By: DI Editor, Dusty Schoch

June 26, 2012

With the political poles chattering and crucial elections looming I am writing to sound the alarm of potential pending doom and disaster — A disaster which will come full circle if we again elect the wrong president (Sorry, we didn’t actually elect Bush; he was crowned king by fiat of the Supremes chorusing in 5/4 Republican harmony to corporate sponsors in the Con law case of Gore v Bush).

But to what “tower” do I refer?  It’s the terrible tyrannical tower which will determine whether we respond to disaster with a plea for deliverance or …  greater disaster.  I promise you – errant government is not like wild fires; electing more nitwitted neocons to “back-fire”–fix the disasters of former neocons won’t work. Now back to the tower: Don’t sneak-peak  the end of my essay – I buried my lead for a good cause:  I want to take you on a stroll through American History before pointing you to the tower where America’s history and fate will be determined.

This essay was provoked by today’s headlines showing Obama and Romney presently running even in the polls. The article rang true when it said that polls are often misleading because (as Dukakis in 1988) 9^th-inning flukes and other things often reverse the tides of presidential elections. The op/ed writer today said that next to “flukes”, campaign contributions today are the prime determinant of election outcome.  I agree and because of that am sounding this alarm that all beware of the sinister and potentially catastrophic co-workings of (1) the money (campaign contributions) and (2) what “the terrible tower” does with the money.

History lessons abound with caveats we’ve ignored and have gotten us Americans to the brink of national industrial, moral and financial bankruptcy.  People want to blame Obama for heading the glue crew that’s failed to put Humpty Dumpty (Uncle Sam) back together and on global Wall Street.  Most voters (and all Republican voters) are blind to the fact that Bush converted America from a beloved defender to a loathed aggressor nation, and while his corporate consorts were exporting America’s industry to China, his military subordinates were exporting our cash reserves (and the wealth of our grandchildren) to the Middle East to secure corporate control of diminishing oil reserves.

But the whole world knows that. The question is why (polls indicate) half of America is not SORELY aware of this…to the extent that 50 percent of us are presently undecided as to whether we’ll put America back in the hands of another corporate-controlled Republican imperialist.

Relevant history lessons include 3 modern and one ancient philosopher/writers and…prophets (predictors of American and world evolution).  The three—generally contemporary–modern thinkers I write of are George Orwell (author of Nineteen Eighty Four),  Aldous Huxley (Brave New World), Marshall McLuhan (“Understanding Media”). The ancient author, who wrote about “the tower” is, I believe, the one who got it “all right”, and is, therefore the one we need to study more closely and …. before the next election….heed, in order to rescue ourselves from pending disaster.

Long stories short – Orwell (English) in his “1984” warned us that there would come a day when the governments of our nation states would have seized sufficient power to become absolutely corrupt and despotic, and that as a result, all individuality and personal freedoms would be extinguished by the “Big Brother” rulers’ “Big Lies” and myriad forms of mind control designed to stifle our treasured individualized selves.  This really hasn’t happened, at least as Orwell envisioned.  Perhaps Huxley came closer to our evolved reality as he presaged a time when industrialization would transport America into an era where capitalistic/materialistic and pleasure-seeking people would become so narcissistically wrapped up in achieving fame, fun and fungibles that they would entirely lose sight of and empathy with anything outside their accreting fortunes and egos…like their environment or the rights of others (creatures and countries) to remain free and viable.   Looking to my right and my left today, I see no one screaming in protest that we have in the past ten years criminally invaded and occupied two sovereign foreign countries. Four of eight Americans today know who the Kardashians are (commercially-synthesized cyborg celebrities)  but have no idea how many hundreds of thousands of foreign nationals we have killed in the past decade (FYI, over a half million!).

Among the modern thinkers, I believe Marshall McLuhan takes the prize for predicting how a cabal of corporate bullies managed to machinate our national devolution from defender nation to international bully, and from prosperous democracy to impoverished corporate plutonomy.  Corporations clearly run all the shows that the American people now watch. Corporations have now acquired such plenary—absolutely corrupting power—that they’ve enabled presidents  to so sack and stack a Supreme Court bench that the Court has redefined Corporations as “people”…American citizens, having the right to elect leaders by direct means of money and might…because they can take their money and control our media.

As Orwell warned us in 1984, the corporate-sponsored (thereby controlled) media tell us big lies so often and so loudly that the majority of us can no longer see the truth….because as Huxley predicted (of America), our hedonism and self-servicing narcissism would one day make of independently-reasoning men, media-malleable sheep. Sheep stupid enough to believe bin Laden was an agent of Saddam Hussein; Sheep stupid enough to believe Saddam had anything to do with 9/11.   Sheep stupid enough to believe that Obama was born in Kenya. Stupid enough to believe America’s financial meltdown is the fault of the president who inherited the White House after Bush  sold it to Halliburton and China.

Before I point to the tower…and the tale of truth that could actually save us–if anything can– with its wise and prophetic view of where America stands teetering today….I’ll write a little more about the money part of the present disaster…the powerful money that has resulted in the fulfillment of Marshall McLuhan’s prophesy that one day in America and the world the MEDIA WILL BECOME THE MESSAGE.  Today, it is estimated that over three billion dollars will be raised by the corporate and fat-cat superpaks to control America’s perception of—and votes for–the men running for public office. THINK ABOUT THAT FIGURE!  Dividing 3 billion by America’s population shows that, on Television and Radio, corporations and fat cats will spend enough money that otherwise could drop $1,000 into the pockets of each and every living American, and $3,000 into the saving accounts of the average American family.  But instead, under the new corporate-lobbied laws, that $1,000 per citizen fortune will be dedicated to molding American opinion in tune with the agendas (e.g. Romney is smart. “Fracking is safe.”) corporations are marketing to us on commercial media ads.

