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    Ron Paul Won Early Primaries, Mathematicians Find. Election Judge Threatened for Calling Fraud

    As analysis emerges and lawsuits on behalf of the Paul campaign are filed, it is becoming evident that Ron Paul was deprived of many strong showings and likely victories during the primary season, including in New Hampshire, Iowa, and South Carolina. Videos taken by Paulers at state conventions have captured anecdotal evidence of dirty dealing by GOP Romney operatives, such as in Maine. Now mathematicians have shown the existence of systematic and carefully targeted vote counting fraud.

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    The vote counting fraud would have had the effect of depriving Paul of any momentum generated by such showings of strength, according to that mode of analysis. In Travis County, Texas, a mathematician posting at LibertyUSApac.org found clear evidence of "vote-flipping." Travis County is an important Paul stronghold which includes Austin.

    The LibertyUSApac analysis, "Mathematical Proof of Vote Rigging in Travis County: Paul Win Covered Up," begins by illustrating what normal voting behavior does not look like.

    The official Travis County polling data, which shows each candidate's percentage as the day progresses, is in the chart below. It is followed by a chart showing normal voting patterns.

    Note: the following is NOT what charted numbers should look like:



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    Example of a Normal Chart – No vote flipping


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    The analyst writes:
    “This is the worst case of vote flipping I have ever seen. Note the way it starts. Romney’s green line begins under Dr. Paul’s. It then flips way up, simultaneously pushing Paul’s downward. The two lines then become mirror images. Clearly, without the cheating the real winner of this county was Dr. Ron Paul, NOT Mitt Romney."
    He goes on to explain the basics of normal statistical voting behavior:
    "Detailed explanation of this [above] chart:
    The X-axis is the cumulative vote %. It flows in order of the precinct’s percentage of contribution to the vote totals for that county. This is roughly also by the SIZE of the precinct but not exactly.

    The earliest entries cause such graphical jaggedness. This is because there is a extremely small number of votes and thus percentages are greatly affected.

    As these results are cumulatively added upon, any high or low percents are absorbed into the curve and balance out to what is normally a straight, flat line.

    This is what you see happen to the other candidates lines. They bounce around a bit at first and then become essentially flat. This is what all results always looked like historically since forever.

    In other words, with increasing vote counts in precincts the graphs flatline.

    This was how it was, that is until 4 [months] ago, when Romney’s charts started showing HIS line increasing with growing size of precincts, while usually just ONE other opponents line shrinking.
    The analyst goes on to note with amazement that rather than "flatlining," Romney's line goes up, while only one other opponent's line shrinks: Ron Paul's.

    Other Texas counties in question, according to "Dr.K.Research" at DailyPaul.com are, Brazoria County, San Antonio County, Aransas County, and Calhoun County.

    The Ludwig Von Mises Institute has presented near-certain proof that Paul's primary results have been a subject of outright fraud, in "Evidence of Algorithmic Vote Flipping in GOP Primary Elections."

    After presenting four charts from other elections showing what normal statistical "flat-lining" looks like, the author points out how in the case of New Hampshire 2012 primary election "something extraordinary happens." Romney's vote totals go up as time passes almost exactly mirroring Dr.

    Paul's going down, with all other candidates holding steady.

    It would be as if at 6pm one-third of the Romney voters suddenly woke up at the same time and went to vote while Dr. Paul's just stopped showing up. It doesn't happen.

    Below: First 4 charts show what normal statistical "flat-lining" looks like, then the author notes that in the New Hampshire 2012 primary election "something extraordinary happens."


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    The Von Mises Institute post goes on to illustrate similar patterns in Polk-Des Moines County, Iowa, in Richland, South Carolina and other SC counties, in Hillsborough, NH, and in Richmond, VA. The analyst explains how, to the trained eye, the almost exact point in time can be seen when the "vote flipper" program is activated.


