American Gothic
Big
Bird And The Cookie Monster In The White House
"The art of
our necessities is strange,
That can make vile things precious."
- William Shakespeare, King Lear, 3.2.70
There are ongoing and clear non-stop indications of just who Barack Obama really
is and precisely what he does with (how he chooses to express) his natal Mercury/Sun
SQUARE to Neptune aspects as well as his inflated natal Jupiter
opposed Mercury which fuels his stridently false and forced "optimism".
Now we can say with absolute certainty exactly what Obama is and has been doing
with his Natal Moon in waning SQUARE aspect to his
natal Pluto from witty Gemini to astutely critical Virgo as well ... he
is deliberately LYING and masking his lies
via Pluto perpetrated upon the Moon Masses (us). It is not the Planets nor
their mutual relationships with each other in Obama's chart that
"cause" him to be the corporate "Uncle Tom" slut he is, they merely hint to us that this
"man" has had and will continue to have a very hard time (BY HIS OWN CHOICE) in honoring the higher
qualities which are held in deep restraint within him by his petty ego
consciousness which prefers to happily use whatever
talents he has for self aggrandizement through mass deceit. Few can match the aggressive tongue of Progressed Mercury combined with Progressed Mars
in socially astute and politically correct Libra which has carried this sad
joker into the White House and furthered the hidden Saturn agenda tucked away
in the closet of his Saturn-ruled 12th house.
"I want that
glib and oily art
To speak and purpose not; since what I well intend,
I'll do't before I speak."
- William Shakespeare, King Lear, 1.1.227
Obama's Twefth House
Hidden Corporate Controllers
There is no real, honest,
accountable human being inside the Corporately constructed shell-shill we know
as Barack Obama. He traded his Soul for a Smile button a long time
ago. He's the Pied Piper of Smiles, the smooth soothsayer of deceit. As
the old Firesign Theatre group said years back regarding Nixon ... they
"broke" the President, but since we're all "Bozos on this
Bus" we don't know nor do we care, right my fellow clowns?
Listen up, this
kind of dumbness is a crime against the Sacred calling of Clowns.
"I never
thought I'd be on Sesame Street with Elmo and Big Bird.
I'm still thrilled. I'm on a high."
-- Michelle Obama, US first lady. May 12,
2009
This addle-brained
idiot couple say stuff like this while our Nation bombs, kills and slaughters
all over Iraq and Afghanistan and Pakistan. Then she/he plant an "organic
garden" at the White House. As a Nation and a People we are
re-enacting one of Willy Shakespeare's most terrifying tragedies: King Lear.
"A
still-soliciting eye, and such a tongue
That I am glad I have not, though not to
have it
Hath lost me in your liking."
-- William Shakespeare, King Lear, 1.1.230
"This is the excellent foppery of the world, that,
when we are sick in fortune,--often the surfeit
of our own behavior, --we make guilty of our
disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as
if we were villains by necessity; fools by
heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and
treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards,
liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of
planetary influence; and all that we are evil in,
by a divine thrusting on: an admirable
evasion
of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish
disposition to the charge of a star!"
- William Shakespeare, King Lear, 1.2.132
Here is the latest evidence:
Cheney's Chief Assassin Is Now Obama's
Commander in Afghanistan
By James Petras, Axis of Logic. Posted May 18, 2009.
Obama's appointment of General Stanley McChrystal reflects a grave new
military escalation of his Afghanistan war.
“The Deltas are psychos…You have to
be a certified psychopath to join the Delta Force…”, a US Army colonel from Fort
Bragg once told me back in the 1980s. Now President Obama has
elevated the most notorious of the psychopaths, General Stanley McChrystal,
to head the US and NATO military command in Afghanistan.
McChrystal’s rise to leadership is marked by his central
role in directing special operations teams engaged in extrajudicial
assassinations, systematic torture, bombing of civilian communities and search
and destroy missions. He is the very embodiment of the brutality and gore
that accompanies military-driven empire building. Between September 2003 and
August 2008, McChrystal directed the Pentagon’s Joint Special Operations (JSO)
Command which operates special teams in overseas assassinations.
The point of the ‘Special Operations’ teams (SOT) is that they do not distinguish
between civilian and military oppositions, between activists and their
sympathizers and the armed resistance. The SOT specialize in
establishing death squads and recruiting and training paramilitary forces to
terrorize communities, neighborhoods and social movements opposing US client
regimes. The SOT’s ‘counter-terrorism’ is terrorism in reverse, focusing on
socio-political groups between US proxies and the armed resistance.
