It is all just WAAAYY too much..I dont think that it is helping the Dems. But , it seems that the Dems abandoned the Dems long ago.

I, myself, have had enough “cool”—I’d like to see a little warmth. The rest of the world, except for a few, must think that we are crazy, having seen our economy, the “wars on terror” (bs), and, now, it is a 24/7 party. (Actually, some UK and Canadians have complained!) If I heart one more talking head pundit say “Rondald Reagan”’, I will throw my tv set through their winodow! I will drive there and do it.

I cant imagine that, even the Dem fan base, is still entertained!

To Sleeper——I appreciate your comments concerning
light and darkness.  Having studied the Bible for 32
years, I believe we will eventually reach the light
but are going to have to go through a period of
extreme darkness.  When we went through darkness
through the roaring 20’s it took a “great depression”
to turn some people back to the light.  Presently,
we are in a period much darker than the roaring 20’s
and I am afraid it is going to take great suffering
to try to turn people back to the light.

Your statements are probably true.  Like I said it is “The Greatest Show on Earth”.

The Inauguration is a new day.

I comment on appointments and I am displeased with a few, but if you hope to reduce bias & bigotry, you must release prejudice.

There are plans for every contention, yet there is hope until actions are taken.  The Constitution provides for majority rule, yet guarentees minority rights.  Any Global solutions must be sought within a similar context or it will be nothing more then dominance. 

Dreams of dominance are given voice in the shadows and manifest through the selling of belief.  Free thought lives in the light.

“The light shines in the darkness though the darkness does not understand it.”

All faiths are grounded in the belief that the light comes from a source that will not or can not be extinguished.

It is a result of a Devine spark.  “Eternal”, The Alpha and the Omega.

Elegantly stated, beer doctor, the American people went with Obama because he looked better on television.  Obama is a gigantic historical publicity stunt, like the Warren Commission, the 9/11-anthrax homicide, and Freedom and Democracy.

He is not even Black on the inside, having been raised by White parents and grandparents.  His mother, so far from being the conventional religous mom depicted in the mainstrream truth, was a free spirit in a way that Obama is not.  He was mentored by Zbig, trained by the intelligence agencies, managed by the Zionists, to continue the Bushite counter revolution.

You have to hand it to the American ruling class, they are really good at public relations.  It is a by-product of all the advertising and lobbying they do to sell their products.  Obama is taking the same train ride as Lincoln to bring us together to support Bushite policies.  Heartwarming.

I wonder how effective it will be.  Apparently there is a gender difference in the Hope Obama arouses, women being more influenced than men.  And women seem so much more realistic in other ways.  apparently the Image overides the reasonable truth.  But for how long, I wonder.

Despite all the hand wringing and thinking (what some might call “a real brain burger”) most of the electorate decided to go with Barry because he simply looks better on television. I know this change is really just a cosmetic one, but it is nevertheless damn important to a country that watches American Idol. Its about time we have a handsome black couple in the White House. BHO comes across as cool and polite, with a family that seems equally up to the task.
It seems kind of ludicrous to imagine Obama going to rock the boat, after spending an extraordinary amount of time first getting aboard this ship, by convincing those who actually profit from this mad house, that he is not dangerous, radical or a threat to their power. Ask Reverend Wright.
And what is his ultimate task, now that he is elected? But of course, to ensure that he gets re-elected. For Team Obama there is no “four and out”. They are there for the long haul. Political strategy never sleeps.

Wake up Americans…that’s EXACTLY what Israel does.  It has bought every single politician and dumbshit evangelical christian off. 

Olmert clearly showed the arrogance of the chosen people…they think they own the world.  And until you idiots wake up, they do. God knows why…but they do.

Read and weep.  The dogs of world war are howling…

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=11743

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=11800

We have made great strides in this latest election.  The Senator has yet to utter the oath of office.  When he does then we can hold him accountable.  His oath is to Protect and Defend The Constitution of The United States of America.

It has never been to ensure global prosperity of the business that ensures I have this power.  It has never been to ensure that a certain global enterprise be feed its opperating expenses at the expense of the blood and fortunes of the citizens of The United States.

When they allow the actions of this 111th Congress to not act in accordance with the above oath we must protest.  When they allow agents of this Government to arrest citizens for peaceful Protest.(Like the members of “The March of The Dead”) we must insure it receives the attention of the media or that industry has been allowed to deprieve us of our Guarenteed Rights and requires more regulation.  We must not allow the Unconstitutional Laws contained in The Patriot Act or Military Commissions Act to stand.

We will see.  The show is about to unfold.  It deserves the pagentry.  It is “The Greatest Show on Earth”.  “All the World is a stage and all the men and women merely Players”.

Sleeper—I agree, but look at what you said:

“We became apathetic.  We now have opportunity.  We must demand a restoration of our Constitution.  We must Regulate the Globally Industrial Behemoths.  WE must procecute our War Criminals.  Our THEY will have failed in their good faith Dept. (emphasis on we and they are mine)

We must do this and that or THEY will have failed in the good fatih dept? Are we responsible? If we are, they cannot fail us—we fail ourselves if we continue to put faith in the same parties over and over and over and over..

