Avenging Osama: 80 killed in Pakistan

In its first efforts to avenge the death of their top terrorist Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda took responsibility for a pair of suicide bombings on a paramilitary training ground today in Pakistan which has resulted in the death of at least 80 people and wounding over 100 more.

Al-Qaeda is harboring resentment against the Pakistan government because they failed to stop the United States from killing bin Laden.

With the recent development of suicide bombers attacking Pakistan paramilitary trainees, it is pretty obvious that al-Qaeda’s current targets are not just Americans.

But al-Qaeda has issued a clear warning to the United States that additional violence will ensue and will aim to target Americans living within Pakistan.

Since the killing of bin Laden, Pakistan and the United States have had tense relations as to how the operation was carried out and also if Pakistan had been providing safe haven for bin Laden throughout all of these years, not to mention the billions of dollars Pakistan has been receiving from the Untied States government.

Perhaps this is a good opportunity to maybe mend those ‘fighting words’ and come up with some kind of compromise to battle terrorism.

Most significant of all is the fact that Pakistan has nuclear weapons. One possible concern is the idea of al-Qaeda somehow intervening through Pakistani intelligence and getting its hands on one of those weapons or even blowing it up through another suicide bombing.

A catastrophe would be on our hands.

Egypt and Iran bridge relations?

The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that Egypt and Iran have bridged diplomatic relations for the first time in 30 years, ever since Egypt had signed a peace treaty with Israel.

However, Iran and Egypt respectively, have been denying such comments that they had begun smoothing out relations, even though Egypt’s foreign minister had stated in Cairo, that both countries where taking steps to re-establish ties.

Either way you look at it, the situation offers some rather disturbing scenarios as to what is really going on in the Middle East at the height of the unrest spreading from country to country.

For years, Egypt had been the only country to help stabilize the peace with Israel. However, since the collapse of President Hosni Mubarak’s regime in February, there has been more than enough concern as to whether the presence of the Muslim Brotherhood to infiltrate relations within Egypt’s new government, which is predominately Sunni Muslims and the Shiite Iran.

Historically speaking, Sunnis and Shiite Muslims do not get along, however the Muslim Brotherhood believes Muslims are not supposed to fight fellow Muslims and theoretically return to their earlier roots at the time of the prophet Mohammad.

But the Sunnis and Shiites do share one common goal: Destroy Israel and the United States.

Meanwhile here in at home, we have a completely incompetent President that refuses to address the destabilization of the Middle East. Perhaps he really doesn’t care? Perhaps it is just better off for the Arab world to fight against one another and then unite to destroy Israel and then ignore the problem?

Nobody seems to know what is really going on in this man’s head.

Crime wave in 2011?

It has been two years since the stock market crash and a world economic crisis spread. Millions and millions of people not just in America, but all over the world, continue to suffer from unemployment, struggling with no source of income to support themselves and their families and debt. Due to these factors, it brings upon a great deal of stress for many people, and when stress is a problem in a continued economic crisis, people begin to loose it.

In the last few months, there has been an escalation of violence throughout the United States. In September, there was an attempted assassination on Governor Jay Nixon of Missouri but the perpetrator mistakenly attacked the dean of a college, were the Governor was speaking. In Florida, about a month ago, a man opened fire on a school board meeting because his wife had been laid off by the school district. At the beginning of this month, we had the shooting in Tucson on Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.  In this last week alone, there have been a number of shootings at schools in Los Angeles and eleven shootings on police officers across the country. Also last week in Santa Ana, California, police uncovered graffiti on two separate occasions which had scathing words for a proposed plot to kill California Governor Jerry Brown.

This is disturbing news. Many people may just say that some of this is nothing new or that some people are just 'venting their frustrations'. But if you look at what is happening across the world, people are revolting everywhere from Tunisia to Egypt, and to England and Greece. People are fed up with government and living in terrible times.

Back here in the United States, a new AP survey involving some of the leading economists in the world, say that in 2011, the outlook for economic recovery should be more optimistic. So if this is the case, then in 2011, we should see a decline in crime and more employment, right?

But this is not entirely optimistic. As States across this country continue to suffer from skyrocketing deficits, they'll have to find some way to either raise taxes and push more people to the brink of despair, or implement severe cuts, which will also put people out of work. Some of them of course, can afford not to work, like the ones that have gigantic pension funds.

Across the world, every country seems to be having the same problem, financially and people suffer.

So, due to the continuing severe economic factors, will we start to see a crime wave in 2011?

I'm predicting we will... unfortunately.

U.S. and China not getting along these days

In case anyone didn't notice, this Wednesday's side show dinner with President Obama and Chinese President Hu, was just that...  a show for the American people. I'm sure that the objective of this little get together between the two leaders was to discuss international relations, the economy and of course, China's support of North Korea.

