http://middleeastobserver.net/how-office-of-the-us-president-developed-imperial-power-tv-report/
Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wK99dRpL9WQ
Description:
Television report on the historical development of the US president’s powers, into what is now referred to by some as the ‘Imperial Presidency’.
Source: Al Mayadeen TV (YouTube)
Date: November 27, 2020
Transcript:
TV Report:
When the Americans managed to defeat Britain and achieve their independence (on the 4th of July, 1776), some proposed to George Washington that he be the king of the new (American) state. However, this (suggestion) was not implemented. Rather, Americans adopted a presidential system that separated powers between three branches of government.
While the judicial and legislative branches are composed of a number of councils and (governing) bodies, in contrast, the executive branch is headed by only one person who simultaneously plays the role of the head of state, and the head of the (ruling) administration. This person enjoys broad powers extending to politics, military affairs, economics, and foreign affairs, powers that even monarchs in other countries do not enjoy.
Under the constitution, the (US) president is responsible for signing and approving laws; he is the commander in chief of the armed forces; he decides how the country’s nuclear arsenal is used; he nominates candidates to become federal court judges, particularly those of the Supreme Court. Moreover, the president directs the country’s foreign policies; appoints ambassadors; has the final take on international agreements/treaties; and many other powers.
The president can also appoint his staff of aides made up of ministers, advisers, and officials at different levels of the state. He has under his command 4 million government staff workers.
The (country’s) presidential powers developed over time. The president’s personality, the circumstances surrounding his respective ruling term, and especially the (various) wars (and their effects), played a huge role in growing these powers and expanding their influence, to the point of what is now known as the “Imperial Presidency”, especially ever since the 1930s. This sole, absolute-like power of the president was and still is a focal point for political debate in America, particularly as to how this power could be abused.
These concerns intensified after Trump took office and exercised this “absolute power”, articulating thousands of lies and backing extremist and racial ideologies, along with firing a record number of ministers and officials unprecedented for any former administration. Some officials were dismissed for merely disagreeing with the president’s point of view, or for merely making statements that the president did not like.
So following its experience with Trump, will America reconsider the range of powers granted to only one person?
Trump Declares Martial Law: As artists we have the greatest responsibility to differentiate fact from fiction by painting what we see as the truth. This started before Michelangleo and continued through the most brilliant and greatest painters for hundreds of years. Let us keep this alive.The internet has also amplified and changed communication.
It is from Nature that I received these tastes, and I should offend her by resisting them — if they are wicked, it is because they serve her purposes. In her hands I am nothing but a machine for her to operate as she wishes […] — I should be a fool to resist her. (de Sade)
To tell the truth might create an epistemological problems of such magnitude as to load the logical and semantic resources of the English language with a burden that it is not reasonably expected to bear.
And if you resurrect Guevara and catapult him into today’s political world without giving him a crash refresher course, he would not know which side of the political divide is which. If anything, he may think that it is the other way around.
Watch this short video for the supprise ending …
https://youtu.be/11DWghBpUP0
A scenario where Trump would declare martial law is certainly a possibility. As the Atlantic once put it…
“The moment the president declares a “national emergency”—a decision that is entirely within his discretion—more than 100 special provisions become available to him. While many of these tee up reasonable responses to genuine emergencies, some appear dangerously suited to a leader bent on amassing or retaining power.”
The USA Patriot Act is still in place and it might be Trump’s only option to remain in power once his legal challenges to the election results peter out. This “national emergency” could be a redo of 9/11, whatever. I’m sure Israel is working on it to keep their boy Trump in office.
Every USA President has been the Zionists’ “boy”.
Trump Derangement Syndrome is strong with this author, hindering a clear vision of reality.
On the other hand, the blind devotion to Trump as an “outsider”, who is going to “drain the swamp” while filling his cabinet with swamp rats, is just as disabling.
Divide and conquer.
“If we get caught they will just replace us with persons of the same cloth. So it doesn’t matter what you do. America is a Golden Calf and we will suck it dry, chop it up, and sell it off piece by piece until there is nothing left but the World’s biggest welfare state that we will create and control. Why? Because it’s God’s will and America is big enough to take the hit so we can do it again, again and again. This is what we do to countries that we hate. We destroy them very slowly and make them suffer for refusing to be our slaves.” – Benjamin Netanyahu
Is there an official source for this statement? I’ve googled it and have come up with 433 results. They all lead to Reddit, Facebook, Twitter and other repeater stations. Do you know of an actual source? I’d appreciate it. Thank you.
