NOT TOO BAD , NOT TOO GOOD EITHER .......

Today my comments are addressed to Mr. Obama , the 44th and current president of the United States of America .  Mr.  Obama , as you've been already 6 years the leader of this country with 2 remaining , may I take the opportunity to make few honest remarks , probably shared by many millions here in America and the world .

Your recent move toward Cuba , one has to agree was a master's move , as our policy toward that country and its people , as you describe it yourself was a very outdated and archaic policy . Your adversaries are totally divided and at a loss .


Your health care or Obamacare as it's being labeled , seems to be well on the way to establishing itself as a totally accepted system , with millions of adherents and beneficiaries , again your opponents are practically silenced and forgetting it .


Immigration reforms are still wishy washy and no decisive rulings came out of it , but surely you're having the upper hand , hope you continue the reforms there for a better future of this country and its citizens.  Regulating  Wall Street and the banking system , as well as narrowing the growing huge spread between the extravagantly rich 1or 2 % and the majority of stagnating middle classes  is again lukewarm at best , as you obviously didn't prove to be whom the American people hoped you'd be .


Saving and bailing out big businesses and banks was again a very smart move and a positive one , to the country and your political career , but asking them and the big corporate entities for money and help to contribute to the country's long term educational , and scientific research programs , plus the everlasting  infrastructural problems of our country  and its welfare , was well beyond your scope , and never part of the deal , even though the country and its people would have enjoyed a tremendous boom from an alliance between private big money and government , somehow nothing happened and the country is still lagging behind .


Racial tensions , social problems , imprisonment , police and NSA supremacy and  brutality didn't improve or go anywhere significantly during your reign , even though you symbolized a strong possibility at your initial election .


Finally  your general foreign policy , under very hesitant moves , lead the country to loose some very important U.S. past gains . True , you got the country out of Iraq , but only to get us back in again  , and having to play a sectarian game of helping the Iranian backed Shiia against its counter part Sunny population , a no good game for the U.S. at all .


We totally missed and misused our strength and authority with the Israeli/Palestinian Peace process , and humiliated our system of governance , leading us now again to have to veto an independent state of Palestine within a reasonable time frame , a totally biased position against most countries of the world including our closest allies . We could have achieved way more to both involved parties , and better served our vital interests in the Middle East .


Your indecisiveness  Mr. president with the Syrian Assad regime , and their proven establishing of the Islamic hordes , led to an almost cold war situation with Russia , China , and most Middle-Eastern countries , less evasiveness toward Syria would have brought us lots and lots of recognition .


I sincerely hope that in the coming month or so , and as a great gift to Many struggling Americans , you might offer the poor working classes , and the economy in general a real boost , by using your presidential powers and establish  a 10,10$ or a 10,50$ minimum wage policy , even if the increase is spread over a 4 quarters of an 18 months period , to help accommodate small businesses .


Mr. President , the American people , same as in many parts of the world , are starting to live a serious cognitive revolution  to problems such as steep inequality of wealth distribution , big profits by financial entities and banks , huge corporate powers , and special interests and their big monetary interferences in elections , and in directing our policies and wars . The politics of Israel are becoming more of a steady embarrassment to our integrity and a liability to our interests .


Finally Mr. president , and during your 2 remaining years , many Americans believe that you stand a fair chance of putting the country firmly back on its track , regardless of short term habitual threats and criticism , whether from internal or external friends , allies or their lobbies . You said lately that "We are doing these things because they are the things to do."So keep doing and don't be a political calculating and a picker.You have to finish doing what we started doing 6 years ago internally and externally .


Good luck Mr. President in your remaining term , and by the way Happy holidays for you and your family .   My usual thanks and as well , Happy holidays to all .              

20 , 50 , or 100 YEARS .......

Such  numbers from a historical perspective are minimal and almost meaningless ,  so many conflicts , wars , truces , empires , fascist and brutal dictators , as well as many other events in our world last 5000 years history , lasted 50 or a 100 years , to totally vanish later with hardly any trace at all .


