The Perps

Perps- American police slang for "perpetrators"
American Truth movement- Americans who believe a banking/business cartel have taken over the constitution & government of their country

 Politics is usually a brain-intensive spectator sport, and you know things have turned the corner when events don't make you think anymore but leave you chuckling with amusement instead.

Some may say the 2009 depression was not only due to errors in neo-liberal economic decisions. It was mostly caused by bumbling, true, but it was also an incidental opportunity to tinker with the original script to dominate the world (definitely as a last resort, may I add). It turned into a high stakes gamble to stem the advance of the emerging countries: the QE trap, the unstoppable money printing of the US Fed, might be corroding the American economy, but the perps (what the American Truth movement  accused as having done a coup on the American constitution) were calculating (finger-crossed) that China, et al will crumble before they do. If not stopped now, the numbers game which are stacked in favor of the latter will change the psychological threshold and the perps fear their empire will very likely lose control of the narrative.

It's increasingly evident they are in for more surprises. There was an attempt to do a Gorbachev in China but the candidate, Bo Xilai, cultivated by the recently deceased Canadian billionaire Paul Desmarais and his London connection, was stopped in his tracts. Not that it would have changed much, the Confucianist oversight role of the more Senior members of the Chinese politburo guarantee a usurper can't dominate the Chinese government anyway. That leaves the perps one option: the now discredited People Power. People power in recent years have been ineffective in actual implementation with much of the dislodged governments proving more effective than the replacements. Ultimately, armed intervention was needed for the final push but even that was increasingly not enough. It's only effect then is as a Sword of Damocles- intimidate. If you still can.

Unfortunately, I doubt that is still effective either.  Amazingly, the script has already turned into a comedy.

 Especially now that its propaganda press is not as taken seriously anymore. The intentions of the Empire are actually telegraphed through what they still imagine as respected press (New York Times and Guardian). You don't have to be very bright not to see the true colors of these two, though in the case of the Guardian, you judge it by its choice of issues (it omits the really critical but potentially damaging to its handler, like the Bahrain Shiite Spring suppression, while it gives mileage to the petty fuss about the Jewish father of the Labor head just because he was criticized by another paper but written by another Jewish writer so it was more likely a planted controversy in the first place- are the British public even interested with the topic?). The other paper is more blatant in its propaganda, it uses spin every which way. (Interestingly, when they tried to put the "squeeze" (the "all-important" warning) on the Philippine President Benigno Aquino, they used Huffington Post (Is that a demotion?) But as we have seen, people have become jaded with People Power, somebody must have tried to ride it from behind but the Pork Barrel movement must have felt the unwanted weight and it didn't take off.

In a recent editorial, the Guardian at least refrained from the usual hypocritical line of extolling Democracy. After the recent Syria WMD comedy skit, the readers may laugh so loud the air would be filled with flying false teeth. So when it advises "broader access to, and fairer allocation of, capital" and "the people... are not as ready as they were to keep their heads down",  you find the world getting surreal. Where did it find the wherewithal to advise about broader access to capital when capital in the West is collapsing everywhere? Certainly it was not being used for that. Ah, probably it was to convey the old reliable again- the threat of People Power. But if Bahrain can repulse more than half its population, can't China handle its mercenary worms?  Hmm. Suddenly, you become aware of a new reality- you bet the Sword of Damocles is farthest from China's mind.  Neither are the manufactured riots in Brazil, nor the NATO exercises by the small former Soviet Union states. There's a new air.

Imperceptibly it seems but the world has already turned a page.

I just hope Americans will finally find again their country as the land of the free. So will the rest of the world.