Well, isn’t that what Orwell, Huxley and–more specifically–McLuhan were all warning us about…big lies…propaganda…molding our thinking to the eventual point the media has become the message? Yes, yes and  yes. But now I’ll reveal how: Now I’ll point to the
“terrible tower” …and the infinitely-prescient writer who envisioned it and whose identity must remain anonymous.  The precursor to our terrible tower was named Babel. Open your Bibles to Genesis 11 but don’t think Judeo-Christian  or Mosaic prophesy….Just think…human history and sage prophesy.

Warning to you the reader (and me the writer):  The odious  and inadvertently-evil builders of the terrible tower I have in sight and mind today were mostly innocent…just like the ambitious architects and builders of the Biblical Tower of Babel.  While those ancient builders were so busy trying to project their stones, mortar and influence into heavenly realms where, logically and ecologically no being without feathers belongs, they had their minds so much on their “selves”, they lost sight of—and touch with– one another…and their shared planet.   When they got to the sky-scraping floors, they suddenly realized that they had lost the ability to communicate with one another. The only thing they had in common was the arrogant edifice they were building, and without concern for one another, the tower was just that—an arrogant sty in the eye of heaven.   In the ancient parable, man’s Creator made it impossible for him to speak to his fellow humans…and as a result, the tower came crumbling down to earth, as did America under George Bush.  Unfortunately you can’t keep a bad thing down. The tower, I am loathe to report, has…risen! Sadly and to our detriment, its present embodiment is more terrible than ever.   Under the shadowy influence of that terrible tower, people in America and the rest of the world are in regards to one another, becoming babbling idiots.  Even the 100 sectors of America’s Wall Street Revolution have no unifying mantra or agenda.  We are all speaking as with different tongues, and as a result are heading towards cultural, political, ecological and economic Armageddon.

Here’s the buried lead…finally.  What is today’s “terrible tower”? It is a tower that never existed in the days of Lincoln and Jefferson or even the Roosevelts.   These leaders were elected because we met and came to know them on the covers and in the coverage of newspapers and on the parchments posted in our city squares, right there in the hearts of our cities, at sea level where we belong…together.  In these papers and parchments were published the words of non-partisan journalists whom we had, through time and testing, grown to trust, as purveyors, distillers and disseminators of political truths. Today we sit at home and stare at images delivered to us now serially at light speed in a language Orwell termed “double speak” (truth and falsity in the same statement) in which it is impossible for us to discern truth from lies. The messages are all partisan “newspeak” and emanate from one party or another, all according to either the corporate fat-cat (Republican, a.k.a. “conservative”) or the working class Democrat (a.k.a. “liberal”) agendas.  The very idea of adversity between the parties is itself a double-speak lie, because in today’s reality, both Republicans and Democrats are merely corporate proxies. If you are a free-thinking independent such as I, your thoughts in transit in this media are labeled “liberal”.   We stare at these messages from the sinister towers empowering our televisions, our Ipods, our “virally-spreading” e-mails from god/knows/who/or/where and most recently our Twittering, FaceBook and YouTubing friends who for the most part are really not our friends, but really just others who make—and take–little vampire-lie  “bytes” of us while the only thing we have in common is our watching and ….obeying (by “forwarding”)… signals from the same …terrible tower.

The terrible tower to and about which I refer and rant is the broadcasting tower,  my friends—the instantly-gratifying Babeling Tower that today can make a mental mouse’s message roar like a prophetic lion’s. Any little agoraphobic nerd on the planet can now, with a little effort and skill with computer technology, launch any lie he can conjure up into the orbital clouds of cyberspace and “go viral” with any lascivious thing he wants to say about the sitting president of the United States. Corporations can now invest billions of dollars directly in TV ads designed to stream half-truths and out-of-context lies before our eyes on a 24/365 basis until a sizable number of us are Tea-party tricked into viewing a native-born American president, who was previously president of Harvard Law Review, as a Kenyan-born Islamic terrorist.
This is insanity.

So what makes the media broadcasting tower of today more “terrible” than the tower in the time of ancient Babel?  It’s the difference between ignorance and arrogance.  It took the Babel Tower builders a lot of time and talent to build a stone and mortar structure sky-scraping tall way back then; so, apart from the egoistic arrogance and environmental insult, the tower of ancient Babel was offensive mainly to diety and comparatively innocuous within its own cultural context. The media broadcast towers of today, on the latter hand are, functionally, arrogance compounded by ignorance.  Just as bottom-line dollars sustain the soulless cyborg vivacity of corporations today that will continue fracking our water and air, warming the planet,  MSG/ing and transfatting our food and arteries so long as their stock manages to accrete  dollars on Wall Street,  the terrible towers of broadcast media will continue to telegraph, cell-phone, e-mail, radio, televise, twitter and satellite bounce, blog and otherwise transmit to every corner of the universe any ignorant nonsense and lie contrived by anyone living or dubbed “human” by Supreme Court edict so long as said imbecilic cyborg has the  dollars to purchase the “air time”.

