AMERICA THE BEGINING PT 1 AND PT 2

AMERICA THE BEGINING   

                      

Intro 1 – The Protestor: Change

“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society.” —Propaganda, Edward Bernays, American publicist, 1928
The substance of original American freedoms exists today but as hollow forms. The people have been sold down the river – especially since the Constitution of 1787. But for most, to believe so would be patriotic heresy.

The 1775 start of the American Revolutionary War and subsequent 1776 “Declaration of Independence” began the journey of colonial liberation from the British Empire. “The great experiment” of America celebrated the rising of an autonomous United States of America. Going forward, the development of all aspects of life (law, politics, education, science, medicine, finance, food, agriculture, religion etc.) would no longer be for the sake of the monarchy but for the benefit of the people. The problem is it didn’t turn out that way. Today, the very same institutions more often serve their own self-interests than those of the people.
“The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.” —H.L Mencken, twentieth century journalist 

Enter “The Protestor”

The fact that today’s social institutions function as profit-driven corporations, (including non-profits) is a fact not lost on the people of the world. In 2011, TIME magazine declared “The Protestor” the “Person of the Year,” the poster child for discontent echoed across the planet. Considered as a demographic of mostly young people, protestors are young and old alike of all colors and stripes of varied ethnicity and backgrounds. Registering their dissatisfaction in every way imaginable, they vote at the polls, write letters, sign petitions, and withhold their consent and their money.

Yes, political and philosophical differences divide them, but at the end of the day, their differences mask the same, deeper message of all who are fed up with the direction of their country. The message arises from an informed awareness transcending country, color, age, and background; something must change.

Yet in America, a country founded on the principle of dissent, the free speech of protest has gone on the chopping block. As of March 2012, subsequent to Tea Party and Occupy Movement activities of the fall and winter of 2011, President Obama signed into law Executive Order HR 347, the Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act.

This Act is a trespass law of chilling implication. No, it does not directly prohibit free speech nor does it change the right to protest. However, at any time, free speech and the dissension of protest can be curtailed by the law’s restrictions and criminal felony charges of up to ten years imprisonment. Most protesters won’t find out until it is too late. HR 347 excerpt:
“Whoever attempts or conspires to knowingly, and with intent to impede or disrupt the orderly conduct of Government business or official functions, engages in disorderly or disruptive conduct in, or within such proximity to, any restricted building or grounds when, or so that, such conduct, in fact, impedes or disrupts the orderly conduct of Government business or official functions.”

The Never Ending Quest for Freedom and Liberty

The trespass law represents but one example of many laws and regulations counter-intuitive to what it originally meant to be American. Colonists fought the American Revolution for freedom from the British Empire and, for the liberties they stood to gain – the same reason protestors dissent today. What began as “government by consent of the governed,” by all indications now waxes as government above the law.

Roman emperor Julius Caesar and French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte were no fools. They used a strategy of divide et impera (divide and conquer) to control their empires by inciting their subjects to war amongst themselves. Known today as the American two-party political system, this same strategy keeps political partisans fighting each other while deeper issues concerning all people remain unnamed and unexamined. The cruel joke of divisive partisan loyalties is that upon closer scrutiny, we find ourselves all in the same boat.

“The bane of patriotism” is “commerce.” —The Life of Henry Laurens, David Duncan Wallace,
1915

When both the right and left policy makers fall under the control of the same corporate money interests; when a government is bought and paid for by special interests; the gods of commerce are in control. While Nero fiddles (the right and left fight among themselves); Rome burns (as wealth is extracted from the masses). The culture-wars of right and left alienate us one from another at a time when strength in numbers is needed. Jesus of Nazareth reminds us when he said, “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” Time is of the essence as less and less legislation reflects the will of the people and dire personal and national circumstances continue to unfold.



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Intro 2 – Rule by Lies and Deception

The assumption America would always be different because it was founded as a republic based on freedom and liberty, is no longer safe to assume. The country’s slide since the 2008 economic crisis to the “New Normal” makes no sense given America’s brilliant beginning. A vast number of the country’s population suffers under the “soft” slavery of personal debt and endless taxation. One has to wonder, what happened?

