“The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media.”~William Colby, former CIA director
THOSE DEMOCRATS WHO DON'T KNOW HISTORY, ARE DOOMED TO REPEAT IT:
When Bill Clinton was first running for President, he had a revolutionary challenger in the Democratic Primary, named Jerry Brown.Brown had been the former Governor of California, as well as the State Chair of the California Democratic Party.He had been revolutionary, pushing hard for labor rights for farmworkers to protect them from agri-industrial poisons, he’d funded those large wind energy projects along the length of California, and had introduced satellite conference calls to California Government.The corporate interests he threatened needed to divorce this man of the people, this man of vision . . . from the people he served so well.So, they called him “Governor Moon Beam.”
The name caught on.What it was in reference to, although few in the media or public looked beyond that funny name as they laughed at Brown, was Brown’s idea of using satellite phone technology for meetings.Rather than having state legislators fly back to Sacremento everytime they needed to meet, they could use this new technology and save time, energy, etc.Of course today, everyone, all companies use this technology, and it was brilliant back then.But, “Governor Moonbeam” was the label some bright boys hired by the corporate powers Brown was slapped with.It made people laugh at him.It worked.
Then years later after serving as California State Chair of the CA Democratic Party, Brown decided to run for President.BUT, he refused to take a donation over $100.WHY?Because he’d learned as State Chair that money had taken over politics.He had raised more money than any other Chair before, but no matter how much he raised, they always needed more.Brown said that in that system you lose touch with real people, real needs.You lose touch with the reality of America, when you only have time to sit down with people who can write multi-thousand dollar checks. So in his Presidential campaign, Brown lived among ordinary people, depended on them for rides, and broke bread with them at their tables.He refused to accept more than $100 donations from any one person.The corporate media made fun of him.
Then Brown won Colorado, beating Bill Clinton soundly.The foundations of American power were shaken.Almost immediately, Ted Koppel’s Nightline, brought on several anonymous, hooded figures, to character assassinate Brown.It was all lies but Koppel didn’t seem to care, and the public didn’t care.Oh, those who really knew Brown were outraged, but the public bought it.His campaign was ruined, and Bill Clinton, the chosen one, sailed into power so that he could later enable trade agreements that would decimate American labor, and war crimes abroad.
His crimes included ad hoc bombings, boycotts and sanctions designed to starve human beings into submission, and supporting ethnic cleansing in brutal counterinsurgency warfare, and the devastation by bombing designed to return rogues to the stone age and keep them there.Of course it was “all for a good cause” we were told.I bought it.I thought, geez he’s a Democrat, this can’t really be a bad thing.
On June 26, 1993, Clinton bombed Baghdad to pay them back for an unproven plot to kill President George Bush.Eight Iraqi civilians, including the distinguished Iraqi artist Layla al-Attar were killed in the raid, and 12 more were wounded. This kind of unilateral action in response to an unproven charge is a violation of international law. In 1998 Clinton bombed Afghanistan and the Sudan. Unknown numbers were killed in Afghanistan (and by the missiles that accidentally landed in Pakistan), and the pharmaceutical factory destroyed in the Sudan was the major source of medical drugs in that poor country. All evidence points to the fact that the Sudan factory destroyed had no connection whatever to chemical weapons or Bin Laden, and was bombed on the basis of insufficient and poorly evaluated data. But following the attacks on U.S. embassies in Africa, Clinton felt compelled to act for internal political reasons once again, and there are no international constraints or costs to him or his country if he chooses to bomb small and weak countries to score political points at home.
Clinton’s sanctions on Iraq were brutal.According to UNICEF, more than one-million Iraqi children under five suffered malnutrition, which resulted in 4,000 to 5,000 children dying per month beyond normal death rates.
In the US war against Yugoslavia under Clinton, there were attacks on Yugoslav Television and 60% of overall NATO targets were civilian, including 33 hospitals and 344 schools, and 144 industrial plants.Targets included hotels, libraries, museums, churches, monasteries, youth centers, theatres, and housing estates. And today, we have a Hillary and Obama, darlings of the corporate media, who will end the war in Iraq . . . sort of . . . and have made no indication they will in any way change the business as usual in global politics and war empire.
