Nicht ALLe schlafen!
Geschrieben von SOS am 31. Juli 2004 17:04:25:
Lieber Epi,
Hier ist was interessantes, nicht alle schlafen in den US, leider nicht in deutsch.
Es gibt viele solcher Artikel. Alle Weltkriege sind von FM und I... kuenstlich gemacht, Terror gegen das Volk und ein Hiflsmittel fuer die Versklavung der Menschen. Diese Freveltaten schreien zum Himmel!
Aber viele wissen das wir in "the Shift of time" leben. Hoffen wir das der Shift bald kommt bevor die Elite alles kaput macht.
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Date: Sat Jul 31, 2004 8:54 am
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http://www.onlinejournal.com/Commentary/011004Hasty/011004hasty.html
Paranoid shift
By Michael Hasty
Online Journal Contributing Writer
January 10, 2004 Just before his death, James Jesus Angleton, the legendary
chief of counterintelligence at the Central Intelligence Agency, was a bitter
man. He felt betrayed by the people he had worked for all his life. In the end,
he had come to realize that they were never really interested in American
ideals of "freedom" and "democracy." They really only wanted "absolute power."
Angleton told author Joseph Trento that the reason he had gotten the
counterintelligence job in the first place was by agreeing not to submit "sixty
of
Allen Dulles' closest friends" to a polygraph test concerning their business
deals with the Nazis. In his end-of-life despair, Angleton assumed that he would
see all his old companions again "in hell."
The transformation of James Jesus Angleton from an enthusiastic, Ivy League
cold warrior, to a bitter old man, is an extreme example of a phenomenon I call
a "paranoid shift." I recognize the phenomenon, because something similar
happened to me.
Although I don't remember ever meeting James Jesus Angleton, I worked at the
CIA myself as a low-level clerk as a teenager in the '60s. This was at the
same time I was beginning to question the government's actions in Vietnam. In
fact, my personal "paranoid shift" probably began with the disillusionment I
felt
when I realized that the story of American foreign policy was, at the very
least, more complicated and darker than I had hitherto been led to believe.
But for most of the next 30 years, even though I was a radical, I
nevertheless held faith in the basic integrity of a system where power
ultimately resided
in the people, and whereby if enough people got together and voted, real and
fundamental change could happen.
What constitutes my personal paranoid shift is that I no longer believe this
to be necessarily true.
In his book, Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower, William
Blum warns of how the media will make anything that smacks of "conspiracy
theory"
an immediate "object of ridicule." This prevents the media from ever having
to investigate the many strange interconnections among the ruling class - for
example, the relationship between the boards of directors of media giants, and
the energy, banking and defense industries. These unmentionable topics are
usually treated with what Blum calls "the media's most effective tool -
silence."
But in case somebody's asking questions, all you have to do is say,
"conspiracy theory," and any allegation instantly becomes too frivolous to merit
serious attention.
On the other hand, since my paranoid shift, whenever I hear the words
"conspiracy theory" (which seems more often, lately) it usually means someone is
getting too close to the truth.
Take September 11 - which I identify as the date my paranoia actually
shifted, though I didn't know it at the time.
Unless I'm paranoid, it doesn't make any sense at all that George W. Bush,
commander-in-chief, sat in a second-grade classroom for 20 minutes after he was
informed that a second plane had hit the World Trade Center, listening to
children read a story about a goat. Nor does it make sense that the Number 2
man,
Dick Cheney - even knowing that "the commander" was on a mission in Florida -
nevertheless sat at his desk in the White House, watching TV, until the Secret
Service dragged him out by the armpits.
Unless I'm paranoid, it makes no sense that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld
sat at his desk until Flight 77 hit the Pentagon - well over an hour after
the military had learned about the multiple hijacking in progress. It also makes
no sense that the brand-new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff sat in a
Senate office for two hours while the 9/11 attacks took place, after leaving
explicit instructions that he not be disturbed - which he wasn't.
In other words, while the 9/11 attacks were occurring, the entire top of the
chain of command of the most powerful military in the world sat at various
desks, inert. Why weren't they in the "Situation Room?" Don't any of them ever
watch "West Wing?"
In a sane world, this would be an object of major scandal. But here on this
side of the paranoid shift, it's business as usual.
