Cuba Vows to Remain Impoverished

With the appointment of new supreme leader Miguel Diaz-Canal by the unelected Cuban National Assembly this week the last last gasp of the second longest reigning Communist nation can be heard.

Comrade Diaz-Canal, described lovingly in the Huffington Post article I read as "A consensus builder" and as "an approachable, efficient manager".  As if anyone is going to disagree with this new Cuban "President" when he is predictably "elected" during a national election. I believe we won't need to send former U.S. President Jimmy Carter over to the island to see if the vote is legitimate or not.

And as if any Socialist system is efficient. Because we know from mountains of history that it isn't and can't be. There is no efficiency in having nothing. I suppose you don't have much trash in such a situation since if you have nothing, you also have nothing to waste.

Cuba has nothing to waste most certainly.

And it looks like that trend will continue. The decorative reforms that have been carefully marketed to the rest of the world and lovingly trumpeted by the left-leaning media have amounted to nothing at all since, heaven forbid, anybody gets anything for their efforts. That just wouldn't be sporting. Gain is only for the Dictatorship, nobody else ever gets too much.

I heard on the radio that el Presedente elect Diaz-Canal will exert his efforts on "Perfecting Communism". Stop me if you've heard that one before. All the American Socialists have been saying that for decades now. "Just wait, one of these days we'll get it right, you'll see!" they declare but they never do. They can't. It's not possible with the State calling all the shots. We have a Stock Market in this country that's built on people investing their own money into products and enterprises they think will bring them a handsome return on their investment and there are loads and loads of very smart people who have gone bust thinking they knew what direction the Market was going. So how the hell is a bunch of indoctrinated revolutionaries going to figure it out?

Answer:They haven't and they won't!

Year after dreadful year the Cuban central planners have made the decision of where best to put the country's resources, what crops to grow and what products to produce. And they haven't even accidentally got it right. All those 1956 Chevrolet automobiles the Cuban people are still driving around in aren't going to get an upgrade any time soon.

Cuba has no infrastructure, no shining buildings of glass and steel and now even the old city buildings, built by a more advanced civilization now gone and with no one of knowledge or resources left to maintain them, are collapsing and burying their unfortunate inhabitants in the ruble of their past glory.

Cuba has a whole lot of nothing and the people who have the least know the most about what it would take to bring prosperity to this nation of pure Want. They don't believe anything will change with the continuation of Fidel Castro's "Plenty of Nothing for You" brand of government. They don't expect anything and to a world watching from the outside, it's a shame that they won't be pleasantly surprised. They won't EVER be pleasantly surprised. Not as long as these Commies run the place.

"We don't need no stinkin' Capitalism" declares the soon-to-be elected Cuban President, "We'll show everybody how much the Cuban people can suffer! You think people suffered under 74 years of Russian Communism? Just wait, we'll beat that and then some!"

Don't expect too much applause.

Is it Real? Gas Attack in Syria

Update: This whole stunt has a bad smell to it and it's not just Sarin gas.

It would make no sense for the Assad regime to commit an act such as this with everything going their way in this conflict. I still think the "attack" was an invention. Gas is a tough thing to disprove. Every side has it and the capability to use it. And having Turkey do an autopsy means nothing since they have a big stake in the opposition, having been selling them arms for years now in exchange for oil. This we know is true so as far as anyone knows, it could be Turkey's idea AND their gas.

People may well have been gassed but the point is: Who gassed them? Which side would benefit from such an act?

But it's still Assad's fault and the leaders of the world have been very quick to condemn him anyway. That's because they all want in on Syria. It turns out that there is more than one tyrannical regime that is involved in the Syrian conflict alright.

I'm leaving the blog up untouched because it does represent my skepticism on the reliability of ANY information we get coming out of Syria. The West continues to look for excuses to intervene.

The Blog:

Perhaps Assad did gas people in this latest media push OR perhaps the whole thing has been made up and did not even happen, again!

This is the real dilemma of the Rebel Opposition: Not as many people are jumping through the reactionary hoop anymore. Except for John McCain, that guy will believe anything when it comes to starting a war.

