Sea of Deception

Bush Light has same machinery behind him to squeeze another term out

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Sea of Deception
by oktaby
29-Jan-2012
 

The great deception is still ongoing. Four years into the financial ‘crisis’, while the general economy seems to be on the mend, even if at anemic pace, unemployment is still perniciously high and projected to remain so for foreseeable future. Obama’s populist rhetoric continues as he claims the state of the union to be strong. In this version for 2012 elections he is the champion of middle class as he warns the need to protect it. Meanwhile, the candidate who had the richest of rich propel him to the presidency as the media made him a rock star and has done nothing past seem so glorious, continues to get more money from Wall Street than all Republican candidates combined.

That was true before he was first elected and has been true since. Every year including his first year as he was labeled a ‘socialist’ in the media owned by the very rich that supported him. Nine trillion dollars later handed to the ultra rich was his thank you as he ‘fought’ for a health care that has no public component as a ‘concession’ to get the bill done. For that we now have an insurance industry that has a tighter grip on health, more consolidation of Wall Street financials, banks and almost every other sector of the economy and less competition than ever before. Had a white president done what Obama has, people’s anger would have turned violent, making the 60’s riots look peaceful in comparison.

The richest have become even more so during the Obama presidency, and more so every year he has been president, and the Bush tax cut extension was another ‘concession’ he ‘had’ to make. Disparity between rich and poor in America today is greater than that of Egypt. Yet it took three years into his presidency to propose a ‘jobs’ proposal even at a relatively meager $400 Billion (about 4% given out to banks et al) and of course, it would still not materialize. Meanwhile, not a single major perpetrator of various frauds, schemes and thievery has been brought to justice despite some hearing entertainment shows, and executive and board compensations at top financial and insurance related sectors are even higher than before 2008 with Goldman Sacks, Obama’s dear advisor, and supplier of most key financial government positions including most Treasury Department positions as in Geithner or Paulson before him.

Bush Light, aka Obama, has lost much of his shine, here and overseas but has the same machinery behind him to squeeze another term out. Of course, Republican characters and buffoonery help this divine comedy. Rumors of his intent to start a war with the rapist republic, seem to have some life but he does not need to start it, rather put them in a position to walk into a trap or an outright façade; much like the Gulf of Tonkin. Much like his presidency and the immaterial but well planned Iraq NO vote years earlier, the path has been mapped with precision. He has sent Norooz greetings and a few other messages of rapprochement, and quietly swapped captured ‘diplomats’ with IRR quietly in early days of post 2009 uprisings as he gave lip service to those getting killed in the street. Rest assured, Obama ba oonast, na ba ma.

His sanctions against Iran will position him as strong on foreign policy, and his new middle class championing will take care of domestic front with a little luck and printing more dollars. Not bad for the rapist republic either as its failure at every conceivable level has become apparent except for its hired lobbyist and apologists from Dabashi to Parsi. And if he cannot extract enough concessions from them and war ensues, he can say all diplomatic options were exhausted and cannot allow violation of Nuclear redline. He will have certainly further fortified his credentials for the Nobel Peace Prize he won while pouring more soldiers into Afghanistan, kissed Saudi king's hand like a subject as he showcased Saudi Arabia and Egypt as examples of progress, looked the other way in Egypt and Bahrain while endorsing a war on oil-rich Libya without actually getting into one. Never mind untold atrocities ongoing in various parts of Central Asia endorsed in the ever filthy game of oil.

The good news in this sea of deception of the last three-plus decades that started with 'devolution of 79' and election of Reagan’, as Margaret Thatcher expressed so casually a few years back, is the Occupy Movement. It may not show its full impact on 2012 elections, but it will mature as more Americans start smelling the fumes as the great hoax unravels, and starts reclaiming American democracy. The crescendo of the Occupy Movement will take a while but it almost has to end in murder. A very high profile murder of the most prominent and well protected the history of democracy. Liberal democracy died a long time ago but without an occupy-type of success, democracy has no hope at all; any form of democracy.

Fortunes of Iran and America seem to be tied in a strange twist of fate. Perhaps that explains why Iranians in America have fared so well as a population. We are more alike than different and our mutual is different kinds of slide of past three decades is not all coincidental.

Now do you think anyone else is going to win the 2012 presidential elections?

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divaneh

by oktaby on Tue Jan 31, 2012 08:19 PM PST

Obama's Iranian parallel is Khatami. Even the set up and euphoria preceding the two elections are comparable.

the RBS (not UBS) case I mentioned earlier is an indicator of problem in UK because that bonus accompanies layoff of 3500 people, so your point about UK is on target. As is the general decline of standards globally. And it is across Western Europe where more of American style crony capitalism has been adopted. By all accounts including an interesting survey in UK, people admit they are less honest than before and  younger the age seem to be more indifferent and dishonest.

There are grand patterns that often are mixed with conspiracy theories (from Free Mason to Bilderberg to Rotchild...) and then there are great patterns that seem to be driven by ability to do. Why dogs lick themselves and men don't? because men can't. 

The point is technologies of control and manipulation have reached a level that a mix of shock, disinformation and media management is amazingly potent and effective. The old British axiom was "mastery of the sea is the key to the mastery of the world". Now it is mastery of the media to fully control the message; aka hearts and minds. Part of this was explored in The Shock Doctrine exploring 'disaster capitalism' is worth a look.

