Who Created Creationism?

I'm not against Christianity.

I'm against the manipulation of Christians for political aims.

I'm against some “Christian” talking-head claiming that the most recent catastrophe, no matter how unrelated, is because everyone in his Church, in the Nation, or on the Planet hasn't done exactly what he's ordered them to (with the authority of God).

I'm against (total sell-out corporatist) politicians (such as Senator James Inhofe and Senator Tom Coburn) taking advantage of the gullibility of Fundamentalist Christians.

I'm against ignorance – because ignorance leads to misery.

So, it's time to shed some light on the subject. It's time to free some minds. It's time to confront the evil.

The Bible isn't literally true. The writers of the Bible told us so. Yes, it's in the Bible. In fact, you don't have to read more than the first few pages. The writers of the Bible wanted us know. And they let us know right away.

Don't get me wrong. I'm not claiming that the Bible is fiction. What I am claiming is that the Bible is often being misinterpreted for personal gain.

For example; Creation. There is nothing in the Bible that claims Evolution is false – if one reads Genesis as allegory. And if one reads Evolutionary Theory closely, there is nothing within it that claims there is no God. Which is why many Christian Religions have no problem accepting both.

However, there are a number of Fundamentalist Christian “leaders” who want us to believe that the Bible is literally word for word true. My first question to these aspiring religious rulers is; why? Why is it so important that every word in the Bible be literally true? The answer is obvious – and political. So that every word that comes out of their mouths holds the literal unquestionable weight of God. Don't even think of questioning what they say.

Tyrants have envied the power of the Church. This is why, in the past, Church and State have fused to form some of the most tyrannical powers in history. One thing we should never forget is that no organization is above reproach.

As we all know, these fundamentalist Christian “leaders” are not Gods. They are fallible humans, just like us. And their biggest fallacy is they crave power. (They wouldn't be where they are if they didn't.) And in order to get that power, they say what works to get them more power. What works for getting more power is the illusion of perfection. What works for having more power is the illusion that they have all the answers.

Personally, I wouldn't really care – if their actions didn't effect me. But they do. These Fundamentalist “leaders” would rather ignore science than do the right things.

Science is humanity's best interpretation of how our world functions. You may pray before you take a flight, but you wouldn't hire your minister to build the airplane. You want someone who knows Science. (And consider this; prayer may keep you from crashing, but it won't get you up in the air.)

This is Science we're talking about. And if people ignore some science; they're more likely to ignore other, even more critical science issues. We all realize that there can be horrible consequences for not facing reality. For example; when it comes to climate change, America now has the least logical political leadership in the World. (Even Muslims accept the reality of Global Warming. (Sorry Muslims. But it was just too good a jab to pass up.))

Why in the world would any caring observant leader wish to deny science – which simply relies on logical conclusions based upon overwhelming evidence? Why? The answer is simple; power.

If the Bible isn't literally true, then they can't claim ultimate authority.

As I stated earlier, not one phrase of Evolutionary Theory makes any statement about the existence of God. That's right, in one way this is all just a great big non-issue.

Let me say that once again; Evolution and God can coexist.

What Evolutionary Theory does, however, is show that the Creation story in the Bible isn't literally accurate. In other words, here is proof that every word of the Bible isn't literally true.

So, what's a power hungry Fundamentalist Christian “leader” supposed to do? Well, definitely not concede some of his power.

What it appears Fundamentalist “leaders” are saying is; “The Bible can't be wrong, Science must be.”

What more rational people hear is; “My interpretation of the Bible can't be wrong, the Universe must be.”

What I hear is; “Don't listen to those other people, just listen to me.”

But what does the Bible say?

Surprisingly, the authors of the Bible were very clear on this – they're not sure.

Genesis 1:27 states that God made man and woman together on the sixth day, after making the animals

Genesis 2:19 states that God made the animals between man and woman

Genesis 2:21-22 implies that God made woman sometime after the seventh day

Quite blatantly, the stories of Genesis 1 and 2 are two separate stories of Creation – that don't quite agree.

Why the contradictory stories? Simple, the compilers of the Bible didn't know which story was more true. So, they added them both. This wasn't the only story told twice in the Bible.

Those who wrote the Bible were just people too. Whether they were inspired by God or not, this is their story. They weren't exactly sure how Creation happened, so they left it up for us to decide.

