Showing posts with label Democracy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Democracy. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 23, 2019

Patrick Henningsen: Governments Waging War on Whistleblowers, Journalists

Excellent overview of the alarming clampdown that is transpiring! ~PB


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Patrick Henningsen: Governments Waging War on Whistleblowers, Journalists

•Oct 21, 2019



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Regarding today's case hearing for #JulianAssange at Westminster Magistrates Court in London, a grave injustice is taking place. This is an important message for supporters of the free press, free speech and the right due process. 21st century society has now reached a critical impasse.


Governments, corporations are waging war on whistleblowers and journalists. It's happening everywhere, and if left unchecked, it will undermine society and the last vestiges of democracy. That's no exaggeration...


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Sunday, December 17, 2017

The U.S. Is Not A Democracy, It Never Was

The U.S. Is Not A Democracy, It Never Was

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Authored by Gabriel Rockhill via Counterpunch.org,


One of the most steadfast beliefs regarding the United States is that it is a democracy.
Whenever this conviction waivers slightly, it is almost always to point out detrimental exceptions to core American values or foundational principles. For instance, aspiring critics frequently bemoan a “loss of democracy” due to the election of clownish autocrats, draconian measures on the part of the state, the revelation of extraordinary malfeasance or corruption, deadly foreign interventions, or other such activities that are considered undemocratic exceptions. The same is true for those whose critical framework consists in always juxtaposing the actions of the U.S. government to its founding principles, highlighting the contradiction between the two and clearly placing hope in its potential resolution.





The problem, however, is that there is no contradiction or supposed loss of democracy because the United States simply never was one.
This is a difficult reality for many people to confront, and they are likely more inclined to immediately dismiss such a claim as preposterous rather than take the time to scrutinize the material historical record in order to see for themselves. Such a dismissive reaction is due in large part to what is perhaps the most successful public relations campaign in modern history.


What will be seen, however, if this record is soberly and methodically inspected, is that a country founded on elite, colonial rule based on the power of wealth—a plutocratic colonial oligarchy, in short—has succeeded not only in buying the label of “democracy” to market itself to the masses, but in having its citizenry, and many others, so socially and psychologically invested in its nationalist origin myth that they refuse to hear lucid and well-documented arguments to the contrary.


To begin to peel the scales from our eyes, let us outline in the restricted space of this article, five patent reasons why the United States has never been a democracy (a more sustained and developed argument is available in my book, Counter-History of the Present).


To begin with, British colonial expansion into the Americas did not occur in the name of the freedom and equality of the general population, or the conferral of power to the people. Those who settled on the shores of the “new world,” with few exceptions, did not respect the fact that it was a very old world indeed, and that a vast indigenous population had been living there for centuries. As soon as Columbus set foot, Europeans began robbing, enslaving and killing the native inhabitants. The trans-Atlantic slave trade commenced almost immediately thereafter, adding a countless number of Africans to the ongoing genocidal assault against the indigenous population. Moreover, it is estimated that over half of the colonists who came to North America from Europe during the colonial period were poor indentured servants, and women were generally trapped in roles of domestic servitude. Rather than the land of the free and equal, then, European colonial expansion to the Americas imposed a land of the colonizer and the colonized, the master and the slave, the rich and the poor, the free and the un-free. The former constituted, moreover, an infinitesimally small minority of the population, whereas the overwhelming majority, meaning “the people,” was subjected to death, slavery, servitude, and unremitting socio-economic oppression.


Second, when the elite colonial ruling class decided to sever ties from their homeland and establish an independent state for themselves, they did not found it as a democracy. On the contrary, they were fervently and explicitly opposed to democracy, like the vast majority of European Enlightenment thinkers. They understood it to be a dangerous and chaotic form of uneducated mob rule. For the so-called “founding fathers,” the masses were not only incapable of ruling, but they were considered a threat to the hierarchical social structures purportedly necessary for good governance. In the words of John Adams, to take but one telling example, if the majority were given real power, they would redistribute wealth and dissolve the “subordination” so necessary for politics. When the eminent members of the landowning class met in 1787 to draw up a constitution, they regularly insisted in their debates on the need to establish a republic that kept at bay vile democracy, which was judged worse than “the filth of the common sewers” by the pro-Federalist editor William Cobbett. The new constitution provided for popular elections only in the House of Representatives, but in most states the right to vote was based on being a property owner, and women, the indigenous and slaves—meaning the overwhelming majority of the population—were simply excluded from the franchise. Senators were elected by state legislators, the President by electors chosen by the state legislators, and the Supreme Court was appointed by the President. It is in this context that Patrick Henry flatly proclaimed the most lucid of judgments: “it is not a democracy.” George Mason further clarified the situation by describing the newly independent country as “a despotic aristocracy.”


