Obama/Politics Rant!

Here's my Mum's response to me previous email/post (she calls it a 'Rant' herself so that's why I've titled it so). She did tell me what the 'CFR' is before... and if I can get her to start using this Blog instead of emailing me stuff and then me posting it here, I'll ask her again about that. I should say that I find my Mum's views on stuff interesting, entertaining, somewhat paranoid (but that doesn't mean they AREN'T all out to get us!), and at the very least they make me think about stuff outside the 'norm', so while I don't agree with much of what she believes, I also don't believe what much of the rest of the World believes either, so I suppose that evens things up...

1. I didn't say the Obamas were 'corrupt' or even stooges, they are the real thing.

2. Yes, they are intelligent, articulate, hardworking etc, I didn't say they weren't.

That's exactly why the intense scrutiny produced fast results.. Ideal people, easy to sell, electable. Wonderful. The CFR Elites are no fools - they are not going to groom and promote idiots - waste of time. They need the real thing. But it is a deliberate program Math. They, and most people in Congress and the Senate are also, to a large extent, 'bought and paid for' - in other words, they follow the line - that's why Ron Paul is virtually the only maverick - his ideas would destroy their power and return it to the States & people.

You know all this, but I'll say it anyway.

America is run, behind the scenes, by bankers (via the Fed) and big business. However well intentioned the current President is, he can do virtually nothing without those two powerful lobbies behind him. Nothing. The Fed/bankers issue and control the money supply, big business controls the rest. The military-industrial complex likes war, because it is highly profitable - for them anyway, tho it leaves the country in debt - and that's good for the bankers too... a nice comfy mutual profit centre. Hence the war in Iraq.

The FDA is in cahoots with big Pharma and the health insurance industry. Big mutual profits again. They have control, and the politicians sell the "benefits of a health industry, serving the people", so centrally run and the cost of healthcare explodes, leaving the working poor vulnerable. So much for American liberalism (ie "socialism") Fine in theory, and genuinely good, caring people, like you, believe and hope that it works. Well, it doesn't - that's the real pity.

It didn't work in Russia or China and look what's going on there now - they're no fools. Selective capitalism - run by the rich and powerful for a limited number, leaving the peasants marginalised . I saw it myself in Beijing. The Chinese must all pay for their childrens' education, thus ensuring ongoing lack of power/influence and a limited number within the middle class, leaving the peasants to rot or be economically forced to move from country to city - to grind the wheels of industry. (Read "The Trap" by James Goldsmith (of all people!!) published in '94, mainly about Europe, but still relevant and a good read.)

Socialism, while purporting to benefit the underdog, actually concentrates power to the rich and tends to marginalise the poor. But that's planned too. They are then controllable - the serfs - and it eventually wipes out people who could cause trouble - the lower and middle classes. The middle class is being wiped out in America right now Math, although the poor still have their meagre benefits - but that's more social control to keep them in place.

Now, you label me a 'right winger'. Does all that sound right wing? I would love true equal opportunity socialism to work the way it is meant to. I truly care about the working man - as you do - and the only thing that differentiates us is the means to the desired end. But I am a realist, not an idealist. Perhaps that just comes with age - I was an idealist once - in the early 70's - read several books on Communism - still got them - I was full of hope and interest, until we realised it just wasn't working the way it should. Collapse of idealistic dreams, followed by relief and the necessary pain of Thatcherism... which finally got us through the slough of despond. Results not perfect by any means, but a damn sight better than suffering the madness of blind and useless socialism. I lived through it.

OK, I know you will remind me that your Democrats are more like our Tories... but I really don't see much evidence of that in the Dem policies being put forward by any of them.......and that is not an argument to re-elect the currently evil Reps. They are finished. The tragedy is that the current candidates are basically all the same - and I grant that Obama does show a little more promise than the others and I wish him the best of luck.

So - back to the beginning of my rant - that they are all being driven by the hidden power lords - not just there, but here in Europe too. One World Government is the aim. But this time, they may have gone too far. Unless drastic changes are made very soon, the US will be bankrupt, the dollar will collapse, and the current recession might soon turn into a depression worse than the 30's. But even then, that's OK.... for the rich. Let the people suffer, what do the elites care? The long planned program will have been achieved.

Although I do think things are in a terrible mess after seven years of Criminal mismanagement/neglect by BushCo, I personally don't think drastic changes are going to be made anytime soon. The history of the US is a series of incremental changes (some dramatic, but incremental nonetheless), and I don't think that will change, even with Obama at the helm, so I guess 'the End is Nigh!' ;-)

Left Wing Son, Right Wing Mom

Here's my Mum's take away from watching the Michelle Obama Video. As an introduction to her, I should say here that she's very intelligent, thoughtful, has been following the elections in the US avidly, and so is very well informed about all this, so I consider this a 'valid' response as opposed to just knee jerk antipathy. Although she is also a Ron Paul supporter, so she is speaking from her own perspective (as are we all!).

