American Democrats have handed over “tax cuts”, “spending cuts”...and probably “tapering off or slip sliding woman’s rights” over to the “old boys of the Republican party”. It is not just octogenarians of the Middle East who have enjoyed too much power and authority without accountability and responsibility. At least young people and women in the Middle East are coming out in droves to protest. Our octogenarian conservative white boys are actually accumulating power and authority.
Democrats gave away tax cuts to the very rich (2% of the population) that confused, disappointed and shocked most people. Now they have cut an extra billion (that is one with nine zeros) to an already “over stretched” budget reduction. This is like a sexist male survivalist telling his wife, “One group of friends tell me I am too liberal and indulge you too much. Another group of friends think that I am too conservative and physically abuse you too much. So I am going to please all of them, and henceforth will start verbally abusing you in public while holding your hand in private!”
Some male improvement this!
We can apply this analogy to the current American budget. It beats up on the poor, the middle class and hard working immigrants, while the Congress wants praise for compromise and competent concessions.
Some Democratic achievement this!
In America Conservatives do not apologize for physically or economically beating up on those who are at the bottom...while the Democrats apologize for their very existence! Its a wonder they have not committed Hari-kiri for what is going on in Japan.
American Republicans, it appears, like rubbing their feet on people they consider “doormats”, while Liberals and Progressives, a dwindling group among Democrats, have a new motto: “Pauper Progressives, Lackey Liberals and Doormat Democrats – Kindly Rub Your Feet Hard On Us Anytime!"
No wonder these Democrats are losing respect fast! Blaming President Obama is easy and not fair. What are, and were, the old guards among the Democrats doing...other than accumulating power, authority and networking? And where are the hard ax liberal feminists who can kick without apologizing or asking?
The few we had in office, or thought we had, appear too congenial, too compliant to the status quo, too converted by elite needs, too contaminated by conservative politics, too controlled by beltway bucks and too curtailed by traditionalists.
I know Ms Hillary Clinton has disappointed many liberals and progressives. The liberal press now blames Ms Clinton, Ms Rice and Ms Powers – ladies with the lethal weapon of persuasive political talk with their Prince at the top - for the “humanitarian service through military bombing” in Libya.
Have our battle ax women now become battle-women with a bugle for all the wrong causes using all the wrong strategies? If so, where is the Democratic Dojo-kick for progressive policies going to come from? Next year, next time...next century?
With all these disappointments and disgruntlement new kinds of conspiracy theories are emerging about many current events. Here are some:
We now have YouTube videos (yes YouTube!) on how actions by some odd organization called HAARP (I never heard of it until now) could have been responsible for earthquakes and tsunamis in Japan - because the Japanese, their representatives and their government refused to renew the American military-base contract.
Wikipedia tells me that HAARP is an actual authentic organization, called High Frequency Active Auroral Research Project, that has been around since 1990, for which the Department of Defense wanted to increase spending from $ 5 million to $ 75 million. Was this not-so-well known project, Journalist Sharon Weinberger called the “Moby Dick” for “conspiracy theorists" (including Jesse Ventura), ever under budget-cut scrutiny - especially by the hack-cost-happy Conservatives?
Can you blame young, confused or conflicted people for entertaining conspiracy theories? Especially when, in a middle of a terrible economy, we have a military action, not sanctioned by the Congress, against a dictator who actually opened up his country to American and European business interests and investments few years ago. Also, when more ruthless dictators around the world are being ignored – some actually being well financed. (Read Jeremy Scahill's “The Dangerous US Game in Yemen” in The Nation, March 30, 2011). How much did Mubarak, Saleh, Musharraf..., all military dictators, receive from the US while Saddam was being overthrown - and now Gaddafi?
Why did Libya, another oil country, become suddenly a humanitarian crisis (with many abstentions for the no-fly zone resolution in the UN), just within a few days (not even weeks) after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor problem unfolded (and still continues)?
One conspiracy theory purports, “France wanted a digression from the Daiichi nuclear reactor catastrophe - so its nuclear energy export policy will not get affected by the radioactive fiasco”.
(The fact that the Académie des Sciences and the Académie Nationale de Médecine - the French Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Medicine - are big supporters of studies that attempt to prove the beneficial effects of low-level radiation known as hormesis, which the American Air Force and Nuclear Energy lobby groups also borrow and endorse, only adds to these conspiracy speculations. {Calabrese, Edward J. {2004-06-01}. "Hormesis: from marginalization to mainstream: A case for hormesis as the default dose-response model in risk assessment". Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology 197 [2]: 125–136. & Duport, P. [2003-09-11]. "A database of cancer induction by low-dose radiation in mammals: overview and initial observations". International Journal of Low Radiation. International Journal of Low Radiation 1 [11]: 120–131}.)
