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Since the Death of John F. Kennedy this country has been running the political establishment with characters that had to be disinterred from what should have been their political graves. It’s a ghoulish thought, these graveyards in the dead of night, giving up their rotting corpses beneath the heavy clouds of moonless nights; so very far from the blazing spot-lights of everyday political events. No television cameras, no hushed reporters there: Just the lonely sounds of the gravediggers watched over by the occasional owl that sees this true crime against a nation and its people.
What made this not only possible but inevitable was the fact that we have not required a formal end to failed politicians. This has given us the next round of these recently resurrected dead-men. The academic system has classified “philosophy” as a dead field of
study – yet the basic-philosophy behind this ancient tradition continues, because the public has voluntarily allowed themselves to be lobotomized against remembering anything that happened beyond last week.
This matters; because now Obama & Company, having no experience themselves in administering anything beyond a political-campaign; must now fill all the positions that are in need of new faces – while at the same time supposedly trying to “fix” what has gone horribly wrong with everything economic, diplomatic or military under the new schemes required by The New World Order.
“This is the most serious economic crisis in World history.
The "bailout" proposed by the US Treasury does not constitute a "solution" to the crisis. In fact quite the opposite: it is the cause of further collapse. It triggers an unprecedented concentration of wealth, which in turn contributes to widening economic and social inequalities both within and between nations.
The levels of indebtedness have skyrocketed. Industrial corporations are driven into bankruptcy, taken over by the global financial institutions. Credit, namely the supply of loanable funds, which constitutes the lifeline of production and investment, is controlled by a handful of financial conglomerates.
With the "bailout", the public debt has spiraled. America is the most indebted country on earth. Prior to the "bailout", the US public debt was of the order of 10 trillion dollars. This US dollar denominated debt is composed of outstanding treasury bills and government bonds held by individuals, foreign governments, corporations and financial institutions.” (1)
During the LBJ years the Great Society was created to give all kinds of things to the poor. This failed massively; but now that same template is being used to give the failed banks and the corporatocracy whatever their black granite hearts desire. The public should demand the frequent use of the hangman’s noose that ought to be used on those that have so abused the public’s trust over the decades between The Great Society and today. (2)
When politicians or government agency heads fail, they just collect their booty and leave office to write their books and plan their next adventure. The people pay the bill, suck-it-up and move on with only the slimmest of hope that the next creature will not just be a repetition of what had gone before. In almost every case what the public 'got' was an even greater set of criminals at a huge increase in the costs for their crimes, in which the offenders have never been forced to face any real consequences, because as long as they are not charged or convicted they are free to re-invent themselves again and return to the public troughs for an ever-increasing share of the public’s hard-earned money. Nixon, Gingrich, and a whole host of lesser criminals were poster-criminals for this behavior.
As the ‘quality’ of our political leadership dropped, so did the theoretical “Bar of Justice” which soon became known as the Criminal’s-Justice-System. A most recent example is Nancy Pelosi, who ran as the Joan-of-Arc for reform and for ending the War-on-Iraq: twice. What she did upon selection was to promote and fund the wars, over and above even what the Dictator called for. She did this while blocking the US House of Representatives from even considering
Impeachment – in direct violation of the reason for the very existence of the US House of
Representatives – which was namely to serve as a public check against potential-criminality within the executive and legislative branches of what used to be the government.
Pelosi succeeded politically with her own agendas: and killed any chance that the public ever had of forcing the Dictator to alter his unilateral and illegal course; a course that is and was the conquest over everything that matters to people everywhere. Yet her sad constituency re-elected her once more, because of her party-affiliations and her ‘power’ but not for what she had done to this country and to “the rule of law.” Pelosi is a continuing crime in the dying body of a woman that sold out the nation for her own ambitions; and we let her do this without even a hint of anger or recrimination.
We have subscribed again and again to taking this easy-way out. That is the path that doesn’t have time to consider those that we give power to so freely. It is also the path that does not hold anyone accountable until the entire system begins to fail utterly in every aspect – and by then, as anyone with eyes can now see – it is really too late to alter that course.
This government is reluctant to call this a Recession, when the whole world knows that this is the beginning of a worldwide-Depression that shall dwarf 1929-1931 by increased failures everywhere that have no equal in history. The Media: that government mouthpiece that will not tell us the truth is currently trying to stretch the $700 billion-dollar-bailout, to cover everything
imaginable – it’s like trying to feed thousands from a few loaves of bread and a few fish; but it’s also impossible and the public is about to discover the ugly facts behind this most recent shell game.
A few days ago the Fed was caught dispensing $2 Trillion, under new and supposedly transparent laws; yet when asked by congress to whom and for what this money
paid – the FED chose to hide behind national security requirements instead of answering the questions. (3)
“A new controversy has erupted over the Bush administration’s refusal to identify banks on the receiving end of almost $2 trillion in taxpayer loans. The Bloomberg news company has sued the Federal Reserve to release a list of borrowing banks and the troubled assets they’re putting up as collateral. The Fed says it won’t release the list to avoid financial panic. The bank loans have come outside of the $700 billion Wall Street bailout package and don’t require congressional approval. The loans were made under the auspices of eleven different government programs. Eight of them have been created in the past fifteen months.”
Democracy Now 11-11-8.
This ‘Return of the Living Dead’ is something that few could have foreseen, and even fewer were even remotely interested in discovering: because it means the loss of so much more than simply the opportunity to enjoy being an
Empire – it means the end of everything that so many have thought they were working to achieve. But what this really represents is the re-balancing of a world that has lost its collective mind and must now pay for these failures in every aspect of our artificially constructed lives that have brought the world to the brink of oblivion.
A real government could have been of real assistance – but this one is the problem because we have not been participating in what we say we want to achieve. We have closed our eyes collectively to the millions of people that these policies have destroyed, in our name: and now we can literally see the price of this moral and financial failure worldwide. There have never been any "Free-Gifts" from either government or industry: Everything we do must be paid for one way or the other, and now we’re so far beyond bankruptcy that even to go back to that dire barrier would be a blessing in disguise. . .
Jim Kirwan
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