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Chuck Baldwin: Can Christians Serve In The New World Order Army?

On May 10, 2009

From: News with Views

Many patriotic Americans, including many retired and former military personnel, are increasingly chagrined at the direction the U.S. armed forces are taking. For one thing, there were numerous instances in the Clinton and both Bush administrations when American GIs were required to serve under foreign or United Nations commanders. Does anyone remember the Michael New case? How can any American GI, who has taken an oath to the U.S. Constitution, willingly surrender himself to a foreign commander, flag, or uniform? That is a potential conflict that has caused many to question modern military service. …

Another disconcerting element of modern military service is the reality that today’s American military is more and more being used as the tool of globalists to forge an international New World Order.

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HeartQuotes: Failure

In Ethics, HeartQuotes, The Soul of America

“What is right is often forgotten by what is convenient.”

– Bodie Thoene

Click for Above-the-Clouds Version

CIA Ludicrously Claims Torture Prevented Debunked L.A. Terror Plot — KSM waterboarded six times a day for a month!

On April 23, 2009

In Ethics, The Soul of America, Torture

From: Prison Planet

… by announcing that the torture of Khalid Sheik Mohammed led to his “confession” of being behind the non-existent L.A. attack plot, the CIA is only reaffirming the fact that the torture program was designed to elicit false confessions that could then be used as terror propaganda on the fearful and gullible American public.

As Senator Levin highlighted on the back of the release of the Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) opinions, the techniques (known as SERE) authorized by officials to be used on detainees, “Are based on tactics used by Chinese Communists against American soldiers during the Korean War for the purpose of eliciting false confessions for propaganda purposes.”

In addition, the senior Army SERE psychologist warned in 2002 against using SERE training techniques during interrogations in an email to personnel at Guantanamo Bay, because, “It usually decreases the reliability of the information because the person will say whatever he believes will stop the pain… Bottom line: the likelihood that the use of physical pressures will increase the delivery of accurate information from a detainee is very low.”

Little wonder then that KSM confessed to everything under the sun, and only stopped short of admitting to being the real Santa Claus, assassinating JFK and creating AIDS. He even “confessed” to plotting to attack a bank that wasn’t even founded until after his arrest.

The idea that waterboarding KSM six times a day for a month, as well as torturing his children, would lead to anything other than false confessions is absurd on the face of it.

However, by regurgitating the confirmed hoax that KSM “confessed” to a plot that never even existed because of the “success” of waterboarding, the CIA has once again highlighted the fact that not only was the torture program an insult and a disgrace to everything America is supposed to stand for, but that it was also a complete waste of time and only put Americans in more danger because false confessions were taken as gospel so that they could be used not to protect the country from terrorists, but to propagandize to the American people and enlist their support for the thoroughly deceptive and insidious “war on terror”.

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Bayer Knowingly Distributed AIDS

On April 7, 2009

In BIG Pharma, Ethics

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Ron Paul: “Individuals VOTE FROM THEIR BELLY in their SELF-interest”

On April 7, 2009

In Ethics, FreedomQuotes, Ron Paul, The Soul of America

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“Many times, I think,

individuals vote from their belly

in their self-interest.”

– Ron Paul

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Transcribed by Jeff Fenske from: Ron Paul INTERVIEWS Historian Ivan Eland on ” Recarving Rushmore: Ranking the Presidents on Peace, Prosperity, and Liberty” C-SPAN 4/04/09

Patrice O’Neal: Racial SEPARATION, HATRED helps the NWO! | We need to COME TOGETHER at the bottom of this pyramid | This country is NOT TEACHING HISTORY (where the banks came from, etc.) | WHO’S WORSE? The PEOPLE AT THE TOP… or the AVERAGE CITIZEN who helps these dudes DESTROY OTHER PEOPLE?

On April 4, 2009

In 9-11 TRUTH, Ethics, Globalism—One-World Gov't, People Waking Up, Racism, Real History, Unite – Come Together

Transcribed by Jeff Fenske from: The Infowarrior with Jason Bermas, 4/2/09

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DY2taf_JyLg]Patrice O’Neal on THE INFOWARRIOR with Jason Bermas:
The Problem is YOU!

“In terms of the New World Order, who’s worse? Is it the people at the top that are having these meetings, these G-20 meetings that people are protesting, or is it the average citizen who has got to help these dudes and these women perform this action?“

“Who do you blame for like the holocaust? Do you blame Hitler, who essentially was a little crazy man with a mustache? Or do you blame the thousands and thousands of soldiers, who at the whim of his command would kill their fellow citizens?

“‘Oh, it’s my job, and I have to feed my family. I’m going to destroy your family.'” “…why the pawn is so willing to be the pawn?” “There can’t be a New World Order, there can’t be these little old men in a room at the top of a pyramid making these decisions unless there are us(es) who are willing to destroy other people.”

Seymour Hersh: Secret US Forces Carried Out Assassinations in at Least a Dozen Countries, Including in Latin America

On April 3, 2009

In CIA Drug Running/Assassinations, Ethics, False Christians Trashing America, George Bush Family, The Soul of America

From: Democracy Now!

Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh created a stir earlier this month when he said the Bush administration ran an “executive assassination ring” that reported directly to Vice President Dick Cheney. “Under President Bush’s authority, they’ve been going into countries, not talking to the ambassador or to the CIA station chief, and finding people on a list and executing them and leaving,” Hersh said. Seymour Hersh joins us to explain. [includes rush transcript]

AMY GOODMAN: Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh created a stir last month when he said the Bush administration ran an executive assassination ring that reported directly to Vice President Dick Cheney. Hersh made the comment during a speech at the University of Minnesota on March 10th.

