“911!” is the title of my new book. ((Brumback, GB. “911!” Independent Publishing, KDP Amazon, 2019.)) You immediately recognize the title as the nationwide telephone number to call for help or rescue. My choice of this title was deliberate. America and the world need to be rescued from the wrongdoing and evildoing by the power elite of America’s corpocracy, or the Devil’s marriage between Corporate America and Government America, with the latter the lackey of the former, who are ruining America and the rest of the world. ((Brumback, GB. The Devil’s Marriage: Break Up the Corpocracy or Leave Democracy in the Lurch. Authors House, 2011. See also, e.g., Brumback, GB. “Real America, an Endangering and Endangered Ruination”, Dissident Voice, March 28; OpEdNews, March 29; Headline News, March 29; PopularResistance.Org Daily Digest, March 31; Greanville Post, April 2; Transmedia Service, April 6; and, Uncommon Thought Journal, April 8, 2016.))
The book is self-published on Amazon KDP. The founder and CEO of Amazon, of course, personifies the corpocracy’s power elite. Amazon has essentially embargoed the book by making its existence nearly impossible to find. Potentially interested readers would have to know the book existed in the first place, which naturally is impossible, and then would have to know this unpublicized web address:
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=911%21+Gary+Brumback&ref=nb_sb_noss
Going to it shows the cover’s image and that is about all. No “Inside the Cover” feature promised me, no abstract or description, and then what follows are images of other books, only one of which is a previous book of mine.
The rest of this article is a synopsis of “911!”. Readers, judge for yourself Amazon’s treatment of my book.
Introductory Highlights of “911!”
- The power elite are put under my “psychoscope” to examine their abnormal characteristics such as their human disconnectedness and their psychopathology.
- The power elite’s wrongdoing and evil doing are catalogued at length for industry in general, for several very consequential industries, and for government in general.
- The power elite’s trail of harm done at home and away, much of it destructive and deadly, is thoroughly catalogued.
- The power elite’s “props” are thoroughly catalogued. Lack of accountability is but one of many examples of a prop. Corporate America and Government America feed each other the props. Without their props the power elite would lose their iron grip on America’s domestic and foreign affairs.
- What I think are some creative and useful concepts are presented in the book. Two of them are the power tower and the power rectangle.
The power tower illustrates five levels differentiating the amount of power one has, that is, the capacity to control one’s life and that of others. The power elite occupy the top two levels. The U.S. President, by the way, occupies the fourth level. JFK found that out the hard and final way. At one time I was at the third level, which includes “functionaries.” I was a functionary, or water carrier, for political appointees and other top dogs. Most of the corpocracy’s evil doing is ordered or expected of functionaries to implement. I can vouchsafe that I committed no wrongdoing or evil doing as a functionary.
The power rectangle symbolizes what you might expect, power equality, as opposed to the power inequality represented by the power tower, or triangle. The power rectangle is not flat because a purely egalitarian nation is unworkable as is an anarchy where no one rules.
Switching my geometric metaphors symbolizes my aspirations for a People’s America:
- at peace with itself and the world.
- politicians who are public rather than corporate servants.
- laws with teeth for the benefit of the common good.
- the power tower flattened into a power rectangle of shared power.
- where the living field is leveled.
- where all Americans have the same universal rights.
- where all Americans can reach their fullest potential as human beings.
My aspirations, incidentally, could be turned into indicators for knowing the success of my rescue plan if it were to be implemented.
I want to make it perfectly clear that my power rectangle does not mean wealth redistribution, despised by superficially thinking capitalists and propagandized by demagogues scaring the public about creeping socialism. What is symbolized is power redistribution. Except for the possibility of retroactive taxation on ill-begotten, undertaxed wealth, the present level of wealth held by the power elite would not be redistributed, but they would no longer be in positions to exercise the power they once had to become even more powerful.
The Crux of “911!”
A. The Two-Part Rescue Plan
I call the rescue plan, “Democracy Pow!er.” The exclamation mark signifies relentless determination, not a physical fight, and for two reasons. Seeking to overthrow the power elite by force would be foolhardy. The power elite has all the force. Furthermore, the only path to peace is peace itself.
