NeoCons and War W/ Iran

Friday, December 23rd, 2011

There is coming a day conservative friends and Christian Believers when all your faith in the GOP will be shattered to the extent mine was in the Democrat party long ago when Ronald Reagan appeared on the scene.  “Southern” Democrat once meant something, but then the party of Jefferson & Jackson devolved into the party of radical feminism; extended sodomite rights;  supported murder of unborn children; and keynesianism, socialism, and at times Marxism.  Now, thanks to entities both national and global, both parties have been infiltrated w/ policies destined to end our Republic as we know it. It can become no more than another province in a new fascist world order.  So-called NeoCons belong in great numbers to the Council on Foreign Relations which is integrated further into the Military Industrial Complex.

GOP friends, study these terms these entities– for they spell the doom of our Republic as we knew it.

Donald Trump, a little over a week ago proposed a scenario I had already pondered.  President Obama w/ MIC and neo-Con pressure could launch a war on Iran w/i a year and then win re-election.  The public will not vote out a sitting president in the midst of war.  And even if this prophecy does not come to pass, every GOP nominee besides Ron Paul supports incremental pressure on Iran up to and including bombing to stop production of a supposed nuclear weapon.  The party doesnt matter, the MIC has moved on from Iraq and is targeting Iran as the next US enemy in the crosshairs.

I am not debating whether Iran wants a weapon or not. I am completely in favor of Israel defending their integrity in the regional matter.  My goal here is to enlighten Americans on the dangers of blind interventionism.  Since 1950, the US has engaged in various conflicts which have little to do w/ our well-being, or were started on fabricated evidence.  The conflicts drag on with poor strategies to win or withdraw.  Research these entities and make informed decisions.  The day is coming when the only alternative will be a third-party ; but it must be popularly supported on a vast scale…

Tags: abortion, cfr, Christians, conservatives, council on foreign relations, donald trump, GOP, Iran, Iraq, keynesian, marxism, military industrial complex, neocons, Obama, radical feminism, ron paul, Ronald reagan, socialism, sodomite rights, southern democrat, Third Party, unborn children
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At The Crossroads

Friday, October 28th, 2011

I am not a’gin Government; I am not a’gin Government Spending. I am against federal government usurping the power not granted to it by the Constitution thereby driving spending levels out of control without real fiscal checks and balances.  Diverse ideological groups wrestle to commandeer the reins of authority but most of them share a common end goal.  Often the views overlap on both ends of the political spectrum.

In the Eighties, I learned a valuable lesson from the John Birch Society.  The political spectrum is not really a flat line running left to right; it is actually more like a horseshoe.  The curve is home to constitutional republicanism (small r). where the ends nearly meet consist of Marxism (left) and Fascism (right). Marz fathered radical socialism or Communism. Most forget that Fascism is National Socialism (Nazi).  Both ends share a powerful oligarchy controlling the economy picking winners and losers.  The rich get richer while the middle class dissolves into the serf masses.  Bread & circuses are provided to keep social unrest at a minimum.

Keynesian Liberals see government as a cure-all. They never met a program they did not like.  Confiscate as much revenue as possible from the haves to redistribute to the have-nots. Great Society billions have been spent over a half century and poverty levels continue to grow while the traditional family and the Puritan work-ethic are disintegrating.  International financiers and mega-corporations control our elected officials with their lobby money.  They sell their ethical compass in pursuit of the almighty dollar. They destroy the middle class blue collar worker moving to use overseas labor.  They promote sources for enemies to continue war profiteering.  Both sides would continue the march toward an integrated global economy and political system to the detriment of our constitutional liberties and private-ownership, free-market system.

Both parties are riddled with members of these overlapping blocs.  To stay in power and continue to rake in federal benefits, they answer to the Oligarchy rather than the electorate.  Competitive primaries and greater third-party access are the most legitimate answer to the threat faced as of now.  Congressional perks: insurance, retirement, travel, etc., should be eradicated entirely.  American foreign policy should be based on nationalist concerns; we cannot go on as the world’s policeman. That practice broke the British Empire and we are sliding headlong down the same path.  American companies must bring jobs home, but the government should encourage them to do so with a carrot & stick approach, ie, tax policies on imports and fewer regulations and unfunded mandates.

