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For the better part of ten days after the fake election, the world saw demonstrations in Iran that were totally unthinkable. The masses were coming into the streets and shouting their displeasure over the election and the attitude of their theological leaders. How can this happen in such a dictatorial and repressive environment, the world wondered. But alas, the powers that be put the clamps down!
The crowds were punished, people were beaten, and others such as NEDA were killed.
State Department officials monitoring events in Iran from Dubai have relayed back to Washington that Mousavi's Web site "Kalemah," his last link to the outside world, is completely shut down. They also noted reports on Iranian Web sites alleging that jailed Mousavi supporters have been tortured in an attempt to force them into TV "confessions" of a foreign-led plot against the Islamic regime.
All that is getting out (news-wise) now is what Twitter can produce! :-(
A newspaper with strong ties to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps has published a letter calling on Iran's Justice Minister to prosecute Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi for allegedly violating Islamic and constitutional law through her human rights advocacy. Whatever the Iranian pro-democracy crowd lost, the world gained as insight into the repressiveness of the Iranian model.
Iranian media are reporting that ten percent of the ballot boxes will be recounted in the presence of the Guardian Council's post-election committee and media, with the findings released to the public. The U.S. officials in Dubai noted that former candidate Rezai's newspaper reports Karroubi has agreed to cooperate with the committee, while Mousavi has already rejected the Guardian Council's review and demanded a complete recount.
Mousavi's life is forever been altered and probably greatly reduced in tenure. How long can he stay alive?
Neda remains the clarion call until the day Mousavi takes her place.
About the Author:
Ernie Fitzpatrick
As a spiritual-futurist, I have a BA degree majoring in history. One cannot know the future without knowing the past which holds clues to what is on the horizon. The world is in such a rapid expansion of knowledge that we are close to entering a tipping point that will forever change earth as we know it.
Sunday, June 28, 2009
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Nuclear Power and Iran Today
Why should Iran not be trusted with Nuclear power, which may lead to nuclear weapons? Is Iran breaking the NPT in any way?
The U.S. Government defines its areas of objectionable Iranian behavior as the following:
--Iranian efforts to acquire nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction;
--Its support for and involvement in international terrorism;
--Its support for violent opposition to the Middle East peace process; and
--Its dismal human rights record.
In other words, Iran has not demonstrated itself to be a responsible international player, and certainly not one to be trusted with nuclear power.
On the second point: "In some ways, the challenge Iran poses to the nuclear nonproliferation regime is even more daunting. Although the evidence - including Iran almost 20 years of hiding all its nuclear fuel cycle efforts - clearly indicates a weapons program, it continues to argue that its program is exclusively for peaceful purposes. On September 24, the IAEA Board of Governors found that Iran violated its safeguards obligations. This finding requires a report to the United Nations Security Council. The Security Council will not replace the IAEA effort, but reinforce it - for example, by calling on Iran to cooperate with the IAEA, and giving the IAEA new, needed authority to investigate all Iranian weaponization efforts. We continue to work with other IAEA Board members on the timing and content of the report of Iranian noncompliance to the Security Council. We also continue to support the efforts of the United Kingdom, France and Germany - the EU-3 - to bring Iran back to the negotiations."
The operative wording here is: "The IAEA Board of Governors found that Iran violated its safeguards obligations." Certainly, the evidence suggests Tehran is in violation of the NPT.
Will the US Military do something about the nuclear weapon in Iran? The following selected commentary from the Center for International and Strategic Studies: Diplomatic or economic penalties by the U.N. that reinforce the idea that Iran's sovereignty or rights are being challenged, however, are likely to backfire. The result of such measures would likely be increased support for the unpopular regime in Tehran. The only possible exception might be targeting leaders in Tehran for direct penalties such as travel bans, economic sanctions, including money and property outside of Tehran, and even restrictions on the ability of their family members to travel or attend western schools. These might have some value in making the decision makers in Iran feel the affects of their actions, but are not necessarily enough to convince them to change their nuclear behavior.
In the end, however, the United States and its allies must also think of what alternatives they are willing to provide to Tehran should it decide to change course. While not a democracy, Iran is still a highly political country and any viable solution to the standoff must include some way for decision makers in Iran to justify their decision publicly. To be sure, it would be preferred if the United States could find a solution that would both end Iran's nuclear ambitions and weaken the regime, but such a compromise is unlikely to emerge unless the international landscape changes significantly. Offering Iran the ability to benefit from other forms of nuclear technology including the possible sale by Russia of additional nuclear power plants might end up being an important part of any political compromise.
On the military side, the chances of a U.S. strike against Iran soon are probably unlikely. Reasons include the fact that the U.S. military is already stretched thin, the virtual certitude that much of Iran's secret nuclear program would not be detected and destroyed, the likelihood that a military attack would turn a pro-U.S. Iranian population against us and toward the regime, and the negative reactions likely to come from the international community.
Experts are now talking about "containment" of Iran along the lines of our containment of the Soviet Union during the Cold War. While not ideal and also protracted, such a policy may be our only recourse for the foreseeable future.
Article Source: http://www.articlesnatch.com
About the Author:
Victor Epand is an expert consultant for http://www.CombatCloth.info/. CombatCloth.info carries the best selection of combat clothing, gear, and accessories on the market.
The U.S. Government defines its areas of objectionable Iranian behavior as the following:
--Iranian efforts to acquire nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction;
--Its support for and involvement in international terrorism;
--Its support for violent opposition to the Middle East peace process; and
--Its dismal human rights record.
In other words, Iran has not demonstrated itself to be a responsible international player, and certainly not one to be trusted with nuclear power.
On the second point: "In some ways, the challenge Iran poses to the nuclear nonproliferation regime is even more daunting. Although the evidence - including Iran almost 20 years of hiding all its nuclear fuel cycle efforts - clearly indicates a weapons program, it continues to argue that its program is exclusively for peaceful purposes. On September 24, the IAEA Board of Governors found that Iran violated its safeguards obligations. This finding requires a report to the United Nations Security Council. The Security Council will not replace the IAEA effort, but reinforce it - for example, by calling on Iran to cooperate with the IAEA, and giving the IAEA new, needed authority to investigate all Iranian weaponization efforts. We continue to work with other IAEA Board members on the timing and content of the report of Iranian noncompliance to the Security Council. We also continue to support the efforts of the United Kingdom, France and Germany - the EU-3 - to bring Iran back to the negotiations."
The operative wording here is: "The IAEA Board of Governors found that Iran violated its safeguards obligations." Certainly, the evidence suggests Tehran is in violation of the NPT.
Will the US Military do something about the nuclear weapon in Iran? The following selected commentary from the Center for International and Strategic Studies: Diplomatic or economic penalties by the U.N. that reinforce the idea that Iran's sovereignty or rights are being challenged, however, are likely to backfire. The result of such measures would likely be increased support for the unpopular regime in Tehran. The only possible exception might be targeting leaders in Tehran for direct penalties such as travel bans, economic sanctions, including money and property outside of Tehran, and even restrictions on the ability of their family members to travel or attend western schools. These might have some value in making the decision makers in Iran feel the affects of their actions, but are not necessarily enough to convince them to change their nuclear behavior.
In the end, however, the United States and its allies must also think of what alternatives they are willing to provide to Tehran should it decide to change course. While not a democracy, Iran is still a highly political country and any viable solution to the standoff must include some way for decision makers in Iran to justify their decision publicly. To be sure, it would be preferred if the United States could find a solution that would both end Iran's nuclear ambitions and weaken the regime, but such a compromise is unlikely to emerge unless the international landscape changes significantly. Offering Iran the ability to benefit from other forms of nuclear technology including the possible sale by Russia of additional nuclear power plants might end up being an important part of any political compromise.
On the military side, the chances of a U.S. strike against Iran soon are probably unlikely. Reasons include the fact that the U.S. military is already stretched thin, the virtual certitude that much of Iran's secret nuclear program would not be detected and destroyed, the likelihood that a military attack would turn a pro-U.S. Iranian population against us and toward the regime, and the negative reactions likely to come from the international community.
Experts are now talking about "containment" of Iran along the lines of our containment of the Soviet Union during the Cold War. While not ideal and also protracted, such a policy may be our only recourse for the foreseeable future.
Article Source: http://www.articlesnatch.com
About the Author:
Victor Epand is an expert consultant for http://www.CombatCloth.info/. CombatCloth.info carries the best selection of combat clothing, gear, and accessories on the market.
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
India and Pakistan are Real Brothers
It is on record that both India and Pakistan are not separate, but both are brothers and these two countries have taken their birth out of one country Hindustan. Who separated them in 1947 that is a question, which should be left to history and we should not probe into this question. History has taken its shape and now two countries have become a permanent reality and there are no chances that these two countries may unite one again.
But still it is on record that all the people of Hindustan had been fighting their war of independence together and all made sacrifices. It is a tragedy that both these brothers parted in 1947 and in this partition they killed lakhs of their people and forced millions of people to migrate and settle at unknown places. Such event had never happened in history, but it happened in Hindustan and two brothers started with new establishments.
It is on record that there had been certain disputes and it is also on record that these two brothers had been fighting directly and indirectly and both had been killing their own people and they wasted much of their time, energy, resources and manpower on futile exercises. Therefore, time has come when they should realize their past follies and they must start living as real brothers once again. We should forget the past and must see that henceforth we would not fight either directly or in directly. We shall live in peace and if need be we should sign a no war pact and must ensure peace for the coming generations.
We must identify our natural resources and we must see that those are utilized in the best way. We may share our resources, if need be and while joining in this process, we can take with us Nepal, Burma, Sri Lanka, Bangla Desh or the like and we must see that we also bring our people in the line of progressive countries. We should ensure that all the people shall be given proper education, proper training and proper adjustment at work so that each one shall be an earning hand and shall not be dependant upon others and even governments may be looking after other development works. No one should live on charity and no one should be allowed to follow fundamentalism. All must join in campaign of secularism, nationality and no discrimination with others on the basis of religion and caste. Religious toleration should be our main target.
The people of India and Pakistan understand that only one way is there and that is that we both should act like real brothers with each other and no other relations should be there.
Article Source: http://marketing.article24h.com/category/politics.html
But still it is on record that all the people of Hindustan had been fighting their war of independence together and all made sacrifices. It is a tragedy that both these brothers parted in 1947 and in this partition they killed lakhs of their people and forced millions of people to migrate and settle at unknown places. Such event had never happened in history, but it happened in Hindustan and two brothers started with new establishments.
It is on record that there had been certain disputes and it is also on record that these two brothers had been fighting directly and indirectly and both had been killing their own people and they wasted much of their time, energy, resources and manpower on futile exercises. Therefore, time has come when they should realize their past follies and they must start living as real brothers once again. We should forget the past and must see that henceforth we would not fight either directly or in directly. We shall live in peace and if need be we should sign a no war pact and must ensure peace for the coming generations.
We must identify our natural resources and we must see that those are utilized in the best way. We may share our resources, if need be and while joining in this process, we can take with us Nepal, Burma, Sri Lanka, Bangla Desh or the like and we must see that we also bring our people in the line of progressive countries. We should ensure that all the people shall be given proper education, proper training and proper adjustment at work so that each one shall be an earning hand and shall not be dependant upon others and even governments may be looking after other development works. No one should live on charity and no one should be allowed to follow fundamentalism. All must join in campaign of secularism, nationality and no discrimination with others on the basis of religion and caste. Religious toleration should be our main target.
The people of India and Pakistan understand that only one way is there and that is that we both should act like real brothers with each other and no other relations should be there.
Article Source: http://marketing.article24h.com/category/politics.html
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Problems in the USA
Introduction – What we are going to do here is look at a number of problems facing the USA. This article will be cynical. The idea is we are trying to illustrate the massive amount of problems they are facing so you can act accordingly.
Banks – Bank failures keep coming. People have become so conditioned to them they hardly pay attention anymore. The USA has had 29 bank failures this year so far.
Homes and Mortgages - One in every 159 USA homes received a foreclosure notice JUST in the first quarter of 2009. Shocking. There were over 800,000 foreclosures in the first quarter of 2009. March 2009 foreclosures were 46% higher than they were a year earlier. In Nevada during the first quarter of 2009 one in every 27 homes received a foreclosure notices.
Jobs Lost – Two million more jobs lost in 2009. In March alone 663,000 jobs lost. In the last 16 months 5.1 million jobs were lost, two thirds of those in the last five months. The government admits to 13 million unemployed. They tend to not count those whose unemployment benefits have run out and are still not working, those who gave up looking, and those who took part time work and those who retired early. The real figure is probably closer to 20 million or more. Obama is creating non-productive jobs in the public sector, government jobs. The private sector jobs are rapidly going away. Government jobs do not build an economy; they do not even sustain one. The real jobs are gone.
Police State – The constitution is basically being ignored by those working in the various governments that have taken an oath to enforce it. People have no rights any more. Courts no longer appoint a lawyer to those who cannot afford one. They ask the people to fill out an affidavit attesting to finances and sometimes they appoint one, sometimes not and in that case the judge is supposed to protect the rights of the defendant. Not kidding here, it is true.
The first conflict of interest is the judge is paid by the government. How is he supposed to favor a defendant against his employer? The system is flawed and now it is coming into its fullness. Now there are checkpoints inside the USA run by border patrol up to 100 miles inside the USA. Soon these checkpoints will be applied when you cross state lines and the no fly list will be enforced on people driving across state lines. The “border” checkpoints are applied to people traveling within the USA. Police search with impunity anything or anyone they want. All records Internet, bank, phone, etc are open to the government at all times.
The police have taken to using tasers on people who are reluctant to obey their verbal commands. These tasers are never used if the officer thinks his life is in jeopardy, for this they have guns. These devices are used to condition the public to blindly obey the police and rapidly with no questioning tolerated at all, zero tolerance. Tasers don’t save life; they actually kill a large amount of people each year yet they are being used (abused) by more and more police departments each month.
Crime – Crime is on the rise in the USA. Frauds are way up. One in every 31 adults is in the criminal justice system in the USA. This is the highest in the world and the true test of a police state. The streets are not safe. The people do not feel safe in their homes. Home alarm systems sales are soaring. People are buying firearms in record numbers. This year alone 1.5 billion rounds of personal ammunition were sold in the USA.
Who do you think the people are interested in protecting themselves against? Two groups – the criminals and their government. When the people feel this way as evidenced by the gun sales no government can continue. In the face of this Obama wants to push for more gun control. When the people are happy, content, the economy is good, the crime rate is low the governments never go off on a gun control campaign. The government is afraid of the people and the people are afraid of the government. This is a state that can only exist temporarily. Either the people get their freedom back through a constitutional government, secession or the government wins and the people will lose even more rights than they have now. Like what you might say.
The freedom to live where they want inside the USA, freedom of choices in healthcare, freedom to travel, freedom to communicate freely, freedom to have an uncensored internet, freedom to travel outside the country, freedom to have a convertible currency, freedom to own gold, and many other freedoms can be removed. What do you think it would take to get the government to go back to a constitutional government? Good question.