SEYMOUR HERSH: Congress has no oversight of it. It’s an executive assassination wing, essentially. And it’s been going on and on and on. And just today in the Times there was a story saying that its leader, a three-star admiral named McRaven, ordered a stop to certain activities because there were so many collateral deaths. It’s been going in—under President Bush’s authority, they’ve been going into countries, not talking to the ambassador or to the CIA station chief, and finding people on a list and executing them and leaving.

AMY GOODMAN:

[…]

OK, welcome to Democracy Now!, Sy Hersh. It was good to see you last night at Georgetown. Talk about, first, these comments you made at the University of Minnesota.

SEYMOUR HERSH:

[…]

The evidence—the problem with having military go kill people when they’re not directly in combat, these are asking American troops to go out and find people and, as you said earlier, in one of the statements I made that you played, they go into countries without telling any of the authorities, the American ambassador, the CIA chief, certainly nobody in the government that we’re going into, and it’s far more than just in combat areas. There’s more—at least a dozen countries and perhaps more. The President has authorized these kinds of actions in the Middle East and also in Latin America, I will tell you, Central America, some countries. They’ve been—our boys have been told they can go and take the kind of executive action they need, and that’s simply—there’s no legal basis for it.

And not only that, if you look at Guantanamo, the American government knew by—well, let’s see, Guantanamo opened in early 2002. “Gitmo,” they call it, the base down in Cuba for alleged al-Qaeda terrorists. An internal report that I wrote about in a book I did years ago, an internal report made by the summer of 2002, estimated that at least half and possibly more of those people had nothing to do with actions against America. The intelligence we have is often very fragmentary, not very good. And the idea that the American president would think he has the constitutional power or the legal right to tell soldiers not engaged in immediate combat to go out and find people based on lists and execute them is just amazing to me. It’s amazing to me.

And not only that, Amy, the thing about George Bush is, everything’s sort of done in plain sight. In his State of the Union address, I think January the 28th, 2003, about a month and a half before we went into Iraq, Bush was describing the progress in the war, and he said—I’m paraphrasing, but this is pretty close—he said that we’ve captured more than 3,000 members of al-Qaeda and suspected members, people suspected of operations against us. And then he added with that little smile he has, “And let me tell you, some of those people will not be able to ever operate again. I can assure you that. They will not be in a position.” He’s clearly talking about killing people, and to applause.

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[video] George Humphrey on Alex Jones Tv, 4/2/09: The Game is Fixed! “The people of this nation are far, far more controlled subconsciously than they have any idea about.” “If we see this thing with CLEAR EYES and a FULL HEART, then we can have some LOVE IN OUR HEARTS and realize that we don’t have to go to this materialistic gulag that is being prepared for us.”

On April 3, 2009

In $Money$ ToBeFree, America's Getting Jacked!, Barack Obama, Ethics, Globalism—One-World Gov't, Mind Control, Secret Societies

Alex talks with businessman, author and documentary film maker George Humphrey.

Transcribed by Jeff Fenske

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“If we see this thing with clear eyes and a full heart, then we can have some love in our hearts and realize that we don’t have to go to this materialistic gulag that is being prepared for us.”

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bU6kA-HJkOc]Mostly internationally owned ‘Federal’ Reserve Bank
Fractional Reserve Banking Explained

Money from thin air—that we have to pay back with earned money

“The multiplication factors used to be much smaller. It was still wrong then, but then they upped it and upped and upped it and upped it. And now, for every dollar that comes into a private bank, they can multiply (if they do their work properly) by 72 times.”

“The fiat system is a system of theft, and it’s been around for a long, long time. And that’s why in the Bible is that there are 17 references against usury.”

Katherine Albrecht on Libertarianism: “People Have a Right to Sin”

On March 17, 2009

In Ethics, Freedom, Katherine Albrecht (SpyChips)

“People should have the right to sin
and commit all sorts of stupid acts,
and believe all sorts of wrong things.
…unless
you’re violating the rights of others.”

Transcribed by Jeff Fenske from The Dr. Katherine Albrecht Show:

Libertarianism Defined

On March 17, 2009

In Ethics, Freedom, The Soul of America, Wishing Each Other Well!

Excerpts from: Libertarianism.com

Short Definitions of Libertarianism

lib·er·tar·i·an: One who advocates maximizing individual rights and minimizing the role of the state.
— American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

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“Libertarianism is, as the name implies, the belief in liberty. Libertarians believe that each person owns his own life and property, and has the right to make his own choices as to how he lives his life – as long as he simply respects the same right of others to do the same.”
— Sharon Harris, President, Advocates for Self-Government

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“Libertarianism promotes a society where no one is the first to harm (strike, defraud, steal from) another. If someone fails to obey this one-and-only law, then he or she must make things right again with the one who is harmed. The only legitimate use of force is self-defense. Basically, libertarianism is a restatement of how we learned to get along with each other as youngsters. We honor our neighbors’ choices, and they honor ours. We don’t start fights and only fight back when attacked. We try to make right any wrongs that we do. Simple, isn’t it?”
— Dr. Mary Ruwart, Author, Healing Our World

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“Libertarianism is what your mom taught you: behave yourself and don’t hit your sister.”
— Dr. Kenneth Bisson, Advocates Board of Directors

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“As Libertarians, we seek a world of liberty; a world in which all individuals are sovereign over their own lives, and no one is forced to sacrifice his or her values for the benefit of others.

“We believe that respect for individual rights is the essential precondition for a free and prosperous world, that force and fraud must be banished from human relationships, and that only through freedom can peace and prosperity be realized.

