As I watched the documentary, Tar Sands a Reality Check, one post below, I listened to an interview with Premier Williams. In listening to the man speak about wealth and distribution, particularly oil, I thought he sounded spot on and should maybe be running the UN or some such. I googled the Premier and found this article, I thought the take they have on him is interesting.

 

 

Has Premier Williams Done More Harm than Good?

However, does this adversarial approach do more harm than good?

 

 

Washington policymakers considering a National Sales Tax

 

 

 

 

I think Rep. Paul is not only the bravest man in politics but maybe in America all together. I think the man should be head of the republican party at the least and deserved to have his face on the liberty coin. I would vote for him for President as long as the rumors of racists sympathies had no validity to them.

 

 

 

U.S. Raids Issuer of Ron Paul Coins

 

The basic problem, the briefer explains, is that human beings have not learned that everything is interconnected and "have not yet evolved into an understanding of their individual selves as merely part of a whole, first of all humanity, let alone achieving a conscious knowledge of humanity as a part of Nature."

 

Story here, USAtoday.com

 

To my humble way of thinking to read that in one of the richest nations in the history of human kind, citizens, (especially a child) of my country have to hold fundraisers to help fellow homeless citizens (especially children) would embarrass me.

 

If I am to understand and except the reality though I understand politicians do not do either embarrassment or shame well at all. Apologies and acknowledgment of errors is even rarer among this breed. Which essentially means most of them are without a conscience and could careless what happens to their fellow citizens. This goes a long way in explaining the state of affairs in the US right now.

 

It is a crying shame that numbers of homeless kids do to the so called war on drugs is so high. Nothing like predisposing coming generations to be in the justice system themselves by putting them in desperate situations so they more than likely will commit crimes which means the corporate-industrial prison business can continue to thrive...

 

I am no economics expert by any measure. I have a laymans grasp of some of the fundamentals of economic theories and principles. As limited as this is even I can see what is going on in and with the economy cannot be good. One thing I am certian of though is that if individual American citizens were using the accounting and budgeting techniques of the Federal Reserve, the Dept. of Treasury, the White House and the Congress the government would build more prisons to stop it. Therfore in my humble opinion the Fed's clearly have a do as I say not as I do attitude toward average Americans.

 

This attitude is so bad they have even made it harder for individuals in America to file for bankruptcy. Seems getting Americans out from under usurious credit card rates and predatory lending is to hard for the governemnt too. They even gleefully bury students in loan debt. There are so many taxes now I am waiting for them to tell us there will be a heart beat and breathing tax next. They'll give us all monitors and charge 2 cents per breath and 3 cents per heart beat.

 

The mountain ridges look better by the day is all I can say.

 

 

 

These roads cannot be good roads for humanity to be on...

 

How human genes become patented

 

While I certainly side with our troops, I find the arguments against releasing the torture photos just as tortured as all the arguments surrounding this ugly issue. The latest contortionist argument is that releasing these photos puts our troops at a greater risk while in harms way. Firstly, I am not that convinced that any of the suits that order our kinsmen to war give a shit about them being in harms way, including President Obama in my humble opinion.

 

There have been supply and equipment and other issues, including paying our soldiers that have been occurring since day one of this tortured adventure in the Middle East. To add fuel to this fire the treatment of soldiers that are currently engaged in war is increasingly being questioned as incidents like the soldier who is alleged to have killed five fellow troops and other incidents occur. How veterans of these questionable wars are treated after they come home is another whole issue that gets over looked while the war mongers use contortionist arguments for the continuation of war.

 

I will not get into the implications of a recently leaked document by the Dept. of Homeland security that characterizes veterans as potential threats to national security. This document also seems to me to shed the same light on any and all that dare to be free thinkers and or that questions the increasingly imperial like political establishment.

 

My main question is does not releasing the photos of the torture and abuse mean that the people of the Middle East, including the victims of the torture themselves or citizens of the United States not know the torture and abuse happened? The answer is NO, we all already know torture and abuse happened, we have already seen Abu Ghraib photos and the unjust show trails of our troops and some other evidence of torture.

 

I do see some validity in the argument against releasing them though as well. Especially considering the racists leanings of some of the troops which could mean these photos could be particularly barbaric, brutal and a disgrace to humanity. As far as inspiring more terrorists that has been done already as I have read recruitment into the ranks of the Taliban and the almost mythical Al-Qaeda has soared as result of US policy in the Middle East.

 

However, I know from personal experience that the problems and issues in life only get better once they are acknowledged, aired out, discussed, emotions worked through, causes explored and solutions sought out and implemented.

 

Personally I think not releasing the photos has nothing to do with protecting troops and more with protecting the asses of the suits and policy makers that ordered, enabled and or encouraged this dark middle ages type of behavior from our men and women in uniform.

 

 

 

I recently had deposited on my humble checking account a $250.00 stimulus payment for which I am thankful. I am on disability as I complete college and I guess I qualified for it.

 

However, when I hear the numbers that the bankers and the corporations are getting, that we will have to pay back I get jealous for one and wishful for a piece of that pie. It's hard for me to believe that President Obama or any politician thinks it's fair to shove the entire bailout burden on current American taxpayers and taxpayers of the generations come. Especially when I suspect the financial mess is a crisis created largely to keep Americans in a perpetual state of fear, worry and panic and to push us into a state of indentured servitude to the money changers of the world.

 

I wish Christ would not have pissed off the money changers all those years ago at the 'temple' as we have been left to deal with their greed, rage and vengeance. I find it amazing that some among us as a self proclaimed superior species find the so called wealth of this world of such value that most of the world will be rendered miserable and destitute so that a few will uber wealthy.

 

This is a dark world as despicable people continue to win at all costs and out number those that would be fair to all of humanity. After all the death and destruction is done one has to wonder if what will be left for the "winners" will have been worth it all. What a world!!!