Special Report

U.S. military and civilians are increasingly divided

By David Zucchino and David S. Cloud contact the reporters
                                       

Despite civilians' widespread admiration for troops, there's little overlap between their worlds

Congress with lowest rate of military service authorized today's wars, led by 3 presidents with no active duty

One-half of 1% of U.S. population enlisted — lowest rate since between World War I and II

Jovano Graves' parents begged him not to join the Army right out of high school in 2003, when U.S. troops were fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.
But their son refused his parents' pleas to try college. He followed them both into the Army instead.
Last June, 11 years later, Staff Sgt. Jovano Graves returned home from Afghanistan, joining his mother, Chief Warrant Officer 4 Sonia Graves-Rivers, for duty here at Ft. Bragg.
"My family, going way, way back, has always felt so proud to be Americans," said Graves-Rivers, who comes from a family in which military service spans six generations, starting with her great-great-grandfather, Pfc. Marion Peeples, who served in a segregated black unit during World War I.
Her father, Cpl. Harvey Lee Peeples, fought in the Vietnam War. Her uncle, Henry Jones, was career Air Force. Another uncle, Sgt. 1st Class Robert Graves, spent 22 years in the Army. Her sister, Janice, served 24 years.

Spc. Aaron Schade and his wife, Amanda, prepare to be photographed with their twin boys upon his return to North Carolina from Afghanistan in July 2014.

The American flag is raised at 6:30 a.m. last Sept. 11, part of the daily routine at Ft. Bragg in North Carolina.  

"In our family, there's a deep sense that being American means serving — showing gratitude by giving back to your country," Graves-Rivers said.
Multi-generational military families like the Graveses form the heart of the all-volunteer Army, which increasingly is drawing its ranks from the relatively small pool of Americans with historic family, cultural or geographic connections to military service.
While the U.S. waged a war in Vietnam 50 years ago with 2.7 million men conscripted from every segment of society, less than one-half of 1% of the U.S. population is in the armed services today — the lowest rate since World War II. America's recent wars are authorized by a U.S. Congress whose members have the lowest rate of military service in history, led by three successive commanders in chief who never served on active duty.

Surveys suggest that as many as 80% of those who serve come from a family in which a parent or sibling is also in the military. They often live in relative isolation — behind the gates of military installations such as Ft. Bragg or in the deeply military communities like Fayetteville, N.C., that surround them.

The segregation is so pronounced that it can be traced on a map: Some 49% of the 1.3 million active-duty service members in the U.S. are concentrated in just five states — California, Virginia, Texas, North Carolina and Georgia.

The U.S. military today is gradually becoming a separate warrior class, many analysts say, that is becoming increasingly distinct from the public it is charged with protecting. 

As the size of the military shrinks, the connections between military personnel and the broad civilian population appear to be growing more distant, the Pew Research Center concluded after a broad 2012 study of both service members and civilians.

We've disconnected the consequences of war from the American public.- Mike Haynie, director, Institute for Veterans and Military Families, Syracuse University

Most of the country has experienced little, if any, personal impact from the longest era of war in U.S. history. But those in uniform have seen their lives upended by repeated deployments to war zones, felt the pain of seeing family members and comrades killed and maimed, and endured psychological trauma that many will carry forever, often invisible to their civilian neighbors.

Today's military enjoys a lifestyle that in many ways exceeds that of much of the rest of the country: regular pay raises and nd lavish reenlistment bonuses, free healthcare, subsidized housing and, after 20 years of service, generous retirement benefits unavailable to many other Americans.
Senior officers live in large houses, travel on their own planes and oversee whole continents with little direction from Washington. Special-operations teams carry out kill missions and drone strikes — some even targeting U.S. citizens — that most civilians never even hear about.

Now, as the military winds down its 14-year-war in Afghanistan and the Army cuts 18,000 troops from its ranks, military officials are stepping up efforts to bridge the gap between veterans and the civilian world they are preparing to rejoin.
"The last decade of war has affected the relationship between our society and the military," Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, wrote in a commentary in 2013. "As a nation, we've learned to separate the warrior from the war. But we still have much to learn about how to connect the warrior to the citizen.... We can't allow a sense of separation to grow between us."
Dempsey's comments reflect a growing concern in the military that reintegrating service members into communities whose understanding of war is gleaned largely from television may be as difficult as fighting the war.

"I am well-aware that many Americans, especially our elite classes, consider the military a bit like a guard dog," said Lt. Col. Remi M. Hajjar, a professor of behavioral sciences and leadership at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.

"They are very thankful for our protection, but they probably wouldn't want to have it as a neighbor," he said. "And they certainly are not going to influence or inspire their own kids to join that pack of Rottweilers to protect America."
As she awaited her husband's Ft. Bragg homecoming recently, Amanda Schade gave her twin baby sons pacifiers printed with "I love Daddy." She checked her makeup, then held up two small American flags the Army had supplied.

Amanda spotted Spc. Aaron Schade among paratroopers standing at attention before a huge American flag at Pope Field. She whispered to her 3-month-old sons, Bruce and Ben: "That's your daddy. He's a hero." It would be the first meeting for the father and his sons.

A general announced: "Please go welcome home your soldier!"

Amanda rushed forward, a twin tucked into the crook of each arm. Aaron swept up all three. "I love you," he said. He cupped Amanda's face in both hands for a long, passionate kiss. She broke down and sobbed as the band played "The Army Goes Rolling Along."
These scenes play out across America as the troops flock home, but they happen behind the locked gates of military bases, largely unseen by the civilian world.
Increasingly, those bases have become fortresses. Base closures have consolidated troop populations onto a dozen large "joint" bases and other huge installations like Ft. Bragg, home to 55,000 soldiers and their 74,000 dependents.
Bases often feature their own shopping centers, movie theaters, restaurants and ball fields. Troops board planes for distant conflicts on their airfields and return wounded to their hospitals. Since the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, the bases are largely off-limits to civilians.
"Military bases are our most exclusive gated communities," said Phillip Carter, an Iraq veteran who directs the Military, Veterans and Society Program at the Center for a New American Security, a nonpartisan think tank in Washington, D.C.

