{"id":1292,"date":"2004-02-05T14:48:10","date_gmt":"2004-02-05T21:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=1292"},"modified":"2004-02-05T14:48:10","modified_gmt":"2004-02-05T21:48:10","slug":"the-conspiranoid-sector-of-the-chattering-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2004\/02\/05\/the-conspiranoid-sector-of-the-chattering-class\/","title":{"rendered":"The Conspiranoid Sector of the Chattering Class"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Michael Ruppert said, during the rise of Howard Dean’s candidacy, that the Democratic Candidate would probably be John Kerry. “We always see these candidates that aren’t going to actually win.”<\/p>\n

Either Alex Jones or him — I don’t remember– say that the powers that actually control the country are not happy with George W. Bush, and that if he’s elected we can expect him to be promptly kicked out of office … ala, say, Richard Nixon. (Though if that’s the case, we still have the problem with Cheney. But then again, everything Cheney touches seems to be tainted with corruption.<\/p>\n

Now, as anyone who has seen the Portland Public Access presentation of old Michael Parenti lectures can tell you: pretty much every Washington politician, by definition of the fact that they’ve gotten so far up, has financial or other dirt on them that can be used to tear them out of office or leadership if … necessary.<\/p>\n

But that’d be after the election, y’see. Though in this case, remember: John Kerry too is a Skull and Bones alumni as well as George W. Bush. Skull and Bones being the new FreeMasons, the new Council on Foreign Relations, the new [fill in the blank].<\/p>\n

Jump over to Washington Representative Jim McDermott’s comments about Saddam Hussein’s capture, and consider them in light of the sudden<\/a> bizarre<\/a> certaintude<\/a> of Bin Laden’s impending capture, all echoing Madeleine Albright’s off-the-record joke about “timing Bin Laden’s capture”, as well as the recent capture rumour<\/a> and things get a little…<\/p>\n

Silly<\/i>, maybe?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Michael Ruppert said, during the rise of Howard Dean’s candidacy, that the Democratic Candidate would probably be John Kerry. “We always see these candidates that aren’t going to actually win.” Either Alex Jones or him — I don’t remember– say that the powers that actually control the country are not happy with George W. Bush, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conspiranoia","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}