For­give­ness request­ed in advance for a self-indul­gent rant:

Hold­er, it was not­ed by many pri­or to his con­fir­ma­tion as Attor­ney Gen­er­al, was known to be com­pro­mised vis-à-vis his role in cov­er­ing up the wrong­ful death of Ken­neth Trentadue, a mis­tak­en-iden­ti­ty looka­like who died in police cus­tody in the events sur­round­ing the Okla­homa City bomb­ing and inves­ti­ga­tion. The case is well-known & can be found on Wikipedia, among oth­er sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Michael_Trentadue

Ken­neth’s broth­er Jesse was an attor­ney who received bizarre, decep­tive & obstruc­tive treat­ment from Hold­er’s office. Jesse Trentadue’s records in his 17-year pur­suit of jus­tice can be found in pdf-file for­mat also on the Inter­net, along with numer­ous inter­views from var­i­ous web­site sources.

Pres­i­dent Oba­ma’s pat­tern of choic­es for his cab­i­net — begin­ning with Rahm Emanuel (who was near­ly fired three times dur­ing the Clin­ton Admin­is­tra­tion for var­i­ous out­landish behav­iors not to be recount­ed here), Lar­ry Sum­mers, and Tim Gei­th­n­er — were all quite com­pro­mised.

Tim­o­thy Gei­th­n­er is an intrigu­ing exam­ple. Not only was Gei­th­n­er in a very dubi­ous posi­tion as con­nect­ed to AIG (http://tinyurl.com/7wppjmo
) & pre­vi­ous head of the Fed­er­al Reserve of New York in the months that hatched the egg of the sin­is­ter 2008 man­u­fac­tured eco­nom­ic cri­sis. Gei­th­n­er, in fact, was the son of Peter Gei­th­n­er, head of the Ford Foun­da­tion in Indone­sia dur­ing the time that Oba­ma’s moth­er Stan­ley Ann Dun­ham worked with the Ford Foun­da­tion:

It’s a small world after all.

“Ringer” is, of course, the box­ing ter­mi­nol­o­gy used to describe a pugilist who is paid to throw a fight.

One might sus­pect Barack Oba­ma him­self of liv­ing up to this ter­mi­nol­o­gy.

John Cony­ers (D‑MI), the vet­er­an black Con­gress­man who was the first to cham­pi­on Oba­ma’s can­di­da­cy, was tak­en aback in 2011 when Oba­ma offered Social Secu­ri­ty to the Repub­li­cans for cuts, unso­licit­ed — with­out any demand or request by the Repub­li­cans that he give them this Holy Grail that Repub­li­cans have sought since 1935.

“The Repub­li­cans did not call for Social Secu­ri­ty cuts in the bud­get — the Pres­i­dent of the Unit­ed States called for that,” said Cony­ers, threat­en­ing to orga­nize protests in front of the White House for this fun­da­men­tal betray­al of the Demo­c­ra­t­ic Par­ty:

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Rep-Conyers-Obama-Demand-by-Jeanine-Molloff-110729–352.html

One could cre­ate a pow­er­ful list of betray­als by Pres­i­dent Oba­ma — and such is the stuff of ordi­nary pol­i­tics.

But there are extra­or­di­nary gifts to the Cheney­ists on Oba­ma’s list, includ­ing the assas­si­na­tion with­out tri­al of U.S. cit­i­zens, and the pas­sage of the NDAA’s elim­i­na­tion of Habeas Cor­pus, that will become police state norms with no legit­i­mate claim to oppo­si­tion in the wake of the Oba­ma pres­i­den­cy.

“Is it too soon to speak of the Bush-Oba­ma pres­i­den­cy?” asks David Bromwich at Huff­in­g­ton Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-bromwich/symptoms-of-the-bushobama_b_930260.html

Far-right-wing ex-NSA & CIA chief Gen­er­al Michael Hay­den has said “There is more con­ti­nu­ity than diver­gence between the Bush & Oba­ma pres­i­den­cies.”

Valerie Plame’s hus­band, Ambas­sador Joe Wil­son, warned against Oba­ma dur­ing the Demo­c­ra­t­ic pri­ma­ry cam­paign of 2008 (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joe-wilson/the-real-hillary-i-know-a_b_77878.html). Plame-Wil­son asso­ciate, ex-CIA Lar­ry John­son also raised ques­tions about Oba­ma.

But it seems these ques­tions were drowned out by Birtherism, a per­fect smoke­screen for deter­ring deep back­ground inves­ti­ga­tion into Oba­ma’s biog­ra­phy. Rove him­self could­n’t have craft­ed a bet­ter fire­wall, if in fact he were a part of Oba­ma’s mete­oric rise, or had Oba­ma “by the short­hairs”.

One won­ders about Pop­py Bush’s mul­ti­ple “unsched­uled vis­its” to Oba­ma at the White House.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35159137/ns/politics/t/hw-bush-visits-obama-white-house/

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2012/01/George-Jeb-Bush-Obama-Visit/48004/

One won­ders about Oba­ma’s first post-col­lege job, unnamed by Oba­ma as a “con­sult­ing house to multi­na­tion­al cor­po­ra­tions” (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/30/us/politics/30obama.html?pagewanted=all) that Aus­tralian writer John Pil­ger iden­ti­fies as CIA-con­nect­ed Busi­ness Inter­na­tion­al, a firm that infil­trat­ed & destroyed labor & “Left­ist” groups from with­in.

There are obvi­ous “traps” yet to be sprung and blamed on Oba­ma, from the dan­ger­ous­ly can­cer-rid­den econ­o­my — poised for a sec­ond, much-larg­er col­lapse — to the New Deal-destroy­ing ratio­nale that is like­ly to be used by the Supreme Court to strike down the prob­lem­at­ic “man­date” of the Afford­able Care Act, which will have prece­dent-set­ting ram­i­fi­ca­tions that could bring down Medicare and even Social Secu­ri­ty.

