There are basic information that people can know about government and international affairs. America has many challenges in this new digital age after the Cold War. Since 1980, there is a more basic emphasis on international trade. Some national governments want to further reduce barriers to international trade. There are new challenges in the world that shaped American foreign policy. Free and fair trade is a goal among real economists and real lovers of liberty. Yet, this isn’t always that case. Now, there are the events of America trading with China (with its human rights abuses), there is the controlling of nuclear plus biological arms, and other things going on in the world. NATO’s war crimes are real and there are debates on how to handling the drug traffic in the globe. Our global environment has many problems. Even NAFTA or the North American Free Trade agreement has weaknesses. It was created to form a free trade area of Canada, Mexico, and America. NAFTA was made in order for trade barriers to be eliminated; there is fair competition, and more investment opportunities. Yet, NAFTA violated national sovereignty, environmental problems can about, and other labor standards have been compromised as a product of NAFTA. The WTO was created in 1995. It was formed to handle trade agreements, disputes, and give a venue for negotiating among its member nations. The WTO has been criticized by people from across the political spectrum as a slick means to promote globalization and anti-populism. Governments internationally are not monolithic. They are divided into a myriad of components and compositions. Governments have their own institutions to serve the people. There are unique economies and political developments in nations worldwide. The political process in government has limitations. There are even unique forms of constitutional governments too. A central government can come into 2 popular ways. One is the federal system of government that is found in America and Mexico. A federal government is when powers are shared among levels of government. The powers are separated and shared among the branches of the national government too. An unitary government is found in the UK and China. An unitary form of government is when all governmental power is vested in the central government (that can choose to delegate some of its authority). This form of government has a parliamentary system. The legislative branches hold both legislative and executive powers. The executive is chosen by the legislature. Limited governments have restraints on power. They encourage broad based participation in the political process. Authoritarian governments have unlimited power. They place no limits on the power wielded by one person or small group. Mexico has a market economy with government ownership of some major industries. The UK has a general market economy and the private ownership of property. China has a command economy with an increasing importance for markets. We know what a free market economy is. A free market economy is when private ownership of property is important. There are resources, profit motive, competition, consumer sovereignty, and individual choice. Adam Smith modernized the thinking of free market capitalist thinking. A command economy is when there is the central ownership of property/resources. There is the centrally planned economy plus there is a lack of consumer choice. Karl Marx modernized Communist thinking and he believed in the central planned economic ideal. A mixed economy is what we have in America. Individuals and businesses make decisions for the private sector. The government makes decision for the public sector. The government’s role is greater than in a free market economy and less than in a command economy. Most economies today are mixed economies.
It isn’t a secret that GMOs are stealthily promoted in our society. They are rapidly replacing the global food supply. GMO foods have no place among healthy food products. They have no place in many other arenas as well. GMOs are even hidden in commercial food products. These foods are readily unlabeled too. 19 studies at least prove that the GMOs are related to organ damage. Some 93-95% of all U.S. soybeans are genetically modified in order to resist powerful week killers that were found to be killing the actual soybeans as well as the weeds. Genetically modified food products make up the majority of the future food supply if changes aren’t created. The labeling of GMOs has been shot down by the FDA when the FDA was ironically created to protect our public health. The FDA recently deleted about 1 million signatures from the GMO labeling campaign called “Just Label it.” The FDA’s bad move will allow people to be not knowing about which foods have genetically modified ingredients or not. Other GMOs include corn (making up of 86 percent of the U.S. corn supply), cotton (making up of 93 percent of the U.S. cotton supply), soy (making up 93-95 percent of the US soybean supply), sweet corn, Hawaiian Papaya (making up of 93 percent of the Hawaiian papaya), canola (making up of 93 percent of soybean supply), Rice, potatoes, etc. GMO crops and ingredients have skyrocketed in even the past few years. In a poll conducted by ABC, it’s been found that more than 93 percent of Americans feel that products containing GMOs should be labeled. Individuals are unknowingly consuming GMOs in a daily basis. GMOs are a threat and consumers have the right to speak truth to power. Monsanto and other companies are trying to squelch attempts to label products that have GMOs. The FDA in court admitted that some vaccines contains the neurotoxin mercury in them (according to Ethan A. Huff) form Natural News.com.
