The upcoming s-election: Which CFR-approved presidential candidate will you choose?

"Change" is the catchword in election politics today, as it is in every presidential election. Americans are desperate for change because they're tired: They're tired of the war, they're tired of the lies, and they're tired of seeing their country slowly destroyed by powerful interests. According to the TV pundits this is the reason why Obama and Huckabee won so decisively in the Iowa caucuses -- American voters believe that Obama and Huckabee will be the candidates who can bring them much needed change.

Of course, Obama and Huckabee will bring Americans change, but it will be of a superficial, insubstantial kind: a few more -- or less -- tax breaks, more job training programs, tougher penalties for corporate criminals, and, more toothless promises to get us out of the quagmire of Iraq, or, at least, just to fight it better than Bush.

One thing that will be missing is the promise of REAL change, the kind that would restore our Constitution to its 1778 status, end globalization policies that are destroying U.S. sovereignty, and, most importantly, end the completely fraudulent "war on terror" which is responsible for enacting terrible retribution on millions of innocent people around the world. Obama and Huckabee will not be these agents of change, nor will Hillary or Edwards, nor any of the other top-tiered candidates.

Why is that? It's simple: all of the presidential frontrunners have key advisors from the Council of Foreign Relations -- an organization that is actively promoting the "war on terror" and world government through globalization policies -- missions that are eroding the sovereignty of the United States.

Since the CFR insiders control the major media (see this video below) it shouldn't come as any surprise that Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich are being marginalized and discredited. These candidates have taken positions against CFR "free trade" policies like GATT and NAFTA, have called for stopping the war immediately, and have professed a strong defense of the U.S. Constitution -- something the sanctioned candidates will not do.



Unfortunately, even when these really good choices present themselves to the American people, the vast body of the electorate will not vote for them in the long run because they are told by the CFR-controlled press, and the CFR-controlled RNC and DNC, that these candidates' ideas are fringe; their concepts of protecting the Constitution, protecting American jobs and stopping a illegal war are just not mainstream ideas in a globalized, terror-filled world. We can, however, enjoy the spirited discussions they bring to the debates and fascinate over their old-fashioned beliefs and values. How quaint. (Of course, the corporate media don't exactly frame it this way, but that is essentially why these "fringe" candidates are censored and disparaged.)

Americans should have none of it.

For those of us with our frontal lobes still intact we can look for more exacting method of vetting a candidate than Andy Green's Mr Potato Head test (see picture above) Candidates pose with Clinton's Potato Head; and that is to look at who are the advisors for the top-tiered candidates. Let's start with the Democrats:

Obama:
Obama has CFR member and Trilateral Commission founder Zbigniew Brzezinski advising him. Brzezinski was instrumental in arming the Mujaheddin in Afghanistan and advocating for U.S. bases in the Middle East; and Richard Clarke (CFR), the former counterterrorism czar who cried crocodile tears to the 9/11 families about how the U.S. fail them on September 11, 2001. Interestingly enough, many of Obama advisors are straight from the older Clinton cabinet (see www.danieldrezner.com/archives/003486.html). So much for the "change" candidate.

Hillary:
Hillary has a who's who of prominent CFR members advising her including: Leslie Gelb, president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations; Samuel R. Berger, Bill Clinton's national security advisor; Madeline Albright, Clinton's secretary of state; Welsley Clark, NATO commander and Lee Feinstein, a prominent CFR scholar.

Edwards:
Edwards likes military men advising him, many of them profiting handsomely from the phony War on Terror. Ironically, one non-military advisor is Barry M. Blechman (CFR), President Carter’s assistant director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, an agency which was created under a Presidential Directive to disarm sovereign states to bring about world government under control of the UN. Hmmm.

According to Daniel Estulin, an award-winning investigative journalist and expert on the CFR and Bilderberg Group, the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency was sponsored by the CFR "to surrender irrevocably to the United Nations the means of protecting its (the United States) national sovereignty, and, ultimately to confiscate all of the weapons ownded by its own citizens, as party of a planned future global disarmament program." ("The True Story of the Bilderberg Group", 2007, page 101)

And, if that's not scary enough for you, read what investigative journalist, Kelley Beaucar Vlahos, has to say about Obama's and Clinton's advisors:

"...no less than eight names associated with the Clinton and Obama campaigns—including Indyk, Steinberg, and O’Hanlon—have turned up, in some cases multiple times, on statements and letters authored by the Project for the New American Century..."

