Power to the People My Ass

A rant.

Depressing.  I've never been "involved" in politics.  Never volunteered for a political campaign, joined a political party, canvassed for votes, etc.  I've never wanted anything to do with it.  I've known since an early age that it was all a farce, a system to keep us in our place, to make us believe we actually have a say in things. Those fuckers never represented me and never will.

I've never had a say on a damn thing regarding how this country is run in my 61 years. So all this talk on this site about the democratic party, what they did wrong, what kind of "intellectual" excuses they're making, who they're appointing to leadership positions, why they just don't fucking get it, it's all past me, man.  That's party politics, I can't do it and won't do it.

I wrote an essay I titled, "It's Time for Power to the People", in which I hoped that the Native American led protests in North Dakota could be a springboard to a real people's revolution, not some fake same old thing bullshit mostly tied to the political system.  Someone in the comment thread linked to an effort led by Shaun King to expand on the "victory" at Standing Rock by "launching an injustice boycott". 

https://medium.com/@ShaunKing/today-we-launch-the-injustice-boycott-against-racial-injustice-police-brutality-in-standing-rock-b1bb18da1f4f#.bjvy60hjo

Shawn King, I don't know I'd have to look it up, was some dude on Daily Kos wasn't he?  Then he got a paid gig somewhere?  I saw his schtick while at the Orange Satan and didn't pay much attention.  I couldn't understand the infatuation about him, but whatever. He seems to have some sort of following still, even though he evidently supported Hillary Clinton.  I mean come on, I'm speaking from a radical pov here, support Clinton and you're nowhere near that. In fact you are fucking against it.  Sorry.

Looking at King's site and his claim he had 200K people ready to take over the fucking world by boycotting businesses and banks to get some unknown demands met, I became depressed.  That was on top of another effort over at Popular Resistance, by Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Occupiers, I saw at their website.  Same old shit, a bunch of demands, no way they're going to be met and we'll have another fucking election.  There isn't even a hint of trying to get Power to the People.  King is not even responding to requests for clarification on wtf the demands are.  What are the demands, man, what do we want?

Power to the People?  Maybe not. 

https://popularresistance.org/newsletter-time-to-ask-who-we-are/

I'm sorry, but the protests over DAPL by the Native Americans might be emotionally symbolic for liberals and progressives but it ain't shit.  It's not going to put even a dent in the fact that we're ruled by rich people and we currently have no fucking say in how they rule us.  They do to us whatever the want, whenever they want and we can't do shit about it.  Hell, Trump just nominated the CEO of Exxon Mobil as Secretary of State!  Talk about in your face.  It's like, I raise you the pot assholes. 

Here's King's plan.

"It’s an organized resistance, driven by local people and activists, supported by passionate believers all over the country and around the world. Just as the Montgomery Bus Boycott lasted for 381 days, we are prepared for this boycott to last as it takes to make change happen. Indeed, we won’t stop until it does. This boycott will not weaken, but will grow in size, strength, reach, and power every single day."

It's just another weak ass effort to funnel people into a dead end that won't amount to anything and will take away energy from forming an independent movement to take down this fucking government and political system.

But maybe nobody wants to take down the fucking government anymore, they just want fifteen bucks an hour and better healthcare.  And a job. 'Hey, give me a job and you can do whatever the fuck you want".

There's also the People's Revolution, the People's Action Institute, there are people who are going to protest Trump's inauguration, we've seen this kind of stuff forever.  It's never about really seeking Power to the People, it's always about seeking Alms for the Poor.  "We want our jobs back, we want fifteen bucks an hour, we want justice!  We want to complain about how you're treating us dammit!"  "We don't want Trump!" 

Which means somebody else would be OK, just not Trump.
 
No man, we should want the power.  Isn't that what it's all about?   I included a quote at the top of my other essay, "We have one demand, Power to the People".  I think that's it.  What do we all complain about?  That we don't have the power, that we're controlled by an oligarchy, rich people and corporations.  They make all the rules, they get all the wealth, we are the Serfs.  The banks own the place.  It's the same old story.  Do we really want the power or not?

Demanding all these supposed improvements to our lives and country, like fifteen dollar minimum wage, improving Medicare, ending the war in Afghanistan, etc., is not going to change the fact that we don't live in a democracy and we're ruled like the Serfs of past.  Trying to have a voice through third party political parties is not going to change that.  Trying to work within the duopoly will never change it.  Tulsi Gabbard, the new hero of the democrats, won't change it.  We're going to have to do way more than that.  If WE had the power we wouldn't have to continually demand things from the Rich People who Rule Us, we could decide that for ourselves.  That's democracy, but do we really want it?  

It's funny.  People active in politics, are members of a political party and vote regularly criticize those who don't as being apathetic, lazy, not interested, etc.  Yet, these same people are too lazy and apathetic to do anything more than allow politicians to make their decisions for them.  They don't want the power, they want to give the power to politicians.  They want leaders and heroes and stars, oh my. 

I'm not sure if enough people want to really change how we govern ourselves.  In fact, I KNOW most people either don't want to or don't care.  I know a lot of people do, I'm not alone in my feelings, we all are rarely alone in our feelings.   I look at Trump and who he's appointing, or trying to appoint to his administration, a bunch of billionaires, millionaires, corporate CEOs and generals and I say we have to take these bastards down.  Not just Trump and his faction but the entire oligarchy.  We have to stop this shit and it won't happen unless we fucking try.  This Trump administration is lining up to be the next level of oligarchic and fascist rule over We the Serfs.  It is, people better wake up to that quick.

But it's turning into the same old thing real quick.  On the "left", the Berniecrats and Hillarybots are blaming each other while both are proposing what can be done to rebuild the party.  Tulsi Gabbard is the new progressive hero, hail, hail, 2020.  I wonder how many have truly vetted her, let alone the fact that she's a democratic party politician just like Bernie was.  The democratic party is going to reinvent itself donchaknow.  It's all about the economy, now they get it.  The object becomes take down Trump and the republicans via the democratic party by playing their part in Great American Political Theater. That's the only real way isn't it? 

I feel like I could go to sleep for two years and everything will be the same, only worse.  

Warmongers/Zionists want to "Restore Coercion" on Iran

“As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in ?"(Alexis de Tocqueville)

The chips certainly seem to be lining up for Iran to be the next target of the United States empire.  You can't underestimate what comes out of all these ruling elite funded think tanks, institutes and other organizations regarding government actions and policies.  The United Against a Nuclear Iran organization is a Zionist backed neocon organization (http://lobelog.com/document-reveals-billionaire-backers-behind-united-against-nuclear-iran/) that has been prepping to guide the next president toward a war with Iran.

"United Against a Nuclear Iran (UANI), an organization packed to the gills with a bipartisan who’s who of hawkish figures, held an event on the “Future of Iran Policy” in Washington DC. Unsurprising, given the list of attendees, the future they envision is war, and lots of it.

The event headlined by Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R – FL) and former Sen. Joe Lieberman saw calls to “restore coercion” against Iran, with several figures advocating that the US accept the limits of sanctions alone by sinking Iranian naval vessels in the Persian Gulf."

"Restore Coercion".  These incredibly childish assholes that occupy this status in our society, somefuckinghow, want U.S. warships to unilaterally attack Iranian naval vessels because, among other reasons, "Israel is unilaterally attacking Syrian military targets in Syria".

Isn't it funny how things just seep into our created reality.  They think nothing of advocating for war crimes while readily admitting Israel is committing war crimes in Syria.  But few catch it, it's like it's OK.  Syria is bad, Iran is bad, so Israel and the U.S. doing these things must be justified. These figures, government officials, a Senator, people from the Defense of Democracies, which by the way is represented in Trump's administration picks, meet for this high powered meeting and advocate for and admit to war crimes.  And it's reported as a legitimate meeting of experts and professionals recommending legitimate U.S. actions against an enemy.  

I call it insane.  These fuckers live in a different world than you and me.  It's like Carlin said, "it's a small club, and you and me ain't in it".

People on the left and right still think Trump and his selections of anti-Islam, anti-Iran, anti-Russia, anti-China, pro-imperialism, pro-governnance by sociopath generals and establishment garbage will bring an improvement in how the United States conducts itself on the planet.  Trump won't and can't change destiny.

"William Henry Seward, who would later acquire Alaska as the “drawbridge to Asia” avowed that control of the North American continent would “ensure the controlling interest of the world”… “Multiply your ships,” he urged “and send them forth to the East… The nation that draws most materials and provisions from the earth, and fabricates the most and sells the most…must be, and will be the great power of the earth.” In short order (1853) seeking safe harbors from which to penetrate the landmass of Asia, the U.S. overtly threatened Japan with armed force to open her doors to commerce on terms dictated by American warships. The result was that the island nation would soon imitate and compete with her European and American challengers, seeking to beat them at their own game, leading ultimately to the Pacific War of the 20th century and Hiroshima and Nagasaki."

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/12/09/war-has-been-is-and-will-be-the-american-way-of-lifeunless/

"Such reveries would require the expansion of naval power, a proposition the emerging steel and ship building trusts and their Washington confederates, especially Theodore Roosevelt, leapt to initiate. As the U.S. provoked tensions with doddering Spain Teddy gushed that “I should say that I would welcome a foreign war. It is very difficult for me not to wish war with Spain for that would result at once in getting a proper navy. In strict confidence I should welcome almost any war.” Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, scion of Boston “Brahmins,” boasted that “We have a record of conquest, colonization and expansion unequalled by any people in the 19th century …for the sake of our commercial prosperity we ought to seize the Hawaiian Islands now.” Roosevelt added that it “would be a crime against white civilization not to annex Hawaii.” Teddy then ginned up his war with Spain. Close advisers like historian Brooks Adams, descendant of John and John Quincy, thrilled that “this war is the first gun in the battle for ownership of the world.” In the Senate Albert Beveridge proclaimed that “The power that rules the Pacific rules the world.”