“It would be kind of a tragedy if we got to the end of four years of Demo­c­ra­t­ic rule with­out hav­ing real­ly tried any Demo­c­ra­t­ic poli­cies,” says come­di­an Bill Maher.

One won­ders about the “achieve­ments” of the Oba­ma pres­i­den­cy, and whether they are all only super­fi­cial & “cul­ture war” achieve­ments — while the real con­se­quences, from cod­i­fy­ing Bush/Cheney’s rad­i­cal depar­tures into nor­mal­ized pol­i­cy (CIA pris­ons, Guan­tanamo, etc.) to new tools for future Cheney­ists (NDAA, assas­si­na­tions of cit­i­zens with­out due process), to the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood Spring oper­a­tion, were the real goal all along.

@ Robert Wil­son–

Yeah, that’s a rant all right. I’ll respond with one of my own, albeit short­er and more to the point.

None of what has hap­pened, except for the attack on Social Secu­ri­ty by BO has sur­prised me.

Oba­ma is Bill Clin­ton in black face–no god­damn com­pli­ment com­ing from me.

That hav­ing been said, Obama–whose funky-ass polit­i­cal con­nec­tions to the Rove/Othman/Green Quest milieu were not­ed by Yours Tru­ly before he took office–is fac­ing just what Bub­ba Bill faced.

Enor­mous iner­tia for one thing, a hos­tile media estab­lish­ment, a hos­tile mil­i­tary, a hos­tile court sys­tem and a self-right­eous pub­lic so butt-fuck igno­rant that they could­n’t effec­tive­ly dis­tin­guish between a dirt road and a chick­en with lips, and so abysmal­ly self­ish that they would do almost any­thing to pre­serve their puerile con­sumer cul­ture to the last.

As inad­e­quate as Clin­ton was, he still had the “high, hard ones” under his chin to keep him off the plate.

So has Oba­ma. It was you, I believe, Mr. Wil­son who point­ed out the death of Ash­ley Tur­ton to us, same week­end as Rep. Gif­fords was gunned down and just before the GOP-dom­i­nat­ed House was to take office.

Oba­ma was cer­tain­ly com­pro­mised out of the gate, and MAY have been com­mis­sioned to deep-six the New Deal, or per­haps he is just com­pro­mised, and get­ting threats to the lives of his wife and chil­dren as well as his own. In the series on the “Mus­lim Broth­er­hood Spring” I referred to Oba­ma as “Lee Har­vey Oba­ma” and did so for a rea­son.

It was def­i­nite­ly you who point­ed out the mem­bers of 1st Marines Recon pos­ing with a Waf­fen SS ban­ner. They were, some of them any­way, snipers. Marine Recon are the spe­cial forces of the USMC and they are SERIOUS fuck­ing cus­tomers.

Do you REALLY think Oba­ma has­n’t got­ten the mes­sage?

Plus, again, the dom­i­nant con­sid­er­a­tion is iner­tia. Oba­ma inher­it­ed a fun­da­men­tal­ly cor­rupt soci­ety, two wars, a depres­sion and a pub­lic WHO DO NOT DESERVE THE CONSTITUTION OR THE BILL OF RIGHTS IN MY CONSIDERED PROFESSIONAL OPINION.

The only thing those brain-dead producer/consumers care about is “Amer­i­can Idol/Survivor/Dancing with the Stars” or the lat­est Inter­net pic­ture of some star­let flash­ing her boobs.

I could go on about some of the strate­gic retreats I’ve had to make over the years, when ACTIVE Nazis and white suprema­cists showed up at sta­tions at which I worked, pro­mot­ing African/American slav­ery as a virtue.

The only per­son to object pub­licly, I even­tu­al­ly had to accept some of this shit or quit the sta­tion and cease to reach the peo­ple I reached.

No one is ever sep­a­rate from the insti­tu­tions that move our soci­ety.

That goes for Oba­ma, me, you and every­one else.

As for killing Amer­i­can cit­i­zens with­out due process–Boo, Hoo, Hoo!

Man, that tears me the fuck up, it real­ly does—NOT!!

The con­sti­tu­tion ceased to have any mean­ing what­so­ev­er on 11/22/1963.

As New Orleans DA Jim Gar­ri­son, one of the real heroes of this soci­ety, noted–if the Pres­i­dent of the Unit­ed States is not safe, no one is.

And no one gives a shit about the Kennedy assas­si­na­tion or those of MLK or Kennedy’s broth­er or God knows how many oth­er peo­ple.

Check out FTR #‘s 606, 682 about AIDS, as well as the anno­tat­ed AFA pro­grams.

Those pro­grams present a very com­pelling argu­ment that AIDS was delib­er­ate­ly cre­at­ed by ele­ments of our nation­al secu­ri­ty estab­lish­ment, build­ing on boil­er plate research done by the Third Reich.

4 out of every 5 deaths in Rwan­da these days are peo­ple dying of AIDS.

(In a Mr. Rogers-Stylie) “Can you say ‘geno­cide,’ boys and girls?”

Do you think peo­ple give a fuck? No, they don’t. I was damn near killed back in 1986 because of my work on AIDS. Only dumb luck has me still draw­ing breath.

From a per­son­al per­spec­tive, no one should be shocked at what is going on.

It is only too pre­dictable.

Hell, just exam­ine what I had to say in May of 1980, accessed at the upper right hand cor­ner of the front page of the web­site.

For all of the pro­found reser­va­tions I have about Oba­ma, I’m going to hold my nose and vote for him again.

Mitt Rom­ney is the Bor­mann can­di­date. A very knowl­edge­able, well-placed source informed me that one of Rom­ney’s close aides com­mit­ted sui­cide not too long ago, cit­ing in the sui­cide note his stunned dis­may at learn­ing that his boss was a Nazi.

