Is Obama Brzezinski’s Blockhead?

Oh, good grief!

I have a terrible feeling inside me right now that I am trying to fight off. I have the flu and I am curled up under a blanket preparing this post for Christmas day. My throat hurts and my head aches (it feels like an orange on a toothpick).

But that’s not the only ill that is inside me. Like Charlie Brown, I worry a lot about the state of the world. I just have this terrible feeling that things are going to get a whole lot worse if they ever get any better.

It’s one of those dreary cold winter days. Outside my window, snowflakes are falling upon cold grey asphalt. Ground into slush by giant heartless machines (each carrying a single passenger), their presence is nothing more than a slight nuissance to the various souls sailing past on the frozen sidewalk.

Cannonball Adderley lingers soft and sweet on my hi-fi in the background: Willow Weep for Me. Could the scene get any more melancholy? Well at least I’ve got some soulful sax to comfort me. The melody pours out from Julian’s sax as though it were a heavenly fountain.

What can I say? It’s another sad Christmas. Another year gone, and another year of war, war, war. The nastiness is everywhere, and folks, there just ain’t no end in sight.

Remember ol’ George “W” Bush back in 2001? He said this would not end in our lifetime, and that smug little puke wasn’t joking either. He meant it in the most solemn way possible. Hat tip to his daddy: Read my lips!

But hey, it’s nothing we can’t tune out on the ol’ telly, right? At least for the sake of our poor kids.

Or so we thought.

On 1 December 2009, America sat down for its annual televised ritual of A Charlie Brown Christmas, only to have it drowned out by president O-bomb-a’s Jingo Bells and war drums – 30,000 of them.

One could go deaf from all that noise. We might as well, I suppose. A good lot of us are already blind. The Change We Need? C’mon people, we’re talking about the president here. Did you really think that Obama was going to bring an end to pax-Americana and the military-industrial-complex?

The state of the nation is all too clear when we need angry mom’s like Cindy Sheehan to remind us that you get what you vote for. There’s nothing new here folks. This is exactly what Obama said he was going to do for us more than two years ago when he proclaimed that Afghanistan was The War We Need to Win.

In this revealing speech, a campaign-trail Obama mocked Bush’s color-coded politics of fear and then proclaimed with no sense of irony whatsoever that:

The terrorists are at war with us. The threat is from violent extremists who are a small minority of the world’s 1.3 billion Muslims, but the threat is real. They distort Islam. They kill man, woman and child; Christian and Hindu, Jew and Muslim. They seek to create a repressive caliphate. To defeat this enemy, we must understand who we are fighting against, and what we are fighting for.

Oh that blasted caliphate. If that isn’t the politics of fear, I don’t know what is. Remember folks, we either fight them over there, or we fight them over here. They want to take away your freedom. They want to impose Sharia Law. They hate women.

Replace Muslim with Jew and transport yourself back in time to Nazi Germany. Would there be any question that statements like those above were a matter of propaganda? I doubt it. Unfortunately, our post-9/11 meindfeck allows this boogeyman garbage to continue almost unquestioned – all because a single narrative remains intact: 9/11 = Islam.

Your political stripes make no difference. Whether you rationalize Islamism as a response to U.S. foreign policy or respond with a reactionary fever, the narrative survives largely unscathed, and as long as that narrative lives, we will never wake up from this nightmare.

Who created this narrative, and for what purpose?

There are endless so-called conspiracy theories about the who, but it is the why that remains the crux of the biscuit (as Frank Zappa would say).

In a word: survival.

The global capitalist system is a rabid wild animal that has run amok. You cannot reason with a rabid animal. The best you can do is to try and get away from it, but there is no escape from globalization (although I hear Richard Branson is working on it).

The wild animal (western civilization) is a high-entropy, endless-growth, technocratic vampire, which sucks all life from our little blue marble as it grows, swallowing everything in its path: energy, resources, habitat, creatures.

Energy is the blood that this vampire craves and it will do anything to get it. Right now this vampire is hemorraging badly, and what’s worse, a host of other vampires are now competing for the same lifeblood.

Rather than admit their conundrum and expose their weakness, the powers-that-be weave fantasies about Al Qaeda and terrorism. They take the realities of climate change and pandemic disease and use them to generate us much fear as possible, that we might call upon them to save us, to make us feel secure and safe again, so that everything can return to normal.

But the trouble with normal is it always gets worse – and we cannot go on like this for much longer.

The neocons talk about nation-building and the spreading of democracy. They tell us we can have world peace only under an American-led global hegemony – their New American Century.

