What this means for the rest of humanity is continued torment, humiliation and subordination to Washington ... and bankruptcy!

VHeadline's Washington DC-based commentarist Chris Herz writes: The famous Middle-East correspondent for that fine old British newspaper, The Independent, Robert Fisk, said it best months ago: The only winner of the coming US election will be more violence and terror. This remains as true today as it was then.

• Only from within the dying empire is it really possible to see the dimensions of the horrors that are being prepared for a world which threatens disobedience to the corporate masters of us all.

Were you are a Texan, watching the opening of the new biowar lab on the barrier islands outside of Galveston, one of the few places you could get a job doing something other than flipping burgers, you might understand me.

Then the citizens of my own hometown, Frederick, Maryland need only travel to the end of Seventh Street to see the Army home of the anthrax which was used to bring to heel the momentary hesitations of the US official opposition to the more insane of Bush's post 9-11 policies.

Ever wonder why the opposition in the US Congress were so spineless in the face of the military power-grab?

Imagine opening up a letter to have weaponized anthrax squirted into your face. That just might teach you obedience.

It is becoming quite likely that the Democratic candidate, Barack Obama may be elected in the coming election ... the polls show widely different numbers, dependent upon who commissions and executes them. But some suggest the margins may be so large that conservative control of the election machines and their programming may not suffice to keep him from office.

Obama will do well in large states such as New York or California, winning all of them except for Texas. And while the Republican, John McCain will enjoy up to a thirty percent advantage in such states as Idaho, these with their tiny populations and thus limited electoral vote will not prevent his defeat.

In the USA we do NOT elect the president or vice president by popular vote ... each state has electoral votes proportionate to their congressional representation ... thus it is quite possible that a candidate may win the popular vote as did Al Gore in election 2000 but still lose the race. But the lopsided vote for McCain in places like Idaho, Wyoming or the southern states of the old Confederacy will help boost his total popular vote to something resembling parity with Obama.

We will see a massive shift to Democrats in the Congress ... but those who have been vetted by the party poobahs for their new jobs are for the most part the most conservative candidates possible.

It is quite likely that the next Secretary of Defense will be the current incumbent, Robert Gates. Likewise there will be no change at the Federal Reserve; Mr Ben Bernanke will retain his job. And there is much talk that the Treasury Department likewise will remain in the hands of the Republican, Henry Paulson. The selection of the hard-liner, Joseph Biden for Vice-President indicates that nothing much can change for US foreign policy. The Federal judiciary is already more or less totally committed to Fascistic reaction.

Obama, already forced into acceptance of the conservative Biden as his vice is extremely vulnerable to the possibility of assassination ... this is already being plotted by many on the racist, Fascist right. It is quite possible, given the mentality prevalent within police organizations within the USA that Obama's guards may not be as diligent as they might.

The net effect of all this will be another nominally center-left regime similar to that of the Clintons which will be so weak as to be unable to actually govern outside of the long-established boundaries of the center-right. This must be familiar to Britons dealing with so-called "New Labour". Or perhaps it is more like Ramsey McDonald ruling at the sufferance of Stanley Baldwin.

• Perhaps this might be seen as an improvement over the hard-right positions so evident in the earlier portion of the term of the present US regime, that of George W. Bush. But for most of us the practical effects will be the same.

Impartial observers such as myself, cannot help but note the contrast between the regime now taking shape and that of Mr Bush in 2000, likewise elected by the thinnest, perhaps even the most manipulated of margins.

The Bush government immediately were able to nominate and have appointed the most reactionary and even corrupt and incompetent of officials. They did not need to make to their Democrat rivals the slightest gesture of either respect or co-operation. No persons of influence either within the media or the business elite even suggested that they should be more graceful, considering the narrow and questionable results of the elections.

• The incoming Obama administration, should he be elected, will not be granted this grace from the corrupted pundit-ocracy.

They will be compelled by threats from media, even from the Army, to accept their status as the reserve forces for the real rulers of the USA: The corporate and hereditary elites. Any risky attempts to actually honor their voters' concerns will die in the a-borning.

What this means for the rest of humanity is continued torment, humiliation and subordination to Washington ... and your own bankruptcy!

From the imperial capital

Chris Herz
cdherz44@yahoo.com

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