As a soci­ety, we are risen from the seeds we have sown.

In clos­ing I will note two things: first your rel­a­tive silence/passivity in recent months, which I lament and, beyond that, the numer­ous arti­cles you cit­ed from the “Huff­in­g­ton Post.”

This is not to say that the arti­cles are wrong, per se, but rather that this bas­tion of pro­gres­sive jour­nal­ism comes from none oth­er than Ari­an­na Huff­in­g­ton!!!

Has it occurred to you Sir Wil­son, that maybe, just maybe, “Huff­in­g­ton Post” is to con­tem­po­rary lib­er­al jour­nal­ism as Barack Obama/Eric Hold­er are to con­tem­po­rary pro­gres­sive pol­i­tics.

Ari­an­na Huff­in­g­ton??!! I would­n’t piss on that front-run­ning Nazi bitch if her stink­ing God­damn whore-ass were on fire!

Now THAT is a rant!

Cheers,

Dave Emory

@ R. Wil­son and Dave: Wow! Now that’s a con­ver­sa­tion, guys! You know, I bare­ly meet any­one with whom I can have this kind of exchange. Every­one in my envi­ron­ment is so dumb, asleep, deaf, blind, or just too ego­cen­tric to take the time to lis­ten to what oth­ers have to say with­out inter­rupt­ing mid-sen­tence. It is as if they all think that what they have to say is so impor­tant, pre­cious, etc. I wish I could have a beer with you guys! What a change it would bring! Some­times I feel that I have more plea­sure talk­ing to myself than with any of the peo­ple I meet reg­u­lar­ly.

More relat­ed on the top­ic on this arti­cle, I would say that, of course, as Dave says, the present is the direct result of the past. If the roots are made with ele­ments of com­mu­nism, fas­cism, nazism, Islamism, as so forth, the end result won’t be a demo­c­ra­t­ic soci­ety in the spir­it of the Enlight­ment. It will be some­thing like Brave New World or 1984, or worse. We already live in a world like that in fact, but peo­ple are too stu­pid to real­ize it.

Wel­come back, R. Wil­son. We are so few who CAN actu­al­ly think by our­selves, I think we are bet­ter stick­ing with one anoth­er.

Best.

@Dave: One oth­er thing. Talk­ing about get­ting the mes­sage from the mil­i­tary, check this arti­cle. Appar­ent­ly, the U.S. Mil­i­tary con­duct­ed a “train­ing exer­ci­ce” in Oba­ma’s cher­ished city of Chica­go:

http://offgridsurvival.com/urbanwarfaredrillsdowntownchicago/

Well, if he did­n’t get it the first time, now he and all his friends in that mar­velous city will. I think we will see more and more things like that.

@ Claude–

I would­n’t nec­es­sar­i­ly see that as a mes­sage to Oba­ma. Chica­go, L.A., N.Y., S.F. and oth­er major cities have report­ed­ly been poten­tial tar­gets of WMD ter­ror inci­dents.

While that MIGHT be a mes­sage, the planes allowed to buzz Camp David or the White House, the top-secret plans for Pres­i­den­tial Secu­ri­ty found in the gut­ter in an Aus­tralian city and oth­er inci­dents are much more to the point, in my opin­ion.

The com­pro­mis­ing of Oba­ma’s Secret Ser­vice detail while in Latin Amer­i­ca is worth not­ing as well.

THAT could prove more than a lit­tle inter­est­ing down the line.

Best,

Dave Emory

@Dave
I’m inter­est­ed to know the source of your ani­mos­i­ty for Mrs. Huffington—other than pro­duc­ing insipid boil­er plate “pro­gres­sive” reportage.

By the way, I don’t believe you. I think you would piss on Ari­an­na Huff­in­g­ton if she was on fire.

Take care.

Also, @Claude
I feel as you do, the void of com­mu­ni­ty regard­ing these top­ics stud­ied and inter­nal­ized on spit­firelist is some­times hard to take. I’m try­ing in my town of Port­land, OR to start a spit­firelist meet-up group that address­es this need. Look for it on Criagslist. Unfor­tu­nate­ly, there aren’t to many of us.

@G‑Rex, Robert Wil­son

Ari­an­na Huff­in­g­ton was a hard-core GOP Clin­ton bash­er in the 1990’s, mar­ried to GOP Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Michael Huff­in­g­ton.

M. Huff­in­g­ton got his start in pol­i­tics as an intern in the office of Rep. George H.W. Bush.

He was appoint­ed to a Pen­ta­gon post by Rea­gan in the 1980’s and might be best known for ship­ping tor­ture equip­ment to the Indone­sian gov­ern­ment, this under the aus­pices of his activ­i­ties as an ener­gy mogul. (His father found­ed HUFFCO–an ener­gy com­pa­ny for which lil’ Mikey worked.)

Even­tu­al­ly, lil’ Mikey’s polit­i­cal career unrav­eled to an extent, when it came out that he was gay.

Short­ly after­ward, Ari­an­na under­went a Dam­as­cus-road con­ver­sion, became a so-called “pro­gres­sive” and round­ed up mil­lions of dol­lars to launch “Huff­in­g­ton Post.”

Just like that, she goes from far right to mid­dle left–if one takes her at face val­ue, which I don’t. In addi­tion, she has “instant grav­i­tas” with the so-called pro­gres­sive com­mu­ni­ty.

BTW–in a pre­vi­ous incar­na­tion, Ari­an­na Stassinopo­los (as she was called) was a pur­ple-haired devo­tee of a New Age mind-con­trol cult head­ed up by one “John Roger.”

Far out.