If a candidate for elective office in Lincoln’s day received either criticism or praise in the media, the source of that information bore the authenticity associated with a journalist who had established his literary prowess and journalistic skills by earning his position on the staff of a trusted periodical journal. Moreover, maintaining one’s position as a journalist required rigorous adherence to extraordinarily high ethical standards imposed by traditional (old-school) journalistic institutions.  Today, if NY Times columnist Thomas Friedman makes a mistake, you can bet your life it was not the product of ignorance, partisan bias or dollar-driven allegiance to some corporate patron. By contrast, if you hear or view something from the tower of an oxymoronically-named “Fox News” broadcast, you can bet your life it is all three. Fox News is the arch villain in the terrible media tower, for the universally-known reason that its founder, Rupert Murdoch—just for the bucks—has with greed and mendacity aforethought, intentionally skewed (demolished) the line between “opining” and “news reporting” in broadcast journalism. It is doubtful that people regularly watching “Fox Media” programming will ever again be capable of recognizing the difference. Murdoch has proved to the world that wholly dollar-driven and unscrupulous utilization of the terrible tower can and does enable arrogance to beget ignorance. We can only hope that this maniacal media mogul’s recent scandal (with phone tapping) will begin the easing and eventually the loss of his 60-billion dollar grip on the broadcast media which—more than any other on earth—accounts for the terrible in the broadcast tower.

My ultimate warning is this: In your search for  “truth” in news and politics, try this:

(1)   Turn off your  T.V., radio and  Ipod/Phone. If it’s digital it’s dubious.    Stanch the artesian flood of fabricated falsities in your tower-tainted emails. Delete–don’t “forward” them. If you receive a “conservative” forward in the e-mail, run their key words through the Urban Legends gauntlet (Snopes.com) and discover how many of them are total fabrications.

(2)   Form your own thoughts and tell them, phone them,  email them to your friends. You can Google just about any reliable newspaper articles in the world now. If you want to know who owns the newspapers or broadcast systems you are auditing, all this information is available on Wikipedia. And yes—despite what Fox News says—Wikipedia is the most accessible and reliable source of current information on earth. Wiki invites us all to police their truth and amend their mistakes. Donate to Wiki and Public Radio; they belong to you.

(3)  Go down to your town squares, attend public meetings and talk to one another eye-to-eye about what you have learned in the still-reliable mainstream media by which we elected Lincoln, Jefferson, Washington, and Roosevelt(s).   That would include non-partisan journals like the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, the still free (not corporate controlled) Public Radio stations, the occasional network TV broadcasts of candidates’ debates which cost the candidates nothing, and last but not least, the people and media institutions (including blogs) you personally know and trust, including your good old High Point Enterprise and yours (always) truly.

Dusty Schoch

June 25, 2012       www.DeclaringIndependents.com

	Neo-Contentions  IV   Lieberman’s Lament

EDITORIAL NOTE:

In this “spicy” exchange, Democrats.write.com commentator, Lenard Carrier challenges Richard Benedetto,  syndicated Washington columnist, to defend his defense of Connecticut’s Senator, Joe Lieberman…a Democrat currently struggling to defend his own defense of increasingly-unpopular Bush’s Iraq War policy.

When a Democrat defends a neo-con fascist war, he risks taking flack as a “neo-con”, and we might say, as Len does here, rightfully so.  Thanks,  Len for not being passively peaceful.  If the Democratic party (now the U.S. party of international hope) has an Achilles heel, it’s being wishy-washy in regard to our nation’s regrettable “Bush Doctrine” and resulting preemptively-declared war on Afghanistan and Iraq. Now for the stimulating exchange between neo-con (by association and acceptance) , Benedetto and our own Ashevillian (N.C.) resident philosopher and democratic ally,  Len Carrier:

Dusty,

    I thought you might be amused by the exchange I had recently with Richard Benedetto, syndicated Washington political columnist.  First, there’s my response to a column of his lamenting the troubles Joe Lieberman is having holding onto his Democratic support.  Other parts of the exchange follow separately. — Len

Carrier’s response to Benedetto’s column:

    I read your column about the troubles Joe Lieberman is having in Connecticut.  To many of us, he brought it on himself.  Three years ago I had an op-ed piece published in my local newspaper.  In it I claimed that the impending invasion of Iraq was fueled by three motivations:  (1) control of oil production in the Middle East, (2) construction of permanent military bases in Iraq, and (3) removing a thorn in the side of Israeli Zionists.  I see no reason to take back anything I said then; and Joe Lieberman, in still supporting Bush’s war, is, by implication, saddled with these motives, too. We in the anti-war movement think this is reason enough to replace Lieberman in the Senate, despite his views on other matters.

P.S. My cousin was active in the “No blood for oil” movement in New Rochelle, NY, and  still participates in local politics.

Benedetto’s response to Carrier:

   None of my [family] would ever be part of any “anti-war movement,” or any other “movement,” for that matter.   ”Movements”  these days, left or right, smack of elitism and a “we know-better-than-you” mentality.  We believe Americans can figure things out for themselves.

 Carrier’s response to Benedetto:

     I think you read me wrong.  I’m no elitist, and I’m not a pacifist, either.  I think Americans can figure things out for themselves if they’re given the facts. They were not given the facts about the Iraq invasion.  A movement needn’t be elitist when it’s a grass-roots movement.

Carrier’s further response to Benedetto (with family name deleted to protect the innocent):

    After sending my initial response to your mistaken claim that I’m an elitist, I wondered why what you said still rankled.   Now I think I know what it was.  It was your cavalier attitude toward those who disagree with you about the Iraq war.  Maybe you’re right, and that we are from different [families].  None of my [family] had anything but disdain for fascists, and none of them would have anything to do with cheer-leading for a misbegotten war that has killed countless thousands of civilians. Perhaps your years of hobnobbing with the politicians in Washington have blinded you to what really smacks of elitism:  the belief that our leaders know so much more than we do.

