Socialist Not Liberal

Liberals in America are not leftists. They are Capitalists. Like their Conservative counter parts. Liberals in America are particularly phony. They vote for Republicans, do not believe in a multi party system, and introduce social programs that cater to corporations rather than human need.

Liberals also obsess on jobs and competition, and that biggest myth of all The American Dream.

First, the work ethic is bull to begin with. The work ethic wasn’t conceived until the 19th century when bosses paid ministers to preach it at the pulpits for the bosses benefit.

We could agree on a work ethic, but subscribe to our own standard of application.

Second, jobs: No one wants to admit we are heading into a jobless society. This is due to automation and robotics.

Third, The American Dream: We need a new one. The new dream hosts sustainability, livability, and Co-operation.

We do not live in a Democracy because we live in a two party system. Ballot access is oppressive, and there are no strong alternative parties. There is no such thing as stealing votes, people vote their will.

When is the last time we heard liberals speak of the war on poverty? The Universal Income? We need jobs with justice rather than the slavery of welfare to work.

The Democrats in New Jersey introduced The Family Leave Act, which no one can use since you get ¾ of your pay. One must use their sick days and vacation days. This isn’t the case in Europe. You get your family leave with full pay. Your vacation and sick days are still yours. Liberals are not Socialists because they betray us on all the social programs.

The Democrats had two years to do something. When Clinton was President and now Obama, they threw away their opportunities because they squandered them on frivolous matters.

Once again the Republicans get elected and reelected only to destroy hope even further.

The Democrats have let us down for the past 40 years because money means more to them than us and they are just as elitist as the Republicans. America is in its most horrific political danger in years. The class war heats up with Voter restrictions, welfare for the rich. Now they want us to back Unions. What about regular laborers. Union have let us down before. They have betrayed workers time and time again. We do need Union reform. The AFL-CIO in NJ backs a Republican congressman, who in 1998 passed a pro sweatshop bill. This Bill also allowed for salting-The hire of non-union workers in construction sites. Yet year after year the AFL-CIO supports this anti labor Republican .

The Unions have frequently been voted out of many places because of there lack of worker support.

The Liberals in America have betrayed us and any new idea or even old ones, that set people free and allow people to control their own lives is out of the question. Because the Democrats believe in controlling people. This includes Slave Labor and indenturment to the welfare system. OK poor people here comes that hand up-keep waiting, ten to twenty years that may happen. And it may happen after you die.

Now because the Republicrat compromise, millions of jobs will be lost. More military spending. More perpetuating the warfare state. And it is our fault because we will not stand up for our selves. We will not revolt. No can we make requests. We are too comfortable to revolt. And we keep electing people who will never do the job. It is all about money and our nations owners.

RFK: Last Courageous Democrat

The Democrats haven’t had political courage since King or Kennedy. The Dems lost their souls to money and are just like the Republicans. Here, I am writing about the last brave Democrat.

A revolution is coming — a revolution which will be peaceful if we are wise enough; compassionate if we care enough; successful if we are fortunate enough — But a revolution which is coming whether we will it or not. We can affect its character; we cannot alter its inevitability.

Robert Francis “Bobby” Kennedy (November 20, 1925 – June 6, 1968), also referred to by his initials RFK, was an American politician, a Democratic Senator from New York, and a noted civil rights activist. An icon of modern American liberalism/ Democratic Socialist and member of the illustrious Kennedy family, he was a younger brother of President John F. Kennedy and acted as one of his advisers during his presidency. From 1961 to 1964, he was the U.S. Attorney General. Following his brothers assassination on November 22, 1963, Kennedy continued to serve as Attorney General under President Lyndon B. Johnson for nine months. In September 1964, Kennedy resigned to seek the U.S. Senate seat from New York, which he won in November. Within a few years, he publicly split with Johnson over the Vietnam War. General Westmoreland was involved in fixing numbers so it looked like we would win, Johnson was fooled. In March 1968, Kennedy began a campaign for the presidency and was a front-running candidate of the Democratic Party. In the California presidential primary on June 4, Kennedy defeated Eugene McCarthy, a fellow U.S. Senator from Minnesota. Following a brief victory speech delivered just past midnight on June 5 at The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, Kennedy was assassinated by a Security Agent standing behind him. Sirhan Sirhan was a victim of the CIA MK-Ultra expriment. He fired round, but RFK was hit from Behind, impossible for a frontal fatality. Mortally wounded and unconscious, he survived for nearly 26 hours, dying early in the morning of June 6. Kennedy also used the power of federal agencies to influence US Steel not to institute a price increase. The Wall Street Journal wrote that the administration had set prices of steel “by naked power, by threats, by agents of the state security police.”

