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Tuesday, 23 July 2019

War Profiteers And The Demise Of The US Military-Industrial Complex

Dymitri Orlov
Club Orlov

Within the vast bureaucratic sprawl of the Pentagon there is a group in charge of monitoring the general state of the military-industrial complex and its continued ability to fulfill the requirements of the national defense strategy. Office for acquisition and sustainment and office for industrial policy spends some $100,000 a year producing an Annual Report to Congress. It is available to the general public. It is even available to the general public in Russia, and Russian experts had a really good time poring over it.

In fact, it filled them with optimism. You see, Russia wants peace but the US seems to want war and keeps making threatening gestures against a longish list of countries that refuse to do its bidding or simply don’t share its “universal values.” But now it turns out that threats (and the increasingly toothless economic sanctions) are pretty much all that the US is still capable of dishing out—this in spite of absolutely astronomical levels of defense spending.
 
Let’s see what the US military-industrial complex looks like through a Russian lens.

It is important to note that the report’s authors were not aiming to force legislators to finance some specific project. This makes it more valuable than numerous other sources, whose authors’ main objective was to belly up to the federal feeding trough, and which therefore tend to be light on facts and heavy on hype. No doubt, politics still played a part in how various details are portrayed, but there seems to be a limit to the number of problems its authors can airbrush out of the picture and still do a reasonable job in analyzing the situation and in formulating their recommendations.

What knocked Russian analysis over with a feather is the fact that these INDPOL experts (who, like the rest of the US DOD, love acronyms) evaluate the US military-industrial complex from a… market-based perspective! You see, the Russian military-industrial complex is fully owned by the Russian government and works exclusively in its interests; anything else would be considered treason. But the US military-industrial complex is evaluated based on its… profitability! According to INDPOL, it must not only produce products for the military but also acquire market share in the global weapons trade and, perhaps most importantly, maximize profitability for private investors. By this standard, it is doing well: for 2017 the gross margin (EBITDA) for US defense contractors ranged from 15 to 17%, and some subcontractors - Transdigm, for example - managed to deliver no less than 42-45%. “Ah!” cry the Russian experts, “We’ve found the problem! The Americans have legalized war profiteering!” (This, by the way, is but one of many instances of something called systemic corruption, which is rife in the US.) 

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Monday, 10 June 2019

Military-Industrial Blockbuster: United Technologies To Buy Raytheon, Creating One Of World's Largest Defense Firms

Zero Hedge

United Technologies has agreed to buy Raytheon in an all stock deal, forming one of the world's largest aerospace and defense companies with more than $74 billion in revenue and $13.5 billion in EBITDA, through one of the industry’s biggest deals ever.



With $69 billion in pure A&D sales, the new company will be the third largest Aerospace and Defense company in the world after Boeing and Airbus.



Looking ahead, the combined company is expected to generate tremendous cash flow growth...

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Sunday, 26 May 2019

Trump Attacks Military Industrial Complex and Calls for Infrastructure Investments in the Middle East

Matthew Ehret
Strategic Culture

For the first time in over half a century, an American President has actually come out attacking the Military Industrial Complex. Of course, everyone knows of President Dwight D. Eisenhauer’s famous outgoing 1961 speech warning the world (and the incoming President Kennedy) what sort of monster had arisen at the heart of America’s defense institutions. Very little on the matter was said on the frightening topic by decades of political leaders who rose to prominence in the shadow of JFK’s corpse. Instead, the beast grew like a malignant cancer over the ensuing years as a major branch of the British-run deep state that carried out a coup with Sir Winston Churchill’s Iron Curtain speech in 1946 and the MI6-directed re-organization of American intelligence with the creation of the CIA in 1947.

After John F. Kennedy’s assassination, networks of neoconservative contaminated all branches of government in both parties bringing the USA into a frenzied military doctrine centered on regime change wars, oil-centered geopolitics and unipolarism totally uncharacteristic with the better constitutional traditions of the nation. This geopolitical doctrine nearly drove the west into a full military confrontation with Russia and China in recent years.

The Tide Begins to Turn

On May 20 speaking to Fox News, President Trump echoed Eisenhauer’s warnings. Under a coterie of Trump’s war-mongering advisors such as John Bolton, Gina Haspel, Terrence O’Shaughnessy and Mike Pompeo, America has recently been brought to the brink of war with Iran. While Trump has too often accommodated this hive of neocons, his recent statements and repeated calls for cooperation with Russia and China demonstrate a sound push back which should be taken very seriously. In that Fox interview Trump said:

“With all of everything that’s going on, and I’m not one that believes—you know, I’m not somebody that wants to go in to war, because war hurts economies, war kills people, most importantly—by far most importantly.”
You know, in Syria, with the caliphate, so I wipe out 100 percent of the caliphate. That doesn’t mean you’re not going to have these crazy people who run around blowing up stores and blowing up things—these are seriously ill people. I don’t want to say, ‘Oh, they’re wiped,’ you know, ISIS. But, I wiped out 100 percent of the caliphate. I say, ‘I want to bring our troops back home.’ The place went crazy. You have people here in Washington, they never want to leave.”
‘You know what I’ll do, I’ll leave a couple hundred soldiers behind,’ but if it was up to them, they’d bring thousands of soldiers in. Someday people will explain it, but you do have a group, and they call it the military-industrial complex. They never want to leave. They always want to fight.”
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Sunday, 27 January 2019

Permanent War: Congress Forbids NATO Withdrawal

Zero Hedge / Ron Paul

The Democrat-controlled House followed the Senate this week in passing legislation forbidding the president from withdrawing from NATO and affirming undying US support for the outdated Cold War alliance.

Is NATO really about defense? Or is it a jobs program for the military industrial complex?



Sunday, 24 June 2018

"If Only We'd Listened To Ike..." - Inside The Deep State

Zero Hedge

Many Trump supporters, and even some on the left, like to talk about the “Deep State” secretly having complete control of our government, thus rendering our elected leaders to be nothing more than meaningless figureheads. Let’s investigate.

Long before the term 'Deep State' became popular, the term “Military Industrial Complex” was coined by President Dwight Eisenhower.

 
He gave his now famous Military Industrial Complex (MIC) speech on Jan 17, 1961.

During his ominous farewell, Ike mentioned that the US was only just past the halfway point of the century and we had already seen 4 major wars. He then went on to talk about how the MIC was now a major sector of the economy.  Eisenhower then went on to warn Americans about the “undue influence” the MIC has on our government. He warned that the MIC has massive lobbying power and the ability to press for unnecessary wars and armaments we would not really need, all just to funnel money to their coffers.

Jump to Ike's warning about the "unwarranted influence... by the Military-Industrial Complex" at 8:41

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Wednesday, 6 June 2018

Under Trump, the Israel lobby is a Hydra with many heads

Jonathan Cook

Since Trump took office, the Israel lobby has mobilised four other powerful lobbies: Christian evangelicals, the alt-right, the military-industrial complex and Saudi Arabia

Middle East Eye – 30 May 2018

The Trump administration’s recent steps in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict should surely lay to rest any doubts about the enormous, and dangerous, power of the Israel lobby in Washington.

