by Scott Creighton
I do exhort all the communities to an “ever watchful scrutiny of the signs of the times”. This is in fact a grave responsibility, since certain present realities, unless effectively dealt with, are capable of setting off processes of dehumanization which would then be hard to reverse. Pope Francis
As the fascist TPP lies in wait and insurance industry serving Obamacare plan is getting progressively worse for the people of this country, as his drones kill innocent civilians in far off lands on a daily basis on behalf of multinational corporations and the financial oligarchs of the world, as he presides over one terrorist inspired “humanitarian intervention” after the other for those same interests, President Obama is having to deal with not only his lowest approval ratings of his presidential career (based on the fact that even his most rabidly blind supporters can no longer ignore the lie that was “CHANGE”) but also the growing resurgence of a national awakening of the people to ideas like social responsibility, empathy, income equality, fairness, social justice and dignity.
The neo-liberal President Peace Prize is caught in a difficult position. They have yet to fully set the hook in the nation that they have been positioning for some time. Though the NDAA 2012 provides enough legal cover for the indefinite detention of citizens deemed a “threat to national security” and the full spectrum dominance surveillance grid is certainly in place ginning up the all important lists of those detractors, other domestic policy agendas have run into a bit of a snag as of late, pushing back the roll-out of the full transition to our very own Pinochet/Suharto/al Sisi style “new normal” here in the states.
The internet is still an open forum for the discussion and transmission of ideas and real news and the gun-grabbing agenda marked by several American Gladio mass casualty events has fallen short of their intended propaganda surge.
All that said, we’re perilously close, just one “New Pearl Harbor event” away from living “la vida loca” under our own U.S. Pinochet.
As the front-man for this agenda, the problems Obama faces are a crisis of credibility and a growing shift in the ideological preparation the globalists have been imposing on us for decades.
For an open society to shift to a closed one, one of two leaders has to emerge: either a full on military dictator or a charismatic leader from the left who, by no fault of his own of course, is FORCED to impose drastic undemocratic measures, for the good of the nation due to external and internal threats. Important for the latter is his perceived liberal credibility which President Peace Prize has been losing at a record pace these days.
Which explains why President Obama’s spin team is having him spend so much time trying to fool his waning base into BELIEVING that he’s still some kind of populist and that is one reason why the recent publication of first apostolic exhortation of Pope Francis, “The Joy of the Gospel” at this crucial time in his presidency is so disastrous for our liar in chief.
The Obama administration’s first response to the Pope’s on-going pro-humanity message was one of less than subtle rejection which, when you look at it on a historical scale, sends a clear message to the Vatican. They closed the embassy which has been there since the Reagan years.
You see, the tenuous position Obama finds himself in is not just about placating his dwindling base of supporters in order to facilitate his “reluctant dictator” role, but it’s also about appeasing the fascist masters of the universe who really run this country and D.C. especially. He knows all too well what happens to political leaders who dare to stand opposed to the insidious rule of the vile maxim. He also knows what happens when those Mammon worshipers fear their puppet has outlived their usefulness.
“There is a natural order to this world, and those who try to upend it do not fare well.” Cloud Atlas
So after closing the embassy in order to send a not so veiled message to the interests of the Catholic Church LLC, he then had his spin doctors craft him a populist sounding message with which he could attempt to gloom onto Francis’ current wave of popular support here in the states and across the globe.
Of course, it’s hollow and morally bankrupt, but that’s the best the Terror Tuesday “decider” can HOPE for, isn’t it?
President Peace Prize went on MSNBC’s Hardball with Chris Mathews the other day in order to try his hand at re-spinning “The Joy of the Gospel” as best his neo-liberal writers could do.
It was both sad and illuminating. Here is part of what he had to say:
“I think Pope Francis is showing himself to be just an extraordinarily thoughtful and soulful messenger of peace and justice. I haven’t had a chance to meet him yet… But everything that I’ve read, everything that I’ve seen from him, indicates the degree to, to which he is trying to remind us of those core obligations… And, you know, as I said in my speech yesterday, we live in a market economy that is the greatest generator of wealth in history. We’re risk takers. We’re entrepreneurs… And we want to maintain that sense of character. But what I always remind people is that what also built this country was a sense of community.” Barack Obama
In those three sentences, Barack Obama has completely contradicted the entire point of what Pope Francis had too say in his recent apostolic exhortation (and subsequently his entire “CHANGE” message that won him the White House in 2008).
While desperately trying to maintain the illusion of populist ideology, he defends the savage capitalist system of Reaganomics, Thatcher capitalism claiming quite inaccurately that it’s the greatest generator of wealth in history.
It reminds me of the crash of 2008 when the TARP bailout was being rejected by the vast majority of the people of this country. Bush finally went out and basically begged the people to hand over nearly a trillion dollars to the banks which had stolen their savings and crippled the economy for their own greedy purposes. He said “The system must be maintained”. The system of savage capitalism that is.
Yes, it is the greatest engine of wealth accumulation for a very few that the world has ever seen. Today, inequality is practically at the level of the age of the Pharaohs of Egypt. The wealth is generated not by any real form of creation but rather by liquidating the cumulative wealth of the nation, that owned and held by the people, and then handing it over to the masters of the universe with their varying puppets sharing in the crumbs from the table. Obviously what ensues in the aftermath is mass poverty, suffering and inequality for everyone else.
