Honesty

People know a lot about Mitt Romney. Many people in his cabinet are people from the Bush administration and many of them are neo-con extremists. Some in Team Romney were instrument in the authoring of the Project for a New American Century (this reactionary report wanted a "new Pearl Harbor" that would facilitate their military industrial complex to dominate multiple nations all before 9/11 occurred. The document called for genotype specific viruses to target folks in the world). Former CIA Director Michael Hayden is one the foreign policy team of Mitt Romney. Michael Chertoff, Dov Zakheim, neo-con Dan Senor, Pierre Prosper, and others are in the Romney camp. Mitt Romney is rather clear of what his agenda his. He wants to ramp up military spending and expand U.S. military influence all across the Earth. He still wants more of a military commitment in Afghanistan when we have been there for over 10 years. Also, if America cut half of its defense spending, that defense cash will still outspend every other country in the world. Now, this doesn't mean that the other side is a paragon of virtue. The White House continues to promote so-called 'clean coal, so-called "nuclear power," warrantless wiretapping, the USA Patriot Act, etc. The more things change, the more they stay the same. Both parties have received support from Wall Street financiers and each are in league in the AIPAC clique. Imperialism under the current administration is more slick, but it's nevertheless just as brutal as previous administrations. The Democrats are known for what they stand for. They endorse preventive detention. They support war without borders. This means that they endorse the drone attacks and the covert operations in foreign countries, which violate international law carry onward. These bombs in Yemen, Somalia, Afghanistan, and Pakistan are war crimes and a disgrace. The President wrongly feels that he has the right to strike against any non-state target globally even if they are not a threat to American soil. We experienced the record rescue of finance capital via trillions of dollars without the record recovery of the poor and suffering. To this day, real prosecutors of the bankers involved in the predatory lending practices have not been prosecuted to the furthest extent of the law. We should be independent politically. I can't be a man and support imperialism and unbridled capitalism. It's easy to expose the Republicans and they should be exposed, yet the Democrats never originated as a progressive party. The modern Democratic Party existed from slave traders. Both major parties were infiltrated by Dixiecrats back in the day and corporate plutocrats today. Today, the Democrats merge the Wall Street corporatism of Bill Clinton and the police state policies from the Bush administration in this contrived war on terror. To this day, the Democratic establishment refuses to advocate a major raise in the minimum wage or a living wage, a massive government jobs bill, and a peace platform.



The federal government may finally recognize 9/11 caner link according to attorneys of survivors. We are close to the 11th anniversary, so the government wants to recognize that rescue and recovery workers (including residents near Ground Zero) got cancer from the toxic rubble of the collapsed Twin Towers. The New York Post reported on this story. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health is responsible for deciding whether cancer should be among the illnesses compensated by the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act. It is expected to show findings soon. Ground zero has the reflective pools that show where the World Trade Towers once stood. The attacks on 9/11 are remembered by all of us. I can't stop thinking about 9/11 period. The report cited 2 attorneys by the names of Michael Barasch and Noah Kushlefsky. They represent thousands of first responders and residents. The attorneys spoke that legislative aides were involved in drafting the new regulations and Victim Compensation Fund staffers told them that about 50 cancers would be included. "There's new scientific evidence," Barasch told the Post, "that dust is what is now linked to not only the respiratory illnesses, but all these cancers." The new regulations would allow cancer victims to be compensated according to the Post report. The Zadroga Act became law two years ago. It was named in honor of New York Police Detective James Zadroga. James Zadroga died at the age of 34 after he worked on Ground Zero after the attacks. The act didn't at first cover cancer. The reason said that because officials said there was a lack of scientific evidence linking the disease to toxins from Ground Zero. This move caused outrage from first responders who got sick. Back then, the then head of the EPA Christie Whitman declared the air healthy and that the workers can't take major or proper precautions. Later, people suffered horribly under certain circumstances. We have remember 9/11 by advocating an independent investigation of everything that transpired during 9/11. We can oppose this permanent state of warfare that we are in today. We ought to promote constitutional and human rights including making justice available for the victims plus the first responders of 9/11. We can do charity and be out in the streets to assist our fellow man. Most importantly, we can't omit the truth. The truth is that the Taliban and Osama bin Laden were once allies of the West. The truth is that government warnings of such of an attack were known by the intelligence community. The truth is that torture and immoral wars are immoral displays of imperial power.


