I’m on a quest…to bring awareness to the world through, friends and family and facebookers, youtubers, ustreamers, bloggers and wordpressers and screamers all over, that September 21st is the International Day of Peace!!!
I wish it were everyday, but they had to work like crazy to get just one day instituted by the United Nations as a recognized day of legal cease-fire worldwide. Thanks to Jeremy Gillie, every UN government member swiftly and unanimously voted it in in 2002. This should be as significant to us as 9/11/2001. In remembrance of this day, September 11, 2001, I propose that all who see this message, deliver it to another and look to the future from such a sorrow filled memory and celebrate…
Peace One Day on September 21, 2009
Maybe one day, peace will someday be everyday. We just have to keep trying.
****Editorial Note*********
Nah…It’ll never happen…
I know, too many psychotic manipulators out there with their ideas, money and control. How do we disband that? Through knowledge and utter defense. What Iran is doing is brilliant. The President of Iran is under constant threat by the tyranny of the US war machine and will not back down, yet he is opening his arms to President Obama and proposing a way for disarmament or dismantling of the worlds nuclear warheads. If we can remove the threat, we then lay way for freer negotiations. If everyone is offered equal parts, there should never need be any bi-partisan contentions. The reason for bi-partisan conditions lie in the making of profits and which company gets which bid for this contract or that. No matter how the media tries to spin it’s influence on me, it cannot. I know the truth now and cannot go back to what I had believed before being educated. I realize that I had no true beliefs about my country while growing up in America in the sixties and seventies. I was a child then and remained so until my mid 30’s I regret to say, when I began to ask the question, “Why is there so much unrest in the middle east?”
Well, the answer for me today is simple to reach because I’ve been able to observe more than what my government might have wanted me to see and my studies on the subject have not ceased since the war on Iraq began in 2003. My main motivator was to keep my son from ever being drafted for this or any war. The answer is clearly this, the United States, UK, Russia, and China have all coveted the natural gas resources discovered in Afghanistan in 1967 (reference reading listed below) and even after the long encroachment from the Russians in the seventies, the US have strategically positioned their military bases in those arenas to assist the oil and energy industries with the task of taking over governments if they have to, to yield the resources they seek for mass consumption in their markets and metropolises. When they say that the US has invested interest in Afghanistan they are entirely correct, if you are an American that uses oil and natural gas to maintain your living standard, you may need this resource on a daily basis and would probably fight for it if you and your family felt it was so necessary for your survival. However, if you oppose this war you need to find other alternatives to the current oil and gas infrastructures that have been built up in the past century. Not an easy thing to do, particularly if you are also against nuclear power resources, which the President of Iran seems almost too eager to help the US, literally, see the light about. He is actually coming to us with a five page plan, hoping to end the possibility all future nuclear threats.
Now if it were a free market system that generates globally this might be a great advantage to the United States. It might even be the most astounding moment for all of mankind if the blinders were all removed. Unfortunately, if President Obama were to actually step into the arena to discuss world dismantlement of nuclear weapons and actually accept some deal for nuclear energy technology to benefit the world, he would most likely be assassinated by some corporate power; energy commission envoy, posing as a deranged lunatic or by another rising energy company with billions in shareholder investments at stake, In fact, the world cannot expect to live in peace among one another, ever, with these parties dealing purely in monetary figures instead of human welfare and legally getting away with it. Yes, I believe now that the world used to be made up of two types of people, the blind and the blinder.
The blind are the ones that will never see my face or know me because I am just a number to them, a statistic on a spreadsheet. I am a perfectly expendable commodity, like anything else that assists in the manipulation of wealth to their benefit. They seek their benefit and only their benefit at all times. They are traders. Not to be confused with traitors. They would have you believe that is me. Because I am against them. You see, I don’t believe in money as something I need to collect like stamps or trinkets that I love just because I love them. I don’t love money and no matter how hard the media helps to promote the love of money, I will not buy into it, and yes, absolute pun intended, because, I know that the more money I make, the more money they make, and the more money they make the more power they have over me when they want it. Whomever has more money, has more power in this world currently, as it has been for centuries now, and incidentally, it is power that kills. Power is murderous to human life and subsequently, money is the vehicle that brings any unit to power. And if they are taking a portion of your money along with portions of your neighbors’ money as well, they certainly have more power than any one of us.
