Have all Bases Covered
This is a long work that I've devised. I wanted to make sure that I wanted to have all bases covered. The world is a very different place now. We have challenges and apparent oppurtunities to fight back in order to make our world a better place. Neo-con Republicans complain about the DHS report. Yet, even they are using this under the cover of their slick, sinister agenda. The DHS report equated the denunication of government policy to the economy, etc. as "rightwing extremism." I don't agree with the DHS report at all. Neo cons like Michelle Malkin and Newt Gingrich want to be apart of the Tea Party protests. “I couldn’t believe it was real,” declared Malkin on her blog. According to the darling of Fox News, “the piece of crap report issued on April 7 is a sweeping indictment of conservatives.” The neo cons know that the report is real. Yet, they collectively blame Barack Obama and the Democrats for the report when it's bigger than that. The Tax Day Tea Party is a protest against government policy that was created by grassroot anti-tax libertarians and conservatives. Malkin is a hypocrite for condemning the DHS' immoral report, but supports the government monitoring (and demonizing) of anti-war activists during the Bush administration. Malkin even tries to justify the illegal and unwarranted detainment of innocent Japanese Americans by FDR during World War II. She didn't criticize the FBI and the DHS when they collected extensive information on the tactics, training and organization of antiwar demonstrators (and has advised local law enforcement officials to report any "suspicious activity at protests to its counterterrorism squads,” as the New York Times reported in 2003). This was after the war in Iraq came about. Iraq was invaded illegally and over a million Iraqis were murdered. Malkin did not express righteous indignation over “Left-Wing Extremism: The Current Threat” report prepared for the U.S. Department of Energy in 2001 or “Leftwing Extremists Likely to Increase Use of Cyber Attacks over the Coming Decade” report being issued on January 26 of this year. Even Newt Gingrich supported curtailing free speech (and called 9/11 Truthers out of their minds), yet he opposed the DHS document (because it smeared veterans and conservatives). DHS officials spied on the DC Anti-War Network and collected and disseminated information regarding political demonstrations and labeled peaceful advocacy groups and other activists as “extremists.” Even Michael Savage refuse to expose the CFR and the Bilderberger Group (when their memberships are heavy in the Barack Obama administration. Wall Street operatives are in the administration as well). See, Malkin, Gingrich, Weiner, Hannity, and other neo cons have no problem with the government spying on their political enemies. Yet, they are trying to infiltrate the lives of real Patriots. These neo cons support the police state, which is violating citizens' rights just like the neo-liberals do. The leadership of the Republicans are just as controlled by the establishment as the leadership of the Democrats are. Barack Obama has continued the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, the warrantless wiretapping of American citizens (which is a violation of the Fourth Amendment), the war on terror, and rendition. Frankily, Barack Obama is a puppet of the religious/political/economic elite that wants our economy to shift into a globalized state (wherefore, the foreign bankers control and centralize our wealth). The Republicans and the Democrats are trying to absorb sincere citizens' power in wanting sincere change in the country. CNN (one CNN reporter lied and said that the Tea Party protests are solely a "right wing" agenda), the Huffington Post (with their allies of ACORN) and FOX are trying to make these protest a left vs. right affair when it isn't. It's about the people fighting against elite bankers trying to control our money supply. Some of the Tea Party protestors have shown racist signs against Barack Obama. I don't agree with this. This doesn't mean that every protestor is a racist, which was maintained by the shill Janeane Garofolo. So, do I have unconditional alliegance to all of the Tea Parties? No. Do I slander every Tea Party protestor as a terrorist or a GOP shill? No, because those in many rallies exist from across the political spectrum (who are protesting against the FED, unfair taxes, overspending in unnecessary areanas, etc.). People need to realize that.
