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    War and profit: Deciphering what it means to be in the U.S. military


    by: Betsy L. Angert

    Sat Jun 20, 2009 at 20:30:00 PM EDT


    March Forward! Against War and Racism

    © copyright 2009 Michael Prysner.  Party for Socialism and Liberation

    From the newsletter of March Forward!
    We join the military for many different reasons. Some of us want to have access to a college education. Some of us want job training and a steady paycheck. Some of us join to get U.S. citizenship. Some of us need to get out of debt or need to get off a destructive path. Some of us join out of pride, patriotism and a genuine desire to be a part of some greater, collective good. Many of us made the decision early-while still in high school, enticed by recruiters' promises of cash bonuses, adventure and opportunity-while some of us joined after years as a worker, drawn by the military's full health care and housing benefits.

    Whatever the reason, we all found ourselves wearing the uniform of the U.S. military. What did we actually join? What is the role of the U.S. military in the world? What does it mean to be a soldier following the dictates of U.S. foreign policy? When we sign ourselves away to the military, what are we being used to do?

    In recent years, many of us ended up in Iraq or Afghanistan. We are told that as a soldier in the U.S. military we are defending the interests of the United States. This does have an ounce of truth-but only an ounce. We are defending the interests of a particular class in the United States. It is only a wealthy minority whose interests are being defended in Iraq, Afghanistan and the more than 130 countries where U.S. troops are stationed.

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    "Union gives strength"


    by: Betsy L. Angert

    Tue May 19, 2009 at 13:00:00 PM EDT


    Please Sign the Memo to Howard Schultz

    "Union gives strength."
    ~ Aesop's Fables, The Bundle of Sticks
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    Nuptials Never; "I Do" Commit to Communicate


    by: Betsy L. Angert

    Sat May 02, 2009 at 11:00:00 AM EDT

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    copyright © 2009 Betsy L. Angert.  BeThink.org

    I write this reflection on, what in years past; I would have considered a couple's certain doomsday.  Within hours, Alex and Alia will walk down the aisle and take their vows.  Will May 2, 2009, be the day of deliverance for the two, one of delight, or the beginning of the end?  I know not.  I only understand that on this date, the pair will do, as I purposefully never planned to.  They will wed.  I have not met either of these individuals; yet today I can think of nothing but their lives and the effect they have had on me.  

    I became aware of Alex and Alia, A2, for short, while on an airplane headed for The Toddling Town.  It was Friday, March 27, 2009.  Neither the man who will become a husband today, nor the woman, who will be declared his wife, was physically present.  Indeed, I may never see the persons who sincerely moved me to rethink whether I might say, "I do".  Perhaps, they know nothing of what began as an innocent encounter.  The Earth did not shake, and certainly, I never expected my conviction to crumble.  Indeed essentially my belief did not evolve.  In truth, nothing actually changed.  Still, after a three-hour exchange, I began to more seriously consider what for all of my live I rejected, marriage.

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    Condoleezza Rice avows; President is above law


    by: Betsy L. Angert

    Thu Apr 30, 2009 at 21:00:00 PM EDT


    Condi Rice Pulls a Nixon: If the President Orders Torture, It Must be Legal

    copyright © 2009 Betsy L. Angert.  BeThink.org

    Students at Stanford stood still as they listened to former Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice speak.  As the scholars pondered the words of the prominent woman who presented her case for waterboarding, many mused; "Is it Richard Nixon, or Condoleezza Rice?  Which person thinks a President is above the law?" One might wonder.  Those who viewed a video taped classroom conversation with Secretary Rice, today express astonishment as well.  In her defense for actions she took to advocate for this extreme interrogation techniques Condoleezza Rice both blamed her former boss, George W. Bush and justified his decision.

    "The president instructed us that nothing we would do would be outside of our obligations, legal obligations under the Convention Against Torture."
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    Geithner; Gold on the Hill


    by: Betsy L. Angert

    Mon Apr 27, 2009 at 00:00:00 AM EDT

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    copyright © 2009 Betsy L. Angert.  BeThink.org

    Today, Timothy Geithner garners much attention.  Initially, when introduced on the national scene, people pondered; "Who is he?" The former President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York has an impeccable résumé.  Some said his record speaks for itself.  Average Americans might have admired his ascendancy. Taxpayers could have appreciated that a man of his age would wish to manage the complexity of the United States coffers.   Countless may have considered the enormous challenge he accepted; yet, not comprehend, for Secretary Geithner, this may have been the plan.