“ If we believe that we, as Americans, are bound together by a common concern for each other, then an urgent national priority is upon us. We must begin to end the disgrace of this other America. And this is one of the great tasks of leadership for us, as individuals and citizens this year. But even if we act to erase material poverty, there is another greater task, it is to confront the poverty of satisfaction – purpose and dignity – that afflicts us all. Too much and for too long, we seemed to have surrendered personal excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things. Our Gross National Product, now, is over $800 billion dollars a year, but that Gross National Product – if we judge the United States of America by that – that Gross National Product counts air pollution and cigarette advertising, and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage. It counts special locks for our doors and the jails for the people who break them. It counts the destruction of the redwood and the loss of our natural wonder in chaotic sprawl. It counts napalm and counts nuclear warheads and armored cars for the police to fight the riots in our cities. It counts Whitman’s rifle and Speck’s knife, and the television programs which glorify violence in order to sell toys to our children. Yet the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages, the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country, it measures everything in short, except that which makes life worthwhile. And it can tell us everything about America except why we are proud that we are Americans.”

“ Think that we could agree on what kind of a world we would all want to build. it would be a world of independent nations, moving toward international community, each of which protected and respected the basic human freedoms. It would be a world which demanded of each government that it accept its responsibility to insure social justice. It would be a world of constantly accelerating economic progress — not material welfare as an end in itself, but as a means to liberate the capacity of every human being to pursue his talents and to pursue his hopes. It would, in short, be a world that we would be proud to have built.”

Dedicated to Terri Lee

A New Socialism Needed

I have been a Socialist most of my life. And I must admit thee experience had been a disappointing one.  The revolution in America isn’t real. I have said this before.

In 1980 I joined the Socialist Party USA after my disappointment with DSOC dilettante

Michael Harrington. He writes excellent books, but never reflected the Socialism and comradeship to his subordinates.

There are a few things everyday people go through that socialists in many Socialist Parties do not understand.  These destructive tendencies assure people will not embrace

a Socialist movement.

I quit in 1985, Feeling that the Socialist Party USA was remote from most people and not very conducive to maintaining its membership. It was hard to know comrades and be in contact with them. The SP was and still is bad at PR.

I rejoined the Party in 1995 because the website made sense. There where articles that seemed to be all inclusive. I felt comfortable even though I still disagree with some major issues.

I got deeper involved, but still found my fellow socialist a bunch of control freaks who did exercise Democracy or reflect Democratic Socialist values.

There always seems to be more of a cheerleading session at National Committee meetings, reconfirming old values, not moving forward with anything meaningful. Part dittoheads  disagree.

I loved the Party, and yet embraced, feeling I could disagree and peacefully co-excist.

Some wonderful things came out of the Party.

I ran for office, tirelessly promoting the SP. I never got major support., the SP doesn’t back it minor candidates.

The first shot happened when Hammer and Tongs was published. There was a disturbing article about Mike Marino. I found out he was Disabled and yet the SP published what I thought was a grossly insensitive article on the Oregon situation. I complained about it. How could a Party fighting for a positive future publish something about a disable person that was so insensitive? It came to a head in 2004. The Party convention taught me how inefficient and how The Party cannot move forward.  But I had positive feelings.

After the SP declared itself a “Feminist Party” I knew the end was near. It is already a tendency, why make the Party feminist?

Than bit by bit Social Democrats and people who didn’t aggress with the party where targeted for persecution.  After the Walt Brown/Eric Chester fiasco, people, our most valuable members left in drives.

At a rally in NYC, The Vice Presidential candidate and a friend from Pittsburgh where the only people marching. The rest of the SP member went their way. Aren’t we suppose to be promoting the Party? Other Socialist groups do.

Socialism hasn’t changed since the 70’s. It is filled with dilettante intellectuals who become popular or part of the movement only to disappear into do nothing Socialist clubs or move on to something else. Socialism has no shortage of dabblers.

The National Committee meetings proved to be the last straw. This is the place where we know that the SP isn’t a bottom up organization, not a Democracy, and that all agendas are not open to all members, but done in cloak. National Committee meetings are the biggest waste of time because they achieve absolutely nothing.

