Syria: Obama, Congress, and media collaborating on a con job

by Jon Rappoport

September 2, 2013

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Oh, our illustrious legislators will have their day to puff themselves up and speak about Principle! The networks will cover it.

They’ll prance and they’ll bray, because this is war, the nation’s most solemn undertaking and its most profitable business. And they’ll even refer to that suddenly rediscovered document, the Constitution.

The President asked them to pass judgment, and they shall.

House and Senate members will call in their tailors to let out their trousers, to give them more breathing room. Action on the floor will require baritone and basso, and rhetoric that shakes the walls.

Alas, there are no oily orators left in the Congress. Where is Ev Dirksen, dripping multi-syllables from every pore, when we need him? Where is Hubert Humphrey in his prime?

But today’s sad flowers will give it their best shot, because the nation will be watching. Syria doesn’t have to be Pearl Harbor or Saigon. It’s the idea of war and death and invasion and retribution that inflames voices.

Our legislators will imitate greatness. Their aides will ride herd on speechwriters to give these strutting little Congressmen a chance to shoot the moon and become heroes.

Obama, poised above and behind the show, will pretend to listen and consider their arguments.

“This is, finally, democracy at work,” said an anonymously anonymous but well informed (psyop) source. “We’ve got the president, the Congress, and the people trying to come to a very tough decision together. Part of it is the Constitution, part of it is, of course, the dire situation in Syria. But this is how we do things in America. Not by unilateral edicts, but through honest debate and the airing of differences…”

Well, no. How we do things in America is through a series of charades posing as reality. The media gives these phony episodes the aura of credibility.

Meanwhile, it’s the people of Syria who are caught in a squeeze play.

No US missile attack is going to change that situation. If Assad is the problem, the solution called massive chaos is only going to make things worse.

A dog and pony show in Congress, followed by Obama’s final decision on use of force, is about as effective and meaningful as wielding a feather to knock over a tank.

And that’s assuming, falsely, that the destabilization of the Middle East is really the outcome of some spontaneous uprising called Arab Spring.

The situation is actually much worse than trying to knock out a tank with a feather. All these so-called popular revolutions were engineered from a distance, playing on and using populations’ genuine suffering and desire for freedom as fodder, as fuel.

It’s not chaos, it’s Operation Chaos. And the elite Order that follows has the objective of controlling every inch of the Middle East.

Congress? It’s a stage play designed to convince the American people that the nation can still take serious matters seriously. But the truth is, on the floor of the Senate and the House, they may as well be carrying on a debate between Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck.

Disneyesque operators build American reality wall to wall, the people buy their tickets (taxes), salute it, and then believe it means something.

On the other hand, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness have been central in the minds and desires of every human on this planet since the dawn of time—but no government or priest class has consistently served that desire.

Where these ideals have been put into action, individuals have taken it upon themselves to declare what was theirs to begin with, beyond the reach of any ruling force.

No one in the upcoming Congressional debates will be touching on that subject.

They’ll be pontificating on the juice of their own elevated positions. As they always do.

And in the aftermath of debate, media parrots will exclaim, “This proves, once again, that the system works.”

If you want a few real clues about Syria, consider these two: the Assad government has erected tariff barriers to restrict imports; and agriculture is the country’s number-two industry behind oil. Globalists want to knock down those barriers and bring in “free trade” (aka multinational-corporate ownership of the Syrian economy), and…Monsanto wants to show up in Damascus, announcing it’s there to save the country and rescue local farmers from their impoverished lives.

In other words, business as usual.

Jon Rappoport

The author of two explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED and EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29^th District of California. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free emails at www.nomorefakenews.com

Buying a ticket to the war: no moron left behind

by Jon Rappoport

September 1, 2013

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You’re just a click away on your remote. Get the popcorn. It’s a blast. This one has moral stature. They used chemical weapons, so they will pay.

