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While at The Great L.C.’s house last Sunday, he gave me an article about the Federal Reserve penned by Patrick Buchanan which L.C. had clipped from a magazine he subscribes to. I thought it was right on the money (forgive the pun) and so I’m sharing it here with y’all. After our sickening spiritual condition, The Federal Reserve is America's greatest problem.
Should We Kill the Fed?
By Patrick J. Buchanan
For the financial crisis that has wiped out trillions in wealth, many have felt the lash of public outrage.
Fannie and Freddie. The idiot-bankers. The AIG bonus babies. The Bush Republicans and Barney Frank Democrats who bullied banks into making mortgages to minorities who could not afford the houses they were moving into.
But the Big Kahuna has escaped.
The Federal Reserve.
“(T)he very people who devised the policies that produced the mess are now posing as the wise public servants who will show us the way out,” writes Thomas Woods in “Meltdown.”
Already in its sixth week on the New York Times best-seller list, this eminently readable book traces the Fed’s role in every financial crisis since this creature was spawned on Jekyll Island in 1913.
The “forgotten depression” of 1920-21 was caused by a huge increase in the money supply for President Wilson’s war. When the Fed started to tighten at war’s end, production fell 20 percent from mid-1920 to mid-1921, far more than today.
Why did we not read about that depression?
Because the much-maligned Warren Harding refused to intervene. He let businesses and banks fail and prices fall. Hence, the fever quickly broke, and we were off into “the Roaring Twenties.”
But, the Fed reverted, expanding the money supply by 55 percent, an average of 7.3 percent a year, not through an expansion of the currency, but through loans to businesses.
Thus, when the Fed tightened in the overheated economy, the Crash came, as the stock market bubble the Fed had created burst.
Herbert Hoover, contrary to the myth that he was a small-government conservative, renounced laissez-faire, raised taxes, launched public works projects, extended emergency loans to failing businesses and lent money to the states for relief programs.
Hoover did what Obama is doing.
Indeed, in 1932, FDR lacerated Hoover for having presided over the “greatest spending administration in peacetime in all of history.” His running mate, John Nance Garner, accused Hoover of “leading the country down the path to socialism.” And “Cactus Jack” was right.
Terrified of the bogeyman that causes Ben Bernanke sleepless nights — deflation, falling prices — FDR ordered crops destroyed, pigs slaughtered, and business cartels to cut production and fix prices.
FDR mistook the consequences of the Depression — falling prices — for the cause of the depression. But prices were simply returning to where they belonged in a free market, the first step in any cure.
Obama is repeating the failed policies of Hoover and FDR, by refusing to let prices fall. Obama, with his intervention to prop up housing prices and Bernanke with his gushers of money to bail out bankrupt banks and businesses are creating a new bubble that will burst even more spectacularly.
The biggest myth, writes Woods, is that it was World War II that ended the Great Depression. He quotes Paul Krugman:
“What saved the economy and the New Deal was the enormous public works project known as World War II, which finally provided a fiscal stimulus adequate to the economy’s needs.”
This Nobel Prize winner’s analysis, writes Woods, is a “stupefying and bizarre misunderstanding of what actually happened.”
Undoubtedly, with 29 percent of the labor force conscripted at one time or another into the armed forces, and their jobs taken by elderly men, women and teenagers with little work experience, unemployment will fall.
But how can an economy be truly growing 13 percent a year, as the economists claim, when there is rationing, shortages everywhere, declining product quality, an inability to buy homes and cars, and a longer work week? When the cream of the labor force is in boot camps or military bases, or storming beaches, sailing ships, flying planes and marching with rifles, how can your real economy be booming?
It was 1946, a year economists predicted would result in a postwar depression because government spending fell by two-thirds, that proved the biggest boom year in all of American history.
Why? Because the real economy was producing what people wanted: cars, TVs, homes. Businesses were responding to consumers, not the clamor of a government run by dollar-a-year men who wanted planes, tanks, guns and ships to blow things up.
“The Fed was the greatest single contributor to the crisis that unfolds before us,” Woods writes of today, and “more dollars were created between 2000 and 2007 than in the rest of the republic’s history.”
After 9-11, the Fed kept interest rates low — in one year as low as 1 percent. That money flooded into the housing and stock markets. And in 2008, as the Fed tightened, the bubble burst.
Now the money supply is again expanding, to rescue us from a crisis created by the previous expansion. Of Nicholas Biddle’s Bank of the United States, the great Andrew Jackson was eloquent.
“It has tried to kill me,” he said. “But I will kill it.” And he did.
Should not this creature from Jekyll Island, for all its manifold crimes and sins against the republic, also be summarily put to death?
One of the most important political books I’ve ever read also exposes The Federal Reserve and condemns it in no uncertain terms. If ya wanna be a patriot truly "in the know", then read my book review, and then, by all means, read the damn book itself: AN EVIL OF MONSTROUS PROPORTIONS
~ Stephen T. McCarthy
"As a dog returns to his own vomit, so a fool repeats his folly."
~ Proverbs 26:11
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Saturday, April 25, 2009
Thursday, April 23, 2009
GOLLY G-DOGG!
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THE BLACK RAPPERS STOLE
THEIR GOOFY CAP STYLE
FROM A STUPID WHITE MAN
NAMED GOMER PYLE.
Now, how cool is THAT?
"Let them alone. They are stupid leaders of the stupid. And if the stupid leads the stupid, both will look Gomer as hell."
(Matthew 15:14)
My advice to y'all, whether you be Black, White, Brown, Yellow, Red, or some Off-White Off-Broadway
Off-Color color, is: "DON'T BE A GOMER!"
You can get on down with yer bad self, but wear yer baseball cap the way God intended it to be worn. Otherwise, the smart and truly cool people like myself are gonna point and laugh atcha. Got it? Don't be a Gomer!
~ Stephen T. McCarthy
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THE BLACK RAPPERS STOLE
THEIR GOOFY CAP STYLE
FROM A STUPID WHITE MAN
NAMED GOMER PYLE.
Now, how cool is THAT?
"Let them alone. They are stupid leaders of the stupid. And if the stupid leads the stupid, both will look Gomer as hell."
(Matthew 15:14)
My advice to y'all, whether you be Black, White, Brown, Yellow, Red, or some Off-White Off-Broadway
Off-Color color, is: "DON'T BE A GOMER!"
You can get on down with yer bad self, but wear yer baseball cap the way God intended it to be worn. Otherwise, the smart and truly cool people like myself are gonna point and laugh atcha. Got it? Don't be a Gomer!
~ Stephen T. McCarthy
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009
RESPECT MOTHER NATURE AND THE LESBIAN GODDESS OF LOVE: RECYCLE OLD, WORN-OUT RADICALS
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In honor of EARTH DAY, it is my fervent hope that everyone will toss at least one Liberal into a recycling bin on April 22nd. With any luck, he or she will be reconstituted as a cardboard box for Marlboro cigarettes. Either that or a chapter in Ann Coulter's next book. The fat Liberals like Michael Moore might even return as an entire Coulter book! Wouldn't THAT be the epitome of "turning an ass into an asset"?
~ Stephen T. McCarthy
<"As a dog returns to his own vomit, so a fool repeats his folly."
~ Proverbs 26:11>
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In honor of EARTH DAY, it is my fervent hope that everyone will toss at least one Liberal into a recycling bin on April 22nd. With any luck, he or she will be reconstituted as a cardboard box for Marlboro cigarettes. Either that or a chapter in Ann Coulter's next book. The fat Liberals like Michael Moore might even return as an entire Coulter book! Wouldn't THAT be the epitome of "turning an ass into an asset"?
~ Stephen T. McCarthy
<"As a dog returns to his own vomit, so a fool repeats his folly."
~ Proverbs 26:11>
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Wednesday, April 15, 2009
"TEA", "TAXES" & "TYRANNY"
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Q: What’s the difference between a Neoconservative (Republican) and a Liberal (Democrat)?
A: Neoconservatives part their hair.
In honor of TEA PARTY DAY, I have decided to post these fine articles that originally appeared in the January 19, 2009 issue of The New American magazine (in my not very humble opinion, the best current events magazine in the country today).
Let us remember on this TEA PARTY DAY that it was neoconservative King George W. Bush who started BailOutMania with the taxpayers' money and that USAP (Barack “Hope And Change” Obama) has merely continued and expanded what the so-called “conservative” president started.
USAP knew a good thing when he saw it. Never mind that the bailouts will provide no real “hope” for average Americans (in fact, they will eventually make matters worse) and that they sure as hell don’t amount to “change.” The more we see of USAP, the more he looks like King W (with a better tan and a better jump shot).
I know some of you bright boys and girls out there still don’t “get it”; you still cling to your useless labels like “conservative”, “liberal”, “Republican”, “Democrat”, and you still believe that these terms mean something. They don’t. Everything the Dumb-O-Crats say they hate about Repugnantcans will be found within their own party, and everything the Repugnantcans claim to hate about the Dumb-O-Crats has been promoted by their own party for many, many decades. The names are different; the promised methods are different; the activity is virtually identical. There are two puppets pretending to fight; there is one puppeteer collecting your money and acquiring power over your life.
Perhaps these three articles will help clear some things up for y’all:
IS CONSERVATISM DEAD?
Written by Patrick Krey
The rise of the neoconservatives within the GOP has not only discredited the Grand Old Party but tarnished the image of conservatism.
The Republican party suffered an overwhelming electoral defeat this past November. The establishment media were all too quick to proclaim that conservatism is dead and we're now at the dawn of a liberal age. Peter Beinart, Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy for the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), wrote in Time magazine that we are facing the dawn of a "new liberal order."
In making this proclamation, Beinart overlooks the fact that the public was not voting for President-elect Obama, but rather against Republicans like John McCain and George W. Bush. But what was it that Bush and the Republican Party have come to symbolize? Bush and McCain both stood for an activist foreign policy of globally spreading democracy, never-ending commitments of nation building, open borders at home, record deficit spending, circumventing the Constitution, expanding domestic welfare programs, and nationalizing the financial sector.
Conservative South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford wrote in a CNN commentary that "Republicans have campaigned on the conservative themes of lower taxes, less government and more freedom — they just haven't governed that way. America didn't turn away from conservatism, they turned away from many who faked it."
Constitution Party candidate Chuck Baldwin wrote, "For all intents and purposes, conservatism — as a national movement — is completely and thoroughly dead. Barack Obama did not destroy it, however. It was George W. Bush and John McCain who destroyed conservatism in America."
David Boaz of the libertarian CATO Institute explains that Bush "delivered massive overspending, the biggest expansion of entitlements in 40 years, centralization of education, a floundering war, an imperial presidency, civil liberties abuses, ... and finally a $700 billion bailout of Wall Street that just kept on growing in the last month of the campaign. Voters who believed in limited government had every reason to reject that record."
These modern Republican policies have nothing to do with traditional conservatism, but have much more in common with big-government liberalism. So how did politicians claiming to be conservatives end up acting like big-government liberals? The explanation lies in understanding the rise of neoconservatism, which has come to define modern conservatism and the GOP.
Modern American Conservatism
The modern American conservative movement is considered to have begun in 1953 with the publishing of The Conservative Mind by Russell Kirk. With this book, Kirk traced the evolution of the conservative ideology from the American founding to the early 20th century. Conservatism, Kirk proclaimed, was based on the core principles of "an enduring moral order, the Constitution of the United States, established American way of life, and a free economy." Conservatism, as Kirk and similar traditionalists of his day saw it, meant an adherence to the Constitution and a mind-our-own-business foreign policy. These conservatives were opposed to an activist foreign policy, weary of executive power, and hesitant to engage in war. Kirk praised the late Senator Robert A. Taft for his ability to recognize that "war was the enemy of Constitution, liberty, economic security, and the cake of custom."
Conservative ideology developed and morphed through the years. It had internal conflicts between Rockefeller Republicans, followers of Nelson Rockefeller who held liberal views, and Goldwater conservatives, supporters of Barry Goldwater who adhered to a strict interpretation of the Constitution. This struggle went back and forth, with the liberal wing electing Richard Nixon and the conservative wing electing Ronald Reagan. Over this period, the liberal wing began to gain more power within the establishment right centered inside our nation's capital beltway. It wasn't until the 1970s when the neoconservatives (neocons for short) joined the conservative movement with their own distinct radical beliefs involving a hyper-interventionist foreign policy. Their influence within the movement would grow through the following decades, eventually culminating in George W. Bush's administration.
Neocons as Big-government Globalists
So what is it neocons believe in? Neocons are not concerned with reducing the size of government and are actually quite content with it getting bigger. Justin Raimondo, author of Reclaiming the American Right: The Lost Legacy of the Conservative Movement (the book that inspired Ron Paul to run for president), writes, "On the domestic front, far from opposing the growth of Big Government, or even seeking to slow it down, the neocons want to utilize the centralizing federal apparatus to achieve their own 'conservative' ends."
President Bush exemplified this big-government conservatism more than any other modern Republican. Fred Barnes, the author of the pro-Bush Rebel in Chief, explains that "big government conservatives are favorably disposed toward what neoconservative Irving Kristol has called a 'conservative welfare state.' (Neocons tend to be big government conservatives.) ... Bush has never put a name on his political philosophy, though he once joked that it was based on the premise that you could fool some of the people all of the time and he intended to concentrate on those people." Keep in mind that Barnes is actually speaking favorably about Bush. He highlights the misplaced priorities between traditional conservatives and neocons.
While big-government programs might be part and parcel of neocon agendas, it is foreign policy that is at the heart of their ideology. Max Boot, another admitted neocon and CFR senior fellow, explains: "It is not really domestic policy that defines neoconservatism. This was a movement founded on foreign policy, and it is still here that neoconservatism carries the greatest meaning." Boot contends that America should be the world's policeman.
This foreign policy is far from the noninterventionist one recommended by America's Founders of avoiding entangling alliances and pursuing peace and commerce. Instead, it is an aggressive, costly and dangerous policy of America policing the globe in order to establish a new democratic order without regard to any U.S. national interest. Of course, constant war goes hand in hand with this scenario. Raimondo writes, "Indeed, warmongering is the very essence of neoconservatism."
Neocons' Leftist Origins
Neocons were former liberal war hawks, many of whom were intellectuals, who felt disenfranchised by the Democratic Party's embrace of the peace movement. The neocons decided to jump ship and join with the Republicans, in whom they felt they would have a more receptive audience for their internationalist agenda. They were welcomed with open arms by the Rockefeller Republicans and other members of the beltway right. Traditional conservatives were not enthused by these new arrivals, but they felt that a new group of intellectuals would add gravitas to the movement.
Neoconservative thought represents an ideology with more similarities to Trotskyite communism than traditional American conservatism. Writing in the Weekly Standard, Irving Kristol, who is widely considered to be the godfather of neocons, freely admitted that neoconservatism originated "from disillusioned liberal intellectuals in the 1970s." Kristol himself is an admitted former Trotskyite. Trotskyism is the theory of Marxism named after Leon Trotsky, who strongly supported an international socialist revolution and asserted that socialism could only come into being on a global scale. Kristol was the managing editor of Commentary Magazine from 1947 to 1952, which is referred to as the neocon bible. Kristol is also the father of William Kristol, founder of the Weekly Standard. William Kristol, part of the second generation of neocons, is considered to be one of the leading voices of the movement.
Neocon Michael Ledeen, contributing editor for National Review, explained his leftist roots in an interview and said, "I describe myself as a democratic revolutionary, I don't think of myself as 'conservative' at all."
In the book Where the Right Went Wrong: How Neoconservatives Subverted the Reagan Revolution and Hijacked the Bush Presidency, Pat Buchanan explains:
The first generation were ex-Trotskyites, socialists, leftists and liberals who backed FDR, Truman, JFK and LBJ. When the Democratic Party was captured by McGovern in 1972 — on a platform of cutting defense and 'Come Home America!' — these Cold War liberals found themselves isolated and ignored in their own party. Adrift, they ran over to the Republican Party and were pulled aboard as conservatism's long voyage was culminating in the triumph of Reagan.
The Rise of the Neocons
Many neocons played important supporting roles in the Reagan administration. Neocons appointed by Reagan include William Bennett, Jeanne Kirkpatrick, Richard Perle, Eugene Rostow, Carnes Lord, and Elliott Abrams. This is not to say that neocons ran the administration. As a matter of fact, the neocons had many differences of opinion with President Reagan about foreign policy. Neocon Norman Podhoretz, editor-at-large for Commentary Magazine, then wrote an essay entitled "The Neoconservative Anguish Over Reagan's Foreign Policy."
The neocons were considered a helpful constituency in the conservative movement at the time, but they were just one constituency in a much larger movement. The neocons were not content with this arrangement and had hoped that they would gain more power in George H.W. Bush's administration. William Kristol served as chief of staff to Vice President Dan Quayle and expressed optimism about neocon leadership of the first Bush White House.
Russell Kirk, still highly regarded in conservative circles at the time, expressed reservations about neocon leadership. Kirk was wary of the way neocons had "been rash in their schemes of action, pursuing a fanciful democratic globalism rather than the national interest of the United States." He also did not believe that George H.W. Bush would give in to neocon pressure. Kirk said, "It is a reasonable presumption that Mr. Kristol and certain of his colleagues would prefer to install in the White House some person, not at all a fine gentleman, who might be deviously manipulated by neoconservative ideologues. Mr. Bush has far too much practical experience of federal office to be so managed by the 'first-class academic "brain trust" ' that Mr. Kristol desires to establish in the White House." Apparently, Kirk overestimated George H.W. Bush and did not even consider the future ascendancy of his son who would turn out to be "open to devious manipulation" by the neocons.
