Just posting some basic, well written articles here. We really need to start talking about the MICC more clearly and specifically. For example the MICC itself is not the only cause of U.S. wars. Any particular war, such as Iraq or Vietnam, was also driven by *several* other factions or lobbies. Ranging from the religious or ideological, to oil and gas interests, foreign lobbies like Israel, capital market and banking interests, the "Dollar hegemons", etc.
So you have the MICC itself, a gigantic blind cyclops who doesn't have any values or motives other than enriching itself. Located within a constellation of other factions.
OK then, to examine the iron-triangle of the MICC, itself, each of the major elements (classically, this would be industry, legislature, and state bureaucracy). These all need to be exploded into specific diagrams of the actor-types and what these actors are doing, in their transactions with each other--- Diagrams of corruption.
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Thursday, November 23, 2023
Osama Bin Laden's letter of November 2002
I'm copying this from The Guardian archive since every other source I've found, it was deleted.
Actually I am amazed I never read this earlier. I find it's prettyy good. What's the problem?? Too much truth, I guess, and clashes with the state propaganda in the U.S.
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In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful,
"Permission to fight (against disbelievers) is given to those (believers) who are fought against, because they have been wronged and surely, Allah is Able to give them (believers) victory" [Quran 22:39]
"Those who believe, fight in the Cause of Allah, and those who disbelieve, fight in the cause of Taghut (anything worshipped other than Allah e.g. Satan). So fight you against the friends of Satan; ever feeble is indeed the plot of Satan."[Quran 4:76]
Some American writers have published articles under the title 'On what basis are we fighting?' These articles have generated a number of responses, some of which adhered to the truth and were based on Islamic Law, and others which have not. Here we wanted to outline the truth - as an explanation and warning - hoping for Allah's reward, seeking success and support from Him.
While seeking Allah's help, we form our reply based on two questions directed at the Americans:
(Q1) Why are we fighting and opposing you? Q2)What are we calling you to, and what do we want from you?
As for the first question: Why are we fighting and opposing you? The answer is very simple:
(1) Because you attacked us and continue to attack us.
a) You attacked us in Palestine:
(i) Palestine, which has sunk under military occupation for more than 80 years. The British handed over Palestine, with your help and your support, to the Jews, who have occupied it for more than 50 years; years overflowing with oppression, tyranny, crimes, killing, expulsion, destruction and devastation. The creation and continuation of Israel is one of the greatest crimes, and you are the leaders of its criminals. And of course there is no need to explain and prove the degree of American support for Israel. The creation of Israel is a crime which must be erased. Each and every person whose hands have become polluted in the contribution towards this crime must pay its*price, and pay for it heavily.
(ii) It brings us both laughter and tears to see that you have not yet tired of repeating your fabricated lies that the Jews have a historical right to Palestine, as it was promised to them in the Torah. Anyone who disputes with them on this alleged fact is accused of anti-semitism. This is one of the most fallacious, widely-circulated fabrications in history. The people of Palestine are pure Arabs and original Semites. It is the Muslims who are the inheritors of Moses (peace be upon him) and the inheritors of the real Torah that has not been changed. Muslims believe in all of the Prophets, including Abraham, Moses, Jesus and Muhammad, peace and blessings of Allah be upon them all. If the followers of Moses have been promised a right to Palestine in the Torah, then the Muslims are the most worthy nation of this.
When the Muslims conquered Palestine and drove out the Romans, Palestine and Jerusalem returned to Islaam, the religion of all the Prophets peace be upon them. Therefore, the call to a historical right to Palestine cannot be raised against the Islamic Ummah that believes in all the Prophets of Allah (peace and blessings be upon them) - and we make no distinction between them.
(iii) The blood pouring out of Palestine must be equally revenged. You must know that the Palestinians do not cry alone; their women are not widowed alone; their sons are not orphaned alone.
(b) You attacked us in Somalia; you supported the Russian atrocities against us in Chechnya, the Indian oppression against us in Kashmir, and the Jewish aggression against us in Lebanon.
(c) Under your supervision, consent and orders, the governments of our countries which act as your agents, attack us on a daily basis;
(i) These governments prevent our people from establishing the Islamic Shariah, using violence and lies to do so.
(ii) These governments give us a taste of humiliation, and places us in a large prison of fear and subdual.
(iii) These governments steal our Ummah's wealth and sell them to you at a paltry price.
(iv) These governments have surrendered to the Jews, and handed them most of Palestine, acknowledging the existence of their state over the dismembered limbs of their own people.
(v) The removal of these governments is an obligation upon us, and a necessary step to free the Ummah, to make the Shariah the supreme law and to regain Palestine. And our fight against these governments is not separate from out fight against you.
(d) You steal our wealth and oil at paltry prices because of you international influence and military threats. This theft is indeed the biggest theft ever witnessed by mankind in the history of the world.
(e) Your forces occupy our countries; you spread your military bases throughout them; you corrupt our lands, and you besiege our sanctities, to protect the security of the Jews and to ensure the continuity of your pillage of our treasures.
(f) You have starved the Muslims of Iraq, where children die every day. It is a wonder that more than 1.5 million Iraqi children have died as a result of your sanctions, and you did not show concern. Yet when 3000 of your people died, the entire world rises and has not yet sat down.
(g) You have supported the Jews in their idea that Jerusalem is their eternal capital, and agreed to move your embassy there. With your help and under your protection, the Israelis are planning to destroy the Al-Aqsa mosque. Under the protection of your weapons, Sharon entered the Al-Aqsa mosque, to pollute it as a preparation to capture and destroy it.
(2) These tragedies and calamities are only a few examples of your oppression and aggression against us. It is commanded by our religion and intellect that the oppressed have a right to return the aggression. Do not await anything from us but Jihad, resistance and revenge. Is it in any way rational to expect that after America has attacked us for more than half a century, that we will then leave her to live in security and peace?!!
(3) You may then dispute that all the above does not justify aggression against civilians, for crimes they did not commit and offenses in which they did not partake:
(a) This argument contradicts your continuous repetition that America is the land of freedom, and its leaders in this world. Therefore, the American people are the ones who choose their government by way of their own free will; a choice which stems from their agreement to its policies. Thus the American people have chosen, consented to, and affirmed their support for the Israeli oppression of the Palestinians, the occupation and usurpation of their land, and its continuous killing, torture, punishment and expulsion of the Palestinians. The American people have the ability and choice to refuse the policies of their Government and even to change it if they want.
(b) The American people are the ones who pay the taxes which fund the planes that bomb us in Afghanistan, the tanks that strike and destroy our homes in Palestine, the armies which occupy our lands in the Arabian Gulf, and the fleets which ensure the blockade of Iraq. These tax dollars are given to Israel for it to continue to attack us and penetrate our lands. So the American people are the ones who fund the attacks against us, and they are the ones who oversee the expenditure of these monies in the way they wish, through their elected candidates.
(c) Also the American army is part of the American people. It is this very same people who are shamelessly helping the Jews fight against us.
(d) The American people are the ones who employ both their men and their women in the American Forces which attack us.
(e) This is why the American people cannot be not innocent of all the crimes committed by the Americans and Jews against us.
(f) Allah, the Almighty, legislated the permission and the option to take revenge. Thus, if we are attacked, then we have the right to attack back. Whoever has destroyed our villages and towns, then we have the right to destroy their villages and towns. Whoever has stolen our wealth, then we have the right to destroy their economy. And whoever has killed our civilians, then we have the right to kill theirs.
The American Government and press still refuses to answer the question:
Why did they attack us in New York and Washington?
If Sharon is a man of peace in the eyes of Bush, then we are also men of peace!!! America does not understand the language of manners and principles, so we are addressing it using the language it understands.
(Q2) As for the second question that we want to answer: What are we calling you to, and what do we want from you?
