70 Executions In 10 Days, Mexico Is Not A Violent Place…

Ignore the drug cartels and their wars. Mexico is not a violent place at all, and those Mexican tourism ads that paint a pretty picture are more like the real Mexico.

Unfortunately, the 70 gruesome executions over the past 10 days in Tijuana make lies out of the ads.

Mexico really can’t come up with a convincing slogan unless, perhaps, they try: “Come to Mexico. It’s not like the government has collapsed. Yet.”

Fed Buys Short Term Debt, Cost Of American Ass Goes Up

Now the Fed is buying short term debt in the form of commercial paper. Just like everyone knew in the first place, the $700 billion bailout wouldn’t work and wouldn’t be enough to change anything. But politicians and CEO’s and financial analysts (whose jobs depend on investors and speculators…so it’s not like you couldn’t see that one coming) convinced Congress and a lot of citizens through fear tactics that it was necessary to save us.

Now Congress and the Federal Reserve have saddled us with an incredible amount of debt to bail out those that started this mess in the first place.

While refusing to give an actual number on how much they would buy, $1.3 trillion worth of short term credit would qualify. Let’s use that to figure out how fucked We the People just got by Congress and the Federal Reserve.

How much will America be in debt now thanks to Congress and the Fed?

$700 billion bailout plan
$600 billion in cash loans to financial institutions
$1.3 trillion in commercial paper/short term debt
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$2.6 trillion dollars in one week!
$300 billion in already outstanding cash loans to financial institutions
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$2.9 trillion in Federal debt!

[Update: And analysts are saying that retirement accounts have lost $2 trillion in worth in the past 15 months.]

We the People just got fucked to the tune of $2.6 trillion dollars in less than a week. Congratulations America, you are the world’s most expensive piece of ass. How’s it feel?

And that on top of our preexisting deficit of $10,198,103,073,856.34 as of Oct. 7, 2008. [Note: I have seen claims it was actually five times higher, at $50 trillion...but I went with the lowest figure I could find. See? I'm not all gloom and doom and just out to make things look or sound worse than they are!]

Our national debt has been increasing about $3.18 billion every day since September 2007. Which means every 314.4 days we go another trillion dollars in debt.

Oh yes, don’t forget that the trade deficit back in April of this year was $62.3 billion. It shows no signs of shrinking and has been growing steadily over the years.

And all the while, our government wants to approve free trade agreements with Columbia, South Korea, and Panama—giving everyone else a break and robbing American taxpayers and workers of billions of dollars in revenue.

Did you catch that? Your Congress is seeking to reduce the burden on the people and businesses of those in other countries while increasing your tax burden and the amount of debt you and your children will be responsible for.

How much representation did YOU have in all of that? Did you want that debt? Did you get to vote on that debt? Or did someone elected by an electoral college that subverted your vote create an incompetent administration and do it? Did some Congressman/Congresswoman do it even though their constituents warned them not to and asked them not to?

And CEO’s and executives at all these institutions going under that caused this are making off with billions in severance packages, spitting in the eyes of the American people now suffering because of these executives’ greed, lack of competence, mismanagement, criminal conduct, and lack of ethics and concern for their countrymen.

It is as if our own government is waging an economic war of repression against the American people. No wonder the minimum wage is kept low (in keeping with The Iron Law of Wages) and debt is heaped upon us, and the number living below the poverty line (as established by our own government) keeps growing every year. In little over a year, that number has jumped from 35 million to more than 39 million.

Maybe it’s time We the People come up with our own solution to this crisis, like ridding ourselves of those that got us into it in the first place and those politicians and judges who made it all possible through their collusion and failures? That will fix our economy quicker than anything the Congress and the Federal Reserve can come up with.

No taxation without representation. It was enough for our founding fathers. And having politicians who represent their own interests or those of corporations instead of those of the American people is the same as having no representation at all. Semantics do not substitute for ethics and principles.

I can only imagine the founders of our nation are ashamed of the weaklings and cowards we Americans have turned out to be.

America Under Obama? A Chilling Future With An Anti-Gun President

There are a lot of topics that are not being talked about during the campaign for President by either party: illegal immigration, foreign policy (as in WHAT THEY WILL DO besides withdraw or stay in Iraq, since Iraq is not the only nation we will have to deal with), national sovereignty issues and gun control. Those are of far more importance to me than either the economy, health care or the cost of fuel.

Have you ever wondered just what life in America might be like if Obama wins the Presidency? Let’s take a look at England where anti-gun laws have failed. Hear for yourself a British police officer telling how the laws have failed. Listen to the tale of Tony Martin, serving life in prison for shooting two burglars who invaded his home—one was killed, the other served only a short sentence but is out now and suing Tony Martin using taxpayer money. Violent crime in England is up by 40% and the police who once only carried a wooden truncheon and cuffs and wore no body armor are unable to protect the citizenry.

