You're so Naïve!

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"The masses have never thirsted after truth. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim"
(Gustave Le Bon)

"Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind"
(George Orwell)

You're so Naïve!

So now you have a leader who is "young and black and real"
"Change we can believe in" is the mantra that you feel
But how come I am standing here with heaviness of heart?
It's a tragedy in Grecian style and we all have a part

You're so naïve!
The PTB are laughing up their sleeve
You're exactly what they need
Their power-games you feed
You're so naïve!

He tapped into the hopes and dreams of desperate girls and boys
Fed-up with war being waged by folks who use bombs just like toys
They thought he was a Kennedy but therein lay their fall
'Cause just like JFK they'll kill him if he won't play ball

You're so naïve!
The PTB are laughing up their sleeve
You're exactly what they need
Their power-games you feed
You're so naïve!

He never could've made it there unless he had a stash
Of filthy lucre laundered well just like all the white trash
Don't believe the hype which says he's just a guy self-made
Gotta have "connections" or you cannot make the grade

You're so naïve!
The PTB are laughing up their sleeve
You're exactly what they need
Their power-games you feed
You're so naïve!

Make-believing every day we're going to be free
Hoping that some other guy will offer us the key
When we put a cross upon a sheet (our duty done?)
Imagining he'll pave the way for evil to be gone

You're so naïve!
The PTB are laughing up their sleeve
You're exactly what they need
Their power-games you feed
You're so naïve!

Such a clever move it is; it makes you all relax
Takes the wind out of the sails of protest movements' acts
Now that your "Messiah" is here you think the world is safe
The only 'safety' you will find is in an ice-cold grave

You're so naïve!
The PTB are laughing up their sleeve
You're exactly what they need
Their power-games you feed
You're so naïve!

"The saviour of the world has come!" (we've heard it all before)
The papers said "The earth has moved!" (it's déjà vu encore)
First we had the Tony Show and then the one from Bill
Playing the Strat and saxophone to give us all a thrill

You're so naïve!
The PTB are laughing up their sleeve
You're exactly what they need
Their power-games you feed
You're so naïve!

They lead us by the nose to vote the way they want us to
And then we think democracy's the greatest thing to do
The PR guys have got a phrase (it's "engineered consent")
To help us see the media's role in electoral events

You're so naïve!
The PTB are laughing up their sleeve
You're exactly what they need
Their power-games you feed
You're so naïve!

It doesn't matter who's the Prez, the same guys run the show
Behind the scenes they just ensure he won't disturb the flow
Of all the evil plans they've made for wars and coup d'etats
Business will be as usual I can guarantee you that

You're so naïve!
The PTB are laughing up their sleeve
You're exactly what they need
Their power-games you feed
You're so naïve!

In case your sensibilities by my words are upset
I have to tell you frankly that "you ain't seen nothin' yet"!
The subtle machinations of this "obama-ising" time
Are rehearsals for a far worse scene that's further down the line

You're so naïve!
The PTB are laughing up their sleeve
You're exactly what they need
Their power-games you feed
You're so naïve!

© Copyright, Sincerity Music, 2009.

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YOU'RE SO NAÏVE:
COMPOSER'S COMMENTARY

Verse 1:
So now you have a leader who is “young and black and real”
“Change we can believe in“ is the mantra that you feel
But how come I am standing here with heaviness of heart?
It's a tragedy in Grecian style and we all have a part


An interesting thing about Greek Tragedy was that the theatrical productions used certain revealing mechanical devices. One of them was known as an ekkyklema — literally, “a wheeled-out thing”, a cart on wheels which was rolled out onto the stage and on which there was displayed a tableau which represented some vital action which had taken place out of sight of the audience but which was now being revealed to them.

This is why I refer to the election campaign and subsequent election of Barack Obama as “a tragedy in Grecian style”. There is all this action taking place on the face of it; but there is something else going on behind the scenes of which the audience is completely unaware — so unaware (and so utterly desperate to remain unaware) that if anyone dares to reveal it (i.e. by wheeling out the cart!) the audience will jeer him and demand he be thrown out of the theatre! The tragedy in the election of Obama is not so much in the story as in the refusal of the majority of the audience to look at the ekkyklema and absorb its implications after it has been wheeled out. This commentary is wheeling it out. Please don't look away.

“Change we can believe in”. Just what does that mean? So many catchphrases. “Now is the time”. “Yes we can ”. Meaningless strings of soundbite words over which an audience will become hysterically enraptured. The choice which the public was offered in that election was between a George Bush clone and a catchphrase drone. Because they'd had enough of the former they plumbed for the latter. They thought they had a choice but there was none.

My use of the term “mantra” is no exaggeration. For Obama can be shown to have used identifiable hypnotic techniques with which to woo his audience and have them eating out of the palm of his hand. In fact, a very interesting 67-page analysis of Obama's speeches has been carried out by an expert in hypnotism who believes that they have deliberately used hypnotic techniques in order to enrapture the audiences [1]. This is well worth reading. This analysis is supported by many other experts in hypnosis — especially in Neuro-Linguistic Programming. A certified master hypnotist and trainer of hypnotherapy decided to analyze speeches from each of the candidates. He wrote:

“We've all heard rumors that governmental figures are using “mass hypnosis” to influence and sway the people of our great nations. Most of the time, this sounds like some silly conspiracy theory. But after all the recent news about the elections, I think it's time to find out if there's any truth to the rumors”[2];

What he then discovered proves that Obama deliberately used hypnotic techniques to inveigle his audiences. He examined speeches by McCain, Hilary Clinton and Obama, comparing them for controls to speeches by Bill Gates (low use of hypnotic language) and Adolf Hitler (high use of hypnotic language). He then graded each of them in terms of a percentage of hypnotic language. The results? Gates, 12% hypnotic language; McCain, 18% hypnotic language; Hilary Clinton, 32% hypnotic language; Adolf Hitler, 45% hypnotic language; Barack Obama, 58% hypnotic language[3]. This isn't sensationalism; these are the cold, hard facts. Obama and his speechwriter plainly understand hypnotic techniques and used them to great effect on their naïve audiences.

