former Marine Corps Commandant James L. Jones likely to be national security adviser
President’s ‘Enforcer’
Jones will play the role as Obama’s “enforcer” to impose discipline and keep everyone working in tandem, said Zbigniew Brzezinski, who filled the national security adviser’s post under President Jimmy Carter. Vice President Joe Biden will also help prevent internal conflicts, Brzezinski said in an interview.
“I’m optimistic because of the strength concentrated at the White House,” Brzezinski said. “Otherwise there was a risk of a dispersal of strategy. But I think with Biden and Jones working together and dealing with the president on a daily basis, the chances of asserting control from the national security adviser’s office, which is the key office, are pretty good.”
Dr. Brzezinski said some VERY interesting things this morning. He was outlining a strategy for Obama, explain the role of National Security Adviser (and his controlling influence on the President), threatening Russia, and there were many rather bizarre comments made by the talking heads in regard to him.
Great stuff, confirming the new target is Russia, not Iraq or Iran, not even Pakistan… tho they will use Pakistan to destabilize both China and Russia.
Brzezinski: Jim Jones, Obama need a ‘cohesive relationship’
Nov. 25: Former national security adviser and Mika’s father Zbigniew Brzezinski discusses the rapport President-elect Barack Obama should be expected to have with members of Cabinet.
David Frum, Neocon speechwriter for George W. Bush, wrote a book (An End to Evil) with Richard Perle (another infamous Neocon). He has some choice words on Obama’s choice of Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State.
David Frum: Well, it means that Hillary Clinton has just moved from having an independent power base in the Senate to being in effect an employee of Barack Obama. And not just any employee, but one who has had to open her files to Barack Obama.
Just imagine the scene of the Obama people going through the Clinton files and saying, “Wow, this could be embarrassing if anybody ever found out about it. Don’t worry, it’s safe with us.”
He has just cemented his enormous power over her, and the sentimental idea out there that he’s reaching for a rival and padding the dust off her and bringing her into a Cabinet to be his rival — no, he’s putting her into his Cabinet in order to control her. It’s a pretty impressive display of tough politics.
This is very interesting..
But the norm since 1960 has been for the national security adviser to be very powerful and often more powerful than the secretary of state.
Hmmm, like Kissinger or Brzezinski?
Speaking of Brzezinski, it’s interesting that Mika Brzezinski on MSNBC’s new “1600 Pennsylvania Avenue” show was complaining that Hillary Clinton used her seat as a New York Senator to run her campaign for the White House and implied that her replacement in the Senate would be a real Senator for NY. Of course, this criticism was NOT extended to Senators Barack Obama and Joe Biden… but this is what we expect from the Brzezinski Network.
“1600 Pennsylvania Avenue” is clearly the tv vehicle for Obama’s press releases.
Of course, Gloria Barger is a mouthpiece for Wall Street. We have no illusion about her loyalties to the lampreys, leeches, and asset strippers. But she makes some interesting statements nonetheless.
The incoming administration is also sending clear signals that it could delay its promise to repeal President Bush’s tax cuts for the wealthy. All of which are good signs.
What we’re seeing — even before Obama is sworn in — is a changing of the guard, so the new folks are ready to take charge on Day One.
A tax cut for the wealthy is precisely what we DON’T need right now. Obviously this is bad news.
It’s very clear, from Monday’s moves, that Obama intends to act quickly. There’s no need to dethrone George W. Bush; he’s essentially already irrelevant in this process.
Obama’s plan is pretty clear: Push a stimulus package through Congress ASAP, and have it ready for the new president to sign on January 20. Obama has made its components pretty clear; a large jobs and public works program, money for green technology and, of course, those middle-class tax cuts.
don’t call it a comeback, i’ve been here for years..
from the WSJ:
Many of the Republicans emerging as potential members of the Obama administration have professional and ideological ties to Brent Scowcroft, a former national-security adviser turned public critic of the Bush White House.
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The relationship between the president-elect and the Republican heavyweight suggests that Mr. Scowcroft’s views, which place a premium on an Israeli-Palestinian peace accord, might hold sway in the Obama White House.
So, expect an Israeli-Palestinian Peace relatively soon.. they’ve had 90% of an agreement settled for years anyhow so this isn’t as big a stretch as it might seem.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who was deputy national-security adviser under Mr. Scowcroft in the George H.W. Bush administration, is almost certain to be retained by Mr. Obama, according to aides to the president-elect. Richard Haass, a Scowcroft protégé and former State Department official, could be tapped for a senior National Security Council, State Department or intelligence position. Mr. Haass currently runs the Council on Foreign Relations.
