The
New World Order: America Need Not Apply - Granny Jane
5 February 2010By Jane Stillwater
Author's note: I sort of consider myself to be a
worldly and politically aware person, yet here I am
just now realizing stuff about the deadly and
treacherous men who run our planet -- stuff that
people like Patrice Lumumba, Che Guevara and Evita
Peron were painfully aware of even back in the 1950s,
back when I was naively busy reading Nancy Drew and
selling Girl Scout cookies.
Better late than never?
The New World Order: America need not apply
I was talking with a friend recently regarding the
role of America as the world's only superpower.
"America is rapidly losing its place at the head of
the table," commented my friend, and I immediately
agreed -- but for a different reason than the one that
he had in mind.
"America as a country," I replied, "is not only being
forced to share its superpower status with China,
Russia and the European Union at this point in time
but, in the near future, things are going to get even
worse for the U.S. I'm thinking that even as soon as
ten or 20 years from now, America will be pretty much
known in the world as a second-rate has-been."
"Never happen!" exclaimed my friend. "We've got the
money, the people, the Constitutional government and
the natural resources -- not to mention the military
power -- to stay at the top of the heap for the rest
of this century and beyond."
"Ah, but the key word in your argument here is the
word 'we'. It strongly appears, however, that 'we' no
longer control America's bounty. 'THEY' do."
Adolph Hitler was an idiot. He chose to take over the
world by force -- whereas if he had just stayed cool
and played his cards right, he could have taken over
the world with his superb propaganda machine instead.
If he had done that instead of blitz-kreiging London
and Poland and France and wherever, I bet you dollars
to donuts that he would still be in power to this day.
But Hitler was a thug -- not a con-man.
And now the con-men are in charge. They have the exact
same agenda as Hitler -- corporatism -- but they are
obviously succeeding where Hitler failed. They now own
America lock, stock and barrel -- something that
Hitler could only dream of.
"Jane," you might say, "You gotta be kidding.
Americans own America." Do we?
Do "we" control the White House, Congress and the
Supreme Court? No. Do "we" control Wall Street? No. Do
"we" control our natural resources, our food supply,
our foreign policy, our treasury, our voting machines,
our banking system, our tariffs, our industry? No, no,
no, no, no, no, no and no. Do we even control our own
media? Absolutely no!
When George H. W. Bush announced his plans for a "New
World Order" back in 1984 (or whenever), he let the
cat out of the bag regarding what had apparently been
in the works for years. "New. World. Order." We all
shoulda just read his lips. But back then we all
thought his plan was for AMERICA to rule the world.
Yeah right. And it turns out from hindsight that
Bush's New World Order had no place for "We the
People" in his plan -- except as a source of cheap
labor.
You think I'm wrong about this? When you die and get
up to heaven, just ask John Kennedy if I'm wrong!
At this point in time, it seems pretty clear that a
handful of rich men at the top of the food chain run
the world with an iron hand. Not a blade of
(genetically engineered) grass grows anywhere on the
planet -- except perhaps in Outer Mongolia -- but that
the New World Order doesn't know about it, approve of
it and milk it for all that it's worth. Hitler would
have been so jealous!
"Okay, Jane, these are outrageous charges -- but
where's your proof? Prove that you're right!"
No. You (try to) prove that I'm wrong.
PS: Here's a video of me and baby Mena taking a trip
around South Berkeley, visiting Ashby Nails and the
Berkeley Public Library and lamenting the planet's
take-over by the One World Order: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4sPiybYgs0
PPS: I'm currently trying to struggle through all five
hours of that 2008 movie "Che" on Netflix, starring
Benitio Del Toro http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lT-VGqnQmo&fmt=18.
You might consider watching it too. Way back in the
1950s, the rich dudes who run America now practiced up
their "exploiting the masses" chops by exploiting
Cuba. And Iran. And the Congo. And what they did to
Cuba, Iran and the Congo back then appears to be
exactly what they are doing to America now -- creating
a peasant underclass whose only job is to provide the
above-mentioned rich dudes with cheap labor.
While watching this movie, which is set way back in
the day, all I could think of was that, 60 years
later, the rich dudes are now doing to Haiti and
Afghanistan and Iraq exactly what they did to Cuba
back in the days of Baptista, to Argentina after Evita
died and Chile after Allende was killed. You're next,
suckers!
