What If The Tea Party Was Black?
What If The Tea Party Was Black?
Little room for opinion here, the
above sentence says it all! thinkingblue
What If the Tea Party Were Black (From AlterNet)
By The Esteemed And Revered
STEPHEN HAWKING
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on to your hats while you watch an interview with some of
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America’s Decline?
America’s Decline?
When I saw this
article posted on facebook, I thought, wait a minute, ONE AND A HALF CHEERS FOR AMERICA’S DECLINE, COMING FROM THE HEART OF AMERICANS AND NOT FROM SOME FOREIGN STATE WHO HAS A BLISTERING HATRED TOWARDS US, that can’t be right, that doesn’t make
sense? But read on… it is correct and not only that, it DOES MAKE SENSE.
We the United States of America have been bullying our way around the world for some time now. Acting like we were the only ones that mattered on this block. We (our different administrations’) have been throwing around
our military might for so long, it has become an acceptable practice for anyone who we vote into power.
Most of us (the little people) don’t want our children thrown into harm’s way with the slightest drop of a FAT HEADED HAT. We don’t want our media full of horrible news about the maiming and torturing of fellow
human beings. We don’t want our rights whittled down to a size that only resembles freedom and we don’t want to feel hated every time we step upon some foreign soil. But that’s what the array of war-mongering leaders has led us into.
Maybe it is time for America to feel what it’s like to have sand kicked into its face, the same way we, the bullies of the planet, have kicked sand into the faces of others.
Perhaps then, we will get that heaping dose of what it’s like to be on the receiving end of a giant flyswatter and we will be forced to develop a necessary empathy towards others. Maybe, by becoming just another Nation instead of an Arrogant Superpower we will feel the urge to join hands with any part of the world that want and deserves to live in peace. (There I go again… DREAMING A DREAM THAT WILL PROBABLY NEVER BE!) thinkingblue
One and a Half Cheers for American Decline: The Future’s Not Ours and That’s Good News
Monday 20 September 2010
by: Tom Engelhardt | TomDispatch | Op-EdCompare two assessments of the American future:
In the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll in which 61% of
Americans interviewed considered “things in the nation”
to be “on the wrong track,” 66% did “not feel
confident that life for our children’s generation will be
better than it has been for us.” (Seven percent were “not
sure,” and only 27% “felt confident.”) But here
was the polling question you’re least likely to see
discussed in your local newspaper or by Washington-based pundits:
“Do you think America is in a state of decline, or do you
feel that this is not the case?” Sixty-five percent of
respondents chose as their answer: “in a state of decline.”Meanwhile, Afghan war commander General David Petraeus was
interviewed last week by Martha Raddatz of ABC News. Asked
whether the American war in Afghanistan, almost a decade old, was
finally on the right counterinsurgency track and could go on for
another nine or ten years, Petraeus agreed that we were just at
the beginning of the process, that the “clock” was only
now ticking, and that we needed “realistic expectations”
about what could happen and how fast. “Progress” in
Afghanistan, he commented, was often so slow that it could feel
like “watching grass grow or paint dry.”Now, I’m not a betting man, but I’d head for Vegas
tomorrow and put my money down against the general and on
Americans generally when it comes to assessing the future. I’d
put money on the fact that the United States is indeed “in a
state of decline” and I’d make a wager at odds that
U.S. troops won’t be in Afghanistan in nine or ten years.
