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| Why, Unite the Many, Defeat the Few? It is our country, dammit! by Hollis Stewart The challenges facing our nation today call upon us to work together as a people to project the best of the values of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. It is time that we stop the use of the US Military as a mercenary group to further private, not public, narrow corporate business interests in other countries while declaring this misuse of military force as in the "national interest". Our military should be used only for legitimate national interests --- the defense of the nation --- and not the cockamamie occupation of other countries in order to allow our oil corporations to steal the wealth of the occupied and thereby deny their peoples the resources they need to develop their own nations and move to peace and prosperity in the world. The preamble of the Constitution of the United States commits the government to provide for the American people with these words:
perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." disintegrate in the interests of allowing the wealthy to evade their fair share of taxes and the corporate structures have been allowed to modify economic practices to their benefit while endangering the homes of families unable to cope with debt. The wealthy have profited off the backs of the common Americans and amassed undreamed of wealth for their personal use while health, education, and the general welfare of the population has been endangered. It is the duty of a nation to provide through a government for the common needs of the people: education, health, housing, nourishment, i.e. the general welfare and this function requires that taxes be raised to pay the costs. At one time, not many years ago, the majority of taxes were paid by corporations and the wealthy but the government, responding to the non-constitutional 4th branch of government, THE LOBBYISTS OF THE PRIVATE INTERESTS, have changed the tax structure so that the burden has been transferred to the middle income and working people of the country. Consequently when there is not "sufficient" tax revenues then services to the poor and working people are cut --- not the subsidies to the rich including the use of the military to guard their private interests. And it should be noted that the cost of the military is threatening to bankrupt the nation --- not the social services such as social security, medicare, and the like, no the military which produces nothing but consumes tremendous national resources. THERE IS AN ANSWER: ORGANIZE OURSELVES TO TAKE THE GOVERNMENT AWAY FROM THE RICH AND POWERFUL AND RETURN IT TO THE DUTIES PRESCRIBED BY THE CONSTITUTION AND THE BILL OF RIGHTS. IF THE RICH AND POWERFUL HAVE TAKEN THE GOVERNMENT THEN THEY ARE AN OCCUPIER, A FOREIGN AND STRANGE ENTITY AND IN THE WORDS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE,
NECESSARY FOR ONE PEOPLE TO DISSOLVE THE POLITICAL BANDS WHICH HAVE CONNECTED THEM WITH ANOTHER, AND TO ASSUME AMONG THE POWERS OF THE EARTH, THE SEPARATE AND EQUAL STATION TO WHICH THE LAWS OF NATURE AND OF NATURE'S GOD ENTITLE THEM, A DECENT RESPECT FOR THE OPINIONS OF MANKIND REQUIRES THAT THEY SHOULD DECLARE THE CAUSES WHICH IMPEL THEM TO THE SEPARATION." This is our cause: to restore our government by the people, for the people. We must take back our country so that we, our children, and their children can enjoy the fruits of liberty and justice for all and not be forced to live under the Iron Heel (see the wonderful book of that name by one of our best authors, Jack London) of the oligarchy. If not you and I, who? |
| Unite the Many Defeat the Few --- UTMDTF --- offers ideas for getting organized to fight for a better world. We can do it! Yes we can and this website and UTMDTF is non-partisan: You can be a democrat, a republican, a whatever and we urge you to action. |
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| New update on Carl Fry's look at the stealing of the election or the elimination of a president not wanted by the Upper Crust is to be found on the Charlie (aka Carl) Fry Page/s. |
| Barack Obama is our President, not King, and he will be only as good as our support makes him. Laud him when he is right, call him out when he is wrong or when he weakens under the onslaught of the mentally challenged GOP. And bring constant pressure on the White House, the Senate and the House of Representatives to do the right thing for America. As Americans we don't owe any politician anything. They work for us. |
| Charlie (aka Carl) Fry's works are now on the Charlie Fry pages 1, Charlie Fry 2. Navigate there from the page index. Check out Charlie, Carl, Fry to get a better understanding of what is happening in the real world. |
| Friends: Recently I camped down along the Mexican Border and while there took a look at the Ugly, Disgusting, apartheid fence that we are building along the border to keep the Mexicans out. I remember when the Berlin Wall came down as a symbol of freedom and now we and Israel are building walls --- whoa, what is that all about? Why not a border wall with Canada: Oh, right, Canadians are considered to be "white" and they are all right. Here are some pictures I took of this God awful border fence that the Bushites built to curry favor with the right wing racist xenophobes. The only thing equally stupid with this fence is the xenophobic law called SB1070 passed in Arizona. I grew up in Arizona and I know most Arizonians aren't as ignorant, racist, and illiterate as the governor they elected and re-elected. It is the nincompoops in Phoenix who have never been able to find their rectum with both hands free and a flash light who cause the problems for Arizona. |