Devvy recently exposed the shill Bob Basso (who was interviewed by neo con Glen Beck). Basso dressed up as Thomas Paine to promote his video called, 'We the People Stimulus Package.' Basso claims to be for the Tea Parties and wants liberty. Yet, there are plenty of evidence to prove that he's a shill. Basso believes that illegal immigration is a problem and that's true. Now, he's wrong in saying that Congress isn't paying into the Social Security system when Congress does that since 1983. There was a massive government pension overhaul then. He also says burn up the Internet. That's wrong since the Internet is one of the few areas of media where the real true is being presented to the people. Basso agrees that democracy is the answer to our ills. The Constitution says that our form of government is a Republic. Even the Founding Fathers abhored a democracy, because real democracies suppress minority voting rights. It's about mob rule and if the majority controls every decision of a nation (the minority's rights will soon be violated in one fashion or another). Some folks haven't done great research into this Basso character. Basso wants to end the electoral college. Eliminating the electoral college could allow the President to be elected by the largest population centers giving smaller states little say. This doesn't mean the electoral college is perfect though. Basso doesn't talk about real solutions like banning electronic ballot machines and scanners and stop funding corrupt organizations like ACORN. Basso wants term limits for Congress, which is legitimate, but it should be done by a constitutional amendment. Bob Basso is a motivitional speaker who worked in Hawaii as a news (plus) sports anchor. Bob Basso has made a propaganda film that's been viewed by more than 2.7 million people. The smoking gun that Bob Basso is a shill is that he believes in mandatory universal service or a draft. The draft is immoral and unconstitutional since it forces people to work against their will. That is a form of slavery (while not as worse as African American slavery). Barack Obama's allies ironically like Rahm Emanuel want a draft by force made up of Americans (even neo con Tony Blankley wants it). The Tea Party is being supported by Glen Beck and Fox News. Fox News with Mike Huckabee supports the Fair Tax, which can damage the economy just like our current economic policies have. A Fair tax is a national sales tax (on all goods and services to replace most federal taxes). The fair tax rate is as high as 30%. Lawrence Vance has been a strong critic of the fair tax. Proponents of it don't even want the total elimination of the iRS like Boortz. Vance says that these alternative taxing SCHEMES are simply a different way to fund unconstitutional (unlawful) spending and will continue to feed the banking cartel. Real solutions deal with ending the war on terror, cutting spending, ending unconstitutional cabinets, have fair trade deals, and getting our self to rebuild (and invest) in our American economy. CNN's Susan Roesgen, who is a CNN reporter, covered a Chicago tea party in a bias way. She claimed that it was just about Republicans. No, folks from across the political spectrum protested in the Tea Parties. The Tea parties should have solutions and should not be infiltrated by Gingrich or Beck.
Here's more information about the DHS report. This report on some levels is even worse than the infamous Missouri Information Analysis Center (or MIAC) report since the DHS report demonizes more people. This assessment report is entitled, "Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment." The interesting thing about this new DHS reort is that it cites no references, documentation, or annotations to back up its slander. It just issues an opinion that law abiding citizens with certain political views are equivalent to "rightwing extremists." The report wants to warn law enforcement that folks who disagree with the following: illegal immigration, same-sex marriage, "free-trade" agreements, gun control, the new world order, one world government, the outsourching of American jobs, abortion, martial law, etc. (including people having ammunition, stockpiled or food, those who believe in endtimes prophecies, etc.) are equivalent to terrorists (and extremists) basically. Most Americans would agree with one or more of these views. It even said that people need to beware of military veterans who are disgruntled from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. This was so disrespectful to the military (many of whom have been exploited by the VA hospital system, vaccinations, depleted uranium, etc.) that DHS leader Janet Napitolano had to apologize for offending veterans. See, she didn't apologize for the report itself, but offending people (which is no real apology at all). The veterans have a First Amendment right to be disgrunted over legitimate issues. They have been manipulated by international bankers and others elitists for far too long. Where is the evidence in the DHS report to substantiate the necessity for American law enforcement to be on guard against potential violence committed by military veterans? It doesn't exist. It is a blanket charge without any substantiation whatsoever. The same is true for the rest of the report. Pete Hegseth, chairman of Vets for Freedom, commented that, "It wasn't an apology in my view. It was one of those non-apology apologies. She was sorry that veterans were offended. She should either apologize for the content of the report as it stands or they should rewrite the report and reissue it. Napolitano offered no apology to constitutionalists, Second Amendment lovers, Christians, etc. House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) also rightly blasted the DHS report, saying its portrayal of veterans was "offensive and unacceptable." The report promotes generalizations about innocent Americans. The DHS report ought to be immediately withdrawn. Political profiling is just as evil as racial profiling.