Well the show has been over for a day now, and it has become clear to just about everyone that the United States and China are not getting along.

For one, China (or as Glenn Beck refers to as our landlord) owns our staggering $14 trillion debt. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner is begging Congress to raise the debt ceiling limits because he believes if they don't, our economy will dwindle back down into a much worse recession than in 2008. So if the Republican controlled House is going to raise the debt limits, which they vowed never to do, this means Geithner is most likely going to have to go back to China and beg for more money.

Last year, the United States tried unsuccessfully to convince China to revalue its currency, so that jobs would be imported back here. Now, the United States is trying to teach China a lesson (as embarrassing as that sounds, they're only years ahead of us) by putting tariffs on China's exports, which were passed by the House back in September.

Then you have North Korea. Its most generous supporter is of course, China. Ever since North Korea fired artillery on South Korea, China has done little to convince peace talks between the two countries. The United States today said that it will redeploy forces to Asia, if China continue to fail on getting a hold on North Korea's rather rebellious acts as of late.

The United States of course strongly believes North Korea could be a major threat if nothing is done.

So because of a crumbling economy, revaluing currency and dealing with some 4 foot dictator, these are the reasons why China and the United States can't get along lately, and yet both countries think that playing these games will solve our problems.

Thank god that's why we have the Pacific Ocean that separates one from the other. But if we don't meet our debt obligations, I guess China could move in here at any time.

Iran backs Lebanon; asks U.S. and Israel to stop interfering

The circus in the Middle East is asking the United States and Israel to stop interference with Lebanon's recently collapsed government. When I say circus, I'm referring to the joke that is Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Ahmadinejad responded on Lebanon's situation: "I tell the Zionists and the U.S. ... be ashamed of your interference in Lebanon and be sure that the Lebanese and regional nations will chop your dirty hands off." 


He went on to say that each time the United States interferes in any country in the Middle East, it makes things much more complicated and that Lebanon can take care of itself.

This is a president that is basically for the most part, offering safe haven to the Militant Shiite group Hezbollah, which effectively collapsed Lebanon's unity government last week when its representative ministers resigned because Hezbollah remains at the top of the list of an international tribunal in the assassination of former Lebanon Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. Hezbollah is hoping to establish a new power in Lebanon and to possibly wage a new war on Israel sometime down the road.

Hezbollah has issued a warning that they will "cut off the hands" of anyone who blames any member of the group for Hariri assassination. But the pressure is mounting. While Lebanon's government remains ineffective for the most part, Israel is basically having to battle enemies from all sides by itself and will have one more thing to worry about if Hezbollah gets it way. On the same front, Iran has a nuclear program which is for the most part, aimed at Israel and resentment is harbored by other Middle East nations after Israel was accused of carrying out the assassination on a leader of Hamas.

Things right now in the Middle East are not at all calm. President Obama might want to start getting serious that this idea of international talks and relations is not working. The Middle East could care less about this idea of peace. They want Israel out. If the United States chooses to do nothing, that entire region of the world may become a much larger threat than was anticipated.

Geithner pressuring Republicans to raise debt limit

U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, is making a fuss today because he is putting pressure on Republican lawmakers to raise the limits on the country's $14 trillion national debt, cautioning that if no action is taken, it would lead to another economic collapse.

Geithner apparently wrote a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid which stated that the United States might hit the debt ceiling level allowed by March 31st; his suggestion to the newly Republican controlled House of Representatives is to raise the level to avoid pushing the United States into default.

Already the bickering has started. House Speaker John Boehner released a statement that said:
"The American people will not stand for such an increase unless it is accompanied by meaningful action by the president and Congress to cut spending and end the job-killing spending binge in Washington."

Republicans primary argument is to not default, but not continue to borrow recklessly, while Geithner believes if no action is taken, the United States will begin to default on its obligations and would no longer be in a position to make interest payments, which alone total $21 billion a month for this fiscal year. He thinks that this would lead to something much more catastrophic than what was seen in 2008 and 2009.

Nonetheless, foreign lenders including China and Japan have voiced their concerns, especially seeing the financial turmoil in countries like Greece and Ireland. Those countries couldn't meet their obligations and eventually had to be bailed out. Something that Geithner is seeking to avoid again.

Seems like his primary focus is to continue to spend money so that you have revenues taken to support the debt obligations. Either way you look at it, the situation appears grim. You've got one party that wants to spend and borrow, and one party that wants to cut spending across the board.

Yet, isn't it interesting that for the last two years, Secretary Geithner has made little to no comment whatsoever about the impacts of our growing national debt, until just now?

North Korea backing off... for now

Despite constant warnings to cease South Korean military drills, North Korea has apparently demonstrated a sudden change of heart.

