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ASCULUM, PART ONE: The Plot Thickens (or Why Am I Not Surprised?)

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Penny Pritzker, his billionaire fund raiser,
is an American, sub-prime mortgage queen,
who helped develop, introduce and securitize these derivatives
for sale in America and to investors overseas.

His vice-president is the “Senator from MasterCard”,
the multi-millionaire who fought to make it harder
for regular Americans to declare bankruptcy,
since he represents the world’s capital of corporate charters.

Bankruptcy law used to insure
that debtors kept paying their mortgages,
but “Biden’s” bill makes them pay off credit cards first
and sets up them to lose their homes to foreclosure.

Joe Biden was for invading Iraq as long ago as the 1990s,
and he’s such a fervent Israel-firster, he considers himself a Zionist.

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Obama’s Transition Team has three co-chairs…

Multimillionaire John Podesta,
one of DC’s most successful lobbyists
works to get our representatives to vote
not in our, but his clients’ corporate interests:
big oil and tobacco, Big Pharma,
genetically-modified food manufacturers,
Wal-Mart and the chemical industry,
and the biggest of America’s defense contractors.

But this Transition team has “strict guidelines” for lobbyists.

His friend from Illinois, Valerie Jarrett
heads a Chicago real estate company
that worked with the Chicago administration
and received millions in local and federal subsidies
to oversee public housing which turned
into squalid, uninhabitable slum properties.

Peter Rouse served as Chief of Staff
to Democratic Senator Tom Daschle.
He took the same position with an inexperienced Senate freshman
who was being groomed by the DLC and Democratic establishment.

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Obama’s presidential Chief of Staff is Rahm Emanuel,
multi-millionaire former investment banker,
who with Clinton “reformed” welfare and helped to ram NAFTA
down the throats of environmentalists and labor.

He’s a leading member of the rightwing
Democratic Leadership Council
who says he’ll rein in remaining
Democratic Congressional liberals.
He volunteered for Israel’s IDF,
has dual US-Israeli citizenship
and the Israeli press touts him
as “Our man in the White House”
who’ll set the president’s agenda,
and control access to Obama’s Oval Office.

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Barack Obama will improve on the War of Terror
by bombing and invading Pakistan.
He’ll leave 140,000 mercenaries in Iraq,
and expand the war in Afghanistan.
He’s not ruling out a nuclear first strike
in a pre-emptive attack on Iran.
And he’ll restore 9/11’s lost opportunity
to unite the world behind American aggression.

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Vi's works appear widely both in print and online. She conducts Poetry Workshops and gives readings in Central New York. Her latest chapbook is "Sine Qua Non Antiques (an Arcanum of History, Geography and Treachery).
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