9/11: Cover For A Coup d'Etat?

"A coup consists of the infiltration of a small but critical segment of the state apparatus, which is then used to displace the government from its control of the remainder."

-Edward Luttwak

 On Memorial Day, a day that is intended to be one of somber remembrance and the recognition of our nation’s war dead although it is perversely come to be more associated with boozing barbecues, silly NASCAR races and the inevitable retail extravaganzas at the shopping emporiums throughout the land it is no longer necessary to most Americans to pay tribute. They are the type who just wear those stupid assed American flag pins as though they were some sort of star spangled merkin, festoon their gas guzzlers with yellow ribbon stickers that in and of themselves are gauche take offs on a lousy country western song and wrongly believe that they are being truly patriotic. Such garbage only serves to dishonor those who have sacrificed and perished in past conflicts and will continue to do so in the new American century due to the illegal wars of aggression and conquest that have been thrust upon us due to the criminal Bush regime and it’s neocon policy makers who conspire in secret to launch their schemes of global conquest all justified by that one great and fortuitous ‘terrorist’ attack that tore open a hole to a parallel universe where up is down, black is white, freedom is slavery, war is peace and most importantly: ignorance is strength.

September 11th 2001. The day that will forever live in infamy as the day when the reset button was hit on over two centuries of American history and allowed for the new doctrines of preemptive war, the domestic police state and the codifying of torture into the law of the land. The real meaning as well as the cause of 9/11 continues to resonate and be debated throughout the alternative media and the blogosphere despite the sanctimonious reverence given to it by the corporate, state controlled mainstream media where those who dare to even suggest that it was blowback are shouted down by angry demagogues standing atop their electronic soapboxes. That one single day more than anything else has been used as the justification the rise of the new American fascist state and the illegal wars of aggression that feed the colossus that is the military industrial complex.

Since that horror filled, pristine Tuesday morning that was abruptly shattered as no other day in the history of our republic had ever been prior to it (I omit Pearl Harbor for the obvious reasons that it was a military target and Hawaii in 1941 was not yet an official state) we as a society have been changed forever and changed for the worse. We now torture as a matter of official policy. We allow ourselves to be spied upon by a rogue government that increasingly views dissent as sedition and treason. We have seen Habeas Corpus which had been a bedrock principle of law since the days of the Magna Carta rendered null and void. There has been an unprecedented consolidation of power in the Executive Branch and the neutered Congress has been reduced to a chattering club of irrelevant partisans with no real power or the intestinal fortitude to reassert itself as per the intentions of the founders as put forth in The Constitution.

There has sprung up a permanent and highly lucrative industry of institutionalized surveillance that has rendered privacy a quaint thing of the past. Our national airports have become Soviet style checkpoints where citizens are treated as criminals by ill tempered and poorly trained goons and thugs. Our domestic police are becoming increasingly more aggressive and militarized with instances of brutality and bullying becoming commonplace, the saying “if you’re not cops you’re little people” has gone from a line in a dystopian science fiction movie to reality. Deaths by Taser have been steadily increasing with no oversight, our fascist packed courts are now ruling in favor of the manufacturer of this dangerous weapon. The United States has in the most perverse Orwellian way been transformed into something as antithetical to what America was supposed to have always stood for that is strangely called “The Homeland which conjures up memories of a certain mid 20th century European land gone insane.

I am not going to go into a further litany of all that has gone terribly wrong in the land of Jack Bauer and extremist right-wing apple pie authoritarianism but suffice it to say that NONE of what has been visited upon us would have been possible were in not for the events of that terrible Tuesday in September 2001. Hitler had his enabling act and the ‘terrorist’ attacks of 9/11 gave us the USAPATRIOT Act and both were made possible by a false flag attack, in 1933 in was the Reichstag Fire and in 2001 it was the World Trade Center/Pentagon attacks. While some may cringe at the comparison to history’s most infamous totalitarian regime’s actions to those of the neocon junta and the Bush-Cheney administration the comparison has merit in that both events forever changed societies for the worse in their aftermath. There has never been a legitimate, objective and conflict of interest free investigation of 9/11 despite the growing suspicion among the American and international communities that the official government story is riddled throughout with lies, propaganda, omissions and obfuscations.

With any crime it is imperative to look at who benefited or Cui Bono for those familiar with Latin and there have been many beneficiaries of 9/11, first and foremost there is the by now infamous Project For The New American Century, a policy organization for global/full spectrum U.S. military dominance whose members and contributors are a who’s who of fifth columnist fascist filth including none other than Richard B. Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld. The PNAC’s reference to the need for a “New Pearl Harbor” to allow for their plans to be implemented should have been ample circumstantial evidence for major players to be subpoenaed and put under oath in front of the Kean-Hamilton Commission but any questioning of this most blatantly arrogant statement was as absent from the report as the collapse of WTC 7 or what Sibel Edmonds may have stumbled upon while translating communications while she was employed by the FBI.

While the official pocket press and what passes for government in this sham democracy has continued to ignore any serious investigation into 9/11 it has been investigated by thousands of citizen journalists and investigators who have used the internet as a resource and an organizing tool. The most success at working to get at the truth of the day when the fascist switch was tripped has been the so-called ‘9/11 Truth Movement’, a loosely affiliated and diverse group of activists which despite their progress is often impeded by factions or segments whose focus on differing highly controversial theories (missiles not planes, explosive pods, ghost flights etc) are often easily mocked or are intentional pieces of disinformation. In this essay for the purpose of clarity I do not seek to at this time address any of these theories on how the event was actually pulled off but rather the serendipitous happenstance that allowed for rogue elements of the intelligence community, the military industrial complex and the government itself to implement their plans for world domination starting in the Middle East.

Given that I have immersed myself in reading and research over the past five years since the day when an ugly little idea turned into a blow that hit me like a sucker punch to the solar plexus that something was terribly amiss with the official story I have slowly been working at doing an end around on the obviously corrupt corporate media that lies through omission to protect the oligarchy by assembling the pieces to the puzzle myself as I am certain that many readers of this particular essay of mine have also done. Suffice it to say that the official story as put forth by the Bush administration and their government is hogwash and the Kean-Hamilton Commission that was eventually seated despite protestations by the Bush-Cheney junta was a classic whitewash along the lines of the Warren Commission which also was used to cover up involvement by a government within a government or as President John F. Kennedy called it “a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy”.

A while back I found a piece of information that really gave credence to my strongest suspicions that the ‘terrorist’ attacks of 9/11/01 were used as cover for an actual coup d’etat by a rogue network of fifth columnists and their multi-national foreign allies who then utilized the (C.O.G) Continuity Of Government infrastructure to effectively seize control of the United States which would effectively render the actual attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon as not even the greatest crimes of that particular day. I discovered this piece on Edward Luttwak while plowing through the massive tome Neo-Conned! Again: Hypocrisy, Lawlessness, and the Rape of Iraq which is the second volume of a great collection of essays on the neoconservative pox on America that run the ideological gamut from Pat Buchanan to Noam Chomsky but all are consistently antiwar. The particular piece that I refer to is one that was written by Italian journalist Maurizio Blondet on neocon Edward Luttwak that references his seminal 1968 book Coup d'Etat: A Practical Handbook. In the essay (a postscript to Chapter 3) Blondet draws comparisons to the Luttwak blueprint and the ascension of the neocons by using 9/11 as a basis for their rise to power.

The necessary pieces were already in place within the bureaucracy, having slowly been installed ever since the heady days of the Iran-Contra affair where a shadow government was set up under the nose of the doddering and out of touch 'product as president' Ronald Reagan. Reagan’s administration was an incubator for dangerous right-wing extremists and the neocons who had been steadily asserting their influence within the government since the Cold War Team B days (a great resource on this along with other lies of the mythical 'war on terror' is Adam Curtis’ excellent documentary for the BBC: The Power Of Nightmares) on through the exploits of cowboys like Colonel Oliver North and his cohorts with their plan to subvert congress, trade arms with Iran and secretly supply the Contras in Latin America (by many accounts also trafficking in illegal narcotics which is a story for another time) to brutally crush resistance to the right-wing governments that used torture and death squads to protect American business interests.

Iran-Contra was exposed and while sending tremors throughout the system and resulting in many indictments and convictions which were then eventually largely covered up with some of the worst felons like Elliot Abrams (who figures prominently in Dick Cheney’s rogue shop of horrors to this day) were pardoned by George H.W. Bush, a man with a very sordid history of participation in covert and black ops himself as well as a long affiliation with the CIA which has long been a veritable secret police/paramilitary organization that exists largely for the benefit and protection of the interests of the oligarchy and American corporations. Many of the same players reemerged during this second Bush administration and this time they were going to ensure that their delusions of grandeur as exemplified through the neocon manifestos and white papers A Clean Break and the Project For A New American Century be implemented even if it they had to infiltrate and wait for their opportunity to overthrow the existing government in order to make it happen.