Then, on the other hand, we have Ron Paul, who wishes to decimate the CIA militarist global empire and end this misery that supports resource theft and slave labor markets for corporations.
Who will the media make fun of?Who will the media smear?
What I find the saddest, is that Liberals and Progressives, who’ve I’ve worked side by side with in anti-war and human rights causes . . . will bleat like sheep, and parrot all the character assassinations the CIA plants in their corporate media lackey’s mouths.
It will be liberals and progressives who will turn on the last greatest hope we have of saving our democracy and ending the brutal CIA run global corporate empire. After 9/11, when the Democrats were licking the boots of Bush and the neo-cons, there was one shining knight who stood tall against them. Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney demanded to know what happened to the $2.3 TRILLION Rumsfeld said the Pentagon "lost." She demanded to know more about the connections between Bush and the Bin Laden family, and she demanded to know who ordered the mysterious war games to be held coincidentally on 9/11/2001, and why they were not called off when the attacks began. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RvLL--vSsA
For her courage her own Democratic Party leaders turned on her or turned away from her as the CIA controlled media hounds were unleashed upon her. This brave woman is now the Green Party Candidate, and if she garners the kind of support Ron Paul has, the CIA controlled media will turn on her again. And as before, the Democratic leadership will parrot the media's attacks on her.
Suddenly, I wake up and can hardly believe that I ever knew these people in the first place.It’s like invasion of the body snatchers, and they are all screaming their alarms at Ron Paul, the one candidate who has not been replaced with the soul of a CIA militarist pod.
On NBC's Meet the Press last week, Ron Paul shook the foundations of the illegal war mongering power structures of America. He'll have hell to pay. His only hope is that the people he is standing up for, the average peace and justice loving American, will stand up for Ron Paul.
By William E. Douglas, Jr., who is author of "The Amateur Parent – A Book on Life, Death, War & Peace, and Everything Else in the Universe." Bill has been a guest columnist for the Kansas City Star, The Business Journal, and other media worldwide. His past essays include, "Exposing the 9/11 Conspiracy Wingnuts," "The Explosion of the 9-11 Truth Movement -- US Media's Dirty Little Secret," "Good Night, and Good Luck - WMD, NIST, Popular Mechanics, 9/11 and Media Crimes" and also "Why the Jewish Community Should Demand 9/11 Truth."
Paul is good on ending the war and habeus corpus, but his views on the social contract, on the commons, on how society treats its weakest members seem, beyond lacking, to be neanderthal. I personally see him as the best of the GOP's batch of candidates, but look at what Fox is doing to him, cutting him out-- his rational side is unacceptable to the right wing.
The left won'l kill Ron Paul's chances. His own party will do it to him. The sad thing is that his loyal supporters don't see that the answer, if Paul is not successful in getting on the ticket, is to vote to the left, not tot he right.
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Rob Kall (748 articles, 3834 quicklinks, 320 diaries, 1613 comments)
on Saturday, December 29, 2007 at 6:37:34 AM
After seeing what the neo-cons have done, you'd be insane
After seeing what the neo-cons have done, you'd be insane to vote for any GOP candidate . . . accept Ron Paul.
After what the GOP has done to America, I could never vote for one, accept for Ron Paul.
Ron Paul is a shining knight among the field of candidates on both sides. My hope is a Ron Paul Presidency, and a Democratic landslide in the House and Senate.
I really can't believe anyone for Ron Paul could even begin to consider voting for the other neo-con Republicans. That is simply insane.
