- The US government is now so totally under the thumbs
of organized interest groups that "our" government can no longer
respond to the concerns of the American people who elect the president
and the members of the House and Senate. Voters will vent their frustrations
over their impotence on the president, which implies a future of one-term
presidents. Soon our presidents will be as ineffective as Roman emperors
in the final days of that empire.
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- Obama is already set on the course to a one-term presidency.
He promised change, but has delivered none. His health care bill is held
hostage by the private insurance companies seeking greater profits. The
most likely outcome will be cuts in Medicare and Medicaid in order to help
fund wars that enrich the military/security complex and the many companies
created by privatizing services that the military once provided for itself
at far lower costs. It would be interesting to know the percentage of the
$700+ billion "defense" spending that goes to private companies.
In American "capitalism," an amazing amount of taxpayers' earnings
go to private firms via the government. Yet, Republicans scream about "socializing"
health care.
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- Republicans and Democrats saw opportunities to create
new sources of campaign contributions by privatizing as many military functions
as possible. There are now a large number of private companies that have
never made a dollar in the market, feeding instead at the public trough
that drains taxpayers of dollars while loading Americans with debt service
obligations.
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- Obama inherited an excellent opportunity to bring US
soldiers home from the Bush regime's illegal wars of aggression. In its
final days, the Bush regime realized that it could "win" in Iraq
by putting the Sunni insurgents on the US military payroll. Once Bush had
80,000 insurgents collecting US military pay, violence, although still
high, dropped in half. All Obama had to do was to declare victory and bring
our boys home, thanking Bush for winning the war. It would have shut up
the Republicans.
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- But this sensible course would have impaired the profits
and share prices of those firms that comprise the military/security complex.
So instead of doing what he said he would do and what the voters elected
him to do, Obama restarted the war in Afghanistan and launched a new one
in Pakistan. Soon Obama was echoing Bush and Cheney's threats to attack
Iran.
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- In place of health care for Americans, there will be
more profits for private insurance companies.
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- In place of peace there will be more war.
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- Voters are already recognizing the writing on the wall
and are falling away from Obama and the Democrats. Independents who gave
Obama his comfortable victory have now swung against him, recently electing
Republican governors in New Jersey and Virginia to succeed Democrats. This
is a protest vote, not a confidence vote in Republicans.
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- Obama's credibility is shot. And so is that of Congress,
assuming it ever had any. The US House of Representatives has just voted
to show the entire world that the US House of Representatives is nothing
but the servile, venal, puppet of the Israel Lobby. The House of Representatives
of the American "superpower" did the bidding of its master, AIPAC,
and voted 344 to 36 to condemn the Goldstone Report.
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- In case you don't know, the Goldstone Report is the Report
of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict. The "Gaza
Conflict" is the Israeli military attack on the Gaza ghetto, where
1.5 million dispossessed Palestinians, whose lands, villages, and homes
were stolen by Israel, are housed. The attack was on civilians and civilian
infrastructure. It was without any doubt a war crime under the Nuremberg
standard that the US established in order to execute Nazis.
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- Goldstone is not only a very distinguished Jewish jurist
who has given his life to bringing people to accountability for their crimes
against humanity, but also a Zionist. However, the Israelis have demonized
him as a "self-hating Jew" because he wrote the truth instead
of Israeli propaganda.
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- US Representative Dennis Kucinich, who is now without
a doubt a marked man on AIPAC's political extermination list, asked the
House if the members had any realization of the shame that the vote condemning
Goldstone would bring on the House and the US government. The entire rest
of the world accepts the Goldstone report.
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- The House answered with its lopsided vote that the rest
of the world doesn't count as it doesn't give campaign contributions to
members of Congress.
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- This shameful, servile act of "the world's greatest
democracy" occurred the very week that a court in Italy convicted
23 US CIA officers for kidnapping a person in Italy. The CIA agents are
now considered "fugitives from justice" in Italy, and indeed
they are.
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- The kidnapped person was renditioned to the American
puppet state of Egypt, where the victim was held for years and repeatedly
tortured. The case against him was so absurd that even an Egyptian judge
ordered his release.
