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		<title>Obama Israel Myth</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:32:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The media has perpetuated a myth that Obama will not support Israel.  This has been by the Radical Right who didn&#8217;t want their members to support Obama, and the Radical Left who didn&#8217;t want their supporters illusion broken over who Obama really is. I can assure you Barack Obama will not do anything to help [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The media has perpetuated a myth that Obama will not support Israel.  This has been by the Radical Right who didn&#8217;t want their members to support Obama, and the Radical Left who didn&#8217;t want their supporters illusion broken over who Obama really is.</p>
<p>I can assure you Barack Obama will not do anything to help Palestinians because that would cross AIPAC, and I&#8217;m sure he doesn&#8217;t want to deal with that sort of a vendetta.</p>
<p>In Obama&#8217;s below speech to AIPAC he promises <strong>$30,000,000,000.00</strong> ($30 billion) to Israel over the next 30 years. Obama&#8217;s promises AIPAC unconditional support, funding, and weapons.</p>
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<p>Strangely many media pundits have claimed Israel stopped bombing Gaza prior to Obama&#8217;s inauguration because Obama does not support Israel.  This is misinformation at its finest.</p>
<p>Jewish author Normal Finkelstein gives a different view.</p>
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<p>Where does Joe Biden stand on the Israel Palestinian conflict?  Let&#8217;s take a look at Joe Bidens interview for Shalom TV.</p>
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		<title>Beware of Blogaganda</title>
		<link>http://alternativeconservative.com/2009/01/23/beware-blogaganda/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:45:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amapola</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Embedded video from &#38;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;a href=&#8221;http://www.cnn.com/video&#8221; mce_href=&#8221;http://www.cnn.com/video&#8221;&#38;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;CNN Video&#38;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/a&#38;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt; Israel recruits bloggers for Gaza aftermath http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=82951&#38;sectionid=351020202 Tue, 20 Jan 2009 10:20:56 GMT Israel&#8217;s Immigrant Absorption Ministry says it is recruiting an &#8220;army of bloggers&#8221; in the aftermath of the military operation in Gaza. According to Haaretz, the team will consist of Israelis who speak a second language [...]]]></description>
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<p><a title="Israel's Immigrant Absorption Ministry says it is recruiting an &quot;army of bloggers&quot; in the aftermath of the military operation in Gaza" href="http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=82951&amp;sectionid=351020202" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;">Israel recruits bloggers for Gaza aftermath</span></a></p>
<p><a title="Israel's Immigrant Absorption Ministry says it is recruiting an &quot;army of bloggers&quot; in the aftermath of the military operation in Gaza" href="http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=82951&amp;sectionid=351020202" target="_blank">http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=82951&amp;sectionid=351020202</a></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="color: gray;">Tue, 20 Jan 2009 10:20:56 GMT</span> <span style="font-family: Verdana;"><strong>Israel&#8217;s Immigrant Absorption Ministry says it is recruiting an &#8220;army of bloggers&#8221; in the aftermath of the military operation in Gaza. </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><strong></strong> According to <em>Haaretz</em>, the team will consist of Israelis who speak a second language &#8212; English, French, Spanish or German &#8212; to represent Israel in &#8220;anti-Zionist blogs&#8221;. </span></p>
<p>The aggression against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and the Hamas resistance movement left at least 1,300 people dead, and thousands others wounded.</p>
<p>According to the Gaza-based Palestinian center for human rights, only 95 resistance fighters were among the casualties of the 23-day war.</p>
<p>The massive number of civilian casualties in the densely-populated coastal sliver sparked worldwide condemnation.     A fierce controversy was also provoked over the alleged use of white phosphorus, also known by the military as WP or Willie Pete, by the Israeli army in Gaza.</p>
<p>According to the Israeli Immigrant Absorption Ministry, Tel Aviv has sought to negate the bad publicity of its actions in Gaza with the help of an online team.</p>
<p>&#8220;We turned to this enormous reservoir of more than a million people with a second mother tongue&#8221; to contribute to this campaign, the ministry&#8217;s director general, Erez Halfon, said.</p>
<p>MD/HGH</p>
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<p><br class="spacer_" /> <a title="Israel’s Government has thrown its weight behind efforts by supporters to counter what it believes to be negative bias and a tide of pro-Arab propaganda" href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article693911.ece" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;">Israel backed by army of cyber-soldiers</span></a></p>
<div class="article-author"><a title="In the past week nearly 5,000 members of the World Union of Jewish Students (WUJS) have downloaded special “megaphone” software that alerts them to anti-Israeli chatrooms or internet polls" href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article693911.ece" target="_blank">http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article693911.ece</a></div>
<div class="article-author"><span class="byline">From Yonit Farago in Jerusalem </span></div>
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<div id="related-article-links"><!-- Pagination --><!--Display article with page breaks --> WHILE Israel fights Hezbollah with tanks and aircraft, its supporters are campaigning on the internet.  Israel’s Government has thrown its weight behind efforts by supporters to counter what it believes to be negative bias and a tide of pro-Arab propaganda. The Foreign Ministry has ordered trainee diplomats to track websites and chatrooms so that networks of US and European groups with hundreds of thousands of Jewish activists can place supportive messages.</p>
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<p>In the past week nearly 5,000 members of the World Union of Jewish Students (WUJS) have downloaded special “megaphone” software that alerts them to anti-Israeli chatrooms or internet polls to enable them to post contrary viewpoints. A student team in Jerusalem combs the web in a host of different languages to flag the sites so that those who have signed up can influence an opinion survey or the course of a debate.</p>
<p>Jonny Cline, of the international student group, said that Jewish students and youth groups with their understanding of the web environment were ideally placed to present another side to the debate.</p>
<p>“We’re saying to these people that if Israel is being bashed, don’t ignore it, change it,” Mr Cline said. “A poll like CNN’s takes just a few seconds to vote in, but if thousands take part the outcome will be changed. What’s vital is that the international face of the conflict is balanced.”</p>
<p>Doron Barkat, 29, in Jerusalem, spends long nights trawling the web to try to swing the debate Israel’s way. “When I see internet polls for or against Israel I send out a mailing list to vote for Israel,” he said. “It can be that after 15 minutes there will be 400 votes for Israel.</p>
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<p>Keep in mind a war has been waged on the media.  <a title="Independent, aggressive and critical media are essential to an informed democracy. But mainstream media are increasingly cozy with the economic and political powers they should be watchdogging so Fair.org is needed to do the job" href="http://www.fair.org" target="_blank">Fair.org</a> points out in the below video NPR was hammered for not favoring Israel when covering the Israeli Palestinian conflict.  NPR became silent on Zionist human rights abuse.</p>
