Debate or “Never Trump” prelude to election theft

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Presidential candidate, former CIA operative and GOP House policy guru Evan McMullin revealed on Sunday the “Never Trump” plot to steal the election.

Evan McMullin, the former chief policy director for the House GOP Conference and former CIA operative laid out the “Never Trump” plot to steal the November election from Clinton and Trump.  Appearing on Wisconsin’s Sunday morning political show, Upfront with Mike Gousha, Mc Mullin revealed his backers’ plot to take the election out of the voters’ hands and punt it to the GOP controlled House of Representatives. McMullin revealed the plan is “to block Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump from winning the Electoral College so that the election goes to the House of Representatives to choose the winner.”

GOP establishment candidate

McMullin entered the race in August as the “Never Trump” candidate with backing of the Republican establishment’s most well-known operatives Bill Kristol, John Kingston, Joel Searby and Rick Wilson.  Within days of the announcement of his candidacy on August 8, 2016 McMullin gained access to the ballots in Utah and Colorado and announced legal action would be taken against states with deadlines on or after August 15.  By August 14, the Independence Party of Minnesota declared McMullin their presidential nominee. 

GOP House breaks the tie

McMullin's chief strategist Joel Searby outlined the campaign strategy on August 22^nd in a memo, the campaign plans to block Hillary Clinton from reaching 270 electoral votes, thus sending the election to the House of Representatives. According to Wikipedia, Searby believes that, “once in the GOP controlled House, against the backdrop of Trump and Clinton's deeply divisive positions and after a strong electoral college showing, we believe Evan's unifying message will prevail."

Immediate ballot access

McMullin was added to the Idaho ballot on August 23, Virginia on September 2, nominated as the ballot-qualified Independent Party candidate on South Carolina on September 7^th and announced as a write-in in Alaska, Montana, Tennessee and West Virginia on September 23^rd. Once the building blocks of a stolen election were in place, the GOP set its sights on the Trump and Clinton campaigns.  Clinton’s campaign was infiltrated with the Obama operatives that viciously attacked the Clintons in 2008 labeling them as racists.  Trump’s campaign was purged of his loyalists like Corey Lewandowski and Paul Manafort and replaced with GOP stalwarts.

Running mates chosen by elite

The running mate chosen for Clinton was Obama loyalist and reliable war monger Tim Kaine and Trump’s running mate, chosen without his input was the extremely conservative, deeply unpopular Mike Pence.   Now the strategy was to narrow Clinton’s lead to ensure the race would be close enough that along with the voter ID purge and the GOP redistricting of 2010 the election could be a tie throwing the contest to the House of Representatives as the decider. 

Game set match

After a summer of attacks on the two candidates and endless GOP congressional investigations along with endless media attacks the contest has narrowed.  Tonight’s “debate” controlled by cable infotainment carnival barkers will center on solidifying the media driven impression of two deeply unpopular, divisive, dishonest candidates.  In the end, there will be a media blitz to bolster Evan McMullin as the only alternative, creating the illusion of popularity necessary to successfully steal the election.  That is the “Never Trump” plot to steal the election.

By Patricia Baeten

Panicked war criminals lash out at Trump

Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post the official anti-Trump rag, has published a letter from a group of war criminals calling Trump “entirely unqualified.”

The Trump hating Washington Post has gleefully published a letter signed by 75 retired senior “diplomats” opposing Trump for Commander-in-Chief.  The news comes as the CIA instigated war in Syria has reached an explosive level after the Pentagon sabotaged the cease fire agreement.  The war in Syria has devolved into a hot war between the CIA backed terrorists and the Pentagon backed terrorists.

Syria hotbed of neocon terrorism

The war was started to remove the elected president of Syria in order to launch a war against Russia.  Earlier this year it was reported by the LA Times that CIA backed militias were fighting Pentagon backed militias in Syria.  The insane foreign policy of the Obama Administration is just a continuation of the foreign policy the US jammed down the world’s throat for the last half century.

Commander-in-Chief commands nothing

Counter Punch has reported that the Pentagon, packed with neocons had publicly expressed their disagreement with the cease fire in Syria.  In an article entitled “Rogue Mission: Did the Pentagon Bomb Syrian Army to Kill Ceasefire Deal?” they accuse the Pentagon of treason.  According to the article, the Pentagon deliberately bombed the Syrian army in defiance of President Obama killing 62 and wounding 100.

