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Just How Much Do We Really Know ... About "World Politics"?

Just how much do we, as Americans, really know?  You know, "World Politics"?  What decisions are made behind closed doors in those political meetings?  "The United States is manipulating other countries or are other countries manipulating the United States"? 

This is an interesting article written by Sheldon Richman ... You know, there is so much of "World Politics" that we just don't know about!

U.S. Versus the Egyptian People ... by Sheldon Richman

 

The last thing the U.S. policy elite wants is real democracy in Egypt. That country has been a linchpin of American foreign policy for more than 30 years precisely because its government has been able to defy the will of the Egyptian people. If that should change now, America’s rulers and their Israeli partners will be in panic mode, if they aren’t already.

 

We may discount the insipid kind-of-pro-democracy statements coming from President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. They wanted the street protesters to go away, and if lip service to human rights would help bring that about, then they would engage in it. But they were careful not to encourage the throngs in Cairo’s Tahrir (Liberation) Square because they don’t trust common people with big decisions. Obama and Clinton played a cunning game, but rather ineptly. Earlier this month their special envoy, Frank Wisner, publicly said his old friend Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak “must stay in office to steer” the way toward a “national consensus around the preconditions” for reform. Clinton tried to distance herself from Wisner’s too-blunt words before essentially saying the same thing later.

 

But events moved too fast, and now Mubarak is history.

 

The American policymakers must be frustrated. They need a firm hand in Egypt, but Mubarak stayed too long and they were powerless to maneuver Vice President Omar Suleiman into power. Suleiman was to be their new man. He had been a good servant through the years: When the CIA needed to have someone tortured, he was the go-to guy. The people would not have accepted him as the successor to Mubarak.

 

Why did the U.S. government side with authoritarianism in Egypt? To update what Franklin Roosevelt is reported to have said about Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza in 1939: Mubarak and Suleiman may have been sons of bitches, but they were our sons of bitches. For decades they were faithful agents of the American empire, at a cost of well over a $1 billion a year from American taxpayers. In the eyes of the power elite, it was money well spent.

 

Support for Egyptian dictators was part of a bigger plan. Since World War II, when America succeeded Great Britain as the chief imperial power in the region, the U.S. government has opposed Arab nationalism and independence, and supported any ruler — secular or religious — who would toe the U.S. line. When it was necessary to cultivate the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt because it hated secular nationalism and Marxism, that was the policy the Americans pursued. (In 1953 Dwight Eisenhower hosted a Muslim Brotherhood envoy at the White House, despite its reputation for violence.) At other times, it supported autocratic rulers who suppressed that organization (which renounced violence more than 50 years ago). It all depended on who America’s official enemy was and who was willing to carry water for the U.S. government — a cynical game, but that’s what superpowers do to gain their objectives.

 

And what were America’s objectives? Control of the vast oil reserves, which are seen as essential to U.S. global hegemony, and (mostly for domestic political reasons) unconditional support of Israel, including its expansion onto Palestinian land and intimidation of its neighbors. Any Arab leader willing to advance those goals — no matter how brutal or defiant of the people — could be a well paid friend of the United States. Otherwise, watch out.

 

The problem for America’s policy elite is that Arabs like neither foreign interference nor the brutal treatment of the Palestinians. That’s why they had to be denied a say in their own governance. Look up what happened when the “wrong” parties won elections in Algeria and Gaza. If the winner in a free Egyptian election is a party that sides with the long-suffering Palestinians, don’t expect the U.S. government to stand by.

 

And yet what could it do? Egyptians have experienced people power. They know what it’s like to abolish a government. Incredibly, Mubarak is gone, and resistance to other dictators is spreading. For America’s rulers, the chickens are on their way home. How could they not have known this day would come?

 

Sheldon Richman is senior fellow at The Future of Freedom Foundation www.fff.org and editor of  "The Freeman" magazine.

 

Confront Civility Head On!