The Schades, like two-thirds of Ft. Bragg families, live outside the base. But most of their neighbors are military or ex-military.
The Army's influence in Fayetteville is so pervasive — as in many towns near big military bases in America — that it's often hard to tell where the military ends and the civilian world begins.
A helicopter crash or deadly roadside bomb in Iraq or Afghanistan can bring Fayetteville to a dead stop. The news races across town in phone calls, text messages and tweets: Was it one of ours?
People mark their calendars with deployment departures and arrivals. There is a baby boom nine months after every big battalion or brigade arrives home. In the schools, graduation ceremonies are live-streamed to parents deployed overseas.

Yet only a 65-mile drive north of Ft. Bragg, in the college town of Carrboro near Durham, the military is a universe away. Many there have no connection save for the brief moment of gratitude and embarrassment they feel when they see a man in uniform at the airport, missing a leg.
"We glorify the military in this country in a way that's really weird," said Eric Harmeling, 21, a Carrboro-area resident who often argues with his father, a politically conservative minister, about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. "It's like the Roman legions.... It's like we're being told to kneel down and worship our heroes."
Jerstin Crosby, a former graduate student at the University of North Carolina who now works as a computer artist, said the only direct encounter with the military he can remember was when he taught a Middle Eastern art course to airmen at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in Goldsboro, N.C.

He respected the airmen's knowledge of Iraq — some seemed to know it better than he did, for all his education — but was also sometimes baffled by them. Why, he wondered, did everyone on base stop their cars at 5 p.m. and stand at attention? Only later did he learn it was a daily show of respect as the nation's flag was lowered.
"I thought it was some kind of prank they were playing on me," he said.
George Baroff, enjoying an outdoor lunch at an organic food co-op in Carrboro one recent afternoon, said he understood the military quite well: He served three years as a draftee during World War II before eventually becoming a psychology professor in nearby Chapel Hill.
Baroff, 90, finds himself startled when people learn of his war record and say, as Americans often do to soldiers these days, "Thank you for your service."
"You never, ever heard that in World War II. And the reason is, everybody served," he said.

For soldiers today, the war is never over; the enemy is never defeated. [The result is] a state of perpetual anxiety that the rest of the country doesn't experience.- George Baroff, WWII draftee, psychology professor

In Baroff's view, today's all-volunteer military has been robbed of the sense of shared sacrifice and national purpose that his generation enjoyed six decades ago. Today's soldiers carry a heavier burden, he said, because the public has been disconnected from the universal responsibility and personal commitment required to fight and win wars.
"For us, the war was over in a few years. The enemy surrendered and were no longer a threat," he said. "For soldiers today, the war is never over; the enemy is never defeated." The result, he added, is "a state of perpetual anxiety that the rest of the country doesn't experience."

Increasingly, America's warrior class is defined by geography.
Southern states consistently provide the biggest proportion of recruits. California had the highest number of enlistments in 2013 — a total of 18,987 — but the state supplies a relatively low percentage of its 18- to 24-year-olds, the age group that fills the military rolls every year.
The highest-rate contributors were Georgia, Florida, Idaho, Virginia and South Carolina. The District of Columbia was last.

The military-civilian divide is not marked by particular animosity or resentment on the civilian side. In airports and restaurants, civilians thank men and women in uniform for their service. They cheer veterans at ballgames and car races.

What most don't realize is how frequently such gestures ring hollow.
"So many people give you lip service and offer fake sympathy. Their sons and daughters aren't in the military, so it's not their war. It's something that happens to other people," said Phillip Ruiz, 46, a former Army staff sergeant in Tennessee who was wounded twice during three tours in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Douglas Pearce, a former Army lieutenant who fought in Afghanistan and is now a marriage and family counselor in Nashville, said civilians seem to think they "can assuage their guilt with five seconds in the airport."
"What they're saying is, 'I'm glad you served so that I didn't have to, and my kids won't have to."


 

A military-civilian divide soldiers including Spc. Aaron Schade, center left, wait at Pope Field in North Carolina to see their families after returning from deployment in July 2014. (James Robinson / For the Los Angeles Times) 
Soldiers including Spc. Aaron Schade, center left, wait at Pope Field in North Carolina to see their families after returning from deployment in July 2014

Opinion polls consistently find that the military is the most trusted American institution. A Gallup poll last June found that 74% of more than 1,000 Americans surveyed had "a great deal" or "quite a lot" of confidence in the military — versus 58% in 1975, at the close of the Vietnam era.

Yet a 2011 Pew Research Center study titled "The Military-Civilian Gap" found that only a quarter of civilians who had no family ties to the military followed war news closely. Half said the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan made little difference in their lives, and half said they were not worth fighting.

"We've disconnected the consequences of war from the American public. As a result, that young man or woman putting on the uniform is much less likely to be your son or daughter, or even your neighbor or classmate," said Mike Haynie, director of the Institute for Veterans and Military Families at Syracuse University in upstate New York. "That is a dangerous place to be."
For decades, young cadets in the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, or ROTC, were able to rub shoulders with civilians on America's college campuses. During the height of the defense buildup under President Reagan, there were 420 Army ROTC units. Today, there are only 275 ROTC programs.
At Stanford University, Kaitlyn Benitez-Strine, a 21-year-old senior, was scribbling notes in the back row of her modern Japanese history class recently, listening as her professor cataloged the misdeeds of the American military in occupied postwar Japan.
"People became increasingly resentful of the U.S. military presence," the professor said. "There were crimes by U.S. Army personnel — rapes and murders."
For Benitez-Strine, due to be commissioned as a U.S. Army lieutenant this summer, it was an uncomfortable moment. Her sister, a Marine, is stationed in Okinawa. Her parents were Army officers, as were many other relatives. She grew up in a military community near West Point. But she rarely discusses her background with other students.