US blames Assad

The US quickly took credit for the slaughter saying it was a “mistake.” Even more outrageous was the “apology” given by the UN Ambassador Samantha Power.  She accused Assad of the attacks that took place earlier that killed eighteen Syrian Arab Red Crescent volunteers who were delivering aid to war victims.  Eighteen of the thirty-one trucks in the convoy along with the warehouse where the humanitarian aid was kept were destroyed.

A US backed NGO called the “White Helmets” filmed footage shortly after the attack.  The group who call themselves the Syrian Civil Defense Force are neither Syrian, nor Civil, nor Defense.”  They have made the accusations against Assad that the US is touting as evidence.

Russia responds

According to Global Research Russia has responded by bombing a semi-secret facility operated by US, British, Israeli, Turkish, Saudi and Qatari intelligence personnel just outside Aleppo.  The US hasn’t commented yet, they probably don’t want to admit they had the secret spook compound in the first place.  The neocons are itching for a nuke war with Russia before President Trump takes office.

US nuke program run on floppy disks

While Russia has invested in state-of-the-art military equipment, the US has plowed trillions into a cold war military industrial complex.  CNN recently reported that the US is running its nuclear program on floppy disks.  Worse yet, the U.S. Treasury still depends on assembly language code "initially used in the 1950s.”  No wonder Wall Street has been able to rob the treasury.

Eighty-eight generals support Trump

Trump received a letter of support from eighty-eight of America’s finest.  The letter opens, “The 2016 election affords the American people an urgently needed opportunity to make a long-overdue course correction in our national security posture and policy. As retired senior leaders of America’s military, we believe that such a change can only be made by someone who has not been deeply involved with, and substantially responsible for, the hollowing out of our military and the burgeoning threats facing our country around the world. For this reason, we support Donald Trump’s candidacy to be our next Commander-in-Chief.”  I say Amen to that.

By Patricia Baeten

Congressionally protected financial terrorism

Wells Fargo’s CEO testimony exposed government complicity in the ongoing congressionally sanctioned financial terrorism and the war on the CFPB.

It was a sight we’ve seen before, congress critters feign outrage as yet another CEO smugly sits and listens to a litany of their crimes.  There will be no reprimand, no fines, and no legislation to ensure the crimes won’t be committed again.  At the end of the day, they all shake hands and agree to maintain the status quo with an understanding the campaign contributions will continue to roll in.

CFPB on hit list

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the brainchild of Elizabeth Warren, was created to protect consumers from the congressionally protected banksters’ illegal activity.  It was a CFPB investigation that uncovered massive fraud by Wells Fargo that resulted in a $185 million dollar fine. The CFPB uncovered was a scheme where low level employees were instructed to open millions of accounts for customers without their knowledge or consent in order to fatten the profits of the bank.

Fraud pays big time

The illegal accounts generated hundreds of millions of dollars in profits for the CEO and shareholders in overdraft fees and penalties levied against unsuspecting customers.  As a result, Wells Fargo was ordered to pay $100 million to the CFPB, the largest fine the federal agency has ever imposed, $50 million to the city and county of Los Angeles and $35 million to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). 

Ryan and GOP outraged

Paul Ryan and the GOP are outraged, not by Wells Fargo, but by the CFPB.  When the CFPB was created it was deliberately set up as an independent watchdog, shielded from congressional and White House control.  According to The Washington Post, “Under the Dodd-Frank law, the CFPB gets its money from transfers from the Federal Reserve System, up to specific caps set by the law. The Fed can’t turn down requests under that cap.  The caps are fixed percentages of the Fed’s operating expenses, which works out to the following:

–10% of Fed operating expenses in fiscal 2011 or $498 million — 11% of Fed operating expenses in fiscal 2012 or $547.8 million — 12% in fiscal 2013 or $597.6 million

–12% each fiscal year thereafter, subject to annual adjustments for inflation.”

In 2008 Wall Street banks laundered three-quarters of a billion dollars into the campaign of Barack Obama who was backed by Chuck Schumer, Joe Biden and Ted Kennedy.  The banks printed up over $700 million dollars in untraceable, unreportable campaign donations via $200 or less prepaid credit cards.  $300 million in these “small donations” was funneled into the Obama campaign in October 2008 during the banking collapse.

Warren and CFPB become whipping boys

Once the agency was formed, Obama refused to name Elizabeth Warren to head the independent watchdog agency.  After Kennedy’s death Warren ran for and won his Massachusetts Senate seat.  The agency and Warren have been under fire by not only Paul Ryan and the GOP, but by the Obama-Biden wing of the Democratic Party.  