Mantras. All very carefully controlled. Is it any wonder that some of us are standing here with heaviness of heart? Like the boy in “The Emperor's New Clothes”, we are speaking the unspeakable to those who think they see clothes. When someone comes clothed in cool and carries away the masses like a political Pied Piper of Hamelin, we have every right to say what really lies underneath the attire.

Refrain:
You're so naïve!
The PTB are laughing up their sleeve
You're exactly what they need
Their power-games you feed


“The ‘Powers that Be’ are laughing up their sleeve”. Indeed. This song is predicated on the fact that there are those who secretly hold the reins of power — people who have not been elected to hold that power but who hold it nevertheless — people who can control the media (and thus control what you think and how you behave) — people who can start and end wars at will (and who use the media to ensure that you will get the right ‘spin’ about it so you will support it) — people who can gain your approval for all the wars they start by staging false-flag operations which will make you fearful enough to give it to them[4] — people who control the financial institutions and who can thus generate crises which will make you fearful for your wallet and thus give them even more control.

There are a few ways that rulers can intimidate the people and thus manipulate them more easily. In fact, they usually use a three-pronged method of intimidation. The first way is through making the people fearful for their lives, which can be done through permitting, or even actually organizing (e.g. through false-flag operations), widespread terror attacks which make people give their governments vast powers of authority. The second way is to create a general feeling of malaise, via perceived chaos and disorder, which makes people become so traumatized that they are easily manipulated mentally and emotionally by the ‘Powers that Be’. (Just watching The News these days is enough to give you Post Traumatic Shock Syndrome!). The third way is to make people feel so financially insecure and anxious that they will agree to any fiscal package which is proposed by their governments. When all three of these influences are brought to bear on a population, it is easy for a totalitarian (or incipiently totalitarian) government to take the reins of power dictatorially.

The power structure of this world is not at all what it appears to be to the unsuspecting. It operates on a number of different levels. Externally, one has governments (propped up by international bankers and corporations) manipulating and pulling the strings, with the media ensuring that the right spin is always fed to the people who must be kept in a continual state of ignorance. But at the next level down, below the level of visibility, there are the sordid intelligence agencies and organised crime cartels such as the CIA, NSA, KGB/FSB, MI5/MI6, Mossad and the Mafia, etc. (and which all cooperate with each other to maintain the status quo). Then, at the next level down, way below the level of visibility, there are the power-cabals and secret societies such as the Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission, the Bilderbergers, the Freemasons (especially the higher degrees), the Knights of Malta, the Skull & Bones, etc. At the back of all that, there are the elite dynasties (e.g. the Rothschilds, Rockefellers, Warburgs and Harrimans, etc.) — aristocratic family lines of the world who clandestinely control the direction of world affairs through the banking system and major corporations (of which especially those involved in defence components/contracts, energy production, pharmaceuticals, law firms), etc.

It is these who are the real ‘Powers that Be’ which make all decisions relating to your future and who will do all that they can to ensure that only the few truly curious and dogged (who can always be publicly derided as “kooks” and conspiracy theorists) will ever know much about them.

Please tell me how one little man can stand up to that vast network of corruption? Anyone who has dared to take it on has been liquidated. Although the existence of the network really goes back much further in antiquity, its first real blatant (i.e. public) intrusion into recent national politics was in the killing of John Fitzgerald Kennedy (about which more below).

The ‘Powers that Be’ feed on the ignorance and naïveté of the population. They stage an election campaign every few years just to give you the illusion that you have chosen your leader. This is the grand illusion. For they are simply getting you to endorse someone who they have earmarked for the job — someone who will do their bidding — someone who has already sold their soul to them for a position of power. When we play their game at election time, we feed their power-games.

“You're so naïve; the PTB are laughing up their sleeve ”.

However, is it really a mere naïveté with which we are dealing? I believe that many become so inveigled by these political smooth operators much more because of wilful ignorance than naïveté. There are three kinds of ignorance in this life: happy ignorance, simple ignorance and wilful ignorance.

a) Happy ignorance. This is an ignorance which is profitable for us. There are unspeakable things in this world which it is better for us never to know anything about. The agonized screams of a raped child. The chaotic debacle of mortal combat in battle. It is better that we remain happily ignorant of them. I'm not speaking about escapism or hiding our heads in the sand; for that is something different. I simply mean not being exposed to that which sensitive souls have no need to experience.

b) Simple ignorance. When we don't really understand what binds particles together, that is a simple ignorance. It doesn't affect me whether I know it or not. I can choose, though, to try and understand it. Simple ignorance is a desirable condition if the one afflicted by it is willing to learn! Simple ignorance is a great opportunity for us to do so. An empty vessel is no bad thing because it can always be filled and, indeed, should be.

c) Wilful ignorance. This is when a person is so opposed to expanded knowledge and truth that he or she is actually prepared to resist it. As soon as they hear views different from their own, they do not investigate them to see if they may be correct but begin to slander those who hold those views and then set out to destroy them.

Wilful ignorance is always inexcusable and it is what lies at the heart of so much stupidity in the world today. You can tell the difference between wilful and natural ignorance. Natural ignorance rejoices when it hears things explained more adequately. Whereas the one who is wilfully ignorant becomes puffed up with pride, refuses to accept instruction and even wrongly accuses those with whom he disagrees.

It is said that “the road to hell is paved with good intentions” - but it is much more paved with wilful ignorance! Wilful ignorance entails the deliberate eschewing of necessary knowledge - a contrived naïveté, if I may put it like that. Such contrivedly naïve people are exactly what the ‘Powers that Be’ feed upon. We sell our souls to them when we contrive to be so naïve. They need such people to form the majority of the population. Then their job is easy; their power-games are nourished and their dark goals will be accomplished.