Stanford, one of the nation's elite universities, has more than 6,000 undergraduates. Benitez-Strine is one of only 11 in ROTC.
She sometimes feels uncomfortable wearing her uniform on campus, as ROTC requires two days a week. Students "might think I'm a cop or something," she said. "Or they see me as a badass who can kill them at any time."
A 2013 survey by three West Point professors found that the estrangement between the military and civilian worlds is especially pronounced among young people. Many civilians born between 1980 and 2000 "want no part of military life and want it separate from civilian life," according to sociologist Morten G. Ender, one of the study's authors.

I often wonder if my forefathers were as filled with disgust and anger when they thought of the people they were fighting to protect as I am.- Unnamed ROTC cadet, in a West Point survey

On the other side, military recruits in that age range had become "anti-civilian in some ways," the survey found.
"I am irritated by the apathy, lack of patriotic fervor, and generally anti-military and anti-American sentiment" of other students, an unidentified 20-year-old ROTC cadet told the authors. "I often wonder if my forefathers were as filled with disgust and anger when they thought of the people they were fighting to protect as I am."
Benitez-Strine is not as critical of her fellow students. Indeed, the more time she spends in ROTC, the less certain she is about a career in the military.

As part of her training, she spent a month following a captain, the commander of an Army maintenance unit at Ramstein Air Base. She was not prepared for the sometimes mind-numbing routine of Army life and the restrictions on her freedom. Her unit was confined to base after a radio went missing, forcing her to cancel a sightseeing trip. And when a male enlisted soldier friended her on Facebook, he was disciplined and she was warned against fraternizing with lower ranks. I realized being in the Army is a lifestyle, not just a job," she said. Benitez-Strine recently decided to join the Reserves, rather than go on active duty, when she graduates.

The previous school year was a grim one here in Fayetteville, where the Cumberland County school district serves the communities outside Ft. Bragg. Between the beginning of the term in September 2013 and the following spring, six students committed suicide. Five of them — four boys and a girl — were from Army families, with a parent deployed overseas. Two shot themselves with military weapons. School Supt. Frank Till, who has been an educator for three decades, is more than familiar with adolescent anguish. But it wasn't until he came here in 2009 that he experienced the helplessness of trying to truly understand — and help — students and staff members who live under the spell of violent events on the other side of the glob. "You can only imagine the trauma families go through," said Till. Teachers in his district have been pulled from class to be told that a husband had been killed in Afghanistan. He has consoled students who dissolved in tears because a parent had just departed for Iraq or Afghanistan. "There's just incredible tension here," he said. Yet the civilian community has been overwhelmingly supportive. Local churches and other religious communities pitched in to provide support for families devastated by the deaths.  It wasn't a one-time gesture: Church prayers here are routinely offered for the living — soldiers in harm's way thousands of miles away, or just back from the war and in the next pew. "The only people we pray for by name in church are deployed soldiers," said Jean Moore, 52, who was born and raised in Fayetteville.  "Mothers and fathers across the country — they give their children to us to serve in the military and defend our country," said Tony Chavonne, 60, a former mayor of Fayetteville. "We have an obligation in the community to support that." "War is not a political word around here," agreed his wife, Joanne, 54. "It's where our friends and neighbors go."

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-warrior-main-20150524-story.html#page=2 

bozo fires 9th General in his purge of USA military

Obama Changes Direction Of US Military Command, Fires 9th General In His Purge

Obama Changes Direction Of US Military Command, Fires 9th General In His Purge

Joseph R. Carducci

October 28, 2013

Have you been paying attention to all the changes that Obama has been making in the US Military? I mean beyond all the political grandstanding and doing stupid things like locking the chaplains out of their posts during the government shut down (for which a Catholic priest in now suing the president). It seems that Obama has been engaged in his own private ‘purge’ of generals and other leaders at the very top of the US Military.


On October 12^th, this story was even noticed by Dianne Sawyer of ABC News. You see, there have 9 top level military leaders and commanders fired or relieved of duty since April. Is Obama preparing things for some sort of big event? Nine top-level generals and commanders could definitely be considered a purge of sorts.


Perhaps Obama is thinking about some options that the majority of Americans would be loathe to even consider? Several Pentagon Officials have been trying to warn the people to expect radical changes very soon. The Chinese are also thinking about getting out of the dollar and forming their own currency alliance. There is even the strong potential for 16 US States being shut down and handed over to the federal government due to such high levels of debt. Could martial law be coming?
There have also been reports that seem to indicate Obama has a litmus test for military officers these days. Apparently, he only wants officers who do not have trouble firing on US citizens. Several of these now retired officers have come forward and said that they think Obama is preparing for war against the US. We have also heard Obama himself talk about ‘My Military.’ Whatever you think might be happening, it is certainly clear that Obama is looking to change and move things in a different direction.


By the way, these 9 top military officers and commanders were this that Obama has fired or replaced or relieved from duty just in 2013. It does not include a rather long list of those who were also relieved of duty last year (and the year before that). Even Dianne Sawyer felt that this is bizarre and wanted to try and get to the bottom of it.


Take a look at some of the nine who have been fired or relived of duty. General Carter Hamm, US Army, served as the head of the US African Command and in charge during the Benghazzi incident. After being extremely critical of Obama (calling him a liar about reinforcements in the area), he was ‘resigned and retired’ in April.


Rear Admiral Charles Gaouette, US Navy, Commander of Carrier Strike Group Three was in charge of aircraft carriers in the Mediterranean Sea on the night of September 11, 2012. He was fired and relieved of duty for ‘utterance of a racial slur.’ And there are plenty more examples, all within the year.


This is an incredibly alarming series of events. It is one of the largest and fastest purges of military commanders that has ever been recorded. These ‘purges’ even included two heads of nuclear strategic commands. This has even made veteran reporter Dianne Sawyer step up and public ask what is the next step that Obama is planning. This is something that every American should be asking themselves as we watch the evidence of what is happening.


What do YOU think? What is the reason for this purge of the military? Can the firing or relieving of duty of 9 top-level generals and admirals this quickly be considered a mere coincidence? What do you think Obama is planning? Why does he want to remake the military to HIS liking? Will the military some day be called upon to fire on US citizens?


http://downtrend.com/jrc410/obama-changes-direction-of-us-military-command-fires-9th-general-in-his-purge/?utm_source=Outbrain_C7

Vaccination a Culprit For Humans Too?

