Donald Trump is by far the most
controversial president the US has ever offered the world. But behind the
headline churning, attention grabbing façade, is there any difference between
him and the 44 US Presidents that have come before?
The US President’s job is to run the
American system. It is variously called ‘Capitalism’, ‘Democracy’, ‘Free market
enterprises’ (the label used dependent upon the crowd being addressed and the
theme of the talk), and others. Its sole aim is the generation of maximum
monetary profits for those in the driver seat, no matter the cost to the
environment or to humanity.
His employers are not the American people
but rather a largely unknown elite under which the giant banks and corporates,
the political parties, quasi-public institutions such as the Chambers of
Commerce, of Industry, many so-called NGOs, think-tanks, bodies such as the
powerful American Legislative Exchange Council[i],
the rating agencies and so on, reside.
A review of the bottom line of recent
history reveals there is no difference between Democrat and Republican. The
same super elite and its upper tier Corporacy regulates both. Trump is doing
his job well, just as 44 presidents did before him.
WAR
The ‘democrat’ drug and sex addict JFK, who
nearly wiped out the world playing cowboys over Cuba,[ii]
allowed Lumumba to be murdered in 1961 and the Congo has been in flames since.
The Congo has valuable minerals and metals the competing Corporates and end
user phone sellers[iii] need
(because the consuming public needs its phones and computers more than the Congolese
need life, it seems). The same CIA that served JFK promoted Obama’s display of
ethics through his assassination list.[iv]
Republican Eisenhower took over from the
French in Vietnam. JFK, a Democrat faked the war’s start, more Democrats pushed
it to new heights and only when business started saying ‘too much, too many
Westerners are annoyed’ did a Republican surrender militarily, but win
financially.
Afghanistan’s latest tale of slaughter was
a similar story. Started by a Democrat senator[v]
using fiddled funds the Corporates (Raytheon supplied Stingers to the Taliban[vi])
have made incalculable profits. Although the war was one of Obama’s
pre-election promises to stop (in his first month, circa 2007), it is still
going - the money is simply too good.
The cream on the bottom line profits of
thousands of US companies comes from killing. Investigative author Nick Turse takes
his readers through a list that makes up most of the companies benefitting,
supporting and enabling the military in his book ‘The Complex’.
Talk is that the Iraq shake down and
Afghanistan mineral[vii],
opium[viii]
and strategic positioning control exercise cost the US taxpayer a Trillion
dollars. It is a sum that boggles the mind (the height of a stack of 1,000,000,000,000
one dollar bills measures 67,866 miles).[ix]
Because it so boggles folk tend to forget in non-war time that it is private
companies, those that make everything from the infantryman’s undies to the mega
bombs, that see war as profit. In this sense it is wrong to see Iraq as an oil
stealing exercise. It was and is a total military-industrial-commercial
project.
It is common knowledge Cheney made
many-many millions, but where’d the rest of the say USD trillion at 40% profit
go?
The US is
committed to staying in the Middle East because China has friendly intentions
to link Asia with a Middle (Near) East highway-fibre-pipeline-railway[x]
through the various Stans (including the mineral and drug rich colony of Afghanistan)
with Europe and Russia.[xi]
The trouble is: a) it will not have any high profit military component, b)
Saudi Arabia and other really backward America allies will be excluded and c)
and the US and its USD will not be at the money earning centre.
The current (manufactured) problems with
Iran can be traced back to the overthrow of the democratically elected Prime
Minister Mosaddegh by Eisenhower in 1953.[xii]
Mosaddegh wanted to use some of the oil profits to build the people. The same
happened all over South America and even tiny Zimbabwe felt the whip with
enforced structural adjustment programmes in the mid-1990s.[xiii]
BANKS
While the transformation of the banks into
entities that are too big to fall (and more important than the earth itself)
began with the conception of the Federal Reserve under the racist Teddy
Roosevelt some 100 years ago, they got their first modern big boost with Nixon.