 Benedetto’s (fiery) response to Carrier:

 Your elitism is in your sanctimony, your absolute conviction that you are right and everyone else is wrong. I have never declared my support or opposition to the war. You have made an assumption.

 It is one thing to “disdain” fascists. It is another to put your life on the line against them, as my [family] all did as members of the U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps during World Wars I and II, including my Italian immigrant grandfather. Maybe yours did, too. I don’t know. Your epithet imperiously implied that my relatives were not against fascism. I would never make such an assumption or accusation about yours. Elitism again.

 I am neither a cheerleader for the war nor a blind follower of those in power. I figure things out for myself. But I never, and I mean never, assume that I am right and everyone else is wrong. I have a view, I explain it. People can agree or disagree.

 Moreover, I am not an evangelist. I am a reporter with many years of experience and some ability to analyze. I have a legitimate forum to do that.  And I learned a long time ago from a very wise professor that you know you are doing a good job of reporting when the more you look into an issue, the grayer and grayer it becomes, not blacker and whiter.

Just your choice of words suggests elitism and condescension –  ”cavalier,” “cheerleading,” “misbegotten,” “hobnobbing” and “blinded.”

Carrier’s response to Benedetto (who has not responded further:

    Think what you might, Richard, I just wanted to let you know why your note ticked me off, and why I thought that you were being the elitist, not me.  I’m somewhat foxed by your calling me the sanctimonious one.  Your original implication was clear that [your family] was in a more elevated position than mine because they would never be part of any “movement.”  I didn’t assume that you or your family were fascists, only that my family had always been part of any anti-fascist movement, and for any movement against waging preventive war.  My father served in the army, and I was myself a SAC officer for four years, so I hope that my patriotism isn’t being questioned.

    You should also know that I never assume I’m right, and everyone else is wrong.  I look at the empirical evidence and try to come to a rational conclusion. The fact that you said you have never declared either support or opposition to the war tells me that you haven’t yet decided whether it was a good or bad thing. Is that so?  When I decided that it wasn’t a good thing, it wasn’t based on any assumption.  It was based on taking into consideration all the evidence, pro and con.  Facts have since indicated that I was right.  Had the facts been different, I would have admitted my mistake.

    Sometimes, Richard, you’ve got to take a stand.  Hegel said that all theory is gray, but we don’t live in a world of theory.  We live in a world of fact.  As a journalist, you may think it the better part of valor to keep weighing evidence and not announce a conclusion; but, as William James said long ago, there comes a time when action becomes more appropriate than further thought.     

    I’m sorry you didn’t like the words I chose in my reply to you, but sometimes a sharp descriptive word carries more punch than a merely pedestrian one. But then, being a journalist, you knew that–otherwise you wouldn’t have chosen “epithet,” “sanctimony,” “imperiously,” “evangelist,” and “condescension” to pin on me.

Len Carrier May 27, 2006

*(Dr. Leonard Carrier received his B.A. and M.A. from the University of Miami in ’56 and ’58, respectively, and his Ph.D from Stanford in 1967.  He taught at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia and the University of South Florida (Tampa) before spending the rest of his teaching and research career (29 years until 2000) at the University of Miami. )

