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Guest Post: Ending Blowback Terrorism

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Authored by Jeffrey Sachs, originally posted at Project Syndicate,

Terrorist attacks on civilians, whether the downing over Sinai of a Russian aircraft killing 224 civilian passengers, the horrific Paris massacre claiming 129 innocent lives, or the tragic bombing in Ankara that killed 102 peace activists, are crimes against humanity. Their perpetrators – in this case, the Islamic State (ISIS) – must be stopped. Success will require a clear understanding of the roots of this ruthless network of jihadists.

Painful as it is to admit, the West, especially the United States, bears significant responsibility for creating the conditions in which ISIS has flourished. Only a change in US and European foreign policy vis-à-vis the Middle East can reduce the risk of further terrorism.

The recent attacks should be understood as “blowback terrorism”: a dreadful unintended result of repeated US and European covert and overt military actions throughout the Middle East, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and Central Asia that aimed to overthrow governments and install regimes compliant with Western interests. These operations have not only destabilized the targeted regions, causing great suffering; they have also put populations in the US, the European Union, Russia, and the Middle East at significant risk of terror.

The public has never really been told the true history of Osama bin Laden, Al Qaeda, or the rise of ISIS in Iraq and Syria. Starting in 1979, the CIA mobilized, recruited, trained, and armed Sunni young men to fight the Soviet Union in Afghanistan. The CIA recruited widely from Muslim populations (including in Europe) to form the Mujahideen, a multinational Sunni fighting force mobilized to oust the Soviet infidel from Afghanistan.

Bin Laden, from a wealthy Saudi family, was brought in to help lead and co-finance the operation. This was typical of CIA operations: relying on improvised funding through a wealthy Saudi family and proceeds from local smuggling and the narcotics trade.

By promoting the core vision of a jihad to defend the lands of Islam (Dar al-Islam) from outsiders, the CIA produced a hardened fighting force of thousands of young men displaced from their homes and stoked for battle. It is this initial fighting force – and the ideology that motivated it – that today still forms the basis of the Sunni jihadist insurgencies, including ISIS. While the jihadists’ original target was the Soviet Union, today the “infidel” includes the US, Europe (notably France and the United Kingdom), and Russia.

At the end of the 1980s, with the Soviet retreat from Afghanistan, some elements of the Mujahideen morphed into Al Qaeda, Arabic for “the base,” which referred to the military facilities and training grounds in Afghanistan built for the Mujahideen by bin Laden and the CIA. After the Soviet withdrawal, the term Al Qaeda shifted meaning from the specific military base to the organizational base of jihadist activities.

Blowback against the US began in 1990 with the first Gulf War, when the US created and expanded its military bases in the Dar al-Islam, most notably in Saudi Arabia, the home of Islam’s founding and holiest sites. This expanded US military presence was anathema to the core jihadist ideology that the CIA had done so much to foster.

America’s unprovoked war on Iraq in 2003 unleashed the demons. Not only was the war itself launched on the basis of CIA lies; it also aimed to create a Shia-led regime subservient to the US and anathema to the Sunni jihadists and the many more Sunni Iraqis who were ready to take up arms. More recently, the US, France, and the UK toppled Muammar el-Qaddafi in Libya, and the US worked with the Egyptian generals who ousted the elected Muslim Brotherhood government. In Syria, following President Bashar al-Assad’s violent suppression of peaceful public protests in 2011, the US, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and other regional allies helped to foment a military insurgency that has pushed the country into a downward spiral of chaos and violence.

Such operations have failed – repeatedly and frequently disastrously – to produce legitimate governments or even rudimentary stability. On the contrary, by upending established, albeit authoritarian, governments in Iraq, Libya, and Syria, and destabilizing Sudan and other parts of Africa deemed hostile to the West, they have done much to fuel chaos, bloodshed, and civil war. It is this turmoil that has enabled ISIS to capture and defend territory in Syria, Iraq, and parts of North Africa.

Three steps are needed to defeat ISIS and other violent jihadists.

First, US President Barack Obama should pull the plug on CIA covert operations. The use of the CIA as a secret army of destabilization has a long, tragic history of failure, all hidden from public view under the agency’s cloak of secrecy. Ending CIA-caused mayhem would go far to staunch the instability, violence, and anti-Western hatred that fuels today’s terrorism.

