“America is great
because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be
great.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville
― Alexis de Tocqueville
When did America cease to be good? When did America go to the dark side? I would posit that happened December 12, 2000
when America’s Democratic Republic was overthrown in a coup. A coup orchestrated by a convergence of the
Republican and Democrat members of the U.S. Senate, Supreme Court and American
Think Tanks funded by the military industrial complex calling the shots out of
the bowels of the Pentagon.
The great American experiment descended into the depths of
darkness taking the entire world along with it.
On December 15th, 2000 the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act was signed
into law and drove a final stake through the heart of democracy, America ceased
to be great, the die was cast, the curtains came down, America was no longer good,
America was no longer great, America was no longer.
The creature from Jekyll Island was unleashed on the world,
like a syphilitic junkie looking for its next fix, the predator was let
loose. Let loose on the world, like a
serial killer and each kill became more violent, more depraved and would
escalate until the monster was stopped if it could be stopped.
So when I read this article in The Intercept entitled “Institute of Peace’s Hawkish Chairman Wants
Ukraine to Send Russians Back in Body Bags” it sent chills down my spine.
Excerpt:
The United States Institute of Peace is a publicly funded national
institution chartered by the U.S. government to promote international peace through nonviolent conflict resolution.
But its chairman, Stephen Hadley, is a relentless hawk whose advocacy
for greater military intervention often dovetails closely with the interests of
Raytheon, a major defense contractor that pays him handsomely as a member
of its board of directors.
Hadley, the former national security adviser to President George W.
Bush, was an advocate for the 2003 invasion of Iraq and more recently appeared in the media to call for
massive airstrikes in Syria. Over the last year, he has called for
escalating the conflict in Ukraine.
In a speech at Poland’s Wroclaw
Global Forum in June, Hadley argued in favor of arming the Ukrainian government
in part because that would “raise the
cost for what Russia is doing in Ukraine.” Specifically, he said, “even
President Putin is sensitive to body bags — it sounds coarse to say, but it’s
true…
Hadley also called for European governments to broadly boost
military spending, ideally doubling it. “You know, let’s show that
Europe is going to have real commitment to military forces,” he said.
The call to flood Ukraine with weapons not only contrasts sharply
with the stated mission of the Institute of Peace… but many scholars believe doing so would
provoke more conflict….
…by the law that established it in
1984, it is also bipartisan: No more
than eight voting members of board of directors can be from the same political
party.
So who do you think are the Democrats that are part and
parcel to this cabal? Let me give you a
hint, remember the 2000 election Al Gore was forced to take Joe Lieberman as
his running mate? When Bush lost the
election to Gore, Joe Lieberman helped to sabotage the election.
Excerpt: from NewYork Times International:
WASHINGTON, July 14— For many
Democrats immersed in Florida's disputed presidential election, there was no worse moment than the one on
Sunday, Nov. 19, when Senator Joseph I. Lieberman appeared on national
television and said that election officials should give the ''benefit of the
doubt'' to military voters.
Until then, the Democrats had
conducted a full-scale effort to persuade counties to disqualify any overseas ballots
that lacked postmarks or witness signatures. But on that morning, with
Republicans attacking the Gore-Lieberman campaign for eliminating the votes of
hundreds of men and women in the armed forces, Mr. Lieberman effectively
disavowed the strategy.
Yes, Lieberman wanted Bush ballots that “lacked postmarks or
witness signatures” to be counted. Hmmm,
I wonder why. That decision assisted the
overthrow of the elected government in the United States on December 12, 2000. That decision installed Stephen Hadley in the
State Department and later became Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice’s number
two in the State Department.
So how did Hadley come to be the Chairman of the United
States Institute of Peace?
Hadley was nominated to the
institute board by President Barack Obama in February 2013. He joined the
institute in August and was elevated to chairman of the board in January 2014.
Well, well, well.