"Led by former Reagan aide and Hoover Institution fellow Charles Hill, there is Harvard Professor Martin Kramer, who works with the Washington Institute for Near East Policy; Peter Berkowitz of Hoover; Kim Holmes of the Heritage Foundation; Stephen Rosen of Harvard; Enders Wimbush of the Hudson Institute; Commentary eminence Norman Podhoretz; and the newest addition, author Daniel Pipes, who has been waging an online war against American “Islamofascist” college professors."

Kelley Beaucar Vlahos, "War Whisperers", American Conservative Magazine, 2007

Yikes!... and these are just the Democratic candidates. Needless to say on the Republican side it is much worse. See this list from the Washington Post:

"The War Over the Wonks", Washington Post, Oct. 2., 2007

Since all the frontrunners are getting advice from Council of Foreign Relations members we should all be concerned. Unless you understand who the CFR are you won't understand the threat to our country and our freedoms. Read what these experts on the subject have to say:

“The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is the American Branch of a society which originated in England… (and) …believes national boundaries should be obliterated and one-world rule established.”

...and...

“The powers of financial capitalism had (a) far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent meetings and conferences. The apex of the systems was to be the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the world’s central banks which were themselves private corporations. Each central bank…sought to dominate its government by its ability to control Treasury loans, to manipulate foreign exchanges, to influence the level of economic activity in the country, and to influence cooperative politicians by subsequent economic rewards in the business world.”

-- Harvard professor and Bill Clinton mentor, Carroll Quigley. (Quigley, who was a supporter of these plans was allowed to study the elite's secret documents for over 15 years. He wrote about them in his book, "Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time and The Anglo-American Establishment.")

... and...

“The main purpose of the Council on Foreign Relations is promoting the disarmament of U.S. sovereignty and national independence and submergence into an all powerful, one world government.”

“Once the ruling members of the CFR shadow government have decided that the U.S. Government should adopt a particular policy, the very substantial research facilities of (the) CFR are put to work to develop arguments, intellectual and emotional, to support the new policy, and to confound and discredit, intellectually and politically, any opposition.”

-- U.S. Navy admiral Chester Ward, a former CFR member

So, why doesn't the vast majority of Americans see through this con? Why do we keep bumping into the same group of misty-eyed voters who are adamant that if only their CFR-approved candidate gets into office they would set the world's axis right again -- a faith that is truly astonishing considering the continuous deterioration of the United States right before our eyes under both Democratic and Republican administrations, election after election.

People get fooled because the vast majority of people still get their news from corporate, "cabal" news whose role is to hide these facts from the public.

So, this leaves us with the upcoming s-election. If we want to vote pro-sovereignty, pro-Constitution, anti-war that means that the only candidate we could support is Ron Paul or Cynthia McKinney on the Green Party ticket. (I like Dennis Kucinich, but if he really said that if Hillary and Obama gets the party nomination we should vote for him/her, he has lost my vote.) Personally, I am kind of fond of social security and public education, as well as some safety-net social programs, so Cynthia will get my vote over Paul. She has also promised to re-open a full investigation into 9/11. Here is her website: www.runcynthiarun.org

For more on the candidates' advisors, see:

"The Advisers Are Writing Our Future", The New York Times, April 18, 2007
"Hillary Inc.", The Nation, May 17, 2007
"Bilderberg 'performance' key to Edwards VP pick," World Net Daily, 2004

Bring in the New Year with the Impeachment of Bush and Cheney!

Two very different Rose Parades: Germany's Rose Monday Carnival parade and the U.S. Rose Bowl parade.





Don't you just love these floats! George W. Bush being spanked by the Statue Of Liberty; finding a Weapon of Mass Destruction in President Ahmadinajad's armpit; and crazed-cartoon terrorists.

These photos are from the Rose Monday carnival parade in Mainz, western Germany, on Monday, Feb. 19, 2007. Thousands of spectators attended the traditional street carnival parade in the state of Rhineland-Palatinates's capital.
(AP Photo Bernd Kammerer)

Here is a little about Carnival season:

"The "fifth season of the year" as Carnival is called, begins on November 11th at 11:11 AM. But the "crazy days" start on so-called Weiberfastnacht, the Thursday before Rosenmontag (Carnival Monday)."