I am not just parsing words here. I think that alot has been made on the Left of what WE must do to “help” or “push”
our leaders—why the hell dont they just do what’s right anyway”? Why do we keep electing them?? HOw can we “push them ” to do what we want, when they obviously have different agendas, related to Wall St, Israeli lobby, etc., even as the majority of citizes dont support it??

That is where WE fail..

KDelphi,

I really think the Founding Fathers were far more insightful then the mouthpieces that are sponsored into their positions today.  They Don’t serve “We The People”  they serve the lobbiest’s.  The Israeli Lobby is substantial along with the ones from Energy, Defense, Insurance, Pharmacutcal, & don’t forget Banking.

“They all have been robbing “We The People”.

These quotes from section of two of our most sacred Documents who they felt were best served printed on paper made from Hemp.  That is no longer legally grown in the United States goes to show you just how perverted “We The People” have allowed it to get.

Declaration of Independence

That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,—That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

Preamble of The Constitution of the United States

We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

It is up to “WE THE PEOPLE” to let them know that we know they are being bought and we will continue to put the spotlight on those who not treat the sacred documents with due respect.  It is only by these documents that they have their positions. 

We became apathetic.  We now have opportunity.  We must demand a restoration of our Constitution.  We must Regulate the Globally Industrial Behemoths.  We must procecute our War Criminals.  Our they will have failed in their good faith Dept.

JOn—Yes president. Not universal executive nor monarch.

The American people need to put the presidency back where it belongs! Making Obama into a Monarch will serve us no better than—-well, a little better than Duybya being Monarch.

But, we dont need a Monarch. He is not my “commander in chief”. And, Congress is an equal branch. I dont like Reid, but, he’s right—-they dont work for him. Nor Bush. But, just because the executive is now someone you “like” doesnt mean that it is not time to correctly return to the co-equal branches.

It seems to me , that, more tax cuts for business , equals more trickle down.

People are so sick of it (the nouveau poor, anyway) that, the next party in powers’ job, will be to throw the poor a bone, to prevent revolution. Restore capitalism by letting the former middle class sit at the table and lick up crumbs—-I mean $500…

“Here is $500—go spend it at Wal Mart” “Haves and have mores—-keep your tax cuts AND here is some more for your business~!”

The Pentagon.

“.. it was signed, there were off-the-record comments to the press that “combat troops” is an elastic category; removing equipment would take much longer than the document called for; and after all, this deal was with a fragile Iraq government facing elections, and agreements can be renegotiated.”

I am afraid , as to whether this means, that “non-combat troops” (ie Blackwater, DynaCorp, etc.) will REMAIN!

I hope that the WAR WILL CONTINUE—between the newly emboldened American people and the govt—-to STOP the “wars”.

I am not holding my breath, but, ....

This article by Robert Parry poses the most significant question relating to the upcoming Presidency of Barrack Obama.

Who will he side with “WE THE PEOPLE” who have dedicated our lives, the well being of our Families, and far to often the lives of our Family members.

He may very likely choose to cover - up the LIES that live in the Shadows as the past administrations have and continue a more subtler assault on our Constitution.

This show is about to begin.  We have seen the promo’s.  He will take his oath to “WE THE PEOPLE” in a few days then he will show his “TRUE COLOR’S” as we see the change he will deliver unfold.

Bush’s Only Gift to America

By Robert Parry
January 17, 2009

George W. Bush’s gift to the American Republic may be that he has discredited a host of right-wing theories and practices – “trickle-down economics”; “self-regulating markets”; “tough-guy” foreign policy; the “imperial presidency”; and the notion that “government is the problem.”

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/011709.html

Informed Comment

Saturday, January 17, 2009

Israel Should Stop the War and Let US Enjoy the Inauguration;

Cease fire Mooted;
55 Palestinians Killed Friday, including Little Girls

“There are rumors that the Israeli government may declare a unilateral cease fire Saturday. They had better. Because if they ruin the Obama inauguration by splashing the bloody bodies of dead Palestinian children all over the press during the next few days, no Americans, even the most pro-Israeli, are going to forgive them. The war has left 1,140 Palestinians dead, over 300 children, and over 5,000 wounded including many women and children, as well as 13 Israelis (4 of them civilians killed by rocket fire). We pay for these wars, we provide the fighter jets, bombs, and tanks. And we don’t want our money used for this sanguinary purpose in the first place; we have enough to be guilty about all on our own. And we especially don’t want to hear a peep from over there while we swear in our first African-American president.”

http://www.juancole.com/

Inherit The Wind,

I like how you described a purge in the military.  I really know little concerning a similar purge of the CIA, but I have noticed good men who were once anylyst help expose to the public some things that a secret society might want to keep secret.

It seems to me that the CIA and Mosad have been behind creating most confrontations in the middle east at least before the Israeli’s had the PLO surrounded in the Beirut International Airport.  I think that era is the most significant concerning the development of successful suicide/car bombs.  It started with embassy’s and reached out to the Marine Barracks that killed 241 Marines via a truck bomb.

9/11/2001 was a False Flag operation at least it was a terrorist operation that was assisted with knowledge and actions that helped it to be more devastating then it could have been with mere A/C and jet fuel. 

