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Blowback - The Washington War Party’s Folly Comes Home To Roost

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Submitted by David Stockman via Contra Corner blog,

Exactly 26 years ago last week, peace was breaking out in a manner that the world had not experienced since June 1914. The Berlin Wall - the symbol of a century of state tyranny, grotesque mass warfare and the nuclear sword of Damocles hanging over the planet - had come tumbling down on November 9, 1989.

It was only a matter of time before the economically decrepit Soviet regime would be no more, and that the world’s vast arsenal of weapons and nuclear bombs could be dismantled.

Indeed, shortly thereafter according to Gorbachev, President George H.W. Bush and Secretary Baker promised that NATO would not be expanded by “as much as a thumb’s width further to the East” in return for acquiescing to the reunification of Germany.

So with its “mission accomplished” there was no logical reason why NATO should not have been disbanded in parallel with the Warsaw Pact’s demise, and for an obvious and overpowering reason: On November 9, 1989 there were no material military threats to US security anywhere on the planet outside of the suddenly vanishing front line of the Cold War.

As it turned out, however, there was a virulent threat to peace still lurking on the Potomac. The great general and president, Dwight Eisenhower, had called it the “military-industrial complex” in his farewell address, but that memorable phrase had been abbreviated by his speechwriters, who deleted the word “congressional” in a gesture of comity to the legislative branch.

So restore Ike’s deleted reference to the pork barrels and Sunday afternoon warriors of Capitol Hill and toss in the legions of beltway busybodies that constituted the civilian branches of the cold war armada (CIA, State, AID etc.) and the circle would have been complete. It constituted the most awesome machine of warfare and imperial hegemony since the Roman legions bestrode most of the civilized world.

In a word, the real threat to peace circa 1990 was that Pax Americana would not go away quietly in the night.

Ronald Reagan had called the dying Soviet Union an Evil Empire, but it was actually a passing freak of history. It had arisen by a fluke 72 years earlier—–almost to the day of the Berlin Wall’s fall—–only because Imperial Russia had been reduced to anarchy by the carnage of the Great War, enabling Lenin to storm the Winter Palace and install his own special Bolshevik brand of hell on earth.

So the demise of the Soviet Union in 1991 meant the world could have reverted to the status quo ante. That is, to a normalcy of peace, liberal commerce and a minimum of armaments that had prevailed in the late 19th century. The 20th century curse of militarism, totalitarianism and global warfare was over.

Needless to say, the sudden end to 20th century history posed an existential threat to Imperial Washington. A trillion dollar complex of weapons suppliers, warfare state bureaucracies, intelligence and security contractors, arms exporters, foreign aid vendors, military bases, grand poobahs and porkers of the Congressional defense committes, think tanks, research grants and much more——were all suddenly without an enemy and raison d’etre.

As it has happened, Imperial Washington did find its necessary enemy in the rise of so-called “global terrorism”.

But the everlasting truth is that the relative handful of suicidal jihadi who have perpetrated murderous episodes of terror like 9/11 and this weekend’s carnage in Paris did not exist in November 1989; and they would not be marauding the West today save for the unrelenting arrogance, stupidity, duplicity and mendacity of Imperial Washington.

That is, the gates of hell have been opened by Washington’s senseless destruction of regimes in Libya, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia, Afghanistan and elsewhere that refused to do its bidding. Yet not one of these backwaters of tyranny and economic and military insignificance posed any threat whatsoever to the safety and security of American citizens in Lincoln NE or Manchester NH.

That the middle east and the Arab/Islamic world in particular is now a burned out zone of failed states and an incubator of barbaric religious and sectarian fanaticism is because Imperial Washington made it that way.

So what has metastasized from the ruins left by American intervention is not an organized military threat or a tide of state sponsored attacks on the civilian life of the West; it is random blowback of the suicidal flotsam and jetsam that have been puked from the very same jaws of hell which Washington so foolishly opened.

It did so under the banner of two stunningly false predicates. One of these was the long-standing Washington error that America’s security and economic well-being depends upon keeping an armada in the Persian Gulf in order to protect the surrounding oilfields and the flow of tankers through the straits of Hormuz.

That doctrine has been wrong from the day it was officially enunciated by one of America’s great economic ignoramuses, Henry Kissinger, at the time of the original oil crisis in 1973. The 42 years since then have proven in spades that its doesn’t matter who controls the oilfields, and that the only effective cure for high oil prices is the free market, not the Fifth Fleet.

Every tin pot dictatorship from Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi to Hugo Chavez in Venezuela to Saddam Hussein, to the bloody-minded chieftains of Nigeria, to the purportedly medieval Mullahs and fanatical Republican Guards of Iran has produced oil—-and all they could because they desperately needed the revenue.

For crying out loud, even the barbaric thugs of ISIS milk every possible drop of petroleum from the tiny, wheezing oilfields scattered around their backwater domain. So there is no economic case whatsoever for Imperial Washington’s massive military presence in the middle east, and most especially for its long-time alliance with the despicable regime of Saudi Arabia.

The truth is, there is no such thing as an OPEC cartel——virtually every member produces all they can and cheats whenever possible. The only thing that resembles production control in the global oil market is the fact that the Saudi princes treat their oil reserves not much differently than Exxon.

That is, they attempt to maximize the present value of their 270 billion barrels of reserves, but ultimately are no more clairvoyant at calibrating the best oil price to accomplish that than are the economists at Exxon or the IEA.

The Saudis over-estimated the staying power of China’s temporarily surging call on global supply; and under-estimated how rapidly and extensively the $100 per barrel marker reached in early 2008 would trigger a flow of investment, technology and cheap debt into the US shale patch, the Canadian tar sands, the tired petroleum provinces of Russia, the deep offshore of Brazil etc. And that’s to say nothing of solar, wind and all the other government subsidized alternative source of BTUs.

