Check out: THE NEW AMERICAN DREAM: Dear America, I quit - Please Click on the headline, to see Obama's newest revelation! Hopefully, Obama REALLY MEANS IT THIS TIME - My wife and I voted for McCain in the last Presidential election. Either way, the country we believe in was VERY likely to be screwed.
Please click on the heading of this post to see Obama's long overdue confession.
2010/02/21
Sanity Prevails: The Dutch are pulling out of Afghanistan!
The Dutch coalition government has collapsed amid a political disagreement over the continued war in Afghanistan. The left-leaning Labor Party has left the government because it wants the Netherlands to adhere to a scheduled military withdrawal of most of its 1600 troops from the Afghan province of Uruzgan by the end of August. NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen had asked the Netherlands to maintain a smaller presence.
The Dutch withdrawal is another challenge for NATO. The Western defense alliance is already struggling to assemble 10,000 additional troops that General Stanley McCrystal DEMANDS to accompany the 30,000 extra American troops being deployed there.
The Dutch withdrawal is another challenge for NATO. The Western defense alliance is already struggling to assemble 10,000 additional troops that General Stanley McCrystal DEMANDS to accompany the 30,000 extra American troops being deployed there.
2010/02/18
Europe's Five Undeclared Nuclear Weapons States
As the Roman poet Vergil (Publius Vergilius Maro) pointed out many years ago, long before you were born, and before you and I served in Vietnam: Facilis descensis Averno - Easy is the descent into hell, but to return safely to the world above, here is the task, there is the difficulty!
There are now FIVE European "Undeclared Nuclear Weapons States" - Turkey, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and Italy! Which one of these might be compelled to plunge our world into a nuclear war, from which our tiny planet is destined never to recover? Five countries, the US, UK, France, China and Russia are considered to be "nuclear weapons states" (NWS), an internationally recognized status conferred by the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Three other "Non NPT countries" (i.e.non-signatory states of the NPT) including India, Pakistan and North Korea are known to possess nuclear weapons. Israel is an "undeclared nuclear state". It produces and deploys nuclear warheads directed against military and civilian targets in the Middle East including Tehran. In addition, Belgium, Germany, Turkey, the Netherlands and Italy have easy access to nuclear bombs. While Iran's nuclear weapons capabilities are unconfirmed, the nuclear weapons capabilities of these five countries, including delivery procedures are formally acknowledged.
Which one of these nations is going to involve our fragile earth in a nuclear holocaust from which our planet will never recover? Please click on my headline to "get the rest of this story".
There are now FIVE European "Undeclared Nuclear Weapons States" - Turkey, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and Italy! Which one of these might be compelled to plunge our world into a nuclear war, from which our tiny planet is destined never to recover? Five countries, the US, UK, France, China and Russia are considered to be "nuclear weapons states" (NWS), an internationally recognized status conferred by the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Three other "Non NPT countries" (i.e.non-signatory states of the NPT) including India, Pakistan and North Korea are known to possess nuclear weapons. Israel is an "undeclared nuclear state". It produces and deploys nuclear warheads directed against military and civilian targets in the Middle East including Tehran. In addition, Belgium, Germany, Turkey, the Netherlands and Italy have easy access to nuclear bombs. While Iran's nuclear weapons capabilities are unconfirmed, the nuclear weapons capabilities of these five countries, including delivery procedures are formally acknowledged.
Which one of these nations is going to involve our fragile earth in a nuclear holocaust from which our planet will never recover? Please click on my headline to "get the rest of this story".
