Best Obama-Nobel Jokes

The Cook County Democratic machine ain’t what it used to be. They were supposed to bribe the Olympics Committee.

“Yo, Barack. I’m really happy for you. I’ma let you finish……but Beyonce had one of the best strategic arms treaties of all time.”

Miss America was robbed. She was for world peace way before Obama was for it.

Obama graciously responding to the Nobel ignominy says: “This is truly shocking, but I have nowhere to go but up from here”.

…Cut to Obama’s speechwriter for the Egypt speech…..”dude I just won the Nobel Peace Prize!”

Was he, like, the tenth caller or something?

Tony said….The Cook County Democratic machine ain’t what it used to be. They were supposed to bribe the Olympics Committee……
Actually that should read…The Crook County…

The world community wants nothing more than a weak, contrite America. And Obama is delighted to give it to them.
Unfortunately, we have to live with the consequences of Obama:
The constant lying.
The staggering arrogance.
The dangerous narcissism.
The astounding incompetence.
Consistently, polls show that 50 percent of Americans strongly disapprove of the way he is performing as our president — the fastest decline of any president in modern history. Americans know Obama best.
Let’s continue to stand strong against Obama in every way and get Congress out of the hands of the insane Pelosi and Reid in 2010.
Obama is a smug, smirking con man. Nothing more.

There are sitcoms that aren’t as funny as this administration.

Somehow, I don’t think he campaigned for this award. For whatever reason, someone, somewhere decided he should get this. How much more do you expect the guy to do other than do what he did, which is say ‘I don’t deserve this.’ I mean, seriously, while I believe that someone else should have gotten this award, is it fair to rip Obama over this? It’s not his fault the committee that decided this is short-sited…

I thought he was going to win the Nobel Prize for Economics because he saved the economy and is giving Americans heath-care for the very first time.
I guess that’s next year.

I thought I should have won, I haven’t fought with my wife in more than a year.

Posted by: Derrick | Oct 9, 2009 11:26:46 AM
“The world community wants nothing more than a weak, contrite America. And Obama is delighted to give it to them.”
Spot on. The all to disturbing reality.

Its really shameful that a man who has not yet done anything worthwhile should be chosen over people who live their life working towards making the earth a better place, trying to be Noble. What was it once again, the Nobel Peace prize or the Oscars?

The Jimmy Carter comparisons keep coming up, which originated in Europe over the spend thrift policies of the Obama administration.
The main difference here, is they didn’t wait 20 yrs. to award a prize for folly.

I am more convinced than ever now that Obama’s announcing that Iran had a secret nuclear facility during the UN meeting was to preempt Israel’s intention to strike the facility. May be the Nobel committee realizes that he stopped WWIII.

Remind me again why Ron Reagan never got one or 2 of these? The already low crediblilty of the Nobel just got lowered.

Obama’s “goin’ to Disneyland” !!!

International perspective allows just the removal of Military-Industrial cheerleaders from office, a huge step to recognizing what President Eisenhower warned about appearing to look criminal by bullying. When Senator Obama proved Senator Clinton could dialog when debate was expected, he was much more subtle a peacemaker than many will ever appreciate.

There are two reasons why Stockholm gave Pres Obama the Nobel Peace Prize:
1. It was the consolation prize for losing the 2016 Olympics
2. They want to thank Pres Obama for not bombing Stockholm after humiliating him last week.

What does the GOP, Hamas and the Taliban have in common….They are all terrorist and want to see the downfall of America.

Paris Hilton: “I wuz ROBBED! I’m supposed to be the celebrity famous for just being famous! It isn’t FAIR!” she sobbed to fans this morning.

I am extremely excited for President Obama and America.
I believe that the best is yet to come in America and the World.
I am hopeful that other countries will hear their people as well, that change is what we need and hate and war is overrated and ineffective.
Greed can destroy a country, ask George Bush and even McCain understood eventually.
Congratulations President Obama. Push on and Forward for America and the World.

Once again, the simple genius of the Bush line regarding “…the soft bigotry of low expectations” is made manifest.

I am excited for President Barack Obama. It is rare that with so much hate from the Republicans and people of hate in the U.S., that President Obama still determines to accomplish what he promised for the American People. Despite the fight, he has created new laws for Credit Cards, given rebates, given back a little extra in the average American’s paycheck. For 8 years we were ignored. What we thought and desired did not matter. Our taxes were raised while Corporate taxes and taxes on the rich were lowered. While Wall Street got greedy and almost took down the US, the average American was the one hurt the most. Losing a job and having no money trumps losing millions in the stock market if you have millions left. Losing your home and you families being on the street was not something that was thought about and considered when relaxing or eliminating regulations, but here we are. I say “Thank you Nobel Peace Prize Committee” for selecting our President. What we can do is support him and be proud that our President will fight to help even those that oppose him. That is a blessing and incredible pressure, but we can also support him. He said with our help we will change. Yes We Can, takes “WE” together.
Help Him. Don’t Hate On Him. I am Proud of Him. I am Proud of Us as Americans. Because We As A Country Demanded Change, Got Change And Will Continue To Fight Beside President Obama Until We Continue Manifestation Of Change. GOD Bless America. The Hatters Can’t Stop, What The People Demanded. CHANGE. YES WE WILL !!!!

The Pope will be flying to DC for his Canonization later today.

As Limbaugh and friends choke on their warmongering cigars the people of the world applaud Obama’s swift action in turning the Titanic (i.e. American foreign policy) away from the disaster of the last eight years. What a skillful captain we have elected! The world sees it and applauds with the Nobel Peace Prize.
The joke is that American’s knee-jerk reaction to dismiss the award reveals how willingly we might have invaded Iran, used nukes, enraged the Russians with provocative missiles, continued to torture, and continued a host of other miss-deeds with Republican leadership.
What Obama has done to avoid the disaster of a continued Bush-like policy is nothing short of miraculous. American media’s response to the Nobel committee’s peaceful version of “shock and awe” is both sad and laughable. Over time we will appreciate the foresight and insight represented by this award.

I can’t help but to think ACORN somehow involved in the selection of Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize. I’m not saying anything directly, but the late Alfred Nobel was registered to vote for the selection committee 14 times and voted 36 times.

“…and his vision of a “No Cat” world.”
I find this highly offensive and racist of the Nobel Prize Committee.

George, I hope you will rise above the fray and congratulate our president on this Peace Prize Award. He is humble about it because he was totally surprised but said he will accept it for all the countries who are working toward peace and demanding that no new neucular reactors are built for the safety of all. I don’t think some people realize just what he has accomplished in a few months. All over the world they want to speak with him and hear his ideas. He has brought respect back to the us with his hands out approach rather than the “”my way or no way” attitude of the Bush administration. In years to come, if people let him, you will see a much more calmer world. The economy could not be put back together in 9 months as some people want and yes, we need jobs. What people fail to realize is that the job losses started in 2007 and most loses were during the Bush administration. What was done to curtail it…nothing. I hate to blame anyone but let’s face facts. Obama will address this but people have to realize that there are no jobs in some areas as they have gone and will never return. He has provided funds to go back to school and learn a new career, a fact no one mentions. I think we need to give him more time before we call him a failure.

Now that you’ve won the Nobel PEACE Prize what will you do?
Obama, “I’m going to raise troop levels in Afghanistan!”

Barack Obama didn’t campaign for this award. It was bestowed upon him by the Nobel Committee. Has anyone thought about just congratulating him instead of whining about it. How many of the whiners have won the prize?

Just announced:
Obama won a bronze, two silvers and a gold in RIO!

Did they say anything about the books?

I guess the haters have to vent somewhere. Sorry, the decision was unanimous.

Shock & Awe. Why?!! There’s no logical reason for him to receive this. He’s not nothing, but compromise…our national security, our children’s inheritence of national debt, our country’s foundation, our independent rights…this list goes on. It would be hypocritical for him to accepts this.

Now that I have my NPP, my ego will make my ears look normal now

What next?…..ST. Barack….
But can he walk on water?

“After I received the news, Malia walked in and said, ‘Daddy, you won the Nobel Peace Prize, and it is Bo’s birthday.’ And then Sasha added, `Plus, we have a three-day weekend coming up.’ So it’s — it’s good to have kids to keep things in perspective.”

News Item: In what will surely go down as history’s most premature ejaculation, the Nobel Committee today awarded its Peace Prize to …

You wingnuts don’t count in the great scheme of things — you’re a minority in this country;
So…minorities don’t count in the great scheme of things?

“I’m thrilled that the WORLD recognized his efforts to bring the peoples of the world together in peace.”
He was nominated TWELVE DAYS into his presidency NOT EIGHT MONTHS.
So he did all this after TWELVE DAYS?
This is an international joke!
The world doesn’t hate us they are LAUGHING AT US!!!!

I failed to bring the Olympics to Chicago and all i got was this lowzy nobel peace prize

Orly Taitz files affidavit of man who swears he saw a thin black man with a mustache in a cafe in Stockholm yesterday, sends it to Judge Carter, and DEMANDS that a California judge overturn results of Nobel Prize…oh, wait,wrong Obama forum

Nobel is as Nobel does…

yo obama i’m happy for you and i’ma let you finish but al gore had one of the best powerpoint presentations of all time! of all time!