 

Second, the US, Russia, and the other permanent members of the United Nations Security Council should immediately stop their infighting and establish a framework for Syrian peace. They have a shared and urgent stake in confronting ISIS; all are victims of the terror. Moreover, military action against ISIS can succeed only with the legitimacy and backing of the UN Security Council.

 

The UN framework should include an immediate end to the insurgency against Assad that the US, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey have pursued; a Syrian cease-fire; a UN-mandated military force to confront ISIS; and a political transition in Syria dictated not by the US, but by a UN consensus to support a non-violent political reconstruction.

 

Finally, the long-term solution to regional instability lies in sustainable development. The entire Middle East is beset not only by wars but also by deepening development failures: intensifying fresh water stress, desertification, high youth unemployment, poor educational systems, and other serious blockages.

More wars – especially CIA-backed, Western-led wars – will solve nothing. By contrast, a surge of investment in education, health, renewable energy, agriculture, and infrastructure, financed both from within the region and globally, is the real key to building a more stable future for the Middle East and the world.
 

 

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Sat, 11/21/2015 - 18:16 | 6822257 logicalman
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No shit, Sherlock!

 

Sat, 11/21/2015 - 18:22 | 6822268 ZerOhead
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"These operations have not only destabilized the targeted regions, causing great suffering; they have also put populations in the US, the European Union, Russia, and the Middle East at significant risk of terror."

You mean that wasn't part of the plan?...

Sat, 11/21/2015 - 18:23 | 6822273 Tonald J Drump
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>>>>  TRUMP vs. ISIS

>>>>  HITLERY vs. ISIS

Sat, 11/21/2015 - 18:27 | 6822279 Bob
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Oh, yeah!  Trump gonna make America Great again!

Just what everybody needs. 

(And I prefer "Killary" to her media name.)

Sun, 11/22/2015 - 10:09 | 6824113 Richard Chesler
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"surge of investment in education, health, renewable energy, agriculture, and infrastructure, financed both from within the region and globally, is the real key to building a more stable future for the Middle East and the world."

Easier to just turn the place into glass...

Sat, 11/21/2015 - 18:25 | 6822281 Dinero D. Profit
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If you feel like livestock, go right out and vote.

Sat, 11/21/2015 - 18:30 | 6822290 CheapBastard
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" We Blewback some folks. "

Sat, 11/21/2015 - 18:34 | 6822302 Tonald J Drump
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Blewback Mountain ?

Sat, 11/21/2015 - 18:57 | 6822365 Dick Buttkiss
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"First, US President Barack Obama should pull the plug on CIA covert operations."

That would be a suicidal act.

Sat, 11/21/2015 - 20:36 | 6822708 Normalcy Bias
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Not to mention that Obama is likely their creation...

Sat, 11/21/2015 - 20:49 | 6822777 Baby Bladeface
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Funny but somehow this Project Syndicate article echoes similar to the Project Syndicate article posted here Monday.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-11-16/guest-post-western-roots-anti-w...

Minions of Soros trying to write themselves out of the narrative of blame?

Sun, 11/22/2015 - 07:58 | 6823888 turtle
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Calling it "blowback terrorism" is an attempt to legitimise this otherwise "false flag".

Let's call it "false flag blowback terrorism".

Sun, 11/22/2015 - 08:00 | 6823889 turtle
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And how about some articles on Israel's, sorry I mean Syria's Golan Heights, ZH?

Sat, 11/21/2015 - 19:56 | 6822548 Remington IV
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Obama = war criminal

Sat, 11/21/2015 - 18:17 | 6822259 stacking12321
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"Painful as it is to admit, the West, especially the United States, bears significant responsibility for creating the conditions in which ISIS has flourished."

i would go a step farther - CIA deliberately trained, supported, and financed ISIS

this isn't "blowback", it's a carefully crafted policy, it's what was intended.

Sun, 11/22/2015 - 13:18 | 6824611 detached.amusement
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ding ding ding and fuckin ding

 

blowback my left nut

 

all part of "ths USA drying up and blowing away"

Sat, 11/21/2015 - 18:20 | 6822265 blindman
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then again it may be worse than blow back
and may be the design of quisling power
brokers thieving from treasuries and related
access for personal protection and greed?
that would be worsity^tm ....
who could even contemplate such a crime?
oh, that would be the banksters.

