Soldiers say: "Give WAR a Chance!"

PFC Sandoval edited by Ashley Wells (Wisdom Quarterly)

(Kristinamgarcia) Ignored by the VA, left homeless and cheated out of college tuition promises... now police arrest us at Occupy Boston.

Thank goodness for Veterans for Peace. Today is Veterans Day, a day set aside to remember the sacrifices families have and are making to promote free trade, hegemony, and imperial rule.

I remember a time on deployment. The troops in Iraq were tired of sitting around. They were tired of hearing peacenikshippy diplomats say, "Give peace a chance." We really thought there were WMDs (weapons of mass destruction). We were lied to.

Bush, Dick, and Colon (not pictured because he's a party pooper) (rense.com).

The fresh meat, rushed through training, were fond of saying: "Give war a chance." They really thought it was funny. I thought it was funny. Listening to metal There is an OG punk song that goes, "Let's have a war so you can go die."

It's about dying for stupid reasons. Colin Powell rewriting reports, Bush doing everything Cheney ordered him to, Ashcroft singing, Rumsfeld talking so much [nonsense] and no one calling him on it. Condoleeza Rice, Madeleine Albright, Phyllis Schafly, Laura Bush, the women were no better.

What do we call those who delight in war, "demons"?

War was desirable and planned for in great detail before inventing a reason to illegally starting to bomb with no congressional declaration. An unelected president signs the country up for an unwanted war...and we're still there. His father's friends told him to.

Raping, drinking, looting, pillaging, killing, all in a day's work.

• US soldier convicted of killing Afghan civilians for sport
  
• VIDEO: US soldier convicted of killing Afghans for sport

We Want Total WAR! (video)

Wisdom Quarterly (ANALYSIS)
(RT) The US will not back down creating a pretext to attack Iran, raising fears IAEA findings will be misused. Israel threatens to attack even without proof. Meanwhile, the mainstream media "reports" that Iran implicitly admits it is pursuing a nuclear bomb program. This is just like the excuses used to invade Iraq. John Glaser, an assistant editor at antiwar.com, says US is constantly pushing Iran to create a nuclear bomb.

By "we" is meant the US military-industrial complex. That is the 1% (one percent) -- Wall Street bankers and Pentagon neocons in charge of the US government since at least the time of Cheney/Bush and their ideal heir Obama.

By "war" is meant endless, corporate-profiteering, Nineteen Eighty-Four style military conflict. (In Orwell's novel, Big Brother was always at war with one of the other blocs, a useful enemy to stir up the population, keep them fearful, and keep them impoverished).

By "total" is meant "full spectrum dominance" of the region -- and that includes invading Iran. Iran is already being softened in the north as Turkey is destabilized by our HAARP weaponry.

• Turkey: tear gas used on protesters after second quake
• VIDEO: Buildings collapsing in second Turkey quake
  
• Humans killed in Turkey earthquake
  
• BBC: Turkey's killer earthquake topples Van hotel
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Obama is will to pull troops out of Iraq (leaving lots of "advisers" and businessmen). Where to next, fearless leader?

• OccupyDesign.org-Occupy America-Occupy Harvard-Occupy the Rose Parade-Occupy Pasadena
  

"Hot Coffee" - How Corporations Rule (video)

HotCoffeeTheMovie.com, Wisdom Quarterly

(HBO, Susan Saladoff) Stories we're told by corporate media hide shocking truths.

Is Justice Being Served?

["Tort reform? What's tort reform? "Forced arbitration and 'frivolous' lawsuits," now that's G.W. Bush and Dick "Halliburton" Cheney will not stand for!] Seinfeld mocked it. Letterman ranked it in his Top 10 list. And more than 15 years later, its infamy continues.

Everyone knows the McDonald’s coffee case. It has been routinely cited as an example of how citizens have taken advantage of America’s corporations and legal system, but is that a fair rendition of the facts?

Hot Coffee reveals what really happened to Stella Liebeck, the 81-year-old Albuquerque woman who spilled scalding coffee on herself and sued McDonald’s, while exploring how and why the case garnered so much media attention, who funded the effort, and to what end.

