Political, Social, and Religious Insights: 2009

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Political, Social, and Religious Insights: 2009

America - Newt Gingrich
7/11/2009

The former speaker of the US House of Representative, Newt Gingrich, is politically incorrect when he said that the US should "sabotage" Iran's oil and gas infrastructure. To use covert operations - to create a gasoline-led crisis is contrary to a vested interest for the US, the Middle East, and Russia. A diplomatic engagement to soften an icy relation is wise and prudent opposed to destabilization.

Gingrich believes that a Reagan strategy using economic, diplomatic, and psychological pressures can topple the Iranian regime. The late 1980's
strategy in Eastern Europe cannot be applied to the Iranian regime because of our current position in the world. It would be detrimental if the US would consider destabilizing the Iranian regime.

The Iranian population will challenge and change the players of their regime. The Iranians are more effective by facing the challenge free from US meddling. Meddling from the US would stagnate any change and worsen our position globally.

In meditation, I observe the US would reap benefits if the US Government uses economic, diplomatic, and psychological soundness opposed to pressures with Iran. The best course is diplomatic engagement and set an example of wisdom to the world.

Italy - Pope Benedict XVI
07/12/2009

Pope Benedict XVI toured Jordan, Israel, and the Palestinian territories. After praying in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher on his last day, he told his followers not to lose hope that peace in the region is possible.

"The bitter fruits of recrimination and hostility can be overcome and ... a future of justice, peace, prosperity and co-operation can arise,” the Pope argued.

In meditation, authority takes the mind away from the central issue, which is man's conflict within. Authority engenders power, and power always becomes
centralized and therefore, utterly corrupting. It corrupts not only the person of power, but also those who follow it. The Pope's pilgimage is blinding, it breeds thoughtlessness, and being in authority it gives shape and pattern to the follower. The Pope beliefs that a future of justice, peace, prosperity, and co-operation can arise. Justice and peace are immediate when self-awareness negates any authority imposed, and understand that authority is a continuation, a certainty, a sense of being protected. The Pope offers a formula to achieve virtue, and by doing so, the Pope creates problems of immorality for himself and mankind.

Russia and America
July 13, 2009

Obama, called for Russia and America to unite in efforts to prevent North Korea and Iran from developing their nuclear ambitions. Obama said," neither Russia nor America would benefit from an arms' race in East Asia or the Middle East. That is why we should be united in opposing North Korea's efforts to become a nuclear power, and preventing Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon."

To use North Korea and Iran as a political strategy of a possible arms' race is foolish. Russia has unfinished business with America and has no interest in Iran or North Korea. Russia knows that the real threat is not Iran or North Korea but China and the United States.

Political - Transcendental Insight

In 1948 the state of Israel was proclaimed. Palestine was lost. Sixteen years later, the Palestine Liberation Organization or PLO was founded. Five years later, in 1969, Fatah leader Yasser Arafat was elected chairman of the PLO, marking a new era in which the guerrillas overthrew the traditional hold of more established Palestinian families.Thirty years later Arafat died and left a significant permanent seal in the mind of the Palestinian people. The death of Arafat marked the stage for liberation: Arab and world sympathy.

The world has changed and Israel's position waned due to political ignorance; that the destruction of Israel is a manifest destiny. An unavoidable destiny caused by Israel after sixty years of occupation denying the Palestinian a rightful place. Israel's tree trunk will be axed like the Babylonian King shorty after their seventy year of celebration. Unforeseen powerful political forces shall scatter the Jews to the four corners of the earth. History has a tendency to repeat for those States, who are arrogant and blind. It would be wise for the Israeli's state to offer an olive branch; however, the Jewish state is blind to transcendental insight and becomes a victim to a self-fulfilled prophecy of doom.

America - Sonia Sotomayor

The US president's nominee for the supreme court has told senators that she never intended to imply that a Hispanic woman would make a better legal judgment than a white man.

Sonia Sotomayor, who would become the first Latina to serve in the supreme court if confirmed by the Senate Judiciary Committee, answered direct questions by the panel on Tuesday.

"I do not believe that any ethnic, racial or gender group has an advantage in sound judgment," Sotomayor said.

Every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise judge "regardless of their background and life experience", she said.

The court has been closely divided with four liberal and five conservative members, and Sotomayor’s confirmation as the replacement to Justice David Souter would ensure that such a balance would remain.

