Friday, December 15, 2006

MORE ON THE 'MARGINAL-MAJORITY' IN THE SENATE

'All power to the people.'
--Thomas Paine

Here's a link to a very cognizant take on the whole issue surrounding Sen. Tim Johnson. While it appears he's going to be in the Senate no-matter-what now, things can change. Nonetheless, even if he were to leave the Senate, it would NOT give the GOP a majority. So why has the media picked-up this tack? Probably because they're predominantly owned by the right, or simply due to a concentration of ownership (first enabled by Reagan deregulation, & continued by the Democrats under Clinton of the FCC--take-that, kooky libertarians) that no sane nation would tolerate. Take this quote from the TownHall.com piece by Rich Galen, titled 'That Pesky Constitution' :

"Ah HAH," I can hear you saying. "What if Vice President Cheney, as President of the Senate, strolls in a vote for Mitch McConnell (R-KY). Doesn't that create a 50-50 tie?"
Yes. It would. Except he is Constitutionally forbidden to do that. According to Article I Section 3: The Vice President of the United States shall be President of the Senate, but shall have no vote, unless they be equally divided. Thus, a Vice President can only vote to break a tie. He cannot vote to create one [a tie-vote--my emphasis].


Read the article, it's very enlightening, a voice of reason in the abyss of the internet. For those who would claim the piece is 'partisan'--forget it, Galen was a press secretary for Dan Quayle and Newt Gingrich. Save it. I suspected the math was being fudged in the wire articles, and this is exactly why this is the fact. While the news media lies and obfuscates about this for their right-wing masters, observers like Galen speak the plain-truth. A simple glance at most of the articles and blurbs reveal an almost sexually-charged hope that Johnson would die, while many had a tone that he was virtually dead.

This should raise some flags. Ever wonder why the newspapers and the media in-general aren't trusted? I don't, just read the blogs--hah, you are! Authoritarian-led media outlets
eventually become useless to their owners when this trend occurs. You and I can now scour the internet for foreign news, blogs, and numerous other sources to compare against the 'conventional wisdom'. Everyone in the Soviet Union knew Pravda was lying, and the American public are experiencing a similar-awakening. It was easier in the Soviet Union, everyone knew it was a tyranny from-inception, but progressives have the myth of democracy to counter here. We can once again thank the Bush administration for throwing this myth into-confusion, dropping the scales from the eyes of millions.

Galen's article amounts to a bridge-building action that I applaud, and there are certainly rational conservatives out there. Amazing, I know, but they are out there. We have an historical opportunity here that would be absurd to botch--but the Left-in-general is adept at this. It would behoove the Left to ally-themselves with these rational conservatives in a Populist coalition. It's time for a real Third Party movement, with the realization that we still have to pressure the existing political-context to do what we want and need them to do for the common good. This is picking-up where things collapsed for Populism during the 1920s-30s, but rest-assured there would have been a marginal 'New Deal' without their ideals and agitating.

Splitting-hairs ( identity politics, primarily) won't accomplish anything, we have to discover what we all agree-on. Getting candidates into Congress should be the main-agenda, not stupid, symbolic Presidential candidacies. Power flows from Washington, so get over it. Power isn't a dirty-word, it's something we all need to grab back, and for those who don't understand power-politics: step-aside. We're not in Kansas anymore, and there is no Wizard. There is only we, the people. We are the only solution to the mess we're in as a nation. The GOP has a funny way with math, they don't have the number-zero in their system, it seems. More of that football-is-life ideology. Lack.

Mr. Galen's Article:
http://www.townhall.com/Columnists/RichGalen/2006/12/15/that_pesky_constitution


12.18.2006: There's a reason I never give to NPR. They suck.

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  1. I have a hell of a lot of common ground with Ron Paul, or Bob Barr-even Dick Armey, to an extent. We all want the US Constitution to be the foundation of the nation-not any Jesusistan "Unitary Executive."

    There's a lot of room for us to work together in. It is for sure, however, that the Chimpromised MSM will do all it can to keep rational voices from left OR right away from the podium.

