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GORDON DUFF: WHY ARE TODAY’S LEADERS ALL “SMALL”
IS THE TIME OF GREATNESS GONE?
By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor
How do we define greatness in leaders? Simple, we look around us find none of it and use that as a definition. Is it that great men (and women) are gone or that we simply don’t deserve any better than we get? If you ask many Americans, they still believe Reagan to have been a “great president.” Myth makers try to hang the “fall of communism” on Reagan or some idea of an economic surge based on conservative values.
In truth, the Soviet Union collapsed, only to reemerge more powerful, an economic giant beyond our reckoning and a real look at “Reaganomics” shows little but fraud, big government, debt and a race into poverty for a hundred million Americans, a race continuing to this day in his honor.
Was Reagan responsible? No, not hardly! He was out of his depth, surrounded by con men, thieves and phonies. If he could have been great, because of some power in his soul or special humanity, we will never know. When the myth makers dragged out his corpse to justify the creating of a police state and kleptocracy, the America we know today of wiretapping, secret prisons and a massive propaganda machine spewing Orwellian trash 24 hours a day, was born. Reagan will remain a mystery. For years, including most of his presidency, he told stories of his life to those around him, such as when, during WW2, he took part in the liberation of a German concentration camp.
These stories were from movies he played in, perhaps from some he had only seen. How should we feel about this? Should we be sad for him, ourselves or angry at those who traded weapons for drugs while American children went hungry?
At best, we look for “the common touch,” a feeling of underlying decency. What we buy are packaged buffoons, malignant narcissists and weaklings sold to us as synthetic humans. We buy them because we want them. We admire them. We are building a history of America that can’t even be described as a “decline.” The world is entering a new “golden age” of pollution, poverty, extremism and war, all fueled by a select and powerful few, always in the shadows. No “conspiracy” could ever come close to the truth.
You don’t need a “New World Order” or “Illuminati” to run the planet into ruin. We have our own governments, the United Nations, the World Bank and IMF. Who needs comic book villans when those tasked with helping keep the world in order make Genghis Khan or Caligula seem “unimaginative.”
WAS KENNEDY A MYTH?
There is no question, John Kennedy was the last American leader, the last man to stand up to the military, to the Israeli lobby and the economic thieves that had begun the rape of America’s economy, the one completed so thoroughly under the miserable shirker, George W. Bush. Was Kennedy murdered to justify the insanity of Vietnam or because of his demand that Israel end it’s nuclear program? Those are your choices. Maybe it was both. His threat was that he would do what was right for America no matter the cost. He was killed for it. When his brother tried to carry forward his honor and values, he was murdered too.
Both were murdered by our own government, or what claims to be a government. No one has stood up to take their places and the rats and roaches that scurry about so publicly now have worked tirelessly to murder any memory we might have of hope or decency. Think about the Heritage Foundation or the American Enterprise Institute when you think cockroach.
Since that time, nobody strong and decent has been able to survive the financially driven electoral system in America. Millions of Americans are fearful that the independent sounds beginning to come out of President Obama may not be an act. What if he really means to protect Americans against the Wall Street thieves and the gangsters pulling so many strings from the sewers of Tel Aviv? Don’t tell me any of you would be surprised to hear of an assassination, followed by a “commission” and some moron found hanging in his cell, another “lone gunman.”
NOT JUST AMERICA
Look around the world for a leader, for anyone? Is Gordon Brown more useless than Tony Blair? Who picked out Germany’s Merkel? Who is she working for, certainly not Germany. Circle the globe, does anyone stand out? How could be know? It doesn’t take a genius to look past our own news to see how easy a target America has become. Painting us as the “axis of evil” with our oil and drug wars, our kidnap gangs and continual reports of one atrocity after another, year in and year out, no decent leader would want anything to do with us. How could a real human being sleep at night having to turn his or her back on the crimes we commit, the crimes we allow and the suffering we cause?
Is this too harsh? Is this anti-American propaganda? Isn’t America (and Israel) the shining light of freedom?
Even if we didn’t have numbers, not 6 million mind you but certainly more than one million dead, not all thrown into ovens but dead just the same, cluster bombs, tortured to death, veterans dying of neglect or the thousand overdosing on the tons of heroin America is shipping around the world, we would still be as guilty as any nation we have damned in the past. It is almost as though we having a war between factions, those who saw Hitler as an example and those who are looking for something purer, closer to Satan.