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<p>Be sure to check out my last post on <a title="Rabbis Against Zionism covers why Rabbi's reject Zionism and the history of Palestine" href="http://alternativeconservative.com/2009/01/20/rabbis-against-zionism">Rabbi&#8217;s Against Zionism</a></p>
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		<title>Rabbis Against Zionism</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 20:55:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Update 1: Jews in Iran,  Update 2: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad I would like to revisit some history I brought up in my post on Constantine&#8217;s Sword, and the statements of Rabbi&#8217;s against Zionism.  Rabbi Weiss has stated Zionism is an expression of nationalism to create a Jewish state.  Judaism is the religion belief held by the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a title="Rabbi Weiss stated there are Jews in Iran, this video verifies his claim, unfortunately embedding was disabled" href="#jews-in-iran"><span style="font-size: medium;">Update 1: Jews in Iran</span></a>, <span style="font-size: medium;"> <a title="Rabbi Weiss states Mahmoud Ahmadinejad does not want to kill all Jews - this video reviles Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's real goal is peace not war" href="#mahmoud-ahmadinejad">Update 2: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad</a></span></p>
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<p>I would like to revisit some history I brought up in my post on <a title="Alternative Conservative Movie Review of Constantines Sword" href="http://alternativeconservative.com/2009/01/19/constantines-sword" target="_blank">Constantine&#8217;s Sword</a>, and the statements of Rabbi&#8217;s against Zionism.  Rabbi Weiss has stated Zionism is an expression of nationalism to create a Jewish state.  Judaism is the religion belief held by the Jews.   Rabbi Weiss claims true Jews of the Jewish faith do not support Zionism.</p>
<p>Rabbi Weiss has also stated Zionism was started by Jewish Atheists from areas of Europe like the Soviet Union.  It would appear to be true based on the history below.  Zionism was a movement, not an expression of Jewish faith.</p>
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<h3><em>The World Book Encyclopedia<br />
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<p>Copy right 2006 (available at your local library)<br />
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<blockquote><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><strong>Roman rule. In 63 63 B.C.</strong> Roman troops invaded Judah and it came under Roman Control. The Romans called the area Judea. Jesus Chris was born in Bethlehem in the early years of Roman rule. Roman rulers put down Jewish revolts of Roman rule. Roman rulers put down Jewish revolts in A.D. 66 and A.D. 132. In A.D. 135, the Romans drive the Jews out of Jerusalem.</p>
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<blockquote><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><strong>The Zionist movement.</strong> Beginning in the late 1800’s, oppression of Jews in Eastern Europe set off a mass emigration of Jewish refugees. Some Jews formed a movement called Zionism, which sought to make Palestine an independent Jewish nation.</p>
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<blockquote><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><strong>World War II and the division of Palestine.</strong> (Paragraph 2) The United nations Special Commission on Palestine recommended that Palestine be divided into an Arab state and a Jewish state. The commission called for Jerusalem to be put under International control. The UN General Assembly adopted this plan on Nov. 29 1947. The Jews accepted the UN decision, but the Arabs rejected it. Fighting broke out immediately.</p>
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<p><a title="UN History of Palestine and Israel" href="http://www.un.org/Depts/dpa/ngo/history.html" target="_blank">United Nations History of Palestine</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>The Palestine  problem became an international issue  towards the end of the First      World War with the disintegration of the Turkish Ottoman Empire.  Palestine was among      the several former Ottoman Arab territories which were placed  under the      administration of Great Britain  under the Mandates System adopted by the League of      Nations pursuant to the League&#8217;s Covenant <a href="http://domino.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/85255e950050831085255e95004fa9c3/5e339e9d923e9f72802564b5003eead8?OpenDocument">(Article      22) .</a></p>
<p align="justify">All but one of these Mandated Territories became fully independent States, as      anticipated. The exception was Palestine where, instead of being limited to &#8220;the      rendering of administrative assistance and advice&#8221; the Mandate had as a primary      objective the implementation of the &#8220;Balfour Declaration&#8221;      issued by the British Government in 1917,  expressing support for &#8220;the      establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people&#8221;.</p>
<p>During the  years of the Palestine       Mandate, from 1922 to 1947, large-scale Jewish immigration from abroad,       mainly from Eastern Europe took place, the numbers swelling in the 1930s       with the notorious Nazi persecution of Jewish populations. Palestinian       demands for independence and resistance to Jewish immigration led to a       rebellion in 1937, followed by continuing terrorism and violence from both       sides during and immediately after World War II. Great Britain tried to       implement various formulas to bring independence to a land ravaged by       violence. In 1947, Great Britain  turned the problem over to the      United Nations.</p>
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<p><span style="font-size: large;">Update 1: </span>Rabbi Weiss claims there are Jews living in Iran.  This video (embedding was disabled) appears to show that is correct: <a title="Mini Documentary on Jews who live in Iran" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fcDtmv5gmM" target="_blank">Jews Undercover in Iran</a> .</p>
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<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Why is Zionism bad?</span></p>
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<p>Many of the people in the Bush administration are considered to be Zionists.  People like Richard Perle, and Douglas Feith.  These men helped craft the Iraq War. The Bush administration was waging a holy war, but the target was Muslim’s in the Middle East.  Perhaps this is simply something Carroll neglected to point out.</p>
<p>William Kristol could be considered to be a Zionist, and was a friend to the Bush administration.  Kristol is the Chairman of the <a title=" American leadership is good both for America and for the world; and that such leadership requires military strength, diplomatic energy and commitment to moral principle" href="http://tinyurl.com/pfnac" target="_blank">Project for a New American Century</a>.  An organization dedicated to US world military dominance.  You can watch an interview with William Kristol and Douglas Feith in John Pilgers <a title="Pilger interviews Ray McGovern a former CIA operative who gave the U.S. President his daily CIA intelligence report for 30 years.  Ray Ray McGovern was a personal friend of George Bush Sr." href="http://mrxfromplanetx.com/breaking-the-silence-by-john-pilger" target="_blank">Breaking Silence</a>.</p>
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<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Rabbis Against Zionism Verbally Attacked by AIPAC Attendee</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: large;">More Information</span></p>
<p><a title="Neturei Karta opposed the establishment of and retain all opposition to the existence of the so-called &quot;State of Israel&quot;" href="http://www.nkusa.org" target="_blank">http://www.nkusa.org</a></p>
