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To the Editor:
You and I don’t buy helicopter gunships or bunker-busting bombs or F-16 fighter jets. As much as we might like to. As much as we might fantasize. The agencies who place orders at and keep the lights on at the likes of Raytheon and Lockheed-Martin are governmental.
Those same companies turn around and deluge Warshington with lobbyists, flush with cash. Cash that greases palms and ends up in the pockets of politicians. It funds election and re-election campaigns. It’s one big, giant wheel.
Within the last 6 months, both Victoria Nuland and Antony Blinken came out and said, essentially point-blank, that death and destruction anywhere on the planet is great for the U.S.: It means jobs for Americans. They left out the other half of the equation: A certain amount of the money that Warshington hurls at military-industrial complex companies gets kicked back to politicians.
If the Gazans aren’t completely genocided by our November election day, they surely will be if Biden, Trump, or RFK Jr. ends up in the White House. All 3 major candidates support Israel unconditionally.
If our proxy war against Russia hasn’t escalated to the level of WWIII before our November election day—and I’ll be very surprised if it hasn’t, given what just about all western leaders have decided in the last couple of weeks—the only major candidate whom I feel certain would ratchet everything back on that front is RFK Jr.
Anyway you look at it, the Gazans are toast. But the rest of the world might be saved—depending on how Americans vote.
As a final note, is anyone on this planet so dense as to think that CO2 emissions (that gas that Godness in their wisdom decided we should exhale, 24/7; that teeny-weeny trace gas in the atmosphere) can hold a candle to another global war, when it comes to death and destruction?
Sometimes I think that Mother Earth sends tornadoes and floods so that we might experience the type of destruction that we fund and engage in incessantly, in one place after another.
-Jacqueline Brook, Putney
To the Editor:
Cris Ericson, acting chairperson, is trying to start a new minor political party in Vermont, the United States Marijuana Party, because recent news reports a man in Rutland, Vermont was denied some unemployment benefits because he tested positive for cannabis marjuana even though that is legal under state law. His employer tested him for drugs under federal law. The case is now being brought to the Vermont State Supreme Court.
In the meantime, acting chairperson of a new proposed minor political party, Cris Ericson is trying to raise awarenes to the fact that this one case could devastate people in Vermont where 10,000 Vermonters received types of federally subsidized benefits such as food stamps, fuel assistance, federally subsidized housing, collge grants, medicaid, etc. If this one man is punished for using medical cannabis marijuana because it is NOT legal under federal law, then thousands of Vermonters could be at risk, and if they start losing benefits, then grocery stores and landlords and medical facilities and colleges will all suffer from the loss of federally subsidized benefits in Vermont. This feels like entrapment. http://crisericson.com
-Cris Ericson, Chester
Dear Editor:
I am writing this letter in support of the candidacy of Jan Payne of Andover for the office of state legislator representing the House district of Andover, Londonderry, Weston and Winhall. I have known Jan for nearly a decade and found her to be intelligent, articulate and most importantly honest. Seeing her potential, Jan has been approached and encouraged to run for a seat in the House by a number of experienced people who know her as well as the State governance process. She comprehends the need for critical seats to be filled in the state legislature to level the playing field in Montpelier, and will work tirelessly to represent her constituency to the best of her ability.
Our state government is in desperate need of political balance in the legislature. The tax and spend agenda imposed upon Vermonters by the supermajority in Montpelier is crushing us. This agenda is unsustainable and has to be tempered by representation that understands the damage that has been done to our ability to make ends meet and save for our futures. Jan has the backbone and integrity to vote NO on increasing taxes and YES to making Vermont a more affordable business and family friendly state. I encourage you to support Jan and vote for her in the Republican primary on Tuesday August 13 and in the general election on Tuesday November 5.