Last month, North Korea opened fire on the island of Yeonpyeong, which killed several South Korean civilians and military personnel, resulting in an intensified military response by the South. North Korea warned South Korea that if they continued their military drills, they would not hesitate in attacking.

But it seems all of that changed today when North Korea stated that they would not attack, instead going back to the negotiating table with the South, China and the U.S, after a visit from New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, who is also a former envoy to North Korea and former Ambassador to the United Nations.

While Governor Richardson believes that there have been positive developments between North and South Korea, there is still some speculation as to whether this is just another farce from North Korea, by telling the world that they will not retaliate, letting the tensions cool for a while and then orchestrating a devastating attack on the South. The North is also in a regime change from its supreme leader Kim Jong-il, handing over the dictatorship to his son, Kim Jong-un.

The top concern of North Korea is of course their nuclear program. Enriched uranium was discovered in one of North Korea's plants last month after a shocking visit by an American scientist. The uranium is of course for their nuclear bombs, which are to be used against South Korea. The efforts to stop North Korea's nuclear ambitions has been met with failure over and over again, and UN sanctions are not doing anything either.

But in the interim, the good news is that North Korea will back down from retaliation against South Korea. But the real lingering question is any surprise future attack from the North?

Maybe this time, it will be a nuclear bomb.

U.S. and Canada expanding NAFTA?

The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which is a trade deal between U.S., Canada and Mexico, is apparently being expanded... at least between us and our Northern brothers... can't say the same for our neighbors to the south. How's that drug cartel business working out for you?

According to Reuters, the new expansion of NAFTA is a trade deal called "The New Border Vision" and it will involve the U.S. and Canada in the process of developing a new trade deal and security that would allow both goods and people to flow more easily when both countries trade.

Isn't it interesting that free trade also allows people to come through the borders more easily, but when you're at an airport, you're hassled constantly by TSA agents?

For those not familiar with NAFTA, this agreement was signed in January, 1994 by President Clinton between all three North American countries and was expanded by President Bush in 2007 with the "Security and Prosperity Partnership", something that did not even receive input from Congress or American voters, nor input from the people of Canada and Mexico.

The basic premise of NAFTA has always been to eliminate virtually all tariffs on bilateral trade between Canada and the United States, and non-tariff trade barriers on goods originating within North America. Despite the fact that it generates a GDP of about $13 trillion, the agreement has more "liberal" rules regarding government procedures, open borders, granting subsidies and imposition of countervailing duties.

The idea of reducing border security just for the simple notion of allowing "free-trade" in North America is pretty frightening, and something that has not been enforced under President Obama's administration. 

There have been critics on both sides of the issue indicating for a long time that the expansion of NAFTA is one step further in establishing a North American Union, much like the European Union and the African Union. Stanley Fischer, a former deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund at one time stated "As trade relations between Mexico and the U.S. strengthen and as the economies open up to each other, I think having two currencies won't make a great deal of sense."

If only that were true for Mexico. While the U.S. and Canada work together on its relationship involving free trade expansion, it is also in the process of implementing Mexico into that plan, but addressing more serious issues simply because Mexico basically HAS NO economy due to the drug cartel violence. With the new relationship the U.S. is hoping to work out with Mexico, it vows to help "fight crime and develop efficient flow of legal commerce and travel".

On Monday, December 13th, the foreign ministers of all three countries will meet in Canada to discuss the so called "New Border Vision Deal" and further expansion of NAFTA.

We'll see how that works out.

Hugo Chavez is an "axis of mischief"

In the hundreds of thousands of classified State Department documents that WikiLeaks released earlier this week, one of those memos dating as far back as 2006, indicates that the United States views Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez as an "Axis of Mischief", instead of what former President Bush named on his "Axis of Evil" list.

This particular released memo (or cable) discusses Venezuela's close relationship with Iran, hatred against Israel, Cuba assisting Chavez in anti-US intelligence services and to eventually establish nuclear plans which Russia agreed to support earlier this year in supplying a nuclear reactor plant.

Yet in the last few years while President Bush called Chavez nothing more than a 'clown' and President Obama not giving much concern either, the United States has sat in denial mode about Venezuela's plans and the relationships it has developed with some of our not-to-friendly enemies.

I suppose if you're only paying little attention to this country's agenda, one could see the U.S. calling it as "simple mischief".

Really?

The leaked document went on to further say that Chavez actually relies heavily on Cuban intelligence, than his own country's intelligence force. You may recall how much hatred Cuba had against the United States in the 1960's during incidents like the Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis. I'd suspect that hatred is still around today.

But perhaps the most intriguing of all is Venezuela's continued relationship with Iran. What is an almost sickening "me and you" moments are the pictures of Chavez and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad hugging each other and getting comfortable with their friendship. Well, this friendship is apparently sending shock-waves among Venezuela's Jewish community, seeing Iran's resentment against Israel and now from Venezuela.