Verse 2:
He tapped into the hopes and dreams of desperate girls and boys
Fed-up with war being waged by folks who use bombs just like toys
They thought he was a Kennedy but therein lay their fall
'Cause just like JFK they'll kill him if he won't play ball


The image of the President of the USA which is so often presented in Hollywood films (e.g. Pearl Harbor, Independence Day, etc.) , depicting him as a powerful, dependable leader — a safe pair of hands — to whom everyone defers on every issue, is just so wide of the mark as to be laughable. The President of the USA is merely a rotating GUI (Graphical User Interface) to woo the gullible public while the tenebrous characters who really hold the reins of power remain unchanged. (Think of George W. Bush in the Oval Office and you will not have much difficulty absorbing this concept).

Once one realises that the President of the USA does not run the country but that the country is really run by powerful unelected people who run the President then one also sees that there is a cleverly-devised scheme in place which ensures that they always get their way, no matter who is in office. It is in this respect that the two-party adversarial system is so helpful to their objectives. It appears to the unsuspecting public as though there is a choice but Republican and Democrat are merely two sides of the same bent coin.

Although democracy doesn't really exist anywhere in the Western world, the ‘Powers that Be’ want to maintain the pretence of it until such time as even all appearances of it will be ready to be dissolved by them. In the meantime, they work with the system as it is, milking it for all it's worth.

Most of the requirements of the ‘Powers that Be’ can best be fulfilled during a conservative presidency, when there is more or less a mandate from the voting public to go to war on the pretext of some connived threat and then cause as much destruction and powermongering mayhem in the world as possible. But the ‘Powers that Be’ realise that there has to be some relief from all the darkness, bloodshed and destruction every so often. So their scheme caters for changes of presidency to what looks like a less conservative one so that people can continue to imagine that they have the power to change the direction of their country and also undergo a degree of catharsis after years of the openly ruinous policies of the previous years of dummy presidency.

The way that the scheme works can be illustrated by the changes of President over the past couple of decades. First, there was George H.W. Bush from 1989 to 1993. Then William J. Clinton from 1993 to 2001. Then George W. Bush from 2001 to the present day. Now there is Barack Obama. After George H.W. Bush, people were crying out for change, so they got Bill Clinton. Just as they are doing now with Obama, they crowed with delight, believing that a new day had dawned for freedom, democracy and world peace. In short, Clinton was greeted as a saviour.

However, after eight years of that, the utopian expectations had not materialised, so change was cried out for yet again. But Bill had only been a cunning sideshow. Now the work of the ‘Powers that Be’ could begin in earnest once again as George W. Bush was elected for a further eight years of destruction and war-criminality, beginning with the events on September 11th 2001 which created a convenient pretext for invasion and taking us through wars against Afghanistan and Iraq, killing more than one million people in the process[5]. But now the people were crying out once again for change. They'd had enough. Too many were beginning to see through the parody of power and dummy democracy which created eight years of destruction and incipiently totalitarian legislation. So the ‘Powers that Be’ throw them a bone. “You want a saviour — a Messiah even? Well here he comes. The answer to your hopes and dreams”. A cool-looking dude who is young and black. What better way to make you think that you are on the brink of utopia in a “post-racial” universe? Suddenly, all the damage done in the previous eight years is dissolved in their minds as they whoop with joy at the false hope paraded before them.

The ‘Powers that Be’ played (preyed) upon the hopes and dreams of desperate girls and boys. They have no intention whatsoever of giving up their positions of power. Not at all. But even though you are permitted the illusion of changing the President for one who appears more humane and liberal, the real work behind the scenes does not change at all. And if Obama doesn't play ball with them, he'll be removed from office and from this life just like John Fitzgerald Kennedy. JFK went way too far in ringing in his changes. He had to go.

A president's only role, as far as the ‘Powers that Be’ are concerned, is to maintain the status quo. The status quo is about keeping the corporations swimming in money, keeping the military making perpetual war (which also keeps the corporations swimming in money) and keeping the people in ignorance and darkness (which also keeps the corporations swimming in money). Anyone who tries to step beyond those demarcation lines will be “JFKed”.

It is interesting that some are describing Obama as another JFK. John Fitzgerald Kennedy — although he had his faults and foibles — was a president who sought to go beyond the status quo and to interfere with the 'toys for the boys' and he paid for it with his life. He had already removed Allen Dulles from his role as head of the CIA (especially because of the Bay of Pigs fiasco, not to mention the fact that the CIA was found to be enlisting Mafia hitmen as assassins) and JFK was even threatening to dismantle the CIA altogether. It was said that he was going to “splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it into the winds” [“CIA: Marker of Policy or Tool?”, New York Times. April 25, 1966]. You don't last long in high office when you make threats like that. The heart of the dirty tricks, black ops and grubby business in the USA is the CIA/Military/Mafia enclave. Tinker with that sort of power and you'll be brought down big-time. JFK must have been spinning in his grave to see Allen Dulles on the 8-member Warren Commission after he begged LBJ to be a part of it![6] Lee Harvey Oswald a lone gunman? Not when you see it from the refreshing realism standpoint of The Parallax View .

Thus, if Obama is really just a hapless guy in a cool suit who doesn't know the field and who imagines that he can reverse the murder and destruction of previous years (which is actually very unlikely), he will be taken down before you can say the words “Dallas 1963”.

Verse 3:
He never could've made it there unless he had a stash
Of filthy lucre laundered well just like all the white trash
Don't believe the hype which says he's just a guy self-made
Gotta have “connections” or you cannot make the grade


First golden rule in US politics: Only a multi-millionaire can make it. You have to be sitting on a pile of filthy lucre just to stand for office. First golden rule in Chicago politics: “He who has the gold rules”. The connections between the political world and The Mob are a historical tradition in Chicago, the city of Al Capone and his original gang, “The Chicago Outfit”. We know from the December 2008 revelations about the Governor of Illinois, Rod R. Blagojevich, being arrested for conspiring to sell Obama's vacant Senate seat that this is the way that things are still done in Chicago. It is essentially a cesspit of corruption.

