By Larry Romanoff, February 24, 2023
Under
the guidance of the invisible people, many members of the establishment's
think-tanks are increasingly, and openly, arguing that US democracy today is
"incapable of meeting the challenges facing the country", concluding
that the US needs a new "top down" solution that would be exercised by
executive power independent of the elected Congress. Several people including NYT
columnist Thomas Friedman have argued that "power should shift
from contentious, ideologically diverse elected bodies subject to pressure from
the 'lower orders', toward credentialed "experts" operating in
Washington, Brussels or the United Nations." Perhaps it needs to be
stated clearly that the "contentious, ideologically diverse
bodies" are the elected Congress and lower house, and the "lower
orders" being dismissed with a whiff of contempt are of course the
people. The secret government now openly promotes that the elected government
be sidelined as contentious and irrelevant, with power transferred to the same
Zionist European bankers - the 'credentialed experts' - who already
control much of the world behind the scenes. We have now become so bold that
democracy is being openly dismissed while the de facto government slowly
emerges from the shadows as an authoritarian dictatorship controlled from
Europe.
If
you recall, these are precisely the sentiments voiced by Lippman and Bernays
almost 100 years earlier, claiming the 'bewildered herd' needed guidance
and engineered consent from the "intelligent few". This also
mirrors the conclusions from the Trilateral Commission's report on its
crisis of democracy, again boldly stating that Americans needed to be "properly
indoctrinated" so as to limit (or eliminate) public involvement in
political democracy. As to the foolish nonsense about American-style democracy
requiring a highly-educated population, I believe it was Andrew Bacevich
who wrote in 'The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism': "For
US-style democracy it is important that the candidates be not only incompetent
but as uninformed as the voters. It is only from this fundamental ignorance
that the 'wise men', the policy intellectuals that form the secret government,
are able to control the White House and Congress."
Bernays'
secret government and the European bankers have cherished this
plan of an American fascist dictatorship for many decades, a plan that almost
succeeded when a group of Jewish financiers and George H. W. Bush's
father made their abortive attempt at a military coup in 1934.
Nevertheless, clandestine control of the US government is already fact, even in
the absence of a formal proclamation. The plan has been developing in the dark
for decades by the bankers, the Foundations and think-tanks and the Bilderberg
Group, and is increasingly coming into the open. The American people have
no more authentic control over their government than do people in countries we
call dictatorships, neither on foreign policy nor on domestic economic and
social issues. The truth is that America's elected politicians have no
influence over most important activities of the secret government that runs
America today. Those who control the executive branch often operate not only
entirely outside the law but in many cases entirely outside the very
constitution of the United States. Kanya D’Almeida wrote that
"the richest one percent has hijacked the very foundations of
democracy", that corporate capital had infected the body politic
despite the constitution and separation of powers. And in fact, they have
taken advantage of the separation of powers by focusing their efforts on the
enormous transfer of power to the White House which they control. As
stated earlier, one of the tools has been the use of Presidential Directives,
creating a vast network of secret and private law and policy under the guise of
national security imperatives.
One
news article reported statements from a former high-level Department of Justice
official that Congress was aware the powers behind the White House had revised
their social control programs and implemented many illegal practices after
9-11, and that Congress had tried and failed to learn how extreme were these
programs and how serious was the lawbreaking. It stated the White House
insisted on maintaining secrecy, in fact on hiding from the elected Congress
most information related to dozens of presidential directives that dictated not
only US national security policy but most foreign policy. The content and
substance of these presidential directives, which have the force of law, are
still unknown, the White House simply defying Congress and refusing to reveal
its actions. It was in this context that Thomas Drake wrote "Since
the government unchained itself from the constitution after 9/11, it has been
eating our democracy alive from the inside out. The rulers of America are
despotic elites who are living in fear and trepidation of their own people and
of people power around the world rising in rebellion against the misrule of
capitalism." New York Mayor John Hylan stated a bit earlier, "The
little coterie of powerful international bankers virtually run the United States
government for their own selfish purposes. They practically control both
political parties".
In
his book The New Freedom, written in 1913, Woodrow Wilson wrote
"Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me
privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the Field of
commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something. They know that there is a
power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so
complete, so pervasive, that they better not speak above their breath when they
speak in condemnation of it." Senator William Jenner wrote in
1954, "Today the path of total dictatorship in the United States can be
laid by strictly legal means, unseen and unheard by the Congress, the
President, or the people. Outwardly we have a Constitutional government. We
have operating within our government and political system, another body
representing another form of government - a bureaucratic elite."
President
Theodore Roosevelt wrote in 1913, "These International bankers
and Rockefeller-Standard Oil interests control the majority of newspapers and
the columns of these papers to club into submission or rive out of public
office officials who refuse to do the bidding of the powerful corrupt cliques
which compose the invisible government." Congressman Louis McFadden,
Chairman of the Banking and Currency Committee from 1920 to 1931, wrote in
1932: "When the Federal Reserve Act was passed, the people of these
United States did not perceive that a world banking system was being set up
here – a super-state controlled by international bankers and international
industrialists acting together to enslave the world for their own pleasure.
Every effort has been made by the Fed to conceal its powers but the truth is –
the Fed has usurped the government." US Senator Daniel Inouye,
said at the end of the Iran-Contra hearings, "There exists a
shadowy government with its own Air Force, its own Navy, its own fundraising
mechanism, and the ability to pursue its own ideas of national interest, free
from all checks and balances, and free from the law itself."
I
have written elsewhere of the White House using the Justice
Department to extort compliance from the banks in imposing illegal economic
sanctions on political enemies, and the Department claiming it had no
obligation to divulge anything to the elected government. The entire Justice
Department has been hijacked, and no longer reports to Congress. The Commerce
Department, the State Department, the CIA, NSA, FBI, and the military, all
report to the secret government through the White House.
A
recent US media article on NSA spying stated: "An attempt to cut off
funding for the NSA’s collection of phone data suffered a surprisingly narrow
defeat, 217 to 205. The amendment was in no danger of becoming law - the Senate
would have killed it and, if all else failed, President Obama would have vetoed
it. But it put the intelligence establishment on notice: The spooks don’t
decide how far is too far. We do." An online reader produced an
excellent summation of what he called "this gem of reasoning". His
comment:
"The
NSA has for years operated a massive, secret, worldwide data-vacuuming system,
against all domestic and international law. When discovered, US legislators
presented a bill to cut off NSA funding. The bill failed, but no matter,
because even if it had passed the House, the Senate would have killed it. And
if the Senate didn't kill it, the White House would have vetoed it. The
Legislative Branch quite evidently has no remaining control over even such
politically serious issues that affect the fundamentals of personal rights,
privacy, law-breaking on a massive scale, the creation of a police-state
system, international relations and, of course, expense. This outstanding
example of the total and frightening absence of legislative control proves that
"the people are in charge". Got it."
In
March of 2012 Kenneth Lieberthal and Wang Jisi published an
important position paper for the Brookings Institute on the topic of
US-China "strategic distrust", for which they claimed input from many
"top American leaders", but which omitted the elected representatives
of the US government, rendering Congress pointedly conspicuous by its absence,
at least from the definition of 'top leaders'. The paper's most telling point
in this context was a statement by Lieberthal that in the most vital issues
affecting not only the US but the world, Congress played no active part but
was "able to make its concerns felt" about activities undertaken by
the White House and the real government. So, in an imaginary
"democracy" where the elected representatives of the people are
supposedly supreme, the best they can do is 'make their concerns felt' to those
who really control the country.