//www.amazon.com/Shock-Doctrine-Rise-Disaster...

 

Oktaby


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divaneh

Corruption to the core

by divaneh on Tue Jan 31, 2012 06:36 PM PST

Thanks for this informative blog Oktaby. I also think that the occupy movement is a ray of hope and have targeted the right culprits.

It is true that none of the two main parties are the protectors of the middle or lower class interests but I don't know what a politician such as Obama could achieve in a short period without shooting the economy in the foot. Here in the UK economy suffers from the same corruption of the financial systems. Everyone from Moody's and S&P to fools such as AIG and foxes such as Goldman Sachs played their role in the sub-prime mortgage scam that wrecked too many lives. People’s own grid and insensibility drove the whole thing. The unrestrained capitalism has freed itself from all the chains that were placed on it after it ruined so many lives in the 1920s.

What has always upset me is the easy going attitude of the majority of people in the West who trust the system when they should be critical of it. They keep ceding their democratic rights as the result of this undeserved confidence in those in charge. The gap between the rich and poor has been widening in the UK too and if something doesn't change soon, those riots will be a more regular occurrences.


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oktaby

Freddie Mac

by oktaby on Tue Jan 31, 2012 03:28 PM PST

Betting against home owners.

In a nutshell, Freddie Mac, the government subsidised mortgage authority loaned money, say at 7%, sold the principal, and kept the interest rights. Then it turned around and bet that the same borrower won't be able to get a modified loan at lower rate (and worked to make sure that was the case). Just another nail in the coffin of the middle class. All of this is the same crony capitalism that has been fully supported via total lack of oversight and reform by Obam-nist administration even after the original100+ billion dollar of tax payer money was handed to them 3 years ago. This is just another in a string of 'too big to fail' facade and big talk but do nothing Obamaism.

//www.npr.org/2012/01/30/145995636/freddie-ma...

 

Oktaby


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oktaby

APFSM

by oktaby on Mon Jan 30, 2012 07:40 PM PST

Thanks.

For America, the sooner the corporate 'Personhood' is done away with,
the sooner America can get back on the right track (link is in the first comment) 

33 years into this joy sucking, dehumanizing, sex obsessed, child molesting IRR, you still get a knee jerk reaction when people hear the Pahlavi name, as though that was the beginning and end of all that was wrong with Iran. Most have been beneficiaries of the very system they curse. You can still see the Shah and Sheikh cliche thrown around as though that actually means Shah and Molla are the same just because they were/are both dictatorship. They argue minutia but cannot see a difference between a progressive if politically restricted condition of Iran of pre-devolution and Erteja' of today. It is easier to equate everything so you can curse it all and stay clear. It is the Iranian way.

The same people talk of fairness & justice as though it is totally detached from who they are and how they conduct themselves. Somehow they do not see themselves as part of what was and is.

I hope by the time we get to that understanding, it is not a day late a dollar short.

Oktaby


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amirparvizforsecularmonarchy

Well done Oktaby on article,

by amirparvizforsecularmonarchy on Mon Jan 30, 2012 03:29 PM PST

So true, was reading Time and can only say "Shadid poshteh Obama Bood"

Pool darah hamoontor poshteh obama hastan ke zedeh shah boodan.  Hamoon machinery keh shahro bename dictator be hameh maroofi kard ashegeh islam dar iran hast va negar dashtaneh akhoondah. Nowkar Obamam yad gerefteh donya dasteh kiyeh va dorrogooaroh komac mikoneh, .


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oktaby

Don't know

by oktaby on Mon Jan 30, 2012 08:54 AM PST

If the best is yet to come or worse MG. We shall see, but it is hard to see a peaceful outcome without some significant shifts in attitudes of the elite and feeling of entitlement. Crony capitalism is thethe worse. Just last week in London, the guy at UBS residing over a disaster got about 1.6 M in bonuses in the midst of another round of service cuts.

 

Vilde Jan,

Thanks. It is easy to forget or overlook how close we were.

//iranian.com/main/news/2009/10/04/theyre-glo...

Oktaby


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vildemose

Excellent post. Very

by vildemose on Mon Jan 30, 2012 07:39 AM PST

Excellent post.

Very scary:

 //www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=yrhYk2mbfsk

 A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.--Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.


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Mash Ghasem

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by Mash Ghasem on Mon Jan 30, 2012 07:51 AM PST

Interesting take. Indeed, neoliberalism is still strong, though it is widely discredited and unpopular  it is still practiced in Europe, US,..Thacherism and Reaganomics are still alive and practiced on a daily basis.

Occupy movement is a sign hope, but only that, a catalyst, a sign. For this movement to actually grow to an extant to be able to nationally or internationally challenge the power structures, it still has light years to go. BTW Occupy Oakland (after having 400 arrests over the weekend) has called for an international day of shut down on May First. 

The best is yet to come?


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oktaby

Related Links

by oktaby on Mon Jan 30, 2012 06:41 AM PST

The link missing from the paragraph second to last:

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=-M54Z-Bzgcw

Original Manchurian Candidate Article Oct/2009:

//iranian.com/main/2009/oct/manchurian-candid...

Oktaby


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