Kucinich writes: "The most consequential statement by Secretary Clinton in last night's debate was her pronouncement that a no-fly zone over Syria could 'save lives and hasten the end of the conflict,' that a no-fly zone would provide 'safe zones on the ground' was in 'the best interests of the people on the ground in Syria' and would 'help us with our fight against ISIS.'"
Dennis Kucinich. (photo: Facebook)
War or Peace?
22 October 16
he most consequential statement by Secretary Clinton in last night�s debate was her pronouncement that a no-fly zone over Syria could �save lives and hasten the end of the conflict,� that a no-fly zone would provide �safe zones on the ground� was in �the best interests of the people on the ground in Syria� and would �help us with our fight against ISIS.�
It would do none of the above. A US attempt to impose a no-fly zone in Syria would, as Secretary Clinton once cautioned a Goldman Sachs audience, �kill a lot of Syrians,� and, according to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, General Dunford, lead to a war with Russia. If the US has not been invited into a country to establish a �no-fly zone� such an action is, in fact, an invasion, an act of war.
It is abundantly clear from our dark alliance with Saudi Arabia and our conduct in support of jihadists in Syria that our current leaders have learned nothing from Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya as we prepare to plunge head-long into the abyss of a world war.
Our international relations are built upon lies to promote regime changes, the fantasy of a unipolar world ruled by America, and a blank check for the national security state.
As others prepare for war, we must prepare for peace. We must answer the mindless call to arms with a thoughtful, soulful call to resist the coming build up for war. A new, resolute peace movement must arise, become visible and challenge those who would make war inevitable.
We must not wait until the Inauguration to begin to build a new peace movement in America.
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With jobs floating off-shore, banks ripping us, and 2+ wars that suck up $$ -- all these GOP/TP can talk about is abortion, gay marriages, and even forbidding porn (or so I heard on Letterman last night) -- What a joke!
SEPARATE these religious ideologies from my rights as a Citizen of USA --- Are there really more people willing to go down (no work, unaffordable food, gas, energy, etc) on the basis of stopping people from abortions or marrying a person of same sex (can I marry my cat? - we're the same sex too) --
Now that corporations are persons (to buy our elections) can I marry a corporation? I'll have to consult with Rick Perry first? Or Romney? He was all over TV telling an older person "Corporations are people" --- this GOP/TP situation is almost funny except - it will kill our middle class and thus our democracy.
Register & get Mail-in Ballots -- so you can vote in 2012 - no matter how the Corporations try to screw with our elections (They have warned us that they will)
As for these fundamentalists , nut cases, they sure don't sound too much unlike fundamentalist Talibans. Perry is GWBush redux. God help us.:-O
We and the Dems in Congress dn't have to play their game just bc they keep repeating themselves --
Ignore and repeat OUR mantra -- they people of USA want jobs and if a company goes off shore -- we want a tariff on the goods they sell here - etc
I remember hearing when very young that when you talk to a crazy person - you CAN go to their level if you "talk at/with them" --- and that is what we are doing.
I want more articles on "how to fix the problem of JOBS" -- and challenging the Supremes decison about "personhood" -- that is not a First Amendment right as the Supremes justified their 2010 decision. Scalia/Thomas: I'm talking to YOU.
Who is funding Norquist? Al Quaeda?
VOTE 2012.
Sorcery and Witchcraft, plain and simple, sez I. [And yet they elaborately condemn the ceremonialism of the Catholic Church.]
Is it too late to let them secede from the Union?
Interesting opinion on Gov Rick Perry -- & comments on Constitutionali ty -- and apparently there is no "path to secede"
http://timpanogos.wordpress.com/2009/04/18/no-texas-cannot-secede-no-texas-cant-split-itself/
Sam Kinison had a funny bit wherein God would wake up Pat Robertson at 3 in the morning, "Pat...PAT, wake up, it's God" "Yes Lord?" "I want you to go outside into your driveway and check your tire pressure."
