OUTRAGED BY OUR FOREIGN POLICY

I'm sorry that I'm a day late in publishing this post. I received a DVD of a film called "Hijacking Catastrophe" a couple of days ago; and I watched that film last night.
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Watching that 2004 documentary was difficult and made me sick to my stomach.
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The fact that we are continuing the BUSH DOCTRINE and the NEOCON agenda (accelerated by George W. Bush), and also continuing Wolfowitz 's PNAC philosophy, is unreal, and I think, a recipe for disaster (according to Chalmers Johnson). READ SYNOPSIS of the film AT FILM.COM

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If you look up the word NEOCON, use the Britannica and U.S. History Encyclopedia ... it appears that Wikipedia has been corrupted by those who wish to place blame largely on Liberals (both Political Parties are to blame for our foreign policy).
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December 1, 2010 [WikiLeaks Cables Reveal U.S. Tried to Thwart Spanish Probes of Gitmo Torture and CIA Rendition]

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See above video at:
Ann Jones on "War Is Not Over When It's Over: Women and the Unseen Consequences of Conflict" (September 30, 2010)
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/9/30/ann_jones_on_war_is_not
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SEE AMY GOODMAN'S INTERVIEW WITH CHALMERS JOHNSON: "NEMESIS; THE LAST DAYS OF THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC", FEBRUARY 27, 2007


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(Above Video) Amy Goodman talks with Noam Chomsky, November 30, 2010
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Open Left:: Know-nothings learn nothing from Wikileaks Treasure Trove. Noam Chomsky shows how to read. by Paul Rosenberg, December 1, 2010
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CHOMSKY: OBAMA CONTINUES BUSH POLICY (NOVEMBER 5, 2009)

BUSH DOCTRINE
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REAGAN DOCTRINE
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NEOCON
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HIJACKING CATASTROPHE
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CHALMERS JOHNSON
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HOWARD ZINN
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VAN JONES
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NAOMI KLEIN
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NOAM CHOMSKY
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JODY WILLIAMS
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SCOTT RITTER
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JEREMY EARP
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SUT JHALLY
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Timeline of Oil and Violence in Afghanistan

Benjamin Barber - uttered these solemn words: "The damage we have done to ourselves on the way to protect ourselves"

The Warfare State

Trans Afghan Pipeline

Michael Klare - "Resource Wars"

Patriot Act

Kevin Danaher & Medea Benjamin - Co-founders: Global Exchange

Zia Mian - Research Scientist at Princeton University

Norman Solomon - Institute for Public Accuracy

Richard A. Clarke

Robert Jensen, Professor of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin College of Communications

Benjamin Barber

Mark Crispin Miller

Max Wolff - Department of Economics, University of Massachuetts

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Pentagon whistleblower Lt. Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski.
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Wolfowitz's PNAC philosophy
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TERRORISM
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Project for the New American Century (PNAC)
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DICK CHENEY
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PAUL WOLFOWITZ
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DONALD RUMSFELD
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JEB BUSH
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DAN QUAYLE
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WAR ON TERROR
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SEPTEMBER 11 ATTACKS
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SADDAM HUSSEIN
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THE CO-PRESIDENCY OF BUSH AND CHENEY
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LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: THE REAL GEORGE W. BUSH BY STEPHEN PIZZO (OCTOBER 27, 2005)
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"Blowback, The Costs and Consequences of American Empire" by (the late) Chalmers A. Johnson (read more about Chalmers at Alternet)
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IRAN-CONTRA AFFAIR
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RACHEL MADDOW CALLS OUT POLITICAL AND MEDIA RIGHT WING FEAR MONGERS

I was going to comment on the right wing smear campaign against Shirley Sherrod; however, Rachel Maddow was brilliant in summing up what this whole smear campaign is about.

