxide emissions? The only response one in my experience would get are vehement attacks on charcter but not facts, simply because I trust physicist and MIT over Al Gore and Barack Obama.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Like the war on terror, this entire
man-made carbon is a pollutant (when carbon is organic and not inorganic) is fatuous
and typical of a fear based society just like the war on terror. This is also
observed even with regards to basic beliefs. If you do not agree with gay
marriage or homosexuality one is called a homophobe simply for not believing in
the practice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Personally it is like
saying because I hate the Dallas Cowboys (which I do); I am a footballphobe – complete
and utter idiotic nonsense. The way I see, one can believe what they want, and I
can listen or accept or disagree, but just because we have different views don’t
make me think you are stupid or less than those who agree with me.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">See America, we are not as free as we
think in this constitutional republic. Whether folk can see it or not, this
nation is teetering on the brink of tyranny. Yep, I said it. If one is chastised
for not accepting what others say you should accept, or believe what the middle
of the normal distribution say you should, and you are punished for such, that
my friend is tyranny of the fascist order. Don’t take my word, recently a
former vet was <a href="http://www.truthandaction.org/veterans-arrested-anti-obama-facebook-posts-police-militarized-veterans/">arrested and called mentally ill</a> for voicing his views against the government on Facebook,
and now, The Obama Administration via Eric Holder will be implementing a
program designed to punish and imprison folk for<a href="http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/item/18457-obama-justice-department-pushes-to-target-thought-crime"> thought that they see and deemas disagreeable</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And this isn’t from
Orwell’s 1984. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We have these behaviors now because most
folk do not think for self and have instead been indoctrinated into what to
believe. As such, when they do think, it is merely an amalgamation of
generalizations and stereotypes which are not grounded in research or fact, but
rather due to their learned irrational natures and simple mindless.
Consequently, when their beliefs are questioned and/or challenged, if they
cannot ignore you, they take it as a personal attack to defend the status quo,
they call you intolerant and prejudice just because they don’t understand
specific distinctions or nuance or from a personal point of view, they just
hate to be wrong, because that in their minds such makes them feel as if they
are not important.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This is what happens in a fear society,
when you do not agree you are the bad person - the enemy. All that matters,
even if they know they are being controlled and their thoughts are not their own,
is that those they acknowledge the power that makes them feel important,
correct and even worse – knowledgeable. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">America from this perspective is moving
away from a free society because dissent and differing views and beliefs are no
longer tolerated or accepted. And the folk who accept this would never dare to
accept or think that their government, like the intellectuals under Stalin, or
the scientific class of Iran in the early 1980s, would ever think of doing
such. But that is how it is done, it isn’t call TV programming by accident, nor
is by chance that major news outlets glorify the masses on behalf of the
corporate and political class.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">So if you did not know, now you should,
but I suspect most will ignore the wisdom in this tractate and cut on their idiot
box and talk about shit they don’t know what the fuck they talking about as if
they really know. And I have no problem with saying what I believe, for as it
was once written, you make enough laws we all can be criminals and this my friend,
is a risk I can live with as a free thinker. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The record is
clear that the impact of <a href="http://www.realclearworld.com/lists/bush_foreign_policy/">Bush foreign policy</a> both politically and <a href="http://rawdawgb.blogspot.com/2008/09/vultures-are-circling.html">economically</a>,
resulted in nothing good for America. The only tangible outcomes were
destroying the government of Iraq under false pretense, disrupting the standard
of living for tens of millions, tens of thousands Americans dead or permanently
maimed, hundreds of thousands dead Iraqis, the entry of al Qaeda into Iraq
where prior they had never existed, and hundreds of billions in wasted tax
dollars.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Unfortunately,
President Barack Obama, although in the beginning he made a point to continuously
reinforce that he had <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/transcript-president-obama-gives-speech-addressing-europe-russia-on-march-26/2014/03/26/07ae80ae-b503-11e3-b899-20667de76985_story.html">no interest for interfering in the affairs of other nations</a>, <a href="http://rawdawgb.blogspot.com/2012/02/neoliberalism-and-foreign-policy-in.html">his foreign policy</a> actions seem to out Bush, <a href="http://rawdawgb.blogspot.com/2008/11/eight-years-of-drunken-fraternity-party.html">George W. Bush</a>. Just this
week he confirmed this for the entire world. In his <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/full-text-of-president-obamas-commencement-address-at-west-point/2014/05/28/cfbcdcaa-e670-11e3-afc6-a1dd9407abcf_story.html">address at West Point</a>,
Obama provided a picture of how after five years, he sees his foreign policy
efforts, and in all aspects, it is troubling, neocolonialist, and in tone reminiscent
of the Rumsfeld Cheney bravado of the previous administration.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Now I cannot
blame Obama singular for this, in fact most of the blame should be placed on those
who voted for him, for they never read his policy positions prior to running
for President, or read his speeches delivered to groups like <a href="http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2007/03/obamas_aipac_speech_text_as_pr.html">AIPAC</a> in 2007.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They never concerned themselves with his
limited, if any foreign policy experiences with the exception of a brief stint
on the foreign relations committee or him having no military experience at
all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He embraced the
joint special operations view of <a href="http://www.cfr.org/international-law/policy-implications-bush-doctrine-preemption/p5251">pre-emptive war</a> and expansionist foreign
policy as manager in chief of the U.S. imperial empire. Rather than exploring
who he actually was, progressives, whether because he was a democrat, or if he
were black, or that he made promises that any pragmatic person would not believe
based on his past statements, turned a blind eye towards the reality of his prism
of executive action.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Several statements
stuck out which may be a looking glass into the remaining years from a foreign
policy purview for the standing commander in chief. The first was: “<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The United States is the one indispensible
nation</b>.” I can only say the question would be, in what manner? By
definition, the President is stating that either the United States or he is
absolutely necessary. I personally disagree, unless necessary is correlated to
causing trouble around the world, incessant practices that reflect the
violation of international law, human rights and the basic respect for others
to do as they please without U.S. interference. This position in word actually
brings him closer in line to the prior administration for as it is stated in a
<a href="http://cims.nyu.edu/~kiryl/Precalculus/Section_6.3-Trigonometric%20Functions%20of%20Angles/Trigonometric%20Functions%20of%20Angles.pdf">basic Theorem of trigonometry</a>: the same named trigometric ratios of conterminal
angles are equal (conterminal angles in this case being a democratic or
republican commander in chief).</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The President
also added, that “<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">It is impossible to
ignore sectarian conflicts, failing states and popular uprisings</b>.” This
also makes one cringe with his understanding and implementation of U.S. foreign
policy, national security and U.S. interest in terms of priority. History under
the present administration has lucidly indicated that the President has a
problem with reading the pulse of both the American people and the world around
him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The way he went about dealing with
Egypt is just one example. First he supported the democratic elections which
brought <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/03/egypt-obama-us-mohamed-morsi-crisis">Mohamed Morsi</a> to power, albeit a member of the Islamic Brotherhood and hesitantly
supported the popular uprising against an autocratic dictator named Mubarak.
All because it was evident the present administration did not have a pulse of
what was going on in Egypt in real time and had allowed their unconditional support
of Mubarak, even amidst his <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2011/01/mubaraks-human-rights-record">long record of human rights violations</a> to cloud
their understanding of what the people of Egypt wanted and had experienced
under the man the U.S. supported.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Strangely,
after giving support to the democratic desires of the people of Egypt albeit
late, an Islamic fundamentalist theocrat was elected whom Obama placed full
support and validation behind. Next we saw protest again in Egypt, but this
time there was a coup, in which the Obama administration said nothing, did
nothing and even gave the new government (coup) billions in military aid
justifiably, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/25/obama-egypt_n_3653775.html">by not referring to the overthrow as a coup</a>. So although he openly
said this in his West Point address, the fact assert otherwise. Now the Egyptian
people hate the U.S. more, and channels of cooperation have increased between
<a href="http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/US-reacts-to-Russias-growing-clout-warming-ties-to-Egypt-by-unfreezing-weapon-aid-350254">Egypt and Russia</a>. This is a strange statement seeing that near the end of his
address President Obama revealed: “<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">America’s
support for democracy and human rights goes beyond idealism – it’s a matter of
national security</b>.”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The President
also said [It]...<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">is not whether America
will lead, but how we will lead, not just to secure our peace and prosperity,
but also to extend peace and prosperity around the globe</b>.” The how is
evident. The Obama motto follows the Bush playbook like an AFC coach
discovering the West coast Offense. Leadership via the Obama doctrine is dividing
and conquering at home and unilaterally destroying and disrupting sovereign
nations, even if against international law. This is no more visibly seen than
what occurred in <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/03/28/remarks-president-address-nation-libya">Libya in 2011</a>.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There was no
reason or compelling <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/29/world/africa/29prexy.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0">U.S. interest to go into Libya</a> unless it was on the behalf
of what I have called the military police industrial complex (MPIC). This is
just all of the big banks, big corporations and big lobbyist that make sizable
piles of loot on war, incarceration, insider trading and media manipulation.
Not only would war make them loot but they would be able to use their neocolonial
desires to destroy one of the world’s last state own central banks in Libya.