Blagojevich isn't the first. Not by a long chalk! Otto Kerner was Governor from 1961 to 1968 and he received a three year prison sentence in 1973 for bribery, conspiracy and perjury. Daniel Walker was Governor from 1973 to 1977 and received a seven year prison sentence on charges of bank fraud and perjury. Governor William Stratton ran Illinois from 1953 to 1961 and was later indicted but acquitted for tax evasion. Governor George Ryan, who was Governor Blagojevich's immediate predecessor, is still inside jail, doing a six-and-a-half-year sentence on wire fraud and bribery.

Illinois in general and Chicago in particular is surely the most corrupt region in the USA. [7] Please can you tell me how it is possible for a guy to rise from nothing to the President of the USA via a Chicago-based Senatorship without being in some way in the pocket of The Chicago Mob or having good connections to them?

As it happens, Obama was listed as no.8 in Judicial Watch's “List of Washington's Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians for 2007” (sandwiched in between I. Lewis Scooter Libby and Nancy Pelosi). [8] Furthermore, “as news of the Blagojevich's arrest broke, a Judicial Watch press release declared: 'This is a burgeoning crisis for Obama that should shake his presidency to its core. The criminal complaint filed today indicates that Obama and his team knew about Blagojevich's efforts to sell Obama's Senate seat. ('Tony' Rezko, Obama friend, fundraiser and real estate partner, is once again implicated in the corrupt activities exposed today)”. [9]

Obama has had close dealings with corrupt businessmen which became an embarrassment when his presidential campaign took off. In a June 2007 report in the New York Times, entitled “An Obama Patron and Friend Until an Indictment”, Obama's close relationship with Tony Rezko was scrutinised. In Autumn 2006, Rezko had been indicted on federal charges of business fraud and influence peddling involving the administration of Governor of Illinois, Rod R. Blagojevich. The paper stated: “Now, as Mr. Obama runs for president, the once-beneficial relationship with his old friend and patron has become problematic”.[10] So, essentially, Obama distanced himself and played everything down.

Reports in this investigative vein could be filed in 2007 and before, but as Obama's campaign gathered steam and the media were under pressure to get behind him so that any nefarious dealings would be obfuscated, as the November 2008 election day loomed any serious whiff of a stain on Obama's clothes would be airbrushed out long before it hit the newsstands. One exception found its way into a corner of the Chicago Tribune. Writing in October 2008, John Kass said:

“Obama's gauzy references to Chicago involve baseball and where he met Michelle and those blissful hours he spent as a community organizer. What he doesn't want discussed is his evolution from independent Democrat to potential White House enabler of the corrupt Chicago Democratic machine”. [11]

This is precisely my original point: Please can you tell me how it is possible for a guy to rise from nothing to the President of the USA via a Chicago-based Senatorship without being in some way in the pocket of The Chicago Mob or having good connections to them? Kass continues:

“Any child in Illinois knows the Chicago Way leads through the most politically corrupt city in America, in a politically corrupt state, where muscle trumps reason, where Democratic warlords brazenly promote their offspring into public office, where even souls are offered up for sale.
The national media have never wanted to understand, much less expose, political corruption here, or examine how Obama prospered under the Daley machine's guidance. A trip down the Chicago Way would force them to re-examine their ridiculous narrative that sets Obama as a political reformer riding a white horse, or is that a winged unicorn?” [12]

So how has Obama managed to keep his nose clean and project himself to his adulating supporters as being a corruption-free zone? Kass's Chicago Tribune piece claims that “the national urgency to view Obama as a political life-form several evolutionary rungs above Chicago's common political hacks is not only a mistake, it's disingenuous”.[13] He then cites a number of Obama's nefarious connections and concludes:

“Is Obama corrupt, the way the caricature of Chicago-style corruption is often drawn, with some beefeater alderman reeking of gin, stuffing an envelope into his breast pocket? No, though he came close with Rezko in that smelly deal for the purchase of Obama's home. But Obama looked the other way in order to prosper and assiduously avoided conflict with the machine to the point of embrace. In this, he offered Americans a glimpse at the real man inside that nice suit, the Chicago Way”. [14]

He “looked the other way in order to prosper and assiduously avoided conflict with the machine to the point of embrace”.[15] That is the key to how Obama has managed to rise to the surface of the scum-machine in Chicago. It is not so much that he regularly dirtied his own hands indelibly like so many other Chicago politicians. Rather that when they dirtied theirs, he looked the other way as he rode his white horse to the White House, thus tacitly approving it all. No wonder they tolerated him. He is the 'squeaky-clean' looking Chicago apparatchik who would be able to smooth their path from the highest office in the land. In the office which he is soon to take up, he will be useful to their world, as he evolves “from independent Democrat to potential White House enabler of the corrupt Chicago Democratic machine”.[16]

One of Obama's main selling-points in the minds of the idealistic young and liberal left is that he is in no one's pocket; that he is an independent with no lobbyists hanging on his shirt-tails — that he's in hock to no one. Is this true? Unfortunately not. In an August 2008 Boston Globe article, headlined “PACs and lobbyists aided Obama's rise. Data contrast with his theme”, Scott Hellman writes:

“Using campaign appearances, e-mails to supporters, and Iowa TV ads, Illinois Senator Barack Obama has repeatedly reminded voters that his presidential campaign does not accept contributions from lobbyists or political action committees, casting his decision as a noble departure from the ways of Washington... But behind Obama's campaign rhetoric about taking on special interests lies a more complicated truth. A Globe review of Obama's campaign finance records shows that he collected hundreds of thousands of dollars from lobbyists and PACs as a state legislator in Illinois, a US senator, and a presidential aspirant”. [17]

In a London Evening Standard article headed “£500m election fund ‘bought Obama victory’”, Paul Thompson writes:

“Barack Obama is likely to face calls that he ‘bought’ his election victory after the final sums for his astonishing fund raising campaign are revealed. Figures being presented to the Federal Election Commission are likely to show he raised £500 million ($750 million). The massive amount not only allowed Mr Obama to outspend John McCain, who raised £333 million ($480 million), in TV advertisements but changed the face of US politics”. [18]

So much was Obama's desire not to be stuck with a ceiling on his spending for the campaign that he “declined public financing and the spending limits that came with it, making him the first major-party candidate since the system was created to reject taxpayers' money for the general election”. [19]

We need to get some due diligence and discernment together here. Nobody, but nobody, rises to be a Senator in Chicago without “connections”. I'm talking about money connections. Big money connections. Chicago corruption-style money connections. Whatever one may think of arch-villain Karl Rove, one is forced to agree with him when he said: “Rather than showing the success of a new style of post-partisan politics, Mr Obama's victory may show the enduring truth of the old Chicago Golden Rule: he who has the gold rules”. Money doesn't merely talk in Chicago; it simply shrieks! One day, it may have a lot to say about a certain former President of the USA. Such exposés are generally reserved for the time when the ‘Powers that Be’ want a President removed from office and the media spin-machine is allowed to move into top gear.