The essay by Mr. Blondet to which I refer may be interpreted to go some places that I choose not to go and before I get into this I want to make it perfectly clear up front that I by no means intend to imply that Luttwak was in any way tied to the actual plotters of the coup or of those who used the events of September, 11 2001 as a cover for their nefarious deeds. I do however assert that Luttwak's playbook for a successful coup d'Etat was a major inspiration to the neocons who were obviously impressed enough to follow it with the same vigorous attention to detail that Karl Rove quite obviously devoted to the teachings of Joseph Goebbels who himself was inspired by American father of Public Relations (propaganda) Edward Bernays. Luttwak was no more personally responsible for the actions on 9/11 than Judas Priest was after some drug addled teen commits suicide after listening to their music or David Berkowitz' dog was responsible for his Son of Sam killing spree. I just wanted to get that out front because some of the more imaginative bloggers/writers on the internet have made such a connection and it serves no use in addressing the very real problems of a regime run by madmen and are merely an unwelcome distraction. Now some excerpts first from a piece that ran in Time magazine back in 1969 entitled How To Seize A Country:

Unlike a revolutionary assault from the outside, Luttwak notes, a coup is an inside job, done by a government's own members. It involves minimal manpower and bloodshed. As in judo, the secret is to use leverage and make a state overthrow itself. Bureaucracy facilitates this by severing the loyalties that once personally bound rulers and their servants. A modern bureaucrat follows impersonal orders; if his immediate boss is subverted, the bureaucrat tends to obey orders blindly, even orders designed to topple his own government. According to Luttwak, a coup requires three preconditions: 1) a highly centralized government with a seizable seat of power, 2) a passive people not likely to react to a takeover and 3) the assurance that no foreign power will intervene.

Now from Blondet's piece:

The target State must have a political centre. If there are several centres these must be identifiable and they must be politically, rather than ethnically, structured. If the State is controlled by a non-politically organized unit [like the CFR, the representative of business] the coup can only be carried out with its consent or neutrality.

Already in the Preface, Luttwak underlined as essential the fact that the perpetrators of a coup must be able to count upon "the absence of a politicised community," upon the apathy of the public. "The dialogue between the rulers and the ruled [upon which democratic legitimacy is founded] can only take place if there is a large enough section of society which is sufficiently literate, well fed and secure to 'talk back.'" But "without a politicised population, the State is nothing other than a machine.

Then the coup d'état becomes feasible because, like every machine, one can take control of everything by grasping the essential levers." [Now Luttwak identifies this "machine" in the Bureaucracy.]

The growth of modern bureaucracy has two implications which are crucial to the feasibility of the coup: the development of a clear distinction between the permanent machinery of State and the political leadership [which changes], and the fact is, like most large organizations, the bureaucracy has a structured hierarchy with definite chains of command....

The importance of this development lies in the fact that if the bureaucrats are linked to the political leadership, an illegal seizure of power must take the form of a 'Palace Revolution,' and it essentially concerns the manipulation of the person of the ruler. He can be forced to accept policies or advisers, he can be killed or held captive, but whatever happens the Palace Revolution can only be conducted from the 'inside' and by 'insiders' [in these pages, we have seen nothing but the work of insiders surrounding a weak President].

The State bureaucracy has to divide its work into clear-cut areas of competence, which are assigned to different departments. Within each department there must be an accepted chain of command, and standard procedures have to be followed. Thus a given piece of information, or a given order, is followed up in a stereotyped manner, and if the order comes from the appropriate source, at the appropriate level, it is carried out.... The apparatus of the State is therefore to some extent a 'machine' which will normally behave in a fairly predictable and automatic manner.

A coup operates by taking advantage of this machine-like behaviour; during the coup, because it uses parts of the State apparatus to seize the controlling levers; afterwards because the value of the 'levers' depends on the fact that the State is a machine.

And

With detailed planning, there will be no need for any sort of headquarters structure in the active stage of the coup: for if there is no scope for decision-making there is no need for decision-makers and their apparatus. In fact, having a headquarters would be a serious disadvantage: it would constitute a concrete target for the opposition and one which would be both vulnerable and easily identified.... We should avoid taking any action that will clarify the nature of the threat and thus reduce the confusion that is left in the defensive apparatus of the regime....

The leaders of the coup will be scattered among the various teams. [As we can see Luttwak is theoretically discussing an invisible coup d'état: the infiltrated coup participants speak with the voice of the legitimate government, of that which they have seized. On September 11, let's remember, the immediate entourage of President Bush were not thinking of an Arab attack, but of a military coup d'état. It is for this reason that the President was taken to a secure location for 10 hours].

And

The masses have neither the weapons of the military nor the administrative facilities of the bureaucracy, but their attitude to the new government established after the coup will ultimately be decisive. Our immediate aim will be to enforce public order, but our long-term objective is to gain the acceptance of the masses so that physical coercion will not longer be needed.... Our far more flexible instrument will be our control over the means of mass communication.... In broadcasting over the radio and television services our purpose is not to provide information about the situation, but rather to affect its development by exploiting our monopoly of these media. [This is exactly what the American mass media has done since September 11.]

[The action of the media] will be achieved by conveying the reality and strength of the coup instead of trying to justify it [the emotional blow of the collapse of the World Trade Centre was presented with plenty of "reality" and "force" by CNN]. We will have fragmented the opposition so that each individual opponent would have to operate in isolation. In these circumstances, the news of any further resistance against us would act as a powerful stimulant to further resistance by breaking down this feeling of isolation. We must, therefore, make every effort to withhold such news. If there is in fact some resistance...we should strongly emphasize that it is isolated, the product of the obstinacy of a few misguided or dishonest individuals who are not affiliated to any party or group of significant membership. The constant working of the motif of isolation, and the emphasis on the fact that law and order have been re-established, should have the effect of making resistance appear as dangerous and useless.

There will arise, Luttwak says, "the inevitable suspicions that the coup is a product of the machinations of the Company [American slang for the CIA]. This can only be dispelled by making violent attacks on it...and the attacks should be all the more violent if these suspicions are in fact justified.... We shall make use of a suitable selection of unlovely phrases [for example, anti-Americanism? Anti-Semitism?]. Even if their meanings have been totally obscured by constant and deliberate misuse, they will be useful indicators of our impeccable nationalism."

So who really runs America? The elected government or a parallel/shadow government that has existed in some shape or form essentially since the end of WW II? The evidence is beginning to strongly support the latter. Most importantly and absolutely essential to the successful execution of a hostile takeover is the secret/shadow government apparatus itself. Author Peter Dale Scott recently alluded to the execution of the C.O.G. plans that subvert the Constitution (originally implemented during the Cold War in the event of a Soviet decapitation strike) in both this easy to read Counterpunch article and in much more depth in his outstanding new book on the "Deep State" entitled: The Road to 9/11: Wealth, Empire and the Future of America. It is naive and childlike for thinking Americans to ignore the deep politics that represent the true power base in this and other countries for it not only exists but thrives in darkness and through it's existence makes the ability to subvert the traditional processes possible.

Then there is that matter of inconsistent reports of what exactly was Dick Cheney up to while he was in the PEOC tunnel on the morning of the attacks. The history of Rumsfeld and Cheney’s involvement in Continuity of Government has been documented in articles in The Atlantic entitled The Armageddon Plan, Andrew Cockburn’s recent book on former SECDEF Donald Rumsfeld (Rumsfeld: His Rise, Fall and Catastrophic Legacy) and in James Mann’s The Rise of the Vulcans. Alpfonso Chardy of The Miami Herald did a hard to find piece back in 1987 entitled Reagan Aides and the ‘Secret Government’ which talked of Colonel North’s REX 84 program that has been updated recently with the Bush administration’s revisions of C.O.G. plans in National Security Presidential Directive 51 (NSPD 51) and Homeland Security Presidential Directive 20 to facilitate the declaration of martial law if and when it becomes necessary. This all unfortunately gets little to no play in the corporatist media but it is far out of the realm of the ‘tin foil hatters’ that critics of such secretive actions are so easily dismissed as by professional debunkers and others who are simply in denial that such things just can't happen here. I would like to recommend this piece by Lewis Seiler and Dan Hamburg of The San Francisco Chronicle that I find to be worth reading entitled Rule By Fear or Rule By Law.