Confront civility head on!  There is nothing too lose.  Democrats are no longer for America ... They are for Socialism.

Today I'm fed up with civility (formal politeness and courtesy in behavior or speech).  The citizens of The United States of America deserve more.  Citizens deserve politicians that should 'serve' in our government with our great country at heart.

On behalf of the citizens of this great country ... Citizens should no longer be civil and act with civility.

They should start talking to our government officials without civility.  'PC' "Politically Correct" needs to be band from the english language.  Furthermore, our conservative politicians need to stop being civil and start calling the Democrats, no I mean Socialists, just what they are ... Socialists!  Out to destroy this great country both financially, physically and morally.

The Political Socialists (Democrats) don't want to 'sell us out all the way back to the stone ages' they just want The United States of America to be equal to Europe.  You remember Obama telling you ... "I want to level the playing field".  Obama really meant it.

That makes sense to you, doesn't it?  Only if you are a 'Socialist'.  It makes perfect sense.

If you are a conservative ... hearing and seeing this ... You now have the permission to be "Not Civil".  However being, 'not civil' doesn't seem to change anything but it sure makes you feel better.

 

Sad Isn't It?

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God Bless America ... July 4, 2010 ... We Are Going To Need It

I felt it fitting to bring this story forward to see again.  God Bless America and All It's Hard Working Citizens.  May you have a safe Fourth of July ...  Stopping for a moment to reflect on the past generations fighting for freedom and looking forward to what we are going to be faced with in the present fight for freedom.

God Bless America

Dudley Rutherford, senior pastor of Shepherd of the Hills Church in Porter Ranch, California, explains the story behind the "Star Spangled Banner" - our National Anthem. This story is the first nine minutes of the sermon delivered on the Fourth of July.

This is a sermon that we need to hear all the time.

God Bless America.

Moving ... Isn't It?

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Chuck DeVore rises to debate against MASSIVE California Tax Hikes

Chuck DeVore rises to debate against MASSIVE California Tax Hikes!

Is this what our politicians are suppose to say.  Then by saying it ... does this mean that they mean it?  And do these politicians bring to focus their fellow politicians that are not doing the right thing?

Chuck DeVore — March 09, 2009 — In the wee hours of the morning on February 19, 2009, Assemblyman

Chuck DeVore confronts his fellow lawmakers as they attempt to pass the largest state tax hike in U.S. history on Californians to deal with the vast overspending, redundancy and waste in the California State Budget. Assemblyman DeVore predicts that they will be right back where they started because the projected revenue increases will not be there since spending has risen too high and government is not being reformed.

 

 

If the citizens could only believe in what the politicians say!

 

By the way ... Do you believe him?

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Politicians Says X, They are Thinking Y

Politicians Says X, They are Thinking Y ... "In other words Politicians say to you 'One Thing' and mean 'Another'.  Sad Isn't It?"

People have always discussed and questioned this statement: "Politicians say one thing and mean another" ... and today it's true.  Sad Isn't It?

Robert Higgs has written these statements made by politicians, based on what they say and what they really mean.  These statements would be hilarious, if it weren't so true.  Sad Isn't It?

The American Politicians wonder why people are so frustrated today?  With so many politicans lying right to your face and laughing about it ...  Thinking ... "So what are you going to do about it?"  Nothing ... right?

By Robert Higgs on May 8, 2010  ...   www.independent.org

Politicians say ...  X :  I will serve the people of this district to the best of my ability.

Politicians mean ... Y:  I intend to look out for my own interest every step of the way, so unless you’re the highest bidder for my services, you’d better start saying your prayers now.

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X:  The people have spoken, and they have chosen me.

Y:  The rich guys and well-heeled organizations that backed my candidacy picked me to run, and they coughed up enough dough to buy or steal this election for me. I’d be a damned fool to forget who put me in office.

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X:  America needs A, B, and C.

Y:  My critical electoral coalition stands to make a shipload of money off of A, B, and C. If I want to keep my sorry ass in office, I’d better do everything in my power to see that the government carries out A, B, and C.

