Let's Talk about Income Inequality and Our National Debt and Deficits

During Barack Obama's tenure, the United States government has spent 11 dollars for every 7 dollars of revenue it raked in. Throughout the fiscal year that just ended, the United States government spent $3.538 trillion while raking in $2.449 trillion. With the exclusion of Social Security and Medicare, in 2011, over $1 trillion was spent on 83 new welfare programs with 100 million Americans registered in at least 1 program, thus topping welfare spending at a 32 percent total increase for the past four years and a 378 percent total increase for the past 30 years. As of now, 47 million Americans are dependent on food stamps whereas upon Obama's entrance into the White House 32 million Americans were dependent on food stamps. 

When it comes to healthcare costs, this year the federal government will account for more than 50 percent of all healthcare expenditures in the United States, whereas in 1990 the federal government accounted for 32 percent. The number of Americans dependent on Medicaid was 34 million in the year 2000 and skyrocketed to 54 million in 2011. Economists prefigure Obama’s healthcare policies will add 16 million more Americans to Medicaid. The number of Americans dependent on Medicare will increase from 50.7 million in 2012 to 73.2 million in 2025 while facing unfunded liabilities of more than $38 trillion and a $134 trillion shortfall over the next 75 years.

And Obama says there has been an economic recovery?

Income inequality between federal workers and non-federal workers

The number of workers for the federal government making $100,000 or more in annual salary has increased from 12 percent in 2006 to 22 percent in 2011. People working for the federal government are 13 times more likely to die from natural causes than they are to be laid off from their jobs.

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/washington/story/2011-12-26/federal-starting-salaries/52236360/1

In confuting a statement Harry Reid made earlier this year about the private sector “doing just fine” and “it’s the public sector where we’ve lost huge numbers”, the Congressional Budget Office found earlier this January that federal workers are compensated 16 percent more on average than private sector workers who are of similar or comparable levels of education and expertise in their field. 

For wages in the 2005 to 2010 period, the Congressional Budget Office said: “Federal civilian workers with no more than a high school education earned about 21 percent more, on average, than similar workers in the private sector. Workers whose highest level of education was a bachelor's degree earned roughly the same hourly wages, on average, in both the federal government and the private sector. Federal workers with a professional degree or doctorate earned about 23 percent less, on average, than their private-sector counterparts.”

For health insurance, retirement benefits, and paid vacations, the Congressional Budget Office said: “Average benefits for federal workers with no more than a high school diploma were 72 percent higher than for their private-sector counterparts. Average benefits for federal workers whose education ended in a bachelor's degree were 46 percent higher than for similar workers in the private sector. Workers with a professional degree or doctorate received roughly the same level of average benefits in both sectors.”

http://www.cbo.gov/publication/42921

Income gap between ordinary American citizens and government officials 

While Social Security plods its way to bankruptcy for the next generation's baby boomers and workers of the middle and lower classes have an austere economical future for being able to continue supporting themselves and their families, more than $70 billion for government pension plans are being dispensed to 1.8 million retired federal workers. 15,000 of these workers are earning more than $100,000 annually and 9.3% of these workers are former employees of the infamous Securities and Exchange Commission. After serving a measly 5 years in office, Congressmen are permitted to begin collecting their pension money at the age of 62. After serving 20 years, they are permitted to begin collecting their pension money at the age of 50.

http://www.allgov.com/news/top-stories/thousands-of-federal-retirees-receive-100000-a-year-pensionsincluding-newt-gingrich?news=843922

While Americans all across the country flounder in their finances, former presidents of the United States will receive $3.6 million to support their opulent lifestyles in 2012, and it is scheduled to increase to $3.7 million in 2013. All of this money is covering for things such as office rentals, travel, phone bills, postage, printing, and pension benefits. Secret Service Protection not included. In 2013, George Bush will receive $1,356,000 in taxpayer money, $85,000 of which will go towards phone expenses. Bill Clinton is scheduled to receive $1,019,000 in taxpayer money, $442,000 of which will cover for office space. George Herbert Walker Bush will receive $879,000 in taxpayer money, $64,000 of which will pay for “equipment.” Even Jimmy Carter will receive $518,000 in 2013. But the Obama family, in 2011, was deluged with $1.4 billion; something so reprehensible in comparison to the $57.8 million British taxpayers furnish the royal family with. All of this money being spent on the Obama family covers for their transportation, housing, entertainment, and vacation. American citizens ought to be irate by the fact that Michelle Obama spent 42 days and $10 million on vacation in one 12 month period while Barack has played more than 100 rounds of golf since the beginning of his tenure. Also, this money covers for the salaries of the 469 senior staff members working under Obama, 226 of which receive more than $100,000 annually. At least one projectionist is at the White House 24 hours a day in case if anyone would like to watch a film. The dog handler who cares for the family dog receives $102,000 annually and is often flown with the family to their vacation sites to have constant upkeep on the dog. The Obama administration has the biggest staff in American history with the highest wages yet. 

http://dailycaller.com/2012/09/26/taxpayers-spent-1-4-billion-on-obama-family-last-year-perks-questioned-in-new-book/2/

Washington's Craft with Big Business--- General Electric

Who said Barack Obama and his administration would never develop any intimate liaisons with certain big businesses and lavish them with benefits so inequitable to small businesses in America? What instantaneously comes to mind when the names General Electric and Jeffery Immelt are mentioned? Jeffery Immelt is the CEO of this ever-expanding gigantic corporation and was appointed to be the head of Barack Obama’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness as remuneration for demonstrating such outstanding public support for Obama’s policies. Publicly, Immelt has mirthfully expressed his vision and goal for generating job growth and being a “sounding board for ideas and a catalyst for action on jobs and competitiveness.” His vision has involved outsourcing jobs and transferring infrastructure to China. Is this not absolutely brilliant? The Obama administration is helping to create jobs after all….in other countries that is, at the expense of the United States being demoted to fifth place in economic competitiveness among every other nation of the world, according to the World Economic Forum. 

The truth of the matter is, even before Obama, America was in a steady decline in manufacturing jobs from 19.5 million in 1979 to 11.6 million in 2010, amounting to a 40 percent decline in total. Notwithstanding, Obama and his minions, in tandem with their predecessors, have been proud cultivators of globalization. 

Unemployed people are lamenting about joblessness and being left with a paucity of job opportunities and current workers are struggling to put food on their tables, because of our ever-expanding big government colluding with big corporations in outsourcing jobs and integrating America’s economy with our world leaders’ scheme of globalization. The story involving the last General Electric factory manufacturing American-made incandescent lightbulbs that was shut down in September of 2010 in Winchester, Virginia and the many  jobs that were lost therein is quintessential of what is happening in America and abroad. Rather than allowing the manufacturing of replacement lightbulbs to create jobs here in America, it is more profitable for the globalists to have the leading replacement lights be the compact fluorescent lights (CFLs) to be made in China where the hand labor in giving the glass tubes their spiral shape is much cheaper.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/07/AR2010090706933_2.html?sid=ST2011013003428

Earlier during Obama's tenure in office, General Electric’s lobbying firm, GEPAC, contributed $2.4 million to Democrats in their scheme to have the Congress pass a cap-and-trade piece of legislation. In being America’s principal aircraft engines producer under the new greenhouse gas emissions standards that would be enacted with the bill, General Electric was intended to be the foremost beneficiary amongst everyone else who would be affected by the bill. Since this cap-and-trade bill failed to pass, there was a reduction in demand for Immelt’s jet engines in America. So, Immelt appended his signature to a contract with Chinese Communists to manufacture engines in China thereby having American aviation production and services be chiefly controlled by the hands of our biggest creditor and economic rival.