The evidence strongly suggests that a rogue faction has seized control since 9/11 and may have even in some way been complicit in allowing the attacks to occur. There are just too many little inconsistencies, procedural changes (NORAD intercepts), multiple war games on 9/11 including simulated hijacks, a war game called Global Guardian that happened to utilize the same B4B Doomsday Planes that were used for C.O.G., the knowledge of the alleged hijackers by the government in Able Danger, the immediate information available to the news media on the 'hijackers' (could be that they were being tracked and monitored but for what exact purpose?) those mysterious Israeli art students who were thrown out of the country (why were they here? To prevent the attacks or ensure that the plan was going accordingly), the immediate availability of the USA PATRIOT Act to implement the police state, the unsolved military grade Anthrax attacks that only were targeted against influential Democrats and news anchors and the list goes on much longer than I can list here although I do want to mention the possibility that 9/11 may have been aided and abetted by the same nuclear blackmail ring that Sibel Edmonds spoke of in those three stories in the London Times earlier in 2008 (For Sale, West's Deadly Nuclear Secrets , FBI Denies File Exposing Neclear Secrets Theft and Tip Off Thwarted Nuclear Spy Ring Probe) and while this is purely speculative may be connected to security of breaches in association to 9/11 as well as raises questions as to exactly who the recently suicided D.C. Madame Deborah Jeane Palfrey may have had on her client list and what they were being used for . It all adds up though to JFK's "monolithic and ruthless conspiracy" and the neocons are as guilty as hell in all of it and especially those with ties to a traitor named Richard B. Cheney who did after all select himself as Vice President and then proceed to consolidate power in his office.

Especially telling was the award winning Washington Post series on Dick Cheney entitled Angler. Cheney has in the past unequivocally stated that his office is NOT a part of the executive branch and presumably functions as some sort of unaccountable fourth branch of the government. This is entirely consistent with the concept of the coup per Luttwak: "A coup consists of the infiltration of a small but critical segment of the State apparatus". Power has been consolidated in Cheney's shop since the beginning, Seymour Hersh in his great piece for the New Yorker entitled The Redirection wrote the following:

Iran-Contra was the subject of an informal “lessons learned” discussion two years ago among veterans of the scandal. Abrams led the discussion. One conclusion was that even though the program was eventually exposed, it had been possible to execute it without telling Congress. As to what the experience taught them, in terms of future covert operations, the participants found: “One, you can’t trust our friends. Two, the C.I.A. has got to be totally out of it. Three, you can’t trust the uniformed military, and four, it’s got to be run out of the Vice-President’s office”—a reference to Cheney’s role, the former senior intelligence official said.

And of course the Iran-Contra network survived to rise through the bureaucracy, the key players either pardoned by 'Poppy' Bush or let off the hook by the Clinton administration they were only hiding in the background like cockroaches couched in fetid dankness and awaiting their opportunity to feed. A key player who keeps turning up is none other than the son in law of ideologue Norman Podhoretz (the godfather of neoconservatism) Elliot Abrams a dangerous man who is connected with virtually every influential neocon and virtually every dirty deed undertaken during the Reagan years and thereafter. A veteran of secret government operations it would be highly unlikely if he were not a key component of the neocon coup and is another who stands to lose much if the Cheneyites were to be exposed and held accountable. With so much at stake they will throw everything but the kitchen sink into the works to ensure that 1: the plot is never exposed 2: that legitimate investigations into 9/11 and the decidedly anti-American assault on civil liberties are never undertaken 3: that come hell or high water that Iran will be the next stop on the neocon world destruction tour.

I mean when you really think about it there is not much of a reach in looking at 9/11 as an actual coup d’etat, I am not going to get into how the attacks actually were pulled off and who was involved but the neocon cabal and Cheney’s C.O.G. experience were sure as hell ready and waiting to put their own plans into action using the attacks as an opportunity. Rather than focus on such things as controlled demolition, missiles hitting buildings, ghost flights or any of that other happy horseshit, it is essential to look at exactly who benefited and why. Perhaps we should all be asking the other real question that is why do so many Americans doubt the official story on 9/11 to the extent that they would blame a government that holds the laws of the land in the utmost of contempt and cloaks every decision in a shroud of secrecy.

The real problem is that this neocon government is so pathologically psychotic, anti-American and criminally negligent in EVERY act that they engage in gives reason to believe that they would be capable of murdering 3,000 + American citizens in order to further their nefarious plans for global hegemony, the conquest of the Middle East through a war of civilizations in which the religious right shock troops could get behind and ultimately culminate in the encirclement of China. These guys think ahead, according to an insider named Stanley Hilton who just happened to go to school with neocons Paul Wolfowitz and Douglas Feith such radical plots were discussed frequently. I think that any of us who went to school during the 60’s and 70’s know the type of little world leader pretends who gathered over their Avalon Hill board games and conjured up doomsday scenarios. The neocons are just those kids grown up and in highly influential foreign policy positions.

Stealing the 2000 election was essential, the neocons needed a useful idiot in George W. Bush to piggyback into the White House where Cheney and Rumsfeld could set up their shops in order to allow for the coup to be executed. Once Bush's installation was ensured by the requisite political chicanery, black ops, a massive psyops media campaign and the assistance of the Federalist Society stooges on the Supreme Court all the pieces were in place. A weak and easily manipulated president who appealed to a certain segment of the population, a self-selected V.P., the necessary bureaucratic appointments and the stage was set for the catalyzing event that would set the plan into motion and the ensuing quashing of dissent when the power grab came. I wonder why any serious investigation of those nasty little anthrax letters has never taken place, and why the only recipients were influential media figures and key Democrats who could have potentially stopped the USA PATRIOT Act.

The neocons have too much to lose if they are removed from the White House, the implications of real investigations would be devastating, shocking and could very likely result in convictions on charges of treason and not that silly dittohead talking point style ‘treason’ which has become a common euphemism for dissent and criticism in the reich wing media but REAL treason.

Our immediate aim will be to enforce public order, but our long-term objective is to gain the acceptance of the masses so that physical coercion will not longer be needed.... Our far more flexible instrument will be our control over the means of mass communication.... In broadcasting over the radio and television services our purpose is not to provide information about the situation, but rather to affect its development by exploiting our monopoly of these media.

-Edward Luttwak

The shameful abrogation of the media is even more responsible for America’s tragic present and ugly future than even the neocons themselves and they spit on the graves of every American serviceman or woman who is killed in Iraq and Afghanistan every time that they cue up the saturation coverage of Paris Hilton, the missing white teenager of the week, the pervert of the day or the latest brushfire that is deemed worthy of national coverage. The media is despicable and the charlatans along with every big-haired, addle-brained bimbo with nice tits who can read a teleprompter like Paula Zahn or Katie Couric is a disgrace to truly dedicated journalists who once viewed their profession as that of integrity rather than of opportunity for career ladder climbing shills and corporate whores who are nothing more than charlatans masquerading as journalists.

About a week ago I was away for a trip with no access to the internet, satellite radio or any foreign news sources. All that I had was the network 'news' and CNN and it was quite a shocking experience. I really do not watch that crap when I am at home and the unbelievable spin, fixation on one story ad nauseum (for example Ted Kennedy) at the expense of anything at all meaningful and the complete disappearance of any thing at all on Iraq is stunning. It was travelling into some sort of bizarre parallel universe and yet the majority of Americans are trapped in that world with no way of knowing what is really going on. While understanding the problem with a population kept enshrouded in a cloaking device of enforced ignorance I am just in a state of disbelief of what life is like for those who aren't online and informed on the real issues while the country goes fascist and the economy goes bankrupt.

As Orwell said:

"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act"

 It's no wonder that Dick Cheney, Joseph Lieberman and the rest of America hating neocons are trying to crack down on the internet by levelling scurillous 'terrorist' accusations to lock in their gains before the matrix of fear and ignorance is penetrated. The dumbing down of America has worked to perfection at least until now but the peasants are growing restive and the movements behind Barack Obama and Ron Paul are if nothing else encouraging first signs of a real resistance that is growing in this country against the neocon executors of the coup d'etat that stole away our legitimate government under the cover of the black smoke of burning jet fuel and the stench of scorched human flesh. Let us all begin the call for a REAL investigation of the events of 9/11, the day when our history was stolen from us by a pack of ruthless thugs who rightfully belong swinging at the end of a rope.

