No more palbum.

We can't afford to pull any punches.

This is not the country our fathers or founders fought for.

We have to be better than this so-called New World Order with it's perpetual plans for never ending Global War; with one excuse or another.

We have to change this now. And we can.

Our USA elections suffer from all the same syndromes and more.

Political ideas have to be put into snazzy soundbites, any gaffe is ruthlessly pounced on and repeated over and over again -- and God help the candidate if a mistake is on videotape.

Extraneous issues are pulled in by the media and debated as if they were central concerns. Out-of-context quotes become major reference points for discussion. Truth and lies are kicked around like footballs.

Confusion and vagueness have more value than being straight and direct. The shape of reality is as optional as the images in a surrealistic painting.

Before the words are out of someone's mouth a dozen critics on on hand to offer comments and most of them more focused with their own prancing and dancing in front of the camera than the real issues.

If the media is conservative, call it liberal. If it's liberal call it left wing loony. Turn all ideas into a confrontation and quote the most extreme points of view.

Build up fear. Tear down all possible hopes and solutions.
Set off fire alarms and fill the room with smoke.

We have to change this now. And we can.

It started long before the Iraq War, maybe it started in the Garden of Eden. But the recent Russian counter-attack in Georgia and all the issues and conflicts that swirl around it are the straw that broke the camel's back: The truth is hardly spoken and now needs to be spoken more than ever.

Reading news reports about all the significant implications of this Russian-Georgia conflict (and attempts to summarize news reports about this) resulted in near apoplexy of the apocryphal; that's the best way I can describe it.

Apocryphal means a story or statement of doubtful authenticity, although widely circulated as being true, something "spurious; unverified, unauthenticated, unsubstantiated; bogus."

Apoplexy means having a stroke, unconsciousness or incapacity resulting from a cerebral hemorrhage, or, informally, incapacity or speechlessness caused by extreme distress.

It is clear that both sides have foreign policies that tread upon other countries and whatever they claim they are after, it is not peace, or respect for the rights of others.

If both sides looked in the mirror they would see mirror images of themselves, just with different rhetoric and different uniforms.

The tragic thought is how World War I was started, we're told, with one man being shot in Serbia, resulted in the deaths of tens of millions and most of us don't have a clue what it was all really about.

Now we have warships of major powers facing each other in the Black Sea with real possibilities of nuclear war and yet most of our people don't have a clue what it's really all about. The truth is deliberately hidden.

In this specific case it is overwhelming clear: This is a conflict over $14 Trillion dollars of Caspian Sea Oil, and the BTC pipeline which sucks it away from Russia and sends it a thousand miles away to the Mediterranean Sea.

Any talk about this conflict that fails to mention Caspian Sea Oil is ill-informed or a deliberate lie.

We have to grow up. This is not like cheering for the home team in the Olympics. This is about turning around the warmongers who are willing to ravage the world for it's last drop of resources,

The current policies of the USA and our troops in Georgia, our military air base in Kazakhstan, our money in Turkmenistan, our 771 foreign military bases around the world are not about freedom or democracy.

Like Obama says, "We are at a defining moment in time."

If we don't turn the tide here and now we may very well lose all the good things we have ever fought for.

Voting for Barack is a step in the right direction.