This is the neo-liberal Chicago School of Economics system that President Obama is desperately defending. It’s Reagan’s “trickle down” theory. It’s pure, unadulterated corporatist fascism, the kind we have imposed by coup or invasion on countless countries for the past 6 decades.
Here is part of what Pope Francis had to say about this same system that President Peace Prize just finished praising:
“Just as the commandment “Thou shalt not kill” sets a clear limit in order to safeguard the value of human life, today we also have to say “thou shalt not” to an economy of exclusion and inequality. Such an economy kills…
“Today everything comes under the laws of competition and the survival of the fittest, where the powerful feed upon the powerless. As a consequence, masses of people find themselves excluded and marginalized: without work, without possibilities, without any means of escape.
Human beings are themselves considered consumer goods to be used and then discarded. We have created a “throw away” culture which is now spreading. It is no longer simply about exploitation and oppression, but something new. Exclusion ultimately has to do with what it means to be a part of the society in which we live; those excluded are no longer society’s underside or its fringes or its disenfranchised – they are no longer even a part of it. The excluded are not the “exploited” but the outcast, the “leftovers”…
In this context, some people continue to defend trickle-down theories which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice and inclusiveness in the world. This opinion, which has never been confirmed by the facts, expresses a crude and naïve trust in the goodness of those wielding economic power and in the sacralized workings of the prevailing economic system. Meanwhile, the excluded are still waiting. To sustain a lifestyle which excludes others, or to sustain enthusiasm for that selfish ideal, a globalization of indifference has developed. Almost without being aware of it, we end up being incapable of feeling compassion at the outcry of the poor, weeping for other people’s pain, and feeling a need to help them, as though all this were someone else’s responsibility and not our own. The culture of prosperity deadens us; we are thrilled if the market offers us something new to purchase. In the meantime all those lives stunted for lack of opportunity seem a mere spectacle; they fail to move us…
… The worship of the ancient golden calf (cf. Ex 32:1-35) has returned in a new and ruthless guise in the idolatry of money and the dictatorship of an impersonal economy lacking a truly human purpose. The worldwide crisis affecting finance and the economy lays bare their imbalances and, above all, their lack of real concern for human beings; man is reduced to one of his needs alone: consumption…
… While the earnings of a minority are growing exponentially, so too is the gap separating the majority from the prosperity enjoyed by those happy few. This imbalance is the result of ideologies which defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation. Consequently, they reject the right of states, charged with vigilance for the common good, to exercise any form of control. A new tyranny is thus born, invisible and often virtual, which unilaterally and relentlessly imposes its own laws and rules. Debt and the accumulation of interest also make it difficult for countries to realize the potential of their own economies and keep citizens from enjoying their real purchasing power. To all this we can add widespread corruption and self-serving tax evasion, which have taken on worldwide dimensions. The thirst for power and possessions knows no limits. In this system, which tends to devour everything which stands in the way of increased profits, whatever is fragile, like the environment, is defenseless before the interests of a deified market, which become the only rule.” Chapter 2, first apostolic exhortation of Pope Francis, “The Joy of the Gospel”
In this case, the Pope is doing what he is supposed to do, he is offering up an assessment of the world in which his flock must live. He is putting forward the idea that humanity must be served by finance and not enslaved by it. He is warning us, albeit late, that the worship of Mammon over morality cannot lead anywhere but too futures of abject slavery and misery for all of us, not just the unfortunate few.
This is the message that Pope Francis is trying to convey and the very same message that our fine president belittled on national television for the sake of his own vile maxim.
The Pope isn’t telling us something that many of us don’t already know or haven’t written about extensively over the years. There are many out there who have been saying the same thing for decades.
Nor is Obama exposing a side of himself that we haven’t written about numerous times over the course of his illustrious rule. I myself wrote years ago that Obama was born to a family who served the neo-liberal dictator Suharto and our CIA when they created the lists of leftist dissidents to remove from the population of Indonesia back in ’65.
As a child of fascist indoctrination, Barack Hussain Obama was born and raised for this kind of betrayal. To him, it is as natural to wear the mask of populism as a weapon as it is for you to wish to “BELIEVE” it.
So though he’s not really telling us anything new, Pope Francis’ message resonates in a society weary of the closing doors of opportunity, freedom and hope. It stands as a reminder of what real humanity means to us all and a bitter contradiction to the fake left that has emerged in America since the corporatist neo-liberal Slick Willy came to power.
We are, in short, at the cusp of an ideological war. One that promises to carve the next era of our history upon our very souls. Marks we are doomed to carry with us to the grave.
It is to this end that all too few of us continue in the face of such dismal developments.
And it is to this end that we must pause and pay respects to others who choose to engage the purveyors of the poisoned ideology along with us like Francis has.
And by the same token, we must be ever diligent to expose the Rainmakers and Snake-oil Salesmen like President Peace Prize for what they really are. It is the “ever watchful scrutiny of the signs of the times” that is our ultimate task. Our communal responsibility. Our contribution to the history of our species. Our war is an ideological one that for the sake of humanity itself, we must not lose.
“Just as goodness tends to spread, the toleration of evil, which is injustice, tends to expand its baneful influence and quietly to undermine any political and social system, no matter how solid it may appear. If every action has its consequences, an evil embedded in the structures of a society has a constant potential for disintegration and death. It is evil crystallized in unjust social structures, which cannot be the basis of hope for a better future.” Pope Francis
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