Chavez of course claims that his words against Israel are not anti-Semitic, after he broke relations in 2009.

Quite disturbing I have to say. But the U.S. is still barely expressing even a minor concern.

Does anyone remember Adolph Hitler's plan with Jewish communities in Nazi Germany?

U.S. documents leaked

On Sunday,  an online whistle blowing organization known as WikiLeaks, were able to get their hands on hundreds of thousands of classified U.S. State Department secret memos and documents which detailed relationships and diplomacy, particularly in the Middle East.

The details of some of these secret documents centered around countries such as Saudi Arabia,  apparently trying to pressure the U.S. to take action against Iran and its nuclear program; additionally, there was also major concern to get the U.S. to move on problems in Afghanistan and Pakistan, centering around al-Qaeda; as well as growing discontent in North Korea. WikiLeaks went on to say that they were quite surprised by the level of espionage that the U.S. is engaging in, after analyzing the documents in full.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton indicated in a press conference this afternoon, that the U.S. would take 'aggressive steps' in finding those responsible for leaking the documents.

To be quite frank, I'm actually glad that Wikileaks released the documents which they claim more than half were unclassified anyway. Whether or not they actually where does not really concern me, but rather the U.S. Government continued ability to remain secretive about issues when it comes to foreign policy. Americans are already angry and fed up with things they're not supposed to know anything about,  so Americans knowing some of these so called 'classified' memos would be more comforting, rather than finding out later on that these things were kept behind closed doors and kept away from the American people which would make everyone, probably twice as angry.

Do we need to re-analyze the Bush Administration's policies that were kept from the American people?

The release of these documents are an embarrassment to the Obama Administration, and rightfully so. This President campaigned on the objective that he would provide more openness and transparency in Government and set up a stronger dialogue with the American people. 

I think a majority of Americans now realize that was obviously a false pretense, and he can add this to his list that has exposed him as nothing more than a pathological liar. 

Tension between North and South Korea

Just two days after the discovery of its enriched uranium for its nuclear program, the hostile dictatorship of North Korea fired artillery against South Korea earlier today, for about an hour on the island of Yeonpyeong. The attack left two South Korean marines dead, and left 16 wounded including soldiers and civilians. It is probably the deadliest attack between the two discontent countries in over fifty years.

In a country where people are brainwashed, shut off from the rest of the world, cell phones and computers banned, no economy, no food, citizens are thrown in concentration camps and suffer from disease and starvation, one would wonder how North Korea is so powerful? One of those factors is primarily its communist dictatorship run by Supreme Leader Kim Jong-Il, and their ability to have acquired technology from the now-defunct Soviet Union, and have grown its men into the fourth largest standing army in the world.

The more friendly, U.S. backed South Korea has responded to the attacks by putting its military on high alert, while North Korea has indicated that if any further retaliation, serious consequences will follow. The situation between the two Koreas seems to be tittering on the brink of getting very out of hand. For one, South Korea knows that North Korea is not exactly a country to fool around with and will be destroyed, prompting intervention from American forces; and secondly, if another Korean war does occur, most likely China will cease from providing food and investment to North Korea, since they have relayed heavily on China due to Kim Jong-Il’s dictatorial leadership.

The United States has condemned the attacks, and President Obama is apparently ‘outraged’ and the six party talks between the U.S., North Korea, South Korea, Russia, Japan and China, have stalled. But why he is outraged, remains unclear, since it should not be any surprise to anyone that North Korea has been secretly planning assaults against South Korea since basically the end of World War II, and there have been minor attacks taken place several times over the last fifty years.

Most likely, as violence increases from North Korea, the United States will enforce sanctions against North Korea, which of course, will do absolutely nothing.

Is Obama keeping U.S. safe from a “new” nuclear war and terror?

What is obviously continuing to be an escalating global threat, it was confirmed yesterday that North Korea has enriched uranium for its nuclear facilities. The news apparently sent shockwaves through Washington, yet some U.S. Officials were not entirely surprised by the situation… Well, the ones that were not surprised, at least understand that we’ve only been warned about North Korea’s anticipated progress on advancing its nuclear ambitions for fifteen years, or more. Yet nothing was ever done, except sign a piece of paper with the United Nations.

Back in June 2009 while in France, President Obama was asked at a press conference about North Korea and its relationship with Iran concerning their nuclear ambitions. The President seemed rather evasive on addressing the issue and could not clearly answer the United States’ policy with North Korea specifically, although he ended his statement by saying:

“I don’t think that there should be an assumption, that we will simply continue down a path in which North Korea is constantly destabilizing the region, and we just react the same ways by after they do these things after a while, we reward them.”

