Author: Frederick Henry

Retired army

USA Spending will kill the People under 250K.

http://www.thedailycrux.com/content/7521/Porter_Stansberry

The above link is to a newsletter that I get in my e-mail.  I do not endorse any product nor recommend any product that you may be able to click to on the page.  But I do think that the writer of the newsletter explains very well the potential crisis USA is facing if we do not carry out the Ryan Plan.  Representative Paul Ryan is doing us a patriotic service is authoring this plan for a financially strong USA.  We need to support the Ryan Plan through this Congress by e Mailing our representatives and especially our Senators to demand that the Paul Ryan plan be brought onto the floor of the Senate for vigorous and honest debate.  Senator Harry Reid has stated that the Ryan Plan is dead on arrival.  Who the hell is this man? Is he the dictator of the Congress?  Does he have the right to refuse a bill from the House of Representatives, calling it dead on arrival?  It seems that he does and this is wrong.  If the will of the 495 congressman can be stopped by the procedural tactics of one Senator, then the people must object and demand the bill be placed before the full Senate for consideration.  Let John Mc Cain stop running to Libya to support a ragtag group of disgruntled former army officers and stay home. Let Mc Cain take to the floor and the lobby and the offices of the Senate to demand debate on the Ryan plan instead of globetrotting in support of increased USA aggression against Libya.  Friends, we really need to get strict with our elected representatives and require them to stay on the job, in the Congress and get things done.  Also with the Prez. and not have him campaigning all the time on our dime.  He needs to sit at his desk and get the job done.  Does he ever sit at his desk or is it all B Ball, golf, and nightly disco parties with the elite contributors?  For a man of the people, Obama hangs around with a gang of powerful Corporate and Union rich people!

Will US Dollar Crash?

http://www.thedailycrux.com/content/7513/China/rss

I get this in my e-mail and just wanted to share it with all of you.  It is very worrisome because if the world of nations agree with the Chinese that there  should be a change to the Yuan from the Dollar then the USA is in a terrible world of hurt.  Why?  Because as of now, the world is forced to trade in dollars.  Therefore, if any nation wants to buy oil it must convert its currency into USA dollars first.  We make a little money on that.  Also, we already have dollars so if we need more oil we simply print more dollars.  We are in the power position.  But because the Obama administration does not understand world economics, and because the President himself will not curtail his spending ways, the USA is burdened with a crushing debt in the trillions of dollars.  This is causing the dollars to decline in value and become destabilized.  A devalued and unstable dollar is frightening world financial leaders who are increasingly talking about changing the world standard with a new one, the Chinese Yuan being the key ingredient.  If this happens then the USA will be forced to buy Chinese currency in order for us to deal on the world market.  Effectively, overnight, the USA currency becomes much less valuable.  That is why the Ryan Plan in congress is the most important piece of legislation available to USA citizens.  Contact your congress person and insist on a debate of the Ryan place, and definitely demand that your Senator force Harry Reid to bring the Ryan plan to the floor of the Senate for an honest open debate of it’s many merits.

USA Not “AT WAR” with Libya!