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    Now a Travis County election judge has stepped forward to cry foul, and reports that the GOP is aggressively seeking to silence her. Anne Beckett wrote in her blog in March of 2012:
    "As MY number was a conservative ESTIMATE of sixty-six percent going with RON PAUL, I have a feeling the real percentage for Paul was seventy-two percent...It is just NOT possible that Mitt took Texas and, particularly, Austin or Brazoria County (HIS OWN DISTRICT!) or San Antonio (Behar County). where Dr Paul worked for so LITTLE in their poorest hospital, Santa Rosa. And there is zero chance that anyone in Texas or outside of Texas can convince me this vote-flipping was NOT DONE. "
    In an exchange on July 12 on the blog of Doug Wead, a Ron Paul campaign official, Beckett said:
    "Yesterday, I received an intimidating phonecall from our county elections clerk, stating i am the subject of a criminal investigation, for speaking out about the farce of a primary in Austin, Texas. I know I did not break any laws or rules (i was very careful in what I said), and I am sure they will be digging away, trying to make it so, but there’s nothing for them to find."
    Beckett's radio interviews and testimony are linked extensively at DailyPaul.com.

    Whether any of this will make a difference at the upcoming Republican National Convention in Tampa remains to be seen. Paul has secured his spot on the ballot so that he can be nominated and is entitled to his 15 minutes at the podium for a speech, despite flatly erroneous media reports to the contrary. A Harris Poll last Fall showed Paul beating Obama in a head-to-head match. Grumblings in the GOP rank-and-file indicate that Main Street Republicans do not have the same confidence in Mitt Romney to do the same.

    Correction: Article states that X-axis in charts is votes ordered over time. In fact order is by precinct size, smallest to largest.




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    The Tampa Motto is:

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    "We will not stop! We will not faulter! We will not go quietly into the night! We will not vanish without a fight! We're going to live on! We're going to survive!"

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    "GOP Super Pac Has Not Released Campaign Funds Just In Case Ron Paul Wins Nomination"

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    All fascinating, but pay special attention from 3:50 on!

    TMOT enourages viewers to get info at Daily Paul at 8:45.



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    Marine asks for your support of Ron Paul for President

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    Romney steps away from Paul Ryan’s Medicare cuts

    Michael Finnegan
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    August 15, 2012


    Mitt Romney on Wednesday unequivocally disavowed more than $700 billion in Medicare spending cuts proposed by his new running mate, Rep. Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin.

    In an interview on “CBS This Morning,” Romney was asked how he squared his running mate’s plan to cut spending on the popular healthcare program for the elderly with his criticism of President Obama for making the same reductions.

    “First of all, Congressman Ryan has joined my campaign, and his campaign is my campaign now, and we’re on exactly the same page,” Romney said in response to anchor Anthony Mason’s question. “And my campaign has made it very clear: The president’s cuts of $716 billion to Medicare – those cuts are to be restored if I become president and Paul Ryan becomes vice president.”

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    Register Your Business, Your Car, Your Gun, Your Child, Your Life, and Your … Garden?

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    In the city ghettos, the police state has always resorted to giving away gift cards for athletic shoes – such as at Footlocker – in exchange for local folks turning in a gun. Then the media follows up by bragging about how many guns the program took in, without ever questioning how the program actually motivated poor people to commit crimes in order to steal a gun to turn it in and get some Air Jordans in return.
    In addition to all of the gun grabs offering free prizes to criminals who steal them, there are the domestic terrorists known as ‘people with gardens.’ These are highly-suspicious folks who the government considers to be dangerous because they: (1) have a few unattended and mostly dead attempts at vegetable growing in the corner of their yard (2) grow some of their own food and actually eat it, as opposed to the subsidized-industrial staples (3) have a mega-organic, bountiful vegetable garden that sustains the family, or (4) complete the domestic terrorism profile by not only growing their own food, but then they commit the crime of preserving food long-term via the acts of canning, dehydration, fermentation, and other horrifying tactics that deny the superiority of the Monsanto-Cargill-General Mills-Tyson Foods-Archer Daniels Midland Complex.