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- One of the convicted CIA operatives, Sabrina deSousa,
an attractive young woman, says that the US broke the law by kidnapping
a person and sending him to another country to be tortured in order to
manufacture another "terrorist" in order to keep the terrorist
hoax going at home. Without the terrorist hoax, America's wars for special
interest reasons would become transparent even to Fox "News"
junkies.
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- Ms. deSousa says that "everything I did was approved
back in Washington," yet the government, which continually berates
us to "support the troops," did nothing to protect her when she
carried out the Bush regime's illegal orders.
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- Clearly, this means that the crime that Bush, Cheney,
the Pentagon, and the CIA ordered is too heinous and beyond the pale to
be justified, even by memos from the despicable John Yoo and the Republican
Federalist Society.
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- Ms. deSousa is clearly worried about herself. But where
is her concern for the innocent person that she sent into an Egyptian hell
to be tortured until death or admission of being a terrorist? The remorse
deSousa expresses is only for herself. She did her evil government's bidding
and her evil government that she so faithfully served turned its back on
her. She has no remorse for the evil she committed against an innocent
person.
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- Perhaps deSousa and her 22 colleagues grew up on video
games. It was great fun to plot to kidnap a real person and fly him on
a CIA plane to Egypt. Was it like a fisherman catching a fish or a deer
hunter killing a beautiful 8-point buck? Clearly, they got their jollies
at the expense of their renditioned victim.
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- The finding of the Italian court, and keep in mind that
Italy is a bought-and-paid-for US puppet state, indicates that even our
bought puppets are finding the US too much to stomach.
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- Moving from the tip of the iceberg down, we have Ambassador
Craig Murray, rector of the University of Dundee and until 2004 the UK
Ambassador to Uzbekistan, which he describes as a Stalinist totalitarian
state courted and supported by the Americans.
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- As ambassador, Murray saw the MI5 intelligence reports
from the CIA that described the most horrible torture procedures. "People
were raped with broken bottles, children were tortured in front of their
parents until they [the parents] signed a confession, people were boiled
alive."
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- "Intelligence" from these torture sessions
was passed on by the CIA to MI5 and to Washington as proof of the vast
al Qaeda conspiracy.
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- Amb. Murray reports that the people delivered by CIA
flights to Uzbekistan's torture prisons "were told to confess to membership
in Al Qaeda. They were told to confess they'd been in training camps in
Afghanistan. They were told to confess they had met Osama bin Laden in
person. And the CIA intelligence constantly echoed these themes."
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- "I was absolutely stunned," says the British
ambassador, who thought that he served a moral country that, along with
its American ally, had moral integrity. The great Anglo-American bastion
of democracy and human rights, the homes of the Magna Carta and the Bill
of Rights, the great moral democracies that defeated Nazism and stood up
to Stalin's gulags, were prepared to commit any crime in order to maximize
profits.
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- Amb. Murray learned too much and was fired when he vomited
it all up. He saw the documents that proved that the motivation for US
and UK military aggression in Afghanistan had to do with the natural gas
deposits in Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan. The Americans wanted a pipeline
that bypassed Russia and Iran and went through Afghanistan. To insure this,
an invasion was necessary. The idiot American public could be told that
the invasion was necessary because of 9/11 and to save them from "terrorism,"
and the utter fools would believe the lie.
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- "If you look at the deployment of US forces in Afghanistan,
as against other NATO country forces in Afghanistan, you'll see that undoubtedly
the US forces are positioned to guard the pipeline route. It's what it's
about. It's about money, its about energy, it's <http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23906.htm>not
about democracy."
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- Guess who the consultant was who arranged with then Texas
governor George W. Bush the agreements that would give to Enron the rights
to Uzbekistan's and Turkmenistan's natural gas deposits and to Unocal to
develop the trans-Afghanistan pipeline. It was Karzai, the US-imposed "president"
of Afghanistan, who has no support in the country except for American bayonets.
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- Amb. Murray was dismissed from the UK Foreign Service
for his revelations. No doubt on orders from Washington to our British
puppet.
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