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MAD II : Give Iran Nukes For Peace

2010-08-22T02:55:07Z

Like 'em or not, nuclear weapons kept the peace during the cold war between the Russian Federation/USSR and the U.S./NATO Alliance.

The policy was called M.A.D., which stands for "Mutually Assured Destruction." It can be summed up simply as "You nuke us, we nuke you." It wasn't a pleasant way to live, but it was better than what would have happened if only the USA had nuclear weapons.

Let me keep this blog short and to the point. If we really want peace in the Middle East we need to get Iran a small nuclear deterrent arsenal right away. The U.N. can make the arrangements. Call it M.A.D. II , and call it the only way to stop American-Israeli aggression in the Middle East.

MAD II could be summarized as "Invade Iran and get nuked, or leave them alone and enjoy the peace."

There would be no danger of Iran using nuclear weapons unless Iran is attacked first. It would be a national suicide and the Iranians know it perfectly well. Iran is a peaceful nation, and the last thing the Iranians want is a war. War can do them no good.

Once Iran has a small but effective nuclear weapons capability countries like Israel, the USA, Britain and France will stop their warmongering threats, and start getting serious about the peace process. These nuclear-armed hypocrites have no business telling any country the can, or can not, have nukes.

Unfortunately, the U.S.-Israeli alliance views Iran as an oil-filled cherry waiting to be picked, the same way they viewed Iraq. The MSM and the Republicrats are now beating the war drums again - with bogus stories of an offensive nuclear program, and other fake intelligence.

America is a desperate bankrupt empire undergoing a freefall decline. Stealing oil and murdering millions in the process seems to be the only card they have left to play. This will lead to WW III, but that seems to be just fine with the military-industrial "elite" who really call the shots.

When it comes to preventing WW III all options must be seriously considdered.

Humans Are Nowhere Close To "Creating Life"

2010-05-23T12:14:12Z

We all read the recent headlines about Craig Venter's team "playing God" by "creating a bacterial cell" in the lab. The media will spin things and create a good story as only the media, and politicians of course, can do. However, the facts tell a much different story.

What Venter did was equivalent to making a timing belt in a lab, inserting it into a new car, and then claiming to have made a new car from scratch. Actually a more accurate analogy would be that Venter's team copied a timing belt in a lab, inserted that into an existing vehicle, and the claimed to have created the fully assembled new vehicle.

Humans have never created life from scratch. We can't do it and we are nowhere close to "creating life." We can only take already living things and tinker with them. Venter's team tinkered with an existing DNA pattern by splicing some nucleotides. Then they injected this into an already living cell. Life was not created. Molested yes, created no.

A single cell is extremely complex, and DNA is only one of the ingredients. The various cell parts are called organelles, and no organelle has ever been made from scratch. There have been attempts, but none of the man-made organelles came to life. They looked like a duck, but they never walked like a duck or quacked like a duck.

The outer skin of any cell is called the cell membrane. You might think that scientists could make a simple cell membrane from scratch, but they can't do that either. It turns out that the membrane itself is astonishingly complex. It is a "living thing" in it's own right, just like the other organelles.

Venter tinkered with one small part of a living cell. Period. As much as we like to backslap ourselves for being such a smart species we are nowhere close to "creating life", not even a tiny single-celled organism.

President and CIA Agent Barry Soetoro

2010-05-14T09:48:21Z

President and CIA Agent Barry Soetoro

Opinion by Dr. Goldstein

President Obama was a CIA agent. The fact that this information is being carefully concealed from the public does raise reasonable suspicion that the CIA is running America as Rep. Ron Paul has stated. This would explain why Obama has maintained Bush Administration policies of multi-theater war and ongoing torture, while substantially escalating the Afghan invasion into neighboring Pakistan.

Pentagon spending has greatly increased. Wall Street is being propped up with lavish bailouts and bonuses, while Main Street and the various states are being allowed to go bankrupt. "Change" was just a hollow soundbite, but it got the CIA's man into the White House.

Obama's flagship issue that helped him trounce Hillary's campaign was a promise to bring the troops home on day one. It was the horse he rode in on, but it was a lame horse and a flagrant lie. Only a man with no conscience could lie like that to a war-weary nation. In fact, Obama's greatest talent is his ability to deceive. That's not a characteristic you want your friends to have, but it's a great asset for a CIA agent.

There are so many unanswered questions about Obama's past. So many huge mysteries, and things that just don't fit. Entire chapters of Obama's past have been officially sealed and restricted from public scrutiny. Only Jesus himself has more lost years. There is even a long list of sensitive topics that are 100% "off limits" for the White House Press Corps and the mainstream news outlets they represent. Why?

The simple answer to all of the questions is that Barack Obama, formerly Barry Soetoro, formerly Barry Dunham was working as a CIA spook during the "off limits" years. Once this fact is added to the equation there are no more mysteries or unanswered questions. In fact, once we factor in Obama's CIA years, every single piece of the Obama-Soetoro puzzle falls perfectly into place.

"Obama was a CIA agent" is the answer to all of the unanswered questions. Here are some examples:

Question: Why did Obama go to Pakistan during the time when CIA agents were swarming to Pakistan and providing weapons to Bin Laden and the Mujahadeen?

Answer: Obama was a CIA agent and a key player.

Question: Why did two professional investigators find that Obama has had numerous different social security numbers during his life?