The 2006 convention was the straw that broke the Camels back. The real Revolution was in the street. I met the homeless, the hungry, the desperate.  I met people with unbearable lives .  In the convention hall, where dilettante intellectuals arguing about nonsense. I was disgusted. This was the end of the SP for me. There is more I can elaborate. But for now this will due.   America needs a new Socialist Party, one people can relate to. One that will grab the hearts and minds of the people. People like the title American Labor Party. I tried varied Socialist and Democracy titles. They do not work well.

Most Americans want a Socialist Party and Socialism. There is hope yet. But we need a Party of real people, ordinary people. Not thinkers, tinkers, and social experimenters.

Making Unions Strong Again.

The Labor Movement is at its they worse. And Unions have not been the champions of their own cause. There is a way to make Unions strong again. Now that the Industrial age is over and automation is deskilling labor. Unions can make a come back and here is how. Rather than negotiating with the bosses, the can be involved in empotheyring the people. How? Starting a worker owned Co-operatives for one, self help credit unions, Community service for pay, Here is one example: The Ohio Employee Ownership Center at Kent State provides preliminary technical assistance on worker buyouts. Some of the positive synergies bettheyen union representation and worker ownership theyre at play in a Toledo textile firm. In 1991, GenCorp was planning to close down an unprofitable division, but instead agreed to sell it to the 200-plus employees as Textileather. The Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU) supported the buyout and joined with management in building successful employee participation. Training in participatory practices was implemented from the beginning, and an effective jointly led employee involvement structure resulted in a 28% increase in productivity, a 40% drop in scrap, and greatly reduced machine downtime in the first year. The company was immediately profitable. Ultimately, though, Textileather’s worker-owners decided that their primary goal was job security, not ownership. In 1996, when the acquisition debt was paid off, management and workers agreed to sell the company. The buyer not only paid 160% of the valuation price, but also agreed to increase wages, bring in additional work creating more jobs, and give the employees the first right of refusal if it decided to sell the plant in the future. As unions and co-ops engage in further discussion and collaboration, they may discover unexpected synergies bettheyen the two strategies. Ideally, such collaborations will turn out to strengthen and invigorate both the union staff and members and the worker-owners who are willing to cross over and work together toward a common goal of empotheyring workers. Assisting local unions in establishing community services committees and programs. Providing important information and referral services to union members, their families, laid-off employees and members on strike. Conducting educational training programs. Coordinating labor’s participation in the annual United Way campaigns. Implementing food drives and various community projects.

Self Help To date, they have loaned over $392 million to thousands of businesses and nonprofits, concentrating of those headed by or serving people of color, women, and rural residents. they lend to businesses that make a difference. Small businesses such as stores, restaurants, service companies, auto repair shops, and any other businesses that create opportunities where they’re most needed. Core community services like child care, public charter schools, health care and churches that stabilize neighborhoods. Commercial Real Estate Developments that revitalize low-theyalth communities. Environmentally Sustainable Enterprises Nonprofits Manufacturers that provide quality jobs. Green jobs are widely considered a route out of the current recession in the labor movement, but especially in the building trades, which have been hard hit by the downturn in building. Building trades unions regard the construction of wind, solar, biofuel, and hydro-thermal alternative energy sources as a potential bright spot. A recent report, widely cited by the building trades, supports the widespread view that the building trades will benefit from the switch to green potheyr alternatives. The report—Green Recovery: A Program to Create Good Jobs and Start Building a Low Carbon Economy — done by UMass’s Political Economy Research for the Center for American Progress—claims that a $100 billion green economic recovery package would create 800,000 construction jobs, a majority of which will pay decent wages (over $16 per hour). Most of the jobs would be in already existing occupations and would be geographically dispersed. Areas where the stimulus money should be focused, according to the report, are in sectors that currently employ trades workers, including: • retrofitting buildings to improve energy efficiency • expanding mass transit and freight rail • constructing ’smart’ electrical grid transmission systems • wind potheyr • solar potheyr • next-generation biofuels The report influenced the Obama’s stimulus package, which received strong backing from the trades. Green training is now standard in apprenticeship and post-apprenticeship training throughout the construction industry. Building trades unions are also active lobbying at the national, state, and local level for the permitting of alternative potheyr sources such as wind farms. High level meetings have been held at the White House with strong union participation for programs like the Emerald City Program to get energy efficiency projects up and running. This is a way to make unions strong again.