Under Trump, the lobby has shown it can wield unprecedented influence – even by its usual standards – in flagrant disregard for all apparent US interests.

First, there was the move this month of the US embassy to Jerusalem, not quietly but on the 70th anniversary of the most sensitive day in the Palestinian calendar, Nakba Day. That is when Palestinians commemorate their mass expulsion from their homeland in 1948.

By relocating the embassy, Trump gave official US blessing to tearing up the 25-year-old peace process – and in choosing Nakba Day for the move, he rubbed the noses of Palestinians, and by extension the Arab world, in their defeat.

Then, the White House compounded the offence by lauding Israeli snipers who massacred dozens of unarmed Palestinians protesting at the perimeter fence around Gaza the same day. A series of statements issued by the White House could have been written by Israel’s far-right prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, himself.

At the United Nations, the US blocked a Security Council resolution calling for the massacre to be investigated, while Nikki Haley, Trump’s UN envoy, observed to fellow delegates: “No country in this chamber would act with more restraint than Israel has.”

None of these moves served any obvious US national interest, nor did Trump’s decision the previous week to tear up the 2015 nuclear accord with Iran that has long been reviled by the Israeli government.

In fact, quite the contrary: These actions risk inflaming tensions to the point of a regional war that could quickly drag in the major powers, or provoke terror attacks on US soil.

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Sunday, 20 May 2018

Facebook Announces Partnership with Think Tank Connected to NATO, Military Industrial Complex

Derek Broze
Activist Post

Facebook has announced a new partnership with the Atlantic Council, a think tank with close ties to the Military Industrial Complex and Defense Department.

On Thursday Facebook announced a new partnership with the Atlantic Council, a think tank which officially claims to provide a forum for international political, business, and intellectual leaders. The social media giant said the partnership is aimed at preventing Facebook from “being abused during elections.” The press release promotes Facebook’s efforts to fight fake news by using artificial intelligence, as well as working with outside experts and governments.
Today, we’re excited to launch a new partnership with the Atlantic Council, which has a stellar reputation looking at innovative solutions to hard problems. Experts from their Digital Forensic Research Lab will work closely with our security, policy and product teams to get Facebook real-time insights and updates on emerging threats and disinformation campaigns from around the world. This will help increase the number of “eyes and ears” we have working to spot potential abuse on our service — enabling us to more effectively identify gaps in our systems, preempt obstacles, and ensure that Facebook plays a positive role during elections all around the world.
Facebook goes on to describe how the Atlantic Council’s Digital Research Unit Monitoring Missions will be monitoring traffic during elections and other “highly sensitive moments.”

Facebook claims this will help the company monitor for misinformation and foreign interference. Of course, there is also the obligatory reference to protecting democracy and “free and fair elections across the world.”

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Saturday, 12 May 2018

UK Accidentally Admits use of Horrifying, Organ Rupturing Weapons in Syria

The Mind Unleashed


At the beginning of the month (May 2018) the British Ministry of Defence seemingly on accident revealed for the first time that they are unloading horrifyingly inhumane, thermobaric weapons out of drones onto the people of Syria: and it wasn’t even in this recent April 2018 escalation of tension, but last year. They are doing it more often than they’d like to admit.

Somehow the use of thermobaric weapons seems less humane than ripping a person to shreds with shrapnel.

The weapons work by igniting oxygen surrounding the weapon.

A cloud of explosive chemicals is released, and upon impact the fuel-air mixture is detonated, exploding the lungs of animals and human beings in the vicinity, not damaging structures much but filling the lungs of all animals with fuel and burning them in what may be one of the most horrifying ways imaginable to die.

A May 1st Freedom of Information Act disclosure from the British Ministry of Defense revealed that during the first couple months of 2017, combat drones fired 19 AGM-114N4 Hellfire missiles.

Little else about casualties or even the purpose of these strikes was revealed. An organization called Drone Wars is to be credited with this remarkably important discovery through their FOIA request, they reported on it first.

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Tuesday, 1 May 2018

Military Industrial Complex Stocks Crash as North and South Korea Reach Peace Deal

Activist Post

North and South Korea reached a historic peace deal this week, and as the leaders from the two nations met in person for the first time and agreed to pursue an end to the Korean War, it signaled an incredible breakthrough in diplomacy and sent the stocks of defense contractors in the United States crashing.

When North Korea’s Kim Jong-un shook hands with South Korea’s Moon Jae-in for the first time on Friday, they put thousands of people both at home and around the world at ease, as they agreed to a peace deal that has the power to break the tension that has been between the two countries for decades. [...]

However, while peace may seem like the best possible outcome to the average person who is aware of how the ongoing war has hurt both North and South Korea over the years, it is a resolution that hurts the United States military-industrial complex, as can be seen by the results from stocks following the meeting.

On Friday alone, the five largest defense contractors in the U.S. lost more than $10 billion in value.

Lockheed Martin (LMT) started the week at $352.79 per share and ended it at $321.95 per share, falling 2.5 percent to a valuation of about $92 billion.

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Tuesday, 17 April 2018

The Empire's Ship is Sinking

Comment: Short documentary from Abby Martin's Empire Files (2015). Worth another watch. Given what's happening today, nothing has changed other than the dangerous death throes of  of Empire. 

Have a look at this document mentioned in the video: Syria: UN Mission Report Confirms that “Opposition” Rebels Used Chemical Weapons against Civilians and Government Forces

Yet, here we are again trying to dupe the public into accepting an illegal bombing raid against Syria for nothing more than money and power. 

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"I still think there is high potential for this manipulation of intelligence...I am very skeptical of the Intelligence Establishment and what it says." 

 --  Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson




"History has shown us that empires crumble when their thirst for power overtakes all other sensibilities. According to United States Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, America could stand on the precipice of such destruction. His insights form the foundation of the short documentary The Empire's Ship is Sinking, and it's a rarely-heard point of view from inside the heart of the beast.

Wilkerson knows of which he speaks. He flew over a thousand combat missions during the war in Vietnam. He later served as the National Security Advisor to President Ronald Reagan, and as Chief of Staff to General Colin Powell during the administration of President George W. Bush. He possesses intimate knowledge of the inner workings of war, and has witnessed first-hand how the propulsion of endless conflict continues to line the pockets of the very wealthy and decimate the existence of the lower classes worldwide.

Many key tenants of modern-day warfare are covered in the brief, yet wide-ranging interview that structures the film. From the more than 800 bases the United States military operates across the globe to the increased proliferation of weapons manufacturing, conflict means big business for the American elite. There seems to be no profitability in peace. The wealth created by these global skirmishes does not promote a more productive capitalistic society, because none of it falls downward in support of the lower classes. In some cases, as Colonel Wilkerson points out, foreign policy is based more on business considerations than humanitarian ones.

The issue is so complex and far-reaching that pinning the blame on a single culprit becomes muddied and elusive. In a way, we are all complicit. According to some reports, over 70% of retired military generals are recruited by the nation’s top weapons manufacturers as spokespeople and advisors. It falls on them to convincingly sell the need for continued conflict to the American people. In large part, the citizenry accepts these arguments without question or protest.