    Early on, Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner had his sights set high.  As a child, born to an affluent, and influential family, he learned that all he desired could be his.  He saw the potential for power in political prospects.  The practicality of a profitable purpose also was apparent to Tim.  When a lad, there was no reason for Timothy to reflect on the concrete pavements beneath his feet.  Geithner would not have supposed he would work as a laborer.  Nor had he likely seen himself as one among the swarms of ordinary citizens.   His personal history may have helped him to know, he would not have to pound the streets to seek pennies for his pocket.  Unconventional as his life had been, Timothy Geithner might have imagined as others did; he was destined for greatness.

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    Tortured


    by: Betsy L. Angert

    Fri Apr 24, 2009 at 13:00:00 PM EDT

    copyright © 2009 Betsy L. Angert.  BeThink.org

    Never for a moment in my life have I been "in love."  I do not believe in the notion.  Fireworks have not filled my heart.  Flames of a fiery passion do not burn within me.  Indeed, my soul has not been ablaze.  Thoughts of a hot-blooded devotion seem illogical to me.  Such sentiments always have.  Fondness too fertile is but torture for me.  I admire many, and adore none.  For me, the affection I feel for another is born out of sincere and profound appreciation.  To like another means more to me than to love or be loved.  Excitement, an emotional reaction to another, rises up within me when I experience an empathetic exchange with someone who has glorious gray matter.

    Today, it happened.  I felt an a twinge that startled me.  I stood still as he entered the room.  I expected nothing out of the ordinary, or at least nothing other than what has become his recently adopted, more avoidant, routine.  Although long ago, I had become accustomed to his face, his voice, and his demeanor, for I have known the man for more than a few years.  In the last few weeks, while essentially he is who he always was, some of his stances have changed.  Possibly, Barry has felt a need to compromise his positions, but I wonder; what of his principles.

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    Counter Terrorism in the White House


    by: Betsy L. Angert

    Tue Apr 21, 2009 at 23:00:00 PM EDT


    Rachel Maddow - former Rice confidant Philip Zelikow on the torture memos, part 1

    copyright © 2009 Betsy L. Angert.  BeThink.org

    In his attempt to counter a perceived threat to America, Philip Zelikow, the policy representative to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and the National Securities Council (NSC) Deputies Committee, unexpectedly became the threat from within the White House.  

    The Bush Administration believed the best way to deal with suspected terrorists was to inflict extreme physical and psychological pressure on these perilous persons.  Mister Zelikow offered his dissent.  In a written and verbally stated opinion, Philip Zelikow contradicted what the occupants of the Oval Office accepted as necessary.  "Individuals suspected of terrorism, can be legally tortured."  

    A short time after the Office of Legal Council (OLC) issued the now infamous judgments which allowed for officially sanctioned torment, Mister Zelikow, his superior, who was then Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and her Legal Adviser, John Bellinger, gained access to the torture memos.  After a review, Philip Zelikow stated his concern.  He sensed others within the Administration might share his angst.  However, no one, inclusive of Mister Zelikow,  publicly voiced an apprehension, that is, not until this past week.

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    Tea Parties; Taxes and Torture Served


    by: Betsy L. Angert

    Thu Apr 16, 2009 at 11:00:00 AM EDT

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    copyright © 2009 Betsy L. Angert.  BeThink.org

    I am a discontent and distressed taxpayer!  "Disgruntled" is a word that might describe my deep dissatisfaction with how my tax dollars are spent.  Yet, on April 15, 2009, typically thought of as "Tax Day," I felt no need to join my fellow citizens in protest.  I did not attend a "Tea Party".  I too believe, in this country, "taxation without representation" is a problem.  One only need ponder the profits of lobbyists to understand the premise.  Corporate supplicants amass a 22,000 percent rate of return on their investments.  The average American is happy to realize a two-digit increase.  Nonetheless, as much as I too may argue the point, assessments are paid without accountability, what concerns me more is my duty dollars did not support what I think ethical projects.