    There is a program in Utah that has an eerily similar hook to the athletic shoe scheme – register your garden and you can win a chintzy prize. The program is called the Utah Garden Challenge. You can win a prize for telling the government about your one potted tomato plant, or, god forbid, your large organic garden that borders on felonious survivalism. The Utah government wants to see how much food the people produce. The “challenge” is a data mining scam, and consequently, it is a registration disguised as a warm-and-fuzzy happy hour for good little folks who grow a cucumber and spin a hoe in the dirt every now and then.

    See this YouTube; it’s legit.

    Remember what happened recently in Utah, and that is described in this headline: “Lawmaker wants to criminalize enforcing federal food law.” How dare he! The heroic Senator Casey Anderson proposed this bill in response to the Fed’s totalitarian Food Safety Modernization Act that Herr Obama signed into law. According to the Tenth Amendment Center, the bill is described as clarifying:

    the difference between intrastate and interstate commerce; the latter is a power delegated to the federal government, but states constitutionally retain the authority over intrastate commerce—items which are exchanged only within the state.
    Do remember who the FBI considers to be suspicious (see here). And here’s a final thought on why this might occur in Utah: that state is the home of the Mormons, a group of people who embrace, practice, and teach long-term food storage, and they also embrace the entrepreneurial spirit in terms of selling their high-quality food to those domestic gardeners terrorists who like to stock up in the case of emergency (or a Shit Hits the Fan scenario). Thanks to Cathy Cuthbert for the tip.

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    Romney Tries To Become 'Likable'

    Romney seeks to undercut Obama's likability lead

    Aug 15, 8:37 PM (ET)
    By CHARLES BABINGTON

    CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - Mitt Romney is portraying the outwardly calm President Barack Obama as a man seething with animosity and power lust as the Republicans seek to undermine one of the Democrat's greatest campaign strengths - his personal likability.

    The president's re-election effort, Romney said Wednesday, "is all about division and attack and hatred." Obama, Romney added later while campaigning in Charlotte, is an angry man who "will do or say anything to get elected."

    Whether by calculation or not, Obama highlighted his most genial side as he campaigned in Iowa, joking with voters about the pleasures of state fair junk food, and joshing with his wife, who made a rare campaign appearance with him.

    "It all boils down to who you are and what you stand for," Michelle Obama told Iowans in Dubuque, on the final leg of the president's three-day bus tour of that toss-up state. "We all know who my husband is, don't we? And we all know what he stands for."


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    With polls showing Obama with a slight lead, Romney is focused on the "likability gap" that is evident in surveys that consistently show Obama ranking higher on general favorability questions than on handling the economy, which until now has been the Republican's chief focus. Romney's approach also comes as he and his running mate, congressional budget writer Paul Ryan, face increasing questions on a touchy economic issue for many Americans: their stance on Medicare.

    While some GOP strategists question whether Romney's tactic will work, they agree that he is vulnerable among voters who find Obama more personally appealing. Romney and his allies appear bent on persuading voters that Obama is not what he seems.

    Appearing Wednesday on CBS, Romney said the Obama campaign is "designed to bring a sense of enmity and jealousy and anger." The comments echoed the candidate's call on Tuesday for Obama to "take your campaign of division and anger and hate back to Chicago."

    It's unclear whether Romney can convince voters that Obama is a politician of volcanic anger and ambition. Sometimes called "no-drama Obama," the president has disappointed liberal activists who see him as too dispassionate, meek and willing to compromise on issues such as a government-provided health insurance option.

    Some GOP activists say Romney's time would be better spent talking about jobs and the economy, even if Obama has pitted wealthy Americans against the less-wealthy and allowed allies to level harsh charges against Romney.

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    "He is the most divisive president ever," said Virginia-based GOP consultant Mike McKenna. "But he doesn't seem angry, which is why he retains his personal popularity."