Hey, Briella, do we come to your job and heckle you?

Congrats, President Obama well deserved. I guess some folks on here believes we (the USA) need to constantly bully the world into respecting us. Our children dying in other countries … time to end the wars and respect our fellow man.

Let us all drink to False Peace.

Obama’s continued support of the Afganistan troop deployment (soon at a level of 68,000) reminds me of an old t-shirt slogan, “The only way to peace is war.”

This means that the war is over and my son can come home, right?

Obama also wins the CY Young award in both leagues for throwing out the first pitch in the All-Star. First player to ever win award in same year in both leagues.

More troops to make sure the Poppy plant supply going to Europe doesn’t get interupted.

The trend of the Nobel committee in recent years is to cheerlead political philosophies, especially to American voters, and gets to the heart of why many of us found it both risible and offensive.
Risible in the sense that Obama had been President for 12 days when he got nominated and hasn’t accomplished anything on the world stage since — no new treaties, no peace brokering, and certainly no change in the Bush “war priorities” that they explicitly criticized in their 2002 award to Jimmy Carter.
Offensive in the sense that it smacks of lecturing America on our foreign policy rather than focusing on real efforts for peace, a number of which the Nobel committee overlooked.
The Obama con continues. And it’s not going to end well, folks.

The “JOKE” George, is that a sitting U.S. Prez has won a Nobel Peace Prize…..for changing the direction, and building a foundation of the United States and thus the World. George the JOKE clearly is on the Republicans, for “Cheering the lost of the Olympics, and NOW ANGRILY shouting about the Country’s Prez receiving the Nobel Prize. Are these people that wraps themselves in our flag “FAKES” or what……… Steele is a disgrace to the Human Race……He’s a Hater, and doesn’t Stand for Anything.

Obama and his fake awards will go down in history as the biggest joke ever.

It was a typo. Obama won the Nobel Appease Prize.

Maybe the Chicago Cubs now have a chance to win the World Series ~ after all, they have hoped and hoped for one for about 100 years, although they’ve never really done the work required!

Does he also get a free bowl of soup with that prize?

The Nobel Prize carries about as much weight as the Blue Ribbon on Pabst Beer.

Obama got the prize becouse he made a important statement as the President of the most important country in the world. Not only was ha black he had caracter and curage to stand up for what he felt was correct. The Nobel prize went to a nobel man whom have stared his quest to make the world a better place for you and for me. Of coures this takes time, and of coures he will have problems with managing this. I am convinced that Obama will with this support grow to become a better US President and World helper. He get my wote (!) regarding peace. If somebody in the world is in any position to make a difference it is him.

Why not give Obama the Lombardi Trophy and the Stanley Cup while they’re at it? Heck, he could be Super Bowl MVP and Conn Smythe winner too! This is the biggest joke since “why did the chicken cross the road!”

This comment will most likely be reviewed, and dismissed, by some Republican— maybe George himself. The comments, so far, appear to have been written by a bunch of Republican sore losers that were not accepted in Clown School because, obviously, they did not make the grade. These are the type of people who, no matter how well our president is performing in the eyes of the world and the United States, will always have some negative spin. They are Bush hard-liners to start with, and they would like Obama to fail. In the nine months since he became our president, he has done so much for the US. He has restored respect to the presidency, and has made us proud, once again, to be Americans. The majority, if not all, of the comments in this blog are weak and without substance. They are the writings of mediocre clowns.

Immediately after winning peace prize Obama requested for 40,000 troops for killing afghans.

Really, truly, fantastic comments here.. From Norway myself, so I have to say i enjoyed these comments. But hey, that’s what happens when we leave this decision up to former politicians in a country that for some reason, wins the UN’s “best country in the world award”. UN makes a bad joke, course we have to make one too..

You heard it here first. Obama just won the Heisman Trophy! It doesn’t matter that he doesn’t play college football. He might do it sometime in the future so he deserves the award.
I mean have you seen the break away speed he exhibits on running away from a decision on putting more troops into Afghanistan? Forget that Tim Tebow character. Obama is the real deal!

Did Obama go and twist the hands of the Nobel Prize Committee. The answer is obviously no. Those persons who are down in the gutter washing their mouths, would never support Obama in any way. They will do everything possible to destroy his presidency. They are the PUTRID Rushes of the world. They are comfortable in promoting their poisons from health care lies,olympic fiascos, and now the Nobel Prize. Many of those people are bringing a once great nation to its knees. May the good Lord have mercy on their souls

Dear Derrick, Why don’t you admit that it is what you want. Not the world community. America is seen as having a more human face now. The arrogant belligerent American is receding. But that does not stop america from being strong. Strength comes not from from might of sword or gun but by appreciating and respecting the rights of others. Obviously something which you surely do not understand.
The description as noted belongs to you. Stand before the mirror and you will see where is The constant lying.
The staggering arrogance.
The dangerous narcissism.
The astounding incompetence.

What I’ve noticed in a lot of commentary about the president is that everyone complains and complains about the leadership/administration. So you put all of your eggs in one basket and expect the administration to make it all better? Just like mommy made everything all better. Perhaps instead of waiting for the administration to wipe your bottom and tell you that you’re special, fix it your d-a-m-n self. Or is it a daunting task to fix policy, war, fiscal irresponsibility of capitalist CEOs, and still maintain a high approval rating of homesick crybabies like the whiners that post their hateful rhetoric. You do realize that he was voted in by America. That should mean something. Respect the president, good or bad. He’s done more than you will ever do.

Ha ha ha. The best joke is all the Republicans now needing Prozac and blood pressure medication

shame on you

Finally, that Christmas turkey has some serious competition!

I understand Obama is giving the prize money to charity… ACORN deeply appreciates the donation.

Who has the sense of humor to award the Nobel Peace Prize to someone afraid of FOX NEWS?

Inside Obama’s Nobel Prize
President Hu of China called the Nobel Prize selection committee. He complained that the Nobel Committee has been prejudice against the 1.3 billion people born and educated in China and questioned why there is not a single Chinese born/educated person who has won a Nobel Prize.
The Nobel Committee told President Hu that the Committee is open-minded and would like to know if there is a Chinese person whom President Hu would nominate?
President Hu said that he would nominate himself for the Peace Prize. The Nobel Committee then asked President Hu to give three reasons for his nomination.
President Hu replied: (1) I have stopped the proliferation of nuclear weapons, (2) I have successfully gone after the world’s number one terrorist, and (3) I have helped the environments of all the United Nation member countries.
The Nobel Committee asked President Hu to substantiate his claim.
President Hu said, (1) “ I stopped the proliferation of nuclear weapons because China has bought all the uranium mines around the world”; (2) “I have successfully gone after the world’s number one terrorist, the Dalai Lama (Two days ago, President Obama was scheduled to meet the Dalai Lama. I told President Obama that if he saw the Dalai Lama, I would not let him visit China. Obama immediately canceled his meeting with Dalai Lama. From now on, the heads of all other countries will have a good excuse not to see the Dalai Lama); and (3) I have helped the environments of all the other United Nation member countries because China is willing to sacrifice its own environment to make all the goods that everyone needs around the world.
The Nobel Committee told President Hu that they were very impressed with his accomplishments and would name him the recipient of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize after due diligence.
The Nobel Committee then called President Obama to substantiate President Hu’s claims.
Obama replied that he concurred with President Hu’s statements. Obama said,
1. Yes, I approved the Chinese purchase of all the uranium mines around the world,
2. Yes, I humbly obeyed President Hu’s demand not to meet with the Dalai Lama, and
3. Yes, I gave trillions of US dollars in stimulus money to buy Chinese goods that make it easier for American manufacturers to relocate their plants to China.
You know the rest.

This is nothing to laugh at really. Its insane that Obama was even considered for something as prestigious as the Nobel Peace prize. You people make me sick.

Is this the consolation prize for not getting the Olympic bid?

How can Americans be so childish,cant you discuss issues than the person.This is why people say that they are always shock when they talk to American,the knbow very little. I am against Obama for winning the price because I think that it is not right when American soldiers continue to kill women and Children (and in most cases babies) in Irag and Afghanistan.He is their commander and how can such a person win a Nobel peace price.
But I know it will it will be difficult to discuss with religious fanatics and majority of Americans who know very little about world politics. They have George Bush and Regan as president at one time,people who cannot even read what is written for them.God Bless America

When the Vatican heard about it, not to be outdone, they made him Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire!

“Mr. President, now that you’ve won the Nobel Peace Prize; what are you going to do next”?
Obama: “I’m Going To DisneyWorld”!!

An even better joke is yet to come. The Failed Messiah’s speech writers will insert a line in his acceptance address about how humble he feels.

His first 12 days were spent bashing GWB, Rush, Hannity and Fox News.
So in the eyes of the world he deserved it.
What a tool.

We are living in Bizarro World!

I think the prize is premature… What are they going to give him when Iran bombs Israel?

Barry is just a sad little boy with a Huge Chip on his shoulder. I really don’t think he’ll be able to take people finally making fun of him.

Wait. This just in.
Obama has just been inducted into the 
Baseball Hall of Fame.
For lobbing a lollypop pitch on one hop at the All-Star Game.
Extraordinary.

