Sweeping Republican victories

[Brother Ben]

So, am I the only one who excited this morning about the sweeping Republican victories? I am not a died-in-the-wool Republican, but they were vastly influenced by the Tea Party movement this time. I hope the GOP will WAKE UP and truely speak FOR America this time. I like John Bainers speech he gave last night. Basically he said, he is willing to work with Mr. Obama as much as they can AS LONG AS he is willing to make change in the RIGHT direction. Amen!

Here are the four things we voted on in our area:

Governor
Candidate Party Votes %
Haslam, Bill GOP 1,036,361 66
McWherter, Mike Dem 527,873 34
Precints Reporting: 2,169 of 2,176

TN Senate - District 013
Candidate Party Votes %
Ketron, Bill GOP 41,001 70
Matthews, Debbie Dem 17,481 30
Precints Reporting: 66 of 66

U.S. House - District 004
Candidate Party Votes %
DesJarlais, Scott GOP 102,835 60
Davis, Lincoln Dem 69,107 40
Precints Reporting: 356 of 363

Amendment - Hunting and Fishing (to protect the future of traditional hunting and fishing rights.)
Candidate Party Votes %
Yes 1,284,405 90
No 147,078 10
Precints Reporting: 2,169 of 2,176

I saw the map on the coverpage of our local newspaper this morning from yesterday to today regarding Red (Republican held seats,) and Blue (Democrat held seats.) It went from

Blue 60%
Red 40%

to

Blue 10%
Red 90%

It's great!

[Brother Randy]

Now that the Republican seem to have the upper hand hopefully they don't follow in the same paths of the good old boys. And that they will really work to get something done besides just fight with the Democrates.

Bro. Randy

[art]

I'm thrilled with election night results but I think what it means in Washington for the next 2 years is a stale-mate since dems still control the senate. Still, that's a huge improvement over what we've had the past 2 years. We may not be able to repeal whats been done in the past 2 years but at least we can stop the liberal railroading we've been getting.

[Brother John]

Brother Ben,

I share your enthusiasm about many things, but not about this. I have spent much time these past few years studying prophesy and eschatology. A lot of that time was spent researching the main players, the movers and shakers, that will play a major role in the last days. These include the secret societies and shadow government that control everything behind the scenes. The elite, the hidden hand, the puppet masters who pull the strings of both the Democratic and Republican parties.

Anyone who wants to know the truth about who really runs this country, and the world, must study groups such as the following...Bilderberg, CFR, Trilateral Commission, International Bankers, Federal (not) Reserve, Military/Industrial Complex, Corporations, Zionists, Skull and Bones, Freemasons, Knights Templar, Rockefellers, Rothchilds, Committee of 300, the UN, Jesuits, the Vatican, Club of Rome, Illuminati, and others. These are the folks who really control things. The politicians you see on TV are just front men, window dressing. From the Senate to the House to the President, they are the public face of the private elite.

It doesn't matter who's in office or which party has the majority. The agenda remains the same and the show goes ever on. Nothing substancial ever changes. Things just keep getting worse. The Republican/Democrat, left/right, conservative/liberal paradigm is a manufactured one to deceive the people into thinking they actually have a choice. Both sides are financed and controlled by the same people with the same agendas. They are two sides of the same coin. The real power brokers are neither voted in, or voted out. They remain in control no matter who's in office.

We know from scripture that at present Satan is the god of this world and it's kingdoms are his. The whole world lieth in wickedness, and all the groups I mentioned above are just human instruments in Satan's hand to do his bidding and accomplish his purposes.

The best analogy I can give is of two professional wrestlers who play the part of bitter enemies in the ring. There's a good guy and a really bad guy. In the ring, they pretend to beat each other up for the enjoyment of the masses. The truth is they both work for the same people, are paid by the same boss, and are more likely good friends rather than fierce rivals. This is how the political system works as well. The chumps in the ring get paid for putting on a good show, and the fat cats running everything behind the scenes keep getting fatter. All the meanwhile the dumbed down populace is buying it hook, line and sinker.

Joseph Stalin made this statement: "It's not the people who vote that count; It's the people who count the votes." He also said this:"It doesn't matter who the people voted for; they always vote for us." It was true then, and it's still true today.