McChrystal’s SOT targeted local and national insurgent leaders in Iraq,
Afghanistan and Pakistan through commando raids and air strikes. During the
last 5 years of the Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld period the SOT were deeply implicated
in the torture of political prisoners and suspects.
McChrystal was a special favorite of Rumsfeld and Cheney because he
was in charge of the ‘direct action’ forces of the ‘Special Missions
Units. ‘Direct Action’ operatives are the
death-squads and torturers and their only engagement with the local population
is to terrorize, and not to propagandize. They engage in ‘propaganda of the
dead’, assassinating local leaders to ‘teach’ the locals to obey and submit to
the occupation. Obama’s appointment of McChrystal as head reflects a
grave new military escalation of his Afghanistan war in the face of the advance
of the resistance throughout the country.
The deteriorating position of the US is manifest in the tightening
circle around all the roads leading in and out of Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul
as well as the expansion of Taliban control and influence throughout the
Pakistan-Afghanistan border. Obama’s inability
to recruit new NATO reinforcements means that the White House’s only chance to
advance its military driven empire is to escalate the number of US troops and
to increase the kill ratio among any and all suspected civilians in territories
controlled by the Afghan armed resistance.
The White House and the Pentagon claim that the appointment of
McChrystal was due to the ‘complexities’ of the situation on the ground and the
need for a ‘change in strategy’. ‘Complexity’ is a euphemism for the increased mass opposition to the US, complicating
traditional carpet ‘bombing and military sweep’ operations. The new
strategy practiced by McChrystal involves large scale, long term ‘special
operations’ to devastate and kill the local social networks and community
leaders, which provide the support system for the armed resistance.
Obama’s decision to prevent the release of scores of photographs
documenting the torture of prisoners by US troops and ‘interrogators’ (especially
under command of the ‘Special Forces’), is directly related to his
appointment of McChrystal whose ‘SOT’ forces were highly implicated in
widespread torture in Iraq. Equally important, under McChrystal’s command
the DELTA, SEAL and Special Operations Teams will have a bigger role in the new
‘counter-insurgency strategy’. Obama’s claim that the publication of these
photographs will adversely affect the ‘troops’ has a particular meaning: The graphic exposure of McChrystal’s modus operendi for
the past 5 years under President Bush will undermine his effectiveness in
carrying out the same operations under Obama.
Obama’s decision to re-start the secret ‘military tribunals’ of
foreign political prisoners, held at the Guantanamo prison camp, is not merely
a replay of the Bush-Cheney policies, which Obama had condemned and vowed to
eliminate during his presidential campaign, but part of his larger policy of
militarization and coincides with his approval of the major secret police
surveillance operations conducted against US citizens.
Putting McChrystal in charge of the expanded
Afghanistan-Pakistan military operations means putting a notorious practitioner
of military terrorism – the torture and assassination of opponents to US policy
– at the center of US foreign policy. Obama’s quantitative and
qualitative expansion of the US war in South Asia means massive numbers of
refugees fleeing the destruction of their farms, homes and villages; tens of
thousands of civilian deaths, and eradication of entire communities. All of
this will be committed by the Obama Administraton in the quest to ‘empty the
lake (displace entire populations) to catch the fish (armed insurgents and
activists)’.
Obama’s restoration of all of the most notorious Bush
Era policies and the appointment of Bush’s most brutal commander is based on
his total embrace of the ideology of military-driven empire building. Once
one believes (as Obama does) that US power and expansion are based on military
conquests and counter-insurgency, all other ideological, diplomatic, moral and
economic considerations will be subordinated to militarism. By focusing all
resources on successful military conquest, scant attention is paid to the costs
borne by the people targeted for conquest or to the US treasury and domestic
American economy. This has been clear from the start: In the midst of a major
recession/depression with millions of Americans losing their employment and
homes, President Obama increased the military budget by 4% - taking it beyond
$800 billion dollars.
Obama’s embrace of militarism is obvious from his decision to expand
the Afghan war despite NATO’s refusal to commit any more combat troops. It is
obvious in his appointment of the most hard-line and notorious Special Forces
General from the Bush-Cheney era to head the military command in subduing
Afghanistan and the frontier areas of Pakistan.
It is just as George Orwell described in Animal Farm: The Democratic
Pigs are now pursuing the same brutal, military policies of their predecessors,
the Republican Porkers, only now it is in the name of the people and
peace. Orwell might paraphrase the policy
of President Barack Obama, as ‘Bigger and bloodier wars equal peace and
justice’.