Woe to Tyrants
Woe to those who enact unjust statutes and issue oppressive decrees, to deprive the poor of fair treatment and withhold justice from the
oppressed of My people, to make widows their prey and orphans their plunder.
What will you do on the day of reckoning when devastation comes from
afar? To whom will you flee for help?
Where will you leave your wealth? Nothing will remain but to crouch among the captives
or fall among the slain.
Despite all this, His anger is not turned away; His hand is still
upraised. ~ Isaiah 10
The Democratic Party is no more; the Democratic party of our
parents who represented the average Joe lunch box has ceased to exist. They have sold out the Democratic voters to
the banking cartel’s military industrial complex and Wall Street vultures
enriching themselves along the way. The
party has been largely purged of Democrats and the primary elections have been
rigged to allow the party elites to overrule the will of the voters. As
comedian Jimmie Dore recently stated on the Tucker Carlson Tonight show:
Excerpt:
“I was one of the few shows that
debunked Russiagate and saw through that. This is all kind of tied together
because Russiagate is the result of the
failure of the Democratic Party to present a platform that gets people who want
to vote Democrat off the couch to vote for them. So they can't actually offer them anything because they are beholden to their donors the same
people who control the Republican Party control the Democratic Party. We
don't really have two parties, right?”
“So they have to do Russiagate and
impeachment and all these circus shows, right? To distract you from the fact that the Democratic Party doesn't
represent workers anymore, that they
actually represent big pharma, health insurance, the military-industrial
complex, and Wall Street.”
“That's why all this is happening
and that's why they have to cheat Bernie Sanders, because he is going to upset
their game, their money game. That's why they have got to stop him before. The first job of the Democratic Party is to
stop the candidate who represents the workers and then and only then can they
turn their attention towards Donald Trump...”
“Tucker, as Nancy Pelosi is
ripping up Donald Trump's speech, she is passing his legislative agenda. And,
also, if you watched closely last night, you
got to see her applaud Donald Trump's imperialism when it comes vis-a-vis
Venezuela… We all know these foreign
entanglements are just CIA plots that steal resources and give it to American
corporations.”
“They admitted so much. John Bolton
admitted on FOX News that's what Venezuela was. You saw the one-party rule last
night. You saw Nancy Pelosi applauding and getting up with Juan Guaido, who is
a CIA appointed puppet leader of Venezuela.
So you saw that's the part I like
to call out. That's when they are both in bed with the
intelligence community. They are both in bed with the military-industrial complex
and so, yeah, you are right.”
“We are never going to talk about,
why wouldn't the Democrats when they had complete control of the government… They gave us a right-wing healthcare plan
anyway. Oh, maybe because there aren't really two parties. There is one party in America. And they're both controlled by big
business.”
In the 2016 election Democratic voters rejected the party’s
status quo and voted for Donald Trump who traversed across the nation speaking
to those forgotten by their party. That
was the beginning of the great reckoning.
The real reckoning is yet to come for the populace is outraged and the
outrage is building every day across the world.
What was the new Democratic Party’s resp0nse to the outrage
of the people? They ridiculed the voters
and launched witch hunt after witch hunt to remove the people’s choice for
president. They could not accept that
their party of Zionist war mongers was rejected not only by Republicans but of
life-long Democrats. Well the party is
dead and may it rest in anything but peace for this is the reckoning.
The irrefutable corruption that has occurred for years in
the Iowa caucuses has finally come to a head.
In 2004 populist candidate Howard Dean was gathering steam until the
Deep State Democrats slapped him down in Iowa nominating John Kerry. In 2008 the DNC’s candidate Barack Obama
failed to garner support among the Democratic voters. An all-out assault against then-populist candidate
Hillary Clinton was launched by Chuck Schumer, Joe Biden, Ted Kennedy and Nancy
Pelosi.
Clinton had promised Medicare for all to the American
people, something the DNC was virulently opposed to, therefore she had to be
stopped. Obama, who like George W. Bush
before him was a Reagan devotee, who would never allow “socialist” healthcare
in America. After he was unable to beat
Clinton his campaigned lied and said he supported Medicare for all.
