I AM A DIASPORAL JEW OF THE ASHKENAZ TRIBE AND I HEREBY DECLARE BUELAHMAN AND LYNDA OF BUELAHMAN'S REDSTATE REVOLT TO BE ABSOLUTELY FREE OF ANTI-SEMITISM OF ANY KIND. THEIR VIEWS ON AMERICA'S ISRAEL POLICY IS THE SAME AS MINE. IT IS THE SAME AS WELL OVER 30% OF THE ISRAELI PEOPLE AND OVER 70% OF THE DIASPORAL ASHKENAZ COMMUNITY IN THE WORLD OUTSIDE BOTH THE UNITED STATES AND ISRAEL.
Matt Frei presents an insider guide to the people and the stories shaping America today. Combining location reports with lively discussion and exclusive interviews, the show provides new and surprising insights into contemporary America.
Matt Frei talks to American storyteller, musician, humorist and radio personality Garrison Keillor for some tips on Thanksgiving reading, holiday stories and all things American.
Matt gets the inside track from David Plouffe, President Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign manager. They cover everything from Thanksgiving 2007 on the election trail to whether he’d consider running a Sarah Palin 2012 campaign.
From news anchor to cranberry relish-maker, Matt talks to one of the founding women of American public radio news, Susan Stamberg. She shares a few Thanksgiving tips, including her recipe for cranberry relish and some advice about how to outsource the bulk of the Thanksgiving feast preparations.
Matt talks to Master Edward Winslow, an American Pilgrim from the year 1626.http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/p0053hlf
I don’t pretend to understand Afghanistan, but I do know it’s a big, poor, backward Islamic country in Central Asia with all sorts of warring factions that have been at it for decades, or even centuries. I know that American soldiers have been fighting there for eight years and that the situation is still a huge mess.
And now President Barack Obama, after sending 21,000 more soldiers to Afghanistan in March, is set to announce next week that he’s going to send over another 30,000 or so, which will bring the total number of US troops in that big, poor, backward, bewildering, violent Islamic country to about 100,000.
I don’t know much about Afghanistan, but I’m pretty familiar with America, familiar enough to know that America is not up for this. I don’t know if it’s possible to pacify Afghanistan – or Pakistan, Iraq, Iran or anyplace else in the region. I don’t know if this can be done even with millions of American troops fighting for 100 years.
But I do know, as I think everyone knows or should know, that America is not ready to fight Islamism like it fought Nazism and Communism, which means that in its wars in the Middle East, America is destined to lose. The only question is how long these futile adventures will last.
Actually, America fought one war in the Middle East that was not seemingly futile, not at all – the one in 1991 against Iraq. That was a “necessary war,” to use Obama’s term for the mess in Afghanistan. Back then, Saddam Hussein invaded an American-allied country, he electrified the entire Middle East, he was bidding for control, direct or indirect, over two-thirds of the world’s oil – he had to be stopped and turned back.
So president George H.W. Bush set a very clear, reasonable goal – forcing Saddam out of Kuwait – then sent half a million soldiers to do the job, accomplished it in six weeks with minimal allied casualties, then brought the troops home, leaving Saddam and Saddamism in ruins. That was a so called “good war.” But Afghanistan? After 9/11, the Americans should have retaliated by carpet bombing select areas of that country, killing tens of thousands of people, terrorists and civilians both, to let al-Qaida, the Taliban and everyone in the Islamic world know that there is a terrible price to pay for attacking America and killing 3,000 innocents.
Instead, America decided to “transform” the region. The result is that another 5,000 Americans have been killed, soldiers this time, bombs are still going off every which way in Iraq, and now a new president, this one a liberal Democrat, not a Republican neocon, is driving deeper and deeper into Afghanistan.
And what about Pakistan? And Iran? Are they next? “All options are on the table,” says Obama.
AMERICA’S PROBLEM is that it still wants to be a military superpower but is no longer willing to pay the price in blood and money, so it tries to do it on the cheap and as painlessly as possible, and winds up fighting endless wars with impossible goals in distant, hellish places.