Imagine that, Barack Obama who lost the primary to Hillary Clinton until
the big heist in Florida in 2008 that installed BO as President with his
self-proclaimed Zionist Vice President Joe Biden, nominated the uber-hawkish
Stephen Hadley as chairman of the Orwellian U.S. Institute of Peace’s chair.
Remember the primary race of 2008? The Bush Administration was a disaster for
America and people longed for the return of financial stability and prosperity
of the Clinton years. This is what Donald
Trump had to say in an interview with Wolf Blitzer on CNN in 2004:
When
the 2004 election came up, Trump said he identified "more as a
Democrat." Blitzer asked him to clarify if he meant he was socially
liberal. Trump replied: "I've been around a long time. And it just seems the economy does better
under the Democrats than under Republicans."
But in 2004 the fix was in John Kerry would take a dive and
Bush would be reelected. And the fix was
in during the Democratic Primary of 2008.
The Democrats like Joe Biden, Joe Lieberman, Ted Kennedy and Chuck
Schumer along with a compliant corrupt media screamed that “Hillary can’t win
she doesn’t have the delegates”. “She
has to get out of the race or she’ll hurt Obama”.
But Hillary didn’t get out of the primary race, she kept on
going and kept on winning, state after state and all the way to the
commonwealth of Puerto Rico; Hillary won racking up over 18 million votes. The Democrats’ golden calf Obama was turning
out to be a tin cow. He couldn’t close
the deal so the Democrats had to throw the primary election at the Democratic
Rules Committee in June of 2007. From
Washington Post:
Excerpt:
Florida Lawmakers Sue Dean, DNC
A federal lawsuit to be filed tomorrow by Florida lawmakers against Democratic Party Chairman
Howard Dean alleges that Dean and the national party are violating the equal
protection provisions of the U.S. Constitution and the Voting Rights Act by
refusing to recognize the state's Jan. 29 presidential primary.
In a draft of the lawsuit
circulating among congressional aides and legal experts, Dean is accused of disenfranchising more than 4 million voters in a
scheme that the lawsuit contends would also reduce minority voting. The DNC
and the Florida Secretary of State are also named in the suit.
Sounds like Deja vu all over again.
"The defendants have combined to create a Presidential primary
election with a stunningly anti-democratic scenario - every one of the more
than 4.25 million registered Democratic voters in Florida will be completely
disenfranchised and their constitutional rights with respect to that election
will be rendered meaningless," the suit alleges.
The suit is being filed by Sen.
Bill Nelson and Rep. Alcee Hastings in response to the DNC's decision last month to disqualify all of Florida's delegates
to next year's national party convention.
So the DNC endowed Obama with the nomination even though he
didn’t have enough delegates to be the nominee.
That would be the delegates apportioned according to the votes of the Democratic
citizens, so he was awarded the “super delegates”. What are super delegates you may ask? They are members of the DNC whose votes supersede
those of the voters.
Now, there was a problem.
Hillary could take the vote all the way to the convention floor on live
TV where she would undoubtedly win the nomination, but the DNC like cockroaches
can’t tolerate the disinfectant of sunshine.
So the Grand Dame of the U.S. Senate, Diane Feinstein had to get
together with Hillary and Obama to grease the skids for Obama’s ascension to
the nomination.
Of course this is all conjecture on my part, but here’s what
I believe went down. Hillary would step
out of the way and would become Secretary of State with a lot of autonomy and
latitude. After all, the Secretary of
State is kind of like a co-Presidency and is in the line of succession to the
White House. That had to piss off the
U.S. Institute for Peace, they had big plans for the Obama Administration and
self-declared Zionist Veep Joe Biden.
All their big plans for hegemony and world dominance were
delayed for four years while Clinton was Secretary of State, and that is why
Secretary Clinton had a separate e-mail account that the Pentagon and U.S.
Institute of Peace didn’t have access to.
That is why the Obama Administration, the U.S. Institute of Peace and
the whole cabal are working overtime to leak stories about possible indictments
against Secretary Clinton to destroy her candidacy for President.
But I digress, so back to the Intercept article on Stephen Hadley, Obama’s man heading up the
U.S. Institute for “Peace.”
