The administration of the illegally installed pResident
Grifter Joe Biden is working at warped speed to take away what civil rights the
American people have left after 20 years of eroding them. Biden’s Administration like those of the
administrations of W. Bush and Obama have weaponized the courts, the spy
agencies and the CIA Mockingbird Media using Gestapo-like tactics against
ordinary Americans.
The entire government in America is rotten to the core
having been coopted by Fascist billionaires and corporations who install
politicians to do their bidding. These
pols are not the best and the brightest, they are corrupt, ignorant lackeys
only interested in enriching themselves.
Former Congressman Dennis Kucinich has just released his
Memoir, a scathing look at just how corrupt the American government is. Christopher Hedges gives us a glimpse into
the book. From Mint Press:
Excerpt:
Hedges: Kucinich Memoir Is a Moving
Account of a Battle Against Corporate Power
When the ‘boy mayor’ of Cleveland
took a stand against privatization of public power, the region’s elites
deployed every weapon in their arsenal against him, including attempted assassination.
“The
Division of Light and Power,” by Dennis Kucinich, like Robert Caro’s “The
Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York,” is a gripping, moving and
lucidly written account of the hidden
mechanisms of corporate power in the United States and what happens when these
corporate interests are challenged. It is essential reading, especially as
we face an intensified corporate assault, done in the name of fiscal necessity
following the financial wounds imposed by the pandemic, to seize total control
of all public assets.
Kucinich warns that this assault is
more than the seizure of public assets for private gain. These
corporate forces, which function as a shadow government in Washington and
cities across the country, threaten to achieve a monolithic lock on all forms
of power and extinguish our anemic democracy.
As Kucinich discovered throughout
his career, these corporate forces will deploy every weapon in their arsenal
against those brave or foolish enough to defy them. “The Division of Light and
Power” is destined to become a classic text for those who seek to
understand the corporate coup d’etat that took place in the United States in
the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
The new book by Dennis Kucinich
recounts his battle with corporate elites to protect a public utility…
Kucinich, a diminutive 23-year-old,
who was often mistaken for the paperboy when he campaigned door to door, had
just been elected at the opening of the book to be the new Councilman from Ward
Seven. Kucinich grew up in Ward Seven in
extreme poverty. His family struggled to pay rent and utility bills. They
endured evictions and at one point were forced to sleep in their car.
Ward Seven was, he recalls, where “I went to high school, where church
spires and pipe-organ smokestacks reached to a smudged sky. A neighborhood
populated by a steely league of nations who spoke Polish, Greek, Slovak,
Ukrainian, Russian, Arabic, Spanish, and occasionally English…
Because he would not abandon his
neighborhood, his people, he was on a collision course with the monied elites
who ran the city. The seasoned politicians in city hall assumed that Kucinich, like
themselves, would sell out the voters for his own political and economic
advancement. No one thought he was serious about defending those who
elected him.
They welcomed him to the cynical club of our bought-and-paid-for
political class and explained the inner workings of our system of legalized
bribery. He was young. He was talented. He would go far, the political
hacks assured him, if he did the bidding of the real centers of power.
“These pros knew that every one of the thirty-three Cleveland
City Council seats were won with campaign contributions from banks who held
city deposits, money from phone, gas, and electric interests, or downtown real
estate developers who never lost an election because they always bet on both
sides,” Kucinich writes.
One middle-aged Councilman, an
attorney from a neighboring ward, let’s call him Richard, befriended me,
confiding, “Dennis, there are a lot of
legitimate ways you can make money in politics. Nothing dishonest, mind
you. Opportunities come to people who hold office,” he said.
“Opportunities?”
“You know, you do favors for
people. They do favors for you.”
“Favors?” I didn’t understand.
“Attorneys elected to Council get
law business thrown their way. Insurance salesmen get policies. Travel agents
book trips for people they help. Real estate guys get commissions from property
deals called to their attention,” he shared. “It’s all legit...”
The rules were clear from the
start. Serve the interests of big
business and the city’s rich — by granting tax abatements, 99-year franchises,
monopolies, and bond financing for big, often unnecessary multi-million dollar
projects — and thrive. Defy those interests and face political oblivion.
“City Hall reeked of mendacity, of
checking one’s spiritual beliefs at the door like a beat-up coat and entering
into circumstances where unseen forces
were dictating decisions, demanding consensus, and meting out punishment to
those who denied the deal-making, was, after all, politics, the dominion of
amorality, where personal advancement relied on pragmatism
operating in shuttered light, without the imposition of conscience,” Kucinich
writes.
