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Colonel Wilkerson: Oligarchy Controls U.S. War-Making
Americans are starting to understand that the U.S. is an oligarchy, rather than a democracy or a republic. (Even the chair of the Federal Reserve can't really disagree.)
That's true of war-making and foreign policy, as well.
Consummate insider Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson - former chief of staff to Colin Powell, the guy who wrote Powell’s famous speech on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, and now distinguished adjunct professor of Government and Public Policy at William & Mary - notes:
Who's behind the White House, and who's therefore behind U.S. foreign policy, more or less?
I think the answer today is the oligarchs. Which would be the same answer, - incidentally, ironically, if you will - for Putin in Russia.
The people who own the wealth, the people who therefore have the power and who more or less (and I'm not being too facetious here) buy the president and thus buy American foreign policy.
Indeed, we have thoroughly documented that war is bad for the economy and makes us poor. But war is very good for a handful of defense contractors and banksters who make huge sums from backing unnecessary war.
Wilkerson explains that war profiteers feed off conflict:
INTERVIEWER: One of the things that always hits me is that - once you look at the predictions of who would win in world war 2 - mostly what I've seen is that by 1940 or '41 it was pretty clear Hitler was going to lose.
If you're in the German monopoly capitalist class doing analysis, you're thinking, "Now this is not going to lead to anything good for us. Why aren't we bailing?"
But the forces of refusing to accept the reality of it were far too strong.
COLONEL WILKERSON: That's a good point. I would say - and I don't subscribe to conspiracy theories, normally - but I would say there were forces behind that shadow, if you will, who were doing quite well.
Swiss, Germans, Americans and others who were more or less feeding off the conflict, and got very wealthy feeding off the conflict.
Just as they did off of World War 1, even more predominately with respect to the United States, in particular. German reparations and so forth.
We made a ton of money off of World War 1. And we really didn't contribute a whole lot, if you remember. We were really only there substantially for a very short period of time, roughly April 1917 until Armistice Day.
So, there is a group which is interested in this kind of thing - and this group alarms probably more than any other in the world, particularly in my own country - that is interested in a constant state of war, or as near a constant state as possible.
Because they sit behind all the belligerents and make money.
(Indeed, bankers profits so much from war that they often back both sides. For example, American banks funded the Nazis during WWII when America was is in the middle of a war against Germany.)
Interestingly, Wilkerson points out that war profiteers can make a financial killing simply by stirring up volatility:
In some respects this shadow behind the power that makes money off war period - no matter who's the belligerent - makes money off that volatility now.
Especially with computers that are able to to assist them in doing so. Like currency manipulation, for example, or just general speculation. With computers, you can do it at lightning speed. And you can do it in a nanosecond. And you can make billions in that nanosecond.
And you don't care about what you're doing to the real economy because you're raking in the dough.
In other words, destabilizing countries and creating chaos can make modern war profiteers rich.
And Wilkerson- who was an eyewitness to the end of the Cold War - points out that big American defense contractors are largely responsible for our current dispute with Russia:
Jim Baker and George H.W. Bush really accomplished what, I think, is one of the real diplomatic feats of the 20th century: the reunification of Germany, whether we agree with it or not. And they did it without a shot being fired....
One of the reasons they could it is that they assured Gorbachev and later Yeltsin that NATO that they would be quiescent, it wouldn't move, it wouldn’t threaten Russia.
In fact, I was there when they promised the Russians that they were going to make them a member [of NATO]. An observer first, and then a member ....
Well that fell apart when they perceived right quickly that we weren't really serious.
And then we start - under pressure from Lockheed Martin, and Raytheon and others - to sell weapons to Poland, and weapons to Georgia, and weapons to Romania, and everyone else we could bring into the fold.
Under those pressures and others we started to expand NATO, and stuck both our fingers in the Russian eyes, so to speak, immediately.
It's clear to me why Putin has responded to Georgia and why he's now responding to Crimea and Ukraine. That's what great powers do when they get concerned about their so-called "near abroad".
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Mr. Assface:
Wilkerson is the pig-fucker who revealed Valerie Plame to the press to Novak and, without any balls at all, allowed Scooter Libby to go to jail.
Go get your head un-inserted from your rectum
with love,
Ned
"revealed Valerie Plame to the press" An act of treason. Shoot him then hang him. Or simultaneously if it will boost ratings.
Plame, Novak, Libby, all zionist jews. Coincidences abound, eh?
Libby should have been shot.
You shouldn't talk that way. I might get to thinking you're trying to hurt my feelings.
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by Gilad Atzmon / September 5th, 2013
Introduction by Gilad Atzmon
A few weeks ago some of us were rather amused to see Max Blumenthal, in conversation with Paul Jay (The Real News Network), deliver the usual anti-Zionist Zionist (AZZ) spiel. After the program many Palestinian solidarity and anti-war commentators were outraged and demanded that Jay provide me with a right to reply. So Jay approached me, asked to clarify a few issues and promised to come back to me shortly with an answer. I didn’t hold my breath because since the incident I had learned a little about Jay’s political affiliations and motivations.
