Mark Dankof's America

    P. T. Barnum’s famous dictum about a sucker born every minute becomes apocalyptically axiomatic when applied to a fawning Republican Christian Right constituency infatuated with Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska, John McCain’s latest gambit in a bid to win the American Presidency for both the Senator and an Israeli Lobby lurking just behind the Arizonan in a subterranean underworld of manipulation and intrigue.  One thing is clear: the endgame is both treason and a massive dosage of death on a global scale.

    During the past week, my mind subconsciously switched off the Republican National Convention and the Palin speech, even before my right hand confirmed this mental selection by consciously pressing the “off” button on my television remote control.  As my mind blanched at the dreadfully deceptive televised scenario unfolding in St. Paul, it simultaneously wandered in a reverse direction in time.

    The journey into the past took me back to August of 1996 and the Republican National Convention of that year in San Diego.  For the record, I was one of the Buchanan supporters who left the Republican Party in the wake of the events of that election cycle, which culminated in the disastrous nomination of Bob Dole for President in California.  I never turned back.  I would never vote for a Republican Presidential nominee again.

    I remember the departure from San Diego like it was yesterday.  My small clothes bag and toiletries kit were tossed in the back of a vehicle owned by one of Buchanan’s longtime operatives, who had committed himself to transporting me back to the Texas Hill Country on his own way back to the East Coast.  His own gear was unceremoniously tossed into the spacious trunk whose lid was subsequently slammed shut.  The announcement of final departure was a terse, “Let’s get the hell out of here.”  As we sped out of San Diego, headed east on Interstate 10, the sun was setting in the west–not only on California and the Pacific Ocean, but on our own lives and the American Republic as well.  And we knew it.

    From my vantage point now, the decision to leave was a sound one.  Twelve years later, the United States is mired in a no-win war of counterinsurgency in the Middle East and Central Asia that should never have been started to begin with.  The national debt has doubled just since the tenure of George W. Bush in the White House.  The manufacturing sector of the economy continues its eclipse.  The foreign invasion of America represented by the existence of 20 million illegal aliens continues apace as well, with the full blessing of the current Presidential nominee of the Republican Party, who also endorses a brand of New World Order globalism embodied in the North American Union, NAFTA, GATT, the WTO, the FTAA, and the utilization of NATO as a Neo-Conservative police force in endless disputes abroad.  

    Not to worry, however–Mr. McCain and his fawning delegates in St. Paul will insure that the imagery of Old Glory and the long gone glory days of the Old American Republic Past are employed to sell P. T. Barnum’s Faithful on the palatability of this malignant package of evil exponentially multiplied by the speed of time and light.  They will have plenty of minions within the transnational corporate news media to assist in closing the deal.  The endgame of the project to close the deal is an aerial assault on Iran, possibly with tactical nuclear weapons. Make no mistake about it, the dark forces behind the McCain Presidential candidacy, epitomized by the peripatetic Joseph Lieberman, are angling for this tragic outcome.   If the Arizonan makes 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, as Pat Buchanan has recently indicated, the path to war with Iran will be virtually guaranteed.

    One is reminded of the warning of Jesus in the Olivet Discourse–that before His second coming, a great deception would envelop the world, capable, were it possible, of deceiving the very elect.

    This deception crucially depends on the Palin selection.  The current bogus controversy over her daughter’s out-of-wedlock pregnancy, a controversially disemployed ex-brother-in-law, and the vetting process that led to the Governor’s selection, is further evidence of the media’s ability to divert the public from the real issue in considering the Alaskan as a future Vice President of the United States.  Will the deception and diversion succeed?  Time will tell.

    It is abundantly clear that Sarah Palin’s choice as the Arizona Senator’s running mate is based upon a number of obvious factors.  One is the desire to re-cast the Republican Party as a changing mechanism open to new constituencies and creative strategies to expand the party base.  Even more obviously, the choice represents John McCain’s best attempt to reassure the anti-abortion Protestant Evangelical Right, the core constituency of the Republican base, that the Senator and his program are their own, and that the election of Barack Obama is simply an unthinkable alternative.  The Arizonan is banking on being able to create and sustain this latter visceral fear among both Republican delegates specifically and average American voters generally.   