“Consequently, we defend each person’s right to engage in any activity that is peaceful and honest, and welcome the diversity that freedom brings. The world we seek to build is one where individuals are free to follow their own dreams in their own ways, without interference from government or any authoritarian power.”
— from the Preamble to the Libertarian Party Platform

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“Libertarianism is the view that each person has the right to [live] his life in any way he chooses so long as he or she respects the equal rights of others. Libertarians defend each person’s right to life, liberty and property-rights that people have naturally, before governments are created. In the Libertarian view, all human relationships should be voluntary; the only actions that should be forbidden by law are those that involve the initiation of force against those who have not themselves uses force-actions like murder, robbery, rape, kidnapping and fraud.”
— Charles Murray, author, What it Means to Be a Libertarian

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“In popular terminology, a libertarian is the opposite of an authoritarian. Strictly speaking, a libertarian is one who rejects the idea of using violence or the threat of violence — legal or illegal — to impose his will or viewpoint upon any peaceful person. Generally speaking, a libertarian is one who wants to be governed far less than he is today.”
— Dean Russell, Foundation for Economic Education (FEE), 1955

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“Libertarianism is what you probably already believe… Libertarian values are American values. Libertarianism is America’s heritage of liberty, patriotism and honest work to build a future for your family. It’s the idea that being free and independent is a great way to live. That each of us is a unique individual, with great potential. That you own yourself, and that you have the right to decide what’s best for you. Americans of all races and creeds built a great and prosperous country with these libertarian ideals. Let’s use them to build America’s future.”
— David Bergland, 1984 Libertarian Party presidential candidate and author of Libertarianism in One Lesson

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Related: Katherine Albrecht on Libertarianism: “People Have a Right to Sin”

Ethics of Embryonic Stem Cell Research

On March 17, 2009

Embryonic stem cell research:

“This is controversial as a form of research because it does depend upon the destruction of younger humans in order to serve the interest of older and more wealthy humans.”

– Tad Pacholczyk

Transcribed by Jeff Fenske from The Dr. Katherine Albrecht Show:

Fri., March 13, 2009

Hour 2 ( Download the MP3 )

Guest: The Reverend Tad Pacholczyk, Ph.D. // Government’s Lethal Exploitation // Obama’s Embryonic Stem Cell Research Executive Order // Stem cell lines // Brave New World //

Katherine interviews the Rev. Tad Pacholczyk (Pah-HOLE-chik) a noted Neuroscientist as well as Staff Ethicist and Director Of Education at the National Catholic Bioethics Center. Katherine and Rev. P. discuss Obama’s executive order that will allow citizens’ tax dollars to be used to support embryonic stem cell research. Rev. P opposes embryonic stem cell research — as does Katherine. Katherine reads from Rev. P’s article “Government’s lethal exploitation of the most vulnerable of human beings.” Rev. P. explains how embryonic stem cell research requires the destruction of human embryos, calling it the killing of younger humans for the benefit of older, wealthier ones. Rev. P. explains what a stem cell line is. Katherine is told that there are about 500,000 embryos in a “Liquid Nitrogen orphanage” of sorts. Position of the Catholic church of invitro fertilization. Caller asks, “What if couples cannot conceive, is invitro the way to go?” Rev. P. says no.
Priest combines religion and science
The National Catholic Bioethics Center (NCBC)
Commentary by Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted on Obama Embryonic Stem Cell Research Executive Order
Making Sense of Bioethics

FreedomQuotes: Abortion a Civil Right? (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s Niece)

On March 17, 2009

In Ethics, FreedomQuotes

“Abortion is not a civil right for the mother.
It’s a violation of the civil rights for the baby.”

– Dr. Alveda C. King

Transcribed by Jeff Fenske from The Dr. Katherine Albrecht Show:

Fri., March 13, 2009

Full show ( Listen as streaming MP3 | Listen as streaming RealAudio )

Hour 1 ( Download the MP3 )

Guest: Dr. Alveda C. King // 50 million abortions // Margaret Sanger // Hippocratic Oath // Christian and libertarian sensibilities // Katherine’s mom’s story // ‘Conscience Rule’ //

Obama administration may rescind ‘Conscience Rule.’ Guest: Dr. Alveda C. King, daughter of slain civil rights leader Reverend A. D. King, niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Pastoral Associate for the African-American Outreach of the Priests for Life. King says 50 million abortions have occurred since Roe v. Wade. King equates abortion to genocide. Katherine shares with Dr. King Margaret Sanger’s abhorrent racist views, as illustrated by a quote where she refers to people as “human weeds.” King talks about her own experience of being tricked into an abortion when younger. Katherine reads the Hippocratic Oath, which amazingly contains a prohibition against abortion and a passage requiring physicians to maintain patient privacy. Katherine explains her Christian and libertarian sensibilities. Katherine shares her story about her mom choosing life (Thanks Mom!). Callers weigh in about the “Rule of Conscience.”
Priests for Life African-American Outreach
King for America
Obama may overtune “Conscience” Rule
Dr. Alveda King’s informative video 28:00 long
Hippocratic Oath
Racist and eugenicist statements by Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood

Ron Paul: Imagine

On March 14, 2009

In Ethics, Ron Paul, War

From: Texas Straight Talk

Imagine

Imagine for a moment that somewhere in the middle of Texas there was a large foreign military base, say Chinese or Russian. Imagine that thousands of armed foreign troops were constantly patrolling American streets in military vehicles. Imagine they were here under the auspices of “keeping us safe” or “promoting democracy” or “protecting their strategic interests.”

Imagine that they operated outside of US law, and that the Constitution did not apply to them. Imagine that every now and then they made mistakes or acted on bad information and accidentally killed or terrorized innocent Americans, including women and children, most of the time with little to no repercussions or consequences. Imagine that they set up check points on our soil and routinely searched and ransacked entire neighborhoods of homes. Imagine if Americans were fearful of these foreign troops, and overwhelmingly thought America would be better off without their presence.

