September Morning playlist by Randy

September Morning playlist by Randy

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New World Order of Global Economics

Presenting Public Policy initiatives that recognize their importance in a world dominated by Global Economic Forces (Globalization) should be a goal of the Obama administration... Globalization in the real world without American Public Policy Constraints will undermine the American ideologies especially in regards to Human Rights, Civil Rights and Environmental Issues. This is not only an issue which is changing the American landscape, but will result in a less authoritative and less bona fide United States constitution. During the past thirty years Americans have become mesmerized by Globalization philosophies that impose Free trade at all costs as something close to a moral choice. Nationalism, Religious Ideologies, National Pastimes and Professional Sports support these concepts with unfettered voracity. The Laws of Supply and Demand have been so firmly ingrained in the culture that to sway from these results by suggesting that Democratic values can approve of socialistic programs or programs that support the general welfare of our citizens are in fact treasonous. Our Constitution was established by ideas about Democratic freedoms not pure capitalistic and economic motives.

The General welfare statement can be interpreted to include citizens or immigrants who want to be citizens who must swear to the Constitution. In the words of Aristotle; “In a Democracy the Poor will have more power than the rich because there are more of them, and the power of the majority is supreme.” The nature of capitalistic wealth as the primary goal of a government approves in the objective of winning the game of attaining the most wealth as the “highest” directive. This is similar to Darwin’s natural selection and professional sports in that it elevates the very best or most prominent, while suggesting that weakness and lesser performing constituents be discarded by some Divine Right or natural selection. This divine selective process demands and justifies the highest price. The divine directive suggests this very fair process ultimately results in everyone else prospering too. Most Religions especially Christianity suggests otherwise in that the poor and needy should in fact be cared for not discarded. Ironically, the religious right even the Catholic Church is a primary constituent of the Greed philosophy as it is the better of two choices of a Democrat or Republican. Their real divine directive which promotes the necessity to support the Greed pundit might very well be protecting the “rights of the unborn”. The reality is that both our political parties at the federal level are purveyors of the greed philosophy and realize they can control the population by “guilt” whenever necessary by bringing up these moral issues on demand. For this reason “greed” contributes to more moral decline by undermining the ‘general welfare” to such a state that the “moral issues” the right fundamentalist propose to take such a stand upon are viewed by the “public” as more about “greed and power” than conviction.

Many groups who have other ideas about protecting and supporting the general welfare on issues such as Global Warming, the environment or Health care are deplored as socialist deviants seeking to take away the divine rights of the greed protecting pundits. Sadly many of these pundits must rely on the programs and policies they want so much to deny to everyone else. Their programs for the military or education or whoever they work for are reasonable while, huge deficits become acceptable because we can have the benefits of a tax that no one ever has to pay. However, we know these deficits actually protect the wealth of the rich while placing the debt on a majority of Americans for generations to come.

Anyone who has listened to Limbaugh or numerous other right wing pundits during the past twenty years can testify to their oath that Politics and Social Welfare should be at the mercy of those who are the best because they after all deserve the most. Professional Athletes, Giant Hedge Fund managers or Multi Billionaires provide us with incentive to achieve and admire their greatness. This achievement and ability to push the work ethic and success at all cost requires that all Americans especially the poor recognize their place and to oppose the philosophy of Greed is in fact Un-American. According to these right wing pundits, the true American or Great American is someone who is willing to give it all for the Greed philosophy in that we must protect Warren Buffett’s wealth, Tiger Woods Skills and Michael Milken’s Genius at all costs. The millions of Americans who are in foreclosure are expendable, while bailing out large banks is the greed version of doing the greater good. If competing in a Globalized world means selling assets to other nations that have no intention or belief in our ideologies then Global economics rules. Human rights in China, The Middle East or India as well as starvation in Africa become acceptable while we are willing to protect the ideas of Globalization and Greed at the expense of the moral document we call the American Constitution.