How corporate America destroyed our rights in court

[Hint: Corporations fabricated AstroTurf organizations to undermine our legal standing against them in court whenever they are liable for anything from irresponsibility, to criminal negligence, to rape. Yes, rape. KBR/Halliburton got a case against them redirected to private arbitration in the case of the group rape of Jamie Leigh Jones.] See the film, and decide who really profited from spilling hot coffee.

Jamie Leigh Jones, featured in "Hot Coffee" was raped by corporate (Halliburton/KBR) forces in Iraq (Mother Jones/Twylah.com).

“Eye-opening indictment of the way big business spins the media.”
—Variety

“Stunning debut … Sends audiences out of the theater thinking in a brand new way.”
—Washington Post

“Entertaining, informative…vividly illuminating.”
—Hollywood Reporter

Why, Why, Why?
Wisdom Quarterly (ANALYSIS)

Why was the coffee so hot (190 degrees or just 22 degrees below boiling) even after 700 complaints to McDonalds? Three reasons: it was corporate policy. But why? To mask with heat the flavor of the cheap coffee beans used by McDonald's and, moreover, to keep people from asking for a second free cup of coffee because by the time the first one cools, most customers have already left the fast food outlet.

Why was Pfc. Jamie Jones gang raped so badly by US soldiers ahd Halliburton/KBR contractors that she needed reconstructive surgery? Rape is a perk for our troops in Iraq -- homosexual sodomy of fellow US soldiers, sexual assault of nearly all female troops and support staff, rape and murder of Iraqi girls (maybe boys and prisoners, too). Don't ask, don't tell. It's torture, it puts people (prisoners as well as soldiers) in their place, keeps the hierarchy/patriarchy and our culture of violence alive. It's CIA policy.

"I'm lovin' it?" "You know you like it hot."

The Greatest President We Never Had

Pat Macpherson (Wisdom Quarterly)

Will B.S. Obama be JFK or just the third Pres. George Bush? A relative of Dick Cheney, BSO (Barry Soetoro Obama) has been the most effective instrument of the "military-industrial complex" since Pres. Eisenhower named it.

He has done everything the Right wanted and more. But due to intransigent racism and a hatred of all things "liberal" or even slightly left of moderate, the Right does not like him. The Left is humiliated, betrayed, let down, and holding on to hope.



It only seems to get worse with Herman "Koch" Cain, Mitt "Mormon" Romney, Michelle "Palin" Bachmann, Chris "Christ" Christie, Rick "Big Pharma" Perry... Will the Powers That Be ever allow the people a voice?

Do Dennis Kucinich or Ron Paul have any chance whatsoever -- even if they get all the votes? Not unless they give in to the economic hitman. And to think, the "change" we voted for was to go from war criminal Bush to a new MLK, Jr.

Drape me in a flag, and I'll make them proud (as I sell them out).

Koch-Brother-Cain: "Get a Job, Hypocrites!"

Wisdom Quarterly

Those darn 99% trying to rock MY boat with their labor, student, anti-war organizing!

Sweetheart Republican candidate Herman "999" Cain rises in polls... with the help of the infamous multi-billionaire Koch Brothers, who started the AstroTurf Tea Party movement and supported Scott Walker in Madison, Wisconsin who with other Republicans destroyed the unions in spite of unprecedented protests.

When Cain, an actual Black man (unlike Dick Cheney relative B.S. Obama) yet somehow more of a sellout, was asked about the Occupy Wall Street protesters, he had something shocking to say.

State-sponsored assassin Obama -- who has signed off on drone attacks for the extrajudicial execution/assassination of numerous unindicted targets -- is at least trying to pander to both sides of Wall Street (Zuccotti Park and the Stock Exchange) as if he were a moderate. Obama's actually a conservative zealot pushing Bush-era policies while mumbling "the change we need" but in a lovable way.

Occupy Wall Street spreads worldwide (theatlantic.com)

Have people noticed that China took out the Panchen Lama and replaced him with a stand in just the way America took out MLK and replaced him with B.S. Obama. But he is no more the fulfillment of Martin Luther King Jr's dream than Herman Cain.