We The People, Sheriffs, and Larry Klayman,

At what point in time will it be decided that Vaccines are the cause of Diseases and not the spread of Diseases itself?
California Government is pushing for Mandatory Vaccines on all children to then later on Adults.
But what about the Vaccines for Chickens that get in the eggs that people eat, yet it was the Vaccines that caused the Diseases to then come to People?
Will it be in due time that People are ordered to be put in hospitals as they have the Diseases, so more Profit for Hospitals?
Will People be arrested at DUI checkpoints as they were mandated to take a Vaccine recently and the Vaccines just happen to have enough drugs to show up as Illegal Drugs or Alcohol?

Mandatory Vaccine Bill Passes In California Senate
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/14/california-vaccine-bill-passes-senate_n_7286274.html
The Huffington Post  |  By Lydia O'Connor
Posted: 05/14/2015 5:29 pm EDT

A bill that would make vaccines mandatory for nearly every child in California passed the state Senate on Thursday morning.

The controversial bill ensures that parents enrolling their children in California schools will be allowed to opt them out of immunizations only for medical reasons and may no longer cite religious or personal belief exemptions as reasons not to vaccinate. It passed 25-10 in the Senate, The Associated Press reported.

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80 Percent Surge In Egg Price Due To Farmers Being Forced To Kill 40 Million Birds Because of Avian Flu
http://www.infowars.com/80-percent-surge-in-egg-price-due-to-farmers-being-forced-to-kill-40-million-birds-because-of-avian-flu/
"Vaccinated poultry spread the virus without getting sick, making its spread invisible"
 by Dave Mihalovic | Prevent Disease | May 25, 2015

The killing of 40 million chickens and other birds by US farmers, have caused egg prices to soar as a deadly version of the avian flu attacks the poultry industry.

Watch Video:
Pilgrim's Shame: Chickens Buried Alive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEy6Sr_YxzM
Published on Jun 25, 2014

An outbreak of a particularly infectious version of the bird flu, believed to come initially from wild ducks and geese, has spread into 15 US states and two Canadian provinces, requiring the mass slaughter of egg-laying chickens and turkeys in particular.

That has turned into an 80 percent surge in the wholesale price of eggs, and a more modest hike in turkey meat costs, which could last for the rest of the year even if the flu outbreak can be successfully contained, according to industry officials.

Vaccination a Culprit

Earlier this month there were mass reports of bird flu rampaging across the Midwestern US. At that time 13 million chickens and turkeys were culled or earmarked for destruction to stop the spread of H5N2, an offspring of Asia’s H5N1 bird flu.

Vaccinated poultry spread the virus without getting sick, making its spread invisible. Vaccination has moreover driven the evolution of H5N1 as these viruses adapt to the vaccinated birds.

The midwest state of Iowa, the largest US egg producer, has seen some 25 million birds, mostly chickens for egg production, killed.

The state has declared a state of emergency against the disease, and after discovering avian flu on a 63rd farm, on Thursday banned any public exhibition of live birds, including at fairs, auctions, swap meets and other events.

In late 2009, virologists and influenza authorities were becoming increasingly concerned that the A-H1N1 flu virus could “reassort” with the highly virulent H5N1 avian flu that’s still prevalent in parts of the world like China, and that a mutation could occur resulting in a new strain that has the lethality of H5N1 and the human transmissibility of A-H1N1.

“H5N1 virus has never acquired the ability to transmit among humans, which is why we haven’t had a pandemic. The worry is that the pandemic H1N1 virus may provide that nature in the background of this highly pathogenic H5N1 virus,” says Kawaoka, a professor of pathobiological sciences at the UW-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine.

Two viruses infecting a single host cell can swap genetic material, or reassort, creating hybrid strains with characteristics of each parent virus.

Three vaccines used to prevent respiratory disease in chickens have swapped genes, producing two lethal new strains that have killed tens of thousands of fowl across two states in Australia

The creation of the deadly new variant was only possible because the vaccines contained live viruses, even though they were weakened forms, said Joanne Devlin, lead author of the paper published in the journal Science.

“The scale of this outbreak has been unprecedented, so we think it is important we take every possible step to limit the chance that this disease will spread any further,” said Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey.

Wild birds Also a source

The disease first surfaced last year in the far northwest state of Washington, assumed to be transmitted by wild birds although that was never confirmed.

Since then it has appeared in farms in 15 states, including some of those with the largest poultry industries.

The US Centers for Disease Control says the risk of H5N2 jumping to humans is “low at this time,” though it does not rule out the possibility.

Figures from the US Department of Agriculture show that more than 39 million birds had been infected by or exposed to the new strain of bird flu as of this week.

“While the role of wild birds as reservoirs and vectors of the virus has been highlighted in these various epidemics, other factors of transmission, especially among poultry farms, could rise to prominence unless appropriate precautions are taken.”

Dan

BOOM AMERICA THROUGH FREE ENTERPRISE! FROM ERASMUS OF AMERICA - MAY 25, 2015 - 3:04 PM

BOOM AMERICA THROUGH FREE ENTERPRISE! FROM ERASMUS OF AMERICA - MAY 25, 2015

   

    

 

   

     J. PAUL GETTY WAS ONCE DESCRIBED BY FORTUNE MAGAZINE AS "THE RICHEST MAN IN THE WORLD."  HE MADE HIS MONEY IN BUSINESS BY HONEST MEANS, NOT BY SCHEMES HOW TO DEFRAUD THE AMERICAN PUBLIC BY USING WASH., D.C. AS THE LEGAL FRONT SO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WOULD NOT REALIZE THAT THEY HAD JUST BEEN MASS SWINDLED BY POWERFUL CON ARTISTS WHO HAD SECRETLY BOUGHT CONTROL OF THE KEY POWER IN WASH., D.C. 