Intrinsically Flawed Political Practices – The USA was a republic. One could not vote unless one owned land. One could be free but not vote unless they owned some land. Why? The founding fathers said if we do not take this measure those with nothing would eventually vote in politicians to take our wealth from us and distribute it to them for nothing, no fair exchange of labor for funds. And what happened.
Obama is creating more public sector jobs while he is losing private sector jobs and no country can ever survive like this. The concept of corporate welfare seemed to have escaped the founding fathers but they did severely limit the government from taxing them. They also laid out rules for a gold and silver coined monetary supply to prevent the banks from owning everything they have. The government did away with this in 1913 with the Federal Reserve Act (many say this was an illegal act not correctly ratified by 2/3 of the states) and look what happened. The banks own everything and they ruined the country.
The politicians have a goal, which is to get elected and then reelected. They lie, cheat, steal, deceive and this is referred to as broken campaign promises. They get the poor people to vote for them through handouts. They get the wealthy corporations to support them through favorable laws, corporate welfare, contracts and other methods your mainstream media is never going to talk about because they are owned by these corporations. So they give out handouts for votes. Taxes go up. They print money like crazy that is worthless. The debt soars. They stifle business. New businesses do not start. Old businesses fail. Then they wind up where they are today printing more money to get votes. Problem is they have destroyed the core of the real businesses. The politicians would rather get reelected by destroying the economy instead of acting responsibly and losing the election. There are no fundamental changes coming from the politicians thus no end in sight until it collapses. It has to fail.
The Federal Reserve System – This is the core of the problem. The Federal Reserve System is a private bank owned by private owners who profit directly from this abomination created in 1913 at the same time the IRS was created which is just the collection arm of the Federal Reserve Bank. A brief explanation of this atrocity will explain why this is doomed to failure. The US Mint prints money for the Federal Reserve, which are called Federal Reserve notes but this only accounts for 3% of the money supply. The rest is computerized bookkeeping entries. Banks can loan out roughly 10 times what they have on deposit. They make money out of thin air. All the debts of the USA government, private companies and individual persons are owned by these private banks. It used to be that 20% of the tax dollars were used to pay the debt to this Federal Reserve, which winds up in the pockets of these private bankers controlling the Federal Reserve. With the recent increase in money supply this figure can go to 50% of the taxes collected. The Federal Reserve has never been audited, does not have to file a tax return and pays no taxes yet is a private corporation. Does Obama say hey lets go after the Federal Reserve and tax them to help the poor people? No he raises taxes instead. The Federal Reserve is a government-sanctioned tax haven for a select few of the elitists.
How Does the Federal Reserve Create the Damage – They buy $10,000 of US debt called treasury bills. The money the Federal Reserve uses to buy this debt is created out of thin air. They then loan this $10,000 to a bank and the bank has to pay the Federal Reserve the required fed funds interest rate. Banks refer to this as going to the fed window. The bank then loans this money to a borrower and is listed as an asset of the bank, the loan being the asset. Now the bank can make more loans using the ten times multiplier against this loan, which is listed as an asset in their flawed bookkeeping rules. This allows the banks to get interest on these loans.
More loans equals more assets and thus more loans. The more loans out there the more interest the Federal Reserve collects from the taxpayers and they call it things like national debt. It is basically impossible for the USA taxpayers to ever pay off the debt to the Federal Reserve. The banking system uses loans or debt as collateral instead of hard assets like silver and gold. This is why the constitution called for money to only be gold or silver coins so the government and the banks could not mess everything up. The Federal Reserve Bank has created slaves out of the people. How many people percentage wise in the USA understand the Federal Reserve. I would guess less than of 1%, probably closer to 1/4 of 1% best case. They do not teach this in the government run schools.
The sad thing is the money the Federal Reserve bankers got in their pockets has been used to buy buildings, land, houses, factories, airplanes, boats, cars, natural resources and governments. They converted these ill-gotten gains to hard assets that will always have value in any economic system. This is how they assure themselves the right to continue controlling things. They do know the Federal Reserve System has been milked dry and will fall apart. They do want to keep it running as long as they can. The Internet was their undoing. This is something they did not understand until it was too late. Now they are trying to pass laws to be able to shut the Internet off when they want to. There is encryption available on the Internet for voice, chat and email that they cannot break. This bothers them greatly.
What Happens If the States Quit the USA – This is brewing. The term is secession. The states are realizing that the federal government is going to take over if left unchecked. This is a threat to those in state government because they become irrelevant to the federal government. The states will be left to run the highways, sewers, bridges etc with no power, say or authority. They do not like this. They are all of a sudden sending warning signals to the federal government in the form of state bills affirming states rights and saying if the federal government over steps the powers granted to it in the constitution they will consider the federal government irrelevant, illegal and ignore them seceding from the union and forming a nation unto itself. This of course would mean voiding the Federal Reserve debt for their inhabitants.
The federal government is completely over stepping its rights and violating the rights of the states now and has been for years. The fear the states have is the federal government going to martial law and just basically telling the state governments they have become irrelevant, go home while they run everything. Obama is the right guy to have in the white house for this sort of movement. He is scared, confused, overwhelmed and bewildered; basically afraid to do anything except print money and play the I hope game. I hope I can keep it together long enough to get of this mess. Never happen, just a question of when it falls apart.
The problem is the other countries are not going to keep using the USD as a reserve currency forever. When they switch to something asset based then the US will have to buy those currency units with their low grade USD which is not asset based and the debt is ten times the USA assets. The USD will not buy many of these asset based units. This will result in hyperinflation. The USA will probably go to a more extreme police state since the standard of living will plummet to that of a third world nation fast. Think people not be able to afford hot water, air conditioning, cable TV, internet, cars, anything resembling adequate health care, beef, sea food, and even guns. Foreigners will move in to buy the cheap housing in the luxury areas that is still there. The women in the USA will be working as maids, men as gardeners, drivers, handymen, etc. Factories will popup and wages will be low, very low. People will learn to live on $100 a week. $200 a week will become low middle class and $2000 a month will be way up there. I am saying the today equivalent of the money value.
Remember housing prices are still in free fall so rents will be low. Some that have their home free and clear will keep it if they can pay the property taxes. When the cars fall apart they will not be able to afford new ones. When the currency goes to hyperinflation what is left of savings will be evaporated. Equity in houses will be greatly diminished if not completely gone. Stock market values will drop greatly. The USA labor force will be available for extremely cheap wages. USA laborers are a lot more educated and skilled that the workers found in most third world countries. That is the probable future for the USA if it does not break up into several nations. The people working for the government and on government support will not want the breakup because the handout is over for them if this happens. In this way Obama is smart in creating public sector jobs but this is only a tactic to delay the inevitable. If foreign countries will continue to treat the USD as a real currency and use it for their reserve currency in spite of how many times Obama increases the money supply, then the game works. And the chances of this are slim and none. You can only fool some of the people some of the time.
The Immigration Problem – The USA opened up the country to immigration during the 1960’s. They picked up 100,000,000 people legally and perhaps another 20,000,000 who are there illegally. These people came to the USA for a variety of reasons. Many of them came to exploit the USA. They paid as little in taxes as they could preferring to work off the books. They did a poor job of fitting in to mainstream America instead living in enclaves with each other from their respective countries. They did not grow up in America. Their children became dual nationals and spoke two or more languages and were multi-cultural. Their children were not really American; they were learning to exploit the system. Their children never went into the military and fought for the country. They were there to take and not give. Some of these people had it better in the USA but they viewed the USA as a sucker country to be exploited. The USA offered them free education, medical, welfare, disability, retirement and freedoms.
America used to be free a few decades ago. When people came to the USA in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s they came to work hard and have a better life. There were no handouts, no social programs. They were there to sweat and toil to have a free and better life. This was not the case with the immigrants coming in the last few decades. Sure some did believe in hard work and elevating themselves up the right way but the majority were there to exploit the system. These people eventually got the right to vote. What do they want from their politicians – a handout? Benefits, public sector jobs, the ability to use their mother tongue in the USA system etc. Eventually this too took its toll.
These new voters had little idea of what being an American was. This was not their land, their culture, their language, their race and often their religions were very foreign to the USA. They did not fit in and integrate. This further fed the desire to exploit the system. They asked what they could get out of the system as easily as possibly and had no interest in growing the country. They favored higher taxes for more handouts. They had little regard for the business community having not even a superficial appreciation for how a free economy functions. If there were no politicians offering these handouts for votes none of these people would ever be in the USA. There is no end in sight to this policy. They are talking about legitimatize the illegal aliens and getting them to be tax-paying voters. More handouts for votes. Problem is this has already gotten so far out of hand there is not more core businesses left to support these handouts. So what do they do? They keep printing money and make public sector jobs and these jobs pay taxes and this money goes to handouts. Does not work. They hit the brick wall. You can get into a recession by over spending but cannot spend your way out of one. End game has arrived.
What Should You Do – The first answer is to diversify your assets and do that outside of any police state. Hold several different currencies, gold, and real estate outside the USA. This only works if you do not get locked inside the USA. Judging by the way things are moving this will probably happen sooner than later. Leave now while you can. You can always come back later if it gets better.
State Secession - Pay attention to states secession. Many of you will want to run to any of the states that drop out of the union. Freedoms beyond your wildest dreams, constitutional governments, fair and honest courts, one language government, law and order, honest government, real money supply, minimal government, very low taxes, no red tape in government, no government handout programs, no handouts to foreign governments that are awful dictators, schools teaching the truth so this never happens again, etc. Such a government will cause businesses to thrive and prosper beyond your wildest dreams and fast too.
These states are going to restrict immigration. Montana will have no obligation to accept people from Texas or New York if they become their own nation. Smart people will be going now to the states getting ready to secede and get driver licenses, residencies now. Set up a few in the states most likely to drop out. Keep your money offshore and then when the states that have dropped out set up their money supply and banks then you can repatriate the money.
The USA as it was forty years ago will never ever return. The best hope is the states seceding from the union. There you can have a chance for a real free and prosperous life with some hard work. The people will remember the mess the USA became and take great pains to stop it from happening again. The people working in the public sector with jobs paying $90,000 a year in some cases that are just paper pushers will never want to leave what they have. For them it works. Well it won’t for long but they will never want to believe it will ever come to an end and they do not know enough to understand what is going on. These are bureaucrats that contribute nothing to anything. Those benefiting from the government handouts will not want anything to change.
The bottom line is the states leaving the union will not have these drains on their economy. What happens to these people is a good question. I expect the majority of them over time will realize it is time to get to work in a productive way or starve. I think some one who sat like a bump on a log in some government building pushing papers for 20 years with eight weeks vacation, 12 days sick leave, medical, dental, retirement, freedom from termination, no worries about how business is doing, and getting double or triple what their friends and neighbors make in a bad economy, well this person is always going to want to go back to the way things were. The problem with secession is the people in these states that benefit from the government programs and jobs do not want to leave the union, some states will at least attempt to leave and some probably will. Some states will probably group together and merge into new nations.
A lot of new immigrants will probably return to their home country or look elsewhere for a handout nation where the politicians sell handouts for votes. For secession Obama is the perfect President, could not ask for a better choice when it comes to breaking up the USA into individual nations. Let’s see what happens.
Montana has drawn a line in the sand with their new gun law. This allows companies in Montana to manufacture guns and sell them in Montana free of any federal controls. Guns are the thorn in the side of oppressive governments. Montana is hitting them where it hurts most to see what happens. Obama will more than likely do nothing not risking an encounter with Montana. Montana residents will grab a gun and enforce their rights and this attitude is not something Obama wants to tangle with. More states will follow suit with gun laws and other laws. Eventually they will get around to sacred cow tipping like taxes, coining their own money, setting up their own banks immune form the fed, restricting federal powers in their state etc. Georgia in a bill they passed said the federal government only has the right under the constitution to arrest people for Treason, Piracy and Slavery. Posse comitatus used to apply to federal agents. The original FBI agents did not carry guns, bet you did not know that.
Here’s a good question. Where will the tax police, agriculture police, border police, transportation police, park police, forest police, gun police, food and drug police, judges that do not follow the law etc. go to live if the USA breaks up? Not sure anyone would want them, tolerate having them, or trust them knowing their skill sets and training in these states that have seceded. Good question, huh.
-Aurelia Masterson, www.panamalaw.org
Banks – Bank failures keep coming. People have become so conditioned to them they hardly pay attention anymore. The USA has had 29 bank failures this year so far.
Homes and Mortgages - One in every 159 USA homes received a foreclosure notice JUST in the first quarter of 2009. Shocking. There were over 800,000 foreclosures in the first quarter of 2009. March 2009 foreclosures were 46% higher than they were a year earlier. In Nevada during the first quarter of 2009 one in every 27 homes received a foreclosure notices.
Jobs Lost – Two million more jobs lost in 2009. In March alone 663,000 jobs lost. In the last 16 months 5.1 million jobs were lost, two thirds of those in the last five months. The government admits to 13 million unemployed. They tend to not count those whose unemployment benefits have run out and are still not working, those who gave up looking, and those who took part time work and those who retired early. The real figure is probably closer to 20 million or more. Obama is creating non-productive jobs in the public sector, government jobs. The private sector jobs are rapidly going away. Government jobs do not build an economy; they do not even sustain one. The real jobs are gone.
Police State – The constitution is basically being ignored by those working in the various governments that have taken an oath to enforce it. People have no rights any more. Courts no longer appoint a lawyer to those who cannot afford one. They ask the people to fill out an affidavit attesting to finances and sometimes they appoint one, sometimes not and in that case the judge is supposed to protect the rights of the defendant. Not kidding here, it is true.
The first conflict of interest is the judge is paid by the government. How is he supposed to favor a defendant against his employer? The system is flawed and now it is coming into its fullness. Now there are checkpoints inside the USA run by border patrol up to 100 miles inside the USA. Soon these checkpoints will be applied when you cross state lines and the no fly list will be enforced on people driving across state lines. The “border” checkpoints are applied to people traveling within the USA. Police search with impunity anything or anyone they want. All records Internet, bank, phone, etc are open to the government at all times.
The police have taken to using tasers on people who are reluctant to obey their verbal commands. These tasers are never used if the officer thinks his life is in jeopardy, for this they have guns. These devices are used to condition the public to blindly obey the police and rapidly with no questioning tolerated at all, zero tolerance. Tasers don’t save life; they actually kill a large amount of people each year yet they are being used (abused) by more and more police departments each month.
Crime – Crime is on the rise in the USA. Frauds are way up. One in every 31 adults is in the criminal justice system in the USA. This is the highest in the world and the true test of a police state. The streets are not safe. The people do not feel safe in their homes. Home alarm systems sales are soaring. People are buying firearms in record numbers. This year alone 1.5 billion rounds of personal ammunition were sold in the USA.
Who do you think the people are interested in protecting themselves against? Two groups – the criminals and their government. When the people feel this way as evidenced by the gun sales no government can continue. In the face of this Obama wants to push for more gun control. When the people are happy, content, the economy is good, the crime rate is low the governments never go off on a gun control campaign. The government is afraid of the people and the people are afraid of the government. This is a state that can only exist temporarily. Either the people get their freedom back through a constitutional government, secession or the government wins and the people will lose even more rights than they have now. Like what you might say.
