The Vampire Squid Oligarchy Tells Marketer of the Year What to do: Froman to Obama (Circa 2008)
Who is Michael Froman?
The man revealed in the Podesta emails of providing a 'List' of recommendations to Podesta. The 'List' concerned preferred candidates to fill key positions in the Obama administration. It turns out that many, if not most, of the individuals on the list indeed went on to hold influential positions during the ’08 term and others who joined later in 2012.
They are familiar names: Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Robert Gates, Chuck Hagel, Susan Rice, Timothy Geithner, Jack Lew, etc.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/57710
It is quite clear who he is from his email account, [email protected], which surfaced in the Podesta emails curtesy of Wikileaks. He represents the Vampire Squid and interests of Wall Street, a banker and high-level executive from Citigroup/Citibank delivering the first of many orders to the new administration.
At the time people were swept up in the ‘hope’ and ‘change’ that Obama imbued. A brighter future was within reach. A new America could be realized with the election of the first African American president. “Yes we can” was the slogan and Obama was the commodity/product that we were being sold, and we happily obliged. Obama and his campaign were actually awarded marketer of the year in 2008.
http://www.prwatch.org/spin/2008/11/7926/advertisers-elect-obama-marketer-year-2008
And every 4 years we are sold another product, another spineless jellyfish willing to do whatever it takes to maximize self-enrichment as soon as leaving office. Essentially nothing changes, the president has little to no actual power and acts as a mere figure head for the deep state/shadow government.
Our candidates are carefully selected, groomed and vetted well before the first primary vote is cast. The right/left republican/democrat dichotomy is an illusion. In reality, the parties are one and the same. The marathon presidential campaigns are a pageant show. A type of glorified celebration of democratic values and principles that are endlessly praised by each politician and echo across the airwaves like a broken record on and on and on. Their messages are hammered into our psyches through repetition, a well-worn and effective advertisement technique.
The average American and the concerns of the common man have no place at the table. This is not defeatism nor pessimism but a painful fact that the common voters have zero influence on government policy. As the groundbreaking Princeton study informs us, our needs, issues, wants, opinions and dreams have no say. We are simply sold an illusion, a child’s fantasy of democratic values and ethos.
https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/files/gilens_and_page_2014_-testing_theories_of_american_politics.doc.pdf
As a people, we are duped and manipulated time and time again. This time however, let’s get to know the real rulers of America. They are the executives of the biggest banks and corporations. As presidents come and go, the shadow government remains in the power by occupying strategic positions within the American power structure. They are the members of the FED, the US treasury, the CFR, the State Department, Goldman Sachs and Citigroup executives and a long list of think tanks and interlocking organizations made up of the American elite.
Citigroup’s Michael Froman, the man who dictated Obama’s staff, is just one face of the oligarchy but here he provides a glimpse into the inner workings of the shadow government.
When we scrutinize the inner sanctums of the true government we find the same cast of characters time and time again. Mr. Froman’s associations link him to other prominent figures within the power structure. These figures are often lauded as brilliant economists and captains of industry.
Here we find our good friends and Vampire Squidsmen: Robert Rubin (CFR, Citigroup, etc.), Larry Summers (CFR Citigroup, US Treasury, etc.) and Timothy Geithner (CFR, US Treasury, etc.) all having close professional ties with Mr. Froman.
We also see he is closely associated with Susan Rice (US National Security Advisor, former UN Ambassador, Brookings Institute, National Security Council) and Jack Lew (Citigroup, US Treasury).
There are those today that believe Trump is some sort of hero and that he’ll ‘drain the swamp’. He won’t. Just as Obama surged to power in 2008 and promised to clean up Washington, we see history repeating itself. An angry populous has once again been ‘sold’ the outsider candidate promising change. And once again the candidate of change will sell us down the river. Trump has already appointed several Goldman Sachs bankers to his administration. Expect more to follow.
https://www.democracynow.org/2016/12/2/bankers_behind_great_foreclosure_machine_join