Just a quick reminder that California's brilliant plan to de-regulate the energy industry passed unanimously...unanimously. We all know how well that worked out.
Just ponder for a moment how cleverly Enron and their fellow deregulators suckered both parties into drinking the kool-aid. I'm with Hilzoy on the "let's defer to experts", but I'm not sanguine that they'll get it right. The people asking for the bailout aren't friends of Main St.

The bailout (or failout) will only handle the first shocks, if that, probably. If the housing market/housing prices suffer a market correction, the next couple of waves will probably be the impact on people/groups that used equity as the basis for loans/credit, as their credit gets re-evaluated, and then the next will be hits to property tax income for the government programs that depend on that.

The problem is that this is the previous bill. The restrictions are all toothless. Check out this link http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2008/09/mussolini-style-corporatism-in-action.html about the call the Treasury had with financial institutions Sunday night. This bill is a total giveaway, designed to loot the Treasury before leaving office. It is a horrible bill.

"Which is all to say: I support the bailout, but I do not imagine for a moment that it will do more than mitigate the damage, or that we will work our way out of it without a whole lot more work, and a whole lot more pain."

Well, gee. After that endorsement, I guess I was foolish for opposing this in the first place.

God, I can only hope that this thing passes with no GOP House votes.

What Duncan Watson said. It's a big wet kiss from Paulson to his friends on Wall Street, and the restrictions are pure pretense. Equity? We don't get any fucking equity unless a deal -- not by company, by *deal -- is over 100 million. So no deal will be over 100M, since the people making them are not morons. Same for the supposed restrictions to corporate pay -- no limit to pay, and existing golden parachutes stay in place. They bragged about how they were planning on giving most of it to healthy companies -- in other words, Goldman Sachs. Etc, etc.

Listen to the conference call. The Democrats got rolled, as usual.

Michael Phelps, the Beijing Olympics, the
U.S./Georgian proxy Invasion of South Ossetia,
and Prospects For a Socialist Revolution In the United States!
September 28, 2008 Update

Phelps did not win the Olympic Butterfly 100 meter final. Milorad Cavic of Serbia won the event and after the race stated that he had won the event. Cavic had already soundly beaten Phelps in the Semifinals of that event! After the race Phelps also stated that he thought he had lost. And even Phelp’s mother first acted as though she thought Phelps had lost! She appeared totally dumbfounded but accepted it! Cavic’s coach said that he would launch a protest. Serbia also “launched a protest.� Then later both the Serbian government (a U.S. proxy/puppet regime installed after the U.S./NATO-led dismemberment/ethnic cleansing of the sovereign country of Yugoslavia, where under Tito everybody lived together in peace) and Cavic and his coach both withdrew their complaints. U.S. Puppet/Proxy Serbia was clearly under extreme pressure from the United States. Serbia in turn put extreme pressure on Cavic and his coach who withdrew their complaint. The United States wanted their “Golden Boy� (Bloomberg TV, August 18, 2008), and refused to permit the reality of the loss to Cavic to spoil the headline heralding Phelps: “A PERFECT FINISH, AN UNMATCHED RECORD.� New York Times (August 17, 2008) The U.S. intends to use Phelps as part of the capitalists’ fraudulent propaganda campaign that Phelps supposedly represents “victorious capitalism� while the capitalists are in fact losing all over the world as the world enters the beginning of another Great Depression!

The FINA executive Director, Cornel Marculescu, first stated that FINA would not permit the release of the footage by Omega the official timekeeper for the Beijing Games of the finish under the phony hard-sell pretext: “We are not going to distribute the footage. We are not doing THESE KINDS OF THINGS. (!) EVERYTHING IS GOOD. (!?) What are you going to do with the footage? See what the Serbians already saw? It is clarified for us beyond any doubt. He’s the winner in any way. (?) He’s the winner no doubt. Even if you could see the pictures, I don’t know how you could use them.� And Cavic the actual winner stated: “If you ask me, it should be accepted and we should move on. I’ve accepted defeat, and there’s nothing wrong with losing to the greatest swimmer there has ever been.� (!?) (New York Times, August 17, 2008) Parentheses added. The answer to this sort of tripe is simply: “What are you afraid of? What do you have to hide from an actual frame-by-frame analysis? Except the victory of Cavic over Phelps! You sound like a liar caught in a clumsy cover-up! You don’t make decisions for me Big Brother!�

Under public Pressure FINA later was forced to release what they said were digital frame-by-frame footage of the finish which they claimed showed that Phelps had won but actually DID NOT show that Phelps had won (New York Times, August 24, 2008). The images show conclusively that Cavic touched the wall fist without a doubt! But according to Dale Neuberger, Vice President of FINA the system that determines who wins the race actually measures “the instant of depression, of activation of the touch pad, not contact with the pad.� Careful observation reveals that Cavic touched the wall first and that his elbows were slightly bent indicating that he had depressed the touch pad with sufficient pressure (only 1.5 kilograms of pressure per square centimeter, according to Neuberger) to stop the clock.

The event was apparently also not actually shown LIVE. There was on a time delay despite the LIVE claim on the TV screen. Within seconds of the finish which showed Phelps in the water after the race he was suddenly being interviewed on the tarmac! Not credible! It is very easy to rig such an event if the race is that close. The U.S. knew that it might be close because of the fact that Cavic had already beaten Phelps in the Semifinals and they could not let anything alter their propaganda use of Phelps in order to try to improve the depraved image of the U.S. The reality, of course is that the United States is the most hated and despised country in the world. The majority of the world’s citizens recognize that the United States, which reflects the naked dynamic of capitalism, as the source of all war as well as all economic disparity. A software program can be easily written to cover all eventualities in such a situation where the finish of the 100-meter Fly was expected to be very close. The U.S. government can and does routinely hack computers of their adversaries and send computer viruses which completely destroy their adversaries’ hard drives and the entire computer, for example, and more (e.g. monitors by overloading them and simultaneously corrupting multiple Debit Card accounts with Dell Computer and Paypal, for example), as this writer and his roommate have experienced firsthand. The bottom line for this particular computer program, which undoubtedly gave Phelps his false “victory� was that unless Cavic won by a clearly visible margin he would “lose� in a very close race, even if he actually won! And that is exactly what happened!! The 2 electronic touch pads on the walls of the pool can be reversed in their polarity in a digital twinkling, so that even if Cavic touched the wall first it would simply register as Phelps touching the wall. Because if you look closely in that part of the replay which was permitted directly after the race and the images which were later release and printed in the New York Times (see above) it is quite clear that is what happened. Phelps lost! And he and the majority of viewers, including his own mother, knew that he lost! But he was very happy to accept the false victory! It should be recalled that with the Zapruder film of the JFK Assassination the “commentator� Dan Rather lied about what it showed, falsely stating that Kennedy’s head flew backwards due to totally fabricated so-called “jet effect� violating all laws of physics in response to a supposed bullet fired from behind him, when in fact JFK was hit only by 2 shots both fired from the front. One went through his tie knot and the other was the Dum-Dum bullet that hit him in the right forehead and killed him instantly. (Writer is the number one authority on JFK assassination who gave the keynote talk on JFK at Ethical Culture Society on November 12, 1975, twelfth anniversary of JFK Assassination, but who is not permitted to speak on anti-Communist WBAI radio on any topic!)

Both Serbia and the Peoples’ Republic of China (PRC) went along with the fraudulent Phelps’ “victory� in the 100-meter Fly because of political pressure from the United States. China was indubitably blackmailed and threatened that unless they went along with the crime the U.S. would push the age issue with the clearly underage Chinese girl gymnasts and take away their Olympic Team gold medal. Humiliation the Chinese did not want to accept! This is also the reason that the PRC went along with the U.S. all around victory in girls’ gymnastics which was accomplished by U.S. puppet judges grossly inflating the level of difficulty and execution by the U.S. and doing the reverse and chiseling big-time the level of difficulty and the execution of the vastly superior Chinese girl gymnasts. Shawn Johnson for example, was permitted to usurp second place in the all-around title after putting in very simple routines in the uneven bars and balance beam even though she won the event on an individual basis later. Even in the floor exercise Johnson’s level of difficulty and execution were pumped up like a balloon while the Chinese gymnasts routines were falsely downgraded. This modus operandi occurred over and over!

Although it made a pro forma protest against the U.S.-instigated “independence� of Kosovo, the Serbian government is a U.S. puppet/virtual proxy state which was installed after the U.S. division of Yugoslavia, a country where under Marshall Tito everyone got along. Serbia is a U.S. puppet just like the government of Georgia, which was incidentally authorized and directed by the U.S. to invade South Ossetia and now falsely denies it. In July 2008 Kindasleezy Rice standing beside Saakashvilli in Tbilisi, offered encouragement to Saakashvilli similar to that given to the later-sacrificed Saddam Hussein on July 25, 1990 by U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, April Glaspie, to invade Kuwait.