What
greater admission could we have of an emasculated Congress that has virtually
been stripped of its functions, forcibly pushed to the side as a kind of
nuisance advisory body? Items like the budget and trade are insignificant here;
what matters in this context are the CIA, the NSA, the military, the Libyas and
Iraqs and Irans, the FED and the bankers, and the judiciary, and in these
matters, Congress has apparently become irrelevant. Again, these are not the
signs of a democracy, not even a fairy-tale one. Americans fervently boast of
the many checks and balances in their vaunted democracy, but this myth was
never real and certainly isn't real today. We maintain the pretense of a
democracy by conducting elections for a Congress that no longer retains any
real power, but the people continue to preach the religion while God is
already dead. Only the church has been preserved to maintain the illusion.
A
striking example is the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) being
promoted today. The US Congress has exclusive authority over trade policy, but
the secret government drafted documents and commissioned the conducting of
negotiations not only in secret but with a refusal to even let Congress have
knowledge of the contents. One congressman was permitted to see only a few
sections of this trade agreement, and only then in an isolated room without
camera, computer or even a pencil. There are many legitimate fears of the
illegality of much of this legislation and of its attempts to emasculate the
national sovereignty of all participating nations, yet the White House claims
national security as a basis for demanding that Congress pass this massive
legislation without information as to its contents. The concentration of
power in the White House and the simultaneous rendering of Congress to
irrelevancy have reached an extent that would be the envy of most dictators.
Consider
again the TPP. This vastly ambitious program of imperial over-reach was
not conceived by either Obama or the Commerce Department but by the invisible
people who pull the puppet strings and who are using the White House and
Cabinet as a false front to achieve their commercial objectives. Neither Obama
nor his Commerce Secretary have the imagination or belligerent greed to have
concocted such a scheme, nor the hubris to assume they could bully Congress
into passing the bill without knowledge of its contents. Neither Obama nor
the Commerce Department are such pathological bullies as to demand that the
Pacific nations sign the agreement sight unseen. No, this was entirely
conceived by the puppet-masters using the White House and government structure
as tools to further their own personal hegemonic ambitions. This was not the
result of a strong President dictating to a weak Congress and boldly assuming
powers forbidden to him by the Constitution, but a weak and ambitious President
being willingly manipulated by the power behind the throne and a Congress
threatened, bullied and bribed into obedience.
Similarly,
we did not have "Bush's war" or "Obama's war" but rather
the secret government's war conducted through the White House without reference
to Congress, having used the White House as a front and the US military as a
tool to achieve their commercial and political objectives. Considering only
Iraq and Libya, the secret government used the US military as a personal army
to conduct a private war against two innocent nations from which more than $100
billion was plundered for the personal profit of a few powerful bankers and
corporate owners, in a place far enough away that nobody knew what was
happening, and with no oversight, no reporting to Congress and no accounting to
the world for the death and destruction.
No
president has authority to undertake such devastating military adventures on
his whim but, when Obama was pushed to launch his months-long military
destruction of Libya, that travesty was planned and launched entirely without
reference to Congress, an open admission of its irrelevance. Only Congress
has authority to declare war or to permit belligerent military engagements,
but in each case the power behind the White House simply re-wrote the rules and
re-defined the terms. Those in the secret government then proceeded to fulfil
their agenda without a whimper of objection from Congress, a silent
testimony to the power of AIPAC and the Jewish lobby that not only wanted
the wars and arranged their financing but indirectly provided the financing of
the election campaigns of most Senators and Congressmen. Even more, during a
time when the US government was placing staff on forced unpaid vacations and
tourist attractions across the country were all closed for lack of funds, the
secret government had no difficulty in finding the cash to destroy Libya and
another $100 billion for its attempt on Syria.
Victoria Nuland and Geoffrey Pyatt
together toured the opposition camp in Kiev in December 2013
In
similar vein, we can recall State Department employee Victoria Nuland boasting
of the $5 billion spent on destabilising Ukraine and overthrowing its
government during this same time of empty bank accounts. We also have her
conversation on Ukraine that was posted online for the world, where she
famously dismissed Europe's objections to the forcible and violent overthrow of
Ukraine's government by saying, "Fuck the EU", and continued to
decide the new puppet rulers of that country. Note that it wasn't the White
House deciding who would be acceptable as new leaders of the Ukraine, nor was
it the US Congress, and certainly not the Ukrainian people whose so-called
'democracy' doesn't even qualify as farce. Nuland's husband is Robert Kagan,
who is active in the Brookings Institute and the Carnegie Endowment for
Perpetual War, both of whom are neocon Zionist Jews playing Monopoly with real
countries, and it was Nuland making those decisions, one sign of where the real
power lies.
It
has been similarly true with the multitude of corporate crimes committed by the
same invisible people, the same suspects that populate every such list, all too
big to fail and too powerful to prosecute. Their political immunity and
legal impunity are so entrenched today as to be almost unassailable. The
2008 financial devastation was not an accident but a boldly-planned felonious
wealth transfer of such magnitude as to deserve reclassification as treason,
yet only the innocent victims will pay. Relatively minor and easily-recovered
fines levied against the banks will do nothing but punish innocent
shareholders. The tens of millions who lost their homes will receive nothing,
while the perpetrators bask with their hundreds of billions in profits and
bonuses. Once again, not a whimper of objection from the elected members of the
People's Congress. The executives of the financial and other giant corporations
have de facto criminal immunity for all their actions. In what other sphere do
criminals redefine laws to exclude their illegal acts while the authorities
watch silently and helplessly, and when it occurs that the criminals have
the power to define legality as they do today in the US, is it not the
criminals who are now in charge?
Some
years back, Paul Findley wrote a book titled 'They Dare to Speak
Out', detailing the Jewish influence and control of the US
government. In his book, Findley quoted US Senator William Fulbright,
then the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who had conducted
investigations into foreign control of his nation's government, and who wrote
in 1973,
"Israel
controls the Senate ... around 80% (of US Senators) are completely in support
of Israel, and Jewish influence in the House of Representatives is even
greater. Anything Israel wants (Israel will get). ...[Israel] is able to stifle
free speech, control our Congress, and even dictate our foreign policy". In a CBS TV
interview, Fulbright stated further, "The Israelis control the policy
in the Congress and the Senate. I am aware how almost impossible it is
in this country to carry out a foreign policy [in the Middle East] not approved
by the Jews ... terrific control the Jews have over the news media and the
barrage the Jews have built up on congressmen ... I am very much concerned over
the fact that the Jewish influence here is completely dominating the scene and
making it almost impossible to get Congress to do anything they don't approve
of. The Israeli embassy is practically dictating to the congress through
influential Jewish people in the country."
Fulbright stated repeatedly
that the US Senate was "subservient" to Israel and the Jews,
which prevented the government from applying any pressure on Israel in its
atrocities toward the Palestinian people. He claimed the US possessed
sufficient leverage on Israel because "we supply all the wherewithal -
or a major part of the wherewithal - to finance or to pay for everything Israel
does", but he added that the leverage couldn't be applied because
"Israel controls the Senate". He also stated "The
Senate is subservient to Israel, in my opinion much too much. We should be more
concerned about the United States interest rather than doing the bidding of
Israel. This is a most unusual development. The great majority of the
Senate of the United States - somewhere around 80 percent - are completely in
support of Israel. This has been demonstrated time and again and this
has made it difficult for our government."