Wilkerson contends that such a path is unsustainable, and will surely spell doom for America's reputation, economic vitality and moral dominance in the world. The Empire's Ship is Sinking forces us to consider the corporate complex that drives America’s violent incursions across the globe." - https://topdocumentaryfilms.com/empire-ship-sinking/

Monday, 16 January 2017

Making Russia ‘The Enemy’

Robert Parry
Consortium News 

Despite conflicting accounts about who leaked the Democratic emails, the frenzy over an alleged Russian role is driving the U.S. deeper into a costly and dangerous New Cold War.

The rising hysteria about Russia is best understood as fulfilling two needs for Official Washington: the Military Industrial Complex’s transitioning from the “war on terror” to a more lucrative “new cold war” – and blunting the threat that a President Trump poses to the neoconservative/liberal-interventionist foreign-policy establishment.

By hyping the Russian “threat,” the neocons and their liberal-hawk sidekicks, who include much of the mainstream U.S. news media, can guarantee bigger military budgets from Congress. The hype also sets in motion a blocking maneuver to impinge on any significant change in direction for U.S. foreign policy under Trump.

Some Democrats even hope to stop Trump from ascending to the White House by having the Central Intelligence Agency, in effect, lobby the electors in the Electoral College with scary tales about Russia trying to fix the election for Trump.

The electors meet on Dec. 19 when they will formally cast their votes, supposedly reflecting the judgments of each state’s voters, but conceivably individual electors could switch their ballots from Trump to Hillary Clinton or someone else.

On Thursday, liberal columnist E.J. Dionne Jr. joined the call for electors to flip, writing: “The question is whether Trump, Vladimir Putin and, perhaps, Clinton’s popular-vote advantage give you sufficient reason to blow up the system.”

That Democrats would want the CIA, which is forbidden to operate domestically in part because of its historic role in influencing elections in other countries, to play a similar role in the United States shows how desperate the Democratic Party has become.

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Wednesday, 22 June 2016

The Rise of the Corporatocracy

Graham Vanbergen
ICH

June 21, 2016 "Information Clearing House" - "European Financial Review" - Transnational corporations are wreaking havoc on financial, economic, social and ecological systems in a creeping colonisation of public life where just 147 organisations now controls 40 per cent of global trade.

We all have a feeling that something is not quite right any more. We know there is a creeping colonisation of public life by corporations because we know a slow motion coup d’état is taking place by transnational organisations facilitated by our political leaders. The incontrovertible proof stares at us in the face every day with wave after wave of financial, economic, social and ecological crisis.

A clear and troublesome picture of corporate power has emerged in recent years where rising inequality is now simply the distinction of expanding corporate activity and those being left behind.

A study in 2000 by Corporate Watch, Global Policy Forum and the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) revealed some alarming facts about a rising corporatocracy that should have been brought to heel by western government’s years ago. Instead, corporations are now literally at the helm.

At the turn of the millennia this study confirmed that whilst there were around 40,000 worldwide corporations, just 200 had true global reach and influence. These colossal organisations, many larger than national economies controlled well over one quarter of global economic activity whilst 80 per cent of the world’s population were either left out completely, marginalised or were net losers as a direct result of their activities.1

The decade long IPS study made for very uncomfortable reading. The most alarming amongst a long list of culpability is that as corporate profits soared – wealth concentration followed, and it did so in an environment of stagnating workers wages.

For perspective, the report highlighted that of the 100 largest economies in the world, 51 were corporations; only 49 were countries. Wal-Mart for example, was bigger than 161 countries. Mitsubishi was larger than the fourth most populous nation on earth: Indonesia. General Motors was bigger than Denmark. Ford was bigger than South Africa.

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Tuesday, 18 March 2014

Advances in Electronic Warfare Fly Under the Public’s Radar




Advances in Electronic Warfare Fly Under the Public’s Radar 

Stratrisks via Gov Tech

As the Pentagon moves beyond the relatively low-tech wars in the Middle East and turns its attention to future national security challenges, it has doubled down on sophisticated new radar-jamming devices that aim to render adversaries’ air defenses useless.

Although the U.S. faced limited resistance in the skies above Iraq and Afghanistan, that would not be the case in Asia, where the Obama administration plans to shift its diplomatic focus and strengthen its defense strategy in the coming decade.
 
China and North Korea, for example, have quietly invested in advanced sophisticated radar systems, surface-to-air missile batteries and power-projection capabilities. 

So when the Pentagon revealed its fiscal 2015 budget proposal two weeks ago, much of the attention was given to a boost in spending on drones and cybersecurity. Less heralded, but vital to U.S. strategic success, experts say, was the high-dollar investment in radar-jamming technology and other electronic warfare. 

Much of this shadowy world is top secret, but the military’s goal is to have complete control over the range of wireless frequencies at the heart of all aspects of war: satellites, radio and radar.

Jammers, for instance, are designed to identify enemy radar installations, then spew radio waves and beams of electromagnetic noise to electronically disable and destroy them. Though the technology does not result in the sort of fiery blasts produced by heat-seeking missiles or laser-guided bombs, the effect is the same.

“We are so used to dominating at sea and in the air, we don’t spend anywhere near the money we should on enablers like electronic warfare and deception and other things like that,” acting Deputy Defense Secretary Christine H. Fox said this month. “That can make a huge difference. And in this budget environment, we can actually afford things like that.”

The hardware used to wage this brand of battle is rarely publicly discussed, but it’s being built at locations throughout the Los Angeles area.

Travis Slocumb, head of Raytheon Co.’s electronic warfare systems programs centered in El Segundo, said work on next-generation electronic warfare will bring together all the advancements in computer, wireless and communications technology in recent decades.

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Monday, 20 January 2014

53 Years To The Day That Eisenhower Warned Of The Military-Industrial Complex, Obama Will Further Its Cause

Tech Dirt

Fifty three years ago today, President Dwight Eisenhower gave his famous speech warning of the military-industrial complex. It's quite a speech, and well worth reading, listening to or watching. But, the famous lines are the ones that still rings true today:
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.
The White House claims that it's a mere coincidence that President Obama has chosen the anniversary of that speech to give his speech, outlining what are expected to be merely cosmetic reforms to the NSA's surveillance efforts, still convinced that even if the programs are incredibly broad and powerful, that it's okay since he won't abuse them.

The folks over at EFF have put together scorecard of NSA reforms that the President should announce. You can play along at home and check off which ones the president actually supports, but I wouldn't rush to sharpen your pencils. You're not going to see too many checked boxes on this chart.


Eisenhower noted that a true leader is focused on the goals of a free society, understanding technological change, and the influence of corporate interests, but keeping focused on the larger goal of protecting freedom:
It is the task of statesmanship to mold, to balance, and to integrate these and other forces, new and old, within the principles of our democratic system -- ever aiming toward the supreme goals of our free society.
The current president would do well to reread and to think about Eisenhower's words, but it appears that is not likely to happen.

