Tag Archives: Dwight D. Eisenhower

Feb 03

WARNING: GROWING CONCERN……

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CONCERNED? Some who started from humble beginnings who grew in wisdom and faith and became aware of the ETERNAL ONE who lead them to believe that all are “ENDOWED BY THEIR CREATOR TO HAVE LIFE, LIBERTY, PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS,” etc. Many who believed and shared this openly were and are destroyed emotionally, by reputation, etc. and physcally MURDERED by many who hated them.

It’s been going on since the beginning of human time AND IS SURELY GOING ON NOW: FROM ABRAHAM LINCOLN-
JFK, MLK, etc. IT BEGINS WITH VOCAL HATRED, BEATINGS AND ENDS IN HORROR. It’s happening and growing today. WILL YOU PRAY FOR THE PROTECTION OF OUR PRESIDENT, HIS FAMILY, OUR NATION, etc.? May God have mercy on those who hate with words of fire and untruths!

 
This morning, Feb 2, 2012, President Obama spoke at the annual National Prayer Breakfast. Presidents dating back to Dwight D. Eisenhower have attended the National Prayer Breakfast, joining faith leaders from around the country
Nov 18

WE CAN COME BACK FROM BEING BEHIND……

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THAT USED TO BE US

How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come BackBy Thomas L. Friedman and and Michael Mandelbaum 380 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $28.

In “That Used to Be Us” Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum join a growing number of foreign policy thinkers warning that America’s position abroad cannot endure without a renewal of the domestic sources of American prosperity and strength.

The concerns are justified. The United States faces the most profound set of challenges since the 1930s, when an economic depression and the breakdown of the British-led international order raised basic questions about our domestic politics and international strategy.

 “That Used to Be Us” represents an effort by Mr. Mandelbaum, a professor at Johns Hopkins University and one of the country’s leading public intellectuals, and Mr. Friedman, a columnist for The New York Times whose three Pulitzer Prizes only hint at the global influence of his work, to describe the rocky conditions of the present day and prescribe a way forward. This may be an American crisis, but as Mr. Friedman and Mr. Mandelbaum eloquently explain, it is not just an American concern. Nor is it simply a matter of improving the living standards of future generations in this country. Because of the unique — and at this point irreplaceable — American role in providing important public services across the globe, the world as a whole will become a much poorer and more dangerous place if Americans fail at the task of national renewal.

 The authors provide a thoughtful and balanced corrective to critics on the left who believe that our present economic troubles demonstrate the fundamental failure of the liberal democratic capitalist ideas on which American society is built, and the critics on the right who believe that only a return to 19th-century small government policies can save us. The principles behind our society, they argue, are broadly correct, but without institutional reform we cannot apply them as fairly or as fully as we should.

 When it comes to solutions the authors reach for a classic American approach that — at least in my judgment — is fundamentally sound though difficult to apply. A long tradition of American thinkers and statesmen — George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, Henry Clay, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Dwight D. Eisenhower, to name a few — have argued that a strong and forward-looking federal government should promote a healthy domestic economy and a strong international presence. “

 For much more click on: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/03/books/that-used-to-be-us-by-friedman-and-mandelbaum-review.html

 To watch on video click on: http://www.booktv.org/Program/12878/That+Used+to+Be+Us+How+America+Fell+Behind+in+the+World+It+Invented+and+How+We+Can+Come+Back.aspx

Feb 28

COMPUTER VIRUSES ATTACK IRAN?

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INSTEAD OF SACRIFICING 100S OF 1,000S OF OUR SOLDIERS (maybe millions) AND EVEN MORE INNOCENT VICTIMS, CAN WE NOW FIGHT A JUST WAR WITH THE INTERNET?

 President Eisenhower warned us long ago about the military complex that had to be controlled and watched by US Citizens.  Congress has led us to unjust wars to improve the economy, to receive millions (maybe billions) from lobbyists who represent the companies that would benefit from war, etc.  Recently, some generals have lobbied congressmen to support the military complex even more.

 “To all the peoples of the world, I once more give expression to America’s prayerful and continuing inspiration:

We pray that peoples of all faiths, all races, all nations, may have their great human needs satisfied; that those now denied opportunity shall come to enjoy it to the full; that all who yearn for freedom may experience its spiritual blessings; that those who have freedom will understand, also, its heavy responsibilities; that all who are insensitive to the needs of others will learn charity; that the scourges of poverty, disease and ignorance will be made to disappear from the earth, and that, in the goodness of time, all peoples will come to live together in a peace guaranteed by the binding force of mutual respect and love.” Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Farewell Address (click below for entire speech). 

The Stuxnet software worm repeatedly sought to infect five industrial facilities in Iran over a 10-month period, a new report says, in what could be a clue into how it might have infected the Iranian uranium enrichment complex at Natanz.

The report, released Friday by Symantec, a computer security software firm, said there were three waves of attacks. Liam O Murchu, a security researcher at the firm, said his team was able to chart the path of the infection because of an unusual feature of the malware: Stuxnet recorded information on the location and type of each computer it infected.