Glaspie suckered Saddam Hussein by giving him the green light to invade Kuwait by telling him: “We have no opinion on Arab-Arab conflicts like your border disagreement with Kuwait.� (New York Times, 9/23/90)). In 1989-1990 the United States carried out a carefully planned provocation, which Saddam fell for hook line and sinker. The U.S apparently guaranteeing Kuwait its protection, instructed Kuwait to drill long slanted wells under the Iraq-Kuwait border where the Rumaila Iraqi oil field juts somewhat into Kuwait, thus stealing Iraqi oil and also draining off the natural gas pressure which had forced the oil naturally and easily up to the surface. Then to drive the provocation home, Kuwait, fully authorized by the U.S. and believing that it had protection from the United States, began overproducing and selling their stolen Iraqi oil at far below the OPEC price thus also waging direct economic war against Iraq and the rest of OPEC! (Iraq’s oil revenues at that time dropped $1 billion for every drop of a dollar in the price of crude oil.) Even after the 1990 July 12th OPEC meeting both Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates refused to abide by the OPEC agreement, which allowed them to sell slightly below the OPEC price and continued to sell crude oil far below the agreed price! Iraq was thus provoked and then over-provoked into invading ALL of Kuwait, which they would have to do in order to overthrow the Kuwaiti government, which was merely carrying out U.S. orders for provoking Iraq. Invading all of Kuwait was necessary in order to create the uproar required to justify the huge long-planned U.S. invasion. In response to this deliberate provocation on July 24, 1990 Iraq first moved 2 armored divisions to the Kuwait border. Later that same day, Margaret Tutwiler, when asked whether the U.S. had any plans to defend Kuwait demurely replied: “We do not have any defense treaties with Kuwait, and there are no special defense or security commitments to Kuwait.� On July 25, 1990, the next day, Saddam Hussein summoned U.S. Ambassador to Iraq April Glaspie to his office. According the Wall Street Journal, February 19, 1999, April Glaspie did everything possible to suck Saddam Hussein into the trap telling him that Bush I (H.W. Bush) had rejected trade sanctions against Iraq (!) or any other reprisal (right!) if he were to invade Kuwait and reassured Hussein by telling him: “I have direct instructions from the president to seek better relations with Iraq.�

The U.S. directed Saakashvilli to invade the independent area of South Ossetia while the world was being distracted by the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games. (Rice incidentally also brazenly blurted out at a dinner in Spring 2004 in Washington, D.C. that she was the mistress of the usurper Bush calling him “my husband� before correcting herself to “the president�!)

In addition, the U.S. and the U.S. proxy state, so-called “Israel� have supplied virtually all of Georgia’s military hardware and the U.S. has admitted to having trained the Georgian military. The U.S. also admitted that it had over 2000 military “advisors� and “trainees� in Georgia at the time of the invasion of South Ossetia! Russia Today TV initially reported that “American mercenaries� (all U.S. military personnel today are “volunteers� a 1984 Orwellian euphemism for mercenaries) accompanied the invading force into South Ossetia and that some may have been killed. The Russians found a U.S. Passport of Michael Lee White in Tskhinvali documenting U.S. involvement. These reports were re-confirmed August 29, 2008 on Russia Today TV.

The U.S./Georgian Invasion of South Ossetia was carried out with the primary objective of trying to create ethnic division in a U.S. attempt to discredit, weaken and divide discredit Russia just like they did with Yugoslavia in the 1990’s. The U.S.-led capitalist media, which is a privatized arm of the U.S. government’s so-called “intelligence community� and the United Nations were prepared in advance to focus only on Russia’s response 1 ½ days later after the U.S./Georgian invasion of South Ossetia by driving U.S./Georgian forces out of South Ossetia and following their retreat into Georgia in order to destroy much of Georgia’s U.S. supplied military. Saakhashvilli’s local credibility was sacrificed in the short term for the United States long-range objective of trying to eventually overthrow the Russian government, install a puppet government in the former CCCP as in the Ukraine, Georgia and the former Baltic Soviet Republics, and steal Russia’s unbelievable wealth of natural resources just like the U.S. is doing in Iraq. On September 28, 2008 on Russia Today TV In Context with Peter Lavelle, Alexandr Chachiya apparently a legitimate Georgian opposition figure, stated that Saakashvilli was not acting in the best interests of Georgia but of the U.S. and would probably be replaced by Nino Burjanadze, the Chairwoman of the Georgian Parliament, who along with all “opposition� parties in Georgia was also controlled by the United States, and that because of that fact Georgian policies toward Russia would not change. He also confirmed what this writer said soon after the Georgian Invasion/Provocation in South Ossetia, namely that the United States wanted to create chaos in the Caucuses for reasons already previously provided in this analysis.

The situation surrounding Russia today looks dangerously similar to the beginning of a replay of 1940 with the NAZIS on the border of the USSR preparing to invade. In fact Senator Prescott Bush, the father of George Herbert Walker Bush (Bush I) and George Herbert Walker both fanatical anti-Communists, funded the NAZIs before WWII. The grandson of Prescott Bush is the current “Usurper� in the White House. Barack Obama has stated that he intends to continue the same policies of encirclement of the former USSR just like the NAZIs did in 1940! Biden forcefully echoes this anti-Russian plan. And McCain/Palin are even more rabid-sounding Fascists.

The claim by Putin that the U.S./Georgian invasion of South Ossetia was a “provocation� to help McCain win the White House is indubitably false! That explanation is a simultaneous cover-up invented to minimize the actual objectives (see below) and a diplomatic gambit by Russia to allow the U.S. to cool it and to re-evaluate. The reality is that the permanent government of the U.S. capitalist dictatorship wants to go with a Democratic administration for 2008 for several reasons. The capitalists want to tighten and harden the capitalist dictatorship domestically and to try to gain support for their so-called “War on Terror by supposedly gaining the support of a democratic constituency. The truth is that Obama will be a “Black� Bush. The reason that Obama did not want Hillary Clinton as his vice-presidential nominee was because in that case it was very likely that the Democrats would win by as much as 30 to 40 points or more. In the event of such a lopsided victory the democratic constituency would be inclined to expect some sort of a “leftward shift� in U.S. foreign and domestic political policy, which is not at all in the cards as a review of Obama’s actual economic-political-social statements and positions in print fully document. The U.S. capitalist dictatorship always wants to try to keep the presidential “elections� close to try to build interest in the sham “election� and “credibility� in a contrived and manipulated “close nail biter/cliff hanger election� to create the false belief that every second person supports the government policies. The reality is that only around 20% of Americans support the Bush regime!

The only way the capitalists could have a close election in such circumstances would be for Obama to move significantly to the right, which he has done. Sarah Palin who initially was portrayed as very popular was quickly portrayed as inexperienced and very dangerous lest she gain too much popularity which might interfere with the planned Obama “victory� in waht is another sham “election� used to perpetuate the capitalist dictatorship. The reality is that 95% of New Yorkers and presumably the majority of Americans agree that we need a new system based on human need not private profit! In addition, the capitalists do not want to marginalize or alienate the Fascist and proto-Fascist elements in the United States, which they need in order to support the fundamental war-based, mass murder-based and crime-based U.S. policies. The capitalists also plan to try to divert the people who are fooled into voting for Obama to join a “volunteer community service,� a form of slavery being hyped by the capitalist media and both “candidates,� which along with “faith-based initiatives� are going to try to substitute for government social programs. “Community service� is a sentence dealt out to non-violent first-time offenders in the U.S. legal system. Obama has such total contempt for the intelligence of the masses that he thinks he can turn a court sentence into a means to pump up U.S. patriotism and support U.S. policies similar to the Hitler Jungend (Hitler Youth). Through slogans like “shared sacrifice� Obama has been chosen to try to abolish the function of Social Security (keeping older people alive), and to try to whip the masses in line to support U.S. policies such as “the right war in Afghanistan� (!) and the “War on Terror.� which is simply the pretext used by the capitalists to maintain capitalism in its final stage of Permanent War and State Terrorism.

The invasion of South Ossetia was thus a deliberate provocation which Russia had no choice but to respond to and was carried out to achieve several objectives, the first of which is described above but that invasion also has disturbing parallels to the Full Court Press. Star Wars (SDI)/Nuclear Arms Race that the Reagan Regime put on the USSR in the 1980’s which ultimately forced the surrender by Mikhail Gorbachev to the threat of a nuclear war. The purpose of that 1980’s Nuclear Arms Race to force a Soviet surrender was openly acknowledged by the Fascist John McCain in the first presidential debate on September 26, 2008. The capitalist media focus on the Russian response to the invasion of South Ossetia, rather than the U.S./Georgian Invasion of South Ossetia, has been used to build public support in Poland for the so-called U.S. “Missile Defense� to be placed in Poland and later the radar to be built in the U.S.-puppet Czech Republic where an agreement has already been signed with no public referendum permitted. Public support in Poland on the other hand, which opposed the U.S. “missile defense� prior to the Russian response in South Ossetia, now supposedly supports it! Beginning in January 1984 and with full deployment completed in 1985 the U.S. was able to place Pershing Nuclear First Strike Nuclear Missiles in Germany 10 minutes from Moscow, but only after carrying out the 1983 Korean Airliner Provocation in order to discredit the European Communist-led opposition to the placement of Pershing II missiles in Germany. Placement of Pershing II First Strike Missiles in Germany caused the surrender by Gorbachev in 1988 to the threat of an imminent nuclear war, the inexorable outcome of a nuclear arms race. (There was no Soviet “economic collapse� as testified by the CIA on U.S. network TV news in 1990, which stated that they had no data whatsoever or any indications of an incipient “economic collapse in the USSR.� This was because there was no economic collapse, but rather a Soviet surrender to the threat of a nuclear war followed by a long and painful dismantlement of the Soviet Workers’ State during the 1990’s leaving the Stalinist (not Communist!) leadership structure in place.)

