This is not Gods will

      The slaughter of of innocents by a mad man, a man who lacked the ability to empathise as a human could have been foreseen .
       Now some one said that it was Gods Will that these babies Died. No!! it was mans will. God gave us reason and a mind, To address illness; we have using reason beaten disease. To see danger; we have using reason and  removed most natural threats.  To protect our babies; we have using reason managed to populate the world end to end.
       But when we fall down on the job and don't see this danger we say it is gods will.
       This happened because human beings are flawed, the man who did this was clearly insane this was known by at least his mother, several therapist and his brother. The failure to address this danger on our part was not Gods will but our own..........              

King Koch and Norquist

                      Grover Norquist says that Speaker Boehnar will hold his pledge to Norquist above the needs of our country,

                      How can a privet citizen dictate to the Government of the United States?

                      First of all Norquist is not the top of the chain of that command, in the past few months several news papers have covered the Truths of this issue http://savannahnow.com/bluffton-opinion/2012-01-11/norquist-alec-and-koch-brothers#.UKEuWYdHSLc for one. It seems to me that these power brokers feel that they have bought these politicians,, see this piece by rolling stone;   http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/grover-norquist-the-billionaires-best-friend-20111109 ..

                      Wake up people we as a nation have allowed this, our protestant churches have bought into the notion of wealth even though the notion of wealth caused protestants break away from the catholic system.

                       Take a few moments and read some thing of the nature of these men. http://kochwatch.org/index.php?q=aggregator/sources/1

Sharks in a feeding frenzy

Who defeated the Republican Party?

         To day the question among the members of my family who vote republican is,, “what happened”?? The power brokers of the party say that the conservative voters were suppressed by some means that so far remains to be uncovered.

         The truth is simple, they defeated them selves; during the primaries true pictures were painted by each candidate of his fellows more like the portrait of Dorian Gray for each 

          Paul Ryan was painted correctly as an extreme follower of a passed screen writer Alisa Rosenbaum (Ayn Rand) with a firm belief in feudalism.

He appeared to be in a crown and a bloody sward defending the worthy people from the maggots of humanity 

          Willard Mitt Romney was trashed for months by all his fellow party members the picture painted of him was something to behold.

           Simon Lagree and Scrooge MacDuck if not Ebenezer, looking to down on the common man as some thing to be used then down sized for the benefit of the chosen few, the rest of the nation scrabbling for a crust of bread in a David Copper field world

           These were not pictures painted by the Democratic Party but only pointed to. And the finger can also be pointed to the guiding hand of Carl Rove who forgot that the American people remember and in this age this mud slinging, these pictures can be viewed again and again.

            So he will be painted by his fellows to look like the evil emperor from Star Wars who led them down the path to destruction            

We are not a Kingdom or Corporation

           To Day we heard Willard Mit Romney say that our nation should be run like a business led by a CEO

           I quake at that notion… Corporations exist for one reason only and that is to make profit, governments, democratic ones exist to serve the people of that Nation or country you can not fire or lay off citizens of that nation. Our democracy is by and on inception a Government of the people by the people and for the people.

            Some in our Nation feel that right of birth or wealth should entitle them to Right of privilege as the natural order of things noted by the twentieth century philosopher Ayn Rand.

             This notion was defeated by our nation in the 1700s when we established this nation rejecting the notion Kings and Nobles. And stating the God given rights of all men…..        

Fiscal Insanity

              

            To day it was announced that we are now in our twelfth year of war in Afghanistan with out any means to pay for this astronomically expensive endeavor. We as a nation have paid for these most expensive wars in our history by borrowing money from a nation once deemed to be an enemy of our way of life.

            The cost to service this loan now takes a large portion of our national product with out any return, as the money spent may as well have been for fire works.

            In all previous wars Taxes were raised as a national sacrifice and the rest of the costs were pied for by borrowing from the American people using war bonds the interest not paid out to a foreign nation but back to the people of our country.

             To use this method of using a credit card from a nation not our own to support wars was at the very best stupid and at the worst criminal.  

             The pushing for banks to give millions of new Loans for trillions of dollars borrowed from bundled mortgages, again sold to other nations was a stupid idea with no understanding of what would be done when the bills came due….   

