em>1) The Neocons and the Plan
What exactly is a neocon? In the world according to Boosh, a neocon is one who thinks that democracy can be forced upon any country in the world, regardless of their history. This is obviously for the benefit of America, yet sold as a benefit for people of the particular country in which we are choosing to force our will upon. Boosh, the head neocon, believes that by forcing a democratic way of life on people, they will somehow “see the light.” After all of the destruction done during the democratization of the country, the world will be a better and safer place, and, the new democratic country and its people will somehow become better for it. For one to believe that, one must also believe that the families of those killed at the World Trade Center are better off for that experience.
A neocon is also generally considered a moralist. One definition of a moralist is: a person for whom moral conduct, morality and the correctness of moral thought are paramount. This moralist issue presents a quandary for those who follow the Boosh doctrine of shoving democracy down the throats of others. How can one who has shown total disdain for the people he represents, has broken the law on a consistent basis and is morally bankrupt in its purest form, possibly be a moralist?
The neocon agenda is simple. Turn each country that either presents a threat or perceived threat in the mind of Boosh or his minions into a democracy. A democracy whose leaders we select, of course, so not really a democracy at all.
One of the major problems with the Boosh version of neoconservatism is that little part about the
“perceived threat.” This man is capable of
“perceiving” all sorts of things, nearly always disconnected from reality at its very core. I guess that it is simply a coincidence that each of the countries that Boosh chooses to
“save from themselves,” happen to have a commodity that we desperately need, namely OIL. We aren’t worried about bringing democracy to Uganda, after all.
While Boosh would like you to believe that he is doing this to make the world a better and safer place, (he may in fact actually believe this himself, as hard as that is to imagine) he refuses to accept the fact that he simply does not have the right to take this action. It is not America’s job to tell others in the world how to live, although that is our stance today. One must take into account the history of a country, the real differences among the peoples of the country, and religious values. This is what creates such a problem in dealing with the Middle East in particular. Neither Boosh, nor I, nor any other American can pretend to know the intricacies of the Muslim world, and by attempting to force our will on them and their way of life, we have given them the right to resent our actions. We have given them the right to hate us. And they do. So, they attack this great military power the only way that they are able to, one terrorist attack at a time.
Boosh is famous for perpetrating a fraud, the fraud that says “they hate us because of our freedom and our values.” No, Boosh, I hate to break it to you. They do not hate us because of our values, quite frankly they could care less how we live, they simply wish to be left alone to live as they wish to. They do not want the brand of
“freedom” that you offer. Get over it. To say anything else is being dishonest, so we begin with Lie # 1.
2) Boosh and the Puppet MastersI believe that the puppet masters responsible for pulling the strings in this country have changed. Originally, Dick Cheney was the one responsible for telling Boosh what to do and say. I now think that probably about two years ago, Cheney was being reeled in and slowly relieved of this duty. As the Boosh machine spun wildly out of control, it became apparent that no one with any competence was in command of the ship. There were just too many things going wrong.
The war in Iraq was turning into a disaster, the economy was becoming troubling, the faith of the American people was wavering little by little, Social Security reform was dead, health care was becoming another disaster, in essence, the natives were becoming restless. Then, with Katrina, came the final straw. While the rest of the world watched, our federal government response showed just how totally incompetent our leaders were. Boosh was on vacation, the people whom he appointed to handle emergency response proved incapable, and as people died on rooftops in New Orleans, it was beamed, via satellite, all over the world.
Coinciding with Katrina various scandals were brewing. We will deal with those later, but I believe that Katrina was the impetus for a change in puppet masters. The elite stepped in, let themselves be heard and said that enough was enough. They would begin calling most of the shots.
