Friday, January 25, 2013

ON OBAMA I & II






















With his tarnished Nobel Peace Prize the hypocritical symbol of the broken promises of his first term ~ Emperor Obama will firmly establish the Empire in his second term while setting the stage for the New World Order: Allen L Roland

Right from Beyoncé's lip-synced National Anthem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L25jPoSxvBM
to Emperor Obama's teleprompter aided inauguration speech ~ this was a Hollywood production which was heavy on glitz and light on substance as well as promise for Obama II.

Make no mistake about it, the global financial elite got their man in 2008 and got him re-elected in 2012 ~ with the promise that the banksters will remain unpunished and the Military / Industrial complex will continue to drive the economy with the perpetual war of terror ~ not war on terror.

Our newly re-elected Bomber in Chief launched over 20,000 airstrikes in his first term which caused significant death and destruction from Iraq to Somalia ~ "...The Obama administration is responsible for  at least 18,274 air strikes in Afghanistan since 2009, including at least 1,160 by pilotless drones. The U.S. conducted at least 116 air strikes in Iraq in 2009 and about  1,460 of NATO's 7,700 strikes in Libya in 2011. While the U.S. military does not publish figures on "secret" air and drone strikes in other countries, press reports detail a five-fold increase over Bush's second term, with at least  303 strikes in Pakistan125 in Yemen and 16 in SomaliaThe Obama administration has conducted more air strikes day-in day-out than the Bush administration. Bush's roughly 24,000 air strikes in seven years from 2002 to 2008 amounted to an air strike about every 3 hours, while Obama's 20,130 in four years add up to one every 1& 3/4 hours."

As Nicolas Davies ( AlterNet ) concludes ~ "Day after day for 11 years, U.S. air strikes have conclusively answered the familiar question of 9/11: "Why do they hate us?" As Congress member Barbara Lee warned in 2001, we have "become the evil we deplore." It is time to change course."

Don't count on a change of course any time soon with Obama II ~ instead count on a slow but steady move toward a New World Order ~ pre-planned some time ago and now entering an accelerated phase under Obama II ~ See 10 minute video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9HJRxMjLFs


Perhaps only the late George Carlin can offer insight into America's on going war machine ~ "You might be noticing I don't feel about that war the way we were told we were supposed to feel about that war. The way we were ordered and instructed by the United States Government to feel about that war; see my mind doesn't work that way, I got this real moron thing I do it's called THINKING...."  3 minute video

So far Obama I has brought us...
1. Universal health care
(a fraud)
2. The continuation of
torture.
3. Get-out-of-jail-free cards
for Wall Street scammers.
4. The free guns for Mexican
drug cartels program.
5. An undeclared war against Pakistani
civilians ~ through accelerated drone assassinations.
6. Prolonged Detention has become a rule of law ~ this is, by far, his biggest accomplishment to date and most certainly will be continued during the reign of Obama II and a budding New World Order ~ as explained by Rachel Maddow. 7 minute video

Friend and fellow Columnist Stephen Lendman correctly identifies Obama as the global elite's point man ~ "He’s a con man. After all the harm he caused, half the country still supports him. He gets away with murder and much more. Most people haven’t a clue. They’re out of touch. They don’t understand what harms them. They ignore their own welfare. Some perhaps don’t care. Others are dismissive. They know more about bread and circuses than vital major issues to address. Obama takes full advantage. He governs lawlessly. He’s in bed with corrupted monied interests. They own him. He plans throwing most Americans under the bus. It’s his scheme to give them more. America is more hypocrisy than democracy."

So there you have it, Obama I was more about hypocrisy than democracy ~ and Obama II promises more of the same as we draw ever closer to a new World Order.

"The drive of the Rockefellers and their allies is to create a one-world government combining super capitalism and Communism under the same tent, all under their control.... Do I mean conspiracy? Yes I do. I am convinced there is such a plot, international in scope, generations old in planning, and incredibly evil in intent." ~ Congressman Larry P. McDonald, 1976, killed in the Korean Airlines 747 that was shot down by the Soviets 

Allen L Roland


Freelance Alternative Press Online columnist and psychotherapist Allen L Roland is available for comments, interviews, speaking engagements and private consultations ( allen@allenroland.com

Allen L Roland is a practicing psychotherapist, author and lecturer who also shares a daily political and social commentary on his web log and website allenroland.com He also guest hosts a monthly national radio show TRUTHTALK on www.conscioustalk.net