Senator Jeff Sessions, the leading Republican on the committee, asked her if she believed that "impartiality is a mere aspiration which may not be possible in all or even most cases".

But Sotomayor said that her life experience was of no import in making judicial rulings, emphasising that the tenets of the law should be observed.

"I believe my record of 17 years demonstrates fully that I do believe that judges must apply the law and not make the law," Sotomayor said.

Sotomayor's life experience depends on her psychological conditioning and will reflect in making judicial rulings independently from the law. Sotomayor's mind is conditioned and like her white male counterpart is set in a pattern to deepened human conflict and disorder.

07/16/2009

America - President Obama

President Barack Obama on Thursday traced his historic rise to power to the vigor and valor of black civil rights leaders, telling the NAACP that the sacrifice of others "began the journey that has led me here." The nation's first black president bluntly warned, though, that racial barriers persist.

"Make no mistake: The pain of discrimination is still felt in America," the president said in honoring the organization's 100th convention.

Observing the President's speech the roots of his black heritage determine
his overall policies in his administration. Obama has not mutated the basic pattern of his brain for transcendental insight to take place. A brain that has mutated and transcended speaks neutral and differently to a black audience. So, whatever decisions Obama makes, the result of his opinion swings from his black heritage.

07/17/2009

Iran and US

The US government has sent a strong message to Iran, saying it is running out of time to engage in dialogue over its nuclear program to avoid further isolation or even military action.
Warning that Washington would only grant Iran a limited amount of time to respond to its offer to hold talks, Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, said: "The choice is clear: we remain ready to engage with Iran, but the time for action is now. The opportunity will not remain open indefinitely."

In an address to the Council of Foreign Relations in Washington on Wednesday, Clinton said "Iran does not have a right to nuclear military capacity, and we are determined to prevent that".

However, she added that Tehran "does have a right to civil nuclear power, if it re-establishes the confidence of the international community that it uses its program exclusively for peaceful purposes".

"Iran can become a constructive actor in the region if it stops threatening its neighbors and supporting terrorism. It can assume a responsible position in the international community if it fulfils its obligations on human rights," she said.

A foolish approach by Clinton since the council of foreign relations believes, to the contrary, relating to Iran. The council of foreign relations is not convinced by her speech because the US flexed her liberty muscles poorly with Iraq. The United States would do well to remain neutral with Iran and Israel in order for the region to remain somewhat stable. The region is like an atomic bomb ready to explode. If the US interferes, the interference is like igniting repressed passions throughout the Middle East. It would be wise globally for the US to remain neutral on conflict, which may be initiated by Israel..

July 18, 2009

Pakistan and India

Manmohan Singh, the Indian prime minister, told reporters after talks with his Pakistani counterpart in Egypt: "... dialogue cannot begin, unless and until terrorist heads, which shook Mumbai are properly accounted for [and] perpetrators of these heinous crimes are brought to book."

His comments came after, he met Yousuf Raza Gilani on Thursday on the sidelines of the Non-Aligned Movement's (NAM) summit, currently taking place in the Egyptian city of Sharm el-Sheikh.

The two nations have fought three wars, two of them over Kashmir, since they were separated in 1947 following the end of colonial British rule. Even though separated in 1947, Pakistan is considered "Greater India,"or "Ghandi's India." Ghandi is the thread that ties the two and Kashmir is the symbol ending the colonial British rule that Kashmir cannot be possessed by India or Pakistan.

The Indian prime minister, Singh, has no further alternative but to dialogue independently from the Mumbai's attack. It is wise to India to uphold Ghandi's principles of non-violence since those principles mirror the consciousness of the Pakistani population. The two countries separated physically (superficial consciousness) but not at a deep level. (deep consciousness or Ghandi's consciousness)

July 19, 2009

The Afghan war

When Barack Obama, the US president, hosted Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, and his Pakistani counterpart Asif Ali Zardari at the White House back in May, a sense of urgency hung over the meeting that may not have been appreciated until now.

"US troops are serving courageously and capably in a vital mission in Afghanistan," assured President Obama, "alongside our Afghan and international partners."

The US is fighting a bitter war with no end in sight for victory; it is a foolish endeavor. Obama and the international partners must multiply troops significantly to defeat the Taliban to win this "vital mission." How vital is this mission if the US is trapped in this bitter war? Is this a win battle? Since this is not the case transcendental insight calls for America to pack up and go. What is the point to fight a bitter war with a handful of troops? Packing and leaving does not show weakness but strength teaching States to fight their own battles and respect US policies of neutrality. (re-written policies)

July 20, 2009

The US army is to recruit 22,000 new soldiers to help it fight the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Robert Gates said.