Barry is a man looking for persons who really care about others. He want people working to make peace. Are you working for peace or are you seat in your house porch doing nothing? I work in a High School and you can be sure that after I arrive in that school all and I said all my students get their High School Diploma and are studing in Colleges. There are no more fights and parents are working for common benefit”peace” Are you one of them or you just close your eyes and talk without works? Peace start in HOME!

Barry is a man spreading misery from sea to shining sea. He is destroying families by allowing millions to lose their jobs on his watch. Families are struggling. I know from experience. Last year, EVERYONE in my immediate family had a JOB. During the course of Obama’s first year of his one four year term in office, my brother, sister, brother-in-law have all lost their jobs. I have not worked one hour of overtime and my employer has fired 30% of the company with more to go next year. 70 people GONE. Only the hapless and impotent would make a foolish statement of crediting Obama for any good works.
I do more than my fare share to help my family and others. Obama has done NOTHING to help me. I help myself.
The fools who put this jerk in office have waged war on prosperity and the American Dream.

Did any olympic medalist ever get the gold medal half way to the finish line?

Peace in the world arrive with people that work for it.Are you working for peace? What are you doing to help the Nation to be in peace? Right now my husband is in Africa working for peace.And Im doing the same in my Country. And you? Are you doing the same?Or you want another September 11?

Let me think Rob! I think that you are not part of my Country! and you know why Im telling you this. You most be part of a Country like mine to be a knowledge person and know what stupids words are you saying right now.So Im not going to take you seriously.

A week after The International Olympic Committee hands The City of Chicago, as led by Barack “Don’t call me Hussein” Obama, a first round defeat, The Nobel Committee rushes in to restore him with an infusion of political capital.
The Nobel Committee had to know Barry’s Health Care reforms were on the political rocks. (We can’t let him fail now, we still have Cap and Trade to pass.)
So what gives? Is Western Europe, or parts of it, still in conflict with the 20th Century behind us?
Is there a pull Barack close, push the USA away struggle or psychology at work?
Or is this president an Islamic version of the Trojan Horse, leading the Great Satan…The United States to defeat from within?

Rick Wood
Who cares about Olimpics Plys if the Nation is at risk of war?
Peace in the world arrive with people that work for it.Are you working for peace? What are you doing to help the Nation to be in peace? Right now my husband is in Africa working for peace.And Im doing the same in my Country. And you? Are you doing the same?Or you want another September 11?
Obama is working for peace and he is succeding. He is working for America and the years to come! Belive in him! He is doing the best for the future to come!
I really dont care about Olimpics Im wonderig to see my husband back at home

The rage and stupidity in these columns show why the US (the last remaining superpower, the only “developed” democracy with capital punishment and without a health care program) is the most hated nation on earth.
One commenter referred to -
The constant lying.
The staggering arrogance.
The dangerous narcissism.
The astounding incompetence.
That was the previous US administration. (Raise your hand if you’ve seen a weapon of mass destruction.)
“Will they take it back when Afghanistan and Pakistan fall into chaos because he will not send more troops?” Afghanistan (and, don’t forget Iraq – better to overlook that mess, eh?) are already in chaos because George Bush chose to invade, conquer, and occupy… and US military personnnel are continuing to die, for absolutely no reason.
I believe the Nobel Peace Prize, given to President Barack Obama, was given to the United States, the most racist nation on earth, for finally trying to get things right after the eight miserable years of George Bush.

Welllllllll, if you insist…

Noble Prizes in categories for Chemistry, Physics, etc. are awarded by distinguished organization.
The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded by 5 Politicians. All leftists in Norway. That’s it. It has a much weaker standard than people think.
Hence, Obama wins it.

Well, it was a pleasure to bring my point of view to this Forum have to go to work for peace …

Richard
Read all my messages posted

Obama fully deserves this prize. What is the one accomplishment he has done that noone else ever has? Removing Hillary Clinton from the national scene. Name anything that is more peaceful than that. ‘nuf said.

This award is not as much pro Obama but anti Bush. And even Fidel Castro thinks it was a good choice.
What else do you expect from a semicommunist country. I know. I live here.

Who knew Obamagirl was on the Nobel Prize committee??

I think the Nobel Prize is an honor for the President, he was very gracious about accepting it.

I suspect that the Nobel Peace prize was given to Obama to send a message… to whom and for what purpose, who knows

I thought he won for letting the frog out of the box which sang”Hello my honey, hello my baby, hello my ragtime gal!”.

As Lin Yu Tang observed, “When little men start to cast big shadows, it’s because the sun is about to go down.”

Biggest mistake since giving the Nobel to Kissinger in 1973.

What a shame that so many conservatives hate the president more than they love America. I’d rather have the international community throwing accolades our way instead of shoes! My do conservatives hate America? And why is George facilitating such childishness? God I miss David Brinkley!

I never agreed to the idea that we need a receipt every time we vote but now I see why it may be a good idea.
I would like to make a return because what I bought last year has turned out to be more expensive than I expected and it doesn’t work at all. In fact, it has only made my life worse.
I wish I had that receipt.

I think the Nobel Prize is an honor for the President, he was very gracious about accepting it.

Getoveryourselves!
Im proud uf you!

For those who have forgotten their history, our Nation was formed by foreigners is why Thanksgiving day is celebrated . Here are gathered all sorts of religions and created a single nation. They fought together against foreign attack to the end. Blacks and whites gave their blood. That’s why we prevail as a nation. They talk about Gandhi, Kissinger and others who brought a message of peace to the world but our Nation had never been in such danger as it has now. Those who have served the nation as military can give knowledge of this. Obama has been able to counteract the danger that lurks behind the fog, leaving the road and offering his hand to those nations as we want to get ahead of their miseries. I believe in globalization and therefore ami apludo Commander Obama. No matter who I am going to support him. If the peace holds continuare giving my 100% support no matter how conservative, Republican and Nationalist Socialist and a little because America is a Republic. I keep a Purple Heart and the man I love is in danger of death because they fight for freedom you both acclaim. Why not lend a hand so that our nation will prevail in peace and harmony with other nations? Only living criticizing and are not able to put his hat on somebody else! Lets keep working and pay your taxes! and God Bless America!

Europeans, I mean….typo

Posted by: Derrick | Oct 9, 2009 11:26:46 AM
“The world community wants nothing more than a weak, contrite America. And Obama is delighted to give it to them.”
The world community does not want this and President Obama will certainly not give it to them, what he has said is that he is willing to offer the hand of peace or to negotiate with so called rogue nations/regimes but it is a two way street, he has olso made the point strongly that he expects more contribution from other countries in problem areas and righly so, why should the USA always have to make the largest contribution or go it alone.
PS you can always count on us Aussies.