(1) The first thing that we are calling you to is Islam.
(a) The religion of the Unification of God; of freedom from associating partners with Him, and rejection of this; of complete love of Him, the Exalted; of complete submission to His Laws; and of the discarding of all the opinions, orders, theories and religions which contradict with the religion He sent down to His Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). Islam is the religion of all the prophets, and makes no distinction between them - peace be upon them all.
It is to this religion that we call you; the seal of all the previous religions. It is the religion of Unification of God, sincerity, the best of manners, righteousness, mercy, honour, purity, and piety. It is the religion of showing kindness to others, establishing justice between them, granting them their rights, and defending the oppressed and the persecuted. It is the religion of enjoining the good and forbidding the evil with the hand, tongue and heart. It is the religion of Jihad in the way of Allah so that Allah's Word and religion reign Supreme. And it is the religion of unity and agreement on the obedience to Allah, and total equality between all people, without regarding their colour, sex, or language.
(b) It is the religion whose book - the Quran - will remained preserved and unchanged, after the other Divine books and messages have been changed. The Quran is the miracle until the Day of Judgment. Allah has challenged anyone to bring a book like the Quran or even ten verses like it.
(2) The second thing we call you to, is to stop your oppression, lies, immorality and debauchery that has spread among you.
(a) We call you to be a people of manners, principles, honour, and purity; to reject the immoral acts of fornication, homosexuality, intoxicants, gambling's, and trading with interest.
We call you to all of this that you may be freed from that which you have become caught up in; that you may be freed from the deceptive lies that you are a great nation, that your leaders spread amongst you to conceal from you the despicable state to which you have reached.
(b) It is saddening to tell you that you are the worst civilization witnessed by the history of mankind:
(i) You are the nation who, rather than ruling by the Shariah of Allah in its Constitution and Laws, choose to invent your own laws as you will and desire. You separate religion from your policies, contradicting the pure nature which affirms Absolute Authority to the Lord and your Creator. You flee from the embarrassing question posed to you: How is it possible for Allah the Almighty to create His creation, grant them power over all the creatures and land, grant them all the amenities of life, and then deny them that which they are most in need of: knowledge of the laws which govern their lives?
(ii) You are the nation that permits Usury, which has been forbidden by all the religions. Yet you build your economy and investments on Usury. As a result of this, in all its different forms and guises, the Jews have taken control of your economy, through which they have then taken control of your media, and now control all aspects of your life making you their servants and achieving their aims at your expense; precisely what Benjamin Franklin warned you against.
(iii) You are a nation that permits the production, trading and usage of intoxicants. You also permit drugs, and only forbid the trade of them, even though your nation is the largest consumer of them.
(iv) You are a nation that permits acts of immorality, and you consider them to be pillars of personal freedom. You have continued to sink down this abyss from level to level until incest has spread amongst you, in the face of which neither your sense of honour nor your laws object.
Who can forget your President Clinton's immoral acts committed in the official Oval office? After that you did not even bring him to account, other than that he 'made a mistake', after which everything passed with no punishment. Is there a worse kind of event for which your name will go down in history and remembered by nations?
(v) You are a nation that permits gambling in its all forms. The companies practice this as well, resulting in the investments becoming active and the criminals becoming rich.
(vi) You are a nation that exploits women like consumer products or advertising tools calling upon customers to purchase them. You use women to serve passengers, visitors, and strangers to increase your profit margins. You then rant that you support the liberation of women.
(vii) You are a nation that practices the trade of sex in all its forms, directly and indirectly. Giant corporations and establishments are established on this, under the name of art, entertainment, tourism and freedom, and other deceptive names you attribute to it.
(viii) And because of all this, you have been described in history as a nation that spreads diseases that were unknown to man in the past. Go ahead and boast to the nations of man, that you brought them AIDS as a Satanic American Invention.
(xi) You have destroyed nature with your industrial waste and gases more than any other nation in history. Despite this, you refuse to sign the Kyoto agreement so that you can secure the profit of your greedy companies and*industries.
(x) Your law is the law of the rich and wealthy people, who hold sway in their political parties, and fund their election campaigns with their gifts. Behind them stand the Jews, who control your policies, media and economy.
(xi) That which you are singled out for in the history of mankind, is that you have used your force to destroy mankind more than any other nation in history; not to defend principles and values, but to hasten to secure your interests and profits. You who dropped a nuclear bomb on Japan, even though Japan was ready to negotiate an end to the war. How many acts of oppression, tyranny and injustice have you carried out, O callers to freedom?
(xii) Let us not forget one of your major characteristics: your duality in both manners and values; your hypocrisy in manners and principles. All*manners, principles and values have two scales: one for you and one for the others.
(a)The freedom and democracy that you call to is for yourselves and for white race only; as for the rest of the world, you impose upon them your monstrous, destructive policies and Governments, which you call the 'American friends'. Yet you prevent them from establishing democracies. When the Islamic party in Algeria wanted to practice democracy and they won the election, you unleashed your agents in the Algerian army onto them, and to attack them with tanks and guns, to imprison them and torture them - a new lesson from the 'American book of democracy'!!!
(b)Your policy on prohibiting and forcibly removing weapons of mass destruction to ensure world peace: it only applies to those countries which you do not permit to possess such weapons. As for the countries you consent to, such as Israel, then they are allowed to keep and use such weapons to defend their security. Anyone else who you suspect might be manufacturing or keeping these kinds of weapons, you call them criminals and you take military action against them.
(c)You are the last ones to respect the resolutions and policies of International Law, yet you claim to want to selectively punish anyone else who does the same. Israel has for more than 50 years been pushing UN resolutions and rules against the wall with the full support of America.
(d)As for the war criminals which you censure and form criminal courts for - you shamelessly ask that your own are granted immunity!! However, history will not forget the war crimes that you committed against the Muslims and the rest of the world; those you have killed in Japan, Afghanistan, Somalia, Lebanon and Iraq will remain a shame that you will never be able to escape. It will suffice to remind you of your latest war crimes in Afghanistan, in which densely populated innocent civilian villages were destroyed, bombs were dropped on mosques causing the roof of the mosque to come crashing down on the heads of the Muslims praying inside. You are the ones who broke the agreement with the Mujahideen when they left Qunduz, bombing them in Jangi fort, and killing more than 1,000 of your prisoners through suffocation and thirst. Allah alone knows how many people have died by torture at the hands of you and your agents. Your planes remain in the Afghan skies, looking for anyone remotely suspicious.
(e)You have claimed to be the vanguards of Human Rights, and your Ministry of Foreign affairs issues annual reports containing statistics of those countries that violate any Human Rights. However, all these things vanished when the Mujahideen hit you, and you then implemented the methods of the same documented governments that you used to curse. In America, you captured thousands the Muslims and Arabs, took them into custody with neither reason, court trial, nor even disclosing their names. You issued newer, harsher laws.
What happens in Guatanamo is a historical embarrassment to America and its values, and it screams into your faces - you hypocrites, "What is the value of your signature on any agreement or treaty?"
(3) What we call you to thirdly is to take an honest stance with yourselves - and I doubt you will do so - to discover that you are a nation without principles or manners, and that the values and principles to you are something which you merely demand from others, not that which you yourself must adhere to.
(4) We also advise you to stop supporting Israel, and to end your support of the Indians in Kashmir, the Russians against the Chechens and to also cease supporting the Manila Government against the Muslims in Southern Philippines.
(5) We also advise you to pack your luggage and get out of our lands. We desire for your goodness, guidance, and righteousness, so do not force us to send you back as cargo in coffins.
(6) Sixthly, we call upon you to end your support of the corrupt leaders in our countries. Do not interfere in our politics and method of education. Leave us alone, or else expect us in New York and Washington.
