The New Hampshire Primary is over. Mitt Romney won the primary and Ron Paul was a strong second. There are tons of issues going on with the Republican campaign. The Republican race has been very fluid in the world. In other words, the race has ups and downs of emotions among the candidates. Ron Paul said that he is dangerous to the status quo. Mitt Romney tries to defend his firing comments and the issue with the Bain Company. Just because someone questions the essence of a corporation, doesn’t mean that a person is anti-business. We have come to a part in America that even questioning corporate power gets you accused of being a near Communist. The South Carolina Primary is important, because if Romney wins that primary, the race could be over. Mitt Romney is approved by the Republican establishment and he’s loved by the mainstream media. There is a gap between the corporate controlled media (and the political establishment) and the concerns of the millions of working people, the poor, the homeless, and the oppressed. Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, Rick Perry, and John Huntsman are still fighting for votes. One prominent Republican billionaire, Las Vegas casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, announced over the weekend he was pumping $5 million into a pro-Gingrich political action committee—a so-called Super PAC—that would flood the upcoming South Carolina primary with anti-Romney ads. Their debates have been very similar. Each candidate desires the reducing of taxation of corporation. Newt Gingrich wants no taxes on corporation. Even Santorum wants to abolish food stamps and entitlements to replace them with block grants to the states. Ron Paul wants to cut federal spending by 1 trillion dollars immediately, which will cause a huge heartache among the poorest Americans. The candidates made no effort to explain, nor did their media questioners ask, what would happen to the tens of millions of working people, retired, unemployed, disabled and poor who depend on these programs for their economic and physical survival. The candidates offered no actions to help end poverty in America. Ron Paul acts like he’s anti-war (and I condemn his opposition to Empire), but he isn’t for justice for the poor. He wants an end to the Patriot Act and other unjust laws. That’s great, but he believes in the same economic policies as the 1 percent.
President Barack Obama shouldn’t be blamed for all of the problems in America. Yet, we can’t be naïve about our plight. The situation in America is still very bad. Even the President is more reactionary than me and others on some issues. In Europe, the President would be considered moderate or a conservative. The U.S. has a steady decline in our maternal mortality rate (or how many times a mother dies after a pregnancy). The President says to critics of his policies (in America) that they must consider the alternative. People are suffering like people of color, the poor, white people, and everyone else. There is nothing wrong with believing in hope and change. Yet, you have to be careful in desiring real change not the status quo for the oligarchs. During the Barack Obama administration, there has been an increase of drone strikes eight times over what the Bush administration did across his 2 terms (according to John Feffer). John Feffer is the co-director of Foreign Policy in Focus at the progressive Institute for Policy Studies. The President forced the Environmental Protection Agency to pull back anti-smog legislation. This was part of the Clean Air Act. Ironically, the Clean Air Act was passed by the late President Richard Nixon. The U.S., China, and India are the worst carbon emitters in the world. Guantanamo Bay isn’t closed, which was an election promise. In 2010, more than 393,000 migrants have been arrested. So, you can’t say that he’s a liberal on immigration enforcement. This was 81,000 more than in President George W. Bush’s last year in office. Some 250 economists want the President to have more imagination to handle the $15 trillion debt. This call has been spurned by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner. The Institute for Policy Studies mentioned that: “…That rigid position places the Obama administration to the right not only of Reagan, but also both Bush presidencies and the International Monetary Fund.” It should be noted that Geithner is a part of the establishment. He was the head of the NY Federal Reserve under Bush. President Barack Obama kept key Bush appointments for a time like National Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke, former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, etc. Today, the House is mostly controlled by the Republicans. The Republicans have been obstructionists on numerous occasions. Our American infrastructure is crumbling. 12 percent of 69,000 bridges are structurally deficient. Tons of African Americans are losing jobs. The young African American unemployment rate went from 32 percent in August of 2011 to 41.3 percent in December of 2011. Public sector jobs are going down. The President signed into law in September 2011 a $23.2 million cut for Pepfar (or the HIV/AIDS program introduced by President George W. Bush). Pepfar funded treatment and care programs in developing nations. The U.S. has the highest maternal death rate of any industrialized nation according to the CIA Factbook. The Save the Children Fund notes that “an American woman is more than seven times as likely as one in Ireland to die from pregnancy-related causes and her maternal death risk is 15 times that in Greece. Only three developed countries – Albania, Russian and Moldova – had a worse maternal mortality rate.” We have a 17 year high of 15.1 percent of Americans in poverty (we have 46.2 million people in poverty or one in six Americans). About 49.9 million people don’t have health care in America. We have record economic inequality. The Congressional Budget Committee shown in October 2011 that since 1979, the richest one percent had seen incomes rise 275 percent. The middle class was 40 percent more comfortable and the lowest fifth of the nation had seen incomes rise only 18 percent. Some people are getting poorer. Austerity is promoted by the super committee. Many of the super rich pay fewer taxes than the rest of Americans. Even billionaire Warren Buffet said that he pays fewer taxes than his personal assistant does. So, the President of the United States of America Barack Obama isn’t to be blamed for all of our problems in America. Yet, he is still accountable for the policies that he created during his term. The Republicans are no better since they desire blatant austerity that can possibly literally kill the poor and suffering in life’s road.
