AFGHANISTAN, PAKISTAN, HURRICANES, BAILOUTS, OFF-SHORE OIL DRILLING, FINANCIAL CRISIS, PENTAGON, SOAK THE RICH, BOLIVIA, SURGE FARCE
What's been happening?
Afghanistan
The U.S. has increased its attacks on Afghanistan. What good does that do? Is it helping anyone really? It is not. All it does is add to pain and suffering.
Let us remember that the U.S. Bush administration invaded Afghanistan because Osama bin Laden was said by the administration to have been responsible for the 9/11 attacks. However, I keep running into reminders that the U.S. FBI does not have Osama bin Laden on its Ten Most Wanted List specifically for 9/11 in spite of a supposed video confession, because the FBI openly states there is no firm evidence linking bin Laden to 9/11.
In addition, we must also remember that the Taliban offered to work out a deal concerning bin Laden, which deal the U.S. intentionally ignored because it was the neocons planned all along to invade Afghanistan and then Iraq regardless.
Also, Bob Gates has finally apologized for the U.S. killing some 90 civilians after the U.S. figured it out that the world wasn't buying the lie that the U.S. military was pushing that only some 5 people were recently murdered in the attack. Gates isn't losing any sleep over the dead women and children though. He's not repenting and he is certainly not atoning.
Pakistan
The U.S. has attacked people on Pakistani territory supposedly without Pakistani okay. Well, since when (after George W. Bush's coup) does the world's superpower need anyone's okay to do anything?
We were all told well in advance that the U.S. would be attacking unilaterally regardless of Pakistan's desire. It was common knowledge amongst news junkies.
Now the Pakistanis have reportedly taken to shooting at U.S. troops coming from U.S. helicopters transporting them to Pakistan. If the whole world were to take that attitude, the U.S. would be incapable of responding short of nuclear or other weapons of mass destruction.
Hurricanes and Bailouts
The hurricane season has been fairly hard. It's payback for greed. It's payback for selfishness and thoughtlessness. It's global warming paying back. While all these things go wrong, the powers that be are focused upon bailing out those at the top who have intentionally failed so they may be bailed out and buy up more market share (further consolidate). Capitalism is about monopoly of course. Those at the top won't allow the corrupt system to fail, as it would have already otherwise done.
Off-Shore Oil Drilling
Maybe the oil platform damage from the hurricane season will open some eyes that off-shore oil drilling for carbon-based fuel, which gives rise to global warming, which gives rise to damaging hurricanes which damage off-shore drilling platforms causing just another serious form of pollution is a dumb, dumb, dumb idea.
There are many people who pooh-pooh the connection between evil or sin and evil consequences. They're being stupid. There is a direct connection. There always has been.
Financial Crisis
Well, I wrote and wrote about its coming. Now it's here.
John McCain has been forced by electoral politics to change course in midstream saying, "The top of our economy is broken. We've seen self-interest, greed, irresponsibility, and corruption undermine the hard work of the American people. It's time to set things right, and I promise to get the job done as your president."
No matter how terrible capitalism is (and it is terrible), coercive socialism isn't the cure. Only having the Golden Rule written on every heart is the cure. John McCain is never going to work to bring forth the Golden Rule as the voluntary law of the land. He's still calling upon people to join the military, for crying out loud.
I've written before about failures, bailouts, the Federal Reserve, and Ben Bernanke's and Alan Greenspan's lackey management on behalf of the global plutocrats (world bankers). It was all scientifically planned, just as was predicted when the federal income tax and the Federal Reserve were allowed and formed by illegal means.
I was firmly opposed to Reaganomics and Milton Friedman's philosophy. There was some ridiculousness to some of the regulations that were in place, but rather than think about what would be best, they were just for selfishness. That's backwards.
Cut the Pentagon — Soak the Rich
In the mundane system, the fastest way out of the current crisis is to dramatically cut Pentagon spending and dramatically raise taxes on the rich. Soak the rich, and dismantle the military-industrial complex. That's the mundane method. The rich purchase keywords though, such as "punitive." Getting less compensation regardless of how much money they make they term "punitive." Actually, it's doing them a favor if they would only understand it from a scriptural standpoint &mash; if they only had sufficiently working consciences.
The divine method begins with human beings collectively and individually carrying out the commandments of Jesus.
Please help with the Christian Commons Project™. It's the only way. Regulation within the mundane system, the social welfare state, is better than nothing, but it isn't best. It is still based upon coercion that is the threat and use of militant force. We must rise above that. We must become more enlightened than that.
You see that the greed is evil. Greed only returns evil. There is nothing, absolutely nothing good about it. The only way it ever looks good to anyone is if that one is looking at it wrong — not seeing the long-term negative consequences — the bad pattern that repeats forever until greed is overcome. Violence and sexual depravity are the same.
