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FREE PRESS * November
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* Issue 46 AMERICAN FREE PRESS
BEHIND THE SCENES WITH
MICHAEL COLLINS PIPER
Mainstream
NY Newspaper Confirms
AFP Report on Centrist Third Party
By Michael Collins
Piper
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. When
AMERICAN FREE PRESS recently presented a special
four-page report assembling evidence that high-level
forces have been setting the stage to spring some
sort of “centrist,” “bipartisan”
or “coalition”-type third party movement
on the American people, AFP’s critics said
this was “another crazy conspiracy theory.”
 However,
one of The New York Times’ most
influential in-house columnists—Thomas L.
Friedman — revealed Oct. 3 that there is
an ongoing effort to set up a new “centrist”
third party in time for the 2012 election. The
new party will shun both the “liberal left”
and the “conservative right” and stand
for “centrist, bipartisan” policies.
Or, should that be tripartisan?
Friedman’s
column is part of an increasingly open campaign
by monopolistic media controllers to conjure up
a “centrist” rebellion in America,
even to the point of launching a third party to
vanquish both liberal Barack Obama — presuming
he is re-nominated by the Democratic Party —
and a “conservative” Republican challenger.
AFP
warned this “centrist” movement would
be a classic “controlled opposition,”
dominated by the very big money forces —
here and abroad — in the Rothschild banking
dynasty’s sphere of influence that have
controlled both major parties through their stranglehold
over major media outlets shaping public opinion.
Friedman’s
column was titled bluntly: “Third party
rising.” He wrote: “There is a revolution
brewing in the country, and it is not just on
the right wing but in the radical center.”
Friedman
described “two serious groups, one on the
East Coast and one on the West Coast,” working
to build third party movements that the columnist
said would “challenge our stagnating two-party
duopoly that has been presiding over our nation’s
steady decline.”
Friedman
added that Obama had not been a failure but that
Obama “probably did the best he could do,
and that’s the point.” In Friedman’s
overrated estimation, “The best our current
two parties can produce today — in the wake
of the worst existential crisis in our economy
and environment in a century — is suboptimal,
even when one party had a huge majority.”
He
added: “Suboptimal is OK for ordinary times,
but these are not ordinary times” (his emphasis).
Instead, he wrote: “We need to stop waiting
for Superman and start building a super-consensus
to do the superhard stuff we must do now.”
To
elaborate, the columnist quoted Larry Diamond,
a Stanford University political scientist, who
said: “We basically have two bankrupt parties
bankrupting the country.” Friedman concluded,
basing his opinion on Diamond’s views: “We
have to rip open this two-party duopoly and have
it challenged by a serious third party. . . .We
need a third party on the stage of the next presidential
debate to look Americans in the eye and say: ‘These
two parties are lying to you. . . .’ ”
Now,
adding further to AFP’s informed speculation
about high-level maneuvering by the media-political
elite toward a “centrist” third party,
the day after the 2010 elections, The New
York Times featured a commentary by retiring
Democratic Sen. Evan Bayh (Ind.) calling for his
own party to “grab the center,” no
matter that “extremes of both parties will
be disappointed.” Bayh proclaimed, “The
vast center yearning for progress will applaud.”
The significance? In AFP’s original report,
AFP pinpointed a variety of evidence that Bayh
— a known participant in the Bilderberg
group — was being touted as a likely key
player in the new centrist party venture.
To
underscore the point that there is a growing “moderate
consensus” that could emerge in the 2012
elections, The NewYork Times featured
an amazing story on its front page on Oct. 8 entitled
“Some in GOP find soft spot for Bill Clinton.”
Although grassroots
Americans would love
to see an independent
uprising, it is vital that
they are not fooled by
this false entity.
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Times
correspondent Jennifer Steinhauer reported —
with full, ironic seriousness: “Many Republicans
with a deep animus for President Obama find their
hearts aflutter with the memory of a former leader.
He was a compassionate conservative, a guy who
cared about free trade, a man who reached across
the aisle. He is the husband of the secretary
of state.”