Friday, 3 June 2011

Dyncorp and Friends: Securing Private Politics Part II


Like the “War on Terror” the “War on Drugs” is also largely bogus. Yet Dyncorp’s presence in Latin America has stuck like mud against the aspirations of its inhabitants since the early 1990s. It was during one of its contracts for helicopter maintenance that some of the long held suspicions about Dyncorp were further confirmed when one of those helicopters crashed in the Peruvian jungle in 1992. On board were three DynCorp employees, including Robert Hitchman, a covert-ops specialist, who had worked for the CIA in a number of operations ranging from the CIA front, “Air America” wars, to Libyan black-ops for Colonel Qaddafi. Hitchman was in fact, flying DEA agents and the Peruvian military on missions into guerrilla territory to destroy cocaine labs and coordinate the herbicide spraying program. True to Dyncorp services he was also training Peruvian pilots to fly combat missions.8 Colombia was to be a much more extensive capturing of a country’s destiny where the Colombian army, paramilitary groups, toxic spraying and fumigation would be stepped up and where huge sums of money would be paid to ex-military veterans and black ops personnel.

As part of this propaganda the corporation dutifully and profitably went about its $200 million contract to spray 2,550 Square miles of Colombia with Monsanto’s “Round-Up Ultra” herbicide from 2000-2005, under the pretext of eliminating the illegal cocoa crops. 9 An environmental disaster loaded on yet more suffering for the Colombian peoples already being squeezed by Bogota and the U.S. government. With 82 percent of the population living under the poverty line, growing their own food would have been one possibility to feed their families, when they often have no option but to grow cocoa for the insatiable demand from the States. While a class-action lawsuit has been filed in Washington, DC, on behalf of 10,000 farmers in Ecuador and the AFL-CIO-related International Labor Rights Fund, (ILRF) it may not save the thousands of children already suffering the effects of fumigation and spraying.

After the initial veiled threats from Dyncorp CEO Paul V. Lombardi, towards Bishop Jesse DeWitt president of ILRF, the lawsuit for indigenous Quichuas and farmers from the state of Sucumbío, Dyncorp subsequently used its State Department leverage to ask “…the judge to dismiss the case because it involve[ed] national security interests of the United States.” Luckily the Judge after consulting material derived from an investigation by Ecuador’s Acción Ecológica rapidly came to the conclusion that Dyncorp had “committed crimes against humanity, torture and cultural genocide.”10 This ruling finally led to the 2003 court rulings ordering the suspension of aerial fumigation of coca and poppy crops until environmental and human impact studies can be carried out. However, in clear violation of Colombian law, the U.S. puppet President Uribe continues to do the State Department’s bidding and the spraying has continued. According to Narco news, a Latin American journal that reports on the drug war and (the lack of) democracy in Latin America: “Food crops have been destroyed, rainforest ravaged, tens of thousands of peasants have been displaced because their crops, livestock and water sources have been poisoned.”11

Colombia’s armed conflict is the longest-running guerrilla war in the Americas, and with U.S. involvement, shows no signs of decreasing in intensity. According to the Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children, in 2002 alone “an estimated 5,000 to 6,000 civilians were killed in fighting; were targeted in political assassinations or were ‘disappeared.’ By comparison, the death toll was 3,000 to 3,500 in the previous year and where 4,077 children suffered violent deaths, including political violence and common crime, according to the Colombian Ombudsman’s Office (Ombudsman, Defensoría del Pueblo).”12

The crux of the problem in the declining fortunes of the Colombian people and the next generation of children being born into such chaos is U.S. sponsorship and support of guerrilla groups, paramilitaries, government armed forces and national police that have consistently perpetrated violence and abuses against civilians, particularly children and adolescents. There is widespread grievous bodily harm (GPH) and instances of rape in conflict and in domestic life. According to Human Rights Watch the actual rate of rape of adolescent girls is estimated as 2.5 per every 1,000 young women. “Rape, sexual torture and other forms of sexual violence against women and girls are used as tactics to destabilize the population.” Despite a 2006, $20 million budget to help fund Colombia’s paramilitary demobilization process; the commercial sex trade is gaining ground, with estimates ranging from 20,000 to 35,000 children forced into commercial sexual work.13 Dyncorp should feel right at home.

A steady unchecked business in arms trafficking and an equally plentiful supply of child soldiers for whom paramilitary life becomes the forced option, parallels the figure of over 3 million children who do not attend school. It will also come as no surprise that a high percentage of indigenous and Afro-Colombian child soldiers of Between 11,000 and 14,000 are often targeted for recruitment. The U.S. State Department becomes uncharacteristically silent on the subject of support for Uribe and government armed forces that are known to use children as informants and “counter-insurgency” propaganda activities.14

Paramilitary leaders unilaterally declared a cease-fire in late 2002, with much trumpeting of the U.S. negotiations which were heralded as more evidence of US bending over backwards to “assist.” If we look deeper, this “assistance” represents more attempts to find ways to circumvent the maze of interests that wish to continue the carving up of Colombia. Most paramilitary leaders at the negotiating table are there due to the possibility of extradition to the U.S. under the demobilisation laws and are haggling away their wealth that was illegally-acquired. Paramilitaries and drug barons are putting themselves forward as human bargaining chips to avoid imprisonment should the need arise.

However, in truth, before 2005, demobilization had not been enforced due to the absence of a legal framework and served to act as yet another sop for Congress. Human Rights Watch reported in 2004: “…the government has been holding ceremonies in which thousands of purported paramilitaries turn over their weapons and become eligible to receive stipends and other benefits. As a result, there is a real risk that the current demobilization process will leave the underlying structures of these violent groups intact, their illegally acquired assets untouched, and their abuses unpunished.” 15

The U.S. and the European Union actively encouraged the tragically misplaced naming of “Ley de Justicia y Paz” (Justice and Peace Law) while the United Nations Security Council sheepishly turned a blind eye. The Colombian Congress dutifully passed in June 2005 the legal framework for the demobilization of the paramilitary United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC), the worst Human rights offender responsible for 80 percent of the most appalling abuses country-wide. They have been a dominant factor in the drug trade with various AUC leaders being extradited to the United States for prosecution on drug trafficking charges. Prison sentences are limited to a maximum of eight years and prosecutors are given a very limited leeway in which to present their charges.

High level criminals including drug barons are often blurring the lines between paramilitary groups. It means that they are protected from extradition to the United States by legal semantics and loopholes. Safe in the assurance that they will be protected from the harsh realities of their crimes, the turning in of arms amounts to window dressing for Congress and NGO’s because they will not be required to reveal information about the paramilitary financing and methods. On top of this, they will not be detained for any undue length of time.

To translate: The CIA and its corporate covers in the monopolization of the drug wars wish to hold onto and protect their assets while expanding and mopping up drug operations. Drug lords are bought off and given immunity in exchange for their illegal wealth while ex-paramilitaries are “re-integrated” back into the community. The latter means, of course, that probable psychopaths have been hired back into the national police and army with a ridiculous assurance that no arms will be given to these men. Given Colombia’s record, this is nonsense. It is also an interesting example of the U.S. predilection for recycling military and special ops personnel back into its cover corporations abroad. We may well have the same practice happening in Colombia, with the hiring priority going to private security firms, replicating the standards that Dyncorp is now so famous for.