It is an extremely detailed plan, reading like a “rescue technical manual” (the only potentially tedious and boring part of the book), and has two parts, each needing the other to succeed. The first part is analogous to a head, the “drivers” so to speak of the plan, without meaning at all to deprecate the “passengers,” or the second part. The Occupy Movement, by the way, fizzled partly because it did not have the “drivers” part.
The First Part: The U.S. Chamber of Democracy (USCD)
The USCD is a deliberate counter to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the wealthy cheerleader for Corporate America. The USCD would have leadership, a steering council, a vision, a common goal, a strategy for meeting the goal, suggestions for a few leaders and 12 alliances of associates to carry out the strategy.
An example of an alliance is the “investigative and research alliance.” It would comprise subgroups of associates investigating and researching for their own targeted props and for alliances targeting other props.
The most important subgroup would comprise associates convinced that the power elite are stonewalling investigations of the real cause of four traumatic events in America’s recent history; those of the assassinations of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, JFK, and RFK and the infamous 9/11 tragedy. The 9/11 event should be given top priority because the voluminous literature I have read nearly convinces me that a few of America’s power elite were responsible for the tragedy. ((See, e.g., Consensus Panel 9/11. “Factual Evidence Contradicts the 9/11 Story”, Consensus Panel 9/11, Late, 2017; Consensus Panel, 9/11. “Overwhelming Evidence that 9/11 Used to Justify Washington’s Military Agenda Was a Deception”, 9/11 Consensus Panel, Global Research, September 08, 2017; Dmitry, B. Peer-Reviewed Study: Most American’s Believe 9/11 Was Inside Job. News Punch. October 10, 2016; Dmitry, B. “CIA Agent Confesses on Deathbed: ‘We Blew Up WTC7 On 9/11.’” YourNewswire.com July 13, 2017; Pietrowski, A. “Psychologists Explain Why People Refuse to Question Official Version Of 9/11”, www.wakingtimes.com. July 5th, 2016; Roberts, PC. “The Osama bin Laden Myth”, OpEdNews, November 26, 2012; Rousseau, A. “Were Explosives the Source of the Seismic Signals Emitted from New York on September 11, 2001?” Journal of 9/11 Studies, November 2012; Ryan, K. “Sixteen More Convincing Reasons to Question 9/11”, Global Research, August 28, 2017; Voiir, D. The Rev. “Could A Treason Trial Be in The Air?” Newly Declassified 9/11 Docs Reveal the Real Enemy: George W. Bush. OpEdNews.com, June 21, 2012.))
The Second Part: The People’s Reignbow Coalition (PRC)
America is not really the “United” States that its power elite drill into our heads. We are in truth the “Divided” People of America on many issues plus the great divide I call the “life quality gap.” The power elite created these divides and intends to continue them. What is needed is a massive coalition of dissident individuals, groups and organizations to apply unified political pressure to lessen the corpocracy’s resistance to the initiatives of the USCD.
“Reignbow” is a homophone for the Rainbow Coalition, a generic term for any coalition of groups or parties opposed to the reign of America’s power elite. I got the idea for it from the Reverend Jesse L. Jackson’s Rainbow PUSH Coalition. Recall that he garnered over 3 million and 6 million votes respectively in his 1984 and 1988 presidential bids. While his coalition is mostly of historical significance today, I give him credit for what he did. He, like Ralph Nader, was simply up against the corpocracy.
In the book I identify 17 segments of America’s divided and conquered heterogenous populace that could become the PRC. The alphabetical list starts with “Activists, Angry and Aggrieved Individuals” and end with “Veterans.” If the PRC did indeed materialize, there would be many millions of boycotts, petitions, protests, demonstrations and whatever else coming from one source. All previous failures from divided and conquered reformers could become successes. When, for example, the USCD launches an antiwar initiative, it would be backed by all segments of the PRC, not just by a few antiwar organizations. The White House, the Department of War, the CIA and Congress could be surrounded by millions of demonstrators. Poof go the props!