Fact is we followed France and Germany and didn’t lead at all with respect to
Obama’s intervening into Libya. But like a good politician, reasons we
contrived and lies even told.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
biggest was <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/03/28/us.libya/">human rights, protecting civilians</a>, and people believed it although
we can’t even help the innocent civilians we promised to aid in Haiti after their
earthquake and even <a href="http://www.blackagendareport.com/content/obama-sides-un-against-haiti-cholera-case">supported the U.N.</a> to say that although Cholera never was
in Haiti until U.N. troops arrived, they can’t even suit the U.N. to clean up
the water and pay for the lives of 40,000 people who died as a result. Meaning,
it is visible how we lead.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Libya is the
perfect example of the Obama doctrine. If a nation is doing good for its region
or country, then it must be destroyed because their success is a threat to U.S.
national economy because Bush and Obama has fucked ours up miring our economy
in debt for war. At no time was it mentioned by progressives that Gaddafi gave
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Human_Development_Index">Libya the highest human development index</a> in all of Africa, or that he stood in
the forefront of the struggle for Africa against U.S. supported apartheid in
Israel and South Africa.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This mean
nothing to neo liberals and neoconservatives, because investment under neocolonialism
only increases the gap between rich and poor nations, which in simple terms
means foreign capital is used not for the people, but rather for the
exploitation as opposed to the development of the undeveloped world.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So those who
agree with this approach, or worse stay silent, are progressives who are in
reality procolonialism. No matter what one says, Gaddafi was pan African and
pan Arab and desired such to make all of Africa independent from the West. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Now the President
also dropped that he wanted to continue his Libya model in other places. For</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> in the Obama worldview, whether military force will be
used anywhere, is for the president alone to decide. </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In the speech he noted “<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">America’s failure to act in the face of
Syrian brutality or Russian provocation not only violates our conscience, but
invites escalating aggression in the future.</b>”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>First how can a Nobel peace prize winner
that has used dr<a href="http://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/2014/01/23/more-than-2400-dead-as-obamas-drone-campaign-marks-five-years/">ones to kills thousands of women and children in Yemen, Afghanistan,Pakistan, and Somalia</a> know anything about conscience, when by practices his foreign
policy is to escalate aggression without invite whenever he feels, or needs to buttress
his approval rating? As he said in the same speech, we know this is already the
case given he said [The] “<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">United States
will use military force, unilaterally if necessary, when our core interest
demand it</b>.”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/oct/03/obama-libya-embassy-attack">Obama’s foreignpolicy beliefs are clear</a>. He said “<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The
issue of transparency is directly relevant to a third aspect of American
leadership: our efforts to strengthen and enforce international order.</b>”
This is how he perceives his role as commander in chief. Foreign policy is basically
using </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">counter-terrorism to stunt the economic growth of other
nations and deepen their citizenry into poverty while making U.S. plutocrats
even wealthier.</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> He has</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> established a large <a href="http://bigstory.ap.org/article/white-house-widens-covert-war-north-africa">covert presence in North Africa</a> in
total secrecy (transparency), away from democratic debate, and without any
Congressional approval or oversight. This is what he means by transparency.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">Moreover, Obama has <a href="http://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/category/projects/drones/">expanded drone attacks in Yemen, Somalia, and Pakistan</a>. In simple terms has continued
the practice and policy of the Bush administration with respect to foreign
policy. He has invaded more countries and violated just as many if not more
human rights and issues of state sovereignty that George W. Bush ever did.
Ironically while asserting and pointing the finger toward <a href="http://nationalinterest.org/feature/americas-nuclear-nightmares-russia-china-soon-iran-10557">Iran, China and Russia</a> which I assume is a replacement for Bush’s “Axis of Evil” he described
and referenced so frequently.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">In sum, Obama uses military force
whenever he wants, wherever he wants, and without anyone's permission. He
ignores as <a href="http://quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/lincoln1/1:458.1?rgn=div2;view=fulltext">Lincoln wrote</a>, "The provision of the Constitution giving the
war-making power to Congress, was dictated, as I understand it, by the
following reasons. Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their
people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people
was the object.” Obama's ongoing use of military force in multiple countries
ensures that the posture of the US for the foreseeable future will continue to
be one of endless war. This my friend, is the Obama doctrine in a nutshell. </span><br />
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of more than 200 Nigerian school girls in Borno State Nigeria. They were taken
from their school as the slept and huddled off in trucks to places in the
Sambisa forest outside of Maiduguri and possibly beyond.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Albeit nearly three weeks after the actual
crime occurred, the concern is needed and well deserved.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But somehow, I feel that the interest is fake
and phony and I will tell you why.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">When I was a child, growing up in Memphis in 1960’s, activism was real,
tangible and hands on. This type of activism in the age of social media and
remote control sedentary decadence is rare mainly because the modern western
influenced psyche assumes that action is limited to what one can accomplish
with a keystroke or the push of a button. It allows one to be reticent and
hidden in their personal urgency to acknowledge and even confront evil in any form
or manifestation it may engender.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">The #bringbackourgirls is just the recent example of this artificially contrived
concern for a criminal act that in all honesty, many did not care about either
through ignorance and not being informed or because it did not gain traction
until some famous person they idolized brought it to their attention.
Consequently making it retro chic to be concerned and to care and thus promote
the hash tag. Otherwise there would have been a concern for all the past ill
and crimes committed by the Islamist organization Boko</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> Haram. But the
record and fact exhibits and documents such was not the case.</span></div>
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There was no #dontburnourboys hash
tag when just this year in February, the same Islamist <span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">attacked a boarding school in Potiskum, Nigeria in
the northeast of the nation that resulted in the<a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/#/news/world/29-boarding-school-students-burned-alive-shot-dead-islamist-militants-v19318588"> killing 29 students</a> and one
teacher. All of which were burned alive. Likewise, there was no
#stopkillingourchildren when Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau and his band of
militants opened fire on students in their sleep at a secondary school in
Nigeria's troubled northeastern Yobe state, or when they <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2013/09/201397155225146644.html">set fire to a locked dormitory</a> in Damaturu, Nigeria and then shot and slit the throats of students
who tried to escape through windows during a pre-dawn attack in which <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/26/us-nigeria-violence-idUSBREA1P10M20140226">58 students were killed</a>. And I would be remiss if I didn’t mention the attack in </span>June
in the village of Mamudo which left <a href="http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2014/02/25/students_burned_alive_in_slaughter_at_nigerian_school.html">22 students dead</a>. In all of the above
attacks, <span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">all of the dead were
teenage boys or young men between 10 and 18 years old.</span></div>
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Now again, the attention
pertaining to the girls is deserved, but why was their no attention to the
aforementioned attacks on students the same age?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Was it because they were males, was it
because they were burned alive and had their throats slit which may be less
appealing for attention than kidnapped children? I cannot answer any of the
prior queries but I can assert that something is amiss. Either in the west we
feel more attached to women in need more so than boys or men in need, or either
we are stupid creatures of the moment caught up and motivated by celebrity trends
of the day and actually do not really care what happens in faraway places like Nigeria,
regardless of religious affiliation or gender.</div>
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Now before you say I am making
excuses, missing the point or just “hating”, I must add that I lived in Nigeria
for more than a year when I was doing my post doc. Moreover, although I lived in
Owerri in Imo state and Lagos more than half of my time there, I have been to
and worked outside in the LGAs around <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Maiduguri</span> and the Sambisa Forrest where I did
onchocerciasis eradication (river blindness). It was so thick we had to park
our land cruisers and walk miles to our target LGAs. Not to mention I have worked
and stayed in Calabar, Jos, Kano, Benin, Kaduna, Onitsha, Afkipo, Afikpo South,
Port Harcourt, Ngor Opala and too many other places in Nigeria to name. So for
me it is personal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know about Boko
Haram and personally, they are just like Uganda's cult-like Lord's Resistance
Army with the only difference that the latter is Christian. And while Boko
Haram has repeatedly targeted Christian institutions such as churches, most
people killed in attacks have been Muslims. I understand that <a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4232/boko-haram-nigeria">Boko Haram</a> was
created in 2002 by a radical Islamist cleric in Maiduguri, <a href="http://www.ngex.com/nigeria/places/states/borno.htm" target="blank"><span style="color: windowtext;">Borno state</span></a>, after he was expelled from two
mosques in Maiduguri by Muslim clerics for propagating his radical views.</div>
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So to me, the attention is well
deserved, but to be honest we must admit that it is fake and phony. If such
were not the case, we would have hash tags for this week’s <a href="http://www.releaseinternational.org/nigeria-extremist-bombs-kill-more-than-130/">bombing that killed 130 people</a>, or the bombing the following day that killed scores more – but we
did not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just like we don’t care, don’t
know, and don’t want to know about what is going on in the Central African<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2542662/Footage-emerged-cannibal-eating-leg-Muslim-Central-African-Republic.html"> Republic where Christians are chopping up and beheading and even eating Muslim</a>s left and right.</div>
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<span style="color: black;">I won’t
say that we don’t care (black people) because the victims are black, but I will
