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Can You Top This?

The Third Reich conducted an evil holocaust of innocent people. This was a nightmarish attempt to destroy the Jewish people while including Gypsies, gays, communists and other non-Arians.

Having learned nothing at all from history, our current administration is on the verge of starting another horrific holocaust. With no ethics and no morality Washington is plotting, planning and conspiring to commit nuclear devastation. This time the ovens will be airborne and indiscriminate. But military double speak refers to these new models of tactical nuclear weapons as if they were both harmless and helpful.

The scientific community differs with the perpetrators of this nuclear holocaust. The current models can do as much or more devastation than did the ovens that vaporized Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

The King of Jordan warned this week that any such attack on Iran by either the U.S. or Israel will send the Middle East into flames.

But the United States has just issued a strategic doctrine paper announcing that it will use nuclear weapons in any future conflicts when and how it wishes. This doctrine has gone beyond the limits of the Third Reich in its cynical disregard for the human race.

If we considered Hitler's methods as crass examples of social psychosis, exactly how shall we categorize the current plans of the Bush Administration?

Of course, it is our duty to demand opposition to this murderous policy from the Congress that is supposed to represent us and we must do that.

But friends, at this critical moment in history, we must do something else. We must contact each and every member of the Supreme Court and remind them that the power of Judicial Review applies to foreign as well as domestic policy. That's right, the Supreme Court has the power to declare any act of the President unconstitutional. It seems to me that even a right wing batch of justices can understand that the current irrational, illegal, immoral and suicidal plans of this failed administration must be curtailed.

Demand that the Supreme Court initiate the process of denunciation of the Executive. Let the censure, impeachment and conviction begin before millions of our own citizens and our neighbors on the planet die unnecessarily in an international holocaust.

Economics 101

To understand our economic system you must comprehend the following:
If you have money, you will be paid money for having money.
If you do not have money you must pay money to get money.

This is called interest. Our ancestors called it usury. It was known as a sin in both Islam and Christianity. Actually this system of injustice is one of the prime generators of war.

So it is not at all surprising that one of the supreme architects of the rape of Iraq is now head of the World Bank.

Now do you understand why credit card companies are begging you to borrow money? They know they can get 25% interest on the money they lend you. If you don't have money you must pay money to get it. And these friendly credit card companies are delighted to come after anything you do own if you can't find the money to pay them for not having the money you need.

This simple economic reality is one of the key reasons for international poverty. Actually, anyone making over $25,000. per year is in the top one percent of the globe's income.

The World Bank is anxious to lend money to small countries. Loans develop dependency. The loans lead to control of the small country and its assets just as your assets are in danger every time you request a loan. The problem is systemic. It can only be solved by observing the practical currents of change coming from places like Venezuela where Hugo Chavez is using income from oil for programs of social justice.

Conventional mythology will say, "But there will be no incentive if there is no profit."

Friends, some of the most effective and incentive driven people on this planet are living on fixed incomes. Consider the physicists, chemists, economists, academics and perpetrators of justice and peace who win Nobel prizes. Their incentive is not profit, it is excellence. And such is the case as well for those who do not win such prizes but are driven and sustained by the pursuit of justice and peace. Excellence can also be motivated by cooperation rather than by profit driven competition.

We will build a peace system as we abolish a system, which is based on squeezing the life out of the world's poorest people.

Welcoming The Wounded

Last night we welcomed Alaa Khalid Hamdan and her father Khalid Handan Abd at the Venice Methodist Church. Cole Miller brought them to the United States to represent the millions of Iraqis who have suffered under sixteen years of war from Washington. Her brother and her three cousins could not attend because they are dead. This is the collateral damage described by General Tommy Franks when he said, "We don't do body counts." In other words, these people don't count.

As citizens of this country we must take immediate action to remove this criminal administration. Mr. Bush and his personal falange of organized crime must step down. How do we do that? First we take to the streets. Saturday, March 18th at Noon, we will meet at Hollywood and Vine to denounce three years of preventative war, illegal weapons, occupation, torture and summary execution.

On the following day, Sunday March 19 at 12:30 PM the peace movement will meet at the Westwood Federal Building at Wilshire and Veteran and march together with Fernando Suarez del Solar, Pablo Paredes, Aidan Delgado and Camilo Mejia to the Santa Monica Pier and the Arlington West Memorial. The veterans and their supporters will continue that march to La Paz, California, the burial place of Cesar Chavez and on to San Francisco.