Allow me to emphasize this; the authors and compilers of the Bible weren't sure about the specifics of Creation. They just wrote down the Creation stories that they had heard. And they wrote down two contradictory stories of Creation – ultimately to remind us that there was still work to be done to fully understand how we came to be.

Is the Bible wrong?

I don't think that's the right question.

(In fact, I don't think that's the right question to ask about all Religions.)

The best questions should be;

what can we learn from the Bible?

And; what can we learn from the Universe?

This is what the best Christian Leaders focus on.

The truth.

WikiLeaks Isn't The Problem

The “for profit” mass media is on a feeding frenzy again. They've gotten together with the “flag waving” mob rulers to accuse an Australian of being a traitor to America. (Of course, since he's a Australian, that law doesn't apply.)

The American mass media has been endlessly debating whether Julian Assange, the man behind WikiLeaks, is a terrorist, a spy, or a hero. This is a distraction.

WikiLeaks has been the story. But it is the leaks that are the real news.

Now, before we get to the real news, allow me to address a couple of accusations that have been made.

• They say; “American lives have been endangered.” Maybe. But nobody has died as a result of the leaks. If someone had, we never would have heard the end of it. The right wing mob would have been calling for murder charges. No lives have been lost. Which makes the endangerment argument sound rather hollow.

• Julian Assange has been accused of rape – a by a woman who has ties to the CIA. These sure look like trumped up charges to me.

• The flag waving fake Newt Gingrich has accused Julian Assange of being an “information terrorist”. For what? Revealing the truth? I'm not familiar with that kind of terrorist. And of all people, Newt Gingrich; the man who outed CIA operative Valarie Plame (with definite endangerment of American lives consequences).

I'm not going so far as to say WikiLeaks did the right thing. But that isn't really what bothers me. What bothers me is why is it so important that, in a supposedly open society, these leaks are so important?

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has stated that the practical impact of the leaks in terms of security and compromised diplomacy is negligible. So, what's the big deal?

It appears that someone doesn't want Americans to know the truth.

And what is the truth? Maybe you should look for yourself. I did.

I checked into a document about Haiti.

I knew there had been some fishy stuff going on in Haiti when popularly elected President Aristide was removed from office in 2004. (“Kidnapped” in his words – by U.S. forces.) For two years after that, an unelected official ran Haiti. And in 2006, Rene Preval was elected president of Haiti.

The leaked document I read was a response to a call for a comprehensive assessment of President Preval. Nobody was going to die from this information getting out. However, the assessment was embarrassing. Not so much because it said unflattering things about President Preval, but because of America's attitude towards Haiti.

Example:

“Preval's … reflexive nationalism, and his disinterest in managing bilateral relations in a broad diplomatic sense, will lead to periodic frictions as we move forward our bilateral agenda. Case in point, … He is likely to be tempted to frame his relationship with Venezuela and Chavez-allies in the Hemisphere in a way that he hopes will create a competitive atmosphere as far as who can provide the most to Haiti.”

President Preval wants the most for Haiti? How could he?

And that Hugo Chavez and his allies - grrrr... by the way, how do you become overwhelmingly popularly re-elected dictators?

One more thing; what the hell is a bilateral agenda? Why don't these bureaucrats speak English? Deniability, of course. So, I looked it up. It has to do with Free Trade Agreements. For example; “Bilateral free trade agreements are seen by the agricultural biotechnology industry as an important conduit for spreading genetically modified organisms around the world. … and locking governments into even tougher standards to ensure expanded profit margins and monopoly control.”

So, let me get this straight: Back in 2007, the President of Haiti, Rene Preval wanted what was best for Haiti (the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere)... and this was seen as a potential problem for the United States.

No wonder they keep trying to distract us from the real news.

...Oh, by the way; don't forget World Press Freedom Day!

(Sorry, that's just freedom for the "legitimate" for-profit mass media press - controlled by the powers that be.)

You can celebrate by downloading all those leaked documents.

Is The Top Dawg A Blue Dog?

So here we are, watching the lame duck session of Congress making a last ditch effort to pass the majority Democrat agenda before the Republicans take over in January.

And what are they talking about? An Energy Bill? An Immigration Bill? Nope. Tax cuts for the rich. What a disappointment. And who's right behind this “compromise?” None other than President Obama.

It has to make you wonder. Is Barack Obama a closet blue dog Democrat? And if so, does he have a choice?

