Mainstream Media Catches on To Goverment's Plan to Wreck Yours Son's Brain

The News: ABC's Frontline reports that: Since the Iraq War began, soldier arrests in the city of Colorado Springs, Colo., have tripled. At least 36 servicemen based at the nearby Army post of Fort Carson have committed suicide, and 14 Fort Carson soldiers have been charged or convicted in at least 11 killings. Many of the most violent crimes involved men who had served in the same battalion in Iraq. .... FRONTLINE tells the dark tale of the men of 3rd Platoon, Charlie Company, 1st Battalion of the 506th Infantry, and how the war followed them home. It is a story of heroism, grief, vicious combat, depression, drugs, alcohol and brutal murder; an investigation into the Army's mental health services; and a powerful portrait of what multiple tours and post-traumatic stress are doing to a generation of young American soldiers.

The Note:  BARFO reported on this two years ago [ here ] and explained the causes of "Wrecked Brain Syndrome" as elucidated by none other than St. Thomas Aquinas. But we are glad the mainstream media is catching up...and on.

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The Missing Elephant

It is no surprise the the New York Times should once again emit a clarion call for punitive isolation of Iran. What never ceases to amaze is the bald-faced hypocricy with which they do it.

In an editorial entitled “Fixing the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty”, the Times calls for strenthening the treaty by:

1. requiring that all treaty members accept tougher nuclear monitoring,

2. penalizing any state that violates its treaty commitments and then withdraws from the pact, as North Korea did.

3. refusing to allow any more “India-like exemptions from nuclear trade rules” and requiring that any state that tests a weapon would be denied nuclear trade.

Since, as the Times admits, North Korea has withdrawn from the treaty and since India and Pakistan are not signatories, who is left but Iran?

Of course, as the Times also admits, amending the treaty is something that “could take years of votes”. So, in the meantime, the Queen of 42 Street calls for the stop gap of “a strong political document” reflecting the above points.

In other words, the Times wants the United States and its allies to gang up and issue “robust commitments” for intrusion and isolation of Iran.

This, it might be noted, is the same strategy of indignation, intrusion and isolation that was the runner up to Shock and Awe.

Of course, when it comes to the Times, the astonishing thing is not the elephant in the room, but the elephant left out of the circus. The Times is mum on the issue of Israel which it avoids with a dismissive sneer.

"Egypt, which leads the Nonaligned Movement, is also playing games by pressing for a nuclear weapons-free zone in the Middle East that seeks to force Israel to give up its nuclear arsenal. That is not going to happen any time soon. All states need to ante up and reverse the treaty’s slide. The world’s security depends on it."

Most people, whose minds are not in hock to the Zionist enterprise, would fairly understand that a nuclear free Middle East or, for that matter, world, includes Israel.

While no one makes light of proliferation, most people understand that if the U.S. or India had the bomb it was natrual and forseeable that Russia or Pakistan would seek to get one too. The editorial mavens on 42nd Street understand this, so that what they are really indulging in is simply a species of partisan ethnic arrogance.

From the Times, that too, is unsurprising. Perhaps what warrants note is the depraved cynicism with which they foist their petard.

The Times knows that India, like Israel, is not a signatory to the NNPT. The primary rule of all international law is that: No sovereign is bound unless it wants to be bound. It is as simple and naked as that.

Accordingly the NNPT sought to provide a certain amount of “public pressure” to non-signatory states by providing for a sub-set of trade embargos on party pooping states: you don’t play; we don’t play. But rules were never anything to deter Bullyboy Bush and, in a much noticed snub to the non-proliferation ideal, the United States went ahead and sold a whole bunch of nukie goodies to India, notwithstanding its open and notorious nuclear activities.

Technically, the Times’ call for getting rid of India-like exemptions would encompass getting rid of Israel-like exemptions too, because any actual amendments to the treaty would have to be even-handed. However, interim political measures are another thing and, as the Times reminds us, “that is not going to happen.”

Perhaps not, but how much crystalline in its clarity was Pope Benedict's statement (not reported by the Times) to the World Day of Peace conference in January 2006.

"The truth of peace requires that all -­ whether those governments which openly or secretly possess nuclear arms, or those planning to acquire them ­- agree to change their course by clear and firm decisions, and strive for a progressive and concerted nuclear disarmament. The resources which would be saved could then be employed in projects of development capable of benefiting all their people, especially the poor. "

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Pope Takes on Vampire Squid

The News: Addressing the plenary session of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, Pope Benedict directly assailed the neo-liberal political economy of the Chicago and Austrian schools. The Pope said,

"[The economic crisis] has also shown the error of the assumption that the market is capable of regulating itself, apart from public intervention and the support of internalized moral standards. This assumption is based on an impoverished notion of economic life as a sort of self-calibrating mechanism driven by self-interest and profit-seeking. As such, it overlooks the essentially ethical nature of economics as an activity of and for human beings.'"

Mary Ann Glendon, president of that academy, summarized the most salient conclusions the Academy had reached in its several days of sessions. In particular, participants in the working groups "spoke of a shift from an economy based in the real production of goods to an economy dominated by speculative activities driven by greed." In addtion, two speakers cautioned against the "danger of the 'financialization' of human relations, in which human activities, even in the family, are reduced to a merely commercial dimension."

"Such a 'financialized' approach to the social order not only narrows the vision of the human person, but creates instability in the economy," Glendon said.

