We have now won east and west, north and south, and across the heartland of this country we  love. We have given young people a reason to believe, and brought folks back to the polls who  want to believe again. And we are bringing together Democrats and Independents and  Republicans; blacks and whites; Latinos and Asians; small states and big states; Red States  and Blue States into a United States of America. 

THIS … [RENDEVOUS with DESTINY] … IS the new American majority.

THIS IS what change looks like when IT happens from the bottom up.

And in THIS ELECTION, your voices will be heard. 

                                                                                                      Barack Obama

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SEEMINGLY the only FACT that the peoples of the USA should focus on, in the context of statements made by Hillary Clinton,  IS that the native north american saying of ….
”speaking with forked tongue ” … IS ABSOLUTELY TRUE …
in HER “politically expedient” CASE … but alas such is politics thoughout the world

” In much of the popular mind, politicians are ALL the same. They're a bunch of egotistical, lying narcissists who sold their souls long ago and would auction their children tomorrow if they thought it would advance their career. They are selfish, manipulative, scheming, venal. The only feelings they care about are their own … They are not people you would want your son or your daughter to marry.”
                                                    Jeremy Paxman as quoted by Anthony Sampson
                                                     in his cutting edge epic WHO RUNS THIS PLACE?

… but every now and then, there comes along a family of souls whose aura speaks volumes in the context of the re-incarnation of the rule of  ”Akbar the Great”.

 

IN the context of my ”speaking with forked tongue” comments elsewhere …

Samantha Power has said in her recent interview with The Daily Telegraph …

The ”special relationship” between Britain and America would, she believes become stronger if Mr Obama won the White House because he would make voters in this country warm to the United States.

”A restoration of trust will have to occur between the US Government and the British public,” she says. ”There is a sense of disappointment but people still want to believe in the USA.”

The leaders of the people would be chosen in the old way - not by their political party, or who could speak the loudest, boast the most, or by name calling or mud slinging, but by those whose actions spoke the loudest. Those who demonstrated their love, wisdom, and courage and those who showed that they could and did work for the good of all, would be chosen as the leaders or Chiefs. They would be chosen by their “quality” and not the amount of money they had obtained. Like the thoughtful and devoted ”Ancient Chiefs”, they would understand the people with love, and see that their young were educated with the love and wisdom of their surroundings. They would show them that miracles can be accomplished to heal this world of its ills, and restore it to health and beauty.

                           200-year-old prophecy by an old Cree woman named Eyes of Fire

Following today's politically expedient  statement, by Geraldine Ferraro, Solideogloria's comment post to Toby Harnden's blog, IS THE most compelling …

The US (and the world) does not need 24 years of Bush and Clinton. Do we really want a nation that is run on the lines of Florentine Renaissance politics, with all its attendant intrigues? I'm sure the ruthless, cynical Clintons don't give a damn, but some of us want to see a radical change - and Obama is that change. Hilary is manipulative - she hides behind her gender to deflect criticism. The suggestion that women have somehow suffered more than people of colour in the US is outrageous and deeply cynical. The world does not need the Machiavellians Ferraro and Clinton …

and should Clinton win a second term 28 years of Bush and Clinton.

Let's just hope that Obama has read and taken to heart the words of Machiavelli himself …

” There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle than to initiate a new order of things.  For the reformer has enemies in all who profit by the old order, and only luke-warm defenders in all those who would profit by the new order. This quality of lukewarmness arises partly from a fear of adversaries, who have the law on their side, and partly from the incredulity of mankind, who do not truly believe in anything new until they have had actual experience of it.”

… and understanderbly Barack Obama was justifiably angry at Ferraro's race remark, saying …

“I don't think Geraldine Ferraro's comments have any place in our politics or in the Democratic Party.  They are divisive.  I think anybody who understands the history of this country knows they are patently absurd. And I would expect that the same way those comments don't have a place in my campaign they shouldn't have a place in Senator Clinton's either.”

AS the foremost power on earth … let the peoples of the United States BE AWARE

What did you learn from your mother that influenced your political career?