All true!!! you read you judge

A TIMELINE OF OIL AND VIOLENCE

AFGHANISTAN

(Click here for Timeline - Iraq)

- Last updated February 13, 2006 -

(Edits and other suggestions are welcomed)

See map of area

July 3, 1979	President Carter signed a secret directive aiding opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul, calculated to induce a Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. (See: Interview with former President Carter's National Security Advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski)
Mid to Late 1980s	Sept. 1986: In response to apparent successes of the Soviet Hind-D helicopter-gunship in Afghanistan, President Reagan authorized the shipment of Stinger missiles via Pakistan to Afghanistan. Overwhelmingly successful use of the Stinger resulted in neutralization of the Hind-D, and three years later (1989) to full Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan. The US, wishing to increase its regional influence, worked with the Saudis to import an army of Saudis, Egyptians, and others into Afghanistan. The Saudis chose a member of a wealthy construction family with close royal family ties - Osama bin Laden - to lead the effort. Many of the men bin Laden recruited were connected to the Muslim Brotherhood, a regional fundamentalist group. bin Laden's newly constructed army (shortly thereafter known as al Qaeda) successfully fought to settle Afghanistan in favor of an Afghan fundamentalist group, the Taliban. [See: Against All Enemies, Inside America's War on Terror; Richard A. Clark, Free Press (Simon & Schuster), 2004]
Dec. 1991	Collapse of the Soviet Union, and the birth of Caspian Sea nations of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan (1).
1993	US Oil companies reached for the estimated 200 billion barrels of oil in the Caspian Sea area. (Also: 2 3 4 5 6)
1995	Unocal, seeking to build a pipeline across Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, and Pakistan (for delivery to energy hungry Asia via the Pakistani Arabian Sea coast), signed an agreement with Turkmenistan for natural gas purchasing rights for transport through a proposed pipeline (7). (See also 2) Unocal also signed an agreement with Turkmenistan for an oil pipeline (8) along the same route.
Aug. 13, 1996	Unocal and Delta Oil Co. of Saudi Arabia signed a memorandum of understanding (9) with Russia's Gazprom and Turkmenistan's Turkmenrusgaz to build a gas pipeline from Turkmenistan to Pakistan via Afghanistan.
Oct. 1997	Unocal and other oil companies formed Central Asia Gas Pipeline, Ltd. (CentGas) (10) in preparation for building the trans-Afghanistan pipeline.
1997	US Congress passed a resolution declaring the Caspian and Caucasus region to be a “zone of vital American interests”.
Dec. 1997	Unocal invited Taliban representatives to their corporate headquarters in Sugarland, TX. (11) to discuss the pipeline project. They were thereafter invited to Washington for meetings with Clinton Administration officials.
Jan. 1998	Unocal agreement signed between Pakistan, Turkmenistan, and the Taliban (12) to arrange funding of the gas pipeline project, with Unocal also considering a Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-Arabian Sea coast oil pipeline.
1998	VP Dick Cheney, then CEO of the giant oil services company, Halliburton, stated: "I cannot think of a time when we have had a region emerge as suddenly to become as strategically significant as the Caspian." (13)
Feb. 28, 1998	Unocal VP International Relations addressed US House of Representatives(14) clearly stating that the Taliban government should be removed and replaced by a government acceptable to his company. He argued that creation of a 42 inch oil pipeline across Afghanistan would yield a Western profit increase of 500% by 2015.
March 1998	Unocal announced a delay in finalizing the pipeline project (15) due to Afghanistan's continuing civil war
Aug. 7, 1998	Terrorists said to be linked to Osama bin Laden bombed two US embassies (16) in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Aug. 20, 1998	Clinton ordered a 75-80 cruise missile attacks (17) on Afghanistan and Sudan targets.
Aug. 21, 1998	Unocal temporarily halted development of the pipeline(18) project following the US missile attack above.