You might like to believe that this were some sinister plot coming from right-wing nutjobs in the Republican party, but much of the rhetoric comes from policy wonks and think tanks and ivy league intellectuals – the kind of elites that certain elements of the right tell us to loathe. As far as I can tell, the neocons are just ideological stooges playing their part in some passion play that has been in the works for a long, long time. I doubt they have seen the whole script, but they certainly know their lines well.

I wish I could hop on the hopemobile, but Obama is one of them. He is in league with the globalists and mandarins and kleptocrats. He is in league with the likes of Zbigniew Brzezinski (former National Security Advisor to president Jimmy Carter, and architect of the Muhjahideen – the Islamic “freedom fighters” that drove the Soviets out of Afghanistan). Brzezinski came out to support Obama while he was on the campaign trail, and Obama proudly introduced him as one of America’s greatest thinkers.

Although he is generally considered to be opposing the neocons, Brzezinski practically wrote their playbook. His 1997 book, The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And It’s Geostrategic Imperatives, claims the alternative to U.S. hegemony is global anarchy. In the book Brzezinski says:

“The world’s energy consumption is bound to vastly increase over the next two or three decades. Estimates by the U.S. Department of Energy anticipate that world demand will rise by more than 50 percent between 1993 and 2015, with the most significant increase in consumption occurring in the Far East. The momentum of Asia’s economic development is already generating massive pressures for the exploration and exploitation of new sources of energy and the Central Asian region and the Caspian Sea basin are known to contain reserves of natural gas and oil that dwarf those of Kuwait, the Gulf of Mexico, or the North Sea . . . any successful American policy must focus on Eurasia as a whole and be guided by a Geostrategic design.

“That puts a premium on maneuver and manipulation in order to prevent the emergence of a hostile coalition that could eventually seek to challenge America’s primacy.

“The most immediate task is to make certain that no state or combination of states gains the capacity to expel the United States from Eurasia or even to diminish significantly its decisive arbitration role.

“Moreover, as America becomes an increasingly multi-cultural society, it may find it more difficult to fashion a consensus on foreign policy issues, except in the circumstance of a truly massive and widely perceived direct external threat.”

Which brings us back to the main narrative of 9/11 – the Islamic boogeyman. Don’t tell the people your real agenda because they won’t go for it. Tell them instead that they have no choice but to force a Clash of Civilizations, or else become ruled by Islamofascists.

People like Brzezinski will never discuss alternatives to Peak Oil, Climate Change, or other resource problems, like water. The post-carbon future that is coming is not part of the globalist agenda. They have no intention of accepting that inevitable reality. They prefer instead to go down fighting for an empire that is already dead.

Unlike Rome, America will not take centuries to fall. It will fall hard and fast unless we the people put an end to this rabid animal and dismantle our own machine before it does away with us.

Rather than parroting the lies of Brzezinski, Bush, and the neocons, Obama should have invited the nation and the youth of West Point to watch and learn from A Charlie Brown Christmas. Schultz’s message is about a lot more than crass commercialization and the true meaning of Christmas. It is about the importance of humility and the special role it plays in the search for truth and wisdom.

Fascists become powerful by attacking and ridiculing what they perceive to be weak. Thinking only confuses matters, and so thought quickly becomes the enemy and attacks on art and expression soon follow.

It might be a stretch to call A Charlie Brown Christmas an anti-fascist artistic statement, but Schultz did go out of his way to elevate characters who would be perceived as weak by fascists.

Charlie Brown is the ever-discontented philosopher, mourning the loss of humanity in the march of progress. Linus Van Pelt’s insecurities are even more evident. Here is a boy who sucks his thumb and carries a security blanket wherever he goes – all to much ridicule. But unlike Charlie Brown, he is quite comfortable with who he is. Charlie would be happy just to have someone like him.

Ultimately, only the humble Linus is able to uncover the true meaning of Christmas, which he culls the New Testament in the book of Luke.

And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid. And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying, Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.

A Charlie Brown Chistmas [1965]

1. O Tannenbaum – 5:08
2. What Child Is This? – 2:25
3. My Little Drum – 3:12
4. Linus and Lucy – 3:06
5. Christmas Time Is Here [instrumental] – 6:05
6. Christmas Time Is Here [Vocal Version] – 2:47
7. Skating – 2:27
8. Hark! The Herald Angels Sing – 1:55
9. Christmas Is Coming – 3:25
10. Für Elise – 1:06
11. The Christmas Song – 3:17
12. Greensleeves – 5:26 [CD bonus track]

The Vince Guaraldi Trio:

Vince Guaraldi – piano, arrangement
Jerry Granelli – drums
Fred Marshall – double bass

Additional musicians:

Monty Budwig – double bass on “Greensleeves”
Colin Bailey – drums on “Greensleeves”