Chen Guangcheng wants Apple to stop its support of China's evil one child policy. He wants Apple to use its influence to make China stop its human rights abuses. Apple has a large manufacturing stake in employing thousands of Chinese workers to assemble Apple products. Chen Guangcheng is very well known for exposing the forced abortions and sterilizations that existed from China's one child policy. This policy is enforced by state family planning officials. The one child policy is immoral and wrong of course. “Apple in China should take a very active role,” Chen said. “There’s a huge social responsibility for these international corporations like Apple.” Chen is now in America. He is speaking out against China's forced abortion policy. He was once arrested and jailed in China. Chen now received a fellowship to study at New York University after seeking help at the U.S. embassy in Beijing just as high level talks between the 2 countries got under way in April. Chen and other China human rights advocates are seeking a meeting with Apple Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook to talk about their concerns. They sent a letter to Cook. They did it last week in order to ask Apple to get measures to end the forced family planning practices in its factories. The human rights activists want to promote the prohibition of access to factories for government family-planning officials and refusing to report women who are pregnant without birth permits. The group also wants other companies, including Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO), to urge the Chinese government to drop its policy. The global elite also promotes population control in a radical fashion. Last month, eugenicists, Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva proposed after-birth abortion for infants up to age 2 as they are a “threat” to their parents and society because of the drain on resources, time and energy expended to care for them. Giubilini and Minerva continued on to say that “merely being human is not in itself a reason for ascribing someone a right to life. Indeed, many humans are not considered subjects of a right to life.” This refutes the argument that no one is pro-abortion.