Did this attack happen at all? Where are the bodies? No bodies. When Amnesty International or Doctors without Borders shows up if at all, they'll be shown filled in graves. Anybody under there? We're told; "We have to bury victims right away, it's our religion." They can never keep these "victims" above ground long enough for outsiders to prove there were victims at all. Nobody ever seems to check. Only mass graves are dug up. There are Muslims under those too but that's another story.
Perhaps these agencies and media outlets don't want to confirm the dead because to think it real fits their political narrative. Who knows? We really don't. All we have to go on is what the people on the ground say and I have seen how tightly controlled the message is coming out of these places like Syria and Gaza and you have too. The media reporting can't be believed either. They have no credibility to say anything about anything anymore. I could name a group like CNN and you already know what they're going to say. They are very consistent in their slant and therefore can't be relied upon for the weather never mind if an international event has occurred.

The setup is pretty much the same as the other staged "attacks". We get video of people carrying "bodies" in blankets or "bodies" lying in ruble and then later we sometimes even see them walking around, oops!

We see "Doctors" frantically working on people usually in a small enclosed space using a single camera but we don't know what it's all about since it's just a person on a table. Put that scene in a daytime soap opera and it would look the same. What does it even mean? It means the Rebel Opposition gets NBC's "Days of our Lives" on the Internet.

We also see narrow angle pictures of people with respirators on, people holding half naked children and that idiot John McCain warning Bashar al Assad that his actions will not be tolerated even though NONE of this has been confirmed.

But why wait for the facts to come in when I'm John McCain, crazy person?

I've seen this act over and over. It's tiresome to see the media and people reacting to falsehoods like they were fact. But like PT Barnum so famously said; "There's a sucker born every minute."

We're also told there were war planes but who said that? Well, they did!

Totally believable, right?

No war planes, no gas, nothing but another attempt to get back in the news after being overshadowed by other world events.

It's all a shade and since other things are going on in the world that continue crowd the "plight" of the rebels off of the front page, it is a constant struggle to stay at the top of the news cycle and although I believe the Rebel Opposition would gas their own people to get an international photo op and probably have in the past, This time it looks like just another attention getting media stunt. But then again...it remains to be seen.

There has been a huge divide in proving there was gas used and who used it. Even the French couldn't prove who actually used the gas in their own investigation back in 2014 and 2015 although since then U.S. media had reported that it had been confirmed. Go figure.

So sorry Mr. McCain but you've been Punked yet again. Please go kill yourself before you do any more harm to the peoples of this world. If there is an untried war criminal in all of this it is YOU. If you weren't so drug addled, I would say you have no conscience but in reality you have no mind left to lose.

The Rebel Opposition has been trying to parlay such incidents into attracting outside intervention in their Civil War from the very beginning because they know they don't have the resources to win. And why should they win?

Because Assad is "Bad"? Assad was bad under Obama because Mr. Obama was on a campaign to destabilize the Middle East and aid Hard Right Wing militant groups in takeovers of these countries like Libya and Egypt. And heaven forbid Assad didn't feel like being overthrown. The GALL!

Hence the U.S. media campaign, the chemical weapons accusations, the humanitarian crisis's and all the "Assad is a bad man" stuff. Like the Rebel Opposition is fighting for the Pope, apple pie and all that is good in the world. If it wasn't for the Obama Administration supplying them, they wouldn't have lasted this long. It was just that U.S. intervention that drew Russia into the conflict and elevated the destruction. Keep in mind the people who these Rebels are. Compared to the Rebel Opposition, Assad looks downright Moderate. And if Assad should happen to fall, the following Rebel purge will make the siege of Aleppo look like a kindergarten play.

But would THAT humanitarian crisis ever get reported? Good question. Civil Wars need winners and losers. In this one, there isn't much to cheer for but you all should see through the reasons why this whole incident here has been faked.

The Media IS the Enemy of the People!

And it always has been. The difference now is that we know it too.

By conspiring to keep the American public in the dark about the collusion and subterfuge by government organizations on the manufactured issue of Global Climate Warming Change, by looking the other way when illegal immigrants kill American citizens in their homes and on our road ways, by purposely manufacturing crisis at home and abroad to keep you in ignorance and fear, the National Media has done the American Public, the people they are supposed to serve, no service at all. 

Back in the days of 3 television channels, The National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) The Columbia Broadcasting System, (CBS) and the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) had a lock on information and they all put out the same “news”.

Back then, the planet was cooling. Yes, getting colder, the future showed that the Earth would be a block of ice, and we worried about it. Back then the government was run by the Good Guys. And these good guys defended the United States from the people we were told were BAD PEOPLE. Countries like China, Russia and Cuba. They were BAD. That's what were were told and are STILL being told. No agenda to follow there, these people were just not LIKE US.

