tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305538081521812448.post312741934873848073..comments2023-10-06T09:11:05.534-05:00Comments on Investigating Obama: Barack Obama and the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis, Part II Article of the Year, 2008Arlen Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05622001066158701142noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305538081521812448.post-3770404811285257752009-04-03T08:19:00.000-05:002009-04-03T08:19:00.000-05:00First off we would like to congratulate you on you...First off we would like to congratulate you on your fine public speaking skills. It looks like those who said the Obama Administration would strike while the iron is hot may have been correct, and the Administration may be doing it in a way that does not require them to even get a vote in Congress.Egy Azzierahttp://www.asiarooms.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305538081521812448.post-43970838901417528092009-02-02T15:57:00.000-06:002009-02-02T15:57:00.000-06:00PdeB,Thank you. Interesting posts. I'm still not ...PdeB,<BR/><BR/>Thank you. Interesting posts. I'm still not sure how I might handle them here. Maybe you could email me, please at arlenwilliams / at / yahoo / dot / com?<BR/><BR/>AWArlen Williamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05622001066158701142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305538081521812448.post-54908983127808183762009-02-02T15:34:00.000-06:002009-02-02T15:34:00.000-06:00Crash Course In TheEconomy by Chris Martensonhttp:...<I><B> Crash Course In TheEconomy by Chris Martenson</B></I><BR/><BR/><A>http://www.chrismartenson.com/crashcourse</A><BR/><BR/><I>Every road, every bridge, and every marketplace on every corner of every town; every boat and every building, from the first colony until 1973, required a trillion dollars of money stock. <BR/><BR/>Our most recent trillion dollars? That was created in the last four-and-a-half-months. My questions to you are, “What will it be like to live here when our nation is creating a trillion dollars every four weeks? How about every four days? Every four hours? Four minutes? Where does it stop, if not in hyperinflation and the destruction of the dollar, and, by extension, our nation?”<BR/><BR/>...inflation is not a mysterious law of nature, like gravity, but rather an extremely well-characterized matter of policy...Inflation is, everywhere and always, a monetary phenomenon. Flipped a bit, we can say that inflation is a deliberate act of policy...<BR/><BR/>...Given that our debts are now over 340% of GDP there is an explicit assumption here that the future GDP is going to be larger than today’s. A lot larger. More cars sold, more resources consumed, more money earned, more houses built – all of it – must be larger than today just to offer the chance of paying back the loans we’ve ALREADY taken on. But each quarter we see that new debts are being made at a rate five times to six times faster than growth in the underlying economy. Even with a fairly optimistic assessment of future growth, this trajectory is unsustainable. <BR/><BR/>Our banks, pension funds, governmental structure and everything else tied to the continued expansion of debt has an enormous stake in its perpetual growth...Our debt markets assume that the future will be (much) larger than the present. But what happens if that’s not true? [...] the debts must be diminished somehow, and that could happen either by a process of debt defaults or by inflation...In the default scenario, your money is still worth something, but you don’t get it back. In the inflation scenario you get it back but it hardly buys anything. In both cases your future was diminished, so the impact is very nearly the same but the means of achieving it are wildly different...<BR/><BR/>...The Fed famously likes to claim that you can’t spot [a property bubble] until it bursts. But actually you can, and the definition is pretty simple: A bubble exists when asset price inflation rises beyond what incomes can sustain. [...] this bubble did not suddenly begin in 2004; it began in 1998 and had eclipsed the past two by 2000. You might ask yourself, “If the Federal Reserve had access to this data, and knew we had a property bubble on our hands as early as 2000, why did they continue to aggressively lower interest rates to 1% and hold them there for a year between 2003 and 2004?”<BR/><BR/>...we have no historical precedent for the gap between income gains and house prices...Based on income gains alone, how much would house prices have to fall to bring these lines back together? The answer is 34% - nationally - indicating that there’s a long way to go yet. Given the propensity of bubbles to overshoot to the downside, we can’t discount that a 40% to 50% decline is in store....<BR/><BR/>...Total credit at the end of 2000, when the stock bubble was bursting, stood at $27 trillion dollars. By the end of 2007, it stood at an astounding $48 trillion dollars. This $21 trillion increase in borrowing is five times larger than the increase in US GDP over the same period of time. Any attempt to understand the housing bubble has to be viewed against the backdrop of this massive increase in debt....<BR/><BR/>...The Austrian school of economics has a very crisp and historically accurate definition of how a credit bubble ends. According to Ludwig Von Mises: “There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as a result of a voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved.”<BR/><BR/>...Dealing with a bursting housing bubble is hardly the sort of challenge we need at this particular moment in history, but here we are. The stewardship and vision displayed by the Federal Reserve and Washington, DC in bringing this all about have been utterly atrocious.</I><BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/>"...a deliberate act of policy..." ?<BR/><BR/>"...If the Federal Reserve had access to this data..why did..." ?<BR/><BR/>"...bringing this all about..." ? <BR/><BR/>"...voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved...” ? Stimulus=CRASHCRASHCRASH<BR/><BR/>PdeBAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305538081521812448.post-60897010688330338102009-02-02T15:13:00.000-06:002009-02-02T15:13:00.000-06:00January 6, 2009 Obama picks RIAA's favorite lawyer...<I><B>January 6, 2009 Obama picks RIAA's favorite lawyer for a top Justice post</B></I><BR/><BR/><A>http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10133425-38.html?tag=nl.e703</A><BR/><BR/><I>As a presidential candidate, Barack Obama won applause from legal adversaries of the recording industry. Stanford law professor Larry Lessig, the doyen of the "free culture" movement, endorsed the Illinois senator, as did Google CEO Eric Schmidt and even the Pirate Party. <BR/><BR/>That was then. As president-elect, one of Obama's first tech-related decisions has been to select the Recording Industry Association of America's favorite lawyer [Tom Perrelli] to be the third in command at the Justice Department. And Obama's pick [David Ogden] as deputy attorney general, the second most senior position, is the lawyer who oversaw the defense of the Copyright Term Extension Act--the same law that Lessig and his allies unsuccessfully sued to overturn...<BR/><BR/>Campaign rhetoric aside, this should be no surprise. Obama's selection of Joe Biden as vice president showed that the presidential hopeful was comfortable with someone with firmly pro-RIAA views. Biden urged the criminal prosecutions of copyright-infringing peer-to-peer users and tried to create a new federal felony involving playing unauthorized music.<BR/><BR/>Ogden's biography at Wilmer Hale says only that he represents the "media and Internet industries..."<BR/><BR/>Perrelli, on the other hand, went out of his way to recruit the RIAA as a very lucrative client: his law firm bills some partners' time at a princely $1,000 an hour...