"The Winter of Our Discontent"

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Subject: "The Winter of Our Discontent"

Date: Feb 7, 2008 2:33 AM

The Neocons are whooping up the war hysteria as they always have,
since that way
Israel gets the free, stolen, or discount armaments and US weapons
technology.
The "Military-Industrial Complex" are obviously happy to oblige these
fake, imaginary, Israeli "Team B" Doug Feithite, Wolfowitzite, Perlite
www.ISAPS.org demands.


HISTORY OF THE NEOCON TROUBLEMAKERS:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/02/01/ST2008020102523.html?sid=ST2008020102523

PHILIP GERALDI- SIBEL EDMONDS MUST BE HEARD:
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/02/04/6832/
(The NeoCons are, and have been all along, arms dealers for Israel,
such that duh
tear-rists get duh weapons....)

BigOil, and BigBioweapons are happy campers, too, wid duh "Create duh
Tear-rists"
game!
Or at least the were, anyway, until the nanos came along. Yale
Bioweaponeering,
Incorporated, has been almost completely defunded:
http://www.actionlyme.org
http://www.actionlyme.org/LYME_CORRUPTICUT.htm
The Yale Endowment fund ("The Yale Corporation") funded the start ups
PolyGenomics and L2 Diagnostics (the former Yale Lyme and Lupus
Clinic).


It was eventually discovered that no one could discover any actual
brains at Yale
or in the surrounding areas, like Har'fud (UConn) or Westchester.

Other companies, however, have in the past, found that they had
brains, and put
them to work making weapons, like Grumman, Lockhead Martin, Boeing,
UTC, Norden
Bomb Sights. Some of this engineering talent was imported from
outside the United
States.


The bottom line is that there is no hope for the country unless we
prosecute fraudulently
acquired assets, like from Kaiser-Permanente and SmithKline, because
we have absolutely
no other means to acquire capital. But there is no hope for the
country since lawyers
(USDOJ) are morons. Lawyers think like girls- like Karl Rove. They
play fairy-ass
sneaky games, and therefore are incompetent to bringing facts before a
"court."

They get no help from the AMA, however, since the AMA obviously can't
do it
either. The AMA is the creation of BigPharma, and if you sign on to
the MedScape
newsletter, it's never about anything but drugs. Pharmacy. 'As if
there
is no sci-med discovery that preceded the drugs. In many cases that's
exactly
what happened. BigPharma created a drug, accidentally, usually, and
then BigPharma
created the disease to go with the drug.

I think most educated, literate Americans see this now, but the USDOJ?
They're having a Fairy Contest with Karl Rove.

The USDOJ is an evil entity whose sole purpose has been to vacuum-
cutterage anyone
about to expose corporate/political crime or war crimes. "Political"
means
the entity committing the Fraud-on-the-Government crime, is the same
entity pointing
the finger at the innocent.

The Winter of Our Discontent, has been a happenin scene since at least
Bush 41.

Kathleen M. Dickson
--------
RAIMONDO:

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=12322

February 6, 2008
The Winter of Our Discontent
Election season, 2008
by Justin Raimondo

This is one election season in which the conventional wisdom is no
sooner formulated
than it is refuted by events: Hillary was "inevitable" - now she's
content to hold her ground. Rudolph Giuliani was the "frontrunner" in
the national polls - today he's a laughingstock, who earned the
distinction
of paying the most cash ever for a single delegate. As I put it at the
tail end
of last year, the theme of election season '08 is the collapse of the
alleged
frontrunners.

On the Democratic side, the big story is Barack Obama's strong
challenge to
the Clinton machine: coming on strong as the antiwar candidate, with
ads that clearly
pledged to get us out, Obama's momentum wasn't enough to overcome the
determined
rear guard action and racially divisive defense of the Clintonites,
who pulled out
all the stops and managed to hold on for dear life.