"Crazy Days" indeed. And, who said the Germans don't have a sense of humor.

And... our not so crazy "crazy days" in the States...

New World Order floats, stormtroopers, and bat planes from hell.






Note George Lucas' Imperial Stormtroopers holding up the flags of the world. A certain New World Order reference. Burrrrr.
(Photos taken from the 2007 Rose Bowl parade.)

And, this year, signs of unrest from real patriots.





And here is a press release from the White Rose Coalition Action (not so coincidentally taking their name from the White Rose Society, a German resistance group to Nazism during the Third Reich)

"Cindy Sheehan Joins Activists Planning Impeachment/Pro-Peace Protest at New Year's Rose Parade

Los Angeles - California (December 18, 2007) Local and national pro-Impeachment and pro-Peace American citizens will stage non-violent protests and demonstrations throughout the Rose Parade in Pasadena, California, on Tuesday, January 1, 2008 beginning at 7:30 a.m. with support from Cindy Sheehan and the Camp Casey Peace Institute. The convergence of activists is called the White Rose Coalition, in honor of the resistance movement in Munich in 1942. The White Rose Coalition includes members of the Los Angeles National Impeachment Center (LANIC), CODEPINK, Troops Out Now Coalition, World Can't Wait, ANSWER, Progressive Democrats of America, the Green Party, Veterans for Peace, United for Peace and Justice, and others.

The groups are calling for impeaching George W. Bush and Dick Cheney for high crimes and misdemeanors, and to end U.S. occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan . Rep. Dennis Kucinich [OH] has sponsored two resolutions in Congress to impeach Vice President Dick Cheney: H. Res. 333 and H. Res. 799. He is drafting an extended version relating to President Bush. The patriots gathered on January 1, 2008 will be sending a strong pro-Impeachment and pro-Peace message to this Administration in opposition to the continuing occupations of Iraq, Afghanistan and the growing pressure by Cheney and others to bomb Iran.

"This administration has shredded Constitutional protections and is now apparently planning another illegal military strike, this time to bomb Iran," says Cynthia Mather , a spokesperson for LANIC. "The consequences of such an assault on global well-being and security would be catastrophic," she said. "Congress is obligated to act before it is too late. But the Democrats are not making any move to stop it, so impeachment is our only recourse."

"Numbers of protestors and demonstrators from the various groups could be in the hundreds or in the thousands", said Peter Thottam, Executive Director of LANIC . "We expect this to be a national day of impeachment visibility, with folks joining from all parts of the country. It is hard to gauge how many will show up, but according to the latest MSNBC poll, of 584,000 people asked if they thought Bush had committed impeachable offenses, 89 per cent said yes! There is a tremendous level of anger and frustration out there. I doubt if our politicians in Washington D.C. have any idea just how much."

See link

May 2008 see the end of the fascistic "Crazy Days"

Realpolitiks in Pakistan and Bhutto's Assassination

Yesterday the world was rocked by the news of the death of Benazir Bhutto who was assassinated just days before the general election, an election in which most observers predicted she would be ushered in as the next prime minister of Pakistan. The news media and politicians condemned the killers for the crime and lamented the death of the hope for a democratic Pakistan -- an elusive phantom that Bhutto promised her people should she get elected.

But, like so much on the mainstream news, most Americans who only listen to the sound bites will miss the realpolitiks about Pakistan which are covered up expertly by corporate/CIA spin masters.

Just last week I read a very interesting essay by Zahir Ebrahim called "Wakeup to the grotesque reality of the 'Grand Chessboard'!" which presents a very different dynamic about what's going on in that fractious country.

Ebrahim writes in this essay that western imperialistic forces are intent on destroying the sovereignty of Pakistan by using the fabricated "War on Terror" as an imperial doctrine to build their empire. He writes:

"In these times when the world's greatest minds, its foremost intellectuals, and its leading scholars and political-thinkers are seeding the underpinnings of the vast multi-faceted empire that very much needs this 'War on Terror' to accomplish its genocidal wet dreams of 'full spectrum dominance' of the planet, it is foolish to close ones' eyes and ones' mind to their doctrinal craftsmanship that is directly fueling the global power-plays and which is entirely crafting our own humble destiny while we are deliberately deflected into our own local petty gamesmanship!