Years, even decades before 9/11, plans had been drawn up for American forces
to take control of the oil interests of the Middle East, for various
imperialist reasons. And these plans were only contingent upon "a catastrophic
and
catalyzing event, like a new Pearl Harbor," to gain the majority support of the
American public to set the plans into motion. When the opportunity presented
itself, the guards looked the other way . . . and presto, the path to global
domination was open.
Simple, as long as the media played along. And there is voluminous evidence
that the media play along. Number one on Project Censored's annual list of
underreported stories in 2002 was the Project for a New American Century (now
the
infrastructure of the Bush Regime), whose report, published in 2000, contains
the above "Pearl Harbor" quote.
Why is it so hard to believe serious people who have repeatedly warned us
that powerful ruling elites are out to dominate "the masses?"
Did we think Dwight Eisenhower was exaggerating when he warned of the extreme
"danger" to democracy of "the military industrial complex?"
Was Barry Goldwater just being a quaint old-fashioned John Bircher when he
said that the Trilateral Commission was "David Rockefeller's latest scheme to
take over the world, by taking over the government of the United States?"
Were Teddy and Franklin Roosevelt or Joseph Kennedy just being class traitors
when they talked about a small group of wealthy elites who operate as a
hidden government behind the government?
Especially after he died so mysteriously, why shouldn't we believe the late
CIA Director William Colby, who bragged about how the CIA "owns everyone of any
major significance in the major media?"
Why can't we believe James Jesus Angleton - a man staring eternal judgment in
the face - when he says that the founders of the Cold War national security
state were only interested in "absolute power?" Especially when the descendant
of a very good friend of Allen Dulles now holds power in the White House.
Prescott Bush, the late, aristocratic senator from Connecticut, and
grandfather of George W Bush, was not only a good friend of Allen Dulles, CIA
director,
president of the Council on Foreign Relations, and international business
lawyer. He was also a client of Dulles' law firm. As such, he was the
beneficiary
of Dulles' miraculous ability to scrub the story of Bush's treasonous
investments in the Third Reich out of the news media, where it might have
interfered
with Bush's political career . . . not to mention the presidential careers of
his son and grandson.
Recently declassified US government documents, unearthed last October by
investigative journalist John Buchanan at the New Hampshire Gazette, reveal that
Prescott Bush's involvement in financing and arming the Nazis was more
extensive than previously known. Not only was Bush managing director of the
Union
Banking Corporation, the American branch of Hitler's chief financier's banking
network; but among the other companies where Bush was a director - and which
were
seized by the American government in 1942, under the Trading With the Enemy
Act - were a shipping line which imported German spies; an energy company that
supplied the Luftwaffe with high-ethyl fuel; and a steel company that employed
Jewish slave labor from the Auschwitz concentration camp.
Like all the other Bush scandals that have been swept under the rug in the
privatized censorship of the corporate media, these revelations have been
largely ignored, with the exception of a single article in the Associated Press.
And
there are those, even on the left, who question the current relevance of this
information.
But Prescott Bush's dealings with the Nazis do more than illustrate a family
pattern of genteel treason and war profiteering - from George Senior's sale of
TOW missiles to Iran at the same time he was selling biological and chemical
weapons to Saddam Hussein, to Junior's zany misadventures in crony capitalism
in present-day Iraq.
More disturbing by far are the many eerie parallels between Adolph Hitler and
George W. Bush:
A conservative, authoritarian style, with public appearances in military
uniform (which no previous American president has ever done while in office).
Government by secrecy, propaganda and deception. Open assaults on labor unions
and
workers' rights. Preemptive war and militant nationalism. Contempt for
international law and treaties. Suspiciously convenient "terrorist" attacks, to
justify a police state and the suspension of liberties. A carefully manufactured
image of "The Leader," who's still just a "regular guy" and a "moderate."
"Freedom" as the rationale for every action. Fantasy economic growth, based on
unprecedented budget deficits and massive military spending.
And a cold, pragmatic ideology of fascism - including the violent suppression
of dissent and other human rights; the use of torture, assassination and
concentration camps; and most important, Benito Mussolini's preferred definition
of "fascism" as "corporatism, because it binds together the interests of
corporations and the state."
By their fruits, you shall know them.
What perplexes me most is probably the same question that plagues most
paranoiacs: why don't other people see these connections?
