The elections may have been rigged, probably by both sides, as
the elusive elite, or what’s also called the ’Deep State’, may be
divided. It looks like the better ‘rigger’ emerged as the winner. The
final popular vote count indicates a slight advantage of Hillary over
Trump. Never mind, the system was purposefully designed
un-democratically in the 18th Century by the Founding
Fathers, who never really had the intention to create a truly democratic
United States of America of equal rights for all.
The current electoral system favors vote manipulation especially
in Swing States, where popular votes can relatively easily be suppressed
or switched by an electronic ‘glitch’.
Such voter frauds, we now know, have happened in 2000, when George
Bush ‘won’ in Florida over Al Gore – eventually through a Supreme Court
decision – and the same in 2004 (Ohio), when again George Bush won over
John Kerry, through electronic fraud and predominantly black voter
suppression. After 8 years of Bush – enough was enough.
The deep state needed a new candidate – one that will have the trust
of the American people, one who was smart and colored and had charisma –
but no backbone. Never mind the latter point.
People didn’t know until it was too late. Obama’s mandate was
enhanced by the award of the Nobel Peace Prize, before he even knew how
many additional wars were already planned for him to carry out, aside
from Afghanistan and Iraq. Today he literally boasts to be involved in
seven wars around the globe and sold more weapons than any previous
president to so-called allies and proxy fighters like Saudi Arabia and
the Gulf States. More wars and conflicts are in the cooker, for sure.
But will Trump abide by those plans?
The mainstream media are doing a terrific job in manipulating
peoples’ minds with lies after lies after lies. The wars Washington is
involved in are all ‘good’ for ‘national security’; they are diverting a
threat to the US of A and defending American interests, whatever these
are. Nobody asks. But if Washington, the NYT and the WashPost says so,
it must be true.
The 2016 elections were rigged in favor of Donald Trump, as illustrated by Greg Palast, investigative reporter for Rolling Stone and BBC.().
On the other hand, election fraud took place by the Clinton clique
against Sanders in the Democratic Primaries, to the point where the DNC
chair, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, had to resign. Without that
vote-swindle, Mr. Sanders would have been the Democratic candidate
confronting Donald Trump. Among many assertions that the elections were rigged in favor of Hillary is a Stanford University study.
But never mind election fraud, it has become a common game in our
shamelessly corrupt western ‘system’, and it will stay that way, until
‘somebody’ will change it.
Since the system works in favor of the establishment, and more
importantly in favor of the Deep State – there is little chance
something significant will change, to make the USA a true democracy in
the foreseeable future.
It is not only election fraud that has made Trump the winner. It is
the people, who again are sick and tired of being lied to, of broken
promises, of declining purchasing power of their paychecks, of
unemployment which in reality is hovering around 22% – 25%, when
official government’s statistics talk about 5%, of outsourcing American
jobs, of spending their tax money on foreign wars instead of fixing the
decaying US infrastructure, of bailing out big banks that have
speculated themselves into bankruptcy thanks to Bill Clinton’s
(Hillary’s husband) banking deregulation of the 1990s, of a fake health
insurance, named Obama-Care after its creator that is unaffordable for
about 40 million people and serves only the pharma and medical industry,
and of ever-mounting unpaid student debt.
In addition they, the 99.99%, of which an ever growing majority of disenfranchised workers – are being told by the MSM that:
- China and India are stealing their jobs, when in fact, US
corporations are shamelessly increasing their profit margins by
outsourcing American jobs to China and India – and many more places
around the globe;
- Russia and Venezuela are national security threats, therefore US involvement aiming at ‘regime change’ is necessary;
- a costly build-up of NATO forces in Europe is necessary to confront the Russian menace – and-so-on.
Yes, security has a cost and you, the American people have to know
this. NATO bases have doubled since the collapse of the Soviet Union in
1991, despite US contrary promises to Russia in 1991, from 14 to 28 –
and counting. Nobody talks about the unnecessity of NATO in Europe since
the Cold War ended, also in 1991 – only your new President, Mr. Trump.
