President
Obama wants to break all records for being the most Corporatist President
ever. Of course the Wall Street cronies
have had a panacea these past five and a half years since President Obama has
been more reluctant than any predecessor to bring about SEC and other
prosecutions. Of course all three Chiefs
of staff this president has had, have been in the back pocket of wall street,
such as Rom Emanuel and Will Dailey.
Obama appointed Mary Jo White as head of the SEC and she had refused to
even investigate or allow the sources of Corporate donors to election
campaigns. Mary Jo White has fought for
the right to keep these sources of Corporate donations secret, despite an
express clause in Citizens United in 2010 that said that we need full disclosure
of donations. President Obama could fire
Mary Jo White, but he won’t, or he could investigate these corporate donors
himself but he won’t. So in actuality
the Republicans are constantly being aided in their campaign donations by the
Obama Administration who has the power to do something about it any time, but
won’t. Of course with these drug
companies, it used to be I wondered why Larry Elder would say ‘Going to Canada
to get your drugs is wrong”. Larry Elder
I thought was a free trade libertarian who believed in Adam Smith free market
principles. Now the drug companies are
seeking legal sanctions to prevent people from getting the identical drug from
other countries. First they’ll lie and
say the foreign stuff isn’t as good, when it’s identical. But they mark up the product in this country
four thousand percent over what it costs to produce these drugs, which is still
four times what these drugs costs in other countries. But I have never heard President Obama
address this issue, among so many other issues this President has refused to
address.
Mike
Papentonio raised the specter of Blackwater again. Of course this is a “Security company” that
demands autonomy and immunity for its criminal acts, such as the murder of
women and children in the streets often running people over with their
tanks. None of their people are subject
to any of the rules of the US Armed services, and do things nobody in the Armed
Service could ever get away with. Their
ranks are made up of psychopaths of the same mental stature as people like
Laura Schleshenger’s son - - psychopathic killers. No wonder Meliki of Iraq doesn’t want to give
these people immunity from prosecution by the sovereign nation of Iraq. In fact the President might have changed
Meliki’s mind has he cracked down on Blackwater, but he refuses to. The State Department investigated Blackwater
and was told by a Blackwater spokesman “You know I could kill you right now if
you report this story, and You know I could get away with it.” Apparently people from Whitewater use a lot
more drugs and booze and have these wild dope parties, that are like out of
control Fraternity Parties, only these Frat boys are carrying AR 15s. /This is
something else the President will never talk about. In fact the President by way of response
decided to renew Blackwater’s contract.
Of course if any thing at all is true in George Washington’s blog about
the “false flag” incidents in Ukraine, this is something else that I would
personally vote to impeach the President as a war criminal over. Of course if the Administrated wanted to it
could use the Patriot Act to go after these home grown right wing terrorists
organizations in this country. You are
much more likely to be murdered by a right wing terrorist organization attack,
than from any Islamic American. The
numbers are 343 verses twenty, for the Islamists. The Administration could use the Patriot act
to detain people like Cliven Bundy without charges- - and without right to an
attorney- - or any of the fourth amendment niceties. You could get them and question them and
break the whole organization of some of these right wing terrorists cells. But the President won’t do that. If you have dark skin and wear a turbin, you’re
a terrorist. But if you stand in front
of a Swastica toting an AK 47, you’re just one of your typical red blooded
American Patriots.
There
seems to be little doubt that you’re safer with a government beaurocrat than
you are a corporate beaurocrat, as Thom Hartman dramatically illustrated this
morning. Because a government stooge can
either be voted out of office or else threatened with recall, or at least protested
in front of. But if a private corporation
doesn’t like protestors on their Private Property they can have them
arrested. Hartman was speaking of his experiences
back in Vermont with Vorizon and his cell phone subscription which Hartman was
unhappy with and sought to cancel. But
they are trained NOT to agree to any cancelation and will talk a blue streak
with a lot of corporate propaganda nonsense on the phone, as you try and make a
simple, succinctly stated request.
Hartman has the exchange on tape.
You’ll wait for over an hour and still not accomplish what you want and
they almost force you to become a delinquent.