The country is truly at a crossroads. The choice is whether to preserve the Republic with its constitutional liberties in regards to equality of opportunity in economics, political speech, and Judeo-Christian morality; or, do we continue incrementally towards a Corporate/ Financier class oligarchy overseeing a Welfare State on its way to full integration in a New World Order with a global economy on an uneven playing field and the emasculation of our Bill of Rights ?  Standing still is no longer an option for we are robbing our children’s generations of a way of life that was unequalled in History.

Tags: bill of rights, british empire, cfr, communism, fascism, government spending, great society, international financiers, john birch society, Judeo-Christian, keynesian, liberals, liberty, marxism, mega-corporations, military industrial complex, national socialism, nazi, oligarchy, republic, republicanism, serfs, usurping authority, welfare state, world's policeman
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Declaring Victory and Going Home

Sunday, October 23rd, 2011

Kudos to the Presidt in adhering to the departure date negotiated by former Presidt Bush in Iraq.  The NeoCon GOP wing doesnt like it, and neither will the Military Industrial Complex, but it is the right decision.

The Iraq War was nation-bldg and settling old scores, nothing more.  Time will tell whether it was worth the cost.  $800 billion, 4,400 American casualties and 30,000 wounded.  Saddam, and his sons are dead; the country has a Constitution and a somewhat functioning government.  There is nothing else we can do there that we havent already attempted.  They will stand or fall on their own.

Saddam was a Sunni, and now the Shi’ites are in power. that cannot be good since the only other Shia dominated country is Iran.  The northern Kurds are grateful and pro-West, but they are surrounded by enemies. Turkey and Iran are willing to wage war on them.  The Maliki govt would not guarantee the right for American GI’s guilty of crimes there to be tried by the US Military, so all troops are scheduled to pull out.  Declare Victory and go home.  Have parades all over the country as they arrive.  Move on, and hope the neoCon wing of the GOP can be defeated in primaries by true conservatives….

Tags: bush, GOP, Iraq, kurds, maliki, military industrial complex, nation-building, neocon, Obama, saddam, shia, sunni
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Washington’s Dilemma

Sunday, August 14th, 2011

HIS EXCELLENCY by Joseph Ellis (author of Founding Brothers) has proven a wonderful book this summer as I have not been a real student of George Washington.  As I near the section on his election as president, I was enamored w/ his dilemma over how strong the new central gov’t must become in order to guide the young free country w/o resorting to the despotism of Caesar’s Rome or Cromwell’s England.  This issue has continued to plague our Republic, and is now on the verge of destroying it.  That is what makes the passages so poignant.

“The real problem, which Washington came to recognize only gradually, was… a deep-rooted suspicion of gov’t power that severely limited the authority of the Continental Congress….  the Congress made itself vulnerable to the same criticism that the colonies had directed at Parliamt itself.  The central impulse of the American Revolution had been a deep aversion to legislation, especially taxes, emanating from any consolidated gov’t in a faraway place beyond the direct control and supervision of the citizens affected…. delegates gathered in Philadelphia were distant creatures who could not tax [colonists in Virginia, Massachusetts, and other colonies] any more than could the House of Commons in London. ” (126)  Washington gave little thought to these questions until after the War For Independence.

Suspicion of strong-gov’t and aversion to taxation from distant central gov’t were foundational principles of our Republic. God bless those Founding Fathers.  It is the Tea Party Movement that seems to arousing those fears in Americans today.  If it stays true to these principles, then America might yet regain its constitutional foundation and become fiscally strong and free for our posterity.