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Bill Douglas (68 articles, 2 quicklinks, 11 diaries, 434 comments)
on Sunday, December 30, 2007 at 3:21:13 AM
...not your conclusion. Pretty much everything you assign to the Democrats is fully endorsed by the Republicans that we have had for many years. We have the largest budget deficit ever and when they controlled both houses and the White House, with a "conservative" court they just kept on spending and printing and grew government to its present record size, 2.3 trillion just "unaccounted for" by the Pentagon, record trade deficit, record revolving credit defaults, record low dollar exchange, record mortgage foreclosures and downsized *nothing*. Bush and Congress were fully behind farm subsidies, alcohol crop subsidies, more federal agencies, more foreign aid, swarms of illegal aliens, more war, circumvention of court process, domestic spying, - you name it- and they got fired 2 years ago, as the current regime soon will be. They play the public like a video game with the false Dem-Repub "choices".
I have been a Republican for 24 years straight and this is the worst administration ever in any measure I can think of right now. I'm not apologizing for the Democrats either. It would have been the same with them, and *that* is my point.
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maxfirepower (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 7 comments)
on Sunday, December 30, 2007 at 11:24:11 PM
You are smarter than that. You know full well that the Hillaries of the world are bought and sold. The term i use is "machine" but "empire" works too. The more this plays out the clearer it is that the goal has to be fidning someone who is not beholden to the machine or empire. Paul and Kucinich seem to be the only two out there.
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Anthony Wade (137 articles, 2 quicklinks, 44 diaries, 446 comments)
on Saturday, December 29, 2007 at 1:00:57 PM
Don't forget Cynthia McKinney - a courageous hero - Green Pa
Don't forget Cynthia McKinney - a courageous hero - Green Party Candidate.
Cynthia McKinney when in Congress was the ONLY congressperson to grill Rumsfeld on the lost $2.3 trillion the DOD "lost," and the war games held on 9/11 (Cheney).
She's a hero and should be included here with Ron Paul, Kucinich.
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Bill Douglas (68 articles, 2 quicklinks, 11 diaries, 434 comments)
on Sunday, December 30, 2007 at 3:23:53 AM
She does appear to exhibit character as if she thought she was elected to help the people who elected her instead of the reverse. I think many do respect her motives if not all of her ideas, and I happen to have "R" on my voter card.
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maxfirepower (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 7 comments)
on Sunday, December 30, 2007 at 10:57:36 PM
I see no other candidate worth bothering with if Ron Paul doesn't get elected. Instead, the thing do do is to strike at political pressure points within the system either through legal action or political action.
The three main pressure points that I see are 1) 9-11 truth, i.e., exposing the official verison of events as the fairytale that it is, believeable only if you believe in cartoon physics, and 2) pushing for full disclosure legislation via ballot initiative anytime a social security number is asked for either by govt. or private sector, said disclosure needs to be in plain language. For instance, suppose that prior to sticking a form W-4 under your nose for you to sign, an employer had to tell you "Use of a social security number is 100% voluntary and not required to live or work in the United States. If you do not sign a W-4 or use a social security number, we won't be able to withhold FICA, and you won't be liable for federal income tax either, because you won't be making yourself a taxpayer. " I doubt that the income tax would last too long then. 3) is pushing for full notification as to the rights of jurors, i.e., jury nullification rights. Bye-bye war on drugs and bogus gun laws! Grand juries need to be fully informed as well, i.e., they need to know that they can independently go after government thugs and 4) judicial accountability initiative laws, aka JAIL4judges, go to http://www.jail4judges.org
If Ron Paul doesn't get elected, there are those 4 points plus hopefully if there is enough of a spirit of liberty that can be revived we can start massively boycotting the use of socialist slavestate numbers, driver's licenses, piss tests, etc. Another possible political action would be for people to obtain massive quantites of hemp seeds and start planting EVERYWHERE, particularly on the lawns of pigs, prostitutors, and FOSWATH's (Flatulent Old Slob Wielding A Toy Hammer) and politicians.
If the illegality of what is probably the worlds most useful plant grown on land doesn't cause you to consider that the govt. here is out of control insane I don't know what will.
