Damn politics, let’s dance

By Pepe Escobar

Forget Ohio. Forget the mathematics. Forget all the lawyers. By any measure, in terms of direct – not indirect, Electoral College democracy – George W Bush has won this referendum. A president who was never above a 50% approval rate in the past few months, who lost all three debates with challenger Senator John Kerry, but now has a majority of almost 4 million in the popular vote, has in fact won the referendum on himself.

Fasten your seat belts: it’s going to be a bumpy ride. Control of the presidency, Senate, House. A popular mandate. Four more years. Possibly four more wars. In a nutshell, chief strategist Karl Rove got the evangelicals out in force. According to a series of Gallup polls, 42% of Americans declare themselves evangelicals or born-again Christians. Bush always had a head start of 42%.

The widely sung-and-danced-to youth vote never materialized. The 18-to-29 generation voted in exactly the same numbers as in 2000: first-time voters – a pro-Kerry majority, worried about the economy and the war on Iraq – were only 10% of the electorate. The 30-to-44 group was even more scarce. So much for great expectations. An army of Democrats, an army of pollsters and even a few Republicans made fools of themselves. The youth vote meant, in essence, “damn politics, let’s dance”.

The exit polls were all horribly wrong. The blogosphere was basically calling a Kerry victory as soon as the polls closed. A Harris poll was also predicting Kerry. The exits had Kerry leading Bush among men by 51%-49%, and among women by 53%-47%. The final exits for Ohio had Kerry winning 52%-48%. Blogger Kevin Drum was saying that “in a way it’s the ultimate in navel gazing. The bloggers all read the media and the media call bloggers to find out what they’re reading.”

Then the blogosphere went dead for an hour, an hour and a half, two hours – as if the virtual world was trying to absorb the avalanche of red states and the news from Florida and the nail-biting Ohio crawl. There was widespread talk that the Republicans were trying everything to steal the election in the courts, trying to get the courts to stop
voting while people were already in line when the polls closed, trying for a ruling against provisional ballots.

Desperate Democrats started spinning that provisional ballots in Ohio would decide everything. It would take at least 11 days, according to the Ohio state secretary. All this while Bush’s lead in Ohio was increasing.

PNAC’s program

The United States may have gone to the polls as a divided, uncertain, paralyzed-by-fear nation. Today it’s still a divided, uncertain, paralyzed-by-fear nation, but now with a clear mandate for the state really to rock the geopolitical boat.

The “most important election of a lifetime” has sent a clear message to the whole world: the face of America in the next four years – barring a Richard Nixon-style impeachment – will be of unilateralism, the “war on terror” possibly progressively escalating into a clash of civilizations. And pay attention to the “axis of evil” hit list – the official and the bootleg. Bush II will attack what it defines as “state terrorism” – Iran, Syria – instead of the global jihadi network. It will continue to rely on Pakistan to “decapitate” the odd “high-value al-Qaeda”. It won’t engage in diplomacy to address the political causes of terrorism. It won’t engage in a cultural and ideological effort to try to counteract the global jihad – especially now that Osama bin Laden and his deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri have changed the rules of the asymmetrical game from a religious clash to a political struggle against imperialism.

Total concentration of right-wing power – legitimized by the popular vote: this is the new neo-conservative dream turned reality. So the road ahead is to flatten the Sunni stronghold of Fallujah in Iraq, bomb Iran because of its supposed nuclear aspirations, depose President Hafez Assad in Syria, crush the Palestinian resistance, and remodel the Middle East by “precision strike” democracy.

There will be serious blowback. A new pan-Islamic nationalism, for example, featuring Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani’s Shi’ite masses allied with the Sunni triangle to kick out the Americans from Iraq, eventually supported by both Iran and Saudi Arabia. Iraq crisscrossed by guerrillas and Iran penetrated by US intelligence, both leading – plus Shi’ite eastern Saudi Arabia, where the oil is – to a new, catastrophic oil shock.

And then the neo-conservative Project for the New American Century (PNAC) – which virtually took over the US government – will create a major confrontation with China. Asia, beware:

http://www.newamericancentury.org

The faith-based, apocalyptic evangelicals have won this battle against the “reality community”. Bush won despite Tora Bora, Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib. The crusade continues. In God we trust – and also in Osama bin Laden. He got exactly what he wanted.