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Let's watch:

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VIEW ABOVE ["SHERROD STORY DEMONSTRATES 'SCARE WHITE PEOPLE' TACTIC] VIDEO AT: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/ns/msnbc_tv-rachel_maddow_show/#38353636
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VIEW ABOVE [ROBINSON ON LESSONS FOR THE WHITE HOUSE] VIDEO AT: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/ns/msnbc_tv-rachel_maddow_show/#38353691
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VIEW ABOVE [FOX NEWS DISAVOWS RESPONSIBILITY ON SHERROD STORY] VIDEO AT: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/ns/msnbc_tv-rachel_maddow_show/#38353774
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Ms. Sherrod's full speech at:

http://www.naacp.org/news/entry/video_sherrod/
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CNN's Don Lemon returns home with Shirley Sherrod, the woman at the center of the USDA controvery. (see below)



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HEALTH CARE REFORM DEBATE: WORD OF WARNING TO THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION AND ALL MEMBERS OF CONGRESS AND THE SENATE

Word of warning to the Obama administration and all members of Congress and the Senate [Democrat, Independent, and Republican]. If you don’t put the health, welfare and safety of the American people above money and corporate profits, you will totally lose the respect and trust of the American people.

People believe in conspiracy theories because there is evidence of governments experimenting and putting its citizens at bodily risk.

So it is natural that people like Michele Bachmann, Van Jones (an honorable, good man) and others (from the political right and left) have or had trepidation and distrust regarding their government. Some questions and assertions, however, are absolutely ludicrous as Bill Moyers said Friday, in his PBS segment [September 4, 2009].

That said, questions will always arise whenever government gets involved.

That is why government officials and members of Congress/Senate and the President should never lie to the American people. Once you lie, everything you say is suspect.

I always remember Eisenhower’s warning of a military industrial complex. Whenever government gets in bed with private industry in war [or health care], they bear watching and investigation.

In the health care debate, Americans [in their gut] still want a strong public option. They’ve got evidence that government works pretty well in the health insurance arena. Seniors are happy with the care they’ve received with Medicare paying the bills; though it doesn’t mean that there be no need for improvements, especially in controlling costs.

There are numerous examples, however, of government and private industry wrong doing. Government has often engaged private industry in production of weapons and execution of policy. Our government needs to acknowledge that it is not perfect and has regrets; but it also needs to reassure its citizens that they are committed to the health and welfare of its people.

Past Sins:
Experiments on non-consenting individuals by United States [From Wikipedia]

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In August of 1949 a U.S. Army Special Operations Division, operating out of Fort Detrick in Maryland, set up its first test at The Pentagon in Washington, D.C. Operatives sprayed harmless bacteria into the building's air conditioning system and observed as the microbes spread throughout the Pentagon.[51]

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There were massive medical experiments that involved civilians who had not consented to participate. Often, these experiments took place in urban areas in order to test dispersion methods. Questions were raised about detrimental health effects after experiments in San Francisco, California, were followed by a spike in hospital visits; however, in 1977 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention determined that there was no association between the testing and the occurrence of pneumonia or influenza.[52] The San Francisco test involved a U.S. Navy ship that sprayed Serratia marcescens from the bay; it traveled more than 30 miles.[52] One dispersion test involved laboratory personnel disguised as passengers spraying harmless bacteria in Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.[52]
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Scientists tested biological pathogens, including Bacillus globigii, which were thought to be harmless, at public places such as subways. A light bulb containing Bacillus globigii was dropped on New York City's subway system; the result was strong enough to affect people prone to illness (also known as Subway Experiment).[53] Based on the circulation measurements, thousands of people would have been killed if a dangerous microbe was released in the same manner.[52]
A jet aircraft released material over Victoria, Texas, that was monitored in the Florida Keys.[52]

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GAO Report
In February, 2008, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released report GAO-08-366 titled, "Chemical and Biological Defense, DOD and VA Need to Improve Efforts to Identify and Notify Individuals Potentially Exposed during Chemical and Biological Tests." The report stated that tens of thousands of military personnel and civilians may have been exposed to biological and chemical substances through DOD tests. In 2003, the DOD reported it had identified 5,842 military personnel and estimated 350 civilians as being potentially exposed during the testing, known as Project 112.[54]