Continued, Final of 3 Sections:
Obama’s New so-called “Financial Overhaul” is a Total Fraud
Will Permit Banks to Continue BUSINESS AS USUAL!
All Trading in Derivatives Should be Banned NOT “Regulated”!
Under the new Obama “Financial Reform” the Federal Reserve would be given increased powers to supervise large financial institutions which are judged to be “to big to fail” because of the deleterious effect on the economy from such an economy in the absence of huge federal jobs programs, a new separate Consumer Financial Protection Agency will be created to oversee financial products from mortgages to credit cards and require companies to plainly state the terms of financial products while banning the most unfair practices. But that only addresses the problem from one end!!! These 2 points are already strongly opposed by the all-powerful banks and Fed Chairman Bernanke who want their victims to enjoy not even the semblance of “protection”
The Obama plan also requires: 1.) higher capital levels at financial institutions to avoid over-leveraging, 2.) creation of a new national bank regulator for all federally chartered banks (while eliminating the Office of Thrift Supervision which oversees savings institutions) 3.) greater disclosure by hedge funds as well as regulations of credit default swaps and over-the-counter derivatives that previously operated outside of government oversight and 4.) introduces the requirement that the originators of future securitized mortgage loans, credit default swaps, etc.—meaning toxic assets—retain 5% of them (Wow!) rather than simply selling them ALL off to suckers around the world, the bottom line is that it is business as usual! Under the Obama plan trading in derivatives is merely to be partially regulated where plain vanilla derivatives trade on an exchange while the big boys trade the genuine article, the customized derivatives privately with no oversight or regulation. All trading in derivatives should be permanently banned! But it will NEVER HAPPEN because of the one-way dynamic of capitalism. And new ever more exotic investment products are constantly being invented! See below,
Under Obama’s new so-called “Financial Reform” the banks and insurance companies will be allowed to continue to deal in derivatives such as CREDIT DEFAULT SWAPS (CDS) and COLLATERALIZED DEBT OBLIGATIONS, MORTGAGE BACKED SECURITIES and STRUCTURED INVESTMENT VEHICLES! Credit Default Swaps, which have helped bring down the capitalist economic system, are derivatives invented in 1994 by JPMorgan to create a device that would supposedly protect banks if their loans defaulted, and free up the huge amounts of capital which they were required by law to keep in reserve in case any of those loans went bad. The buyer of the CDS makes several payments to the seller who receives a payoff if the loans: corporate debt or municipal bonds or subprime mortgage backed securities default. Credit default swaps transfer the risk of default of the illiquid subprime mortgages and other subprime products from the seller to the buyer so that even if the mortgage holders or holders of the subprime loan default on their mortgage payments and are turned out into the street, the holder of the credit default swap is guaranteed the full amount of the mortgage or other loan! But because of the increasing number of defaults the banks cannot pay these increasing amounts! The CDS in turn are used in speculation, hedging and arbitrage in transactions all over the capitalist world permeating virtually every existing financial institution.
The CDS market is $65 trillion in a total derivative market amounting to more than $680 trillion in funny money. But when the subprime credit crunch caused an overall deterioration in market liquidity the value of these derivatives and all derivatives decreased to virtually NOTHING! The truth is that the capitalist banking system today is worth virtually NOTHING! This is no way to restore genuine confidence and the capitalists admit: “The real obstacle is fear, which has made banks reluctant to lend and companies reluctant to invest in expansion.” (New York Times, January 10, 2009) So the Treasury chief, Tim Geithner devised the so called “stress tests,” the so-called Supervisory Capital Assessment Program, which was designed to assess the banks’ ability to endure a further decline in the economy under a baseline scenario and “worst case scenario” and required the banks to project their credit losses and revenues for 2009 and 2010, including the level of reserves that they would need at the end of 2010 to cover expected losses in 2011. The result showed that the banks supposedly required an additional $75 billion bailout! (Associated Press, May 9, 2009) But on June 10, 2009 several of these same banks returned $68.3 billion in order to escape regulation and oversight! See above. “Reform efforts” are primarily limited to vague public relations statements e.g. by Bernanke on October 1, 2009, such as: “all federal financial supervisors and regulators—not just the Federal Reserve—should be directed and empowered to take account of risks to the broader financial system as part of their normal oversight responsibilities.” (!) But no Glass-Steagall!
New Exotic Investments Emerging on Wall Street Prove That it is Business as Usual!
Securitized “Life Settlements” Are the Newest Pie in the Sky When You Die Bye and Bye!
Because the mortgage-backed security derivative business brought down the world economy the capitalists have been forced to devise a new but similar scheme: securitized “life settlements.” Life settlements are life insurance policies sold by ill an elderly people sell for cash. The banks buy the life settlements which can bring up to $400,000 for a $1 million policy which may vary depending on the person’s life expectancy. These policies are then securitized or repackaged just like subprime mortagages by packaging hundreds and thousands together into bonds, which are resold to investors LIKE BIG PENSION PLANS (Oy!!!), which then receive the payouts when people with the insurance die. The earlier the policyholder dies the bigger the return! People who live long make investors lose money! Hey! The Financials profit either way from huge fees for creating the bonds, reselling them and then trading them. But the process will cause insurers to raise premiums if they have to pay out more death claim than anticipated. In addition to life settlements investment banks and their ilk are repackaging their toxic assets into higher-rated ones called “re-remics (re-securitization of real estate mortgage investment conduits).”
This is big stuff with Morgan Stanley reporting $30 billion in residential re-remics were done in 2009! Hey! The only problem is that the scheme pits the insurance industry against the financials. Policyholders normally often allow their policies to lapse for many reasons which benefits the insurance companies who then do not have to make a payout. But if policies are repackaged into a security investors must keep paying the premiums causing the insurers to lose money because more policies remain in force causing more payouts by the insurers over time. This causes the insurers to raise life insurance premiums and can cause fewer people to take out life insurance which can further increase rates. The financials are undeterred and moving ahead to exploit the $26 TRILLION in outstanding U.S. life insurance policies, which provides an actual market for these crooks and ghouls of about $ 500 BILLION even if only a small percentage of people sell their policies! This is just a taste of the future and the “new normal” under Obama and demonstrates that nothing is going to be done that was done under the New Deal because the New Deal came about only under the pressure of a million strong Communist movement in the United States. (See huge front -page article in the New York Times, September 6, 2009)
The Obama “Election Was Rigged Fundamentally
And by Direct Agreement With John McCain!
The U.S. “presidential election” was rigged by agreement between the presidential candidates as all presidential elections have been since the Watergate removal of Richard Nixon. See below. McCain deliberately sabotaged his own candidacy and took a fall so that the Democrats would take the White House. Please note: the purpose of the U.S. government’s focus on the clumsily rigged, fraudulent elections in Iran in June 2009 was: 1.) To falsely legitimize the U.S. presidential “elections” in comparison, which are rigged fundamentally but also rigged from every other conceivable angle in much more sophisticated ways (see below) and 2.) To discredit the Islamic Theocracy not only in Iran but also generally throughout Central Asia and other Moslem areas where Islamic Fundamentalists are trying to set up Islamic Theocracies! The United States itself installed the Islamic Theocracy in Iran after the 1979 overthrow of the Shah, in order to counterpose Islamic Fundamentalism to Marxism-Leninism and the national liberation movement in Iran, when it became apparent that the Peoples Fedayeen a Marxist group might take state power and then as a new Workers’ State side with the USSR. The U.S. especially did not want to lose the huge oil reserves of Iran! At that point the USSR was considered a far greater threat to world capitalism than Islamic Fundamentalism, which the capitalist dictatorship has always easily manipulated to its own advantage. (See below.) The U.S. supported the Green (colored) counter-revolution of Mir-Hossein Mousavi not because of any U.S. friendly policies of Mousavi (who targeted the U.S. when he was Prime Minister from 1981 to 1989, when he helped organize the 1983 truck bombings of the U.S. Embassy and Marine barracks in Lebanon, for example). The U.S. supports the Iranian “opposition” only because Mousavi is NOT Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and in order to try to undermine the Islamic Theocracy, introduce chaos and set the stage for later regime change. Mousavi’s nuclear energy policies do not differ substantially from those of Ahmadinejad so the planned bombing of Iran nuclear facilities by the U.S. Proxy, so-called “Israel” has not been called off. (See Materialist Analysis of the Mideast by this writer)
U.S. Presidential Elections Were Rigged in Advance Even Prior to the
2000-2004 Coup D’Etat by the Bush Regime, which Fundamentally
Altered the U.S. Capitalist Dictatorship, Hardening its Dictatorship
With Aid and Full Cooperation of Democratic Party Leadership!
The “presidential elections” have been staged every 4 years with the outcome decided upon in advance by agreement between the candidates themselves ever since the removal of Nixon in Watergate. In this respect it has been similar to TV Wrestling. It is a fact of capitalist statecraft that policies, programs including wars may be carried out more easily under one party than another because of the difference in constituency support of the 2 parties. If certain policies and programs are carried out under the wrong party that can result in loss of constituency support for that party and work to undermine the illusion of “democracy” in what is actually a hardening capitalist dictatorship in the United States. In order to achieve the agreed upon election outcome the candidate who has agreed to take a fall invariably makes some deliberate “mistakes” of commission or omission, similar to shooting himself in the foot, which is focused on by the media to provide a basis to vote against that candidate. The media moves in hard to make the point and cover-up other information which otherwise might lead to a contrary result. There have been many variations on this theme since Watergate. This approach, which has now become vastly simplified with the introduction of computerized/touch-screen voting machines, has also required the use of “Third Party” candidates, which have been used to split the election so the chosen candidate is able to win. Up to the 2004 “election” this has been necessary to overcome the natural “advantage” of an incumbent president or party.
The candidates chosen for the staged presidential elections are in
full agreement with the principal that the interests of the capitalist
system supercede their own personal goals and aggrandizement.
This has been the case ever since Watergate, the bloodless removal of Nixon by the Nelson Rockefeller faction in 1974. (As a matter of record “Seconds in Command at the FBI” such as Mark Felt do not bring down governments!) The assassinations of the 1960’s had become much too messy and created unnecessary cover-up problems for the capitalist system, putting it on the defensive. This was in addition to the direct threat that Nelson Rockefeller felt from Richard Nixon, who had previously assassinated John Kennedy in 1963, Robert Kennedy in 1968 and also shot George Wallace out of the race in 1972, because if Wallace had been healthy and not a paraplegic due to the bullet directed by Richard Nixon he would have split the right-wing vote and the Democrats would have won. In addition, Nelson Rockefeller knew that Nixon had apparently assassinated former president Lyndon Johnson, who had been photographed after he left office and grew his hair long like a hippie and smoked marihuana and was considered a “bad role model.” In addition, Nixon who used Dealey Plaza “tramps”/later “Watergate Burglars” CIA assassins E. Howard Hunt and Frank Fiorini Sturgis to assassinate JFK in 1963 (confirmed by photo-overlay identification) apparently also may have had a hand along with then president Johnson and FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover in the assassination of Adlai Stevenson, perennial presidential candidate and a well-known and highly respected leader in the Democratic Party in London on July 14, 1965 after stating that he was taking a position against the Vietnam War and would return to the United States and play a leading role in order to bring the war to an end. Stevenson was assassinated by the Nixon-directed CIA “wet section” apparently with a gun, which shoots a capsule of either shellfish toxin or VX liquid nerve gas (which penetrates right through normal clothing) either of which will kill a person within 2 minutes after touching the skin. (Stevenson supposedly suffered a “heart attack” while on a London street.) Rockefeller forced this gun to be brought out in the 1976 Rockefeller Hearings where its use was described in full, but not its targets. This fact is now fully covered up on the Internet.
Gore Won the 2000 Election but Permitted a Coup D’Etat!
Kerry Actually Won the 2004 Election in a Landslide!
Bush was Never the President of the United States!
The 2000 and 2004 Coup D’Etat Made Bush a Usurper!