3) 9/11 and the War on TerrorBoosh caught a big break with 9/11. With this event occurring so quickly after he was appointed President after the 2000 election, he essentially received a free pass for almost the entire first term of his presidency. Were it not for that, we would have seen just how incompetent he really was much sooner. Many believe that our government was a party to, if not the instigator of, the 9/11 tragedy. I don’t know whether or not this is true, I tend to think not. I doubt that we will ever actually know exactly how complicit our government was in this event, at least not while I or most of you are alive, anyway. They did not do much to dispel rumors, however. While all planes in the United States were allegedly grounded, we managed to whisk numerous members of the bin Laden family away to the safety of Saudi Arabia, where the majority of the terrorists originated from. Boosh also fought long and hard to prevent the 9/11 commission from ever coming together, despite the obvious need for a review and the pleading of the families of the victims. Boosh eventually gave in, and we received a glossed over view of what happened on that unforgettable day. There will undoubtedly be other reviews, as there should be. But I shall not attempt to solve that one.
This led to the
“War on Terror.” Whatever the hell that is. Believe me, I have spent a lot of time trying to define this, and I simply can’t do it. It is too abstract, too much like the “War on Drugs.” I don’t think that anyone can define either one. Not to my satisfaction, at least. But the
“war on terror” has turned out to be an all encompassing war on anything that Boosh decides it will be. No matter what goes wrong in America, Boosh can always fall back on,
“I am a war time president and I must protect the American people, it is my duty above all else.” So what has this war brought us?
First, over 2200 dead soldiers and some 15,000 seriously wounded. Countless Iraqi and Afghanistan citizens are dead. Billions of dollars have been spent, dollars that we did not have to spare. Perhaps the most damaging of all is that it has given Boosh the feeling that he is invincible, and has given him a blank check to work with. It has given him
POWER, either real or imagined.
Now, no member of Congress dares to try to rein in the spending for fear of looking as if they don’t support the troops. It has given the average American citizen the feeling that if they say anything negative about Boosh or the war, they are being unpatriotic. Some of us ignore these unwritten restraints, others, especially those of generations before us; buy it hook, line and sinker. They buy it honestly, as they remember WWII and the times that it truly meant something to say that you were fighting for freedom and for your country. This patriotism is buried deeply inside their souls, and they cannot be faulted for that. However, they are wrong.
They are wrong because Iraq under Saddam was no threat to us, nor was Afghanistan under the Taliban. If you believe that the 9/11 event was exactly what the Boosh administration wants us to believe it was, these countries were still not a threat to us. Terrorist organizations exist, they have always existed, and they will always exist. There is always the chance that a group of terrorists will do something harmful to our nation and our citizens. This is a dangerous world. It is in fact becoming more dangerous with each passing moment. But, these problems cannot be solved with military force. If they could, the Israeli/Palestinian conflict would have been over 50 years ago. Israel would have blown the Palestinians off the face of the earth.
Until now, that was a problem that existed
“over there.” After 9/11, rather than do the prudent thing, going after those responsible, Boosh decided to enter into the fray of
the war that cannot be won. We are now in a religious war, against people we do not and cannot understand. And, he took it a step further than necessary. He decided to throw Iraq into the mix, though even the most right wing Nazi in America cannot deny that Iraq and Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with 9/11. Saddam didn’t like Osama bin Laden, they were in fact enemies, an often reported fact. Maybe that’s when God told Boosh what to do, I don’t know. But, it certainly was the birthing of the neocon agenda. Would we be where we are today had 9/11 not have occurred? I don’t know, but I do know that there would have been a bunch more hoops to jump through to get there. Let’s move on, my blood pressure is beginning to rise.
4) Republicans vs. DemocratsMany of you have made comments over the last few months that neither of these parties truly represent any of us. Corporations now determine how our elections are won or lost. We need a third party to get someone to represent us, the people. We need to get the money out of politics for the game to work as it was meant to work, among other excellent comments.
In essence, I agree. I spend some time (although not near as much as I used to) visiting “progressive” sites with people who have views similar to mine. I hear the same things, have heard them to the point that I don’t even want to hear them any more. The reality is this.