And I’d venture to suggest as well that the two bets would
be intimately connected, and that the American people understand
at a visceral level far more than Washington cares to know about
our real situation in the world. And I’d put my money on one
more thing: however lousy it may feel, it’s not all bad
news, not by a long shot.Decline Today, Not Tomorrow
Let’s start with Afghanistan. Yes, we’ve been “in,”
or intimately involved with, Afghanistan not just for almost a
decade, but for a significant chunk of the last 30 years. And for
much of that time we’ve poured our wealth into creating
chaos and mayhem there in the name of “freedom,” “liberation,”
“reconstruction,” and “nation-building.” We
started in the distant days of the Reagan administration with the
CIA funneling vast sums of money and advanced weaponry into the
anti-Soviet jihad. At that time, we happily supported outright
terror tactics, including car-bomb and even camel-bomb attacks on
the Soviets in Afghan cities and bomb attacks on movie theaters
as well. These acts were committed by Islamic fundamentalists of
the most extreme sort, and our officials, labeling them “freedom
fighters,” couldn’t say enough nice things about them.That was our expensive first decade in Afghanistan. In 1989, when
the Russians withdrew in defeat, we departed in triumph. You know
the next round well enough: we returned in 2001, armed and eager,
carrying suitcases full of cash, and ready to fight many of the
same fundamentalists we (or our allies the Pakistanis) had set
loose, funded, and armed in the previous two decades. MORE HERENOW LET’S GO BACK IN TIME, TO A PLACE WHERE DECLINE WOULD BEGIN: thinkingblue
Published on Friday, October 18, 2002 in the Bangor Daily News
by Anthony Aman
For many months the people of the world have been trying to
figure out just what it is that President Bush is trying to do.
Many people think the administration’s goals are simply to enrich
themselves and their supporters. Others cite this war as an
attempt at “closure on the Gulf War” – the son
completing the father’s job. Still more believe oil is the
primary goal. An astonishing document has come to light that
finally puts the pieces of the puzzle together.The name of this most revealing report is “Rebuilding
America’s Defenses.” Details of this treatise was written by
Jay Bookman, deputy editorial page editor of the Atlanta
Journal-Consitiution, and published on Sept. 29. “The
official story on Iraq has never made sense,” Bookman
writes. “The connection that the Bush administration has
tried to draw between Iraq and al-Qaida has always seemed
contrived and artificial. In fact, it was hard to believe that
smart people in the Bush administration would start a major war
based on such flimsy evidence.” He continues, “The
pieces didn’t fit. Something else had to be going on; something
was missing.”The report was written five months before the attacks of Sept. 11
and is authored by six members of the current administration,
including Paul Wolfowitz, John Bolton, I. Lewis Libby, along with
21 other people who attended meetings or contributed papers for
the report. Bookman goes on to explain what the plans are for
world military domination and how Bush has mirrored those plans
so far. “In essence, it lays out a plan for a permanent U.S.
military and economic domination of every region on the globe,
unfettered by international treaty or concern. And to make the
plan a reality, it envisions a stark expansion of our global
military presence.”“Rebuilding America’s Defenses” puts the entire world
on notice. America will get what it wants, from any country on
earth, by any means necessary. If we perceive resistance (“a
threat to national security”) we reserve the right to strike
preemptively with or without the support of another country. The
authors of this amazing manifesto dream of an American Empire
with George W. Bush as its first emperor. Bookman goes on to say,
“They envision the creation of what they call a worldwide
‘Pax Americana,’ or American peace. But so far, the American
people have not appreciated the true extent of that
ambition.”Apparently neither do our elected representatives. Calls to
Olympia Snowe’s office and Susan Collins’ office yielded no
knowledge of such a document. There has been no discussion of
this vision of Pax Americana in the congressional debates. Not
surprisingly! If they were to debate such a scheme it would lend
legitimacy to the Bush plan for expanding America’s military
domination just before the elections. If the American people
really understood the implications of this plan how would they
react? How would our allies react? How will our adversaries
react?This scheme presents scenarios of apocalyptic proportions. The
world’s resources are limited; our power is not. If we control
the resources, we could control the world. But what about the
people who live in those resource rich countries? Will they
simply join with us to promote Pax Americana, quietly acquiescing
to our demands? Is it not likely that resistance will be
encountered from every quarter in every way possible?What terrors await us as we accumulate more of the world’s wealth
and territory? Will this truly create “American Peace”?
How many more American citizens will be required to enlist in the
armed forces to replace the “spent assets” as time
drags on? What cost will we be required to bear for this scheme?
The war on Iraq is estimated to reach $100 billion and that’s
just the first country in the Axis of Evil. What sacrifices must
we accept to fund this vision? Once we conquer one country how
will we hold on to it while going on to the next, and the next?