Answer: Obama was a CIA agent. They have all kinds of identities, passports and social security numbers. It is illegal for normal Americans to have more than one social security number in their lifetime.

Question: How did a mediocre "C student" get accepted into Harvard with help from the U.S. State Department?

Answer: Obama was a CIA agent. State owed him one for his work in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Question: Why do none of the 400 "Obama classmates" at Columbia University remember having Obama in their class?

Answer: Obama was a CIA agent. Columbia is closely linked to the CIA. "Columbia student" is a great fake identity, and CIA money buys transcripts.

I have only scratched at the surface here, but the real unmasking of Obama is about to take place under the leadership of Dr. James David Manning PhD.

Dr. Manning has spent 16 months preparing documents, evidence, and witnesses for the "CIA Columbia Obama Trial" which will last from May 14th to May 19th, 2010 in Harlem, New York.

I just heard about this recently, but the initial reports suggest Manning and his witnesses have damning evidence that will slam-dunk Obama and the CIA. Obama was reportedly recruited by the CIA in 1980 while attending Occidental College. The CIA needed Muslims like Obama fluent in farsi and Muslim customs. Obama was their dream agent for the Pakistan-Afghanistan region.

ASSASSINATION COMING ?

Dr. Manning may be killed before Obama's trial gets underway. The CIA does not want the public to know the President is one of their own. For some time now the doctor has been followed, wiretapped, videotaped, threatened, taunted, harassed and menaced by goons from the CIA and FBI. That means he could easily vanish without a trace. He could be openly assassinated under Obama's domestic assassination policy, or he could have a "heart attack" or other "accident" all courtesy of Obama's former clandestine co-workers. The threats are extremely serious and the danger to Dr. Manning is very real.

If you care about America and if you have an open mind please follow Manning's Columbia Obama Treason Trial. This could be a turning point, both for Obama's Bush-like presidency, and for world history.

What would Martin Luther King Jr. say to the SPLC?

2010-04-25T08:33:05Z

Opinion by Dr. Goldstein

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."

If Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. was resurrected he would have nothing to do with the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). If he came back from the grave and visited the SPLC today it would probably go something like this:

Rev. King would look at the list of concerned Americans the SPLC smears on their list of "antigovernment 'patriots'." Then he would shake his head in disgust and say "You bash these people who dislike the corruption, injustice, torture camps and covert operations of the government? You smear these people who speak out against todays wars and tyrannical oppression both at home and overseas? My whole life was about leading the people into a nonviolent revolution against the oppressive government of the day and it's tyrannical policies. I used the term 'marvelous new militancy' to describe the movement I started. I coined the phrase 'citizens have a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws' in my letter from the Birmingham jail. I personally was in the crosshairs of a covert operation by the FBI and other sinister government agencies."

"I won't support the SPLC or any other quack group that wants to smear antigovernment patriots. I never had an SPLC membership card, and I don't want one today. I was an antigovernment patriot. I hated what the government was doing, both at home and overseas, and I dedicated my life to changing it. And yes, I even spoke passionately in defense of America's Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, just like Ron Paul's Tea Party movement does today. Should I be lumped in with the people you list on your 'Patriot Movement Timeline'? Go ahead if you wish. Us patriots are pretty thick skinned."

"At my Lincoln Memorial speech I said 'When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir'. "

"Free speech and freedom of assembly were the main tools I used in my struggle. I certainly do not agree with every word that every person on your list is saying, but I strongly support their constitutional rights. Did you know that same Bill Of Rights I used also permits gun ownership and the formation of militias? Go ask Ron Paul. The doctor will explain it to you."

"I fought the U.S. government until they had me killed. I gave my life to end apartheid in America. If you really seriously want to follow my example, then start fighting Israel's racist apartheid The Palestinians have a right to exist, and a right to live free of Israeli occupation and oppression. Apartheid is evil whether it happens in America, South Africa or the Middle East. We fought the first two successfully. If you want to destroy the evil menace called apartheid then here is your golden opportunity to finish my work."

"Move your offices to Gaza and the West Bank. Stand up to the Israeli government's systematic annihilation of the defenseless Palestinian families. When we marched to Selma we had to deal with horrific violence but I will be honest about this. The violence in Selma was slow-pitch softball compared to the white phosphorus bombs, helicopter gunships and the massive bulldozers Israel uses against the brown-skinned people of Palestine. Please get to work finishing my struggle against apartheid. If you do that you can proudly hold your heads high and say you are fighting for my cause."

"Whatever happens, please stop making stupid lists of patriots like me who oppose government policy. That is what the FBI and the CIA did to me and you know how that story ended."

Some Important Notes

Dr. King was a fervent advocate of the US Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, just like Dr. Ron Paul and the grassroots Tea Party Movement that Dr. Paul inspired. Sure, the Tea Party was hijacked by people like Sara Palin who won't abolish the IRS, income taxes, wars and anything else the real Tea Party opposes, but I'll come back to that in my next piece. My point is that Dr. King and Dr. Paul were (are) both hardcore constitutionalists. Yet Dr. Ron Paul is smeared by the SPLC as having a "noxious effect on the body politic" because he has a problem with the botched raids of federal "jack-booted thugs". Golly gee - I just don't think Reverend King would have been a cheerleader for the jack-booted thugs either.