There is not a dime’s worth of difference in the Republican’s and the Democrat’s, and that dime doesn’t matter anymore. It mattered in 2000, and it mattered in 2004, it might matter in ‘06. Boosh has accomplished his main goal, the goal of stacking the Supreme Court, which was really the reason that the 2000 and 2004 elections were so important. Both parties are corrupt, feed from the same trough, and it is national suicide to allow the Republicans to control all three houses of government. (that dime’s worth again) I am going to later say something that will contradict what I am going to say here, but realize that I am doing it knowingly and am coming at it from different angles. It is just not important enough to go into great detail about. If we are to survive, the ’06 elections are very important. While the ideal situation would be for every incumbent to be defeated, that will not happen. So, vote for every Democrat on the ticket, the lesser of two evils. It is absolutely imperative that the Republicans lose control of the House of Representatives. If not, it’s over. Pure and simple. ’08 won’t matter in the least should the Republican stranglehold continue until then.
5) ElectionsNow I will contradict what I just wrote, sort of. True, fair, representative elections in this country are over. 1996 was the last legitimate election in this country, and we’ll likely never have another one. At the presidential level, anyway. After the “hanging chads” of 2000, for the citizens of this nation to stand by and allow machines without a paper trail to decide any election in this country, is simply mind boggling. Between this and gerrymandering, your vote no longer counts. The system is rigged, and with the new additions to the Supreme Court it is guaranteed to stay rigged for as long as I am alive. I doubt that I will ever vote in a Presidential election again, even on the off chance that I am given the opportunity. It is an exercise in futility. There is something that could be done about this, but we’ll talk about it later.
6) PlamegatePatrick Fitzgerald has been a godsend, albeit too late to matter, and he’s not done. Karl Rove will be indicted. Whoever revealed the name of Valerie Plame to whichever reporter who received it first should be locked up and the key should be thrown away. I hear the right, and even some progressive’s, say that she was not covert at the time of her
“outing,” therefore no harm was done. Bullshit. Harm was done on several fronts. One, the law was broken. Granted, that doesn’t seem to be a deterrent to Booshco, but it is still a fact. Secondly, the lives of every person who she came in contact with while she was covert are in danger. Just because she was sitting behind a desk in Virginia, doesn’t mean that a foreign agent doesn’t remember seeing her at lunch with a cohort while she was still a covert operative. That cohort is in danger, now that her face has been plastered on the news all over the world.
This has turned out to be probably the biggest disappoint to me of anything that I have ever written about. I honestly believed that the outing of a CIA agent would ruffle the feathers of leaders of both parties; instead it was covered up like a half eaten sandwich being saved for an afternoon snack. As it turns out, this is probably the least egregious act that Booshco has committed. Naïve me. I only hope that Fitzgerald keeps going and that Rove and the like get what they deserve, a little jail time with Bubba. And Cheney should join them.
7) The NSA and WiretappingI can only hope that this does not end in the same way that the Plame affair will end, but I fear that it will. The Democrats do not have the numbers to make this a big deal, and when push comes to shove, the brave Republicans, those now talking tough, will fold their tent and let it go. Gotta get re-elected you know. We have a President of the United States who knowingly broke the law, consistently over a 5 year period, admits it, says he will continue to do it, and in the end that’s going to be just fine and dandy. We impeach President Clinton over lying about a blowjob, but this clown can listen to my phone calls and read my email and that’s okay. Oh how I yearn for the 60’s when people would get off of their lazy butts and demand something from their government. Oh, I forgot. That is when it was our government. We should have a minimum of 50 million Americans sitting in the middle of Pennsylvania Avenue, refusing to move, until this cabal is removed from office. What do we get instead? Half the population doesn’t even think it’s wrong. It’s for our security, after all, during the
“war on terror.”For our security in the
“war on terror.” If it weren’t so serious, I would probably be laughing right now. I felt pretty secure before 9/11, and guess what. I felt pretty secure after 9/11. I felt pretty secure before we invaded Iraq, and I don’t feel any more secure today. I felt pretty secure before the NSA began monitoring phone calls and emails, and I feel less secure today. I feel less secure because I see the erosion of my civil rights and liberties on an almost daily basis. I feel less secure because we have a madman running this country and the world hates us more and more each day. I feel less secure because the security that we have put in place has not bothered to address the Mexican border. Anyone can enter this country, as long as they are willing to work for very little money and no health insurance. We’ll even tell them its okay, if Boosh should get his way. Hell, we’ll even subsidize your move for you, so long as you are willing to pick a little fruit while you are here. Oh, and a terrorist or two might pretend to be a fruit picker. But, that’s the price you pay to be in an open society, right Boosh? Are you worried about security or are you worried that you might miss out on watermelon? For our security in the
“war on terror.” It is a fraud, and half the American people are willing to buy it.