Peter Singer is one of the neo-eugenicists in the 21st century. He claims that killing a dog is bad (which is true), while killing infant babies is fine (which is sick). Singer is the controversial Princeton University bio-ethics philosopher and animal rights ethicist. In an excerpt of his 1993 book Practical Ethics, Singer concluded: “Killing a disabled infant is not morally equivalent to killing a person. Very often it is not wrong at all.” Ariel Kaminer’s “Ethicist” column in the New York Times Sunday Magazine (in the article “A Dog’s Right to Life?”) wrote approvingly of Peter Singer. Kaimer wrote about the dilemma of a veterinarian with an elderly client with an 8 year old dog. While Kaminer’s statement that “Dogs have no special expectation of longevity” may invite the hostility of animal-lovers, her choice of animal liberation Singer to comment may be more offensive: “…I took the question to Peter Singer, the scholar of philosophy and ethics who has done more than anyone else to spread the call for animal liberation. He agreed that killing a dog is no worse than killing a cow or a sheep or a pig. And that the dog’s own expectations (or lack thereof) do matter. “The wrongness of killing a dog is nothing like the wrongness of killing a normal non-infant human being,” he said, “who can envisage their future and have specific desires for their future.” Singer said that killing a disabled infant is not wrong by implication. There is a story about how a botched abortion injures a woman at a Virginia Beach, VA Planned Parenthood center. This story comes 2 months after the failed abortion transpired. Operation Rescue published the information about the botched abortion. They shown a recording of the 911 call placed by an obviously shaken non-medical Planned Parenthood employee on October 14. Pro-Life activist Louantha Kerr via an open records requested the recording of the 9/11 card. The 911 recording was heavily redacted by VA Beach city officials. The woman was a bleeding 28 year old abortion patient. She couldn’t be controlled by 2 Planned Parenthood physicians. Kerr photographed images of the ambulance coming at the scene (and many Planned Parenthood workers trying to block pro-lifers from documenting the events). One Planned Parenthood worker blocked cameras with an umbrella. “Instead of ‘planning for parenthood’, that abortion clinic is more likely planning to profit from dead babies and broken women who have to live for the rest of their lives with the fact that they killed their own babies,” said Operation Rescue spokesperson Cheryl Sullenger. “With 96 percent of all pregnant women entering Planned Parenthood being sold abortions, it’s not hard to see how abortion is a cash cow for them. Based on years of experience investigating abortion clinics, we have found it is standard practice for them to place profit above the health and safety of women.” Sullinger said that the facility wants to upgrade its outpatient hospital status and add 2 operating rooms. Abortion facilities in VA must confirm to the same health and safety standards as legitimate outpatient surgical centers. So, the clinics being 100 percent in America is a total fantasy. Another woman in California (in the Stockton Pregnancy Control Medical Clinic abortion facility) suffered a failed abortion as well. The woman had told pro-life activist Don Blythe as she entered the abortion clinic that she was “quite confident” and “happy” with her decision to have an abortion. Blythe had attempted to offer her practical help and information in an attempt to help her save the life of her baby, according to Operation Rescue officials who notified Life News of the failed abortion.