If the US were serious about taking on a military challenge of this scope, it would reinstate the draft. This isn’t Grenada they’re dealing with, this is an enemy with outposts across the Middle East, and parts of Africa too. And the US means to go to war against this enemy with a volunteer army that’s drawn from less than 1 percent of American families!
“The problem in this country with this issue [of Afghanistan],” said Democratic Congressman David Obey, “is that the only people who have to sacrifice are military families, and they’ve had to go to the well again and again and again and again, and everybody else is blithely unaffected by the war.”
The American people won’t stand for a military draft; it’s a taboo subject . They won’t even stand for a war tax; that’s another taboo. But neither will they stand for the idea that America is not a military superpower anymore. And nobody in that country, not even the messiah of change, has the guts to tell them that they can’t have it both ways.
So the US pretends it can fight World War III like Grenada, its army is so far beyond overextended that there isn’t a word for it, the country spends more and more billions of dollars that it doesn’t have, and this has been going on now for almost a decade.
At this point, is anybody confident that if and when the US gets out of Iraq, after all these years of horror and devastation, it will leave behind a stable, decent, more or less pro-American country?
Is anybody confident of such a happy end to the war in Afghanistan?
I don’t think so. I think if America knew right after 9/11 what it knows now, there is no way on earth it would have started these wars.
But now Obama wants more – not because he believes he can salvage the situation in Afghanistan, but because he’s afraid of what will happen if he abandons it to the likes of al-Qaida and the Taliban. Which is a very legitimate worry. I worry about that too.
But the only way the US can salvage Afghanistan, or Iraq, or Pakistan, or Iran, or any country in the Muslim world, is to fight like it fought every other major war in its history – with a draft, with war taxes, with a clear, reasonable goal and the readiness to pursue it to the end.
Is America up for that today? No, it’s not, I’m happy to say, because, like I said, even millions of American soldiers fighting for 100 years might not be enough to neutralize the threat of Islamism.
It’s fight or flight, which means the only choice left is flight. The US is not a military superpower anymore, and it’s just hurting itself and a lot of other people by pretending.
The time has come for America to wrap up these endless, failed third world wars.
It’s not going to be easy. And the worst part is that after Obama deepens America’s commitment with 30,000 new soldiers, getting out is going to be even harder.
Facts
Thanksgiving Day is celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November in the United States.
By the fall of 1621 only half of the pilgrims, who had sailed on the Mayflower, survived. The survivors, thankful to be alive, decided to give a thanksgiving feast.
Thanksgiving Day is celebrated on the second Monday in October in Canada.
The Plymouth Pilgrims were the first to celebrate the Thanksgiving.
The pilgrims arrived in North America in December 1620.
The Pilgrims sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to reach North America.
The pilgrims sailed on the ship, which was known by the name of ‘Mayflower’.
They celebrated the first Thanksgiving Day in the fall of 1621.
They celebrated the first Thanksgiving Day at Plymouth, Massachusetts.
The drink that the Puritans brought with them in the Mayflower was the beer.
The Wampanoag Indians were the people who taught the Pilgrims how to cultivate the land.
The Pilgrim leader, Governor William Bradford, had organized the first Thanksgiving feast in the year 1621 and invited the neighboring Wampanoag Indians also to the feast.
The first Thanksgiving feast was held in the presence of around ninety Wampanoag Indians and the Wampanoag chief, Massasoit, was also invited there.
The first Thanksgiving celebration lasted three days.
President George Washington issued the first national Thanksgiving Day Proclamation in the year 1789 and again in 1795.
The state of New York officially made Thanksgiving Day an annual custom in 1817.
Sarah Josepha Hale, an editor with a magazine, started a Thanksgiving campaign in 1827 and it was result of her efforts that in 1863 Thanksgiving was observed as a day for national thanksgiving and prayer.
Abraham Lincoln issued a ‘Thanksgiving Proclamation’ on third October 1863 and officially set aside the last Thursday of November as the national day for Thanksgiving. Whereas earlier the presidents used to make an annual proclamation to specify the day when Thanksgiving was to be held.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt restored Thursday before last of November as Thanksgiving Day in the year 1939. He did so to make the Christmas shopping season longer and hus stimulate the economy of the state.