8) Jack Abramoff and the Fools on the HillThis should turn out to be the mother of all scandals, although, with one party controlling all branches of government, it will be hidden by a smokescreen. At a time when Democrats should be throwing a party, preparing a strategy to take back control of the House and Senate over this mess, you hear little other than a few comments from some
“outraged” politicians. Why? Because, many Democrats are not willing to allow this smokescreen to be lifted; they are caught up in the fraud and corruption as well. In reality, it doesn’t really matter. Twenty years ago, maybe even ten, it might have made a real impact and served notice to our politicians to straighten up. Not anymore. Now, it is too little, too late, and will serve mainly as entertainment of the crudest kind. We will get the opportunity to watch worms from both sides of the aisle scurry for darkness, trying to outrun the freight train that is Jack Abramoff. Some will run out of gas right in the middle of the tracks. For the rest, it will be business as usual. Cover your tracks and chase the money.
9) The Under Education of AmericansAmericans have become a lazy, mostly ignorant lot. They pay little to no attention to what goes on outside the little box that life places them in. Or, I should say, the box that they choose to jump into. We, as a people, have allowed Booshco and those before them to rape, pillage and plunder our pocketbooks, our constitutional rights and our minds. It is the number one reason why we are where we find ourselves today. People stopped paying attention to what was going on outside their own box a long time ago.
10) Peak OilPeak oil has either already occurred, or will sometime in the near future. I have not spent a lot of time talking about this; to the dismay of some, because I believe that other issues will take us down long before Peak Oil comes into play. Regardless of what you may read or hear, Peak Oil is real and will at some point end life as we know it on Planet Earth. We have no choice but to start making plans for when we run out of oil. Our entire financial structure in this country, indeed our very way of life currently depends upon the availability of oil. Not merely oil, but cheap oil. Unfortunately, due to the upcoming crisis that I see just over the horizon, talking about Peak Oil is going to have to wait. For me at least. There are people that devote their entire lives to dealing with this issue, and for now I’ll leave it to them. I am going to deal with what faces us immediately,
11) It’s the Economy, StupidThe American economy is about to explode, implode, disintegrate, whatever you choose to call it. I’ll pick end as the word to be used. How, in 5 years, we have gone from a nation with a surplus to a nation that is, as of today at 1:39 PM GMT, $8,186,167,175,601.88 in debt, with an official population of 298,291,761, amounting to $27,443.59 per every living man, woman and child in this country, and currently increases at the rate of $2.28 BILLION PER DAY, is beyond my comprehension. And this is from a Republican controlled, self espoused, smaller government cabal. If the Republicans are correct, imagine what the numbers would be if we were in the hands of the
“tax and spend liberals.” Quite the opposite, we have become the
“don’t tax but still spend” America. And that cannot continue. I have said before and I’ll say it again, we are no longer in charge of what happens to us. China and Japan have more control over our economy than we do. We have destroyed our economy, regardless of what
“good news” is reported out of Washington every day. For this, we will pay, and pay dearly.