(7) We also call you to deal with us and interact with us on the basis of mutual interests and benefits, rather than the policies of sub dual, theft and occupation, and not to continue your policy of supporting the Jews because this will result in more disasters for you.
If you fail to respond to all these conditions, then prepare for fight with the Islamic Nation. The Nation of Monotheism, that puts complete trust on Allah and fears none other than Him. The Nation which is addressed by its Quran with the words: "Do you fear them? Allah has more right that you should fear Him if you are believers. Fight against them so that Allah will punish them by your hands and disgrace them and give you victory over them and heal the breasts of believing people. And remove the anger of their (believers') hearts. Allah accepts the repentance of whom He wills. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise." [Quran9:13-1]
The Nation of honour and respect:
"But honour, power and glory belong to Allah, and to His Messenger (Muhammad- peace be upon him) and to the believers." [Quran 63:8]
"So do not become weak (against your enemy), nor be sad, and you will be*superior ( in victory )if you are indeed (true) believers" [Quran 3:139]
The Nation of Martyrdom; the Nation that desires death more than you desire life:
"Think not of those who are killed in the way of Allah as dead. Nay, they are alive with their Lord, and they are being provided for. They rejoice in what Allah has bestowed upon them from His bounty and rejoice for the sake of those who have not yet joined them, but are left behind (not yet martyred) that on them no fear shall come, nor shall they grieve. They rejoice in a grace and a bounty from Allah, and that Allah will not waste the reward of the believers." [Quran 3:169-171]
The Nation of victory and success that Allah has promised:
"It is He Who has sent His Messenger (Muhammad peace be upon him) with guidance and the religion of truth (Islam), to make it victorious over all other religions even though the Polytheists hate it." [Quran 61:9]
"Allah has decreed that 'Verily it is I and My Messengers who shall be victorious.' Verily Allah is All-Powerful, All-Mighty." [Quran 58:21]
The Islamic Nation that was able to dismiss and destroy the previous evil Empires like yourself; the Nation that rejects your attacks, wishes to remove your evils, and is prepared to fight you. You are well aware that the Islamic Nation, from the very core of its soul, despises your haughtiness and arrogance.
If the Americans refuse to listen to our advice and the goodness, guidance and righteousness that we call them to, then be aware that you will lose this Crusade Bush began, just like the other previous Crusades in which you were humiliated by the hands of the Mujahideen, fleeing to your home in great silence and disgrace. If the Americans do not respond, then their fate will be that of the Soviets who fled from Afghanistan to deal with their military defeat, political breakup, ideological downfall, and economic bankruptcy.
This is our message to the Americans, as an answer to theirs. Do they now know why we fight them and over which form of ignorance, by the permission of Allah, we shall be victorious?
Actually I am amazed I never read this earlier. I find it's prettyy good. What's the problem?? Too much truth, I guess, and clashes with the state propaganda in the U.S.
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In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful,
"Permission to fight (against disbelievers) is given to those (believers) who are fought against, because they have been wronged and surely, Allah is Able to give them (believers) victory" [Quran 22:39]
"Those who believe, fight in the Cause of Allah, and those who disbelieve, fight in the cause of Taghut (anything worshipped other than Allah e.g. Satan). So fight you against the friends of Satan; ever feeble is indeed the plot of Satan."[Quran 4:76]
Some American writers have published articles under the title 'On what basis are we fighting?' These articles have generated a number of responses, some of which adhered to the truth and were based on Islamic Law, and others which have not. Here we wanted to outline the truth - as an explanation and warning - hoping for Allah's reward, seeking success and support from Him.
While seeking Allah's help, we form our reply based on two questions directed at the Americans:
(Q1) Why are we fighting and opposing you? Q2)What are we calling you to, and what do we want from you?
As for the first question: Why are we fighting and opposing you? The answer is very simple:
(1) Because you attacked us and continue to attack us.
a) You attacked us in Palestine:
(i) Palestine, which has sunk under military occupation for more than 80 years. The British handed over Palestine, with your help and your support, to the Jews, who have occupied it for more than 50 years; years overflowing with oppression, tyranny, crimes, killing, expulsion, destruction and devastation. The creation and continuation of Israel is one of the greatest crimes, and you are the leaders of its criminals. And of course there is no need to explain and prove the degree of American support for Israel. The creation of Israel is a crime which must be erased. Each and every person whose hands have become polluted in the contribution towards this crime must pay its*price, and pay for it heavily.
(ii) It brings us both laughter and tears to see that you have not yet tired of repeating your fabricated lies that the Jews have a historical right to Palestine, as it was promised to them in the Torah. Anyone who disputes with them on this alleged fact is accused of anti-semitism. This is one of the most fallacious, widely-circulated fabrications in history. The people of Palestine are pure Arabs and original Semites. It is the Muslims who are the inheritors of Moses (peace be upon him) and the inheritors of the real Torah that has not been changed. Muslims believe in all of the Prophets, including Abraham, Moses, Jesus and Muhammad, peace and blessings of Allah be upon them all. If the followers of Moses have been promised a right to Palestine in the Torah, then the Muslims are the most worthy nation of this.
When the Muslims conquered Palestine and drove out the Romans, Palestine and Jerusalem returned to Islaam, the religion of all the Prophets peace be upon them. Therefore, the call to a historical right to Palestine cannot be raised against the Islamic Ummah that believes in all the Prophets of Allah (peace and blessings be upon them) - and we make no distinction between them.
(iii) The blood pouring out of Palestine must be equally revenged. You must know that the Palestinians do not cry alone; their women are not widowed alone; their sons are not orphaned alone.
(b) You attacked us in Somalia; you supported the Russian atrocities against us in Chechnya, the Indian oppression against us in Kashmir, and the Jewish aggression against us in Lebanon.
(c) Under your supervision, consent and orders, the governments of our countries which act as your agents, attack us on a daily basis;
(i) These governments prevent our people from establishing the Islamic Shariah, using violence and lies to do so.
(ii) These governments give us a taste of humiliation, and places us in a large prison of fear and subdual.
(iii) These governments steal our Ummah's wealth and sell them to you at a paltry price.
(iv) These governments have surrendered to the Jews, and handed them most of Palestine, acknowledging the existence of their state over the dismembered limbs of their own people.
(v) The removal of these governments is an obligation upon us, and a necessary step to free the Ummah, to make the Shariah the supreme law and to regain Palestine. And our fight against these governments is not separate from out fight against you.
(d) You steal our wealth and oil at paltry prices because of you international influence and military threats. This theft is indeed the biggest theft ever witnessed by mankind in the history of the world.
(e) Your forces occupy our countries; you spread your military bases throughout them; you corrupt our lands, and you besiege our sanctities, to protect the security of the Jews and to ensure the continuity of your pillage of our treasures.
(f) You have starved the Muslims of Iraq, where children die every day. It is a wonder that more than 1.5 million Iraqi children have died as a result of your sanctions, and you did not show concern. Yet when 3000 of your people died, the entire world rises and has not yet sat down.
(g) You have supported the Jews in their idea that Jerusalem is their eternal capital, and agreed to move your embassy there. With your help and under your protection, the Israelis are planning to destroy the Al-Aqsa mosque. Under the protection of your weapons, Sharon entered the Al-Aqsa mosque, to pollute it as a preparation to capture and destroy it.
(2) These tragedies and calamities are only a few examples of your oppression and aggression against us. It is commanded by our religion and intellect that the oppressed have a right to return the aggression. Do not await anything from us but Jihad, resistance and revenge. Is it in any way rational to expect that after America has attacked us for more than half a century, that we will then leave her to live in security and peace?!!
