Derrick N Ashong - September 18, 2008
I did an interview earlier this week for Harvardwood, exploring some of the current trends in the campaign and some key issues facing the nation. It's a 45min full-length, unedited, uncensored response to some live questioning and covers topics from the role the Media & the Arts in politics to the ongoing propagation of lies by the McCain/Palin ticket in this campaign.
I'll see if I can get the source vid from the interviewer and chop it into smaller pieces, but for now here's the whole hog. Get informed, get involved and let's go out there and WIN this thing!
D.N.A
O'BIDEN '08
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Posted by Derrick N Ashong at September 18, 2008 09:37 PM
Dear Derrick, Richard, and others,
We are currently watching a classic example unfolding of the escalating plan for movement towards a One World Government/Global Economic System. As David Icke so perceptively explains, the strategy works thusly:
1) A crisis is created by the power elite and then someone is found to blame for it.
2) A panic oriented situation is encouraged so that the people become desperate for someone to come to the rescue. This is meant to weaken the resolve of the people.
3) The power elite devise a "so-called solution" by introducing another government agency to handle the problem. In actuality, the goal is to further centralize the power of the ruling elite.
The failure of the financial institutions and major investment companies has been orchestrated so that control of the monetary systems will be more centrally organized.
There are certain elitist groups that are behind these manifestations. The Tri-Lateral Commission; the Bilderberg Group; the Council on Foreign Relations are groups dedicated to establishing a One World Government.
An example of a Presidential Administration that was a virtual who's who of the Tri-Lateral Commission was that of Jimmy Carter. His National Security Advisor was Zbigniew Brzezinski who was the person who set up the Tri-Lateral Commission, along with David Rockefeller. Zbigniew Brzezinski is currently the Chief Foreign Policy Advisor to Barack Obama. One of his statements has been, "Although Stalinism may have been a needless tragedy, for both the Russian people and Communism as an ideal, there is the intellectually tantalizing possibility that for the world at large it was .... a blessing in disguise".
Best Wishes,
"Betsy" S.
Betsy, we need to head them off at the pass. This is the time to bring everyone's attention to the reality. There may be something they did not anticipate.
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Thank you, Richard -
I checked out your information on pennies and I investigated The Source as well.
As you say, Richard, "There is the thought that there is divine intention and egoic intention. If wisdom is involved, then egoic intention will align with divine intention..."
Regarding the 144,000: I certainly want to be one of the 144,000 and stay in the game. Let's leave Crystal City behind!
Best Wishes,
"Betsy" S.
Betsy, exactly who wants to just watch when they can participate?
Why would the citizens of the US borrow money and then have it loaned back to them?
If we are going to borrow money as citizens then we should pay off our home loans with it, not pay off some third party's debt.
Anyone disagree?
These buyouts mean that the citizens should be shareholders (owners) and receiving dividends.
Dear Richard,
This situation of "Taxpayer Rescue" of failing financial institutions is such a horrendous misuse of governmental power. The Senate and Congress are asleep while the President continues to implement his agenda to destroy the foundations of this once great Nation.
Instead of investigations into the high risk investing and loss of the life savings of many citizens by certain individuals, the government is rushing to the rescue of the offending parties and institutions at the expense of we the people, the persons injured.
How is the U.S. supposed to survive when its dependence on China, Japan, and Europe is escalating every day because of our insolvency? I think that this financial crisis is meant to make the American people more agreeable to a North American Union (U.S., Canada, Mexico). Next will come inclusion in the European Union, and then the Global Government.
Nobody in Washington seems to be working for the good of the people. It appears that we are being moved further towards servitude to the government each day.
What can we do?
Best Wishes,
"Betsy" S.
Thank you, Derrick, for speaking up for us; and very well said too, may I add. Bravo!
i got to tell u...dude...that brother is absolutely BRILLIANT!
he's is one of of a kind, articulate, hip, and a Phd candidate of the highsest order to boot! i gotto watch that vid again and again! whoa!
Here's an insightful analysis by Paul Rosenberg on the lies of Republican leaders:
How Politicians Lie: McCain, Palin, Bush, Reagan, Nixon--No Two Exactly Alike!
"Politicians lie. Heck, pretty much everyone lies. But we're particularly aware that politicians lie. Still just because two people, or two politicians lie, that doesn't mean they lie for the same reasons or in the same ways.
Some people lie reluctanctly, as a sort of last resort, when they feel they have no other option. Others lie quite freely, saying whatever comes to mind, whether true or not. Some people merely want to please, they lie to make others feel good, and then they lie some more, to keep their lies from being discovered. Some lie out of embarrassment, to avoid feeling badly themselves. Some lie quite strategically, to achieve very specific goals. And some simply lie tactically, to get themselves out of lifes little jams--or into them, as the case may be.
In the current presidential campaign, the GOP ticket gives us quite a pair of liars, with very different profiles. But before looking at them specifically, it can help if we survey some other recent examples, in order to get ourselves oriented. So let us begin with Richard Nixon, aka "Tricky Dick," and work our way forward from there. I'm not arguing that any of these are pure examples. Rather, each of them is best understood in terms of a different landscape of lies."