    Republicans continued to complain Wednesday about Vice President Joe Biden's remarks earlier in the week in Danville, Va. Commenting in response to Republican criticism that the Obama administration had sought to regulate Wall Street too tightly, Biden told a crowd that included hundreds of black supporters that the GOP wanted to "unchain Wall Street." He added, "They're going to put y'all back in chains."

    Republicans said Biden's remarks carried racial overtones and demanded that Obama condemn them. In an interview with People magazine Wednesday, Obama instead defended Biden, saying his running mate's only meaning was that consumers won't be protected if Wall Street reforms are repealed.

    "In no sense was he trying to connote something other than that," Obama said.

    Former Virginia Gov. L. Douglas Wilder, a Democrat and the nation's first elected black governor, lambasted Biden for the comments. In an appearance on CNN, Wilder called on the vice president to "cool it, back up" and admit that he was wrong.


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    Some Democrats saw potential racial allusions in the Romney campaign's bid to paint Obama as hate-filled. In his memoir, "Dreams From My Father," Obama wrote of trying to avoid looking like an "angry black man" as he came of age in mostly white America.

    While Obama himself has not responded directly to Romney's stepped-up critique, his campaign had a quick rejoinder, calling Romney's remarks "unhinged." Campaign spokeswoman Jennifer Psaki said Romney has gone after Obama's record with ads on Medicare and welfare policy that "are full of bald-faced lies."

    "It is hardly a campaign as Mitt Romney and his team have described," she said.

    Matt Rhoades, Romney's campaign manager, said Wednesday that Obama "continues his campaign of rage and divisiveness," an apparent reference to Biden's comments and unrelated hard-hitting ads by a super PAC that supports the president.

    Some Democrats found the tenor of such remarks unconvincing.

    "They have a habit of overreacting to events," said Democratic consultant Jim Manley. The Romney team, he said, is using a sledgehammer "when a light touch would do" in trying "to take the president's favorability ratings down a notch or two."

    As often happens in campaigns, the Republican message is multi-pronged, and possibly confusing to some voters. While Romney was using hot words like "attack and hatred" Wednesday, a super PAC that supports him - Americans for Prosperity - was airing a soft-touch TV ad in states including Ohio that lowered the temperature.

    It shows former Obama supporters quietly expressing sadness and disappointment in the president's performance. One woman calls Obama "a great person," but says he has not earned re-election.

    Still, the harsh tenor of much of the campaign has not gone unnoticed. An NBC-Wall Street Journal poll last month found that negative views of both candidates were on the rise and that 22 percent believed Obama was running a more negative campaign, 12 percent said Romney was being more negative and 34 percent chose both.

    In Dubuque Wednesday, the Obamas addressed more than 3,000 people outside the red-brick Alliant Energy Amphitheater along the Mississippi River. The first lady vouched for her husband, calling him the "son of a mother who struggled" and the grandson of a woman who hit the glass ceiling at her job at a bank, watching as men she trained were promoted ahead of her.

    Two rallies in eastern Iowa brought the popular first lady to her husband's side, creating a polite back-and-forth between the couple on stage. The health-conscious Mrs. Obama teased her husband about his recent trip to the Iowa State Fair, asking him if he had a "fried Twinkie," prompting the president to tell her that he had a "pork chop and a beer."

    On an economic issue, Obama offered his most direct defense of his handling of Medicare, offering a point-by-point version of how the two tickets would handle the health care program for the elderly.

    "I have strengthened Medicare," Obama said, saying his administration proposed "reforms that will not touch your Medicare benefits, not by a dime." He said Romney and Ryan wanted to "turn Medicare into a voucher program" while his approach had extended the life of Medicare by a decade. "Their plan ends Medicare as we know it," Obama said.

    At a rally later in Davenport, in an apparent reference to Romney's criticism of Obama Medicare and welfare policies, the president complained that the Republicans "start making up all kinds of stuff about my plans."