(3) You may then dispute that all the above does not justify aggression against civilians, for crimes they did not commit and offenses in which they did not partake:
(a) This argument contradicts your continuous repetition that America is the land of freedom, and its leaders in this world. Therefore, the American people are the ones who choose their government by way of their own free will; a choice which stems from their agreement to its policies. Thus the American people have chosen, consented to, and affirmed their support for the Israeli oppression of the Palestinians, the occupation and usurpation of their land, and its continuous killing, torture, punishment and expulsion of the Palestinians. The American people have the ability and choice to refuse the policies of their Government and even to change it if they want.
(b) The American people are the ones who pay the taxes which fund the planes that bomb us in Afghanistan, the tanks that strike and destroy our homes in Palestine, the armies which occupy our lands in the Arabian Gulf, and the fleets which ensure the blockade of Iraq. These tax dollars are given to Israel for it to continue to attack us and penetrate our lands. So the American people are the ones who fund the attacks against us, and they are the ones who oversee the expenditure of these monies in the way they wish, through their elected candidates.
(c) Also the American army is part of the American people. It is this very same people who are shamelessly helping the Jews fight against us.
(d) The American people are the ones who employ both their men and their women in the American Forces which attack us.
(e) This is why the American people cannot be not innocent of all the crimes committed by the Americans and Jews against us.
(f) Allah, the Almighty, legislated the permission and the option to take revenge. Thus, if we are attacked, then we have the right to attack back. Whoever has destroyed our villages and towns, then we have the right to destroy their villages and towns. Whoever has stolen our wealth, then we have the right to destroy their economy. And whoever has killed our civilians, then we have the right to kill theirs.
The American Government and press still refuses to answer the question:
Why did they attack us in New York and Washington?
If Sharon is a man of peace in the eyes of Bush, then we are also men of peace!!! America does not understand the language of manners and principles, so we are addressing it using the language it understands.
(Q2) As for the second question that we want to answer: What are we calling you to, and what do we want from you?
(1) The first thing that we are calling you to is Islam.
(a) The religion of the Unification of God; of freedom from associating partners with Him, and rejection of this; of complete love of Him, the Exalted; of complete submission to His Laws; and of the discarding of all the opinions, orders, theories and religions which contradict with the religion He sent down to His Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). Islam is the religion of all the prophets, and makes no distinction between them - peace be upon them all.
It is to this religion that we call you; the seal of all the previous religions. It is the religion of Unification of God, sincerity, the best of manners, righteousness, mercy, honour, purity, and piety. It is the religion of showing kindness to others, establishing justice between them, granting them their rights, and defending the oppressed and the persecuted. It is the religion of enjoining the good and forbidding the evil with the hand, tongue and heart. It is the religion of Jihad in the way of Allah so that Allah's Word and religion reign Supreme. And it is the religion of unity and agreement on the obedience to Allah, and total equality between all people, without regarding their colour, sex, or language.
(b) It is the religion whose book - the Quran - will remained preserved and unchanged, after the other Divine books and messages have been changed. The Quran is the miracle until the Day of Judgment. Allah has challenged anyone to bring a book like the Quran or even ten verses like it.
(2) The second thing we call you to, is to stop your oppression, lies, immorality and debauchery that has spread among you.
(a) We call you to be a people of manners, principles, honour, and purity; to reject the immoral acts of fornication, homosexuality, intoxicants, gambling's, and trading with interest.
We call you to all of this that you may be freed from that which you have become caught up in; that you may be freed from the deceptive lies that you are a great nation, that your leaders spread amongst you to conceal from you the despicable state to which you have reached.
(b) It is saddening to tell you that you are the worst civilization witnessed by the history of mankind:
(i) You are the nation who, rather than ruling by the Shariah of Allah in its Constitution and Laws, choose to invent your own laws as you will and desire. You separate religion from your policies, contradicting the pure nature which affirms Absolute Authority to the Lord and your Creator. You flee from the embarrassing question posed to you: How is it possible for Allah the Almighty to create His creation, grant them power over all the creatures and land, grant them all the amenities of life, and then deny them that which they are most in need of: knowledge of the laws which govern their lives?
(ii) You are the nation that permits Usury, which has been forbidden by all the religions. Yet you build your economy and investments on Usury. As a result of this, in all its different forms and guises, the Jews have taken control of your economy, through which they have then taken control of your media, and now control all aspects of your life making you their servants and achieving their aims at your expense; precisely what Benjamin Franklin warned you against.
(iii) You are a nation that permits the production, trading and usage of intoxicants. You also permit drugs, and only forbid the trade of them, even though your nation is the largest consumer of them.
(iv) You are a nation that permits acts of immorality, and you consider them to be pillars of personal freedom. You have continued to sink down this abyss from level to level until incest has spread amongst you, in the face of which neither your sense of honour nor your laws object.
Who can forget your President Clinton's immoral acts committed in the official Oval office? After that you did not even bring him to account, other than that he 'made a mistake', after which everything passed with no punishment. Is there a worse kind of event for which your name will go down in history and remembered by nations?
(v) You are a nation that permits gambling in its all forms. The companies practice this as well, resulting in the investments becoming active and the criminals becoming rich.
(vi) You are a nation that exploits women like consumer products or advertising tools calling upon customers to purchase them. You use women to serve passengers, visitors, and strangers to increase your profit margins. You then rant that you support the liberation of women.
(vii) You are a nation that practices the trade of sex in all its forms, directly and indirectly. Giant corporations and establishments are established on this, under the name of art, entertainment, tourism and freedom, and other deceptive names you attribute to it.
(viii) And because of all this, you have been described in history as a nation that spreads diseases that were unknown to man in the past. Go ahead and boast to the nations of man, that you brought them AIDS as a Satanic American Invention.
(xi) You have destroyed nature with your industrial waste and gases more than any other nation in history. Despite this, you refuse to sign the Kyoto agreement so that you can secure the profit of your greedy companies and*industries.
(x) Your law is the law of the rich and wealthy people, who hold sway in their political parties, and fund their election campaigns with their gifts. Behind them stand the Jews, who control your policies, media and economy.
(xi) That which you are singled out for in the history of mankind, is that you have used your force to destroy mankind more than any other nation in history; not to defend principles and values, but to hasten to secure your interests and profits. You who dropped a nuclear bomb on Japan, even though Japan was ready to negotiate an end to the war. How many acts of oppression, tyranny and injustice have you carried out, O callers to freedom?
(xii) Let us not forget one of your major characteristics: your duality in both manners and values; your hypocrisy in manners and principles. All*manners, principles and values have two scales: one for you and one for the others.
(a)The freedom and democracy that you call to is for yourselves and for white race only; as for the rest of the world, you impose upon them your monstrous, destructive policies and Governments, which you call the 'American friends'. Yet you prevent them from establishing democracies. When the Islamic party in Algeria wanted to practice democracy and they won the election, you unleashed your agents in the Algerian army onto them, and to attack them with tanks and guns, to imprison them and torture them - a new lesson from the 'American book of democracy'!!!
(b)Your policy on prohibiting and forcibly removing weapons of mass destruction to ensure world peace: it only applies to those countries which you do not permit to possess such weapons. As for the countries you consent to, such as Israel, then they are allowed to keep and use such weapons to defend their security. Anyone else who you suspect might be manufacturing or keeping these kinds of weapons, you call them criminals and you take military action against them.
(c)You are the last ones to respect the resolutions and policies of International Law, yet you claim to want to selectively punish anyone else who does the same. Israel has for more than 50 years been pushing UN resolutions and rules against the wall with the full support of America.