The Note: Gee, could they have had NINJA loans and the Abacus 2007-AC1. in mind? But wait! Blankenfein said he was doing "God's work". Must be a different God. Or maybe it was just a "giant vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity." (No, the Pope didn't put it in quite those words).

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The Spiritual Significance of Nuclear Weapons

Delivering a speech to the United Nations General Assembly, President Ahmadinejahd had this to say about the nature of nuclear weapons.

"Regrettably, due to distancing of some States from the teachings of the Divine Prophets, the shadow of the threat of nuclear bombs is cast over the whole world,

"The nuclear bomb is a fire against humanity rather than a weapon for defense.

"The possession of nuclear bombs is not a source of pride; it is rather disgusting and shameful. And even more shameful is the threat to use or to use such weapons, which is not even comparable to any crime committed throughout the history."

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Without engaging in ad homs as to Ahmadinejad's motives, what he said is right on target.

Some Things are Slow in Coming

The News: Obama gave an address in which he praised the Health Insurance Company Funding Act as a step in the right direction ....

The Note: It would be pathetic if it weren't so hypocritically vile.

"It is time for us to realise that parts of the socialist demands are reasonable and right..." (Bismarck 1871)

"The State must take the matter in hand, since the State can most easily provide the requisite funds. It must provide them, not as alms, but in fulfilment of the workers' right to look to the State for help in matters where their own good will can achieve nothing more. Why should not the labour solider receive a pension, just as much as the man who has been disabled or has grown oold in the civil service? This view will generally be accepted in the course of time. " (Bismarck 1888)

By 1933 Germany and France had national education, disability insurance, pensions and health care.

By 1945 the idea trickled over to Washington when FDR announced the "Second Bill of Rights in which he said:

We have come to a clear realization of the fact that true individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. Necessitous men are not free men. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

In our day these economic truths have become accepted as self-evident. We have accepted, so to speak, a second Bill of Rights under which a new basis of security and prosperity can be established for all—regardless of station, race, or creed.

Among these are:

The right to a useful and remunerative job in the industries or shops or farms or mines of the nation;

The right to earn enough to provide adequate food and clothing and recreation;

The right of every farmer to raise and sell his products at a return which will give him and his family a decent living;

The right of every businessman, large and small, to trade in an atmosphere of freedom from unfair competition and domination by monopolies at home or abroad;

The right of every family to a decent home;

The right to adequate medical care and the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health;

The right to adequate protection from the economic fears of old age, sickness, accident, and unemployment;

The right to a good education.

All of these rights spell security. And after this war is won we must be prepared to move forward, in the implementation of these rights, to new goals of human happiness and well-being.

For unless there is security here at home there cannot be lasting peace in the world.

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The Democrat Party is like a garbage can that needs to be scoured from the inside out.

The speech can be found on Youtube. or here

The Police Are Never Called for the Uppah Clahsses.

The News: The Wall Street Journal reports that Europe's Big Two are doing everything possible not to call in the I.M.F. to stabilize floundering Greece. Writes David Cottle: "there's considerable euro-credibility staked on an in-house solution. This is a family problem, they tell us. And families are usually reluctant to call in outsiders. They only 'phone for the inspector when there's actually a corpse on the drawing-room floor. Greece is still breathing." Cottle quotes Investment guru Dennis Gartman who "likens the IMF treatment to mediaeval medicine, only making matters worse with draconian demands for public-spending cuts and the accompanying prospect of civil unrest. He suggests keeping the Fund away from Greece by any means necessary, up to and including garlic, crucifixes and stakes. "

The Note: Funny how no one cares when medieval medicine is applied to Latin America or Africa. Could it be that leeching natural resources is still regarded as a good cure?

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Auto Reconquista!

La Noticia: El presidente venezolano, Hugo Chávez, anunció este sábado que en la cumbre que el Grupo de Río celebrará en México el lunes y martes próximos asumirá como suya la propuesta de que se cree una instancia continental sin Estados Unidos ni Canadá.

"Siguen soplando vientos de cambio en América Latina: muchos gobiernos del continente estamos planteando, yo pudiera decir incluso que la mayoría nos acompaña en esta propuesta, la creación de una organización de Estados latinoamericanos y caribeños sin Estados Unidos, sin Canadá", dijo en un discurso en Caracas.

Agregó que ésa será la línea central de su propuesta "para desprendernos definitivamente del coloniaje que Estados Unidos le impuso a este continente".

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Chávez anunció que viajará a México el domingo, después de su programa dominical de radio y televisión "Aló Presidente".

Como anfitriona de la cumbre del Grupo de Río, la Cancillería de México ha anunciado que se debatirá la creación de un nuevo organismo para la región "más ágil y flexible, pero compatible" con la Organización de Estados Americanos (OEA), en la que está prácticamente todos los países del continente, a excepción de Cuba y Honduras, que están suspendidos. Chávez afirmó que "este siglo es el siglo de la liberación de América Latina y del Caribe.". Original article here

El Comentario: ? Pues ya hacia falta, no?

Or in other words, since the lamentable fall of the Spanish Empire, the hispanic nations of Ibero America fell prey to the depredations of Anglo-Americans. As Spain reconquered herself from the Moors, may the hemisphere's Ibero-Indians reconquer themselves from los moros del norte

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