Several
authors have written that the Congress' constant display of allegiance to the
Jews and Israel instead of to the US was both embarrassing and unpatriotic,
especially considering that Israel is almost totally dependent on American
financial and military aid. Many have further noted that the
Jewish-controlled media present such a "biased and sympathetic
portrayal" of Israel, and further prevent any opposing views or truths of
the Palestinians' bitter suffering, that apparently only 4% of Americans are
at all aware of the Jews' 70-year long brutal military occupation of the
Palestinian people. The long history of US Congressional support for
Israel led former Secretary of State James Baker to call the Congress
"The Little Knesset" after Israel's Knesset (parliament) in
Jerusalem. One US Senator lamented that he had the right to criticise his own
government, but no such right to criticise the government of Israel even if its
actions were against the US national interest. Paul Craig Roberts wrote
"When the world looks at America, what it sees is an Israeli
colony", and former Presidential candidate Pat Buchanan
described Capitol Hill as "Israeli-occupied territory".
In
this context, and in a stunning combination of utopian pathology, propaganda,
boldness, and irony, the US media produced a small flurry of noise in the
person of Jewish-American Senator Barbara Boxer who obediently
proclaimed she had been warned by the FBI that "Chinese citizens or
government officials might try to contact her office 'in an effort to influence
U.S. foreign policy'". 'Chinese officials' might try to influence US
foreign policy? And what of the Jews' efforts to influence US foreign policy?
Not a peep from her. As one writer pointed out, "That such double
standard material can be published without ironic intent is a blazing
indictment of the American mass media and current political system."
Admiral
Thomas Moorer, who was Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff,
said in 1983 "I’ve never seen a President stand up to the Jews. They
always get what they want. If the American people understood what a grip those
people have got on our government, they would rise up in arms." It was
the same Admiral Moorer, America’s highest ranking military officer, who could
not get an honest investigation of the 1967 Israeli attack on the USS
Liberty. For background, the Jewish military attacked an unarmed US
espionage vessel in international waters, hoping to destroy it and lay the
blame on Iran. The Liberty was attacked repeatedly over a span of several
hours by jet aircraft and torpedo boats, killing 34 Americans and wounding
another 174, but failed to sink the vessel. The Israelis attributed the failed
attack to accidental mis-identification, but all the survivors claimed that US
flags were clearly flying on the ship during the attack and that in radio
contact the Israelis had identified the Liberty as a US vessel. This was
clearly another false-flag operation that failed in its mission by leaving
survivors to testify to the truth. But the White House, on the demand of
its Jewish handlers, swept the affair under the carpet to the extent that all survivors
were forbidden to ever discuss the matter under pain of criminal sanction,
and most were too afraid to talk even after they had retired from the US
military. At the time, a White House spokesman stated that "(President)
Johnson isn't going to start a war over a few dead sailors".
Walt
and Mearsheimer wrote a definitive paper on the
Iraq war, documenting that it was, in their words, "the Jewish lobby"
that wanted - and got - the war. Libya was the same, and it is only the Jews
who want the invasion and destruction of Syria and Iran, and most likely
supplied the chemical weapons to the so-called Syrian rebels and provided the
photo shoots as proof. Obama tried his best to oblige his handlers with an
invasion of Syria even though his own military leaders disparaged the idea as
crazy. Then, to save face when the plot had clearly failed, he proposed to put
the matter to a vote of Congress which was where it died. It was already
well-known that Congress was 80% against and that a vote would never pass, just
as with the UK. All of these military engagements were not only based on
preposterous lies but were reprehensibly illegal and immoral, but neither the
puppets nor the puppet-masters were held to account. Moreover, the names of the
puppet-masters will be nowhere recorded, a true invisible government.
In
2001, an Israeli cabinet meeting was broadcast on Israel Radio, during which a
disagreement arose between Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and his Foreign
Minister Shimon Peres. Peres was warning Sharon that Israel should heed
American demands in their dealings with the Palestinians and that Sharon's
obstinacy would endanger Israeli interests and "turn the US against
us." Sharon replied to Peres, "Every time we do something you tell
me Americans will do this and will do that. I want to tell you something very
clear, don't worry about American pressure on Israel. We, the Jewish people,
control America, and the Americans know it." Also in 2001, the Jewish
Prime Minister Netanyahu openly mocked the US on Israeli television, saying
"I know what America is. America is a thing you can move very easily, move
it in the right direction. They won't get in the way." And we have
Netanyahu again when he was visiting Jonathan Pollard, the American
Jew who was convicted as a traitor and spy for leaking volumes of US military
secrets to Israel. On leaving Pollard's prison cell, Netanyahu was quoted as
having said, "Once we squeeze all we can out of the United States, it
can dry up and blow away".
In
July and August of 2014, when Israel was conducting yet another savage
offensive against the Palestinians, the Wall Street Journal reported
that White House and State Department officials were taken by surprise to learn
that the Israeli military had been securing large supplies of weapons and
ammunition directly from their friends in the Pentagon, without the knowledge
or approval of the White House. Both Jewish and American officials said this
was yet one more indication of how little influence the White House and State
Department had in terms of extractions the Jews can make from the US, the
President and his White House staff essentially finding themselves on the
outside looking in. The Journal reported that Israeli officials
considered Obama to be weak and naive, and were just bypassing him to deal
directly with the Pentagon and Congress to satisfy their wishes. They
apparently said they weren't concerned about tensions with the White House or a
failure to obtain Obama's approval for anything because he would soon be gone
anyway, and they could just outwait him. There have been other incidents of
this kind, one where the Jewish lobby managed to get possession of the only
squadron of American's most highly developed aircraft which had been obtained
for the US military at great expense and internal lobbying. A Defense
Department official apparently told the Israelis that to ship those aircraft to
Israel would be politically impossible, given the very difficult circumstances
of their purchase. He claimed the Israeli response was to say, "Just
get the aircraft ready. We'll take care of Congress." And they did.
The aircraft were shipped to Israel, and the Americans did without.
On
November 25, 1977 the Jewish Press ran an article titled 'US foreign policy
is now based on how foreign countries treat their native Jews'. For
background, a Russian Jew named had become seditious and troublesome to the
Russian government and had been imprisoned. The Jews were crying for his
release. The article noted that US Senators Moynihan and Javits of New
York, two ardent Zionists, notified the Soviet Government that grain shipments
from the US would be cancelled if the Russians failed to release Sharansky.
He was released and deported to Israel. Consider for a moment the depth of
the Jewish influence that would result in two Senators taking upon themselves
the authority to decide and dictate a serious US foreign policy mandate to
another nation on a trivial matter, and without legislative or executive
authorisation.
US
Journalist Helen Thomas, who covered the White House for more than six
decades, was forced to resign from her position at Hearst News
after saying in an interview that Jews should "get the hell out of
Palestine". In a published interview, Thomas said that Jews have
"total control" over the White House and US Congress, that "it's
not a secret. It's very open ... Everybody is in the pocket of the Israeli
lobbies, which are funded by wealthy supporters, including those from
Hollywood. Same thing with the financial markets. There's total control. We are
owned by the propagandists against the Arabs. There’s no question about that.