He bullied the world into accepting the dollar as the reserve currency,
replacing gold. Reagan added with his partial de-regulation of business rules and
Democrat Clinton, in the mid-90s, cut the last of the red tape that kept
banking separate from investment/gambling, allowing the banks to do to the
public whatever they wanted.
What they wanted the drunk[xiv]
Bush agreed to with Enron. The master-minds of the massive bankruptcy (and the public
guardians, the so-called rating agencies and so-called Big 5 auditors) got off
near enough scot-free while thousands lost their jobs and more thousands lost
their pensions. And the Bail-in following the ‘Housing’ debacle saw the same
result. In fact, come Obama’s time those banking economic criminals paid
themselves huge bonuses. One year after Goldman Sachs broke records with a
$16.7bn bonus pot,[xv]
and a few months later JP Morgan did even better.
DEBT
Ultimatley, America’s global dominance
forces countries and regions to do business with it, and America doesn’t pay
cash. On January 20, 2009, when Obama was sworn in, their debt was $10.626
trillion. On January 20, 2017, it was $19.947 trillion.’[xvi]
Ignoring the additional cost of Climate Change to their wars, they owe foreign
countries over USD 6 Trillion (the rest of the total debt is intra-US).[xvii] That debt has been building up over the last
30 years or so, since Jimmy Carter. It was in September 1977 that the New York
Times ran the story ‘Sounding Alarms On Foreign Debt’.
To keep the country and its elitist
structures afloat amidst that debt the US has adopted the policy of
‘quantitative easing’. It is nothing more than the ad-hoc printing of money[xviii]
by central banks to support the liquidity crisis nearly all major banks are in.
Once again the chief Bully Boy America leads
the way. The public are required to believe the money printed will get to them
in the form of loans or by way of new jobs created by bigger enterprises
borrowing and building factories, but reality is if it goes anywhere near the
public it is into the stock markets – the ‘work’ place of the already wealthy.
And more important and dangerous, into the ‘hedge funds’, ‘investment’ houses
and ‘investment’ banks – ie gamblers, made legal and underwritten by successive
presidents. All that is needed is for one unexpected event to happen and the
whole nasty edifice will collapse.
To put that hotdog in perspective, as at
the 3rd quarter of 2016 global GDP was hovering around $78 trillion.
The 25 major US banks had assets of $14.5 trillion. That piddly amount they’ve
used as security to ‘issue’ ‘money-chips’ to gamble on futures/options/short
selling and with ‘derivatives with a paper value of $243 trillion.’[xix]
Imagine every American (say 300 million)
asks the roulette table manager to lend them $800,000 to bet on a turn of the
wheel. If it was only America involved that’s fine, but the whole tape worm is enmeshed
with banks in other countries. When it crashes, the ordinary depositors and
cheque issuing public will be hung out to dry first.[xx]
Not only are the general public from
Middle Middle Class down too small to save, they work harder when bankrupt.
Banks are not there for the good of the people,
and the presidents support them. Trump declared he’d drain the swamp. Like Obama
he lied and he has engaged some of Wall Street’s best men to work on behalf of
his administration. Hillary Clinton has to be over the moon.
Banks are simply debt creating machines. U.S.
households owe trillions[xxi]
and most of the debt is expense relating to equipping people with education,
keeping them healthy, locating themselves in a convenient position and
getting to work for the production of
the mega profits[xxii]
that are made by the Corporates and Banks that choose the presidents.
The destructive IMF which has served Greed
Capitalism so well by plunging so many less equipped nations in to unpayable
debt[xxiii]
as Corporate America and Europe stripped away finite assets[xxiv]
is a Roosevelt product. The NSA admirably advanced by Obama into the world of
high tech covert spy on all operations is the shoe salesman Truman’s gift to
the world[xxv].
DOLLAR
The dollar is all important. As the world’s
Reserve Currency is priced in USD, all conversions ‘go through’ New York banks
who therefore get a cut of every transaction. If the US loses its Reserve
Currency positioning the American economy will collapse because other than having
the world’s biggest and most brutal ever military machine at its side, it has
no backing.
