- As a little boy in South Africa, in the early 1950s,
I used to walk every morning with my father to a general store on the
edge of town, where a German farmer would leave us a pail of fresh milk
when he brought in the eggs.
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- The store was always filled with the wonderfully exotic
smells of things we never notice in these days of pre-packaged goods :
open jute sacks from around the world, filled with loose coffee, rice,
beans and all sorts of grain.
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- One most memorable early morning's long and adventurous
expedition was crowned by the sight of a giant, open jute sack overflowing
with fat, juicy peanuts still in their shells. I am sure I danced around
joyously until Father bought me a bagful and then the storekeeper
said : If you like them so much, take this medal and pin it to your shirt!
- and he handed me a round, tin medal with yellow decal showing a fat,
brown peanut against a sun-yellow background, and the logo "I AM A
PEANUT". I was ecstatic! - I WAS A PEANUT! An Accredited Peanut,
one of a score, no! - a hundred! - a million! - a BILLION! - NAY! - UNCOUNTABLE!
- other peanuts in a Worldwide Family of Peanuts!
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- In short, I BELONGED!
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- (Many years later, Jack Kennedy was to claim he was a
Berliner - "ICH BIN EIN BERLINER!" Had he just left it at "Ich
bin Berliner!", everything would have been all right, but by adding
the article "ein", he identified himself not with Berlin, but
with a German pastry, a hole-less doughnut filled with a squirt of raspberry
jam. How far that subconscious slip might have influenced subsequent historical
events is moot, but compared to today's politics, regrettable indeed.)
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- This early childhood experience was my first realisation
of how one can feel by being "Part of "IT" - whatever "IT"
might happen to be. Many times these days I feel that that medal was prophetic
now in today's world I could wear it with the assurance that it
actually meant something.
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- I first became aware of the extension of these processes
while reading a book :
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- "Obama, the Postmodern Coup, Making of a Manchurian
Candidate", by Webster Griffin Tarpley, Thinker's Library ISBN 978-967-69-0721-9.
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- Tarpley points out basics of political process we don't
ever think about or have never even heard of : for instance, that Fascist
regimes all get started as popular, mainly basically Leftist movements
by disaffected and disenfranchised idealists seeking political reform for
a better deal for all, that these persons are encouraged, aided and abetted
by big bankers to tear down extant political and social institutions,
re-level and remake the playing field of society, and shift the goalposts
to new positions so that, when the new regime comes to power and settles
in, former safeguarding institutions are not there any more to oppose it.
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- Mussolini and Hitler got their start in this way, in
grass-roots, street movements of the down-and-out.
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- Belonging, in a disillusioned age of increasing stress
and diminishing buying-power for work done and wages won, seems a fine
thing to most young people today, just as it did to Italians and Germans
in the early 1920s. But just as I felt really at home knowing I was a
peanut, even if ONLY a Peanut, people feel most at home knowing they are
not alone, but an atom of an unstoppable wave of similar atoms all flowing
with the ... FLOW? But WHO CONTROLS the Flow?
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- This is a question seldom asked, as the Flow becomes
a Process in and of itself : as long as one can IDENTIFY ONESELF WITH
OTHERS, PROCESS MOVES and to that, it requires the external appurtenances
of BELONGING.
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- Tarpley points out that basic processes of colour- and
sloganising-identification were used in both the so-called Colour- Revolutions
sponsored by the CIA and unscrupulous capitalists in the USA and Britain,
the "Rose Revolution" in Georgia which brought Sharkassvily to
power, and the later one in Ukraine, the "Orange Revolution"
which brought in a somewhat rust-blighted rose of sorts.
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- Realising these processes, he suddenly saw what was happening
in the USA : a Colour Revolution, a mass-MOB-ilisation of young, idealistic
people wishing change, and recognising this in an Obama rally : Presidential
Candidate Barack Hussein Obama has seemingly chosen to characterise his
campaign by the Colour Blue.
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- As the candidate has remained pretty much a mystery to
all, coming suddenly almost out of no-where, as it were, he looked up
his sponsors and advisers. To his surprise, he found that the very people
sponsoring this blue-colour-coded revolution on US soil were the same ones
who had sponsored both the Rose Revolution in Georgia and also the Orange
Revolution in Ukraine.
