Prelude To A "Red Dawn?"

It's not about arming people with guns. It's about arming the people with education enough to help the country out of it's crap hole. It's community service force's. Not some rampaging guestapo, popping off bullets into the heads of dissenters. You keep taking things out of context and coming up with your own conclusions. Or it's the people you listen to on the radio that are taking things out of context. But whatever, I don't really see him winning anyway. So you people shouldn't worry to much. Again, I say your fear mongering.

I DO have a slight correction on this.........They showed his message on video last night on FOX. He actually said that at a rally on July 2nd, not yesterday.

The radio station was apparently just replaying it during their broadcast. But regardless of the date, he DID say it.

No Jacknife, there IS an agenda. There's not even a need to go back into Hitler, Stalin and Castro's time to see it...........

We got a glimpse of what "Big Brother" is willing to do, as recently as New Orleans in the aftermath of Katrina, where an entire police force infested neighborhoods, kicked in doors, pushed people around, DIS-ARMED them and made them leave their own homes. The millions of us out here who have kept an eye on this over the last 20 years, have seen right through this liberal smokescreen.

They have YOU charmed and hoodwinked, but not ME.

Anybody who ever tells you that timeless cop-out, "It could NEVER happen here"........needs to tested for drugs.

Outtathere.....thank you, and many others for the support. This is America (for the time being, anyway), and people have a right to speak their minds. I have never intended for everyone to agree with me, but if my blogs make people at least THINK, then I've accomplished something, and maybe even led folks away from the goofballs in the media.

We've got a very dangerous situation looming in the wings.

Obama himself is not the major threat to our freedom and our dismantling. It's the pack of jackals that will control him, put the words into his mouth and the pen in his hand. That's what concerns me the most. He's the biggest puppet since Howdy Doody.

Hey............see it last night? HILLARY spoke out FOR McCain and AGAINST Obama. I thought THAT was interesting.

And Jacknife, I hope you're RIGHT about the outcome, but I have a feeling your boy IS gonna win. I think enough voters have been fooled and hypnotized by this guy, notwithstanding the tremendous media support...........and the ACORN multiple votes will really come into play, if it's close.

But...being a mere U.S. citizen, and LEGALLY registered Republican, I only get to vote ONCE, so I guess I'd better go DO that!

ADDITIONAL PS.................I just read through those websites that Mule provided, and I think it's a facade. Just my opinion. I think there's a LOT more to it than that. I remember what Slick Wille had planned for us at one time, and Obama is CONSIDERABLY more to the left than Clinton.

Plus..........Obama has many friends who would like to see our country fall, including that "damning America" reverend of his.

I'm tell everyone RIGHT NOW........if he wins this thing, you'd better start sleeping with one eye open and you'd better watch your back.

Mike:

I here ya! I will also go down fighting with "bullets first." Scary times ahead no matter who wins really. There is just bad and worse (IMO only of course). I know a lot of people who are going to buy or have purchased some heavy fire power "just to have." So, you will not be alone! Take care Mike, it could be a very long night.

Mike, I will also have some nice "accessories" as well. Better to go out with a bang than a simple white flag with hands in the air. Never was my style.

I think the only thing that is red is Opinion Missy's and Bazookaman's necks!

Smile Bazooka, you will never be alone in defending what this country stands for, narrow minded TRUE racists are always going to be there and always try to defend and further their cause by calling OTHERS racist, funny how that works isn't it?

From the dictionary:

rac⋅ism /ˈreɪsɪzəm/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [rey-siz-uhm] Show IPA Pronunciation

--noun 1. a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human races determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one's own race is superior and has the right to rule others.

2. a policy, system of government, etc., based upon or fostering such a doctrine; discrimination.

3. hatred or intolerance of another race or other races.

I didn't see anything in that definition that states that "racism" belongs to any one race in particular, just as I never seem to hear the cries of outrage and "racism" from Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton when a white person is brutally attacked and killed by a person of color. I guess there is a different definition for that in the dictionary...

vic·tim (vĭk'tĭm) Pronunciation Key

n.

One who is harmed or killed by another: a victim of a mugging.

A living creature slain and offered as a sacrifice during a religious rite.