<BR/><BR/>It will also be instructive to see if this week's news prompts some of the RIAA's longtime adversaries to moderate their enthusiasm for Obama's technology policies.</I><BR/><BR/>...and oh yeah, Corporate Media happy.<BR/><BR/>PdeBAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305538081521812448.post-65028533849214739292009-02-01T22:20:00.000-06:002009-02-01T22:20:00.000-06:00Leo Donofrio on February 1, 2009: "There was no "c...Leo Donofrio on February 1, 2009: <BR/><BR/>"There was no "competition". McCain was NEVER opposing Obama. He was facilitating Obama's election..."<BR/><BR/><A>http://naturalborncitizen.wordpress.com/2009/01/31/active-military-potus-eligibility-suit-advocates-should-not-be-instructing-soldiers-to-disobey-orders/#comments</A><BR/><BR/>PdeBAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305538081521812448.post-34636863795278495182009-02-01T19:46:00.000-06:002009-02-01T19:46:00.000-06:00Some of the clues required to piece together an un...Some of the clues required to piece together an understanding of America's crisis and the King Obama I monarchy follow:<BR/><BR/><I><B>January 29, 2009 DeMint: Stimulus Is a 'Mugging'</B></I><BR/><BR/><A>http://briefingroom.thehill.com/2009/01/29/demint-stimulus-is-a-mugging/</A><BR/><BR/><I>Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) said that he likes President Obama but has no love for his stimulus plan.<BR/><BR/>"This bill is not a stimulus, ladies and gentlemen; it is a mugging. It is a fraud," DeMint said during a speech at The Heritage Foundation on Thursday, TalkingPointsMemo reported.<BR/><BR/>DeMint said that the bill was "the worst piece of economic legislation Congress has considered in a hundred years..." <BR/><BR/>DeMint, one of the upper chambers most conservative members...has already shown himself to be one of the Obama administration's staunchest opponents...</I><BR/><BR/><I><B>January 30, 2009 Senate Republicans May Use Filibuster to Block Stimulus</B></I><BR/><BR/><A>http://www.cnsnews.com/public/Content/Article.aspx?rsrcid=42754</A><BR/><BR/><I>Republican senators who oppose the $819 billion economic stimulus plan passed in the House Wednesday declined to say whether they personally would lead a filibuster to try to stop the legislation in the Senate. But they said a filibuster is an option and they are developing a strategy to stop the bill...</I><BR/><BR/>Comment: DeMint and Congressional Republicans can take down Obama any time they want: they can force King Obama to abdicate because he's an illegal alien; prosecute [ex-King] Obama, Biden, Pelosi, Emanuel and numerous other Democrats for electoral and campaign fraud; have the "stimulus package" declared illegal, null, and void; and vanquish the Democratic Party for a generation. Why won't they do that ? <BR/><BR/><I><B>January 31, 2009 Republican Governors Urge Congress to Pass Stimulus Bill</B></I><BR/><BR/><A>http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/01/31/republican-governors-urge-congress-pass-stimulus/</A><BR/><BR/><I>Most Republican governors have broken with their GOP colleagues in urging Congress to swiftly pass President Obama's economic stimulus plan. <BR/><BR/>Most Republican governors have broken with their GOP colleagues in Congress and are pushing for passage of President Barack Obama's economic aid plan that would send billions to states for education, public works and health care<BR/><BR/>...Clyde Frazier, a professor of political science at Meredith College in North Carolina, said it wasn't politically inconsistent for Republican governors and members of Congress to part ways on the stimulus plan. "For governors, it's free money... "</I><BR/><BR/>Well, the Republican Governors are happy...<BR/><BR/><I><B>January 05, 2009 ‘We Need Stimulus Now!’ American Steel Makers Tell Obama</B></I><BR/><BR/><A>http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=41421</A><BR/><BR/><I>...The U.S. steel industry, with demand for its products in the doldrums, has joined the chorus of beleaguered domestic industries jostling for position on President-elect Barack Obama’s list of projects in his promised multi-billion dollar national economic stimulus plan. <BR/><BR/>Facing a 51.6 percent decline in manufacturing production, seen almost entirely since September, representatives of the nation’s steel producers are working with Obama’s transition team to identify projects that are steel-intensive and ready to go.</I><BR/><BR/>US steel is happy...<BR/><BR/><I><B>January 23, 2009 The stimulus package: What’s in it for business</B></I><BR/><BR/><A>http://washington.bizjournals.com/washington/stories/2009/01/26/story2.html?b=1232946000^1765770</A><BR/><BR/><I>...State and local governments, which could use [Jack L. Massie Contractor Inc's] expertise in road construction, “don’t have money to spend,” [Massie] said.<BR/><BR/>All of this could change if Congress passes the economic stimulus package...<BR/><BR/>...Businesses of all types see the stimulus package as a potential lifeline and are lobbying for provisions that would help them survive a recession that put 2.6 million people out of work in 2008...<BR/><BR/>...Some economists doubt whether tax incentives make much difference in business investment decisions, but Giovanni Coratolo, director of small business policy for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, disagrees.<BR/><BR/>He offers numerous cases of business owners who said the 2008 investment incentives enabled them to buy equipment they otherwise could not have afforded...<BR/><BR/>...Americans strongly support infrastructure investments, said pollster Frank Luntz, who conducted a survey for Building America’s Future, a coalition of state and local officials.<BR/><BR/>In fact, 81 percent of Americans said they are willing to pay 1 percent more in taxes to modernize the country’s infrastructure — “as close to universal support as you’ll ever get for any issue,” Luntz said.<BR/><BR/>...A survey by the Associated General Contractors of America indicated that 85 percent of its members could begin work on infrastructure projects within a month...<BR/><BR/>...The National Association of Home Builders and the National Association of Realtors want Congress to give all homebuyers a tax credit to spur housing sales...<BR/><BR/>...Realtors estimate that dropping the repayment requirement and extending the credit to all homebuyers would create an additional 550,000 home sales...<BR/><BR/>...“We have the potential to put millions more Americans back to work,” said Rhone Resch, CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association...<BR/><BR/>...The National Roofing Contractors Association is pushing for tax incentives...</I><BR/><BR/>US business is happy<BR/><BR/><I><B>February 1, 2009 Obama, Pentagon pull in different directions on no nukes goal</B></I><BR/><BR/><A>http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/latest_news.php?nid=14734</A><BR/><BR/><I>President Barack Obama has set a goal of a "world without nuclear weapons" but the Pentagon is leaning in a seemingly contradictory direction: a modernised nuclear arsenal. <BR/><BR/>The new administration has signalled its intent to swiftly engage Russia in negotiations on deeper cuts in their respective arsenals, with the ultimate aim of reducing them to zero. <BR/><BR/>But US Defense Secretary Robert Gates has been leading another kind of charge, arguing in the final months of the previous administration that deeper cuts must be underpinned by production of a new warhead to replace an ageing nuclear stockpile. <BR/><BR/>....former secretaries of state Henry Kissinger and George Shultz, former defense secretary William Perry and former Senator Sam Nunn say that nuclear weapons are increasingly ineffective as a deterrent...They called for a "world free of nuclear weapons" in a Wall Street Journal op-ed piece two years ago.