Congress passed an official proclamation in 1941 and declared that now onwards Thanksgiving will be observed as a legal holiday on the fourth Thursday of November every year.
People are people everywhere we go aren’t they. I had prior looked into a company called ‘PLUG’ and it actually has stock– it is wave energy. Now listening to this I kept answering outloud… ” Hell we can’t get people to stop killing people and you want to change people into tree planters. Well and good but in a world gone mad… well, really… what are we doing??? and for heavens sake… Carbon Credits exchanged globally– and Carbon swopping??? Geeeeeeeeece
If you are a regular reader here, you will consider this repetitive, perhaps, because Lynda, Kelso and I have been barking this dog forever (here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.) And I can tell you the number of other, mainstream folk have been harping on this for a very long time (William Greider, Robert Kuttner, Jim Hightower, Nomi Prins, Gerald Celente, Jim Rogers, John R. MacArthur, Alex Jones, Robert A.G. Monks, Tom Stanton, Kevin Phillips, Dean Baker, and Naomi Klein and MANY more). This just isn’t some rednecks spouting bullshit, but is simple observation of the most obvious crimianl enterprise of control that only a fool or sycophant (Obamaholic) would miss (or deny).
Matt Taibbi, a Rolling Stones contributer is interviewed below and discusses how the Single Party with two heads is owned and controlled by Goldman Sachs (and Big Money, in general). For such a good reporter on many levels, I still don’t understand his aversion to the 9/11 truth and seems so very happy to accept the government propaganda. It doesn’t make sense to me.
But the following appears to be a pretty good description of how Goldman Sachs owns our government (including the past three presidencies, at least):
Scam central
“The Financial Services Modernization Act.’
“The Commodity Futures Modernization Act.”
Goldman Sachs wrote them…
Clinton teed them up and Bush & Co. knocked them down the fairway.
Now Goldman owns the new president too.
The bankrupting of America (and the world) on the behalf of a handful of New York investment bankers.
Kleptocracy – government of the thieves, by the thieves, for the thieves.
The Obama Promise Tracker is an electronic tool with which to follow all the promises the new President has made – 895 by its inventor Todd Smiths count. Of these 895 promises, made between February 10 2007 – the day he announced his candidacy – and November 4 – the day he was announced President-elect – 14 are tagged under “Foreign Policy, Israel”.
The first, “I will bring to the White House an unshakable commitment to Israel’s security”, is a commitment hard to define. Obama also promised to make the peace process “a key diplomatic priority”. This is easier to check, and one Obama is evidently serious about. Proof: the appointment of George Mitchell as special envoy to the Arab-Israeli peace process.
Mitchell is not new to this contentious conflict. He was in the Middle East over eight years ago, appointed by President Bill Clinton, to report on the raging second intifada. The report was not very helpful. The intifada continued. One of his recommended measures was not well received by the Israeli government: to halt development in the settlements, including measures taken to meet the needs of “natural growth”.
“We can’t ask people not to have children. We can’t ask the children not to live with their families,” Israeli opponents claimed.
Mitchell is coming back to a different Middle East. In the past eight years Yasir Arafat died, the intifada was defeated, Israel evacuated Gaza and Hamas was elected. Mitchell will find a Palestinian leader who is willing but incapable and a new Israeli government that needs time to organize. A realistic, modest approach will have to be formulated. One thing can ignite some friction: the man who wanted a total settlement freeze cannot be expected to let Israel off on illegal outposts. The promise that Israel made to evacuate them will have to be executed. This might be possible for a government of the right-centre (more likely) or centre-left (less so, according to polls). It will be very difficult for a government of the right, headed by Likuds Binyamin Netanyahu and supported by right-wing parties only. Netanyahu knows that for his own good, he needs Labor, Kadima or both as part of his coalition.
But for most Israelis, Obama’s commitment will not be tested in Palestine, but rather in Iran. Smith’s Promise Tracker notes three promises: “incentives” for Iran to abandon its nuclear program; a promise to “tighten sanctions”; and “direct diplomacy, without preconditions”. This will be enough only if Iran agrees.