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    Rethinking Afghanistan; The Terror Tax


    by: Betsy L. Angert

    Wed Apr 15, 2009 at 12:00:00 PM EDT


    Rethink Afghanistan (Part 3): Cost of War

    copyright © 2009 Betsy L. Angert.  BeThink.org

    Tax time is reason enough to reflect on our budgets, personal and national.  How realistic are our expenditures?  Do we spend more than we earn?  Does our income allow for a few irrational indulgences?  Do discretionary dollars exist?  Might we consider our ample debt.  Does this represent a temporary deficit, easily resolved, or an obligation that cannot be paid promptly.  We may wish to rethink our reality.  At home, families have taken scissors to credit cards.  More than the minimum payment is made.  The intention is to lessen liabilities and increase savings.  In the month of April, after we pay Uncle Sam, most of us concluded, it is time to clean our own fiscal house.  Next, we move to the nation's ledger.  

    Expenses
    The largest share of our moneys go to military operations.  The terror tax has become a tremendous burden of American household and communities.  Yet, few wish to rethink this "duty."

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    I Dream the Dream


    by: Betsy L. Angert

    Wed Apr 15, 2009 at 11:00:00 AM EDT

    copyright © 2009 Betsy L. Angert.  BeThink.org



    All of my life I have been a dreamer.  Don Quixote is my adopted name.  Happily, I tilt at windmills.  I do the impossible.  Nothing deters me, that is, unless my lack of ego strength is involved.  Then, unlike Susan Boyle, a contestant on Britain's Got Talent, I falter.  A being, whose energy, enthusiasm, and personal story brought her to stage, has the courage I lack.  Might it be a fear of failure, or perchance, success scares me.  I know not with certainty.  For now, as I reflect on the woman who wows the world, I think of how I too have dreamed, and what I did to damage, defeat, or even destroy my own ascension.  

    I also wonder.  Will the tears I shed as I listen to her sing and watch her gracefully move through her recital wash over me.  Would all that I felt, as I immersed myself in Ms Boyle's performance, be gone before I acted on the audacity she radiates, or might these emotions help cleanse me of my own deep-seated apprehensions.  Oh, how I crave to come out into the light, to as Susan Boyle stated, be given a "chance."  Indeed, for me, I know the one who never seems to provide me with what I need to succeed is me.

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    Capitalism; Dead, Alive, and Broken


    by: Betsy L. Angert

    Sun Apr 12, 2009 at 00:00:00 AM EDT

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    copyright © 2009 Betsy L. Angert.  BeThink.org

    For but a moment, whilst the Group of 20 [G20] met in London's ancient financial capital, ,"The City," the roars of remorse, could be heard.  Words of woe had been whispered in hushed tones for quite some time.  Scholars spoke of various possibilities on occasion.  Whether Senior Economic Fellows from various think-tanks thought a system to be dead, alive, or near doomed, there was perhaps a bit of agreement.  "I see what you mean.  It is broken," Economist Mark Thoma mused more than a year ago.  

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    Obama; State Secrets A Shame


    by: Betsy L. Angert

    Tue Apr 07, 2009 at 20:00:00 PM EDT


    Countdown: Turley on Obama Administration Invoking State Secrets on Surveillance Program

    copyright © 2009 Betsy L. Angert.  BeThink.org

    Today, the Obama truth is revealed.  Change has come in the form of familiarity.  Some American's are embarrassed.  Others embrace what, when presented by the previous Administration, they rejected.  Apathy helps most Americans to avoid a sense of shame.  It was announced;  Obama defends Bush-era secrets.  This Administration has gone further to establish government sovereignty.  As a nation, the Obama White House tells citizens, our country will be better protected if details about the surveillance program are considered "Top Secret - Sensitive Compartmented Information."

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    Tim Geithner; Retention, Rewards, and Krugman Realizations


    by: Betsy L. Angert

    Mon Mar 30, 2009 at 23:00:00 PM EDT


    DN!>Paul Krugman (12) on $1 Trillion Geithner Plan to Buy Toxic Bank Assets

    copyright © 2009 Betsy L. Angert.  BeThink.org

    Negotiations began in November.  Decisions were reached during the month of December.  By January, a retention bonus was awarded to the individual considered most superlative within the staff.  President Barack Obama presented the gift.  American International Group, Incorporated [AIG] executives did not receive the windfall.  Nor did someone "separate" from the previous President garner the honors.  Gold was not placed at the door of a New Deal Democrat.  No, dollars and command were delivered to a truly Progressive person.    Insider, Timothy Geithner was the recipient of a title that would sustain his service.  Mister Geithner was given a reward that was worth far more than mere millions in greenbacks.  Power and influence are priceless.

