veterans_today_jim_dean_banner_1.jpgI'm posting these next two RT articles because I feel these exemplify the major changes the world is going through right now.

"The driving issue concerned the crisis in Western leadership that finally people seemed to be finally waking up, like they were coming out of a dream state. And by leadership I do not only mean the individual cases where you could pick your favorite clown or special interest sock-puppet. The anger goes past them and into the parties themselves.

"There had been a shift in thinking that changing an old face for a new one on a party with a long record of duplicity and hypocrisy was just a waste of time. I agree completely. People began giving up on the elite controlled parties, willing to take a chance on anything over proven failures.

"...the world is shifting under their feet, not only in their own countries, but with the superpowered US feeling that it is doomed if it cannot rule the world. No one has bothered to explain this logic to me. If Russia and China can work together for the obvious benefit of both their peoples, why does an East-West version of this seem such an anathema to the West?

"Why does there need to be only one reserve currency? Why not have several and let everyone choose which to use in whatever situation like they do everyday? I think the banksters might be a little nicer to people in that situation… dare I say, more honest, and we could certainly use some of that."

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EU Gets Mini-Nuked in Parliament Elections

We had been predicting at Veterans Today that the EU Parliament Elections were going to wipe some smug smiles off the faces of the Euro elitists. We were right. That had been their standard reaction when asked about the simmering discontent over not just the economic situation, but a growing list of fundamental concerns of their societies undergoing their own polar icecap melt down.

The driving issue concerned the crisis in Western leadership that finally people seemed to be finally waking up, like they were coming out of a dream state. And by leadership I do not only mean the individual cases where you could pick your favorite clown or special interest sock-puppet. The anger goes past them and into the parties themselves.

There had been a shift in thinking that changing an old face for a new one on a party with a long record of duplicity and hypocrisy was just a waste of time. I agree completely. People began giving up on the elite controlled parties, willing to take a chance on anything over proven failures.

Political parties are being recognized for what they are, nothing more than special interest groups in themselves, infiltrated and co-opted into pretending to be something they are not, with all the celebrity talent their huge campaign funds can buy. As the famous Burger King granny ad immortalized, people began to ask "Where's the beef?"

Let's take a whirlwind tour of how some of the candidates reacted, and of course the corporate media presstitutes always step up to show their usefulness in molding public opinion. They represented a comedy tour of sorts, as they all dueled for the prize of creating the winning buzz word to describe the EU rebels as flakes and rabble.

The New York Times led with their expected elitist snobbery by labeling the pitchfork rebels as "fringe groups". Certainly there are some, but what was NYT's point? Do not the Democrats and Republicans have some "fringe groups" within their ranks, who are never smeared with that term unless they are in the opposition party, where the term "extremist" is the favorite moniker.

It's a wonderful word. When someone asks you what it really means you don't have to risk an unsatisfactory answer. You can just say, "You know…an EXTREMIST". That usually does the trick. In the sales business, this is called the "assumed close".

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"Radical Anti-establishment parties"

As a news wire service example, I chose AP, another media entity that crossed over to the opinion molders, for their 30 pieces of silver. Their spin headline was, … "EU leaders struggled for a response Tuesday to a dismal European vote that saw dramatic gains by radical anti-establishment parties, with Britain, Germany and France urging EU reform."

They went a tad overboard with the "radical anti-establishment parties" terminology,  followed by a desire for positive action, as "reform". Dear AP wire, download a new dictionary. Voters interested in reform are not radicals. They are anti-corruption – a universal concern. They are populists. Only a sold out media platform would try to paint them as radicals. But don't feel left out. These "radicals", as you call them, feel the same way about you and the politicians for selling them out. Shame on you.
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