Dr. King hated the Vietnam war and America's global military entanglements. He was a member of the anti-war group Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam which coined the phrase "a time comes when silence is betrayal." Dr. King recited what this author views as the very best anti-Vietnam speeches ever. From day one Dr. King saw through the government's smokescreen of propaganda and lies, as Dr. Ron Paul does today. The list of similarities both men share is truly remarkable.

Everybody in the world should read the speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., especially America's Patriots. The world is changing and entering into a period of great turmoil leading to World War III. Courageous patriots, who challenge government as Dr. King did, will determine what America becomes. The words, lessons and strategies of Dr. King have never been more relevant.

This speech is a very good starting point for those who wish to study the words of Dr. King. He lays bare the personal inner struggle that patriots who oppose the government's established order must deal with.

A Good Chuckle

Writing this opinion was serious business, so I want to thank "antigovernment patriot" John Stadtmiller of the Republic Broadcasting Network for giving me a good laugh. Stadtmiller was contacted by the "Intelligence Report" unit of the SPLC about doing an interview. Stadtmiller's reply:

"I would rather pour gasoline on myself and light it than speak to anyone in your organization."

Global Warming: Obituary and Post Mortem

2010-03-25T05:45:00Z

         R.I.P.
Global Warming
   1992-2010

2010 will be remembered as the year Global Warming died. Global Warming was Mann made using clever computer 'tricks' and 'massaged' data. After slowly developing in the womb of junk science for several years, the primary birth announcement and christening occurred when Al Gore published Earth in the Balance in 1992. Gore, the self proclaimed genius who had "created the internet" , eagerly adopted Global Warming and put his new baby in the public spotlight.

Global Warming was a very good earner who attracteded billions of investor's dollars to Gore's for-profit corporation called Generation Investment Management. From day one Global Warming was all about making money. His detractors dared to call him a fraudster and a control freak who wanted to tell everyone how to live.

Gore's book was really quite boring and it failed to get Global Warming the attention (and money) Gore felt his baby deserved, so Gore followed up with An Inconvenient Truth in 2006. The movie will go down in history as an excellent example of what happens when one person, with a hidden financial agenda, tells one side of a story.

Despite it's success, the wildly popular movie was the beginning of the end for Global Warming. It triggered a quick and lethal downward spiral. The movie galvanized scientists who recognized a bogus pseuo-scientific scam when they saw one. Powerful opposition groups formed around the world. Books were written by scholars that destroyed the credibility of Al Gore's pride and joy.

Global Warming was a cash cow, and his opposition had no money, but the opposition ("skeptics") had something more powerful than money: The Truth.

Busted

In short order Global Warming was busted for scamming the public, and forced to appear in Britain's high court. It was an inconvenient verdict for Al Gore's baby: Guilty on eleven counts of scientific fraud which the judge described as "inaccuracies", "false claims" and other synonyms for flat-out lies. The judge pointed out that the movie was one person telling one side of a story. All of the key pillars that Global Warming stood on were knocked out from under him on that fateful day in court.

It was all downhill from there. Global Warming had already been in poor health for many years before his death due to relentless attacks from prominent scientists who beat the lies out of him.

The final death-blow for global warming was a confession by Professor Phil Jones. Jones was the leader of Britain's Climate Research Unit (CRU) which provided temperature data to the U.N.'s International Panel on Climate Change(IPCC) and NASA. Jones stepped down in the wake of the emails disclosure known as Climategate.

It probably cleared his conscience when Jones went public with the truth. At least he stated an important part of the truth anyway. His admissions included facts that stunned everyone who had been suckered by Al Gore and a high-level network of taxpayer-funded climate scammers.

The Highlights of Jones' Revelations:

- Global Warming had completely disappeared in 1995.
- Data for Global Warming's Mann made 'hockey stick graph' has also gone missing.
- Global Warming and global cooling periods have happened many times before, and human activity had nothing to do with it.

Things got so bad after the Climategate scandal that even GreenPeace called for the resignation of the leader of the IPCC. Rajendra Pachauri had been the butt of jokes that climate fraud was so easy, even a caveman can do it.

Post Mortem Analysis

Jones was right. Global Warming was nothing new. Our planet has a long history of warming and cooling. Global temperature is never 'stable'. The only constant thing about climate is change itself.

The infamous hockey stick turned out to be a fake climate history. Like a Criss Angel Mindfreak trick the computer tricks had morphed the actual climate history beyond recognition. The Medieval Warm Period disappeared, as did the Little Ice Age. The hockey stick got the past 100% wrong, and it was ridiculous to trust the hockey stick to predict future climate in the first place. The history of actual thermometer readings ("raw data") did not show any significant global warming whatsoever. The CRU had to digitally manipulate the raw data to create global warming. That was their specialty.

Climate Manipulation Unit would have been a more accurate name. The manipulation processes were called things like "cold bias removal", "temperature homogenization", and one researcher admitted the big problem was to "hide the decline" in temperatures. The CRU's biggest achievement was software that could morph any data-set into a hockey stick.

Looking both ways

Gore was 100% successful in attracting a huge amount of public attention to climate. His mistake was his gross underestimation of both public intelligence and the power of his first "creation": The Internet. There are still many real scientists out there who call bullshit when they see it. The mainstream media (MSM) gagged the skeptical scientists, but you can't control the internet.

