Posted on 08/04/2014 7:10:47 AM PDT by CharlesOConnell
“You’re likable enough, Hillary.” … Barack Obama made that remark in a televised debate ahead of the 2008 New Hampshire primaries. Back then, "more of the public preferred Obama over rival Sen. Hillary Clinton." [Polls, of course, aren't intended to INFLUENCE public opinion, they only REFLECT "Democratic" popular opinion. Psst! Anybody want to buy a bridge?]
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The popular philosopher, G.K. Chesterton first considered that the Catholic religion might be true, when he heard contradictory claims made about the Church.
Suppose we heard an unknown man spoken of by many men. Suppose we were puzzled to hear that some men said he was too tall and some too short; some objected to his fatness, some lamented his leanness; some thought him too dark, and some too fair. One explanation … would be that he might be an odd shape. But there is another explanation. He might be the right shape. – G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy (1908), Chapter 6, “The Paradoxes of Christianity“
In the current civil crisis over Obamacare, at least 3 contradictory sets of facts can help us to clear the smoke away from the mirrors, to triangulate to the truth and see what’s really going on.
1) Hillary was the most popular, but Obama became president.
2) Biomedical Technology is one of the last healthy export manufacturing sectors of the economy, but it will be taxed to death.
3) We were told that Obamacare would stick it to Big Insurance and Pharma, but now it’s admitted that they have the the best seats at the table.
How do we cut through the fog of media propaganda and arrive at a reasonable semblance of the truth? We can look at a similar example from another time we know more about, where the bodies are buried and who put them there.
In the 1930s, someone heard Adolph Hitler being screamed at behind closed doors by the head of the German Central Bank [Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht]. Who could get away with screaming at Hitler and live?
Someone fronting from a group so powerful, it could have ordered that Hitler be made into Hoffaburger. It turns out that when Hitler first assumed power, he went with hat in hand to make his case to the heads of German industry that his gangster militias could deliver labor peace.
(Not that the Big Boys were exactly helpless – their corporate army was called Der Totenkopf, the “Death’s Head” – the SS. Their corporate heirs are the people who put out RU-486 chemical abortion. [IG Farben > Hoechst > Roussel Uclaf])
• Hillary and Barack’s Very Special Date Night 6/6/08
• Bilderberg meets to decide US presidential election 3/31/12
• Bilderberg Kingmaker Kissinger ‘Jokes’ About President Hillary Clinton At Elite Gathering 5/2/13
A roughly similar set of events may have been behind Obamacare. Fast forward to the 2007-2008 American Presidential race. Hillary Clinton was winning, then without any plausible explanation, Barack Obama was suddenly ahead. It happened in a way that made Hillary supporters cry foul.
Behind the scenes, it may have happened that Hill and Barry attended a command performance in front of the Big Boys who run things. It was found that Hillary carried too much political baggage, she tried but failed in 1993 to deliver Hillarycare, so, suddenly, Barack Obama is the man in command, with the most agile political gangster force and an effective, ready-made, prince-charming cover story.
THE whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes being corrected. Even when the revolutionist might himself repent of his revolution, the traditionalist is already defending it as part of his tradition. Thus we have the two great types—the advanced person who rushes us into ruin, and the retrospective person who admires the ruins. He admires them especially by moonlight, not to say moonshine. Each new blunder of the progressive or prig becomes instantly a legend of immemorial antiquity for the snob. This is called balance or mutual check, in our Constitution. — G.K. Chesterton: ‘The Blunders of Our Parties,’ Illustrated London News, April 19, 1924
Our politicians cry about insuring everyone and keeping jobs at home. But the most obvious solution, open insurance markets among the 50 states, won’t be allowed. And Biomedical Devices, one of the most healthy sectors of the export economy, will get a stake through the heart.
What’s the group that’s so powerful that they can ruin the country to unanimous hosannas from the media? The same one that was able singlehandedly to defeat both the Trial Lawyers and the Doctors with one hand tied behind its back: Big Insurance.
It’s now openly acknowledged that the group in charge of what became Obamacare, from the bitter beginning was lead by Big Insurance and Pharma, both touted in “the free press” as bad boys who would receive their just punishment, in the circus leading up to the vote on the bill that couldn’t be read – “read it after you pass it”, 6 times longer than the Bible.
Big Insurance and Pharma have the seats of honor at this robbers’ banquet. Harry Reid is in charge of the waiters, Nancy Pelosi runs the kitchen – and Barack Obama supplies the bouncers.
It remains to be seen, however, whether or not Big Insurance can pay the bill, now that it’s due.
A century ago, politicians and newspapers claimed that the establishment of the Federal Reserve would protect the little man, stabilize the economy and banking, and shield us from depressions and crashes. We now know that was just bait & switch, the Federal Reserve was never intended to do any such thing. The newspapers of that time led people around by the nose, feeding them anything their ultra-elite owners wanted.
“…they were either politicians or reporters, which, of course, comes to the same thing.” – Ford Madox Ford, “The Good Soldier“
They decide who governs and how, who serves on courts, what laws are enacted, and whether or not wars are waged.—Bankers Rule the World: The Network of Global Corporate ControlWall Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy
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