</I> <BR/><BR/>The CFR are happy...<BR/><BR/><I><B>January 31, 2009 Obama lets CIA keep controversial renditions tool</B></I><BR/><BR/><A>http://news.postbulletin.com/newsmanager/templates/localnews_story.asp?z=16&a=383104</A><BR/><BR/><I>WASHINGTON -- The CIA's secret prisons are being shuttered. Harsh interrogation techniques are off-limits. And Guantanamo Bay will eventually go back to being a wind-swept naval base on the southeastern corner of Cuba. <BR/><BR/>But even while dismantling these discredited programs, President Barack Obama left an equally controversial counterterrorism tool intact. <BR/><BR/>Under executive orders issued by Obama last week, the CIA still has authority to carry out what are known as renditions, or the secret abductions and transfers of prisoners to countries that cooperate with the U.S.</I><BR/><BR/>And even the CIA are happy...<BR/><BR/>If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,<BR/>Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,<BR/>if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,<BR/>If all men count with you, but none too much...<BR/>Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,<BR/>And - which is more - you'll be a [King], my son! [Rudyard Kipling]<BR/><BR/>ALL HAIL KING OBAMA ! Or is there someting we're missing ?<BR/><BR/><I><B>January 31, 2009 Geithner's China blunder could spark trade war</B></I><BR/><BR/><A>http://www.dcexaminer.com/opinion/columns/IrwinStelzer/Geithners-China-blunder-could-spark-trade-war38690682.html</A><BR/><BR/><I>Tim Geithner has by now settled into his new job at the Treasury...What might be ahead is a trade war. At least, that’s what many observers believe Geithner had in mind when he brought smiles to the face of New York senator and China-basher Chuck Schumer, by telling the Senate during his confirmation hearings that he believes China is “manipulating” its currency to maintain it at a low value so as to stimulate its exports...This was no casual blunder by Geithner...<BR/><BR/>For the past decade, China has shipped us goods, in return for which we have shipped China bits of paper with pictures of American presidents. China has shipped trillions of those dollars back to us to buy the IOUs our deficit-ridden government is selling.<BR/><BR/>Now, the Treasury is stepping up its borrowing to fund the stimulus, the auto industry, the banks, a partial government takeover of the health care industry, and items long on liberals’ wish lists.<BR/><BR/>If China, already angry at the losses it has incurred on its American investments, decides it doesn’t want to buy the new IOUs, interest rates here will climb, offsetting the effects of much of Obama’s stimulus package.<BR/><BR/>Geithner might find that he can’t peddle the billions in IOUs he will soon be issuing, and regret sticking a thumb in his Chinese friend’s eyes...</I><BR/><BR/><I><B>January 30, 2009 US-EU trade war looms as Barack Obama bill urges 'Buy American'</B></I><BR/><BR/><A>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/4389597/US-EU-trade-war-looms-as-Barack-Obama-bill-urges-Buy-American.html</A><BR/><BR/><I>The EU trade commissioner vowed to fight back after the bill passed in the House of Representatives late on Wednesday included a ban on most purchases of foreign steel and iron used in infrastructure projects. <BR/><BR/>The Senate's version of the legislation, which will be debated early next week, goes even further, requiring that any projects related to the stimulus use only American-made equipment and goods. <BR/><BR/>The inclusion of protectionist measures has quickly raised hackles in Europe...</I><BR/><BR/><I><B>February 2, 2009 Protectionism could destroy us all</B></I> <BR/><BR/><A>http://www.todayonline.com/articles/299869.asp</A><BR/><BR/><I>If the United States reneges on free trade and goes ahead with the “Buy American” clause in its stimulus package — despite the lessons of the Great Depression, when protectionism instigated by America helped destroy the world trading system — we could all be done for. <BR/><BR/>Protectionism is a disease that contaminates everything and is a cure for nothing. To resist it, governments will need huge reserves of political will and an internationalist spirit, both currently in short supply. <BR/><BR/>A major reason President Barack Obama’s election was welcomed across the world was his pledge to make America less isolationist-minded. But if his first major economic act ignores the needs of the global economy and provokes a trade war with the European Union, how likely is it that China or Russia or India or South America will play by the rules?</I><BR/><BR/><I><B>January 29, 2009 Warning over collapse in capital flows</B></I> <BR/><BR/><A>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/4361570/Warning-over-collapse-in-capital-flows.html</A><BR/> <BR/><I>The Institute of International Finance, the global organisation of major banks, predicted an almost unprecedented collapse in world economic growth and capital flows. <BR/><BR/>It became the first major global institution to forecast a full-scale global contraction in 2009, predicting that the economy would shrink by 1.1pc. <BR/><BR/>IIF chief economist Philip Suttle said: "This is the worst period since the interwar years..." <BR/><BR/>He also expects rich economies to contract by 2.1pc – the worst peacetime output since the 1930s. <BR/><BR/>...Asia is likely to suffer a worse downturn than during the Asian financial crisis, the report indicated. <BR/><BR/>Mr Rhodes warned that the growing concern this year was the rise in protectionism. He said: "There is a tremendous need to keep trade lines open. If you start seeing – with everything else we're talking about – the reduction of trade lines on top of that, then you really have a problem... and the last thing we need is to break the world apart in that way."</I><BR/><BR/><I><B>September 26, 2008 Former Kissinger Policy Planner, CFR Member Calls For New Global Monetary Authority</B></I><BR/><BR/><A>http://healtheland.wordpress.com/2008/09/28/jeffrey-garten-former-kissinger-policy-planner-cfr-member-nixon-and-clinton-administration-figure-lehman-brothers-director-calls-for-new-global-monetary-authority/</A><BR/><BR/><I>A Council on Foreign Relations member and former policy planner under prominent Bilderberger Henry Kissinger has penned a piece in the Financial Times of London calling for a “new global monetary authority” that would have the power to monitor all national financial authorities and all large global financial companies.<BR/><BR/>“Even if the US’s massive financial rescue operation succeeds, it should be followed by something even more far-reaching – the establishment of a Global Monetary Authority to oversee markets that have become borderless,” writes Jeffrey Garten, also a former managing director of Lehman Brothers.<BR/><BR/>Garten, now a professor of business at Yale, served on the policy planning staff of Kissinger during his time as Secretary of State. He also served on the White House Council on International Economic Policy under the Nixon administration and went on to become the Undersecretary of Commerce for International Trade under Bill Clinton.<BR/><BR/>What he describes is nothing less than a global financial dictatorship, operating across borders and forcing nations and corporations to register and adhere to strict monitoring and obey the same regulations. The implementation of such a system would represent total interventionism and the absolute final nail in the coffin of the free market.<BR/><BR/>Garten’s call for a GMA echoes a piece published in the FT back in June by Timothy Geithner, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.