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The GAO asserts that the U.S. Department of Defense's (DOD) 2003 decision to stop searching for people affected by the tests was premature. They also claimed that the DOD made no effort to inform civilians of exposure; furthermore, they assert that the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is not using available resources to inform veterans of possible exposure or to determine if they were deceased. After the DOD halted efforts to find those who may have been affected by the tests, non-DOD sources identified approximately 600 additional individuals who were potentially exposed during Project 112.[54] Some of the individuals were identified after the GAO reviewed records stored at the Dugway Proving Ground, others were identified by the Institute of Medicine.[55] Many of the newly identified suffer from long term illnesses that may have been caused by the biological or chemical testing.[56]


United States involvement in atrocities and aggression in other countries.

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1. Vietnam War

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[Sources: The History Channel, "History Undercover: Air America: The CIA's Secret Airline" The History Channel, "20th Century with Mike Wallace: The CIA: Fifty Years of Spying" "The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia", Alfred W. McCoy, Harper-Colophon Books, 1973]

2. CIA involvement and atrocities in Chile.
3. CIA involvement in Iran
4. CIA involvement in Guatemala
5. CIA involvement in the Congo
6. Iraq

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Sources: The History Channel, "Spy Web: The CIA" The History Channel, "History Undercover: Anatomy of a Coup: The CIA in Iran"

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United States Experiments on its own people:

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1. Plutonium Experiments

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Sources: "The Plutonium Files: America's Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War" by Eileen Welcome, The Dial Press, 1999 The History Channel, "History Undercover: Declassified: Human Experimentation" Secretary of Energy Hazel O'Leary Press Conference, July 12, 1993 Presidential Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments 1994-1995


2. Tuskegee Syphilis Study

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Sources: Congressional Hearings, 1973, Senator Kennedy "Bad Blood", James H. Jones, Free Press, New York, 1981, 1993

3. Atomic Bomb Testing on Soldiers

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Sources: The Atomic Veteran's Research Institute, Robert Campbell The History Channel, "History Undercover: Declassified: Human Experimentation" "Undue Risk: Secret State Experiments on Humans", Jonathan Moreno, Routledge, W. H. Freeman & Co., 2000

4. Chemical Weapons and Bacteria Experiments

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Sources: News Night Minnesota 5/25/95 KTCA TV, Minneapolis 1977 The History Channel, "History Undercover: Declassified: Human Experimentation" "Clouds of Secrecy: The Army's Germ-Warfare Tests over Populated Areas", Leonard A. Cole, Rowman & Littlefield, 1988, 1990 "The Eleventh Plague: The Politics of Biological and Chemical Warfare", Leonard A. Cole, W. H. Freeman & Co., 1996, 1998 "Undue Risk: Secret State Experiments on Humans", Jonathan Moreno, Routledge, W. H. Freeman & Co., 2000

5. Human Drug Testing

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Sources: Congressional Hearings, Human Drug Testing by The CIA, 1975-1977 The History Channel, "History's Mysteries: Getting High: A History of LSD" "Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, The Sixties and Beyond", Martin Lee, Bruce Shlain, Grove Press, 1986

6. Experimentation with Microwave and EM Weapons

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The History Channel, "History's Mysteries: Mind Control: America's Secret War" "Undue Risk: Secret State Experiments on Humans", Jonathan Moreno, Routledge, W. H. Freeman & Co., 2000 "Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, The Sixties and Beyond", Martin Lee, Bruce Shlain, Grove Press, 1986


The United States is not alone in its wrong doing, as we well know.

The knowledge of these atrocities and experiments are the reason why Americans and others sometimes feel powerless, fearful and distrusting of their government.

Members of Congress/Senate, and Mr. President, put the American people first. Tell the truth. You know universal health care and universal health insurance is morally right. You also know that the private “for profit” health insurance and health care industries we currently have, are unsustainable; and there are major problems with those industries that don’t jive with achieving true health care and health insurance reform. [Do you get that Mr. President?].