The increased troop strength would only be for three years, will raise the total number of soldiers to 569,000.

"The army faces a period where its ability to deploy combat units at acceptable fill rates is at risk," Gates told reporters on Monday.

"This is a temporary challenge which will peak in the coming year and abate over the course of the next three years."

The move comes as the US shifts its military focus from Iraq to Afghanistan, where the number of US troops is expected to reach 68,000 this year from about 32,000 two years ago.

Gates said the expansion was recommended by the army's leadership and strongly backed by Barack Obama, the US president.

Robert Gates's estimation to send 22,000 extra troops to focus on Afghanistan is miscalculated because the war in Afghanistan is a fruitless war. Have you ever observed a locust attack? The locust swarm in great numbers in order to succeed. US would do well to pack up and go and consider their losses as a win. The taliban cannot be fought with a handful of soldiers, and fighting ideologies and ideas of the Shariah Law is like fencing a ghost with an invisible sword.

July 22, 2009

"Women and girls have been discriminated against for too long in a twisted interpretation of the word of God," wrote Jimmy Carter.

It was, however, an unavoidable decision for Carter when the Southern Baptist convention's leaders, quoted a few carefully selected Bible verses and claiming that Eve was created second to Adam and was responsible for original sin, ordained that women must be "subservient" to their husbands and prohibited from serving as deacons, pastors or chaplains in the military service.

Jimmy Carter's keen observation about women, sex, and religion is the action of the insight independent from time, culture, and conditioning. It took Carter sixty years for the action of the insight to bear fruit. Most people fail to awaken their intelligence because of power and prestige. The awakening of intelligence is an arduous task and only a fit mind can observe the mundane.

July 23, 2009 Transcendental Insight.

Hillary Clinton and Pakistan

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says U.S. officials "firmly believe" the al-Qaida members behind the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks are hiding in Pakistan. Clinton says the U.S. government is "actively" seeking information on their whereabouts.

In meditation, the al-Qaida members behind the Sept. 11, 2001 attack are not hiding in Pakistan. Since most members were Saudi nationals, I would check Saudi Arabia and wealthy Arab nations. Pakistan is for the pretender who thinks he or she is an al-Qaida member and the Taliban pushing the Sariah Law.

July 24, 2009

Hillary Clinton has said the US will arm Washington's allies in the Gulf region if Iran builds a nuclear weapon.

"We will still hold the door open, but we also have made it clear that we'll take actions ... working to upgrade the defence of our partners in the region," she said.

The US military has bases in Gulf nations including Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, as well as in Iran's neighbour, Iraq. There is no need to arm the Gulf states; a spirit of neutrality equals the upgrade of defense in the region.

However, the idea of handing weapons to Arab nations in the region was met with criticism from Israel, Washington's foremost ally in the Middle East.

"I was not thrilled to hear the American statement from yesterday that they will protect their allies with a nuclear umbrella, as if they have already come to terms with a nuclear Iran ... I think that's a mistake" Dan Meridor, Israel's minister of intelligence and atomic energy, told Israel's Army Radio.

In meditation, Dan Meridor, Israel's minister of intelligence and atomic energy is correct; however, not because the allies have already come to terms with a nuclear Iran. To the contrary; the irony of these arab allies is that they will likely use their nuclear umbrella to protect Iran opposed to attack Iran. It is prudent for the US to refrain from supplying a nuclear umbrella to any nation and remain neutral.

09/01/2009

"US troops are serving courageously and capably in a vital mission in Afghanistan," assured President Obama, "alongside our Afghan and international partners."

America is trapped in an illusion to win this war of democracy. Afghanistan and Iraqi has human rights issues, but Saudi Arabia is the fore-runner of crimes against humanity. Saudi Arabia should be held accountable for abusing human rights, and wisdom for the Saudi's are to realize that subjects are slaves to worship and obey. Why is it that America cannot stand up against Saudi Arabia and confront oppression and absolute control by the Royal family? Dismantling a Kingdom is far more worthy than tackling the Taliban.

09/02/2009

Colonel Gaddafi became Libya's leader on September 01, 1969 and for four decades Colonel Gaddafi embodies the living force of Libya. He is Libya.