<BR/><BR/>Fresh from attending the Bilderberg conference in Chantilly, Virginia, Geithner called for a globalized banking system with “appropriate requirements for capital and liquidity”.</I><BR/><BR/><I><B>December 19, 2008 Kissinger Calls For New International System Out Of World Crises</B></I> <BR/><BR/><A>http://www.oilforimmigration.org/facts/?p=626</A><BR/><BR/><I>Bilderberg luminary Henry Kissinger has repeated his routine call for a new international political order, stating that global crises should be seen as an opportunity to move toward a borderless world where national interests are outweighed by global necessities.<BR/><BR/>Speaking with Charlie Rose earlier this week, Kissinger cited the chaos being wrought across the globe by the financial crisis and the spread of terrorism as an opportunity to bolster a new global order.</I><BR/><BR/>Garten (CFR), Geithner(CFR), Kissinger (CFR), Republicans and Corporate America all supporting King Obama....they're not interested in freedom, democracy, law, capitalism, socialism or any other of the pabulum they put out to bamboozle and brainwash the masses: they want money and the political and macro-economic control necessary to it keep flowing their way. Do not believe anyting they say, that allows them to set the agenda, manipulate thinking, and turn opponents against one another: keep your attention fixed on what they do. One thing "they" have done is place on the throne of America a colaborator (puppet ?) whose illegal status means he can also be controlled; the poor and ethnic constituencies he sprang from, those most likely to be crushed by "unfree enterprise", have been maneuvered into fanatical consent to their further impoverishment...The enemy is very very smart. <BR/><BR/>Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;<BR/>Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,<BR/>The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere<BR/>The ceremony of innocence is drowned;<BR/>The best lack all conviction, while the worst<BR/>Are full of passionate intensity...<BR/>And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,<BR/>Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born ? [WB Yeats]<BR/><BR/>PdeBAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305538081521812448.post-31001974306758631642009-01-29T15:23:00.000-06:002009-01-29T15:23:00.000-06:00Arlen,Links and interpretation:March 3, 2008 Canad...Arlen,<BR/><BR/>Links and interpretation:<BR/><BR/><I><B>March 3, 2008 Canadian memo suggests Obama's NAFTA comments 'political positioning'</B></I><BR/><BR/><I><A>http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2008/03/03/obama-canada.html</A></I><BR/><BR/>Means: As I have consistently said: when the facts change, I change; and as I change, so...therefore...must the facts...change... <BR/><BR/><I><B>Obama is saying the wrong things about Afghanistan</B></I><BR/><BR/><I><A>http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/07/23/obama/</A></I><BR/><BR/>Means: Come to the market-place and see the wizard ! See the rope as it stays in the air ! Look up at Obama-of-kings as he ascends! [Soft]...assistants are passing among you for his reward...[Softer]...they will help themselves...<BR/><BR/><I><B>Gates Says He and Obama on the Same Page on Iraq</B></I><BR/><BR/><I><A>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/02/washington/02cnd-gates.html?_r=1</A></I><BR/><BR/>Means: In any pack you can always tell the alpha-male: he's the one making the decisions...<BR/><BR/><I><B>Obama approves missile strikes in Pakistan</B></I><BR/><BR/><I><A>http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_4280.shtml</A></I><BR/><BR/>Means: The quickness of the hand deceives the eye...nobody (least of all radical comrades) saw it coming.<BR/><BR/><I><B>Economic stimulus? Feds want your medical records</B></I><BR/><BR/><I><A>http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=87322</A></I><BR/><BR/>Means: What socialist radical wants to hand over to the Feds (and Corporate America assuredly) information that can be used against his comrades (and traded around) ? Obama ?<BR/><BR/><I><B>Fema Camps to be constructed on Military Bases</B></I><BR/><BR/><I><A>http://www.roguegovernment.com/Congress_Seeks_To_Authorize_&_Legalize_FEMA_Camp_Facilities/14007/0/13/13/Y/M.html</A></I><BR/><BR/>Means: They're make-work projects for Obama's loyal socialists ! Yep, there's a place for everyone in Obama's America...and they're arriving by train.<BR/><BR/><I><B>Report Gives America’s Infrastructure a ‘D’</B></I><BR/><BR/><I><A>http://washingtonindependent.com/27774/report-puts-americas-infrastructure-in-the-crapper</A></I><BR/><BR/>Means: If you're dumb enough to put off repairs to your car 'til it's a backfiring clunker, don't count on a paint job to fix it up...but if you want one, my brother-in-law can use the cash. <BR/><BR/><I><B>Top CEOs show support for Obama's economic stimulus plan</B></I><BR/><BR/><I><A>http://www.biztimes.com/daily/2009/1/28/top-ceos-show-support-for-obamas-economic-stimulus-plan</A></I><BR/><BR/>Means: Corporate America told Obama what they wanted...a friend in need is a friend indeed.<BR/><BR/><I><B>The Ugly Truth: America's Economy is Not Coming Back</B></I><BR/><BR/><I><A>http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Ugly-Truth-America-s-by-Dave-Lindorff-090128-659.html</A></I><BR/><BR/>Means: The stimulus package will never work as "intended", but Corporate America wins; however you cut it, they get the money - courtesy of Obama.<BR/><BR/><I><B>Stimulus Malpractice and the Trillion Dollar Deficit</B></I><BR/><BR/><I><A>http://spectator.org/archives/2008/12/03/stimulus-malpractice-and-the-t</A></I><BR/><BR/>Means: Whatever you may call Japan's economy (competitve, authoritarian, corrupt) you can't call it socialist. Ditto Obama.<BR/><BR/><I><B>Obama vows to go after Al Qaeda</B></I><BR/><BR/><I><A>http://sify.com/news/fullstory.php?id=14837101</A></I><BR/><BR/>Means: ALL options are being considered to eliminate Al-Queda as a threat to our security...<BR/><BR/><I><B>Barack Obama's Al Qaida initiative began months before his election</B></I><BR/><BR/><I><A>http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2009/ss_terror0079_01_28.asp</A></I><BR/><BR/>Means: As we told fellow citizens... some considerable time ago...and maintain...there is nothing we would not do...to stop Al-Queda...posing a threat to our security...<BR/><BR/><BR/>PdeBAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305538081521812448.post-49734668129886660392009-01-29T01:35:00.000-06:002009-01-29T01:35:00.000-06:00PdeB,If you would like to take the time to provide...PdeB,<BR/>If you would like to take the time to provide embedded or attached links for documentation, I.O. would examine and likely publish as or in an article.Arlen Williamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05622001066158701142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305538081521812448.post-41210985751960834592009-01-29T00:17:00.000-06:002009-01-29T00:17:00.000-06:00Arlen,All quotes sourced from web.PdeBArlen,<BR/><BR/>All quotes sourced from web.<BR/><BR/>PdeBAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305538081521812448.post-61226015791763430522009-01-29T00:07:00.000-06:002009-01-29T00:07:00.000-06:00Pde8,Is this your own compilation?Pde8,<BR/><BR/>Is this your own compilation?Arlen Williamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05622001066158701142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305538081521812448.post-27973462148833479662009-01-28T23:57:00.000-06:002009-01-28T23:57:00.000-06:00"...compare what King Obama "seems to suggest" aga..."...compare what King Obama "seems to suggest" against what he actually does..."<BR/><BR/><I><B>15 January , 2009 Obama vows to go after Al Qaeda</B><BR/><BR/>Washington: US president-elect Barack Obama vowed on Wednesday to go after Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and prevent the terrorist organization from using safe havens along the Afghan-Pakistani border to carry out attacks...