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		<title>By: observing</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2010/06/no-nukes-no-empire/#comment-68876</link>
		<dc:creator>observing</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 21:41:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[More importantly than the US Empire falling, those manipulating the puppets that are &quot;government and free trade&quot; worldwide must also be brought down and submitted to trial, conviction and incarceration.  The US Empire is merely the latest elite in a long line of well-heeled snake-oil salesmen masquerading as monarchs, generals, politicians, bankers and businessmen.  The Empire system and its international &quot;friends&quot; cannot operate and continually re-invent itself again and again without the philosophical and financial support of &quot;our betters&quot;.  

Very simply, if it is a fraud or harm on a small scale by one individual against another, it is also a fraud or harm by a corporation against a society.  In other words, if I sold goods or services other than as advertised, I would be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.  If I destroyed public property by my own negligence, I would be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.  

Wither Goldman Sacs, BP and their corporate banker/stock-market minions, who repeatedly and purposefully defraud the world&#039;s population and despoil the environment?  Free of course, money talks, shysters walk.  But our jails are full to overflowing with poor people of dubious guilt or guilty of comparatively innocuous infractions.

The US Empire will not allow the &quot;mighty&quot; to be laid low by mere common law, as these are the same people who fund the campaigns, electoral and military with money skimmed from the sheep-like masses.  

Bread and circuses, guns and butter, the same old cons.  Again, where&#039;s a guillotine when you need one?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>More importantly than the US Empire falling, those manipulating the puppets that are &#8220;government and free trade&#8221; worldwide must also be brought down and submitted to trial, conviction and incarceration.  The US Empire is merely the latest elite in a long line of well-heeled snake-oil salesmen masquerading as monarchs, generals, politicians, bankers and businessmen.  The Empire system and its international &#8220;friends&#8221; cannot operate and continually re-invent itself again and again without the philosophical and financial support of &#8220;our betters&#8221;.  </p>
<p>Very simply, if it is a fraud or harm on a small scale by one individual against another, it is also a fraud or harm by a corporation against a society.  In other words, if I sold goods or services other than as advertised, I would be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.  If I destroyed public property by my own negligence, I would be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.  </p>
<p>Wither Goldman Sacs, BP and their corporate banker/stock-market minions, who repeatedly and purposefully defraud the world&#8217;s population and despoil the environment?  Free of course, money talks, shysters walk.  But our jails are full to overflowing with poor people of dubious guilt or guilty of comparatively innocuous infractions.</p>
<p>The US Empire will not allow the &#8220;mighty&#8221; to be laid low by mere common law, as these are the same people who fund the campaigns, electoral and military with money skimmed from the sheep-like masses.  </p>
<p>Bread and circuses, guns and butter, the same old cons.  Again, where&#8217;s a guillotine when you need one?</p>
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		<title>By: Eileen Fleming</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2010/06/no-nukes-no-empire/#comment-68842</link>
		<dc:creator>Eileen Fleming</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 01:21:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Armistice Day, 1948 General Omar Nelson Bradley warned US:

&quot;We live in a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants, in a world that has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. We have solved the mystery of the atom and forgotten the lessons of the Sermon on The Mount. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about dying than we know about living.&quot;


On February 9, 2009, Journalist Helen Thomas, asked President Obama about Middle Eastern states with nukes. Obama blew her off stating he didn’t want &quot;to speculate&quot; and her &#039;colleagues&#039; remained mute, but the US State Department has published reams of material about President Kennedy&#039;s concern about the Israeli bomb.

In 2005, Mordechai Vanunu, the Whistle Blower of Israel&#039;s WMD&#039;s  told me:

&quot;President Kennedy tried to stop Israel from building atomic weapons. Kennedy insisted on an open internal inspection.

&quot;When Johnson became president, he made an agreement with Israel that two senators would come every year to inspect. Before the senators would visit, the Israelis would build a wall to block the underground elevators and stairways. From 1963 to ’69, the senators came, but they never knew about the wall that hid the rest of the Dimona from them.

&quot;Nixon stopped the inspections and agreed to ignore the situation. As a result, Israel increased production. In 1986, there were over two hundred bombs. Today, they may have enough plutonium for ten bombs a year.&quot;

On April 5, 2009, President Obama stood on the world stage in Prague amongst thousands of flag-waving Czechs and spoke of good humor, home town Chicago, the will of the people over tanks and guns, old conflicts, revolution, moral leadership as the most powerful weapon, iron curtains that fell and the state of 21st century nuclear weapons and I excerpt:

&quot;We are here today because enough people ignored the voices who told them that the world could not change. We&#039;re here today because of the courage of those who stood up and took risks to say that freedom is a right for all people, no matter what side of a wall they live on, and no matter what they look like. We are here today because the simple and principled pursuit of liberty and opportunity shamed those who relied on the power of tanks and arms to put down the will of a people.