Verse 4:
Make-believing every day we're going to be free
Hoping that some other guy will offer us the key
When we put a cross upon a sheet (our duty done?)
Imagining he'll pave the way for evil to be gone


This is the great failure of “democracy”. It is also one of the coups de grace of the ‘Powers that Be’ in their deception of the population. They get us to go out once every four years or so to put a cross on a piece of paper and then tell us that we have partaken in a wonderful thing called Democracy which is worth killing for. They tell us that many people already gave their lives in order to achieve the vote for us so we must feel super-guilty if we don't vote ourselves.

But, as we show in this commentary — and as can be seen in the election of Barack Obama — public opinion is easier to manipulate than a broomstick in a tub of molten lard! To put a cross on a piece of paper every four years and think that we've somehow participated meaningfully in the making of a leader and the political process is so woefully inadequate in terms of true democracy as to be laughable.

We imagine we can attain freedom and rid the world of evil by giving high office to some guy who simply had the best PR machine. Freedom can never be attained by absolving ourselves of responsibility for the world by handing power over to a clever PR manipulator. But the ‘Powers that Be’ want us to believe that this is possible. Even though we've been let down over and over again we still continue to believe it, like the punch-drunk boxer who keeps staggering across the ring into the path of his opponent's glove!

Verse 5:
Such a clever move it is; it makes you all relax
Takes the wind out of the sails of protest movements' acts
Now that your “Messiah” is here you think the world is safe
The only 'safety' you will find is in an ice-cold grave


Deflation of the opposition is a key element in getting a guy like Obama into office. This is a major part of the strategy of the ‘Powers that Be’. For as soon as a left-leaning/liberal politician is in what people perceive to be the driving seat of the country, one doesn't hear a whimper out of the peace movement or any other radical protest groups in society. Even though policy will remain fundamentally unchanged from the previous order, the left/liberals can be guaranteed to keep their mouths shut because of their doctrinaire mentality which dictates that there should be no dissent in any event while their golden boy is in office.

Let me give an example. Not long after the US military “Shock & Awe” bombing campaign in Baghdad, in which countless children and innocent adults had been killed, I went on a residential songwriting course. At one stage in the course I wanted to share a new song I had written about that episode in history, entitled “Anthem for Someone's Child” [hear the song and read the lyrics at www.forsomeoneschild.com ]. I might as well have proposed a song about gang rape! The response was one of ostrich head-burying as an embarrassed disquiet was expressed about such a song by those to whom I proposed it. The war criminal and Bush lapdog, Tony Blair, was in power with his Labour Party and when a Labour Party is in power the lefties and liberals (which describes virtually all those on the course) get very upset if you dare to criticise anything that they do. Their reasoning is that it is far better to have a Left government in power — no matter how badly they behave, even if they wage illegal wars or commit genocide — so long as they keep the Right out of power. The ‘Powers that Be’ understand this mentality only too well. In fact, it suits their purpose because when a Left government is in power it means that any opposition to the PTB's endless wars and coup d'etats simply dissolves to less than a whimper. Thus, their work goes unhindered no matter whether a right or left-leaning President is in office.

Any protest group which tries to lobby Obama about a war will be told by party hacks: “Don't worry, the President will deal with it. Just give him time. It isn't easy”. Just as the Democrats said after they were given a majority in both seats of government in 2006 “It takes time. We can't undo everything overnight”. Many outside observers wanted the Democratic party to move to impeachment of the Bush regime's war criminals. They might as well have wished for a peaceful war in Iraq!

Another interesting aspect of all this is that throughout the election campaign, it was almost as if Obama was being presented as a Messiah — the saviour who can make all things right for you and for the world. In fact, a website was set up to depict this aspect of the campaign[20]. It started off as tongue-in-cheek but grew into an extraordinary repository of the kind of obeisance which was being paid to Obama. If you visit this site, I promise that you will be astonished by the factual reports you find there. It is a measure of the ignorant desperation in the USA that so many are so willing to ascribe virtual divinity to a man about whom they know nothing and whose only relationship with them is the groovy repetition of a few empty phrases. Raised on soundbite TV, they easily come to worship a soundbite President.

Verse 6:
“The saviour of the world has come!” (we've heard it all before)
The papers said “The earth has moved!” (it's déjà vu encore)
First we had the Tony Show and then the one from Bill
Playing the Strat and saxophone to give us all a thrill


“The Earth has Moved”, said one front-page headline after the election of Obama. (Isn't that what a woman says after she's had an extraordinary sexual experience?). “It's a New World”, said another. “The World Changes”, said another. But nothing in the world had changed except that the PR machine of the ‘Powers that Be’ had managed to inveigle the American people into voting a certain way. Such headlines were repeated across the world. It was utterly verboten to print anything which would detract from the universal adulation in the media. (The media, being fawning courtiers to the ‘Powers that Be’ rather than investigative journalists who want to be free, know very well how to behave under these circumstances). The same thing happened when Tony Blair and Bill Clinton were elected. We've seen and heard it all before. It's déjà vu encore.