<BR/><BR/><B>January 28, 2009 Barack Obama's Al Qaida initiative began months before his election</B> <BR/><BR/>WASHINGTON — Barack Obama was working with Arab intermediaries to establish an unofficial dialogue with Al Qaida long before his election as the 44th U.S. president. Al Qaida has offered what has been described as a truce in exchange for a U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan...Obama's initiative has been endorsed by much of the U.S. intelligence community..</I><BR/><BR/>PdeBAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305538081521812448.post-10425413693387628302009-01-28T16:51:00.000-06:002009-01-28T16:51:00.000-06:00This much we know:1 Unlike all Presidents, Usurper...This much we know:<BR/><BR/>1 Unlike all Presidents, Usurper Obama has refused to release any personal records; and records for his mother and grandparents are "unavailable"...very strange.<BR/><BR/>2 Many claims made by Usurper Obama concerning his nationality and citizenship, religious belief and practice, and educational and professional attainments are unverifiable, exaggerated, or untrue...very strange.<BR/><BR/>3 As a lawyer Usurper Obama has been fully aware (see Point 1) of the unconstitutional, illegal, and contemptuous nature of his quest for political office and yet has no moral qualms about his criminal deception...very strange.<BR/><BR/>4 The Usurper Obama has had a very murky, confusing career, with many early subversive, radical, and corrupt associations; and then a meteoric rise, being promoted and sustained by the power elite (Corporate, Congressional, Judicial) in full knowledge of his ineligiblity...very strange.<BR/><BR/>A reasonable person would conclude that whatever the Usurper Obama says should always be discounted as the proven lies and manipulation characteristic of a confidence trickster. The foolproof method to expose a scam is to reverse what you're being shown or told; or, with a slight change of emphasis, to compare what King Obama "seems to suggest" against what he actually does. For example, Ahmadinejad <B>says</B> he is not developing nuclear weapons, is not assisting anti-American forces in Iraq, has not aided international terror...Putin <B>says</B> he supports democratic institutions, is not stamping out foreign investment and influence, is not maintaining a reign of terror in the Caucasus and elsewhere...<BR/><BR/>So what does King Obama say and do ? (Conclusion from following: I am unable to discern a <B>socialist</B> mole - he's a fake. For example, he has some real friends in Corporate America: they must want that "free" money !)<BR/><BR/><I><B>March 3, 2008 Canadian memo suggests Obama's NAFTA comments 'political positioning'</B><BR/><BR/>Barack Obama's threat to withdraw from NAFTA should be viewed as "political positioning," according to a memo written after the U.S. presidential hopeful's senior economic policy adviser met with Canadian officials.<BR/><BR/><B>July 23, 2008 Obama is saying the wrong things about Afghanistan</B><BR/><BR/>....Obama wants to send 10,000 extra U.S. troops to Afghanistan, but wants to withdraw all American soldiers and Marines from Iraq on a short timetable...Obama...praised the Pakistani elections of last February, issuing a statement the next day saying, "Yesterday, a moderate majority of the Pakistani people made their voices heard, and chose a new direction."...Yet the parties elected in February in Pakistan are precisely the ones demanding negotiations with the tribes and militants of the northwest, rather than frontal military assaults.<BR/><BR/><B>December 2, 2008 Gates Says He and Obama on the Same Page on Iraq</B> <BR/><BR/>Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates expressed confidence on Tuesday that he and President-elect Barack Obama were in no way on a collision course over Iraq...Mr. Gates, whose reappointment was announced on Monday...<BR/><BR/><B>January 22, 2009 Obama approves missile strikes in Pakistan</B> <BR/><BR/>On the fourth day of Barack Obama’s presidency, he approved missiles strikes in Pakistan...begging the question why more strikes if America voted for change...<BR/><BR/><B>January 27, 2009 Economic stimulus? Feds want your medical records:</B><BR/><BR/>Electronic database to include lawsuit, mental health, abortion, sexual details<BR/><BR/>A little-discussed provision in President Obama's economic stimulus plan would demand that every American submit to a government program for electronic medical records without a choice to opt out, and it has privacy advocates more than a little alarmed...<BR/><BR/><B>January 28, 2009 Fema Camps to be constructed on Military Bases:</B><BR/><BR/>A new bill has been introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives called the National Emergency Centers Act or HR 645. This bill if passed into law will direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish national emergency centers otherwise known as FEMA camp facilities on military installations... <BR/><BR/><B>January 28, 2009 Report Gives America’s Infrastructure a ‘D’</B><BR/> <BR/>It’s no news that many liberal critics of the Democrats’ stimulus plan are wondering why so much would go toward tax rebates and so little, relatively speaking, would target infrastructure projects. And those voices found new reason to be critical today.<BR/><BR/>A report released by the American Society of Civil Engineers estimates that America’s aging bridges, roads, sewers and other structures will require $2.2 trillion in maintenance and repairs over the next five years just “to meet adequate conditions.” If the country’s infrastructure were to be graded, the ASCE claims, it would get a “D.”<BR/><BR/>In December, the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee recommended $85 billion...Obama administration’s blueprint provides just $63.5 billion for those same projects...Obama economic advisor Larry Summers was behind the move to trim infrastructure spending in favor of tax cuts, which the administration included to entice GOP support...<BR/><BR/><B>January 28, 2009 Top CEOs show support for Obama's economic stimulus plan</B> <BR/><BR/>The U.S. House of Representatives was expected to approve President Barack Obama's $825 billion economic stimulus package that supporters say could help create nearly 4 million new jobs and keep the nation out of a depression.<BR/><BR/>"The American people expect action," Obama said between meetings with House and Senate Republicans on Tuesday. "I don't expect 100-percent agreement from my Republican colleagues, but I do hope that we can all put politics aside and do the American people's business right now."<BR/><BR/>Obama met this morning with several top corporate leaders to discuss the economy.<BR/><BR/>"They understand that when it comes to rebuilding our economy, we don't have a moment to spare," Obama said.<BR/>Obama was surrounded this morning by several chief executive officers who are supportive of his economic stimulus plan...<BR/><BR/>"These are people who make things, who hire people. They are on the front lines in seeing the enormous problems in our economy right now," Obama said. "Their ideas and their concerns have helped to shape our recovery package, and I'm grateful that they're here today to talk about why it's so important that we act, and act swiftly, in order to get this economy back on track."<BR/><BR/>The House bill includes $275 billion in tax cuts for individuals and <B>businesses</B> to go with $523 billion in direct spending.