Oh, sure, there may be millions of us, lurking at websites like Online
Journal, From the Wilderness, Center for Cooperative Research, and the Center
for
Research on Globalization, checking out right-wing conspiracists and the galaxy
of 9/11 sites, and reading columnists like Chris Floyd at the Moscow Times,
and Maureen Farrell at Buzzflash. But we know we are only a furtive minority,
the human remnant among the pod people in the live-action, 21st-century version
of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers."
And being paranoid, we have to figure out, with an answer that fits into our
system, why more people don't see the connections we do. Fortunately, there
are a number of possible explanations.
First on the list would have to be what Marshal McLuhan called the "cave art
of the electronic age:" advertising. Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's Karl Rove, gave
credit for most of his ideas on how to manipulate mass opinion to American
commercial advertising, and to the then-new science of "public relations." But
the public relations universe available to the corporate empire that rules the
world today makes the Goebbels operation look primitive. The precision of
communications technology and graphics; the century of research on human
psychology and emotion; and the uniquely centralized control of triumphant
post-Cold
War monopoly capitalism, have combined to the point where "the manufacture of
consent" can be set on automatic pilot.
A second major reason people won't make the paranoid shift is that they are
too fundamentally decent. They can't believe that the elected leaders of our
country, the people they've been taught through 12 years of public school to
admire and trust, are capable of sending young American soldiers to their deaths
and slaughtering tens of thousands of innocent civilians, just to satisfy
their greed - especially when they're so rich in the first place. Besides,
America
is good, and the media are liberal and overly critical.
Third, people don't want to look like fools. Being a "conspiracy theorist" is
like being a creationist. The educated opinion of eminent experts on every TV
and radio network is that any discussion of "oil" being a motivation for the
US invasion of Iraq is just out of bounds, and anyone who thinks otherwise is
a "conspiracy theorist."
We can trust the integrity of our 'no-bid" contracting in Iraq, and anyone
who thinks otherwise is a "conspiracy theorist."
Of course, people sometimes make mistakes, but our military and intelligence
community did the best they could on and before September 11, and anybody who
thinks otherwise is a "conspiracy theorist."
Lee Harvey Oswald was the sole assassin of JFK, and anyone who thinks
otherwise is a "conspiracy theorist."
Perhaps the biggest hidden reason people don't make the paranoid shift is
that knowledge brings responsibility.
If we acknowledge that an inner circle of ruling elites controls the world's
most powerful military and intelligence system; controls the international
banking system; controls the most effective and far-reaching propaganda network
in history; controls all three branches of government in the world's only
superpower; and controls the technology that counts the people's votes, we might
be
then forced to conclude that we don't live in a particularly democratic
system. And then voting and making contributions and trying to stay informed
wouldn't be enough. Because then the duty of citizenship would go beyond serving
as
a loyal opposition, to serving as a "loyal resistance" - like the Republicans
in the Spanish Civil War, except that in this case the resistance to fascism
would be on the side of the national ideals, rather than the government; and a
violent insurgency would not only play into the empire's hands, it would be
doomed from the start.
Forming a nonviolent resistance movement, on the other hand, might mean
forsaking some middle class comfort, and it would doubtless require a lot of
work.
It would mean educating ourselves and others about the nature of the truly
apocalyptic beast we face. It would mean organizing at the most basic
neighborhood level, face to face. (We cannot put our trust in the empire's
technology.)
It would mean reaching across turf lines and transcending single-issue
politics, forming coalitions and sharing data and names and strategies, and
applying
energy at every level of government, local to global. It would also probably
mean civil disobedience, at a time when the Bush regime is starting to classify
that action as "terrorism." In the end, it may mean organizing a progressive
confederacy to govern ourselves, just as our revolutionary founders formed the
Continental Congress. It would mean being wise as serpents, and gentle as
doves.
It would be a lot of work. It would also require critical mass. A paradigm
shift.
But as a paranoid, I'm ready to join the resistance. And the main reason is I
no longer think that the "conspiracy" is much of a "theory."
That the US House of Representatives Select Committee on Assassinations
concluded that the murder of John Fitzgerald Kennedy was "probably" the result
of
"a conspiracy," and that 70 percent of Americans agree with this conclusion, is
not a "theory." It's fact.
That the Bay of Pigs fiasco, "Operation Zapata," was organized by members of
Skull and Bones, the ghoulish and powerful secret society at Yale University
whose membership also included Prescott, George Herbert Walker and George W
Bush; that two of the ships that carried the Cuban counterrevolutionaries to
their appointment with absurdity were named the "Barbara" and the "Houston" -
George HW Bush's city of residence at the time - and that the oil company Bush
owned, then operating in the Caribbean area, was named "Zapata," is not
"theory."