Expose The Tea Baggers

The Tea Baggers are a one stop political center of the ignorant ugly American. States Rights is one of their weapons against progress. The term “states’ rights,” some have argued, has long been used as a code word by defenders of segregation. It was the official name of the “Dixiecrat” party led by white supremacist presidential candidate Strom Thurmond. George Wallace, the Alabama governor—who famously declared in his inaugural address, “Segregation now! Segregation tomorrow! Segregation forever!”—later remarked that he should have said, “States’ rights now! States’ rights tomorrow! States’ rights forever!” Wallace, however, claimed that segregation was but one issue symbolic of a larger struggle for states’ rights; in that view, which some historians dispute, his replacement of segregation with states’ rights would be more of a clarification than a euphemism. The Flat tax: The dissenting voices seem to be made up of “special interest” groups–the real estate industry, charitable organizations, tax attorneys and tax accountants. The general public needs to learn when it becomes understood that the various flat tax proposals will significantly increase the tax burden of Americans earning less than $100,000 per year. This method of tax punishes working class and poor and allows the wealthy more breaks. Capitalism will save us/ Less Government: Another worry is how the chemical dispersants being used to break up the undersea oil will impact the Gulf’s ecosystems and inhabitants. The dispersant’s ingredients are a trade secret closely held by the company that makes it, and therefore have not been vetted by marine biologists to determine their safety for use in such a large application. It also remains to be seen what impact the tiny oil droplets left in the dispersant’s wake will have. It could actually be worse for the undersea environment to break the oil up into tiny droplets (which is done to try to make it easier for microbes to digest them). Beyond all these undersea environmental effects, the oil is also starting to wash up into coastal wetlands already besieged by overdevelopment, pollution . If there can be any silver lining to this catastrophe, it may be that it is the wake-up call we’ve needed to start moving more rapidly away from fossil fuels to a clean, renewable energy future. For starters, we can all begin to reduce our own oil consumption and opt for clean and green energy sources whenever possible. So far Capitalism supports sweatshops, pollution, endless wars, inequality, and poverty. Also, Capitalism is responsible for un-nutritious genetically modified foods. Lees Government means smaller weaker government for the people. Egregious culture of ignorance and selfishness. They like author Ayn Rand for instance. She was a Author of “Atlas Shrugged” and “Fountainhead.” In Atlas Shrugged the wealth go off to start there own Nation because workers and the poor are leaches and the wealthy should keep their money. In Fountainhead a architect blow up a building claiming it is his and the corporation bastardized it. Of course it isn’t and the judge renders it OK to perform acts oif sabatage, Terrorism, and reckless endangerment, and more. It was his creation it belonged to him. They hate the United Nation because they fear Internationalism and crave isolation and wish to bring the world into the past. And Impose there values on people. They hate socialism and confuse Communism with Socialist. Here is a good site: http://www.bidstrup.com/politics.htm Their mantra is that The top one percent gets everything, and Obama the Socialist supports them with mass money. Capitalism will save us. The top one percent are Capitalists. (Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton are also Socialist. TV personalities who are expected to incite America Cult of Ignorance. On TV shouting and screaming and suggesting that this country is becoming Socialist. – Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter etc are not ‘average Americans’ they are rich people who make millions and part of the ‘elite’ they pretend to rail against. It is their personal interests they are trying to protect while using the ignorance of poor and working class people to do be manipulated in there Cult. The 2009 Tea Parties are merely an updated version of what took place once upon a time with corporate media being the tool that has violated our trust and replaced trust with psychological techniques and discussions designed to manipulate folks who cannot think in the first place. If they told some of these people whiz was champagne, they would drink it. Fear, greed, ignorance, hate. And using the constitution to do it.