Now, every election carries the rhetoric, each camp tying the other to the Prince of Darkness. Even a fallen angel would be offended.
The numbers climb hourly, 2 or three members of a family may have died in Afghanistan, shot at a checkpoint run by Americans “Mafia” Afghan National Police or overdosed in Moscow from some of the crops I have been told are currently being harvested in Helmand this week, a plague worse than ten Al Qaeda’s, even if such an organization did exist. We don’t really know if it does, actually. We made it all up. Hey, maybe it does exist now. If it does, we can take credit. Perhaps the CIA is franchising it.
WHAT IF YOU MET ONE?
I was in Pakistan with my good friends Raja and Jeff earlier in the spring. We met with Imran Khan, perhaps Pakistan’s best known celebrity and leader of a minor political party, a man famous for being one of the least successful politicians in the world. Khan is a great man, it is impossible to miss. One of that “other world’s” greatest athletes, a cricketer, tireless worker for the underclasses, outspoken critic of evil and exuding charm, charisma and humanity, meeting him was a joy. Everything about Khan said “Jack Kennedy.”
Jeff and I are cynical American political hacks, used to seeing politicians kiss babies they would just as easily throw under a train to save their skin.
We looked at each other that night, walking out of Khan’s party headquarters. Simultaneously, “We could get that guy elected president in a minute!”
Then Jeff said, “Gordon, what if he actually means what he says?” I turned to Jeff, “Yup, soon as they saw he wouldn’t play their game, he would be dead as a doornail.”
Remember when George H.W. Bush visited a grocery store for the first time. He was amazed to see a checkout scanner and food in packages. He had never seen those things before. Ah, the common touch.
CONTROLLED, HAVE THEY GOTTEN TO EVERYONE?
Today, going through the minds of American “elitists,” not necessarily the educated but the intellectually honest, the kind of people who can be patriotic and decent at the same time, is the Obama question. If he means what he says, why hasn’t he closed the prisons, why is Dick Cheney out of prison, why are we still killing and dying for the lies Obama says he opposes?
You can’t watch news in America without knowing you are being conned. It seems, at times, the only politically motivated Americans are the lunatic fringe shilling for Wall Street and AIPAC. “Normal” people are so disgusted with corruption and lies, now decades of little but, that they feel being involved in politics is like swimming in sewage. The lunatics are immune to the smell and those who are in politics, especially those “up and coming” reformers are, as we all tell ourselves, going to become tomorrow’s thieves and liars like those who have gone before them.
Why do we know this?
Even without the scandals and corruption, at least 50 politicians a week, from city councilmen to senators are arrested for crimes, on TV shows at least. One of the main themes Hollywood has saturated our nightly entertainment with is public corruption, crooked cops, crooked judges, everyone being paid off, everyone being blackmailed, hiding money, ordering killings, everything but, well but what?
POP CULTURE CONDITIONING, UNDOING EVOLUTION
I have seen the CIA run drugs in 2 dozen films, I have watched intelligence agencies plan and execute terror attacks and murder political leaders. I have seen this so many times that the plots have become tiring. Read the credits. Check to see who the producers are, the network management and the corporations controlling both the news and “entertainment” in broadcasting, now really one in the same. Then look at the plots you don’t see.
Are we being drowned in corruption and scandals in fiction so we are immune to the real thing? Did video games make a generation of American children immune to killing? Do movies and TV sell, not just smoking and drinking but anger and divisiveness as well?
Remember those psychological tests, the “word association” ones. I say “priest” and you say “sex abuser.” I say “politician” and you say “crooked.” In fact, y0u should try it yourself. Think of anyone in a position of trust or respect and try out “crooked.” Does it fit? “Crooked librarian?” No. “Crooked building inspector?” Yes.
America’s Supreme Court is, perhaps, the biggest scandal in the country today. Several recent decisions, starting from a rigged presidential election to the utterly corrupt 5/4 opinion making massive political bribery not only legal but mandatory, are just part of it.
It isn’t just the Supreme Court. You should look at how the Bush appointees on the Veterans Court of Appeals have done. I can’t even describe it and it is never reported.