<BR/><BR/><B>January 28, 2009 The Ugly Truth: America's Economy is Not Coming Back</B><BR/><BR/>...If the methodology used in 1980 [to assess unemployment] were applied, it would be 17% today, or one in seven workers...What we are now seeing is the beginning of an inevitable downward adjustment in American living standards to conform with our actual place in the world. As a nation of consumers, and not producers, with little to offer to the rest of the world except raw materials, food crops, military hardware and bad films (none of which industries employ many people), we are headed to a recovery that will not feel like a recovery at all...It would be better if the new administration would be honest about this.<BR/><BR/><B>December 3, 2008 Stimulus Malpractice and the Trillion Dollar Deficit</B><BR/><BR/>...recently, Japan adopted an aggressive infrastructure building program to counter its deep economic slump in the 1990s. It had the same experience as America under Roosevelt in the 1930s, the sad economy continued for more than 10 years.</I><BR/><BR/>PdeBAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305538081521812448.post-85191768407631641942009-01-27T18:11:00.000-06:002009-01-27T18:11:00.000-06:00PdeB,Let me address two lines of your commentary i...PdeB,<BR/><BR/>Let me address two lines of your commentary in a bit of an adversarial, hopefully, corrective way.<BR/><BR/>1. I have not read Jim Simpson arguing against conservative populism. He (and I) are revealing the neo-Marxist (socialist, not necessarily strict socialist) bent of the Barack Obama iceberg, him being the tip thereof.<BR/><BR/>2. Further fascist corporatism is precisely where we are going with Obama, along with many of the other <I>statis</I> elements which you describe under the heading of socialistic. He is proceeding to exercise "ministerial" control over banking, energy, automobile manufacturing, etc. That is corporatism. Favoring free enterprise is not "corporatism," a revisionistic misnomer of the radical left (ranking with "homophobe," "anti-choice," and the aforementioned ,"fascist,").<BR/><BR/>Fascism is a blood-nephew of Marxism. It is state, ministerial control of manufacturing and services, whomever owns them by deed. Some fascistic models encroach upon business ownership, e.g., forcing shared ownership with workers. Some do not. It is my strongly held and informed opinion that many of the "community organizations" behind Obama want to impose this, which is anti-free enterprise. It is, I believe, the longer-term future to which Obama referred in his eerie election night speech. <BR/><BR/>And ministerial control thereof is <I>corporatism</I>; it is usually vertical control by various ministries.<BR/><BR/>Additionally, Obama is presenting a set of plans for huge direct-government employment and "volunteership." That is ineffably, <B>socialist</B>.<BR/><BR/>Now, as to your list of American ills, I believe you would agree that greed is involved; also, liberalism. Also, Sorosian (socialist/statist/fascist) globalism. I hope you would also agree with the thesis of this article: that <B>much of the problem is also planned for America, by those who wish to "change" America</B>.<BR/><BR/>The writings and speeches of those such as Soros, Piven, Billy Ayers, Alinsky, etc. are self-explanatory. Also, their track records of destruction (Piven calls it "disruption.") That is to be used for further "progress" toward the "egalitarian society," which is a state-controlled society.<BR/><BR/>As to your last paragagraph, "socialism" or "neo-Marxism" are broad headings. They subsume fascism/corporatism. <BR/><BR/>I don't know all of Mr. Simpson's economic standards, but I would not heap the ills of unbridled greed and corrupted capitlism upon the heads of <I>laissez faire</I>, Freidman economics. We have hardly been experiencing that, in these last few decades. <BR/><BR/>Just one example of Amrerica's liberal, corporatist policies standing against those of free-market conservatives are the current, paternalistic semi-fascistic health benefits plans in America. Free enterprise conservatives (and McCain, to his credit) favor instead, the empowerment of the individual, as to their health plans. "Liberals" and most "moderates" prefer some fascistic or socialistic approach, whether finance is dispensed by employer businesses or the state. Accountability to the individual is lost and healthcare becomes competition to take financial advantage of what money is "in the pot," instead of competition to provide value to the individual.<BR/><BR/>As for myself, I believe in the morality and ethic which Adam Smith wrote of in his seminal work, "Wealth of Nations." (I voted for Huckabee ;-) Or, to put it in the lost terminology of the 1990's, all in a business are "stakeholders," who are to be respected --- and the first duty under God, of national government is to respect its Citizens. (Personally, for example, I would think it helpful to allow private corporations a tax benefit or other considerations, for allowing employee ownership programs, but never, ever, proscribed.)<BR/><BR/>Unfortunately, some labor unions became necessary in America's history. And unfortunately, that movement was largely taken over by those with irrationally envious and rebellious (evil) motives: socialists, Marxists, egalitarians, communists, reds, you pick your term.<BR/><BR/>Virtue enabled freedom is paramount must be preserved.Arlen Williamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05622001066158701142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305538081521812448.post-89169787019344197102009-01-27T14:24:00.000-06:002009-01-27T14:24:00.000-06:00Harry Hopkins, Oppenheimer, Fonda: "useful idiots"...Harry Hopkins, Oppenheimer, Fonda: "useful idiots" of Soviet intrigue; naifs drawn from the media, college, politics etc., digging their own intellectual and spiritual grave. Jim Simpson (nothing personal, don't know him) has really opened my eyes to the fact that, of course, they must exist on the right too. Simpson has castigated Carl Davidson for claiming King Obama is no socialist (horizontal integration of society, class-consciousness, egalitarianism). To be fair, Davidson was hardly to know that Simpson considers socialism ANYTHING which "distorts" the market in favor of labor: the kind of analysis a ruggedly-individualistic billionaire would appreciate. Actions and policies which distort the market in favor of Corporate America (ie "socialism for capital, competition for everyone else") are entirely reasonable to such men. This gets very close to the vertically integrated, authoritarian, "classless" nationalism founded by Mussolini, which he called corporatism (!) or fascism.<BR/><BR/>(In what follows please understand: I am NOT repeat NOT a socialist or communist; I support traditional conservative American values, but not the "revolutionary market".) Let's see what socialism (as distinct from communism) does look like when we sometimes find it abroad: free education to PhD level; free healthcare; high unemployment compensation; substantial welfare payments; long parental leave and state child-care; utiliites and strategic economic sectors (eg coal, steel, railroads, airlines, telecommunications) in Government ownership; publicly funded broadcasting; generous support for arts, theater, music; modest military expenditure; relaxed drug laws; low incarceration rates, family visitation, prison alternatives, no death penalty; free or low-rent housing; near-endwage pensions etc. or permutations thereof.<BR/><BR/>What do we see in America: consistently falling real salaries over decades; consistently reduced social services over decades; welfare cutoffs; consistently rising bills for education, health, retirement, housing, food; concentrated ownership in media and industry; limitless defense budget; world-record inarceration rates and death penalty; draconian drug legislation; corporations writing legislation and reducing environmental, financial etc standards; agency rundowns, then rehiring employees from contract firms; vast lobbying industry using ex-politicians and administrators; predatory debt industry with enhanced property loans filling earnings-aspirations gap, maxed-out and lifelong repayers; no parental leave or funded childcare; blind-eye to massive illegal immigration, reducing wages; profits-first low quality media; high cost, badly maintained public transportation, where it exists; literally collapsing infrastructure etc. (and the Republic overthrown - suprised ?).