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August 13, 2008 at 05:37:28
Promoted to Headline (H2) on 8/13/08: by Ernest Partridge Page 1 of 4 page(s) |
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The fix is in, as it has been in every election since 2000.
This follows from two overarching facts that the corporate media will not report, and the Democrats choose to ignore:
1. The ruling oligarchy can not allow a reformist Democrat to occupy the White House.
2. They have the means to prevent it, as they did in 2000, in 2004, and as they might do again in 2008.
All other aspects of this "election" – issues, personalities, media blitzes – are secondary and perhaps even irrelevant.
The Stakes
What "oligarchy"? It's the "military-industrial complex" that Dwight Eisenhower warned us about in 1961, now expanded into a "military-industrial-academic-media-congressional complex." These include corporate CEOs who earn more, in half a day, than their median workers earn in an entire year. These are among the one-tenth of one-percent richest Americans (annual income of more than $1.6 million) whose income from 1980 to 2002 increased two and a half times, while the median family income was essentially unchanged; the same super-rich 0.1 percent that received 15% of Bush's tax cuts. These oligarchs sit on each others' Boards of Directors, and on University Boards of Regents. They own the mass media and thus control the "news" that is fed the general public. (See theyrule.net). And they fund political candidates before elections and, quid-pro-quo, dictate policy after elections.
To be sure, the super-rich (and getting richer) include a few progressive individuals such as Warren Buffet and George Soros, but they are the "mavericks." However, by and large, the "hyper-rich" (David Kay Johnson's term), own, operate and control America.inc.
And they have benefitted enormously from both Democratic and Republican administrations, but most notoriously, from the administration of Bush the Lesser. They have looted the U.S. Treasury, increased the national debt to almost ten trillion dollars, hollowed-out and exported the manufacturing base, promulgated foreign imperialistic wars and sent the bill to future generations, and they have installed a tax structure that systematically draws the national wealth "upward" from the middle class that creates the wealth, into the pockets of those who own and control the wealth.
The oligarchy's surrogates in Washington have, in defense of this corporatocracy, effectively put themselves above the law. Acts of Congress, when found inconvenient to "the unitary executive" President, are nullified by "signing statements." Citizen rights, enumerated by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, have been swept aside, as have numerous international treaties which have the force of law. The list of illegal acts by the current administration is long and agonizingly familiar. (See Dennis Kucinich's 35 Articles of Impeachment). And the Congress has steadfastly refused to apply the Constitutional remedy of impeachment.
The oligarchs are not about to give up all this ill-gotten loot, and in some cases find themselves before the bar of justice, by submitting to something called "reform," instigated by "the will of the people."
And they are quite capable of preventing such reform, and frustrating the people's will.
Because, you see, they also own the privatized enterprises that count the votes with no independent means of validation.
Hidden in Plain Sight
The undisputed facts about "direct electronic recording" (DRE) voting machines should add up to a scandal. Instead of a scandal, we get a yawn.
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Obama "a reformist" ?
1) Obama is not a reformist 2) the fix just may well be in favor OF Obama BECAUSE he is not the reformist many would like to make of him. just my two (euro) cents. by Tony Forest (7 articles, 18 quicklinks, 166 diaries, 1429 comments [5 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Wednesday, Aug 13, 2008 at 6:48:23 AM  (0+)
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Reply: Totally agree with you
Obama is not an authentic agent of change determined to reform the corrupt American political system that he has embraced in order to get where he is today. by Joel S. Hirschhorn (141 articles, 50 quicklinks, 65 diaries, 546 comments [2 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Wednesday, Aug 13, 2008 at 2:54:35 PM (0+)
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The Vote Counters Are Their Guarantee
The typical scenario is first the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) decides who best will follow their agenda (which is New World Order, single world government), then they hand it off to the corporate media propagandists to "sell" them (in order of CFR preference), in this case it appears McCain is the chosen one as the media completely ignores the complete blundering of this person and his campaign. They use the polls in a three-fold way, first, it is a report card on how they are doing in their sales pitch, and second it is a way to persuade people, and third they must keep the number close in order for corporate vote counters to do their job. It would look good is the poll numbers were too far apart. by Dennis Kaiser (20 articles, 0 quicklinks, 35 diaries, 730 comments [137 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Wednesday, Aug 13, 2008 at 6:53:01 AM (0+)
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Reply: Correct!!!