They actually tried to manipulate public opinion on the internet by creating RealClimate, a website that acted as a cheerleader for the Climategate scientists and their fearmongering, while silmutaneously promoting the bogus "hide the decline temperature histories" as being the real deal. Dozens of other websites were also set up to promote the phony CRU and IPCC temperature histories. The real temperature histories were systematicly hidden from genuine scientists by repeated and illegal failures to comply with freedom of information requests.

Gore had spent his political career operating safely under the umbrella of a centrally owned and compliant MSM. The powers that be in this world, including the MSM, hate the internet. The net flipped their apple cart upside down and they never even saw it coming. The decentralization of news and information is literally putting them out of business while exposing their previous iron-fisted control over what the public knew and when they got to know it. Nothing has made this more clear than the collapse of the Global Warming scam.

If you yell "fire" people will always take notice and jump into action. But if they find out it was a hoax the instigator loses all credibility forever. Al Gore is now an international joke. Gore is a college student turned politician who was never a climate scientist in the first place.

Gore seems to be missing in action ever since his pride and joy was unmasked. There is nothing out of character here. For many years Gore has used a "duck and cover" tactic every time a real climate scientist challenged him to a debate. Perhaps he is trying to find out where his cash-cow disappeared to, the same way O.J. Simpson scurried away "to find the real killers."

There is one piece of bad news. The funeral for Global Warming is being delayed and a quick burial will not be permitted. Like a scene from a 'B' horror movie, the climate profiteers are trying to resuscitate the maggot-infested carcass of Global Warming. New lies and new scare tactics are being cooked up as I write this. The financial interests will keep trying desperately to revive Al Gore's baby. They want to bleed every possible penny from the public and achieve even greater control over our personal lives and lifestyle choices, all under the pretext of saving the planet. They will ignore the real science, as exposed by Climategate, and pray that the public joins them in being ignorant.

But the good news outweighs the bad. People are not so ignorant anymore. Almost nobody (33%) still believes "human activity" causes global warming. See Graph Top-Right "Planetary trends" (natural cycles) is now the most accepted explanation with support at 48%. These encouraging trendlines will continue. The 'skeptics' are now the majority, and that will never change.

Huffington Post's Ventura Censorship Backfires

2010-03-16T13:47:57Z

Did you know that Adam Lambert has a bulge in his crotch? Were you aware that the world's shortest man recently died? Are you informed enough to know that Jessica Simpson says men are "undressing her with their eyes"?

Sorry, let me rephrase all that: Do you give a shit about any of that retarded "news"? I sure as hell don't, but these were among the many absurd storys I found on the front page of a tabloid called the Huffington Post.

As far as genuine news goes the Huffington Post has some bizarre standards. Jesse Ventura honored the ragsheet by writing a great piece for them. The former Navy Seal and former Governor explained why over 1,000 Architects and Structural Engineers have come together to demand a new investigation regarding the collapse of three high-rise buildings on 9/11. It was a fact filled article that clearly explained the main technical issues that motivated the experts to demand a new investigation. Unfortunately, Ventura was informed that the article did not meet the high standards of the Huffington Post's editorial policy.

Jesse Ventura blew it. He probably should have talked about the Engineers crotches, and included some bulge pictures. Maybe that would have put the article in line with the pathetic tabloid's standards. Who knows. Maybe the Navy seal needed to include some discussion of a deformed midget Architect who was dying. That might have made Huffington's day.

Either way, the censorship backfired and blew up in Arianna Huffington's puffy face. Thousands of web pages have proudly stepped up to the plate and printed Ventura's excellent article. Good websites. The article ended up getting way more exposure. Maybe the best thing is that Huffington's censorship is now well known, and they have been fully exposed as the pathetic rag-sheet they are.

All is well that ends well.

Joe Stack and the Coming Revolution

2010-02-20T09:20:00Z

Joe called for a revolution, but it won't happen. At least not Joe's way, and not right now. Revolutionaries try to stay alive so they can fight for their families. Joe torched his home with his family still inside. True revolutionaries are generally well principled, and they have a solid moral code as well. Watch the movie Che and you will get the picture. True revolutionaries would publicly execute a guy who torched the house his family was living in.

Sure, everybody hates that corporate-owned beast we call government and the beast's tax collectors especially. The beast stopped representing the people a long time ago and everybody knows it. It's all about keeping the military-industrial complex and the prison-industrial complex alive and well. The people be damned. Who cares if states are going bankrupt - The wars must go on. Haliburton and Xe come first.

Bogeymen such as 'global warming' and 'Osama Bin Laden' are created by our governments so the beast can pretend to protect us from these creations. If you want democratic change you get to choose either the white guy who wants more wars and more prisons and carbon taxes, or the mixed-race guy who wants more wars and more prisons and carbon taxes. That's America's democracy. It is the end-stage 'democracy' of an empire rapidly collapsing into a rubble heap.

Anybody who reads Joe Stack's manifesto will find something they can strongly identify with. Joe covered a vast array of relevant hot-button issues. Many Americans will act concerned about the burning IRS building, but secretly they will enjoy multiple re-runs of the smoldering sensation on Youtube. But that won't bring about revolution, and when the revolution comes it won't be lone wolves like Joe Stack who trigger it. Even a hundred Kamikaze Joe's with a hundred airplanes won't be enough.