When the American republic slowly came to be relabeled as a “democracy,” there were no significant institutional modifications to justify the change in name. In other words, and this is the third point, the use of the term “democracy” to refer to an oligarchic republic simply meant that a different word was being used to describe the same basic phenomenon. This began around the time of “Indian killer” Andrew Jackson’s presidential campaign in the 1830s. Presenting himself as a ‘democrat,’ he put forth an image of himself as an average man of the people who was going to put a halt to the long reign of patricians from Virginia and Massachusetts. Slowly but surely, the term “democracy” came to be used as a public relations term to re-brand a plutocratic oligarchy as an electoral regime that serves the interest of the people or demos. Meanwhile, the American holocaust continued unabated, along with chattel slavery, colonial expansion and top-down class warfare.


In spite of certain minor changes over time, the U.S. republic has doggedly preserved its oligarchic structure, and this is readily apparent in the two major selling points of its contemporary “democratic” publicity campaign. The Establishment and its propagandists regularly insist that a structural aristocracy is a “democracy” because the latter is defined by the guarantee of certain fundamental rights (legal definition) and the holding of regular elections (procedural definition). This is, of course, a purely formal, abstract and largely negative understanding of democracy, which says nothing whatsoever about people having real, sustained power over the governing of their lives. However, even this hollow definition dissimulates the extent to which, to begin with, the supposed equality before the law in the United States presupposes an inequality before the law by excluding major sectors of the population: those judged not to have the right to rights, and those considered to have lost their right to rights (Native Americans, African-Americans and women for most of the country’s history, and still today in certain aspects, as well as immigrants, “criminals,” minors, the “clinically insane,” political dissidents, and so forth). Regarding elections, they are run in the United States as long, multi-million dollar advertising campaigns in which the candidates and issues are pre-selected by the corporate and party elite. The general population, the majority of whom do not have the right to vote or decide not to exercise it, are given the “choice”—overseen by an undemocratic electoral college and embedded in a non-proportional representation scheme—regarding which member of the aristocratic elite they would like to have rule over and oppress them for the next four years. “Multivariate analysis indicates,” according to an important recent study by Martin Gilens and Benjamin I. Page, “that economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence. The results provide substantial support for theories of Economic-Elite Domination […], but not for theories of Majoritarian Electoral Democracy.”


To take but a final example of the myriad ways in which the U.S. is not, and has never been, a democracy, it is worth highlighting its consistent assault on movements of people power. Since WWII, it has endeavored to overthrow some 50 foreign governments, most of which were democratically elected. It has also, according the meticulous calculations by William Blum in America’s Deadliest Export: Democracy, grossly interfered in the elections of at least 30 countries, attempted to assassinate more than 50 foreign leaders, dropped bombs on more than 30 countries, and attempted to suppress populist movements in 20 countries. The record on the home front is just as brutal. To take but one significant parallel example, there is ample evidence that the FBI has been invested in a covert war against democracy. Beginning at least in the 1960s, and likely continuing up to the present, the Bureau “extended its earlier clandestine operations against the Communist party, committing its resources to undermining the Puerto Rico independence movement, the Socialist Workers party, the civil rights movement, Black nationalist movements, the Ku Klux Klan, segments of the peace movement, the student movement, and the ‘New Left’ in general” (Cointelpro: The FBI’s Secret War on Political Freedom, p. 22-23). Consider, for instance, Judi Bari’s summary of its assault on the Socialist Workers Party: “From 1943-63, the federal civil rights case Socialist Workers Party v. Attorney General documents decades of illegal FBI break-ins and 10 million pages of surveillance records. The FBI paid an estimated 1,600 informants $1,680,592 and used 20,000 days of wiretaps to undermine legitimate political organizing.” In the case of the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement (AIM)—which were both important attempts to mobilize people power to dismantle the structural oppression of white supremacy and top-down class warfare—the FBI not only infiltrated them and launched hideous smear and destabilization campaigns against them, but they assassinated 27 Black Panthers and 69 members of AIM (and subjected countless others to the slow death of incarceration). If it be abroad or on the home front, the American secret police has been extremely proactive in beating down the movements of people rising up, thereby protecting and preserving the main pillars of white supremacist, capitalist aristocracy.


