| This sounds radical, but it isn't. It's good old plain common sense - which almost no one has anymore. I admit that I fell for Obama's line, donated to his campaign, and voted for him. I thought he would try to keep at least ONE election promise. But he had turned into the President from Hell within an hour of being sworn in. I do not state this lightly: No one could have possibly wrought the damage to the US and the world that he has by accident. It has to be intentional. And we are either too stupid or apathetic to do anything about it except construct petty arguments about 'Conservatives vs Liberals' which are meaningless and simply help further divide the country. This is exactly what happens as nations crash into anarchy. The rich blame the poor, the haves blame the have-nots and the criminals who got us to this point are not prosecuted. We at least have something to be thankful for in America today. Two out of three of us are armed. When the agents sworn to protect the Constitution come to lead us off into the cattle cars, some of us won't go peacefully. I hope the 'Occupy' movement, a peaceful agent of change although, as with any other organization- such as the Republican and Democratic parties - it has been infiltrated by traitors to the cause who will try to provoke even more violent oppression. But at some point Americans will stop shooting innocent Americans and figure out who the enemy actually is. It isn't our children. It isn't our senior citizens. It is the people who try to pit our children against our senior citizens. It is the people who take bribes to send our jobs offshore and then go on television and tell the MILLIONS of people who no longer have those jobs to "take a shower and get a job". It is the people - like Marybeth Hicks - who tell our children that no one made them go into debt for a college education just to find that there are no jobs for them when they graduate. Marybeth, who went to college, thinks that if your family can't afford to send you to college, you ought to consider working in construction - but there are no jobs there, either. But that's OK. When the economy crashes, there will always be a resurgence of need for untrained manual labor. You can do that. At least you can do it enough to make enough money to pay for mandatory medical insurance. At 64 years old I have no excuse for wanting reasonably priced prescriptions or enough to eat or to be able to feel safe in my home. There is no money for that because I VOLUNTEERED for military service and chose a public service career instead of becoming a politician or an investment banker. Because I chose to serve my country instead of choosing to try and steal it, I am now no longer useful. I don't think so. I think we are going to change that idea and value people for their abilities, not their money. It isn't that way now. I notice that I can't get into places or groups, even in Hilo, Hawaii, because I am not rich. But that's OK. I can go out and get a meal at the VFW while those people are having luncheon at the Yacht club. I don't get invited to 'insider' political events because I can't toss a thousand bucks, or more, into the collection plate. Then I realize that people are ONLY invited to those little meetings for their money and I feel a lot better. The 'insiders' are only 'in' as long as they can buy their way in. Friends like that aren't friends. If someone will sell their soul, they will damn well sell yours. Another huge hat tip to Francisco González for this article. I know nothing at all about him, except that he befriended me electronically regarding Fukushima. But he is brilliant in all fields of endeavor The kind of friend that one cannot buy but that everyone should have. Thanks, Francisco. The Roads To War And Economic Collapse | |
Paul Craig Roberts
November 24, 2011radicals
November 24, 2011radicals
November 23, 2011: The day before the Thanksgiving holiday brought three extraordinary news items. One was the report on the Republican presidential campaign debate. One was the Russian President's statement about his country's response to Washington's missile bases surrounding his country. And one was the failure of a German government bond auction.
As the presstitute media will not inform us of what any of this means, let me try.
With the exception of Ron Paul, the only candidate in either party qualified to be the president of the US, the rest of the Republican candidates are even worse than Obama, a president who had the country behind him but sold out the American people to special interests.
No newly elected president in memory, neither John F. Kennedy nor Ronald Reagan, had the extraordinary response to his election as Barack Obama. A record-breaking number of people braved the cold to witness his swearing in ceremony. The mall was filled for miles distant from the Capitol with Americans who could not see the ceremony except as televised on giant screens.
Obama had convinced the electorate that he would end the wars, stop the violation of law by the US government, end the regime of illegal torture, close the torture prison of Guantanamo, and attend to the real needs of the American people rather than stuff the pockets of the military/security complex with taxpayers' money.
Once in office, Obama renewed and extended the Bush/Cheney/neoconservative wars.