When you add to that a history of Bin Laden working with assistance from the CIA since roughly the early 80’s and over the counter business associations between George H.W. Bush and the Bin Laden Family at the bigginning of W.‘s Presidency.

H.W. was Vice President under Reagan and director of the CIA prior to the 80’s.  It isn’t that hard to imagine a Shadow Force within our Government easily willing to kills American civilians and military in order to munipulate public will and therefore the spending of their tax dollars without proper oversight.

Who is in Control???

ITW writes:

“Let us not forget that much of the mess in the M/E is due to Bush neglecting the Israeli / Palestinian issues for the first 4 years of his administration.  “If I don’t pay attention maybe it will go away!”...just like Katrina and the financial crisis went away…”

No, ITW, that’s not really true. Bush did not neglect the issue. What he did is very actively and brutally address the issue according to his ideology.

He adopted the neoconservative approach to the problem, as outlined in the 1996 Clean Break paper, the PNAC manifesto, and other myriad documents of neocon ideology. This approach calls for the undertaking of a series of wars in the Middle East to destroy Israel’s enemies, a primary step in the execution of plan being the destruction of Iraq. Bush is a sincere convert, probably by way of his born-again Christianity as well as his foreign policy tutoring by Richard Perle, to an Israel-centric, Manichean world view.

With all the zeal of a convert, Bush believes - probably as strongly as Bibi Netanyahu - that Israel is God’s chosen nation, whose aggrandizement is to be pursued with unrelenting violence toward the inferior Arab peoples who refuse to accept subordination to Israel.

In the midst of all the silliness about Israel controlling the President (absurd, no matter WHAT an Israel politician says, they are like a flea on a dog’s back thinking he’s steering the dog) there is some hope.

Pfaff missed it, of course.  He’s so biased he can’t walk a straight line.

Why is the military so difficult on Iraq? BECAUSE GEORGE W. BUSH PURGED IT OF DISSENTING OFFICERS!  So the answer is simple: President Obama should take a page from Bush’s book and start firing generals who buck him and lie to him—just like Bush did. 

And Obama will have at his right hand just the man to advise him about which officer is rational, who is a fanatic and should be retired, and who is a butt-kisser who can’t be trusted.  That would be his new head of the VA, Gen. Erik Shinseki, the man who was RIGHT about Iraq right from the beginning and was fired by Bush because of it.  With Shinseki’s help, Obama can gather the smarter, less-fanatic and honest senior officers around him to ensure the Army cuts out the crap it’s been doling out since Bush made it clear that disagreement was doom (kinda like Stalin, only without the bullet in the back of the head).

Let us not forget that much of the mess in the M/E is due to Bush neglecting the Israeli / Palestinian issues for the first 4 years of his administration.  “If I don’t pay attention maybe it will go away!”...just like Katrina and the financial crisis went away…

In 1953, President Eisenhower said, “Beware of the
industrial-military complex.”  Well, guess what folks?  The industrial-military complex has arrived.

By Tony Wicher, January 16 at 4:22 pm #

By Folktruther, January 16 at 4:09 pm #

Louise—Good diggning into the rathole of reality.  But didn’t greed and profits fund Obaama?

