My thoughts on this whole North Korea business

Am I the only person who finds it interesting that the only country to ever nuke another country is the one country that's decided to elect itself to police the entire rest of the planet to make sure they don't do the same?

Why do Americans listen to and incorporate into their own "thinking" the demonizing of nations like North Korea and Iran by the American media for wanting to develop nuclear weapons?  How can they allow themselves to become indoctrinized to believe these regimes are evil for simply wanting to procure the most lethal weapon on the planet?  The United States was first to have them and has had them since.  What does that make US?!  We have given nukes freely to our ally Israel.  What does that make them?

Why is it okay for us to have them, but not other nations?

Does no one else think it's weird that Barack Obama, given a Nobel Peace Prize less than a year after taking office, has killed more innocent people with drone stikes and sent our country into more conflicts than his war criminal predecessor George W. Bush?

Why is this supposedly peaceful president sending armadas toward North Korea?  Why is he flying fleets of bombers in practice runs nearby?  In a time when the federal government itself is forced to cut spending through broad cuts, how much money is it taking to fuel all those war machines?

Another question I have:  If Islamic fundamentalists in middle eastern countries are the greatest threat to our "freedom", and sending UAV drones is the best way of taking care of business where they're concerned, why is Barack Obama readying the entire United States military - not to mention the whole of the country - for old school war?

Furthermore, what has North Korea even done?  Bluster.  That's it.  It's immature playground bully bullshit.  They haven't even done anything, yet our president and our media have cranked up the propaganda machine to full throttle.

Reminds me of the winter of 2003 when the Bush Administration was busy selling the world on WMD and yellow cake uranium, and massing troops in Kuwait.  It's as if there's some sort of ten-year time loop the war profiteering banksters of the world are operating on.

Question is, how are Americans so hideously  blind to all of these paradoxes and coincidences?

Pentagon loses $6.6 Billion. So what?!

I just stopped by Raw Story to see the top headline is over some $6.6 billion the Pentagon has lost in Iraq.  Excuse my French, but big fucking deal. 

Let me explain why I'm a little less than impressed with media coverage of what I consider to be a relative non-event.  Relative to what?  How glad I am you asked!

How about relative to $2.3 TRILLION?  That's right.  Trillion with a T. 

That's how much money Donald Rumsfeld announced the Pentagon had lost on September 10, 2001.  Notice the date.  Yep.  The day before most Americans, if not the world, were duped into believing 19 Arab Islamists with box cutters hijacked 4 jetliners and used them to attack the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon itself.  That $2.3 trillion was upstaged after only a single day. 

You don't hear about that missing money.  Hell, you probably never heard about it to begin with unless you just happened to be paying attention to the news on September 10.  I was personally more concerned with the Monday Night Footbal match up between my Denver Broncos and my New York Giants. 

But now the Pentagon sees fit to create a news story out of $6.6 billion missing in Iraq.  Let's put these two figures in perspective for you.  Adjusted for inflation, that number would be more than $2.9 trillion today.  $6.6 billion goes into $2.9 trillion 439.39 times.  Did you read that last sentence? 

$6.6 billion goes into $2.9 trillion 439.39 times.

Let me ask you something.  What sort of false flag attack and subsequent cover up do you think $2.9 trillion could buy?  A War Machine can kill a lot of innocent human beings with that kind of scratch. 

If the Pentagon thinks $6.6 billion is a big deal - so big they're actually speaking out about it - why did they never have a cow over a figure 439 times the size?  Where did the money go?  That's a lot of your dollars.  In fact, according to CBS News, that's more than $8,000 for every single person in America, including children and others who don't pay taxes.  I'm not even sure I'd paid $8,000 in taxes before 9/11.  That's a lot of your money, just up and missing. 

Do you care yet?

And ask yourself what purpose it serves for the Pentagon to make note of this missing money.  Who benefits?  I don't have a clue, but I think it's an important question. 

Don't you?

A Disappointment by Any Name

So you remember how last month I decided I would start writing Barack Obama "Biraq" Obama?

I've got a new alteration for ya: Biraq OILbama.  44 days into this BP disaster and NOW our president wants to sluff off the criticism that he hasn't done enough by being "out in front"?  Too late, man.  Far too late.  It's all spit shine on a turd at this point, brother. 

Now that I think of it, maybe BP should stand for Barack's Petroleum, considering they gave his campaign so much grease in 2008.  Whattaya think?

Hmmm.  Biraq Oilbama.  Next stop, Biraq Oilbomba?

**cough**falseflagdistractionfromtheBPdisaster**cough**

Let's hope not.

Biraq Obama, One-Term President

I'm pretty sure Barack Obama has just ensured that he'll be a one-termer. Apparently he's forgotten that the groundswell of popular support that put him in office was largely because he promised a withdrawal from Iraq. Now, not only is the slow withdrawal he's actually undertaken a far cry from what The Candidate promised - but he's going to slow or halt that withdrawal.

I find myself eagerly awaiting 2011. It will be interesting to see the Democratic Party primary process. Will someone, a REAL progressive, a REAL peace candidate, stand up? Or will they bank it all on Barry?

Doesn't matter. Pretty sure I'll end up supporting as loudly as possible the candidate for the Green Party or any Independent who has the balls to stand up for peace and an end to corporatism.