Nero

Could we have a candidate, a leader, advocating for peace in this world?

Parties be damned, money be damned, nations be damned, religions be damned.

Peace to all people,

let the bells ring.

"War, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing."

It astonishes me that no one running for office in my lifetime has truly advocated for peace; a few at best giving lip-service to the term have always couched it in nationalistic terms of American power first.

The word perilous can't describe our global situation and it matters not to humanity if fires set intentionally or by accident consume them, we all burn in the same atmosphere in which 'we all breathe.'

Peace.

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@Big Al I tend to think maybe wall street got cold feet, far too many derivative bets could blow up for them if Iran shuts down the straight. Just my opinion but we know the banks own our policies, always have.

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Only a fool lets someone else tell him who his enemy is. Assata Shakur

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@lizzyh7 that's why I said, "if it happened at all". I also saw an article headlining that Trump (or somebody) notified Iran of the attack well before hand to give them time or something, didn't read it. But that indicates a bluff to me.
I read another article a couple weeks ago explaining how they can't attack Iran, that the shutting down of the Hormuz is a pretty sure thing and with something like 25% of all oil going thru there it would fuck up the world economy in a nanosecond. Trump was explained all this evidently and knows what that would do to his presidency and reelection chances.
But I have no doubt they will do whatever they need to do to continue their quest for worldwide hegemony.

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Big Al's picture

@lizzyh7 "All wars are bankers wars".

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@dfarrah

Is it really that impossible to believe that someone actually thought about casualties, and that person happened to be Trump this time?

Yes, it is that impossible.

Were casualties really on the horizon, much less the agenda, of any Americans in the power-bearing community (or having any real chance of becoming part of it), we wouldn't be in the Middle East at all. There's not a damn thing in that odious desert worth the death of anybody, American or otherwise. Not even the oil. Alexander and his Roman successors needed the Middle East because it's the physical crossroads between Eurasia and Africa. With the Panama Canal and our Pacific Coast, we don't share that need, and we'd be better off without that particular millstone necklace.

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"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar

"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides

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@thanatokephaloides

if he did he would reinstate the strict rules of engagement. He'd lift the sanctions on Venezuela because 40,000 people are said to have died from them. He'd lift them on Iran instead of putting even more on today. And he would fully fund our social programs instead of trying to cut them. Same with Medicaid work requirements which has seen people dropping off it and no increase in them getting jobs.

But of course Trumps cruel budget cuts are nothing new. I just finished reading the article aliasalias posted on how Obama tried for years to cut social security and the other programs.

People keep saying that he was blocked from passing his legislation because of the republicans, but it was the republicans that refused to work with him on doing that only because it meant raising taxes on the rich.

Obama’s Long Battle to Cut Social Security Benefits

Inside it says that two conservatives were running in 2012. Amen to that! Just wow.

Remember when Obama said that the republicans drove the car into the ditch? Welp he brought a tow truck to get their car out of it. This is why so many people stayed home in 2012 which some people blame them for doing it. Just this week I read that it was the voters that let the democrats down not the other way around. Yep. Every person who ever voted for democrats in the past still owe their votes to them.

More..

Obama was, it appeared, willing to destroy the Democratic Party, if need be, in order to stay in the White house, even if this would mean his ruling as the titular “President” when both houses of Congress would be Republican in a second Obama term. Obama wouldn’t be able to achieve anything that way, but he still would retain the title of “President,” and he still would have the power to place the aristocracy even deeper into his debt, perhaps so that they’d finance yet-bigger memorials to him (etc.) during his retirement. And needless to say, a President retiring like that would have money poured at his feet, by lots of aristocrats who have money to pour.

$600,000 for a speech! $60 million for two books. When will we start seeing the monuments built in his honor outside Goldman Sachs and Citibank?

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Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.

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@snoopydawg

Remember when Obama said that the republicans drove the car into the ditch? Welp he brought a tow truck to get their car out of it.

So that's why that car's being crushed by a capsized tow truck. Wink

(+1 on all the rest, as usual!)

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"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar

"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides

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@dfarrah What, exactly, is wrong with you? SMDH.

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enhydra lutris's picture

@Big Al
"motive" in the bank as against some future mass war crimes trial when the empire collapses. "Disproportionate response" is one of the hallmarks or characteristics that are deemed to make things crimes against humanity or war crimes. I found it odd that he used that precise language.

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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --

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@enhydra lutris not to mention a violation of the constitution warranting removal from office. So the disproportionate defense falls flat based on that. It's disproportionate (in a way) to bomb Iran at all based on pure lies.
That's the problem with this whole thing. No one in the media, not even Dennis Kucinich who I saw on a Fox news clip yesterday, are saying what needs to be said. That this is all a lie and there is no justification for any action at all.

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Peace and Love.

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@OPOL
always a pleasure.

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skod's picture

Therefore, it may be a little while before we as a society try it. Sad, but so it goes.

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@skod
from the last century and now innocent beings pay the price. "When we we ever learn?" indeed.

Thanks for reading and being here.

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