In that provocation an altitude bomb (described by the Soviet pilot Gennadi Osipovich as “a large secondary explosion which destroyed the aircraft as it descended�) was placed in the Korean 747 airliner to insure that even if the USSR did not shoot it down, which it did, the U.S. could claim the plane was shot down. That plane was going down period!! The Korean pilot was directed to fly straight into the Soviet Union over the Kamchatka peninsula and was personally assured by the disgraced murderer Richard Nixon who was at the airport in Anchorage, Alaska before it took off, that the Soviets would not shoot down the plane because they would not risk the bad publicity which would damage international relations! The official story was that Nixon “almost took the flight!� So disingenuous!

Gorbachev’s Soviet Surrender Was Based on
Lenin’s Strategy of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk!

In carrying out his surrender Gorbachev was following the Strategy of Brest Litovsk, where Lenin was forced to sign an ignominious peace agreement with the German Kaiser in order to gain time with the understanding that all the Russian land that the early Soviets were forced to give up would be later regained. That was the case. Gorbachev was completely correct in believing that the inexorable outcome of a nuclear arms race was nuclear war. Gorbachev also knew and calculated that by the Soviet Union leaving the field the dynamic of capitalism would exist unchecked thus exacerbating and accelerating the contradictions of capitalism-imperialism thus hopefully making these contradictions stand out in bold relief and bringing it closer to the final scrap heap of human history. The dynamic of capitalism has indeed been accelerated in spades! The Fascists are once again on the Russian doorstep. Gorbachev wanted to try to permanently eliminate the nuclear threat. And he did so—for a time! And he wanted to integrate the former USSR into the world capitalist economy making it much less likely to be a nuclear target of world capitalism. And he did so up to Bush’s abandoning the ABM Treaty in the U.S. preparation to continue its so-called “missile defense� which is nothing more than an attempt to force a second Russian Surrender. See below. But the 1988 Soviet Surrender to the Threat of a Nuclear War also created many more contradictions.

Today, Russia in typical Stalinist opportunist fashion has now agreed to the fraudulent U.S. claim of “economic collapse of the USSR� in order to try to guarantee peace with U.S.-led world imperialism now that the Soviet Workers’ State has largely been dismantled. For example, Peter Lavelle and others on on Russia Today TV, while he presents the Russian response to world events, which correctly always seeks to avert confrontation, never loses an opportunity to repeat the Big Lie about the supposed “Soviet Collapse.� But now “Russia� finds how fast that “peace� has disappeared with the U.S. breaking virtually all of the U.S.-Soviet Peace Treaties of the 1990’s starting with the cornerstone of the agreements with the Soviet Union, the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty of 1972, which Bush formally broke on June 13, 2002 thus forcing the Russian Federation to withdraw from Start II, which banned the use of MIRV on ICBMs. NATO ships now fill the Black Sea as a further provocation after the U.S./Georgian Invasion/Provocation of South Ossetia, which the U.S. indubitably is rearming. In addition the U.S. is directing their Ukraine puppet Viktor Yushchenko to push the provocation/demand that the Russian fleet abandon its main Sevastopol base in the Crimea inhabited by 70% Russians!! Lots of luck! The U.S. is also building air bases in Georgia, which it plans to use against Iran and other countries. Public opinion does not support either the U.S. or NATO in such adventures, which are bound to fail no matter how many provocations are carried out and Big Lies are told.

The false claim of “economic collapse of the Soviet Union� was fabricated by the United States in order to try to demoralize the masses of the world, and the United States especially, to the only solution to the complex of problems created by capitalism-imperialism. That solution is Socialism! Which can only be achieved through a Socialist Revolution in the United States, which itself can only be carried out peacefully as occurred in the October Russian Revolution of 1917. Mikhail Gorbachev’s Op-Ed column in the New York Times, August 20, 2008, was the typical Stalinist (Not Communist!) opportunist, anti-Communist response, which did not explain the clever U.S. strategy of provocation primarily in order to create ethnic division in the Caucuses designed to last for generations and that Russia was forced to respond to these provocations.

In his surrender to the United States in 1988 Gorbachev carried out some rather heinous acts of murder of prominent Soviet representatives and “stones in the shoe� of the capitalists. For example, Gorbachev undoubtedly had the Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko murdered in July 1989 because it would be inconceivable that Gromyko could espouse the surrender terms that Gorbachev had agreed to. Gromyko was thus seen as a potential troublemaker in the planned Soviet surrender. A living Gromyko would be more respected than a live Gorbachev. The U.S. and the USSR had also previously agreed to the murder of NAZI Rudolph Hess in preparation for the rather long-planned Soviet Surrender. (Remember even before he took power on March 12, 1985 British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s December 1984’s highly publicized statement: “We can do business with Mr. Gorbachev.�) Hess was 93 years old and imprisoned in Spandau Prison in Germany and simply refused to die a natural death. Hess was a continuing symbol of the NAZIs and the need for a continuing Soviet presence in Eastern Europe and thus an obstacle to the planned Soviet surrender. An extremely frail Hess, who needed help in tying his shoes by a male nurse, was murdered by wrapping an electric cord around his neck and choking him to death. The media trumpeted “suicide, when he had never ever attempted “suicide� previously, despite media “Big Lie� claims to the contrary. And the prolific Hess left no suicide note and was moreover physically totally feeble and completely unable to choke himself to death according to testimony by relatives! See extensive coverage in the New York Times on and after August 17, 2008. In addition, Gorbachev also gave the order for the murder of Kim Philby in May 1988, a Soviet Agent who had led the Russian division of British Intelligence (!) for decades and had escaped to the USSR in 1963 just in the nick of time to prevent his capture. In 1965 Kim Philby was awarded the Order of the Red Banner, one of the highest Soviet awards, and was made a General in the KGB. Another “stone in the shoe� of the capitalists who had to be removed! With these people dead no one could ask their opinions on the Gorbachev surrender. Others who had defected to the Soviet Union were also murdered to “clear the slate� for the coming Soviet Surrender.

Gorbachev’s own wife considered him to be a traitor and was estranged from him after Gorbachev carried out the provocation he used to discredit the Soviet leadership, many of whom were previously their respected and personal friends, but who were not allied to him in his surrender to the United States and had to be eliminated. On August 4, 1991with great fanfare the hugely unpopular Gorbachev took a vacation to the Crimea and behind the scenes encouraged so-called “Gang of Eight,� some of whom accompanied him to the Crimea (!) to stage what was described later as a “coup,� but unknown to them Gorbachev cut all their lines of communication and chain of command. Gorbachev controlled the media completely, NOT the other way around as officially portrayed, thus setting this “Communist� opposition up to be discredited and removed officially from all top government posts. Boris Yeltsin, an expert demagogue, was appointed beforehand by Gorbachev to move into the gap while Gorbachev was supposedly being “imprisoned in the Crimea.� Yeltsin was new and did not share Gorbachev’s mantle of unpopularity in the Soviet Union and the crowds were peppered with shills to scream his name, which the world capitalist media reported with glee. The media showed Yeltsin “heroically� denouncing the “coup� from the top of a tank. Gorbachev himself directed the so-called “Gang of Eight� to set up a plan of measures that supposedly could be taken in case a state of emergency!

Deputy USSR Defense Minister General Valentin Varennikov stated that Gorbachev himself had supported the coup and was behind all eight and had told the group: "Do what you think is needed, damn you!" to restore order and declare a state of emergency. Gorbachev knew these individuals opposed him and gave them the rope to hang themselves. The official name for the group was the State Committee on the State of Emergency (GKChP), and was headed by Vice President Gennadii Yanayev. Others included KGB head Vladimir Kryuchkov, Soviet Prime Minister Valentin Pavlov, and Defense Minister Dmitry Yazov, the USSR Internal Affairs Minister, Boris Pugo, deputy Chief of the USSR Defense Council Oleg Baklanov, Vasily Starodubtsev, chairman of the USSR Peasant Union and Alexander Tizyakov, president of the Association of the State Enterprises and Conglomerates of Industry, Transport, and Communications.. This group was almost immediately dismissed from their offices by Gorbachev after the coup began and he returned to Moscow with some of those very members (!), who were then all arrested. Pugo and his wife supposedly committed suicide but the reported circumstances at the time indicate it was murder. A highly publicized and staged attack on the Soviet Parliament, the so-called “White House,� which had to be put down militarily, was then carried out as yet another provocation to send the message of intimidation to the Communist Party members of Parliament and masses (who hated Gorbachev and what was happening under his leadership) that the military supported the Gorbachev/Yeltsin leadership. Later Gorbachev resigned officially and the Soviet surrender was consolidated under Yeltsin who liquidated the USSR officially on December 8, 1991, when the USSR, Belarus and the Ukraine signed the Belovezh Agreement, dissolving the Soviet Union and establishing a Commonwealth of Independent States.