General Electric is the world’s primary purveyor for medical-imaging machines. With its 115 year old X-ray business headquarters being sent to Beijing where a handful of top managers and thousands of healthcare employees will also be outsourced with it, China will be furnished with more means to continue out-vying the United States and helping to maximize America's codependency in sucking on the bosom of China.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-07-25/ge-healthcare-moves-x-ray-base-to-china-no-job-cuts-planned.html

Let us also keep in mind the $75 million in taxpayer money that General Electric was given and has expended in constructing “smart meters” that will foist hazardous effects on public human health, colossally increase the cost of household electricity and monitor and control how often people can use their utilities on a daily basis. That ought to be of such great consolation to us the taxpayers, should it not?

http://stopsmartmeters.org/why-stop-smart-meters/

Many of our media’s moguls have controverted over the issue of General Electric exploiting loopholes in the tax code and just exactly how many taxes they have evaded and for how long. Many conflicting reports have inundated the internet, and it has been difficult to ascertain the absolute truth. According to the websites I cited below, this monolith of a business in 2010 announced its acquisition of $14.2 billion in profits, a 77 percent increase from the previous year, $9 billion of which were acquired overseas and were not at all touched by the 35 percent United States corporate tax rate. General Electric’s U.S. earnings were not taxed at all. In addition to not paying taxes on $5.1 billion in U.S. earnings in 2010, General Electric received a $3.2 billion corporate tax credit and a 57,000 page-long corporate tax return “for investment in low-income housing, green energy, and research and development, as well as depreciation of property.” In being the greatest corporate tax department the world has ever known, General Electric is craftier in navigating the labyrinth of corporate tax regulations than any other multinational corporation.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/general-electric-paid-federal-taxes-2010/story?id=13224558#.UHPPZ1GlvAU

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/ge-filed-57000-page-tax-return-paid-no-taxes-14-billion-profits_609137.html

Fascism's Close Relationship With Progressivism and the Left

It was roughly during the early 1890s and through the early 1920s in America when the Progressive movement saturated society and inspired advocacy for government being the initiator and overshadowing determinant of social change. Multitudes of young crusading idealists, pragmatists and materialists harnessed influential sway in the local, state, and federal legislatures of society. They  employed far-reaching new powers in ratifying mountainous new legislations inclusive of minimum wage and maximum hour laws, anti-trust statutes, constraints on sale, distribution, and consumption of alcohol, expropriation of hundreds of miles of roads and highways, accommodations for new immigrants and the poor, women’s rights to vote, electoral reform, and much more…

In spite of all that, the Progressive Era was a time of ferocious state-endorsed racism. From an African-American historical standpoint, the Progressive Era features itself as the worst epoch since the Abraham Lincoln’s issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. David W. Southern, a Westminster College historian, wrote in his book --- "Progressive Era and Race: Reform and Reaction, 1900-1917"--- giving detailed accounts of the morbidity of black disenfranchisement, segregation, race-baiting, and the lynching. To be a racist was of the norm amongst the 20th Century Progressive champions panegyrized by the Leftists of today. One of them being Woodrow Wilson, the American president during World War 1, who reversed tolerant racial policies put in place by Republicans and enacted the Jim Crow Laws segregating toilets, cafeterias, and rooms in work departments, high schools, and universities. After the Civil War and under ascendancy of the Republicans, the black populace was given access to federal jobs and permission to commingle with the Caucasian race in various circumstances, but with Woodrow Wilson, all of this was made undone. In his book, David had this to say: “At college, budding progressives not only read exposes of capitalistic barons and attacks on laissez-faire economics by muckraking journalists, they also read racist tracts that drew on the latest anthropology, biology, psychology, sociology, eugenics, and medical science."

So, in light of what history has to tell us, how have the times evolved to now bring us into a period when the Left discriminates against people of the Right with this damning label of racism? In tandem with racism, Leftists routinely attribute Fascism to Right-wingers as an affront to Right-wingers when they support foreign policies distasteful to contemporary Leftism. To the perception of contemporary Leftists, Right-wingers’ patriotism becomes blurred with nationalism, or becomes blurred with Benito Mussolini’s and Adolf Hitler’s nationalism specifically, and thereby also leading to racism being erroneously thrown into the mix for an extra flavor to be added to the insult. In the beginning of Hitler's obsession with Anti-Semitism, Mussolini was reluctant to follow suit, but would eventually make Anti-Semitism be part of his agenda in 1938. Prior to 1938, many outstanding Italian Jews were leaders of the early Fasci di combattimento. Anti-Semitism was non-existent and Italian Jews were customarily protected by both Fascist and non-Fascist Italians, making Fascist Italy one of the safest places in the world for Jews during the Second World War. And unlike Hitler, Mussolini did not set up concentration camps for the Jews living in Italy. 

Most pointedly, Leftists have learned to associate racism with Fascism because of Adolf Hitler’s obsessive hatred for and harangues against Jews along with everything else horrid his regime brought upon them during the Holocaust. Hitler received his ideas on eugenics and the idea of war being the purification of the national spirit from Woodrow Wilson and the Left-wing American militaristic Progressives during the late 19^th and early 20^th Century. The concept of a white, blond-haired, blue-eyed superior Nordic race was not Adolf Hitler’s. The idea was created and cultivated in the United States with California being the omphalos of the movement at least two decades before Hitler came to power. The Carnegie Institution, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Harriman railroad fortune were three amongst other corporate philanthropies who financed eugenics programs in America. Scientists from prestigious universities such Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Stamford were also in league with these philanthropies performing experiments. 

Eugenics was the racist pseudoscience program so dogged for cleansing the human gene pool of any defective characteristics inherited through parent to offspring. The aim was to have prevalent the genes and characteristics that fit the Nordic stereotype. Forced sterilization and restrictions on interracial marriages became national policy in twenty-seven states. In 1909, California became the third state to adopt such laws. Some 60,000 Americans were sterilized and surgically operated on in gruesome and torturous ways, thousands of people were prohibited in becoming married, and thousands more were forcibly segregated in "colonies" with untold numbers so mercilessly persecuted.  