There will be a few copycats, but there will be no revolution. Not quite yet anyway. Revolutionaries destroy their enemies, not themselves. Joe was a man driven to suicide, and suicide is rarely a good choice. You can't have a revolution if all the revolutionaries are killing themselves. Suicide is not an option for most people including revolutionaries. Most have families and loved ones they want to protect. The angry masses are still hoping the storm of war, corruption and economic freefall will blow over, only to be followed by days of courageous leadership and economic prosperity. That false hope will last a few years longer.

America is not ready for a revolution right now. The apathy level is still way too high. Things are very bad, but the situation has to get a whole lot worse before the masses will rise up and cast off their oppressors. A few more big economic bubbles need to pop. Unemployment and homelessness must double or triple. The current trend-lines of foreclosures and economic collapse will have to continue for another 3 to 5 years before a critical mass of the population has had enough and is revolution ready. At that point some military units will switch their allegiance from the government to the people. The tipping point will be when a General Joe Stack and a Colonel Joe Stack decide they have had enough. Then the corrupt and bankrupt American system will implode from within like the WTC buildings on 9/11.

Yes, the Second American Revolution is coming. The necessary political and economic forces are definitely aligning for the perfect storm. The meltdown of the American empire just has to go a few steps further before the revolution arrives.

Obama: Counterfeit Change and No-Excuse Lies

2010-01-25T21:20:00Z

November 4th, 2008 was a night to remember. I had e-mailed the invitations to my victory celebration party a month earlier. "Join us in celebrating America's first non-white President, and the end of the Bush regime," the invitations proclaimed. The gathering in my home was well attended.

Canadians had followed the campaign closely, eh?. Canada is America's biggest trade partner and America's biggest oil supplier. Eventually we will also become America's fresh water provider as the USA's emerging water crisis worsens.

Obama: "I will never lie to you"

Cheers and applause broke out as Obama assured us "I will never lie to you" while Oprah cried her puddle of tears. Little did we know that Obama was just another smooth-talking politician, telling "the folks" exactly what they wanted to hear. I'll admit it: I was one of the people he suckered. Obama's lies were awesome and they got me really pumped up.

Obama's Big No-Excuse Lie

Here is the lie I call Obama's Big No-Excuse Lie. This one had me fist-bumping, and high-fiveing like a high school wanna-be gangbanger. It was exactly what the whole world wanted to hear: "I will promise you this, that if we have not gotten our troops out by the time I am president, it is the first thing I will do. I will get our troops home. We will bring an end to this war. You can take that to the bank. " - Candidate Barack Obama, October 27, 2007.

That later became "within 16 months", and now it is obvious this was all a stinky pile of crap. That's right. Obama's #1 main issue that got him elected in the first place was 100% pre-meditated bullshit.

There is NO EXCUSE ALLOWED on this one. He can't blame "special interests." He can't blame "Republicans." He can't blame "lobbyists." He can't blame "the Generals." He can only look in the mirror, point at himself, and try not to puke. As Commander In Chief of America's Armed Forces Obama can give the pullout order at any second he chooses. The former President ordered the troops in, and the current President can order them home just as quick. Obama has not and will not fulfill his promise. The only thing I believe now is that Obama is a certified warmonger who is probably in the process of starting World War Three. I feel like I got duped by a slick Chicago con-man. Yes - we were all suckered in by this Bullshit Artist In Chief.

Nobody realized that Obama's "change" administration would also include many of the same tired faces everybody was already sick of seeing.

Obama promised to get tough with Wall Street and bring prosperity to Main Street. It sure sounded great, but his Administration is now dominated by the scummiest rats that ever crawled out of the Wall Street sewers. Main Street got mugged by Wall Street banksters and their bailouts.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

Obama will likely be a one term wonder, unless he convinces the American public that he is the 'least-worst' option in America's de-facto one party "Republicrat" system. However, that could be Obama's Mission Impossible. Americans have a long history of giving their President the boot when the economy sucks. If you think the economy sucks now, well, as Bachman Turner Overdrive said, "You ain't seen nothin' yet." The massive and permanent crash of America's economy will be here shortly.

I could go on and on listing Obama's lies, but it's too depressing. We were all duped. That's the bottom line.

Namaste

Holding Israel Accountable Is Not Anti-Semitic

2010-01-03T09:20:00Z

This article is my personal opinion. I have no doubt it will be criticized, largely because Israel uses professional Internet trolls to spam opinions like this one. I have left the comments option turned on so you can see what I am talking about.

If you are a "Type A" person who skims through articles just to get the main points, then here are the 3 main points of this article. You can read them and move on:

1. Attacking anybody because of their religious beliefs is wrong. That includes Christians, Jews, Muslims, Athiests, etc. Freedom of religion is something I respect. However, countries that commit war crimes or crimes against humanity must not be allowed to get away with it by cowering behind a religious shroud, and dismissing legitimate critics as antisemitic or racist.

2. Every government and every army in the world is fair game for political discourse including harsh criticism and verbal expressions of disgust. Israel is no exception. Hate means "to dislike intensely or passionately." Sure, I hate seeing Palestinian school kids getting scorched and killed by white phosphorus. But expressing that is no hate crime.

3. Legitimate criticism of Israeli atrocities is frequently dismissed as anti-semitic. This overused "crying wolf" strategy is tragicly wrong because it causes genuine anti-semitism to be taken with a grain of salt. Is blurring the line between Jew-hating skinheads and non-violent concerned citizens a good idea?

Did you like Operation Cast Lead ?