We had guys like Dwight D. Eisenhower saying that we HAD to call off the free and agreed upon elections in Vietnam and instead invade so that the world could have their Tungsten. That’s right, Tungsten. The media was alright with that in the beginning. It took over a decade to change their minds about it. 

The big 3 and the government controlled the narrative and you got what they wanted you to get.

And the media today was alright with Affordable Care Act even though any clear thinking person could see what it was going to do to the economy and here they sat by for 8 years and watched it turn to shit. Not a peep out of the National Leftist Media except an occasional question to the last president, “What’s his name,” about his fucking golf game.

This is what they did not do for you the American People. No “News” outlet sent a camera around to these small towns to see the empty store fronts, the closed factories or the idle people on the dole.

They did NOTHING but glad-talk everything.

Some Past Examples

Remember in 2012 when NBC edited the 911 call that George Zimmerman made to police before he killed Travon Martin in a fight to make him look like he killed the man-child in cold blood? Remember that it was CNN that repeatedly referred to Mr. Zimmerman as a "White Hispanic"?

Who was served by that? Not you and not me.

Or back in 1993 when NBC had to admit that it rigged a Chevy Truck to blow up to "prove" that they were unstable in a crash and prone to explosion. The only problem was they couldn't get the truck to explode! So they had to help it along a bit.

It's because, as former CBS "reporter" Dan Rather said back in 2004 when he got caught peddling a phony story about then President G.W. Bush's military record " The story is true, it's the documents that are fake!" But there is a good reason for that; to the Political Left...

Facts don't matter!  

It wasn't Donald Trump who hurt the National Media's credibility, the reason nobody believes a word out of their mouths is their own doing. The truth would stick in their throats if they ever had the nerve to try to tell it. But they won't try because they can't.

NOT the Free Press

They are not the Free Press, they are the Bought and Paid For Press. Big difference. 

For years they've looked the other way while the moneyed elite made their deals. They went to the parties the bomb-makers threw and the laughed the laugh of people who didn't have to worry about their next paycheck because the were the king-makers, Media Made Men.   

So for far too long we got: "And that's the news. Now shut-up and sit down!"

Enter the Internet!

But now the Internet has changed all that. You don’t need the government to give you the news. You don’t have to listen to or even believe the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to tell you the temperature or a God-Damned Government Agency (GDGA) to tell you that trading Carbon Credits isn’t a fucking swindle or that the government isn’t in bed with the big corporations to keep low wage workers piling into this country so YOU won’t have a pot to piss in.

You don’t have to believe what the Government Media is telling you because what their telling you isn’t true you stupid sheep! Wikileaks has only proven what we all had long expected: That your government was not only lying to you but spying on you intensely to boot! 

So why would you listen when NBC, Reuters, CBS, ABC, CNN or ANY of these bought-and-paid-for PROSTITUTES say that President Trump’s 4 week old administration is in Turmoil? Why would you believe Russian's hacked the election? Why would you believe ANYTHING these people have to say? And just because they continue to have a forum to put their swill out on the airwaves every day over and over even though they themselves know it’s a lie and their doing it for only ONE purpose.

And that’s to keep YOU stupid, in the dark, under-employed, over-taxed, under-educated and out of the fucking American Dream while they and their LORDS hand the wealth of this nation to OTHERS!

So why are you still giving them the time of day? Someone lies to me once and I know it, there isn’t another thing I’m going to believe. Am I alone in this world?

I think not!

Our Media system is broken. Their only real function is supposed to report the truth but they do not. 

They Leftist Media has been caught out as liars and liars they'll be until they stop. 

They have not only let the American people down but have maliciously deceived us time and again. This is reprehensible conduct but now we know it. 

We're onto them.  

Can We Ever Trust the Media Again?

The Boston Globe, The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal, Reuters, The Associated Press, CNN, Fox News…how can we trust anything they say ever again?

All just propaganda sweat sheets. Not a word can be trusted and they prove it every day. I don’t read them, I avoid listening to them whenever possible and I can’t understand why anybody else would either. If they lie about one thing or use “weasel words” to distort the facts, then why should I trust them to even tell me the weather? Should I trust that because THIS TIME they might not be lying?

Don’t think so.

Shades of Clarence Thomas

The recent big lie about Donald Trump has all the timing and suspense of belief as the allegations against Conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas when we was up before Congress for his confirmation vote back in 1991.