Fraud is Wall Street’s business model

William Black, a top US white crime expert who prosecuted over 1,000 S&L executives and jailed them for fraud, recently confirmed what bloggers and citizen journalists have said for years:  the business plan of Wall Street is fraud.  The banks are calling in their congressional chits, they want Warren and her CFPB gone.  Congress has initiated a PR blitz to sour the people on the watchdog agency.  After the rigged November election the same congress will return and the congressionally protected financial terrorism will continue.

By Patricia Baeten

The Birther of a nation by a basket of deplorables

Why is “Birther” a subject when months ago we were told that Ted Cruz is a natural born citizen because he was born from an American uterus in Canada?

Once again the media has manufactured a controversy out of thin air, a controversy that is meaningless because just months ago Americans were told an American woman’s uterus is an American territory.  We were told Ted Cruz, born in Canada to a Cuban father and American mother was a natural born citizen because he came out of an American’s uterus.  So what’s going on?

Follow the shiny object

Why are American’s attention being diverted by the media with the birther issue?  The Guardian has obtained documentation of massive corruption in Wisconsin from the governor, to the legislature to the state supreme court.  Corruption so pervasive it has the potential to blow apart Citizens United, so voila Birtherism is reborn.

The corruption of Scott Walker and Club for Growth

The Guardian has uncovered a mountain of corruption, election fraud, cronyism and conflict of interest that took place in Wisconsin during Walker and the GOP’s 2011 recall election.  The documents are the result of a John Doe probe into Walker and Wisconsin Club for Growth, a probe that was shut down by Walker’s state supreme court in 2015.  What does that have to do with birther rebirth?  Donald Trump’s financial advisor is Stephen Moore, the founder of Club for Growth.  What better way to divert attention than to bring back the birther issue, and smear both Trump and Clinton at the same time.

Corruption in the Dismal Dairyland

In 2011 when Walker was facing a recall he needed cash so his main fundraiser, Kate Doner devised a plan to go after “corporate” money.  She advised Walker to “Take Koch’s money. Get on a plane to Vegas and sit down with Sheldon Adelson. Ask for $1m now.”  And the money poured in, not to Walker’s campaign but into the dark money group Wisconsin Club for Growth.  By funneling the cash through the CFG, Walker didn’t have to disclose who was financing his campaign.

A John Doe probe was launched into the possible campaign finance violations between the Walker campaign and the CFG.  Then in July 2015 the state’s Supreme Court ordered the termination of the investigation before any charges could be brought.  The Walker majority on the court, all of whom received significant campaign contributions from Club for Growth declared Walker and CFG “wholly innocent of any wrongdoing”.  They went even further ordering the prosecutors to “permanently destroy all copies of information and other materials obtained through the investigation.”

A real basket of deplorables

WI prosecutors have appealed the decision to the US Supreme Court and it is currently pending.  The documents leaked to the Guardian contain the substance of the case for the appeal.  It consists of email exchanges between Walker, his advisers, Republican leaders and major donors, one of which was coincidentally was Donald Trump.  The crux of the case before the US high court is, the GOP members of the WI high court were required to recuse themselves.  

What’s the precedence?  In 2009 in the case Caperton vs Massey Coal, the US high court found “if there is a serious risk of bias, such in that case where a party to the litigation who makes a substantial contribution to a judge, under 14^th Amendment due process a judge is required to recuse themselves.” In Wisconsin all of the GOP judges were bankrolled by Wisconsin Club for Growth.  The justices should have recused themselves.  Thus the Birther issue has once again reared its ugly head.  

By Patricia Baeten

Colin Powell and the Potemkin election system

U.S. elections have devolved into a Potemkin Villages constructed by oligarchs to deceive the people into believing their votes count.

With the overthrow of the US government in 2000 the Bush Administration dismantled over 200 years of government of, by and for the people.  Clinton is the last president in the US elected by the people.  The Help America Vote Act turned elections into Potemkin Villages constructed to give the appearance of democracy while protecting the two parties from the people.

White washing Colin Powell’s record

No war criminal has ever been so protected by the media as Colin Powell.  The NY Times’ coverage of the Powell’s hacked e-mails speaks volumes. According to the Times, “Former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell has long been one of the high priests of the Washington establishment, staying quiet in this year’s raucous presidential campaign while tending to his reputation as a thoughtful officer and diplomat.”