IF I was either an Israeli politician , some Neocon right wing zealot , or an ISIS good old turbaned Sunni jihadi Musslem , I would by now be well entrenched in serious negotiations for a long truce with the other party.  The problem is ; would a 20 or 50 years truce be adequate and fulfilling or should we aim and work our efforts for a 100 years truce .  IT all happened before with both sides .


Both , Sunnis and Jews , would agree to such an arrangement influenced by  their religiosity , beliefs and historicity , a solid commitment from both parties , a win-win situation . I believe historically both religions had more than one well established truce between them , in the times of their coexistence , during the early days of Islam and Muhammad's establishing of his reign .


So in the actual Middle-East , and the Levant , as we are clearly witnessing the beginnings and the Resurrection of an older pattern , whereby It is not just a matter of inventing or discovering new tactics , or political devises , the rapprochement of the two Major forces , Sunni Musslems and Israeli Jews , is starting to take place  slowly and surely .


The interesting part is our underestimating of the speed with which the new rapprochement and the accepting trends , are taking hold . It seems to be coinciding perfectly and synchronized with the rise of religiosity  and fanaticism in most M-E countries and certainly in both camps .


The various combinations heighten the possibilities  but also the dangers . The rate at which people and their leaders , absorb such acceptances is rising fast . It took far more than half a century of total Musslem/Jewish enmity before on the ground circumstances due mostly to Sunni/Shiia historic  hatred and distrust , would allow people to accept and start absorbing such ideas .


The Sunni/Shiia fault line that divided and continue to do so , in several nations within the Middle-East , is proving to be far worse and  more destructive than the Musslem/Jewish divides throughout history , old and new.


Let's agree that both sides , Musslems and Israeli Jews , and for the greater part of the past century , systematically refused to give the other any strategical advantages . Any benefit one gets is seen immediately as a debit on the other side . Widespread distrust  was the reigning situation .


Now that we accept that the Islamisation scenarios of all countries covering the Middle-East map , are here to stay , for some decades at least , and the establishing and governing of the Jewish orthodoxy and their Neocons leaders are here to stay as well , a Sunni/Jewish truce is de rigueur ,and is being contemplated by more than one party , countries as well as  individuals . As I've always firmly believed that only extremists from both sides will be able to ever sign a truce or peace treaty .


Whether it's all for the better or worse is debatable , and what the future of this area of the world hides is to be seen .


My usual many thanks to everyone for your time .        

TRUSTING THE SYSTEM .....

IN  the wake of the last few weeks events , in Ferguson , N.Y. , Cleveland  Ohio , and many other spots of the U.S , one is led to think and possibly conclude , if a majority of Americans truly think  and believe that these bodies are credible enough . If these appointed grand juries , are not in many cases out of sink , biased , and clearly nowhere close to fair and within the spirit of the law of the land .


Common sense would lead us to some obvious conclusions ; Assuming that most of these appointed bodies  and committees , of ultimate ruling decisions in some cases , could be biased , or motivated by different rules than just the plain and fair rule of law , as clearly more and more  Americans now believe . Then the possibility of all investigative  committees  and grand juries integrity are at stake .


In some cases corrupt in its ugly sense might be applied , in others biased and ignoring the on the ground truths for ideological and special interests purposes . Our financial system benefited repeatedly and continue to do so , according to most observers . Our lobbying forces whether  political , economical , foreign  or domestic , even though investigated repeatedly , are as powerful and dominant as never before . Some of our prominent politicians would fall under "guilty" but are in fact free to do more and benefit their political agendas and their deep pockets as well as their sponsors .


Are our police and many newly created as well as old security agencies becoming "the untouchables". Are we here in our 21st century America in need of an American Spring ?? A movement to rid us of big brotherhood and its branches , something to prove to ourselves and show the world , that we are still the leading nation within our civilized world .