This was when a former long-time employee, Anita Hill, was put up by the Democrats at the last minute to claim that Mr. Thomas had sexually harassed her while she was in his employ.

It wasn't just a lie, it was an obvious lie.

Based just on the timing alone the allegation was hugely suspect and although the Political Left who backed her “claim” never took a step backward, her story fell apart on facts alone. Especially the fact that if Ms. Hill was harassed in so unwelcome a fashion, then why did she follow Mr. Thomas from the employ in one firm to another? She had no answer.

But to his credit and for a nation’s thankless task, Justice Thomas has proven to be the most consistent stalwart and defender of the U.S. Constitution as it is written. Not even the late Anthony Scalia could make such a claim.

Anita Hill went on to a lucrative career as a motivational speaker on the college circuit. A gift from her Leftist benefactors for a job well done if not entirely successful.

Such is the world we live in.

The “Conservative Press” is No Better

These supposedly Right Wing talk shows, Rush Limbaugh included but also Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly and our local talker Howie Carr all make their bones on trumpeting their “outrage” at what the New York Times and the Boston Globe etc write. I don’t need to hear it from them. I don’t buy or read them so why do I need these guys to tell me what the hell they said? If I wanted to know, I’d read it myself.

But the real reason they do this is because THEY’D HAVE NOTHING TO TALK ABOUT 

otherwise. It’s like the Left Wing and Right Wing press feed off each other. They need each other for their livelihood. They, like the present group of Republocrats and Demlicans, are two sides of the same coin.

And WE are all paying for it.

Human Nature to Believe

I love it when a colleague tells me about some outrageous thing that they heard on a television news show about, well, anybody of prominence or of a situation overseas. I just ask, “Are you stupid? Why would you believe that?”

This is why I have no friends at work.

There are people that I know who tell me what a pack of lies they’ve heard on the news about something and then come running to me about Donald Trump. Why on Earth would you not believe everything else except this?

With what is going on today why would anyone believe a word about what's going on in Syria, Yemen, Russia, the EU or our own presidential election. And a bigger question would be why are they buying these publications or supporting them with the cable subscriptions? 

Make the Slaves Love Their Slavery

This is why freedom never seems to win in public opinion polls. I don’t know what it is, do people not trust themselves? Don’t they want to be free to pursue what makes them happy? Wouldn’t they want to have a healthcare plan they can take with them and can afford free of government and employer mandates? A plan for their individual needs and not paying for everyone else’s?

Wouldn’t people want to have more of their own money that they earn in THEIR OWN pockets so that THEY can choose how to spend it and what businesses to support instead of having it yanked from their paychecks and used for businesses the government chooses instead?

Will people vote for a chance to be rid of excess regulations, a big and intervening government, a press that is so BENT that they take it as a personal task to collude and destroy anybody who has a alternate plan (that means you too Bernie Sanders!)?

We’re going to find out but the one thing I do know is...

The idea of a free press is DEAD.

Milquetoast Ryan Abandons Party Conservatives

I guess Mr. Ryan, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, thinks this presidential election is all about himself. Perhaps he thinks himself alone in his feelings. Or perhaps he is just favors someone else entirely.

So today Paul Ryan is appalled. Yes that's right, he's appalled by what he has heard. He just can't believe his ears! He was most upset and saddened by the news that...

Donald Trump apparently likes Pussy.

Ultimately, Mr. Ryan didn't take this news well and now he has announced, to the glee of the Political Left, that he just can't bring himself to support Donald Trump, his party's Presidential Nominee and will now only focus on not letting Hillary Clinton take the Presidential Throne with a Democratic Congressional Majority.

As if she'll even need one at that point.

Paul Ryan, in exercising his self-elected brand of voter nullification, has forgotten the stakes of this election. He has overlooked or perhaps he just can't see from his high perch that the economy is turning to shit. That good full-time jobs are dwindling, that the Affordable Healthcare Act is un-affordable, that millions of people are receiving food stamps and that many American workers are living pay-check to pay-check.

Perhaps he has not pondered the Supreme Judicial Court nominee waiting to be confirmed.

Or perhaps he has a plan of his own.

If Trump should lose this election, Mr. Ryan is going to lose the majority speaker-ship within two years anyway. It won't matter a hill of beans what he does after this. The Republican party deserves to lose the majority in the House. They have done nothing to hold onto it. They've abandoned their candidate and they have abandoned their electorate. What more can they do to undermine their cause?