Way back when Jimmy Carter was telling us to turn down the thermostats and put on our cardigan sweaters, those of us on the free market side of the so-called energy shortage debate said the best cure for high oil prices is high prices. Now we know.

So the Fifth Fleet and its overt and covert auxiliaries should never have been there—–going all the way back to the CIA’s coup against Iranian democracy in 1953. It was in the name of protecting the oil fields that the Washington war machine installed the monstrous Mohammad Reza Pahlavi on the Peacock Throne and thereby inaugurated 25 years of plunder and Savak terror.

Likewise, it was the Washington war machine that decided upon the “tilt to Saddam” in his 1980s war on the Islamic Republic, and which provided him with satellite based tracking and targeting services when he rained chemical weapons on barely armed Iranian forces.

The truth is, there never were any Iranian “terrorists” at time the Berlin Wall fell. What existed was the smoldering hostility and nationalism that had arisen among the Iranian people after four decades of Washington intervention in their internal affairs, and a theocratic Shiite regime that had come to power owing to Washington’s foolish embrace of a brutal megalomaniacal tyrant.

Even then, the rulers of Tehran had been ratified twice in honest elections. And they were far more civilized, constitutionally-minded and economically egalitarian than the absolute monarchs of the House of Saud, whose gluttonous opulence was unspeakable and whose medievalist Wahhabi regime of social repression and religious intolerance was (and is) deeply offensive to every value America represents.

But having turned Iran into an enemy, Imperial Washington was just getting started when 1990 rolled around. Once again in the name of “oil security” it plunged the American war machine into the politics and religious fissures of the Persian Gulf; and did so on account of a local small potatoes conflict that had no bearing whatsoever on the safety and security of American citizens.

As US ambassador Glaspie rightly told Saddam Hussein on the eve of his Kuwait invasion, America had no dog in that hunt.

Kuwait wasn’t even a country; it was a bank account sitting on a swath of oilfields surrounding an ancient trading city that had been abandoned by Ibn Saud in the early 20th century. That’s because he didn’t know what oil was or that it was there; and, in any event, it had been made a separate protectorate by the British in 1913 for reasons that are lost in the fog of diplomatic history.

Likewise, Iraq’s contentious dispute with Kuwait had been over its claim that the Emir of Kuwait was “slant drilling” across his border into Iraq’s Rumaila field. Yet it was a wholly elastic boundary of no significance whatsoever.

In fact, the dispute over the Rumaila field started in 1960 when an Arab League declaration arbitrarily marked the Iraq–Kuwait border two miles north of the southernmost tip of the Rumaila field.

And that newly defined boundary, in turn, had come only 44 years after a pair of English and French diplomats had carved up their winnings from the Ottoman Empire’s demise by laying a straight edged ruler on the map. So doing, they thereby confected the artificial country of Iraq from the historically independent and hostile Mesopotamian provinces of the Shiite in the south, the Sunni in the west and the Kurds in the north.

In short, it did not matter who controlled the southern tip of the Rumaila field—–the brutal dictator of Baghdad or the opulent Emir of Kuwait. Not the price of oil, nor the peace of America nor the security of Europe nor the future of Asia depended upon it.

But Bush the Elder got persuaded by Henry Kissinger’s  economically illiterate protégés at the national security council and his Texas oilman Secretary of State that the will-o-wisp of “oil security” was at stake, and that 500,000 American troops needed to be planted in the sands of Arabia.

That was a catastrophic error, and not only because the presence of crusader boots on the purportedly sacred soil of Arabia offended the CIA-trained Mujahedeen of Afghanistan, who had become unemployed when the Soviet Union collapsed.

The 1991 CNN glorified war games in the Gulf also revived another group of unemployed crusaders. Namely, the neocon national security fanatics who had mislead Ronald Reagan into a massive military build-up to thwart what they claimed to be an ascendant Soviet Union bent on nuclear war winning capabilities and global conquest.

All things being equal, the sight of Boris Yeltsin, Vodka flask in hand, facing down the Red Army a few months later should have sent them into the permanent repudiation and obscurity they so richly deserved. But Dick Cheney and Paul Wolfowitz managed to extract from Washington’s pyric victory in Kuwait a whole new lease on life for Imperial Washington.

Right then and there came the second erroneous predicate. To wit, that “regime change” among the assorted tyrannies of the middle east was in America’s national interest, and that the Gulf War proved it could be achieved through a sweeping interventionist menu of coalition diplomacy, security assistance, arms shipments, covert action and open military attack and occupation.

What the neocon doctrine of regime change actually did, of course, was to foster the Frankenstein that became ISIS. In fact, the only real terrorists in the world which threaten normal civilian life in the West are the rogue offspring of Imperial Washington’s post-1990 machinations in the middle east.

The CIA trained and armed Mujahedeen mutated into al-Qaeda not because Bin Laden suddenly had a religious epiphany that his Washington benefactors were actually the Great Satan owing to America’s freedom and liberty.

His murderous crusade was inspired by the Wahhabi fundamentalism loose in Saudi Arabia. This benighted religious fanaticism became agitated to a fever pitch by Imperial Washington’s violent plunge into Persian Gulf political and religious quarrels, the stationing of troops in Saudi Arabia, and the decade long barrage of sanctions, embargoes, no fly zones, covert actions and open hostility against the Sunni regime in Bagdad after 1991.

Yes, Bin Laden would have amputated Saddam’s secularist head if Washington hadn’t done it first, but that’s just the point. The attempt at regime change in March 2003 was one of the most foolish acts of state in American history.

