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20140920
America Plans To Invade Russia (satire)
Америка планує напасти на Росію. Він робить все, щоб спровокувати його, в тому числі, що підтримують терористів в Сирії.
China and Russia are not our enemies. America and so it imposes democracy on other nations is a real threat to freedom. However, the Ukraine is under the thumb of the Nazis, and American supports them. Therefore the Ukraine is not free. Why do you think the Russians are nervous?
America plans to invade Russia. It is doing everything to provoke it, including supporting terrorists in Syria.
20140115
Is War On Terrorism Worth 3000 American Lives? (satire)
On March 20, 2003 the US launched the War against Terrorism. This was in response to three passenger jets being launched as bombs against the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001.
Fortunately, many brave passengers forced the crash of the third plane somewhere in rural Pennsylvania before it could reach its target, the White House.
According to what became a part of the official story, a scion of the Saudi Arabian bin Laden financial empire, Osama, chose himself to become the mastermind of a shadowy Muslim fundamentalist group called al-Qaeda that had been formed with the aid of the Pakistani and support from like-minded Islamist from Egypt.
What is not commonly know is that CIA operatives working within the hierarchy of power within Washington, DC, capitol and home of the Chief Executive of America, the President, have been operating undercover as diplomats within the US Embassy at Islamabad.
They have consistently vetoed the CIA's recommendation to continue with intelligence gathering in the Middle East, leaving that job to the National Security Agency, which according to reports keeps a close eye on the region via the Israeli spy satellite that US investors owns a good chunk of.
As a result of influence by the CIA-trained diplomats in Islamabad, numerous trade deals and also various offers of US aid courtesy of the American taxpayers have been made, or are ongoing. Thus, the Pakistani military has accepted these offers with the tacit approval of government officials in Islamabad.
For Pakistani's military secret service, ISI, has been well funded to supply training to the Taliban, and in aiding in the overthrow of the legitimate government in Afghanistan circa 1989.
However, this move by proxy via Pakistan is the indirect result of US foreign policy, which has been influenced by anti-communism since the McCarthy era in the mid-1950s.
For Afghanistan had been under the thumb of Soviet domination for a decade preceding the civil war that continued throughout much of the 1990s.
Intelligence sources indicate that Osama bin Laden was originally the son of the family that formed the bin Laden corporation which has enjoyed strong trade ties with the Bush family's Carlyle Group since the 1960s.
Officially, Washington has associated bin Laden with al-Qaeda, and has denied any ties between the Bush family and him.
Furthermore, bin Laden had not been captured as of January 31, 2009, and his escape into Pakistan has been confirmed and denied and reconfirmed so many times that President Bush has stated that bin Laden isn't important to the war cause that now has seized the imagination of the American people today.
In my option, the War against Terrorism is American foreign policy just as much as the War against Drugs is.
For this is what American foreign policy consists of: economic dominance of the world in the interests of national security.
This explains American legislation on drug use, mental health, and poverty, both within domestic policy and in influencing other nations to follow suit. Such laws are purported to serve the people, to regulate their happiness, their peace of mind, and their material benefit. Instead, such laws are being abused, serving to oppress the poor even more, and to divide the community.
Drug abuse and its effect on community, the drive to close down mental institutions while retraining mental health care personnel, and the social security system with its overworked administration has only served to prove the old adage that "the rich get richer, and the poor get poorer."
Yet American foreign policy only indirectly led to September 11, 2001.
We have to question over $2 billion going to Israel, almost a billion to Egypt, and millions to other nations such as Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and Iran.
In total, at least $4 billion from the US go to the Middle East, the majority of it to Israel.
We thought it was for oil, but it's more than that that runs the American money machine. There's also millions of thirsty people in the Middle East, but it is developed nations that own most of the fresh water.
However, it's not just about oil or water; it's also about political power.
Bush's administration went to war because it couldn't afford to alienate millions of Americans who wanted justice to be served in the name of the 3000 people who died in 9-11.
Yet, are lives of thousands of innocent Muslim children, men and women worth the lives of 3000 people? A lot of Americans think so.
I don't. Neither do the Democrats, some of whose representative in DC regret the invasion of Iraq.
Even so, I do not believe it is wise to fully withdraw from Afghanistan and Iraq because the threat of al-Qaeda still lingers as of January 15, 2013.
Although Osama may have been executed in Pakistan and his body supposedly dumped in the ocean by the US, al-Qaeda used Iraq as the launching ground against Sunni Muslims' enemies including Shi'a Muslims both in Iraq, Syria and the Levant.
It is not in the US's best interests to bring the troops home, for the enemy is threatening the homeland of the Syrian Arabs whose ancestors chose Jesus over Mohammad. Even though today, in Syria there are Shi'a and Sunni Muslims fighting against each other with Bashar al-Assad depending on Shiite militants, both domestic and abroad (Hezbollah being funded by Iran).