Sat, 11/21/2015 - 18:20 | 6822266 honestann
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PREMISE == TOTAL BS.

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First, most so-called terrorism is a false-flag planned, scripted, funded, supplied and/or performed by predators-DBA-government.

Second, the predators-that-be WANT BLOWBACK and WANT TERRORISM.  Why?  Because it gives them effective excuses for new and bigger budgets, new and more egregious ways to abuse everyone (especially their own citizens == slaves), spend more on military and spy budgets, and generally run roughshod on their prey (honest, ethical, benevolent producers).

So, while the concept of "blowback" is important, the premises of the article are false, and besides, most "blowback" is either planned or wanted by the predators-that-be.

Sat, 11/21/2015 - 18:32 | 6822297 cougar_w
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"most so-called terrorism is a false-flag planned, scripted, funded, supplied and/or performed by predators-DBA-government."

Denial is not going to help any of us now.

Sat, 11/21/2015 - 22:45 | 6823162 Lanka
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Jeffrey Sachs should read your comments and then rewrite his simplistic article.

Sat, 11/21/2015 - 18:21 | 6822269 Dinero D. Profit
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In '93, (FF) whe had blowback terrorism.  On 9/11, (FF)  7/7 (FF) and what have you, we had blow back terrorism.

 

Does the author of this article ever scritinize, and I mean actuallyt scrutinize the MSN? 

Sat, 11/21/2015 - 18:24 | 6822274 Bob
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H-O-L-Y Fuck!  What's with the sudden rush of radical truth-telling among the PTB?

The NYT, Killary, now Jeffrey Sachs.  Something is up . . . and I have a hard time believing it's a sudden appearance of American conscience.

Sat, 11/21/2015 - 18:31 | 6822294 ZerOhead
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Very observant. The time is getting near...

http://redefininggod.com/understanding-the-nwo-strategy/

Sat, 11/21/2015 - 18:46 | 6822325 cougar_w
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It doesn't have to be a deliberate setup to be properly exploited by those of a conniving nature. 

Sat, 11/21/2015 - 18:51 | 6822348 Bob
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The spirit of the times is shifting its roll, then.  Makes sense.  But all these parties are connected by less than six degrees of separation, that's for sure.  Three at most.  That's pretty tight, it seems to me.

Sat, 11/21/2015 - 18:54 | 6822357 cougar_w
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These "parties" political and otherwise trace their true bloodlines back to the Middle Ages. See my comment below on the importance and relevance of history.

Sat, 11/21/2015 - 19:02 | 6822371 Bob
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Talking about the NYT and Killary (from earlier today):

Saudi Arabia, An ISIS That Has Made It:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/21/opinion/saudi-arabia-an-isis-that-has-...

Strange happenings the past few days at the "newspaper of record."  Why is the NYT suddenly exposing truths?

Likewise, Killary Hinton just called out SA, Qatar and Turkey for "allowing their citizens to fund" ISIS:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8gQW0ebXSo

Somethin's up.

A couple days ago the NYT came out against the CIA and NSA.  Even Greenwald was throwing kisses. 

I'm talking about well-placed individuals and small collections of individual "parties" lately.  C'mon, here we have Sachs talking like a revolutionary!  Sorry, I mean, terrorist.

Sat, 11/21/2015 - 19:13 | 6822399 Dinero D. Profit
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If your are accused, its always better to confess to a small crime so that you can hide the greater, no, the vast crime. 

Sat, 11/21/2015 - 19:16 | 6822412 cougar_w
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True. And sometimes you accuser wants it that way. Everyone wants in on the game.

Sat, 11/21/2015 - 19:27 | 6822443 Demdere
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I have been saying for some time that the power of the centralized state was at its peak.  Had to be, as they don't have any of the knowledge needed to support massive designed systems such as the FED and military-industrial-complex + empire.  These are systems failing from within.  They can no longer accurately identify enemies or take corrective actions, so everything they do makes the situation worse.

https://thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/2015/07/23/us-government-power-is-at-...

https://thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/2015/08/25/peak-information/

https://thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/2015/08/25/choosing-traditions-guidin...

Sat, 11/21/2015 - 19:45 | 6822496 Demdere
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https://thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/2015/11/09/oil-is-the-excuse/

Two things are happening, I believe.  First of all, the CIA is disposing of a failed tool, getting on with its core business of smuggling drugs and helping oligarchs execute revolutions.  Goodby ISIS, you were useful for a while.