Powell’s real record

In 1963 Colin Powell, as an advisor in South Vietnam, promoted the idea that the way to discourage support for Viet Cong was to burn villages to the ground, or to “drain-the-sea.”  Other U.S. military advisers found the Powell strategy “brutal and counter-productive.”  In 1968 Powell returned to Vietnam as an officer where he investigated a complaint by a U.S. soldier claiming there were atrocities committed in My Lai. 

According to Consortium News, “after a cursory review Powell wrote "There may be isolated cases of mistreatment of civilians and POWs…. this by no means reflects the general attitude throughout the Division." Powell went on to say, “relations between Americal (sic) soldiers and the Vietnamese people are excellent."  Powell had told his superiors exactly what they wanted to hear, he lied.

It was a US infantryman named Ron Ridenhour who, upon his return to the US that conducted his own investigation into events in My Lai.  He interviewed participant soldiers who witnessed the slaughter and uncovered the truth. In 1968 with helicopters circling overhead, a US Division stormed into a hamlet called My Lai, rounded up old men, women and children, herded them into irrigation ditches and emptied their M-16s into the civilians and killing 347. 

Powell behind Iraq Wars

In 2003 when Powell presented his cartoonish drawings and vial of powder before the UN as proof of Saddam’s nuclear weapons, Counter Punch that recalled Powell’s previous lies to promote war. 

“The setting was eerily reminiscent of the presentation of the key propaganda event that justified the first Gulf War. At that time, also at the United Nations, the Hill & Knowlton propaganda specialists concocted the “throwing babies out of incubators” charade, starring the daughter of the Kuwait ambassador…  A bit of historical context should perhaps guard us from lending too much credence to “evidence” concocted by the US and presented by Powell himself.”

The disastrous results of Colin Powell’s lies live on today as does the media’s white washing Powell’s legacy.  The media has gleefully repeated Powell’s attacks on Donald Trump calling him “a national disgrace” and an “international pariah.”  America’s Potemkin village elections, constructed to give the appearance of democracy while protecting the politicians, will go on.  The only uncertainty is whether the American people will continue to buy the lie.

By Patricia Baeten

The choice Hillary or the Donald

The American people have a choice this November, stay the course with Hillary or take a chance on the Donald

Hillary Clinton is the stay the course candidate whereas Donald Trump is the “turn the ship of state around” candidate.   If you like the domestic and foreign policies of Bush/Obama, Hillary is your girl, if you don’t take a chance on Donald.  Trump is not part of the establishment and has been critical of both Bush and Obama. 

Bush/Obama anti-American policies

Friday the House voted to allow the 911 families to sue Saudi Arabia for their financing of the 911 terror attacks.  The vote followed the unanimous Senate vote earlier this year.  Obama has vowed to veto the bill.  Whose interests are being served, American or Saudi?

Wall Street over Main Street

The Federal Reserve Bank has allowed US companies to load up on debt, buy back their shares and shower shareholders with cash that exceeds the profits of the companies.  This Fed policy has decimated the middle class in America.  Who’s interests do the Fed represent, Main Street or Wall Street?  How many jobs were created by the Fed's $3 trillion in QE?  Zero.

Killing our planet

The US Corps of Engineers has allowed the looting and polluting of American’s natural resources on tribal lands.  The brave people of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe have been fighting to protect their water and land from the Dakota Access Pipeline.  The private military G4S unleased dogs on peaceful protesters and leveled a sacred burial site in response.  The pipeline project poses a risk of irreversible damage on land, aquifers and the environment. 

On Friday, after a federal judge refused the tribe’s request to halt construction of the pipeline a joint statement was issued by the Department of Justice, the Department of Interior and the Department of the Army announcing they would not allow the construction to continue.  The construction has been halted temporarily to review compliance with the National Historic Preservation Act.

Public Education

Public education has been decimated by No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top.  After the privatization of Sallie Mae, student loan debt has ballooned to $1.3 trillion.  The Bankruptcy protection act prohibits the 40 million Americans with student loan debt from filing bankruptcy or from restructuring their loans.  ITT technical college, who received federal education funding abruptly closed last week leaving 8,000 employees jobless and 40,000 students nationwide in limbo.

Profits over people

Big Pharma has been allowed to price gouge life-saving drugs to stratospheric levels.  Neurotoxins are being sprayed across Florida and the nation to combat the mosquito borne Zika virus.  Monsanto has been given immunity from prosecution for its lethal products and TPP will allow foreign companies to sue states if they pass laws that cut into their profits.