Imagine if some Americans were so angry about them being in Texas that they actually joined together to fight them off, in defense of our soil and sovereignty, because leadership in government refused or were unable to do so. Imagine that those Americans were labeled terrorists or insurgents for their defensive actions, and routinely killed, or captured and tortured by the foreign troops on our land. Imagine that the occupiers’ attitude was that if they just killed enough Americans, the resistance would stop, but instead, for every American killed, ten more would take up arms against them, resulting in perpetual bloodshed. Imagine if most of the citizens of the foreign land also wanted these troops to return home. Imagine if they elected a leader who promised to bring them home and put an end to this horror.

Imagine if that leader changed his mind once he took office.

The reality is that our military presence on foreign soil is as offensive to the people that live there as armed Chinese troops would be if they were stationed in Texas. We would not stand for it here, but we have had a globe straddling empire and a very intrusive foreign policy for decades that incites a lot of hatred and resentment towards us.

According to our own CIA, our meddling in the Middle East was the prime motivation for the horrific attacks on 9/11. But instead of re-evaluating our foreign policy, we have simply escalated it. We had a right to go after those responsible for 9/11, to be sure, but why do so many Americans feel as if we have a right to a military presence in some 160 countries when we wouldn’t stand for even one foreign base on our soil, for any reason? These are not embassies, mind you, these are military installations. The new administration is not materially changing anything about this. Shuffling troops around and playing with semantics does not accomplish the goals of the American people, who simply want our men and women to come home. 50,000 troops left behind in Iraq is not conducive to peace any more than 50,000 Russian soldiers would be in the United States.

Shutting down military bases and ceasing to deal with other nations with threats and violence is not isolationism. It is the opposite. Opening ourselves up to friendship, honest trade and diplomacy is the foreign policy of peace and prosperity. It is the only foreign policy that will not bankrupt us in short order, as our current actions most definitely will. I share the disappointment of the American people in the foreign policy rhetoric coming from the administration. The sad thing is, our foreign policy WILL change eventually, as Rome’s did, when all budgetary and monetary tricks to fund it are exhausted.

12-Year-Old Steals Day with Pro-Life Speech

On February 20, 2009

In Ethics, Freedom

From WorldNetDaily

“[S]everal teachers discouraged her from picking the topic of abortion; she was told it was ‘too big,’ ‘too mature’ and ‘too controversial,'” her mother wrote. “She was also told that if she went ahead with that topic, she would not be allowed to continue on in the speech competition.”

Lia’s mother continued, “Initially, I tried helping her find other topics to speak on, but, in the end, she was adamant. She just felt she wanted to continue with the topic of abortion. So she forfeited her chance to compete in order to speak on something she was passionate about.”

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Even though you can’t see them or hear them at all,
a person’s a person, no matter how small.

Thank you.

Lia’s teacher was so impressed by the speech that she allowed her student to advance as the winner. Lia presented her speech to judges in front of her entire school on Feb. 10.

The school principal and teachers called Lia’s presentation the “obvious winner” – but the judges suddenly disqualified her the following day “because of the topic and her position on abortion,” her mother said.

Lia’s father later revealed that the judges had a “big disagreement.” One was offended by the speech and voluntarily stepped down while the others reversed their earlier decision – declaring her the winner.

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Dresden Germany 1945 — Churchill’s Genocide

On February 15, 2009

In Ethics, Germany, Illustrations, The Soul of America, War

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Related: BullyQuotes: Action

Obama’s First Act: Taxpayer Money To Fund Abortions Of Black Babies

On January 21, 2009

In Barack Obama, Ethics

A lot has been made of the ideals of Martin Luther King in light of the inauguration of the first black President. What would the legendary civil rights campaigner have thought of Obama’s action to ensure funding for the abortion of black babies? …

King stated that the killing of a quarter of the black population of the US has not been from the lynch mobs of her childhood days, but from abortionists, “who plant their killing centers in minority neighborhoods and prey upon women who think they have no hope.”

Obama’s first action as President will ensure that those “killing centers” across the world will now be empowered with fresh capital to abort more black babies while the new President grandstands as a messiah for the poor and oppressed black race.

. . .

From: PrisonPlanet

The sickest irony amidst the euphoria of the inauguration of America’s first black President is that one of Obama’s very first actions in office will be to ensure that millions more black babies are aborted in third world countries, with American taxpayers picking up the tab.

President Obama’s first act of “change” will be to issue an executive order that will lift a ban on using taxpayer money to fund international “family planning” groups who counsel women and perform abortions around the world, but mainly in Africa.

Kucinich: WE ACCEPT the Slaughter of the Innocent BECAUSE WE’VE ALREADY Slaughtered the Innocent

On January 17, 2009

In Dennis Kucinich, Ethics, George Bush Family, Israel, The Soul of America, War

No, I’m not talking about abortion (by how I worded this title). That was bad enough—sick enough!

We’ve moved to the next level, risen to the next disgrace, ascended to a far worse sickness—justifying, thinking, saying this is okay. And this is from the same people who cry “abortion is murder!”

Now we kill people who think deeply, who talk, who run and play—who, unlike the unborn, are accountable as to where they’ll spend eternity.

Even one homicide, one remote-controlled, joystick killing in the name of ‘self-defense,’ is too many—and we watch our President’s smugness as he leaves office. What a disgrace—laughing—having led US into impending doom.

What have we become—so high on our horse? Instead of reaching out to our ‘enemies,’ admitting the many ways we have been wrong, how we’ve bullied and spread filth around the world, we just kill them. We drive them away—into hating US.