Just seen your posting of Obama's missus... yes, very polished and impressive - a very smooth, ambitious lady and a teflon politician - like him. Would be nice if the promises were fulfilled, (I hope they are) but both the Obama's are already bought and paid for.....how else would they rise to such prominence so quickly....? I shall watch with interest and my usual cynicism, as the elites in the Bilderberg/CFR - (of which she is a member) pull their strings behind the scenes. Just don't expect too many changes in policies...the President is just the front man, he'll do as he's told and if he doesn't, they'll kill him too, like Kennedy et al.

So, anyways, I guess her argument is not a million miles away from the 'bittergate' controversy being peddled here at the moment (which I should say I personally find disingenuous at best and claptrap at worst) - he's an 'elite', 'smooth', 'paid for' Politician, not genuine, and will be the same as all the rest - he's a fake etc. That is to say, because every other politician, and especially Bush etc has been an utter disaster in recent history, we should assume that he is also going to be an utter disaster. Again, because of all of the mistakes that he has not made, we should somehow penalize him. Which, as I say, I find exceedingly strange. Here's my response to my Mum -

Hehe. How would they rise to prominence so quickly? Well, of course, maybe they are, in the face of all evidence to the contrary, given the intense scrutiny given all candidates, completely corrupt, bought and paid for, stooges, etc. But, there may be just a tiny, slim, small chance that, ummm, he's intelligent, articulate, hard working, has been involved in politics all his life, and that people think that's pretty cool? :-) ;-) Maybe? Hehe... come ON Mum - at least give the guy a chance to F*ck up! :-) Maybe you're right. But then again, maybe you're wrong, and wouldn't it be good if he were for real huh? Yes - I HAVE drunk the Kool-Aid!! :-)

As she says, we'll see in a few years... maybe... if he gets elected, which I think would be marvellous for the country and the world, if only to change what is deemed possible. That's to say, I hope and believe that he would be a truly great President, but even if (as my Mum believes) he is eventually stymied and proved ineffectual, I still think that the mere fact of having a President who believes in doing things differently (quite apart from the obvious symbolism of an African American as President) will have a lasting effect on the World.

Bitter?

Damn! I don't know why people wouldn't be bitter! I know I am, about all the cr*p that's been going on in the last seven years! Here's Obama talking about the (manufactured) flap over his comments that people in small towns are 'bitter', which Hillary (who made $109m in the last 8 years) and McCain (who married a woman worth over $100m) have used to try and label him as an 'elitist'. It would be funny if it weren't so dumb...

Michelle Obama

Wow. Now that would be a first lady!

Clean Water!

This is pretty amazing. Nothing to replace, nothing to go wrong, low power... clean water everywhere...

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/03/colbert-and-kam.html

Parental Relationships

Here's something I thought was interesting and insightful from my Mum where she mentions the 'Follower' poem. She's talking about the different relationship between Mother/Son and Mother/Daughter, which is bound to be different, really, as it would be between Father/Don and Father/Daughter, if Dad were still alive...

Maybe it's not just a mother-daughter thing on the 'cross-over' - but it seems more dificult to manage than with sons - this strange period when the power between generations changes hands....the early dominant parent/child relationship gradually changes to child/parent..and it's hard for me to accept and you lot to manage that cross-over over the years while it's been happening So it's difficult for all while that power is being transferred and the adult children eventually assume responsibility but even then the parent has not yet arrived (me at the moment) at Shakespeare's 7th age - so sparks fly as it's difficult for both parties, especially when all strong willed. It's just trying to maintain the "I'm OK - You're OK" position (heard of that?) on my way to the 7th age when I finally relinquish all power 'sans everything'' and just shut up and do what I'm told.. Actually, that reminds me of one of Dad's favourite poems - "The Follower" I think it was called...Seamus Heany I think...

My Mum just pointed this poem out to me, said it was my Dad's favorite. I really like it. Captures a lot of my feelings about my Dad...

Follower

My father worked with a horse plough,
His shoulders globed like a full sail strung
Between the shafts and the furrow.
The horses strained at his clicking tongue.

An expert. He would set the wing
And fit the bright-pointed sock.
The sod rolled over without breaking.
At the headrig, with a single pluck

Of reins, the sweating team turned round
And back into the land. His eye
Narrowed and angled at the ground,
Mapping the furrow exactly.

I stumbled in his hobnailed wake,
Fell sometimes on the polished sod;
Sometimes he rode me on his back
Dipping and rising to his plod.

I wanted to grow up and plough,
To close one eye, stiffen my arm.
All I ever did was follow
In his broad shadow around the farm.

I was a nuisance, tripping, falling,
Yapping always. But today
It is my father who keeps stumbling
Behind me, and will not go away.

Seamus Heaney