Today's edition of quick hits:
* Secretary of State John Kerry delivered his first big speech in his new post earlier today, and offered a spirited defense of foreign aid. Good for him.
* It's hard to believe, but Rajiv Chandrasekaran reports that for the first time in six years, no American servicemembers were killed in enemy action in Afghanistan over the last 30 days.
* Housing starts plummeted in January. Don't panic.
* Sequester: "The Defense Department officially notified its 800,000 civilian employees on Wednesday that they are likely to be placed on periods of unpaid leave, as the Obama administration scrambled to deal with congressionally mandated budget cuts set to kick in next week."
* Guilty: "A remorseful and emotional Jesse L. Jackson Jr. faced the criminal charges against him in federal court Wednesday, admitting to misusing campaign funds to benefit himself and his wife."
* Why gas prices have gone up so quickly, and so unexpectedly given the time of year.
* Senate Democrats now assume that the sequestration cuts are unavoidable, and believe "the real action on the sequester has yet to come, and will ramp up in earnest in March."
* Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) did the right thing last night, standing up in defense of comprehensive immigration reform during angry town-hall meetings in Arizona yesterday.
* Former Sen. Pete Domenici (R) fathered a child with a woman who was not his wife -- in fact, she was the daughter of one of his colleagues. He then voted for the Defense of Marriage Act and voted for articles of impeachment against President Clinton.
* Smart choice: "Late-night comedian Conan O'Brien has agreed to headline this year's White House Correspondents' Association dinner, a source tells POLITICO."
* What was Fox News' Bob Beckel thinking when he asked, in all seriousness, "When was the last time you heard about a rape on campus?"
Anything to add? Consider this an open thread.





Re Dominici, remember IOKIYAR.
http://www.pennlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2013/02/op-ed_gov_corbett_needs_to_change_his_budget_priorities.html
in the same op-ed:
From Huffington Post
If money is speech, my wife is very rich.
From The Denver Post: "Colorado ammo magazine maker Magpul threatens to leave state over gun bill."
If the law passes, Magpul would find itself in the unusual situation of manufacturing the high-capacity magazines they specialize in, in a state that has made them illegal to own.
Magpul's chief operating officer says, "Staying here would hurt our business."
Aw.
Why gas prices have gone up so quickly, and so unexpectedly given the time of year.
Anyone who thinks "market forces" have anything to do with the decisions by the Oil Cartel probably believes in the tooth fairy and that the sun rises in the west. it's always interesting to me how they manage to close refineries "for maintenance" at such opportune times. The oil cartel and their buddies in the hedge funds - two branches of commerce that would be improved if a few of the criminals who run them were dangling from ropes.
It's Bush! He's letting the price rise so his buddies in the oil industry will make more money.........oh wait, sorry, wrong administration. Why isn't Obama getting needled by the media on gas prices the way they did with Bush...not that I liked Bush but fair is fair.
That's funny rev3...and true. Bush/Cheney were the gas villians for a long time. Guess it wasn't really them after all. Unfortunately, most of the advanced world relies too much on gas. It's like the planet's heroin. We need it....really NEED it, so the oil suppliers or "pushers" can charge whatever they like. Not too many years ago when the price first went over $3, a lot of Smart cars were sold. And years before that there was a massive sell off of the big gas guzzling SUVs and luxury cars, but for some reason we creeped back to full size vehicles. It seems we complain and adjust our car size and driving habits for a while and then we "re-lapse" and go back to Hummers and the like. We bitched when gas went to $1, then 2, then 3, etc., but we still keep on pulling up to the pump.
The only small consolation is that a lot of our 401ks at least get some benefit if your funds are invested in oil companies.
Except Bush and Cheney both had oil interests.
Except you will continue to bitch about anything, real or imagined.
"This say the nation’s biggest refiner, Valero, said in a slide presentation at a Credit Suisse conference this month. It estimated that refineries have closed nearly 1 million barrels a day of capacity on the East Coast or in the U.S. Virgin Islands in the past two years, which Valero said allowed it to increase profit margins."
That says it all about higher gas prices. Greed
Maybe I am just ignorant about how all people cry, but I am not really convinced President Obama really cried. Usually when a person cries, it tears out from the corner of your eye nearest to your nose. When you see President Obama supposed tears, it is just from a wipe and furthest away from your nose. That too easily can be staged for theater to make it look like you are crying so it impacts how people will feel. So unfortunately, I need a lot more convincing that President Obama was indeed really crying. That is just too easy to say President Obama was really crying, when way more proof would have to be shown that really occurred as shown.
Deb
I hope you're being sarcastic. Otherwise you've just given birth to a new right wing conspiracy. I'll call it crierism.
I understand Maria and actually I am much more Liberal, but come on somethings you just need proof of. Especially, when Politicians will try about anything for an affect or outcome. I am just too much of a realistic person also and do notice details so have a right to ask. And Politicians do get trained for affect as you may notice President Obama's very casual behavior and joking at times. He is good at what he does, especially when he can compete with comedians and that is directly acting. A good analysis of President Obama's real character is always a good thing.
Deb
Perhaps you missed the close up photo that showed wetness at the outer corner of President Obama's eye. Sure looked like tears to me.
Tears flow into the eye from the lacrimal gland above the outer corners of the eye, and are drained into the lacrimal sac via ducts at the inner corners of the eye. When tear production is too fast to be drained, they will overflow. What part of the eye it overflows from depends on the shape of the eye. Flowing from the outside is not unheard of.
But the close photo really doesn't prove anything maphi, since there is no redness of the eyes or the eyes becoming bloodshot. I am just not totally convinced, since Politicians always have their gimmicks to persuade people. The only way to prove that President Obama is sincere is what he actually delivers to the people, since talk is cheap. We have been fooled by way too many Politicians to just casually accept just anything said. Especially, when President Obama seems to suck up to rich bastards pretty good, tried to start something with a war in another country again, and seems to be pretty free wheeling with those drones. So we are going to need some real proof, not casual talk.
You're right, Deb. Delivery is everything. So here is a list of his 212 achievements so far (with citations).
It looks like he's pretty good at delivering to me.
Deb: He was laughing...
But I am untroubled some of those things are not even being enforced and are being ignored. And still in our military there is wasteful spending. So that list is not as simply as stated. And employee wages are still going down.
I have cried from the outer corners of my eyes and the corners near my nose, both.
It seems like when I tried to suppress tears, I still had tears from the outer corners.
I think he was sincerely emotionally struck when he cried, not an act.
Times sure have changed since Ed Muskie was drubbed out of the Presidential campaign for crying in public.
inb4:
The President didn't start crying until after he arrived at the White House.
(rim shot)
*looks around*
Whaaat? What did I say?
;)
You got that right Knobson.
"Anything to add?"
A black nurse has sued Hurley Medical Center for discrimination and violation of the state civil rights act after the nurse's manager reassigned her because of a father's request to have no black nurses look after his baby in the neonatal intensive care unit last fall, according to the complaint.
"Please, No African American Nurses to care for [redacted] Baby per Dad's request. Thank you," read a note that was attached to the baby's clipboard and obtained by ABC affiliate WJRT in Flint, Mich.
This followed a staff meeting and a call to the nurse's home to inform her of the decision, according to the complaint. A hospital lawyer eventually told the staff this was illegal, but the lawsuit alleges that black nurses were intentionally not assigned to the baby for the remainder of its stay in the hospital over the next month.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/no-black-nurses-request-draws-lawsuit-173026275--abc-news-health.html
This dad would be hard pressed in the Anti-Belleum South not to have a black nurse. I hope this nurse wins her lawsuit big time.
Why don't President John McCain and Vice President Lindsey Graham solve all the country's problems? They know more than anyone else and have all the answers.
It appears that Rick Scott, like Emperor Vespasian, feels that "pecunia non olet" and that its pull is irresistible, no matter the source:
http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/02/20/v-fullstory/3244176/fla-medicaid-privatization-plans.html
If Obama will not make gas more expensive to combat climate change, the oil companies will make it more expensive in order to win approval of the Keystone XL pipeline. With this approval, we will be well on our way to doubling the amount of CO2 going into the atmosphere.
We may be buffeted by dozens more superstorms like Sandy, but at least we will have more oil money. Wait, No- we won't have the oil money because that wealth will go to multinational fossil fuel companies. But Wait- we will get energy independence, right? No- the reason the pipeline goes to the gulf is so that it can be piped onto tankers for transport to world markets. Oh- but at least we will have cheaper oil, right? No- due to burgeoning demand in China, India and the third world, prices will be higher. So- More CO2, More Storms, No energy independence, No lower prices.
That makes sense. So what of the EPA?
Many of the proposals Lisa Jackson made at the EPA were denied by the White House as having too negative an impact on the price of energy. When the EPA went up against the oil and coal industries, she went on her own, and was often undercut when she began to make real regulatory changes that might begin to attack climate change. Is it any surprise Jackson is leaving? As for cutting the energy industry some slack on pumping CO2 into the atmosphere- Take a look at what they do with that slack. Are they interested in lower cost energy? No:
When this presentation says that "refining fundamentals" have improved, it doesn't mean that the fundamentals of the company's ability to produce energy has improved. It means the opposite: that by closing refineries they have decreased their ability to supply, thereby elevating prices.
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Obama traded away a source of significant revenue and a way of reducing oil consumption in order to achieve lower energy prices.
He got neither the revenue, nor a tool in the fight against climate change, nor lower energy prices.
When will the Obama administration begin to take seriously the threat of climate change? How many more Sandys before we start making the sacrifices necessary to slow and reverse CO2 production?
Alarmingly, the Obama Administration has not been transparent regarding its meetings with the fossil fuel industry. Remember the complaints about the secret meetings Cheney had with the energy industry? Mother Nature Network reports the same pattern is true of the Obama administration. (source) Yet the Obama administration is willing to release information potentially damaging to climate change advocates in his administration: specifically access to Lisa Jackson's private email accounts. (source)
Get ready for the fossil fuel industry to use the spike in gas prices during the debate over approval of Keystone XL.
On the other hand, Kerry's speech at U. Virginia today had some remarks that Secretary of State Clinton never would have made, and he didn't have to make:
Kerry won't be President. This is his last shot for the history books. He's a sharp and ambitious guy. Let's see what he does with his gifts.
this is neither here nor there, as the past is the past, but like Gore in Florida in 2000, Kerry should have been President. voter suppression and computer hacking won the election for W. in Ohio in 2004.
just my humble opinion.
Maybe suzette- but I am surprised you didn't bring up other Bush tactics- such as the swift boating, Rove's use of mass marketing (microtargeting) techniques and Bush's employment of the religious right for grass roots mobilization. I worked hard on the Kerry Campaign, as did many others (I understand Chris Hayes was out knocking doors for him). Kerry was not my first choice- I preferred Dean- but Kerry would have been a very good president, and it was sensible given the demonstrated stupidity of the Bush administration. Most of us on the left wonder why it took everyone so long to realize who Bush II was. But Kerry had a different weakness- that is a facet of his strength. It goes to how he wires himself up to the outside world.
What Obama and McCain do is they connect to their passion on a subject, and speak authentically from that place. McCain's problem is that he is able to connect up to widely different passions- this allows him the versatility to appear genuine although he is taking a position antithetical to one he held one campaign season ago. These "authenticity" candidates center themselves on the shared passion of the electorate, and combined with the candidate's charisma, they make a social connection with the electorate- he seems like the real deal. But Kerry, Gore, Romney and Dukakis don't wire up their political persona that way. They are uncomfortable going Stanislavski, and instead prefer to practice routines as crafted by campaign advisers practiced in political theater. Some guys do a combination of both, and it is dangerous not to get too spontaneous- as insignificant utterances can get blown way out of proportion. Dean and Biden have been there.
When I was living in LA in the 80s, I went to a JF Kerry fundraiser. There were maybe 70 people there, and I was only there because of an underground art band that was playing there. It was pretty clear to me after I met him that the guy wanted to be president, but the whole JFK mirror thing seemed a little odd- I half thought it was part of an art joke. Anyway he seemed like he had good credentials because of his Vietnam opposition, and I wished him well. But I walked away with a feeling the guy had to work on his people skills. He really really came off as stiff and with the air that he'd really rather be somewhere else. He could put up convincing appearances, but there were lots of tells- eg. furtive glances elsewhere during a critical point of the conversation- indicating he really wasn't all that engaged / perhaps not interested. If you had bought into his charisma- people would not notice, or make allowances for the busy man- but winning new people? If you come off inauthentic- it is death.
It was the same problem of Romney, Gore, and Poppy Bush. They are private guys and fear going natural and opening up. It is a shame because both Gore and Kerry would have been excellent Presidents. Their stiffness kind of comes from the same place that Obama's discomfort with "silly season" political theater advice he got from Axelrod and company. These are principled guys. What Kerry and Gore do with that principle is they attempt to step away from the emotionalism and go to the fundamentals of the rational propositions. It was death for Dukakis to respond in this detached way in response to a debate question from Bernie Shaw about the death penality and rape of his wife. So the Dems learn to coach their candidates, but they are applying a pastiche on a substrate that resists it. What you got was practiced routines like Gore standing in an intimidating way when Bush is being an idiot. It comes off as artifice. Compare Obama's physicality of debate II with Romney. Obama is coming from a real place- he was wired into Basketball physicality, and Romney appeared (and probably was) intimidated.
Anyway, I think Dem politicians who have a weakness for appearing detached can dramatically correct this weakness, but I would think the politician would have to wire himself up early in his career to achieve it.
My belief is that the way you campaign gives insight into the way you will govern. IMHO, Kerry waged a disastrous campaign. He was apparently powerless to respond to the swift-boating in any effective way, his staged photo-ops and windsurfing pix added to the perception that he was detached, and the "flip-flop" label was one of Rove's smarter moves. His speaking style is a cure for insomnia, and his salute at the convention "Reporting for duty" was embarrassingly contrived. These TV-driven days, in the absence of genuine emotional accessibility, some acting talent is required.
I was very disappointed when Dean's enthusiasm somehow disqualified him, as I otherwise found him a very effective campaigner who would have been a very effective president.
But I voted for Kerry, and I, too, remain mystified how people could have voted for Bush a second time.
"Contrived"- you have your finger on the precise point, George.
I am tempted to say it is because the slogan is so corny. But think of how Reagan turned even simpler pitches into lauded demonstrations of his "Great Communicator" status. It was his execution of the message. Because he was unwilling to play a martial role- to play the part of a combat veteran who knew true battle- as opposed to a Bush the poser who spent the war drunk and hadn't the character for leading in combat let alone leading a country during war.
It's not the kind of guy that Kerry is- he is very uncomfortable wearing stuff on his sleeve. So he liked the theme, but was unable/ unwilling to be the character that the theme demanded he be.
That's why it came off contrived.
It's true- this analysis is very little different from theater criticism. It's unfortunate that this is how many in the electorate form decisions, but it is a fact. My view is that politicians need to embrace the literary nature of their craft. There should be someone on deck that takes a look at Dukakis in the tank helmet and has the credibility with the candidate to tell him he can't do the photo op that way. But uber rational types don't take literature majors seriously- then they are baffled about why they get killed in elections. The alternative of refusing to come to embrace the literary nature of politics results in contortions of Dukakis, Gore and Kerry campaigns.
Here's an interesting one: Eric Cantor complains about the use of $1.2MM in NSF funds to study the effect of video games, such as World of Warcraft, on the brains of seniors. It turns out that—besides games like WoW having a major, positive effect on seniors' cognitive ability, so the study could hardly be called a waste of money—the actual cost of the study was $5K provided by North Carolina State University as a pilot study for the NSF grant. The NSF grant itself is for a larger study that "examines what aspects or mechanisms are responsible for improvements in cognition due to playing digital games and funds our development of a game based on these findings."
From the linked article:
Puerto Rico's Supreme Court effectively upheld a ban on adoptions by gays.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/puerto-rico-supreme-court-upholds-law-that-bars-gays-from-adopting-children/2013/02/20/32bdbf3e-7b8f-11e2-9c27-fdd594ea6286_story.html
Ashley Judd getting ready to take on Mitch McConnell !...
Progressives all over the nation should support her, she can become our next Elizabeth Warren. I believe she has an excellent chance at unseating this Kentucky Republican Dinasour called Mitch McConnell !... And we have a great oportunity at increasing the democratic majority in the U.S. Senate in 2014.
The nay sayers will tell us we are crazy if we think she can knock off McConnell..
I say if Karl Rove is already running attack ads against her in KENTUCKY, then they must believe she is a real viable threat to McConnell. And I say she definitely is and she can actually win. Democrats in Kentucky need to grow some balls and if she does enter the race they should all get behind her and support her 100%. She will definitely have the support of progressives NATION WIDE should she decide to take on Mitch McConnell...
I say its time we make an example of this prehistoric politician and send him packing
Go for it Mrs. Judd... the only thing you have to fear, is fear itself !....