 In 1924, when Hitler wrote Mein Kampf, he recurrently talked about American eugenics saying things such as: “There is today one state, in which at least weak beginnings toward a better conception [of immigration] are noticeable. Of course, it is not our model German Republic, but the United States."  Hitler told his fellow Nazis that he closely studied American eugenics saying: “I have studied with great interest the laws of several American states concerning prevention of reproduction by people whose progeny would, in all probability, be of no value or be injurious to the racial stock.”

In Germany sterilizations were given to people with serious physical deformities, Huntington’s chorea, and who were hereditarily feeble-minded, deaf, blind, alcoholic, epileptic, schizophrenic, and manically depressive or psychotic. These sterilizations in Germany exceeded beyond 5,000 per month in 1934. Beginning in 1940, thousands of Germans were taken from nursing homes, mental institutions and other state-ran institutions and were systematically gassed. In all, between 50,000 and 100,000 were killed. 

In other parallels, modern-day Leftists’ justification in fundamentally altering the United States Constitution to best suit the cultural and demographical changes of our modern-day times by characterizing it as a living and growing entity, was a salient feature of Woodrow’s administration and the Left-wing Progressivism and pragmatism of the period, and is in all probability where Hitler derived his idea of Germany being a living organism under siege by bullying forces. It was Wilson who said our United States government was "not a machine, but a living thing. It falls, not under the theory of the universe, but under the theory of organic life... No living thing can have its organs offset against each other, as checks, and live".

Leftists have pushed the Fascist label over to the Right so to avoid the humiliation they would become flushed with if they were to look at themselves in the mirror and see how their history of moral code and complexion has been blemished in this way.

Fascism is a term originally invented by the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini to explain his adaptation of Marxism to the political climate of Italy post World War 1. What came to be known as Leninism was Vladamir Lenin’s adaptation of Marxism to the political climate in Russia during the same period. For Italy, Mussolini cleaved to Marx’s tenet of a country undergoing a state of capitalism previous to arriving at socialism meanwhile Lenin strived to transition Russia into socialism promptly from semi-feudalism. Mussolini’s nationalism was the main variance in Marxian principle and is what made him reject the divisive notions of class warfare of Communism and the revolutionary activities of Lenin’s Reds.

The fasci of Italy were simply groups of political activists. The fasces were the bundles of rods carried by the lictors of ancient Roman times symbolizing the monolithic power of the organized Roman people. The fact that people are stronger in numbers rather than being separated as individuals was hugely emphasized, and it was on this principle that all other principles of Fascism were predicated---idealizing and focusing on the collective instead of the individual, a paramount objective of Marxism. Fascism was/is a nationalistic form of extreme socialism while Trotskyism was/is a internationalist form of extreme socialism with Leninism being somewhere in between. Mussolini's ideas and structure were very influential and he had many adherents -- not the least of which was Adolf Hitler -- and some even survived World War II -- such as Peron and Chiang Kai Shek.

Sparta is what many students of ancient history see as the pioneer of Fascism while Marxist students associate Fascism with Napoleon Bonaparte’s ideology and regime. Mussolini imbibed Marx’s literature and studies of the ancient world, but it was also many other ideas that he affixed with his Marxian inspirations making his political philosophy a synthesis of many things and very ideologically distinguishable. 

Mussolini’s 1919 election manifesto and the policies it composed of are perfect for explaining the meaning behind Fascism. Mussolini saw himself as leader and savior to the proletariat workers, and his policies decreed the proletariat workers to be at the helm of industry. He said, “If the bourgeoisie think they will find lightning conductors in us they are the more deceived; we must start work at once…. We want to accustom the working class to real and effectual leadership.” Like most Leftists today, Mussolini was a pro-unionist. He said, “Therefore, I desire that this assembly shall accept the revindication of national trades unionism.”Furthermore, his policies decreed government arrogating war profits, the closure of the stock exchange, much land to be given to peasants and the overthrow of the monarchy and aristocracy. Also, amongst large audiences Mussolini would animate them with never-endingly vituperating against plutocrats.

African Issues Much More Important Than Joseph Kony

It was the first week of March when the tear-jerking Kony 2012 video went viral on Youtube and took the entire world by storm more unprecedentedly than any other sensation before in Youtube history.  To see such a copious amount of people triggered to instantaneously endorse and join the Kony 2012 bandwagon was so alarming and gut-wrenching. Seemingly every individual in America normally to be apathetic towards any political perils taking place within his/her country was quickened to care about the perils of another country and blindly support the apprehension of a warlord nobody knew anything about aside from what the Kony 2012 video had to say. What is obvious to some but totally unbeknownst to many is the fact that many documentaries, books, and news reports have struggled for decades to galvanize meaningful public awareness concerning the complex history of a mixture of atrocities and tyrants in the African continent. Frustratingly enough, emerging onto cyberspace is this overly-simplistic 29 minute-long video, omitting highly significant historical facts and information about Africa and garnering monumental awareness and support overnight  drawing attention to a war criminal whose impact on Africa seems minimal or trivial when compared to that of other criminals in Africa.

Slightly contrary to what Jason Russell would have us believe about Joseph Kony’s army not having a cause and engaging in murders and massacres for mere wantonness, his army does have a cause which from the very beginning has been to overthrow current Ugandan dictator, Yoweri Museveni. The Lord’s Resistance Army was originally intended as a militia retaliating against Yoweri Museveni and his genocide perpetrated on the Acholi people and their villages, of whom and which Joseph Kony is from.

The Lord’s Resistance Army is not even its original name and it did not even originate with Joseph Kony. This takes us all the way back to the 1980s with an Acholi woman by the name of Alica Auma from the village of Obit in Northern Uganda. Alica claimed the spirit of a World War 2 Italian solider named Lakwena had possessed her. Her father took her to various witch doctors but her condition did not improve in any way, if anything it worsened. The spirit of Lakwena compelled Alica to enter the Paraa area of Murchison Falls National Park where she remained for 40 days.  It was while sitting there along the raging rapids and waterfalls of the Nile River that she was inspired by the spirit of Lakwena with a mission to become the leader of an army to wage violent mutiny against the tyrannical Ugandan government.  We know of this to be true from her many claims of having communicated with the animals of the jungle and with the spirit of Lakwena. After she had returned from the Paraa area of the Murchison Falls National Park she became a self-proclaimed clairvoyant, spiritual healer, and oracle prophesying about victory against tyrannical oppression.

Milton Obote, the man in power previous to Yoweri Museveni, was committing atrocities in the similar fashion to what Museveni has been for the past 2 decades. Originally, Alica’s army was inspired to fight against Milton Obote, but since the governmental atrocities had simply shifted from Milton Obote to Yoweri Museveni with his transitional installment in power, Alica’s army put their focus on Yoweri Museveni.  It was on August 20 of 1986, the same year that Yoweri Museveni came to power, that Alica officially began her career. Soldiers of the Ugandan government had taken captive a number of young people from her hometown and detained them in some nearby barracks. The entire continent of Africa is firmly entrenched in superstition and has always bowed down to those who supposedly take claim of supernatural powers. Local families who were desperate for answers and solutions had heard of Alica’s supernatural powers and implored her to take action. She was able to recruit a large army of soldiers. Most sources estimate this army consisted of 18,000 troops. They called themselves the Holy Spirit Mobile Forces or just the Holy Spirit Movement. The army did not have enough guns to go around so many of them used sticks and rocks. Alica had her army men believe that if they chose the right rocks to throw those rocks would turn into grenades and explode after being thrown at the enemy. She also convinced them that if they lived a life in spiritual purity and anointed themselves with water, oil, and shea butter they would be immune to bullets fired at them.