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Does “NSA” = “Nazi States of America”? Patent # 5,937,422   If we take our heads out of the sand and do the math on this NSA phone monitoring thing we’ll see it for what it is. Bush denies his NSA wiretaps and monitoring of every number you and I dial (unless Quest is your LD carrier) are “trolling” for terrorist connections.  He claims that they are not recording our conversations but only tracking every number every one of us calls.     Again, my friends he is lying. Do the math:  If the NSA is not “trolling” for terrorists, they would know who the terrorists were and would monitor them and not need to  track our calls.   If you want to know what they’re really doing, read NSA Patent number 5,937,422 Nelson , et al. August 10, 1999.  That patented technology enables the NSA to analyze speech by computers that  are programmed to “understand” the cybernetics of terrorist language.  It’s patently a robotic, terrorist-fishing (trolling) machine and, it’s obviously working now in conjunction with the dialed-numbers tracking program. We’ve clearly got computers “listening” in on—“analyzing if not recording”—our phone conversations.   Can a robot “legally violate”  our Constitutional right to due process and our legislated guarantees of privacy?   The NSA has been using this technology to snoop on foreign telecommunications for years.  They can honestly say that no NSA agents (human) are snooping on us because they probably aren’t. But a computer like 2001 Space-Odyssey’s odious “Hal” probably is, and this probably explains why Bush is so cocky when he says (but withholds the details for “national security”) his NSA boys aren’t violating the law. The law proscribes human behavior.  Federal statutes outlaw the interception and divulgence of messages sent in interstate commercial channels of communication.  Arguably, when Big Brother Bush’s “Hal” computer is automatically logging our numbers and recording our names when Hal digitally determines we’re talking terrorist trash, no “one” (implying no human being) has in fact invaded our privacy.   Here’s what I think there’s reason to believe is happening: Bush’s NSA is using its warrantless powers to tap randomly our phones, and using the Patent 59— technology is “trolling” for terrorist talk. No conversations or words are ever “recorded” or “divulged” by any human being and there is no paper trail for later criminal prosecutions. When a “hot spot” (byte on the trolling line) is sensed by the computer, it labels a given phone number/base/caller as “terrorist suspect”.  Afterwards, the “trolling computer” is put in line with the “dialed-number-data-based computer” and the suspects calling list converts the trolling line to the terrorist fishing net recently provided when our trusted phone companies handed our calling records to the NSA without our permission. (Cudos to Quest, proudly my own LD carrier,  for being the sole hold-out in this outlaw forfeiture of privacy.) The chances for compounding errors in probable-cause (legal reason to search and invade privacy) judgment are geometrically enhanced.  As suspected Al Qaeda fish become pixels accreting on NSA screens, we are left to wonder what judge is authorizing a search or phone tap of our neighbor’s house because some automatic dialing robot selling satellite TV (carrying Al Jazeera) left multiple messages on the neighbor’s digital answering machine.  Maybe yours.   Arguably a robotic computer “agent”  could ignore due process requirements for a court-ordered wiretap and supply probable cause to the NSA humans who then search our files and garages for hard copy or more incendiary evidence.  In the meantime, the main difference between the NSA agents and Hitler’s SS is that the SS agents had a heart beat.   Dusty Schoch May 13, 2006   Dusty Schoch is founder of the B.E.A., a NC-based foreign policy think tank; He is also  foreign policy editor of Democratswrite.com. For further information on NSA Patent # 5,937,422, Schoch refers the reader tohttp://www.abovetopsecret.com/pages/nsapatent.html, and the U.S. Gov. patent website at http://patft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2 (hit patent link and insert number 5,937,422).       AND WHAT’S EVEN SCARIER…   (ADDENDUM BY  DR. LEN CARRIER*)     Dusty,         I got back from my trip just in time to hear about the latest NSA snooping mission.  It seems clear from what you have learned about the NSA patent, a computerized analysis can now be made of our speech patterns.  But it then also seems clear that if the NSA can program computers to identify “terrorist language,” then they can also program them to identify “anti-Bush” language, or “anti-administration” language.  In other words, just as J. Edgar Hoover had his file on possible troublemakers, the NSA can construct a file on all those who are critical of government policies and take action against them.     What’s even worse is that the person who was in charge of this surveillance technique–General Michael Hayden–has been tapped by Bush to be Director of the CIA.  In his new capacity General Hayden will have more resources to gather intelligence on all of us.  How can Hayden and Bush say with straight faces that they are only concerned with discovering terrorists?  The answer seems obvious.  A “terrorist” for them is defined as anyone who objects to Bush’s “war on terrorism.”  After all, if you’re against that “war” then you must be “for” the “terrorists.”  With this maddening descent into Orwellian double-speak do our leaders toy with us        Best, Len Carrier   *(Dr. Leonard Carrier received his B.A. and M.A. from the University of Miami in ’56 and ’58, respectively, and his Ph.D from Stanford in 1967.  He taught at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia and the University of South Florida (Tampa) before spending the rest of his teaching and research career (29 years until 2000) at the University of Miami. )

 Rubin, Rubin I’ve been drinking,

Because of what I think you’re thinking-

Sounds like diplomacy, looks so fine..

Oh my God it’s Zion slime!

When the planes hit the Twin Towers, and WHILE BUSH WAS FROZEN SOLID IN THAT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CLASSROOM…..what were the Neo-Con movers and shakers doing?…….

For those of you who don’t remember, or were afraid to ask how our wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were engineered, please—for all our sakes—review the account inSam Tannenhaus’ July, 2003 Vanity Fair:

   “Meanwhile, on Sept. 11, across the Potomac, fellows at the American Enterprise Institute, soon to emerge as the Bush administration’s favorite think tank, were receiving similarly aggressive counsel from Wolfowitz’s longtime friend and ally Richard Perle, who was on the phone from France. Perle, himself an A.E.I. fellow, was also the chairman of the Defense Policy Board, a high-powered 30-member group (Henry Kissinger and Newt Gingrich also belong) that periodically gives advice to the secretary of defense. Like Wolfowitz, Perle is never at a loss for a bit-picture reading. One who consulted him that day was presidential speechwriter David Frum, who along with the other administration staffers had taken shelter at A.E.I.’s offices after the White House was evacuated. Frum spent an hour on the phone with Perle. “I remember very clearly what he said”, Frum recalls.  “Whatever else the president says, he must make clear that he’s holding responsible not just terrorists but whoever harbors those terrorists.” ©(Vanity Fair, July 2003, p 117). (emphasis added)

In that article you’ll find many references to the A.E.I. (American Enterprise Institute).That’s the “Policy Institute” where all the White House staff sought and found shelter during the 9/11 attacks.  In a crisis, birds of a feather flock together.  The A.E.I. is the political force that started the war in Iraq. It’s composed of the “Neo-Conservative Republicans” who in covert conjunction with Zionist Jews ( Paul Wolfowitz, David and Meyrav Wurmser) set up the cabal within the Pentagon to put the necessary “spin” on C.I.A. intelligence reports to convince America (and maybe even Bush…but not Cheney—he certainly knew better) that the Taliban and Saddham were in league with bin Laden.

The Wurmser’s and others, of course, are the Zionist Jews who co-authored “A Clean Break”, the overall plan whereby Israel takes over the Middle East to fulfill Biblical promised-land prophesy by means of manipulating the U.S. to do the nasty—but necessary—military work.

The A.E.I. and it’s cousin institute (P.N.A.C. “Project for New American Century) are the critically-massing combo uniting Christian, Republican and Jewish Zionists for the purpose of fulfilling their common fascist will—world domination by Judeo-Christian Zionists.  A Judeo-Christian  Zionist Herronvolk if you will. 

Sound like some Orwellian fantasy to you?  Well, just get your head out of the sand of Republican-run TV, and otherwise totally wimpy corporate-machinated media, and , via your computer, Google-scan the opinions of the civilized world outside your fascist homeland. It’s hardly a secret.