So the choice is clear this November if you like the foreign and domestic policies of Bush/Obama vote for Hillary, if you want to take a chance on change, vote for the Donald.

By Patricia Baeten

GOP Congress’ deadly work schedule

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Congress has returned from their seven week vacation to “work” on deadly legislation before their next scheduled vacation in October.

Our “elected” officials have returned after languishing in their mansions for seven weeks of rest and relaxation after failing to pass a budget or critical legislation.  During their short congressional session the special interests are calling in their chits.  There is some deadly, special interest funding to pass before they are adjourned leaving for their preordained reelection.

Genetically engineered Zika morbidity and mortality

According to Natural News, blaming Zika as the cause of brain deformations is a Hoax, the true culprit is the larvicide chemical that is linked to Monsanto.  Without the knowledge or consent of the American people, the British chemical company Oxitec was allowed to release genetically engineered mosquitoes into the Florida Keys to “combat” the spread of Zika.  But a group of doctors from South America have discovered the brain deformations the world is witnessing in Brazil were caused by a chemical larvicide that was sprayed to kill the genetically engineered mosquitoes, not the mosquitoes carrying the Zika virus.

Now the CDC has unveiled their plan for forced vaccinations and quarantines across the US along with mass aerial spraying of populations.  The chemical Naled has been banned by the European Union and in many parts of the world.  The chemical contaminates the water supply and kills anything it comes in contact with.  Congress is set to pass legislation to fund more vaccines, chemical sprays and research under the guise of fighting Zika. 

Protect W. Bush Administration and Saudi Arabia from 911 accountability

The Wall Street Journal is appealing the GOP controlled house to block the passage of the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act or JASTA.  The legislation that was already passed by the Senate has been held up by Paul Ryan in the House. The law would allow families of 911 victims to sue Saudi Arabia for their role in the 911 attacks.  Senior Bush officials are terrified that if the families are allowed to sue, they will be entitled to “discovery” and that would open them up to culpability for their roles.  The 911 families are demanding Speaker Ryan bring the legislation up for a vote in the House but with Ryan’s reelection a sure bet, he’s more likely to protect the Bush cabal. 

Interstate Crosscheck voter purge

Twenty-eight states have adopted the GOP’s interstate crosscheck system to combat non-existent voter fraud for the November election.  Rolling Stone magazine, in an effort to report on the program contacted every state to obtain their crosscheck list.  Because voting twice is a felony, RS was told the lists of suspects were part of a criminal investigation and thus confidential.  Lists that RS was able to obtain showed more than a million names were flagged as having voted in more than one state.

People vs. special interests

Whose interests will the GOP controlled congress promote in their lame duck session?  Will it be Saudi Arabia and the Bush cabal?  Will it be the citizens of the US or will it be Monsanto? If Ryan’s past budgets are an indication it will be another deadly agenda of poison, injustice and corruption.

By Patricia Baeten

Chinese fail to bow to America’s emperor

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How much longer before the American people eject the imbeciles in the government and media that have seized power and endanger American interests?

April fool’s day 2001 the Bush Administration in an imbecilic demonstration of power caused the death of a Chinese pilot who was protecting the Chinese airspace from American invasion.  That action caused George W. Bush, the most ignorant of world leaders to beg for forgiveness and the return of our air men and spy plane.  After much wrangling and several apologies by Bush, the Chinese engineers dismantled the spy plane taking the best of America’s technology and returned the pieces in boxes COD (cash on delivery).

W. Bush damaged China US relations

That set the stage for the new relationship between the US and China that persists today.  The Obama Administration has continued the belligerent standard set by the Bush/Cheney regime.  With the CIA systematically overthrowing the elected governments of Argentina, Brazil, Ukraine and instigating wars in Syria, Yemen and Libya as the springboard for war with China and Russia, America’s “great” leader Obama landed in China for the G20 summit expecting a royal welcome. 

Obama and press dissed by China

Not surprisingly the Chinese were underwhelmed.  When Air Force One landed in Hangzhou on Saturday, the “reporters” traveling with Obama ambled out of the plane and dutifully “assumed the position” to record the “great one’s” grand entrance.  Much to their surprise they were herded into a bright blue taped-in pen surrounded by Chinese security guards.   Accustomed to being treated as celebrities, the press “club” group whined to the Chinese security official who shouted “This is our country.”  The media group was shocked find that there was no rolling staircase for “the great one” to descend to the flashing cameras of a fawning press.

