Financial Markets Panic, Euro Riots Rage, While US Obsesses Over Gay Marriage -- Gerald Celente
World stocks register double digit losses as worries grow that Greece may exit the single currency union. The escalating eurozone debt crisis and deepening economic slowdown in China are crashing commodity prices. After promising it would not bail out anymore banks, depression ravaged Spain is bailing out Bankia, it’s fourth largest lender. Day after day, week after week, massive citizen protests erupt in depression/recession ravaged cities across Europe.
On the geopolitical front, America expands its military involvement and drone strikes in Yemen. The civil war in Syria rages as “rebels” terrorize Damascus, killing scores and wounding hundreds. Rhetoric between China and the Philippines heats up over the tense territorial standoff in the South China Sea. Afghan troops kill more US/NATO troops. War in the Sudan, Iran/Israel nuclear standoff, more bombs blasting Baghdad … Bahrain, Egypt, Tunisia, all in turmoil.
Meanwhile, back in Dumbfukistan Economic turmoil and the devastating effect it would have on lives and livelihoods, geopolitical unrest, raging wars and wars in the making were put on the back burner as Barack Obama “made history” as the first President to support gay marriage.
Commandeering the headlines and the breaking news was his history-making declaration: “I think same-sex couples should be able to get married.” Day after day, hour after hour, the US press reported the story with the level of gravitas associated with sending a man to the moon, the fall of the Berlin Wall … and the death of Michael Jackson.
Splashed across the cover of Newsweek, under a glowing rainbow halo, was President Obama and the bold headline, “The First Gay President.” In editorials, on radio talk shows, cable TV, and in all the news that was fit to print, “experts,” “strategists,” pundits and media personalities waxed on, and on, debating why he did it, what it would mean, and how it would impact the November election.
There was Obama making the TV circuit, chatting up gay marriage with the women on “The View.” There he was, the President of the United States of America, the world Superpower, revealing how his decision had been, in part, shaped by his 14 and 11 year old daughters, who went to school with children who had gay parents. Who cared what Obama’s kids thought, or what the cast of politicians, preachers and “celebrities” endlessly interviewed by the media thought?
It was just another inane episode on “The Presidential Reality Show:” the issue of gay marriage had become a major national issue, in fact, it was the issue!
And yet it worked! Each moment spent on gay marriage deflected the nation’s attention from everything that was consequential: US soldiers sacrificing life and limbs in futile ongoing wars while new futile wars were in the making; tens of millions of homes foreclosed, millions jobless and homeless; the nation in debt, consumers in debt and college grads drowning in debt … as the global economy comes under renewed attack. These are the real issues.Real issues will shape and determine the future – not gay marriage, abortion, contraception nor the personhood of sperm
奥巴马连任应该没有问题。落幕泥的贡献呢，是让摩门教在全美国老百姓的眼中，成功地将戴了上百年的“邪教”帽子给摘下来了。小落童鞋的这个贡献会得到美国境内六百万摩门教徒的感激。小奥童鞋支持婚姻平权不是偷鸡也不是失把米，而是顺应历史潮流。 根据保守派的喉舌狐新闻昨天的报道，从2004年到2012年，这8年时间里美国民众对婚姻平权的支持率有一个令人鼓舞的变化: 民主党派：33% （2004年）--> 58% (2012年）； 共和党派：7% （2004年）--> 13% （2012年）； 无党派人士： 19% （2004年）--> 34% (2012年）。 这个变化的趋势是很显而易见的，就是越来越多的人们站到了支持少数/弱势群体要求受到平等对待的合理诉求的队伍中来。这个趋势，这个当今的人权运动，与多年前的反对奴隶制，和近年发生的反对种族歧视的运动一样，是不可阻挡的。类似的历史事件还有妇女争取投票权，也是一波三折，但最终取胜。 就连落幕泥本人，也与典型的恐同反同的死硬摩门不同，不时有一些开明之举。比如，在他的麻萨诸塞州长任期内，麻州成了全美第一个实行同性婚姻合法的州，是他签署命令，让工作人员向申请结婚的同志们发放证件（Governor Mitt Romney ordered town clerks to begin issuing marriage licenses on May 17, 2004.） 最近还有报道：STUNNING: Romney Affirms Support for Gay Marriage™ 其他支持同性婚姻的共和党人有前副总统欠尼一家（Dick, Lynn, and Mary)，小布什的太太和女儿(小布童鞋不够彻底，只是支持civil union)。
