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Analysis Last Updated: Aug 3rd, 2009 - 01:18:48


The Obama opiate -- crisis deepens, crowds cheer
By Larry Chin
Online Journal Associate Editor


Aug 3, 2009, 00:46

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Six months since taking the reins, the Barack Obama administration has met its primary objective. It has swiftly ramped up the murderous imperial agenda inherited from Bush-Cheney while the masses, pacified and deceived by the appeal of the Obama image, pay no attention to realities.

No attention to the fact that the Obama administration�s global war strategy, which puts Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Latin America, and other regions into new military-intelligence crosshairs, promises the expansion of global instability, resource conquest, and �war on terrorism� ruin.

No attention to the fact the Obama administration is loaded with elites who are as dangerous and corrupt as those of the preceding administration.

No attention to the fact that nothing has �changed,� except that there is a �rock star� figurehead sitting in the Oval Office who is smart and not stupid; calculating rather than blatant.

The destabilization of Iran, a product of massive US covert operations (and overt political manipulation) continues unabated, built upon the pretext of �restoring democracy� -- a �stolen election� hoax, and an aggressive �color revolution� spearheaded by Anglo-American surrogates, aspiring puppets, and hordes of intelligence assets and so-called �liberals� touting �democracy.� The Iranian corridor remains critical, for the control of Central Asian and Middle Eastern energy, and the Anglo-American empire is intent upon controlling it.

A blatant coup in Honduras has been carried out in the classic fashion, according to the same intelligence playbook that has been at the core of US-Latin America policy since the Iran-Contra era; the same destabilization tactics used in recent years to topple the governments of Venezuela and Haiti.

Domestically, Obama has endorsed the continued surveillance of the American people, and an even more ironclad electronic police state. While the average American is distracted by the pipe dream of believing that its corporate-controlled government will reform health care, the larger world health care system is being militarized, upon the pretext of a conveniently unstoppable swine flu pandemic.

The massive economic meltdown crisis begun under the orchestration of Bush-Cheney economic �gurus,� such as Wall Street insider Henry Paulson, continues under the management of Obama�s gang of Wall Street insiders, led by Timothy Geithner. Cooked books and false profit reports have sparked new Ponzi stock market rallies, and new pronouncements that the �worst financial crisis since the Great Depression� is about to end, just a few months later. Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve continues to funnel trillions in taxpayer TARP funds to banks (not to lend), and ordinary people continue to suffer massive unemployment and misery.

Tellingly, Obama continues to refuse to support the prosecution of any members of the Bush-Cheney administration for its eight years of blatant lawbreaking. In fact, Obama has promised to protect Dick Cheney, despite the fact that the former vice president oversaw assassins and saboteurs.

Obama clearly understands his true role. It is to mask the agenda of the world order with iconic appeal that is so powerful that the masses willingly support, and even militantly advocate their own destruction.

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