Instead President Obama was forced to exit from the belly of the plane flanked by his lackeys Susan Rice and Ben Rhodes.  There were further surprises. At the West Lake State House, where Mr. Obama met President Xi Jinping, White House aides, protocol officers and Secret Service agents got into a series of squabbles about who should be allowed into the building, nearly coming to blows.  The demonstration showed how far America as a super power has fallen since the neocons seized control over America’s foreign policy in 2000. 

Lap dog press treated like dogs

The American press have become lap dogs begging for attention from their masters rather than watch dogs of the people.  After being allowed to lay on the furniture and soil the rug with their vile output for the last sixteen years, the press were outraged to be tied to the clothes line pole in China’s back yard.  The chilly relationship between Obama and Xi has culminated over the years and escalated with Obama and his Neocons ready to risk World War III in the South China Sea.

After the US Navy guided cruise missile destroyer the USS Lassen sailed within 12 nautical miles of Spratly Islands in the South China Sea in spite of repeated warnings from China, and deliberate provocations on the part of the Obama Administration the chilly reception should have been expected.  America’s media is a shameful, disgusting tool used to peddle the worst kind of propaganda to the American people and the world.  Bravo to the Chinese government for exposing the arrogance and the idiocy of the fourth estate who would mislead and poison the minds of the people they are supposed to be protecting from government abuse of power.  The naked emperor and his media courtiers were duly embarrassed when the Chinese failed to bow to America’s emperor.

By Patricia Baeten

Labor Day: Putin and Trump’s working man blues

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America has lost its way, it has become a land of the oppressed where billionaires own our government and nothing is owed to the working poor. 

War is possible because we wage it against people we don’t know or understand. Our children are sent to kill people in lands where we do not speak the language or understand the culture.  We are hermetically sealed in our own brutal capitalist culture of dog-eat-dog.  If you are not privileged you have no value and the privileged shall not contribute to the greater good of the country.  America has lost its way, it is run by the offspring of the elite who advance the interests of the oligarchs.

The war against working poor

The billionaire owned media control the debate and the message that is drilled into the American psyche twenty-four seven.  We are told low wages are a reality and jobs are not coming back to America.  It is in that atmosphere, that Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin have broken out of the iron clad shell that has been constructed around our people.  This week during Trump’s visit with Mexico’s President Nieto he said “workers in both of our countries need a pay raise, very desperately. In the United States, it’s been 18 years, 18 years wages are going down. Improving pay standards and working conditions will create better results for all and all workers in particular.” 

Americanism not globalism

What a departure from what we’re told by our wealthy politicians who have told Americans to “suck it up” low wages are the new reality.  Later, Donald Trump speaking before the American Legion said “the men and women of the American Legion represent the best of America. Strength, courage, selfless devotion. Your organization, and its members, have done so much to defend our country, our flag, and to advance the cause of Americanism – not Globalism.”

Military pawns for neocon wars

Those words are in beautiful contrast to the outrage that has taken over our wonderful country starting with the presidency of Harry Truman. Congress usurped power from the President and unleashed the nuclear bomb on Japan in an unprecedented act of horror that led to a new age American aggression against people of the world.  Secretary of State Henry Kissinger described the new attitude toward working Americans best when he said “military men are dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns for foreign policy.”

Ugly Americanism was ushered in with the Nixon presidency and escalated to new levels after the American government was overthrown December 12, 2000 with the installation of the world’s most ignorant leader, George W. Bush.  The age of ignorance, bigotry and vicious disregard for the working men and women became the new world order.  It was advanced by both of the political parties in America, for now the military industrial complex controlled our government, our schools and our airwaves. 

Trump and Putin promote enlightenment

And while Trump was pushing for a new American idealism and worldly understanding, President Vladimir Putin was meeting with Eton school boys from the UK.  Putin has been demonized along with Trump by the oligarchs who rely on an ignorant populous to promote war. 

Putin has repeatedly shown his mastery of the game of politics.  In agreeing to meet with the students from Eton, Putin was investing in future relations between Russia and the world. Nineteen of the UK’s prime ministers were educated at Eton so meeting with the next generation can only promote peace in the world.  While America’s pampered, war mongering congress languishes on a much undeserved vacation, Putin and Trump sing the working man’s blues.

By Patricia Baeten