After things settled in this country, after the "revolution" and Constitution and War of 1812, those who control this country set out to do what they're still trying to do today, rule the world. 

If you think Trump is going to change that I've got a hotel room in Trump Tower to sell you.

This is how we can take away their power and put it in our hands, by demanding, no, dictating an end to the quest to rule the world.  The corporations, banks, the entire oligarchy can be brought down by ending what sustains them.  Then we can start all over.

I propose First Nation Native Americans join with Veterans for Peace to form a movement to end U.S. imperialism.

James Mattis, Trump's Secretary of Defense, is a War Criminal, Warmonger Imperialist

"James Mattis is a Secretary of Offense." David Swanson

The president of some U.S. citizens, Trump, or whoever else is making the decisions for the president of some U.S. citizens (sorry man, I can't help it) has/have selected retired general James Mattis as Secretary of Defense.

Bad news man, real bad news. But then we knew that. What did you expect, Mary Poppins?

This is a dude they call Mad Dog. James Mattis is a war criminal, a murderer, and a cold and callous imperialist warmonger who thinks in terms of blowing thinngs up and killing anything in his way, even women and children.

This is a military man hired to do a civilian job as head of the American War Machine. Screw being retired, he did 40 years. Who the fuck does 40 years? If ever the imperialist military doctrine has been completely and irretrievably ingrained in someone, it's James Mattis.
 
Oh ya, he's outspoken, gruff, gets to the point, no nonsense, and a little Napolean bully punk.
He is career military man selected to head the Department of Defense and the Pentagon and very anti-Iran. The Secretary of Defense power over the military is second only to the President. I talked about this in a recent essay, how Trump appeared to be surrounding himself with anti-Iran warmongers and that Iran has long been the "next war", the final step in the neocons plan for remaking the Middle East. The final country on Wes Clark's infamous "seven countries in five years" discovered plan in the hallways of the Pentagon.

Some Israel supporters and Zionists have been critical of the selection primarily based on his criticism of Israeli settlement expansion, even going as far as saying the word "apartheid". The Zionists Organization of America has come out against his selection as SecDef. However the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA) wants to assure the Zionists that Mattis' anti-Iran stance and his warmongerness are actually good for Israel, which of course they are, and he is.

"Yet the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, issued a press release describing the claims against Mattis as “ill-founded and unfair.” The group, considered conservative in its views on Middle East security and defense issues, acknowledged that it shares “many of the objections” to Mattis’s comments, but noted that he had not repeated them since.
In addition, JINSA stressed that after holding conversations with Mattis, it is assured that his pick as Defense Secretary will actually improve U.S.-Israel relations. “We recently consulted several notable Israelis and Americans in the civic and military spheres who also have interacted with him and they share our confidence in his support for a strong U.S.-Israel relationship,” the group stated. It described Mattis’s commitment to a strong American presence in the Middle East and his outspoken views regarding the danger posed by Iran, as “heartening to the overwhelming majority of Americans who believe that a strong State of Israel is necessary for its own sake and important for a strong America.”

If anyone had any doubts about the foreign policies of the Trump administration, hoping that their imperialism would be a kinder and gentler imperialism, this should put that to rest. Trump wants to put Mad Dog in charge.

They will finish Syria, Iran is next, Russia will be played against China with the goal of weakening both and the New World Order will march on.

http://forward.com/news/national/355414/donald-trumps-top-choice-for-pen...

Don't believe me? Here's just a few samples of what Mad Dog Mattis brings to the table.

"Gen. James Mattis, head of U.S. Central Command, has recently stated that he envisioned about 20,000 troops in Afghanistan after the December 2014 withdrawal deadline."

"Following the gales of cheering that resounded from the room, Mattis, the gruff 40-year Marine veteran who once volunteered his opinion that “it’s fun to shoot some people,” outlined the challenge ahead. The “war on terror” that began on 9/11 has no discernable end, he said, likening it to the “the constant skirmishing between [the US cavalry] and the Indians” during the genocidal Indian Wars of the 19th century.
“The skirmishing will go on likely for a generation,” Mattis declared."

"General James Mattis, Commander of U.S. Central Command, (USCENTCOM), has intimated that the establishment of a “no fly zone” would de facto involve an all out bombing campaign, targeting inter alia Libya’s air defense system: 

‘It would be a military operation – it wouldn’t be just telling people not to fly airplanes. ‘You would have to remove air defence capability in order to establish a no-fly zone, so no illusions here.’ (U.S. general warns no-fly zone could lead to all-out war in Libya, Mail Online, March 5, 2011, emphasis added)."

"On April 28 the Atlantic Council held its annual awards dinner at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood of Washington, D.C. where the U.S. State Department is also situated. 

The honorees were headed by former President Bill Clinton, who was given the Distinguished International Leadership Award for his intervention in the Balkans in the 1990s, expanding the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and launching the North American Free Trade Agreement. Josef Ackermann, Chairman of the Management Board and the Group Executive Committee of Deutsche Bank AG, was presented with the Distinguished Business Leadership Award. 

Distinguished Military Leadership Awards were presented jointly to U.S. Marine General James Mattis, currently chief of U.S. Joint Forces Command and NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Transformation from 2007-2009, and French General Stephane Abrial, who took over the NATO command in Norfolk, Virginia from Mattis last year. 

On the website of the Atlantic Council, with the tag Renewing the Alliance for the 21st Century, [11] among the links to other sites provided are those under the heading of think tanks, which are:
American Enterprise Institute
American Foreign Policy Council
Aspen Institute
Brookings Institution
Carnegie Endowment
Cato Institute
Center for a New American Security
Center for Strategic and International Studies
Center for Transatlantic Relations/Johns Hopkins Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies
Council on Foreign Relations
Foreign Policy Research Institute
German Marshall Fund of the United States
Heritage Foundation
Hudson Institute
New America Foundation
Nixon Center
Rand Corporation
United States Institute of Peace
Wilson Center International Center for Scholars"

"More than 30 top U.S. officials, including presidents G.W. Bush and Obama, are guilty of war crimes or crimes against peace and humanity “legally akin to those perpetrated by the former Nazi regime in Germany,” the distinguished American international law authority Francis Boyle charges. 

U.S. officials involved in an “ongoing criminal conspiracy” in the Middle East and Africa who either participated in the commission of the crimes under their jurisdiction or failed to take action against them included both presidents since 2001 and their vice-presidents, the secretaries of State and Defense, the directors of the CIA and National Intelligence and the Pentagon’s Joint Chiefs of Staff and heads of the Central Command, among others, Boyle said." 

In the Pentagon, war criminals include the members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and some Regional Commanders-in-Chiefs, especially for the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), and more recently, AFRICOM. Besides Chairman General Martin Dempsey, U.S. Army, JCS members include Admiral James Winnefeld Jr.; General Raymond Odierno, Chief of Staff of the Army; General James Amos, Commandant of the Marine Corps; Admiral Jonathan Greenert, Chief of Naval Operations; and General Mark Welsh, Chief of Staff of the Air Force. 

Those who have headed the Central Command since the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan include Lt. General Martin Dempsey; Admiral William Fallon; General John Abizaid; General Tommy Franks; Lt. General John Allen; and current commander General James Mattis. General Carter Ham of AFRICOM bears like responsibility."

"The United States is not at war with Iran yet, but just in case, the Pentagon says they want to be prepared. To do so, the Department of Defense has dispatched 15,000 troops to the neighboring nation of Kuwait.  

Gen. James Mattis, the Marine Corps head that rules over the US Central Command, won approval late last year from the White House to deploy the massive surge to the tiny West Asian country Kuwait, which is separated from Iran by only a narrow span of the Persian Gulf."

“It’s fun to shoot some people. You go into Afghanistan, you’ve got guys who slap women around for five years because they don’t wear a veil. You know, guys like that ain’t got no manhood anyway, so it’s a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them.”  

It was this same Lieutenant General Mattis who dismissed photographic evidence of the slaughter by US-led forces of dozens of people at an Iraqi wedding party last year. Among the dead were 27 members of the extended Rakat family their wedding guests and even the band of musicians hired to play at the ceremony. 11 of the dead were women. 14 were children."

"On May 12 James Mattis, NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Transformation [ACT] and commander of the U.S. Joint Forces Command, spoke at a three-day symposium called Joint Warfighting 09 in Norfolk, Virginia, where NATO’s Allied Command Transformation is based, and stated: “I come with a sense of urgency. The enemy is meeting like this as well.”  

A local newspaper summarized his speech:
“Mattis outlined a future in which wars will not have clearly defined beginnings and ends. What is needed, he said, is a grand strategy, a political framework that can guide military planning.”

He failed, for what passes for diplomatic reasons no doubt, to identify who “the enemy” is, but a series of recent developments, or rather an intensification of ongoing ones, indicate which nation it is."