Congress, the White House and Hollywood, Wall Street, are owned by the
Zionists. We’re being pushed into a wrong direction in every way."
It
is even much worse than the above paragraphs suggest. Today, it is virtually
impossible for a politician to be elected in the US without first declaring his
(or her) undying allegiance to Israel and the Jews, and certainly any
suggestion of a criticism of either Israel or the Jews will guarantee the end
of a political career. I am unaware of any US Senator or Congressman in recent
times who has been elected without first proclaiming an unconditional support
for, and loyalty to, not the US, but Israel. This is so true that in the last
US Presidential election, the candidates for the American presidency were
campaigning not in the US but in Israel. Mitt Romney was campaigning
heavily in Israel, hoping to win the US election that way, and other US
politicians have done the same.
Similarly, Hillary Clinton who harbored hopes of becoming US President, began her preparatory campaigning at the American Jewish Committee and AIPAC, where she presented as credentials her past efforts to assist Israel in protecting its military supremacy in the Middle East, and by her apparent willingness to start World War Three by attacking Iran to remove Israel's last stumbling block to military supremacy.
In
March of 2013, in an astonishing display of arrogant power, Israel's President
Shimon Peres presented the country's highest civilian honor, the Presidential
Medal of Distinction, to US President Obama for being a good boy. And every US
President must appear for the obligatory photo-shoot while wearing a yarmulke
at the wailing wall, being humiliatingly paraded like a performing monkey for
the amusement of the Emperor.
In
early 2014 Jeff Blankfort wrote an article titled 'Rendering Unto
AIPAC', in which he included this paragraph:
"Early
in their campaigns, every viable candidate on the Democratic or Republican
ticket will receive a visit from an AIPAC staff member requesting a statement
describing his or her current position on the US-Israel relationship. For those
who are short on words, AIPAC will gladly provide assistance. These statements
are then made available to pro-Israel donors in the candidate’s district as
well as to a long list of donors throughout the country. In exchange for what
is invariably a pledge of loyalty to Israel, AIPAC will see that the candidate
will have no shortage of volunteers and funds, although these will not come
directly from AIPAC. It was, however, the spectacle of watching Obama,
Hillary Clinton, and McCain, the three individuals who were vying to become the
leader of the world’s only superpower, joined by House and Senate leaders of
both parties, humbling themselves before the AIPAC audience, that led
veteran journalist, Arnaud de Borchgrave, to reveal to readers an
elemental truth about the US political process and the decision-making
parameters available to the next American president."
Arnaud
de Borchgrave's "truth" in the Times article,
was this: "Once a year, the Israel lobby in Washington known as AIPAC
holds its annual convention where anyone who is anyone in the political world
comes to render fealty, rather than homage. (For those who don't know, 'fealty'
is subservient obedience and loyalty of a peasant to his feudal lord and
master: Ed) It has become a political rite of passage, like a medieval contract
… Anyone who doesn’t pass the litmus test can forget about becoming
president of the United States, or senator or even congressman."
Blankfort also detailed how,
in another flashy display of Jewish political power and control of American
politics, the Jewish billionaire casino owner Sheldon Adelson
"summoned" the several most likely candidates for the next
Presidential election, in order to "," one of them. Blankfort
noted that all obeyed the summons and groveled before their lord, "doing
their best to sell themselves like applicants at a job interview".
Adelson apparently interrogated each ambitious candidate and demanded from each
"First of all and above everything else, blind and unconditional
obedience to the government of another state: Israel".
This
again brings us back to Bernays who, in his book 'Propaganda',
wrote almost 100 years ago, "... it is well-known that (a Presidential
candidate) may be decided upon by half a dozen men sitting around a table in a
hotel room". The bald truth is that 'the people' in America have never
had any useful influence on their precious democratic process, due to the power
of the political parties which are controlled by the same secret government. As
I mentioned elsewhere, voting by itself is irrelevant because all the power
resides in those who select the candidates who are in turn pre-selected for
their ideology and their willingness to be controlled. It should be clear that
if I have the power to select the candidates, your votes will be
inconsequential in terms of the final result for either domestic or foreign
policy. Americans live in an illusion of mythology stoked by generations of
extensive propaganda, firmly believing in the supremacy of a political system
that is little more than a poorly-managed stage play dependent for its success
on an unthinking and ignorant population. It isn't the smart people who
revere the Western multi-party political system, but the unintelligent and
uninformed, the ignorant and simple-minded, who have been overwhelmed by
propaganda and terminally infected with a false theology.
It
is not only the ultimate selection of candidates and the necessary material
assistance and financial support to ensure election that are contained in this;
perhaps even more important are the ability - and vicious determination - to
ensure election losses and the removal of elected candidates who fail to please
their Jewish masters. Any elected member of Congress who dares to speak out
against Israel's brutal policies, who brings unfavorable attention to the Jews,
or who challenges Israel's noose around Washington’s neck will, as Blankfort
noted, be either intimidated into silence or reversing their positions or will
be invariably picked off in the next election. Senator Fulbright, whom I've
mentioned above, attracted unfavorable attention with his testimony and
statements about Jewish control of the US elected representatives, being
described by AIPAC as "consistently unkind to Israel and our supporters in
this country", and was defeated in the next election when his
AIPAC-selected opponent garnered overwhelming attention from the Jewish media
as well as campaign cash. There are other notable examples of US politicians
incurring AIPAC's wrath for failure to heed the wishes of the Jews, and being
subsequently "targeted by AIPAC and defeated in the next election".
So many Americans live under the delusion that they, and they alone, decide who
wins and who loses when in fact they are pitifully irrelevant to the process.
Then we have the media, virtually entirely under Jewish control and which,
except in extreme cases, can of itself determine the result of any election and
the fate of any politician. As Ben Bagdikian noted, media power is
political power in that only a few individuals totally control how politicians
will be presented - or NOT presented - to the voting public. It therefore
becomes almost impossible for electoral candidates to survive if their agenda
and ideology do not conform to those of the Jews.
Blankfort related that just
a few months after becoming President, Obama received letters that had
been circulated by AIPAC and that had been signed by about three-fourths
of all Congressmen and Senators, advising him to accommodate himself to the
wishes of Israel and the Jews. The letter, apparently containing an AIPAC
tag on it to reveal its true origin, "was clearly designed to send a
message to the president that, as far as Congress is concerned, Israel’s
desires trump those of the United States." According to Blankfort, all the
media were provided with copies of the letter and all chose to ignore it. Many
US Presidents, Senators and Congressmen have received such communications which
ultimately persuaded them to 'reassess' their positions and select a policy
position more favorable to the Jews. Being a "Friend of Israel" is a
necessary prerequisite to political office in most Western nations, including
not only the US but Canada, the UK, Australia and more. It is neither a secret
nor a surprise that Jews, Zionist zealots, and other supporters of Israel are
"deeply embedded at all levels in the fabric of political life" and
consequently function at the hearts of these governments. This is so true that Canada's
Prime Minister Stephen Harper foolishly snubbed an appearance at the UN for
the sake of appearing at a meeting of some nondescript Jewish group in the US
to receive a "Man of the Year" award for his undying
allegiance to Israel and the Jews.