From behind the scenes lurks a small segment of the general population that calls the shots. They leverage obscene financial wealth from positions of unquestioned authority while designing the control box of life for everyone else. They define the parameters of information allowed the public on issues of universal concern such as politics, education and the economy and we, the people, are expected to live happily inside the box they establish for us.
7headedBeast-AlbrechtDurer“They” are the twenty-first century oligarchs employing strategies of deception to conceal their true intentions. The times we live in may have changed but the mission of this segment of society strays little from oligarchs before them: to consolidate and pass down wealth, power, and control to an alleged “superior” gene pool. From time immemorial, the many have been ruled by the few, also known as “the ruling class.” Beyond the straightforward days gone-by of kings, financiers, and power brokers; the oligarchy has become a many-headed corporate beast.

oligarchy: Rule by the few, often seen as having self-serving ends. Aristotle used the term pejoratively for unjust rule by bad men, contrasting oligarchy with rule by an aristocracy. Most classic oligarchies have resulted when governing elites were recruited exclusively from a ruling class, which tends to exercise power in its own interest. —Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
The oligarchy strives to make merchandise of the people. Their motto, “The end justifies the means” (exitus acta probat), was originally attributed to Publius Ovidus Naso, Roman poet, 43 BC to AD 17, in Heroides, ii, 85. Doing the right thing only ever matters if it profits them. Otherwise, deception suffices as their modus operandi given two separate sets of rules, one for the ruling class and another for everyone else.
deception: A thing that deceives. From deceive: deliberately cause (someone) to believe something that is not true, especially for personal gain: I didn’t intend to deceive people into thinking it was French champagne. —The Compact Oxford English Dictionary
The European House of Rothschild, dating back to the mid-eighteenth century, and its American counterpart, the Rockefeller Dynasty, of the mid-nineteenth century, provide two relevant examples. As recently as March 2012, representatives of these two powerful families had planned to consolidate some of their business holdings. According to the Financial Times of London, Lord Jacob Rothschild of RIT Capital Partners was poised to purchase a thirty-seven percent stake in the Rockefeller’s “wealth advisory and asset management group” represented by David Rockefeller. Such purchase would give the London investment trust an advantageous foothold in the United States.

In June 2012, the Rothschild name, once again, resurfaced. British banking giant, Barclays, was one of over twenty banks under investigation for the manipulation of the LIBOR (London Inter-Bank Offered Rate). This investigation was far more serious than simply the bad behavior of an individual bank. Banks that control the LIBOR actually manipulate interest rates and therefore subsequent consumer prices. When Barclays reached an agreement to pay a minimum of $450 million to both U.S. and British banking regulators to resolve the charges, the chairman of the Barclays’ board and former Lazard banker, Marcus Agius, resigned. He just happened to be the husband of Katherine, daughter of Edmund de Rothschild.
not a level playing fieldBesides the control of the world of high finance, oligarchs love to control sources of energy and the media. Monopoly men who control the natural gas industry have incredibly deep pockets when it comes to their hard-hitting, very expensive television ad campaigns. Such ads promote American sources of natural gas and employment opportunities via bright green backgrounds and words like “clean” to exploit the psychological suggestion of a corporate industry, also a champion of the environment. All the while, bold exaggerations and outright lies capture the hearts and minds of “consumers”. It is simply business-as-usual.
Remarkably, truth is stranger than fiction when an independent video documents fire pouring from a homeowner’s faucet instead of water in the neighborhoods where there has been hydraulic fracturing. “Fracking” activists, fight to inform the public of multiple, real and present dangers to the extraction of natural gas from the earth in this manner. They completely understand how everyday people are deceived by the natural gas industry but unfortunately lack the advertising budget to compete with a corporate mega-buck, well-oiled, marketing machine.

As regards the ruling class’ control of media, the story of investigative journalist, Amber Lyons reveals what corporate media never will. How she got fired from CNN illustrates the control mainstream media has over what the public is allowed to know. Ms. Lyons had refused to stop reporting on her first-hand experience of the systematic torture and murder of peaceful protesters by the government of Bahrain. She found out that CNN had been taking money from a Bahrain government news source in exchange for airing their paid content, a version of the same protest but without any footage of the violent crackdowns against protestors.
In a September 28, 2012 interview, she told her story:

“At the same time I was being detained and risking my life to expose the Bahrain regime, CNN International is taking money from them in exchange for producing content that it airs on CNN International. Content disguised as news . . . a program called iList, and that program made Bahrain seem progressive..and that the Crown Prince was a reformer. And as an employee at CNN, I was never told that this was going on. Also viewers are not being told that CNN is being paid by state regimes, some with horrific human rights records, to air content disguised as news, which they’re often not even telling the viewers that this content was paid for by government.”