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Richard Nixon: The Pathological vs. Categorical Liar
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Ronald Reagan: The Confabulator: Tall Tales And Confabulations
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G.W. Bush: Sadism And Sociopathy Enter the Picture
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John McCain 2008: "Just Win, Baby"--The Structure of Strategic Lying
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Sarah Palin: Back To Sociopathy, Again
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http://openleft.com/showDiary.do;jsessionid=6B3A74A6C264E3C176CF34BE13EB9C48?diaryId=8353
Here's the part on McCain and Palin:
JOHN McCAIN
In an opinion piece at Salon, The lying game, Alan Wolfe observes:
"Republicans lie so frequently, not because the party just happened to settle upon one serial liar after another to run for high office, but because the form of conservatism to which they all adhere demands that if they are to win they have no choice but to lie....
Why do Republicans lie so much? Why is McCain following the Bush script? Why, at the very moment when he wanted a "maverick" by his side, did McCain pick a congenital liar to be his running mate? Republicans engage in what I can only call "structural lies." To understand what this means consider this: Just about every significant lie uttered by Republican politicians is designed to make them seem less conservative than they really are.
The current lie du jour of the McCain campaign is that their man will aggressively take on the greed that is causing the collapse on Wall Street. Given McCain's lack of interest in the economy, wealthy campaign contributors, and ideological hostility toward government regulation, this stance is laughable. But McCain's lie unconsciously reveals an important truth, which is that when the economy goes into a tailspin, the public prefers a solution long identified with liberalism. McCain could tell the truth, which is that he is all for the free market and can barely wait until the crisis passes so the rich can go about the business of becoming ever richer. But if he does that, he will lose. McCain wants to win. Therefore he lies.
It is not just the economy that features this structural dynamic. If you were just tuning into the election now -- no doubt there are many Americans who have not quite tuned in yet -- you would think that the Republican Party loves workers, hopes to redistribute income to the lower middle class, embraces immigrants, favors environmental protection, and hates war. Some of the Republican lies, to be sure have nothing to do with policy, such as false estimates of the size of the crowds attending Republican rallies or Sarah Palin's announcement that she had sold the Alaska governor's plane on eBay, but of those that do, the overwhelming majority are designed to make the Republican ticket more humane and moderate than it actually is. Only on foreign policy, where McCain shows no interest in hiding his hawkish instincts, can the ticket claim to be taking an honest position even if the face of public skepticism."
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/09/18/lies/print.html
This sort of strategic lying to seem more liberal is far from the only sort of lying that McCain does. But it is clearly central to his campaign, and tends to overshadow much else. It is of a piece with his whole "maverick" schtick, which mostly consisted of hogging the limelight as much as possible when the GOP was so far out on a limb it was easy to take the "bipartisan" approach, and hog all the credit for himself. And in this respect, McCain's strategic lying is not merely a matter of momentary convenience, but part of a longtime strategy.
SARAH PALIN
Finally, we come to Sarah Palin. With her, we find ourselves even more clearly back in the neighborhood of sociopathy, with her long history of manipulative relationships. It's easy to miss this under the guise of more ordinary cronyism, but Palin has a long history of turning on those close to her, which is not at all what your sane crony politician does. She got the nickname "Sarah Barracuda" at least in part for her vicious competetiveness against her own team-mates, as Salon founder David Talbot exlains in "Sarah Palin's wasteful ways":
"Nick Carney, who is now retired in Utah, has a lot of time to ponder Sarah Palin's rise these days. When he and his wife picked Palin to run for City Council in 1992, because they felt the council needed an average-mom type like her, Carney had no idea how far their protégé would soar. "It was a very casual process, she wasn't even our first choice. We had known her since she was a girl, she went to school with our daughter. It wasn't that she was the brightest thing on the horizon, a rising star or anything like that."
But, in hindsight, Carney can see the qualities that have rocket-propelled Palin to where she is today.
"'Sarah Barracuda' -- she's proud of that name now, she uses it in her campaigns," said her former mentor. "But she got that name from the way she conducted herself with her own teammates. She was vicious to the other girls, always playing up to the coach and pointing out when the other girls made mistakes. She was the coach's favorite and he gave her more playing time than her skills warranted. My niece was on her team; she was a very good player. I used to sit there in the stands, and I would wonder, Why on earth is Sarah getting so much playing time?""
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/09/17/palin_mayor/print.html
That's fairly typical sociopathic behavior. Again, I'm not saying that Palin is a sociopath. But I am saying that thinking of her in terms of that framework can bring some things into focus that otherwise don't make much sense.
A similar portrait emerges from the very beginning of Talbot's piece:
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"Sarah Palin has been touting herself as fiscal watchdog throughout her political career. But Palin's tenure as mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, was characterized by waste, cronyism and incompetence, according to government officials in the Matanuska Valley, where she began her fairy-tale political rise.
"Executive abilities? She doesn't have any," said former Wasilla City Council member Nick Carney, who selected and groomed Palin for her first political race in 1992 and served with her after her election to the City Council.