Cheers,

Dave Emory

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@Claude: I find myself in a sim­i­lar conun­drum. I grew up in the D/FW area in Texas. Most of these poor folks, sad­ly, are about as asleep as they can be. There may be some hope for the Austin area, though, as there’s a lot more lib­er­als there com­pared to most oth­er places in the state, and the left­ies are usu­al­ly more will­ing to wake up than those on the right(some right-lean­ing mod­er­ates are awake, too, I sus­pect).

@Dave: To con­tin­ue in the line of what you were say­ing about Mrs Huff­in­g­ton, we have to bear in mind that she cre­at­ed a plat­form to allow writ­ers and jour­nal­ists to blog with­out finan­cial ret­ri­bu­tion. The offi­cial idea was to fur­nish such a plat­form in order to make not-so-famous writ­ers and jour­nal­ists a space to get in the spot­light. And then they worked for free for many years.

But...suddenly, she sold that plat­form to AOL, and pock­et­ed, along with asso­ciates and investors, some 315 mil­lion dol­lars. Ques­tion: Have any of the con­trib­u­tors seen any of that mon­ey? No. She swal­lowed the whole thing. The unpaid blog­gers filed a law­suit, as you know, and lost.

Me too I am skep­ti­cal about this sud­den change of heart of hers. I have nev­er seen in my entire life some­one con­ser­v­a­tive becom­ing pro­gres­sive lat­er in life. As peo­ple get old­er, they tend to become more care­ful, pru­dent and con­ser­v­a­tive, not the oth­er way around.

But I guess it is the new “nor­mal” now: nice peo­ple from the elite start projects, they make lit­tle men and women work for free or for peanuts...cash in the mil­lions and then leave them in their mis­ery. The whole adven­ture is not that sur­pris­ing.

Killing Amer­i­can cit­i­zens with­out due process is cer­tain­ly some­thing the CIA (and assort­ed agen­cies) have been doing all along.

But cod­i­fy­ing that into law or open pol­i­cy is anoth­er mat­ter.

Let’s ask our­selves why it was nec­es­sary to make a pub­lic show of killing Awla­ki (and his 16-year-old son in a sep­a­rate strike), instead of the old-fash­ioned pri­vate cloak-and-dag­ger “Stuxnet” we-don’t-know-who-did-it method, which is equal­ly as ille­gal, but does not set an open prece­dent that will be hand­ed-down to the next right-wing pres­i­dent as a new tool to be wield­ed with­out obstruc­tion.

Amer­i­ca’s fas­cists would love noth­ing more than to estab­lish Colom­bia-style domes­tic right-wing Death Squads, to domes­ti­cal­ly assas­si­nate U.S. cit­i­zens legal­ly, on the whim of an offi­cial declar­ing “you’re a ter­ror­ist” with no due process.

I hate to be in the ludi­crous posi­tion of defend­ing covert assas­si­na­tions, but keep­ing it covert does at least inhib­it carte blanche mass-killings & mass-graves, such as Colom­bi­a’s. Hid­ing it implies shame, and pays back­wards lip-ser­vice respect & fear to the pri­ma­cy of law.

I’m well-aware of the sig­nif­i­cance of 11/22/63, and how the Con­sti­tu­tion is ren­dered mean­ing­less when a coup is com­mit­ted that incor­po­rates such wide­spread com­plic­i­ty that none dare call it trea­son.

How­ev­er, let’sl recall that Mar­tin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy did not take the posi­tion that “after 11/22/63, the Con­sti­tu­tion is point­less”. Would RFK have embraced “realpoli­tik” and assas­si­nat­ed his domes­tic ene­mies too, because the Con­sti­tu­tion no longer real­ly mat­tered? Was RFK “com­plic­it” if we know from many sources his pri­vate beliefs that “domes­tic ene­mies” were the real assas­sins of his broth­er, but he kept qui­et under LBJ?

Aside from that, I agree with most every­thing Dave wrote.

Dave con­tin­ues: “In clos­ing I will note two things: first your rel­a­tive silence/passivity in recent months, which I lament and, beyond that, the numer­ous arti­cles you cit­ed from the “Huff­in­g­ton Post.”

I’m a dai­ly vis­i­tor to this site, but my con­tri­bu­tions have dropped due to increased work­load & var­i­ous home issues, as I’ve not­ed before. And my “beat” is being well-cov­ered by Pter­rafractyl. Almost every arti­cle I would’ve sub­mit­ted has been already bet­ter-cov­ered by Mr. Pt, and hat’s off.

Huff­in­g­ton Post, is of course a sus­pect web­site source, but I am per­haps under the mis­tak­en impres­sion that the Emory research com­mu­ni­ty here does due dili­gence on sort­ing out the poi­son from the pearls on each respec­tive sourced site, whether it’s cit­ing Wikipedia or Lit­tle Green Foot­balls.

But point tak­en.

And P.S.: I don’t think we’ll have to wor­ry about vot­ing for Oba­ma. As I’ve writ­ten, there’s an Elec­tion of 1824 sce­nario being set-up. I don’t take Rove’s or Cheney’s or the Bush Crime Fam­i­ly’s pub­lic endorse­ments at face val­ue. They’re keep­ing fin­ger­prints off Palin-as-cat’s paw. There are too many “rogue can­di­dates” for any­one to get the 270 elec­toral votes. And there’s an engi­neered GOP schism set­ting up the House of Reps “split vote”. Clinton/Clark will be cho­sen by default, despite being 3rd place behind Palin/Rand Paul, and Romney/Ryan. WIld­cards like oil spec­u­la­tion, Euro with­draw­al & Euro­pean defaults are still ready for engi­neer­ing. And Oba­ma’s “heart attack” won’t be evi­dence that he was­n’t Team Bush, any more than the Secret Ser­vice Colom­bia “scan­dal” should be tak­en at face val­ue either and not as polit­i­cal the­atre.