And “America the Dysfunctional,” the big bully on the block, now sanctions and enables others to do likewise—leading by example.

America is sick, her heart has grown cold, having succumbed to the delusion The Moody Blues proclaimed in 1967:

Cold hearted orb
That rules the night
Removes the colours
From our sight
Red is gray and
Yellow white
But we decide
Which is right
And
Which is an Illusion

Our end is near, because Dennis’ words go unheard, speaking to an empty House, while America amuses herself to death.

______________

From: Congressman Dennis Kucinich

Washington, Jan 15 –

Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today made the following statement about the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza on the House Floor:

“The attack on the United Nations headquarters in Gaza is further proof that a post-legal era in world affairs has taken shape; where law and moral principles are irrelevant, where might makes right, where retribution and vengeance, even against innocent children, fails to shake us from moral lethargy or political paralysis.

“Collective punishment, disproportionate use of force, using U.S. planes, helicopters and munitions to attack a wounded, starved and thirsty civilian population of mostly children trapped in a box called Gaza has become acceptable, perhaps because we have already accepted the deaths of over one million innocent civilians in Iraq in a war based on lies.

“There is a way out. We must ask those who were given our armaments for defense to stop the aggression, end the blockade, end the occupation, and reconnect with the high sentiments that rallied their own suffering, wounded people to nationhood generations ago. When we recognize the humanitarian disaster in Gaza, when we come to grips with the reality of suffering on both sides, we may yet find a way to save ourselves.

Related:

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.: “We were the MOST BELOVED nation on the face of the earth | We are now…the MOST HATED nation & FEARED nation on earth”

Israel’s & U.S.’ Attrocities: May We No Longer Be Silent

On January 1, 2009

In Ethics, Israel, War

(Related)
Michael Franti: “The F-15 is a Homicide Bomber”

From: Counterpunch, May We No Longer Be Silent, By Paul Craig Roberts

The title of my article comes from the sermon of the Episcopal Bishop of Washington DC, John Bryson Chane, delivered on October 5, 2008, at St. Columba Church. The bishop’s eyes were opened to Israel’s persecution of Palestinians by his recent trip to Palestine. In his sermon he called on “politicians seeking the highest office in [our] land” to find the courage to “speak out and condemn violations of human rights and religious freedom denied to Palestinian Christians and Muslims” by the state of Israel. …

Israel’s excuse for its violence is that from time to time the Palestinian resistance organization, Hamas, fires off rockets into Israel to protest the ghetto life that Israel imposes on Gazans. The rockets are ineffectual for the most part and seldom claim Israeli casualties. However, the real purpose for the Israeli attack is to destroy Hamas.

In 2006 the US insisted that the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank hold free elections. When free elections were held, Hamas won. This was unacceptable to the Americans and Israelis. In the West Bank, the Americans and Israelis imposed a puppet government, but Hamas held on in Gaza. After unheeded warnings to the Gazans to rid themselves of Hamas and accept a puppet government, Israel has decided to destroy the freely elected government with violence.

Ehud Barak, who is overseeing the latest act of Israeli aggression, said in interviews addressed to the British and American publics that asking Israel to agree to a ceasefire with Hamas would be like asking the US to agree to a ceasefire with al Qaeda. The terrorism that Israel inflicts on Palestinians goes unremarked. …

The White House put the blame squarely on Hamas.” The British government also blamed Hamas.

For the US and UK governments, Israel can do no wrong. Israel doesn’t have to stop withholding food, medicine, water, and energy, but Hamas must stop protesting by firing off rockets. In violation of international law, Israel can drive West Bank Palestinians off their lands and out of their villages and give the stolen properties to “settlers.” Israel can delay Palestinians in need of emergency medical care at checkpoints until their lives ebb away. Israeli snipers can get their jollies murdering Palestinian children.

The Great Moral Anglo-Americans couldn’t care less.

In his 2005 Nobel Lecture, British playwright Harold Pinter held the United States and its British puppet state accountable for “the systematic brutality, the widespread atrocities, the ruthless suppression of independent thought.” Everyone knows that such crimes occurred in the Soviet Union and in its East European empire, but “US crimes in the same period have only been superficially recorded, let alone documented, let alone acknowledged, let alone recognized as crimes at all,” this despite the fact that “the United States’ actions throughout the world made it clear that it had concluded it had carte blanche to do what it liked.”

Soviet crimes, like Nazi ones, are documented in gruesome detail, but America’s crimes “never happened. Nothing ever happened. Even while it was happening it wasn’t happening. It didn’t matter. It was of no interest. The crimes of the United States have been systematic, constant, vicious, remorseless, but very few people have actually talked about them You have to hand it to America. It has exercised a clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal good. It’s a brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of hypnosis.”

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Michael Franti: “The F-15 is a Homicide Bomber”

On January 1, 2009

In Ethics, FreedomQuotes, Israel, War

“The F-15 is a homicide bomber.”

– Michael Franti. from Yell Fire!

Related: Michael Franti’s Feet & Why He Yells ‘Fire’!

Had Only America Known: U.S. & Russian Intelligence Assassinated General Patton, Who Wanted to Free Eastern Europe Before Coming Home

On December 17, 2008

In 'THEY' couldn't be that EVIL??, Ethics, Germany, Real History, Republicans… Blackmailable, The Soul of America, War

Wow! I listened to the author of Target: Patton: The Plot to Assassinate General George S. Patton interviewed on Coast to Coast AM, dumbfounded, wondering that if vets like my own father had known in the ’50s and ’60s that our own government (the intelligence agency before the CIA, the OSS) intentionally had General Patton killed, would the United States of America be in the dire situation it’s in today?

Had only this important revelation come out earlier, America may still be the land of the free and the home of the brave.