Actually, in a way he does not have a choice. If we wish to save our Democracy, we have to do something about the growing inequality of our society. This next graph says it all. This graph should be etched upon the minds of every American. This is the most important economic information we have in determining our Democracy's future.

America is splitting into two different Americas. The super-rich are getting richer; while the rest of us are paying for it - and being left to fight over the scraps. If this continues, our Democracy will not survive.

If this growing inequality continues; what we will have is a tiny fraction of our population living like kings/prisoners inside their gated communities, surrounded by armies of privatized paramilitary forces – with the talented population of Americans working like slaves and the rest of the population treated like human garbage.

Needless to say, this won't be popular. If this growing inequality continues, most of us are either going to end up underpaid or not paid at all. To continue this oppression, one has to expect those in power to create a Police State. And we obviously can't expect our elections to end up being fair. Because if future elections were fair, the overwhelming number of poor would immediately elect people to change this. They would elect people who would do the obvious. They would elect people who would raise taxes on the rich and share that wealth with everyone else.

Most of us want to be rich. Consequently, nobody I know wants to eliminate the rich. But neither do we want to be slaves to the rich – or human refuse to the rich.

So, if we keep our Democracy, eventually some politicians are going to have to say; “ENOUGH!!!”

These politicians may not initially raise taxes. They may try to fix loopholes in the tax system. They may try to turn off the flood of subsidies to rich companies. But eventually, they will have to stop the widening gap between the rich and the poor. And the easiest way for a government to accomplish that is with taxes.

Of course, everything I have just pointed out has already happened – to some extent. We have already lost some of our democracy. The 2010 election has proven to us that the rich can still buy the gullible. The “Supreme” Court has determined that elections should not be fair. We have more Americans in prison per capita than almost every other country on the planet. We are in a state of perpetual war. The places the rich don't dare tread in America (for fear of crime) are getting steadily larger. And now the Republicans are talking about privatizing parts of Homeland Security.

Obama could have done so much more. Or could he?

The Republicans in Congress have threatened to vote NO on everything until they get their tax breaks for the rich.

We really need to think about this. What does this threat really mean? Moreover, who benefits – and how?

What it sounds like to me is the powers that be are threatening to destroy America if they don't get their way. That's right – they've threatened to DESTROY AMERICA!!!

Think about it. If the Legislative Branch of the United States were to shut down indefinitely, what would happen? Think about it. What would happen? It doesn't take a PhD to figure out that it wouldn't be good. And yet, something very similar to this has already been happening in the Senate for the past four years. The Republicans have been filibustering like there is no tomorrow. And guess what? It's starting to look like there won't be a tomorrow!

The American people are angry.

The American people are scared.

The American people are slowly giving up on our Government.

Some people may want this.

Sadly, there are very likely people (who call themselves Americans), who don't care what happens to America. If America were to fail tomorrow, they would only get richer. We saw this with the fall of the Soviet Union.

Many of those who were in power in the Soviet Union are still in power. And many of them are richer than they ever were in the Soviet Union. What do you think some the powers that be here must have concluded by that?

There must be powerful people in this country (who call themselves Americans) who see opportunity in the collapse of America. Evidence of their existence is in the behavior of the Republicans in Congress. The Republicans are essentially exclaiming that either we do things their way or they will shut down the Legislative Branch of Government – and let the whole system collapse.

Either we let their super-rich “clients” have everything they want, or America will collapse and their “clients” will get everything they want anyway.

That doesn't give President Obama very many options.

However this threat has a soft underbelly. If the American people still believe in what America stands for – and are willing to stand themselves; America is much less likely to fall.

So far, far to many of us have been willing to sit back in our sofas with a beer and watch TV to see if anybody else is going to do this for us. And guess what? The corporate owned (rich people owned) mass media hasn't reported anything – even if it has happened.

We have a choice. We can wait until we don't have a home for our sofa and our TV – and no money for our beer – and then riot in the streets. Or, we can organize to push (and back-up) President Obama and the remaining Democrats in Congress to do the right things... But we don't have to do it their way.

We have two years until the next election. In the last two years, the Tea Party was created and reinvigorated the Republican Party. We saw how it was done. The Left can do the same thing – only better. Because we can create a Party with integrity. We can reinvigorate the Democratic Party.