Aug. 22, 1998	BBC reported that the US and al-Queda leader Osama bin Laden exchanged warnings (19) of things to come following the cruise missile attacks ordered two days earlier. (You may be required to copy and paste -> newsid_156000/156273.stm <- into the search window of this link to find this page.)
Nov. 1998	The Trade and Development Agency commissioned Enron to perform a feasibility study (20) re: an east-to-west route, crossing the Caspian Mountains and terminating in Turkey along the Mediterranean. (The route was considered impractical as it would cost an estimated $1 billion more than a route through Afghanistan.)
Dec. 1998	Unocal issued a statement (21) that it had withdrawn from the pipeline project on 12/4/98, noting "business reasons."
April 30, 1999	Excluding US interests, Afghanistan, Pakistan, & Turkmenistan reactivated the pipeline project (22 - cached copy via Google) (see also 22a)
July 4, 1999	An executive order (13129) was issued by Clinton, freezing US held Taliban assets (23), & prohibiting trade plus other transactions. (See also: 23a)
Oct. 15, 1999	UN Security Council Resolution 1267 imposed sanctions on the Taliban (24a), demanding that the Taliban "turn over the terrorist Usama Bin Laden without further delay..."
Oct. 12, 2000	The USS Cole was attacked (25) in the Yemeni port of Aden.
Dec. 19, 2000	UN Security Council Resolution 1333 (24b) demanded compliance with Resolution 1267, and imposed further sanctions on the Taliban (24b).
Jan. - Feb. 2001	Upon taking office, the Bush administration immediately engaged in active negotiations with Taliban representatives (27) with meetings in Washington, DC, Berlin, and Islamabad. During this time the Taliban government hired Laila Helms, niece of former CIA director Richard Helms (28), as their go-between in negotiations with the US government. Bush (oil) administration (29) includes: Dick Cheney, VP: Until 2000 - President of Halliburton (in position to build the Afghan pipeline). Condoleezza Rice, National Security Advisor: 1991-2000 - Manager of Chevron Oil, and Kazakhstan go-between. Donald Evans, Sec. Commerce: former CEO, Tom Brown, Inc. (a $1.2 billion oil company). Gale Norton, Sec. Interior: former national chairwoman of the Coalition of Republican Environmental Advocates - funded by, among others, BP Amoco. Spencer Abraham, Sec. Energy: Up through his failed bid for senatorial reelection in the 2000, he received more oil and gas industry money than all but three other senators (January 1997 through July 2000) (30). Thomas White, Secretary of the Army: former Vice Chairman of Enron and a large shareholder of that company's stock.
May 15, 2001	Regarding the placement of the Unocal Pipeline, a US Official delivered this ultimatum to the Taliban (via the Pakistani delegation acting as their interlocutors): "Either you accept our offer of a carpet of gold, or we bury you under a carpet of bombs." (Ref: Jean-Charles Brisard and Guillaume Dasquie in "Forbidden Truth" (31) (Book's Preface online-pdf format (32) )
June 2001	US Ambassador to Yemen, Ms. Barbara Bodine forbade Deputy Director FBI John O'Neill (33) from entering Yemen in that group's ongoing investigation into al-Qaeda and the USS Cole attack.
July 2001	Niaz Naik, a former Pakistani Foreign Secretary, was told by senior American officials in mid-July (34a) that military action against Afghanistan would go ahead by the middle of October. (See also BBC report(34b))
Aug. 2, 2001	Last meeting with the Taliban (5 weeks before the 9/11/01 attack). (35) Christina Rocca, in charge of Central Asian affairs for US government, met with the Taliban Ambassador to Pakistan (Abdul Salam Zaeef) in Islamabad, at which time Taliban representatives were reminded that the US had provided monetary relief assistance. (The above referenced State Department report fails to mention that oil topics were also discussed.) (36).
Aug. 22, 2001	John O'Neill - Deputy director FBI, established national expert on the al-Qaeda network and in charge of that investigation, resigned in protest over the Bush Administration's obstruction (37) of those investigations. (See also: New Yorker 1/14/02 (37a) )
Aug. 23, 2001	John O'Neill accepted position as chief of security, World Trade Center buildings (38). NOTE: Electronic security for the World Trade Center was provided by Securacom (now Stratesec), a company initially founded with Kuwaiti capital. Marvin P. Bush, President George W. Bush's youngest brother served as a Securicom/Stratesec board member from 1993 through 2000. (38a)