The younger Bush’s neocon advisers had no clue about the sectarian animosities and historical grievances that Hussein had bottled-up by parsing the oil loot and wielding the sword under the banner of Baathist nationalism. But Shock and Awe blew the lid and the de-baathification campaign unleashed the furies.

Indeed, no sooner had George Bush pranced around on the deck of the Abraham Lincoln declaring “mission accomplished” than Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a CIA recruit to the Afghan war a decade earlier and small-time specialist in hostage-taking and poisons, fled his no count redoubt in Kurdistan to emerge as a flamboyant agitator in the now disposed Sunni heartland.

The founder of ISIS succeeded in Fallujah and Anbar province just like the long list of other terrorist leaders Washington claims to have exterminated. That is, Zarqawi gained his following and notoriety among the region’s population of deprived, brutalized and humiliated young men by dint of being more brutal than their occupiers.

Indeed, even as Washington was crowing about the demise of Zarqawi, the remnants of the Baathist regime and the hundreds of thousands of demobilized Republican Guards were coalescing into al-Qaeda in Iraq, and their future leaders were being incubated in a monstrous nearby detention center called Camp Bucca that contained more than 26,000 prisoners.

How a US prison camp helped create ISIS

As one former US Army officer, Mitchell Gray, later described it,

You never see hatred like you saw on the faces of these detainees,” Gray remembers of his 2008 tour. “When I say they hated us, I mean they looked like they would have killed us in a heartbeat if given the chance. I turned to the warrant officer I was with and I said, ‘If they could, they would rip our heads off and drink our blood.’ ”

 

What Gray didn’t know — but might have expected — was that he was not merely looking at the United States’ former enemies, but its future ones as well. According to intelligence experts and Department of Defense records, the vast majority of the leadership of what is today known as ISIS, including its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, did time at Camp Bucca.

 

And not only did the US feed, clothe and house these jihadists, it also played a vital, if unwitting, role in facilitating their transformation into the most formidable terrorist force in modern history.

 

Early in Bucca’s existence, the most extreme inmates were congregated in Compound 6. There were not enough Americans guards to safely enter the compound — and, in any event, the guards didn’t speak Arabic. So the detainees were left alone to preach to one another and share deadly vocational advice.

 

…….Bucca also housed Haji Bakr, a former colonel in Saddam Hussein’s air-defense force. Bakr was no religious zealot. He was just a guy who lost his job when the Coalition Provisional Authority disbanded the Iraqi military and instituted de-Baathification, a policy of banning Saddam’s past supporters from government work.

 

According to documents recently obtained by German newspaper Der Spiegel, Bakr was the real mastermind behind ISIS’s organizational structure and also mapped out the strategies that fueled its early successes. Bakr, who died in fighting in 2014, was incarcerated at Bucca from 2006-’08, along with a dozen or more of ISIS’s top lieutenants.

The point is, regime change and nation building can never be accomplished by the lethal violence of 21st century armed forces; and they were an especially preposterous assignment in the context of a land rent with 13 century-old religious fissures and animosities.

In fact, the wobbly, synthetic state of Iraq was doomed the minute Cheney and his bloody gang decided to liberate it from the brutal, but serviceable and secular tyranny of Saddam’s Baathist regime. That’s because the process of elections and majority rule necessarily imposed by Washington was guaranteed to elect a government beholden to the Shiite majority.

After decades of mistreatment and Saddam’s brutal suppression of their 1991 uprising, did the latter have revenge on their minds and in their communal DNA?  Did the Kurds have dreams of an independent Kurdistan that had been denied their 30 million strong tribe way back at Versailles and ever since?

Yes, they did. So the $25 billion spent on training and equipping the putative armed forces of post-liberation Iraq was bound to end up in the hands of sectarian militias, not a national army.

In fact, when the Shiite commanders fled Sunni-dominated Mosul in June 2014 they transformed the ISIS uprising against the government in Baghdad into a vicious fledgling state in one fell swoop. It wasn’t by beheadings and fiery jihadist sermons that it quickly enslaved dozens of towns and several million people in western Iraq and the Euphrates Valley of Syria.

Its instruments of terror and occupation were the best weapons that the American taxpayers could buy. That included 2,300 Humvees and tens of thousands of automatic weapons, as well as vast stores of ammunition, trucks, rockets, artillery pieces and even tanks and helicopters.

And that wasn’t the half of it. The newly proclaimed Islamic State also filled the power vacuum in Syria created by its so-called civil war. But in truth that was another exercise in Washington inspired and financed regime change undertaken in connivance with Qatar and Saudi Arabia.

The latter were surely not interested in expelling the tyranny next door; they are the living embodiment of it. Instead, the rebellion was about removing Iran’s Alawite/Shiite ally from power in Damascus and laying gas pipelines to Europe across the upper Euphrates Valley.

In any event, ISIS soon had troves of additional American weapons. Some of them were supplied to Sunni radicals by way of Qatar and Saudi Arabia. More came up the so-called “ratline” from Gaddafi’s former arsenals in Benghazi through Turkey. And still more came through Jordan from the “moderate” opposition trained there by the CIA, which more often than not sold them or defected to the other side.

So that the Islamic State was Washington’s Frankenstein monster became evident from the moment it rushed upon the scene 18 months ago. But even then the Washington war party could not resist adding fuel to the fire, whooping up another round of Islamophobia among the American public and forcing the Obama White House into a futile bombing campaign for the third time in a quarter century.

But if bombing really worked, the Islamic State would be sand and gravel by now. Indeed, as shown by the map below, it is really not much more than that anyway.

