While Republican leadership claims that they want a swift and quick end to the Iraq war, the facts say otherwise.

We’ve started construction on a new embassy in Iraq that happens to be larger than the Vatican, costs 592 million dollars and comes complete with a swimming pool. http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/29/photos-embassy-iraq/.

No one builds an embassy that large without a long term commitment.

And despite so much pressure to remove troops from Iraq (Iraqi Parliamentarian’s sign troop removal petition, 70% of Iraqi’s want US out) we are still there.

When we go to war in the long term we spend tons of money on defense contractors, clothing manufacturers, vehicle manufacturers, computer software, and numerous other raw materials for war (http://usliberals.about.com/od/homelandsecurit1/a/IraqNumbers.htm). It really boosts the economy. While this may seem great, it’s a dangerous thing to develop a permanent war economy. The problem is, the methods this war is developing our economy isn’t for the greater good. Because of market deregulations contractors and corporations have been growing and crushing small business. The Elite Class is being given a ruling chance. Fascism should almost be called Corporatism. They both revolve around a corporate controlled state kept aloft by a war economy.

The way Iraq and America are heading is really quite scary. What my conspiracy-seeking mind is developing is a theory. We went into Iraq with the plan to have a long term war. That’s why Bush didn’t commit hundreds of thousands of troops in the first place to just end it quick and get out. So as long as we’re warring we’re spending a hell of a lot of money on the operations the military employs. After we finally exhaust the military route to a war economy, we start reconstruction. We’ve already been doing a bit of it and if you notice we will be and have been spending tons of money on reconstruction with American Contractors. After those two phases are over we have a puppet government installed who allows American Corporations to flood their market with cheap goods. It makes a hell of a lot of money at the expense of the taxpayers.

If you watch the news you may notice that we may be planning on doing it in Iran also. The potentiality for this terrible crime on the American People is amazing. And more and more information is being leaked that it is occuring.

Check out these links:

Cheney Orders Corporate Media to Sell Attack on Iran

Olbermann: Bush’s true motive is ‘War today, war tomorrow, war forever!’

Study: US preparing ‘massive’ military attack against Iran

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Ron Paul won the poll after the second GOP debate, the one I linked to in the previous blog. Sean Hannity was quoted as saying that Paulites must have spammed the poll to tip it in his favor, yet some internet goers have tested this and found that it is impossible to send more than one vote:

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/september2007/060907_hannity_lies.htm

http://picasaweb.google.com/J.SkyWave/FoxPoll

He also won a poll on MSNBC:

http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Feature-Article.htm?InfoNo=018197

He won the first GOP debate:

http://cofcc.org/?p=79

And has won five of the straw polls:

http://mparent7777-2.blogspot.com/2007/08/ron-paul-wins-five-straw-polls.html

I’ve been a fan of Ron Paul since my friend Kyle Eschenroeder (a soon-to-be blogger on this site) introduced me to him. Ron Paul seems to take up almost all of the positions I’ve ranted on. My dad is so pessimistic about Paul winning that he made a bet with me. If Ron Paul wins the election I get five hundred dollars. If he loses I give him ten.

Who knows, maybe Paul will get elected, I’ll get five hundred dollars, and our country will be freer.

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One thing that has been amazing me in recent months is the belief that our media has a liberal bias. I heard a radio caller the other day on Glenn Beck’s morning show in which he referred to the conservative media. Glenn Beck started laughing like the guy was an idiot. What’s ironic is how much the common belief is that the media is liberal yet studies show just the opposite.

In a study done in 2003 the Academy of Political Science asked three simple questions to a variety of people: “Does the World Public Opinion favor the US invasion of Iraq?”, “Has the US found evidence of Iraqi links to al Qaeda?”, and “Has the US found WMD’s in Iraq?”. What the results found was that viewers of 24 hour news programs such as NBC and CNN were far more likely to have at least one misperception about the Iraq war. The study found that 80 percent of Fox viewers held at least one misperception, 71 percent of CBS viewers, 61 percent of ABC viewers and 55 percent of CNN and NBC viewers. 47 percent of people who get most of their information from the Print Media held at least one misperception, and only 23 percent of NPR viewers.

With so many people believing that the media is left, yet it really being right, the results can be disastrous. Considering most people get their news from 24 hour news (study here) our country’s elections could be swayed by our information sources. To see the bias in action all one has to do is watch the way the most recent GOP debate, hosted by FOX News treated Senator Ron Paul. As pointed out by Think Rink:

“It is obvious that, after seeing the Fox News Debates on Sept. 5th, 2007, the mainstream media and GOP see Ron Paul as enough of a threat to stop ignoring him, and to start ridiculing him. From using a split screen to show Giuliani smirking as Ron Paul answers his questions, to the background chuckles as he is asked questions, Ron Paul has apparently become the butt of an inside joke.”

“The American viewers who were paying attention were sure to see the obvious bias of the debate coverage. A full thirty minutes passed before Dr. Paul was given a chance to answer a question. This, after the “big three” had answered two or three each. Tancredo was also given very little time compared to McCain, Romney, and Giuliani. “

I was listening to the debates on my way to school and noticed the Mediator taking jabs at Ron Paul. It’s all in the youtube video I linked. Watch it, it’s worth it.

The only thing standing in the way of a complete Propoganda system is the internet. So long as more and more people keep waking up to the media’s conservative bias and getting their news from independent sources the mainstream media will keep losing it’s stranglehold on the country. This election will be the deciding factor in whether or whether not we have been freed from main stream media’s control.

(interesting and related story here)

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My name is Mike Sendker. I’m a freshman at University of South Florida studying Political Science, and I have a lot to bitch about. Since the election of 2004 I’ve been actively studying history and current events and feel I have a pretty good grasp on what’s going on in the world and who’s full of shit.

The whole idea behind this blog started from one particular night at work when I was incessantly bitching about all the people out to screw the rest of the world. My coworker got so sick of me he told me that I should just “shut up and start a blog” so here it is. I won’t be the only one to be posting on this blog, my friend Kyle Eschenroeder has very similar political views to myself, although more often than not he stays toward the moderate side of the aisle.

My political views will never be exactly pinned down. I have such a wide expanse of views and cross party lines so many times I have given up trying to identify myself. I’ve taken the Political Compass numerous times and have come out as a Socialist, Anarchist, Republican, and Centrist on more than one occasion. I take my beliefs from overwhelming scrutiny of all angles to a topic.

In the past year current events have taken on a strange tone of finality. My view of the current geo-political situations is best summed up by the title to a book I read an excerpt from last year: “Jihad vs. McWorld”. The book examines the struggle between radical religious values and the corporate economic endeavors to control the world. Whether you look at the way the Christian Right has been imposing church beliefs on the government’s way of operating or the control of the media by a few corporations, it seems that whoever wins, we lose.

In the past year this country has developed numerous problems and this blog will serve to comment on all current events and general societal trends this country endures. We will try to be the voice of reason in a world of insanity. We will bring hidden news stories many people would not have heard of given the corporate control of the media. Hopefully, after reading our blogs, you will feel slightly more intelligent than before you did.

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