12-12-12 (Today I am 29 Years Old)

 

One more year from today and I will be 30 years old. In Egypt, democracy problems still remain. We know that the Muslim Brotherhood is an intelligence asset and it has ties to Western intelligence for decades. It is an instrument of the globalists including the Council on Foreign Relations. Now, they are acting similar to the brutal regime of Hosni Mubarak and his brutal National Democratic Party. “Islamist supporters of President Mohamed Morsi captured, detained and beat dozens of his political opponents last week, holding them for hours with their hands bound on the pavement outside the presidential palace while pressuring them to confess that they had accepted money to use violence in protests against him,” writes David Kirkpatrick. Egyptian activists have collected evidence of the abuse and they have posted evidence of tis abuse on Twitter and Youtube. The Egyptian Independent has reported on this story as well. Egypt’s police state has been built up under Sadat (he at least tried to make peace before he was unfortunately assassinated) and Mubarak. This same police state system is not wielded by the Muslim Brotherhood. Peter Goodgame have documented the British Intelligence links to the Muslim Brotherhood (the West used his organization as a means to contain revolution in the Muslim world). The Arab Spring has many sincere, progressive freedom fighters. I will admit to that. Yet, much of it has been infiltrated by globalist controlled NGOs, and corporate entities (under the guise of democracy and freedom) as a means for the establishment to further rule over the Middle East. Sunni and Shia Muslims are played against each other in a divide and conquer strategy for this goal of imperialism to continue onward. We don’t need a fanatical Sunni Wahhabi version of Islam (that is different from mainstream Sunni Islam) to use authoritarian rule over the people. The CFR is using folks like Ed Husain to go along with this token so-called “democratization” of the Middle East. There are such extremists trying to dominate Tunisia, Morocco, Jordan, and Libya. “There’s glee in Washington that traditional American foes are now friends. I understand and support that sentiment,” Husain writes. “Having advocated for over a year for issues-based engagement with the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, I was delighted to host a delegation from their Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) for meetings at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York and Washington.” “I think if the Muslim Brotherhood is brought in to a broader coalition but on the condition that it respects the peace treaty toward Israel, that it’s respectful to the west and it respects human rights,” he told Fox News last year. So, you still have people that sellout their own people as a means to suck up to their Western slave masters like the IMF. In Egypt, real protesters complain about reactionaries and extremists trying to attack real protesters. The police in Egypt are doing their best to protect the Muslim Brotherhood. There are thousands of people in Cairo protesting all of the time.

 

 

With many of the legitimate policies of FDR, I think that the internment of Japanese Americans was one of the worst actions of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. This policy allowed the forcing of ca. 110,000 Japanese Americans and Japanese human beings to relocate into War Relocation Camps in the West Coast of America. This evil act came after the evil act of the attack on Pearl Harbor. The internment of Japanese Americans occurred all over the United States. They were interned from Hawaii to the South (in Louisiana).  It started in February 19, 1942. Even the Supreme Court approved of this action from 1944. Ex-President Jimmy Carter appointed the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians to investigate the camps. The commission's report, named “Personal Justice Denied,” found little evidence of Japanese disloyalty at the time and recommended the government pay reparations to the survivors. They formed a payment of $20,000 to each individual internment camp survivor. These were the reparations passed by President Ronald Reagan. In 1988, Congress passed reparations and President Ronald Reagan signed the legislation, which apologized for the internment on behalf of the U.S. government. The legislation said that government actions were based on "race prejudice, war hysteria, and a failure of political leadership.” The United States government gave more than $1.6 billion in reparations to the Japanese Americans who have been interned and their heirs. There was anti-Asian prejudice even before Pearl Harbor. That was evil and wrong. There was the Gila Relocation Center and the Heart Mountain Relocation Center. Some of the notable internees includes journalist Bill Hosokawa, author Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, Robert Ito, the activist Yuri Kochiyama (She is famous for working with Malcolm X in promoting human rights), and others. German Americans were interned in WWI and WWII. These American never received an apology or received reparations at all. Many of those interned were German-American citizens (either naturalized or native-born. Over 11,000 people were interned in America. This number is about 36 percent of the total internments under the Justice Departments Enemy Alien Control Program. They were held in Texas, Florida, Oklahoma, North Dakota, and Tennessee. The U.S. government found that the internment of German Americans and Italian Americans were devastating to their livelihoods. This was expressed via the 2007 Wartime Treatment Study Act. These actions relate to our time as well. In real life, the CIA promotes secretive cams where certain individuals are regularly tortured all of the time. The CFR had numerous people on the Allied side indeed. The President of the Bank of International Settlements was the CFR member Thomas H. McKittrick during WWII. The Chairman of Chase National Bank in that time period was Winthrop W. Aldrich. Members of Harvard were heavily influential in the ending of WWII as well. World War Two ended as controversially as it began. It was good to see the evil of Nazi Germany to be destroyed and later other evils came about (from economic inequality to other forms of discrimination and oppression). The truth is that we need the right of the freedom of the press, the freedom of assembly, and real individual rights. We don’t need to worship money or material goods, but we need human beings to have political freedom, food, clothing, and shelter. A progressive society must respect political, spiritual, and material freedoms. Fundamentally, we all need real freedom as a means to help our neighbors and fulfill our God-given purpose in this wonderfully made Universe.

