President Obama's Never-ending Quest for World Domination

Like the foie gras producer ramming food down ducks’ throats in order to create diseased super-fatty livers that some humans find acceptable to eat, Barack Obama (via his friend and trade-negotiator Michael Froman) is trying to ram dictatorship down Europeans’ throats, for the benefit of billionaires. And, like the sweet words of the foie-grass lobbyists who say it’s all just the ‘free market’ at work, Obama’s commercial-treaties salesman is saying it’s all being done in order to support ‘free trade’.

Thus, on May 31st, a big promoter of ‘free trade’, Britain’s Economist, headlined “Europe and US in race to keep TTIP on track”, and ‘reported’ (i.e., stenographically transmitted) the U.S. President’s propaganda; they provided to Mr. Froman their (unjustifiably respected) platform, as an unpaid ad (‘news’ story) for the Obama Administration’s work-product, this treaty: “Speaking in Stockholm on a European tour to push TTIP, Michael Froman, US President Barack Obama’s trade tsar, warned that there was no ‘Plan B’ if talks were not concluded this year. ‘We either work together to help set the rules of the world or we leave that role to others.’” In other words: Obama, via Froman, via this freebie publicity provided by the Economist, is telling the Economist’s readers, that the way to advance free trade is by imposing the rules that govern it, so as to supply advantage to the people who impose the rules and sign Obama’s document, and so as thereby to disadvantage everybody else — all people who are outside the blessed self-selected closed circle of power-holders.

Naturally, being good propagandists, the Economist provides no real counter-argument to that (such as by pointing out that Obama is actually trying to replace “the rules of the world” that have already become established during decades by the far less partial World Trade Organization or WTO — replace those global rules by the discriminatory treaty-based trading-blocs rules that he wants in order for international corporations to be placed directly into the driver’s seat), but instead the Economist continues immediately with this caricature of such:

TTIP’s supporters have also been blindsided by increasing opposition to trade deals in the US, where Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump has built his campaign around an antitrade message and Democrat Hillary Clinton, facing a challenge from the left, has abandoned her support for a similar Pacific trade pact.

In other words, according to the Economist: the domestic opposition to Obama’s trade-deals is comprised of two categories: of ‘antitrade’ populists, and of leftist yahoos who don’t know that Marxism is dead and ended ever since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1990 — both categories of yahoos are simply behind-the-times, according to the Economist. Pity those non-subscribers to mega-corporate propaganda such as this.

Then, this Economist ‘news’ ‘report’ (a.k.a.: propaganda) continues:

With the clock running out on Mr Obama’s presidency, officials on both sides now believe that the window is closing for a deal to be reached and approved in legislatures in Europe and the US before the end of the year. EU officials stress that they want to agree a working text by July.  A failure to complete the agreement before a change in US administration could condemn the pact to years of drift.

Get it done now, is the propaganda messsage. But, the intelligent reader will still be asking: should it be done at all? Viewed in narrowly economic terms alone, the three independently done (as opposed to mega-corporate funded) studies indicate that the major stockholders in international corporations (especially ones that are based in the U.S.) would benefit from these deals, at the expense of everyone else and especially at the expense of consumers, and of employees. However, that’s only the economics of it. More broadly, what Obama’s treaties will do if they become passed into law is to achieve internationally the dream of fascists ever since the time of Mussolini: to transfer sovereignty away from the public in a democracy, to, instead, as Mussolini himself sometimes called his fascist ideology, “corporationism,” which he defined as:

The corporation plays on the economic terrain just as the Grand Council and the militia play on the political terrain. Corporationism is disciplined economy, and from that comes control, because one cannot imagine a discipline without a director. Corporationism is above socialism and above liberalism. A new synthesis is created.

Earlier, he had said (and even legislated), tellingly:
Labor in all forms, intellectual, technical and manual, is a social duty. In this sense, and in this sense only, is it protected by the State. From the national point of view all production is a unit; its objects are unitary and can be defined as the wellbeing of the producers and the development of national strength.

He didn’t mention there “the wellbeing of the workers,” nor “the wellbeing of consumers,” because his ideology wasn’t concerned about those matters. He even asserted that labor “is a social duty. In this sense, and in this sense only, is it protected by the State,” so that workers’ rights have no protection in fascism. Only workers’ duties do. “National strength” was his goal, just as it is Barack Obama’s, and they don’t believe that workers’ rights are part of this. That’s why it’s ignored in Obama’s proposed treaties.

“National strength” is, of course, largely a military phenomenon. Here is Obama speaking on 28 May 2014 to graduating cadets at America’s academy for its future military leaders, West Point.

 It was Leo Le Port comparing “One Pass” with “Last Pass”.  Last Pass stores all of your other passwords on their cloud where if they discover the master pass-word, you’re sunk.   Here are some pet name passwords you should never use.  Ashley, Bowser, Beau,  Buster, Spike, Ginger,  Daisy, Buttercup,  T-bone, Mutton-chop,  Bernie, Hillary, Chelsea, Buddy, Barney, Sasha, Checkers, Patches, Fido, Rover, Rex, Regis, Spot, Blackie, Prince, Princess, Duke, Earl, Rusty, Dutchess,  Charlie, Harry, Jake, Fluffy, Mittens, Cheetah,  Tiger, Kitty, Missy,  Boots, Smokey, Susie, Hunter, Jaws, Lad,  Dino, Tramp, Scout and Queenie.  They were talking about one visual aid that doesn’t sound like new technology at all.  What would be new is experimentation they’ve done with optic nerve implants generating light impulses.  The Detroit Grand Prix was on the usual course on Belle Island, with some decent straight-aways.  

Let’s do Rhapsody in Black since I did decide to listen to a lot of it.  “Just Enough for the City” by Stevie Wonder was the first song.  Soon after I went out for iced tea but I waited in the sun a while for it to even be announced.   Then in succession they played “You Make Me Feel Brand New” by the Stylistics, “The Best Thing that Happened” by Gladys Night and the Pips, and that disco instrumental hit.  Then it was “The Big Pay-back” by James Brown, a song I’ve never heard before, and “Dancing Machine” by Michael Jackson.  Then I turned on the Detroit Grand Prix again and they were interviewing the winners.  Then it was “Tell Me Something Good” and “Good Times Don’t Last Forever” and “Step Up and See the Sideshow” by the Stylistics again, and “Rock Me Baby” and “Then Came You” and then I went out for another cigarette.  The interesting thing is that you can see that disco beat evolving before your eyes as the year progresses.  Of course being longer songs in 1974 means they can’t play as many of them.  Augustine got the air conditioning going in here.