Back to Karl Rove’s Hold­er: I think it’s instruc­tive which appointees get a smooth approval by the Sen­ate & which don’t. Hold­er’s con­fir­ma­tion was strange pre­cise­ly because it went too eas­i­ly. Repub­li­cans aren’t known for restraint when there’s any oppor­tu­ni­ty to grand­stand & obstruct.

Like­wise, but for dif­fer­ent rea­sons, Hillary Clin­ton went from being “Hitlery” and “witch” and “the vast right-wing con­spir­a­cy girl” to Cheney’s dar­ling. Ari Fleis­ch­er defend­ed her last week regard­ing Colom­bia. No polit­i­cal hay is made of her “Bosn­ian sniper fire” sto­ry, or oth­er cam­paign gaffes. Isn’t it strange how the Repub­li­cans are not mak­ing a peep about “Hitlery”? That’s unchar­ac­ter­is­tic of the fas­cists. They have plans for her. Con­trast Hold­er & HRC with Eliz­a­beth War­ren for a good com­pass on where the plot goes from here.

@Robert Wil­son–

Rant #2:

We’ll see. I feel it’s going to be Oba­ma and Rom­ney. What I’m look­ing to see is if Jeb Boy is the VP can­di­date, or whether they’ll keep him on the back burn­er for a few more years.

You may be right about bro­kered conventions/1824 sce­nar­ios but I’ll have to see it to believe it.

Just watch the polls, show­ing BO and Mit­tens neck and neck. Oba­ma, for all his faults, dif­fers from GOP on all kinds of things from gas mileage require­ments on cars, ener­gy pol­i­cy, fed­er­al court appoint­ments, extend­ing the Bush tax cuts, health care and all kinds of oth­er things.

“Cay­man Islands accounts” Rom­ney, who is as reac­tionary as they come should­n’t be with­in hail­ing dis­tance. He’s no “mod­er­ate”, any more than the clit-cut­ters of the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood are “mod­er­ate.”

I watch the media, who are over­whelm­ing­ly pro-Rom­ney. His eco­nom­ic poli­cies will be utter­ly dis­as­trous if imple­ment­ed, and they will be if a GOP leg­is­la­ture enters office with him.

No way should this even be close after what the GOP did to the econ­o­my. But the media sup­port Rom­ney and do not sup­port Oba­ma. The slant to the cov­er­age of this cam­paign is stun­ning.

Check out the Ryan bud­get. BO is quite cor­rect in label­ing it social Dar­win­ism. Rom­ney char­ac­ter­ized it as “mar­velous.”

Our God­for­sak­en media establishment–decked out in hot­pants, hal­ter tops, fish­net stock­ings, plat­form shoes and push-up bras, snap­ping their chew­ing gum as they accost pass­ing motorists for a fee–are out­do­ing them­selves.

Oh, yes, speak­ing of whores, Hillary is his­to­ry, BTW–already hav­ing said she won’t con­tin­ue as Sec­re­tary at Fog­gy Bot­tom.

What I’m torn about is whether the corporations–who clear­ly want Rom­ney despite the bones Oba­ma’s tossed to them–want Rom­ney now, or would like to see a failed Oba­ma sec­ond term.

An Oba­ma pres­i­den­cy in a sec­ond term, that might well be impaled on a Mid­dle East firestorm stem­ming from the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood Spring and a new Wall Street “too big to fail cri­sis” clear­ing the way for a gen­er­a­tion of GOP rule, as Norquist & Rove have pre­dict­ed.

If you think things are bad now, just wait. They are going to get unimag­in­ably worse.

The bot­tom line: fas­cism was not an aber­ra­tion but a phi­los­o­phy embraced by a deci­sive num­ber of the world’s most pow­er­ful finan­cial insti­tu­tions, indi­vid­u­als and allied polit­i­cal inter­ests.

The Cor­po­rate State, as Mus­soli­ni put it, is tri­umphant. Fas­cism won the Sec­ond World War and the world will be knee deep in blood before long.

As far as the death squads, they exist now and have for a long time. Thou­sands of Amer­i­cans have fall­en before them and many oth­ers will.

You dis­cussed Robert Kennedy and Mar­tin Luther King in a hypo­thet­i­cal con­text. I dis­cussed them in a non-hypo­thet­i­cal context–they were offed, just like JFK and by the same inter­ests. How many peo­ple have called for an inves­ti­ga­tion of their deaths?

And do you REALLY think the Amer­i­can peo­ple care? I’ve been on the air for more than thir­ty years–for a quar­ter of a cen­tu­ry in NY, LA and the Sil­i­con Val­ley simul­ta­ne­ous­ly– dis­cussing those killings and many oth­er things. Do you think the cit­i­zens of this coun­try care? They DO NOT CARE!!!

And I feel no pity for them what­so­ev­er. None. Adlai Steven­son not­ed that “In a democ­ra­cy, peo­ple usu­al­ly get the kind of gov­ern­ment they deserve.” The U.S. was a democ­ra­cy at one time. It isn’t any more.

The Amer­i­can peo­ple are get­ting the kind of gov­ern­ment they deserve.

Your dis­tinc­tion between “overt” and “covert” death squads is pure­ly aca­d­e­m­ic and with­out mer­it. The Pow­ers That Be can oper­ate quite open­ly and with impuni­ty, when­ev­er they see fit to do so.

A con­gres­sion­al select com­mit­tee found that there were con­spir­a­cies under­ly­ing the deaths of JFK and MLK and rec­om­mend­ed the DOJ under­take an inves­ti­ga­tion of David Fer­rie and the anti-Cas­tro Cubans in New Orleans. That’s who Gar­ri­son was after. No one blinked here in the “Land of the Free [Lunch]”

In addi­tion, tech­nol­o­gy changes a great deal, vis a vis the method­ol­o­gy of slaugh­ter. Check out FTR #‘s 682, 606. There is a gene that pro­vides immu­ni­ty to infec­tion by HIV. Only pure-bred North­ern Euro­peans have it–Aryans. Do you REALLY think that is a God­damn coin­ci­dence?