The freedom to live where they want inside the USA, freedom of choices in healthcare, freedom to travel, freedom to communicate freely, freedom to have an uncensored internet, freedom to travel outside the country, freedom to have a convertible currency, freedom to own gold, and many other freedoms can be removed. What do you think it would take to get the government to go back to a constitutional government? Good question.
Intrinsically Flawed Political Practices – The USA was a republic. One could not vote unless one owned land. One could be free but not vote unless they owned some land. Why? The founding fathers said if we do not take this measure those with nothing would eventually vote in politicians to take our wealth from us and distribute it to them for nothing, no fair exchange of labor for funds. And what happened.
Obama is creating more public sector jobs while he is losing private sector jobs and no country can ever survive like this. The concept of corporate welfare seemed to have escaped the founding fathers but they did severely limit the government from taxing them. They also laid out rules for a gold and silver coined monetary supply to prevent the banks from owning everything they have. The government did away with this in 1913 with the Federal Reserve Act (many say this was an illegal act not correctly ratified by 2/3 of the states) and look what happened. The banks own everything and they ruined the country.
The politicians have a goal, which is to get elected and then reelected. They lie, cheat, steal, deceive and this is referred to as broken campaign promises. They get the poor people to vote for them through handouts. They get the wealthy corporations to support them through favorable laws, corporate welfare, contracts and other methods your mainstream media is never going to talk about because they are owned by these corporations. So they give out handouts for votes. Taxes go up. They print money like crazy that is worthless. The debt soars. They stifle business. New businesses do not start. Old businesses fail. Then they wind up where they are today printing more money to get votes. Problem is they have destroyed the core of the real businesses. The politicians would rather get reelected by destroying the economy instead of acting responsibly and losing the election. There are no fundamental changes coming from the politicians thus no end in sight until it collapses. It has to fail.
The Federal Reserve System – This is the core of the problem. The Federal Reserve System is a private bank owned by private owners who profit directly from this abomination created in 1913 at the same time the IRS was created which is just the collection arm of the Federal Reserve Bank. A brief explanation of this atrocity will explain why this is doomed to failure. The US Mint prints money for the Federal Reserve, which are called Federal Reserve notes but this only accounts for 3% of the money supply. The rest is computerized bookkeeping entries. Banks can loan out roughly 10 times what they have on deposit. They make money out of thin air. All the debts of the USA government, private companies and individual persons are owned by these private banks. It used to be that 20% of the tax dollars were used to pay the debt to this Federal Reserve, which winds up in the pockets of these private bankers controlling the Federal Reserve. With the recent increase in money supply this figure can go to 50% of the taxes collected. The Federal Reserve has never been audited, does not have to file a tax return and pays no taxes yet is a private corporation. Does Obama say hey lets go after the Federal Reserve and tax them to help the poor people? No he raises taxes instead. The Federal Reserve is a government-sanctioned tax haven for a select few of the elitists.
How Does the Federal Reserve Create the Damage – They buy $10,000 of US debt called treasury bills. The money the Federal Reserve uses to buy this debt is created out of thin air. They then loan this $10,000 to a bank and the bank has to pay the Federal Reserve the required fed funds interest rate. Banks refer to this as going to the fed window. The bank then loans this money to a borrower and is listed as an asset of the bank, the loan being the asset. Now the bank can make more loans using the ten times multiplier against this loan, which is listed as an asset in their flawed bookkeeping rules. This allows the banks to get interest on these loans.
More loans equals more assets and thus more loans. The more loans out there the more interest the Federal Reserve collects from the taxpayers and they call it things like national debt. It is basically impossible for the USA taxpayers to ever pay off the debt to the Federal Reserve. The banking system uses loans or debt as collateral instead of hard assets like silver and gold. This is why the constitution called for money to only be gold or silver coins so the government and the banks could not mess everything up. The Federal Reserve Bank has created slaves out of the people. How many people percentage wise in the USA understand the Federal Reserve. I would guess less than of 1%, probably closer to 1/4 of 1% best case. They do not teach this in the government run schools.
The sad thing is the money the Federal Reserve bankers got in their pockets has been used to buy buildings, land, houses, factories, airplanes, boats, cars, natural resources and governments. They converted these ill-gotten gains to hard assets that will always have value in any economic system. This is how they assure themselves the right to continue controlling things. They do know the Federal Reserve System has been milked dry and will fall apart. They do want to keep it running as long as they can. The Internet was their undoing. This is something they did not understand until it was too late. Now they are trying to pass laws to be able to shut the Internet off when they want to. There is encryption available on the Internet for voice, chat and email that they cannot break. This bothers them greatly.
What Happens If the States Quit the USA – This is brewing. The term is secession. The states are realizing that the federal government is going to take over if left unchecked. This is a threat to those in state government because they become irrelevant to the federal government. The states will be left to run the highways, sewers, bridges etc with no power, say or authority. They do not like this. They are all of a sudden sending warning signals to the federal government in the form of state bills affirming states rights and saying if the federal government over steps the powers granted to it in the constitution they will consider the federal government irrelevant, illegal and ignore them seceding from the union and forming a nation unto itself. This of course would mean voiding the Federal Reserve debt for their inhabitants.
The federal government is completely over stepping its rights and violating the rights of the states now and has been for years. The fear the states have is the federal government going to martial law and just basically telling the state governments they have become irrelevant, go home while they run everything. Obama is the right guy to have in the white house for this sort of movement. He is scared, confused, overwhelmed and bewildered; basically afraid to do anything except print money and play the I hope game. I hope I can keep it together long enough to get of this mess. Never happen, just a question of when it falls apart.
The problem is the other countries are not going to keep using the USD as a reserve currency forever. When they switch to something asset based then the US will have to buy those currency units with their low grade USD which is not asset based and the debt is ten times the USA assets. The USD will not buy many of these asset based units. This will result in hyperinflation. The USA will probably go to a more extreme police state since the standard of living will plummet to that of a third world nation fast. Think people not be able to afford hot water, air conditioning, cable TV, internet, cars, anything resembling adequate health care, beef, sea food, and even guns. Foreigners will move in to buy the cheap housing in the luxury areas that is still there. The women in the USA will be working as maids, men as gardeners, drivers, handymen, etc. Factories will popup and wages will be low, very low. People will learn to live on $100 a week. $200 a week will become low middle class and $2000 a month will be way up there. I am saying the today equivalent of the money value.
Remember housing prices are still in free fall so rents will be low. Some that have their home free and clear will keep it if they can pay the property taxes. When the cars fall apart they will not be able to afford new ones. When the currency goes to hyperinflation what is left of savings will be evaporated. Equity in houses will be greatly diminished if not completely gone. Stock market values will drop greatly. The USA labor force will be available for extremely cheap wages. USA laborers are a lot more educated and skilled that the workers found in most third world countries. That is the probable future for the USA if it does not break up into several nations. The people working for the government and on government support will not want the breakup because the handout is over for them if this happens. In this way Obama is smart in creating public sector jobs but this is only a tactic to delay the inevitable. If foreign countries will continue to treat the USD as a real currency and use it for their reserve currency in spite of how many times Obama increases the money supply, then the game works. And the chances of this are slim and none. You can only fool some of the people some of the time.
The Immigration Problem – The USA opened up the country to immigration during the 1960’s. They picked up 100,000,000 people legally and perhaps another 20,000,000 who are there illegally. These people came to the USA for a variety of reasons. Many of them came to exploit the USA. They paid as little in taxes as they could preferring to work off the books. They did a poor job of fitting in to mainstream America instead living in enclaves with each other from their respective countries. They did not grow up in America. Their children became dual nationals and spoke two or more languages and were multi-cultural. Their children were not really American; they were learning to exploit the system. Their children never went into the military and fought for the country. They were there to take and not give. Some of these people had it better in the USA but they viewed the USA as a sucker country to be exploited. The USA offered them free education, medical, welfare, disability, retirement and freedoms.
America used to be free a few decades ago. When people came to the USA in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s they came to work hard and have a better life. There were no handouts, no social programs. They were there to sweat and toil to have a free and better life. This was not the case with the immigrants coming in the last few decades. Sure some did believe in hard work and elevating themselves up the right way but the majority were there to exploit the system. These people eventually got the right to vote. What do they want from their politicians – a handout? Benefits, public sector jobs, the ability to use their mother tongue in the USA system etc. Eventually this too took its toll.
These new voters had little idea of what being an American was. This was not their land, their culture, their language, their race and often their religions were very foreign to the USA. They did not fit in and integrate. This further fed the desire to exploit the system. They asked what they could get out of the system as easily as possibly and had no interest in growing the country. They favored higher taxes for more handouts. They had little regard for the business community having not even a superficial appreciation for how a free economy functions. If there were no politicians offering these handouts for votes none of these people would ever be in the USA. There is no end in sight to this policy. They are talking about legitimatize the illegal aliens and getting them to be tax-paying voters. More handouts for votes. Problem is this has already gotten so far out of hand there is not more core businesses left to support these handouts. So what do they do? They keep printing money and make public sector jobs and these jobs pay taxes and this money goes to handouts. Does not work. They hit the brick wall. You can get into a recession by over spending but cannot spend your way out of one. End game has arrived.
What Should You Do – The first answer is to diversify your assets and do that outside of any police state. Hold several different currencies, gold, and real estate outside the USA. This only works if you do not get locked inside the USA. Judging by the way things are moving this will probably happen sooner than later. Leave now while you can. You can always come back later if it gets better.
State Secession - Pay attention to states secession. Many of you will want to run to any of the states that drop out of the union. Freedoms beyond your wildest dreams, constitutional governments, fair and honest courts, one language government, law and order, honest government, real money supply, minimal government, very low taxes, no red tape in government, no government handout programs, no handouts to foreign governments that are awful dictators, schools teaching the truth so this never happens again, etc. Such a government will cause businesses to thrive and prosper beyond your wildest dreams and fast too.
These states are going to restrict immigration. Montana will have no obligation to accept people from Texas or New York if they become their own nation. Smart people will be going now to the states getting ready to secede and get driver licenses, residencies now. Set up a few in the states most likely to drop out. Keep your money offshore and then when the states that have dropped out set up their money supply and banks then you can repatriate the money.
The USA as it was forty years ago will never ever return. The best hope is the states seceding from the union. There you can have a chance for a real free and prosperous life with some hard work. The people will remember the mess the USA became and take great pains to stop it from happening again. The people working in the public sector with jobs paying $90,000 a year in some cases that are just paper pushers will never want to leave what they have. For them it works. Well it won’t for long but they will never want to believe it will ever come to an end and they do not know enough to understand what is going on. These are bureaucrats that contribute nothing to anything. Those benefiting from the government handouts will not want anything to change.
The bottom line is the states leaving the union will not have these drains on their economy. What happens to these people is a good question. I expect the majority of them over time will realize it is time to get to work in a productive way or starve. I think some one who sat like a bump on a log in some government building pushing papers for 20 years with eight weeks vacation, 12 days sick leave, medical, dental, retirement, freedom from termination, no worries about how business is doing, and getting double or triple what their friends and neighbors make in a bad economy, well this person is always going to want to go back to the way things were. The problem with secession is the people in these states that benefit from the government programs and jobs do not want to leave the union, some states will at least attempt to leave and some probably will. Some states will probably group together and merge into new nations.
A lot of new immigrants will probably return to their home country or look elsewhere for a handout nation where the politicians sell handouts for votes. For secession Obama is the perfect President, could not ask for a better choice when it comes to breaking up the USA into individual nations. Let’s see what happens.
Montana has drawn a line in the sand with their new gun law. This allows companies in Montana to manufacture guns and sell them in Montana free of any federal controls. Guns are the thorn in the side of oppressive governments. Montana is hitting them where it hurts most to see what happens. Obama will more than likely do nothing not risking an encounter with Montana. Montana residents will grab a gun and enforce their rights and this attitude is not something Obama wants to tangle with. More states will follow suit with gun laws and other laws. Eventually they will get around to sacred cow tipping like taxes, coining their own money, setting up their own banks immune form the fed, restricting federal powers in their state etc. Georgia in a bill they passed said the federal government only has the right under the constitution to arrest people for Treason, Piracy and Slavery. Posse comitatus used to apply to federal agents. The original FBI agents did not carry guns, bet you did not know that.
Here’s a good question. Where will the tax police, agriculture police, border police, transportation police, park police, forest police, gun police, food and drug police, judges that do not follow the law etc. go to live if the USA breaks up? Not sure anyone would want them, tolerate having them, or trust them knowing their skill sets and training in these states that have seceded. Good question, huh.
-Aurelia Masterson, www.panamalaw.org
Sunday, June 21, 2009
How to catch a Fly
The art of fly catching was just brought to the attention of the American public by Obama's show of force in the Oval Office when he killed a fly during a news interview.
I have had a note on my desk for several months about doing an article on how to catch a fly, but have put it off as being too trivial. But now with all the attention and concern over the killing of bugs, I believe that it is time everyone found out how to properly catch a fly.
I have been catching flies most of my life and releasing them back into the outdoors. Not because I care about the fly but because I don't care for the mess they cause when you smash them. Even a fly swatter leaves that bloody mark on the wall!
My dad used to catch flies and use the larva for fish bait. He would place two buckets in the woods, one with scraps of fish remains, tilted at a 45 degree angle and the other up right under the lip of the tilted bucket. As the maggots would get their fill they would climb up the edge of the bucket and drop into the waiting container. Dad would then collect the fish bait, bag them and place them in the freezer for future use. He fished for a living for a while on a lake in Florida, and baited the fish lines with soap, maggots and anything else catfish loved to eat.
While in the service, I learned the art of catching flies. At first I caught them the hard way, out on maneuvers in Germany while breathing hard, I ran through a swarm of flies and inhaled a large number of them. I was coughing up flies for a long time. And then there was all the stories about flies leaving larva in peoples heads and causing sores, gross!
It is hard to believe the things that we become preoccupied with. I have always been impressed with the person who could nail a bug at ten feet with a knife or rubber band, but again there is always the mess to clean up or worse yet the hole in the wall to patch.
So Obama has the right ideal, but he needs to improve his technique in order to avoid upsetting Peta and getting blood on his hands.
What everyone needs to know about flies:
Flies always began their flight by taking off backwards. Knowing this fact makes it easy to catch or kill flies. Fly swatters should have this information printer on the instructions on how to use. If you approach the fly from the back and about two inches high, with your palm open then close your hand about one inch before reaching the fly, it will fly right into your fist every time. You may wonder if you have him, but don't be tempted to look until you are ready to release him.
I have impressed many with my art of catching flies and they never believe that you have actually caught it until you open your hand and it flies off.