Despite making every effort to lose 2000 Gore won the 2000 U.S. presidential election and also Florida but allowed Bush to take power through a coup d’etat! If Gore had simply said one word Bush could not have taken office. That word was “NO!” In 2004 Kerry actually won the “election” by upward of a million votes or more, perhaps much more, just as Gore won by at least 500,000 votes in 2000. Kerry was way ahead on the Exit Polls up until late afternoon on Election Day. Exit Polls are nearly always within one percentage point of actual U.S. election results. CBS, NBC and ABC did not carry out Exit Polls because the discrepancy of so many Exit Poll results having Kerry way ahead would be too glaring a contradiction with the planned election outcome, which the government intended to announce, namely a “Bush victory.” Instead Edison International and Mitofsky International alone carried out Exit Polls. In the Nov 5, 2004 New York Times and on the News Hour with Jim Lehrer also on Nov 5th, Warren Mitofsky, CEO of that company, stated that when he discovered that the results showing Kerry far ahead by millions of votes had gotten out on the Internet on Election Day, he cancelled the Exit Polls and thereafter reported “only the official election results,” which suddenly put Bush ahead by millions of votes! This Simply Does Not Compute! And contrary to the orchestrated campaign of lies to the contrary it most certainly had nothing to do with false claims such as “the median age of the surveyors, 34, which over-represented young voters, who tended to vote for Kerry.” (!) New York Times, January 20, 2005. The CEO of Diebold Walden O’Dell stated in a mailing that he would “do everything in his power to make sure that Bush was re-elected President.” (Of course, Bush is not president and never was president. He remains a usurper.) And Florida, which had been going to Kerry BIG by well over a million votes was, few hours later conceded to Bush.
The same for Ohio, and in the Ohio recount Kerry and the Democratic leadership, under pressure from their hapless duped constituents, agreed to demand a recount, but assured the Republicans in advance that “no matter what the outcome the Democratic Party did NOT intend to challenge the election outcome!” There were tens of millions, not millions, of new voters in the 2004 “elections.” The registrations and votes of a large percentage of them were simply thrown out, vaporized. The election process in both Ohio and Florida was controlled by the Republican Party, and the Democratic Party leadership cooperated fully just as they did in 2000 and 2004, in a consolidation of what has been and is in fact an ongoing Coup D’Etat. Ralph Nader’s role in splitting the opposition to Bush especially in Florida where in 2000, according to the New York Times, he reportedly drew 93,837 votes and helped assure a Bush “victory” was not as important in 2004 because his 2000 role was exposed under pressure primarily originating from Communist elements. In addition, two-thirds of the 2004 U.S. presidential “elections” were carried out on computerized touch-screen voting machines. This was where Bush was given his fictitious “3½ million vote lead.” If the Democratic Party was serious which it is not, it would demand a complete end to all electronic voting and allow only voting by paper ballot as in Canada and much of Europe, for example, where there is a much higher population density and it is realized that it is much easier to stuff an electronic/touch screen computerized voting machine than a paper ballot box, which the masses insist on! Not a “paper trail”—paper ballots! This was the objective, the reason computerized touch-screen voting machines were installed in the first place. With this weapon the throwing of presidential elections has now become a piece of cake. The vote-splitting assistance of a pumped up 3rd party candidate, used since Watergate to split the elections for one candidate or another, is hardly necessary anymore, except as a distraction or protest vote by those who are more easily duped. Because of this 2000-2004 coup d’etat Bush was never the “president” of the United States. He was a usurper at all times and should always be referred to as such. This means that everything which transpired during the Bush Regime was illegal on its face, including all legislation passed, all policies and all military invasions of other countries. Obama is continuing those illegal wars, etc.
Function of the State During and After the Socialist Revolution in the United States:
The basic question of every revolution is that of state power. The state is nothing more than a machine for suppressing one class by another. Unless this question is understood, there can be no intelligent participation in the revolution, not to speak of guidance of the revolution. Although the capitalist regime today is composed largely of Fascists we do not yet have Fascism in the United States. We have Rule By Decree, technically known as Bonapartism, in the form of a constantly hardening bureaucratic-military police state. What is most important to understand is that capitalism is a class dictatorship based on the fact that the capitalists own the means of production, the factories, the land, the banks, the military, the media (a privatized arm of the U.S. government’s so-called “intelligence community”), the educational system, where the state begins the brainwash of the youth who become the brainwashed adults and are instructed to pledge allegiance to the hardening capitalist dictatorship, which is falsely labeled “a democracy,” and to be ready to fanatically fight and die for the capitalists’ interests only—never their own interests! Finally, the capitalists own and operate the entire political process with their 2 parties which represent only capitalist interests. Even under a parliamentary system such as in France, Italy or England the capitalists run all of the parties including those that falsely claim to be “Communist.”
Once the Socialist Revolution has been consolidated, the capitalists have been expropriated and class society has been abolished worldwide, the primary function of the state as a class dictatorship to suppress one class by another disappears and the state as such begins to wither away, its bureaucratic apparatus smashed and the functions of the new government apparatus taken over by the very same workers and other employees, against whose transformation into bureaucrats preventative measures will be taken, namely 1.) Direct Election, 2.) Recall at any time and 3.) Payment no higher than the union wage scale. But before that process of the withering away of the state can be entirely completed the reality is that because the capitalists have created such a range of problems that immediately confront the very survival of the human race the Socialist States of the entire world will have to work together very closely to undo the damage which has been done, for example, the Runaway Greenhouse Effect, which has now begun. Only a Socialist Revolution will permanently end the capitalist tyranny by an insignificant minority of millionaires and billionaires by expropriating all of the capitalists’ wealth and will actually make it possible for everyone to live like a millionaire with a future and with complete security. There is more than sufficient wealth to achieve this. Remember that all of the capitalists’ wealth was originally expropriated and stolen from the labor—the Surplus Value from the goods and services created and generated from the labor of the Working Class. See below.
After the Socialist Revolution all officials in the U.S. Socialist government, without exception, will be elected and subject to recall at any time and their salaries reduced to ordinary union worker’s wages, which along with the salaries of all workers will rise substantially enough to be quite sufficient to live like a millionaire in the Socialist system! That fact alone will demonstrate more clearly than anything else the permanent break from capitalist dictatorship to a genuine worker’s democracy, from the dictatorship of the oppressors to the democracy of the oppressed classes, from the state as a “special coercive force” for the suppression of the Working Class, the middle class and the Poor, by an insignificant minority, to the suppression of the oppressors by the general force of the majority, after which the state in the proper sense of the word begins to wither away as the functions of the state are taken over by the general population. See below. There will be an end to the present situation where elections are staged periodically to decide which mostly predetermined members of the capitalist class will repress and crush us through the “presidency” and congressional parliamentarism, which has reached the stage of Rule by Decree. After the capitalists have been completely expropriated and the Socialist Revolution has triumphed, a reconstituted Socialist Congress, which exclusively represents the interests of the Working Class will become the ruling body in the United States, a truly flexible Working-Class government. The final name for it would be decided at that time.
The Congress, which will be constituted with directly elected representatives of the masses, will be transformed from the present talking shop given over to phrasemongering and resolutions for the special purpose of fooling the credulous masses in televised committees, speeches and “debates,” where the real business of state is performed behind the scenes and is carried out by the general staffs in the White House, the National Security Agency, the Department of War (so-called “Defense”), and other departments of state, to a real working, not a parliamentary body, both executive and legislative at the same time. Remember that under capitalism all issues reduce to a single question: how best to preserve capitalism-imperialism! There is no other apparent agenda! What does that mean in actual practice? There is a contradiction! The dynamic of capitalism works at cross-purposes to the actual preservation of capitalism! The policies which are actually adopted at this stage of capitalism by the usurped executive, gerrymandered legislative and stacked judicial branches of the capitalist dictatorship do away with all previous checks and balances which, though minimal, had allowed capitalism to exist in balance up to the point of the Soviet surrender (see below). Removal of those checks and balances and the existence of the Soviet Union now allows the dialectic of capitalism to develop and be expressed in its hardest, most naked and unrestrained form.
Under Socialism the U.S. Constitution, which has been largely abolished in practice by the parasite capitalist dictatorship, will be completely rewritten to encompass the reality of the abolition of the capitalist state and its replacement with a Socialist Government and organization of society on the basis of a network of Workers’ Councils in every city, town and military garrison. Most of the Amendments to the present U.S. Constitution will be retained except those dealing with maintaining the capitalist state and its bureaucracy, which will be abolished totally, though many if not most of the personnel will help in the transition to a Socialist system. These measures, which involve the reorganization of the state and purely political reorganization of society, take on their full meaning and significance only in connection with the expropriation of the expropriators, i.e. with the transformation of capitalist private ownership of the means of production into true social ownership. With the achievement of the Socialist Revolution worldwide, which will occur virtually simultaneously with the Socialist Revolution in the United States, the basis for all wars will cease because there will be no more “center of world capitalism,” which formed the basis of justification for the hard dictatorship of the USSR and other Workers’ States hand because Socialism unlike capitalism is based fundamentally on human need, not war and mass murder.
There was No “Collapse” of the Soviet Union!
Gorbachev’s 1988 Soviet Surrender Was Based on
Lenin’s Strategy of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk!
The capitalist dictatorship of millionaires and billionaires constantly repeats the Big Lie every day that the Soviet Union “collapsed.” That is a very Big Lie! Gorbachev actually surrendered to the threat of a nuclear threat created by the United States. In carrying out his 1988 surrender to the threat of a nuclear war Gorbachev was following the Strategy of Brest Litovsk, where Lenin was forced to sign an ignominious peace agreement with the German Kaiser in order to gain time with the understanding that all the Russian land that the early Soviets were forced to give up would be later regained. That was the case and the Soviets later recovered all of the land which they had given up to the Germans. Gorbachev was completely correct in believing that the inexorable outcome of a nuclear arms race was nuclear war and that the situation at that time left no other choice at the time but to surrender. Gorbachev also knew and calculated that by the Soviet Union leaving the field in the so-called “Cold War” that the dynamic of capitalism would continue unchecked thus exacerbating and accelerating the contradictions of capitalism-imperialism and hopefully making these contradictions stand out in bold relief and bringing it closer to the final scrap heap of human history. The dynamic of capitalism has indeed been accelerated in spades! The result was the present Economic Crisis. But the U.S.-led Fascists are once again on the Russian doorstep. Gorbachev wanted to try to eliminate the nuclear threat. And he did so—but only for a time! Gorbachev did buy important time just like Lenin did. But was it enough time? Time will tell!! Gorbachev also wanted to integrate the former USSR into the world capitalist economy making it much less likely to be a nuclear target of world capitalism. And he did so but only up to the point of Bush’s abandoning the 1972 ABM Treaty, on June 13, 2002, in U.S. preparation to continue its so-called “missile defense” in the Czech Republic and Poland on the border of the Russian Federation, which combined with the NATO presence now on the border of Russia, is nothing more than an attempt to force a second Russian Surrender. (See below.) But the 1988 Soviet Surrender to the Threat of a Nuclear War also created many more contradictions.