<p><a title="We provide articles on current Zionist activities with the response of True Torah Jews, as well as articles on the latest anti-Zionist activities. " href="http://www.jewsagainstzionism.com/index.cfm" target="_blank">http://www.jewsagainstzionism.com</a></p>
<p><a title="What does the New Testament teach about the land of Israel? Answer: absolutely nothing. There are no references to the importance of the land or of Jerusalem as a 'holy city'." href="http://www.christianzionism.org/BibleSays/Devenish01.asp" target="_blank">http://www.christianzionism.org</a></p>
<p><a title="Click to read George Washington's full Farewell Address from Yale Law School" href="http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/washing.asp" target="_blank">George Washington&#8217;s Farewell Address</a></p>
<blockquote><p>So likewise, a passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter without adequate inducement or justification. It leads also to concessions to the favorite nation of privileges denied to others which is apt doubly to injure the nation making the concessions; by unnecessarily parting with what ought to have been retained, and by exciting jealousy, ill-will, and a disposition to retaliate, in the parties from whom equal privileges are withheld. And it gives to ambitious, corrupted, or deluded citizens (who devote themselves to the favorite nation), facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country, without odium, sometimes even with popularity; gilding, with the appearances of a virtuous sense of obligation, a commendable deference for public opinion, or a laudable zeal for public good, the base or foolish compliances of ambition, corruption, or infatuation.</p>
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<p><a title="According to Haaretz, the team will consist of Israelis who speak a second language -- English, French, Spanish or German -- to represent Israel in &quot;anti-Zionist blogs&quot;" href="http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=82951&amp;sectionid=351020202" target="_blank">Israel recruits bloggers for Gaza aftermath</a></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Bill Maher </span></p>
<p>An example of Atheist Zionism (Israeli nationalism)</p>
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		<title>Constantine&#8217;s Sword</title>
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<p>I recently watch a film called by James Carroll called <em>Constantin&#8217;s Sword</em>.</p>
<p>This film covers the tragic persecution of Jews by the Catholic Church and Christians.  Constantin&#8217;s Sword points out how the Pope could have prevented the Nazi slaughter of the Jews, but remained complacent.  The film also covers many incidents of Jewish persecution that most Christians are not aware of.</p>
<p>The film also makes a rather inaccurate claim and assertion.  The claim is we are in danger of an Evangelical assault on Jews, and the totally inaccurate assertion is George W. Bush may pose a threat to Jews.</p>
<p>The truth is many if not most Evangelicals believe Israel must be supported in order for Revelation to take place so Jesus will come back.</p>
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<p><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Watch <a href="http://www.veoh.com/videos/v18252926EPcxQnH">John Hagee&#8217;s Blasphemy</a> in <a href="http://www.veoh.com/browse/videos.html?category=category_lifestyle">Faith Videos</a> |  View More <a href="http://www.veoh.com/">Free Videos Online at Veoh.com</a></span></p>
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<p>PBS: Bill Moyer&#8217;s Journal <a title="When 50 million evangelical bible-believing Christians unite with five million American Jews standing together on behalf of Israel, it is a match made in heaven according to John Hagee" href="http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/10052007/profile.html" target="_blank"><em>Christians United for Israel</em></a><br class="spacer_" /></p>
<p>Many of the people in the Bush administration are considered to be Zionists.  People like Richard Perle, and Douglas Feith.  These men helped craft the Iraq War. The Bush administration was waging a holy war, but the target was Muslim&#8217;s in the Middle East.  Perhaps this is simply something Carroll neglected to point out.</p>
<p>William Kristol could be considered to be a Zionist, and was a friend to the Bush administration.  Kristol is the Chairman of the <a title=" American leadership is good both for America and for the world; and that such leadership requires military strength, diplomatic energy and commitment to moral principle" href="http://tinyurl.com/pfnac" target="_blank">Project for a New American Century</a>.  An organization dedicated to US world military dominance.  You can watch an interview with William Kristol and Douglas Feith in John Pilgers <a title="Pilger interviews Ray McGovern a former CIA operative who gave the U.S. President his daily CIA intelligence report for 30 years.  Ray Ray McGovern was a personal friend of George Bush Sr." href="http://mrxfromplanetx.com/breaking-the-silence-by-john-pilger" target="_blank">Breaking Silence</a>.</p>
<p>Christian&#8217;s and Jews don&#8217;t have an exclusive on supporting an assault against people in the Middle East.  Atheists Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens have also justified an assault Muslims, although <a title="15% of Palestinians are Christian, but have been united with Muslims to fight for their land" href="#christian-palestinians">not everyone in the Middle East is Muslim</a>.  In this video Chris Hedges describes the parallel between &#8220;New Atheists&#8221; and Christian Fundamentalists.  Perhaps it is not religion but human nature which causes people to justify the extermination of their competition.  After all, this is an ugly component of survival of the fittest.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">If anything this film strengthens the Evangelical and Atheist resolve to support Israel&#8217;s assault on Palestine    because they only show how the Jews have been persecuted.  They totally neglected how  Jews are inflicting the same grief they experienced on another group of people.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">This film just adds fuel to the fire of US Middle East policy.  There&#8217;s a blood bath going on in the Middle East, and I believe this film will only make matters worse.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">There&#8217;s nothing wrong with showing how Jews have been persecuted throughout history.  The problem is this film has one sided coverage that will fuel injustice.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Two wrongs don&#8217;t equal a right.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">In the below Canadian Broadcasting Corporation report Israeli soldiers mortally wound a Palestinian woman by blowing the door off the front of her house.  She was home with her children who see her die.   An Israeli soldier states:</p>
<blockquote><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span> I don&#8217;t know what we&#8217;re doing here. <strong>Purification</strong> maybe. It&#8217;s dirty here. I don&#8217;t know why a good Hebrew boy should be here so far from his home </span></p>
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<p>The soldiers then break a large hole in the back wall of the family&#8217;s home.  This is their way of getting to the next street rather than having to walk through the doorway where they just blew the door off.  Perhaps it would be too much trouble to walk around the block.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">In this mini documentary Alison Weir with Alternative Focus presents graphs and charts on the lap sided reporting of Jewish deaths verses Palestinian deaths in the US.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I believe the way Rome treated the Jews was absolutely horrible.  After all it was the Romans who originally drove the Jews out of Israel in 135 A.D. (see below history and time table).    Constantine&#8217;s Sword shows how the Romans persecuted Jews for 2000 years.  Perhaps it was the Romans who had a debt to pay to the Jewish people and not the Palestinians by giving up the land they had held for nearly 2000 years.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Let me pose this question.  Is it scientific to assert a person&#8217;s DNA gives them a claim to a particular geographical location or parcel of land?</p>