“Only a more powerful central gov’t, he believed, could secure the gains made by the American Revolution, but it would probably require a crisis to make it happen. “I believe all things will come out right at last,” he observed..’” but like a young heir, come a little prematurely to a large inheritance, we shall… run riot until we have brought our reputation to the brink of ruin.”  In effect, things had to get worse before they could get better; or as he put it, “the people must feel before they will see.”  (150)

Washington was no Madison or Jefferson; and remember he is merely calling for a stronger Union that that provided in the Articles of Confederation.  The Constitution established a Republic with a federal system, checks and balances, and the Bill of Rights.  Since 1933, the scales have swung the other way and the Central gov’t has usurped authority on issues meant for the states.  The Federal Reserve, the Military Industrial Complex, the Council on Foreign Relations, have through both political parties established great centralized power over the economy and foreign policy of the United States w/ little or no input of the electorate.  God help our people to become more educated on the issues.  Less interest in traditional political parties and more focus on ideologies (Conservative, Constitutional, and Christian vs. Socialist, Internationalist, and Multicultural) is what the day demands.  God help us find statesmen again like those of the past…

Tags: council on foreign relations, Federal Reserve, founding brothers, george washington, his excellency, jefferson, joseph ellis, madison, military industrial complex, Tea Party
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Livin’ On The Edge

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011

“Something’s wrong w/ the world today; I dont know what it is; Something’s wrong w/ our eyes. We’re seeing things in a different way; and God knows it aint His; It sure is no surprise. We’re living on the edge….”

Economic Armageddon was averted supposedly this week with the Debt-Ceiling Deal between the GOP leadership and the President.  Time will tell.

In my book, FOR THE CAUSE, I wrote,  ” With the administration of FDR, the corrupt forces of international financiers gained further control of the economy. The budget deficit climbed higher than ever before: from $1 billion in 1918, to more than $25 billion between the world wars, and growing to more than $150 billion by 1945.  New Deal policies subverted our traditional American values, dictating economic policy.  Although the country stabilized from the effects of the Great Depression, it was at the cost of individual and corporate liberty.  Power was wrung from the states and commandeered by the federal Gov’t.” (p. 23)

“The annual deficits must cease; no one could continue to run a home or business like Congress runs this country….” (p. 66)   Gov’t spending still outpaces tax revenue creating an ever larger national debt now reaching $14 Trillion.  So Congress and Presidt Obama agree to raise the Debt Ceiling nearly $2 Trillion more to keep America from defaulting on paying its bills.  This will get the country through the 2012 election perhaps, but it does nothing to fix the problem.  The Deal comes w/ “cuts” to match the raise- but DOES IT?

The US Govt runs a $4 billion deficit every day of the fiscal year. It borrows 34 cents of every dollar it spends.  The 1st year’s cuts (2012) amount to $7 billion. Do you see the problem?!  Every fiscal year, executive departments of the Gov’t  get automatic 8% increases in their budgets (ie., they dont start over at 0 and prove their year’s need; they dont even stay the same!!!)  Do you see the problem?!

Bush’s Two Unfinanced Wars against 4th rate opponents last 10 and 8 yrs respectively w/ no end in sight; he adds an unfinanced prescription drug plan to Medicare; he leaves w/ TARP I; Obama comes in w/ TARP II; the Stimulus Pkg; and then the FED’s QE II debt buying policy.  Cumulatively, this makes International Financiers and the Military Industrial Complex richer while devaluing the Dollar (promising future inflation) and leads to mountains of Debt mortgaging  future American generations.  Time will tell whether the promised cuts lead to 1)balancing future budgets and 2)reducing the federal debt.  Future promised cuts are historically nothing more than ’smoke and mirrors’ tricks.  The formation of a 12 member “Super Congress” to find the necessary cuts borders on unconstitutional.  This “Politburo” could have extra-constitutional powers to change the process of congressional budget planning including taxation. None of this bodes well for the future.  Like Greece, Spain, and other European countries, we are living on the edge economically.