Over a thousand Palestinian women and children were casualties in Israel's ethnic cleansing called Operation Cast Lead. When I saw Israel unleashing white phosphorus bombs on Palestinian schools and population centers I had to ask myself "Do I support this, or am I against this? Where will I stand?" Everybody with a conscience needs to take a hard look at Israeli occupation and aggression and ask themselves the same questions.

I know right from wrong, and what I saw during Operation Cast Lead was wrong. Using white phosphorus bombs on population centers and schools? Wrong. Dropping "get out of town" leaflets on 1.5 million people locked in behind the Apartheid Wall with no exit? Wrong and cruel. Blowing up buildings packed with women and children because there might be a "terrorist" inside. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong.

The whole thing was wrong before it even started. Israel is a sophisticated military power with nukes, and Gaza is 1.5 million people packed into a sardine can with no military to defend it. Nothing but the crudest hand-made weapons and obsolete technology. No helicopters, no jets, no air-strike capability, no artillery to repel the invaders, nothing.

The situation before Cast Lead was so desperate that food and medicine had to be smuggled in through underground tunnels. Clean drinking water was a luxury. After cast Lead the siege of Gaza has gotten much worse. The situation went from bleak and inhumane to impossible. On top of everything else Israel has restricted concrete for rebuilding, and emergency medicine convoys. The only good news: The Goldstone Report is in and people around the world are waking up and starting to speak out.

When you can't attack the message, attack the messenger

Calling someone antisemitic is a "vicious attack" according to Congressman Dr. Ron Paul. The respected former flight surgeon recently appeared on Larry King Live to debate Yemen and airport security. He never said one word about Jewish people, but he was slammed as being "antisemitic" by "talking head" Ben Stein.

Dingleberries like Ben Stein make themselves look like idiots when they spout off about antisemitism because they lack the brainpower to form a more intelligent answer. Ron Paul had simply raised the point that we need to look at "the motives" of people, like the fact that we are invading and occupying Muslim countries . Dr. Paul had not said one word about Israel, Jews, Judaism, Zionism or any topic that remotely would justify Stein's knee-jerk use of the word antisemitic.

This kind of absurd and reflexive overuse of the word antisemitic has become far too common, and it is reaching a level that now causes many people to take claims of anti-semitism with a grain of salt. You can only "cry wolf" so many times before people ignore you. My advice to people like Ben Stein is this: If you have nothing constructive to say and you are down to playing the antisemite card, just shut your pie-hole and let someone else talk. At least you won't look like an moron, and you won't cause people to roll their eyes when genuine and legitimate antisemitism is alleged.

Let's hold Israel accountable for ethnic cleansing

My advice to writers and bloggers everywhere is this: Power up your moral compass and start asking the tough questions about Israeli aggression and war-crimes. It's not taboo, and it's morally right. Like all governments, the Israeli government has moral and humanitarian obligations. When Israel acts immorally or commits war-crimes, it should expect heavy handed condemnation from the rest of the world, just like America got when it's torture camps were revealed. If you hate what you see, go ahead and say it.

If you are a writer, don't muzzle yourself just because someone might call you antisemitic. They will. Just correctly label it as a "viscous attack" like Dr. Ron Paul did. Speaking up for the oppressed is morally right, and exposing the truth is a beautiful thing.

If you need to get up to speed on the issues start by reading the U.N.'s Goldstone Report. After you get familiar with the Goldstone Report read about the Gaza Siege. Study how Israel rounded up and imprisoned Gaza's democratically elected government and thousands of other Palestinians. Ask why Israel refuses U.N. nuclear inspections. Investigate Israel's practice of killing unarmed kids because they might grow up to be enemies. Ask why Israel refuses to define it's borders, and keeps building settlements on top of demolished Palestinian houses.

Proper expressions of hate

With all the talk of hate-crimes these days people are asking themselves "What can I say? Am I supposed to pretend I don't hate anything?" Hate is a perfectly normal human emotion. Oppressive actions taken by governments and their armies can easily trigger feelings of anger and hatred in normal people.

I hate my own Canadian government because of the Afghan War, and because they are spending health care money on the 2010 winter Olympics. I hate America for their wars, and the list of reasons I hate America is longer than the list of things I hate about Canada. I really feel sorry for my many American friends.
Up here in Canada, no matter how screwed up things get, we can always point south and say "at least it's not as bad as the USA." That applies to the economy, worker's rights, drug testing, health care , and a very long list of issues.

If you hate what Israel is doing to the Palestinians, go ahead and say so. Don't be intimidated by blowhards like Ben Stein.

And one more thing....

.....best wishes to all for 2010.

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Canadian Health Care: Myths vs. Facts

2009-09-12T06:59:00Z

Corporate lobbyists in Washington D.C. and the politicians in their pockets are bashing and misrepresenting our excellent Canadian health care system. As a Canadian who has worked in hospitals on both sides of the border I would like to set the record straight regarding our single-payer "Universal Health Care" system, and respond to some of these sickening attacks.

In a previous post I explained the basics of Canadian health care , and I pointed out that the highest rate is only $108 for a family of three or more. Those with limited income get their insurance virtually free, just like American members of Congress do. Yes, those same elected nimrods who bash Universal Health Care are receiving essentially the same thing.

Senators and Congressmen get to participate in the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program(FEHB). This is low cost (but good) insurance and taxpayers pay two thirds of the premiums. FEHB insurance does not deny claims because of pre-existing conditions, just like Canada's Health Care system.