How to imagine that the future leader of OUR PLANET could be Barack Obama and that his 10 or 12-minute inaugural address, as President of the United States of America, could go something like this …

While I’m president of the United States we will never torture another prisoner and while I’m President of the United States we will never go to war unless our own security is directly threatened …

IF THIS were truly 2 B IT would undoubtedly transform the image of the United States in the minds of a multitude of people around the world …

SO BE IT

Republicans fear John McCain defeat against Barack Obama

“Unfettered markets have led to excesses that are going to cost the global economy trillions … & IRAQ is the first war that has been totally financed on credit … so this recession is likely to be the worst since the Great Depression”

“I've been talking to Barack Obama's team about issues like the cost of the war and regulatory problems. I think the agenda he's putting forward is a very positive one.
There IS a leadership deficit at the moment and he's the best hope to turn things around.”

                                                                                                       Joseph Stiglitz

” Barack Obama shares JFK's command of words and recognises their power. I am very excited to see how he has inspired young people who have been so cynical about politics for so long. “  … and what better way to set and example to ALL the peoples of this planet than to lead by example

” Tonight we mark the end of one historic journey with the beginning of another …
    a journey that will bring a new and better day to America ”
                                                                                                Barack Obama

Can Barack Obama win the US presidential election? …

” The world seems once again prepared to give [America] the benefit of the doubt “

THE REALIZATION of The American Dream …

“No one knows better than Senator Clinton how desperately America and the American people need change, and I know she will continue to be in the forefront of that battle this fall and for years to come.”
                                                                                                  Barack Obama

” WE ARE on a MISSION to make self-reflection hip for just a moment, just long enough to save us. If we can ALL COLLECTIVELY acknowledge our insanity, shrug and roll our eyes at each other at how nuts it is being a human, let alone having to pretend every day that we're 'normal', the amount of energy we'll inherit that has been wasted on the mask will be enough to creatively solve ANY GLOBAL PROBLEMS”
            
                                                        Jamie Catto & Duncan Bridgemann, 1 GIANT LEAP

A collective “Movement” … INDEED

Without clean water for ALL … NONE of the species will survive !

So what kind of change can Britain expect from a President Obama?

His aides suggest a break from the Reagan-Thatcher and Clinton-Blair models.

Brown aides had clearly hoped the visit would revive the PM's flagging image but Labour MPs focused on the apparent gulf between the two men's fortunes. Ian Gibson, MP for Norwich North, said: ”We need our Obama and we haven't got one, and that is sad.”

… and unless the voters of the USA realise that they now have the awesome responsibility of voting for a leader of an all-inclusive, non-protectionist  GLOBAL COMMUNITY, to which OUR SPECIES as a WHOLE belongs, the likes of ”the toxic anger brigade” will LEAD US ALL, lemming-like, to the precipice of existence … in on unsimilar way than our leaders in Europe ”NO LONGER WISH to LISTEN to the PEOPLES of EUROPE” …

oh for the ”inconvenience of referendums on everything” that the Swiss plebiscite enjoys, as well as ALL the benefits of the “European Economic Community” without the interference of the top-down undemocratic obsession of our Eurozone leaders …

for as Phil Kean has commented Danniel Hannan's Telegraph Blog …

We can't expect the march of conspiratorial EU federalism to stop for anything so irrelevant as the democratic opinion of the Irish people.

However, Europe will soon see a welcome & direct politcal casualty, partly due to Labour's blatent lie to the British people to offer a referendum.

Hopefully, where Ireland were fortunate & respected enough to be able to voice their dissent through their referendum, Britain will be in the vanguard of nations to remove our corrupt conspiratorial Labour regime, and hopefully start a trend which will result in the cleansing of treacherous governments right across Europe.

PERHAPS THE TIME HAS COME for THOUGHTS ANEW …
with respect to how we elect our European Leaders !!! ?

LET THE PEOPLE DECIDE

ALL of these ISSUES have … as Albert SO RIGHTLY says … simply to do with the variety of identities at diverse levels in such a rapidly growing collective holon … & there exists more than enough evidence and understanding of why & how these issues can be holistically addressed …

BUT the one lesson for today,  that ALL national, supranational and truly international leaders have to LISTEN to & ACT upon IS HUMILITY.