Gaddafi rules with the help of an insidious and pervasive mukhabarat, or secret police, apparatus.

Far from beginning to transition his country toward democratic institutions, the flamboyant Colonel has apparently taken his cue from Syria and North Korea in preparing for a dynastic succession that would put his son Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi in command.

Transcendental insight sees his son Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi ruling Libya with an iron fist like Stalin. It is true that Omar Gaddafi rules with the help of an insidious and pervasive secret police, but throughout his dynasty the people loved him for liberating the country and being authentic to the tradition and custom of Libya. He will be remembered as a " a freedom fighter." His son sees political life differently that upon his short rule opposition will lead another revolution which sadly ends the Gaddafi's dynasty. Having lots of libyan oil on the market is nice, and Western oil companies love having another country to exploit. However, Gaddafi dynastic succession is greedy and when exploitation hits from two directions (Gaddafi dynastic succession and western oil companies) the people have no alternative but to revolt and end the Gaddafi's dynasty.

09/03/2009

A professor inquired China's quest for natural resources and investing its wealth around 120 counties. Along with this economic push, Beijing is keen on spreading its political and cultural influence. He asked what do I think about China's global outreach? Is it good for global polity? Should the world be wary of this Asian giant?

America's foreign policy is unilateral and controlled by special interest. America could have had a close and peaceful association with Muslim countries, but its Israeli fixation regardless of Zionist crimes against humanity have tragically empowered extreme elements within some Muslim states. The lobbies and oil monopolies induced the US fiasco in Iraq and the quagmire has extended to Afghanistan and Pakistan. In South and Central America, the US has taken on much smaller countries and their leaders thereby significantly enhancing the stature and prestige of the South American leaders – Castro, Ortega, Chavez, Morales etc. China is pursuing relations with all countries and its leaders have expressed the Confucius vision of balance and harmony as guiding principles. Definitely sounds better than a guiding principle based on money, monopoly, power, privilege and double standards; however, balance and power are well intended qualities, but once the Asian giant gains position transcendental insight sees a "checkmate" to establish preeminence in the world.

09/08/09 American Health Care

Aging populations, smoking, obestity, and sky-high costs are problems faced by nations the world over.

09/10/2009 Corporate Welfare.

President Obama's health care reform speech.

Nobility cannot be stopped --- not if it really is noble. Unmasked the president’s plan to show it is the very opposite of nobility. True nobility cannot be unmasked.

President Obama's message was cleverly scripted and delivered to the population employing references from political parties whose views are contrary to the President's plan. For thirty years corporate medicine managed by government has proven unfit. Corporate medicine failed to mitigate rising cost, salvage inflation, and negate corruption.

Socialized medicine is a life line to bail out corporate medicine, and like any life line people think the act is noble. So long as people believe that socialized medicine is a noble plan, there is no way to fight it. You cannot stop a noble plan -- not if it really is noble. The only way you can defeat it is to unmask it -- to show that it is the very opposite of noble. Then at least you have a fighting chance.

The character of America is in the concept of rights. The original American idea has been virtually wiped out, ignored as if it had never existed. Today, however, we are seeing the rise of principled immorality in this country. We are seeing a total abandonment by the intellectuals and the politicians of the moral principles on which the U.S. was founded.

The rule now is for politicians to ignore and violate men's actual rights, while arguing about a whole list of rights never dreamed of in this country's founding documents -- rights which require no earning, no effort, no action at all on the part of the recipient. You are entitled to something, the politicians say, simply because it exists and you want or need it -- period. You are entitled to be given it by the government. Where does the government get it from? What does the government have to do to private citizens -- to their individual rights -- to their real rights -- in order to carry out the promise of showering free services on the people?

09/11/2009 Inspirational transcendental insight.

The birth of big government commenced on September 11, 2001 and flowered into socialism chipping at the balance of power: Wall Street, the insurance companies and the right-wing. Currently it is a power imbalance that is bigger than socialism, but consequently socialism will defeat the root problem that stands in Obama's way.

Transcendental insight sees Putnam enjoying a six year term as President in 2012. Putnam's motive is like a Stalin, and he will succeed because of
his totalitarian will in ruling the country and expanding his territory. His totalitarian regime crushes all autonomous institutions in its drive to seize the human soul. He is focused and ruthless -- no match for Russia's current President, Dimtry Medvedev.