This universal hagiographic approach was echoed by the readers of all those rags too. Here is a transcript of a conversation (conflated from those I have both had personally and seen elsewhere) with starry-eyed Obama devotees (often referred to as ‘O-bots’) who were elated with Obama's election:

SHE: Isn't it wonderful that Barack Obama got in! I'm over the moon.
ME: Er... no.
SHE (shrilly): What? How could you say no?
ME (coolly): Because I have history as my precedent.
SHE: But Bush has gone.
ME: Bush as the desired figurehead may be gone but those who pulled his strings haven't gone anywhere.
SHE: Are you a Bush supporter?
ME: Er... no.
SHE: So how could you not be pleased that Obama is in power?
ME: I told you. I have history as my precedent.
SHE: Meaning?
ME: Meaning that we've been here before. It's déjà vu encore. Weren't you “over the moon” when Bill Clinton was elected as President, just the same as you are now?
Weren't you over the moon when Tony Blair was elected as Prime Minister, just the same as you are now? It was just the same then. All the liberals and lefties thinking that their saviour had arrived. But they were just two more chimeras pulled out of the hat by the real ‘Powers that Be’ to keep you quiet and happy for a while. King Tony. Bill the Saviour.
We've been there before. Don't you remember how elated you were when they got in but how deflated and disillusioned you were after a few years of their tenure of office?
SHE: Well, yes, there is that, but this is completely different.
ME: No, it isn't at all different. That's the point. It is you being taken for a ride for the third time in a few short years while the people who really control your world are laughing up their sleeve at how easily manipulated you are.
SHE: Oh don't give me all that conspiracy theory nonsense! We've got to have hope. Other people may have messed up but that's no reason to lose hope.
ME: In political terms, hope is one of the most empty emotions in the universe. It is always based on wishful thinking and delusion. It is just another way of leading you by the nose. These people who raise your hopes are just a graphical user interface put there by the ‘Powers that Be’ in order to make you think you're getting some really cool guys to fulfil your dreams. But they're always just as much of a criminal and shyster as the rightist leaders you despise so much.
King Tony regularly played his Fender Stratocaster so he'd look really kool and youthful. (In fact, the war criminal, Blair, was given 24 guitars — including 12 Strats — while he was in office by individuals and organisations such as Fender Musical Instruments, Bryan Adams, Bono, and the Governments of Romania, Mexico, Portugal, China and France!).

While he was on the campaign trail, Bill Clinton played the sax in a pair of shades at the Arsenio Hall Show — an act which turned his campaign around as all the jazz folks said he would be “the first black president”! Boy, do these guys know how to get into the hearts of idealistic young people desperate for someone else to change the world for the better!

All the ‘stars’ were “over the moon” when Bill came to power in 1993 (see, for example, this embarrassing footage of Judy Collins telling how Bill being elected to President was one of the biggest high-spots of her life http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGrJX6qfPCY ). You'd think folks would be overcome with déjà vu now that Obama is in town. But no. The phoney dream must be kept alive and the ‘Powers that Be’ must maintain the status quo. So long as those patsy presidents and prime ministers play those Strats and saxophones and look really trendy they can convince the young, naive and gullible that they're cool and that it is possible to put human beings into power who will make the world into the utopia they so crave. Such leaders provide a necessary intermezzo to mitigate the blatantly oppressive episodes which bring about the continuing subjugation of the American people to the secret powers which control their country.

Verse 7:
They lead us by the nose to vote the way they want us to
And then we think democracy's the greatest thing to do
The PR guys have got a phrase (it's “engineered consent”)
To help us see the media's role in electoral events


The election campaign of Obama was a triumph for Public Relations (PR). It is PR which determines the outcome of presidential elections rather than any innate statesmanlike ability on the part of the candidates. Barack Obama spent £500 million ($750 million) on his election campaign. John McCain spent £333 million ($480 million) on his. Money talks — especially in the world of PR and spin via the media.

One of the “founding fathers” of Public Relations as we know it today was the Viennese-born Edward L. Bernays (1891-1995) who emigrated to the USA with his parents in 1892. Bernays was the nephew of the founder of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud. His mother, Anna, was Freud's sister.

Bernays described his uncle as his mentor whose theories of the “unconscious” influenced his ideas concerning the manipulation of the thinking of the masses. It is widely recognised today that Bernays laid the ground for all the spin-doctoring of today. In late 1991, Life Magazine named him as one of the most influential men in the history of the USA, yet most people have never even heard of him. He was a prolific writer on PR techniques and served as personal PR advisor (spin-doctor) to many of the famous and influential — including US Presidents and other leaders, from Eleanor Roosevelt and Dwight D. Eisenhower to Golda Meir (Prime Minister of Israel, 1969-1974).

It was more than ironic that Bernays (who was Jewish) should have been one of the key influences (especially via his book “Crystallizing Public Opinion”) on the life and thought of Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda! Bernays' books lived on Goebbels' library shelves and shaped the thinking of this Nazi social engineer in his selling of Hitler and his policies to the gullible public. Any portentous bells ringing here?

Bernays' many books have shaped the manipulative policies of the governments of the Western world throughout the past eighty years. One of these was entitled “Propaganda”, written in 1927. Here are a couple of quotes:

“If we understand the mechanisms and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without their knowing it”[21].

And again:

“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate the unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of”[22].

Bear in mind that Bernays was not at all disapproving of these manipulations but encouraging. Note especially how the phrase “democratic society” has been used here. To read the works of Bernays is to discover the Big Lie which lurks behind all government propaganda—especially concerning their alleged fostering of democracy. All democracy is a form of incipient totalitarianism in disguise. For the people who are elected by the people are not the rulers of their country. As Bernays says, there is “an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country”.

In 1955, Bernays edited a book about how democracy should work, entitled “The Engineering of Consent”, a phrase which he actually used as a definition of public relations. Think about that phrase carefully: The engineering of consent. Is that not what so-called democracy today is really all about? The manipulation of the people into making a choice which they think of as their own but which has been dictated for them is the engineering of consent. Is it any wonder that Bernays' techniques have been so much in use by allegedly “democratic” politicians?