"Russia"

"Even more blunt was Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis, the former commander of CENTCOM, who retired only last year. Testifying before the House Intelligence Committee, he directly attacked Obama’s public position of “no boots on the ground,” stating, “You just don’t take anything off the table up front, which it appears the administration has tried to do.”
Mattis added: 

“If a brigade of our paratroopers or a battalion landing team of our Marines would strengthen our allies at a key juncture and create havoc/humiliation for our adversaries, then we should do what is necessary with our forces that exist for that very purpose.”

http://www.globalresearch.ca/search?q=james+mattis&x=9&y=14

Trump says he wants to stop overthrowing governments and turn toward peace, but considering James Mattis for Secretary of Defense suggests he's not serious."

http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2016/11/21/james-mattis-is-a-secreta...

Or I could be wrong, they could throw candy and flowers at us. Ya, that could happen.

This would be a good time to get the antiwar thing going on. The War Pigs are restless.

The 99 Percent Fallacy

I was chided (mildly) the other day about a comment I made to a fairly fervent Trump supporter who felt Trump might turn into one of the best presidents ever (would that be a Trumpbot?).  My pushback to the commenter was evidently seen as contrary to the site's non-partisan, all views are welcome policy.  The theory is we're all part of the 99% who have a common opponent in the One Percent.  It follows with the "divide and conquer" concerns voiced by many whereby the ruling elite endeavor to create conditions to divide the public, making it easier to "conquer" us.  It's like, "don't let them divide us, man".

Reality is different.  

It isn't as simple as the very rich versus the rest of us, it's also about goals, agendas and ideology.  If person A wants the Republican party to win and person B wants the Democratic party to win then they have different goals.  They can't work together toward the same goal.   If person A, the republican, and person B, the democrat, both want to work toward a common goal, then they can work together, unless other goals get in the way.  

It's all about the goals.

If my goal is to try to enact a single payer health care system but someone else supports the republican party which does not support a single payer health care system, we could still work toward that goal if the republican person also supported single payer. 

But it doesn't usually work that way.  The reason Person B, the republican, supports the republican party is because of the goals, agenda and ideology of that party.  So you generally are not going to find many republicans who you can work with toward that goal of single payer because of their ideology.

It's all about ideology.

If my goal is to oppose the duopoly (democratic and republican parties), seek a more democratic political system, and end Rule by the Rich, while another person's goal is to support Donald Trump and the republican party, that makes it difficult to work together.  We don't want the same thing and in fact, Person B the republican, by virture of supporting Trump and the republican party, is in effect opposing my goal.  The same could be said with a supporter of the Democratic party.  By virture of their support for the Democratic party they are opposing my goal.  How do people with competing goals work together?

Take war and imperialism, it's the same thing.  If I want to end the wars and U.S. imperialism and you support the Democratic/Republican party that wants to continue the wars and U.S. imperialism, then we can't work toward that same goal.  You can't honestly say you are against the wars and U.S. imperialism while supporting a political party that does. 

Well, you could but how many republican/democratic party supporters are really against the wars and U.S. imperialism?   And if they are, why are they supporting a political party that supports U.S. wars and imperialism? 

If I want a revolution and you don't, can we work together?  Aren't we then working AGAINST each other?  If you are supporting one of the oligarchy's political parties who are gravely against a real people's revolution or movement, then you are in effect opposing a real people's revolution or movement. 

We've got many divisions in this country.  Based on class, race, religion, gender, but also based on ideology.  We're never going to get 99% of the people to join together toward a common goal, that's impossible.  The only possible common goal at that level would be ending Rule by the Rich and implementing an actual democratic political system.  Everything else would have to be decided by democracy, how it should be.  

That's not to say there can't be changing sides.  Someone supporting the republican/democratic party could decide they will no longer support the party and instead will support the people's revolution.  But there's that ideology thing. 

For example:

" A new website is asking students and others to “expose and document” professors who “discriminate against conservative students, promote anti-American values and advance leftist propaganda in the classroom.”

The site, called Professor Watchlist, is not without precedent — predecessors include the now-defunct NoIndoctrination.org, which logged accounts of alleged bias in the classroom. There’s also David Horowitz’s 2006 book, The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America. But such efforts arguably have new meaning in an era of talk about registering certain social groups and concerns about free speech.

Professor Watchlist, launched Monday, is a project of Turning Point USA. The group’s mission is to “identify, educate, train and organize students to promote the principles of fiscal responsibility, free markets and limited government.” Its national college and university field program works to “identify young conservative activists, build and maintain effective student groups, advertise and rebrand conservative values, engage in face-to-face and peer-to-peer conversations about the pressing issues facing our country,” according to its website.  The group’s founder, Charlie Kirk – a millennial who has emerged in some conservative political circles as a major player — did not immediately respond to a request for comment about Professor Watchlist, but he promoted it on social media."

 http://www.globalresearch.ca/anti-american-leftist-professors-being-watched/5558821

Does that sound like someone who radical leftists could work with to change the capitalist system and overthrow the establishment?  I don't think so, I would bet they would actively work against such a Revolution.  I would imagine most of them are not of the One Percent but of the 99 Percent.  What if they visited C99?

Back to working with Trump and republican party supporters. I understand all viewpoints are supposedly accepted on this blog, the only rule being DBAD (don't be a dick).  However I've seen more than a few run off because their views didn't fit in with the majority here, i.e., Clinton supporters.  Trump supporters seem to have been treated a little differently based on the perception from some that Trump and his republican party administration might not be that bad, certainly not as bad as Hillary Clinton. 

I can't stress enough, a REPUBLICAN PARTY administration that is for war and imperialism, unregulated capitalism, privatizing Medicare and Social Security, a fascist police state, and serves the top .001% that rule over We the Serfs.  A party that will work to KILL any working class or Serf's revolution or movement.  

No, for me there's no working with that.  Anyone who supports that is not on my team, they are my opponent.  There is no room for discussion or debate, the only way to change that would be for them to come over to my team.  If not, that's how it will stay. 

This isn't a time for Pollyanna "Imagine all the People" chants, we're in a war of ideologies.  Those of us wanting truth, justice and real democracy are getting creamed.  There's no room for niceties when considering the stakes.  The existence of the planet and the human race is at stake.   I've got kids and grandkids, screw these people who want to take away their futures. 

We need solidarity for a people's movement against the oligarchy.  It won't be the 99% that does it.  Those that want it will have to join in with others around the planet to form a global people's revolution against the global oligarchy.  We'll have many opponents but our cause is just and that's what will win in the end.  It has to.

Muslim Vigorous Denouncement Program ALERT

***Importance Public Notice***
Due to the recent terrorist attack at the Taco Bell in Berkeley, California, which included defacing the front façade with anti-American slogans and yelling "Death to Capitalist Pigs!!, this Muslim Vigorous Denouncement Alert is being issued within the continental United States.

CIA Director Michael Pompeo, the creator and administrator of the Muslim Vigorous Denouncement Program under President Donald Trump, issued the alert saying, "it's imperative to the national security of this country that every Muslim in the United States vigorously denounce this latest terrorist attack on the American people, the American way, and Taco Bell, or the CIA, FBI and DHS will consider those who don't suspects in this war crime against America."

**NOTICE: All Muslims have by noon on the 21st of January to report to their nearest Muslim Vigorous Denouncement Station to vigorously denounce this latest terrorist attack. Failure to do so will result in an arrest warrant issued for Aiding and Abetting a Terrorist Act under the Muslim Vigorous Denouncement Act of 2017.

The Muslim Vigorous Denouncement Program (MVDP) is a cornerstone of President Trump's Expanded Global War OF Terror and a vital contributor to the safety and freedom of the American people. Report any suspicious Muslim related activity to the CIA or your local law enforcement organization.

***End of Notice***

The Truth Shall Set Us Free

Is it possible to make any progress as Serfs if we don't confront the truth and nothing but the truth? Maybe it's like in a relationship, if it's based on lies there is no chance at success.

People talking about Bernie Sanders and now Jill Stein as the only "truth tellers" among the candidates and yet they're not REALLY telling the truth. And we're not REALLY discussing the truth. If we were really discussing the truth we'd be discussing what happened on 9/11.

9/11 was a False Flag event. It was the proverbial inside job. It was a well planned attack on the United States by elements of the Deep State, the CIA, the Neocons/Zionists, Israel and Saudi Arabia. It was blatantly predicted by the Neocon/Zionist Project for a New American Century think tank, including some of the very perpetrators, in their call for a "New Pearl Harbor" to galvanize support from the American public for a never ending war OF terror, i.e., to advance the agendas for a New World Order and a Greater Israel.

9/11 is the justification for the Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Yemen and Global War on Terror wars being waged by the United States. It's the justification for the sub-war on ISIS, a creation of the same insidious elements. It's why we have the Patriot Act and the accompanying assault on our liberties, why we have the Department of Homeland Security which now permeates every aspect of county, state and federal law enforcement and security programs.

9/11 created the War OF Terror which now envelopes the planet.  9/11 literally changed everything.

But it's all based on lies. The official story of 9/11 that is used to justify all this is based on lies.

Does it really matter what Jill Stein and Bernie Sanders say if they don't say 9/11 is a lie?

It's the same with the Federal Reserve System, another Big Lie. And the murder of JFK. And the Gulf of Tonkin incident justifying the Vietnam war.  The fake killing of Osama bin Laden.  All lies. The list goes on and on.  We live our lives under incredible lies.

There are those who will say Jill Stein, Sanders, and their ilk can't talk about 9/11 because they wouldn't be taken seriously, they'd be labeled "truthers", tin foil conspiracy theorists.