    x=x=x=x=x=x=x=x=x=x=x=x=x=x

Nope, the majority of his funding came from hard-working folks like me.

~~~~

And me.

By the way “Folktruther” ... diggning? Is that like dingaling, diddling, or Diddle Dee and Diddle Dumb?

Or doncha know?

Maybe you’ve been burrowing to the bottom of your hole for to long. [Need to come up for air, promise ... we wont hurt you!]

Or maybe ... maybe it’s time you-all accept, you lost the civil war because you were on the wrong side!

Tony Wicher—There’s quite a difference between you giving money to Obama a a rich neoloiberal Zionst imperialist.  You will back Obama no matter how much he sells out the progressives who voted for him (He’s so smart!). 

But when the ruling class invests money in a Democratic candidate, they expect a policy return.  They don’t identify with their own oppression and the oppression of their fellows.  As you do.

PT
The comparison was quite effective.

By Folktruther, January 16 at 4:09 pm #

Louise—Good diggning into the rathole of reality.  But didn’t greed and profits fund Obaama?

      x=x=x=x=x=x=x=x=x=x=x=x=x=x

Nope, the majority of his funding came from hard-working folks like me.

Nazis and Zionists:  A photographic comparison

Click on http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/article.php?pg=11&ar=2510

Louise—Good diggning into the rathole of reality.  But didn’t greed and profits fund Obaama?  And did they do it out of the goodness of their hearts or because of a quid pro quo.  Or is that still not part of the reality rathole for you.

How long, O Louise, are you going to continue to support the agent of Greed and Profit.

Israel—killer country with killer weapons.
Will Obamaman stand up to them or drink AIPAC’s cool-aid?

I’ve had this since 2006 I received it from Veteran’s For Peace.  Being a Combat Vet from Beirut, Lebanon I’m real interrested about these RDX Rag Bombs.

Things are not always as they seem

Letters to the Editor

Portland Press Herald

P.O. Box 1460

Portland ME 04104-5009

Dear Editor:

Before Israel devotees jump on Bill Slavick (“Inhumanity, silence reap the whirlwind,” August 21) for revealing that where Israel is concerned, things are not always as they seem, consider:

* On June 8, 1967, as Israel was warring on neighbors, it bombed the clearly marked USS Liberty, killing 34 Americans, and strafed bombing survivors. When the Liberty radioed for air support, President Lyndon Johnson called off the relief to avoid a confrontation with Israel. Washington continues to refuse a full investigation.

* The bombing of the Beirut Marine barracks on October 23, 1983, killed 241 Marine peacekeepers. It is blamed “on terrorists, most likely Hezbollah,” with Syria and Iran involvement, and serves as foundation for US hostility to Hezbollah. In fact, perhaps the largest non-nuclear bomb explosion ever was 666 pounds of enhanced RDX “rag bombs”—“enhanced” with propane gas and primed with PETN boosters or detonation cord, an Israeli specialty. In 1983, the only active sources of RDX were the US, France, Canada, Sweden, China—and Israel. A year earlier, Israeli defense intelligence headquarters had been accidently destroyed by an RDX explosion. US military intelligence knows where the bomb came from, a secret for 23 years now.

* On Feb. 14, 2005, Lebanon Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, Lebanon’s unifying political figure, died in an RDX explosion, quickly blamed on Syria, forcing its withdrawal from Lebanese affairs. But the only maker of RDX, Chemko in Slovakia, has never sold to an Arab country; it licensed Israel to buy in 2003.

Arthur Whitman

Lberty Alliance

P.O. Box 586

Auburn ME 04212

783-7865

25 August 2006

Forget about Biblical claptrap, barmy religiousity, and tit-for-tat blood-letting. Instead, dig down into the filthy rat-hole of reality. You wont find God there, but you may find some insight.

Why do we fight war? War needs weapons. Weapons equal profit, therefor war equals profit.

Why do we want to occupy Iraq and Afghanistan? Oil equals money, therefor fighting for oil equals profit.

Why does Israel WANT to RE-OCCUPY Gaza? Gas equals money, therefor fighting for gas equals profit.

Who’s in Charge—Obama, the Pentagon or Israel?

None of the above!

Greed and profit. That’s whose in charge!

In 2000, BG [British Gas] purchased the rights to drill for natural gas off the Gaza coast. The Gaza field contains 1 trillion cubic feet of natural gas worth an estimated $4 billion.

BG, Israel and the PA began talking gas.

After 9/11, finding an enemy was more important than anything. [Except gas and oil] So, a list of “terrorist groups” was created, along with a law that says signatories can not do business with them.

Of course Hamas made the list.

BG, Israel and the PA were still talking gas.

In 2005, Israel agreed to pull troops out of Gaza and dismantle Jewish settlements in Gaza. But remained in control of Gaza’s borders, coastline and airspace.

But NOT the Gaza Marine gas reserves.

BG, Israel and the PA, came to an agreement on Gazas gas. 60% of the revenue to BG, 30% to BG’s partner, CCC, [a consortium of Lebanese families] and 10% to the Palestinian Investment Fund.

The gas would be sold to Israel.

In January 2006 the Palestinians in Gaza elected Hamas. Israel refused to pay money to Hamas. British law forbid BG to meet with Hamas, so BG, Israel and the PA agreed to transfer the money to an international account.

The deal cut Hamas/Gaza out of the money.

Hamas asked for changes, stating Palestine, who owned the gas, should get more than 10%. Shortly thereafter, in June 2006, Israel attacked Gaza. And again in May 2007.

BG, Israel and the PA met again in July 2007, agreeing to move on with the three year project, with a completion date of 2011.

Israeli Finance Ministry Accountant General energy coordinator [big title] Uri Shusterman confirmed a dispute over prices, and said, “Despite the disagreement, the government is determined to buy gas from the company’s reserves offshore from Gaza, as an alternative to Egyptian gas.” 

Then Israel assured BG and the PA ...  “There are already clear intentions as to how to handle the Hamas situation.” 

In December 2007, BG withdrew from negotiations with Israel for the sale of gas from the Gaza Marine field to Israel. In January 2008, BG closed its office in Israel.

