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January 2, 2010

Where Does A Democrat Go From Here?

Marianne Williamson

Huffington Post

What the current administration is giving us is minimal change. And not because the President hasn't had the time to do better; if he had truly wanted to make fundamental change, he would have gone in there fast and done his own version of shock and awe in the first hundred days. And not because he didn't realize how mean all those Republicans can be, either; Obama knew what he was getting into, and if he didn't, then he was as unprepared for the job as his opponents said he was. I see so many people now -- many of them men, interestingly enough -- tangled up in an almost school-girlish, co-dependent, apologetic relationship with this President. As though "poor baby" should be tacked onto the end of every description of his failures.

I see all things political in light of the immense unnecessary suffering in the world. Republicans see it and say, "Wow, it's sad about all that suffering, but the government has no proper role in assuaging it. Hopefully the private sector will do something. That would be nice." The Democrats -- not all of them but enough of them, and definitely this President -- see all that suffering and say, "Wow, it's sad about all that pain people are going through. Let's try to assuage it."

And yet they're refusing to do anything to challenge the underlying forces that make all that suffering inevitable.

I remember Bobby and I remember Martin. I remember when there was a moral force
at the center of the Democratic Party. I see it sometimes still, in a Sherrod Brown, a Dennis Kucinich, an Anthony Weiner. But they're not reflective of the general tenor of the Democratic Party anymore, and I think we would all do well to wake up to that fact. We elected Obama and then he sort of became someone else. He's doing a lot of good things in various areas, but he's certainly not changing the new bottom line: that corporations get to run the world.

He bailed out the banks, but he didn't stipulate that they had to start lending again. He got us health care, but he wouldn't say a word about single payer and he wouldn't raise a finger for the public option. He won the Nobel Peace Prize, but accepted it with a speech that was an apologia for war.

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"Not since August 1914 has politics seemed so irrelevant." - James Carroll

May 26, 2009  - "sadly, Obama is attempting the tried and tested political trick -- used effectively by Washington hacks from Watergate ("Our long national nightmare is over") to Iran-Contra ("We cannot have another failed presidency") -- of inducing the uniquely American trait of Instant Amnesia that has, in the past, allowed the empire to stagger on, repeatedly committing variations of the same crimes, then coddling and protecting the same variety of corrupt elitists responsible, and thereby, reducing the Constitution to tatters and rendering the rule of law rubble.

But this time, the rot is too deep, the pathology too systemic. Obama's placebo presidency will not stem the hypertrophic decay. Granted, it was good to evict the previous, psychotic tenants from the property (Although Dick Cheney seems to be stalking the place with his obsessive, media drive-bys.) but that does nothing to repair the collapsing foundation of the structure, its core eaten away by an infestation of anti-democratic termites. Rather than addressing the core issue, the deterioration of the rights and liberties granted by the U.S. Constitution, President Obama is wallpapering over the rot wrought by the national security state's termite hive mind of authoritarian appetites, that has been, silently, and hidden by darkness, gnawing the house of state to sawdust.

Again our choice: Either open up the decay within the system to the light of day and start the process of rebuilding and renewal, or allow the republic-ravening pestilence to continue unchallenged, hence unabated, and let the nation go bughouse crazy as the house comes down around us to the strains of the insect-brain stridulations of Beck, Hannity, and Limbaugh."

Phil Rockstroh

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11/30/08:
A Clinton/Obama status quo Presidency is NOT what we voted for! by W. Christopher Epler (Bill)

The jury is in.  This is going to be a Clinton/Obama Presidency (in that order).  The appointments are all DLC Clinton machine right wing dems, and that just ain't good enough.  And it CERTAINLY isn't what Obama promised. 

For openers, it's now clear that Middle Eastern diplomacy isn't even on the table, plus the capstone of Obama's domestic promises (taxing the elites) is now being procrastinated for SEVERAL YEARS -- in spite of dire warnings of many economists who say that to extend this endless Christmas for the elites will be suicidal to our Bush-bankrupted economy.