12) Conclusion; The Good, the Bad, and the UglyThe good, bad and ugly are all intertwined and I am not going to attempt to separate them out. What I will do is tell you what I see happening within the next year or so, likely beginning shortly after the ’06 elections. Keep in mind that this is simply one man’s view. I would not expect any of you to believe all of what I have to say, most of what I have to say, or even any of what I have to say. It’s up to you. But please consider it. I will tell you that I base these things on what I have learned over my almost 50 years on this earth, what I have learned about different issues about a variety of topics from people who are a whole lot smarter than me, what I have learned through contacts that I have made over those nearly 50 years, and on what my gut tells me. Generally speaking, I trust my gut more than any of the other above mentioned sources. Over my life, my gut instincts have proven right 100 times more often than not, so I give it the most weight. Here we go.
America as we have always known it is over, through, finito. We are no longer a superpower, though we continue to tell ourselves and the rest of the world that we are. The rest of the world has stopped listening, and
I suggest, beginning this very moment, that “we, the people” stop listening as well. We have been conned, and it has worked. Our shell game has worked for over 200 years. But, as all empires before us have learned and likely all those after us will learn, the game always ends. When this game ends, we are going to lose. The winner will be the same one that always wins in the end, the team of greed and corruption. We have defeated ourselves, essentially by eating our own.
This is due to a combination of problems of which greed and corruption are at the top. But there is so much more. We have lost our moral standing in the world, a standing that has too long been on shaky ground. Our moral compass has lost its way. Our society has forgotten the one thing that is most important in any society, its people. For a society this large to succeed, it must not forget the least among that society, and we have done that. We have ignored that which has always been right before our eyes, our homeless, our mentally ill, and our citizens with less brain power than most, simply ignored those whom are least equipped to survive in a country that is driven by one outdoing the other. We have an obligation to those, just as we do our children, and we chose to ignore them. Our sheer arrogance is in the end our downfall. I don’t know of another word for it.
The first signs of a failing government become obvious when things are done in secret. Booshco takes home the grand prize in the “secret society” contest. For those of you who remember Watergate, you’ll remember that as the end neared for Nixon, the entire government was shrouded in secrecy. Were it not for the infamous “Watergate Tapes” we likely would never have known what really happened then. Again, sheer arrogance led a man to knowingly break the law and tape his own conversations for the world to eventually hear. Booshco has taken this a step further, we don’t need tapes. Boosh simply comes on television and states that he is breaking the law, says he has no intention of stopping it, so “what are you going to do about it?” It no longer matters; it’s too late for anything that we as citizens, or for that matter, those in power, can do to stop this freight train from derailing. It has in fact already derailed, most just haven’t realized it yet.
The American people are as complicit in this as Boosh or anyone else currently in a position of power, or anyone who was previously in power. We as citizens have had it too good for too long, in essence become spoiled, rotten brats. We have closed our eyes and minds to what is important in life and in the world; we have willingly turned the job of protecting us and our nation over to others. Those whom we have given this charge have failed us, but we have no one to blame but ourselves. We have bought in to the very thing that most of us believe to be evil, the corporate empires. We have allowed them to market to us new houses, new cars, new television sets, new fill in the blank, all bigger and better than the ones we were replacing. We have become a theocorpratocracy, all in an effort to get more, more, more, now, now, now. And we’ve done it on credit. We chased the dream on money that we didn’t have, and were never going to have. Sure, we were taught by the best, our own government. They were the pros at spending money that wasn’t there. We knew better, but bought the plan anyway. And make no mistake about it, it was a plan. A plan handed to us by the neocons and the elite, a plan made to take over the world so that they could mold it as they saw fit. We stopped paying attention a long time ago, and when that happened, we doomed ourselves to failure.
What will Happen
Our economy is going to crash and crash hard. It will also crash without warning. Only those that are financial geniuses will be able to guess when it will happen, and they will likely have no more than 48 hours notice. There will be no announcement; it will be based on their gut instincts, based on what they have learned while toiling in financial markets for their entire lives. Only the elite of the elite brains among that small group will get it right, and may come out of it left with something. The others in the financial world will be left behind.
