Clip from “American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein”

Dr. Norman Finkelstein is one of my favorite heros. He’s one of the most bravest people living in America today. It takes a tremendous amount of courage to speak the truth when everyone is against you and not listening. He has not let anything discourage him from speaking the truth.

Here’s a clip from a new film “American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein”

Dr. Finkelstein was invited to give a speech at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, is posed a question from a Zionist. Unfortunately for her, she attempts to invoke the Holocaust to criticize Dr, Finkelstein, completely oblivious to Dr. Finkelstein’s own family history – both his mother and father were survivors of Nazi concentration camps and he lost more family members in the Holocaust than those shedding crocodile tears. In this clip, he first gets ambushed by her fellow Zionist supporters shouting Dr, Finkelstein down, but he quickly takes control of the situation and leaves her with no comeback.

Dr. Finkelstein is a Jewish American political scientist and author, whose primary fields of research are the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the politics of the Holocaust. A graduate of Binghamton University, he received his Ph.D in Political Science from Princeton University. He has held faculty positions at Brooklyn College, Rutgers University, Hunter College, New York University, and, most recently, DePaul University, where he was an assistant professor from 2001 to 2007.

GOP Congressman Wants to Deport Every Iranian

Another bigot and xenophobic leader goes berserk again…

http://rawstory.com/2010/01/gop-congressman-deport-iranian/

Here on the Los Angeles Area – we have the largest Iranian (Persian) population in the USA. Beverly Hills and Westwood will never be the same again as these areas are dominated by filthy rich Iranians – my lawyer is an Iranian and so is my doctor, my dentist and my mechanic. They are the ones who drive the economy of Los Angeles. Who shops at the expensive stores in LA and who buys homes during this recession? Certainly not the US congress representatives who steal our money and send our children to fight in wars for the profit of themselves.

Many Persians (Iranians) have kept their Passport and retained heir Iranian Citizenship for the sole reason that they can go back to Iran whenever they want to visit families. There are thousands of Jews, Christians, Bahai’s in addition to Muslims who are citizens of Iran in LA alone. During the elections Westwood and Beverly Hills had election booths set up and on the last Iranian election day last year thousands had shown up to vote.

Now this racist congressman wants to deport them. Make sure you voice your distaste for this bill to your Congress representative.

Choosing a Gravestone at the “Graveyard of Empires”

“The people of Afghanistan don’t want to be saved by us, they want to be saved from us.”
- US Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH).

Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. The cliché begs repeating because history has shown that no one has ever won in Afghanistan.

Almost everyone knows that the USSR was defeated there, resulting in the bankruptcy and collapse of the Soviet Union. We saw their troops leaving on the news in 1989. No, sorry – they didn’t leave because we sent John Rambo.

The British also failed to conquer Afghanistan – THREE separate times. The bloodiest massacre of British troops occured in Afghanistan. Other empires who tried include Alexander the Great, Mahmud of Ghazni, Genghis Khan, Tamerlane, the Seljuks, the Hotaki Dynasty, the Moghul Empire, and the Ilkhanate; all fell to the proud and unconquerable people of Afghanistan. That’s why it’s called “The Graveyard of Empires”. Seems yet another empire is picking out its gravestone there now.

“War is Peace” – the Bush doctrine of pre-emptive wars, occupation and bombing of nations that pose no threat to us continues.

Please watch this short video and if you think this war is wrong – call and write to your Congressperson and tell him or her to vote NO on any spending bill that would send more troops to Afghanistan. They have the power to stop this escalation.

The Nobel “Peace” Prize winner wants to use your taxes to bomb Afghanistan further to peace…or rather to pieces. Our country will not become safe if we bomb Afghanistan, or send more drones into Pakistan to kill people in mud huts with our $2 million dollar missiles. They will only create more suicide bombers, terrorists and resistance will esalate putting our troops at risk. Not to mention bankrupt our nation, the great empires of the past collapsed because they couldn’t pay for their wars and occupations. We can use that money to re-invest in our country wisely.