Yesterday, he came back with his answer (see below) which he manages to stuff with a pile of confused and jumbled arguments that convey profound intellectual ignorance and are riven with a host of embarrassing contradictions. But one thing was for sure. Gilad Atzmon would not be appearing on Jay’s show. Why? Because, above all, Jay is a coward and must have realised that he doesn’t stand a chance of countering my ideas in front of a camera, not even in his own studio.
I define Jewish Power as the power to divert the attention from Jewish Power and Paul Jay clearly engages in just such an endeavour. In fact, my main contribution to this discourse is probably my capacity to expose this very power and the manner in which it is wielded (Actually, all I do is hand the microphone to my detractors and let their symptoms speak for themselves). ....
- Paul Jay: Portrait of an Anti-Zionist Zionist
It's the radical liberal and leftist Jews who give the other 5% a bad name.
To be fair and in an effort to allow for balance... we should have someone from the Bush/Clinton/Bush/Obama NeoCon adminstrations up here to label this man a traitor, conspiracy kook and a liar...
Yes, but you should add "neolibs" to list.
The NeoCons scare me more. At least the NeoLibs are predictable.
Nice score BTW...
NeoLibs are NeoCons in disguise. At least if you're talking about the ones who hold public office. They all scare me, and they're all predictable in one particular sense: If it's about power and profit, they have their fingers in it.
I think it's the other way, neocons are neolibs in disguise. They do nothing to protect property rights, reduce taxes, decentralize power, etc.
Absolutely. And they're also so smart and well-educated that no easily-predicted consequences of their actions will apply to them in any way. At least if you ask them. And, actually, they're right. Consequences are for Little People (and no, not leprechauns).
Who's name comes up... from JFK to 9/11?
9/11 Conspiracy Solved: Names, Connections, & Details Exposed!https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=n_fp5kaVYhk
The Carlyle Group, the Bush family and 9/11https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AS67HZR8Ogo
Regarding this particular article about "Consummate insider Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson - former chief of staff to Colin Powell, the guy who wrote Powell’s famous speech on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction," I will state my personal opinion that I do not think that Colin Powell, nor, by extension, Wilkerson, deserve to be on the list of the people operating inside of the USA government that enabled the events on 9/11/2001 to happen. It is my belief that Powell, and by extension Wilkerson, were tricked by others into thinking that the alleged "intelligence" about Iraq and weapons of mass destruction was valid at that time, and only themselves belatedly discovered it was false. Of course, that is merely my personal opinion, without proof to back it up, except that I came to that conclusion after spending a lot of time to shift through the available information about those events.
It is in that context that I find the contents of this article particularly interesting and credible. Of course, I already believed what was presented was the case, because everything else I am aware of indicates that civilization's real control mechanisms operate through layers of deception, with the basic mechanism being debt slavery backed by wars based on deceits. But nevertheless, I am merely emphasizing that I think that this source, Wilkerson, repeating that kind of information I find to be credible.
Again, the information they went on came from the Office of Special Plans, which was created and staffed, pretty much exclusively by Jewish neocons, none of whom had military experience or intelligence experience, and several of whom had deep ties to the Israeli government, including Richard Perle - who managed to worm his way back into a high government post despite being widely suspected of spying for Israel in the 70s.
These same people, or the same type of people, have been beating the drums and fabricating evidence to lie us into a war on Iran, also for the perceived benefit of Israel's regional military and economic hegemony.
Google the laptop of death, or mark perry's article "false flag" or the saudi ambassador assassination plot nonsense... or articles about the US intelligence community actually discounting "evidence" from Israel on both Iran and on Syria.
The neocons have also long supported trying to weaken and destablilize russia.
http://www.rightweb.irc-online.org/
The Zbig crowd may have gained the upper hand, although Tarpley's analysis of who is "behind Obama" is hopelessly inept. Rahm Emmanuel et al do not and did not represent the Zbig faction.... not by a long shot...
Yes, Mr. Delicious, that is also more or less my undertanding of the social facts about how and why the Project For A New American Century was enabled to happen, and for there to never be any proper investigations allowed to happen to prevent that criminally insane agenda from being carried out.
Of course, I have absolutely no first-hand knowledge, but only a set of personal opinions gained from sifting through the masses of public information availabe about 9/11 etc. ...
If I knew WMD was a lie, Colin Powell knew it was a lie. Look at that speech again. Look at this face. He knew he was lying.
It is impossible for me to be certain, atthelake. ... I could easily be wrong. I merely stated my belief that they were tricked into telling the lies that they did.
Double post.
Coincidences_regarding_911
Israel's name.