During the tribal revolt of 1987 to 1988 Alica’s army tried to storm Kampala which is Uganda’s city capital. The Holy Spirit Mobile Forces were overpowered by an artillery barrage of the Ugandan military.  After suffering the many losses of their troops they were forced to retreat and scatter into the hills.

Shortly thereafter, Alica fled to Kenya where she had died in 2007. After she fled there it was at that time when Joseph Kony, being greatly inspired by her valiance and spiritual leadership, rose to the forefront of the Acholi people’s struggle against the Ugandan government by taking control of the Holy Spirit Mobile Forces and renaming it the Lord’s Resistance Army. All sources concerning Joseph Kony’s and Alica’s relationship claim they are biologically related. Some sources say Joseph Kony is Alica’s cousin while other sources claim he is her nephew.

Both Joseph Kony and Alica have backgrounds in Catholicism and had relatives as priests and priestesses. Joseph Kony and his army’s agenda to religiously cleanse Uganda through theocratic rule and force everyone to obey the Ten Commandments of the Bible will obviously be an idea used  by propagandists to taint American’s perspectives on Christianity through exploitation of people’s lack of education in Christian studies. Joseph Kony and his army cannot be considered as true representatives of Christianity considering their Christian beliefs are syncretized with Islamism, African animism and satanic rituals.

Jason Russell claims this current Kony 2012 film is a condensed version of all what has become of Uganda the past 9 years with the last 6 of which not having Joseph Kony being in Uganda. Why has Jason Russell not made any mention of Yoweri Museveni’s Ugandan regime being responsible for displacing approximately 1.5 million Acholi people and killing at least 300,000 people when ascending to power in 1986 according to reports from the Red Cross? For the past 26 years, since the beginning of Museveni’s reign, Ugandans have been oppressed and slaughtered. In the narrative of the mainstream media, victims are only subject to Joseph Kony and the Lord’s Resistance Army. The newly established ENOUGH project along with Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have supported the mainstream media’s narrative protecting Museveni’s image and his tyranny by filling the public’s minds with disinformation. Since the Reagan administration Yoweri Museveni has been a stalwart ally of the United States and has received $45 million in military aid from the Obama administration to participate in combat against Somalia’s al Shabaab militia.

Such truths are not talked about in the mainstream media and are prevented from disseminating amongst the public. So successful the elites have been in keeping the large portions of the public from being alarmed or even curious of the perpetrators much more flagitious and dangerous than Joseph Kony. Some of a large list of people guilty of much more than Joseph Kony are: Yoweri Museveni, Salim Saleh, Paul Kagame, James Kazini, Moses Ali, James Kabarebe, Taban Amin, Jean-Pierre Bemba, Laurent Nkunda, Melse Zenawi.

There are many reports in cyberspace concerning Museveni being in full support of this man-hunt for Kony because of his crimes against humanity. This is quite ironic and hypocritical of Museveni considering that he and his generals were chief supporters of the Congolese warlord Jean-Pierre Bemba and the Movement for the Liberation of Congo. With the Uganda People’s Defense Forces, Bemba and the Movement for Liberation of Congo were responsible for rape, murders, torture, pillaging, and capturing Congolese people in massive numbers under the covert military operation named Effacer le Tableau with its scorched earth policy amounting to genocide against the Mbuti pygmies of Eastern Congo. 

You can read more about Jean-Pierre Bemba here: http://towardfreedom.com/home/content/view/1123/1/  

It was on September, 5 of 2007 when troops of the Uganda People’s Defense Forces (UPDF) reportedly partnered with Jean-Pierre Bemba in occupying the oil and gold enriched soil of the Semliki Basin on the western shore of Lake Albert.  Heavily armed foreign forces also occupied the villages of Aru, Mahagi, Fataki, Irengeti, and the Ruwenzori mountains. The international press and the United Nations Observers Mission in Congo agreed to keep completely silent about this. By September 8, 2007 a copious amount of Ugandan troops amassed on the Congo border as Joseph Kabila and Yoweri Museveni were making oil and gold business transactions with Tanzania. It was alleged that by October 25, Uganda People’s Defense Forces and Bemba’s rebel troops were still occupying Congo. The United Nations Observers Mission in Congo made claims that all Ugandan troops had entirely left all regions by mid-October, but Congolese citizens in eastern Congo were claiming something very contrary.

Since the days of colonialism, Africa has faced much ethnic adversity in which the West has exploited to facilitate their browbeating of the innocent indigenous people. In Rwanda, the Belgian colonial administration intensified pressure between the Hutu, who were inhumanely enslaved as a workforce – and the Tutsi, who were seen as extenders of Belgian rule. From the Rwandan civil war’s beginning in 1990, the United States worked to help depose the Hutu President Juvénal Habyarimana after his 20-year reign and install a Tutsi proxy government in Rwanda. At that time prior to the eruption of the Rwandan civil war, the Tutsi Rwandan Patriotic Army (RPA) led by current Rwandan President Paul Kagame, was part of Museveni’s United People's Defense Forces.

Under the pretext of the Tutsi rebellion, Ugandan armies invaded Rwanda in 1990, in spite of Museveni refusing to grant citizenship to the Tutsi-Rwandan refugees who were living in Uganda at the time, which was something that posed a bit of a counteraction against the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Kagame himself was trained at the U.S. Army Command and Staff College (CGSC) in Leavenworth, Kansas prior to returning to Rwanda to oversee the 1990 invasion of Rwanda as commander of the Rwandan Patriotic Army, which received supplies from US-funded Ugandan People’s Defense Forces’ (UPDF) military bases. The invasion of Rwanda had the full support of the United States and Britain, who provided training by United States Special Forces in collaboration with the United States mercenary business, Military Professional Resources Incorporated (MPRI).

Professor Michel Chossudovsky and Belgian economist Pierre Galand concluded in a report issued in the year 2000 that through financing military expenditure from the external debt of both the regimes of Habyarimana and Museveni, western financial institutions such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank financed both sides of the Rwandan civil war. In Uganda, the World Bank forcibly reduced consumerism and civilian's rights to purchase whatever and however much they needed. Ugandan taxpayer money collected as State revenue was diverted toward funding the UPDF, on behalf of Washington. In Rwanda, the deluge of development loans from the World Bank's affiliates such as the International Development Association (IDA), the African Development Fund (AFD), and the European Development Fund (EDF) were diverted into funding the Hutu extremist Interhamwe militia, the principal combatants of the Rwandan genocide.