B. The Rescuers
The rescue plan would be extremely costly to create and operate, in the millions of dollars at least. Well-heeled rescuers are a must. Who might they be? They would definitely not be the typical non-governmental organization (NGO). I have found that they are basically in bed with the corpocracy. The plan calls for first inviting the super-rich, multi-billionaires and, failing that, inviting the lesser-rich.
1. The Superrich: TGP
There are some super-rich multi billionaires whom I plan to ask to invest in making the rescue plan happen and succeed. It is not a crazy idea. It occurred to me when I read a most unusual novel with the title, Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us. ((Nader, R. Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us! Seven Stories Press, 2011.))
Its author is Ralph Nader. One of his real-life characters in the plot is the legendary multi-billionaire investor Warren Buffett. When reading about the real life of Mr. Buffett, I learned that he plans to give his money away. ((Petersjune, JW. “Buffett Always Planned to Give Away His Billions”, New York Times, June 26, 2006.)) He and Bill and Melinda Gates, richer even than Mr. Buffett, in 2010 formed The Giving Pledge (TGP), a group of now over 200 super-rich philanthropists from around the world whose pledge is “a commitment by the world’s wealthiest individuals and families to dedicate the majority of their wealth to giving back [and] to help address society’s most pressing problems by inviting the wealthiest American families and individuals to commit to giving more than half of their wealth to philanthropy or charitable causes.” ((See The Giving Pledge website.))
TGP is not an NGO or even an organization. It is an informal social group that meets yearly to brainstorm various topics. TGB apparently does not have a staff or even a telephone number. The only way for an outsider to contact TGB is through an embedded contact form on the website. TGB does not publicly identify any specific initiatives any members fund as part of their pledge commitment, nor report on whatever the impact may or may not be of the funded initiatives. TGB does include on the website press releases that mostly tell about the new pledges who joined during the reported year and the topics discussed during brainstorming sessions.
TGP Members’ Most Recent Positions in Industry: TGP members have held such positions as CEO, co-founder, director, executive chairman, owner and the like in such industries as finance, food, health care, manufacturing and engineering, pharmaceutical, property development, technology and venture capital.
Why have I chosen TGP since the industries I just cited are among those responsible for numerous incidents of wrongdoing listed in my book? This fact does not necessarily mean that I am being unrealistic or foolish to expect TGP to fund my rescue plan. In my book I make it clear that not all members of the corpocracy’s power elite are wrongdoers and evildoers. I also list 12 reasons why they should be the rescuers, and I plan on telling them so. Here are the 12:
- Gates says, “we’ve got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.”
- They can easily afford the cost.
- They have been handed a historical opportunity.
- They need to invest in America’s future, not today’s corpocracy.
- They can make good capitalism possible.
- Their own descendants will need a future.
- They will be immortalized as America’s and the world’s heroes.
- Their wealth is useless if doomsday strikes.
- They will shame billionaires deserting for space escapes. ((Zimmerman, J. “What if the Mega-rich Just Want Rocket Ships to Escape the Earth They Destroy?” The Guardian, September 15, 2015.))
- They can avoid being negligent ancestors of the future.
- They have the opportunity to prove their critics wrong.
- Whatever they decide the world will eventually know.
2. The Lesser Rich
Considering the possibility that TGP is not persuaded, I shall beg the lesser-rich. Among them are hundreds of celebrities in a variety of fields of endeavor (e.g., the arts, sports, etc.) who have supported social activist endeavors. I know their names and will not hesitate to contact them if TGP rebuffs me.
Doomsday?
If the super-rich and the lesser-rich are not going to rescue us, then they cannot say I did not tell them that doomsday in the form of Armageddon, biological warfare, ecocide or evolutionary apocalypse may be just a few decades from now. ((Spratt, D. & Dunlap, I. “Existential Climate Related Security Risks: A Scenario Approach”, BT Policy Paper, May 2019.))
In Closing
The Ultimate Questions for Everyone
- What, if anything, can outlast the corpocracy?
- How it will be outlasted?
- When will it be outlasted?
- And if it is outlasted, will it be too late?