The New Situation (post 7/4)
The New Situation:
-Domestic politics: B-a-a-d sinner boys; hiding in the bosom of the family (settling for what they can get after getting stopped)
-In Foreign policy: Continuing to make war
ON THE BASIS OF REVERSALS TO ADVANCE ISRAEL’S INTEREST
Reversal 1:
First Review of Frank Rich Book: "A Savaging Sermon" on Bush Years
By Kirkus Reviews
Published: July 12, 2006 5:55 PM ET
NEW YORK A new book by New York Times columnist Frank Rich, "The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth from 9/11 to Katrina" will be published by Penguin on Sept. 26. In the book, Rich delivers a savaging sermon on the US government's "rampant cronyism, the empty sloganeering of 'compassionate conservativism,' the reckless lack of planning for all government operations except tax cuts"—and so much more.
Anyone who knows his work will know that Rich is no fan of either George Bush, a man "not conversant with reality as most Americans had experienced it," or the Bush administration. In this blend of journalism and mentalits-style history—that is, the study of the mindsets that underlie and produce events—Rich looks closely and critically at the White House's greatest hits, from the 2001 defense of gas-guzzling as essential to the American way of life to "Heckuva job, Brownie" to the ongoing morass of Iraq.
By Rich's account, of course, that parade of missteps is organic; Bush and company cannot help but err. In an effort to disguise that track record, the Republicans have exercised single-minded control of the grand narrative of the last five years, at least in part because they have exercised quasi-totalitarian control over the news media. (They are nearly forgotten already, but one needs to remember Judith Miller, Jeff Gannon, Karen Ryan and various columnists and commentators paid off to repeat the party line.)
Not for nothing did a White House adviser reveal to one journalist that his bosses were set on creating their "own reality," one that all Americans were expected to share; not for nothing did that reality include spinning amazing lies about everything from the death of football- and war hero Pat Tillman to the kidnapping of Jessica Lynch to the government's preparedness for Katrina. And yet, and yet . . .
Though the administration may be remembered as the worst in American history, the people seem mostly silent. One wishes that Rich had explored that particular mentalit along with the others he so fluently discusses.
(Courtesy of Kirkus Reviews, one of E&P's sister publications at VNU.)
--Tony Snow says "I enjoy reading Rich".
*****/
Reversal 2 Ken Lay as Jesus
Ken Lay's memorial attracts power elite
George H.W. Bush, James Baker among attendees at packed church for the Enron founder; reverend compares fallen energy titan to Jesus.
July 12 2006: 6:10 PM EDT
HOUSTON (Reuters) -- Houston's political and business leaders, including former President George H.W. Bush, turned out for Kenneth Lay's memorial service Wednesday, less than a week after the Enron founder's sudden death.
Friends and family lauded as a devout Christian and family leader the man who built Enron into an international energy powerhouse before its collapse in the biggest corporate scandal of its time.
Ken Lay
Lay's stepson David Herrold told the nearly full First United Methodist Church that Lay was wrongly convicted, and he was angry about the portrayals of his stepfather in the media.
"He did have a strong faith in God and I know he's in heaven, and I'm glad he's not in a position anymore to be whipped by his enemy," Herrold said.
Lay, who was 64, died while vacationing in Colorado on July 5, just six weeks after a jury convicted him and former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling of conspiracy and fraud in the 2001 collapse of the energy company.
Lay was found guilty of 10 counts of conspiracy, fraud and misusing personal bank loans on May 25 and was facing decades in prison at his sentencing, which was scheduled for Oct. 23.
Lay was a longtime friend of the Bushes, contributing to their political campaigns and was nicknamed "Kenny Boy" by President George W. Bush.
The former president and his wife Barbara entered and exited the church by a rear exit and did not speak to the media.
Among the other luminaries at the service were former Secretary of State James Baker, former Secretary of Commerce Robert Mosbacher Sr., several corporate heads such as Reliant Energy Inc.'s Joel Staff, and baseball team owner Drayton McLane.
The ceremony started slightly late after former Houston Mayor Bob Lanier collapsed in the aisle as he entered the church. He was taken by ambulance to the hospital, and an announcement made later in the ceremony said he was in stable condition.
Lay was cremated in Colorado, where a memorial service was held for him on Sunday. Skilling attended that service but was not seen at the Houston memorial.
One former Enron employee wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with Enron's crooked "E" logo came by the First Methodist Church of Houston but did not attend the service. She said she came out of respect for Lay.
"He was a good person who did a bad thing. Justice was served by finding him guilty," said Marie Watkins, a former tax analyst who worked with Lay at Enron and Florida Gas for 27 years. She said she lost 90 percent of her retirement portfolio when the company imploded.
The Reverend Dr. Bill Lawson compared Lay with civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and Jesus Christ, and said his name would eventually be cleared.