Perhaps most chillingly, an unforgiveable breach of agreements signed between the Rwandan government and donor institutions was the World Bank supervising enormous imports of artillery and gunnery that were recorded as bona fide government expenditures and having those arms purchases being negotiated outside the framework of government to government military aid agreements through various private arms dealers and organizations thought to be of peacekeeping troops. Under the pretext of importing civilian commerce and with the World Bank as the overseer, the Habyarimana regime imported approximately one million machetes through various Interhamwe linked organizations and regular trading channels. A multilateral trust fund of $55.2 million dollars was earmarked as reimbursement for efforts of postwar reconstruction, although the money was earmarked not for Rwanda but for the World Bank to service Rwanda’s “odious debts” used to finance calamity. These debts were whitewashed and had disappeared from the books.

Furthermore, while ascending to power Paul Kagame was pressured by Washington to recognize as legitimate or lawful the debt incurred by the preceding genocidal Habyarimana regime. “The swap of old loans for new debts, under the banner of post-war reconstruction, was conditional upon the acceptance of a new wave of IMF-World Bank reforms, which used outside funds for military expenditure prior to the Kagame-led invasion of the Congo, then referred to as Zaire."

Glorified as a beautiful success story of revitalization and advancement following after such a heartrending genocide, Rwanda is a country oppressed under an iron fist and a deftly coordinated intelligence and torture apparatus including political assassinations, censorship of vital information, and vanishings. Gigantic areas of Rwanda were wholly depopulated by the Rwandan Patriotic Army and UPDF as they hammered away at Rwanda beginning in October of 1990. The invasion culminated into a coup d’état that succeeded with broad United States military support in capturing Kigali in July of 1994.

 Paul Kagame was Yoweri Museveni’s Director of Military Intelligence in the mid-1980s and it was these two who led the invasion of Rwanda in 1990. Using terroristic tactics, Kagame and Museveni have been blaming their own people and all of their enemies for casualties that both Kageme and Museveni have caused, one of those enemies being Joseph Kony today. The UPDF and the United States have used the LRA threat as a cover-up for massive military operations such as the invasion of Zaire (which was the name for the Democratic Republic of Congo between October 27, 1971 and May 17, 1997). They are now using the LRA threat again! 

Zaire was a stronghold of French and Belgian influence under President Mobutu Sese Seko. United States forces – mainly Green Berets from the 3^rd Special Forces Group based at Fort Bragg—had actively trained the Rwandan Patriotic Army. As Kagame’s army was being trained by United States military personnel, Kageme and his colleagues had other plans of their own. While the Green Berets trained the Rwandan Patriotic Army the Rwandan Patriotic Army  was training Zairian rebels. America's engagement with Rwandan Patriotic Army was portrayed as being exclusively dedicated to serving human rights training. Rwandans studied camouflage techniques, small-unit movement, troop-leading procedures, soldier team development etc. As the training went on, United States officials convened on a regular basis with Kageme and other superior Rwandan leaders, under the pretext of human rights activism, to discuss how to stage a coup d’état. With Yoweri Museveni’s support, Kageme drew up a plan to support a rebel movement in Zaire, headed by Laurent Desire Kabila. This was launched in October 1996. Once the war started in the Congo, the United States provided political assistance to Rwanda. Rebels stormed through the streets of the Congo and impelled Mobutu to flee the capital of Kinshasa in May 1997 whereby leaving Joseph Kabila to seize power to change the name of the country of Zaire to the name Congo. United States government and military to this day still denies that its own military personnel trained and supported Rwandans to wage an insurgency in Zaire. An operation of displacing civilians and putting them in concentration camps was also coordinated in part with the United States planned invasion of Zaire from Northern Uganda and Rwanda. 

Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Liberation Movement Being Used to Promote Socialism

            The following link will introduce you to Sherry Wolf’s book called Sexuality and Socialism: History, Politics, and Theory of LGBT Liberation.  http://www.haymarketbooks.org/pb/Sexuality-and-Socialism This is one of the faces of socialism in America today. This is the nice smile and amiable nature that modern-day socialism has portrayed so that we Americans will with such a warming and welcoming attitude invite it into our homes and brainwash our minds. Hijacking the ban-wagon of vociferous people advocating for harmony, equality and acceptance to be established between all deviant and normal individuals, the neo-socialists have put on the most clever and opaque façade. They have taken advantage of people’s lack of knowledge of socialism’s history of dehumanization, violence, and grisly cataclysmic events and are rewriting its history to make it appear viable and humanitarian in nature. It is taking advantage of people’s lack of understanding of economics and politics and ignorance of socialism’s dark history to solicit and demagogue to them about the many of things which average and simpleminded people will typically pay attention to and easily understand. The constant disparities and disharmonies between all races, classes, sexual identities, and both genders are very significant to overall character of each individual and our culture. By promising the people to give them the answer they yearn so much for and by supporting and representing  their core social values, socialism can ingratiate itself with the people thereby turning them into converts so they may protest in favor of and vote for socialism to be implemented in America.

One of these activists percolating all throughout the communities and networks of the homosexuals and spreading the doctrine of fairness, equality, openness, harmony and unification of all creeds and sexual orientations through the ideology of socialism is Sherry Wolf. Sherry was born in Brooklyn, New York on May 4, 1965. Being openly lesbian, she is an independent journalist and author and was on the Executive Committee for the LGBT National Equality March for full civil rights in October of 2009. Currently, she is a member of the International Socialist Organization and editor for the International Socialist Review.

The aim of the International Socialist Organization is to help cultivate Marxist revolutions worldwide for the sake of ultimately creating world communism. This organization holds that the former Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc, as well as China and Cuba, all exemplify bureaucratic state capitalism instead of true socialism. The fallacious message of the International Socialist Organization is that capitalism is the main perpetrator of racism, sexism, homophobia, war, exploitation, ruination of our environment and all other forms of oppression. Accordingly, the only way the world can achieve peace and bring a stop to all of this mayhem is for capitalism to be supplanted by socialism. In identifying themselves as Leninists and desiring to emulate the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, the International Socialist Organization is calling for the formation of a revolutionary party by the most militant workers. To make themselves appear to be not liable of repeating socialism’s sordid history, they repudiate Stalinism and Maoism of being at all authentically socialist because of their massive violence and cultic personalities that happened under their regimes, and are thus saying of Leninism to be humane, authentically socialist, and the panacea we are looking for. Obviously, they are ignoring the massive violence that was also perpetrated by Vladimir Lenin and the Bolshevik party as well.  The guise and the allure in social and moral values that the International Socialist Organization is using to inveigle people are absolutely shocking! Their agenda is synopsized here: http://www.internationalsocialist.org/what_we_stand_for.html

Lenin’s regime may not have had as many people annihilated as Mao’s and Stalin’s and may not have had a cultic nature, but he most certainly had a nation on its knees and at its mercy. The draconianism and slavery of the tsar in which Lenin and the Bolsheviks demagogued about emancipating Russia from is what Lenin and the Bolshevik regime had Russia repeat through the policies of the economic and political system known as War Communism that existed during the Russian Civil War from 1918 to 1921. Features of War Communism were:

1)      Hyperinflation and nationwide regression into barter economics caused by the unrestrained printing press finance.