say for most in the west, there may be some sort of shame and guilt over
<a href="http://rawdawgb.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-incompetence-of-susan-rice.html">Rwanda’s genocide</a>, or the exploitation of child soldiers in Uganda and the
killings in <a href="http://rawdawgb.blogspot.com/2008/11/actions-speak-louder-than-words.html">Darfur, Sudan</a>; for we know the record indicates conservatively
speaking, since 1996, 6 million Congolese have been killed. And in all of these
cases we know that our President, who looks like us black folk, has turned a
blind eye to Africa. First when he waived the ban on sending military aid to
nations that use children as soldiers in 2013, and specifically with respect to
Nigeria, when the Obama Administration, a</span>fter John Kerry took over as
Secretary of State, the U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria, Terence P. McCulley,
accused the Nigerian government of “butchery during a confrontation with Boko
Haram terrorists in Baga, on the shores of Lake Chad, and<a href="http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvnews/112917/1/us-withdraws-military-assistance-to-nigeria-over-b.html" target="_blank"> in May 2013 threatened to withdraw </a>U.S. military aid from
the West African nation.”</div>
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So the way II see it, I am glad
of the attention, yet at the same time I know it is fake and phoney and comes
with barely an iota of concern and compassion. But such is the standard in this
new world of hash tag diplomacy and celebrity activism and a sad standard it is
indeed.<b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"></span></b></div>
All-Mi-T [Thought Crime] Rawdawgbuffalohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08843040863123899426noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17646926.post-54136997557615584112014-05-21T12:11:00.002-04:002014-05-21T12:11:23.504-04:00The Good, The Bad and The Ugly: The Affordable Healthcare Act<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I have openly stated for the record that if one
desires to explore how the Federal Government operates in the function of
health care administrator, just look at the <a href="http://rawdawgb.blogspot.com/2014/04/71-million-sign-ups-dont-say-nothing.html">Veterans Administration Hospital Services</a> – where the average wait time to see a physician is five months. In
all sincerity, this is how, based on observation and past history, I perceive
Obamacare will be implemented and administered. However, I will say, regardless
of political affiliation, one must wait and see if the Affordable Care Act
actually accomplishes and does what it was indicated to do when initially proposed
by and signed into law by the President.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">It was first hard to understand why any legislature
would vote for a bill that none had ever read, to have any comprehension of all
the mandates, subsides and regulations entangled in large sums of paper that
represented the law itself. However, it is possible to evaluate its eventual
effectiveness – namely by determining if it actually meets its objectives of
reducing health care cost, provide health care coverage for all and lastly, if
you can actually do what the President stated: keep your physicians or policy
if you like them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The last is a given so I won’t spend too much effort
on that. However, the first, reducing cost is the main concern. It should be
clear that in order to reduce health care cost, one must know how much health
care service are in dollar terms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
is something that varies by hospital to hospital and specialty to specialty as
research notes. For example, the Washington Post reported that the cost for a
patient on a ventilator at one hospital was <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/05/08/one-hospital-charges-8000-another-38000/">$115,000 and $53,000</a> at another and
$30,000 at yet another. Procedures for lower limb replacement in the same
article ranged from $117,000 to $25,600. One example showed that inpatient cost
for joint replacement in <a href="http://www.insurance-forums.net/forum/health-insurance-reform-forum/knee-replacement-costs-5-300-oklahoma-costs-223-000-california-t63557.html">Oklahoma</a> was $5,300 but $223,000 in Monterey,
California. In NYC, cost for treating asthma varied 321% between two hospitals
approximately 60 blocks apart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I
won’t even go into cost for aspirin, toilet paper and overnight stays in a
hospital ward.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">A social Marxist would say let us have one cost
across the board, but such would not consider a surgeon with 20 years
experiences and no clinical complications experienced by patients and a first
year without any clinical experience (which would go against all the rules of
rewarding expertise and competency).</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The President often repeated that the ACA would
reduce the cost of premiums by $2,500 for a family of four. However, using the
same math the Administration employed, one scientist calculated it would
increase premiums for a family of four by more than <a href="http://alicelaw.org/uploads/asset/asset_file/1227/Cost_and_Coverage_Implications_of_ACA_Medicaid_Expansion.pdf">$7400 by 2222</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I did the formula, I came out with a similar
figure closer to $7,900 per family of four (my model assumed that both head of
household were not employed). <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2013/11/04/49-state-analysis-obamacare-to-increase-individual-market-premiums-by-avg-of-41-subsidies-flow-to-elderly/">The Manhattan Institute</a>, although they did not
disclose their method completely, predicted and increase of 41% which in any
case is way more than $2,500.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was
as of the end of last year and was an overall estimiate not giving any weighted
effects for states like Georgia or Indiana where increases are estimated to be
198 and <a href="http://www.thewire.com/politics/2014/05/the-gop-is-quietly-waiting-for-obamacares-2015-premiums-to-prove-them-right/370779//">72 percent</a> accordingly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">New information shows that based on official filings
by insurance companies in Virginia, that policy rate increases range between <a href="http://appalachianareanews.com/virginia-first-to-release-post-obamacare-premium-proposals-rate-hikes-for-all/#!">3 to 17 percent for 2015</a>, and are attributed to new cost associated with
implementing the ACA as a function of being mandated to cover less healthy and
previously folk that never had health insurance.</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Although the President stated that this law would
assist in providing coverage for folk who did not have health insurance. It is
difficult for me how his administration came up with the number of people who
did not have health care coverage since it fluctuates, similar too manner in
knowing how many cares are owned by people versus the actually number that are
drivable and on the road. Since this proposal was implemented during the start
of our current and present recession, the Obama Administration goal of signing
up 7 million really wasn’t too difficult since close to 40 million currently
have no form of health coverage, inclusive of the botched roll out of the web
site. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To be completely honest, as the
federal government, it is difficult for me to believe then even have a clue of
how many uninsured folk in America, regardless of being either democrat or
republican.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Although many promulgate that the subsides will help
deal with these projected increases, in reality they will not hide the pain
that certain folk will have for paying extra for others who cannot afford to
pay for their policy or being required to pay for service they do not need. My
mother for example, is 72 and still wonders why she has to pay for maternity
coverage (when she can’t have children or why she has to, by law have prostate
cancer coverage when she doesn’t have a prostate).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">In summary, anyone who will say that the ACA is a
failure or a success is not being honest or objective. All will have to wait
for small and large business, which the president gave waivers, to sign up and
see what other laws go in place or changes made to the ACA to complete the final
product to evaluate it appropriately. What can be said that it will have a
major impact on the U.S. Economy, since the government has taken control of
approximately 30% of the U.S. GDP with its control of health care insurance and
health care delivery? What we can say is that the ACA will definitely change
how many small and large business hire and provide insurance coverage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What we can say is that the ACA will limit
individual choice in healthcare and may even impact the growth of the health
care delivery industry as a hole. Lastly, what we can say is that in time, all
will feel the impact of ACA whether for the good, the bad or the ugly. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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All-Mi-T [Thought Crime] Rawdawgbuffalohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08843040863123899426noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17646926.post-17436999863898674832014-05-10T14:25:00.001-04:002014-05-10T14:25:39.734-04:0014 years of the same ISH<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sometimes I feel as if I am in a bad
dream, it is as if <a href="http://rawdawgb.blogspot.com/2012/02/neoliberalism-and-foreign-policy-in.html">President Obama and President George W. Bush</a> are one in the
same, for the policies I was vehemently against while <a href="http://rawdawgb.blogspot.com/2008/09/vultures-are-circling.html">GWB was in office</a>, I am
still against and have been put in effect a lot more viscerally under Obama.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What I saw with Bush: the <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/bush-gulf-war/">incessant wars</a>, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/01/02/the-legacy-of-the-bush-tax-cuts-in-four-charts/">taxbreaks for the wealthy</a>, the <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/bush-signs-tarp-legislation-oct-3-2008-97742.html">banks and Wall Street</a> getting wealthier without any
threat of prosecution for criminal wrong doing and war mongering, I see two times
in <a href="http://rawdawgb.blogspot.com/2011/09/how-george-w-bush-and-barack-obama.html">President Obama</a>.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Bush did not place U.S. domestic issues
as being our main priority, and nor does Obama. Bush was preoccupied with Iraq,
and Afghanistan and Mr. Obama, <a href="http://rawdawgb.blogspot.com/2012/10/from-eisenhower-to-obama-war-is-money.html">Somalia, Yemen, Pakistan, Syria, Libya</a>, and now
the <a href="http://rawdawgb.blogspot.com/2014/04/june-1914-or-june-2014.html">Ukraine</a>. Currently the latter is more like some dystopian Fourier reality,
that for him is dynamic and fascinating, but for the majority of Americans,
wasteful and unnecessary. It is as if the Ukraine and parcels of land 99
percent of Americans will never see or set foot upon, deserves more attention
than the millions of Americans with <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jan/7/obamas-rhetoric-on-fighting-poverty-doesnt-match-h/?page=all">major financial needs</a> like the <a href="http://www.thenewamerican.com/economy/economics/item/17367-welfare-hits-record-levels-after-50-years-of-war-on-poverty">hungry, the homeless</a>, or the millions who can’t pay their rent or mortgages or whom <a href="http://cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/census-obama-s-1st-term-real-median-income-down-2627-people-poverty">need jobs at living wages</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There is no valid reason to be
occupied with the Ukraine when what we face at home is a true national security
threat economically. Just this past week, Federal Reserve Chairman Janet Yellen
informed the Joint Economic Committee of Congress that under current policies
the federal government’s deficits “<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/08/us-usa-fed-yellen-idUSBREA470QE20140508">will rise to unsustainable levels</a>.”