Once it was clear the elites could not buy him off, they set out to
destroy his political career, slander and intimidate him, and, after he was
elected mayor in 1977, wreck the city’s finances and finally attempt to assassinate him.
The ruling elites play for keeps. And this is why a politician like Kucinich,
with integrity and undaunted courage, is
an anathema in the deeply corrupted world of American electoral politics where
nearly all who flourish, in city, state and national politics, do so because
they have a price.
The battle royale, which would see
the business elites force the city into default to remove Kucinich from the
mayor’s office, centered around the
schemes by CEI (Cleveland Electric Illuminating Co.) to crush the public
utility, Municipal Light, or Muny Light, founded in 1907 by then-Cleveland
Mayor Tom L. Johnson.
CEI sought a monopoly so it could jack up rates for the city’s
residents. CEI orchestrated blackouts by blocking Muny’s access to back-up
power and exhausting the patience of Muny customers to force them into the
hands of CEI. The fight to save Muny was, Kucinich knew, more than a fight to
protect a public utility.
Johnson said when the founded the
public utility, “I believe in public
ownership of all public service monopolies for the same reason that I believe
in the municipal ownership of waterworks, of parks, of schools. I believe
in the municipal ownership of these monopolies because if you do not own them,
they will in time own you. They will corrupt your politics, rule
your institutions and finally destroy your liberties.”
But it was not only Kucinich the
business elites targeted. They destroyed the careers of the handful
of reporters who attempted to investigate and make public the dirty
machinations of CEI and the ruling elites. Kucinich watched as one
honest reporter after another was silenced by his or her employer, beholden to
the money and power of advertisers.
Kucinich discovered that the press
was not only docile, but complicit. He realized he would have few allies in the
public arena. When the war against him
began in earnest, the press dutifully amplified the lies spun out by the public
relations departments of the corporations against Kucinich. The city was
saturated with constant news and editorials touting the benefits of privatizing
the private utility, although customers with Muny Light had one of the lowest
electric rates in the country.
When Steve Clark, the top radio news commentator in Cleveland on
WERE radio, for example, decried CEI’s spending over $7 million for promotions
and advertising, or about $11 per customer, and announced that CEI
had realized a net profit of $40 million, or more than sixteen cents for each
dollar of operating revenue, at the same time it was demanding a 20 percent
rate increase from the Ohio Public Utilities Commission, WHICH WOULD
GENERATE AN ADDITIONAL $54 MILLION ANNUALLY for the company, his career was
finished. The radio station received at least $70,000 a year from CEI in
advertising. The owners did not intend
to lose it. Clark was fired.
“News reporters covering the
Council meeting were a sketch of supine immobility, a confession of the
futility of expression without independence,” Kucinich writes. “If CEI worked to influence editors, the
editors in turn would place limitations on their reporters. I could not
expect any help from the ‘free press…’”
The Muny Light wars exposed
the lengths corporate power and the mob bosses, who Kucinich also fought, will
go to destroy anyone who threatens their unchecked pillaging…
(Nearly two decades later, after
wandering the political wilderness — and the country — yet still supported
strongly by the working class of Cleveland, Kucinich made an unexpected
political comeback when he was elected to Congress in 1996. However, in 2010 the Democratic Party
machine in Ohio drew up a redistricting plan which moved his Cleveland home
address into the Toledo-based district of another incumbent, all but assuring
his defeat in 2012…)
His enemies did not forgive him
once they removed him from office. He
and those who worked in his mayoral administration were blacklisted by the
city’s elite, often unable to find work. Kucinich was meant to be an
example to all who thought of defying the system…
Sounds like what happened to Donald Trump and anyone in his
administration that wasn’t on the take.
Much like Kucinich, Trump and his supporters are called “domestic
terrorists” and advocates in congress like Matt Gates are constantly under
attack by the media making unsubstantiated charges against them. From Zero Hedge:
Excerpt:
Why Trump Supporters Are Pissed Off And Don't Trust Anything
As the ruling class went to absurd
lengths to try and dismantle Donald Trump, pissed off supporters watched in
horror as a captured media peddled lie
after lie - typically based on anonymous leaks from deep state bureaucrats, and
as powerful agents within America's
intelligence apparatus falsified evidence and collaborated with foreign
operatives paid by Trump's political opponents.