It seems that everyone is a winner, except that is, the citizens of Colombia and its lost children. After all, mechanics, trainers, maintenance and administrative workers, logistics experts, rescuers and pilots and CIA agents with fat pay packets are all busy helping to fleece what is left of Colombia on a variety of support operations. For Dyncorp CSC, civilian death is its primary measure of success.


Notes

8 Private Warriors by Ken Silverstein, published by Verso July 2000.
9 ‘A Plane is Shot Down and the US Proxy War on Drugs Unravels’by Julian Borger, The Guardian, June 2, 2001.
10 Narco News '02 ‘DynCorp Charged with Terrorism Lawsuit Unites U.S. Workers & Ecuador Farmers vs. Fumigation’ Part I of a Series By Al Giordano ‘Lawsuit in U.S. vs. Fumigation on Ecuador Border’
11 ‘Fumigations Continue in Colombia Despite Court Ordered Suspensions’ Uribe and Bush Administrations in Clear Violation of Colombian Law By Peter Gorman The Narco News Bulletin April 29, 2004. www.narco.com
12 ‘Colombia’s War on Children’ February 2004, Womens’Commission www.watchlist.org/ 
13‘The Effects of Armed Conflict on Colombian Children’ October 2004, U.S. Office on Colombia www.usofficeoncolombia.org. 
14 Ombudsman’s Office, Human Rights Watch, Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers, 2003,www.hrw.org/
15 Human Rights Watch Colombia: ‘Human Rights Concerns for the 61st Session of the U.N. Commission on Human Rights,’ March 2005.




Dyncorp and Friends: Securing Private Politics Part I


“Is there any meaning to the rule of law when the US governmental apparatus sole sources contracts to enforce the rule of law to a corporation that has demonstrated a clear tolerance for lawlessness?”

Catherine Austin-Fitts, journalist, commenting on the decision to award DynCorp up to $500MM on Sole Source to "Police" Iraq.

If we were to visit California-based Computer Sciences Corporation website (csc.com) we might be forgiven for thinking this is a financial services company humbly dedicated to bettering the world as well as its investors. Unfortunately the low key nature of the site design masks the true meaning of this fortune 500 corporation and its cosy relationship to the U.S. Federal government. The corporation currently holds contracts with more than 40 federal agencies including the Pentagon, State Department, Drug Enforcement Administration, Department of Energy and the Justice Department. The giant government contractor bought Dyncorp on March 7th 2003, creating “a company that ranks as one of the top information technology and outsourcing services providers to the U.S. federal government.” The revenues from the federal sector alone were estimated to be around $6 billion at the end of the fiscal year of 2003 with projections of in excess of $14.5 billion at the end of 2004. 2005 saw a steady increase in profits due to its monopoly on US Government contracts as its primary sector which is now expanding into Europe. This net profit was more than $810.2 million during fiscal year 2005, an increase of 56% over 2004.1

The purchase of Dyncorp not only saved its bacon but allowed it to claim the dubious honour of being the third largest IT services provider behind Lockheed Martin and second place provider EDS Corp. CSC Chief Executive Van B. Honeycutt gave a wonderful example of the art of masking with his comments on why the Dyncorp merger went ahead:
DynCorp, with approximately 98 percent of its total revenue coming from the U.S. federal government, complements our overall federal business, allowing a great breadth of end-to-end solutions and significantly increasing our exposure to the growth area of federal government, IT and functional outsourcing…’ […]


“The capabilities of the new federal sector organization will allow CSC to provide more comprehensive services and solutions to our government customers,…’ […]


‘Now that the U.S. Homeland Security Department is in place, the resources and security expertise of CSC, coupled with those of DynCorp, will position us extremely well as the federal government expands and accelerates its efforts to enhance U.S. national security.’ 2
It sounds reasonable enough if we don’t think about what this actually means. “The growth area of federal government” and “U.S. National Security” is intimately linked to the “War on Terrorism,” numerous examples of human rights abuses and the dismantling of the constitution from within.

 When the United States created the Office of Homeland Security, CSC chairman Van B. Honeycutt was one of the first advisers to the new agency having already handled the position of Chair of the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC) under President Clinton. Effectively, the corporation is an extension of the government and its policies, with an incestual exchange of employees and profit, which the website tenderly calls “client intimate organizations.” With its headquarters in Reston, Virginia, close to the CIA, and Pentagon there is no doubt that Dyncorp has a deeply intimate connection that is mutually binding.

 Prior to the merger, DynCorp was among the largest employee-owned technology and out sourcing firms headquartered in the United States, with approximately 26,000 employees in some 550 locations throughout the world. According to CSC “the U.S. Department of Defense represented 49 percent of DynCorp's revenue in 2001, which before the merger netted 2.3 billion.

 The number of lawsuits and scandals hitting Dyncorp range from allegations of sex trafficking to a variety of human rights abuses and black operations involving drugs and military targets. This is largely due to the hiring of former CIA and Special Operations military personnel. One would think that the screening of employees would have been stepped up following so much bad publicity. Yet why should they worry when the biggest contractors are the US government and its formidable war machine driven by the arms industry itself? Logistical and IT services may well be part of the civilised PR of Dyncorp CSC but in reality, the true sector definition of this corporation should be categorized as “private mercenaries” which allows operations to be sub-contracted to the bidder that is most ideologically and professionally sound. It also conveniently abdicates responsibility for the US army and civilian deaths while avoiding unnecessary media spotlights. Outsourcing their wars beyond the prying eyes of press and congress is an effective way to ensure policy and regime change.

 Secrecy is obviously an important part of the company’s rules. If employees happen to get rubbed out on their various covert “missions” then the paper trail is sparse or non-existent. Janet Wineriter, a spokeswoman at DynCorp’s headquarters frequently tells the media that she cannot discuss the company’s operations because of its contractual obligations to its client - the state department. When this fails then black-outs are affected. Information regarding the real activities of these private mercenaries is purposely obscure and shielded from investigations. The last people they want to inform are congress or the public. As a recent Guardian article stated: “Today’s mercenaries in the drug war are provided by private companies selling a service and are used as a matter of course by both the state and defence.”3

 Dyncorp has little to do with “Information Systems, Information Technology Outsourcing and Technical Services” though this certainly plays a part in extending its monopolistic war games. Controlling and monitoring information systems for federal agencies such as the FBI, DOJ and SEC, are within the corporation’s primary remit which is rather handy should any “impropriety” surface – which of course is the name of the game. Subversion and corruption is endorsed and legitimized via a corporate and federal relationship that gives the Cosa Nostra a run for its money.

 Pan Colombia

“The de facto censorship which leaves so many Americans functionally illiterate about the history of US foreign affairs may be all the more effective because it is not official, heavy-handed or conspiratorial, but woven artlessly into the fabric of education and media. No conspiracy is needed.” - William Blum

The Free Trade agreements of the Americas walked over the remains of long dead economies of South America, hacked off at the roots by years of U.S. interventionism and later under the auspices of the IMF and World Bank. The colonization is on schedule and Dyncorp CSC is right in the thick of it to ensure its completion. The U.S. $1.3 billion Plan Colombia was but one example, where critics say that the corporation was/is involved in “counter insurgency” operations in the war on drugs as well as the monopolization and control of oil interests in the region. Paramilitaries and mercenaries are co-mingling in a mix of dirty interests. The corporation’s activities also extend into Bolivia and Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela, Brazil and Panama where it is also carries out drug interdiction, transport, reconnaissance, search and rescue missions, medical evacuation and aircraft maintenance.