McC's also being challenged on the right by Matt Bevin, who seeks to "primary" him. McC will be a confused QB, who can't figure out whether to run left or run right.
The lesson re-learned from Liz's recent victory, and an idea she ran on, is that Congressional races, and especially Senate ones, are increasingly national ones.
Ya want a 60-seat Dem Senate? Do Something!
I looked her up. I learned this is nothing new for her, no ego trip. She's been quietly (and not so quietly) committed to the cause for a long time.
Will her mom and half-sis campaign?
@GM.. You know what they say... "The enemy of my enemy, is my friend"
Although I dont think Bevin has declared yet, As soon as Matt Bevin declares we should support him financially as much as possible... Make sure he has the funds to take on McConnell in a primary, We can weaken McConnell that way... Soften him up for Judd...
I think it's funny.
Ashley Judd was probably not considering a run until Rove and McConnell began a tepid freak out, then decided to spend money on ads against her.
I hope she wins.
@Knobson I beg to differ.. I think its more than a tepid freak out.. I believe they see her as a credible threat to McConnell.. why else would Rove spend any money on attack ads this early on against a Hollywood actress with no political experience ?..
She is a seroius threat to McConnell.. The tea party in Kentucky does not like him, and if a serious candidate form the far right comes out to challenge McConnell , this Prehistoric political Dinosaur is going to have a serious problem getting re-elected in 2014.. I believe she can win, with the right political consultants by her side and with the help of progressives nationwide she will give Mitch McConnell a hell of fight. McConnell is old stale washington politics as usual.. Ashley Judd brings young fresh ideas to the table to move Kentucky into the future ;-) ... Know what I mean ?...
And I so want to see this Republican Dinosaur eat his words !...
"My job is to make sure that Barack Obama is a one term president"..
Dude.. progressives are going to make you eat those words!...
Remember Bradlee Dean? The preacher/musician (and not very good at either) who sued Rachel for reporting on things he said into a microphone and broadcast over radio? Turns out that his little SLAPP suit cost him $77,000...on top of the $24,000 he had to pay to cover the costs to the defendents (Rachel and MSNBC).
Over a hundred grand just to have a hissy fit over someone quoting him verbatim on cable news. So freaking hilarious.
The forgotten victims of gun violence. Children are being psychologically victimized by the "Zero Tolerance" at schools across the country for playing. A 5 year old girl is suspended from school for pointing a soap bubble toy at another student. A 6 year old boy is expelled from school for making a gun figure with his finger. School administrators are over reacting to gun violence and punishing children who have no idea that they are doing anything wrong. The administrators are basing the Zero Tolerance erroneously on Wilson and Kellings "Broken Windows Theory" which was never meant to be applied in this manner. No one has yet to think of the possible damage being done to thousands of children each year for their playing.
Why any gun maker...(smith and wesson in ma, mossberg in ct various) would stay in states that are hostile to them I have no idea.
The sequester seems to have centered around the bipartisan insanity of defense as a jobs program, every time I hear the talking point of running the government like the family budget I try to fathom the most security insane person trying to spend 1/3 of their family budget on guns and security systems and going into debt to do it(don't forget to spend more than the next 20 or so families on the block combined and to protect them at no cost)
Materialist Analysis of Economic Warfare of
Extermination Implemented by the USA-Led
World Capitalist Dictatorship Against the
International Working Class and Entire World
Which can Only be Ended by a Socialist Revolution
Abolishing Capitalism First in its Center the USA!
Don’t be Fooled by Obama, the Con Man, the Demagogue, the
Smoothie Liar for Whom the Working Class Does Not Even Exist!
There is More Money in the United States Today Than Ever Before in History!
There is enough money in the United States Today for Every
Single Person to live like a Millionaire with NO Exaggeration!
The U.S. Government—Meaning the U.S. Capitalist Dictatorship—
HAS LOST ALL CREDIBILITY and ALL LEGITIMACY TO RULE and ALL
RIGHT TO SOVEREIGNTY IN THE UNITED STATES OR ANYWHERE ELSE!
Today the only talk we here from the capitalist dictatorship is about the “middle class.” The capitalist dictatorship has TOTAL CONTEMPT and HATRED for the Working Class and wants to try to brainwash us into believing that the Working Class has ceased to exist (!), that such a class may never have even existed in the first place and that all we have now or may have ever had is ”the middle class” and “the wealthy Americans,” and that it will be capitalism forever? This is the new 1984 Newspeak! What precisely IS the “middle class and why do the capitalists only rarely to never or only reluctantly mention the WORKING CLASS? The middle class or petit bourgeoisie, designates small business owners, doctors, lawyers and the direct servants of the capitalists like the police and fire department. That is it! If you do not belong to one of those categories then you probably are a member of the Working Class! The capitalists try never to mention the Working Class and substitute “middle class” whenever possible in order to falsely flatter the Workers so that the Working Class does not even understand its own CLASS IDENTITY and its CLASS DESTINY, which is namely to overthrow capitalism and organize a Socialist society, which can only be created by overthrowing capitalism at its center in the United States and then worldwide. We were close to doing this in the 1930s! The middle class also has no historical destiny of its own, a fact which highly appeals to the capitalist dictatorship! The middle class generally follows either the capitalists or the Workers depending on who is in power. But in the final analysis a person’s class origin is NOT determinative; it is the person’s class loyalty! A person can be both a capitalist and a Communist simultaneously, which is an application of the Law of Unity of Opposites, the Second Law of Dialectical and Historical Materialism. There are many examples and we have to have more! Friedrich Engels was both a capitalist as the co-owner of a large textile factory in London and was also a Communist and co-authored The Communist Manifesto and the completed the Second and Third Volumes of “Capital” after the death of Karl Marx in 1883, and was apparently the sole author of the Fourth Volume of Capital (The three volumes of Theories of Surplus Value}!
In addition, many big capitalists came over to the side of the Working Class and joined the 1917 October Socialist Revolution in Russia. So THIS is what we have to say to Wall Street: “You know that capitalism offers you a world with no future! What are you offering your children? More Hurricane Sandys and much, much worse? Money won’t buy you survival under End-Stage Capitalism! You can be a capitalist and Communist at the same time. We need you on our side! Not the side of an economic-political-social system of capitalism, which is in its End-Stage and is in the process of destroying all life on this planet!” Talk about: “We are the 99%” and “We are the 1%” is carefully designed propaganda of cynicism deliberately designed to lead to resignation, acquiescence, submission, despair and defeat. Those dead-end, go-nowhere, fake “left” slogans were actually written by the capitalist “intelligence community” itself, which runs its own fake “opposition,” and was deliberately designed to lead to defeat and offer no genuine solution! But 95% of New Yorkers and the majority of Americans already agree that we need a new system based on human need not private profit! That should be our slogan! That is Socialism not Fascism and is already a Communist response, although systematic brainwashing by the capitalist dictatorship from earliest childhood has brainwashed the masses against the word Communism. So we have an organizational problem primarily, but also a deprogramming problem very similar to the Scientology, Moonie or Hari Krishna Cults. In this case it involves deprogramming the masses from Cult of Capitalism and the false beliefs: 1.) that it is the ENTITLEMENT of the capitalist dictatorship of millionaires and billionaires to steal our labor value, the Surplus Value, the source of ALL value in society, which we create each day by the goods and services we create, and 2.) that it is the capitalists’ entitlement to wage war against the entire world including their very own population, and 3.) the false belief that it is going to be capitalism forever! But no economic-political-social system lasts forever. Capitalism is destroying the planet, which is easy to see with Hurricane Sandy. The answer is not to “ADAPT” to the End of the World and keep digging for more oil and gas and destroying one ecosystem after another and permanently polluting the water supply, which capitalism has told us is the “solution.” The answer is to get rid of capitalism in the only way possible, by a Socialist Revolution.
The United States is not merely waging war against one country after another worldwide but is also waging economic war, biological war and psychological war against its very own population—its own people—innocent civilians! Let’s briefly look at the history and the present situation both in the U.S. and worldwide. We cannot change the future without knowing the past. The reason for this is that we must learn the lessons of the past because our capitalist class enemy already has and routinely applies those lessons against the Working Class and its allies. That’s us! Therefore, we have to briefly examine some history. The real story of the New Deal: What actually happened in the 1930's was that a million-strong Communist-led Working Class in the United States generated the pressure which forced Franklin Delano Roosevelt to come up with the New Deal—16 Federal Jobs Programs and Social Programs which included the Social Security Act. At that time and most recently on Channel 13 Public Television Roosevelt was given credit for "saving capitalism!" "Saving capitalism," from WHAT pray tell? From a Socialist Revolution in the United States! It was that close! So, the New Deal TODAY is only a dream because there is currently a ZERO organized Communist movement in the United States. Instead we get The No Deal and The Bad Deal—the Budget Deal! But in the 1930s the New Deal was actually just a BRIBE!. The Working Class did not HAVE to take that bribe! So WHY did they take that bribe??? At a point in time when they did NOT have to take that bribe and with proper leadership could have gone all the way and carried out a Socialist Revolution here in the United States? If this had happened there would have been NO World War II! There would have been NO Adolf Hitler and NO NAZIS, who were funded by German, French, British and U.S. capitalists, for example, Henry Ford, Senator Prescott Bush, father of Bush I and George Herbert Walker. Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., father of JFK and Charles Lindbergh were all NAZI propagandists. All were U.S. NAZIS! The Western European governments turned over all of the economic and military power to the NAZIS through the political policy falsely described as “appeasement” to send them against the USSR deemed the greatest threat to world capitalism! Whole countries “fell” (were deliberately turned over!) to the NAZIS in a few days while towns in the USSR held out for far longer!) It is important also to know that these governments supposedly “at war” with Germany, passively supported the NAZI attack on the USSR by refusing to open a second front against the NAZIS for 3 years under all sorts of fraudulent pretexts, UNTIL the Soviet Union itself turned the NAZIS back, forcing them to retreat on a line over 1000 miles long in the largest battle in all human history—the Battle of the Kursk Salient, a battle which NO American school kid has even heard of because of the systematic unrelenting brainwash of the USA population! Only then was it clear that the USSR alone would be able to liberate all of Europe from the NAZIS, right up to the English Channel. The Anglo-American forces invaded Europe in “Operation Overlord” at Normandy ONLY to PREVENT that from happening! The European “front” in WWII up to 1943 thus represented a failed attempt by world capitalism to destroy the USSR militarily by using the brainwashed NAZIS as their battering ram. The architect of victory in Europe was Marshall Georgi Zuchov—not Stalin! 85% of NAZI war materiel was lost on the Soviet Front! The Soviet Union defeated the NAZIS, NOT the Americans! Lend Lease amounted to no more than 5% of Soviet war materiel! WWII caused the deaths of 57 million people and would not have occurred if U.S. Workers had carried out a Socialist Revolution in the 1930s!
Why Franklin Delano Roosevelt Wrote the New Deal:
The Importance of Genuine Communist Leadership:
The million-strong Communist-led Working Class took that bribe, the New Deal, because of the deliberate misleadership of Josef Stalin, who himself was NOT a Communist although he was a member of the Communist Party and used behind the scenes manipulation to become General Secretary, a position which Lenin opposed! Prior to the 1917 Russian Revolution, the most important and significant event in the Twentieth Century, Stalin voted against taking state power on each and every vote that was taken. He always voted with Kamanev who always voted against! This included the vote taken the night before the Bolshevik party led the Working Class, (70% of whom supported the Bolsheviks) and 30% of the Peasantry which included the all-important military WHICH WAS IN MUTINY, to take state power. Stalin played a highly counter-productive role in the Revolutionary War and much later in 1924 after becoming General Secretary. Stalin poisoned Lenin while Lenin was recuperating from his second stroke. All the details of what was well known since the 1920's were all published in the Moscow News, Jan-Feb, 1989. Stalin murdered virtually all the remaining leaders of the Bolshevik Party most of them in a series of show trials but others through outright assassination. His position internationally was well known: Socialism in one country--in practice meaning Socialism in no other country. Today we live in a world of Nation States. All Nation States are dictatorships of one class over another, either of the capitalists over the Workers or vice versa. The USSR was only a Workers' State—not a version of Socialism, the first stage of Communism. Communism is a stateless society which has never been practiced and can never be put into practice until capitalism has been overthrown in its center—the United States! There is thus no such thing as a “Communist state” or “Socialist state.” Do not allow yourself to be taken in by capitalist terminology which is designed to mislead us. In addition to sabotaging the Working Class movement in the U.S. and throughout Europe, Stalin sent 50,000 Chinese Communists to their deaths before Mao got wise and stopped accepting directives from Stalin. Finally in 1943 Stalin ended the Communist International altogether. So much for Stalin being a "Communist!" Stalin rode the back of the 1917 Russian Revolution and drew all his power from it and was compelled to defend it albeit rather poorly starting out as mentioned by murdering Lenin. We have to build back a million-strong Communist movement here in the United States like there was in the 1930’s and with the lessons learned carry it through to a Socialist Revolution in the United States and overthrow capitalism permanently worldwide. CAPITALISM OFFERS A WORLD WITH NO FUTURE FOR YOU OR YOUR CHILDREN!
The One-Way Blind Dynamic of Capitalism:
Capitalism cannot be turned into Socialism because of its inherent Blind (now) ONE-WAY DYNAMIC which leads to Fascism, barbarism and the end of civilization, a DYNAMIC which is totally independent of the WILLS of the individual capitalists and politicians who nevertheless RIDE that dynamic to the top based on the extent that they express and further the interests of that one-way dynamic. That same dynamic makes George Bush look like a choirboy compared to the Obama Regime! The system controls them NOT the other way around. This is hard for most people to understand or accept. People are taught to think in terms of individuals and good guys and bad guys. This forms the basis for elections under capitalism, which is the primary weapon of capitalist deception. But under capitalism it is NOT a question of good guys and bad guys. Under capitalism they are ALL BAD GUYS, AND THERE ARE NO EXCEPTIONS TO THIS RULE! (There is an exception to every rule--including this one—where there are NO exceptions!) The proof for this is that there is not ONE capitalist politician anywhere who is saying that capitalism is a failure and has had its day and must be replaced with Socialism through a Socialist Revolution in the United States as the precondition for survival of humankind and all life on Earth and explaining how it must proceed! ALL capitalist politicians without exception try to encourage the false illusion that capitalism can be reformed. That is the basis for the Presidential elections and all capitalist elections by extension, which are the Number One Weapon of Capitalist Deception. (ALL capitalist politicians also cover up the fact that the rich pay virtually NO TAXES and that 66% of corporations pay no tax at all!) See below.
Every capitalist administration since the beginning of Imperialism, which correlates approximately with the beginning of the Twentieth Century has been to the right of the one which preceded it whether it has been Republican or Democrat, it makes no difference. The only exceptions to this were the administrations of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the two New Dealers who followed him, Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower, a Democrat who ran as a Republican, and Lyndon Johnson another New Dealer. These exceptions applied domestically ONLY! Roosevelt orchestrated the Pearl Harbor Provocation in order to get the U.S. Congress to declare war on Japan and reverse the anti-war sentiment in the United States: Seven months after the U.S. cracked the Japanese code and the U.S. heard the Japanese approaching Pearl Harbor, Franklin Delano Roosevelt pulled the 2 aircraft carriers in Pearl Harbor out to sea because they did not want the decks of those carriers to be damaged in the coming attack, which they needed to take place! Reflecting the overwhelming will of the U.S. people the U.S. Congress had just passed the Neutrality Act because the horror of WWI was so fresh in people’s minds and Roosevelt needed a provocation, “a Day Which Would Live In Infamy,” in order to justify asking Congress to declare war on Japan, which it did the very next day after the attack on December 8, 1941 The reason that the capitalists are able to get away with their lies and are able to wage economic war, biological war and psychological (brainwashing) war against their “own” people with virtually NO ORGANIZED OPPOSITION is that only genuine Communists oppose the capitalist dictatorship of millionaires and billionaires and genuinely represent the interests of the Working Class and survival of life on this planet. But today there is no organized Communist movement in the United States! Communists are the only ones who call up front for a new system based on human need not private profit—Socialism. But right now in New York City 95% of those interviewed DO smell a rat and Do agree, given the choice, which they are NOT, that we need a new system based on human need not private profit. That is a Communist response (!) and does mean Socialism not Fascism. So how do we obtain Socialism?
Capitalism is in its Final Stage of Permanent War, Which is
Potentially the Most Ideal Pre-Revolutionary Situation Possible!
The Capitalists Rule Through a Combination of Force and Deception!
Therefore: 1.) The Capitalists Must be Disarmed and Deprived of the Ability to Send Bodies of
Armed Men against the Masses and 2.) The Primary Capitalist Weapons of Deception Must be
Explained and Exposed in Order to Take the Steps to Defeat Them and 3.) A Nationwide Network
Of Workers and Soldiers Community Councils Must be Organized as a DUAL POWER and
Counterposed to the Government of the Capitalist Dictatorship of Millionaires and Billionaires!