This meme goes back to 1990 when a drunken Netanyahu was holding forth at Fink’s Bar in Jerusalem. Someone by the name of Jeff Smith allegedly recorded him saying every word. It certainly never made it to the MSM in either the USA or Israel for obvious reasons. Although it is apocryphal, it’s not absurd to think that Netanyahu could have said it. Israel has gone on to do to the USA exactly what is described in the quote. There is no denying that.
“So following its experience with Trump, will America reconsider the range of powers granted to only one person?”
No! Unless it is hopelessly doomed by its own stupidity!
Because enough of the people have woken up to the plain fact that ONLY a functional executive branch of ONE individual elected by the people, but advised by many others can check the absurd games of party and parliamentary politics where nothing of any national vision gets done, while “special interests” take over.
That’s how The Swamp got so deep, Mideast Observer …and an oligarchy corrupted a republic and made it “IMPERIAL” while it fed the suckers a study diet of Bread and Circuses on the Roman and the British Empire models.
Meanwhile this whining absurdity:
“Some officials were dismissed for merely disagreeing with the president’s point of view, or for merely making statements that the president did not like.”
You mean like the whole cast of characters in the intelligence services that supported Maidan in Ukraine and ISIS in the Middle East and the endless wars for the Military Industrial Complex???
Who enough of the American people are finally on to…after decades of being in an absolute Sleep Walking Trance that their only hope is for this and future presidents to clean out those disgusting unelected “officials” ?
Divide & Conquer of the regions (individual states) of a republic, for such an oligarchy controlling media, both MSM and “social” is like taking candy from a baby……….when it is asleep.
The only hope that the citizens of a republic have for enough unity AND POWER……in 4 or 8 years to reverse the damage of their having been corrupted and lulled into such a trance…is the Executive branch and particularly the single individual Head of State…..The President.
As it ALSO was in Russia!
DUH!!!
Most ironically, the same applies to the whole community of nations of the world, in terms of better behaviour of The United States, freeing itself of Empire and restoring the republic.
A main obstacle, perhaps THE main one standing in the way of Agenda 2030….Klaus Schwab’s Great Delphicly Hijacked Reset and a Forever State of War in the Middle East and many other places currently IS Donald Trump’s USA not Joe and Ho’s ….he who has dismissed Defense Department head Esper and Christopher Miller is cleaning out the Endless War “officials” this article cries crocodile tears for.
How absurd.
Like it or lump it.
Detest this FACT or Trump it.
And Observe THAT play out over the next 4 years, Mideast Observer.
On the one hand, many whined and said “It’s over!” ….”TRUMP IS TOO WEAK” …..as soon as the tactical retreat of firing Flynn was done (apparently part of THE Greatest Sting Operation Against Corruption In American History……notice Flynn;s continued loyalty!~)
And the Separation of Powers between the 3 branches are very frustrating to the impatient, who wished to see the swiftness here that Putin was able to carry out in Russia.
But on the other hand, NOW that the Sting has been executed ….and the Criminals Caught BLUE-Handed…..and The Biggest Landslide In American Presidential Election History may yet be proven…..(Which is why the Epic Heist….will become an EPIC FAIL for the globalists…..the extent of The People…with ALL of their problems, rallying to Trump…..and the republic quite possibly restored…..
The same impatient people NOW fret with fear
….. over how that was done despite the Enemy of the People MEDIA owned by 6 corporations….the Big Technocrats of Silicon Valley and scores of “officials” compromised by Maxwell and Epstein ….The Mossad and British Intelligence
Talk about “loving your chains”!
If America is to redeem itself…it will in sending Joe and Ho packing, in putting CNN out of business and in breaking up Big Tech with Anti-Trust Legislation….ending the worst censorship in American History all those “officials” are cheering on. They DO love their swampy jobs destroying the republic and making it an empire
Maybe you don’t really want the restoration of the republic , or don’t think Trump can do it…..because he has “too much power”??
OR not enough power???
Come on! Which is it???
It can’t be both.
Or do you just fear The People…that he woke up and animated…..and want to get back to the same old, same old corruption of those people ……..by The Empire…the globalist oligarchy????
Great comment! Did you see Trumps victory speech in Georgia last night? Does anyone know who bernie was talking to? I think Trump proved last night in Georgia that he is in complete control and has all the goods on everyone. His message was simple, do your duty or be destroyed!
Bravo! Bro 93! Spoken like a patriot!