That's the problem and that's on us. We won't let ourselves REALLY talk about the truth. We're humans capable of wondrous things and yet we won't allow ourselves to confront our demons.

Or rather, those that rule over us won't allow it.

Maybe until we can change that we cannot progress as a human race. Even worse, like that relationship built on lies, maybe we can't last.

How the People Could Fund a Real Revolution

"Vermont Sen. Bernard (Bernie) Sanders financed his entire $200 million campaign on small donations and nearly gained the nomination. He showed for the first time in the modern era that a candidate for high office need not sell out to the plutocracy to obtain electoral power."

Ya, well that didn't work did it. 200 million and what's to show for it? Hillary Clinton. Sure, some of the diehards will say Bernie's "revolution" and the money spent laid the groundwork for a political revolution while educating the public about the issues of wealth inequality and economic fairness.

Nah, the public knew damn well. Bernie was just one of the few POLITICIANS who said it, that doesn't mean the public didn't know. People sitting in their apartments eating food bought by food stamps watching the television can see the yachts and the mansions and the extreme gap in wealth in this country and the world. Everybody knows the bankers run the place so that's nothing new. They knew that 100 years ago. 200.

And the only groundwork laid was that straight to the Democratic party.

No, what Bernie Sanders really showed was that if the Serfs wanted to get together and raise enough money to take action OUTSIDE the electoral process, we could do it. Imagine if all those $27 donations went toward a real anti-imperialism effort or a climate change effort or a anti-gangster capitalism effort, or even an effort to implement real democracy in this country. $200 million toward a people's movement would really be something. Instead it's fucking wasted on an election farce.

Kind of reminds me of when The Intercept was born. Glenn Greenwald, Jeremy Scahil and those along with their billionaire benefactor, Pierre Omidyar who pledged $250 million toward the overall project. I remember saying at that time that we could better use that money toward a people's movement to take down the oligarchy. Not another so called alternative news outlet that wasn't really alternative. I've never read that site.

This shows how ingrained the electoral process is in the heads of the Serfs, how it completely overshadows any outside efforts for a popular citizens movement. Now the same people who sent Bernie Sanders their $27 are sending Jill Stein another $27. On and on it goes, where it stops nobody knows.

Hell with that, send it to me. I'll put it in the bank for the Global People's Revolution.

End U.S. Imperialism?

OK, so an election boycott doesn't look like it's possible.  Just not enough people to get behind it.  It seems like those most capable of pulling it off, i.e., left leaning people, organizations, blogs and alternative media sites, etc., most involved in trying to do "something", are also by and large those most conditioned to the representative system electoral process.  Therefore instead of seeking solutions outside the electoral process, which they recognize needs to be done, they continue to focus on the election of politicians because their lifelong conditioning has stamped that into their brains as "democracy".

It's a shame I think.  Many progressive leftists (finally) realizing the Democratic party is a corrupt dead-end are now focusing on third parties.  They know no other way than to join another team playing the same dead-end game.  And that, like the elections themselves, takes away organization, support and money for outside the system actions. 

It goes like that over and over, like being lost in a desert and thinking over the next hill there will be an oasis where they can eat and drink.  But the oasis never comes.

I remember years ago while we lived under the Bush regime thinking why we couldn't get enough people together to accomplish ONE THING.  I thought if we could accomplish just ONE THING, maybe that could snowball into two things, then three things and so on.  Kind of like breaking the ice on something then the floodgates open. 

What I had in mind at that time was ending U.S. imperialism.  Specifically the wars started by the Bush regime in Afghanistan, Iraq, and the Neverending Global War OF Terror.  I wasn't as focused on U.S. imperialism as a whole at that time, more the Bush wars.  There's a helluva lot more to U.S. imperialism than those wars as we've seen since Bush, under Obama, with Russia and China now in the crosshairs. 

The thing about U.S. imperialism is that it's so intertwined with the other major problems we Serfs face, including the financial oligarchy, the Trans Pacific Partnership and TTIP, climate change, and of course our very liberty and freedom which has been usurped by the imperialist War OF Terror and the military/police state that now engulfs our lives. 

If we could mount a legitimate challenge to U.S. imperialism, we might be able to topple the House of Cards.  And that would impact the entire world and possibly humanity itself. 

And then there's Hillary Clinton.  The primary criticism of Clinton from the left is that she's a warmonger, de facto war criminal, and could very well start WWIII.  (Advance WWIII more accurately, we are IN WWIII right now).  She is considered by many as dangerous a person there is on the planet at this time and she's going to become President of the United States of Imperialism. (Anything can happen but that's how it looks now).

If we can't stop her from becoming President (which I think we could with an election boycott), why don't we try to stop U.S. imperialism before she gets the keys?  Or at least lay the groundwork for a sustained protest against U.S. imperialism starting the day she takes office.  We already know what she's about, we know what she's capable of, those on the left (and right) that oppose her and U.S. imperialism should take that on NOW.

Focusing on Jill Stein and the Green Party, which has no chance this election, is taking the easy way out.  There should be an All Hands on Deck approach to ending U.S. imperialism now and preventing Hillary Clinton from killing more people in our names. 

There's an event from September 23-25 in Washington D.C. called "No War 2016".  It's being held at American University.  Many speakers, workshops and a culminating protest.  Hopefully this can expand and become the primary focus of left activists instead of trying to elect Jill Stein or destroying their morals by voting for Clinton or Trump. 

Status of the People's Revolution

So where are we at now with the People’s Revolution?

It appears we’re headed absolutely nowhere.  Some would disagree but I don’t see it.  What I see is the same old shit, different day (SSDD).  We have an election happening between Clinton and Trump, of all people, and nothing happening to challenge it.  Some are trying to support and advance “third” party representation but that’s not challenging a damn thing.  We’re still going to get either Clinton or Trump as President, a republican controlled Congress, democrat controlled Senate, and the oligarchy will roll on.  Then after the elections the third parties will go back to their rooms with their tails between their legs. 

Is there anything to build on?  Not much.  All this talk about “Bernie’s revolution” was nothing more than trying to “revitalize” the Democratic party by electing more and better Democrats.  On the republican side, it’s even worse.  They’ve got Trump and utter confusion.

There have been a few efforts to expand on Bernie’s revolution but those were the same thing, Democratic party oriented talkfests that ended with whimpers.  Maybe there will be some payoff for the Democratic party, but so what. That party is part of the oligarchy, the establishment, the opposition in the People's Revolution. 

There are some antiwar demonstrations scheduled for September in D.C. that are attracting hundreds.  Hundreds. 

It’s like going to Vegas and laying a two dollar bet at the craps table, the dealer will say, “no action”. 
Like I said, some will disagree but we’ll see that I’m right.   There is nothing on the table to challenge the oligarchy. 

Is there hope?  Sure, there’s always hope, sometimes that’s all we’ve got.  But it doesn’t appear likely very soon.  Possibly when either Clinton or Trump become President there will be activity to challenge their rule, but it won’t be any different than it was with Boy Bush or War Criminal Obama.
There is just no agreement on what to do to overtake the power.  There is no agreement on whether to even challenge the power, which is illustrated by the push for third parties and trying to participate in a political system not designed to provide democracy.  There is absolutely no push to challenge this representative political system.

It’s a sad thing.  I’ve got grandchildren who will live throughout this century, hopefully.  They’ve lived their entire lives so far in a country at war with the world.  A country in a fake permanent state of emergency.  A country controlled by the rich and governed by the rich.  We’re being ruled but very few want to challenge that, most simple want to ignore it or vote for the next rulers. 

Maybe that’s just the way humans roll, the way it was and will be.  Some say it will have to get far worse before people will rise up and demand change.  Maybe.  I look at humans in other countries, like Venezuela and Iraq and North Korea, and they sure have it far worse and yet can’t get out of their situations. 

Those ruling us have immense power.  Power over the institutions, over the government, over our daily lives.  We’re fucking ants to them.  They can kill a million of us and have zero second thoughts. 

I believe we could do something about it.  We could if we wanted to.  But we don’t want to, not REALLY.  Many think they want to, like voting for Jill Stein instead of Hillary Clinton.  What’s that going to do?  Send a statement?  Right, our rulers don’t give a shit about statements. 

I’ve been close to giving up the fight against the establishment.  It seems so useless.  Most people are so fucking brainwashed about this country and its political system they just can’t envision anything different.

Maybe that’s something we could riff from.  “Envision something different!” 

Ah, that won’t work either.  To envision something first you have to have vision.  I don’t see the vision. 

No, I can't give up.  Fuck these people who are waging wars, stealing money and wealth, killing people and causing human hardship for their benefit.  We have to stop them because they won't stop. The question is how to organize enough people to challenge the power outside the election system. 

North Koreans Livid at Olympic Athlete not Saluting Dear Leader

Just kidding. 

This is about America, Land of the Free and Home of the North Korean impersonators. 

"U.S. women’s gymnast Gabby Douglas was criticized for not placing her hand over her heart during the playing of “The Star-Spangled Banner” Tuesday night, and she has since apologized to anyone she may have offended.

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Douglas was ripped apart on social media for standing with her hands by her side as the U.S. national anthem played after she and her teammates received their gold medals. She wrote on Twitter that she “never meant any disrespect.”

http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/olympics/gabby-douglas-apologizes-in-wake-of-national-anthem-criticism/ar-BBvtBa7?ocid=SL5EDHP

To be fair, some people came to her defense saying they didn't put their hand over their heart either. 