     ON THIS MEMORIAL DAY IT IS GOOD TO HONOR A BUSINESSMAN WHO DID NOT GET AMERICAN VETERANS KILLED FOR ENGINEERED WARS FOR THE SAKE OF PROFIT OFF OF FINANCING ARRANGED ENGINEERED WARS INSTEAD OF SERVING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE OF AMERICA AS THE REASON FOR WAR IF NECESSARY.  

     I STUDIED UNDER SIX OF THE MOST BRILLIANT ECONOMISTS OF AMERICA AND EUROPE AND ALWAYS RESPECTED GREATLY THE THINKING OF ANY SOUND BUSINESSMAN WHOSE HIGH RISE IN BUSINESS WAS DUE TO HIS SOUND PRACTICAL THINKING AND GOOD OLD COMMON SENSE USED IN BUSINESS WHEN REQUIRED. I SPENT ELEVEN CALENDAR YEARS IN MILITARY ACADEMIES AND ALWAYS RESPECTED THE SOUND PRACTICAL MILITARY LEADER AS THE ONE TO STUDY, NOT THE THEORETICAL BOYS WHO DID NOT HAVE THE MILITARY BACKGROUND TO KNOW IF THEIR THEORIES WERE VALID OR NOT IN THE FIELD OF MILITARY. 

     SAME APPROACH IN THE WORLD OF FREE ENTERPRISE. THE PRACTICAL BUSINESSMAN IN FREE ENTERPRISE WHO MADE THINGS HAPPEN AND TURN OUT GOOD IS THE MAN I WANT TO LISTEN TO, NOT THEORETICAL AMATEURS LIKE OBAMA WHO DOESN'T KNOW HOW BUSINESS AND FREE ENTERPRISE REALLY RUN IN A NATION. HIS MANY DISASTERS IN NATIONAL ECONOMICS AND BACKING OF THE WRONG BUSINESS CONCEPTS TO BACK FOR AMERICA SHOWS THAT HE IS NOT QUALIFIED IN JUDGMENT IN THESE FIELDS THAT HE HAS NO PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE IN NOR PRACTICAL EDUCATION THAT HE OBTAINED FROM PRACTICAL BRAINS IN THESE FIELDS.  

      THE TYPE THINKING DISPLAYED BY J. PAUL GETTY IN HIS BOOK "HOW TO BE RICH (HIS FORUMULAS)" COPYRIGHTED IN 1965 IS SOUND AND DYNAMIC IN FREE ENTERPRISE. THIS SHOULD BE A REQUIRED TEXTBOOK USED IN ALL BUSINESS SCHOOLS AND COLLEGE COURSES IN NATIONAL ECONOMICS. ALSO, ALL POLITICIANS RUNNING FOR PUBLIC OFFICE SHOULD READ THIS OR ELSE NOT RUN FOR PUBLIC OFFICE. IT IS IRONICAL THAT THIS BOOK SHOULD HAVE BEEN PUBLISHED BY PLAYBOY PRESS INSTEAD OF BY THE UNIVERSITY PRESS OF CHICAGO, OXFORD, OR WHATEVER, BUT THEY THOUGHT OF THE IDEA TO HAVE HIM WRITE HIS OBSERVATIONS ON HOW TO BECOME RICH IN A FREE ENTERPRISE SYSTEM. AND HE WROTE A CLASSIC!

     READING HIS BOOK, AN ECONOMIC FORMULA THAT HE BASICALLY HAD IN THE BACK OF HIS MIND BUT DID NOT FORMULATE  AS A SUMMARY IN THIS BOOK I THINK THAT HE WOULD HAVE AGREED STATED WHAT HE WAS BASICALLY SAYING AS A KEY WAY TO FAST BUILD UP NATIONAL WEALTH FOR AMERICA OR OTHER NATIONS MIGHT GO LIKE THIS: "MAXIMUM NATIONAL WEALTH IS CREATED BY USE OF LIMITED ASSETS THAT CREATE PROFITS AS A SYSTEM FAR IN EXCESS OF THE ASSETS HELD BY THE BUSINESS SYSTEM SET UP. SO BY CREATION OF AN EFFECTIVE, PROFITABLE BUSINESS SYSTEM, NATIONAL WEALTH IS FASTER BUILT AND CREATED BY BEING WORTH FAR MORE THAN THE ASSETS BELONGING TO THE BUSINESS SYSTEM BEING SET UP." 

     AN EXAMPLE IS HUGH HEFNER WHO FOUNDED PLAYBOY MAGAZINE. I HAD A FRIEND WHO WORKED FOR HUGH HEFNER SHORTLY AFTER HE STARTED. HE STARTED WITH A LITTLE BORROWED MONEY OF $600 AND A CLEVER MARKETING PLAN THAT HE NEVER OPENLY ADMITTED TO. HOWEVER,  MY FRIEND LATER ON TOLD ME WHAT HIS SECRET MARKETING SYSTEM HAD BEEN AND HE GREW LIKE LIGHTNING AND SOUNDLY! EVEN THOUGH HIS MAGAZINE WAS NOT THE KIND I WOULD EVER HAVE STARTED, STILL, HE HAD A VERY CUNNING IDEA FOR A MARKETING SYSTEM AND HIS COMPETITORS NEVER KNEW HOW HE GREW SO FAST FROM NEXT TO NOTHING! WHEN I HAVE TOLD SOME FRIENDS HOW HIS SECRET MARKETING SYSTEM REALLY WORKED, ALL AGREED THAT THIS WAS INCREDIBLY CUNNING! I HAD TO GIVE THE MAN CREDIT FOR SOME SMART BRAINS WHERE IT COUNTED! 

     HOW COL. SANDERS STARTED KENTUCKY FRIEND CHICKEN IS ANOTHER OF THESE SECRET STORIES HOW HE STARTED FROM NEXT TO NOTHING. A ONETIME FRIEND OF HIS TOLD ME THE SECRET STORY HOW HE REALLY STARTED WITH SO LITTLE AND GREW SO BIG. I ALSO PICKED UP THE SECRET STORIES HOW MANY OTHER FAMOUS PEOPLE IN BUSINESS STARTED FROM NEXT TO NOTHING. THIS WAS PART OF MY ECONOMIC STUDIES ON THE TYPE MENTALITY THAT MAKES FREE ENTERPRISE GROW FAST IN A NATION. 