So, why is this “history” lesson in pre-Afghanistan take-over times important to these post-Iraq take-over times….?  IT’S BECAUSE HISTORY IS ABOUT TO REPEAT ITSELF IN THE CASE OF IRAN. THAT’S WHY. AND FOR THE SAME REASONS. AND WITH THE SAME PEOPLE PULLING THE STRINGS. PEOPLE LIKE MICHAEL RUBIN.

Who’s this Rubin guy, and why did I just pen a poem in his …”regard” (seems syntax gave me only two choices, “regard” and “respect”, and I have neither for this invidious fifth-column Zionist media warrior.)  He is Michael Rubin, and he just wrote a diabolically intelligent column fomenting  war with Iran (see April 14, Wall Street Journal “Nuclear Hostage Crisis”). http://online.wsj.com/public/us   If we don’t study what Perle sold us through Bush, via Frum, we won’t understand what the A.E.I. is again selling us through Rubin. Shame on you, Rubin for invoking the eye-for-eye, “Chosen Few” genocidal mentality of an Old-Testament world and it’s “Promised Few”.   Shame on you, Wall Street Journal for calling Rubin’s piece an “op ed”. It’s a paid political advertisement calling for war on the part of the special interests sponsoring war…. and (if more covertly)  Rubin.

Certainly the spread of nuclear capacity into Fundamentalist Islamic states is a threat to global security. But war, and maneuvers to provoke it are choices of last resort.  Unless, of course, they are priorities of first ambition.

The Cheney/Bush/Halliburtonian administration keeps Mike Rubin across the street from the White House so they can sell the newspapers on the myth that his op/eds aren’t what they actually  are—politically-paid advertisements.  The people who fund the A.E.I. are the same oil interests and foundation facades that sponsor the larger programs of world domination promulgated and pursued by the P.N.A.C. The new-world order being pursued by the P.N.A.C. globally, is more “regionally” being orchestrated in the Middle East by the A.E.I.  Whether “Big H” or “Little H”, it’s all the same- Neo-Con Christian Jewish Zionist Herronvolk.

This so-called (and by-lined) “A.E.I. scholar” is diabolically brilliant, and the details of his “inside intel” with Iran’s internal affairs and nuclear intent are persuasive, to say the least, insidiously seductive  to say the most.  But they boil down to this:  Diplomacy won’t work.  We should not deal—he says–with the Islamic governing regime in Iran because today it enjoys only 20 percent popular support (within Iran). Guess what: That’s only about 7 or 8 short of  Bush’s plummeted  popularity in our recent midst. How would we respond if suddenly China and Russia decided to break off nuclear and other diplomatic detente with us based on Bush’s falling from grace in our media poles?

Again, Rubin is speaking from one of the strongest media pulpits on earth—The Wall Street Journal.  He’s a Zionist Jew paid by the A.E.I. as a so-called “scholar” (implying journalistic objectivity)  to shape our (largely-uninformed) opinions.  The purpose of the A.E.I. remains to assist Israel and Fundamentalist Christians in America in carrying out the Wurmser’s blueprint proposal (A Clean Break) whereby Zionists and Rapture-seeking Christians  take over the Middle East and then the civilized world.  The dominoes to fall are the same as  originally planned and scheduled: Iraq, Syria, Iran and then Korea. Then, with the Axis of Evil gone, the rest of the world (and its oil) would be “ours”.  The fact that Afghanistan went down  first was just a fluke. Bin Laden’s Saudi base was there and the only problem then became one of  linking his Al-Quaeda to Saddham (Iraq), and that was accomplished easily with the “Bush Doctrine” as opportunistically conceived by Bush’s puppeteers, Frum and Perle. (see paragraph 3 above).

It’s happening again, people. Iran’s next.  This time the claimed WMD’s are, if inchoate,  unfortunately real. But, keep in mind, the plan to take Iran existed long before Iran brazenly announced its nuclear intent.  Very likely Bush’s covert war plans played a role in both Iran’s and North Korea’s defensive nuclear maneuvers. Their ruminations on munitions might easily be:  “If we are, as “evil axis” already targets, and if the U.S. refuses to diplomatically discuss nuclear non-aggression, what reason do we have not to pursue nuclear retaliatory power?”  To reason that either Iran or Korea envisions starting and winning a preemptive nuclear war with the West is imbecilic.

By the world’s being  “ours”, of course, I’m speaking of America and Isreal, as recently and opportunistically wedded through their greasy “matchmaker”, Zion.   Oil rapture and Armageddon make strange bedfellows and the (oxymoronic) “Right-Reverend Rabbi Zion” is clearly to blame. God knows what the Jewish and Christian Zionists will do to each other if they succeed in conquering the Middle East and get down to  splitting the spoils of that oily war. And we think we had problems with anti-Semitism in Southern country clubs, and the blacklisting days of California movie making in the comparatively  halcyon days of McCarthyism.  