Mr. Trump not only questioned US funding for NATO, but questioned the
sense of NATO all together. Mr. Trump wants partners not enemies which
Washington ‘has to’ fight for security reasons. Peace is the best
security – and peace is also the best approach for international trade.
The President-elect talked about renegotiating or even ripping apart
NAFTA, the nefarious US-Mexico-Canada trade agreement that was imposed
by Bill Clinton in 1994 and made hundreds of thousands of Mexican
farmers jobless, closing tens of thousands of small farms in Mexico,
since they could no longer compete with highly subsidized corn, wheat
and other agricultural crops from the US. But that’s not the reason why
Trump wants to scrap the agreement. He has seen that Mexico adapted its
economy around NAFTA with cheap manufacturing labor, presumably taking
American jobs away.
The new President also vouched to step back from the trans-Atlantic
(TTIP, TiSA), trans-Pacific (TPP) trade agreements. What a relief that
would be for the hundreds of millions if not billions of people in the
world, freeing themselves (for now) from the fangs of the globalized
corporate and banking NWO octopus.
Of course, not for the unelected elite-vassal-dictators in Brussels.
But who cares about them. This system will have to fall anyway, sooner
or later. BREXIT maybe the trigger – and others may follow in the coming
year, with elections in 2017 in France and Germany expected to bring
radical changes; if they are not stolen by the new method of choice, a
parliamentary coup, like the recent one in Spain – and earlier this year in Brazil.
Sovereignty of equal partners is prosperous for everybody, not just
an elite. The new President wants to bring jobs back to America, putting
the brakes on globalization. He wants to rebuild American
infrastructure and create 25 million jobs in 10 years, and levy taxes on
manufactured goods imported from abroad, when they could be produced
internally.
Mr. Trump is also highly controversial when he talks about building a
border wall between Mexico and the US to keep out ‘criminal illegal
Hispanic immigrants’, when he projects transferring the US Embassy from
Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, or when he says he wants to keep Moslems out of
the country. Many of his racist declarations put a spanner in his
otherwise progressive wheels.
Nevertheless, Trump’s bold and fearless accusations of the deep state
attract the average disillusioned citizen to vote for the changes he
proclaims.
Is it perhaps possible that this strong language against a
well-enshrined establishment was part of a ruse of the establishment, to
trick people into believing ‘change is coming’?
(see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYozWHBIf8g)
“I pledge that I will be President for all Americans”, was Trump’s opening statement at his acceptance speech.
How hollow does it sound, when you remember that Obama said exactly
the same thing in 2008. That’s not all of the campaign emptiness. Do you
still remember the tens of millions of people crying for joy and hope
for a better life and a better world (after the Bush disaster), when
Obama was inaugurated on January 20, 2009 and proclaimed time and again,
his campaign slogan, “Yes, We Can”? Today, it’s the same game. Yes, We Can, has become Trump’s “We will Make America Great Again”.
Both slogans are suggesting great but unspecified ‘changes’; the
illusion that things may turn for the better. Is it imaginable that the
same Masters of the Universe came up with a new slogan, also meaning
unspecified change – and new illusions that things may change for the
better, for all those people who are at the verge of giving up every
tiny bit of hope? Is it conceivable that the same Deep State invented
both slogans, so to renew the forgetful people’s faith in a better
world, in a more responsive government, at least for the first two years
or so, until reality kicks in again? Yes, it is entirely in the realm
of the possible, actually, it is very probable.
And thus, the oligarchs have gained some more time towards reaching
Full Spectrum Dominance of the world, as is so clearly pointed out in
the highly active and current PNAC (Plan for a New American Century),
which used to be called Pax Americana, named after Pax Romana,
of which we know in retrospect that it spanned the 300 to 400 most
bloody war years of the Roman Empire, before it collapsed from within.
The universal string-pullers, the Deep State, are just spreading new
hope, new illusions for continuous fooling the people into believing
what is not, while in parallel the fear-mongering by false flags and by
the paid presstitute MSM continues. In reality, they, the ever-poorer
common people, the growing number of victims of a neo-fascist economy,
have to be kept dancing on their toes, between hope and despair. Was
Hillary used as a public pulse-taker, as a mere make-believe puppet;
make-believe that we are living in the greatest democracy money cannot
buy?
