WHO WILL DEFEND US FROM THE US MILITARY? MY AR!

 

                        WHO WILL DEFEND US FROM THE US MILITARY? MY AR!

There have been some notable events that saw US citizens killed by their own military. There are or I should say were laws preventing this from occurring. The Posse Comitatus Act (latin for power of the country) was a law written in 1878 that basically prevented the president from using the military as a police force. There, of course were loop holes and the Obama administration passed legislation that negated Posse Comitatus. 

In 1863 President Lincoln used battle hardened soldiers to put down a riot in New York City the issue was the drafting of soldiers to fight in the war. 

In 1932 a group of World War One veterans marched on Washington DC to get a bonus they were promised. President Herbert Hoover ordered General MacArthur to use tanks and the Calvary to disperse the veterans. The Veterans called themselves the Bonus Expeditionary Force and they actually built a camp on what is called Anacostia Flats. The army under MacArthur killed 2 veterans and injured hundreds while burning the camp This was still the depression the veterans were desperate.  

In 1967 the Detroit riots saw President Johnson send in the 81st and 101st Airborne units to quell the rioters, they killed 43 citizens. 

In 1967 Newark Riots saw 26 killed with hundreds injured.

In 1968 the Murder of Martin Luther King Jr. saw wide spread rioting across the country. In Washington DC alone it took 13,600 soldiers to restore order.

In 1992 The LA riots covered 32 square miles it took all the police plus 10,000 national guard troops and hundreds of marines, to restore order. 

In May of 1970 I was just days from coming home from the war in Vietnam. On the 4th of May 4 protesters were killed and 9 injured when the Ohio national guard opened fire on protesters. It was a volatile situation and there is still debate if the soldiers that fired were justified. 

As we can see the US citizenry are not secure in the knowledge that their military will not be turned on them. Also todays political situation is actually much more unstable than the other times depicted herein.* Just recently former President Trump wanted to kill protesters near the Capitol. 

As the country moves closer to fascism the idea of disarming the public becomes more tenable In pre WWII Germany gun control was strict it loosened up a bit if your were a member of the Nazi party.  Along with gun violence we see police departments looking more like military units than police departments. Some police departments have armored vehicles with heavy machine guns, just what are they planning for? 

I do not want to make this a political commentary, but it's my gut feeling that the right will take your weapon before the left. I say this because the right is leaning toward Fascism. Regardless of what party is in charge we must stand together if and when they come for our rifles. 

Since 1963, 193,000 children and teens were killed by guns, this is an appalling number and is indicative of a very sick society. No matter how appalling this carnage is of our children , it pales in comparison to the number of people killed by their own governments. Joseph Stalin was responsible for the deaths of 40 million Russians, Hitler executed 6 to 7 million people most of them jews. When the Nazis couldn't shoot them fast enough they built gas chambers to kill faster and more economically. Pol Pot killed at least 3 million of his Cambodian countrymen. They were especially noted for cracking babies sculls against palm tree trunks. They liked the sound. Idi Amin the Uganda  dictator is said to have killed 300,000 citizens their crime was not agreeing with Amin.  Latin and south America have had numerous dictators Pinochet of Chili and Juan Perón from Argentina, two notables where hundreds of thousands simply disappeared The world we've fashioned is a world that runs and thrives on violence. I say it thrives because our economy is greatly enhanced by the US war machine. 

One child killed by a gun is too many, we could with sensible gun laws eliminate some if not all of these senseless and insane crimes. The fact that this is true makes those ( The representatives )not passing this legislation, accomplices in the murder of our children. If one sees things as they actually are, then turning over assault rifles is a very bad idea.  

DT

* We don't need another Civil War, we need to wake up.

Materialism Rules Society!

Our culture believes that matter generates consciousness this has led us to materialism which currently guides our way of life, which is tumbling into chaos. 

A NEW PARADIGM* (PARA DYNE) REPLACING MATERIALISM!

