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'Intelligence' is Overrated
When "In Debt We Trust," is Our Motto!

March 14, 2007

This country is drowning in legions of Intelligence Services that make a mockery of that title, because the way government approaches 'intelligence,' is asinine. What has been created by their misuse and abuse of this term is an Oxymoron, a pretend enigma that lives inside the gloves that attempt to hide the Hidden-hands of power. So many say they want 'answers' to what is going on in the world 'right now'! However to explain "What is Really Happening" requires a background in history, in human events, and in politics that most people do not crave or possess.

To break this impasse: why not look at this the way you might look at applying for a job? If you were looking at prospective companies that you might want to work for-you'd look into the specifics of those things that are most important to you-right? How long has the company existed, can it pay its bills, does it keep its promises, how does it treat its employees, is there health insurance, and is there room for advancement? Some of the 'other' questions you might wonder about, might include issues of race or religion, but these are largely not initially major points in applying for a position. How the company deals with gender or with the personal habits of their employees, and how the company sees their rights when it comes to the privacy of their employees natural-right to remain themselves-while they are employed there-these things might directly affect not just your employment but your life!

That's the template that should be applied when people look at 'their' government, but especially when one looks at those intelligence services, that we pay for with unbelievable amounts of tax-payer money. The costs are as high as they are: because the intelligence-services are actually not employed to gather intelligence upon real enemies, but upon the population of this entire nation-on each and every person in this country. Remember that litmus test for a potential employer?

Q: How long has the US been doing this?

A: For about the last 150 years - but they've only gotten deadly serious in the last 40-plus years.

Q: Can government pay its bills?

A: Government has created the deepest amount of public debt that the world has ever seen, and it continues to deepen by the second. We are 'in' so much red ink that this nation can never become solvent. In fact the same people that created these debts have made that debt, into a new national policy as the only way to remain afloat. If this debt is to be paid off, then that will have to come from our great, great, great, great, great grandchildren. "In Debt We Trust" is the new motto of the USA. (1)

Q: Does government keep its promises?

A: No. For this government and for most politicians: "promises" are just something to be said when things get difficult; but no political-promise is ever kept, except of course for those things directly connected to political pay-offs that will change the course of military and corporate-banking history

Q: How does this government treat (those who employ them) - the people?

A: When they think about us at all, it is with contempt and with an obvious distain, for the lowly citizens that they supposedly represent. The US Congress is employed by AIPAC, and Israel, to destroy the United States, in order to protect Israeli interests. A quick look over the recent list of disasters and wars in which the people of the US have either been victimized, as in Hurricanes Andrew & Katrina, or in the wars, in which Americans have been the aggressor - the primary occupying armies in foreign lands - that have become hated around the world for the crimes that they commit against literally millions of people-just because others have what we have labeled as "American Interests." These things are not secrets, they are just uncomfortable facts that most people would rather not think about.

Q: Is there room in the USA for advancement?

A: If you are a billionaire of course; if you're only a millionaire; well you can still do 'alright.' If you're making at least a half-million a year, you'll survive: All others BEWARE: because your days are definitely numbered! Let's count the ways that this threat might come true. There is meaningless health-insurance, little more than extortion because it's null & void if there is a real medical problem. No occupational security - each 'job' only lasts until some Monopoly interest figures out how to downsize it or send it offshore. There's an educational machine that produces dummies-by-the-dozen, to insure that critical thinking never infects the average American. But here's the kicker: This government retains a whole fist full of obscenities in the form of various trump cards that can turn any "game" into either prison, or a nightmare from which very few ever escape unscathed. Some of these are: race, gender, religion, censorship, secret-spying on the public, rigged elections all the way down to the smallest political offices. Perhaps the most under-appreciated one of all is propaganda, coupled with Media-ownership. This includes magazines, newspapers, and games of all kinds (through sponsorship): The same is true for what used to be the arts, the sciences, and of course those all-important think tanks, and 'public' institutions that aren't public at all. Finally at the core of all these 'cards' there is the transitional matrix that made it all possible which is Privatization-by multinational conglomerates, in collusion with the globally-private banking system that runs it all.

Whenever anyone inside the belly-of-the-beast has tried to blow the whistle - whether from a governmental or a private job, they've discovered that not only is there no protection, there are punishments-a-plenty waiting for anyone who dares to speak. In addition we've allowed all the checks & balances to be torpedoed, within the government, so that the stage is set for takeover.

What does this have to do with our overrated Intelligence-Services? Everything and nothing! Because the paper-tigers-of-intelligence were created to comfort the flocks of sheeple that only want to graze in the pastures provided for them, by the greed and hate that spawned all this.

For Examples: just look at the media's answer to the complete and treasonous failures of our intelligence services themselves. There's the FOX contribution of "24," that seeks to idolize the CIA. There are CBS entries: "Numbers," "Without a Trace," and "Criminal Minds" that seek to humanize and glorify the heroic actions of an FBI that in life has proven to be horrifically inept and criminally liable for their total failures before, during, and after 911. NBC and ABC have also contributed their share of these insults to the 'intelligence' of ordinary Americans. And PBS does its share by providing "guests' that shamelessly parrot the government line - while devoting zero time to any point of view that opposes "the Decider's nightmare" that we call US foreign or domestic policy: This eliminates people' connections to the reality of the wars, and to the crimes that continue unabated.