It’s far past time for that something very loud (In the words of William Rivers Pitt) to take place and a damned good start would be in pulling the chain and flushing the neocon toilet and then turning the hoses on Cheney's office. Then how about a coup d'état using the existing bureaucracy to take over the government through the democratic processes that have been stolen from his country over the past seven and a half years by a power crazed anti-American junta that belongs in the dock at The Hague instead of in the White House, The Congress and The Pentagon.

Gathering Storms and Changing Guards

Friday’s near 400 point drop in the Dow despite an unprecedented (and borderline legal) series of efforts by the Federal Reserve and other central banks to keep the house of cards financial markets propped up should serve as a crack of thunder to those who had been deceived into believing that the economic storm had passed. The accompanying skyrocketing of oil prices (largely due to a dollar in freefall) and an unemployment rate that no longer can be concealed by statistical chicanery confirms the obvious – that the United States and the world itself is on the precipice of a cataclysm of historical proportions. The cowardly and utterly shameful complete abrogation of their duties and the accompanying complete moral failure of the leadership in America to hold the criminal Bush-Cheney regime to anything even resembling an illusion of accountability, Israel’s proclamation that they will soon attack Iran (knowing full well that the might of the Zionist fifth column as most visibly represented by AIPAC will provide cover in Der Homeland) and the foregone conclusion that the neocons will use that as an excuse to join the fray that in all likelihood will trigger World War III and the political instability created by the starvation of millions who are victims of a cruel globalist capitalism gone cancerous are more ominous signs that life as we all have known it is over.

That old Chinese curse goes something along the lines of may you live in interesting times but one can not truly appreciate the precient and sardonic wisdom of the contents of that particular fortune cookie unless history has clicked into position and you actually find yourself in exactly such times.

A great unraveling of American society is now occurring and very soon even the illusion of normalcy that the state so depends upon will no longer be maintainable. It was all of course inevitable given our dubious history of being so easily being suckered by the false promises of a national restoration in the aftermath of Vietnam, Watergate and the economic problems of the Seventies by a huckster named Ronald Reagan. In 1979 Americans still had a legitimate chance to come up with a rational energy policy and were capable of the sort of introspection, the critical analysis of all that had gone bad to perhaps implement policies leading anyplace reasonable but NOT where we currently are in mid 2008. Reagan, the ultimate pitchman for friendly fascism and his right-wing machine backers quashed that when secretive deals were cut with the ayatollah to delay the release of the Iranian hostages and therefore damage Jimmy Carter too badly for him to be reelected. I have long maintained that 1980 and the rise of Reaganism (from which so many of our current problems had their genesis in) was the demarcation point from reality, the wrong fork in the road chosen for all the wrong reasons. Americans could have prevented all of this but chose instead to be nothing but a pack of propagandized Pollyannas skipping blissfully down their primrose paths to perdition along white picket fence lined streets paved with gold. It was as Hannah Arendt spoke of with totalitarian movements needing to construct that parallel reality, slowly building it until the opportune time came when it could easily be swapped out and very few would even notice.

That Americans allowed themselves to be so easily duped, brainwashed and lulled into a false sense of security, phony exceptionalism, complacency and denial in which history no longer mattered is something that will be analyzed and written about in volumes upon volumes by future historians. Ours will be the greatest example of a failed society, a warning sign to all who come afterwards, the Romans will no longer be looked upon as the classic portrayal of how a mighty empire collapses due to internal rot it will be the late 20th Century and early 21st Century Homeland. America, or at least what it currently exists as and barring a renewal that while not averting the inevitable catastrophe will allow for something resembling the ideals of the past and the vision of the founders to rise from the ashes will eventually face the same sort of scrutiny as an era of mass madness, cultism and a failure to recognize the darkness that slowly enveloped a once educated society that Nazi Germany has – we will be debated, analyzed, written about and immortalized in film or whatever technological advance replaces it as a medium for far longer than anybody who reads this in the year 2008 will live. Exceptional we are indeed.

The very foundation of our modern American society, a society that is based on cheap and plentiful oil and a post-industrial economy that largely does nothing than engage in the moving around of money and financial instruments and the service industries that support it is now being exposed as the grand scale fraud and catastrophe that it was bound to be given the raw hubris and arrogant greed that allowed ideology to supercede any sort of honest analysis of historic trends. In 2008 the impossibility of being able to sustain such a house of cards style of a social and financial system is becoming more apparent with each passing day and with each piece of terrible economic news. The financial cartel looters will assuredly be once again bailed out by their bought and paid for servants who have turned the nation’s political system into nothing more than a stinking whorehouse being bled to death by piggish and unscrupulous managers and it is the common man (and woman) who will once again be forced to bear the brunt of the and to be collectively crucified for the sins of those who are politically protected and financially untouchable.

Rest assured that there will always be the bread and circuses of the ongoing theatre of the absurd that is the national corporate media with their oligarchy friendly opiate to the masses message that ensures the frogs slowly cooking in their incrementally warming pots of water that all will be ok, the ending will be happy and our God kissed nation of great destiny will be once again saved by the man riding in on the white steed at precisely the right moment but it is all an illusion concocted by highly paid control freaks and social scientists well versed at selling dreams. The television is necessary to keep the bewildered herd of lemmings in a narcotized state of denial just long enough for the fascist police state that is necessary to protect the elite or as the house shill for the oligarchy David Rothkopf fondly calls them: The Superclass so that they may be secure within their heavily guarded, gated mini-utopias and biospheres in time for the coming upheaval.

The coming upheaval of which I speak is predicted in the outstanding book by William Strauss and Neil Howe entitled The Fourth Turning which examines cycles of history which while never repeating itself in exactly the same way repeats itself nonetheless. Strauss and Howe examine history by looking at generational transformation and by breaking time down into a series of four turnings that represent each generation and the archetypes that are associated with them. The authors make the point that America is stuck on a linear view of history that always must proceed with little disregard to the cyclical view of recurring epochs and look at the saeculum (which is a length of time that is about the equal of a long human life) as the equivalent of seasons. Roughly about every 80 or so years there comes a time of cataclysm and change due to the deterioration of society and the failure of each subsequent generation to learn the lessons of the previous crisis. Think of society altering American historical events as follows and the time frames between them: The Revolutionary War period (1770s-1790s), The Civil War period (1860-1865), The Great Depression/World War II period (1929-1945) and today’s period of post 9/11 (2001 – 2020s) and you can see the progression along with the similar lengths of their saeculums. In following this our current period of existence is one in which there is going to be a massive cataclysm and a shift into a new era. I excerpt the following:

"The next Fourth Turning is due to begin shortly after the new millennium. Around the year 2005, a sudden spark will catalyze a Crisis mood. Remnants of the old social order will disintegrate. Political and economic trust will implode. Real hardship will beset the land, with severe distress that could involve questions of class, race, nation, and empire. Yet this time of trouble will bring seeds of social rebirth. Americans will share a regret about recent mistakes -- and a resolute new consensus about what to do. The very survival of the nation will feel at stake. Sometime before the year 2025, America will pass through a great gate in history, commensurate with the American Revolution, Civil War, and twin emergencies of the Great Depression and World War II.

"The risk of catastrophe will be very high. The nation could erupt into insurrection or civil violence, crack up geographically, or succumb to authoritarian rule. If there is a war, it is likely to be one of maximum risk and efforts -- in other words, a total war.

If there is any hope to be derived while we sit on the cusp of some very troubled times it is that now is a great period to be alive in, we are fortunate to live in an era of very great change as Dickens once wrote "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" and when the Fourth Turning occurs we will be able to rise above the mundane, the rote, the trivial and the meaninglessness of ordinary existence to have an opportunity to participate in the making of history. Those of us who understand this should consider ourselves fortunate for we shall have the unique chance to dispense with a failed system and to replace it with a new and rejuvenated one that not only appeals to the highest of traditional American ideals but to the highest of human ideals as well. The stunning rejection of the Clinton restoration is a signal hat there is a longing for change, a renunciation of past failures and a growing recognition that the failures are not limited to a particular political party but rather the fault of the entire current failed system itself in its entirety. The rise of a new wave of activism and political participation as manifested in the Barack Obama and Ron Paul movements is an indication that the traditional phony left-right paradigm is not only under assault but is rapidly losing it’s legitimacy (of course it never had any to begin with) and giving way to the inevitable coming demand for serious social and institutional changes.