Today, even the Russian Federation in a typically bizarre Stalinist opportunist fashion, sounding especially strange in light of the economic crisis, has now agreed to the U.S. fraudulent propaganda claim of “economic collapse of the USSR” in order to try to placate and guarantee peace with U.S.-led world imperialism, now that the Soviet Workers’ State has largely been dismantled. And even Russia Today TV, while still presenting the Russian response to world events, which correctly always seeks to avert confrontation, has taken the mildly polemical “In Context” by Peter Lavelle completely off the air as an obsequious gesture to placate the United States prior to any possible new arms agreements. Russia Today TV never loses an opportunity to repeat the Big Lie about the supposed “Soviet Collapse” in order to try to ingratiate Russia with the U.S. capitalist dictatorship. But now “Russia” finds how fast that “peace” has disappeared, with the U.S. breaking virtually all of the U.S.-Soviet Peace Treaties of the 1990’s starting with the cornerstone of the agreements with the Soviet Union, the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty of 1972, which Bush formally broke on June 13, 2002 thus forcing the Russian Federation to withdraw from Start II, which banned the use of MIRV warheads on ICBMs. The recent impounding of ships bound to Abkhazia by the U.S./Georgia (!) is to be mostly ignored and forgiven in anticipation of possible nuclear arms agreements, while the U.S./NATO plan to try to force a Second Russian Surrender continues on track. See below! Forcing a Second Russian Surrender is the present strategic centerpiece of U.S. “statecraft” with Russia in order to try to take over all the natural resources of Russia for U.S. capitalist exploitation.
NATO and U.S. ships now fill the Black Sea as a further provocation after the U.S./Georgian Invasion/Provocation of South Ossetia, which the U.S. indubitably is rearming. In addition the U.S. is directing their Ukraine puppet Viktor Yushchenko to push the provocation/demand that the Russian fleet abandon its main Sevastopol base in the Crimea inhabited by 70% Russians!! Lots of luck! The Russian Federation also have opened Russian airspace to all U.S. military flights involved with the U.S. Invasion of Afghanistan and directed Kurmanbek Bakiyev, the president of Kyrgyzstan Manas, to reverse his “permanent” decision forcing the U.S. to leave the Manas airbase in 180 days in exchange for largely increased rent, only a pittance to the U.S. The U.S. is also building air bases in Georgia, just like they built Camp Bondsteel in Kosovo, which it plans to use against Iran and other central Asian and Mideastern countries. In addition, the U.S. is trying to steal Russian oil by planned diversion of the Caspian pipeline away from Russia (the Nabucco Pipeline) but is not having much success because the South Stream Pipeline, designed by Putin himself, makes much more sense and has Turkish support! Public opinion in Europe does not support either the U.S. or NATO in such anti-Russian adventures, which are bound to fail no matter how many provocations are carried out and how many Big Lies are told.
The false claim of “economic collapse of the Soviet Union” was fabricated by the United States in order to try to demoralize the masses of the world, and the United States especially, against the only solution to the complex of problems created by capitalism-imperialism. That solution is Socialism! Which can only be achieved through a Socialist Revolution in the United States, which itself can only be carried out peacefully by winning over popular support as occurred in the October Russian Revolution of 1917. Mikhail Gorbachev’s Op-Ed column in the New York Times, August 20, 2008, was the typical Stalinist (Not Communist!) opportunist, anti-Communist response, which did not explain the clever U.S. strategy of provocation, primarily in order to create ethnic division in the Caucuses designed to last for generations and that Russia was forced to respond to these provocations.
Analysis of the 1988 Soviet Surrender
To the Threat of a Nuclear War
In his 1988 surrender to the United States Gorbachev, in his efforts to please the capitalists, carried out some rather heinous acts of murder of prominent Soviet statesmen, prominent Soviet representatives and assorted “stones in the shoe” of the capitalists. For example, Gorbachev undoubtedly had his own Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko murdered in July 1989 because it would be inconceivable that Gromyko could espouse the surrender terms that Gorbachev had agreed to and may have openly opposed them. Gromyko was thus seen as a potential troublemaker in the planned Soviet surrender. A living Gromyko would be more respected than a live Gorbachev. The U.S. and the USSR had also previously agreed to the murder of NAZI Rudolph Hess in preparation for the rather long-planned Soviet Surrender. (Remember even before he took power on March 12, 1985 British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s December 1984’s highly publicized statement: “We can do business with Mr. Gorbachev!”) Hess was a totally frail 93 years old NAZI imprisoned in Spandau Prison in Germany and simply refused to die a natural death. Hess was a continuing symbol of the NAZIs and the need for a continuing Soviet presence in Eastern Europe and thus an obstacle to the planned Soviet surrender and the planned break-up and Soviet withdrawal from the countries which made up the Warsaw Treaty Organization. An extremely frail Hess, who needed help in tying his shoes by a male nurse, was murdered by the Americans with USSR agreement, by wrapping an electric cord around his neck and choking him to death. The media trumpeted “suicide, when he had never ever attempted “suicide” previously, despite media “Big Lie” claims to the contrary. And the prolific Hess left no suicide note and was moreover physically totally feeble and completely unable to choke himself to death according to testimony by relatives! See extensive coverage in the New York Times on and after August 17, 2008. In addition, Gorbachev also gave the order for the murder of Kim Philby in May 1988, a Soviet Agent who had led the Russian division of British Intelligence (!) for 19 years (!) from 1944 and had escaped to the USSR in 1963 just in the nick of time to prevent his capture. His existence was a total embarrasment to British “Intelligence.” In 1965 Kim Philby was awarded the Order of the Red Banner, one of the highest Soviet awards, and was made a General in the KGB. Philby was another “stone in the shoe” of the capitalists who had to be removed! With these people dead no one could ask THEIR opinions on the Gorbachev surrender. Because they were dead! Several others who had defected to the Soviet Union were also murdered to “clear the slate” for the coming Soviet Surrender.
Gorbachev’s own wife considered him to be a traitor and was estranged from him after Gorbachev carried out the final provocation(s) he used to discredit the Soviet leadership, many of whom were previously the respected and personal friends of both Gorbachevs, but who were not allied to him in his surrender to the United States and had to be eliminated. On August 4, 1991 with great fanfare the hugely unpopular Gorbachev took a vacation to the Crimea and behind the scenes encouraged the so-called “Gang of Eight,” some of whom accompanied him to the Crimea (!) to stage what was described later as a “coup,” but unknown to them Gorbachev cut all their lines of communication and chain of command. Gorbachev controlled the media completely, NOT the other way around as officially portrayed, thus setting this “Communist (Stalinist)” opposition up to be discredited and removed officially from all top government posts. Boris Yeltsin, an expert demagogue, was appointed beforehand by Gorbachev to move into the gap while Gorbachev was supposedly being “imprisoned in the Crimea.” Yeltsin was new and did not share Gorbachev’s mantle of unpopularity in the Soviet Union and the crowds were peppered with shills to scream his name, which the world capitalist media reported with glee. The media showed Yeltsin “heroically” denouncing the “coup” from the top of a tank. Gorbachev himself directed the so-called “Gang of Eight” to set up a plan of measures that supposedly could be taken in case a state of emergency!
Deputy USSR Defense Minister General Valentin Varennikov stated that Gorbachev himself had supported the coup and was behind all eight and had told the group: “Do what you think is needed, damn you!” to restore order and declare a state of emergency. Gorbachev knew these individuals opposed him and gave them the rope to hang themselves. The official name for the group was the State Committee on the State of Emergency (GKChP), and was headed by Vice President Gennadii Yanayev. Others included KGB head Vladimir Kryuchkov, Soviet Prime Minister Valentin Pavlov, Defense Minister Dmitry Yazov, the USSR Internal Affairs Minister, Boris Pugo, Deputy Chief of the USSR Defense Council Oleg Baklanov, Vasily Starodubtsev, chairman of the USSR Peasant Union and Alexander Tizyakov, president of the Association of the State Enterprises and Conglomerates of Industry, Transport, and Communications. This group was almost immediately dismissed from their offices by Gorbachev after the coup began and Gorbachev returned to Moscow with some of those very members (!), who were then all arrested. Pugo and his wife supposedly “committed suicide” but the reported circumstances at the time indicate that it was murder. A highly publicized and staged attack on the Soviet Parliament, the so-called “White House,” which had to be put down militarily, was then carried out as yet another provocation to send the message of intimidation to the Communist Party members of Parliament and the masses (who hated Gorbachev and what was happening under his leadership), that the Soviet military supported the Gorbachev/Yeltsin leadership. Later Gorbachev resigned officially and the Soviet surrender was consolidated under Yeltsin who liquidated the USSR officially on December 8, 1991, when the USSR, Belarus and the Ukraine signed the Belovezh Agreement, dissolving the Soviet Union and establishing a Commonwealth of Independent States. Pretty quick work! No?
In his August 20, 2008 New York Times Op-Ed Gorbachev also lied through omission by omitting the obvious long-range U.S. objectives of the U.S./Georgian Invasion/Provocation of South Ossetia. Putin and Medvedev to their credit eventually exposed these objectives although only secondarily and without appropriate focus and emphasis! Russia has used others wherever possible such Alexandr Chachiya, for example. (See Materialist Analysis of the August 7, 2008 U.S./Georgian/Ukrainian Invasion of South Ossetia.) By honestly and precisely explaining these provocations Russia would be able to explain how the U.S. intends to manipulate public opinion. This way the public in all countries would be on guard not to allow itself to be so manipulated by the country which lied about “Weapons of Mass Destruction” in Iraq and which lies about everything including the most recent Bailout of Wall Street. This should be a no-brainer but Stalinist opportunism blocks the mind.
The key point regarding the USSR is that all Workers’ gains which were achieved through the 1917 Russian Revolution and which existed in the Soviet Union right up until its surrender to the threat of a nuclear war in 1988 must be defended; these include full employment, no homelessness, free education to the highest level and free medical and dental. In New York City approximately 90% of the people this writer randomly approaches, most of whom are unknown to him, agree with the suggestion: ““We need a new system based on human need not private profit!” or “We need a Socialist Revolution in the United States!” These are straightforward Communist responses, although these people might not identify themselves as Communists because 1.) they have been brainwashed against the word and often do not even understand what it actually means and 2.) they fear reprisals from the government, which they know opposes Socialism and which does everything possible to try to unconstitutionally intimidate the masses in this regard even with threats of illegal, concocted bill of attainder laws. It is undeniable however that unorganized support for Socialism already exists in U.S. cities today! With proper organization these obstacles can easily be overcome. The economic-political-social conditions under capitalism have already created the support for Socialist Revolution in the United States. The U.S. population is most certainly not “a little to the right of center” or “a little left of center” or “centrist” as falsely often claimed by capitalist politicians and the capitalist media, as a way to try to pressure the masses, to both intimidate them and to try to convince them to take a position against their own best interests. It is most important to understand that the U.S. masses would be receptive to a Socialist Revolution right now if the barriers, which are systematically placed by the capitalist dictatorship to prevent it, can be removed. In the final analysis remember that all wars are won and lost on morale and every movement begins with the call!
Capitalism is in its Final Stage of Permanent War, Which is
Potentially the Most Ideal Pre-Revolutionary Situation Possible!
The Capitalists Rule Through a Combination of Force and Deception!
Therefore: 1.) The Capitalists Must be Deprived of the Ability to Send Bodies of Armed Men
Against the Masses and 2.) The Primary Capitalist Weapons of Deception Must be Explained
And Exposed in Order to Take the Steps to Defeat Them and 3.) A Nationwide Network
Of Workers’ and Community Councils Must be Organized as a
Dual Power Counterposed to the Capitalists’ Dictatorship!
THE CAPITALISTS MUST FIRST BE DISARMED! Mutiny in the armed forces is the absolute precondition for Socialist Revolution as well as ending the War in Iraq and Afghanistan, Pakistan, etc.. Mutiny saves lives! Mutiny Saves Lives! This must be repeated. And repeated! And repeated! The capitalists must first be deprived of the ability to send bodies of armed men against the masses before there can ever be genuine free speech where opposing viewpoints can be fully heard by the masses, for example on NBC, ABC, CBS and CNN television at prime time every night of the week. Speaking on a street corner even with a megaphone is not free speech! Mutiny is also the first step to abolishing the standing army while arming the vanguard of the Working Class. Because of the Mutiny of U.S. armed forces in Vietnam in 1975 the U.S. has taken precautions to prevent another mutiny! The capitalists have switched to an army of mercenary mass murderers, which includes regular low-paid GI marauders and cutthroats plus a group of 45,000 armed “private contractors,” paid 4 times the salary of the regular mercenary army. These are the special elite Fascist killers such as Blackwater USA (leader photographed by major media openly giving the Hitler salute!), Dyncorp International, Custer Battles, Aegis, Zapata, Triple Canopy, etc., which are directly analogous to the NAZI SS (Schutz Staffel), for the personal protection of the U.S. high military command and officer corps. These very highly paid heavily armed military contractors are not in Iraq in order “to protect diplomats” despite the fact that the U.S. has built the largest embassy in the entire world in Baghdad! The protection of diplomats has always been carried out by the regular military. And they are not there to hunt for Al-Qaeda! This highly paid organized group of psychopaths are In Iraq for one reason only—to protect the officer corps in event of mutiny! There were no super-highly paid military contractors in Vietnam! Only after the mutiny in Vietnam was such a security force deemed necessary for Iraq, which is another Vietnam! The overall number of private contractors in Iraq, which includes the 45,000 armed NAZI SS Blackwater USA, etc., numbers about 183,000 according to the Associated Press, September 19, 2007, more than the regular U.S. troops (150,000). In this situation the U.S. strategy of using very highly paid private contractors in order to buy their loyalty ultimately cannot prevent a mutiny, but it does complicate it. The regular army must defeat these NAZI-style SS private contractors militarily while turning their weapons on their officers and taking prisoner all those who do not support the mutiny, along with these NAZI-style SS forces. The regular army has much heavier weapons and more men under arms so this is certainly not an impossible task.