The dusty, broken, impoverished towns and villages along the margins of the Euphrates River and in the bombed out precincts of Anbar province do not attract thousands of wannabe jihadists from the failed states of the middle east and the alienated Muslim townships of Europe because the caliphate offers prosperity, salvation or any future at all.

What recruits them is outrage at the bombs and drones being dropped on Sunni communities by the US air force; and by the cruise missiles launched from the bowels of the Mediterranean which rip apart homes, shops, offices and mosques containing as many innocent civilians as ISIS terrorists.

The truth is, the Islamic State was destined for a short half-life anyway. It was contained by the Kurds in the north and east and by Turkey with NATO’s second largest army and air force in the northwest. And it was surrounded by the Shiite crescent in the populated, economically viable regions of lower Syria and Iraq.

So absent Washington’s misbegotten campaign to unseat Assad in Damascus and demonize his confession-based Iranian ally, there would have been nowhere for the murderous fanatics who pitched a makeshift capital in Raqqa to go. They would have run out of money, recruits, momentum and public acquiesce in their horrific rule in due course.

But with the US Air Force functioning as their recruiting arm and France’s anti-Assad foreign policy helping to foment a final spasm of anarchy in Syria, the gates of hell have been opened wide. What has been puked out is not an organized war on Western civilization as Hollande so hysterically proclaimed in response to the mayhem of last weekend.

It was just blowback carried out by that infinitesimally small salient of mentally deformed young men who can be persuaded to strap on a suicide belt.

Needless to say, bombing wont stop them; it will just make more of them.

Ironically, what can stop them is the Assad government and the ground forces of its Hezbollah and the Iranian Republican Guard allies. Its time to let them settle an ancient quarrel that has never been any of America’s business anyway.

But Imperial Washington is so caught up in its myths, lies and hegemonic stupidity that it can not see the obvious.

And that is why a quarter century after the cold war ended peace still hasn’t been given a chance and the reason that horrific events like last week’s barbarism in Paris still keep happening.

 

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Tue, 11/17/2015 - 21:34 | 6807225 johngaltfla
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Yup. The French and Russians have started bombing the CIA army in such a dramatic fashion, I expect Obama to call for a cessation any day now to "negotiate" some sort of bullshit to favor the banksters, Qataris, and Saudis.

11.17 Russia and France Begin Operation F.U. Obama Against ISIS in Syria – Raqqa Sucks to Live there now! (Videos)
Tue, 11/17/2015 - 21:36 | 6807243 AlaricBalth
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Allow me to suppose a hypothetical situation (again).

Imagine when you were 9 years old. You have your whole life ahead of you and the only thing you are thinking about is what time school lets out so you can get home to play with your friends.

Finally the bell rings and you race off to enjoy a game of soccer with your pals. In a small field not far from your home, you are running down a missed shot on goal, when suddenly you hear the dreadful whine of an air raid siren. As you look up you see a shining blur in the sky, and seconds later an entire row of houses on your block is obliterated in a flash of light and heat.

An expanding wall of pressure knocks you down, and as you get back up you see your childhood home is engulfed in flames and dust. While trying to make your way towards the house, you remember your mom was preparing dinner in the kitchen as your baby sister was sleeping in the family room.

Sorrow and anger fills your young heart as tears roll down your face and your body trembles uncontrollably. At that tragic moment in your young life you swear vengeance on those responsible.

Tue, 11/17/2015 - 21:52 | 6807300 max2205
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Just imagine all the great infrastructure we would have if we didn't pissed away all that money... oh and those dead would be still hanging out 

Tue, 11/17/2015 - 22:01 | 6807334 greenskeeper carl
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see thats the problem with the left. Those on the left mainly whine about how that money could have been spent on "shovel ready jobs" and "infrastructure" back in the US. What we should be saying is imagine if we didn't have that 3-4 trillion moar debt we now have because of these wars. Imagine if that money was left in the hands of the productive people who earned rather than taxed, borrwed, or printed to fund killing people half the world away. Imagine if we hadn't killed all those people and destroyed those countries. Imagine how much more of a productive society we could be. Instead, spending that money in the first place has guaranteed we will be spending money in perpetuity because of the terrorism this kind of destruction creates.

Tue, 11/17/2015 - 23:36 | 6807648 hoist the bs flag
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like Sept 23 2015?

Wed, 11/18/2015 - 01:57 | 6807925 The Darwin Mode
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Just what is a "US terror attack"? Would drone-bombing a Yemeni wedding party count as one?

Tue, 11/17/2015 - 21:58 | 6807330 TeamDepends
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Unfortunately, you seek revenge on innocent people who happen to reside in the country the true culprits use as a battering ram, and not the bankers, who are always the guilty party.

Tue, 11/17/2015 - 21:35 | 6807232 brucekeller
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Middle East is just a great place for proxy wars, duh!

Tue, 11/17/2015 - 21:35 | 6807234 permafrost
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Wow, these guys have complete control of the Euphrates and their enemies are not thirsty? They really are junior varsity.

Tue, 11/17/2015 - 21:36 | 6807237 Crocodile
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But the everlasting truth is that the relative handful of suicidal jihadi who have perpetrated murderous episodes of terror like 9/11 and this weekend’s carnage in Paris did not exist in November 1989; and they would not be marauding the West today save for the unrelenting arrogance, stupidity, duplicity and mendacity of Imperial Washington. - end

 

BS - 9/11 & Paris is a Banking Cartel (Rothschild) creation of horror using the devils advocates; their allies.

Tue, 11/17/2015 - 22:05 | 6807344 Implied Violins
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I noticed that too. Also saw he missed that Lenin was the banker's bitch, bought and paid for by the FED and delivered by special train through Germany to Russia to foment revolution, and Soviet Russia was built using American funds and technology.