Think about it – would you want your country occupied and bombed by foreign troops? Afghans are a very proud people, why would they? We spend more money on “defense” and “peace” wars than the rest of the world combined. One has to be crazy to think that USA – the “world’s only superpower” surrounded by oceans on its East and West, and puppet states on the North and South needs a military budget that huge to defend the nation against people living in mud huts half way the world across.

www.bendib.com – America’s Most Wanted Cartoonist.
The pen is funnier than the sword. Cartoons that speak truth to power.

Michael Moore on ObamaCare

When Michael Moore is blasting ObamaCare – you know ObamaCare is in trouble. Moore first wrote to Obama to earn the prize by ending the wars then changed his mind.

Michael Moore probably needs ObamaCare more than anyone else as his weight and stress levels are not healthy. If he doesn’t do something about his weight — he’ll have a heart attack one of these days.

But bash him all we want – he’s right on this issue on how these corporations are raising insurance prices and medicine prices in anticipation of this bill….

“The health insurance companies are going to make an extra 70 billion dollars as a result of Americans being forced to buy their health insurance. What company wouldn’t love this bill?”
– Michael Moore in Toronto Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

FDIC Seeking Bailouts From Banks?

You know that our financial system is totally and royally screwed when FDIC has to borrow funds from banks.

I thought this was satire but I confirmed it after I saw articles in mainstream news.

It is supposed to work the other way around….FDIC is supposed to lend to banks who are at risk or failing. When you see “FDIC Insured” that is supposed to mean that even if the bank fails you will get your money back (up to a certain amount). Now that very fund is borrowing from them? This is such a scam. Guess who’s paying for all this? Clue: It begins with tax and ends with payers.

Why Obama Wants Paterson Out

In the politics of the global financial meltdown, this story is connected and should be watched.

Obama Asks Paterson To Withdraw From NY governor’s Race

Here’s my take on this story based on past experience of NY politics:

Obama asked NY governor Paterson to withdraw from running in 2010 as his ratings are lower than Eliot Spitzer (who was exposed in a prostitute ring because he had investigated AIG and was ready to investigate others in the financial crisis). The disgraced ex-Gov Eliot Spitzer’s ratings currently are low but at 27% and he’s considering a re-run and Paterson’s are only 20%.

One of the people who are considering a run for NY governorship is Andrew Cuomo (son of former NY Governor Mario Cuomo) who is the State Attorney General right now.

Andrew Cuomo has been working on prosecution of the corrupt RICO cronies at Bank of America. Maybe this will extend to Bernanke, Paulson, and Lewis if it ever happens.

However…Obama wants him out of Attorney General’s seat so BoA will never get prosecuted.

Once he’s “elected” governor – I am willing to bet that Cuomo will get pulled over to the dark side and this fake prosecution of BoA turns out to be a publicty stunt and the public will be sorely dissapointed.

New Yorkers love brave and nobel crimefighting people who go after corruption. But once they get elected to office by denouncing corruption and promising to fight it…they show the finger and say “Screw You!”. Either that or prostitutes walk out of their closets.

Support HR 1207 S 604 – Audit the Federal Reserve

Dear friends, Americans and countrymen,

Lend me your ears….your support is needed to save this country from economic collapse.

Congressman Ron Paul has introduced a bill to audit the Federal Reserve. A Rasmussen survey finds that 75 percent of Americans are in favor of auditing the Federal Reserve.

Established in 1913, the Federal Reserve is a private banking cartel (just like Federal Express, they only use the word Federal and that is misleading) to that creates the nation’s money. Instead of creating our own money, the United States of America borrows from this private banking system.

This makes the banks incredibly wealthy, as well as the corrupt politicians that are bought out by these bankers – and puts us, the people perpetually in debt. This is why the US government is spending trillions of dollars and sticking us taxpayers and future taxpayers with the bill. This means higher taxes for us, our children and grandchildren. Bailouts for Maserati driving bankers while many in the country are becoming homeless would not be possible if the Federal Reserve was being audited. They are to blame for the economic crisis we are in.

The Federal Reserve has never been audited. Please show your support for this monumental bill currently before Congress. This is a giant first step toward ending the bankers’ reign of terror.