These investigative bodies and grand juries are formed by people like us , why do they revert into

ideologies and inherited basic instincts rather than applying the strict rule of law  as they clearly should , even our judicial system and all the way up in hierarchy, is proving to be more localized and reflecting local sentiments rather than the unified approved laws of our country's judicial system.

Are the big banks and Wall street , the huge corporate sector , and all special interests the new norms  of ruling and governance ?? The unchallenged forces , the untouchable entities ?? Are our elections eternally rigged to be kept hostage to big money and extravagant interests .

Many doubted  the outcome of the Kennedy assassination investigations , are we today to revise our trust in the 9/11 investigations as well ? the Christie bridge scandal final verdict ?? Once again a young black man is killed , and another one , and another ,  yet somehow , no crime has been committed , could all of our higher appointed investigative bodies be as out of sink and clearly wrong and not suspect higher special influences interferences .

This is not where America ought to be in the 21st century . My usual many thanks to all .


  

REALITY FROM AN OBSCURE SCENE ......

We can not admire nor excuse the brutal , blind and fanatic leader , who wrecks and  destroys his country and  the fabric of its society and peoples , for love of another world of his own liking and interests . Rulers and regimes  that wreck and sacrifice the very existence of humanity out of hatred for the other .


The thing to be considered nowadays all across the Middle-East , is the fact that the same attitudes reign and hold true for all parties , whether we bring the Assad president and his regime , the ISIS gangs and their rogue leaders in their quest of reinstating their Caliphate , or Netanyahu and his right wing religious neocons with their apartheid treatment of their Arab Israeli citizens or their under occupation Palestinian population . Many other leaders and regimes stand to view .


The notions of  dignity and basic human rights , democracy and rule of law and so on , are systematically reduced and eliminated , and always turned to a deceptive mask for the carrying of day to day tactics and long term goals  of all these thirsty for dominance regimes .The above mentioned regimes , are continuously orchestrating and conducting  "ethnic/religious" conflicts and crimes , sharing a common strategy of indoctrinating their youth , for the creation of a culture of hatred and brutality towards the other .


BE it called a Sunni Islamo-fascist fundamentalism , a Shiia or Jewish fascist fundamentalism . It represent the three sides of the same brutal repression . Requiring International , or at least decisive Western interventions .


IN this aspiring Middle-East  of our actual times , it is impossible for any one person to combine simultaneously three features ;  Conviction and loyalty , or call it " belief " in official ideology , Intelligence , and honesty . If one believe and is intelligent , then he is not honest . If one is intelligent and honest , then one couldn't be a believer . And if one is a believer and honest , then he's far from intelligent .


The Assad regime , the Sunni hordes in Iraq and Syria , and the Israeli religious coalition of neocons , share between them some very similar traits , policies and pseudo concepts whose function are strictly to block dialogue and kill peace  with the other side , and only aim at brutally suppress and annihilate the other . While perpetrating a culture of hatred by propagating horrible individual and collective crimes .


The truth of the situation therefore is ,that  Assad , Netanyahu and Baghdadi , are all the same in the long run  , applying the same tactics and methods to terrorize and dehumanize their subjects , peoples and opponents .




Thank you all for listening . 

ADOPTING CIVILIZED AND EFFECTIVE METHODES .....

As we claim to cherish and hold so dear our relationship with  Israel , and highly approve of all their acts , methods , tactics and policies , almost to inspirational degrees , whereby so many Americans look forward to go visit and establish a living  of some sort in Israel  and its under occupation  cities  and territories ,  the obvious comes to mind , and one could  ask ;


Why  don't we apply  here in the  U.S. , some of their more successful and proven laws , and security measures and tactics , for instance when a crime occurs , and the criminal is apprehended or killed , why don't we go ahead simultaneously  and demolish and erase  the perpetrator's home , his siblings  and  his  parents as well , maybe  even  his  neighbors  homes .  They  are all guilty of  harboring , inciting  and definitely approving some of his acts , are they not ??