"He was taken out of the world right at the right time," he said.
Reversal 3 (by political projection: Lieberman is the one who assaulted Dems)
Liberal Assult on Joe Could Hurt Democrats in Other Senate Races
Eve Kessler
Page 1
Some Democrats are nervous that if Senator Joseph Lieberman loses his primary to an antiwar challenger, thousands of hawkish Jewish Democrats who see the Connecticut lawmaker as their standard-bearer will either abandon the party or sit out the November election. That, say several political observers, could make the difference in some hard-fought Senate races - including contests in Maryland, New Jersey and Pennsylvania - that Democrats must win to take back the Senate this year.
*****/
Summary:
Strategy: To reverse extremes they have created in their favor, coopting everyone in the middle, and labelling all those opposed in principle "extremist"
-Tony Snow embracing Frank Rich, criticizing the Bush* Adm mentality (*and group American)
-Declare the most demonic instance of that gung-ho mentality “the Best” (using well-meaning black rev. to compare Ken Lay with MLK – Jesus
-queer yucks on Imus
The New Group-process situation: They have done their damndest, created atrocity, taken the most extreme actions and positions on their own authority, rejecting whoever did not go along as “extremist”
Lesson: unless categorically denounced and rejected, any point of “‘agreement” will be used against whoever ‘consents’ to their authority.
*****/
BIG REVERSAL #4 -blame for the July War ‘06
Nation Magazine:
The Israeli government of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has exploited the capture
of Army Corporal Gilad Shalit to restore the country's diminished deterrence against militant Palestinian factions, to break the elected Hamas government and to impose its unilateral territorial solution on the West Bank …
--“Exploited the capture” is another way of saying “used as an excuse”; both imply Israel’s vicious military reaction was motivated by its broad agenda, not a response to this situation.
Then, this having cut the wave, a repetition occurs a few days later with TWO soldiers kidnapped (One to Two; which IS “two”: tracking the doubles the unconscious likes), tagged “an act of war”, with bigger military response. Provoking missiles fired into Israel from Lebanon – several little ones claimed by Hezbollah; then a big one hitting Haifa, for which Hezbollah denied responsibility. (?)
Then the MSM put up ex-perts claiming that Hamas and Hezbollah have linked up (just as, back stateside, serial rapist-killers in Phoenix & DC are showing several hitherto separate criminal cases are linked up – the prevailing tide is merger fantasies, everything merging into one big stew managed by the Big Scripster).
Bush hits the ground in Germany fingering Syria and Iran’s support of “terrorists”, declaring Israel’s right to defend its citizens, like he and the valiant soldiers are doing in Iraq. Bolton vetoes the UN resolution condemning Israel’s over-reaction, and today
Israel Blames Attacks on Syria-Iran Axis
By Marc Perelman
Page 1
Israel is pointing to this week's Hezbollah raid as proof that Syria and Iran are leading a coordinated terror front, which includes Hamas and Hezbollah. After two Israeli soldiers were abducted Wednesday by Hezbollah militants operating out of Lebanon, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert issued a warning to Beirut and to Damascus. "Syria has proven that it is a terrorist government in nature," Olmert said. "It is a government that supports terrorism and encourages murderous actions of terror organizations in and out of Syria."
The reversal here: However the kidnappings came about, and both of them are suspicious, compatible with dark-op agent provocateurs, it is Israel that is the aggressor, with Palestinians using slingshot weaponry against Apache helicopters. So its propaganda line, naturally, shifts the blame to those who will come to their defense.
And where did the missile that hit Haifa originate?
Now: everyone (speaking loosely) sees this (it’s no more than street talk added up). Israel is acting like it always does, and blaming the victims. Big time this time. It is the reversal mentality in action; perhaps in incarnation.
But who is calling attention to the pattern? -.000001% - as in zero – American statesmen.
Why is this?
After all, Israel’s broad agenda is nothing more than a continuation of the “Clean Break” (with Oslo accords) the neocons announced in ’96, re-iterated in ’98, ’00, ’01, always the same ones, exposed by Mearsheimer and Wald for all time as “the Lobby”.
And, the sequence of events is exactly as anticipated several places. a provocation would originate in Lebanon, Israel would respond, Syria would have to come in, and the U.S. would be required to prevent extermination of the Jews, like they did in WWII.
--The reason this behavior pattern is not put together for the American public to survey, as a whle, though clearly seen, is because the central piece, the role of the Zionist State of Israel, is systematically repressed from consciousness, replaced by reaction-formation (“No! No! I don’t hate them, I LOVE them!”). There are always two sides in the unconscious, its content can appear in one of two ways, accepted or rejected in awareness, and so it is with Israel, suicide bombers, Jerusalem, and Judas priest Christians. Boy, do they know how to spin.
__________________
I correlate events philosophically through the MSM (mainstream media) signs used in communication.