This is what lies in store for Americans if Obama is elected President. Indeed, if anymore Democrats are elected to the Presidency ever again. They have made their agenda clear over the past several decades: disarm the American populace and give criminals more rights and protections than law abiding citizens have. An America where you will become a criminal for providing for your own protection without the blessing and permission of the government who will not be there for you—just like England.

Don’t take my word for it. Here it from those living in England. See how they have been having ever growing numbers of protests in an attempt to gain back their right to bear arms and to defend themselves. Hear them warn Americans about how important it is to fight for your right to bear arms.

This November, when you go to vote, decide if you want to end up pathetic and downtrodden, in fear of criminals and being turned into a criminal for protecting the sanctity of your home. If so, vote for Obama. Pathetic, unarmed, criminal and defenseless is exactly what he and the Democratic party plans to make every single American.

What gun control has done to England…

Gun confiscation during hurricane Katrina…

The truth about right to carry laws…

Don’t let the psychology of fear that anti-gunners want to impose on you work. They believe that you should cede all responsibility for the personal welfare, security and peace of mind of yourself and your family to a government that is never around when you need it and wants to make criminals out of as many people as possible so that the for-profit legal system and protection racket keeps making corporations and individuals wealthy.

Say no to Obama and anti-gunners in November.

The only gun control a free society needs is that which allows us to put consistent well-aimed hits on target.

Recession Repercussions Growing Worse By The Day

On top of the $700 billion bailout plan to save the people that got our economy in trouble in the first place, now the Federal Reserve is going to add to that insanity $600 billion in cash loans so that by years end, there will be possibly more than $900 billion in loans outstanding.

Oh joy. Let’s sing a song to celebrate the Fed’s actions. How about…oh, I know, “America the broke, land that I love…”

Here’s a novel concept. How about businesses do business within their means and operate on profit instead of lines of credit? That right there would eliminate half the economic woes our nation faces.

I mean, if you have profit, expand. If you can afford another employee, expand based on what your profits allow. Oh, I hear people complaining that it would take forever to grow and blah, blah, blahbidy blah blah….

I could give less than a damn if your business goes under. Why should everyone pay for the poor business practices of others, have their taxes increased, the national debt increased, suffer higher costs of living, inflation, and suffer generally because some people want to live and operate a business outside their means? This government meddling in the markets is nothing short of socialism, and it makes me want to puke. Maybe we ought to just hire Hugo Chavez as a consultant to the Federal Reserve—if we’re going down the road of government meddling in the marketplace, he’s the man that knows the most, might as well make use of the best while we can afford to hire them.

What needs to change is the way things have always been done, which means trying to bite off more than you can chew financially. Sure, credit is fine if you need to make small business related acquisitions, but if you need credit just to float your day to day operations, maybe you need to rethink your business model so the rest of us don’t suffer for it?

I know, that’s asking too much in the selfish country we live in, where everyone feels entitled to everything from credit to damages for an engagement broken off. Isn’t anyone else tired of paying for the risks others are taking? If you need credit to do business and your business fails without it, or the institution that lent you money fails because you can’t pay it back, it ought to end right there. And even that’s gone too far, because it’s likely people who weren’t making foolhardy choices will lose money in those institutions.

Our system is incredibly broke, and people are starting to see that Ron Paul has been right all along. The best thing that can be done for America is for everyone to write his name in on the ballot come November.

Personally I could care less if money is created far more slowly. I would rather have slow economic growth than rampant inflation and debt creation at the speed of light any day.

No one cares that they bring children into this world in debt. All that matters is that they are always entitled to something.

Redfining Death: Issues Of Organ Donation And Life

After reading an article in the Washington Post today about how doctors are seeking to push the definition of what constitutes dead, I have decided I am revoking my status as an organ donor and will no longer consider the option of donating my organs upon my death. This will be reflected upon my new identification shortly. Why am I doing this? It’s an ethical concern and I see the medical profession taking the wrong position on it.

That heart of the matter is, well, your heart apparently. Doctors are trying to make it so that they can declare people dead more quickly in order to harvest more organs. While it is great to find organs for those in need and a miracle and act of kindness when someone is given a new lease on life because medicine has allowed for it, we cannot afford to cross the line where we seek to rob life from those that doctors might see as unfeasible to save—perhaps because they are too old, or too ill and might just die soon anyway for various reasons.

We should not as individuals nor as a society cede the right nor ability to determine when a life is over to those whose interests are not ours and whose interests and very profession depends on practicing organ transplants. That’s an inherent conflict of interest.

Let’s say, just for the sake of argument that no one donated organs…well, there would be less need for those surgeons and physicians specializing in the areas of medicine that require those skills. To give them the ability to determine that you are dead sooner in order to harvest more organs poses a dilemma of grave concern to everyone.