Sure, at this stage, all Rubin is advocating is cessation of diplomacy and visiting Iran’s officials with “sanctions” (freezing assets, travel bans, etc.).  But cessation of diplomatic relations is ALWAYS perceived as precursor to war. Because it is always a precursor to war. (OK, Pearl Harbor may be an exception).  With Rubin, Israel, the A.E.I., P.N.A.C. and the administration (Bush’s) which they Howdy-Doody puppeteer, it’s “diplomacy only as a last resort.”   Not once in his 3000-word article does Rubin even mention the United Nations Security Council and optional multi-national peace initiatives, where it’s always “diplomacy first”. The entire spirit of Rubin’s advocacy is the Israeli, Sharonian admonition: “Don’t negotiate with terrorists”; let’s make a “Clean Break”.  (Translation: When you’re about to steal something, don’t ask permission.” )

Achtung,  fellow Americans—Let’s do our homework or run the risk of losing our home. Find out who this Rubin guy is,  who he works for, and what he’s doing to further engage us in a war to take over the Middle East, for its oil and to  establish  Christian/Zionist Herronvolk on a global basis.  With Armageddon as part of the process.

We’re on the road to hell in a Halliburton hand basket and need to hit the books, and then hit the brakes.

War is our only Enemy,

Ignorance is its first lieutenant

and Vigilance is our greatest ally.

	Neo-Contentions Including… The Neo-Con Corporate Frankenstein Monster

INTRODUCTORY NOTE:

“Neo-Contentions”  is the caption for this seminal  and prototypical  format,  wherein Democratswrite.com contributors will share their website as a forum for debate between and among liberal and conservative minds, and minds machinating in between those politically polar opposites.

Typically the Column will begin with an article written or referred to us by either a regular contributor or outside source.  Responses from any and all correspondents on line will be considered by our editorial staff, and, when feasible, printed without re-editing (save for deletion of profane, or solely “ad hominem” remarks, i.e. offensive (insulting) attacks on people as opposed to criticisms–however severe–of issues, actions, opinions or attitudes taken or expressed by those people.

This first offering obtains lift-off from B.E.A. founder, Robert (Dusty) Schoch (incidentally, our foreign-policy editor).  What becomes the “Neo-Contentions”  bone of contention is a brief essay by Dusty reacting to Bush’s “not guilty” response to charges of violating Constitutional privacy protections.  “Repeat After Me” is followed by a curt, dismissive response penned by Steve Bryant, a Neo-Conservative columnist who writes for the High Point Enterprise (H.P., N.C.).

Steve’s response provides provocation for Schoch’s (and our) principal offering in this issue of “Neo-Contentions”, and we hope the exchange serves to encourage and/or provoke more head-buttings of the same nature on further and future issues and essays.  It is the sincere  consensus of all of us who contribute to Democratswrite.com that our country is in a dire state both domestically and abroad.  We need some new cooks in the kitchen. Those cooks will have to know that to make a better omelette, we will have to crack some eggs.  So let’s get cracking…

Repeat after me…

 “Emperor Bush is Nekkid”.     Garrison Keillor’s essay in today’s paper (Jan.24) on lying tells us the horrendous truth we’re not telling: It’s no longer Bush’s lies that are heading us to fiscal and foreign hell in a Halliburton handbasket woven in China- it’s  our feeble refusal to call him on the crimes and calamities he continues to commit…right under our nationally nincompoopic noses.

We’ve known for two years now there were no WMD’s and no Al Quaeda connections,  but our criminal occupation of-and killings in–Iraq continue.

On the domestic front, Bush has not lied to us about his felonious violation of Federal Law in tapping our phone and e-mail communications.   He readily admits  the Federal law requires a determination of probable cause before a Federal Judge and that he has directed the NSA to ignore the law, and then he says what he has done is “legal”.

It’s not-exactly–like the idiot in Keillor’s parable…driving his family into the afternoon sun swearing to his wife they’re headed East.  Bush is telling us the truth.  He’s admitting  the criminal acts but denying the criminal responsibility.  A wise man asks:  “Who’s the greater fool, the fool or the fool who follows the fool?”

We don’t have the defense of being “forced” as were the denizens of Orwell’s  1984 fictional extrapolation of corporate American Democracy. When “Big Brother” in that prophesy declared “black” was “white”, citizens who disagreed disappeared. We don’t have that excuse. We’re just fools, sheep…and cowards.

Please keep Keillor’s essays coming- He’s the Mark Twain prophet and poet laureate of our troubled times. And by the way- For those wanting to quit being fools: Letters and calls to our Congressmen’s local offices work. Communications to D.C. (especially e-mail) are pretty much a waste of time.

Steve Bryant’s (brief) response to Dusty’s essay . . .

“Yea, Dusty our liberties are almost gone. Fortunately there are still enough of them remaining for the Left to continue the self-refuting nature of it’s portrayal  of America as the base of all oppression.”\

DUSTY’S REBUTTAL. . .

The Neo-Con Corporate Frankenstein Monster

(A long liberal counterpoint to an impertinent Neo-Con Comment;
Dusty Schoch v. H.P. Enterprise columnist, Steve Bryant
Jan. 25, 2006)

What’s this “self-refuting” thing?   I’m still, in the old sense, an American.  In the new, Red-run U.S., I consider myself a resident alien.  You neo-cons have won. You’re at the helm. The ship’s going down. I don’t simply refute the fascists who rained down hell (euphemizing it “shock and awe”) on Iraqi civilians. Killing over 20,000 of them.  Without provocation.  This was naked aggression.  This was fascism.  I don’t “refute” myself and certainly don’t’ refute Bush, Cheney and their crowd of neo-con terrorists;  I absolutely condemn, renounce and deplore them.  Staying on board with Bush and his stinking sinking ship of state is sort of like that guy who climbed and jumped off the Empire State building wearing a replica of Da Vinci’s man-powered flying machine. He jumps, flaps wildly and confidently and plummets toward the sidewalk like Newton’s apple. As he nears the first floor, and as the cracks in the sidewalk come into close-up focus, he’s overheard by passers by on the street to delcare:  “So far so good. “