To kill a fly, approach the fly with the swatter from the back and you will get him every time
About the Author:
Hubert Crowell, Retired and working part time. Hobbies are caving and propecting for gold. Please visit my web page at: http://www.hucosystems.com
I have had a note on my desk for several months about doing an article on how to catch a fly, but have put it off as being too trivial. But now with all the attention and concern over the killing of bugs, I believe that it is time everyone found out how to properly catch a fly.
I have been catching flies most of my life and releasing them back into the outdoors. Not because I care about the fly but because I don't care for the mess they cause when you smash them. Even a fly swatter leaves that bloody mark on the wall!
My dad used to catch flies and use the larva for fish bait. He would place two buckets in the woods, one with scraps of fish remains, tilted at a 45 degree angle and the other up right under the lip of the tilted bucket. As the maggots would get their fill they would climb up the edge of the bucket and drop into the waiting container. Dad would then collect the fish bait, bag them and place them in the freezer for future use. He fished for a living for a while on a lake in Florida, and baited the fish lines with soap, maggots and anything else catfish loved to eat.
While in the service, I learned the art of catching flies. At first I caught them the hard way, out on maneuvers in Germany while breathing hard, I ran through a swarm of flies and inhaled a large number of them. I was coughing up flies for a long time. And then there was all the stories about flies leaving larva in peoples heads and causing sores, gross!
It is hard to believe the things that we become preoccupied with. I have always been impressed with the person who could nail a bug at ten feet with a knife or rubber band, but again there is always the mess to clean up or worse yet the hole in the wall to patch.
So Obama has the right ideal, but he needs to improve his technique in order to avoid upsetting Peta and getting blood on his hands.
What everyone needs to know about flies:
Flies always began their flight by taking off backwards. Knowing this fact makes it easy to catch or kill flies. Fly swatters should have this information printer on the instructions on how to use. If you approach the fly from the back and about two inches high, with your palm open then close your hand about one inch before reaching the fly, it will fly right into your fist every time. You may wonder if you have him, but don't be tempted to look until you are ready to release him.
I have impressed many with my art of catching flies and they never believe that you have actually caught it until you open your hand and it flies off.
To kill a fly, approach the fly with the swatter from the back and you will get him every time
About the Author:
Hubert Crowell, Retired and working part time. Hobbies are caving and propecting for gold. Please visit my web page at: http://www.hucosystems.com
Monday, June 15, 2009
The Hypocrisy Surrounding Nuclear Weapons
The UN Security Council has today announced that it has voted unanimously to impose new sanctions on North Korea which, in addition to tighter bans on arms exports and greater powers to inspect North Korean ships, include ‘financial measures’ (at this point, however, the type of financial measures are not clear). These developments are a reaction to North Korea’s nuclear tests last month which have led to the excoriation of its actions around the globe.
It is strange, however, that the hypocrisy of the UN Security Council is largely ignored by the mainstream media. Every permanent member of the Security Council boasts huge stockpiles of thermonuclear weapons. Moreover, one member of the Security Council is, hitherto, the only country on the planet to use a nuclear weapon. Indeed, the USA has not only used nuclear weapons, it has also given hundreds of nuclear weapons to its close ally, Israel; the latter being a country which does not admit to owning nuclear warheads and, therefore, also refuses to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
What is good enough for the US and its allies is, it would seem, not good enough for states that are deemed as the ‘undesirables’. The UK, another Security Council member, is also condemning North Korea for its nuclear ambitions despite the UK government’s renewal of its Trident nuclear missile system which could, by some estimates, costs as much as £76bn.
How, then, can such countries condemn the actions of North Korea? Both India and Pakistan have developed their nuclear arsenals and, as a result, both have experienced greater economic and political engagement with the worlds’ superpower, the USA. This is the problem with nuclear weapons: to own them elevates a country into an exclusive club whereby the benefits greatly outweigh the drawbacks of developing nuclear weapons. Moreover, the greater polarisation of North Korea will no doubt further galvanise its desire to develop its own arsenal of nuclear weapons given that its one-time nuclear ally, China, is now condemning North Korea’s desire to develop its nuclear capability.
One argument for this global condemnation is that countries which currently own nuclear weapons act ‘responsibly’ and that other ‘rogue’ states, such as North Korea or Iran, do not and, therefore, simply cannot be trusted. This, however, is not necessarily true: since the Second World War, the USA has been involved in more wars than any other country and, together with the UK, is currently involved in two armed conflicts: Afghanistan and Iraq. The former, of course, is a war that was built on a pack of lies: that Iraq owned weapons of mass destruction which could be launched in under 45 minutes. Not only did no WMDs exist in Iraq, but the greatest irony of all is that if Iraq did own nuclear weapons then neither the US nor the UK would have invaded the country in the first place.
And what of the sanctions which are to be imposed? History tells us that these sanctions do little to punish a respective regime but, instead, have deleterious effects on the most vulnerable people of a given society, namely its poorest citizens. Therefore, these sanctions seem to be symbolic rather than an effective measure to curb North Korea’s nuclear ambitions.
So, what is the solution? The obvious answer would be to dismantle all nuclear weapons. This, however, is unlikely to happen and would leave security analysts delirious with regards to the ‘security vacuum’ that may arise if the world’s strongest states lost their nuclear capabilities. Nonetheless, the solution must lie with a decrease in the overall numbers of nuclear weapons which, unfortunately, is not occurring: the worlds’ nuclear powers have largely failed to deliver on promises to reduce their nuclear arsenals. This is hardly a strong platform in which to ask other states to ditch their nuclear ambitions.
Greater cooperation between nuclear states and those hoping to join the Nuclear Club would also be a more propitious path than an increase in bellicosity which leads to greater distrust and, as a result, stimulates an even greater desire for the non-nuclear state to develop a nuclear warhead. And while the main hypocrisy still exists, i.e. that nuclear armed states continue to threaten non-nuclear armed states regarding the latter’s nuclear ambitions, the chances of dissuading a regime to renege on its commitment to develop a nuclear warhead appear very slim indeed.
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It is strange, however, that the hypocrisy of the UN Security Council is largely ignored by the mainstream media. Every permanent member of the Security Council boasts huge stockpiles of thermonuclear weapons. Moreover, one member of the Security Council is, hitherto, the only country on the planet to use a nuclear weapon. Indeed, the USA has not only used nuclear weapons, it has also given hundreds of nuclear weapons to its close ally, Israel; the latter being a country which does not admit to owning nuclear warheads and, therefore, also refuses to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
What is good enough for the US and its allies is, it would seem, not good enough for states that are deemed as the ‘undesirables’. The UK, another Security Council member, is also condemning North Korea for its nuclear ambitions despite the UK government’s renewal of its Trident nuclear missile system which could, by some estimates, costs as much as £76bn.
How, then, can such countries condemn the actions of North Korea? Both India and Pakistan have developed their nuclear arsenals and, as a result, both have experienced greater economic and political engagement with the worlds’ superpower, the USA. This is the problem with nuclear weapons: to own them elevates a country into an exclusive club whereby the benefits greatly outweigh the drawbacks of developing nuclear weapons. Moreover, the greater polarisation of North Korea will no doubt further galvanise its desire to develop its own arsenal of nuclear weapons given that its one-time nuclear ally, China, is now condemning North Korea’s desire to develop its nuclear capability.
One argument for this global condemnation is that countries which currently own nuclear weapons act ‘responsibly’ and that other ‘rogue’ states, such as North Korea or Iran, do not and, therefore, simply cannot be trusted. This, however, is not necessarily true: since the Second World War, the USA has been involved in more wars than any other country and, together with the UK, is currently involved in two armed conflicts: Afghanistan and Iraq. The former, of course, is a war that was built on a pack of lies: that Iraq owned weapons of mass destruction which could be launched in under 45 minutes. Not only did no WMDs exist in Iraq, but the greatest irony of all is that if Iraq did own nuclear weapons then neither the US nor the UK would have invaded the country in the first place.
And what of the sanctions which are to be imposed? History tells us that these sanctions do little to punish a respective regime but, instead, have deleterious effects on the most vulnerable people of a given society, namely its poorest citizens. Therefore, these sanctions seem to be symbolic rather than an effective measure to curb North Korea’s nuclear ambitions.
So, what is the solution? The obvious answer would be to dismantle all nuclear weapons. This, however, is unlikely to happen and would leave security analysts delirious with regards to the ‘security vacuum’ that may arise if the world’s strongest states lost their nuclear capabilities. Nonetheless, the solution must lie with a decrease in the overall numbers of nuclear weapons which, unfortunately, is not occurring: the worlds’ nuclear powers have largely failed to deliver on promises to reduce their nuclear arsenals. This is hardly a strong platform in which to ask other states to ditch their nuclear ambitions.
Greater cooperation between nuclear states and those hoping to join the Nuclear Club would also be a more propitious path than an increase in bellicosity which leads to greater distrust and, as a result, stimulates an even greater desire for the non-nuclear state to develop a nuclear warhead. And while the main hypocrisy still exists, i.e. that nuclear armed states continue to threaten non-nuclear armed states regarding the latter’s nuclear ambitions, the chances of dissuading a regime to renege on its commitment to develop a nuclear warhead appear very slim indeed.
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Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Proof That Osama Bin Laden is Dead
Dateline: Jan. 2008
I was surfing the net the other day and came across a link leading me to a You Tube clip of an interview with Pakistan's former prime minister and opposition leader Benazir Bhutto.
Heading up the populist Pakistan People's Party, Bhutto was a leading contender in the country's general election, before she was gunned down a few weeks ago.
In this You Tube clip from a November 3 Al Jazeera interview with British television presenter Sir David Frost, Bhutto discusses who she thought was responsible for the prior assassination attempt on her life.
The shocking part is when I heard Bhutto make reference to the people who assassinated Osama Bin Laden.
Stop the tape! What did I just hear? I backed up the tape and at the 6 minuet and 15 second mark she does in fact say that Osama Bin Laden has been assassinated. I had to play it a few times to let it sink in.
She says it with a straight face and Frost doesn’t call her on it. What the h**l is going on?
My guess is that Bin Laden is indeed dead and this administration is keeping it a secret. Why would they do that?
Maybe because someone killed Bin Laden and the Government doesn’t have enough proof and releasing the information would be more trouble then its worth... Who knows. I do suppose that it would be an easy affair to hide Bin Ladens death from the public.
Please check out this video for yourself. Once again the government is hoodwinking us LOL
Article Source: http://marketing.article24h.com/category/politics.html
Author: Russell Clark
You can find the direct link to this amazing video on my website http://www.catnews.org. Remember go to the 6:15 mark and be prepared to be convinced.
I was surfing the net the other day and came across a link leading me to a You Tube clip of an interview with Pakistan's former prime minister and opposition leader Benazir Bhutto.
Heading up the populist Pakistan People's Party, Bhutto was a leading contender in the country's general election, before she was gunned down a few weeks ago.
In this You Tube clip from a November 3 Al Jazeera interview with British television presenter Sir David Frost, Bhutto discusses who she thought was responsible for the prior assassination attempt on her life.
The shocking part is when I heard Bhutto make reference to the people who assassinated Osama Bin Laden.
Stop the tape! What did I just hear? I backed up the tape and at the 6 minuet and 15 second mark she does in fact say that Osama Bin Laden has been assassinated. I had to play it a few times to let it sink in.
She says it with a straight face and Frost doesn’t call her on it. What the h**l is going on?
My guess is that Bin Laden is indeed dead and this administration is keeping it a secret. Why would they do that?
Maybe because someone killed Bin Laden and the Government doesn’t have enough proof and releasing the information would be more trouble then its worth... Who knows. I do suppose that it would be an easy affair to hide Bin Ladens death from the public.
Please check out this video for yourself. Once again the government is hoodwinking us LOL
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Author: Russell Clark
You can find the direct link to this amazing video on my website http://www.catnews.org. Remember go to the 6:15 mark and be prepared to be convinced.
Russian Parliamentary (duma) Elections: Keep your Snotty Noses Out!
That's what Putin said to all Western leaders and media, who have publicized the well known lavish preferences "United Russia" had during the campaign, the pressure on all Russian big business, the vote-rigging... And that's exactly what the Western world did! The West no longer dares to poke the nose in the Russian domestic affairs and, increasingly, in Russia's foreign policy. Europe's main observer body boycotted the polls! Great idea! Some 300 unknown observers "looked over" the elections instead... (Just for reference, Russia has a population of 130 million spanning over 11 time zones). "Early reports from Russia include allegations of election-day violations. We urge Russian authorities to investigate these claims," said Gordon Johndroe, a spokesman for White House national security council. OK! What ya gonna do about it, hah? Putin's team IS the "Russian authorities"! This statement is just another demonstration that U.S. foreign policy continues to seriously lack understanding of what's going on outside of the U.S. national borders!
Putin's power team won by a landslide - as expected by the vast majority of the Russian people, who associates Putin with the improved quality of life, which has become obvious for everybody in Russia and all those, who have visited it in the last 4-5 years. Who cares that the improvement is being paid for by the flourishing Russian commodity exports? Who cares how much this and the upcoming presidential campaign cost? The voting Russians have been trained for the political apathy by the Communist rule, the hick up years that followed, the "prihvatization times" (Russian expression combining "privatization" and "to grab (equity)"). Russian people just want to have a life! And life is better now!
What does the United Russia's victory mean for business? Stability! Financial markets have rejoiced at the resounding win by the Putin's power team, and ...remained quiet. Business has already factored the election results into their strategies and tactics! Business feels better and investors will keep on crowding as the Russia Trading System index continues to far outpace most stock indices in the world.
Despite all the kicks and giggles of the Western leadership, media, and pro-Western movements in Russia itself, nothing can stop Putin's power team for many years to come. Whether you like it or not! Boycotting elections, irrelevant jokes from Washington are laughable! The change of power in Russia is not expected until after all commodity prices are back down (thanks to alternative energy sources and technology advances); Putin's buddies have enjoyed a few years of sheik-like life, nationalized companies have been robbed of cash, innovation and sane management, and oligarch's children wasted the better parts of their parents' fortunes. What ya gonna do about it? Hah?
Article Source: http://marketing.article24h.com/category/politics.html
Author: Andre Leonov
Andre Leonov
Leading partner of FertiKola, a U.S.-Russian business consulting firm since 1998
Putin's power team won by a landslide - as expected by the vast majority of the Russian people, who associates Putin with the improved quality of life, which has become obvious for everybody in Russia and all those, who have visited it in the last 4-5 years. Who cares that the improvement is being paid for by the flourishing Russian commodity exports? Who cares how much this and the upcoming presidential campaign cost? The voting Russians have been trained for the political apathy by the Communist rule, the hick up years that followed, the "prihvatization times" (Russian expression combining "privatization" and "to grab (equity)"). Russian people just want to have a life! And life is better now!
What does the United Russia's victory mean for business? Stability! Financial markets have rejoiced at the resounding win by the Putin's power team, and ...remained quiet. Business has already factored the election results into their strategies and tactics! Business feels better and investors will keep on crowding as the Russia Trading System index continues to far outpace most stock indices in the world.