In his August 20th New York Times Op-Ed Gorbachev also lied through omission by omitting the obvious long-range U.S. objectives of the U.S./Georgian Invasion/Provocation of South Ossetia. Putin and Medvedev to their credit eventually exposed these objectives although only secondarily and without appropriate focus and emphasis! By honestly explaining these provocations Russia would be able to explain how the U.S. intends to manipulate public opinion. This way the public in all countries would be on guard not to allow itself to be manipulated by the country which lied about “Weapons of Mass Destruction� in Iraq and which lies about everything. This should be a no-brainer but Stalinist opportunism blocks the mind.

United States Hopes To Try Another Full Court Press
Like in the 1980’s and Force A Second Russian Surrender!

On August 14, 2008 the U.S. signed an agreement to build a so-called “missile defense� system in Poland which includes missile interceptors. Russia has promised a “military response� if the missiles are installed in Poland. This sounds like Russia would take the missile installation(s) out in an air strike similar to the U.S./�Israel� bombing of the Osirak Reactor in Iraq in 1981 and the planned bombing of Iran, etc., etc. etc. Obviously the number of missiles in Poland will begin to increase exponentially as the U.S. orchestrates provocation after provocation on the border of Russia similar to the U.S./Georgian invasion of South Ossetia. This so-called “missile defense� is actually part of a Nuclear First Strike plan, which is actually a strategy of intimidation by the United States as was explained back in the 1980’s when the U.S. put a full court press on the USSR with a runaway nuclear arms race and “Star Wars� forcing the Soviet surrender by Gorbachev in 1988. Today the United States and NATO want to force the former Soviet Union into a second surrender as explained above! In an actual First Strike by the United States and the NATO PACT the so-called “Missile Defenses� are used simultaneously with a U.S. Nuclear First Strike in order to try to cripple the Russian response to the U.S. First Strike. The U.S. is hoping that they will win the game of “chicken� like they did in the 1980’s and that the Russians will back down and make a second surrender as they did in 1988. This is the present strategic centerpiece of U.S. “statecraft� with Russia.

Today ninety-five percent of New Yorkers agree that we need a new system based on human need not private profit. A Socialist Revolution in the United States will end the basis for all war and set the stage for solving the entire complex of problems created by capitalism, which threaten the survival of humankind. Capitalism cannot be reformed through elections or by any other means because the capitalist dictatorship is left in place and because capitalism has an internal dynamic of its own which leads to a constantly hardening capitalist dictatorship finally to Fascism, barbarism and the end of civilization and all life on Earth, as we see with the Runaway Greenhouse Effect, which has already begun. Politicians rise to the surface to the extent that they express and further this almost entirely one-way dynamic. The “presidential elections� are the primary weapon of deception of the capitalists, which is used to try to perpetuate the illusion of “democracy� in what is a constantly hardening capitalist dictatorship. Under capitalism “democracy� is simply a euphemism for capitalist dictatorship and enslavement! If you vote for anyone in the U.S. Presidential “elections� you have been neutralized and are a sucker! No candidate is even just a little “better� than another because the differences prior to the election virtually all disappear after the election according to the needs of the capitalist dictatorship, which makes the actual decisions based on its’ dynamic, development sequence or dialectic, which has little to do with its own preservation, which in turn underscores the fact that the system controls the politicians—not the other way around. Today capitalism is in its Final Stage of Permanent War and State Terrorism.

The United States Invasion of Iraq is one more act of State Terrorism and has resulted in the deaths of 1.2 million Iraqis by September 2007, one year ago, according to National Public Radio. Now the number is probably more than 1.5 million dead Iraqis. We are told to feel sorry for a few more than 4000 dead US mercenary murderers and cutthroats, the majority who come back with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder from being forced to murder Iraqis. Capitalism offers a world with no future! Remember that in the end all wars are won and lost on morale and every movement begins with the call. Do not be intimidated! The first call must be to deprive the capitalists of bodies of armed men to send against the masses, by calling for the only political position with successful historical precedent: Call for Mutiny in Iraq as in Vietnam, the real reason and the ONLY reason the Vietnam War ended on the spot in 1975 after the Third Marine Division turned their guns around on their officers forcing the immediate and total evacuation of all U.S. troops in days and hours. Normally, when the U.S. invades a county they never leave. The U.S. has a military presence in over 130 countries right now and is now invading Pakistan and threatening to use their proxy state of so-called “Israel� to bomb Iran. The U.S. capitalist dictatorship used its proxy state of Georgia to invade the former USSR (South Ossetia) and is right now using their Fascist proxies to fight the governments of Bolivia (Evo Morales) and Venezuela (Hugo Chavez)!

The capitalist demagogues/stooges Obama, Clinton, McCain, etc. all call for “Phased Redeployment,� which means in practice simply transferring some forces from Iraq to Afghanistan (Obama, e.g.) or elsewhere and leaving a puppet government in place in Iraq. Bush has just initiated the beginning of this policy just prior to the sham U.S. “election.� But Mutiny Saves Lives! Mutiny is provided for by the Declaration of Independence which is actually a transitional document which supports a Socialist Revolution in the United States! We should all read that document now! It provides the legal basis for a Socialist Revolution in the United States although a legal basis is certainly not required to end a system fundamentally based on war, mass murder and crime! In addition to employing a mercenary army rather than a conscripted army the capitalists have tried to take precautions to try to prevent the reoccurrence of another Mutiny in Iraq as in Vietnam! Blackwater USA, Custer Battles, Dyncorp, etc and all 45,000 armed military contractors are paid 4 times what the regular U.S. mercenary marauder/cutthroat forces are paid in order to induce loyalty to the officer corps and are a NAZI-like SS (Schutzstaffel) formation which is in Iraq for one purpose only—to protect the Officer Corps in the event of another Mutiny—NOT to protect “diplomats,� the phony cover story foisted on an unsuspecting public. The U.S. created a mercenary army to replace the previous enlisted army used in Vietnam as the yet another tactic to try and prevent reoccurrence of mutiny. Therefore the present U.S. military mercenary army must get its act together, realize that their interests as well as the interests of all humankind are violated by the invasions of Iraq, etc. They will have to turn their guns around on their officers who must all be immediately arrested, unless they join and support the Mutiny, and then they must fight and decisively defeat Blackwater and the other 45,000 military contractors, which they can easily do if they organize themselves to do it, because the regular army is much larger and has heavier weapons. The key is organization, which is already in place. This will open the door to all further social progress and is the first step in ending the War Against Iraq and carrying out a Socialist Revolution in the United States and worldwide.

Patriotism is a capitalist gimmick, a deception to divide up the International Working Class against itself—once more—divide and conquer! Don’t be fooled! Remember that this is NOT our country! It is the capitalists’ country. We just live here! Only a Socialist Revolution in the United States can establish real democracy and freedom and make it our country! Under capitalism “democracy� is just a euphemism for capitalist dictatorship and enslavement and “freedom� is merely a euphemism for the capitalists freedom to exploit and super-exploit. That is the fundamental basis of “globalism� where the worlds’ capitalists compete worldwide for the lowest wage for workers! Once capitalism is overthrown at its center there will be no more center of world capitalism to act as a threat and the hard dictatorship of the Workers’ States will not be necessary and the basis for genuine democracy and a permanent end to class society will finally be established. We have to end the dictatorship of billionaires and millionaires and establish a new system based on human need where everyone can live like a millionaire. Today, in the United States there is enough money, enough wealth for that to be a reality in practice. Today, capitalism-imperialism has created the greatest economic disparity in all human history. This is due to the dynamic of capitalism based on exponentially increasing capital accumulation by the insignificant minority of capitalists and also has to do with the fact that the capitalist dictatorship knows that a Socialist Revolution is much less likely to occur if the masses are continuously kept on the edge of economic collapse and are encouraged to falsely believe that they must first look out for number one! The reality is that approach only perpetuates the capitalist dictatorship and is completely opposed to each individual’s self-interest and in final analysis is actually part of the capitalists’ strategy of divide and conquer. That is why the Call for Mutiny in Iraq must come from the United States!

