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There have been many years of rhetoric and now the Democrats want to show their muscle. The establishment humiliated and even marganilized the core constitutents of the Democratic Party from 2009 to 2011. Now, in 2011, some want to use fighting words. The centrist dogma has been played up by the previous administration and the current administration. This reactionary move is masquerading itself as consensus building and bipartisanship. The reality narrows the political dialogue. The corporate Blue Dog Democrats, the Tea party crowd, and others have been a part of promoting these narrow parameters of the political debate too. There have been terrible issues in communities across Americans. The compromise with the Republicans hasn’t brought up economic prosperity at all. Some want more years of President Barack Obama. Much of the current White House’s team has been the same people that set this nation up for the economic recession less than a decade before now. Union workers in Detroit have rallied for rights. The bank bailout is still here as well. Health care reform has passed with legitimate parts and parts that need to be reformed (like more ways to prevent drug racketeers to benefit from it). Corporate center-right thinking is promoted by the mainstream media. Some folks act like Republicans seized control of the whole government when the Republicans only took charge of the House in 2010. Now, people want a national jobs program when it was taboo for the politicians to support it during 2009 or 2010. The Democrats and the Republicans in its many members refuse to support real pollution standards, to stand up to Wall Street, and especially to stand up to the Pentagon in its military industrial complex. We have threats to Social Security, some want to privatize housing, a new education secretary that transported schools into recruiting funnels to the Army, etc. The reality is that the policies now are things Bush could only dream of even though Bush has responsibility for the recession occurring in the first place. The new jobs bill plan has many legitimate features in it. The jobs bill even has pro-Republicans items in it. The bill could or could not pass. If it will pass, 9 times out of 10, it may be even watered down than it is presently shown. This bill is in the Republicans’ court since the President has compromised heavily to them. The Republicans have no excuse to either plan their own policies or be seen as hypocrites. Some of them are hypocrites since they scream about big government (and lie and say that the government can’t create jobs), but have a job in the government.

The Republican Presidential race is typical and interesting at the same time. At least they express what they want even if some of what they desire is extreme and reactionary. The recent Republican Presidential debates outline their goals completely. The debate meant that the political establishment shifted more in a reactionary way. A major politician by the name of Rick Perry wants the destruction of Social Security, which is the principal retirement program for tens of millions of elderly Americans. Rick Perry is high in the polls and he’s the Texas Governor. He entered the Republican race last month. His book mentions his intensions of getting rid of Social Security as well. He said that: “…It is a Ponzi scheme to tell our kids that are 25 or 30 years old today, you’re paying into a program that's going to be there,” he said. “Anybody that’s for the status quo with Social Security today is involved with a monstrous lie to our kids, and it’s not right.” Perry is a liar and even principal rival, the previous frontrunner, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, rejected Perry’s language, if not his assessment. “We all agree and have for years that the funding program of Social Security is not working,” he said. But it was wrong to say Social Security was a failure, he said. “You can’t say that to tens of millions of Americans who live on Social Security and those who have lived on it.” The other 6 Presidential candidates didn’t take up the Social Security issue explicitly. These candidates’ names are Congresswoman Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, Congressman Ron Paul of Texas, former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman, former Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, and former Godfather’s Pizza CEO Herman Cain. The House Republicans wanted a budget proposal 5 months ago that desired to phase out Medicare (the main healthcare program for the elderly), ending Medicaid (that gives healthcare for the poor and disabled) via transforming it into a fixed block grant to states. The Republicans and the political establishment are akin with the goal of austerity with only differences in degrees of it. Obama opened up Medicare for destruction by proposing $500 billion in cuts in the healthcare reform legislation passed in 2010 by a Democratic-controlled Congress. He played the same role this summer in relation to Social Security, introducing proposed cuts in the retirement program as part of the deficit reduction talks with the Republicans. The NBC debate was hosted by NBC anchorman Brian Williams and John Harris of the Politico.com web site. The corporate elite via Wall Street and other interests caused the worst economic crisis in America since the great Depression. The debates involving the Republicans didn’t ask a question to the candidates about the responsibility of corporate America to the suffering of tens of millions of people. Many Republicans want to boost corporate profits and increase the wealth of the super rich when we have record corporate profits and a wide gap among the rich and the poor. Rick Perry may claim to have record job creation in Texas. Yet, his state leads America in minimum wage jobs and ranks dead last in education and first in food stamp use. He claims that cut taxes and regulations on businesses can allow them to create jobs. Yet, corporate America hasn’t massively created jobs in more than a decade even with the Bush tax cuts. Romney was an investment banker and hedge fund manager. To their credit, Bachman, Huntsman, and Paul opposed the administration’s war in Libya, but Santorum criticized then since he wants to out neo-con Romney plus Perry. To this credit, Ron Paul opposed the establishment of the Department of Homeland Security. Gingrich criticized him for it. Paul, Bachman and Romney attacked Perry for supporting a mandatory program of HPV vaccination of teenage girls in Texas. Ron Paul wants to eliminate all of the federal government gradually, except for the military. This is very extreme since he wants to eliminate the minimum wage, school lunches, air traffic control, disaster relief and all federal regulation of health and safety. That means you can pollute how you want, and do other crimes as long as the state regulates it (even if it’s done across state lines). That’s immoral. Some Republicans don’t want any regulation of Wall Street by the Dodd-Frank bill, most environmental regulations, and restraints on profiteering by drug plus insurance companies. The White House advocate major corporate deregulation like the rejection of new smog regulations last week that could have saved thousands of lives. Rick Perry supported the cheer of people in the NBC debate that loved the execution of 234 people on death row when some of them are innocent. Even if you agree with the death penalty, I wouldn’t gloat over a man’s death like that. What you see is what you get. Both parties show what they want and this isn’t in the interest of America or the world at all.

