The sheer incompetence of the Barack Obama administration and the corrupt duplicitous swine in the U.S. Congress are on full display for the world this weekend. Like some bizarre form of diorama in the front window of Macy’s set up to perform a weird holiday spectacle the wheels are coming off in a very ugly way so let the planet be placed on warning that 2014 could bring our national stupidity full-circle in a very serious apocalyptic manner. First and foremost the once promising P5+1 talks with Iran on ending the nuclear problem are now on life support, stick a fork in any prospect for a peaceful and rational resolution. This was inevitable with many in congress working on behalf of foreign powers to sabotage negotiations with additional crushing sanctions. The two-pronged assault at pushing a collapsing empire into another war was being led in the Senate by right-wing Israeli lackey Senator Mark Kirk and New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez, he who recently was alleged to have been frolicking with underage prostitutes. In the House which is chock a block with fanatical Christian Zionists hellbent on triggering Armageddon to bring Jesus back and launching them skyward like so many ballistic missiles dirty, nasty naked to sit at the foot of God’s throne and watch all of us heathens suffer plagues and nuclear fallout Eric ‘Iranium’ Cantor is the point man. But a funny thing happened on the way to the forum and the Obama administration themselves beat the treacherous anti-Americans to the punch by imposing new sanctions on their own sending Iranian leaders into fits and for the time being they have left the table.
With the talks on life support it will be a joyous Christmas indeed for the war freaks and the military industrial complex who are both salivating over the billions of dollars in arms spending and singing joy to the world. This country is so screwed at this point thanks to the poisonous addiction to war and profiting obscenely off of human misery that there is no way to avert that which is inevitable: collapse. There will never be peace again in our time, the culture of corruption is just dug in too deeply and the average American psyche has been permanently altered to accept war as our national birthright. The jobs have gone overseas to low cost shitholes where workers toil like slaves in hideous conditions for a pittance, the markets cannot function without a never-ending infusion of government created money to gamble with and inflation is eating the average schmuck alive no matter how much the shills lie about the lack of such a thing. I was pretty shocked when the war with Syria was averted despite the best efforts of Obama and Secretary of Skull and Bones John Kerry to lie the country into attacking Damascus. The entire reason for war, the Assad regime gassing civilians has been exposed as total horseshit most prominently last week in a London Review of Books piece by journalist Seymour Hersh that the was radioactive to the state-corporate media here in The Homeland. It was always a dubious claim that the radical Islamic fanatics that were being backed by the U.S. could be trusted and it was likely elements amongst them, backed by Bandar Bush and the Saudis who were responsible for the gassings. The other shoe has yet to drop on that one but we were spared a war in Syria for the time being.
The latest violation of the national interest that has torpedoed the Iran talks is consistent with the militarized state. We have never really scaled down after the end of World War II and the defeat of Hitler and the Japanese Empire only made it necessary to create new enemies to feed the war machine and the blood barters whose bottom line is tied to death and destruction that can never, ever end. I was recently forwarded a long essay by liberal blogger Bob Alexander and would recommend it to everyone whatever their philosophical leanings may be. What Alexander does is connect the dots by boiling down the trajectory of the victorious post-war U.S. into today’s fascist surveillance state, where the Constitution is as George W. Bush so eloquently put it “nothing but a goddamned piece of paper” and the Obama Stasi spies on everyone and everything, the only thing that prevents them from spying on people’s thoughts is that the technology does not exist yet. I excerpt the following:
In 2008 Barack Obama said everything we wanted to hear, and after being swept into office dutifully did everything he was told. I can only assume his life-long ambition was to be a footnote president - the guy with an asterisk next to his name. And at the bottom of the page it’ll say, “The First African-American President.” In a few more years Hillary Clinton should be able to join the pantheon of footnote presidents.
The major differences between the current and previous governments should be alarming … but they don’t seem to concern the public very much if at all.
Presently, Americans have a Now-You-See-It-Now-You-Don’t-Constitution. Remember when Keith Olbermann on MSNBC crossed off the Bill of Rights one by one after the Patriot and Military Commissions Acts were passed? It was more than just a civics lesson. He was telling us that what we took for granted didn’t exist anymore. Americans now live in a country where extra-ordinary rendition and extra-judicial decisions can leave them extra-crispy.
Americans recognize coups when they happen in other countries but remain oblivious to the ones that have occurred in their own. Why? The answer cannot be as simple as they weren’t told about it in the papers or on television. That is a part of it, I’m sure but it’s a topic scrupulously avoided everywhere, even among ourselves. Even though massive changes have occurred right before our eyes we treat this current iteration of the government as if it has always been The Government we read about in history books. This present government, among other things, spies on 5 billion cell phones every day. The President of The United States has boasted, “I’m really good at killing people.” How does that jibe with the notion that America is the land of the free and home of the brave? Is it just too goddamned scary to admit to ourselves that the government, supposedly of, by, and for the people, is completely out of our control?
Mr. Alexander’s essay is entitled "The Flag Remains the Same" and can be read at either OpEd News or TV News Lies. Often pieces such as this tend to get bogged down in too much detail and as a result too many people who would benefit from such reading would be discouraged. Some may disagree with certain interpretations of history but for the most part the important thing to understand is that the entire country has changed into something very ugly with the exception of our blessed symbol of the flag. Children pledge allegiance to it, anyone who refuses to stand during the obligatory rendition of the national anthem at a sporting event risks harassment or worse yet there is never a question asked as to whether such enforced worship of a national symbol would be accepted in a truly free country.
With the Iran war back on again and Barry and the boys full of piss and vinegar after the repair of the Obamacare website, the establishment Republican Night of the Long Knives purge of the so-called tea party and Helicopter Ben’s successor, the bankster friendly Janet Yellen standing on the brink of confirmation and the continuation of the 85 billion dollar a month heroin injections into Wall Street banks it is breaking that there will be no reform of NSA Stasi surveillance practices. Not that it could have been expected with a pack of traitors in Congress providing cover for the unconstitutional programs nor the committee that Obama empaneled that included notorious schemer Cass Sunstein and shadow government figure Richard Clarke. It was as packed with fixers, liars and defenders of the national security state as either the Warren Commission or the Kean Commission. There was an expectation of at least cosmetic changes to warrantless surveillance but the establishment is now going to give Americans the big red, white and blue middle finger.
But what would foreign policy shenanigans be without American’s foremost warmonger the deranged old bastard John McCain? McCain just cannot keep himself away from travelling across the pond to whichever country that at the time happens to be on the brink of war to conduct media dog and pony shows and act as a whore to the arms industry. This time it is in Ukraine where he is holding court with the anti-government protesters who were only a few days ago set upon by government goons wielding truncheons and chainsaws. It was a brutal act of a desperate regime but really is none of our business here in the United States, any notions that we can't act as the global policeman have long been cast aside when there are defense industry dollars to be harvested, just like General Smedley Butler put it, "War is a Racket" and Senator McCain has been it's top sales rep for a long time now. I haven't seen the schedules for tomorrow's Sunday morning state propaganda shows but don't be surprised if the old man just happens to drop by either live or from satellite hookup to act as Santa Claus for Raytheon, General Electric and hundreds of others looking to gain market share in Kiev.
It all just continues to rot but Americans just couldn't be bothered, after all, the flag remains the same.
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