FTR#‘s 1428 & 1429: The Electoral Coup of 2000, Parts 1 and 2

Intro­duc­tion: These pro­grams detail the theft of the Pres­i­den­cy by George W. Bush.

(They is from a lec­ture give at Foothill Col­lege on Feb­ru­ary 24 of 2001.)

Oth­er pro­grams that sup­ple­ment and com­ple­ment the infor­ma­tion in this broad­cast include: FTR#‘s 186, 319, 280,  281, 284, 711, 712, 713, 714, 715, 716, 1400, 1401, 1402, 1403 as well as L‑8.

Pruss­ian mil­i­tary the­o­reti­cian Karl Von Clause­witz observed that “war is the con­tin­u­a­tion of pol­i­tics by oth­er means.” By the same token, pol­i­tics could be seen as “the con­tin­u­a­tion of war by oth­er means.” This lec­ture ana­lyzes the elec­tion of the year 2000 as con­sti­tut­ing a coup d’e­tat and high­lights a num­ber of dif­fer­ent aspects of the polit­i­cal land­scape in 1999 and 2000. The dis­cus­sion details what was, in effect, a mil­i­tary-style oper­a­tion. In that con­text, a num­ber of vio­lent actions (some of them lethal) were con­duct­ed in com­bi­na­tion with a strate­gic pro­gram of polit­i­cal and psy­cho­log­i­cal war­fare. These ele­ments can be under­stood in the con­text of a mil­i­tary par­a­digm and, togeth­er, they doomed the Gore cam­paign.

Ralph Nader, Rand Paul and the Koch Brothers

Some listeners/readers might won­der why we refer to the “pro­gres­sive” sec­tor as “the so-called pro­gres­sive sec­tor.” Just exam­ine who Darth Nad­er is cham­pi­oning in the 2016 Pres­i­den­tial race–Rand Paul. Paul idol­izes the Koch broth­ers. Well, we guess that is the only way that he could top off hav­ing helped put George Bush in office in 2000. All of the con­tents of this web­site as of 12/19/2014–Dave Emory’s 35+ years of research and broadcasting–as well as hours of video­taped lec­tures are avail­able on a 32GB flash dri­ve. Dave offers his pro­grams and arti­cles for free–your sup­port is very much appre­ci­at­ed.

FTR #797 Cyber-Libertarian Fascism: Update on the Adventures of Eddie the Friendly Spook

In the long FTR series on L’Af­faire Snow­den, we not­ed that all of the play­ers were out­right fas­cists and/or expo­nents of cor­po­ratist eco­nom­ic the­o­ry. That includes Pierre Omid­yar, Nazi fel­low-trav­el­er Glenn Green­wald’s finan­cial angel and backer of First Look media. Tout­ing the lais­sez-faire eco­nom­ics of the GOP and oth­er cor­po­ratist ele­ments around the world, Omid­yar has also helped to finance the rise of fas­cist ele­ments abroad, includ­ing assist­ing in the ascent of the OUN/B suc­ces­sor forces in the Ukraine, as well as Naren­dra Modi, heir to the RSS Hin­du fas­cists that spawned his BJP. Julian Assange, his polit­i­cal idol Rand Paul, Rand Paul’s sup­port­er Ralph Nad­er and Snow­den him­self all fig­ure strong­ly into this unsa­vory polit­i­cal land­scape.

Update on the EMU/Euro as Vehicle for Conquering Europe, World

Euro/EMU has beg­gared Europe, turn­ing the periph­er­al Euro­pean coun­tries into Ger­man sub­or­di­nates. Will dis­so­lu­tion of Euro case a bank­ing cri­sis in Europe, just in time to col­lapse U.S. finan­cial sys­tem before the elec­tion?

FTR #264 Darth Nader: Ralph Nader’s Politics of Hypocrisy

The small per­cent­age of the 2000 vote gar­nered by Green Par­ty can­di­date Ralph Nad­er had deci­sive impact.