Rather than blindly believing in a golden age of democracy in order to remain at all costs within the gilded cage of an ideology produced specifically for us by the well-paid spin-doctors of a plutocratic oligarchy, we should unlock the gates of history and meticulously scrutinize the founding and evolution of the American imperial republic. This will not only allow us to take leave of its jingoist and self-congratulatory origin myths, but it will also provide us with the opportunity to resuscitate and reactivate so much of what they have sought to obliterate. In particular, there is a radical America just below the surface of these nationalist narratives, an America in which the population autonomously organizes itself in indigenous and ecological activism, black radical resistance, anti-capitalist mobilization, anti-patriarchal struggles, and so forth. It is this America that the corporate republic has sought to eradicate, while simultaneously investing in an expansive public relations campaign to cover over its crimes with the fig leaf of “democracy” (which has sometimes required integrating a few token individuals, who appear to be from below, into the elite ruling class in order to perpetuate the all-powerful myth of meritocracy). If we are astute and perspicacious enough to recognize that the U.S. is undemocratic today, let us not be so indolent or ill-informed that we let ourselves be lulled to sleep by lullabies praising its halcyon past. Indeed, if the United States is not a democracy today, it is in large part due to the fact that it never was one.


Far from being a pessimistic conclusion, however, it is precisely by cracking open the hard shell of ideological encasement that we can tap into the radical forces that have been suppressed by it. These forces—not those that have been deployed to destroy them—should be the ultimate source of our pride in the power of the people.


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My tags: UNITED STATES, Democracy, Plutocratic Oligarch Republic, Draconian Laws, Colonization, Founding Fathers, Hierarchy, Aristocracy, Class Warfare,  Propaganda, Economic-Elite Domination, Sub-classes, Covert War, Black Panther Party, American Indian Movement, White Supremacists, Capitalism, Spin-Doctors, Collective Power of the People,


Friday, November 4, 2016

Ben Fulford: The message for the Khazarian mafia is trick or treat surrender or die - October 31, 2016



Ben Fulford: The message for the Khazarian mafia is trick or treat surrender or die

Posted by benjamin, October 31, 2016


It is time to get out the pitchforks and guns folks and storm the palaces of the Khazarian mafia’s top gangsters. This has been confirmed in a letter many sources confirm that Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Joseph Dunford sent to every member of the US military. In the letter Dunford says: “Every service member swears ‘to support and defend the Constitution of the United States’ and to ‘bear true faith and allegiance to the same.’”



This is a direct order from your top general to defend the constitution. What does the constitution say? It says “The Congress shall have Power To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin,” and to “provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States.” In other words you are obliged by your Constitutional Oath to go after the Federal Reserve Board and the crime families that own it and have been forging so-called US dollars ever since 1913. Furthermore, you must confiscate the vast amounts of property belonging to US citizens that these crime families have stolen.


In his letter Dunford also mentions “our deliberate and disciplined commitment to upholding the principle of civilian control of the military.” Since elections are being stolen and have been since at least the year 2000 that means civilians are no longer in charge so General Dunford is ordering you to go to Washington DC and force the return to civilian control of the government. That means restoring genuine democracy and freedom of the press so that an informed population can choose their own government. This government the military would then serve.
The people, government and armed forces of Canada stand by to help their American brothers and sisters in any way possible to free them from Khazarian gangster control.


West Coast high-tech oligarchs like Bill Gates, the owners of Apple Computer and Larry Ellison of Oracle Computer, people who got rich by actually creating things that make our lives better and not through fraud, have told the White Dragon Society they will support the move to take down the Khazarian mafia.


Hillary Clinton has already sent $1.8 billion to Qatar and plans to flee there soon, CIA sources say. However, neither she nor and other members of her crime family will be allowed to escape, the sources say.


This is what Pentagon sources have to say about the situation: “The Hillary silent coup has been defeated by a military counter-coup with [Republican Presidential Candidate Donald] Trump the broom and Wikileaks the instrument, backed by overwhelming lethal force and NSA spying.”


NSA sources confirm that Hillary Clinton is guilty of mass murder (Haiti, Fukushima, Libya, Syria etc.) and that she and her fellow gangsters must be stopped.


Speaking about the NSA, last week they requested me to leave my cell phone and credit cards behind and go meet with gnostic Illuminati representative “Alexander Romanov” at a secure spot so that I could get secret information. The NSA knows that nothing digital is safe and that is why the important stuff is transmitted in one on one personal meetings. The message the NSA had was that Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin and Barack Obama all take their orders directly from Baron Evelyn de Rothschild. CIA sources confirmed this.


