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What does an East Indian muslim born in Africa, married to a Canadian, living in Texas, stay at home dad, think of what is happening in the world?
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Here's a copy of the article which John McCain wrote about Putin. The only reason I include it here is because it emphasizes how Obama is lacking on the world stage.
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Senator John McCain: Russians deserve better than Putin
By Pravda Ru (about the author)
September 19, 2013 at 14:30:11
Source: Pravda.Ru
By John McCain
When Pravda.ru editor, Dmitry Sudakov, offered to publish my commentary, he referred to me as "an active anti-Russian politician for many years." I'm sure that isn't the first time Russians have heard me characterized as their antagonist. Since my purpose here is to dispel falsehoods used by Russia's rulers to perpetuate their power and excuse their corruption, let me begin with that untruth. I am not anti-Russian. I am pro-Russian, more pro-Russian than the regime that misrules you today.
I make that claim because I respect your dignity and your right to self-determination. I believe you should live according to the dictates of your conscience, not your government. I believe you deserve the opportunity to improve your lives in an economy that is built to last and benefits the many, not just the powerful few. You should be governed by a rule of law that is clear, consistently and impartially enforced and just. I make that claim because I believe the Russian people, no less than Americans, are endowed by our Creator with inalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
A Russian citizen could not publish a testament like the one I just offered. President Putin and his associates do not believe in these values. They don't respect your dignity or accept your authority over them. They punish dissent and imprison opponents. They rig your elections. They control your media. They harass, threaten, and banish organizations that defend your right to self-governance. To perpetuate their power they foster rampant corruption in your courts and your economy and terrorize and even assassinate journalists who try to expose their corruption.
They write laws to codify bigotry against people whose sexual orientation they condemn. They throw the members of a punk rock band in jail for the crime of being provocative and vulgar and for having the audacity to protest President Putin's rule.
Sergei Magnistky wasn't a human rights activist. He was an accountant at a Moscow law firm. He was an ordinary Russian who did an extraordinary thing. He exposed one of the largest state thefts of private assets in Russian history. He cared about the rule of law and believed no one should be above it. For his beliefs and his courage, he was held in Butyrka prison without trial, where he was beaten, became ill and died. After his death, he was given a show trial reminiscent of the Stalin-era and was, of course, found guilty. That wasn't only a crime against Sergei Magnitsky. It was a crime against the Russian people and your right to an honest government - a government worthy of Sergei Magnistky and of you.
President Putin claims his purpose is to restore Russia to greatness at home and among the nations of the world. But by what measure has he restored your greatness? He has given you an economy that is based almost entirely on a few natural resources that will rise and fall with those commodities. Its riches will not last. And, while they do, they will be mostly in the possession of the corrupt and powerful few. Capital is fleeing Russia, which -- lacking rule of law and a broad-based economy -- is considered too risky for investment and entrepreneurism. He has given you a political system that is sustained by corruption and repression and isn't strong enough to tolerate dissent.
How has he strengthened Russia's international stature? By allying Russia with some of the world's most offensive and threatening tyrannies. By supporting a Syrian regime that is murdering tens of thousands of its own people to remain in power and by blocking the United Nations from even condemning its atrocities. By refusing to consider the massacre of innocents, the plight of millions of refugees, the growing prospect of a conflagration that engulfs other countries in its flames an appropriate subject for the world's attention. He is not enhancing Russia's global reputation. He is destroying it. He has made her a friend to tyrants and an enemy to the oppressed, and untrusted by nations that seek to build a safer, more peaceful and prosperous world.
President Putin doesn't believe in these values because he doesn't believe in you. He doesn't believe that human nature at liberty can rise above its weaknesses and build just, peaceful, prosperous societies. Or, at least, he doesn't believe Russians can. So he rules by using those weaknesses, by corruption, repression and violence. He rules for himself, not you.
I do believe in you. I believe in your capacity for self-government and your desire for justice and opportunity. I believe in the greatness of the Russian people, who suffered enormously and fought bravely against terrible adversity to save your nation. I believe in your right to make a civilization worthy of your dreams and sacrifices. When I criticize your government, it is not because I am anti-Russian. It is because I believe you deserve a government that believes in you and answers to you. And, I long for the day when you have it.
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http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/04/03/report_government_forces_responsible_for_majority_of_rapes_in_syria
Read this and ask yourself how will history judge our spineless leader.
Why should the people in the world trust America?
May the victims in Syria curse his name.
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ln the new America health care is going to be the issue to define the ruin of the country.
Lets begin with the issue of rights. Is healthcare a right? The question needs to be answered before we can go further in discussing a topic. If you believe healthcare is a right then you believe it needs to be socialized or subsidized or given for free. However if you believe healthcare is not a right, as do I, then we can debate. As long as we act as if it's the right then we are going to keep getting ourselves in financial difficulties and situations where it does not work. Healthcare as far as I'm concerned is not a right.
Our current president decided that he was going to fix this problem. Unfortunately he aligned himself with the dark side, which is the health insurance industry. If you are going to make a current situation analogy of Star Wars then the health insurance companies are the dark side . Why in the country that claims to be the leading force for capitalism is healthcare not a capitalistic model? Everything in America is supposed to be competitive. However when you go to a health facility or for any type of medical procedure you never know what you pay and you never know what is comparable to what other providers could charge. Only in healthcare does this apply. If only we could eliminate health insurance companies and make the American healthcare system pay as you go. We should make doctors in facilities compete for our business. We can make them provide better service for the value. Then we have a chance at actually reforming the system. Health insurance companies have never lost money. Hospitals never make money. Now all of a sudden our government wants to be a health insurer and join forces with the dark side. It seems the only people who have a chance to save us are the doctor. The doctors having taken an oath to help the patient, maybe the doctors will be the saviours of the American Health industry. The doctors and their unions need to join forces and fight for the elimination of the health insurance system and bring about the restoration of capitalism in America. They should demand not to have to be paid by the health insurance company or to have to take health insurance. They should have the right to charge what they wish and compete against other doctors. Health insurance companies should be eliminated, should be banned and health care insurance company executives should be shot. This may seem d drastic but it's necessary. Is this going to happen I don't know? I hope in some form the doctors are able to change the view of the government officials in the legislature. Because as long as the healthcare insurance industry funds Obama and all the other politicians the real changes in American healthcare system will not happen. Now that he's elected for a second term he is focused on, what do I do for my retirement. So we know Mr. Obama is going to be out there taking more funds and more advice from the evil side. Doctors of America you must unite together and demand the elimination of the healthcare industry. It will force you to compete, w but you might survive or your jobs and your services will be eliminated. You will not be become the hated and your education will not be worth the cost.
Let's eliminate health insurance for government employees first. Then take it out of the hands of the employer. See how quickly the system reforms itself.
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I have been absent for much of the year. My travel schedule had been horrible. I have not followed much of the world however I can give you a quick summation.
Obama re-elected; proves their is no accountability in American politics. Unless he finds a spine many more people will die and suffer in hopes of freedom in his second term.
Republican party; not the brightest in the world. Will never win unless they take religion and morals out of their platform and stick to less government and fiscal responsibility.
Syria; sorry we have a spineless one. You will win in the end.
Egypt; proving me a genius. I had said
years ago, first person to try to make a country religious in the post Bush era will get strung up. Good work proving the thesis Morsi. Freedom takes time.
And on my usual list of contempt; Pakistan. Girls being killed by ignorants and family members. The whole country needs to be eliminated.
Finally the stupidity in the western world. Three family members die in California trying to save a dog from the surf. Dog survives. ! Absurd!
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