U.S. Senator's Wealth A Conflict of Interest Pro-Globalism?

When the medical corporation Senator Frist’s family started was sold recently for more than 21 billion dollars I wondered what relation such extreme wealth has upon the loyalties of U.S. Senators toward business preferences and federal legislation. The Senate of course just passed a bill to open the eastern Gulf of Mexico to offshore oil drilling, and global production of fossil fuel vehicles has surpassed that of the United States many times over. A farmer might more readily buy a Mahindra 5500 tractor than a John Deere (see page 41 Business Week July 31, 2006 Emerging(Multinational) Giants, and much of hard and soft production has shifted to China and India with Japan at this point being a veritable old time production partner. While global business is without question good for investors in global businesses and many citizens of nations other than the United States, is it good for Americans?

CNN published a list of senate millionaires (spouse and family assets not included) http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/06/13/senators.finances/ that indicates U.S. Senator do have a substantial investment bases most likely in established and globalist ventures perhaps not as free riders being stuffed by patrons yet with an inevitable conflict of interest. These guys aren’t hungry for U.S. progress and would not choose to support measures that would undermine the value of their investments in existing stock portfolios. That could be ultimately harmful to U.S. national interests.

Most reasonable people are aware that global warming and reliance on corporatist fossil fuels for transportation domestically are inimical to U.S. prosperity and security. Iran for instance in the current inflated oil price market earned more than 60 billion on fossil fuel sales the past year and will earn more this year, and contributed 180 million dollars to Hezbowlahh and its South Lebanon rocket range. Other terrorist supporting nations or those with a large number of oil wealthy supporters of terrorist causes are prospering during the Bush-Cheyney-Frist axis of oil era.

In the United States a non-co-opted U.S. Senate would oppose the mass extinction caused by asphalt and fossil fueled vehicles. It would support individual home power production enterprises through a variety of incentives to eliminate fossil fuel use in the domestic transport fleet. Certainly trans-continental electro-magnetic accelerator cargo tunnels could eliminate 70% of the domestic trucking fleet with a 2000 M.P.H. trans-con shipping speed to several major terminals coast to coast. Homes could be made with concrete gunnite air-formed applications to be hurricane and tornado resistant and with zero net loss of biota…drive in spiral ‘domes’ would allow interior courtyards, low cost and exceptional endurance, privacy and gardening potential. Zero net loss of biota should be a national land priority along with security not net egress border security. Several simple legislative measures could upset the imbalance created by the U.S. Senate indolent preference for global wealth investments that marginalize American startups and infrastructure revolutions. The Senators are so wrapped up in the way things are, are so led by global corporations that they are virtual accomplices to the parting out and repopulation of the United States. The passage of a minimum wage increase by the house was tied to a bill to eliminate the estate tax and permit globalists to purchase the United States without possibility of being taxed to invest in the security of the United States environmentally and socially. Obviously the Senate would not support an honest minimum wage increase for-itself.

In centuries past a Senate could just move along without a Jefferson to pursue national interests, defend against tyranny from authoritarians foreign and domestic, and fail to utilize rational modeling in comprehending the actions and lack of actions of the state. The Federal Government is large today with a vast number of commitments, probably beyond the scope of what the founders intended, yet the vast size is a consequence of ineffective planning and investments in the nation’s policies that could have made the government more effective at fulfilling its necessary roles without compromise for a lower cost. In many ways the government today supports corporatistism and stifles competition while simultaneously failing to promote investments, technologies and legislations that would create an ever renewing national economic independence without isolation, debt or pollution externalities.

The concatenation of ineffective Senate policies creates the zeitgeist and physical socio-economic and environmental conditions the nation experiences today. It seems unfortunate that the complaisant republicans and over homosexualized egressing democrats fail to comprehend the core economic and environmental issues that challenge the United States in 2006 adequately to take legislative measures that would effectively address them. Automobiles are a very over-mature and today draining technology. Over centralization of energy, sewer, transport and other public utilities have made a massified and reliant U.S. consumer culture readily subject to disruption. The environment is warming deleteriously over time, and cities such as Phoenix Arizona are taking few steps to seriously reverse the over-heating trend created by thousands of miles of asphalt laid in the Sonora desert in a valley.

The U.S. Senate as a group of yes-persons for globalists with succor from some neo-con broadcast social quank-philosophers haven’t even the substance to comprehend the negative impact globalist domination of U.S. broadcast media has upon mass opinion formation. I think it is virtually impossible to have regional political initiatives anymore much different that that policy corporatists expect for their profit margins. New technologies could allow radiowaves to be used by internet applications to democraticize the airwaves.

Terrorists and Iran are Causes of Middle Eastern Strife

With terrorists causing conflict in Lebanon, the Gaza and Israel a brief summary of the history of the middle eastern troubles would be useful in the present ‘crisis’ as another conflict has hit the fan of change. Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger wrote a succinct analytical article published in the Washington Post Monday July 31st covering the general parameters of the present nexus, yet Mr. Kissinger neglected to mention the failure of American diplomacy created in essence by the lack of determination and intelligence at the top (the President being nursed by oil and conflict through his two terms in deficit production for the nation) that stifles whatever creative diplomatic skills the able-enough Secretary Rice might consider.

