U.S. is on path to oblivion unless big changes occur

What do ISIS and the Khmer Rouge of 1970 Cambodia have in common? 

The short answer is that both began as small obscure factions, destined to remain so without the catastrophic intervention of overwhelming force upon their homeland, culture and families. 

Both were targeted to focus public attention on the enemy de jour, justifying full throttle aggression, rubber stamped by congressmen and senators destined to become well paid lobbyists and consultants for the war machine. 

In both cases local freedom fighters are the problem, weapons of war are the reaction (via regime change/ infrastructure devastation), while expanding American corporate control is the solution, lifting all capitalists’ boats (yachts, sorry) again ; problem-reaction-solution with a side order of heroin (that’s billions with a B), again.

During the period from 1969 to1973, America dropped the equivalent explosives of fiveHiroshima bombs on Cambodia. The Khmer Rouge posed as the local army to defend the people, to protect them from those who drop bombs; 5000 native volunteers swelled to over 200,000. 

This evolution of enemy is not lost with those who want and make war. Plans to create ISIS, like 9/11, were completed years before their event horizon times were determined.

Recruitment of the ISIS misguided freedom fighters is guaranteed and lends itself to local crazies around the world, doing desperate, horrific things for the wrong reasons to the wrong people. Collateral damage is only a statistic to hardened commanders. 

America now buys blood, outsourcing most functions to mercenaries and subcontractors, doing much of our own killing remotely from video parlors with drones. 

America has the Pentagon and bunker buster bombs, while “they” have backpacks, abandon Iraqis (U.S. supplied) weapons and cell phones. The day after Pearl Harbor, 1 million men joined the American armed forces. Is there really any difference? 

What is different is how the war game is played, the global aspirations driving the deception, a compliant media and the overarching Black military projects (many of which it is said have ”gone rogue”).

America now has over 190 major military bases around the world, waiting not to defend liberty and the democratic way, but to respond and complete orders, not to question why — any provocation, innocent mistake or setup and that trigger will pull.

Through this aggression under the guise of defense we are turning the world against itself, assuring mutual destruction for the humble, the weak, the dispossessed and the innocent. With an uninformed population propaganda is taken for fact, patriotism is confused with nationalism, and provocation due to misinformation is greatly increased, promoting fear and the real potential for WW3. 

Anyone care? Will we continue to support mindless war profiteering, ignoring the true facts, programmed to comply as Mr. George Orwell forecast in his book, “1984”?

 Maybe nothing has really changed. Our Founding Fathers did not include women or slaves in their inalienable rights. 

Our First Nation indigenous people once ruled this entire great land and now are the poorest, most isolated of our family. All others who came to America were called immigrants, and are now referred to as refugees. 

Few among us are originally from here. Have we forgotten our roots? As the problem-reaction-solution pattern requires, politicians are quickly finding their targets and assigning blame. America is being gutted, raw.

Has there been any real change… no we didn’t. The idea of one world, one people, one love and one Earth has been just a tease. No we can’t …… let this happen to the dream. No we will not support mindless war. No we won’t put weapons before food, kindness and love, No we won’t fear our neighbor, No we won’t believe in the controlled propaganda; “not in my name” can begin today…. if you choose.

Our only solution is to take personal responsibility in our individual life to be the change we intend.

The Constitution is an amazing document, lest we forget sworn duties are to uphold these principles and not those of the misguided few who may now be in power or authority and are traitors to justice and the American dream. 

On transportation, council should stop complaining 

Asheville City Council should quit whining at the results of their own policies. Council caused, and continues to cause daily, the eight-lane highways it complains about, and so will deserve them unless they reverse course fast.

Council used the UDO to displace workforce housing up to 50 miles out, while subsidizing urban industrial jobs for skilled suburban commuters.

Both council policies increased commuting drastically and forced the demand for eight lanes to Fletcher, so they need to quit whining, look in the mirror and act fast to promote urban homes and suburban jobs.

Why is the media waging war on Bernie Sanders?

In the last few days the Sanders campaign has appropriately raised a storm about the Bernie Blackout and the wildly disproportionate time of coverage the mainstream news media has given to Trump and all other candidates. But, the blatant bias and misleading way in which the news is reported is equally important.

This morning, Mon., Dec. 14, 2015, Bloomberg News reported on the results of its new poll taken a few days earlier. The headline of the news story reads “Clinton Increases Iowa Lead Over Sanders.” The New York Times used this story as the basis of its article headlined, “Hillary Clinton Widens Lead Over Bernie Sanders in Iowa Poll.” CBS says, “Clinton Expands Lead Over Sanders in Iowa.” The Washington Post? “Bernie Sanders’ Momentum Problem.”

Now lets take a close look at this new poll released by Bloomberg in conjunction with The Des Moines Register. It claims that 48 percent of likely Democratic participants in the caucuses favor Clinton, while 39 percent favor Sanders. In other words, Clinton is up by only 9 percent, according to this poll.

Wait a minute! On Dec. 8, Monmouth University released a poll giving Clinton a lead of 55 percent to 33 percent — a 22 percent percent lead! Now it’s only 9 percent! 

Doesn’t this mean that Sanders is gaining rapidly?

Yes, it does, if we accept the validity of these polls. But, the reporting on the polls by the MSM has spun the facts to try to make the public believe the exact opposite.

It turns out that today’s Bloomberg report is comparing its latest results to the last poll THEY took in early October before the first debate and before Joe Biden left the race. In that earlier poll Clinton had 42 percent compared to Sanders 37percent. In other words most of Clinton’s gain can be attributed to Biden’s departure. It did not come at the expense of Sanders’ support that actually increased 2 percent, as well, in the latest poll.

Since early October, much has happened. Biden left. There have been two Democratic debates. The Bengazi hearings have come and gone. The terrorist attacks in Paris took place. According to the mainstream news media Hillary’s poll numbers have soared and she is again the “inevitable” Democratic Nominee six weeks before the first primary ballots have been cast.

Wouldn’t it make more sense to compare these latest poll results to results gathered in the last week or two, rather than to results gathered in the beginning of October? To do so would reveal that Bernie Sanders has continued to build momentum at the expense of Clinton’s support. But, the mainstream media doesn’t want to report that.

This dynamic is another indication that we are involved in a revolution. The mainstream media is at war with the Bernie Sanders campaign. The corporate media and their Wall Street/billionaire class owners recognize the Sanders’ candidacy as a real threat to its longstanding dominance over the American people and they are conducting themselves against this campaign in a way no less hostile than they would be against a foreign enemy at war with the United States of America. Truth is no longer a goal or criteria in reporting. The object of reporting is now purely for the manipulation of public opinion.

Fortunately, most people no longer get most of their news from the mainstream news media.