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The swooning frenzy over Barack Obama as President of the United
States is an artificially created absurd wave of self-deception.
His cult following is bereft of reason and devoid of facts. He is a
celebrity in the mold of an intelligent, articulate Paris Hilton.
In no way does he resemble a statesman. Each day in the age of
Obama takes us further into lawlessness, situational
constitutionalism and institutional derangement. We are turning
into a banana republic where the rule of law is replaced by the
tyranny of the majority. The political machination of Liberals, in
the name of an economic recession that they are manipulating is
undermining our founding principles. President Obama is
accumulating massive power in Washington justified by the need to
save the nation with a whirlwind of activity. He is recklessly over
compensating, throwing trillions of dollars around for a quick fix
which will be a millstone around the necks of future generations.
He then dishonestly claims that the USA will arise stronger than
before. When traveling abroad, President Obama has an arrogant
humility. He portrays a proud but flawed United States, using a
refrain of past mistakes of his predecessor to generate personal
popularity. He talks about the nation's darker periods of slavery
and repression and its past sanction of torture that he has ended.
Chicago Politics have come to the White House. No president in the
past 40 years has done more to polarize America so much, so
quickly. Afghanistan is sliding back to its pre-9/11 days that
allowed the country to become a safe haven for al-Qaeda leaders
plotting terrorist attacks. Obama's soft shoe confusion will also
be a disaster in neighboring Pakistan where nuclear bomb technology
is available.
Under Obama, the national debt has increased to $12 trillion and
will be $21 trillion by 2019. Even still Liberal Washington with
Obama at the helm is now debating whether to create more social
programs they can't afford.
The dollar's decline is indicative that the United States is no
longer the dominant force in the global economy. China is the
largest creditor to a heavily indebted U.S. government. World
living standards will grow faster than ours, as will global wealth.
Capital will move abroad, leaving U.S. unemployment at high levels.
That is the cost of Liberal ideology.
By 2030, China will surpass the U.S. in the size of its economy.
Global power follows economic strength. Even still, Obama is
willfully accelerating the decline of the USA as the global power.
China thrives because it is hungry, dynamic, unwilling to accept
failure and convinced that it should be a leading force in the
world. That is why America thrived a century ago. Today, such
hunger and dynamism are less evident in American life and are being
replaced by a welfare mentality as Obama seeks personal popularity
and ego satisfaction by being an apologist for what he perceives as
US shortcomings and by ceding authority to the United Nations.
The next crisis has already started. The vast printing of money has
begun to depress the value of the dollar. The economy will appear
to recover from the subprime crisis and recession by mid to late
2009. It will though be the calm before the real storm as a
consequence of Obama's wild spending. In the early part of the next
decade, America will enter a depression, with stocks reaching new
lows. Housing prices will not recover and housing will remain a
poor investment. A global bull market will not return until the end
of the next decade and by then everything will be worth much less
in dollar terms because of its declining value.
Obama was elected to be President of the USA. What he has done is
totally polarize the country - worse than any President in 40
years. The people who feel disenfranchised most are those who drive
the capitalist engine which has made the USA the most successful
country in the world. That is a disastrous dynamic.
Obama was elected as a do-gooder: audacity of hope, diplomacy,
disarmament, income redistribution, climate change and
international-back-pedaling. We will now reap the consequences.
Obama is lost in knowing how to handle conflict throughout the
world. Afghanistan will become Obama's Vietnam. Obama has no answer
to the Taliban or al-Qaeda. Do-gooders believe that everyone has
good intentions. Such was Chamberlain's belief when he negotiated
"peace for our time" with Hitler in 1937.
The US and its citizens are addicted to debt much as a drug addict
is hooked on heroin. Unless the US achieves rehabilitation, this
failing alone will ensure that the USA will continue to decline
relative to many other countries. Liberals are now firmly in
control in the USA. In this political climate, there is no
indication that our debt will not continue to increase
dramatically. The modus operandi is to give a short term fix to all
problems by dramatically increasing debt. The present financial
crisis, itself caused by excessive debt is being fixed by even more
debt. The burden for the few who pay taxes will become increasingly
onerous and increasingly unacceptable for future generations. The
best and the brightest will turn away from the USA, increasing the
US relative rate of decline. Much that has been achieved in the USA
since the end of the Second World War has been achieved by people
not born in the USA. In future, the USA increasingly will not be
the destination of choice for people with the most to offer.
Instead it is the destination for illegal immigrants at the other
end of the social scale.
The USA is considered ugly by the rest of the world because it
makes no effort to control its gluttony. In the USA, 25% of the
world's energy is consumed by 5% of the world population. The USA
also leads the world in obesity and in debt. The USA does not pay
for its insatiable consumption. Despite its great opportunities,
the USA has a high percentage of free loaders who pay little or no
income taxes. They have become home owners through debt that they
have not worked and saved to afford, through policies of US Liberal
government. The ensuing tsunami is now engulfing the lessfortunate
people throughout the world, who are genuinely poor and are now
having to suffer the consequences of our worthless paper debt
instruments, while the USA takes on huge new debt to continue to
feed its addiction instead of facing up to the reality of living
within its means.
This collection draws together contemporary research into queer
theory and practices, as they intersect with new media and
communication technologies. It provides a synthesis of critical
debates in these fields followed by empirical analyses of current
and historical internet activities. These include, among others, a
study of changing leathersex identities as meeting spaces moved
from bars to online chat rooms, an investigation of the dynamics of
racial identity as social sites moved from text-based to
visually-based media and the tensions between community and
audience identities inherent in commercial affinity portals. The
chapters investigate the relations between the technical, legal and
industrial organization of online media and the queer practices
that they facilitate. While scholarly and theoretically rigorous,
its rich empirical detail makes Queer Online vital reading for
activists and members of queer communities, in the academy and
beyond.
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