“If America is to redeem itself…it will in sending Joe and Ho packing, in putting CNN out of business and in breaking up Big Tech with Anti-Trust Legislation….ending the worst censorship in American History all those “officials” are cheering on. They DO love their swampy jobs destroying the republic and making it an empire”
Now that, in its totality, is a sane comment!
Here is some interesting history from an old book I have enjoy or be horrified:
“In America, at the time of the Cuban missile Crisis in 1962, a series of emergency measures were formulated, to be followed in the event of a full confrontation, and they were signed into law by the late John F. Kennedy. they stand today exactly as they were signed on February 16 and February 27, 1962. those emergency documents provide the president should have complete and final dictatorial control, the authority to undertake immediate and decisive action. His executive orders are to be carried out through the Office of Emergency planning and they are to by put into effect,
in any time of increased international tension or economic or financial crisis.
Executive Order 10995– to take over all communication media
Executive Order 10997- take over all electric power, petroleum, gas, fuels, and minerals.
Executive Order 10998- take over all food resources and farms.
Executive Order 10999- take over all methods of transportation, highways, and seaports.
Executive Order 11000- mobilization of civilians and work forces under governmental supervision.
Executive Order 11001- take over all health, welfare, and educational functions.
Executive Order 11002-the Postmaster General, a member of the Presidents Cabinet, will operate a nationwide registration of all persons.
Executive Order 11003- to take over all airports and aircraft.
Executive Order 11004-take over housing and finance authorities-to relocate communities-to build new housing with public funds-designate areas to be abandoned as unsafe-establish new locations for populations.
Executive Order 11005-take over all railroads, inland waterways, and public storage facilities.
Executive Order 11051-designate responsibilities of Office of emergency Planning, give authorizations to put all other executive orders i effect in times of increased international tension or economic or financial crises.
and why was this implmented?
“The word “crisis” seemed to be appearing almost weekly in the headlines of the news media-population crsis, war crsis, fuel and energy crisis. If man was willing under crisis to commit total and absolute power to an individual leader of the nation or the world, how sudden and complete could be the revolutionary new methods swept in by such a man?
Who could administer such an instant world government?
H.G.Wells expressed the sentiments of millions when he wrote,
“It is necessary to discover a head capable of directing it, endowed with an intelligence surpassing the most human elevated level.
Strange words and what Trump is that man?
In relation to this history an addition:
“On August 23. 1970 U Thant addressed the 14 World Congress of World Association of World Federalists in Ottawa, Canada, and said,
A world under law is realistic and obtainable. the ultimate crsis before the UN is the crisis of authority.
The convention conducted by the lawyers and juudgesof the world in the interest of world law was a solemn sight indeed. There were 263 judges from every continent, Africans in red robes, sitting by Indians and Pakistanis, and Israelis, and 5 justices from the U. S. Supreme Court . Even a copy of the Magna Carta was on hand. And banners across the platform read “Pax Orbis ex Jure,” meaning “World Peace by World :Law.”
There were 119 countries represented. The main decision was to recommend that the UN Charter be amended to provide complusorary jurisdiction for individuals, as well as nations. Joseph Clarke called for ,
an executive with substantially greater powers than those now exercised by the Secetary-General of the UN. A judiciary system modeled after the world court. Decisions enforced by a world police force, under the command of the world executive.
Would man be willing to resign such power to the United Nations, knowing it was under Communistic domination? For many the answer was ‘yes’. One person said,
If the price of avoiding all out thermal nuclear wars should prove to be acquiescence in the Communistic domination of the world , it seems probable that such a price would be paid.
And if the question was asked, Why?” perhaps the answer would best be expressed by Adlai Stevenson, who in a speech to the United Nations Correspondents Association said,
Interpret us…. as puzzled, yet aspiring men, struggling on the possible brink of Armageddon.
Why would men who are members of a strong and and a free democracy vote in favor of a world organization which would include the explosive characteristics of south America, the turbulence of the Middle East, the tyranny of Russia, and the violence of Asia? One speaker answered the question by saying sadly,
No, it is not desirable; but we have no alternative. there is no other way out.
End quote.
You know what is the single biggest and greatest mistake ever made in the American political experiment was the separation of Church and State. By not implementing this originally it has devolved into kingdoms of conflict and with it this Crisis of Authority. And now because of the creation of the Atomic Weapon the desire is for a one world government whereby the desire is for a political leader with the power of a god almost to save us from the eventual. How bizarre and ironic is that really and indeed dangerous given the prophecies of a coming demonic king.
some proposed to George Washington that he be the king of the new (American) state.
