08-12-2008, 10:52 AM
(This post was last modified: 08-12-2008, 11:13 AM by Peter Lemkin.)
[quote=Paul Rigby]http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=11315
A Historic Moment: The Election of the Greatest Con-Man in Recent History
By James Petras
Global Research, December 7, 2008
[QUOTE]I am heartened by the track being taken by our president-elect. The war cabinet is in place, the ugly specter of peace has been banished for the foreseeable future, and the new Congress clearly will be no better able to deal with the nation's ills than was the old, thus fulfilling the sooth I have been saying these many months.
It will truly be interesting to see how this great nation responds to what promises to be an economic disaster that will surely equal the Great Depression in scope and longevity. I see no possibility of escaping ruinous inflation, real hardship (a thing the American people are not accustomed to) and, ultimately, political unrest of an order of magnitude not see in these latitudes since the Civil War. After the technocrats and academic fakers have had their way, and failed, the demagogues will crawl out of the woodwork and, to be sure, find a ready audience in this land of knuckle-draggers[/QUOTE]
Well, I wasn't expecting too much, so the disappointment is not as great as for many others. You simply can't be backed and elected to President now UNLESS you are part of the problem and not part of the solution. I think he'll be slightly less-worse than Bush, but that is saying nothing, about a nothing. The situation is bad - real bad - and getting worse on all fronts. I hear many on the radio and internet upset at his appointments, but waiting to give 'em a chance....well, OK, I'll give him a week - but won't hold my breath for the wars to end or the unPatriot Act to be repealed, investigation on the great crimes to begin, etc.
Most are just not willing to 'vote' every day; all day - by being citizen activists. Use it - or loose it. We got the least bad candidate....great! Now what...keep fighting and get rid of the two parties, that are one; get rid of the Oligarcy oppressing us and everyone else - all living things; fight damn it! - is everyone so lazy or so comfortable or so bought-out or afraid? The coming Depression [already started...but far, FAR from finished!] may awaken many - but many will also have a diminished voice; as it is harder to be active when survival is the first and last order of the day. There will come a tipping point soon, when there will be no way out of this mess - only to record for some visiting civilization from some other planet the death throws of the late human 'civilization', and all the other species they took with them.
The time is now. The only answer is us collectively. The problem is those in control, their rotten system, their lies and deception; and then those in denial or afraid to act. Don't take anything for granted - even the internet - they have the means to shut it off, should they want to - locally or selective sites/homes. Act as if your and other's lives depended upon it. They do!
Sorry, had to get that off my mind.....hard to watch the Planet and my Nation dying and not get upset. I don't think many realize how bad the situation now is...and is on track and roaring along right into oblivion, unless we change the direction 180 degrees, real soon!!! Yes, human societies have always been a 'mess', but this is an unprecidented mess - and the new tools in the hands of those in power are unprecidented, as well. We are running out of the luxury of time....IMO.
A Historic Moment: The Election of the Greatest Con-Man in Recent History
By James Petras
Global Research, December 7, 2008
[QUOTE]I am heartened by the track being taken by our president-elect. The war cabinet is in place, the ugly specter of peace has been banished for the foreseeable future, and the new Congress clearly will be no better able to deal with the nation's ills than was the old, thus fulfilling the sooth I have been saying these many months.
It will truly be interesting to see how this great nation responds to what promises to be an economic disaster that will surely equal the Great Depression in scope and longevity. I see no possibility of escaping ruinous inflation, real hardship (a thing the American people are not accustomed to) and, ultimately, political unrest of an order of magnitude not see in these latitudes since the Civil War. After the technocrats and academic fakers have had their way, and failed, the demagogues will crawl out of the woodwork and, to be sure, find a ready audience in this land of knuckle-draggers[/QUOTE]
Well, I wasn't expecting too much, so the disappointment is not as great as for many others. You simply can't be backed and elected to President now UNLESS you are part of the problem and not part of the solution. I think he'll be slightly less-worse than Bush, but that is saying nothing, about a nothing. The situation is bad - real bad - and getting worse on all fronts. I hear many on the radio and internet upset at his appointments, but waiting to give 'em a chance....well, OK, I'll give him a week - but won't hold my breath for the wars to end or the unPatriot Act to be repealed, investigation on the great crimes to begin, etc.
Most are just not willing to 'vote' every day; all day - by being citizen activists. Use it - or loose it. We got the least bad candidate....great! Now what...keep fighting and get rid of the two parties, that are one; get rid of the Oligarcy oppressing us and everyone else - all living things; fight damn it! - is everyone so lazy or so comfortable or so bought-out or afraid? The coming Depression [already started...but far, FAR from finished!] may awaken many - but many will also have a diminished voice; as it is harder to be active when survival is the first and last order of the day. There will come a tipping point soon, when there will be no way out of this mess - only to record for some visiting civilization from some other planet the death throws of the late human 'civilization', and all the other species they took with them.
The time is now. The only answer is us collectively. The problem is those in control, their rotten system, their lies and deception; and then those in denial or afraid to act. Don't take anything for granted - even the internet - they have the means to shut it off, should they want to - locally or selective sites/homes. Act as if your and other's lives depended upon it. They do!
Sorry, had to get that off my mind.....hard to watch the Planet and my Nation dying and not get upset. I don't think many realize how bad the situation now is...and is on track and roaring along right into oblivion, unless we change the direction 180 degrees, real soon!!! Yes, human societies have always been a 'mess', but this is an unprecidented mess - and the new tools in the hands of those in power are unprecidented, as well. We are running out of the luxury of time....IMO.