YOU BET IT IS ........

Is what drove Brexit also driving Trump ??  you bet it is . " they took their country back , just like we will take America back ". Triumphally declared  Trump , while promoting his business in Scotland . He is now doubting the validity and the worth of all international trade agreements . While America is only 4% of world population , Mr. Trump wants to cut back on everything international and isolate Americans within their fortified walls .

The leave campaign in Britain grew and strengthened using a demagogy of fear slogans and tactics , the same is being used here in America by the Trump campaign , and driving his popularity , fear of open borders and its immigrants , criminalizing them in bulk , fear of international free markets and trade movement , fear of loss of jobs of a smaller and less educated nature , and a fear of any and every color but pure white and blond hair .  An absurd and desperate clinging to old fashions , old ways and habits , including a relaxing religious conformity .

No wonder British exiter's voters look very , very similar to Mr. Trump's political gatherings and voters , they practically behave and surely speak the same sentences and words , they chant in excitement the same hymns .

The parallels of Nigel Farage's billboard showing a group of  dark-skinned men entering the U.K. cannot miss the billboard  " let's turn America white again ." By an aspiring politician in eastern Tennessee . A slogan widely criticized in America , but practically ignored and gone totally uncommented by Mr. Trump .

There is some sort of a silent understanding , a sort of going hand in hand , between Mr. Trump , the Brexiters , the French ultra right Marie Lepen , and many other European NeoNazis and ultra conservative groups , all sarcastically backed by an ever smiling Mr. Putin of Russia , and all modeled after the politics and ideologies of the right religious factions of Israeli apartheid .

Mostly white people , many over 60 years of age , " poorly educated " people , loved by Trump , people who are religious in essence and  still nostalgic to some old rhythm of life , available nowadays only in old Hollywood movies . All ready to absorb and spread ideas and slogans of hate , racism , misogyny , Islamophobia , bigotry and discrimination , in short anything different in color , shape or looks from them .


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THERE'S NO RELIGION BUT MINE .....

When religions evolve into requiring their adherents to hate other religions believers and persecute them for what their beliefs are , then religions are of no use to humanity .  When religions become essentially rigid and inaccessible to change , then the law of God cannot become the ruling laws by which people lead their life .  Consequently  when religions become an identity , the notions of  pluralism , secularism and real democracy are negated by definition .

Religions cannot be democratic nor pluralist or secular, all essentials for any democratic society, unless many restrictions are implemented , usually by force in societies opting for such options. Most people of religious faith , are making a statement of identity , not an affirmation of belief . All religions with no exception share this mode of being and belonging , rather than real societal , cultural , spiritual and political plurality . Thus in all different one religion-majority countries , the public and the private are more fogged and ambiguous , modern theocracies are a perfect example.

Islam , Judaism and Christianity are being used to rationalize and justify brutality and oppressive totalitarian regimes and politicians . Like the Afghan Taliban , the Wahhabies in Saudi , the Iranian Ayatollahs , Israel's right winged religious/politicians and new waves of settlers/immigrants , all are proven examples of non applicability of religious democracy . The foundation of a real and genuine democracy has to take root in secularism and plurality .

Turkey , and until recently was a progressive secular country , where most signs of religiosity such as women's veils among others , were non existent , now with the newly emergent religious fervor at all levels , are rapidly making it resemble Iran or certain Gulf Kingdoms .  Consider Israel , a country founded upon exclusive Jewish frame work , aspiring to hold all the world's Jewry within its ever expanding borders , the same principals used by Sunni ISIS , or some similar Shiite groups . One while visiting flourishing religious neighborhoods in Jerusalem or Requa in ISIS Syria , would think himself totally in medieval times , or even antiquities , all sponsored and subsidized by state funds .

With schools and madrassas indoctrinating and brain washing young maniable minds , there can simply be no such thing as religious democracy , tolerance or pluralism , no matter how many think it possible , the Musslem Brotherhood were clearly attempting to implement Islamic dictatorship and exclusivity in Egypt before the last military coup . Religions by nature are expansionist and domineering , other wise they will fade away and perish , they have great interest in maintaining oppressive and archaic theocracies , who rely totally on brutality , violence and terror for survival .

People who seek to reconcile their faith and its traditions with modern world realities , invariably face impossible and unbridgeable walls , and end up admitting that ; religious parables and concepts are only looking to the past and its traditions and glories , while the next chapters of history will be written by different people .

God's will and rules , all fixed in past terms and times , does not qualify them to decide and govern the future .  The next chapter in the history of humanity , will be written strictly by those willing to look freely to forward times , confronting the whatever lies ahead .

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THE OIL BUSINESS ..........