Friday, January 18, 2013

ON TURNING 79






















79 years old ~ closing in on 80

At age 79, I realize my best work as a therapist and writer is now ~ which leads me to believe that I'm totally in sync with my destiny and that a state of love and soul consciousness that I innately knew as a young child is soon to become common knowledge throughout the world: Allen L Roland

At 830 AM, January 18th, 1934 ~  I arrived on this planet, two minutes ahead of my twin brother, Bobby. I remember surrendering during the birth delivery and remember three lights above the birthing table. The fact that I surrendered during the birth delivery has made a profound difference in my life ~ in that I impeccably trust the unknown and am not afraid to surrender to a force greater than myself ~ such as love.

I was blessed as a young child in that I was living with my grandfather and my mother as well as my grandfather's cook and house maid, Delia ~ who I adored. I can still remember her singing gospel spirituals and filling the kitchen with her joyful presence and music.

My grandfather was a leprechaun ~ an incredibly spiritual and gifted 33th degree Mason and successful businessman whose childlike spirit and infectious laughter filled my heart with joy and love. My mother, who was divorced from my father, was extraordinary beautiful, somewhat wounded and emotionally withdrawn ~ but even she contributed to the magic of my grandfather's household. Of course, there was also my twin brother Bobby and older brother Dick who felt the same magic and in their own way have never forgotten my grandfather's giant leprechaun heart.

I have also never forgotten something that happened to me as a young child. I was about three years old and playing in my room upstairs by myself . Suddenly on the radio came my favorite song ~ Gene Autrey's I'm Back In The Saddle Again ~ I turned on the music as loud as I could, reached up on my tiptoes, opened the window and leaned out and shared the bliss and joy of that musical moment with everything I saw around me ~ Gene Autrey singing Back in The Saddle ~ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hpqcpiLmoI

But the true joy and bliss of that moment was the sudden realization that through my joyful state of soul consciousness ~ I was connected to everything around me, to all of nature ~ which would later in my life, lead to me fully opening my heart, surrendering to and defining as well as sharing a  Unified Field of love and soul consciousness ~ which lies not only beyond time and space but also beneath our deepest fears and whose principle property is the universal urge to unite.

What is illuminating to me now is that even at that young age of three ~ I felt an innate need to share my individual joy and delight with the world at large ~ which is precisely what I am still doing as I embark on my 79th year on the planet ~ via my website, books, columns and work as a heart centered transformation therapist and counselor. See  Band of Brothers #11 / Touching the Face of God ~ http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/10/20/band-of-brothers-11-touching-the-face-of-god/

The words of Jack London are my living epitaph ~ "I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time."

But how can I possibly fully celebrate my 79th birthday without acknowledging my beloved twin brother, Bobby ~ who is now in a nursing home in Nahant, Massachusetts with advanced stage four Parkinson's. He can barely move or talk but he can clearly hear so I celebrate our common birthday with my favorite song which is dedicated to him ~ for the pipes may well be calling.



“You don't stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.” George Bernard Shaw


Allen L Roland


Freelance Alternative Press Online columnist and psychotherapist Allen L Roland is available for comments, interviews, speaking engagements and private consultations ( allen@allenroland.com )

Allen L Roland is a practicing psychotherapist, author and lecturer who also shares a daily political and social commentary on his web log and website allenroland.com He also guest hosts a monthly national radio show TRUTHTALK on www.conscioustalk.net

Tuesday, January 8, 2013

OBAMA'S WAR ON TERROR IS ORWELL'S NEVER ENDING WAR OF TERROR






What started as a War on Terror in Afghanistan has now become the front for an Orwellian never ending War of Terror which is rapidly draining the heart, resources and spirit of America: Allen L Roland

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
~ George Orwell

Wikipedia defines Perpetual war as such "Perpetual war refers to a lasting state of war with no clear ending conditions. It also describes a situation of ongoing tension that seems likely to escalate at any moment, similar to the Cold War."

The obvious goal of Obama's perpetual war on terror is economic control and manipulation which has been more than borne out by the neo-colonialism war of terror being waged by the west in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria and eventually Iran with the obvious intent of Regime Change.
As Peter Symonds correctly points out in WSWS ~ "Afghanistan has been the testing ground for 21st Century neo-colonialism. The occupation has set the pattern for US-led operations in Iraq, Libya and now Syria, as Washington seeks to extend its economic and strategic dominance in the energy-rich regions of the Middle East and Central Asia. "
In the landmark George Orwell novel Nineteen Eighty Four, Eurasia is described as having "always been at perpetual war with Eastasia" ~ a fictional super state in Orwell's novel but far from fictional in America's current war of terror in the Middle East.