In doing so, they exposed
themselves to anyone not already paying attention…
Here are the facts - actual,
confirmed facts - that shape their perspective: 1) The FBI/etc spied on the 2016 Trump campaign using evidence
manufactured by the Clinton campaign. We now know that all involved knew it
was fake from Day 1 (see: Brennan's July 2016 memo, etc)… The intel community
spying on a presidential campaign using fake evidence (incl forged documents)
is a big deal to them.
Everyone involved lied about their
involvement as long as they could. We only learned the DNC paid for the manufactured evidence because of a court order.
Comey denied on TV knowing the DNC paid for it, when we have emails from a year
earlier proving that he knew.
This was true with everyone, from CIA Dir Brennan & Adam Schiff -
who were on TV saying they'd seen clear evidence of collusion w/Russia, while
admitting under oath behind closed doors that they hadn't - all the way down
the line. In the end we learned that it was ALL fake…
Trump supporters know the collusion
case front and back. They went from worrying the collusion must be real, to
suspecting it might be fake, to
realizing it was a scam, then watched as every institution - agencies, the
press, Congress, academia - gaslit them for another year.
Worse, collusion was used to scare people away from working in the administration.
They knew their entire lives would be investigated. Many quit because they were
being bankrupted by legal fees. The DoJ, press, & gov't destroyed lives
and actively subverted an elected admin.
This is where people whose
political identity was largely defined by a naive belief in what they learned
in Civics class began to see the outline of a Regime that crossed all
institutional boundaries. Because it had
stepped out of the shadows to unite against an interloper.
GOP propaganda still has many of them
thinking in terms of partisan binaries, but
A LOT of Trump supporters see that the Regime is not partisan. They all
know that the same institutions would have taken opposite sides if it was a
Tulsi Gabbard vs Jeb Bush election.
It's hard to describe to people on
the left (who are used to thinking of gov't as a conspiracy... Watergate,
COINTELPRO, WMD, etc) how shocking &
disillusioning this was for people who encourage their sons to enlist in the
Army, and hate ppl who don't stand for the Anthem. They could have managed
the shock if it only involved the government.
But the behavior of the corporate
press is really what radicalized them. They
hate journalists more than they hate any politician or gov't official, because
they feel most betrayed by them. The idea that the press is driven by
ratings/sensationalism became untenable. If that were true, they'd be all over
the Epstein story. The corporate press
is the propaganda arm of the Regime they now see in outline. Nothing anyone
says will ever make them unsee that, period.
This is profoundly disorienting. Many of them don't know for certain whether
ballots were faked in November 2020, but they know for absolute certain that
the press, the FBI, etc would lie to them if there was. They have every
reason to believe that, and it's probably true…
Then you get the Hunter laptop
scandal. Big Tech ran a full-on
censorship campaign against a major newspaper to protect a political candidate.
Period. Everyone knows it, all of the Tech companies now admit it was a
"mistake" - but, ya know, the election's over, so who cares?
Goes w/o saying, but: If the NY Times had Don Jr's laptop, full of pics
of him smoking crack and engaging in group sex, lots of lurid family drama,
emails describing direct corruption and backed up by the CEO of the company
they were using, the NYT wouldn't have been banned…
Everyone knows that, just as Don Jr's laptop would've been the story of
the century, if everything about the election dispute was the same, except
the parties were reversed, suspicions about the outcome would've been Taken
Very Seriously. See 2016 for proof.
Even the courts' refusal of the
case gets nowhere w/them, because of how the opposition embraced mass political
violence. They'll say, w/good reason:
What judge will stick his neck out for Trump knowing he'll be destroyed in the
media as a violent mob burns down his house?
It's a fact, according to Time
Magazine, that mass riots were planned
in cities across the country if Trump won. Sure, they were
"protests", but they were planned by the same people as during the
summer, and everyone knows what it would have meant. Judges have families, too.
Forget the ballot conspiracies. It's a fact that governors used COVID to
unconstitutionally alter election procedures (the Constitution states that only
legislatures can do so) to help Biden to make up for a massive enthusiasm gap
by gaming the mail-in ballot system.
They knew it was unconstitutional,
it's right there in plain English. But they knew the cases wouldn't see court
until after the election. And what judge will toss millions of ballots because
a governor broke the rules? The threat
of mass riots wasn't implied, it was direct.
They were led down some rabbit
holes, but they are absolutely right that their gov't is monopolized by a
Regime that believes they are beneath representation, and will observe no
limits to keep them getting it. Trump
fans should be happy he lost; it might've kept him alive.