Nonviolent struggle is a pipe dream.

09/16/2009

Kowledge manages disaster but the illusion of knowledge kills it.

You have a right to work, not to rob others of the fruits of their work, not to turn others into sacrificial, right less animals laboring to fulfill your needs.

Socialized medicine enslaves doctors.

Doctors are not servants destined to serve other at the behest of the state. Doctors are "traders" like anyone else in a free society. Doctors are individuals who have the right to assert moral principles: their own individual rights, their rights in this issue, their right to their lives, their liberty, their property, their pursuit of happiness. Socialized medicine delivers doctors hand and foot to the mercies of the bureaucracy.

Who is really paying the costs of medical care now -- the rich, not the broad bulk of the people? As it has been proven time and again, there are not enough rich anywhere to make a dent in the government's costs; it is the vast middle class in the U.S. that is the only source of the kind of money that national programs like government health care require.

A simple example of this is the fact that the Obama program rests squarely on the backs not of Big Business, but of small businessmen who are struggling in today's economy merely to stay alive and in existence. Under any socialized program, it is the "little people" who do most of the paying for it -- under the senseless pretext that "the people" can't afford such and such, so the government must take over.

Some people can't afford medical care in the U.S., But they are necessarily a small minority in a free or even semi-free country. If they were the majority, the country would be an utter bankrupt and could not even think of a national medical program.

As to this small minority, in a free country they have to rely solely on private, voluntary charity. Yes, charity, the kindness of the doctors or of the better off -- charity, not right, i.e. not their right to the lives or work of others.

As with any good or service that is provided by some specific group of men and women, if you try to make its possession by all a right, you thereby enslave the providers of the service, wreck the service, and end up depriving the very consumers you are supposed to be helping. .
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Rebuttal to the editorial.

Dependency on government is humanitarian efforts in vain pursuit.

The Dark Side Of Acorn

Prostitution ranks at the bottom of Acorn's dark side. The editorial fails to point out Acorn's efforts to secure low-rate mortgages for unqualified borrowers; and combined with the assistance of Democratic members of Congress Acorn led to the biggest banking and financial crisis since the Great Depression. Acorn closely allied with the Democratic Party, and despite its nominal non-partisanship, ACORN successfully implicated the 2008 banking crisis.

Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN):

ACORN was founded in 1970 when Wade Rathke and other community organizers from the National Welfare Rights Organization (NWRO) were sent to Little Rock, Arkansas. In the 1960s, the NWRO spearheaded a campaign of disruptions and sit-ins at welfare offices across the country. Their goal was to eliminate the eligibility requirements for welfare and to so flood the system with clients that the system would collapse. It was a form of left-wing anarchism designed to bring down the existing democratic capitalist system.

We all know what ensued: A cycle of welfare dependency which destroyed individuals, families and communities across the country, many of them minorities who have never recovered.

Since then, ACORN has mushroomed into a nationwide coalition of community organizations lobbying for low-cost housing, health care, welfare rights, the living wage, and other far-left goals. ACORN has over 350,000 members and more than 850 neighborhood chapters in over 100 cities across the United States, as well as in Argentina, Canada, Mexico, and Peru.

ACORN's goals and methods are closely patterned after the ideology and tactics of socialist revolutionary Saul Alinsky, as outlined in his book Rules for Radicals (1971

Rebuttal

Knowledge manages disaster but the illusion of knowledge kills it.

It appears that the US economy recovered from last years financial crisis; however, the policies of the Federal Reserve, the US s central bank, are ensuring that the suffering will continue much longer than necessary.

They claim there is a recovery but the recovery ought to be measured by the people working. True unemployment is now 16 percent, and the people who lost money have not regained the money. The people who lost houses have not gotten their houses back.

The official unemployment rate in August was 9.7 percent, but the broader unemployment measure, known as U-6, measures not only the number of people looking for work but also those people who have given up looking for work. The official unemployment measure does not include people who have stopped looking for work.

In August, the broader U-6 unemployment rate were a stunning 16.8 percent, two-and-a-half percentage points higher than it was in the 1982 recession, which had been the worst recession since the Great Depression.

There is no recovery, all there is a lot of illusion based on fudged knowledge.

The federal government s bail out of Wall Street has been indebted it to the point that the government itself is now “one giant toxic asset.