Tue, 11/17/2015 - 22:17 | 6807353 Bay of Pigs
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I like the guy, but Stockman is obviously still asleep. Anyone buying into the 9/11 and War on Terror narrative should be dismissed as is at the very center of his entire argument.

I have two questions for those defending this Paris attack as legitimate and not a false flag. Out of hundreds of kids, all with cell phones, and many who were "taken hostage", how come there isn't one clip of actual video of the attack inside the theater? And yes, I saw the the one that showed absolutely nothing. To think nobody had their phone on is beyond the pale and ridiculous. And two, out of thousands of fans at the soccer matches, where are the pictures and videos of the damage, injuries and deaths? I have seen nothing to support that claim either.

If you have anything to share, please, lets see it.

Tue, 11/17/2015 - 22:33 | 6807439 TeamDepends
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Very astute, BoP. Here's what we heard: There was a Mexican girl who was at the concert with her boyfriend. Her frantic parents reached the boyfriend, obviously well after the incident as the parents were in Mexico. He said she was fine. Somehow, she wound up as one of the casualties. This was on jimstones' site. This fits with other reports of strange occurances at the Bataclan. The photo looks like people were shot and dragged into place.

Tue, 11/17/2015 - 22:47 | 6807488 Implied Violins
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Yes, and here's a link (WARNING - EXTREMELY GRAPHIC):

https://jhaines6a.wordpress.com/2015/11/16/final-nail-beyond-belief-j/

Sorry to link to that, but for anyone with the balls to look at the picture, notice the drag marks on the floor.

They look like the 'Eye of Horus' - the eye on the pyramid seen on the back of the dollar bill.

Looks like the illuminati was making sure we didn't miss who did this...but, if so, then: Why?

Tue, 11/17/2015 - 23:01 | 6807538 TeamDepends
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You answered your own question. It is almost game time and they are letting those who are awake know. They are getting more and more blatant. Starting with 9/11 then the laughable "mass shootings" in the US now this. They are saying, "we can fool most of you all of the time, and that is enough."

Tue, 11/17/2015 - 23:14 | 6807583 Implied Violins
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Maybe so...but that hundredth monkey is almost awake and about to start flinging feces. If they drag this shit out too much longer...I think one or two more big events will do it. May they fail spectacularly, and be seen exactly for who they are before any more of this bullshit happens...

Tue, 11/17/2015 - 23:29 | 6807621 Ms No
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Anybody have an explanation or guesses on a possible symbolic meaning for this cat phenomena?  At the all about ISIS, oh shit I hope it's not WWIII, tensions to the roof G20 they paused and had 3 cats run across the stage and then the pictures of ISIS with cats in their arms came out.  WTH is that? 

https://www.rt.com/news/322306-cats-g20-summit-turkey/

Tue, 11/17/2015 - 23:45 | 6807673 Implied Violins
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There's a connection with the ancient Egyptian god Bast, or Bastet - a goddess of war:

http://www.thegreatcat.org/the-bast-isis-connection/
http://beautifulisis.blogspot.com/2008/09/soul-of-isis-cat-goddess-baste...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastet

So, it's ISIS's way of saying WWIII is on, probably. FUCKERS I DO NOT CONSENT

Wed, 11/18/2015 - 11:56 | 6809033 Ms No
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Good work.  I had that thought myself, I recently came across some pre-Islamic history that claimed that ISIS and Bast are tied together and may have originally been the same, also their counterpart being Al' Uzza/Al-Lat.  So basically if there was a tell here it was to go long oil and defense as soon as they dropped those cats on the stage.  I wouldn't throw money on it but I'm curious. 

When I have time I am going to check the timeline for this and other obvious incidents and see if they pan out.  I think if you look for symbols you will find them everywhere but when their shoved in your face it's possible is signaling of some kind. 

Wed, 11/18/2015 - 02:33 | 6807978 Crush the cube
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The cat is all about power, short for catatonic exchange.  You have the black cat on the battery with the 9 and the lightning bolt, exactly the same symbolism as a stripper on a pole, pussy power and a pole symbolizing electrical or magnetic.  They're telling you something is fixing to blow up, or exchange energies and the 3 identifies who's going to do it.  Ever see this crap, he's identifying too, three fingers up.   http://www.catholictradition.org/Christ/christ-king3.jpg  

 

This shits been around forever, but you either have to wake up, or be in the club to get it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6hJIXOiTEI

Wed, 11/18/2015 - 02:23 | 6807964 Crush the cube
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Because this game has been going on for thousands of years, the method doesn't change, nothing else will work.  So the code and signature will always be consistent.  Hense the phrase 'nothing new under the sun'.

Tue, 11/17/2015 - 22:36 | 6807444 duo
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Those who survived either ran out the exits right away (making it hard to record on your phone), or were playing dead (also hard to do while recording on your phone).

Tue, 11/17/2015 - 22:47 | 6807485 Dr. Bonzo
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LMAO. This is how rotten this comment section has become. The author states a cogent argument we should all basically agree with, but no. He doesn't go far enough to the likings of the bombshelter & spam hordes....

BS - 9/11 & Paris is a Banking Cartel (Rothschild) creation of horror using the devils advocates; their allies.

This barely literate one-liner rebuke gets upvotes instantly, as if the OP is a shill for denouncing America's imperial wars. "Using the devil's advocates..." lmao... what does that even mean????? A "devil's advocate" is a term of art used to describe a person taking a hypothetical position in a debate in opposition to a stated position for the sake of testing the validity of the position. Basically, your one-liner is gibberish. LMAO.

SMFH.