Asked about Wall Street occupiers, Cain sent them a message: "Get a job, hypocrites!" Maybe he meant he would like to hire them at Burger King and Godfather's Pizza, two places Koch-Brother-from-another-mother-Cain knows a lot about. Cain is also infamous for pointing out that "Black people are too poor" [for his taste], which he says keeps them out of the Tea Party, not racism.

British musicians Miss Dynamite and Charlie Simpson, fifth and sixth in line, join unemployed outside job center in a bit of performance art for the Battlefront Campaign, raising youth unemployment awareness (Leon Neal/AFP/Getty Images).

Herman Cain to Wall Street protesters: Get A Job, Hypocrites

Jon Terbush (BusinessInsider.com, Oct. 14, 2011)
Herman Cain (shown here courtesy of the Atlanta Post with Tea Bag favorite Michelle Bachmann) doubled down Friday on his statement that the Occupy Wall Street protesters should blame themselves for being poor or out of work, adding that they were also hypocrites for using corporate technology to promote their cause.

In an op-ed for the New York Post, the former Godfather's pizza CEO turned Republican presidential candidate wrote that the protesters would, "rather have a handout than work." Citing his own family as an example of how hard work can lead to financial success, Cain wrote that the protesters had no one to blame for their "failures" but themselves. More

A night at the opera, Koch Brothers Charles and David with singer Samuel Ramey (left) at the NYC Opera Theatre debut celebration Nov., 2009 (PatrickMcMullan.com).

Koch Brothers Get Rich with Secret Sales to Iran

Bloomberg.com, GoHarrison.com, Oct. 3, 2011

In May 2008, a unit of Koch Industries Inc., one of the world’s largest privately held companies, sent Ludmila Egorova-Farines, its newly hired compliance officer and ethics manager, to investigate the management of a subsidiary in Arles in southern France. In less than a week, she discovered that the company had paid bribes to win contracts.

“I uncovered the practices within a few days,” Egorova-Farines says. “They were not hidden at all.” She immediately notified her supervisors in the US. A week later Wichita, Kansas-based Koch Industries dispatched an investigative team to look into her findings, Bloomberg Markets magazine reports in its November issue. More

• Herman Cain sings Lennon's "Imagine" parody
• Lawrence O'Donnell interview with smart Cain
• From a hashtag, protests have encircled the world
  

Woman dragged in bank then arrested (video)

Wisdom Quarterly, AboveTopSecret, MSNBC, Inc.

It is not enough not to protest. The secret police (undercover agents infiltrating peaceful movements) will drag you into the bank then arrest you for protesting in the bank.

It sounds Orwellian. It sounds impossible. It happened recently at CitiBank, Inc.

A plainclothes policeman dragged a woman into a bank protest to arrest her as an occupier of the bank. What was she doing? Was she trying to help the "occupiers" inside the bank get media attention or legal help? That will not be tolerated in Bush/Cheney/Obama's America! No, actually, she was a Citibank customer trying to close her account.

Corporate crime is organized, the best organized crime there is.

Close Your Account, Go to Jail
AboveTopSecret.com FORUM (edited)
I can not believe what I have witnessed in this video. Will they be showing this on the mainstream news?

People went in to close their Citibank accounts. But instead they were locked in the bank and arrested. Citibank claims they entered the bank as a large mob screaming and chanting. However, things appear to be very quiet and civilized until the police show up.

There is a female Citibank customer still outside trying to get her account closed. She is talking to a few of them from outside the glass when an undercover cop grabs her and with the help of a banker and police with clubs forcefully drags her in the bank. A man who tries to help her gets dragged in, too.

The Koch Brothers love what corporations are capable of.

She screams and clearly looks distressed, not understanding why she is being manhandled. The police HELP drag her into the bank! Then everyone starts yelling "this is wrong," "shame," "you are disgusting!" I found it highly disturbing.

Police are the Troublemakers at Peaceful Protests


Citibank knows he [yes "he," Mr. Citibank is a "corporate person" with more rights than you or I] can do whatever he wants under the present system.