Don’t miss Chris Matthews. He’s tingling all over. “The president did the right thing and he upheld the Constitution. Only a living god could figure out how to pull that off.”

Welcome to the Syrian theater. All the players are assembled. Which one will intervene and turn a two-day blitz into a global conflagration?

We realize you don’t have whatever it takes to actually enlist in the Armed Forces and do six insane tours in Afghanistan building A-frames and wondering when one of those villagers will shoot you in the head. No problem. You can experience a very good simulacrum in your own mind. The anticipation. The adrenaline flow. The sweaty palms. Then the limbic thrust of revenge.

And as a bonus? No court martial when it turns out you killed an Afghan who was just reaching in his coat pocket for a screwdriver to attach his new front door!

The Syrian run-up is almost as good as the first missile launch. Click to Wolf Blitzer as he recalls his coverage of Gulf War One, when he made his bones purely on the basis of his name.

Catch the living cadaver, Scott Pelley, as he flashes back on his work at the Davidian siege at Waco.

Count down to the first explosion with the eternal newsboy riding his bike and flipping papers on front porches, Brian Williams.

Feel the undertone of sodden grief with Dianne Sawyer (weeps for everybody/all the time) as she does war as only a former America’s Junior Miss can.

And then, boom! You’re there. The attack is on! The sky over Damascus lights up! What unknown newsman, standing on a rooftop, narrating the unfolding scene, will emerge from the carnage with name recognition and a sudden career bump that makes his colleagues want to murder him in his sleep.

It’s the news! Tune in!

America is united again. Feel it. What took us so long to find each other once more? Post your experience on Facebook. Share your ecstasy with faux friends. Recite the Pledge of Allegiance against a hip-hop track and hope it goes viral.

Finally, all the goody-two-shoes questions about who used chemical weapons and which side we’re backing in Syria and who is al Qaeda and the CIA sending weapons and killers from Libya to Syria are gone. Erased. This is the show! This is what counts! Pretext? Invented provocation? False flag? Don’t bother me, I’m eating war!

If only we still had the Rat Pack around. Frank, Dean, Sammy, Lawford, and Joey Bishop. They could do a Sarin Night at the Desert Inn and wow the crowd with their support for the guys who launch the Tomahawks.

If your brother-in-law is over at the house as you watch the missile strike and he says, “You know, there’s no good proof Assad used poison gas,” poke him in the eye with a sizzling hot dog on a stick and yell, “USA! USA! USA!”

You might also try, “Obamacare! Immigration reform! Climate change! Carbon tax! NSA! Surveillance State! Gun control! Drone attacks!”

Suddenly, they’re in. They were out, but now the Commander-in-Chief has his hand on the pulse of the nation. We’re off life support. Who cares about Fast&Furious, the IRS non-profit division, Benghazi? They’re in the rearview mirror and we’re accelerating down the superhighway to fame and fortune. Jobs? We can live off our own fumes!

Mind-controlled androids? This is who we are! Love it, live it, watch it, soak it in!

God bless Congress for giving Obama back Constitutional authority to kill the enemy of the terrorists we’re backing.

Jon Rappoport

The author of two explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED and EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29^th District of California. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free emails at www.nomorefakenews.com

Obama seeking to become a wartime president

by Jon Rappoport

September 1, 2013

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Obama wants the Congress to approve his plan to attack Syria so he can become an officially certified wartime president, and put the country on “unified status.”

Even in the wake of a brief air invasion, this stance would improve his standing in the eyes of the press, the Congress, and the public.

The press, in particular, would have a new reason to fawn over him, praise his effort and his moral position, adding that “the nation is behind him.”

Factually, it means very little, but for PR purposes, it’s gold. Suddenly, Obama would become generalized as a “unifying president,” which would be extrapolated to mean that his other programs and plans carry additional weight.