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  2. I'm feeling you, except on the part of the Jesuits. The Jesuits have a history of autonomy within the Vatican's power-base, and have gone-against them for centuries. I'm anti-clerical, anti-Vatican, but not anti-Catholic. Make sense? Thanks for the post, however, everyone who values liberty needs to start finding the bridges that can unite us here in North America--Canadians, you're at-risk here too with a tottering American democracy.

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    FRONT LINE, VATICAN, MY CATHOLIC FRIENDS by Barry Chamish

    I point out that Israel's leaders are deliberately wiping out the nation, and the Jews boycott me. I prove the Vatican's fingers are in Israel's upcoming ruin and two top-notch Catholic writers rush to my side.
    I knew Francisco Gil-White was a terrific writer years ago and so we've remained corresponding writer buddies. Since being fired from his professor's post for defending Jews, he has entered the heights of living legend status in a few circles. Before putting out his latest piece, he awaited my comments:

    "Finally getting better. Thanks! My article on Perfidy is finished. I will put it up today on a blind link so that you can see it and give me last minute comments. I want to publish it tonight. Francisco Gil-White"

    Naturally, I replied that he wrote a triumph. It's time for a parade. Look how he concludes his essay:

    http://www.hirhome.com/israel/leaders4.htm

    From Francisco Gil-White:

    "This is the most important lesson: just as the Nazis needed Rudolf Kastner to distract and reassure the Hungarian Jews, so do the forces that would now destroy the Israeli Jews need Ehud Olmert or any of the main current pretenders to the Israeli prime ministership to distract and dupe the Israelis -- and to repress any protest, too -- while the next slaughter, due very soon, is being prepared.

    "This is a very difficult lesson for Jews to learn because they don’t know the above history, educated as they have been by the leaders of Labor Zionism, who to this day control most of the major Jewish organizations in the Diaspora, as well as the Israeli government, the Israeli education system, and the Israeli media. And it is difficult to learn because they would rather cling to their illusions than to their very lives. As George Santayana correctly said “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” The Jews are about to repeat their own tragic past.

    "Is this inevitable? Well no. But without a revolution, it is a certain outcome. If the Israeli Jews simply trust that their so-called leaders will defend them, or that their Diaspora brethren will come in a white horse to rescue them, their fate will be identical to that of the Hungarian Jews in WWII.

    "The Hungarian Jews trusted. And they died."
    Why, he sounds just like me. So maybe someone will listen to him. After all, he's not...well, me.
    And look at the week enjoyed by King Juan Carlos. Yes, the same one I exposed in my book, Save Israel. Go to www.lulu.com and look. I claim that every diplomatic move in the Middle East must first pass by his grimy talons. I show that he believes he is the rightful "Guardian Of Jerusalem's Holy Places." But did you know that the Jesuit-educated monarch is also Council of Arab House in Madrid. And betcha you didn't know that he gathered a group of the Middle East's hottest foreign ministers to discuss Israel's removal from the Golan and Palestine.
    That's what the Vatican does on its day off:

    http://www.sana.org/eng/22/2007/02/22/104209.htm

    MADRID,(SANA)_ King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia of Spain opened Thursday in Madrid the Arab House and Spanish Political Conference with the participation of Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem and Foreign Ministers of Saudi Arabia, UAE, Tunisia, Yemen, Iraq and Jordan.

    King Carlos, who heads council of Secretaries in the Arab house, hoped this conference would be the starting point for an Arab-Spanish ministerial forum and a framework for political interaction for reaching joint stances in future.

    Al-Moallem, in a speech he delivered, underlined importance of reviving the Arab-Europe dialogue, touching upon the important role that Spain is playing as " a bridge between the Arab and Europe in understanding the region's causes."

    He called for reviving the Middle East peace process with the aim of reaching a just and comprehensive settlement that ends the Israeli occupation of the occupied Arab territories in the Golan and Palestine.

    He underlined necessity of Europe to shoulder a more dynamic role towards a number of causes on top of which is the Middle East peace process and offering the necessary aid to the Palestinian government.

    The Ministerial declaration of the conference stressed the dire need for finding a solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict.