Copyright 2004 Asia Times

Here is a bit more info about the sinister Project for a New American Century, the shadowy neo-con organization that currently runs the country (unbeknown to the common citizen).

Watch this short little movie which quickly makes things clear:

http://www.knife-party.net/flash/barry.html

If you wonder what the “Project for the New American Century” is, check out the following link. Be sure to notice the names at the bottom, (though Dick Cheney’s and Bush, Sr.’s names have been removed for whatever reason).

Notice also that these are the same people who are either operating openly and on the payroll within the Bush
administration, or who themselves are main players within the administration. They have been planning this since the time of the 1st Gulf war in 1991, and those same players are now the ones who run the show. Hmmm…..:

PNAC’s Statement of Principles

If these don’t send a shiver down your spine, you might not be human!

Observe the Script the World is now Living

These deceitful people currently running the show on the world stage have had things planned as they are now occurring for a long time. Some of the most damning evidence is contained in an organization called the Project for the New American Century (PNAC).

Their doctrines were create around the time of the 1st Gulf war, with Bush senior at the helm. While the major media do not talk about it, even though they should, this evil (yes, evil) organization does not hide what they are up to.

Go to their website and download their manifesto, “Rebuilding America’s Defenses”, where you will find some shocking facts. (Clicking the link will download a PDF copy to your hard drive). Read it! The script for what the so-called christian fanatics call the apocalypse… Sick stuff.

In it, they talk about empire building. They talk about the need to invade Iraq. They talk about America being the only military superpower on the planet, and that as such, we need to impose our will whenever and wherever we want. And on and on.

But, this was written in the mid 1990’s! And do you know who the founders and the main operators were then? Let’s have a look:

1. Dick Cheney
2. Donald Rumsfeld
3. Paul Wolfowitz
4. Douglas Feith
5. Richard Perle
6. Bush, Sr.

… to name only a few.

Now, this was written in the mid 1990’s, and these are exactly the same people who are in command now. The same people! It’s like we’re watching a script come to life… real horror show material, too.

What the PNAC brings to life is basically the blueprint for what we are seeing and experiencing today. We are watching passively as the script is playing right before our very eyes! And when you consider the way that Bush got “elected” in 2000 and again in ‘04 … well… their sinister plan seems to have worked. For now…

Check their website, and read this crap… preferably before you vote, especially if you’re on the fence about who to vote for. The people in control now see themselves as emperors of the world, and will stop at nothing to see it through. In my opinion, 9/11 was a sham. If they didn’t directly have a hand in it, then they at least knowingly let it happen, as it was the perfect blank check and fear inducing strategy, to allow them to initiate their dastardly plan. Well, screw them!

They have hijacked this country, made a mockery out of democracy, and made the world a very dangerous place, which suits their needs perfectly. The more bad things happen, the more they can take away our rights and
liberties, and the sad thing is that once people are sufficiently scared, they willingly give up these most basic and wonderful of freedoms, in fact they even ask for it openly. We now live in a Demockery. Just the fact that Bush appointed a scumbag like John Ashcroft (who would love nothing more than to strip us of all our liberties), who lost his Senate seat to a dead guy just prior to being appointed Attorney General by the puppet Bush. I mean, the PATRIOT act, a document hundreds of pages long, was produced days after 9/11. Yeah right. They had it all planned out. Even before the attack. They just needed an opportunity to implement it. The rest is history.

Please check the PNAC website, and spend a little time studying it. This is their script, and we are the players, whether we like it or not:
Project for the New American Century

They MUST be stopped… and unfortunately, we are the ones who must stop them.

Here is a website that exposes what the PNAC is up to:

1. http://www.pnac.info/

AMERICAN CONCENTRATION CAMPS

There are over 100 primary and secondary concentration camps across the USA. Each houses about 20,000 prisoners. Currently the largest of these facilities is the just outside of Fairbanks, Alaska. The Alaskan facility is a gigantic mental health facility and can hold approximately 2 million people. The majority of these facilities have no prisoners but are currently staffed by military personal.

The camps all have have railroad facilities, as well as roads, coming and going out of them, to get there. Also quite a few are closed down military bases and are adjacent to airport facilities…

Read more and see pictures here:

Concentration Camps in the USA

The begining of martial law in the USA?