Second, both Ds and Rs in the US are seeing that tying their fate with the Israeli-Neocon foreign policys is not playing well with American votes, and their European equivalents ditto.  So they are trying hard to figure out how to make the switch while losing as little of the Neocon stream of campaign contributions as possible.  There will be a great deal of kabuki and handwaving and rhetoric on the House floor, but the wars are going to end soon because we can't continue to spend the $, nobody will loan it to us, and when we have to start printing it all, it means hyperinflation because the total National Debt of $20B rolls over every 4.5 years or so.

The big decision is military vs welfare, and the neocons want to keep the military.  Right, they can make that fly. That, at base, is the drive for they hyper-hyperbole in propaganda, they need big enemies to justify the spending.  ISIS has not provided enough of that, but it was the best they had.  ISIS is in fact laughable, and it is only with a great deal of $ from outside that it can do anything at all.

https://thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/2015/10/27/ignoring-the-absolutely-in...

https://thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/2015/11/11/dynamics-of-national-colla...

https://thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/2015/11/10/a-measure-of-propagandas-p...

 

 

Sat, 11/21/2015 - 18:51 | 6822284 cougar_w
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Some of the problem goes back to the establishment of Israel. You don't have to be pro- or anti-Zionist to see that. Isreal was always seen as a kind of Western invasion, or a continuation of a century or more of Western imperialism. Lots of bad blood. Things have certainly blown up recently, there is no going back now, but the Isreali situation was the thorn in the Arab side that festered into this anarchic death-match.

Heck, this goes back even to the Crusades (ME Muslims still call those of us in the West "crusaders") and more recently the nasty business of the Ottoman Empire (the shoe being then on the other foot) inflames people still. When you imagine that there were no real problems with the "Musselman" (as they were called) until Pope Urban II inflamed young European lordlings to make the Holy Land safe for Christian pilgrims (who were themselves a rabble and a pox on humanity) then you can make a case that it was radical Christianity (backed by a venial merchant class willing to arm all sides) that made this insanity into a business.

No way out. It will not end now except with an insane amount of murder. 

Sat, 11/21/2015 - 18:57 | 6822363 ZerOhead
Sat, 11/21/2015 - 19:02 | 6822376 Abaco
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You ought to educate yourself on the crusades. Whatever their faults, they were a reaction to the slaughter of Christians and the corcible seizure of the Holy Lands by militant Islam.

Sat, 11/21/2015 - 19:14 | 6822403 cougar_w
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Yes yes we all remember what the Pope said about it at the time. It was all very stirring, as was intended.

Sat, 11/21/2015 - 19:26 | 6822441 Dinero D. Profit
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Talk about stirring, you should hear what the Pope has to say, -behind his back, -about Satan.

Sat, 11/21/2015 - 22:30 | 6823123 Implied Violins
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While straddling the Black Pope? Or one of his child sacrifices?

Sat, 11/21/2015 - 20:45 | 6822756 BarnacleBill
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"Isreal was always seen as a kind of Western invasion"

Yes, indeed. The Arabs see Israel as a NATO beach-head, nothing less.

Sat, 11/21/2015 - 18:29 | 6822287 manofthenorth
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I thought Europeans were supposed to be so much better educated than Americans ??

Can I assume that they are as intentionally ignorant of their own history as their Anglo-American counterparts ?

"Many young people in Paris were innocent victims of the Nov. 13 attack, but that doesn’t mean that the French imperialist state is innocent. While the 1789 French Revolution raised the idealistic slogans of liberty, equality and fraternity, French imperialism, which developed from that bourgeois revolution, has a bloody history across the world. The actions of the French ruling class have created many enemies, but it is the ordinary people, not the elites, who pay the price.

When imperialist France had just emerged from German occupation after World War II, the Arab and Berber peoples began carrying out mass demonstrations and uprisings in Algeria against French colonial rule. To suppress that rebellion, for several days French troops and police, acting on orders from the French president issued on May 8, 1945, massacred as many as 45,000 Algerians who peacefully demonstrated in the cities of Setif, Guelma and Kherrata. (tinyurl.com/ncqzar5) The French occupiers killed as many as a million Algerians trying to hold onto that nation, until the people finally won their liberation in 1962.