 It is obvious to most clear thinkers that the human race has positioned itself, in a precarious situation, where a (self inflicted) question of survival is manifest. Today the US zeitgeist is permeated with a certain amount of morbidity ( i.e an unhealthy mental state). This adds credence to "things need to change". This human state of affairs is proof that the paradigm we are following (materialism) is plainly wrong, and not working.

Today the global paradigm is materialism, this not only refers to an obsession with stuff, possessions but more precisely it is a philosophical theory that regards matter and its motions as constituting the universe, and all phenomena, including those of mind, as due to material agencies. The question! Does consciousness arise from matter or does matter arise from consciousness?

Like all other eras in human history we have among us critical thinkers, I am not one of them, however I feel that I can recognize them. I also understand that we need to listen to them. To name a few: Donald Hoffman, his work includes "do we see reality as it is? We do not is the answer and there is proof, Bernardo Kastrup helps us understand why we do not see things as they truly are and much more. Chris Hedges explains the decay of the US empire, how the government was sold to the oligarchs. David Cay Johnston gives us a clear picture of the Trump phenomenon. Thomas Campbell unifies Philosophy, Physics and Metaphysics. Physics i.e matter and energy, metaphysics i.e being and knowing. When you seek out these names you will then come in contact with other critical thinkers and entire organizations dedicated to bringing about the next global paradigm. One that will be minus conflict. Let's not forget Ralph Nader.

Not only has science shown us that we do not see reality as it is we've also discovered that what is there can not stand on its own,  meaning there is something deeper. This is actually quite simple, in that everything we know that exist is finite and being finite cannot have an independent existence.  

Consider our eye sight, we do not see things like a camera lens rather we see light waves that the brain reconstructs and we take this as reality. There is no possible way to know for sure that what we are seeing represents what is actually there. We are being told that we are not seeing things as they actually are and there is proof. You will have to delve into this to get that understanding. This is not a cop out as I said I am not a critical or gifted thinker. 

When I first heard that "we do not see things as they are" I thought that sounds like deception. It turns out that if we saw things as they truly are (truth) then science demonstrates, that we would not have survived. This is telling us that our understanding of Evolution is in need of new thinking. 

It is the immense suffering caused by our materialistic paradigm that deeply upsets me and has me searching for ways to end our pain. It does not have to be this way. The current global leadership is inept, incoherent, immature, silly and unfortunately very dangerous. They are obsessed with the possession aspects of materialism and have subsequently (in the US) burdened almost the entire population of our country. We are being enslaved. In order to get away with this, clever corrupt politicians turn citizen against citizen. The criminals (Congress, not all) are owned by the Oligarchs. As I write this people are being killed, people are starving, the planet that supports all life is literally being poisoned. We must realize that none of this would be happening, it wouldn't be possible if we were acting through intelligence. 

So is there a new paradigm that will end conflict? Yes there is and I should say it isn't actually new however through new research its meaning is being broadened. Idealism is what will alter the behavior of the species, and it must because the way things stand now humanity is not a viable species. We are not viable because at any moment we are capable of self destruction. This outcome can be traced back to its root cause "materialism" thereby proving that the our guiding paradigm is wrong. Idealism is being bolstered even demonstrated to be a correct philosophy through rigorous research and critical thinking. The foundation for Idealism lies in the fact that it postulates that everything is mental, mentation. Further this mentation takes in the entire universe, everything that exist, is encompassed by a universal mind. We could also state it as such "consciousness is the ground of being". There is  of course the intellectual aspect to Idealism  and we need to be aware of the spiritual aspect of Idealism which we can trace back to the early days of Buddhism. Idealism is really quite simple, it is putting forward an undivided reality (from the web)  any of various systems of thought in which the objects of knowledge are held to be in some way dependent on the activity of mind. It is a mind blowing realization to understand that there is only one thing, "mind". Until the individual mind understands this, true Idealism cannot manifest. 