Today, given the choice, the overwhelming majority of Americans agree with the statement: “We need a new system based on human need not private profit!� And given the choice the overwhelming majority also agree that “we need a Socialist Revolution in the United States!� These are both Communist responses! The U.S. population is therefore not “a little to the right of center� or even “a little to the left of center� as falsely portrayed by the U.S. media, but is receptive right now to a Socialist Revolution here in the United States. This means that at some level and actually at many levels the masses recognize that capitalism offers a world with no future! People understand at some level the emergency that exists. The reason that a Socialist Revolution has not occurred yet is because of the present correlation of class forces in the United States where the capitalist dictatorship is still able to maintain its dominance over its own masses at the center of world capitalism-imperialism. The capitalists rule through a combination of force and deception. At this point where capitalism has entered its final stage of Permanent War and State Terrorism and its class dictatorship is hardening by the day and growing more nakedly oppressive domestically and internationally the capitalists are depending once again on their Primary Weapon of Deception—the Presidential “Elections� process (see further below), which their accelerating loss of credibility forced them to initiate nearly a year earlier this time in order to try to divert the attention of the masses from actually even considering the possibility of a new system based on human need not private profit: “Look, look, look here are your new candidates—aren’t you happy and hopeful just thinking about them?� The capitalists’ objective is obviously to try to re-instill false “hope� in capitalism. Barack Obama’s disingenuous book: “The Audacity of Hope,� published in October 2006 is another indication that he has for many years been groomed for a presidential run, parrots and refurbishes Jesse Jackson’s deceptive slogan—“Keep Hope (in capitalism!) Alive,� which in turn was lifted from the fraudulent capitalist history: “Tragedy and Hope� by Carroll Quigley, a professional liar from the (CIA) Georgetown University center, which was once required reading for capitalist politicians and aspiring demagogues and counter-insurgents.

Every four years the capitalists pull another rabbit out of their hat as they stage their sham “elections� in order to continue to try to perpetuate the illusion of “democracy� in what is actually a hardening capitalist dictatorship, in order to string the masses along and try to coax and cajole them to agree more easily to their own oppression and genuine misery and poverty with such false promises of “Change We Can Believe In,� “Judgment to Lead� and “Solutions for America�, etc. etc. From the Working Class viewpoint a demagogue is defined as a false leader who pretends to represent the wishes and aspirations of the masses but actually represents the interests of the capitalist class. All of the candidates in elections held by the capitalist class represent the interests of the capitalist class because they try to deceive the masses to believe that capitalism can reform itself when scientific analysis and history reveals that to be completely impossible at this end stage in this final stage of capitalist development!

The capitalists’ present objective is to use the what they hope will be the increased credibility of an Obama Presidency to ram through the most oppressive measures possible against the masses domestically and of course to continue the “War on Terror,� the pretext for the final stage of capitalism-imperialism: Permanent War and State Terrorism. With the outcome of a victory by the Democrats completely assured in the 2008 “elections,� the capitalists do not actually care who wins between Obama and Hillary Clinton—whoever has the greatest ability to fool the masses is who they want, despite the fact that the Clintons have controlled the Democratic Party leadership since 1992! In their desperation and frustration and anger at the Bush Regime the supporters of these new stooges/demagogues, Obama and Hillary Clinton, etc. usually do not look closely at what the candidates actually say about the War in Iraq, the Global Warming (which data now show has entered the stage of a Runaway Greenhouse Effect) or any other issue. For example, all candidates support continuation of the War in Iraq, installation of the U.S. puppet “Iraqi� government and leaving a large number of troops in Iraq indefinitely through “phased withdrawal� rather than a total evacuation as occurred in Vietnam due to the 1975 mutiny! It is not only the youth, but all those who see no future in the present course, who recognize at some level that capitalism offers a world with no future and who actually do want a new system based on human need, who in their desperation, frustration and anger end up being forced to put their faith in one or another of these capitalist demagogues because there seems to be no other choice. The masses are presented with no alternative but to participate in the sham, staged U.S. presidential elections where the outcome has largely been decided in advance and has been ever since Watergate. Most people think that it is the only game in town. Not true, as we shall see!

The Legal Basis To Abolish Capitalism Exists and is Compelling!

Although it is not actually necessary let us examine the legal basis for the alternative to capitalism, although that is not actually a requirement to carry out a Socialist Revolution in the United States: First of all, there is no founding document which enshrines capitalism as the permanent economic-political-social system for the United States! On the contrary, the primary founding document of the United States, The Declaration of Independence written by Thomas Jefferson and signed by all of the so-called “founding fathers� is actually a transitional document which provides for and authorizes a Socialist Revolution in the United States. A Socialist Revolution in the United States is the only prudent and appropriate response to the domestic and international tyranny, oppression and threat to human civilization and indeed all life on Earth, which the United States Capitalist Class Dictatorship today subjects the entire world! (And which will not change one iota under an Obama or Clinton regime!) All the so-called “founding fathers� signed this document, which states: “Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of (the unalienable Rights of Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness) it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundations on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness� and “...when a long train of abuses and usurpations pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government and to provide new Guards for their future security.� In no way could this language possibly be interpreted to mean to simply hold new “elections� under capitalism—as falsely claimed by political police agent provocateur Ralph Nader, when it is clear that the problems have all been created by the capitalist system itself. “Alter� in this instance does mean first to try to reform capitalism, which is tried with each new capitalist election, but the one-way dynamic of capitalism (see below) combined with the absence of the Soviet Union as a counter-force, the effectiveness of which was weakening even prior to the 1988 Soviet surrender (see below) makes that now impossible as history has demonstrated. (“Reform� when used by the capitalists themselves is a euphemism, which invariably means escalating their war against the Working Class, middle-income earners and the Poor. “Form of Government� in this context refers to the class structure of the state, not to electing different capitalist politicians. The document calls for laying new foundation and principles, which in today’s context means to organize a new type of state and society on a different basis of class ownership based on ownership and control by the Working Class, which is the only possible means to actually achieve the unalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness guaranteed by the Declaration of Independence. Abolishing the capitalist dictatorship is the only correct approach and that is what the Declaration of Independence demands once certain conditions have been met. Those conditions have been met.

Ralph Nader, who has also entered the 2008 “race,� is in his actions 100% aligned with the capitalist dictatorship (see below), and lies through his teeth and makes specious argument when he falsely claims: “Thomas Jefferson believed that when you lose your government, you've got to go into the electoral arena. A Jeffersonian revolution (!) is needed in this country. All we can do is try to loosen it up, challenge it, bring it to account in some court cases and build for the future. We can also keep an exciting, practical, progressive agenda before the American people — get more people to run for local, state and national office." Emphasis added. Jefferson never said any such thing! Nader falsely and absurdly claims that a presidential election is a “Jeffersonian Revolution.� It is very clear by these statements that Nader’s objective is to use the deception of the presidential “elections� try to keep dissenters within the framework of the capitalist dictatorship. Elections are held every 4 years in any case so Jefferson and his founding father co-signers were certainly not speaking about elections.

The basic question of every revolution is that of state power. The state is nothing more than a machine for suppressing one class by another. Unless this question is thoroughly understood there can be no intelligent participation in the revolution, not to speak of guidance of the revolution. Although the capitalist regime today is composed largely of Fascists and proto-Fascists we do not yet have Fascism in the United States. We have Rule By Decree, technically known as Bonapartism, in the form of a bureaucratic-military police state. This is further explained below. What is most important to understand is that capitalism is a class dictatorship based on the fact that the capitalists own the means of production, the factories, the land, the banks, the military, the media (a privatized arm of the U.S. government’s so-called “intelligence community�), the educational system, where the state begins the brainwash of the youth. Children who become the brainwashed adults are forced to pledge allegiance to the rapidly hardening capitalist dictatorship, which is falsely labeled “a democracy,� a Big Lie constantly repeated everywhere by the capitalist dictatorship. The youth are limited in their instruction to blindly memorize and regurgitate “facts�—many of which are lies, but to receive little to no instruction in inductive reasoning and dialectical thinking, which is absolutely required to understand the meaning and significance of the “facts� which they learn, to debate their truthfulness and most importantly to help organize the masses in their own self-interest to carry out a Socialist Revolution in the United States. The capitalists’ objective is to try to ensure that the masses remain forever as children and to later be ready to fanatically fight and die in war for the capitalists’ interests only—never their own interests! A Socialist Revolution will abolish the basis for all wars.