<BR/><BR/>To call this American socalism is a joke in very bad taste or the maunderings of idiot useful to Corporate America. It's certainly not a shining catalog of achievements for all those socialists Simpson claims are thronging the halls of Congress. That King Obama has duped the unelectable left into supporting him only means that in a two-party system they have nowhere else to go; indeed, if you look at the Senate history of King Obama and his minion Biden you will not see a brave record of fighting Corporate America ditch by ditch: they have <I>often</I> worked and voted in the interests of Corporate America, against we the people. The disgusting irony is that market-revolutionaries would have us believe (via Corporate Media propaganda) that "keeping the US low tax" means a high wage, cost efficient,and competitive economy: anyone who has lived abroad in other developed economies knows the shocking truth: America is a high tax, low wage, high price, grossly inefficient and overextended economy with a ruthless politico-corporate elite in a saddle on its back and just about to ride very very hard. Let's hope suppliers will still take dollars for oil (would you ?) otherwise we may soon be brought to our knees...never get up.<BR/> <BR/>PdeBAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305538081521812448.post-84486740008230884032009-01-26T21:36:00.000-06:002009-01-26T21:36:00.000-06:00Re Carl Davidson's comment, I am hardpressed to th...Re Carl Davidson's comment, I am hardpressed to think of which socialist groups opposed Obama. The DSA supported him (largest socialist organization in the U.S. and part of the Socialist International), they even claimed credit for the success of his ground game. The CPUSA supported him, the New SDS supported him, the Movement for A Democratic Society supported him, Progressives for Obama, well... what more can I say? No doubt Carl knows of more socialist groups than I do, but these are the main ones.<BR/><BR/>To suggest most socialists opposed Obama is mere misinformation, Carl. I know it and you know it. <BR/><BR/>The Congressional Progressive Caucus is made up of over 60 House members brave enough to put their names to it. Of course the group as a whole was too cowardly to let its connection to the DSA remain public for too long. Nancy Pelosi has also removed her name from the roles. But these are only the tip of the iceberg. <BR/><BR/>The entire Congressional Black Caucus is hardcore leftist, I would say communist but they themselves say that connection is unnecessary, for they ascribe to the beliefs without bothering to join the party. No doubt some have anyway, but we'll never know about it.<BR/><BR/>Most Democrat congresspeople, senators, state senators and delegates know who butters their bread. They may not be strictly socialists, but they legislate socialism nonetheless.<BR/><BR/>Carl, you are too modest. The socialists have made huge advances. It is just that until now, there was no Presidential candidate who felt confident enough about public acceptance of socialist concepts (whether they recognized them as such or not), to state them as boldly as Obama has.<BR/><BR/>I would like to believe you that Obama remains a "high road" capitalist, whatever that means, but I don't. The best that could be said about him is that he is attempting to ram these socialist New, New Deal policies down our throats for the more mundane purpose of cementing a Democrat majority with mega-pork, rather than because he is a socialist ideologue. But if his words are any judge, that doesn't seem to be the case either.<BR/><BR/>Meanwhile, all of his bi-partisan mumblings are just a tactical maneuver to enlist Republicans in this "economic stimulus" ripoff. They will then find it nearly impossible to oppose him in the next election cycle, while Obama meanwhile is unlikely to give them much, if any political capital by supporting him. Republicans are just being outmaneuvered, as usual.<BR/><BR/>I am an economist. You are obviously not. Difficult to remain a socialist if you genuinely understand economics. FDR style grand pork, which you call "neoKeynesian high road industrial policy" marries the ideology of socialism with the imperative of electoral politics. It is probably what makes socialism so attractive to all these self-serving scum. But this is the natural consequence of socialism. It's true attractiveness is power. There is no other, except in the fantasies of people like you, who, while living in the relative affluence and comfort provided by a capitalist society, conspire to bring it to an end.<BR/><BR/>No matter what you call it, Obama's policies will not bring us out of this mess. They aren't even designed to. And I think you know it.<BR/><BR/>How do you sleep at night?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305538081521812448.post-53815639825320885842009-01-26T20:28:00.000-06:002009-01-26T20:28:00.000-06:00"...Corporate Government disguised as various play..."...Corporate Government disguised as various players..."<BR/><BR/>Start with IMF, World Bank, Investment Banks, a shark school of giant to middling corporations etc...<BR/><BR/>PdeBAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305538081521812448.post-27003247889075039522009-01-26T15:53:00.000-06:002009-01-26T15:53:00.000-06:00Anyone who would persuade unformed minds that Copo...Anyone who would persuade unformed minds that Coporate America has their best interests at heart would also have them believe that turkeys actually look forward to Thanksgiving - because the truth is just too awful for the innocent to contemplate...Didn't Corporate America try to persuade us that cigarettes were good for our throats as they loaded them with addictive and carcinogenic chemicals ? Didn't Corporate America try to persuade us that cheap fastfood was a social service as they loaded it with bloating addictive transfats ? Didn't Corporate America try to persuade us that for-profit television was harmless fun as it brainwashed our families with tranquilizing addictive freakshows ? (Can I still say this ? Is it still legal ? (See what I mean: <I>who</I> would want <I>which</I> lawyers to stomp discussion ?) <BR/> <BR/>The corruption and megalomania that has propelled King Obama into a criminal usurpation of OUR power as the Sovereign Citizens of this country has also characterized the insatiable and sinfully deadly avarice of Corporate America. Totally unconnected ? Or, as they said during Watergate, "follow the money" ? Here's what will you find: at one end of the sewer is Corporate America, at the other end BOTH politcal parties, Congress, and various Presidents - you know who they are. That sewer is flowing both ways and they all stink. This is no accident, it didn't just happen: it was policy. The nineteenth-century robber barons of slaves, opium and railroads didn't go away: they diversified, just like Godfather Corleone's family: <I>that</I> was what they meant when they said they wanted to get government out of business and put business into government. While we were watching their junk tv, eating their junk food, they (all of 'em) were jacking up taxes, subverting regulation, eviscerating government, farming-out contracts, hiring illegal workers, outsourcing jobs abroad, hiding profits offshore, and turning the US into world's largest sub-prime borrower. (What happens to sub-prime borrowers ?)