We truly do have a New World order that is indeed more important than our Constitution, and the leaders of our nation have sworn to this new Government by declaring their absolute allegiance to the power of this new Globalization God in this New World Order of Economics.

the official PETER STROUD appreciation thread

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Looking Back at the 2004 Olympics

For the time being since the Universal Tattletale sight is no longer available I thought I'd post a few of the things that were posted on the Olympics by myself in 2004.


Terrorism and the Olympic Games

Terrorism and the Olympic Games. Sadly the two have become a pair, one seldom seen without the other. The Munich Olympics, the Atlanta Bomber and of course all those incidents which could have been terrorist acts, but we will never know the truth about them. Thomas Homer Dixon in his article The Rise of Complex Terrorism discusses how the rise of advanced Western nations has amplified the destructive power of terrorists and the psychological/ financial damage they can inflict.

August 24, 2004

A few days ago two airliners went down in Buchalki, Russia. Already these incidents have basically been recognized as terrorism although the presses immediate reaction was to deny them as terrorist acts.. The timing of two planes and a total of 89 people made this one a little harder to sweep under the rug.

July 17, 1996

Another plane went down in New York on July 17, 1996. This crash to was riddled with rumors of a conspiracy to cover up the evidence. Jack Cashill Article: “ Silenced: Flight 800 and The Subversion of Justice describes the eyewitnesses and accounts which were so conveniently overlooked to support the ruptured fuel tank theory. In fact more than one eyewitness would be silenced for there candor. (see article)Was a missile fired to prevent a disaster of even larger magnitude? Since September 11, 2001 we could now expect this type of response.

Other Possible Terrorist Acts

April 3, 1996

The air force plane a T-43, a military version of the Boeing 737, carrying Ron Brown and many from his Department of Commerce staff, CEO’s from 12 different companies and the flight crew crashed killing all aboard. Brown’s mission was to visit Bosnia and Croatia with US executives hoping to get contracts in the rebuilding of the war-ravaged former Yugoslav republics. The investigation and media reported that this crash was due to inclement weather. This evidence and statement is controversial in itself according to the article “Ron Brown May Be Victim of Foul Play”

November 12, 2001

American Airlines jet crashes into Queens on November 12, 2001. Device size of a shoe bomb used to blow off wing. Claim made the Farouk the Tunisian or Abderraouf Jdey was responsible. US Transportation Safety Board says there is no evidence that there was any kind of event in the cabin of the plane at the time of the event. See article

These are a few well acknowledged events, but there is certainly many more.

Deferentially, but very insistently, the media, government and intelligence departments make their preferred assumptions about events the accepted norm. Evidence in so many conspiracy laden events is scrambled, abused and denied to prevent the outcomes from having the intended results the culprits would want the American public to see and believe.

Therefore, it is plausible to question and seek out the logical truth even though those in power and position may deny the relevance of normally accepted truthful information.

Lighter Side

(Letterman’s Top Ten Olympics)

Top Ten Signs Athens Isn't Ready For The Olympics

10. Organizers lobbying for new event: Yelling at contractor to hurry the hell up

9. Committee still hasn't selected really gay theme for opening ceremonies

8. Makeshift Olympic symbol made of five interlocking poppy seed bagels

7. Yesterday, Athens' mayor said, "Wait, we're hosting the Olympics?"

6. Thanks to mailroom blunder, all the steroids were shipped to Crete

5. Builders brought only one hammer and a box of wood screws

4. Olympic visitors center to be ready in early 2006

3. The athletes have to share a gyro

2. All the "Greece" signs have a photo of John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John

1. "Olympic Stadium" just a bunch of lawn chairs in an Applebee's parking lot.