Why  don't we learn , how to go effectively after  the  murderous'  mother and father , brothers and sisters , treat them like dirt , jail  and torture them , deny them their civil rights , as they must have had a hand in their sibling's criminal acts , confiscating whole neighborhoods , villages , destroying  their farm trees , their water wells , isolating them within thick walls , just to teach all and everyone that crime doesn't pay in our civilized societies .


A fair number of Americans , without any doubt , believe that in many areas of the country , black people , are responsible for most crimes and acts of violence , except lately in our schools , Why don't our local governments and local law enforcement  agencies , adopt policies of destroying their homes and confiscating their lands collectively as punishment , and maybe rebuild new houses  for more suitable new immigrants . As in the example of Israelis and their troublesome  Palestinian neighbors .


The practice of collective punishments and house demolishing  in Israel is carried out through  the  courts and the governments , so no worry of illegalities , even if it's banned by all international  laws and ours . In the past we have carried some similar actions against native Americans , blacks and even Japanese , whereby today we have no shortage of anti societal elements in our country ; Arabs , Musslems , blacks , Asians and mostly from India , 5 millions Latino criminals .


No house demolition for Baruch Goldstein who killed 29 Palestinians in a mosque in 1996 , nor  the homes of Israeli men who killed and burned a Palestinian teenager earlier this year , or the shooter of a  31 years old Arab who was shot on his roof-top for being suspected of carrying some bad intentions .


So let's adopt some of these proven to work procedures and policies of collective punishments , and apply them locally for our security . Naturally common sense requires us to adopt these Israeli effective methods  in their entirety and  apply them strictly and only against enemies of peace and harmony , and not its defenders .




Again , as I was lately  asked why am I focusing many of my blogs on the Israeli/Palestinian issues , frankly , because I'm appalled by the happenings and our utter silence , my usual many thanks .   


   

THE OMNI OMINOUS ......

Throughout the human race modern history , some 6000 years , man  had always this fantasy of creating  a superior and higher than himself creature , a god  he later called it , an Omni entity that would be responsible for all and everything , that would be our creator , inspirer and our salvage , responsible for the salvation of our actual world and the one after .


Man gave and described his  created gods in the most  desirable and dream-like fantasies , filled  with  terrestrial  pleasures  and wishes , mostly  unobtainable here on earth by the majority  of mortals . Living as well with his wrath , anger and brutality , perfectly reflecting and mirroring ours .


Originally  mythical gods  were  more  civilized , as they  mostly attended to their own affairs , pleasures and brutal  fights and mutual destruction , thus  giving us  men  here on earth  a live example  of how to behave and conduct our lives .


Then  appeared our actual only one  god !!!  The only  and sole creator of everything with his rigid rules and ethics , the Pharaoh Khufu  had a strong hand in shaping the idea , a god that fulfilled  the aspirations of many by force or through the influence of time , spreading into larger areas , and different peoples . Eventually into world wide arrogant dogmas and creeds , rules and ethics . Into hatred , into pseudo love and forgiveness , that never lasted long as human nature was never compatible enough .


This same Omni all and everything  god , managed to steal man's  imagination for centuries , mostly with his brutal ways and behaviors , commanding and asking for the annihilation of everyone not within its grip or sect , contradicting himself in his eternal messages more often than not . Man was always his faithful and blind executor .


Why do we keep at it , and so blindly  and faithfully , whether Pharaonic , Hebraic , Christian or Islamic , it is the same  Omni and ominous one . As expected ,  gods and their disciples flourish mostly in troubled areas , take actual or whatever is left of Syria for an example , where the cultured secular , modern democratic figures of society , were the easiest to beat and eliminate from the game , only the godly religious remained  on all sides , all under a perfect umbrella of politics , Sunni  Musslems majority fighting Shiia Alawite Musslems and some other scared minorities . Iraq , Libya ,Yemen , and  many other hot spots of the world , not excluding the ex Soviet Union  nor Israel and Palestine ,  are all having their godly moments with  all its brutality and blindness .