In 1947, French colonial troops slaughtered 89,000 people to “pacify” a rebellion in Madagascar, an African island in the Indian Ocean. (Le Monde Diplomatique, March 1997) During the long French war in Indochina, the French military killed many more Vietnamese, Laotians, Cambodians and some Chinese until French imperialism was finally driven out in 1954.

Even in Paris itself, on Oct. 17, 1961, French police opened fire on a demonstration of 30,000 Algerians, killing between 70 and 300 people. If you haven’t heard of this, it’s because the French police and media conspired to keep it secret until it finally was verified in the 1990s. (“The Battle of Paris,”Jean-Luc Einaudi, 1991)

This history of imperialist military intervention continues. French jets are bombing today in Syria and Iraq, along with the U.S.-led “coalition.” French jets opened the air war against Libya in 2011, leading NATO’s barbaric destruction of that country."

Sat, 11/21/2015 - 18:44 | 6822321 cougar_w
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It has always been the case that if one nation grows in power, then it is by breaking the back of another nation. Or many.

Reference Smedley Butler.

A lot of my felllow Americans labor under the false narrative that America grew great through hard work under the benevolent blessing of God, and that was enough. But it was not enough. Most recently we have been exporting financial fraud, but before that America was not shy about invading other countries for exclusive access to resources or to open up "markets".

Making the world safe for ExxonMobile and their ilk has been Job One for two centuries.

With any luck, radical religion (yeah, pick one) and the global Corporatocracy will shortly murder each other and leave the rest of us out of it.

Sat, 11/21/2015 - 18:33 | 6822298 opport.knocks
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This isn't blowback terrorism, it is the deliberate actions of either deep state or supra-state agencies with a definite agenda.

The only meaningful question is whether Obama or Cameron or Hollande have any say in the direction that this "blows"?

Sat, 11/21/2015 - 19:07 | 6822385 WTFUD
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Any of those 3 could be cast as Lawrence of Arabia opp.knocks but Barry wins the tiebreaker as he can swing a blade and is not just a lover like the other 2 pricks. s/c

Sat, 11/21/2015 - 18:37 | 6822303 tlnzz
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It's about time someone lays out the involvement of the CIA's disastrous failures or misfortunate accomplishments.

Sat, 11/21/2015 - 18:48 | 6822333 Blue Dog
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Just another ignorant, stupid article. The author needs to understand Islam. Islam is violent. There was a revival of real Islam starting in the 1970s and the world continues to suffer for it.

Sat, 11/21/2015 - 18:52 | 6822350 drooley
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What if, we stopped sending our military to the Middle East? What if we stopped enlisting in the military? What if we stopped supporting the military?

I don't want our youth dying or killing for nothing, or for false reasons.

Sat, 11/21/2015 - 18:56 | 6822361 cougar_w
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If you learned that our youth were killing and dying for oil, would that matter?

The point swings both ways very easily, notice.

Sat, 11/21/2015 - 19:03 | 6822378 WTFUD
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Let's parachute the whole of Congress, the British Government and the Stooges at the EU into downtown Aleppo and dare IS to demand a ransom.

Sat, 11/21/2015 - 19:45 | 6822510 Moccasin
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More drones! /sarc

Sat, 11/21/2015 - 19:56 | 6822545 MASTER OF UNIVERSE
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As much as I despise Jeffrey Sachs, and everything he stands for, he is right to assert that we should end CIA-caused mayhem let loose on the world. JFK wanted to fragment the CIA 'into a thousand pieces' and it is high time that all nations banded together to break up the CIA just as Kennedy wanted. Eisenhower called for the same thing if my memory serves correctly. In brief, the CIA has singlehandedly destroyed the entirety of the USA by their collective incompetence and egregious largesse with regard to involvement in underworld crime. A country needs ethics to survive whereas the United States of America, under any administration that allows the CIA to operate the way it has been, has lost all notions of even the concept of 'ethics'. Bottom line is that the USA is run by criminals, for criminals. Everything else is mere window dressing.

Up yours, CIA, and the bus you rolled in on, motherfuckers.

Sat, 11/21/2015 - 20:34 | 6822698 Joebloinvestor
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Timothy McVeigh was blowback.