It's also imperative to remember that BOTH Clinton and Bush worked to redefine what would have been very right wing eight years ago into the alleged "centrists" of 2008.  Indeed, the 2006 Congress of dem traitors were puked out by the DLC Clinton machine. Conversely, the so called “progressives” of 2008 were merely the centrists of year 2000.

Is the Clinton Presidency (oops, I mean the Clinton/Obama Presidency) going to be a "lesser of the evils" when compared to the corporative fascism and religious fanaticism of the Bush horror show years? 

Undoubtedly yes . . . but probably not much.  Hey, Obama's even keeping Gates for Secretary of Defense.  Naturally there are all kinds of rationalizations for keeping a George Bush appointment (remember, Obama said he would immediately change ALL of Bush's decisions), but it's now heartbreakingly obvious that Obama has no intention of honoring the multiple promises he made during both the primaries and Presidential campaign.

Indeed, he has already locked us to the dead and rotting past we were so fearful could only come from John McCain. 

In short we have been snookered again.  Obama's watch word was "change", but so far it’s wall to wall status quo.  President Status Quo Obama. 

So, back to our ONE party dem/pug political system. Back to having our international policy being dictated by recycled neocons, i.e., being a tail wagged by the Israeli lunatic fringe right wing (who the Clinton's have been licking the boots of for decades).  And back to having basically our ENTIRE GOVERNMENT suck up to national/international elites.

So does the evidence to date indicate that we're going to take even one giant step away from having America's working class treated like cattle in a Dictatorship of the Rich?  Nope.  Maybe a "baby step" will be allowed by the elites for strategy reasons, but a giant step -- in your dreams.

Ironically, the Republican Party may be in ruins, but the {DLC Clinton machine} + {Israeli right wing extremists} + {the national/international fraternity of Greek God like elites} couldn’t be more alive and well.

Moral:  It's time to jump out of this political box once and for all.  Look, Obama’s April Fools are as good as its ever going to get; and this means a one dem/pug political party of elite puppets and professional status quo NON boat rockers will be the decorated Police State America has been morphed into.

But ONLY if we keep putting all our money into this lose/lose political game.

Dear God, isn't it obvious by now that politics (all of it) IS the problem?  Maybe once upon a time we could look to our nationally elected officials to be representatives of the will of the people, but that Camelot has long since dissolved into dreamland.

Politics now is ONE THING ONLY: a gaggle of hypocritical, greed obsessed, willing assassins whose souls have long since been sold to multi millionaire and multimillionaire elites.  They all feed at the same hog trough (dems & pugs equally) which the elites provide for their bought and paid for zombies (think "Judas media"!) and they are the mortal enemies of our Constitutional Republic and even bare minimum morality.

Naturally, there are a handful of honorable and courageous exceptions, but they simply prove the rule.

In short, our "political system" is unequivocally THE ENEMY.

But knowing this can be our liberation, since only to the degree that we don't come out of denial, delusion, and cowardice and see this system for what it truly is (i.e., BOTH parties are far to the right of the vast majority of American citizens and voters) and "wake up" and stop drinking ground glass because the elites have Pavlov-conditioned us to think its medicine, is the degree to which we can jump out the political box, "find ourselves", and start living like grown up, patriotic Americans instead of brainless cattle on the way to elite slaughter houses

It's hard not to see contemporary America as something out of a science fiction movie in which there are the ones who eat (elites and their political zombies) and the ones who are eaten (basically, the entire human race).  It's not deja vu all over again.  It's the 6,000 old year Have and Have Not horror all over again -- and a Have and Have not horror which apparently Obama is going to do nothing substantive to change.  Indeed, he's turning out to be just the new "slumlord" in the American Dictatorship of the Rich. 

So, where does this leave us?

It leaves us in a hopeless political hell.  A few years ago, it could be said that politics is part of the problem, not the solution.  However, these last eight year, followed by Obama's status quo flips/flops, have changed that into politics IS the problem. Our new mantra is that POLITICS IS THE PROBLEM.