Actually to say they have abandoned Donald Trump is to imply that they had ever given him anything but grudging acknowledgement as the Republican Nominee.

But Donald Trump is where he is because most people voted for him. This is why we hold elections. They didn't vote for smarmy Ted, the landed and entitled Mr. Bush, the decidedly un-dynamic Mr. Walker or that idiot Kasich ,

Trump didn't buy his way to the nomination, he was endorsed by a large group of people who represent the most conservative section of the Republican Party. Even though a majority of them are registered as Independent, they vote Republican. And for decades they have waited for a real conservative candidate.

Only to now be told that Conservatism is no longer allowed in the Republican Party.

In this election cycle, Donald Trump has electrified the Conservative Voter. Across the nation more people have voted in the primaries than they did the last two election cycles. He has gotten out the vote and he will continue to get out the vote. Whether he wins or not is a big unknown at this point but Mr. Trump has mounted an unprecedented campaign.

A campaign against not only the Liberal Democratic Party but also against the Liberal Republican Party.

But a lot of hard working people, people who pay their taxes and aspire to do the right thing, are pulling for Donald Trump. They feel, rightly, that many of the ideals they believe in are what he believes in also. Ideals that they see, more and more, the Republican Party abandoning. They want somebody to stand up to the special interests and big government that does not take their opinions and their rights in regard. They feel they have lost their voice in government.

And Paul Ryan has confirmed that they have. 

Turkey Trots Out Big Lie in Syria

Where are the bodies?

Russia reportedly hits hospitals and schools and kills 50 “civilians in rebel held Northern Syria yet the videos show no bodies! A couple of guys run by the camera with a pile of blankets in a stretcher. Lots of shouting and people digging in destroyed buildings while a voice-over in English describes the destruction.

This is the Big Lie come back into plain site in the warm up to continued intervention into the Syrian Civil war. While earthquake videos always show people being dragged out of crumbled buildings, here in Syria there is no such vision. Not even a snapshot has come out of this with a corpus delicti.

In a war of pictures in the television age, the one thing that would best sway the hearts and minds of the people seems to be missing: Evidence of a Crime.

Turkey’s Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, always a reliable source for truth and justice in this situation since it it Turkey that is supplying arms to the anti-Assad forces, said that Russian missiles hit a “children’s hospital” and that many civilians and children were killed. There’s plenty of footage of the buildings but where are the dead? There is nothing, not a second of footage of bodies anywhere. You know why? Because the only bodies they pulled out of those buildings were SOLDIERS!

Now we’ve all seen the bullshit setups the Palestinians love to film where one minute someone is lying under a concrete slab and the next minute they’re walking around with a crutch. There seems to be a limit to the number of actors these guys can come up with so you’ll have to forgive me for being skeptical having seen the so called “Palestinians” shoot their own people because they were in the presence of a foreign journalists video footage so they could claim that Israeli soldiers did it. The footage was remarkable because it depicted a man and his teenage son caught in the crossfire between the opposing forces and he was shielding his son with his back not to the Israeli forces but to his own supposed protectors because he knew as well as they did he was on camera. 

   

There is little coming out of Syria right now in the form of “News” that I am inclined to believe so one thing I will believe is when I see footage of actually bodies being pulled from the newly minted wreckage. If this existed I am positive that the rebel forces would have had no qualms about showing them to the world. Where is it?

Everybody filmed the Japanese Tsunami in 2011. Everybody filmed the World Trade Center Towers coming down. Nobody got this? No, next week will be too late so if the archivists for ABC, CNN or Reuters are going through old video footage right now, forget it. It won’t fly. It’s all a lie and it’s an Obvious lie given the circumstances of Assad being on the verge of victory. “This cannot stand” say the forces of good in Europe.

Just like the unbelievable stories of gas warfare being reported by the French, again no friend of Russia or Assad, which they attributed exclusively to the Assad regime and yet not proof was ever presented. Surely the accusations of the French, who only hold the best interests of the world in there heart, should be enough to begin more armed conflict in the region. Where is the footage? In an age where everybody is walking around with a God Damned video camera in their shirt pockets, there is no video escaping into the world to document these “atrocities”. And for these accusations, Europe will again look the other way when Turkey is bombing the shit out of the Kurds. But since when have the Kurds gotten anything out of their efforts whether they fight on the side of the U.S. or on the side of Assad. No difference there. 