On the Republican side, the fragmentation of the GOP continued apace,
with the party
apparently split along regional as well as ideological lines: McCain,
while proclaiming
himself the "frontrunner," won on both coasts, Romney took the
Midwest,
and the Huckster conned the South into giving him the nod. One has to
note the weakness
of Romney, who did well in caucus states, and in those regions where
he had a personal
connection (Massachusetts and Utah). This represents the fragility of
the old GOP
establishment, which is backing Romney: like their candidate, they are
out of ideas,
and out of steam. The big story for the GOP is the persistence of
Huckabee, whose
surprising strength has knocked Romney flat on his back and pretty
much out of the
race. What's significant, however, is that McCain has so far failed to
close
the deal, and the party convention is shaping up to be little short of
chaos.

The same fate awaits the Democrats: it looks like the pledged
delegates - that is,
delegates won fair and square in a primary - are going in their
majority to Obama,
while the "super-delegates" - party bigwigs appointed by the Powers-
That-Be
- could give the nomination to Hillary. This could set up a situation
where the
party Establishment defies the apparent will of the voters and crowns
Hillary in
a super-delegate "coup." One can almost feel the resentment,
disappointment,
and building anger that will rise up and smite the Democrats if and
when this occurs.
The whole process then becomes a metaphor for the cause of widespread
voter alienation
- the rise of a permanently-entrenched political class in America,
similar to that
which once wielded power in the former Soviet Union.

Obama's amazing rise is due almost entirely to his position on the
war: he wants
out by the end of '08, and so do most Americans no matter which party
they belong
to. This is why his rhetoric about being a unifier is not all that far-
fetched:
the major appeal of "change" as a campaign theme, in this context,
means
- first and foremost - abandoning our foreign policy of perpetual war.
During his
speech last night, it was Obama's lines about ending the war and
bringing the
troops home that brought the loudest sustained cheer: the crowd went
wild.

No, they weren't applauding the prospect of America's return to the
wisdom
of the Founders, who warned against foreign entanglements and dreaded
the rise of
a powerful military caste: Obama represents nothing quite as coherent
as that..
However, he has managed to harness the inchoate rage of a public that
was duped
into supporting a disastrous war, and channel it into his campaign.
The issue the
pundits said didn't matter anymore made the difference for Obama, in
large part
energizing his late surge and giving him that extra ooomph that
separates a near
miss from an even split.

If we look at the numbers coming out of Super Tuesday, we can see that
the effect
of telescoping the primary season into a few short months has had the
exact opposite
of its presumed intent. Designed by party bosses to ensure their
hegemony - and
the hegemony of cash - over the nominating process, the actual result
of this enforced
condensation has been increased volatility. This boomerang effect has
thrown the
alleged leaders of both parties into a tailspin, and it is a sight
beautiful to
behold. For once, the bad guys got their come-uppance! How sweet it
is!

The epic battle between Hillary and Obama is a narrative that the
media is having
a ball with, and who can blame them? It's like an ongoing soap opera,
with all
the requisite stars - Oprah, the Kennedy family, Stevie Wonder - but
to political
wonks and ideologues (or do I repeat myself?) the really interesting
case is that
of the GOP.

As the party anticipates the prospect of utter annihilation in
November, its future
is prefigured in the wake of Super-Tuesday's results: the GOP is not
one, but
at least three parties, aptly symbolized by the three major
contenders. Romney represents
the party establishment - or, rather, the conservative establishment,
as manifested
in the pages of National Review - which is now confined to the
hinterlands, i.e.
the smaller states, and can only win in a caucus situation, where the
influence
of the GOP apparatus is maximized. (The same is true for the campaign
of Ron Paul,
where the dedication and enthusiasm of ideologically-motivated
volunteers gives
the Paulians an influence way out of proportion to their numbers, as
in West Virginia.)

On the other hand, McCain represents the old "moderate"-RINO-
pragmatist
wing, in alliance with the tattered remnants of the hardcore neocon
crowd - whose
electoral strength can be measured by the lone delegate Giuliani
managed to win
in exchange for the expenditure of his celebrity as well as the $59
million he raised.
The neocons - i.e. the real War Party - who supported McCain over Bush
in 2000 -
are back on board, now that the Giuliani dirigible has had all the hot
air let out
of it.