This is a key issue, no doubt, but an even more serious issue is that President Obama and the Obama administration are carrying out an illegal war in Libya.  I deal with this issue on my Word Press blog, “progressive politics” where I have expansive coverage.  In essence, the Obama administration did not come to congress when they volunteered to breech the sovereignty of a Sovereign Nation.  Libya is recognized around the world as a legal State in the community of nations.  It does not matter to the international community that Libyan leader Gaddafi is the “head of the revolution”, which is his self styled moniker.  Rather, as recently as last week, the international community recognized the right of the government in Tripoli to appoint ambassadors. The case I am speaking of occurred in Stockholm.  The Swedish ambassador from Libya sided with the ragtag rebels against the central government of Libya.  The Libyan government under Gaddafi sent a replacement.  The Swedish government recognized the replacement and disenfranchised the rebel ambassador.  Why does this mean anything?  Because it recognizes the present government of Libya as the legal government of Libya.  So, now on to the USA, France and Britain.  Under the guise of resolution 1973 from the United Nations, the Obama administration has declared “Regime Change” as its’ official policy when President Obama stated that “Gaddafi must go”.  Then under the cover of the U. N. resolution 1973 to “…use all means to protect civilians in Libya”, the USA, France and Britain decided that the rebels were civilians and needed to be protected, while the uniformed legal army, navy and air force of Libya were “agents of the dictator” and therefore were to be attacked and destroyed using NATO military power.  Then using brutal military force the NATO partners invaded the air space of Libya, bombed its cities, attacked it army, civil governent and killed it’s civilians.  All of this under the guise of delivering humanitarian aid to the people of Libya.  Since when is humanitarian aid delivered on the tip of 212 cruise missiles? Since it’s inception, this invasion has been a war without a declaration of war.  Many bloggers claim that the United Nations resolution 1973 allowing nations to use “…all necessary force” against Gaddafi is legal for USA forces.  Not so, the Congress must approve such expenditure of USA military power on foreign adventures against a sovereign nation that has neither attacked us, nor our embassy, nor held our people hostage.  Other bloggers have stated that Gaddafi is a legal target since he is the head of state of a nation with which we are at war.  However, the USA is not at war with Libya since only the Congress of the USA has the constitutional power to declare war.  Yet others, have said that under the understanding of war crimes coming out of WW II and the Nuremberg Trials, plus the Geneva Conventions, and the USA Rule of Land Warfare manuals, USA forces are allowed to attack, destroy and render inoperative the military, civil and legal forces of a nation with which we are at war.  However, we are NOT at legal war with Libya.  Therefore, I submit that the whole operation of the USA against the internationally recognized government of Libya, (a member nation of the United Nations)   is inherently illegal according to USA law,( no Congressional Declaration of War); according to UN law, (which declares that the military forces of members states will not be used to overthrow the governments of other member states), according to the Nuremberg Trials that declared that the military and civil leaders of Germany were criminal aggressors because they invaded another nation (Poland) under the pretense of attack (Russia too?) and according to the USA Rule of Land Warfare that recognizes that a Nation State that is not in a declared war with another Nation State and nonetheless unilaterally and with itself NOT being attacked, attacks, is a criminal aggressor!

Next American Boots on the Ground in Libya

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110420/wl_nm/us_libya_gaddafi_2 So when we read this article we realize the following:

1. We should never have attacked the independent Nation of Libya.

2. The State department is in favor of American boots on the ground in Libya.

3. There is administration plan to get the UN and not the USA Congress to approve our use of American soldiers as “boots on the ground in Libya”

4. Obama CIA advisor says in this article that the USA must be part of a boots on the ground effort to oust Gaddafi from power in Libya and that this CIA advisor thinks it will easy and then we can merely and simply hand off the occupation of Libya to Pakistan, Turkey and Indonesia.

5. Key to all of this will war hawk Senator McCain warmongering among the House and Senate Hawks to get into a ground war in Libya.

Please write your congress person and Senator opposing Boots on the ground in Libya.

Pope on Holy Thursday

http://romereports.com/  Some really great video here as it connects you to a series of good visuals about the Pope and the Vatican.   You will need to highlight the link and then use your mouse or key to highlight the open this link tab.  Sorry ’bout that but at this point I do not have the computer savvy to get the link to open directly.  But it is worth the few extra steps, it is good video.

Rand Paul Calls Obama Out

http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul665.html

Many people are questioning the wisdom of electing Barrack Hussein Obama to be President of the USA.  People like Sean Hannity and Mark Levin say that Obama is a Socialist.  Rand Paul says Obama is a Corporatist.  That’s worse.  It is a unholy alliance Qbetween corporate interests, the civil government and the military.  It means that for Philips petroleum and the others to be able to get the worlds oil, we muat lie, chet and steal; and we must lie to our people and to the world in order to gain illegal control of anotehr natssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssdddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd

McCain In favor of war, who’d have Guessed

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110422/ap_on_re_mi_ea/mccain_libya