One who is harmed by or made to suffer from an act, circumstance, agency, or condition: victims of war.

A person who suffers injury, loss, or death as a result of a voluntary undertaking: You are a victim of your own scheming.

A person who is tricked, swindled, or taken advantage of: the victim of a cruel hoax.

Truth be told not all peoples of any race creed or color are bad, but there are way too many willing to take advantage of the "race" card and throw it whenever they have lost an argument or not received what they feel is justly due to them. I still don't understand how it is that slavery was happening all over the world LONG BEFORE the United States even existed and now the rest of the world is moving on to deal with bigger and more important issues yet here in the US RACE is STILL such an important issue.

How about we make intelligence and willingness to work hard the issue?

"Globalization"

Globalization is neither good nor bad. In contrast, global warming is bad (anti-survival), reactionary politics is bad (anti-freedom), and SP*AM email is bad (the use of force).

Canals and steamboats opened up river valleys, then railroads opened up the interior of North America. Telegraph and telephone and wireless technologies opened up communication to greater distances. Container shipping is one of the most important innovations of the XXth Century -- load a new container and it might travel a million miles between six continents before returning to its original base.

Globalization is just fine because it is a natural progression of commerce, from the farm to the city or town, to nation states and to planet-wide commerce.

Globalization of commerce benefits all -- in theory. Chinese farmers have new markets for their rice and sorghum, American films sell on PAL videos & DVDs around the world, and Starbucks buys half the coffee crop in Africa.

New standards have appeared to manage this commerce -- I.S.O. maintains & enforces many such standards, the U.S./Canada & PAL televideo standards work just fine, and Windows can be downloaded in a score of languages, etc.

The internet itself is global. (Maybe bigger: Do the astronauts in space have access to Google?) The reach of the internet is anywhere there is a telephone system, and if that is difficult you can log in over cable or via satellite. A blogger in Paris reaches readers immediately in every country on the planet, and on all the ships at sea. Soldiers in Iraq -- on either side -- can get emails in an instant, including digital photos of a newborn child before he/she has even left the operating room.

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So why is there any need for discussion of globalization? Where is the controversy on the matter?

Well, first of all, there is the usual reaction to anything new. If it is innovative, the promoted benefits are suspect, seen as a source of problems. But those perceived problems are not caused BY globalization: What happens is that the Culture-Structure contaminates globalization (and all else) with intentional dis-empowerment.

Nothing wrong with creating jobs overseas, that is potentially Capitalism. The big problem is that the global manipulations by the Oligarchy result in slave labor under reprehensible conditions -- dangerous & unhealthy work environments, anti-union policies, and government apathy. The Oligarchy reaps their profits from workers who will never be able to afford the product made from their labor.

Organized crime has become global: The Cali Cartel delivers to local drug lords, the Russian Mafia operates in New York City, and Al Qaeda ships their videos for broadcast on Al Jazeera and around the globe. Terrorism itself now disregards national boundaries.

What must happen is the globalization of the principles of democracy and empowerment. But America has so little Freedom left that there is none to export. The election charade in Iraq will result in any number of outcomes: the predictable ones are unlikely, and the likely ones cannot be predicted. (My guess: another Dubya-sourced farce.)

Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. said that "Until all are free, none are free." Let's globalize THAT!

This revolution that is a-building begins in America. We, here, must develop skills of Reason and apply them to our Individual Lives, our everyday interactions. Then (and concurrently) we must export what we have done in empowering ourselves. Not fantasies of freedom, as in Dubya's inauguration speech, but the real thing. If America magically installs a government process based on Reason (Objectivism) and the rest of the world remains in subjugation, then we have only reverted to a state like the Cold War of the XXth Century -- America against totalitarianism.

Right now the neo-conservative factions in America seem to be winning in their quest to implement totalitarianism here. So the first order of business must be restoration of Constitution-based Freedom in America. Once that is accomplished, we can and will export.

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Or maybe principles of globalization can forward the Revolution more directly. The U.S. fostered automobile manufacturing in Japan and Korea, now they are doing better than Detroit, whose auto-makers are now largely owned by or merged with Europeans anyway. The same may work for the globalization of Empowerment. Build a 'factory of Reason' in underdeveloped countries or small municipalities and their success will provide competition to the tyrants of the Oligarchy. Think Galt's Gulch, but without the secrecy and camouflage.