The fact that President Bush had substantial ties to Harken Energy Inc., of Houston, Texas, is well known. Bush Jr. opted for a comfortable desk job with the company in 1986 and received $2 million in stock options, a $122,000 consulting job and a seat on its board of directors for his trouble. Meanwhile, in the Magdalena Valley where Harken Energy and other oil companies peddle their business, right wing paramilitary groups comprising of Colombian military officers, drug traffickers, cattle ranchers and fighting guerrillas are paid to protect oil pipelines.

 Civilians in Colombia have become the prime targets as rapacious parties compete for territory. The murder of peasants is common place if they do not respond to threats and intimidation to leave lucrative land targeted for mining, oil exploration and agriculture. Harken continues to rake in the cash on the backs of dead civilians in the Magdalena Valley, with help from the World Bank's International Finance Corporation preparing the way.
 Paramilitaries protect corporate interests in the region. Death squads are in operation on behalf of U.S. oil companies and political parties, which are closely entwined in a network of intelligence agencies with the CIA as the guiding hand. After all, Colombia is both the leading recipient of US military aid in the hemisphere and one of the worst violator of human rights. Connection?

“Plan Colombia” was inflicted on the country by the Clinton administration over six years ago. The $1.3 billion aid package which was mostly military aid to Colombia and its neighbours, was to usher in “peace, prosperity, and the strengthening of the state”4 by proposing a principally military strategy to stop illicit drug cultivation and trafficking. The plan was to be carried out by providing military assistance to the Colombian armed forces and police, and the creation of three anti-narcotics army battalions. However, aside from a slight drop in cocoa plant production, it did none of those things. What it actually did was to build on the destabilisation in the region thanks to 1990s US policies and to “increase the dispersion and proliferation of organized crime and the expansion and intensification of political crime and guerrilla warfare.”5

Since the implementation of the Plan “politically motivated killings have increased dramatically” and where “counter-narcotics operations in Plan Colombia fail[ed] to target drugs cultivation in areas under long-standing paramilitary control.”6 After a whopping expenditure of $4.72 billion from 2000-2006 with $3.84 billion (81%) going to Colombia’s military and police forces, things have only got worse. The reason being, over 50 percent of Colombia’s land is owned by paramilitaries, the monopoly of which is drawn from the paramilitary control of members of Colombia’s Congress at around 30 percent. It suggests that the CIA, true to its colours, wished to gain control of an important financial resource rather than to decrease its influence in any genuine way.

 Dyncorp is not the only one slicing into the pie. AirScan, based in Rockledge, Florida, provides high-tec air surveillance and is responsible for patrolling the Colombian jungle with Cessna Skymaster electronic surveillance planes, spotting cocoa plantations and guerrilla threats to the Cano Limon oil pipeline. Military Professional Resources Inc. based in Alexandria, Virginia provides a consultancy service run by former US generals. Its mercenaries were responsible for training the Colombian Army and police officers. An Alabma company working out of the Maxwell Air-force base, Aviation Development Corporation (ADC) flies Cessna spotter planes for the CIA in Peru and Colombia to help target aircraft used by drug smugglers.

It was this latter company that caused a brief headache for the PR branches protecting the so called “drug war” when a small plane carrying US missionaries was shot down in Peru by a military pilot killing a young woman and her seven-month-old baby girl. The missionaries’ plane was first spotted by a US Cessna Citation surveillance plane piloted not by US military pilots but by private contractors hired by ADC. This echoed the shooting down of a Dyncorp helicopter in and the subsequent rescue of its pilots by their own search and rescue teams which culminated in a shoot-out with the rebel Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia. Nothing like a spot of Hollywood intrigue to keep the shareholders happy.

Another minor glitch in the well-oiled wheels of its operations was discovered in late 2001 when The Nation online journal managed to obtain a document of a monthly DEA intelligence report from May 2000 in which officers of Colombia's National Police force intercepted a US-bound Federal Express package at Bogota’s El Dorado International Airport:
The parcel ‘contained two (2) small bottles of a thick liquid’ that ‘had the same consistency as motor oil.’ The communiqué goes on to report that the liquid substance "tested positive for heroin’ and that the ‘alleged heroin laced liquid weighed approximately 250 grams.’ […]According to DynCorp spokeswoman Janet Wineriter, the viscous liquid that the Colombians tested was not, in fact, laced with heroin; it was simply "oil samples of major aircraft components’ that DynCorp technicians are required to take and send to the US ‘on a periodic basis.’7
While the package was traced back to an unnamed employee of Dyncorp who was sending it on to the Andean operations headquarters at Patrick Air Force Base, Florida, the government and Dyncorp were tight-lipped regarding details as to why this was the result of faulty testing equipment and an entirely innocent mistake. After an awkward tossing of the piping hot potato between the US Embassy, the Colombian National Police Force (CNP) the DEA and the Colombian State Department (and of course Dyncorp) the problem was shoved under a decidedly rank carpet courtesy of the CNP whose forensic unit decided it prudent not to pursue the matter.

The testing equipment called NARCOTEX was, to all intents and purposes, also found to be bogus by the International Association of Chiefs of Police’s Drug Recognition Experts. They could find no evidence of drug technology with that name. A token military doffing of its hat towards those that were intent on its eradication, was all that was needed.


Notes


1 Data Monitor /Computer Wire / www.computerwire.com/ 2005
2 ‘CSC and DynCorp Combine to Create Federal IT Powerhouse’ – www.csc.com/
3 ‘A Plane is Shot Down and the US Proxy War on Drugs Unravels’ by Julian Borger, The Guardian, June 2, 2001.
4 The Center for International Policy’s Colombia Project www.ciponline.org/ The Plan Colombia (Copy obtained from the Colombian Embassy to the United States, October 1999.) ‘Plan Colombia: Plan For Peace, Prosperity, and the Strengthening of the State.’
5 Drug Trafficking, Political Violence and US Policy in Colombia in the 1990s Dr. Bruce Michael Bagley, Professor of International Studies, School of International Studies, University of Miami, CIDE ciencias socials, www.cide.edu/
6 ‘Colombia: Stoking the fires of conflict’ Amnesty International, Terror Trade Times, 2001.
7 ‘DynCorp's Drug Problem’ by Jason Vest, The Nation, July 3, 2001.


Wednesday, 25 May 2011

The End of Control Part II


George Orwell's 1984 and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World describe precisely the world being shaped by the “Elite.” Overt and covert control have been fused. This process is now experiencing a huge push commensurate with the opportunity for humanity to wake up from such an enforced programming. In the 21st century we see the justifications for a global governance planted in the minds of many from the roots of the New Age movement, the United Nations, environmentalists and some Anglo-American establishment families. Of course, they say it is for our protection against all the horrors we now see before us - the same horrors they have carefully initiated in order to achieve their long-term objectives of total control.