It is remarkable how the people of the United States suffer from a sort of political amnesia or aphasia occasionally regarding the political etiology of sundry Middle Eastern conflicts. For many years the left has essentially taken an ostrichian position of wishing those foreign troubles to just go away without serious work internationally to remediate the causal factors that precipitate and sustain the various crises.

The Jews have long sought to return from the Diaspora to their ancestral homeland since the 70 ad. dispersal, and in small numbers and at various times they have. Jewish people have always lived in Jerusalem even when it was under foreign occupation and eventually settled by Muhammad’s rampaging horse cavalry hordes. When the Ottoman Empire took over all of the Middle East through conquest they ruled for about 400 years with everything generally imperial property---even Iran or Persia was subject to Ottoman rule with their covert Shiist loyalties to fall back upon.

Rabbi Herzl stimulated the return of Jews to Israel to form a homeland late in the 19th century. Centuries of European pogroms had demonstrated that Jews were often unwelcome in Europe. Even the Spanish deported Jews after 1492 much to their financial miss investment of New World booty. The Jews of Poland were sent beyond the Pale district amidst ordinary Russian-Polish wars for regional rule. Jews continued to migrate to Israel with the hope of forming a nation in the early part of the 20th century, yet it was the allied victory over the Ottoman Empire and Germany that gave rule of the Middle East to Britain that gave the Jewish Zionist a chance to build their numbers and strength in Israel.

Jewish pioneers such as Moshe Dyan lived on Kibbutz’s upon land legally purchased from Britain and local owners. The Jews of Israel sought to live peacefully and harmoniously sharing technology and improved farming techniques with their Muslim and often a generation removed from nomadic herder brethren and often were repulsed, for some reason perhaps involving religion and Muhammedism the Jews were considered as invading outsiders by the locals. The Jewish movement into Israel in the 20th century and land purchases were entirely lawful, yet the Balfour declaration by Lord Balfour to separate or partition Jews and Muslims in Palestine was done after the holocaust of the Reich, the Mufti of Jerusalem’s partnership with Hitler and general Arab sympathy for the fascists because the strife between the peoples increased and weapons caches grew. Of course in time the Jews declared independence from Britain and were recognized by UN resolution 242, The Arab nations of the region warred to their defeat upon Israel as soon as it became independent.

The fundamental problem in the Middle East today, and with Hezbollah and its thousands of terrorist rockets arsenal, and of course with Hamas and its dedication to terror, is the inability to rationally live peacefully with the Jewish State. Of course many Americans and leftists fail to comprehend the problem either. Still the world has only about 13 million Jews and film stars such as Mel Gibson can declare that “Jews cause all the wars’, yet Mr. Mel Gibson at least had the courage to say he has an alcohol problem while most of the Hollywood pro-terrorist set, anti-Israel set cannot. It is remarkable that such vast wealth and numbers of people can find problems with Jews in the post-modern, post-holocaust era. The Brits and Japanese for example have more financial influence, and not all Jews are millionaires, nor are a variety of other cliché’s about various peoples true either a priori.

Iran was able to resupply Hezbollah terrorist with rockets since the Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon, and Iran of course is building up a nuclear program perhaps to give a bomb to a Hezbollah to take out Tel Aviv and Haifa some day in round three of the Muslim fundamentalist war upon Israel. The Washington Post in the issue cited above also had an interesting report on designer pathogen potential today and tomorrow. A German scientist named Eckard Wimmer built a homemade Ebola-smallpox virus from mail-ordered parts and internet data download that was entirely artificial yet effective. Evidently terrorist and others may be able to obtain and construct that sort of long-anticipated match for the powder keg room soon.

Iran surely has a complex history, yet their position in the world geopolitically is rather pivotal and potentially catalytic. Oppression and torture by the Shah’s Savak may color their thought, yet the world moves on and an independent, democratic Iran with neo-isolationism would be a better one that one that is a progenitor of Armageddon quality doom scenarios including it’s own. The Iranians are wrong in encouraging and supporting the Middle Eastern terrorist activities upon Israel, and will in time lose. Of course they have legitimate complaints about certain aspects of western conduct and the broadcast media is corrupt and owned by corrupting agents almost everywhere better replaced by internet usage.

So much for this brief post about the Middle Eastern troubles. As the terrorists attack Israel must defend for survival’s sake…they are on the interior lines. It would be desirable if the Muslims oppressed by terrorists and harboring terrorists were able to shake off that pestilence and allow prosperity to grow before the oil era is replaced by a cheap solar, fuel cell and wind power era and the money flow reduces, however political wisdom in that area was replaced some time ago by gangsters, and western diplomacy is unduly influenced by corporatism and the corrupt power-grabbing broadcast media offending people everywhere. (:cool:)