...Or, we can sit on our sofas and watch all the Democrats turn into Blue Dogs.

If you know of any third Party which has the potential to become the Left's answer to the Tea Party, please let me know. The co-opted Right has failed us. What's left of the Left has failed us. Only the people of America can save America. And if we do it with honesty, integrity, and the overwhelming will to make a truly better world; almost everyone will be glad to join us.

Liberty and Justice for ALL!

SNWA's (and Nevada's) Best Option

Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA) is in a politically difficult predicament. They have been forced to mismanage Nevada's water supply by local powers that be – under water laws that were written in a different age. They are now stretched beyond their financial capacity to maneuver for water they won't need for decades – if ever.

However, there is a window of opportunity for them to do the right thing, get what they want in the long run, and supply Southern Nevada with plenty of moderately priced water – without having to take the blame for wasting Las Vegans' money and Nevadans' resources.

The Rural Nevada/Great Basin SNWA watergrab is expected to cost somewhere between 3 billion dollars and 20 billion dollars. SNWA simply doesn't have the money. But they do have cheaper alternatives.

The Yuma Desalination Facility has shown us that desalination is a very cost effective way for Southern Nevada to get more water from the Colorado River. The price of desalination has dropped precipitously in the past 20 years. And it has become obvious that if SNWA were not encumbered by their commitments to take water from Rural Nevada/Great Basin, desalination would be a no-brainer.

SNWA could, as needed, incrementally build off shore desalination plants off the coast of California and trade that water (with California) for more water from the Colorado River. The costs would be in the millions, rather than the billions for the watergrab pipeline network and the vast number of wells (required to distribute the damage in Rural Nevada).

However, SNWA has already committed over 70 million dollars towards the Great Basin water grab – by purchasing vastly overpriced farms and ranches in Spring Valley. Also, SNWA has already spent millions drilling wells all over Rural Nevada – and millions on PR convincing Las Vegans that they are so desperate that taking water from the rest of Nevada is the only option. Politically, there is no turning back – no matter how bad those decisions were and no matter how much more money will be wasted. Unless, of course, there is no more money.

The reality is conditions have changed. Desalination costs have dropped and the Great Basin is facing the same drought conditions as Las Vegas. Abundant water from the ocean has become cheaper than scarce water from the desert.

The only rational thing to do is follow the cheapest, most plentiful water.

But politics and Nevada water law are not rational. Nevada water law effectively states; “first in use, first in right.” Which is why Las Vegas applied for Rural water rights over 20 years ago. If they hadn't of applied for the water, somebody else would have – and Las Vegas would have lost the opportunity for that water forever.

What Nevada water law has inadvertently created is a water rush – much like the gold rush of 1849 – but this time it's municipalities vs. corporations rushing to take as much as they can.

Since Nevada water law so conveniently defined away Native American water use as not really use, the water is there for the taking. All the water grabbers have to do is come up with some “use.” Which means, here in the real world, Nevada water law effectively reads; “the first to waste the water can have it for free.”

So, Las Vegas had to apply for Rural Nevada water rights – or lose them. And then they had to drill wells, or it wouldn't look like they were serious. And then they had to buy ranches, because that's where most of the water is. And then they had to lie to Las Vegans about how desperately they need water – or the whole house of cards would fall.

So now, SNWA is in a predicament. Las Vegas isn't growing like it used to – and it may never again. Consequently, SNWA doesn't have nearly the money to throw around they used to. Which means there is a serious risk that those water rights they have applied for in Rural Nevada just might be slipping away.

SNWA is not looking invincible any more. SNWA has lost two major court cases involving the watergrab. And then, of course, there's this little matter of proving to the Nevada State Engineer that they can actually “use” the water – when Las Vegas isn't growing any more... Oh, and one more thing. Possibly the most important point of all: The people of the Las Vegas Valley just might figure out that they are being scammed. The Las Vegas Valley is close to being full. Much of the water from the watergrab won't likely go to the Las Vegas Valley. The big secret about the watergrab is that Las Vegans are being conned into paying for water for other communities. That's right. The people of Las Vegas just might figure out that they are being conned into spending billions of dollars to provide water for elsewhere. This whole scheme is just about to blow up in SNWA's face.

So, what's a quasi-municipality to do?

It's too early for SNWA to privatize. Nevadans would figure out the scam.