The
Jews boast openly about their political influence and power, Jewish
publications bragging that they made Obama what he is, and one Jewish Zionist
famously claiming "Barack Obama is the first Jewish
President". James Petras wrote a useful article in which
he quoted a Chicago Jewish News article claiming Obama had been
"discovered" by a Jewish Zionist professor at Harvard when he was
still studying law there, and decided he was "recruitable". She
recounted how she enlisted the aid of family, friends, financiers, and helped
obtain prestigious employment for him, followed by introductions to a wide
array of Jewish Zionists, including financial supporters, all of whom worked to
ensure Obama would be permanently "embedded" in their network. Petras
also noted that as a senator, Obama shared an office with a fanatical Jewish
Zionist named Ira Silverstein, who later boasted of his role in
'educating' Obama about Jews and Israel. Obama did not
appear out of the blue sky as a breath of fresh air for America; he had been
specifically selected, assiduously cultivated and carefully groomed by the Jews
for two decades before he was presented as a 'choice' to the country, and by
that time it was already much too late for the people.
It
is to these people that Obama owes his allegiance, and his first acts in office
were to fill the White House and many important agencies with radical Zionists,
most of whom were Jewish, and also to purge these agencies of any who failed to
please AIPAC. The process is very broad and deep, and includes most
visible politicians and government officials. In referring to Obama,
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Defense Secretary Robert Gates,
Petras noted they are so deeply infused with Israel-First ideology that they
were "Zionized Zombies". I would concur. Truly, few people
realise the depth of Jewish influence and control in Washington, especially on
US foreign policy. Israel not only badly wants to destroy Iran militarily so as
to eliminate a threat to its military supremacy, but it wants the US to destroy
its enemies for it and, through its US lobbying power, is in fact dictating the
terms under which the US military will do so. It was the radical Jewish
Zionist Mark Dubowitz, who is neither an elected nor appointed government
official, who wrote much of the legislation relating to sanctions on Iran.
It
is not the elected Congress and not the White House, but the secret government
mostly represented by its friends in AIPAC, that determines and dictates US
policy for Israel and the Middle East, and for much of the world, certainly
toward Eastern Europe and especially Russia and the Ukraine. AIPAC
is not the power behind the throne; rather it is the public face of that power,
doing the bidding of names that will never be
mentioned. In this sense, it is not different from what is
loosely called 'the Jewish lobby', being only one arrow in a quiver that
includes the Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission, the
Rockefeller, Carnegie and Ford Foundations, the US FED and the Bank of England
along with other bankers, financiers like George Soros, the Hollywood studio
and mass media owners, sundry other so-called NGOs, and many multi-national
corporations. They are all members of the same choir and are all singing
the same song, with both lyrics and melody written by the international
Jewish financiers in Europe.
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris,
joined by the Presidential Cabinet members, pose for a Cabinet portrait
Thursday, April 1, 2021, in the Grand Foyer of the White House. (Official White
House Photo by Adam Schultz).
An
important part of this political landscape consists of organisations like the
already-mentioned Trilateral Commission, which is an offshoot of the also
US-based 'Council on Foreign Relations' (CFR) that
the European Rothschilds created as the American version of their UK-based
'Round Table'. The CFR was created in
the US for the Rothschilds by our old friend Lippman, and by Colonel Edward
Mandell House who was a member of Bernays' secret government and the Jewish
puppet-master of Presidents Wilson and Roosevelt. The CFR consists largely of
members of America's elite ruling class and the secret government, and exerts a
staggering influence over almost all aspects of American life, to say nothing
of a pervasive and pernicious influence on American politics. This is so true that virtually all American presidential
candidates are members of the CFR, and in fact their membership and overall
approval are prerequisites for presidential candidacy. No US president will be elected, nor in fact permitted to
run, without CFR permission. One US
Congressman stated,
"The
CFR is the establishment. Not only does it have influence and power in key
decision-making positions at the highest levels of government to apply pressure
from above, but it also finances and uses individuals and groups to bring
pressure from below, to justify the high-level decisions for converting the US
from a sovereign Constitutional Republic into a servile member of New World
Order dictatorship."
This so-called council is still a subsidiary of the European Rothschild's
Round Table, which was originally created by Cecil Rhodes as a mechanism for
world domination, and given to Rothschild to continue, and is still controlled
by the same Zionist European bankers with their "pernicious and
pervasive" influence on Europe as much as on the US.
According
to an official statement, "The Trilateral Commission was formed in 1973 by private citizens of Western Europe, Japan and
North America to foster closer cooperation among these three regions on common
problems. It seeks to improve public understanding of such problems, to support
proposals for handling them jointly, and to nurture habits and practices of
working together among these regions."
That sounds good, but the 'private citizens' were a secret group of
seventeen very powerful people that included David Rockefeller, Zbigniew
Brzezinski, McGeorge Bundy and others from the New World Order Bilderberg Group
who met at Rockefeller's New York estate to plan this monster. The
Commission wasn't created in any sense to 'solve problems' but to do heavy
social and political engineering, dealing with the 'crisis of democracy' and
preparing a move to authoritarian fascism. The US media, again almost
entirely Jewish-owned, are silent on the CFR and the Trilateral Commission and
their influence and power in the nation.
Not
long ago, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu attempted to increase the
pressure on Obama to deal harshly with Iran by bypassing the White House and
the US government altogether, and appearing on a Sunday TV talk show to appeal
directly to the American public. Inserting himself directly into US politics while
claiming he didn't want to insert himself into US politics, Netanyahu insisted
the Americans must act quickly and forcibly to eliminate all threats to Jewish
military supremacy in the Middle East. Iran, of course, is one of those
threats, with Israel having been claiming for ten years that Iran was two days
away from having nuclear weapons. The Jewish-controlled US media are of course
silent on the one essential point which is to ask why it is okay for Israel to
have nuclear weapons and be an existential threat to Iran, but it is not okay
for Iran to possess the only suitable deterrent of its own weapons. Netanyahu
spoke eloquently about the security of Israel but ignored the fact that
Israel's military presence and extreme belligerence threaten the security of
every other nation in the Middle East. The Jewish lobby has sufficient
influence that Netanyahu has on occasion demanded, and received, permission to
bypass the White House and address the US Congress directly, to make more clear
his expectations of them. This was neither the first nor last time an
Israeli prime minister had gone over a president’s head and appealed directly
to Congress or the American people.
None
of this is new. Jewish influence on American politicians and in particular on
the White House has existed for at least most of the last century. There is no
shortage of documentation of various US presidents confiding to their staff
that their Jewish handlers would shortly be informing them of the appropriate
decisions and courses of action to be taken. Another quote from Findley's
book:
"When
I lived in America, I learned that Jewish personalities, most of them rich
donors for the parties, had easy access to the President. They used to contact
him over the head of the Foreign Secretary and the representative at the United
Nations and other officials. They were often in a position to alter the entire
political line by a single telephone conversation..."
Given
all of this, it is long past time for everyone to stop pretending that the Jews
do not control the US government, notwithstanding the inevitable condemnation
as an anti-Semite for doing so. Any examination of the American political
scene is obliged to recognise that the US is closer to being a Jewish state
than an American one, especially considering, but by no means limited to, the
treasonous allegiance by the US congress sworn to Israel and the Jews. A
dog doesn't serve two masters.