So I hope you and millions of others will resist voting for either Obama or McCain. Vote for Ralph Nader!!!! by Joel S. Hirschhorn (141 articles, 50 quicklinks, 65 diaries, 546 comments [2 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Wednesday, Aug 13, 2008 at 2:56:41 PM (0+)
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Meditation Upon a Hamster- Wheel
Reformist democrat???????? Wha happa? This is the furthest right the Democrats have been since 1928! How can anyone on earth -haveing seen what Nancy and the Mummy Reid have just slept through-- believe the democrats will change ANYTHING? WANT ANY CHANGE AT ALL? BLAST THE HAMSTER WHEEL! (by this the author is alluding to all the energy for change that is lost when you support or give money to the Corporate Bendovercrats) by Nathaniel Heidenheimer (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 47 comments) on Wednesday, Aug 13, 2008 at 7:37:45 AM (0+)
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Starting to like Obama
At first I didn't trust Obama. Just another stooge. But now I hear Israelis (and their US supporters) hate him. They think he is not "pro-Israel" enough. Well, well... now he's looking better and better to me. I may just get an Obama bumper sticker. by Roger Thomas (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 131 comments [10 recommended, 1 rejected]) on Wednesday, Aug 13, 2008 at 12:00:18 PM (0+)
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The Fix Is In -- Again
Should McCain win the world will know the Fix worked. America the land of the free? Are you kidding? I know that the American people have the guts and determination to make a real change; they just have to believe it. Come on Amercia; do the right thing, and make the change. Throw the Neocons out! Make America a truly free country again. by Rolland Miller (1 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 227 comments [78 recommended, 1 rejected]) on Wednesday, Aug 13, 2008 at 12:00:22 PM (0+)
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Reply: The Only Way............
The only way we can have an Obama victory is to have to vote count so overwhelming that the corporate vote counters can't fix their software enough. Then, too, is Obama really the "one?" I need to hear him wanting to put the Constitution back the way it was in 2000. I need to hear him say he will repair the broken process of government we now have where there are actually three branches. I need to hear him say he will restore our justice system. I need to hear him say lobbyists will be corralled. These are the changes needed BEFORE any of the other stuff can really be changed. At the present time he is nothing more than the "lesser of two evils", but that still means we are voting for evil. by Dennis Kaiser (20 articles, 0 quicklinks, 35 diaries, 730 comments [137 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Wednesday, Aug 13, 2008 at 12:58:04 PM (0+)
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As I have been saying on my site for a while...
they don't have to make people want to vote for John mcCain, they have to create a plausable story-line to explain why McCain won. Part of that storyline is Clinton taking the primary all the way to the end. Thus, "splitting the party". The talking heads will sell us that excuse for awhile. The next storyline is the war with Iran; they will say that people secretly felt more comfortable with a "war hero" than they did with obama. lastly, the hidden "race card". Since Obama won the nomination, when the exit polls don't match the results (like the last elections since 2000) they will say that liberals MUST have been closeted racists and voted for McCain, but lied at the exit polls so as not to seem racist. Look at Obama taking a vacation now with only, what, two months before the general election? is that typical? They know the fix is in. Look at how Obama is using the naming of the vice presidental running mate to drum up donations. Now it's all about recouping loses. For him and Clinton. it's a dog and pony show, and a pretty obvious one for anyone paying attention. Nice article by scott creighton (25 articles, 11 quicklinks, 2 diaries, 244 comments) on Wednesday, Aug 13, 2008 at 12:59:42 PM (0+)
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What--
...is anybody SURPRISED? Of course the "fix is in." Just like in '00... whoops-- the "Supreme Court" had to reach in and jiggle the handle on that one... but they had it down by '04... but wait- wait- "Morning in Amerikkka," the "Democrat's" managed to "win" a "majority" in "Congress" in '06. Well... THAT worked out well, didn't it? Seat-of-the-pants demographics works out this way: While 30% of us play Lucy-and-the-football, the opposing 30% are breaking out the Hoppe's solvent-- anticipating when they can join the prison-industrial complex and get good-paying "jobs" making their town "Liberalrein." The top-tier 9% are busy patoot-kissing, hoping the Top 1% "income" will let them into the gated Kountry Klub when the Zombies storm the "manager" McMansions. But the Top 1% are already in someplace like Paraguay setting up fiefdoms with private armies and hot-and-cold running nymphettes. If "scarcity" REALLY determined "value..." ...A CLUE would be worth its weight in platinum. by waldopaper (15 articles, 3 quicklinks, 34 diaries, 609 comments [84 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Wednesday, Aug 13, 2008 at 4:25:23 PM (0+)
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the Fix is In
Bull's-eye, Dr. Partridge! At last, someone else who understands the full enormity of the situation! Only you left out the "medical" from the industrial-medical-military-etc.-complex. by Jill Herendeen (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 213 comments [13 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Wednesday, Aug 13, 2008 at 5:27:36 PM (0+)
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News
When Fox can win a court case on the grounds that 'it is not illegal to make up news' then the status quo is an existential threat. To the powers that be; I suggest that it is in your best interests to change some of you more egregious behaviors. by kwalsh (4 articles, 0 quicklinks, 7 diaries, 275 comments [10 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Wednesday, Aug 13, 2008 at 5:54:42 PM (0+)
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scary but true
this is a scary scenario that you paint, that many of us have been predicting for quite a while. when will people wake up to this? go see "Stealing Democracy: Vote by Vote" for an overview of this election thievery dating back to 1996. Elections weren't squeaky-clean before that; they just weren't so overwhelmingly corrupt as they are now. Sadly, it's all relative. Now is making Then look better and better, in retrospect. by Joan Brunwasser (206 articles, 3757 quicklinks, 3 diaries, 751 comments [4 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Wednesday, Aug 13, 2008 at 7:36:57 PM (0+)
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Presidential politcs are a "good" cop, bad cop routine.