Sure, the argument is that it is for a good cause—that of saving lives. But the inverse is also true, that it is an equally good cause to save lives of those who might not need lose theirs just yet. We should not be giving the ultimate decision to people whose livelihood depends not on keeping us alive, but on simply having work to do. In other words, these surgeons that specialize in organ transplants should not have any say whatsoever in whether or not you should be kept alive or not.

Their conflict of interest is of the greatest weight when you get right down to it, and yet there is little incentive to keep people that fall under certain categories alive. It is just as beneficial to the medical profession to transplant your organs and allow your life to end as long as they extend someone else’s lease on life, which creates another individual who will be paying money to the hospital and in all likelihood need medical care for which they will pay for what would be a greater duration perhaps than the person whose life they end prematurely or sooner in order to harvest the organs from.

What it boils down to for me is this: if one dies and wishes to donate their organs, that’s an act of kindness. But until EVERYTHING has been done and until there is absolutely no chance of saving their life, there should not even be concern for anyone waiting on an organ donation with regards to the person whose life hangs in the balance. When no measures can revive someone, when they are indeed dead, then if organs can be harvested and used to help someone else, that’s great. I’m all for it.

However, trying to rush things along out of convenience or with a profit motive reeks of immoral–if not downright evil–intent. (And please, if you’re one of those people who thinks using the word evil has anything to do with religion, crack a dictionary before responding. A rant about evil will just get your comment sent to spam hell.)

We should not even be going down this road as a society. Too many people feel there is some entitlement to anything and everything—including a replacement organ. Or life.

Not everyone is meant to live. Life is fickle. Those who can live a longer life through the amazing miracle of organ transplant have a special gift unlike any other. But they are by no means entitled to it. No one is.

And so, because I do not like the reasoning behind nor the direction of the medical profession and the lack of oversight when it comes to people’s right to life, I am revoking my position as an organ donor. At some point, you have to take a stand on ethics in relation to all areas of life, though many people never do. And that’s part of the problem. People don’t take a position on anything, and they give away power and rights by failing to take a stand on an issue.

There have been numerous cases of people who were pronounced dead, and after laying on a table with no life support for many minutes (some more than 20 or 30 minutes), they came back to life. There was one such case just this past year. Would it have been ethical or right of some doctor to begin harvesting that persons organs after the patient had been pronounced dead?

I have decided I intend to ensure such is never the case where I am concerned.

When I die, my organs will go with me to whatever end lies beyond death’s door…even if it is merely dust or ash. But they will bring along with them something else, and that is integrity of a sort, however small, and that too will follow me wherever the journey leads—however short it may be. Will I regret or feel bad that someone did not have organs that might have saved their life?

Not at all. As I said, not everyone is meant to live. That’s simply life. What isn’t meant to be is not meant to be. But I look at the crimes being committed around the world now as organ harvesting has become a criminal activity. Travelers literally wake up one morning to find they have been drugged and operated on and are missing organs. Others end up dead because someone harvested organs to sell and simply killed that person.

Organ transplants have become fuel for murder and cause for crime. The ethics of potentially extending someone’s life and potentially shortening or prematurely ending someone else’s— particularly when there is a profit motive involved—suggest that in light of the current social and civil climate we live in, organ donation is wrong and gives rise to evil and a perversion of what goodwill and good intention there originally was behind the concept.

And so, I will no longer be an organ donor.

Jews Act Just Like Muslims, Stoning, Burning, Beating In The Name Of Modesty

Another example of the idiocy of religion, this time courtesy of Jews in Israel. I hope this fall Americans are smart enough to vote any politician out of office who supports Israel. There is some sort of barbaric retardation that just oozes out of the Middle East and infects societies, it seems. It’s just too bad we can’t vaccinate against religion somehow.

Jews, Christians, Catholics, Muslims, Scientologists, Hindus, Buddhists…the whole lot of them, make this world so miserable to live in that any supposed Hell there might be would probably be a welcome relief just to get away from all their bullshit. The insanity of religious zealots never ceases to amaze me.

Somebody just nuke the Middle East and get it all over with already. The sooner all the Abrahamic religions (Christianity, Judaism, Islam) are gone from this Earth, the sooner the human race will get to move on to something better.

I mean, I like a good fantasy novel and fairy tales myself. But I don’t run around beating women for walking with men, burning stores because the owner sells gadgets and I don’t stone people for wearing a red shirt because the book said you shouldn’t do those things. These are the kinds of idiots that would read Fahrenheit 451 and start burning books.

What is it that makes me different from those sorts of people—besides the obvious fact I use my brain and believe that others ought to be accorded the same freedoms, liberties, and rights as I? I know what makes me different…

I’m not trying to force others to live how I think they should live because some Jewish sky-god or his carpenter son or his bandit prophet told me to. I don’t take part in the mass hysteria called religion.