After the Mutiny in Iraq and in all U.S. forces, which must include all National Guard units followed by the police forces, the masses will be able to begin to set up a government of Dual Power in the United States consisting of a nationwide network of Workers’, Soldiers and Community Councils which are directly counterposed to the capitalist dictatorship. The success of the Socialist Revolution in all other developed countries is guaranteed after capitalism is abolished in the United States, but if necessary, we will provide every assistance in any pockets of crazed resistance. The Socialist Revolution in the United States and the actual taking of state power will take place relatively bloodlessly, and can only take place relatively bloodlessly because the masses must support it. Only after Mutiny in the armed forces and after winning the support through patient explanation of at least 70% of the U.S. Working Class and their allies will it be possible to take state power, just as occurred in Russia in October 1917—where only about 220-240 people died in the actual taking of state power starting on October 25th and the days that followed. It was only afterward that millions died in the Revolutionary Civil War after the Imperialists first invaded the Soviet Union 4 months after the October Revolution and all those 14 invading imperialist armies on 19 different fronts mutineed, forcing the capitalists to back the “White Army” organized by the former Czarists and the Provisional Government of Kerensky, the fake-left “Socialist Revolutionary,” against the victorious Red Army. When the Socialist Revolution takes place in the United States there will be no civil war and no more central support for capitalism-imperialism anywhere on Earth. A Socialist Revolution is not a coup d’etat and must be supported by the masses won over to the Socialist Revolution through patient explanation, which can only occur if genuine free speech, as described above, exists.
The capitalists campaign nonstop to try to instill fear in the masses against Socialism, and most people are genuinely concerned about what Socialism would look like after a Socialist Revolution in the United States and the abolition of capitalism-imperialism worldwide. A Socialist Revolution in the United States would not and could not end up like the Soviet Union because there would be no basis to continue a hard dictatorship after the Socialist Revolution had been consolidated in the former center of capitalism-imperialism. The Soviet Union and other Workers’ States have all been hard Working Class dictatorships, which was justified only in order to prevent both internal and external counter-revolutionary attempts to restore the capitalist dictatorship, a threat which existed due to the fact that the Workers’ States have existed in a world still threatened by capitalism. That threat would be eliminated permanently after the Socialist Revolution takes place here in the United States, the center of world capitalism-imperialism. (See further below for a more comprehensive analysis of the USSR.) The capitalists do not want such questions to even be discussed. The reality is that there are no downsides to Socialism! First of all, life on this planet would be able to survive! Almost all of the jobs will still be there too except some of the jobs involved in the military industrial complex, insurance companies, HMOs and credit card companies. Insurance, HMO’s and credit would be largely unnecessary under Socialism, which would supply all social services automatically!
The capitalist military industrial complex would be terminated immediately after the Worldwide Socialist Revolution, while most of the jobs in that area would be transferred to projects more in line with human need not mass murder. Jobs in no longer necessary parasitic industries such as insurance, health management organizations (HMO’s), credit card companies and private real estate, would also be abolished along with the industries themselves. No more Donald Trumps! No more landlords! As part of the global economic-political-social system based on human need, with the exception of disability, there would be no unemployment permitted (of healthy normal people)—NOT the so-called “natural rate of unemployment” devised by capitalist economists such as Milton Friedman, or any version of it, which permits millions of people to be unemployed to benefit the capitalists as the so-called “reserve army of the unemployed”! Most large corporations and businesses would not disappear. Far from it! The only difference will be is that all corporations will be owned and run entirely by the workers, but all executive and management positions will be based on periodic direct elections within the corporation or company and all those elected would be subject to immediate recall. No one will be paid more than the wage of a union worker, just as government officials, and with the end of the huge military budgets and the expropriation of the expropriators, the union wage will rise to be more than sufficient to live like a millionaire. That would be the starting point.
Dislocation for any reason during or after the Socialist Revolution will be minimal because the popular support required for its success will allow a smooth and rapid transition! In addition, as mentioned there will be no more exploitation and super-exploitation by landlords, although a much-reduced rent will be paid to the Socialist State. Landlordism will be terminated. Society will finally be placed on a basis of human need. All sections of the economy which derive their profits from parasitizing the masses would be permanently eliminated. There would be no more insurance company parasites and no more need to buy insurance of any kind and no one would ever again be in debt! Today the average college graduate often starts life in debt to the tune of around $100,000.00 and sometimes over twice as much after a graduate degree, an amount which often can never be repaid during the person’s lifetime! That practice would be ended! It should be noted that all European countries have free education to the highest level—but only because of the 1917 Russian Revolution and the existence of the Soviet Union until its surrender to the threat of a nuclear war. See below. (Today the capitalist European countries are trying to reverse and abolish all of the social programs all of which have owed their existence to the Soviet Union.) After a Socialist Revolution in the United States there would be no more “Credit Card Scores” and “Credit Card Reports” by parasite credit card companies because those companies would cease to exist. And no more parasite HMO’s!
Medical and Scientific research would be expanded, fully funded and put to use of human need not mass murder primarily as under capitalism! There would be an end to all economic warfare which capitalism wages against the masses carried out to try to impoverish them economically and to demoralize them politically and to reduce their number by bringing them to an earlier death through applied Social Darwinism. There would an end to homelessness, and all housing would be made livable. There would be entirely free education to the highest level obtainable for each person. There would be free medical and free dental treatment for everyone. There would be an end to the AIDS pandemic, which is documented to be Biowarfare by the U.S. government and other cooperating governments. A safe recombinant AIDS vaccine, which would be close to 100% effective, would be promptly developed. (See further below in Analysis and Theses for exact description.) Humankind would have its best chance to reverse the Runaway Greenhouse Effect, which the beginning of an exponential increase in atmospheric CO2 levels documents has already begun. (See above.) The capitalists wage a continuous Big Lie campaign, just like they do on every other issue to brainwash the masses against Socialism. Anti-Communism, which is imposed on the masses through the capitalist government, its puppet media, its puppet educational system and loyal fake “left opposition,” divide and conquer “single issue groups” and conspiracy groups, has as much basis in truth as the capitalists’ claim that there were Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq, as we will see below.
The Declaration of Independence:
No Founding Document of the United States Enshrines Capitalism as the Permanent Economic System! On the contrary, The Declaration of Independence written by Thomas Jefferson is a actually a Transitional Document which authorizes a Socialist Revolution in the United States as the Only Prudent and Appropriate Response to the Level of Tyranny, Oppression and Threat to Human Civilization and Indeed All Life on Earth, which the United States Capitalist Class Dictatorship has Subjected the Entire World!
Some people think that a Socialist Revolution in the United States is some sort of foreign idea which would not work in the United States. That is absolute nonsense! In fact, the author of the Declaration of Independence provided the remedy, the solution, for today’s situation in this founding document of the United States. The underlined sections below document that today Thomas Jefferson would fully support a Socialist Revolution in the United States and that he would be declared a Communist. Which would be correct! Jefferson was the most politically intelligent and far-sighted of all of the so-called Founding Fathers of the United States. The capitalist system is not enshrined in ANY founding document of the United States! All that is necessary in the last sentence of the Declaration is to substitute the words—the capitalist system—in place of “the King of Great Britain,” and it applies to today. The Declaration of Independence clearly authorizes and calls for a Socialist Revolution in the United States today!
This document was written with careful foresight by one of the greatest intellectuals of the American bourgeois revolution and the world at that time. Most people have not read the Declaration of Independence since they have been children or have never read it. We are usually taught to learn only the first 2 lines and not to bother about the rest! The essence or gravamen of the Declaration of Independence makes up most of its text and appears below in the underlined sections. The fact that Jefferson wrote the document to apply not only to American revolutionary times but in fact expressly designed it to protect us from intolerable crimes of all future governments, in particular the destructive capitalist economic-political-social system in the present day, is covered up by the capitalist educational system, which clearly understands its true meaning and significance! (For example, if an attempt is made to enter a comment which contains the underlined sections below on certain Blog sites, the entry is rejected with programmed X-marks crossing out each word written by Thomas Jefferson!) And whenever the Declaration of Independence appears in writing as the backdrop for a political event for example, it is always in script and almost invariably on a dark background in order to make reading it impossible. In the beginning of organizing it is important to cite this founding document whenever calling for a Socialist Revolution in the United States. Obviously no pre-existing legal basis is actually required to carry out a Socialist Revolution! At this point however where there is no organized call for a Socialist Revolution and critical mass has not been reached it is a very important document in winning over the masses.
All of this naturally is covered up by U.S. government-operated phony “opposition” such as the “United Action Center,” ANSWER, United For Peace and Justice, Move-on, Workers World Party, the so-called “Revolutionary Party,” the Socialist Workers Party, Spartacist League, Workers League, Communist Party USA, the Progressive Labor Party etc., etc. Proper use of this document can greatly increase the acceptance of a revolutionary change in the form of the State and supports the present call right now for a Socialist Revolution in the United States. It is important to cite this founding document whenever calling for a Socialist Revolution in the United States. The founding fathers all signed this document, which states: “whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of…the unalienable Rights of Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness…it is their right, it is their duty, to…throw off such Government…to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness…and “to provide new Guards for their future security…” This obviously does not mean to hold new “elections.” It calls for laying a new foundation and principles, which in today’s context means to organize the state and society on a different basis of class ownership, which is the only means to achieve the rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed…with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. –That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. –Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.”
The handwriting is on the wall! It is time to organize! It is your right and it is your duty!
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America need to exterminate the plastic money.He is destrying our society beginning by the most humbles.This is what we call capitalism. Lets bring bread, land and freedom for all.