Obama the "good" cop, but he still serves the corporatized oligarchy just like McCain. He won't side with the masses when the chips are down, he'll crack just like he already has on several key issues. But it's not really about cracking, he's just playing the game like politicians always do. by R. A. Louis (12 articles, 13 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 87 comments [3 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Wednesday, Aug 13, 2008 at 8:55:57 PM (0+)
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Impeachment now
Kucinich and Wexler aren't playing the game. Bugliosi's not playing a game. Let your rep know that you want impeachment more than anything else. Impeachment now or take a hike. Keep pressing your rep. Stay in their face and hold them accountable, no matter how incumbent or important they think they might be To hell with the mainstream media. Let them write themselves into oblivion. by Nick van Nes (1 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 596 comments [150 recommended, 1 rejected]) on Wednesday, Aug 13, 2008 at 10:30:35 PM (0+)
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flotsam and jetsam
First, we already let the MSM pick the weakest Dem candidate. Really-- a black law professor against a war hero? But Obama's pretty sharp. He's seen the last dozen or so heroes of the people dead before they got too much audacity. And I would put the mortgage on the fact that he has seen more trouble, grief and racist hate spewing than us white liberals can imagine surmounting. Yet he still managed to become a respected professor of law on talent alone. He knows who is out to get him and who is out to rein him in. Remember, he came up in Chicago, where the political livin' ain't easy. Second, if we can see that American political success is predicated on getting along with the oligarchs, I'm sure he has seen it up close and personal. He knows he has no chance to win by promising to reduce the defense budget or restore the Bill of Rights. This is a political swamp he's navigating and there are long green things in the water with big teeth. But some expect him to act like he lives in a vacuum of idealism and running for President is based on good intentions. The poor man is in very deep political waters and yet some people expect him to do the breast stroke through the flotsam and jetsam. He has to win before he can do anything. So help him win and THEN judge if his actions verify his words. Negotiating with the military-industrial-big pharma-banking-big Ag-General Motors complex, one must play with one's cards very close to one's chest. Third, Richard Daley did it for John F. Kennedy and those of us who knew JFK are glad he did. Don't count the Democrats out yet. Wierd accidents can happen to Republicans, too, and sometimes funny things happen on the way to the polls. Remember the little Polish labor union that stood up against the Russian monolith-- Solidarity. After all, Obama is the only chance we have to actually win this thing. Stand by your man. God knows he's stickin' his neck out for you. by martinweiss (41 articles, 6 quicklinks, 13 diaries, 503 comments [3 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Thursday, Aug 14, 2008 at 3:50:48 AM (0+)
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Soros and Buffett
George Soros and Warren Buffett are part of the Corporate oligarchy. They aren't progressives. by Ty (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 888 comments [2 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Thursday, Aug 14, 2008 at 9:28:02 AM (0+)
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better focus
Comment from Ratings: more relevant, focused on issues we are concerned with, not the issues the press is pushing ie. 9/11 investigation, torture and accountability, illegal war, impeachment, etc "moderation in the pursuit of Justice is no virtue" Presidential candidate...Rep Senator from Arizona by Bernie Brown (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 1 comments) on Friday, Aug 15, 2008 at 10:36:56 AM (0+)
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