{"id":51540,"date":"2016-10-08T16:15:28","date_gmt":"2016-10-08T20:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=51540"},"modified":"2016-10-08T21:49:02","modified_gmt":"2016-10-09T01:49:02","slug":"is-the-2016-election-irrelevant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=51540","title":{"rendered":"Is The 2016 Election Irrelevant?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->Santa Rosa, CA<br \/>\nOctober 8, 2016<\/p>\n<p>by Rich Scheck<\/p>\n<p>Scandal after scandal implicating both Clinton and Trump in the<br \/>\nmost reprehensible conduct indicate that both are &#8220;unqualified&#8221;<br \/>\nto be our next president.<\/p>\n<p>Hillary has shown herself to be profoundly corrupt, a serial liar and<br \/>\nmanipulator extraordinaire: <a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=51423\">https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=51423<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trump was always the Supreme Showman and self-promoter who<br \/>\nthought he could talk his way into the White House. His latest dust-up<br \/>\nshows him competing with the two Bills&#8212;Clinton and Cosby&#8212;for who<br \/>\nis the biggest sexual predator in public life.<\/p>\n<p>But my point is far more serious than reminding folks how flawed our<br \/>\nprospective next president is.<\/p>\n<p>What I am attempting to express is that behind all the hype and celebrity<br \/>\nbling of the Main Stream Media pursuit of the trivial is the looming threat<br \/>\nof WW III with Russia.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/revolutionradio.org\/?p=147502\">http:\/\/revolutionradio.org\/?p=147502<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Lame Duck Obama seems vulnerable to the rogue actions of his Defense<br \/>\nSecretary, Ashton Carter, as well as the Neocons in the State Department<br \/>\nsuch as Victoria Nuland who are maneuvering him into the Syrian quagmire.<\/p>\n<p>The CIA has its own agenda that further erodes what is left of presidential<br \/>\nauthority while Congress tacitly allows for military escalation without their<br \/>\nformal approval of more boots on the ground in Iraq, Syria, Libya and elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Virtually all of the US involvement violates international law underscoring that not<br \/>\nonly is Congress impotent but that the UN has failed in its mission to avoid the<br \/>\n&#8220;the scourge of war&#8221; that was its reason for being creating after the last world war.<\/p>\n<p>We are beyond the dangers of the Cuban Missile Crisis and the evils of the Cold<br \/>\nWar making the corruption of our political leaders both a sideshow and a wake-up<br \/>\ncall to voters should we somehow survive the current insanity.<\/p>\n<p>Is WW III imminent? Has it already started? Will there even be an election?<br \/>\nDoes it matter who wins considering that we may already be at war soon making<br \/>\nthe election irrelevant? Is martial law on the way?<\/p>\n<p>Do you think I am being alarmist?<\/p>\n<p>I will let you decide if you choose to look at a small selection of articles below<br \/>\nby intelligent commentators who are watching closely as the world moves closer<br \/>\nto some form of Armageddon in the days ahead.<\/p>\n<p>References:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/article45633.htm\">http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/article45633.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/article45635.htm\">http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/article45635.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/revolutionradio.org\/?p=147488\">http:\/\/revolutionradio.org\/?p=147488<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/revolutionradio.org\/?p=147484\">http:\/\/revolutionradio.org\/?p=147484<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whatdoesitmean.com\/index2134.htm\">http:\/\/www.whatdoesitmean.com\/index2134.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.veteranstoday.com\/2016\/10\/07\/us-planned-sneak-attack-on-russian-airbase-in-syria\/\">http:\/\/www.veteranstoday.com\/2016\/10\/07\/us-planned-sneak-attack-on-russian-airbase-in-syria\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/us-ponders-whether-to-go-to-war-with-russia-to-salvage-al-qaeda-in-syria\/5549902\">http:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/us-ponders-whether-to-go-to-war-with-russia-to-salvage-al-qaeda-in-syria\/5549902<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/revolutionradio.org\/?p=147508\">http:\/\/revolutionradio.org\/?p=147508<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/revolutionradio.org\/?p=147514\">http:\/\/revolutionradio.org\/?p=147514<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}