The existing establishment fears the rise of a new generation of educated and change oriented participants to a political sham system that no longer can rely on the standard tactics of divide and conquer along racial, sexual, religious and gender based lines as it has done so successfully for so long. The inevitable dying off of previous generations is a natural process and throughout history those who have held and abused power are loathe to give it away to societal changes or without coercion. Generally speaking those who hold power seek to pass it down through generations to their own offspring, America has a long and sordid history of this as is evident by those who still hold disproportionate power within the banking and energy cartels. The names Rockefeller, Mellon, Carnegie and others are descendants of the Robber Barons of the 18th century and they have spent the past hundred odd years consolidating their power and using their vast financial resources to purchase the necessary influence to ensure that they can lock in their gains.

The coalescing of the elites around John McCain and Hillary Rodham-Clinton during this current election cycle only shows that both will change nothing meaningful, choosing to instead scapegoat the loathsome Bush-Cheney junta for all of their crude and botched bloody global gallivanting and then carry on business as usual. It will however be akin to changing management in the brothel, perfuming the whores and then hanging out a new shingle but rest assured that the ownership and their interests will continue to be the same. The American political system is designed to present a false choice between two corrupt parties, one of which has only become far more overtly fascist than the other but make no mistake that both of these monolithic parties are thoroughly corrupted by money, borderline criminal interests and only the outward masks that are presented by the true power structure, what author Peter Dale Scott calls “the deep state” or “parapolitics”. The influence of the overworld and underworld on today’s political system is pervasive and the corruption has metastasized throughout the entire system. There is no intention of providing Americans with anything even remotely resembling real choices in their political system, ‘leaders’ and government and this was stated by Professor Carroll Quigley in his outstanding and largely obscure book Tragedy and Hope which revealed the way that the system really worked in regards to the financial elite and the secretive round table groups who represent the puppeteers for the easily blackmailed, controlled and greedheaded arrogant buffoons who are the political actors who are trotted out for public consumption. Quigley writes:

"The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to the doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can "throw the rascals out" at any election without leading to any profound or extreme shifts in policy."

Professor Quigley by the way was a mentor of one William Jefferson Clinton who would make the necessary compromises in morality necessary to eventually become selected as President of the United States. Clinton and his wife Hillary Rodham-Clinton have been approved by the establishment to become the next dynastic family to succeed the Bushes as the caretakers of the system of American oligarchy but like all others who are allowed to rise to such a level there are skeletons in the family closet and a trail of mysteriously dead bodies that only when compared with the similarities of the Bush family (longtime servants to the elite and fourth generation scoundrels) can be placed in the proper context that the government is not what it presents itself as but is rather a secretive network that is in existence to protect the interests of the wealthy elite, the economic royalists and the huge now transnational financial and energy corporations.

With such deception and secrecy you also have the inevitable factional warfare which is addressed by Quigley and also by Carl Oglesby in the The Yankee and Cowboy War which chronicles the secretive machinations of rogue elements of the establishment that fractured along the lines of Eastern establishment wealth and influence and the rise of the Sunbelt power structure that was largely a manifestation of oil and other energy interests, a massive defense industry and the requisite militarism and extreme right-wing American exceptionalist imagery (to use the term of author Kevin Phillips “an apple pie authoritarianism") which produced the John Wayne archetype that gave us Barry Goldwater, Richard M. Nixon, Ronald Reagan and eventually George W. Bush and was largely controlled power through the clever manipulation of fire and brimstone radical Christianity and the infiltration of various governmental agencies by agents of foreign governments and anti-Constitutional covert domestic elements working in concert with them in order to perpetuate a creeping militarist influence bent on controlling all elements of the state in order to feed itself and the quest for world domination that eventually is to include the conquest of space itself. But this is a long and extremely complex storyline that I will examine at another time so I digress….

The establishment sees their massively botched society of greed, shallowness and slyly enforced conformity collapsing right before them right now and they are more interested in ensuring that all of their ill gotten gains remain securely locked away in the coffers and that no serious attempt at purging the scoundrels from the nation’s courts so as to give the common man (woman) a chance for equal representation under the law. The law in this land has long ceased to be a shield and has instead been turned into a weapon by a decades long court packing scheme in which only stooges and protectors of the rigged game were allowed to ascend to positions of judicial influence – usually under the guise of 'social conservatism' which was easily bottled and sold as snake oil to the gullible who often were well intentioned but were cynically manipulated against the economic self-interest of themselves and their families to support corrupt political means.

The corruption of the system through the manipulation of the credulous rubes, bumpkins and simpletons taken along with the cyclical nature of history as put forth in The Fourth Turning is only hastening the inevitable cataclysm that will have been assured by the hubris and arrogance of the Reagan generation that set the course for the disastrous neoconservative foreign policy of the Bush-Cheney regime.

The looming catastrophe and the subsequent change that is coming will be largely the result of the generational changing of the guard with a newly politically active and highly motivated for the discarding of a failed system now becoming a force to be reckoned with. It is as natural as the changing of seasons that a youth saddled with the burden of the failures of their elders will inevitably rise to reject the past in favor of a new future and the near religious fervor with which Barack Obama is embraced by new participants as well as the more methodical and subtle rise of the Ron Paul movement will very soon shake this society to it’s very foundations. As President Franklin Delano Roosevelt once famously proclaimed:

“There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny”

And the cycle is now at our doorstep, it is the Fourth Turning and with much dedication, work, tenacity, perseverance, courage, honor and a new morality it shall similarly usher in a new era in America. The existing establishment knows this and is terrified, the new generation (labeled as the millennial generation) is generally more tolerant, more open to new ideas, more concerned with the environment and sustainability and less warlike than those that preceded it and through indolence, greed and a sense of entitlement have squandered their legacy. This new generation is not easily manipulated by the same bogeymen that have so successfully been invoked so as to allow for the establishment to retain and abuse power and those of us who are older must do everything in our power to give support to the new generation who will have to sacrifice much in order to gain everything that was tossed away by the previous ones, we owe it to them for it is the world and our legacy that they will inherit. We must act as mentors, set the record straight on what it means to aspire to real American ideals and reclaim our real history that has been stolen away by the looters and the blood barters, the false prophets, the charlatans and the warmongers so that it can be used as a lifeline to the past and the last generation of destiny.

As the famous poet and novelist Victor Hugo once so eloquently put it “Nothing is as powerful as an idea whose time has come” and no matter what happens in the coming months with the rise of presumptive Democratic party nominee Barack Obama as an avatar of change and renewal. Whether he is destroyed by a propaganda machine which will be loosed on him with the fury of the hounds of hell themselves or conveniently assassinated as Senator Clinton’s little Freudian slip alluded to, the spark will not be put out – the process of change has begun and nothing can stop it. As labor activist August Spies said as he was awaiting his murder by the authorities on trumped up charges “Here you will tread upon a spark, but there and there, behind you and in frontof you, and everywhere, flames blaze up. It is a subterranean fire. You cannot put it out.” And assuredly, if one thing that the coming together of youth behind Obama and Paul means it is this one very salient truth: There is now a resistance movement in this country!
Times are changing, the levels of engagement and outrage towards a system long ago gone to seed is at a high not seen in decades and the big boys are scared. David Sirota, the excellent and hugely insightful conservative writer has a new book out entitled The Uprising - with a subtitle of “An Unauthorized Tour of the Populist Revolt Scaring Wall Street and Washington” pegs it dead on again. Sirota stated in a recent Democracy Now interview that:

"Well, you look at the major social indices right now, and people are really, really angry, and you can see it in the polling, you can see it in market research. And I think what’s really interesting right now is that we’re seeing a level of anger and a level of disaffection not just with the government, but with major other institutions in society. Gallup’s poll shows that the anger in the country rivals, in terms of anti-government anger, or dissatisfaction with the government rivals that of the late 1970s. What’s different is that there is an increase in anger at corporate America, at big business, at banks, at the financial system. And I think that that means that gives us a real opportunity—progressives—a real opportunity to take this momentary uprising and explode it into a full-fledged political and social movement.

The danger is, of course, is that the anger could go into a right-wing direction. In the late 1970s, you had a moment where you had, after Watergate, Jimmy Carter came in, was elected, didn’t—his administration didn’t really go anywhere, and the uprising of that post-Watergate era really didn’t end. Instead, it intensified, and Ronald Reagan and the conservative movement came along and took advantage of it and exploded it into the conservative movement that we’re living under. And so, we’re really at a moment here where it could go in a progressive direction or it could go in a conservative direction.