Unemployment, depressed wages and unadmitted inflation is killing us. We are
over our head and drowning in deficit spending so all we left with is printing “mo
money, mo money and mo money,” to use a phrase from “In Living Color.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Why is the U.S. economy more of a national
security issue than the Ukraine? First, at last count, about <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_debt_of_the_United_States#cite_note-8">5 trillion</a> or
approximately <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_debt_of_the_United_States#cite_note-8">47% of U.S. debt</a> is owned by foreign investors, the largest being
China and Japan at (plus <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_debt_of_the_United_States#cite_note-8">$1.1 trillion each</a>). Unlike us, the Russian government
expects to have a budget surplus according to the IMF. Add to this, Russia also
has a trade surplus which increased to <a href="http://www.tradingeconomics.com/russia/balance-of-trade">$18.86 bill</a>ion while the <a href="http://economyincrisis.org/content/trade-deficits-hurt-u-s-manufacturing-and-overall-economy">U.S. trade deficit continues to fall</a>. If anything, maybe the U.S. wants a war so it can rev up its
dire economic prospectus. For it is clear that what we observed when George W.
Bush invaded Iraq in 2003, the same can be noted, applied and said for the
Obama Administration – the economic and financial need of conflict with
another energy rich nation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Why else make a big fuss about
nothing? Obama in his neoliberal caricature resembles <a href="http://www.egs.edu/library/honore-de-balzac/biography/">Balzac’s</a> master criminal
<a href="http://rmack.com/balzac_with_footnotes.htm">Vautrin</a> more than the leader of the free world as the U.S. has been coined. Big
oil and Wall Street made a killing under Bush. The U.S. invasion of Iraq crushed
that country, destroyed Iraq’s state-owned oil industry, and grew the price of <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>crude
from $20 a barrel to <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2008/07/11/us-markets-oil-idUST14048520080711">$147 a barrel in 2008</a> (needless to state <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2008/02/01/news/companies/exxon_earnings/">Exxon Mobil’s most profitable year ever</a>). The point being whenever sanctions are placed on an
energy rich nation, U.S. plutocrats get paid. Obama is just extending the Bush
playbook and we saw such in 2011 when sanctions were placed on <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/iran/index.html">Iran</a> and <a href="http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article50532">Sudan</a>.
And when they don’t work, we have good ole NATO, who implemented an undeclared
<a href="http://rawdawgb.blogspot.com/2012/09/obamas-neoliberalism-bites-him-in.html">war on Libya</a>, not to forget the <a href="http://rawdawgb.blogspot.com/2013/07/foreign-policy-or-road-kill.html">CIA efforts in Syria</a>. Thus, it doesn’t take a
high school graduate to foresee the impact or likely impact the disruption of
the flow of Russian energy to Europe would mean for big U.S. oil companies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Obama and Bush are in policy, one
and the same person, the only differences are gang, I mean political
affiliation and ethnicity. The U.S. I suspect see the Ukraine as a means to
grow and <a href="http://www.defensenews.com/article/20140503/DEFREG01/305030021/US-Pushes-NATO-Allies-Boost-Defense-Spending">escalate military spending across Europe</a>, making the U.S. military
industrial complex more loot on behalf of U.S. oil interest. See, what
corporate U.S.A and Wall Street know is that <a href="http://www.cfr.org/defense-budget/trends-us-military-spending/p28855">war drives capital into the United States</a>, which keep U.S. banks the main feature of the global economy by cutting
the deficit and artificially propping up the dollar. This is the only
conclusion that is both reasonable and logical for as <a href="http://www.dw.de/nato-members-mull-rearmament/a-17616328">German MP Alexander Neu</a> noted,
“Not a single NATO country is in any way threatened,” by the actions in the
Ukraine. Plus, what would we expect, there are more than <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/eu-sanctions-on-russia-would-be-catastrophe-for-more-than-6000-german-firms-2014-3">6000 German companiesactive in Russia</a> with more than $27 billion invested in the nation. Meaning
just like Iraq was no threat, or Libya, or Syria, Obama economic and foreign
policy is no different than his predecessor with the exception it is on
steroids.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<![endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I have come to the realization that the lack of the
ability of the majority of citizens of these United States, in particular we
African Americans, t think critically is intentional and have taken a turn for
the worse. It like clear that the main reason for this is that the power that
be know and accept that a lot of money is made when folk do not have the
ability to think critically.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Over the past two weeks, two specific events have
drawn me to conclude of such, as that distractions seem to garnish more
attention than events and occurrences that actual merit our focus the most: the
Donald Sterling Saga and the skit on <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/05/06/the-snl-race-controversy-why-leslie-jones-can-say-what-she-likes.html">Saturday Night Live</a> written and performed
by <span class="st"><a href="http://www.justleslie.com/">Leslie Jones</a>.</span></span></div>
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<span class="st"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Seems that the only thing we black
folk get up in arms about is our skin color, confederate flags and the n-word.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It as if we only have our antenna out to pick
up what </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">bigots say but can't see the forest for
the trees.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The issues that are
destroying our community go unattended and are pushed back in our collective unconscious,
in particular for this generation in which they believe that just because a politician
is black and a democrat you can’t say anything wrong about the person policies,
not the man I mind you but policies. If we were in tune to other issues, we
would likely in the case of Sterling attend to his message about institutional
racism in America and abroad, specifically alluded to by what he stated pertaining
to the real manner in which Israel treat blacks and Africans.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But no we do not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If we had our ears to the ground, we would
attempt to address and discuss the bigger issue of how and why owners get
public support through stadium subsidies & even antitrust exemptions in
cities where the urban areas are mainly African American and Latinos, whom tax monies
build the large stadium complexes but is not poured in the despondent and deplorable
public education systems the vast majority of us send our kids too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No we don’t dare address such.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">On the real, why are we concerned about
multi-millionaires that play professional sports when the quality of life for
most black men in America is mostly negative? It seems that the only place
black men are over represented where they display a modicum of success are in
the sport and entertainment industry, and frankly, I am frequently more
offended by the lyrics of rappers like Lil Wayne, Jay-Z, 2 Chains, and Future
than by what Donald Sterling said or <span class="st">Leslie Jones performed.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The truth is that all that is negative, pessimistic,
gloomy and associated with failure is where we as black men are vastly and
disproportionately over-represented. Nationwide we account for more than 50% us
dropout rate and maintain <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the lowest
college enrollment than any other group by ethnicity and gender in the nation.
In <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://blackboysreport.org/national-table-data">Mississippi, Michigan, Louisiana, Indiana, Georgia,Florida, District of Columbia, California, Arkansas, Alabama</a> and many other
states 10% of less of black males in high school read above an eighth grade level.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Personally I think mass incarceration deserves more
attention that a television comedy show or a NBA owner. Those who kill
non-Latino whites are over three times more likely to be sentenced to die as
those who kill African-Americans. The killer (no pun intended) is that for the
same crimes, the odds of receiving a death sentence are nearly <a href="http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/death-penalty-black-and-white-who-lives-who-dies-who-decides">four times (3.9)</a>
higher if the defendant is black.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Then there is the lucid observation that we as
African American men are more likely to be <a href="http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/cepr-blog/addressing-chronic-black-male-unemployment">unemployed, under employed, trapped in low wage jobs</a>, have higher rates of job instability, lower wages, and
extremely longer bouts with unemployment; which may account for why <span class="st">nearly </span><a href="http://cad.sagepub.com/content/early/2013/12/18/0011128713514801.abstract">49 percent</a> of black men are arrested for non-traffic
offenses by the time they turn twenty-three.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I can’t comprehend why a whole bunch of us black
folk more concerned and vocal about millionaire slaves and racist owners, or a comedian
when, most of us are living from paycheck to paycheck, have suffered huge
financial setbacks and are still scared about the future. The cold, hard truth
is that we have one microscopic group of folk who have resources, are making
loot and continue to enhance their financial position and a <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/mar/14/obama-economy-rich-get-richer-millionaires-list-gr/">president that has increased their wealth</a>. But we do not dare address this, specifically that the <a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/rachelalexander/2012/11/25/minorities_disproportionately_worse_off_under_obama/page/full">economic conditions of African Americans has gotten worse</a> over the last five years more than any time in modern history.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">None of this gets us mad, just old outdated bigots
