US political, media, and education “leaders” are liars with criminal complicity in neocolonial crimes annually killing millions, harming billions, and looting trillions as .01% parasites manipulating events and rhetoric to control and profit from Earth’s resources (natural and human).
No improvement is possible without .01% arrests after an Emperor’s New Clothes public awakening.
Please consider:
1. My testimony from a front-row seat to this tragic-comic parasitism.
2. Documented data to explain and prove my factual claims.
What I witnessed of US “leadership”
From 1980 to 1997 I was a volunteer with RESULTS.org for US domestic and foreign policy to end poverty. Our work started in Southern California, I took it to Northern California as a UC Berkeley student, and we expanded to over 100 US communities, seven countries, and were leading voices for two UN summits for heads of state. All details are documented here.
My observations include:
- So-called “leaderships” of both parties only and always lied to us about ending poverty; specifically reneging on all promises (public and private) of policy support, with shifting "reasons" that became irrational. The good news is ~90% of Congress would vote consistent with their promises to us. The next two points are the “reasons” Republican and Democratic “leaders” gave us to not end poverty:
- Republican leadership claimed they couldn’t act to end poverty without appearing to give too much to the poor (W. Bush campaigned on similar argument in 1999 to 2000 against “nation building”), and rejected all polling data that Americans would fully support full funding of UN Summit for Children goals saving ~one million children’s lives every month (while reducing population growth rates in every historical case) at an investment cost of 0.7% of national income (peanuts compared to profits looted during open imperialism and slavery). They rejected CIA data that the best way to end terrorism is to end poverty. They refused my offer to hire me for public communication of this data (and more) that I would also use to end the careers of anyone opposing saving ~15 million human beings from unimaginable agony and death every year from preventable poverty.
- Democratic leadership claimed the same reason of appearing to give away too much to the poor, and rejected all arguments that their “leadership” must include using the data to isolate and end counterarguments (as we lobbyists demonstrated with their own party members). We at RESULTS countered with two strategies: continue to educate that ending poverty already had all solutions ready to implement with zero rational arguments to continue poverty on Earth (and promised by so-called "developed"nations since 1969), and to “solve their problem” by implementing microcredit: small loans to the poorest of the poor to end poverty while making a profit. This led to years of work to create the 1997 Microcredit Summit. President Clinton refused to attend (and stating full support), and sent Hillary and Secretary of the Treasury Bob Rubin (former Goldman Sachs CEO), who both promised everything, and then did nothing (consider the 1-minute video below of Bob's character). Democratic “leadership” told us the reason they reneged on support is that they were “too busy” (other NGO work and ours ended all "reasons" to not end poverty such as "not enough food," "population will rise," "it's not our job; there's no advantage to us," etc.) We also discovered corporate media would never report on the facts of poverty, and would never expose both parties’ “leaders” as liars (for example, see how the New York Times chose their “reporting” to bury and lie about the largest meeting of heads of state in world history).
- War and empire liars were promoted: those members of Congress who would go on Sunday political talk shows to push US military control were promoted to committee chairs, served a few years more, then retired to “spend more time with family” and receive high salaries as “consultants” from the corporations their political support profited. I didn’t document this history at the time, and among organizations such as RESULTS we euphemistically called both parties’ war and neocolonialism as leaderships’ “other interests” rather than ending poverty.
- After two UN summits for heads of state with both US political parties, corporate media, and public education all participating in outright lies of omission and commission, along with reneging on all promises for truth and appropriate action, I concluded that I needed to shift my civic activism to follow the money (the Claremont Colleges are publishing this paper to connect .01% illegal Wars of Aggression with manipulating money; and consider this paper of economic reforms literally worth ~$1,000,000 per US household).
Documentation in three bullet points to connect the dots of what US .01% “leadership” actually does
Perhaps We the People are close to victory from public awakening specifically of:
- Public disclosure and recognition that .01% US “leadership” in government has been a lying, looting, neocolonial illegal rogue state empire for well over 100 years attempting to maximize profit and control over natural and human resources.
- Corporate media and public education have been propaganda to “cover” these OBVIOUS crimes annually killing millions, harming billions, and looting trillions (current updates document ~30 million US war-murders since WW2 (and here), and 2.4 million in Iraq since 2003 from that illegal War of Aggression started with lies known to be lies as they were told).
- Solutions of ending poverty, transforming what is used for money from parasitic debt to monetary reform and public banking, and full truth in literally ~100 game-changing areas (consider here, here, here).
And one further crucial point: because “leaders” have devolved to psychopathic parasites, their tastes include sadistic actions beyond most humans’ ability to imagine; consider here, here, here.
Just because it’s worth $1,000,000 per US household: a few videos of OBVIOUS economic reforms
For Americans still zombiefied to “believe” in America, please embrace the reality that 40% of US children live at least one year of their lives in under-measured poverty, while oligarchs most responsible literally laugh in grandiose glee of the poverty they euphemise as “income inequality.” A sobering 1-minute reality check, including Bob Rubin:
John Perkins’ 2-minutes of context as an illustration of what the US rogue state executes:
15-minute video of obvious solutions: Mark Anielski and Ellen Brown’s powerful 15-minute response to an interview at the Seizing an Alternative conference (and here, with videos here) with former World Bank economist Herman Daly and co-author John B. Cobb of For the Common Good (video should start at 1:04:43):
My 2017 57-minute detailed interview and data presentation with Dr. Jim Fetzer:
We the People’s choice: ongoing debt, destruction, death OR .01% arrests for OBVIOUS crimes annually killing millions, harming billions, looting trillions
The categories of crime include:
- Wars of Aggression (the worst crime a nation can commit).
- Likely treason for lying to US military, ordering unlawful attack and invasions of foreign lands, and causing thousands of US military deaths.
- Crimes Against Humanity for ongoing intentional policy of poverty that’s killed over 400 million human beings just since 1995 (~75% children; more deaths than from all wars in Earth’s recorded history).
US military, law enforcement, and all with Oaths to support and defend the US Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic, face an endgame choice:
- Demand arrests, with those with lawful authority to enact it. An arrest is the lawful action to stop apparent crimes, with the most serious crimes documented here meaning the most serious need for arrests.
- Watch the US escalate its rogue state crimes that annually kill millions, harm billions, and loot trillions.
In just 90 seconds, former US Marine Ken O’Keefe powerfully states how you may choose to voice “very obvious solutions”: arrest the criminal leaders (video starts at 20:51, then finishes this episode of Cross Talk):
3-minute video: Police, Military – Was your Oath sincere?
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I make all factual assertions as a National Board Certified Teacher of US Government, Economics, and History (also credentialed in Mathematics), with all economic factual claims receiving zero refutation since I began writing in 2008 among Advanced Placement Macroeconomics teachers on our discussion board, public audiences of these articles, and international conferences (and here). I invite readers to empower their civic voices with the strongest comprehensive facts most important to building a brighter future. I challenge professionals, academics, and citizens to add their voices for the benefit of all Earth’s inhabitants.
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Carl Herman worked with both US political parties over 18 years and two UN Summits with the citizen’s lobby, RESULTS, for US domestic and foreign policy to end poverty. He can be reached at Carl_Herman@post.harvard.edu
Note: My work from 2012 to October, 2017 is on Washington’s Blog. Work back to 2009 is blocked by Examiner.com (and from other whistleblowers), so some links to those essays are blocked. If you’d like to search for those articles other sites may have republished, use words from the article title within the blocked link. Or, go to http://archive.org/web/, paste the expired link into the box, click “Browse history,” then click onto the screenshots of that page for each time it was screen-shot and uploaded to webarchive (blocked author pages: here, here).
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