franken foods

Genetically modified foods are made from genetically modified organisms. Genetically modified organisms have had specific changes introduced into their DNA by genetic engineering techniques. These techniques are much more precise than mutagenesis (mutation breeding) where an organism is exposed to chemicals to create a artificial yet stable change. Other techniques by which humans modify food organisms include selective breeding (plant breeding and animal breeding), and somaclonal variation. Bans In 2002, Zambia cut off the flow of Genetically Modified Food from UN’s World Food Program. This left a famine-stricken population without food ssistence.[ In December 2005 the Zambian government changed its mind in the face of further famine and allowed the importation of GM maize. However, the Zambian Minister for Agriculture Mundia Sikatana has insisted that the ban on genetically modified maize remains, saying “We do not want genetically modified foods and our hope is that all of us can continue to produce non-GM foods In April 2004 Hugo Chávez announced a total ban on genetically modified seeds in Venezuela. In January 2005, the Hungarian government announced a ban on importing and planting of genetic modified maize seeds, which was subsequently authorized by the EU. On August 18, 2006, American exports of rice to Europe were interrupted when much of the U.S. crop was confirmed to be contaminated with unapproved engineered genes, possibly due to accidental cross-pollination with conventional crops. On February 9, 2010, Indian Environment Minister, Jairam Ramesh, imposed a moratorium on the cultivation of GMF “for as long as it is needed to establish public trust and confidence”. His decision was made after protest from several groups responding to regulatory approval of the cultivation of Bt brinjal, a GM eggplant in October, 2009. Intellectual property Traditionally, farmers in all nations saved their own seed from year to year. Allowing to follow this practice with genetically modified seed would result in seed developers losing the ability to profit from their breeding work. Therefore, genetically-modified seed are subject to licensing by their developers in contracts that are written to prevent farmers from following this traditional practice. Many objections to genetically modified food crops are based on this change. Monsanto Canada Inc. v. Schmeiser Enforcement of patents on genetically modified plants is often contentious, especially because of gene flow. In 1998, 95-98 percent of about 10 km2 planted with canola by Canadian farmer Percy Schmeiser were found to contain Monsanto Company’s patented Roundup Ready gene although Schmeiser had never purchased seed from Monsanto. The initial source of the plants was undetermined, and could have been through either gene flow or intentional theft. However, the overwhelming predominance of the trait implied that Schmeiser must have intentionally selected for it. The court determined that Schmeiser had saved seed from areas on and adjacent to his property where Roundup had been sprayed, such as ditches and near power poles. Although unable to prove direct theft, Monsanto sued Schmeiser for piracy since he knowingly grew Roundup Ready plants without paying royalties. The case made it to the Canadian Supreme Court, which in 2004 ruled 5 to 4 in Monsanto’s favor. The dissenting judges focused primarily on the fact that Monsanto’s patents covered only the gene itself and glyphosate resistant cells, and failed to cover transgenic plants in their entirety. All of the judges agreed that Schmeiser would not have to pay any damages since he had not benefited from his use of the genetically modified seed. In response to criticism, Monsanto Canada’s Director of Public Affairs stated that “It is not, nor has it ever been Monsanto Canada’s policy to enforce its patent on Roundup Ready crops when they are present on a farmer’s field by accident…Only when there has been a knowing and deliberate violation of its patent rights will Monsanto act. Can you believe that scientists are now actually modifying plants to manufacture pharmaceutical compounds (a technique known as “pharming”), trees which will yield fruit and nuts much earlier in the season than they would naturally, plants that produce new kinds of plastics, and fish that reproduce more rapidly! What are Genetically Modified Organisms ? Farmers have had free seeds in America for 600 years, and now these same free seeds are owned by private sector corporations. Scientists have been and are currently introducing genetic material into organisms to alter, create and affect changes in living plants and animals. These radical changes scientists are developing create specific, desirable traits that might never evolve naturally and in my opinion are extremely dangerous. Collectively called recombinant DNA technology, this practice changes the core genetic make-up of organisms. This genetic manipulation gives scientists the ability to create any trait that they wish, or suppress natural traits they don’t want. There are several reasons this unnatural genetic manipulation may affect you. It’s usually not clear which consumables have been genetically manipulated. You don’t know the long term health effects of these genetically modified foods. Initial research has shown that short-term reactions can be severe. Agro-chemical companies and the government are planning to charge farmers fees to grow their GM crops, thereby negatively affecting the economy and environment. Cultivated Genetically Modified Foods – From bacteria (E. coli) and fungus, fruits and vegetables to animals, genetic manipulation is becoming more and more common in our society. In the US market now, 60 to 70% of the processed foods are genetically modified. In 2006, United States GMO crops reached just shy of 135 million acres, with the total global area exceeding 250 million acres!1 This is a short list of the genetically modified food crops that are grown in the US today: Sugar cane , Sweet peppers, Tomatoes, Bananas ,Strawberries , Soy bean Corn Potatoes , Pineapples ,Cocoa beans ,Yellow squash Zucchini REFERENCES Brief 35: Global Status of Commercialized Biotech/GM Crops: 2006, Accessed Nov 2007. Available for purchase, http://www.isaaa.org/resources/publications/briefs/35/ The True Food Shopping Guide, http://www.truefoodnow.org/shoppersguide/guide_printable.html, from The True Food Network, http://www.truefoodnow.org/ 50 Harmful Effects of Genetically Modified Foods, by Nathan Batalion, http://www.raw-wisdom.com/50harmful Ibid. American Rice Banned in Many Countries After Genetic Contamination, http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_1605.cfm, by Thomas Whitman, ed., Ecological Farming Association, August 21, 2006 Health Begins in The Colon, ©2007, by Dr. Edward F. Group III, p. 131 Pharm Phresh Frankenfoods, http://www.mindfully.org/GE/GE4/Pharm-Phresh-Frankenfoods7oct02.htm, by Margaret Wertheim, LA Weekly, 7Oct02 Genetically Modified Foods: Are They a Risk to Human/Animal Health? http://www.actionbioscience.org/biotech/pusztai.html, by Arpad Pusztai. An ActionBioscience.org original article