This is the way the press operates. A victory in one arena is taken to imply validity in other areas. It’s about as logical as inferring that a mule who can knock down an old fence with a kick should be anointed heavyweight boxing champion of the world.

“Mr. Obama emerged from the missile attack on Syria with an enhanced presidency. He has earned respect from our allies, even those who refused to back his plan. And domestically, the bipartisan support he was able to gather from the Congress has cast him in a new light…”

Absolute nonsense, but it works.

“The attack on Syria was a brave move, given that Russia and other nations opposed it. Obama emerges as the winner…New polls today showed a sharp jump in his overall approval rating…”

Keep slicing that baloney. Sell it.

Think of it as a mini-mini-911. Obama is doing a Bush. His predecessor in the Oval Office could barely navigate a teleprompter, but his response to the attacks on the Trade Center and the Pentagon earned him a year or two of immortality.

The art of PR creates goodwill on the slenderest of threads. It transmits the impression that what it is celebrating is the end result of public acclaim, when in fact it is inducing acclaim through bald pretense.

Reputations are built out of thin air this way. The phrase used to be “overnight sensation.”

“President Obama has gotten his groove back…”

Were chemical weapons used in Syria? If so, who really used them? How many people died in the US missile attacks? Dead issues. The important thing is the President won support from Congress and went to war. It was “clean and decisive.”

And network news ratings soar. Maybe we’ll even see a few anchors standing on rooftops in the Middle East at night, wearing Dan Rather bush jackets. Wolf Blitzer can get his groove back, too.

“This may look like a fireworks display in the evening sky, but these missiles are deadly and precise and smart…”

Bring all the old jive artists out of mothballs.

“The country needed this. In the wake of Benghazi and other troubling scandals, the administration was mired in problems. But now…”

Whoever came up with the bright idea of going to Congress to approve an attack on Syria deserves a PR plaque for ingenuity. Even if the Congress turns thumbs down on the Obama plan, he can “go it alone.”

“A valiant President, rebuffed by Congress, stood on principle and launched an attack and sent a message to international criminals…”

Somewhere in the bowels of the White House, an advisor is making midnight notes, trying to sort out the op: “Let’s see. We’re backing the thugs and terrorists in Syria. We helped arm them. If anyone used chemical weapons in Syria, it’s most likely those people. And now we’re supporting them with a missile strike against Assad, which could ultimately put them in power, with access to all the weapons, of every kind, that Assad possesses. What the hell is going on?”

It’s not the kind of contemplation that will make it into a later tell-all book or memoir.

Engineering perception is first order of business for any White House. They’ve got their hands on a valuable moment, and they’re going to squeeze every last bit of juice out of it.

Jon Rappoport

The author of two explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED and EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29^th District of California. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free emails at www.nomorefakenews.com

Syria, lies exposed, broken paradigms, dead pigs

by Jon Rappoport

August 31, 2013

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Update: WAR=UNITY. The President just gave his speech on Syria. He intends to launch an air attack. He wants Congress to approve it. He didn’t say what he’ll do if Congress refuses, and he didn’t say how the attacks will limit Assad’s ability to use chemical weapons on his people in the future. He’s utterly convinced, he claims, that Assad deployed chemical weapons. He’s “seen the evidence.”

Why should we believe him? There are ample reports that “the rebels” used those weapons. Those would be the rebels the US government is backing and arming.

Obama appears to trust he has the votes in Congress to approve his attack. He sees this as a feel-good moment when Congress and the White House are united. “Look, we can work together.”

He referred to Congress as “representatives of the American people.” So Obama is a comedian now. He’s suggesting that all of America will share in this act of war. Congress represents the American people the way a herd of lions is accountable to deer and antelope.

Here is the piece I’d already finished an hour before Obama made his speech. I don’t need to change anything, except perhaps to elevate the dosage of mescaline it would take to make Brian Williams finally “see the light.”

Brian Williams, the leading disinformation media specialist on American television, has accidentally ingested a drug before his broadcast.