(Also for the record, the notion of radiation hormesis has been rejected by the National Research Council, part of the American National Academy of Sciences, after a 16 year long study on the Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation. Richard R. Monson, Associate Dean for Professional Education and Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, also admits that the development of solid cancers in organs actually rise proportionally with exposure).
Another conspiracy theory assumes, “England wants to secure its oil fields in Libya with the help of the military - so any rebellion or a civil war would not affect its business operations.” The fact that BP (not Beyond Petroleum) has been trying very hard to make up for its losses with the Gulf oil spill in the United States only makes such assumptions plausible.
A third conspiracy theory suggests, “America wanted a more stable supply of oil - and conveniently found another easy unpopular isolated dictator, like Saddam Hussein a decade ago, to overthrow and take over his oil".
The fourth conspiracy theory speculates, "America is moving from a pan-Arab military control – mostly in the Middle East – to a pan-African imperial control connected to AFRICOM".
The fifth conspiracy theory states that, "America had a plan to go into Libya more than ten years ago for several economic and geo-political reasons - and found an opportune moment to do so when everyone was focused on the triple disasters in Japan”.
The sixth conspiracy theory...you might have guessed by now!
Why are there so many conspiracy theories...some quite ridiculous?
Because our media no longer informs accurately, reports relevantly, investigates courageously, analysis intelligently, evaluates independently and opines reliably. Hence, I suggest reading up on all these conspiracy theories - as one or two might come out to be true in a few years.
But for some relevant intelligent insights and discussions, with experts and smart journalists, on earthquakes, tsunamis, missile testing, fracting, ionospheric research, nuclear energy, nuclear catastrophes, radioactivity, Libya, oil industries, North Africa, imperialism, corporate expansion, AFRICOM, etc. go to California, Canada, England, Germany, Taiwan, India, China, Russia, Australia, Venezuela, Brazil, Chile...even Pakistan (where their journalists have been asking some penetrating questions of their Parliamentarians, business leaders and military personnel).
And what do we have in the United States? We've got a Congressman, Louie Gohmert (a Republican from Texas), wasting professional time and precious resources trying to create a new law that would stop pregnant women tourists from having babies here and later returning to their home countries! Would he prefer that they stay - using up his tax dollars? Would he prefer that they not come at all - reducing tourist revenue? Or better still, would he prefer that they not seek any medical help for their delivery - and have babies in the shed like his prophet's mother?
If some global occurrences feel like sci-fi horror, some American domestic occurrences feel like a cuckoo's nest.
Democrats gave away tax cuts to the very rich (2% of the population) that confused, disappointed and shocked most people. Now they have cut an extra billion (that is one with nine zeros) to an already “over stretched” budget reduction. This is like a sexist male survivalist telling his wife, “One group of friends tell me I am too liberal and indulge you too much. Another group of friends think that I am too conservative and physically abuse you too much. So I am going to please all of them, and henceforth will start verbally abusing you in public while holding your hand in private!”
Some male improvement this!
We can apply this analogy to the current American budget. It beats up on the poor, the middle class and hard working immigrants, while the Congress wants praise for compromise and competent concessions.
Some Democratic achievement this!
In America Conservatives do not apologize for physically or economically beating up on those who are at the bottom...while the Democrats apologize for their very existence! Its a wonder they have not committed Hari-kiri for what is going on in Japan.
American Republicans, it appears, like rubbing their feet on people they consider “doormats”, while Liberals and Progressives, a dwindling group among Democrats, have a new motto: “Pauper Progressives, Lackey Liberals and Doormat Democrats – Kindly Rub Your Feet Hard On Us Anytime!"
No wonder these Democrats are losing respect fast! Blaming President Obama is easy and not fair. What are, and were, the old guards among the Democrats doing...other than accumulating power, authority and networking? And where are the hard ax liberal feminists who can kick without apologizing or asking?
The few we had in office, or thought we had, appear too congenial, too compliant to the status quo, too converted by elite needs, too contaminated by conservative politics, too controlled by beltway bucks and too curtailed by traditionalists.
I know Ms Hillary Clinton has disappointed many liberals and progressives. The liberal press now blames Ms Clinton, Ms Rice and Ms Powers – ladies with the lethal weapon of persuasive political talk with their Prince at the top - for the “humanitarian service through military bombing” in Libya.
Have our battle ax women now become battle-women with a bugle for all the wrong causes using all the wrong strategies? If so, where is the Democratic Dojo-kick for progressive policies going to come from? Next year, next time...next century?
With all these disappointments and disgruntlement new kinds of conspiracy theories are emerging about many current events. Here are some:
We now have YouTube videos (yes YouTube!) on how actions by some odd organization called HAARP (I never heard of it until now) could have been responsible for earthquakes and tsunamis in Japan - because the Japanese, their representatives and their government refused to renew the American military-base contract.