The Russian Threat To Georgia And Danger Of External Forces

A bomb blast in South Ossetia outside Russian military headquarters threatens to destabilize the region yet again. The Russian and South Ossetian authorities claim a car was confiscated in Georgian territory and then driven to the Russian headquarters by Russian forces, where it exploded.

First, let’s get out of the way the fact that if the car was indeed packed with explosives, an act of terrorism was planned by someone. Secondly, let’s get it out of the way that if the Russians confiscated the vehicle and drove it to their headquarters where it exploded they are incredibly incompetent. Thirdly, we have to ask why Russians confiscated a Georgian vehicle in the first place? Fourth, we have to ask why those Georgians (if they were in fact Georgians at all were in South Ossetia given the current situation? And then, we have to ask how they would have gotten past Russian and South Ossetian forces in the first place through the buffer zone and into South Ossetia where the car was allegedly confiscated?

It is hard to conceive that a car bomb would have gotten past a military checkpoint of any kind, even when manned by average front line soldiers. If it did, it displays gross incompetence and highlights vulnerabilities and points out weaknesses in the Russian military. It is also hard to conceive that any Georgians would have made it through such check-points without any explosives and found sympathizers and supplies to then arm the vehicle with explosives while in South Ossetia.

The Danger Involved

Now, the danger is that Russia will use this as an excuse to engage in further military action aimed at overthrowing the Georgian government or to weasel out of its cease-fire agreement and find an excuse to occupy Georgian territory longer or to reoccupy Georgian territory or to invade Georgia again. Why the car exploded and the circumstances around it need to be investigated by as many international agencies as possible, and they need to demand involvement RIGHT NOW, before time and political maneuvering allow this to become something it is not.

The underlying danger that is obvious, however, is a potential danger. And it is a danger more significant than most, and perhaps even more dangerous than Iran’s seeking nuclear weapons. What danger is that?

That Al Qaeda, another terrorist organization, some rogue state government or government agency—or perhaps Abkhazian or South Ossetian seperatists—will be able to easily exploit the tension of the region and the polar political alignment of the sides involved to create discord, panic and escalate tensions to the point of renewed and possibly wider-spread conflict in the Caucasus region. Any organization that would benefit from the resultant force on force and ideological clash between Russia and the West would see the opportunity of attacking Russian forces in South Ossetia or Abkhazai as very usable for their own ends.

Analysis: Who Would Benefit From Renewed Conflict In Georgia Or With Russia?

There is an incredibly long list of just whom might benefit from a renewed conflict, and the ways in which they might benefit may be incredibly obscured.

