Tiger Woods + playing Golf

[Shameonfed]

I'm writing my reps almost every day expressing my outrage with what's going on. I'm not going down without exercising my rights. I'm educating my family and friends to the point of annoyance, but I'm competing with the robotics of MSM, Tiger Woods, Paris Hilton and Britney Spears. I'm hopeful that at some point we will reach critical mass and the world will be ready to wake up en masse and the work that we are doing will lay the groundwork for a new dawn of civilization. Crazy? Perhaps.

[AlphaHorizon]

End the war or get serious about solving todays problems I say.

[AlphaHorizon]

Ofcourse if this was actually about the greater good. We would systematically target religion. America could glass the whole fucking middle east and over a hundred years colonize jews and Christians and we will be right back where we are now. Cuz its not about the Taliban.

In our society your told how to do everything "proper" from walk to how to smell. But when it comes to the psychotic thoughts in your head, well, those are off limits...There's the first step to winning the war on terror.

[AlphaHorizon]

This isn't a war on the Taliban it is a war on terrorism. But it isn't, because the war on terror was officially ended last month. The surge in Afghanistan with allied troops pushing against a hardened Pakistan boarder is a tactic to defeat a militia. Not the problem at hand.

America can't win the war on Terror but Obama can win the war on the Taliban, with your money and your lives for his political gain. No doubt for the "greater good".

[TheDystopiaInside]

I don't support an escalation anywhere, and not just because "we can't afford it." I think we should pay reparations for destroying two countries in the last decade, and then we need to come home and fix our problems here.

I've given up on Obama doing much that's positive -- he might throw us a bone every now and then, but he doesn't have enough spine it seems to really do something big.

Perhaps this is exactly as Obama wants it, I dunno. I've mostly stopped paying attention to politics.

[55ella2007k]

TheDystopiaInside: yes, I agree, and I'm as frustrated as you are, but that's all the more reason to pay attention to politics, because this is PRECISELY what the elites want us to do: to stop paying attention. This is why we are constantly being bombarded with crap, like the Tiger Woods shit, which does not matter in the least - because it has absolutely no impact on people's lives. Thanks for taking the time to comment ! :)

[KazukiSeirei]

That is the million dollar question I've been wondering about myself... when Bush made the surge announcements with regard to Iraq, people were up in arms. Obama talks about a surge and people roll-over (at least when comparing reactions to surge announcements), what is going on indeed?

Once and again, I really enjoyed this little series you put together :D

Peace again.

[TimBrown59]

Tiger might be a golfer but he doesn't know how to drive!

Yes we are being lied to & conned all the time.

[Heartbreakin]

63% Democrats support Obamas "latest" troop surge into Afganistan .He gets something like 75% from the neocons .

(the republicans at large). So the honeymoons not over.

[55ella2007k]

Heartbreakin: yes, as a matter of fact, Obama is the neo-con's new darling - even Bill Kristol (neo-con in chief) is practically salivating over the troop surge. Read his absolutely decrepit op-ed piece in the New York Times.

[phuckery4you1958]

They want those pipelines built. They would sell it as stopping the Taliban from destabilizing Pakistan and letting radicals get access to their nuclear weapons.

[55ella2007k]

phuckery4you1958: yes, of course. Remember the Domino Theory, back during Vietnam? The same shit is going on today...the exact same mind-set. Anyone who has seriously read Brzezinski's stuff (The Grand Chessboard), or for that matter, Samuel Huntington's "The Clash of Civilizations - The Remaking of the World Order" - knows exactly what this entire fucking game is all about, namely a never ending quest for power + dominance over natural resources.

[tenagliac]

It's someone else's civil war, like Vietnam. Our aid should have been limited to humanitarian only. None of the 911 folks were Afghans. Why didn't America go after Saudi Arabia ? Delusion. All delusion. Bread and circuses for money, oil and control.

[MiranUT]

Thumbs up, tenagliac.

Didn't go after Saudi Arabia because the "training camps" were in Afghanistan. Why didn't we go into Yemen?

I can imagine how different things would be if only humanitarian support had been used in Afghanistan. Obama could have earned his peace prize by doing that now, but...

"money, oil and control" We can probably add drugs to the list. It begs the question: Was the War on Drugs the precursor to the War on Terror?