THE CAPITALISTS MUST THEREFORE FIRST BE DISARMED! Mutiny in the armed forces is the Absolute Precondition for Socialist Revolution and ALL SOCIAL CHANGE as well as really ending the USA Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, Syria, Yemen and Worldwide! Mutiny saves lives! Mutiny is the Pre-Condition for ALL Social Change! This must be repeated! And repeated! And repeated! The capitalists must first be deprived of the ability to send bodies of armed men against the masses and must be deprive of the ability to hire mercenary/proxy armies as in Syria and Libya, before there can ever be genuine free speech where opposing viewpoints can even be fully heard by the masses, for example on NBC, ABC, CBS and CNN television at prime time every night of the week and even the INTERNET which is NOW HIGHLY CENSORED by “Facebook, Yahoo, Hotmail and other “sign-ins,” which exclude certain individuals from posting anything whatsoever on the larger Internet! Speaking on a street corner even with a megaphone, currently forbidden, is not free speech! Mutiny is also the first step to abolishing the standing army while arming the vanguard of the Working Class. In order to try to forestall the future arming of the Working Class the capitalists’ misnamed, so-called “USA intelligence community,” working closely with the media, “think tanks” and “educational system” which are all also a part of the ”intelligence community” periodically orchestrate mass provocations through manipulation, special drugs, and hypnosis of the chosen perpetrators such as in the New Town Massacre, in order to try to provide a pretext to disarm the masses for what is the capitalist dictatorship of millionaires and billionaires apparently have planned: namely programs of extermination of the U.S. masses using economic, biological and psychological warfare.
Because of the Mutiny of U.S. armed forces in Vietnam in 1975 the U.S. has taken precautions to try to prevent another mutiny! The capitalists have switched to an army of mercenary mass murderers, which includes regular low-paid GI marauders and cutthroats plus a group of 45,000+ armed “private contractors,” paid 4 times the salary of the regular mercenary army. These are the special elite Fascist killers such as Blackwater USA (leader photographed by major media openly giving the Hitler salute!), Dyncorp International, Custer Battles, Aegis, Zapata, Triple Canopy, etc., which are directly analogous to the NAZI SS (Schutz Staffel), for the personal protection of the U.S. high military command and officer corps. These very highly paid heavily armed military contractors are not in Iraq or other countries occupied by U.S. forces in order “to protect diplomats” despite the fact that the U.S. built the largest embassy in the entire world in Baghdad—primarily as a staging area for future invasions, which may not happen because of widespread troop demoralization and the introduction of an entirely NEW FORM OF WARFARE: “Facebook-Assisted Invasion by Proxy! Protection of diplomats has always been carried out by the regular military. And they are not there to hunt for Al-Qaeda! This highly paid organized group of psychopaths exists for one reason only—to protect the officer corps in event of another mutiny! There were no super-highly paid military contractors in Vietnam! Only after the mutiny in Vietnam was such a security force deemed necessary for Iraq and Afghanistan, which were in many respects new Vietnams! The overall number of private contractors in Iraq, which included the 45,000 ARMED NAZIS, Blackwater USA, etc., numbered about 183,000 according to the Associated Press, September 19, 2007, more than the regular U.S. troops (then 150,000—recently reduced). In this situation the U.S. strategy of using very highly paid private contractors in order to buy their loyalty ultimately cannot prevent a mutiny, but it does complicate it. The regular army must defeat these NAZI-style SS private contractors militarily while turning their weapons on their officers and taking prisoner all those who do not support the mutiny, along with these NAZI-style SS forces. The regular army is better organized, has heavier weapons with more men under arms so this is not an impossible task. The morale of the “regular” mercenary army has never been lower because of the repeated deployments and because after a while the military personnel start asking themselves why they must kill, kill, kill!! So-called Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and other mental illness also afflict twenty percent (20%) of the military! It is this irreversible problem of decreased morale which has forced the U.S. dictatorship to resort to Invasion by Proxy!
After the Mutiny in Iraq and in all U.S. forces, which must include all National Guard units followed by the more reactionary police forces, who are the very last to join the mutiny, the Working Class will be able to begin to set up a government of Dual Power in the United States consisting of a nationwide network of Workers and Soldiers Community Councils which are directly counterposed to the capitalist dictatorship’s “Congress,” where the interest of ONLY the millionaires and billionaires is seriously considered. The success of the Socialist Revolution in all other developed countries is guaranteed after capitalism is abolished in the United States, but if necessary, we will provide every assistance in any pockets of crazed resistance. The Socialist Revolution in the United States and the actual taking of state power will take place relatively bloodlessly, and can only take place relatively bloodlessly because the masses must support it! Only after Mutiny in the armed forces and after winning the support of at least 70% of the U.S. Working Class and their class allies through patient, systematic and persistent explanation of all issues especially adapted to the practical needs of the masses, will it be possible to take state power, just as occurred in Russia in October 1917—where only about 220-240 people died in the actual taking of state power starting on October 25th and the days that followed. It was only afterward that millions died in the Revolutionary Civil War after U.S.-led world imperialists first invaded the Soviet Union 4 months after the October Revolution and all of those 14 invading imperialist armies on 19 different fronts mutinied, forcing the capitalists to demobilize their invading armies. The capitalists then backed the “White Army” organized by the former Czarists and the Provisional Government of Kerensky, the fake-left “Socialist Revolutionary,” against the finally victorious Red Army. When the Socialist Revolution takes place in the United States there will be no civil war and no more central support for capitalism-imperialism anywhere on Earth. A Socialist Revolution is not a coup d’etat (which the capitalists carried out in Libya and Yemen and are trying to do in Syria, etc.) and must be supported by the masses won over to the Socialist Revolution through patient, systematic and persistent explanation, as mentioned above, which can only occur if genuine free speech exists.
There Are No Downsides WHATSOEVER to Socialism:
We Have Nothing to lose but our Chains and a World to Win!
The capitalists campaign nonstop to try to instill fear in the masses against Socialism, and most people are genuinely concerned about what Socialism would look like after a Socialist Revolution in the United States and the abolition of capitalism-imperialism worldwide. A Socialist Revolution in the United States would not and could not end up like the Soviet Union because there would be no basis or reason to continue a hard dictatorship after the Socialist Revolution has been consolidated in the former center of capitalism-imperialism—the USA. The Soviet Union and other Workers’ States have all been hard Working Class dictatorships, which was justified only in order to prevent both internal and external counter-revolutionary attempts to restore the capitalist class dictatorship, a threat which existed due to the fact that the Workers’ States have existed in a world still threatened by capitalism. That threat would be eliminated permanently after the Socialist Revolution takes place here in the United States, the center of world capitalism-imperialism. (See: Materialist Analysis of the U.S. Orchestrated so-called “Arab Spring” Regime Change Gambit in the Mideast, Persian Gulf and Russia Using “Facebook”-Assisted Invasion by Proxy, p. 55) for a more comprehensive analysis of the USSR.) The capitalists do not want such questions to even be discussed! The reality is that there are no downsides WHATSOEVER to Socialism! First of all, life on this planet would be able to survive! Capitalism is right now threatening to end all life on the planet Earth! Almost all of the jobs will still be there too except some of the jobs involved in the military industrial complex and the parasite insurance companies, HMOs and credit card companies. Insurance, HMO’s and credit would be entirely unnecessary under Socialism, which would supply all social services automatically!
The capitalist military industrial complex would be terminated immediately after the Worldwide Socialist Revolution, while most of the jobs in that area would be transferred to projects more in line with human need—not mass murder. Jobs in other no longer necessary parasitic industries such as insurance, health management organizations (HMO’s), credit card companies and private real estate, would also be abolished along with the industries themselves. No more Donald Trumps! No more landlords! As part of the global economic-political-social system based on human need, with the exception of disability, there would be no unemployment permitted (of healthy normal people)—NOT the so-called “natural rate of unemployment” devised by capitalist economists such as Milton Friedman, or any version of it, which permits millions of people to be unemployed to benefit the capitalists as the so-called “reserve army of the unemployed,” as a pretext to keep wages low and as a threat of being unemployed or even homeless by those who are employed. Most large corporations and businesses would not disappear. Far from it! The only difference will be is that all corporations will be owned and run entirely by the workers, but all executive and management positions will be based on periodic direct elections within the corporation or company and all those elected would be subject to immediate recall. Training for top executive and management positions would be required for all! No one will be paid more than the wage of a union worker, just as government officials, and with the end of huge military budgets and the expropriation of the expropriators, the union wage will rise to be more than sufficient to live like a millionaire. That would be the starting point.
Dislocation for any reason during or after the Socialist Revolution will be minimal because the popular support required for its success at the center of capitalism will allow a smooth and rapid transition! In addition, as mentioned there will be no more exploitation and super-exploitation by landlords, although a much-reduced rent will be paid to the Socialist State. Landlordism will be terminated! All housing would be made luxurious! Society will finally be placed on a basis of human need. All sections of the economy which derive their profits from parasitizing the masses would be permanently eliminated. There would be no more insurance company parasites and no need to buy insurance of any kind and no one would ever again be in debt! Today the debt of an average U.S. college graduate is around $100,000 and sometimes over twice as much after a graduate degree, an amount which often can never be repaid during the person’s lifetime! That practice would be ended! It should be noted that all European countries have until recently had free education to the highest level—but only because of the 1917 Russian Revolution and the existence of the Soviet Union and its very close proximity until its surrender to the threat of a nuclear war. (See Above.) Today the capitalist “leadership” of the European countries is trying to end all government services and reverse and abolish all of their social programs, all of which have owed their existence to the existence of the Soviet Union! See below: “The Euro—the Hand is Quicker Than the Eye” for a complete and comprehensive explanation of the “Euro crisis.” After a Socialist Revolution in the United States there would be no more “Credit Card Scores” and no more “Credit Card Reports” by parasite credit card companies. Those companies and the parasite HMOs would cease to exist because there would be no need. The Postal Service would return to 100% full service as a regular, tax-supported, agency of the Socialist government. Since 1970 it has been run as a business and the Fascists want to entirely privatize the USPS and privatize the entire government to increase their profits! That dynamic would be abolished forever after a Socialist Revolution because private profit would be abolished. At this time the situation is going rapidly in reverse. The USPS has been directed to end Saturday delivery and close multiple Post Offices nationwide because of the fact that the capitalists have stolen most of the tax money, pay no tax themselves and then falsely claim there is no money even for government services or supposedly even for Social Security. Obama gets the entire USA Congress to holler depravedly to cut the Payroll Tax—WHICH SUPPORTS THE SOCIAL SECURITY TRUST FUND (!)—supposedly to help the poor “middle class.” This is End-Stage Capitalism!
Obama and the capitalists are in the process of arbitrarily DISMANTLING Social Security by abolishing its function by: 1.) Imposing the Obama Payroll Tax Cut now in its second year, falsely sold as “increasing (‘middle class?!’) Workers’ Paychecks,” the real purpose of which is to undermine the Social Security Trust Fund. The Social Security Trust Fund has run a Surplus from the beginning up until the Obama Payroll Tax cut and now runs a DEFICIT! The ENTIRE media hide this fact and ALL politicians have turned this Fascist issue into a progressive (!) cause célèbre, and by 2.) Imposing the so-called “Chained Consumer Price Index (see below).” No one says a WORD! NAZI Obama criticized the NAZI Republican budget as “Social Darwinism,” while implementing those very policies! The capitalist dictatorship is also in the process of reducing Medicare, which it cut by $716 billion in order to implement Obamacare, falsely named “The Affordable Care Act,” and even threatened to end Food Stamps, now falsely labeled as “unsustainable” in yet another potential “Obama-style Quick Fix,” possibly implemented in the commotion as he is going out the door after 4 more years in order to help expedite mass starvation and exterminate a larger percentage of the population, even if it is partially repealed a few months later! Dreamer! That’s enough time to do major damage! Time to fill up a lot of cemeteries or even mass graves! Forty percent of U.S. grain crops are “legally mandated” to be burned as biofuel!
Under Socialism Medical and Scientific research would be expanded, fully funded and put to use of human need not mass murder primarily as under capitalism! There would be an end to all economic warfare which capitalism wages against the masses carried out to try to impoverish them economically and to demoralize them politically and to reduce their number by bringing them to an earlier death through applied Social Darwinism. There would an end to homelessness, and all housing would be made livable and luxurious. There would be entirely free education to the highest level obtainable for each person. There would be free medical and free dental treatment for everyone. There would be an end to the AIDS pandemic, which is documented to be Biological Warfare by the U.S. government and other cooperating governments. A safe AIDS vaccine, which would be close to 100% effective, would be promptly developed (deletion of the SOR gene prevents the AIDS virus from replicating allowing virtually all the AIDS genetic material to be used in a 100% effective recombinant vaccine!) (See: Materialist Analysis of Dietary Supplements and Vaccines for exact description.) Humankind would have its best chance to reverse the Runaway Greenhouse Effect, which the beginning of an exponential increase in atmospheric CO2 levels, documents has already begun. The capitalists wage a continuous Big Lie campaign, just like they do on every other issue to brainwash the masses against Socialism. Anti-Communism, which is imposed on the masses through the capitalist dictatorship from earliest childhood, its brainwash media, its puppet educational system, its 100% loyal, fake “left opposition,” its divide and conquer “single issue groups,” where capitalism is NOT mentioned or involved, and its always anti-Communist conspiracy groups, has as much basis in truth as the capitalists’ claim that there were Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq or WMD in Syria or Iran!
“Elections” under capitalism perpetuate the false illusion of “reform” under capitalism, which is the Number One Big Lie of capitalism. The word “democracy” under capitalism is simply a codeword and euphemism for capitalist dictatorship and enslavement. That applies here in the United States and everywhere else as well. And if you tune into any news show or cable show only ONE question is actually being discussed no matter what the topic is! All discussion reduces to only one question! What question is that??? The only question being discussed under capitalism is HOW BEST TO PRESERVE CAPITALISM! Nothing whatsoever about human need! So the first step we need to take is to organize back that one million strong Communist Movement we had in the 1930s by organizing a genuine Communist Party. No founding document of the United States enshrines capitalism as the permanent economic system! On the contrary! The Declaration of Independence written by Thomas Jefferson is actually a Transitional Document which authorizes a Socialist Revolution in the United States as the only prudent and appropriate response to the level of tyranny, oppression and threat to human civilization and indeed all life on Earth, which the United States capitalist class dictatorship has subjected the entire World! Google up the Declaration of Independence and read it! Although it is not actually necessary, we do have that as a legal basis and justification for organizing a Socialist Revolution in the United States and as a first step, for organizing a MUTINY in all U.S. armed forces as in Vietnam, the real reason and the ONLY REASON that the Vietnam War ended in 1975! Disarming the capitalist dictatorship is thus the Precondition for ALL social change in the United States and worldwide! Mutiny Saves Lives!!!
The U.S. Government, meaning the U.S. capitalist dictatorship, has lost all credibility and ALL LEGITIMACY TO RULE and ALL RIGHT TO SOVEREIGNTY in the United States or ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD! This must be repeated from the rooftops! Let’s stop talking about reforming capitalism! This is not your country and it is not my country. WE JUST LIVE HERE! This country belongs to the dictatorship of millionaires and billionaires. It does not belong to you and it does not belong to me! WE own NOTHING! The banks and dictatorship of millionaires and billionaires and Federal government own everything. You think you own a house? If you miss a payment on your mortgage you are in the street. Same thing with your car! Miss a payment on your car and you have no car. If you have paid off the mortgage and you miss your tax payments the government owns your house and you are also in the street! WE ARE ALWAYS PAYING RENT TO THE LANDLORD, THE BANKS OR THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT! We own nothing! The capitalists have stolen all our money! (See below) So lets stop talking about “why don’t WE do this or WE do that.” Who “we?” Never ever say ”we” or “our” when talking about the U.S. Refer to the US as the capitalist dictatorship of millionaires and billionaires or capitalist dictatorship because that is what it is! We are NOT talking about “changing the government!” That is already done with the periodically staged sham, phony U.S. “elections,” which the capitalists use as take-off points for further and intensified foreign wars in order to more easily steal natural resources and new markets and also domestic wars! The U.S.-led capitalist dictatorship is also presently waging war on many levels against its own people! That means you and me! We have to talk about getting rid of the economic-political-social system of capitalism, which can ONLY be accomplished through a Socialist Revolution here in the United States. Lets STOP identifying ourselves with the crimes of the dictatorship of millionaires and billionaires who stage their phony sham “elections, where whoever wins the “election,“ WE ARE THE LOSERS!
How the United States Capitalist Dictatorship Intends to Kill Americans
Wholesale in Order to Reduce the Population and Deny it While Doing It!