As for those of us outside those circles, the changes will be swift and stunning. And those who do not begin preparing for the inevitable right now, today, will be left behind as well. We will see things that no one could have imagined possible. My bet is that approximately one-third of the population will cease to exist soon after the crash. Maybe more. There will be mass chaos, people storming banks demanding money that they will find was never there to begin with, and the doors will be locked. The few who do find money will soon learn that there is no where to spend it. It will be worth nothing.
Why will the population reduction occur? Simply because, only the strongest will survive. The ones that plan ahead have a chance. The ones that don’t will not make it, but for the grace of God. The criminal element among us will thrive for a short while, but not for long. The people who have prepared for this event will slowly but surely take care of the thugs, once they manage to roam in the wrong places. Masses of people who have lost everything will commit suicide; they will not be willing to, nor be capable of starting over. It will be ugly, every man and woman for themselves and their families, if they don’t plan ahead.
Our government, for all practical purposes, will cease to function. They will at first attempt to regulate behavior by calling in troops, but in the end it will not matter. For one thing, there are nearly 300,000,000 citizens. Short of a nuclear bomb, no one can control that many people. The troops will soon find that it is an exercise in futility, and regardless of what the Commander in Chief orders, they will not turn their weapons on their fellow citizens. They will for the most part switch teams. The CIA will have nothing to do with any of it, they don’t have much of a liking for this administration. So, we are left with the local and state police and the FBI. They will make an initial stand, then think better of it and give it up. They will not be able to sieze control. How long the chaos will go on depends largely upon how much preparation those willing to admit the possibility of such a scenario choose to invest.
So how does one prepare for an event such as this? I can only tell you what I will do. I will form or join a small group that has the capability to quickly become self sufficient. A group that is able to provide food, shelter, and security for myself and my family. I will get away from any large city and head for a small, rural environment. I see a large city as the last place that I would want to be, for several reasons. First, the criminal element is naturally larger in such a setting, and they are likely going to come after whatever you have, especially if you have made preparations. It may well be your neighbor. I doubt that many will survive such a place, regardless of the conditions. Second, the more people, the more chaos and hysteria there will be. Waiting and attempting to form a small, self sufficient group after the fact will not work, you will find yourself isolated and on your own. In a survival situation, that is not a good position to put yourself in. And that is what we will be doing, simply trying to survive until the dust settles.
Small communities similar to what I described are going to be popping up all over the nation. I would not want to be in the position of attempting to join one after the fact, as trust will be a highly important commodity. So, I will prepare early. I will have a place to go and a group to join, or will have formed a group in the very near term, before anything goes down.
Communications systems that we currently take for granted, such as the internet, cell phones, and land lines will likely disappear quickly. People will have to make arrangements for some form of communication and transportation to wherever they may head, well in advance of an economic crash.
When will this crash occur? No one can say for sure, but I would bet that we are safe at least until the ’06 elections are over. The Fed and the Treasury will continue to prop up the current phony economy at least until then. I would not feel safe at any time after the election occurs. It could go Kaboom at anytime, overnight, after that date. I will admit that I have a slight advantage. I have access to one of those people that I mentioned above, one of the financial geniuses. One that hopefully will get it right, or I’ll be in trouble. That means that I will have 24-48 hours advance notice before the bottom drops out, should he be correct.
After looking at the future from every conceivable angle, this is the conclusion that I have come to. I think that a crash of our economy is inevitable, and it will likely have repercussions worldwide. Other countries’ economies will certainly soon follow ours.
I noticed that some of you have begun a dialogue in the comments section of the Real Deal about the future. I hope that this will continue as we will somehow have to pick up the pieces and start over. Should this not come to pass, and I sincerely hope that it doesn’t, it ABSOLUTELY WILL be the case when the oil runs dry. So, if you are young enough to live that long, any preparations that you make now will only put you ahead of the game.
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