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Number 2.1.3
(NEW SERIES-2008)

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NOTES FROM
A DYING NATION
NUMBER TWO, Part 1
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THE PREMEDITATED
MURDER OF THE UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA
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Addendum 2

EXCERPTS FROM CAROLYN BAKER'S
"CELEBRATING UN-PRESIDENT'S DAY:
WHY I WILL NOT VOTE FOR
A PRESIDENT IN 2008
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The Life And Death Issues Eclipsed By Election Hysteria

Specifically, here is what I would need from a candidate to even consider the possibility of voting for her/him:

1)..........
Is that candidate aware of and astutely informed regarding the reality and scope of climate change? Will he in the first month in office convene a worldwide summit on the issue and enact emergency measures in the United States to address it?

2)..........
Is the candidate aware of and astutely informed regarding Peak Oil, Peak Natural Gas, Peak Water, and the depletion of all of the earth's substances which we have come to call "resources"? Will he in the first month in office convene a worldwide summit (in conjunction with a climate change summit) on Peak Oil and other energy depletion issues and enact emergency measures in the U.S. to address them?

3)
Is the candidate aware of and astutely informed regarding the approximately 4 trillion dollars "missing" from the U.S. Treasury? Will she within the first month in office demand that Congress implement a full-scale investigation of the missing money?

4)
Is the candidate aware of and astutely informed regarding the creation of the current housing bubble? Will he immediately demand a Congressional investigation of the key players in the current subprime mortgage crisis?

5)
Only 16% of Americans believe the official story of 9/11. Has the candidate researched the events prior to, during, and after September 11, 2001? Will she immediately demand a Congressional investigation of September 11 in which all sessions of that investigation are open to the American public and in which all individuals who testify are under oath?

6)
Did this candidate vote for the Patriot Act? In terms of the unprecedented shredding of the Constitution and the evisceration of civil liberties during the Bush II administration, is that candidate willing to demand repeal of the Patriot Act and all Executive Orders signed by George W. Bush.

7)
Is the candidate fully aware of the catastrophic financial situation in the United States and the world in terms of debt, balance of trade, and fate of the dollar issues? Will he enact emergency measures to return the U.S. to a gold standard and implement a full-scale investigation of the Federal Reserve with the long-term goal of abolishing it?

I know what you're saying, "Carolyn, you've got to be kidding!"

My point exactly: No candidate who is committed to such an agenda has a prayer of getting elected, not only because she/he is owned by the corporatocracy, but because he/she would have to tell the American people thousands of things they refuse to hear, and because they have been unwilling to hear them for the past six decades, they now find themselves on the brink of unimaginable catastrophe.

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As the likelihood of famine escalates, as bankruptcies skyrocket and foreclosures surge beyond anything this nation has seen since the Great Depression, as unemployment becomes epidemic, as the dollar daily sets records for loss in value, as banks fail, as the price of oil flies off the charts, I can only marvel that anyone in the United States has the slightest interest whatsoever in a presidential election. My mind reels but recalls the terrified and traumatized passengers on the decks of the Titanic, hallucinating and in shock. Although we may be overwhelmed passengers on a sinking ship, there are lifeboats. This is not quite the same Titanic; we have options. So why would anyone re-arrange the deck chairs by putting any faith in a presidential candidate?

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Consider the administrations that have come and gone since 1977-all unwilling to tell the American people the truth about energy depletion. Consider the meaningless rhetoric of the current candidates who continue to delude us about Peak Oil and economic growth and consider the reality that they would not even be viable candidates if they were willing to expose the suicidal delusion of unlimited economic growth.

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I understand how desperately many individuals would like to believe in a "savior" candidate who's going to make everything right. I recall how excited I was earlier in my life about the candidates that I was certain would turn everything around. I remember how angry I felt when I heard some cynic tell me that there wasn't a dime's worth of difference between any of them. Oh how I wanted-desperately wanted, to believe.

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But only in America is the definition of insanity lived out with such oblivious impunity. Only in America do we continue to believe that "this time it will be different" in the face of all evidence to the contrary. Faith in any of the three leading candidates running for the presidency to have the capacity or desire to affect any significant change is nothing less than blatantly illogical and irrational.

......................................................................—Carolyn Baker ..........



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