Sept. 4-11, 2001	July - Sept. 2000 - Pakistani Intelligence Chief (ISI) Lt. General Mahmoud Ahmad reportedly instructed British born Saeed Sheikh (alias: Ahmad Umar Sheikh, Mustafa Muhammad Ahmed, ....) in Pakistan to wire $100,000 (7/00-9/00) to two Florida bank accounts held by hijacker Mohammed Atta. (Washington Post 10-7-01 (39a), (Times of India 10-9-01 (30b), (Dawn News 10-9-01 (39c), (World Net Daily 1-30-02 (30d), (Times of India 08-1-03 (39e) Sept. 4, 2001 - ISI's Lt. General Ahmad entered the United States and subsequently met with many top officials within the Bush Administration. (Philadelphia City Paper 12-20-01 (39f), (Counterpunch 10-1-02 (39g) Sept. 11, 2001 - Lt. General Ahmad concluded a breakfast meeting with Senator Bob Graham (D-FL), Representative Porter Goss (R-FL), and Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ). (Graham and Goss subsequently served as CO-Chairs of the Joint-Intelligence Committee investigating the 9/11 attacks.) (Counterpunch 10-1-02 (39h) (Online Journal 8-7-03 (39i), (S.A.Tribune 4-11-04 (39j) During Ahmad's brief stay in the US, he also met with: Secretary of State Colin Powell, Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, US Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Marc Grossman, and the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Sen. Joseph Biden (D-DE). (Dawn News 9-10-01 (39k), (Reuters 9/13/01 (39l), (Deutsche Presse-Agentur 9-12-01 (39m), Center for Cooperative Research - See: section: Sept. 11-16 (39n)
Sept. 9, 2001	Ahmed Shah Masood was assassinated in Afghanistan (40). His assassination severely weakened the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance, which he had led.
Sept. 11, 2001	World Trade Center attacked by al Qaeda; fifteen of the nineteen were from Saudi Arabia [41a, 41b]. John O'Neill, WTC security chief, and former deputy director of the FBI, where he headed investigation of the al-Qaeda network, was killed in those buildings on that day. (41c)
Sept. 28, 2001	UN Security Council Resolution 1373 imposed further sanctions on the Taliban (26).
Oct. 7, 2001	Military operations with aerial bombardment began in Afghanistan (42)
Oct. 31, 2001	The Bush White House drafted an unprecedented executive order (43a) sealing presidential records including those of prior administrations. [See also: US House Committee on Governmental Reform analysis (43b)]
Dec. 22, 2001	The US-backed interim government headed by Hamid Karzai took office in Kabul, Afghanistan (44a). (Hamid Karzai had formerly functioned as a Unocal Corporation consultant (44b) )
Dec. 31, 2001	Bush appointed Zalmay Khalilzad, as his Special Envoy to Afghanistan (45a). Zhalilzad, like Karzai had earlier functioned as a Unocal consultant, participating in 1997 talks between Unocal and Taliban officials. (Regarding Zhalilzad's "neocon" credentials, See: 45b).
Jan. 29, 2002	CNN reported: "President Bush personally asked Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle Tuesday to limit the congressional investigation into the events of 9/11/01" (46).
Feb 8, 2002	Afghanistan's interim ruler Hamid Karzai and the Pakistan president agreed to revive plans (47a) for a trans-Afghanistan pipeline..
Feb 9, 2002	Turkmenistan officially stated that they hoped their trans-Afghanistan route would be soon built.
Feb. 2002	Proposal to deploy US Special Operations forces to the Caucasus state of Georgia (47b) (would help enforce a Washington pipeline policy - neutralizing Russian influence in Central Asia.)
May 13, 2002	Afghanistan's Hamid Karzai to hold talks with his Pakistani and Turkmenistan counterparts (47c) regarding a pipeline from Turkmenistan, through Afghanistan, and through Pakistan to the coast. Mohammad Alim Razim, Afghanistan's minister for Mines and Industries, stated Unocal was considered "the lead company" to build the pipeline. (See also: 47d.)
May 30, 2002	Afghanistan, Pakistan and Turkmenistan agreed to construct a gas pipeline to the subcontinent (48a) (See also: 48b.)
Nov. 2004	The annual US Government estimate for opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan was released Nov. 2004 (49): approximately 206,700 hectares of poppy were grown in 2004, representing a 239% increase in production over 2003 estimates.