The author, Robert K. Wilcox, stated that our government with the media had painted a rosy picture of Russia, so most Americans didn’t know of Stalin’s atrocities and the Gulags. Among other things, Patton wanted to drive Russia out of Eastern Europe, and apparently, he was going to blow the whistle about the thousands of POWs that Robert thinks ended up dying in these very Gulags.

Patton’s popularity was huge in the US. He could have easily swayed American opinion against Stalin, so our own government decided to take this “loose canon” out, possibly in collusion with Russia.

This is a great interview!

From the Inside Flap of “Target: Patton”:

He was the most controversial American general in World War II–and also one of the most successful, courageous, and audacious. As a post-war administrator of defeated Germany, he sounded alarm bells about the dangers of Soviet encroachment into Europe. Politically, he was a lightning rod–an outspoken conservative who continually embarrassed his superiors with his uncensored, undiplomatic, and unrestrained comments to the press. He was General George S. Patton Jr., old Blood and Guts.

In 1945, shortly before he was to fly home to the states as a conquering hero, he was involved in a mysterious car crash that left him partially paralyzed.

Two weeks later, just as his doctors were about to send him home to finish his recovery, he was dead.

The army ruled the car crash an accident, his death natural. Yet witness testimony on the crash conflicted, key players in the incident disappeared, official reports vanished, soldiers were ordered to keep silent, and there was no autopsy performed on the body.

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Did Eisenhower Order OSS Chief To Murder Patton?

Dr. Stan Interviews Robert Wilcox, “Target: Patton—The Plot to Assassinate General George S. Patton”

General George S. Patton was assassinated to silence his criticism of allied war leaders claims new book

President Eisenhower’s role in the CIA plot to assassinate the democratically elected leader of Congo, Patrice Lumumba, in 1960-61

The CIA, Eisenhower and the Assassination of the Democratically Elected Leader of Congo, Patrice Lumumba, 1961

[Video] “Death: Colonial Style”: The CIA, Eisenhower, the Belgians and the Assassination of the Democratically Elected Leader of Congo, Patrice Lumumba, 1961

Bush: I Was Right To Use Non-Existent Link Between Saddam-9/11 To Push For War

On December 5, 2008

In Ethics, George Bush Family, Lying, War

From: Think Progress

Today, President Bush defended his foreign policy over the past eight years in an address to the Saban Center for Middle East Policy in Washington, DC. At one point, he acknowledged that there was no link between Saddam Hussein and the 9/11 attacks but justified using such a connection to push for the Iraq war:

It is true, as I have said many times, that Saddam Hussein was not connected to the 9/11 attacks. But the decision to remove Saddam from power cannot be viewed in isolation from 9/11. In a world where terrorists armed with box cutters had just killed nearly 3,000 people, America had to decide whether we could tolerate a sworn enemy that acted belligerently, that supported terror, and that intelligence agencies around the world believed had weapons of mass destruction. It was clear to me, to members of both political parties, and to many leaders around the world that after 9/11, this was a risk we could not afford to take.

Bush has repeatedly stated that Saddam was not connected to 9/11. However, those statements came only after the war. Prior to the war, Bush and other administration officials repeatedly strove to create the impression that the Iraqi dictator was directly involved in the attacks:

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Ron Paul: How We Bully the World — “You do it our way & we’ll give you money. If you don’t do it our way we’ll bomb ya”

On November 30, 2008

In Bomb-Bomb-Bomb Iran, Ethics, Ron Paul, The Soul of America, War, Why they hate US

Transcribed by Jeff Fenske from Ron Paul’s Russia Today interview

“We have set the stage for people to be motivated to despise what we’re doing, because we’re always telling other people what to do.

We do one of two things. We either say: ‘you do it our way and we’ll give you money. If you don’t do it our way we’ll bomb ya.’

I would tell him [President Obama]: reject those two. Be friends with people. Talk to people. Have negotiations and diplomacy.”

– Congressman Ron Paul (Texas)

[video] Winter Soldier on the Hill: War Vets Testify Before Congress About the Horrors of War — Dehumanization = “What makes the green grass grow? Blood, blood, blood” | Policy = looking good over doing right

On November 30, 2008

In Ethics, Lying, War, Why they hate US

“…it is clear to me that that policy of looking good over doing right has been established firmly by this administration and has poisoned not only the military culture but our entire society and political leadership, as well.”

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From: Democracy Now

War veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan came to Capitol Hill earlier this year to testify before Congress and give an eyewitness account about the horrors of war. Like the Winter Soldier hearings in March, when more than 200 service members gathered for four days in Silver Spring, Maryland to give their eyewitness accounts of the injustices occurring in Iraq and Afghanistan, “Winter Soldier on the Hill” was designed to drive home the human cost of the war and occupation—this time, to the very people in charge of doing something about it. […]

SERGIO KOCHERGIN: […] One other responsibility we had in al-Najaf was to guard an ammunition supply point about thirty miles northeast from our base. Our job consisted of patrolling ASB, and when we came into contact with Iraqis stealing stuff, we would take a physical action and to make sure they would never come back. We would shoot their tires out or shoot their windows, putting them on their knees like we’re about to execute them and just shoot in the air and laugh and yell at them and tell them that the next time will be worse. Our orders directly from command was to roughen up all the guys up. They would always tell us that everybody is an enemy and that we can’t trust them and the only way to keep them in place is to put as much fear as possible and to let them know that we’re not playing around. During the deployment in al-Najaf, nothing was fixed or intended on being fixed at all, except keeping the city in the occupied hands and instill the fear into the people at every chance we got.