If You Want to Kill Someone, OR A SIGNIFICANT PERCENTAGE
OF THE POPULATION, You do Not Simply Walk Up to that Person(s)
And Say: “I Want to Kill You!” If you tip your hand the Person(s) Might:
1.) Run away, 2.) Call the Cops, or 3.) The Person might Kill You! So the
U.S Capitalist Dictatorship Must Resort to DECEPTION and BIG LIES
As it Normally Does for Everything Else!
Although BIOLOGICAL WARFARE will undoubtedly be brought in at some point while the population is on the ropes due to the economic warfare described below and herein, the four ongoing scenarios described below briefly are being used to reduce the USA population through BASIC ECONOMIC WARFARE: 1.) ELIMINATE AS MANY JOBS AS POSSIBLE AND INCREASE UNEMPLOYMENT. The unemployment rate was over 8% for most of Obama’s first 4 years an actually far, far greater, more like 20% to 30% and indubitably will continue at a high rate. In addition, the capitalists have laid off and reduced Federal, State and City jobs maximally in order to reduce DEMAND, the engine of the economy and deliberately help shrink the overall economy. 2.) INCREASE HOMELESSNESS more directly: During Obama’s first term “the mortgage crisis” continued to increase the level of homelessness. The much-ballyhooed Obama mortgage “policies” were deliberately designed to fail. 3.) REDUCE HEALTHCARE BY CUTTING $716 FROM MEDICARE! AND BIG LYING ABOUT IT! Ridiculously calling it the so-called “Affordable Care Act,” the textbook definition of a scam, by turning over virtually all medical care to HMOs, where the overhead costs are 35% to 40%—all profits for the HMO Parasites of Human Illness and Disease. “Obamacare” also fines the Poor who cannot afford medical care in the first place! 4.) RAISE FOOD PRICES ASTRONOMICALLY AND CAUSE MASS STARVATION AS IN AFRICA BY MANDATING BY LAW THAT 40% OF CORN AND OTHER CROPS BE SOLD TO BE BURNED AS ETHANOL RATHER THAN BE EATEN!
Dozens and dozens of studies easily available on the Internet PROVE that CORN ETHANOL and ALL OTHER BIOFUELS do not increase energy efficiency, or lower costs, or increase energy independence! Or cut greenhouse gas emissions! BIOFUELS INCREASE FUEL COSTS! Biofuels raise food prices, create food shortages and cause mass starvation in poor countries especially in sub-Saharan Africa inhabited primarily by People of Color, and also destroy internal combustion engines—before humankind has even had a chance to switch to electric cars, by using Tidal Lagoon Technology! (NOT totally inefficient “tidal turbines,” which have been a dead issue for 50-60 years, a corpse which is now being resurrected by oil companies, Obama and billionaire creeps such as T. Bone Pickens (Pick your own nose, T Bone!). to confuse people and try to take the place in peoples’ consciousness for Tidal Lagoon Plants.) Tidal Lagoon Plants have already been built and are 3 to 4 times as efficient as NUCLEAR PLANTS and produce NO permanently non-disposable nuclear waste! Drilling for more offshore oil and Fracking for natural gas and which was wildly cheered by the totally depraved membership of the U.S. Congress at Obama’s “2013 State of the Union Teleprompter Speech (!),” on the other hand permanently destroys the water supply wherever “fracking” is carried out! The Cuomo slime and NY Legislature have already given the GREEN LIGHT FOR FRACKING IN NEW YORK STATE! 5.) Taken together in combination with refusing to TAX ALL INCOME—(NOT “TAX the Rich,” or “close the loopholes”), (see below) which are demagogic deceptions aimed primarily at covering up the economic reality, while increasing every conceivable regressive tax which targets the Working Class and the Poor (see below). The Obama Regime has already started the BIG LIE blaming “last year’s summer drought” for the food shortages and higher prices. But that is just one more BIG LIE! Taken together these “policies” are designed to kill a lot of people. Big Time Biological Warfare will be brought in to clean up “the mess!” (See: A Brief Materialist Analysis of U.S. Biological Warfare Weapons: So-Called H1N1 “Swine Flu,” A(H5N1) Bird Flu and AIDS!)
Biofuels are a Part of the Capitalists’ Conspiracy to Reduce the World Population!
Obama was already a party to mass murder while still in the Senate by supporting the Biofuels Mandate which paid Illinois farmers large financial subsidies to divert a huge percentage (now 40%!) of their crops to be burned—not eaten! By “law” ten percent of gasoline must be corn-based ethanol, which requires that up to forty percent (40%) of the corn grown in the U.S. is MANDATED BY LAW by the U.S. capitalist dictatorship to be made into Biofuels! The capitalists are using the ridiculous Big Lie slogans of “energy independence,” “going green,” “clean energy” and “solving the energy crisis” as the come on! Biofuels is nothing but a scheme, a conspiracy, to reduce the world population by causing a huge increase in world food prices, which are to begin an astronomical 15% to 20% increase above the present high prices after the fraudulent 2012 Obama “re-election.” The Biofuels Mandate, which is now being soft peddled by the media, and “the drought,” are both false pretexts being used to help bring a large number of poor people to an early death by creating mass starvation especially in developing countries in Africa and Asia, primarily inhabited by People of Color. The effects of the drought in the United States, which to some extent feeds the world, could be largely ameliorated and compensated for by abolishing the Biofuels Mandate completely and permanently. But the capitalist dictatorship of millionaires and billionaires has openly stated that they will never ever do that! The reason is that the actual objective of the Biofuels Mandate is to increase food prices and create MASS STARVATION, which has already begun in Africa! But the capitalist dictatorship of millionaires and billionaires proffers “drought” rather than the Biofuels Mandate as the pretext for the planned food price increases. Why? In contract law drought is a so-called force majeure, a supposed “chance occurrence” or “act of ‘god’,” which normally frees parties to the contract from responsibility and liability. This is why the capitalist media focus on “drought” rather than Biofuels Mandate. The Biofuels Mandate is imposed by the arbitrary dictum of the capitalist dictatorship and could just as easily be ended and abolished if the capitalists seriously wanted to prevent and reverse food price increases, food shortages and starvation. The 40% Biofuels Mandate is the primary reason for the food price increases, food shortages and developing mass starvation in Africa and is entirely within control of the capitalist dictatorship to eliminate, but is being deliberately enforced and escalated for political reasons to carry out mass murder through enforced starvation and is a carefully thought out conspiracy rammed through with Big Lies and intimidation! But Bio-Fuels are much more costly and inefficient to produce and will never supersede fossil fuels!
We need Tidal Power Plants using the Tidal Lagoon technology. These plants generate enormous power and work 24/7 both with incoming and outgoing tides and have nothing whatsoever to do with the media-hyped, totally inefficient “tidal turbines.” Tidal Lagoon Plants have already been built in England, Germany and China and are 3 to 4 times more efficient than nuclear poser plants and do not create permanently non-disposable nuclear waste! But the oil industry and media cover up and prevent further development of tidal lagoon plants. Tidal power and also hydroelectric power from huge waterfalls such as the Kaieture Falls in Guyana with a total drop of 822 feet (5 times the drop of Niagara Falls) and Victoria Falls in Africa, the largest waterfalls in the world, can supplant fossil fuels for all uses except jet travel. Wind power and solar power, which are not clean energy (!) on the other hand are deliberated promoted by the oil industry BECAUSE those energy sources can not supplant fossil fuels. (See: Materialist Analysis of Biofuels, Global Warming and the Runaway Greenhouse Effect.)
The U.S. “Intelligence Community” Operates the LEADERSHIP of the
Fake Left and “Occupy Wall Street” in Order to Lead it to Defeat!
Protest demonstrations under capitalism, specifically the “Occupy Wall Street Movement,” but generally all others portests, are carefully designed to keep those who are opposed to the actions and policies of the capitalist dictatorship ignorant of the fact that the actions and policies of capitalism, which they are protesting against, are almost always integral parts of capitalism and can only be abolished by overthrowing capitalism itself! Examples include War and Racism! The fake “left,” which now includes the leadership of “Occupy Wall Street” exists in order to keep those who are opposed to capitalism within the capitalist framework and continuing to support the capitalist dictatorship by pushing the Number One Big Lie of Capitalism—that capitalism can be reformed—by asking it to “do the right thing,” and to “shame the trade unions and community leaders to start mobilizing their members,” rather than to expose such misleaders outright as a network of political police agents provocateurs committed to keeping their membership anti-Communist and subjugated by the capitalist dictatorship. The reason for that is that the fake “left,” which includes the leadership of “Occupy Wall Street,” etc. is part of the same network of political police agents! How is that conclusion reached?
A person or political groups is defined by what that person/political group says and what it does not say and by what that person/political group does and by what it does not do! The fake “left” does everything possible to hide the real motives and objectives of the capitalist dictatorship. For example, the fake “left” tries to deflect correct political focus by falsely targeting “GREED” and other negative personal attributes of “Wall Street” in order to hide the fact, for example, that the capitalist dictatorship is using the artificially and deliberately created “budget deficit” as a pretext to wage economic war of extermination/impoverishment against the masses to reduce the U.S. and world population through mass murder! Street leadership of the “Occupy movement” has been turned over to anarchists/political police agents. Socialism is not represented in ANY of their literature or in any other way. The anarchists as well as the rest of the fake “left” push BIG LIES such as: “capitalism is having a crisis” and “the capitalist system is in trouble. It cannot afford to give even the kind of limited gains in the 50s and 60s and is trying to balance the budget deficit on the backs of the workers.” (Emphasis added) What rubbish! What a cover up BIG LIE! Another deception of the fake “left,” but not the “Occupiers” yet, is to hold “solidarity” events with Socialist Revolutions elsewhere! The fake “left” never mentions that capitalism can ONLY be permanently overthrown through a worldwide Socialist Revolution STARTING HERE in the United States, the center of world capitalism-imperialism! Those who are genuinely motivated must understand the need to organize a genuine Communist Party here in the United States out from underneath the fake “left.” All discussion today must center on precisely HOW to organize and carry out the Socialist Revolution HERE in capitalism’s center and deprogram the masses from the cult of capitalism. This information is available and easy to understand. See below! The capitalists rule through a combination of force and deception. Therefore, the first thing which must be done is to disarm the capitalist dictatorship by organizing a genuine Communist Party, which calls for and begins to organize a MUTINY in all U.S. armed forces! As in Vietnam! The real reason and the ONLY reason the Vietnam War ended in 1975! The Morale of the U.S. Military and the entire government of the capitalist dictatorship even in D.C. has NEVER EVER BEEN LOWER EXCEPT IN VIETNAM as mentioned above! The time is right to start to organize a genuine Communist Party!
We have to STOP thinking in terms of reforming capitalism through LIMITED protests targeting single issues or particular policies of capitalism-imperialism or by any other means! Such Divide and Conquer REFORMIST single issue protests are really aimed at leading seriously motivated people to defeat while allowing them to VENT their energy uselessly and harmlessly to the capitalist dictatorship, usually on one issue only, and then to go home and become progressively demoralized when the capitalist dictatorship does nothing to reform itself. This is what has happened previously and the reason today it is once again almost ONLY young people who are involved in the political opposition! Older people are almost all demoralized! The One-Way Dynamic of capitalism prevents all reform! (See Below!) Protest demonstrations, even shutting down seaports, are all reformist at present and just beg the capitalist dictatorship (a designation never permitted to be mentioned) to please be nice and “do the right thing.” “Aw, Please, Mr. Capitalist-killer-mass murderer, please just throw us a few crumbs or we’ll be bad!” As explained above slogan “We are the 99%!” was designed to lead nowhere and is 100% Cynicism and anti-Communist. It eliminates all mention of class struggle and is based on the capitalist philosophy of CYNICISM and is designed to demoralize all participants!! That slogan is designed to lead to: 1.) Resignation, 2.) Acquiescence, 3.) Submission, 4.) Despair and 5.) Defeat! If 95% of New Yorkers and the majority of Americans agree that we need a new system based on human need not private profit, a fact which is well-known, WHY is THAT not the slogan?? Throughout the capitalist world the opposition has been similarly neutralized, e.g. “Across the World, Leaders Brace for Discontent and Upheaval.” (New York Times, January 26, 2012) Big deal, what else is new? Under capitalism all protests are designed to go nowhere! It is a rule of capitalist statecraft that a government must control and operate its own opposition. The USA dictatorship does operate the leadership of its own fake “opposition,” which NEVER EVER connects up the crimes of capitalism with the direct need to organize an economic system based on human need not private profit, while explaining precisely how to do it, as done herein. This new system is Socialism, a word also never permitted to be mentioned at virtually any demonstration, much less explained, as done herein! This is how the entire U.S. fake “left,” which includes: “Occupy Wall Street,” International Action Center, Workers World Party, the Revolutionary Communist Party (so-called!), League for the Revolutionary Party (?) and the Socialist Workers Party, Communist Party USA, and various anarchist groups, just to name a few, deceives its members and others.
The U.S. Fake “Left,” which is led overall by Ramsey Clark, who signed off on the assassination of Martin Luther King when he was Attorney General under Lyndon Johnson, among a long list of crimes of every shade and description, openly supported the “Facebook”-Assisted U.S. Proxy Invasion of Yemen (!) and before that Libya by holding Demonstrations under the banner of the International Action Center (IAC) and Workers World Party in New York City supporting what was official United States policy until UFARACI exposed it forcing an abrupt reversal and the recruitment of Cynthia McKinney to expose the U.S. backed overthrow of Qaddafi in order to steal Libyan oil!! And to top it off Ramsey Clark and others in the U.S. domestic “intelligence community” have used “Facebook” and other social networking websites to instantaneously organize so-called “Occupy Wall Street” chapters in over 150 U.S. cities, just like the Tea Bags (!), in order to monopolize and control today’s youth in order to render them ineffective by keeping their politics reformist, “populist” and always anti-Communist! Many of the legitimate youth members say they want a new system based on human need, but they will have to face up to the fact that they are being deliberately misled by their current “protest” leaders,” who dress up “the willing” as crazy Zombie clowns as a supposed “protest” against Wall Street, begging pretty please: “Money for jobs not for war!” “Healthcare not Warfare!” (May 20, 2012!) “Please, please throw us a few crumbs, Mr. capitalist-mass murderer.” Then on the date of the large “Occupy Wall Street” March in New York City on October 5, 2011, the IAC and Workers World Party members were instructed to “march in the Socialist contingent.” This was done as it always is with the fake left groups in marches, in order to insulate their members and prevent as much as possible their legitimate members from coming into contact with other marchers whom they might accidentally, or deliberately, move to the left politically AND to PREVENT their legitimate members from coming into contact with genuine Communists! Workers World Party members are additionally instructed to describe themselves as “Socialists” NOT Communists. But “Socialists” are the Mensheviks and Social Revolutionaries and Social Democrats (reformists and traitors), not Bolsheviks. Not Communists! Mensheviks and Socialist Revolutionaries (SRs) opposed the 1917 Russian Revolution! Kerensky was a Socialist Revolutionary and head of the Provisional Government, which continued WWI and all the Czarist policies, until it was overthrown in the 1917 October Socialist Revolution and fought the Communists in the Revolutionary War won by the Red Army. Never say you are a “socialist” unless you support capitalism!
The U.S. Government’s so-called “intelligence community” used “Facebook” to organize the “Occupy Wall Street” Movement from nothing to over 150 cities in a finger snap in order to achieve 4 objectives: 1.) To keep the young mostly white people average age 22-23 years old OCCUPIED! Hence the name of the “movement” thought up undoubtedly by one of the U.S. so-called “intelligence community’s” brainstormers. The capitalist dictatorship wants to keep this huge population of disaffected, alienated mostly young, white young people, whom they have no intention of ever employing except possibly for menial tasks before their extermination OCCUPIED! 2.) The capitalist dictatorship wants specifically to keep these occupied young people ANTI-COMMUNIST, supplanting what should be a Communist-led approach with a combination of false philosophies of reformism and anarchism. 3.) The “intelligence community” wants to lead the most militant but largely clueless opposition protesters into one provocation after another, into confrontation with the police in order to get them arrested and into court thereby SUBSTITUTING endless and totally pointless legal proceedings for what might have been a scientific political approach! Note that “civil disobedience” is for disobedient CHILDREN! Communists do everything possible to prevent premature confrontations with the capitalist state. That can be fatal!!! If an arrest is imminent and cannot be avoided then if must be dealt with but not welcomed. 4.) To Train the capitalist-controlled Police Forces: The capitalist dictatorship also wants to use the “Occupy Wall Street” movement to train police forces nationwide to regard any opposition to the capitalist dictatorship of millionaires and billionaires, and the U.S. masses in general, as THE ENEMY, most of whom support “Occupy Wall Street” through lack of anything better. The police are encouraged to implement the most brutal and fiendish acts against defenseless young people, even children as young as 86 years old. (!) This while the police force personnel nationwide are themselves having their wages, benefits and pensions reduced to almost nothing or eliminated entirely because of the fraudulent “budget crisis,” which continues to be 100% artificially and deliberately created in order to produce a “strategic budget deficit” as the pretext to wage economic war against the masses. See below.5.) The U.S. dictatorship wants to use the “Occupy movement” to demoralize both its participants and the general population. This is accomplished easily enough when after countless demonstrations begging capitalism to “not be capitalism” there is no reform. It is time to take over the leadership of the fraudulently led and organized “Occupy” movement and fake “left” and build back the million strong Communist Movement we had in the 1930s.