Some Things really piss me off

Today I was running errands and one of my stops took me to Walmart . While there my path took me through the food section, a young lady pushed an enormous trash can to the bread counter marking through the price on bread and cakes and tossing it into the can all of this food was to be tossed into the dumpster I was told,  all markdown food is thrown away. The waste of this food is a crime and hard for me to shut up about.. Then to night this piece popped up in the science news on yahoo……    More than 50 million Americans couldn't afford to buy food at some point in 2011, according to federal data.

 Someone tell me this is not real       

Thr true face of Evil

The true face of Evil is not a snarling thing of horror but a kind face that has broken your back and then blames your Dr. because he can’t fixit. Now that you have this picture in your mind, add to it that this kind face has also tied the Doctor’s hands behind his back then berates the Dr. for being ineffective.

 Is the Republican Party the true face of Evil?  this is for you to decided and it always has been,,, How do you see it ??????    

So help us God

            The notion that democracy no longer serves the people of our nation is being pushed by the political underbelly of our nation, (right wing pundits).
            Some of the following BS pushed lately; that Adolf Hitler was really a left winger because of the name of the Nazis party, that the US was never intended to be a democracy, and along with a right wing author who denied that the separation of Church and State was embedded in our nation from the beginning

             Could it be that this underbelly is truly setting the course for a certain political front in this Nation or maybe reflecting the dark side of the neocons?     

              Whatever the case; to loudly state that the single and only goal of the neocons is the defeat of the progressives in our nation up to including the blocking of the recovery of our economy should be seen as a crime against the American people      

              In spite of all being said we will continue to be a Democracy so help us God

The would be heros and patriots

                   We have a great country created and maintained by the sacrifice of a few for the many.. From the beginning a few men stood on a green in Massachusetts standing up for the rest of the population of New England, willing to die for what they thought was right.

                 Most of us were patriots giving all we had for the cause, the welfare of our nation. However even in those days the patriots, the rabble were the ones giving their all while a few of the wealthy,( just a few) publicly voiced their support, without giving a penny or a moment of their time… In some cases siding with enemy's of the new nation.

                 Then when the smoke settled they would stand, cheer, taking the accolade of hero and patriot.

               In this day and age, the magic use of words have made it seem that somehow if the very wealthy are asked to give their fair share to maintain this nation that has given them so much, they are being punished as they are above it all. This is not all wealthy but a few who in other times would claim to be heroes and patriots….                

Can we know the truth

A friend recently quoted the words of a Radio pundit on the health care bill, identifying page and paragraph in the Affordable Health Care Act where I could find the word Dhimmitude. Being the type of guy that just happens to have a copy of the legislation handy, I looked it up an it was not there. A family member from Texas also made the same claim. I have started to look and listen to those around me a little closer finding that people are accepting total lies and half truths as fact. Even quoting pundits who in defense of them selves (the pundits) say that they are entertainers and this was not intended to be factual. And yet we prefer to believe... This current world wide financial crises was brought on by the US (United States) through the sale of bad securities,  the Trillions of dollars in bogus securities sold through out the first eight years of this century, this was not intentional and if public works had been in place to tide the economy over through the down turn in the economy in  2001 through 2006 so many mortgages would not  have crashed and the securities would have carried there value. Time will tell as long as the truth can be told....It is said that some Germans, East Germans had no idea what had gone on in their country during World War II , until the 1990ties
                                       How will history remember this time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!                         