Such information would allow the authors of Stuxnet to determine if they had successfully reached their intended target. By taking samples of Stuxnet they had collected from various computers, the researchers were able to build a model of the spread of the infection. They determined that 12,000 infections could be traced back to just five initial infection points.

Between June 2009 and May 2010, the program took aim at specific organizations in Iran on three occasions, Symantec research noted in an update of a research report the company published last year.

The Symantec team said it had collected five Internet domains that were linked to industrial organizations within Iran. They said because of the company’s privacy policies, they would not disclose the domain names.

 For much more click on: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/13/science/13stuxnet.html?ref=computermalware
Ike’s farewell address: click on: http://www.ourdocuments.gov/print_friendly.php?page=transcript&doc=90&title=Transcript+of+President+Dwight+D.+Eisenhower%27s+Farewell+Address+%281961%29 

 
What cause would get you into the Streets?  Click on:
 

I am a Minnesota college student currently studying at Winona State University, majoring in Law and Society, with minors in History and English.

 Top Five Reasons to Take to the Streets:

 1. A rigged election: If I felt that an election had been tampered with to the point of being rigged, then this must be protested with violence if necessary.

 2. Censored Press: Restriction of press freedoms are guaranteed by the United State’s Constitution, such restrictions, unthinkable as they are, would be intolerable.

3. Consistent Police Brutality: This in no way validates inconsistent police brutality; the police have a dangerous line of work, skulls get cracked. But, if the citizenry are being harassed, arrested, pummeled, fined, and/or bullied without due cause, then action must be taken.

 4. Food shortages: Whether protest could alleviate starvation is entirely relevant, as there is no point in protesting for food when there is none. If there is food and people are starving, not only has the government failed, but society as a whole has failed.

5. Unjust War: A war truly without justification; the attack of a friend or a peaceful nation. This would be a cause for absolute protest and rejection of the war-mongering of the state. While I disagree with the current wars my nation is involved in, I am able to discern casus belli in my nation’s actions.

— Richard W

 
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Apr 21

IF ONLY WE HAD LISTENED TO IKE AND GHW BUSH

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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

Dwight D Eisenhower

Dwight Eisenhower’s presidency is probably better remembered less for what he did than for what he said while heading for the exit. In a nationally televised address on January 17, 1961, only four days before John F. Kennedy’s inaugural, Eisenhower warned of the dangers of “undue influence” exerted by the “military-industrial complex.” He cautioned that maintaining a large, permanent military establishment was “new in the American experience,” and suggested that an “engaged citizenry” offered the only effective defense against the “misplaced power” of the military-industrial lobby.

For much more click on:

AllBusiness.com/… and

http://www.h-net.org/… (the speech)

For Eisenhower videos click on:

google.com/search?q=eisenhower….

We don’t want an America that is closed to the world.

What we want is a world that is open to America.

George H. W. Bush

“Whose life would be on my hands as the commander-in-chief because I, unilaterally, went beyond the international law, went beyond the stated mission, and said we’re going to show our macho?
We’re going into Baghdad. We’re going to be an occupying power — America in an Arab land — with no allies at our side. It would have been disastrous. We don’t gain the size of our victory by how many innocent kids running away — even though they’re bad guys — that we can slaughter. … We’re American soldiers; we don’t do business that way.”

For much more click on: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_H._W._Bush

“If We Don’t Learn Our History, We’re Doomed to Repeat It”

Why Americans Can’t Learn from History

Click on:
huffingtonpost.com/carol-smaldino/why….

Aug 21

ACCESS TO EVIL (are there neocon ministers?).

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(I state no opinion on the following but thought that you might want to read another point of view not reaching the mass media or talk show hosts. -mackie)

“After barring Ron Paul, the Republifascists will give the main convention speaking slots to the sanctimonious neocon monster Lieberman, the crooked neocon monster Giuliani, and the neocon war criminals Cheney and Bush.

 Also today, at a town meeting, when a questioner said the State needed a military draft to be able to kill enough foreigners, McCain said he didn’t disagree with anything she said.

 Ron Paul made a (yet another) great point yesterday, about what an outrage it is that one man can select the vice president. According to the original Constitution, the vice president was the man who came in #2 in the electoral college vote. But wouldn’t that mean he would be keeping an eagle eye on the presidentas versus being his willing enabler, that’s right.”

 For the rest of the article click on: http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/

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 (Our National Anthem starts off with “Oh Say Can You See…….”.  Can we? -mackie)

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“We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.” Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th President of the U.S.

 ”When the Axis Powers win, we will have to convert ourselves permanently into a militaristic power on the basis of war economy.” Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President of the U.S.

Click on:

http://redwhitebluepolitics.blogspot.com/2007/06/beware-of-military-industrial-complex.html

EVIL THRIVES WHEN GOOD PEOPLE DO NOTHING. 
What can we do?  Call our Congresspeople:
Here are their phone numbers: http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/
 
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SHOULDN’T WE AT LEAST LET THEM KNOW WE ARE WATCHING?