During the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy so-called “Occupy Wall Street” was organized to aid victims in the most devastated areas and do the job which the capitalist dictatorship is normally supposed to do but cannot do because all the money has been stolen through appropriation of PROFITS by the capitalist dictatorship of millionaires and billionaires so there is not enough money to even properly repair infrastructure and tend to a natural disaster. Never once did “Occupy Wall Street” say that Hurricane Sandy is a result of the Fossil Fuels Global Warming Runaway Greenhouse Effect and that we need a new economic-political-social system based on human need not private profit, which is the believe of 95% of New Yorkers and the majority of all Americans! Never once did “Occupy Wall Street” say that we have to TOTALLY END dependence on Fossil Fuels and supplant Fossil Fuels with Tidal Electric Tidal Lagoon plants—NOT the “tidal turbines” hyped by the media to in order to divert attention away from Tidal Lagoon technology. “Occupy Wall Street” never once said that several of these Tidal Lagoon plants have already been built and are 3 to 4 times as efficient as nuclear power plants and do not create permanently non-disposable nuclear waste! This is all available public knowledge but which has been heavily suppressed by the oil industry! And so-called “Occupy Wall Street!”
The U.S. Masses Would be Receptive to a Socialist Revolution in the United States
Right Now but There is NO GENUINE ORGANIZED COMMUNIST PARTY!
When 95% of New Yorkers and the majority of Americans agree that we need a new system based on human need not private profit, that is a already a Communist response. That means that the masses WOULD BE RECEPTIVE RIGHT NOW TO A SOCIALIST REVOLUTION IN THE UNITED STATES! Although those polled would not necessarily identify themselves as Communists at this time that is because they have been brainwashed into falsely believing that Communists are "the bad guys." In other words the capitalists have inoculated the masses against the only solution to the entire complex of problems confronting humanity, the majority of which have been created by capitalism, now in its Final Stage: Permanent War and State Terrorism. Most people do not understand: that the enemy of my enemy is my friend and the friend of my enemy is my enemy. This is inductive reasoning, the reasoning of science! The capitalist dictatorship of millionaires and billionaires (capitalism) is our primary enemy although few understand that completely or are able to explain such a simple concept in as many words at this time because of the relentless anti-Communist brainwash and the campaign to beat down, demoralize, divide, intimidate and infantalize them. In the final analysis all wars are won and lost on morale and every movement begins with the call. The capitalists have demoralized their subject populations, which have no Communist organization of any kind at the present time. And the capitalists know it! Although the masses have presently been rendered ANTI-COMMUNIST almost as a reflex, and sometimes resemble those crazed Zombie extras in movies such as “Return of the Body Snatchers” or “Night of the Living Dead,” they simultaneously give a true Communist response when they agree that we need a new system based on human need not private profit, demonstrating both the pervasiveness and limits of brainwashing! Deprogramming the masses, all of whom have been brainwashed, begins with patient, systematic, and persistent explanation.
TAX ALL INCOME—NOT JUST THE FIRST $110,000!!
The “BUDGET DEAL” is a Program of ECONOMIC SANCTIONS Designed
To Further Impoverish a Large Percentage of the Working Class and the Poor!
The Capitalists Dictatorship is Deliberately Falsely Labeling the Capitalist
Solution to the Deliberately Imposed Depression—Namely Standard Keynesian
Deficit Spending—as “The Problem” in Order to be Able to Sabotage the
Economy and Cause it to Contract as a Key Weapon of Population Reduction!
The standard capitalist solution to the present Depression, which was deliberately and artificially created in order to help reduce the population through economic warfare, is the same solution used to end the Great Depression and is very well-known among economists: Keynesian Deficit Spending to 37% of the Gross Domestic Product. This means spending $5.2 trillion, not $400-$800 billion, the equivalent of combined New Deal and World War II spending primarily on Federal Jobs Programs. Jobs stimulate DEMAND the engine of all economies! This is Basic Economics 101. (See below). Instead the capitalists and their media have labeled Keynesian Deficit Spending as “the problem” and are using the false pretext of a supposed “federal budget deficit,” which the capitalists have also deliberately and artificially created for this precise pretext, in order to wage ECONOMIC WAR against THEIR OWN PEOPLE by DELIEBERATELY SABOTAGING the U.S. and world economy in every conceivable way. The capitalist dictatorship is thus able to wage economic war against its own people by CUTTING government spending and REDUCING DEMAND IN THE ECONOMY in order to SHRINK THE ECONOMY and ultimately the population (!) and is therefore not afraid of increasing oil prices, for example, as a result of their continually escalating wars in the Mideast, the Gulf States and worldwide! The Obama Regime, the Democrats, Republicans and Tea Bags went through a clumsy Mutt and Jeff (Good Cop/Bad Cop) Routine regarding “the federal deficit,” which must be understood as domestic economic sanctions which the capitalists have applied against their own people just as routinely as they apply economic sanctions against dozens of countries to try to force their submission and subjugation. The capitalist dictatorship debates ONLY about how much and about how fast to “reduce the federal deficit” by laying off workers and cutting social services. NO OTHER DISCUSSION—such as TAXING ALL INCOME—IS EVER PERMITTED! Taxing all income was finally mentioned in the New York Times…on the editorial page in a tiny one-paragraph letter to the editor, written to appear naïve (January 22, 2013). Don’t look for it ever to be implemented under capitalism. The Obama 2013 inauguration and state of the union speeches were pure demagogy on every topic. This will only facilitate the “left” cover Republicans will provide Obama in order to ram down our throats what was previously known as the Bush agenda.
The so-called “budget deal” charade had Obama and the Republicans/Tea Bags pretending to be “opposed.” (!) The Republicans adamantly refused to agree to actually raise taxes on the rich and the con man and demagogue Obama fully agreed IN PRACTICE, (!) offering instead to cut Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security! (New York Times, July 23, 2011) Some phony “Deal/Compromise” with the outcome predetermined in advance! The concocted, so-called “debt-default crisis” was used to DIVERT ATTENTION from the fact that the “federal budget deficit” was deliberately and artificially created and is being used as the pretext to cut social services, normal government services and even infrastructure, targeting especially Social Security, right now being dismantled, and Medicare. The capitalists thus impose “austerity” on the Working class and Poor and keep the economy sabotaged in order to gradually reduce the U.S. living standard to TOTAL IMPOVERISHMENT, while also threatening to end Food Stamps (Associated Press, August 22, 2011) and create targeted mass starvation by artificially raising food prices, especially after the Obama re-election, all of which the dictatorship hopes will more rapidly reduce the U.S. “population demographic!” Meaning covert/overt mass murder! In order to try to increase his near zero credibility prior to the patently fraudulent 2012 presidential election Obama asked (!) the “deficit Super Committee,” which had only one agenda, that of sabotaging the U.S. economy, to “come up with a (paltry) $1.5 trillion “saving”—so called “debt reduction” over the next 10 years. (!)”On November 7, 2011 Obama’s Committee reported that they would agree to the fraudulent “new measure of inflation” termed “Chained Consumer Price Index (CCPI),” which is designed to: 1.) Lower Social Security Benefits for all current and future beneficiaries by compounding over time and produce deeper cuts the longer one receives benefits! 2.) Raise taxes on the Poor but not the rich by shifting the Poor into higher tax brackets. In addition, the income tax on the Working Class will rise by 30% over 2012-2013 supposedly due to “a rise in personal income” and expiration of Bush tax-cuts. And the CBO also reported that “over the next 10 years” there will be a “rise in government fees and penalties.” (New York Post, February 1, 2012) All of these plans to impoverish the Working Class could EASILY be reversed on the spot by TAXING ALL INCOME! But that is not the objective of the capitalist dictatorship. The New York Times speaks openly about “the coming era of fiscal austerity” the same day that Obama and the G-8 demagogically called for “growth.” (New York Times, May 20, 2012.)
The Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution Exposes
The “Budget Deal” and “Historic Compromise” as a Total Fraud!
William Jefferson Clinton knew that the outcome of the so-called “Budge Deal” and “Compromise” was determined in advance and did not mean at all to interfere with those mass murder objectives so ardently sought by his class of super-exploiters and cutthroats. That is why Clinton agreed on July 19, 2011 that the “The National Memo (!)” and the Associated Press would only blip (briefly mention) and then cover up his announcement that he would have “without hesitation” invoked “the constitutional option” specified by the Fourteenth Amendment and used an executive order to raise the debt ceiling without congressional approval and “force the courts to (block it),” but was merely drawing a line in the sand for his wife Hillary, who might have wanted to run against Obama in a Democratic Primary, or for the future, to try to take her turn at tightening the capitalist dictatorship’s screws even further both domestically and internationally. Obama and everyone in government knew that invoking “the constitutional option” specified by the Fourteenth Amendment (!), was the only correct way to proceed at that point but: 1.) That course of action would undermine Obama’s phony Mutt and Jeff Routine with his Fascist allies in the Republican, Democratic and Tea Bag Parties who provide him LEFT COVER, and the dictatorship does not want that to happen and 2.) Invoking “the constitutional option” would remove the whole specter of “A Deal” and “A Compromise,” which the dictatorship is using as deception to sell what are actually economic sanctions applied domestically, to the masses, a percentage of whom are being targeted for economic extermination. The capitalists’ media is telling the masses to think they are “so happy that those politicians stopped fighting and made “a Deal.” The masses, demoralized, divided, intimidated and presently rendered anti-Communist, are maximally manipulable and have no idea what is being done to them or what to do about it! The dictatorship knows that and is going in for the kill! The next step in making this BAD DEAL PERMANENT may come in the form of a Balanced Budget Constitutional Amendment, which omits any suggestion or demand to TAX ALL INCOME! With the expressly stated purpose of deepening cut backs in social programs and normal government services by another $ 1.5 Trillion over 10 years, while deliberately increasing unemployment, the Obama Regime set up a Budget Deficit Super Panel of 6 Republicans and 6 Democrats. This demonstrates COMPLETE AGREEMENT on permanently reducing the standard of living of Workers but never to TAX ALL INCOME!
The capitalist dictatorship wants to reduce the population and is using its economic weapons: Obamacare, the “Budget Deal,” a form of economic sanctions imposed on its own domestic population and the Social Security “Payroll Tax Cut” to help accomplish that task. They cannot adopt the Single-Child Chinese Policy, which is backed by peer pressure in China and which The New York Times openly admits in front page coverage has been hugely successful, even while attacking it, but admitting that the problem of having too many boys has now been corrected. The capitalists have a pact for propagandistic reasons with religion, which advocates that people do not simply have a family, but instead have a litter! The bottom line is that the capitalists want the masses to believe in a god—any god—even though there is no scientific basis whatsoever to support belief in a god (Precisely the opposite!)—because, to the extent that they believe in god, those who do believe in god believe that what happens in the world, including both natural events and political events, happens according to god’s will! The reality is that natural events occur due to the natural laws of science, physics and evolution, and what happens in domestic and world political events is due primarily to the decisions and actions of the U.S.-led world capitalist dictatorship, which still dominates world events! In the mind of the believer, “god” and the capitalist dictatorship become one! The capitalist government becomes “god” in the mind of the believer! This is why the capitalists put “In God We Trust” on all their money and post it prominently in all their courtrooms and put “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance in June 1954 during the McCarthy (anti-Communist brainwash and witch hunt) Era. That is the statecraft of religion! This “god” brainwash is pretty strong stuff and is what Karl Marx meant when he described religion as the opiate of the masses. False belief in “god” blunts the thrust for revolutionary change. Revolutionary change requires an absolutely scientific, objective and logical analysis of political events, political contradiction and political history, in order to learn how to carry out effective social change, meaning Socialist Revolution here in the U.S., the center of world capitalism! So not to disturb this false belief in “god” the world capitalist dictatorship has decided to try to reduce the U.S. and world population primarily through Economic Warfare designed to impoverish and also BioWarfare measures, e.g.: AIDS, Swine Flu (the planned ”Second Wave,”), etc., which will undoubtedly be used more widely as economic warfare measures soften up the population. Now the masses smell a rat and reject en masse even “routine flu vaccination!”
Today the New Deal of the 1930s has been almost entirely demolished by the hardening U.S. capitalist dictatorship, which includes complete control of a fake “left” opposition, which includes the so-called “Occupy Wall Street,” a totally invented “opposition group.” See above. Obama was “elected” in order to finish that demolition and reduce the numbers of the Working Class and Poor by beginning to dismantle Social Security, where within 100 days of taking office he immediately abolished the yearly Social Security Cost-Of-Living Allowance (COLA) for 2010, which also remained at zero for 2011. The COLA was re-instituted for 2012 ONLY to try to crank up votes for Obama. In 2014 and all years to follow Social Security will be severely decreased by the Chained Consumer Price Index (CCPI)! See above!!!
The Capitalists Plan to Use Escalating Economic War to Help Reduce the Population!
The ‘FISCAL CLIFF” is the codeword for the escalation of economic war of extermination against the American people. Even the present fraudulently calculated “Cost-of-Living” Allowance is calculated by deliberately and criminally omitting the main items which actually increase the cost of living: fuel and food! NOW the capitalist dictatorship has decided to go one step further and implement the so-called “Chained Consumer Price Index,” which compounds yearly and is based on the quality-of-life substitution which is deliberately designed to bring down the living standard. For example, if goods and services are too expensive, consumers will substitute cheaper items, in practice meaning that if hamburgers cost too much people will eventually eat cheap cat food or dog food. (Some expensive varieties cost more than human food!) The actual PRICE INDEX, which accurately reflects the price increase of ALL goods and services should be substituted for the so-called “Consumer Price Index.” But the capitalist dictatorship has other fish to fry! Meaning that the capitalist dictatorship of millionaires and billionaires is NOT simply out to “rob,” or “Cheat” Senior beneficiaries out of $60 billion in Social Security over 10 years because they NEED the money! They DON’T need the money! That’s a red herring! The purpose is to eventually abolish entirely the FUNCTION of Social Security, keeping older citizens alive and to raise taxes on the Poor and to bring people to an earlier death! It is time to face up to it that the capitalist dictatorship is implementing policies aimed at exterminating of its own people, gradually at first then more rapidly and openly. Obama never mentions that TAXING ALL INCOME and large-scale public jobs programs in order to increase DEMAND would solve ALL the economic problems, which the capitalist dictatorship deliberately and artificially creates and foists on the masses! In 2010 in order to directly undermine and expedite in every possible way the COMPLETE INSOLVENCY of the “Social Security Trust Fund which it has forced to into a deficit, where it had ALWAYS previously run a SURPLUS. In yet another “QUICK FIX” to attack the Workers, the Obama Regime” reduced the Social Security Payroll Tax from the 6.2% paid by the Worker and 6.2% paid by the employer to 4.8% paid by both, and for 2011 that amount will be reduced to 4.2%! If it even decides to make up the difference, which it decided not to (!), the Obama Regime also claimed it would use regular tax returns (general revenues) in order to begin to turn Social Security into a Welfare type program, which could then later be ended just as easily as “Clinton” ended Welfare!