According to the reports from Syria, many Muslims from Syria have become refugees in Jordan (mostly Palestinians), Egypt (predominantly Sunnis), Iran (probably Shiites) and Turkey (secular Syrians and possibly some Christians). I have not read one report about Syrian Christians, but possibly they are refugees in Lebanon along with some Shi'a and a few Sunni militants).
Most likely though the Syriacs are refugees in France and the UK, due to the former colonial powers' ties to the Levant, including Palestine.
There may even be some Syriacs arriving in the US and Canada, for all I know.
In any case, the death of Osama bin Laden has not weakened al-Qaeda. Instead, other home-grown militants in the West are willing to train to become a vital part of what could be seen as the mythical hydra, a beast with many heads.
According to the myth, Hercules was challenged with the task to rid a certain Greek city of this beast, the Lemaean Hydra, a water dragon with heads too numerous to depict. When he cut one head off, two heads replaced it. In a cave beside Lake Lerna the dragon lives, guarding the entrance to the Underworld.
An offspring of Typhon and Echidna, both of whom were noisome children of the earth goddess Gaia, it was lured out by Hercules using fire arrows. After realizing cutting off the heads of the Hydra would be a long task, he retreated to his camp where his nephew Iolus awaited his return. During his absence, Iolus had been visited by the goddess Athena who slyly gave the young lad the inspiration to cauterize the wounds after cutting off the heads of the beast.
With this knowledge, Hercules returned to battle the creature and succeeded in cutting off all the heads but one. At this point, Athena turned his sword golden and Hercules slew the beast. Then he took the arrows in his quill to dip the heads in the poisonous blood of the Hydra.
In actual fact, Hercules was a pawn in the rivalry between Athena and Hera, the wife of Zeus who was King of the Greek Gods and father to Hercules. The reason for this rivalry is that Athena was born from Zeus' head thus making her equal in power to her father. Hera had to learn to give birth on her own to Hephaestus to match him.
Within context of modern times, the myth of Hercules' second task of slaying the Hydra can be applied to Syria and the Middle East. Al-Qaeda is the hydra. America is Hercules. The UK is Zeus. Hera is France, since they had a riot recently that burned a part of Paris. Syria and the Levant represents the cave in which the hydra dwells, and the Lerna is the Mediterranean Sea, whose waves wash on shores of nations from which came most of the members of al-Qaeda. The poisonous blood of the hydra represents the works of Sayyid Qutb and the messages of its current leaders on-line today at Youtube e.g. hate propaganda.
However, the problem here is the firebrand necessary to burn the heads of the hydra might mean more than conventional munitions, for it suggests the pacification of Iran regarding nuclear development might hide the movement of plutonium the US and other nuclear power desire from Iran.
For the nuclear powers were afraid that Iran would arm itself and provide arms to North Korea and other nations who are not too close to the US, including the Ukraine. But that's fodder for another myth at another time.
Originally posted: January 31, 2009 6:34 PM
Hercules and the Hydra: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lernaean_Hydra
The works of Sayyid Qutb: In the 200s CE the Ghassanids migrated Syria due to a dam flooding their villages in Yemen.
20121124
Africa Oppressed by American Economic Empire
AFRICOM is why Africa consists of mostly 3rd-world nations.
Also all mention of "African peacekeepers" is propaganda. The truth is African troops aid in keeping Africa backwards so that America and its allies can continue to keep African nations poor and underdeveloped by restricting who can invest US dollars in foreign aid in a manner that America approves.
Humanitarian aid is being reduced, in a cruel effort of population control by starvation and manufactured conflict caused by unfair mistreatment of refugees and condoning internal strife in Sudan where Darfur became a contentious problem because of AFRICOM's military-industrial imperialism.
In essence, the US is the new economic empire whose policies in Africa are designed to extract natural resources cheaply, imposing a 21st-century colonialism which will only worsen the risk of civil war, sectarian violence, and impoverishment of Africans for decades to come.
Most conflict therefore are the US government's responsibility, since internal strife in African nations justify moving African troops in to support the corrupt regime in Somalia (run by a Somali-American who used to work in the US Dept. of Transportation), promote sectarian violence in central Africa, and maintain a SNAFU situation in Africa.
Therefore, Africa's problems originally due to previous European colonialism since the 18th century are continued under the US-backed colonialism by the American economic empire.
20110126
The Japanese and the Shared History of Ainu, Hawaiians and Native Americans
King Kamehameha III, the last rightful king of Hawaii, won independence recognized by England & France, on Nov.28, 1843, approximately a decade before Perry forced Japan to recognize America's right to trade with the Japanese without being plagued by pirates.
Only America chose not to recognize Hawaii as a republic, due to its economic interests.
50 years later, America chose to annex Hawaii with a somewhat sedate "rebellion" where scions of businessmen were protected by US Navy as they "liberated" Hawaii.
