I've only rarely posted diary entries to this forum, and in recent weeks I've reduced my participation in the commentaries as well. Still, I lurk here daily, if for no other reason than to reassure myself that people who think generally along the lines that I think still walk among us.
Recently, however, I came across an audio (with a video overlay) that I found a remarkably prescient foreshadowing of everything I detest about the current administration, the marriage of corporate and government interests that administration has fostered and encouraged, and the abysmal decline of national reportage on public affairs.
Sharing this speech is in my opinion well worth a diary. The link and my perhaps-mercifully brief commentary are below the fold.
Perhaps one of the historians among us will be able to supply the date and the occasion of this speech by President Kennedy. I know only its title.
Some caveats before we proceed. My wardrobe is not without its tinfoil suit, though I don it rarely. I have always thought that the assassination of President Kennedy had more to do with his willingness to take on the elite global financial forces--a fearlessness exemplified in Executive Order 11110--than with anything else. The full text of this order used to be available at the Kennedy Library. My search for it today turned up nothing but a brief, one-paragraph summary which one must ferret out by scrolling a third of the way down the page. Some of the text, for now at least, remains available here beneath an essay about it. (For those disinclined to follow the links, Kennedy took on the Federal Reserve with this Executive Order, later reversed after his assassination. The Federal Reserve, I should add, is not "federal," despite its .gov web address. Nor does it have any "reserves." It does have the authority, however, to create money and credit--activities it has aggressively pursued since its creation by moneyed interests in congress in 1913, late at night and without a quorum.)
But I digress (and, I fear, run afoul of my own promise to be brief).
The audio I'm linking has an image-video overlay with a clear agenda that some of us will consider a bit over the top. You may ignore the images completely and still appreciate the eery similarity between what President Kennedy loathed then and what we loathe now. But listen--just listen--to "The President and the Press".