Despite all the kicks and giggles of the Western leadership, media, and pro-Western movements in Russia itself, nothing can stop Putin's power team for many years to come. Whether you like it or not! Boycotting elections, irrelevant jokes from Washington are laughable! The change of power in Russia is not expected until after all commodity prices are back down (thanks to alternative energy sources and technology advances); Putin's buddies have enjoyed a few years of sheik-like life, nationalized companies have been robbed of cash, innovation and sane management, and oligarch's children wasted the better parts of their parents' fortunes. What ya gonna do about it? Hah?
Article Source: http://marketing.article24h.com/category/politics.html
Author: Andre Leonov
Andre Leonov
Leading partner of FertiKola, a U.S.-Russian business consulting firm since 1998
A New Set Up in Pakistan
We the people of the world congratulate the people of Pakistan that they get a new turn and they are out of military rule and they shall be establishing a new democracy within the next few days. The people of Pakistan are great that they could pave way for the establishment of democracy to which they are committed and the first commitment had been made by the person who established Pakistan. The man who is elected as President of Pakistan, though from the army shall not be having the same powers which he had been having while serving as the army chief. He shall have to act upon the advice of ministers and not of his own as he had been acting while serving as army chief and as chief of the country. The new army chief shall learn a lesson from history and he would not follow the same rout which the pervious chief had been following. We, the people of the world believe that the new chief of army shall be taking into consideration the spirit of the people of Pakistan and shall allow them to establish a good civil government in the country and they shall not create such situations where army is bound to take over the administration of the country.
Within a few days Pakistan shall be having a civilian government and we hope we shall be solving so many problems which are standing in better relations between India and Pakistan. We shall be solving Kashmir problems, we shall be solving the problems of terrorists which are being sent from the side of Pakistan and who are getting shelter and all other facilities in India and with these helps they are spreading throughout in India and they are creating troubles for the people of India and they are disturbing peace in this sub continent. We hope that the people of India and Pakistan shall forget the past and they shall start with new pledges and they shall sign some permanent peace treaty for fifty years banning war between the two countries either in a direct way or in an indirect way. The present terrorist war is an indirect war which Pakistan had initiated just to take revenge of its defeats in direct wars. We hope that the people of Pakistan shall understand that what had happened, should be things of the past and we should go ahead and should not try to correct the history what has been established.
It is not possible that India and Pakistan should join together and should annul the partition of 1947 because that was the most unfortunate event in history of this sub continent in which lakhs of people were killed and crore of people had to migrate to unknown places. Pakistan knows that most of the Muslims did not migrate to Pakistan and that is the reason most of the families had been divided. They must be allowed to join and when we had been living together and when we had been fighting war of independence jointly, there was no fun of partition. that mistake was committed by some interested people and that even had been the worst in history of this mankind. If the two parliaments pass resolutions of joining together, that would be the best event in the history. We the people of the world want that these two countries must join and if they join, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka may also follow suit. There is no fund in having small countries because a new type of imperialism is taking its birth and if it is allowed to come up then most of the small countries shall be under this new imperial government and only big and powerful countries shall be able to keep themselves as independent of this new imperialism. The people of India and the people of Pakistan know this fact and they are ready to fight this new imperialism.
If a civilian government is established in Pakistan, that shall pave way for permanent peace in this sub continent because we cannot expect such peace from army rulers. We hope the new army chief of Pakistan shall keep in mind permanent peace in this sub continent and the people of Pakistan shall be solving their problems through an elected government.
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Author: Dalip Singh Wasan
Within a few days Pakistan shall be having a civilian government and we hope we shall be solving so many problems which are standing in better relations between India and Pakistan. We shall be solving Kashmir problems, we shall be solving the problems of terrorists which are being sent from the side of Pakistan and who are getting shelter and all other facilities in India and with these helps they are spreading throughout in India and they are creating troubles for the people of India and they are disturbing peace in this sub continent. We hope that the people of India and Pakistan shall forget the past and they shall start with new pledges and they shall sign some permanent peace treaty for fifty years banning war between the two countries either in a direct way or in an indirect way. The present terrorist war is an indirect war which Pakistan had initiated just to take revenge of its defeats in direct wars. We hope that the people of Pakistan shall understand that what had happened, should be things of the past and we should go ahead and should not try to correct the history what has been established.
It is not possible that India and Pakistan should join together and should annul the partition of 1947 because that was the most unfortunate event in history of this sub continent in which lakhs of people were killed and crore of people had to migrate to unknown places. Pakistan knows that most of the Muslims did not migrate to Pakistan and that is the reason most of the families had been divided. They must be allowed to join and when we had been living together and when we had been fighting war of independence jointly, there was no fun of partition. that mistake was committed by some interested people and that even had been the worst in history of this mankind. If the two parliaments pass resolutions of joining together, that would be the best event in the history. We the people of the world want that these two countries must join and if they join, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka may also follow suit. There is no fund in having small countries because a new type of imperialism is taking its birth and if it is allowed to come up then most of the small countries shall be under this new imperial government and only big and powerful countries shall be able to keep themselves as independent of this new imperialism. The people of India and the people of Pakistan know this fact and they are ready to fight this new imperialism.
If a civilian government is established in Pakistan, that shall pave way for permanent peace in this sub continent because we cannot expect such peace from army rulers. We hope the new army chief of Pakistan shall keep in mind permanent peace in this sub continent and the people of Pakistan shall be solving their problems through an elected government.
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Author: Dalip Singh Wasan
The Miracle in the Defense System
defense is an issue that has to be given top priority by a country for the continuance of its existence. Nations have always to watch out for all kinds of internal and external threats, assaults, risks of wars and terrorist actions. This is why they allocate a great part of their official budgets to defense. Armies are provided with the most advanced aircraft, ships, and arms, and the forces of defense are always kept at the highest level of preparedness.
The human body is surrounded by a great number of enemies and threats. These enemies are bacteria, viruses, and similar microscopic organisms. They exist everywhere; in the air we inhale, the water we drink, the food we eat, and the environment in which we live.
What most people are not aware of is that the human body has an excellent army, the immune system, which fights against enemies. This is a real army made up of many "soldiers" and "officials" with different assignments, who are specially trained, employ high technology and fight with conventional and chemical weapons.
Every day, even every minute, a permanent war is fought between this army and the enemy forces, but away from our knowledge. This war can also be in the form of minor, local skirmishes as well as battles in which the whole body is involved and alarmed. We call these battles "diseases".
The general conduct of this war almost never changes. The enemy attempts to fool the other side by camouflaging itself when intruding into the body. The trained investigative forces are assigned by the defense to identify the enemies. The enemies are identified and appropriate weapons are produced to exterminate them. Then there is close contact, the defeat of the enemy, cease-fire, and clearance of the battleground. Last, there is storage of every type of information about the enemy as a precaution against the possibility of a later attack....
Now let us examine this interesting war closer.
THE BESIEGED CASTLE: THE HUMAN BODY
We can liken the human body to a castle besieged by enemies. The enemies look for various ways to invade this castle. The human skin is the wall of this castle.
The substance of keratin in the cells of the skin is an impassable barrier for bacteria and fungi. Foreign substances that reach the skin cannot pass through this wall. Moreover, although the outer layer of skin that contains keratin is continuously rubbed off, it is renewed by skin growing from beneath. Thus, all unwanted guests that have squeezed between the skin are ejected from the body together with dead skin, during renewal of the skin from inwards to outwards. The enemy can only make its way in through a wound that is inflicted on the skin.
THE FRONT LINE
One of the ways through which viruses enter the body is air. The enemy pushes its way to the body through the air inhaled. However, a special secretion in the nasal mucous membrane and cell-swallowing defense elements in the lungs (phagocytes) meet these enemies and take control of the situation before the danger grows. Digestive enzymes in the stomach acid and small intestine eliminate a great number of the microbes that seek to enter the body through food.
THE CLASH OF THE ENEMIES
There are some microbes that have settled in various parts of the human body (such as skin, skin folds, mouth, nose, eye, upper respiratory canals, digestive canal, the genitals) yet do not cause illness.
When a foreign microbe enters the body, these domestic microbes - thinking that their habitation would be invaded- and not wishing to give way to the foreigners who invade their habitation - fight strenuously. We can define them as professional soldiers. They try to protect their territory for their own ends. Thus, the complex army in our body is reinforced by these micro supports.
STEP BY STEP TO HOT WAR
If a microscopic intruder entering the body can overcome defense elements on guard and bacteria serving as soldiers, it causes war to begin with. After that, the body, with its ordered army, fights a perfect offence-defense war against this foreign army.
The war fought by the defense system is comprised of four parts:
1. Identification of the enemy.
2. The fortification of defenses and the preparation of offensive weapons.
3. Attack and battle.
4. Retreat to normal state.
The cells that first meet the enemy units are macrophage cells that make "phagocytosis", i.e., that engulf the enemy. These cells are involved in close contact with the enemy, and fight a hand-to-hand war. They are just like infantrymen who fight a bayonet war against enemy units and struggle at the distant front line of the army.
Moreover, macrophages function as intelligence units, or as the secret service of an army. They hold one portion of the enemy they destroy. This portion is used to identify the enemy’s identity and to determine its features. Macrophages pass this portion to another intelligence unit, messenger-T cells.
GENERAL ALARM
When a country is involved in war, a general mobilisation is declared. Most of the natural resources and the budget are spent on war expenses. The economy is re-arranged according to this extraordinary situation and the country is involved in total action. In a war, which the defensive army of the body will fight as a whole, mobilisation is also declared. Do you wonder how?
If the enemy is more than they can handle, the cavalcades (macrophages) that launch an attack secrete a special substance. The name of this substance is "pyrogen" and it is a kind of alarm call. After travelling a long way, "pyrogen" reaches the brain and stimulates the fever-increasing centre of the brain. Following this stimulation, the brain sets off alarms in the body and the person develops a high fever. The patient with a high fever naturally feels a need to rest. Thus, the energy needed by the defense army is not spent elsewhere. As seen, there exists an extremely complex plan and design at work.
THE ORDERED ARMY SWINGS INTO ACTION
The war between the microscopic intruder and the immune system becomes more complicated after mobilisation, that is, your falling ill in bed. At this stage, infantrymen (phagocytes) and cavalrymen (macrophages) have proved insufficient, the whole body is alarmed, and the war becomes heated. At this stage, lymphocytes - (T and B cells) - intervene.
Cavalrymen (macrophages) pass the information they have on the enemy to T helper cells. These cells summon T cytotoxic and B cells to the battleground. These are the most effective fighters of the immune system.
WEAPONRY PRODUCTION
As soon as B cells receive information about the enemy, they start producing weapons. These weapons, just like ballistic missiles, are only produced to hit the enemy on whom information is available. This production is so perfect that the three dimensional structure of the microscopic intruder and the three dimensional structure of the weapon fully match each other. This accord is like that between a key and its lock.
Antibodies advance towards the enemy and clamp tightly on it. After this stage, the enemy is neutralised like a tank that has its treads, cannon and gun destroyed. Afterwards, other members of the immune system come and eliminate the neutralised enemy.
Here, there is a very important point to consider: there are millions of types of enemy that the immune system will confront. B cells can produce an appropriate weapon for all types of enemy no matter what they are. This means that the immune system innately has the knowledge and capability to produce the keys appropriate to millions of different types of locks. These unconscious cells have the ability to make millions of types of antibodies, and their using it in the best way proves the existence of a creation by the Owner of an exalted power.
Furthermore, the system is more sophisticated. As B cells destroy the enemy with ballistic weapons, T cytotoxic cells also fight a tough war against the enemy. When some viruses enter a cell, they can hide from the weapons produced by the B cells. The T cytotoxic cells find the diseased cells in which this camouflaged enemy hides and destroy them.
AFTER THE VICTORY
After the enemy is defeated, the T suppressor cells swing into action. These cells give the army of defense the command to cease fire, and cause the T cytotoxic and B cells to stop their activities. Thus, the body does not carry on in a state of mobilisation in vain. After the war is over, most of the T and B cells produced specifically for the war complete their lifecycle and die. This tough war, however, is not to be forgotten. Before the war, a short time passed while the enemy was identified and the necessary preparations made. If the enemy ever comes back, the body will be much better prepared. A group of memory cells, which have come to know the features of the enemy, will constantly serve in the immune system in future. In a possible second attack, the immune system, with the information in the memory cells, will have the means to react before the enemy gains force. The reason why we do not catch mumps or measles again, after we have once caught them, is because of the memory of our immune system.
WHO IS HE WHO CREATES THE SYSTEM?
After all the information we have examined, we have to take our time and think about how this perfect immune system to which we owe our lives has come to exist. There is a flawless plan at work. Everything needed for the operation of this plan is intact: macrophages, the pyrogen substance, the fever raising centre of the brain, the body’s fever raising mechanisms, B cells, T cells, weapons... How, then, has this perfect system come into being?
Not surprisingly, the theory of evolution, which proposes that living beings have come into being by coincidence, cannot explain how this complex system came about. The claim of the theory of evolution is that living beings and living systems have originated step-by-step by the accumulation of little coincidences. However, the immune system cannot by any means have originated "step-by-step". The reason is that in the case of the absence or malfunction of even one of the factors that make up the system, the system cannot work and the person could not survive. The system must have come into being completely and flawlessly with all its components intact. This reality renders the notion of "coincidence" meaningless.
Who, then, makes this plan? Who knows that the body’s fever must rise, and that only that way the energy needed by the army of defense will not be spent elsewhere? Is it the macrophages? Macrophages are merely tiny cells. They do not have the capacity to think. They are living organisms that obey an established superior order and that fulfil their duties.
Is it man? Certainly not. People are not even aware that such a perfect system is at work in their own bodies. However, this system, of which we are unaware, protects us from certain death.
It is obvious that the one who created the immune system, and who created the whole human body, should be a Creator Who has exalted knowledge and might. This Creator is Allah, Who has created the human body from a "drop of fluid".
Article Source: http://marketing.article24h.com/category/politics.html
Author: Harun Yahya
ABOUT THE AUTHOR, HARUN YAHYA
Born in Ankara in 1956, Adnan Oktar writes his books under the pen name of Harun Yahya. Ever since his university years, he has dedicated his life to telling of the existence and oneness of Almighty Allah, and to disseminating the moral values of the Qur'an. He has never wavered in the face of difficulties and despite oppression, still continues this intellectual struggle today exhibiting great patience and determination. For mor information pls visit: http://www.harunyahya.com/theauthor.php
The human body is surrounded by a great number of enemies and threats. These enemies are bacteria, viruses, and similar microscopic organisms. They exist everywhere; in the air we inhale, the water we drink, the food we eat, and the environment in which we live.
What most people are not aware of is that the human body has an excellent army, the immune system, which fights against enemies. This is a real army made up of many "soldiers" and "officials" with different assignments, who are specially trained, employ high technology and fight with conventional and chemical weapons.
Every day, even every minute, a permanent war is fought between this army and the enemy forces, but away from our knowledge. This war can also be in the form of minor, local skirmishes as well as battles in which the whole body is involved and alarmed. We call these battles "diseases".