Enter Yam Thetis, a consortium of Israeli-US companies with holdings, production facilities and a pipeline to Israel, near the Gaza-Israel maritime border. Israeli members of Yam Thetis are Delek Drilling LP 25.5%, Avner Oil & Gas Ltd. 23%, and Delek Investments and Properties Ltd. 4.44%.

The US member is Noble Energy Inc., Houston, which holds 47.06% interest.

In June 2008, Israels “clear intentions as to how to handle the Hamas situation,” became clearer. Even more clear, if Israel wants to start using that gas in 2011, the move to gain control over Gaza had to begin in 2008!

Now, blind US support of Israels ethnic cleansing takes on a whole new meaning! When you frame Israels ethnic cleansing in the light of “ENERGY,” what they are doing is not much different than what we’ve done to the Iraqis!

The Gaza Offshore area was designated PA territory following the Oslo Accords in August 1993. Seven years before the gas field in Gaza’s water was discovered! Now, how many times has Israel bloodied up Gaza since 2000?

Probably just coincidence, right?

Wrong! Greed and profit!

Hi Howard,

Here’s a quiz.  Name the one politician who in teh wake of 911, desceibed the event as “very good”?

As for the Liberty attack, 1) an Israel pilot who was involved has admitted they knew what they were attacking and b) NZA audio takes reveals that the pilots who had identitfied the Liberty as a US ship were ordered to attack it.

The US was not helping Israel during the war.  Israel were worried the Libety be listening in on their communications. Israel have as history of being less than rational in times of war.

“The Council for Citizens Against Government Waste (CCAGW) today urged lawmakers to make their first order of business when they reconvene in the nation’s capitol in January to introduce legislation to freeze congressional salaries at current rates.  All Members of Congress are slated to get an automatic pay raise in January, 2009 unless they vote to block it.  Each rank and file member of Congress is poised to see another $4,700 in his or her paycheck over the next year, an increase of 2.8 percent over their current $169,300 annual salary.” 

Personally, if Congress doesn’t vote not to accept this automatic pay raise, I’d say that the rest of us might as well just stop working.  After all, the pols are going to give all the money to the rich and to make themselves rich.  Why should we bother?

Further, if you want to take up your pitchforks, there needs to be a general strike first so the military can’t be paid and will quit, and there won’t be money for ammunitions and weapons maintenance.  That way you’ll just have to fight the politicians, and we know they’re mostly sniveling cowards.

Ctos

One person lost its column on a daily paper and one lost his Political career , when they tried to open the USS liberty affair .  (from the book “They dare to speak”  by Paul Findley)
and someone wanted to name a Library USS liberty in a small town , and the request was refused and kept away from the news . (in the same book)

Howie,

Why is it that no surviving crew member of the Liberty has ever accepted that the attack on the Liberty was an accident?

I guess they are all anti-semites!

my Answer to the question is simple , Israel is in charge and the pentagon and congress second .

Will you human bastards get on with the inevitability of your mutual destruction so us Higher Species have a chance at survival ?

Great idea, Fadel.  The Captain is bound to do better than old Hope n Change.  Obama is an even greater political lightweight than Bush, who was backed by two CEO’s, Cheney and Rumsfield. 

Obama has been surroinded by Biden and Emmanuel to asure us of Zionist imperialism, and the Zionist neoliberals of Rubin, Saunders and Geither to continue Bushite financial policies.  Since Geither cheated on his taxes we even have the initial beginnings of the personal corruption that characterized the Bushite regime.

If anyone can lead the US into a soft landing from its historical decline, it is obviously the Captain.But unfortunately we are facing the future with Barak (oh, he’s so smart!) Barama.

Who I want to be in charge?

“No bird soars too high but by the law of gravity must fall down to the ground.” This is an old Arabic proverb I would like to use as a metaphor, combined with another metaphor of yesterday’s incident of the US Airways soft crash in the Hudson river, to suggest a rescue plan for America from the crash we are experiencing with our way of life.
America resembles an old bird, with weakened wings, and disoriented vision that has been soaring too high. If it was to be rescued from a deadly crash, it must be brought down in a “miraculous” way through a soft crash.

As is obvious, the answer does not rest in an overrated election that is hoped to bring a miraculous rescue soft landing by replacing the birds white wings with a pair of black ones. It’s obvious that the more things change, the more they stay the same if we get miraculously lucky and they don’t get worse.
So my cynical rescue plan involves canceling the last useless election and, by consensus, appoint Captain Chesley Sullenburger, the skilled pilot of the US Airways plane that was softly-crashed in the Hudson river, to replace Barack Obama as our Commander-in-Chief, on the hope that he will use his skills and miraculous good luck to effect a soft crash instead of the inevitable hard one!

Neither Obama, the Pentagon or Israel is in charge of the US power system.  Neoliberal and neoconservative imperialists are in charge, notably American Zionists, both Jews and Christians. This section of the American ruling class heads the Amerian power structure that is driving the American people, and the people of the world, into the ground.

Bush has left Obama three wars, enormous debt, a broken economy, enormous and icnreasing class inequality, and an incipient police state.  This required a political revolution which installed the president as a dictator unrestricted by law or American tradition. 

Obama’s AG Holder has just testified to support the War on Terrorims, preventative detention, spying on the American population, and he was equiviqul about torture.