Wait and see would normally be a safe omen. Give him, Mr. Trump, the
benefit of the doubt, but stay alert. For now, let’s just have a look at
what happened since the elections – concessions from Trump (keep part
of Obamacare), as well as a long list of potential high level cabinet
appointees and staff that may accompany his Presidency.
It doesn’t look promising.
His top choices for Treasurer are Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan, or Steve Mnuchin,
his finance chairman and former Goldman Sachs exec. They don’t bode
well for moving away from the banking oligarchy, as Mr. Trump promised
during his campaign.
Others of his top cabinet choices include ultra-neocon reactionaries, such as, for Secretary of State, Newt Gingrich, the neocon ex-House speaker who was even in Trump’s top choice as running mate; and John Bolton, Zionist and former United States ambassador to the United Nations under George W. Bush.
The former New York City mayor, Rudy Giuliani, may be slanted for attorney general.
Here is the full list of Trump’s top position candidates, as published by the New York Times –
White
House Chief of Staff
The chief of staff manages the work
and personnel of the West Wing, steering the president’s agenda and tending to
important relationships. The role will take on outsize importance in a White
House run by Mr. Trump, who has no experience in policy making and little in
the way of connections to critical players in Washington.
Reince Priebus Mr. Trump announced on Sunday that he had chosen Mr.
Priebus, the chairman of the Republican National Committee.
Chief
Strategist
Stephen K. Bannon (right) was also considered for chief of staff, but
Mr. Trump instead named him chief strategist and senior counselor in the White
House, saying that he and Mr. Priebus would be “working as equal partners” in
the administration.
Also on Sunday, Mr. Trump announced
the appointment of Mr. Bannon, a right-wing media executive and the chairman of
the president-elect’s campaign. Many have denounced the move, warning that Mr.
Bannon represents racist views.
Secretary
of State
Whether Mr. Trump picks an ideologue
or a seasoned foreign policy hand from past Republican administrations, his
challenge will be that the State Department is the centerpiece of the post-1945
experiment of alliance-building and globalism, which Mr. Trump said he would
dismantle.
John R. Bolton Former
United States ambassador to the United Nations under George W. Bush
Bob Corker Senator
from Tennessee and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Newt Gingrich Former
House speaker
Rudolph W. Giuliani Former
New York mayor
Zalmay Khalilzad Former
United States ambassador to Afghanistan
Stanley A. McChrystal Former
senior military commander in Afghanistan
Treasury
Secretary
The secretary will be responsible
for government borrowing in financial markets, assisting in any rewrite of the
tax code and overseeing the Internal Revenue Service. The Treasury Department
also carries out or lifts financial sanctions against foreign enemies — which
are key to President Obama’s Iran deal and rapprochement with Cuba.
Thomas Barrack Jr. Founder,
chairman and executive chairman of Colony Capital; private equity and real
estate investor
Jeb Hensarling Representative
from Texas and chairman of the House Financial Services Committee
Steven Mnuchin Former
Goldman Sachs executive and Mr. Trump’s campaign finance chairman
Tim Pawlenty Former
Minnesota governor
Defense
Secretary
The incoming secretary will shape
the fight against the Islamic State while overseeing a military that is
struggling to put in place two Obama-era initiatives: integrating women into
combat roles and allowing transgender people to serve openly. Both could be
rolled back.
Kelly Ayotte Departing
senator from New Hampshire and member of the Senate Armed Services Committee
Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn Former
director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (he would need a waiver from
Congress because of a seven-year rule for retired officers)
Stephen J. Hadley National
security adviser under George W. Bush
Jon Kyl Former
senator from Arizona
Jeff Sessions Senator
from Alabama
Attorney
General
The nation’s top law enforcement
official will have the authority for carrying out Mr. Trump’s “law and order”
platform, including his threat to “jail” Hillary Clinton. The nominee can change
how civil rights laws are enforced.