Look around you Steve.  Having it “your way”, there is mayhem going into its third year in the country we invaded and stole. Multi-billions in surplus are now trillions of national debt. America has exported its soul and the meal tickets of its masses to China via their (neo-cons’)  true God  (Wally-Mart); One day in the near future you’re likely to have the pleasure of seeing me and others arrested and jailed for printing the truth about what’s going on. You and those of your ilk and persuasion are now in control of the destiny of our once-great nation. In under 2 terms at governing bat, the team is dying.  If it weren’t for the TV-induced and seduced ignorance of the red-state voters there might be hope. But their mixture of ignorance and lock-step ditto-headed sheepishness insures that Bush and the neo-con Republicans will have what it takes to dismantle and pocket what little remains of the greatest country, the noblest ,  most idealistic and, when challenged, heroic democracy in the history of mankind.

But I’m through weeping. Almost through raging. If the Republicans win the next White House and Congress, with their now unchecked and unbalanced Supreme Court, I will no longer remain a resident alien.

Read “The Evolving Self” by Csikszentmihalyi.  He helped coin the term “meme”.  When Henry Ford conceived of his revolutionary and marvelous assembly line for the Model T, he might have–but didn’t–envision its future…in terms of its eventually covering  a third of the globe with concrete and asphalt and threatening global extinction with it’s CO2 exhaust spewed  by 2 billion derivative  “memes”.

When conservative legislators in Delaware conceived of the “corporation”, they created unknowingly the Frankenstein monster that would one day dominate its creators.  Eventually, I fear, kill them.   Corporations lobbying legislators and orchestrating the messages of the “free” press (e.g. Fox network) have enabled a mental dwarf to obtain the most important office on the globe. He’s a pathetic puppet of petrochemical and military industry who’s probably blind to most of the strings pulling him this way and that.  He “thinks” it was his decision to enter Afghanistan and Iraq. He never had a clue.  A man with no intellect, no true ideals, no sense or knowledge of history became a tool for corporate fascists.
Acting as corporations, men become like the anonymous mob in Twain’s Huck Finn. Quantum transmogrifying quality. The whole of the corporate clan is much less in terms of humanity  than the sum of its parts. Souls and consciences are lost in the conglomerate mix. Halliburton, Enron, Ford, GM—all of them have the same common denominator, the same god.  The buck.  The souls empowering the corporations (labor) are but intrinsic commodities in corporate trade.

The first Corporations bore some semblance of similarity to their human founders. GE once in fact brought some “good things to life”. Refrigerators, electric food mixers and stoves.   Their prime products now are nuclear triggers and guiding WMD munitions…all products ultimately designed to insure corporate continuity, through intimidation and domination of as opposed to competition with international counterpart corporations.  We champion and market and hence promote what we create. Corporations now own our churches by controlling their media mechanisms for garnering …the buck.  Corporations (e.g. Halliburton) draft and launch their own execs into 5-th column posts in the White House and Pentagon. They manufacture… and manipulate the missiles aimed at …”foreign” bearers of …bucks.

The sad…hopeless…part of it all is there are actually no old-style villains out there in your neo-con camps.  In the West, Cheney simply lost his humanity by climbing too high up, and staying too long in the belly of the petrochemical corporate beast.  You become what you serve and champion. In the East, Sharon lost his humanity in the process of Zion’s nuclear incorporation- where unstable theocratic Jewish statehood was unnaturally created in the cyclotron of Christian guilt in the heart of Islamic darkness. He had two impossible masters, Zionism and Capitalism, corporate siblings incestuously wed in the nightmare Armageddon-bound mythology of god promising land to a putatively-chosen few.   Though one is dying of a corporate-depleted  heart, and the other a Zionist-battered brain, they will have their under-study replacements the second they succumb in their quests. The corporate kings are dead, they’ll say;  Long live the corporations!

While we were growing up, Steve, we had Tom and Jerry, Donald Duck, John Wayne, Andy Griffith, Ozzie and Harriet, a president who wouldn’t use Oval Office stamps on personal mail, and our doors were unlocked at night. Sure it was a dream, but life always is. Today’s dreams (beat each other as “survivors”, get hurt and scared and …rain down shock and awe on …anyone; buy a house with 10,000 sq ft and 2 SUV’s in the drive…at any cost, including extinction of life on earth) are soulless. Today’s dreams are dictated by corporations.

We need, somehow,  to take our country back from the …corporations.  No, I don’t have the answers as to how.  But I’m searching.   My life has considerable and increasing  value, because the older I become, the rarer become my memories. Memories of how things used to work and be.  Days when lawyers treasured their “ethics”,  Congressmen kept some of their promises, and corporations were for the most part…responsible little robots, instead of mega-autonomous and malignant monsters who’ll reflexively trade human lives (yours and mine)  for increased shelf life for their cookies.

If you’re still awake, thanks for giving me a focal point at which to muster my thinking today.

One day we’ll meet and to at least one of us, it will become apparent that our essentials points of variance are superficial.  But skin, too, is superficial and without it, we’d lose precious water and die. I simply think that our political skins are less integral to our lives; more mutable. I’ve done some substantial traveling in Germany in the past few years. There I encountered many folks who sat around in tolerant (at least inertial) indifference while their fascist leadership was methodically exterminating a large and innocent ethnic sector of the German population. Since the 40’s, the attitudes of most of those Christian Conservative Germans has drastically changed.  If I couldn’t cling to the belief the same awakening is possible over here,  I’d leave America now.

See you in the funny papers (your neo-con column).

Dusty