Obama has not always been consistent regarding Iran. Earlier this week, I sent Smith a quote from my May 2007 interview with Obama: “I don’t think it would be appropriate for us to engage in full-scale diplomatic discussions without some progress or some indication of good faith on the part of the Iranians,” the then senator said. “I do think the US needs to send a signal to Iran that if they change their behavior that they have avenues available to them for improved international relations.”
This assertion somewhat contradicts his later promise for unconditional high-level talks. Smith will add the quote to the next edition of the Obama Promise Tracker. This will present a dilemma to those following these promises: do they want the first promise to materialize, or the second?
Our troops in Afghanistan prove they’ve retained their
sense of humor with the following:
“YOU MAY BE A TALIBAN IF….”
1. You refine heroin for a living, but you have a moral
objection to beer.
2. You own a $3,000 machine gun and $5,000 rocket launcher,
but you can’t afford shoes for your kids.
3. You have more wives than teeth.
4. You wipe your butt with your bare hand, but consider
bacon “unclean.”
5. You think vests come in two styles: bullet-proof and
suicide.
6. You can’t think of anyone you haven’t declared Jihad
against.
7. You consider television dangerous, but routinely carry
explosives in your clothing.
8. You were amazed to discover that cell phones have uses
other than setting off roadside bombs.
9. You have nothing against women and think every man
should own several.
10 You’ve always had a crush on your neighbor’s goat.
I am not sure if I can stand the “change” coming from these progressives.
Robert Wexler: Someone I had hopes for shows that he, as most, are indebted to zionist influence. Robert, let me share with you, “America does NOT stand shoulder to shoulder with Israel’s offense”.
Speak for your self, you twit.
Virginia Foxx: Is it dementia that ravaged your brain to consider the words “precision” and “strikes” when comparing what Israel is doing to the firecrackers Hamas has been shooting? More importantly, do you believe that the 800+ civilians killed is a “precision strike”? And this is a “measured response”?
You stupid old clueless hag. Have you no decency or are you truly this ignorant?
Brad Sherman: A man that until this very speech held my respect due to his standing up, at least in show, earlier this year. Hamas may very well want every Jew dead. So, you endorse the overwhelming, phosphorous weaponry retaliation against the Gazan women and children?
Brad, ” Fuck you”. I hope that explains my new feelings for you.
Nany Pelosi: Of course zionists own her. I had hoped that anyone would replace her worthless and complicit ass. But at least she called for stopping the death on both sides. I still want her out.
Remember the blockade on Gaza (Ron Raul and Dennis Kucinich appear to be the only leaders in the governemnt with this ability) that led to this. Remember the Colonial powers that took land away from some to give to others. Remember the 1967 invasion that led to the initial outcry from the ME. Remember the bombing of the tunnels (supposedly) by Israel during the ceasefire that led to this. Remember that it is your money (tax money) that is paying for this murder.
How can it be that we have allowed these murderous thugs to control our leadship’s minds?
Here is the ultimate hypocrisy in the name of you rednecks.
Do you realize that Israel, with our backing, was instrumental in establishing Hamas? They had a purpose. It was to stop the PLO; to give the PLO a radical opposition to take them down.
Then, because that didn’t turn out very well (kind of like the way the villagers in the Frankenstein movie became murderous), we (America and Israel) insisted that elections be held (thinking that there would be no way that Hamas could win). But win they did and Hamas became the government (through free and fair elections).
Now why would someone elect “terrorists” as their leaders? (We could ask the same thing of ourselves).
My reaction is that one person’s terrorist, may be the other’s hero.
History (not that many Americans read, understand or even “care” about history) shows that we invent and make these “monsters”, then don’t like the outcome. Pawns to move weapons, fight our battles and suck up our money.
It is true with Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda. Most rednecks don’t understand that America trained, radicalized and funded Osama against the Soviet Union. We (AMERICA) created our enemy. Now we don’t like it. The Taliban is in Afghanistan because of AMERICA!
We created and funded the means for Saddam Hussein to become leader of Iraq. We funded his (our) war with Iran (trying to bring Iran down in the same manner we brought down the Soviet Union).
It appears that the fools who do the ‘thinking’ in America’s leadership do not do a very good job of it.
So, we have “blowback” and it is deserved. If the shoe were on the other foot, I know of few rednecks that would not “BLOW BACK”.