        WASHINGTON, D.C. IS RUN BY THE "WRECKING CREW" OF AMERICA TODAY. AMERICA HAS LOST MOST OF THE GIANT INDUSTRIES THAT WERE TRYING TO BE BORN OR ELSE GROW BIG IN AMERICA BECAUSE IDIOT BUREAUCRATS IN WASH., D.C. IN HIGHLY UNCONSTITUTIONAL WAYS BLOCKED THEM FROM CREATING SUPER WEALTH AND ENDLESS JOBS IN AMERICA UNTIL ALL OF AMERICA WAS AUTOMATICALLY EMPLOYED. THEN BASICALLY NO NEED FOR NATIONAL WELFARE IN AMERICA AFTER THAT EXCEPT FOR THE SMALL MINORITY WHO FOR REASONS OF DAMAGED HEALTH, ETC. ARE MOST UNLIKELY EVER TO BE ABLE TO HOLD A JOB IN AMERICA. I ESTIMATE THAT AMERICA COULD POTENTIALLY BE FIVE TIMES RICHER AS A NATION THAN IT IS NOW IF THE IDIOTS IN WASH., D.C. HAD NOT BEEN ALLOWED TO SABOTAGE THE NATIONAL ECONOMY FROM MASSIVE GROWTH BECAUSE OF THE FEDERAL AGENCY MORONS TRYING TO MASS MURDER FREE ENTERPRISE IN AMERICA RATHER THAN HELP IT TO GROW BIGGER AND FASTER IN AMERICA.

      I LIVED IN AND NEAR WASH., D.C. FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS BEFORE MOVING AWAY. I WAS VERY MUCH THE FREE THINKING INTELLECTUAL IN WASH.,D.C. THEN AND HAD PRIVATE AND SECRET FRIENDS ALL OVER WASH., D.C. ALSO, MANY VERY SMART AND BRILLIANT PEOPLE AS FRIENDS ALL ACROSS AMERICA AS WELL! I KNOW WHAT IS NEEDED TO TURN WASH., D.C. BACK INTO A FREE ENTERPRISE GOVERNMENT INSTEAD OF A MARXIST-MUSLIM GOVERNMENT AS OBAMA IS TRYING TO ENGINEER IN AMERICA.  PASS MY PROPOSED OMNI LAW SHOWN ON MY NATIONAL WEBSITE. IT IS DESIGNED TO RETURN WASHINGTON, D.C. INTO AN HONEST GOVERNMENT AGAIN WHICH IT IS NOT TODAY! THE OMNI LAW IS DESIGNED TO RESTORE SMART BRAINS TO WASH., D.C. WORKING FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE INSTEAD OF AGAINST THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. IT IS DESIGNED TO RESTORE WASH., D.C. TO BE A GOVERNMENT RUN BY THE WILL OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE INSTEAD OF CONSPIRING HOW TO CRUSH THE AMERICAN PEOPLE SO IT CAN BE THE MASTER GOVERNMENT OVER THE SERF-SLAVE AMERICANS WHO USED TO HAVE LEGAL RIGHTS UNDER THE U.S. CONSTITUTION AND U.S. BILL OF RIGHTS. 

      MY PROPOSED OMNI LAW GIVES THE AMERICAN PEOPLE THE RIGHT OF NATIONAL REFERENDUM OVER WASH., D.C. SO IT HAS TO SERVE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE INSTEAD OF TRYING TO FORCE THE SERF AMERICANS TO OBEY ALL THE MASTER COMMANDS OF THE EVIL CABAL HAVING TAKEN OVER WASH., D.C. AND USING WASH., D.C. LAWS AND POLICIES AS FRONTS ORDERED BY THE EVIL CABAL INSTEAD OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE! FULL NAME OF MY PROPOSED OMNI LAW AS SHOWN ON MY NATIONAL WEBSITE IS "THE OMNIBUS CIVIL RIGHTS ACT FOR AMERICA." MY NATIONAL WEBSITE IS WWW.FASTBOOMAMERICANECONOMY.COM  EMAIL IS FASTBOOMAMERICANECONOMY.COM@GMAIL.COM MY MAILING ADDRESS FOR ORDERS AND FINANCIAL SUPPORT BEING SENT BY MAIL INSTEAD OF THROUGH THE WEBSITE IS NIFI, P.O. BOX 1465, SENECA, SC 29679. MAKE CHECKS, ETC. OUT TO NIFI AND TELL US WHAT THE PAYMENT IS FOR. ALL FINANCES RAISED HELP SPEED UP THE PASSAGE OF THE OMNI LAW IN AMERICA. WITH YOUR HELP, WE CAN LIKELY PASS IT BEFORE 2015 IS OVER! ONE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT WITH GOOD SUPPORT WAS PASSED AS I RECALL IN LESS THAN ONE YEAR A FEW DECADES AGO!

      PASS THIS REPORT AROUND TO ALL AMERICANS INCLUDING ALL POLITICIANS ELECTED TO PUBLIC OFFICE. ASK ANY ELECTED OFFICIALS WHAT THEIR STAND ON  PASSAGE OF THE "OMNI LAW" IS. WHEN THE POLITICAL PRESSURE GETS TOO INTENSE, THEN THE OMNI LAW WILL BE PASSED AND HONEST, SMART GOVERNMENT RESTORED TO AMERICA AT THAT TIME. 

     OBAMA AND DEMOCRATIC ALLIES WANT TO FILE BANKRUPTCY FOR AMERICA AND LET FOREIGN INTERESTS TOTALLY TAKE OVER AMERICA. MONEY IS OWED TO WASH., D.C AND WAITING TO BE PAID BACK TO WASH., D.C. SO THAT THE NATIONAL DEBT IS PAID OFF  AND AMERICA STARTS AS A DEBT-FREE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT AGAIN. THIS  IS IGNORED BY OBAMA AND ALLIES AS THEY WANT BANKRUPTCY FOR AMERICA, NOT A NEW BRIGHT FRESH NEW START FOR THE AMERICAN ECONOMY. THEY DON'T WANT TO GIVE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ANOTHER CHANCE AT A SUPER BOOMING ECONOMY. 