Speaking of the Biden Grifting Crime Family the financial
crime spree continues from the White House. Just like Kucinich found out, there’s lots of
ways to financially benefit and launder money.
Take Obama, in October of 2008 when the entire financial systems was
melting down, Obama received $300 million in campaign donations in the form of
prepaid credit cards $200 dollars or less (just under the reporting limits)
that he claimed were from small donors.
Once installed in the White House he bailed out the crooked
banks and let the people be thrown out of their homes. Many are still homeless living in tent
cities. Obama left office with a $65
million dollar thank you (book deal). From Anti-Empire:
Art is a big business. Worldwide
sales of art and antiques reached an estimated $64.1 billion in 2019, according
to the Art Basel and UBS Global Art Market Report. One of the more curious artists to begin selling their artwork is
Hunter Biden. The son of President Joe Biden is selling his artwork for
potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars presents a potential headache for
the White House.
The Biden administration
reportedly stepped in and helped broker a deal that would allow a purchaser of
Hunter’s artwork to remain anonymous, which has concerned many over the
possibility of bribery and money being exchanged for influence. One of the
critics who slammed this alleged secret selling situation is Walter Shaub,
former President Barack Obama’s onetime ethics chief.
Hunter’s art dealer is Georges
Berges, who “plans to host a private viewing for Biden in Los Angeles this
fall, followed by an exhibition in New York,” according to Artnet. “Prices range from $75,000 for works on
paper to $500,000 for large-scale paintings.”
Shaub told Fox News that Hunter’s
art deal is “the opposite of government ethics.” In effect, the Biden administration got the “art dealer to promise not to give
us the means to monitor whether the buyers are getting preferential access to
government” by keeping buyers anonymous, according to Shaub.
“Nobody ever said secrecy was the best disinfectant, but that’s what
we have now. And White House officials getting involved in any way other than
to request transparency amounts to effectively putting an official stamp of
approval on the president’s son trading on his father’s public service,” Shaub
said.
“Instead, the president should be begging his son not to go through
with this sale, even if that means threatening to banish him from the
family’s Thanksgiving table this fall and publicly condemning his actions.”
“The idea’s that even Hunter won’t
know, but the WH has outsourced government ethics to a private art dealer,”
Shaub wrote on Twitter. “We’re supposed
to trust a merchant in an industry that’s fertile ground for money laundering, as
well as unknown buyers who could tell Hunter or WH officials? No thanks. Is this
amateur hour for government ethics?”
The former Office of Government
Ethics director emphasized, “The WH has put its stamp of approval on
the president’s son profiting off his father’s public service again.”
“Yeah, I know some folks aren’t
going to like this thread because we’re not supposed to criticize the president
who’s way better than the ethical disaster named Trump,” Shaub explained. “But,
you know what? With democracy on the
ropes, ethics has never been more important. And this ain’t it.”
Richard Painter, who was a top
ethics official in the George W. Bush administration, told the Washington Post,
“The whole thing is a really bad idea.” “The initial reaction a lot of people
are going to have is that he’s
capitalizing on being the son of a president and wants people to give him a lot
of money,” Painter said. “I mean, those are awfully high prices.”
Art is a big business. Worldwide
sales of art and antiques reached an estimated $64.1 billion in 2019, according
to the Art Basel and UBS Global Art Market Report. One of the more curious artists to begin selling their artwork is
Hunter Biden. The son of President Joe Biden is selling his artwork for
potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars presents a potential headache for
the White House.
The Biden administration
reportedly stepped in and helped broker a deal that would allow a purchaser of
Hunter’s artwork to remain anonymous, which has concerned many over the
possibility of bribery and money being exchanged for influence. One of the
critics who slammed this alleged secret selling situation is Walter Shaub,
former President Barack Obama’s onetime ethics chief.
Hunter’s art dealer is Georges
Berges, who “plans to host a private viewing for Biden in Los Angeles this
fall, followed by an exhibition in New York,” according to Artnet. “Prices range from $75,000 for works on
paper to $500,000 for large-scale paintings.”
Shaub told Fox News that Hunter’s
art deal is “the opposite of government ethics.” In effect, the Biden administration got the “art dealer to promise not to give
us the means to monitor whether the buyers are getting preferential access to
government” by keeping buyers anonymous, according to Shaub.