The blinder, are those like me, or like I was, that had no idea that people were killing other people for the resources and rights to resources in other countries that had little or no money to defend themselves. The blinder sometimes also want to remain blinder and do things to actually get blinder to the obvious facts. Probably, because they know what the odds are in going up against the kinds of power I’m talking about. Or, because they are about to strike it rich and they’d rather not share this information right now.
Remember, I said, used to be. Things are about to change now.
The trick is not getting more people to give me money to make this movement more powerful. The trick is getting people to open their eyes and see the bigger picture. That none of this life means anything if money is what motivates us, because money cannot replace our children. Money can never replace our species. Money can never do what you, as an individual can do. It can only assist you. They have tried to make it more personable by putting a face on every bill or coin among other commemorative symbols, but it is not human and when all of human life has been wiped off this planet and extraterrestrials finally arrive with their own exploration of space, and find this planet barren of us, they might wonder what it was that brought us to erect monument after monument. Was it our great appreciation for one another? Or was it greed and self idolization? It might be hard to believe that a race with the technology to discover other worlds would think it the later, unless they understood the process of decline inside an intellectual progression. When an entity becomes unwilling or unable to progress, then it will inevitably begin to self destruct.
I look for signs everyday of which direction we are going. I am becoming quite impressed today.
My Hypothesis Girl has put together some links to assist you in your homework. These are the links to reference materials. Do a background check on facts regarding the conflicts in Afghanistan over the last few decades. Discover for yourself, the facts behind U.S. involvement in Afghanistan.
This story published in 2001 in Asia Times on TAPI
http://www.atimes.com/c-asia/CK24Ag01.html
Check out the actual landscape
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Afghanistan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Afghanistan_Pipeline
Clues to Resources
http://www.afghanistans.com/information/NResources.htm
http://www.worldpress.org/specials/pp/afghan.htm
Uncover expert data on input and output of energy structures around the world
http://www.indexmundi.com/energy.aspx?country=us&product=oil&graph=consumption
http://www.indexmundi.com/energy.aspx?country=af&product=hydro&graph=production
Agriculture report that does not mention the poppy crop
http://www.fas.usda.gov/country/Afghanistan/Afghanistan%20Agricultural%20Economy%20and%20Policy.pdf
And finally, Canada asks “Why is Afghanistan so important?” And thinks we should all know and I agree, you should know what you stand for… Read this report, published by a Canadian research group.
http://www.policyalternatives.ca/editorials/2009/08/afghanistangreatgame/
I want to ask all of you, why do you think the US is so occupied in Afghanistan? How do Americans directly benefit from a proposed natural gas pipeline that seems would only service that region of the world? Would Americans use this natural gas if we were actually able to work there and build such proposed pipelines? Or would Americans receive other financial benefits from the multi-billion dollar investments used for such contracts? And how will the new found wealth in Afghanistan be received by it’s people, if at all? Has anyone asked what the impact of such a venture would have on this culture before they began their invasion and or reconstructive aid? My experience reminds me that thieves don’t usually ask before they steal something.
Exactly how will America’s people today, whom are struggling, paying our hard earned taxes and giving of our own flesh and blood and that of our own children to the US military, see a benefit to upping our efforts in another poor country to work overseas and help the rich energy companies reap their rewards? I wonder. Because, since the US invasion in 2001, we have forgone trillions of dollars and lost thousands of lives, for what? To make the Afghanistan farmer look bad, and forcibly induct ourselves into their humble lives whether they like it or not, pit them against each other, imprison them and torture them and then lie to Americans back home to persuade them to keep supporting the work being done there, so we can reach this goal? What goal was that again? Criminalizing innocent people to make way for a multi-trillion dollar venture? I would love to ask the American people if that is what we want to continue to do? A support of a troop surge would be just that, an investment in the financial future of energy companies contracted to build a natural gas and oil pipeline that would service the Asian region and make trillions of dollars for some
sordidly and previously selected. I’m started to wonder who that might be.
Somehow, I think that if we were all being honest about it, we could all see to it, to help the Afghani people funnel natural gas towards infrastructures that would benefit those people, if they wanted us to, but I feel I’ve been deliberately excluded from this information and so have they, and somehow, I’ve managed to get the distinct impression that they would rather make their own decisions regarding their countries resources. Certainly, it would seem that the Afghans aren’t all that hip to the idea of foreign involvement. Maybe they were happy the way they were and wish to be left alone. Maybe how they run their lives and their country is none of our business since it is not our land and maybe, although the Afghani’s are sitting on a possible gold mine, I somehow still don’t see how allowing my government to continue it’s operations in that country, will inevitably benefit all but a few already wealthy people in the long run. Maybe the administration would like to respond to those questions?