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<h3><em>The World Book Encyclopedia<br />
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<p>Copy right 2006 (available at your local library)<br />
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<blockquote><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><strong>Roman rule. In 63 63 B.C.</strong> Roman troops invaded Judah and it came under Roman Control. The Romans called the area Judea. Jesus Chris was born in Bethlehem in the early years of Roman rule. Roman rulers put down Jewish revolts of Roman rule. Roman rulers put down Jewish revolts in A.D. 66 and A.D. 132. In A.D. 135, the Romans drive the Jews out of Jerusalem.</p>
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<blockquote><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><strong>The Zionist movement.</strong> Beginning in the late 1800’s, oppression of Jews in Eastern Europe set off a mass emigration of Jewish refugees. Some Jews formed a movement called Zionism, which sought to make Palestine an independent Jewish nation.</p>
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<blockquote><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><strong>World War II and the division of Palestine.</strong> (Paragraph 2) The United nations Special Commission on Palestine recommended that Palestine be divided into an Arab state and a Jewish state. The commission called for Jerusalem to be put under International control. The UN General Assembly adopted this plan on Nov. 29 1947. The Jews accepted the UN decision, but the Arabs rejected it. Fighting broke out immediately.</p>
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<p><a title="UN History of Palestine and Israel" href="http://www.un.org/Depts/dpa/ngo/history.html" target="_blank">United Nations History of Palestine</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>The Palestine  problem became an international issue  towards the end of the First      World War with the disintegration of the Turkish Ottoman Empire.  Palestine was among      the several former Ottoman Arab territories which were placed  under the      administration of Great Britain  under the Mandates System adopted by the League of      Nations pursuant to the League&#8217;s Covenant <a href="http://domino.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/85255e950050831085255e95004fa9c3/5e339e9d923e9f72802564b5003eead8?OpenDocument">(Article      22) .</a></p>
<p align="justify">All but one of these Mandated Territories became fully independent States, as      anticipated. The exception was Palestine where, instead of being limited to &#8220;the      rendering of administrative assistance and advice&#8221; the Mandate had as a primary      objective the implementation of the &#8220;Balfour Declaration&#8221;      issued by the British Government in 1917,  expressing support for &#8220;the      establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people&#8221;.</p>
<p align="justify">During the  years of the Palestine       Mandate, from 1922 to 1947, large-scale Jewish immigration from abroad,       mainly from Eastern Europe took place, the numbers swelling in the 1930s       with the notorious Nazi persecution of Jewish populations. Palestinian       demands for independence and resistance to Jewish immigration led to a       rebellion in 1937, followed by continuing terrorism and violence from both       sides during and immediately after World War II. Great Britain tried to       implement various formulas to bring independence to a land ravaged by       violence. In 1947, Great Britain  turned the problem over to the      United Nations.</p>
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<p class="inside-copy"><a name="christian-palestinians"></a><a title="USA Today exposes the reality that 15% of Palestinians are Christian, but Evengelicals believe Jews have to inhabit all of Israel in order for Christ to come back" href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2003-06-05-opcom_x.htm" target="_blank">USA Today on Palestinian Christians</a>:</p>
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<div class="by-line">By Sherri Muzher</div>
<div class="intro-copy">The questioner&#8217;s tone is usually incredulous: &#8220;You mean there are Palestinian <em>Christians</em>?&#8221;</div>
<p class="inside-copy">I understand the confusion. Many view the Palestinian-Israeli conflict as purely Muslims vs. Jews. And aren&#8217;t Arabs all Muslims and Muslims all Arabs?</p>
<p class="inside-copy">The reality is that some 15% of the world&#8217;s Palestinians are Christians, a vibrant community that has experienced as much suffering as Palestinian Muslims. In the latest uprising for freedom, Palestinian Christians have been among those killed or maimed for life by Israeli bullets. Christians also have been among the Palestinians who have been unable to leave their towns, go to their jobs, seek medical care and attend schools.</p>
<p class="inside-copy">Unfortunately, some are exploiting the general lack of knowledge about Palestinian Christians, either for political gain or for religions reasons — or both. Many evangelical Christians believe the Bible promised the Jews the entire Holy Land, including the occupied territory. And some evangelicals also believe the second coming of Christ is contingent upon the full return of Jews to Jerusalem.</p>
<p class="inside-copy">Last month, conservative Christian activist Gary Bauer spearheaded a letter, signed by other evangelical leaders, that warned President Bush that &#8220;it would be morally reprehensible for the United States to be &#8216;evenhanded&#8217; between democratic Israel, a reliable friend and ally that shares our values, and the terrorist-infested Palestinian infrastructure.&#8221; This week, the <em>Jerusalem Post</em> reported, the Rev. Pat Robertson, speaking on the Christian Broadcasting Network, said Bush&#8217;s proposed road map to peace imperiled Israel and went &#8220;against the clear mandate of the Bible.&#8221;</p>
<p class="inside-copy">But the fact that Palestinian Christians are united with Palestinian Muslims in the goal of liberation shows that their struggle isn&#8217;t so much religious as it is nationalistic and human.</p>
<p class="inside-copy">I can understand, however, the public-relations value for Israelis in ignoring Palestinian Christians. After all, given the unfair vilification of Islam after 9/11, why let your Western supporters know that you are also battling Christians?</p>
<p class="inside-copy">The evangelical leaders who warned Bush not to be &#8220;evenhanded&#8221; in peace negotiations may believe that they are speeding up Jesus&#8217; return, but it was Christ who said, &#8220;Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God.&#8221;</p>
<p class="inside-copy">Which is it?</p>
<p class="inside-copy"><em>Sherri Muzher, a Palestinian-American Christian, lives in Mason, Mich.</em></p>
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<p>Please watch this video before disputing these claims.</p>
<p>The real cause of global poverty: the World Bank and the IMF.  John Pilger explains why this is the case.  The real way to solve global poverty issues is not sending money to a corrupt government, but to force the World Bank and IMF to forgive all debts.  They should really seice to exist all together.</p>
<p>Pick any third world country who&#8217;s in trouble and Google World Bank and IMF.  Pick Mexico for example.</p>
<p>In order to help the poor, check into <a title="Help make loans to poor people where there will be no strings attached, and no interest" href="http://www.kiva.org" target="_blank">http://www.kiva.org</a> Kiva helps people make loans to the poor of other countries.  This money goes to the people, rather than a government.  There are no strings attached to the loan, and no interest.  The money comes from people like you and me who want to help out.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vernon Briggs from Cornell University, provides a brilliant perspective on illegal immigration.  This is the biggest issue were Democrats lose my vote.  They make all these claims saying they represent the poor and middle class, yet totally undermine their ability to earn a living wage by supporting and even promoting illegal immigration. No explains why [...]]]></description>
