“People
who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's
people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that
you have to be wary of.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
Oh how far America has fallen since the overthrown of their
elected government in 2000. If you think
the Bush Cheney Administration was a nightmare, the Obama Biden Administration
is a horror story of untold proportions.
Excerpt:
At U.N., Obama takes Russia to task for actions in Ukraine, Syria
UNITED NATIONS -- President Obama
blasted Russian President Vladimir Putin's approach to other countries Monday,
suggesting in a speech at the U.N. General Assembly that the world's nations
must uphold international order in Syria and Ukraine or risk global
instability.
In his speech, Obama praised the international order "that has underwritten
unparalleled advances in human liberty and human dignity…"
The president said Russia's
annexation of Crimea and support for separatists in southeastern Ukraine has
backfired, bringing Ukrainians closer to Europe and damaging Russia's economy.
"We cannot stand by when the sovereignty and territorial integrity of a
nation is flagrantly violated."
And he said that the United States
was willing to work with any nation, including Iran and Russia, to end the
lengthy civil war in Syria. At the same time, he emphasized, any resolution of the conflict must lead to the exit
of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Through the years, as nations across the world faced war and
devastation the one thing the people of the world could believe in and hope to
achieve was the success of the American dream where anything was possible. My mother, who was a war bride from Belgium,
recounted the horror of the Nazi occupation of Belgium.
She told stories of her brother-in-law and nephew working
with the underground to fight against the Nazi occupation. She
recounted how their citizens were forced to give blood for the wounded German
soldiers and were left with enough blood in their bodies to crawl out into the
street and die.
She spoke of the unbelievable suffering and starvation the
people endured. People across Europe
survived unimaginable horror and misery and when the Americans finally became involved
in the war, the elation of the European people gave them the energy to hold on,
America was on the way.
She said, when the Americans prevailed in Normandy the
joyous news spread like wildfire across the world, and when the American troops
rolled into Belgium it was like the gates of heaven had opened. This was the America that the world came to
love and admire. This was the America
that selflessly gave their blood and treasure to save the world and the world
felt undying gratitude toward this amazing nation.
But Americans and their Western allies didn’t prevail on
their own. Russia gave life, blood and
treasure that surpassed that of America and her allies, and without Russia the
world may not have survived the Nazi occupation. But the new American government has no sense
of history. The new American government
has an arrogant disregard for the sacrifices of others.
Excerpt:
President Obama Insulted the Memory of Russians Who Died in World War
II
It was the 70th celebration of
Victory Day over Nazi Germany on May 9 in St. Petersburg, Russia… the US
was snubbing the day. Victory Day honors the Russian WW II dead and Russians
take pride in the defeat of an adversary that nearly conquered the Soviet
Union.
Obama and Western European leaders
did not send senior officials to the largest Victory Day gathering in Moscow,
ostensibly to further repudiate Russian President Vladimir Putin for the
ongoing Ukraine crisis….
As the Business Insider reported in
a 2014 article, "In terms of total numbers, the Soviet Union bore an
incredible brunt of casualties during WWII. An estimated 16,825,000 people died
in the war, over 15 percent of its population...
In Russia, remembering the dead isn't the sole province of self-serving corporate
tributes and political sloganeering.
It is not a day of watching sports on television and barbecues.
It is a day of gatherings - large
and small - to honor those who died so
that Russia could survive and prevail against a brutal Nazi assault against
its major cities, including the famous Russian defense of Stalingrad (now
Volgograd) - in which estimates reach as
high as 2 million Russian civilians and soldiers dead. As for the battle
for Moscow, the International Business Times recounts that "Americans also should be grateful for the
roughly 1.5 million Russians [some military historians say the total is
much higher] who died fighting in the Battle of Moscow."
It should be recalled that the
Soviet Union was in alliance with the US and the UK at this time - with
Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin personally meeting during the war - and that
the large number of German military units on the eastern front with Russia
allowed the Western allies to confront fewer Nazi forces. Some military historians even conjecture that the D-Day landing might
not have succeeded except for Nazi military forces pinned down on the Soviet
front. According to a Christian Science Monitor article on D-Day,
And finally – and perhaps incredibly
to many Americans, even to this day – Normandy
and the Allied invasion were not Hitler’s most dire military problem. That
was the Russians. Two-thirds of the German Army was deployed as a shield
against the Red Army on the Eastern Front.