There are better descriptions of Idealism, follow some of the leads and you'll find them. Do we find the idea that there is a right way to live disconcerting, we've got it wrong from the outset. Some will view this as utter nonsense while the quality of life diminishes on an almost daily basis.  The proof (possible self destruction, that we are not a viable species seems a very convincing axiom. Yet again there are those that will stay the course. A large segment of our population has been manipulated into hating people they don't even know. They are being used by the Oligarchs, swayed by mostly undelivered promises. This is materialism in action. 

Idealism surely encompasses human decency, living a good life which will only happen when we see things as they are not as we wish or hope them to be.

DT AKA Bill Rogan

*  I could never spell or pronounce this word. 

THE LIE of AMERICAN INNOCENCE C. HEDGES

 

FOLLOW THIS LINK/

https://popularresistance.org/the-lie-of-american-innocence/

21 0f 31 Latin Amer. Countries now prefer China over US

 The numbers show an alarming trend 21 0f 31 Latin American countries are refusing US aid and partnering with China instead. As the US loses its global prestige and influence, Chinas global influence grows. Even close US allies work with Russia in some areas. For some time now US politicians have been infighting and ignoring governing the country. Coupled with a weak executive branch US global ranking took some real hard hits. Couple this problem with problems at home like the shrinking middle class and we see our country moving slowly but surely toward a third world status for the majority of the citizenry. The majority of US citizen have not had a government that represents them for time now. The current status of the US government is more like a criminal disorganization in that there are many companies and politicians doing separate deals and corporations are writing laws, all to take advantage of the US citizens. It is an out of control crime wave. 

DT

Hating people and things you don't know.

 This is accomplished by manipulation. Why do, mainly politicians use this tactic? It takes the focus of the people away from their (the politicians) actions and behavior. Then propaganda is used to sway the minds of certain groups against other groups. Good example of this is the notorious welfare queens. It is true that there is welfare fraud however the politician manipulating your mind has you believing that there are hundreds of thousands of cases and it is ruining the lives of hard working US citizens. We forget that there are laws against welfare fraud, and then we never ask, okay Mr. Politician since you are aware of this crime and who the perpetrators are, "why aren't you stopping it? . People are duped by politicians in order to get support for their agenda, which entails benefiting supporters of the politician they give the politician money and he pays them back with tax breaks or laws that benefit their business. Rarely does the duped base ever see any real benefits from the politician. 

DT, Come on people we are much, much better that this!  

Proof we live in an Oligarchy.!

Below is a video proving that the Government does not care what the average citizen thinks. We live in an Oligarchy. 

https://youtu.be/wXRRjUCq5O8

This report has been around for some time and as much as we don't like it we do nothing to stop it. Congress needs to be forced to serve the peoples will. Only an organized movement of the majority will bring that about. The people are enslaved by their government and the government keeps it that way by turning us against each other.

DT 

How an almost Entire Population becomes Mentally Ill

Check this out, it is a reflection of our current realty.  

https://youtu.be/09maaUaRT4M 

Since this madness surfaces through out human history it would make since to delve even deeper in order to understand why humanity goes mad on a regular basis.. I would suggest that the human species has made a grave mistake and that is, in not understanding life humans have invented understanding. These inventions are the things we now continually fight over. All the isms of humans are not natural meaning nature does not recognize them. We have refused to accept the only truth , we don't know what life is!

DT

Safe Nuclear Reactors, & Why we don't have them!

 https://youtu.be/1EFfxMx6WJs 

Thorium nuclear reactors are real and they are safe. The reason they were not developed to produce clean safe energy for the entire country/world is that thorium can not be weaponized.  Yes we are that insane!

Check out the video.

DT

Suing the US Congress in The Hague AKA The world Court!

Suing the US Congress in The Hague AKA The World Court.

A letter to ” On Contact”

Hello,

I’ve been observing Chris Hedges for a while now and reading some of his books and I wanted to ask what he would think about suing the US Congress at the World Court in The Hague. He has brought cases against US administration’s. I imagine the crimes perpetrated by the Congress to be quite obvious yet I’m compelled to continue. 

We are talking about crimes against humanity and clear violations of the oath of office. Legislation has been passed or negated that clearly jeopardizes human life. Air is being polluted, patients are dying, wars are being waged, civilians are being bombed laws are being written that favor corporations and the list goes on. 