 

Tue, 11/17/2015 - 23:49 | 6807686 Bay of Pigs
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The author did no such thing. He left gaping holes with the ridiculous statement about 9/11. It's absolute nonsense.

So why don't you answer my two questions on Paris then? I think they are vaild. Other posters above raised other questions with the deaths at the theater too.

Tue, 11/17/2015 - 23:52 | 6807693 Implied Violins
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Here's a nice, free, downloadable book that forms the knowledge basis of the quote mentioned:

kamron.com/Downloads/none dare call it conspiracy.pdf

History. It's written by the victors. This book, wasn't.

Wed, 11/18/2015 - 00:14 | 6807732 greenskeeper carl
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Im going with occums razor on this one. The simplest explanation for this is that the morons running france stupidly let in a bunch of migrants from countries they themselves helped destroy. Migrants who now hate them. When you let in a bunch of people like that, with no knowledge about who these people are or what their real intentions are, this kind of shit is inevitable. The most surprising thing about this whole affair is that it took this long for something like this to happen. The second most surprising thing about it is that it doesn't happen more often.

 

I will of course look at anything that says otherwise, my mind remains open. But to the guy above, CATS? seriously? The illuminati sent some cats across the stage at the G20 in a symbolic gesture? Thats what you are saying?

Wed, 11/18/2015 - 00:37 | 6807782 Implied Violins
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This is very much a spiritual war as much as anything. There probably isn't anything I could link to or explain at this point that would make you believe it. All I can say is, watch how things play out and keep an open mind, especially to the symbolism involved. The picture I linked to above gave a clue, but anyone who hasn't read up on this stuff wouldn't understand it. But this stuff is in our faces 24/7: in the movies, in songs, in advertisements etc. Just watch the super bowl halftime shows, and you'll see a lot of it there. These elite bastards are playing with us, using these symbols blatantly now because they know there are so few who even pay attention. That's too bad, because those who know - were we enough - we could have stopped this shit long, long ago.

Wed, 11/18/2015 - 01:14 | 6807848 Bay of Pigs
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I see nobody has answered my question above with any credible evidence of pictures or videos. Not surprised because apparently there isn't any to show. I would say the chances of that happening with thousands of people directly involved is near zero.

Tue, 11/17/2015 - 21:44 | 6807250 DavidPierre
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ZioNazi Washington is so caught up in its 9/11 myth, Sandy Hook lies and hegemonic WAR AND TERROR  stupidity while most ameriklans refuse to see the obvious.

Tue, 11/17/2015 - 21:41 | 6807261 nmewn
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"Its time to let them settle an ancient quarrel that has never been any of America’s business anyway."

Ayeppo!

Sorry, couldn't let the pun pass ;-)

Tue, 11/17/2015 - 21:42 | 6807267 williambanzai7
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In a word, the real threat to peace circa 1990 was that Pax Americana would not go away quietly in the night.

Amen to that

Tue, 11/17/2015 - 22:50 | 6807504 Raisuli
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I like your work, but which word? It seems that Bella Americana ( I am no linguist) is what won't go away. Seems to me that Pax Americana died a long time ago, as you intimate.

 

Cheers.

Wed, 11/18/2015 - 02:08 | 6807933 The Darwin Mode
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...This perpetual war we're seeing? That is the "peace" in Pax Americana. Ironic, right? But hey, you shouldn't be questioning permanent war, because how else can we have all this permanent peace? Besides, our overlords don't like being questioned. It's like Michael Chertoff dismissing the dancing Israelis thing by equating such inquiry to the dreaded "Holocaust denial". No more questions from you, okay? Just keep working and shopping and mainlining their propaganda.

Tue, 11/17/2015 - 21:49 | 6807287 Flying Wombat
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Politico Reports Bush Knew 2001 Terror-Attack was Imminent and Wanted It

http://thenewsdoctors.com/politico-reports-bush-knew-2001-terror-attack-was-imminent-and-wanted-it/

Tue, 11/17/2015 - 21:51 | 6807295 Shizzmoney
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What Washington wanted: ISIS to kill Assad, and then go on their murderous ways, and then have the justification to go in and "kill ISIS" and take over the land.

What Washington got: A clusterfuck that no one can control

Tue, 11/17/2015 - 22:01 | 6807337 Chuckster
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If the bomb in Germany would have succeeded....it would be game on.  All things prior would be forgotten.

Tue, 11/17/2015 - 22:24 | 6807408 AlaricBalth
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That bomb did succeed. It sent a message, and that was its intent. I would venture to say, that device was never meant to be detonated. A false flag from a Merkel opponent saying enough refugees or these types of bombs will strike Germany next.

Tue, 11/17/2015 - 23:58 | 6807710 Implied Violins
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Or: a message Merkel knew was coming, whose purpose is to further the message of fear so people give up their rights for freedom, while building hatred towards Muslims instead of looking at who is REALLY responsible for it all: the NWO globalists.

Tue, 11/17/2015 - 22:05 | 6807345 Ms No
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I wonder what he meant by "tired" petroleum provinces of Russia.  Last I heard they knocked out SA as top supplier as well as having the largest proven gas reserves.  The Russians are also strategically sneaky and they may have more than we know, like with that diamond crater that they hid only to announce at a way later date.     

"....2008 would trigger a flow of investment, technology and cheap debt into the US shale patch, the Canadian tar sands, the tired petroleum provinces of Russia, the deep offshore of Brazil etc."

Tue, 11/17/2015 - 22:27 | 6807425 Wilcox1
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"Tiered" as in the ledges in an open pit mine. Not "Tired" as in George Forman at the end of a fight.