Obama was selected by the neoliberal imperialists to continue the political counter revolution of Bush, ideologically legitimated by the War on Terrorism projected to continue for decades.  Both the Dems and Gops are now on board, and the Bush-Obama policies accepted by their leaders.

The only defense the population has in the coming years and decades is to mobilize against the Dem-Gop bloc who control the electoral process for the neolibs, just as the media and military are controlled in their interests. Since there is a strong Zionist influence, American foreign policy is formulated in Israel’s interests to a largel extent rather in those of the US.

The first step in mobilizing the population is exposing Obama, which it is quite easy to do, simce his policies are obviously continuing Bush’s.  But since rank and file Progressives are emotionally attached to Obama, this will require an emotional separation, always more difficult than a rational separation.  It will therefore take a little time which Obama will use to form a Dem-Gop Elite truth consensus to continue Bushite policies.

Why did Israel attack the intelligence ship USS Liberty?  That has long been debated.  One theory is that the Israelis did not want the Liberty monitoring them as Syria’s Golan Heights were seized during the 1967 war.  Another theory is that the Israeli commander in the Sinai did not want to be monitored as Israeli forces massacred captured Egyptian troops.

Every American leader who has tried to “stand up” against Israel was transformed to a “stand-up comedian”.

Hey Howie,

I know what I am talking about it is more then false rhetoric.  They were actually Mosad agents.

I’ve been in Beirut.  I’ve been under fire for my Uncle Sam.  I’ve stood guard in the middle of a runway knowing that there were crosshairs on me.

I’ve loaded weapons from Belgium on US Aircraft to give to another party as a PEACEKEEPER. OOps after 26 years I don’t think it damaged National Security any.

I remember a Lt. who stopped an Israeli tanks with a 45.  I remember A/C 42 fly in with another cobra and a huey to get a good fix on the artillery position that had landed 7 rounds in our perimeter killing jarheads like me.  I remember watching that aircraft blow an Israeli APC up. 

It had fired on A/C 42 and penitrated the skin of the A/C 4 times.  The one in the 90 degree gear box caused the aft rotor to continue to spin when the pilot applied the rotor brake to the forward rotor upon shutdown on the IWO JIMA.  They were lucky.

A clearly marked US ship is not a mistake, especially when the aircraft turns to make repeated runs on the crew that had abandoned ship.

Their are plenty of Israeli’s speaking out against this masaquere in Gaza.  There are plenty of citizens of this nation that think Bush and Cheney ought to spend the rest of their lives behind bars for their WAR CRIMES.

YO Sleeper,

Who the dickens are you talking about…“cheering the twin tower fall” ? 
  Only ones on record were in the arab world in gaza and lebanon recorded on network news…by the hundreds cheering in the street.
  anyone else get a grip on yourself.
—————
  and to have 35 years later no comprhension on your part that the Liberty was a war time mistake is baloney. US was helping Israel in that trying time of war. No reason or motivation to that attack being on purpose. P-e-r-i-o-d.
  get rational, baby !

It’s NOT a matter of anti semeitism, it’s a matter of American Patriotism.
This dysfunctional ‘Friendship’ with the Israeli Gov’t has caused many disasterous problems for US for Decades.
Seems We have been forced to let Israel suck off our teat with no reciprocation. What Has Israel EVER done for US? In fact what does Israel provide for any other country except ‘Holy’ pilgrimages to worship brick & Mortar.
Our sociopathic ‘Religius right’ spends more time whining about ‘poor Israel’ then even considering the suffering of their own neighbors down the street who’ve lost their jobs, their homes and healthcare.
I don’t supprt any of these ‘Jihadist’ sects (Christian, Muslim or Jewish) and I Certainly do not support any Gov’t how commits Genocide, regardless of their historical faned justifications. Please tell me the difference between the Polish slums of the Nazi’s and the Slums of Gaza. They have these people already in what amounts to a concentration camp, where they limit their access to resources and are now shooting them like fish in a barrel.
Unconditional support of Israel has not EVER been in the Interest of the US, and politicians had better start acting as OUR Public servants, otherwise they may face TREASON charges.
‘Never Again’ was Never intended to be the sole property of the jews…It was a oath regarding ALL people, even for enemies of Israel. The Attacks on Gaza are an Atrocity and a War Crime. Look Down Israeli’s, Bushies and Evangelicals, you have Blood on your hands…and if WE are attacked again, it will be american blood too.

Since we were very instrumental in creating Israel as a nation and chosen her to receive a disproportionate amount of weaponry and also monitary aid the answer remains unclear.  We sell arms to everyone. 

Israel aided “The Enterprise” in conducting illegal arms sales from early to mid 80’s to Iran.  Congress had declared an embargo but a Lt Col. got a slap on the wrist only later to be clear for his involvement.

They attacked the U.S.S. Liberty back in 1967 and were seen cheering as the twin towers collapsed.  They justify killing over 1000 Palistinians because they live in fear of the Palistinian rockets that have yet to kill 15 Israeli’s.

They are U.S. Backed Terrorists who we supply with weapons as we watch the carnage left by the White Phosphoris in the cluster bombs that we probably supplied.  34% of the dead from their rampage has been women and children.

The U.S. Government makes statements in support of their private little genicide and asks for their next order of weapons of mass carnage.

We need to review our support halt sales of weaponry and move forward with sanctions and charges of War Crimes.

I registered just to be able to leave this message.  I have read you for years Pfaff… and this is appalling.

Obama has luck, but on the record of his career it has been earned luck, the best kind.