• Russia would benefit by posing a greater threat to the region, which would make dealing with Russia more favorably of greater importance to nations in the region—thus weakening Western influence and the perception of Western interests in or ability to protect the region. It would give Russia a stepping stone to other nations in the region, greater influence in the Black Sea region and the Middle East. It also puts them one step closer to being able to seize Armenia and Azerbaijan, and once again pursuing what has been a long-standing Russian military and geo-political goal: direct access to the oil fields of the Middle East and more warm water ports. Given Russian and Iranian cooperation, this poses a very serious and somewhat understated danger to the Middle East and the global balance of power because it is in the interests of both Russia and Iran to partner together against Western in general and US influence in particular. Seizing Georgia would also put Russia on the doorstep of Turkey which has been flirting with Russia much to the chagrin of the US, EU, and NATO. A nightmare scenario that follows from a Russian occupied and controlled Georgia is Turkey deciding to stamp out all Kurdish resistance in the Kurdish regions of their country by force, and not feeling the need to be restrained by Western/NATO influence because the Russians will offer support, arms, and perhaps be willing to send troops to help stamp out the threat of “terrorists” which the West itself has labeled the Kurdish separatist groups in order to win the favor of a Turkish government that has been seeking entrance into NATO and the EU. This would inflame Kurds everywhere, especially in Iraq, and any action by Iraqi Kurds would destabilize Iraq and possibly give both Turkey and Iraq cause to invade it in the future—again, under the auspices of eliminating a terrorist threat. This scenario is not at all improbable, given the Russian propensity recently to occupy and not relinquish territory as it rides a wave of national military, political and economic resurgence.
• South Ossetia would benefit by having a weakened Georgia on its border or seeing the Georgian government overthrown by invading Russians and the subsequent occupation of Georgia by the Russians. They would also benefit economically by a weakened Georgia. They would also be able to inflict pain and suffering on the Georgians whom they have had long-standing differences—basically, getting some payback.
• Abkhazia would benefit the same way South Ossetia would.
• Al Qaeda would benefit greatly from such a climate of East/West conflict which would relieve pressures being exerted on their organization, create a climate where the movement of illicit arms, drugs and other contraband would be increased, easier and welcome in the region of conflict and surrounding areas. This would help boost both funding and recruitment for the organization in addition to providing some relief, and possibly allow them to form alliances with some governments who would also benefit from the US having to redirect military, economic or intelligence resources to deal with a crisis in the Caucasus region and the danger such conflict would pose to European security and stability in the Middle East where it has invested billions of dollars and the lives of soldiers.
• The Taliban and their allies seeking to distract the US and coalition forces and resources (including intelligence assets from focusing on prosecuting the attack in Afghanistan and Pakistan’s tribal regions.
• Any terrorist organization seeking to relieve pressure on it from Western forces prosecuting the so-called Global War on Terror.
• Any countries at ideological, military, economic or political odds with the USA, the EU, NATO, Russia or Georgia might welcome the opportunities that any other beneficiary might find or see in reigniting the conflict, be it arms trafficking, alliance, political or economic destabilization or otherwise. This would include countries such as Iran, Pakistan, Venezuela, Bolivia, China, Myanmar, Cuba as well as various nations throughout the Middle East, Asia and Africa.
• Allies of the USA, NATO, EU or Georgia that seek to apply greater attention by those entities on the region of the Caucasus in order to put Russian expansion in check before it spreads any more than it already has. This could include separatists within Russia (such as in Chechnya or the Kabardino-Balkar Republic) and others that might see US/EU/NATO forces in the region as a counter-weight to threats they themselves face. For example, Israel would benefit greatly from halting Russian expansion and increased Western military engagement in the Caucasus region as that would create a threat to Iran, Syria, terrorist organizations that would benefit from Russian expansionism (and the conflicts that would result), and from the prospect of Turkey becoming increasingly friendly with Russia—who supplies most of the arms that many enemies of Israel and the West use, including Hezbollah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad and various insurgencies and revolutionary groups around the globe. That means that the West is less likely to be able to afford (either economically or politically) to help keep Israel’s enemies in check if Russian expansionism is allowed to grow. Interestingly enough, in this same category fall many European nations worried about their security in the face of a growing Russian threat. They know it is easier and would be more beneficial to have US/EU/NATO stronger and fortifying itself against a Russian threat now than it would be to do nothing and hope that the US/EU/NATO have the spine and wherewithal to engage Russia in open war on European soil. Europe has no desire to see a war of that magnitude in Europe proper again, and as America finds itself in decline economically, politically, and militarily…it is a very real threat/prospect.
• Rogue governmental agencies that have their own agendas, ranging from unilateral prosecution of agency or individual objectives to paying back owed markers or simply trying to increase their own relevance or budget. This could include agencies such as the CIA, NSA and other less known agencies here in the USA as well as British MI-5, Israeli Mossad, Russian FSB and various intelligence agencies of any nation mentioned anywhere in this list of those whom might benefit, including the nations of Syria, Turkey, Iran, Venezuela, Cuba and so on. This could even include agencies who are looking for conflict in the Caucasus region to provide them with increased justification for increased involvement in existing or looming conflicts that have related issues at stake. One instance might be the growing tension between Pakistan and both India and Afghanistan.
• Corporations and individuals with their own agendas, aimed at increasing their wealth, influence or prestige and/or benefiting from conflict between Russia and Western forces. This includes PMC’s, companies that provide defense related services, oil companies, shipping companies, infrastructure related companies that would be needed in the wake of conflict, and the list goes on and on.

In the end, while it might seem a small and trivial thing, this vehicle exploding and which killed between six and nine Russian soldiers (depends on which story you read), it cannot be viewed lightly. It highlights a potential threat of great implication in the geopolitics of the Eurasian region.

Russia’s recent rhetoric accusing Ukraine of aiding Georgia in its conflict with Russia and calling it a “crime” ought to be sending off alarm bells throughout Europe and the rest of the world. Russians have to be sitting smug right now because they are playing the word and blame game so well—while the West is tongue-tied and showing absolutely no real urgency at all in defending Europe or shoring up its defenses. The lack of NATO and US troops being sent to the region, the lack of immediately bringing Ukraine and Georgia (or, more importantly, not going to Georgia’s aid after it has been a faithful ally of the USA) into NATO’s fold have exposed the vulnerable underbelly of the West.

Look for trouble in Belarus soon, as it gets ready to attempt a transition from being Europe’s last dictatorship into a democratic nation. I predict trouble and unrest, which will be followed by a display of Russian concern and rhetoric laying the groundwork for future justification. What do I mean by future justification? The very thing this explosion is giving Russia so conveniently for future aggression.

The Russian bear, from where it sits, has little to fear and sees all sorts of small game that it can kill with one swat of its paw everywhere it looks. Unfortunately for the West, the Russian bear is human, and we all know what dangers lie behind the ego.

Another Taser Death, And A Suicide

Yet another victim of police brutality, a mentally disturbed man was killed when Brooklyn police tased him as he stood naked on a ledge some 10 feet high. He fell to his death, all of which was captured on video.