Early European exploration and colonization caused the redistribution of the world’s population. That means that millions of people from Europe and Africa voluntarily and yes involuntarily moved into the New World. There was trade between the Old World and New World that dealt with agricultural resources, etc. Some Europeans settled into America because some human beings desired religious freedom. Back then in some places of Europe, you could be arrested and jailed because of your religious views. For example, The Puritans wanted religious freedom in Europe. The Purtians opposed the dogma from the Church of England. They felt that the Anglican wasn't pure enough to be an example of faith & truth. So, they traveled into New England to form their covenant community (based on the principles of the Mayflower Compact and Puritan religious beliefs). Ironically, many Puritans were intolerant of those that didn’t share their religious views like Native Americans. Rhode Island was founded by dissenters fleeing persecution by the Puritans in Massachusetts. The Middle Atlantic region was settled by the British, Dutch, and German speaking immigrants. These people desired freedom and economic opportunity. Some came into Virginia because of economic reasons. Some of the early European Virginian settlers were cavaliers (or they were in the English nobility and they wanted large grants in eastern Virginia from the King of England). Some poorer settlers lived in western Virginia or the Shenandoah Valley (in the mountains, there was farming, hunting, trading, and small-subsistence farming). Various indentured servants worked on the tobacco plantations for a time to pay for passage to the New World. Back in 1607, Jamestown was formed by the Virginia Company of London as a business venture. Most Native Americans lost their original lands and fell victim to diseases carried from Europe. Most Native Americans were basically exterminated by imperialists and sinners. Slavery increased when the Native American population decreased and landholding places existed in the Southern colonies. The first Africans in Virginia were bought into Jamestown against their wills in order for them to work on tobacco plantations. This occurred in 1619. The African slave trade grew from plantation economics and labor shortages. The colonies possessed unique social (including economic & political) characteristics in the New England region, the middle colonies (inside of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware), and the southern colonies. Each of these colonies had different resources and soils that influence their economic development. One example is that New England worked on shipbuilding, fishing, subsistence farming, and manufacturing. The reason is that huge plantations weren’t in existence inside of New England. The middle colonies dealt with shipbuilding, small scale farming and trading. The south colonies developed crops in tobacco, indigo, cotton, rice, tobacco, and other cash crops. Colonial life all over the place had people believing in private ownership of property and a free enterprise system. The middle colonies had a more flexible culture. For example, the middle colonies had Quakers, Jewish people, Presbyterians, and a strong middle class that developed their own cultures and social structures. Virginia during the colonial period was control mostly by the Church of England. Virginia had close ties to Britain. Large landowners in the eastern part of the state ruled most of the colonial government in Virginia (with their allegiance to the British crown). Really, the southern colonies in general had a strong allegiance to the British Empire. Now, the coloinial period in America didn't comprise of peaches and cream. Terrorism, slavery, and other evils existed in early America period.
The occult world is very real. Many occult groups like Freemasonry, etc. have the candidate to circle the altar of the Lodge in a specific way. This act is called circumambulation. Circumambulation is when you make a circuit about a thing or in an area of reverence. So, this ritual is when a person walks around the Lodge while keeping the right hand toward the altar. The rite deals with the course of the sun and it originated from ancient sun worship. Ancient sun worship is a key part of the occult tradition. Old sun symbols range from the swastika to other items. The swastika wasn’t originally utilized by the Nazis. It comes from ancient India and it’s a Sanskrit word. India was once called Aryavrata or the home of the Aryans. Really, India wasn’t originally settled by these Aryans. The Aryans came into the land (via the Khyber Pass from Central Asia) after the people of color called the Dravidians were existing in India (creating and advanced system, irrigation system, temples, engineering feats, toilets, the concept of zero, etc.). Ancient Native American peoples also used the swastika thousands of years ago too. Then, the Entered Apprentice during the initiation goes into the NE corner of the Lodge 3 times during the circumambulation. The Fellow craft during “passing” shall proceed there four times, and the Master being “raised” shall proceed there five times. Freemasonry is known to not be equated to Christianity. One source says that: “…Freemasonry is not Christian, nor a substitute for it." (C.F. Me Quaig, My Masonic Friend, p.1). Even high level Freemason Albert Mackey wrote that: “…"If Freemasonry were simply a Christian institution, the Jew and the Moslem, the Brahman and Buddhist, could not conscientiously partake of its illumination." (Albert Mackey, Encyclopedia of Freemasonry, p.182). In our time in the 21st century, we have a lot of evil in the world. The good news today is that since 2000, a lot of truth is being revealed to the common people like never before (with the advent of the Internet, I Pads, international communities, discoveries, etc.).
By Timothy
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