Somehow, through a manufacturer’s error, mescaline was inserted in a headache pill. Brian just happened to take a pill in that bad batch.

His mind is scrambled.

He suddenly realizes he’s been on a lying jag for decades. What a revelation.

He sees a glint of daylight. He can go on television and tell the truth for once…and what better story to explore than the imminent US attack on Syria. Yes, he’ll do it. He’ll try for redemption.

He sits there on camera, his eyes shining. His mind is all over the place. But he bites his lip and begins:

“—Ladies and gentlemen…

I’m Brian Williams. Freedom is the wild card in any so-called system. How’s that for my opener?

That’s what I want to tell you, folks…the wild card. Yes…uh…

So listen up: Bureaucrats and other lackeys of the State are trained to work as if they are dealing with closed systems. They react to any deviation (freedom) as if it’s a black widow spider in a hotel bed.

Technocrats, the leading edge of the State, are trying to build a machine that incorporates all humans. They hail this as a future in which “the right answer” will always be obtained.

You have no right to be wrong. This is what we are coming to.

Get it?

You can see this in the run-up to the planned attack on Syria. Leaders are telling us, just as they did prior to the invasion in Iraq, that all the facts add up to the right answer. Once that answer is extracted, there is no turning back.

Syria. Chemical warfare was used. The Assad government used it. That’s the correct answer. Therefore, war. End of debate.

Meanwhile, behind the scenes, the picture looks a little different. I’m picturing that picture, ladies and gentlemen. The commander-in-chief is being briefed:

“Well, Mr. President, I want to recap where we are on Syria. I’m waiting for Prince Bandar to tell us. Ha-ha. Anyhow, we enabled the Syrian rebels or the terrorists, or al Qaeda, or the freedom fighters, or whatever we’re calling them today. We helped arm them. Now we’re about to bomb Syria to keep them in the game. These rebels are the same people we’re supposedly fighting in Afghanistan, right? I’m not against any of this, but I’m just saying it’s getting harder to sell it. And if our story line crumbles, we’re in deep trouble, Mr. President. People are more aware now. We’ve played both sides against the middle so many times before, the scenario is almost dead on arrival…”

Hi. Brian Williams still here. Let me make a leap, all you good folks out there in television land. The massive op/narrative called The New Age, which began its rapid spread in the 1960s, was designed to disguise our fascist government by moving consciousness to an appreciation for, and an insistence on, so-called spiritual unity.

Barack Obama was supposed to be the first president standing for that apotheosis. He would, in a sense, rule by faith, the faith of his supporters. He would sweep away all objections to government as the supplier of spiritual unity.

Government’s only hope is to somehow appear supernatural and inevitable. It can’t stand on its own.

Wars, especially, require “spiritual faith” in the mission. Obama has failed on this count, and with the opposition to an attack on Syria coming from so many quarters, there is very little cover left for him.

On a larger scale, the attempt to create a closed system, through a military-industrial-oil complex, is falling apart. Oil as the only recognized energy source for the planet determines the chessboard and the playbook. In one stroke, it names the geopolitical hot spots and the conflicts and the need for war as the American solution.

In truth, there are many technologies that could, if developed sufficiently, take us on the road to energy abundance. They are being stopped by the military-industrial-oil complex, not only to keep us on the oil teat, but also to keep us pinned to the need to make war to guarantee the oil flow.

But this system is losing its solid feel. It’s becoming more transparent as an op, long past its prime.

Every significant geopolitical story on the nightly news is a dead pig painted with lipstick.

On the home front, media, fed by politicians, are focusing on “dangerous people” who value freedom. This is a tale so old it creaks. It was told in ancient Egypt, in Greece, in Rome during the death throes of the Empire. Now, in America, it can only be spun by fatuously accusing freedom lovers of racism.