(d)As for the war criminals which you censure and form criminal courts for - you shamelessly ask that your own are granted immunity!! However, history will not forget the war crimes that you committed against the Muslims and the rest of the world; those you have killed in Japan, Afghanistan, Somalia, Lebanon and Iraq will remain a shame that you will never be able to escape. It will suffice to remind you of your latest war crimes in Afghanistan, in which densely populated innocent civilian villages were destroyed, bombs were dropped on mosques causing the roof of the mosque to come crashing down on the heads of the Muslims praying inside. You are the ones who broke the agreement with the Mujahideen when they left Qunduz, bombing them in Jangi fort, and killing more than 1,000 of your prisoners through suffocation and thirst. Allah alone knows how many people have died by torture at the hands of you and your agents. Your planes remain in the Afghan skies, looking for anyone remotely suspicious.
(e)You have claimed to be the vanguards of Human Rights, and your Ministry of Foreign affairs issues annual reports containing statistics of those countries that violate any Human Rights. However, all these things vanished when the Mujahideen hit you, and you then implemented the methods of the same documented governments that you used to curse. In America, you captured thousands the Muslims and Arabs, took them into custody with neither reason, court trial, nor even disclosing their names. You issued newer, harsher laws.
What happens in Guatanamo is a historical embarrassment to America and its values, and it screams into your faces - you hypocrites, "What is the value of your signature on any agreement or treaty?"
(3) What we call you to thirdly is to take an honest stance with yourselves - and I doubt you will do so - to discover that you are a nation without principles or manners, and that the values and principles to you are something which you merely demand from others, not that which you yourself must adhere to.
(4) We also advise you to stop supporting Israel, and to end your support of the Indians in Kashmir, the Russians against the Chechens and to also cease supporting the Manila Government against the Muslims in Southern Philippines.
(5) We also advise you to pack your luggage and get out of our lands. We desire for your goodness, guidance, and righteousness, so do not force us to send you back as cargo in coffins.
(6) Sixthly, we call upon you to end your support of the corrupt leaders in our countries. Do not interfere in our politics and method of education. Leave us alone, or else expect us in New York and Washington.
(7) We also call you to deal with us and interact with us on the basis of mutual interests and benefits, rather than the policies of sub dual, theft and occupation, and not to continue your policy of supporting the Jews because this will result in more disasters for you.
If you fail to respond to all these conditions, then prepare for fight with the Islamic Nation. The Nation of Monotheism, that puts complete trust on Allah and fears none other than Him. The Nation which is addressed by its Quran with the words: "Do you fear them? Allah has more right that you should fear Him if you are believers. Fight against them so that Allah will punish them by your hands and disgrace them and give you victory over them and heal the breasts of believing people. And remove the anger of their (believers') hearts. Allah accepts the repentance of whom He wills. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise." [Quran9:13-1]
The Nation of honour and respect:
"But honour, power and glory belong to Allah, and to His Messenger (Muhammad- peace be upon him) and to the believers." [Quran 63:8]
"So do not become weak (against your enemy), nor be sad, and you will be*superior ( in victory )if you are indeed (true) believers" [Quran 3:139]
The Nation of Martyrdom; the Nation that desires death more than you desire life:
"Think not of those who are killed in the way of Allah as dead. Nay, they are alive with their Lord, and they are being provided for. They rejoice in what Allah has bestowed upon them from His bounty and rejoice for the sake of those who have not yet joined them, but are left behind (not yet martyred) that on them no fear shall come, nor shall they grieve. They rejoice in a grace and a bounty from Allah, and that Allah will not waste the reward of the believers." [Quran 3:169-171]
The Nation of victory and success that Allah has promised:
"It is He Who has sent His Messenger (Muhammad peace be upon him) with guidance and the religion of truth (Islam), to make it victorious over all other religions even though the Polytheists hate it." [Quran 61:9]
"Allah has decreed that 'Verily it is I and My Messengers who shall be victorious.' Verily Allah is All-Powerful, All-Mighty." [Quran 58:21]
The Islamic Nation that was able to dismiss and destroy the previous evil Empires like yourself; the Nation that rejects your attacks, wishes to remove your evils, and is prepared to fight you. You are well aware that the Islamic Nation, from the very core of its soul, despises your haughtiness and arrogance.
If the Americans refuse to listen to our advice and the goodness, guidance and righteousness that we call them to, then be aware that you will lose this Crusade Bush began, just like the other previous Crusades in which you were humiliated by the hands of the Mujahideen, fleeing to your home in great silence and disgrace. If the Americans do not respond, then their fate will be that of the Soviets who fled from Afghanistan to deal with their military defeat, political breakup, ideological downfall, and economic bankruptcy.
This is our message to the Americans, as an answer to theirs. Do they now know why we fight them and over which form of ignorance, by the permission of Allah, we shall be victorious?
Sunday, May 14, 2023
People, we need to stop trashing CNN for broadcasting Trump's "town hall".
That's the Republican Party's total, main activity, trying to smash MSN and CNN. Let alone, actually progressive channels. Right?
CNN deconstructed some of Trump's insidious lies, his psyop tactics. https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/10/politics/fact-check-donald-trump-town-hall/index.html
It takes $Billions to operate companies like CNN. That's a fact of life. And getting a channel in front of 100 million people is *impossible* without compromising towards "centrist" owners' and advertisers' priorities, and ingratiating themselves to the average viewer in the US, who are pretty pathetic.
Remember, the US population are the sort of people where a guy like Trump could win the Presidency like he did in 2016. That's the reality of the US, 50 million people actually voted for Trump. You cannot get thru to them with the whole, straight truth about this country, it's history, who we really are.
So "deal with it" and stop smashing CNN. y'know this also applies to CSPAN and a lot of other channels.
CNN also published a transcript. https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/11/politics/transcript-cnn-town-hall-trump/index.html
That's the Republican Party's total, main activity, trying to smash MSN and CNN. Let alone, actually progressive channels. Right?
CNN deconstructed some of Trump's insidious lies, his psyop tactics. https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/10/politics/fact-check-donald-trump-town-hall/index.html
It takes $Billions to operate companies like CNN. That's a fact of life. And getting a channel in front of 100 million people is *impossible* without compromising towards "centrist" owners' and advertisers' priorities, and ingratiating themselves to the average viewer in the US, who are pretty pathetic.
Remember, the US population are the sort of people where a guy like Trump could win the Presidency like he did in 2016. That's the reality of the US, 50 million people actually voted for Trump. You cannot get thru to them with the whole, straight truth about this country, it's history, who we really are.
So "deal with it" and stop smashing CNN. y'know this also applies to CSPAN and a lot of other channels.
CNN also published a transcript. https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/11/politics/transcript-cnn-town-hall-trump/index.html
Monday, March 13, 2023
How to liquidate banks.
When banks fail, depositors over $250,000 should be immediately issued bonds with payouts over future quarters and years matching the remaining assets of the bank.
These bonds would be immediately understood and valued by the "financial markets" and could be sold immediately. The markets would remain liquid.
So the thing is-- entities with large cash deposits would be responsible for understanding the banks they put their deposits. And thereby take responsibility for their own actions, and perform the role of bank regulators.
So, the most important legislation needed is that all banks provide a public, daily disclosure of what this bond would look like. How long are the maturities and what are the credit ratings of those junk. This would enable nearly instant structuring of the bonds issued to depositors. It would just be clerical and IT work.
Monday, January 23, 2023
Distribute copies of important videos. Radizdat label for your DVDs
Distribute copies of important videos. Radizdat label for your printer, for your DVDs. Basically paste a copy of your Video on the blank half of the paper, upside down. Then when it's printed, slash away 2 inches on the right side (empty) and fold the thing in half, fold the edges in, and apply common, office tape. super cheap, and easy, once they were printed, I was folding and taping these labels in under 15 seconds. It was a gas, I made thousands of these Radizdat DVDs in the early 2000s. I hope the statue has run. 
Friday, January 20, 2023
Eugene City moving away to the river front
With great caution and soul searching, I just can't relate to City Hall being in the EWEB building.