Pearl Harbor
The Pearl Harbor attack in December 7, 1941 was a terrible occurence. The Japanese forced murdered innocent Americans like the military and civilians. Also, the Pearl Harbor attack propelled President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to issue a Congressional Declaration of War, which was the beginning of the end of the Axis Powers during WWII. In recent years, mainstream historians have proved that the American government had not only foreknowledge, but allowed the attacks in Pearl Harbor to occur. FDR wanted the attack to occur in order for Adolf Hitler to be provoked to declare war against America since most of the public (and Congress) opposed entering WWII. The American government denied intelligence to Hawaii, and on November 27, 1941, there were deception sent to commanders that negotiations with Japan were continuing to prevent them from realizing that the war was on. The following words will prove that point. First, there has to be historical information on the time before the 1941 battle. CFR member Joseph C. Grew was America's pre-war Ambassador to Japan. President Herbert Hoover appointed him in 1932. Grew encourage Japan to have a state of military perpardness. They recieved the necessary scrap steel from the entire 6th Avenue Elevator Railroad of New York. Agents from the Institute of Pacific Relations (which is an Asian version of the CFR. The IRP was financed by the Rockefeller and Carnegie Foundations) or the IPR were instructed to induce the Japanese to strike the United States according to Carroll Quigley's "Tradegy and Hope: A History of the World in our Time," on pg. 947. Since 1931, Japan fought China. Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939 (and then they were at war with Great Britian and France). America has been monitoring Japanese communication since the early 1920's. By August 1940, America could de-code all of Japan's messages The leaders of the American government covertly wanted to attack the Axis Powers, but they couldn't get the American people to go along with it until 1941. Presidential candidate Roosevelt even campaigned for neutrality in his re-election campaign. In August of 1940 (during the time of U.S. neutrality), the National Guard was assigned federal service for a period of one year. Additionally, the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 (a peace time draft), known as the Burke-Wadsworth Act, was passed by Congress on September 14, 1940. The Tripartitie Treaty was signed on September 27, 1940 in Berlin. This dealt with the fascist Axis Powers existing in a military alliance. The agreement says that if one of the three Axis Powers nations (which is made up of Japan, Germany, and Italy) were attacked by any of the Allied nations (i.e. from Great Britain, America, and the Soviet Union), they will declare war on the Allied nations. Before Pearl Harbor, Roosevelt and Winston Churchill worked together covertly to fight against Germany. Even in October 7, 1940, the Navy IQ analyst McCollum wrote an 8 page memo on how to force Japan into war with America. FDR put all 8 points into practice.
Roosevelt requested that the Secretary of the Navy asked Admiral J. O. Richardson, Commander-in-Chief of the American fleet in the Pacific, to position American naval ships across the Pacific Ocean in order to prevent Japan from obtaining crucial supplies. This occured in October of 1940. Richardson disagreed with this action since he felt it was an obvious act of war. Richardson even wanted his fleet to be withdrawn from Hawaii since they were inadequately prepared for war. His requests were ignored and he was relieved of his command in January 1941. On January 27, 1941, Ambassador Joseph Grew sent a telegram to Secretary of State Cordell Hull (1933-44) reporting the following: "The Peruvian minister has informed a member of my staff that he heard from many sources, including a Japanese source, that, in the event of trouble breaking out between the United States and Japan, the Japanese intend to make a surprise attack against Pearl Harbor." (U.S., Department of State, Publication 1983, Peace and War: United States Foreign Policy, 1931-1941, Washington, D.C.: U.S., Government Printing Office, 1943, pp. 617-618). Cordell Hull was the want who authored the federal income tax laws of 1913 and 1916. He was involved in creating the U.N. and was even called the father of the United Nations. He promoted free trade, which caused a stifle of free enterprise and the destruction of national borders. On January 27, 1941, Dr. Ricardo Shreiber, the Peruvian envoy in Tokyo told Max Bishop, third secretary of the US embassy that he had just learned from his intelligence sources that there was a war plan involving a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. On July 24, 1941 FDR told the Volunteer Participation Committee, "If we had cut off the oil off, they probably would have gone down to the Dutch East Indies a year ago, and you would have had war." The next day FDR froze all Japanese assets in US cutting off their main supply of oil and forcing them into war with the US. Intelligence information was withheld from Hawaii from this point forward.