But it’s not the first time the
institute has served as a platform for American hawkish foreign policy. Robert Turner, the first president of the institute and an appointee by President
Ronald Reagan, voiced support for the right-wing death squads in
Nicaragua known as the Contras…
Hadley also serves as a highly paid board member of Raytheon, a
company that stands to gain from increased military assistance to Ukraine. Hadley has been a Raytheon board member
since 2009 and was paid cash and stock awards worth $290,025 in 2014 alone.
For companies like Raytheon, global instability and intervention have
been good for business.
Indeed, “for companies like Raytheon, global instability and
intervention have been good for business.”
So when I read this article about Syriza Party in Greece at the site
called The James Petras Website it was stomach churning:
Excerpt:
Syriza: Plunder, Pillage and
Prostration. (How the ‘Hard Left’
embraces the policies of the Hard Right)
The North American and European
Left celebrated Syriza’s election victory as a break with neo-liberal austerity
programs and the launch of a radical alternative, which would implement popular initiatives for basic social changes, including
measures generating employment, restoring pensions, reversing privatizations,
reordering government priorities and favoring payments to employees over
foreign banks…
However, prior to, and immediately
after being elected, Syriza leaders adopted three basic decisions precluding
any basic changes: Indeed, these decisions set it on a reactionary course.
First and foremost, Syriza accepted as legitimate the foreign
debt of over $350 billion dollars, although most had been signed by
previous government Kleptocrats, corrupt banks, business, real estate and
financial interests. Virtually none of
this debt was used to finance productive activity or vital services which would
strengthen the economy and Greece’s future ability to pay back the loans.
Hundreds of billions of Euros were stashed away in foreign bank
accounts and foreign real estate or invested in overseas stocks and bonds. After affirming the ‘legitimacy’ of the
illicit debt, Syriza followed up by declaring its ‘willingness’ to pay the debt…
Secondly, and related to the above,
Syriza declared its determination to remain in the European Union and Eurozone and thus accepted the surrender of its
sovereignty and ability to fashion an independent policy… and make further
concessions to the EU overseas banks in a totally one-sided process…
Thirdly, on taking office, Syriza negotiated a coalition with the far-right, pro-NATO, xenophobic,
anti-immigrant Independent Greeks Party, guaranteeing that Greece would
continue to support NATO’s military policies in the Middle East, the Ukraine
and Israel’s brutal campaign against Palestine….
The worst betrayals include: (1) not restoring pension payments; (2)
not restoring the minimum wage; (3) not reversing privatizations; (4) not
ending austerity programs; and (5) not increasing funds for education, health,
housing and local development….
Worse still, Syriza has deepened
and extended the policies of its reactionary predecessors. (1)Syriza promised
to freeze privatizations: Now it vows to extend them by 3.2 billion Euros and privatize new public sectors. (2) Syriza has agreed to shift scarce public
resources to the military, including an investment of $500 million Euros to
upgrade the Greek Air Force….
Wow, shifting scarce public resources to the military
including an investment of $500 million Euros to the Greek Air Force” isn’t
that what Stephen Hadley and the U.S. Institute for Peace are demanding? Talk about a Greek Tragedy.
Syriza’s foreign policy mimics its predecessors. Syriza’s far right Defense Minister, Panos Kammenos, has been a vocal
supporter of the US and EU sanctions against Russia…
Syriza has deliberately emptied the Treasury, plundered pension
funds and local municipal holdings in order to blackmail the population to
accept as a ‘fait accompli’ the regressive
policies of hardline EU bankers – the so-called “austerity programs”….
As Syriza plundered the country of
resources to pay the bankers, it escalated its international groveling. Its Defense Minister offered new military
bases for NATO, including an air-maritime base on the Greek island of
Karpathos.
Syriza escalated Greece’s political and military support for EU and US
military intervention and support of “moderate” terrorists in the Middle
East, ludicrously in the name of “protecting Christians”…
In the end, Syriza has deepened poverty and unemployment, increased
foreign control over the economy, further eroded the public sector, facilitated
the firing of workers and slashed severance pay- while increasing the role of the Greek military by deepening its ties
to NATO and Israel.