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    Obama's Strategy on Afghanistan


    by: Guest Author

    Sun Mar 29, 2009 at 12:00:00 PM EDT

    copyright © 2099 Jerome Grossman.  Relentless Liberal

    It is difficult, even impossible, to accept President Obama's "New strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan" as described by him in a formal speech on March 27.  It fails by imperial and non-imperial standards.

    First the imperial: Chalmers Johnson, a former CIA agent, reports in his book Nemesis: "The Carter administration deliberately provoked the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.  In his 1996 memoir, former CIA Director Robert Gates acknowledges that the American intelligence services began to aid the anti-Soviet mujahideen guerillas not after the Russian invasion but six months before it.  President Carter's purpose was to provoke a full-scale Soviet military intervention to tie down the USSR."  Will an expanded military effort in Afghanistan tie down the U.S. as it did the USSR?

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    Infamous Anniversary of Attack


    by: Betsy L. Angert

    Thu Mar 19, 2009 at 03:00:00 AM EDT


    Global Greens 2008 - Bruce Gagnon (Maine, USA)

    copyright © 2009 Betsy L. Angert.  BeThink.org

    March 19, 2009, is a day that lives in infamy.  There were others in the past.  However, on this date six years ago, the United States launched what has come to be accepted as unwarranted attacks on Iraq.  Although, from the first, there were protests even in high places such as the Senate floor, unilaterally, Americans bombed an innocent people.  This time, for near two years prior, pretense was presented as truth.

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    MoveOn Obama Budget


    by: Betsy L. Angert

    Thu Mar 19, 2009 at 14:45:00 PM EDT

    copyright © 2009 Betsy L. Angert.  BeThink.org

    The mail arrived.  It was from MoveOn.org.  Overwhelmed with work, I thought to delete it.  I noticed the surname of the sender was the same as a friend of mine.  Only that [cosmic] coincidence led me to open the message and peruse.  I read Daniel Mintz's words with interest, for he spoke of what I miss in the news.  Mister Mintz did not focus on the folly of a few executives at American International Group, Incorporated (AIG).  The representative  from MoveOn offered what is more real to me, an average American.

    As we've seen with AIG this week, the powerful don't give up their special treatment without a fight.  They're spending millions on lobbyists to quietly kill the provisions that would make them help pay for America's priorities. 1 And despite all the posturing in Congress over AIG's bonuses, too many senators are still listening to the banking and insurance lobbyists on the issues that aren't in the headlines.

    So we need to speak louder than the lobbyists . . .

    Today's Washington Post calls it "a populist budget" 2 because it cuts taxes for most Americans while ending unfair tax advantages for the richest among us.  The best part is that it takes all the money we'll save and invests it in critical national priorities that will help build and strengthen the middle class.

    Obama's budget gives tax breaks to working families instead of CEOs.  And it closes the tax loopholes for special interests that cost us billions, like:

    • The loophole that lets companies take tax breaks for sending jobs overseas.  This will save us more than $200 billion over the next decade. 3
    • The loophole that lets hedge fund managers pay a 15% tax rate on their income, instead of regular income tax like the rest of us.  That will save us more than $20 billion. 4
    • The loophole for big oil companies that gives them huge tax breaks even when they're posting record profits, saving us more than $30 billion over the next decade. 5
    • The loophole that gives the richest Americans bigger tax breaks for their deductions.  Right now, a teacher who contributes $1,000 to the Red Cross gets a $150 tax break.  A Wall Street executive making the same contribution gets a $350 tax break. 6

    Quality references were offered for each claim.  Research for me is more real than rhetoric.  Almost as an automaton might, as I read, I reached for the telephone.  I smiled at the thought that I might respond as directed.  I called my Senator in Washington, District of Columbia.
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    Cramer Past Versus Cramer Present; CNBC Future


    by: Betsy L. Angert

    Sun Mar 15, 2009 at 11:00:00 AM EDT



    copyright © 2009 Betsy L. Angert.  BeThink.org

    On the evening of March 12, 2009, a deal was struck.  Americans looked on.  After a week of on air battles, opponents who had earlier been seen on separate stations, Jon Stewart of the Daily Show and Jim Cramer of Mad Money met face-to-face.  Bombarded with video clips financier Cramer was forced to face his past.  Much was revealed.  An arduous conversation ensued.  Confronted with his own contradictory claims, Mister Cramer promised to transform himself.  Ultimately, Comedian, Jon Stewart and the self-identified "personal guide through the confusing jungle of investing" Jim Cramer shook hands.