Hence, our only hope of saving our Constitutional Republic and the rapidly disappearing necessary ecosystems for human existence is to jump out of the political box once and for all.

Meaning?  Well, here's a starter which was a response to an earlier submission of this writer from an American named Wayne:

"For now, I urge all who TRULY want radical change to make a small, but highly symbolic gesture. Go down to City Hall and change your voter registration (if you are a registered Democrat or Republican). Register as No Party Affiliation, as I did, or register as a Green, Socialist, Libertarian, Constitutionalist, Centrist, Moderate, or even Marijuana Party -- anything other then the Big Two.

If enough of us do that, believe me, the Jackasses and Pachydems will sit up and take notice.

The next step will be to rescue the presidential debates from the grasp of DePublicans and return it to some group which will insure fairness, as the League of Women Voters used to do."

Thank you, Wayne, for that excellent advice.

However, almost certainly the only ultimate "corrective" to our political prison is to passionately commit ourselves to finding and proclaiming the truth of 9/11. 

It's now obvious to barnyard animals that the Republican/media (i.e., elite propaganda) account of 9/11 as being, at worst, the ineptitude of the Bush Administration is cosmic b.s.  Ineptitude hell!  The Bushivicks (with probable international help), ENGINEERED this atrocity from hell.

Most of us already know that the Bush/Republican version of 9/11 has more holes in it that a fisherman's net.  Why, for example, were all members of the bin Laden family scooped up within hours after the tragedy and immediately flown out of the country?  Why was Bush "on vacation" when it happened?  Why were the pilots who flew the planes KNOWINGLY trained in America?  And why did the Bush Administration totally ignore the literal blizzard of warnings that predicted what was going to happen down to very specific details, etc., etc.?

But perhaps most of all, there are now literally countless sites on the net which are encyclopedias of scientific data and studies about how responsible, objective observation of the falling buildings demonstrate that these catastrophes simply COULD NOT have been caused by the relatively small impact (in each building) of one plane.  Indeed, the overwhelming visible and structural evidence is that only massive and meticulously timed explosions WITHIN the buildings could realistically account for what followed – which is exactly what all the films of the event show, so can there be any realistic doubt that preplanned detonations actually DID occur and were the true cause of the imploding towers?

Thus, the turn of phrase of choice, is that 9/11 was indeed an "inside job".

What’s being articulated here is simple.  Since our political system is now totally broken and is in fact our political prison, the only game in town left is to pursue non-political strategies.  And the ultimate "unfinished business" of America is 9/11. 

To the degree that we are unwilling to pursue the truth of 9/11, America will have tragically lost its soul.  Conversely, to the degree that we confront 9/11, we are 100% OUT of the political box, because our political system of elite controlled robots will do everything in its power to bury this truth PERMANENTLY.

Arguably confronting the truth of 9/11 is the ONLY thing which can radically change our political system/prison, since, in the words of the mystic J Krishnamurti, "It is truth that liberates; not the effort to be free."

Or, in the words of an ancient Chinese Zen Master, trying to transform politics WITH politics is "like trying to wipe off blood with blood."

God willing, the eight years of Bush horror, immediately followed by Obama's status quo flip/flops is a line most Americans will simply not cross.  Instead they will jump out of this elite-constructed political box/prison once and for all and commit their lives to alternative modalities to save and heal our dying country and planet.

Godspeed to President Elect Obama, but keeping the faith that he will somehow significantly transform our political system/prison back into our birthright Constitutional Republic now requires holding on by our fingernails.

The only realistic alternative to samo, samo is . . . us.

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      The Cabal's New Strategies by Dr. Norman D. Livergood

The demonic cabal that's ruled America since the early decades of the twentieth century has retained its power through adjusting its strategies as world conditions change. In this essay, we'll investigate their changed strategies so we can understand their effects and discover ways to achieve victory over their savage tactics.