I could be wrong but I think it will result in less civic engagement. It's a long walk from the downtown-- what little cultural and social center of gravity exists, as well as the entertainment and dining district.
It could result in 20 - 40% decrease in attendance by people who come by bus. Anytime a transfer is required, adds 20 minutes to the ride. Our city is not an "hour" city. Big cities like Seattle run hourly. That's why our transfers are long.
I sense, the EWEB location is great for automobile folks, the wards north of the river, and for those working so earnestly to build 5th Avenue, and now the Riverfront. I suppose it's great for automobiles from other parts of the city but they already have abundant parking near the Spilde center.
I don't know... I just don't like the civic center torn out of downtown away from the Park Blocks or Spilde center. It's a lot easier to destroy civic engagement than to rebuild it, if it's gone.
I just don't know... The whole EWEB building is a spectacularly bad piece of concrete that never should have been built there and maybe future generations will be better off if it were razed? Would anybody in their right mind build that sort of thing, today?
Thinking, more,
- Relocating and consolidating city departments together with council and Mayor to such an isolated place creates a risk of disconnection from the people. It creates a risk of Group-think (aka confirmation bias) within and among fulltime executives and staff, it is a real think that was recognized in WW2, creating weakness, losing campaigns because they marginalized important voices. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupthink
Of course City staff could project outreach messaging, to the people but the problem is whether people could project *our* views into the City Council, manager and staff without seeming like we're crazy.
- What about all the boards and commissions? Already receding, needing to be closer to some sort of center IMO
- The real issue is, how do people identify with a City when its buildings, people and processes change so rapidly? How do we develop a feeling of belonging?? It's a human thing, not a budget thing or a real estate thing
Monday, January 9, 2023
My YouTube Subscriptions
Since I hang out on Facebook a lot, I'm not allowed to post links or mention many of these sources. Facebook notoriously published a list of unapproved sources a couple years ago-- it's no secret. So I thought I would just list my subscriptions on YouTube that I watch a lot, on the big flat-screen TV.
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Using media, films, volunteers and internet video campaigns, Brave New Films has created a quick-strike capability that informs the public, challenges mainstream media with the truth, and motivates people to take action on social issues nationwide. From exposing voter suppression in Georgia with our film "Suppressed 2020: The Fight To Vote," to shedding light on America's racist misdemeanor system with "Racially Charged: America's Misdemeanor Problem," we are reaching millions with stories that inspire action. Subscribed ChallengingMedia 30.5K subscribers•250 videos The Media Education Foundation (MEF) produces and distributes video documentaries to encourage critical thinking and debate about the relationship between media ownership, commercial media content, and the democratic demand for free flows of information, diverse representations of ideas and people, and informed citizen participation. 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Friday, December 30, 2022
TIK History theory of history in an hour 42 minutes
Fascinating, recommended. Seems to end up as a justification for libertarianism and rejection of a public sector. Begins with tribal customs of prehistoric Greece, around the family and hearth.
TIKHistory: Public vs Private | The Historic Definitions of Socialism and Capitalism
Whatever those customs may have been, they are not the building blocks of today's political economy "thing". Today's world is organized as a collection of power hierarchies, each having a boss, leader, prince or lord, CEO, agency chief, military command, etc.
Each individual boss, ruler, CEO, etc. has their own obedient down-chain, and network of relations with other bosses. Mathematically all humans could be ranked from top to bottom, in their degree of power. You don't need an hour and 42 minutes. It's not that complicated. It's also not guided by any "isms". There are only various sorts of group contracts in the large blocs of east, west etc. which are loosely followed, depending on the interests of various CEOs, agency heads, military commands, etc.
Tuesday, November 29, 2022
The front page of this epic organization, Media Sanctuary, is Chris Hedges' greatest talk. I have been tracking, and videoing Chris Hedges for 20 years. His talk in Eugene got over 100,000 views but, this is better. Naming names. Concrete. Share widely.
https://www.mediasanctuary.org/
I hope this gets past the Algorithm. because it's true.
"Chris Hedges returned to The Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy NY on October 21, 2022 to speak on the subject of his latest book, titled “The Greatest Evil is War” (Seven Stories Press). This unflinching indictment of the horror and obscenity of war draws from experience and interviews for a book that looks at the hidden costs of war, what it does to individuals, families, communities, and nations."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0jZyHk6Rxs
Saturday, November 19, 2022
The Ukraine war is quite directly a result in defects in the structures of worldwide consensus and administration, which originated in 1945.
For example, the UN Treaty, one of the pillars, prohibited wars of aggression by one "state" against another... i.e., crossing "borders". Which is great. The treaty committed member states (which included almost all nations) to unite, to counter inter-nation aggression (with two exceptions)
Taking a step back it was a bit self-serving, by the victors of WW2 (who ended up on the 5 member "security council") to defend their own existing regimes, within their own borders.
But OK, what does the United Nations stand for? It stands for the permanent, unconditional design of "borders" at the point in time. This was a time bomb.
Two huge defects:
- Failed to define the conditions when a people, a population, a geographic region, have a *RIGHT* to secede from their ruling capital. Under conditions 1, 2, 3, etc. the population of a region should be entitled to self-determination i.e. sovereignty.
- Failed to consider in any way, the *RIGHTS* of conquered or vanquished people, for any sort of redress whatsoever-- how to talk about and settle so many obviously unjust grievances of the past, Under conditions 1, 2, 3, etc.
e.g. black people and indigenous in the United States, Kurds, Palestinians, Eastern Ukraine, Chechnya, Bahai...
A comprehensive framework of addressing past conquests would consider how long ago the crime occurred, in terms of generations since the original victims in some cases are long dead (armenians etc) and their descendents shouldn't enjoy uncondional, inherited rights the cost of which would be born by descendents of the criminals.
another concept is the degree to which the descendents have been adversely affected in the present time. For example Gazans have been 100% adversely affected, under empirical measures while Asian americans are less affected.
and bla bla bla, just thinking our "international institutions" could do a better job dealing with the actual problems, besides elites of the G20 or Davos meetings, ad-hoc manuevering from year to year without a permanent commitment to any principles.
Sunday, March 20, 2022
I recommend Lia Tarachansky's analysis: it's not about NATO.
What the west is getting wrong about Ukraine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDjPMMD8qwA
- The Real News Network
- Interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDjPMMD8qwA
- The Real News Network
- Interview
Wednesday, March 9, 2022
Saturday, October 30, 2021
Sunday, October 24, 2021
Wednesday, April 28, 2021
Event by Cooperation Eugene - A New Economy Working Group
Today at 4 PM PDT
https://zoom.us/j/94769130641
Meeting ID: 947 6913 0641
Passcode: 387678
Discuss the Lane County Strategic Plan to increase housing options. After a short presentations from a panel, small groups will discuss critical questions of scaling up to meet the demand.
Please review the plan before the meeting, especially the summary table on page 11. Most of the report just goes into more details on the five areas below.
The final recommendations come in five individual action categories, which the County Commission accepted:
• Leverage Land – first right of refusal program, county land bank, inter-agency collaboration
• Pilot & Partner – Homeshare program, Faith-based initiatives, ADU development
• Trade Support – LCC and UO educational programs in building industries, incremental infill housing
• Rural Innovation – Community Land Trusts and ADU
• Build Capacity – New Transient Room Tax, Revolving loan fund for construction
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Friday, April 23, 2021
Sunday, October 11, 2020
Asked people, 3 years ago, what new Cabinet departments they want?