Will we go the way of the Soviet Union, bankrupt by our own
military overspending and overreaching ambition? Rome’s empire
collapsed and the world settled into the Dark Ages. Who can
predict what fate awaits us if we should fail? MORE HERE
Daniel Ellsberg Speaks Out on Bradley Manning
Daniel Ellsberg Speaks Out on Bradley Manning
Daniel Ellsberg speaks out for Bradley Manning. The brave man who was so appalled by what he had seen during one of the US military actions in the Iraq War, that he stood up and blew the whistle and now is suffering the consequences of this bravery. The US pentagon frowns upon anyone who tries to expose military actions that are illegal, they do not want any negative publicity and will go to great lengths to prevent it; even if it means punishing someone who does not deserve to be punished (use as a
scapegoat).
As Mr. Ellsberg points out, our country was founded on acts of treason by those who defied King George III leader/monarch of The United Kingdom and had become traitors to their country in order to create The United States of America. This interview was forthright and riveting and hopefully will be seen by many.
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HISTORY 101
King George III was born in June 4, 1738. He was the oldest son of Fredrick, the Prince of Wales, and Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha. He became heir to the throne on the death of his father in 1751, succeeding his grandfather, George II, in 1760.
The Loyalists in the Revolutionary War loved him. They would hang pictures of him on their walls and would salute the Great Britain flag every day. They would hold tea parties for King George III. For most Loyalists, he was a hero.
The Patriots in the Revolutionary War hated him. They would make effigies of him and burn them. They would call him a Tory and throw rocks at pictures of him. They would burn Tory houses because the Tories honored King George III.
He also had a disease called porpyria. It is caused by a chemical insufficiency. King George III had a severe case of this. He got it right after he married Queen Charlotte in 1765.
Its symptoms are abdominal pain, paralysis on the arms and legs, and many more. This disease is often known as the royal hereditary disease because it affected most people in the royal family.FROM THIS SITE: http://library.thinkquest.org/TQ0312848/kgeorge.htm
Below is part of the video that Bradley Manning Leaked
Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” Rally – Interview
Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” Rally – Interview
I just watched the video and OH MY GOD OF SHOCK!!!
Ignorance beyond REASON! How so many human beings can wear their stupidity so proudly on their sleeves, is ASTOUNDING!
The NO-THINK is quite chilling, just realizing that every one of those spouting off their shitbrains (without a single notion, of how deranged and foolish they SOUND…) CAN VOTE is quite SCAAARY!
Good grief, didn’t we have enough ignorance and LIGHTS OUT during the Bush/Cheney years?
When I hear the media claiming that polls show Liberal Democrats not motivated enough to stop the Republican Machine Of Hate and the conservatives (especially, the hate filled teabag bigots) who are motivated out of control and going to make sure their crazy, batshit, squirrelly, NUTBALL LEADERS will take over again, is just plain MIND BOGGLING!
HERE WE GO AGAIN… back to the twilight zone but this time we may not survive and I ain’t just whistling the Battle Hymn of the Republic! 
) thinkingblue
PS: Wow, I never realized what an easy job Glenn Beck has until now! TRIPLE WOW!
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On 8.28.2010, Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally was
held on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. The purpose of the
rally, which Beck claimed to be “non-political” despite
featuring Tea Party-favorite Sarah Palin as a speaker and its
being attended entirely by conservatives, was unclear. The
participants spoke abstractly about the need to restore
“honor” and “pride” to a country that had
lost it. When pressed for when our country had lost its honor,
most cited the election of Barack Obama.
8.28.2010 also represented the 47th anniversary of Dr. Martin
Luther King’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech, and Glenn
Beck has been criticized for by civil rights groups for trying to
misappropriate the occasion.
Last year, Beck referred to Barack Obama—our country’s first
African-American President–as a “racist… who has a
deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture.”
When offered the chance to respond to Beck’s statements, his fans
either agreed with him or simply refused to believe that he had
ever made them.
While the speaker list was diverse, the overwhelmingly white
crowd expressed paranoid and conspiratorial fears of
multiculturalism—that atheists or black liberation
theologists or radical Muslims or “free-loading”
Latinos were going to ruin our country. There was the constant
suggestion that white Christians and their way of life are
somehow under assault, and that the attendees of this rally were
here to put an end to it and return the country to what it used
to be.
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We really need more dialog from those at the top… The
Republicans have got to be made to realize they can’t hide behind
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