Up until 2010 there had always been a Social Security Trust Fund BENEFIT SURPLUS because Payroll taxes exceeded benefit payments, despite the fact that the capitalist dictatorship used the Social Security Trust Fund as a well-known as a SLUSH FUND to help pay for U.S. wars and invasions! But in 2011 Obama’s so-called Payroll Tax Cut, which combined with the GIGANTIC UNEMPLOYMENT, which is a desired result of Supply Side/Bush/Obama Tax Cut Economics, helped trigger a NET SHORTFALL in the Trust fund for the first time! Ain’t he swell? The Big Lies concocted by the Obama Regime were that reducing and getting rid of the Social Security Payroll Tax, which Obama sickeningly referred to as a “Payroll Tax Holiday” as a come-on, were supposedly “to put more money in the Workers’ paychecks,” absurdly claiming that “restoring the tax back to 6.2% for 2011 meant a TAX HIKE for Workers (!) and would harm the (non-existent) fragile economic recovery,” falsely trying to turn an ultra-reactionary issue into a “progressive issue!” (See: Reuters, August 22, 2011) The capitalist dictatorship has the lowest regard for our intelligence and our organization. The dictatorship is able to get away with these economic crimes because there is NO REAL OPPOSITION, meaning ORGANIZED COMMUNIST OPPOSITION in the United States! The capitalist dictatorship DELIBERATELY and METHODOLOGICALLY creates “budget deficits” BY REFUSING TO TAX ALL INCOME of the millionaires and billionaires and by giving Tax Cuts for The Rich, (Bush and Obama!) in order to deliberately undermine the tiny but potentially adequate tax base. The dictatorship also plans to reduce monthly Social Security Benefits and increasingly threatens to end Food Stamps, while continuing to TAX ALL INCOME OF THE WORKING CLASS, the POOR and middle class, which will be substantially INCREASED with the capitalists’ new economic weapon: the so-called “Chained Consumer Price Index.” The 2012 Cost-of-Living increase of 3.6% for Social Security recipients was only a cynical election year gimmick to get senior citizens to vote for Obama and will disappear for 2013, while Obama takes it ALL back by implementing the Chained Consumer Price Index and eliminating wage-based indexing, used to calculate the ORIGINAL Social Security Benefit amount and substituting price-based aka inflation-based indexing, proposed by the Bush Regime as one more criminal act in order to help permanently abolish the FUNCTION of Social Security, which is to keep old people alive, and instead expedite economic extermination of old people while denying it! Intermittent (fraudulent) “strong jobs reports” with decreases (?) in the unemployment rate are only temporary in order to help get Obama re-elected, and with the 2012 Social Security Cost-of-Living increase of 3.5%, will disappear with Obama’s re-election as the capitalists’ economic war of impoverishment against their own people escalates and intensifies in the United States and Europe. (See below!)
David Stockman, Ronald Reagan’s Director of the Office of Management and Budget, explained in his 1986 book “The Triumph of Politics: Why The Reagan Revolution Failed,” that the PURPOSE of “Supply Side Economics” was to “create a Strategic Budget Deficit in order to DIVERT money from social spending.” This was also the actual purpose for the 4.7 $trillion in Bank Bailouts—backed up by $23.7 trillion “if necessary! (Associated Press, July 20, 2009). (Computer Search: “US Financial Market Bailout Tab Hits $4.7 Trillion.”) To hide this massive deliberate diversion of tax money to the banks while demonstrating their complete contempt for peoples’ intelligence the capitalist dictatorship makes the TOTALLY ABSURD claim: “US to make profit–of $2 Billion (NOTHING!)—from bailouts.” (BBC, April 15, 2012) This is all the result of the deliberate failure to implement a Progressive Tax Structure in the United States. And that will not and can not occur at this point in End-Stage Capitalism! The capitalists’ deliberate failure to create large scale Federal Jobs Programs to put people back to work is the other side of the equation. (See above!) INSTEAD the U.S. capitalist dictatorship from the very beginning instituted a REGRESSIVE TAX STRUCTURE, with the only temporary inroad against that being the New Deal, and deliberately DIVERTS as much tax money as possible, almost all of it collected primarily from the Working Class and the Poor, away from social programs TO the capitalists themselves via so-called Tax-Cut/Supply Side Economics, and grants landlords and utilities perpetual/astronomical rate increases and deliberately keeps foreclosure rates MAXIMALLY HIGH in order to keep the American people impoverished to the greatest degree possible in order to maximally increase homelessness and are now pulling out all the stops and GOING FOR BROKE! Broke, meaning the U.S. masses, who are being set up for a gradual, then escalating, mass extermination through intensified impoverishment as victims of economic warfare, biological warfare and psychological warfare, intensified brainwashing as on TV, Radio and the movies to set people up, gradually conditioning them to accept their own “necessary” extermination.
Progressive Taxation is Good for the Economy!
Regressive Taxation is Bad for the Economy!
The Capitalist Dictatorship Keeps the Masses Totally Confused About Taxes!
There is never any explanation provided by any capitalist politician anywhere concerning the vast difference between progressive taxes, which normally tax the rich more than 90% of their TOTAL GROSS INCOME, versus regressive taxes which primarily tax the poor and which are correctly opposed by the masses. By cleverly manipulating and omitting these simple, fundamental facts of taxation the capitalist dictatorship of millionaires and billionaires and its media and “education system” (!), by only discussing regressive taxes, are able to keep the masses totally confused and opposed to “taxes” in general, and with their reduced understanding this means that only regressive taxes are ever actually imposed in this increasingly reactionary period of End-Stage Capitalism. A progressive tax is a tax which increases as the GROSS INCOME INCREASES. But the ONLY taxes which exist today in the United States ARE regressive taxes! A regressive tax is defined as a tax with a rate that decreases as the taxpayer's income increases, meaning that regressive taxes target the Working Class and Poor primarily. Examples of regressive taxes include: 1.) Consumption taxes such as the sales tax and 2.) the value-added tax, 3.) the excise tax, which will target those with comprehensive health insurance as a “luxury tax” (!) in the so-called “Healthcare Overhaul,” 4.) Property taxes designed to increase rent, 5.) a Flat Tax called for by assorted Fascists which taxes the rich at the same rate as the Poor (!), 6.) increases in the subway and bus fares and tolls and 7.) increases in stamp prices combined with the most recent outright cuts in mail services and even mail delivery and the closing of many U.S. Post Offices (!) and 8.) The system of FINES, which the Bolsheviks abolished entirely in 1917, is now being ridiculously increased for every conceivable crime and administrative code violation, and will be used to raise up to $52 billion, targeting those who fail to comply with the government “healthcare mandate” with huge fines to pay for the new health insurance, which is to increase by 10% even for all those who already have insurance!!! 9.) The Chained Consumer Price Index backed by both Democrats and Republicans and the Obama Budget Super Committee as a way to cut Social Security BIG TIME is also a regressive tax especially targeting the Poor, while having virtually no effect on the rich. Note: the Payroll tax used to pay for Social Security and the FICA and Medicare tax does not “dampen economic activity” and is NOT regressive because it funds the social safety nets. Obama and those anti-“Big Government” Democrats/republicans/Fascists who claim otherwise are deliberate liars! In addition, the GAO reported that 66% of U.S. companies paid no federal income taxes and 68% of foreign companies doing business in the United States paid zero corporate taxes between 1998 and 2005, while reporting $2.5 trillion in sales! This includes 1.2 million U.S. companies and 38,000 foreign companies! This is what is known as Supply Side Economics, a scheme and conspiracy to reduce the tax base which has also been carried out in Europe (New York Times, November 8, 2011) in order to create a strategic budget deficit there as the pretext for a European-wide “budget crisis,” which involves the bank investments in the Euro. No crisis at all but the pretext to impose austerity and escalating economic war against the masses in order to reduce the population!
The Hand is Quicker Than the Eye! EUROPE—“Save the Euro”—“Prevent
National Bankruptcy”—“the Nightmare Scenario,” “Avoid the Fiscal Cliff”-USA-Are Fraudulent Pretexts to Wage Economic War of Impoverishment and Extermination!
“Saving the Euro” and “Avoiding a Nightmare Scenario of National Bankruptcy” through national bank bailout “DEALS!!!” in exchange for lethal austerity scenarios have become the rallying cries and false pretexts to wage a constant, and then sharply escalating, then slowing, then escalating economic war against the European Working Class and the Poor, who have been totally neutralized by rendering them anti-Communist through intense brainwashing and deliberate misleadership. By rendering the Working Class totally helpless in this way the capitalist dictatorship has easily been able to impose the harshest, most draconian austerity cutbacks in social programs, government services and infrastructure imaginable! Even worse than in the United States, which has had to go slow temporarily but only up until January 1203 because of its phony 2012 staged sham “presidential elections” BETWEEN TWO VIRTUAL NAZIS—OBAMA AND ROMNEY—where the so-called “debates” were all staged and Romney was scheduled to lose by deliberate self-sabotage of his own campaign and even Republican support for Obama! See above.
The Greek government even agreed to change the constitution and give priority to debt repayment to the big national banks (!) over the funding of government social services. And so-called “Eurozone experts” will permanently take over and direct the Greek economy, while “private holders of Greek debt will take huge losses of 70%!” (BBC, February 21, 2012) The world capitalist dictatorship believes that it can begin to reduce the world population this way in Europe and worldwide through imposing sharply escalating impoverishment. The formula in Europe is very easy to understand: First the world capitalist dictatorship gets all countries in the Eurozone to agree that their fiscal deficit or public debt can not exceed their GDP by more than 3%! Second is to simultaneously have the governments of these countries implement supply-side economics, which as explained in detail above, is nothing but a scheme and conspiracy to reduce the tax base, as described above and herein, in order to create a Strategic Budget Deficit, a strategy of deliberate economic war against the masses.
This guarantees that those countries will quickly exceed the agreed upon 3%! The Greek public debt exceeded 160% of GDP due to the sycophantic Greek government following the U.S.-led world capitalist class directives to target their own people—innocent civilians! When that 3% is exceeded by the majority of the Eurozone countries nothing is said until the number is HUGE! Then those countries are told they must impose harsh austerity programs on their general population. When the austerity is not harsh enough they are told as a penalty that their country’s interest rate for borrowing has become ASTRONOMICAL and that their ENTIRE COUNTRY IS ABOUT TO GO BANKRUPT…to the big national banks (SHUDDER!) in order to scare the entirely defenseless, economically and politically and economically ignorant, and completely unorganized anti-Communist brainwashed masses, who are then led to defeat by the capitalist political parties and BY THE POLITICAL POLICE AGENT-OPERATED LABOR UNIONS and by the FAKE “LEFT!” This is precisely what happened to Greece on February 21, 2012 and is about to happen in the majority of the Eurozone member countries, with the exception of Germany and France which do not permit budget deficits to occur. But then these 2 countries are told that they must bail out the banks of these other countries with their tax moneys in order to help reduce those astronomically high interest rates in the other Eurozone countries in order to “to save the Euro” and “prevent national Bankruptcy—the NIGHTMARE SCENARIO”—WHICH IT IS NOT! This way ALL Eurozone countries are targeted with austerity programs! The IMF head Christine Lagarde agrees: “the ‘crisis’ is…escalating.” (BBC, December 15, 2011) Meaning the capitalists INTEND to maximally escalate their economic war! High unemployment is the rule in Europe because of the large number of public sector Workers many of whom have already been laid off and also because the economies of the U.S. and Europe are interlinked and is the direct result of political decision by U.S.-led world capitalism to do everything possible to reduce demand, the engine of the economy in all countries, and to deliberately cause all economies to contract in order to reduce world population by gradually exterminating the masses who are to be gradually starved and then apparently to be butchered wholesale with Biowarfare “Epidemics” and actual starvation through Biofuel Conspiracy! But THAT is supposedly NOT a nightmare scenario, because THAT is the capitalists’ OBJECTIVE! The U.S.-dictated European oil embargo against Iran under the demonstrably false pretext of a “nuclear weapons project/déjà vu Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)” is also calculated to help raise European oil prices and impose economic hardship on the masses in line with this “greater objective” of eventually exterminating a significant percentage of them! The USA decided to use the false pretext “Avoiding the Fiscal Cliff” to impose austerity and reduce and cut social programs after having already stolen all the money from the targeted Workers!
The capitalists deny this transparent dynamic which they have deliberately set in place with all sorts of crazily concocted “explanations” which fill the newspaper business pages and use all sorts of false and tangential reasons to divert attention of the Working Class away from cause and effect! The capitalist media turns “Saving the Euro” and “Avoiding the Nightmare Scenario” into the raison d’etre or reason for existence, and tries to use each and every twist and turn to get the European Workers emotionally positively involved in supporting their own impoverishment (!) while the political police agent-led labor unions and fake “left” groups lead them to defeat! The European population is falsely led to believe that “saving the Euro” and “Avoiding the Nightmare Scenario” of letting the big national banks go bankrupt falsely claiming that will improve their economies and their lives when just the precise opposite is the case! Going back to multiple currencies could easily solve this phony, artificially created “budget deficit problem,” because a country’s central bank can in such times print more money and/or theoretically impose a more progressive tax structure, such as taxing all income of the capitalists, etc. But the U.S. and Eurozone countries’ capitalist dictatorships are united in agreement that they must crash their own economies in order to “reduce the population demographic” by artificially imposed Social Darwinism through first imposing an escalating economic war of impoverishment. Despite orchestrated phony “poll results” to the contrary the Greek masses actually do support leaving the Euro, but only Alexis Tsipras, the leader of the so-called Coalition of the Radical (FAKE!) Left, refused the austerity policies of economic warfare refusing to “form a government,” but that is as far as he went. No further! The “Euro” allows the capitalist class to better think and act as a class and impose much harsher austerity on the Working Class and the masses, than could ever be imposed if each country had its own currency once again. Greece threatened to leave the Euro and the U.S./UK/EU correctly feared that the complete collapse of the Euro would force world capitalism to rethink how they want to reduce “the population demographic.” Collapse of their economic warfare schemes using the Euro might force the world capitalist dictatorship to resort to their Biological Warfare option somewhat earlier than they had planned! The U.S./European Working Class is generally regarded by the capitalist dictatorship as a redundant useless class enemy, whose very existence is now even denied. But the Greek population is so heavily brainwashed and deliberately misled that they voted to support retaining the Euro anyway! Even though that means the extermination of a large segment of the Greek population starting with the senior citizens who demonstrate asking the capitalist dictatorship pathetically: “Pretty please with sugar on top throw us some crumbs!” as they are led to the slaughter as pensions are slashed by 70%. (BBC, August 22, 2012) In Greece the capitalist dictatorship deceptively asked the ECB that austerity be slowed somewhat while vowing to implement the massive privatization of the economy in order to generate maximum unemployment, totally destroy the living standard and bring more people to an earlier death! The hand is truly quicker than the eye! Simultaneously Spain openly turned the screws even tighter than in Greece by enacting huge cuts in social programs with massive increases in REGRESSIVE taxes targeting the masses. (ABC Online, July 11, 2012) The EU awarded the 2012 Noble Peace Prize to ITSELF (!) for making war between European countries impossible, but allowing the European capitalist class instead to unite in order to exterminate a significant percentage of the European Working Class ENEMY!
When French warmongering demagogue Francois “Sciences Po” Hollande, rather than calling for a huge Federal Jobs Program across the EU, which was the change in fiscal policy, which ended the Great Depression (see below), called instead for the piddling monetarist measure of purchasing European Bonds that would allow EU countries to borrow below the astronomical interest rate imposed by German (and United States controlled) Banks, NAZI Angela Merkel ridiculed that as a “scheme” (Who’s talking?) and called for intensified AUSTERITY! (BBC, May 23, 2012) Then on September 6, 2012 ECB President Mario Draghi finally announced that the great savior ECB would finally buy government bonds of those Eurozone countries where the (deliberately created) debt is the greatest (New York Times, September 6, 2012). Buying and selling bonds (see below) is a change in monetary policy to change interest rates rather than changing fiscal policy (government spending and taxes), which is the only real way to end any Depression! If they were serious, which they are not! The similar but slightly more egregious tactic by the U.S. Federal Reserve announcement on September 13, 2012 (BBC) to purchase of $2.4 trillion in mortgage-backed securities at a rate of $40 billion a month—so-called “quantitative easing”—ostensibly is declared to “pump more FUNNY money (but NOT FEDERAL JOBS!) into the economy,” which is not the problem in any case. The real purpose of the debt purchase is actually designed to help the big banks by buying those worthless “toxic assets (!),” which HAVE NO VALUE (!) and which the banks had previously written off during the “Financial Crisis” by merely abolishing mark-to-market accounting (normal fair value of assets and liabilities) and substituting “mark-to-management” accounting, which simply enabled the banks to declare that those toxic assets were worth whatever the banks said they were worth and had resumed full value—an impossibility!—on the mere say-so of the banks! So the banks’ debt magically disappeared! HaHaHa!? Getting the U.S. Treasury to buy this garbage in a country where no one even knows or can explain what happened in the “Financial Crisis” was nevertheless sheer genius! Hats off to the mass murderers and capitalist crime!
