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Follow the
Money-trail
November 2003
It’s
almost that time again – the elections are coming, and that means that
it’s feeding time at political troughs around the world. Why do we not
question the amounts of money that it “takes” to get elected to the
presidency of the USA? Do we not know where all that money goes, to whom,
and at what literal cost to ourselves?
Let’s
go back to Viet Nam, to the last war that we very publicly lost. That was
the fulcrum point on which everything we are now experiencing is based. We
lost that conflict because the entire war was being beamed straight into
every household in America, every night. The blood, the chaos, and the
stacks of coffins on the tarmac, the funerals, and the incessant
demonstrations – all of this was of a piece. America it seemed was
wrong: And the whole world could see that our military leadership was more
than flawed.
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What
changed, between Viet Nam and the Hostage crisis in Iran (the 444 days of
nightly “down with America” chants, plus the introduction of “the
Great Satan”): This brought about the end of Carter, and with some
carefully negotiated criminality – Ronnie took the presidency, and
“brought home” the 444 hostages. What we hadn’t known was the actual
price we’d have to pay for that bit of black-ops that became a dirty
trick.
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For
all of those who may have missed it – this was called Iran-Contra, and
it featured many of the players now re-employed in Washington, as
“respected parts” in our latest wars. These same players are now
involved again in yet another attempt to re-write history—by yet another
attack upon Iran. A by-product of Regan policies - was the drugs for arms
schemes (now called the War on Drugs) that got entangled in all our
aggressive military adventures below our southern border.
Between
these two “military adventures” things in the transnational corporate
world began to change dramatically. Tired of being called into question
and challenged at every turn, our homegrown fascist ideologists, decided
to eliminate the constant threat to all their dirty-little-dreams of
Empire. Step one was to buy all the major media outlets, and thereby
control what people saw. Step two was to expand this comfort zone by
allowing this disease to spread to everything that was part of
publications anywhere. That then moved on to entertainment, film, and
books and magazines, as well as news. It was a nifty little legal trick.
No doctrines need be written, if you want to keep your job—you write, or
print or create, what you know will not offend the monsters that controls
your paycheck; and then let nature take its course.
But
even this it seems was not enough. Because now we have (thanks to Clinton)
what is called the Telecommunications Act that allows each entity to
control ever more of what might still be out there in the private world.
Now radio, the internet, and all of publication is being squeezed into a
sealed and secret laboratory, that serves only those who seek control of
everything we think and see and do.
Example:
We announced that there would be an attack upon Saudi Arabia, 24 hours
before the attack. That attack happened, It just happen to occur while we
were dropping 500 pound bombs on Tikrit. F-16’s were busy teaching the
locals about the price of shooting down American helicopters. But the
fascinating thing here was, that where we usually furnish the networks
with bombsite video, and roaring takeoffs of the valiant fighter jets –
this time there was a near news blackout (over here). Might have something
to do with the fact that bombing those we have the responsibility for
protecting, in Iraq, is in contravention of the Geneva Convention accords
(behavior of an occupying power). But hey – we needed to show our
knuckle dragging supporters of that war, that we’re really tough guys,
and can’t be messed with anywhere.
The
last time this tactic was tried – it was the Russians in Afghanistan:
and they ended up leaving in disgrace. Apparently we’ve learned nothing
from that adventure. The reason that this doesn’t work, is that it shows
the whole world that we don’t really give a damn about those we choose
to kill – just so long as we are seen to be macho and powerful.
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So
after the recent air strikes: What about all that crap about freedom for
the Iraqi people, and democracy for Iraq and the whole Middle East? The
strikes make it clear: that was all just political cover for the theft of
yet another impoverished country, where the transnationals have decided
that they need to steal resources that they might otherwise have to buy.
But in Iraq there’s one more new little wrinkle.
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The mega-privateers are
actually getting paid to rebuild all that we’ve destroyed (at their
insistence). It’s a really nifty little scheme – of course it’s
going to bankrupt what’s left of the US Treasury, but who cares?
And
what about the original question: Who is getting all that money that it
now takes to run for president? The same people that are making all their
little donations (in huge amounts) covered by special laws that protect
them as “interested providers,” and insure that the situation will
never ever return to:
“government
of the people, by the people, and for the people".
What absolute suckers we all have been. We’re actually feeding the wolves
that threaten us, and protecting them from anything we might want or need
to do, to survive this continuing and escalating attack upon our way of
life.
The
political system in the United States is busted. It has been shattered,
time and again in so many ways that it is difficult to count the number of
times that we’ve been defrauded by “our” government. And what about
that tired old bunch of thieves and snake-oil-salesmen, who masquerade as
representatives, while they stuff themselves with kickbacks, bribes, and
ill-gotten loot from all our misadventures as the last remaining Super
Power? Ancient Rome, just before its fall, had nothing on these
millionaires. Question is; how much longer will we continue to prop up
this miserable charade?
kirwan
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