     OBAMA IS BEHIND FATCA WHICH IS PUSHING ALL FOREIGN BANKS TO POTENTIALLY REJECT AMERICAN CURRENCY FOR TRADING PURPOSES WHICH COULD POTENTIALLY BANKRUPT AMERICA OVERNIGHT IF NO ONE WANTS AMERICAN MONEY FOR FOREIGN TRADING ANY LONGER. THERE IS A CURRENCY REFORM THAT IS SUPPOSED TO GO THROUGH THE WORLD CURRENCY MARKET AND HELP MANY NATIONAL ECONOMIES INCLUDING AMERICA TO GET SOLIDLY BACK ON THEIR FEET RATHER THAN NATIONS ACROSS THE WORLD FILING FOR BANKRUPTCY DUE TO OBAMA AND ALLIES IN WASH., D.C. TIME TO PROMPTLY CANCEL FATCA AND LET THIS CURRENCY REFORM GO THROUGH NOW INSTEAD OF BEING SABOTAGED AGAIN AND AGAIN BY OBAMA ACCORDING TO SOURCES REPORTING TO ME AND THE AMERICAN ECONOMY IS THEN GOING TO BOOM! AND THIS DOESN'T REGARDLESS HAVE TO POTENTIALLY CREATE HYPERINFLATION IN AMERICA IF WE USE THE "INVERTED INFLATION" POLICY THAT PRESIDENT HARRY TRUMAN SET UP UNDER ADVICE OF BARNARD BARUCH AND WHICH THE REPUBLICANS DID NOT APPARENTLY UNDERSTAND WHY IT WOULD WORK! IT WORKED GREAT! AMERICA HAD NO RUNAWAY INFLATION AND THE AMERICAN ECONOMY GOT BACK ON ITS FEET ABSORBING SWIFTLY THE RETURNING AMERICAN SOLDIERS INTO JOBS IN AMERICA AND THE AMERICAN ECONOMY WAS OFF TO A GOOD START AFTER WORLD WAR II WAS OVER! 

      FREE ENTERPRISE WILL RESTORE A STRONG MIDDLE CLASS TO AMERICA. OBAMA WILL WIPE OUT THE MIDDLE CLASS IF NOT STOPPED IN TIME BY THE OMNI LAW!

      KICK THE AMATEURS OUT OF POWER LIKE OBAMA AND HIS WASHINGTON BACKERS. TIME TO PUT THE PROS INTO CONTROL THROUGH PASSAGE OF THE OMNI LAW. WHY SHOULD AMERICA HAVE TO GO BANKRUPT UNDER THE AMATEUR OBAMA WHEN IT CAN BOOM INTO SUPER PROSPERITY UNDER FREE ENTERPRISE UNDER THE PROFESSIONAL LEADERSHIP ABLE TO GIVE AMERICA SOUND ECONOMIC ANSWERS THROUGH PASSAGE OF THE OMNI LAW! HATE TO SAY IT. CONGRESS CAN TAKE YEARS TO DEBATE WHAT TO DO TO STRAIGHTEN OUT THE AMERICAN ECONOMY. ONCE THE OMNI LAW IS PASSED, ONE NATIONAL REFERENDUM AND THE ECONOMIC CRISIS IS OVER IN AMERICA! AND AS FOR ISIS, WE CAN SMASH THEM ANYTIME THE U.S. MILITARY IS LET LOOSE TO DO WHAT IT KNOWS HOW TO DO! IN THE VIETNAM WAR, MAYBE 1,500 TOP U.S. MILITARY COMMANDERS SENT A SIGNED DOCUMENT TO CONGRESS SAYING THAT IF THE POLITICIANS WOULD GET OUT OF THE WAY, THE U.S. MILITARY COULD WIN THE WAR IN VIETNAM PROBABLY IN 5 WEEKS FLAT. THE POLITICIANS WERE NOT INTERESTED AND IGNORED THE MILITARY LEADERSHIP OF AMERICA WHICH SPOKE HONESTLY TO CONGRESS IN THAT DOCUMENT!

     PASS THIS REPORT AROUND AND BREAK THE NEWS MEDIA CONTROL OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE THROUGH CENSORSHIP OF IMPORTANT NEWS AND POLITICAL SPIN PROPAGANDA RELEASED TO KEEP THE AMERICAN PEOPLE IGNORANT OF WHAT THE REAL AND IMPORTANT TRUTH IS FOR AMERICA IN IMPORTANT ISSUES. I ONCE WORKED FOR MAYBE ONE OF THE TWO TOP NEWSPAPERS IN AMERICA THEN AND THE NEWS IS FAR MORE CENSORED FROM THE AMERICAN PEOPLE THAN ANYTHING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE REALIZE OR SUSPECT! I AM JUST TELLING YOU THE TRUTH!

       YOURS FOR GOD AND COUNTRY, ERASMUS OF AMERICA (PEN NAME FOR THAT AMERICAN LEADER WHO SPENT ELEVEN CALENDAR YEARS IN MILITARY ACADEMIES, WAS YEARS IN MILITARY INTELLIGENCE OPERATIONS, AND WANTS THAT ON MEMORIAL DAY THAT THE U.S. MILITARY DID NOT DIE IN VAIN FOR NOTHING BUT WASH., D.C. HOT AIR. RATHER THEY DIED FOR TRUE FREEDOM IN AMERICA AND THIS WILL BE ACHIEVED BY PASSAGE OF THE OMNI LAW AS THE NEXT CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT PASSED IN AMERICA AND ADDED TO THE U.S. BILL OF RIGHTS ENFORCING THE U.S. CONSTITUTION AND U.S. BILL OF RIGHTS AS THE NATIONAL LAW OF AMERICA.  THIS INCLUDES ALSO BINDING ON WASH., D.C. WHICH DOES NOT AT THIS TIME LIKE CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT NOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HAVING ANY LEGAL RIGHTS PROTECTED BY THE U.S. BILL OF RIGHTS. AND DON'T FORGET YOU ALSO HAVE STATE BILL OF RIGHTS WHICH ALEXANDER HAMILTON WHO CALLED FOR THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION TO WRITE THE U.S. CONSTITUTION IN "THE FEDERALIST PAPERS" STATED THAT THE STATE BILL OF RIGHTS ALSO HAD TO BE RESPECTED AS BINDING LAW IN FEDERAL COURTS! HOW WASHINGTON, D.C. HATES THE TRUTH REPORTED FROM HISTORY INSTEAD OF THEIR PROPAGANDA LIES REWRITING AMERICAN LAW INTO THE VERSION NEEDED TO CREATE A FEDERAL POLICE STATE IN AMERICA!) 