Tags: armageddon, boehner, debt ceiling, demint, For The Cause, Great Depression, Great recession, Harry Reid, international financiers, living on the edge, military industrial complex, new deal, Obama, poliburo, qe II, ron paul, TARP
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The End of History?? Not Yet

Friday, January 21st, 2011

Francis Fukuyama’s End of History is riddled with challenges to his philosophical perceptions.  He attempts to hedge all his bets with various means of escape from his own conclusion.  “History” is over, but conflicts will remain with states “still in history”; “nationalist and religious conflicts” will continue as well – though perhaps on a smaller scale (18).  Indeed “boredom at the end of history” may even provide a catalyst to “get history started once again.”

Fukuyama was born in Chicago and raised in New York by Japanese parents.  His father was a Congregationalist minister and professor of religion.  After majoring in philosophy, he earned a doctorate in political science centered on Soviet and Middle East politics.  Considered a “neo-conservative”, he worked for the Rand Corporation and served in the Reagan Administrative as deputy director of the US state Department Policy Planning Staff.

Fukuyama’s thesis centers on the “triumph of the West”, with its liberal democracy and economics, over first the Fascism of Nazi Germany and Mussolini’s Italy and then the Marxist- Leninism of the Soviet Union. With the “dramatic liberal reforms” of Eastern Europe, Russia, and Chine since the late 80’s, History has “reached its terminus in liberal democracy” as competing ideologies have proven their utter failure ending in disrepute.

While he may be right about short-term large-scale conflicts like World War II (over for 65years), Fukuyama’s premise seems naïve to the goals of cryptic organizations dedicated to global economic domination preferably without another world conflagration.  It took two world wars to induce Americans to accept membership in an international league on- American soil no less!  The nearly decade-long Global War on Terror, provides further fear as a motivation to trade individual liberties for increased security.  Drawing upon the historical perspective of 19^th century German philosopher George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Fukuyama repeats his deficient future predictions.  Hegel proclaimed history at an end in 1806 with Napoleon’s devastating victory over Prussia at Jena.  It seemed to signal the rise of “democratic ideals borne in the Enlightenment and French Revolution”.  Hegel failed to foresee Bonaparte’s own dictatorial leanings; European authoritarian resurgence in crushing liberal revolutions in 1830 and 1848; continued Russian autocracy and the rise of an aggressive militarist Germany 1864-1871.

Likewise, Fukuyama ignores models of “superman” or right-wing movements filling power vacuums with less than idealistic liberal tendencies.  While it is true the countries of post-war Western Europe have succumbed into “flabby, prosperous, self-satisfied, inward- looking, weak-willed states” personified by the creation of the Common Market and now Europe Union, it was only after 2 severe blood-lettings.  The same does not hold true for the 20^th century Communist giants, Russia and China. While both may flirt with economic liberalism at varying degrees, neither seems hell-bent for liberal democracy. The rulers of China may tweak their economy, “Socialism with Chinese tendencies”, but it remains a one party authoritarian state. Russia since the Communist Party’s demise has, as Fukuyama quotes Charles Krauthammer, reverted to behavior common to old imperial Russia. What these two nations share in common is a reliance on State-directed economics based on political nationalism. Internationalist Marxist- Leninism has failed utterly but Nationalist- Socialism is alive and well.

This resurgence of Fascism does not end there, and Fukuyama knows it.  The US is headed down the same path and the remaining space here will be spent proving it. American Hamiltonian and Hegelian disciples have labored for generations to create an oligarchy led by an elite made up of internationalist financiers. Hegel and Friedrich Nietzsche glorified the State under the influence of a Romantic tyranny personified in Napoleon. The Russian philosopher Alexander Kojeve carried this process a step further as he promoted the “best” tendencies of right and left to propound the ultimate Synarchist State. He proclaimed himself a “Marxist of the Right” – similar in definition to National Socialism or Modern Fascism. Fukuyama is a student of Kojeve.