It's too late to rely on desalination. Las Vegans would realize how much money has been wasted.

And it's too risky to just keep plowing ahead. Besides, SNWA simply can't afford the costs.

So, why not do the right thing?

What Nevada really needs are more responsible, sustainable, and respectful water laws. Right now, Nevada water law just slices up the pie between those powerful enough to take it. This is no way to manage water in the desert.

• Nevada is acting like nobody in the future will need water. Where is the slice of pie for future generations?

• Nevada is acting like the environment doesn't matter. Which is about the stupidest thing anyone could possibly think. Without an Environment, there will be NO Economy.

• Nevada is acting like the Natives who have lived here sustainably for thousands of years have gone extinct. It's as if Nevada water law was written with the intent of no one ever living here sustainably again.

• Nevada is acting like craps are more important than crops. I'm not against gaming, but let's face it; gaming doesn't create anything. The recent economic downturn should have taught us that gaming should not be the cornerstone of an economy.

• Nevada is acting like only the cities matter. But in a healthy functioning Democratic/Republic, it is the rights of the minority that determine the viability of the Democracy.

• Nevada is acting like tourism in Las Vegas is more important than tourism in the rest of the State. The Rural water grabs are just big economies cannibalizing smaller ones. Nothing is really gained, while Nevada loses its economic diversity.

• Nevada is pretending that the world won't notice. There is a very real risk of a worldwide informal boycott of Las Vegas over the watergrab.

There is a critical need to rewrite Nevada water law. And SNWA has the power, influence, and the backing of Las Vegas to reform Nevada water law.

So, what's in it for SNWA?

They don't have to build the watergrab pipeline until they desperately need it. And they can feel safe that others won't take the water away from them.

How's this?

The primary goal of Nevada water law should be long term sustainability. This is the desert. We don't have that much water. And what ground water we do take will immediately kill the wildlife that depends upon it. So, it only makes sense that we save as much as we can for all of those who cannot vote yet (because they haven't been born yet), those who do not have as many votes (because they live where the water is), and those who cannot ever vote (because they are plants and animals).

Nevada water law should make it more difficult to take “unused” water from the deserts. Not that municipalities, such as SNWA, shouldn't be able to apply for future rights to the water. In fact, they should. And if there ever becomes a time when those municipalities are literally desperate, they could have first option to export it.

Even though most of the Lake Mead/Colorado River panic is hype, there is a remote possibility that the Colorado River could dry up. However, the worst way to deal with this is to help Southern Nevada to continue to grow until it consumes all the the Colorado River allotment and the Rural Nevada watergrab water... If the Colorado ceases to flow, there will be no other options but to do without. At least with water saved underground in Rural Nevada, Southern Nevada would have something to turn to in the worst case scenario.

We need to remember: The Earth is in one way like a bank. It has resources that have been saving up for millions of years. You have never, and will never hear a financial advisor say to you to go pull out all your money from your bank and spend it as fast as you can. And you have never, and will never hear a business advisor say to let the bank robbers just take what they want. Taking everything now is not planning.

Nevada water law needs to be more responsible – because some people need laws to keep them responsible.

It's up to us. Do we want a water rush, water grabs, Rural devastation and displacement, followed by extreme water scarcity and outrageous water prices? Or do we want sensible water use, responsible growth, and a sustainable future with a healthy environment?

SNWA can have what they really want – by doing the right thing. Southern Nevada can have water banked for future use (if ever there were a time of legitimate desperate need). Southern Nevada can have cheaper water with desalination – without the embarrassment of the cancellation of the watergrab (it would just be postponed indefinitely). And SNWA would look like the environmental champions they should be by being the force behind the rational reform of Nevada water law.

United Nations Presentation

I guess I should mention that I recently went to Geneva Switzerland to speak at the United Nations.



Needless to say, it was quite an honor.

I'll explain later why we were there. But for now, I was in a five person presentation speaking about corporate accountability. This was my presentation:

Possibly the best way to insure corporate accountability is for us all to band together to prevent particular abuses – and when I say all of us, I even mean other corporations – even other corporations that might have been abusers themselves.

Typically when we think of corporate abuses, we think of human rights or environmental abuses. But quite often, an abusing corporation is abusing other corporations also.

When it comes down to corporate survival, even an abusing corporation might be willing to do the right thing, and support the reform of poorly written laws.