Well, why don’t we stop assuming Mr. President? After all, North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il has shown a clear defiance all this time, and violated its resolution with the United Nations. That should be enough of an indicator that they are one step further in expanding their program.

But North Korea, continuing its nuclear plans is just the tip of the iceberg. The United States has feared North Korea intention to sell missiles and nuclear technology to Iran. Even more terrifying, is the notion of North Korea ,possibly one day selling any of its nuclear programs to al-Qaeda, something that the terrorist network would absolutely love to get its hands on.

Iran has actually continued its operations out of the Middle East, in moving forward in establishing their nuclear plans. Now, the country is apparently mining for uranium in Venezuela. Russia agreed earlier this year, to help Venezuela build a nuclear reactor plant, and continued its relationship in assisting Iran. Over the course of the last several years, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad have meet with each other in their respective countries to discuss their plans, with Venezuela actually allowing Iran to take over a mining site within its own country to obtain uranium.

Incidentally, on Chavez’s numerous trips to Iran in the last two years, he also began subsidizing the Militant Islamic group Hezbollah in Lebanon, while continuing to work in conjunction with Iran on its nuclear programs. 

Why in the world would a Latin American President be giving money to an organization bent on destroying the United States and Israel?

The commonality of these three countries is based on the fact that they have been working to create a nuclear program that could threaten the safety of the world. Taking into consideration Chavez’s relationship with Hezbollah, which in itself has ties with al-Qaeda and Iran’s relationship with North Korea, which in turn could sell its missiles or weapons to al-Qaeda, paints a very disturbing picture as to what the United States is doing to seriously address this matter.

President Obama has done little when has come to moving forward on solutions to force North Korea and Iran to dismantle their nuclear plans, and is reluctant to admit putting sanctions against Venezuela and its connections to Iran and Middle East terrorist organizations.

The President also seems to be very reluctant to admit that al-Qaeda has moved its breeding grounds to North Africa in the Sahara desert, since the terrorist network has felt increasing heat to move away from Pakistan and Yemen. In September, al-Qaeda kidnapped five French nationals in Niger, and are currently holding them hostage. As of yesterday, al-Qaeda is reportedly demanding that France pull its troops out of Afghanistan if they want to see the hostages released. This, at the height of the NATO summit last week, which its topic of discussion was pulling out of Afghanistan by 2014.

Here’s a side recommendation to the French Government: If they are successful in getting its citizens out of the hands of al-Qaeda, then they should step up and use their own nuclear weapons as a primary defense in the war on terror, along with the United States. One problem resolved. Wouldn’t want to see all of that nuclear testing in the French Polynesian ocean near the Tahitian Moruroa Atoll go to waste.

But these are continuous escalating global threats. I would question President Obama as to how serious he is on taking affirmative action against these countries nuclear plans and the continuation of the threat from al-Qaeda in order to protect the United States, with the assistance of our allies. He can either get the United States to move on these problems; or simply just do what he said in his speech back in June of 2009, and just let them do their thing and reward them later.

This is probably the biggest world threat since the end of the Cold War, and this is not the extension of it, but rather something much worse.

Definition of U.S. Treasury Secretary: a Weasel

The Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner is supposed to an experienced economist that has the fiduciary duty and responsibility to oversee the U.S. Treasury. Yet when economists and financial and hedge fund managers of major banking and investment groups and corporations continue to discuss the notion of the U.S. dollar weakening, Secretary Geithner continues to say this is not the case, yet he never seems to offer any evidence to support his defense.

Alan Greenspan, the former Federal Reserve Chairman, earlier this week claimed “the United States is deliberately weakening the dollar”, challenging Geithner’s responsibility over the Federal Reserve and how it establishes monetary and fiscal policy with relation to currency supply and interest rates. Geithner’s response was that “the U.S. will never do that. We will never seek to weaken our currency as a tool to gain competitive advantage to grow our economy”.

Of course not.

Geithner would simply like every one else in the world to manipulate their own currency, most notably China, which has a reputation for doing so, to solve our monetary problems. At the same time, China does not want to devalue its currency, because it would mean exporting jobs from China, back into the United States. China, which for the most part, owns the United States’ $14 trillion and growing national debt, is really focused on what the Federal Reserve’s inability to control its monetary supply without leading to further inflation, and now critics are actually thinking it might become a deflation of the U.S. dollar.

Yet, in nearly every Congressional testimony that Secretary Geithner has given, he says that the economy is growing within the private sector, despite the unemployment remaining about 9% and most likely projected to remain the same into 2011. He also made a push earlier this week to print $600 billion dollar out of nowhere, which already has foreign critics (again China) up in arms about our federal policies, which was cited by some members of Congress and economists as being another bad decision.