Wikipedia tells me that HAARP is an actual authentic organization, called High Frequency Active Auroral Research Project, that has been around since 1990, for which the Department of Defense wanted to increase spending from $ 5 million to $ 75 million. Was this not-so-well known project, Journalist Sharon Weinberger called the “Moby Dick” for “conspiracy theorists" (including Jesse Ventura), ever under budget-cut scrutiny - especially by the hack-cost-happy Conservatives?
Can you blame young, confused or conflicted people for entertaining conspiracy theories? Especially when, in a middle of a terrible economy, we have a military action, not sanctioned by the Congress, against a dictator who actually opened up his country to American and European business interests and investments few years ago. Also, when more ruthless dictators around the world are being ignored – some actually being well financed. (Read Jeremy Scahill's “The Dangerous US Game in Yemen” in The Nation, March 30, 2011). How much did Mubarak, Saleh, Musharraf..., all military dictators, receive from the US while Saddam was being overthrown - and now Gaddafi?
Why did Libya, another oil country, become suddenly a humanitarian crisis (with many abstentions for the no-fly zone resolution in the UN), just within a few days (not even weeks) after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor problem unfolded (and still continues)?
One conspiracy theory purports, “France wanted a digression from the Daiichi nuclear reactor catastrophe - so its nuclear energy export policy will not get affected by the radioactive fiasco”.
(The fact that the Académie des Sciences and the Académie Nationale de Médecine - the French Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Medicine - are big supporters of studies that attempt to prove the beneficial effects of low-level radiation known as hormesis, which the American Air Force and Nuclear Energy lobby groups also borrow and endorse, only adds to these conspiracy speculations. {Calabrese, Edward J. {2004-06-01}. "Hormesis: from marginalization to mainstream: A case for hormesis as the default dose-response model in risk assessment". Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology 197 [2]: 125–136. & Duport, P. [2003-09-11]. "A database of cancer induction by low-dose radiation in mammals: overview and initial observations". International Journal of Low Radiation. International Journal of Low Radiation 1 [11]: 120–131}.)
(Also for the record, the notion of radiation hormesis has been rejected by the National Research Council, part of the American National Academy of Sciences, after a 16 year long study on the Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation. Richard R. Monson, Associate Dean for Professional Education and Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, also admits that the development of solid cancers in organs actually rise proportionally with exposure).
Another conspiracy theory assumes, “England wants to secure its oil fields in Libya with the help of the military - so any rebellion or a civil war would not affect its business operations.” The fact that BP (not Beyond Petroleum) has been trying very hard to make up for its losses with the Gulf oil spill in the United States only makes such assumptions plausible.
A third conspiracy theory suggests, “America wanted a more stable supply of oil - and conveniently found another easy unpopular isolated dictator, like Saddam Hussein a decade ago, to overthrow and take over his oil".
The fourth conspiracy theory speculates, "America is moving from a pan-Arab military control – mostly in the Middle East – to a pan-African imperial control connected to AFRICOM".
The fifth conspiracy theory states that, "America had a plan to go into Libya more than ten years ago for several economic and geo-political reasons - and found an opportune moment to do so when everyone was focused on the triple disasters in Japan”.
The sixth conspiracy theory...you might have guessed by now!
Why are there so many conspiracy theories...some quite ridiculous?
Because our media no longer informs accurately, reports relevantly, investigates courageously, analysis intelligently, evaluates independently and opines reliably. Hence, I suggest reading up on all these conspiracy theories - as one or two might come out to be true in a few years.
But for some relevant intelligent insights and discussions, with experts and smart journalists, on earthquakes, tsunamis, missile testing, fracting, ionospheric research, nuclear energy, nuclear catastrophes, radioactivity, Libya, oil industries, North Africa, imperialism, corporate expansion, AFRICOM, etc. go to California, Canada, England, Germany, Taiwan, India, China, Russia, Australia, Venezuela, Brazil, Chile...even Pakistan (where their journalists have been asking some penetrating questions of their Parliamentarians, business leaders and military personnel).
And what do we have in the United States? We've got a Congressman, Louie Gohmert (a Republican from Texas), wasting professional time and precious resources trying to create a new law that would stop pregnant women tourists from having babies here and later returning to their home countries! Would he prefer that they stay - using up his tax dollars? Would he prefer that they not come at all - reducing tourist revenue? Or better still, would he prefer that they not seek any medical help for their delivery - and have babies in the shed like his prophet's mother?
If some global occurrences feel like sci-fi horror, some American domestic occurrences feel like a cuckoo's nest.
Fantastic and funny Doc! Great job! I am going to read up on these stuff. Any suggestion on the books, articles and radio programs you think are a bit more reliable? Good work...keep going!
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