Finally, Mass Media Begins Waking Up to the JesuNazi Threat

 A Mainstream Magazine Warns of "Much Harder" Tyranny Ahead;  New Threats of War Give the Regime an Excuse to Abolish Our Rights 

(Note: much of the following was written before Trump's John-Bolton-inspired Thursday afternoon cancellation of the Korea talks, for which see "Trump Kills Korean Talks; World War III Threat Intensifies," below. I didn't make this dreadfully ominous development tonight's lead story for two reasons: one, because Mainstream Media has already covered it (albeit no doubt omitting the fact Pence threatened Kim Jong-Un with ending "like the Libyan model ended," i.e., with an agonizing death like Gaddafi's, by anal impalement; and two, because it is the ever-more-apparent malevolence of the Empire that reveals the magnitude of this crisis -- which means the sum of the proofs of malevolence are somewhat more telling than its latest exemplary incident./LB) 

  

AGAIN AS LAST WEEKEND I am compelled by circumstance to preface a newly released report with commentary rather than follow my usual practice of posting in the traditional reversed-pyramid form, new material first, old guy's remarks last. 

Even so, today's comment requires scarcely more than a single sentence expressing my profound thanks to The American Prospect  for finally daring to reveal, in mass-circulation form, how terrifyingly close the Trump/Pence Regime has already brought us to complete subjugation by white Christian  tyranny.

 

Though the near-daily manifestations of Trump/Pence Fascism are now regularly exposed even by the Mainstream Media propaganda apparatus, until American Prospect writer Adele M. Stan assembled these phenomena as parts of a jigsaw and discovered the horrific whole evidenced by the result, there was no widely circulated portrait of the breadth and depth of the regime's greater malignancy. Nor was there a widespread sense of these events as the potential birth-cells of something far more malignant -- so malignant most of us who did not personally experience our species' capacity for Pure Evil as in Nazi Germany or Pinochet's Chile cannot imagine what the regime might become or envision the death and suffering it could thereby inflict, whether in grotesque triumph or triumphant defeat.  But those results are now, with the near certainty of world war imposed on us by Trump's cancellation of the Korean talks, our species most probable future -- that is, should Earth somehow survive as anything more than a bug planet. Moreover it is all occurring precisely as Marx reasoned it would, which underscores as never before how Marxism is the only logic that explains our present circumstances, including why ours is the darkest most hopeless epoch in all our species' experience.

But Let Ms. Stan Tell the Story from This Point On...

"In every issue where America has made progress...the Trump administration is rolling back those gains with alarming speed. While it’s tempting to think of this regression as a return to an earlier time—a dirtier, more racist, more sexist, less compassionate America—it’s far worse than that. This is what authoritarianism looks like...In the course of the last two weeks, President Donald J. Trump and members of his administration made a series of announcements that the news media necessarily address individually: the separation of parents seeking asylum from their children in detention centers, the order to cut federal funding from reproductive health clinics that even dare to utter the word 'abortion,' the president’s demand that the Justice Department investigate the FBI for allegedly 'infiltrating' his presidential campaign for ostensibly political reasons...Taken together, however, these assaults and many others—including the apparent end of discrimination protections for LGBTQ people and the virtual abandonment of Justice Department consent decrees on police departments that have records of violating the civil rights of African American people—add up to groundwork laid for the imposition of a much harder form of authoritarianism likely planned for the near future."

 

Comment: No doubt because Prospect is a publication of the Left-leaning bourgeois rather than the True Left, Ms. Stan deftly avoids noting how, even before 22 November 1963, the Democratic (sic) Party was the main clandestine collaborator in the boiled-frog imposition of fascism on the United States. Indeed its very unobtrusiveness is what makes the Democrats' strategy for "rolling back" so much more effective than its far-more-brazen Republican counterpart. No doubt Ms. Stan's omissions  also explain why the editors of Common Dreams chose to reprint her text; CD is, after all,  a key voice of the Bernie Sanders movement, the primary goal of which is restoration of the New Deal -- i.e., once more positioning ourselves so the Capitalists can fuck us again.

It is here on the pseudo-Left, specifically in its undying support for Hillary Clinton, that we also glimpse what is undoubtedly the real reason for the Democratic (sic) Party's anti-Trump frenzy -- especially its new, always-kiss-the-secret-policeman's-ass adoration of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Even so, it may take us a moment to identify the Trump/Pence Regime's one most unforgivable sin. It is surely not Trump's  boorishness; I know of nothing in the cesspool of our modern  political effluent quite so boorish as Hillary's expression of sadistic glee over Gadaffi's agonizing death by anal impalement. 