Put the safety measures in place, make the necessary reforms in our health care system, and show the rest of the world that we can be strong, compassionate leaders with effective, efficient and innovative health care and health care delivery systems.

Sources:
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"Undue Risk: Secret State Experiments on Humans", Jonathan Moreno, Routledge, W. H. Freeman & Co., 2000

Congressional Hearings, Abuse of Psychiatry for Political Repression in the Soviet Union, 1972-1974

A & E Investigative Reports: Return to the Killing Fields The History Channel, "History's Crimes and Trials: Pol Pot and the Killing Fields"

The Bush Administration’s Secret Biowarfare Agenda

Operation Whitecoat

War Crimes

Iraq and Weapons of Mass Destruction

HAARP [critics and supporters]

Health Care

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National Health Insurance

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Publicly Funded Health Care

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Mind Control Forum

A NEW BUSINESS MODEL - EMPLOYEES OWNING BIG BUSINESS AND REPUBLICANS PLAN TO STOP IT

The doom and gloom about the Middle Class would definitely be a reality under a Republican Administration. As you noticed, every single Republican in Congress voted against the Recovery and Reinvestment Act, as did all but three brave Republican members of the Senate (Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins and Arlen Specter).

Well, the Recovery and Reinvestment Act specifically addresses the low and middle income. The Middle Class Task Force is working hard to bring GREEN jobs to that sector.

I’ve seen what is going on behind the scenes. Yesterday I was on a conference call that talked about all the projects and training projects going on across the country.

The President didn’t make Van Jones “Green Jobs” adviser for nothing. I would check out “Green for All”.

The other thing, and I know Republicans are dead set against this; unions are not going away. They are the bedrock of the Middle Class and they are here to stay, I hope so under President Obama.

Union workers make more and they did indeed help create a strong Middle Class.
Expect to see GREEN jobs with a strong union component.

The best thing about GM’s bankruptcy was that now, the UAW and Americans own a stake in GM. It has always been my dream for the employees to own the business. This is now becoming a reality. Again, this is something that Republicans are 100% against.

They talk small business, but they never talked about the employees having an ownership stake in big business.

President Obama has done that. GM is not dead. Michael Moore and President Obama talked about hi-speed transit. I see GM being at the center of this move. That will make a lot of union workers and middle Americans very happy; as, I believe, high speed rail can not get done without unions being involved.

So naysayers and the Republican Party … be very afraid cause a new day has come; and the bottom is now going to the top. A flip flop and its definitely a new business model.

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This new business model will spread across the world (I hope), ... new GM plants (with employees owning a stake in big business, or owning big business) will transform America and poorer countries who adopt the model and focus on hi-speed rail energizing their economies.

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Henry Ford's cars helped build a strong Middle Class. Hi-Speed transit can bring it back.

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The one thing we cannot allow is for the Republicans in the Congress and the Senate (and the Republican Party) and a few small minded Democrats to block the Employee Free Choice Act and ACESA

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A Phoenix Rising From GM's Ashes

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Goodbye GM

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GREEN FOR ALL

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THE UNITED AUTO WORKERS: BUSTED? (I don't think so -my comments)

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EMPLOYEE FREE CHOICE ACT (EFCA)

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The American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (ACESA),

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GOING GREEN WITH VAN JONES

Last week we published our first "Going Green" web page. We happened to catch Van Jones, founder of "Green for All" on Laura Flander's GritTV. The video piece is dated October 14, 2008, but it is so relevant for today. Van Jones was on the panel of the first meeting of the "Middle Class Task Force" held in Philadelphia, February 27, 2009. He is also the Special Advisor for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation at the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ).

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Please turn off/pause music player to the right of this page before viewing video.

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http://airamerica.com/lauraflanders/blog/2008/oct/14/grittv-laura-flanders-talks-van-jones

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