Could also sign: Teedius.
-Domestic politics: B-a-a-d sinner boys; hiding in the bosom of the family (settling for what they can get after getting stopped)
-In Foreign policy: Continuing to make war
ON THE BASIS OF REVERSALS TO ADVANCE ISRAEL’S INTEREST
Reversal 1:
First Review of Frank Rich Book: "A Savaging Sermon" on Bush Years
By Kirkus Reviews
Published: July 12, 2006 5:55 PM ET
NEW YORK A new book by New York Times columnist Frank Rich, "The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth from 9/11 to Katrina" will be published by Penguin on Sept. 26. In the book, Rich delivers a savaging sermon on the US government's "rampant cronyism, the empty sloganeering of 'compassionate conservativism,' the reckless lack of planning for all government operations except tax cuts"—and so much more.
Anyone who knows his work will know that Rich is no fan of either George Bush, a man "not conversant with reality as most Americans had experienced it," or the Bush administration. In this blend of journalism and mentalits-style history—that is, the study of the mindsets that underlie and produce events—Rich looks closely and critically at the White House's greatest hits, from the 2001 defense of gas-guzzling as essential to the American way of life to "Heckuva job, Brownie" to the ongoing morass of Iraq.
By Rich's account, of course, that parade of missteps is organic; Bush and company cannot help but err. In an effort to disguise that track record, the Republicans have exercised single-minded control of the grand narrative of the last five years, at least in part because they have exercised quasi-totalitarian control over the news media. (They are nearly forgotten already, but one needs to remember Judith Miller, Jeff Gannon, Karen Ryan and various columnists and commentators paid off to repeat the party line.)
Not for nothing did a White House adviser reveal to one journalist that his bosses were set on creating their "own reality," one that all Americans were expected to share; not for nothing did that reality include spinning amazing lies about everything from the death of football- and war hero Pat Tillman to the kidnapping of Jessica Lynch to the government's preparedness for Katrina. And yet, and yet . . .
Though the administration may be remembered as the worst in American history, the people seem mostly silent. One wishes that Rich had explored that particular mentalit along with the others he so fluently discusses.
(Courtesy of Kirkus Reviews, one of E&P's sister publications at VNU.)
--Tony Snow says "I enjoy reading Rich".
*****/
Reversal 2 Ken Lay as Jesus
Ken Lay's memorial attracts power elite
George H.W. Bush, James Baker among attendees at packed church for the Enron founder; reverend compares fallen energy titan to Jesus.
July 12 2006: 6:10 PM EDT
HOUSTON (Reuters) -- Houston's political and business leaders, including former President George H.W. Bush, turned out for Kenneth Lay's memorial service Wednesday, less than a week after the Enron founder's sudden death.
Friends and family lauded as a devout Christian and family leader the man who built Enron into an international energy powerhouse before its collapse in the biggest corporate scandal of its time.
Ken Lay
Lay's stepson David Herrold told the nearly full First United Methodist Church that Lay was wrongly convicted, and he was angry about the portrayals of his stepfather in the media.
"He did have a strong faith in God and I know he's in heaven, and I'm glad he's not in a position anymore to be whipped by his enemy," Herrold said.
Lay, who was 64, died while vacationing in Colorado on July 5, just six weeks after a jury convicted him and former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling of conspiracy and fraud in the 2001 collapse of the energy company.
Lay was found guilty of 10 counts of conspiracy, fraud and misusing personal bank loans on May 25 and was facing decades in prison at his sentencing, which was scheduled for Oct. 23.
Lay was a longtime friend of the Bushes, contributing to their political campaigns and was nicknamed "Kenny Boy" by President George W. Bush.
The former president and his wife Barbara entered and exited the church by a rear exit and did not speak to the media.
Among the other luminaries at the service were former Secretary of State James Baker, former Secretary of Commerce Robert Mosbacher Sr., several corporate heads such as Reliant Energy Inc.'s Joel Staff, and baseball team owner Drayton McLane.
The ceremony started slightly late after former Houston Mayor Bob Lanier collapsed in the aisle as he entered the church. He was taken by ambulance to the hospital, and an announcement made later in the ceremony said he was in stable condition.
Lay was cremated in Colorado, where a memorial service was held for him on Sunday. Skilling attended that service but was not seen at the Houston memorial.
One former Enron employee wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with Enron's crooked "E" logo came by the First Methodist Church of Houston but did not attend the service. She said she came out of respect for Lay.
"He was a good person who did a bad thing. Justice was served by finding him guilty," said Marie Watkins, a former tax analyst who worked with Lay at Enron and Florida Gas for 27 years. She said she lost 90 percent of her retirement portfolio when the company imploded.
The Reverend Dr. Bill Lawson compared Lay with civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and Jesus Christ, and said his name would eventually be cleared.
"He was taken out of the world right at the right time," he said.