Chris Christie New
Jersey governor
Rudolph W. Giuliani Former
New York mayor (right)
Jeff Sessions Senator
from Alabama
Interior
Secretary
The Interior Department manages the
nation’s public lands and waters. The next secretary will decide the fate of
Obama-era rules that stop public land development; curb the exploration of oil,
coal and gas; and promote wind and solar power on public lands.
Jan Brewer Former
Arizona governor
Robert E. Grady Gryphon
Investors partner
Harold G. Hamm Chief
executive of Continental Resources, an oil and gas company
Forrest Lucas President
of Lucas Oil Products, which manufactures automotive lubricants, additives and
greases
Sarah Palin Former
Alaska governor
Agriculture
Secretary
The agriculture secretary oversees
America’s farming industry, inspects food quality and provides income-based
food assistance. The department also helps develop international markets for
American products, giving the next secretary partial responsibility to carry
out Mr. Trump’s positions on trade.
Sam Brownback Kansas
governor
Chuck Conner Chief
executive officer of the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives
Sid Miller Texas
agricultural commissioner
Sonny Perdue Former
Georgia governor
Commerce
Secretary
The Commerce Department has been a
perennial target for budget cuts, but the secretary oversees a diverse
portfolio, including the Census, the Bureau of Economic Analysis and the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Chris Christie New
Jersey governor
Dan DiMicco Former
chief executive of Nucor Corporation, a steel production company
Lewis M. Eisenberg Private
equity chief for Granite Capital International Group
Labor
Secretary
The Labor Department enforces rules
that protect the nation’s workers, distributes benefits to the unemployed and publishes
economic data like the monthly jobs report. The new secretary will be in charge
of keeping Mr. Trump’s promise to dismantle many Obama-era rules covering the
vast work force of federal contractors.
Victoria A. Lipnic Equal
Employment Opportunity commissioner and work force policy counsel to the House
Committee on Education and the Workforce
Health
and Human Services Secretary
The secretary will help Mr. Trump
achieve one of his central campaign promises: to repeal and replace the
Affordable Care Act. The department approves new drugs, regulates the food
supply, operates biomedical research, and runs Medicare and Medicaid, which
insure more than 100 million people.
Dr. Ben Carson Former
neurosurgeon and 2016 presidential candidate
Mike Huckabee Former
Arkansas governor and 2016 presidential candidate
Bobby Jindal Former
Louisiana governor who served as secretary of the Louisiana Department of
Health and Hospitals
Rick Scott Florida
governor and former chief executive of a large hospital chain
Energy
Secretary
Despite its name, the primary
purview of the Energy Department is to protect and manage the nation’s arsenal
of nuclear weapons.
James L. Connaughton Chief
executive of Nautilus Data Technologies and former environmental adviser to
President George W. Bush
Robert E. Grady Gryphon
Investors partner
Harold G. Hamm Chief
executive of Continental Resources, an oil and gas company
Education
Secretary
Mr. Trump has said he wants to
drastically shrink the Education Department and shift responsibilities for
curriculum research, development and education aid to state and local
governments.
Dr. Ben Carson Former
neurosurgeon and 2016 presidential candidate
Williamson M. Evers Education
expert at the Hoover Institution, a think tank
Secretary
of Veterans Affairs
The secretary will face the task of
improving the image of a department Mr. Trump has widely criticized. Mr. Trump
repeatedly argued that the Obama administration neglected the country’s
veterans, and he said that improving their care was one of his top priorities.
Jeff Miller Retired
chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee
Homeland
Security Secretary
The hodgepodge agency, formed after
the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, has one key role in the Trump administration:
guarding the United States’ borders. If Mr. Trump makes good on his promises of
widespread deportations and building walls, this secretary will have to carry
them out.
Joe Arpaio Departing
sheriff of Maricopa County, Ariz.
David A. Clarke Jr. Milwaukee
County sheriff
Rudolph W. Giuliani Former
New York mayor
Michael McCaul Representative
from Texas and chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee
Jeff Sessions Senator
from Alabama who is a prominent immigration opponent
E.P.A.
