Author: ben45

From Jo Ann Vaccarino on Facebook 1/23/2016

Many of us agree that sharing and caring are essential to human survival. The major difference in our opinions seems to boil down to: should we force sharing or encourage sharing? Libertarians believe that we can encourage it via empathy and freedom; socialists believe that it needs to be forced via government and restriction. The good news is, more people are looking at libertarians and socialists because we’re talking about a wider range of problems than the democrats and republicans are. We’re not beating the same dead horses. That is the beginning of a paradigm shift.

Benghazi Deaths Due to Gun Running by US Government

Here is a report from the Washington Post that explains why there were US personnel in Benghazi based on a confidential (ie hidden from the American public) report.
Washington Post Article
Excerpts: “A highly classified annex to the [Senate] report, not made public, described a secret agreement reached in early 2012 between the Obama and Erdoğan administrations. It pertained to the rat line. By the terms of the agreement, funding came from Turkey, as well as Saudi Arabia and Qatar; the CIA, with the support of MI6, was responsible for getting arms from Gaddafi’s arsenals into Syria. A number of front companies were set up in Libya, some under the cover of Australian entities. Retired American soldiers, who didn’t always know who was really employing them, were hired to manage procurement and shipping. The operation was run by David Petraeus, the CIA director who would soon resign when it became known he was having an affair with his biographer. (A spokesperson for Petraeus denied the operation ever took place.)

The operation had not been disclosed at the time it was set up to the congressional intelligence committees and the congressional leadership, as required by law since the 1970s. The involvement of MI6 enabled the CIA to evade the law by classifying the mission as a liaison operation.” …. “also noted that this is not a partisan issue … both parties greenlighted regime change in Syria years ago, and both parties have tried to cover up what was really going on in Benghazi.”

My comment:
What Gowdy and others should tell the American public is that, since you are willing to accept an American empire that intervenes anywhere and everywhere in the world, you need to expect that operatives will get killed and hurt. The US personnel in Benghazi were not doing innocent public service, they were gun running. Shades of the Iran-Contra affair.

J. Hornberger Gives a History Lesson

Published on the fff website 05-Jan-2016:

OUR ANCESTORS WERE DIFFERENT, ESPECIALLY ON IMMIGRATION

by Jacob G. Hornberger
click here for full article

Excerpts:

Unlike the America of today, the concept of our ancestors was to limit the federal government’s jurisdiction to the United States and unleash the private sector to work, produce, travel, and interact with the people of the world. Thus, although unfortunately there were protective tariffs (and much worse, slavery), there were no sanctions, embargoes, or other restrictions on the freedom of the American people to travel around the world and trade with others. Why, this unusual group of people didn’t even believe in passports, which is why they lived without them.

You can disagree with their political and economic philosophy, including on immigration. You can criticize or condemn it if you wish. But one thing is indisputable: The political and economic philosophy of our American ancestors was totally different from the statist philosophy that now holds our nation in its grip and that has held the world in its grip throughout recorded history.

Jacob G. Hornberger – discusses the problem

On December 17, 2015, Jacob Hornberger published:

MUSLIMS, ISLAM, AND THE KORAN ARE NOT THE PROBLEM

excerpt:
“Was any American statist expressing concern about Muslims, Islam, the Koran, or Sharia law during the 45 years of the Cold War?

Nope! Back then, the big bugaboo was communism, especially Soviet communism but also Chinese, North Korean, Cuban, Chilean, and Vietnamese communism, not to mention the U.S. Communist Party. At no time did any American statist exclaim against the Muslims or decry that they were coming to get us as part of their supposed centuries-old plan to establish a worldwide caliphate.”

If climate change – then: Tragedy of the Commons

BILL GATES, CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE CAPITALIST SYSTEM

by

first of a multi-part discussion.

Excerpt:
If “climate change” and “global warming” are, in fact, problems facing people on Planet Earth, it is due to an atmospheric tragedy of the commons. The question, then, is, are there private solutions to this problem – if it exists as proponents claim – or does it have to be “solved” through the central planning of global governments and government-business “partnership” as asserted by some such as Bill Gates?

That is what will be discussed at a later date,

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Predictable Change is Good

Many people today are concerned about predictions of global warning. But why fear the change. If it can be reliably predicted, then lets prepare for the change, and enjoy it.

Our environment changes all the time. The more reliably we can predict the change, then we can adjust our plans and use the change for our advantage.

We accurately predict when it gets dark and light each day. What could be a bigger change than a world with light, and a world in darkness.  But we have all learned to live with day and night.

Many who live near the ocean use the prediction of the tides to plan their activities.

Most people who live in locations with seasons are able to accommodate big temperature changes from the high 90’s to below zero, even when they do not know precisely when the changes will occur.

Everyone is not wiped out by floods, hurricanes and lightning. Only those who do not take proper precautions suffer.

All those who are concerned about climate change should just prepare for it, rather than try to stop the inevitable.