“Nobody ever said secrecy was the best disinfectant, but that’s what
we have now. And White House officials getting involved in any way other than
to request transparency amounts to effectively putting an official stamp of
approval on the president’s son trading on his father’s public service,” Shaub
said.
“Instead, the president should be begging his son not to go through
with this sale, even if that means threatening to banish him from the
family’s Thanksgiving table this fall and publicly condemning his actions.”
“The idea’s that even Hunter won’t
know, but the WH has outsourced government ethics to a private art dealer,”
Shaub wrote on Twitter. “We’re supposed
to trust a merchant in an industry that’s fertile ground for money laundering, as
well as unknown buyers who could tell Hunter or WH officials? No thanks. Is this
amateur hour for government ethics?”
The former Office of Government
Ethics director emphasized, “The WH has put its stamp of approval on
the president’s son profiting off his father’s public service again.”
“Yeah, I know some folks aren’t
going to like this thread because we’re not supposed to criticize the president
who’s way better than the ethical disaster named Trump,” Shaub explained. “But,
you know what? With democracy on the
ropes, ethics has never been more important. And this ain’t it.”
Richard Painter, who was a top
ethics official in the George W. Bush administration, told the Washington Post,
“The whole thing is a really bad idea.” “The initial reaction a lot of people
are going to have is that he’s
capitalizing on being the son of a president and wants people to give him a lot
of money,” Painter said. “I mean, those are awfully high prices.”
The Biden Administration was unconstitutionally installed by
a corrupt cabal that is destroying our constitutional rights on a daily
basis. Can America survive this
assault? From Sibel Edmonds:
Sanctuary States For Our
Constitution- It’s Now Or Never
As our founding fathers made crystal clear, supporting and defending
the Constitution of the United States of America against all enemies- foreign
and domestic, is incumbent upon every American- Not only those who must
take the oath of office or naturalized citizens who take the oath of
citizenship.
What happens then when the domestic enemies of our Constitution take
control of our Federal Government, begin attacking and eliminating our
Constitutional Rights centrally, and then begin to overtly expand this erosion
throughout the nation?
Enter the Tenth Amendment: The
powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited
by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to
the people.
This crucial safeguard has been disregarded and discarded by a few
states, and about to be eliminated in others. The Final and Mission
Accomplished benchmark for the Enemies of our Constitution is when every state
shares this status.
Unfortunately, we are nearing this
benchmark-speedily. Our enemies’ synthetic terrorism pretext took away some of
our most valuable rights and freedom. Their pandemic pretext has been taking
away other crucial rights- including our basic human rights. Their
already designed and forecast pretext, Mass-Shooting Epidemic, is
being plugged in right now. And other pretexts, such as the Imminent
Global Warming Catastrophe, are preplanned and scripted- ready to go
per their schedule.
With all these realities on the
ground, here are my questions: Are we going to sit back and wait for the
inevitable end- The end of what makes
the USA the USA: Our Constitution? Have we ceased believing in
Constitutionalism defining the core of Americanism? What is our interpretation
of defending the Constitution of the United States of America against all
enemies- foreign and domestic?
While our majority has been
consistent in wearing their apathy without any shame, and justifying inaction
as being safe, there are millions of us-
alarmed and restless Americans, who wear our nationalism the right way- by
being avid and uncompromising Constitutionalists.
Sadly, some of this needed
restlessness and resistance is being coopted and rechanneled into futile
action: Hope and energy poured into some coming elections (as if no lesson
learned or registered after the last round!), resources and faith placed on courts (as if any good has come out of
the Kangaroo Courts in the past two decades- be it on Unconstitutional Police
State practices such as warrantless surveillance or forced muzzling and caging!).
All tried- many times. All failed-every time.
Then why not try a different and
more feasible tact?
Our Tenth Amendment, almost never-utilized, is still there. Isn’t
it time to put it to use in practice- as it was, and is, intended? Guarding our Constitutional rights falls
upon us, but also on our state governments- and together can be formed into
sanctuaries for our Constitution- to uphold and defend it.
Join me then. Let’s unite and
organize. Let’s make our states “Sanctuaries for the Constitution”. It is our
most feasible and doable action plan. It
is Constitutional- and for our Constitution. Together- We Can, and United-We
Certainly Will Win.
I certainly hope Sibel Edmonds is correct and we can
prevail, however for now we are living in Joe Biden’s America, a utopian
nightmare of grifters, gestapo gulags, kangaroo courts and weaponized spooks.
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