Why not let the mexicans como to work our land? We are making peace with that and at the same time blowing up our economy for us no for other country.
Lets teach other countries how America do it better.That make peace.

Biggest Joke of the 21st Century…!!!!
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i’m a hardworking medic on the track to discovering the cure for cancer. i deserve the 2009 nobel prize for science!

It seems that any president of us that didn’t make a war already it’s a good candidate for nobel prize

I thought not promoting genocide disqualified you. Atleast the commitee’s raised their standards. Sad when the Nobel peace price makes the Oscar look like it has more integrity.

Why is is a surprise? Obama appointed all the Czars of the Nobel Committee.

The more I read it, the more it impresses me. I don’t know how I ever worked without hilarious and funny things in our life, Life would be so much easier especially when there’s a jokes here and there. Being funny is nice because a lot of serious people are lacking with this kind of behavior that is why they are much look older. I would like to thank you for your outstanding blog post. Keep it up! Awesome!

Give me a break… along with the medal he gets a $1.4MM prize… and a diploma?? Will the Nobel prize in chemistry be awarded to someone who wanted to discover something? Or the literature prize to someone who planned to write a book?

i don’t understand, the Nobel prize is given to the person who promotes peace, or comes up with a scientific break through for the betterment of mankind…. Obama hasn’t done anything worth winning this award. The “only” thing he has done was be the 1st black president. how is that promoting world peace?????? Alfred Nobel is most likely turning over in his grave. Obama hasn’t done anything he promised and he’ll continue to do so. Obama is the prefect example of what America shouldn’t be. I am embarrassed for our nation.

In a perfect world, the Moon Impactor and the Nobel Peace Prize would have swapped destinations.