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Subject: China and Russia simply allowing US to do all their work
Date: Nov 5, 2009 7:11 AM
Giraldi's proposal for a new party, below
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Now, look:
When the petrodollar goes down, gasoline
will be 16 dollars a gallon, which means
milk will be 20 dollars a gallon.
When America goes broke:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/01/AR2009110101704.html?nav=hcmodule
"Deprived of international or domestic credit, defaulting countries in
the past have suffered deep economic downturns, hyperinflation, or
both. The odds may be against a wealthy society tempting that fate,
but even the remote possibility underlines the precariousness and the
novelty of the present situation."
The oil- and pipelines- wars are simply
meant to stall the inevitable. Civil
chaos. China and Russia will divvy up
the pipelines, however many are built by
US Petrodollars.
Look at it from China's and Russia's point
of view: *They're* paying for the pipelines by
holding our funny dollars. Once they're built,
Seeya.
Do you really think China and Russia really
care if Israel provokes another regional war?
When the thing blows over, China and Russia
would be in the exact same place they are now.
They win no matter what.
Do the AmerIsraeli Bigs know this?
Yes, that's why they have extra homes in
Australia and Paraguay.
KMDickson
http://www.actionlyme.org
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http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2009/11/04/a-manifesto-for-x-street/
A Manifesto for X Street
by Philip Giraldi, November 05, 2009
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It has been an interesting week. President Barack Obama is about to
approve a strategy of holding urban centers in Afghanistan while
surrendering the rest of the country to the Taliban. Someone should
tell him that something like that called "strategic hamlets" was tried
and failed in Vietnam. Meanwhile Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu
tells Obama to go to hell on freezing settlements so Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton rewards him by praising his "unprecedented
concessions" and blames the Palestinians for not talking peace.
Congress also demonstrated that it knows who to blame by
overwhelmingly passing a resolution condemning the UN’s Goldstone
report which documented Israeli atrocities in Gaza last January. And
there have also been more harsh words and resolutions coming out of
Washington about Iran from numerous parties, heightening concerns that
another war is coming.
It’s not exactly the change that we Americans voted for a year ago, is
it? What this country needs is a new direction, possibly driven by a
new foreign policy lobby that recognizes that while all nations have
an inalienable right to be treated fairly by the United States,
Washington has a clear and compelling responsibility to avoid
involvement in other countries’ quarrels so it can put its own people
and interests first. Though "America First" might sound like a crude
reversion to some forms of 1930s nationalism, in reality the lobby
could spearhead a withdrawal from empire in reaction to the American
people’s having been sold down the river by a succession of
politicians of both parties who have adhered to an agenda that is
completely hypocritical, blindly globalist, and persistently
interventionist. The inside-the-beltway political class has grown fat
on empire, shielded from the consequences of its own folly and never
held accountable for its sins, largely because both parties adhere to
the same basic policies, albeit with slightly different packaging.
The sorry result has not benefited the American people in any way
unless one is a defense contractor or a Wall Street banker or a
politician writing a self-exculpatory book.
Following the example of the currently fashionable pro-Israel group J
Street, which chose a Washington DC letter street that does not
actually exist for the name of its lobby, I would like to propose a
new lobby that would also be based on a non-address, X Street.
Membership in X Street will be open to all American citizens of every
race, national origin, and religious belief. It will be guided by a
unifying principle, that preservation of the liberties defined in the
constitution and support of the national interest of the United States
should be the sole objectives of any and all foreign policy. It would
be the modern embodiment of George Washington’s warning to steer clear
of foreign involvements and to be a friend to all.
X Street recognizes that the wars fought by the United States since
2001 have brought no benefit to the American people and have only
resulted in financial ruin, the deaths and maiming of thousands of
Americans, and the killing of hundreds of thousands of foreigners. To
make going to war more difficult, X Street demands that American
soldiers only be allowed to engage in combat overseas if there has
been an act of war by the US Congress as required by the constitution,
something that has not taken place since December 8, 1941. Any act of
war should be preceded by a full debate in the House and Senate.
Though not explicitly required by the constitution, we the people
should demand that Congress detail the nature and imminence of the
foreign threat requiring an act of war, should explain clearly the
objectives of the fighting and their achievability, and should submit
as part of its declaration an end strategy and timetable to return
America’s soldiers home. Congress should further be required to fully
fund any overseas conflict that it enters into.