That’s why Gaddafi was taken out and Libya
looted under Ms Clinton as Secretary of State – he proposed a single African
currency and pipeline to re-irrigate vast dry lands (and he was running the
world’s foremost social-welfare state). That is why Obama had no option but to
square up to Russia and China. They were ignoring the dollar – sacrilege! Now Trump has no option either. To let them be
is to allow the System to fail.
Firing General Flynn had naught to do with
being in the pocket of Russia. The nearly impeached Bill Clinton ‘received
$500,000 for a Moscow speech from a Russian investment bank with ties to the
Kremlin’[xxvi]
- 15 times more than the general got for
his talk. It is about Trump’s stated goal of ‘normalising’ ties with Russia and
after Obama spent many millions destabilising the Ukraine, that’s simply not
good Corporate-Banking business.
The public hear little about the big S with
the double line through it. It’s taboo to discuss the role of the dollar in
keeping the US afloat – a little like how the likelihood of Jesus’ homosexuality
is never discussed – it’s just too close to the bone.
CLIMATE CHANGE
Pulling back on Climate Change is not good
Corporate business either. The profit possibilities from damage wrought and
alternate opportunities created (new diseases for the Big Pharma, Lymes disease
for example[xxvii])
by manmade Climate Change are enormous.
The earth has had climate change before but
never this quick. We’re managing to do in 100s of years what happened over
millions before.
The System, basically Capitalism gone rogue,
thrives on chaos. Chaos means profit is made as things are broken and profit is
made when they are put together. Millions of tobacco smokers are therefore as
important to the ultimate money churn as are millions of smokers seeking
respiratory medication, treatment and so on. The problem is Climate Change,
like Trump’s Christian god, is omnipresent and the System owners need to wake
up, realise hiding behind bodyguards and in unassailable, well provisioned and
air-conditioned tower blocks won’t save them. And nor will gated communities
save the Middle Class.
Imagine standing on your toes on a brick
stretching your hamstrings by forcing your ankles ever lower. As you get fitter
the position of your ankle vis-à-vis the sole of your foot will get lower and
lower. Flexibility improves dramatically. Then to enhance the experience, you
start to lean forward, more and more. Overdo it and you will topple.
When the ‘standard of living’ in the West reached
what the West takes for granted last year, the earth reached tipping point. There
is no solid ground to jump forward on to. The earth is a tiny speck all on its
own in a gigantic and expanding universe. Prof McPherson says humans have 10
years left before we crash,[xxviii]
and that New Zealanders will be the last humans. Rubbish we cry! But the less
controversial scientists don’t give us much longer than that before life
virtually ceases to exist. Stephen Hawking and microbiologist Frank Fenner[xxix] gave humans 100 years more. Their primary
reason for our extinction; Climate Change and inequality. Astrophysicist Neil
Tyson is quick to console the earth will survive, it is just that we’ll be
gone.[xxx]
The
system owners will be gone too but alive and looking down. Few will be able to afford to live on giant space stations but it
will happen – a sort of gated community looking down on the rest as they fight
for water.[xxxi]
Some entrepreneurs are saying these holiday-homes beyond the blue will be
reality within 10 years.
TRUMP
In the actions of all the American
presidents that have been, it’s clear that no challenge to Capitalism can be
allowed to bear fruit. People must work to live. Profits don’t go to people –
profits like spawning salmon swim upwards to be deposited in the accounts of
the already rich in secret places.
Thousands of Americans were sterilised
because they were losers,[xxxii]
but hundreds of millions throughout the world have been economically sterilised
by successive presidents’ adoption of Milton Friedman’s free market forces. It
is a legalised and moralised way of destroying prospects for a world based on
co-operation through the System’s demand for maximum profit no matter the cost.[xxxiii]
It now comes under the guise of globalisation.