Three weeks after D-Day, Stalin launched his own attack, Operation
Bagration. It was "the greatest offensive of the war," writes Max
Hastings. Almost two and a half million
Red Army troops threw themselves upon German divisions, which had been
ordered to stand firm, as in Normandy. In
two months, Soviet units advanced 450 miles. By the end of August, they were
nearing East Prussia and Germany itself….
It has been widely noted the
Western … nations, especially the United
States and the United Kingdom, very publicly dissed Russia on the 70th
anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II. This despite the
fact that the Soviet Union had the
predominant role in the winning of World War II.
For President Obama and the Western European nations not to have sent
senior representatives to honor the Russian people for their sacrifice is to put nationalistic - and global
economic concerns - above the interests of creating an international
community of compassion between people of different nations.
Obama showed contempt toward the very citizens of Russia whose parents,
grandparents and great grandparents may have saved the United States and
England from defeat by sacrificing millions to the Nazi war machine - and
thus preventing Hitler from shifting a large percentage of the German military
forces to fight the allied forces invading through France.
Insulting Putin may have been Obama's objective, but he showed disdain
toward the sacrifice of a whole nation, of people who still mourn those whose
lives perished in the German onslaught as they endured the ravaging of
their nation - and the threat of the total annihilation of their country.
It took over a hundred years to come to fruition, but the
plans laid out since the beginning of the Republic finally came to fruition in
the year 2000. It had been a long tedious
slog but evil is a patient, relentless monster.
Evil slowly, slowly chipped away at Democracy until the very foundation was
weakened to the point that it only took a nudge to topple the great experiment
that was America.
All that was good in America died December 12, 2000 when the
American government was overthrown by an evil that the world was unaware
existed in America. But it did exist,
and had been always been there bubbling below the surface rearing its ugly head
from time to time. The United States
Senate has become the breeding ground for evil.
The Senate had been kept in check through the division of
power in the United States government. The
Senate now controls the entire government and the Executive and Judicial
branches are subservient to the Senate.
In looking back at how this has happened it was interesting to find that
prior to the Seventeenth Amendment, the Senate was, according to the
constitution, was chosen by the state legislators. From Senate.gov:
Excerpt:
Voters have elected their senators in the privacy of the voting booth
since 1913. The framers of the Constitution, however, did not intend
senators to be elected in this way, and included in Article I, section 3,
"The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from
each state, chosen by the legislature thereof for six Years; and each Senator
shall have one Vote…."
This process seemed to work well
until the mid-1850s. At that time, growing hostilities in various states
resulted in vacant Senate seats. In Indiana, for example, the conflict between
Democrats in the southern half of the state and the emerging Republican Party
in the northern half prevented the election of any candidate, thereby leaving
the Senate seat vacant for two years. This marked the beginning of many
contentious battles in state legislatures, as the struggle to elect senators
reflected the increasing tensions over slavery and states' rights which led to
the Civil War.
Intimidation and bribery marked some of the states' selection of
senators. Nine bribery cases were brought before the Senate between 1866
and 1906. In addition, forty-five
deadlocks occurred in twenty states between 1891 and 1905, resulting in
numerous delays in seating senators. In 1899, problems in electing a senator in
Delaware were so acute that the state legislature did not send a senator to
Washington for four years….
After the turn of the century,
momentum for reform grew rapidly. William Randolph Hearst expanded his
publishing empire with Cosmopolitan, and championed the cause of direct
election with muckraking articles and strong advocacy of reform. Hearst hired a
veteran reporter, David Graham Phillips,
who wrote scathing pieces on senators, portraying them as pawns of
industrialists and financiers.
The pieces became a series titled
"The Treason of the Senate," which appeared in several monthly issues
of the magazine in 1906. These articles galvanized the public into maintaining
pressure on the Senate for reform…..
The House initially fared no better
than the Senate in its early discussions of the proposed amendment. Much
wrangling characterized the debates, but in the summer of 1912 the House
finally passed the amendment and sent it to the states for ratification. The
campaign for public support was aided by senators such as Borah and political
scientist George H. Haynes, whose scholarly work on the Senate contributed
greatly to passage of the amendment….
Connecticut's approval gave the
Seventeenth Amendment the required three-fourths majority, and it was added to the Constitution in 1913. The following year marked the first time
all senatorial elections were held by popular vote.