Four years later, the ambitious Palin won the Wasilla mayor's office -- after scorching the "tax and spend mentality" of her incumbent opponent. But Carney, Palin's estranged former mentor, and others in city hall were astounded when they found out about a lavish expenditure of Palin's own after her 1996 election. According to Carney, the newly elected mayor spent more than $50,000 in city funds to redecorate her office, without the council's authorization.
"I thought it was an outrageous expense, especially for someone who had run as a budget cutter," said Carney. "It was also illegal, because Sarah had not received the council's approval."
According to Carney, Palin's office makeover included flocked, red wallpaper. "It looked like a bordello."
Although Carney says he no longer has documentation of the expenditures, in his recollection Palin paid for the office face-lift with money from a city highway fund that was used to plow snow, grade roads and fill potholes -- essential municipal services, particularly in weather-battered Alaska.
Carney confronted Mayor Palin at a City Council hearing, and was shocked by her response.
"I braced her about it," he said. "I told her it was against the law to make such a large expenditure without the council taking a vote. She said, 'I'm the mayor, I can do whatever I want until the courts tell me I can't.'""
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That's sociopathy: No conscience. I can do whatever I can get away with.
Sociopaths can be excellent liars, because they have no internal restrictions whatsoever on what they'll say. Anything that gets the job done is fine. Their lying can also be seen as a natural extension of their "mask of sanity," an effortless extension of their carefully crafted simulacrum of normal humanity. Palin--like many sociopaths--lies boldly and fearlessly precisely because anyone who's not a sociopath is generally inhibited in lying. Speaking boldly, therefore, is generally an indicatioin of truthfulness. Which is why it boldly-stated lies work so well in most circumstances. And when it fails? Well, sociopaths are nothing if not quick on their feet, making up new lies on the spot. And we've seen that as well with Palin, as she's offered an ever-chancing explanation for why she fired Walt Monegan.
Again, I don't want to say that Palin is a sociopath. I'm only saying that much of her behavior makes sense in terms of that framework. And to the extent that it does, the sociopathic framework is useful in understanding what she's up to.
Palin is similar to Bush, in that both seems to exhibit sociophathic traits. But Bush is decidedly meaner, while Palin can at least put on a much sunnier demeanor. Bush also has a much more elaborate support mechanism, not just as President, but going all the way back to his oil patch days, when his friends--knowing his family--pulled him out of one failed enterprise after another. Heck, forget about the oil patch. It goes all the way back to his AWOL time in the Texas Air National Guard! Palin has a lot less of this sort of protection--though her rightwing networks certainly don't leave her alone in the world. Still, quite unlike Bush, she had to build these up mostly on her own.
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To Scott Tiger and everyone:
Who is Paul Rosenberg? What makes him an expert on political figures? His attack on the Republican Party is representative of the tactics of die-hard Liberals. He apparently exonerates Democratic personages of all wrongdoing.
Why not consider another approach to the situation at hand? The current political battle is a classic example of an orchestrated scenario by those Globalist Groups (Tri-Lateral Commission, Bilderberg Group, and Council on Foreign Relations) that are working towards a One World Government.
1) Create a crisis. The financial insolvency of the U.S. Government. This has been encouraged by George Bush (He is a Globalist before he is a Republican).
2) Create a demand for a solution by the people and find someone to blame for the crisis (the Republican Party). The people are looking for "Change" because of the inept leadership exhibited by Bush and Cheney. Bush and Cheney have been dedicated to the agenda of the Globalists, not the true Conservative Republicans.
3) Introduce a new agency or personality to supposedly come to the rescue (in this case Obama and the Democratic Party, because these entities supposedly represent the opposite position). Just because Obama is chanting the word "Change" does not mean that it is a constructive change.
In reality Obama has been bought and paid for by George Soros (a major Socialist and Globalist) and other money consortiums wishing to destroy the independence of the United States. George Soros is a Globalist committed to the termination of the nation-state and the ascendency of world government.
Obama is taking advice from powerful people such as Zbigniew Brzezinski (his Chief Foreign Policy Advisor). Ponder Brzezinski's shocking statement about Islam or of Islamic Imperialism: "Yes, it slaughtered more than 200 million people but, Islam brought hundreds of Christian, Jewish, Zoroastrian, Hindu, and Buddhist communities under universal vision, that of the Quran." Brzezinski is a self-professed secularist, an internationalist whose moral relativism contradicts the moral law or natural rights doctrine of America's Declaration of Independence that endowed the United States with a national identity and character. His mode of thought or political mentality is anti-American.
Best Wishes,
"Betsy" S.
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To Scott Tiger and everyone:
Who is Pau
Here's an insightful analysis by Paul Rosenber
i got to tell u...dude...that brother is absolu
Thank you, Derrick, for speaking up for us; and
Dear Richard,
This situation of "Taxpay
Cool video interview, learn the stuff on coinage.me [click my name] about the economic system. Then you will understand more than most and be able to talk about it.
It is a replacement system.