Yes, indeed like the old world kings of Europe who had a Pope to provide laws and order in society but today this is largely mocked and laughed at for all of its turbulent history.
IN GOD WE TRUST
What a laugh! America has turned from this and now trusts in every other thing that they have elevated above God and who speaks for God in the American political experiment. The Roman Pontiff, George Washington, or some Jim Bakker or Grahman or God forbid because of democracy and voting a Moslem gets in power and with it Sharia Law or Noahide laws.
Get my drift
Was it their God who directed the Native American genocide?
Asking for a deity.
Gerry’s god is the one that gave Christian Zionists the Scofield Reference Bible. That warrior god is into vengeance and retribution, unlike the living God of justice, compassion, and truth.
There is, I am certain, no coming demonic king. He is Already in Power. Those who cling so dearly to these Catholic fallacies are deluded, even as the Apostles warned would happen to His New Covenant posterity. Many undeniable Antichrists have been exposed in recent history but still they are Worshipped. Israel ,for sure ,antichrist ,Worshipped by many again. Islam? Not antichrist, not even related to Christ. Lost sheep ? Possibly. Slain all Night long to usher in the Kingdom of God. Really? Goats like to rule their own pasture and eat what they want ,Sheep follow Their Shepherd not Goats that call themselves ,sheep. If these words don’t open your eyes ,it is only because you will not see.
Catholic fallacies Herve Dubois?
It’s not Catholic but the very words of Christ Himself as in the Abomination of Desolation. Matt. 24:15
It is really nothing more than an idolatry but an idolatry the likes of which has never been seen in mankind’s entire history. I suppose Nebuchanezzar is the only one in history who comes close when he declared himself to be a god over what he ruled and paid the price accordingly.
What’s coming however will be far worse and if I read correctly and study aright current events nothing spells out for me the truth of holy writ quite like the invention of computer tech and how the bankers of the world desire greatly to chip all of us with our own number RFID so that none us can buy or sell or conduct any business without it? My word if that doesn’t come close to what we find written in Rev. 13:18 I don’t know what does or will really?
the coming days will reveal all Herve M Dubois and mark my words I’ll be the last one to fulfill your words of:
“Sheep follow Their Shepherd not Goats that call themselves ,sheep. If these words don’t open your eyes ,it is only because you will not see.”
I can assure you I will not be blind as to what is coming!
Remember wisdom is justified of her children
‘here is the mind that has wisdom’ Rev. 17:9 and Revelation 13:18
Lastly, about what I commented on about Crisis of Authority and Church leadership why do you not go here and listen to the first 5 minutes of this guys video and ask yourself how does someone like Paul Hellyer can believe in a guy named Valiant Thor?
https://youtu.be/dL4NbokoVtY
I’m sorry that this is off topic but this needs to be replied to.
If there is one thing that I have come to learn Tommy Apeiron it is how Christian folk of any denominational persuasion always seem to accept only the good things that exist in God’s word while neglecting and even rejecting the hard and difficult things it has to say and teach.
It is unfortunate how some tend to think of the Old Testament God as a blood thirsty ogre of a God while the New Testament God is one of grace and love and mercy. Nothing could be further from the truth because the real issue is one of treason pure and simple. In the days of the Old Testament everybody knew God existed period. None of the stories like Noah’s flood and Sodom and Gomorrah were tall tales only to be told to children as fables. They knew God existed period and took faith in him seriously. Unfortunately however, this led to acts of idolatry and for a God this was seen as treason pure and simple. The history of Israel is proof enough of that. Don’t think for one minute that if God did today the miraculous like He did in the days of old and people continued in their rebellion that God would not send retribution. I believe St. Paul made that quite clear did he not in Hebrews 10:29-31
A dreadful thing it is to fall into the hands of a Living God 70 AD? and the Jerusalem earthquake of 363 AD
Lastly, please before you equate me with the Christian Zionists read my book Lies al Lies detailing and exposing the great error that Russia and Germany are the Gog and Magog of Ezekiel 38 and 39 like the Christian Zionists are want to do and are doing. That needs to be stopped and I’m doing my part or at least trying to!
That, Gerry, is why we have separation of church and state in the USA. That’s why we are not some kind of pseudo-Christian theocracy with an official state church like what was the case in much of Europe for centuries.
Ah Tommy Apeiron but I believe we do have a pseudo religion in control called freemasonry.
Remember Montesqiau — an enlightened humanist, but no humaritarian bomber — for having launched the idea of tripartition of power.
And then “Remember the Alamo” — where Davey Crocket died so that he could preserve slavery in Texas and separate it from The United States (of Mexico).
