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Prophecy 'Blog' : Friday February 11th, 2005
Some interesting facts about the Iraq elections:
7,000 Candidates were anonymous, and thus did no campaigning for office, only appearing on the ballots on election day, so that people had to vote for people they did not know.
There was no vote on how to manage Ira's vast O-I-L wealth, not vote on whether or not to 'privatize' Iraq's wealth by giving it to American capitalists, the political base of George Bush. There was no vote on whether or not to end the American occupation.
As well Iraqis had to register their names with the government agency that hands out monthly food rations before they were allowed to vote, and they had to do the same before they registered to vote, thus leaving people with the impression that if they did not register, or that if they did not vote, they risked losing their monthly food rations, and given the wrecked state of that country, that would mean starvation. This tactic was used in an attempt to pump up the numbers turning up at the polls to vote for those people they did not know and had never heard of before.
So then there was no referendum on any of the important issues, since these issues will be dediced, as historically they have always been decided, by the ruling colonial occupation force. Basically there was just a vote on a list of unknown names.
What They're Not Telling You About the "Election"
Dahr Jamail
The day of blood and elections has passed, and the blaring trumpets of corporate media hailing it as a successful show of "democracy" have subsided to a dull roar.
What they also didn't tell you was that of those who voted, whether they be 35% or even 60% of registered voters, were not voting in support of an ongoing US occupation of their country.
In fact, they were voting for precisely the opposite reason. Every Iraqi I have spoken with who voted explained that they believe the National Assembly which will be formed soon will signal an end to the occupation.
And they expect the call for a withdrawing of foreign forces in their country to come sooner rather than later.
This causes one to view the footage of cheering, jubilant Iraqis in a different light now, doesn't it?
chaos and violence, no jobs, no electricity, little running water and no gasoline (for the Iraqis anyhow).
what happens when the National Assembly is formed and over 100,000 US soldiers remain on the ground in Iraq with the Bush Administration continuing in its refusal to provide a timetable for their removal?
What happens when Iraqis see that while there are already four permanent US military bases in their country, rather than beginning to disassemble them, more bases are being constructed, as they are, by Cheney's old company Halliburton, right now?
On Dec. 22, 2004, Iraqi Finance Minister Abdel Mahdi told a handful of reporters and industry insiders at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. that Iraq wants to issue a new oil law that would open Iraq's national oil company to private foreign investment. As Mahdi explained: "So I think this is very promising to the American investors and to American enterprise, certainly to oil companies." In other words, Mahdi is proposing to privatize Iraq's oil and put it into American corporate hands. According to the finance minister, foreigners would gain access both to "downstream" and "maybe even upstream" oil investment. This means foreigners can sell Iraqi oil and own it under the ground - the very thing for which many argue the U.S. went to war in the first place. As Vice President Dick Cheney's Defense Policy Guidance report explained back in 1992, "Our overall objective is to remain the predominant outside power in the [Middle East] region and preserve U.S. and Western access to the region's oil."
Abdel Mahdi is running in the Jan. 30 elections on the ticket of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution (SCIR), the leading Shiite political party. While announcing the selling-off of the resource which provides 95 percent of all Iraqi revenue may not garner Mahdi many Iraqi votes, but it will unquestionably win him tremendous support from the U.S.
The UIA has the blessing of Iranian born revered Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani. Sistani issued a fatwa which instructed his huge number of followers to vote in the election, or they would risk going to hell.
The Sioux chief Sitting Bull, had a unique point of view of such things as, oh, the Bush tax cuts for his rich friends, or the way that Bush and the capitalist clique can shatter international law, while at the same time, more petty criminals are locked up in jail in America's gulag system than in any other country on earth. This, in a country where the official policy is to keep the 'ideal rate of unemployment' (typically somewhere between 4 and 6 per cent, depending on which economist you ask), thus breaking unions and keeping wages down. This will then be followed by 'Welfare Reform' to 'end welfare as we know it', since this will make poverty even more desperate and fearful, and also keep wages down, as well as making workers easier to control, since they will fear losing their jobs and being tossed into the fiery furnace or the lion's den by the Babylonians. This level of desperate poverty will then fuel crime which will then be hypocritically punished, while the really big international war crimes and violations of international law by the capitalists and Bush go unpunished (not to mention all their murders and violence, which in scale and execution go far beyond any petty violence on the streets of America, and which also goes unpunished). Meanwhile ministers, who are in league with Bush, will decry sin and also condemn the poor, and insist that prosperity is for the taking because of the 'blood of the lamb' and the 'promises of God's word', even though poverty and desperation are the national policies (nevertheless, by their doctrine they damn the poor, who this doctrine suggests, are to blame for their own poverty, since prosperity has already been 'purchased by the blood of Jesus'). Having ignored all this hyporcrisy it is a small matter for the same ministers to ignore the international war crimes and other sins of the Bush administration, not to mention those budget busting tax cuts for the capitalists, which will now be used as an excuse to trash the social safety net for the poor, as well as a phony 'Social Security Crisis' which will trash old widows who cannot after all afford to invest in Wall Street, a phony crisis which would be fixed easily if only Bush would put the social security tax on the rich, which he of course refuses to do, preferring to manufacture a phony crisis and gut the program instead, for purely right wing ideological reasons.
The Sioux had no class divisions in their society, and they did not think much of capitalism. According to Sitting Bull, "These people have made many rules that the rich may break but the poor may not," he noted at the 1877 Powder River Indian council. "They take tithes from the poor and weak to support the rich who rule."
The unreported destruction of a modern urban city (Fallujah) has been at least partially caught on tape. Fallujah (Real Media). What we can learn from this is that if Osama comes to town he might knock down a couple of towers, but when Bush and his capitalist Have Mores come to town, if the town has something to do with an O-I-L well, well they knock down the whole damn city.
The Home Page of the video is located here.
An interesting story helps us to understand what happens when religious people are brainwashed by racist and genocidal texts (such as what we find in the Jewish Torah)...
Palestinian students need army escort to school to ward off settler attacks. Yes, even religious Jews, not to mention right wing Christian Zionists, can turn to genocide and racism themselves, and as I listen to the anti-Muslim polemics preached from some pulpits, equating Muslims with God and Magog, and I am alarmed by the thought that here we have the same process of stumbling towards genocide that resulted in the Holocaust (which followed after years of similar bad sermons from pulpits targetting the Jews), combined with vulgar racism from right wing zealots who regarded these people as 'subhuman' (and you hear similar language being used to describe the Muslims today). Apparently people have learned nothing from history, and so history must be repeated, seemingly over and over again until they learn the basic principles.
The concentration camp mentality also remains with is and is rising again. Bush has already been granted the right to make people simply 'disappear' without the right to appeal to a lawyer, or any trial (the analog is Hitler's Night and Fog decree, which was then recycled in Argentina, resulting in the disappearance of tens of thousands of people, who it turns out were tortured and then murdered by the state). Similarly torture is making a come back, with the justification being that it is all part of the war against terrorism. Incidentally, if you read Hitlers speeches, you will find that Germany was also justified in that conduct due to the 'War against Terrorism' (Hitler's words) and there was not a war Hitler fought that was not fought to protect Germans from terror (first it was Czech terror against the Germans, then the Poles turned to terrorism against the Germans, and of course the biggest terrorism of all was Jewish inspired Communist terrorism from Russia.) It is not surprising then, given all the historical parallels, that the Bush administration is now planning a concentration camp system.
US plans detention for life.
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