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The Jones family above is watching a horror fantasy. They are unaware that the election events on their television screen are total fantasy but that the horror is real.       The mother and father were non-educated at the same non-school that Timmy and Suzie are now being non-educated. None of the four knows what is going on in the world and they have no interest in knowing.

Horror A presentation depicting murder and mayhem as somewhat frightening though slightly amusing. Fantasy Fantasy consists in a mindless acceptance of unrealities as real.

The "election" portrayed on the Jones's television screen is a complete fantasy. Both the Republican and Democratic presidential candidates have been chosen by a criminal gang and the outcome of the election has already been decided by that same pack of thugs.

Most Americans are like the Jones family: having allowed themselves to be brainwashed into mindlessly believing that the "election" is a fair contest of the people's will. Because most Americans are happy believing in fantasies like "fair elections" and "war on terrorism," America has become a police state.

Cabal A group that seized political and economic power through criminal actions such as assassinations and election-fixing. Dictatorship A form of criminal mis-rule in which the leaders have destroyed Constitutional liberties. War-Profiteering Creating bogus wars to make money through the manufacture, sale, and destruction of war materiel: guns, planes, ships, etc.

Because Wendell Jones, the father, and Betty Jones, the mother are ignorant--but do not know that they are ignorant--they are not aware and therefore do not teach Timmy and Suzie the truth about their nation: That America has become: Cabal-controlled A dictatorship: repressive police state A war-profiteering rogue state

The American One-Party Dictatorship
Republican Presidential Candidate		Democratic Presidential Candidate
Both selected by the Demonic Cabal

"Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee." Helen Keller, 1911

      The criminal junta that controls America cunningly conceals its plans and tactics, so we must construct the best educated guess possible.

In this primer, we're exploring the factors which support the hypothesis that the cabal has decided to make either Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama president. Until early in 2008, it appeared that the cabal would likely select Hillary to become president.       But a significant intervention by the ruling elite to promote the Obama campaign, acting through its political representatives—particularly Senator Edward Kennedy, longtime leader of the liberal wing of the Democratic Party—and through the corporate-controlled mass media then occurred.

Most Reasonable Hypothesis That hypothesis based on the most supporting data available, which best explains what is occurring and predicts what will happen in the future.

Two Possibilities

      Barack Obama's or Hillary Clinton's assuming of the American presidency will assure total continuation of the criminal, oppressive, militaristic, war-profiteering policies of the Bush II junta.

      The discerning few in the world have been tipped off to the depraved connection between the cabal and the two Democratic candidates by a number of prior events.

      Republican presidential candidates who began campaigning in 2007 received half as much campaign money as the Democratic candidates--a complete reversal of historic trends. It appears the cabal wants the Democratic nominee to win in 2008. According to recent financial reports to the Federal Election Commission, investment bankers have tilted their financial support overwhelmingly to the Democratic Party, giving roughly equal amounts to Clinton and Obama. In total contributions, both Clinton and Obama collected more than $100 million apiece in 2007, more than twice the largest amount raised by any Republican, while Obama raised an additional $32.6 million in January 2008 alone.

The Hillary Candidacy

      The Jones family--and the rest of America and the world--were almost startled awake on December 17, 2007 when former President Bill Clinton said that the first thing his wife Hillary will do when she reaches the White House is dispatch him and his predecessor, President George H.W. Bush, on an around-the-world mission to repair the damage done to America's reputation by the current president—-Bush's son, George W. Bush.

"Well, the first thing she intends to do, because you can do this without passing a bill, the first thing she intends to do is to send me and former President Bush and a number of other people around the world to tell them that America is open for business and cooperation again," Clinton said in response to a question from a supporter about what his wife's "number one priority" would be as president.

      To the Joneses of the world this chummy relationship between the Clintons and the Bushes came as a complete surprise. Suddenly it was clear for all with eyes to see that Bush Senior was supporting Hillary Clinton for President. Bush I's subsequent perfunctory "denial" was so lame and feeble as to constitute an affirmation of Bill Clinton's assertion.