This ezine has readers across the planet, including three on the tiny Isle of Man. A spark of Empowerment, a Stand For Empowerment could set Freedom ablaze anywhere.

The free market can indeed prevail -- the first step is to construct one! Economic freedom leads to opportunity; opportunity leads to thought (less time spent on survival); and Reasoned Thought is the only route to progress.

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I've not been able to nail down who first said "Think globally and act locally." And I remember one letter to the editor from a blockhead who missed the point: "The only way anyone CAN act is locally." Duh! The concept has been used and mis-used a lot, and comes with a certain amount of baggage.

But the reach of the Oligarchy is now global. Daimler-Benz owns Chrysler. Every major book publisher in America is foreign-owned. Sony owns Columbia & TriStar & now M.G.M., and the Australian pommie Murdoch and his Fox conglomerate steadily lowers the threshold for bad taste. I still cannot figure out who owns Texaco -- one petrol/gas card says Shell-Texaco, but my Chevron card bill says Texaco-Chevron. (At least I know that Shell is Dutch.)

The Oligarchy gets whatever they want because they are ACTING globally. They close a factory in Nebraska and open a slave-labor operation in Myanmar, ship the products in Panamanian-flag ships to Europe and use the profits to pay bribes in Africa. The Oligarchy is beholden to no laws, they make their own, and they dictate policy to nation states.

Meanwhile, most of you are not even acting locally. Who is your Congress-person? (Or similar official in whatever system of representation exists in your country.) Did you vote for or against Dubya, or did you and those around you cop out and avoid all responsibility in the matter of your future? Do you buy imported goods at Wal-Mart and complain that your town or state is losing jobs? [News item last month: California lost 25,000 net jobs in 2004 -- and no mention was made of the replacement of higher-level positions with menial labor openings in that counting.]

Globalization is a natural function of progress, to be used for expansion of benefits to all on the planet. Both economic improvement and political: a free people will thrive and practice free trade with other free people.

It is unconscionable for America to expect respect on the world scene while our elected officials make sweetheart deals with despots, while we invade oil-producing countries based on bare-faced lies, while we ignore genocide and epidemic disease because there is no profit in halting the horror, and while we pollute all seven continents and all seven seas.

The N.I.M.B.Y. principle -- 'not in my back yard' -- must apply to the entire planet. Cleaning up the Chesapeake is not an accomplishment if the solution includes dumping toxic chemicals in Haiti. Exporting Starbucks and McDonald's franchises is not an accomplishment if it is based on clear-cutting forests to raise cattle in Brasil or to build slave-labor plantations in Sumatra.

If it is a bad idea in Colorado, then it is a bad idea in Tanzania or Irkutsk.

(I have long thought that the solution to disposal of nuclear waste is to bury it under the mansions of the executives who created it and profited from it: They keep telling us how very 'safe' it is, so we'll put it underneath their kids' bedrooms.)

Globalization is the evolutionary force that makes the entire planet YOUR back yard, not just the playground of the Versailles-clone jet-set Oligarchy. Paris Hilton will never sweat thru her clothes behind a fast-food grill for days on end at minimum wage with no benefits, and why should anybody else? The jobs disappear and there are less options and one third of Americans live below the official poverty line.

A globalized economy can yet bring the lifestyle offered by the defunct American Dream -- stable employment, good health, free time, making a difference as an Individual -- to every single human on this planet.

But first it has to be done where you are.

Empowerment begins with the Individual; the Individual generates Empowerment by giving it away to others.

I cannot legitimately rephrase Rev. King's phrase to "Until all are empowered, none are empowered" because that is just not true. I like this though: "Until you empower your Self, nobody else will be empowered; once you empower your Self, then others around the globe have a chance."

The job of prisoners-of-war, as in "Stalag 13" and "The Great Escape" and Jean Renoir's "Grand Illusion", was to escape their captors and return to active service to their country.

That too is YOUR job: Escape from indentured servitude under the Oligarchy and man the barricades in the planet-wide class wars against tyranny and for Empowerment.

P.I.T. 08' by Gary Edward Nordell