Todd Boyle
October 11, 2017
If you were president, what new Cabinet level department would you create? Jim Lockhart Department of Peace, as proposed by Dennis Kucinich. Judy Hayner Department of Peace and Department of Actually Getting Something Done About Climate Change (DAGSDACC) Kevin Matthews DAGSDACC! Todd Boyle Kevin Matthews It almost seems to have dropped off the radar. In the pres/VP debate and between Defazio/Skarlatos nobody even talks about it except the Republicans accusing democrats of banning fracking (in my dreams), and the democrats immediately disclaiming any association with Green New Deal, banning fracking, banning pipelines etc. · Reply · 20m Write a reply... Rick Fellows Department of empire dissolution. Todd Boyle Federal Liquidation Agency to shut down the United States in an orderly and responsible fashion. LOL S.h. Lobo A walnut cabinet. Michael Allen Department of Sustainability - would oversee national recycling, reuse, and resource redistribution efforts. Jean Lowes Paskalides Dept of Humanity. Gerri Haynes Ethics for Humanity - to respect all life on the planet GW Jones Department of Redundancy Department. Virginia Simson Children, disabled and old people in the lifeboats first Department. Chris Dorf Truth and Reconciliation like they did in South Africa and Rwanda Tammy Wolfgram Yes!!! We so need this. Peggy Hotes Department of Economic Equality Rick Fellows A truth commission sounds like a great proposal to advance. National security has been an endless debacle of high level corruption and deceit. This is the main reason denial is so talked about here in the belly of the beast. Sandra Blessing Department of PEACE! Raj Badri An executioner to carry out executions of all millionaires. Mary Moos The department of Presidential deportment and the Ministry of Human Decency Roger Keith Miller Department of Peace. Claire Wylde Department of Redistribution of Wealth. · Edited Todd Boyle Now we're talkin' !! haha! ?? Marie-Kate Higgins A BS detector for all politicians. Janet Davis Department of Engineering Christopher Derrah Global warming. I would give the new agency more money and power than the defense department. Nancy Ellen Peden Something like this, maybe Engineering...fix infrastructure to be more sustainable on every level....Dept of Sustainability? Joshua Ferguson The Department of State is the 'Department of Peaceful Development' when it is led by a secretary who best tries to carry out its mission with international partners and dedicated diplomatic teams. Todd Boyle Well, the Department of Peace. there was a whole campaign for many years.... Steve Scott Kuchinich mentioned the Dept. of Peace often Paul Covey the cabinet of tar and feathers Guy Taylor Department of Sundown for winding down any department lacking sufficient justification to exist as a budget entry or independent of some more effective department. Kris McAlister Department of Aging. Birth to Earth. Healthcare, Education, and Retirement spheres. Todd Boyle Actually I asked this question 5 years ago on Oct. 11, 2012. only 3 people responded but, my response was "A bureau of policy, which would formulate exactly what the questions are, what the alternatives are, and STATE THEM in straightforward, unambigu… See More Todd Boyle So my new Cabinet position and agency would be kinda like the OMB and other infrastructure departments ... like the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Census, things like that. But more useful. Because it would deal with the problem of lying politicia… See More Fernando Antonio Department of Accountability of State Employees Reply · 3y Jo Anne Van Datta Human Ecology R & D Bob Perillo The Department of Redundancy Department. Tracy Gallagher A department that would sack govt ministers when they lie to the public. Also when their outside interests affect their policies Zebediah Kozmik The Department of Peace and Diplomacy. John Tinker A Department of Dishwashing. The POTUS itself would chair the meetings, which could only take place in the kitchen while washing the dishes after state meetings. The POTUS and the VPOTUS and the heads of the Department of Dishwashing would take turns scraping, racking, washing, drying, and putting away. Someone would have a waterproof pen, so they could take notes. Rudy Stolfer peace!!!!! Kym Trippsmith Dept of Sanity · Edited Todd Boyle Seriously we could use some sort of Department of Mental Development, or whatever it's called, to operate some modest programs for mental health, I mean going beyond mental health to mental maturity and human potential... like Kris McAlister said up above.. Maybe this is called Department of Human Development? Todd Boyle Or the Department of National Happiness? http://www.happycounts.org/happiness-policies.html Happiness Initiative Toolkits: Tools and Resources for conducting a happiness initiative and using the gross national happiness index for your city, community, campus or company - Happiness Alliance HAPPYCOUNTS.ORG Happiness Initiative Toolkits: Tools and Resources for conducting a happiness initiative and using the gross national happiness index for your city, community, campus or company - Happiness Alliance Happiness Initiative Toolkits: Tools and Resources for conducting a happiness initiative and using the gross national happiness index for your city, community, campus or company - Happiness Alliance · Reply · Remove Preview · 3y John Kirshon Dept of Post-Capitalist Transition David Asia Make it official: US Department of Bullshit Dissemination (USBD). It would naturally have a strong presence on Facebook and other social media... · Edited Ruth Mallery I dont know that I would create a cabinet department however I have been thinking for a while that it would be a good idea to expand these offices (all elected) to include an "advisory body" of senior "former electeds" so that 1. We do not have career poloticians beholden as much to corporations 2. Newer voices can be elected 3. Term limits can be seen as a positive. This body would exist in all federal branches. · Edited Todd Boyle hmm office of presidents... would they have some sort of formal powers? access to information? etc? and how would this protect us from corporations since all the former presidents were just as beholden. Ruth Mallery I envision it as folks who have already held office. So in some matters they have security clearance. It would be more of a consulting, non binding, apolitical advisory committe. Sort of expanding on what ex presidents do now when there are natural disasters. But for example, they could weigh in on stuff like pulling out of the climate aggreement . · Edited Ruth Mallery A voice of experience type thing Ruth Mallery It would protect us from corporations because they are no longer subject to lobbying. Ideally it would work hand in hand with campagn finance reform ..... Write a reply... Maure Claire Briggs None. Todd Boyle Well that's right, of course. I slipped into wishful thinking, that the DC-NY system would ever change. So, the usefulness of this exercise may be more about design ideas, for designing new governments. · Edited Bryan Khan AkaPersaud Is there a need for a new department? How about dismantling DHS, DEA, CIA, NSA, etc. etc. Jerry Munro The Department for Dismantling The State and Democratizing The Economy. Christy Love The Department of Love, which would immediately convene a Commission on Apathy. ?? · Edited William David Fusfield There are many new departments that should be created. But by far the most important in my book would be THE DEPARTMENT OF PEACE!! Bryan Khan AkaPersaud The problem with these (Min of Love, Truth, Peace) is that they have already been coined (by Orwell) and were specifically chosen to confuse and obfuscate. For example, the Ministry of Truth's main job was lies. Todd Boyle I tend to agree. The operation of all these departments including the Dept of Defense, EPA, etc. need to be rigorously defined, and needs to be enforced and accountable. I'm not surprised several people called for a department of accountability, of … See More Dee Stahl Sanity Dee Stahl Oops, someone else already thought of that. Whitney Raver Ethics. But for real this time. Reply · 3y Todd Boyle As, Ethics taught in philosophy courses, or in faith communities. · Reply · 2y Bev Bassett Climate Chaos department to do a WWII or New Deal-type retooling that would switch US over to renewables globally. Jill Harrison Department of Peace ~ as proposed by Dennis Kucinich Ann E. Fonfa Peace. · Reply · 2y Pat Elder Dept of State Secessions · Reply · 2y Todd Boyle Dept of National Liquidation · Reply · 2y Richard Everett Department of Corruption. · Reply · 2y Carol Isaac I'm more about coffee table level. · Reply · 2y Todd Boyle All, please have a look at the comments above... many have been added in the past few hours but woven among earlier comments in a way you would never see them unless you go back for a 2nd Pass, and a 3rd Passs.. · Reply · 2y Dave Warren Dept. if Constitutional Reform. · Reply · 2y Write a comment...