Later, on July 26, 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt froze all Japanese assets in America. He closed the Panama Canal to all Japanese shipped. Between November 27 and December 6, 1941, the State, War and Navy Departments received several warnings about Japanese intentions, including specific details like the hour and the date of the attack. You can see the pattern that the American government intentionally provoked Japan to attack. Hawaii reported that the Japanese Fleet was at sea and in the north. In reply, General MacArthur sent a series of three messages on November 26, 29 and December 2, 1941 fallaciously claiming that the Japanese Fleet was in the South China Sea west of the Philippines. Later, the National Security Agency would term these messages inexplicable. MacArthur's false assurance had left Hawaii totally unprepared. In 1979 the NSA released 2,413 JN-25 orders of the 26,581 intercepted by US between Sept 1 and Dec 4, 1941. The NSA says "We know now that they contained important details concerning the existence, organization, objective, and even the whereabouts of the Pearl Harbor Strike Force." (Parker, PH Revisited p 21). FDR's foreknowledge of the attack on Pearl Harbor has been conclusively proven by many authors. Robert Stinnett wrote "Day of Deciet: The Truth about FDR and Pearl Harbor" proving this fact. "Pearl Harbor: Mother of All Conspiracies" was a book written by Mark Emerson Willey that conclusively proves government foreknowledge of the Pearl Harbor attacks as well. Over 2400 individuals died in Pearl Harbor. Eleanor Roosevelt wrote about December 7th in This I Remember p 233, that FDR became "in a way more serene." In the NY Times Magazine of October 8, 1944 she wrote: "December 7 was...far from the shock it proved to the country in general. We had expected something of the sort for a long time." Two and only two courts of law have decided the issue of whether FDR and Washington or the commanders in Hawaii were responsible for the Pearl Harbor disaster. Both the Navy Court and the Army Board found Washington guilty. On Judgment Day, those who had foreknowledge of Pearl Harbor (including the Japanese murderers) will be held accountable for their deeds.
By Timothy
The major shortcoming of the current system of electing the President is that presidential candidates concentrate their attention on a handful of closely divided "battleground" states.
ReplyDeleteOf the 22 medium-smallest states (those with three, four, five, or six electoral votes), only New Hampshire (with four electoral votes), New Mexico (five electoral votes), and Nevada (five electoral votes) have been battleground states in recent elections. The voters in the other 19 small states and big states, such as California, New York, and Texas were ignored.
98% of the 2008 campaign events involving a presidential or vice-presidential candidate occurred in just 15 closely divided "battleground" states. Over half (57%) of the events were in just four states (Ohio, Florida, Pennsylvania and Virginia). Similarly, 98% of ad spending took place in these 15 "battleground" states. Similarly, in 2004, candidates concentrated over two-thirds of their money and campaign visits in five states and over 99% of their money in 16 states.
Two-thirds of the states and people have been merely spectators to the presidential elections. Candidates have no reason to poll, visit, advertise, organize, campaign, or worry about the voter concerns in states where they are safely ahead or hopelessly behind.
The reason for this is the winner-take-all rule enacted by 48 states, under which all of a state's electoral votes are awarded to the candidate who gets the most votes in each separate state.
Another shortcoming of the current system is that a candidate can win the Presidency without winning the most popular votes nationwide. This has occurred in one of every 14 presidential elections.
In the past six decades, there have been six presidential elections in which a shift of a relatively small number of votes in one or two states would have elected (and, of course, in 2000, did elect) a presidential candidate who lost the popular vote nationwide.
The National Popular Vote bill would guarantee the Presidency to the candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states (and DC).
ReplyDeleteEvery vote would be politically relevant and equal in presidential elections.
The bill would take effect only when enacted, in identical form, by states possessing a majority of the electoral votes--that is, enough electoral votes to elect a President (270 of 538). When the bill comes into effect, all the electoral votes from those states would be awarded to the presidential candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states (and DC).
The Constitution gives every state the power to allocate its electoral votes for president, as well as to change state law on how those votes are awarded.
The bill is currently endorsed by 1,659 state legislators — 763 sponsors (in 48 states) and an additional 896 legislators who have cast recorded votes in favor of the bill.
In Gallup polls since 1944, only about 20% of the public has supported the current system of awarding all of a state's electoral votes to the presidential candidate who receives the most votes in each separate state (with about 70% opposed and about 10% undecided). The recent Washington Post, Kaiser Family Foundation, and Harvard University poll shows 72% support for direct nationwide election of the President. This national result is similar to recent polls in closely divided battleground states: Colorado-- 68%, Iowa --75%, Michigan-- 73%, Missouri-- 70%, New Hampshire-- 69%, Nevada-- 72%, New Mexico-- 76%, North Carolina-- 74%, Ohio-- 70%, Pennsylvania -- 78%, Virginia -- 74%, and Wisconsin -- 71%; in smaller states (3 to 5 electoral votes): Delaware --75%, Maine -- 71%, Nebraska -- 74%, New Hampshire --69%, Nevada -- 72%, New Mexico -- 76%, Rhode Island -- 74%, and Vermont -- 75%; in Southern and border states: Arkansas --80%, Kentucky -- 80%, Mississippi --77%, Missouri -- 70%, North Carolina -- 74%, and Virginia -- 74%; and in other states polled: California -- 70%, Connecticut -- 73% , Massachusetts -- 73%, New York -- 79%, and Washington -- 77%.