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X:  I will always level with you.

Y:  Watch my lips. If they’re moving, I’m lying (because I’m not such an idiot that I’d ever own up to the disgraceful way I sell my soul to the devil every day of the week—and that includes Sunday, when I make a show of attending church.

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X:  I only want to do what’s right for America.

Y:  I spend virtually every waking hour raising money for my next campaign. My staffers handle the legislation according to what my biggest contributors tell them they want us to do for them.

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X:  We need to put aside partisan bickering and work on solving the country’s problems.

Y:  Those bastards in the other party had better watch their backs if they know what’s good for them.

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X:  Every country in Europe has Program R, and the American people deserve nothing less.

Y:  If Eurosclerosis is good enough for Europe, Amerosclerosis is good enough for America.

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X:  We simply cannot afford to defer dealing with the deficit any longer.

Y:  Some of you peasants still have money, and we intend to squeeze it out of you and give it to the scoundrels who bankrolled our election (minus a healthy cut for ourselves and the bureaucracy, of course).

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X:  America’s commitment to Israel is ironclad and permanent.

Y:  I can’t possibly get reelected if I buck the Israel lobby, so don’t even bother me with your sob stories about mistreated Palestinians.

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X:  I did not have sex with that woman, Ms. Smith.

Y:  Please, God, don’t let the media ever find out the truth about me and Samantha.

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X:  I want to know what’s on your mind.

Y:  I have a computerized setup that will send you an irrelevant, self-serving, boilerplate reply. If you wanted real access to me, why didn’t you make a big contribution to my campaign.

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X:  The committee’s legal staff assures me that the courts will find Program Z to be constitutional.

Y:  Who the hell are these morons who keep asking me about the Constitution? How come security let them into the hall?

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X:  Every American child deserves the best possible education.

Y:  When it comes to providing money and warm bodies for my reelection campaign, the NEA is hard to beat. So what if the brats can’t read and write?

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X:  America must have a defense second to none.

Y:  Lockheed Martin, Boeing, General Dynamics, and the rest of those merchants of death know which side my bread is buttered on. It’s all bullshit anyhow, because the USA doesn’t have a credible enemy in sight, but the rednecks are suckers for spending gazillions on this whiz-bang junk.

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X:  Every American has a right to first-rate health care.

Y:  There’s not enough money in heaven and earth to keep this absurd promise, but by the time Granny is dying and declared ineligible for the government-rationed care she needs to keep on living, it will be too late for her to vote for my opponent in the next election.

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X:  Wall Street must be held accountable for plunging the country into a financial and economic disaster.

Y:  Note to self: Have the staff see what can be done to conceal the ungodly amounts of money I’ve received over the years from Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, and the rest of those malefactors of great wealth.

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X:  The family farmer has always been the backbone of America.

Y:  ADM a family farmer?? Ha ha ha ha—you’re killin’ me, you’re killin’ me!

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X:  Of course, I’m for free trade, but is has to be fair trade, too.

Y:  These U.S. manufacturing dinosaurs may be doomed to extinction, but as long as they are willing to put the big bucks into my campaign coffers, I am willing to screw the American consumer.

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X:  We must protect America’s borders.

Y:  Borders, schmorders—I’d open the gates of hell if I thought there was a vote in it. Right now, though, the crackers are so stirred up about the Mexicans coming in that I’d better play the xenophobe card.

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X:  Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen. Just let me assure you that I will continue to do my very best to prove that I deserve your continued trust and support.

Y:  Money talks, bullshit walks.

 

 

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'Qualified Supreme Court Nominee?'

'Qualified Supreme Court Nominee?'

People can you see how the "Socialists are continually chipping away at our democracy"?

That's on the outside, look closely on the inside ... "A democratic party 'radical decision' person, if confirmed will help change the course of this country"   Remember what your president Barack Hussein Obama said in his campaign.  When elected I will change this country ... and this is how he is doing it.  One major dicision after another to change The United States of America, forever!