Now this is a very interesting comment precisely because of his statement about the opportunity of a real movement and the concern that it could be as in the past hijacked by the right whose fueling of animosity and ability to provide scapegoats is unrivaled in our recent history, in fact you could say that it has largely been one of the primary factors in creating the looming catastrophe that we all now are facing. What is not addressed is that there is also a battle going on for the soul of the right and the meaning of conservative in which the best intellectuals are libertarians. Ron Paul’s ascension and ability to raise money and support via the internet has an appeal to the young and the libertarian message of liberty and a defense against tyranny resonates greatly. It would be extremely foolish to underestimate to the power of this growing force which already has an organized infrastructure and a manifesto (The Revolution) that against all odds made the New York Times and Amazon best seller lists and is working at the grass roots level to infiltrate the Republican party. This is a very positive thing and in some way will serve to neutralize the more extremist neocon elements of the right so barring another false flag terrorist attack, an economic catastrophe and the emergence of a charismatic demagogue waving the flag and carrying a cross it would be difficult for the fascist elements of the right to enjoy success as they have in the past. The Ron Paul movement could be the best thing to ever happen on the right as they will return to a more benign and traditional strain of conservatism along a non-interventionist, intellectual and anti-big government line that would coincide in many ways with progressives if certain differences can be worked out and the coalition of bickering identity based groups can be marginalized to where they belong.

The sheer ugliness of the recently ended Obama vs. Clinton campaign has exposed these elements as the pathetic, self-absorbed, self-defeating and unwilling to compromise relics that they are and once the left is able to shed itself once and for all of these elements they will no longer exist as vulnerabilities to the crackerjack propaganda and political machine of the modern fascist Republican party. Not being forced to defend abortion, militant feminism, gay rights and other issues that are largely unpopular with huge chunks of the country who could otherwise be allies on economic and civil liberties issues will be the greatest benefit of out of strategic necessity and pragmatism ‘throwing these elements under the bus’. Not that I am advocating discrimination, in fact I detest it and it is antithetical to true American ideals but to enslave an entire political party (despite the falsehood that it truly is an independent party of the system) to the defense of a minority only serves to fail the country as a whole. Without the current time warp of both major parties that continues to wail away like two dinosaurs in a tar pit using the same tired stereotypes we could actually see social progress and return to American ideals.

The rise of Obama represents hope but the presence of John McCain as the old guard who will invoke Vietnam as an immunity talisman (despite his admitted war criminal conduct in bombing civilians) and continue to rage against Hanoi Jane, the ‘dirty hippies’, the ‘militant Negroes’ and all of the other negative baggage that went with the New Left of that era. Perhaps a resounding landslide defeat of McCain and all that he represents along with his repudiation by independent and libertarian elements will slay that dragon once and for all, we will see. As Strauss and Howe state in The Fourth Turning: “Many despair that values that were new in the 1960’s are today so entwined with social dysfunction and cultural decay that they no longer lead anywhere positive”. The fascist American right has been able for too long been able to exploit these divisions of the Sixties and the wounds are ripped open for political benefit just as they are appearing to be healing. They must be abandoned at this point for they are a detriment and only impede change as only fuel the right and divide the left against themselves and as the axiom goes: A house divided against itself cannot stand.

Legendary organizer and activist Saul Alinsky made similar comments that predicted the rise of the extremist right as a backlash against Sixties excesses in a wonderful 1972 interview for Playboy Magazine:

In all the ways I've been talking about, from taxation to pollution. The middle class actually feels more defeated and lost today on a wide range of issues than the poor do. And this creates a situation that's supercharged with both opportunity and danger. There's a second revolution seething beneath the surface of middle-class America -- the revolution of a bewildered, frightened and as-yet-inarticulate group of desperate people groping for alternatives -- for hope. Their fears and their frustrations over their impotence can turn into political paranoia and demonize them, driving them to the right, making them ripe for the plucking by some guy on horseback promising a return to the vanished verities of yesterday. The right would give them scapegoats for their misery -- blacks, hippies, Communists -- and if it wins, this country will become the first totalitarian state with a national anthem celebrating "the land of the free and the home of the brave." But we're not going to abandon the field to them without a long, hard fight -- a fight I think we're going to win. Because we'll show the middle class their real enemies: the corporate power elite that runs and ruins the country -- the true beneficiaries of Nixon's so-called economic reforms. And when they swing their sights on that target, the shit will really hit the fan.

The left would do well to return to the radical values of Alinsky and his generation of labor activists rather than the traveling freak show of the sixties for all of the damage that it has done and all that the country has had to endure as a result of the right’s ongoing manipulation of the language and imagery of that tumultuous period. It was a botched era, a failed movement and too many of those ‘radicals’ and ‘revolutionaries’ have either failed to adapt or have long ago sold their souls to the company store. As Alinsky notes in the interview “Shit, Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin couldn't organize a successful luncheon, much less a revolution. I can sympathize with the impatience and pessimism of a lot of kids, but they've got to remember that real revolution is a long, hard process.” The fascist right got this and they built an infrastructure of advocacy groups, think tanks, anti-labor activists as laid out in the Powell Memorandum (or as I refer to it, The Looter Capitalist Manifesto) and financed by elite backed foundations who were scared shitless by the social unrest of The Sixties and had to take coordinated action in order to preserve the status quo. .

The American fascist right had an organized game plan to build their rotten system and they used the Republican party to do it by routinely relying on race-baiting, religious divisiveness, propagandizing, fear-mongering, intimidation, libel, slander and censorship. I have no illusions whatsoever that this will not continue if the Democrats themselves corrupt and compromised fail to capitalize on harnessing the generational forces for change. A return to full out Republican iron fisted fascism could quite easily rise from the ashes of a self immolating Democratic party. I do however believe that the followers of Dr. Paul and a reinvigorated more traditional conservative movement will slow it enough and with a lot of hard work and no small amount of luck may be able to deprive if of the ability to consolidate power as it has been unable to do since the fall of Tom DeLay and others of the most reactionary elements who were able to successfully marshal the religious zealots into a lockstep army of unflinching shock troops. The Republican party post World War II and especially since the rollout of the hugely successful product Ronald Reagan has become dangerously ideological, anti-American and relentless in the pursuit of state power for the sake of wielding it as a bludgeon and it needs to be stopped once and for all and that particular cancerous element cut out as though it were an abscessed tooth. The destruction of the Republican party in its current incarnation is essential before the bulwarks of the police state, the desecration of the Constitution and the pollution of the judicial system is allowed to metastasize any further. The diehard activists of the Ron Paul movement are just the ones to do it – or at least deprive it of momentum until the left can get its act together.

The immediate problem is that both of the current change movements that are growing in opposition to this diseased system are going to eventually find some way to agree to disagree and to focus on the larger tasks at hand of dismantling the authoritarian police state that protects the oligarchy. There must be some unifying set of principles in order for there to be a merger into a much larger social movement that will be formidable enough to undertake the monumental task at hand which is replacing the tyrannical, corrupt, increasingly despotic and entrenched establishment. I would think that a shared desire for an end to war, the restoration of civil liberties and the return of some semblance of economic fairness could transcend all other philosophical differences which could be put aside until later. The menace of the power of the state of which has now been weaponized and turned against the people who in theory are supposed to enjoy liberty and democracy in return for the consent to be governed is the primary, existential crisis that must be dealt with before any other issues that are trivial by comparison. The numbers are on the side of the people despite the disengaged and dumbed-down majority for revolutions are always mounted by the passionate minority who hold the moral high ground and have the courage of their convictions to do what is necessary no matter what the sacrifice may be. True patriots and defenders of liberty are aware of the price but the rewards of restoring justice and honor outweigh the perils of losing, it is only because of the sacrifice of those who came before us what we were ever able to enjoy anything approaching freedom no matter how fleeting that it now appears to have been.

In order for there to be a change in the existing order it is going to be necessary to completely jettison the poison dynamics that have led to the ‘culture wars’ for these divisions are permanent, ruinous and easily exploited by the controllers of the corrupt establishment and these dynamics have been largely responsible for the deterioration that has led us to our current state of deterioration. The differences of race and religion are irreconcilable and any honest examination of history and human nature should make this crystal clear to even the most utopian minded. They need to be abandoned as political causes as soon as possible. Therefore in order for the existing paradigms to be shattered and therefore removed as obstacles the political left must no longer openly embrace the widespread practice of abortion, militant feminism, engage in cultural demagoguery that fuels religious divisiveness and animosity and must embrace as a necessary philosophy the full right to bear arms unconditionally and must become more acceptable and tolerant to less extreme expressions of Christianity (excluding the zealots of course) and cease the thin-skinned hectoring of those who are not politically correct. Conversely, the political right or at least the rational elements of conservatism must be more tolerant to the rights of women, gays and minorities, in the old days political correctness was known as good manners and respect for others. The right also must accept the necessity for government regulations in regards to essential services (resources, medical care) but especially the banking and energy cartels which must be broken up as the damage that they have caused is now apparent to all but the blindest among us. The concept of privatization or more appropriately corporatism must be renounced as it has nothing to do with the utopian version of a free market that fails to take into account human nature. There also must not be an embracing of advancing the practices and icons of the most extreme sects of fundamentalist religion into public life.