Doors are kicked in without search warrants, judges allow any imaginable abuse of human rights and the real protections of the Constitution are thought of by most Americans as radical and unAmerican. “They,” the same “they” that do our TV shows, do our news. The “talking heads” tell us that the Constitution is all about homosexuals and illegal aliens. I keep asking how 65 billion dollars in drug money leaves Afghanistan, a country with fewer than 6 ATM machines.
Get elected, ask that question and duck. Famed White House correspondent has asked every American president in the last 40 years if they know of a Mideastern country with nuclear weapons. None have ever answered. President Obama looked visibly fearful.
Israel has had nuclear weapons for 50 years, now a massive arsenal. Not one American politician will publicly say it, though everyone knows it, in fact Israel makes no attempt to deny it.
What does this tell you about the kind of people we have in Washington or London?
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I’d run for office but they already confiscated my Life (for All practical purposes) and already slowly killed off my immediate family. I’m all that’s left and everybody pretends I don’t exist.
Shan, we are all living in a temporary illusion. There are moments of pain, brief moments of joy and it all feels real. But it isn’t. We exist in a false and temporary world, only the Truth is real and endless. There is an escape to the real and endless Truth, to its painless and eternal joy. It is not wanted by the body or mind, which are left behind on the journey Home by each soul, pure droplets of the Ocean of Love, Light and Amazing Sight.
As Kabir would say, “Mysticism is the science that leads from worldly darkenss to spiritual light, from ignorance to knowledge, from superstition to wisdom, from subjection to freedom.”
You are not alone. We know you exist. We are happy you exist. Look forward, not backward, Shan. The Ocean of Love is waiting.
Shan, you are not alone. Me, myself and I; thoroughly enjoy solitude. Self-reflection only truly occurs when you’re by yourself. Your strength comes from within you. Certainly, I am not a “bible-babbler”; but have known since I was a small child that Jesus Christ holds me in the palm of His hand. And, His Father God holds His hand in His Own. The Holy Ghost will fill you with strength thru your faith. Even when you turn from Him, He’s ALWAYS THERE! Believe on it. “Everbody” knows very little, but He knows ALL. Continue on your journey, and know He is with you…in thought, so will I be; with you.
Gordon Duff, thank you for a great article that is so informative. Criminals have been working steadily for over 30-40 years to destroy America and Americans. I agree with you we have not had a president since President John Kennedy.
Amy, the Illuminati formed in 1776. They’ve been busy little worker-bees ever since. Their creator, Satan, holds dominion over all the earth; but that doesn’t mean WE can’t get up every morning and do something to piss him off. My rebellious nature showing thru here! My father, a political historian in his own right; said, “we haven’t had a “good President since George Washington!”
Another good article Gordon. Do you think it is possible the poet William Butler Yeats saw the future” He was born in 1865
TURNING and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, (Iraq possibly?)
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
Mick
Yeats seems to be foretelling the apocalypse
g
Mick, the world began in Mesopotamia; and there it will end.
The more I learn about JFK’s presidency and the eloquence of his speeches, the more I admire him and realize how great a leader he actually was. Here is an excerpt from a 1961 address he gave to the American Newspaper Publishers Assoc. I think he had it figured out…and that is why he was marked for death. His words are as true today as they were almost 50 years ago:
“If the press is awaiting a declaration of war before it imposes the self-discipline of combat conditions, then I can only say that no war ever posed a greater threat to our security. If you are awaiting a finding of “clear and present danger,” then I can only say that the danger has never been more clear and its presence has never been more imminent.
It requires a change in outlook, a change in tactics, a change in missions–by the government, by the people, by every businessman or labor leader, and by every newspaper. For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence–on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations.”
The course of EVENTS was set since 1913 with the Federal Reserve Act. Anything or anyone who could stand in the way of World Domination by The Zion-Talmudist members of a CLAN would be swept aside. President Kennedy and his brother Robert Kennedy were murdered because they wanted that AMERICA (not the Zion-Talmudic Banksters…) take over the Federal Reserve.
Rothschild said once “Give the right to print money and I don’t care who rules the country”.
Take that privilege away from the Zion-Talmudists and AMERICA will be FREE.
If a group owns 96% of the Media and its members are firm believers that they are the ELITE, chosen by Yahve and on top of that can (and do!) PRINT all the MONEY they want and centrifugate the nation wealth through the CASINO of wailing Wall Street, then you are creating a MONSTER that can do with you ever it wants: has in its hands the means to promote or demote (MEDIA and MONEY).