There are still mysteries about Lee Harvey Oswald. People have accused him of being linked to the intelligence community (like with the FBI and the CIA). The author Douglass proved with tons of evidence that Oswald was treated like a pawn globally and when Kennedy was assassinated, he was murdered by Jack Ruby in the Dallas police headquarters. As he begins to trace Oswald’s path, Douglass asks this question: “Why was Lee Harvey Oswald so tolerated and supported by the government he betrayed?” Lee Harvey Oswald served as an U.S. Marine in the CIA’s U-2 spy plane operation in Japan with a crypto clearance. This was higher than top secret, but this fact was suppressed by the Warren Commission. Oswald left the Marines and he defected to the Soviet Union. After he denounced America, he worked in a Soviet factory in Minsk, married a Russian wife (this was during the Gary Powers U-2 spy plane being shot down over the Soviet Union). He later returned into America with a loan from the American Embassy in Moscow. He was met at the dock in Hoboken, New Jersey by Spas T. Raikan. Raikan was a prominent anti-communist with extensive intelligence connections, recommended by the State Department. He passed through immigration with no trouble, was not prosecuted, moved to Fort Worth, Texas where , at the suggestion of the Dallas CIA Domestic Contacts Service chief, he was met and befriended by George de Mohrenschildt, an anti-communist Russian, who was a CIA asset. DeMohrenschildt got Oswald a job 4 days later at a graphic arts company that worked on maps for the U.S. Army Map Service (this related to U-2 spy missions over Cubs). DeMohrenschildt shephered Oswald across the Dallas area. In 1977, De Mohrenschildt admitted that he contacted Oswald for the CIA, but he died before going to the House Select Committee on Assassinations’ Gaeton Fonzi (He was alleged to have committed “suicide.” You can be the judge of that). Oswald then moved to New Orleans in April 1963 where got a job at the Reilly Coffee Company owned by CIA-affiliated William Reilly. The Reilly Coffee Company was located in close vicinity to the FBI, CIA, Secret Service, and Office of Naval Intelligence offices and a stone’s throw from the office of Guy Bannister, a former Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Chicago Bureau, who worked as a covert action coordinator for the intelligence services, supplying and training anti-Castro paramilitaries meant to ensnare Kennedy. Oswald then went to work with Bannister and the CIA paramilitaries. Before the assassination of JFK, Oswald acted like he was pro-Castro and then anti-Castro. These antics were done from Bannister’s office. This confused people on his true role after his work in the military industrial complex. He was differently blamed for the assassination and he denied it before Oswald was killed by Ruby. Douglass persuasively argues that Oswald “seems to have been working with both the CIA and FBI,” as a provocateur for the former and an informant for the latter. Jim and Elsie Wilcott, who worked at the CIA Tokyo Station from 1960-64, in a 1978 interview with the San Francisco Chronicle, said, “It was common knowledge in the Tokyo CIA station that Oswald worked for the agency.” There were various Oswalds seen from Dallas to Mexico City. These are imposters and even J. Edgar Hoover admitted that Oswald visits to Mexico was a false story. Oswald couldn’t withdrew all police protection for the President, get rid of the police motorcycle escorts from beside the President’s car, took agents off the back of the care where they were normally stationed to obstruct gunfire, and cause the care to hit an almost halt (which was a clear security violation). The people who did this are just as responsible for the assassination of President John F. Kennedy as are the murderer (or murderers) of JFK. Also, there was an aborted conspiracy plot to kill JFK in Chicago on November 2, which is a little known story.