  Fixed Elections

      In the 2008 presidential election, Americans were made to feel that there were complex factors in determining how we should vote. We knew that Barack Obama was as much a creature of the cabal as John McCain. We were aware that only a person tied to the cabal could be elected.

      The cabal had already selected Obama and its neoliberal Democratic Party wing to front for the continuation of its militaristic, imperialistic, fascist tactics. Had Americans wanted to understand this fact, they would only have had to look at Obama's receiving over twice as much financial backing as McCain and the Republican Party neocon wing.

      As usual, it didn't matter one whit how we voted, since the cabal controlled this as it does all elections. The cabal had decided not to repeat their 2000 coup d'etat (starring Jeb Bush, Katherine Harris, and the Supreme Court) and their stealing of the 2004 election through vote fraud--because the American public might get a little skittish if such blatant criminal behavior was repeated too often.

      The Bush-Neocon wing has served its purpose in perpetrating a Reichstag Fire syndrome ¹ catastrophe--9/11, starting a warprofiteering armed conflict on two fronts, decimating Constitutional liberties through the Patriot Act and domestic spying, and committing a second 9/11 on the economic front by pulling off a 1929-style collapse of the entire world economy.
 

       Now that Obama has been elected--and the confidence game ramped up--it becomes our responsibility to see through the false masquerade they've concocted, just as we had to penetrate the facade contrived around Dubya and the neocon junta. Many Americans were incapable of seeing through Bush II's innumerable crimes and outrages, perceiving him to be either a positive force or merely a harmless buffoon.

      But discerning people worldwide saw through Dubya's "good ole boy" false front to his insane depravity. They comprehended that he and his co-conspirators had turned America into a militaristic police state.

       The cabal has now contrived a powerful, multi-faceted disguise for Obama and the new Democratic administration, making many people believe that he's an independent agent who has genuine regard for the welfare of working people. We have to hand it to the cabal: they've manufactured an effective camouflage for Obama and the neo-liberals, turning him into a cult figure that people accept mindlessly as the new political Savior.

      As we earlier penetrated Dubya's mask and the cabal's disguised policies of world devastation and looting during Bush II's reign of terror, we must now pierce Obama's disguise and the subterfuge they've placed around their new camouflaged policies of global plunder and despoilment.

      If we don't penetrate through to the actual new policies and tactics of devastation the cabal has adopted in conjunction with their Obama-puppet regime, we'll be at the mercy of their propaganda and subterfuge. American citizens need to know the grand imperialist scheme that the criminal cabal is now carrying out. Only by understanding it fully will we be able to defeat this murderous plot of the plutocrats.

       The imperialist schemers are so sure of themselves that they don't hesitate to publish their conspiracy plot to conquer the world politically, economically, and militarily. Mandarins such as Brzezinski, Kissinger, Wolfowitz, and a host of others, draw up the blueprints for their world police state. By studying their imperialist designs we can understand just how the demonic cabal plans to seize complete world dominance and maintain it.

      Whereas we earlier pierced through to the cabal's schemes through a discerning scrutiny of Brzezinski's 1997 book The Grand Chessboard, now we can penetrate to their new world domination policies through a perspicacious examination of his 2004 book The Choice and his 2007 book Second Chance.

      Even before the 2008 election of the supposed African-American savior--Barack Obama--it was possible to determine unequivocally that he was a cabal puppet, by seeing that his policy statements identically echoed Brzezinski's ideas in his book Second Chance.