Truly, the legacy of Bernays in political and governmental circles has been massive. Yet most people in the world have never even heard of this man who has shaped their world.

There is a major connection here between this Bernays legacy and the rise of Tony Blair in the UK with his magically-generated “New Labour Party”, which was one of the greatest PR manipulations and spin-doctor successes in the entire history of Britain. In the press release advertising two BBC TV programmes screened in March 2002, entitled “The Rise of the All-Consuming Self and the Influence of the Freud Dynasty — from Sigmund to Matthew”, it is stated:

“The Freud dynasty is at the heart of this compelling social history, from Sigmund to Matthew: Sigmund Freud, founder of psychoanalysis; Edward Bernays [Freud's nephew], who invented public relations; Anna Freud, Sigmund's devoted daughter; and present-day PR guru and Sigmund's great grandson, Matthew Freud, who became part of the new marketing culture that took over politics in Britain when New Labour swept to power in the 1990s”[23].
Marketing culture? What does that have to do with government, you may ask? Everything. Matthew Freud — whose wife is Elisabeth Murdoch, daughter of media magnate, Rupert Murdoch — is a close friend of Peter Mandelson, one of the heartbeats of the Labour Party in the UK. He has also been unofficial PR advisor to Tony Blair for years and organised the watershed 1998 Labour Party Conference which turned the party's fortunes by concealing all blemishes from the public. These people know how to make darkness seem like light; evil seem like good; black things seem like white; and truth come out of falsehood. PR is the twenty-first century's own brand of sorcery.

Government propaganda based on PR models of manipulation now moulds and controls people's minds in ways never before imagined.[24] This was especially so with the UK election of Tony Blair at the helm of the “New Labour” Party, which was merely 'Stalinism Lite' disguised as democratic socialism. The election campaign and subsequent victory of Obama has also been a triumph of PR and marketing, mingled with naïve people's desperation for a true statesman. As one observer of public relations states:

“A single public relations professional with access to media, a basic understanding of mass psychology, and a fistful of dollars can unleash in society forces that make permanent winners out of otherwise-evident losers — whether they be products, politicians, corporations or ideas”[25].
Exactly. Point made.

Today, we have the fulfilment of the manipulated election of a man who looks like a cool rapper in a smart suit — someone to whom the young can relate and who can help the old to be unburdened from their guilt about historic racism in the USA. Appearing from nowhere like a cross between Melchizedek, a reincarnated JFK and the Lost Messiah of America, Obama has hypnotized the people into regarding him as their Saviour. This has been a very clever move on the part of the PR moguls behind his election campaign. Looking every bit the opposite of his predecessor (i.e. he appears to be intelligent and articulate), he is greeted with open arms as a clean pair of hands who can change the world. But as an obedient advocate of Zionism[26] and a front for the bankers and corporations who will run him,[27] he is perfectly placed not only to ensure that the status quo remains the same but that the global government agenda of the New World Order will steam ahead as planned. In short, he is a patsy – chosen by the powerbrokers to front their agenda.

Verse 8:
It doesn't matter who's the Prez, the same guys run the show
Behind the scenes they just ensure he won't disturb the flow
Of all the evil plans they've made for wars and coups d'etats
Business will be as usual, I can guarantee you that


This is the kernel of all that we are saying here. As already stated above “The President is just a rotating GUI (Graphical User Interface) to woo the gullible public while the tenebrous characters who really hold the reins (reigns?) of power remain unchanged”. All he has to do is go along with the status quo and make smooth the pathway for the plans of the ‘Powers that Be’.

Let's face it, Presidents have come and gone over the years but no matter who has been in that role the USA has continued to carry out its programme of subversion by stealth of all those countries which can be useful to their cause or which have proved an irritant to it. All the wars and coups d'etats have continued unabated no matter who has been in power. The Democratic party is just as corrupt as the Republican. So it won't be any different when Obama is in the role. In fact, all the pointers are that business will be as usual. So far, Obama has either maintained the same personnel as the Bush administration (e.g. Robert Gates as Defense Secretary) or appointed Chicago cronies and insiders from the Clinton administration. There's no change we can believe in there. None whatsoever. But then all this is only to be expected. When the Democratic Party obtained a majority in Congress and the House of Representatives in 2006 all the liberals and lefties assumed that the peccadilloes of the Bush administration's six years in office would begin to be overturned. Another wasted dream. Nothing changed. In fact, the debacle only deepened and more anti-freedom legislation was passed with barely a whimper from the 'opposition'. As the old song says: “When will they ever learn? When will they ever learn?”

When Obama takes office, there will be no sending of all the serial liars and war criminals from the previous administration to The Hague for prosecution. There will be no criminal proceedings for those who advocated and practised torture in the previous administration. When ABC host, George Stephanopoulos, asked future Vice-President, Joe Biden, whether Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other high-level Bush administration officials should be prosecuted for prisoner and child abuse, torture and murder in Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay, he said: “President-elect Obama and I are not sitting thinking about the past. We're focusing on the future... I'm not ruling it in and not ruling it out. I just think we should look forward. I think we should be looking forward, not backwards”[28]. Classic fudge. Stonewalling. Biden is the gatekeeper to ptotect the Obama administration from any rogue questions in the media. He's an old hand. He knows how to play the game.

Most people fail to realise that the liberal corporate types, such as Barack Obama, can often be even more Stalinist and corrupt than conservative rightists (witness Tony Blair and his New Labour Party in the UK). There will be no prosecutions of anyone in the previous administration (unless some easy target fall guy of little consequence is singled out to take the rap). There will be no abolishing of the treacherous Patriot Acts passed by the Bush regime. There will be no real undoing of any of the great evil that was done by the previous administration. Obama has too many evil people backing him for that to happen.[29]

At this point, you may say: “But what about Guantanamo Bay? He's already said that he's going to close it. So doesn't that prove you wrong?” To which I reply: Not at all. It is quite likely that he will move towards closing Guantanamo Bay. But that will just be a bit of window-dressing to mislead the easily inveigled minds of today. This is a classic manoeuvre of the corrupt. There are many secret Guantanamo Bays around the world, set up by the CIA as part of their “Extraordinary Rendition” program.[30] So they close down the publicly-known Guantanamo Bay to make you think that such atrocities have been stopped. However, the remainder of the torture chambers which they have set up in secret in countries where such activity is the norm will continue unhindered — and mostpeople will continue to imagine that Obama is their knight in shining armour.

