It Doesn't Look Good
From The Ramparts
Junious
Ricardo Stanton
It Doesn't Look Good
The pundits
say the presidential debate was the most watched debate in US history. Wow.
I watched the first presidential debate Monday evening and I must say, it
doesn't look good for this country. What I saw alarmed me but the after show
analysis was even more disturbing. It appeared as if Donald Trump was totally
unprepared that he merely repeated his primary stump speech when he was on the
attack and he bumbled badly when the moderator Lester Holt and Hillary Clinton
made comments that put him on the defensive. As a supposed counter-puncher Trump
misfired when he was on the ropes to use a boxing analogy. He came out swinging
and landed some good points early on when he talked about trade and the failing
US economy but wasn't able to sustain the momentum for the full ninety minutes.
Clinton on the other hand,
was on her game as a world class liar and politician. She called up all the
progressive feel good stuff she knows neither she nor Congress will ever pass
like: free college tuition, paid maternity leave, equal pay for women and other
such fantasies. Unlike with Trump, the moderator never fact checked or challenged
anything Clinton said nor asked her any tough questions that called her
character into question like he did Trump. Clinton skated through without taking any
serious shots. When the final bell sounded Clinton's body language indicated she thought
she won.
The
corporate mind control apparatus spun the debate as a decisive win for Clinton, claiming she won
on points, poise and looking "presidential". At first glance that assessment seems credible.
But what people seem to forget is she is a lawyer, a seasoned litigator, a
career politician and government hack going up against a businessman and TV
celebrity with no political experience; so she should have had the advantage. Clinton was the seasoned
incumbent and Trump was the novice challenger. But considering the expectation
bar has been set so low for Donald Trump even though he did not outshine
Clinton he didn't come off looking like an out of place idiot on that stage. Clinton did not knock
Trump out or show him as unfit as she has been claiming. If anything Trump hurt
himself rather than being outshined by Clinton.
Clinton was adroit
getting under Trump's skin. Trump is a narcissistic egomaniac and she put him
on the psychological defensive early by saying Trump started out in business
with a multi-million dollar loan from his father, while she on the other hand
grew up in a working class home. Clinton also got to Trump when she pointed out
he had been sued by the federal government for housing discrimination and she
got a lot of help from Holt when he raised the "birther" issues and
Trump's failure to release his taxes.
On the
campaign trail Trump feeds off of his celebrity status, the energy and response of the large crowds that flock to
see him. He is looked upon as the candidate of change in an era of massive
dissatisfaction towards the government and status quo. Clinton on the other hand is the consummate
insider and tool of the 1%. She does not draw large crowds like Trump and she
is seen by many as the personification of what ails this country.
During the
debate the audience was admonished to remain quiet and not respond to what
either of the candidates said. This hurt Trump because he missed the energy of
the crowd. The audience cheered after one exchange where Trump said he would
release his tax returns when Hillary released the thirty thousand E-mails from
her server, but other than that the audience was silent.
By
contrast, Clinton
is charismatically challenged. She is not a celebrity by any stretch of the
imagination. Even her supporters are
forced to admit she lacks personal dynamism and she comes across stiff. So not
having audience responses probably favored her.
The post
debate "analysis" was very telling. CNN (some call it the Clinton
News Network) and MSNBC gushed that Clinton won the debate by a two to one
margin and lambasted Trump for being unprepared http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/27/politics/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-debate-poll/index.html
What CNN/ORC are not telling the public is their "poll" was weighted
in favor of Democrats meaning more Democrats were asked than Republicans. So much for the CNN/ORC poll being scientific.
The Fox cable news network which seems to be Trump's PR apparatus tried to spin
it like Trump did a credible job and some Fox commentators actually said Trump
won?!
Interestingly,
Online poll respondents saw the debate differently and the results were the exact
opposite of the CNN/ORC poll. Of course the pundits claim the Online polls are
bogus but the thing is, the Online polls are far more inclusive even though
they are not "scientific". But, neither was the CNN/ORC poll!
The
corporate media has a love hate relationship with Trump, they love the ratings he
brings but hates the fact he is the Republican nominee. The oligarchs love Clinton she is their girl
and they support her whole heartedly. Amongst the masses, both candidates have
huge unfavorable ratings and major likeability issues.