I thought you had come to your senses in the past weeks, watching the transition and the cabinet and staff picks… but it seems you have fallen back in love.

Strange effect the neophyte who will be of little use to us in a terrible time has on older white males. (I was not “for” Hillary either, both were just Dem party frontispieces)

Ridiculous.

What an erroneous article by Pfaff. Indeed, to suggest anyone but the Pres of the US in charge is ludicrous.

In the old days we would blame Staln or Kruschev, now we have others to conjure up.  Amazing.

I’m no Israeli apologist, but maybe we need to look a little deeper at this and assign blame where it rightly belongs…unless you’re the sort who thinks that every America and the nation itself should be roundly blamed for Iraq, Afghanistan, etc.

What we’re really talking about is the Likud Party, the Revisionist Zionists.  They’ve held a lot of power since the late 70’s/early 80’s.  Sure, Labor and Kadima are now marching in along behind the Likud, but it’s not as if the Democrats of America haven’t swung pretty hard to the right over the last 30 years too.

Place the blame and ire where it belongs and perhaps Israeli citizens will do something internally and politically that makes the situation easier to address.  Because clearly not every Israeli thinks that Israel should have all the land on both sides of the Jordan river or even agrees with this military action…no more than most of America was in agreement when it came to invading Afghanistan and Iraq.

What mental gymnastics does it take to pet a rattlesnake as if it were your dog, and why?

“The man has luck, but on the record of his career it has been” manfactured luck, conjured up by PR sorcerers like David Axelrod, connections to the Democratic party machine through it’s most corrupt Illinois branch, and of course, indispensibly - money, lots of it.  Other than that there’s absolutely nothing to distinguish the man: an uneventful middle class upbringing, a privileged education, an ambitious, faceless state legislator who made the right connections and a freshman Senator that’s never sponsored any major legislation.  A singularly unremarkable and sheltered life for all the unaccountable hoopla invented by the spin savants in the fawning media. Bland Barack’s anonymousness is probably his greatest asset - at least for now. He never earned the office in any way, shape or form. He simply bought it, and in that regard is no different than Bush, other than the fact that the presidency cost him a lot more than it did Dubya. The Obama campaign splashed out $770 million - more than Bush and Kerry combined in ‘04. Plus millions more in ‘soft money’ through the DNC, bringing the real total close to $1 B. It’s obvious in this era of virtual reality that Obama Copacabana is a very expensive figment of public imagination, and not any real life hero. He certainly doesn’t have the character, or stature or experience of an Eisenhower. So it’s unlikely that the military-industrial comlex Eisenhower warned of will be so easily “handled” by Obama or that he will stand up to Israel the same way Ike did.  In fact, one of the most disheartening “news item I have seen during the entire pre-inaugural period was published in the International Herald Tribune on” Jan. 15.  It reported,  “A drawdown in Iraq is seen as a prerequisite to any significant American military buildup in Afghanistan, where Obama is ready to add up to 30,000 troops over the next two years, a near doubling of the current American force there of about 31,000 .....some influential Democrats and national security experts have begun voicing concern about his willingness to send up to 30,000 additional American troops to Afghanistan, where the United States has been at war for more than seven years. They say that Obama has yet to make clear his overall goals beyond calling for more forces, money and diplomacy in an increasingly violent, ungovernable country that the military says presents even more problems than Iraq.”
The “clashes” will not likely be between Obama and the Pentagon then, but no doubt continue to be the more traditional kinds of clashes - between American and Israeli stormtroopers and indigenous resistance movements. But if this inscrutable column “began with a comment on luck. That referred to the plunge into the political abyss of the Israeli rightist forces accustomed to claim that they ‘own’ the U.S. Congress” then why was that comment made specifically in reference to Obama’s political fortunes, with no mention of Israeli forces then? Was this a subconcious slip, an implicit admission of the indivisible connection between the two?  Is Obama’s luck, The Lobby’s luck and The Lobby’s luck, Obama’s luck? Obviously, for liberals like Pfaff, the tragedy of Gaza is not the destruction of Palestine but the “self-destruction of Israel”; not the suffering of the victims but that it “has proven globally devastating to the reputation and moral credit of Israel”, and worse still,  “Even in the United States, there has been a precipitous drop in support for what Israel has been doing, and for Israeli policy in general.” But there has been no such discernible drop in support for Israel among the Obama administration. Livni or Netanyahu will no doubt still be able to get through to their lucky boy Barack too, whenever he’s dissembling at the podium. If he’s not too busy carrying out the destruction of Afghanistan and the self-destruction of America.

Pfaff writes:

“That’s Olmert’s story, or Israeli megalomania, presented to the Israelis with pride, but unlikely to be received by Americans with pleasure.”

But of course, 90% of Americans get 90% of their news from the big TV networks, which are totally muzzled by the Israel lobby.

So Israel can easily make sure that few Americans ever hear about Olmert’s arrogant boast about Israel’s control over our government. The TV gatekeepers will not fan the flames of controversy by reporting opinion poll reactions to what Olmert said. It will vanish down the memory hole as though it never happened. Anyone who remembers will be scoffed at as an anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist.

HUBRIS AND NEMESIS

War criminal and prime minister of Israel Ehud Olmert didn’t like being photographed beside the accused rapist President of Israel Moshe Katsav and his unfortunate wife Gila, according to TIME magazine - http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1546649,00.html