that allow us to show our support for political correctness and other <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=552">cultural Marxist</a>
beliefs. Even Ebony magazine chimed in on this by unleashing their racist watch
dog extraordinaire <span class="st"><a href="https://twitter.com/JamilahLemieux">Jamila Lemieux</a> on a comedy skit, on
the same weekend in Chicago (Ebony’s own backyard) in which </span><a href="http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/local/chicago_news&id=9526494">4 people were killed and 24 others are injured</a> in shootings. The same weekend in which <a href="http://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20140430/new-city/uncle-gave-niece-gun-used-kill-14-year-old-endia-martin-police-say">Donnell Flora, 25</a>, who uses a wheelchair took a bus to deliver a gun to his niece to
shoot a 14 yr. old girl over a Facebook post over a boy. Then there is the fact that in Chicago, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbpJ4lXuwqE">92 percent of African American men are unemployed</a>. But none of this was
exciting enough, no racism involved, therefore again pushed deep back in the
recesses of the black mind. Maybe they need to talk about the issues that would
make folk write books with titles like “<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Food-Stamp-Bitches-Teresa-Patterson/dp/1478354763">Food Stamp Bitches</a>,” or why maternal
deaths are on the rise among African American women in the United States, but I
doubt it. Even going back to look at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJDZSmkHSpY">Richard Pryor’s slave sketch</a> he did on his
show when I was a teen in the 1970s, seems would upset black folk today, which
makes me think his comedy would be viewed as inappropriate currently. But these
same folk yell free speech when it is Beyoncé, Lil Boosie or some other
subject-verb challenged miscreant. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">As a community we rarely write about our deep issues
and concerns like we once did, nor are we black writers interested in such,
because to do so would mean looking at the mirror and accepting that a lot of
our problems are not and cannot be singularly attributed to racism. How many of
US would hold our kids to the standard of nothing less than a 95% being
acceptable to bring home as a grade as <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/30/us/new-york-student-selects-yale/">Kwasi Enin parents</a> did? Parents? How
many of us will cut the TV off and sit with our kids and do homework and read
to them instead of watching the Real Housewives of Atlanta? How many of us take
our kids to the library weekly or even own library cards. Small things can and
do make a difference.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Sometimes being distracted by thing we cannot change
does our community more harm than good, by taking our attention from what we
CAN address and deal with in our own backyard. Truth is, it was Abraham Lincoln
who said and wrote: “Free them [black slaves] and make them politically and
socially our equals? My own feelings will not admit of this" (<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=5gHA6yZsrocC&pg=PA540&lpg=PA540&dq=Collected+Works+of+Abraham+Lincoln,+Vol.+II,+p.+256&source=bl&ots=JzGgpQdFqg&sig=LD51a01XnhQIjk--RQBikyTYEiw&hl=en&sa=X&ei=r0dqU-HSDYyayATqt4LwBg&ved=0CDoQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=Collected%20Works%20of%20Abraham%20Lincoln%2C%20Vol.%20II%2C%20p.%20256&f=false\">Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, Vol. II, p. 256</a>). A man clearly who doesn’t or
couldn’t deserve the right to own a NBA team in today's, world of intolerance
and impracticality.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As I write this, President Obama has ended his Asian tour
(sounds rockstaresque). Although he was met by major protest nearly everywhere
he went, from the Philippines where protestors were sprayed with water hoses to
Malaysia, his main worry continues to be how to deal with Japan, an ally but at
the same time not offend one of America’s largest holder of <a href="http://www.foxbusiness.com/economy-policy/2014/01/16/china-now-owns-record-1317t-us-government-debt/">U.S. debt – China</a>.</span></div>
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In word, President Obama stated that the US Japan alliance was
"stronger than ever" adding in so many words that America opposes any
efforts (by China) to undermine <a href="http://www.voanews.com/content/obama-senkaku-islands-fall-under-usjapan-defense-treaty/1899996.html">Japan’s administration</a> of the disputed and
uninhabited <a href="http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1501217/china-russia-hold-joint-naval-drill-politically-sensitive-east-china-sea">Diaoyu Islands in the East China Sea</a> (note East China not East
Japan). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By taking this position, The President
basically questioned China's sovereignty and “legitimate interest," to use
the words of foreign ministry spokesman Qin Gang, in the Diaoyu Islands, which
they feel have nothing to do the Japan-US security treaty. Also, there remains
the effort of the U.S. to implement Obamas GATT and NAFTA, the 12-nation
<a href="http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2014/devaraj270414.html">Trans-Pacific Partnership</a> (TPP), which excludes <a href="http://www.uscrisispreppers.com/2013/12/04/20-quotes-about-the-economic-collapse-in-europe-that-will-make-your-hair-stand-on-end/">China</a>.<br />
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Some may argue otherwise, but it should be remembered that since the fall of
japan after WW 2, it was clear that a primary objective of the occupation of
Japan would be U.S. military control in the region for decades to come albeit
not originally outlined in the <a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Potsdam_Declaration.html">Potsdam Declaration</a> as such. This was achieved
when General Douglas MacArthur, along with a few staff WROTE the entire new
constitution of Japan that has lasted ever since. Specifically via But the most
unique and one of the most important provisions came in <a href="http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2014/05/02/editorials/protecting-the-peace-constitution/">Article 9</a>, which
outlawed the creation of armed forces and the right to make war.<br />
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This is a difficult prospectus for the U.S. while mainstream media
incessantly pounds that China is faltering economically, the question is
compared to whom?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not the U.S. for
certain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>First, U.S. bureaucrats insist
that the Chinese economy is in deep trouble, although the <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/business-27045527">Chinese economy grewat 7.4% </a>year-on-year for the first quarter of 2014. In particular when compared
with the miniscule expanded <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/samanthasharf/2014/04/30/u-s-gdp-grew-a-glacial-0-1-in-the-first-quarter-2014/">0.10 percent growth in the U.S. Gross DomesticProduct</a> (GDP) observed in the first quarter of 2014 over the previous quarter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And loot will continue to flow in to China given
the global demand for <a href="http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/05/02/copper-china-idINL6N0NN14Z20140502">copper</a>, <a href="http://www.farmandranchguide.com/news/markets/market-offers-higher-prices-for-soybeans/article_73a76946-cfe4-11e3-ba7b-001a4bcf887a.html">soybeans</a> and multiple investments and trade
arrangements between China and South America. China has a large hand and equal
investment in <a href="http://www.pulsamerica.co.uk/2014/04/24/chinalatin-america-beyond-copper/">Copper in both Chile and Peru</a> and <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/business/big-brazilian-miner-vale-confident-about-china-and-iron-ore-but-not-the-us-20140403-361fj.html">Iron in Brazil</a> as well as
sustainable energy development in Venezuela. Plus one must recognize the long
standing relationship China and Trinidad have in the Caribbean. The reality is
that <a href="http://chinaperspectives.revues.org/3053">South America now imports more from China</a> than it does from the European
Union, according to the U.N. economic agency for the region.<br />
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and Russia , which appear to be making moves toward quitting using (diversifying)
the US dollar or at least significantly cutting the dollar share in their forex
reserves (a move that will most likely broaden the Yuan’s daily trading range).
Add to this that from of January 2013 to the end of July, <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">the Bank of Russia reduced its stockpile of
US Treasury securities from <a href="http://nsnbc.me/2013/12/03/china-plans-reduce-holdings-us-dollar/">USD 164.4 billion to USD 131.6 billion</a> (a</span> reduction
of US Treasury obligations by USD 32.8 billion, or by 20 percent), there are
some serious issues on the table for the administration to address and not just
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military containment of China for the U.S. is the main reason this
administration has proffered unequivocal support for Japan, although they are
well aware that such may have a dire impact and strain on the U.S. economy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Specifically, speaking, if China desires to
retaliate, in concert with Russia and other BRIC nations, the result could led
to starting the demise of the dollar – meaning the American way of living will
be severely impacted as a consequence with growing levels of inflation in the
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manner in which the U.S. has targeted Russia for what has occurred in the
Ukraine, and leaving <a href="http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865602219/Obama-falters-on-free-trade-comes-back-from-Asia-empty-handed.html">China out of the TPP talks</a>, what we observe as closer
interaction between Beijing and Moscow are really about protecting their
domestic economies. But it is not farfetched to see that is they continue this
close corporate, an outcome of bad and poorly thought-out U.S. foreign policy
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The U.S. concerns in China will prove to be challenging for the present
administration. For one they are all over the place in policy and tend to
reflect a moderately satirical ineptness to the goals and aims of their foreign
policy efforts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the other, I am still
waiting (as I suspect others) for <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mr.