The Surveillance State is losing public support by the day. The notion that the government has to spy on everybody all the time to find “the terrorists” is so off-key, it sounds like a barroom medley sung by drunken sailors. Or a pronouncement rolled out at the height of the Catholic Inquisition.

To impose a closed system on the populace, it’s necessary to reduce the definition of what a person is. In this modern age, that strategy involves promoting stripped-down, lowest-common-denominator thought as a marvelous advance that will enable “human-machine” interactions…bringing us to the brink of a new techno-paradise.

It’s such a desperate tale, one wonders how the sellers can make it through the day without falling down and laughing themselves out of court.

The answer is: government funding. Like the oil monopoly, like the war machine, like the nuclear-energy titan, the government dispenses $$ to make the myths endure.

The pinnacle of this corruption is war. Offensive war. Not war to protect the home front, but to establish new beachheads of conquest, under the pretension of helping to liberate the oppressed. To create a sense of unity where unity was lacking.

The proposed attack on Syria is the latest footnote.

It’s not working.

People are waking up. Also, the man in the White House just can’t create new jobs. He’s putting on a show of trying, but he can’t do it, because he’s not interested in doing it. He wants more victims. So the people are looking at him with a tougher gaze. They don’t trust him.

On the issue of war against Syria, Obama can only try to take a moral high ground based on the idea that a chemical attack occurred. That’s all he’s got. He can’t peddle spiritual unity in this case. He’s dying on the vine.

The whole thing is a sham and a scam and a cardboard front. Get it? I’m trying to tell you, my fellow Americans, ladies and gentlemen, all you good folks out there, what’s really happening. I’m hitting the high points.

We, in the media, are your basic liars. That’s our skill. That’s what makes us great. Right now, we’re selling the war to you. We’re trying, damn it, but it’s not easy. We’ve got so little to work with.

Dianne Sawyer, Scott Pelley, and I are carnival barkers. We dress it up, but that’s all we are. We fake it every night. I don’t even need to be here. You could have a CGI of me, programmed with messages from the White House, polished by our writers at NBC. Now, in fact, looking back at my career, that’s what it feels like. I was never here. I don’t know where the hell I was, but through a stroke of fate, I’m back. And I’m trying to feed you a little truth.

Just think oil and keep thinking oil. Oil pipeline through Syria. Oil in the Middle East.

Anyway…where was I? I could show you pictures of a hundred, two hundred places around the world where governments are torturing and killing their own people and putting them in cages. Is the US supposed to go into all those places and liberate the oppressed? Are we supposed to force free elections from the North Pole to Tierra del Fuego?

And what is a free election? I’ll tell you. It’s the same big-time players behind the scenes cooking the vote for a new bunch of tyrants.

The only way to stop that—and it’s a long shot—is to form a government based on severely limiting the power of government.

Wow. What an idea! Where did that come from? Am I, Brian Williams, the first person to see that?

Anyway, Syria is a crazy op that’s gotten out of control.

We’ve got Egypt, Libya, Syria, Iraq. Why would the US government be trying to upset the apple cart in those places? To free the people? Don’t be stupid. To obtain cheaper oil prices? How is that working out?

If Dianne, Scott, and I were real reporters, this is the issue we’d be working on. Is this a destabilizing operation aimed at disrupting the flow of oil? Is this a high-level game in which the US and other industrial economies take a huge energy hit? Is this a prelude to the acceleration of the forces of elite Globalism? Is this the old create-chaos and then bring in order on top of that?

Right now, that’s what it looks like to me. Sitting here, that’s my thesis. I don’t think I’ll be able to get anybody in the White House to give me a straight answer, though.

But it’s a start. So…for all the good people here at NBC News, good night. I’ll be back tomorrow, possibly broadcasting from a holding cell under CIA headquarters at Langley. In which case, don’t believe anything I say. Signing off. Brian Williams.

Jon Rappoport

The author of two explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED and EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29^th District of California. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free emails at www.nomorefakenews.com