Photo - http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/774636.html

Then Olmert was accused of corruption. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7035526.stm

The 2009 Gaza genocide is Olmert’s SECOND unprovoked war, after the disastrous invasion of Lebanon in 2006.

And now Olmert has opened his big mouth and publicly shown his contempt for both the US and its President for the next four days, G. Bush, Jr. Aka Shrub. Aka ‘The Boy Emperor.’

Funny thing, but Americans REALLY don’t like being made to look small. Or weak. Perhaps it’s a size thing?

Anyway, this is probably the best gift that Obama could have dreamed of. Makes it easier to get the weight of AIPAC off his administration’s back.

Somewhere on Mount Olympus a Kenyan shade with a big smile, father to a boy named Barack, bows deeply to a woman of classical Greek beauty. The goddess Nemesis by name; remorseless punisher of those guilty of hubris. The much feared goddess whose arrival in Rome on the Potomac has long been wished for by the victims of that overbearing state -  Google Nemesis mythology

But some people don’t believe in the Gods. They do not know ‘The Fates lead he who will; he who won’t, they drag.’  http://www.thewhitewillow.com/gallery/TheFatesNorns.html

Thanks Olmert.

The way to quickly determine who is in charge, Israel or Obama, is to see if the building of settlements in the occupied territories continues.

OLMERT’S VERSION

PILGER’S LAW ‘If it’s been officially denied, then it’s probably true’

Australian award-winning journalist John Pilger’s favourite quotation is that of the famous English muckraking journalist, Claud Cockburn, “Never believe anything until it’s been officially denied.”
He is the author of the documentary Palestine is Still the Issue. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yehzp8ytMp8

And of The War On Democracy, about US intervention in Latin America - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmWsaYMfxug

“There is no War on Terrorism; it is The Great Game speeded up. The difference is the rampant nature of the superpower, ensuring infinite dangers for us all.”

John Pilger - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Pilger

If Israel relied on Hamas to suppress the rocket fire of non-Hamas actors during the ceasefire, it is hard to understand how crippling Hamas would stop rocket fire.

The Israeli’s are playing with fire in their efforts at Israeli hegemony in America.  The realization of this planned and well executed long term effort by Israel is soaking in among ordinary American’s and will create strong blowback.  I hope common sense prevails among all parties.

When Israel says to jump, American politicians ask, How high?

Remember, Israel attacked the USS Liberty in international waters in 1967 and got away with it.  Why do they do it?  Because they can.

By cyrena, January 15 at 5:03 pm #

I don’t believe that Barack Obama is going to take orders from Israel, no matter who they elect.

I think Israel knows it too.

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Cyrena,

Damn right he won’t! If he does, I’ll call him a nigger like Zawahiri did!

I don’t see Obama doing anything different in regards to Israel. Look at who he chose for his advisors. Rahm Emanuel,whose father was a member of the Irgun party, a militant zionist organization, named after people killed in their fight for Israel. A strong and vocal supporter of all that is Israel. Hillary Clinton who stated in her confirmation hearing that we would not negotiate with Hamas. It is a terrorist organization lobbing crappy home made missiles into Israel killing 3 people. The entire Congress, House and Senate, voting nearly unanimously in support of the “defensive” actions of Israel (with the exception of Maxine Waters, Dennis Kucinich, Ron Paul, Nick Rahall, and Gwen Moore. Many others lacked the courage to actually vote and chose present instead. Sound familiar? No, all the signs point toward a continued support of the terrorist state of Israel and the genocide they are committing on the Palestinian people of Gaza. I HOPE that I am wrong and the new president will stand up for the rights of all people and demand that Israel leave Gaza, lift the blockade, stop the settlements in the West Bank, and withdraw to the 1967 borders. Anything else would be unacceptable.

“..Israel behaves as if it has completely lost touch with reality…”

That’s one way to put it.

Meantime, this news of how Olmert instructed the change in the US position on the cease-fire resolution is interesting if not surprising. Olmert gave Bush the order. Bush passed it on to Condi and it was done, making the US the ONLY in the 15-member voting block NOT to support it.

So, we know who Georgie’s other boss is. But Olmert isn’t going to carry over to the new US Admin, and he damn well knows it. In fact, that may have been the last official order that Israel had given the US government of Dick Bush.

I don’t believe that Barack Obama is going to take orders from Israel, no matter who they elect.

I think Israel knows it too.

According to Pfaff’s own narrative, the sequence of control goes this way:

1. Israel controlled America under Bush in a way that even many Jews are on denial about it due to its ugliness and extent.
2. Obama ran on a platform of unquestionable support for Israel in exchange for money and votes.
3. Obama might like to reign in the power of the Pentagon, which is also an institution closely allied to Israeli militarism an objectives.
4. If Obama tries to show even a relatively independent course on the Pentagon, he is likely to be met with stiff and vicious opposition by both the Pentagon (i.e. the military-industrial complex)and Israel, and this will be his major paralyzing crises.
5. Since Obama is the typical politician and not a man of principles as the rhetoric might imply, he will finally succumb to both the wishes of the Pentagon and Israel.
6. And consequently, Israel, as usual, will emerge as the big winner and the entity in control over the political-military industrial complex of this sad country called the U.S.A.

Best bet: Israel is in charge, as always.