The neocons were elated with the advent of the first Gulf War as the elder Bush assumed the role of the liberal internationalist they had been hoping for. Kirk would become extremely disillusioned with the president over the decision to intervene. Kirk chided the president for initially engaging in war for an "oil can," referring to the rationale of keeping open the Kuwaiti oil fields, and he famously derided Bush for his eventual explanation for going to war: to launch a "New World Order." "What are we to say of Mr. Bush's present endeavor to bring to pass a gentler, kinder New World Order? Presidents Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, and Lyndon Johnson were enthusiasts for American domination of the world. Now George Bush appears to be emulating those eminent Democrats. When the Republicans, once upon a time, nominated for the presidency a 'One World' candidate, Wendell Willkie, they were sadly trounced. In general, Republicans throughout the twentieth century have been advocates of prudence and restraint in the conduct of foreign affairs." Kirk was so upset with the Gulf War and the change in direction of the conservative movement that he wrote to a friend expressing his opinion that Bush should be strung up on the White House lawn for war crimes!
As always, neocons came down on the opposing side of Kirk's traditional conservatism. To them, it was not Bush's globalist intervention that betrayed the conservative movement, but it was his failure to fully complete the job of regime change in Iraq. The neocons grew disillusioned with the elder Bush for not being enough of a liberal interventionist. The neocons felt betrayed by the president's decision to leave Saddam in power. They spent most of the '90s establishing new publications and think tanks to promote their viewpoints. The neocons also made a conscientious effort to more closely influence powerful GOP politicians like Newt Gingrich and John McCain. The neocons also worked to increase their influence with the right-wing media. Media personalities like Rush Limbaugh became closely aligned with top neocon thinkers. The flagship magazine of the beltway right, National Review, purged traditional conservatives in favor of neocon-approved GOP partisans.
You could say the neocons never met a foreign intervention they didn't like. They praised the Clinton administration whenever it took any globalist action but then criticized it for not going far enough. The neocons were fervent supporters of Clinton's efforts to expand NATO. They applauded the bombing of Belgrade but decried the lack of ground troops. In 1997, William Kristol and Robert Kagan, a CFR neocon and contributing editor to The New Republic, co-founded the Project for a New American Century (PNAC). PNAC is a neoconservative think tank that promotes higher military spending and an increased role for America as a global policeman. In 1998, PNAC issued a letter to President Clinton urging regime change in Iraq. Even though Clinton pushed deadly sanctions against Iraq and continual bombing raids, the Monica Lewinsky scandal made it politically difficult to fully implement PNAC's policy recommendations. The neocons wouldn't have to wait long before a politically viable reality for Iraq regime change developed.
Neocons Finally Dominate
It was in the administration of George W. Bush that neocons finally came to fully occupy the driver's seat. The 9/11 terrorist attacks gave the neocons the opportunity to push their long-held view of a global democratic revolution to the mainstream. Was George W. Bush a neocon? If he wasn't, he did one great impression. Some neocons feel that Bush was a true believer. Neocon Richard Perle has said of Bush: "The President of the United States, on issue after issue, has reflected the thinking of neoconservatives." The neocons got almost everything they wanted from Bush, most importantly the Iraq invasion.
Bush appointed many neocons to his administration, and he didn't hide the fact that he employed many neoconservatives. While giving a speech at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), an influential Washington think tank founded in 1943 and known as the headquarters of neoconservative thought, President Bush told the audience, "You do such good work that my administration has borrowed 20 such minds."
Even with all the obvious failures of the Bush administration, the Republican faithful still continued their disastrous love affair with the neocons by picking McCain as their 2008 presidential candidate. John McCain's close relationship with the neocons dated back to the '90s when they both broke ranks with the GOP to support the intervention in Kosovo. McCain also had many prominent neocons advising his campaign. When it came to foreign policy, McCain used all the neocon talking points on the campaign trail. McCain's foreign policy positions seem like they were lifted straight off PNAC's website.
Now the neocons are blaming everyone but themselves for McCain's defeat, and they are making suggestions that have little to do with the reality of the voter rejection of the GOP. David Frum, the neocon speechwriter for Bush who coined the term "Axis of Evil," claimed that picking social conservative Sarah Palin was the reason for the loss and recommends that the GOP should lessen its opposition to abortion and gay "marriage." Frum says this despite the fact that exit polling showed that McCain might have lost by an even larger margin without Palin to draw in social conservatives. William Kristol claimed that Bush was too laissez faire and the GOP needs to become more interventionist on economic policy. Kristol says this despite the fact that Bush was nowhere close to laissez faire and employed an interventionist economic policy throughout his years in office. Bush himself seems out of touch with reality. In an interview with Charles Gibson, he explained that the biggest disappointment was not the neocon foreign policy but, rather, the failure to crowbar amnesty for illegal immigrants through Congress! He also said that the landslide November defeat was not because of him but because of voter dissatisfaction with the Republican Party. And why were they dissatisfied? Bush did not explain.
Post-neocon Conservative Movement?
What will be the future of the post-Bush conservative movement? It is tempting to heap all the blame on the neocons as an aberration in the conservative movement, but the troubles run deeper than that. Neocons have so completely infiltrated the conservative movement that it's hard to distinguish between true neocons and establishment conservatives. Most of the Republicans who supported the Iraq invasion were not Trotskyite fellow travelers but rather knee-jerk partisans who were all too willing to accept the neocon consensus trumpeted by party leaders and the beltway right media of Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh.
Individuals who consider themselves traditional conservatives should reject the voices of both GOP party leaders and members of the media who promoted Bush's brand of conservatism. Instead they should listen to the voices of constitutional conservatives who stood by principle over party in opposition to Iraq and other unconstitutional actions by the big-government Bush administration. Voices like Ron Paul, Pat Buchanan, Charles Goyette, and organizations like the John Birch Society as well as The New American magazine.
The mainstream media (MSM) also played a role in assisting the neocons dominating the GOP. Big-government conservatives who are close with the neocons, like Lindsey Graham and John McCain, are praised as pragmatic centrists and moderates by the establishment media, whereas true constitutionalists and traditional conservatives like Ron Paul or Pat Buchanan are considered extreme or fringe and are ignored altogether. The MSM is all too eager to employ a neocon as their organization's in-house conservative, thereby redefining conservatism as neoconservatism. Bill Kristol became an op-ed columnist for the New York Times in January 2008 even though almost all of his Iraq predictions proved false. Jon Stewart even kidded with him, asking, "Oh, Bill Kristol, are you ever right?" It is far past time to reject this media-concocted paradigm and expose the true extremists: those who would indebt future generations and pursue dangerous and unconstitutional policies of endless war.
If conservatives continue to identify with the failed Bush policies, then the conservative movement is dead as we know it. On the other hand, if true traditional conservatives, following in the footsteps of Russell Kirk or Ron Paul or Pat Buchanan, acknowledge the failures of Bush and the neocons while renewing their dedication to the U.S. Constitution, the conservative movement's obituary might be premature. As for many of the knee-jerk GOP partisans who became staunch supporters of the neocons? They'll quickly fall in line with the new constitutional coalition just like they did with Bush and the Iraq War.
Patrick Krey, M.B.A., J.D., L.L.M., is a lawyer and freelance writer from New York.
Here's another article by the same writer from the same magazine:
NEOCONSERVATISM IN THE OBAMA AGE
Written by Patrick Krey
Neoconservatives are elated with Obama's appointments, recognizing that the new guard is very much like the old.
Some traditional conservatives were hoping that with Bush leaving office and Obama coming in, the neocons would be put out of power, but sadly, they're not going away that easily. Contrary to the public's perception of President-elect Obama as the peace candidate, he has been extremely hawkish in his appointments. The selection of Joe Biden as a running mate was a sign that the globalist and hawkish wing of the Democratic Party (where the neocons originally hailed from) was going to be strongly represented in an Obama administration. Back in 1999, Joe Biden cosponsored a resolution with John McCain and Joe Lieberman to use ground troops in Serbia, coinciding with the wishes of a neoconservative think tank called the Project for a New American Century (PNAC).
Obama's multiple appointments of liberal war hawks, former Clinton officials, and individuals with neocon ties is worrisome. Investigative reporter Robert Dreyfuss reported on the close alliance between these new appointments and the neocons. "Several top advisers to Obama — including Tony Lake, United Nations ambassador-designate Susan Rice, Tom Daschle and Dennis Ross, along with leading Democratic hawks like Richard Holbrooke, close to vice president-elect Joe Biden or secretary of state-designate Hillary Clinton — have made common cause with war-minded think-tank hawks at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP), the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), and other hard-line institutes."
Former CIA Officer Phillip Giraldi has warned that top Obama adviser Dennis Ross was part of a task force consisting mostly of neocons that issued a report that "advocated talking to Tehran to give it a chance to surrender on all key issues before attacking it, urging the next president to build up forces for the assault from day one of the new administration." The task force recommended that failure of the talks be followed up with a "show of force" in the region, involving a blockade of Iranian gas imports and oil exports, which would in turn be followed up with "kinetic action," a U.S. assault on Iran. That doesn't exactly sound like the diplomatic approach trumpeted by Obama on the campaign trail. Ross has worked closely with neocon think tanks like PNAC and WINEP, as well as for FOX News, where he was a strong advocate for war against Iraq.
The appointment of Marine Corps Gen. James L. Jones as national security adviser is also a bad omen according to Doug Bandow of the American Conservative Defense Alliance. Bandow writes that Jones is "an advocate of higher military spending, and his most famous proposal was disastrously bad: to place a NATO force, presumably including Americans, in the West Bank. Is there a dumber region in which to station American soldiers and Marines? Maybe Iraq, but then the Palestinian territories come in at a strong second place."
These appointments seem to be in touch with Obama's interventionist foreign policy stances which were summed up by journalist and author Jeremy Scahill. Scahill writes:
Several of the individuals at the center of Obama's transition and emerging foreign policy teams were top players in creating and implementing foreign policies that would pave the way for projects eventually carried out under the Bush/Cheney administration. With their assistance, Obama has already charted out several hawkish stances. Among them:
• His plan to escalate the war in Afghanistan;
• An Iraq plan that could turn into a downsized and rebranded occupation that keeps U.S. forces in Iraq for the foreseeable future;
• His labeling of Iran's Revolutionary Guard as a "terrorist organization;"
• His pledge to use unilateral force inside of Pakistan to defend U.S. interests;
• His position, presented before the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), that Jerusalem "must remain undivided" — a remark that infuriated Palestinian officials and which he later attempted to reframe;
• His plan to continue the War on Drugs, a backdoor U.S. counterinsurgency campaign in Central and Latin America;
• His refusal to "rule out" using Blackwater and other armed private forces in U.S. war zones, despite previously introducing legislation to regulate these companies and bring them under U.S. law.
Another red flag for the American public is that the neocons seem to be beside themselves with adoration for Obama. Phillip Giraldi explained the establishment praise for Obama as pundits who "joined the song of praise being raised by neocons and faux-conservatives alike lauding Barack Obama's cabinet for its 'moderation' and 'centrism.' What that really means, of course, is that they are all recognizing that Obama will preserve the Bush status quo when it comes to foreign policy, a heady mix of American exceptionalism combined with muscular democracy promotion and interventionism." William Kristol had very kind words for the president-elect and stated that he's poised for presidential success. John McCain even applauded the appointments!
Rush Limbaugh praised the appointment of Hillary Clinton as secretary of state as "brilliant."
[*NOTE: I feel that this quote, taken out of context like it is, gives the appearance of a meaning that I do not believe Rush Limbaugh was implying. I’m no fan of Rush Limboob, in fact I rather strongly dislike that phony conservative, but nevertheless, I can’t fully endorse the inclusion of this particular quotation in relation to the theme of this article. ~STMcC]
Senator Joe Lieberman, who broke ranks with Democrats allegedly over foreign policy concerns to endorse McCain, called the appointments "virtually perfect."
Neocon David Horowitz actually reprimanded conservative activists whom he felt were unnecessarily filing lawsuits regarding Barack's citizenship status, not because he didn't believe the claims, but rather because Obama has shown his true hawkish nature for which conservatives should be appreciative. "Now, as president-elect he has just formed the most conservative foreign policy team since John F. Kennedy, one well to the right of Bill Clinton. Where is your gratitude for that? What is more relevant in his Hillary Clinton pick — her prickly past or the fact that except for Joe Lieberman, she is the Democrat most identified with support for the Iraq War?" This neocon wants conservative activists to be grateful for Hillary Clinton!? His most revealing response was when he exclaimed, "And please don't write me about the Constitution." These last two statements should put to rest any notion that neocons care about traditional conservative values. It would appear that as long as their lust for war and global democratic revolution is satisfied, they do not care about much else.
This dynamic of neocons versus liberal interventionists seems to be along the lines of good cop vs. bad cop. Both parties want the same result, but they play opposing roles to con the third party (in this case, independent voters) into trusting them even though they both share the same goals. And when you really think about it: what is the difference between a neocon and a liberal war hawk anyway? Not much of a difference at all considering that neocons were liberal war hawks a few decades ago. Neocon Max Boot admitted this much while praising Obama. "I am gob smacked by these appointments, most of which could just as easily have come from a President McCain.... [Hillary] Clinton and [James] Steinberg at State should be powerful voices for 'neo-liberalism' which is not so different in many respects from 'neo-conservativism.'"
Constitutional conservatives could really distinguish themselves on foreign policy from the neocons of the Bush years and the liberal hawks that Obama is bringing to the White House. Doug Bandow, of the American Conservative Defense Alliance, suggests:
The only way to change this dangerous dynamic is for those who believe in limited government and individual liberty to use their votes to punish war-mongers in either party.... And given the current ascendancy of liberals within the Democratic Party, foreign policy offers an opportunity for the Right.... Rather than attempt to outspend the Democrats on defense and promote even more frivolous interventions than those advanced by the acolytes of Madeleine Albright, conservatives should offer a genuine alternative: republican noninterventionism. Defend America, but turn military responsibilities over to rich allies in Asia and Europe and avoid involvement in tragic but irrelevant Third World conflicts. Stand for the Constitution and defend republic over empire against Wilsonians on the Left and Right.
And lastly, Thomas Eddlem puts the final nail in the coffin, expressing my thoughts as well as his own:
READY TO BE AN EXTREMIST AGAIN
Written by Thomas R. Eddlem
Back in September 2005, I wrote a short column for The New American stating that "I'm okay being middle-of-the-road." The column chronicled how acquaintances and family had mistaken my stinging criticisms of the policies of the Bush administration and the Republican Congress as evidence of an occasional leftward bent.
If you are a conservative, conventional thinking goes, you can't criticize a Republican president. The worst a conservative is supposed to do is to grumble about how a Republican president is not conservative enough, and then note that at least he's better than the alternative. But I wasn't buying the party line.
Bush did more to erode the restraints of the U.S. Constitution than any president who preceded him, with direct attacks on the Bill of Rights' prohibitions on detainment without habeas corpus or trial, torture, and searches without a court warrant. He presided over Republican and Democratic Congresses that enacted the largest spending increases since FDR, and will leave office with the largest budget deficit in U.S. history. He made no effort to stop the spending madness that has ruined our economy, and did much to worsen it. He also left us embroiled in two disastrous foreign wars that killed far more Americans than September 11, and there's no end in sight.
There's absolutely no evidence he was better than the alternative. For pointing out these indisputable facts, I was called a "middle-of-the-roader," a libertarian, and even a liberal a couple of times.
I hadn't changed my views from when I had criticized the Clinton administration's big-government policies. Criticizing Clinton's big-government policies got me labeled a "right-wing extremist." I'm not a right-wing extremist, of course, but rather I'm a moderate, middle-of-the-road John Bircher who believes in limited government under the U.S. Constitution.
Later, when I criticized the Bush administration's even-bigger-government policies, I magically became a "middle-of-the-roader" or a "moderate" for saying exactly the same thing that got me labeled a "right-wing extremist."
If a war of aggression by Clinton against Bosnia was wrong (as is any attack on a country that hasn't attacked the United States), I would suggest, then the war of aggression against Iraq under Bush is also wrong. Deficit spending under Bush was as wrong as the likely deficit spending under Obama will be.
I hadn't moved; the labelers had moved. Like the weather changing with the seasons, these terms changed meaning with the party in power at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
It just goes to show what terms like left, right, center, conservative, and liberal mean today.
They mean nothing.
Left, right, and center mean nothing if you set out on a 1,000-mile journey without a map or directions. Left compared to what? You don't even know where you are.
Likewise, conservative means nothing if you have no fixed idea of what it is you'd like to conserve. Liberal means nothing unless you have some concrete idea of what should be liberalized. That's the problem with the labelers. They have no fixed frame of reference, which is to say that they have no idea what the Constitution requires and what the Founding Fathers had in mind when they set up our government. Instead, Americans rely upon the politicians and the establishment media to frame these terms in a self-serving manner. And many people never realize they've been hoodwinked into a false dichotomy.