Other prominent Republicans with close ties to Mr. Obama — including former Secretary of State Colin Powell, who endorsed the Democrat in the final days of the campaign, and Indiana Sen. Richard Lugar, a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee — share Mr. Scowcroft’s philosophy.
“I think most of my close associates have a generally similar view,” Mr. Scowcroft said in an interview. “What’s the old story about birds of a feather?”
Mr. Scowcroft said his biggest piece of advice for the new administration was that it should make a renewed push to help broker an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal. He also endorsed Mr. Obama’s call for diplomatic engagement with Iran.
Also, NO war with Iran. Biden already let the cat out of the bag when he told Israel to get used to the idea of a nuclear Iran.
“Compared to the other alternatives we face with Iran, we ought to give it a really good, sincere try,” Mr. Scowcroft said. “I have a hunch that we’ll be more successful than a lot of detractors think.”
Obama aides declined to comment on the substance of the conversations. A transition aide said the president-elect has “deep respect for Brent Scowcroft.”
Mr. Scowcroft’s re-emergence caps a tumultuous few years for the 83-year-old former Air Force general. In the run-up to the Iraq war, Mr. Scowcroft wrote an opinion column in The Wall Street Journal arguing against an invasion and warning that it would “seriously jeopardize, if not destroy” the Bush administration’s war on terrorism. In speeches and interviews, he regularly criticized both the decision to invade Iraq and the Bush team’s handling of the war effort.
Now this is where it gets controversial. Bush/Cheney got away from the 9/11 plan when they invaded Iraq. There’s a huge war in heaven over this which came to a head in Sep 2007. Now the Neocons are OUT.
Essentially, 9/11 was a grand strategy to carve up Russia, not the Middle East.
“The center is the premier progressive think tank in Washington,” said Mark Green, head of the New Democracy Project, an urban-affairs institute in New York.
Just eight days after the Nov. 4 election, CAP released a 300,000-word volume called “Change for America: A Progressive Blueprint for the 44th President” that offers advice on issues such as economic revival and fixing the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Work on the book began almost a year ago.
CAP, which has 180 staffers and a $27 million budget, devotes as much as half of its resources to promoting its ideas through blogs, events, publications and media outreach.
The center’s future was far from certain in 2003, when wealthy donors such as Soros and film producer Stephen Bing gave $10 million or more to fill what they believed was an intellectual void in the Democratic Party and create a vehicle to produce an agenda for the party’s eventual return to power.
There’s a lot more in the original article that I didnt cover and it’s worth checking out. The general point is that Obama is a puppet of finance capital including Soros, the puppet-master of the Ukraine Orange Revolution.
Here are three suggested guidelines for voters in the general election.
Defeat Obama at all costs, since an Obama victory would put a crypto-Weatherman foundation operative and Trilateral Wall Street puppet into the White House, taking this country and the world towards catastrophe.
Defeat all members of Congress who supported the $700 billion derivatives bailout for Obama’s backers at Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan Chase.
Do everything possible to avoid a one-party regime controlled by the Obama-Pelosi-Reid cabal, which would impose a modern version of the Mussolini fascist corporate state, building on the state-sponsored compulsory cartelization embodied in the first installment of the bailout. The realistic goal is to obtain divided government, partisan paralysis, as much gridlock as possible, and a legislative standoff to provide time for the maturation of the necessary New Deal programmatic alternative to the current Democratic and Republican leaderships. We must avoid a Democratic Senate majority so large that opposition filibusters become impossible. (more…)
A couple of interesting things about this clip: it’s rare to see a Rothschild, the famous european banking family, in public. Lynn Forester was introduced to her husband, Sir Evelyn, by Henry Kissinger, of all people, at a meeting of the Bilderberg group, of all places.
Russia’s powerful oligarchs have hundreds of billions of dollars in Western bank accounts. They would stand to lose a great deal in the event of a Cold War–style standoff that could conceivably result, at some stage, in the West’s freezing of such holdings.
To Dr. Brzezinski, I can’t say enough about his contribution to our country. Here’s somebody who helped to shape Camp David and bring about a lasting peace between Israel and some of its neighbors. Somebody who has over decades trained some of the most prominent foreign policy specialists, not just in the Democratic party but has trained a number who ended up in the Republican party as well. He is one of our most outstanding scholars, one of our most outstanding thinkers. He has proven to be an outstanding friend and somebody who I’ve learned an immense amount from. And for him to support me in this campaign and then be willing to come out here to Iowa is testimony to his generosity. So if everybody could please give Dr. Brzezinski another round of applause..”
In my view it’s a true statement that Barack Obama “can’t say enough about (Brzezinski’s) contribution to our country”. Zbigniew recruited Obama and essentially created his political career, much like he created Jimmy Carter. You might say Obama is Carter v2.