Financial power is crucial to the success of this influence. A recent article
noted that in the 2012 election about 30% - nearly one-third of all 'disclosed'
political contributions came from only 31,000 donors, or 0.0001 of the
population, less than one ten-thousandth. It further noted that not a single
member of the House or Senate was elected without financial assistance from
this group, and about 85% of these politicians received more money from this
tiny group than from all their small donors combined. This tiny, but rich
and powerful minority of people are "the
political gatekeepers of American politics". They decide which candidates are acceptable to them, which
hold the 'correct' opinions and ideologies, and which will vote the way the
elite want them to vote. It is not the American public who are selecting
candidates to represent their interests, but this small clique buying
politicians who can be trusted to carry out their agenda. The American
people can do no better than vote for one of two pre-selected clones, with
their choices being both inconsequential and irrelevant. By any definition of
the word, democracy in America is a
myth.
This
influence has for long extended to appointments to a vast selection of
important executive posts within many departments of government and, more often
than we want to know or admit, involves elements of extortion or blackmail. Few
Americans, and even fewer others, are familiar with the appointment of Louis
Brandeis to the US Supreme Court, an event privately hailed by the Jews
as 'their' first Supreme Court judge. President Wilson was approached by a
Jewish lawyer, Samuel Untermeyer, who claimed to have a female client
who badly needed $40,000 and who possessed a collection of passionate and
indiscreet love letters sent to her by Wilson when they were illicit lovers,
and was threatening to make the letters public. Untermeyer, knowing Wilson had
no access to a sum that large, offered to pay the $40,000 out of his own pocket
in return for a favor: Wilson would agree to recommend a person of
Untermeyer's choosing to the next opening on the Supreme Court. That person was Brandeis
and, above strenuous public objection, Wilson pushed forcefully until the
appointment was confirmed. Untermeyer kept the Wilson love letters "to
ensure they would never fall into the wrong hands", but also to ensure
his future control over Wilson. It is probably true that the appointment of
many Jews to government posts have been made willingly or on merit alone, but
it is also true there have been many of the other kind.
Mike
Lofgren was a high-level US congressional staff member who
spent 28 years on Capitol Hill, serving on both the House and Senate budget
committees, and who wrote in early 2014 a brief paper titled 'Anatomy of the Deep State', revealing his accumulated observations about the power
behind the throne of the US government. There are many names for this secret
entity that has existed for at least the past 100 years. I have followed
Bernays' lead in calling it the 'Secret Government'; Lofgren uses the
term 'Deep State'; they are the same. He began by stating, "I use the
term to mean a hybrid association of elements of government and parts of
top-level finance and industry that is effectively able to govern the United
States without reference to the consent of the governed as expressed through
the formal political process". I include below a few of Lofgren's
comments, edited for brevity. His intent and content are unchanged.
"There
is the visible government in Washington, and then there is another, more
shadowy, more indefinable government that is not explained in Civics 101 or
observable to tourists at the Capitol. The former is traditional Washington
partisan politics: the tip of the iceberg which is theoretically controllable
via elections. The subsurface part of the iceberg I call the Deep State, which
operates according to its own compass heading. (It) is another government
concealed behind the one that is visible, a hybrid entity of public and private
institutions ruling the country, connected to, but only intermittently
controlled by, the visible state whose leaders we choose. My analysis of this
phenomenon is not an exposé of a secret, conspiratorial cabal; the state
within a state is hiding mostly in plain sight, and its operators mainly act in
the light of day. In terms of its scope, financial resources and sheer
global reach, the American hybrid state, the Deep State, is in a class by
itself, (and its) protectiveness towards its higher-ranking personnel allows
them to escape the consequences (of their actions)."
"The
Deep State does not consist of the entire government. It is a hybrid of
national security and law enforcement agencies: the Department of Defense, the
Department of State, Homeland Security, the CIA, the Justice Department, certain
key areas of the judiciary and a kind of rump Congress consisting of the
congressional leadership and some of the defense and intelligence committees.
All these agencies are coordinated by the Executive Office of the President via
the National Security Council. The Deep State does not consist only of
government agencies. What is euphemistically called "private
enterprise" is an integral part of its operations. Invisible threads of
money and ambition connect (Washington) to other nodes. One is Wall Street,
which supplies the cash that keeps the political machine quiescent and
operating as a diversionary marionette theater. Should the politicians
forget their lines and threaten the status quo, Wall Street floods the town
with cash and lawyers to help the hired hands remember their own best
interests."
Lofgren
included the Treasury Department in the Deep State because of its jurisdiction
over financial flows, its enforcement of international sanctions and its
organic symbiosis with Wall Street. He went on to write,
"It is not too much to say that Wall Street may be the ultimate owner of
the Deep State and its strategies." And here, of course, he had it
absolutely right; it is the domestic and foreign bankers who are indeed the "ultimate
owners" of the Deep State, but in this he failed to
include the US FED and its European owners who determine and dictate both financial and political
policy to the rest.
Chinese
journalist Lee Fang produced some stunning facts for a research report
in which he documented that individuals often receive multi-million-dollar
bonuses when they leave secretive Wall Street to enter the active, visible
government. According to Fang, many large corporations who want to influence
public policy give executives huge bonuses if they take jobs within the
government. Among them are Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan Chase,
the Blackstone Group, Fannie Mae, Northern Trust. Citigroup even awards
additional retirement pay upon leaving to take a "full-time high-level
position with the US government or regulatory body". The Bank of
America gave Stefan Seelig more than $9 million in bonus pay
when he was nominated to become the Under Secretary of Commerce for
International Trade, and Michael Froman received over $4 million when he
left Citigroup to become the current US trade representative. "The fox is
groomed for the chicken coop, and the Deep State grows fat on its prey."
Sir
Montagu Norman, a Rothschild agent and Governor of the Bank of England for many
years, was considered the single most influential banker in the world. In 1924, he said
this in a speech to bankers in New York city: "Capital
must protect itself in every possible way, both by combination and legislation.
Debts must be collected, mortgages foreclosed as rapidly as possible. When,
through process of law, the common people lose their homes, they will become
more docile and more easily governed through the strong arm of the government
applied by a central power of wealth under leading financiers. These truths are
well known among our principal men, who are now engaged in forming an
imperialism to govern the world.
Lofgren was correct in claiming the Deep State is an ideology that is a
kind of corporatism, but in categorising it as nameless, he didn't
quite connect all the dots. It does indeed have a name - the New World
Order. The Deep State is extremely
Right-Wing, primarily Jewish, and fervently Zionist. Many people have described portions of it, but approach
from too many points of view: corporate domination, human rights, banking,
surveillance, politics. It is all of these, and none of them. It is as much
about the Bush's enormous landholdings in Brazil or the Rothschilds setting up
a new bank to hold lands extorted from developing countries as it is about
health care or the housing crisis or the NSA and DHS. This is about a small group of powerful individuals
working steadily to build a farm where the people of the world are the cattle.
The Deep State, the Secret Government, the New
World Order, are all names and faces of the same entity which is at its core an
international fascist dictatorship, with the security state and its internment
camps forming an increasingly integral part.