| UTMDTF has moved older News/commentary to a new page called NewsObituary on the navigation table. |
| Let the rich eat the upper crust! We'll still be around to pick up the remains and build a new nation. The people combative and united will never be defeated. El Pueblo Unido y combativo jamas sera vencido. |
| Okay, people have said, where is the pretty pics on your website, so here is a pretty pic, but watch our for those cactus needles/quills/thorns. |
UTMDTF Flash Report: 7/6/09 Hollis Stewart It didn't happen, gas didn't go below $2/gallon! The headline for a major article in the Business Section of the 7/4/09 Los This important story was buried on page B4 with the obvious intent of “informing the public” without informing the public, i.e. if you aren’t the type to read into the paper then you wouldn’t notice the story but that is your fault. The meat of the story is simple: Oil speculators bought a lot of oil during the spring, squirreled it away on tankers and other storage facilities with the aim of The headline for a major article in the Business Section of the 7/4/09 Los selling it at a high price making a immense profits by screwing the rest of us --- the consumers. Now though the speculators have a problem --- we consumers have quit driving so much, lowering demand, in order to save during this economic downturn and therefore there is a “glut” of unsold petroleum products and this has kept price artificially low. UTMDTF says, “Now if we the people would really learn this lesson we would organize boycotts of particular oil companies, banks, insurance companies, chain stores, what ever to force prices to fall even further.” This can be our wrench for some non-violent fixing and tuning of the economy to make it work for we the people. In the same Business Section of 7/4/09, but covered on page 1 was the news that the rate and total number of foreclosures is about to balloon again as the big banks and their subsidiaries go about reclaiming their capital that has been invested in toxic mortgages that were sold to unsuspecting home buyers and in the case of home owners, refinance schemes. In other words the foreclosure business is about to further hurt the economy and take homes away from families that are now suffering from the growing unemployment across the nation. The only people who are worse scum than these bankers are the new “foreclosure opportunity” dirt bag companies who are hyping get rich schemes in the foreclosure market. In the old days when the foreclosure people came around communities organized and tarred and feathered the bas___ds but we are all just so nice anymore. Americans have lost the guts to stand up for themselves. Recently there have been several articles in the LA Times, the New York Times and other on and off line publications explaining that even if this economy recovers the jobs that have been lost will probably never be regained as more production and service is moved off shore by our American capitalists who can make bigger bucks for their investors by lowing labor costs through hiring cheap foreign workers. IN OTHER WORDS, THE AMERICAN CAPITALISTS INTEREST IS THE BOTTOM LINE PROFITS AND THEY DON’T CARE IF THEY ARE EARNED BY HURTING OTHER AMERICANS. These corporate owners and managers don’t care about our country --- they just see it as a thing to be exploited. This cheap-ing out is the same reason that these dirt bag upper crust ass__les shipped our industrial capacity overseas during in the 80s, 90s, and into this new century. Their only interest is their own wealth --- it is called greed and it is what forced Jesus to throw the money changers out of the temple (but we just let them go on screwing us cause we have lost our courage to act). It is high time that we UNITE THE MANY AND DEFEAT THE FEW by getting organized and taking back our country so that the economy serves the needs of the people of the nation first and the greed of the upper crust way down the line. And if upper crust, like Bernie Magdof, don’t like it then they can go to jail or leave the country --- we don’t need them here. |
| UTMDTF --- 1/12/10 --- Hollis Stewart Well united friends let's see what is new. For the past several months the stock market has been rising a little and the business press has been crowing about the end of the downturn, the end of the recession. Maybe for the wealthy, but not for the unemployed, underemployed and those who are struggling to get by. In the smaller print or the back pages there are little remarks like, "this will be a recovery without a growth of jobs" and "unemployment will be slow to come down." So why the celebratory stories? Because the investors who own the system like to keep employment down --- they make more profits when they don't have to pay wages and benefits and can bully the employees they still have to work harder for less. Duh. See our page: EconRecoverywithLowWagesNoJobs MEDICAL CARE Well, the fight is on! The conservatives don't want a national health plan, a single payer plan or anything else. And the insurance companies who have claimed 30% or more of the health insurance premiums they have received right off the top will be even more suspect. Insurance is a scam and a ponzi scheme, sort of like Bernie Madoff on steroids, that takes from the policy holders and gives to the rich. Yes, Insurance Rob-them-hooders rob the poor to give to the rich. The insurance industry scares us into buying insurance and after we do they look under every rock to keep from paying when a claim is made or a policy holder has to have medical care. |