The police Lieutenant who ordered the man tased committed suicide after being stripped of his badge and reassigned to a desk. A police officer with a conscience? That’s seems like such a rarity these days. So many are just too happy to run around shooting and tasing like there’s no tomorrow. Why bother with restraints or getting into a physical tussle when you can just pump someone full of lead or electricity whenever you feel like it, right?

Maybe they need some sort of stupid test to join law enforcement, see if you have any brains at all? I mean, if you tase someone on a fire escape or on the edge of some ledge or other high spot, just what the fuck do you think is likely to happen to that person? Do tasers have a propensity for floating people gently to the ground like a feather when falling from high places that the general population is unaware of?

No, they don’t. Only a fucking idiot would think that.

Protect and serve is about as far from what law enforcement do for the American people these days as doing the right thing is from the minds of politicians. Maybe more people will live now that they have one less person to protect them off a ledge to their death.

It’s too bad some people don’t find a conscience until AFTER they have abused their fellow citizens, shown a lack of compassion or even killed them.

Canadian Government Tortures American Exposing Police Run Drug Ring: His Wife And Son Missing

Take a look at the Scott Loper story. It’s the story of an American citizen, a former New Jersey police officer, who was jailed and tortured for years by the Canadian government after exposing a police-run drug operation. Now his wife and son have disappeared mysteriously, and the State Department has launched an investigation.

Toronto police apparently are a den of corruption and vice, as bad as any mob or other criminal organization, and when they were exposed, they took retribution on an American citizen who brought it out into the open–according to an article by CBC News. He was imprisoned and tortured for several years, and the Canadian government presented the US Government with an UNSIGNED WAIVER of his rights that supposedly was justification for this heinous act.

The Canadian government went so far in their attempt to cover up what happened as to deny that Loper had ever lived in Canada (his wife is Canadian), and dumped him at the US border. The Canadian government had to recant that assertion however, after Loper was able to present documents exposing the lie of the Canadian government, showing that in fact he had lived there.

Many American government officials are not doing anything about this story because they don’t want to make waves and don’t want to upset the Canadian government. However, it is time for the American people to remind our government that it works for the American people, not Canada or any other nation, not foreign corporations, not special interest groups, and certainly not corrupt police officers running drug operations in Toronto Ontario.

Contact your representatives in Congress and demand action and demand accountability by the Canadian government. This outrage cannot stand. If the US government will do nothing to protect American citizens, it does not deserve our obedience nor our allegiance. It is time to start forcing our leaders to do their jobs.

Obama And McCain: Campaigning More Important Than Doing Their Job

Both presidential candidates are out on the campaign trail again, more concerned about garnering votes than doing what Senators ought to be doing. It’s not surprising, but it tells you something about the lack of character all American politicians seem to display—with the exception of Ron Paul, of course.

Why would someone want to vote for a leader more concerned about their own political career than they are about the state of the nation they seek to lead? Desperation perhaps? Or is it simply because of the feeling that there is a lack of real choice?

Everyone who is worried about the current global financial crisis ought to be voting for Ron Paul by write-in come November.

It’s the only way to put an end to being led by self-serving idiots.

We see President Bush acting concerned (probably about his legacy, you think?) and trying to frame the danger to our economy as a responsibility that belongs solely to Congress, warning of the dangers if Congress doesn’t act now. Where the hell was that sense of urgency for the past eight years, Mr. President? Over the past two years (more for some analysts) people have been warning of a recession and pointing to the very things that are causing the financial crisis we find ourselves in. It isn’t as if we couldn’t see it coming.

Yet, you did nothing Mr. President. I guess you were too busy compiling databases on American citizens, coming up with plans to implant radio frequency transmitting chips in national ID cards for tracking, wasting billions on the Real ID act, and doing everything you could to screw Americans out of liberties and freedoms instead of helping them out.

Or perhaps you were too busy spewing your empty rhetoric about freedom and democracy to our Georgian allies whom you then turned your back on?

Back to Obama and McCain. How come they aren’t in Washington, where a Senator ought to be in times of national crisis? Well, because it’s not a real crisis until the economy fails.

And when it does, Washington is the last place anyone wants to be—particularly if they are partly responsible through personal inaction and failures of leadership.

Nancy Pelosi Shoots Down Financial Bailout With Partisan Rant

Nancy Pelosi apparently couldn’t pass up an attempt to make a partisan attack in the debate on the financial bailout, which angered a lot of members of the House and led to the measure not passing. That’s fine by me—it’s good for the world to see her true colors.

I thank Nancy Pelosi for her right-wing rant. It at least killed a bailout that ought not happen. Still, it was a particularly hypocritical rant. Why?

Well the things she accused the Bush administration of (lack or responsibility, discipline, leadership and oversight) are all things that have plagued the USA since Bill Clinton was elected…and even further back before him. Are we to forget about Clinton’s lack of leadership, discipline, and financial woes that began under his administration (not to mention shaming the Presidency with his actions in office and subsequent lying about it under oath)? I don’t think he gets a free pass.