&quot;Some argue that the spread of these weapons cannot be stopped, cannot be checked -– that we are destined to live in a world where more nations and more people possess the ultimate tools of destruction. Such fatalism is a deadly adversary, for if we believe that the spread of nuclear weapons is inevitable, then in some way we are admitting to ourselves that the use of nuclear weapons is inevitable.

&quot;As the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon, the United States has a moral responsibility to act…It will take patience and persistence. But now we, too, must ignore the voices who tell us that the world cannot change. We have to insist, Yes, we can.

&quot;Words must mean something.&quot;]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On Armistice Day, 1948 General Omar Nelson Bradley warned US:</p>
<p>&#8220;We live in a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants, in a world that has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. We have solved the mystery of the atom and forgotten the lessons of the Sermon on The Mount. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about dying than we know about living.&#8221;</p>
<p>On February 9, 2009, Journalist Helen Thomas, asked President Obama about Middle Eastern states with nukes. Obama blew her off stating he didn’t want &#8220;to speculate&#8221; and her &#8216;colleagues&#8217; remained mute, but the US State Department has published reams of material about President Kennedy&#8217;s concern about the Israeli bomb.</p>
<p>In 2005, Mordechai Vanunu, the Whistle Blower of Israel&#8217;s WMD&#8217;s  told me:</p>
<p>&#8220;President Kennedy tried to stop Israel from building atomic weapons. Kennedy insisted on an open internal inspection.</p>
<p>&#8220;When Johnson became president, he made an agreement with Israel that two senators would come every year to inspect. Before the senators would visit, the Israelis would build a wall to block the underground elevators and stairways. From 1963 to ’69, the senators came, but they never knew about the wall that hid the rest of the Dimona from them.</p>
<p>&#8220;Nixon stopped the inspections and agreed to ignore the situation. As a result, Israel increased production. In 1986, there were over two hundred bombs. Today, they may have enough plutonium for ten bombs a year.&#8221;</p>
<p>On April 5, 2009, President Obama stood on the world stage in Prague amongst thousands of flag-waving Czechs and spoke of good humor, home town Chicago, the will of the people over tanks and guns, old conflicts, revolution, moral leadership as the most powerful weapon, iron curtains that fell and the state of 21st century nuclear weapons and I excerpt:</p>
<p>&#8220;We are here today because enough people ignored the voices who told them that the world could not change. We&#8217;re here today because of the courage of those who stood up and took risks to say that freedom is a right for all people, no matter what side of a wall they live on, and no matter what they look like. We are here today because the simple and principled pursuit of liberty and opportunity shamed those who relied on the power of tanks and arms to put down the will of a people.</p>
<p>&#8220;Some argue that the spread of these weapons cannot be stopped, cannot be checked -– that we are destined to live in a world where more nations and more people possess the ultimate tools of destruction. Such fatalism is a deadly adversary, for if we believe that the spread of nuclear weapons is inevitable, then in some way we are admitting to ourselves that the use of nuclear weapons is inevitable.</p>
<p>&#8220;As the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon, the United States has a moral responsibility to act…It will take patience and persistence. But now we, too, must ignore the voices who tell us that the world cannot change. We have to insist, Yes, we can.</p>
<p>&#8220;Words must mean something.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: James Keye</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2010/06/no-nukes-no-empire/#comment-68810</link>
		<dc:creator>James Keye</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 18:55:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The hubris of the Gulf catastrophe is concrete prelude to the hubris of nuclear catastrophe unless the understandings in this essay become operational.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The hubris of the Gulf catastrophe is concrete prelude to the hubris of nuclear catastrophe unless the understandings in this essay become operational.</p>
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		<title>By: Maien</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2010/06/no-nukes-no-empire/#comment-68799</link>
		<dc:creator>Maien</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:38:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I truly doubt that the majority of the american people would ever be willing to change.  They are just too comfortable to move.   The power brokers LIKE their empire very much.  

Cataclysmic events force change and demand that individuals  either grow up  and survive... or not.   There are more cataclysmic events coming from the earth herself.

I agree, telling the truth is key.   Telling the truth will become one of the characteristics of  the future survivors of the current empire.   Telling the truth with a strong religeous background (Judeo-Christian) is difficult.  The religion itself is responsible for teaching the population that they do not have to be responsible for their actions and thoughts.   

Thank-you for bringing your information to the public and being one of those who initiates change.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I truly doubt that the majority of the american people would ever be willing to change.  They are just too comfortable to move.   The power brokers LIKE their empire very much.  </p>
<p>Cataclysmic events force change and demand that individuals  either grow up  and survive&#8230; or not.   There are more cataclysmic events coming from the earth herself.</p>
<p>I agree, telling the truth is key.   Telling the truth will become one of the characteristics of  the future survivors of the current empire.   Telling the truth with a strong religeous background (Judeo-Christian) is difficult.  The religion itself is responsible for teaching the population that they do not have to be responsible for their actions and thoughts.   </p>
<p>Thank-you for bringing your information to the public and being one of those who initiates change.</p>
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