Rome went through the same sickening cycle at the end of its republic, when Romans fretted more over whether they were with the party of Caesar or the party of Pompey rather than whether their freedoms were eroding under both administrations.
Americans, like Romans of old, are seeking a knight on a white horse to save their freedom. But we won't be saved by a president, Democrat or Republican. We can only save ourselves. Freedom can only be restored by bringing the size and scope of government back into check by putting sufficient pressure on the legislature. If we're to preserve freedom, it'll be when citizens insist that their Congress make government smaller.
As big-government Democrat Barack Obama takes the reins (or perhaps I should say "dons the purple") as president, I can again expect to be labeled a right-wing extremist. New label, same guy. Or old label, same guy. It's hard to keep track.
So be it.
I can handle the labels. I can stay consistent.
Besides, it's fun to ask the labelers, "Right-wing compared to what objective standard of measurement?" I almost always get a puzzled, vacant expression in return.
Thomas R. Eddlem, a freelance writer, served as the John Birch Society's director of research from 1991-2000.
Bravo, Mr. Eddlem, Bravo!
I invite anyone interested in perusing overviews of the big picture to read the two Blog Bits I have posted here at Xtremely Un-P.C. And Unrepentant titled “See The New World Order In Black And White” and “Stop Being A Useful Idiot.” I would have made finding them easier for you by posting links to them right here, but I’m pretty sure that no one has bothered to read even THIS far.
Should you find yourself elbow-to-elbow with a Neocon at a TEA PARTY today, I suggest you kick him or her in the ass and tell ‘em to go to the COMMUNIST PARTY where they belong. There’s a party for everyone, but TEA PARTIES should be reserved for American patriots only! (That means true “Constitutionalists.”)
Dogs, Vomit, Fools, Folly, and all the usual.
You know the gig...
~ Stephen T. McCarthy
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Q: What’s the difference between a Neoconservative (Republican) and a Liberal (Democrat)?
A: Neoconservatives part their hair.
In honor of TEA PARTY DAY, I have decided to post these fine articles that originally appeared in the January 19, 2009 issue of The New American magazine (in my not very humble opinion, the best current events magazine in the country today).
Let us remember on this TEA PARTY DAY that it was neoconservative King George W. Bush who started BailOutMania with the taxpayers' money and that USAP (Barack “Hope And Change” Obama) has merely continued and expanded what the so-called “conservative” president started.
USAP knew a good thing when he saw it. Never mind that the bailouts will provide no real “hope” for average Americans (in fact, they will eventually make matters worse) and that they sure as hell don’t amount to “change.” The more we see of USAP, the more he looks like King W (with a better tan and a better jump shot).
I know some of you bright boys and girls out there still don’t “get it”; you still cling to your useless labels like “conservative”, “liberal”, “Republican”, “Democrat”, and you still believe that these terms mean something. They don’t. Everything the Dumb-O-Crats say they hate about Repugnantcans will be found within their own party, and everything the Repugnantcans claim to hate about the Dumb-O-Crats has been promoted by their own party for many, many decades. The names are different; the promised methods are different; the activity is virtually identical. There are two puppets pretending to fight; there is one puppeteer collecting your money and acquiring power over your life.
Perhaps these three articles will help clear some things up for y’all:
IS CONSERVATISM DEAD?
Written by Patrick Krey
The rise of the neoconservatives within the GOP has not only discredited the Grand Old Party but tarnished the image of conservatism.
The Republican party suffered an overwhelming electoral defeat this past November. The establishment media were all too quick to proclaim that conservatism is dead and we're now at the dawn of a liberal age. Peter Beinart, Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy for the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), wrote in Time magazine that we are facing the dawn of a "new liberal order."
In making this proclamation, Beinart overlooks the fact that the public was not voting for President-elect Obama, but rather against Republicans like John McCain and George W. Bush. But what was it that Bush and the Republican Party have come to symbolize? Bush and McCain both stood for an activist foreign policy of globally spreading democracy, never-ending commitments of nation building, open borders at home, record deficit spending, circumventing the Constitution, expanding domestic welfare programs, and nationalizing the financial sector.
Conservative South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford wrote in a CNN commentary that "Republicans have campaigned on the conservative themes of lower taxes, less government and more freedom — they just haven't governed that way. America didn't turn away from conservatism, they turned away from many who faked it."
Constitution Party candidate Chuck Baldwin wrote, "For all intents and purposes, conservatism — as a national movement — is completely and thoroughly dead. Barack Obama did not destroy it, however. It was George W. Bush and John McCain who destroyed conservatism in America."
David Boaz of the libertarian CATO Institute explains that Bush "delivered massive overspending, the biggest expansion of entitlements in 40 years, centralization of education, a floundering war, an imperial presidency, civil liberties abuses, ... and finally a $700 billion bailout of Wall Street that just kept on growing in the last month of the campaign. Voters who believed in limited government had every reason to reject that record."
These modern Republican policies have nothing to do with traditional conservatism, but have much more in common with big-government liberalism. So how did politicians claiming to be conservatives end up acting like big-government liberals? The explanation lies in understanding the rise of neoconservatism, which has come to define modern conservatism and the GOP.
Modern American Conservatism
The modern American conservative movement is considered to have begun in 1953 with the publishing of The Conservative Mind by Russell Kirk. With this book, Kirk traced the evolution of the conservative ideology from the American founding to the early 20th century. Conservatism, Kirk proclaimed, was based on the core principles of "an enduring moral order, the Constitution of the United States, established American way of life, and a free economy." Conservatism, as Kirk and similar traditionalists of his day saw it, meant an adherence to the Constitution and a mind-our-own-business foreign policy. These conservatives were opposed to an activist foreign policy, weary of executive power, and hesitant to engage in war. Kirk praised the late Senator Robert A. Taft for his ability to recognize that "war was the enemy of Constitution, liberty, economic security, and the cake of custom."
Conservative ideology developed and morphed through the years. It had internal conflicts between Rockefeller Republicans, followers of Nelson Rockefeller who held liberal views, and Goldwater conservatives, supporters of Barry Goldwater who adhered to a strict interpretation of the Constitution. This struggle went back and forth, with the liberal wing electing Richard Nixon and the conservative wing electing Ronald Reagan. Over this period, the liberal wing began to gain more power within the establishment right centered inside our nation's capital beltway. It wasn't until the 1970s when the neoconservatives (neocons for short) joined the conservative movement with their own distinct radical beliefs involving a hyper-interventionist foreign policy. Their influence within the movement would grow through the following decades, eventually culminating in George W. Bush's administration.
Neocons as Big-government Globalists
So what is it neocons believe in? Neocons are not concerned with reducing the size of government and are actually quite content with it getting bigger. Justin Raimondo, author of Reclaiming the American Right: The Lost Legacy of the Conservative Movement (the book that inspired Ron Paul to run for president), writes, "On the domestic front, far from opposing the growth of Big Government, or even seeking to slow it down, the neocons want to utilize the centralizing federal apparatus to achieve their own 'conservative' ends."
President Bush exemplified this big-government conservatism more than any other modern Republican. Fred Barnes, the author of the pro-Bush Rebel in Chief, explains that "big government conservatives are favorably disposed toward what neoconservative Irving Kristol has called a 'conservative welfare state.' (Neocons tend to be big government conservatives.) ... Bush has never put a name on his political philosophy, though he once joked that it was based on the premise that you could fool some of the people all of the time and he intended to concentrate on those people." Keep in mind that Barnes is actually speaking favorably about Bush. He highlights the misplaced priorities between traditional conservatives and neocons.
While big-government programs might be part and parcel of neocon agendas, it is foreign policy that is at the heart of their ideology. Max Boot, another admitted neocon and CFR senior fellow, explains: "It is not really domestic policy that defines neoconservatism. This was a movement founded on foreign policy, and it is still here that neoconservatism carries the greatest meaning." Boot contends that America should be the world's policeman.
This foreign policy is far from the noninterventionist one recommended by America's Founders of avoiding entangling alliances and pursuing peace and commerce. Instead, it is an aggressive, costly and dangerous policy of America policing the globe in order to establish a new democratic order without regard to any U.S. national interest. Of course, constant war goes hand in hand with this scenario. Raimondo writes, "Indeed, warmongering is the very essence of neoconservatism."
Neocons' Leftist Origins
Neocons were former liberal war hawks, many of whom were intellectuals, who felt disenfranchised by the Democratic Party's embrace of the peace movement. The neocons decided to jump ship and join with the Republicans, in whom they felt they would have a more receptive audience for their internationalist agenda. They were welcomed with open arms by the Rockefeller Republicans and other members of the beltway right. Traditional conservatives were not enthused by these new arrivals, but they felt that a new group of intellectuals would add gravitas to the movement.
Neoconservative thought represents an ideology with more similarities to Trotskyite communism than traditional American conservatism. Writing in the Weekly Standard, Irving Kristol, who is widely considered to be the godfather of neocons, freely admitted that neoconservatism originated "from disillusioned liberal intellectuals in the 1970s." Kristol himself is an admitted former Trotskyite. Trotskyism is the theory of Marxism named after Leon Trotsky, who strongly supported an international socialist revolution and asserted that socialism could only come into being on a global scale. Kristol was the managing editor of Commentary Magazine from 1947 to 1952, which is referred to as the neocon bible. Kristol is also the father of William Kristol, founder of the Weekly Standard. William Kristol, part of the second generation of neocons, is considered to be one of the leading voices of the movement.
Neocon Michael Ledeen, contributing editor for National Review, explained his leftist roots in an interview and said, "I describe myself as a democratic revolutionary, I don't think of myself as 'conservative' at all."
In the book Where the Right Went Wrong: How Neoconservatives Subverted the Reagan Revolution and Hijacked the Bush Presidency, Pat Buchanan explains:
The first generation were ex-Trotskyites, socialists, leftists and liberals who backed FDR, Truman, JFK and LBJ. When the Democratic Party was captured by McGovern in 1972 — on a platform of cutting defense and 'Come Home America!' — these Cold War liberals found themselves isolated and ignored in their own party. Adrift, they ran over to the Republican Party and were pulled aboard as conservatism's long voyage was culminating in the triumph of Reagan.
The Rise of the Neocons
Many neocons played important supporting roles in the Reagan administration. Neocons appointed by Reagan include William Bennett, Jeanne Kirkpatrick, Richard Perle, Eugene Rostow, Carnes Lord, and Elliott Abrams. This is not to say that neocons ran the administration. As a matter of fact, the neocons had many differences of opinion with President Reagan about foreign policy. Neocon Norman Podhoretz, editor-at-large for Commentary Magazine, then wrote an essay entitled "The Neoconservative Anguish Over Reagan's Foreign Policy."
The neocons were considered a helpful constituency in the conservative movement at the time, but they were just one constituency in a much larger movement. The neocons were not content with this arrangement and had hoped that they would gain more power in George H.W. Bush's administration. William Kristol served as chief of staff to Vice President Dan Quayle and expressed optimism about neocon leadership of the first Bush White House.
Russell Kirk, still highly regarded in conservative circles at the time, expressed reservations about neocon leadership. Kirk was wary of the way neocons had "been rash in their schemes of action, pursuing a fanciful democratic globalism rather than the national interest of the United States." He also did not believe that George H.W. Bush would give in to neocon pressure. Kirk said, "It is a reasonable presumption that Mr. Kristol and certain of his colleagues would prefer to install in the White House some person, not at all a fine gentleman, who might be deviously manipulated by neoconservative ideologues. Mr. Bush has far too much practical experience of federal office to be so managed by the 'first-class academic "brain trust" ' that Mr. Kristol desires to establish in the White House." Apparently, Kirk overestimated George H.W. Bush and did not even consider the future ascendancy of his son who would turn out to be "open to devious manipulation" by the neocons.
The neocons were elated with the advent of the first Gulf War as the elder Bush assumed the role of the liberal internationalist they had been hoping for. Kirk would become extremely disillusioned with the president over the decision to intervene. Kirk chided the president for initially engaging in war for an "oil can," referring to the rationale of keeping open the Kuwaiti oil fields, and he famously derided Bush for his eventual explanation for going to war: to launch a "New World Order." "What are we to say of Mr. Bush's present endeavor to bring to pass a gentler, kinder New World Order? Presidents Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, and Lyndon Johnson were enthusiasts for American domination of the world. Now George Bush appears to be emulating those eminent Democrats. When the Republicans, once upon a time, nominated for the presidency a 'One World' candidate, Wendell Willkie, they were sadly trounced. In general, Republicans throughout the twentieth century have been advocates of prudence and restraint in the conduct of foreign affairs." Kirk was so upset with the Gulf War and the change in direction of the conservative movement that he wrote to a friend expressing his opinion that Bush should be strung up on the White House lawn for war crimes!
As always, neocons came down on the opposing side of Kirk's traditional conservatism. To them, it was not Bush's globalist intervention that betrayed the conservative movement, but it was his failure to fully complete the job of regime change in Iraq. The neocons grew disillusioned with the elder Bush for not being enough of a liberal interventionist. The neocons felt betrayed by the president's decision to leave Saddam in power. They spent most of the '90s establishing new publications and think tanks to promote their viewpoints. The neocons also made a conscientious effort to more closely influence powerful GOP politicians like Newt Gingrich and John McCain. The neocons also worked to increase their influence with the right-wing media. Media personalities like Rush Limbaugh became closely aligned with top neocon thinkers. The flagship magazine of the beltway right, National Review, purged traditional conservatives in favor of neocon-approved GOP partisans.
You could say the neocons never met a foreign intervention they didn't like. They praised the Clinton administration whenever it took any globalist action but then criticized it for not going far enough. The neocons were fervent supporters of Clinton's efforts to expand NATO. They applauded the bombing of Belgrade but decried the lack of ground troops. In 1997, William Kristol and Robert Kagan, a CFR neocon and contributing editor to The New Republic, co-founded the Project for a New American Century (PNAC). PNAC is a neoconservative think tank that promotes higher military spending and an increased role for America as a global policeman. In 1998, PNAC issued a letter to President Clinton urging regime change in Iraq. Even though Clinton pushed deadly sanctions against Iraq and continual bombing raids, the Monica Lewinsky scandal made it politically difficult to fully implement PNAC's policy recommendations. The neocons wouldn't have to wait long before a politically viable reality for Iraq regime change developed.
Neocons Finally Dominate
It was in the administration of George W. Bush that neocons finally came to fully occupy the driver's seat. The 9/11 terrorist attacks gave the neocons the opportunity to push their long-held view of a global democratic revolution to the mainstream. Was George W. Bush a neocon? If he wasn't, he did one great impression. Some neocons feel that Bush was a true believer. Neocon Richard Perle has said of Bush: "The President of the United States, on issue after issue, has reflected the thinking of neoconservatives." The neocons got almost everything they wanted from Bush, most importantly the Iraq invasion.
Bush appointed many neocons to his administration, and he didn't hide the fact that he employed many neoconservatives. While giving a speech at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), an influential Washington think tank founded in 1943 and known as the headquarters of neoconservative thought, President Bush told the audience, "You do such good work that my administration has borrowed 20 such minds."
Even with all the obvious failures of the Bush administration, the Republican faithful still continued their disastrous love affair with the neocons by picking McCain as their 2008 presidential candidate. John McCain's close relationship with the neocons dated back to the '90s when they both broke ranks with the GOP to support the intervention in Kosovo. McCain also had many prominent neocons advising his campaign. When it came to foreign policy, McCain used all the neocon talking points on the campaign trail. McCain's foreign policy positions seem like they were lifted straight off PNAC's website.
Now the neocons are blaming everyone but themselves for McCain's defeat, and they are making suggestions that have little to do with the reality of the voter rejection of the GOP. David Frum, the neocon speechwriter for Bush who coined the term "Axis of Evil," claimed that picking social conservative Sarah Palin was the reason for the loss and recommends that the GOP should lessen its opposition to abortion and gay "marriage." Frum says this despite the fact that exit polling showed that McCain might have lost by an even larger margin without Palin to draw in social conservatives. William Kristol claimed that Bush was too laissez faire and the GOP needs to become more interventionist on economic policy. Kristol says this despite the fact that Bush was nowhere close to laissez faire and employed an interventionist economic policy throughout his years in office. Bush himself seems out of touch with reality. In an interview with Charles Gibson, he explained that the biggest disappointment was not the neocon foreign policy but, rather, the failure to crowbar amnesty for illegal immigrants through Congress! He also said that the landslide November defeat was not because of him but because of voter dissatisfaction with the Republican Party. And why were they dissatisfied? Bush did not explain.
Post-neocon Conservative Movement?
What will be the future of the post-Bush conservative movement? It is tempting to heap all the blame on the neocons as an aberration in the conservative movement, but the troubles run deeper than that. Neocons have so completely infiltrated the conservative movement that it's hard to distinguish between true neocons and establishment conservatives. Most of the Republicans who supported the Iraq invasion were not Trotskyite fellow travelers but rather knee-jerk partisans who were all too willing to accept the neocon consensus trumpeted by party leaders and the beltway right media of Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh.
Individuals who consider themselves traditional conservatives should reject the voices of both GOP party leaders and members of the media who promoted Bush's brand of conservatism. Instead they should listen to the voices of constitutional conservatives who stood by principle over party in opposition to Iraq and other unconstitutional actions by the big-government Bush administration. Voices like Ron Paul, Pat Buchanan, Charles Goyette, and organizations like the John Birch Society as well as The New American magazine.