The hate generated against the US means
Trump and those who follow him will have forever to increase the anti-terror
budget even down to the tiniest of activities. But the irony is the US and its
Western associates are the world’s most dangerous terrorists.[xxxiv]
The nukes that were there for Truman are available to Trump – they’re just 3000
times more dangerous per war-head. The IMF and WB and majors like JP Morgan and
Barclays were there for Roosevelt, but now they are collectively bigger than
most countries. Climate Change was a worry under Clinton, now it is catastrophe
happening and Trump is promoting to make it worse by more deregulation.
In his inheritance there is nothing that
Trump started or created or even seeded. Not even the famous Trump Wall is his
personal call. In 1954 over a million Mexicans were physically hurled home.[xxxv]
Trump inherited a world on the brink of
nuclear war with those who resist the Capitalist maximum profit argument. He
has been given an already moulded, baked and sliced monetary and banking
process that is about to collapse, while the combination
Military-Banking-Industrial-Commercial complex has positioned the world on the
very edge of an abyss that is genteelly called ‘Climate Change’.
Trump is only capable of copying and
following on what truly horrible (for the world but nice for parties)
presidents before have themselves followed and enlarged. And like them all he
seems to be determined to do is to take over the mantle ‘the worst president
ever’. Obama surpassed Baby Bush, Bush beat Clinton. Each ‘worst ever for the
world’ has achieve that notoriety in their own unique way.[xxxvi] Now Trump is going to do it his way.
ABOUT DOUGLAS SCHORR
A former soldier and district commissioner
in then Rhodesia, Douglas Schorr is today a committed critic of capitalism and
colonial legacies, citing them as the source of poverty in Africa. His first
book, The Myth of Smith,
is available for sale on Amazon
Kindle as are the short stories Mr Boomslang & 7 Other Rhodesian
Fireside Tales. Schorr
blogs at www.douglasschorr.com.
Follow him on Facebook
for regular updates.
[i] ‘ALEC is not a lobby; it is not a front group. It is much more
powerful than that. Through the secretive meetings of the American Legislative
Exchange Council, corporate lobbyists and state legislators vote as equals on
‘model bills’ to change our rights that often benefit the corporations’ bottom
line at public expense. ALEC is a pay-to-play operation where corporations buy
a seat and a vote on ‘task forces’ to advance their legislative wish lists and
can get a tax break for donations, effectively passing these lobbying costs on
to taxpayers.’ … http://www.alecexposed.org/wiki/What_is_ALEC%3F
[xxxv] https://theconversation.com/largest-deportation-campaign-in-us-history-is-no-match-for-trumps-plan-73651
[i] ‘ALEC is not a lobby; it is not a front group. It is much more
powerful than that. Through the secretive meetings of the American Legislative
Exchange Council, corporate lobbyists and state legislators vote as equals on
‘model bills’ to change our rights that often benefit the corporations’ bottom
line at public expense. ALEC is a pay-to-play operation where corporations buy
a seat and a vote on ‘task forces’ to advance their legislative wish lists and
can get a tax break for donations, effectively passing these lobbying costs on
to taxpayers.’ … http://www.alecexposed.org/wiki/What_is_ALEC%3F
[ii] Oliver Stone @ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1494191/
[iii] http://www.monbiot.com/2013/03/11/smart-phones-dumb-companies/
[iv] https://www.democracynow.org/2013/2/5/kill_list_exposed_leaked_obama_memo
[v] http://www.globalresearch.ca/hollywoods-dangerous-afghan-illusion-charlie-wilsons-war/5331107
[vi] https://www.wsj.com/articles/
and see http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2010/02/charlie_wilson_texas_congressm.html
[vii] It is all about ‘the United States to control Afghanistan’s Rare
Earth Elements (REEs) such as lithium, worth trillions …’ See http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/10/14/376774/
[viii] http://www.globalresearch.ca/afghanistan-garden-of-empire-americas-multibillion-dollar-opium-harvest/5324196
[ix] www.ehd.org/science_technology_largenumbers.php
[x] www.bbc.com/news/business-38654176
... Jan 18, 2017