In fact, during the current flap over the foiled plot to fire all the US Attorney's in one-fell-swoop: the public is being called on to overlook the total-ineptitude of Muller. It was Muller's FBI that arrested between 7,000 to 9,000 suspects after 911-only to have to release all but a few (the majority were held without charges, beaten and isolated) and then released. A few were deported for immigration violations. This after they rounded up two plane loads of Saudi-nationals (The House of Saud, was deeply implicated by the number of their people that were supposedly involved in the attacks), and sent them home by private jet on 9-12-01, courtesy of the FBI. It should be noted that the Bush-dynasty has had a business relationship with the House of Saud for forty plus years, which included Osama bin Laden, whose relatives were also on board those planes.

The Equation: Since the end of WWII we've been expanding our military bases, and attacking many countries all around the world, and always for "American Interests. From East Timor and the Balkans, to so many smaller countries, like Haiti, and Granada where there was no resistance. But since WWII there was the overthrow of Iran's democratic government, Korea, and Vietnam: And in between there were countless incursions into the affairs of many nations in this hemisphere. The was the Iran-Contra affair, the death squads in El Salvador and then the First Gulf War, plus the intervening 12 years of 24-7 bombing that 'leveled the playing field for the invasion by Bush II in 2003. In all that time we have slaughtered millions upon millions of people. No wonder we refuse to even count the number of the dead we kill-on top of failing to record their names. Today we have established a brooding colossus of military force scattered over the globe in 737 military bases-to make certain that the Iron-Fists-of-Empire cannot be resisted! (2)

How have we chosen to use our two and half million man military power? One component-the most important component of that force is the American public's belief in "our" positions. To insure that people stay focused-not on what we do to others; but on what might be done to US, if we don't peremptorily kill others to protect ourselves, in faraway places. The controlled media is used to fan the flames of fear along with that special terror-of-events-about-to-be that destabilize the population and keep them fearful. As an added bonus for the Traitors, this is all being done to keep the public's awareness tightly-frozen, to keep us from asking the hard questions about the reality beneath actual events. To this end two wars have been started, and a third and possibly more are being contemplated to insure that these aggressions will never end (because with these 'new' additions-we'll simply be in too deep to ever escape this 'fate' they have designed for us).

The Point: When one applies for a job, one looks closely at everything that might be involved if one's application is accepted. Whereas, with a government that literally holds the power of life and death over each and every citizen: too many ask virtually no questions whatsoever! When a corporation or a company makes business decisions that cause that entity to fail, then people are fired, and that company or corporation is usually sold or absorbed, but in any event there are always consequences! Yet when this government screwed up-during the last six years; there weren't even any questions asked: no one was fired, and the policies not only went forward, but were vastly expanded.

Given that millions of people have paid with their lives for what we allowed this government to do to the world-how can anyone expect this to change without drastic actions being taken to insure that this kind of treachery and treason are never repeated again? Apparently the American public prefers to remain in the pastures of commercial-paradise: grazing fondly in those lush green toxically-treated fields where all the plastic-promises are all fulfilled, by the simple or grand purchase of the next new thing-and-where the true ugliness of real-politic is never even suggested. That is not a solution to anything, but it will hasten the fall of this Republic- one cynical sale of our lives at a time! (3)

So the next time you hear about the sacredness of the FBI whose director should have been fired a dozen times over already-or the specialness of the CIA, the NSA, or those Special Mercenary Forces that fight and die for the private-buck, but never 'for' the nation: please think carefully about what the messages you are being given really say. For instance, there are as many or more private mercenaries inside Iraq now as there are US troops on the ground. However "these contractors" make something like $1200 a day, to be there, and they can quit anytime. The problem is that their contracts are paid for with US tax money - in secret no-bid contracts - to companies and individuals that have little or nothing to do with "protecting" the United States of America. They're 'about' getting rich and staying alive, preferably somewhere far away from the shores of the 'fabled' USA.

The results for America and Americans: De-Industrialization, the loss of Heavy-industry in favor of service jobs that don't pay the rent along with DEBT unlimited, to try to forestall the inevitable. Poverty, Loss, and Fourth-World Status is what American's have to look forward to: along with the devastating hatred of all those people whose lives we have shattered beyond repair-just to create a bottom line that most of us will never have a share in, except for what that will ultimately end up costing all of us! Below the American ruins a factory we deserted.

picture courtesy of Judith Moriarty

And the 'temporary homes' for those that we did not save, from Katrina.

picture courtesy of Judith Moriarty

War has been very, very good for some folks - see what your fuel prices are building. With the new hydro carbon law, giving 70% of the oil fields, holding billions of gallons of untapped reserves to Oil Baron Companies for 35 years - business are moving to where the action is. Wonder where all that oil money is going - Dubai, one of the Arab Emirates, is busy building a 21st century city. Keep in mind as you look at New Orleans- the FEMA trailers, our schools decaying, our rusting mills, and our highways being sold to foreign entities, our marvelous new architecture of Home Depot and the Wal-Mart/Prisons. Halliburton announced after fleecing taxpayers of billions (see any reconstruction folks in Iraq?) is moving to Dubai. What many don't realize is that many corporations (Western- European) have already re-located to this new city. Real Estate is booming - schools for children are clean with massive grounds - and best of all it's a TAX HAVEN for all these corporate hucksters. Looks to me like Super Power U.S.A. is being left to rot and rust away - with the gangsters taking their loot and skipping town. They're all going where the OIL is. JM

Tax-shelters for the hard working thieves that own the oil-fields now!

picture courtesy of Judith Moriarty

Here's how their 'Good Life' looks! Hope you like it, cause we paid for

picture courtesy of Judith Moriarty

Everything-including immunity from our laws and from any oversight!

Jim Kirwan

NOTES:

1) In Debt We Trust, As the Economy Goes Bust: a return to Serfdom?
www.uruknet.de:80/
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2) 737 U.S. Military Bases = Global Empire
www.zmag.org/
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3) The Highwaymen
www.motherjones.com/
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