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<p>Vernon Briggs from Cornell University, provides a brilliant perspective on illegal immigration.  This is the biggest issue were Democrats lose my vote.  They make all these claims saying they represent the poor and middle class, yet totally undermine their ability to earn a living wage by supporting and even promoting illegal immigration.</p>
<p>No explains why illegal immigration hurts the poor, better than Vernon Briggs.  Vernon Briggs is the greatest champion of the poor we have in the US.</p>
<p>The Democrat solution appears to be let all the immigrants in until the poor in the US are just as poor as the neighboring countries.  Then the illegals won&#8217;t want to come in.</p>
<p>Instead of fighting for living wages for people, we will just offer them government assistance because they&#8217;re going to need it.</p>
<p>I truly do have sympathy for people Outside the US.  I believe much of their problems are caused by US foreign policy.  That means their plight is something we can fix.  That&#8217;s the most important issue.  If their plight is something we can fix by changing US foreign policy, then why aren&#8217;t the Democrats focusing on that?</p>
<p>In making these statement&#8217;s I&#8217;m not saying people should give up on the Democratic Party all together.  I actually don&#8217;t believe there&#8217;s enough of a difference between the Democratic Party and the Republican Party to make a big deal over the issue.</p>
<p>As Pat Buchanan would say, they are two wings of the same bird of pray.</p>
<p>So what can people do?  Get involved at the grassroots level.  If live in an area where a Dem usually wins, get involved with the Dems.  If you live in a Repub area, get involved in your local party.</p>
<p>What does grassroots level mean?  It means finding out who&#8217;s running at the primary level.  If your state has caucuses, you need to attend the caucuses.</p>
<p>Candidates will have times when you can go hear them speak.  Get off your rear and go listen to them.  Talk to them and ask them questions.  When you have picked the best person, volunteer to help them.  Big money can be beaten if a candidate has enough volunteers.</p>
<p>Also for caucus states check you my <a title="How a caucus system works" href="http://alternativeconservative.com/caucus" target="_blank">Caucus101</a> page.</p>
<p>Ways to get involved in your area or learn about the political process</p>
<h3>Libs:</h3>
<p><a title="Democracy for America" href="http://democracyforamerica.com" target="_blank">Democracy For America (DFA)<br />
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<p><a title="People for the American Way" href="http://site.pfaw.org/" target="_blank">People for the American Way</a></p>
<h3>Cons:</h3>
<p><a title="Campaign for Liberty" href="http://www.campaignforliberty.com" target="_blank">Campaign for Liberty</a></p>
<p><a title="Break The Matrix" href="http://www.breakthematrix.com" target="_blank">Break The Matrix</a></p>
<p><a title="Restore the Republic" href="http://www.restoretherepublic.com" target="_blank">Restore the Republic</a></p>
<p>You can use any of the above groups to find people in your area, but the easist way to find groups or start one is to go to <a title="Find people with related interests in your area" href="http://meetup.com" target="_blank">http://meetup.com</a> and search on a key word like DFA, Ron Paul, or Campaign for Liberty.</p>
<h2>Information on US foreign Policy:</h2>
<p><a title="The IMF World Bank and Globalization" href="http://mrxfromplanetx.com/the-new-rulers-of-the-world" target="_blank">The New Rulers of the World</a></p>
<p><a title="John Perkins on the IMF World Bank and how he used them to take down foreign governments" href="http://mrxfromplanetx.com/category/john-perkins" target="_blank">John Perkins on his roll in US foreign policy</a></p>
<p><a title="How US foreign policy has destroyed Democracy in Latin America" href="http://mrxfromplanetx.com/the-war-on-democracy" target="_blank">The War on Democracy</a></p>
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		<title>Bill Mahers Religulous</title>
		<link>http://alternativeconservative.com/2008/10/06/bill-mahers-religulous/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 01:53:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amapola</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Religulous is a movie that&#8217;s funny at times, but Bill Maher has a way of insulting people who don&#8217;t share the correct view&#8211;his view. It would be good to see the full footage on many of these interviews to see what the people actually had to say who fell victim to this documentary. I do [...]]]></description>
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<p>Religulous is a movie that&#8217;s funny at times, but Bill Maher has a way of insulting people who don&#8217;t share the correct view&#8211;his view.  It would be good to see the full footage on many of these interviews to see what the people actually had to say who fell victim to this documentary.</p>
<p>I do believe Bill Maher makes some good points, but you can&#8217;t ever get people to listen to you by insulting them.  What Bill does is get people who already agree with him to laugh at the torment they would like to inflict, while driving yet another wedge between Secularists and the Christians.</p>
<p>Even though Bill Maher is an Atheist, he&#8217;s a Zionist.  That strikes me as pretty strange.  Bill Interviews Rabi Weiss, but doesn&#8217;t let the poor guy get a word in edgewise.</p>
<p>I would like to share what Rabi Wiess actually has to say.  I believe Bill Maher slandered the man because he speaks out against Zionism and Atheism.  I find Rabi Wiess&#8217; claim that Zionists are Atheists a bit odd, but man is preaching for peace.</p>
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<p>Bill Maher condemns Rabi Weiss for meeting with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad  The problem is we have been lied to about what Mahmoud Ahmadinejad actually has to say.</p>
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		<title>I.O.U.S.A &#8211; George Carlin Was Right &#8211; They&#8217;re coming for your Social Security</title>
		<link>http://alternativeconservative.com/2008/08/25/iousa-george-carlin-was-right-theyre-coming-for-your-social-security/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 03:44:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I would like to give people a heads up on this film I had been rather excited about called I.O.U.S.A . . Based on this move trailer I thought it would shed some light on the Federal Reserve Banking system.  It turns out the film did, but not very well.    The film examines the budget [...]]]></description>
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<h1>I.O.U.S.A</h1>
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<p>Based on this move trailer I thought it would shed some light on the <a title="How the Federal Reserve creates the inflaltion tax which harms the poor and the middle class" href="http://inflationtax.blogspot.com" target="_blank">Federal Reserve Banking system</a>.  It turns out the film did, but not very well.    The film examines  the</p>
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<p>After examining these issues, and doing a good job at scaring the crap out of people, they have a focus group to discus how to solve the problem.  The only issue they focused on, was Social Security.  Didn&#8217;t George Carlin warn us about this?</p>
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<p>In this clip George warns us &#8220;They&#8217;re coming for your social security next, and they&#8217;ll get it too.&#8221;</p>
<p>They showed this clip in the movie (minus the text provided by this Youtuber) and then down-plaid it.</p>