Obviously, the model for 21st century neo-colonialism is Afghanistan ~ America's current longest standing occupation and so-called 12 year war on terror. Claims that the US occupation will end in 2014 are most certainly refuted by obvious plans for an indefinite American military presence in Afghanistan.
According to the New York Times, " General John Allen, the top US commander in Afghanistan, has submitted three options to the Pentagon for the period after the supposed withdrawal of “combat troops” at the end of 2014. One is to maintain US troop levels at 6,000, another calls for 10,000 soldiers, and the third is based on a force of 20,000. As explained by unnamed defense officials, central to all three proposals is the continued presence of “Special Operations commandos who would hunt down insurgents.” Additional US forces would be used to bolster the Afghan security forces through air support, logistics and training. All of this continues to be justified on the phony pretext of the “war on terror.” In reality, over 12 years of relentless, bloody war, Afghanistan has served as a base of operations for the projection of American influence and military force throughout the region."    See WSWS article http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/01/05/pers-j05.html

The object of this perpetual war, as Orwell describes, is to keep a society or 'Our Way of Life' intact ~ The war in actuality is waged by each ruling group against its own subjects, and the object of the war is not to make or prevent conquests of territory, but to keep the structure of society or the status quo intact. 

Who can ever forget Tony Blair justifying the Iraq war and occupation as "protecting our way of life" ~


















War criminal Blair wearing Yarmulke

The very word 'war', therefore, has become misleading. It would probably be accurate to say that by becoming perpetual and continuous ~ war has ceased to exist.

From the book 1984 ~
" The economy of many countries was allowed to stagnate, land went out of cultivation, capital equipment was not added to, great blocks of the population were prevented from working and kept half alive by State charity. But this, too, entailed military weakness, and since the privations it inflicted were obviously unnecessary, it made opposition inevitable. The problem was how to keep the wheels of industry turning without increasing the real wealth of the world. Goods must be produced, but they must not be distributed. And in practice the only way of achieving this was by continuous warfare. "The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent. Even when weapons of war are not actually destroyed, their manufacture is still a convenient way of expending labor power without producing anything that can be consumed. A Floating Fortress, for example, has locked up in it the labor that would build several hundred cargo-ships. Ultimately it is scrapped as obsolete, never having brought any material benefit to anybody, and with further enormous labors another Floating Fortress is built. In principle the war effort is always so planned as to eat up any surplus that might exist after meeting the bare needs of the population..."


However, the American Killing machine most certainly still exists and now we have Nick Turse’s new book, Kill Anything that Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam  to confirm this obvious truth ~ "No one has ever described the American killing machine in that country the way he has; nor, as he did, tracked down Americans charged with war crimes by the U.S. military in that era, nor tramped through distant rural Vietnam to hear what it felt to be on the other side of massacres or experience the American-imposed “system of suffering” in those years. A decade in the making, it is a book that should reshape in fundamental ways how we remember the Vietnam War."

Afghanistan excerpt: "Untold numbers of Afghans have also died of everything from lack of access to medical care (there are just 2 doctors for every 10,000 Afghans) to exposure, including shocking reports of children freezing to death in refugee camps last winter and again this year.  They were among the hundreds of thousands of Afghans who have been internally displaced during the war.  Millions more live as refugees outside the country, mostly in Iran and Pakistan.  Of the women who remain in the country, up to 2 million are widows.  In addition, there are now an estimated 2 million Afghan orphans.  No wonder polling by Gallup this past summer found 96% of Afghans claiming they were either “suffering” or “struggling,” and just 4% “thriving.”
So there you have it, The Cheney/Bush/Obama War on Terror is a never ending war of terror and no one understood the implications of this perpetual war better than George Orwell.

"I guess every generation is doomed to fight its war...suffer the loss of the same old illusions, and learn the same old lessons on its own." ~ Phillip Caputo

Allen L Roland

Freelance Alternative Press Online columnist and psychotherapist Allen L Roland is available for comments, interviews, speaking engagements and private consultations ( allen@allenroland.com )

Allen L Roland is a practicing psychotherapist, author and lecturer who also shares a daily political and social commentary on his web log and website allenroland.com He also guest hosts a monthly national radio show TRUTHTALK on www.conscioustalk.net