Sat, 11/21/2015 - 21:23 | 6822912 besnook
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tomothy mcveigh was proactive. the mission is just now backfiring as more and more people see that little white boy dick on the emperor.

Sat, 11/21/2015 - 20:34 | 6822699 DOGGONE
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POTUS,
Please do this timely, please

Thwart terrorists!
End this deception by omission now!
http://showrealhist.com/begun.gif
http://showrealhist.com

Sat, 11/21/2015 - 21:20 | 6822902 besnook
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think post ww1 great britain. britain thinks it rules the world without challenge. germany(ussr) is vanquished. the natives on the edges are getting restless, not just the british slaves, but the french and italian and the dutch subhumans are getting restless. germany rises from the ashes and is eventually crushed by the russians. meanwhile, over in the far east, china becomes maoland without much pushback, the real end of the british empire, and the french, italian and dutch empires.

who challenges the obvious aggressor zionazis? russia, china, possibly india, indonesia, and the grand prize, japan. does the reborn russian empire get crushed as suggested by the sgort history lesson above? or does russia and the east prevail ot establissh a binary new world order where the west keeps peace in the west. the east keeps peace in the east ......and africa is divvied up as it should be, as fair and square as possible(lol, really obscure sarcasm)....gog and magog.

Sat, 11/21/2015 - 21:41 | 6822948 KashNCarry
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Here is ISIS.

Not the same as those blamed by the Lame Stream Media...

quote:

You can't say they were terrorists in that photo, (photo of alleged terrorists in the Bataclan theater) because if they were, they would still have "hundreds of survivors laying on that floor, cowering in fear". WHO WERE THEY? I'll guess. They are Mossad, or better yet, ISIS INCORPORATED, an American death contractor and they murdered all the people on that floor below and set up this brutal photo, THAT'S WHO.

Oh, and click on the tab that says about ISIS. Seriously... ;-)

Sat, 11/21/2015 - 23:28 | 6823302 galant
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 Paleoanthropologist Ian Tattersall in his book Masters of the Planet reflects that "apart from death, the only ironclad rule of human experience has been the Law of Unintended Consequences. “

He asks are we a crazy species? Does the big brain that allowed us to master the planet have a basic design flaw?

The answers are here at Zero Hedge every day in spades.

 

Sun, 11/22/2015 - 03:23 | 6823572 Radical Marijuana
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I regard human intelligence as the internalization of natural selection, which was then applied to the greatest selection pressure that such intelligent human beings faced, which was other groups of human beings. Hence, the history of warfare. The oldest book on the history of warfare begins its discussion of The Art of War by saying "success in war depends on deceit," and ends by saying "spies are the most important soldiers." In Western history, Machiavelli and Clausewitz stated similar things, while, more recently Alexander Vladimirov stated: "All human history can be portrayed as the history of deception."

I have endeavoured to develop political science to become more consistent with physical science, to demonstrate, both theoretically and empirically, why and how human beings and civilization live as entropic pumps of environmental energy flows. The basic concepts of general energy systems can be applied to derive how and why civilization necessarily operates according to the principles and methods of organized crime.

The only things which exist are the dynamic equilibria between different systems of organized lies operating robberies. That follows from the original subtractions that occur when we perceive human beings as separate from their environment and each other. After that original subtraction, human beings necessarily live as gangs of robbers.

The history of warfare was organized crime on larger and larger scales. Civilization was driven by the history of warfare, in order to become what it is now, that governments are necessarily the biggest forms of organized crime, controlled by the best organized criminals, which includes that governments are the biggest terrorists, controlled by the best organized terrorists.

Everyone lives as entropic pumps of environmental energy flows. All private property is based on backing up claims with coercions. There is no private property outside of some system of public violence. The most abstract form of that has become that money is measurement backed by murder, because the debt controls are based upon the death controls. The existing combined money/murder systems now manifest as governments enforcing frauds by privately controlled banks. There is almost nothing but a core of organized crime, surrounded by controlled opposition groups, and those all tend to stay within the same frame of reference based upon the assertions of the absolute reifications of dualities that are expressed as false fundamental dichotomies, and the related impossible ideals.