Any excuse will serve a tyrant and here we are with yet another U.S. with Turkey as our puppet to setup an excuse to reign more warfare upon the people of the Middle East just when things are about to be settled. BUT not settled the way we like it.

Good must triumph over evil. 

And it ultimately will. 

Jackbooted Police Attack Press in Ferguson, MO

The Press is outraged!

How ironic.

Visiting journalists have had teargas canisters shot at them, had real guns pulled on them , been shot by rubber bullets, arrested and released with no charges, been manhandled, shoved around and bruised, forced out of areas for their own “safety” and generally threatened and harassed as the enemy.

How did it come to this?

Perhaps it is because they ARE the enemy.

Isn’t this the same esteemed people of the press who have looked the other way and underreported the Obama administrations flouting of the U.S. Constitution?

Are these the same people who have attacked every Tea Party political candidate and orchestrated smear campaigns against the people of the Tea Party, regular working-class folks who sincerely have concerns about the power of our federal government, and branded them as “Kooks” in their left-leaning publications and jokingly referring to them as that homophobic slur “Tea Baggers”?

Could these be the same “Journalists of the People” who have never bothered to take to task the criminality of the National Department of Justice, repeatedly giving Attorney General Eric Holder a pass on his felonious activities such as running American arms to the Mexican drug cartels resulting in hundreds of deaths on the border including U.S. boarder agent Brian Terry and issuing orders to not deport illegal aliens? The same press corps that has not taken President Obama to task for not enforcing the nation’s immigration laws?

Is this the press corps that is now shocked to discover the same disregard for the Bill of Rights has been applied to them?

How pathetic.

In some degree the police are getting the chance to do what many taxpayers would have liked to do but I’m afraid that there is more to this action than a little comeuppance for our honored American press corps.

The tear gassing and manhandling of the press in Ferguson, Missouri  a small suburb of St Louis with a population of 21,203, will serve as a training ground for the future as our government ramps up their troops which used to just be the local and state police forces. Manuals will be written and future police training classes will be initiated in the art of "Handling the Press". But it will not stop there.

With the militarization of the world come the militarization of our nations police forces who now have a wide arsenal of weapons at their disposal including full body armor, night vision goggles, gas masks, stun grenades, semi-automatic shot guns, hollow-nosed bullets in their high-capacity 9mm handguns, fully automatic machine guns and armored personnel carriers with mounted machine guns. 

The pictures coming out of Ferguson, MO right now with people standing with their hands in the air while police in military armored vehicles train machine guns at their heads is a most wondrous sight. 

Now every American town can have their own little Tienanmen Square or Czech Occupation and finally get to know what it's like to be looking down the barrel of a loaded high-powered automatic weapon just like everybody else in the world has. That's a new experience for many U.S. citizens but one I'm sure they will take in stride like they have with everything else that's been going on in the country. Just pay your taxes and shut up and sit down. 

Ferguson, MO looks to be a dress rehearsal for what awaits us all in this country after the shortages our governments “Borrow and Spend, Tax and Spend, Print and Spend” monetary and regulatory policies will bring if allowed to continue. They have made their power grab now let’s see if they can keep it. There will still be a vote come this November.

But the guns are just there to remind us all to keep in line.

Perhaps a bread line.

Hamas Losing Control of the Message

Hamas wants it both ways. They want to be free to bring in fuel and food through the Rafah Crossing with Egypt AND the rockets they use to shoot at Israel.

“How can they want a cease –fire when they won’t let us smuggle in weapons?” complained a Gaza “civilian” of Egypt. “Israel says they want to be our friends but they won’t let us shoot at them!” seethed another.  “As long as Israel continues to keep us from importing rockets and other weapons to shoot at them, there will be no peace!”

Logic like this is hard to argue with.

The national Leftist newspapers like USA Today are trying to help Hamas control the spin on their latest campaign when they offer quotes from a Gaza resident as describing Israeli tank fire as “random” and that “even ambulances came under fire”.  Did the reporter SEE this happen? No, but he has it on good authority because somebody in Gaza TOLD him. This is important to notice. These are not off-hand quotes; they are ‘’weasel words” meant to tilt the opinion of the reader.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that Hamas “doesn't give a whit about the “Palestinians”, all they want is more and more civilian deaths.” And it looks like the majority of the world is now more willing to believe him. They can see it clearly with their own eyes if they care to.