There is more than one way to conquer a nation. Our Founding Fathers understood this. Control of a nation’s financial system creates power as it enslaves debtors.  The greatest victor of any war has been the speculator- the financier. Even in economic depressions there are winners. Internationalist financiers use willing political pawns to achieve their goals. These forces have been methodical in promoting a world confederation authoritarian and collectivist in nature.  While no foreign power has been able to undermine the independence of the American politics- economic system, internal foes have strived to do so. Presidents Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson wrestled with National Banks and successfully reduced the national debt. Jackson called Americans to help him fight “the corporate monster” bank. Historian Robert Remini writes, “The Bank, in 1828, was a financial colossus, entrenched in the nation’s economy, possessing the means of draining species from state banks at will and regulating currency according to its own estimate of the nation’s needs.” Though Jackson vetoed the renewal charter of the National Bank, its power was felt as its director Nicholas Biddle called in loans and contracted credit leading to recession and the 1837 international depression.

The 19^th century National Bank set the stage for the 1913 Federal Reserve Act signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson. Like its predecessor, the Federal Reserve Board is a chartered monopoly. The legal power to “create” money and credit is removed from Congress (Article 1, section 8; US Constitution) and placed with a private corporation controlled by Bankers. The Fed has printed trillions of dollars which they lend to the US government and its citizens at interest. Their flood of paper currency, with no regard to population growth or precious metal collateral, has caused massive inflation triggering numerous social and economic problems. The Director of the Federal Reserve Board is often more powerful than the President without responsibility to an electorate.

After winning reelection with a slogan of “He Kept Us Out Of War”, Wilson “with righteous indignation” brought America into World War I in April 1917. Much of Europe fell for his blueprint for world economic collectivism and political internationalism (the 14 Points) at the Versailles Peace Conference culminating in the formation of the League of Nations. Wilson and his closest advisors, including Col. Edward M House, lobbied hard for American integration in the league using the threat of future wars as an incentive. Twice the conservative-led US Senate rejected surrendering American sovereignty to that organization.  George Washington’s presidential farewell address forewarned the US to stay out of foreign alliance entanglements.  House was not finished though.  He and some internationalist friends joined the fledgling Council on Foreign Relations in 1919.  There they began long-range efforts to manipulate American domestic and foreign policies to steer the country toward world government.  Not to infer that all CFR members support American subservience to internationalism, but as former Judge Advocate of the Navy and CFR member Admiral Chester Ward stated, “…the CFR does not write the platforms of both political parties or select their presidential candidates or control the policies of those, but CFR members as individuals acting in concert with other individual CFR members, do.”  Reading membership lists of the Council on Foreign Relations is like a Who’s Who of leading Republican and Democrat politicians and major Media figures.  Government authority and intervention continues to expand while personal liberties erode. Policies remain in effect from one administration to the next without regard to party no matter how detrimental to the health and well-being of the nation.

After a “roaring” decade of unprecedented accumulation of consumer debt and stock market speculation, the Federal Reserve contracted the level of American currency and credit, and called in notes on existing loans (similar to Nicholas Biddle’s 1837 efforts).  The Fed’s constrictive policies helped to trigger the stock market crash of October, 1929 and ensuing Great Depression which followed.  The Bankers’ powerful grip on the American economy tightened again.  The New Deal policies of President Franklin D Roosevelt allowed the financiers to wring power from the states.  The national debt climbed higher than ever before:  from $1 billion in 1918, to more than $24 billion between the world wars, and growing to over $150 billion by 1945.  The Second World War proved intimidating enough to the American public to accept membership in the United Nations.  The men (and Eleanor Roosevelt, of course) behind the UN’s creation sought a New World Order with collectivist industrial and agricultural systems willing even to surrender American sovereignty.  The US pays more in dues than any other country although much of its budget is spent on wasteful, socialistic programs.  Membership in the UN, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, NAFTA, and the other similar organizations compromise American independence.

New York Mayor John F Hylan, in a 1922 speech, said, “The real menace of our republic is the invisible government, which like a giant octopus, sprawls its slimy length over our city, state and nation.  At the head is a small group of bankers… This little coterie of powerful international bankers virtually run our government for their own selfish ends.”  Senator William Jenner, on February 23, 1954, stated, “Today the path to total dictatorship in the United States can be laid by strictly legal means…  Outwardly we have a Constitutional government. We have operating within our government and political system another body representing another form of government, a bureaucratic elite which believes our Constitution is outmoded….”  President Dwight D Eisenhower warned the nation in his Farewell Address of 1961, “Until the latest of our world conflicts, the United States had no armaments industry. American makers of plowshares could, with time and as required, make swords as well. But now we can no longer risk emergency improvisation of national defense; we have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. Added to this, three and a half million men and women are directly engaged in the defense establishment. We annually spend on military security more than the net income of all United States corporations.