What do the Republicans want? They are holding out for greater deregulation. That's the dumbest thing that can happen in the already dumb system.
Now, we are for the voluntary economy, but these Republicans are not. They are only for what will allow their top to consolidate more. Otherwise, they are for vast coercion. They are for global coercion under the U.S. dominated Empire.
Look, people are in the habit of listening to the rich about money. The rich don't know more about what are the right things to do. They know more about how to finagle. That's their stock and trade. Some are thriftier than others. Some are not as reckless in their gambling habits as others. They all play the game though.
When is speculation not gambling? Answer: When the American lower and middle classes co-sign (by proxy via U.S. Senators and Congressmen and Congresswomen) the gambling debt.
Bolivia
What an awful indictment of U.S. foreign policy that the Bush administration is fomenting the greediest of the greedy in Bolivia who want to be superrich while the poor stay poor. Those rich land thieves, who stole the inheritance of all the indigenous peoples of Bolivia, have been paying killers to attack and murder supporters of sharing the wealth in Bolivia.
Evo Morales declared martial law in the state, the department of Pando, where the governor, Leopoldo Fernandez, had ordered the murder of some 30 indigenous supporters of Morales share-the-wealth movement.
Iraq: The Surge Farce
When they announced the Surge, they said they would clear neighborhoods of al Qaeda in Iraq and hold those neighborhoods. At the time, I told an acquaintance that they wouldn't clear and hold anything in that manner. I called it crap. They would not go through neighborhoods and identify and remove al Qaeda.
What they did do was ethnic death-squad activity. It has and will continue to haunt them. Analysis of the nightlights shows that whole neighborhoods were ethnically cleansed rather than swept solely of so-called al Qaeda members.
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Tom Usher
Standing Comment, all posts and pages:
To all homosexuals and their supporters, condoners, promoters, accepters, confirmers, and the like:
Unless you have something completely new that hasn't already been refuted, don't bother. It won't show up.
Rehashing what has already been refuted is a waste of everyone's time.
I'm not interested in casting pearls before swine, giving the children's bread to the dogs, or rebuking a forever scorner.
Learn or go away: There is zero wisdom in homosexuality. Homosexuality is wrong. Nothing any homosexual or anyone else can say or do will alter it. No one needs the Bible to know it either. It's prima facie. There's no such thing as an unrepentant-homosexual Christian. There never has been and never will be. That's the way of it. If you don't like it, change.
Do site searches on the various topics concerning homosexuality to determine if your "point" has already been handled. Currently, I provide three different search methods. The "WordPress" search is still the most thorough.
The same can be done regarding militarism, capitalism, coercion, and many other main issues and themes.
TREATMENT, RUDENESS, POLITENESS, OFFENSE, TRUTH
Many times over the course of this website's existence, I've had commentators complain about how I've treated them and/or others. Much less frequently has anyone taken exception to those commentator's comments. I assume that's because for one, I appear to be holding my own.
Often, I have raised the fact that Jesus called certain people "serpents." I've often also mentioned how he cleaned the temple with whip in hand, not that he used it on anyone. It certainly doesn't say that he did, and neither was he charged with it in the kangaroo court of the serpents who ended up murdering him by proxy just for, among other wonderful things, speaking out and speaking truth.
If I say that those who are engaged in serpentine behavior are the New Testament "serpents," then why take offense at my saying it rather than standing with Jesus and me about it?
If others don't like it that I treat others or them the way I have in this regard, why don't they take it up with the serpents and/or their own consciences and God?
If I wanted to catch flies, I'd use honey. I don't want flies on this level. Human beings aren't to be on the level of flies. If the truth is bitter as vinegar, then ask yourself why and learn to taste it as sweet but not sickeningly so. Why attack the message and messenger, as the serpents did, and become a serpent by so doing?
The issue is not "name calling" on some bratty, childish level. When Jesus said "serpents," he was not being as a brat. His level was completely adult to adults and children. He dared say that the children understood the clear and plain truth before the adults who, afterall, had been abused and socialized by the serpents. He still calls adults back. Those who hear him and know his voice (truth) turn around and do the other required things together as well.
What is it for a human being to be more serpentine or reptilian than what God initially gave? What was and remains Jesus's point? What is the reptilian brain versus the vastly higher human brain with its cerebral cortex and frontal and temporal lobes and specific areas of altruistic sentiments and abilities? What are those higher areas before they are damaged, before the communication pathways to them and between them are diminished by evil that is always some form of abuse? How are those pathways reestablished or created where they never were in this fleshly life?
The snake lays its eggs. The eggs hatch. The snake parent doesn't nurture or raise the offspring. It's every snake for itself. Human parents and family are not designed to be that way. Humans hand down the learning of nurturing. Many people get better training than do others, and many people have a greater aptitude for learning and predisposition for the higher and highest virtues. Many are less abused. People can change for the better and best though, no matter where the starting point. They only can't if they don't — if they reject it.