When you get older, you see the truth more clearly. The truth is that non-cooperation is evil is as much a necessity as cooperation with good. Many of our great leaders woke up a great deal before they died. Dr. Martin Luther King, Marcus Garvey, Malcolm X, and even WEB Dubois in some measure woke up to the fact that radical action on the part of black Africans is vital in forming a better world society. Dr. Martin Luther King even before he was assassinated wanted the growth of black economic power (and the boycotts or withdrawal of economic support toward companies that harmed or exploited the needs of the black community). He said these words in numerous speeches. Numerous unsung heroes in America and throughout made huge impacts additionally in establishing institutions to assist the poor plus people of color. Therefore, a human has every right and every justification to utilize all determined means possible to abolish oppression, discrimination, and bigotry in all of its dimensions. Therefore, a person has the right to oppose unjust laws. The method of opposing evil force with just action is a preeminently vital method in achieving reforms. Nonviolence is definitely morally superior to violence in its composition, but I do believe in executing self defense mean necessary. There is no way we in America can get this thing right except if there are radical political, economic, and social changes in the country (where the poor are receiving justice and the materialism plus greed is condemned). We should live in a nation where unjust wars and drone attacks are historic memories. Even Dr. King said in 1967 that he would fight the Nazis during World War II, because of Hitler’s brutal actions against innocent human beings. Certainly, there is nothing wrong with power if it’s used correctly by human beings. Yet, if power is unevenly controlled by the 1%, then that reality leads into economic disparities, economic exploitation, and a false presentation of a more tranquil atmosphere. The atmosphere is tainted when you have record profits and tax breaks by numerous transnational corporations. We have a problem in America, because power is unevenly distributed causing hard ache and suffering among a huge portion of the populace. Even Dr. Martin Luther King agreed with the major Black Power goals of Kwame Ture and McKissick (with only the difference of semantics). It’s really clear that a colonialist is a colonialist. The modern day colonialists don’t just exist in the reactionary Republican Party. Also, they exist in the fox ridden Democratic Party as well. Both parties are heavily funded by Wall Street and each party refuses to even have a single payer health care system that can benefit millions of Americans. Similar plans have worked worldwide. We know about Dr. King and Nkrumah. We know that before the CIA coup in February 24, 1966, Nkrumah wanted to go into Hanoi to present a proposal to end the U.S. imperialist war in Vietnam. Dr. King went into Ghana to celebrate Ghana’s independence. Seku Ture is another black liberator as well. Kwame Ture spent the last 31 years of his natural life residing, studying and waging struggle in Guinee. Kwame Ture’s invitation to live in Guinea, came from none other than Seku Ture and Kwame Nkrumah. It is also important to give credit to many strong black sisters doing their part then and now in 2012 fighting for real black liberation. Shirley Graham Dubois lived in Guinea. Dr. Dorothy Height worked hard for women’s rights. Assata Shakur is in Cuba now fighting for real justice and even Mahalia Jackson inspired Dr. Martin Luther King to share his dream (when she already heard him said it publicly). The revolutionary singer Miriam Makeba married Kwame Ture for a time. Miriam Makeda fought for the interests of South Africans and all Africans in the world from the time of her birth to her passing away.