I know very well that the people who really get it that the mutation of the state into a tool of repression by the oligarchy will be able to set aside those things that are not imperative for the reclamation of America in order to work together against the primary threat. There will always be those on both sides of the existing bogus left-right paradigm who will vehemently resist any changes that intrude upon and threaten the rights of their own little particular identity based groups and they need to be pushed to the fringes as they long ago should have been, it is where they belong in any functional society rather than in exerting inordinate influence that corrupts the legitimate political process. It is the ability of these easily manipulated groups to empower those moneyed interests who then are able to game the system that are largely to blame for the current crisis and the looming catastrophes of war, domestic repression and financial collapse and are only nuisances that serve as impediments to the necessary changes. I am not going to single out any specific group or demographic but there is plenty of blame to be laid at the feet of all of those who aid and abet the rise of tyranny while they continue to place their own little dogmas at such a level that they supercede the rights of all other citizens of the American republic.

It is of the utmost importance to somehow unify the disparate elements coming together and to allow for the generation that will inherit the future to gain their rightful place of influence within the political system in this shell of a once great nation. I do take the prophesy of The Fourth Turning very seriously and so should all of those who need to now rise together in order to meet our historical challenge, to inherit our destiny and to force those who have sowed the seeds of discontent to reap their whirlwind. If you use a big enough hammer you can smash anything.

Fascism, tyranny and despotism must be defeated at all costs or nothing else is ultimately going to matter. I am often being accused of being a "pessimist" (a ridiculous term which I despise), a "doomsayer" and am often stigmatized as one who dares to tell the unspoken truths in a land of willfully ignorant, fearful lemmings and sheep and the rest of the disinterested doomed. This though is inaccurate. While I have little regard for American life as it exists today and may God damn us all for what has become of this place, I do believe in two things which should be among the highest aspirations of human beings: redemption and atonement. The first will be achieved by the next generation which will be successors to the ones long ago who as FDR spoke of as having a "rendevous with destiny". The second will be obtained in our support of them as they sift through the ashes of what they are being left with in search of a better future.

I will end with these words of wisdom from Saul Alinsky

All life is warfare, and it's the continuing fight against the status quo that revitalizes society, stimulates new values and gives man renewed hope of eventual progress. The struggle itself is the victory. History is like a relay race of revolutions; the torch of idealism is carried by one group of revolutionaries until it too becomes an establishment, and then the torch is snatched up and carried on the next leg of the race by a new generation of revolutionaries. The cycle goes on and on, and along the way the values of humanism and social justice the rebels champion take shape and change and are slowly implanted in the minds of all men even as their advocates falter and succumb to the materialistic decadence of the prevailing status quo.

Continuity Of Government: Lynchpin For The Police State

I have blogged a bit lately on the Continuity Of Government (C.O.G.) programs that in my personal belief were intrumental in executing the coup d'etat by a secret/shadow government using the 9/11 'terrorist' attacks as justification. These programs have been existence since the Cold War era and were ostensibly for protection of the U.S. government in the event of a Soviet nuclear attack/decapitation strike. They are highly secretive and very real despite the sort of paranoid, X Files connotations that will be made by those who dare not research them on their own lest they find their core beliefs of government and American society shaken to the very roots. I would like to take this opportunity to share with readers an article that I only ran across this morning on these extremely dangerous programs and the threat to the Constitution and life as we have known it that are only a signature from the pen of George W. Bush/Dick Cheney (who are becoming increasingly desperate) from being put into motion.

The article that I refer to is in Radar Magazine by Christopher Ketcham and is very apropriately entitled The Last Roundup. There is also an interview with Mr. Ketcham by Antiwar Radio's Scott Horton that I provide the link to here for download. It is imperative for Americans to begin to understand the Continuity Of Government programs for it is the mechanisms that will be used if and when the time comes for the cornered rats of the Bush administration to avoid prosecution and accountability for their myriad of crimes against the republic by implementing martial law using NSPD-51 which is a descendent of Colonel Oliver North's REX 84.

What should be most disconcerting in an America renamed HOMELAND where Habeas Corpus and Posse Comitatus have been rendered null and void through legal trickery enamating from the office of the Vice President (a hotbed for neocon traitors) and elements of the Pentagon which have also been infiltrated by neocons with questionable loyalty is that none other than Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld were involved with C.O.G. during the Reagan era (see James Mann's The Armageddon Plan as well as Miami Herald journalist Alfonso Chardy's Reagan Aides and the 'Secret Government' and author Peter Dale Scott's recent Counterpunch article). I personally speculated on how the C.O.G. infrastructure was used to execute an Edward Luttwak style textbook coup d'etat on 9/11 in my recent posting: 9/11: Cover for a Coup d’Etat? which while nowhere in the league of Christopher Ketcham (or anybody else for that matter) may be a useful guide for those seeking to do some of their own research.

What is a very important detail in Ketcham's piece is the mention of PROMIS software as a tool to track and surveil potential dissidents and 'terrorists' (Homeland newspeak for dissidents) and has been likely been highly adapted from its already advanced 1980's form:

Wired magazine turned up additional damaging information, revealing in 1993 that North, operating from a secure White House site, allegedly employed a software database program called PROMIS (ostensibly as part of the REX 84 plan). PROMIS, which has a strange and controversial history, was designed to track individuals—prisoners, for example—by pulling together information from disparate databases into a single record. According to Wired, "Using the computers in his command center, North tracked dissidents and potential troublemakers within the United States. Compared to PROMIS, Richard Nixon's enemies list or Senator Joe McCarthy's blacklist look downright crude." Sources have suggested to Radar that government databases tracking Americans today, including Main Core, could still have PROMIS-based legacy code from the days when North was running his programs.

PROMIS software is the stuff of mystery and legend and apparently close scrutiny has resulted in mysterious suicides and deaths such as that of investigative journalist Danny Casolaro who was onto a global criminal syndicate that had merged with rogue elements of the government and is an important piece of the puzzle in any examination of today's rising fascist police state. Casolaro called it The Octopus and his death should be reexamined in light of recent developments as well as the rise of the internet as a research tool.

All of the pieces begin to fit together once C.O.G. and those who have been involved are placed alongside other developments that have dramatically and tragically altered the course of America over the past several decades. It is time to shed some light on this rogue operation and to expose it to the scrutiny and oversight that is necessary in order to preserve a Constitution that has been under relentless siege from America hating fifth columnists.

EE

The Hillary Hustle

Do The Hustle

Denver, CO – At the main entrance to Denver International Airport there is a towering statue of a blue fiberglass bronco with blazing eyes. Mustang is the closest thing to a horse from Hell that I have personally ever seen and the fucker is eerily disturbing on a very basic level. It pops up visibly from miles away as you drive into that massive airport that is closer to the fucking Kansas state line than the Mile High City like some primitive warning to ward off warring tribes, very primal. The story behind the damned thing apparently is more than somewhat macabre as it fell upon the sculptor one Luis Jiminez, killing him prior to being finished which to the more superstitious amongst us is in and of itself enough to send chills up the spine and make the roots of hair follicles tingle. The brutal irony of this monstrosity guarding DIA with the coming war for the future of the Democratic party at the Denver convention this August is absolutely delicious. That Denver International Airport is an ill-planned abortion that somehow despite its marketing as essential for the future the planners never even considered the concept of $4 a gallon gasoline (which is one day going to evoke nostalgia about the good old days) and the effects on a local population that is spread out from Colorado Springs to damned near Fort Collins but the geniuses responsible for societal planning and engineering normally can’t be troubled with such silly pessimistic projections when there is money to be made. Former Denver Mayor and Bill Clinton cabinet member Federico Peña was sure to take care of his buddies on that one. But in giving credit where it is due it's a damned good place if you are facing a layover, a fuck of a lot better than a lot of other airports.