Brother John

www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/usnews/politics/5086-what-a-republican-majority-will-not-mean-for-liberty-the-constitution-and-limited-government

"The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans." - British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, 1876

The real menace of our republic is this invisible government which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy length over city, state and nation. Like the octopus of real life, it operates under cover of a self created screen....At the head of this octopus are the Rockefeller Standard Oil interests and a small group of powerful banking houses generally referred to as international bankers. The little coterie of powerful international bankers virtually runs the United States government for their own selfish purposes. They practically control both political parties." - New York City Mayor John F. Hylan, 1922

"The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the Government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson." - A letter written by FDR to Colonel House, November 21st, l933

"The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes." - Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, 1952

"Give me control over a nation's currency,
and I care not who makes its laws."

Mayer Amschel Rothschild

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Amen Brother John

[Brother John]

This is an article I found online....


Politics is a means of preventing people from taking part in what
properly concerns them.

~ Paul Valery

(By the way...."poli" or "poly" is Greek for many. Ticks are blood sucking parasites. Hence..."politics," or "many blood-sucking parasites!" May not be the most accurate literal interpretation of the word, but it sure fits the bill!)

With the 2010 general elections over, attention shifts – as it always does following each election – to consideration of the next presidential steeplechase. "Who’s it gonna be?, who’s it gonna be?, who’s it gonna be?," is the refrain already begun on CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, and other directors of the Boobeoisie Chorus. For a politically-centralized society to maintain its pyramidal structure, it is essential that men and women be constantly reminded of their subject status. An ongoing curiosity as to the identity of their future masters keeps their minds from wandering to more important matters. The continued health of a democratic state requires the interplay of three factors: [1] the covert processes of realpolitik wherein the electorate is consigned the role of rubber-stamping either of two fungible candidates offered up by the owners of the system; [2] reinforcement of the fantasy that voters have some real-world influence over the selection of their political rulers; and [3] the illusion that the winning candidate is the one who is really running the government.

There comes a time when the contradictions, conflicts, and corruption of the state become so apparent that even Boobus begins to suspect that the political system is in need of a major overhaul, if not dismantling. Only the most gullible can utter the utilitarian premises of government with a straight face. The "greatest good for the greatest number," the "general welfare," and "common will" are phrases more suited to the creative comedy routines of George Carlin, Jon Stewart, or Jay Leno, than to men and women trying to formulate some meaning to politics. We are at such a point in time.

Libertarian and anarchist sentiments have long existed among people as alternative ways of thinking about how societies are to be organized. The violent and predatory assumptions upon which governments exist are rarely questioned even among thoughtful people until the costs of political destructiveness reach levels that can no longer be ignored. Ordinary individuals are suffocating under burdensome costs that benefit only those special interests who are either in political power or connected to such power. When, in 2007, Ron Paul told a gathering in Freeport, Texas, that it was time for another "tea party," latent popular sentiments in favor of liberty were energized. What Ron was analogizing to, of course, was the famous "Boston Tea Party" that helped to trigger American resistance to British rule.

The owners of the political establishment fear nothing so much as a populace that sees through the racket being perpetrated upon them; an awareness that might give rise to thoughts that would call into question the entire scheme. A renewal of the Boston "tea party" – whose thinking was reflected in the words and actions of such men as Jefferson, Sam Adams, Patrick Henry, Paul Revere, and John Hancock – would threaten the existing power structure. Sons of Liberty descendants would be most troublesome. On the other hand, to openly ignore the millions of persons identifying themselves as "tea partiers" would be seen as even more dishonest than the owners’ attempts to keep Ron out of the 2008 presidential debates.

Stuck with the "tea party" label, but not wanting so much anti-political energy expressing itself as a philosophically principled undertaking, the owners settled upon what could, at best, be described in terms of Lewis Carroll’s classic "Mad Hatters’ Tea Party." Western literature has few examples that can outperform Carroll’s "tea party" in the playing out of the nonsense that so often passes for intelligent conversation in our world. The inability of government officials – such as Federal Reserve chairmen – to explain the failures of their programs finds a parallel in the Hatter’s efforts to explain why he couldn’t fix a watch, which was exactly two days in error. The butter he had spread over the watch-works failed to correct the problem, to which the March Hare responded "it was the best butter."