Unfortunately, The United States of (Noth) Amerika combined the worst of all these three traditions into a foul union worthy of Sauron’s plans for Northwestern Middleearth — devides by the Rand corpoation in charming Carmel town on the coast of Kalifornia — from whense hurried also or sprang to fruition Joan Beyas’ Peace Institute and the US Ministry of Attack’s school of Asian languages for mercanary troops and US officers.
Personally, I don’t think this video has much value. It practically deals with peripheral problems.
On the other hand, it seems to me that Serbs know much more about the American elections than the Americans themselves.
Excellent detailed analysis of the election situation in the US and implications for the whole world:
https://srbin.info/svet/exclusive-soros-biden-network-ukrainegate-us-elections-and-the-day-after/
@ malleni
a million dollars here a million there, a billion dollars here a billion dollars there and in the middle of it all Russian or Ukrainian gas. Maybe the Clintons know something we all dont that America is truly suffering or will be from want of gas and oil and or will soon be dependent upon others for its energy needs. Imagine how expensive and devastating that would be to the bottom line.
In the mean time a question about the great American Political Experiment. How did we go from being wise and smart as far back as 901 AD to being stupid and duped today.
On usury—The brilliance of Edison and the honesty of Abraham Lincoln caused each of them to speak out firmly against the dangers of national debts and compound interest. they knew that the history of the Western world for 1694 years had forbidden the taking of usury. King Alfred the Great in 901 declared,
If a man is found taking usury, his lands will be confiscated and he will be banished from England.
In 1215 King John echoed the same announcement as Alfred, and as late as King James in 1566, the king declared,
If a man is found taking usury, his lands will be confiscated. It is like taking a mans life, and it must not be tolerated.
Were these kings Catholic that they understood and forbid usury. Michael Hoffman would be the man to speak truth to this in his fascinating talk on the subject.
I had a lot of respect for this web site. What extra judicial powers did Trump exercise as a president? Obama participitated in extra judicial killings through drone strikes, of course just like Israel just name them terrorist and blow them to smitterrenes on a weekly basis. True Trump is also guilty of such behavior that we know of that includes Al Baghdadi and Sulemani. Also Trump had a slew of officials leaking his information as well as disobeying his orders, so much for Hitlerarian streak. Be specific to his crimes.
Donald Trump–heralded as some kind of anti-war or anti-interventionist president–even surpassed the Nobel Prize-winning Predator Drone President himself, Barak Obama, in murdering people by drones.
Trump Escalates Killer Drone War And No One Seems To Care
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/trump-escalates-killer-drone-war-and-no-one-seems-to-care/
Under Donald Trump, drone strikes far exceed Obama’s numbers
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2019/5/8/18619206/under-donald-trump-drone-strikes-far-exceed-obama-s-numbers
All American regime leaders are war criminals.
All of them.
Trump is no different than Obama, who is no different than Bush, who is no different than Clinton, who is no different than … ad infinitum.
Agree that Donald Trump is hardly anti-war, but also you’d be mistaken if you pin it all to Trump, as if either Trump or Biden have much real control over these kinds of policies when they will always be surrounded by Deep Staters. The System is designed in a way to limit any individual’s impact in case they go ‘rogue’.
We live in a deeply sick world. Wanting to measure current events against our ideals as honest men does not work. What might Trump change? Will he be able to do in the USA what Putin did in Russia? Putting the globalist gang out of business? To act rationally on the international scene and to start reconstruction at home? Will he be able to eliminate the underground influence of the Muslim brothers and the much more open influence of the Zionists? Putin continues to spare the pro-Western 5th column. Maybe Trump will do the same with the Zionists because the Israeli war machine is too important for USA. At the end of January we’ll know. Biden will be in charge or not.
The levers of power of the globalists are money and finance, the GAFA, the mass media and inside USA some militia – the BLM and Antifa – which seem very weak. Indirect means of action, great inertia in action. With a time scale of 2 or 3 months, the control of the executive power, which is exorbitant as noted in the article above, and the control of force within the national territory, Trump and his supporters can physically incapacitate their opponents. They say publicly that this is what they are going to do. Wait and see.
You lost Me. First you say the US President has power as a King, then go on to say Trump was an example of a loose cannon King with supposed power, that luckily the US voting machine caught in time. I Suggest that had President Trump had Kingly Power there would be a lot of dead democrats right now. Humanity has lost it’s mind indeed if it thinks the US puppet president has anything but a big mouth. Moderate that.