The Bush-Clinton Alliance

"The fact that the Bushes and the Clintons are on the same team - and have been since their alleged Iran-Contra partnership in an airport operation in Mena, Arkansas involving the transshipment of cocaine destined for the streets of America - is not something that most Americans have yet incorporated into our political equation." Catherine Austin Fitts, 1 Will the Real Economic Hit Men Please Stand Up?

      Perceptive analysts of historical trends discern other more esoteric clues as to why the cabal, including Bush I, would be supporting Hillary Clinton for president. This part of the story began in a small Arkansas town named Mena in the 1980s. ²

      With full knowledge and complicity on the part of then Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton, a small dirt airstrip at Mena, Arkansas became a major North American focus for the Contra drug and gun-running network, handling a night-flight every five minutes, without lights, at the height of the activities. The entire illegal gun running operation to Nicaragua was for the purpose of arming and resupplying the Contra forces, staged out of the Mena airport.

      Contra planes flew north to the U.S., loaded with cocaine for sale in the United States, then returned laden with weapons, all under the protective umbrella of the United States Government through the CIA. Cocaine profits were the real source of funding for the Contra's custom made (and numberless) M-16s. The CIA laundered the cocaine proceeds through various Arkansas financial institutions including Morgan Guarantee, Madison S&L, Worthen Bank, and most importantly, the Arkansas Development Finance Authority.

      After the Iran-Contra scandal erupted, individuals began to come forward with stories that the same planes that ferried guns down to Nicaragua were bringing back cocaine. These individuals included military personnel such as Eugene Wheaton, and pilots such as Richard Brenneke, and former Air Force intelligence officer Terry Reed, who claimed they were part of the guns and drugs operation itself. Some, like Chip Tatum, had documents proving their claims.

      As usual, the press seemed to have a blind spot where Mena was concerned. Writer Roger Morris (author of Partners In Power) and Sally Denton wrote a well-researched article entitled "The Crimes Of Mena." This story, based on Barry Seal's surviving records, had been fact checked and cleared for publication by the legal staff of the Washington Post, when it was suddenly spiked without explanation by Managing Editor Bob Kaiser, a fellow Skull & Bones alumni with ex CIA chief George Bush. The article was later published in Penthouse magazine in July, 1995.

      This unusual spiking of a news story caught the attention of writer Ambrose Evans-Pritchard who wrote an article about it--"Arkansas Drug Exposé Misses The Post"--for the London Sunday Telegraph that appeared January 29, 1995.

      The Mena operation had been covered in a Wall Street Journal editorial by Micah Morrison on October 18, 1994 titled "The Mena Coverup." Arkansas State Trooper L. D. Brown had been Clinton's bodyguard as well as his man on some of the round-trip Nicaragua-to-Mena airport flights piloted by Barry Seal. When he revealed what he knew about Mena in an American Spectator article in the summer of 1995 it met with mixed reaction, though Brown's information bore out what the other reports claimed. Brown later wrote an expose of the Mena operation titled Crossfire which corroborated much of what we're exploring in this primer.

      In his book, Compromised: Clinton, Bush, and the CIA, Terry Reed describes a scene he witnessed in which Governor Bill Clinton suddenly appeared at the Mena airstrip "on the verge of losing his well-rehearsed, statesman-like demeanor." Clinton was complaining to a CIA operative that "Mena had helped the CIA and its bosses in Washington, but it had not solved any of the governor's local political problems. And these same problems were threatening to unveil the Mena operations."

      According to Reed's report, the CIA operative told Clinton to shut up, that if he wanted the CIA to help him become President he would just keep his mouth shut and cooperate with the Mena operation in every way possible. Clinton, Reed claims, accepted the reprimand and left the airport with his tail between his legs.