The notion of nobles and surfs

There is no altruistic meaning for any investment by a corporation except to make money, no Corporation exists if it doesn't make money A corporation is a Feudalistic body not a Democracy.. These things said the notion that we can and should run our nation on a business model is reducing our citizens to surfs. Mit Romney expounds this Idea contrary to WE the People    

Who is the privet sector

Lately we as a Nation have seen stories like the NY Campaign Spokesman Suggesting that acid be thrown in to the faces of Female Dem Senators for imposing laws on the privet sector. Although Jay Townsend is still in good standing in the republic party we have heard that the privet sector will not stand for sanctions against them or him in this war on Women in Government. Do we have a separate country in our nation called the privet sector????....Who are these people ?????.....  

The First Right as a human

    Should people have Reproductive Rights is the question?????
Men get vasectomies every day,, should these be band ??
Women have their tubes tied,,,, should these be against the law??????
Men and boys spill their seed all over the place, through masturbation,, is this against the law????
The notion that human sex acts ( the most intimate on human activities between a male and female) cause 
 indignation in some religions as procreation is not God centered but derived from heated sexual   passion, other words for lust.
Today,, some members of our, (rights protectors), government again try to take this most personnel of rights. the right of Reproduction, the size of our family and so forth away from us under the notion that they know what is best for us. We need to take a look at leaders and see who wants to take away any of our rights whether they are in our Constitution or not 
           

The Real masters of our country are the forces of Greed

 On a recent trip to North Dakota we noted Many places that have had life breathed back into them by the massive amounts of oil being shipped out of that area
     Some how this has all but escaped the national news machine We are apparently swimming in crude oil that is being shipped off shore proving that with out a doubt finding oil does not lower the price of Gas but lines the pockets Of the new masters of our country Corporations

Shattered to pieces

       Shattered to pieces is a good analogy for the condition of our Country; even the civil war divided our nation less than we are now. As human beings we all have issues and ideas that separate us from our fellows as well issues and ideas that unite us at that time (during the civil war) there were two major sides,  currently there are many groups all against each other even on the right wing side.  
      To conquer an entire nation politically, all that needed to be done was / is to encourage the issues and ideas of separation and resulting the discontent is nation wide. Human nature is to be mean and selfish and we see it now with out apology. Rick Santorun recently tried to float the idea that the Government ( people ) should not help the sick, poor , and down trodden as it was against his religious teaching that was corrected soon enough.
Readers digest recently said that the notion that Robin hood was not a good person because he took from the wealthy and powerful and gave to the poor. What's that all about,,,, so what do you think folks        

Business versus the People

    The Notion of a democracy is not new, in various forms it has been  around at least  for twenty five hundred years. This Idea was reintroduced to the world in 1776 AD in the United States of America and By the turn of the Century to 1800 we were a Federal nation where a majority ruled with courts established to enforce laws protecting the rights of the minority in accordance with the law.
    From the beginning ours was a Government of all the people The purpose of This government was to identify and protect the rights human beings.
    The Civil war was truly a war fought over the right of one group to make a profit at the expense of human beings. Also as the candidate who was elected for office did not agree with the minority ( losing party in the election) the losing group ditched the law of the land. At the end of that conflict a rededication  at Gettysburg Pa. Identified us with Government of the People By the People and for the People.
     Corporations exist only to make a profit. While our government Exist to serve the people of our nation not as a money making proposition, so when I hear a politician talk of our Nation as like a corporation or the need of our nation to make a profit. I will not give him my vote.and beseech that others do like wise     
           

Let the work of our nation procede

         An effort to curtail all activity by this administration is nothing new: During the depression of the 1930ties several attempts were made block any effort to support the American people and in those cases The president used The recess of the Senate to push appointments. Now in this current age The current president has used this Time to install an appointment of the head of the National Labor Relations Board.
         In truth this Board is thought by the republican party nothing more than a front for American unions and in this era where the supreme court has clearly moved in favor of an American Plutocracy to off set the rights of  the individual through the establishment of  corporations with these same rights.        
         First, all unions are a Democratic institution with officers and leaders voted into position by the rank and file members while Corporations are more like an aristocracy. (a Plutocracy)
The argument given by some of our republican friends  that the rights of individuals now bestowed on corporations was to balance out the power of unions was some how believed to offset the need for a labor relations board;
         I believe that some of the leaders of the Republican party feel that these institutions Like the NLRB Dilute the power of the New American Aristocrats (the one percent)

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