Snakes, of course, also come in venomous varieties and in strangling varieties, etc., such that they have been attackers and even devourers of humans for eons, guilty and innocent alike.
Now, Jesus knew that most people could relate to what were, and still are, largely considered "good" parenting skills and "good" "family" relations. He regularly used those concepts to get people to consider the wider implications for the whole of humanity. He did know that many would refuse. He let them go. He didn't demand secular or false-religion legislation to rein them in with threats of violence and imprisonment. He was not and is not coercive. Even his Church is a voluntary place to be.
What he still teaches (through the written words in the New Testament and as those connect with the Old and also teaches through the Holy Spirit he definitely sent as he said he would) is, among many other things, that "good" is vastly better than has been commonly accepted and that real "family" is everyone left after all the rest have rejected the higher and highest good. He raised the standards far above the Old Testament and far above the "modern" standard.
The American Empire and the American people in general aren't even touching the hem of his garment, let alone even attempting to stand upright and side-by-side with him.
I point out that Jesus was, and is, a Real Liberal Christian. He is the one who brought back this censored truth that is the light. After he had spoken it and lived it and was murdered for doing so, the censors set about to re-censor it and did. They couldn't put it out though — couldn't completely extinguish the truth. I wouldn't be saying it now again with all credit to God, just as Jesus, if they had been able to completely block it.
I point out that each of those terms ("real," "liberal," and "Christian," along with "Church") are actually redundant terms — synonyms that are so close that they become one. The term "liberal" here is not the common usage, which common usage is a deliberate corruption of the term. There is no harm in real liberalism. There is no vileness in it. There is only beneficence. "Real" may be understood as the opposite of false-hearted, dark side, and dead of the Holy Spirit. Christian is both real and liberal in those senses. To arrive at living, doing, being those full senses requires what Jesus lives, does, and is in the highest. Finally, the Church is the whole.
Who are they who want to drag it down, censor it, work against it, lessen it, ignore it, etc.? Well, who sides with Jesus and who sides against him? Did the serpents side with him then? Do they now?
We call war-mongers "hawks." We call "peacemakers" blessed and "doves." Why do the hawks not take offense at "hawks" but do take offense at "serpents"? "Hawks" is not yet as telling to the general public, but I must tell you that all hawks are serpents. Why do some say, "Greed is good" but take offense at "serpents"? I tell you there is no difference between the selfish and the serpents. Why do people take offense at serpents when they do not take offense at homosexuality? I tell you the homosexual spirit also comes out from the dark side. It is a choice. It is harmful. Many are abused with it. Many never overcome it. Their very brain matter is transformed by it. Then they claim it is good when it remains confusion and definitely wrong and harmful.
Many arguments were put forth in support of tolerance. I understood that Jesus "tolerated," as in he did not execute wrath but rather told the truth and let the blind follow the blind (blind to the truth) into the ditch of their own making. I have watched while the movement has been corrupted into condoning what was once only to be tolerated. I have watched further while it has moved from condoning to promoting even to the youngest children to get to them before the truth does. I have seen evil at work, and I sound the alarm. I face censorship and other negative reactions for it.
As the American Empire claims to be a light to the world, it murders innocent babies by Hellfire missiles fired from predator drones controlled by armchair, video-gaming serpents in uniform. It tortures those who are not even suspects. It spies on its own without even probable cause or reasonable suspicion. It lies its way into wars for spoils and control. It neglects its poor, whom it treads down for the sakes of the superrich — for the sake of the massive flow of mammon from the bottom up (no trickledown — trickledown is a farce and always has been). All is claimed to be okay in America though — that America is headed in the right direction — because soon, even "don't tell, don't ask" will be a thing of the quaint past and homosexuals may be able to sleep together and have sex in the barracks with the "blessing" of the Empire while they practice murdering the innocent for the sake of homosexual, greedy plutocrats who own them and who, in turn, are owned by the dark-side spirit named by God and Jesus as Satan.
Whose side are you on? I speak truth to warn. I don't tell the secular government what to do other than occasionally to say what at least would be less hypocritical within their fallen, unenlightened system. I do so for spiritual reasons. What I want is the Christian Commons.
Now, if you submit a comment:
What you write here against the Real Liberal Christian Church founded by Jesus Christ will mark you in the Biblical sense unless you show that you have turned and are repenting in time to escape the damnation of your own choosing. That's the way of it. Don't be tempted by the devil to stand opposed to the call of righteousness. Overcome such evil temptation. Help others to help yet others to come to righteous behavior through-and-through.
Check out how even after reading this, people will still take it out of context and twist it to an evil end.