Obama was anointed in Iowa but still failed to gather
popular support. When Hillary Clinton
won the primaries in Florida and Michigan, the DNC stepped in and refused to
recognize the results based on moving their primaries ahead of the Iowa
caucuses. They demanded Hillary drop out of the race and allow their golden
calf Obama the candidacy. When she
refused she was called a racist.
The Democratic Party of Florida filed a lawsuit against the
DNC for not counting the votes of the Democrats who went to the polls and voted
for Hillary. A court in Florida ruled
that the DNC is not obligated to honor the votes of the people if they don’t
want to. Even after the votes in Florida
and Michigan were diluted, Obama still failed to garner enough Electoral College
votes to secure the nomination.
"It's not the people who vote that count, it's the people who
count the votes." ~ Joseph Stalin
When the votes were counted at the DNC delegate meeting in
Florida in June of 2008 votes of voters who actually went into a voting booth
and voted for Hillary were diverted into the total for Obama, finally securing enough
Electoral College votes to secure the nomination.
This corruption is endemic in the DNC’s nominating
process. The results of this year’s Iowa
caucus has shown, without a doubt that the DNC has no intention of allowing the
voters to choose their candidate.
We are just now beginning to see the lengths the DNC will go
to in order to secure the nomination for the DNC’s “new Obama” the gay ex-mayor
of West Bend. From Consortium News:
Excerpt:
Buttigieg Backer Top Funder of Group Behind Iowa’s Disastrous Voting
App
A dark money operation funded by
billionaires is behind the app that delayed Iowa’s voting results, Max
Blumenthal reports.
At the time of publication, 12
hours after voting in the Democratic Party’s Iowa caucuses ended, the results
have not been announced. The delay in
reporting is the result of a failed app developed by a company appropriately
named Shadow Inc.
This firm was staffed by Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama campaign
veterans and created by a Democratic dark-money nonprofit backed by hedge fund
billionaires including Seth Klarman. A
prolific funder of pro-settler Israel lobby organizations, Klarman has also
contributed directly to Pete Buttigieg’s campaign.
The delay in the vote reporting
denied a victory speech to Sen. Bernie Sanders, the presumptive winner of the
opening contest in the Democratic presidential primary. Though not one exit poll indicated that Buttigieg would have won, the
South Bend, Indiana mayor took to Twitter to confidently proclaim himself the
victor.
The bizarre scenario was made possible by a mysterious voting app whose
origins had been kept secret by Democratic National Committee officials.
For hours, it was unclear who created the failed technology, or how it wound up
in the hands of Iowa party officials.
Though a dark money Democratic
operation turned out to be the source of the disastrous app, suspicion initially centered on former
Hillary Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook and his Russiagate-related
elections integrity initiative…
Robby Mook, the former campaign
manager for Hillary Clinton’s failed 2016 presidential campaign, was the
co-founder of Defending Digital Democracy… He
founded the organization with help from Matt Rhoades, a former campaign manager
for Republican Mitt Romney whose public relations company was sued by a
Silicon Valley investor after it branded him “an agent of the Russian
government” and “a friend of Russian President Vladimir Putin…”
As outrage grew over the delay in
Iowa caucus results, Mook publicly
denied any role in designing the notorious app…
Hours later, journalist Lee Fang
reported that a previously unknown tech outfit called Shadow Inc. had
contracted with the Iowa Democratic Party to create the failed technology. The firm was comprised of former staffers
for Obama, Clinton and the tech industry, and had been paid for services by the Buttigieg campaign.
Shadow Inc. was launched by a major
Democratic dark money nonprofit called Acronym, which also gave birth to a $7.7
million Super PAC known as Pacronym. According
to Sludge, Pacronym’s largest donor is Seth Klarman. A billionaire hedge funder, Klarman also happens to be a top donor to
Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar.