2)      Strict centralized management in all of economics and nationalization of retailing, manufacturing, and industry.

3)       State monopoly on foreign trade.

4)      Stringent price controls placed upon agricultural products and requisition for confiscation of surpluses from peasants for centralized distribution amongst the population.

5)       Rationed food and commodities.

6)       Private enterprise made illegalized.

7)       Military-style control of railroads.

The Bolsheviks used the printing press to fund their activities. The money supply limitlessly increased making fixed legal prices less and less realistic. Rationing cards replaced rubles as the means of acquiring goods. And since no one could acquire goods with the use of money there was no incentive to work, hence the government enforcement of compulsory labor.

Famine swept through Russia because of the Bolshevik-run government’s seizure of grain from the peasantry. Lenin and the Bolsheviks saw all kulaks and peasants as petty bourgeoisie obstructing the collectivization of agriculture, because of their sedition against and in-cooperation with the Bolshevik-run government.  In their strong antipathy towards the kulaks and peasantry, Lenin’s regime punitively demanded for all kulaks and peasants to be deprived of not only surplus grain but also seed grain. Official Soviet reports reveal that millions of Russian lives were endangered by starvation because of droughts, stringent price controls and expropriation of peasant property during the Russian famine of 1921.

Much violence under the rule of Lenin came from the Cheka, an important military and security arm of the Bolshevik-run government which began with a diktat issued on December 20, 1917 by Vladimir Lenin and subsequently led by Felix Dzerzhinsky who was an aristocrat-turned communist. In 1921 a branch of the Cheka called the Troops for the Internal Defense of the Republic consisting of a number of 200,000 troops policed labor camps, ran the Gulag concentration camp system, requisitioned for the peasantry’s forfeiture of food to the government, subjected all people who opposed the Bolshevik government to torture and summary execution, and extinguished riots and insurgencies brought on by the peasants and workers.

Generally, inmates of the Gulag concentration camp system were treated as government-owned slaves being languished through interminable hours of enslaving toil and receiving measly rations in return for their efforts.  Under extreme climates prisoners had to fell trees with handsaws and axes, dig at frozen ground with primitive pickaxes to build arctic canals, and mine for coal and copper by hand which was a job from which they suffered excruciating and fatalistic lung diseases because of the inhalation of ore dust. Historian and author of The Russian Revolution written in 1990 said in his book: “Soviet concentration camps, as instituted in 1919, were meant to be a place of confinement for all kinds of undesirables, whether sentenced by courts or by administrative organs. Liable to confinement in them were not only individuals but also categories of individuals- that is, entire classes: Dzerzhinsky at one point proposed that special concentration camps be erected for the bourgeoisie. Living in forced isolation, the inmates formed a pool of slave labor on which Soviet administrative and economic institutions could draw at no cost.” According to Pipes the number of prisoners of these camps in 1920 was 50,000 and in 1923 it was 70,000.

As the economy deteriorated the Cheka grew stronger and more brutal. After a revolt was brought on by social revolutionaries in July of 1918, the Cheka turned its guns on fellow socialists and murdered 350 captured social revolutionary mutineers. After an assassination attempt was made by social revolutionaries named Fanny Kaplan and Leonid Kannegisser a month later, the Cheka tightened their grip through the initiation of the Red Terror which included the mass executions of people based on their class origins and beliefs instead of their actions. Regardless of the fact that these two assassins were never of the bourgeois class, but were always socialist in nature, the Soviet leaders were convinced the social revolutionaries and the Mensheviks were tools of the class enemy to socialism and the Bolshevik-run government ergo necessitating a reprisal from the Soviet leaders. On September 5^th the Soviet commissars officially legalized the Red Terror and five hundred hostages were murdered in Petrograd on the orders of Georgi Zinoviev. Afterwards, more Cheka executions continued numbering somewhere between 100,000 and 500,000. The exact number is difficult to estimate because of the hectic state of affairs during that period of war.

In now being made aware of the connections between the International Socialist Organization, the International Socialist Review and the LGBT movement along with the type of philosophy in which they are embracing, we must remember who the people of the LGBT movement really are. They are not actually intending for real social change and equality between all people’s, but are rather a part of a covert nefarious plot. Being the fact that we have various clubs, groups, and associations operating inside of our colleges and universities and interspersed throughout all of our communities in the country, it would make sense to envisage there being an existent pyramid scheme having all of these various small clubs, groups, and associations be organized within and be answerable to a hierarchy from whom their methods, instructions, training, and techniques for propagandizing trickle down from. And lastly, it would be naïve and irrational not to suspect of there being more institutions working in conjunction with the International Socialist Organization, the International Socialist Review, and the LGBT movement. 

Modern Day American falsities About Air Pollution

*NOTICE- This following blog post was written by a fellow business partner of mine and requested that I share this with everyone by publishing it on my blog site. 

Hello blog readers. My name is Tim Mehallick and I am a friend of Matthew Sabatine. In light of all of the propaganda that comes from the contemporary Liberal, Progressive Democrat agenda concerning energy alternatives, I thought it to be helpful if I offered my own assertions of truth that I derived from my own personal empirical data.

Before doing so, I will provide you with a little personal background. I am sixty three years old and have forty years experience in industry as a manufacturing engineer. I graduated from Penn State University in 1969 and I have work experience in heavy manufacturing, home building electronic component manufacturing and rocket engine mechanization.

I hold a patent (now expired) for the design of an improved dental operatory unit and was honored by the state of Virginia for design contributions to the state sponsored energy efficiency program held in 1991.

This should indicate to you that I possess a fair background in the sciences and business economics. I will now list some assumptions that I will use in my discourse. I am certain that for those in the age range of 18 to 25 years old are the ones with little or no actual experience and real knowledge of America prior to the age of the EPA. You are unaware of the living conditions we had when our local economy was largely made of manufacturing and companies had to constantly battle the labor unions.

The school systems were different from today, we had to know right from wrong, correct from incorrect and there were no awards for just existing in the system. Calculators and computers did not exist for the average user, so arithmetic problems were solved manually.

I shall also assume that you do not watch or even minutely consider any truth to be a part of any of the things that oppose your beloved liberal bias news services. You have been led to believe in a large amount of pseudo science for your positions on eating versus health, economic models, conservation, and religion.

There are basic assumptions on my part and are not to be interpreted as my either agreeing or disagreeing with any specific argument.

I will begin with three of the topics brought up in a recent “going green” blog: that of pollution versus cancer, global warming versus burning coal and alternative energy sources.