Tony Perkins  ( www.frcaction.org )

The worst kept secret in Washington seemed to be who President Obama would nominate to the Supreme Court. In his official announcement nominating her for the nation's highest court the President called Elena Kagan one of our "nation's foremost legal minds," and a "superb solicitor general." Her known record speaks otherwise. She has the least amount of experience of any nominee in the last three decades. Her judicial experience is zero, as is her real-world experience, having spent most of her career in academia or working as a Democratic Party insider. (She did serve on an advisory committee for Goldman Sachs during the financial meltdown of 2007!) Her tenure as Dean of Harvard Law School is marked by kicking the military off campus during the height of the Iraq War, a move that even Ruth Bader Ginsburg ruled was wrong-headed. Ms. Kagan's incredibly hostile view of the military suggests she is out of touch with mainstream sensibilities and obedience to the rule of law. Recently, in her brief tenure as Solicitor General, she argued that the federal government has the power, under campaign finance laws, to ban certain books and pamphlets. Responding to this argument of Ms. Kagan, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote, "As a free-floating test for First Amendment coverage, that (proposition) is startling and dangerous."

Ms. Kagan has called for the Senate to use the Supreme Court confirmation hearings "to engage nominees in meaningful discussion of legal issues," and that a nominee's views on issues are fair game to be discussed. She should be evaluated by the U.S. Senate with the very standards she set for this process. During her confirmation hearings for Solicitor General, Ms. Kagan found it difficult to be forthcoming with her answers. That should not be permitted when she is considered for a permanent position on our nation's highest court. Let your Senators know that Elena Kagan needs to fully answer the many questions people have regarding her record.

 

Sad Isn't It?

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A Wall Street Bailout Bill ... Soon You Will NOT Have Any More Money!

A Wall Street Bailout Bill ... Soon You Will NOT Have Any More Money!  ...

One caveat ... After cashing your pay check and paying the state and federal taxes, Now!, you can keep paying more of that leftover money for more taxes, until the next pay check.

This makes sense doesn't it ... You pay taxes up-front the what's left over you are TAXED again and again until your next check.

Sad Isn't It !  People we are getting screwed by our elected politicians.  So Watch this video for further understanding of this screwing!

Heritage's new video explaining why the financial bill sponsored by Senator Dodd (D-CT) does not provide real reform and is riddled with flaws, including sustaining the "too big to fail" culture that led to the financial crisis.

 

 

Sad Isn't It?

 

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Progressive Socialists - That's Our Direction ... Believe It !

"Progressive Socialists Country"  That's Our Direction ... Believe It or Not!

Look in the mirror, people! 

Mirror, Mirror on the wall ... Who is the most progressive socialists of all?

Mirror Reply:  Why you fool, your looking at bankrupt "Socialists Greece".  You know, the "Progressive Socialist" country, that the government employs thirty to forty percent of their population.  And indirectly about thirty percent more.  Get it, the government workers collecting pay checks that are then taxed by the Government, and in turn the Greek Government pays the government workers.  Sounds real silly, doesn't it?

Just a few years from now! ... The United States of America will find itself "The new leader of the 'Progressive Socialists' in the World".   Remember people, America, always does things the very best when we Americans put our minds and hearts into it!

Just a few years from now!  Look in the mirror again:

Mirror, Mirror on the wall ... Who is the most "Progressive Socialists country" of all?

Mirror Reply:  Why you fool, your looking into this mirror asking a stupid question like that ... You should know ... It is you!, The United States of America!  America could never loose a race when you put your hearts and minds to win!

PS:  American voters elect politicians with the confidence that they will run the country with a patriotic duty for the Citizens, and to uphold the "Constitution of the United States of America".  For the moment, America is still the greatest Free Country in the world.