       WWW.FASTBOOMAMERICANECONOMY.COM  FASTBOOMAMERICANECONOMY.COM@GMAIL.COM

   

OPEN LETTER TO GENERAL DUNFORD AND GOVENOR ABBOTT!!!!

OPEN LETTER TO GENERAL DUNFORD AND GOVENOR ABBOTT!!!!

 

GENERAL DUNFORD AND GOVENOR ABBOTT..... TIME TO GET-ER-DONE ..... THIS HAARP AND CHEMTRAIL B.S. IS KILLING OFF TEXAS ......THE HAARP WILL NEXT BE USE IN TEXAS NOW THAT THE EARTH IS SUPER SATURATED REAL DEEP TO CAUSE MORE PROBLEMS THAN YOU CAN IMAGINE ........... THE LONGER YOU FIFFLE FADDLE THE MORE HAVOC THESE P _ _ _ KS ARE CAUSING US TEXANS .... IF YOU CAN'T GET THIS DONE SEND IN THE RANGERS OR THE MALITIA ........ N O W !!!!!!!!!!

AS YOU CAN SEE BY WHAT DUTCHSINSE IS REPORTING THE RAIN IS BEING CAUSED BY THE BANKSTER GANGSTER, MAFIA THUGS .... AND THE HAARP IS BRUGHT TO YOU BY TRAITORS IN ALASKA BY THE U.S. A. NAVY HAARP STATION.. OUR GROUP WOULD LOVE TO TAKE THESE WORTHLESS SCUMBAG FOR A TRIP TO THE WOODSHED ... THESE BASTARDS NEED TO GO .... GENTLEMEN GET TO WORK .... MY GRANDMOTHER MOVES FASTER THAN YOU!!!  YOUR SLOWNESS TO REACT IS MAKING US FEEL REAL DOUBTFUL ... ABOUT BOTH OF YOU ...  YOU ARE EITHER PART OF THE PROBLEM OR PART OF THE SOLUTION ..... JUST DO IT!!  WE ARE COUNTING DAYS FOR YOU TO STOP THESE AHOS ....

 

 

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Dave Hodges: From a retired Lt. General

FROM A RETIRED LT. GENERAL

                The following is the first of two emails I received from this Lt. General. The email printed here is identical to what he sent to me.
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From a retired Lt. General

(EDITOR’S NOTE: email addresswithheld)

7:27 AM (2 hours ago)

to davehodges

         Sir,

After reading your recent article “America’s Survival Depends on Stopping Jade Helm” on May 22nd, I felt compelled to write you. I was recently forced into retirement by President Obama along with 270 other flag officers after a distinguished career beginning on my 17th birthday when I enlisted in the Army. 
I am not angry about being forced out (at least anymore) because it gave me the time to think about what is about to happen to America and what I could, would and should do. 
 
In 2012 I was part of a Pentagon study which estimated that roughly 60% of active duty Army personal will side with the American people as will 80% of the National Guard when (not if Sir) the order is given to openly enslave the American people under Martial Law. Somewhere around 90% the Marines will side with the American people, the Navy as a whole will stay out of the fight choosing to be the last line of defense against foreign intervention. It is widely believed that in excess of 75% of the Air Force will side with government.
There are many within the active military both officers and senior NCO’s who see what is happening and what is coming. Many more than you can possibly imagine will not follow an unconstitutional order to move against the American people, nor will they allow foreign troops to openly attack American citizens. This would be the start of a fight these foreign forces could not possibly win as we will be fighting for our families, home, country and freedom. The Russian forces currently on American soil have no stomach for a fight with the American people, I know because I speak fluent Russian and I have met them and many of their officers, when push comes to shove they will stand down and go home. I have met President Putin and I found him to be a Nationalist, the man believes in Russia and while he is interested in expanding Russian influence and power it is because of the threat he sees from America, England and NATO not because he has designs on taking over America. 
I was part of a major Pentagon study concerning how our military might react to the coming civil war, our forces will break down into three sides, Patriots, Government and those who choose not to take a side but will protect and defend civilians. With modern antiaircraft systems (mobile and man portable) air power will be all but useless. What we will see is a ground war, city by city, street by street. Additionally what is coming will be unlike any civil war in history, it will be very personal, the government will call the Patriots forces terrorists and traitors, they will arrest, intern, torture and murder suspected terrorists families, this will result in bloody reprisals which will start a vicious cycle lasting for years.
I have a son and a friend of the family both of which I am proud to say are excellent and decorated officers, my son commands a wing of Apache helicopters and the family friend commands an armored brigade. We were having dinner a few weeks ago with several current and former officers. As the evening wore on the mood turned somber as this very subject came up, they have all discussed this including what to do. As the evening concluded both of my son and my friend’s son, and to a man, all of the other officers O’s came together with one statement.
“Sir, when you need us we will be there”.
I am personally aware that many such meetings have taken place with similar pledges of support.
I have tried to teach my these young officers and the men under my command two overriding principals:
Never start a fight but always finish it, and when going into battle let your enemy know through your words, deeds and actions that while I migh die today, know that I will not die easily and God willing I will not die alone.
With Regards and Respect
Lt. General ___ (ret) 

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