Perhaps the utter failure to have a workable and fair tax code, showing an obvious incompetence or more likely a beneficial contrived struggle is a clear demonstration of providing yourself with a purpose. The American electorate are naive and unfortunately not thinking critically about their government. 

As you are aware the recent report by the Trump administration’s DOT concluded that by 2100 global temperatures rise will make human life unsustainable hence the deregulation of clean air standards was a “it’s to late”  decision that they made for the entire planet. Clearly this was not their decision to make. This alone is a crime for the World Court to adjudicate.

Cleary the US Government is out of control and no longer serves the interest of the people. If they, meaning all the members of the Senate and The House of Representatives are not forced to leave office and make retribution by serving time in prison and doing public service then a total societal collapse is almost inevitable. In fact  a recent study and report by the US military stated the very same prediction. We are running out of time, these political charlatans must be stopped and brought to justice. There are some members of the Congress that are not blatantly criminals however their lack of objection’s to the direction of the government is a form of compliance.

DT in New Hampshire. 

Joe!

                                                                                   

My brother who like me came into a world that lacked the one main thing that every child needs – security. In defense of our mother and father I should point out that they too were victims of ill-equipped parents. I think that in some way they loved us, one thing is certain, we loved them. And in the end I believe we gave them (especially our mother) more than they gave us. Joe and I were fortunate having two older sisters, (Nancy & Patty) they gave us some sense of security, they cared for us, this care aided in our survival, however they too, were abused. In one of our many recent talks Joe said  to me “it is lucky we work at all” work here referring to “function”. I believe the proper term that best described us is dysfunctional. Yet with the deck stacked against him in a hostile world, Joe was able to thrive and most importantly to show love.

As I write these words Joe is lying in a hospital bed teetering between life and death. Life would not be life without an ending, it would be something harboring the supernatural or perhaps even the macabre. Death is the unknown and we seem to fear what we do not know, at the same time it would be more frightening not to die. What is missing for me is understanding, if I understood then of course I would be sad, very sad, but I would know what happened to my brother. In the absence of understanding I face a brick wall for I cannot accept what is truly unacceptable.  And now I am told, Joe is gone, we are all sad, heartbroken.

With my mind confounded I have come upon something that  for me is at least a plausible avenue to ease the pain. Still I know that loss is something that cannot be assuaged by any light. Yet there is some relief in knowing and seeing certain things. The first is this, and it is powerful, Joe would understand our sorrow but it wouldn’t be long before that incredible sense of humor would kick in and he would be finding the humor that would get us across the chasm we now face. We would be crying and laughing at the same time.

I would like to share with you what Ive been holding to, in order to try and make this tolerable. Science and philosophy has uncovered this; everything, all that exist is energy, atoms teeming with energy are

the building blocks of everything, they were not born, nor will they die. The atoms that make us up were here from the beginning, if there was such a thing. These atoms were once part of stars that ended their life cycle in violent explosions thus spreading throughout the universe eventually ending up, in us. We are the very same atoms, the energy of the universe.

  This is all in the field of (living & dying), which we call the finite, being all that we can see, hear, touch, remember and describe. This field is basically that which is manifest, or tangible and what is true about the finite is that it cannot stand on its own. Hence on the other hand we have the essential “infinite” by contrast, its subtlety, its intangibility. This quality is conveyed in the word “spirit”whose root meaning is “ wind or breath”. This suggest an invisible but pervasive energy, to which the manifest world of the finite responds. This energy, or spirit, infuses all living beings, and without it any organism must fall apart into its constituent elements. That which is truly alive in the living being is this energy of spirit, and this is never born and never dies.” Our Joe has simply returned to his essence. Some of us call this energy “God”.

I loved Joe and I love you!

T

Note: The last paragraph which I have edited to my understanding and expression was written as part of a eulogy for a friend of Professor David Bohm. David Bohm was a world renowned physicist from Wilkes-Barre, PA.