It appears that the Fed has done a wonderful job for Wall Street, but the average guy lost a lot of money. The Fed comes in with more credit, and pumps it up and bails out all the big guys getting all these bonuses for all these individuals who should have failed and they claim there is a recovery?

A Fact about FactCheck.Org

Founding Father of Anneberg Foundation and daughter does not share the ideology of liberalism and conservatism.

FactCheck.org is run by the Annenberg Foundation, the same folks who brought the Chicago Annenberg Challenge that hired Barack Obama and William Ayers to disburse monies. They claim to be non-partisan. The Annenberg Foundation was established by Walter H. Annenberg, a longtime conservative. He passed in 2002.

It is now run by his daughter, Wallis Annenberg, a California liberal. She lists among her interests, politics. During the 2008 Campaigns, she doled out her contributions to the DNC. Unlike others who spread the wealth around, she did not. She donated solely to the DNC. Ms. Annenberg claims she is bipartisan when it comes to her philanthropic endeavors. Her son, also a trustee for the foundation, chose to leave California and resides in Paris, France.

The political arm of the Annenberg Foundation is the Annenberg Public Policy Center headed by its director Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Ph.D. co-authors of the book “Echo Chamber: Rush Limbaugh and the Conservative Media Establishment”. A treatise on the “evil’” right wing media, so you know how non-partisan she is. The Public Policy Center is the parent of … you guessed it … FactCheck.Org . They also produce the NPR program Justice Talking … Oh Yeah they are so “fair and balanced”. I don't think so!

09/22/2009
Transcendental Insight:

Just photo shoots for Obama.

     President Obama's talks of the need for compromise; however, Obama asks to restrain settlements.   In June Obama's speech in Cairo was encouraging. President Obama said that the US does not accept the legitimacy of Israeli settlements; however, in his opening remarks the president called on Israel to restrain settlement activity.

So, by any measure there has been a great departure in what the US expects Israel to do. And that has been a great cause of concern for the Palestinians.
The American administration's failure to force the occupation to stop settlements and other violations of Palestinians' rights confirms its complete bias in favor of the occupation and the danger of the Arabs counting on the American position towards the Arab-Israeli conflict. It is this bias that shall cause the downfall of Israel regardless of their fifth position in nuclear power.

No bootlegging; please enter through the front door.

President Obama told the American people that illegal immigrants should not be covered by the health care reform bill. Listening to President Obama latest speech he's talking about letting the illegal enter through the back door. In other words, offer the illegal amnesty!

The highest honor America bestows is citizenship. It is an insult to the American people, and bootlegging citizenship are traits contrary to the American character.

Why would the American people give the highest honor to anyone walking through a back door in order for them to benefit health care reform?

No bootlegging please!

Israel has not earned the privilege to remain transparent free.

American discourse is to protect Israel from transparency and accountability
pertaining to nuclear weapons. Israel has the most advance nuclear capability in the region, not to mention Pakistan. Also, Obama's speech painted Iran as having the nuclear capability as in the case with North Korea.
I am sure that the Iranians are displeased with Obama's comparison suggesting that Iran possesses nuclear weapons like North Korea.

Muammar Gaddafi:

The long winded and flamboyant Muammar Gaddafi, said that the veto wielding nations of the Security Council, were ignoring the views of the full 192 members of the General Assembly and the principles of the UN charter.

In an one-and-a-half hour speech in New York on Wednesday, Muammar Gaddafi said the veto-wielding nations of the Security Council, we're ignoring the views of the full 192 members of the General Assembly.

"The preamble [of the charter] says all nations are equal whether they are small or big," Gaddafi said in his address.

Gaddafi accused the permanent members of the council of undermining other states.

"The veto [held by the five permanent UN members] is against the charter, we do not accept it, and we do not acknowledge it. Veto power should be annulled," Gaddafi said.

He said the council, comprising the United States, Britain, France, Russia and China, had failed to prevent or intervene in 65 wars that have taken place since the United Nations was established in 1948.

The argument was passionately, colorfully, and convincingly spoken that the lion of the desert reached a large audience of sympathizers. Everyone should have a voice and veto power.

A rebuttal.

Let each worker be a board of director sharing equally in the profit, have a voice, and a vote in policy making. That is a winning strategy.