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<p>They did very little to examine the core problems with the Federal Reserve.  For more information see <a title="How the Federal Reserve creates the inflation tax which harms the poor and the middle class" href="http://inflationtax.blogspot.com" target="_blank">InflationTax.blogspot.com</a></p>
<p>I think it&#8217;s odd David Walker who&#8217;s behind this film has teamed up with the <a title="The Heritage Institute claims the more US jobs leave the country, the more better paying jobs we will have in the US" href="http://tinyurl.com/heritage-foundation-outsource" target="_blank">Heritage Foundation</a>.  I&#8217;m not a fan.  The Heritage Foundation claims to be a conservative think tank.  I thought the main conservative value was family values.  I claim being able to support your family is a critical family value conservatives are overlooking.  You can&#8217;t tell me sending jobs out of the country will create more good paying jobs in the US.  That&#8217;s what the Heritage Foundation claims.   That&#8217;s like saying sending manufacturing to China will decrease our trade deficit.  What is the Heritage Foundation, <a title="Find out how Edward Bernays pioneered prapaganda (also known as public relations) in the United States" href="http://mrxfromplanetx.com/century-of-self" target="_blank">corporate propaganda</a> think tank?</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve worked extensively with counterparts in India.  They work for around $200 a month.  Or at least that&#8217;s what someone from India told me seven years ago.  They are probably up to $300 or $400 now.</p>
<p>This information was presented in the film <a title="Orwell Rolls in His Grave takes a look at corporate control over the main stream media" href="http://mrxfromplanetx.com/orwell-rolls-in-his-grave" target="_blank">Orwell Rolls in His Grave</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>According to the nonpartisan congressional Budget Office: between 1979 and 1997, income for families in the middle rose 9% from $41,000 to $45,100, while income for families in the top 1% rose from $420,000 to $1,016,000 — a 140% increase.</p>
<p>Why has the response to a rise inequality been a drive to reduce taxes on the rich?</p>
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<p>In addition to keeping their currency low, China imposes tariffs against US imports.  Per Lou Dobbs <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FWar-Middle-Class-Government-Business%2Fdp%2F0670037923%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks%26qid%3D1219627623%26sr%3D1-1&amp;tag=alt13-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325" target="_blank">War On The Middle Class</a><img style="border: medium none  ! important; margin: 0px ! important" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=alt13-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1" border="0" alt="Lout Dobbs War On The Middle Class" width="1" height="1" /> China has a 25% tariff in place against US imports like cars, while we have a 3% tariff against them.  We can&#8217;t sell exports to China.</p>
<p>Like <a title="During the heat of the Presidential campaign in 1980, he agreed to support quotas on Japanese autos imports The quotas were imposed but the end result was that it pushed the Japanese Big Three, Toyota, Honda and Nissan, to expedite the construction of new plants in the United States" href="http://hnn.us/articles/18301.html" target="_blank">Ronald Reagan&#8217;s quotas against Toyota</a>, China requires a physical factory presence in their country in order to sell goods there.  The Heritage Institute claim that protectionism harms other countries, but it appears to have made China very wealthy.</p>
<p>As I.O.U.S.A points out, China has the largest trade surplus in the world.  They don&#8217;t have the debt the U.S. has offsetting their assets either.  The U.S. has the largest trade deficit in the world, and the largest debt.  If this is the case, is our government hiding the fact China is now the richest country in the world?</p>
<p>This film says  the U.S. is approaching a $1 trillion per year trade deficit as Lou Dobbs mentions in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FWar-Middle-Class-Government-Business%2Fdp%2F0670037923%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks%26qid%3D1219627623%26sr%3D1-1&amp;tag=alt13-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325" target="_blank">War On The Middle Class</a><img style="border: medium none  ! important; margin: 0px ! important" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=alt13-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1" border="0" alt="Lout Dobbs War On The Middle Class" width="1" height="1" />.  They went on and on about how Clinton balanced the Budget.  Why not bring up <a title="Bill Clinton on NAFTA and GATT build bridges, not walls " href="http://www.ontheissues.org/celeb/Bill_Clinton_Free_Trade.htm" target="_blank">Clinton signed NAFTA into law</a>, or that he <a title="Bill Clinton Fair trade will liberalize China " href="http://www.ontheissues.org/celeb/Bill_Clinton_Free_Trade.htm" target="_blank">lowered the tariffs on China</a>.  Clinton Claimed bringing more wealth to their country would bring them freedom, but I don&#8217;t call <a title="NPR special report on forced abortions in china because women are single or already have one child" href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9766870" target="_blank">forcing women to have an abortion as late as 9 months</a> pregnancy freedom.  I call it murder.</p>
<p>Unfortunately the American people have been brainwashed by <a title="BBC documentary on the history of Public Relations and manipulating public opinion" href="http://mrxfromplanetx.com/century-of-self" target="_blank">Edward Bernays PR</a> into thinking capitalism brings you democracy.  They are independent of each other.  Just because you have capitalism, it doesn&#8217;t mean you have democracy.  You still have to fight to keep it.</p>
<p>This film as well as <a title="Aaron Russo examines the income tax and government power" href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1656880303867390173" target="_blank">America Freedom to Fascism</a> both state the American people pay three times what corporations do.   America Freedom to Fascism gives these figures:<img src="http://alternativeconservative.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/corptax2.png" alt="Corporate tax vs Personal Income Tax" align="right" /></p>
<blockquote><p>In 2005 the <em>illegal</em> tax on your labor collected $927.2</p>
<p>The legal <em>corporate</em> income tax collected $278.3</p>
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<p>Most conservatives appear to miss the point of America Freedom to Fascism.  Aaron Russo was NOT saying no one should ever pay taxes.  He was saying Constitutionally the tax burden  should be carried by corporations rather than working class people.</p>
<p>The <a title="Who owns who in the top 10 big corporate media" href="http://www.thenation.com/special/bigten.html" target="_blank">corporate media owned by companies like GE</a> keep telling you the economy will slow down, if they have to pay taxes.   What it&#8217;s going to do is take the tax burden off from working class people, and put it on them where it belongs.  When the government spends money without raising taxes to cover it, they just print money to make up the shortfall or borrow it from another country.  That&#8217;s what causes the <a title="How the Federal Reserve creates the inflaltion tax which harms the poor and the middle class" href="http://inflationtax.blogspot.com" target="_blank">Inflation Tax</a>.    Maybe the corporate media will care more about government spending, if the corporations actually have to pay for it.</p>