In addition to the marches we recommend three legislative actions for impeachment: The State of Vermont is in process of following rule 603 for the impeachment of the president by way of state legislatures. That rule written by then Vice President Thomas Jefferson speaks of removal of the president by way of charges from the state legislatures. The rule still stands in our House of Representatives.

We must insist that our California legislators follow the good example of Vermont. There is also Congressman John Conyers' House Resolution 635 which calls for the impeachment of the President. All Citizens are invited to sign on to this one.

And in the Senate of the United States we have the Russ Feingold resolution to censure the president for breaking the law. a censure of this kind is looked upon as the first step toward impeachment.

This is not only a federal and state issue. The San Francisco City Council has just passed a resolution to impeach Bush and Cheney.

Friends, the greatest myth in our midst is that of powerlessness. We are not powerless.

The President Goes To India

Here is a free translation of the president's comments as he returned from his triumphant trip to India and Pakistan:

My fellow Americans, I want to give great big nuclear bombs to the Indian government so India can protect itself from Pakistan. I want Pakistan to maintain its great big nuclear bombs so that Pakistan can protect itself from India.

As you know, many people in India are hungry, especially the children, so I am going to sell Martin F-16's and Boeing F-18 fighter jets to India so they can fight to feed their children.

Now, I have already forgiven Mr. Khan in Pakistan for smuggling nuclear weapons equipment to anyone in the world because we are friends with his boss, General Pervez Musharraf. Of course, we used to be friends with Manuel Noriega, Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden but I am sure we will not have such problems in the future. Furthermore, Pervez Musharraf has given us permission to bomb any part of his country as long as we think we are bombing bad people, especially people who used to be our friends like the Taliban. Musharraf has been so gracious that we are also allowed to massacre people who are in the vicinity of these bombings. After all, why were they standing so close to known terrorists?

Oh, yes, we are worried about China because they are so big and they are still communists you know. So India is free now to fire nuclear warheads at China. Oh, yes, China can respond but then we can fire at China and China not knowing the origin of the nuclear attack can fire at Russia. Then Russia, not knowing the origin of the attack can fire at Britain and then France, confused by the whole issue, can fire its nukes at Israel. Then Israel can launch a nuclear attack on Iran. Then of course the United States could easily lose Chicago by accident after it destroys North Korea.

Friends, the combination of irrationality, incompetence, ignorance, arrogance and greed has reached an intolerable level. This entire administration must do us the favor of stepping down before they destroy the planet. This is why we can't wait.

Rational people have structured a Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty with a view to abolishing nuclear weapons entirely. But our so-called leaders have created a rogue state acting in opposition to all common sense while endangering our future, the future of our children and the future of the planet.

What do we want? The same thing the Palestinians want, the occupation must end. This is also what 82% of all Iraqis want. And this is why 47% of all Iraqis support armed resistance to the occupation.

In the rage that followed the bombing of the Askariya shrine both Sunnis and Shi'as blamed the U.S. occupation. If we were in Basra we would have witnessed a large Sunni-Shi'a protest rally on behalf of Iraqi unity and the departure of the United States. The chant was, "No to America!"

We must call for the complete withdrawal of all U.S. and coalition troops, together with our foreign mercenaries and our military bases. And by the way, what do our troops want? The Zogby poll says that 72% of them want us to get out of Iraq.

Meanwhile the Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz declares Palestine part of the axis of evil together with Syria and Iran and declares that more punitive measures will be taken by Israeli forces against the Palestinian people.

Meanwhile, according to higly credible sources, Israel and the United States are prepared to let their people die together in a nuclear holocaust. Their sights appear to be set on the use of nuclear weapons in Iran. A criminal act of such magnitude would undoubtedly lead to severe blowback in Israel and the United States. Such an Israeli/US attack on Iran would thereby become the world's largest suicide mission. Some of the fanatics involved are apparently so ignorant that they speak of using nukes against the Palestinians as well.

Indeed US foreign policy and its culture of violence is becoming a toxic brew to the entire planet. Does anyone think that increased nuclearism, ongoing wars and the ignoring of international laws are going to make the world a safer place?

So the United States and Israel both of whom have weapons of mass destruction are liable to attack Iran which has no such weapons. We have been down this filthy road before. This is the road that our government has strewn with hundreds of thousands of murdered victims in the wake of pathological lying.

As a result of lawless militarism the United States has become a failed state, a feared state and a terrorist state. As citizens we are required to resist the takeover of our government by organized crime.