One has to question the motives behind printing all of this currency. The idea for doing so seems to improve the U.S. economy, but has deemed unworkable thus far. Is Secretary Geithner just doing so to make the economy look good, without any notion of thought in regards to inflation? What message are we sending to our foreign lenders over seas? Can the U.S. even continue as a place to do business in the coming years?

I will be the first to admit that I am not an economist by any means, but it does not take rocket science to figure out that Secretary Geithner is clearly continuing to act as a puppet for this Administration, standing around acting as if everything is fine and dandy. This is the same Treasury Secretary who dodged paying taxes and was President of the Federal Reserve Bank in New York during the last few years of the Bush Administration. He has the understanding of the Federal Reserve’s policy, and had full knowledge of the impending problems during the financial crisis, and played a role in bailing out AIG.

Now when you hear him testify before Congress, he acts as though he doesn’t even know what happened during that period and incites wrath in everyone else for his contributing audacity. It is quite incompetent.

I would recommend that someone make an amendment to the definition of what the Treasury Secretary is supposed to be. As far as I’m concerned, its description is... a weasel.

Is Mexico collapsing, due to growing drug cartel violence?

In case people have not already noticed, there is basically a civil war going on with our southern neighbors in Mexico. The war itself is between the Mexican Government and Military, combating the escalating drug cartels throughout the entire country.

CBS News had a stunning report from November 12^th, which indicated in 2010 alone, there were more than 10,000 drug related deaths, and a total of 28,000 deaths since 2006.

Yet despite this, President Felipe Calderon seems to remain somewhat optimistic and looks to the Mexican Military as the last remaining effort to stop the drug violence in all of the nation’s 18 states.

Personally, I would question President Calderon’s optimism, as it seems a majority of citizens in Mexico and even here in the United States are leaning towards the grim possibility that Mexico will be unable to win this war, at least on its own. If this is the case, the question whether or not the leaders behind the cartels and with the hundreds of millions of dollars they profit, have the ability to one day overthrow the Mexican government? Some critics may say it is unlikely, but the Mexican Government, its military and its police force have thus far, have been limited to combat this huge problem.

Speaking of which, the cartels have been targeting a number of the nation’s police force and members of its government. In October of this year, a Mexican police commander who was investigating the death of an American tourist on Falcon Lake which is shared on the border with Texas and Mexico was murdered, and his decapitated head was found in a suitcase delivered outside of a Mexican army base.

President Calderon has been outspoken with his criticism of the United States, saying that our nation is responsible for financing the cartels and empowering its members with weapons. But how many of those members based here in the United States are actually in the country illegally?

I find President Calderon’s criticism in somewhat of a catch 22 scenario. There is no question that criminals in the United States have been involved with the Mexican drug cartels, and have most likely have helped finance and supply weapons to its members. But keep in mind that this is the same Mexican President that spoke in a joint session in Congress back in the Spring of this year, criticizing Arizona’s immigration law which was passed to get a handle on the growing violence in that border state.

So how can President Calderon criticize the United States, while at the same time, criticize Arizona earlier this year for trying to get a handle on the situation? It is quite hypocritical in some regard, and it should still be pointed out clearly that Mexico’s immigration law is much stricter than the United States federal immigration law. The reason as to why Mexico is unable to enforce those laws, is because of the drug cartel problem.

It was after President Obama took office in January, 2009 that he vowed to partner with Mexico in the war on drug cartel violence, and even Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said during a Congressional hearing in February of 2009, “Mexico has issues of violence that are a different degree and level than we have ever seen before.”

After nearly eight years under President Bush of States like Arizona and Texas asking the Federal Government for National Guard and Military enforcements, and now two years under President Obama, virtually little has been done to secure and protect our nation’s borders from the drug violence in Mexico. The logical way that seems key to solving the problem, is simply close the U.S.-Mexican border, and then develop a compromise and resolution between Presidents Obama and Calderon and the U.S. Congress, deploy the Military efforts in both countries to combat the drug war internally in Mexico.

Still, nearly every single day, there seems to be another report of drug cartel related violence and murders, and the increase of this violence continues. More deaths, more tragedy, more violence and more of a developing threat to the Mexican Government.

The real question remains, is the United States going to finally close the borders entirely, and perhaps lend a helping hand to Mexico to contain its ever growing drug cartel problem? Or leave the borders wide open for the violence to continue to spread into our country, while at the same time, Mexico’s resources in combating the cartels, collapses?

APEC moves forward on expanding free trade in Asian Pacific Region

President Obama, as part of his visit to Asia earlier this week, participated in the two day Asia-Pacific Economy Cooperative summit in Japan this weekend which focused on an effort to call for more ‘liberalized free trade’ in the Asian Pacific Region.