Zbigniew Brzezinski the PuppetMaster		Barack Obama the Puppet
"Americans must recognize that their patterns of consumption will soon collide head-on with increasingly impatient egalitarian aspirations. Whether through the exploitation of natural resources, excessive energy consumption, indifference to global ecology, or the exorbitant size of houses for the well-to-do, indulgent self-gratification at home conveys indifference to the persisting deprivations of much of the world. (Just try to imagine a world in which 2.5 billion Chinese and Indians consume as much energy per capita as Americans do.) That reality the American public has yet to assimilate. To lead, America must not only be sensitive to global realities. It must also be socially attractive. That calls for a broader national consensus in favor of correcting the key failings of the American social model." Zbigniew Brzezinski, Second Chance		At a recent campaign stop in Oregon, Obama stated: "We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK," Obama said. "That's not leadership. That's not going to happen," he added. If India and China's "carbon footprint gets as big as ours, we're gone." (AFP)

The Diabolical New Schemes
      A perceptive study of Brzezinski's two books reveals what the cabal's new strategies are. (All quotations below are taken from these books.)

1. The United States will continue as the sole super-power for the foreseeable future, with a brand new assessment of the world situation.

   "The former major European powers--Great Britain, Germany, and France--are too weak to step into the breach. In the next two decades, it is quite unlikely that the European Union will become sufficiently united politically to muster the popular will to compete with the United States in the politico-military arena. Russia is no longer an imperial power, and its central challenge is to recover socioeconomically lest it lose its far eastern territories to China. Japan's population is aging and its economy has slowed; the conventional wisdom of the 1980's that Japan is destined to be the next 'superstate' now has the ring of historical irony. China, even if it succeeds in maintaining high rates of economic growth and retains its internal political stability (both are far from certain), will at best be a regional power still constrained by an impoverished population, antiquated infrastructure, and limited appeal worldwide. The same is true of India, which additionally faces uncertainties regarding its long-term national unity."

   "For the next two decades, the steadying effect of American power will be indispensable to global stability, while the principal challenge to American power can come only from within--either from the repudiation of power by the American democracy itself, or from America's global misuse of its own power."

2. The old brand of global militaristic imperialism will continue but will now have a new, amiable facade.
   • "Though hostility toward the United States has risen to unprecedented levels and has not yet crested, an America aware of its responsibilities, measured in its presidential rhetoric, sensitive to the complexities of the human condition, and consensual rather than abrasive in its external relations (in brief, entirely different from its recent emanation [Bush II]) is an America that much of the world would still like to see at the global helm."
   • "The post-1991 worldwide impression of U.S. global military omnipotence and Washington's illusions about the extent of America's power have been shattered by U.S. failures in postvictory Iraq. The United States acknowledges the need for cooperation with the European Union, China, Japan, and Russia regarding major issues of global security. The Middle East becomes the make-or-break test case of U.S. leadership."
   • Fascism and imperialism with a friendly face: This is why Obama was chosen--because he is a master at pretending to be an agreeable guy.
   • The reason for the good-natured mask is that Dubya and the neocons pushed the world into a dangerous reactive hatred for the U. S. and the cabal now needs to pretend to be playing nice.
3. The old brand of predatory capitalism will continue but will now pretend to be sensitive to economic and social inequities worldwide.
   • "The exercise of global leadership today requires an instinctive grasp of the times in a world that is stirring, interactive, and motivated by a vague but pervasive sense of prevailing injustice in the human condition."
   • ". . . Income inequality has risen to new heights, with the best paid rewarded at almost obscene levels while average wages have barely crept upward."
   • The cabal understands the need to pretend to be concerned about economic inequality and other worker travails. The "natives" are becoming restless and the cabal must fool them into thinking that they're sympathetic to their plight.
   • "Many, disliking the status quo, are susceptible to being mobilized against those whom they perceive as self-interestedly preserving it."
   • "Only by identifying itself with the idea of universal human dignity--with its basic requirement of respect for culturally diverse political, social, and religious emanations--can America overcome the risk that the global political awakening will turn against it."
4. The old brand of domestic tyranny--devastation of Constitutional liberties--will continue but citizen awareness and agitation will be blunted by creating a new domestic civilian army.
   • "Even civil rights came to be seen by some as an impediment to effective national security."
   • "Needed social reassessment . . . can be encouraged by deliberate civic education that stresses the notion of service to a higher cause than oneself. As some have occasionally urged, a major step in that direction would be the adoption of an obligatory period of national service for every young adult, perhaps involving a variety of congressionally approved domestic or foreign good works."