Nightline Says…. Maybe.

Nightline Sells Martial Law

Baltimore Independent Media center

Will the US be under martial law by June, 2004? That is the impression
some are expressing after witnessing a recent episode of Nightline
(4/7/2004) , with Ted Koppel. On this particular program Koppel is host
to Richard Clarke, former Reagan officials Edwin Meese III and Kenneth
M. Duberstein; former Clinton official Sally Katzen, author James Mann,
and former Bush official Richard Clarke. The subject matter is named The
Armageddon Plan.

Because many US citizens hold favorable views of Richard Clarke he was
playing a key role. His affability enables him to convey the dark plans
of the Bush Regime to critical observers without alarming the unconcious
masses. On this program Clarke was on to inform elite audiences that
they better get used to the idea the Bush Regime will sponsor a
cataclysmic event in order to plunge the US under martial law.

Richard Clarke is already a legend in the world of propaganda. So far
the Bush Regime has parlayed his “defection” from them with great
success. As Karl Rove probably surmised, The Left Gatekeepers (e.g.,
Democracy Now! and Counterpunch , etc.) have been only very eager to
treat Clarke’s mild disagreements with the Bush Regime as their outer
limit of permissible dialogue. With the liberal US media regarding
Clarke’s thesis that the Bush Regime was merely negligent about 9-11 as
if it were the only idea possible the White House sailed through the
9-11 Commission/Coverup proceedings.

Now that the 9-11 Commission/Coverup has been safely wrapped for the
Bush Regime the mainstream media is now giving some focus to James
Mann’s curiously-timed book ( Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush’s
War Cabinet, Viking Press, 2004) ). Vulcans concerns the efforts of
present and past White House officials to establish a set of procedures
for the highest-levels of government to follow should a catastrophic
attack occur on US soil.

(Note that Nightline has dropped the moniker Rise of the Vulcans for the
more Regime-friendly The Armageddon Plan . The latter conveys a greater
sense of a Regime reacting to a stimulus, not being the source of it.)

The segment began with congenial chatter between the past and present
government officials. As if he is hosting a dinner party Koppel smoothly
has his guests reminisce fondly about past drills performed by
high-level government officials to test their emergency preparedness.
Koppel then imagines an attack that decimates the US Congress. They
break for a timely commercial. After the break Koppel immediately
launches into the key part of their script: “… aren’t [we] left for at
least the foreseeable future with some sort of martial law anyway? ”

Duberstein agrees with Koppel, adding “You have to suspend rights.”

Koppel continues by saying: “… And during that period, then, and given
the sense of panic that is inevitable under circumstances like this, the
executive branch of government takes on extraordinary power, doesn’t it?
”

Clarke agrees by saying: “ I think in any war where Washington were
[sic] destroyed, inevitably, there would be a period of, for lack of a
better term, something like martial law. The key here is, though, that
the plans all call for going back to a normal three-branch system, as
rapidly as possible .”

Koppel reacts to Clarke’s ideas by suggesting what he has said is a new
idea to many leaders in Washington. Sure it is, Ted. The conversation
quickly winds down.

Nightline’s very efficient use of Richard Clarke to prepare elite
viewers for martial law is leading other observers on the Net to
reluctantly conclude the merciless Bush Regime is actively planning the
catalyst for their own Armagaddon Plan. In a different world perhaps,
the journalist leading a nationally-televised discussion about the
prospects of the US government under martial law would look Clarke in
the eye and ask him if the Bush Regime isn’t planning to set off some
nukes shortly in some city close to Washington DC (e.g., Baltimore). It
really isn’t that hard to imagine that the
prospect of ruling planet Earth from a secret, underground bunker would
gladden Dick Cheney’s venal heart. He’s been practicing in secret
locations for decades in gleeful anticipation for such a moment.

As the prospects for survival under the Bush Regime becomes increasingly
dire it should be obvious by now that the only way to stop them is to
continue spreading the truth about 9-11 , Richard Clarke and the Left
Gatekeepers notwithstanding. Specifically, the last idea the Bush Regime
wants people to receive is the revelation that jet fuel burning black
cannot possibly melt steel. So anti-war activists, it is high time that
we tell everyone about this that we
can.