Everything  about our lives , our understanding of mater and mind , of ourselves , is more or less maturing and advancing , except our core religious beliefs and behavior unfortunately . Isn't it high time we  seriously reconsider that old Divine Spark , dating thousands of years back in antiquity . Humanity is getting better, smarter and more accomplished over time , we don't need Sparks to direct and guide our actual times and lives , whether Divine or self made .


My usual  appreciation and thanks for your time with me .   


  

MIDTERM ELECTIONS ......

We  all  realize  and know  by now  that  the Republican  party  won  the  midterm  elections  for 2014 , won  both  houses  of  congress , secured  many  governing  positions  in  many  States ,  clearly  rendering  them  the  governing  real  power  more  or  less  across  most of  the  country .


Next !!!  what  is  their  real  agenda , their  concrete  strategic  policies  for  the  future  and  advancement  of  the  country .  We  all understand  that  most  if  not  all  campaign  slogans  and  advertisement  efforts  were  simply  tactical  little  games , for  the  sole  purpose  of  igniting  the  electorates .


One  inspired  Republican  aspirant , for  example  was  calling  for  the  abolition  of  the  minimum  wage , in  trying  to  oppose  the  proposed  hike in  minimum  wages  proposed  by  the  administration  and  many  Democrats . Some  other  campaign  advertisements and  slogans  were  not  less  strange  and  unrealistic .  But  most  of  these  , strictly  for  campaign  purposes , proved  to  be  useful as  winning  tools in  a  more  than  ever  divided  country , politically  and  economically , widening  the  margins  between  the  different  American  classes  and  the  few super  rich , individuals  and  corporations .


Some  further  analysis lead  one  to  conclude  that  the  general  traditional  Anglo Saxon  constituency , is  steadily and  stubbornly  drifting  back  into  its  historical  traditional  conservatism , and  these  are  served  best  by  the  Republican propaganda machine .


Let's  admit  though , that  too  many  discouraging  events took  place  affecting  American  lives and  psyche  for  the  past  14 years , terrorism , wars  that  were  unworkable and not winnable , fundamental Islamism  that  is  increasingly threatening  our  way  of  life , some  very  intransigent  allies that are  constantly undermining  our  interests  in  many  regions , a  black president as well  as a possible Musslem according to  many. Policies and adventures demanding higher taxes to fund and cover , and  an  economically harsh meltdown  resulting  in  a diminished market  for  better  paying  jobs  and  positions .


We  all genuinely agree though, that  we  are  steadily  progressing  to  better  state of affairs  and  levels , if  not presently enjoying  the  best times of  the  past  12 years .


When  back  in  1969 , Gen. De Gaull , the  French  super  hero , the  savior  and  creator  of  modern  France , lost office to  a  humiliating  electoral  defeat , the  French  invented  then , the  theory  of  electorate  tiredness , the  people  being  drained , bored and dulled  of  the  actual  state of affairs  , irrelevant of  how  good  or  bad  it  is , the  want  to  change  at  any  coast , with  no  real  rational  explanations , I  believe  something  of  the sort  is taking  place  in  this  country as well .


The  reasons  for  massive  Republican  win over , will be  debated  and  argued  by  many  future  historians . The  main  questions now  remain , are  the  republicans , their  Tea Party  associates , and  some of their very  angry  extreme  right  leaning  newcomers , are all  these  different  legislators  a sufficiently  coherent  force  to  govern , to legislate ,  and  lead  the  country  and  its  future  in  the  right  direction ??  Or  are  we going  to  live  some  further  indecisive  wishy washy  few  years to come ,  filled  with  lots  of  governing  experiments  and  adventurism .


Let's  not  turn our whole political  scene and  future , strictly  into  efforts  of  futility , destruction  of  the  actual president  and  his administration , exorcism and grandiose dreams  of  impeachments or other , but look  into  the real needs of our nation , its youth , and  future needs of infrastructures and stability . Only  then the American peoples can ascertain that a good thing came out of their electoral decisions and the elections results in general.




A not so comfortable political situation and divide America is living nowadays, thanks for your attention .