| A little about "patriotism" also called "nationalism". A lot of commentators spout off about how we are Americans and that we are all in this economic mess together. They preach this so that you and I won't questions the fact that the government hands out a few trillion dollars to the rich, new figures released in September 2011 show the big banks got bailed out to the tune of $12.3Trillion while we didn't get squat. Oh a trillion looks like this $1,000,000,000,000,000.00, see, so when they give away multiples of trillions it is a lot of our taxes. PATRIOTISM IS NOTHING BUT SAND IN YOUR EYES TO MAKE YOU DUMB DOWN AND BELIEVE IDIOTIC DRIVEL FROM POLITICIANS AND MILITARY OFFICERS WHO DO NOTHING BUT TAKE YOUR MONEY AND KILL YOUR CHILDREN. When was the last time you heard of the children of the President, of Senators, of Congresspersons dying for their country. No, you didn't and you won't. Hell, even Mubarak of Egypt and his rendition torture buddy Suleiman are allowed to ride off into the sunset instead of becoming street ornaments like Benito Mussolini. See the War and Occupation Page for commentary on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan |
| UTMDTF --- 8/14/09 It has gotten weird. The government is giving away money to get people to buy stinking cars and even with that consumer spending and confidence is falling. You and I are at last saying, "If I don't need this product then I am not going to buy it." We have gotten sick and tired of buying stuff --- and then storing it in the garage. We also seem to have gotten on to the secret that our children have gotten into buying junk: clothes that are intentionally "styled out" in a few days and therefore aren't worn out but replaced to sit in the closet, cell phones that are pimped up with added extras that cost more every month and other junk. Now we have to organize and take power and run the crazies of the Gone Off Party off the streets. This is our country and we can't allow ignorant, white, racist idiots to take it over and run it into the ground. These fools are being used by insurance companies and the likes of Limbaugh to do the dirty work of disruption and violence. |
| See this page to get a better understanding: EconRecoverywithLowWagesNoJobs |
| On the left: Okay, another pretty picture for the front page of UTMDTF. With wing nuts from the GOP harming our country through their destruction of our nation we need to keep our strength by appreciating beauty..I took this photo in the wilds of Idaho, a bouquet of wildflowers picked on a hillside in July of 2009 during a camping trip. On the right: Some pigeons landing and sitting on the fiber optic fibre cable outside my house. There is a flock of about 75 of these green and red pigeons that go by every day and they are noisy. LOL Lower left is a beautiful cactus bloom from the garden in the front of our house. "You can look but you better not touch", words from Poison Ivy, a song from my youth. I can't remember who sang it. |
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| 5-24-12: The economy and the markets are in trouble again, after the banksters have stolen more from all of us. Europe's economy is going to hell in a hand basket. They tried the "austerity" method of restricting the economy and government spending to cure the recession and it didn't work. WE MUST RISE UP AGAINST AUSTERITY HERE AND VANQUISH THE RICH AND PUT THEM IN THE DOG HOUSE THAT THEY HAVE TRIED TO FORCE US TO LIVE IN. HAVE YOU EVER NOTICED THAT THE RICH ARE NEVER ASKED TO LIVE IN AUSTERITY, NO THEY CAN JUST GO ON RIPPING THE REST OF US OFF AND BE REWARDED BY GOVERNMENT BAILOUTS: AUSTERITY FOR THE POOR AND WORKING PEOPLE AND OPULENCE FOR THE WEALTHY --- WHAT A SYSTEM. 5-8-12: Official unemployment dropped to 8.1% in April even though new jobs only totaled 115,000 for the nation. It dropped because thousands of workers dropped out of the job market and skewed the data by decreasing the total job market. The administration continues to try to project a pretty picture and say that the economy is improving. Why,? Because the Stock Markets are up and the powers that be think everything is fine since they don't give a damn about you and I, the 99%. In fact the start and finish of "recessions" is defined by the start and finish of declines in the investment markets, not by unemployment which isn't considered important to business health. Obama spoke out about taxing the wealthy but did nothing to implement action to prosecute the Bankersters, the military contractors, and the non-tax paying corporations and rich so he has a lot of blame to accept. In his speech at Osawatomie, KA he presented a chart that showed that the rich have seen their share of income increase by 275% over the last 30 years or so, yet he lacks the guts to say that it is time that they pay a tax rate that is 275% of what we are 99% pay, that would be a rate of 82.5%, a fair start at building a substantial budget for the nation based on higher revenue. Obama's attempts to make peace by offering concessions to the right only demonstrates his weakness. If he had ever been a union leader and participated in negotiations he would be a lot better president. He is unskilled in life and had it too easy. It is obvious that he never worked for a living in a factory, field, or at hard labor and had to deal with the intransigence