It's fact.
That George Bush was the CIA director who kept the names of what were
estimated to be hundreds of American journalists, considered to be CIA "assets,"
from
the Church Committee, the US Senate Intelligence Committe chaired by Senator
Frank Church that investigated the CIA in the 1970s; that a 1971 University of
Michigan study concluded that, in America, the more TV you watched, the less
you knew; and that a recent survey by international scholars found that
Americans were the most "ignorant" of world affairs out of all the populations
they
studied, is not a "theory." It's fact.
That the Council on Foreign Relations has a history of influence on official
US government foreign policy; that the protection of US supplies of Middle
East oil has been a central element of American foreign policy since the Second
World War; and that global oil production has been in decline since its peak
year, 2000, is not "theory." It's fact.
That, in the early 1970s, the newly-formed Trilateral Commission published a
report which recommended that, in order for "globalization" to succeed,
American manufacturing jobs had to be exported, and American wages had to
decline,
which is exactly what happened over the next three decades; and that, during
that same period, the richest one percent of Americans doubled their share of
the national wealth, is not "theory." It's fact.
That, beyond their quasi-public role as agents of the US Treasury Department,
the Federal Reserve Banks are profit-making corporations, whose beneficiaries
include some of America's wealthiest families; and that the United States has
a virtual controlling interest in the World Bank, the International Monetary
Fund, and the World Trade Organization, the three dominant global financial
institutions, is not a "theory." It's fact.
That - whether it's heroin from Southeast Asia in the '60s and '70s, or
cocaine from Central America and heroin from Afghanistan in the '80s, or cocaine
from Colombia in the '90s, or heroin from Afghanistan today - no major CIA
covert operation has ever lacked a drug smuggling component, and that the CIA
has
hired Nazis, fascists, drug dealers, arms smugglers, mass murderers, perverts,
sadists, terrorists and the Mafia, is not "theory." It's fact.
That the international oil industry is the dominant player in the global
economy; that the Bush family has a decades-long business relationship with the
Saudi royal family, Saudi oil money, and the family of Osama bin Laden; that, as
president, both George Bushes have favored the interests of oil companies
over the public interest; that both George Bushes have personally profited
financially from Middle East oil; and that American oil companies doubled their
records for quarterly profits in the months just preceding the invasion of Iraq,
is not "theory." It's fact.
That the 2000 presidential election was deliberately stolen; that the
pro-Bush/anti-Gore bias in the corporate media had spiked markedly in the last
three
weeks of the campaign; that corporate media were then virtually silent about
the Florida recount; and that the Bush 2000 team had planned to challenge the
legitimacy of the election if George W had won the popular, but lost the
electoral vote - exactly what happened to Gore - is not "theory." It's fact.
That the intelligence about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction was
deceptively "cooked" by the Bush administration; that anybody paying attention
to people
like former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter, knew before the invasion that
the weapons were a hoax; and that American forces in Iraq today are applying
the same brutal counterinsurgency tactics pioneered in Central America in the
1980s, under the direct supervision of then-Vice President George HW Bush, is
not a "theory." It's fact.
That "Rebuilding America's Defenses," the Project for a New American
Century's 2000 report, and "The Grand Chessboard," a book published a few years
earlier by Trilateral Commission co-founder Zbigniew Brzezinski, both
recommended a
more robust and imperial US military presence in the oil basin of the Middle
East and the Caspian region; and that both also suggested that American public
support for this energy crusade would depend on public response to a new
"Pearl Harbor," is not "theory." It's fact.
That, in the 1960s, the Joint Chiefs of Staff unanimously approved a plan
called "Operation Northwoods," to stage terrorist attacks on American soil that
could be used to justify an invasion of Cuba; and that there is currently an
office in the Pentagon whose function is to instigate terrorist attacks that
could be used to justify future strategically-desired military responses, is not
a "theory." It's fact.
That neither the accusation by former British Environmental Minister Michael
Meacher, Tony Blair's longest-serving cabinet minister, that George W Bush
allowed the 9/11 attacks to happen to justify an oil war in the Middle East; nor
the RICO lawsuit filed by 9/11 widow Ellen Mariani against Bush, Cheney,
Rumsfeld and the Council on Foreign Relations (among others), on the grounds
that
they conspired to let the attacks happen to cash in on the ensuing war
profiteering, has captured the slightest attention from American corporate media
is
not a "theory." It's fact.