Obama to define what he means by “rebalancing” U.S. policy towards Asia, when
his actions show opposite and even worse, the same old U.S. approach. By this I
mean the neocolonial zeal reflected in President Obama’s desire to re-occupy
the <a href="http://www.latimes.com/world/worldnow/la-fg-wn-us-philippines-defense-cooperation-20140427,0,6497128.story#axzz30ZLpdsvI">Philippines</a> consequently continuing the United States historical imperialist
agenda in Asia.<br />
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become three times larger than th</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">e U.S. economy by the year <a href="http://www.munknee.com/shift-from-u-s-dollar-as-world-reserve-currency-underway-what-will-this-mean-for-america/">2040</a>. The
concern is that </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">much of the U.S. dollar’s valuation
stems from its lock on the oil industry and if China and Russia and the BRIC
nations can accomplish this, next thing is the dollar is gone and <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>gold will rise. As I write and you read, Iran
is already in the field trying out a non-dollar based international trade
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from upsetting China and at the same time appease Japan, as current news
reports in the region have noted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is
the administration desire to maintain U.S. military hegemony in both <a href="http://tvnz.co.nz/world-news/us-and-philippines-sign-10-year-military-pact-5941880">Malaysiaand Philippines</a>, by making sure neither nation ever reach the strength
militarily equal to Vietnam, as well as do all possible to prevent China from reaching
parity with the U.S as a naval power that could eventually challenge American
in the <a href="http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2014-02/03/content_17267997.htm">Indian Ocean and the Western Pacific</a>. The obstacle is, has the Obama administration
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In a few months it will be the summer of
2014.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As such it is difficult for me not
to project infinite possibilities reduced to a singular historical event - the
start of <a href="http://www.awm.gov.au/atwar/ww1/">World War I</a> in 1914.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>See, up to
the actual start of the First World War, folk were completely oblivious to how
dramatic a pace things would change, and it makes me wonder if the same type of
reticent ease evinced by most Americans will be abruptly ended this summer
given the tensions between the <a href="http://www.dw.de/eu-us-ready-new-sanctions-against-russia-as-tensions-in-ukraine-mount/a-17595101">EU, USA and Russia</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Now I am not saying all is exactly the
same, true, different times and different events, but some of the parallels are
notably similar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now albeit in this age
of sound bites, in which the TV pundits tend to accept that the cause of WW1
was singularly due to the assassination of the presumed Austro-Hungarian heir,
<a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/diary-of-archduke-franz-ferdinand-details-1892-journey-around-world-a-886196.html">Archduke Franz Ferdinand</a> by a group of <a href="http://www.war-memorial.net/Bosnian-Govt-vs-Serbian-Insurgents--3.206">Bosnian Serbs</a> from the revolutionary
movement called <a href="http://translation.babylon.com/english/Mlada+bosna/">Mlada Bosna</a> (‘Young Bosnia’) while he and his wife were
visiting Sarajevo on June 28, 1914, personally, I consider several other
factors that were responsible for the war that just happened to culminate in
the aforementioned event. In fact, I would even venture to say that this was
just an excuse for the Austria-Hungary alliance to declare war on its neighbor
in an attempt to eliminate what they perceived and completely contrived to be a
‘<a href="http://www.docjordan.de/aufsatzsammlung/militaerhistorische-themen/why-did-austria-go-to-war-1914.html">Serbian threat</a>.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Now these other events, remind me strangely
of what is occurring in the Ukraine in concert with the EU, Russia and the U.S.
First, there was the <a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Franco-Prussian_War.html">Franco-Prussia war</a> of 1870 to 1871 which saw France take a
beat down leading to them having to pay Germany a lot of loot as a consequence
which assisted in the creation of a powerful German Empire with a military and
industrial complex to match which Europe understood would severely disrupt the
balance of power on the continent. Similar in the manner in which the so-called
actions of Russia have caused within the contextual arrangements via the Crimea
and Ukraine. Notwithstanding the same locution present suggesting the
predisposition of <a href="http://csis.org/files/media/csis/pubs/081110_smith_natorussia_web.pdf">NATO towards Russia</a> emergence after the demise of the
U.S.S.R., that borders more on emotive perspectives than rational reality - the
type of responses that frequently lead to, instead of squashing, motives
directed toward civil and even worse, international wars.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In addition, two other events, <a href="http://cnparm.home.texas.net/Wars/MorCrises.htm">TheMoroccan Crises</a> (inclusive of both the <a href="http://ww1daily.com/tag/tangier-crisis/">Tangler Crisis</a> of 1905-1906 and the
<a href="https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/boshtml/bos137.htm">Agadir Crisis</a> of 1911) and the formation of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balkan_League">Balkan League</a> (a military
alliance against the Ottoman Empire in 1912, between Serbia, Greece, Montenegro
and Bulgaria) were just as responsible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>With respect to the first, what is on the historical record is that the
events in Morocco almost brought the European heavy weights to war because they
were orchestrated by the Germans to drive a wedge between France and Britain,
but instead<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>enhanced British hostility
towards Germany. Likewise the manner in which the EU and President Obama has
accepted the legitimacy of the government in Kiev (which was funded by Western
Governments), as being legitimate without elections, supporting one popular
rebellion but not recognizing similar popular rebellions in Crimea and in the
Eastern Ukraine. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The second, was implemented by the
<a href="http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/dualalli.asp">Austria-Hungary alliance</a> and resulted in removing the possessions of the
<a href="http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/the-ottomans-six-centuries-in-europe">Ottoman Empire in the Balkans</a> and divided these territory among them, resulting
in Bulgaria turning against Serbia and Greece - their former allies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Eventually the Bulgarians were defeated and
forced to give up their claims in Macedonia, shocking the European heavy
weights (inclusive of Russian allies of France and Great Britain), but in
particular the Austria-Hungary Alliance that vehemently was against a strong
Serbian state. This, in the same manner in which the west is against a more
powerful growing Russian expansion in Eurasia proper today.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Just like the US and EU sees Russia
today, Vienna saw Serbia both as a rival in the Balkans and as a direct threat
because it feared that its Balkan neighbors may become the core of a future
South-Slavic state (wasn’t happening but this is the fear promulgated by the
west today concerning the Balkans). The Balkan Wars made Austro-Hungarian neo-cons
even more determined to take concrete action to prevent further strengthening
of Serbia.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I say this because what is clear is the
fact that the Ukraine is not a member of NATO, has been a thorn in the side of
both U.S. and EU developing objectives that would authorize the concerns of the
Eastern Ukraine’s and others that lean toward Russia in the Ukraine, for NATO
to respond militarily to these recent events albeit not warranted. I wrote about this a few weeks ago but since then, Obama is adding gas t the fire. Then there is the empty token of "I mean business by sending <a href="http://rt.com/news/154556-us-troops-drills-poland/">150 troops to Poland</a>, and getting the <a href="http://www.news.nom.co/romanian-military-units-moving-9190129-news/">Romanian Army</a> to move it's troops t the Russian border and the Ukrainian Army surrounding a city of 300,000 in the east.</span><br />
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<span class="dropcap"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">It seems that it
doesn’t require a degree in History to see that the same way</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> Germany wanted
a preventive war against Russia and France years before WW1, The EU and the US
desires a war (preventative or not) for similar reasons, mainly economic. </span></div>
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With all of these bailouts of European nations over and over again, adding
more and more debt to national coffers, if history is any indication, war is
and obvious consequence. First because it is the best way for a government to
take people’s attention from horrendous economic conditions they are mired in
and two, war is always the outcome when there is no global economic recovery.
And right now, the world is smack dab in the middle of a global currency war:
one in which everyone from <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2013/05/04/chinas-currency-contains-gains-on-dollar/">Brazil to China is devaluing their currencies</a> in an
attempt boost exports and GDP. And again, the last time we saw this happened,
the result was WW 2. Why, because our Federal Government and plutocratic elite
need wars to take some of the pressure off from our growing debt and exorbitant
federal spending.<br />
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Currency wars lead to trade wars, which lead to rising inflation and global
economic uncertainty and it is a well-known fact that the U.S. government
considers <a href="http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/archive/2012/November/Pages/TopFiveThreatstoNationalSecurityintheComingDecade.aspx">economic threats as a basis for going to war</a>. This is why Gaddafi was murdered, because he
was planning an all-African currency for conducting trade. The same thing
happened to Saddam because he was moving away from the U.S. dominated petro
dollar. And as we speak, bilateral currency swaps are on the increase in and no
less than <a href="http://www.policymic.com/articles/9108/are-brics-countries-moving-away-from-the-u-s-dollar">23 nations are moving away from the dollar</a> to <a href="http://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1496826/renminbis-volatility-simply-growing-pains-emerging">Renminbi</a>: what is in
the work is that nations are trying to move the dollar completely out, and use
<a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-04-25/pboc-pressures-usd-hegemony-starts-yuan-denominated-gold-oil-trading">Yuan mainly oil and gold trading</a>. This is a no-no from the U.S. perspective and
supports the contention that for us, wars have been able to do one thing from
the West’s perspective - bring all countries under the umbrella of Western
Central Banking.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Supposedly, the <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-27100749">Geneva accord</a> between
Russia, Ukraine, the US and EU was supposed to make ALL groups to
surrender weapons and leave official buildings. But this did not happen. As it
stands, tensions in the </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Donetsk region, are ramping up,
especially in the city of Sloviansk – where the entire city (300,000) is
occupied by pro-Russian separatist. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">They say that as
the People's Republic of D</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">onetsk</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">, they are just
reacting to military operations launched by the Ukrainian army on Slavyansk.
Then there is the small little something-something that the Ukraine energy firm
Naftogaz has been asked to pay <a href="http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/russias-gazprom-says-ukraine-owes-extra-11-bln-for-gas.aspx?pageID=238&nID=65495&NewsCatID=348">Russia Gazprom $11 billion</a> for gas already used
but unpaid for.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Bush, as Obama today, are just as
war-like as <a href="http://www.dw.de/wilhelm-ii-emperor-and-outsider/a-17547501">Wilhelm II</a> was in Germany when he ascended to the throne in 1888.
Likewise, they are just as protective of U.S. banking interest and as such, the
way I figure, there are a lot of similarities historically, albeit different
names and places, between the past 100 years. Regardless, whether via incompetence
or intentionally, the Obama Administration is escalating tensions in the
Ukraine and surrounding region as well as with Russia. Fact is that Washington
aided in the overthrow of the elected Ukrainian leader regardless of his
character and presently is encouraging the new leaders in Kiev to all they can
to keep the flames going, even violence</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN;">I am writing to
satisfy one issue, and that is why do folk take up for these political
plutocrats regardless of political affiliation? It is as if folk cannot see
they are all in the same gang of scratch my back crony-capitalist crooks. And
for those unaware, <a href="http://www.againstcronycapitalism.org/what-is-crony-capitalism/">crony capitalism</a> refers to the intercourse between <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">the state and corporate power</span>. These
cats have two sets of laws, one for us common folk and one for the elite folk.