The mainstream media (MSM) also played a role in assisting the neocons dominating the GOP. Big-government conservatives who are close with the neocons, like Lindsey Graham and John McCain, are praised as pragmatic centrists and moderates by the establishment media, whereas true constitutionalists and traditional conservatives like Ron Paul or Pat Buchanan are considered extreme or fringe and are ignored altogether. The MSM is all too eager to employ a neocon as their organization's in-house conservative, thereby redefining conservatism as neoconservatism. Bill Kristol became an op-ed columnist for the New York Times in January 2008 even though almost all of his Iraq predictions proved false. Jon Stewart even kidded with him, asking, "Oh, Bill Kristol, are you ever right?" It is far past time to reject this media-concocted paradigm and expose the true extremists: those who would indebt future generations and pursue dangerous and unconstitutional policies of endless war.
If conservatives continue to identify with the failed Bush policies, then the conservative movement is dead as we know it. On the other hand, if true traditional conservatives, following in the footsteps of Russell Kirk or Ron Paul or Pat Buchanan, acknowledge the failures of Bush and the neocons while renewing their dedication to the U.S. Constitution, the conservative movement's obituary might be premature. As for many of the knee-jerk GOP partisans who became staunch supporters of the neocons? They'll quickly fall in line with the new constitutional coalition just like they did with Bush and the Iraq War.
Patrick Krey, M.B.A., J.D., L.L.M., is a lawyer and freelance writer from New York.
Here's another article by the same writer from the same magazine:
NEOCONSERVATISM IN THE OBAMA AGE
Written by Patrick Krey
Neoconservatives are elated with Obama's appointments, recognizing that the new guard is very much like the old.
Some traditional conservatives were hoping that with Bush leaving office and Obama coming in, the neocons would be put out of power, but sadly, they're not going away that easily. Contrary to the public's perception of President-elect Obama as the peace candidate, he has been extremely hawkish in his appointments. The selection of Joe Biden as a running mate was a sign that the globalist and hawkish wing of the Democratic Party (where the neocons originally hailed from) was going to be strongly represented in an Obama administration. Back in 1999, Joe Biden cosponsored a resolution with John McCain and Joe Lieberman to use ground troops in Serbia, coinciding with the wishes of a neoconservative think tank called the Project for a New American Century (PNAC).
Obama's multiple appointments of liberal war hawks, former Clinton officials, and individuals with neocon ties is worrisome. Investigative reporter Robert Dreyfuss reported on the close alliance between these new appointments and the neocons. "Several top advisers to Obama — including Tony Lake, United Nations ambassador-designate Susan Rice, Tom Daschle and Dennis Ross, along with leading Democratic hawks like Richard Holbrooke, close to vice president-elect Joe Biden or secretary of state-designate Hillary Clinton — have made common cause with war-minded think-tank hawks at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP), the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), and other hard-line institutes."
Former CIA Officer Phillip Giraldi has warned that top Obama adviser Dennis Ross was part of a task force consisting mostly of neocons that issued a report that "advocated talking to Tehran to give it a chance to surrender on all key issues before attacking it, urging the next president to build up forces for the assault from day one of the new administration." The task force recommended that failure of the talks be followed up with a "show of force" in the region, involving a blockade of Iranian gas imports and oil exports, which would in turn be followed up with "kinetic action," a U.S. assault on Iran. That doesn't exactly sound like the diplomatic approach trumpeted by Obama on the campaign trail. Ross has worked closely with neocon think tanks like PNAC and WINEP, as well as for FOX News, where he was a strong advocate for war against Iraq.
The appointment of Marine Corps Gen. James L. Jones as national security adviser is also a bad omen according to Doug Bandow of the American Conservative Defense Alliance. Bandow writes that Jones is "an advocate of higher military spending, and his most famous proposal was disastrously bad: to place a NATO force, presumably including Americans, in the West Bank. Is there a dumber region in which to station American soldiers and Marines? Maybe Iraq, but then the Palestinian territories come in at a strong second place."
These appointments seem to be in touch with Obama's interventionist foreign policy stances which were summed up by journalist and author Jeremy Scahill. Scahill writes:
Several of the individuals at the center of Obama's transition and emerging foreign policy teams were top players in creating and implementing foreign policies that would pave the way for projects eventually carried out under the Bush/Cheney administration. With their assistance, Obama has already charted out several hawkish stances. Among them:
• His plan to escalate the war in Afghanistan;
• An Iraq plan that could turn into a downsized and rebranded occupation that keeps U.S. forces in Iraq for the foreseeable future;
• His labeling of Iran's Revolutionary Guard as a "terrorist organization;"
• His pledge to use unilateral force inside of Pakistan to defend U.S. interests;
• His position, presented before the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), that Jerusalem "must remain undivided" — a remark that infuriated Palestinian officials and which he later attempted to reframe;
• His plan to continue the War on Drugs, a backdoor U.S. counterinsurgency campaign in Central and Latin America;
• His refusal to "rule out" using Blackwater and other armed private forces in U.S. war zones, despite previously introducing legislation to regulate these companies and bring them under U.S. law.
Another red flag for the American public is that the neocons seem to be beside themselves with adoration for Obama. Phillip Giraldi explained the establishment praise for Obama as pundits who "joined the song of praise being raised by neocons and faux-conservatives alike lauding Barack Obama's cabinet for its 'moderation' and 'centrism.' What that really means, of course, is that they are all recognizing that Obama will preserve the Bush status quo when it comes to foreign policy, a heady mix of American exceptionalism combined with muscular democracy promotion and interventionism." William Kristol had very kind words for the president-elect and stated that he's poised for presidential success. John McCain even applauded the appointments!
Rush Limbaugh praised the appointment of Hillary Clinton as secretary of state as "brilliant."
[*NOTE: I feel that this quote, taken out of context like it is, gives the appearance of a meaning that I do not believe Rush Limbaugh was implying. I’m no fan of Rush Limboob, in fact I rather strongly dislike that phony conservative, but nevertheless, I can’t fully endorse the inclusion of this particular quotation in relation to the theme of this article. ~STMcC]
Senator Joe Lieberman, who broke ranks with Democrats allegedly over foreign policy concerns to endorse McCain, called the appointments "virtually perfect."
Neocon David Horowitz actually reprimanded conservative activists whom he felt were unnecessarily filing lawsuits regarding Barack's citizenship status, not because he didn't believe the claims, but rather because Obama has shown his true hawkish nature for which conservatives should be appreciative. "Now, as president-elect he has just formed the most conservative foreign policy team since John F. Kennedy, one well to the right of Bill Clinton. Where is your gratitude for that? What is more relevant in his Hillary Clinton pick — her prickly past or the fact that except for Joe Lieberman, she is the Democrat most identified with support for the Iraq War?" This neocon wants conservative activists to be grateful for Hillary Clinton!? His most revealing response was when he exclaimed, "And please don't write me about the Constitution." These last two statements should put to rest any notion that neocons care about traditional conservative values. It would appear that as long as their lust for war and global democratic revolution is satisfied, they do not care about much else.
This dynamic of neocons versus liberal interventionists seems to be along the lines of good cop vs. bad cop. Both parties want the same result, but they play opposing roles to con the third party (in this case, independent voters) into trusting them even though they both share the same goals. And when you really think about it: what is the difference between a neocon and a liberal war hawk anyway? Not much of a difference at all considering that neocons were liberal war hawks a few decades ago. Neocon Max Boot admitted this much while praising Obama. "I am gob smacked by these appointments, most of which could just as easily have come from a President McCain.... [Hillary] Clinton and [James] Steinberg at State should be powerful voices for 'neo-liberalism' which is not so different in many respects from 'neo-conservativism.'"
Constitutional conservatives could really distinguish themselves on foreign policy from the neocons of the Bush years and the liberal hawks that Obama is bringing to the White House. Doug Bandow, of the American Conservative Defense Alliance, suggests:
The only way to change this dangerous dynamic is for those who believe in limited government and individual liberty to use their votes to punish war-mongers in either party.... And given the current ascendancy of liberals within the Democratic Party, foreign policy offers an opportunity for the Right.... Rather than attempt to outspend the Democrats on defense and promote even more frivolous interventions than those advanced by the acolytes of Madeleine Albright, conservatives should offer a genuine alternative: republican noninterventionism. Defend America, but turn military responsibilities over to rich allies in Asia and Europe and avoid involvement in tragic but irrelevant Third World conflicts. Stand for the Constitution and defend republic over empire against Wilsonians on the Left and Right.
And lastly, Thomas Eddlem puts the final nail in the coffin, expressing my thoughts as well as his own:
READY TO BE AN EXTREMIST AGAIN
Written by Thomas R. Eddlem
Back in September 2005, I wrote a short column for The New American stating that "I'm okay being middle-of-the-road." The column chronicled how acquaintances and family had mistaken my stinging criticisms of the policies of the Bush administration and the Republican Congress as evidence of an occasional leftward bent.
If you are a conservative, conventional thinking goes, you can't criticize a Republican president. The worst a conservative is supposed to do is to grumble about how a Republican president is not conservative enough, and then note that at least he's better than the alternative. But I wasn't buying the party line.
Bush did more to erode the restraints of the U.S. Constitution than any president who preceded him, with direct attacks on the Bill of Rights' prohibitions on detainment without habeas corpus or trial, torture, and searches without a court warrant. He presided over Republican and Democratic Congresses that enacted the largest spending increases since FDR, and will leave office with the largest budget deficit in U.S. history. He made no effort to stop the spending madness that has ruined our economy, and did much to worsen it. He also left us embroiled in two disastrous foreign wars that killed far more Americans than September 11, and there's no end in sight.
There's absolutely no evidence he was better than the alternative. For pointing out these indisputable facts, I was called a "middle-of-the-roader," a libertarian, and even a liberal a couple of times.
I hadn't changed my views from when I had criticized the Clinton administration's big-government policies. Criticizing Clinton's big-government policies got me labeled a "right-wing extremist." I'm not a right-wing extremist, of course, but rather I'm a moderate, middle-of-the-road John Bircher who believes in limited government under the U.S. Constitution.
Later, when I criticized the Bush administration's even-bigger-government policies, I magically became a "middle-of-the-roader" or a "moderate" for saying exactly the same thing that got me labeled a "right-wing extremist."
If a war of aggression by Clinton against Bosnia was wrong (as is any attack on a country that hasn't attacked the United States), I would suggest, then the war of aggression against Iraq under Bush is also wrong. Deficit spending under Bush was as wrong as the likely deficit spending under Obama will be.
I hadn't moved; the labelers had moved. Like the weather changing with the seasons, these terms changed meaning with the party in power at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
It just goes to show what terms like left, right, center, conservative, and liberal mean today.
They mean nothing.
Left, right, and center mean nothing if you set out on a 1,000-mile journey without a map or directions. Left compared to what? You don't even know where you are.
Likewise, conservative means nothing if you have no fixed idea of what it is you'd like to conserve. Liberal means nothing unless you have some concrete idea of what should be liberalized. That's the problem with the labelers. They have no fixed frame of reference, which is to say that they have no idea what the Constitution requires and what the Founding Fathers had in mind when they set up our government. Instead, Americans rely upon the politicians and the establishment media to frame these terms in a self-serving manner. And many people never realize they've been hoodwinked into a false dichotomy.
Rome went through the same sickening cycle at the end of its republic, when Romans fretted more over whether they were with the party of Caesar or the party of Pompey rather than whether their freedoms were eroding under both administrations.
Americans, like Romans of old, are seeking a knight on a white horse to save their freedom. But we won't be saved by a president, Democrat or Republican. We can only save ourselves. Freedom can only be restored by bringing the size and scope of government back into check by putting sufficient pressure on the legislature. If we're to preserve freedom, it'll be when citizens insist that their Congress make government smaller.
As big-government Democrat Barack Obama takes the reins (or perhaps I should say "dons the purple") as president, I can again expect to be labeled a right-wing extremist. New label, same guy. Or old label, same guy. It's hard to keep track.
So be it.
I can handle the labels. I can stay consistent.
Besides, it's fun to ask the labelers, "Right-wing compared to what objective standard of measurement?" I almost always get a puzzled, vacant expression in return.
Thomas R. Eddlem, a freelance writer, served as the John Birch Society's director of research from 1991-2000.
Bravo, Mr. Eddlem, Bravo!
I invite anyone interested in perusing overviews of the big picture to read the two Blog Bits I have posted here at Xtremely Un-P.C. And Unrepentant titled “See The New World Order In Black And White” and “Stop Being A Useful Idiot.” I would have made finding them easier for you by posting links to them right here, but I’m pretty sure that no one has bothered to read even THIS far.
Should you find yourself elbow-to-elbow with a Neocon at a TEA PARTY today, I suggest you kick him or her in the ass and tell ‘em to go to the COMMUNIST PARTY where they belong. There’s a party for everyone, but TEA PARTIES should be reserved for American patriots only! (That means true “Constitutionalists.”)
Dogs, Vomit, Fools, Folly, and all the usual.
You know the gig...
~ Stephen T. McCarthy
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Saturday, April 4, 2009
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
HAPPY ATHEIST'S DAY!
Two days after Christmas last year, my old friend The Kansas Kid e-mailed something to me, and I’ve been waiting all these months to post it. I'm pretty darn sure the story is fiction, but IT SHOULDN’T BE!
I apologize in advance if this offends any of you atheists out there. I’d probably feel even worse about it if I actually believed that any of you really exist. But you see, I think y’all dislike God more than you disbelieve in Him. Yeah, I no more believe in that Darwinian Super-Stupid-Superstition than you do. I do, however, believe that Richard Dawkins is a tricky “Dick.”
Read with an open mind:
FLORIDA COURT SETS ATHEIST HOLY DAY
In Florida , an atheist created a case against the annual Easter, Christmas & Passover holy days. He hired an attorney to bring a discrimination case against Christians, Jews and the observances of their holy days. The argument was that it was unfair to acknowledge and publicly celebrate these occasions, when atheists had no such recognized day(s). The case was brought before a judge.
“Your Honor, the Christians have Christmas, Easter & others. The Jews have Passover, Yom Kippur & Hanukkah. Yet my client and all other atheists have no such holidays which are publicly acknowledged and celebrated."
The judge leaned forward in his chair saying, “But you do. You and your client, counsel, may be woefully ignorant about the occasion, but never the less, it does exist.”
The lawyer said, "Your Honor, we are unaware of any special observance or holiday for atheists.”
The judge replied, “Psalms 14:1 states 'The fool says in his heart, there is no God.' Thus, it is the opinion of this court, that if your client says there is no God, then clearly, he is a fool. Most modern calendars list April 1st as April Fool’s Day, therefore, April 1st is the day when Atheists everywhere can celebrate their foolishness.” At that, he banged his gavel and declared, “Court is adjourned!”
HAPPY ATHEIST'S DAY, FOOLS!
~ Stephen T. McCarthy
"As a dog returns to his own vomit,
so a fool (a.k.a. an atheist) repeats his folly."
~ Proverbs 26:11
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I apologize in advance if this offends any of you atheists out there. I’d probably feel even worse about it if I actually believed that any of you really exist. But you see, I think y’all dislike God more than you disbelieve in Him. Yeah, I no more believe in that Darwinian Super-Stupid-Superstition than you do. I do, however, believe that Richard Dawkins is a tricky “Dick.”
Read with an open mind:
FLORIDA COURT SETS ATHEIST HOLY DAY
In Florida , an atheist created a case against the annual Easter, Christmas & Passover holy days. He hired an attorney to bring a discrimination case against Christians, Jews and the observances of their holy days. The argument was that it was unfair to acknowledge and publicly celebrate these occasions, when atheists had no such recognized day(s). The case was brought before a judge.
“Your Honor, the Christians have Christmas, Easter & others. The Jews have Passover, Yom Kippur & Hanukkah. Yet my client and all other atheists have no such holidays which are publicly acknowledged and celebrated."
The judge leaned forward in his chair saying, “But you do. You and your client, counsel, may be woefully ignorant about the occasion, but never the less, it does exist.”
The lawyer said, "Your Honor, we are unaware of any special observance or holiday for atheists.”
The judge replied, “Psalms 14:1 states 'The fool says in his heart, there is no God.' Thus, it is the opinion of this court, that if your client says there is no God, then clearly, he is a fool. Most modern calendars list April 1st as April Fool’s Day, therefore, April 1st is the day when Atheists everywhere can celebrate their foolishness.” At that, he banged his gavel and declared, “Court is adjourned!”
HAPPY ATHEIST'S DAY, FOOLS!
~ Stephen T. McCarthy
"As a dog returns to his own vomit,
so a fool (a.k.a. an atheist) repeats his folly."
~ Proverbs 26:11
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Sunday, March 22, 2009
SEE THE "NEW WORLD ORDER" IN BLACK AND WHITE
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[From the STMcC archive: 2004, November.]
THE NEW WORLD ORDER
"THE NEW WORLD ORDER" is a code phrase that implies the gradual dissolution of America's Constitutional Republic in favor of global, totalitarian Socialism. The New Order is to be controlled by the secret cabal of (primarily) INTERNATIONAL BANKERS who are installing it with the help of self-professed Socialists.
