Part 2
As previously written, the 2008 election is a manipulation, rigged by political elites working behind sock puppet candidates. This fact is even more obvious when one follows the money.
What big money interests want
OpenSecrets.org is one vital resource that tracks campaign money flows in detail, and virtually in real time. Not surprisingly, both the mainstream corporate and so-called alternative media have devoted scant attention to this corruption.
As culled from the OpenSecrets.org list, here are some of the prominent corporate contributors behind leading candidates (as of 1/11/08):
Republicans
John McCain
Blank Rome LLP Citigroup Bank of New York Mellon Merrill Lynch Goldman Sachs JP Morgan Chase Credit Suisse Lehman Brothers Morgan Stanley MGM Mirage Univision
Mitt Romney
Bain Capital (note: Romney’s own company) Goldman Sachs Merrill Lynch Citigroup Marriott Kirkland & Ellis Morgan Stanley PriceWaterhouse JP Morgan UBS Lehman Brothers
Rudy Giuliani
Ernst & Young Credit Suisse Merrill Lynch Citigroup Bear Stearns Lehman Brothers Bracewell & Guiliani (Guiliani’s own firm) Morgan Stanley UBS Milbank Tweed Goldman Sachs JP Morgan Bank of America
Mike Huckabee
State of Arkansas Wal-Mart Tyson Foods Morgan Stanley
Democrats
Hillary Clinton
DLA Piper Goldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Citigroup National Amusements Emily’s List JP Morgan Kirkland & Ellis Skadden Arps Merrill Lynch Time Warner Lehman Brothers Bear Stearns Ernst & Young Blank Rome LLP
Barack Obama
Goldman Sachs Lehman Brothers National Amusements JP Morgan Exelon Energy (parent of Commonwealth Edison) Citigroup Citadel Investments Credit Suisse Skadden Arps Morgan Stanley Time Warner UBS Harvard University
John Edwards
Fortress Investment Group Act Blue Goldman Sachs Skadden Arps Deutsche Bank Citigroup
This is the bare tip of the iceberg that OpenSecrets.org’s database exposes. The site also tracks the money coming from lobbyists, wealthy individuals, and industries, cross-references money flows by industry, and updates the financial status of every campaign — for those who bother to look it up. There is dirty money that is not even being reported.
What is clear is the fact that major corporations are collectively hedging their bets, financing both sides. For example, Citigroup, JP Morgan Chase, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley have money behind every leading candidate. Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, Bear Stearns, and UBS are also prominent players, in virtually all of the camps.
Corporate law and accounting firms, many of which are not household names (not all of them mentioned in this article), but well known in Washington and on Wall Street, are heavily involved with the campaigns — assuring that the laws and the books will be cooked.
Look up the upper management of the companies, and the pattern is clear.
There is no illusion what the “election” really is, and whose hands are manipulating the sock puppets. Each sock puppet serves the world’s upper management, and uses the populace as cannon fodder.
All the talk of “campaign finance reform,” “fighting special interests,” particularly from the corrupt John McCain (who is enthusiastically mainlining funding as you read this), is just that: talk.
The candidates are lying. The prospective puppets with the real chances of being selected are career liars to begin with.
Cultural abyss reflected in celebrity support
Election insanity also breeds a cultural sickness that worsens by the day.
The ignorant, acquiescent, uninformed and often painfully stupid mass US populace not only marches to the beat set by a blatantly corrupt corporate media, it further adds to its self-destruction by aping the political views of wealthy Hollywood celebrities — who are themselves painfully ignorant and misguided individuals, making asinine decisions with their celebrity power and mega-fortunes.
Here are some of the Hollywood celebrities behind the leading candidates, from the article Candidates hoping star power shines on them [San Francisco Chronicle, 1/11/08]:
Hillary Clinton
Barbra Streisand Steven Spielberg
Barack Obama
Oprah Winfrey David Geffen Stevie Wonder
Mitt Romney
Pat Boone Robert Bork (not a celebrity, but a notorious Republican) Donnie Osmond Marie Osmond
Rudy Giuliani
Dennis Miller Adam Sandler
John McCain
Curt Schilling Wilford Brimley Rip Torn
John Edwards
Danny Glover Kevin Bacon
Mike Huckabee
Chuck Norris Ron Jeremy Ted Nugent
Celebrities — whose fame is known around the world, and who possess the cultural power to shape mass consciousness — are helping the darkest forces drive the American empire deeper into the abyss. The average American, who doesn’t read and won’t bother to understand reality, simply follows Oprah, Steven Spielberg and Donnie & Marie, straight into hell.
Is it any wonder that, in this celebrity gossip-driven culture, a laughable crying act by the mega-corrupt Hillary Clinton successfully convinces some people that she is “genuine,” therefore “presidential”?
Here’s another example of shenanigans that few seem to understand: the Clinton’s open insult of Martin Luther King, Jr., was a calculated move, not a gaffe. It’s the old southern strategy, which Bill Clinton used successfully before. Piss off African-Americans (who are disenfranchised anyway), pick up some “cracker” votes and support, particularly with the reference to LBJ, garnering enough support to beat out Obama.
Against this total dearth of critical faculties, people are largely ignoring evidence that the New Hampshire primary results were manipulated, in outright Bush-Cheney 2000 fashion, right in front of their faces. And the average American still believes in elections and “democracy.”
The election has not “just begun.” It’s been over for a long time.
It is literally insane to spend one cent on any of the candidates, or their machines. It is insane to engage in beyond-ridiculous campaign nonsense that exhausts energy, in pursuit of illusions and false hopes.
Ignore the rhetoric and follow the money. Look up the corporations and, in particular, at the names on the boards of directors of each one. Look up the elites who are managing the sock puppets.
Ask Henry Kissinger who will “win.” He knows.
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