Re: You were lied to - are you going to do something about i
I was watching the program NOW on PBS this past weekend and one of the topics dealt with the storage of nuclear waste within the USA.
There are nuclear waste storage sites all over the U.S.
The story claimed that this waste was dangerous for 300 thousand years!
Which would mean that this stuff would need to be protected from terrorist attack for the next three hundred thousand years!
Surely; the terrorists will be successful at least once within the next 300 thousand years?
When I watched the confirmation hearings for Rice as Secretary of State .... it was laughable.
If all this chaos within Iraq and Afghanistan was a "mistake" as Americans would claim .... then obviously they should of fired those who showed such incompetence.
But they didn't. They even confirmed her nomination.
This can only mean that all the members of Congress and Senate don't see the "mistakes" as incompetence but rather it is "Policy".
They all sat there and called each other names ..... they all sat there and bad mouthed Rice so that the public would feel that their voice was being heard .... but then they confirmed her anyway! It was just a show trial! Imagine giving Rice the position of Secretary of State after admitting to so many "mistakes"?
Rice claimed that citizens of Iran were not happy with their government and would welcome U.S. assistance. But, she also said that if the U.S. were to attack Iran, the Iranian People would turn against the U.S. and support their government out of "pride" and Rice therefore claimed that the U.S. has no intention of invading Iran.
Well, I would think that the same could be said about Iraq. The Iraqi's wanted U.S. assistance, but did not want to be invaded.
Rice said that it is up to the Iraqi people to solve the problems in Iraq. That is not what the U.S. government said before they invaded.
CNN is now calling itself the "Security Information Network". "The place to be if yuh wanna know about your security."
CNN has changed from news to being just a commentary about security. CNN is still calling it's coverage of Iraq as "The Iraq War". It is no longer a war and they know it. It is an occupation and not a war. But they don't wanna use the word "occupation" because it sounds too "Jewish".
More than 3 years have passed since 9-11 and the U.S. still has not secured their Southern borders against entry by terrorists. It would only prove that the U.S. government is more concerned about being attacked by it's own citizens and not some "imported" terrorist.
The unemployment numbers don't tell the truth. Perma-Temp jobs are counted as being "employed". Temp jobs are not real jobs unless you just wanna fool the public.
In the 80's when there was such a trade imbalance between Japan and the U.S. .... Japan bought major assets and mineral deposits within the U.S.. They even bought the Empire State building and no one was overly concerned. Americans were ashamed, but not concerned about their future. Even if Japan purchased properties or the largest nickel producing mine on the planet, Japan was too small a country to use it all or to corner the market.
But China is a different story. Japan was only one-fifth the size of China. China will be able to use all the nickel themselves. China will corner the market and if they own the company and decide to ship all the nickel produced to China .... we can't very well complain. Is not a corporation allowed to sell to anyone it wants to?
When I watch the economic expansion within China, I keep wondering where they are getting the capital from in order to pay for infrastructure and new car plants?
They are being financed by U.S. banks and corporations.
The reason the U.S. wants to give all the Mexican immigrants citizenship is because when millions of Mexican's hit the job market "legally" and begin to take jobs for less pay .... it will cause a huge downsizing of pay scales within the U.S..
The U.S. government is hoping that as the standard of living declines, the average citizen will blame it on the Mexicans and not their own government.
I heard Cramer (Kudlow & Cramer on MSNBC) tell his viewers yesterday to "hold on" because Bush is gonna privatize social security and the market will see trillions of new money.
They got it all planned.
Having access to the Internet is a middle class bonus. Generally speaking, poor folks don't have cable or the internet. But if they did, there would be hell to pay because the poor would have opportunity to "network" and to plan or organize resistance to government policies.
The middle class does not wanna rock the boat because they got a mortage to pay .... so they spend all day talking about how to change our "form" of government.
Poor folks are talking about "changing" government.
Big difference!
Security forces are very concerned about internet use.
I could go on and on, but my fingers are sore. I just wanted to comment.
Calm