Might it be, instead, that Trump and his henchmen have prematurely revealed the magnitude of manifest Evil that is Capitalism?  That their revelation is therefore as responsible for the mouth-frothing fury of the frog-boiling Democrats as it is for the ejaculatory joy of the pussy-grabbing Republicans? That in their loud and boastful relentlessness, the Republicans have revealed enough of the One Percent's ultimate agenda to rekindle thoughts of revolution? That they have re-ignited the relevance of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky, Mao Ze Dong, Ho Chi Minh  and Che Guevara? 

From the perspective of Hillary and her factional cronies, there could be no greater defeat; if my analysis is accurate, the Trump/Pence Regime's revelations flush at least 55 years of archly Machiavellian planning down the historical commode. These disclosures also ensure the transition from Big Lie "democracy" to unabashed tyranny will almost certainly be accompanied by exactly the sort of mass murder Hillary hoped her boiled-frog gradualism would avoid -- not because of any humanitarian impulse, but because death on that scale looks bad on the international Internet and suggests the realm in which occurs might be a "shithole" nation.

Especially after her Gaddafi cackle, I cannot doubt Hillary had also hoped there would be a sufficient number of school shootings and other such atrocities to compel the forcible disarmament of the entire U.S. civilian population. Obviously she knows that mandatory...

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Hastily Suppressed Audits Suggest U.S. Government Can't -- or Won't -- Account for $21 Trillion in Unidentified Expenditures

One of the Now-Censored Reports Says the Army Lost Track of $6.5 Trillion in Fiscal 2015, a Sum 54 Times Greater Than the $120 Billion Army Budget Approved by Congress. Is This Inept Accounting? Or Is It Governance as Gangsterism, Complete with Under-the-Table Payoffs? 

DESPITE OUR NATIONAL MATHOPHOBIA -- and if the two remarkably courageous economics professors who authored this mind-blowing scoop-the-world report for the online 8 December 2017 issue of Forbes magazine are not disappeared by government agents -- these disclosures could evolve into the most devastating scandal in U.S. history. 

Yes, math is a big turn-off for many of us, but in this instance the numbers are too important to ignore. Their apparent message is so damning it literally enters the realm of the unthinkable.What the numbers suggest is the federal government is composed of out-of-control bureaucracies granted unlimited ability to print paper money and thereby elevated to veritable omnipotence by whichever cabal of plutocrats is secretly in command. 

To clarify what these numbers might be telling us, our best metaphor is organized crime. Imagine a seemingly legitimate business actually owned by a Cosa Nostra family, invariably in some field characterized by maximum cash flow and minimum documentation. (Who is to say how big that real estate commission truly was?) Typically such an enterprise serves two purposes. It provides its mafiosi with what are known as "income-tax jobs" -- apparently legal sources of income on which they pay the taxes by which they hope to deceive their Internal Revenue Service adversaries. But it also provides a cover for one or more big-money rackets the finances of which are many times larger than those of the legitimate business. Thus the operation necessitates two sets of books. One set records legitimate income and expenses and provides the basis for tax returns and the like. The other set, protected by the deadly code of omerta,  documents the operation's true finances. The difference between the two is often in millions, even billions of dollars.

What the two economists discovered -- initially in a U.S. Army Inspector General's report that was flushed down the Orwell hole almost as soon as one of the economists questioned it -- suggests the U.S. Government is doing the same sort of thing on a trillion-dollar scale. Which prompts two vital questions: 

Where did the Army get 54 times more money than Congress budgeted for it?

On what did the Army spend the money? 

In keeping with the other worst-of-all-possible-worlds disclosures that in this darkest epoch of our species' history continually monkey-wrench our individual and collective consciousness, it is not at all difficult for me to imagine the most icon-smashing, delusion-destroying answers: that the money came from those Capitalist plutocrats who behind the Big Lie of "American Democracy" are in fact our true overlords -- tyrants as omnipotent as Adolf Hitler, as sadistic as Reinhardt Heydrich and as morally imbecilic as Ted Bundy -- and that the money they gave the Pentagon was spent on murderously clandestine operations wherever they chose to advance the Empire's agenda of world conquest. 

Imagine Iran-Contra on an unimaginable scale. Did this indeed mark the reduction of the U.S. Government to the One Percent's global bag-man? Did such a function grow out of the government's alliance with the Mafia during World War II? Or is it far older, perhaps even dating to the revolution fostered in large measure by the fears of southern planters and northern bankers the British would outlaw slavery?  
   
As to the use of Meyer Lansky book-keeping by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, that too is easily explained: note once more the connections between the real estate industry and the mob (see again the links in my third paragraph, above).  For example, in New York City -- something I know from my years in journalism there and across the river in New Jersey -- it was customary to mark up construction budgets by at least 50 percent to cover the requisite payoffs to mobsters, officials and politicians. 

And what then might the breathtaking discoveries by economics professors Laurence Kotlikoff and Mark Skidmore actually mean? 

If my darkest suspicions are correct, these revelations tell us...

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