So, is leaving the answer? (Good morning Venezuela)

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Is it really the end all- be all- Democracy, paradise of real people and a great leader and HOPE? This great country-Venezuela?

Michael Ruppert thinks so. What should I think? The Bush admin thinks Chavez is the devil, does that make him a god?

http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/081606_burning_bridge.shtml

After the 9-11 attacks the US government lied to create a war for oil in Iraq telling us that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, almost-ready atom bombs, poison gas and deadly germs. We were told that he helped execute the 9/11 attacks. It was all lies, and no one has held the US accountable for the hundreds of thousands of deaths (murders) in Iraq and Afghanistan since then. Few have tried to hold the government accountable for 2,500 Americans who have died needlessly, and those who have, have been remarkably ineffective.

US presidential elections were stolen in 2000 and 2004 through rigged electronic voting software and intimidation. Not one drop of blood was spilled anywhere, even as the US Supreme Court rendered an illegal decision supporting the overthrow of the Constitution and trampling the rights of individual states.

I never thought I would call the 60s and 70s “the good old days”. I would cry tears of joy today to see just one campus overrun by a modern equivalent of the Students for a Democratic Society. I would cheer to see a general strike paralyze a city. It would be living proof that American character had not been submerged, drugged, weakened, and rendered anemic beyond revival.

My country is dead. Its people have surrendered to tyranny, and in so doing, they have become tyranny’s primary support group; its base constituency; its chief defender. Every day they offer their endorsement of tyranny by banking in its banks and spending their borrowed money with the corporations that run it. The great Neocon strategy of George H.W. Bush has triumphed. Convince the American people that they can’t live without the “good things”, then sit back and watch as they endorse the progressively more outrageous crimes you commit as you throw them bones with ever-less meat on them. All the while, lock them into debt. Destroy the middle class, the only political base that need be feared. Make them accept, because of their own shared guilt, ever-more repressive police state measures. Do whatever you want.


With the passage of time, the degree of corporate oppression, the outrageousness of the cruelty, and the absurdity of the lies can only increase as dwindling resources diminish and desperation erupts. Ironically, the disappearing American middle class will still cheer at each new millionaire success story, even if they quietly understand that a hundred or a thousand of their kind had to disappear to create it. They chase illusions of hope rather than the real possibility of justice and change like lottery players with a one-in-a-billion chance of winning. They prefer that to hard work and sacrifice with much better odds where almost everybody can win something.

As the human race enters the first stages of inevitable collapse resulting from Peak Oil, it does so ass-backwards, in complete denial, and in the one way most certain to guarantee the greatest amount of suffering and death for future generations. It does so because, for a time at least, U.S. foreign, military, and economic policy holds the steering wheel of human destiny through dollar hegemony, military force, technology and globalization.

This control is inevitably weakening, and other hands in other countries are successfully struggling for an ever-increasing measure of influence. The Empire is dying from within, and like all wounded beasts, it is becoming more vicious and dangerous in the process; its lies more transparent.

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Ruppert's left. Is leaving the answer? Is America hopeless? And why do I doubt that Chavez and Venezuela are not the answer..because I don't think there are any paradises out there. I find his conclusions extreme about the US but I wonder...I just wonder...how deep is the corruption and apathy of Americans, will there ever be any truth, any real change?

Anyway, I took notice that he left. That there is no real media and I wonder..I wonder...

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1. Crossing the Rubicon

I'm sure someone has heard of it.

[zeemike]

2. We must have faith that truth will win out in the end.

But when that end will come is anybodies guess, and we may not live to see it for ourselves.
Those are sad but facts never the less.
I too see the "good old days" and realize that while the were not really all that good, they are better than now. At least then there was a spirit in the land and people seemed to have a soul and a heart.
( oh how I wish i could see the Dogers back in Brooklyn)
K&R

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3. I Get The Distinct Impression That Michael Ruppert...

got gone while the gettin' was good. You can hear the crickets chirping (oh, there's still crickets?).