That the FBI has completely exonerated - though never identified - the
speculators who purchased, a few days before the attacks (through a bank whose
previous director is now the CIA executive director), an unusual number of "put"
options, and who made millions betting that the stocks in American and United
Airlines would crash, is not a "theory." It's fact.
That the US intelligence community received numerous warnings, from multiple
sources, throughout the summer of 2001, that a major terrorist attack on
American interests was imminent; that, according to the chair of the
"independent"
9/11 commission, the attacks "could have and should have been prevented," and
according to a Senate Intelligence Committee member, "All the dots were
connected;" that the White House has verified George W Bush's personal
knowledge, as
of August 6, 2001, that these terrorist attacks might be domestic and might
involve hijacked airliners; that, in the summer of 2001, at the insistence of
the American Secret Service, anti-aircraft ordnance was installed around the
city of Genoa, Italy, to defend against a possible terrorist suicide attack, by
aircraft, against George W Bush, who was attending the economic summit there;
and that George W Bush has nevertheless regaled audiences with his first
thought upon seeing the "first" plane hit the World Trade Center, which was:
"What
a terrible pilot," is not "theory." It's fact.
That, on the morning of September 11, 2001: standard procedures and policies
at the nation's air defense and aviation bureaucracies were ignored, and
communications were delayed; the black boxes of the planes that hit the WTC were
destroyed, but hijacker Mohammed Atta's passport was found in pristine
condition; high-ranking Pentagon officers had cancelled their commercial flight
plans
for that morning; George H.W. Bush was meeting in Washington with
representatives of Osama bin Laden's family, and other investors in the world's
largest
private equity firm, the Carlyle Group; the CIA was conducting a
previously-scheduled mock exercise of an airliner hitting the Pentagon; the
chairs of both the
House and Senate Intelligence Committees were having breakfast with the chief
of Pakistan's intelligence agency, who resigned a week later on suspicion of
involvement in the 9/11 attacks; and the commander-in-chief of the armed
forces of the United States sat in a second grade classroom for 20 minutes after
hearing that a second plane had struck the towers, listening to children read a
story about a goat, is not "theoretical." These are facts.
That the Bush administration has desperately fought every attempt to
independently investigate the events of 9/11, is not a "theory."
Nor, finally, is it in any way a "theory" that the one, single name that can
be directly linked to the Third Reich, the US military industrial complex,
Skull and Bones, Eastern Establishment good ol' boys, the Illuminati, Big Texas
Oil, the Bay of Pigs, the Miami Cubans, the Mafia, the FBI, the JFK
assassination, the New World Order, Watergate, the Republican National
Committee, Eastern
European fascists, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral
Commission, the United Nations, CIA headquarters, the October Surprise, the
Iran/Contra
scandal, Inslaw, the Christic Institute, Manuel Noriega, drug-running
"freedom fighters" and death squads, Iraqgate, Saddam Hussein, weapons of mass
destruction, the blood of innocents, the savings and loan crash, the Bank of
Credit
and Commerce International, the "Octopus," the "Enterprise," the Afghan
mujaheddin, the War on Drugs, Mena (Arkansas), Whitewater, Sun Myung Moon, the
Carlyle Group, Osama bin Laden and the Saudi royal family, David Rockefeller,
Henry
Kissinger, and the presidency and vice-presidency of the United States, is:
George Herbert Walker Bush.
"Theory?" To the contrary.
It is a well-documented, tragic and - especially if you're paranoid -
terrifying fact.
Michael Hasty is a writer, activist, musician, carpenter and farmer. His
award-winning column, "Thinking Locally," appeared for seven years in the
Hampshire Review, West Virginia's oldest newspaper. His writing has also
appeared in
the Highlands Voice, the Washington Peace Letter, the Takoma Park Newsletter,
the German magazine Generational Justice, and the Washington Post; and at the
websites Common Dreams and Democrats.com. In January 1989, he was the media
spokesperson for the counter-inaugural coalition at George Bush's
Counter-Inaugural Banquet, which fed hundreds of DC's homeless in front of Union
Station,
where the official inaugural dinner was being held.
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