Though he has attracted some
attention for his role in the campaign, Klarman’s
prolific funding of the pro-settler Israel lobby and Islamophobic initiatives
has gone almost entirely unmentioned.
Seth Klarman is the founder of the
Boston-based Baupost Group hedge fund and a longtime donor to corporate
Republican candidates. After Donald
Trump called for forgiving Puerto Rico’s debt, Klarman — the owner of $911 million of the island’s bonds — flipped
and began funding Trump’s opponents.
The billionaire’s crusade
against Trump ultimately led him to Mayor Pete’s wine cave. By the end of 2019, Klarman had
donated $5,600 to Buttigieg and pumped money into the campaigns of Senators Amy
Klobuchar, Cory Booker and Kamala Harris as well.
The billionaire’s support for
centrist candidates appears to be driven not only by his own financial
interests, but by his deep and abiding ideological commitment to Israel and its
expansionist project. As I
reported for Mondoweiss, Klarman has been a top funder for major Israel lobby
outfits, including those that support the expansion of illegal settlements and
Islamophobic initiatives.
Klarman was the principal funder of The Israel Project, the
recently disbanded Israeli government-linked propaganda organization that lobbied against the Iran nuclear deal and
backed the Israeli settlement enterprise…
Other pro-Israel groups reaping the
benefits of Klarman’s generosity include Birthright Israel, the AIPAC-founded
Washington Institute for Near East Policy, and the Foundation for the Defense
of Democracies (FDD), a neoconservative
think tank that helped devise Trump’s “maximum pressure” campaign of economic
warfare on Iran.
Klarman is the owner of the Times of Israel, an Israeli media outlet that once published a call for Palestinian
genocide. (The op-ed was removed following public backlash)…
Yes like Stalin said "It's
not the people who vote that count, it's the people who count the votes."
The Iowa caucus shit show is the gift
that keeps on giving. So just who is
Pete Buttigieg and who is banking/backing him?
From The Grayzone:
Excerpt:
The spooks’ choice: Coup plotters and CIA agents fill Pete Buttigieg’s
list of national security endorsers
Why are so many intelligence
veterans throwing their weight behind a young Indiana mayor with such a thin
foreign policy resume? These questions
continue to loom large over the 2020 Democratic primary field: Who is Pete Buttigieg? And what is he doing
here?
Seemingly overnight, the once obscure mayor of Indiana’s
fourth-largest city was vaulted to national prominence, with his campaign
coffers stuffed with big checks from billionaire benefactors. The publication of a list of 218 endorsements
from “foreign policy and national security professionals” by Buttigieg’s
campaign deepened the mystery of the mayor’s rise.
Some observers have raised
questions about Pete Buttigieg’s
intimate relationship with the national security state, after it was revealed
that his campaign had paid nearly $600,000 for “security” to a Blackwater-style
military contractor. Buttigieg’s new
roster of endorsements from former
high-ranking CIA officials, regime-change architects, and global financiers
should raise more questions about the real forces propelling his campaign…
Buttigieg’s lack of core principles
are what might make him so attractive to military contractors and financial
institutions, two of the status quo’s biggest beneficiaries. Mayor
Pete has effectively positioned himself as a Trojan Horse for the
establishment, offering “generational change” that doesn’t challenge existing
power structures in any concrete way…
EYE-POPPING PAYMENTS TO A
BLACKWATER-STYLE MERCENARY FIRM
Buttigieg’s August 29, 2019 payment
of $179,617.04 to PGI represents the single largest security expenditure ever
made by a presidential candidate, according to the FEC. While the exorbitant amount of money raises
questions, it is PGI’s status as a
Blackwater-style mercenary firm that makes Buttigieg’s contract so remarkable.
PGI bills itself as a “global mission support provider with
expeditionary capabilities, providing services to select clients within the
intelligence, defense, and private sector.” According to the company’s
website, it offers services like counter-terrorism, counter-weapons of mass
destruction, and drone surveillance.