That was the REAL PROBLEM the Kennedy’s had seen and known about… they got killed for it… America’s problem is that a POWERFUL and SHREWD INTERNATIONAL MAFIA has taken over the Legislative Branch, the Judiciary, Academia after securing the MEDIA and the Right to PRINT INORGANIC Money.
Not bad Azeddine! Just remember, The Fed is a double-edged sword. Under the control of the financial elite, its upswing is inflation and its downswing is deflation. The projected plan was for the goverment to keep the blade on an even, delicate keel. The reality is the bad guys in WDC, Wall Street and other countries have stolen control of the handle and are swinging it wildly out of control.
Keep writing, you have a good sense of style.
T. in Texas
Tom, “The Fed” and “the bad guys…” are from the same tribe; well, the majority of them.
amen. don’t ever apologize.
HOPE FOR THE BEST AND COUNT ON THE WORST,,,,, NOW I REALIZE WHY THE JUDGE WAS BUILDING A 100 PERCENT SELF CONTAINED AIRTIGHT CEMENT HOUSE ….HE KNOWS FOR SURE WHAT IS COMEING … GET READY….. EVRYTHING IS IN MOTION…
DUFF YOU ARE SOOO RIGHT .. ONE JUST NEEDS TO LOOK OUT HIS BACK DOOR TO SEE THE INEPT “NONLEADERSHIP” GOING ON A DAILY BASES …. LIKE A NEVER ENDING MERRY GO ROUND ….. MAKING MY VERY, VERY DIZZY…….VERTIGO COMING ON NOW…..
First they came for the 9/11 Truthers, and I did not speak out–because I believed the official story;
Then they came for the unemployed, and I did not speak out—because I had a job;
Then they came for those who had lost their homes, and I did not speak out-because I had my home;
Then they came for the working class poor, and I did not speak out—because I wasn’t poor;
Then they came for the peaceful protesters, and I did not speak out–because I didn’t protest;
Then they came for the middle class, and I did not speak out—because I was not part of the middle class;
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak out for me.
Taken from another time, Lese, but well said and apropos today.
Tom Houston Vet
I keep asking how 65 billion dollars in drug money leaves Afghanistan
On CIA flights that make a direct run to either Switzerland or the Caymans or New York, to the finest 24/7 laundries in the world.
Duhh, uhh, duhh, since FUX didn’t and doesn’t report on those billions and billions of opium poppy money leaving Afghanistan for well-hidden accounts, doesn’t that mean that it’s not true?
Duhhh
I know, I’ll watch that great man of moral integrity and lover of loofah sponges, Bill O’LIElly!! He’ll fill me in…. or if I was a female, fill me up?
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A for the German leader one has to question even during Soviet times her father traveled freely back and forth to the west.
Your an economist Gordon. To me it seems leaders chosen today are chosen for their economic stand err (or no standing postion) regarding Wall Street operations and their friendliness to big business. However it also seems presidents are also chosen by big business, now global corporations because to do not know how economics work and therefor can be shocked, awed,and bamboozled by Wall Street. How else can we think folks when Palin is pushed to center stage by Wall Street firms. Certainly not because she is brilliant. How else can we explain the election of GW Bush?
Archie they don’t have to be brilliant they have to be the queen’s cousin. Palin, Obama, McCain fit the bill in that regard.
Mick — What would have happened if there had not been a American civil war, would there have been southern educational systems as elite as Harvard, Yale, and Dartmouth?
In American mythology having an Ivy league degree makes them cousins of the queen.
I have a feeling the root of American arrogance in most cases is this most of the leading political and business leaders of the US since the civil war came from these institutions. I am betting the Ivy League consciously or not set out, or at least encouraged a national mind set of racial and cultural superiority.
I notice when someone comes from the Ivy League or Harvard education all of the sudden he, or she has credibility in America. Do not tell me they are better educated!
For instance my sources who know the Georgian president think he is a Chump and thug. But since he has an American Ivy League education he is safe according to the American political elite.
You can see this also when a foreign leaders such as presidents of Mexico and other Latin nations have instant credibility, such as the new man in Chile, which makes them acceptable, and cousins of the queen..