This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence — economic, political, even spiritual — is felt in every city, every State house, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together. “

Ike understood the MIC needs an “enemy” to stay in the business of making money.  For over four decades, it was the Reds in the Cold War.  Permanent bases were established around the world; new weapons technology is constantly being produced; and “police” conflicts are waged on a variety of continents.  Then came the Global War on Terror after September 11, 2001.  Like Korea and Vietnam, the Afghan and Iraqi wars are not being fought to win unconditionally as American wars were in the past.  They drag on interminably until the American public loses confidence and concedes to bringing the troops home with tactical wins but strategic losses.

America is witnessing a perfect storm as the CFR, the MIC, and the Federal Reserve create a mere caricature of the original political and economic systems the Founding Fathers established.  DC usurps authority rightfully belonging to the states; executive departments become centers of far-left ideologies.  America accepts socialism incrementally since 1933.  The Federal government holds an 80+% stake in American International Group Inc. (Associated Press, 12/10); it controls 70% of General Motors Corp.  The recently passed Health Insurance overhaul legislation requires all Americans to purchase health insurance coverage and calls for health insurance companies to “spend at least 80 cents of every premium dollar on medical care and quality.  For employer plans covering more than 50 people, the requirement is 85 cents”… [Obama] Administration officials said it will prevent insurers from wasting valuable premiums on administration, marketing, and executive bonuses” (AP, 11/10).  This is without doubt Socialism, and borders on Fascism.  Bailouts and government officials on corporate boards allow the federal government to reward and punishment companies according to its own agenda.  Fukuyama is not naïve to these developments.  He has worked for the RAND Corporation and continues to write articles for them.  A combination of Air Force officers, led by General Curtis LeMay, academics, and industrialists, led by Donald Douglas of Douglas Aircraft Company, organized the RAND Corporation by 1961 as a private organization to “connect military planning with research and development decisions”.  In other words, RAND, described in 1993 by Rene Wormser as a “federally-funded CFR ‘think tank’”, is an integral part of the Military Industrial Complex.  While internationalist Marxist-Leninist and hyper-aggressive, militarist Fascist states may fade into the cobwebs of History, that does not guarantee the sweeping liberalism of democracy and free-market capitalism.  As long as there are powerful money interests and intellectual elites establishing shadow governments with the goal of making the US part of some New World Order you cannot not count History out yet.

by Trenton Blake Bottoms  (research help by his uncle DG Hinson)

Tags: cfr, charles krauthammer, col. house, fascism, fukuyama, hegel, john hylan, kojeve, military industrial complex, national bank, nicholas biddle, nietzsche, rand corporation, superman, synarchist, the end of history, the federal reserve, triumph of the west, william jenner
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Cousins’ Wars

Friday, January 21st, 2011

“New England politicians were content in the 1790s because the North had won the early financial and commercial battles. Congressional support for Alexander Hamilton’s debt program of 1791 divided along regional lines.  On the issue of the fedl govt assuming state Revolutionary War debts, northern members of the House voted YES by 24 to 9 while their southern colleagues voted NO by 18 to 10.  On the related question of a Natl Bank, northern members favored it 33 to 1 and those from the South were opposed 19 to 6….

Jefferson’s defeat of Adams in 1800 turned the tide in favor of southern and western economics. The national debt reduction of 1802 was one signal… The Jeffersonians again shook the pillars of northern finance in 1811 by refusing to extend Hamilton’s First Bank of the US.”       p. 355 The Cousins’ Wars

Southerners have historically always favored Smaller Govt and more Personal Responsibility.  Northern Banking and Commercial Interests have historically favored Big Govt  w/ an intrusive Fedl Bank. Deficit spending leads to massive Debt which mortgages the economic freedom of future generations.  The Jeffersonian Constitutionalists broke the power of Big Govt Federalists (Jefferson to Buchanan 1801-1860) for the most part.