PGI is currently under a $26.5 million contract with the Department of
Defense to provide “contractor-owned, contractor-operated intelligence,
surveillance and reconnaissance aerial detection and monitoring support …
inside and outside the U.S.” It is a far cry from securing campaign events held
in New Hampshire community centers...
Why the mercenary firm chose to
re-enter politics for the mayor of South Bend, Indiana remains an open
question. Whatever the reason, Buttigieg’s
willingness to line the pockets of military contractors as a candidate might
offer further insight into why so many in the national security state are
lining up behind him.
THE CIA HEARTS MAYOR PETE
Buttigieg’s lengthy roster of endorsements is loaded with former
intelligence operatives, national security hardliners, regime-change
specialists, and vulture capitalists. Among
Buttigieg’s most notable endorsers is David S. Cohen, the deputy director of the CIA from 2015 to 2017, and a former
Treasury official under George W. Bush…
Since leaving government, Cohen has made various think tank
appearances to advocate for continued use of sanctions in the aforementioned
countries, as well as Venezuela. The impact of sanctions imposed under
Cohen’s watch has been equated to “collective punishment,” resulting in
economic crises, food and medicine shortages, and tens of thousands of
preventable deaths.
In his tenure at the Treasury
Department, Cohen was also instrumental in drafting the Patriot Act, which
restricted civil liberties and vastly increased the government’s surveillance
powers in response to 9/11… Cohen
has yet to speak publicly as to why he endorsed Buttigieg.
Buttigieg was likewise endorsed by Charlie Gilbert, former deputy director
of the National Clandestine Service… John Bair, is the former chief of staff
for the CIA’s Middle East Task Force… Dennis
Bowden, a 26-year CIA veteran… former CIA senior analyst Sue Terry… former senior intelligence
officer Martin Rasser, and former
senior analyst Andrea Kendall-Taylor.
If you’re thinking, “Wow, that’s a lot of CIA endorsements for
a relatively unknown, small-town mayor,” you’re right – and it’s just the tip
of the iceberg…
Mayor Pete’s list of spook
supporters similarly includes non-CIA intelligence community professionals like
Robert Stasio, the former chief of operations
at the NSA Cyber Center, and William Wechsler, former deputy assistant
secretary for Special Ops at the Department of Defense.
Buttigieg also named Robin Walker,
a former deputy intelligence officer for the Director of National Intelligence,
as a supporter. Walker now works for
corporate weapons contractor Lockheed Martin.
REGIME CHANGE HIT-MEN AND DEBT
COLONISTS JUMP ON THE BANDWAGON
Yet some of Mayor Pete’s most troubling endorsements come from outside of
the military-intelligence apparatus. Buttigieg,
for example, lists Fernando Cutz
as an endorser. For the first 16 months of the Trump administration, Cutz was
the national security council director for South America, where he led US policy on Venezuela and was credited with outlining
regime-change plans for the president.
Another Buttigieg endorser is Jessica Reitz-Curtin, who spent
several years in leadership at USAID’s Office of Transition Initiatives (OTI),
working alongside Buttigieg’s close friend, Nathaniel Myers. OTI is the de-facto tip of the spear for
USAID’s regime change efforts. In the case of Venezuela, OTI has
bankrolled violent, right-wing opposition forces for decades.
There is also plenty of excitement
for Buttigieg at the commanding heights of international finance. Matt Kaczmarek, vice president of
BlackRock, the world’s largest investment manager, controlling nearly $7
trillion in assets, is listed as an endorser of the South Bend mayor.
Kaczmarek previously served as the NSC’s director of Brazil and
Southern Cone affairs in the Obama administration, when the US backed a right-wing parliamentary coup against President
Dilma Roussef…
Pete Buttigieg endorser Matt
Kaczmarek, a former US National Security Council official and now vice
president of BlackRock has massive
holdings in Brazilian agribusiness, and is a major factor in the environmental
degradation of the Amazon region. BlackRock’s practices have been
so destructive to the region that AmazonWatch named the financial behemoth the
“world’s largest investor in deforestation.”