Perhaps the solution here is just a matter of programming. "Psst....psst.. .hey...Rick...R ICK...it's God...I want you to go home, open up a beer and sit in front of your television set and wait for further instructions."
But we were talking prophecy and to stay on topic, lets try some quantum physics: see "Isabel Piczek Image Formation". Throw in some Mormons and Muslims, stir well...
If they ever do control, however, you can kiss freedom (as we know it) goodbye.
In fact - you might just have to kiss your life goodbye if you don't agree with their theological viewpoint if they ever really did cease control of our government.
Still - I wouldn't worry too much about these idiots just yet. Just know that they exist and may, at some point in history, present a real problem to those of us who do not "think" the way they do.
Long as I've got my plastic Jesus,
Strapped to the dashboard of my car.
Sad beyond belief, this group's use of a man/God named Jesus, also known as the Prince of Peace, to justify their power control grab. Sorry, but Jesus is the Holy One who booted the money grabbers out of the temple, and preached his sermon on the mount, clearly directing us to love more, care more, give more and share more. Does not jive with ripping away the the programs (Social Security, Medicare, Medicaide) that keep us all from suffering and starving, sick, shelterless, etc.
Then, recall this same Jesus turning down the devil's offer to give him control of all the world and all in it? Recall also the man/God clearly condemning hatred and violation of those who walk a different path sexually (i.e. let those among you without sin be the first to throw a rock).
What this article describes is anything but holiness - this type of spiritual masturbation for power seeking purposes is anything but good and Godly. And two of the 'worst governors in the U.S. today' - Perry of Texas and Scott of Arizona - jumping onboard says it all.
Our Prince of Peace in step with 'Hate' and 'Hate Groups'? Duh!
These groups are proving the case for worry. Whether they win out at this time or not, they are creating chaos, which has worked nicely in wrecking this country.
NEVER VOTE REPUBLICAN if you are not a Billionaire.
Read the Spider and the Starfish. The Apostalic Movement is based on beliefs and not structure. It is quite Protestant in the sense of diverse charasmatic leaders. Key slogans or words ring bells that supposedly cansolve the ills.
This is a serious movement that conservative elites can tap to keep the focus on evil government - but watch those slogans about repentenent corporations and wealth. They are potentially "progresive" thoughts.
Why can't people think beyond their bibles and realize just what our Founding Fathers were attempting to form. Perry is clueless with regards the foundations of this country.
I look forward to seeing him in a debate, something he refused to do in 2010. I want these topics brought up:
Cameron Todd Willingham execution
Texas' Emerging Technology Fund
The "purchasing" and "selling" of his home in Horseshoe Bay
The debacle of his Trans Texas Corridor
I can't explain or understand the ignorance of the 53% who voted for him in 2010. But Perry is politically saavy. He's no radical fundamentalist; he's actually worse. It's the votes and adoration he wants. Beware this man.
Actually he only won the last election with 39% of the votes. There was another Tea Party backed candidate who made the mistake of saying that there should be a thorough investigation of 9/11 so she only got a few percent of the votes.
Included in the list of "accomplishment s" of Gov. Rick Perry is his appointment to the Texas State Finance Commission of William White, a "Senior Executive" of the largest payday loan and pawnshop company in the state, CashAmerica.
From the Texas Finance Commission website:
"Since June of 2004, White has served as a board member on the Finance Commission of Texas, which is the oversight and policymaking body for the Texas Department of Banking, Texas Department of Savings and Mortgage Lending, and the Office of Consumer Credit Commissioner."
In March of 2009, he was named Chairman of the Commission by the Governor of Texas (Perry).
http://www.fc.state.tx.us/fcmember.htm
http://www.fc.state.tx.us/memberbios/white.htm
Instead of passing it all on to the needy Texans who are dying in their houses in this, our hottest year in history, the State of Texas steals the vast majority of the money from
the poor but still defrauds the citizens by saying it is collecting money to help our poor neighbors.