Since the dominate existing systems are based upon various vicious spirals of political funding enforcing frauds, it appears to be politically impossible to stop those systems of debt slavery from continuing to drive numbers which have become debt insanities, which will provoke death insanities. The way that the political economy has become based on governments enforcing frauds by privately controlled banks, where the War Kings created the powers of sovereign states, which the Fraud Kings captured control over and effectively privatized, has been the history of successful warfare based upon deceits morphing to become successful finance based upon frauds.

The excessive social success based upon being able to enforce frauds has resulted in civilization being almost totally dominated by various sorts of professional hypocrites. The excessive successfulness of controlling civilization through the methods of organized crime has resulted in civilization becoming runaway criminal insanities. The history of successful warfare based upon the maximum possible deceits and treacheries has more and more selected for the ruling classes to become psychotic psychopaths, while the only publicly significant apparent opposition to that are various forms of controlled opposition that stay within the same bullshit world views originally promoted by the biggest bullies.

Almost everyone thinks and communicates using natural languages which have incorporated the biggest bullies' bullshit world views. The dominate philosophy of science has done the same thing, due to the history of the philosophy of science developing through a series of compromises with the biggest bullies' bullshit. The currently biggest bullies are the biggest gangsters, the banksters, which effectively control the world's most powerful governments.

The fundamental facts that civilization is controlled by enforcing frauds has driven almost everyone to deliberately ignore the conservation of energy as much as possible, while also deliberately misunderstanding the concept of entropy in the most absurdly backward ways. Since civilization operates through fundamentally fraudulent financial accounting systems, it is impossible to rationally reconcile the human world of economics with industrial and natural processes operating as general energy systems.

The overall intense paradoxes, which operate as sets of consistent contradictions, are due to the basic history of successful warfare based on deceits and treacheries, becoming more sophisticated systems of legalized lies, back by legalized violence, or enforced frauds, whereby the people who are the best at being dishonest, and backing that up with violence, became the most wealthy and powerful people, or the ruling classes that are the pyramidion people in the social pyramid systems, which were always based upon being able to back up lies with violence, and which have grown at about an overall exponential rate due to progress in physical science.

I repeated all of that above to set up my answer to:

He asks are we a crazy species? Does the big brain that allowed us to master the planet have a basic design flaw?

There is NO basic design flaw. Natural selection tends to rather routinely allow extreme specializations, punctuated by extinctions, and so, that could befall human civilization. Natural selection drove the development of artificial selection systems to become based on the maximum possible deceits and frauds ...Those are currently the "best" combined systems whereby murder backs up murder that human beings and civilization are able to operate. There are no genuinely better solutions to those problems than to develop better death control systems. Of course, at the present time that appears extremely problematic, and politically impossible, due to the degree to which civilization is dominated by professional hypocrites, which makes it extremely difficult and dangerous for the biggest and best organized groups of terrorists to negotiate better death controls, but rather drives the established systems to become even more deceitful, primarily manifesting as series of false flag terrorist attacks, becoming runaway self-fulfilling prophesies.

In that context, I agreed with all the previous comments above that expressed the view that Hanlon's Razor should NOT be applied to the various manifestations of "blowback." Rather those were probably being intended and planned upon by those originating the various false flag terrorist attacks, in order to get those self-fulfilling prophesies going.

In particular, I agreed with Cougar's comments:

No way out. It will not end now except with an insane amount of murder.

I have recently been stating similar things under:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-11-18/if-we-want-stop-terrorism-we-should-stop-supporting-terrorists

If We Want To Stop Terrorism, We Should Stop SUPPORTING Terrorists

And similarly under several other articles, like: US Congresswoman Introduces Bill To Stop "Illegal" War On Assad; Says CIA Ops Must Stop

As soon a life exists, then the death controls direct the evolution of that life, which maxim applies to human beings and civilization. Human beings are expressing the necessity that there must be some death control systems, and those necessarily developed to become based on the social successfulness of deceits and treacheries.

DEATH CONTROLS WERE ALWAYS DRIVING THE EVOLUTION OF LIFE.

THAT CONTINUES TO BE NECESSARILY SO WITH RESPECT TO HUMAN BEINGS AND CIVILIZATION, INCLUDING THAT THOSE WHO DID THAT THE BEST DEVELOPED THE MAXIMUM POSSIBLE BULLSHIT REGARDING WHAT THEY WERE DOING, AND ALSO SURROUNDED THEMSELVES WITH BULLSHIT-BASED RELIGIONS AND IDEOLOGIES.