    But the most crucial rationale for the Palin pick is the latter’s ability to maternally sell the American public on a continued Neo-Conservative course of war and conflict in the Middle East, where the armed forces of the United States and its accompanying national security establishment are placed at the complete disposal of the Zionist State of Israel.  The sell job will involve Mrs. Palin’s beautiful smile, her winsome children and grandchildren, and her public relations identification with small-town America.  Had Joseph Lieberman moved into the Number Two slot, the demonic implications of the selection would have been too immediately obvious and razor-edged to deny.  With Palin, treason and mass murder look more packageable and palatable to a comatosely moronic American electorate.  Today’s tragedy in Palestine, Iraq, and Afghanistan is shortly to be expanded to include Iran and Pakistan, not to mention the southern Caucusus as recently documented by F. William Engdahl.  Bet on it.

    As chronicled by Michael Abromowitz and Juliet Eilperin in “Experts Helping Palin Brush Up on Foreign Policy,” found on page A25 of the September 5, 2008 Washington Post, Palin’s introduction to her real handlers–and McCain’s–has already commenced.  The sockpuppetry isn’t even being hidden in corporate media anymore.  Check out the following from that revealing piece:

“Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman is among several national security experts helping brief Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin on foreign policy issues as she prepares to hit the campaign trail while cramming for a debate with her Democratic opponent, Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. (Del.), in less than a month, according to officials from Sen. John McCain's campaign.

“Lieberman, who was the 2000 Democratic vice presidential nominee but is now an independent, has helped introduce Palin to officials of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the leading pro-Israel lobby. In a meeting Tuesday, the day before she delivered her prime-time address at the Republican National Convention here, Palin assured the group of her strong support for Israel, of her desire to see the United States move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and of her opposition to Iran's aspirations to become a nuclear power, according to sources familiar with the meeting.”

    The AIPAC/Lieberman indoctrination of Palin is not the only arrow in McCain’s quiver.  The Zionist cash and logistical support which lie behind Cindy McCain’s Anheuser-Bush fortune, are her husband’s perceived ace-in-the-hole in this entirely duplicitous process.  Michael Collins Piper of the American Free Press has already chronicled the links of Mrs. McCain’s father, Jim Hensley, with the Meyer Lansky/Edgar Bronfman Jewish crime syndicate’s operation in the Grand Canyon State. It was this linkage that provided Mr. Hensley with the largesse publicly linked to the seemingly innocuous beer empire in the Grand Canyon State.   

    And it was John McCain’s father, Admiral John S. McCain, Sr., who was the United States Navy’s key official in suppressing Israel’s role in the deliberate attack upon the USS Liberty during the Six Day War in June of 1967, a suppression ordered by both Lyndon Johnson and Robert McNamara.  These ugly truths, taken in the aggregate, begin to give the composite picture as to what really lies behind the current McCain’s ascendancy to the Republican nomination for the Presidency of the United States.

    The Arizona State Motto is “Ditat Deus,” or "God Enriches."  But McCain and Palin have found another pathway to enrichment–at the potential expense of every innocent person on the planet.

    This collectively sinister picture begins to look panoramic in scope after reading three articles this past week.  The first comes courtesy of the September 2008 NewsMax.  In an article entitled, “The Influencers,” the Jewish-Zionist lock on the Republican Party becomes unmistakably apparent when the dossiers of NewsMax’s pick of the top 25 Republicans in America is critically analyzed.  The article’s revelatory character is magnified when read in tandem with two additional pieces in the September/October 2008 Washington Report on Middle East Affairs (WRMEA).  Those essays, respectively, are “Israeli Spying on the United States,” by Andrew J. Killgore, which includes Janet McMahon’s “Rogues Gallery of American Israel-Firsters,” and Laurence A. Toenjes’s “McCain, Lieberman and Iraq: ‘Till Death Do Us Part'.”

    The NewsMax expose reads like a Who’s Who of the Zionist web of intrigue that has replaced the Old American Right in the Republican Party with the mantra of a Jewish-connected Neo-Conservatism which has merged the idea of the acceptability of a domestic police state with the deployment of the American military and intelligence community abroad, wherever and whenever Tel Aviv and transnational consortiums deem it necessary. Under the categories of “Insiders and Strategists,” and “Political Activists,” there are the usual American Enterprise Institute, Project for the New American Century, and Religious Right listings–including the Gingrichs, the Kristols, the Vin Webers, the DeLays, Dobsons, Lands, and Ralph Reeds of the world.

    One fascinating tidbit comes under the listing for longtime Republican dirtball, Roger Stone of Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler’s press and public relations division.  For those who recall Mark Glenn’s American Free Press expose of the Mossad role in exposing the Eliot Spitzer sex scandal (ditto for the Jim McGreevey affair), it is of particular interest that NewsMax reports that The New York Post, a Rupert Murdoch publication, credits Roger Stone with being the conduit for the FBI tip that led to Spitzer’s demise.  Where did Stone get his information?  You can come to your own conclusions.