    In Charlotte, Romney repeated his claim that Obama would reduce Medicare benefits by $716 billion over 10 years. He did not mention that his running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan, has proposed the same savings, which are supposed to be realized through lower medical payments and great efficiencies in the program.

    Some Romney surrogates expressed unease with the campaign's increasingly bitter tone. "This back-and-forth doesn't do either side or the country as well as it could," former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty said on CNN.

    But Pawlenty added a dig at Obama, saying, "We have a president who won't even disclaim an ad that accuses Mitt Romney of killing a gentleman's wife." He was referring to a pro-Democratic super PAC's ad in which a widower says he and his wife lost their health insurance when his employer was taken over by a company Romney helped direct.

    ---Associated Press writers Ken Thomas in Davenport, Iowa, and Julie Pace and Jim Kuhnhenn in Washington contributed to this report.

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    Celente - Paul Ryan Pick Was Political Suicide
    Gerald Celente
    8-15-12


    Predicted in Summer 2011 Trends Journal:
    Paul Ryan Pick Political Suicide

    KINGSTON, NY 15 August 2012 — One year ago, in the Summer 2011 Trends Journal, we focused on the 2012 Presidential election. At that time, we analyzed the strengths and weaknesses of both President Obama and the cast of Republican challengers.

    Trends Journal subscribers were provided with yet another vivid, important insight into “History Before it Happens” as we spelled out, in great detail, why the Republicans were on a political suicide mission and singled out Paul Ryan as the chief suicide strategist. Even though he was not in the running, we devoted an entire story to his policies, his credentials (or lack of them) and the consequences the GOP would suffer by adopting his policies.

    Thus, a year before the media was looking closely into Ryan’s past and his qualifications for designing a massive budget deficit reduction plan, we had singled him out as THE politician whose views and values best represented a Republican platform that led us to forecast an Obama victory in October.

    In that Trends Journal we wrote:

    Not Playing with a Full Deck In the Spring of 2011 Republican hopefuls were on a political suicide mission. Yes, entitlement excesses had to be addressed, but making that the main focus of their campaigns was a strategy that might have been devised by insidious Democratic infiltrators … .

    The Republican final solution was to reduce and/or eliminate “entitlements” ­ a word that had taken on a pejorative meaning. How dare people who had worked all their lives, acted responsibly and paid their taxes, feel entitled to anything from their government? Health care, elder care … Republicans were running on a “we don’t care” platform. And, if they got their way, any care the people did receive would be less than what they got before and would come from the private sector; the health industry that gives generous campaign contributions (i.e., bribes and payoffs) to politicians for passing legislation that will further enrich them.

    Another main Republican plank was the reform of Social Security. Under a complex partial privatization plan crafted by Wisconsin Representative Paul Ryan (Roadmap For America’s Future), Social Security and Medicare benefits would be cut, cost-of-living increases trimmed, and the retirement age for those under 55 would be “modernized” to eventually reach 70. At the same time, the Social Security agency itself would be significantly downsized to a level of predictable inefficiency.

    The end result of their “Roadmap” would be to steer as much tax money as possible away from the public sector and into the private sector. It was passionately held GOP Gospel that corporations operated more efficiently than government bureaucracy.

    The third major plank of the Republican platform called not only keep in place the Bush-initiated and Obama-perpetuated tax policy that gave breaks to the richest, but under the Ryan plan, to further lower the top tax rate from 36 percent to 25 percent. Incredible as it may sound, the GOP genuinely believed that the more the very rich made and the less they paid, the better off everyone else would be.

    The Republican platform boiled down to: “What can we do to make the biggest bigger and the richest richer?” Not surprisingly, for the small percentilethat stood to benefit, the Republican platform was attractive.

    Just as we wrote “History Before It Happens” before it happened, so now we are forecasting “The Next Four Years: What to Expect, What it will Mean.”

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    The Next Election: High Stake Outcomes Based on Non-issues.