As Alice struggled to make any sense out of what she was experiencing, she was met with a musical-chairs directive to "move down, move down;" while a more focused question on her part would be answered by the March Hare in terms that would immediately qualify him for today’s academia or mainstream media: "I have an idea: let’s change the subject." When the Hatter then asked "why is a raven like a writing desk?," and replied to Alice’s plea for an answer by saying "I haven’t the slightest idea," one begins to appreciate the words of my favorite character in this story – the Cheshire Cat – who noted "we’re all mad here."

The efforts to make foolishness sound plausible; to make contradictory reasoning appear sophisticated; to treat reality-based questions as an invitation to "change the subject": this is what makes the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party a useful inspiration to the established order’s efforts to defuse the libertarian Boston Tea Party as an operational metaphor. The Republican Party has enough March Hares, Mad Hatters, Doormice, and other babblers of nonsense, to bamboozle the millions of Alices who seek solutions to their plights. When intelligent minds suggest doing away with the Federal Reserve, or analyzing our modern difficulties in terms of Austrian economics, or urging the immediate cessation of wars, the word goes out from the owners: "let’s change the subject." Those who, like Ron Paul, continue to insist upon the priority of such inquiries will be told to "move down, move down." In such ways, what began as a reenactment of a philosophically-principled tea party has become a festival of illusion and delusion.

Political establishments always favor the "status quo" over "change" because they are the status quo. Any appearance of change that goes beyond tinkering with details and introducing more fundamental questioning of existing arrangements, will be co-opted by the ruling forces and directed toward their ends. In this way, the owners reinforce the popular illusion that the subjects can control the system.

I wrote an earlier article of the connection that has long existed between entertainment and the political system. We have kept ourselves dumbed-down – hence, subservient to external authority – by our insistence upon being kept amused. The word "muse" refers to a state of deep thought; "a-muse" means without such a state of thought. This is why there is such a symbiotic relationship between statism and the entertainment industry.

The business interests of entertainers – including members of the mainstream media – are so tied to the interests of the political power structure that they will continue their role. The 1997 film, Wag the Dog, could almost be regarded as a documentary! As art imitates life, establishment producers will once again turn to Hollywood for seasoned professionals to fill movie and television screens with more pro-state messages. Given the hostile mood of millions of Americans, the owners will not be so brazen as to resuscitate the 1960s’ Saturday morning cartoon show, Super President, but the latent sentiment will not be lagging. Script writers will rewrite the words to bring the story up-to-date, and new actors will be discovered to recite their lines, but the theme will remain the same. Costumers and makeup artists will be called upon to enhance appearances, while stage directors will insist upon the actors’ positions.

Just as the 1994 Republicans "contract with America" quickly morphed into a "contract on America," the "Tea Party" episode will quickly be transformed into just another franchise by which the owners reinforce their established controls over the rest of us. In time, audiences will become dissatisfied with the new performance, sensing that the Tea Party has become just another conservative Republican trick that will, in the words of Frank Chodorov, work "to clean up the whorehouse, but keep the business intact." By 2012, disgruntled audiences will again demand a new show, confirming the definition of insanity as repeating the same acts and expecting different results. By then, the producers will be preparing the sequel, Tea Party II, for an early fall release to the theaters.

To effectively challenge power, one must understand the slippery nature of language. "Words" – whether they be found in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, or other sources – have neither more nor less meaning than we interpret them to have. Through his character, Humpty Dumpty, Lewis Carroll, reminds us of the danger that lies hidden in all words: they never equate with what they describe, but must always be interpreted. "When I use a word," he told Alice, "it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less." When we cede to state officials this power to interpret words, we end up with such Orwellian contradictions as "war is peace," "love is hate," and "freedom is slavery." In much the same way, Tea Party sentiments – which reverberated in the thinking of Ron Paul and other advocates of liberty – will become their antithesis in the mouths of the Republican branch of the political establishment. If you want a very quick test of any alleged Tea Party spokesman, ask him or her if they support an immediate end to all American wars; and demand full exposure – i.e., an open audit – of the actions of the Federal Reserve system. If they stammer, or evade directly answering "yes" to either question, you know you are dealing with another March Hare who, like his predecessor, will reply "let’s change the subject."