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In the NewDaily, The front page attractor heading is :
Australia's fail? It's not NZ and we lack an Obama


The tittle of the article is:

Dennis Atkins: From COVID to Trump, 2020 is the year of ‘what if’ questions

In his article, Dennis Atkins compares the Covid-19 reactions from the sharp clarity of New Zealand’s Arden and the secrecy of the ScoMo government in Australia (where most of the Covid-19 hard work was done by the States, especially Victoria) — but for a strange gratuitous mystery, Atkins introduces also Obama’s book in the mix. Yes, I suppose one of the "what if" question, would be had Obama been an Arden or a Scomo equivalent — unless he would have muffed it like a Trump? Not likely... Obama is a smooth talker and a great writer of sanitation — and Dennis Atkins majestically falls for the clean version of “what was not".

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Meanwhile, Obama’s book is a majestic tale of an historic journey in American politics – the rise of a mixed-race man of African-American heritage aiming for the most powerful job in the world, president of the United States.

There is one note that Obama strikes which tells us just how much the world has changed since he won in late 2008 – the smooth, good-natured and magnanimous handover of power from Republican George W. Bush to Barack Obama from the moment they met just days after polling day.

“(For a number of possible reasons) President Bush would end up doing all he could to make the 11 weeks between my election and his departure go smoothly,” writes Obama.

“Every office in the White House provided my team with detailed ‘how to’ manuals. His staffers made themselves available to meet with their successors, answer questions and even be shadowed as they carried out their duties.”

The generous handover extended to the Obama family, with the Bush children spending time with the daughters of the new president and showing them how to have fun in this strangest of new homes.

It’s such a whiplash contrast with what’s occurring in Washington as sulking, belligerent sore loser Donald Trump is setting new lows in presidential behaviour. This is surely a massive “what if” for historians to ponder and analyse.


Read more:
https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/national/2020/12/05/dennis-atkins-ardern...

The article is a “pass the mustard while I pass you the salt” style convivial dinner party by candlelight… The fact is — or say, the possibility would be (for those who still have doubt in their trousers) — that, apart from a few domestic violinic moments such as Obamacare, the momentum of foreign policy events upon which the US economy and the Pentagon ideals rest, would go unchanged. Bush Dubya KNEW  this... Happy to hand over the keys of the Roadmobile.

The “influencers” of the Deep State were still going to be able to operate — and go to war, somewhere. The US policies in the Middle East were going to be enacted, whether the US government was led by Obama or Belling-Noddy… Meanwhile the US banks and the investment edge funds had played a naughty game of subprime which came to roost, first under Bushit, then was handed over to Obama. Obama obliged and carried on printing US dollars while the rest of the planet was under strict instructions to tighten the belt to balance their budgets. Beyond being hit by the subprime debacle, the others countries were hit further by this strange differential —  somethingtion-restriction-tion  — in which no US banker went to prison, but some selective Panama papers journalism explained to us that Putin was piling the cash, by using a violinist friend. 

So, Obama continued and expanded on the Bushit war momentum, started way back under Johnson, with his own confident style. Kennedy had been a peace-seeking fly in the ointment, but he got taken care of…  Unfortunately, after Obamabambi, came El Trumpo who could see the con trick and decided for his own stupid reasons to clean up the deep swamp. Trump saw that people were being killed somewhere on the planet so that the US economic engine could spin. He had his own ideas about spinning the economy which were to bring back jobs that had migrated to China…. Trump did not have the intellectualism of Obama who could smoothly rationalise any shit-storm his administration created. Trump had to bullshit his way through without telling lies.

“We" had been in "favor” (note the US spelling) of spreading de-mo-cra-cy to countries that did not have any, even if this meant to cajole to the Saudis who are the least democratic fiefdom in the world, for Sunni support. Hypocrisy was the sauce to achieve the destruction of Libya, Yemen and Syria, just to name a few theaters (US spelling). 

Please don’t tell me that Obambababy did not know that Sarkozy had been involved in dirty moneys from Libya. Like the "Saddam has weapons of mass destruction" fantasy, the US “intelligence” agencies would have known that Gaddafi had paid Sarkozy a lot of cash for his re-election funds… Actually, though I have no proof, I would suggest that the US intel agencies might have had something to do with this. Why, you may ask? Place your conspiracy-thinking cap on. See, Sarkozy was a “great friend” of the USA. He was their “boy”. He had spend time in the USA to be “educated” like a willing Uyghur would be brainwashed in China. As president, Sarkozy had made France rejoin NATO, for example. On the other side, there was Hollande — a socialist, HORROR!!!!!! 

So “Sarko" is in the docks at the moment. The French have discovered (part of) the money trail, which — who knows (I don’t) may have been coming from the USA for Gaddafi to hand over.

So what else to do, in order to erase the trail, but go and bomb Libya under whatever pretext of “Gaddafi is killing his own people” (who were actually terrorists such as Al Qaeda and the precursors of Daesh)… As well Gaddafi had modernised Libya by using “slave labor” — African slaves who were happy to send the cash earned working for Gaddafi, to their own families in countries which were impoverished mostly under the mismanagement of despots installed by the USA. 