Yes, when the Senators were selected by state legislators
they became pawns of industrialists and financiers, so the Seventeenth
Amendment was passed that allowed the people to select their Senators in the
privacy of the voting booth. That was in
1913, so just before the people would have a chance to elect their Senators
taking the power away from the industrialists and financiers the Senate illegally
passed the Federal Reserve Act. From
Liberty for Life:
Federal Reserve Bank (Inc.) A Murderous History? Banksters, the Worlds Worst Gangsters
Arguably the formation of the
Federal Reserve Bank is The Crime of the Century. The Federal Reserve Banking Act, passed in
1913 is categorically unconstitutional, it is unlawful. The Federal Reserve Bank's money fraud has
devalued the dollar to about four percent of its worth in 1930.
Henry Ford once said "It is
well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and
monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before
tomorrow morning".
Article 1, section 8, of the
Constitution reads:
The Congress shall have the
Power.....To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof…
Congress has no authority to
delegate this responsibility to third parties.
As a show of audacity and control, the Federal Reserve Bank prints their
Notes with the faces of Presidents who adamantly opposed having a private
National Bank, and Presidents the bank either tried to or did kill.
There will never be world peace,
there will never be economic stability, there will never be a free economy as
long as these banksters control the worlds money supply. Their goal is to
achieve a socialist one world government - a "New World Order", as is
printed in Latin on their $1 Note.
The last nail was pounded into the New World Order casket on
December 15, 2000 when the United States Senate completed the banking takeover
of the American Government with the passage of the Gramm Leach Bliley bill that
completely deregulated the Banking and Insurance industries allowing the
formation of derivatives and credit default swaps that caused the worldwide
collapse of the banking system. The
Senate had already repealed Glass Steagall earlier in the year.
Just take an inventory of what has happened in America since
the overthrow of the American government in 2000. There was the withdrawal from the Nuclear
Arms Treaty with Russia, the American spy plane shot down over China, the
murder of Japanese school kids on a fishing trip when campaign donors of George
W. Bush were allowed to joy ride in a Nuclear Submarine. Then there was the rounding up of protestors
and moving them into “free speech zones” leading up to the 9-11 attack on the World
Trade Center, the war in Afghanistan, the war in Iraq and on and on.
To see the President of the United States stand before the
United Nations spewing hatred and lies before countries who know history and
know the truth. For those countries
living with the blowback from the overthrow of the elected government in
Ukraine and the bloody, failed coup against Syrian President Assad turned into
a civil war, it must be particularly galling.
For instance Belarus. According
to the Business Insider:
Belarus suffered the worst
devastation of any country during the war (WW II) in terms of a percentage of
its population. Over a quarter of its population, 2,290,000 people, died during
the conflict.
In terms of total numbers, the
Soviet Union bore an incredible brunt of casualties during WWII. An estimated
16,825,000 people died in the war, over 15% of its population. China also lost
an astounding 20,000,000 people during the conflict.
So you would think that Barack Obama would have some sort of
shame, some sort of sense of irony when he scolds Putin for supporting the
elected government of Syria against the terrorists that America has trained and
equipped to overthrow the Assad regime.
It was just two years ago when Obama, Biden and Kerry were lying to the
world about Assad using chemical weapons against “his own people” in order to
bomb Syria. From Radio Free Europe:
Excerpt:
Belarus President Likens U.S. To Nazi Germany
Belarusian President Alyaksandr
Lukashenka has compared the United States with Nazi Germany and slammed
Washington's position on Syria.
In an interview with the Kazakh
television channel 24KZ in Minsk on October 2, Lukashenka said the United
States "considers itself an exceptional nation" that has the right to
"force everyone to comply with its standards by bombing other
countries."
Lukashenka added that German
"exceptionalism" cost 50 million lives in the last century.
Lukashenka also warned against
international military intervention in Syria, saying it would have dire
consequences.
He praised the late Syrian
President Hafez al-Assad and his son, current Syrian President Bashar al-Assad,
calling the latter a close friend and a kind man.
According to Lukashenka, stability
in the Arab world is important for the Eurasian Economic Union, a Russia-led
project uniting Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan that is scheduled to start
functioning in 2015.
This is America after the fall. Instead of walking softly and carrying a big
stick, the new America is a rabid bull in the Arab world’s china cabinet. Instead of a Statesman we have a blathering
idiot on the world stage spewing empty admonishments against nation states that
have seen this story before and know how the story ends.
By Patricia Baeten
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