Former President Bill Clinton has been a very vocal supporter of Canada's system. He knows America's system as well as any American, and he knows a lot about the Canadian system. Clinton notes that in the U.S. today, there are "incentives to keep people misinformed and full of fear."

The main tactic used by lobbyists is to take isolated incidents of poor health care delivery and misrepresent these rare incidents as if they were standard operating procedure in Canada. Sure, examples of medical malpractice and improper diagnosis can be found on both sides of the border, but malpractice is not the norm in Canada or the USA.

The Canadian System provides for universal coverage for medically necessary health care services provided on the basis of need, rather than the ability to pay. In practical terms "universal coverage" means you get the services and care you need, but doctors bills and hospital bills are unheard of in Canada. I visit my family doctor every three months for medication refills, and to discuss any health concerns. These visits are free just like major surgeries and specialist appointments are free. "Ability to pay" is never a concern in Canada.

Any time (24/7/365) I have a health related concern I can dial 8-1-1 and speak with an experienced nurse or a pharmacist. The nurse will decide if I can treat the problem myself, or if I should see my family doctor or go to the emergency room.
The only time I used that service was when I had a swelling spider bite on my foot. I was driving home and the nurse told me it was potentially serious. "Go to the Emergency Room and have it looked at right away." As always the emergency room visit cost me nothing, and the prompt treatment probably saved me from getting a skin graft.

THE "WAITING LIST" STRAW MAN ARGUMENT

Yes, Canada does have waiting lists for some procedures, but...

...1. Nobody ever goes on a waiting list for emergency care. Heart surgeries, Cancer treatments, etc all take place immediately.

2. We have some waiting lists for some non-emergency procedures such as knee replacements, MRI scans, etc but wait times are not ridiculous and they are well prioritized. The big difference between Canada and the USA is Canadians will always get the procedure. ALWAYS. So what if they have to wait. It's not a perfect world.

3. In America I saw people die of Cancer with no treatment, because they were poor. I also knew several people who walked around on painful knees and hips because they could not afford the arthroscopy or joint replacement. I am certain they would have been delighted to get on a waiting list for a free joint replacement.

4. Rich Canadians can "jump the queue" and pay for non-emergency MRI's or surgeries if they wish. Personally, I would prefer to use a cane for a few months (just like Dr. House) and get my knee replaced for free.

Are Canadians really being "forced" to get treatment in the USA?

No. Sometimes the specialists and surgeons are backed up, or staffing shortages occur. In a small number of cases Canadian patients get sent south of our border when it is best for the patient. Complicated pregnancies requiring a certain hospital to do the delivery, and rare diseases where the best expert is in the USA are two examples, However - when this happens - it is all at the Canadian Governments expense. Travel(Ambulance or Air Ambulance) and treatment are all paid for 100% by the Government, not the patient.

How many Americans get to travel to Canada when the top specialist is in our country, and have it paid for by the American Government? Sending patients to the USA for teatment, when appropriate, is a good thing not a bad thing.

Overall President Clinton is on the right track, and he surely has President Obama in his corner. Both men know that America's system is immoral and embarrassing when compared to all established Western democracies.

Universal Health Care, regardless of ability to pay, is the only way to go. I look forward to the day when my American friends can enjoy the Universal Health Care I take for granted.

Health Care for All - It works great here in Canada

2009-06-26T06:55:00Z

Something Americans needs to know...

...You desperately need a Canadian-style health care system.

"To summarize the solution: America must replace it's military-industrial complex with a medical-industrial complex."

The USA has almost 50 million people with no health care plan. Millions more have "plans" that will put them into bankruptcy when they have a major illness or injury. When compared to all other Western democracies America's system is a dismal failure and a painful embarrassment.

Highlights of Canadian Health Care:

1. Health care is mandatory and very affordable. The most expensive rate is $108 for a family of three or more.

2. Every person has equal access and full access to health care, regardless of ability to pay or pre-existing conditions.

3. Everybody has the exact same all-inclusive plan.

4. You can see any doctor, any hospital, any time, and leave your money at home.

5. Medical bills such as hospital bills and doctor bills are unheard of in Canada..

6. Free surgerys and hospitalization.

7. Free doctor visits, including specialist appointments.

8. All "tests" ordered by a doctor are free, including x-rays, Cat scans, lab tests, ultrasound, cardiac stress tests, etc, etc.

9. No deductibles or co-pays are allowed.

10. All healthcare workers and doctors are well paid, and they enjoy the many benefits of being labor union members.

11. Canada has a simple single-payer system. All bills are sent to the government, and not to patients.

12. Canada's system encourages people to open businesses and become entrepreneurs, because they don't have to worry about having employer-based health policies.

What price will America have to pay for a Canadian-style healthcare system?

The truth is that America does not really have to pay anything. It is just a simple matter of changing federal budget priorities. To summarize the solution: America must replace it's military-industrial complex with a medical-industrial complex.

In my home province of British Columbia, Canada, almost 50% of the budget goes to health and social services. We have a huge social safety net in addition to our great healthcare system. What few military bases we have are essentially Coast Guard like search and rescue stations.

Overall, Canada spends only about 5% of it's budget on defense. Compare that to America where the military and the Veterans Administration eat up about 50% of the budget. America must stop it's endless wars, and start taking care of it's own citizens.

