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Mandate for Change

Voters’ message to Obama: think big

By David Sirota

What do we do now?” That’s the question Bill McKay (Robert Redford), ponders in The Candidate (1972). He won the presidency, promising “a better way.” After Nov. 4, America is asking Democrats the same haunting question. These are heady times for the party of Thomas Jefferson, Franklin D. Roosevelt and, now, President-elect Barack Obama. Only a few years ago, Democrats were… return to article

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    Beautiful!

    Go Big how?

    Intentions materialize realities; my intentions are materializing these words; your intention, o reader my Reader, keeps you passing your eyes over them.

    Whose intentions are now materializing a tsunami of hate?

    NO1 told all these people to do all these hateful things.  NO1 is speaking, and you are hearing.

    Re: the myths with which Fear-Mongers, both Right and Left, are jacking us again; McClellan’s “manipulating the media narrative.”

    Watch McCain’s concession.  At the mere mention of Obama, the crowd starts booing, doing violence even to his name.

    He holds out a hand to tamp down the hate realized by his hate-filled lies about Obama’s faith, patriotism, and person. 

    “The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country.”  Goering was right.

    Propagandists use words in only a mechanical fashion, shooting message pellets at targets with the violent intention of forcing changes in behavior as they desire.

    Compare Message Force Multipliers to snipers: Hide intentions; shoot mouths off; kill just as directly as pulling a trigger.

    Whoever acted on the intention, to jack the election, must now be held accountable for the foreseeable and abundantly predicted effects. Command responsibility was established at Nuremberg.

    The Democratic Party has gotten what it asked for: power.  Whose power?  Aye, now here’s the rub.

    JL isn’t the only war-monger being recycled.

    http://www.democracynow.org/2008/11/17/obama_taps_ex_cia_officials_tied

    “NPR attributed Obama’s reversal on FISA and telecom immunity to ...relying on the advice of John Brennan, an emphatic supporter of these policies.”

    “Jami Miscik was…the Deputy Director of Intelligence during the run-up to the war and in the immediate postwar period. That was a period of politicized intelligence. That was a period of the corruption of the process. That was a period when all analytic trade craft, all of the rules of analytic trade craft were ignored….”

    “And now, for Obama to turn around, put Jami Miscik back in the CIA in transition and Brennan in the transition process, ... you know, you have to wonder, who is Obama relying on for advice on the Washington community?.. [O]bviously, he’s listening to the wrong people.” [End Dn!]

    http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/110708c.html
    Ray McGovern has seen presidents be propagandized with “the particular brand of ‘shock and awe’ that can be induced by ostensibly sexy intelligence to color reactions of briefees, including presidents. [He has] seen it happen.”

    http://www.democracynow.org/2008/7/30/house_speaker_nancy_pelosi_defends_her<
    Nancy “No Impeachment” Pelosi:  “If somebody had a crime that the President had committed, that would be a different story….”

    Kucinich, your response?

    “I certainly want to direct her attention to the thirty-five articles of impeachment that I presented, which assert quite directly that crimes have been committed….” [End DN!]

    Do we have a democratic republic, or feudalism?

    “[F]eudalism.. is the relation between lords and the peasants who worked their own land and that of the lord. The peasants owed labour service to the lords, who provided military protection and also had extensive police, judicial, and other rights over the peasants… In this view, feudalism came to encompass all aspects of social organization and was characterized as a system that was both oppressive and hierarchical…[It] involves the exchange of allegiance for a grant of land (fief) between two people, usually men, of noble status.” [Ency Brit 2008]

    Congress and its committees are ours, not fiefs of either party.  We, the People, are sovereign here, not the tools of governance.

    We are realizing NO1’s intentions from within.

    United States Posted by knowbuddhau on Nov 19, 2008 at 4:18 PM

    The “change” promised by Obama is nothing more than cosmetics. Listen to experts like Webster Tarpley, Jerome Corsi, Larry Pratt and others discuss the real Obama. They are free MP3 downloads at http://drop.io/Summerbird

    United States Posted by Stargod on Nov 20, 2008 at 11:44 AM

    Thanks for the link Stargod.  With all due respect,
    I listen to Obama when I want to hear the real real Obama.  The “who’s the real Obama?” gambit was overdone before the election was over, IMO.

    I am concerned with our next president’s intentions.  Looks to me like he’s either being, or about to be, run like any other asset by the same fiends who’ve been jacking us into this Waste Land, and sticking us with the bill, for centuries now.

    There are some among us, who think they know how to machine us into Being aware of this we share: our shared Becoming.

    “From its late 17th century inception in modern form, science has strongly privileged the reductionist mode of thought that breaks overt complexity into constituent parts and then tries to explain the totality by the properties of these parts and simple interactions fully predictable from the parts. (“Analysis” literally means to dissolve into basic parts). The reductionist method works triumphantly for simple systems — predicting eclipses or the motion of planets (but not the histories of their complex surfaces), for example. But once again — and when will we ever learn? — we fell victim to hubris, as we imagined that, in discovering how to unlock some systems, we had found the key for the conquest of all natural phenomena. Will Parsifal ever learn that only humility (and a plurality of strategies for explanation) can locate the Holy Grail?

    The collapse of the doctrine of one gene for one protein, and one direction of causal flow from basic codes to elaborate totality, marks the failure of reductionism for the complex system that we call biology — and for two major reasons.

    First, the key to complexity is not more genes, but more combinations and interactions generated by fewer units of code — and many of these interactions (as emergent properties, to use the technical jargon) must be explained at the level of their appearance, for they cannot be predicted from the separate underlying parts alone. So organisms must be explained as organisms, and not as a summation of genes.

    Second, the unique contingencies of history, not the laws of physics, set many properties of complex biological systems….[End SJG http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/19/opinion/19GOUL.html?pagewanted=2&ei=5070&a amp;en=eec9b1271e4b19eb&ex=1227330000]


    Scott McClellan, with a phrase drained of all Life, calls it “manipulating the media narrative,” as if war-mongering lies had no consequences for the reality-based community.  As if any words could be said from the behind the insignia of office, and that makes it all better.

    Rumsfeld used a machine to sign the death letters, the letters to families of the ones he and his followers killed on false pretenses.  Is there nothing in Rumsfeld?

    There is nothing alive in the reductive Newtonian mechanism that now dominates American thinking and is passing itself off as psychology.  We imprison and torture our detainees in our approaching them as mere machines.

    John McCain’s slip is painfully apt: “My fellow prisoners….”

    The science of the mind being practiced at our black sites, and the showrooms at Gitmo and Abu Ghraib, is a weaponized monstrosity, an abuse of being human by its founding assumptions.  By modelling itself after physics; by basing itself on the absolutely isolated ppoint particle; modern psychology collapses our psyches into quantum singulatiies of pain; cellf-imprisoning us in cellves of our own mistaken making.

    Isolation and psycho-religio attacks, Stargod, are the hallmarks of the Bush-APA Torture Doctrine.  Any1 who denies that obvious pattern obtained during the last election will answer to NO1.

    Now, all we need is NO1 to assert OUR authority over OUR government.  WE are sovereign here, not the tools of governance.  BushRoveCheneyCo has that reversed.

    Any1 seen NO1, we need NO1 front-and-0center, please, paging

    United States Posted by knowbuddhau on Nov 20, 2008 at 4:25 PM

    Cyclops, I’m looking at you, pal, have you seen d’oh! my bad, that was ‘no man.’  Here comes Some1 now.

    Here!

    I am

    NO1 (and so are you, o reader my Reader!  that’s the Good News)

    United States Posted by knowbuddhau on Nov 20, 2008 at 4:52 PM
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