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Pete (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 2 comments)
on Sunday, December 30, 2007 at 1:12:11 AM
As I stated in another post, if he's not nominated I'm pretty sure he'll be history's most popular write-in candidate cause we ain't choosing crap on white or crap on wheat again.
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maxfirepower (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 7 comments)
on Sunday, December 30, 2007 at 10:42:22 PM
Oh, don't get me wrong, the GOP will slash Ron Paul as well
No, I realize the GOP corporatists will slash and tear at Ron Paul. That goes without saying. The GOP has been the engine for the CIA militarist agenda, the corporate Democrats have only been the oil.
The reason I wrote this essay, is because after two decades of working side by side with Democrats and liberals in human rights, anti-nuclear, and environmental issues . . . people who know the savagery the CIA global militarism has unleashed on the world . . .
Seem to be blind to what Ron Paul is offering. His promise to end this brutal global militarist empire is revolutionary. Far beyond anything any Democrat has ever proposed.
It breaks my heart that people that I know who know of the global suffering that has gone on for decades will glibbly allow it to continue because of issues with Ron Paul that are far less important than the global militarism done in our name with our tax dollars, which enables the looting of much of the world for resources and slave labor.
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Bill Douglas (68 articles, 2 quicklinks, 11 diaries, 434 comments)
on Sunday, December 30, 2007 at 3:18:26 AM
The Left's Ron Paul is Dennis Kucinnich (with a twist)
Dennis Kucinnich's views (on foreign policy) are similar to Paul's - end war and concentrate on avoiding new ones. When you wonder why one would even wish to end war, you end up with the ultimate answer - that, (as was said in the Viet Era Slogan) "War is not healthy for children and other living things". Put another way - people (and other living things) need to come before ALL ELSE. This is where Dennis Kucinnich's policies leave Ron's in the dust. If Ron Paul ever was to survive his own party's hit list, perhaps Democratic Houses could keep his disastrous home policies in check (at least we could stop war and foreign policy blunders). Even as a (non-corporatist) Democrat, I'd vote for Ron over Hillary, or Obama. I guess in today's politics, if you go up against big Pharma, The AMA and the healthcare insurance industry, you are bound to make enough enemies to just about insure your own political demise, so John Edwards is trying to find an area of compromise there. (Hillary from what I know is getting large donations from these industries). The race will be interesting (for a short while).
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Brad (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 31 comments)
on Sunday, December 30, 2007 at 7:14:13 AM
And we are not going to support his opponents in *either* party since they are with few exceptions genetically similar outside of possibly Kucinich who, though I wouldn't vote for, I rather respect for his refusal to be cowed.
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maxfirepower (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 7 comments)
on Sunday, December 30, 2007 at 10:46:07 PM
... Unless, and until, America gets it's economic house in order first.
For me, that means legalizing the Constitution, abolishing the IRS, and allowing for a competing currency... until such time as the FED has loosened its unlawful monopoly control over our economy.
Hopefully, by that time, Congress will finally be persuaded to repeal the 16th Amendment altogether - thereby undoing perhaps the greatest swindle in American history!
Only Ron Paul, at this time, still has a chance to cut the war machine down to proper size - something Bill Clinton failed to adequately do.
With the similar shrinking of the police state and the corporatocracy, maybe we can act like responsible progressives again.
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bejeezus (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 14 comments)
on Monday, December 31, 2007 at 3:22:58 AM
if H. Clinton takes the Presidency..............next time there's a drug company in question...........she won't bomb it...........she'll nuke it..........
You know Bill, most all people are fed up with this "shoot from the hip" type government and it's leaders.............more and more folks are learning we are actually going down the tubes, our wealth, our liberty, our whole monetary system is in the swirl of the toilet..........
Honestly speaking, I don't see another way out of it..........this madness has to stop now................In saying that, how can any sane person not vote for change, a rational turnaround...to say the least, saving their children from years of suffering to pay the debts of foolish men...........