Finally, the capitalists own and operate the entire political process with their 2 parties, parties which of course represent only capitalist interests. Even under a parliamentary system such as in France, Italy or England the capitalists run all of the parties including those that falsely claim to be “Communist� and “Socialist� and largely orchestrate all outcomes of the elections. For example, in the most recent French “election� Segolene Royal and the Socialist Party deliberately self-sabotaged the election in order to enable the election of the Fascist Nicolas Sarkozy in order to spearhead the capitalists’ objective to reduce and ultimately remove the social programs and public education in France, and the Socialist Party was rewarded for its treachery with multiple portfolios in the Sarkozy government! In addition, all of the U.S. presidential “election� outcomes are rigged in advance, and have been ever since Watergate. (See further below.) When the manipulated outcome sought by the capitalists has not occurred as in the 2000 and 2004 “elections,� where the masses nevertheless elected the Democrat Al Gore and the Democrat John Kerry despite deliberate self-sabotage by those candidates and media sabotage of their campaigns (see below), the election results were simply overthrown completely in what is a continuing coup d’etat in the United States. George Bush is therefore not “the president.� Bush is a usurper. The coup d’etat of 2000-2004 represents a total breakdown in the capitalists’ illusion of “democracy� and will not change with the 2008 “election� of Obama. The entire sham “election process� is carried out in order to generate high interest to make it seem to be “a real nail biter,� “a real horse race,� “a real cliff-hanger� in order to bamboozle, hornswoggle, hoodwink, flim-flam and deceive the masses in every conceivable way into falsely thinking that the outcome will change their lives in any appreciable way. It will not! The reality is that the masses have no horse in this race! It is a fact that no candidate for president even offers or suggests or even mentions a new system based on human need not private profit, which the majority of Americans, when given that choice say they want! The capitalist “elections� exist precisely to try to prevent that choice from ever becoming a reality! All candidates offer only a continuation of the capitalist dictatorship. For Obama and McCain, etc. all issues actually reduce to a single question: how best to preserve capitalism-imperialism. That is the reality! At an earlier point in history capitalism created a revolutionary break with feudalism and introduced great advancement in production. But today capitalism in its final end stage has proved to have no viable future and now threatens all life on Earth. We need a new system based on human need not private profit simply in order to survive. Even the capitalists have no future under capitalism! And many capitalists are acutely aware of this fact!

The survival of civilization as we will see below, therefore depends on carrying out a Socialist Revolution here in the United States, which will then follow automatically, almost simultaneously worldwide because there will be no more center of world capitalism-imperialism. (See toward the conclusion of this Analysis and Theses—The Dialectical and Historical World View.) The wisest course of action for the masses is to totally abandon all voting in the presidential and congressional “elections� while putting their energy instead into actually calling for and organizing a new system based on human need not private profit. It is absolutely crucial to reject completely the capitalists’ Primary Weapon of Deception—their Presidential “Elections.� Voting means that you have been neutralized by the capitalist dictatorship and still are entertaining the notion, or are willing at some level to “hope� that capitalism can be reformed, which is simply not possible. Capitalism can never be turned into a system based on human need! Private profit and human need are mutually exclusive. As explained below humankind simply does not have the time for any more games of “hope� in capitalism.

The capitalist dictatorship in the United States is hardening by the day, which is obvious to even the casual observer. This is due to the natural dynamic or development sequence of capitalism, a dialectic which is largely independent of the wills of the individual capitalists and the capitalist politicians themselves. The politicians who rise to the top in the hardening capitalist dictatorship are those who express and further this one-way dynamic! That includes Obama. And obviously this applies to the openly Fascist Republicans. The capitalists can not change that reality! That’s why “elections� under capitalism cannot change anything no matter how they are carried out. This dynamic leads to a constantly hardening capitalist class dictatorship finally to Fascism, which is defined as the hard dictatorship of capitalism. See below. As mentioned there is no genuine “democracy� under capitalism—not even for the capitalists themselves.

Not since the 1960 election where Kennedy bought a few more votes than Nixon have there been 2 separate capitalist factions! Neither faction then represented the interests of the Working Class! The same is true today! After 1960 all elections were settled by assassinations and gunplay until Nixon, the organizer and implementer of the new-style government by assassination, was removed bloodlessly through the Watergate scandal by Nelson Rockefeller—not a second in line at the FBI (Mark Felt)—who merely carried those messages to the Washington Post which were authorized by Nelson Rockefeller in 1974. (See below.) Nelson Rockefeller simply felt under threat himself from Nixon once a Rockefeller ally. Rockefeller and Rockefeller ally Henry Kissinger together were the so-called “deep throat.� Another topic which is analyzed in depth following the discussion of the main topics, is the Big Lie of a supposed “collapse of the Soviet Union.� That Big Lie is used to demoralize the masses against the only solution to the complex of problems created by capitalism-imperialism and was refuted even by the Central Intelligence Agency, on network television news in 1990 and 1991 who stated that the CIA had no data or factual basis to support the claim of a “Soviet economic collapse.� That is because there was no “Soviet economic collapse� and CIA indignantly did not want to lend itself to acting merely as a propaganda outfit as Bush tried to do prior to the U.S. Invasion of Iraq. Briefly, the USSR simply backed down from the Reagan era “full court press� of a stepped-up nuclear arms race during the 1980’s where the capitalists launched their First Strike Star Wars program and placed First Strike Pershing II Nuclear missiles in Germany 10 minutes from Moscow! This escalated the situation to Launch on Warning. Mutally Assured Destruction became imminent. It was that situation alone which caused the Soviet surrender in 1989 and subsequent dismantlement of that Workers’ State, but which has left the former Soviet power structure intact. (See further below.)

Remember that U.S. patriotism-chauvinism-jingoism means being willing to die or being willing to tell others to die for the capitalist warmongers and exploiters and super-exploiters. Never fall for it! As a first step we should never ever be sucked into saying “we� or “our� in referring to United States policy or actions! That opportunistic choice of words deceives the speaker into thinking that his or her interests coincide with the interests of the capitalist dictatorship and is wrong in the first place because the United States is not “our country.� It is the capitalists’ country! In addition, such an opportunistic choice of words immediately implicates the speaker in the crimes of U.S. capitalism-imperialism against the entire world and against its own citizens. Nobody should lose sight of that fact for one moment! Under capitalism the word “democracy� is simply a euphemism for capitalist dictatorship and enslavement. “Freedom� under capitalism simply means the freedom to exploit and oppress. Only after class society is abolished through a Socialist Revolution in the United States can there be genuine democracy for the Working Class and everyone else. The capitalists have divided their domestic population on multiple bases and intimidated and brainwashed the masses to fear Socialism, despite the fact that the 1917 Russian Revolution and World Communist Movement in the 1930’s is responsible for all of the social programs which still exist in the United States (see further below). Up to now the capitalists have been able to inoculate and intimidate people against the only solution to their problems. The capitalists have also infantilized the masses using various means including Disneyland, Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, Alice in Wonderland, etc. Political cartoons also rely on cynicism—a capitalist philosophy of submission, resignation, acquiescence, despair and defeat. Cynicism is also promulgated by the capitalists’ political comedians wherever possible (see below). The result is that the masses are more likely to see themselves as children feeling hopeless, resigned to that fact, and constantly look up to the capitalist politicians as “the adults.� Nixon and others have openly referred to the masses as “the children.� But the capitalists’ deceptions now wear thin as the masses begin to sense the gravity of the present situation.

Despite the capitalist brainwash the overwhelming majority of Americans nevertheless now support the “need for a new system based on human need not private profit!� Even within the capitalist state bureaucratic apparatus itself when given that choice the majority support the call for a new system based on human need not private profit! The material presented herein is intended as an aid to help progressive people consciously deprogram themselves from the capitalist brainwash which targets the masses every day from every direction and to provide a genuine basis to organize the Socialist Revolution in the United States. This is the wisest course of action and it is both possible and necessary. Do not be demoralized! Remember the morale of the capitalist state apparatus, which includes the army, police and bureaucracy, has never ever been lower. That is bad for the capitalists but very good for the masses! In the final analysis all wars are won and lost on morale, not force or force theory as the U.S. discovered once before in Vietnam! And every movement starts with the call! The precise steps to organizing a Socialist Revolution in the United States as explained below must be learned and widely taught and will help organize the depth of leadership required to achieve a Socialist Revolution in the United States. Where do we start.

The Capitalists Rule Through a Combination of Force and Deception!
Therefore: 1.) The Capitalists Must be Deprived of the Ability to Send Bodies of Armed Men
Against the Masses and 2.) The Primary Capitalist Weapons of Deception Must be Explained
And Exposed in Order to Take the Steps to Defeat Them and 3.) A Nationwide Network
Of Workers’ and Community Councils Must be Organized as a
Dual Power Counterposed to the Capitalists’ Dictatorship!

Mutiny in the armed forces is the absolute precondition for Socialist Revolution as well as ending the War in Iraq. Mutiny saves lives! Mutiny Saves Lives! This must be repeated. And repeated! And repeated! The capitalists must first be deprived of the ability to send bodies of armed men against the masses before there can ever be genuine free speech where opposing viewpoints can be fully heard by the masses, for example on NBC, ABC, CBS and CNN television at prime time every night of the week. Speaking on a street corner even with a megaphone is not free speech! Mutiny is also the first step to abolishing the

Before I start: I'm not a McCain troll, nor will I be able to vote in the first place, since I am German.

Republican nuts would now tell me to p### off because US elections aren't my business anyway. But when it comes to Wall Street: that is world economy - and a disaster here is a disaster in every country on Earth.