<p>We have companies like <a title="Halliburton Co will move its corporate headquarters from Houston to Dubai" href="http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/halliburton-move-headquarters-dubai/story.aspx?guid={71120983-5D06-416D-80D7-3B4348F8C514}" target="_blank">Halliburton who moved their headquarters to Debi</a> so they don&#8217;t have to pay taxes.  Yet they are still allowed to bid on government contracts.  The more companies pay their executives, the less they have to claim as profile.  As Lou Dobbs points out in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FWar-Middle-Class-Government-Business%2Fdp%2F0670037923%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks%26qid%3D1219627623%26sr%3D1-1&amp;tag=alt13-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325" target="_blank">War On The Middle Class</a><img style="border: medium none  ! important; margin: 0px ! important" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=alt13-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1" border="0" alt="Lout Dobbs War On The Middle Class" width="1" height="1" /> on page 26, Lee Raymond chairman of ExxonMobile made an average of $144,573.00 a day over a period of 13 years.  Raymond&#8217;s retirement package was $400 million.</p>
<p>Again instead of addressing any of these issues, the primary focus (of the focus group at the end of this movie) was <strong>Social Security</strong>.    They didn&#8217;t tackle the trade deficit.  Why not talk about how Clinton lowered tariffs on China causing this issue to sky rocket?  What about NAFTA?</p>
<p>They talked about the Medicare Drug Bill draining the country, but they didn&#8217;t go into why it&#8217;s actually so bad.  The bill is so bad because it was written by the Big Pharma lobbyists as exposed in this 60 minutes documentary.</p>
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<p>As I said before, Social Security and Medicare needs to be dealt with, but I see the goal of this film and the focus group at the end as going after the poor and middle class.  There is no focus on the juggernauts who are selling us down the river.  Again they didn&#8217;t discuss tackling the Fed so we can combat <a title="How the Federal Reserve creates the inflation tax which harms the poor and the middle class" href="http://inflationtax.blogspot.com" target="_blank">inflation</a>.  That would make it worth while to save money.  Right now, inflation is higher than the interest you can earn on your savings, unless you&#8217;re investing in gold or silver.  One idea they presented was to Federally mandate savings&#8211;another tax.</p>
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<p>What Ron Paul has said is we need to close down our 700 military bases in 130 countries, use that money to meet our current obligations, and then give young people the option of opting out.  I agree this is good, because one generation supporting the last is an unsustainable system.  It requires population growth to combat inflation.  If the birth rate isn&#8217;t high enough, you then have a crisis.  We have to tackle the <a title="How the Federal Reserve creates the inflation tax which harms the poor and the middle class" href="http://inflationtax.blogspot.com" target="_blank">Federal Reserve</a>, so if you save for retirement, the interest on your savings will be higher than the inflation rate.</p>
<p>These guys claimed policing the world is not the main expense so they didn&#8217;t even address the issue.  They did address George Bush has run up the biggest U.S. deficit in American history.  How do they think he did that that?  Having a <a title="The $10 billion figure comes from Security Situation in Iraq Senate hearing 4-2-2008" href="http://www.c-spanarchives.org/library/index.php?main_page=product_video_info&amp;products_id=204669-1" target="_blank">$10 billion per month war</a> isn&#8217;t the cause?</p>
<p>Let me point out again, Ron Paul has stated ending our global empire would give us the money to meet our current obligations.  Check out this <a title="Pie charts on the US military budget" href="http://images.google.com/images?q=pie%20chart%20military%20spending&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;rls=com.ubuntu:en-US:unofficial&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;um=1&amp;sa=N&amp;tab=wi%5Dmilitary%20spending" target="_blank">Google search</a> for pie charts on the US military budget and.  It&#8217;s a lot higher than they claimed in this film.</p>
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<p>In the Above video Cynthia McKinney points out the Pentagon had $2.3 trillion go missing in 1999, and $1.1 trillion go missing in 2000.  Defense Department Comptroller Tina Jonas states they spend $20 billion per year, on computer information systems.</p>
<p>It looks like the <a title="President Bush's administration to submit proposed budget for US foreign aid in 2008 to Congress; requestsover 12 percent increase in foreign aid from 2007; Lebanon to receive some USD 52 million, Israel to get USD 2.4 billion" href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3362402,00.html" target="_blank">U.S. foreign aid budget for 2008 is $20.27 billion</a>. They did NOT mention foreign aid.   Why didn&#8217;t they look at that?  Foreign aid is <a title="Myth more foregin aid will end global poverty by John Stossel" href="http://abcnews.go.com/2020/Story?id=1955664&amp;page=1" target="_blank">supporting foreign politicians</a> for the most part.  It&#8217;s not helping the poor.</p>
<p>John McCain wants to cut <a title="John McCain wants to cut corporate taxes from 35% to 25% with no strings attached" href="http://www.johnmccain.com/Informing/Issues/0b8e4db8-5b0c-459f-97ea-d7b542a78235.htm" target="_blank">corporate taxes from 35% to 25%</a>.  Won&#8217;t that cause the dollar to plunge even farther?  That&#8217;s one way Bush caused the dollar to crash.  He lowered the taxes on the richest 3% of the population, while increasing government spending.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t let them touch your Social Security until they address these other issues.  I hate to put it this way, but it looks like the poor and middle class are about to get screwed again, while all of these other issues go unaddressable.</p>
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<p>If you want to see a really good film on personal U.S. debt, watch</p>
<h1>Maxed Out</h1>
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		<title>John Pilger &#8211; Freedom Next Time</title>
		<link>http://alternativeconservative.com/2008/08/14/john-pilger-freedom-next-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:35:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amapola</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[. In this presentation John Pilger discuses the history of his journalism career and his documentaries. John Pilger discuses his failed attempts to get one of those films on PBS, and the illusion that there is a difference between the Republican and Democratic Parties. John covers some of the dangerous laws that have been passed [...]]]></description>
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<p><img src="http://alternativeconservative.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/freedomnexttime.thumbnail.jpeg" alt="Freedom Next Time by John Pilger" align="left" hspace="4" />In this presentation <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Pilger" title="John Richard Pilger (born October 9, 1939) is a multi-award-winning Australian-born journalist and documentary filmmaker from Sydney, primarily based in London" target="_blank">John Pilger</a> discuses the history of his journalism career and his documentaries.  John Pilger discuses his failed attempts to get one of those films on PBS, and the illusion that there is a difference between the Republican and Democratic Parties.</p>
<p>John covers some of the dangerous laws that have been passed in the United States, like the Military Commissions Act, and the Patriot Act,  Executive order 51 which gives the President the authority to declare martial law, and the real End Game document that actually exists.</p>
<p>I believe Alex Jones goes way over the top in a great deal of the work he does.  That&#8217;s why it&#8217;s good to hear this information from John Pilger, who puts things in perspective.  This is the person who used the Freedom of Information Act to uncover the Endgame document exists.</p>
<h3>Documentaries by John Pilger</h3>
<p><a href="http://mrxfromplanetx.com/the-new-rulers-of-the-world" title="Watch John Pilger's The New Rulers Of The World and obtain additional information" target="_blank">The New Rulers Of The World</a></p>
<p><a href="http://mrxfromplanetx.com/the-war-on-democracy" title="Watch John Pilger's The War On Democracy and obtain additional information" target="_blank">The War On Democracy </a></p>