      We need to recall that at this time George H.W. Bush was the de facto President of the United States, Ronnie Reagan having been sidelined by an assassination attempt on his life. Bush I was still in charge of all CIA operations--including Mena--having earlier been head of the agency.

      It appears, then, that the cabal had chosen Clinton as its Democratic presidential candidate in case Bush I didn't win re-election in 1993. After his narrow victory, Clinton proceeded to shut down the still on-going investigations into the corruption and crimes of Bush I. Iran-Contra, BCCI, and especially Bush's massive, secret and often illegal efforts to arm Saddam Hussein and supply him with material for chemical weapons-–all of these probes were cut off, starved or shunted aside by the Clinton Administration.

      Clinton also thwarted probes into the "October Surprise"-–the 1980 negotiations between the Reagan campaign camp, led by Bush, with the Iranians who were holding American hostages. Direct testimony from several credible sources emerged in the early 1990s about the Bush-Iran negotiations, in which the Reagan-Bush team secretly agreed to free up frozen Iranian assets and supply the extremist regime with military hardware in exchange for Tehran holding onto the hostages until after Jimmy Carter was defeated. Bush's negotiations with the Iranians to fix the American election constituted high treason, a capital offense. Because Clinton helped quash these investigations, it's little wonder that Bush I feels gratitude to Slick Willy. ³

"Hillary Clinton’s campaign is signaling that a second Clinton presidency will follow the look-to-the-future, don’t-worry-about-accountability approach toward Republican wrongdoing that marked Bill Clinton’s years in office." Robert Parry, consortiumnews.com

The Obama Candidacy

      Barack Obama is being spun as something of a progressive, though it's clear he is not the product of the civil rights struggles against racial oppression nor is he associated with any popular movement of the working class. Obama's career is most similar to those of Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell, individuals selected and groomed by the American ruling class to be its black fellow travelers. Like them, Obama is being used to put a new face on fundamentally reactionary policies and actions.

"The Obama campaign is not the vehicle of a leftward movement in the United States—as proclaimed by liberal groups such as MoveOn.org and publications like The Nation. It is a preemptive attack by the ruling class against such a movement. Its function is to delude the American people and divert their growing opposition to war, economic crisis and attacks on democratic rights back into the dead-end of the Democratic Party. "While the American people will cast ballots on November 4, the real decisions are made long before then, in the selection of candidates and framing of the election by the media and the corporate bosses and billionaires who finance and politically screen the candidates." 4

      The cabal will likely put on a somewhat believable presidential race for the 2008 election, conning Americans into believing that either the Republican or Democratic candidate would bring genuine change to our nation. But in the end it will likely make sure that Hillary or Barack wins both the Democratic nomination and the election.

      If Americans are to regain control of our nation, we must get rid of the two-parties-pretending-to-be-different scam and create a truly independent third party. Funding for election campaigning must come exclusively from public money, outlawing private corporations buying their own officials. We must look to our own philosophical foundations as we work to overcome this police state dictatorship that has our country in its grip.

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¹ Catherine Austin Fitts is a former managing director and member of the board of directors of Dillon Read & Co, Inc. She served as Assistant secretary of Housing/Federal Housing Commmisioner during the first Bush Administration, and is also formerly the head of Hamilton Securities Group Inc. She currently serves as President of Solari Inc., an investment advisory firm.

² Mena is a very small town in the middle of the Ouachita mountains in Southwestern Arkansas and not coincidentally it happens to be in Congressman John Paul Hammerschmidt's district, the Third Congressional district. John Paul Hammerschmidt just happens to be one of George Bush's very closest friends. He was George Bush's Presidential Campaign Manager for Bush's campaign in '76 and again in 1980. The two men are very close.

³ For additional information on these topics, see Robert Parry's The Clintons' Real Trouble With the Truth, Speak, Memory, and Parry's remarkable series "The October Surprise Mystery."

³ US political establishment lines up behind Barack Obama

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