The general conduct of this war almost never changes. The enemy attempts to fool the other side by camouflaging itself when intruding into the body. The trained investigative forces are assigned by the defense to identify the enemies. The enemies are identified and appropriate weapons are produced to exterminate them. Then there is close contact, the defeat of the enemy, cease-fire, and clearance of the battleground. Last, there is storage of every type of information about the enemy as a precaution against the possibility of a later attack....
Now let us examine this interesting war closer.
THE BESIEGED CASTLE: THE HUMAN BODY
We can liken the human body to a castle besieged by enemies. The enemies look for various ways to invade this castle. The human skin is the wall of this castle.
The substance of keratin in the cells of the skin is an impassable barrier for bacteria and fungi. Foreign substances that reach the skin cannot pass through this wall. Moreover, although the outer layer of skin that contains keratin is continuously rubbed off, it is renewed by skin growing from beneath. Thus, all unwanted guests that have squeezed between the skin are ejected from the body together with dead skin, during renewal of the skin from inwards to outwards. The enemy can only make its way in through a wound that is inflicted on the skin.
THE FRONT LINE
One of the ways through which viruses enter the body is air. The enemy pushes its way to the body through the air inhaled. However, a special secretion in the nasal mucous membrane and cell-swallowing defense elements in the lungs (phagocytes) meet these enemies and take control of the situation before the danger grows. Digestive enzymes in the stomach acid and small intestine eliminate a great number of the microbes that seek to enter the body through food.
THE CLASH OF THE ENEMIES
There are some microbes that have settled in various parts of the human body (such as skin, skin folds, mouth, nose, eye, upper respiratory canals, digestive canal, the genitals) yet do not cause illness.
When a foreign microbe enters the body, these domestic microbes - thinking that their habitation would be invaded- and not wishing to give way to the foreigners who invade their habitation - fight strenuously. We can define them as professional soldiers. They try to protect their territory for their own ends. Thus, the complex army in our body is reinforced by these micro supports.
STEP BY STEP TO HOT WAR
If a microscopic intruder entering the body can overcome defense elements on guard and bacteria serving as soldiers, it causes war to begin with. After that, the body, with its ordered army, fights a perfect offence-defense war against this foreign army.
The war fought by the defense system is comprised of four parts:
1. Identification of the enemy.
2. The fortification of defenses and the preparation of offensive weapons.
3. Attack and battle.
4. Retreat to normal state.
The cells that first meet the enemy units are macrophage cells that make "phagocytosis", i.e., that engulf the enemy. These cells are involved in close contact with the enemy, and fight a hand-to-hand war. They are just like infantrymen who fight a bayonet war against enemy units and struggle at the distant front line of the army.
Moreover, macrophages function as intelligence units, or as the secret service of an army. They hold one portion of the enemy they destroy. This portion is used to identify the enemy’s identity and to determine its features. Macrophages pass this portion to another intelligence unit, messenger-T cells.
GENERAL ALARM
When a country is involved in war, a general mobilisation is declared. Most of the natural resources and the budget are spent on war expenses. The economy is re-arranged according to this extraordinary situation and the country is involved in total action. In a war, which the defensive army of the body will fight as a whole, mobilisation is also declared. Do you wonder how?
If the enemy is more than they can handle, the cavalcades (macrophages) that launch an attack secrete a special substance. The name of this substance is "pyrogen" and it is a kind of alarm call. After travelling a long way, "pyrogen" reaches the brain and stimulates the fever-increasing centre of the brain. Following this stimulation, the brain sets off alarms in the body and the person develops a high fever. The patient with a high fever naturally feels a need to rest. Thus, the energy needed by the defense army is not spent elsewhere. As seen, there exists an extremely complex plan and design at work.
THE ORDERED ARMY SWINGS INTO ACTION
The war between the microscopic intruder and the immune system becomes more complicated after mobilisation, that is, your falling ill in bed. At this stage, infantrymen (phagocytes) and cavalrymen (macrophages) have proved insufficient, the whole body is alarmed, and the war becomes heated. At this stage, lymphocytes - (T and B cells) - intervene.
Cavalrymen (macrophages) pass the information they have on the enemy to T helper cells. These cells summon T cytotoxic and B cells to the battleground. These are the most effective fighters of the immune system.
WEAPONRY PRODUCTION
As soon as B cells receive information about the enemy, they start producing weapons. These weapons, just like ballistic missiles, are only produced to hit the enemy on whom information is available. This production is so perfect that the three dimensional structure of the microscopic intruder and the three dimensional structure of the weapon fully match each other. This accord is like that between a key and its lock.
Antibodies advance towards the enemy and clamp tightly on it. After this stage, the enemy is neutralised like a tank that has its treads, cannon and gun destroyed. Afterwards, other members of the immune system come and eliminate the neutralised enemy.
Here, there is a very important point to consider: there are millions of types of enemy that the immune system will confront. B cells can produce an appropriate weapon for all types of enemy no matter what they are. This means that the immune system innately has the knowledge and capability to produce the keys appropriate to millions of different types of locks. These unconscious cells have the ability to make millions of types of antibodies, and their using it in the best way proves the existence of a creation by the Owner of an exalted power.
Furthermore, the system is more sophisticated. As B cells destroy the enemy with ballistic weapons, T cytotoxic cells also fight a tough war against the enemy. When some viruses enter a cell, they can hide from the weapons produced by the B cells. The T cytotoxic cells find the diseased cells in which this camouflaged enemy hides and destroy them.
AFTER THE VICTORY
After the enemy is defeated, the T suppressor cells swing into action. These cells give the army of defense the command to cease fire, and cause the T cytotoxic and B cells to stop their activities. Thus, the body does not carry on in a state of mobilisation in vain. After the war is over, most of the T and B cells produced specifically for the war complete their lifecycle and die. This tough war, however, is not to be forgotten. Before the war, a short time passed while the enemy was identified and the necessary preparations made. If the enemy ever comes back, the body will be much better prepared. A group of memory cells, which have come to know the features of the enemy, will constantly serve in the immune system in future. In a possible second attack, the immune system, with the information in the memory cells, will have the means to react before the enemy gains force. The reason why we do not catch mumps or measles again, after we have once caught them, is because of the memory of our immune system.
WHO IS HE WHO CREATES THE SYSTEM?
After all the information we have examined, we have to take our time and think about how this perfect immune system to which we owe our lives has come to exist. There is a flawless plan at work. Everything needed for the operation of this plan is intact: macrophages, the pyrogen substance, the fever raising centre of the brain, the body’s fever raising mechanisms, B cells, T cells, weapons... How, then, has this perfect system come into being?
Not surprisingly, the theory of evolution, which proposes that living beings have come into being by coincidence, cannot explain how this complex system came about. The claim of the theory of evolution is that living beings and living systems have originated step-by-step by the accumulation of little coincidences. However, the immune system cannot by any means have originated "step-by-step". The reason is that in the case of the absence or malfunction of even one of the factors that make up the system, the system cannot work and the person could not survive. The system must have come into being completely and flawlessly with all its components intact. This reality renders the notion of "coincidence" meaningless.
Who, then, makes this plan? Who knows that the body’s fever must rise, and that only that way the energy needed by the army of defense will not be spent elsewhere? Is it the macrophages? Macrophages are merely tiny cells. They do not have the capacity to think. They are living organisms that obey an established superior order and that fulfil their duties.
Is it man? Certainly not. People are not even aware that such a perfect system is at work in their own bodies. However, this system, of which we are unaware, protects us from certain death.
It is obvious that the one who created the immune system, and who created the whole human body, should be a Creator Who has exalted knowledge and might. This Creator is Allah, Who has created the human body from a "drop of fluid".
Article Source: http://marketing.article24h.com/category/politics.html
Author: Harun Yahya
ABOUT THE AUTHOR, HARUN YAHYA
Born in Ankara in 1956, Adnan Oktar writes his books under the pen name of Harun Yahya. Ever since his university years, he has dedicated his life to telling of the existence and oneness of Almighty Allah, and to disseminating the moral values of the Qur'an. He has never wavered in the face of difficulties and despite oppression, still continues this intellectual struggle today exhibiting great patience and determination. For mor information pls visit: http://www.harunyahya.com/theauthor.php
Government Grants For Women - Winning Tactics
You have arrived here to read this because you are looking for more information on getting government grants for women? Most experts would agree that this has to be one of the most ideal financial ways to create your business by using grant money. The trend seems to be toward the giving of grants to those who start their own small businesses while also contributing to the economy at large. The federal government will give Business grants to people who qualify. Since they don't have to be paid back grants differ from loans.
Choose a Business Loan Or Business Grant?
Another differing point about grants is that they don't specify credit checks, collateral, security deposits or co-signers. Most of the time what IS required from you is to send them periodic progress reports which will inform them on the progress of your specified goals as found in your application. This is to make sure funds are being used as previously specified. Look into the links presented in the resource box if you want more information on this.
Women's Business Grants Defined
Women can run a business outside of the home or a home-based business by utilizing business grants. They can be used to:
1) Start a new or expand an existing business. 2) Equipment financing. 3) Acquisition of a new or existing business. 4) Office Rent. 5) Salaries and related expenses. 6) Office expenses and overhead.
Encouraging business growth and promoting woman small business owners is who these are generally given to. Keep in mind you have to be at least 18 years old to be eligible.
Purpose Of Governments Grants
One great way to turn the dreams of an entrepreneur into reality and support a business idea is to use a grant. The types of grants offered by the government include but are not limited to:
1) Housing grants. 2) Education grants. 3) Individual grants for personal necessities. 4) Business grants for starting a new business.
Keep in mind that the listed grant types were just a small sample of the whole. The end of this article has a resource box that can be followed for more information.
Business Women And Business Grants
There are grants for women to buy existing businesses. Another way to qualify for a government grant is to excel in your respective field. Attending business school is another great reason to qualify for a grant. Keep in mind that you do NOT have to repay a business grant to the funding agency or the government.
Women And Government Grants
Studies have shown that up to seventy five percent of women small business owners tend to be successful. Add that to the fact that as a group when applying for government grants women have the biggest advantage. In fact specifically earmarked for women are several business grant types. Small business grant funding does come with some limitations that haven't been discussed here. For a lot more information on this and grants in whole see the resource box. Just remember you may have to go in front of a foundation or a governing council's grant board to get your funding. Small price to pay for your self employment isn't it? When are you going to get started?
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Author: James Redder
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Choose a Business Loan Or Business Grant?
Another differing point about grants is that they don't specify credit checks, collateral, security deposits or co-signers. Most of the time what IS required from you is to send them periodic progress reports which will inform them on the progress of your specified goals as found in your application. This is to make sure funds are being used as previously specified. Look into the links presented in the resource box if you want more information on this.
Women's Business Grants Defined
Women can run a business outside of the home or a home-based business by utilizing business grants. They can be used to:
1) Start a new or expand an existing business. 2) Equipment financing. 3) Acquisition of a new or existing business. 4) Office Rent. 5) Salaries and related expenses. 6) Office expenses and overhead.
Encouraging business growth and promoting woman small business owners is who these are generally given to. Keep in mind you have to be at least 18 years old to be eligible.
Purpose Of Governments Grants
One great way to turn the dreams of an entrepreneur into reality and support a business idea is to use a grant. The types of grants offered by the government include but are not limited to:
1) Housing grants. 2) Education grants. 3) Individual grants for personal necessities. 4) Business grants for starting a new business.
Keep in mind that the listed grant types were just a small sample of the whole. The end of this article has a resource box that can be followed for more information.
Business Women And Business Grants
There are grants for women to buy existing businesses. Another way to qualify for a government grant is to excel in your respective field. Attending business school is another great reason to qualify for a grant. Keep in mind that you do NOT have to repay a business grant to the funding agency or the government.
Women And Government Grants
Studies have shown that up to seventy five percent of women small business owners tend to be successful. Add that to the fact that as a group when applying for government grants women have the biggest advantage. In fact specifically earmarked for women are several business grant types. Small business grant funding does come with some limitations that haven't been discussed here. For a lot more information on this and grants in whole see the resource box. Just remember you may have to go in front of a foundation or a governing council's grant board to get your funding. Small price to pay for your self employment isn't it? When are you going to get started?
Article Source: http://marketing.article24h.com/category/politics.html
Author: James Redder
James Redder sells a Government Grants For Women e-book. If you liked the government grants for women info, why not purchase the powerful info that will HELP you NOW? Goto Government Grants.
Lt. Michael P. Murphy
The Congressional Medal of Honor is perhaps the single most fitting tribute to our heroes of war. Having special significance among Navy SEALs this Medal of Honor serves to pay homage to all war veterans. One such leading man killed during Operation Redwing was Lt. Michael P. Murphy.
That fated day
It was during a special operation conducted in Afghanistan that Lt. Michael P. Murphy was killed during his Navy SEAL mission. He was leading a SEAL team comprising 4 members and it was on June 28th in the year 2005 that “Murph” or Murphy breathed his last. The team of 4 members comprised of the following members: Matthew G Axeson, Marcus Luttrell, Danny P. Dietz and Lt. Michael P. Murphy.
The task at hand
The task of the 4 member SEAL team was to try and locate an important and strategic leader of the Taliban. They were on their Navy SEAL operation located at a strategic tactical location when they encountered heavy enemy firing. This 4 man team bore the brunt of the firing without submitting to them or giving up. In addition to the heavy enemy firing a heavy grenade propelled by a rocket was hurled at the team. All died except Hospital Corpsman Second Class Marcus Luttrell. Soon after the grenade exploded all the team members were hurled into a ravine while being thrown over a massive ledge.
The killing rampage
Soon after the grenade was exploded, a rescue helicopter was immediately dispatched to the site to help save any survivors. However even the plane which had over 16 rescue members were all shot down with a rocket fire. All people on board were instantly killed. This massive killing spree caused one of the biggest and most devastating losses of life in the Navy SEALs mission Operation Enduring Freedom.
Risking his life
Lt. Michael P. Murphy was already in a very bad state, having suffered severe injuries on account of the grenade explosion. However, in spite of all his injuries he decided to touch base and establish a comms signal with the SEAL base. He advanced into the open ground, not caring for his life and also testing his level of Navy SEALs fitness in the process. He was instantly targeted with numerous fire shots by the enemy and in spite of heavy bleeding he managed to relay his position and ask for instant fire support from the SEAL base.
The recognition
It was on the day of October 11th in the year 2007 that the Whitehouse announced the posthumous award of Congressional Medal of Honor to Lt. Michael P. Murphy. The courage that Lt. Michael P. Murphy showed coupled with his immense bravery and presence of mind even during such a strenuous Navy SEALs mission just goes to show the kind of dedication this Lieutenant had for our country.
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Author: James Kara Murat
This Article is written by James Kara Murat from USNavySEALstore.com, the contributor of US Navy SEALs Information Portal. A longer version of this article is located at Lt. Michael P. Murphy, and related resources can be found at US Navy SEALs Store
That fated day
It was during a special operation conducted in Afghanistan that Lt. Michael P. Murphy was killed during his Navy SEAL mission. He was leading a SEAL team comprising 4 members and it was on June 28th in the year 2005 that “Murph” or Murphy breathed his last. The team of 4 members comprised of the following members: Matthew G Axeson, Marcus Luttrell, Danny P. Dietz and Lt. Michael P. Murphy.