Lofgren wrote, "Now,
the actors in this drama tend to steer clear of social issues. They pretend to
be merrily neutral servants of the state, giving the best advice possible on
national security or financial matters. Their preferred pose is that of the
politically neutral technocrat offering well considered advice based on
profound expertise (but) that is nonsense (since) they are deeply dyed in the
hue of the official ideology of the governing class." Consider his
words adjacent to those quoted earlier which argued that "power should
shift from contentious, ideologically diverse elected bodies subject to
pressure from the 'lower orders', toward credentialed "experts"
operating in Washington, Brussels or the United Nations." Different
words, same meaning. Lofgren stated further that these individuals possess
a deep ideology which he called "the red thread" that runs through
both the Washington consensus and the war on terror, embracing the
financialisation and de-industrialisation of the US economy, outsourcing,
deregulation and privatisation, the commoditisation of labor and "American
exceptionalism abroad, which is boots on the ground everywhere; it's our right
to meddle everywhere in the world. And the result of that is perpetual
war". He also noted that it included the rise of a plutocratic social
structure and political dysfunction, and I would add the security state and its
brutal suppression of political dissent, as well as the perpetual 'war on
terror' to increasingly justify the withdrawal of all civil rights.
"The
Deep State is the big story of our time. (It) is a government within a government
that operates off the visible government and operates off the taxpayers. But it
doesn't seem to be constrained in a constitutional sense by the government. The
Deep State, based on the twin pillars of national security imperative and
corporate hegemony, has until recently seemed unshakable. It
is so heavily entrenched, so well protected by surveillance, firepower, money
and its ability to co-opt resistance that it is almost impervious to
change."
Lofgren
went on to say that the Deep State's physical expansion and consolidation of
power "would seem to make a mockery of the frequent pronouncement that
governance in Washington is dysfunctional and broken". While the US
government was laying off staff, forcing unpaid vacations, closing all tourist
facilities for lack of funds, there was no shortage of cash to destroy Libya or
attempt the destruction of Syria, nor the $2 billion to build the NSA data
storage center. He wrote "That the secret and
unaccountable Deep State floats freely above the gridlock ... is the paradox of
American government in the 21st century: drone strikes,
data mining, secret prisons and Panopticon-like control on the one hand; and on
the other, the visible parliamentary institutions of self-government declining
to the status of a banana republic amid the gradual collapse of public
infrastructure." He said it is true that US government is
dysfunctional and broken, that it no longer works, "but somehow Obama
can go into Libya. He can assassinate US citizens. He can collect all our phone
records. He can even bring down a jet carrying a president of a sovereign
country without asking anyone's permission. And no one seems to connect the
two, the failure of our visible constitutional state and this other government
that operates according to no constitutional rules or any constraint by the
governed."
But
these people are not interested in either government or governing, in the
traditional sense of meaning of these words. They are instead arranging the
parasitic extraction of wealth from the population, and want the people to
remain under control. Beyond that, they have little interest. These people
are vampires. They are parasites. They are venal and
extractive. Lofgren again:
"The
Deep State has been extracting value from the American people in vampire-like
fashion. While it seems to float above the constitutional
state, its essentially parasitic, extractive nature means that it is still
tethered to the formal proceedings of governance. They
are extracting revenue from the American people everywhere they can find a
revenue stream: public schools, housing,
prisons, infrastructure, pipelines, fracking, oil and gas exploration, Social
Security, privatization of health insurance and health care."
We
should not proceed further without noting here that this Deep State or Secret
Government is the source of the destruction of the social contract that
governed the US after the Second World War. It is these people
who are responsible for the gutting of the American economy, for outsourcing,
deindustrialisation, the destruction of labor, the evisceration of the middle
class, and so much more. It is they who have been responsible, through their
ownership of the US FED (and other nations' central banks) for all the economic
booms and busts during the past more than 100 years, extracting enormous wealth
from the population at each cycle. It is they who
have launched the class war on all but the elites in the US, Canada and all of
Western Europe. It is they who arranged the US$5 billion investment in
overthrowing successive governments in Ukraine, and it is they who want yet
again the destruction of Russia. They are also responsible for virtually
all the interference in China's internal affairs and the efforts to derail
China's progress. There are dangers lurking here so great as to be almost
impossible to overestimate, and to ignore or dismiss them would be foolhardy in
the extreme.
The Power of Lobbie
Frederic
Bastiat wrote "When plunder becomes a way of life for
a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the
course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that
glorifies it", a statement perfectly describing the US today. Not so
many years ago, appeals to government to oppose, propose, or amend legislation
or regulations, were public matters conducted openly and on the record.
Clandestine visits to elected members of a government or its senior civil
servants with the intention of swaying legislation and regulations in terms
favorable to the visitor were termed "influence-peddling" and
considered a felony generally rewarded by a prison sentence. No longer. Today,
influence-peddling is the fastest-growing industry in America, and is no longer
a crime but a profession with high salaries that has changed its name to 'lobbying'.
One
of America's most powerful political game-makers and lobbyists, Jack
Abramoff, was eventually sent to prison for his imaginative lobbying
activities, one of which involved collecting about $80 million in lobbying fees
from American Indian tribes while collecting other fees on opposite sides of
the same issues, cheating all his clients equally. A recent news article noted
that most American lobbying firms employ family members of US Senators and
Congressmen to increase their success ratio, and almost half of all politicians
who fail re-election become lobbyists. As someone so nicely wrote, "This
means the wife is lobbying the husband, the father is lobbying his son, and the
hooker is lobbying her customer." This is one of the true faces of
democracy in all Western nations today.
The
legalisation of lobbying was meant only to simplify the process of influencing
and corrupting US elected officials, permitting corruptive influences to
function openly in the light. Few seem to recognise that this has been a
substantial degenerative influence on all levels of government in America,
corrupting not only the White House and the politicians in Congress but most
officials at the State level and virtually all regulatory bodies, the FDA
certainly among them. The secret government, with its army of
lobbyists carrying their armloads of cash, have succeeded in subverting almost
every meaningful department of the US government. Monsanto's paid lobbyists succeeded in Congress creating
legislation prohibiting information on GM food content on consumer packaging.
The powerful lobbyists of General Motors and some major oil companies succeeded
in George Bush's White House joining their lawsuit against the State of
California to destroy the future of electric automobiles in the US.
Through
this same lobbying network, the FED and the bankers succeeded in having Clinton
and the Congress remove all banking regulations, resulting in not only obscene
profits being vacuumed from the public but
permitting them to profit to the extent of trillions of dollars from the 2008
financial crisis as well as the bailout. It
was Robert Rubin, Clinton's
Jewish-American Treasury Secretary who was
instrumental in abolishing the Glass Steagal act which allowed
commercial and investment banks to merge. One of the biggest beneficiaries of
this change was CitiGroup, which promptly entered investment banking and hired
Rubin as an 'advisor', paying him more than $125 million for his sterling
efforts on their behalf. The same lobbyists, with the same ready cash and
political influence, then succeeded in obtaining $7.7 trillion to bail out
the banks after the implosion, leaving the people to fend for themselves.
The
same secret government and their corporate lobbyists obtained the tax concessions
that permitted them to offshore and outsource most of US industry, profiting hugely
themselves while hollowing out the entire nation and permanently dislodging
tens of millions of jobs. These same people acted with astonishing vengeance
and lust to destroy what may have been the last hope of a universal healthcare
plan for Americans, solely to fill their own pockets. This is the reason public
corporations are now classed as people who will take the blame and pay the
penalties (if any) for white-collar crime, excusing the elites and their
corporate managers who should all be hung for felonies and treason. It is
primarily due to the powerful lobby of the NRA that the US is the most
heavily-armed society in the world with the most abominable tally of gun
crimes. These same lobbyists have succeeded in
freeing the pharmaceutical industry from any liability, even for what amounts
to mass murder, and even when their drug trials are proven to have been totally
fabricated.