Some leaders in the region however, are not buying this. Apparently, President Obama was unable to come to an agreement with South Korea, which the United States anticipated on completing during the summit, known as the U.S.-South Korea trade deal. This has left many questions and concerns with other countries based in the region. The trade deal with South Korea was to become a catalyst for a more open and less restrictive regional trade deal called The Transpacific Partnership in the Asian Pacific Region.

Despite the fact that the United States’ trade deficit has diminished in the last few years, now to the tune of about $400 billion for fiscal year 2010, Obama seems to show a great deal of heavy dependency on establishing these trade agreements as he views Asia being one of the greatest priorities for solving diplomacy and importing jobs back into the United States. Again, it comes back to the notion of not only China, but now other countries based in the Asian Pacific Region, as to whether the United States can remain committed to such free trade proposals, while trying to stabilize our monetary supply and inflation

There is no question that the United States has, and will continue to feel the heat from China, since their currency is devalued, they can export production for far less, than what it would cost the United States to do the same job. This same week, President Obama at the G-20 summit failed to try to get garner support to influence China to undervalue their currency to the U.S. dollar, and believe that it was free trade. They can say it is free trade, while the United States continues to get murdered by such exports, but when it comes to correcting the imbalances, well, then that is not called free trade.

At the height of forging ahead with free trade throughout the Asian Pacific Region is one thing, but to basically continue to criticize China’s currency in relation to free trade, for the idiocy of our own monetary policies, is absurdly irresponsible.

United States will not garner support from G-20 to push China’s currency value

The finance ministers from the 20 major economies refused to back the United States’ push in China boosting its currency value today. The reason why the United States is doing this mainly due to the concerns over escalating disputes with China (the main lender for the U.S., by the way) and their ability to have cheap labor and exports, which the United States says is costing American jobs.

President Obama is calling this a disappointing turn of events after the leaders of the G-20 decided to not devalue their currency. Obama wanted the opposite to occur, which was a more competitive undervaluation, which would have influenced the leaders of G-20 to push China’s currency value. Furthermore, the United States fears that nations such as China, who are protective of their own currency policies and trade barriers, will send a shockwave through the global economy and put it back into a recession.

It seems as though President Obama still lives in a fantasy world of looking to every other leader to put together a plan to solve the United States’ financial woes. Why should China, which owns the United States' national debt, be forced to loosen its own currency value to help the United States? China didn't cause the economic problems in the United States, it was the poor decisions made by President Bush and the idiotic Democratic leadership of Congress, most notably individuals like Barney Frank and Chris Dodd.

China, most likely is laughing hysterically at the United States, after the Obama Administration and the weasel that is Tim Geithner, choose to solve our trillions of dollars in debt.... by adding more trillions of dollars in debt. Insane. 

Obviously, the President has been completely oblivious to the Federal Reserve’s inability to stabilize the currency supply and interest rates, and continuing on the path that leads to further inflation. Now the United States admits it was undermined by the central bank's decision to print $600 billion in an apparent effort to keep the economy afloat, while at the same time the currency value diminishes.

Since the President will do nothing to solve the real problems crippling the United States such as the creation of real private sector jobs, reforming pension/union funds in government programs, cost of illegal aliens and maybe telling those puppet master internationalists like George Soros (who buys individuals within the government to create an agenda) to go take a walk, the President is really at a breaking point were there are very few options to choose from when it comes to our monetary and fiscal issues.

He’s not going to solve the real problems, and he is now finding out that when it comes to the United States’ monetary and fiscal policies, leaders in other countries, including those at the G-20 summit are not going to help our nation. They’ve really done all that they can since the financial collapse in 2008, and it is time for the United States to solve its own problems internally, even if it means for this President to finally stand up and say “no” to the people that are influencing him to make decisions which are deemed irresponsible.

Ahmadinejad says Iran’s nuclear rights are non-negotiable

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the President of Iran said on Wednesday that Iran is moving ahead on its atomic nuclear program, and made it very clear that it was non-negotiable. In the past month, many countries including the United States, France, Russia, Germany and China have all indicated concerns about Iran’s nuclear program based in Tehran.

Well, at least the United States is continuing to show concern over Iran’s nuclear program. You may recall back in 2003, when President Bush took the United States into Iraq, that he was under the impression from the CIA that Iraq had Weapons of Mass Destruction.

It turns out that of course was not the case, but now we have Iran, being in a position to establish its nuclear plans with the support of technological nuclear exports from North Korea, and probably thinly subsidized by internationalists that want to destroy America.

What is interesting here, is how much outcry there was in 2003 when President Bush took us into Iraq, and now when you have Iraq’s neighbor in a position to move forward with its plans that could threaten the safety of the United States and the rest of world, you seem to hear very little concern of this issue especially in the mainstream news media.