Because of the unimaginable grandiosity of the scheme, the Conspirators trust that you will remain oblivious to their agenda despite the immense amount of evidence that points to it. In fact, they are so confident, so arrogant, that they openly acknowledge their nefarious plan to strip you of your Constitutionally-guarded liberties. As Gary Allen says in, 'None Dare Call It Conspiracy': "The INSIDERS are counting on your being too preoccupied with your own problems or too lazy to fight back while the chains of slavery are being fastened on you . . . The INSIDERS don't care how much you know about their conspiracy so long as you don't do anything about it."
He's also correct in his observation that "some people wake up and give up in the same week."
Most people dismiss the idea of CONSPIRACY out-of-hand because they have been conditioned to do so. And yet, history is nothing if not a patchwork quilt of conspiracies. And if men will conspire to gain control of commercial monopolies or nations, why would exceedingly powerful men - who view the rest of society as nothing more than loose dogs and lemmings - NOT conspire toward the ultimate gain?: global control. In fact, when once a person decides to OBJECTIVELY investigate the possibility of a GLOBAL CONSPIRACY, he or she inevitably comes away startled by the sudden obviousness of it!
Let's look at just a small sample of quotations that unveil this not-so-hidden Conspiracy. Simply follow the bouncing ball and connect the dots. And note how freely the Conspirators flaunt their anti-Constitutional (read: "anti-American") agenda; how brazenly they mock us loose dogs and lemmings!
[*NOTE: Although I have linked these book titles to Amazon.com product pages, it is my hope that you will make purchases from other online retail sites. I do not monetarily support Amazon.com.]
THE ILLUMINATI
"WE MUST DO OUR UTMOST TO PROCURE THE ADVANCEMENT OF ILLUMINATI INTO ALL IMPORTANT CIVIL OFFICES."
~ Adam Weishaupt (Founder of the Secret Society, 'The Order Of The Illuminati' in Bavaria, May 1, 1776.)
[Quoted in Proofs of a Conspiracy Against All the Religions and Governments of Europe Carried on in the Secret Meetings of Freemasons, Illuminati and Reading Societies by Robison and New World Order by Epperson.]
"IT IS NOT MY INTENTION TO DOUBT THAT THE DOCTRINE OF THE ILLUMINATI...HAD NOT SPREAD IN THE UNITED STATES. ON THE CONTRARY, NO ONE IS MORE SATISFIED OF THIS FACT THAN I AM."
~ President George Washington; 1798 (From the Writings Of George Washington, published by the U.S. Government Printing Office, 1941. Vol.20; page 518.)
[Quoted in Freedom on the Altar: The UN's Crusade Against God and Family by Grigg and THE NEW WORLD ORDER by Epperson.]
"I GAVE IT AS MY OPINION...THAT IF THESE (SECRET) SOCIETIES WERE NOT COUNTERACTED...THEY WOULD SHAKE THE GOVERNMENT TO ITS FOUNDATIONS."
~ President George Washington
[Quoted in Rule by Secrecy: The Hidden History That Connects the Trilateral Commission, the Freemasons, and the Great Pyramids by Marrs.]
THE ILLUMINATI/COMMUNIST CONNECTION
The Marxist revolutionary faith "GREW OUT OF OCCULT FREEMASONRY...AND BAVARIAN ILLUMINISM IN PARTICULAR."
~ James H. Billington (Librarian Of Congress; member of the Council On Foreign Relations) from his 1980 book, Fire in the Minds of Men
[Quoted in The New World Order by Robertson.]
"I THINK THE COMMUNIST CONSPIRACY IS MERELY A BRANCH OF A MUCH BIGGER CONSPIRACY."
~ Dr. Bella Dodd (Former member of the National Committee of the U.S. Communist Party.)
[Quoted in The Naked Capitalist by Skousen.]
TREASON IN THE WHITE HOUSE
We have "A DEFECTIVE GOVERNMENT, DEFECTIVE IN MACHINERY, AND DEFECTIVE IN ITS CONSTITUTION AND LAWS...OUR CONSTITUTION AND OUR LAWS SERVED US WELL FOR THE FIRST HUNDERED YEARS OF OUR EXISTENCE, BUT UNDER THE CONDITIONS OF TODAY THEY ARE NOT ONLY OBSOLETE, BUT EVEN GROTESQUE."
~ Edward Mandell House (Founding member of the Council On Foreign Relations and the United Nations; primary advisor to President Woodrow Wilson; advisor to President Franklin Roosevelt) projecting his viewpoint through the voice of his character, Philip Dru, in his 1912 book, Philip Dru: Administrator )
"FOR A LONG TIME IT HAD SEEMED TO ME THAT OUR GOVERNMENT WAS TOO COMPLICATED IN ITS MACHINERY AND THAT WE HAD OUTGROWN OUR CONSTITUTION."
~ Edward Mandell House from a July 10, 1922 letter explaining the purpose for his novel, Philip Dru: Administrator
"MR. (EDWARD MANDELL) HOUSE IS MY SECOND PERSONALITY. HE IS MY INDEPENDENT SELF. HIS THOUGHTS AND MINE ARE ONE...IF ANYONE THINKS HE IS REFLECTING MY OPINION BY WHATEVER ACTION HE TAKES, THEY ARE WELCOME TO THE CONCLUSION."
~ President Woodrow Wilson
[Quoted in the appendix of Philip Dru: Administrator ]
"PRESIDENT WOODROW WILSON WAS THE FAIRY GODMOTHER WHO PROVIDED TROTSKY WITH A PASSPORT TO RETURN TO RUSSIA TO CARRY FORWARD THE REVOLUTION."
~ Antony Sutton from his book, Wall Street & the Bolshevik Revolution
[Quoted in The Creature from Jekyll Island : A Second Look at the Federal Reserve by Griffin.]
"THE COMMUNIST WORLD REVOLUTION HAS BEEN LARGELY FINANCED FROM ITS START IN 1903 UNTIL THE PRESENT DAY BY AMERICAN WEALTH, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE...EVERY COMMUNIST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD LITERALLY HAS A 'MADE IN THE U.S.A.' STAMP."
~ John Stormer in None Dare Call It Treason - 25 Years Later
"THE REAL TRUTH OF THE MATTER IS, AS YOU AND I KNOW, THAT A FINANCIAL ELEMENT IN THE LARGE CENTERS HAS OWNED THE GOVERNMENT EVER SINCE THE DAYS OF ANDREW JACKSON."
~ President Franklin Roosevelt from a November 23, 1933 letter to Edward Mandell House.
[Quoted in The Unseen Hand by Epperson and The Shadows of Power: The Council on Foreign Relations and the American Decline by Perloff.]
"WITHOUT EXCEPTION, WE OPERATED UNDER DIRECTIVES ISSUED BY THE WHITE HOUSE. WE ARE CONTINUING TO BE GUIDED BY JUST SUCH DIRECTIVES, THE SUBSTANCE OF WHICH WAS TO THE EFFECT THAT WE SHOULD MAKE EVERY EFFORT TO SO ALTER LIFE IN THE UNITED STATES AS TO MAKE POSSIBLE A COMFORTABLE MERGER WITH THE SOVIET UNION."
~ H. Rowan Gaither (President of the Ford Foundation) to Norman Dodd (Director of The Reece Committee, investigating Foundations) in 1953.
[Quoted in You Don't Say by Gielow.]
THE COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS
"THE COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS (C.F.R.) IS THE AMERICAN BRANCH OF A SOCIETY WHICH ORIGINATED IN ENGLAND AND BELIEVES NATIONAL BOUNDARIES SHOULD BE OBLITERATED AND ONE-WORLD RULE ESTABLISHED."
~ Professor Carroll Quigley
The Organization's aim is "NOTHING LESS THAN TO CREATE A WORLD SYSTEM OF FINANCIAL CONTROL IN PRIVATE HANDS ABLE TO DOMINATE THE POLITICAL SYSTEM OF EACH COUNTRY AND THE ECONOMY OF THE WORLD AS A WHOLE.....I KNOW OF THE OPERATIONS OF THIS NETWORK BECAUSE I HAVE STUDIED IT FOR TWENTY YEARS AND WAS PERMITTED FOR TWO YEARS, IN THE EARLY 1960s, TO EXAMINE ITS PAPERS AND SECRET RECORDS."
~ Carroll Quigley (Georgetown University Professor and mentor to Bill Clinton) from his book, Tragedy & Hope: A History of the World in Our Time
[Quoted in The Creature from Jekyll Island : A Second Look at the Federal Reserve by Griffin; One World by Brooke; and NONE DARE CALL IT CONSPIRACY by Allen.]
"A SECOND CLIQUE OF INTERNATIONAL MEMBERS IN THE 'COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS' COMPRISES THE WALL STREET INTERNATIONAL BANKERS AND THEIR KEY AGENTS."
~ Rear Admiral Chester Ward (former 16-year-member of The Council On Foreign Relations.)
[Quoted in THE UNSEEN HAND by Epperson.]
The Council On Foreign Relations has as a goal "SUBMERGENCE OF U.S. SOVEREIGNTY AND NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE INTO AN ALL-POWERFUL ONE-WORLD GOVERNMENT."
~ Rear Admiral Chester Ward from Kissinger on the Couch by Ward and Schlafly.
[Quoted in THE SHADOWS OF POWER by Perloff.]
"THE ULTIMATE AIM OF THE 'COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS' IS TO CREATE A ONE-WORLD SOCIALIST SYSTEM AND MAKE THE UNITED STATES AN OFFICIAL PART OF IT."
~ Dan Smoot (Member of F.B.I. Headquarters Staff in Washington D.C.)
[Quoted in The Unseen Hand by Epperson.]
"THE HOUSE OF WORLD ORDER WILL HAVE TO BE BUILT FROM THE BOTTOM UP RATHER THAN FROM THE TOP DOWN...AN END RUN AROUND NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY, ERODING IT PIECE BY PIECE, WILL ACCOMPLISH MORE THAN THE OLD-FASHIONED FRONTAL ASSAULT."
~ Richard Gardner (a top advisor to President Jimmy Carter; Ambassador to Italy) writing in the April 1974 issue of Foreign Affairs magazine, the official journal of the Council On Foreign Relations.
[Quoted in The Creature from Jekyll Island : A Second Look at the Federal Reserve by Griffin; The Shadows of Power: The Council on Foreign Relations and the American Decline by Perloff; The New World Order by Robertson; and THE UNSEEN HAND by Epperson.]
"NATIONHOOD AS WE KNOW IT WILL BE OBSOLETE, ALL STATES WILL RECOGNIZE A SINGLE, GLOBAL AUTHORITY...NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY WASN'T SUCH A GREAT IDEA AFTER ALL."
~ Strobe Talbott (U.S. Deputy Secretary Of State; Council On Foreign Relations member) writing in Time magazine, July 20, 1992.
[Quoted in You Don't Say by Gielow and The United Nations Exposed by Jasper.]
"WE SHALL HAVE WORLD GOVERNMENT WHETHER OR NOT YOU LIKE IT. THE ONLY QUESTION IS WHETHER WORLD GOVERNMENT WILL BE ACHIEVED BY CONQUEST OR CONSENT."
~ James Paul Warburg (Council On Foreign Relations member; foreign agent for the Rothschild dynasty) speaking before the U.S. Senate on Feb. 17, 1950.
[Quoted in YOU DON'T SAY by Gielow; THE UNSEEN HAND by Epperson; THE SHADOWS OF POWER by Perloff; and THE UNITED NATIONS EXPOSED by Jasper.]
NON-REPRESENTATIONAL, INVISIBLE GOVERNMENT (INTERNATIONAL BANKERS)
"DOES IT NOT SEEM STRANGE TO YOU THAT THESE MEN JUST HAPPENED TO BE C.F.R. AND JUST HAPPENED TO BE ON THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF THE 'FEDERAL RESERVE', THAT ABSOLUTELY CONTROLS THE MONEY AND INTEREST RATES OF THIS GREAT COUNTRY WITHOUT THE BENEFIT OF CONGRESS? A PRIVATELY OWNED ORGANIZATION, THE FEDERAL RESERVE WHICH HAS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!"
~ Senator Barry Goldwater from his book, With no apologies: The personal and political memoirs of United States Senator Barry M. Goldwater
"THE REAL MENACE OF OUR REPUBLIC IS THIS INVISIBLE GOVERNMENT WHICH LIKE A GIANT OCTOPUS, SPRAWLS ITS SLIMY LENGTH OVER CITY, STATE AND NATION....AT THE HEAD OF THIS OCTOPUS ARE THE ROCKEFELLER-STANDARD OIL INTERESTS AND A SMALL GROUP OF POWERFUL BANKING HOUSES GENERALLY REFERRED TO AS THE INTERNATIONAL BANKERS (WHO) VIRTUALLY RUN THE U.S. GOVERNMENT FOR THEIR OWN SELFISH PURPOSES."
~ New York City Mayor, John Hylan; March 26, 1922
[Quoted in THE SHADOWS OF POWER by Perloff.]
"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 WHICH BELIEVES OUR CONSTITUTION IS OUTMODED."
~ Senator William Jenner; Feb. 23, 1954.
[Quoted in None Dare Call It Treason: 25 Years Later by Stormer and THE SHADOWS OF POWER by Perloff.]
"IT (THE DEPRESSION) WAS NOT ACCIDENTAL. IT WAS A CAREFULLY CONTRIVED OCCURRENCE...THE INTERNATIONAL BANKERS SOUGHT TO BRING ABOUT A CONDITION OF DESPAIR HERE SO THAT THEY MIGHT EMERGE AS THE RULERS OF US ALL."
~ Congressman Louis McFadden (Chairman of the House Banking And Currency Committee)
[Quoted in None Dare Call It Conspiracy by Allen.]
"IN THE UNITED STATES TODAY WE HAVE IN EFFECT TWO GOVERNMENTS...WE HAVE THE DULY CONSTITUTED GOVERNMENT...THEN WE HAVE AN INDEPENDENT, UNCONTROLLED AND UNCOORDINATED GOVERNMENT IN THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM, OPERATING THE MONEY POWERS WHICH ARE RESERVED TO CONGRESS BY THE CONSTITUTION."
~ Congressman Wright Patman (Chairman of the House Banking Committee.)
[Quoted in NONE DARE CALL IT CONSPIRACY by Allen.]
"THE REAL RULERS IN WASHINGTON ARE INVISIBLE, AND EXERCISE POWER FROM BEHIND THE SCENES."
~ Supreme Court Justice, Felix Frankfurter
[Quoted in THE SHADOWS OF POWER by Perloff.]
HELLO GLOBAL GOVERNMENT, GOODBYE U.S. CONSTITUTION
“NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY IS NO LONGER A VIABLE CONCEPT.” We ought to be aiming for “THE GOAL OF WORLD GOVERNMENT.”
~ Zbigniew Brzezinski (Council On Foreign Relations member) from his own book BETWEEN TWO AGES published in 1970.
[*Zbigniew Brzezinski was President Jimmy Carter’s national security advisor. He was also a campaign manager for Senator John McCain’s 2000 presidential bid, and he now serves as one of the principal foreign policy advisors to Barack “Hope And Change” Obama.]
“WE DO NOT HAVE A NEW WORLD ORDER.” … “WE CANNOT LEAP INTO WORLD GOVERNMENT IN ONE QUICK STEP.” … Globalization will need to be built “STEP BY STEP, STONE BY STONE” ... “IN BRIEF, THE PRECONDITION FOR EVENTUAL GLOBALIZATION - GENUINE GLOBALIZATION - IS PROGRESSIVE REGIONALIZATION.”
~ Zbigniew Brzezinski (Council On Foreign Relations member) speaking at Mikhail Gorbachev’s 1995 State Of The World Forum in San Francisco.
"IT IS THE SACRED PRINCIPLES ENSHRINED IN THE U. N. (UNITED NATIONS) CHARTER TO WHICH WE WILL HENCEFORTH PLEDGE OUR ALLEGIANCE."
~ President George Bush, Sr. speaking at the U.N. Building, Feb. 1, 1992. (*Remember when we pledged our allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands?)
[Quoted in You Don't Say by Gielow.]
"NEW WORLD ORDER MEANS THE U.S. AND OTHER NATIONS AGREE TO BE GOVERNED BY A RULE OF LAW....APPLYING THIS ON A WORLD SCALE MEANS...GLOBAL LAW, BREACHES OF WHICH WILL BE PUNISHED SWIFTLY AND WITH CERTAINTY."
~ Caspar Weinberger (former U.S. Secretary Of Defense), writing in Forbes magazine, Feb. 15, 1993.
[Quoted in One World by Brooke.]
"TODAY, I SAY THAT NO NATION IN THE WORLD NEED BE LEFT OUT OF THE GLOBAL SYSTEM WE ARE CONSTRUCTING."
~ Madeleine Albright, U.S. Secretary Of State, speaking at the Harvard University commencement, 1997.
[Quoted in ONE WORLD by Brooke.]