Russian WDS members have also confirmed that Vladimir Putin, who is a fake, gets his orders from the Rothschilds.


Recently the internet has been sanitized and all the pictures of the so-called Vladimir Putin over the years have been fixed to make them look identical. However, if you go to a paper archive of photographs and compare them over the years you can confirm the original Putin died a long time ago and that there are or have been six different “Putins.”
The Russian sources also provided this bombshell information:


“The Russian Federation is the Rothschild’s’ Private Corporation, which was registered at the City of London in 1991 with the DUNS Number 531 298 725. The Director of this Private Rothschild Corporation is Medvedev Dmitry Anatolyevich. The true name of the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation is not Medvedev Dmitry Anatolyevich, but Menachem Aaranovitch Mendel.” The Russian sources say Menachem Aaranovitch Mendel is a Khazarian Jew.


The Russians sources say that over 7000 Russian military officers and patriotic associations have been given this information. The Russians also know the so-called President Putin has been going along with the partition of Russia and are saying that soon “The Russians, Ukrainians and Byelorussians will unite again in one single and very powerful state.”


As we know the UNITED STATES of AMERICA Inc. is a private Rothschild foreign corporation registered at 10687 Gasking Way STE 101, Manassas, VA 20109. Other Rothschild corporations with a DUNS number include the United Nations and the European Commission.


As Neil Keenan reported, Fed Chairperson Janet Yellen, Bank of England head Marc Carney and Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak are currently trying to use certificates forged by Wilfredo Saurin to pretend there is a million tons of gold backing them.


http://neilkeenan.com/neil-keenan-update-globalists-desperation-health-and-wellness-the-end-of-big-pharma/


They then intend to use this fraud to create $41 trillion of “money” to finance a massive global bribery campaign designed to keep their family in power, WDS sources say.


Chinese government sources are also saying the Rothschilds are trying hard to convince China to start a war against the US military in the South China Sea. That is because the Rothschilds desperately need to start a world war to stave off the ongoing revolution in the United States against their rule.


The NSA sources confirm this. They also informed me that the raid by 9 goons on this writer’s house last week was ordered by Japanese slave Prime Minister Shinzo Abe who in turn was ordered by Chinese President Xi Jinping who in turn was ordered by Evelyn de Rothschild. This writer has received an apology and has forced the Rothschilds to end their harassment.


The fact that Abe, who was leading the anti-China campaign in Japan a couple of years ago and is now suddenly bowing down and licking Chinese feet is a clear sign he is nothing more than a Rothschild puppet. The Rothschilds are telling the Chinese anything they want to hear in a desperate attempt to get Chinese protection from the US military and agencies who are now on the warpath against them.


The Chinese had a series of important meetings last week in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Peking where it was decided China wanted world peace and friendship and would not go along with any plans to start a world war, various Chinese sources confirm.


The Chinese have also been asked to buy a disposable analogue camera (digital cameras have GPS) and take a picture of one of their gold hoards with a recent newspaper in front of it to confirm the gold exists, So far, they have been unable to.


If the gold does not exist, then there will be a need to use commodities, real estate and other things that actually exist to back currency.


The carbon voting rights in the Paris Accord reached last year and soon to be ratified, which give China a bigger share than the US, seem fair and could be used as a basis for decisions on how currency will be created and used in the future. In other words, a much fairer system for deciding what humanity will do in the future is ready to be ratified and put in place.


The Japanese royal family, the US military and the Chinese military, among many others, have also expressed support for creating a meritocratically staffed future planning agency to come up with plans for turning this planet into a paradise for humans and all other living creatures.


Meanwhile, my webmaster, who was hit with a cancer causing poison is now being cured using the latest natural healing methods. Since this was a personal attack on someone close to me, there will be a counter-attack. This means the heads of Keio University Hospital, the Japanese Medical Association and the American Medical Association will be arrested and be forced to rat out their Rockefeller bosses.


Make no mistake, cancer did not exist until the Rockefellers and their fellow Khazarians started putting cancer causing substances in various daily products.


Studies of thousands of Egyptian mummies confirm that cancer did not used to exist. A century ago in the US, before the Rockefellers took over the medical establishment, only one out of 20 people got cancer. Now it is one in two.


Furthermore, the Medical Mafia murders millions of people with poisons and radiation every year as part of their fake war on cancer. This means that practically everybody reading this has had a close family member murdered by the Khazarian mob.


Honest cancer doctors tell their patients that they are not allowed, on pain of losing their medical license and career, to naturally cure cancer and tell their patients to seek treatment elsewhere.