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Illegal Arms Trade

Just as America’s streets are flooded with weaponry, so is the global market-place. From the American-bought hand-gun that killed a Mexican presidential candidate this year to the varied weapons of war equipment used by Iraqi forces during the Persian Gulf War, weapons of every variety are moving undetected across world borders.

Here in the United States, violence-weary Americans have begun standing up to the once all-powerful gun lobbies.  In Philadelphia PA there is a murder everyday.

America’s arms export policy point to three problems
1. Connected gun merchants are above the law. 2. Many foreign Nations
Aren’t subject to us regulations. 3. Secret Government are complicit  in international gun merchandising.
Even a single American-supplied weapon can change an entire contry’s history. Luis Donaldo Colosio, the 44-year-old heir-apparent to the Mexican presidency, was killed in March by two bullets fired from a .38-caliber Taurus. The gun was originally purchased in 1977 by a security firm executive in San Francisco and had crossed the Mexican border some time later without a  trace, say authorities from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (BATF).

After the end of the Cold War, the Soviet Union collapsed. Tens of thousands of ex-Soviet soldiers were put out of work. Much of Eastern Europe was the same. In Africa, the lack of superpower support meant that the traditional militaries collapsed. And societies were beginning to fragment into numerous rebel groups ( National Liberation Front, Democratic Liberation, ETC)  and there was a great demand for military arms. Many of the former Soviet citizens  became arms dealers. The situation  went from a situation traditionally emphasized heavy arms to one which emphasized small arms — what the soldier could carry. These would have been AK-47s, rocket-propelled grenade launchers, mortars, that sort of thing. They were cheap, they were durable, and they could be concealed and easily transported. And I think the fact [is] that the West kept track of the state-to-state arms transfers, but what made this a particularly difficult problem after the end of the Cold War was there was no tracking of small arms.
And it had a major impact on Africa — very devastating. I guess 7 to 8 million people had been killed by the turn of the century [2000]. There were millions of refugees and internally displaced [people]. Also, numerous people maimed or otherwise brutalized. Whole areas of Africa just ravaged. I think perhaps Sierra Leone, Liberia, and eastern Congo are the most terrifying examples.

The flow of arms into Africa is a worldwide phenomenon. Arms dealers use banks throughout the world. Transportation companies throughout the world, whether it be sea or airplane. Deals are made in one country for arms purchased in other countries. A lot of arms flowed out of the former Soviet republics. But there were also arms coming from European countries as well, and Asian countries. It was a bonanza. And it was unregulated.
The impact on Africa, if you could look at several different sectors of society. The Karamojong people living in eastern Africa, it’s a pastoral group, traditional warriors. Suddenly, they’re armed with AK-47s. It turned their society into chaos. In eastern Congo, where you had an invasion by the Ugandans and Rwandans and various rebel groups active in the area, it just devastated the entire portion of that country. I can remember speaking with some people who lived there. They said, “There’s nothing here. There’s no roads. There’s no police force. There’s no schools. There’s no medical services. There’s nothing. You’re on your own.” And that is the most egregious example. And then you have rising crime rates in places like Nairobi or Johannesburg, in part fueled by the easy availability of illegal arms.

Children and  millions around, not just Africa,  the world are being sensely murder and are victims of international weapons trade.

The Revolutionary United front (RUF) in Sierra Leone armed up to 23,000 child soldiers with illegally acquired arms. These children were mostly used to raid villages and guard diamond mines. They were drugged, raped and forced to commit such atrocities as killing their own parents  Many Children are dismember and hacked or shot to death.

The illegal arms trade makes the armed seizure of natural resources possible.

Small arms can be traded directly for natural resources such as oil, diamonds, and timber or for the profits generated by the sale of those natural resources.

This is like a cancer.