    August 11, 2012| Categories: Articles & Columns| Tags: Campaign, china, Constitution, Detention, Election, Forrest, Iran, Issues, Russia, syria,

    The election of the next puppet president of the “world’s only superpower” is about two and one-half months off, and what are the campaign issues? There aren’t any worthy of the name.

    Romney won’t release his tax returns, despite the fact that release is a customary and expected act. Either the non-release is a strategy to suck in Democrats to make the election issue allegations that Romney is another mega-rich guy who doesn’t pay taxes, only to have the issue collapse with a late release that shows enormous taxes paid, or Romney’s tax returns, as a candidate who advocates lower taxes for the rich, don’t bear scrutiny.

    What are Romney’s issues?

    The candidate says that his first act will be to repeal Obamacare, a program that Romney himself first enacted as governor of Massachusetts. This will cost Romney political contributions from the insurance industry, which is thankful for the 50 million new private insurance policies that Obamacare, written not by Obama but by the private insurance companies, provides at public expense. It is not to the insurance industry’s benefit to have a single payer system like other western countries.

    Romney’s other issue is to blame Obama for America’s unemployment caused by the offshoring of the US economy by Republican corporate CEOs. In order to enhance their compensation packages, the Republican CEOs sent millions of America’s best jobs to India, China and elsewhere. The lower cost of labor in these offshore sites means much higher earnings, which drives up share prices for shareholders and drives up performance bonuses for management, while wrecking US employment, GDP growth and tax base and driving up the deficit in the balance of payments.

    America’s main economic problem–the relocation of the US economy offshore–is not a campaign issue. Therefore, the US economy’s main problem will remain unaddressed.

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    The real issues can nowhere be found in the campaigns or in the media. There is no mention of the Bush/Obama destruction of the US Constitution and its legal protections of citizens from arbitrary government power. Due process no longer exists for anyone who the executive branch suspects of being connected in any way to Washington’s chosen enemies. US citizens can be thrown into dungeons for life on suspicion alone without any evidence ever being presented to a court, and they can be executed any place on earth, along with whoever happens to be with them at the time, on suspicion alone.

    Last May federal district court judge Katherine Forrest ruled that indefinite detention of US citizens is unconstitutional and issued an injunction against the Obama regime using this police state measure in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The Obama regime gave the federal judge the finger. During the week of August 6-10 the Justice (sic) Department’s Brownshirt lawyers refused to tell Judge Forrest if the Obama regime is complying with the injunction. The position of the Obama regime is: “we are above the law and do not answer to federal courts.”

    One would think that Romney would be all over this, but he isn’t because he wants the power himself. (NDAA on trial: White House refuses to abide with ban against indefinite detention of Americans — RT)


    The Obama police state will shop around and find a federal appeals court dominated by Republican Brownshirt judges and get Judge Forrest’s ruling overturned. All those Republican federal judges we had to have to save us from liberal Democrats will now complete our deliverance to a total police state where all power rests in an unaccountable executive branch.This is what the Republican Federalist Society has wanted for years, and they are on the verge of obtaining it.

    That the United States has degenerated into a police state in the short period of ten years should be the campaign issue. Who would ever have thought such a thing possible. Yet, there is no mention of the destruction of the rule of law in the name of a hoax “war on terror.”

    The Bush regime created the propaganda that “they (Muslims) hate us for our freedom and democracy,” but how can Muslims hate us for what does not exist? The arbitrary unaccountable power asserted by the executive branch is totally incompatible with freedom and democracy. Yet, neither Obama nor Romney makes this an issue. And neither does the media.

    There is no war on terror.

    There is war on countries that are not Washington’s puppet states. Unaccountable Washington is currently slaughtering thousands of Muslims in a variety of countries and is preparing Syria as its next holocaust. Washington, taking advantage of the splits between Sunnis and Shi’ites and between Islamists and secular Muslims, has organized a rebellion in Syria in order to overthrow a government that is not a puppet of Washington and Israel.