Cancer versus pollution: In 1996, my mother died from brain cancer which had spread from her lung cancer. She was a very heavy smoker right up to the moment that she was told she had cancer. She quit this horrible addiction, something that is far worse than any other type of addiction (if you believe the hype) in about 5 seconds flat. She butted out her cigarette and never lit another. Most addictions have withdrawal symptoms, but she experienced none. She did live in a small manufacturing town which borders coke ovens; coke being a commodity necessary for steel production during World War 1 and World War 2. My mother was in her 70’s.

On Christmas morning of 2003, my sister, age 35, died from brain cancer. She was a Navy nurse—practitioner who spent her career tending to the health needs of the dependents of active duty personnel. She did not smoke and was young enough to have missed most of the local industrial pollution. So, why is she dead?

My father, age 88, has smoked all is adult life, beginning with his successful return from a b17 bombing mission of Hitler’s National Socialism Germany. Upon returning to America, he resumed his work as a mason. I can recall summer days helping to unload 80 pound bags of Portland cement. After a half of an hour, the cement dust would be thick in the air. I would stop to drink water and breathe in some clean air; the old man would light a cigar. He continues to smoke today, with no apparent ill effects from 68 years of respiratory abuse. So, why isn’t he dead?

We need a medical construct that allows for both of these conditions. If pollution and smoking actually caused cancer, my father should have died before either my mother or sister, and my sister (who was 5 years younger than me) should have outlived me.

I propose that the answer lies in the possibility of a cell growth regulating mechanism being in every person and or animals. This mechanism that begins to diminish as everyone ages at varying rates. The first evidence of this change might be seen in hair growth rate. When I was young, I never had to trim my eyebrows, nose hairs or ear hair. My haircuts were spaced at 45 day intervals. Now that I am in my sixties, nose hair must be trimmed weekly, as with eyebrows. My hair begins to look shaggy in just three weeks, thus requiring a trim with ear hair included.

My 88 year old father requires about half the attention to these grooming needs so I will conclude that his cell growth regulation mechanism is better than mine.

How does this relate to our discussion? First, pollution and/or smoking do not cause cancer. That is a grossly simplistic statement used to satisfy the unthinking mind. The body’s need to eliminate toxins and repair tissue damage requires an increase in cell replacement. The more cells that you produce to heal the problem, the greater the possibility of generating a cancer cell will be. The weaker your cell regulation system is the larger the possibility becomes.

Second, most of the man made industrial pollution has been controlled. I would estimate that vehicle exhaust has had pollution reduced by approximately 95%. Coal fired power plants are required to capture heavy soot particles. Oxides of nitrogen are somewhat transitory in nature, being captured by water vapor and being delivered to the ground where they may contribute to nitrogen fixation and plant growth. Sulfur oxides work in somewhat the same way, but the main sources of these gases are the world’s active volcanoes.

I did a little web search and found two sites that may be of interest to you:

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id and

http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/hazards/gas/index.php

The following statement was copied from an eighty plus page, government document: “Air Quality Observation Systems in the United States” Draft Report January 2010.

“A Carbon Observatory mission, which failed on launch in early 2009, was to join the A Train to measure CARBON DIOXIDE with the precision required to map global distribution of CO2 sources and sinks on regional scales. A U.S. replacement mission for OCO is not currently scheduled, but Japan’s Greenhouse gases Observing Satelite (GOSAT), launched in January, 2009, will globally monitor carbon dioxide and carbon hydrogen.”

In my review of this document, I did not find any other references to the measurement of carbon dioxide. Maybe there are no other precise measurements? Interesting? The document may be seen at http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/csd/aqrs/reports/aqmonitoring.pdf

I shall continue to read this document and relay to Matthew any further findings. The bottom line to all of this is that the majority of manmade gases going into the environment are well controlled. Nature, on the other hand, is beyond our influence.

Let’s now consider the issue of global warming and burning coal. This combustion process has as its principal chemical products carbon dioxide and water vapor. It is generally disputed that the carbon dioxide causes an increase in atmospheric temperature. Some of the answer lies in the document just introduced. We can begin with that document.

A United States map is included in this document and may be found on page 11. It is interesting to note the key for this map. If you study it closely you will see that there is no reference to the monitoring of carbon dioxide. Further, if you look at the Table of Contents and List of Figures you will find no direct reference to carbon dioxide but you will find nitrogen oxide and carbon dioxide references. I am being redundant, but if carbon dioxide is so relevant why isn’t it a high priority on the monitoring system?

Another noteworthy observation is the distribution of monitoring stations. Most of the monitoring is done on the densely populated coast lines. If those readings are used to represent the entire atmosphere over the United States, the conclusions would be much higher than if readings were taken in a uniform distribution of monitoring stations. This would give as many readings from the plains of the mid west as readings from the high density coastal regions. The wind currents do tend to equalize molecular concentrations in the atmosphere and the uniform distribution of stations would provide not only a better average value but also some insight into the change in concentration of molecules.

So how much carbon dioxide is in the atmosphere? In terms that you may visualize, approximately 387 parts per 1,000,000 parts. This number, expressed as a percentage is .09387% or 3.o87/100^th of 1%. Compare this to oxygen, which is 21% or 210,000 parts per 1,000,000 parts. My data source is: Universal Industrial Gas, Inc. and may be found at

                                                www.uigi.com

Just click on “Gas Properties, Uses and Safety” then click “Air.” I know that this corporation is viewed as  “capitalistic” but if you or a family member needs supplemental oxygen to maintain your quality of life, you damn well better rethink your position on such companies.  

So how hot must carbon dioxide get in order to increase the atmospheric temperature 1 degree Fahrenheit? By averaging, using 387 as the number of heated molecules, the temperature of the carbon dioxide would have to be 2,701.5789 degrees Fahrenheit! This is a simplification, but valid because the claims I have heard involve high altitude gases; therefore ground level heat effects are minimal with regard to this particular argument. The above shows the lack of congruency between media claims and measurable scientific reality. Enjoy your current inexpensive use of coal fired electricity and do so, guilt free.

The above discussion does not include the influences of heat retention by water vapor, solar absorption by ground based heat sinks such as buildings and dark pavement or solar reflection by airborne particulates.

Our society demands a clean atmosphere, devoid of dust and dirt, then complains about how and where this super transparent atmosphere makes the days too hot and causes us to get sunburned. As Spock would have said, “Fascinating!”

Most of you were not alive when I was young, so you are clueless about the real pollution that existed in and around the Pittsburgh area. I remember trips down Pittsburgh as a child. You could see the flare gases being burned at the stacks of J&L Steel. This company occupied the strip of land along the parkway from the Bates St. exit to Second St. which was distance of at least ¼ mile. The building on the opposite side of the parkway had a yellowish soot on them indicative of sulfur. This smell would mix with diesel bus fumes that exited the vehicles at street level and blew into your face. Soot would land in your hair and on your clothes. The soot would blow off your car as you exited the parking garages. If you were leaving the garage at rush hour, you idled your car’s engine, and in those days, the cars had no pollution controls. The exhaust fumes would envelope the car. But that’s not all! Remember, most people smoked during that era. With all of this horrible environmental bodily abuse, you would think that people dropped like flies on a cold morning. But such was not the case. It just wasn’t the big deal much like how it has become today.