The NYC Mayor Bloomberg has said that a threat of a bomb attack is in NYC and D.C. Yet, America is witnessing a police state. The mayor of NYC wants extra subway bag checks, vehicle checkpoints, and more police officers throughout the city. U.S. intelligence officials claim that the terrorist threat is credible and real. This is transpiring near the 10^th year anniversary of 9/11. Police Commissioner Ray Kelly and Janice K. Fedarcyk (the director of the FBI in New York) claimed that terrorists could use the anniversary as a means to strike America again. According to the FBI’s Janice Fedarcyk, al-Qaeda has shown an interest in important dates and anniversaries. The corporate media said that the new al-Qaeda chief named Ayman al-Zawhiri pledged to avenge the death of Osama bin Laden earlier this year. Some view the threat of car bombs and other acts on bridges and tunnels. This forever promoted war on terror has been immoral. Innocent civilians have died by CIA drones. Fedarcyk refused to get into the details on the source of the threat and whether it was “operational or aspirational.” It is “specific” and “credible,” she added. New York will be on display as an in-your-face police state. “The public is likely to see, and maybe somewhat inconvenienced by, vehicle checkpoints at various locations throughout the city,” Kelly said. New York authorities will patrol the city, bridges, tunnels, transportation hubs, and use even more bomb sniffing dogs than in the past. Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier of Washington, D.C. said that there will be increased security measures and more stopped vehicles. Former Bush regime terrorism bureaucrat Frances Townsend admitted that the trheat is overstated. “There are lots of things that are deemed ‘plausible’ that turn out not to be real,” Townsend said. She said the officials who are briefing policymakers were “leaning forward on their skis. But nobody gets in trouble for being forward-leaning.” The mainstream media wants us to believe that this war on terror is forever. Al-Qaeda didn’t attack us since September 11 and a mountain of information about that event remains classified since people know what really occurred on 9/11. We know the truth.

There are more economic words of wisdom that ought to be known. The present system now in America isn’t working to create a more stable society. We have to allow all citizens to have a voice in America beyond the corporate two party system in America. We don’t need corporate elitist politics. Isn’t it ironic that the Tea Party wants everything privatized, but in Scandinavia plus even in Finland, people there have more economic and social rights that we have (these rights are given mostly to the rich in America) like a decent education and a decent health care system (even if you’re unemployed or have a modest income). In Scandinavia, there is universal health care and legally protected rights of working people, which are under attack in the USA (via the anti-collective bargaining agreements). That is why America is copying Finland’s educational system to try to reform public education in the USA. Even Germany has fewer effects from the recession than the USA. Germany has higher taxation on corporations, greater participation of labor in economic and political life than here, and far greater social legislation--including health care benefits that make the package passed under Obama's watch seem a paltry affair. The global elite has influenced much of the collapse of America via regressive taxation, disintegrating infrastructure, health care problems (as health care is a human right), education problems, and welfare for the rich (while scapegoating welfare for the poor when this welfare hasn’t caused slums, wars, illiteracy, and other problems in the world totally). The elite want to have their wealth discrepancy to be permanent and the poor to exist under a feudal economic system. That is why if Dr. King, Malcolm X, RFK, JFK, etc. have lived, they could promote a multi-ethnic class of people to institute progressive changes in American society plus societies worldwide. We don’t need to waste trillions of dollars in trying to police the world and redistribute wealth upward for the last thirty plus years as well. The reactionaries didn’t want that and these men were assassinated under strange circumstances. So, it’s easy to believe in not worshipping the market, believe in the compassion for all human beings, and the respect for all human beings. One thing about America is that we have more religious liberty than many nations in the world, even some European nations. That is a good things since Americans historically are great fighters for religious freedom, political freedoms, and civil rights.

By Timothy