2004 Olympic Statistics Medals Per Person by Country

					2003 Population	Medals Per 10 million people	Ranking

United States	35	39	29	103	290,342,554	2.818	31
Russia	27	27	38	92	144,526,278	6.365	19
China	32	17	14	63	1,286,975,468	.4890	44
Australia	17	16	16	49	19,731,984	24.832	1
Germany	14	16	18	48	82,398,326	5.825	23
Japan	15	10	12	37	127,214,499	2.908	30
France	11	9	13	33	60,180,529	5.483	25
Italy	10	11	11	32	57,998,353	5.517	24
United Kingdom	9	9	12	30	60,094,648	4.992	26
South Korea	9	12	9	30	48,289,037	6.212	22
Cuba	9	7	11	27	11,263,429	23.972	2
Ukraine	9	5	9	23	48,289,037	4.762	27
Netherlands	4	9	9	22	16,150,511	13.622	10
Romania	8	5	6	19	22,271,839	8.53	16
Spain	3	11	5	19	40,217,413	4.724	28
Hungary	8	6	3	17	10,045,407	16.757	4
Greece	6	6	4	16	10,665,989	15	7
Belarus	2	5	8	15	10,322,151	14.532	9
Canada	3	6	3	12	32,207,113	3.725	29
Bulgaria	2	1	9	12	7,537,929	15.921	5
Poland	3	2	5	10	38,622,660	2.589	32
Brazil	4	3	3	10	182,032,604	.54	43
Turkey	3	3	4	10	68,109,469	1.468	41
Thailand	3	1	4	8	64,265,276	1.244	42
Denmark	2	0	6	8	5,384,384	14.858	8
Kazakhstan	1	4	3	8	16,763,795	7.4	18
Czech Republic	1	3	4	8	10,249,216	7.805	18
Sweden	4	1	2	7	8,878,085	7.884	17
Austria	2	4	1	7	8,188,207	8.549	15
Ethiopia	2	3	2	7	66,557,553	10.51	14
Kenya	1	4	2	7	31,639,091	2.212	34
Norway	5	0	1	6	4,546,123	13.198	11
Iran	2	2	2	6	69,018,924	1.44	39
Slovakia	2	2	2	6	5,430,033	11.05	13
Argentina	2	0	4	6	38,740,807	1.548	37
South Africa	1	3	2	6	42,768,678	1.402	40
New Zealand	3	2	0	5	3,951,307	12.655	12
Taiwan	2	2	1	5	22,603,001	2.212	34
Jamaica	2	1	2	5	2,695,867	18.545	3
Uzbekistan	2	1	2	5	26,410,416	1.893	36
Switzerland	1	1	3	5	7,318,638	6.831	20
Azerbaijan	1	0	4	5	7,830,764	6.384	21
North Korea	0	4	1	5	22,466,481	2.225	33
Georgia	2	2	0	4	4,934,413	8.107
Indonesia	1	1	2	4	234,893,453	.17
Egypt	1	0	3	4	76,117,421	.525
Latvia	0	4	0	4	2,306,306	4.336
Mexico	0	3	1	4	104,959,594	.381
Croatia	0	2	2	5	4,422,248	11.307
Slovenia	0	1	3	4	1,935,677	20.661
Morocco	2	1	0	3	31,689,265	.946
Chile	2	0	1	3	12,576,742	2.385
Lithuania	1	2	0	3	3,592,561	8.349
Zimbabwe	1	1	1	3	12,671,860	2.367
Belgium	1	0	2	3	10,348,276	2.899
Portugal	0	2	1	3	10,524,125	2.85
Estonia	0	1	2	3	1,341,664	22.354
Bahamas	1	0	1	2	299,697	66.889
Israel	1	0	1	2	6,199,008	3.226
Finland	0	2	0	2	5,214,512	3.835
Colombia	0	0	1	1	42,310,775
Nigeria	0	0	2	2	137,253,133
Cameroon	1	0	0	1	16,063,178
Dominican Republic	1	0	0	1	8,833,634
Ireland	1	0	0	1	3,969,558
United Arab Emirates	1	0	0	1	2,523,915
Hong Kong	0	1	0	1	6,855,125
India	0	1	0	1	1,049,700,118
Paraguay	0	1	0	1	6,191,368
Serbia and Montenegro	0	1	0	1	10,655,774
Eritrea	0	0	1	1	4,362,254
Mongolia	0	0	1	1	2,712,315
Syria	0	0	1	1	18,016,874
Trinidad and Tobago	0	0	1	1	1,104,209
Venezuela	0	0	2	2	24,654,694