“FOR MORE THAN A CENTURY, IDEOLOGICAL EXTREMISTS AT EITHER END OF THE POLITICAL SPECTRUM HAVE SEIZED UPON WELL-PUBLICIZED INCIDENTS, SUCH AS MY ENCOUNTER WITH CASTRO, TO ATTACK THE ROCKEFELLER FAMILY FOR THE INORDINATE INFLUENCE THEY CLAIM WE WIELD OVER AMERICAN POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC INSTITUTIONS. SOME EVEN BELIEVE WE ARE PART OF A SECRET CABAL WORKING AGAINST THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE UNITED STATES, CHARACTERIZING MY FAMILY AND ME AS ‘INTERNATIONALISTS’ AND OF CONSPIRING WITH OTHERS AROUND THE WORLD TO BUILD A MORE INTEGRATED GLOBAL POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC STRUCTURE – ONE WORLD, IF YOU WILL. IF THAT’S THE CHARGE, I STAND GUILTY, AND I AM PROUD OF IT.”
~ David Rockefeller (Council On Foreign Relations member) in his own book MEMOIRS published in 2002.
"AND POWER WAS GIVEN TO (THE BEAST) OVER EVERY TRIBE AND KINDRED AND TONGUE AND NATION....AND HE COMPELLED ALL...TO RECEIVE A MARK ON THEIR RIGHT HANDS OR ON THEIR BROWS, SO THAT NO MAN MIGHT BUY OR SELL UNLESS HE HAD THE MARK OF THE BEAST OR THE CODE NUMBER OF HIS NAME."
~ Saint John from REVELATION 13 in Holy Bible: From the Ancient Eastern Text: George M. Lamsa's Translation From the Aramaic of the Peshitta translated by George Lamsa.
[*2005, Jan. 17th ADDENDUM: In the USA TODAY Sunday newspaper supplement, USA WEEKEND, for 2005, Jan. 14-16, the following item appeared on page 8, under the headline, 'MULDER KNEW THIS WAS COMING':
"VeriChip sounds like something from The X-Files. This computer chip the size of a grain of rice is implanted under the skin; when scanned, it provides access to that person's medical records, helping EMT and ER personnel. Approved by the FDA, it will be used this year at a handful of trauma centers."
In our increasingly cashless society, it takes very little imagination to conceive of this technology being expanded in the future, and being employed in the form of a secure, global banking system. The chip, corresponding to a person's description and DNA could be adapted to calculate personal credits and debits, and sold to the public because of its convenience, and as a monetary safeguard. Naturally, without the implanted chip, a person could not "buy or sell" in any nation. This technology, unimaginable in SAINT JOHN's time, is not only possible in ours, but already has our government's FDA approval! Think about it!]
It is NOT that the U.S. CONSTITUTION failed, and has ruined us; it is that failing to follow the U.S. CONSTITUTION, we are ruined! And just like a book, 'The New World Order In Black & White'... is "RED" all over!
The Creature from Jekyll Island : A Second Look at the Federal Reserve by G. Edward Griffin.....
Until a person has a working knowledge of 'THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM' and 'THE COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS', he or she has no real understanding of the contemporary American political landscape. This book will teach you about BOTH. If you're going to peruse only ONE book on this list - other than The Holy Bible - this should be the ONE!
However, if “Creature” makes you mad enough to read a second political book, I recommend you make it “NONE DARE CALL IT TREASON: 25 YEARS LATER” by John Stormer. I have found no political works better than these two publications.
A Politically-Awake Loose Dog,
~Stephen T. McCarthy
Link:
Professor Carroll Quigley On The Fraudulent Nature Of Political Parties
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[From the STMcC archive: 2004, November.]
THE NEW WORLD ORDER
"THE NEW WORLD ORDER" is a code phrase that implies the gradual dissolution of America's Constitutional Republic in favor of global, totalitarian Socialism. The New Order is to be controlled by the secret cabal of (primarily) INTERNATIONAL BANKERS who are installing it with the help of self-professed Socialists.
Because of the unimaginable grandiosity of the scheme, the Conspirators trust that you will remain oblivious to their agenda despite the immense amount of evidence that points to it. In fact, they are so confident, so arrogant, that they openly acknowledge their nefarious plan to strip you of your Constitutionally-guarded liberties. As Gary Allen says in, 'None Dare Call It Conspiracy': "The INSIDERS are counting on your being too preoccupied with your own problems or too lazy to fight back while the chains of slavery are being fastened on you . . . The INSIDERS don't care how much you know about their conspiracy so long as you don't do anything about it."
He's also correct in his observation that "some people wake up and give up in the same week."
Most people dismiss the idea of CONSPIRACY out-of-hand because they have been conditioned to do so. And yet, history is nothing if not a patchwork quilt of conspiracies. And if men will conspire to gain control of commercial monopolies or nations, why would exceedingly powerful men - who view the rest of society as nothing more than loose dogs and lemmings - NOT conspire toward the ultimate gain?: global control. In fact, when once a person decides to OBJECTIVELY investigate the possibility of a GLOBAL CONSPIRACY, he or she inevitably comes away startled by the sudden obviousness of it!
Let's look at just a small sample of quotations that unveil this not-so-hidden Conspiracy. Simply follow the bouncing ball and connect the dots. And note how freely the Conspirators flaunt their anti-Constitutional (read: "anti-American") agenda; how brazenly they mock us loose dogs and lemmings!
[*NOTE: Although I have linked these book titles to Amazon.com product pages, it is my hope that you will make purchases from other online retail sites. I do not monetarily support Amazon.com.]
THE ILLUMINATI
"WE MUST DO OUR UTMOST TO PROCURE THE ADVANCEMENT OF ILLUMINATI INTO ALL IMPORTANT CIVIL OFFICES."
~ Adam Weishaupt (Founder of the Secret Society, 'The Order Of The Illuminati' in Bavaria, May 1, 1776.)
[Quoted in Proofs of a Conspiracy Against All the Religions and Governments of Europe Carried on in the Secret Meetings of Freemasons, Illuminati and Reading Societies by Robison and New World Order by Epperson.]
"IT IS NOT MY INTENTION TO DOUBT THAT THE DOCTRINE OF THE ILLUMINATI...HAD NOT SPREAD IN THE UNITED STATES. ON THE CONTRARY, NO ONE IS MORE SATISFIED OF THIS FACT THAN I AM."
~ President George Washington; 1798 (From the Writings Of George Washington, published by the U.S. Government Printing Office, 1941. Vol.20; page 518.)
[Quoted in Freedom on the Altar: The UN's Crusade Against God and Family by Grigg and THE NEW WORLD ORDER by Epperson.]
"I GAVE IT AS MY OPINION...THAT IF THESE (SECRET) SOCIETIES WERE NOT COUNTERACTED...THEY WOULD SHAKE THE GOVERNMENT TO ITS FOUNDATIONS."
~ President George Washington
[Quoted in Rule by Secrecy: The Hidden History That Connects the Trilateral Commission, the Freemasons, and the Great Pyramids by Marrs.]
THE ILLUMINATI/COMMUNIST CONNECTION
The Marxist revolutionary faith "GREW OUT OF OCCULT FREEMASONRY...AND BAVARIAN ILLUMINISM IN PARTICULAR."
~ James H. Billington (Librarian Of Congress; member of the Council On Foreign Relations) from his 1980 book, Fire in the Minds of Men
[Quoted in The New World Order by Robertson.]
"I THINK THE COMMUNIST CONSPIRACY IS MERELY A BRANCH OF A MUCH BIGGER CONSPIRACY."
~ Dr. Bella Dodd (Former member of the National Committee of the U.S. Communist Party.)
[Quoted in The Naked Capitalist by Skousen.]
TREASON IN THE WHITE HOUSE
We have "A DEFECTIVE GOVERNMENT, DEFECTIVE IN MACHINERY, AND DEFECTIVE IN ITS CONSTITUTION AND LAWS...OUR CONSTITUTION AND OUR LAWS SERVED US WELL FOR THE FIRST HUNDERED YEARS OF OUR EXISTENCE, BUT UNDER THE CONDITIONS OF TODAY THEY ARE NOT ONLY OBSOLETE, BUT EVEN GROTESQUE."
~ Edward Mandell House (Founding member of the Council On Foreign Relations and the United Nations; primary advisor to President Woodrow Wilson; advisor to President Franklin Roosevelt) projecting his viewpoint through the voice of his character, Philip Dru, in his 1912 book, Philip Dru: Administrator )
"FOR A LONG TIME IT HAD SEEMED TO ME THAT OUR GOVERNMENT WAS TOO COMPLICATED IN ITS MACHINERY AND THAT WE HAD OUTGROWN OUR CONSTITUTION."
~ Edward Mandell House from a July 10, 1922 letter explaining the purpose for his novel, Philip Dru: Administrator
"MR. (EDWARD MANDELL) HOUSE IS MY SECOND PERSONALITY. HE IS MY INDEPENDENT SELF. HIS THOUGHTS AND MINE ARE ONE...IF ANYONE THINKS HE IS REFLECTING MY OPINION BY WHATEVER ACTION HE TAKES, THEY ARE WELCOME TO THE CONCLUSION."
~ President Woodrow Wilson
[Quoted in the appendix of Philip Dru: Administrator ]
"PRESIDENT WOODROW WILSON WAS THE FAIRY GODMOTHER WHO PROVIDED TROTSKY WITH A PASSPORT TO RETURN TO RUSSIA TO CARRY FORWARD THE REVOLUTION."
~ Antony Sutton from his book, Wall Street & the Bolshevik Revolution
[Quoted in The Creature from Jekyll Island : A Second Look at the Federal Reserve by Griffin.]
"THE COMMUNIST WORLD REVOLUTION HAS BEEN LARGELY FINANCED FROM ITS START IN 1903 UNTIL THE PRESENT DAY BY AMERICAN WEALTH, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE...EVERY COMMUNIST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD LITERALLY HAS A 'MADE IN THE U.S.A.' STAMP."
~ John Stormer in None Dare Call It Treason - 25 Years Later
"THE REAL TRUTH OF THE MATTER IS, AS YOU AND I KNOW, THAT A FINANCIAL ELEMENT IN THE LARGE CENTERS HAS OWNED THE GOVERNMENT EVER SINCE THE DAYS OF ANDREW JACKSON."
~ President Franklin Roosevelt from a November 23, 1933 letter to Edward Mandell House.
[Quoted in The Unseen Hand by Epperson and The Shadows of Power: The Council on Foreign Relations and the American Decline by Perloff.]
"WITHOUT EXCEPTION, WE OPERATED UNDER DIRECTIVES ISSUED BY THE WHITE HOUSE. WE ARE CONTINUING TO BE GUIDED BY JUST SUCH DIRECTIVES, THE SUBSTANCE OF WHICH WAS TO THE EFFECT THAT WE SHOULD MAKE EVERY EFFORT TO SO ALTER LIFE IN THE UNITED STATES AS TO MAKE POSSIBLE A COMFORTABLE MERGER WITH THE SOVIET UNION."
~ H. Rowan Gaither (President of the Ford Foundation) to Norman Dodd (Director of The Reece Committee, investigating Foundations) in 1953.
[Quoted in You Don't Say by Gielow.]
THE COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS
"THE COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS (C.F.R.) IS THE AMERICAN BRANCH OF A SOCIETY WHICH ORIGINATED IN ENGLAND AND BELIEVES NATIONAL BOUNDARIES SHOULD BE OBLITERATED AND ONE-WORLD RULE ESTABLISHED."
~ Professor Carroll Quigley
The Organization's aim is "NOTHING LESS THAN TO CREATE A WORLD SYSTEM OF FINANCIAL CONTROL IN PRIVATE HANDS ABLE TO DOMINATE THE POLITICAL SYSTEM OF EACH COUNTRY AND THE ECONOMY OF THE WORLD AS A WHOLE.....I KNOW OF THE OPERATIONS OF THIS NETWORK BECAUSE I HAVE STUDIED IT FOR TWENTY YEARS AND WAS PERMITTED FOR TWO YEARS, IN THE EARLY 1960s, TO EXAMINE ITS PAPERS AND SECRET RECORDS."
~ Carroll Quigley (Georgetown University Professor and mentor to Bill Clinton) from his book, Tragedy & Hope: A History of the World in Our Time
[Quoted in The Creature from Jekyll Island : A Second Look at the Federal Reserve by Griffin; One World by Brooke; and NONE DARE CALL IT CONSPIRACY by Allen.]
"A SECOND CLIQUE OF INTERNATIONAL MEMBERS IN THE 'COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS' COMPRISES THE WALL STREET INTERNATIONAL BANKERS AND THEIR KEY AGENTS."
~ Rear Admiral Chester Ward (former 16-year-member of The Council On Foreign Relations.)
[Quoted in THE UNSEEN HAND by Epperson.]
The Council On Foreign Relations has as a goal "SUBMERGENCE OF U.S. SOVEREIGNTY AND NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE INTO AN ALL-POWERFUL ONE-WORLD GOVERNMENT."
~ Rear Admiral Chester Ward from Kissinger on the Couch by Ward and Schlafly.
[Quoted in THE SHADOWS OF POWER by Perloff.]
"THE ULTIMATE AIM OF THE 'COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS' IS TO CREATE A ONE-WORLD SOCIALIST SYSTEM AND MAKE THE UNITED STATES AN OFFICIAL PART OF IT."
~ Dan Smoot (Member of F.B.I. Headquarters Staff in Washington D.C.)
[Quoted in The Unseen Hand by Epperson.]
"THE HOUSE OF WORLD ORDER WILL HAVE TO BE BUILT FROM THE BOTTOM UP RATHER THAN FROM THE TOP DOWN...AN END RUN AROUND NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY, ERODING IT PIECE BY PIECE, WILL ACCOMPLISH MORE THAN THE OLD-FASHIONED FRONTAL ASSAULT."
~ Richard Gardner (a top advisor to President Jimmy Carter; Ambassador to Italy) writing in the April 1974 issue of Foreign Affairs magazine, the official journal of the Council On Foreign Relations.
[Quoted in The Creature from Jekyll Island : A Second Look at the Federal Reserve by Griffin; The Shadows of Power: The Council on Foreign Relations and the American Decline by Perloff; The New World Order by Robertson; and THE UNSEEN HAND by Epperson.]
"NATIONHOOD AS WE KNOW IT WILL BE OBSOLETE, ALL STATES WILL RECOGNIZE A SINGLE, GLOBAL AUTHORITY...NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY WASN'T SUCH A GREAT IDEA AFTER ALL."
~ Strobe Talbott (U.S. Deputy Secretary Of State; Council On Foreign Relations member) writing in Time magazine, July 20, 1992.
[Quoted in You Don't Say by Gielow and The United Nations Exposed by Jasper.]
"WE SHALL HAVE WORLD GOVERNMENT WHETHER OR NOT YOU LIKE IT. THE ONLY QUESTION IS WHETHER WORLD GOVERNMENT WILL BE ACHIEVED BY CONQUEST OR CONSENT."
~ James Paul Warburg (Council On Foreign Relations member; foreign agent for the Rothschild dynasty) speaking before the U.S. Senate on Feb. 17, 1950.
[Quoted in YOU DON'T SAY by Gielow; THE UNSEEN HAND by Epperson; THE SHADOWS OF POWER by Perloff; and THE UNITED NATIONS EXPOSED by Jasper.]
NON-REPRESENTATIONAL, INVISIBLE GOVERNMENT (INTERNATIONAL BANKERS)
"DOES IT NOT SEEM STRANGE TO YOU THAT THESE MEN JUST HAPPENED TO BE C.F.R. AND JUST HAPPENED TO BE ON THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF THE 'FEDERAL RESERVE', THAT ABSOLUTELY CONTROLS THE MONEY AND INTEREST RATES OF THIS GREAT COUNTRY WITHOUT THE BENEFIT OF CONGRESS? A PRIVATELY OWNED ORGANIZATION, THE FEDERAL RESERVE WHICH HAS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!"
~ Senator Barry Goldwater from his book, With no apologies: The personal and political memoirs of United States Senator Barry M. Goldwater
"THE REAL MENACE OF OUR REPUBLIC IS THIS INVISIBLE GOVERNMENT WHICH LIKE A GIANT OCTOPUS, SPRAWLS ITS SLIMY LENGTH OVER CITY, STATE AND NATION....AT THE HEAD OF THIS OCTOPUS ARE THE ROCKEFELLER-STANDARD OIL INTERESTS AND A SMALL GROUP OF POWERFUL BANKING HOUSES GENERALLY REFERRED TO AS THE INTERNATIONAL BANKERS (WHO) VIRTUALLY RUN THE U.S. GOVERNMENT FOR THEIR OWN SELFISH PURPOSES."
~ New York City Mayor, John Hylan; March 26, 1922
[Quoted in THE SHADOWS OF POWER by Perloff.]
"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 WHICH BELIEVES OUR CONSTITUTION IS OUTMODED."
~ Senator William Jenner; Feb. 23, 1954.
[Quoted in None Dare Call It Treason: 25 Years Later by Stormer and THE SHADOWS OF POWER by Perloff.]
"IT (THE DEPRESSION) WAS NOT ACCIDENTAL. IT WAS A CAREFULLY CONTRIVED OCCURRENCE...THE INTERNATIONAL BANKERS SOUGHT TO BRING ABOUT A CONDITION OF DESPAIR HERE SO THAT THEY MIGHT EMERGE AS THE RULERS OF US ALL."
~ Congressman Louis McFadden (Chairman of the House Banking And Currency Committee)
[Quoted in None Dare Call It Conspiracy by Allen.]