[xi]China’s Great Game: Road to a new empire https://www.ft.com/content/6e098274-587a-11e5-a28b-50226830d644
[xii] It is now known that France had a lot to do with the Ayatollah’s
pre-coup ‘education’ and ‘Documents seen by BBC suggest Carter administration
paved way for Khomeini to return to Iran by holding the army back from
launching a military coup’ … https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/10/ayatollah-khomeini-jimmy-carter-administration-iran-revolution?CMP=share_btn_link
[xiii] http://www.douglasschorr.com/2015/12/mugabe-is-fool-but-for-not-for-reasons.html
[xiv] https://dillsnapcogitation.wordpress.com/2008/07/17/george-bushs-g8-meeting-alcoholic-relapse/
[xv] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2009/oct/15/goldman-sachs-record-bonus-pot
[xvi] https://www.thebalance.com/national-debt-under-obama-3306293
[xvii]Five Charts @ http://money.cnn.com/2016/05/10/news/economy/us-debt-ownership/
[xviii] https://www.thebalance.com/what-is-quantitative-easing-definition-and-explanation-3305881
[xix] http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/prem-sikka/authoritarian-populism-of_b_14638286.html
[xx] See Web-of-debt articles
[xxi] http://www.slate.com/articles/business/the_united_states_of_debt/2016/05/
[xxii] ‘35 Percent Of All Americans Have Debt That Is At Least 180 Days
Past Due. 69 percent of all Americans have less than $1,000 in savings today …’
http://www.silverdoctors.com/headlines/finance-news/the-world-largest-banks-and-governments-are-bankrupt-yes-it-is-a-conspiracy/
[xxiii] The Globalization of Poverty by M Chossudovsky
[xxiv] How rich countries got rich and why poor countries stay poor by
Erik Reinert
[xxv] www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2014/04/17/culture/.../a-brief-history-of-the-nsa
[xxvi] The New York Times reported in 2015 says https://consortiumnews.com/2017/03/20/the-missing-logic-of-russia-gate/
[xxvii] https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indicators-lyme-disease
and see ‘Lyme disease is now 4 times more common than AIDS’ @ http://www.lorigeurin.com/lyme-disease-is-spreading-faster/
[xxviii] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqIt93dDG1M
Nov
[xxix] Professor Fenner (1914 -2010) once of the Centre for Resource and
Environmental Studies at The Australian National University. And see http://jcsmr.anu.edu.au/about-us/honour-roll/frank-fenner.
[xxx] Methane is 20 times more powerful molecule to molecule than the CO2
constantly quoted. Perhaps the ultimate in greenhouse gas it is stored in vast
quantities the sea -
http://worldoceanreview.com/en/wor-1/ocean-chemistry/climate-change-and-methane-hydrates/
and see
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2013/aug/05/7-facts-need-to-know-arctic-methane-time-bomb
in which the Guardian presents the different arguments. And https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmeTCw5Xk1I
250 million years ago the Siberian
volcano initiated the action, methane completed it.It is fine frozen solid as
methane hydrate but heated it becomes unstable, our oceans are warming and
there is an estimated 30 trillion tons of this stuff. The last time it happened
95% of all life on our earth was wiped out. The difference was, the scientists
postulate, it took 500 thousand years to reach the tipping point we are in a
headlong race to emulate. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmeTCw5Xk1I
The irony is this methane could be
very useful to humans but we’ve a process that negates that possibility almost
entirely – the 4 yearly US elections, the top job going to the one who promises
the most immediate and best profit return.
[xxxi] http://www.space.com/35978-private-moon-refueling-station-by-2020.html
[xxxii] https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/united-states-once-sterilized-tens-thousands-heres-how-supreme-court-allowed
[xxxiii] http://www.naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine
[xxxiv] Noam Chomsky: US is world's biggest terrorist -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRbnPA3fd5U
[xxxv] https://theconversation.com/largest-deportation-campaign-in-us-history-is-no-match-for-trumps-plan-73651
[xxxvi]Example: as a presidential candidate he said … but went immediately
he received the Peace Prize he sent more troops to kill peasants in Afghanistan.
