Another task of investor owned mainstream media has to do maintaining the inculcated fantastic belief that US presidents have the personal power to do whatever they have a mind to do. This contributes to shielding from public scrutiny those investors of incalculable secret power which derives from their managing trillions of dollars and making decisions accordingly, decisions that will be attributed by subservient media to beholden office holders. The last aristocratic and wealthy insider U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt confided to us via a now published aside to an associate, "you and I know this government has been owned by a financial element in the centers of power since the 1830s." [6] Endless media produced speculation on what any 'emperor' president will or will not due is mostly entertainment. A president is going to be doing what the most powerful faction of investors on Wall Street needs done, or else. (Four were assassinated)
The above notwithstanding, during election campaigns, what candidates promise to do can be an indication of what his or her financial and political backers are trending toward having the candidate 'do' if elected, kind of running by the electorate to see its effect.
During the recent election campaign Trump, with wars promoting media either ridiculing him or making a blatant over the top show of frightened opposition, has amazingly maintained among other things that the five trillion dollars spent on wars for regime change death and destruction in the Middle East should have been spent in the US rebuilding its infrastructure, that America should have friendship with Russia and China, that he would get along fine with Putin and Xi Jinping, that NATO is obsolete, that his fellow Republican previous US President Bush had lied in order to invade Iraq and that he was suspicious about 9/1, for it having happened on Bush's watch, that he didn't think Senator McCain, the previous Republican candidate for president, was a hero for being shot down while bombing Hanoi, and finally and most important, that 80% of mainstream media commentators and reporters were also liars, was carefully TV managed into obscurity. Wars promoting media guaranteed the African American vote by casting the billionaire as a unmitigated racist.
Though manipulative media as usual portray the election as a battle of personalities, it is inconceivable that Trump does not have a powerful segment among the rulers of America behind him.
The recent media managed US election theatre appeared to this author a playing out in public of indecision within the rich one tenth of one percent, who rule America and most of the world, indecision over whether to switch to less profitable investing in their home base America and Europe, or to continue wildly enriching themselves, heavily investing in the much higher profit rendering low wage economies of the rest of the world, thereby accelerating forward the arrival of the time when emerging economies of 3rd World nations led by China will overtake the US and Europe in economic and political power and demand equity. Economist Magazine predicts in effect that the economies of majority humankind's plundered 3rd world will come to dwarf those of the plundering 1st World.] Realizing this, leaders of 1/10th of 1% who rule America seem to have Trump demanding investment in the US instead of in the low wage 3rd World that China will soon lead.
Billionaire Republican candidate Donald Trump seems to have been designated by a forward thinking powerful mass of investors to present a demand that government force America's wealth controlling deep-pockets to invest in a United States suffering from neglect, rather than continue to promote investing more profitably in the low wage economies of developing nations regardless of the consequences of speeding up development of future contenders for world power. [see The Chinese Century By Joseph Stiglitz, Vanity Fair, 2014]
This group of major investors must be aware that hugely populated China will inevitably replace America as the world's most influential society and have therefore enabled Trump to come near to suggesting that it be better for the US to stop investing in profitable genocidal and illegal use of its Armed Forces, CIA, State Department, media and sanctions, for once the U.S. no longer has control of the UN and its courts and has lost the power to sanction, an plethora of lawsuits can be expected for compensation, indemnity and reparations for tens of millions of unlawful deaths, injuries, malformed births, increased incidence of disease, mega destruction of property and colossal theft of natural resources. (Of course, though Trump might seem to be reproaching ruling investors in genocide with a least some of the truth, Trump dare not awaken sympathy for the innocent millions of victims of US firepower.)
"According to conservative estimates, by 2017, China will overtake the United States as the world's largest economy, and by 2050, its economy will be twice as large as that of the United States. Chinese influence will extend well beyond the economic sphere. The full social, cultural and political repercussions of China's ascendancy will be felt sooner. In the coming decades, the West will be confronted with the fact that its systems, institutions and values are no longer the only ones on offer." [When China Rules the World -The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order by Martin Jacques] [see also China Rising - Capitalist Roads Socialist Destinations by Jeff Brown]
If estimates of world economic power shifting to the East and South and led by China in twenty-five years are correct, the affect on America and Europe of the coming economic, political and cultural change might become apparent rather soon, and would appear to be already causing an argument among the rich and powerful as to future foreign policy.
Since the election, imperialist media has continued to denigrate, ridicule and slander as racist a president-elect, who is obviously backed by a powerful faction on Wall Street, but by the look of things, a faction not yet as powerful as the sector heavily investing in munitions and weapons of mass destruction which has totally controlled entertainment and information media corporations since the CIA's Operation Mockingbird in the early 1950s. [7]
With the reader's permission, some background regarding the continuing over the top media disparaging of the president-elect along with wild anti-Russian propaganda of mere insinuations not simply to make a case for war warning Hillary Clinton having been denied the presidency, but to reinstall the expectations and public acceptance of world war that had been propagated before an election campaign in which billionaire Now, nevertheless, wars justifying media are back on track, calling for military confrontation with Russia, while making sure those Trump arguments for a more peaceful foreign policy are never heard or discussed. (Remember before the election most all independent journalists were predicting a doomsday scenario of a third world war.)
Just as all the dozens of US bombings, invasions and occupations beginning with Korea having been justified with fake news coming from investors in munitions control of 98% of all the sources of information,[7] Americans are again being prepared for a probable dire necessity of war with Russia and China. Remember that this was the case before the election when all most all independent journalist were predicting a doomsday scenario of a third world war. Then came billionaire Trump's never heard of before call for friendship with Russia and China. Now media is back on track, calling for military confrontation with Russia, while making sure those Trump arguments for a more peaceful foreign policy are never heard or discussed. (Remember before the election most all independent journalists were predicting a doomsday scenario of a third world war.) It remains to be seen if the faction favoring building up the homeland before the inevitable loss of economic and political hegemony to China, which former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark believes will bring about fortuitous changes in the nature of life in America, auguring the idealistic final sentence of Martin Luther Kings' sermon, Beyond Vietnam - a Time to Break Silence, "we will be able to speed up the day, all over America and all over the world, when justice will roll down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream."
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