My second deployment was in the city of Husaybah in Al Anbar province in Al Qaim region on the Syrian border. First thing I want to talk about is the drop weapons. Drop weapons are the weapons that are given to us by our chain of command in case we kill somebody without any weapons, and so that we would not get into trouble. We would carry an AK-47, and if the person that was shot did not have the weapon, an AK-47 would be placed at his corpse, and when the unit would come back to the base, they would turn it in to identify the shot man as the enemy combatant. The weapons could not come from anywhere else but the higher chain of command, because after the raid, all weapons were turned in into the armory and should have been recorded.

Two months into deployment, our rules of engagement changed to a personnel with having a bag and a shovel at the intersection or on the roads, that they were suspicious. This gave us a bigger window on who we can engage. Looking at the situation, this point of view, a lot of enemy combatants that we shot were in the wrong place at the wrong time. We were tired, mad, angry,

Israel admits it will again annihalate civilians, using “disproportional force” if… (with U.S. weaponry, of course)

On October 10, 2008

In Ethics, Israel, War

From: AP

Israel will use “disproportionate force“ if Hezbollah guerrillas attack Israel, a senior military commander said in published comments Friday, adding that any village used to fire missiles against the Jewish state will be destroyed.

Maj. Gen. Gadi Eizenkot, who commands forces along Israel’s northern border, issued a similar threat against Syria. …

Eizenkot said Israel would show no mercy on Lebanese villages that harbor Hezbollah fighters. Israel has repeatedly complained that Hezbollah fighters used residential areas for cover, limiting Israel’s ability to respond.

Eizenkot stressed that this is “not a recommendation,” but a plan approved by the highest levels. “If fire is carried out from Shiite villages in Lebanon, this is the operational plan: Very aggressive fire.”

He said Israel would use what he called the “Dahiya doctrine,”….

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Related: Israeli Refusenik vs. Israeli Peace Party Member: A Debate on Israel’s Assault on Lebanon

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.: “We were the MOST BELOVED nation on the face of the earth | We are now…the MOST HATED nation & FEARED nation on earth”

On September 9, 2008

In Ethics, George Bush Family, Real History, The Soul of America, Torture

From: Democracy Now!

ROBERT F. KENNEDY, JR.: One of the most poignant memories I have of my father was a trip that we took to Europe when I was about thirteen years old, and we went to Czechoslovokia and Poland and Italy and Greece and France and Germany. And everywhere we went, we were met by vast crowds of people, hundreds of thousands of people, who came out because they wanted to be near an American politician. And it wasn’t just because my father’s brother had been martyred three years before. The same thing happened to Eisenhower when he went to Kabul and Tehran. A million Muslim people met him on the street waving tiny little American flags. And what I remember as a boy is these crowds of people that were just hungry for American leadership, and they—not bullying. They knew the difference. And they were starved for a moral authority. And they proudly named their streets after our presidents, Washington and Jefferson and Lincoln and Roosevelt and Kennedy.

And I remember the day after 9/11, when the headline on the biggest newspaper in France, Le Monde, was “We’re All Americans Now.” And for three weeks after 9/11, thousands of Muslim people came out spontaneously onto the streets of Tehran to make candlelight vigils to show their support, their solidarity, their love for the United States of America. We were the most beloved nation on the face of the earth and in the history of mankind.

And it took 230 years of disciplined visionary leadership by Republican and Democratic presidents to build up those vast reservoirs of public love for our country. And in seven short years, through monumental arrogance and incompetence, this White House has drained those reservoirs dry. We are now, according to virtually every poll, the most hated nation and feared nation on earth. And anybody who says that it’s good for our national security when European youth, as a recent poll showed, hold Osama bin Laden in the same regard as they hold President Bush, and anybody who believes it’s good for our national security when Hezbollah is as popular in the Mideast as America has their head in an oil well.

You know, Abraham Lincoln said America

Sarah Palin: U.S. Troops in Iraq Doing God’s Will — “A Task that is From God”

On September 4, 2008

In Ethics, Sarah Palin, War

To me, the most troubling aspect of Sarah’s political leadership is her naivety about the U.S. military’s role in foreign policy.

Careful study shows that our military has been co-opted by the neocons to help bring about the prophesied globalist, one-world government goals (not God’s goals—Satan’s)—to the sad disgrace of America. And it’s amazing to see the evangelicals united with many of the country music ‘rednecks’ pushing militarism that is the antithesis of peacemaking. It’s selfishness and even murder in God’s name, and in that it’s reverse-Christianity, it will destroy America if continued.

Jesus’ teachings, like “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God” and “love your neighbor as yourself” are no longer popular among evangelicals, especially when the neighbors are Muslim. But Jesus’ parable of the Good Samaritan, given to explain who our neighbors are, demonstrates that our love is not supposed to stop at our border. In fact, All body bags are equally tragic.

Wow! How far from Jesus’ teachings has America drifted? Imagine if Sarah had been taught real Christianity in Alaska…. It still can happen.

Not-even-close-to-Biblical teaching in seminaries, churches, and on radio and TV is absolutely the #1 source of America’s decline—while true Christianity is the solution.

Jeff Fenske : )
Anchorage, Alaska

From: Anchorage Daily News, Sept. 4

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin told ministry students at her former church that the United States sent troops to fight in the Iraq war on a “task that is from God.”

In an address last June, the Republican vice presidential candidate also urged ministry students to pray for a plan to build a $30 billion natural gas pipeline in the state, calling it “God’s will.”

Palin asked the students to pray for the troops in Iraq and noted that her eldest son, Track, was expected to be deployed there.

“Our national leaders are sending them out on a task that is from God,” she said. “That’s what we have to make sure that we’re praying for, that there is a plan and that plan is God’s plan.”