X Street understands that the United States has no abiding national
interest in staying in either Afghanistan or Iraq, but it recognizes
that Washington has done a great deal of damage to both countries and
their people. The US will arrange for a staged withdrawal from both
nations after first convoking a conference of all countries in both
regions to discuss mutual security issues in a bid to create a
workable and sustainable regional security environment that will
benefit everyone. The current bilateral security agreements dictated
by Washington will be replaced by multilateral arrangements in which
neighboring countries work together to combat international terrorism,
drug trafficking, and human rights abuses. The United States will
support such efforts but will commit itself to strict non-intervention
in both the Middle East and Central Asia.
X Street believes that there is no security justification for
maintaining hundreds of US military bases worldwide at an annual cost
of hundreds of billions dollars. Many countries in Asia and Europe
have become wealthy due to the US security umbrella that has been in
place since 1945. They should now take over responsibility for their
own security with the United States reverting to the role of good
friend and trading partner. NATO no longer has any raison d’etre and
is needlessly provoking the Russians through its expansion. X Street
calls on the United States to dissolve the alliance.
X Street recognizes that America’s lopsided support of the state of
Israel has made the United States a target of terrorism, has weakened
the US’s international standing and damaged its reputation, and has
negatively impacted on the American economy. The United States will
advise Israel that its settlement policy is in violation of numerous
UN resolutions and that it opposes on principle the continuing denial
of any rights to West Bank and Gazan Palestinians. Washington will no
longer use its veto power to protect Israeli interests in the UN and
other international bodies. As Israel is now the twenty-ninth
wealthiest nation in the world per capita, all US economic and
military assistance will cease immediately. The United States will
publicly declare its knowledge that Israel has a nuclear arsenal and
will ask the Israeli government to join the NPT regime and subject its
program to IAEA inspection. The purpose is not to punish Israel but
to make it like every other country vis-à-vis the United States – a
friend and a trading partner, but there will be no free ride and no
presumption of a "special relationship." There will be no special
relationships with anyone.
X Street understands that the Islamic Republic of Iran has security
concerns based on the presence of 200,000 US troops in the Persian
Gulf region. It also has legitimate regional interests due to
unstable conditions in neighboring Iraq and Afghanistan. The US
government should confirm that Iran is, however, no threat to the
United States, has a right to peaceful nuclear power, and does not
currently have a nuclear weapons program. Washington should pledge
that it will no longer interfere in internal Iranian affairs through
support of insurgencies or dissident groups as Tehran’s domestic
politics are not our business. The US should state its willingness to
engage in open ended negotiations with Tehran without preconditions to
resolve all outstanding issues.
X Street further recognizes that the actions of various foreign
national lobbies operating with relative freedom in the United States
have corrupted our congress and media and have skewed our policies. X
Street demands that all agents of foreign countries or representatives
of foreign country interests should be registered, strictly monitored,
and have their funding and disbursements made public record. There
will be no exceptions to foreign lobby registration.
X Street believes that nation building and democracy promotion by the
United States have been little more than CIA covert actions by another
name that have harmed America’s reputation and international
standing. Neither should be a component of US foreign policy and the
United States should further clearly state its intention not to
interfere in the internal politics of any sovereign nation. The
National Endowment for Democracy should be abolished immediately.
X Street calls for the elimination of all foreign aid programs. Such
programs bring no benefit to the United States and no benefit to the
recipients who frequently rely on the aid to shore up failing
economies, enabling them to defer having to initiate needed economic
and political reforms. Often the aid goes directly into the pockets
of corrupt officials.
X Street recognizes that the poor reputation that the US enjoys
internationally is largely deserved. It demands that Congress and the
President immediately close Guantánamo Prison and any other secret or
semi-secret prisons maintained by the Defense Department or CIA to
hold foreign or American prisoners without the due process guaranteed
by the US constitution and bill of rights. No one shall be detained
by the United States in any jurisdiction without the protections
afforded by the constitution.
X Street recognizes that torture committed by any government official
is, has been, and should be illegal under both international
agreements and US law. Anyone who either engages or has engaged in
torture or authorizes the same should be investigated by the Attorney
General and Justice Department and charged with a crime. Any
government official who knew that torture was taking place and did not
report it should be similarly charged.
X Street realizes that there are powerful constituencies that will
resist every measure proposed above but every journey of a thousand
miles begins with a single step. It is time to return power to the
American people and also time to begin disarming the United States and
restoring some measure of accountability to the US political and
foreign policy process. It is also time to hold the Obama
Administration’s feet to the fire on the policies that it is
embracing. They do not serve the national interest and differ little
from those of George W. Bush.
"[Real] scientists are *fiercely* independent. That's the good
news."-- NIH's Top Fool, Anthony Fauci |
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