When you rule by fear, Expect cowards to reign...

America, Home of the Naïve, land of the Corporation…

This once mighty nation of patriots, craftsmen, and leaders has become the crucible of mediocrity, the foundry of fraud, and the abattoir of accountability.

Through the most recent past generations the bedrock of what our democratic republic stood upon has been eroded by greed. What it represents now is a cash machine for the entitled few, not the huddled masses, nor the citizens that have made all of it possible.

It is a pyramid scheme, all of it, designed to control the most wealth by the fewest people. It is the Prescott-Walker Prospect. And it has been done by manipulating its people as most cons are.

One, enslave the masses to consumerism. Create an economy that not only needs, but demands, consumption. True worth of all things is diminished so that more is needed, more is wasted, and fewer are secure and financially solvent. How else could SUVs come to be? All traffic patterns were and are designed to consume the most fuel. All you can eat buffets where gluttony is sanctioned. Bigger houses, bigger boats, bigger salaries, bigger TVs, bigger motorcycles, bigger pets, bigger, bigger, bigger. The ugly “B” word.

Two, change the dynamics of food production and population. Under the guise of providing more food to the starving masses, we create more starving masses, but also more consumers. Then we convince the new second and third world consumers that the American lifestyle model is the one they should emulate. The corporations get new consumers and markets, ones that aren’t as saturated with things as the American people are and then the American people are abandoned. Jobs are shipped overseas so that new consumer societies, aka the middle class with expendable income, are created and the standard of living for Americans diminishes. This in the eyes of the world is our comeuppance, hurried along by the greed of corporations.

Three, eliminate accountability, integrity, and character. Redefine leadership to mean that the new leaders become the minions of capitalism and those that do not go along, and reflect the most light of those that lead them, do not belong to the new “republic”. The counter-culture members become marginalized. Do you think it is just coincidence that the onset of the 21st century depression affects the middle of the baby boom generation? The group that was responsible for the culture wars of the 50s, 60s, and 70s. Payback is a bitch.

Four, create sector pyramids, divide and conquer through fear and destruction. For example the health care industry. You create a federal agency, which approves and regulates food and drugs; let us call it the FDA. They in turn support additives in food chain without understanding the effects on the population; e.g. corn syrup. They also approve drugs that, in another framework would constitute poison e.g. Avandia, Vioxx, and Celebrex. Then limit the options/actions that the citizen consumers may avail themselves of to resolve the problems resulting from their consumption of these products. To further the profits of this sector of the economy, we will have an insurance racket its sole purpose is to take more money from the citizens. It will then divide services, services which were once covered under the original health insurance plans, are sliced off and create new services which require, get this its brilliant, more insurance to be covered adequately for the services which were once covered. Now people that suffer the deleterious effects from the food additives that are poison and drugs that are poison have to pay more of their monetary solvency to live. Then through marketing and propaganda you can tell them all how you’ve extended the average lifespan but leave out the part where you steal more of their money. The other sectors include the banking industry, investment firms, aerospace, chemicals, etc. Why else would the regulatory agencies designed to check the inherent greed of all the sectors be neutered?

Five, divide the population through rhetoric, religion, education, class, and regions. Play up the fear, play up the fear, and play up the fear. So that now the once brave people, now citizen consumers, come to value things more than freedom. Appearance, illusions, and diversions triumph over substance, truth, and the things in life that really matter.

Six, bring back the politics of dirty tricks and lies to the democratic process. How else could people like John Kerry, John McCain, and Max Cleland be assaulted and compromised while campaigning. How else could an idiot and coward, relatively speaking, like George W. Bush be elected dog catcher, let alone Governor of Texas and President of the United States. Change the laws that limit control of media outlets so that the propaganda supporting this, New American Agenda, is more efficiently spewed and consumed. And thus dividing the consumer citizens even further from one another.