[TruthNowCdn]

My heart and soul cry out to God in sorrow every time I here of another young solider killed or wounded in Iraq or Afghanistan. Why have so called "wiser men" in power ordered these young soldiers to a war that can best be described as "purely insane"? Ultimately the USA will be totally destroyed if they to not wake up to realize the evil empire they have become! This is not what the founders had in mind for the once great nation known as the USA.

[MiranUT]

Among primates, the old males are always the last to learn new tricks - if they ever do. The younger females, then mothers, are the quickest to incorprorate new ideas into the culture. See Kawamura, 1959; Tsumori, 1985; and Kawai, 1965.

[Boomer1949]

This is a easy one for me Ellia because I didn't support invading Afghn in the first place. I listened to what Bin Laden said in his first video, his list of reason why the attack on 9/11 and I started doing research with an open mind. It didn't take me long to figure out there was much more to that attack than a religious difference, or way of life. It was all about money, right from the start. At the hub was oil.

[derrobb]

Well said Ella. But what I find perplexing is the shock amoungst progressives, given he campaigned on this. "The real war on terror" "the just war" blah blah blah. Seems perpetual wars are now the new norm.Putting aside the human toll, the budget of such occupations is becoming too much to bare.Time for the U.S/ Canada/GB-the ones in the south actually dying to tell the rest of Nato to do more or we are out of their-2012 Canada is set to leave.The U.S has to stand up and demand more from allies.

[Evangelander]

I'm bothered :( why the misleading title? shame on you, Stella. You are one of my favorite channels, and this is very unlike you.

I consider the question a little to hypothetical to answer, directly, but to put my comment, bluntly, I find myself disagreeing with everything that Obama is doing. Of course, that has a lot to do with the fact that I have researched who his handlers were that prepared him for his presidiential position. Perhaps you could speak to that issue :) blessings.

[55ella2007k]

@evangelander: the reason for my title is strategic: many more people pay attention to Tiger Woods than on REAL issues. This is a fact, not a figment of my imagination. So, in order to get people to listen to something quite different, you will need to reach them in the first place, by ANY means necessary, just as the big media is doing. I'm not comfortable with this tactic, but I'm tired of preaching to the choir. I can't remain 'pure' without UNDERMINING the propaganda on it's own terms

[sinclair61]

To Principles....perhaps so that YOU could think for a moment about something other than the PGA or American Idol, and the next hamburger! Your handicap is.....GOLF!

[hugozoom]

Chris Floyd at the Empire Burlesque blog says "WIBDI" "what if Bush did it?"

Keep on keeping on Ella. Too many people want to be told what to think.

Choosing between the democrats and the republicans, especially the higher up they are on the food chain, is like choosing between two brands of cigarettes.

So maybe we're smoking "McCain Lights"-- or getting smoked.

[manque15]

If anyone or should I say if any other country tried to pull this shit...there would've been an uproar I feel.

[angryislander56]

You were right Ella.

Unfortunately!

[55ella2007k]

Laura: yeah...I wish, I wasn't :(

[LouieArrighi]

we still only have and had 2 choices, D or R.

[55ella2007k]

Louie: true, but then this so-called two-party system (which is basically pro-corporate at both ends) needs to be challenged: a) through true grass roots movements from without or b) through the formation of third and VIABLE party or a combination of both. Buidling a viable third party will take 20 years or so, grassroots movements take less time. Anyway, it is my belief, for whatever it's worth, that the 'system' can no longer be 'reformed' from within.

[fatpius]

it's moot. f the partIES

[fatpius]

surly you jest. i haven't supported any of the wars. period. there hasn't been a 'just' war.

all based on lies. read history. 911 dumbfounded me, but NEVER did the 'explanation' match the evidence. i was overseas w/my husband in military in late 60's. i have NOT forgotten.

it's all! bullshit/$ this country is very similar to Iran....being controlled by the military (industrial

complex) simple.

[principles101]

Misleading title. Why?

[55ella2007k]

principles101: because it doesn't do any good to keep preaching to the same choir. Because big media and sensationalist bullshit is what people are paying attention to these days - whether we like it or not. Sometimes, certain tactical choices do NOT imply given up one's prinicples. Anyway, it was a valid question - thanks !

[rad4life1]

Leaving one's country defenseless to war in other countries is VERY unwise.

[citizenkong]

Obama did say from the beginning that he supported invading Afghanistan.

At least with Obama I hope there is more thought behind his actions than there was with Bush.

I'll admit I am becoming more and more disillusioned with Obama.