And often even when you have accrewed no services over the past month,
you will still be billed. The whole
communacations industry is turning into a Monopoly where they feel free to walk
all over the customers and treat them like dirt- - because they Can. But President Obama could possibly have
prevented the Republican takeover of congress in 2010 and here’s how. George Washington’s blog had a piece several
months back that the Feds actually Pay the big banks NOT to lend to
customers. I have said before and will
amplify on it now, that if Mitt Romney were president now, the economy would be
doing a lot better. For one the
Republican congress would have passed the jobs bills the president wanted. And Mitt Romney might well have ended this ‘Paying
the banks not to lend money” policy. And
I also heard that Mitt Romney intended to betray the tea party by adopting
Obama Care and doing nothing to stop its implementation. We’ll never know. Clearly single payer was the logical way to
go- - but again we’ll never know.
There
is much injustice in the enforcement of our laws. According to a piece on Free Speech TV 81% of
the prisoners held on drug charges are non violent offenders. Just think on how many man hours of effort
and resources could be redirected into more productive pursuits of fighting
real crimes- - that we’d have, were it not for this national war on drugs. And the piece pointed out that in Portugal
and other nations- - the drug addicts get the rehabilitation they need. But there are other inequities. We told you about white verses Islamic
terrorists. It looks like that the
Shiites are far more culpable as far as threatening Israel herself are
concerned, rather than the Sunnis. We
could look at the way child molesters are dealt with by the Catholic Church as
opposed to the usual suspect who gets twenty years and is tagged as a sex
offender for life. It seems to me that-
even after they get out there is no chance to redeem themselves or have a life
because they have to stay two thousand feet (over a third of a mile) away from
either schools or parks where children are likely to play. So they all congregate together, which is
kind of self defeating, as Bill Carol points out. Finally we have the case of Donald Siegler of
Alabama. He ran for election for
governor of Alabama and won by fifteen thousand votes. But the next morning he awoke (kind of like O
Riley in the Dylan song) to find that it had never happened, and that
mysteriously sixteen thousand votes had been flipped in a single precinct. Not only was Siegler out of a job- - but do
to the intervention of Karl Rove, Siegler was brought up on charges of
appointed this one guy to the head of a hospital commission, which two previous
governors had done. Only now they
decided he broke the law. This all
happened ten years ago and the man is still prison. As Yoco Ono might say “He is one of the
political prisoners of the land”. You
know if you read the Bible there is a verse that says “Let justice flow freely
throughout the land”. We don’t have this
in America today. Our criminal justice
system is broken. And once again I haven’t
heard of Obama lending his support to a Free Donald Siegler committee.
And
now it’s the “thank my dead friends from the Other Side” section I’ll try and be brief about. Stu Baby contradicted what I said in the last
blog about how my ending up in this Board and Care facility was a lucky
stroke. Stu points out that I was much
freer before I was here- - and that I was railroaded when there were any number
of alternatives. And I might add my bank
account would sure as hell be a lot fatter.
The next is Burt Lombard, which is an alias for the lead guitarist who
did five albums with one band, before doing several solo albums on his
own. Burt is a guy who has been inclined
to intervene on my behalf, even when Mal Evans wasn’t. And the third person I’d like to thank - - -
is one who formerly thought of as a mystery individual or some might call “The
spirit of 1973”. This artist died
tragically in the fall of 1973. And I
know a secret about him you won’t find in the Wikkipedia. He is a closet Elton John fan, something Mal
Evans most certainly is not. One might
tend to most associate him with Ronnie Van Zant, but this artist says “Please
don’t compare me to him - - I’m Me”. I’ll
give you more hints to his identity just because I like dishing out these guessing
games. You could say while he was
popular that “He was an artist that nobody didn’t like”, kind of like Sara
Lee. He was always well spoken of. Here is a final clue for this person who is
more than a myth. (Though he has been
deep sixed on all the radio stations for over thirty years. Nobody will play his stuff) Remember that scene where Ramses II in “The
Ten Commandments” (concerning the search for “The Deliverer” where Ramses II presents
King Seti with a bottle, and Seti looks at it and says “The bottle is empty”
and Ramses II says, “Yes, But the myth is real”.
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