Seven, create a new entitled class to take the place of the “Greatest Generation”. Create a fairy tale of how the “military”, Reagan, and capitalism defeated the Nazis, fascism, and communism and in turn made the world safe for democracy and freedom. Leave out the facts of how until Pearl Harbor most of America was unwilling to go to war in Europe. Leave out the fact that after Pearl Harbor it was American citizens that volunteered or were drafted to fight the war and that it was just a very few of these citizens that fought the war comparatively speaking. But all that participated in the armed services have benefitted from the few. Never has a generation benefitted so much by the sacrifice of so few. And those few succeeded in spite of their military leaders. Leave out the facts that communism was defeated by the GNP of the US and the productivity of all of its citizens. Leave out the facts that the corruptive extremes of an ideology like communism had as much to do with its destruction as we did. Leave out the fact that our own destruction is certain because of the corruption of our extreme, i.e. consumerism. The new “entitled class” are the military. The facts, although relevant, will have no bearing on what we are made to believe. It is only the military that die for freedom, though 4000 Americans die on the job each year thousands more are injured. And the “Military Establishment” all of it, thrives, suckles, and flourishes on the deaths, injuries, and honor of those that die in our ongoing, and fraudulent, military actions. The Military Conglomerate’s foundation is built on the graves of soldiers, citizens, and truth. It is the only way they can thrive, the only way. This is the same sector that benefitted with the compromise of the Gays in the Military. The other side of the compromise, what nobody asked and what nobody was told, was how there was no longer a waiting period between separation from the military and entry into the private sector that served the military. Thus was established the continuity of corruption. For now the industrial sectors that support the military had their “sanctioned and certified” employees. Once learning in the military how to reflect the most light of those that promote you would you be able to transition into the private sector to a job where they become complicit in the “Theft of Honor” and destruction of American democracy. They get their pensions which aren’t earned on top of the money they get paid for jobs they aren’t qualified for.

A fair solution for unreasonable people...

Utilizing a technology bars have used for decades we should have a code reader on gasoline fill nozzles that read the type of vehicle they are filling.
If people want to drive gas guzzlers they should have to pay more for the gas they are purchasing. If people want to go to the tanning salon in a SUV, or drive 70+ miles an hour in a huge pick up truck than they should have to pay a higher amount for the gas they use.
It can be a graduated cost, vehicles getting below 15 mpg will pay twice the baseline price of gasoline, 16-24 mpg the price will be 1.5 times the cost, 24-35 mpg the cost will be baseline cost, and anything above 35 mpg they will start getting a discount.
Rather than giving subsidies for vehicles that increase our dependence on oil and petroleum, as we did for SUVs, we should have these gas guzzlers susidize our country.

Amazing

There is a problem with gays in the military!?

They have liars, idiots, ass kissers, phonies, gold brickers like it is
a brick factory, cowards who can't come out against a phony war until they retire and start collecting..,but they have a problem with the attraction two of the same sex have for each other...

the world is insane and it is the most insane leading the way...

Military Industrial Corruption

The militarization of America
The worst compromise ever for the United States was the one in which gays in the military were allowed to serve in brave silence. The other side of this compromise was the ability of retired government service, military, and other officials to go into civilian industrial corporate America immediately upon severance of service.
What this has done is provide for a strengthening of the military industrial complex whereby it has dominant control of our government and the civilian population. The social manipulation that has occurred in the last 4 decades, when the counter-culture movement imposed its will on how the Nixon administration prosecuted the Vietnam War and the subsequent withdrawal without victory, should be subject to investigation. Forty years ago we were on the verge of attempting to address all the social failures we are facing, again or still, now. The movement wanted to reduce pollution, reduce military intervention and the hegemony associated with that intervention, improve education, conserve resources, and limit the unfair influence of big business in the affairs of the populace.
The ever so grave danger (there is no other kind) is the type of leadership and management that results from militarism. Military leadership is not leadership by merit; it is leadership by rank authority, two distinct, but very important concepts to embrace. In the natural order of things knowledge, ability, experience, and charisma are what make natural leaders. By virtue of their innate skills and the recognition of ability by those they associate with in their chosen profession, the competent are able to climb the ladder of success and responsibility. What happens in the military is an unnatural selection process. What happens is that those that reflect the most light of those responsible for promoting them become higher ranking officers and enable the continuance of the inbred management culture of the military.
Americans have come to believe that military equals leadership. Patriotism was hijacked just for this purpose after 9/11. Our greatest strength is not the military it is the ideology that all men and women are created equal. Along with the liberties we enjoy as a free people. The republic founded by our forefathers was the culmination of centuries of rights earned by men reasoning with the forces that controlled them. The democracy we enjoy was not given to us by god, but earned by the efforts and labors of men that had tasted the opportunities that industriousness allows.
I observed, when working for the Navy, the culling of individuals that were different from the spectrum needed to feed the military’s future. There is a relatively narrow band width of light that reflects the most of what the military wants and needs. It is not by accident that they look the same, sound the same, and act like one another. The problem we face as a country is the controlling regimentation of our people, our jobs, and what it bodes for our future.
I believe in the military and my brothers and sisters that serve. That is why I spoke out against the invasion of Iraq. It was based on lies, it was not planned very well, and it was executed horribly. But it has succeeded in elevating the military establishment on the backs of the enlisted. There has always been contempt in the ranks for the leadership in the military, Willie and Joe would tell you so, the contempt comes from the knowledge that war and chaos go hand in hand and results cannot be predicted.

