Let’s Turn Our Backs On Warring Attitudes

Ron Paul states we might have to get used to the idea of an Iran with nuclear power. Well, duh. I mean short of going in and taking away their nuclear capability what else are we going to do?

He points out that our current policies actually encourage Iran to pursue nukes. I agree, but the fault doesn’t lie only with the U.S. It’s basic human nature that when you don’t get along with your neighbor, who has the ability to wipe out your entire existence, you take action to defend yourself. Your choices are, you develop an equally powerful ability to wipe out his existence or you talk out your differences like the evolved and civilized adults we like to think we are.

It’s very clear that the method of sanctions the world community used in an attempt to prevent Iran from building nuclear power failed. It’s equally clear that given the history of animosity between Iran and the U.S. that Iran feels with 100% certainty that they need to defend itself. In this regard is where I agree with Ron Paul.

This mad cycle of one-upmanship of pursuing more threatening weapons than the other guy is foolish, childish and so preventable.

Thomas Jefferson: “The more you use your power the less you have.”

Do these words sound like those of anyone in power today. No. Why has America and, as a result, the world community, ‘progressed’ to the point that we view military power as the desired measure of security?

The U.S. has the attitude “You other nation’s live peacefully our we will kill you.”

Religious zealots follow the conviction “You believe as we do or we will kill you.”

Does any of this make any sense when we consider that every person on this planet wants to survive? A very small number of people within the world population subscribe to chaos for whatever reason, these people should be identified and locked away where they cannot do any harm. Other than that there is no sane reason why the any nation should direct its financial resources to the act of killing as opposed to the act of nurturing its fellow citizens.

The sooner the entire world adopts the idea that no one needs to ‘rule’ over anyone just for the sake of political power the better off this world ‘community’ will be.

Stop throwing money at destruction and start throwing it at more constructive purposes such as feeding the hungry, curing diseases, and education.

Oh, and how about stop idolizing individual financial wealth. Once we adopt the idea that we are all working towards the improvement of our one community and that every single person must contribute we will all be wealthier for it.

To China: America is Here to Serve

Is anyone in this country under the mistaken illusion that America is number one in anything?

For some startling facts designed to wake us all up to the fact that we are becoming financial slaves to China, here is a partial list copied from Permaculture & Regenerative Design News.

The United States has lost approximately 42,400 factories since 2001. 

In 2008, 1.2 billion cellphones were sold worldwide.  So how many of them were manufactured inside the United States?  Zero.

As of the end of July, the U.S. trade deficit with China had risen 18 percent compared to the same time period a year ago.

In the United States today, consumption accounts for 70 percent of GDP. Of this 70 percent, over half is spent on services.

In 2001, the United States ranked fourth in the world in per capita broadband Internet use.  Today it ranks 15th.

China Takes Aim at Dollar

clipped from online.wsj.com China called for the creation of a new currency to eventually replace the dollar as the world's standard, proposing a sweeping overhaul of global finance that reflects developing nations' growing unhappiness with the U.S. role in the world economy The unusual proposal, made by central bank governor Zhou Xiaochuan in an essay released Monday in Beijing, is part of China's increasingly assertive approach to shaping the global response to the financial crisis. Mr. Zhou's proposal comes amid preparations for a summit of the world's industrial and developing nations, the Group of 20, in London next week. At past such meetings, developed nations have criticized China's economic and currency policies. This time, China is on the offensive, backed by other emerging economies such as Russia in making clear they want a global economic order less dominated by the U.S. and other wealthy nations.

See previous clip: Obama’s Toxic Advisors

China’s proposal may not affect the dollar in the short term, but introducing this issue now is a means of alerting the world this could become a reality.

From the article: “Central banks around the world hold more U.S. dollars and dollar securities than they do assets denominated in any other individual foreign currency”. So, we are almost at the point of one world currency already.

International leaders are beginning to see an advantage of having one world currency so that fluctuations in one market would not disrupt the rest of the world, as is the current situation.

Moving to a reserve currency that belongs to no individual nation would make it easier for all nations to manage their economies better, because it would give the reserve-currency nations more freedom to shift monetary policy and exchange rates. It could also be the basis for a more equitable way of financing the IMF.

Russia made a similar proposal just this month

Obama’s Toxic Advisors

clipped from www.truthdig.com Bernie Sanders, the senator from Vermont who is independent in spirit as well as party label, has placed a hold on President Obama’s nomination of Gary Gensler to head the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Sounds like a minor issue to get worked up about, but the senator is right. Like most Americans, I am eager for Barack Obama to succeed, but I see this appointment as further evidence that the president has entrusted his economic policy to the wrong people. Gensler helped create this financial crisis when he was in the Treasury Department back in the Clinton era Mr. Gensler worked with Senator Phil Gramm and Alan Greenspan to exempt credit default swaps from regulation, which led to the collapse of A.I.G. and has resulted in the largest taxpayer bailout in U.S. history Congress and the president want to give Wall Street whatever it wants to make the stock market go up

Read this article carefully.

Is Obama so eager to be surrounded with ‘experience’ in his cabinet that he is over looking what that particular experience cost us as a nation, or is there a hidden agenda?

Allow me to speculate: If someone in the 1990’s, or earlier, was to formulate a plan to create a ‘One World Order’, with either America at the head or a committee of international leaders, surely a major stepping stone in achieving this dream would be to control the world’s financial markets.

The best method to take over these markets would be to first crash them to the point that they would need help to become solvent again. A group of nations, say for example the G20, would step in to take over the markets, thereby “saving the world”, and appointing themselves as the de facto leaders in this “One World Order”.

Next step, would be to formulate a one world currency to make it easier to control.

Call me paranoid but too many signs are pointing in this direction.