A video of the speech was posted at the Wasilla Assembly of God‘s Web site before finding its way on to other sites on the Internet. …

Palin attended the evangelical church from the time she was a teenager until 2002, the church said in a statement posted on its Web site. She has continued to attend special conferences and meetings there.

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Ron Paul’s Biggest Eye-Opener: ‘Christian’ Evangelicals Pushing Preemptive War in the Name of Spreading Christian ‘Love’

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Torture: A Battle for the Country’s Soul

On July 18, 2008

In Ethics, The Soul of America, Torture

September 11th was a sea change. Everybody says everything changed after that. And it did, but I think one of the most important changes that the country hasn’t really thought about is America became a country that, for the first time in its history, endorsed what is torture in all but name. And since then, it changed, I think, from a war for the country’s security, the war on terror, to a battle for the country’s soul.

From: Democracy Now!

The Dark Side: Jane Mayer on the Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals

We spend the hour with New Yorker magazine investigative journalist Jane Mayer about her new book, The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals. In the book, Mayer reveals a secret report by the International Red Cross warned the Bush administration last year that the CIA’s treatment of prisoners categorically constituted torture and could make Bush administration officials who approved the torture methods guilty of war crimes. Mayer also reveals that the Bush administration ignored warnings from the CIA six years ago that up to a third of the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay may have been imprisoned by mistake.

[…]

The name of Mayer’s book comes from a comment made by Vice President Dick Cheney on Meet the Press shortly after the September 11th attacks.

VICE PRESIDENT DICK CHENEY: We have to work the dark side

We’re going to spend time in the shadows

quietly, without any discussion

Armchair Pilots ‘Zap & Maim’ By Remote Control From Las Vegas — Roger Waters: “The Bravery of Being Out of Range”

On July 13, 2008

In Ethics, War, Why they hate US

And we wonder why the world hates US.

From: CNN

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

Pilots direct remote-control aircraft from Nevada base in combat 7,500 miles away
New drone, “the Reaper,” carries the same bomb load as an F-16 fighter plane
Reapers have been flying round-the-clock patrols over Afghanistan since 2007
Air Force sees unmanned aircraft as the future of aerial combat

CREECH AIR FORCE BASE, Nevada (CNN) — From a desert outpost [35 miles] northwest of Las Vegas, elite fighter pilots journey to a war zone in Afghanistan, some 7,500 miles away.

It might be the world’s longest commute, except that these armchair pilots at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada never leave the air-conditioned comfort of their command center.

Air Force pilots are employing remotely controlled fighter-bomber aircraft — known in military parlance as unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs — to fly combat missions over Afghanistan, hunting for insurgents bent on undermining Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s fragile government.

This is the future of aerial combat.

Sitting in a virtual cockpit is not as exciting as flying a fighter jet, but unmanned attack-plane pilots can enjoy a normal workday schedule — more or less. Watch the Reaper at work »

“Seeing bad guys on the screen and watching them possibly get dispatched, and then going down to the Taco Bell for lunch, it’s kind of surreal,” says Captain Matt Dean.

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Roger Waters, 1991

The Bravery of Being Out of Range

… Hey bartender over here
Two more shots
And two more beers
Sir turn up the TV sound
The war has started on the ground
Just love those laser guided bombs
They’re really great
For righting wrongs
You hit the target
And win the game
From bars 3,000 miles away
3,000 miles away
We play the game
With the bravery of being out of range
We zap and maim
With the bravery of being out of range
We strafe the train
With the bravery of being out of range
We gain terrain
With the bravery of being out of range

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Scott Ridder: Our Murderers in the Sky

Why they hate US: How would you like one of these flying over your head?

[‘why they hate US’ — Listen to his voice] Gen. Hamid Gul: We’ve slaughtered ~3,500 innocent men, women and children in Pakistan through remote control drones — “But this particular attack was the final nail in the coffin. Why did they do that?” Pakistan may now unite with China against US

We killed almost 700 Pakistan civilians in 44 REMOTE-CONTROL drone strikes in 2009. How would we like it if a country did this to US?

All of my Why They Hate US posts (It’s not “because we’re free”)

Ron Paul’s Biggest Eye-Opener: ‘Christian’ Evangelicals Pushing Preemptive War in the Name of Spreading Christian ‘Love’

On July 7, 2008

In Bomb-Bomb-Bomb Iran, Ethics, False Christians Trashing America, Racism, Ron Paul, War

Alex Jones: “We’re talking…with the congressman about members of Congress talking about nuking Iran on the floor. …

Ron Paul: “To me, the biggest challenge has been and the biggest eye-opener has been in these last several years is how strongly some of our Christian evangelical groups join in.

That is so disturbing to me. And yet they do. The Christian Zionist groups are urging this on in the name of Christianity!

I mean, they didn’t learn the same Christianity that I learned. I just cannot conceive of this. And yet there are millions that way that are just pushing, pushing this war—and pushing even nuclear weapons in the name of spreading Christian love.”

Alex Jones: “Premeditated mass murder. …”

Transcribed by Jeff Fenske from The Alex Jones Show, 7/3/08

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLzupHe_HTk]Part 1 (11 minutes)

Poll: 44% of Americans favor torture for terrorist suspects

On July 5, 2008

In Ethics, The Soul of America, Torture, War

From: The Raw Story

A new poll of citizens’ attitudes about torture in 19 nations finds Americans among the most accepting of the practice. Although a slight majority say torture should be universally prohibited, 44 percent think torture of terrorist suspects should be allowed, and more than one in 10 think torture should generally be allowed.

The findings of the WorldPublicOpinion.org poll put the United States alongside countries like Russia, Egypt and the Ukraine and lagging far behind allies like Great Britain, Spain and France in how its citizens view torture.

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