Tue, 11/17/2015 - 22:13 | 6807369 BlussMann
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"The great general and president, Dwight Eisesenhower"

Really ? This Bloody Bolshevik Bastard starved upwards of a million German POWs to death or allowed them to die of oxposure. Ike also set the Negro loose with his invasion of Little Rock to enforce the radical decrees of the Warren Court. Piss on Ike.

Tue, 11/17/2015 - 22:26 | 6807417 WTFUD
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Blowjob- The vaginal frontier

Tue, 11/17/2015 - 22:27 | 6807421 WillyGroper
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From Ike's death camps to Red Ronnie.

Quaint.

Tue, 11/17/2015 - 22:49 | 6807492 Omega_Man
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One only has to look at the backgrounds of the advisors to the US Gov and Military to understand that the common underlying theme of their advice is to favour Israel at any and every minute detail within the scope of their duties.

Tue, 11/17/2015 - 22:52 | 6807494 7againstThebes
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It's a little strange to me that an intelligent guy like Stockman repeats the party line about 9/11.

"... a relative handful of suicidal jihadi who have perpetrated murderous episodes of terror like 9/11...."

I can see that Stockman might not want to stir up a hornet's nest.  But he did not need to mention anything about "suicidal jihadi." He could have skirted the issue, while not losing sight of what is happening. No analysis of the government in Washington, which does not take into account constitutional changes brought about by the assassination of Kennedy, and 9/11, can be accurate.  (By "constitutional changes" I don't mean the formal constitutional, but the actual rules of the game as now being played.)

The coup d'etat of Nov. 22, 1963 did not change the government, but it was an event that set parameters around the elected politicians, which they have observed ever since.  As for 9/11, it was a take over by the Israelis of key sectors of the American government.

 We are now the colony of a hegemon. We do what a colony does -- those who play along prosper. Everybody else struggles.   It's not all that complicated.

 

 

 

 

Tue, 11/17/2015 - 22:54 | 6807509 taggaroonie
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And now France can throw its resources into pointless military waste streams and hasten its welfare/warfare bankruptcy.

The enemy, whoever they are, has already won this one, having fucked the U.S. the same way.

Wed, 11/18/2015 - 00:48 | 6807792 The Darwin Mode
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"The enemy, whoever they are, has already won." --taggaroonie

No matter which CFR-lapdog is occupying the Oval Office in any given cycle, our enemies are already identified from before the oath of office to after the farewell address (Cersei Lannister stated it perfectly in Game of Thrones): "Everyone who isn't us is an enemy."

Tue, 11/17/2015 - 23:13 | 6807574 WTFUD
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You begin with a simple eye-tuck and as the years pass you move down the face ( returning in later years to re redo's ) and then down the body , ending up with , are you looking at me face; your ass and tits way down south. It costs billions to defy gravity and yet the vanity of some knows no bounds. Why meddle with nature; it's bad for your well-being. Only an armed revolt can/will  release us from the dark side.

Wed, 11/18/2015 - 00:28 | 6807762 The Darwin Mode
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WTFUD, some insist that only massive civil disobedience can make lasting change possible, whereas the short-term gains of armed revolt ultimately result in acquiescence... and at the cost of magnified violence. I'm not sure on this myself, and I don't think the so-called "American Revolution" is necessarily a good guide on the topic since it wasn't an actual social revolution, and didn't result in much change at the grassroots level.

Tue, 11/17/2015 - 23:24 | 6807607 rapetrain
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USSA's antagonism vs the Soviet Union increased its lifetime. It was an unsustainable idea, carried only by nationalistic fervor directed against Washington's imperial interventions. It was the same in Korea, Indochina, Cuba, Iran, Iraq...

Same story here with ISIS

Tue, 11/17/2015 - 23:27 | 6807620 hoist the bs flag
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make up your fucking mind ZH, ISIS is real or it isn't...the article 2 spots above says the exact opposite of this one. 

Wed, 11/18/2015 - 00:21 | 6807742 The Darwin Mode
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Yo bs flag, this ain't the corporate media my man, where one state-preferred brand of geopolitical propaganda is served across all mainstream platforms. Appreciate that you have multiple competing versions of events, because this forces you to be discriminating when choosing to internalize certain beliefs. Don't you think that it's okay to consider alternative perspectives from alternative sources when consuming alternative media? I wouldn't wait for ZH to tell you what is and what is not... rather, diversify your sources of propaganda as best you can. After all, there is only propaganda.

Wed, 11/18/2015 - 00:15 | 6807714 earleflorida
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great article, mr. stockman

just a couple of ???

eisenhower played the 'MIC `card' and public like a fiddle? remember, it was he that gave life to the 'Domino Theory', in which truman put 'Mr. Containment `Kennan on the job.

 SOS Baker never signed a formal agreement with Gorbackev, and basically called him out-- as a fool!, already off to a good start!

Reagan broke every law imaginable with Iran Contra Scandal, and Pakistan' s nuclear program, giving  Gen. Zia ul Haq everything he wanted for their nuke program. Carter made it happen with Brzezinski, whilst, shitting-on and humiliating sos Vance[ actually kept him out of the loop]!

as for the problems coming down the road are the madrassas in pakistan training millions of unemployed young minds in thousands of military/isi islamic/sharia state funded seminaries known as Sunni Deobandi schools fomenting radical wahhabi/salifist indoctrination. remember this--- the saudi arabian gov't employs hundreds of thousands of pakistan paramilitary and between the GCC/ SA/ Sunni charitable orgs... all give generously to pakistan's ISI/ Military jihadist indoctrinations movements. Pakistan controls Afghanistan and the Pak Taliban control the heroin and everything else under the sun.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madrassas_in_Pakistan

the centrifuges have never stopped churnning out the [a q khan] uranium. and, Allah for 'God's Sake, only knows how many Nukes they have in their traveling caravan arsenal, with China supplying them with techology via proliferating their warheads or devises into suitcases or missles that perhaps in a few years two-oceans will be a shitshow of fireworks paid and bought for by ussa citizens emptying pocketbooks for Pak's jihadist revenge.

this rumsfeld guy told musharraf in 2001 if they weren't on board we'd bombed them back into the 'stone-ages' and that was ~15 yrs ago,... and as you know[?] centrifuges evolve into ever better technology.