It is always surprising to this writer that Senator McCain, who personally suffered the cruelty and horror of war, should be a war hawk.  It seems that at every turn the US Senator is cheering in favor of war, with its guns, bombs and destruction.  It is disheartening to need to repeat so many times, but please remember that the government of Libya is the legal government recognized by the UN, most NATO counties and all international companies doing business with Libya.  I don’t know how the Senator entered the sovereign State of Libya?  It seems that a no fly zone does not apply to US Senators who are against the legal government. They can fly in without interference from NATO. Now, let’s reverse the scene.  Imagine that there was a rebellion of the Union workers party in the USA.  Imagine that a Libyan supporter of the rebellion entered the country on a private plane, landed at the rebel hideout and then held a clandestine press conference calling for the overthrow of the US government.  What would happen? I believe the US government, would arrest the Libyan for advocating the violent overthrow of the USA.  So…okay, the objection my readers make is that the USA is not a dictatorship.  But according to the outlined scenario, the rebels in the USA would say that it was a dictatorship and should be overthrown.  Now, back to today and reality, Mc Cain should have been arrested by the Libyan Government as a provocateur who advocated the overthrown of the internationally recognized government of Libya. And why wasn’t he?  Because he entered the country illegally?  Or because he was surrounded by USA secret service agents to protect him?  Or because he wasn’t there more than a few hours, in which time he came to a complete, in-depth understanding of all the facts, and decided that the army, navy, and other armed personnel of Libya were bad and needed to be killed by USA drones, bombs, artillery and cruise missiles?  I guess the military families of the Libyan government have no feelings, or rights?  Let’s just kill them because American Senator John McCain says so! It really is surprising how much Senator McCain is in favor of wanton war.  By the way, isn’t there a budget battle raging in the Senate?  Isn’t there a need for Republican Senators to be out on the tour promoting the Ryan proposals?  Isn’t there a great need for more jobs support efforts from the Senate?  Maybe a nice little war in Libya that is costing us millions a day is what Senator McCain feels will fuel a recovery in the US armaments industry?  Strange friends, government and armament makers!

Boots on the Ground. No Surprise

http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20110419/wl_time/httpglobalspinblogstimecom20110419withbritishmilitaryadvisersheadedtobenghazifearsoflibyamissioncreepgrowxidrssfullworldyahoo

They are doing what they intended to do all along.  USA must get out of this crazy adventure by a war mongering France and Britain.  On this site we have not played up the oil thing but it is becoming obvious that oil poor Britain and oil starved France are willing to use humanitarian assistance lies in order to gain access to and actual control over the largest oil reserves in that area.  So big oil is behind these governments.  This fits into the kind of Corporatist mentality of Obama that U.S. Senator Rand Paul is talking about elsewhere on this blog.  The problem of the Corporatist mentality is that it hides behind social progress which it uses to mislead the citizens.  While this propaganda is being broadcast by a compliant media, the administration is secretly dealing with corporation leaders to seize control of the major sources of wealth such as oil.  Eisenhower pre-shadowed this problem when he talked about the dangers of secret cooperation between the military and corporations.  In the Corporatist model of Obama the military, the corporations and the civil governments are in cooperation to gain extra ordinary and international power for themselves.  I know this sounds like conspiracy theory but the lies are now revealed by the behaviors of the NATO military alliance.  First, act shocked about organized turmoil in the target State.  Second, prepare the public by using media outlets to put forth photos and stories of the terrible human suffering.  Third, act righteous and morally indignant while secretly dealing to take full advantage of the crisis.  Fourth, bypass legal problems from the legislatures of your nation by appealing to the “New World Order Governments” such as United Nations.  Fifth, have all inclusive wording such as UN Resolution 1973 has where it says to use ALL means to protect civilians. Sixth, use that all inclusive language to extend your aggression against the target government.  Seventh, define the anti- government forces as “civilian” and therefore “good guys”  while defining the legal government forces as “military” and therefore the “bad guys.”  Eighth, send in advisers as “boots on the ground ‘teachers'”  Ninth, follow up with “rescue” troops to evacuate “civilians”  And do all of this while secretly  arming the rebels and supplying  them the logistical, tactical and strategic means for winning against the government but at the same time INSISTING to the world that you are not doing what is plainly obvious, depending on a weak, compliant and compromised media and press to support your illegal actions.  Really, doesn’t this sound  like the Colonialists and Imperialists of the Ninetenth century, and the Fascists and Hitlerians of WW II, and the Communists of the Cold War era?