To quote Sargent Joe Kenda, oh my, my, my. And that brings me to the Trump conundrum and
the 2016 election. The fix is already
in, now it’s just a matter of creating the illusion that the next leader that
has been preselected by the U.S. Institute for Peace and the Pentagon was
really the people’s choice.
The GOP dance card was being filled with reliable puppets
and the war on Hillary Clinton has been declared. Rupert Murdoch’s media empire has be spinning
tunes about Hillary’s malfeasance and the e-mails that were not classified at
the time are now being “retroactively” classified and crimes are being retroactively
committed, by Hillary.
All was going great, the players were taking their places
the Murdoch Wurlitzer was spinning out latest hit parade of tunes; Hillary can’t
be trusted, Hillary is unlikeable, Hillary will be indicted and then came The
Donald. Oh boy, that wasn’t in the plan.
A billionaire like Donald Trump doesn’t need money and he
doesn’t need a pre-recorded, pre-approved script from the U.S. Institute for
Peace. This is not faring well for the
GOP nor does it fare well for the new “Democrat” party.
The Donald drew a crowd of 20 million to Rupert Murdoch’s
Fox Debate where Murdoch’s carnival barkers tried to destroy his
candidacy. But The Donald spoke of
America being restored to greatness. The
Donald has struck a chord and every attack just make people love him more. And those people are Democrats, Republicans
and Independents.
It’s time to restore America and send back those
who have come here illegally. Remember all
those unaccompanied children that were crossing the border in 2013 and 2014? From Center for American Progress:
Excerpt:
Over the past few years, and in
particular over the past few months, the number of children and families
leaving the Central American countries of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras
and arriving in neighboring countries and at our southern border has grown
significantly.
Already in fiscal year 2014, more than 57,000 children have arrived
in the United States, double the number who made it to the U.S. southern border
in FY 2013. The number of families arriving at the border, consisting mostly of mothers with infants and toddlers, has
increased in similar proportions.
In fiscal year 2013, the U.S.
Department of Homeland Security, or DHS, apprehended fewer than 10,000 families
per year; yet, more than 55,000 families were apprehended in the first nine
months of fiscal year 2014 alone.
The majority of unaccompanied children and families who are
arriving come from a region of Central
America known as the “Northern Triangle,” where high rates of violence and
homicide have prevailed in recent years and economic opportunity is
increasingly hard to come by.
Gee, that sounds like the handiwork of the U.S. Institute
for Peace. And what did Hillary have to
say about all those children flooding into America from war torn Guatemala,
Honduras and El Salvador? From HuffingtonPost:
Former Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton said Tuesday that unaccompanied minors who crossed the border illegally
in a massive influx over recent months "should be sent back" to their
native countries, but also that they should be reunited with their families --
which sometimes requires them to stay in the United States.
And that is the Trump conundrum. If the new Democrat party is successful in
knocking Hillary Clinton out of the race for President, her supporters will go
to Trump. On Friday The Donald held a rally in Mobile Alabama that drew a crowd of 30 thousand. One caller to C-Span put it this way, “in
Alabama we have three religions, Methodist, Baptist and football, if the rally
had been held on any night other than Friday, it would have been 50 thousand
people.”
It was a sight to be seen, Trump was all over the map and said
nothing particular of substance but that is what makes him a moving target,
really hard to hit for the U.S. Institute of Peace.
Trump’s message has been simple “I want to make America
great again.”
So there you have it.
America has gone to the dark side and pulled the world into an endless
loop, living in a season of hell we can’t get out of. Or, can we?
The Darkside is coming, now nothing is real,
She'll never know just how I'll feel
From out of the shadow's she walk's like a dream
Make me feel crazy, make me feel so mean.
Nothing's gonna save ya from the love that's blind.
Slip through the darkside and cross that line.
On the darkside, oh yeah..
By Patricia Baeten
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