Nor does Congress or Nancy Pelosi. It seems to me that the Democratic party is as much responsible for the current situation as any. It is the Democratic party, after all, that has engendered the climate of irresponsible behavior and, poor leadership, and liberal ideology that anything is acceptable. I mean, you can point a finger at Bush (and I don’t care for the guy either), but let’s face the cold, hard fact here: he inherited the state of things as they were from a two-term Democrat, Bill Clinton. Any lack of regulation or oversight that exists under Bush existed under Clinton.

It’s nice to know that when our country is in turmoil and world markets are collapsing, that self-centered, self-serving, hypocritical politicians like Nancy Pelosi can rise to new heights of opportunism and shallow behavior in order to seek personal political gain.

Now, personally, I think that Americans ought to vote ANY member of the House or Senate out of office that goes home to campaign until this crisis is resolved. Politicians are elected to serve We the People, not their own interests. If they won’t do it, if they’re more concerned about their political career than they are about serving their constituents, they don’t deserve your vote or mine. And that goes for any politician of any political party.

Any member of Congress ought to be willing to give up their political fortunes to help fix the problem this country and the entire global market now faces as a result of the lack of action by Congress as a whole for the past several decades on major, important issues. Congress doesn’t need, nor does it deserve a break. I mean, what the hell do they really do but argue and trade pathetic attempts at political one-upmanship anyway, right? It’s not like it’s a hard job. What they need is to fix the problems they and their selfish lack of concern, their political pandering and fattening of their personal fortunes at the expense of the American people have created.

Really, if they go home to campaign, ask yourselves if there’s really any point in having a government that does nothing but look out for itself. If members of Congress go home before this is solved, they are saying America is unimportant, We the People aren’t worth as much as their personal fortune. That’s fine. Let them.

It might be the spark We the People need to start the next Revolution. After all, We the People are about to see businesses going under en masse, are about to start seeing massive layoffs. It’s not just investors and speculators and members of Congress who are at risk here. Already, the pain of this economic crisis is hitting a variety of industries, including the technology sector (Apple shares already dropped 18%) and the energy sector.

Make sure your powder is dry, your hatchet scoured…

They may be worth far more than your 401K, retirement fund, personal savings or even your home in the very near future.

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[Note: Read one of the interesting and unsettling prospects for what an economic collapse of the USA might be like and how it might unfold, here: Protocols For Economic Collapse In America. Are you prepared for those sorts of scenarios? The overwhelming majority of Americans are not prepared for the situations that might unfold simply because---as the piece linked to points out---they don't understand what is at stake economically and how a major economic collapse might precipitate something beyond a bad day on Wall Street.

I am not, as I mentioned to one reader in private, suggesting the scenario described on the above referenced web page is by any means real, credible, or necessarily fact. I leave that for you to research and determine. I merely suggest it as a possible scenario to keep in mind when considering the broader implications of economic collapse.]

Bailout In Crisis, But There Is A Simple Solution

The latest news, which is sure to send markets spiraling down tomorrow, is that the proposed economic bailout package is in jeopardy. I’m glad to hear it. We shouldn’t be spending $700 billion - $1 trillion (depends on who you ask and what costs you count) bailing out any companies.

Whatever course of action should be taken, the damage gets worse every passing day because self-serving politicians who work in Washington can’t get their act together.

There is simple solution, however. The government ought to secure and insure retirement funds and offer some sort of small compensation package to employees that are affected by this—excepting all executive level employees. Forget anything else and everything else.

Let the industry, companies, and individuals and special interest groups and the myriad speculators and greedy bastards who have caused all of this suffer in the bed they made. Secure retirement funds and to hell with everything else. Spend it on national health care, paying off some our debt or something worthwhile.

Taxpayers shouldn’t be bailing out companies and speculators who through their own negligent, inept, unethical, criminal, or greedy devices ran themselves to ruin.

Another Reason To Loathe Pakistan: Bear Baiting

Bear baiting in Pakistan is just one more reason to loathe the barbaric tribes living there. Not that the terrorist and Taliban breeding ground really needs another reason to be looked upon with contempt, but why not get it all out there, you know? Muslims love to point out the evils of Western civilization, so I thought it would be nice to point out another of theirs (as if honor killings and stonings and beheadings and oppression weren’t enough to warrant a little loathing, right?).

To help put an end to this practice, learn more on the World Society for the Protection of Animals site: https://www.worldsocietyprotectionofanimals.org/bear/

And yes, there are still idiots who contribute to dog fighting and like to fight chickens (how pathetic is that?) all around the world. And there’s bull-fighting in Spain and Mexico and a few other places—which is equally pathetic.