I worked for General Electric just after college and spent time installing a control system for a metal pickling and annealing line, located at Weirton Steel. I would arrive early in the morning and leave at afternoon shift change. During that work day, my eyes would become irritated and bloodshot. My chest would hurt and I would cough constantly. But best of all, the atmosphere pitted the chrome plating on my car’s bumpers! Again, I say that today’s uninformed youth have no real concept of air pollution. You have been misguided with factual gross inaccuracies and have been pushed into believing simplistic answers and this leads us to the last topic of the three; alternative fuels.

I do not intend to go into great detail on this subject at this time. I will remind everyone that we have experienced the great failure of one solar company, Solyndra, after being given more than $500 million and this is just the beginning. The failure is blamed on foreign competition but that really isn’t the problem. The real problem is that the efficiency of solar energy is much too low to be practical and these results in the need for massive surface area of collection, the creation of battery capacity that would resemble office buildings in size and energy conversion from DC to AC for efficient transmission. The same problems exist for solar. T. Boone Pickens wanted to do wind power but soon dropped this project for lack of feasibility. You can find web references by typing his name.

The best alternative is the production of synthetic oil from readily available hydrocarbon waste products and from renewable natural gas. I am working on this alternative and will ask Matt to post items of interest as they become available. I close this blog with one thought, do not just accept but do your investigations before you believe and accept.  

What it Was to be a Slave in Joseph Stalin's Communist Russia

How would you like it if you were cruelly punished for making too many mistakes or failing to meet the standards of performance at your job? And no, I am not talking about getting fired. Imagine having to work under horridly perilous conditions with very cumbersome and complex machinery for very many long hours per day while receiving a paltry pay. Your main motivation for soaking yourself in your blood, sweat, and tears in effort to fulfill your duties is not to receive a substantial pay so you can provide for your family 3 course meals per day and a roof over your heads. No! It is in effort to avoid failure in meeting up to the stringent demands of the factory or workplace managers and your nation’s tyrant who will have you publicly executed or imprisoned for your failure. This is precisely what happened to workers in industry in Russia from the late 1920s to the early 1950s under Joseph Stalin and his Five Years Plans.

Absence from work was absolutely prohibited regardless of the circumstances and was punishable by a fine. Each and every worker also had to carry around a labor book in which charted their level of success on the job and identified to what degree they were working hard.

Stalin preached to Russia about other nations being ahead of Russia by 50 years. He pledged to make up for the difference in a matter of 10 years via a centrally planned economy or a command economy and totalitarianism, and by also coercing people to overexert themselves in industrial labor. He made it mandatory that there would be a 250% increase in total industrial output and a 350% increase in heavy industries.

In order to industrially compete with the West, avoid capitulation to the influence of Western capitalism, and build war machines such as tanks, artillery weapons, and airplanes to defend themselves against Western attack, everyone was coerced into focusing on investing in coal, iron, steel, and other industrial materials rather than investing in consumerism or personal products and possessions.

Do you think the people were happy?

No! Shops were completely vacant. Clothing was at a shortage of supply and many household items were unavailable. The lack of consumerism in Russia was a large part of the fall in standard living.

People worked under this communist wage slave economy in hopes that a paradisiacal society would one day be brought to fruition if they followed the rigors of Stalin’s coercive mandates and kept their faith in the promises of Stalin. DO you think Stalinism worked and the communist utopian dream was achieved?

Most definitely not!

When collectivization was implemented in 1928, all factories, machinery, farms, land, crops, labor, private property, and PEOPLE’S HOMES to be turned over to the state so the government could fulfill the utopian dream of communism.

Do you think the peasants and workers acquiesced to Stalin’s demands to make everyone in society EQUAL?

No! All of the industrial workers and peasants destroyed all of their crops, land, homes, machinery and factories and slaughtered their animals so the government could not use them. Afterwards, the government had these people publicly executed in which amounted up to 7 million deaths in response to their refusal of compliance to government demands. Despite the fact that Stalin’s Five Year Plan led to certain economic successes with projects such as the building of roads, railways, dams, and canals and a huge expansion in energy production, it led to massive nationwide social unrest and a huge famine caused by the government’s enormous hoarding of grains. Agriculture suffered greatly and the revival of livestock did not complete itself until 1953.

And now, the most intriguing and horrific part of this whole monstrous turpitude of Stalinism/communism, we have what are referred to as the Great Purges. These are a series of trials and events consisting of the executions of various members of Stalin’s communist party who expressed dissidence to Stalin’s actions and policies or were suspected of being potential rivals or threats to overthrowing him. Any ordinary Russian civilians who spoke any complaints or criticisms of Stalin were trialed and executed also.

Between 1936 and 1938, three different trials were held in contempt of 54 different prominent leaders of Stalin’s communist party and were all charged and executed for some sort of conspiracy, treason, and sabotage. Generals in Russia’s armed forces, one in particular Tuchachevesky, along with 3 out of 5 marshals and about half of the military officials were held on trial and executed for some kind of disobedience against Stalin.

All across the cities, towns, and neighborhoods paranoia permeated the hearts and minds of civilians with fear and terror of Stalin’s punishments being brought against anyone suspicious of dissension or complaints against his actions and policies. Many people would accuse their neighbors and even family members of expressing any criticisms or complaints of Stalin, so as to prove to the government and the rest of society their patriotic allegiance to Stalin and to avoid, at all costs, other people’s suspicion of them disliking and/or not worshipping Stalin.

Overall, this communist abomination amounted up to 10 million people being sent to labor camps where they died along with a million other people who were seized from their homes and executed on the spot. Because of these purges, militaristic strength became awfully attenuated with the execution of very competent leaders who were then replaced with very incompetent officers. The economic development declined with the executions and demises of industrial workers and high-end employers who were the underpinnings of productivity and morale in the economy.

Stalin used his iron fist to intimidate and brainwash his people into thinking of him as some kind of god. He deployed secret police to run frequent audits on the education system to make sure that communism would remain being taught in schools and indoctrinated into the hearts and minds of all young children. All forms of art, film-making, and literature were used to propagandize about government’s successes. Many poems and books were published to venerate Stalin’s merits, virtuousness, and brilliance. In meetings, the attendees made sure to applaud as boisterously, exuberantly, and lengthily as they possibly could. Usually, the people to stop expressing praise first would be arrested because such a thing represented dishonor and betrayal to Stalin.

Stalin sought out to abrogate the Russian Orthodox Church out of strong aversion for any reverence for something other than himself. But despite his vigorous attempt, strangely, the church was able to survive.

Government totalitarianism can take on many forms and can masquerade itself with very many different appealing faces. It is paramount that Americans know their history, because if we do not, we are bound to repeat it. We cannot allow ourselves to be susceptible to electing officials who will cause us to repeat the atrocities that have taken place in history. Vote out of office the narcissist and vainglorious Barack Hussein Obama in 2012. Let freedom ring!