The National Popular Vote bill has passed 27 state legislative chambers, including one house in Arkansas, Maine, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, and Oregon, and both houses in California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, New Jersey, Maryland, Massachusetts, Rhode Island,, Vermont, and Washington. The bill has been enacted by Hawaii, Illinois, New Jersey, and Maryland. These four states possess 50 electoral votes -- 19% of the 270 necessary to bring the law into effect.
See http://www.NationalPopularVote.com
The small states are the most disadvantaged of all under the current system of electing the President. Political clout comes from being a closely divided battleground state, not the two-vote bonus.
ReplyDeleteSmall states are almost invariably non-competitive, and ignored, in presidential elections. Only 1 of the 13 smallest states are battleground states (and only 5 of the 25 smallest states are battlegrounds).
Of the 13 smallest states, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Alaska regularly vote Republican, and Rhode Island, Delaware, Hawaii, Vermont, Maine, and DC regularly vote Democratic. These 12 states together contain 11 million people. Because of the two electoral-vote bonus that each state receives, the 12 non-competitive small states have 40 electoral votes. However, the two-vote bonus is an entirely illusory advantage to the small states. Ohio has 11 million people and has "only" 20 electoral votes. As we all know, the 11 million people in Ohio are the center of attention in presidential campaigns, while the 11 million people in the 12 non-competitive small states are utterly irrelevant. Nationwide election of the President would make each of the voters in the 12 smallest states as important as an Ohio voter.
The concept of a national popular vote for President is far from being politically "radioactive" in small states, because the small states recognize they are the most disadvantaged group of states under the current system.
In small states, the National Popular Vote bill already has been approved by a total of seven state legislative chambers, including one house in Maine and both houses in Hawaii, Rhode Island, and Vermont. It has been enacted by Hawaii.
The 11 most populous states contain 56% of the population of the United States and that a candidate would win the Presidency if 100% of the voters in these 11 states voted for one candidate. However, if anyone is concerned about the this theoretical possibility, it should be pointed out that, under the current system, a candidate could win the Presidency by winning a mere 51% of the vote in these same 11 states -- that is, a mere 26% of the nation's votes.
ReplyDeleteOf course, the political reality is that the 11 largest states rarely act in concert on any political question. In terms of recent presidential elections, the 11 largest states include five "red" states (Texas, Florida, Ohio, North Carolina, and Georgia) and six "blue" states (California, New York, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and New Jersey). The fact is that the big states are just about as closely divided as the rest of the country. For example, among the four largest states, the two largest Republican states (Texas and Florida) generated a total margin of 2.1 million votes for Bush, while the two largest Democratic states generated a total margin of 2.1 million votes for Kerry.
Moreover, the notion that any candidate could win 100% of the vote in one group of states and 0% in another group of states is far-fetched. Indeed, among the 11 most populous states, the highest levels of popular support were found in the following seven non-battleground states:
* Texas (62% Republican),
* New York (59% Democratic),
* Georgia (58% Republican),
* North Carolina (56% Republican),
* Illinois (55% Democratic),
* California (55% Democratic), and
* New Jersey (53% Democratic).
In addition, the margins generated by the nation's largest states are hardly overwhelming in relation to the 122,000,000 votes cast nationally. Among the 11 most populous states, the highest margins were the following seven non-battleground states:
* Texas -- 1,691,267 Republican
* New York -- 1,192,436 Democratic
* Georgia -- 544,634 Republican
* North Carolina -- 426,778 Republican
* Illinois -- 513,342 Democratic
* California -- 1,023,560 Democratic
* New Jersey -- 211,826 Democratic
To put these numbers in perspective, Oklahoma (7 electoral votes) alone generated a margin of 455,000 votes for Bush in 2004 -- larger than the margin generated by the 9th and 10th largest states, namely New Jersey and North Carolina (each with 15 electoral votes). Utah (5 electoral votes) alone generated a margin of 385,000 votes for Bush in 2004.