Definition of Progressive Socialists ... A free country that progressively (slowly) gives up it's rights and freedoms for a government that is in complete control of it's population.  You know, like the frog that finds itself cooked to death without any fight, because the cool water in the cooking pot seemed okay to swim in.  Even when the water got warm in the cooking pot it still seemed okay, however when the temperature got to boiling ... IT WAS TOO LATE.

Think ... Learn ... Take Action

Roger Merrill   Contributing Editor   www.realhonestnews.com

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Saul Alinsky ... The Thirteenth Rule of Radical Tactics

This worth the read:

Saul Alinsky ... The Thirteenth Rule of Radical Tactics

October 20, 2009
Alinskyite in Chief Is a Master Polarizer
By Kyle-Anne Shiver

The thirteenth rule of radical tactics: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.
 - Saul Alinsky, the Father of Community Organizing

    Rules for Radicals; p. 128
There's a whole lot of polarizing going on in Obama's America.  Unity is out, apparently.  Polarization is still in.  And Rush Limbaugh and Fox News are the new Bush. 

One would need to be a complete ninny outfitted with blinders and earplugs not to know this by now.

One blaring truth rears its ugly head to any open-minded person who takes a hard look at Barack Obama's personal and political history.  His history is shot clear through with polarizing effects, both intentional and unintentional. 

One might almost say that Barack Obama was a born polarizer.

Obama's Polarization Roots

Green is the New Red: Crackpots in Copenhagen ... This Is Going To Cost YOU Big Time.

Green is the New Red: Crackpots in Copenhagen ... Green ( socialists ) verses Red ( communists ).  People just look out, this is going to cost you big time ... Higher personal taxes, Higher cost of consumed products, Higher taxes on top of taxes.  YOU will have to pay pay pay.  All in the name of this MASSIVE WEALTH TRANSFER TO OTHER NATIONS.  Remember the United States is now and always has been the financial savior of the entire world.  How's that going to work for you?

Why is the Left so invested in selling the climate change catastrophe? Joe Hicks (pjtv.com) examines the Marxist tones permeating the Copenhagen climate talks in the latest Hicks File.  Just click on the camera icon.

Frustrated comments about this issue:

• I'm at a loss of how to get my 'friends and family' to see this.. so many have been indoctrinated into this new destructive religion.. and since they stand on thin ice,
  they are very defensive and don't listen...
  How could they ? How did Mao become a hero? What's wrong with all those people that they would destroy their own home to prove something that we already know is a lie?
  I don't know.. maybe they're right... I can see how destructive humans can be.. right here in Copenhagen and in America.
• Oh, Lord. Just heard on Fox. Unbelievable.
  Floated at Copenhagen -- they think we should lend money to China for Climate Change.
  We should lend them money which we borrow from them.
  Brilliant.
• Correction -- not "lend" money to China -- "give" money to China -- which we borrow from them, in order to give back to them -- because we're broke.  Simply Stupid !
• There isn't one bit of doubt left in me that AGW. or even any but normal Climate Change, is anything but a gigantic farce and fraud.
  This makes watching what's been going on, especially at Copenhagen, and with our president's EPA and Cap & Trade threats -- so sickening. Physically sickening.
  It's a perfect Ray Bradbury Twilight Zone story -- like looking into the past, watching what went on -- on some bizarro planet long ago and far away -- explaining why they no longer exist -- and how they self-destructed -- egged on by the greedy, the envious, the power-hungry and the gullible.
• "Instant Poverty and Oppression- just add Marxism the New Wonder cure for prosperous free societies. Class equality assured as all sink to the lowest common denominator.
  You almost have to feel sorry for these self-deluded, would-be activists who will have nothing to show for their efforts but frost bite and bruises while their sponsors are warm, dry and well fed."
• The irony is so thick...
  That the ONE country who habitually comes to the aid of other countries struck by any number of natural and social disasters with money, supplies, medicine and people should be the target of now FORCING them to set up a steady stream of money to dump into their Third World Train Wreck Circus is so deliciously ironic.

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