This was preceded by the Bayonet Constitution which force Hawaii to become a constitutional monarchy with the pretender David Kalâkaua. He won because his name-calling left Queen Emma furious, and her supporters such poor sports that both the British and US troops came in to suppress the Emmaites.
During this time, legitimacy of rightful kings was Christian. So David was rightful only due to Kamehameha III being convinced to write it into the constitution.
This shut out illegitimate heirs such as Keelikolani, the defender of traditional Hawaiian ways. It was through her that Mauna Loa was quieted by her intercession with the god Pelé in 1880. Pelé is a nature god associated with the volcano.
My roots in Hawaii began circa 1890s near the end of Hawaiian Kingdom. Investment in Hawaii also came from Japan, as cheap labour was high in demand. Japanese workers were willing to come Hawaii because of earlier trade agreements made afteer Hawaii gained independence.
Also through Chinese traders and Japanese fishermen, Hawaii was known on the return back from trading with Haida Gwaii, who share common ancestry with the ancestors of the older Hawaii families of chief before Kamahameha I.
As well, Ainumushiri had trade ties with the Aleuts, and share a common genetic history that extends to the Inuit (Eskimo), though the oral traditions of Inuit peoples deny this so that their land claims in Nunavut are not mussed up by the truth.
so my roots are both here, in Hawaii and back in Japan. The First Nations people are my distant cousins, more so than Chinese.
20080909
Why America Invaded Iraq
Various scandals involving prominent politicians have drawn attention to the close links between the Energy Lobby and the U.S. government, particularly the influence wielded by the Energy Lobby in the Bush administration. In June 2005, documents emerged that revealed that the Bush administration had consulted Exxon regarding its stance on the Kyoto protocol. According to The Guardian "In briefing papers given before meetings to the US under-secretary of state, Paula Dobriansky, between 2001 and 2004, the administration is found thanking Exxon executives for the company's 'active involvement' in helping to determine climate change policy, and also seeking its advice on what climate change policies the company might find acceptable."
In November 2005, documents revealed that Vice President Dick Cheney's Energy Task Force met with executives from large oil companies, although chief executives of those companies denied involvement before the Senate Energy and Commerce committees. Environmentalists were not allowed access to the Energy Task Force’s activities, which was responsible for developing a national energy policy.
Oil companies also participated with Cheney's task force in a discussion of Iraqi oilfields, refineries and other energy infrastructure, and two charts detailing Iraqi oil and gas projects, and "Foreign Suitors for Iraqi Oilfield Contracts." The documents are dated two years before the Invasion of Iraq.
The invasion of Iraq circa AD 2003 had to do with making oil and water a commodity to be bought and sold, mainly to profit Big Business.
Indeed, there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. There were no Iraqis who participated in or endorsed 9-11. All there was was the inaction of good men so that they may later profit from the sacrifice of over 3,000 lives, and countless lives more.
Not surprisingly, the newsmedia only quietly mentioned the energy lobby's role in the War on Terrorism, and focused on the war and the world after 9-11.
For the War on Terrorism was and is a marketable commodity in the world of news and Big Business.
20071027
American Empire's War on Iraq Always about Oil
It has nothing to do with terrorism. This war has always been about sucking oil out of the ground so American people can still drive their cars.
What America calls Muslim terrorists are actually Arabic militants, mainly, who are similar to Christian fundamentalist militants in that they are fighting to establish a misogynist, violent theocracy in which men are the boss.
Both cultures are deathly afraid of women, especially women's sexuality and react by repressing it through violent means.
Even so, militants are still freedom fighters in that they fight for the freedom of a patriarchal society, meaning free in the sense that a man is free to kill another person in the name of God, which sort of makes their killings a form of ritual sacrifice and thus also makes them Satanic.
The ironic thing is, they think everyone against them is Satanic. However, any ideology that condones violence is not in league with God. This includes even the less violent American Empire.
Getting back to the oil, it is obvious that Big Oil is controlling the shots in Iraq. America is not leaving until the oil deal in Iraq favours them.
What this eventually means for Iraq is possible economic sanctions for any Wahhabi-influenced Muslim activity in the future. What this means is inserting hatred for other groups like the Jews and unbelievers in Muslim school books may be seen as a form of international hate crime.
Currently, most Muslim school books do have hate messages, despite assurances by the Saudi PR zczar.
This is not different from certain Christian groups writing homophobic articles and making homophobic statements. And contrary to their claims that it is a moral issue, homophobia is actually a reaction to the threat that homosexuality has on propagation of the species. If everyone went gay, then birth rates would plummet. This means mess potential souls to save, and potentail access to their assets by churchpeople.
Aside from that, the War On Iraq has always been Big Oil's Proxy War for Iraq's Oil. As well, the Axis of Evil known as Iran, Syria and North Korea is all about Big Oil's lust for oil in those nations.
Sadly though, don't expect Big Oil to clean up its mess. It will pretend it has nothing to do with terrorists. This is a lie, because the US military is the world's biggest terrorist group in the world.