Peo­ple of African extrac­tion have a pro­nounced genet­ic sus­cep­ti­bil­i­ty to HIV. Do you REALLY think that is a coin­ci­dence?

Hel­l’s Bells, they’re doing it now, and no one cares. Do you think Ari­an­na & com­pa­ny will dare talk about it? Do you think Amy No-Damn-Good­man or any of the oth­er front-run­ning Nazi morons at Paci­fi­ca Radio will talk about it? Don’t hold your breath.

Most impor­tant­ly, the the­o­ret­i­cal prin­ci­pals of Von Clause­witz are front and cen­ter in this dis­cus­sion. Just as he not­ed that “War is the con­tin­u­a­tion of pol­i­tics by oth­er means,” so, too “Pol­i­tics is the con­tin­u­a­tion of war by oth­er means.”

You do not need death camps, death squads, gas cham­bers, cre­ma­to­ria or the like to exter­mi­nate mil­lions. The peo­ple slat­ed for death in this coun­try will be done to death by deny­ing them prop­er nutri­tion, med­ical care, shel­ter, edu­ca­tion, envi­ron­men­tal pro­tec­tion, work­place safe­ty, employ­ment. The death toll will stretch WELL into the tens of mil­lions.

THAT is the real sig­nif­i­cance of the Ryan bud­get and the Romney/Underground Reich/GOP “aus­ter­i­ty” agen­da. The con­tin­u­a­tion of war by oth­er means. “Death instead of Tax­es.” “Give me Lib­er­ty, Give them Death!”

And, BTW, I sup­port the killing of Awla­ki. He was involved in 9/11 and con­tin­ued to moti­vate ter­ror­ists to kill Amer­i­cans. Amer­i­can cit­i­zen or no, he was a son-of‑a bitch and deserved what he got. Same with his mis­er­able lit­tle son, who was fol­low­ing in Dad­dy’s foot­steps. The impli­ca­tions of that for domes­tic pol­i­cy are non-exis­tent, for rea­sons I’ve already cit­ed.

Mur­der­ing a Pres­i­dent because one dif­fers with his poli­cies is one thing. Mur­der­ing an incen­di­ary cler­ic who pro­vid­ed sup­port to the 9/11 hijack­ers is some­thing very dif­fer­ent and falls clear­ly with­in the purview of war­fare, NOT jurispru­dence.

Every­one who has ever served in the Amer­i­can armed forces has tak­en an oath to defend the Unit­ed States of Amer­i­ca and its con­sti­tu­tion against all ene­mies “for­eign AND domes­tic.”

Due process has no rel­e­vance what­so­ev­er in this con­text. None.

How much “due process” did this U.S. cit­i­zen’s col­leagues afford their vic­tims in World Trade Cen­ter, Pen­ta­gon and the hijacked planes?

Now, if Oba­ma would just use Preda­tor drones and Hell­fire mis­siles to dis­patch Karl Rove, Grover Norquist, Talat Oth­man, Yaqub Mirza, Youssef Nada, Rush Lim­baugh, Glenn Beck, Sean Han­ni­ty, Ted Nugent, Ari­an­na Huff­in­g­ton, Amy No-Damn-Good­man (denier of con­spir­a­to­r­i­al process behind killings of JFK, RFK, MLK et al; cham­pi­on of Sami al-Ari­an, the inves­ti­ga­tion of whom led to the Oper­a­tion Green Quest raids of 3/20/2002; ben­e­fi­cia­ry of the finan­cial largess of George Soros), George Soros, Sami al-Ari­an, Julian Assange, Chip Berlet, Ger­ald Pos­ner, Louis Far­rakhan, Jesse Jack­son (“I have a scheme!”), Alexan­der Cock­burn (denier of con­spir­a­to­r­i­al process behind death of JFK), Noam Chom­sky (denier of con­spir­a­to­r­i­al process behind death of JFK), the Bush fam­i­ly, the Rom­ney fam­i­ly, the Kar­dashi­an fam­i­ly, Snoo­ki, John Boehn­er, Peter Thiel, Patri Fried­man, David Ray Grif­fin, the Truthers, the Birthers, the folks who pro­duce Amer­i­can Idol, Don­ald Trump and a whole lot of oth­er peo­ple, maybe we’d get some place!

Cheers,

Dave Emory

@R. Wil­son: TBH, I have agreed with a good part of what you’ve writ­ten but at this time, I have seen noth­ing to sug­gest that this elec­tion could even come close to the mad­ness of 1824’s......with that said, though, the GOP split does seem to be widen­ing, and, quite frankly, if any­thing at all, it’s despite the Estab­lish­men­t’s best efforts to keep their favorite par­ty togeth­er.

@Dave: I don’t think Hillary’ll be run­ning either. That said, though, Oba­ma’s Pres­i­den­cy could per­haps run into more trouble....however, though, all of what I’ve seen so far does­n’t seem to indi­cate that the Arab Spring(I guess you could call it the ‘Mus­lim Broth­er­hood’ Spring now, though, that they’ve pret­ty much co-opt­ed the movement.)is going to be a major fac­tor, and that the econ­o­my con­tin­ues to improve some­what. With that said, though, there is a pos­si­bil­i­ty that things could indeed start to change.

