In response to this post by Captain Rodriguez http://captrichardrodriguez.blogspot.com/2009/04/freedom-security-debate-continues.html If we adjust our foreign policy so that we weren't intervening covertly in the matters of sovereign countries we would drastically reduce the risks to Americans.  Behaving morally and peacefully and honestly takes all the wind out of extremism arguments. We should be taking action to improve our foreign policy before debating the finer points of much less important arguments. If we cannot take care of our outrageous behavior from within our country then surely some other supernational form of government will eventually take care of this for us.  This would result in much less autonomy over our own destiny.  Once we have shown that we are irresponsible and incapable of [...]

James recommended that I watch this frontline documentary (  produced by the public broadcasting system  ) and I was expecting it to be more about the current economic crisis and its causes.  Instead it was a hard look at the reality of the United States national debt. In the beginning of the documentary there is a slow zoom into the all seeing eye sitting atop the pyramid on the US dollar.  This was as close as the documentary gets to suggesting a cause of the national debt on anything else outside of Republican tax cuts, health care, and general overspending. It informs us that every man woman and child in the country is approximately $35,000 in debt, that all of [...]

How is globalization and free trade working for the United States? What does Obama think about it? Obama's position on NAFTA from his website: http://factcheck.barackobama.com/factcheck/2008/02/28/fact_check_on_inaccurate_repor.php Obama spokesperson Bill Burton says that Obama all will work to make NAFTA a better deal for American workers.  Including amending NAFTA to include labor and environmental standards. In the Democratic debate on February 27, 2008: paraphrasing... Obama said that he wants to be an advocate on behalf of the workers.  Shipping jobs overseas leaving employees without health care, pension, and with seven dollar an hour jobs is devastating on the community.  That's not the way we're going to prosper and move forward. Associated Press October 10, 2007... Active trading is a key way to [...]

Noam Chomsky gave his first speech since Obama was elected. I watched it on the democracy now.org website and found that I agreed with most of his comments. I will paraphrase his comments here: Obama is a candidate in which many special interests have invested and will be expecting many favors once he is in office. The public-relations firms that were hired successfully focused on the personalities and not on the issues. Obama's public relations firm won this year's marketing prize narrowly beating out Apple. He bring up Walter Lippman's opinions on how the populations are ignorant spectators that are not capable of their own critical thinking whose opinions are formed not by themselves but suggested through media propaganda. Obama [...]

I thought this was appropriate again: "The central bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against the Principles and form of our Constitution. I am an Enemy to all banks discounting bills or notes for anything but Coin. If the American People allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the People of all their Property until their Children will wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered. " Thomas Jefferson