    Among the foreigners streaming into Syria to overthrow the secular state in which Sunni and Shia Arabs have lived peacefully, are the Islamist extremists that Washington has squandered $6 trillion fighting for 11 years. The extremists are on Washington’s side. They want the secular Syrian government overthrown, because it is not an Islamic government.

    This suits Washington’s policy, so now the taxes extracted from hard-pressed Americans are flowing to the Islamists that Americans have been fighting.

    Speaking before the Council on Foreign Relations on August 8, Obama’s national security aid John Brennan defended the diversion of American taxpayers’ money to the outside forces Washington has organized, financed and provided with military weapons to overthrow the government of Syria.

    John Brennan said, with a straight face, that the Obama administration is careful that the financial and military aid does not go to the rebels affiliated with al Qaeda. Brennan has to make this claim, because the Obama regime, being in cahoots with al Qaeda, is in violation of its own NDAA and is subject to arrest and indefinite detention.

    Does anyone believe that Washington, determined to overthrow the Syrian government, is refusing to arm the most effective part of the fighting force that is involved? Is there anyone so naive not to know that military aid to “rebels” is fungible?

    Having suffered damage to its superpower reputation by being fought to a standoff by a few thousand al Qaeda in Iraq and Afghanistan, Washington learned that the trick was to employ al Qaeda not as an enemy but as an ally.

    The test case was in Libya, where the US-al Qaeda alliance worked to overthrow the Libyan government. The advantage for Washington is that Libya is now beset by warring factions and is no longer a country that could get in Washington’s way.

    Libya is the roadmap for Syria.

    Syria made its mistake when it thought it could pacify Washington by taking Washington’s side in the first war against Iraq, thus confirming for Washington that Arabs are incapable of sticking together and thus are an easy mark to be overthrown.

    If Syria falls, Washington will have murdered yet another nation. But this is not a part of the presidential debate. Both candidates agree that Washington should prevail in establishing a puppet state in Syria. Even Amnesty International has been suborned and lends its influence to the demonization of the Syrian government. Only the US is moral, indispensable, virtuous, humane, a light upon mankind. By definition, any opponent chosen by Washington is debauched, evil, sinful, a country that suppresses dissent and tortures its opponents, something Washington would never do, being, of course, the “light unto the world.”

    Unlike the 1957 plot by British Prime Minister Harald Macmillan and US President Dwight Eisenhower to foment an “uprising” in Syria and assassinate the Syrian leadership (see Anglo-American 1957 Secret Plan to Assassinate the Syrian President. Déjà Vu?), the Obama administration cloaks its intervention in humanitarian language, as do the rebels while they murder and execute civilians who support the Assad government. The presstitute western media describes the mayhem and murder as “humanitarian intervention,” and the brainwashed western public reposes in its moral superiority.

    After Syria is destroyed, the last independent country in the region is Iran. Iran has also been weakened, not by Washington’s embargo, an act of war in itself, but by Washington’s financing of the “Green Revolution.” Iran now has a fifth column within itself.

    Iran, the second oldest country after China, is now surrounded by 40 or more US military bases and is confronted by four US fleets in its own Persian Gulf.
    There is a large number of nominal Muslims interested only in money and power who are working with Washington to overthrow the Syrian and Iranian governments.

    If Iran falls, with both Russia and China surrounded by US missiles and military bases, the world as we know it will enter its final stage. Will Russia and China, having sacrificed all their buffers without a fight, surrender and be content to be ruled by puppet governments, or will they resist?

    Don’t expect the packaged political campaign of the next couple of months to deal with any significant issue. Americans are oblivious of their fate, and so apparently is the rest of the world.

    The selection of the next president of the US will depend on one thing alone–which of the two candidates financed by the ruling private oligarchy has the most effective propaganda.

    Whether you vote Republican or Democrat, the oligarchs will win.

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