In an incredible display of the the bold-faced hypocrisy of their words when compared with their deeds, Hamas obviously thinks we’re all fools. But to be fair, Hamas didn't just jump to this conclusion on their own, the actions of the rest of the world all but convinced them that this is true.

Up until now the Gaza wing of the Arab Assault Force (AAF) on Israel has relied upon the intervention of the UN and other countries like the United States and the European Union to stop the Israelis from retaliating with full force once they initiate their attacks. 

Their whole propaganda machine is geared towards “showing” the world how unfairly they are being treated just because they have shot a few harmless rockets at Israel in frustration at being unable to get the materials they need to prosper. They would be “somebody” in this world if it wasn't for those spiteful Israelis, Goddamnit!

So the EU, the U.S. and Egypt negotiate a settlement, Israel stops it’s shooting and then Hamas re-groups and re-supplies and comes back just a little bit stronger, a little bit more resolved in their belief that they can fulfill their ultimate calling: Driving the Jewish State to its knees. So with the help of the rest of the world, who don’t seem to like the Jewish State much either, Hamas lives to fight on. This is a tiresome cycle. 

But there are growing signs that the world is tiring of their act and sees through the staged “destruction”, the human shields, the staged "man in the street" media interviews and the “casualties” who have been known to get up and walk once the pictures have been taken.

Even the politically ambitious and leather lunged U.S. Secretary of State John F. Kerry has come out to decisively straddle the situation when he said that Israel is justified in taking action to protect itself. 

This is a departure in message. Gone is the knee-jerk denouncement of Israel’s defense, replaced by "concern' over civilian casualties.

When you go to the well too often, the well runs dry.

Some have described Israel giving up Philadelphi Corridor, the 14km long, 100 meter wide swath of land that once separated Gaza from Egypt as a big mistake. Or giving up Gaza for that matter 2 years earlier but if those two events have lead the region and the world to where we are right now: Finally believing that it Hamas is the sole driver of this conflict. They have only used such concessions as an opportunity to import the rockets that fly over Tel Aviv today.

Had they held onto Gaza and the Corridor, Israel would always be on the defensive about the speculation of what kind of state the disenfranchised “Palestinians” could have achieved had they gotten the opportunity.

Well now we know don’t we? They have fashioned an armed camp out of what once was not and filled it with cannon fodder that pass for people. They have manufactured an incredible honey comb of a land where armed men and weapons can be moved across the area and never have to be exposed to the surface. They have fashioned a state so twisted in its single-mindedness of purpose to kill Jews that they have neglected to build any other industry of worthy of merit.

So the plan to keep arms out of the hands of Hamas never was workable since Hamas always manages to get the weapons. The next best plan then, is to make them pay a BIG PRICE when they use them.

To the radical Muslims there are no civilians in their cause.  Everyone is an enemy soldier and every State an obstacle. In order to defeat these people, their way of fighting and their immutable way of thinking is to beat them down and after that, to beat them down again until they come up, pardon the use of an American colloquialism, “a Christian”.  History holds many examples of where this strategy was applied with success. 

My philosophy professor in college opened our first class by asking the question; “Suppose you lived in a society that did not value life and when walking one day you passed over a bridge and upon looking down you noticed someone was drowning. What, given the society you were living in, would you be inclined to do?”

I answered that I would most likely have just stood there to watch that person drown.

I see no difference in that question and the kind of society that has sprung up in Gaza.

So now, regardless of how they actually feel, the world's politicians seem to be more inclined to watch how it’s done while Israel finally moves to at least attempt to solve their problems with a society upside-down in its thinking, upside-down in the purpose for which they live their lives and with the people who support it financially from the sidelines safely out of harm’s way.

Let's hope for civilizations sake that Israel prevails in their mission and that they maintain the resolve to take their fight to its successful conclusion. And afterwards, some reflection will be in order for Hamas, the UN, Iran, and Arabia upon their rolls in this conflict and the world at large but also reflection is called upon for the European Union and these United States. 

All the condemnation, all the scolding and all the threats towards Israel over the years for the crime of self-defense from an organized and sometimes praised hate group has had to be hard to bear for them.

And heaven forbid any nation should have John Kerry foisted upon them as much as he has been upon Israel. Imagine Mr. Kerry coming to your office and basically talking you to death. 

That is also a crime against humanity.