There’s something beyond barbarous and cruel (almost inhuman, really) in wanting to see dogs maul a bear that has had its teeth removed, that is mistreated and in poor health. Leave it to the Islamic world to enjoy that particular brand of bloodthirsty and disgusting cruelty. At least in medieval Europe, such fights involved captured wild animals with all their teeth and claws intact. Not that that justifies it or is any better—it’s not. It does go to show that even when it comes to barbarity and depravity, there are many levels, and the Islamic world has always sat at the lowest level in both areas.

It is too bad those tribesmen don’t have the courage to get in a gladiatorial arena to fight and kill each other like Western civilization has enjoyed doing through the course of history. The world would be better off for it just now.

Cowardice, simple-minded barbaric cruelty and violence is what Pakistan’s tribal regions are all about, however. I hope some day to see on YouTube video footage of a bear slipping his bonds and mauling one of his captors in Pakistan to death. I’ll raise a toast to the poor beastie for a job well done.

On Earth, there are two worlds. One moves forward through history, advancing humanity with time, discoveries, and gained enlightenment. The Muslim world, however, just continues trying to destroy everything in hopes of keeping humanity trapped in the barbarous cruelty and primitive ignorance of ages past…

The War Zone On The American Border

Regarding those still in denial about the state of social decay and violence that has become rampant in Mexico, I thought I might throw a few more logs on the fire. I suppose some people are simply in need of a bonfire that reaches to the heavens before they call it light enough to see by. This is for them.

Eleven decapitated bodies used for rituals; story from Sept. 1, 2008: Headless bodies may have been burned in ritual

Twenty-four people bound and shot, execution style; story from Sept. 13, 2008: Bodies of 24 shooting victims found in Mexico

Three Mexican chiefs of police seek asylum in USA as drug war spins out of control: Violence in Mexico spills across U.S. border

Assassinations of Mexican law enforcement officers, military officers, and civilian authorities has become routine. The Mexican people aren’t even so blind as to deny what is happening. They held large demonstrations to protest the violence just weeks ago, with hundreds of thousands of people participating.

2,682 people have lost their lives in Mexico’s violent drug war just this year alone (and that as of August 31, 2008) according to Mexican newspaper, El Universal.

Contrast that with 4,342 Palestinians that have died over more than four years in the second Intifada that has the whole Middle East and world leaders around the globe so concerned. There have been 4,469 coalition casualties in the war in Iraq as of September 12, 2008.

Comparing those numbers to the number of deaths in the drug war in Mexico gives one pause. And let us keep in mind that those killed in the drug wars in Mexico are not just the number of deaths due to crime in general and do not include your violent robberies and so forth. These are deaths where drug cartel soldiers and hit-men attack people at birthdays or funerals or bingo parlors and kill men, women and children (yes, even 16 month old infants), where they gun down police officers, assassinate Army officers, and kill each other.

As I have previously pointed out in one reply to a comment on my post entitled The Mexican Threat To America (Terrorists, Drug Cartels, Russia, Cuba, And Red Dawn), I’m not the only one who thinks Mexico is on the road to becoming a failed state. Stratfor has posed the question and explained how that just might be the case very nicely.

See for yourself what one of the leading firms in the intelligence/geo-political analysis field thinks about Mexico’s current condition: Mexico: On the Road to a Failed State?

Since the Mexican cartels control most of the drug trade in the USA, it is time for Americans to start demanding their government take stronger measures to protect our borders. Neither Obama or McCain has any intention of doing so. In fact, they intend to keep allowing a steady stream of illegal aliens, drugs and criminals across our border, fully intending to offer amnesty to them.

When you consider such how ineffectual the USA has been in dealing with what is going on right on our doorstep in Mexico (supposedly one of our closest “friends” and largest trading partner?) and how the USA failed to even come to the aid of our Georgian allies when Russia invaded, it isn’t hard to see the writing on the wall. Nations and empires rise and fall like the tides, and the same tide that is flooding Mexico will sink America…it is only a matter of time.

The failure of our governments to adequately prepare us for the future, to alter our infrastructure, to alter our energy consumption and resource utilization, to secure our borders and defend our sovereignty and insulate our energy needs from sandal-wearing goat herders and cave-dwelling radicals shows how incredibly inept and unfocused our government is. The concern has for too long been politicians making money for themselves and their lobbyists, and Americans will pay the price.

As global water shortages and global warming (doesn’t matter if it’s natural or the result of human activity) increase, as petroleum becomes more scarce, as the global population explodes—all by the end of this century—America will find itself spread even thinner than we are today militarily, our nation’s status greatly diminished, and less and less able to do anything about it.

There is a war zone on our border, and it is going to spread. Don’t be fooled by the recent headlines that the FARC is finished and that there will be no more insurgencies in Latin America as Hugo Chavez himself suggested. History holds all the warnings we ought to heed, if we but listen.