As Tim Melville-Ross has said - ”It's easy to lose touch with reality. You become detached and surrounded by people who tell you you're great, and that can be underlined by the sort of profile you're getting, the media interviews and the urgency of situations you have to deal with. You think you're one hell of a feller, and you arn't. You're just an ordinary human being.”

Melville-Ross's technique for avoiding the delusion brought on by isolation when running the Nationwide Building Society was to keep in regular touch with the grassroots of the business, coming face to face with customers themselves and listening and acting upon what they had to say.

IT IS TIME for our leaders to listen to …
those who understand why & how these issues can be holistically addressed …
and to put into ACTION solutions which will address ANY GLOBAL PROBLEM.

Predicting the future - with the power of betting

… is not always as infallible as most voters would be led to believe ! …

perhaps we ought TO BE …
 
listening to the children ? …

HOW ELSE are we ALL to sense worth from within ?

Fascinated as I have been, with respect to the issues up for discussion, throughout this US election race, there IS undoubtedly, a key element of the presidential debate which seems to have been missed and in the context of Clinton's famous remark …

IT's INNOVATION, stupid !!!

I was interested to read, therefore, the Election 08 Special Report in this week's
NewScientist,  which seeks to  address  the problem  of  ”UNDOING the DAMAGE”
because the eight years of the Bush administration have seen science ignored and
even abused when one considers the initial success of  CERN's  relatively low budget
LHC  project  in Europe.

ANY strength … TAKEN to the EXTREME … becomes a weakness.

No wonder so many of the great cultures have faded into historical footnotes and the great culture of the USA is faced with such ignomy if these facts are not urgently taken into consideration.

THE CHANGE, which has to take place in the USA, is that the collective voice of ALL the people has to be acted upon at all times not just during senate, congress & presidential elections.  Both the senate and congress have abregated their responsible action to the President, which has become the executive and ALL have retreated to the “me, me, me, mind-set”.

Palin's “environmental record” in Alaska shouts volumes in this regard whilst Obama's
“voice of hope” remains the ONLY ”voice of SENSE” in the global world of politics today.

The rulers of the exchange of mankind's goods have failed, through their own stubbornness and their own incompetence.

They know only the rules of a generation of self-seekers.

The money changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilisation.

We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths,”

                      President Franklin Roosevelt's speech to the nation in March 1933

Will we hear such language before long from President Obama, addressing the most radical House and Senate in living memory? Probably.

From moral hazard to moral rebirth …

starting with A PLAN TO STRENGTHEN THE ECONOMY which listens to the people

If true, this speaks volumes ! … INDEED

GOD BLESS this election and THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

Obama IS indeed a transformative figure leading the way for ALL of those that have only spoken of transformation whilst sleep-walking the translatative mind-set and at the same time a symbol who will turn your own symbol of the White-House into a place of symbolism.

Be sure, you 'll, to follow the rabbit hole of LOVE from the above link

ALL UNION FROM DISUNION TOWARDS REUNION

… and the transition for science starts here and BE SURE
to watch the YouTube video

I AM hopeful about America being run by Barack Obama. The fact that a lot of people, all over the world, feel refreshed by Obama IS an indication that there’s a global exhaustion about the way politics has been conducted. I AM a completely unrepentant idealist and think the energy of idealism has been lost. Obama speaks to an aspiration to think differently - he seems intellectually braver, younger and fresher.
                                                                         Harriet Walter

(HERE HERE !)

UNLESS, however, the POWER of the military industrial machine IS redirected to global appropriate action as a result of Barack Obama encouraging the establishment of a NEW ENVIRONMENT, based on CONSTRUCTIVE rather than DESTRUCTIVE criticism, we shall forever BE asking the question …

WHY WE FIGHT …

and whether or NOT Barack Obama may have already made a terrible mistake before his inauguration in 10 days TIME. Let us HOPE, this time around, that Larry Summers IS true to form in that …

“when the facts change, Larry changes his mind”.

SHOULD Gordon Brown’s VAT folly BE a sharp lesson to Barack Obama or NOT ?

Perhaps we should Just BE AWARE

of those in whom we trust,

whatever and/or whomever THAT/THEY may BE

… and YOU don’t have to BE a good Jeremiah

to UNDERSTAND THAT !