The ironic thing about Mustang the metallic blue steed from Hades is that it tragically was responsible for the death of it’s creator (albeit accidentally) and the blazing shitstorm of an avenging army of Hillary Rodham-Clinton’s crusaders threaten to similarly topple the giant blue iconic jackass of the Democratic party. Crushing it to death like some deranged and blinded by rage feminist Frankenstein that has after being instrumental in transforming the party from a labor based bastion of middle class fairness into some sort of a hijacked craft turned into a missile of death along which they and the myriad of other bitchy, self-centered special interest groups that have been used to make political hay by a merciless Republican juggernaut. The GOP has largely run every election of the past three decades against Hanoi Jane, the party millstone of Roe v. Wade (the unconditional support of which in my opinion and this is going to get me fucking eviscerated here – needs to be rethought as it is a strategic disaster), socially deviant ‘America hating’ liberals who want to murder babies and sacrifice God on the altar of sexual perversion as exemplified by the great monolithic conspiracy of the damned evil homosexual agenda. The city of Denver is going to be the place where Gog throws down with Magog in a few months and the forces of the drooling Succubus Clinton are hellbent on waging a scorched Earth campaign that will likely leave “Mustang” in the rear view mirrors of their rental cars after the convention as a flaming pillar of salt.

That the entitled pasty white uber bitch Clinton won’t do the honorable thing and just step aside for the good of the country only means that the brutal cyber thuggery by the bastard alliance of the Hillemming-Dittohead factions of the establishment’s Praetorian Guard will continue to wreak havoc. They will allow lazy public relations shills and party hacks with vested interests in protecting the status quo to hog airtime in an thoroughly corrupt pocket media that is all to eager to continue to shovel shit to the electorate rather than focus on the REAL issues of true importance and further alienate anyone with any sort of intellectual ability from this garish and insulting process designed to perpetuate the biggest lie of all – that we live in an actual functional democracy instead of a rotting, blood soaked poverty ridden police state courtesy of arch criminals like the Clintons and the Bushes and the corporatists, the militarists and the energy and financial cartels which they serve. The sham democracy is just a pig that no amount of perfume is going to cover the stench of and each additional day of dicking around so that the Queen can ascend to her rightful place – and FUCK all you haters who would deny the post menopausal Tracy Flick what she is owed. This thing is an ongoing fucking horror and is only going to result in handing the keys to Bush’s throne room and the launch codes of the nuclear football to the maniacal John McCain and his filthy little Zionist dead ender butt buddy Joe Lieberman the Senator of Tel Aviv who will all too gladly reap the rewards of an October surprise massive bombing of Tehran.

The latest travesty in the ongoing Democratic carnival of perversion is the preposterous front group Countthevotescast.org now bringing pressure down on the DNC rules committee to allow Clinton to sashay into the Sunshine State ala the Bush 2000 shock troops and mug democracy in the heat and humidity of the bug and speculator infested diseased penis of America. They are continuing to foment divisiveness and bleat that poor little rich bitch Hillary has unfairly been discriminated against by the woman hating bully boys in America, this comes as the ultimate in black comedy (no pun intended) with the Clinton forces and their pick up drivin’ Rush Limbaugh lovin’ temps are doing everything but screaming ‘Dirty Militant Niggers’ at Barack Obama and his wife Michelle. It’s all the 60’s dynamic again, that is all that politics in time warp America has become. Get ready for another round of battles in the Vietnam war because baby burning war criminal McCain is already getting ready to roll out Operation Arc Light II once the Clinton piranhas have feasted on Obama for a few more months.

It’s the exact real life example of Rick Perlstein’s new book Nixonland where he examines how the dark master, Tricky Dick himself set into motion a perpetual hatred and resentment machine that has defined politics in America for the past 40 years. This same apparatus is being seized on by Clinton herself who should really be above such things given her tendency to wail and play the victim card. Nixon also perfected the demonizing of the so-called ‘elites’ which to the white niggers and other assorted morons in peckerwood nation are simply those who have some of that fancy book lernin’ and the real elitists, the high falutin’ frauds who are married to beer distributor heiresses, former U.S. presidents and rub elbows with the Superclass of Davos, the Bilderberg Group and the Council on Foreign Relations just keep riling up the rubes. The latest ridiculous sideshow about Obama quitting his church is another log on the fires of the racial and religious bonfires that are being stoked by the Dixiecrat Clintons.

I digress here but all of this religious horseshit is really getting to the point of no return. I do applaud Obama for quitting his church but only in the way that ALL of the bitches and bastards should also quit THEIR churches which are dens of iniquity for idiots and apostates. The more that modern man invokes God the more that we will de-evolve as a society to the point where we are nothing more than more corpulent, easily entertained and more easily controlled simple beasts as our cave dwelling ancestors. Let’s hear it for a constitutional amendment making it illegal for anyone other than an ATHEIST to run for public office so that we can start basing our discourse on rationality and Enlightenment ideas rather than the same simplistic swill that had our predecessors bashing in each other’s skulls, cutting off each others heads and burning people at the stake for. Religion is low minded drivel, superstitious nonsense and has been used as a tool of control for as long as man has walked on two feet, my two cents as an agnostic and a big...

A – fucking – Men!

Anyway, all of this elitist, misogynist caterwauling by the Clintons is nothing but the most cynical of all pandering to the most offended and victimized, I dare anyone to tell me how this is any different than Bush and Karl Rove’s standard demagoguery. I truly find it to be sardonically hilarious as well as bitingly ironic that the highest pitched keening emanating from the Clinton campaign has been that happy horseshit about misogyny and the terrible chauvinist pigs who are pillorying the champion of women’s rights, the same Hillary Rodham-Clinton who green lighted those reactionary fascist swine John Roberts and Sammy Alito to the SCOTUS. I also can’t stop laughing (or is it crying, sometimes I just don’t fucking know anymore) about their acceptance of support from the minions of Mr. Feminazi himself Rush Limbaugh to wage war against the hated brown skinned devil Obama. How in good conscious could ANYBODY or any GROUP who has been so consistently vilified for fun and profit by the fetid pied piper of faux white male populist propaganda fucking seriously even think about accepting assistance from he or his jagoff angry army? Come November when Operation Chaos has been successfully completed and the Republicans are able to do what was once thought of as not only inconceivable but impossible in staving off a landslide loss I would seriously like to hear some of the ladies who are buying into this bullshit explain with a straight face exactly what the FUCK they were thinking about.

Ladies, just ask yourselves a question: how many more American and Iraqi civilian lives have to be put on the tab in order to continue to play this game? Why not jut punt, do the right thing for the country and wait until a more suitable female candidate who isn’t a scheming, corrupt, warmongering corporate whore can make a legitimate run for the presidency minus the baggage of Mrs. Clinton? Things really CAN change if the politics of the 60’s are rejected and by default the only candidate with a legitimate chance of pulling it off and building that bridge to the future is Barack Obama, no matter how flawed that he is. Look, it’s not as if there isn’t misogyny in this society, there should be no illusions about that but Hillary is hustling American women and feminists with an amoral intent and fully understanding that she is taking advantage of a legitimate desire to see a woman president in this sordid shithole of lies and revisionist history written to obscure all the discrimination, fear, murder and ugliness of the past. It’s tantamount to mental rape and it should be recognized for the pandering that it is and unequivocally rejected while there is still time to avoid the oncoming train wreck. She has been playing women like a maestro with a Stradavarius, every tactic that she is using is straight out of the exploiting victim hood playbook used by Nixon, Rove, Atwater and every other dirty political thug who cares not jack shit about anything other than power.

Misogyny is pervasive in American culture and it extends far beyond flippant invocations of the pejoratives “cunt” and “bitch” and the accompanying knee jerk reactions to them. Let's face it, it is as ingrained in our national DNA ("To The Moon Alice!")as are the same primitive characteristics as homophobia, racism and jingoism and there are ways to address these things without rubbing raw the open sores of discontent of other groups who have suffered similar indignities. If there is a true way to attack misogyny it lies in taking on a culture that trades in the objectification of women to sell products, to reduce females to nothing more than a pair of tits and a vagina to be used by the beer sodden creeps who are target marketed by corporations during sporting events and whose often lackluster and pathetic lives only embitter them against women because of this false image that they have been indoctrinated with. It only breeds animosity, sexism and more of the type of scapegoating for monetary and political gain that Rush Limbaugh, Hillary Rodham-Clinton and their ilk parlay into money, influence and power.

Late breaking news, Mrs. Rodham-Clinton has just won the Puerto Rico primary so the spanking of the donkey continues, the spinners and professional bull shitters like James Carville, Terry McAuliffe and the rest of the Clintonite scum only pile more incendiary material onto the war wagon that is rolling every more quickly towards the Mile High City and gaining momentum.