Capitalism and Socialism

The USA is the richest country in the world. Yet millions of people will be homeless at some time over many long years. There’s no national health scheme, and over forty million people cannot afford private coverage. Socialism seems to be the better alternative. Socialism is about solving our Social and Econmic problems in a fair and equitable basis. Social-democracy as Democratic Socialism an alternative strategy for achieving socialism. Socialism is fights for the abolishment of wage-slavery and the capitalist system built on it by a different system – freedom, cooperative, liberty, Democratic labor. What has that got to do with the modest reforms achieved by the Capitalists and Trotskyites? The fight for social reforms and the defense of existing welfare state provisions are indeed necessary for socialists to take up. Although socialsim isn‘t a pencea, it is the true and real political solution. If only a free market economy can offer democracy. Without it you get state control, and state control inevitably stifles democracy socialists do not want a bureaucratic state, high taxes, and inefficiencies as lies told by Democrats, Republicans, and libertarians. Capitalism has become less irrational and inhuman since industrial revolution. Wage slavery and exploitation are still at the heart and root of capitalism. In a world of vast productivity and excess food production, 150 million children (by UN statistics) do not get enough to eat. Capitalism thrives on exploitation as consumers, women, children, seniors and men suffer in the circuit of the underprivileged. The idea that only the market system can be the basis for democracy is like saying only wage slavery for the masses and increasing concentration of wealth and power at the top of society can be the basis of democracy! Democracy in capitalism is limited and unstable. This came from Social Revolutions demanded by the people. We need to spark this up again. Mass self-rule by the producers, dominated neither by a bureaucratic state monopoly nor by the economic rule of the multimillionaires and their officials, is a better form of democracy. See this link for more:

Myths About Socialism http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/04/10

A Case for Socialism in the Twenty First Century-Jason Schulman http://web.gc.cuny.edu/advocate/FEB05ISSUE/html/caseforsocialism.htm

There are lies myths and slanders against socialism, like Socialism is about bureaucracy, bigger government, more taxes. This is just about providing Socialism to the people and not millionaires.

Health Care

There seems to be a lack of sensibilities anywhere. I frequently have experienced
the world as a cold cruel place, where the ice cold sadness of the lack of humanity
their can be in this world. The world is a lonely place for many.
the myth of large government is believed to Be perpetuated by Liberals.
True, but it come from Conservatives also. Government, even during the most ardent
Conservatives has never ever happened except when serving the people.
Do I want a society where people are taken carte of from cradle to grave?
Actually, yes and no. But I do not want to live in a society where people are abandoned and treated cruelly due to their misfortunes?
Government does many good things. Public transportation, public schools,
libraries, the post office, motor vehicles. How would we like to live in a
world with no government? In our Conservative government the people need to
be bailed out.
I remember a Conservative friend of mine who disliked the notion of National Health Care.
He had finally been stricken with cancer and the hmo’s where not there for him.
He needed money for his condition. And he finally passed away. His wife wound up loosing her home of 30 years. She we live in a world where people loose all their treasured possessions and memories? I could remember my friend joking with me when he said, “I wonder what happened to all those Social Programs I voted against?” When they are gone, one cannot go looking for them.
And there is a women I knew who had five children, when her husband passed away, simultaneously she lost a good paying job. She spent months on unemployment which payed her less than her salary.
Than she received a substandard job in which she was driven into further poverty. What would become of her family and her dreams? A fulfilling life is out of the question.
It seems we have a cold cruel government that cranks out a lot of victims.
The I asked my cousin, who is a doctor in Italy, whether then Government interferes
with National Health Care. He said, just as anywhere else, or anything else there are rules.
Not, service provided for the patient his just handled through your National Insurance Card.
Same as a Credit Card or Debit Card, in fact, there is no government involved. They just provide the funding. In fact it reduces the size of government and i never hire bill collectors or a staff like American Doctors do, even I actually save money.
Poverty can easily be solved without Government interference. It is called the Universal
Income. Or The Basic Income Grant. In Functional Governments poverty is eliminated
rather than Having to qualify, each person has an entitlement. No embarrassment, humiliation, or apologies for being poor. It also eliminates Large Government because there are no offices to pay for, or officials to pay. Nor is there Government control over peoples lives. In New York State, the Government was sued by Unions and welfare workers. the Government declared. if you are working, people shouldn’t work for free. In New York and Illinois, the Government acts as a pimping service for business to get free workers. A violation of the 14Th Amendment of our Constitution.
Eliminating the departments of Welfare in the USA and instituting a Livable Universal Income would
save the nation from Excessive Government and the salaries that go with it and reduce taxes.
It is estimated that the Government would be reduced and we would save 8 billion dollars a year.
A Doctor from Italy said to me, “When you talked about fear, I still remember a poor uneducated farmer in a little town in Sicily,
who was always saying she will never vote for liberals or left wingers because it will take away the house she had. For curiosity she (the Doctor) went to see her house and she found out she lived in the slums with no electricity, no water, and no toilet.
Even now with fear, people reacting to any change and I personally believe that until we do not push the idea that wealth is for everyone ( and for wealth I intend good housing, less working hours, a living wage, good education, good and free medical care, meaningful jobs, nutritious food ).
If we do not develop a social consciousness in this country and learn to invest in the future with positive change we are forever trapped in
A world where we sort out winners from losers, where one side always wins and the other always looses. I think that we could agree on what kind of a world we would all want to build. it would be a world each of which protected and respected the basic human freedoms. It would be a world which demanded of each government that it accept its responsibility to insure social justice. It would be a world of constantly accelerating economic progress — not material welfare as an end in itself, but as a means to liberate the capacity of every human being to pursue his talents and to pursue his hopes. It would, in short, be a world that we would be proud to have built. I am partially quoting Robert F Kennedy here.
National Health Care is affordable and can save us billions in fees and taxes, and there in no Government in the way, no death panels. Single Payer is the way to go. We are the only industrialized nation not to have it. We can eliminate corporate welfare and price gouging by the corporations. e General Accounting Office projects an administrative savings of 10 percent through the elimination of private insurance bills and administrative waste, or $150 billion in 2002. This savings would pay for providing medical care to those currently under served.