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    Bush/Obama Administration?


    by: Guest Author

    Mon Mar 09, 2009 at 05:30:00 AM EDT

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    copyright © 2009 Forgiven.  The Disputed Truth

    The average American looks up, they distrust politicians in general and they don't think they've been told the truth, and I think they got good reason. They've watched a Bush/Obama spending cycle that began with a stimulus package last year which failed at $180 billion, a housing package in August which fail--or July which failed at $345 billion, a Wall Street bailout at $700 billion, a Federal Reserve guarantee of $4 trillion; a stimulus package of $787 billion, which we're now being told weeks later isn't big enough, but which had to be passed so quickly no one could read it, because we had to get it out there immediately.
    ~ Newt Gingrich

    I saw the new, old face of the Republican Party this weekend on a Sunday talk show and I was shocked at the new tact of the Republicans. According to Newt Gingrich the last eight years has been the Bush/Obama administration. Who knew? In an effort to once again fasten President Obama to the current economic meltdown the new strategy appears to be to unite him to the failed policies of the Bush administration. The once revered George W. has now been turned into a tax and spend liberal by the very same people who heralded his accent to power. These people have no shame. They are willing to throw Bush under the bus for the sake of some political advantage that doesn't exist. Do they think that the public is so incompetent that they don't know the difference between Bush and Obama for the last eight years? Here's a hint Obama is the tall, dark one.

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    Wars; Endless Wars. The Want for More


    by: Betsy L. Angert

    Tue Mar 03, 2009 at 13:00:00 PM EST

    Wars

    copyright © 2009 Betsy L. Angert.  BeThink.org

    It is March, again.  Just as I have been for years, in this month I am haunted by the hate we, humans, propagate.  March 19th is the sixth anniversary of "unnecessary wars".  The phrase is not mine alone.  Public servants,  Ambassadors, and former Presidents have proclaimed as I have.  Foreign Secretaries and domestic Diplomats deem the war was a mistake.  Then there are the people.  

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    Our Best And Our Brightest


    by: Guest Author

    Thu Feb 26, 2009 at 15:15:00 PM EST

    copyright © 2009 Forgiven. The Disputed Truth

    For years, many blacks have just come to accept that integration was the path to success in America. Blacks who have been able to have deftly navigated the integration maze either through employment, education, or athletic achievement. And once reaching the pinnacle of their success they have chosen to leave their neighborhoods, friends, and communities to relocate into white America where they take on mythical status as being more than black. To whites they become not like those other blacks and therefore become more acceptable to their white sensibilities. And in some cases blacks believe they have some mythical characteristics that separate them from other blacks. In their wake they leave behind a community that is devoid of role models and success stories. They leave behind a community that is becoming more financially and morally bankrupt.

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    Where is the restraint in spending?


    by: Betsy L. Angert

    Thu Feb 26, 2009 at 13:00:00 PM EST


    Republican Response to Obama Budget Request - Bloomberg

    copyright © 2009 Betsy L. Angert.  BeThink.org

    On this fine day in February 2009, President Barack Obama submitted his budget blueprint.  For  the first time, in near a decade, transparency is built into a national financial plan.  The tremendous costs to wage the two wars America is engaged in are no longer hidden.  Outlays for military offenses have been written into the ledger, and not in the traditional invisible ink.  While one might think fiscal and political Conservatives would be pleased, upon receipt of the document, Republicans immediately pounced.  Senator Judd Greggspoke on the Grand Old Party's behalf when he asked, "Where is the restraint in spending?"

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    The Morals Of A Gnat


    by: Guest Author

    Thu Feb 26, 2009 at 09:00:00 AM EST

    copyright © 2009 Forgiven. The Disputed Truth


    As I watched the rant of CNBC analyst Rick Santelli concerning the proposed housing bailout of the Obama administration I couldn't help but think is this where we have evolved to as a country? Where our chief concern is what's in it for me. Have we gotten to the place where we are taking our moral cues from the same greedy, profit at all cost mentality that got us into this mess? According to this crowd it is now immoral to help those who have become unemployed, sick, or homeless because they have had the misfortune of working for a company that had lay-offs and didn't have golden parachutes. Because these people are still fortunate enough to be employed and have homes then the rest of the world be damned?

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