DRANT #263: CROCK OF DIALED TEARS

"... Americans...must at last commence the process of facing up both to the realities of their national history and to the realities that their history has bequeathed. In effect, Americans will either become active parts of the solution to what they and their country have wrought, or they will remain equally active parts of the problem."
"... There is no place for either spectators or bystanders at a Holocaust..."
"...There is no painless, privilege-preserving pill that can be taken to effect a quick fix of what ails the U.S., no petition, no manifesto, no song nor candle light vigil that will suffice.
The terms of change must and will be harsh, inevitably so, given the propensity of those who seek to prevent it to gauge their success by the rotting corpses of toddlers. This truth, no matter its inconvenience to those snugly situated within the comfort zone of political pretense, is all that defines the substance of meaningful struggle."
Ward Churchill: On The Justice of Roosting Chickens
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"My nickname for our current economic system is "The Tapeworm. " For decades I have listened to Americans from all walks of life insist that we must find solutions within the system -- i.e. within the socially acceptable boundaries laid down by the Tapeworm. Believing that our solutions for addressing global warming lie within the system defined by the Tapeworm goes hand in hand with obtaining our media from companies controlled by the Tapeworm, and having to choose from among leaders anointed by the Tapeworm, such as Al Gore. This belief is, in fact, the source of our hopelessness..."
"...Gore defines our problem as "what." He is silent on "who..."
By Catherine Austin Fitts , Solari Inc. -- http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/Archives2007/FittsGore.html
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As Cindy Sheehan pointed out yesterday after sending out the info about Gore and Occidental Petroleum--
"... We cannot with any shred of decency or any pretense to moral superiority try and pluck the speck out of our neighbor's eye when we look at the world through eyes that are blinded to our own abject failures and crimes..."
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Oh what Miracles the Weeny Left has celebrated these past few days. Such joy, such self-righteous vindication; but ya could hardly tell the peacocks from the ostriches.
!- The Great Wimp Gore wins a PEACE prize previously given to men like King, Mandela, Muhammad Yunus -- but also to such eminently deserving notables as Menachem Begin, Henry Kissinger, Shimon Peres, Yasser Arafat, F. Willem de Klerk, and Kofi Annan and the UN.
And the drums roll, and the clarions sound: Al for Prez ! All of a sudden, Gore is transformed into a vertebrate morally courageous peace-loving knight, unsullied by corporate sponsorship, untainted by conflicts of interest. Yeah, right. The Inconvenient Truth man never mentions ONE real perp by name. Never breathes a word about the global environmental decimation wrought by the U.S. War Machine. Why ? because he WORKS for them. And the Nobel Selection Committee does too.
2- The Lying Fascist Bastard Sanchez, under whose watchful gaze Abu Ghraib and Fallujah were perpetrated, not to mention D.U. and the wholesale slaughter of children-- gets his hair dyed a nice dark brown, and comes - not exactly clean ya unnerstand, but ummm, lightly rinsed, when he declaims that the Iraq War was and remains a misconceived mess. Welllll, this guy should know. He did it.
3- And finally, comes Frank Rich- of that famous bastion of morality and journalistic integrity- The New York Times, to declare that We, (the group formerly known as) The People quite possibly might be sidling toward Good Germanism. What a blast of bracing fresh air, bleats the flaccid progressive blogopoly. At last, someone to Pericles our asses into shape. A crock of dialed tears, I say, a sanctimonious self-semi-flagellation with a licorice stick. After all, how COULD we have known ?
For today, let's stick with - GORE.

From DRANT #209 January 18, 2006:
Inconvenient Truth:
"The entire discourse regarding the rape of our planet and its inhabitants has been framed as an "environmental" problem, benignly named "Global Warming" by the corporate pimp media and PR firms who work for The Rapists.
...Not that a tiny few of Them take more than all the rest of us combined, or that the real perps are meticulously maintained in their fortress corporate anonymity- as their global parasite corporations voraciously consume the earth. Its not the insatiable waging of global war, which murderously squanders incalculable mountains of energy-- no, its us commuters in our SUVS. All we gots ta do is grow some mighty fine Monsanto GMO corn and Rumpelstilskin it into ethanol, and lordy lord our troubles are OVER !
Please read this brilliant deconstruction of our polite tsk-tsk machine -- the world of Gore and our own pervasive refusal to take real responsibility for our own annihilation."
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"... The fundamental lie that Al Gore is telling comes from defining our problem as environmental -- in this case global warming, whereas our environmental problems -- as real and important as they are -- are but a symptom of the problem, not the problem. Gore defines our problem as "what." He is silent on "who..."
"... Understanding the fundamental imbalance of the corporate model -- where enterprises have the rights of personhood, but not the finite existence of people or the legal responsibilities and liabilities -- and the corporate model's economic dependence on subsidy that drives up debt, economic warfare and the destruction of all living things is a critical piece to developing actions to reverse environmental damage. Al Gore is a man that has made money for corporations his entire life. He is a member in good standing of the Tapeworm and his current lifestyle and this documentary are rich with the resources that corporations can provide...
"... There is also no personal accountability. Al Gore has not "come clean." There is no discussion of Gore's role in the Clinton Administration in facilitating worldwide economic centralization and warfare, and with it genocide and environmental destruction..."
THE SOURCE OF HOPELESSNESS: A REVIEW OF 'AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH'
Solari, Inc., January 1, 2007
http://www.precaution.org/lib/07/prn_the_tapeworm.070112.htm ( http://www.rachel.org/bulletin/index.cfm?St=1 The Environmental Research Foundation)
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Look you guys, if you can't see the devious and brilliant Bernaysian campaign that has been waged by The Tapeworm, Its Corporate Proprietors, and the media they own and control, to get Gore drafted and elected in 2008- then I got a dog and a stick for ya, and maybe an accordion.
This ranks as one of the slickest and most carefully executed con jobs in the long history of modern politics.
January 6, 2001-- there was Al, on the podium before the whole of the U.S. Congress -- and all he had to do was vote yes, one time, and the whole disgraceful rape of the electoral process might have come to a grinding halt.
But no- not one of them, not even Gore- would be the ONE Senator needed to stand up and shut the larceny down.
If there was one defining moment when our One Party system fused into the transparent political paramecium we endure today, it wasn't when the Supreme Court stopped the vote count- for after all- trained dogs bark on cue-- it was when Al Gore and every single one of the other Democratic Senators went limp, and handed over The Presidency. Kaiser Wilhelm himself could not have done better.
Now why do you suppose they would do that ? The pimp promoter Thomas Friedman praised it in - you guessed it- The NY Times- as a grand act of holding together this great Union of ours.
But seen more clearly through the prism of the Democrats total complicity and co-dependence for the past 7 years-
this was clearly just business as usual on a sunny day in the oligopoly.
Gore is one of Them. Born into it, he is a typically guilt-ridden son of a thieving racist union bashing Pop, trying to work off some of that reallllly stinko Karma.
The kind of witness who will tell us the truth about the rape of our environment, but avoid naming the rapists.
They are selling this guy as the Great White Honest Hope, the man to save the planet and get us out of a war.
Well friends, if you believed the tales of Snowsama and the Nineteen Dwarves, and Saddam and the Magical WMD, and Greenspan and the Endless Boom, then you'll probably swallow this one too.
I can't really blame you if the prospect of President Hillary makes you vomit, but please, let's not build a Taj Mahal out of a one night stand.
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small note: I have been first-time Grandpa-ing, so these may be slightly more sporadic than usual. As you may have noticed though, it hasn't exactly mellowed me down.