2010/02/13
Peace Action: "Obama can go to hell"
Paul Kawika Martin, one of the leaders of the anti-war movement, disclosed that there had been a lot of angry comments aimed at Obama during a conference call with progressives from the US: "I heard a woman say 'Obama can go to hell'. That was from someone who had campaigned for him." Martin, political director of Peace Action, added: "I am hearing a visceral reaction among the grassroots who are very disappointed. People did want to give Obama a chance, but that honeymoon period is clearly ending."Such sentiments can be heard at social gatherings round Washington where liberals meet and can be seen in the daily debates on liberal blog sites such as Huffington Post, Daily Kos, Firedoglake and Talking Points Memo. MoveOn.org, whose members campaigned hard for Obama last year, helped raise funds for him throughout the early stages of his administration, turned on him and unequivocally denounced him: " President Obama has ordered about 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan - escalating the war. But escalation only deepens our involvement in a quagmire. The president needs to hear that we want to bring the troops home, not send more to Afghanistan".
2010/02/10
The Anarchy which Obama Created in Afghanistan
To fully understand the "war" in Afghanistan, you have to look at the time-line on
http://www.ringnebula.com/Timeline.htm
Our greed for the oil available from the former Soviet "republics" has made us blind to the suffering of the indigenous people in that struggling nation. Right now, there are hundreds of thousands of Afghans struggling to stay alive and feed their families in the mud of wretched refugee camps near Kabul.
As a direct result of their suffering, a group calling itself "the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan" has issued a warning to the American people of how they will endeavor to defend their troubled nation. To read the full text of their warning, please click on A Message From The Taliban at
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24128.htm
http://www.ringnebula.com/Timeline.htm
Our greed for the oil available from the former Soviet "republics" has made us blind to the suffering of the indigenous people in that struggling nation. Right now, there are hundreds of thousands of Afghans struggling to stay alive and feed their families in the mud of wretched refugee camps near Kabul.
As a direct result of their suffering, a group calling itself "the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan" has issued a warning to the American people of how they will endeavor to defend their troubled nation. To read the full text of their warning, please click on A Message From The Taliban at
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24128.htm
2010/02/09
Petraeus: "Violence Will Increase in Afghanistan"
As a result of the US military escalation, US troops would "have to fight their way into enemy strongholds and clear enemy-controlled population centers."
But wait: Hamid Karsai, our 'boy in charge' of that desperate country, stated that it would be 15 to 20 years before Afghanistan would be able to sustain its own security forces.
As long as the long-anticipated oil pipeline will enrich the wealthy owners in our United States, the casualties among our soldiers and airmen will not be of great concern to small and tiny (CHANGE) Obama, our supposed deliverer from the alleged evils of our Cheney/Bush administration.
According to the New York Times, Pentagon aides went further, clarifying that when Gates spoke of a withdrawal taking YEARS, he was not referring to a complete pulling out of US troops, but merely to a: "gradual" and "conditions-based" theater of the absurd, and an almost imperceptible change in the US military role!
Before a lot of fools were enticed to vote for him, Obama DID promise change, and now you have it.
But wait: Hamid Karsai, our 'boy in charge' of that desperate country, stated that it would be 15 to 20 years before Afghanistan would be able to sustain its own security forces.
As long as the long-anticipated oil pipeline will enrich the wealthy owners in our United States, the casualties among our soldiers and airmen will not be of great concern to small and tiny (CHANGE) Obama, our supposed deliverer from the alleged evils of our Cheney/Bush administration.
According to the New York Times, Pentagon aides went further, clarifying that when Gates spoke of a withdrawal taking YEARS, he was not referring to a complete pulling out of US troops, but merely to a: "gradual" and "conditions-based" theater of the absurd, and an almost imperceptible change in the US military role!
Before a lot of fools were enticed to vote for him, Obama DID promise change, and now you have it.
2010/02/05
Are Top Journalists STILL "Intellectual Prostitutes"?
John Swinton, the foremost journalist of his day, was asked to toast an independent press at a New York banquet given in his honor by other journalists. His response was clear and forthright:
"There is no such thing, at this stage of the world's history in America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dare write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that they would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would we foolish enough to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my papers, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. The business of the journalist is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify. to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it, and what is this folly in toasting an independent press?
"There is no such thing, at this stage of the world's history in America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dare write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that they would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would we foolish enough to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my papers, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. The business of the journalist is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify. to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it, and what is this folly in toasting an independent press?
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