If you were president, what new Cabinet level department would you create? Jim Lockhart Department of Peace, as proposed by Dennis Kucinich. Judy Hayner Department of Peace and Department of Actually Getting Something Done About Climate Change (DAGSDACC) Kevin Matthews DAGSDACC! Todd Boyle Kevin Matthews It almost seems to have dropped off the radar. In the pres/VP debate and between Defazio/Skarlatos nobody even talks about it except the Republicans accusing democrats of banning fracking (in my dreams), and the democrats immediately disclaiming any association with Green New Deal, banning fracking, banning pipelines etc. · Reply · 20m Write a reply... Rick Fellows Department of empire dissolution. Todd Boyle Federal Liquidation Agency to shut down the United States in an orderly and responsible fashion. LOL S.h. Lobo A walnut cabinet. Michael Allen Department of Sustainability - would oversee national recycling, reuse, and resource redistribution efforts. Jean Lowes Paskalides Dept of Humanity. Gerri Haynes Ethics for Humanity - to respect all life on the planet GW Jones Department of Redundancy Department. Virginia Simson Children, disabled and old people in the lifeboats first Department. Chris Dorf Truth and Reconciliation like they did in South Africa and Rwanda Tammy Wolfgram Yes!!! We so need this. Peggy Hotes Department of Economic Equality Rick Fellows A truth commission sounds like a great proposal to advance. National security has been an endless debacle of high level corruption and deceit. This is the main reason denial is so talked about here in the belly of the beast. Sandra Blessing Department of PEACE! Raj Badri An executioner to carry out executions of all millionaires. Mary Moos The department of Presidential deportment and the Ministry of Human Decency Roger Keith Miller Department of Peace. Claire Wylde Department of Redistribution of Wealth. · Edited Todd Boyle Now we're talkin' !! haha! ?? Marie-Kate Higgins A BS detector for all politicians. Janet Davis Department of Engineering Christopher Derrah Global warming. I would give the new agency more money and power than the defense department. Nancy Ellen Peden Something like this, maybe Engineering...fix infrastructure to be more sustainable on every level....Dept of Sustainability? Joshua Ferguson The Department of State is the 'Department of Peaceful Development' when it is led by a secretary who best tries to carry out its mission with international partners and dedicated diplomatic teams. Todd Boyle Well, the Department of Peace. there was a whole campaign for many years.... Steve Scott Kuchinich mentioned the Dept. of Peace often Paul Covey the cabinet of tar and feathers Guy Taylor Department of Sundown for winding down any department lacking sufficient justification to exist as a budget entry or independent of some more effective department. Kris McAlister Department of Aging. Birth to Earth. Healthcare, Education, and Retirement spheres. Todd Boyle Actually I asked this question 5 years ago on Oct. 11, 2012. only 3 people responded but, my response was "A bureau of policy, which would formulate exactly what the questions are, what the alternatives are, and STATE THEM in straightforward, unambigu… See More Todd Boyle So my new Cabinet position and agency would be kinda like the OMB and other infrastructure departments ... like the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Census, things like that. But more useful. Because it would deal with the problem of lying politicia… See More Fernando Antonio Department of Accountability of State Employees Reply · 3y Jo Anne Van Datta Human Ecology R & D Bob Perillo The Department of Redundancy Department. Tracy Gallagher A department that would sack govt ministers when they lie to the public. Also when their outside interests affect their policies Zebediah Kozmik The Department of Peace and Diplomacy. John Tinker A Department of Dishwashing. The POTUS itself would chair the meetings, which could only take place in the kitchen while washing the dishes after state meetings. The POTUS and the VPOTUS and the heads of the Department of Dishwashing would take turns scraping, racking, washing, drying, and putting away. Someone would have a waterproof pen, so they could take notes. Rudy Stolfer peace!!!!! Kym Trippsmith Dept of Sanity · Edited Todd Boyle Seriously we could use some sort of Department of Mental Development, or whatever it's called, to operate some modest programs for mental health, I mean going beyond mental health to mental maturity and human potential... like Kris McAlister said up above.. Maybe this is called Department of Human Development? Todd Boyle Or the Department of National Happiness? http://www.happycounts.org/happiness-policies.html Happiness Initiative Toolkits: Tools and Resources for conducting a happiness initiative and using the gross national happiness index for your city, community, campus or company - Happiness Alliance HAPPYCOUNTS.ORG Happiness Initiative Toolkits: Tools and Resources for conducting a happiness initiative and using the gross national happiness index for your city, community, campus or company - Happiness Alliance Happiness Initiative Toolkits: Tools and Resources for conducting a happiness initiative and using the gross national happiness index for your city, community, campus or company - Happiness Alliance · Reply · Remove Preview · 3y John Kirshon Dept of Post-Capitalist Transition David Asia Make it official: US Department of Bullshit Dissemination (USBD). It would naturally have a strong presence on Facebook and other social media... · Edited Ruth Mallery I dont know that I would create a cabinet department however I have been thinking for a while that it would be a good idea to expand these offices (all elected) to include an "advisory body" of senior "former electeds" so that 1. We do not have career poloticians beholden as much to corporations 2. Newer voices can be elected 3. Term limits can be seen as a positive. This body would exist in all federal branches. · Edited Todd Boyle hmm office of presidents... would they have some sort of formal powers? access to information? etc? and how would this protect us from corporations since all the former presidents were just as beholden. Ruth Mallery I envision it as folks who have already held office. So in some matters they have security clearance. It would be more of a consulting, non binding, apolitical advisory committe. Sort of expanding on what ex presidents do now when there are natural disasters. But for example, they could weigh in on stuff like pulling out of the climate aggreement . · Edited Ruth Mallery A voice of experience type thing Ruth Mallery It would protect us from corporations because they are no longer subject to lobbying. Ideally it would work hand in hand with campagn finance reform ..... Write a reply... Maure Claire Briggs None. Todd Boyle Well that's right, of course. I slipped into wishful thinking, that the DC-NY system would ever change. So, the usefulness of this exercise may be more about design ideas, for designing new governments. · Edited Bryan Khan AkaPersaud Is there a need for a new department? How about dismantling DHS, DEA, CIA, NSA, etc. etc. Jerry Munro The Department for Dismantling The State and Democratizing The Economy. Christy Love The Department of Love, which would immediately convene a Commission on Apathy. ?? · Edited William David Fusfield There are many new departments that should be created. But by far the most important in my book would be THE DEPARTMENT OF PEACE!! Bryan Khan AkaPersaud The problem with these (Min of Love, Truth, Peace) is that they have already been coined (by Orwell) and were specifically chosen to confuse and obfuscate. For example, the Ministry of Truth's main job was lies. Todd Boyle I tend to agree. The operation of all these departments including the Dept of Defense, EPA, etc. need to be rigorously defined, and needs to be enforced and accountable. I'm not surprised several people called for a department of accountability, of … See More Dee Stahl Sanity Dee Stahl Oops, someone else already thought of that. Whitney Raver Ethics. But for real this time. Reply · 3y Todd Boyle As, Ethics taught in philosophy courses, or in faith communities. · Reply · 2y Bev Bassett Climate Chaos department to do a WWII or New Deal-type retooling that would switch US over to renewables globally. Jill Harrison Department of Peace ~ as proposed by Dennis Kucinich Ann E. Fonfa Peace. · Reply · 2y Pat Elder Dept of State Secessions · Reply · 2y Todd Boyle Dept of National Liquidation · Reply · 2y Richard Everett Department of Corruption. · Reply · 2y Carol Isaac I'm more about coffee table level. · Reply · 2y Todd Boyle All, please have a look at the comments above... many have been added in the past few hours but woven among earlier comments in a way you would never see them unless you go back for a 2nd Pass, and a 3rd Passs.. · Reply · 2y Dave Warren Dept. if Constitutional Reform. · Reply · 2y Write a comment...
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