He is an organized criminal, more umbrella than person, for criminals wearing suits. And the people's police are little better. Citibank supports its local police the way Wall Street donated to have the Occupy Wall Street movement kept as far from Wall St. as possible. More

Forget the People, Power to the Banks!

Our Mess in Iraq: But "we meant well"!

Wisdom Quarterly, Peter Van Buren, National Geographic

National Geographic's "Inside the [US War on] Iraq" about Operation Enduring Free[trade for the Oil Industry]

Empire is a funny thing. Of course, no one we colonize is laughing. Killing in the name of [fill in the blank].

But some of us (outside the gun and bomb wielding military) can at least say, as State Dept. employee Peter Van Buren does in the title of his new book, "We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People."

Bush lied to invade Iraq then claimed no link to 9/11.

Efforts in our name go from from to preposterous to sinister. Our efforts to make up for illegally targeting civilians and bombing an independent nation back into the Stone Age could not be remedied by bureaucrats. "Nation building" on the ground was contradicted by our illegal occupying force.

(WeMeantWell) We Meant Well author Peter Van Buren discusses life in Iraq as a State Department Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) leader and his time at FOB Hammer, stationed alongside Bradley Manning.

Our government was (is) there to systematically steal oil and exert undue influence on the geo-political Middle East. And other than crippling debt, what do we have show for it? Many American citizens actually believe the propaganda that we were there to "help" Iraqis suffering under an out of control dictator we installed, armed, and betrayed. No wonder everyone there and most people here say, It's time to get out! Enough damage has already been done!

Of course, we were always there for other reasons. And we will be staying for a long time, even if we "officially" withdraw. Our bases, clandestine agents, and newly installed dictators are not leaving anytime soon.

• Peter Van Buren: "Freedom isn't free at the State Dept."
• AUDIO: The greedy battle for Iraq's hearts and minds (NPR)
  

  

The only State Dept. employee who may be fired because of WikiLeaks
One morning earlier this month, a man named Peter Van Buren was seated inside a drab, windowless interrogation room at the State Department and grilled for an hour and a half by agents from the Bureau of Diplomatic Security, the department's internal enforcers. The agents told Van Buren [author of We Meant Well] that he was under investigation for exposing classified government data... "Name names!" the agents demanded.

What Really Happened on Sept. 11? (video)

9/11 starts at 39:05, Zeitgeist: The Movie, 2010 updated version (ZeitgeistMovie.com)

• ZEITGEIST: THE MOVIE COMPANION GUIDE (PDF)

The new guide by filmmaker Peter Joseph offers 220 pages of source material backing the claims made in this classic film, which goes much further than investigating 9/11. See on YouTube.

Dick Cheney sticks it to Colin Powell

Wisdom Quarterly

Even if Dick sticks it to me, he only feels this big. Fallout from Cheney memoirs begins.

Powell: Dick Cheney takes "cheap shots"

The former Secretary of State dismisses the criticisms directed at him in Dick Cheney's new book. "My head isn't exploding," Colon says. In the horrible days of Bush, it was Dick and Colon rounding out the triple threat. This threesome was eager to ruin the world. But poet Donald Rumsfeld, Gaddafi heartthrob Condoleezza Rice, John Ashcroft, and other menaces (who strangely love to sing like tattling Dick) had a hand in destroying the constitution and committing crimes against humanity as well. Dick is still sticking it to Colon. But now Cheney and Powell are at it in public. Dick's many revelations in his upcoming memoirs is stirring controversy. He is admitting a great deal. He wanted torture, war, and the exclusion of the first black president, who was meant to be Republican Powell until he rubbed someone the wrong way. Charles Manson prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi's life's ambition is to bring George Bush, Jr. to trial for murder. There is a suit over Cheney arrest and even his dog is banned.