It's only been less than couple years back , when we all looked at a world with limited oil production and export , at least from countries like Iraq , Libya and Iran , Sudan and others . Plus oil locally produced from fracking and cracking in the U.S  and Canada , where productions were far from peak capacities .

Still , the markets found good reasons , backed by the convictions of a world wide glut , to drop crude oil prices  and natural gas , by substantial percentages , from well over a hundred $ a barrel to almost 27$ .while supposedly all economies , industries and individuals benefited world wide , except big oil companies and producers .

Later in the game , we came to frequently observe the markets do better when oil prices would rebound , no one would mention or explain why the loss of only few big oil companies and oil producers , would beat world economies combined including their peoples doing better .

Nowadays a barrel of crude oil is hovering around 50$ , almost double than few months ago , and some serious Wall ST. speculators and big banks predict a possible projected escalation to a 100$ for a barrel or even higher . Merrill Lynch/Bank of America is advocating a price of 76$ per barrel by 2017 . And it seems everyone is happy with actual prices and their future projections . WHY ??

One would wonder why , with 3 strong oil producers back at good levels of export , plus some new discoveries in the Mediterranean and all over the world , plus the American /Canadian fracking oil productions ready to resume at full scale any time , and the renewable energy productions spreading like no time before , why do we see more of a shortage and oil prices projected to climb and possibly double actual prices . are these the normal trends versus the normal rebuilding of the world glut ?? whereby reduced prices of around 25$ a barrel seemed to be the norm . 

Is someone or some entity in control of it all ??  fixing markets , prices , productions etc...and using politics as well ??
3 major entities are absolute taboo in our political system as well as our "free" media empires ; the oil industries , the armament conglomerates , and Israel .  All three are totally undiscussable and untouchable .

We tolerate the oil industries to manipulate and fix prices , production and distribution and exercise a world domination , bullying all adversaries . We gladly accept that major chunks of the more than 600 Billion $ per year Pentagon budget, plus the trillions of Dollars for our wars , plus tens of Billions of Dollars secretly negotiated with Congress to augment defense/aggression policies budgets goes to arms deals and their manufacturing corporations . And of course Israel !! The eternal untouchable and undiscussable , no matter how embarrassing , obstinate and intransigent they might prove to be .

The entire world look for us and our policies about almost everything , and more so for our oil guidance strategies , while we here cannot get independent from the few big corporations and big banks and major lobbying forces , all acting to obstruct our acting  correctly , fairly and freely .

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MEMORIAL DAY ......

Every country in our modern world has some similar day honoring its dead soldiers in various wars . For thousands of years , and in all countries in every continent , people of all walks of life , and especially the youths were systematically brain washed , and infused with ideas and slogans asking them to join their armies and their wars , always for the pure defense of the mother country .

Soldiers were always institutionalized and brainwashed into thinking that they are in for a noble cause , saving their territories , its peoples and their freedoms against ferocious and barbaric enemies , who always act in exactly the same way with their own . invariably beneficiaries of these wars make us all believe and feel that wars are always acceptable , even honorable and glamorous .

A quick look at the Syrian army massacring its own people by the hundreds of thousands in the most horrendous ways , and still enjoying a somewhat honorable and glamorous label , the same exactly would apply to their close neighbors , Israel , whereby all their soldiers , drafted or professionals , are constantly brainwashed to think and visualize all Palestinians , young and old , as terrorists and brutal killers .Thus proudly deserving the name and label of defenders of the country and its Jewish people , totally ignoring and forgetting the occupation side of it .

The Dalai Lama recently said ;" No matter how malevolent or evil are the many murderous dictators who can currently oppress their nations and peoples , and cause international acute problems , it is obvious that they cannot harm others or destroy countless human lives if they don't have a military organization accepted and condoned by society." These vast powerful organizations exist solely to kill human beings , added the Dalai Lama , and under various headings we've always made them legal , acceptable even glamorous .

Certain dictatorial regimes are the very example of these words , like the Syrian Assad dynasty , who for long decades maintained a strong and brutal army that is still today the backbone of the regime , infused largely by loyal elements of the sectarian Syrian mosaic . Israel is becoming a world leader in militarizing its youths , and making the war organization an essential corner stone of their economy and society .

If we calculate what the top few war machines in the world , like the U.S , Russia , Israel and Saudi Arabia , spend yearly on equipment , maintaining and training their armies , one can not imagine it wouldn't all lead to a world without wars , it defies common sense . Strictly by adding what we proudly call our defense needs , humanity could completely alleviate poverty , hunger , illiteracy and sickness . The whole serving mostly huge military organizations and institutions , military industries from all Western countries , Israel and Russia , are constantly behind backing the fiercest war propagandist always backed by big banks and big interests and money . 


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