And, about the elec­tion? Despite the Estab­lish­men­t’s favor­ing the Repub can­di­date, most of the evi­dence I’ve seen seems to be telling me that a LOT of peo­ple are begin­ning to bail on the GOP; they’re either like­ly to stay home or they may just choose a third-par­ty candidate(i.e. Ron Paul), kin­da like what hap­pened in ’92 when Ross Per­ot basi­cal­ly fatal­ly under­mined Quayle’s cam­paign. The thing is, Oba­ma’s already tak­en the lead by a good mar­gin at this point in the game. If a guy like Ron Paul ends up run­ning, this could back­fire on the Estab­lish­ment peo­ple even more; I don’t know how many of you guys know this but the major­i­ty of pro­gres­sives woke up to RP’s bull­shit quite a while ago.....although it is indeed true that some peo­ple remain hood­winked, there just aren’t a lot of things going in his favor at the moment, so it’s always pos­si­ble he’ll remain on the side­lines, per­haps as one of Mit­ten­s’s cheer­lead­ers.

@Dave: These two rants are like mis­siles of truth. How­ev­er, I feel that you are real­ly angry. It’s under­stad­able after 30 years of fight against a sys­tem that has man­aged to put every­one asleep. I don’t know what to say to you to cheer you up. For myself, there are days when I am com­plete­ly dis­gust­ed by humans. I don’t under­stand why they do the things they do. It’s so easy to build a bet­ter world, all you have to do is to fol­low the teach­ings of Jesus, Con­fu­cius, Socrates, Her­mann Hesse and sim­i­lar thinkers.

Frank Gaffney, a decent con­ser­v­a­tive, with the Cen­ter for Secu­ri­ty Pol­i­cy has been doing some great work late­ly on Secure Free­dom Radio. Maybe you could appear on his show, or vice ver­sa, and start build­ing new col­lab­o­ra­tions and con­tri­bu­tions. Peo­ple who want to do good on this plan­et must join forces against the ene­my. That’s the only way.

Take care broth­er.

@Claude–

Yeah, I’m angry. Upon exam­i­na­tion, R. Wilson’s post was, on the bal­ance, a clos­et right-wing polemic. It may not have been intend­ed as such, but it serves the inter­ests of Romney/Bush/Hitler.

Con­vince enough folks there’s no dif­fer­ence between Obama/Romney and you accom­plish what the Naderoids accom­plished in 2000.

In addi­tion to the quotes from the clos­et right-wing “Huff­in­g­ton Post,” the tes­ti­mo­ny comes from the likes of Joe Wil­son (who worked with Abdu­rah­man Ala­madoudi’s broth­er, wife of Valerie Plame, now obsessed with find­ing out more about her Ukrain­ian [OUN/B?] her­itage.)

When the dust set­tled, the whole Plame/Wilson affair end­ed up as an attempt at hang­ing the Iraq inva­sion on Israel/the Jews. It’s a long sto­ry, but that’s the way it played out.

For all the short­com­ings of Oba­ma, one need only look at the dif­fer­ence between Oba­ma’s Supreme Court appointees and and the Scalia/Alito Bun­desS­chutzen.

The fed court appoint­ments are the most impor­tant thing any Pres­i­dent does.

And weep­ing over Awla­ki is sim­ply sick. One of the rea­sons that the right-wing’s screech­ing rhetoric has JUST ENOUGH res­o­nance to work is that the so-called pro­gres­sive sec­tor gives them all the ammo to shoot accu­rate­ly.

Amer­i­can cit­i­zen or no, Awla­ki was a par­tic­i­pant in 9/11, fled the coun­try right after­ward, went to Yemen and con­tin­ued to agi­tate for asym­met­ri­cal war­fare against the U.S.

To a con­sid­er­able extent, the so-called pro­gres­sive sec­tor IS pro-ter­ror­ist.

As I not­ed, every­one who has ever served in the U.S. armed forces has tak­en an oath pledg­ing to defend this coun­try and its con­sti­tu­tion against all ene­mies “for­eign AND domes­tic.”

That oath has nev­er been impugned or ruled uncon­sti­tu­tion­al.

My real anger, how­ev­er, is at myself.

I’d allowed myself to place too much faith in R. Wil­son, who’s done some good work in the past.

I’m pissed at myself for not being more rig­or­ous­ly vig­i­lant against clos­et-Nazi B.S. Not to say Wilson’s clos­et-Nazi, but that screed he unloaded sure as hell is. I should have just trashed the com­ment.

Cheers,

Dave

@ Steven–

George H.W. Bush was run­ning for Pres­i­dent in 1992. Quayle was the VP can­di­date. Ross Per­ot is ONI. That elec­tion was a man­i­fes­ta­tion of the long-stand­ing con­flict between CIA and ONI.

You don’t pay much atten­tion to the posts I put up here, do you son­ny boy?

Ron Paul will take votes away from Oba­ma, more so than Rom­ney (his close polit­i­cal ally), due to the sort of appar­ent­ly com­pul­sive stu­pid­i­ty on the part of the so-called pro­gres­sive sec­tor that’s been all too much in evi­dence on this web­site of late.

Cheers,

Dave

@Dave: I did pay atten­tion, Dave. I just hap­pen to find myself dis­agree­ing with a few things con­cern­ing this elec­tion, that’s all.
Ron Paul’s a slick lit­tle bas­tard, yes, but I’m still not con­vinced he’ll make too big of a dent this year, not yet.
(How­ev­er, though, I must admit it’s only April, and there is always a pos­si­bil­i­ty that things could very well hap­pen as you described, so I’ll keep my eyes open.)

That said, though, I must be hon­est and admit that I haven’t looked at your old­er mate­r­i­al in a long time. Per­haps it’s time to vis­it the archives again, eh? =)

And, quite frankly, I’m not too hap­py with the fact that the pro­gres­sive sec­tor has had some apol­o­gists for ter­ror­ism, either, nor that some of these same peo­ple con­tin­ue to be too ter­ri­bly dense to under­stand that RP is a slick oper­a­tor who’s only pan­der­ing for votes like every oth­er ReCon(yes, pun intend­ed), and that he’s been in bed with fas­cists for many years now.