War, war, war is all McCain talks about or cares about, and his
savaging of Romney
over who is more pro-surge and bloodthirsty during the last debate
showed why the
voters will reject him in the end: he came across as an angry old man,
and downright
dangerous: I for one thought he was about to grab poor Romney by the
throat and
throttle him right there in full view of millions. Not a pretty sight,
and not a
winning act.

You have to give the Huckster credit for sticking to his guns and
staying in the
race: his campaign, from what I understand, is put together with
rubber-bands and
chewing gum, but he isn't throwing spitballs - he represents what is
left of
the old populist spirit that used to reside in at least some sectors
of the GOP,
and has now migrated southward. Economically ignorant, and basically
indifferent
to the great foreign policy issues of our time, the Huckster is
gaining traction
because he's personally appealing, and, as a Baptist preacher, he has
a natural
constituency in the GOP. Alone among the big three, he seems like he
might even
be a real person, rather than a caricature: the authenticity issue is
even more
of a factor in Romney's apparent downfall, bigger than the Mormon
question.

About Ron Paul, the only consistentlyantiwar candidate, I'll have more
to say
later: I would only note, at this point, that the closed GOP primary
system operative
in most states hurt him. In any event, the grassroots movement that
has grown up
around his candidacy is a great achievement, in spite of whatever
shortcomings the
campaign may have had.

As Peggy Noonan points out with some bitterness, George W. Bush
destroyed the GOP
- and we are looking at the wreckage of the party in the results of
Tuesday's
remarkably inconclusive primary. What's significant is that the
neocons have
split with the "movement" conservatives, and the bloodletting has only
just begun. In the event McCain gets the nomination, the field is open
for a third
party to come in from the right and cash in on McCain-ophobia.

Think of it: Rush Limbaugh singing the 32 praises of Ron Paul. As the
Libertarian-Constitution
third party candidate challenging both McCain and Hillary (or Obama,
if the improbable
happens), Paul would garner support from conservatives who hate McCain
as well as
from antiwar voters on the left. David Frum thinks a third party
movement led by
Paul would take more votes from the Democrats than the Republicans,
but if McCain
is the nominee - as looks increasingly likely: but, this year, you
never know -
that scenario seems more like wishful thinking. A third party run by
Paul could
relegate the GOP to the political graveyard, where it would take its
place alongside
the Whigs, the Know-Nothings, and the Greenback Party. That alone -
quite aside
from any other benefit to libertarianism and/or the antiwar movement -
will have
made the whole effort worth it.

As Lew Rockwell trenchantly put it, the GOP is the party of what he
calls "red-state
fascism" - an openly authoritarian and militaristic tendency in
American politics
promoted by neoconservative intellectuals and their political camp
followers, which
has led the Republican party to its present parlous state. As has been
pointed out
by Jacob Heilbrunn in his recent excellent book, the neocons came over
from the
far left and penetrated the American Right in a conscious "entrist"
effort,
much as a parasite or a virus invades and takes over its host. In the
end, if left
unchecked, the parasite kills the host, leaving only the hollowed-out
husk.

Eight years of permanent war, and endless scare-mongering, has
hollowed out the
GOP as a national political force, and the parasites are stirring,
restlessly looking
about for another victim ....

"Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this son of York;
And all the clouds that low'r'd upon our house
In the deep bosom of the ocean buried."

For the neocons, their winter of discontent may end with the
nomination of two essentially
pro-war, safely pro-interventionist candidates for the presidency:
McCain and the
Clintons. In that case, the campaign will consist of more-
interventionist-than-thou
proclamations, with McCain the probable winner.

For the Bushies, "the clouds that low'r'd upon our house" would
be lifted - the White House retained, the war resumed and the
Mesopotamian project
started by Dubya revived.

For the Democratic base, which is solidly antiwar and instinctively
anti-interventionist,
their hopes will likely be "in the deep bosom of the ocean buried," as
the triumph of the Super-delegates crushes underfoot the spirit of
democracy that
supposedly animates the Democratic party.

For the voters, the winter of their discontent will only deepen, come
November -
adding further volatile possibilities to a year of political tumult.



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