But then on the other hand, perhaps America won't need
another Che Guevara in order to save the day here.
Perhaps the innate goodness that lies in the hearts of
you and me and all of us other average Americans will
finally wise up and tell the rich dudes where to go
all by ourselves.
I'm waiting....
****
Sterling Greenwood asks an important question: We've
got Bush guys running the economy, bailing out the big
banks and credit card companies. Bush generals are
prosecuting a widened war in Afghanistan. A Bush
puppet is being propped up in Mexico, the result of a
fraudulent presidential election. The health-care
reform debate in Congress remains behind closed doors
-- Bush style. And it seems the Bush Supreme Court is
still doings its thing, too. Dubya definitely left a
legacy. I wonder when Obama will take office?
****
From Joe Thompson regarding healthcare for retirees: I
just received a call from my cardiologist's office,
wanting to know if I wanted to schedule an appointment
for a checkup. My wife said we no longer have
insurance of any kind and asked how much the visit
would be for cash. Now get this, it will blow your
minds. EIGHT HUNDRED DOLLARS, for maybe fifteen
minutes. If I still had Medicare it would still cost
me over TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS. This would be just a
stethoscope and Hmm mm, visit. Keep taking the one
asprin a day and see me next year, thang. And cash, no
insurance paperwork for the doctor.
Medical costs are out of reach for most of us out
here. Last year we were paying over six thousand
dollars in insurance premiums, plus over three
thousand dollars in co-pays with the prescriptions on
top of all that. That left us with about ten thousand
dollars to live on. Almost half of our yearly income
in medical costs. Hell the nurse practitionar we use
now charges one hundred and ten dollars a visit.
No, we didn't get booted off Medicare, we cancelled
it. Jane, even with Medicare we could no longer afford
to go to a doctor or purchase prescriptions. The
charges are outrageous and continue to climb. It
leaves a person with no alternative but to sit around
waiting for the grim reaper. Were it not for our
reverse mortgage we would have already been out on the
streets with the rest of the homeless.
Something has to give for all of us. There's gonna be
a whole lot more retirees moving in with their
children if the present trend continues. We have to
choose between paying the bills or medical care and
believe me medical care is one of the largest rip-offs
in this country, bar none. The medical profession is
ripping off the people big time. To top it off we
can't turn on the TV without being bombarded with
health insurance ads or hospitals advertising how much
better they are than all the rest.
On top of all that the prescription drug companies are
bambarding us with the fear factors and how much
better their drugs are than anyone else's. It's the
largest legal racket in the world. It puts the Mafia
to shame.
One of my next door neighbors was just telling me what
they pay for health insurance every week out of her
husband's paycheck and this is with company insurance.
Five hundred dollars plus a month. They just barely
make the mortgage on their home and she buys her
groceries with nickels and pennies. Her son's piggy
bank is almost empty.
I say to hell with Haiti, Iraq and Afghanistan, we
need to be taking care of our own first. People are
dying by the thousands all over this country every day
for lack of affordable medical care. Children are
going to school on empty stomachs. And retirees are
caught between a rock and a hard place. They have to
choose between food and shelter or medical care.
Lets stop all the politcal stuff and get down to the
business of providing affordable healthcare for every
man, woman and child in this country.
****
From Robert: The Kidnapping of Haiti, By John Pilger:
The theft of Haiti has been swift and crude. On 22
January, the United States secured “formal approval”
from the United Nations to take over all air and sea
ports in Haiti, and to “secure” roads. No Haitian
signed the agreement, which has no basis in law. Power
rules in an American naval blockade and the arrival of
13,000 marines, special forces, spooks and
mercenaries, none with humanitarian relief training.
The airport in the capital, Port-au-Prince, is now an
American military base and relief flights have been
re-routed to the Dominican Republic. All flights
stopped for three hours for the arrival of Hillary
Clinton. Critically injured Haitians waited unaided as
800 American residents in Haiti were fed, watered and
evacuated. Six days passed before the US Air Force
dropped bottled water to people suffering thirst and
dehydration.