It took thirty years for the working class to become exhausted and anxiety ridden. The gap between the working class paycheck and corporate profits are too wide, and this gap must close in order to avoid a disaster and a long term recession. Wages rose consistently until 1970 when the age of computer, outsourcing, women, and immigrants primarily from the Latin countries landscaped a different economy; a landscape of greedy large corporations and board of directors, a group of people who take the cream on top. Corporation paid their people tens, hundreds of millions of dollars, in annual salaries. Where did that money come from? The money came from the working class.

Thus, corporations did exceptionally well in profit making, while the wages of the working class remained the same. Also, the wage earner desires what the haves' have, reaching for a fantasy, "the American dream." and consume; but how can they consume earning so little? Each year the worker produces more, but what do you pay the worker each year? The same. That's what no more rising wages' means. Corporations offered a way out and created a system to borrow money and more money at a high interest rate. Propaganda of getting a taste of the dream and to keep up with inflation fueled the worker by using credit cards and borrowing equity money from their home.

The population is beaten, exhausted, and anxiety ridden. No stimulus is going to fix it and neither will regulation nor de-regulation fix it. Both have failed. The key is a radical way of thinking and alter our perception of doing business to decrease the gap between the profit making from production and wager earners who produce. Since this is not the case, prices will drop so low that it forces to narrow the gap between the two; this drop forces' businesses to think differently.

Now, the big picture. Borrowing money is no longer an option and seeking money from other countries is also out. It took finally thirty years of flat wages and rising productivity at the greatest profit boom to bring this downfall. There is no magic wand or a quick fix because the change comes from thinking differently, and we must seriously mitigate the exhaustion from an anxiety ridden working class and narrow the gap between the working class who produces and the profit making corporations. Perhaps it is time to do away with the board of directors and make the workers board of directors. The worker spends his or her energy, talent, and skill to produce; they should have a vote, voice, and an equal financial interest. I call that "entrepreneurial initiative," and our future.

Major Nidal Malik Hasan went on a shooting spree at the Fort Hood Army Base on Thursday, before being shot at by civilian police.

US officials have said that intelligence agencies first started investigating Hasan in December of last year, reviewing what they believe to be email communications between him and a Muslim cleric in Yemen who is known for his anti-American teachings. Personally, I do not believe he was anti-american but disillusioned about the middle east crisis and became disturbed juggling his duty and belief.

I do; however, find that Anwar al-Awlaki who served as an imam at a mosque outside of Washington DC where Hasan worshiped until 2002 spirited the action of Major Hasan. In a blog posting on Monday al-Awlaki wrote: "Nidal Hasan is a hero. He is a man of conscience who could not bear living the contradiction of being a Muslim and serving in an army that is fighting against his own people."

Regardless of war(s) there is absolutely no justification for killing and certainly Major Hasan is a disturbed killer. Killing is primitive and a step backwards to achieve unity with humanity. It appears regardless of Hasan's education his mind was veiled with religious illusion. Since this is the case, his mind regardless of his education is trapped, and my recommendation to the military is releasing those bound to unchangeable patterns. A mind glued in patterns becomes more violent if the pattern is challenged or threatened especially if the mind has to juggle duty and belief daily. In this case, Hasan could no longer cope and snapped!

My condolences to the family of the victims. I am deeply saddened that so many promising young people lost their lives. Truly, this is a sad day for humanity.

December 10, 2009

America's enemy, Al-Qaeda, are dispersed in pockets of Europe, Saudi Arabia, Dubai, and America. Clean shaven and dressed smart these well mannered and ideal citizens mingle with the cream of the crop scoping and scheming unknowing to the population. Al-Qaeda possess skills far superior than the towel headed cave trodders of Afghanistan.

It is time to pack and go. Our presence has not benefit America's image of a peace maker or a world leader. Our priority is the economy and well being of the American citizen.

Wisdom is to learn from Russia that the war in Afghanistan is a war that can not be won. To send 30,000 troops will create a purpose and stimulate energy for the Taliban to recruit more candidates. A perfect recipe to die for a cause, and propagated as pleasing serving Allah. The soldier is guaranteed a place in paradise with seventy virgins. America, pack up and go!

President Obama is the commander in chief of our military and justified the two wars as essential and ordered 30,000 more troops to the war in Afghanistan.