    But the most fascinating information provided by NewsMax comes under the heading of the “Money Makers.” MCA talent agent and Univision CEO Jerry Perenchio, Giuliani-connected oilman T. Boone Pickens, Mercer Reynolds, Giuliani-connected William E. Simon, Jr., and Richard M. Scaife are all among the heavy hitters.

    But the top two of the “Money Makers” say it all.  Check out Las Vegas gambling mogul, Sheldon Adelson, of the Sands Corporation, the 3rd richest American according to NewsMax, and linked to Benjamin Netanyahu, Rudolph Giuliani, and Tom DeLay.  Mr. Adelson is the main backer behind the pro-Zionist Freedom’s Watch.  His links to Israel were the subject of a recent London Financial Times article.  And take a look at Ronald Lauder, President of the World Jewish Congress, linked to George Pataki, Ronald Reagan, Al D’Amato, and the ever-present Benjamin Netanyahu.  These are the two top players in raising cash for the Republican Party of McCain and Palin.  Can the implications really be this obvious, except to P. T. Barnum’s Faithful in St. Paul, Minnesota?

    The aforementioned Toenjes, Killgore, and McMahon pieces for the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs (WRMEA) provide the rest of the damning evidence of the web of connections among the individuals and organizations comprising the clandestine Zionist nexus in the government of the United States.  

    You can see the Toenjes research for yourself at http://www.opednews.com/toenjessummary.htm.  He reminds us that John McCain and Joseph Lieberman became the honorary chairs of the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq (CLI), shortly after casting their votes in October of 2002 to “authorize” Mr. Bush’s invasion of Iraq.

    Toenjes then proceeds to show the web of relationships between the CLI and other relevant Zionist-oriented think tanks and structures, including the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA), the Defense Policy Board, the Center for Security Policy (CSP), the nefarious Project for the New American Century (PNAC), the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP), The Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies (IASPS), the American Enterprise Institute, and Bill Kristol’s The Weekly Standard.  In turn, these organizations have board members who cross reference with the establishment American Right foundations, including both the Heritage and Hoover Foundations.

    And those names cross reference with the heaviest of hitters in the Bush Administration and McCain Presidential Campaign’s foreign policy galaxy–Cheney, Rumsfeld, Perle, Wolfowitz, Feith, Libby, Woolsey, Kristol, Kagan, Schultz, Haig, Scheunemann, Schmitt, Armitage, Ball, Boot, Eagleburger, McFarlane, and Schlesinger.

    Even more ominously, some of those names cross reference, in turn, with Janet McMahon’s list of Israel-Firsters, some of whom have been implicated in past espionage operations on behalf of Israel which have targeted American intelligence information.  Here are but a few samples of the fruits of McMahon’s research:

Elliot Abrams: Son-in-law of Commentary editor Norman Podhoretz; convicted in 1991 of unlawfully withholding information from Congress in its investigation of the Iran-Contra affair; pardoned in 1992 by President George H. W. Bush.  Currently National Security Council senior director for Near East and North African Affairs. . .

Stephen Bryen: Member of advisory board and former executive director of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA); as Senate Foreign Relations Committee staff member, was subject of major FBI investigation after being overheard offering documents to Israeli Embassy official Zvi Rafiah; subsequently given top secret clearance and hired in 1981 as his deputy by Richard Perle, then assistant secretary of defense for international security policy. . . .

John Deutsch: Former CIA director whose security clearance was revoked for having prepared top-secret briefings and storing highly classified reference material on his unclassified and unsecured home computer.  Facing possible criminal charges, Deutsch was pardoned, along with fugitive financier Marc Rich, by President Bill Clinton on his last day in office.  Two years later, at an April 2002 Jewish National Fund dinner in honor of Deutsch, he was described as “one of Israel’s greatest supporters” who, as deputy defense secretary, helped secure an extra $200 million dollars for the Arrow project. . . .

Douglas Feith: Former under secretary of defense for policy, he established the Office of Special Plans, which produced “inappropriate” intelligence leading up to the war on Iraq.  His subordinate, Larry Franklin, was sentenced to 12 years in prison to passing classified information on Iran to AIPAC’s Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman and an Israeli Embassy official.  Feith reportedly lost his security clearance in 1982, when, as a National Security Agency staffer, he came under FBI suspicion for allegedly passing classified material to Israeli Embassy officials.  Hired that same year by Richard Perle, then assistant secretary of defense for international security policy, as his special counsel. . . .