“OUR Prime Minister’s credibility as a steward
of the nation’s finances IS beyond salvation”

and THIS CAN NOT be said often enough.

… particularly in view of the fact that THE LIBERTIES of ”the poor man in his cottage” have been simply tossed aside, with the barest of parliamentary scrutiny.

DOES THIS NOT SOUND familiar where-ever you may BE on PLANET EARTH today ?

Let US Just HOPE that there IS NOT TOO MUCH snow in DC for the inauguration !

“For 30 years, American liberals have defined themselves according to a set of problem-categories that divide us, whether they be racial, gender, economic or environmental. We have spent far less time defining ourselves according to the values that unite us, such as shared prosperity, progress, interdependence, fairness, ecological restoration and equality. We can no longer afford the laundry list of “isms” to define and divide our world and ourselves.”

                                             Adam Werbach - Is environmentalism dead?

America is in urgent need of its own ‘perestroika’, says Gorbachev

NO BETTER STATEMENT, to come out of yesterdays demonstrations in the City of London, prior to today's G20 Summit, was that reported by James Hall in today's Daily Telegraph.

”On Old Jewry, a side-street that leads to Cheapside, two young men are dressed in smart suits with canes and copies of the FT under their arms. On first sight, they appear to be ironically-dressed anti-capitalist protesters.

But they are not. Gavriel Merkado and Vladimir Lavrentiev, both 21, are both
at business school in London. ”We are protesting in defence of capitalism. People are too willing to blame capitalism if things go wrong,” says Mr Merkado through wafts of marijuana smoke from nearby dancing crusties.

”The current crisis is all about systemic failure of society at every
level; people were willing to take on 120pc mortgages, banks were willing to lend them the money and governments were willing to let it happen. Things need to change but you can't blame capitalism as a concept,” says
Mr Merkado, as the two men walk off to read the FT in front of the Bank.

It is the most sensible thing I've heard all day.”

IT was John Maynard Keynes who proposed the International Trade Organisation (ITO), supported by an international central bank, the International Clearing Union (ICU), as an innovative project for the future of world trade just after World War II, and as published in Le Monde in 2007

”With an ITO and an ICU, we could have had a world order in which no country could run a huge trade deficit (the United States deficit stood at $716bn in 2005) or the  huge trade surplus of contemporary China. Under such  a system, crushing third world debt and the devastating  structural adjustment policies applied by the World Bank  and the IMF would have been unthinkable, although the  system would not have abolished capitalism. If we could  resurrect Keynes’s concept, another world really might be  possible: he figured out how to make it work more than  60 years ago. His plan would have to be dusted off and  tinkered with, but its core remains relevant.

It was a neat arrangement. To avoid paying interest or submit to outright confiscation; countries in surplus  would race to buy more exports from those in deficit.  Those in deficit could sell more and would find it easier  to return to equilibrium. Everyone would benefit. Trade  would expand, the world would be more prosperous  and peaceful, underdeveloped countries would have The International Clearing Union proposal more funds to invest in development, and it would be  impossible to accumulate the debts they have today.”

ALL of which poses the question of the G20 London Summit's OWN …

“RENDEZVOUS with DESTINY”

which Tom Stevenson has most succinctly summarised,
again in today's Daily Telegraph …
 
”The biggest problem facing the G20 leaders is that they are trying to patch up
a fundamentally unbalanced system in which the excess production and savings
of one handful of countries has to be matched by the excess consumption and
borrowing of another handful of nations. Either China and Germany have to
learn to spend more or the US and Britain must learn to live within their
means. The optimal solution, of course, would be a bit of both.

No doubt the compromise communiqué that is thrashed out today will be
presented as a triumph of shared purpose and international co-operation.
Let's hope enough people believe it, because the failure of the G20's
predecessor 76 years ago led down a path no one would wish to repeat.”

On the other hand, perhaps IT WAS “perestroika” in the name of PEACE on EARTH, that Barack Obama discussed with President Dmitry Medvedev during their one-on-one meeting in London yesterday ?


THANK GOD for private enterprise newspapers V the government ”influenced” BBC.