As the Houston Chronicle says in the following editorial, "There's a special place for people who behave like that. And it's a hot one.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/7686419.html#ixzz1Uwr5nS00
People need to know what kind of "good Christian" Rick Perry really is!
A second factor that might allow this to occur is voter apathy. Obama has angered the leftists(rightf ully so) by not fighting back strongly enough against the current coup of hatred that he has faced from Tea Party backed Republicans. Certainly a critical error by Obama.So he may lose votes by failure to show up or votes for a third party candidate.
Lastly are the so called "independents." These are the people that the Obama Admin has most feared. Obama has attempted to be the great appeaser-all intended to show himself as the ultimate compromiser. The handlers (with Obama's agreement)inten ded to create this mythical African-America n for all people.The fear being he might seem too liberal for "mainstream America." A man undefinable with the exception of his willingness to agree to all viewpoints. He has lost these independents-pe ople with no core belief system. Now we may all lose.
If you have a spare minute or two - check it out: A Christian Nation?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eQazNUNO2w
Thanks...
The NAR, and cult of "Dominionism" that drives it, are mostly White Pentacostal "Christians". These extreme cultists want to exercise "dominion" (read: CONTROL) over ALL aspects of American life, the so-called "Seven Mountains" (just google it, and make the hair on the back of your neck stand up).
Perry may just be a cynical hack; but if he's piggy-backing on these very disturbed people, of which Palin and Bachmann and their ilk are leading "prayer warriors", he's as toxic as Fukishima.
How the NAR has avoided more scrutiny so far is just another pernicious example of the rightward lurch of red-state media, the lack of investigative zeal, except for a handful of real journalists, and revelations that aren't broadcast by mass outlets and therefore receive limited exposure, let alone in-depth analysis.
A cult is a cult is a cult. This outfit is using the Bible and Jesus Christ to mask their warped conception of the U.S. and their totalitarian comfort-zone; Perry is doing us a favor by shedding light on this evil movement.
...and the Republican Party gets to keep them! It's God's answer to the evils of mankind.
December 21, 2012, anyone?
The religion itself historically appears to be rooted in blind faith and rigid abstractions, rather than actually relying on reason or logic, and thus is indeed a real kind of totalitarianism . Of course there are believers who use their obvious human capabilities to reason, unlike most of the fanatics. And they keep religion as a strictly private affair, as it should be.
Meanwhile, the fanatics, blinded by their zeal, claim that the U.S. is a Christian nation. This grossly contradicts the U.S. constitution and its founders. To paraphrase, e.g., a line in the constitution: Conress shall not establish a religion nor restrict the practice of one thereof. No mention of Christianity or any other religion is mentioned.
Now along comes another crazy and arrogant Texan and his handlers, proclaiming to be hearing God speaking to them.
HMMM!
Not that I believe that God talks to anyone but consider what you just said.
Bush and his corporate overlords profited from each one of those events both politically and especially economically. You'd almost think if they hadn't happened he would have planned them.
Remember, Katrina was NOT a natural disaster. It occurred because the Corps. of Engineers built a levee system that was plagued with flawed engineering and that the City of New Orleans had gone to court to try to prevent being constructed. The hurricane didn't destroy New Orleans, the collapsed levees did.
And when 80% of the city was underwater the Bush Administration didn't respond for 5 days. Then the privatization squad arrived and stole all the property they could. Oh, and then they made the entire school system charter schools, with vouchers.
Economic Collapse=Bailou ts for the "Too Big to Fail" Financial, Insurance (AIG) and Real Estate sectors.
9/11=Two unfunded wars for his Military/Indust rial friends and a whole new industry, the Homeland Security complex.
And Perry is indeed the instrument bringing about greater riches, literally, for the "blessed" -- i.e. the Haves.
Bless his heart (as they say in Texas and all over the former Confederacy when they want to politely say "I hope he withers").
Their minds and language heavily imbued with ideas of kingdoms and wars, show clearly who they are: the cruzaders and heralds of a proud new epoch: The Age of Gullibility.
Must have and education to have used those brains, that ain't being shown live yet.