Dear Leader chimed in and said that fellow citizens who see this type of behavior should report it immediately to the Department of Homeland Security.  We could be dealing with a new type of terrorist, the Star Spangled Banner Terrorists. 

Anybody else tired of this nationalistic bullshit?

Anyone at all?

Former Sanders Supporters Cry Foul over Criticism of Trump because it Helps Clinton

Some people on the left, primarily former Sanders supporters, are complaining about others on the left who are criticizing Trump. The primary reason appears to be they feel that is helping Clinton, and they don't want Clinton to win.

Do not help Clinton by criticizing Trump!

Most of these same people may actually vote for Trump, in a stunning display of lesser evilism, because they so want to keep Clinton from becoming President.

It appears true that the corporate media is upping its criticism of Trump and favoring Clinton. That's what the corporate media does, it's all in on the "game". The Zionists controlling the corporate media do so to manipulate and control the narratives the sheeple will focus on.

This comes after many complained that Trump was getting "free advertising" from the corporate media during the primary session. Now its changed.

This is just another facet of lesser evilism. Those complaining believe Clinton is more evil than Trump.

What a wasted and naive stupid game they're playing. In my view, both candidates should be criticized up, down and sideways, and deemed unacceptable to become President of this sad country. So it should not matter whether Trump is criticized or Clinton is criticized as long as the most important point, they both suck, remains the primary focus.

That's not what they're doing. By complaining about criticism of Trump helping Clinton, even if they don't vote for the scumbag Trump, they are in effect siding with Trump as the lesser evil and not ascribing to the fact that both candidates are unacceptable. They might feel that way but their words don't back it up. That would be called cognitive dissonance. Caught up in this political process because that's the way it is without thinking that it doesn't have to be this way.

I don't care when I criticize Trump that I'm helping Clinton because I don't care about either of them. I don't want either of them to be president. So it doesn't matter if I inadvertantly help Clinton with my criticism of Trump or help Trump with my criticism of Clinton. That's on the sheeple who can't see what the fuck is going on.

Those playing this lesser evil game are still going to get evil.  That doesn't seem to sink in.  

Racism Definitely is Alive and Well in the United States of Chickenshits

You hear the stories of people telling flight attendants on airplanes that someone who looks "Muslim" makes them nervous because they're sweating or silently praying.  Then they get booted off the plane. 

Remember George Zimmerman who killed Trayvon Martin?  Now we have Chad Copley of North Carolina killing a young black man named Kouren-Rodney Bernard Thomas because he was "securing his neighborhood".  Thomas was simply leaving a party at a house in the neighborhood. 

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/%e2%80%98george-zimmerman-20%e2%80%99-family-demands-justice-after-white-homeowner-kills-black-man/ar-BBvwmJ7?li=BBnbfcL&ocid=SL5EDHP

Check out this article, "These cops are tired of white people getting freaked out by their black neighbors".  All over the country cops are having to deal with white people calling 911 because there's a black person sitting in a car across the street, or a Muslim looking man walking down the block, or a black neighbor acting black.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/05/06/these-cops-are-tired-of-white-people-getting-freaked-out-by-their-black-neighbors/

White people.  There are a lot of racist white people in this country.  Racist assholes.  Sure, we can blame it on how they're raised, the government divide and conquer tactics, etc.  But there's no excuse now man.  We went through the sixties over fifty years ago. 

Wow, I hadn't really focused on the extent racism still exists in this country.  Of course I know it's very prevalent but that article about the cops being tired of white people getting freaked out really hits home.  It is everywhere.

I'll have to be blunt here.  There are a ton of dumb racist whites assholes out there. 

Scumbag Trump says Obama and Clinton "founded" ISIS

Quick one.  I wrote an essay and posted it on the blog Caucus 99 Percent, titled, "Scumbag Trump - Clinton Founded ISIS". 

I was quickly labeled a liar and scolded by the C99 partisans for Trump for calling him a scumbag. 

The gist of the essay was that I felt Trump wasn't really saying they, Obama and Clinton, actually founded/created ISIS as policy to use it as a regime change proxy army against Assad and Syria (and others) but that their failed policies fighting terrorism were to blame for ISIS' rise. 

Of course most of the partisan Trump supporters on C99 disagreed.  Trump is the shit you know, a truth teller, an agent against the status quo. 

So today there was a lead headline on CNN, "Trump - Obama Absolutely Founded ISIS".  Evidently Trump doubled down and said,

"Asked about them on CNBC, he doubled down and said "[Obama] was the founder of ISIS absolutely, the way he removed our troops. ..I call them co-founders."

Notice the kicker, "the way he removed our troops".  Clearly he is saying that because Obama supposedly removed "our" troops, i.e., a strategic policy mistake in the War OF Terror according to Scumbag Trump, that led to the rise of ISIS. 

He is absolutely not saying that Obama created ISIS to act as a proxy army, one that has been trained, armed, guided and protected while also acting as the latest boogeyman to keep the American sheeple in their beds.  If he was it wouldn't be headlined on CNN.

Naturally the partisan Trump supporters on C99 still wouldn't see it that way.  They think Trump is the truth teller in this circus we call an election. 

Imagine Democrats voting for a republican President and republicans voting for a democratic president.  Here we are folks.  What are we going to do about it?

I know, nothing. 

Anyway, to me it shows that Trump does adhere to the false narratives and lies about the War OF Terror because he's saying ISIS is an enemy that needs to be defeated, just like Obama and Clinton, when actually ISIS is a tool for U.S. imperialism.  Trump is not saying that.  Couple that with his statements about Muslims, building a fence and all that and it shows that Trump is no different when it comes to U.S. imperialism regarding the War OF Terror, the lie that keeps U.S. imperialism afloat.

The lesser evil voting strategy is alive and well.  

Hillary Clinton and the United States, a Threat to Humanity

(Note:  this is in no way a defense of the scumbag called Trump)

"Imagine him in the Oval Office facing a real crisis," she said. "A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons,"
Hillary Clinton, Warmonger for President

That statement means to portray Trump (I will not say his first name) as someone who might use nuclear weapons inappropriately. The obvious inference is that the President of the Empire has the authority to use nuclear weapons and that Trump can't be trusted to use them but Clinton can.  We can trust Hillary Clinton to use nuclear weapons appropriately.  The Clinton supporters say, "ya, Hillary will use nuclear weapons appropriately!!"  Trump supporters say, "no way, Trump will use nuclear weapons appropriately!!"  You idiots.

Put aside the fact that we're dealing with the preeminent warmonger on the planet, along with Obama, and think about what that means. 

(Pause while you're thinking)

The United States of the Land of the Sheeple has an official policy of first strike use of nuclear weapons.  I've been around awhile, grew up during and participated in the Vietnam war.  I worked for the Department of the Army in Europe the five years before the Wall fell.  After the Wall fell and the Soviet Union became Russia, the nuclear weapon (Duck and Cover baby) threat we'd lived under the previous forty years faded into the background for most of us.  Fast forward to the "New American Century" and the country accusing Russia of being aggressive has been as aggressive as a Roman Empire dog in heat, implementing the policies to boot.  Believe it (fuck you Trump), there are many in the military industrial complex, our government, the Pentagon, and the thinktanks and institutes that would jump at the chance at a nuclear war against Russia.  And China for that matter.  The New World Order awaits. 

Of course class, the right answer is there should be no policy to use nuclear weapons, there should be no nuclear weapons at all.  To think otherwise is INSANE.  I don't know how else to put it to convey that kind of unbelievably inhumane perspective.   We've been there, done that, and it is unacceptable for the human race and the planet. 

The point isn't who we can trust most with the nuclear codes, the point is we can't allow any president the opportunity to use them.  Ever.  

War is a Racket.  General Smedley Butler, a gift that keeps on giving.  You know how people fantasize about going back in time and who would they most like to meet.  One of mine would be Smedley.  I don't know how we'd get along, but I'd thank him for his valuable contributions to humanity. 

War is a Racket, always, every time.  Therefore the appropriate use of nuclear weapons is a false choice.  There can be no appropriate use of nuclear weapons. 

Hillary Clinton is a war criminal, literally.  Most people can't quite get a handle on that.  Even when its explained what her role was in the Libya and Syria wars, most can't quite grasp the fact that she's a sociopathic murderer without remorse.  She, and Obama, should be arrested, charged with crimes against humanity and locked up until they meet their maker.  But that's why Kissinger, Albright, Bush, Cheney, etc., are walking around free, the sheeple just don't get it.

James Corbett tells it like it is with Clinton.  This woman is dangerous and could very well start a nuclear war.  SHE CANNOT be trusted with nuclear weapons.  No President can be trusted.  The only answer is total abolition of all nuclear weapons on the planet.  For We the Sheeple to accept anything less is asinine. 

It's not long and contains very incriminating clips of what Clinton is about.

Hillary Clinton Is A Threat To All Of Humanity

The use of nuclear weapons is not being challenged.  Hell, U.S. imperialism is not being challenged.  Think it can't happen?

"How Close Are We to Nuclear War?"