Katy Perry’s new video called “Part of Me” is controversial. Some feel that the video is a propaganda tool to promote the Illuminists’ militarism agenda. Perry feels that the video represents female empowerment (or female power). Regardless of Katy Perry’s denials, the video is overt and its message is clear. The message is that to be a real man or a real woman, you should follow the military industrial complex wholeheartedly. Katy Perry in the video wants to be more hardcore in contrast to the more feminine dress and wigs motif of her previous videos. She acts as a Marine recruit. The goal of the video is to inspire more young people to join in the military. Where I am from in Virginia, military culture is very strong. I know relatives and other colleagues in the military or wearing military clothing all of the time. I saw even foreign NATO officers here in Hampton Roads, VA. So, I understand military culture. So, the video is like an advertisement video in trying to cause more people to join the U.S. military. When you think about the modern laissez faire capitalist culture, you see war. The military industrial complex promotes war and the video outlines the many facets of the war culture. War may be glamorized today with flashes of color and technology, but war is destructive. War is death basically and there is no way around it. The video is shot in an actual U.S. Marine base. It shows real life Marine. The video is a special message from the Marines. I guess they think God is doing them a service, a service to their country. LOL. You know me. I love it. I love to be controversial. It’s fun. Yet, God Almighty doesn’t want us to be disrespectful to the military nor love militarism. God would want us to treat soldiers as we would treat ourselves and at the same time oppose unjust wars. The unjust wars have existed in the past 12 years in the locations of Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, the drone attacks in Pakistan plus Somalia, etc. Trying to recruit new soldiers into the military is an old methodology by the government. There was an old 1917 Uncle Sam poster that was used to recruit soldiers during WWI. Corporate power and government has merged historically in order to use media advertising to permit propaganda, jingoistic patriotism, and war mongering rhetoric to pervade our culture. Television and digital devices in 2012 are keen avenues that advance propaganda as well. Elvis joined the military too and he was one of the most famous musicians of all time. We even had the mandatory draft in America. The mandatory draft only ended in the early 1970’s under Nixon. The song “Part of Me” has overt imagery. The video shows Katy Perry going into the military after she finds out that her boyfriend cheated on her with another female. She cuts her hair low in order to fit in with the cadets. She sings that her Marine buddies never let her down. She replaces the blackberries with guns. There are training exercises like shooting a gun. She burns her ex-boyfriend’s letter to represent the destruction of her old life. She has a new camaraderie with her Marine allies. She shoots an automatic rifle. In the military, you shoot guns to train. She is pictured with other women in a mock Middle Eastern village. That location is used to stimulate real life combat (in being placed in guerrilla warfare simulations). There are helicopters, airplanes, pilots, and other machines shown in the video. War is shown as uplifting, great, and a way to get back at a loved one. Yet, war today involves the stealing of the natural resources of the Third World populations in the world. There is an one eyed image in the video near a rifle scope. With the recent news on Syria, Iran, and Uganda, the elite still wants new recruits to join into wars for Empire. These wars have nothing to do with harmony or peace. It has to do with imperialism. Other pop artists have used the military motif for years. Military patches, and other clothing is more common now than during the 1960’s and the 1970’s.
It’s seems that Infowars.com went into a more disgraceful tone in terms of their views of Trayvon Martin. They are exploiting his death. They promote the lie that white on black violence is a myth. Tell that to the victims of the Maafa. Tell that to the victims of police brutality. Tell that to the victims of violence in America, Canada, and Europe (not just in the UK, but in Russia, Poland, Italy, etc.). It’s a total disgrace that Alex Jones and Nimmo believe in that garbage called Austrian Economics. No one is increasing racial tensions, but INfowars.com. I don’t agree with the Obama administration on every issue, but even they aren’t even obsessing with this issue. They made token remarks. How is some display of token remarks equivalent to incitement? Anti-black hate crimes are in epidemic levels worldwide including America. One death is an epidemic in my eyes period. Death against anyone of any race for an illegitimate reason is evil too. There is an operator who told Zimmerman to not follow the boy and Zimmerman did. Now, Infowars.com wants to yell about the Stand our Ground Law. I believe in the Second Amendment, but that law should be revised in order to prevent tragedies like Trayvon Martin to exist in the first place. Law abiding citizens have every right to defend themselves against criminals. Yet, a man has no right to kill an innocent teenager though. Also, civil disobedience was one of the means on how America was formed, yet Infowars.com hypocritically opposes it when it involves Trayvon Martin. They cry about Spike Lee, but the brother Spike Lee apologized. Infowars.com lies and says people have no discussion on crimes committed by blacks. Black leaders have exposed crimes done by criminals of every race for a very long time. Zimmerman assaulted a woman and assaulted a police officer. He’s a criminal. Also, Infowars.com won’t use the statistics on who are the most pedophiles, who are the most murderers, who are the most serial killers, who are the most rapists, who are the most imperialists, and who are the most meth criminals in America. Infowars.com’s biggest lie is to call black culture as equivalent to deviancy, glorifying violence, and other evils. Like a bunch of liars, they don’t know a thing about black culture. Black culture is about overcoming obstacles, it’s about the love of family, it’s about promoting justice, and it’s about loving black people. That’s black culture. Infowars.com doesn’t care about blacks. They care about making blacks submit to their reactionary views. That is why I am Independent and refuse to slander the brother Trayvon Martin.
By Timothy
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