The "Shadowy Government" is Real (video)

Wisdom Quarterly (EXPOSE)

Senator Daniel K. Inouye (Hawaii) in 1987 Chaired the Senate Select Committee on Secret Military Assistance to Iran and the Nicaraguan Opposition, which held public hearings on the Iran-Contra affair. Senator Inouye summarized its involvement by saying:

"There exists a shadowy government with its own Air Force, its own Navy, its own fundraising mechanism, and the ability to pursue its own ideas of the national interest, free from all checks and balances, and free from the law itself."

• For more context and perspective, see the PBS documentary by Bill Moyers The Secret Government: The Constitution in Crises (1987) on Google Video.

VIDEO: The Secret Government: The Constitution in Crisis

The full-length (90 min.) version of Bill Moyer's 1987 scathing critique of criminal subterfuge in the United States. It is carried out by the executive branch of the US government. A hidden and secretive group carries out operations that are clearly contrary to the wishes and values of the American people, their elected representatives, and most arms of the military and law enforcement.

The ability to exercise this power with impunity is facilitated by the National Security Act of 1947. The thrust of the exposé is the Iran-Contra arms and government drug-running operations. Such top secret operations flooded the streets of this nation with crack cocaine [and many increasingly powerful drugs that lead to mayhem and astronomical profits, aid in the build up of our prison culture and facilitate the economic collapse of the bank-controlled legal economy].

The significance of the documentary is probably greater today than when it was made. We now have a situation in which these same "shadowy" forces (elements in the Pentagon, CIA, NSA, NSC, TSA, and Homeland Security) have committed the most egregious terrorist acts on US soil while justifying their treasonous activities by declaring a fraudulent "War on Terror." (It is impossible to win a war against a tactic, but that's the point -- endless war).

The ruling unelected regime in the US has insisted on the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq (and the destabilization of China, Japan, Iran, Libya, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Egypt, Syria, Yemen, Bahrain, Iran, North Korea, and any other state or stateless entity it determines is blocking its ambition total dominance sometimes referred to as the New World Order or the realization of Biblical Revelation). The same regime is now banging the war drum against the Muslim Brotherhood because it needs an inexhaustible "enemy" (having lost its Cold War partner with the fall of the USSR).

The subterfuge is legal as well as extralegal. The PATRIOT ACT, launched by Cheney/Bush and ratified (unread) by a very cooperative and fearful elected government, has stripped us of many of our basic civil rights. This is justified by the terror of 9/11, which was the shadow government's own doing.

The TSA, FEMA, Homeland Security, and other such institutions are engaged in abuses to prepare the public for living in a police state without end and without the necessity of false flag operations to secure our cooperation.

• Exposing the Shadow Government (mostcrucial.info)
• Libertarian outrage: PrisonPlanet.TV with Alex Jones
  
• Goodreads: The Secret Government

Obama's Debt Panic Ploy

Obama's legal secret

Lawyers think amorally, that is, pragmatically. That means there isn't much to think about. It's either do as I'm told or cease to hold office. So by that measure, B.O. is a good president, not much worse than the others. He daily betrays the public by portraying himself as a man of change when the policies he is forced to back are more draconian than Pres. Cheney-Bush, who were not legitimately elected either.

(PHOTO: Ann Dunham with baby Barry)

(WND) President Obama's mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, told the U.S. government she would home school her son using U.S.-approved textbooks during the period she moved the family to Indonesia.

Dunham, however, broke her pledge. She enrolled the future president in Indonesian schools, where he was registered as a Muslim going by the name "Barry Soetoro."

Dunham's pledge to home school Obama was part of an ongoing attempt to secure an immigration department waiver so her second husband, Indonesian citizen Lolo Soetoro, could return to the U.S. after his visa had expired.

Because Obama's mother's first husband was married already (according to the AP) when he married Ms. Dunham, he was not legally Barack Husein Obama Jr.

Since Obama is not the child of US citizens, he is disqualified from office as the founding fathers stipulated that only natural born citizens of US citizens can be vice president or president. More

The Imperial Presidency
(HHG Project) The president is very much a figurehead. He wields no real power whatsoever. He is chosen by the government. The qualities he is required to display are not those of leadership but of finely judged outrage. For this reason the president is always a controversial choice, always an infuriating yet fascinating character. His job is not to wield power but to draw attention away from it.