Independence isn’t part of “de-mo-cra-cy”. 

So Omabolama indulged the Pentagon… Libya had gone the route of being financially and politically independent of the Empire — to the extend Gaddafi wanted to sell oil in whatever currency (sacrilegious), but especially in a new Pan-African “dollar”, detached from the US dollar… (Horror!). Libya was free of debts to the Western world (bloody hell!). Something had to be done. BOMB BABY BOMB! said La Madam Clinton… Nearly 10 years later, Libya is a poor country again… Phew.

Meanwhile, Russia had seen the light. And when the next con-trick was being manufactured by the US to unseat Assad, by the USA financing terrorists (called "moderate rebels" to make them palatable to our Western media) the Ruskies sent in their troops, mostly in the form of air cover, the accuracy of which destroyed at least 75 per cent of Daesh. The rest of Daesh is unfortunately cooped up in Idlib, where the Daesh terrorists use the population as a human shield, while other Daesh terrorists are under protection in US “refugee” camps. 

From time to time, the Jews send some planes to go and bomb “near” Damascus… Equipped with Russians S300 and other defensive devices, the Syrian army so far has managed to prevent “catastrophic” results. 

So what of the future in this region? Presently the US steals the Syrian oil in the east to give cash to the Kurds who are terrorists in regard to Turkey — and were allies in regard to fighting Saddam. Still working on the creation of Kurdistan, the US has two main obstacles: the Turks under Erdogan (which the US tried to remove from power a few years ago, with a revolt of the Turkish intellectuals and some Turkish army brass) AND of course the Syrians who would loose a mega part of their country… But time is a funny beast. Someone “could die”… Accidents can be organised. War is a flux...

The jews have just killed a nuke scientist in Iran… They did not admit to it, but the process has all the Jewish hallmark on it. And of course, this crap, possibly started before Obombababoom, was developed and accelerated under him. He got Bin Laden, didn't he?

So I believe that all the crap performed here and there by the US has been done to protect us… Not nice crap, but we reap the benefits…

Trump tried to put a stop to all this nonsense by switching to “economic sanctions” enemas, thus “his" military war experts moved to Joe Biden’s team. Can we expect more bombing somewhere? OF COURSE. Can we expect some monumental FAKE acceptable reasoning for this? OF COURSE. The Pentagon has been working on darkening the skies in the said countries of the world for years. SOMETHING NOT NICE over-there will carry on protecting our little bourgeois way of life…

Trump had to be thrown out. He was mucking up the grand plan.

GL.
Old school drummer...

biden's dream team is the stuff of nightmares...

 

by April Holcombe, at Red flag...

 

Joe Biden is getting ready to rule. Forty agency review teams have been appointed to “ensure a smooth transfer of power ... to hit the ground running” on 20 January. The 500 appointees confirm what progressives should already know: Biden will be a president for the corporations, the banks and the generals.

Where to begin with Biden’s dream team to “restore the soul of America”? Scrolling through the list feels like looking up at billboards in Times Square: Amazon, Uber, Lyft, Disney, PepsiCo, Airbnb and Dropbox are all bringing their soul restoration know-how. Visa credit cards and investment bank JPMorgan Chase are back to advise Joe for old time’s sake. The new squad even includes Republicans, such as Cindy McCain, chair of Hensley & Co. and widow of John “Bomb Iran” McCain, and billionaire Meg Whitman, touted as a potential commerce secretary. 

Leading the transition for the Department of Defense is Kathleen Hicks from the Center for Strategic and International Studies. These people discuss mass murder over breakfast. In September 2020, the think tank composed four “plausible, differentiated scenarios” for the world order over the next decade. In its ideal scenario, in which a US vaccine reboots American power, the following would happen:

“China declines the US vaccine, touting its own version, and offering it to countries in its Belt and Road Initiative. Unfortunately, China’s vaccine carries a range of serious health complications ... The Department of Defense seizes on emerging technologies to increase lethality, reduce costs, and reset the balance of forces in key theatres. NATO alliance commitments strengthen along with defense spending.”

Biden has also confirmed several members of his permanent senior staff. Congressman Cedric Richmond will serve as senior adviser and director of public engagement. The only Democratic representative in Louisiana, Richmond has taken US$350,000 in donations from fossil fuel titans such as Chevron and Exxon. His congressional district includes a stretch along the Mississippi river known as “Cancer Alley” for the toxic by-products of its chemical plants.

A 2020 study by researchers at Tulane University found that air pollution declined dramatically in Louisiana in 2000-15, before increasing “throughout much of the south”. It was in 2015 that Richmond voted to expand crude oil refining in the state. Residents are much more likely to die from cancer or COVID-19 as a result. A plastics plant opening in 2022 will triple the concentration of carcinogens breathed in by the poor and Black residents of Louisiana. “He’s never liaised with any environmental justice groups”, campaigner Darryl Malek-Wiley told Gizmodo, a science and technology news site. “He might have liaised with business, but he hasn’t talked with us.”