I'm here today because I'm convinced that we have a window of opportunity to save my Western Shoshone Homeland – the high deserts and remote mountain ranges of the Great Basin. This is a vast natural area taking up much of the States of Nevada and Utah in the very middle of the American West. Other than mining, very little human development has occurred here because of how little water there is. However, this is exactly what makes the Great Basin so wonderful, it still retains much of the beauty my ancestors have called home for thousands of years.

When the U.S. took this land from our ancestors, we signed the Treaty of Ruby Valley that guaranteed we would not be left homeless and without game to eat or water to drink. Sadly, this treaty has been more a treaty of convenience than integrity. Now, Las Vegas wants to drain much of the Great Basin for its own opulently wasteful uses. It doesn't take a hydrologist to figure out what the consequences are of exporting water from the desert. We are facing the potential “dust bowl” devastation of an area bigger than some of America's smaller States.

And why? Because the U.S. has delegated water laws to the States and our State's water laws are so poorly written. Which is why I'm here today. We need help in keeping my Native Homeland from being robbed of everything it has of value and eventually transformed into our Nation's waste dump. Water is life. And a corporate driven quasi-municipality wants to take our water.

Nevada's water laws were written a century ago to placate miners and farmers. In a nutshell, Nevada's water law states; “First in use, first in right.” Now, it only makes sense that Native Americans were using Nevada's water for thousands of years, so we should have some rights to these waters. Our Treaty with the U.S. Government and the Winter's Doctrine both reinforce these rights. However, Nevada's State water law pretends that Western Shoshone rights to our own Federally recognized water don't exist.

Slicing up the pie for those who can afford to take it is no way to manage water in the desert. In the real world today, “first in use, first in right” translates to “the first to waste our water can have it for free!” The consequences of this corporate give-away water law will be catastrophic for everyone and everything in the long run.

Irrationally, Las Vegas is simply reacting to irrational Nevada water law. Las Vegas wants to export water from the Great Basin because if they don't, multi-national corporations will.

The watergrab isn't really what the people of Las Vegas want. This is what the developers and politicians committed to before the price of desalination dropped. In fact, now; trading desalinated ocean water for a bigger allotment of the Colorado River is cheaper than piping it in from the desert for hundreds of miles.

What we need are water laws that respect Native Americans, Rural residents, future generations, and natural wild areas. What Nevada needs are guidelines for writing sustainable water law – and U.N. help pressuring the U.S. Government to live up to their own commitments with worldwide help pressuring local Nevada corporations (such as Las Vegas hotels) to convince Nevada legislators to re-write these laws.

If this strategy works, it might possibly set a precedent for how to reform water laws across our nation.

Now The Democrats Have To Sell Out Too

Though hardly reported by the mainstream “for profit” media, there's been a major change at the White House.

Every once in a while, buried within the news reports, are gems of information that (taken together) tell a bigger story of what is really going on. The days right after the 2010 mid-term elections hold historic evidence of the response to the Republicans winning control of the House of Representatives.

For instance; when the Democrats lost big, what did President Obama do? He went to India. Was he just sick and tired of those damn fool wing nuts who vote against their own best interests – and had to get away? Well, maybe. But more likely he realized he had to take action to hold onto what power he had left.

It had become obvious that some of the powers-that-be who propelled him into office were now working against him. In 2008, Barack Obama enjoyed hefty contributions from the big banks. In 2010, the tables appear to have turned. American Crossroads and Crossroads GPS spent 38 million dollars running attack ads etc. to defeat Democratic candidates. MSNBC News reports the bulk of funding for the Karl Rove-founded groups American Crossroads and Crossroads GPS “came from a small circle of extremely wealthy Wall Street hedge fund and private equity moguls... These donors have been bitterly opposed to a proposal by congressional Democrats – and endorsed by the Obama administration – to increase the tax rates on compensation that hedge funds pay their partners...”

It appears that Obama has lost his friends in high places.

Talk about fickle. Even after President Obama hired the Geithner team of ex-bankers to run the U.S. Treasury, wealthy Wall Street moguls still turned on him. Apparently, these moguls are insisting on total control. And it looks like they bought it. The mid-term elections have shown us something – the elections can be bought by the highest bidder. The Democrats were simply out bid.

So, what's the most powerful (elected) man in the world to do? Find some new wealthy supporters – fast. Which brings us to India.

