dihey has nailed it here. Welcome to the slippery slope of neoliberal equivocation. The corporate mentality remains supreme, it is just that the liberal version believes they have smarter “products” than their right wing counterparts. Spare change we can believe in?
Supplying the cabinet with hawkish clowns is a real hoot. More money for guns. More boots on the ground. What a crock.
Strongest military on the planet, to ensure prosperity? Isn’t that what Mission Accomplished was purported to have done?
Team Obama actually has convinced themselves that this posse of Washington insiders will actually accomplish something. But what will be accomplished? Perhaps a more efficient way to push the rest of the world around? As President-elect Obama has stated: “American values are America’s greatest export to the world.”
Is it all that surprising that so many of the status quo now praise Obama’s choices for the cabinet?

Obama-swooners are telling me that I cannot criticize the president elect because “he has not done anything yet.”

Well, here is a quotation from one of his latest speeches:“To ensure prosperity here at home and peace abroad, we all share the belief we have to maintain the strongest military on the planet.”

Whaaaat? Prosperity? I thought that armies were needed to protect us from invasions.

When you have read “The Limits of Power” by Andrew J. Bacevich you begin to understand that Obama is not a “changer” but an unreconstructed continuation of traditional US imperialism.

According to Bacevich “ensuring prosperity here at home” is exactly the justification for the maintenance of our industrial-military complex.

Translate Obama’s quotation and you will get: “we have to maintain the strongest military on the planet to keep our grip on oil, copper, tungsten and numerous other imports from abroad. These imports must be protected by military might lest we will have the living standard of the Congo.”

Mr. Obama, I am one person who does not share your saber-rattling ideology.

The neocons have been delighted with Obama’s appoitments, as judged by their media comments.  And the NYTimes and the other Zionist media also approve. And Obama apologists bid us to wait and not comment because it is too early, as it always will be. 

But Obama has united the Gops and Dems around his appointments, as he said he wanted to.  So he has gained the support of the Elite consensus.  It is only the population that has been left out.

Clinton has repeatedly said, “I’ve been a strong supporter of Israel’s right to build a security barrier to keep terrorists out. I have spoken out against the International Court of Justice for questioning Israel’s right to build that fence of security.”

International Law states occupation is to be temporary and that the occupiers are not to transfer their population into occupied territory.

And what RIGHT has anyone to put a fence up on somebody else’s property?

When The Wall is super-imposed on a map of Palestinian aquifers, it clearly illuminates that The Wall is all about grabbing land and resources from the indigenous peoples of the land.

“Financed with U.S. aid at a cost of $1.5 million per mile, the Israeli wall prevents residents from receiving health care and emergency medical services. In other areas, the barrier separates farmers from their olive groves which have been their families’ sole livelihood for generations.” [Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, Page 43, Jan/Feb. 2007]

American taxpayers provide to the state of Israel, “$1.8 billion a year in military aid and $1.2 billion in economic aid, plus another $1 billion or so in miscellaneous grants, mostly in military supplies, from various U.S. agencies. Tax exempt contributions destined to Israel bring up the total to over $5 billion annually.”

IMAGINE how many Americans could receive basic and humane health care with that funding!

The Rest:

Quit Breakin’ my Heart Obama: This Time it’s with the Democrat Demimondaine

http://www.wearewideawake.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1117&Itemid=213

No one in this bipartisan, multiracial, multi-gender, multi-ideological, co-operative ‘team’ of supposed rivals is going to be out of step, for the simple reason that they are all (for the first time) working for the same ruling-elite ‘corporate financial Empire’, and it’s crucially important that they not rock the boat if global hegemony is to be established and maintained.

Both the ‘new’ war-team, and the ‘new’ financial-team are indivisibly linked in the ruling-elite’s plans for more overt Empire.

Per the “war cabinet” as the WSJ and Brit Hume on FOX TV call it — Gen. James Jones is very instructive.

Jones happens to be the “president and chief executive of the United States Chamber of Commerce Institute for 21st Century Energy”.

Jones’s message is endorsed by the whole establishment board of COCI, including; Spencer ‘oily’ Abraham, George ‘racist’ Allen, Frank ‘Carlyle Group’ Carlucci, Dr. Henry ‘war criminal’ Kissinger, Dr. George ‘I gave you dubya’ Shultz, and other assorted corporate/government crooks, in an Open Letter to the ‘changeable’ new President Elect —- which advocates, what George Bush infamously termed, “whatever it takes”, to keep their ruling-elite energy Empire:

http://www.uschamber.com/xxi/open_letter.html

The reason that the war-cabinet and the finance-cabinet are so key to what this global Empire plans is that oil, money and war are just different sides of the Empire’s pyramid scheme.

Oil and money are today the two-sides of global hegemony and power, while war is the means to monopolize both.

How many times, during this latest financial crisis, have we heard, “we must live within our means economically” and yet the ‘corporate financial Empire’ insists that certain crucial aspects of their ruling financial empire, like CITI, Goldman, BofA, etc. are “too big to fail”.

The same is true of energy. Average Americans are warned to “live within their means” on energy, but domestic energy is only 5%, while the U.S. uses 25% — and when that does not balance, any more than Wall Street’s finances balance, the answer that the empire’s talking-heads give on TV is that certain countries (like Iraq) and whole areas of the world are simply “too important to fail” — thus, like the money centers of the empire, these energy centers of the same empire need to be saved (for the ruling-elite) with our money and our sons’ blood.

— Alan MacDonald

Isn’t that odd.  Here we are in the biggest economic crisis since the Great Depression and a Dem Progressive, campaigning on Change You Can Believe In breaks out for his maiden effor a SECURITY team of advisers.  Well, obviously there must be a security crisis of some kind, perhaps Canada or Mexico plan on invading us, or Genada again plotting to seize and control the entire strategic Nutmeg spice.

Or maybe that is just what Obama was elected by the power structure to do, the same kind of Security that Bush did.  Many people contributed money to Obama but over 80% came from contributions over a thousand dollars.  And naturally the power structure wants security, especially from the American population when they continue to increase class inequality. 

So Obama is committed to increasing the police and military and expanding the Afghan war to Pakistan, possibly bombing Iran, and he has a high powered and experienced staff to help him do so.  And this can now be done under the supervision of a black face rather than a white one, just as the lies about weapons of mass destruction was told to the UN by Powell, with Tenet sitting ostensibly behind him.

How could Obama display his financial staff when they are committed to precisely the same neoliberal globalization as Bush.  And of course with the War On Terrorism taking so much money, and the finanical crisis, we may have to wait for the fulfillment of all the wonderful promises made in the campaign.  So the power structure will be militarily secure instead of the population being finacially secure.

But now this isn’t done by the Gops, but by the Dems.  Change You Can Beleive In.

“What exactly is this foreign experience she’s claiming? I know she talks about visiting 80 countries. It is not clear, was she negotiating treaties or agreements, or was she handling crises during this period of time? My sense is the answer’s ‘no’.”

—Barack Obama, March 5, 2008

Mr. Obama, as most of your cabinet members sank the previous round why should I believe that they can walk on water now?

Like observers at a sporting event we can watch what is happening and make our comments, for whatever they are worth. But there is no way we can know what it is really like to be on that playing field.

I can only think that Hillary’s new post is Obama’s assurance that she (and her husband) will now be under his control.  Other than that, her job qualifications, not to mention her direct opposition to Obama’s stated foreign policies, must qualify her for something in his administration, but what escapes me.

Let’s hope she doesn’t have another Kosovo-like memory lapse regarding some foreign hot bed thus adding more fuel to the already burning world-wide bonfires.