Our Puppet Government. John R. Krismer
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Название: Our Puppet Government
Автор: John R. Krismer
Издательство: Ingram
Жанр: Публицистика: прочее
isbn: 9781927360439
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“Vice President Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Assistant Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, reportedly were in agreement with the Israeli regime of Ariel Sharon that the US military force can effectively subjugate Iraq, providing the US with an alternative to Saudi Arabia as a source of oil and a site for our military bases. CIA Director George Tenet reportedly warned this administration that, “there was little or no chance of a successful coup against the Iraqi leader,” counseling that, “only an all-out US military assault can realize American aims.”(5)
And this was published well before the Trade Center bombing and the war ever began in Iraq. In any event, all these perpetual skirmishes are becoming more and more difficult to identify as wars, when in actuality they massacre thousands. Isn’t it becoming obvious that when a hostile conflict occurs between a super-power and a small state like Iraq, it’s just not appropriate to call it a war - more likely it becomes a massacre, where one side can only attempt to defend itself? And the political price that’s paid for this type of super power aggression is the deterioration of our once respected image. Former Secretary of State, Lawrence Eagleburger said it very well:
“We’ve presented to the rest of the world a vision of the bully on the block who pushes a button - that’s going to haunt us in terms of trying to deal with the rest of the world in the years ahead, a fact that carries with it a serious political price.”(6)
What he was referring to was this Big Bully Syndrome we’ve recently taken on. Even The United Nation’s Security Council, as well as much of the world, no longer supports our preemptive and unilateral tactics that inflict irreparable damage to others. Why can’t we meet with troubled states like North Korea, Iran and Syria, rather than jump into war? Perhaps it’s because too many insiders, like Halliburton and Carlyle become wealthy when we foot the bill. After all, why should they care if they provoke a growing mass of humanity to cry out against these senseless acts of totalitarianism? Many feel the world would anxiously unite, if we’d only ask them to help fight terrorism, rather than pursue all these self-serving interests like marketing war materials, oil, or creating strategic air bases. Americans have always supported a morally just war - but Christianity, Authoritarianism, the Inquisition, the Crusades, the bloody Reformation and Counter Reformation and persecutions, purges, heresy, witch burnings, religious tribunals of penance, self immolation, flagellation, and mass murders of uncounted millions of indigenous people under the guise of some form of religious, political or anti-Semitic conflict have plagued humankind for centuries. And now, we’ve intentionally plunged our politicians, the fundamentalists, and the religious right into an era of universal religious strife between Judaism and Zionism. By force-feeding Israel’s Zionist theocracy into both Iraq and American politics, defies the separation of church and state, which both liberal and conservative politicians have long protected. Yes, we need to expel these theocratic issues from politics, if sanity is to ever return to America.
SO WHY WAS URAQ INVADED?
The U.S. and the U.K. had been bombing northern and southern Iraq since 1991, and although these Invisible Money Barons knew that our sanctions and containment efforts were working - they were well aware that these sanctions were soon going to be lifted, with Saddam still in charge. In other words, the Money Barons stood to be shut out of getting any financial benefit at all. Also the Food for Oil Program had switched to the Euro in November 2000 — and Saddam would be selling his oil for Euros when these sanctions were lifted. Everyone knew Saddam was sitting on top of the second largest oil reserves in the world - and because the US was a debtor nation, [meaning their currency was no longer backed up by the gold standard] their currency would most likely shift confidence in the dollar if a very solid commodity like oil was traded in Euros. That’s why one of the first executive orders that President Bush signed in May [2003] changed trading of Iraq’s oil back to the dollar, as these Money Barons took over Iraq’s Central Bank and shrewdly bought Iraqi companies at a penny on the dollar.
On the flip side, the Shrub Dynasty that was now growing in power, and was no longer on good terms with Saudi Arabia, since the questionable death of Salem bin Laden in an unexplained airplane accident outside of San Antonio, Texas on May 29, 1988. [Salem was Osama bin Laden’s oldest brother, who had been an original investor in George W. Bush’s oil company] And on top of all of this, the Invisible Money Barons were also very dissatisfied with the Saudi’s restrictions on US bases in Saudi Arabia, which they desperately needed to secure the energy resources in that region.
Notes
1 Christopher Scheer, AlterNet 6/27/03 Ten Appalling Lies Were Told About Iraq
http://www.alternet.org/story/16274
2 Alexander James, The Hidden History of Money p. 6
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2004/03/282679.shtml
3 Ibid p. 6
4 Bill Vann, US pushes Europe to the brink on international court, 4 July 2002
www.wsws.org/articles/2002/jul2002/icc-j04.shtml
5 Bill Vann, US preparing full-scale invasion of Iraq, 10 July 2002
www.wsws.org/articles/2002/jul2002/iraq-j10.shtml
6 Robert Elias, Professor of sociology , University of San Francisco, California- Terrorism and American Foreign Policy, September 25, 2001
http://www.tanbou.com/2001/fall/USForeignPolicyElias.htm
2
The Bondage
Of The 30’s
Globalization prospers when the working class benefits, and when they do not, empires historically and predictably fall like waves upon the shore. Placing the working class’s benefits [human services] on the competitive global market inevitably drives the work force back into bondage. But to better understand how this great nation ever returned to this tragic state, one needs to carefully analyze what took place before, during, and after “The Great Depression” of the 30s. For example: The 1907 Bankers' Panic was a financial crisis in the United States. The stock market fell nearly 50% from its peak in 1906, the economy was in recession, and there were numerous runs on banks and trust companies. Its primary cause was a retraction of loans by some banks that began in New York and soon spread across the nation, leading to the closings of banks and businesses. This 1907 panic forced Congress to appoint a “National Monetary Commission.” This was accomplished under the leadership of Senator Nelson Aldrich, who was the father-in-law of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Although Article I, Section 8, of the U.S. Constitution granted the Congress the power to coin money and regulate its value, this secretive and perhaps illegally created Commission clandestinely recommended the creation of a privately owned “Central Bank,” in 1913.
Senator Charles Lindbergh, Sr., said:
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