So I raise my voice: Senator Obama, the bail-out plan fights fire with fire! And I'm sure you know this. I can see that something must be done, that a levee must be built to prevent main street from a hurricane called deflation. But you cannot fight debt with another debt.

Let me clear my point a bit: The crisis on Wall street stems from the habit of US investment banks to lend money this very banks borrowed from other banks in the first place - who themselves borrowed it somewhere else - and so on.

Thus the housing bubble was created: a huge balloon of purely virtual money - until the market decided it's time to see how much of this money actually is real.

Turned out it wasn't too much.

And now the chosen solution should be to borrow more money? This time from those who - in the end - will really have to pay it?

There was a time in world economy when money and real products where more or less in balance. When you could bet on the productivity of a given company or country. That wasn't always a nice game, but it kept money and production in balance. Money was god, but at least it was an entity you could touch.

At some point during the last 20 years America invented a new god: virtual money. An entity you cannot touch - but as a vacuum it exists nonetheless:
- America still borrows 1 billion dollars each working day from foreign countries
- Since 1999 the US car industry lost 300.000 jobs and still does not have an answer to the rising fuel costs
- America's industry and infrastructure haven't really developed over the last 25 years
- the yearly oil invoice of your country is 500 billion dollars, mostly accounted for by Chinese money
- There's not a single country in the developed world where people save less money from their income (and that is not because you earn less)

And now the vacuum collapses - and this implosion will have huge collateral damage all around the world if not mitigated. Banks will sit on the little money they still have and not lend it to companies who need it to produce goods. People will become unemployed and industry production will go down. As a result more loans will fail - and banks will become even more careful with their money. A vicious circle called deflation.

What does all of this lead to? First of all it leads to the conclusion, that the bail-out doesn't solve your problem since it doesn't remove the very cause of the problem: there's too much virtual money around.
When it comes down to this the bail-out probably will make things worse. The only positive thing you can say about it: it will buy you time. Time to slowly reduce the amount of virtual money in the market, lead it towards funding of real industry production and make it money that actually has a value in the real world outside the Wall Street books.

Why does it make me nervous, that the last ten years America used it's time to sell its future?

So this is what Senator Obama clearly must see (and I'm positive he is intelligent enough to see it): If he signs this bail-out he still has to attend the American people that his task will be to reduce the only virtual wealth Joe Average now is paying high interest rates for.

America needs to go back to work, starting to actually produce stuff. America needs to learn that it is facing 20 years of hard work before it will make it back to the level of wealth it has dreamt of the last years.

As I said: I am German, and since 1990 we try to build up a working economy in a part of our country where there was just a socialist dream before. This is a much smaller task compared to the one you are facing. But still after 18 years we haven't quite achieved our goals (Republican nuts would now diss the German ability of working hard).

Since I trust in Senator Obama's ability to see through things I am sure he's aware of this. I hear about his plans for renewable energy, infrastructure, etc. And that is all the right decision. But what America also needs is a "blood, sweat & tears" speech. Something to wake your nation up. The road back to a healthy economy might be longer than those of you at my age (born 1961) will see in their lifetime.

What you need is no less than a complete twist of your character as a nation. It's not enough to win this election. A president Obama needs to convince all parts of the society: republicans, evangelicals, rednecks, media, everyone. If that doesn't happen every effort will be destroyed in four years. Because things will hardly look much better in only four years.

Sorry for interfering. I know you have an election to win and you do not need advice from foreigners. But I consider myself a friend of the Obama campaign - and if you read up to this point I hope I completely didn't upset you.

Michael Phelps, the Beijing Olympics, the
U.S./Georgian proxy Invasion of South Ossetia,
and Prospects For a Socialist Revolution In the United States!
September 28, 2008 Update

Phelps did not win the Olympic Butterfly 100 meter final. Milorad Cavic of Serbia won the event and after the race stated that he had won the event. Cavic had already soundly beaten Phelps in the Semifinals of that event! After the race Phelps also stated that he thought he had lost. And even Phelp’s mother first acted as though she thought Phelps had lost! She appeared totally dumbfounded but accepted it! Cavic’s coach said that he would launch a protest. Serbia also “launched a protest.� Then later both the Serbian government (a U.S. proxy/puppet regime installed after the U.S./NATO-led dismemberment/ethnic cleansing of the sovereign country of Yugoslavia, where under Tito everybody lived together in peace) and Cavic and his coach both withdrew their complaints. U.S. Puppet/Proxy Serbia was clearly under extreme pressure from the United States. Serbia in turn put extreme pressure on Cavic and his coach who withdrew their complaint. The United States wanted their “Golden Boy� (Bloomberg TV, August 18, 2008), and refused to permit the reality of the loss to Cavic to spoil the headline heralding Phelps: “A PERFECT FINISH, AN UNMATCHED RECORD.� New York Times (August 17, 2008) The U.S. intends to use Phelps as part of the capitalists’ fraudulent propaganda campaign that Phelps supposedly represents “victorious capitalism� while the capitalists are in fact losing all over the world as the world enters the beginning of another Great Depression!

The FINA executive Director, Cornel Marculescu, first stated that FINA would not permit the release of the footage by Omega the official timekeeper for the Beijing Games of the finish under the phony hard-sell pretext: “We are not going to distribute the footage. We are not doing THESE KINDS OF THINGS. (!) EVERYTHING IS GOOD. (!?) What are you going to do with the footage? See what the Serbians already saw? It is clarified for us beyond any doubt. He’s the winner in any way. (?) He’s the winner no doubt. Even if you could see the pictures, I don’t know how you could use them.� And Cavic the actual winner stated: “If you ask me, it should be accepted and we should move on. I’ve accepted defeat, and there’s nothing wrong with losing to the greatest swimmer there has ever been.� (!?) (New York Times, August 17, 2008) Parentheses added. The answer to this sort of tripe is simply: “What are you afraid of? What do you have to hide from an actual frame-by-frame analysis? Except the victory of Cavic over Phelps! You sound like a liar caught in a clumsy cover-up! You don’t make decisions for me Big Brother!�

Under public Pressure FINA later was forced to release what they said were digital frame-by-frame footage of the finish which they claimed showed that Phelps had won but actually DID NOT show that Phelps had won (New York Times, August 24, 2008). The images show conclusively that Cavic touched the wall fist without a doubt! But according to Dale Neuberger, Vice President of FINA the system that determines who wins the race actually measures “the instant of depression, of activation of the touch pad, not contact with the pad.� Careful observation reveals that Cavic touched the wall first and that his elbows were slightly bent indicating that he had depressed the touch pad with sufficient pressure (only 1.5 kilograms of pressure per square centimeter, according to Neuberger) to stop the clock.

The event was apparently also not actually shown LIVE. There was on a time delay despite the LIVE claim on the TV screen. Within seconds of the finish which showed Phelps in the water after the race he was suddenly being interviewed on the tarmac! Not credible! It is very easy to rig such an event if the race is that close. The U.S. knew that it might be close because of the fact that Cavic had already beaten Phelps in the Semifinals and they could not let anything alter their propaganda use of Phelps in order to try to improve the depraved image of the U.S. The reality, of course is that the United States is the most hated and despised country in the world. The majority of the world’s citizens recognize that the United States, which reflects the naked dynamic of capitalism, as the source of all war as well as all economic disparity. A software program can be easily written to cover all eventualities in such a situation where the finish of the 100-meter Fly was expected to be very close. The U.S. government can and does routinely hack computers of their adversaries and send computer viruses which completely destroy their adversaries’ hard drives and the entire computer, for example, and more (e.g. monitors by overloading them and simultaneously corrupting multiple Debit Card accounts with Dell Computer and Paypal, for example), as this writer and his roommate have experienced firsthand. The bottom line for this particular computer program, which undoubtedly gave Phelps his false “victory� was that unless Cavic won by a clearly visible margin he would “lose� in a very close race, even if he actually won! And that is exactly what happened!! The 2 electronic touch pads on the walls of the pool can be reversed in their polarity in a digital twinkling, so that even if Cavic touched the wall first it would simply register as Phelps touching the wall. Because if you look closely in that part of the replay which was permitted directly after the race and the images which were later release and printed in the New York Times (see above) it is quite clear that is what happened. Phelps lost! And he and the majority of viewers, including his own mother, knew that he lost! But he was very happy to accept the false victory! It should be recalled that with the Zapruder film of the JFK Assassination the “commentator� Dan Rather lied about what it showed, falsely stating that Kennedy’s head flew backwards due to totally fabricated so-called “jet effect� violating all laws of physics in response to a supposed bullet fired from behind him, when in fact JFK was hit only by 2 shots both fired from the front. One went through his tie knot and the other was the Dum-Dum bullet that hit him in the right forehead and killed him instantly. (Writer is the number one authority on JFK assassination who gave the keynote talk on JFK at Ethical Culture Society on November 12, 1975, twelfth anniversary of JFK Assassination, but who is not permitted to speak on anti-Communist WBAI radio on any topic!)