-Wanda Mauti, Andover
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@Jacqueline Brook, of Putney
As long as I can remember (30 to 40 years), there have been attacks by Palestinians on Israeli citizens. Suicide bombings, knife attacks, and rockets. During this time, they have been trying a “two-state solution”. Lately, the Palestinian people have been supporting the Hamas terrorist group as their leading political party, which culminated last October in the cross-border deliberate attack on innocent men, women, and children. The murder, rape, and hostage-taking was done by the Palestinians through the Hamas terror group they supported.
What were the Israeli people or government accused of? Building nice apartments for people to live in on disputed territory? Did you know the Israeli government has many people of Palestinian descent in it, including in its judicial system? Palestinians who have immigrated to Israel have a fair voice in Israel, all be-it a minority voice.
The only threats of genocide come from the Hamas terrorists who encourage the Palestinian activists to march in their streets calling for “Death to Israel, Death to America”.
Furthermore, Israel has demonstrated benevolence by warning the Palestinian settlers to evacuate before major strikes, and by providing a safe corridor to temporary camps.
In my opinion, after watching this stuff going on for many decades, I believe Gaza and the other Palestinian settlements should be taken over completely and firmly by the Israeli state and become part of Israel. Those people, once educated about the benefits of friendship and peace, would be able to cast their votes in local elections.
This is the solution I pray for. An end to hostilities. Peace. Not constant harassment and war. I do not believe Israel has any intention of taking territory outside these Palestinian settlements. Once the Israelis take full control and adopt them as a state inside their system of justice, the Palestinians will have much better conditions, and they will have a true voice of their own.
I find it interesting how Americans are hoodwinked into taking sides of territorial disputes between foreign countries. It is all fabricated lies, deceptions, and distractions. WMD’s anyone?
Senator Lindsay Graham (Senator No Name’s partner and bestest buddy) admitted the US role in the Ukraine is about the resources. He said we can’t have Russia gain control of those resources and share them with China. In other words, all the blood, misery, bombs, and our money is so the United States can control allegedly $10 Trillion worth of resources. Warhawks are big stock holders. NATO and the UN are enablers and financiers.
Has anyone bothered to figure out how the most monitored, most secure, most fortified border of Isreal was breached by bodies dangling from motorized parachutes? Seriously – please explain to me how that happened? The citizens of Isreal are apparently asking the same thing and they get no straight answer either.
Here’s what we know: Russia is playing war games in the Carribean and stationing subs in Cuba. China has Taiwan surrounded in a choke hold. Zelensky’s term has run out, but he’s holding his title, all the cash, and watching NATO fill his country with soldiers, planes, and more weapons to fire into Russia. The United States military built a makeshift dock in Gaza to the tune of $320 million that was pulled apart by ocean waves days later. The Biden administration and the Pentagon don’t even know which side their on, but spending a lot money and resources on both sides of the fence. The EU is losing control as the socialist, globalist power structure is being booted out. Meanwhile, Americans are tithering over propaganda psyops and being robbed blind at the same time.
Whatever is going to blow in the next week or so is going to rock not only this nation, but many others tied to it. Brace for impact. I believe our nation is officially off the rails and careening toward the cliff.
Ms. Brook,
You said, “If the Gazans aren’t completely genocided by our November Election Day…”
It would very helpful if you studied a little history—perhaps the Holocaust—to understand what constitutes a real genocide.
You also said, “Anyway you look at it, the Gazans are toast…”
Tragically, this may be the case. But be assured, it will NOT be because Israel is bent on obliterating the residents of Gaza from off of the face of the earth. If it does happen, it will be directly because of Hamas’ wanton disregard for human life and its intentional strategy to keep putting Gazans in harm’s way to further its own demonic political agenda.
Please try to understand that there is a difference between Hamas and the residents of Gaza.
It would also be helpful if you stopped carte blanche believing every report which comes from an Arab perspective which always seeks to foment satanic hatred against Israel and the Jewish people. Right now, these false narratives are succeeding quite well in the ideological and verbal propaganda which incited a real genocide against the Jewish people in Europe in the 1930’s and 1940’s.
Please stop allowing yourself to swallow the propaganda.