The
Times article added that such august
“conservative” Republican leaders
as Mormon icon Sen. Orrin Hatch (Utah) were among
those praising Clinton. Although former Sen.Trent
Lott (R-Miss.) was expelled as Senate majority
leader for having made friendly remarks about
ex-segregationist Sen. Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.),
Lott was quoted as saying: “You know with
Clinton the chemistry was right. He was a good
old boy from Arkansas. I was a good old boy from
Mississippi.”
Even
so-called conservative firebrand Rep. Paul Ryan
(Wis.), considered an up-and-coming figure in
GOP ranks, was quoted as saying of Clinton: “The
first two years of his term were one thing, but
the rest of his presidency was tempered with moderation,
and the nation benefited.”
Ryan’s
remarks, it would seem, should shock the average
grass-roots Republican who probably would remember
that “the rest” of the Clinton presidency
included a vast array of scandals — not
the least of which was the Lewinsky affair that
resulted in an enthusiastic effort by Republicans
to impeach the president.
Now,
however, that the national-level elite opinion
makers are working to sway public sentiment in
favor of a “bipartisan consensus”
(as part of an effort to stir up a “centrist”
third party movement in the upcoming presidential
election), key GOP leaders are being turned into
Clinton cheerleaders.
It’s
as if they are encouraging Bill and Hillary Clinton
to break with the Democratic Party, go “centrist”
and pull the rug out from under Obama.
To
add further fuel to that possibility, note that
The Washington Post recently headlined
an Associated Press (AP) story, which was also
circulated in other newspapers across America:
“Democrats divided on Obama in 2012. Poll
finds about half saying he should face nomination
challenge.” The story told of an AP poll
claiming that 47 percent of Democrats actually
believe the once popular incumbent president should
be challenged. And evidently, Mrs. Clinton is
the favorite among most of those Democrats fed
up with Obama.
So
while many “right wing” folks view
the Clintons as anything but “centrist”
and “very liberal” indeed, don’t
forget that, for years, prior to his winning the
presidency, the Clintons were major figures in
the Democratic Leadership Council — a preeminent
“centrist” force within Democratic
ranks.
The
terms “liberal,” “conservative”
and “centrist” can mean just about
anything when the elite media are defining them
for the American public, especially in the course
of attempting to manipulate a political action.
On
Oct. 25, writing in the Post, much-touted
“economist” Robert Samuelson joined
the clamor for a “centrist” uprising.
In
a commentary entitled “Politics has lost
its center of balance,” Samuelson wrote
of the “mass discontent” in America,
arising from the left-right divide. Liberals and
conservatives are “too radical or unrealistic”
and Samuelson emphasized the point that what he
called “the center” is frustrated
by such sharp-edged conflicts which, according
to Samuelson, are dominated by ideologues who
make “no room for compromise.” Both
the Democratic and Republican parties are too
much in tune with “the base” (that
is, the “liberals” hold sway in the
Democratic Party and “conservatives”
in the Republican Party) and not open to bipartisan
centrist concerns — or so he says.
In
Samuelson’s assessment, the 2010 congressional
elections will not resolve what he calls the “stalemate”
in American political affairs.
Although
grassroots Americans fed up with politics as usual
would love to see a genuine third party or independent
uprising in America, it is vital that they are
not fooled by this false entity being conjured
up in the laboratories of the “Dr. Frankensteins”
of the mass media and its big-money controllers.
* * * * * * *
. . ..Michael Collins Piper can
be heard every week day night live on
the Internet at republicbroadcasting.org.
He is the author of Final
Judgment, the controversial
“underground bestseller”
documenting the collaboration of Israeli
intelligence in the assassination of
John F. Kennedy. He is also the author
of The
High Priests of War,
The
New Jerusalem: Zionist Power in America
, The
Judas Goats: The Enemy Within,
Dirty
Secrets: Crime, Conspiracy & Cover-Up
in the 20th Century,
The
GOLEM: Israel's Hell Bomb,
and Target:
Traficant. These
works can be found at America
First Books and FIRST
AMENDMENT
BOOKS: 1-888-699-NEWS.
He has lectured on suppressed
topics in places as diverse as Malaysia,
Japan, Canada, Russia and Abu Dhabi. |
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(Issue #46, November 15, 2010, AMERICAN
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