Opposed by Germany, the ECB wanted to go slower with the European population austerity extermination program and get the masses used to jack-boot economic oppression as “the new normal” more gradually before tightening the screws for the kill. The capitalist class falsely believes overpopulation to be the world’s biggest problem not the Runaway Greenhouse Effect when the exact opposite is the actual case! We could ask Hurricane Sandy? Just as in the U.S. the European capitalists control and operate their own “political opposition” including the leadership of ALL labor unions and the leadership of ALL the organized, so-called “Communist” and “Socialist” political “opposition” parties and the “Occupy Movement,” which are all run by political police agent provocateurs just like in the U.S. In Europe these fakers pretend to “oppose” the economic war with phony “General Strikes,” with preset time limits of 24 to 48 hours, for example (!), which are almost the same as one-day protest marches and which only include PART of the capitalist economy! Example: Greece, September 26, 2012 and phony “strikes” organized by the capitalist dictatorship’s puppet “European Trade Union Confederation “in 23 countries of the EU on November 14, 2012! A General Strike is open-ended on time and includes ALL sectors of the economy! On September 26, 2012 in Madrid and other Spanish cities the newly “elected” Fascist Spanish government’s $39 billion in austerity cuts motivated huge protests, where the police fired lethal rubber bullets at the totally helpless protestors led to the economic and literal slaughter, because they have been rendered anti-Communist! Austerity is falsely presented as the “solution” to the deliberately crashed economy and artificially created “budget crisis” where all “bailout funds” are immediately turned over to the banks (!) in the face of an unemployment rate over 25%! (New York Times, September 26, 2012) A genuine Communist Party would call for MUTINY in ALL Eurozone/NATO armed forces, NOT provocation “clashes” with the police or the military designed to help build THEIR LOYALTY to the capitalist dictatorship! This is the essence of the supposed “European Crisis of the Euro.” The United States intends to do the same thing with its own government-operated and led, so-called “Occupy Wall Street” PROVOCATEURS and police-agent led Labor Unions and fake “left” leading all those opposed to cutbacks to defeat! Aren’t those capitalists CLEVER? We are all so STUPID and they are all so SMAAART! These are just some of the reasons why we need Socialism and why we need to build back to more than a million-strong Communist Party here in the United States, which existed in the 1930s.
Because of the above-described deliberate misleadership of the European Working Class some EU countries have moved very far to the right—but so far NEVER EVER to the left—in response to the transparently falsely based austerity measures despite the fact that the masses oppose the austerity! Duh! They got that right at least! In both Austria and Finland, for example there are now well-organized Neo-Nazi led political parties. And in Hungary the Jobbik Party, a minority, is a full fledged NAZI party, having official anti-Roma and anti-Semitic positions and possessing an SA-type paramilitary arm, while the majority Fidesz Party (also Fascist) has completely taken over with a new constitution, but was immediately threatened with sanctions by the European Commission. (New York Times, January 12, 2012) Finally, as Lenin noted: “the slogan for a United States of Europe is an erroneous one”…and “impossible” unless it is on the basis of Socialism. Otherwise “it must be based on force,” which is what the economic sanctions of the ECB represent! (“On the Slogan for a United States of Europe.” V.I. Lenin Sotsial-Demokrat No. 44, August 23, 1915) Lenin Collected Works Vol. 21) Back in the United States, the actual purpose of the $4.7 Trillion Bank Bailout was also just another CRIMINAL DIVERSION of TAX MONEY away from the tax base and Social Spending, normal government services and infrastructure! It is a fact that combined New Deal and WWII spending in a program of standard CAPITALIST Keynesian Deficit spending to 37% of the Gross Domestic Product primarily on Federal Jobs Programs is what lifted the U.S. economy and then the world economy out of the Great Depression and theoretically this could easily be done again, because there is more money in the United States than in all previous history! There is enough money in the United States for every single individual with no exaggeration to live like a millionaire right now! There is also obviously easily enough money to bring back the 3-cents postage stamp and the nickel subway fare, but the capitalists have stolen all the money—OUR MONEY! (See below!) The U.S. capitalist dictatorship has thus lost all legitimacy to rule and lost all right to sovereignty in the United States OR ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD!
The Capitalists are NOT having an “Economic Crisis!” That is
A Big Lie and a Pretext! Profits For Most Have NEVER Been Greater!
The capitalists themselves are NOT having an “economic crisis” which they can not deal with, or believe they can deal with. In fact the U.S. stock market hit a new “post-crisis” HIGH on February 21, 2012 and will go much higher! (New York Times, February 21, 2012) The capitalists do not think that deliberately crashing their economies in order to impose economic austerity on the Workers is a crisis they can not comfortably survive as a necessary price and important step in attaining their overall objective of a reduced population! In most cases their own salaries have NEVER been higher! The crisis imposed on the Working Class however as unemployment and mass poverty can potentially serve as key points to build the organization to overthrow capitalism, a genuine Communist Party! But the term “crisis” is chosen both to absolve capitalism of responsibility and try to make people believe their own economic hardship is due merely to “an economic crisis,” over which even the capitalists have little to no control and are also “suffering (not!),” but where they, the Workers and the Poor, must be patient! Unemployment is supposedly just part of the “crisis!” The Big Lie Media smoothes the way for the capitalist dictatorship in what is actually deliberate artificial sabotage of the U.S. and world economy as it directly affects the Working Class, People of Color and the Poor. The New York Times, for example, now routinely uses far right-wing terminology such as “big government” and “small government” and “middle class” rather than Working Class, omits actual factual explanations to hide the Fascist targeted economic warfare/population reduction/mass murder policies of U.S. capitalism. The visible effects are: unemployment, homelessness, poverty and reduction and elimination of normal government services and even infrastructure (!), thus creating an artificial, targeted Depression as part of the capitalist dictatorship’s economic warfare and later biological warfare, with the goal of extermination of a significant percentage of the U.S. and world population. The U.S. dictatorship has even had the gall to falsely blame the targeted Depression (NOT “Recession!”) on the masses themselves (blame the victim!) for "living too high off the hog (!),” when actually it was the mortgage-backed subprime security derivative business which created what was only a brief problem for world capitalism which peaked in 2008 and which was subsequently simply written off (see below), but now serves as pretext for escalated economic war worldwide!
There is more money in the United States today than in all previous history! Enough money for every single person to live like a millionaire. It is important to understand the significance of this fact in all its ramifications. The $4.7 trillion in the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) for Bank Bailouts was actually designed as yet another fantastic pretext, in addition to “Supply Side/Tax-Cut Economics, to deliberately divert actual tax money from social spending and was initially refused by the banks out of self interest and only accepted after the Obama Regime told the banks they only had to pay back 25%, or much less in practice to escape “the new financial regulation”—also a total fraud, when what is actually required would be a complete reinstitution of the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933! The BUSH/OBAMA BANK BAILOUTS were thus both 1.) unnecessary and 2.) unwanted by the banks and have had NO part whatever in any “bank recovery” or “jobless economic recovery,” the latter of which doesn’t exist and never occurred and can never occur! What about the “economic crisis?” What about the permanently worthless subprime mortgage backed derivatives? The U.S. capitalist dictatorship has total contempt for the intelligence of its own people, who they assume will just forget all about the capitalists’ worthless toxic assets, which as mentioned above, were simply WRITTEN OFF BY THE BANKS, hedge funds and private equity firms by ABOLISHING regular mark-to-market accounting (!) for those toxic assets and substituting “mark-to-management accounting (!),” which simply means that the “toxic assets” are worth whatever the banks say they are worth, namely their falsely stated full value (!), not the reality, where they are worth ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!
The capitalists have been directed to try to temporarily increase hiring by private industry, though not enough to reduce the massive unemployment expressly targeting the Working Class and the Poor, in order to bribe the masses to vote for Obama again—which they did—because the capitalists know they can impose what has become known as the Bush agenda more easily with the support of the Democratic constituencies. The media, a privatized arm of the U.S. misnamed, so-called “intelligence community” (see above) and the leadership of the fake “left,” e.g. International Action Center, Workers World Party and “Occupy Wall Street,” which are all run by the capitalist dictatorship itself, have concocted the Big Lie that the U.S., U.K. and E.U. governments “1.) are in “economic crisis” and 2.) are supposedly “TOO GREEDY” and “trying to balance the budget on the backs of the Workers (!).” This is part of the massive COVER-UP of the actual economic war of extermination being waged against the U.S. population and the masses worldwide through the “budget deficit/austerity” charade carried out to reduce world population! See above and below. And it has NOTHING WHATSOEVER to do with GREED (!) or any other personal foibles of the capitalists! These policies derive entirely from the economic-political-social system of capitalism in its End Stage! Once again, it is not a question of good guys and bad guys! Under capitalism they are ALL BAD GUYS! It is the capitalist system itself, the economic-political-social synamic of capitalism that is in charge! But the media and the fake “left” and labor union leadership have so far successfully been able to trivialize the matter simply to being one of fairness (!), “being fair” as in “make the rich pay their fair share,” “don’t be greedy!” This fake “left” propaganda (and anarchist propaganda) is also designed for “Occupy Wall Street” protesters who do not realize how they are being used! The capitalists also want to justify their economic war of extermination to their targeted victims (!), while simultaneously trying to elicit any possible measure of sympathy (!) from those actual targeted victims: the Working Class and the Poor! The Dictatorship tries to brainwash people into believing: “Oh, those capitalists are just having a CRISIS! Oh, woe is ME!” “We all just have to be so understanding as much as possible and all just pitch in to help THEM by ‘pitching in and sacrificing and doing whatever it takes!’” “Paying their fair share” would mean in reality Taxing ALL Income, but that is never ever mentioned and will never ever happen under capitalism! Instead we hear calls for a flat tax and “9-9-9,” where the rich pay even less than presently as the capitalists escalate economic war primarily against the Working Class, People of Color and the Poor!
The Rich Effectively Pay No Taxes and Believe that Stealing
OUR Surplus Value as THEIR Profits is their “Entitlement!”
Although the Bush and Obama Tax Cuts for the Rich were very effective in helping to create a large federal deficit, the money which was handed over to the millionaires and billionaires in that scheme is virtually NOTHING in comparison with the potential tax monies available if all income were taxed! In other words it is not the Top Tax Rate which is important, but the existence of the Social Security Taxable Wage Base, which was raised from $106,800 to $110,000 in a meaningless gesture on October 31, 2011! No Federal income taxes are paid on income over that amount! This so-called “taxable wage base” should be ENTIRELY ELIMINATED and ALL income should be taxed! But the U.S. population is helpless in the face of this theft because it has been rendered ignorant of it and is presently demoralized, divided, intimidated, largely infantalized and totally brainwashed. Paul Krugman is able to write columns on taxes deliberately omitting this most crucial fact and no one says a word. (New York Times, January 20, 2012) The masses have no knowledge whatever of what is being done to them! ZERO public awareness, ZERO organization and ANTI-COMMUNIST BRAINWASH is why the capitalist dictatorship is able to get away without taxing ALL INCOME but only the first $106,800 (now $110,000) and get away with it!!!!! “Tax the Rich” is thus a trap and the WRONG protest slogan entirely and misses the point TOTALLY, because that only means that the rich should pay more than the current 15% of that still insignificantly tiny taxable wage base of $110,000! “TAX ALL INCOME” is the correct slogan, but the capitalists will NEVER EVER DO THAT! They have other fish to fry! All capitalist politicians without exception and the media, a privatized arm of the misnamed U.S. “intelligence community,” (see above) remain dutifully totally silent about the fact that the rich pay essentially no taxes! In fact, this is the Number One Big Lie of Omission in the United States! The “47% who pay no taxes” mentioned by Romney (Washington Post, September 18, 2012) includes PRIMARILY the very poor and elderly who have already had ALL their money STOLEN from them by the capitalist dictatorship by the expropriation of the Surplus Value from the goods and services which they created in their lifetimes (!) from low-paying jobs and does not include the millionaires and billionaires who pay only 15% of the first $110,000.00 in federal income tax, the capital gains rate, which is virtually NO TAX, while 66% of USA corporations pay ZERO tax! The “debates” were all staged to increase the popularity of the almost universally hated and despised Obama who sold out virtually all his major constituencies. This was done by first making Obama the “underdog” by having Obama take a fall and deliberately lose the first “debate,” a debate in which virtually any U.S. Worker could have wiped the floor with Romney. Because of this fact Obama’s loss generated sympathy. The second debate was clearly “won” by Biden and in the third debate Romney took a fall and deliberately lost that debate allowing the final “debate” to be decisively won by Obama. The Working Class loses whoever “wins!” All issues up for discussion in the so-called “debates” were false issues.
The “Effective Top U.S. Federal Tax Rate” is now only 27.9%, while the Effective Tax Rate for the average taxpayer is 18.2%. (New York Times, August 28, 2009) But this so-called “TOP TAX RATE” is now paid ONLY on the first $110,000! And millionaires and billionaires do NOT even pay the top rate of 27.9%. They pay the capital gains tax rate of only 15%…on the first $110,000 (up from $106,800)! This is why Warren Buffet’s secretary, who is paid more than this, pays more in Federal income taxes than he does. This was on the TV Show “60 Minutes.” Twice! (See also: (New York Times, November 25, 2012) That might sound like a BIG DEAL, but it is really just a MINOR MATTER! “Intelligence” operative Nicholas Kristof’s July 7, 2011 New York Times column discusses this awful “loophole!” This whole issue and other “loopholes” in general are a ridiculous cover-up! The fact that NO TAX WHATSOEVER is paid on income above $110,000 is completely covered up! That is the real Big Deal! “Tax loopholes” are thus TOTALLY IRRELEVANT and MEANINGLESS in comparison! “Tax loopholes” are discussed with feigned fervor by capitalist politicians and media stooges out of a pretended concern for “fairness,” but are actually used to deliberately DIVERT ATTENTION away from any and all discussion of the key issue that under capitalism all income is not taxed and that the rich pay virtually no taxes whatsoever! This can not change under the constantly hardening capitalist U.S. dictatorship of millionaires and billionaires. Instead, so-called “Budget Deals,” are used to deceive and further impoverish the masses, terms devised to deceive the Working Class into thinking that they are getting something out of “the deal,” which is simply a means to constantly increase the economic war of extermination against the Working Class. This while Warren Buffet sends a check of $49,000 (!) “to help pay down the national debt” as a stunt to help deceive the masses, and ridiculously proposes: “A Minimum Tax for the Wealthy!” This is one of the many reasons that we need a Socialist Revolution here in the United States.
Instead the capitalist dictatorship and its media falsely blame increases in healthcare costs, Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security as THE CAUSE of “the budget deficit,” which the capitalist dictatorship deliberately and artificially created. The capitalist dictatorship calls for the “need” to eliminate pensions, government jobs and social programs and to get rid of unions, which set the pay scale for the entire Working Class! The truth is that the millionaires and billionaires have stolen all the money and drained us totally dry! But this could be reversed immediately by TAXING ALL INCOME and Federal Jobs Program! When the capitalist politicians talk about ”taxpayers” and “raising taxes” they do not EVER mean themselves or taxing themselves! By “taxpayers” they mean the Working Class and Poor primarily! The ”middle class,” or petit bourgeoisie, designates small business owners, doctors, lawyers and the direct servants of the capitalists like police, and they do also pay taxes. But the capitalists try never to mention the Working Class and substitute “middle class” whenever possible in order to falsely flatter the Workers so that the Working Class does not even understand its own class identity and its class destiny, namely to overthrow capitalism and organize a Socialist society, which can only be created by overthrowing capitalism at its center in the United States. Do not for one moment be led by the fake “left” to believe that “we just need to send the right message to Obama” or someone else and “they will do the right thing,” “Money for Jobs not for War,” “Healthcare not Warfare” “Please throw us some crumbs!” or “Let’s take it to the streets!” What are they actually “taking to the streets?” Both provocation and the false belief that capitalism can be reformed! This is what the fake “left” International Action Center, Workers World Party, Occupy Wall Street, etc. are “taking to the streets” and want people to falsely believe, and is based on the false belief in the Number One Big Lie of Capitalism, that capitalism can be “reformed.” But because of capitalism’s inherent One-Way Dynamic, which is explained above, capitalism cannot be reformed! Pacifism Perpetuates War by furthering the false illusion that capitalism, which is fundamentally based on war can be made peaceful. Pacifism says you can make capitalism NOT be capitalism: that capitalism can be made peaceful, which is not possible! This is the ludicrous deceptive basis of the entire “anti-war movement,” which opposes only the “war aspect” of capitalism. Both war and racism are integral parts of capitalism and cannot be abolished under capitalism! The capitalists have total contempt for the intelligence and organization of the Workers. Right now with good reason! Instead of the politically limited protests and provocations and arrests, which the leadership of Occupy Wall Street, for example, the regular police and the political police all working together deliberately organize in order to mislead and distract sincere and well-meaning demonstrators we must connect ALL issues and demonstrations with the need for a new system based on human need NOT private profit—SOCIALISM!
WHY does the U.S. capitalist dictatorship do everything in its power to DELIBERATELY SABOTAGE THEIR OWN ECONOMY AND FORCE THE ECONOMY TO CONTRACT in the U.S., Europe and worldwide? The reason is twofold: 1.) because of “Globalism” or “Globalization,” which simply means competition among the world’s capitalists to obtain the lowest salaried workers, and the main reason: 2.) in order to actually reduce the U.S. and world population through mass murder. To do this the capitalists must lower the standard of living and impoverish the masses and reduce their numbers in the United States! According to so-called “economic experts” on CNBC on October 9, 2009, decreasing the standard of living in the United States must be “a primary objective “of the Obama Regime in order to make the U.S. more competitive under Globalism.” This in the face of the greatest income disparity, the greatest income difference, in ALL HUMAN HISTORY! There is more money in the United States today than at any other time in history!