 

 

It has been found that rising the Medicare age could leave hundreds of thousands of uninsured human beings. Some people wanted to include a hike in the Medicare eligibility age. This is a concession to those on the right who seem determined to see very deep cuts to the social safety net. A new report found out that up to half a million seniors could lose insurance if the eligibility age is raised. This report comes from the Center for American Progress points out a key fact that’s been mostly missing from the debate. The Supreme Court allowed states to opt out of the Medicaid expansion. This would inflate the number of seniors who could be left without insurance, because many would fall into the category of lower-income senior that would be expected to gain access to Medicaid through its expansion. (Jonathan Cohn has written about this extensively). Here’s how CAP reached its conclusion. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office recently concluded that a rise in the eligibility age could mean as many as 270,000 seniors are left uninsured in 2021. But that’s assuming ACA is fully implemented in all states. The CAP report points out those 10 states have publicly declared they will opt out of the Medicaid expansion, and more are undecided. The CAP study then totaled up how many seniors below the poverty line live in states that may opt out of the Medicaid expansion, using 2011 data. The total: Over 164,000. Add these to the aforementioned 270,000 seniors, and you get a total of approximately 435,000 seniors who could be left without insurance annually by 2021. And this is a conservative estimate — it’s based on 2011 data, and the population of seniors will grow significantly over the next decade.  Although, it’s possible that these states will implement the Medicare expansion, but Republican lawmakers are also stalling in setting up exchanges and resisting the law in other ways. With the implementation of ACA up in the air, then it’s necessary to not rise the eligibility age in this risky time. “With opponents of the health care law still working to block it at every turn, many more seniors would become uninsured because they would have nowhere else to turn,” CAP’s president, Neera Tanden, tells me. “As a result this misguided proposal would undermine the promise of affordable health care for all.” On top of this, the report finds, raising the eligibility age could also undermine a key goal of the ACA by inflating medical costs and health care spending, for a range of reasons: Cost shifting, tampering with the health and age levels in insurance pools, and an increased reliance on private insurance, which isn’t as good as Medicare at controlling costs. The reactionaries are sick enough to believe that harming beneficiaries is necessary to fulfill their anti-debt fetish and economic paranoia.

 

It is a historical fact that when certain people distort markets, exploit merchants, and promotes violence, there is always a negative outcome going on in the globe. One simple example that you can witness this reality is from the testimony from U.S. General Smedley Butler from 1933. He admitted that he acted as the high class muscle for Big Business, for Wall Street, and for the Bankers. He traveled all over the world from Latin America to Haiti as an engine to promote American corporate oil interests. He admitted to the world that: “…I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested….” Smedley Butler at the time in the early 20^th century was the most decorated Marine in U.S. history. He is known for his famous book entitled, “War is a Racket.”Smedley wrote about the military industrial complex. He became a popular speaker at meetings organized by veterans, pacifists, and church groups in the 1930’s. Even the Scriptures in the NT are clear that the rich will have temptation and a snare as a means to experience destruction if they refuse to do the right thing. Reaganomics is false even since the wealth didn’t trickle down to help humanity. That movement gained momentum in the late 1970’s. Since that time, the wealth of the nation has stolen wealth out of the poor and the middle class. The top 1 percent in America owns more wealth than the combined wealth of the bottom 90%. There are weaknesses in Communism for certain. Yet, there are weaknesses in Capitalism too. You can’t have freedom without justice. You can’t empower Capital over Labor. Some in the capitalist system can easily cause money to be more important than people. We ought to be servants of God not servants of Mammon. Legitimate government was instituted to stop evil and promote goodness in the world. For the atheists Mises and Hayek, they wanted to engage in commerce, acquire possessions, and believe in a distorted view of the role of government in society. Hayek had such an extreme view of social justice that he felt that social justice can led into fascism. We need altruism more promoted in society.

Once upon a time, the vast majority of Americans accepted the premise that the get "tough on crime" rhetoric. Today, we live in a new era. For over 40 years, we have tried the War on Drugs in America. The conclusion (evem said or stipulated by former President Bill Clinton) is that the War on Drugs has been a failure in American society. We've focused on mass incarceration instead of treatment for those who unfortunately exerience the debilitating condition of drug addiction. Millions of people of color, the poor, and even the innocent have been in prisons as a product of the War on Drugs. It isn't just people from the progressiveside that ultimately express opposition to the Drug War. There are libertarians and even some CNP "preachers" like Pat Robertson who disagree with certain aspects of the War on Drugs. It has become so bad that people wih mere possession  (of marijuana or any controlled substance) non violently can risk to have life imprisonment. Many organizations are calling for reforms or other radical solutions to this problem or complication. There are proposals in dealing with this issue from legalization to the medicinal usage of drugs. One thing is very true though. The status quo is definitely not what we need right now. The advancement of the status quo is a two party affair. The Republicans and the Democrats mentioned the tough on crime ethos. Don't get things twisted, because Bill Clinton promoted the anti-Crime bill (as being tough on crime. He is the most famous, centrist DLC President in the 20th Century hands down). Poverty, the lack of economic job opportunities, and discrimination historically have contributed to the War on Drugs and other related issues in general). That is all the more reasons for us to fight to eliminate mandatory minimum sentencing laws, to end unfair sentencing practices with possession of drugs, and to end the Drug War once and for all. There should have alternative in its place. The Sister Michelle Alexander wrote a book on this topic entitled, "The New Jim Crow.' In this year, we have an awakening on issues. The union movement has been revativalized since decades ago. New resolutions that deal with drugs have passed recently across America. The truth is as old as the origin of the Universe (including the Scriptures) and as clear as the law of thermodynamics.


By Timothy