of the boss/es, although he worked as a community organizer and that is hard work and though he was a Harvard lawyer he saw a bit of the grinding life of the poor. Obama went to Harvard where he was taught to carry water for the wealthy. Harvard has as its special province turning working class "fortunate sons" allowed into their hallowed halls to be turned into enemies of the working people turning out corporate lawyers for the rich and corporations and MBAs. 5-8-12 (update): Living off the sweat of the poor and middle class the owning class is building profits while workers, including public workers, are victimized in this economy. After all the BS about helping the economy when the Tax give away was passed by Congress and the Senate as a gift to the rich in late December 2010, unemployment has fallen only 1.6% to 8.1% from a top out of about 9.7%, BFD. Corporations are reporting big profit increases because they are driving workers harder without pay raises or better benefits. Profits and executive salaries are up, BFD. Too bad our government doesn't tell the same thing to Israel that they said to Egypt, "You aren't mature enough for democracy, get rid of your theocratic/military state and grant total citizenship to all those who live in Israel. But, we didn't and are not about to but while we make much of Iran's alleged attempts to develop nuclear weapons we continue to allow Israel to harbor and build more nuclear weapons, weapons that are a threat to their middle eastern neighbors and world peace. These are nuclear weapons that are in the hands of an unstable militarist state lead by neta-yahoo, a crazy cowardly SOB who only rattles sabers because he knows young American troops will shed their blood in the war he creates, and that's a fact jack. 8-11-10 AND 5-8-2012: Looks like the economy is starting to tank again as I predicted. The reactionaires, call them GOP conservatives, continue to try to blame the elderly with attacks on social security and medicare and on "illegal" immigrants. Why don't they blame the bankers and insurance racketeers? Simple, cause they are in their pocket. The GOP likes to pretend it supports the "small business" but it doesn't. And the GOP is also anti-labor, anti-working folks --- you and me. And if we aren't working and earning then we can't buy squat. Economics 101. 7-2-10: Amazing the stuff you read on the internet. Here is the Yahoo Financial page headline today: "Stocks fall as jobs report adds to economic fears." Can you believe that? These clowns don't know what to do so they try to make the economy sound like it isn't as serious as it is. The media sits in the lap of the wealthy sector and tries to get you and me to buy their stocks, bonds, cars, boats, and bullfeathers. Meanwhile the wealthy have dumped the derivative toxins that their institutions created on other owners and the wealthy are setting pretty. We still have two wars depleting the resources of our country and to cover up the damage being done to the nation the military-industrial-intelligence-financial complex has raised the specter of retirees on Social Security driving the deficits up --- pure bull___t, it's the wars and the tax policies of the GOP since the time of Reagan that are taking us down. The attack on the older citizens is just more divide and conquer, an effort to turn the young against the old. The reactionaries, they are not conservatives, of the GOP and the Libertarian Party are the problem and we must organize to throw them on the dust bin of history or our nation will fall in ruin, torn about by greed, jealousy, racism, nativist jingoism, and ignorance fostered by the hate science folks of the Bible thumping right wing. This is of course just what the GOP, the tea baggers, and the libertarians want: anarchy. What they think they can build out of anarchy is a question but they don't care about the American people so they could care less if the policies fail --- the GOP will have pulled in all those lobbying dollars from the neo-fascist corporatist and the crazy right wingers who are reactionaries trying to pose as conservatives. Back in about 1960 President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned the nation to beware of the Military-Industrial Complex because it would drag democracy down with irrational fear. He understood that the cost of a forever large military would destroy the economy --- just as it did to the Soviet Union thirty years later in 1990. The US didn't defeat the USSR in the Cold War, the USSR defeated itself by not reducing its expenditures on its military. |
Film of the March 26th Labor Demonstration in Los Angeles is posted on the LaborPage-1 page on the index. Go to it and the video should load, hopefully. Film of the Labor March --- Click here |
| 3-4-12: The attacks on women's health by the GOP are reaching a crescendo not heard since the early 60s. Why are Republican men afraid of women? Are they all impotent and believe that the only power/salvation they have is to keep women under their thumb? Or perhaps they believe in the 3rd Reich policy for women of küche (kitchen), schlatzimmer (bedroom), kinderzimmer (children's bedroom - the kinder(garten)), hauserbeit (housework --- slaves to the male), and pregnant (schwanzen) for the super race. |
| Important Post: A script you can use to explain the nefarious attacks on Social Security and Medicare to family, friends, children and co-workers who are being misled by the onslaught againt the safety net in our country. Go to the Script and Fight for Social Security and Medicare |