Kaczmarek is a perfect
embodiment of the revolving door through which high-ranking government
employees enter the private sector and reap the rewards of policies they
previously helped implement. In 2013, while Kaczmarek was crafting US economic
policy towards Brazil, then-Vice President Joseph Biden was urging the country
to open its economy further to foreign capital.
From 2014 to the present, BlackRock has substantially increased its
investment in Brazil, according to the AmazonWatch report. Now at the helm
of the company, Kaczmarek stands to
profit handsomely from the same economic liberalization policies that Brazil
was goaded into adopting at his direction.
Buttigieg’s list of endorsers
likewise includes Karen Mathiasen, former acting executive US director at the
World Bank; as well as Julie T. Katzman, COO of the Inter-American Development
Bank (IDB). Both organizations have long
histories of using debt to impose the will of US policymakers onto poor
countries.
Mathiasen, who previously served as
deputy assistant secretary for debt and development policy at the Treasury
Department, was intimately involved in the administration of what has been
dubbed “debt colonialism.” Under this cynical practice, unsustainable levels of debt
are used as a pretext to demand that debtor nations privatize government
functions, impose austerity, and allow greater exploitation by global capital...
EMPIRE’S EMPTY VESSEL
Obscure presidential candidates
don’t typically garner hundreds of elite national security endorsements before
a single vote is cast. So what do these
spooks and vulture capitalists see in Mayor Pete?
It can’t be Buttigieg’s foreign
policy resume, because he doesn’t have one. He hasn’t proposed any notable
policies to distinguish himself from the other corporate-friendly candidates,
so that can’t be it either. Some have
posited that Mayor Pete may be a CIA asset himself, but the supporting evidence
is circumstantial at best.
Perhaps the most reasonable
conclusion is that they see Buttigieg as
an empty vessel. Opportunistic and unmoored by ideology or political goals
beyond his advancing his career, Buttigieg
is the ideal candidate for those who seek to maintain existing hierarchies.
Indeed, his national security endorsement list is filled with people who keep
America’s imperial machine humming along smoothly.
What is the thread that connects the CIA, USAID, and the World Bank? All three institution exist to prop up a
grossly unequal global order in which a tiny sliver of the population hordes
unimaginable wealth, while the mass of people get by on next to nothing.
At a time when that order looks increasingly untenable, with
anti-austerity protests breaking out from Chile, to France, to Lebanon, Mayor
Pete makes perfect sense.
Well, well looks like the CIA was in charge of counting the
votes in Iowa. Is it any wonder that
Mayor Pete jumped up a declared victory before the votes were even
counted? It’s time to dump the corrupt,
rigged Iowa caucuses. From RT:
Excerpt:
South Bend, Indiana mayor Pete Buttigieg’s brazen caucus-night
declaration of victory had been hanging by a thread – Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, clearly the favorite by the popular
vote, was gaining on his younger rival in delegate count as well before
Perez suggested they restart the process.
Shell-shocked voters had sat patiently through three days of
revelations that the corruption and malfeasance infecting the party made
2016’s efforts to rig the primary for Hillary Clinton look like milk and
cookies. And now they had to do it again?
The straw that broke the camel’s back might have been the Iowa Democrats’ sheepish walk-back of a set
of phony results for Black Hawk County on Wednesday night, which had mysteriously handed a large
chunk of Sanders votes to billionaire Tom Steyer and former Massachusetts
governor Deval Patrick. When the county supervisor published the
actual results, the party dutifully updated their totals to reflect reality
after promising a “minor correction.”
What we saw in the Iowa caucus shit show was what happens
when the party elites control the entire voting apparatus. Unlike state elections where the Secretary of
State oversees the election process, the Iowa caucus is completely controlled
by the parties and their CIA overlords.
What resulted was an ugly dark comedy.