With this link you can send an email to your representatives in a couple of minutes asking them to support the bill in Congress and the Senate.

http://www.votervoice.net/Core.aspx?AID=972&Screen=alert&IssueId=16611

California’s Budget Needs Spending Cuts in Right Places

It is terribly sad that California lawmakers aren’t cutting spending in the right places like waste in prisons, medicare/medicaid fraud, workers comp – where more is paid out than collected.

Despite propositions to increase taxes in California (where we already pay the highest taxes in the nation) were defeated, lawmakers are still looking to find ways to increase more taxes or collect money in ways that would make Bernie Madoff look like an an amateur.

Budget magicians use sleight of hand to help close California’s giant deficit.

It’s a shame – our taxes are already funding schools that have a 50% failure rate. Superintendents in LAUSD make $300,000 plus benefits. LAUSD spends more per student, has more bureaucrats per student, higher paid teachers and principals – compared to the Catholic Archdiocese. But Catholic schools with a lower per student spending have a higher success rate for students than LAUSD. Maybe LAUSD can learn a thing or two about education from them. As it is – in California, 1 in 4 students drop out, 1 in 4 students can’t read.

California - A Sinking Ship

Obamanomics: Bailouts of America’s Most Inefficient Businesses

Obamanomics is all about bailing out those who made all the wrong decisions producing, managing and investing. Such as banks, automakers, insurance companies, inefficient government agencies, government mortgage companies, etc. All the enterprises that failed should get to join his wealth distribution plan which was to take money from efficiently run businesses and individual tax payers who were making money doing the right things such as saving money, not speculating, making wise investments and then use that money to bail out the failed and inefficient parts of our economy while making those who got him elected rich in the process.

Here is Mish (Michael Shedlock) analyzing some articles in his blog.

http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2009/05/if-youre-not-petrified-of-obama-youre.html

Excerpt:

Davidowitz is correct about money going to the most inefficient parts of the economy. Bailing out AIG just so it can payoff Goldman Sachs is hardly a good use of taxpayer money. Nor is forcing a shotgun marriage between Bank of America and Merrill Lynch, only how have taxpayers pick up the tab.

Please see Let the Criminal Indictments Begin: Paulson, Bernanke, Lewis for my take on the coercion Paulson used on Bank of America CEO Kenneth D. Lewis, pressuring Lewis to go along with a merger he clearly knew was not in shareholder best interests.

Here is a snip from Geithner’s Plan Can Succeed: “The Plan: Dump $500 billion of toxic assets on to unsuspecting taxpayers via a public-private partnership in which 93% of the losses are born by the taxpayer.”

Obama Zombies

Paul Craig Roberts: Who Rules America?

Paul Craig Roberts is an economist and journalist. He was Assistant Secretary of Treasury during the Reagan Administration. Forbes has ranked him as one of the top 7 journalists in the US.

He is one of the most outspoken people in America today and he has been a critic of both Republicans and Democrats for their abuse of power.

You will find his articles very enlightening. Here’s his latest:

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22611.htm

Here he writes about how the the Senate bill to allow homeowners to renegotiate mortgages with the banks was defeated by the banksters who pay the politicians millions and help them get elected. What a scam!

What a shame this is for our nation. Trillions of our taxes went to bailout the banks for their mistakes, then trillions more for war against nations that pose no threat to us – but when some politicians tried to help homeowners stay in their homes – not one penny will be spent to help them. Let them lose their homes. This should really outrage every “Patriotic American”. If it doesn’t shame on you.

Excerpt:

How is it possible that “the world’s only superpower” is threatened by the likes of Iraq and Afghanistan? How can the US be a superpower if it is threatened by countries that have no military capability other than a guerilla capability to resist invaders?

These “wars” are a hoax designed to enrich the US armaments industry and to infuse the “security forces” with police powers over American citizenry.

Not a dime to prevent millions of Americans from losing their homes, but hundreds of billions of dollars to murder Muslim women and children and to create millions of refugees, many of whom will either sign up with insurgents or end up as the next wave of immigrants into America.

This is the way the American government works. And it thinks it is a “city on the hill, a light unto the world.”

Americans elected Obama because he said he would end the gratuitous criminal wars of the Bush brownshirts, wars that have destroyed America’s reputation and financial solvency and serve no public interest. But once in office Obama found that he was ruled by the military/security complex.

Read the full article here:

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22611.htm