So there will be no real undoing of any of the great evil that was done by the previous administration. On the contrary, the CIA will carry on its policy of subversion and terrorism across the world. The military will carry on waging the illegal wars that the power cabals and corporations want them to wage. Wall Street will continue to embezzle and the media will continue to muzzle.

Business will be as usual; I can guarantee you that.

Verse 9:
In case your sensibilities by my words are upset
I have to tell you frankly that “you ain't seen nothin' yet!”
The subtle machinations of this “obama-ising” time
Are rehearsals for a far worse scene that's further down the line


No doubt many people will be irate to read what has been written in this song and commentary. Some will be incensed beyond belief. But not only will I retract not a word (unless it can be shown to be false) but I will go further than I have already gone by saying that the whole Obamarama roadshow is a mere rehearsal for the events of the future. The ‘Powers that Be’ love to experiment with our psyches to see how far they can go with their audacious mind-control projects. At one time such experiments would be conducted on a comparatively small, unknown and (from their point of view) 'expendable' element of the population (prison or mental hospital inmates and Californian hippies).[31] Today they brazenly toy with the mass of people's minds in Psyops-based election campaigns.[32] Understanding this process is a vital part of our self-education.

The world is moving towards a scenario which will make Orwell's masterpiece, “1984” (essential reading for all self-educators), seem like a boy scout's garden party. All the elements are falling into place. We need to awaken from our slumber and see the 2008 US election for what it was: The stealing of people's minds and the swaying of their hearts to accept a Trojan Horse into their lives. “It's a tragedy in Grecian style and we all have a part”..

© Copyright, Sincerity Music, 2009.

[1]See http://www.scribd.com/doc/7470439/Obamas-hypnosis-Speeches

[2]See, e.g. http://www.transformdestiny.com/blog/?p=48'.

[3]Ibid.

[4]A false-flag operation is when governments or organisations themselves stage an atrocity (which they blame on others) or create a bogus enemy in order to capitalise on the wave of fear and indignation which it generates.

[5]If we weigh up the real evidence, we must surely conclude that 9/11 was a classic false-flag operation. It was either enacted by forces directed by the ‘Powers that Be’ or, at the very least, was permitted to happen (i.e. not prevented from happening) by a PTB which saw the advantage of capitalising on such a dreadful event.

[6]Most of the starry-eyed young folks who voted for Obama probably haven't even heard of the Warren Commission, let alone worked out that Kennedy was assassinated by his own people!

[7] http://voices.washingtonpost.com/capitol-briefing/2008/12/is_illinois_the_most_corrupt_s.html

[8] http://www.judicialwatch.org/judicial-watch-announces-list-washington-s-ten-most-wanted-corrupt-politicians-2007

[9] http://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/2008/12/judicial-watch-to-testify-in-blagojevich-hearings.html

[10] http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/14/us/politics/14rezko.html?ref=todayspaper&pagewanted=print

[11] http://archives.chicagotribune.com/2008/oct/05/opinion/chi-kass-0510

[12]Ibid.

[13]Ibid.

[14]Ibid.

[15]Ibid.

[16]Ibid.

[17] http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/08/09/_obamas_rise/

[18] http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23597624-details/500m+election+fund+%27bought+Obama+victory%27/article.do

[19]Op. cit. Scott Hellman article in Boston Globe.

[20] See http://obamamessiah.blogspot.com/

[21] “Propaganda”, Edward L. Bernays, p.71.

[22] Ibid., p.9.

[23] See the revealing link at the press office of the BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/stories/02/0202/28/centuryoftheself.shtml

[24] See “What Orwell Didn't Know: Propaganda & the New Face of American Politics”, by Andras Szanto, Public Affairs, 2007

[25] “Toxic Sludge is Good for You: Lies, Damn Lies, and the Public Relations Industry”, John C. Stauber and Sheldon Rampton, Common Courage Press, 1995.

[26] Many Zionists put him into office from the beginning. See http://www.chicagojewishnews.com/story.htm?sid=212226&id=252218

[27] http://www.realjewnews.com/?p=240 & http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MouUJNG8f2k & http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-KJCMWcoms

[28] http://blogs.abcnews.com/george/2008/12/biden-not-rulin.html

[29] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MouUJNG8f2k & http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-KJCMWcoms

[30] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_rendition

[31] See Martin A. Lee, Bruce Shlain, “Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond” (Grove Press, 1986). Further details about the book are also in the review article “LSD and the CIA”, which can be found at http://www.historyhouse.com/in_history/lsd/. See also George Andrews, “MKULTRA: The CIA's Top Secret Program in Human Experimentation and Behavior Modification”, Healthnet Press, 2001. For further copious details about the CIA's secret programmes involving mind-control see Andrew Smith's article “Mind Control, LSD, the CIA and the American People: What the Government Does Not Want You to Know”, at http://www.mindcontrolforums.com/lsd-mc-cia.htm . See also Jim Huck's website at http://www.angelfire.com/ca3/jphuck/ and click on the article entitled “The Secret Government”. For an article on the vast use of psychiatrists enlisted for research on MK-Ultra see “CIA Shrinks & LSD” by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair, at http://www.counterpunch.org/ciashrinks.html . See also the entire transcript of the U.S. Senate Committee on Intelligence proceedings on August 3rd 1977, which was set up to look into the abuses of the CIA's MK-Ultra mind-control experiments which was entitled “Project MKULTRA, The CIA's Program of Research in Behavioral Modification”.The index link for this can be found here: http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/history/e1950/mkultra/index.htm

[32] Psyops is short for Psychological Operations, in which techniques are used to alter people's behaviour through forms of mind-control and manipulation.