Michael Ledeen: Former New Republic correspondent in Italy, where CIA station files listed him as an agent of influence of a foreign government–Israel; hired in 1981 by Paul Wolfowitz, then head of the State Department’s Policy Planning Staff; hired in 1983 on the recommendation of Richard Perle as a Defense Department consultant on terrorism; subsequently became consultant with the National Security Council, working under Oliver North, who recommended that Ledeen be asked to take periodic polygraph tests; hired as consultant to Pentagon’s Office of Special Plans under Douglas Feith; member with Stephen Bryen and Richard Perle of JINSA Board of Directors, and Freedom Scholar at American Enterprise Institute.

I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby: Graduate of Yale University, where he studied under Paul Wolfowitz; attorney for fugitive financier Marc Rich when Rich was pardoned by President Clinton; former chief of staff and assistant for national security affairs to Vice President Dick Cheney.  Convicted on March 6, 2007 of obstruction of justice, making false statements, and perjury in the investigation into the leaking of former CIA agent Valerie Plame’s identity. . . .  sentence commuted by President George W. Bush. . . .  Between the time of his October 2005 indictment, when he resigned his White House position, and his conviction, Libby served as a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute. . .

Richard Perle: As staff member for Senator Henry “Scoop” Jackson (D-WA), influenced hiring of Paul Wolfowitz by Arms Control and Development Agency; heard on 1969 FBI wiretap discussing classified information with someone at Israeli Embassy in Washington, D. C.; reportedly received substantial payments for representing an Israeli arms manufacturer; served as Reagan administration assistant secretary of defense from 1981 to 1987.  Author, with Michael Ledeen and others, of 1996 paper, “A Clean Break: A Strategy for Securing the Realm,” written for incoming Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.  Served on the Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board for 17 years before resigning in 2004, having resigned as chairman the previous year over allegations of financial conflicts of interest.  Resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

Paul Wolfowitz: While working for the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, investigated in 1978 for providing to an Israeli governmental official, through an AIPAC intermediary, a classified document on proposed sale of U. S. weapons to an Arab country; hired in 1990 by then-Defense Secretary Dick Cheney as under defense secretary for policy, in which capacity he promoted the export to Israel of advanced air-to-air missiles; former Bush administration undersecretary of defense for policy overseeing Feith’s Office of Special Plans; along with then Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, raised the possibility of attacking Iraq the day after September 11, 2001; nominated by President George W. Bush in 2005 as president of World Bank; resigned in 2007 over promotion of his lover, Shaha Riza, a Middle East expert at the bank; currently chair of State Department’s International Security Advisory Board and visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.    

    We now come full circle to The Whore of Babylon By the Potomac and her Vice Presidential nomination.  Is she the missing ingredient that will make a bilious John McCain acceptable to the Republican Party and the nation?  We will have the answer to this key question on the first Tuesday in November.

    One thing is not in doubt–any perusal of The Jerusalem Post, Ha’aretz, the Jewish Daily Forward, and the Jewish Telegraphic Agency confirms that The Lobby has its bets covered with McCain and Palin.  An analysis of these same outlets reveals ongoing suspicion of Obama, despite his public obeisance to AIPAC after clinching the Democratic nomination over Lobby-favored Hillary Clinton.  Clearly, the Lobby hopes that Joe “I Am a Zionist” Biden has enough of Mr. Obama’s ear to guarantee an expansion of American’s military involvement in the Middle East as a surrogate of Israel, in the event of the election of the Democratic standard bearers in 60 days.

    Which paves the way for a series of terrifying scenarios and possibilities, which includes the following:

1.  McCain and Palin are elected.  They launch the war Wolfowitz, Perle, and Company so desire.

2.  Obama is elected.  In this event, the Jewish media worldwide has already suggested publicly that an American and/or Israeli attack on Iran will ensue before his inauguration, courtesy of Bush and Cheney and their handlers.

3.  Obama is elected.  A all-too-familiar tragedy for those of us who lived through the 1960s ensues, resulting in his sudden, violent demise.  The false flag operation is falsely linked to the IRI regime in Tehran.  Public hysteria for war, coupled with the ascendancy of Lobby Shill Joe Biden to the Presidency, guarantees the outcome sought by the chief Neo-Conservative players in both major parties–an American sponsored war in the Middle East and Central Asia, for Eretz Yisrael and transnational energy consortiums.

4.  Obama is elected.  He launches the war sought by The Lobby, an indication of a Faustian bargain made with AIPAC and publicly proclaimed by the Senator in a speech still available online.

    And the P. T. Barnum crowd will jump aboard in any event, enshrouding the unfurling program of treason and mass murder in Old Glory and the Cross of Jesus.

    Hang on to your hats and fasten your seat belts.  The ride of your life–what remains of it–is coming.