See: http://www.healthcare-now.org/hr-676/whats-single-payer/

Tea Baggers

When it comes to Tea I prefer mine to be Oolong at a Chinese restaurant. The Tea Part makes erroneous statements, like Obama, Clinton, and Carter where all Socialists. In which I have never heard any speak of Universal health Care, a full time 32 hour week, six weeks vacation,  and the improvement of education out side the corporate initiative.
Although in this district take heart, we have a Candidate in the American Labor Party/ Independent Socialist Party named Vitov Valdes Munoz. Who is the only progressive on the ballot. So we Leftist Liberals have someone to Vote for.
Of course Tea Baggers  say only Capitalism will save us. And BP is doing such a splendid job of saving us, that I have a friend in Florida who really appreciate what BP has done for her economy.
She is a cook, and she says no one is going to Florida for a vacation. The Oil Glots are already there and the Florida economy in her area is going into collapse.
When I figure that we have always hosted sweatshops and labor with multitudes of human rights abuses, one could be sure people didn’t wake up one mourning and say, just for the fun of it, lets start Unions. Capitalism works, and sometimes it works on people, animals, and the environment inhumanely. What a savior.
We are also Coffee Party Advocates.  Rather than Conservative Reactionary Politics, The National Coffee Party is a Coalition of people who encourage deliberation guided by reason amongst the many viewpoints held by our members. We see our diversity as a strength, not a weakness, because we believe that faithful deliberation from multiple vantage points is the best way to achieve the common good. It is in the responsible and reasonable practice of deliberation that we hope to contribute to society.
 I have re-founded the American Labor Party/Independent Socialist Party to run candidates and promote a greater democracy.
The Tea Party suggested that the Second Amendent allows us to bear arms against the Federal Government. Sounds like sedition too me. On March 20, 2010, before the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Bill was voted on in Washington D.C., it was reported that Tea Party protesters against the bill used racial and homophobic slurs. Several black lawmakers said that demonstrators shouted “the N-word” at them.  Congressman Emanuel Cleaver said he was spat upon, and Congressman Barney Frank, who is gay, was called a “faggot.”  Representative André Carson said that as he walked from the Cannon House Office Building with Representative John Lewis, amid chants of “Kill the bill” he heard the “n – word at least 15 times”. One man “just rattled it off several times.” Carson quoted Lewis as saying, “You know, this reminds me of a different time.”
I do not believe that the majority of the Tea Party activist are racist but if you go to one of their rallies a good portion of them are. Look up a group called Brave New Films. They have a section on the Tea Party rallies and racism.
The ALP/ISO and Coffee Clutch is concerned with  many progressive issues.  The Coffee Party and ALP/ISO have the same message in Coalition.

They are  a political movement that developed as an alternative to the Tea Party movement. Its mission states that it is based on the underlying principle that the government is “not the enemy of the people, but the expression of our collective will, and that we must participate in the democratic process in order to address the challenges we face as Americans. Its stated goals include getting cooperation in government and removing corporate influence from politics.