Both Serbia and the Peoples’ Republic of China (PRC) went along with the fraudulent Phelps’ “victory� in the 100-meter Fly because of political pressure from the United States. China was indubitably blackmailed and threatened that unless they went along with the crime the U.S. would push the age issue with the clearly underage Chinese girl gymnasts and take away their Olympic Team gold medal. Humiliation the Chinese did not want to accept! This is also the reason that the PRC went along with the U.S. all around victory in girls’ gymnastics which was accomplished by U.S. puppet judges grossly inflating the level of difficulty and execution by the U.S. and doing the reverse and chiseling big-time the level of difficulty and the execution of the vastly superior Chinese girl gymnasts. Shawn Johnson for example, was permitted to usurp second place in the all-around title after putting in very simple routines in the uneven bars and balance beam even though she won the event on an individual basis later. Even in the floor exercise Johnson’s level of difficulty and execution were pumped up like a balloon while the Chinese gymnasts routines were falsely downgraded. This modus operandi occurred over and over!

Although it made a pro forma protest against the U.S.-instigated “independence� of Kosovo, the Serbian government is a U.S. puppet/virtual proxy state which was installed after the U.S. division of Yugoslavia, a country where under Marshall Tito everyone got along. Serbia is a U.S. puppet just like the government of Georgia, which was incidentally authorized and directed by the U.S. to invade South Ossetia and now falsely denies it. In July 2008 Kindasleezy Rice standing beside Saakashvilli in Tbilisi, offered encouragement to Saakashvilli similar to that given to the later-sacrificed Saddam Hussein on July 25, 1990 by U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, April Glaspie, to invade Kuwait.

Glaspie suckered Saddam Hussein by giving him the green light to invade Kuwait by telling him: “We have no opinion on Arab-Arab conflicts like your border disagreement with Kuwait.� (New York Times, 9/23/90)). In 1989-1990 the United States carried out a carefully planned provocation, which Saddam fell for hook line and sinker. The U.S apparently guaranteeing Kuwait its protection, instructed Kuwait to drill long slanted wells under the Iraq-Kuwait border where the Rumaila Iraqi oil field juts somewhat into Kuwait, thus stealing Iraqi oil and also draining off the natural gas pressure which had forced the oil naturally and easily up to the surface. Then to drive the provocation home, Kuwait, fully authorized by the U.S. and believing that it had protection from the United States, began overproducing and selling their stolen Iraqi oil at far below the OPEC price thus also waging direct economic war against Iraq and the rest of OPEC! (Iraq’s oil revenues at that time dropped $1 billion for every drop of a dollar in the price of crude oil.) Even after the 1990 July 12th OPEC meeting both Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates refused to abide by the OPEC agreement, which allowed them to sell slightly below the OPEC price and continued to sell crude oil far below the agreed price! Iraq was thus provoked and then over-provoked into invading ALL of Kuwait, which they would have to do in order to overthrow the Kuwaiti government, which was merely carrying out U.S. orders for provoking Iraq. Invading all of Kuwait was necessary in order to create the uproar required to justify the huge long-planned U.S. invasion. In response to this deliberate provocation on July 24, 1990 Iraq first moved 2 armored divisions to the Kuwait border. Later that same day, Margaret Tutwiler, when asked whether the U.S. had any plans to defend Kuwait demurely replied: “We do not have any defense treaties with Kuwait, and there are no special defense or security commitments to Kuwait.� On July 25, 1990, the next day, Saddam Hussein summoned U.S. Ambassador to Iraq April Glaspie to his office. According the Wall Street Journal, February 19, 1999, April Glaspie did everything possible to suck Saddam Hussein into the trap telling him that Bush I (H.W. Bush) had rejected trade sanctions against Iraq (!) or any other reprisal (right!) if he were to invade Kuwait and reassured Hussein by telling him: “I have direct instructions from the president to seek better relations with Iraq.�

The U.S. directed Saakashvilli to invade the independent area of South Ossetia while the world was being distracted by the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games. (Rice incidentally also brazenly blurted out at a dinner in Spring 2004 in Washington, D.C. that she was the mistress of the usurper Bush calling him “my husband� before correcting herself to “the president�!)

In addition, the U.S. and the U.S. proxy state, so-called “Israel� have supplied virtually all of Georgia’s military hardware and the U.S. has admitted to having trained the Georgian military. The U.S. also admitted that it had over 2000 military “advisors� and “trainees� in Georgia at the time of the invasion of South Ossetia! Russia Today TV initially reported that “American mercenaries� (all U.S. military personnel today are “volunteers� a 1984 Orwellian euphemism for mercenaries) accompanied the invading force into South Ossetia and that some may have been killed. The Russians found a U.S. Passport of Michael Lee White in Tskhinvali documenting U.S. involvement. These reports were re-confirmed August 29, 2008 on Russia Today TV.

The U.S./Georgian Invasion of South Ossetia was carried out with the primary objective of trying to create ethnic division in a U.S. attempt to discredit, weaken and divide discredit Russia just like they did with Yugoslavia in the 1990’s. The U.S.-led capitalist media, which is a privatized arm of the U.S. government’s so-called “intelligence community� and the United Nations were prepared in advance to focus only on Russia’s response 1 ½ days later after the U.S./Georgian invasion of South Ossetia by driving U.S./Georgian forces out of South Ossetia and following their retreat into Georgia in order to destroy much of Georgia’s U.S. supplied military. Saakhashvilli’s local credibility was sacrificed in the short term for the United States long-range objective of trying to eventually overthrow the Russian government, install a puppet government in the former CCCP as in the Ukraine, Georgia and the former Baltic Soviet Republics, and steal Russia’s unbelievable wealth of natural resources just like the U.S. is doing in Iraq. On September 28, 2008 on Russia Today TV In Context with Peter Lavelle, Alexandr Chachiya apparently a legitimate Georgian opposition figure, stated that Saakashvilli was not acting in the best interests of Georgia but of the U.S. and would probably be replaced by Nino Burjanadze, the Chairwoman of the Georgian Parliament, who along with all “opposition� parties in Georgia was also controlled by the United States, and that because of that fact Georgian policies toward Russia would not change. He also confirmed what this writer said soon after the Georgian Invasion/Provocation in South Ossetia, namely that the United States wanted to create chaos in the Caucuses for reasons already previously provided in this analysis.

The situation surrounding Russia today looks dangerously similar to the beginning of a replay of 1940 with the NAZIS on the border of the USSR preparing to invade. In fact Senator Prescott Bush, the father of George Herbert Walker Bush (Bush I) and George Herbert Walker both fanatical anti-Communists, funded the NAZIs before WWII. The grandson of Prescott Bush is the current “Usurper� in the White House. Barack Obama has stated that he intends to continue the same policies of encirclement of the former USSR just like the NAZIs did in 1940! Biden forcefully echoes this anti-Russian plan. And McCain/Palin are even more rabid-sounding Fascists.

The claim by Putin that the U.S./Georgian invasion of South Ossetia was a “provocation� to help McCain win the White House is indubitably false! That explanation is a simultaneous cover-up invented to minimize the actual objectives (see below) and a diplomatic gambit by Russia to allow the U.S. to cool it and to re-evaluate. The reality is that the permanent government of the U.S. capitalist dictatorship wants to go with a Democratic administration for 2008 for several reasons. The capitalists want to tighten and harden the capitalist dictatorship domestically and to try to gain support for their so-called “War on Terror by supposedly gaining the support of a democratic constituency. The truth is that Obama will be a “Black� Bush. The reason that Obama did not want Hillary Clinton as his vice-presidential nominee was because in that case it was very likely that the Democrats would win by as much as 30 to 40 points or more. In the event of such a lopsided victory the democratic constituency would be inclined to expect some sort of a “leftward shift� in U.S. foreign and domestic political policy, which is not at all in the cards as a review of Obama’s actual economic-political-social statements and positions in print fully document. The U.S. capitalist dictatorship always wants to try to keep the presidential “elections� close to try to build interest in the sham “election� and “credibility� in a contrived and manipulated “close nail biter/cliff hanger election� to create the false belief that every second person supports the government policies. The reality is that only around 20% of Americans support the Bush regime!

The only way the capitalists could have a close election in such circumstances would be for Obama to move significantly to the right, which he has done. Sarah Palin who initially was portrayed as very popular was quickly portrayed as inexperienced and very dangerous lest she gain too much popularity which might interfere with the planned Obama “victory� in waht is another sham “election� used to perpetuate the capitalist dictatorship. The reality is that 95% of New Yorkers and presumably the majority of Americans agree that we need a new system based on human need not private profit! In addition, the capitalists do not want to marginalize or alienate the Fascist and proto-Fascist elements in the United States, which they need in order to support the fundamental war-based, mass murder-based and crime-based U.S. policies. The capitalists also plan to try to divert the people who are fooled into voting for Obama to join a “volunteer community serv