"Divide and Rule" and the long used Hegelian dialectic of "problem-reaction-solution" scenarios are the key components of this globalisation where all manner of Counter Intelligence operations (CoIntelpro) are used to further their aims. This fact of life is very difficult to contemplate for most as we are surrounded by the subjective reality of lies and distortions on a daily basis. Our media is desperately sick and weak, having been bought and sold down a toxic river long ago. Now, it is mostly the beliefs of reporters and editors that keep us all ignorant and asleep.

It must be remembered that there are many mafia controlled cabals, cartels, religious and occult factions which cross fertilize each other, differing only in the details and each claiming an ancient pedigree or status within their chosen Elite circles. Whether it is the label of the "Illuminati", Scottish rites of Freemasonry; Rosicrucians; Skull and Bones; the Knights of Malta, they find themselves accepting the proffered carrot designed to appeal to their individual inflated egos each at different positions along selected tiers within the hierarchy of this large pyramid of perception. Each contributes his particular quality to this top down power structure whether operating from the domain of education or commerce and serves to strengthen the tier above him by adhering to the overarching rule of a global world government. 

Many will not understand or realize that a neo-fascism laced with a mélange of occult traditions is at the root of this system of control due to being blinded by their love of status, self-importance and lies. However, many embrace this ideology, which can best be called "Existential Satanism" in its truest sense and is seeded in all societal domains, from academia to the food industry; environmentalism to education; the media to the movie business, a mindset that John F. Kennedy called the “ruthless and monolithic conspiracy” where politics operates as an adjunct to weapons, pharmaceutical, food stuffs, agri-business, chemical, and oil industries; so that globalization is really corporatism by another name. The military-corporate complex supplants and subsumes new vocabulary designating change and improvement thereby allowing the illusion of betterment for humankind to affect the destiny of peoples.

For those wishing to understand the true nature of our reality here on earth an excellent place to begin is the events on and surrounding the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon. The unfortunate fact is that 9/11 was largely engineered as the most audacious black Ops performance since Pearl Harbour. Therefore, it has also become one of the battlegrounds in cyberspace inhabited by those seeding disinformation and lies on the one hand and those passionately dedicated to disbursing truth and of course, many grey areas inbetween these two poles. However, once you being to peel away the many layers you will see that the issue of 911 will connect many different beliefs and assumptions regarding not just the external world but our own internal reality, such is the magnitude and depth of this rabbit hole. Propaganda or "information dominance" is everywhere. Which is why, when so many journalists, teachers, politicians and the ordinary individual in the street are confronted by the inconsistencies and sometimes obvious lies it is too much to process as it would require a comprehensive destruction of previously cherished beliefs. Even then, the sticky web of lies and deceit is interwoven with centuries-old belief systems that are in themselves nothing more than new ingenious ways to program the mass populace then inevitably the true seeker reaches a point of “spiritual bankruptcy” when faced with the enormity of the situation. This is also a serious impediment to unravelling the spider’s web that we have so clearly before us.

The "War on Terror" is another tool to mold the minds of even the most sensible among us. Let’s take the idea of the terrorist. If one takes the time to peruse the copious quantities of reports on the topic of so called “terrorism” one can see very clearly that all is not what it appears to be. Countless details of FBI, CIA and Special forces operatives and agents have been found either creating and / or fermenting terrorist attacks in order to ramp up violence and conflict in newly invaded countries such as Iraq or Yemen. The operations in some cases are so amateurish and obviously fake in nature that when you begin to see the patterns it becomes akin to seeing the trickster dancing amid the flames. False flag operations and the balkanization of poor countries is a tried and tested geo-politcal strategy for the Anglo-American and Israeli Elite. It works very well. Indeed, that a history of manufacturing atrocities with carefully placed agents and dupes is very much part of conquering empires since the dawn of the military world right up to the present day. Keeping the populace in fear through “smoke and mirrors” and increasingly sophisticated propaganda via media and PR is as much a part of military warfare as pressing the button on laser-guided missiles. That said, only very few of the various players involved are truly conscious of their role. Some do the bidding for others higher up the chain of command for religious reasons, money, prestige or the threat of blackmail and/or death. For the rest of us, New Age paradigms and religious indoctrination and / or the survival in a capitalist world is enough to keep us in a hamster wheel of preoccupations and comfort zones.

This process therefore becomes not only about a quest for truth but a reflection of our own ability to be an example of Truth itself. How much have we denied? How much have we taken on trust only to discover that that much of what we were told were lies to keep us asleep to information that might actually empower us? Do we converse and extract our information from a juvenile dictionary that has been given to us through a partial and biased teaching of history or from a hard-won, objectively-based reality drawn from a network of truth-seekers?

The lack of understanding and general naivety surrounding the methods of the psychopath in governments and his use of propaganda against the people is one of the most important reasons for the mess we now find ourselves in. One such channel that led to this infection originated from Nazi roots which attached themselves to fertile minds in the US administration just after the Second World War and is presently manifesting as a Fourth Reich in much of the Western democratic nations. Thus, the more accelerated fascism in America and the less dramatic attrition of liberties in Europe is still hugely underestimated due to the refusal to see this as policy and directive rather than random social coincidences and bad decision-making. Extraordinary rendition and institutionalized torture, blatant continuation of empire building in Iraq and Afghanistan and the corporate dash for oil; the continuing threat of bombing Iran; police brutality, the rise of the invasive techno-surveillance state, increasing abuse of civil rights; the implementation of secret weapons technology; US internment camps, state-sanctioned assassination squads on American citizens, financial warfare and consolidation of economic control via manipulated financial crises are just some of the warning signs of the purposeful march to global totalitarianism and its roots in psychopathology.

Without the shared knowledge and acute awareness of the psychopath in social policy and politics it is inevitable that the world will continue to be the prey for such anti-humans. This knowledge has been fiercely guarded until the advent of the internet which has helped disseminate and inform these secrets that has given rise to the dominance of the world-view of the psychopath, the precepts of which now routinely inculcate mass populations. Now that it is out of the bag these minority of psychopaths are in a race against time, not only because they know humanity is (hopefully) waking up, but that the environmental catastrophes in waiting may well eclipse their plans for this New Global Pathocracy from which communism and extreme capitalism were the harbingers. In this sense, the utilization of any “-ism” and any label at all is useful as the original idea is co-opted of all qualitatively nourishing and inclusive ingredients in favour of pathological and entropic ones. The organization, philosophy or enterprise is “hollowed out” in any social and political domain until only the name bares testament to the original idea and historical past.