That is why the US military and agencies must raid the medical associations, put an end to this murder by poison and radiation racket and arrest the ringleaders.


Via: https://kauilapele.wordpress.com/2016/11/03/full-article-benjamin-fulford-10-31-16-the-message-for-the-khazarian-mafia-is-trick-or-treat-surrender-or-die/


Source:
http://benjaminfulford.net/2016/10/31/the-message-for-the-khazarian-mafia-is-trick-or-treat-surrender-or-die/

Friday, July 29, 2016

Real Authenticity!

WHOA! This woman is PISSED!


"We need to clean house, and I hope everybody understands the seriousness of this. If We the People do not get behind Democracy harder than we ever have in our entire lives, we're not going to have ANY Democracy!" ~ "What I remember is that by the thousands, and hundreds of thousands, in THIS election, people were wiped off the voter rolls, people's affiliation with prime party was swept to another. Did we hear the leaders of the Democratic Party, including President Obama, get out and try to do anything about it? NO, we've got to STOP it, we've got to clean house! We've gotta DEMAND it!".


Then she goes off on Hillary, and into an emotional rant about why she is there, "My heart's broken! I want my grandchildren to live in a Democracy! I'm 63 years old, I could be out working in my garden! I could be crotcheting for the next little great-grandchild I got coming! But I'm here because I really want this earth to LIVE! I want my babies to live, I want my grandchildren to go to college, and I don't give a shit who says we can't afford it, because this is about priority spending! Are the people that pull that lever for Hillary Clinton going to be able to answer one question...Is is OK for people to cheat and lie? Is that what we want in the the most important office in our world? Because that's what you're going to be voting for!"


She brought me near to tears with her passion!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77LTh9QIhxw


Friday, April 11, 2014

What Happened to the American Dream? ~ Democracy vs. Oligarchy ~ A Threat to American Democracy


What Happened to the American Dream?
Sen. Bernie Sanders discusses oligarchy in a Senate floor speech.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWApW2eliRM
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Democracy vs. Oligarchy
Monday, March 31, 2014
http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/recent-business/democracy-vs-oligarchy?utm_source=berniebuzz&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Read+Bernie+on+Democracy+vs+Oligarchy+link&utm_campaign=National+Bernie+Buzz+04-11

Poll: Do you support limiting individual and coporate contributions to political candidates?

Norman Rockwell's Freedom of Speech

In his 1943 painting "Freedom of Speech," Norman Rockwell illustrated American democracy in action by depicting a man speaking up at a town meeting. A framed poster of Rockwell’s painting hangs proudly on a wall in my Senate office in Burlington, Vt.

Since 1990, when I was first elected to Congress, I have held hundreds of town meetings in almost every community in Vermont.  Just this past Sunday I held a town meeting in Middlebury, Vt., with a video connection to meetings in three other towns.  At these town meetings I listen to what my constituents have to say, answer questions and give a rundown of what I'm working on and what's going on in Washington.

This process – an elected official meeting with ordinary citizens – is called "democracy."

Ironically, at the same time as I was holding town meetings in Vermont, a handful of prospective 2016 Republican presidential candidates (Jeb Bush, John Kasich, Chris Christie and Scott Walker) trekked to Las Vegas to audition for the support of Sheldon Adelson, the multi-billionaire casino tycoon who spent at least $93 million underwriting conservative candidates in the last election cycle.  Those candidates were in Las Vegas for the sole purpose of attempting to win hundreds of millions from him for their presidential campaigns.

The disastrous 2010 Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United threw out campaign funding laws that limited what wealthy individuals and corporations could spend on elections. Since that ruling, campaign spending by Adelson, the Koch brothers and a handful of other billionaire families has fundamentally undermined American democracy. If present trends continue, elections will not be decided by one-person, one-vote, but by a small number of very wealthy families who spend huge amounts of money supporting right-wing candidates who protect their interests.

This process – a handful of the wealthiest people in our country controlling the political process – is called "oligarchy."

The great political struggle we now face is whether the United States retains its democratic heritage or whether we move toward an oligarchic form of society where the real political power rests with a handful of billionaires, not ordinary Americans.

Clearly, if we are to retain the fundamentals of American democracy, we need to overturn the Supreme Court decision. The fact that more than 500 communities and 16 states have expressed support for overturning Citizens United is a good step forward, but much more needs to be done.

Overturning Citizens United, however, is not enough. If we are serious about elections being fought over ideas, we must move toward public funding of elections.

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A Threat to American Democracy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQOCfweYLrE

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