The first TV reports played a critical role, giving
the impression of widespread criminal mayhem. Matt
Frei, the BBC reporter dispatched from Washington,
seemed on the point of hyperventilation as he brayed
about the “violence” and need for “security”. In spite
of the demonstrable dignity of the earthquake victims,
and evidence of citizens’ groups toiling unaided to
rescue people, and even an American general’s
assessment that the violence in Haiti was considerably
less than before the earthquake, Frei claimed that
“looting is the only industry” and “the dignity of
Haiti’s past is long forgotten.” Thus, a history of
unerring US violence and exploitation in Haiti was
consigned to the victims. “There’s no doubt,” reported
Frei in the aftermath of America’s bloody invasion of
Iraq in 2003, “that the desire to bring good, to bring
American values to the rest of the world, and
especially now to the Middle East … is now
increasingly tied up with military power.”
In a sense, he was right. Never before in so-called
peacetime have human relations been as militarised by
rapacious power. Never before has an American
president subordinated his government to the military
establishment of his discredited predecessor, as
Barack Obama has done. In pursuing George W. Bush’s
policy of war and domination, Obama has sought from
Congress an unprecedented military budget in excess of
$700 billion. He has become, in effect, the spokesman
for a military coup.
For the people of Haiti the implications are clear, if
grotesque. With US troops in control of their country,
Obama has appointed George W. Bush to the “relief
effort”: a parody surely lifted from Graham Greene’s
The Comedians, set in Papa Doc’s Haiti. As president,
Bush’s relief effort following Hurricane Katrina in
2005 amounted to an ethnic cleansing of many of New
Orleans’ black population. In 2004, he ordered the
kidnapping of the democratically-elected prime
minister of Haiti, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and exiled
him in Africa. The popular Aristide had had the
temerity to legislate modest reforms, such as a
minimum wage for those who toil in Haiti’s sweatshops.
When I was last in Haiti, I watched very young girls
stooped in front of whirring, hissing, binding
machines at the Port-au-Prince Superior Baseball
Plant. Many had swollen eyes and lacerated arms. I
produced a camera and was thrown out. Haiti is where
America makes the equipment for its hallowed national
game, for next to nothing. Haiti is where Walt Disney
contractors make Mickey Mouse pajamas, for next to
nothing. The US controls Haiti’s sugar, bauxite and
sisal. Rice-growing was replaced by imported American
rice, driving people into the cities and towns and
jerry-built housing. Years after year, Haiti was
invaded by US marines, infamous for atrocities that
have been their specialty from the Philippines to
Afghanistan.
Bill Clinton is another comedian, having got himself
appointed the UN’s man in Haiti. Once fawned upon by
the BBC as “Mr. Nice Guy … bringing democracy back to
a sad and troubled land”, Clinton is Haiti’s most
notorious privateer, demanding de-regulation of the
economy for the benefit of the sweatshop barons.
Lately, he has been promoting a $55m deal to turn the
north of Haiti into an American-annexed “tourist
playground”.
Not for tourists is the US building its fifth biggest
embassy in Port-au-Prince. Oil was found in Haiti’s
waters decades ago and the US has kept it in reserve
until the Middle East begins to run dry. More
urgently, an occupied Haiti has a strategic importance
in Washington’s “rollback” plans for Latin America.
The goal is the overthrow of the popular democracies
in Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador, control of
Venezuela’s abundant oil reserves and sabotage of the
growing regional cooperation that has given millions
their first taste of an economic and social justice
long denied by US-sponsored regimes.
The first rollback success came last year with the
coup against President Jose Manuel Zelaya in Honduras
who also dared advocate a minimum wage and that the
rich pay tax. Obama’s secret support for the illegal
regime carries a clear warning to vulnerable
governments in central America. Last October, the
regime in Colombia, long bankrolled by Washington and
supported by death squads, handed the US seven
military bases to, according to US air force
documents, “combat anti-US governments in the region”.
Media propaganda has laid the ground for what may well
be Obama’s next war. On 14 December, researchers at
the University of West England published first
findings of a ten-year study of the BBC’s reporting of
Venezuela. Of 304 BBC reports, only three mentioned
any of the historic reforms of the Chavez government,
while the majority denigrated Chavez’s extraordinary
democratic record, at one point comparing him to
Hitler.
Such distortion and its attendant servitude to western
power are rife across the Anglo-American corporate
media. People who struggle for a better life, or for
life itself, from Venezuela to Honduras to Haiti,
deserve our support.
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