Clinton favors globalism,
she supports trade agreements (NAFTA and
TTP) that send capital and jobs overseas, boost corporate influence.
Most alarmingly she is for unlimited US military intervention and
imperialist wars. Trump on the other hand has people like Rudy Giuliani and
Newt Gingrich advising him. His trickle down economics and "Law and
Order" rhetoric are troubling as are his vague policies.
All in all it doesn't look good for this
country if Clinton
and Trump are the best both parties can offer: a female pathological liar,
warmonger, career politician versus an alpha male narcissistic jingoist
populist.
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Psy Ops For Fear Mongering
From The Ramparts
Junious
Ricardo Stanton
Psy
Ops For Fear Mongering
After 9-11, the Bu$h
administration instituted color code alerts and warnings to keep us hyped and
fearful. Remember George W (Dubya) Bu$h and "Deadeye" Dick Cheney extremely
unpopular even after 9-11 so they used the color code system whenever their
approval ratings dropped or they felt they lost the attention of the people.
Eventually the color coded alerts became the butt of comedians' jokes, late
night TV talk show hosts' monologues and so much derision the Obama
administration discontinued them in May of 2011.
Tyrants, megalomaniacal
leaders, false prophets and charlatans have used fear to intimidate and control
the masses since the earliest days of humanity. Exploiting the fear of forces
and events the people did not understand was used to prop up and legitimatize leaders
who took advantage of the people's ignorance and desires for safety and
security. Sociopaths and psychopaths began to intentionally use natural and manufactured
events to manipulate and control the masses.
Adolph Hitler used the 1933 arson of the
German parliament Reichstag Building carried out by his own henchmen to stoke
national fears, to blame the fire on his political rivals and as the rationale
to grab more personal and political power for himself. Hitler used the
Reichstag arson to launch internal oppression, institute the legalization of a
German domestic police state and launch foreign wars of imperialist conquest. http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/riseofhitler/burns.htm
The Bu$h
administration did the exact same thing following September 11, 2001. Bu$h, the
NeoCons, multinational oil consortia, the Wall Street banksters and assorted
criminals used September Eleventh and the fear generated by the corporate mind
control apparatus to pass the USA PATRIOT ACT I and II (the Patriot Act was crafted
and written way before 9-11 even happened) to legalize the formally illegal
actions of the government like COINTELPRO and Operation Chaos and ive Bu$h,
Congress, the NSA, FBI and the giant telecommunications companies a pass for the
spying and intrusion into our lives they were conducting before 9-11. http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/911_reichstag.html
Both the
Reichstag arson and 9-11 airplane attacks were psychological operations by the
German and US deep states respectively (9-11 was a more elaborate and extremely
complex crime) to condition the German and American public to be afraid and to
look to their governments for protection and safety no matter how much personal
freedom, privacy and assets we had to forfeit. In order to continuously
reinforce the psychological operation (psy-op)
threats of future attacks, wars, disasters and apocalypse have to be overtly
and subliminally produced, enemies must be created, the fear of strangers and
outsiders (xenophobia) has to be drummed up and propagated.
In Germany Hitler
demonized the communists, and socialists, he stigmatized non-Aryan or Nordic
phenotypes and outsiders like the Gypsies, Slavs and Jews using the controlled
media as his platform. Following 9-11 the US the corporate media was used to
hype anti-Islamic rhetoric, promote American exceptionalism/nationalism and
vilify anyone who did not go along with their warmongering and imperialism in
the name of their phony War on Terrorism. Yet the 1% demonize Donald Trump for
doing the same thing!?
The ruling
elites are still trying to keep us fearful. The FBI creates sting operations to
entrap not too bright people so they can continue the ruse the government is on
the case protecting us from bogymen all around us. They want us to be afraid so
we cannot discern the con game being run on us. http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/911_reichstag.html
Many other
psy-ops and false flag operations are used to keep us fearful such as the London subway bombings, the Paris
attacks, the recent shootings in Florida, or
the bombings in New York
last weekend. The objective is to keep us afraid, dependent on the government
and demanding more oppression in the name of security. Don't fall for the
okey-doke.
9-11 The Crime of The Century
From The Ramparts
Junious Ricardo Stanton
9-11, The Crime of The Century
Nine-eleven wasn't a surprise
terrorist attack on the United
States by a small group of fanatical Muslims.
