Attendance at Glen Beck/Palin Washington Tea Party rally

Who knows how many attended out of personal conviction for real change in our government? The Tea Party has been co-opted and funded by the likes of the Koch Industries Koch Brothers who really want to undermine the true spirit of their movement. They and their like want to perpetuate the corrupt status quo, in mine and the opinion of many knowledgeable people. This corporatocracy spends billions on propaganda to divide us on emotional social issues to keep us hating and fighting each other to distract us from seeing them as the true enemy exploiting us whenwe need to be collectively organizing against them.  Beck and Palin are merely highly paid stooges for this corrupting exploiting corporatocracy, wittingly or unwittingly.




Our only hope for meaningful change is via campaign finance reform which means getting the current crop of prostitute stooges of the corporatocracy from both parties to vote to change a system where big special interest money buys politicians and legislation that enriches them and hurts tax paying working Americans. Only if we boycott their products and even take off from work long enough to deprive the government of payroll taxes which go back to these big multinationals corporations in major contracts for war material, etc will they suffer enough deprivation to lift the yoke of oppression we endure for their benefit. America has become a colonial empire the size of which is unparalleled in history. As all empires go it will crash and this one is gong to be a catastrophic crash when it goes if we don't make the needed changes now! Stop bickering and follow the money to see who is trying to run things their way. We need to get together in a truly grass roots movement to make the needed changes.

The Military Industrial Complex- the grand daddy of all special interests

I doubt that Iran has or ever will have the capacity to wage a World War. What they can do is further threaten the stability of their region and threaten world oil supplies. Alternative energy is the key to marginalizing their capacity to s...pend on weaponry.




The US with its many years of intrusive exploitative foreign policy, which includes propping up right wing dictatorships like the Sha of Iran and SH in Iraq and highly arming an Israeli state in their midst, has added immensely to the backlash that is the so called terrorist movements coming from that part of the world. Every day that we remain in the ME as an interfering occupying presence is another day that inspires more so called terrorists to lash out against us.



Read John Perkins' Economic Hit Men books to understand how we operate and why we are hated and feared around the world! The best thing about being an American up to recently is that it prevented a US citizen from being a victim of US foreign policy.



The scariest religious group that exists today is not fanatical Islam, rather the Christian right that ever more dominates the US Military. They are fanatics with unmatched weaponry who are eager for the "end of times".



The military industrial complex basically runs our country and therefore pretty much calls all the shots. I doubt the President, whoever he may be and regardless of his party, cannot stand up against its will at the end of the day. Obama's security could not even prevent a couple of uninvited social climbers from attending one of his state dinners. I think this episode was a not so subtle message delivered very early on in his term! Just my honest opinion!