President Obama pointed out that one of these wars is winding down and the other is a conflict that America did not seek referring to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

In order to have an impact America has to deploy 300,000 troops opposed to 30,000. The war in Afghanistan is a war of ideas, ideology, and cannot be defeated. To send 30,000 troops and boldly point out that some will kill and some will be killed is irresponsible. Obama is politically incorrect in deploying thousands of young Americans. You cannot defeat ideas and Obama has not learned from mistakes made by Russia. But is Afghanistan the real reason?

It is inappropriate for Obama to receive the nobel prize for peace regardless of his efforts to stenghten international diplomacy. Obama is the war president of Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran. The Taliban is used as an scapegoat to further maximize dominance in the area. America is not interested in the Taliban! The Taliban is a necessary illusion to remain in the middle east. The real reason is Pakistan, a failed state with nuclear warheads! America would benefit to have Pakistan fail regardless of nuclear warheads.

To appease Israel Obama will flex his international diplomacy in an adverse manner against Iran. Iran's agenda is far more sophisticated than worrying about sanctions. President Obama is a classic example of a man whose humanitarian efforts are in vain pursuit, and as a war president tension will escalate between Iran and Israel. The irony of Obama's decision is while Americans seek the Taliban - the Taliban without effort recruits massive new faces to support their cause. America would benefit to withdraw sactions. This should mitigate their agenda significantly and lessen the tension of the population.

The downfall of the Ayatollah and the rise of the Persians.

The rise of the persian empire will hasten if America remains neutral and refrain from sanctions of any sort. Sanctions will only stifle progress and weaken the opposition's position.

Regardless of teargas, batons, and executions the downfall of the Ayatollah is evitable. The opposition should focus in eliminating the supreme leader and squash the constitution opposed to make him a sort of figure head and re-write the constitution.

Removing sanctions should expedite the movement, and out of the movement leaders rise who will lead the people in a bloody revolution to eliminate the supreme leader and form a secular constitution.

The current regime is very clear about punishment under the Iran Islamic sharia law that those who are behind the opposition are mohareb or enemies of God and their fate is execution. It is out of this law leaders will rise and challenge the ultimate authority in Iran and destined to replace the sharia law with secular law.

This change will occur if America and Israel remain neutral and turn a deaf ear to the rhetoric of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president, said that opposition rallies in the country are "masquerades" backed by America and Israel. This rhetoric is an effective tool to encourage hostility in order to lead the masses astray from rallies, protest, and take over.

Russia's Stalin.

Prime Minister Putin's remarks bolster a view that he is stronger than Russia's president, Medvedev.

"Let the Americans hand over all their information on missile defence and we are ready to hand over all the information on offensive weapons systems," he said.

Putin was asserting its right to build new strategic missiles and seeking concessions on the issue from US negotiators as they continued talks on Start with Russian officials in Switzerland.

According to Putin the Start negotiations are developing positively; however, from meditating on this issue the fate of the negotiations will have a political and ideological breakdown. Putin has considerable sway in shaping foreign policy, a prerogative which under the constitution should be Medvedev's domain. It is Putin's sphere not Medvedev! Putin is Russia.

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Venezuela Panzer Hugo Chavez has launched a new state-run bank, combining three banks that authorities recently put under state control citing irregularities in their operations.

Hugo Chavez, the country's president, inaugurated on Monday the public Bicentenario Bank that merges Confederado, Bolivar Bank, and Central Bank.

The three banks were among eight banks authorities took control of in November in a scandal that prompted the arrests of several prominent bankers with links to the government.

The state now controls about 25 per cent of the Venezuelan banking sector.

The expanding state role comes as Chavez continues to accuse his opponents of trying to provoke panicked withdrawals from banks to harm his government.

America would do well to help his opposition pluck Chavez from power because his humanitarian efforts are in vain and in dangerous pursuit.

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I personally see a healthy competition from abroad which could have a potentially positive structural impact on how the U.S. delivers health services. I believe the emergence of world class health care across the Pacific will likely give U.S. hospitals and clinics a much needed kick in the bedpan.

Medical outsourcing is the outcome of our medical crises. The single payer national health systems of the sort found in the U.K, Canada, and all over Europe make the dynamics a bit different, but they certainly do no avert the crises of aging popluations, smoking, and obesity.

Because of our greed medical outsourcing is the future for the U.S.

Because of our greed and impersonal nature we seek instant gratification opposed to a long term plan of affordable health care.

To lessen the outsourcing and reverse consequences the solution is affordable health care. Hospitals and doctors fail to see the simplicity. The voters must set the record straight for the medical establishment.