Administrator
The Environmental Protection Agency,
which issues and oversees environmental regulations, is under threat from the
president-elect, who has vowed to dismantle the agency “in almost every form.”
Myron Ebell A
director at the Competitive Enterprise Institute and a prominent climate change
skeptic
Robert E. Grady Gryphon
Investors partner who was involved in drafting the Clean Air Act Amendments of
1990
Jeffrey R. Holmstead Lawyer
with Bracewell L.L.P. and former deputy E.P.A. administrator in the George W.
Bush administration
U.S.
Trade Representative
The president’s chief trade
negotiator will have the odd role of opposing new trade deals, trying to
rewrite old ones and bolstering the enforcement of what Mr. Trump sees as
unfair trade, especially with China.
Dan DiMicco Former
chief executive of Nucor Corporation, a steel production company, and a critic
of Chinese trade practices
U.N.
Ambassador
Second to the secretary of state,
the United States ambassador to the United Nations will be the primary face of
America to the world, representing the country’s interests at the Security
Council on a host of issues, from Middle East peace to nuclear proliferation.
Kelly Ayotte Departing
senator from New Hampshire and member of the Senate Armed Services Committee
Richard Grenell Former
spokesman for the United States ambassador to the United Nations during the
George W. Bush administration
C.I.A.
Director / Director of National Intelligence
Mr. Trump takes over at a time of
diverse and complex threats to American security. The new C.I.A. director will
have to decide whether to undo a C.I.A. “modernization” plan put in place this
year by Director John O. Brennan, and how to proceed if the president-elect
orders a resumption of harsh interrogation tactics — which critics have described
as torture — for terrorism suspects.
Michael T. Flynn Former
director of the Defense Intelligence Agency
Peter Hoekstra Former
chairman of the House Intelligence Committee
Mike Rogers Former
chairman of the House Intelligence Committee
Frances Townsend Former
homeland security adviser under George W. Bush
National
Security Adviser
The national security adviser,
although not a member of the cabinet, is a critical gatekeeper for policy
proposals from the State Department, the Pentagon and other agencies, a
function that takes on more importance given Mr. Trump’s lack of experience in
elective office.
Michael T. Flynn Former
director of the Defense Intelligence Agency
Sourcee New York Times
What
can we conclude regarding Trump’s List?
Trump
doesn’t seem to want to move away from neoliberals and Zionists, as he made
people believe during his campaign.
Then
comes the perceived bombshell, the earthquake, some even call it the Tsunami of
Trumps election, against all expectations. The western intellectuals, or rather
wannabe intellectuals – can’t get around to it, that ‘democracy’ may have won,
against their deepest expectations, of course, bought MSM-instilled
expectations.
It
played them a trick. How naughty. Did the left and the right ‘well-educated’,
those living in their sanctuaries and soft cocoons, those that make it to the
statistics and polls, really have no clue, how average Mr. and Mrs. Smith feel?
How they make ends meet every day, every month? – There is no left or right
anymore; the same as there is no real difference between republicans and democrats.
They are all embedded under the umbrella of a globalized fascist economy.
Are
the ‘surprised people’ so detached or naïve that they can’t see an increasingly
non-silent majority, suffering year-in, year-out from the oligarchic supremacy,
getting angry at the ‘system’ that keeps abusing them, for the best part of
four decades now? – It’s the same people and media pundits, who appeared to
having been surprised at BREXIT. For those who are still surprised about
BREXIT, I highly recommend Ken Loach’s outstanding movie, I Daniel
Blake , awarded with Canne’s ‘Palme d’Or’ 2016.
(trailer: https://www.theguardian.com/film/video/2016/jun/15/i-daniel-blake-trailer-ken-loach-palme-dor-winner-video)
It’s never too late to wake up and
get involved.
Actually,
that’s all that counts for people to step out of their comfort zone and fight
alongside the 99.99%. We just might grow into a critical mass that can actually
bring about a sea change for society and Mother Earth, with or without Mr.
Trump.
Peter
Koenig is an economist and geopolitical
analyst. He is also a former World Bank staff and worked extensively around the
world in the fields of environment and water resources.
Source: Global Research
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