<BR/> <BR/>And they didn't just do it to us: it worked so well here they they decided to inflict it on other nations. They (Corporate Government disguised as various players) called it a policy of managed crisis. Guess what happened to Chile, Argentina, Russia and other places the Corporate Media didn't tell you about ? Yeah, that's right...in orchestrated crises they were robbed blind by Corporate America, usually at gunpoint, and their economies melted down just like ours. This is NOT a party-political point: think 90s, think Clinton, think King Obama's Clinton-retro administration. Or try it like this: Federal Reserve Bank=Government, right ? Wrong: Fed=Corporate America=Government=what's the difference. As in: when Corporate America sells private data to government and governmment shares data with Corporate America, what in the sweet bye-and-bye IS the difference between them ? Or maybe, as barely-POTUS Clinton said: depends on what "is", is...<BR/><BR/>You'd better believe there were 1960s whackos dreaming marijuana dreams of undermining traditional American values by perverting democratic institutions; and you'd better believe they had their evil twins in the Corporate Government psychos dreaming dollar dreams of exactly the same thing. They have been using either the educational system or the Corporate Media to promote their anti-American ideologies. We the people are the meat in the sandwich. That's why we have the Constitution and law: to protect ourselves from these whackos and psychos. Make no mistake: they may be whackos and psychos but this is very very very serious. We must enforce our Constitution against the Congressional and Judical aristocracy through avenues they cannot control (eg Grand Juries) or we the people are going down like a banana republic or an ex-Communist basket-case...and then Corporate America will buy us up real cheap and we'll kiss their boots like the grateful peasants we'll be. <BR/> <BR/>Where is King Obama in all this ? Work it out: who are most likely to supply a calculating sociopath with delusions of grandeur the power and adulation he cannot live without ? Who have promoted his career ? Who paid for his campaigns ? Who sustain his criminal monarchy ? Who get the bailout trilions ? Who have brought other democratic constitutions down in pursuit of profit ? Unwashed students, bedraggled professors, and welfare hustlers cloaked in the sweet smell of weed ? Or the power elite of Corporate Government, whose ultimate nightmare is a free market and a free people, cloaked in the sweet smell of success ? <BR/> <BR/>PdeBAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305538081521812448.post-85506046352314373072009-01-26T13:24:00.000-06:002009-01-26T13:24:00.000-06:00I mentioned "greening," above. But we also have b...I mentioned "greening," above. But we also have banking and now, perhaps automobile manufacturing as two more examples.Arlen Williamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05622001066158701142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305538081521812448.post-80385823903694216592009-01-26T13:21:00.000-06:002009-01-26T13:21:00.000-06:00To Carl Davidson,Thank you for your comments. I a...To Carl Davidson,<BR/><BR/>Thank you for your comments. I agree with you that there are no grounds to think of Barack Obama as a strict socialist (neither, George Soros) nothing leading one to believe he is aiming America toward national deed ownership of all manufacturing and services. We find common ground, there.<BR/><BR/>And it does turn out you are getting closer to what I perceive, regarding neo-Keynesian policy -- and about growing the left, as you mention. But why would virtually any of those named in this article wish to leave it there? What would be the point, for this grown left, led by Mr. Obama?<BR/><BR/>Add the two up. Well, I would think you have; figure of speech. One looks at the massive effort in organizing an unprecedented <I>proletariat</I> and ideologue operation with Barack Obama's ascendancy. Then, one observes the overall dirction described by his numerous economc policies. What do we get? Government gains much greater influence in business, especially in big-business and strangles the entrepreneurial <I>bourgeoisie</I> while the "ground-up" power base is established, presumably, to use its power.<BR/><BR/>The result is not strict socialism, but it is neo-Marxist. And what would the next steps be, from there? How would the new, massive armies of the proletariat be used? What are they <I>organized</I> for? For that, one merely looks to the aims of those involved, including yourself.<BR/><BR/>The goal of the old, Chicago-based <I>anarcho-syndicalist</I> movement (or <I>anarcho-communist</I>, i.e., Bill Ayers, "I am an anarchist as much as I am a communist," quoted or paraphrased) turns out to be <I>fascist,</I> essentially. The dream of the egalitarian society lives on in the hope of workers gaining more control of "private" enterprises, perhaps ownership, while cooperating with the directives of the state (e.g., greening). This time, however, nationalist sentiment gives way to the greater global "good." And racism was never the basis of fascism; just an atrocious element practiced by unfortunate Europeans in the 20th Century.<BR/><BR/>Neo-Fascism may not be strict socialism, but it is neo-Marxist as we look around and see what the influences those such as Gramsci, Trotsky, and Alinsky, are all about doing, today. I'm sure we agree, that beats having to kill 20M or so Americans, as Mr. Ayers and colleagues were advised by the Chinese, for an old fashioned red revolution.<BR/><BR/>Feel free to give this thesis your grade. Okay, antithesis. :-) I don't think I have given you any hot tips, now have I. Your further comments would be welcome.Arlen Williamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05622001066158701142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305538081521812448.post-49749455038224847472009-01-26T12:50:00.000-06:002009-01-26T12:50:00.000-06:00Arlen, I don't think the previous three commenters...Arlen, I don't think the previous three commenters actually read the article - which you have clearly indicated was written by Jim Simpson, of <EM>American Thinker</EM>. <BR/><BR/>It's ironic that it was written last Fall, before the election, and we are now seeing the undisputable evidence of what Mr. Simpson wrote.Jenn Sierrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03055302630531737057noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305538081521812448.post-2629315335770995652009-01-26T10:13:00.000-06:002009-01-26T10:13:00.000-06:00When all is said and done, connecting all dots, Ob...When all is said and done, connecting all dots, Obama remain a liberal 'high road' capitalist, and not a socialist or Marxist of any sort.<BR/><BR/>There are a number of reasons why a minority of the socialist groups in the US encouraged people to vote for Obama, but none of them were because of his alleged 'socialism' or our real thing. These had to do with getting us out of the crisis dumped on us by neoliberalism, and a opportunity to grow the left.<BR/><BR/>But this leads to the flaw in your argument. The socialist left in the US is miniscule, and has no real clout. Why in the world would Obama think it critical? Especially when a majority of the socialist groups opposed him vigorously? And stupidly, I might add.<BR/><BR/>The only way your argument makes sense is if you think neoKeynesian high road industrial policy capitalism IS socialism, rather than the best chance modern capitalism has to weather the current crisis.<BR/><BR/>I suppose one can hang on to such quaint beliefs, but if we're marginal, you're even more so. Perhaps it's just as well.Carl Davidsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00215874972566616424noreply@blogger.com