"Former Bill Clinton cabinet member Perry perceives a danger that none of this year’s presidential wannabes have paid much if any attention to. The most recent candidate to make nuclear arms a central issue was Congressman Dennis Kucinich in 2008. President Obama has played both sides of the nuclear dilemma: rounding up and securing nuclear materials around the world, but also modernizing and miniaturizing American nuclear weapons to make them more “usable.” These days, no one in leadership – or aspiring to leadership – seems committed to actually making the world any safer from nuclear catastrophe. With rare exceptions like Kucinich, this unquestioned reliance on nuclear weapons is mainstream American military group-think, endlessly echoed in mainstream media, and that’s the way it’s been for decades."

http://www.globalresearch.ca/how-close-are-we-to-nuclear-war/5538453

The Left's Fake Revolution vs the Revolution this Country Needs

The People's Summit - $50 - 200. per person June 17-19

-Fight for 15
-mass incarceration and criminal justice reform
-voting rights and expanding democratic participation
-a tax on Wall Street speculation to fund human needs and jobs
-climate justice toward a sustainable economy
-improved Medicare for All
-the fight for free higher education
-secure retirement through expanding social security
-ending HIV/AIDS
-achieving Constitutional pay equity for women
-and ending deportations and support for DREAMers
-Work within the Democratic Party for change

The Revolution - Free

-End the Oligarchy and Plutocracy and institute a People's Democracy ending the Party System
-Establish a new U.S. Constitution
-Abolish the Supreme Court and establish a People's Court
-End U.S. Imperialism and All War and Militarism
-Abolish the Federal Reserve System and institute Public Banking
-Abolish the CIA, NSA, and other intelligence agencies. Establish a single replacement for national defense only.
-Abolish the Presidency and institute a Council of rotated Citizens
-Abolish Wall Street and the Big Banks
-End Disaster/Gangster Capitalism
-Arrest and Try all U.S. Presidents and High level Officials for Crimes against Humanity
-Arrest and Try all Criminal Banksters and Corporate Heads for Crimes against Humanity
-Rescind the Patriot Act
-Abolish the Department of Homeland Security
-End the Emerging Militarized Police State
-Abolish the DEA and end the War on Drugs
-Abolish the FBI
-Abolish the Council on Foreign Relations, the Tri-Lateral Commission, the Club of Rome and the Bilderberg Group

Chomsky and Hall, Smolski and St. Clair, the Left, the Revolution and being Radical

So the "left", at least that part of the left that is participating in or paying attention to the governance of this country, is having a squabble about lesser evil voting. Specifically about voting for Clinton over Trump.

Which brings up an observation/question. What about the nearly fifty percent of voting eligible Americans that do not vote? Wouldn't a significant percentage of them, probably more than half, actually be of the left?

Over at Counterpunch they're having a little thing about lesser evil voting and third parties. Noam Chomsky is part of it, John Halle, Jeffrey St Clair, and Andrew Smolski are involved, all of the left persuasion.

Halle and Chomsky, or is it Chomsky and Halle?, started it by coming out for Hillary Clinton arguing that she's a lesser evil than Trump and the Republicans and that at least we could hold the fort while Clinton is Prez while making progress on the tactical front, or some such bullshit. They provide an eight point rationale to support their case. To them, lesser evil voting is this:

"Simply put, LEV involves, where you can, i.e. in safe states, voting for the losing third party candidate you prefer, or not voting at all. In competitive "swing" states, where you must, one votes for the "lesser evil" Democrat."

But they give voting and participating in the electoral process the Howard Zinn approach.

"The left should devote the minimum of time necessary to exercise the LEV choice then immediately return to pursuing goals which are not timed to the national electoral cycle."

Oh ya Noam? Those time tested goals that never get us anywhere?

Basically their rationale is that a Trump presidency will result in "terrible suffering on the most vulnerable segments of society" while also making the "establishment center" (the right wing Democratic party" seem a reasonable alternative.  And by inference, they're saying Clinton's presidency wouldn't result in such terrible suffering on the most vulnerable segments of society.  Hey Noah, ask the people of Haiti and Libya. 

I get it, the old one step forward, two steps back thing.

They (Hall and Chomsky, Chomsky and Hall) even have the audacity to say that although on the surface it might appear that Trump's "foreign policies", i.e., approach to U.S. imperialism, could be better than Clinton's approach to U.S. imperialism, his right wing nationalistic tendencies could be worse. The evil warmonger imperialist Queen of the Universe Hillary Clinton? Ya right Hall and Oates. 

http://johnhalle.com/outragesandinterludes/?p=1065

Do people remember how popular Hall and Oates were?   They're in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for crying out loud.

So Andrew Smolski of Counterpunch writes an article and basically tells them they're full of shit, but in a nice way and with alot of big words like Chomsky and Hall/Hall and Chomsky used. The gist of his argument was that Clinton is Satan and we should vote third party. Not really, but pretty close.

 http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/06/29/to-my-haters-a-rejoinder-to-halle-and-chomsky/

Then Chomsky and Hall/Hall and Chomsky call Smolski's argument "idiotic" and part of the "lunatic and sociopathic left". Smolski didn't like that so he wrote another article further criticizing Chomsky and Hall/Hall and Chomsky.

He asks why they don't call on the left's current Savior Bernie J.C. Sanders to break from the Democratic party and build a third party or join forces with the left's Savior politicians in waiting, Jill Stein and Kwame Sawant. He asks where is the "radical imagination in the US again?"

Radical? Trying to form a third political party in the United States of Empire is radical?

Shit.

So here we have one of the supposed icons of fighting the man, Chomsky, saying people should vote for Hillary "the war criminal" Clinton", a woman responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people and the poveritization of millions.

Then we have these other professional lefties with big words saying we need to get radical and start the decades long process of building a third party so the left can have a more significant impact in the oligarchy that is the U.S. Congress. Maybe, just maybe, in a couple more decades we can really have single payer and free college. The wars will go on and the wealth inequality will astronomify, but we could be talking $17.50 an hour by 2035!

Fuck.

St. Clair of Counterpunch, to his credit, rightly lambasts Chomsky and especially Hall while supporting his columnist Smolski.  He didn't say so but I suppose he's a "radical" third party proponent too. 

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/06/29/noam-chomsky-john-halle-and-henry-the-first-a-note-on-lesser-evil-voting/ 

That's not radical, that's working within the system. It's trying to elect some of the 535 politicians that are somehow supposed to "represent" over 330 American in Congress. A Congress that has an 8% approval rating from the public. And most of the approvers must have misunderstood the question because they can't be that stupid, right? 

I wrote an article recently called "The Trouble with Third parties".   In it I explained that a "radical" revolution should be one that eliminates the power structure of the elite and creates a new political and economic system for the people. I argued that the ruling elite are pushing the planet and the people to destruction, causing great misery in their quest for global domination and that we don't have decades, morally or practically, to "fuck around" with third party politics.

We need a real Revolution and those advocating "fighting the man" and "taking on the establishment" like Chomsky and Hall and even Smolski and St. Clair, like it or not, are leading the so called radical left into another failed and forgetten quest.

Why Can't U.S. Citizens Vote on a Referendum?

I need to flesh this and to the very few who might read this, sorry, it's really just some thoughts I just had.

I've written before about the possibility for a referendum process at the national level so citizens can vote directly on important issues.  Why can't U.S. citizens vote whether to go to war, or to legalize marijuana, or to institute a single payer health care system? 

We all saw what just happened in Britain where the citizens voted on an extremely important issue instead of having politicians decide for them.  They voted to leave the evil European Union.  That's direct democracy in action. 

Some have tried to get a referendum process established in this country but of course the ruling elite would not want that.  Anything they can do to prevent it they will.  But the people do have power if they want to use it. 

What is disgusting and disturbing is no one except a very few on the left proposes changes to our political system such as a referendum process.  It's all about the "issues", fifteen bucks an hour, single payer, etc., with only one way to implement them, trying to get our politicians to do it.  Congress. 

Screw that, this vote in Britain, however it turns out, should say one important thing to Americans and people all over the world.  We can decide. 

Not to say that's all we need to do.  As we're seeing and going to see with the vote of the Britain citizens, the powers that be still have powers that be. 

Really, we should just break the country up like the EU looks like it may be headed for.  If not we should replace the entire political system, the Supreme Court, Congress, Senate, President especially, all of it.   But the people should decide that so perhaps a referendum process is the first step.  Get the power to the people. 

Propaganda Alert! "Russia, regime strikes 'kill 47 in east Syria"

That's the title of an article by the AFP going around the 90% corporate controlled mainstream media.  The source, of course, is the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights or SOHR. 

The SOHR, or the dude named Abdul, was outted a few years back as a MI6/CIA/Mossad generated propaganda source and has been used extensively by the U.S./NATO/Zionist controlled media to spread lies and fictitious narratives to the gullible public. 

Amazingly, even after being outted, Abdul continues to gain front page status of the mainstream media's propaganda outlets, even appearing on most alternative news and opinion sites and most progressive and conservative blogs. 

So we don't really know what's happened in Syria regarding possible air strikes.  We do know without a doubt that the source is the number one propaganda source for the U.S/NATO/Zionist attack on Syria. 

It makes me sad to see something like this in the mainstream media knowing that hardly anyone reading it will know the source is a fake.   I've found even when you tell people directly, most will still absorb the propaganda into their conditioned heads and believe it. 

Here's a link to an article I wrote last year detailing the situation.

http://globalrevolutioncenter.blogspot.com/2015/10/syrian-observatory-for-human-rights.html

Sheepdog Bernie Sanders Pledges to work with War Criminal Obama for the Corrupt Democratic War Party

A lot of people got punk'd by Bernie Sanders. All the talk about a "political revolution" and a people's movement was nothing more than shilling for the Democratic Party. Sanders was accused early on of being a "Sheepdog" for the Democratic party.