    Those who know my writing have long concluded that any Israeli who touches the Vatican their way, will become mighty sullied. Yitzhak Rabin was murdered and his wife, at the first
    legal opportunity, flies to the pope. Why? Oh, just to hear herself threatened not to open her mouth and get Shimon in trouble. Ex- Pres. Katsav wouldn't give the Vatican the Last Supper Room on Mount Zion. He faces 6 charges of rape a year later.
    Now my charming Catholic friend has sent me her new book, Vatican Ratline by Mauri, www.reflectionsinthenight.com
    For years she has keep my morale high by commenting on my handsome looks. And she means it, girls. And now I learn, she knows of what she speaks. That is a secret between me and book buyers. Of the Vatican's burning desire for the Last Supper Room, she writes: "The first celebration of the new Church was of the Last Supper of Christ. This later developed into the Catholic mass. While I can understand the emotion of the crucifixion, it is still a celebration of death."
    I am proud to say, I receive proper referrals in the volume as I have in such books as Gideon's Spies, Gordon Thomas; Lies, Dr. David Morrison, A Cup Of Tea, Tim White, David's Uncle, Hebrew, this 900 page volume is now mostly credited to Dr. Hillel Weiss, etc.
    Now here is a fine modern writer, Mauri, who believes in my research. Refreshing, no?

    pp 59 - "By the Vatican's own definition of a Crusade, the Catholic Church Crusade continues in secret down to the present day. It's goal is the creation of 'A New World Order' under the Church Of Rome."

    pp 60 - "Combine an obsession with death and the need for a scapegoat to spread passion to the flock, and The Passion Play is given birth."

    pp 102 - 'The goal of a one world religion is to come out on top and then consume all the competing religions into your flock. The biggest player is the Roman Catholic Church, whose goal is to give Jerusalem to the 'infallible' pope so that he may rule the world from Solomon's rebuilt Temple and be worshiped as a living god. The Jews would prove important in their plans by the use of both sympathy and by creating global anti-Jewish fury. The Muslims have a role to play, mostly terrorist."

    pp 103 - "The false messiah, Shabtai Tzvi, founded the Donmeh sect in the 1600s. His followers founded the Sabbataian cult. The movement spread through Europe in the 18th Century by Jacob Frank and his followers, the Frankists. Add Jesuit influence and the automatic result is the deterioration of the cult into mind-controlled criminal activity and Satanism. Could such a group work with the Nazis in the killing of millions of fellow Jews?"

    pp 108 - "The principles of Zionism, the creation of a Jewish State in Palestine, seem a benevolent answer to worldwide anti-Semitism. But one must always question the random acts of kindness by the global elite. Zionism may have led to the Holocaust of the remaining Jews in Europe.

    pp 111 - "The Vatican's goal of control of Jerusalem, moves ever closer to reality, through the help of corruption at the highest levels of the Zionist movement in Israel. That extra element of War, was added by pushing the Muslims around in the area, so that there could be no peace. Jimmy Carter of the Council On Foreign Relations ordered a covert war against the Soviets in Afghanistan and the CIA funded the Taliban. The secret training and funding of Muslim groups for war continued alongside the training and funding of Israel. The end result of this intentional setting of one group against another was a guaranteed holocaust in the Middle East."

    pp 120 - "The Vatican had gone to a lot of trouble to get the Jews where they wanted them, which was in Israel. And they didn't want them prematurely wiped out. The Jews were the scapegoat for the war in Europe, and the Vatican was positioning them to be the scapegoat for the coming war in the Middle East."

    pp 121 - "No one in this Game is operating with free will. It is the intent of the Game, world domination, which needs to be destroyed. It is time for Rome to disappear into history."

    end

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    BOOK REVIEW: //BYE BYE GAZA// – BARRY CHAMISH

    At last I have my own copy of //Bye Bye Gaza// by Barry Chamish.

    As always, Barry's most recent book is a tour de force of information, sources and quotes showing how the forces of Israel's elite have conspired to destroy the Jewish State – or at least its truly Jewish individuals and communities – and sadly how the majority of the 'Right' have ignored or spurned his warnings. I guess I have a minor axe to grind as all the Gush Katif pictures in the book – and on the cover – were taken/supplied by me!

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