...as a humble student of geopolitics of the 'Grand Chessboard', the following are the rational steps, in order, that the Pakistani nation must urgently initiate in order to save the country and its peoples from imminent destruction before the despotic 'hectoring hegemons' come to really 'save' Pakistan just as they did Iraq. They are already deftly planting, spinning, and loudly singing the prelude 'unbirthday party' song to 'shock and awe' with copious unwitting help from our own 'native informants' (see “Response to Zia Mian's 'How Not to Handle Nuclear Security'”)!"

Zahir Ebrahim, "Wakeup to the grotesque reality of the 'Grand Chessboard'!", 2007

How does Bhutto fit into this global power play that Ebrahim describes in his essay? Journalist Gail Sheehy's recent article for Parade Magazine, 'A Wrong Must Be Righted,' gives the reader some useful insights into Bhutto's ascendancy:

Sheehy quotes Humayun Gauhar, a confidant of General Musharraf:

"If the Americans can have a government led by Bhutto, they will get what Musharraf has refused them. She will allow NATO boots on the ground in our tribal areas and a chance to neuter our nuclear weapons," said Gauhar. This is exactly why the American government was eager to see Bhutto gain or share power with the Musharraf's highly unpopular regime."

Gail Sheehy, Parade Magazine, 2007, "A Wrong Must Be Righted'

In an interesting op/ed piece in the Los Angele's Times Benazir's niece, Fatima Bhutto, thinks that her aunt is a great pretender when it comes to democratic reform and that her loyalties lie somewhere else. The piece titled, "Aunt Benazir's false promises" Fatima writes:

"I have personal reasons to fear the danger that Ms. Bhutto's presence in Pakistan brings, but I am not alone. The Islamists are waiting at the gate. They have been waiting for confirmation that the reforms for which the Pakistani people have been struggling have been a farce, propped up by the White House. Since Musharraf seized power in 1999, there has been an earnest grass-roots movement for democratic reform. The last thing we need is to be tied to a neocon agenda through a puppet "democrat" like Ms. Bhutto."

-- Los Angeles Times, Op/Ed., November 14, 2007

Now, is this the real story behind the continuing tragedy of Pakistan today? The pro-Western, Harvard- and Oxford-educated Bhutto had desires to bring in Western military forces into the country in order to dismantle the ISI, Pakistan's intelligence service, and Pakistan's nuclear weapons arsenal, making Pakistan a puppet government the Neocons could control? Would the ISI and others who believed in a sovereign Pakistan allow that to happen?

And, if the axiom that one is judged by the company one keeps is correct then one should be wary of Bhutto as she had a penchant for hiring the advice for those that are profiting greatly off the "War on Terror".

Sheehy gives us this interesting detail about Bhutto:

"Reflecting on the lessons of her two terms as prime minister, Bhutto tells me, “It’s only now that America has awakened to what we were already fighting—Islamic jihadis.” Fortunately for her, the West’s urgent fear of Pakistan as a breeding ground for terrorists has given Bhutto the chance to redefine herself. During most of her exile, she was considered irrelevant by Washington. Then she hired Hillary Clinton’s image-maker, Mark Penn, and began playing up to Musharraf."

Gail Sheehy, Parade Magazine, 2007, "A Wrong Must Be Righted'

For all those who have not heard of Mark Penn, he is CEO and President of the PR firm Burson-Marsteller and was Hillary Clinton's chief campaign strategist. His company helped defend the mercenary company Blackwater in hearings before Congress.

Bhutto also was a long-term client of Scribe Securities & Advisors which provided her with advice and counseling on political and media strategies. The president of Scribe, Joseph Szlavik Jr., served at the White House during the first Bush Administration as a policy analyst in the Office of Policy Development and as liaison with the Office of Cabinet Affairs and the Office of Legislative Affairs. The company also specializes in Homeland Security and Defense Consulting.

Bhutto was obviously not being propelled to government by grassroots support but by well-greased, well-connected consulting firms heavily tied to the Military Industrial Complex. With the Middle East blowing up both figuratively and literally because of the phony "War on Terror," does it surprise anybody that the very real world of realpolitiks caught up with her.

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Also see:
The Destabilization of Pakistan, by Prof. Michel Chossudovsky for an excellent indepth analysis of the West's program to destabilize and balkanize Pakistan.

Bhutto tried to hire U.S. security guards Benazir tried to hire British and American security firms, including Blackwater, to protect her, but Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf refused to allow the foreign contractors to operate in Pakistan, according to aides.