     The general locus for these new wars is what Brzezinski calls the new global balkans. The way Brzezinski describes the global balkans, it's clear there are enough potential hot-spots to satisfy any blood-thirsty barbarian.

"Extending from Egypt's Suez Canal to China's Xinjiang region, from northern Kazakhstan to the Arabian Sea, the Global Balkans of today mirror the traditional Balkans of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in that they are internally unstable and their geopolitical importance causes foreign rivalries. The contemporary Balkans circled above, inhabited by 500 million people, are burdened by internal instability derived from ethnic and religious tension, poverty, and authoritarian governments. Ethnic conflict within the Global Balkans involves 5.5 million Jewish Israelis and 5 million Arab Palestinians. 25 million Kurds and their partitioning states of Turkey, Iraq, and Syria; and between India and Pakistan in the dispute over Kashmir, as well as numerous potentially severe ethnic and minority conflicts in Iran and Pakistan. Religious conflicts involve the Muslims and the Hindus, Muslin Shiites versus Sunnis, and a variety of others."

• The cabal must select a primary conflict for its most immediate attention, and the choice--surprise, surprise--is Brzezinski's old nemesis: Russia.

  "A central and massively destructive strategic war, at this stage still feasible though unlikely between the United states and Russia and perhaps in twenty or so years between the United States and China, as well as between China and Russia."

      The plan appears to be to surround Russia with missiles, said to be for defense against Iran, admitting all or most of the previous Soviet regions into NATO, and driving Russia into collaboration with China, Venezuela, and Iran.
   

      There are many additional insights about new cabal strategies to be gleaned from these two books by Brzezinski; what we've reviewed are merely some of the most significant. I would recommend that anyone who wishes to understand what will be happening in America in the next four years read them carefully. ²

A Cabal By Any Other Name
      For the truly discerning reader, Brzezinski's discussion of what he calls "an American hegemonic elite"--what I'm calling a demonic cabal--is very informative, not the least in the very fact that he acknowledges that there is a group of "imperial bureaucrats."

"Animated by a forceful concentration of knowledge, interests, power, and responsibility, the imperial bureaucrats view themselves as singularly equipped to determine America's conduct in a complicated and dangerous world. . . . A vast web of expertise, access to information and interests abroad is inherent in the exercise of political-military power. Its very scope creates a multifaceted community capable at any one point of marshaling a powerful combination of experience, facts, and persuasion on behalf of a preferred policy." ³

Obama the cabal puppet is already revealing his true character by appointing Israeli "hit man" Rahm Emmanuel as his Chief of Staff, offering the Secretary of State position to Hillary Clinton, 4 and betraying his supporters by allowing the traitorous Joe Lieberman to remain in the Democratic caucus, among many other outrages. Whatever you do, watch out for Obama the False Messiah and his church of False Hope for Fake Change.

      Stay tuned to see how these new cabal strategies play out. You can bet the American worker is going to get the short end of the stick in every way possible. By discerning what their new diabolical strategies really are we are forewarned--and thus forearmed!

http://www.hermes-press.com/CNS_index.htm

Notes:

¹   The Reichstag Fire Syndrome occurs whenever a democracy is destroyed by creating a law-and-order crisis and offering as a "solution" the abdication of civil liberties and states' rights to a powerful but unaccountable central dictator. The men of wealth who put the tyrant into power are then able to reap obscene war profits.

²   I wouldn't suggest you buy the books--since that supports one of the worst creatures of the cabal--but the books will be available in your local public library.

³   Zbigniew Brzezinski, The Choicee, pp. 200, 201

⁴   Some persons believe that the selection of Emmanuel and Clinton to those posts effectively neutralizes two potentially troublesome people.

A Clinton/Obama status quo Presidency is NOT what we voted for!

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