Note: the Pak's were going to ignite/ test [joke] a nuke in 1985, but were advised by the president/gen. to hold off, as not to embarrass reagan, or worse get him impeached. but, what the fuck, we just kept giving billions of dollars that were match by saudi arabia. 

the beat goes-on

look for pak's [isi/army] and india ([raw/ mossad][with israel helping india's security and advance weaponry]) to flare-up again in Bangledesh, Mumbai, or Kashmir Valley while the west is fighting syraq!

well, that's about all i have to contribute to your wonderful article that mirrors much of what Chalmers Johnsons` 'triology', had said in a nut shell...:-0 

Wed, 11/18/2015 - 00:13 | 6807717 The Darwin Mode
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Eisenhower was an overrated pussy as president. He gets so much recognition for his "courageous" and "prophetic" MIC warning (apparently stating the obvious on your way out the door counts as prophetic), but why didn't he try to do something about it during the eight years when he had some measure of executive authority? Sure he probably would've been assassinated, but aren't military men supposed to face death bravely when it comes to serving one's country? How many of his own soldiers, marines, seamen and airmen did just that at his command in WWII... yet he couldn't muster the same fortitude?

No, no, no: Eisenhower was a tool for the powerful... an upjumped incompetent whose meteoric rise had more than a little to do with his pliability under political duress. He committed war crimes against German POWs as general, and as president undermined and overthrew democratic governments in Indonesia, Iran, and Guatemala (installing brutal puppet dictatorships in the latter two). Some courageous prophet, our Ike.

Wed, 11/18/2015 - 00:17 | 6807741 Volkodav
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Eisenhower was a war criminal

Other Losses   -James Bacque-

Wed, 11/18/2015 - 00:29 | 6807765 Fuku Ben
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11/9 Walls come crumbling down
9/11 Buildings come crumbling down

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbZ-s2CxXGs

"the gates of hell have been opened"
"the gates of hell have been opened wide"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8OZE4N2PqM#t=1m38s

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CT83SSjWUAAmZ9F.jpg

And it looks like the firemen are waiting. It just wouldn't be the same old song and dance without the X on the helmet as a reminder.

How's everything at CERN today?

Wed, 11/18/2015 - 00:39 | 6807768 Youri Carma
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David Stockman is a fool because 911 was a false flag organized by CIA/MI5/MI6 and Mossad as is this latest Paris massacre. The blowback meme is too obvious but easily adapted by people who are not that bright as we can observe ourselves. Paul Craig Roberts makes this point very clear:

Every Position On The Spectrum Supports The Government’s Propaganda http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-11-17/every-position-spectrum-supports-governments-propaganda

Wed, 11/18/2015 - 00:46 | 6807799 The Darwin Mode
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David Stockman isn't necessarily a fool, Y.C. He could be a liar. Actually, I read his Contra Corner material a lot and get quite a bit out of it; geopolitics simply ain't his forte. He's a macroeconomic guy, and is brilliant in that capacity.

Wed, 11/18/2015 - 00:50 | 6807809 bid the soldier...
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It's actually worse.

that is why a quarter century after the cold war ended peace still hasn’t been given a chance 

At least during the cold war we had MAD.  Mutually Assured Destruction. 

But Booger Bush, Great Mind that he was born with, did away with MAD in 2002, when his fortune in a box of Cracker Jacks told him to do so.  Or maybe it was his dad.

Now the cretinous morons in the Cub Scout division of the Neocons, like Paul "is it in yet" Wolfowitz and Victoria "I don't feel it" Noodleman, think that with the addition of merely one more battery of Patriot missiles, they will be able to convince their contact in the Pentagon to go ahead with the preemptive nuclear attack that have secretly organized.

Wed, 11/18/2015 - 04:13 | 6808059 GC
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"So the demise of the Soviet Union in 1991 meant the world could have reverted to the status quo ante. That is, to a normalcy of peace, liberal commerce and a minimum of armaments that had prevailed in the late 19th century."

Right.. except the barbary wars, all the Napoleonic wars, a number of Russo-Turkish war,  the russo-finnish war, the greek war of independance, the post-napoleonic revolutions in Spain, France and Belgium, the various anti-turk upraising in the Balkans, the Carlist wars in Spain, the European Uprisings of the 1848, the three Italian wars of independance, the Hungarian war of independance, the Schleswig wars, the Crimean war, the Austro-Prussian war, the glorius revolution of Spain, the Franco-Prussian war (and teh consequent french civil war), the Serbo-bulgarian war.

And these are just the wars in Europe and in a "quiet" century as most European countries were busy fighting colonial wars all around the planet against just about anyone else.

A "normalcy of peace".. AH! 

Wed, 11/18/2015 - 05:52 | 6808150 StychoKiller
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And now all you believers in Extra-Terrestrials can see WHY there will be no "First Contact!"

Wed, 11/18/2015 - 08:48 | 6808359 Cloud9.5
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There will be no peace.  As the great contraction continues, the chaos will come down our streets.   The glue holding any of this together is a government pay check.  The day they bounce,  God help us.

Wed, 11/18/2015 - 09:07 | 6808400 JohnFrodo
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It could be worse than blowback. Look at history, it could be manufactured.

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