Was all this hype about the heroin drug lords of Afghanistan yet another distraction away from the reality of our true financial interests in that country? I think it was, because back in 2000 I began to notice an increase in the classifieds recruiting all branches of military personnel. It would no longer behoove me to imagine that since the discovery of this natural gas abundance in 1967, appearing to measure out to 5 trillion in possible profits, dwarfing the profits from a good poppy crop year for Afghan drug lords, the US has been enthusiastically attempting to occupy this region through either one avenue or another, or for one reason or another. Senator Charlie Wilson, may not have been the incredible philanthropist he was made out to be in the film recently made about him, “Charlie Wilson’s War”, might he now? Charlie Wilson was a Texas politician…Need I say more? I probably should since the American people will probably look no further for information about his dealings back then, most will rely on what the film reports of him and ask no further questions. Then, in 1991, George Bush Sr. tried to start an offense in Iraq, but was short stopped. The involvement and invasions and extremism all comes from that area. Why?
All about Charlie Wilson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Wilson_(Texas_politician)
A Mucked up opinion from the Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/04/AR2009090403345.html?hpid=opinionsbox1
But, the majority of Americans still believe that it is terrorism that we are fighting in Afghanistan. Are they terrorists or are they just a nation defending their own national security, culture and sovereignty on a shoe string budget? Why do Americans end up supporting both sides of a foreign country’s conflict, moving from one movement to another over a ten to twenty year period? Seems in that particular region, (and in Latin America) to be the case, if we include Iraq and Iran conflicts from the eighties where we supported Iraq against Iran, then later turned on Iraq in 2003. Charlie Wilson was the Texas congressman that won support for Afghanistan’s movement against the Red Army then. Now we are on the offensive against the Taliban, the “terrorist”. It doesn’t seem to matter whose side we are on, as long as we are there with our influential weaponry and development or reconstruction contracts, economic aid or, how do you say?… Humanitarian efforts? All of which are, incredibly, to build energy infrastructures and set up economic foundations… Now, who doesn’t get this?
In fact, this particular seems to make perfect sense now. In 2005 the Bush Administration passed
The Patriot Act and within it, The Bank Secrecy Act to thwart the use of illegal drug money laundering from having any influence in energy investments within the banking and trading systems throughout the world and some of those who had interest in TAPI were originally, the Taliban and N. Korea, whose investment money most likely came from poppy crop income. So the original Afghanistan parties that tried to invest in their own countries resources and build their own pipelines would therefore be blocked from being able to complete their pipeline projects, and, or maintain them, if they were ever able to begin. The US was quick to vilify N. Korea as well, over the past few years, notably when the Bush administration referred to them as being part of the Axis of Evil. “The terrorist”, as defined by the US government of the Bush administration really seems to be the Asian nationalists that are fighting for the rights to their own lands and resources. The US claims to be a legal authority, again, over another countries land and mineral rights and now banking regulations. How does this equate to anything of a humanitarian nature? I just don’t see it. It appears more and more to be the same strategy used against the originating North American Indians over two hundred years ago by the British and carried on by the new Americans. Do these people know of any other way to produce results other than through exploitation of indigenous tribes?
end session 4:30 am (snooze)
alarm 9:00 am (wake)
HELLO! What’s this?…. Special Delivery….
The US accepts Iran’s Invitation to discuss security concerns…
Hey! Say what?!!! HOLY HALIFUCKINGLUJAH!!! I haven’t even posted this yet.
Play Freedom by George Micheal —
Dance in the streets —
DOWN ON KNEES AND PRAY this isn’t a sneaky little trick!!!
Tears of joy…
Six years ago I might not have posted or published these kinds of statements, out of fear, but they were always questions going through my head. And even though today, we have elected a new President whom seemingly offered change, I believe he has made a burnt offering to the people of the United States by ending the occupation in Iraq while still servicing the energy contractors who are employed in the middle east by shifting the troops from Iraq to Afghanistan. And, it has been indicated in an interview on The Mike Mallory Show with 27 year ex-CIA analyst, Ray McGovern, that our own President may be afraid of certain elements of the CIA, and I believe he would have good reason to be, if he moves to approve nuclear energy or dismantle the military industrialists. If our own President of the United States of America has reason to fear for his life over such matters, what chance would anyone else have in speaking up for our own safety? We have to open our mouths widely and speak now.