Supporters in India would be nice, but not very politically expedient. No. President Obama was in India to support corporations back at home. One of those corporations was likely Monsanto, who wants to turn all of India's rural farms into big agribusiness cash cows. But even more importantly, Obama was likely in India to support our military/industrial complex. In the past, America stopped trading arms with India as a result of India's nuclear weapons development. Most likely, President Obama was in India to assure them that no matter what happens – no matter what India does; America will never halt arms trade to India again.

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President Obama needs powerful friends to counter the angry Wall Street moguls who are trying to take him down. Apparently, those friends are from agribusiness and the military/industrial complex.

So, when it comes to the inevitable austerity measures the new House will be insisting on; don't expect the subject of across-the-board cuts to even be mentioned by the Obama administration. (And you might as well forget about us getting out of Afghanistan any time soon either.) As Obama must see it; waste at the Pentagon will just have to be tolerated to keep him from being forced out of power by Wall Street moguls.

We saw something very similar happen during the Presidency of Bill Clinton. After the fall of the Soviet Union, there just wasn't the need for such high military spending to fight a Cold War (that was over). President Clinton initially made a few cutbacks in military spending, and then changed his spending habits significantly during the Monica Lewinsky scandal. You may remember Bosnia. It appears that President Clinton gave in to the military/industrial complex to keep his job. It appears that to avoid a coup d'etat, Clinton spent our peace dividend.

It also appears that President Obama is now selling arms for our military/industrial complex in order to keep his job. That might not be so controversial had it not been for the fact that we have troops in Pakistan – and a nuclear war between India and Pakistan is far from out of the question. One can only wonder if Obama promised to keep selling U.S. arms to India even if India were to start a nuclear war.

But there's more...

What most Americans don't realize is that we are already involved in a covert war – a world war – a currency war.

We are only beginning to discover just how greedy some Wall Street moguls have become. This isn't just an American issue anymore. Worldwide, financial techniques are being used to take over. What's worse is that this underhanded buyout frenzy is being financed on the backs of ordinary Americans. The Federal Reserve Bank just keeps printing all that money (for the banks, not for us). This is not good. We have even been warned that the last time these techniques were used was just before World War II.

Former Wall Street economist and University Professor Michael Hudson states: “The object of warfare is to take over a country's land, raw materials, and assets... In the past, that used to be done militarily, by invading them. But today, you can do it financially, simply by creating credit, which is what the Federal Reserve has done.”

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The big question is; now that President Obama knows what Wall Street wants to do to him (and the world), will he fight back? I believe the answer to that question lies with us. Will we fight back? President Obama has stooped to supporting big business and arms dealers because so many Americans have given up on supporting him. Many have lost their faith in Obama. But that doesn't mean we should lose faith in ourselves.

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The mid-term elections aren't the end of the world, but they just brought us a lot closer – at a time when we are running out of time.

At stake or our “entitlements.” You know; those social programs which the U.S. supported U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights declared as human rights back in 1948.

And also at stake; those pesky environmental laws that were written to keep us all from being poisoned.

And very likely also at stake; the political stability of the world.

If we don't fight back now, we could wind up in an endless world war, with no social safety nets, and pollution everywhere. What we are risking here in America is millions of untreated illnesses, persistent hunger and need, mass poisonings, wide spread aggravation and violence, and the untimely deaths of Americans by the tens of thousands – if not far more... This future is the opposite of what we want. In fact, this sure looks like we're in the process of creating a man-made hell.

This is worth fighting.

Audit The Pentagon

I was watching the "for profit" news this morning and the new house members are all about cutting Government spending.

Of course, they only seem to be about cutting funds that might make it back to the taxpayers who paid in the money. No one even seems to be talking about military spending.

We all know that the Pentagon wastes billions and billions of dollars. So, why isn't Pentagon spending on the table?

It's as if these sell-out politicians want to maximize the killing. They want to keep the cash going to these "wars" (where there never actually has been an enemy army to shoot at), and they want to cut back on "entitlements" (you know; money for civilians such as medicare, social security, law enforcement, etc.).

Let's just find out where we are before we go and make all those entitlement cuts.

Let's audit the Pentagon.

I bet we can save billions without losing any defense services. It would be like money for nothing - which is what they're getting.

If we don't have to make cuts in social services (for the poor and taxpayers) we'll save money and lives.