He validated the Bush regime's assaults on the US Constitution. He left Wall Street in charge of US economic policy, he absolved the Bush regime of its crimes, and he assigned to the American people the financial cost necessary to preserve the economic welfare of the mega-rich.
One would think such a totally failed president would be easy to defeat. Given an historic opportunity, the Republican Party has put before the electorate the most amazingly stupid and vile collection of prospects, with the exception of Ron Paul who does not have the party's support, that Americans have ever seen.
In the November 22 presidential "debate," the candidates, with the exception of Ron Paul, revealed themselves as a collection of ignorant warmongers who support the police state. Gingrich and Cain said that Muslims "want to kill us all" and that "all of us will be in danger for the rest of out lives."
Bachmann said that the American puppet state, Pakistan, is "more than an existential threat." Bachmann has no idea what is "more than an existential threat."
However, it sounded heavy, like an intellectual thing to say for the candidate who previously declared the long-defunct Soviet Union to be today's threat to the US.
Unfortunately for Americans and the world, the US electorate lacks the intelligence and awareness of their plight as denizens of a police state to elect Ron Paul, the last defender together with Rep. Dennis Kucinich of the US Constitution. Nevertheless, there would be a silver lining in one of the Republican morons being elected president of the "world's only superpower." Once the rest of the world realized that a war-crazed idiot had his or her finger on the nuclear button, the rest of the world would organize and close down the Washington horror before it destroys life on earth.
Any sentient American who watched or read about the Republican presidential debate must wonder what there is to be thankful for as the national holiday approaches.
The Russian government, which prefers to use its resources for the economy rather than for the military, has decided that it has been taking too many risks in the name of peace. The day before Thanksgiving, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said, in a televised address to the Russian people, that if Washington goes ahead with its planned missile bases surrounding Russia, Russia will respond with new nuclear missiles of its own, which will target the Amerikan bases and European capital cities.
The President of Russia said that the Russian government has asked Washington for legally binding guarantees that the American missile bases are not intended as a threat to Russia, but that Washington has refused to give such guarantees.
Medvedev's statement is perplexing. What does he mean "if Washington goes ahead?" The American missile and radar bases are already in place. Russia is already surrounded. Is Medvedev just now aware of what is already in place?
Russia's and China's slow response to Washington's aggression can only be understood in the context of the two countries experience with communism. The sufferings of Russians and Chinese under communism was extreme, and the thinking part of those populations saw America as the ideal of political life. This delusion still controls the mentality of progressive thinkers in Russia and China. It might prove to be a disaster for Russia and China that the countries have citizens who are aligned with the US.
Belief in Washington's trustworthiness even pervades the Russian government, which apparently, according to Medvedev's statement, would be reassured by a "legally binding guarantee" from Washington. After the massive lies told by Washington in the 21st century--"weapons of mass destruction," "al Qaeda connections," "Iranian nukes"--why would anyone put any credence in "a legally binding guarantee" from Washington. The guarantee would mean nothing. How could it be enforced? Such a guarantee would simply be another deceit in Washington's pursuit of world hegemony.
The day prior to Thanksgiving also brought another extraordinary development--the failure of a German government bond auction, an unparalleled event.
Why would Germany, the only member of the EU with financial rectitude, not be able to sell 35% of its offerings of 10-year bonds? Germany has no debt problems, and its economy is expected by EU and US authorities to bear the lion's share of the bailout of the EU member countries that do lack financial rectitude.
I suspect that the answer to this question is that the failure of the German government's bond auction was orchestrated by the US, by EU authorities, especially the European Central Bank, and private banks in order to punish Germany for obstructing the purchase of EU member countries' sovereign debt by the European Central Bank.
The German government has been trying to defend the terms on which Germany gave up control over its own currency and joined the EU. By insisting on the legality of the agreements, Germany has been standing in the way of the ECB behaving as the US Federal Reserve and monetizing the debt of member governments.
From the beginning the EU was a conspiracy against Germany. If Germany remains in the EU, Germany will be destroyed. It will lose its political and economic sovereignty, and its economy will be bled in behalf of the fiscally irresponsible members of the EU.
If Greeks will not submit to the tyranny, why should Germans?
Paul Craig Roberts is a frequent contributor to Global Research. Global Research Articles by Paul Craig Roberts
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