The task at hand
The task of the 4 member SEAL team was to try and locate an important and strategic leader of the Taliban. They were on their Navy SEAL operation located at a strategic tactical location when they encountered heavy enemy firing. This 4 man team bore the brunt of the firing without submitting to them or giving up. In addition to the heavy enemy firing a heavy grenade propelled by a rocket was hurled at the team. All died except Hospital Corpsman Second Class Marcus Luttrell. Soon after the grenade exploded all the team members were hurled into a ravine while being thrown over a massive ledge.
The killing rampage
Soon after the grenade was exploded, a rescue helicopter was immediately dispatched to the site to help save any survivors. However even the plane which had over 16 rescue members were all shot down with a rocket fire. All people on board were instantly killed. This massive killing spree caused one of the biggest and most devastating losses of life in the Navy SEALs mission Operation Enduring Freedom.
Risking his life
Lt. Michael P. Murphy was already in a very bad state, having suffered severe injuries on account of the grenade explosion. However, in spite of all his injuries he decided to touch base and establish a comms signal with the SEAL base. He advanced into the open ground, not caring for his life and also testing his level of Navy SEALs fitness in the process. He was instantly targeted with numerous fire shots by the enemy and in spite of heavy bleeding he managed to relay his position and ask for instant fire support from the SEAL base.
The recognition
It was on the day of October 11th in the year 2007 that the Whitehouse announced the posthumous award of Congressional Medal of Honor to Lt. Michael P. Murphy. The courage that Lt. Michael P. Murphy showed coupled with his immense bravery and presence of mind even during such a strenuous Navy SEALs mission just goes to show the kind of dedication this Lieutenant had for our country.
Article Source: http://marketing.article24h.com/category/politics.html
Author: James Kara Murat
This Article is written by James Kara Murat from USNavySEALstore.com, the contributor of US Navy SEALs Information Portal. A longer version of this article is located at Lt. Michael P. Murphy, and related resources can be found at US Navy SEALs Store
Virgos Like Obama, Pisces Support Clinton
Other surveyed factors showed similarly unusual patterns among the Democratic candidates’ supporters. Barack Obama has the most numerous group of single supporters. On the other hand, married couples and those in a relationship seem to prefer John Edwards and Hillary Clinton, according to the survey.
When it comes to race, twenty-four percent of Hillary Clinton`s online supporters are Asian, the largest popularity percentage registered among Asian people for a Democratic candidate. Black, Middle Eastern, and white Americans prefer Edwards. Obama has more Hispanic supporters than the other Democratic front runners.
When it comes to religion, Edwards seems to be the candidate of choice among those who consider themselves rather religious. The South Carolina candidate has more religious supporters in his groups of online friends than the other two Democratic front runners. By contrast, Hillary Clinton seems to be very popular among declared Agnostics and Atheists.
Among those who described their religious beliefs, Catholics seem to prefer Edwards as their top candidate, followed by Obama and Clinton. However, Obama seems to be the favorite among Evangelic Christians, who prefer him over Edwards.
Those who don`t have children tend to be supporters of Hillary Clinton, while John Edwards registered the highest percentage of supporters among those with children.
When it comes to the education of their supporters, Hillary Clinton seems to garner the most support from educated voters. She is, followed by John Edwards and Barack Obama.
Interestingly, the zodiac sign may also play a role in voters’ preferences. Clinton supporters tend to be Libra, Capricorn, Aquarius, Pisces, and Cancer. Obama counts on those who are a Taurus, Gemini, Leo, Virgo, or Scorpio to support him. The largest group of Edwards` supporters are Aries and Sagittarius. To read the rest of this article, go to Project Weight Loss, an online weight loss community featuring calorie counter, carbs counter, BMI calculator, diet planner, workout planner and other weight loss tools.
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Author: Andrea Pelin
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When it comes to race, twenty-four percent of Hillary Clinton`s online supporters are Asian, the largest popularity percentage registered among Asian people for a Democratic candidate. Black, Middle Eastern, and white Americans prefer Edwards. Obama has more Hispanic supporters than the other Democratic front runners.
When it comes to religion, Edwards seems to be the candidate of choice among those who consider themselves rather religious. The South Carolina candidate has more religious supporters in his groups of online friends than the other two Democratic front runners. By contrast, Hillary Clinton seems to be very popular among declared Agnostics and Atheists.
Among those who described their religious beliefs, Catholics seem to prefer Edwards as their top candidate, followed by Obama and Clinton. However, Obama seems to be the favorite among Evangelic Christians, who prefer him over Edwards.
Those who don`t have children tend to be supporters of Hillary Clinton, while John Edwards registered the highest percentage of supporters among those with children.
When it comes to the education of their supporters, Hillary Clinton seems to garner the most support from educated voters. She is, followed by John Edwards and Barack Obama.
Interestingly, the zodiac sign may also play a role in voters’ preferences. Clinton supporters tend to be Libra, Capricorn, Aquarius, Pisces, and Cancer. Obama counts on those who are a Taurus, Gemini, Leo, Virgo, or Scorpio to support him. The largest group of Edwards` supporters are Aries and Sagittarius. To read the rest of this article, go to Project Weight Loss, an online weight loss community featuring calorie counter, carbs counter, BMI calculator, diet planner, workout planner and other weight loss tools.
Article Source: http://marketing.article24h.com/category/politics.html
Author: Andrea Pelin
For free weight loss tools and diets, visit ProjectWeightLoss, a growing weight loss community featuring BMI calculator, calorie counter, carbs counter, diet planner, workout planner, and many other weight loss tools. Visit ProjectWeightLoss and start losing weight today!
America: the Presidents, the Politics and the Wars
The United States of America used to pride itself on a reputation for diplomacy and integrity. The world's largest economy, land of the capitalist dream. Immigrants would flock to America looking for their chance in life, looking to make a go of it all for their family. Then something went wrong. The global perception of the US changed, and suddenly the ethical and moral high ground was destroyed by needless bloodshed and political interference beyond the scope of their global role.
The Vietnam war - a tragedy of greed and senseless aggression. Vietnam wasn't an American war, yet it was this involvement that started the cycle of distrust and negative feeling towards the United States and everything it stood for. And that's not to mention the horrendous loss of life, and the destruction of lives caused by politically motivated violence. You'd think we'd learn our lesson, huh?
In 2003, George W. Bush with the support of Tony Blair sent hundreds of thousands of troops to invade Iraq on the premise of 'illegal weapons programmes' and 'imminent threats'. A chip off the old block, some would say. George H. W. Bush's invasion of 1990 failed to overthrow the regime or gain control of the wealth of oil in Iraq. His son was more fortunate.
One of the most controversial American authors of our time, Bob Miller has been a staunch campaigner against the Bush administrations of now and then, since back in 1976. A Veteran of the Vietnam war, Miller has been cast as a pariah, a renegade, and has even been taken into custody by the US Secret Service for his outspoken approach to American politics. Nevertheless Miller has continued his relentless attack on the Bush regime and everything it stands for, traveling the country to deliver his opinions on the real motives of the Bush family.
A Republican himself, Miller is no stranger to the world of political activism. Yet his controversial branding in the mainstream media has seen him cast aside as yet another extremist, unpatriotic and senseless. However, with his latest book "Kill Me If You Can, You SOB", Miller aims to express the true horrors of the Vietnam war, without descending into the same old 'this and that' of the Bush dynasty and their own brand of extremism.
Without forming opinions for the reader or giving a blow by blow account of the war and the politics behind it, Miller's latest effort is based on diary entries from his time in the war, telling the tale more graphically than could otherwise be possible of the horrors behind the wars and foreign policy of the Bush administrations.
As Miller was quoted as saying, "Bush has spent the lives of thousands of young Americans and billions of dollars for oil, not terrorists, and everyone knew it. To have participated in this needless savagery in any way is not only hypocritical, it's blasphemous. And to blame the son, and not the father, is like blaming the puppet, not the puppeteer. Like his father Prescott Bush, George H.W. Bush's epitaph should read, 'Here lies incomprehensible evil.'"
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Author: Nick Carter
Nick Carter is a veteran who had served the US Marines. He have written articles on Vietnam war and against the wars forced by Americans. He is a great admirer of Bob Miller, America's most controversial writer and author of Kill Me If You Can, You SOB.
The Vietnam war - a tragedy of greed and senseless aggression. Vietnam wasn't an American war, yet it was this involvement that started the cycle of distrust and negative feeling towards the United States and everything it stood for. And that's not to mention the horrendous loss of life, and the destruction of lives caused by politically motivated violence. You'd think we'd learn our lesson, huh?
In 2003, George W. Bush with the support of Tony Blair sent hundreds of thousands of troops to invade Iraq on the premise of 'illegal weapons programmes' and 'imminent threats'. A chip off the old block, some would say. George H. W. Bush's invasion of 1990 failed to overthrow the regime or gain control of the wealth of oil in Iraq. His son was more fortunate.
One of the most controversial American authors of our time, Bob Miller has been a staunch campaigner against the Bush administrations of now and then, since back in 1976. A Veteran of the Vietnam war, Miller has been cast as a pariah, a renegade, and has even been taken into custody by the US Secret Service for his outspoken approach to American politics. Nevertheless Miller has continued his relentless attack on the Bush regime and everything it stands for, traveling the country to deliver his opinions on the real motives of the Bush family.
A Republican himself, Miller is no stranger to the world of political activism. Yet his controversial branding in the mainstream media has seen him cast aside as yet another extremist, unpatriotic and senseless. However, with his latest book "Kill Me If You Can, You SOB", Miller aims to express the true horrors of the Vietnam war, without descending into the same old 'this and that' of the Bush dynasty and their own brand of extremism.
Without forming opinions for the reader or giving a blow by blow account of the war and the politics behind it, Miller's latest effort is based on diary entries from his time in the war, telling the tale more graphically than could otherwise be possible of the horrors behind the wars and foreign policy of the Bush administrations.
As Miller was quoted as saying, "Bush has spent the lives of thousands of young Americans and billions of dollars for oil, not terrorists, and everyone knew it. To have participated in this needless savagery in any way is not only hypocritical, it's blasphemous. And to blame the son, and not the father, is like blaming the puppet, not the puppeteer. Like his father Prescott Bush, George H.W. Bush's epitaph should read, 'Here lies incomprehensible evil.'"
Article Source: http://marketing.article24h.com/category/politics.html
Author: Nick Carter
Nick Carter is a veteran who had served the US Marines. He have written articles on Vietnam war and against the wars forced by Americans. He is a great admirer of Bob Miller, America's most controversial writer and author of Kill Me If You Can, You SOB.
No Justice in Texas
To all Texans, Americans and anybody else in the WHOLE WORLD that cannot stand corruption, please read this piece. This is non-fiction.
The State Bar of Texas AND Texas politicians are the most corrupt in the US. The State Bar of Texas refuses to discipline attorneys who commit serious crimes such as forgery and insurance fraud. Texas politicians including Governor Rick Perry refuse to interfere, although by law they can force the State Bar to uphold Texas law. Dishonest attorneys run amok and unfazed in Texas practicing with clean records and defrauding their clients, because they know nothing will happen to them. I was told the State Bar of Texas is like a country club for attorneys, and it turned out to be true.
I was defrauded by attorney Ilene Smoger of Dallas, TX. Twice, thanks to the corruption at the State Bar of Texas. I hired Ms. Smoger to be my attorney after a car accident. I went to see a chiropractic clinic, Moses Chiropractic Clinic, and Lee Moses referred me to his very good friend attorney Ilene Smoger. After I hired her, they engaged in insurance fraud by double-billing both my car and health insurance for the same services. When the first insurance check arrived, she told me to endorse it to the chiropractors. The check was already at their clinic. That is fraud. That check was to cover my medical bills. Later I found out this information, and that because of the amount involved and the severity of the crime - insurance fraud - by law Ms. Smoger should be disbarred and sent to jail. At the time in Texas, insurance fraud involving an amount between $2,000.00 and $10,000 was called a state-jail felony and carried jail time, up to a year. I filed a complaint with the State bar against Ms. Smoger. We had a hearing. I brought all the evidence showing she defrauded me and committed insurance fraud. The investigative panel stated in clear terms she took my money. Ms. Smoger left the hearing in tears. Then the State Bar of Texas sent me a letter saying Ms. Smoger didn’t do anything wrong. According to the State Bar of Texas, an attorney who defrauds her client and commits insurance fraud and serious crimes that deserve disbarment and prison time IS NOT DOING ANYTHING WRONG. I was forced to keep her as one of my attorneys although she was no longer representing me.
The next insurance check Ms. Smoger defrauded me was for a much larger amount. This time, the attorneys simply FORGED my signature on the back of the check and cashed it. They kept all the money. Again, the State Bar of Texas AND Texas politicians, most notably Senator Florence Shapiro, don’t think that attorneys who forge their clients’ signatures on the back of insurance checks, cash those checks and keep all the money, are doing anything wrong.
Ms. Ilene Smoger continues to practice law in Dallas, TX with a clean record. She used to be the President of the North Dallas Bar Association. Her firm also has offices in California.
What does it take for an attorney to be disbarred in Texas? If committing serious crimes and felonies is not enough to get an attorney disbarred, then what? The public cannot trust a State Bar and the politicians that run that State when those politicians and State Bar refuse to uphold the law. Are attorneys in Texas above the law? Is it true that the State Bar of Texas is nothing but a country club for lawyers and not being disciplined and/or disbarred and/or sent to jail for their crimes is one of the membership benefits? If that is the case, then nobody is safe to hire an attorney in Texas.
The State Bar of Texas recently sent a letter to Pakistan to demand they uphold the law. I think it is extremely hypocritical for the State Bar of Texas to write to anybody else in the world demanding they uphold their laws when the State Bar of Texas and Texas politicians refuse to uphold Texas law. Perhaps the Pakistani government could send a letter to the State Bar of Texas, another one to Governor Rick Perry, and a third one to a previous Texas governor who now sits on the White House as President of the United States of America, and demand that the State bar of Texas and Texas politicians uphold Texas law.
I have a blog in which I’m posting all the materials about this case. I already posted copies of both insurance checks attorney Ilene Smoger defrauded me. The blog is http://nojusticeintexas.blogspot.com . I also have a you tube blog, but for the moment I don’t have a video. Important links are www.texasbar.com where you can see the Texas Rules of Disciplinary Procedure and Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct. First look in the section to the left that says Client Assistance & Grievance. Click there and at the bottom of the page you’ll see pdf documents of the Rules.
The new Executive Director of the State Bar of Texas is Gib Walton. You may want to email him and ask why is that the State Bar of Texas refuses to discipline attorneys who commit insurance fraud and forgery. You may email Governor Rick Perry and Senator Florence Shapiro as well with that question. Be advised that Senator Florence Shapiro is married to attorney Howard Shapiro and she herself refuses to uphold the law.