This is the goal you see, to hide safely in their expensive bunkers deep underground and emerge from the ashes as the “New Rulers of the World” where psychopaths will this time, wholly dominate "normal people" where the masses will not only beg for this Master-Serf relationship but they will welcome such global feudalism and the “Divine Right of Kings.” This they will do via an overt control system euphemistically called a "One World Government" by naive United Nations advocates and a cashless society tied to a mainframe of technological advancement as the incentive. When you hook the addict on all kinds of opiates whether technological or synthetic substances and then remove them via some engineered catastrophe the Pavlovian response, en masse, will be powerful and immediate. Please, give us back what we once knew! Yes, I’ll do anything it takes! just give me back my life! It will be easy to use fake terrorism and various other fear-based tools to scare people into giving up those freedoms and putting their lives back into an all-in-one phone/identity gadget which will serve as your means of buying food and identifying yourself, gaining medical care and just about every consumer activity available. Cash will be a thing of the past. The State will have every possible detail of your life at their fingertips - for your "Protection." How easy do you think this technocratic system will be for expressing your views democratically and exercising your human rights when government agencies have the ability to define your reality for you based on a pathological mindset that has infected all but the most aware individuals? 

After all, how much of your thoughts are truly, truly your own? 
Depopulating the world, identifying, logging, tagging and micro-chipping the remaining populace and herding them into tightly controlled mega-cities via economic hardship is one future the Pathocrats envision. Meanwhile, buying up vast tracts of land under the banner of environmentalism which will provide them with suitable means to live their Eco-technopic existence with the benefits of advanced bio-genetic / cyber technology at their fingertips - most likely with the view to extending their life-spans. Far-fetched or not, psychopaths and those spellbound and drunk on power seldom think of failure. Vast amounts of money has been channelled for decades into massive underground bunkers presently dotted around the US and Europe some of which can house over 2 million people. To bring “Order out of Chaos” one must first introduce the Chaos to the extent that all manner of alternatives are wiped clean, leaving only one singularity. They intend to be safe and warm away from all their created carnage and for as long as it takes.

Global conflict and environmental catastrophe are a means to create maximum amounts of fear and thus more ways to render people compliant and emotionally malleable. To do this, they need to make doubly sure that humanity is helped along under the destructive influence of famine, wars and innumerable social "divide and rule" dynamics that confuse, and psychologically damage successive generations. For example, climate change is certainly occurring but it is not necessarily taking place in the way that the Establishment is saying. A big part of the present propaganda uses the tactic of reverse-psychology and auto-suggestion. For example, Humans are wholly responsible for global warming. Consider this from the influential book sponsored by The Club of Rome: The First Global Revolution
 
"In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill."

And this from one of the main authors for the IPCC and of human-sourced global warming, Stephen Schneider, Stanford Professor of Climatology:

"... we need to get some broad based support, to capture the public's imagination....So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements and make little mention of any doubts.... Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest." 
 
While CoIntelpro exists, so too a form of Eco-Intelpro. The irony is that environmental catastrophe is a virtual certainty if one reads the enormous amount of evidence for cyclic environmental –planetary catastrophes. We are well over due for such things. Confusion and complexity on these vital issues is the name of the game. Keep folks disorientated as the truth leaks out and the truth will pass us by. That is their hope. The geo-political strategy of massive depopulation has little to do with anything other than the belief in a World government and a twisted form of pantheistic nature worship (read Satanism) dressed up in language so enamoured of New Age gurus and deep ecologists everywhere. Fascism, the occult and ecology have a long history as was proved during the reign of the Third Reich, the legacy of which, as indicated was transplanted to modern day America which was a tinder-box waiting for the right match.

Take a look at the Georgia Stones erected as a homage to this psychopathological mindset, seemingly placed their by so called "philanthropists" with a strangely familiar ideology. Ostensibly it is nothing more than a plea for humanity to live in harmony with Mother Earth. However, the inscription for proposition number one: “Maintain humanity under 500,000, in perpetual balance with nature." How delightful. Except that is, if you are not listed as one of those granted access to the penthouse suites of the lucky 1/2 a million. Needless to say that the benefactor behind these stones, one R.C. Christian (Roman Catholic no less) doesn't say how he would like to get rid of the rest of the population of the world. However, there are many indicators throughout modern history that the Establishment is rather keen on depopulation and methods to increase our collective demise by any and all means necessary. Henry Kissinger and HRH Prince Philip are some of the most vocal proponents of population “culling.”

From environmental movements to grass roots politics - all is tied into this veritable shell-game of control. From the word go, our parents and peers - who have inherited the same effects of this conditioning - pass it on to the next generation who become more and more de-sensitized to reality. Our social and cultural typography is fixed towards decreasing awareness and free-thinking thus ensuring that those psychopathological bloodlines remain in positions of power at the local and in higher concentrations at the state level.

The fact that most of the population of the so called "developed" world are still not privy to the facts of this global manipulation is testament to how successful it has been. The socio-cultural policing of this by relatively few individuals has been effective and efficient. Moreover, we have become expert at the self-censoring of truth by our own hand. Remember, we have been molded and shaped according to pathological parameters. Certain pre-assigned social vectors were laid down in the early twentieth century and which have become "normalised." The highest bloodline psychopaths know that they are in the minority, which is why a very long, drawn out time of social programming was set in place so that finally, in the end the global population would hand over their freedoms and worst of all, police each other. Hence the reasons for creating as much conflict and suffering as possible: to ensure ultimate control, in perpetuity and part of the illusion of A Grand Destiny for a chosen few.

However, the principle of networking still holds true, allowing the truth to percolate down through the strata of social conscience, providing some hope that may still be a chance for the tide of psychopathology to be halted. There is immense creative potential in humankind, we've just got to realise it - and we can. Networking and applying the knowledge will get us there, if we unite against this common enemy - but you have to know your enemy and know him well. It is also important to remember that there is no need to act against anyone. Protesting peacefully is effective but fades. Protesting peacefully armed with knowledge has twice the value. But truly ignoring and refusing to give away your power to government, authorities and other controlling agents is the first step to reclaiming our freedom. By ignoring them you immediately snuff out their various machinations. By ignoring the media and getting to the truth ourselves we immediately burst the propaganda balloon. And it will come from the people networking creatively without prejudice but towards a common goal of emancipation from lies and manipulation. By spreading information and working on our own issues and inner blockages as best we can, this may contribute to the breaking up of official lies so dominant in our societies. For if we don't work on our own "stuff" in order to obtain as objective a viewpoint as possible, how can we gain the awareness and the strength to see the wood for the trees?

Each of us will have limits to how far we want to go in addressing our own beliefs and issues within ourselves, but together we can forge something REAL if we refuse to accept the lies and keep pressing the envelope for truth, no matter who or where we are. Most of us just want to live peaceful lives and get on with our work and / or raising our children. Utopia is not possible, but freedom to live our lives without pathological colonization of our minds, without state-sponsored terrorist acts, blackmail, assassination, propaganda and empire-building is not acceptable. It is within our means to expose it for what it is. 

All the above points can be proven if we care to dig beneath the headlines. All of this information can be discerned easily enough because the Pathocrats know they cannot stem the tide of rising awareness; their skills have been developed in managing knowledge so that it remains harmless, dead information. Therefore, many of the points raised in this summary are self-evident and not at all concealed. The Pathocrats believe they are superior in knowledge and insight. In many ways they are. But their monopoly on truth no longer remains. And their arrogance, wishful thinking and conscienceless nature will be their downfall.

This is a special time in humanity's history where a more level playing field of true global freedom could once more return. Everyone who hears the voice of their own conscience can contribute to that dispensation at whatever level they can manage. That time is now.


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