Bill Mauldin

Bill Mauldin: "Bill Mauldin
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Mankind's System Failure

Mankind’s System Failure
The United States Coast Guard, Class Societies, and the maritime industry have a relationship, which is incestuous, criminal, and rife with cronyism. The grand collusion has been deteriorating the regulatory oversight necessary to ensure the viability of this industry, and the safety of its people.
The Coast Guard inspectors tasked with ensuring regulatory compliance within the industry are inexperienced and do not have the requisite knowledge to support inspections. They do not have an understanding of the systems they approve and how everything on board any type of maritime structure is interconnected. A ship, boat, drill rig, ferry, etc. all have specific functions they serve and all have complicated rules for construction. The US Coast Guard is overtaxed in its duties and cannot support the requirements of vessel/structure inspections; there is no debate on this matter. I have lived and worked in this industry my entire life.
Class Societies, American Bureau of Shipping, Lloyd’s Register, Det Norsk Veritas, and other companies do not have qualified people reviewing designs, they do not have qualified people inspecting the construction of the vessels and structures, and they do not have qualified people supporting the life cycle maintenance of vessels and structures.
The same industry and regulatory problems that exist within the banking industry, coal industry, investment industry, or any sector for that matter, exist more so in the maritime industry. When oversight from a person or organization is required, that should bring integrity, character, and honor to a process to ensure standards are maintained and that regulations are obeyed, it does not occur.
There is in our constitution a separation of church and state for a reason. Neither should be perceived as, or allowed to, sanction or endorse the other. This very simple concept should be the new baseline of any regulatory agency. There cannot be cross pollination between regulatory agencies and corporations.
The mission of any government is to mitigate the darker aspects of human nature. We have laws against all manner of evil. That evil grows from hearts of mankind. Societies create religions, support systems, and organized governments because of the recognition, albeit subtly intrinsic, of this evil in us.
And evil is represented now most effectively in board rooms across the world. Credibility, respectability, and integrity are superseded by greed, selfishness, and hubris. These corporate entities believe that they and they alone can do the most good for the world. When the fact is, and the world is retching with proof, they do penultimate harm and irreversible damage to the soul of this world.
We have allowed them to befoul our land, sea, and air with chemicals that poison our world. They will argue that they do it to provide food, work, and material goods. When in fact it is to create untold wealth for a minor percentage of the world’s population and, when the bill comes due, it will not be them that pick up the tab.
As with everything nature teaches us balance is the answer. We’ve been so far out of balance for so long, that we are fast approaching the point of incline where friction will be overcome and we will plummet off the edge, into the abyss of darkness.
We don’t have time for politicians to come to their end of life understanding of their allowing this to happen and wishing they had done it different. You need to fast forward and understand it today.

Divide and Conquer

American, I'm an American. Not a liberal, not a conservative, not a radical, or any other tag. My religion is my business. My politics are my business and you are welcome to my political business as I post it here. My race is the human race, my planet is earth, my desire is that we do the best for the most, as best we all can.
Polarizing rhetoric divides us. It is up to you all to decide why people, corporations, and so called leaders are trying to divide us.