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- And as if this were not enough, the only US President
who might have honestly claimed an association with peanuts, Jimmy Carter
of peanut-farming fame, was also sponsored by that same group! to
his and his country's ultimate detriment Zbigniew Brzezinski and
the Trilateral Commission :
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- Another member of that Commission, as Tarpley explains,
was Paul Adolf Volker, appointed by Carter to head of the Federal Reserve
System in 1979, who, by raising the prime lending rate unreasonably, destroyed
the USA's industrial base and export economy.
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- And now it is those same people behind the Democratic
runner for president.
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- But the details are too many to repeat here, and Tarpley
then goes on to describe such processes in detail, a book very much worth
reading, to anyone interested in Politics As Process.
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- Politics As Process
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- Now here's the kicker : How many of us ever think of
politics in an abstract way, as Process, and not as Personalities?
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- In the happier, Hippier era, we had songs like : "If
you're going to San Francisco, Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair
..." - and flowers were the identifying element - if you wore flowers,
you were IN. People otherwise at a loss to counter disagreeable societal
annoyances like the Vietnam War, found a common point of aggregation into
a nationwide, more-peaceable movement.
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- This process can find an analogy in simple, children's
chemistry insofar as chemistry sets are not banned in case some
kiddie-bomber of 4 or 5 takes it into his head to roll the Pentagon
RED ALERT! :
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- In my childhood, we had books on how to make Chemical
Gardens : You pour a solution of Water-Glass in water into a beaker or
a cleaned jam- jar, drop in some crystals, and a beautiful chemical garden
starts growing seemingly by itself : on each crystal, there would be a
buildup of water-glass crystals taking on the colour of the crystal they
were building on! - Magic!
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- If I remember aright, there were brilliantly white crystals
growing on Alum, electric blue ones on Copper Sulphate, and I think purple
on some Barium salt or other, just like miniature coral underwater
brilliantly lovely, indeed!
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- But this process of aggregating wandering atoms in constant
motion, elbowing each other about in a random way in a fluctuating solution
like the down-and-out, the disaffected and disenfranchised on the street,
then giving them identifiable causes to lay themselves on, to aggregate
onto in discernable, discreet groupings, identifying that grouping as such
by a specific, distinctive colour or a slogan, be it by flowers in one's
hair, a red rose in one's lapel or a Swastika on one's arm! - IS
PRECISELY THE PROCESS BY WHICH POLITICS ALSO WORKS!
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- Politics, in my own mind, is very much like a play, take
a Shakespearean play :
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- You have a Plot based on some quite common human condition,
mainly revolving about the process of Human Procreation : "Love"
: Thwarted love, tragic love, heroic love, intrigue love or Love's
opposite : Death, destruction instead of procreation : Murder, conspiracy,
battle, court (power) intrigue.
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- These are common plots, with almost infinite variation
on a limited few moves, much like chess, but always dished up new, just
as most food is basically always cooked in water, even if some in the
process becomes gravy : ho-hum stuff, presented as new by some cook with
a reputation or your snazzily-dressed hostess, the one your wife loves
to hate.
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- And that is where Personality Politics comes in, just
like your hostess : Emotions run high and fast, leading to personality
clashes and homegrown, microcosmic subsets of macroscopic, national catastrophes
: intrigue, assignations, divorces, lawsuits, instead of power-politics,
secret deals and presidential decrees, wars and war-crime trials.
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- But the Process is the same - just on a different scale.
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- So you have the basic Plot, the slightly-differentiated
Play, and the Characters the Actors! - can simply be filled into
the empty spaces (Choose One). Sometimes some actors fit their roles better
than others and bring in more at the box-office, but they are still just
ACTORS with the play's producer standing in the wings correcting
and coaching ... so it is always a very good thing to know who is REALLY
behind the show we see on the stage.
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- We are heading into a very dangerous turning-point in
history. I am not saying that any of the candidates for the upcoming presidential
election are better than others, as I am sure that digging into the real
history of any might unearth unpleasant skeletons all round we are
all just human! - but THEY ARE ONLY THE ACTORS FIND OUT WHO THE
PRODUCERS ARE, BEFORE YOU DECIDE!
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- Wake up now. Perhaps get the book I mentioned above,
wise up some, see process in what is happening right now, and avoid the
catastrophe that a handful of psychotic psychopaths are preparing for
your country and all our world.
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- Try and learn some history, see the parallels as they
have occurred all down a history in which, as Shakespeare had Macbeth
say :
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- "[And] all our yesterdays have lit fools the way
to dusty death".
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- My thanks and my blessings, George
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