The president-elect seems to be passionate about giving people cancer. His transition team for the Environmental Protection Agency includes Michael McCabe, who left Biden years before to work in public relations for DuPont chemical company. DuPont had just been forced to settle a case for dumping the carcinogenic substance C8 and poisoning the drinking water of an entire city. Expressing outrage at his appointment, Erin Brockovich—whose legal battle for victims of the chemical industry was depicted in the 2000 film—writes in the Guardian: “McCabe’s work inevitably contributed to staving off costly clean-up and additional regulation headaches for the company”.

This is the smooth transfer of power we are all meant to sigh in relief over. It’s smooth, all right. “Meet the new boss, same as the old boss”, Brockovich writes.

Biden hasn’t forgotten the window dressing. Friendly-sounding organisations such as the Healing Justice Project, Earthjustice and the Solidarity Center are token gestures to progressives and will have zero influence. These groups are useful idiots at best, or just self-serving opportunists grateful to be close to power.

There is an almost complete overlap between those who advised Barack Obama and now Biden. Of his seven confirmed senior staff—those who will work closely with the president-elect throughout his term—only one did not work in Obama’s White House. This fact has been met with liberal establishment approval. But let’s not forget that Obama promised to end the wars, close Guantánamo Bay prison and provide decent health care for all. Instead, his administration sent far more troops to Afghanistan, kept the torture camps open and passed an Affordable Care Act that left the private healthcare companies in control. He made full use of his executive powers to kill and spy on US citizens, locked up whistleblower Chelsea Manning, and massively expanded drone warfare.

The first Black president stared down the Black Lives Matter movement, allowing police to be armed with military hardware and admonishing activists for “yelling” at politicians. When the big banks crashed the world economy, the Democrats—who controlled the White House and both houses of Congress—bailed them out with trillions of dollars. When the auto industry asked for the same, they again obliged on the condition that Big Auto sack hundreds of thousands of workers. Wages for auto workers plummeted by 25 percent.

This is the type of administration the Biden presidency hopes to restore. The appointment of many more women and people of colour to Biden’s transition team and White House staff is a cynical attempt to resuscitate illusions in a progressive American capitalism. “A diverse Cabinet will provide Biden with better advice and encourage more Americans to feel invested in his presidency”, writes Lindsay Chervinsky in the Washington Post. Eight years of Obama’s wars and corporate rule—swept under the rug by adoring liberals—is what it looks like when the oppressed feel “invested” in the leader of the US empire.

Progressives and leftists who campaigned for Biden are unhappy with some of his picks. They believed that by backing his campaign wholeheartedly, they would receive something from the president-elect in return. Reacting to a Department of Defense team packed with weapons manufacturers, anti-war activist Ramón Mejía asked in the monthly magazine In These Times: “Has Biden already forgotten who put him in the position he’s in?” Biden’s memory issues aside, the answer is no. The president-elect is surrounding himself with exactly the sort of people who put him in office: billionaires, state functionaries and military officials who run the capitalist system day-to-day between elections.

Karl Marx and Frederick Engels in the Communist Manifesto described modern executive government as little more than “a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie”. It does not exist to realise the democratic will, nor protect the weak from the powerful. It is the means by which the powerful coordinate their minority rule over society. The Biden presidency is already shaping as a remarkably straightforward example of this. Just about every interest group with a stake in the status quo is represented on the committee.

 

 

Read more:

https://redflag.org.au/index.php/node/7466

 

 

 

lazarus knows...


The former Australian prime minister John Howard has said Donald Trump penned a lengthy “political suicide note” with his “terrible” handling of the coronavirus pandemic, without which the Republican would have prevailed against Joe Biden.

Howard made the remarks on Wednesday night during a question and answer session at the Menzies Research Centre at the conclusion of a lecture delivered by the former National party leader John Anderson.

 

“If Donald Trump had handled the pandemic half-decently he would have won the election,” Howard said.

“He was headed towards a victory until the pandemic hit. It was his mishandling of that because, in the end, the public, when threatened, want their leaders to defend them against the threat.”

Howard said competent public health responses had increased the popularity of political leaders across Australia.

“That’s why Scott Morrison has very high approvals, Gladys Berejiklian has, our friend [Mark McGowan] in Western Australia has, and even our friend in Victoria [Daniel Andrews] is surviving – he’s more than surviving, politically, he is quite perpendicular at the present time,” the former Liberal leader said. “Now part of that is a perception that difficult as it all was, and so forth, he got the show through.”

 

 

Read more:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/dec/17/trump-penned-political-suicide-note-at-every-covid-press-conference-former-australian-pm-says

 

Lazarus and his co-conspirators, Blair and Bush, should be in prison...

 

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See also: http://yourdemocracy.net.au/drupal/node/37019