It was a false flag operation, a multifaceted and complex criminal operation perpetrated
by elements within the US
government like Vice President Dick
Cheney with the assistance of the NeoCons,
influential financiers and operatives from Saudi
Arabia and Pakistan. It wasn't a surprise
because it is now a known fact the US CIA Director personally warned President
George W. Bu$h as did Russian President Vladimir Putin and governments such as:
Argentina, Germany, Egypt,
Jordan and Israel. http://www.historycommons.org/essay.jsp?article=essaytheytriedtowarnus
Despite being
warned, the Bu$h administration chose to do nothing. Nine-eleven was a false
flag operation. A false flag operation is a crime perpetrated by individuals,
groups or nations where disguises, other nation's flags and/or false clues are
left to make people think someone else did the crime. A classic example of a false flag operation was the Boston Tea Party
where whites dressed up as Native American and threw English tea into the
harbor.
The notion
that a terminally ill Osama bin-Laden living in a cave using a laptop and
satellite cell phone could circumvent the US intelligence and defense systems,
major airport security, NORAD, Air Force and the FAA is preposterous. Nine-eleven
was a multilayered criminal enterprise abetted and obscured by the Bu$h administration,
their cabal of warmongers, Wall Street bankers and thugs. Various cliques and
elements within the government, Wall Street and foreign capitals plotted and
planned 9-11 or used it for their own nefarious ends whether to launch a global
military campaign for resource expropriation and US dollar hegemony or as a
cover for massive theft and fraud here at home.
For example
the Afghanistan government at the time was not responsible for 9-11, but the Taliban
had shut down the opium growing that was/is part of the US CIA's money making
and money laundering monopoly and they refused to go along with plans to
construct transit pipelines across Afhganistan that would carry Eurasian oil
and gas to the Indian Ocean to Western markets. So for being uncooperative,
they had to be deposed. Plans for this were made way before 9-11 happened, 9-11
was just the pretext for the invasion and occupation! https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/sep/21/afghanistan.september1112
After years of stonewalling demands for a
formal investigation into 9-11 by the victims' families, the Bu$h
administration finally relented and convened the "9-11 Commission". It was a total sham just like the Warren
Commission that investigated the JFK assassination which the perpetrators
convened to cover up JFK's murder. Even the two co-chairs of the 9-11
Commission admitted it was designed to fail, that the government failed to
provide the needed resources and truthful information! http://911proof.com/6.html
The 9-11
Commission obfuscated the facts to reinforce the government's disingenuous
fairytale about Muslim fanatics. Every crime creates and leaves evidence that
must be scrutinized, analyzed, evaluated and discussed if it is to be solved.
But within days, the US
government literally scooped up all the critical evidence: the scrap metal and
debris from the twin towers and Building 7, carted it off and sold it overseas
to China
without any forensic examination whatsoever! No attempt was ever made to
examine the debris to verify or discount the governments preposterous claim
three buildings fell (when only two were hit by planes) because of the heat and
fire from airplane fuel! No tangible evidence was ever offered to prove Osama
bin-Laden was the culprit, nevertheless government and media sycophants kept
repeating it over and over until it became accepted "fact".
On the
international level, nine-eleven was used to expand the resource theft and
destabilization of a region stretching from North Africa into the so called
Middle East and Eurasia; all rich in oil and other natural resources that just
happened to be under the feet of Muslims and enemies of Israel! The War
on Global Terrorism is a total fraud. It is based on the criminal act of 9-11
which was an inside job! Most of the major US
advocates and architects of the invasion of Iraq
we now know was based on lies, were dual citizens and supporters of Israel, rabid
supporters of the military industrial complex, the police security state and
big oil. http://hugequestions.com/Eric/TFC/FromOthers/list-of-neocons-for-Iraq-war.htm
There were
additional aspects of 9-11 we never heard about such as the fact building 7 which
was not hit by a plane but collapsed in free fall just like a controlled
demolition, housed offices of the IRS, EEOC, Secret Service and the Securities
and Exchange Commission which was investigating thousands of securities fraud
cases like Enron and Worldcom, many linked to prominent Wall Street investment
firms and government officials. Investigative Reporter Tom Flocco reported in
2005 http://www.truedemocracy.net/hj31/30.html several other "coincidences" such as
the Securities and Exchange Commission was in the midst of massive
investigations into securities fraud. One investigation involved "Brady
Bonds" worth hundreds of billions of dollars that had been fraudulently
purchased which were scheduled to come due on September 12th. Coincidently one
of the firms that held the bonds, Canter-Fitzgerald had offices on the 101-105
floors of the North Tower and it suffered major loss of life and supposedly all
their records. How convenient for the perpetrators. Remember building 7 was not
hit by a plane! Check out http://www.wanttoknow.info/911/black_eagle_trust_fund
to glean just how deep and intricate this crime was.