Reversal 3 (by political projection: Lieberman is the one who assaulted Dems)
Liberal Assult on Joe Could Hurt Democrats in Other Senate Races
Eve Kessler
Page 1
Some Democrats are nervous that if Senator Joseph Lieberman loses his primary to an antiwar challenger, thousands of hawkish Jewish Democrats who see the Connecticut lawmaker as their standard-bearer will either abandon the party or sit out the November election. That, say several political observers, could make the difference in some hard-fought Senate races - including contests in Maryland, New Jersey and Pennsylvania - that Democrats must win to take back the Senate this year.
*****/
Summary:
Strategy: To reverse extremes they have created in their favor, coopting everyone in the middle, and labelling all those opposed in principle "extremist"
-Tony Snow embracing Frank Rich, criticizing the Bush* Adm mentality (*and group American)
-Declare the most demonic instance of that gung-ho mentality “the Best” (using well-meaning black rev. to compare Ken Lay with MLK – Jesus
-queer yucks on Imus
The New Group-process situation: They have done their damndest, created atrocity, taken the most extreme actions and positions on their own authority, rejecting whoever did not go along as “extremist”
Lesson: unless categorically denounced and rejected, any point of “‘agreement” will be used against whoever ‘consents’ to their authority.
*****/
BIG REVERSAL #4 -blame for the July War ‘06
Nation Magazine:
The Israeli government of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has exploited the capture
of Army Corporal Gilad Shalit to restore the country's diminished deterrence against militant Palestinian factions, to break the elected Hamas government and to impose its unilateral territorial solution on the West Bank …
--“Exploited the capture” is another way of saying “used as an excuse”; both imply Israel’s vicious military reaction was motivated by its broad agenda, not a response to this situation.
Then, this having cut the wave, a repetition occurs a few days later with TWO soldiers kidnapped (One to Two; which IS “two”: tracking the doubles the unconscious likes), tagged “an act of war”, with bigger military response. Provoking missiles fired into Israel from Lebanon – several little ones claimed by Hezbollah; then a big one hitting Haifa, for which Hezbollah denied responsibility. (?)
Then the MSM put up ex-perts claiming that Hamas and Hezbollah have linked up (just as, back stateside, serial rapist-killers in Phoenix & DC are showing several hitherto separate criminal cases are linked up – the prevailing tide is merger fantasies, everything merging into one big stew managed by the Big Scripster).
Bush hits the ground in Germany fingering Syria and Iran’s support of “terrorists”, declaring Israel’s right to defend its citizens, like he and the valiant soldiers are doing in Iraq. Bolton vetoes the UN resolution condemning Israel’s over-reaction, and today
Israel Blames Attacks on Syria-Iran Axis
By Marc Perelman
Page 1
Israel is pointing to this week's Hezbollah raid as proof that Syria and Iran are leading a coordinated terror front, which includes Hamas and Hezbollah. After two Israeli soldiers were abducted Wednesday by Hezbollah militants operating out of Lebanon, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert issued a warning to Beirut and to Damascus. "Syria has proven that it is a terrorist government in nature," Olmert said. "It is a government that supports terrorism and encourages murderous actions of terror organizations in and out of Syria."
The reversal here: However the kidnappings came about, and both of them are suspicious, compatible with dark-op agent provocateurs, it is Israel that is the aggressor, with Palestinians using slingshot weaponry against Apache helicopters. So its propaganda line, naturally, shifts the blame to those who will come to their defense.
And where did the missile that hit Haifa originate?
Now: everyone (speaking loosely) sees this (it’s no more than street talk added up). Israel is acting like it always does, and blaming the victims. Big time this time. It is the reversal mentality in action; perhaps in incarnation.
But who is calling attention to the pattern? -.000001% - as in zero – American statesmen.
Why is this?
After all, Israel’s broad agenda is nothing more than a continuation of the “Clean Break” (with Oslo accords) the neocons announced in ’96, re-iterated in ’98, ’00, ’01, always the same ones, exposed by Mearsheimer and Wald for all time as “the Lobby”.
And, the sequence of events is exactly as anticipated several places. a provocation would originate in Lebanon, Israel would respond, Syria would have to come in, and the U.S. would be required to prevent extermination of the Jews, like they did in WWII.
--The reason this behavior pattern is not put together for the American public to survey, as a whle, though clearly seen, is because the central piece, the role of the Zionist State of Israel, is systematically repressed from consciousness, replaced by reaction-formation (“No! No! I don’t hate them, I LOVE them!”). There are always two sides in the unconscious, its content can appear in one of two ways, accepted or rejected in awareness, and so it is with Israel, suicide bombers, Jerusalem, and Judas priest Christians. Boy, do they know how to spin.
__________________
I correlate events philosophically through the MSM (mainstream media) signs used in communication.
Could also sign: Teedius.
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