The jobs and economic situation should be put into context. The good news is private job continues to increase, but the bad news is that public job growth is in decline. In August of 2012, about 368,000 Americans have left the labor force completely. They didn't want to look for a job and this is one explanation for the 8.1 percent unemployment rate. I wish things would be different, but you have to deal with reality on the ground. Most of the job growth as many have deduced comes from low paying ones from retail, hotel, and restaurant jobs. There is nothing wrong with these jobs, but job growth ought to be multifaceted and occur among a variety of locations. Both parties seem to have a preoccupation with private jobs and a de-emphasis of the public job crisis. This policy is in favor of big business making huge profits. This lowering of public jobs is causing our wages from our public workers to decrease. If new policies don't develop, this sluggish economy trend will continue. According to a study performed by the National Employment Law Project, 58 percent of all new post-recession jobs come with hourly wages between $7.69 to $13.83. A worker would need two of these jobs just to afford rent, food, and other basics.The New York Times commented on the “new normal” of low wage jobs:”The disappearance of midwage [living wage], midskill jobs is part of a longer-term trend that some refer to as a hollowing out of the work force, though it has probably been accelerated by government layoffs.” So, there is a hollowing out of the workforce. There is still high unemployment and we should oppose this reality. That is why the new generation of young people entering the labor market are not finding secure jobs and decent wages. They find unemployment and wage slavery. Republicans and Democrats are silent on public jobs being low since they agree with this situation. The Democats have use slick means in attacking public employees, while the Republicans are overt in their hatred of some public employees. One example is when there are over 600,000 public employees losing their jobs since 2009. Most of these workers earned a living wage, health care, and pensions. Later, some of these private sector replacement jobs have lower wages and some don't bring into additional health or retirement benefits. If wages and employment of public employees are undermined, then wages will go down for everyone. That is why some want a new tax policy amidst record corporate profits. Even the Democrats have compromised on the reactionary attacks on unions. Many Democratic governors in the USA want wage and benefit concessions from public employees. The Democrats may blame the Republicans for being anti-union, but the Democratic concessions will weaken unions. Even the Democrats in Chicago want to smash the Chicago Teachers Union (and demand massive concessions). The teachers are fighting for their standard of living and survival of their union. President Barack Obama said that he saved General Motors, yet there is a catch. The administration’s Auto Task Force helped in the layoffs of 35,000 autoworkers while slashing the wages of the new hires by half as well as deepening the cuts in health care and pension benefits. This action created a precedent that other corporations were eager to copy in order to remain “competitive.” The President is refusing to push for a massive national jobs program to rebuild U.S. infrastructure, to put teachers back to work, to have green energy sources. The reason is that the President think that Congress would obstruct these goals. What is interesting is that the political establishment is allowing the decrease of wages of all workers. The super rich funds both parties and the system allows this to happen. Supply and demand is happening. When you have high unemployment, the supply of the workers outstrips the demand. So, the workers' wages decrease. While, people talk about jobs, some are ignoring wags. If public employees have high wages, the private sector must compete with the public sector by attracting workers with similar wages. When unions were in their peak of power in America, they demanded higher wages. They could use the national labor market and work in favor of workers. Non union companies had to raise wages in order for them to compete. Now, the opposite is happening, because the labor movement has weaken its power. Some speculate that the President isn't too concerned about the decrease of public jobs, because he wants to increase U.S. exports in the world's market. Markets in other countries are content with low wage workers (in China and India), so they can make huge profits. U.S. corporations now brag on their low wage jobs in America. We have increased U.S. exports at a bad cost. The corporatists are preventing the Democrats and the Republicans to have a national jobs program. The agenda of the elite is clear. They want our wages to go down, they want public sector jobs to be slashed, and unions to be weakened or destroyed. People have a the right to fight for public sector jobs and a federal jobs program. Progressive taxes and taxes on the super rich should be raised. We should advocate no cuts to Social Security and Medicare. New attacks on public workers and unions should not be our current reality, but it is. The issue of U.S. public workers being required to have lower wages is ignored by the mainstream media. Independent political movements are existing now to fight for a real revolution in the world.


There are many entertainers that question what is the 99 percent fighting for. People know what the 99 percent are fighting for and our views are readily known. We have a society where there is record income inequality. That means that the super rich are gaining record profits where there is record poverty still in many quarters of American society. Millions now have no choice but to have food stamps in order for suffering human beings to survive. Now, what the Occupy Movement and what other members of the 99 percent advocate is expressed in many things and it's found in the 99 declaration TV ad. No real person is demonizing wealth, but people want fairness in society. There is nothing wrong with being rich per se, but it is something wrong with the rich exploiting wealth for an immoral advantage. People from across the political spectrum realize these aims of the 99 percent. It's the aim of ending all forms of corporate control of our politicians. It's about overturning Citizens United, which gives corporations person hood powers. It's about uniform and transparent election reform. It's about promoting health care for all people and protecting the environment. It's about student loan debt relief. It's about ending all unjust wars in the world and ending imperialism. It's about promoting human civil liberties and having no censorship of the Internet by the feds. It's about the prosecution of all Wall Street financial criminals. It's about ending all loopholes in the tax code. It's about promoting public and private jobs for all Americans. It's also about freezing all home foreclosures, it's about making the Federal Reserve Bank accountable for its actions (ending that system and replacing with a fairer banking system), and believing in economic justice. Not to mention that the prison industrial complex should end including the Drug War. It's about promoting political independence where we know Bush's errors and President Barack Obama's errors of dropping bombs in sovereign nations. We should become independents since the Republicans and the Democrats (especially in their leaderships) do the bidding of the Empire. Free enterprise (which is a system that oppressed people for eons) didn't built up America completely. Bigotry, imperialism, cartel-capitalism, institutional racism, materialism, sexism, hypocrisy, and oppression built up much of the American system that we see today. I will not pledge allegiance to white supremacy. I value my God and my people beyond jingoistic patriotism.

By Timothy