@Claude: And, btw, you may wish to look at my com­ment on that Hun­gar­ian labor pro­gram article....Gaffney isn’t such a good guy(you can check Wikipedia if you’d like, that arti­cle has decent sources).

Frankly, I’d rather stick to John Lof­tus because he seems to be a far more gen­uine per­son and wasn’t involved in that bloody dis­as­ter called PNAC, unlike GAFFEney(yes, pun intend­ed.).

And, frankly, Dave, I agree with you on Al-Awla­ki as well. The bas­tard had it com­ing for a long while now, for all the things he did, and con­vinced oth­er peo­ple to do.

BTW, Dave, I have a ques­tion about a cer­tain Demo­c­rat: what is your opin­ion of Eliz­a­beth War­ren, the Mass. Sen­a­to­r­i­al can­di­date?

@Dave Emory,

I found your com­ment that “A very knowl­edge­able, well-placed source informed me that one of Romney’s close aides com­mit­ted sui­cide not too long ago, cit­ing in the sui­cide note his stunned dis­may at learn­ing that his boss was a Nazi.” to be very inter­est­ing and poten­tial­ly rev­e­la­to­ry if fac­tu­al. May I ask, would you be will­ing to divulge or dis­close the name of this Rom­ney aide that com­mit­ted sui­cide? I don’t think divulging their name would in any way endan­ger or expose your source. I’d be inter­est­ed to know and I’m sur­prised no one else drew atten­tion to these com­ments of yours, per­haps the most earth shat­ter­ing.

@Josh

Unfor­tu­nate­ly I can’t do that. Part of the pro­fes­sion­al posi­tion that the indi­vid­ual is in is a for­mal, signed agree­ment that they can­not “pub­lish.” That means dis­clos­ing some­thing under their own name pub­licly.

Any­one famil­iar with my method­ol­o­gy over the years knows that annotation/sourcing is fun­da­men­tal to what I do.

If I could give the attri­bu­tion, I would. I revealed that state­ment because I con­sid­er it to be of para­mount impor­tance.

Suf­fice it to say, you can put it in the bank.

Check out the links between Ron Paul, whose Nazi con­nec­tions are a mat­ter of pub­lic record and Mitt. (The “All Roads Lead to Rom­ney.”

Thanks for your inter­est,

Dave

@Dave: I can’t hon­est­ly blame you for keep­ing the secret, as it were: That per­son­’s life could be placed in very seri­ous jeop­ardy if their iden­ti­ty was to be dis­closed..... so I def­i­nite­ly see where you’re com­ing from, and I would have made the same deci­sion myself.

That said, I do hope that we can con­tin­ue to keep expos­ing more and more dirt on ol’ Ron­nie as time goes on. This site will con­tin­ue to be one of my top sources for such. =)

I was­n’t ask­ing for the iden­ti­ty of the source. I was ask­ing for the iden­ti­ty of the per­son who com­mit­ted sui­cide, which reveals noth­ing about the source. I’m won­der­ing the name of the Rom­ney aide, not the name of the source for the sto­ry.

@Josh–

Don’t know if that will be pos­si­ble. I’ll see, but don’t count on it.

The sit­u­a­tion is as fol­lows: the dis­clo­sure was in a sui­cide note penned by a long time friend and polit­i­cal sup­port­er of Rom­ney’s.

The per­son took their own life when they dis­cov­ered that Rom­ney was, lit­er­al­ly, a Nazi.

Although very con­ser­v­a­tive, the deceased was not a Nazi and was shocked to see an ele­ment of the Third Reich alive, breath­ing, thriv­ing in 2010.

They were not able to stand the cog­ni­tive dis­so­nance and, not being young, could not endure the knowl­edge that they had helped fur­ther a cause to which they were opposed and which they had long thought to have dis­ap­peared.

Mak­ing a spe­cif­ic dis­clo­sure might be expos­ing peo­ple to ret­ri­bu­tion.

I’ll see, but don’t count on it.

I also think it isn’t THAT impor­tant, past a point.

On the sub­ject of the GOP and Nazis:

I played a small role in break­ing the orig­i­nal Von Bolschwing sto­ry back in 1981. (The Heinz Hohne mate­r­i­al came from Yours Tru­ly).

It is a mat­ter of record that the GOP incor­po­rat­ed Third Reich alum­ni as part of their eth­nic out­reach wing.

The head of Pres­i­den­tial Liai­son (as dis­cussed in FTR #529) under Rea­gan was Yka­te­ri­na Chu­machenko, head of the OUN/B!

The Bush fam­i­ly has a Third Reich his­to­ry dat­ing back to the ear­ly 1920’s.

On the Bush/Nazi links–FTR#‘s 273, 361, 370, 435.

Pop­py was very close to the Gehlen/ABN milieu.

Again, check out “Cit­i­zen Ron Paul”, a tru­ly foul crea­ture whose Nazi sympathies/affiliations are on the record.

Paul and Rom­ney are joined at the hip, as I point­ed out in the post about “All roads lead to Rom­ney”.

So it real­ly should come as no sur­prise that the “ver­MIT­Tler” (Ger­man word for “agent”) should be a Nazi.

In con­clu­sion, NEVER for­get the pro­found, inex­tri­ca­ble link between fascism/Nazism and transna­tion­al cor­po­rate deal­ings.

The intro­duc­tion to the “Books for Down­load” sec­tion con­tains a good macro-eco­nom­ic syn­op­sis of this dynam­ic.

And NEVER over­look the warn­ing I sound­ed in 1980 in “Uncle Sam and the Swasti­ka”, excerpt­ed on the front page of this web­site.

Mit­t’s Nazi fin­ger­prints should­n’t sur­prise.

Best,

Dave