COMMENTARY
Wisdom Quarterly
He is the great communicator. Does this mean Obama/Soetoro is not "president"? Well, only if one means "of the United States of America." He is apparently president of the corporation, which has its own secret rules. Violations of the rules the country's founders established have been going on since the time of George Washington.

In any case, a man with serious drug abuse (cocaine, crack), homosexual behavior (with Larry Sinclair), and criminal conspiracies to cover these up is not going to be worried about technicalities.

The important thing is that he is easily manipulated by blackmail (and other dissolute means) by those who can at any time reveal his secret. For the job of the imperial presidency is, according to Douglas Adams, not to wield power but to draw attention away from it.

Who are the real movers and shakers? The military-industrial complex, the "shadowy government" (as outgoing President Truman called it), the Pentagon, the CIA, NSA, NSC, and other clandestine services... an assembly of otherworldly-influenced powers?

• The truth about Obama's gay murder scandal

How could any of this be true and kept "secret"?

A Colbert-Style Report: Comedy with News

Wisdom Quarterly, Colbert Nation, The Buddhist Blog, Dr. Robert Jacobs

Stephen Colbert on "blogger and journal-ish" Breitbart on Weiner on crotch-shots on Comedy Central (Huffington Post)

Living in a topsy-turvy world is easy -- as long as our sense of humor remains intact. That's not always easy. To keep smiling, to start laughing, is a blessing.

It takes not only an open mind but a throbbing heart. The heart opens, the mind opens. The marriage of compassion and wisdom is no mismatched pairing.

There are are growing number of intelligent comedians thriving in the the Bush-catastrophe era we are still living in with Barack O'Bush, who has done so much to keep and promote not only the policies of the Cheney-Bush administration but also its key players.

Why argue about revolution when things are worse than ever with a much nicer face on it? How I wished we could have a black president. I never bargained for a (shsssssh) sad "sell out."

The Colbert Report, Family Guy, American Dad, The Onion, The Daily Show, SNL (Seth Meyers), YouTube, The Young Turks, Bill Maher, Go Harrison-Jimmy Dore-David Feldman (KPFK radio progressive news comedians), Amy Sedaris, David Sedaris, This American Life... there are many options, many opportunities to laugh.

Buddhism has many comedians: Ajahn Brahm, Nes Wisker, Roshi Albrizze, Ashley Wells, and even the British Western-Thai-Theravada-tradition monk Ajahn Sumedho, who wrote a book titled Who We Really Are, which explains:

Laughter is Great Medicine for self-obsession

The Buddhist Blog

"Now one of the big problems in meditation is that we can take ourselves too seriously.

"We can see ourselves as religious people dedicated towards serious things, such as realizing truth.

"We feel important; we are not just frivolous or ordinary people, going about our lives, just going shopping in the supermarket and watching television.

"Of course this seriousness has advantages; it might encourage us to give up foolish activities for more serious ones.

"But the process can lead to arrogance and conceit: a sense of being someone who has special moral precepts or some altruistic goal, or of being exceptional in some way, having come onto the planet as some kind of messiah.

It's a kind of pride that can make human beings lose all perspective; so we need humor to point to the absurdity of our self-obsession."

James: I laugh a lot when I meditate, especially when that sneaky ego creeps in with the "spiritual materialism" of smugness, arrogance, and pride of feeling like I'm something special because I'm meditating, because I'm a "Buddhist," or because I'm feeling like I "get it." It is as if there is something to "get" (shaking head and chuckling). It's more like there is something to lose [to abandon, to let go of]. Namely, the very ego that wants to acquire. More

Kirlionics diagnoses and heals diseases

• Dr. Rife (also) cured cancer with frequencies
• Kirlionics cures cancer and other diseases in Space Age
• What is "electronic harassment"? (bugsweeps.com)

Laughter and Buddhism
This May I will travel to France to present a paper on Laughter and Buddhism. The meeting is that of philosophers interested in comparative work between Western and Eastern philosophies. The topic this time is "Laughter: East and West."

PICTURES: Buddhist wonders from Tegis Photography