This manifested by two kinds of economic models of capitalism which breaks down
to the over-regulated capitalism we have to abide by and the protected and
unregulated variety for corporations, cartels and said participants.</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Personally, as a
libertarian, I unlike conservatives or liberals or progressives believe that
part of the price of freedom is allowing others to have their freedom equally.
Moreover, I believe whether I agree or like or dislike something, if it is
peaceful and voluntary and harms no one, I can tolerate such. Unfortunately,
this is not the game played by the ruling political elite regardless of party
affiliation.</span><br />
<br />
And even with all of the empirical evidence we observe, we allow these folk
to play us like a fiddle, telling us things that do not even make sense yet
many of us accept without question because we love our politicians. Love them
so much we will let them lead us to poverty and a penal existence. <span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">So enthralled with them that we allow
them, the federal government to give billions tax free in the form of <a href="http://newsjunkiepost.com/2010/12/17/tarp-ii-tax-assistance-for-rich-people-passes/">TARP</a> and
even more via <a href="http://www.cnbc.com/id/101283037">Quantitative Easing</a> and all that so they can make loot in the
markets at the cost of money that in theory should have gone to pay salaries of
average employees. </span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">The real concern is that in order
to do this, we have to be complicit in our own death. To accomplish this, t</span>hey
make up stuff; I mean artificially contrive stuff as well as the proof to
support the stuff they made up in an effort to communicate impending doom. Take
Global warming for example (ironically newspeaked into climate change) or any
environmental cause. This the strategy used by plutocratic political elite and it
is grounded in their sense of “<a href="http://www.philosophybasics.com/branch_moral_absolutism.html">moral absolutism</a>” that makes them feel that since
they have money, money shouldn’t be an issue to you thus your value as being
regular folk, only exist to make them believe “WE” need them to tell us what to
do.<br />
<br />
We can also look at the civil rights and black power movements as examples.
What did these folks do then? Well we were it before global warming and the
environment. First, they focus on inequality amongst various societal sub
groups like African Americans and encourage us to act against these certain
political targets. It was just a few weeks ago the democratic held an <a href="http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2014/03/13/all-night-senate-session-focuses-on-climate-change/">all-nightclimathon</a> talking about global warming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This was<a href="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2014/03/climate-change-keeps-a-quarter-of-the-senate-up-all-night/"> 28 democratic senators</a> all because some rich cat said he wanted
to put <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCkQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fabclocal.go.com%2Fwabc%2Fstory%3Fsection%3Dnews%2Fpolitics%26id%3D9461374&ei=qSFVU7WNH8T4yAGH2YCADg&usg=AFQjCNGAKunIPFMDjDQbjPRoZTI2DQK_8A&sig2=3ifr6pQxgVkh7sJRoqExzQ&bvm=bv.65058239,d.aWw">$100 million</a> behind politicians dealing with global warming. And we all
know, including the money behind them, the politicians and the masses, that <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/early-exit-poll-60-percent-say-economy-top-issue/">60 percent in America think the economy</a> is the most important issue to address and
<a href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/167843/climate-change-not-top-worry.aspx">climate change next to the bottom</a>, especially us <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jan/28/naacp-president-black-people-worse-under-obama/">black folk</a>. Why, because
climate change makes them wealthier.<br />
<br />
In the early 1970s, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Wildavsky">Aaron Wildavsky</a>, the former Dean of the Graduate School of
Public Affairs at California Berkeley described their play book as being designed
to “have middle class civil servants, hire upper class whites, to use lower
class blacks” to stack the front line to complain against the political
institution or policy (or lack of) at hand. And this minus-sum game as
Wildavsky describes, often leaves African Americans worse off than we were
before.<br />
<br />
Take the recent election of Barack Obama. The change and hope mantra had
folks wanting to tear the club up. But in 2014, what do we see? We see home
sales going up for those with a price tag of <a href="http://www.djc.com/news/re/12064507.html">$10 million plus</a>, but not regular
folk, especially if they are <a href="http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/obama-blacks-poverty-education/2014/01/08/id/545866/">African Americans</a>. Black Americans, Obama's most loyal supporters, are among the hardest hit by this uneven recovery.<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">The average price for a kilowatt-hour
(KWH) of electricity hit a record of <a href="http://www.bls.gov/ro5/aepchi.htm">13.5 cents</a> in March based on data released
by the Bureau of Labor Statistics: meaning it was up about 5.5 percent from
12.8 cents per KWH in March 2013. <span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">In March, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics also shows that shrimp prices
jumped <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-04-19/shrimp-price-surge-makes-pad-thai-more-costly-for-diners-retail">61 percent</a> from a year earlier. Cost for <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-24/meat-eaters-gulp-record-prices-before-u-s-grilling-peaks.html">pork items</a>, especially bacon
are also dramatically on the increase.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ironically
the story line is due to a <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-06/virus-killing-5-million-pigs-spurs-hog-price-rally-commodities.html">disease</a>. The <a href="http://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/food-price-outlook/summary-findings.aspx#.U1UxgmeBWMo">increases of cost in agricultural</a> and
beef products have been conveniently blamed on a drought (disease and drought equally
environment). </span></span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">All to make you think there are more things (the environment) which are
more important than feeding your family, earning a living and maintaining a
roof over your head (humans). Think about it <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/10/petas_peculiar_partners.html">PETA</a> will tell you not to eat meat
and that slaughtering cows is inhuman but they get their lot from VISA, who
owns <a href="http://www.rightwingnews.com/animal-rights/peta-people-for-the-ethical-treatment-of-their-own-big-fat-wallets/">Omaha Steaks</a> and got big loot in the <a href="http://www.humanevents.com/2009/10/05/peta-becomes-a-corporate-animal/">Kentucky Derby</a> (can’t make this ish
up). </span><br />
<br />
You might be a progressive, but you are not a progressive elite and you, if
defined as such are not seeking the same goal as they are.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The recession officially ended in June 2009,
but we <a href="http://blogs.marketwatch.com/realtimeadvice/2012/03/09/u-s-still-down-6-million-jobs/">still are down 6 million jobs from pre-recession</a> levels and now these cats got us
believing that Obamacare and the economy are separate issues. But fact is that
the new trend is not giving part-time workers company health coverage like <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-21/target-to-drop-health-insurance-for-part-time-workers.html">Target</a>, who will no longer offer health insurance to part time workers. Meaning,
class, <a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/rachelalexander/2012/11/25/minorities_disproportionately_worse_off_under_obama/page/full">African Americans will be the hardest hit by this</a>.<br />
<br />
The <a href="http://washington.cbslocal.com/2013/09/10/top-1-percent-took-largest-ever-share-of-us-income-in-2012/">disparity between rich and poor has blossomed since 2009</a> and the <a href="http://cnsnews.com/news/article/ali-meyer/labor-force-participation-2013-lowest-35-years">job participation rate</a> is way worse, not to mention the average person has less
money to spend and is taxed much more - all when our nation's debt is our
greatest concern because WE paying the debt. And you know how I know we paying
the debt? Because, more than <a href="http://www.naacp.org/action-alerts/entry/stop-cruel-extremist-cuts-to-food-assistance-programs-for-children-and-fami">23 million American households rely on food stamps</a>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Households operationally
defined let us say as being four per household which equals 92 million Americans.