Canada's system is good for the economy and tax rates

If you think that a generous health care system will hurt the economy - think again. Canada has the most stable economy of the G-20 nations. Putting people ahead of imperialism has been a win-win formula for success in Canada.

Many people mistakenly believe that Canada has exceptionally high taxes. Canadian tax rates are comparable to, or lower than American taxes. And there is no question that us Canadians get more bang for our buck thanks to the great health care and social programs.

Note: The author has worked as a healthcare provider (Diagnostic Imaging) for over 30 years, including several years working in the USA.

Global Warming or Global Cooling ?

2009-05-17T18:00:00Z

Many scientists say we have global warming. They point to some exceptionally hot years and other evidence. Many climatologists are now making the case for global cooling as well. Record low temperatures and record high snowpacks the past 2 years, and decreasing solar activity appear to be their key arguments.

This article will not take sides. After reading this brief article you will have enough knowledge to decide for yourself.

Climate history is fascinating stuff !

Reading this will give you a solid understanding of Earth's main climate history that is currently known and proven.

With this knowledge you can better analyze the competing claims about cooling and warming and put them in perspective.

Let's just call this article...

..."The 5 minute Climate Scientist"

As you view the climate history graphs you will notice that climate is never 'stable'. You will learn that both global warming and global cooling have happened hundreds of times previously.

Earth is always warming or cooling in somewhat predictable cycles, or it is in a brief transition from one cycle to another.

The Ice Core Data -
Prehistoric snowflakes acted as memory cards:

Several projects have been undertaken that involve drilling extremely deep holes into the Arctic and Antarctic Ice. All of the ice started out as snowflakes, falling through the atmosphere. It is not frozen sea water.

As the snow piles up it compresses into ice. The snow has been piling up and turning into ice for over 500,000 years. Gas bubbles and other particles trapped in the ice have allowed scientists to recreate the atmosphere and temperature history going back over 450,000 years. The two main Ice Core projects were the Vostok and EPICA deep ice core surveys. The temperature data is accurate to better than 1/100th of a degree.

Ocean Sediment Cores:

Ocean sediment cores also trap gases and isotopes, allowing Geologists to create an extremely accurate climate history going back millions of years.

Long Ice Ages and Shorter Warm Intervals:

As you view the climate history charts you will see a clear ongoing pattern of long ice ages (glaciations), separated by comparatively brief warm intervals (interglacials).

We are currently living our lives during a warm interglacial, between ice ages, called the Holocene.

The Holocene started with a massive warming event about 12,000 years ago. That was a good thing because the ice was several kilometers thick and it covered Canada, the UK, Northern Europe, and almost half of the USA.

Climate Of The Last 5 Million Years:

See Graph: 5 Million Years of Climate Change

Note: The present is the right side of the graph.
1.The pattern of ongoing warming and cooling is obvious.
2. The overall trend is downward. The ice ages (glaciations) are getting colder.

Climate of the Last 450,000 Years:

See Graph: Vostok-EPICA Ice Core Data

Note: Everything below the dotted line (Zero degrees C) represents glacial Ice Age Conditions. The warm spikes are so consistent it almost looks like a heartbeat monitor.

1. The spikes on the graph are the warm interglacials.
2. The spike on the right side of the graph shows our current Holocene interglacial.
3. The Ice Ages (below zero degrees C) last about 90,000 years on average.
4. The warm interglacials (above Zero degrees C) last from 6,000 to 12,000 years.
5. Our current Holocene Interglacial is the coldest interglacial recorded in the past 450,000 years.
6. 125,000 years ago during the last interglacial (Eemian interglacial) it got much hotter than today's climate. At that time our early human ancestors were still in the stone age.

Climate Of The Last 12,000 Years:

See graph: Holocene Interglacial Temperature History

1. The climate history shows that Holocene temperatures peaked about 8,000 years ago.

2. The recent temperature rise following the Little Ice Age (1650-1850) is in line with - or less than - the many other global warmings during the Holocene.

3. These interglacials only last 6,000 to 12,000 years.Then Mother Nature will take us into the next ice age glacial which will last about 90,000 years.

Note: The Holocene warming was accompanied by a sea level increase of over 350 feet.
See Graph: Holocene Sea Level Rise

After pondering the ongoing climate cycles the statements "humans cause global cooling" and "humans cause global warming" become questionable at best. How can anybody say such things about warming and cooling cycles that have been ongoing for millions of years, way before humans came along?

Sure, we have trashed out our environment, depleted our oceans, etc., etc., but it is unrealistic to assert that humans can control the climate one way or the other. Some things, like climate change and continental drift, are natural phenomena that are way beyond human control. The belief that "humans can control the climate" is based on both undeserved bravado regarding human capabilities, and complete disregard of the known climate history. Anybody who believes that new taxes will create a stable climate is kidding themselves.

But what about CO2?

see Graph:
600 Million Year CO2 and Temperature History

1. During the late Ordovician Period CO2 levels were 10 times higher than today's CO2 level, but Earth went into a long Ice Age period.

2. Current CO2 levels are at the low end of the scale when viewed in a historical perspective. CO2 is presently only 0.038% of the atmosphere. Natural water vapor causes 95% of the greenhouse effect.

3. Claims that "today's CO2 level is the highest ever" are flat out lies, and they indicate the speaker has no knowledge of Earth's proven climate history.