Israel's name comes up.
Why don't you check the interwebs.
8 people downvoting the truth.
Yawn.
the force behind the oligarchs... zionism.
So it's not about money? Puh-leezzzzzzze.
so they need money? that's funny, i would have guessed that the people who own the central banks could pretty much create as much money to use as they needed with zero oversight. my bad.
They have realized just printing money dilutes their power. Stealing your money, like war, is a way to project their power
"INTERVIEWER: One of the things that always hits me is that - once you look at the predictions of who would win in world war 2 - mostly what I've seen is that by 1940 or '41 it was pretty clear Hitler was going to lose."
June 22, 1941
Operation Barbarossa (German: Fall Barbarossa, literally "Case Barbarossa"), beginning 22 June 1941, was the code name for Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II. Over the course of the operation, about four million soldiers of the Axis powers invaded the USSR along a 2,900 km (1,800 mi) front, the largest invasion in the history of warfare. In addition to troops, Barbarossa used 600,000 motor vehicles and 750,000 horses. The ambitious operation was driven by Adolf Hitler's persistent desire to conquer the Soviet territories as embodied in Generalplan Ost. It marked the beginning of the pivotal phase in deciding the victors of the war. The German invasion of the Soviet Union caused a high rate of fatalities: 95% of all German Army casualties that occurred from 1941 to 1944, and 65% of all Allied military casualties from the entire war.
The Oligarchs are Luciferian, not Jewish. They are globalists, believe in "do as though wilt". Real important the pitchforks get pointed in the right direction.
So glad to see this observation, Zionism is another layer of obfuscation but the bottom of it appears to be worship of Satan.
Any hope of repairing involves accurate information and that is why it is fought so hard and is the first casualty (truth that is).
Yes, put the pointy end toward the enemy please...
You have it backwards, in a sense. There is no "satan" if by that you mean a spiritual entity outside the mind.
Zionism was nothing more than Jewish nationalism - on its face, the desire of the Jewish people{s} for a home of their own was understandable. The Church didn't exactly make Europe comfortable for them. For the ecord, all dogmatic religion is "evil."
But the purpose of Zionism was to enable Talmudic teleology - essentially megalomania.
You want to get what I mean? To start - have you actually read the book of Deuteronomy? Start there.
Really. You should sit and read it some weekend.
I read it. I regard it as a magickal text - a potent one.
Black magick, of course.
We druids are good at recognizing that sort of thing.
We aren't all gone, you know...
I'll take another look, anything in particular I should look for? Hidden meanings, symbology, patterns, word and or number codes, etc. help me out with a little direction to what you refer, it is a big book.
Mr. D - there's more to figuring out the truth than reading the books. I suggest a conversation with God for starters. Wherein you might just find that wisdom comes at a price and that you may or may not be willing to pay the price necessary to obtain it.
Nope - "luciferians" isn't a real thing, neither are fucking space lizards.
Which oligarchs? In the US about half are Jewish - i.e. 2.5% of the population is 50% of the millionaires and billionaires and disprioportionately head federal agencies pertaining to money/budget/banking [the fed, irs, treasury, etc.]
But that means about half aren't, and most Jewish people [meaning the ethnoreligious group - regardless of "faith" -most "Jews" are agnostic or atheist] are not part of the 1%.
Anyone mentioning lizards, luciferians, jesuits, annunaki, etc. are simply gatekeeping for international bankers, international war profiteers, and most certainly, global zionism and international jewish/israeli lobbies.
"Nope - "luciferians" isn't a real thing, neither are fucking space lizards. "
Please go back to NSA Troll school
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luciferianism
Meaning, it isn't "Luciferians" who are running or disporportionately running things in government, banking or media.
Given an internet connection and half hour to provide evidence as to whether these "elites" are {disproportionately} Jewish/Zionist or "Luciferian," who comes back with results.
"Jewish" denotes an ethnoreligious group, not a faith. One can be Jewish and agnostic, one can not be Christian or Muslim and agnostic.
Time for you to learn the difference.
You might also search for "racism" and/or "hate" and/or "megalomania" in the Talmud, or Torah [or for that matter Koran - you'll find plenty in both, but people are pretty cool with it if you discuss Muslim religion as not being all sunshine and light].
Are you afraid to do so? You'd better, or you're going to have some bad, bad dreams, friendo. {{+>?>}
p.s. By inference, you also think secret lizards are running things? No soup for you....
p.p.s. I was never NSA. Ever see Men In Black? Something more like that. For the Jesuits. The Vatican has been in touch with a race of space aliens since Fatima. Revelations was stolen from the Roman oracle. Babylon is Jerusalem. The beast is Talmudism. David Icke is the Roman soldier who thrust his spear into Christ's side. He is a sensitive and patient lover.
xoxoxox
And who is behind that name? Satan. The deceiver.