And although more whites on welfare than blacks, we rely on it disproportionately
more than whites.<br />
<br />
<span lang="EN" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN;">This one reason why neither
democrats nor republicans will ever simplify the tax code because this is the
plutocratic politician’ main source of revenue (taking huge contributions (bribes)
in exchange for <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/15/opinion/stop-coddling-the-super-rich.html?_r=0">tax breaks for the super-wealthy</a>. They want inflation because
the math proves that inflation (when prices go up)<a href="http://www.rttnews.com/2265505/rba-raises-gdp-inflation-forecasts-on-weak-currency.aspx"> raises GDP</a> subsequently
making federal debt cheaper to service every year. But where we live and
everywhere else, <a href="http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/28/median-household-income-down-7-3-since-start-of-recession/">median household income is down 7%</a> since 2000. And don’t
forget if we removed the top 1% households from this equation, the decline for
the bottom 99% would be more than closer to 30% (my math). Thus via the tax
code and quantitative easing, the purchasing power we have is slowly being
siphoned and swindled and given on purpose by our government to super rich
folk, who in turn get to borrow money from the Fed at an interest rate of zero.</span><br />
<br />
American politics is completely, owned, run and operated by the most
powerful economic elite that politics and corporate America can proffer, which
leaves out the democracy this republic was created on for the rest of us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yawl, especially black progressives, needs to
stop wifing these politicians.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I mean if
black folk regardless of political orientation put as much into protect,
defending and believing in self and our communities as much as we wife these
politicians, we wouldn’t have am problems. But we don’t, and now a majority of
us believe and trust the government. When did we start to believe in and trust
the government I ask again? Of all folk, African and Native Americans should
never trust the government, especially the federal government. But that is just
me, and unlike most, I don’t love these politicians.All-Mi-T [Thought Crime] Rawdawgbuffalohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08843040863123899426noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17646926.post-6030395286595076632014-04-17T10:15:00.002-04:002014-04-22T10:40:02.807-04:00The government is coming after you…even if you did nothing wrong<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It seems each day I am reminded of how poorly
informed the average American is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
is especially true for the average African American, who speaks of politics through
the jaundiced lens of faux progressivism and protecting our president and his
political party no matter what they do. But for some reason, I think this is
because as a community, things have changed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>When I was growing up in Memphis during the city sanitation strikes,
African Americans never trusted the government or politicians, even if they
were black.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I mean when someone like <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.</span> goes out of
his way to threatened to accuse Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Bayard Rustin of
having a <a href="http://Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. goes out of his way to threatened to accuse Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Bayard Rustin">homosexual relationship</a>, just to protect white racist democrats, unless
the protest they had planned in <a href="http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/primarydocuments/Vol5/9June1960_StatementAnnouncingtheMarchontheConventionsMovemen.pdf">1960 at the Democratic Convention</a> was cancelled,
it is easy to see why such was the case and why the majority of us,
traditionally never trusted democrats or republicans regardless of race.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Today, African Americans actually believe in and
trust the government to do what is best albeit facts suggest otherwise. The
stark reality is that things will only continue to get worse and we with our
heads in the sand, will accept anything our political puppet masters tell us. Unfortunately,
by the time we wake up, it may be too late and like everybody else, we will find
out that the government is coming after us…even if we did nothing wrong.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Some may say this is an overstatement, but for the folk
that do assert such, I suggest you read the Bill of Rights and the history of
the <a href="http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook13.asp">French Revolution</a>, as well as observe the parallels for themselves. The
problem is that having a <a href="http://t.co/TRsp4EEkYq">Mulatto Presiden</a>t got black folk thinking it is all
good.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just the presence and appearance
of our swarthy-skinned President makes people think it is alright, making them
accept without question, or even more problematic, not pay attention to the
real world around them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">But if we would just look around, we would see that the
<a href="http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-income-inequality-20140121,0,3481555.story#axzz2z9VdJYHv">gap between what the poorest</a> make and what the wealthiest bring home has
reached levels not seen since the Great Depression. According to the current
administration, we are in year five of the “economic recovery” yet we have no
job creation in concert with many companies cutting their payrolls. Add to this
the observation that U.S. <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/044711_increasing_food_prices_California_drought_subsidized_crops.html">food prices are up nearly 20 percent</a> so far this year
and <a href="http://247wallst.com/special-report/2014/04/17/10-fastest-rising-food-prices/">steadily rising</a>. To believe the words of any politician, in particular this
administration about the economy is getting better borders on psychosis.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">What did we get by awarding the current
administration with 93 percent of the African American vote in 2012 and 95
percent among that group in 2008? <a href="http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/obama-blacks-poverty-education/2014/01/08/id/545866/">Economically we are worse</a> than we were in
2009 and our participation in the labor market has been <a href="http://t.co/aRDb49bqov">steadily falling</a>
farther since that same year. Simple truth is that since his election, economic
improvements have occurred for all other ethnic groups in America with the
<a href="http://www.blackagendareport.com/content/expansion-black-american-misery-under-barack-obama%E2%80%99s-watch">exception of blacks</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Now the next step is domination by police and
military enforcement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now "the most
transparent administration in history" has just ordered <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/apr/9/national-guard-loses-war-army-over-apache-transfer/">U.S. Army to seize every Apache helicopter</a> in use by the National Guard and prior to this, the <a href="http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/item/17611-post-office-latest-federal-agency-to-ask-for-ammunition">U.S.Postal Service</a>, EPA, <a href="https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=8d3b076bd4de14bbda5aba699e80621d&tab=core&_cview=1&cck=1&au=&">IRS</a>, NOAA, the <a href="http://www.examiner.com/article/why-does-department-of-education-need-12-gauge-shotguns">Department of Education</a> & <a href="https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=6c39a2a9f00a10187a1432388a3301e5&tab=core&_cview=0&fb_source=message">90 agencies</a>, have been and are purchasing and
storing BILLIONs of round of <a href="http://www.infowars.com/social-security-administration-to-purchase-174-thousand-rounds-of-hollow-point-bullets/">hollow point ammo</a> and thousands of military
rifles for domestic use only. Not to mention that recently, the administration
convinced their plutocratic buddies in the cell phone market to agree to add a
phone <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/Latest-News-Wires/2014/0416/Smartphone-kill-switches-free-on-phones-sold-after-July-2015">kill switch beginning in July 2015</a> which they say is about the rash of
cell phone thefts but is really about is about disabling cell phone cameras to
keep the free people from posting and sharing government abuse and violence to
other via the internet. Maybe even worse is that the FBI just announced that they plan to have 52 million photos in its <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/04/fbi-plans-have-52-million-photos-its-ngi-face-recognition-database-next-year">NGI Face Recognition Database</a> by next year (everybody,
not just criminals).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And if you want to see two examples of this, that
have nothing to do with race, all we have to do is look at what happened with
<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/report-autopsy-shows-miriam-carey-shot-5-times-033423274--politics.html">Miriam Carey</a> and more recently with<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nevada rancher Clive Bundy. The Carey story tells us one thing: that if
you are a black woman, you cannot get scared with men in swat regalia in mass
pull guns out on you when you are with your child.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Doing so gets you murdered legally and the
Whitehouse will cover for this murder, call all the news media and tell the
world you <a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/crime/2013/10/04/miriam_carey_capitol_police_was_the_use_of_deadly_force_justified_in_thursday.html">was shooting at polic</a>e, trying to attack the Capitol, <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/shots-fired-u-s-capitol-report-article-1.1475378">was crazy</a> and
on <a href="http://blogs.rollcall.com/hill-blotter/congress-has-no-interest-in-investigating-miriam-carey-shooting/">major medication</a> when in fact <a href="http://reason.com/archives/2013/10/09/who-cares-about-miriam-carey">she had no gun</a>, and the <a href="http://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2014/04/07/report-autopsy-shows-miriam-carey-shot-5-times">autopsy report</a>, made
public six months after she was shot dead revealed that the 34-year-old woman
had no drugs in her system and was struck by five bullets from behind, two of
which were in the head.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://t.co/lvdPDPMs8V">Clive Bundy</a> and the Bureau of Land Management, whose
Director was <a href="http://www.bizpacreview.com/2014/04/12/bombshell-harry-reid-behind-bundy-cattle-ranch-scandal-according-to-purged-documents-112136">Sen. Harry Reid’s</a> (D-Nev.) former senior adviser and son (<a href="http://www.westernjournalism.com/reids-son-wants-see-cliven-bundy-taken/">RoryReid</a>), is being forced by the government to give up his land, or have his cattle
killed until he does: land which his family has worked over 140 years. Why,
because Reid’s sons represents a large <a href="http://www.tpnn.com/2014/04/14/is-democrat-harry-reid-behind-the-obama-blms-attempted-bundy-ranch-land-grab/">Chinese energy company</a> that wants to
build on the land. Some say well both are wrong. I just disagree, if the
government can say any land is federal, then they can even claim your land and home by asserting such, like they did <a href="http://aattp.org/watch-white-cop-forces-his-way-into-home-of-terrified-black-man-video/">this man here</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Fact remains, no matter where we look, we see the military
training in public streets and preparing <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>for martial law right in broad daylight, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and we don’t say anything. Likewise we see <a href="http://www.mintpressnews.com/us-police-murdered-5000-innocent-civilians-since-911/172029/">Nationwide,Police assaulting and murdering innocent people</a> with zero consequences, even
when they are handcuffed in the back of cars .Why? Because we are silient, don’t
want to rock the boat and say nothing about the administration of our current
President even if it is true. They way things are today, policing in USA is
roping in as many people as you can, see how many have guns or warrants, and
then basically throw back the innocent ones. The problem is that they end up
<a href="http://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/justice-inequality-and-the-poor">sweeping up a lot of innocent people</a> and charging them with pointless crimes, fueled
by a war on drugs that only results in the mass incarceration only the poor and
people of color and more <a href="http://t.co/hd3fGRBHhq">prisions</a>. And each year, Obama’s Budget show federal prisons (not
Education) is here he sallocates most of our tax dollars. For example, Obama’s
<a href="http://t.co/XBusW8NPV5">FY 2014 Budget</a> requests a total of $8.5 billion for federal prisons a 3.5
percent increase over the FY 2012 appropriated level.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We as a people and a nation need to be honest with
ourselves. As it currently stand, we are immaterial and disposable. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The United States is no democracy,
but actually an oligarchy run by plutocrats, inclusive of our present
President. Ours now, due to our own ignorance, is a government dominated by the
political influence of the elite and wealthy Americans for their benefit alone
over what is best for ordinary citizens. Don’t sleep, what they did to Miriam
Carey and are doing to Clive Bundy, has nothing to do with race and they will
do it to you and I also.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div>
All-Mi-T [Thought Crime] Rawdawgbuffalohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08843040863123899426noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17646926.post-55221949750419634872014-04-11T13:49:00.003-04:002014-04-11T13:50:16.783-04:00It is Starting To Get As Real - Land Grabs, AGenda21, Eminent Domain <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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World is Dissolving into Liquid War by Pepe Escobar</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Red Zone Blues: a snapshot of
Baghdad during the surge by Pepe Escobar</span></li>
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Escobar</span></li>
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