The
US Food and Drug Administration has been totally corrupted by the lobbyists and
their masters, as have most all regulatory bodies with
responsibility for everything from auto safety to banking, from the stock
exchanges to agriculture, from drugs and medications to building standards and airports.
The US Agriculture Department has abandoned virtually all responsibility for
public safety, and nobody is any longer watchful of the chemical contamination
of ground water in the East or the reckless and soon-fatal destruction of the
aquifers in the arid US Southwest. Most industries, not only banking but
more importantly food and medications, are
now 'self-regulated', which means no regulation whatever and with the freedom to commit crimes and plunder society
without the nuisance of laws or moral restraint.
Of
course, the Jewish lobby is widely recognised as being the most pervasive and
powerful in the US, with by far the most influence on not only the White House
and Congress, but in the military and espionage communities, the judiciary and
other areas. The Jewish lobby not only controls US foreign policy
in the Middle East, but ensures Israel's continued receipt of more than $3
billion each year in cash and military grants. This
last alone serves to ensure Israel's pervasive military threat over the entire
Middle East as well as a rich supply of the latest in American weapons
technology. Without this enormous sum of money, Israel would be of no more
political consequence than Dubai. The Jewish lobby, combined with its friends
at the FED, the mostly-Jewish American bankers and industrialists, has likely
contributed most to the outsourcing and hollowing-out of American business, and
certainly for the financial disaster in 2008. It has been adequately
documented that this Jewish lobby was entirely responsible for the US military
destruction of both Iraq and Libya, the
US military being used as a private army for this lobby group and the secret
government.
AIPAC has been mentioned
earlier as the largest and most visible of the Jewish lobby groups but there
are many dozens, if not hundreds, in the US, operating at all levels of the
country. It is due to the lobbying of one or another Jewish group that all
traces of Christmas, including even a Christmas tree, are being removed from
American public schools on the basis that Jews are "offended" by the
celebration of Christian festivals. Given the extensive penetration into every
aspect of American government and regulatory body, and its progress over
generations, it is probably impossible to trace the total effects of this one
group on the nation. Certainly, much of this influence has been both expensive
and disastrous for the US and the people, the wars and debts alone justifying
condemnation, to say nothing of the fact that, through this powerful lobby, the
US is financing and providing the weapons for the immense tragedy in Palestine.
Americans have no cause for pride in supporting this thoroughly evil
hijacking of a nation and the slow genocide of its people simply
to please the Jews who form less than 2% of the US population.
There
is no way to argue that this development of secret lobbying and even more
secret cash is of any benefit to the US as a nation, because it effectively
prevents any consideration of the good of the country or its people. Others
have written that the US government is virtually paralysed by all the pressure
and payments from this lobbying culture, increasingly directing itself only to
the benefit of a relatively few bankers and industrialists who are becoming
wealthy beyond the dreams of avarice while destroying the goose that is laying
the golden eggs. Many writers, myself included, argue that the US today has the
most dysfunctional government in the world, but that accusation is not strictly
accurate. Writing of the death of Trayvon Martin, Robin Kelley said that
justice was always going to elude Martin, not because the system failed, but
because it worked, and Bonnie Kerness made precisely the same point in writing
of the private prison system. Similarly, it is not that the US system of
government doesn't work; the problem is that it is working exactly as intended.
The intent, from the late 1970s, was to concentrate power in the White House
while emasculating Congress, then take full
control of the White House and therefore the entire government system. The
secret government simultaneously created two sets of laws - one for themselves
and the other for society, while freeing themselves of all tax, legal and moral
liability. The overall objective was to plunder the American economy and the
American people, avariciously draining the public trough and the assets of the
citizens, without apparent limit or restraint.
To
be even more clear, the intent, from the very beginning, was to drain both the
US government and the American people to the point of bankruptcy, to the stage
where there was nothing more to steal. It was not
precisely an attempt to eviscerate the American middle class but to gut all of
America. The only survivors will be the relative handful of elites and the
small educated management group who function as their lieutenants - the MBAs
and lawyers at Monsanto and the young Ph.Ds. at the Carnegie and Ford
Foundations or the Rand Corporation. The rest of the nation is
disposable. Israel's Prime Minister Netanyahu said, "Once
we squeeze all we can out of the United States, it can dry up and blow
away". The word "suck" would have been more
appropriate than "squeeze", but the result is probably the same. In
this matter as in so many others, the public are blind, not so much to the
causes of their nation's manifold miseries, but to the intent. It isn't so much
that people cannot see, as that they don't want to believe what they see. As
Hitler said so correctly when commenting on the big lies being told about the
German people by the Jews, people don't want to believe that others could do
these things and, even when faced with incontrovertible facts, will still doubt
and waver and continue to think there may be some other explanation.
No
American wants to believe that a morally-righteous American corporation like
Mattel or Apple, GM or P&G, would deliberately lobby the government for an
offshore tax break while secretly planning to destroy millions of jobs in the
US, trashing their own country for the sake of their own profits. But that is
precisely what happened. The offshoring and outsourcing of American jobs
were not an accident; they were the plan. If
we only think, it could not have been otherwise. The 2008 financial crisis was
similarly not an accident but a plan, with the evidence in the open wherever we
care to look. For Americans, the problem is a compound one in that they must
not only realise that their own famous corporations in which they take such
patriotic pride, have in fact betrayed them, and that this betrayal was part of
a deliberate plan, but also that the plan was conceived and executed in
cooperation with their own government. Few Americans have the insight or
courage to face this most difficult of realisations - that their government conspired to betray them and has in
fact been doing so for many decades. It
was not for nothing that George Bush Sr. said, "If
the people knew what we were doing, they would hang us in the streets."
The
propaganda machine has so successfully instilled the foolishness of a morally-sanctified
"democracy" so deeply into the American psyche that it has become a
virtual self-definition of the concept of American identity, with this silly
faith forming life's only anchor. To now face a reality where democracy of the
people equals betrayal of the people, is an existential threat, a collapse of
the American identity. The entire narrative has been based on this hysterical
political religion which has always been a lie, with the proof in overwhelming
evidence no more so than today. David Brooks wrote in the NYT
that "Americans have lost faith in the credibility of their political
system, which is the one resource the entire regime is predicated upon. The
people are anxious, pessimistic, ashamed, helpless and defensive." Of
course. The question is why this process took so
long.
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Mr. Romanoff’s writing has been
translated into 32 languages and his articles posted on more than 150
foreign-language news and politics websites in more than 30 countries, as well
as more than 100 English language platforms. Larry Romanoff is a retired
management consultant and businessman. He has held senior executive positions
in international consulting firms, and owned an international import-export business.
He has been a visiting professor at Shanghai’s Fudan University, presenting
case studies in international affairs to senior EMBA classes. Mr. Romanoff
lives in Shanghai and is currently writing a series of ten books generally
related to China and the West. He is one of the contributing authors to Cynthia
McKinney’s new anthology ‘When China Sneezes’. (Chapt.
2 — Dealing with Demons).
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