Eight Hours of Testimony

Eight hours of testimony by Gen. Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker before US Senate, and Some Senators response summed it all as follows:

Quotation of the day cited in this mornings New York Times: "We haven't turned any corners. We haven't seen any lights at the end of the tunnel." Gen. David H. Petraeus

Senator McCain with all his claims of experience, and the years of the so called experience on key US Senate committees continues to demonstrate his lack of knowledge and experience regarding the difference among Sunni, Shia, Al Queda, and Iran.

Senator Evan Bayh statements sums it up: "We'll know when we get there, and we don't know when we're going to get there."


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Wealth Making?

The current globalization game has accelerated the wealth making financial manipulation game. The game is on. Let us take a look as to how this game has been played, in sequence that is.

First game plan, Mr. Greenspan gave a green signal for marketeers to move with their game in an unregulated supply side financial market. And so they did. In order to create wealth in an unregulated supply side of the economic market, the financial markets were and still are being manipulated and adjusted by creating paper wealth in tune of multiple times and in so many forms of "creative"financial instruments that even the "smartest" financial manipulators are now having difficulty in their ways to keep up with the next "smarter" financial manipulator. The run on Bear and Stern and the inability of Bear and Stern to protect itself from the bank run is just an example.

Second game plan was created by shifting hard earn sustainable wealth such as 401K and pension plans into market place, and by mixing it with unsustainable paper wealth under the disguise of economic fancy words such as "investment" when in fact the sustainable wealth was and still is used to sustain unsustainable paper wealth of some who did not create any sustainable GNP in the first place.

Third game is being played out by using false excuse of demand and supply to increase the gas and oil price in access of 200% +.

Fourth game is being played by creating friendly state politics and ideology to print currency to sustain unsustainable paper wealth.

A healthy game for some, and gloom and doom for the rest.


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A Diverse Nation Deserves a Diverse Inclusive Leader

United States of America is one of the most diverse contemporary nation on this beautiful planet. A nation must not forget it's diverse roots. All diverse roots must be recognized with equity, equality, and candor.

Mr. Obama gave a speech in Philadelphia, to counter pastor Wright's controversial statements, in which Mr. Obama specifically identified earlier European immigrants and what he called blacks in chain and alluded that these two groups were the founders of this nation with birth defect. The real birth defect of course is the short sightedness which fails to recognize nation's all diverse groups and their contributions in founding and building this nation. We must not forget the native Americans, the original owners of this nation, and other immigrants with diverse national origins and their contributions in building this nation. It is presumptuous to consider that this nation is the outcome of earlier European immigrants and the blacks in chain. Both the earlier Europeans and the unfortunate blacks in chain have contributed in founding and building the nation, and their contributions along with other immigrants and the native Americans must be recognize with equity, equality, and candor as well. Any political position short of inclusive of all shall be considered defective.


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Political Candidates and Their Accessibility

This morning visited three presidential candidates (Hillary Clinton, John McCain, and Barack Obama) websites. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama's sites are proactive in recruiting and raising money, and have blocked out direct contacts from it's viewers. Viewers can view standardized web format and get answers from a standardized slate of answers. There is no easy way for viewers to directly send in their questions, concerns, and comments. However, John McCain's website though under construction provides viewers to directly send in their comments, concerns, and questions. It seems Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have made themselves less accessible than John McCain. Is this what we will expect from their White House? Clinton and Obama less accessible, and McCain more accessible..........


Time to ponder..........

Elections and Mental Health

In a democratic society, elections are one of the best barometers that reflect society's thoughts, feelings, deep rooted grievances, and psychological well being or lack of it. During elections political leaders engage in controversial and convoluted statements, pastors get into pastoral pontifications, media with different ideological bents find enough material to create shows to sell advertisements, and voters demonstrate their psychological well being through their psychological traits such as identifications, affiliations, and projections towards the candidates.



A time to ponder.............

Bigotry

The question: How to fight bigotry?

Answer: Not with counter bigotry.




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Change

What will it take to bring political change to current political milieu?

1. Responsible voters exercising voting power.

2. Educated and well informed voters.

3. Two million small donors and volunteers.

4. A diverse group of advisers to advise on issues such as economics, education, foreign policy,
defense policy.

5. A diverse group of cyber geeks.

6. A diverse group of public relation and media geeks.

7. An intelligent and well educated leader with social conscious.


A time to ponder.....................