And there is enough money in the United States today for every single person to live like a millionaire with no exaggeration! The possession or acquisition of huge material wealth automatically means poverty, misery and exploitation of others! The economy is NOT going to recover and CAN NOT REALLY RECOVER, despite the negligible effect of the capitalist business cycle, unless the government institutes HUGE Federal Jobs Programs equivalent to 37% of the GDP, which is the only possible way to sufficiently stimulate DEMAND, the ENGINE of the ECONOMY. That is BASIC ECONOMICS 101! That is WHY the capitalists are NOT hiring federal workers! That is WHY the capitalist dictatorship is doing the precise opposite and is FIRING Federal, State and City Workers as fast as possible, precisely IN ORDER TO DECREASE DEMAND and to shrink the economy. There is no such thing as a “jobless recovery!” The Obama Regime carries all this out with MAXIMAL DENIAL, while boisterously and pretentiously talking falsely about “creating more jobs!” On August 11, 2011 Obama announced the “Postal Service” will lay off hundreds of thousands of workers, cut benefits and eliminate collective bargaining effectively eliminating their union and on August 18, 2011 the Postmaster General declared the “Postal Service” would be insolvent by 2012, and on February 6, 2013 declared that there would be no more Saturday delivery of mail by August 2013! Unions can and will do nothing because they have been taken over by political police to serve the capitalist dictatorship NOT the Workers! Today ALL unions in the United States are controlled by a network of political police agents/provocateurs organized by the capitalist dictatorship to lead the Workers to defeat. Under Socialism the Post Office will be restored as a government service as it was previously! The Socialist government will never ever be run as a business because capitalism will have been abolished! In 2012 the crooked billionaire NYC “mayor” and Adrian Benepe organized a so-called “think tank” (so-called “Trust for the Public Land?!”) to commercialize public parks NATIONWIDE and are about to destroy the NYC and United States Landmark, the Coney Island Boardwalk for private profit under totally false pretexts!
GreaZy mass murderers/cutthroats like Barack Obama and apologist slimeball liars such as Paul Krugman of the New York Times, were both awarded the Nobel Prize as a cover for their assigned tasks: 1.) To Obama as a cover for the unprecedented long-planned escalation in U.S. warmongering and regime change policies as implemented through the so-called “Arab Spring,” as exhaustively explained in the first part of this materialist analysis, and escalation in domestic policies of covert mass murder and 2.) To Krugman to give more weight to his non-stop deceptive apologia from every conceivable direction and outright cheerleading of the ever-hardening capitalist dictatorship and Obama. Don’t be deceived! The role of the fake “Left” and characters like Krugman is to play stupid (the Nobel Prize Winner!) and HIDE the DELIBERATE ECONOMIC SABOTAGE and the PURPOSE of that economic sabotage, while always attributing mostly good faith to the capitalist murderers. Krugman even tries to foster the false belief that the Federal Reserve (!) could “make a serious dent in unemployment” by enacting the correct monetary policies (manipulating interest rates through buying or selling of government debt and/or increasing or decreasing the money supply), but was prevented by dissension within the Federal Reserve and external political pressure from declared Fascists such as Rick Perry the openly Racist Elmer Gantry, an early presidential candidate. (New York Times, August 26, 2011). No, this is total rubbish and Krugman knows it. No matter what fraudulent nonsense Krugman has written on monetary policy it is FISCAL POLICY (government expenditure and taxation), which is determinative in any economic depression! ”The necessary fiscal policy is described in detail above briefly consists of Keynesian Deficit Spending on Huge Federal Jobs Programs to 37% of the GDP and TAXING ALL INCOME! (See above.) As a diversionary stunt, Krugman previously even ridiculously singled out parasitic “rentier capitalism,” as the supposed cause of the continuing economic depression. (!) And there is NO capitalist “economic crisis! (See above.)
While Professional Liar Krugman has occasionally briefly mentioned the New Deal and WPA work programs in order to try to cover himself slightly with legitimate capitalist economists, an oxymoron, or others who know the history of the New Deal and World War II spending, he never mentions what is actually necessary to lift the economy out of the current depression targeting primarily the Poor and People of Color. With phony obscurantist “explanations” he tries always to attribute good faith to the capitalist dictatorship and to foster the false belief that “the government is just “wrong,” “making mistakes,” “just not doing enough” and/or rarely “being mean-spirited. Why don’t they just listen to reason?” More concerned about his own credibility than that of the Regime’s, Professional Liar Krugman, rather than actually tell the truth, continued to falsely attribute GOOD FAITH to Obama and the Republicans when he pretended to hedge: “Maybe” Obama “basically shares the (Republican’s) diagnosis of what ails our economy and what should be done to fix it.” (New York Times, July 8, 2011) By October 5, 2011 (New York Times) Krugman had entered bizarre Supply Side fantasyland, totally abandoning any pretense to Keynesian analysis and past U.S. history in falsely citing “the currency issue” (!) and “the trade deficit” (!) falsely accused the PRC (Peoples’ Republic of China) of being partly “responsible…for the dire state of the world economy” through “currency manipulation.” (!). Krugman declared moreover that he supported the Fascist U.S. call for economic sanctions against the PRC, (!) because that would supposedly “help put people back to work.” (Oy!!) Krugman hypocritically declared that “the reality of unemployment,” which Krugman knows very well is part of the Economic War world which capitalism is waging against the masses to help reduce world population capitalist style, is worth the risk of a trade war with China or of China starting to sell dollars in favor of the Euro. (!) The truth is that the only way to put people back to work today is by abolishing capitalism completely through a Socialist Revolution in the United States—the center of world capitalism.
All the Wealth Now Possessed by the Millionaires and
Billionaires was STOLEN from The Working Class!
Note that any and all wealth produced with stolen money is also stolen money! That is the law! If someone robs a bank of $5,000.00 and invests that money and makes a $1 million profit but is later apprehended ALL the money is confiscated as stolen money!! The capitalists have effectively stolen all of their wealth from the Working Class by expropriating the Surplus Value from the goods and services the Working Class has produced! Surplus Value is defined as the new value which is created by Workers by what they produce in goods and services in excess of their own labor-cost (e.g. wages and benefits), a value which is “freely appropriated,” MEANING STOLEN (!), by the capitalists as gross PROFIT, and which is the basis of capital accumulation, meaning accumulation of their WEALTH! That is the basis of capitalism! The capitalists have simply STOLEN the profits of our labor! The capitalists and even many backward, demoralized and intimidated Workers under capitalism presently believe that the capitalists’ theft of their Surplus Value as Profits is the natural ”ENTITLEMENT” (!) of the capitalist millionaires and billionaires and that it is going to be “capitalism forever!” It is NOT the capitalists Entitlement to steal our labor value, the surplus value we create and WE SIMPLY CANNOT AFFORD “CAPITALISM FOREVER! The word “Entitlement” is instead used by the capitalists in the pejorative when speaking about Social Security, Medicare and the Veterans Administration.
Surplus value is the basis of all the money the capitalists have acquired and use for the formation of companies and corporations; banks; bank loans; the issuance of stock; derivatives, such as credit default swaps, collateralized debt obligations, subprime mortgage-backed securities, structured investment vehicles, “securitized life settlements (!),” operating the capitalists’ brainwash media, purchase and ownership of all private property, running countries, waging wars, setting up an educational system and media in order to brainwash their population—their prey, getting “elected” in their staged sham “elections,” etc. It is time to take back what is rightfully ours—ALL the wealth WE, the Working Class, NOT the capitalist class, have produced! As mentioned above there is enough money in the United States today for every single person to live like a millionaire with no exception and no exaggeration! The individual possession or acquisition of huge material wealth automatically means poverty, misery and exploitation of others! Taking back this wealth first requires taking STATE POWER and is one more reason to begin to organize a genuine Communist party with the objective of carrying out a Socialist Revolution in the United States! Patient, systematic, and persistent explanation is our primary weapon because without popular support we can not reverse the pervasive capitalist brainwash which prevents progress.
The basic question of every revolution is that of state power. The state is nothing more than a machine, the vehicle for suppressing one class by another. Unless this question is understood, there can be no intelligent participation in the Socialist Revolution, not to speak of guidance of the revolution. Only in a Socialist Revolution carried out in the center of world capitalism does the capitalist class permanently lose state power! Although the U.S. capitalist regime today is composed largely of Bonapartists, Fascists and Proto-Fascists we do not yet have Fascism in the United States. We have Rule By Decree, technically a form of Bonapartism in the form of a constantly hardening bureaucratic-military police state. What is most important to understand is that capitalism is a class dictatorship based on the fact that the capitalists own the means of production, the factories, the land, the banks, the military, the media (a privatized arm of the U.S. government’s so-called “intelligence community”), the educational system, where the state begins the brainwash of the youth who become the brainwashed adults and are instructed to pledge allegiance to the hardening capitalist dictatorship, which is falsely labeled “a democracy,” and to be ready to fanatically fight and die for the capitalists’ interests only—never their own interests! Finally, the capitalists own and operate the entire political process with their 2 parties which represent only capitalist interests. Even under a parliamentary system such as in France, Italy or England the capitalists run all of the parties just like in the USA including those that falsely claim to be “Communist” or “Socialist.” In addition, all of the U.S. presidential “elections” outcomes are rigged in advance, or if need be, during the election or even after the election as they were in 2000 and 2004—and have been ever since Watergate. The Working Class, middle class, middle-income earners and the Poor have no representation under capitalism. Even the capitalists have no future under capitalism! Survival of civilization and all life itself therefore depends on carrying out a Socialist Revolution here in the United States, which will then follow automatically worldwide because there will be no more center of world capitalism-imperialism.
The Communist Worldview
Today we live in a world of nation states. All nation states are dictatorships of one class over another class, either the capitalist class over the Working class or vice versa, because these are the only historically destined classes. Within the framework of the class dictatorship there can either be a hard or a soft dictatorship. See below. The so-called “middle class,” the petit bourgeoisie, is comprised of small business owners, doctors, lawyers and the direct servants of the capitalist dictatorship only. The capitalists try never to mention the Working Class and substitute “middle class” whenever possible in order to falsely flatter the Workers so that the Working Class does not even understand its own class identity and its class destiny, namely to overthrow capitalism and organize a Socialist society. There are presently both capitalist states and several bureaucratically degenerated or deformed Workers’ States. All Workers’ States are hard dictatorships by necessity. There is no such thing as a “Communist state” or a “Socialist state.” Those are terms of the capitalist dictatorship of millionaires and billionaires’ so-called “intelligence community” and should never ever be used because those terms are used to deliberately deceive, confuse and mislead the masses. Communism is a stateless society, a world system which has never ever been practiced and can never be practiced until capitalism is overthrown and abolished worldwide starting at the center of world capitalism-imperialism, the United States. Socialism is the first stage of Communism where the state structure still exists and is also a world system. The Soviet Union and other Workers’ States have all been hard Working Class dictatorships, which was justified only in order to prevent both internal and external counter-revolutionary attempts to restore the capitalist dictatorship, a threat which existed due to the fact that the Workers’ States have always existed in constant war with capitalism. See above: the 1988 Gorbachev Surrender. The threat of a hard Workers’ dictatorship will be permanently eliminated worldwide after the Socialist Revolution takes place in the United States, the center of world capitalism-imperialism. (See last paragraph of this analysis on the withering away of the state.) There is no “democracy” at the present time, not even for the capitalists themselves! The word “democracy” under capitalism is merely a codeword and a euphemism for capitalist dictatorship and enslavement!
Capitalism has a dynamic, a development sequence or dialectic of its own, which at this point is almost entirely ONE-WAY and entirely independent of the will of the capitalists and politicians. The capitalist politicians ride that dynamic to the top based on the extent that they express that dynamic and further that one-way dynamic, development sequence, or dialectic which leads to a constantly hardening capitalist dictatorship finally to Fascism, barbarism and the end of civilization. Now, due to the Runaway Greenhouse Effect, that means the end of all life on Earth! Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Sandy are the direct result of the Fossil Fuels Global Warming Runaway Greenhouse Effect. (See Materialist Analysis of Biofuels and the Runaway Greenhouse Effect on the Internet.) As mentioned above, within the framework of the class dictatorship there can either be a hard or a soft dictatorship. The hard dictatorship of capitalism includes Fascism and Rule by Decree, both of which have several historical variants. The United States political system is defined as Rule By Decree, technically a form of Bonapartism (as in Napolean Bonaparte) in the form of a constantly hardening bureaucratic-military police state. Rule by Decree is a step short of Fascism. Actual Fascism requires the full and organized support of the petit-bourgeoisie (the middle class) and the organization of armed gangs with specifically targeted scapegoats. The actions of U.S. leaders define them as Bonapartists, Fascists and Proto-Fascists, including the Fascists Bush and Obama, the Clintons, etc. because they are currently waging a war of extermination against their very own people, targeting primarily the Working Class, People of Color and the Poor, innocent civilians as described herein, a covert war of economic and biological warfare rather than an overt war of extermination as in NAZI GERMANY, while continually working to harden the U.S.-led world capitalist dictatorship, and while waging war against dozens of countries either militarily or economically or biologically and threatening virtually all non-imperialist countries on Earth or their puppet, with economic sanctions and worse, the destruction of all life on the planet. Capitalism is fundamentally based on war, mass murder, crime and subjugation to steal new resources and new markets in order to increase private profits. Today capitalism is in its Final Stage of Permanent War and State Terrorism. The “War on Terror” is the artificially orchestrated PRETEXT perpetuated through periodic multiple mass provocations carried out in order to generate the Mass Psychology of Crisis to be able to manipulate people’s consciousness against their own best interests in order to maintain capitalism in its Final Stage! Does this mean that Obama and all the capitalist politicians are genuinely bad people and have an especially bad character? Yes, precisely! Because only such people rise to the top over other people’s dead bodies and misery created by capitalism-imperialism. See below for the description of the withering away of the state under Socialism.
Function of the State During and After
The Socialist Revolution in the United States:
Once the Socialist Revolution has been consolidated, the capitalists/expropriators have been expropriated and class society has been abolished worldwide, the primary function of the state as a class dictatorship to suppress one class by another disappears and the state as such begins to wither away, its bureaucratic apparatus smashed and the functions of the new government apparatus taken over by the very same workers who carried out the Socialist Revolution, against whose transformation into bureaucrats preventative measures will be taken, namely: 1.) Direct Election, 2.) Recall at any time and 3.) Payment no higher than the union wage scale, which after the Socialist Revolution in the United States will be considerable! But before the process of the withering away of the state can be entirely completed the reality is that because the capitalists have created such a range of problems that immediately confront the very survival of the human race and all life on this Planet the Socialist States of the entire world will have to work together very closely to undo the damage which has been done by capitalism, for example, the Runaway Greenhouse Effect, which has now begun. Only a Socialist Revolution will permanently end the capitalist tyranny of the majority by an insignificant minority of millionaires and billionaires by expropriating all of the capitalists’ wealth, which was originally expropriated from the Working Class (!), and will actually make it possible for everyone in the United States to live like a millionaire with a completely secure future. This level of relative wealth will eventually be extended worldwide. There will be a permanent break from capitalist dictatorship to a genuine Worker’s Democracy, from the dictatorship of the oppressors to the democracy of the oppressed classes, from the state as a “special coercive force” for the suppression of the Working Class, the middle class and the Poor, by an insignificant minority of exploiters and oppressors, to the suppression of those oppressors by the general force of the majority, after which the state in the proper sense of the word begins to wither away as the functions of the state are taken over by the general population. In the final analysis all wars are won and lost on morale and every movement begins with the call. This analysis is part of that call. We have nothing to lose but our chains and a world to win.
William H. Depperman, Coordinator
United Front Against Racism
And Capitalism-Imperialism
New York, N.Y. 10003
Revised February 15, 2013
How about a discussion about what FOX said about Paganism? Where does a supposed major news organization get off using completely inaccurate information as if they knew what they were talking about? University of Missouri should be applauded for outreach to multiple cultural and religious needs of their students.
Little update on the Italian Electoral Campaign: remember the video of the Italian gay couple that posted a video on Youtube indicating they will marry in NYC? Well, a political party close to the Berlusconi coalition (Fratelli d'Italia, or Brothers of Italy) have posted a video on the Internet ending with that mythical sentence: I vote with my heart, not with my "posterior" (you understand the word used is much more violent). Just showing that the Italian right-wing is as subtle with the subject of gay marriage as the Westboro Baptist Church is.
Bob Beckel is just another soldier in the democrat's war on women.
Re: Pete Domenici.
I would normally say that his having a child by a colleague's young daughter while Domenici was married to someone else is none of our business. But the fact that "He then voted for the Defense of Marriage Act and voted for articles of impeachment against President Clinton" makes it a public issue.
Revelations that those who would police others' family life and sexual behavior can't keep their own within bounds have become so common that we need a general term for such people. I propose that anyone in that category be called "a Gingrich."
Definition: Gingrich (n): A politician who tries to pass laws enforcing monagamous, heterosexual chastity while personally flouting such principles.