With the GOP back in control of the House and the impetus of the Tea Party Movement, the time to break it again has come. Internationalist Financiers have dominated the US from the Radical Republicans (1861) through WWI, the Great Depression, the New Deal and LBJ’s Great Society.  The Military Industrial Complex, warned of by Eisenhower, finds an enemy to justify defense spending levels greater than most of the rest of the world combined.

Support leaders like Ron Paul as they work to uncover and dismantle years of financial abuse.

Tags: Great Depression, great society, hamilton, jeffersonians, military industrial complex, national bank, new deal, tea party movement, the cousins' wars, the federal reserve, war debt
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GOP: The Pressure Is On

Tuesday, November 16th, 2010

The Grand Old Party roared back in the mid term elections w/ the zealous work of the Tea Party movement, BUT the party is now under real pressure to provide leadership in moving America back to its traditional foundation economically and culturally.  Many of the Rinos are gone and w/ them some blue dog Dems.  The Tea Party movement was successful in winning back power in the US House, making the margin closer in the Senate, and sweeping a multitude of State Legislatures and governorships.

The Republican leaders in Congress must have their feet kept to the fire this time.  The Right-Center electorate has caught acceptable flak for not complaining enough during the Bush II yrs over unacceptable spending levels.  Involved again, and hopefully better educated, the voting public must insist on spending cuts across the board on the nat’l and state levels.

Tax structures must be restructured in a way that reflects the modern society we live in.  Business taxes should be reduced and private charity encouraged through credits.  All citizens must become taxpayers; all enjoy the benefits of the security of services provided.  A Flat Tax or Consumption Tax would be preferrable to the Income Tax now in effect.

Class envy is repugnant, but statistics are undeniable concerning the widening Gap between the Rich and Poor in this country.  The Wealthy must pay its fair share as a percentage of taxes.  The Middle class cannot continue to bear the lion’s share burden alone.

The world has clearly changed when one on the Right must agree w/ sentiments from the likes of Bob Hebert and now Eugene Robinson.  All departments including Defense must face cuts. There is waste and over reach at all levels of Govt.  Presidt Clinton moved to the Center in 1995 after the Republicans retook the Congress, this current administration faces the same choice now.  Both parties must face hard decisions concerning fiscal restraint over the next 2 yrs to prove their worth in the 2012 elections.  One side or the other will prevail with the electorate.  If the GOP fails to prove its Conservatism this time, the way will be clear to introduce a Third Party.  The Pressure Is On and the clock is running.

Tags: 2012 elections, blue dogs, Bob Hebert, Bush II, Conservatism, Consumption Tax, Eugene Robinson, fiscal restraint, Flat Tax, Grand Old Party, income gap, mid-term elections, military industrial complex, right-center, rinos, tea party movement, Third Party
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Credit Where Credit Is Due

Thursday, September 30th, 2010

Bob Woodward’s new book, Obama’s War , is out and w/ it the news that the Military Brass is trying to “push” the Presidt around.   This phenomona  should not be surprising nor is it new.  From Little Mac & Lincoln to MacArthur in Korea to JFK’s 13 Days in October ‘62, that has been the standard operating procedure. Only one in three of those examples was the Brass right and even then he was being insubordinate.

Obama rejected the military’s request for 40,000 troops as part of another “surge” like the one in Iraq.  “I’m not doing 10 yrs”, he reportedly told Sec of Defense Robt Gates and Secof state Hillary Clinton.  “I am not doing long-term nation-bldg….”   He allowed 30,000 eventually, but “stressed that the plan ‘ needs to be… about how we’re going to hand it off and get out of Afghanistan…. get to the point where we can reduce our footprint… There cannot be any wiggle room.’”