The ensuing State of the Union
Speech and the Democrats reactions was nothing short of comedic hilarity. From James Kunstler at Zero Hedge:
Excerpt:
Kunstler: The Democratic Party "Has Entered The Slapstick Phase Of
Its Self-Destruction" Slapstick Suicide
With Adam Schiff and Jerrold Nadler
cast as Laurel and Hardy, the Democratic Party entered the slapstick phase of
its self-destruction, moving from one botched scheme to the next amidst a chaos
of falling pianos, splintered two-by-fours, and crashed bi-planes. The old
1930s screen comedies usually also featured a “grand dame” character making
herself ridiculous, like Margaret Dumont in Duck Soup, and congressional
central casting has fashioned just such a late-career role for Nancy Pelosi, all fluster and spleen, and well-supplied with comic
props like the carefully pre-torn State of the Union address she ceremoniously
sundered on Tuesday night. Can someone drop an anvil on her, please?
That spectacle was immediately followed by the Keystone Kops Iowa caucus,
which has not really been resolved three days later as I write, though 100
percent of the vote is supposedly counted (cue, laughter). Many of the reporting counties
have fewer voters than the average Methodist college student body, and somehow
it was hard to tally the numbers for days on end?
Party chairman Tom Perez called for
a do-over. That’ll sure have a ton of cred. By the time it’s done, the action will have moved on from New Hampshire
to Nevada, and Gawd knows what
pratfalls await there (in a state founded literally on bilking the credulous).
Considering they are now the
official party of chaos, all of this colorful comic disorder may have a purpose
behind it: to demonstrate that the
United States is now too incompetent to hold an election, and therefore
whatever happens on November 3 will have to be disputed. Cue Lawfare, the Dem’s designated sedition
generator. They’ll step in and gum up
the system with so much litigation that the ghost of Samuel J. Tilden will be
heard screaming for mercy somewhere high above the capitol’s grand dome.
Unless, of course, the party manages to complete its drawn-out suicide
at the Milwaukee convention. The Iowa fiasco was universally seen as an
effort to trip-up Bernie Sanders, the elderly Leninist who, ironically, seeks
to turn the entire federal bureaucracy into a colossal version of the very Iowa
caucus that was engineered to thwart him…
Meanwhile, in case you have
forgotten, scores of public officials
from the Obama administration stand to be indicted as we enter the heart of the
spring primary season. On top of three failed seditious attempts to
overthrow Mr. Trump since 2016, a cavalcade of perp walks for all that may
finally force the recognition among the battered true believers in the Holy
Church of Maddow that a genuine coup d’état has been running for three solid
years, whether or not you like Donald Trump.
They came close to turning the USA into a banana republic.
The news media is saying that President Trump had “his best week
ever.” My sense of him hasn’t changed: he remains
the Golden Golem of Greatness, a kind of mystical and mystifying comic figure
himself, but not of the 1930s slapstick sort, more like a character drawn
from the neo-gothic Joker phase of American history — and, hey, he really did
spring full-blown on the scene from our real-life Gotham City.
I was impressed, during his Thursday post-acquittal White House gala,
at the stunning incoherence of his remarks, his facility for leaving absolutely
every thought hanging unfinished in mid-sentence as he turned to the next
uncompleted thought. I can’t say for sure that this makes him an
ineffective manager of the nation’s affairs, but it does leave you kind of
wondering.
The fact remains, though, that
his antagonists have behaved much worse, and now they are going to be punished.
You bet your ass his antagonists have behaved much worse and
they are going to be punished, the reckoning is coming.
“Woe to those who
enact unjust statutes and issue oppressive decrees, to deprive the poor of fair
treatment and withhold justice from the oppressed of My people, to make widows
their prey and orphans their plunder.” Such
are the words of Isaiah 10.
The Democratic Party is no more. In the words of comedian Jimmie Dore, “the
Democratic Party doesn't represent workers anymore, that they actually
represent big pharma, health insurance, the military-industrial complex, and
Wall Street… The first job of the Democratic Party is to stop the candidate who
represents the workers and then and only then can they turn their attention
towards Donald Trump.”
The Iowa caucus shit show exposes the depths of corruption
in DNC and their utter contempt for their Democratic voters. The Reckoning is here. The Democratic Party is dead and may they rest
in anything but peace.
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