"IN THE UNITED STATES TODAY WE HAVE IN EFFECT TWO GOVERNMENTS...WE HAVE THE DULY CONSTITUTED GOVERNMENT...THEN WE HAVE AN INDEPENDENT, UNCONTROLLED AND UNCOORDINATED GOVERNMENT IN THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM, OPERATING THE MONEY POWERS WHICH ARE RESERVED TO CONGRESS BY THE CONSTITUTION."
~ Congressman Wright Patman (Chairman of the House Banking Committee.)
[Quoted in NONE DARE CALL IT CONSPIRACY by Allen.]
"THE REAL RULERS IN WASHINGTON ARE INVISIBLE, AND EXERCISE POWER FROM BEHIND THE SCENES."
~ Supreme Court Justice, Felix Frankfurter
[Quoted in THE SHADOWS OF POWER by Perloff.]
HELLO GLOBAL GOVERNMENT, GOODBYE U.S. CONSTITUTION
“NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY IS NO LONGER A VIABLE CONCEPT.” We ought to be aiming for “THE GOAL OF WORLD GOVERNMENT.”
~ Zbigniew Brzezinski (Council On Foreign Relations member) from his own book BETWEEN TWO AGES published in 1970.
[*Zbigniew Brzezinski was President Jimmy Carter’s national security advisor. He was also a campaign manager for Senator John McCain’s 2000 presidential bid, and he now serves as one of the principal foreign policy advisors to Barack “Hope And Change” Obama.]
“WE DO NOT HAVE A NEW WORLD ORDER.” … “WE CANNOT LEAP INTO WORLD GOVERNMENT IN ONE QUICK STEP.” … Globalization will need to be built “STEP BY STEP, STONE BY STONE” ... “IN BRIEF, THE PRECONDITION FOR EVENTUAL GLOBALIZATION - GENUINE GLOBALIZATION - IS PROGRESSIVE REGIONALIZATION.”
~ Zbigniew Brzezinski (Council On Foreign Relations member) speaking at Mikhail Gorbachev’s 1995 State Of The World Forum in San Francisco.
"IT IS THE SACRED PRINCIPLES ENSHRINED IN THE U. N. (UNITED NATIONS) CHARTER TO WHICH WE WILL HENCEFORTH PLEDGE OUR ALLEGIANCE."
~ President George Bush, Sr. speaking at the U.N. Building, Feb. 1, 1992. (*Remember when we pledged our allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands?)
[Quoted in You Don't Say by Gielow.]
"NEW WORLD ORDER MEANS THE U.S. AND OTHER NATIONS AGREE TO BE GOVERNED BY A RULE OF LAW....APPLYING THIS ON A WORLD SCALE MEANS...GLOBAL LAW, BREACHES OF WHICH WILL BE PUNISHED SWIFTLY AND WITH CERTAINTY."
~ Caspar Weinberger (former U.S. Secretary Of Defense), writing in Forbes magazine, Feb. 15, 1993.
[Quoted in One World by Brooke.]
"TODAY, I SAY THAT NO NATION IN THE WORLD NEED BE LEFT OUT OF THE GLOBAL SYSTEM WE ARE CONSTRUCTING."
~ Madeleine Albright, U.S. Secretary Of State, speaking at the Harvard University commencement, 1997.
[Quoted in ONE WORLD by Brooke.]
“FOR MORE THAN A CENTURY, IDEOLOGICAL EXTREMISTS AT EITHER END OF THE POLITICAL SPECTRUM HAVE SEIZED UPON WELL-PUBLICIZED INCIDENTS, SUCH AS MY ENCOUNTER WITH CASTRO, TO ATTACK THE ROCKEFELLER FAMILY FOR THE INORDINATE INFLUENCE THEY CLAIM WE WIELD OVER AMERICAN POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC INSTITUTIONS. SOME EVEN BELIEVE WE ARE PART OF A SECRET CABAL WORKING AGAINST THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE UNITED STATES, CHARACTERIZING MY FAMILY AND ME AS ‘INTERNATIONALISTS’ AND OF CONSPIRING WITH OTHERS AROUND THE WORLD TO BUILD A MORE INTEGRATED GLOBAL POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC STRUCTURE – ONE WORLD, IF YOU WILL. IF THAT’S THE CHARGE, I STAND GUILTY, AND I AM PROUD OF IT.”
~ David Rockefeller (Council On Foreign Relations member) in his own book MEMOIRS published in 2002.
"AND POWER WAS GIVEN TO (THE BEAST) OVER EVERY TRIBE AND KINDRED AND TONGUE AND NATION....AND HE COMPELLED ALL...TO RECEIVE A MARK ON THEIR RIGHT HANDS OR ON THEIR BROWS, SO THAT NO MAN MIGHT BUY OR SELL UNLESS HE HAD THE MARK OF THE BEAST OR THE CODE NUMBER OF HIS NAME."
~ Saint John from REVELATION 13 in Holy Bible: From the Ancient Eastern Text: George M. Lamsa's Translation From the Aramaic of the Peshitta translated by George Lamsa.
[*2005, Jan. 17th ADDENDUM: In the USA TODAY Sunday newspaper supplement, USA WEEKEND, for 2005, Jan. 14-16, the following item appeared on page 8, under the headline, 'MULDER KNEW THIS WAS COMING':
"VeriChip sounds like something from The X-Files. This computer chip the size of a grain of rice is implanted under the skin; when scanned, it provides access to that person's medical records, helping EMT and ER personnel. Approved by the FDA, it will be used this year at a handful of trauma centers."
In our increasingly cashless society, it takes very little imagination to conceive of this technology being expanded in the future, and being employed in the form of a secure, global banking system. The chip, corresponding to a person's description and DNA could be adapted to calculate personal credits and debits, and sold to the public because of its convenience, and as a monetary safeguard. Naturally, without the implanted chip, a person could not "buy or sell" in any nation. This technology, unimaginable in SAINT JOHN's time, is not only possible in ours, but already has our government's FDA approval! Think about it!]
It is NOT that the U.S. CONSTITUTION failed, and has ruined us; it is that failing to follow the U.S. CONSTITUTION, we are ruined! And just like a book, 'The New World Order In Black & White'... is "RED" all over!
The Creature from Jekyll Island : A Second Look at the Federal Reserve by G. Edward Griffin.....
Until a person has a working knowledge of 'THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM' and 'THE COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS', he or she has no real understanding of the contemporary American political landscape. This book will teach you about BOTH. If you're going to peruse only ONE book on this list - other than The Holy Bible - this should be the ONE!
However, if “Creature” makes you mad enough to read a second political book, I recommend you make it “NONE DARE CALL IT TREASON: 25 YEARS LATER” by John Stormer. I have found no political works better than these two publications.
A Politically-Awake Loose Dog,
~Stephen T. McCarthy
Link:
Professor Carroll Quigley On The Fraudulent Nature Of Political Parties
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Wednesday, March 11, 2009
BARACK OBAMA, U SAP!
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http://mine.icanhascheezburger.com/view.aspx?ciid=3640016
"BARACK OBAMA: U.S.A.P."
by ProvDog (that would be me - STMcC)
3/11/2009
"UNDOCUMENTED" = Obama still refuses to allow the American People to see his official birth certificate. Whaddaya s'pose he's hiding?
"SOCIALIST" = Well, if I gotta 'splain this to you, then you're already a lost cause. Go back to sleep in front of yer Boob Tube.
"ACTING as PRESIDENT" = Until Obama proves that he is legally qualified to hold the office, by showing us his official birth certificate (thus satisfying the legal requirement found in Article II, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution), he cannot be considered the true president of the United States of America. He is merely "acting as" the president.
U SAP = "sap; 5. Slang. a fool; dupe." [from Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary] Anyone who believes that global Socialism will turn out to be a good thing for the people of the world is a fool who has been duped by pseudo-intellectuals. Our pseudo-president, Barack Obama, is a sap.
~ Stephen T. McCarthy
Postscript: For me, the bottom line is this: until Barack Obama is required to show a body of experts his official birth certificate which includes the name of the hospital in Hawaii where he was supposedly born, along with the name and signature of the physician who delivered him - just as I would be required to provide if I were applying for a sensitive position with a federal intelligence agency - I will continue to consider Obama "Undocumented."
Background Information:
What, Is He From The Womb Of The Mother Ship Sent By Planet Malcolm-X?
Born To Be Filed
On Deceit And Dissent
Obama's 'Birth Certificate' Not Acceptable In Hawaii?
Why Obama Wants To Hide Birth Certificate
Pentagon Orders Soldier Fired For Challenging Prez
Meet Tim Adams
Tim Adams, USAP, And The 'Globe' Story
More "USAP" Birth Certificate Bullshit!
Barack "USAP" Obama: Lying Like A Bad Toupee!
‘WTF?! Weirder By The Week’ (Or, ‘The USAP Code – Find The Hidden Messages In BO’s BC’)
Friggin’ Fact: Barack “USAP” Obama’s Birth Certificate Absolutely Proven-2-B-A-Forgery!
Sign Of The Times And Scene Of The Crimes
A Birth Certificate Poll For Black Americans: Please Vote Only Once
Sorry, Friends, But It's Not Clearing Up...
Where's The Social Security Card, Barack "USAP" Obama?
Green Baloney And Pink Underwear For Barack "USAP" Obama?
Who Is Harrison J. Bounel?
B.O.'s B.C. B.S. (Or, Arizona Shows The Way . . . Again)
Celebrity Boxing: Sheriff Joe Arpaio Knocks Out Barack “USAP” Obama In The Second Round!
Obama's Social-ist Suck-urity Swindle (Or, Best Evidence Of Democrat / Republican Conspiracy?)
Little White Mama’s Big Black Hand?
Marxist Muslim Obama Married To Allah, Islam’s Pseudo-God Demon?
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http://mine.icanhascheezburger.com/view.aspx?ciid=3640016
"BARACK OBAMA: U.S.A.P."
by ProvDog (that would be me - STMcC)
3/11/2009
"UNDOCUMENTED" = Obama still refuses to allow the American People to see his official birth certificate. Whaddaya s'pose he's hiding?
"SOCIALIST" = Well, if I gotta 'splain this to you, then you're already a lost cause. Go back to sleep in front of yer Boob Tube.
"ACTING as PRESIDENT" = Until Obama proves that he is legally qualified to hold the office, by showing us his official birth certificate (thus satisfying the legal requirement found in Article II, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution), he cannot be considered the true president of the United States of America. He is merely "acting as" the president.
U SAP = "sap; 5. Slang. a fool; dupe." [from Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary] Anyone who believes that global Socialism will turn out to be a good thing for the people of the world is a fool who has been duped by pseudo-intellectuals. Our pseudo-president, Barack Obama, is a sap.
~ Stephen T. McCarthy
Postscript: For me, the bottom line is this: until Barack Obama is required to show a body of experts his official birth certificate which includes the name of the hospital in Hawaii where he was supposedly born, along with the name and signature of the physician who delivered him - just as I would be required to provide if I were applying for a sensitive position with a federal intelligence agency - I will continue to consider Obama "Undocumented."
Background Information:
What, Is He From The Womb Of The Mother Ship Sent By Planet Malcolm-X?
Born To Be Filed
On Deceit And Dissent
Obama's 'Birth Certificate' Not Acceptable In Hawaii?
Why Obama Wants To Hide Birth Certificate
Pentagon Orders Soldier Fired For Challenging Prez
Meet Tim Adams
Tim Adams, USAP, And The 'Globe' Story
More "USAP" Birth Certificate Bullshit!
Barack "USAP" Obama: Lying Like A Bad Toupee!
‘WTF?! Weirder By The Week’ (Or, ‘The USAP Code – Find The Hidden Messages In BO’s BC’)
Friggin’ Fact: Barack “USAP” Obama’s Birth Certificate Absolutely Proven-2-B-A-Forgery!
Sign Of The Times And Scene Of The Crimes
A Birth Certificate Poll For Black Americans: Please Vote Only Once
Sorry, Friends, But It's Not Clearing Up...
Where's The Social Security Card, Barack "USAP" Obama?
Green Baloney And Pink Underwear For Barack "USAP" Obama?
Who Is Harrison J. Bounel?
B.O.'s B.C. B.S. (Or, Arizona Shows The Way . . . Again)
Celebrity Boxing: Sheriff Joe Arpaio Knocks Out Barack “USAP” Obama In The Second Round!
Obama's Social-ist Suck-urity Swindle (Or, Best Evidence Of Democrat / Republican Conspiracy?)
Little White Mama’s Big Black Hand?
Marxist Muslim Obama Married To Allah, Islam’s Pseudo-God Demon?
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Sunday, March 8, 2009
MARX VS. KEYNES: COMPARATIVE SOCIALISM IN MINIATURE
SOCIALISTS: DIRTY DOGS ALL!
The word “Marxist” is one I use frequently to describe… well, nearly everyone at the upper levels of American government today. Whether I’m talking about our undocumented, illegal alien president, Barack Obama (where’s that birth certificate, Sonny Boy?), our senators and congressmen, our judicial activists, or our media brainwashers, I’m frequently inclined to attach the “Marxist” appellation to these scoundrels. While in the strictest sense, the word may not always be entirely accurate, I employ it not out of ignorance but for effect:
On November 5th, 2008, the day after Omama! was elected by the foolish People in this country to the presidency, I posted a Blog Bit here titled “MARXIST PNEUMONIA AND THE POST-ELECTION FLU.” In that Bit, I wrote the following:
From this day forward, you can expect me to stop using the “Charmin” word [Socialism] and begin using – exclusively – the “toilet paper” term [Marxism].”
You see, I had come to realize that the American People have been so dumbed down that they no longer fully understand the meaning of “Socialism.” They do not always realize that the very concept is completely antithetical to the principles this nation was founded upon – those principles which once upon a time made America the greatest country in the world. But since the term “Socialism” no longer holds any meaning for most Americonned citizens, yet “Marxism” still seems to retain a little of that nasty taste in the mouth, I have decided to call all of our Socialist masters “Marxists.”
However, for the sake of clarity, I’m going to take a moment here to briefly explain what sort of Socialism currently drives this country. First take note: While all Marxists are socialists, not all socialists are Marxists. As far as Socialism in general goes, I think Rene Wormser probably said it best in his very important 1958 book FOUNDATIONS: THEIR POWER AND INFLUENCE:
“[I]t is difficult to mark the line beyond which socialism becomes communism. The line may be between methods of assuming power, communism being distinguished from other forms of socialism by its intent upon establishing a dictatorship of the proletariat. But this line is by no means clear. Socialism has the same ends as communism, though with an allegedly democratic approach. The Communist Manifesto of 1848 is the basis of all socialist parties the world over. Marx himself did not distinguish between socialism and communism...”
Now, for the remainder of this brief examination, I am going to quote from one of the two greatest political books I’ve ever read, and yes, I’ve read a ton of political books. (You read sixteen tons and what do you get? A load of frustration and deeper in debt!) The following comes from the masterpiece NONE DARE CALL IT TREASON: 25 YEARS LATER by Mr. John Stormer. This is the 1990 updated version of his original 1964 political classic. Let’s look into Chapter XII; ‘Economics And Government’:
Government contol has been the ultimate goal of the collectivist thinkers who have been infiltrating every segment of American life for 60 years. In government, as in every other field, the collectivists have first infiltrated quietly, and then grabbed for control. …
WHAT IS KEYNESIAN ECONOMICS?
As collectivists have grabbed for control of the federal government they have skillfully used the “economic” theories of John Maynard Keynes, a British Fabian economist, as the vehicle for buying the votes and support of the masses with their own money.
Today’s advocates of Keynes and his theories present him respectably as the “last hope for saving free enterprises” in the typical Fabian fashion of “never calling socialism by its true label.” However, no less an authority than Norman Thomas, six-time Socialist candidate for President of the United States, writing in ‘A Socialist’s Faith’, said:
“…Keynes has had a great influence and his work is especially important in any re-appraisal of socialist theory. He represents a decisive break with laissez-faire capitalism.”
The Keynes brand of socialism differs from the Marxist variety in that it advocates strict control of the means of production and the supply of credit and money rather than government ownership. On the theory that when control is possible, ownership is not required, the Keynesian theories are particularly suited to the Fabian goal of “change everything except the outward appearance.” The national socialist movements headed by Hitler and Mussolini recognized the beauties of control rather than ownership and adopted Keynes theories in Germany and Italy.
John Strachey, a one-time Communist who entered the British Fabian Society in 1943 and became War Minister in the Labor Government of Great Britain in 1950, explains Keynes theories this way:
“The positive part of Keynes’ work was a demand that capitalism should now be regulated and controlled by a central authority. … The principal instruments of its policy should be variations in the rate of interest, budgetary deficits and surpluses, public works and a redistribution of personal incomes in equalitarian direction. This positive side of Keynes’ work requires an authority to do the regulating, and that authority can be, in contemporary conditions, nothing else but the government of a nation state.”
Strachey hints to his socialist followers the ultimate possibilities in Keynes’ theories. He says:
“Was it not apparent that Keynesism had only to be pushed a little further and a state of things might emerge in which the nominal owners of the means of production, although left in full possession of the legal title to their property, would in reality be working not for themselves, but for whatever hands grasped the central levers of social control? … Might not the end of the story be that once proud possessors of the means of production would find themselves in effect but agents and managers on behalf of the community?”