<p><a href="http://mrxfromplanetx.com/paying-the-price-killing-the-children-of-iraq" title="Watch John Pilger's Paying The Price - Killing the Children of Iraq  and obtain additional information" target="_blank">Paying The Price: Killing the Children of Iraq </a></p>
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		<title>Are Ralph Nader and Matt Gonzalez real Democrats?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2008 04:53:05 +0000</pubDate>
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<h2>Matt Gonzalez &#8211; National Latino Congreso</h2>
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<h2>An Unreasonable Man</h2>
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<p>I like the Republican argument that people should be free and government should not interfere in their lives.  I can agree with the Republican argument the larger government is, the more government intrudes in your life.  The only problem is Republicans keep advocating for larger government on behalf of corporations.  They don&#8217;t regulate corporations, but instead regulate the American People on behalf of corporations.</p>
<p>In an ideal word, people could say,  &#8220;I&#8217;m sick of putting up with this Republican hypocrisy.  I&#8217;m going to vote for a Democrat because they will look after the people.&#8221;  I thought that&#8217;s what they claimed anyway.  I believe this is an ideal Democrats have for their party that they have let slip away.  I am so sick of talking to Democrats who say, &#8220;Well we have to go with this guy because he&#8217;s electable.&#8221;  Since when did being a corrupt piece of crap make someone electable?  Being corrupt doesn&#8217;t mean someone has moved to the center as the media tells people.  It just means they&#8217;re sell out no mater what party they are with.</p>
<p>Dems are so out of touch because they don&#8217;t have a civil conversation with Republicans.  Likewise Republicans are out of touch because they don&#8217;t have civil conversations with Democrats.</p>
<p>The dialect they use is different.  Republicans say &#8220;Special Interest Groups.&#8221;   I believe this because Republicans can&#8217;t bare to admit their convoluted, distorted belief of what capitalism is, is wrong.  The corporate world they have been brainwashed into protecting has screwed them over.  Dems gripe about capitalists, and corporations, but do nothing.  Dems go right along with their corrupted politicians who have been bought and paid for just like most Republican.</p>
<p>Being able to support a family is a key family value, but neither the Republicans or the Democrats support this value.  Neither group (in whole) is working to protect American jobs.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the reality.  The Constitution was not written for corporations, it was written for individual US Citizens.  Capitalism is just fine as long as you are looking out for the rights of the individual people.  &#8220;<a href="http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/288200.html" title="John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, first Baron Acton (1834–1902)" target="_blank">Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely</a>. Great men are almost always bad men.&#8221;  It makes no sense to trust corporations that is larger and more powerful than the government you fear.  They own the government you fear.</p>
<p>One area were liberals commonly go wrong is they want the government to protect them, but they are not skeptical enough.  Liberals first need to realize their government has already been purchased.  Dems need to scrutinize every bill whether they think it was written by a Dem or a Republican.  Chances are the bill was written by a lobbyist on behalf of a corrupt corporation&#8211;not for the benefit of the American People.</p>
<p>I do believe Ralph Nader and Matt Gonzalez are real Democrats.  Not the corporate sellouts that <strong>demented </strong>Democrats claim are needed in order to get a Democrat elected.  If you have to stoop to such a low level, what is the point?  The one area were I do disagree with Matt and Ralph is on third party candidates.  I don&#8217;t believe a third party has a real shot at the election.  I will vote for one for President because the two main choices suck so bad.</p>
<p>The real power is to get organized at a grassroots level.  The grass roots level means being one of the people who determine who gets on the ballot.  If you can do that, than you determine who the sheeple will have to vote for.  Who else is the mainstream corporate media going to cover?</p>
<h3>Local NPR Stations</h3>
<p>Ralph Nader has not been able to get onto a National NPR program even though they are publicly funded.  Ralph was able to get on a local NPR station in Salt Lake City, Utah.   <a href="http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/kuer/news/news.newsmain?action=article&amp;ARTICLE_ID=1330916&amp;sectionID=184" title="Ralph Nader appeared on a local NPR station KUER in Salt Lake City Utah" target="_blank">Check out what Ralph Nader has to say</a>.  There is a podcast link you can click on in the upper left hand side of the page.</p>
<h3>More Information</h3>
<p>If you would like more information on what Matt said about Bill Clinton&#8217;s sanctions, see John Pilger&#8217;s Paying <a href="http://mrxfromplanetx.com/paying-the-price-killing-the-children-of-iraq" title="A look at how UN sanctions backed by Bill Clinton killed half a million children in Iraq" target="_blank">The Price: Killing The Children of Iraq</a>.</p>
<p>Republican or Democrat, every one needs to watch <a href="http://mrxfromplanetx.com/orwell-rolls-in-his-grave" title="Orwell Rools in His Grave takes a look at corporate control over the main stream media" target="_blank">Orwell Rolls in His Grave</a>.  A third party candidate can&#8217;t get their message out because the corporate media, simply will not let them.  The corporate media has control, so taking over the two main parties at the grassroots level is the only option left.  Nader and Kucinich supporters need to get in at the grass roots level and guide Dems who have their heads up some dark orifice.</p>
<p>Grassroots means determining who gets on the ballot, for other people to vote for.</p>
<h3>How To Make A Difference</h3>
<p>If you believe you are more liberal than conservative, try getting involved with the Democratic Party to bring about the Ideals Ralph Nader and Matt Gonzalez are talking about.  The real problem with the party is the block heads the activests keep putting on the ballot for you.  Grass Roots organizations that are specifically responsable fior what you are getting stuck with are groups like <a href="http://www.democracyforamerica.com" title="Democracy for America is the United State's largest progressive political action community" target="_blank">Democracy for America</a>.  This is where the grass roots change needs to begin.  Democracy for America can also be found at <a href="http://dfa.meetup.com" title="Find Meetup groups for Democracy for America" target="_blank">dfa.meetup.com</a>.  <a href="http://usalone.org" title="The People's Email Network is a great way to stay informed and to inform other people" target="_blank">The People&#8217;s Email Network</a> is a good way to stay informed, so is <a href="http://www.pfaw.org" title="People for the American Way is an energetic advocate for the values and institutions that sustain a diverse democratic society" target="_blank">People For The American Way</a>.</p>
<p>If you consider yourself more conservative, but you are sick of corruption in the Republican party, check out Ron Paul&#8217;s <a href="http://www.campaignforliberty.com" title="Ron Paul's Campaign for Liberty Political Action Committee" target="_blank">Campaign For Liberty</a>, <a href="http://breakthematrix.com" title="Break The Matrix is an organization dedicated to breaking the Matrix of the mainstream media" target="_blank">Break The Matrix</a>,  and be sure to join a Meetup group <a href="http://ronpaul.meetup.com" title="Meetup Group for people who support the ideals of Ron Paul" target="_blank">ronpaul.meetup.com</a>.</p>
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