On this
fifteenth anniversary of 9-11 don't go for the okey-doke. There are enough anomalies,
inconsistencies and evidence https://www.corbettreport.com/episode-308-911-trillions-follow-the-money/
that provide a concrete prima facie case
9-11 was not a terrorist attack but the
crime of the century executed by rogue elements within the US government
and their international corporate crime network patrons.
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Colin Kaepernick vs Francis Scott key
From The Ramparts
Junious Ricardo Stanton
Colin Kaepernick vs Francis Scott Key
The corporate mind control
apparatus is making a big deal about NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick's refusal
to stand during the playing of the US National Anthem. I think the media has a reprehensible
motive for focusing on Kaepernick. When he did it the first two times nothings
was said or written because he was injured and not in uniform. When he suited
to play in the third pre-season game he was noticed and when asked about it he
articulated his reasons and a contrived controversy ensued.
Controversy
sells papers, controversy increases viewers for the TV and cable propaganda
machines. But we must always remember the main message of the Western media is Eurocentric
domination. There are numerous reasons the media is focusing on Colin
Kaepernick: 1) to take our minds of the four white swimmers who brought international
discredit to the US by their antics in Rio when they urinated in and vandalized
a convenience store and fabricated the story they were robbed. The swift US PR/media campaign to minimize the damage
demonstrates just how powerful the US media is. 2) the media is playing
the race card with Kaepernick which is always guaranteed to trigger emotions further
obfuscating the national shame Ryan Lochte, Jimmy Feigen, Gunnar Bentz and Jack
Conger caused by their actions in Rio, 3) the media is making Kaepernick the
scapegoat, the villain and substitute target of white ire, 4) the media's demonizing of Kaepernick 5) the
media is subliminally defendng the militaristic theme of the Star Spangled Banner.
There are
other issues, but I'll just stick with these for the time being. The main point
I want to convey is Colin Kaepernick is a young man of conscience who is doing
something valuable that could cause him great "loss". He risks the loss
of endorsements, his position as a professional athlete and the vilification of
white America.
The good news is his stand is gaining ground with other NFL players. Now the NFL
is going to have to balance the line of respecting his First Amendment rights
with their need to keep their white patrons satisfied.
Lost in all
of this is the fact the man who wrote the Star Spangled Banner was a successful
lawyer, a slave owner and an influential founder and life long supporter of the
American Colonization Society an organization
created in 1816 whose goal was to send free Blacks back to Africa, the
Caribbean or South America. Key remained a faithful advocate of the ACS until
his death in 1843.
The Star Spangled
Banner was written by Key in 1814 during the War of 1812. It became popular and was first used officially by
the US Navy in 1889. In 1931 it became the United States' national anthem. Most
people have no idea how racist the song's lyrics are since they usually only sing
the first verse. This is third verse's words "And where is that band who
so vauntingly swore That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,
A home and a country, should leave us no more? Their blood has washed out their
foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the
terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave: And the star-spangled banner in
triumph doth wave,
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave". These words were
directed at the Blacks who fought for the British who promised them their
freedom if Britain
prevailed in the war. Key a slave owner and poet spewed his venom against our
ancestors who made the decision to be free by fighting against their American oppressors.
Black people should applaud them for their decision which offered a way out of
the hell they were experiencing at the hands of the Americans!
Colin
Kaepernick may not even be aware of the words or history of the song because
his protest is against the ongoing legacy, patterns of bigotry and violence
against people of color! The corporate
media is using him, but that shouldn't detract from our respect for him and
what he is doing.
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