But don’t listen to this old redneck. Listen to this one (h/t BrassCheckTV):
Those pesky Gazans just don’t know how to act in a refugee camp. I think that Americans should also invade to clean up Israel’s mess, then hand it over to them. (You zioinist supporters should love that idea)
Life in Gaza: The Truth without Zionist Propaganda
This video was shot one month BEFORE the assault began:
People are taken to the brink of despair, then a momentary amount of help. Then they are taken to the brink of despair again. Over and over and over.
Israel is squeezing the life out of people because Hamas, AFTER we insisted they have elections that put Hamas in power.
We need to get our noses out of their business and STOP funding Israel. Period.
This movie was discussed at my family Christmas in New Jersey. I was actually amazed at how many of my cousins had never heard of it…. and considering I am the oldest living relative at this time [geeeece].. it was me and my cousins kids [college age] that had seen it. It is the cult classic of the decade. This flick is not for anyone who is younger than 18[? that's relative], it is very very violent and graphic… and the ‘f’ word is countless. But, I must say– it is quoted by fans more than any other flick, I have seen it numerous times, it actually made me laugh my ass off… and the characters are so clearly defined and fit the story perfectly. Have any of you seen it? …let’s have a ‘Latte’ and share thoughts. lol lol
* when Rocco runs into the apartment to announce they all have to leave…
[unless you have seen this flick, you can't appreciate how funny this is actually]
I don’t understand it and neither does most of the world. Don’t get me wrong, I understand why Americans have fallen for the lie (all has to do with fear and Nationalistic pride), but it just seems so idiotic that our foreign policy is driven by Israel and its neocon rule.
I know many Jewish people and this is NOT an attack on Jews. It is an attack on a rogue and dangerous leadershoip of a country (that basically mimics America’s leadership). Barack Obama is the same, if not worse than Bush. That should cause you to shudder, but I know how much you worship him, so…
Israel is driving our foreign policy and the faux Judeo-Christians fall for the murder and carnage as if it were God blessing them with manna.
Sixty years of massive, ongoing, coldly calculated human rights abuses against the Palestinian people.
That’s the legacy of the State of Israel.
Americans pay the bills for this tyranny and our hopelessly corrupt news media and elected officials go along with it because it’s politically expedient.
Note: The videos of IfAmericansKnew.org are constantly removed by YouTube censors.
This video is one of the very best when it comes to tracing how and why cannabis became illegal. As many times as I have written about this subject, until this video, I never had a really full description of the history of it to share. This is well worth the 10 minute watch for anyone in agreement or not. It lays out the histroy (explaining that in the 1600’s the first marijuana law on this continent was to MAKE citizens grow it). Hypocrisy at its finest.
Also, isn’t funny how hemp can be demonized before WW2, undemonized for the war effort, then re-demonized afterwards (and Americans just go along as the sheople they are). Isn’t it funny how 4/5’s of the Canadian war fight money goes to cannabis, and only 1/5 to hard drugs?
Every committee formed and report generated (even Nixon’s, who began the war on drugs which really took off under Reagan) says that cannabis is not harmful and does NOT do what Reefer Madness scared everybody into thinking it did. Yet, they still enforce the bogus “war”.
I will also point out that there has been only one person who has come here to argue this subject with me and that person could not debate, nor would he read the many instances of information links I have added to virtually every blog post on the subject. I implore anyone to debate this subject with me, for I know I am 100% correct. You can’t win. America can’t win as long as it is ilegal.
Cannabis is illegal for one reason and one reason only. Big Money.
It is all a lie, just like everything else out of their mouths, people.
The sooner we change this, the sooner American’s lives begin to get better.From BrassCheckTV:
The illegal green tree
Why?
Why is the massively valuable and versatile hemp plant illegal in the United States?
Three reasons.
Making hemo illegal:
1. Provides make-work for a vast army of “law enforcers” who then are available to be used for other social control work
2. Protects the market share of numerous well organized lobbies: alcohol makers, plastics and chemical manufacturers, pharmaceutical companies, and cotton growers (still a powerful economic force in America 200 + years after the Civil War.)
3. Gives fascist minded politicians yet another way to control the population
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