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Ernest (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 132 comments)
on Saturday, December 29, 2007 at 7:50:27 AM
I have always been closer to the left. MY "left" objectives include with the highest priority:
1) the ending of pre-emptive war and the end of our empire for moral, legal and economic reasons.
2) as RP would say "sound money" so the middle class is not double taxed through infation caused by printing of $$ and so wars can not be financed without explicit taxation of the people.
3) a saftey net inluding basic medical care for all, social security, etc. . They include some basic employee rights like minimum wage, safty, labor unions, ...
Other social issues e.g. abortion, mariage, etc. are less important and they are there to distract us from the first three. In any case as RP would say they are better solved at the state and local level where individuals have more direct control.
Electing Ron Paul for 4-8 years with a democratic congress will probably take care of the first two objectives in the first 4 years and free enough funds to make it realistic to hope to get the third in the next 4-12 years.
That is why the all left should vote for RP. That is why all Americans should vote for RP left middle and right. The only ones that should not vote for him know who they are.
Happy New Year
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Andreas Papanicolaou (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 2 comments)
on Saturday, December 29, 2007 at 10:04:54 AM
And THANK YOU for your hard work to make a positive difference for ALL Americans. I lived in Manhattan Beach CA and worked as a precinct inspector for the registrar's office 1992. Jerry Brown and Perot had the most support in my district. Election night, after the polls closed, I drove with a poll worker to the ballot drop off. We listened to the radio while we waited in a long line of headlights, with tens of thousands of ballots in locked boxes waiting to be counted. I'll never forget hearing on the radio shortly after 8:15 pm, Clinton won. I thought, "How the hell is that possible?" That is how I came to volunteer with Nader for the next three elections. It didn't matter to me that I didn't agree with the Greens 100%. Nader didn't agree with the Greens 100%. But we agreed then, as those supporting Ron Paul do now, WE NEED A REGIME CHANGE on the right and left, and so we worked together. I've given three elections to the Greens (who should be ashamed for what they did to Ralph Nader in 2004) It doesn't suprize me one bit that they would not recipocate. But I'm with many of my old buddies from Nader days, having a hell of a great time campaigning for Ron Paul, while the progressives are NO WHERE anywhere near nominating who will be the next president. They have stood like mules chained to a fence for four years now at Democrat offices protesting a war. The elected Democrats laugh at them because they PROOVE, they have NO PLACE TO GO, and that's why we see such mean and bitter posts from them.
Look at Rob Kall's Blogg...look at his years of posts. He got more hits yesterday with Ron Paul than he has in months combined before he kinda opened his mind. I appreciate the opportunity he gave "society" to debate Ron Paul with progressives. I learned that the rEVOLution is bigger than the progressive community. The "progressives" who are not supporting Ron Paul have "other agendas" besides stoping the war or establishing justice.
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Jeanette Doney (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 6 diaries, 304 comments)
on Saturday, December 29, 2007 at 10:50:40 AM
The idiot right wingers need to get a brain. The Democratic Party is not the left. Both the Democratic and Republican parties have always been imperialist parties. The Left is against imperialism, corporatism/ fascism, and all forms of totalitarianism.
Ron Paul has some good ideas but I don't trust him. I support Dennis Kucinich the only candidate who truly supports defending the Constitution and the Bill Of Rights and the interests of the working class.
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Ty (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 691 comments)
on Saturday, December 29, 2007 at 12:28:56 PM
If I may ask, what is it that you don't trust about Paul? If you disagree, that I can understand but he has a long and painfully consistent record in congress; really no secrets about his intentions. He has made plenty of "mainstream" Repub. enemies for stating them in Repub. debates. Rather *like* Kucinich who just goes ahead and says what he thinks.
Curious.
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maxfirepower (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 7 comments)
on Sunday, December 30, 2007 at 10:39:08 PM
not agendas. I cant believe Rob is still juggling the right/left fable. We are being destroyed by the right and left Rob. We know that RP cant "save" us, but if we all join the effort to derail the corporate machine there would be more of a chance of succe