"Bernie Sanders is this election's Democratic sheepdog. The sheepdog is a card the Democratic party plays every presidential primary season when there's no White House Democrat running for re-election. The sheepdog is a presidential candidate running ostensibly to the left of the establishment Democrat to whom the billionaires will award the nomination. Sheepdogs are herders, and the sheepdog candidate is charged with herding activists and voters back into the Democratic fold who might otherwise drift leftward and outside of the Democratic party, either staying home or trying to build something outside the two party box."

http://blackagendareport.com/bernie-sanders-sheepdog-4-Hillary

Fast forward FOURTEEN MONTHS! and what do we have?

Sanders is saying his primary goal is to defeat Trump. That says it right there. The only way to do that is to make it so someone else defeats him. Since it won't be him, Clinton is the only other option. Sanders honestly doesn't like the Clinton's, either of them and who can blame him. But he's a D.C. politician and he's made it clear many times the primary goal is to defeat the Republicans and to revitalize the democratic party so our Congress will make the changes he proposes. That was Bernie's revolution. I suppose it continues but it ain't no revolution, not with the Democratic party and not with our Congress.
 
Sanders is working to get his proposals into the Democratic party platform and wants his "revolution" to help him make sure the party platform promises are adhered to. IT IS ALL DEMOCRATIC PARTY, and by extension a reliance on Congress to take actions accordingly. Our Congress, the U.S. Congress with the collective job performance approval rating of 8%.

Those comfortable with the Democratic party have no problem with that but those resisting the party do have a problem. Sanders' campaign for the Democratic party presidential nomination was viewed as something that could spur a people's movement whether he won or not and would be the start of really challenging the oligarchy and it's political party duopoly. Some even thought Bernie would mount a legitimate third party challenge, maybe partner up with Jill Stein.

So what did we get? A whole bunch of people newly registered to the Democratic party. Some bullshit about the Democratic party platform. A new Democratic National Committee (DNC) chairperson. And Hillary Clinton vs. Donald Trump. And Bernie Sanders telling his supporters his primary goal is to defeat Donald Trump.

Hell with that. The goal should be to defeat both of them. Neither of these psycho assholes should be allowed to be the President of the United States, no way no how. Sure, in the end it doesn't really matter who becomes President, Obama the Novel Peace prize winning murdering war criminal proved that once and for all. It's (almost) beyond belief it's gotten this far, like an episode from the Twilight Zone, but it's real and it should be stopped. There shouldn't be any picking one over the other, no self respecting person should stoop so low, so fully impugn their own integrity. The only ones playing this game are fucking groupies.

Now there are the obligatory people's conferences and summits to "continue Bernie's Revolution" only to further entrench the "revolution" into the democratic party apparatus. The People's Summit and the People's Revolution and the same old speakers and same old demands, most will documented affiliations with the establishment. Campaign Finance Reform!! Voting Rights!! They have their lists of alms for the poor, none of which challenge the oligarchy and make plans for more and better politicians who will magically make Congress come ALIVE! Everything geared toward using the Democratic party and relying on politicians to take action in Congress and Senate to make changes.

That is not a revolution, it is a path to more subservience to our masters.

Undoubtedly many Sanders supporters will fall in line and vote for Hillary Clinton. Many won't, some estimate 30% or more. Those who do vote for Clinton were never serious about revolution, they couldn't have been. They wouldn't know a revolution if it bit them in the ass.

Those refusing to vote for Clinton and ending their relationships, if they had one, with the democratic party will migrate toward third parties or hopefully a real independent people's movement, one completely removed from electoral politics and geared toward a radical challenge of the power instead of hoped for incremental change as the oligarchy allows.

Many will get sucked into faux revolutionary efforts, like the People's Summit and the People's Revolution that will not challenge the power. Those with true revolutionary aims will need to unite in order to establish a workable framework to challenge the oligarchy.

The conditions are still very ripe for an independent movement against this corrupt political system. We have the perfect foils to reject what the oligarchy is trying to shove down our throats. Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. The country has reached a zenith in absurdity. It's like the often used refrain, "if not now, when"?

Sanders goal of preventing Donald Trump from becoming president is just more duopoly tribal bullshit between the democratic party and the republican party. What this country needs is a full stop on this sham of an election to expose the illusions of democracy and We the People and force changes to end the oligarchy. That's the primary problem we can't keep putting off election after election.

Hopeless or Helpless?

Maybe it's hopeless. Maybe the trajectory the human race is on is an unstoppable evolution that no one can stop. Maybe it's just too late for that.

But, too late for what?

To me that's the question that isn't being answered. It seems everyone knows the world is going to shit, this country is going to shit (or has), and yet no one seems to have an answer on how to reverse course or even stop the bleeding.

Maybe we as humans just are not capable. It's not like we're all powerful creatures that are infallible. We make mistakes, we have our limitations. Maybe collectively we are just incapable of creating a just and equal system of living together on this planet. Maybe this is simply the "best we got".

Here's what I think. I think it's a failure of identifying the primary problem and the primary goal. We've got problems up the kazoo. Wealth inequality, climate change, war and imperialism, fascism, the list goes on and on. Hell, there aren't enough whales right? Save the Whales!

Joe wants this and Suzie wants this and Mark wants this and Alma wants this. Pedro thinks we should do that and Ahmed thinks we should do this and Bernhard thinks we should do that and Dikembe thinks we should do that. What is it that we can all agree on? Is there a common denominator with all these problems? Can we solve them all by solving one? Or are we forever shackled with too many problems and too little imagination?

Is is hopeless?

If you're a Christian or most other religions, you have to think it's hopeless. Christians believe in Armageddon and the Rapture so they can't believe we simple humans can create an everlasting system of peace, justice and equality. Most other religions have their own versions of depending on an all powerful God to save us from ourselves. That's hopeless, and hope I guess. The hope being placed on something that can't be seen, heard or verified. But clearly a hopeless attitude for humans to find a way out of this mess themselves.

Many have philosophized over the centuries about how to operate and organize human societies and different formats of government. Some have been and are disasters but some have been fairly successful. But greed and lust for power always overcome the efforts at truth, justice, and equality.

I'll settle for freedom and equality. Maybe we can't solve all our problems but if we can achieve freedom and equality, that might be enough to keep this thing going. We have to have planning, organization and systems for how to govern and live. What I don't want is a small minority dictating and/or forcing everyone else to live a certain way or to impact the lives of everyone else without their consent. That to me is the biggest problem. We humans always seem to allow others to achieve power over everyone else and dictate their lives without their true consent. From the Kings and Queens and Monarchs of centuries past, to dictators and Presidents of modern times, how humans are able to live on this planet, or whether they're allowed to live at all, has been largely in the hands of those few who gain that power.

That's where we're at now. A few have the power to impact the lives of everyone else and those few have no intention of allowing equality and justice. They will murder a million people at a time without second thoughts, they will destroy countries and many million more lives in their quest for power and to satisfy their greed.

That is not freedom. That is not equality. That is the problem.  

But that's my opinion, what's yours?

Ya,  maybe it's not hopeless.  Maybe we're just helpless. 

"The Bank Owns this Property"

I watched a new movie called "99 Homes". It's about a guy who lives with his mother and his son in their family home and they're evicted by the bank, represented by the Sheriff's department (of course) and a real estate broker representing the bank. They're thrown out onto the street with five minutes notice, all their furniture and personal belongings are taken out of the house and placed in the yard (for 24 hours before removal) and they're on their own. The guy and his mother truly believed they could work something out with the bank even though they received multiple notices of eviction and they were totally unprepared to move out on such a moment's notice.

They end up in a cheap hotel inhabited by others suffering from the same or similar misfortune with little opportunity to dig out of their hole. The guy ends up working for the real estate agent that helped evict him which requires him to do the same thing to others that was done to him.

He flourishes in the job although not without some anguishing over his role in doing dirty deeds for the banks. Some of the scenes are heartbreaking (assuming the presence of a heart). The guy gets his house back, with the help of the bankster's real estate agent, and takes a more direct role in the eviction operations.

It's not an easy movie to watch at times and purposefully causes introspection regarding the practice of humans preying on other humans for personal gain. The moral of the story goes straight to the moral dilemma caused by working and personally profiting from a system that causes misery and hardship for others.

How deep that introspection goes depends on the person. I've always like to "extend" things when analyzing an issue. A good example is "lesser evil" voting. Most democrats practice lesser evil voting when voting for someone like Hillary Clinton for President over the likes of a republican Donald Trump. Most republicans think they're doing the same damn thing when voting for Trump against Clinton. As one that doesn't believe in lesser evil voting, let alone voting in this absurd representative system as a whole, I've often extended that lesser evil voting practice out to the option of Satan vs. Satan's brother. In other words, how far will you go?

This movie resonates because it's at the ground level, the one we the Serfs have always been at, i.e., banks vs. the common people. So the moral dilemma focuses on those doing the dirty work for the banks. The banks represent the rich, the upper class, the aristocracy vs. the Serfs. It's an easy target for moral and ethical analysis. But extend that out and we get can easily get into cognitive dissonance territory.

The moral dilemma is the hurting and profiting off other people in the service of the rich, the bankers. Those doing the dirty deeds for the bankers are asked "how can you do this"? How can they dare do this kind of work when it results in such despair?