While Ahmadinejad says that Iran’s mission is to establish a peaceful nuclear program, the real concern is again, how serious Iran is with relation to what they claim is peaceful. Ahmadinejad has stated that he is willing to have rational discussions with world leaders, but will not tolerate any country violating Iran’s rights.

The United Nations, which opposes Iran’s nuclear program showing defiance of UN policies, wants more transparency with Ahmadinejad. Perhaps the UN should implement the same memorandum they issued to Iraq, which was to disclose or face serious consequences, and the President to stand up for the American people and tell the truth of what is happening over there in Iran.

Everyone in this country knows that Iran and they’re neighbors in Afghanistan and Pakistan; want nothing more than to see the end to Israel and the United States. For President Ahmadinejad to speak at the UN in September, criticize the United States and say that the 9/11 terrorist attacks was the fault of the U.S. Government, demonstrates that he is harboring a haven for the threats in the Middle East, and to carry out his plan to develop this program that is going to threaten the rest of the world.

What the world leaders at the UN should have done is allow President Ahmadinejad to make his point, tar and feather him, and run him the hell out on a rail.

The United States needs to start addressing this matter more closely when it comes to foreign policy. While this country continues to suffer from just about everything, from unemployment, to the economic crisis and unfavorable policies set forth by President Obama, these matters escalated in the Middle East, should be added to his ‘top five’ concerns.

I would also like to say Happy Veteran’s Day to all of our men and women serving in uniform.

Obama supports China's criticism of the United States' monetary policies

President Obama today stopped over in Jakarta, Indonesia, as part of his hopping all over South East Asia this week, to discuss monetary policy and growth at a summit for the G20 Finance Ministers, in which Indonesia is a member of.

What a surprise, since G20 has close relations with the European Union, and endorsing a world currency, which Obama endorses. According to Reuters, the President said at this summit with Indonesian President Susilo Yudhoyono:

"We have a lot of work  to do and one of the key steps is putting in place additional tools to encourage balanced and sustainable growth".

What exactly are these additional tools to encourage balanced and sustainable growth? Why in the hell is the President encourages the G20 System, when he cannot even get the Federal Reserve to control its own fiscal and monetary policies regarding taxation, monetary supply and interest rates, since he was elected into office?

In relation to that, China actually criticized the United States exactly for the things I just mentioned above, as they fear the more ignorant the United States is with relation to our monetary and fiscal policies, it would be more instrumental in becoming destructive to the global economy and leading to further inflation.

You would think that the President would take note of some of the advanced warnings laid out by China, and that the President would find a new ass to kick, maybe Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke or that sycophantic little yes weasel Tim Geithner. But instead, President Obama chooses to find an ass to kiss. He decides to support China's criticism of the United States.

"We want China to succeed and prosper, its good for the United States if China continues on that path of development that it is on"

Seriously, does President Obama realize that the $14 trillion national debt, which continues to grow at an accelerated basis, is mainly owned by China? Does the President also realize that my generation and all future generations are liable for this debt created by both he and former President Bush? Did President Obama ever take into consideration at the height of the financial meltdown in 2008 that it was wrong to endorse government intervention into the financial sector? Did the President think that adding trillions more in debt was the logical way to solve the problem of our already growing national debt crisis?

To sit over there in Jakarta, Indonesia and say he wants China to prosper is pretty disturbing. With no disrespect to China, this President has to be somewhat informative that China's commodities are greater than the United States, they've basically defeated us in every single regard, the major manufacturing and industrial factories have all been based out of China primarily because they have forced labor there and they have a grasp control of their own financial system. If you look at comparison with relation to jobs, competition in the business sector, educational system and our own government's financial stability, we're far below with relation to where China stands.

What really frustrated me recently in California involved this notion of 'creating green jobs' in California, which President Obama endorses. Here, the solar power manufacturing company Solyndra, recently closed one of its factories in an effort to save $60 million in annual expenses, laid off 40 full time employees and terminated contracts to 100 temporary workers. It should be noted that Solyndra received more than $530 million as part of a federal loan guarantee program and more than $1 billion in equity.

You may ask why Solyndra for example, is cutting back its operations and laying off its workers? It is because Solyndra and California, along with the rest of the United States, cannot keep up with the competition of manufacturing firms in China, who can do the same amount of work and defeat the cost of doing it in the United States.

While the President just looks at the positive of China's criticism of our monetary policies, maybe he should start getting serious for once in his tenure to do something to focus on creating real jobs within the United States, and working on a solution to control how the Federal Reserve is handling our monetary supply and how it effects the economy, both within the United States and globally.

I'm sure China has to be especially interested in the United States' future in the creation of jobs and our monetary and fiscal policies... because they expect to be repaid for bailing us out.