Strachey cold-bloodedly admits the falsity of the “saving capitalism” mantle wrapped around Keynesian theories:
“…the capitalists have really good reasons for their reluctance to be saved by Keynesian policies.”
Taking into consideration recent movements toward nationalizing the banking industry, the medical industry, and the housing market, along with every other aspect of American life, it’s perfectly clear that the Keynesian system of socialization is being followed to the letter K. Comrades, let’s look at more from the same chapter of Stormer’s masterpiece:
Dr. William Wirt, the superintendent of schools from Gary, Indiana, was invited to dinner at the home of a government employee while in Washington to attend a school administrators meeting in September 1933. After dinner, the hostess, Alice Barrows, an employeee of the Department of Education, and other guests disclosed that Communists had infiltrated and taken control of the New Deal. Four of the dinner guests were government employees. The fifth was the Washington representative of Tass, the Soviet news agency. Wirt summarized what was said at the meeting… :
“Brain Trusters insist that the America of Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln must first be destroyed so that on the ruins they will be able to construct an America after their own pattern. … They wish to put the common man back into the feudal society of the Dark Ages. … I was told they believe that by thwarting our then evident economic recovery they would be able to prolong the country’s destitution until they had demonstrated to the American people that the Government must operate business and commerce. By propaganda they would destroy institutions making long-time capital loans – and then push Uncle Sam into making these loans. Once Uncle Sam becomes our financier he must also follow his money with control and management.”
Hmmm… Amerika 2009, anyone? If I, with my limited knowledge of economic theories, am able to clearly discern through basic logic that the monetary path our current puppet masters have chosen to follow will lead us to a complete debasing of and thus ultimately the ruination of the American dollar, then you can be sure that those socialists in Washington D.C. know it, too. And unless you, Blog Reader, can see this just as plainly, then you must openly confess to being less intelligent than I am. (And that would be a pretty sad admission, because – Lord, help me! – I’m just not that bright.) Let’s get back to the book, my fellow Amerikeynes. On page 272, Mr. Stormer describes the “spend your way to prosperity” concept as “Keynesian.” (Whose theories is our illegal alien in the White House following? Anyone? You there, Billy! Put down that cell phone and answer the question!) And then Mr. Stormer goes on to write:
Not many Americans are comfortable with the ideas of the political arm of the Fabian Society. But as president, John Kennedy appointed 40 members of this political under-world to high government posts.
For example, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., a Harvard professor and ADA-founder, is Kennedy’s special assistant. In 1947, Schlesinger wrote:
“If socialism … is to preserve democracy it must be brought about step by step in a way which will not disrupt the fabric of custom, law and mutual confidence upon which personal rights depend. That is, the transition must be piecemeal… There seems no inherent obstacle to the gradual advance of socialism in the United States through a series of New Deals. Socialism, then, appears quite practical within this frame of reference, as a long-time proposition. It’s gradual advance might well preserve order and law. … The active agents in effecting the transition will probably be, not the working classes, but some combination of lawyers, business and labor managers, politicians and intellectuals, in the manner of the first New Deal.”
In these three short paragraphs, Schlesinger confirms vividly what good Americans are called right-wing extremists for saying: That the Fabians (gradualists) are socialists; that Keynesian economic policy is the path to socialism; that goals of communism and socialism are essentially the same; that New Deal welfare state proposals whether enacted by Democrats or Republicans are socialistic; that establishment of socialism will result in a curtailment of freedom; that socialism and communism appeal, not to the working class or the poverty stricken masses, but to the “liberal” intellectual, the college professor, and the turncoat businessman.
So there you have it, a short and simple explanation of the basic differences between Marxist and Keynesian economic theories. It’s clear that since Marxism, because of its bloody history, could probably never be forced upon the Americonned People, a different method had to be employed. Through the decades, and regardless of whether they referred to themselves as Conservatives or Progressives (liberals), Republicans or Democrats, Capitalists or Communists, our traitors in high places have surreptitiously followed the path of Keynesian socialism, steering this country there through legislation and judicial rulings. So, now ya know! The names may change, the labels may change, the party in power may change, but the slow march to a socialistic global government remains the same. Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama: Keynesians all!
And the Endgame is this: wreck the American economy and replace the dollar with the “Amero," a new form of money for the planned North American Union (Canada, the U.S., and Mexico). This will move us one step closer to the goal of a world government with a single global monetary system and the end of national sovereignty – a “New World Order.”
As Newsweek magazine boldly proclaimed on its cover recently: “WE ARE ALL SOCIALISTS NOW.” Indeed. But this did not happen by accident nor because free enterprise Capitalism doesn’t work. It happened because unpatriotic Elitists sold us out in an attempt to consolidate power for themselves. And it happened because you, Mr. and Mrs. and Miss and Ms. Amerikeyne, didn’t turn off your TV and wake up to what was happening and vote for strict Constitutionalists (like Ron Paul) to government office. YOU voted for Socialism instead of The American Way. Good goin’! In this country, ya gets what ya votes for!
In closing, I want to say a few more words about the book I quoted from here:
A lawyer where I work is now leaving the company, and knowing she would soon have considerably more downtime, asked if I would compile a list of recommended books for her to explore. I tailored the list specifically for her, based upon my slight knowledge of her interests, but a few titles which I included, I would have placed on a recommended book list for ANYONE. And one of those publications was NONE DARE CALL IT TREASON: 25 YEARS LATER by John Stormer. Here is how I described the book on her list:
The original 1964 classic on Communism and Liberalism updated [in 1990]. Every bit as relevant today as it was in ’64. It’s comprehensive, thoroughly researched and referenced. Its importance is impossible to overstate… Along with THE CREATURE FROM JEKYLL ISLAND: A SECOND LOOK AT THE FEDERAL RESERVE, it is A MUST-READ! (Be sure you get the updated version with the “25 Years Later” subtitle added.)
But to put it even more forcefully, I will say that, in my opinion, no one’s political education is near complete until he or she has read NONE DARE CALL IT TREASON: 25 YEARS LATER. There is only one political book as good and none better. (Bear in mind when reading it that the first 14 of its 27 chapters were penned in ’64, so a few details in those chapters are no longer in effect. For instance, the Gold Standard has since been utterly abandoned… for obvious, underhanded reasons. So read the original portion of the book with modern changes in mind.)
That’s all, folks!
Goodbye for now, Blog Reader.
Adios forever, America! (You voted yourself to death.)
~ Stephen T. McCarthy
.
The word “Marxist” is one I use frequently to describe… well, nearly everyone at the upper levels of American government today. Whether I’m talking about our undocumented, illegal alien president, Barack Obama (where’s that birth certificate, Sonny Boy?), our senators and congressmen, our judicial activists, or our media brainwashers, I’m frequently inclined to attach the “Marxist” appellation to these scoundrels. While in the strictest sense, the word may not always be entirely accurate, I employ it not out of ignorance but for effect:
On November 5th, 2008, the day after Omama! was elected by the foolish People in this country to the presidency, I posted a Blog Bit here titled “MARXIST PNEUMONIA AND THE POST-ELECTION FLU.” In that Bit, I wrote the following:
From this day forward, you can expect me to stop using the “Charmin” word [Socialism] and begin using – exclusively – the “toilet paper” term [Marxism].”
You see, I had come to realize that the American People have been so dumbed down that they no longer fully understand the meaning of “Socialism.” They do not always realize that the very concept is completely antithetical to the principles this nation was founded upon – those principles which once upon a time made America the greatest country in the world. But since the term “Socialism” no longer holds any meaning for most Americonned citizens, yet “Marxism” still seems to retain a little of that nasty taste in the mouth, I have decided to call all of our Socialist masters “Marxists.”
However, for the sake of clarity, I’m going to take a moment here to briefly explain what sort of Socialism currently drives this country. First take note: While all Marxists are socialists, not all socialists are Marxists. As far as Socialism in general goes, I think Rene Wormser probably said it best in his very important 1958 book FOUNDATIONS: THEIR POWER AND INFLUENCE:
“[I]t is difficult to mark the line beyond which socialism becomes communism. The line may be between methods of assuming power, communism being distinguished from other forms of socialism by its intent upon establishing a dictatorship of the proletariat. But this line is by no means clear. Socialism has the same ends as communism, though with an allegedly democratic approach. The Communist Manifesto of 1848 is the basis of all socialist parties the world over. Marx himself did not distinguish between socialism and communism...”
Now, for the remainder of this brief examination, I am going to quote from one of the two greatest political books I’ve ever read, and yes, I’ve read a ton of political books. (You read sixteen tons and what do you get? A load of frustration and deeper in debt!) The following comes from the masterpiece NONE DARE CALL IT TREASON: 25 YEARS LATER by Mr. John Stormer. This is the 1990 updated version of his original 1964 political classic. Let’s look into Chapter XII; ‘Economics And Government’:
Government contol has been the ultimate goal of the collectivist thinkers who have been infiltrating every segment of American life for 60 years. In government, as in every other field, the collectivists have first infiltrated quietly, and then grabbed for control. …
WHAT IS KEYNESIAN ECONOMICS?
As collectivists have grabbed for control of the federal government they have skillfully used the “economic” theories of John Maynard Keynes, a British Fabian economist, as the vehicle for buying the votes and support of the masses with their own money.
Today’s advocates of Keynes and his theories present him respectably as the “last hope for saving free enterprises” in the typical Fabian fashion of “never calling socialism by its true label.” However, no less an authority than Norman Thomas, six-time Socialist candidate for President of the United States, writing in ‘A Socialist’s Faith’, said:
“…Keynes has had a great influence and his work is especially important in any re-appraisal of socialist theory. He represents a decisive break with laissez-faire capitalism.”
The Keynes brand of socialism differs from the Marxist variety in that it advocates strict control of the means of production and the supply of credit and money rather than government ownership. On the theory that when control is possible, ownership is not required, the Keynesian theories are particularly suited to the Fabian goal of “change everything except the outward appearance.” The national socialist movements headed by Hitler and Mussolini recognized the beauties of control rather than ownership and adopted Keynes theories in Germany and Italy.
John Strachey, a one-time Communist who entered the British Fabian Society in 1943 and became War Minister in the Labor Government of Great Britain in 1950, explains Keynes theories this way:
“The positive part of Keynes’ work was a demand that capitalism should now be regulated and controlled by a central authority. … The principal instruments of its policy should be variations in the rate of interest, budgetary deficits and surpluses, public works and a redistribution of personal incomes in equalitarian direction. This positive side of Keynes’ work requires an authority to do the regulating, and that authority can be, in contemporary conditions, nothing else but the government of a nation state.”
Strachey hints to his socialist followers the ultimate possibilities in Keynes’ theories. He says:
“Was it not apparent that Keynesism had only to be pushed a little further and a state of things might emerge in which the nominal owners of the means of production, although left in full possession of the legal title to their property, would in reality be working not for themselves, but for whatever hands grasped the central levers of social control? … Might not the end of the story be that once proud possessors of the means of production would find themselves in effect but agents and managers on behalf of the community?”
Strachey cold-bloodedly admits the falsity of the “saving capitalism” mantle wrapped around Keynesian theories:
“…the capitalists have really good reasons for their reluctance to be saved by Keynesian policies.”
Taking into consideration recent movements toward nationalizing the banking industry, the medical industry, and the housing market, along with every other aspect of American life, it’s perfectly clear that the Keynesian system of socialization is being followed to the letter K. Comrades, let’s look at more from the same chapter of Stormer’s masterpiece:
Dr. William Wirt, the superintendent of schools from Gary, Indiana, was invited to dinner at the home of a government employee while in Washington to attend a school administrators meeting in September 1933. After dinner, the hostess, Alice Barrows, an employeee of the Department of Education, and other guests disclosed that Communists had infiltrated and taken control of the New Deal. Four of the dinner guests were government employees. The fifth was the Washington representative of Tass, the Soviet news agency. Wirt summarized what was said at the meeting… :
“Brain Trusters insist that the America of Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln must first be destroyed so that on the ruins they will be able to construct an America after their own pattern. … They wish to put the common man back into the feudal society of the Dark Ages. … I was told they believe that by thwarting our then evident economic recovery they would be able to prolong the country’s destitution until they had demonstrated to the American people that the Government must operate business and commerce. By propaganda they would destroy institutions making long-time capital loans – and then push Uncle Sam into making these loans. Once Uncle Sam becomes our financier he must also follow his money with control and management.”
Hmmm… Amerika 2009, anyone? If I, with my limited knowledge of economic theories, am able to clearly discern through basic logic that the monetary path our current puppet masters have chosen to follow will lead us to a complete debasing of and thus ultimately the ruination of the American dollar, then you can be sure that those socialists in Washington D.C. know it, too. And unless you, Blog Reader, can see this just as plainly, then you must openly confess to being less intelligent than I am. (And that would be a pretty sad admission, because – Lord, help me! – I’m just not that bright.) Let’s get back to the book, my fellow Amerikeynes. On page 272, Mr. Stormer describes the “spend your way to prosperity” concept as “Keynesian.” (Whose theories is our illegal alien in the White House following? Anyone? You there, Billy! Put down that cell phone and answer the question!) And then Mr. Stormer goes on to write:
Not many Americans are comfortable with the ideas of the political arm of the Fabian Society. But as president, John Kennedy appointed 40 members of this political under-world to high government posts.
For example, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., a Harvard professor and ADA-founder, is Kennedy’s special assistant. In 1947, Schlesinger wrote:
“If socialism … is to preserve democracy it must be brought about step by step in a way which will not disrupt the fabric of custom, law and mutual confidence upon which personal rights depend. That is, the transition must be piecemeal… There seems no inherent obstacle to the gradual advance of socialism in the United States through a series of New Deals. Socialism, then, appears quite practical within this frame of reference, as a long-time proposition. It’s gradual advance might well preserve order and law. … The active agents in effecting the transition will probably be, not the working classes, but some combination of lawyers, business and labor managers, politicians and intellectuals, in the manner of the first New Deal.”
In these three short paragraphs, Schlesinger confirms vividly what good Americans are called right-wing extremists for saying: That the Fabians (gradualists) are socialists; that Keynesian economic policy is the path to socialism; that goals of communism and socialism are essentially the same; that New Deal welfare state proposals whether enacted by Democrats or Republicans are socialistic; that establishment of socialism will result in a curtailment of freedom; that socialism and communism appeal, not to the working class or the poverty stricken masses, but to the “liberal” intellectual, the college professor, and the turncoat businessman.
So there you have it, a short and simple explanation of the basic differences between Marxist and Keynesian economic theories. It’s clear that since Marxism, because of its bloody history, could probably never be forced upon the Americonned People, a different method had to be employed. Through the decades, and regardless of whether they referred to themselves as Conservatives or Progressives (liberals), Republicans or Democrats, Capitalists or Communists, our traitors in high places have surreptitiously followed the path of Keynesian socialism, steering this country there through legislation and judicial rulings. So, now ya know! The names may change, the labels may change, the party in power may change, but the slow march to a socialistic global government remains the same. Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama: Keynesians all!
And the Endgame is this: wreck the American economy and replace the dollar with the “Amero," a new form of money for the planned North American Union (Canada, the U.S., and Mexico). This will move us one step closer to the goal of a world government with a single global monetary system and the end of national sovereignty – a “New World Order.”
As Newsweek magazine boldly proclaimed on its cover recently: “WE ARE ALL SOCIALISTS NOW.” Indeed. But this did not happen by accident nor because free enterprise Capitalism doesn’t work. It happened because unpatriotic Elitists sold us out in an attempt to consolidate power for themselves. And it happened because you, Mr. and Mrs. and Miss and Ms. Amerikeyne, didn’t turn off your TV and wake up to what was happening and vote for strict Constitutionalists (like Ron Paul) to government office. YOU voted for Socialism instead of The American Way. Good goin’! In this country, ya gets what ya votes for!
In closing, I want to say a few more words about the book I quoted from here:
A lawyer where I work is now leaving the company, and knowing she would soon have considerably more downtime, asked if I would compile a list of recommended books for her to explore. I tailored the list specifically for her, based upon my slight knowledge of her interests, but a few titles which I included, I would have placed on a recommended book list for ANYONE. And one of those publications was NONE DARE CALL IT TREASON: 25 YEARS LATER by John Stormer. Here is how I described the book on her list:
The original 1964 classic on Communism and Liberalism updated [in 1990]. Every bit as relevant today as it was in ’64. It’s comprehensive, thoroughly researched and referenced. Its importance is impossible to overstate… Along with THE CREATURE FROM JEKYLL ISLAND: A SECOND LOOK AT THE FEDERAL RESERVE, it is A MUST-READ! (Be sure you get the updated version with the “25 Years Later” subtitle added.)
But to put it even more forcefully, I will say that, in my opinion, no one’s political education is near complete until he or she has read NONE DARE CALL IT TREASON: 25 YEARS LATER. There is only one political book as good and none better. (Bear in mind when reading it that the first 14 of its 27 chapters were penned in ’64, so a few details in those chapters are no longer in effect. For instance, the Gold Standard has since been utterly abandoned… for obvious, underhanded reasons. So read the original portion of the book with modern changes in mind.)
That’s all, folks!
Goodbye for now, Blog Reader.
Adios forever, America! (You voted yourself to death.)
~ Stephen T. McCarthy
.
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