As a Patriot, as a defender of liberty here and abroad- these types of issues gnaw at one’s soul.  There are two ways two look at this story:

Intellectual Liberals are Military Haters from way back. Clinton was a draft dodger who protested the Vietnam War in Russia.  Obama has been friends with Marxists who despise the Capitalist Economy and Anglo-dominated culture of America.  The president is “at odds” w/ Adm Mike Mullen (Chmn Joint Chiefs) and Gen Petraeus (CentComCO). Petraeus was demoted to CO in Afghan. after Gen McChrystal was fired for making degrading comments on Obama & his staff.  Natl Security Advisor James L Jones, ret. USMC, referred to Obama’s aides in the Woodward book as “water bugs”, “the Politburo”, and the “Campaign Set”.  Even Richard Holbrooke, special rep. for Afghanistan & Pakistan is “quoted as saying Obama’s strategy ‘can’t work’ in the book according to the NY Times review.”

Gates served Bush after Rummy was pushed out. and stayed on to “finish” these wars and reform the Defense Dept (according to a new Newsweek story).  Jones is a Marine, and a good one.  You have to think he wants to win these wars.  Petraeus was successful in Iraq as definitions go, and has to want victory to save his reputation.  Americans, George Patton said, love a winner; and they hate a loser when he quits.  MacArthur understood this concept in Korea where Truman settled for a “tie”.  America was attacked on Sept 11, and we went to war in Afghanistan to destroy al-Quaida and topple the Taliban regime.  Presidt Bush took his eyes off the prize too soon and sent troops into Iraq to settle old scores having little or nothing to do w/ Sept 11.  Saddam is dead and his regime has been replaced w/ a fragile democracy. Will it last? God only knows.  Bet on Iran trying to fill the vacuum left when Americans leave that country (somewhere far down the road, regardless of the presidt).  al-Qaida is now in Pakistan and maybe Yemen.  The Taliban fight on as Afghans did against the Russians, the British, Alexander the Great, and the Mongols.  It is an untamed wilderness land.

Give Obama credit where credit is due.  Declare victory in Iraq; make it clear to Iran to butt out, and bring our troops home.  Training bases there will remain like those still in Germany, Japan, and Korea.

Holbrooke is CFR which infiltrates both parties and designs doctrines of future World Govt with a socialistic economy and the loss of American constitutional liberties.  The Brass are in bed w/ the Military Industrial Complex that Presidt Eisenhower warned of.  When JFK whispered about dismantling the CIA and bringing military advisors home from Vietnam he wound up dead in Dallas.    Johnson played ball in Vietnam and it cost him his presidency.  Nixon expanded the war before recognizing China and moving to “peace w/ honor” .  In reality, unilateral withdrawal and the collapse of S Vietnam.  The country never could stand on its own from the beginning.  Reagan “played ball” in Lebanon, Granada, Nicaraugua, and Afghanistan.  The MIC made $ from those adventures although much of it seemed patriotic and in support of national security.  Even Clinton played the game in Somalia though badly, and with impolitical strikes in Tanzania, Kenya, and Iraq.  He entered a European battleground in Yugoslavia. And now, Obama- as far left as any presidt we’ve had, is pushed around to fight wars w/ no end in sight and no definition for victory.

Give him credit, he seems to be trying to stand up to the MIC, not an easy or safe task.  Read Petraeus’ quote:  “You have to recognize also that I dont think you win this war. I think you keep fighting. Its a little bit like Iraq, actually… This is the kind of fight we’re in for the rest of our lives and probably our kids lives.”

Can you imagine Grant or Sherman saying that; what about Patton or MacArthur??  No , neither can I….

The Presidt is going to withdraw troops from Afghanistan beginning next summer God willing, and end this nat’l nightmare. He is moving in the right direction w/ increased drone attacks on the Pakistan side of the border to destroy al-Qaida. He has authorized the CIA to build a 3,000 man Afghan para-military force to conduct operations there in-country. This seemed to be the best strategy all along:  small CIA and special forces units working w/ Aghans who know the terrain using guerrilla tactics while striking with drones using satellite intel.  This is “modern” warfare at its best.  Give credit where credit is due…..

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