The State Bar of Texas is running a contest on you tube about justice for Texans. Ironic, to say the least, because there is no justice in Texas.
Courtesy of the State Bar of Texas.
To call Texas a Banana Republic is offensive to Banana Republics all over the world, because they are not as corrupt as Texas.
This case is not only about me. It’s about everybody who will ever see an attorney and trust that a clean record for an attorney means that attorney is honest, and not simply well-connected.
Article Source: http://marketing.article24h.com/category/politics.html
Author: Deedee
The State Bar of Texas AND Texas politicians are the most corrupt in the US. The State Bar of Texas refuses to discipline attorneys who commit serious crimes such as forgery and insurance fraud. Texas politicians including Governor Rick Perry refuse to interfere, although by law they can force the State Bar to uphold Texas law. Dishonest attorneys run amok and unfazed in Texas practicing with clean records and defrauding their clients, because they know nothing will happen to them. I was told the State Bar of Texas is like a country club for attorneys, and it turned out to be true.
I was defrauded by attorney Ilene Smoger of Dallas, TX. Twice, thanks to the corruption at the State Bar of Texas. I hired Ms. Smoger to be my attorney after a car accident. I went to see a chiropractic clinic, Moses Chiropractic Clinic, and Lee Moses referred me to his very good friend attorney Ilene Smoger. After I hired her, they engaged in insurance fraud by double-billing both my car and health insurance for the same services. When the first insurance check arrived, she told me to endorse it to the chiropractors. The check was already at their clinic. That is fraud. That check was to cover my medical bills. Later I found out this information, and that because of the amount involved and the severity of the crime - insurance fraud - by law Ms. Smoger should be disbarred and sent to jail. At the time in Texas, insurance fraud involving an amount between $2,000.00 and $10,000 was called a state-jail felony and carried jail time, up to a year. I filed a complaint with the State bar against Ms. Smoger. We had a hearing. I brought all the evidence showing she defrauded me and committed insurance fraud. The investigative panel stated in clear terms she took my money. Ms. Smoger left the hearing in tears. Then the State Bar of Texas sent me a letter saying Ms. Smoger didn’t do anything wrong. According to the State Bar of Texas, an attorney who defrauds her client and commits insurance fraud and serious crimes that deserve disbarment and prison time IS NOT DOING ANYTHING WRONG. I was forced to keep her as one of my attorneys although she was no longer representing me.
The next insurance check Ms. Smoger defrauded me was for a much larger amount. This time, the attorneys simply FORGED my signature on the back of the check and cashed it. They kept all the money. Again, the State Bar of Texas AND Texas politicians, most notably Senator Florence Shapiro, don’t think that attorneys who forge their clients’ signatures on the back of insurance checks, cash those checks and keep all the money, are doing anything wrong.
Ms. Ilene Smoger continues to practice law in Dallas, TX with a clean record. She used to be the President of the North Dallas Bar Association. Her firm also has offices in California.
What does it take for an attorney to be disbarred in Texas? If committing serious crimes and felonies is not enough to get an attorney disbarred, then what? The public cannot trust a State Bar and the politicians that run that State when those politicians and State Bar refuse to uphold the law. Are attorneys in Texas above the law? Is it true that the State Bar of Texas is nothing but a country club for lawyers and not being disciplined and/or disbarred and/or sent to jail for their crimes is one of the membership benefits? If that is the case, then nobody is safe to hire an attorney in Texas.
The State Bar of Texas recently sent a letter to Pakistan to demand they uphold the law. I think it is extremely hypocritical for the State Bar of Texas to write to anybody else in the world demanding they uphold their laws when the State Bar of Texas and Texas politicians refuse to uphold Texas law. Perhaps the Pakistani government could send a letter to the State Bar of Texas, another one to Governor Rick Perry, and a third one to a previous Texas governor who now sits on the White House as President of the United States of America, and demand that the State bar of Texas and Texas politicians uphold Texas law.
I have a blog in which I’m posting all the materials about this case. I already posted copies of both insurance checks attorney Ilene Smoger defrauded me. The blog is http://nojusticeintexas.blogspot.com . I also have a you tube blog, but for the moment I don’t have a video. Important links are www.texasbar.com where you can see the Texas Rules of Disciplinary Procedure and Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct. First look in the section to the left that says Client Assistance & Grievance. Click there and at the bottom of the page you’ll see pdf documents of the Rules.
The new Executive Director of the State Bar of Texas is Gib Walton. You may want to email him and ask why is that the State Bar of Texas refuses to discipline attorneys who commit insurance fraud and forgery. You may email Governor Rick Perry and Senator Florence Shapiro as well with that question. Be advised that Senator Florence Shapiro is married to attorney Howard Shapiro and she herself refuses to uphold the law.
The State Bar of Texas is running a contest on you tube about justice for Texans. Ironic, to say the least, because there is no justice in Texas.
Courtesy of the State Bar of Texas.
To call Texas a Banana Republic is offensive to Banana Republics all over the world, because they are not as corrupt as Texas.
This case is not only about me. It’s about everybody who will ever see an attorney and trust that a clean record for an attorney means that attorney is honest, and not simply well-connected.
Article Source: http://marketing.article24h.com/category/politics.html
Author: Deedee
Politics as Usual
We are beginning to approach the home stretch of the Presidential race with primary’s fast approaching. The first Caucus of 2008 will be in Iowa on January 3rd with the second on January 5th in Wyoming. Turn to any cable news station and you will likely find Barack Obama, Hilary Clinton, and Mike Huckabee sitting on set talking about why they deserve your vote. However most candidates only cater to a certain demographic and tailor their messages to the needs of the middle class. According to statistics most Americans that vote are from the middle class, are over 50 and are white Americans. Yet the ones that are most affected by the decisions made by these policy makers either don’t vote or are ignored by them all together. African-Americans, Hispanics, and poor people are usually the ones left to fend for themselves once the final votes have been tallied. In 2004 we saw a surge in minority and youth voters and 2008 presents an opportunity for us to build upon an already strong foundation.
Ask young minorities why they chose to stay away from voting polls and one will usually receive the same answer: My vote does not count. Unfortunately the needs of minorities have been ignored for so long that it seems pointless to vote if you are black or Hispanic. We all remember the debacle in Florida in 2001 and there were rumblings of voter fraud in 2004 in Ohio and Florida. There was such a strong push for change in 2004 that many young people who had never cast a vote in their lives decide to register and use their voice as a vehicle for change. More than 50% of African-American voters between the ages of 18-24 voted in the 2004 Presidential election. Even though the administration in the White House remained the same, there was reason to celebrate for many once the election was over. There is now an opportunity to show politicians that our votes count and we are to be included in the 2008 election. Yet we still have many politicians that choose to ignore minority and youth voters. Republican Presidential candidates Mitt Romney, Ruddy Giuliani, Mike Huckabee, Fred Thompson, and Senator John McCain decided not to show for popular African-American radio and talk show host Tavis Smiley’s All-American Presidential Forums on September 27th. Each candidate gave scheduling reasons as their excuse for not attending the forum, but most minorities saw it as a slap in the face. As a result of their absence we must ask the question, why should we vote for you if you don’t care about OUR issues?
In 2005 Hurricane Katrina destroyed the city of New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast. President Bush promised financial aid to the most devastated areas and that “America would not forget the great city of New Orleans.” Two years later the clean-up for Hurricane Katrina is still on-going, most of the city’s black residents have yet to return and the President has been slow to send funds to the area. The state of Louisiana found itself in another controversy in 2007 when 6 black high school students from Jena, LA were charged with attempted murder for fighting with a white classmate. The charges were eventually reduced, but only after many high profile celebrities and civil rights organizations became involved. One issue of vital importance to minorities is equal rights. We were not treated equally when Katrina hit and most feel the teenagers enthralled in the case in Jena, LA were treated unfairly as well. However the way to assert one’s voice when it needs to be heard is to vote. By giving away one of our most simple and precious rights, which is voting, we are silencing ourselves. Not voting sends the message that we do not care about our culture, our society and America as a whole. We must find the candidate that best represents our goals, what’s best for our society, and what’s best for America. That candidate must also be held in high regard and with lofty expectations and responsibility. If we fail to hold officials accountable for the promises that they make then we have failed ourselves and society.
It’s important that young people and minorities realize the power that they hold just by casting a single vote. No process or procedure will ever be perfect. We will always hear of voter fraud and crooked politicians. Since we cannot control the actions of others we must not allow their bad deeds dictate how we react to a situation. So one way of fixing what’s wrong in our community and culture is by voting for the candidate that will support our most pressing issues. We can do this by making sure more money goes toward education, leveraging our tax dollars so the money is placed back into our communities and most of all keep an open and honest line of communication with the community. We have to hold our end of the bargain as well by writing our officials in Congress, attending town hall meetings and keeping up with local official’s voting records.
With the 2008 Presidential election right around the corner, we have two choices. We can either sit in silence or stand and make noise.
Article Source: http://marketing.article24h.com/category/politics.html
Author: Jason Henry
Jason Henry started writing a few years ago with the angle of "sparking positive debate through writing." To enhance his writing skills and share his writing with the world, he started his own newsletter entitled "The Henry Project." A by product of the newsletter is his blog with the same name. Mr. Henry continues to provide his opinion on a number of issues facing America today. You can check out his blog at aanw.blogspot.com.
Ask young minorities why they chose to stay away from voting polls and one will usually receive the same answer: My vote does not count. Unfortunately the needs of minorities have been ignored for so long that it seems pointless to vote if you are black or Hispanic. We all remember the debacle in Florida in 2001 and there were rumblings of voter fraud in 2004 in Ohio and Florida. There was such a strong push for change in 2004 that many young people who had never cast a vote in their lives decide to register and use their voice as a vehicle for change. More than 50% of African-American voters between the ages of 18-24 voted in the 2004 Presidential election. Even though the administration in the White House remained the same, there was reason to celebrate for many once the election was over. There is now an opportunity to show politicians that our votes count and we are to be included in the 2008 election. Yet we still have many politicians that choose to ignore minority and youth voters. Republican Presidential candidates Mitt Romney, Ruddy Giuliani, Mike Huckabee, Fred Thompson, and Senator John McCain decided not to show for popular African-American radio and talk show host Tavis Smiley’s All-American Presidential Forums on September 27th. Each candidate gave scheduling reasons as their excuse for not attending the forum, but most minorities saw it as a slap in the face. As a result of their absence we must ask the question, why should we vote for you if you don’t care about OUR issues?
In 2005 Hurricane Katrina destroyed the city of New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast. President Bush promised financial aid to the most devastated areas and that “America would not forget the great city of New Orleans.” Two years later the clean-up for Hurricane Katrina is still on-going, most of the city’s black residents have yet to return and the President has been slow to send funds to the area. The state of Louisiana found itself in another controversy in 2007 when 6 black high school students from Jena, LA were charged with attempted murder for fighting with a white classmate. The charges were eventually reduced, but only after many high profile celebrities and civil rights organizations became involved. One issue of vital importance to minorities is equal rights. We were not treated equally when Katrina hit and most feel the teenagers enthralled in the case in Jena, LA were treated unfairly as well. However the way to assert one’s voice when it needs to be heard is to vote. By giving away one of our most simple and precious rights, which is voting, we are silencing ourselves. Not voting sends the message that we do not care about our culture, our society and America as a whole. We must find the candidate that best represents our goals, what’s best for our society, and what’s best for America. That candidate must also be held in high regard and with lofty expectations and responsibility. If we fail to hold officials accountable for the promises that they make then we have failed ourselves and society.
It’s important that young people and minorities realize the power that they hold just by casting a single vote. No process or procedure will ever be perfect. We will always hear of voter fraud and crooked politicians. Since we cannot control the actions of others we must not allow their bad deeds dictate how we react to a situation. So one way of fixing what’s wrong in our community and culture is by voting for the candidate that will support our most pressing issues. We can do this by making sure more money goes toward education, leveraging our tax dollars so the money is placed back into our communities and most of all keep an open and honest line of communication with the community. We have to hold our end of the bargain as well by writing our officials in Congress, attending town hall meetings and keeping up with local official’s voting records.
With the 2008 Presidential election right around the corner, we have two choices. We can either sit in silence or stand and make noise.
Article Source: http://marketing.article24h.com/category/politics.html
Author: Jason Henry
Jason Henry started writing a few years ago with the angle of "sparking positive debate through writing." To enhance his writing skills and share his writing with the world, he started his own newsletter entitled "The Henry Project." A by product of the newsletter is his blog with the same name. Mr. Henry continues to provide his opinion on a number of issues facing America today. You can check out his blog at aanw.blogspot.com.
A Lonely Socialist
A socialist is lonely because he realises that -
(a) God has given his power to, that God has shared his power with, God’s political friends, the state and capitalism, and that God hasn’t given his power to, shared his power with, the true nature of the political concept of socialism.
(b) He can't find any inspiration, any morality, in the ideology of existing parties which call themselves socialist.
(c) He wants to give the political concept of socialism morality, but doesn't find a willingness to give the political concept of socialism morality among existing parties which call themselves socialist.
(d) Existing parties which call themselves socialist never wanted to make a political friendship with a true socialist. For to make a political friendship with a true socialist, you would want to reveal the true nature of political reality and the true nature of the political concept of socialism as a premise, a starting point for political friendship. Existing parties which call themselves socialist never sought to do this, to reveal the true nature of political reality and the true nature of the political concept of socialism as a premise, a starting point, for making political friendship with a true socialist.
As such, a socialist is lonely, and thinks of the idea of the Lonely Peoples' Socialist Aparty as a means to trying to attain political friendship with another lonely socialist on the basis that you would want to reveal the true nature of political reality and the true nature of the political concept of socialism as a premise, a starting point, for political friendship.
Article Source: http://marketing.article24h.com/category/politics.html
Author: Lonelysocialist
(a) God has given his power to, that God has shared his power with, God’s political friends, the state and capitalism, and that God hasn’t given his power to, shared his power with, the true nature of the political concept of socialism.
(b) He can't find any inspiration, any morality, in the ideology of existing parties which call themselves socialist.
(c) He wants to give the political concept of socialism morality, but doesn't find a willingness to give the political concept of socialism morality among existing parties which call themselves socialist.
(d) Existing parties which call themselves socialist never wanted to make a political friendship with a true socialist. For to make a political friendship with a true socialist, you would want to reveal the true nature of political reality and the true nature of the political concept of socialism as a premise, a starting point for political friendship. Existing parties which call themselves socialist never sought to do this, to reveal the true nature of political reality and the true nature of the political concept of socialism as a premise, a starting point, for making political friendship with a true socialist.
As such, a socialist is lonely, and thinks of the idea of the Lonely Peoples' Socialist Aparty as a means to trying to attain political friendship with another lonely socialist on the basis that you would want to reveal the true nature of political reality and the true nature of the political concept of socialism as a premise, a starting point, for political friendship.
Article Source: http://marketing.article24h.com/category/politics.html
Author: Lonelysocialist
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