But extend that out. What about the U.S. military? What about those that work for the Government? What about those that vote for politicians that wage war and kill people? That's where the cognitive dissonance come into play. That's where consistency in moral and ethical practices are put to the test.
Our government has been waging war across the planet resulting in millions of deaths and the displacement (eviction) of many millions of innocent people, people who don't even owe money to a bank. The misery and despair being caused by U.S. imperialism is off the charts, there is no available comparison since Roman times. Think about all those working and facilitating U.S. imperialism. Think about all those who vote for politicians who wage U.S. imperialism.

How does that compare to a single real estate broker along with his desperate and confused former evictee that conjure up the moral and ethical feelings in this movie? The real estate broker and his evicted guy are called every name in the book by those affected by their "work" for the banks. They're called scumbags, sellouts, and dirty bastards. The people affected largely focus their angst on them and not the banks, for they are the ones doing the dirty work. They are the ones in front of them, not the suits in the banks and the shareholders profiting from it all.

Perhaps it's just an example about how we eat our own, how we focus our anger on those like ourselves, not on those who are really pulling the strings. It's the blacks, it's the illegal Mexicans, it's the Muslims, it's the Russians, it's the "terrorists" in Burns, OR, it's the republicans, it's the democrats, it's the dirty fucking hippies. It's all of you man, can't you see it's YOU?!

While those that create the conditions for illegal immigration, those that create the conditions for war, for racism, for militancy against the establishment are bypassed as too far up the food chain to bother. Untouchable. The serfs scream with rage at each other but accept that the ruling class has their own rules. They can steal and kill and lie and deceive but that's just the way it is. They're rich people. We're forced to hope that they hold each other accountable because they own the systems and we're supposed to accept that as American democracy.

Why do we do that? Why do we eat our own while allowing the real criminals, the primary ethical and moral violators to continue their assault on all of us? I suppose it's another "human nature" kind of thing. That's the way we are, the way we can be manipulated and controlled like the part of the animal kingdom we are.

Who do we blame? Those working for the "man", or the "man" himself? Is there a difference?

Are we all to blame?

Nah, it's the banksters, they own the place.

Revolution is Evolution

"Sanders is an imperialist pig"

"Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. In war, too, the discretionary power of the Executive is extended; its influence in dealing out offices, honors, and emoluments is multiplied: and all the means of seducing the minds, are added to those of subduing the force, of the people. The same malignant aspect in republicanism may be traced in the inequality of fortunes, and the opportunities of fraud, growing out of a state of war, and in the degeneracy of manners and of morals, engendered by both. No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare."
James Madison

Zing!! Glen Ford of the BlackAgendaReport says that in his latest article, "Sanders is an imperialist pig".

Well, that won't go over well in Peoria, or on C99, but I have to agree. Sanders might be progressive in certain areas but when it comes to U.S. imperialism, he is fully on board the U.S.S. Empire. Does that make him an "imperialist pig"? If the shoes fits as they say, all imperialists are pigs, just like all warmongers are war pigs. Imperialism is evil, that's a fact jack.

Sanders claims his foreign policy views are more like Obama's than Clinton's. That's his distinction. Um Bernie, Obama is a war criminal now. He also staked his claim to the Peace Train by emphasizing his No vote for the Iraq war. But he's fully proven his imperialist creds as POTUS in Libya, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Venezuela, Honduras, Ukraine, and wherever else the Full Spectrum Dominance military/intelligence war machine stretches it's tentacles. He's instituted the President Assassination program, expanded the hideous drone war, and has overseen the institutional solidification of the War OF Terror. If Bernie is more like Obama, that's not a good thing.

What the hell kind of world are we living in where Obama, who has continued the illegal and inhumane wars and global U.S. imperialism, has a Nobel Peace Prize? How can that be? And how can Bernie Sanders say his foreign policy approach, i.e., approach to U.S. imperialism, be more like Obama's? I must be living in an alternate universe, one where War is Peace and where Lies are Truth.
Here's Bernie talking about Obama putting boots on the ground, illegally, in Syria.

"I think what the president is talking about is having American troops training Muslim troops, helping to supply the military equipment they need, and I do support that effort. We need a broad coalition of Muslim troops on the ground. We have had some success in the last year or so putting ISIS on the defensive, we've got to continue that effort."
What Sanders is saying is that he would continue Obama’s policy of regime change, despite the “unintended consequences” and its clear illegality. He is no more “progressive” than Obama on foreign policy, and just as dishonest – a true Democrat."

The war on ISIS is a fraud just like the entire war OF terror is a fraud. It was all started by the neocons in the Bush administration after they got their "New Pearl Harbor" to begin the "New American Century". Falling in line behind the false narratives and lies in none other than Bernie Sanders.

"A distinction without a difference, as they say. Sanders opposes “regime change” except when it is perpetrated by a Democratic administration. He really doesn’t mind U.S. “boots on the ground” in other people’s countries, as long as they are arming and training people of native religions and races to kill others of their kind, and U.S. casualties are kept to a minimum.
Sanders is an imperialist pig. Although his self-image is that of a Scandinavian social democrat, Sanders is more like a French “socialist” who supports the maintenance of a safety net for his own people, but reserves the right to routinely commit mass murder in the former colonies in order to preserve the French “way of life” and “values.”

http://blackagendareport.com/sanders_prepares_bow_to_hillary
Here's Sanders on the President's "Kill List", the illegal assassination program used by democrat Obama and his democratic party administration.

"The New York Times revealed in 2012 that President Obama hosts a meeting every Tuesday at the White House where he decides which suspected terrorists will be added to a so-called “kill list.” Those on the list can then be targeted for killing, typically with an unmanned drone. 

“Do you think what’s being done now is constitutional and legal?” Hayes asked Sanders, noting the existence of “a list of people that the U.S. government wants to kill.”
“In general I do, yes,” Sanders replied."

http://www.mintpressnews.com/bernie-sanders-says-us-kill-list-legal-back...
Ford has been giving Sanders some credit for activating a large number of the younger generation into the political arena. He and BAR have been critical of his running with the Democratic party and first broke out the term "sheep dog" to describe his role in running for President with the Democratic party. Here's his take on what will happen next.

"Sanders consummates his “sheep dog” assignment, he will deflate to his original state: a small-town Democratic Party operative. Most of his supporters will acquiesce to Hillary’s nomination – just as most people everywhere acquiesce to everything most of the time. But, a significant proportion, numbering in the millions, and including the half of young African Americans that have rejected the Black Misleadership Class’s slavish allegiance to the Democratic Party hierarchy, will not. And, although Hillary Clinton will surely win victory in November with her “big tent” Democratic Party – flush with white suburbanites who, only yesterday, were Republicans – it will be a Party that is even more hostile to Blacks and progressives than before Donald Trump plunged the duopoly into crisis."

Ya, no doubt many republicans turned off by the fascist pig named Donald Trump are jumping ship over to the big tent. That's bound to leave a mark. But keep hope alive, there may be something to work with here.

"Millions of people, especially young folks, will be looking for an alternative to the Democrats and the Republicans – or to electoral politics, entirely. It’s up to the Left to give it to them."

I see many Bernie supporters still claim that Sanders is about peace, that Sanders will end the wars, that Sanders will go against the mighty Military Industrial Complex. The evidence is clear that would not be the case, by Sanders own words. Many hold dear to the claim that Sanders is the "last honest politician", that he tells the truth. Well, no he doesn't, not when it comes to U.S. imperialism. He's a politician that mixes the true with the false narratives and the lies. He comes out against regime changes on one hand and supports it with the other.

Would he be better than Clinton on "foreign policy"? Ya, he would. So would Satan at this point. But he'd be like Obama and that's something we can't have. It has to end, the killing has to end, the sacrifice of our young for the benefit of the ruling class has to end. But it will never end unless we confront the truth.

It is up to the left to carry on his so called revolution, outside the Democratic party as much as he might plead with his supporters otherwise. It cannot be done by electing more politicians, it just won't happen. Not a revolution. That might stop the gushing to a slow bleed but that's it. The ruling elite have too much power. The left needs to come to grips with the elephant in the room, U.S. imperialism. It can't be ignored any longer. It can't be obfuscated away with false hopes that what a politician says isn't really what he means or that said politician would not get elected if he told the truth. It can't be accepted because it's a democrat and not a republican. Lives depend on it. The very foundation of this country depends on it. The world depends on it.

There won't be a revolution without ending U.S. imperialism. All imperialism must be ended. The people of the world have to unite to end this insane quest by those in control for wealth and power. They kill people, they steal, they make us sacrifice our young in their wars. It's an old human tale that we've never been able to end.

The world made an attempt in the "roaring" twenties after the horrific ruling elite manufactured World War I. The atrocities of the war made all but the most sadistic call for an end to such madness forever. It culminated in the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928.

"The Kellogg–Briand Pact (or Pact of Paris, officially General Treaty for Renunciation of War as an Instrument of National Policy) is a 1928 international agreement in which signatory states promised not to use war to resolve "disputes or conflicts of whatever nature or of whatever origin they may be, which may arise among them."

Those in control of never had any intention of honoring that Treaty. Just ask the American Indians about the white man's treaties. World War II soon followed and now the planet is engulfed in a permanent, forever war with the largest manufacturing industry all about more war, more weapons, more destruction and more deprivation of privacy and freedom.

The American people have to unite with the French people, the English people, the Iraq people, all people to end the madness of war and imperialism once and forever. We can never have Peace if we don't try to do that. Peace. Peace man, Peace out. Peace brother. The Hippies had it right. Everything is Peace. People like to say it, greet with it, give condolences with it. But look at the fucking planet. We're as far from Peace as we've ever been. We've let it go man and we have to get it back.