The degree to which we are living inside of Wonderland Matrix Bizarro Worlds encompasses the ways that both governments, and their publicly significant controlled opposition groups, remain within the same frame of reference of the maximum possible deceits regarding the death control systems, particularly because they all operate using similar sorts of dualities, expressed as false fundamental dichotomies, and the related impossible ideals.

For quite a few years I have been attempting to better understand the deeper meanings of the facts that the events on 9/11/2001 were an inside job, false flag attack, carried out and covered up by the ruling classes, in order to advance their overall agenda by starting more genocidal wars, as well as preparing to impose democidal martial law.

Above, I have outlined some of the conclusions that I have come to regarding how and why that happened. I have also been attempting to develop uses of the English language to approach discussing realistic resolutions to those real problems, which must necessarily be the development of better death control systems, which should be achieved through series of intellectual scientific revolutions, which can be applied as profound paradigm shifts in the ways that we perceive and operate the death control systems through unitary mechanisms.

It was NOT a basic design flaw that human intelligence evolved to operate the human murder systems. It is understandable that we have passed through historical phases of backing up deceits with destruction, becoming the current phases of enforcing frauds. That those have become globalized systems of electronic monkey money frauds, backed by the threat of force from apes with atomic bombs, is an intelligible outcome of the ways that human beings evolved to operate systems of artificial selection within natural selection.

Sun, 11/22/2015 - 04:00 | 6823695 galant
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Natural selection tends to routinely allow extreme specialization, punctuated by extinction…… There is NO basic design flaw.

 

No? Then back to Tattersall –

Use the big brain to face our problems or continue our denying…..

The former path is uncertain.

 

The latter – glorifying the killing of our own species, denying resource depletion, ecological degradation, is guaranteed to get uglier.

Sun, 11/22/2015 - 06:15 | 6823791 Radical Marijuana
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Yes, galant, that is the way I see it too.

Of course, I try maintain irrational hopes for human beings to "use the big brain to face our problems," although that "path is uncertain." Meanwhile, the default to fail to do that "is guaranteed to get uglier!"

At the present time, I can not reasonably believe that enough of us are able and willing to "use the big brain to face our problems," as demonstrated by the degree to which false flag terrorism driving vicious spirals of blowback appear to be dominating current events, which is especially so due the surely correct point made by many previous comments above, which asserted that such blowback appears not to be unforeseen, but rather, the deliberate work of psychotic psychopaths, who are not good at anything but those sort of criminal insanities.

The article above spouted BULLSHIT that:

“blowback terrorism” was "unintended."

Its conclusion was also superficial stupidity.

The most important problems are how to operate the human murder systems after the development of weapons of mass destruction. Various possible creative alternatives can NOT be integrated into any system without some alternative death controls being the necessary core, as the keystone to any arch of alternatives, or the lynch pin to hold the component creative alternatives together.

It is utterly bogus to promote "solutions" that do not include alternative death control systems. It was typical that the article above grossly underestimated the problems that actually arise BECAUSE the blowback was intended. After making that egregious error, then such an article can blithely turn to promoting grossly overstated "solutions," which do not admit and address the degree to which that blowback was intended.

It is quite convenient for various mainstream morons and reactionary revolutionaries to engage in superficial analysis, implicitly based upon Hanlon's Razor, that presumes that the blowback was UNintended. By doing that, they do not have to admit and address what the real problems actually are! Thus, the article above was another classic case that that author did NOT "use the big brain to face our problems!"

Indeed, again and again, the articles published on Zero Hedge tend to present relatively correct, but still superficial analysis, which then results in bogus "solutions" which are too superficial. Often, as in this case, many of the comments are better than the original article, and especially those which pointed out that it is spouting BULLSHIT to presume the “blowback terrorism” was "unintended."

Actually, that BLOWBACK was INTENDED, and therefore, our real problems are many orders of magnitude worse, and thus, can NOT be resolved merely by the kinds of superficial "solutions" that the article above concluded with!

It is RIDICULOUS to call for:

... a surge of investment in education, health, renewable energy, agriculture, and infrastructure, financed both from within the region and globally ...

when any such "investment" would still have to manifest as "financed" within the MAD Money As Debt systems set up by the international banksters. Furthermore, it would not be possible to develop a different monetary system without a different murder system to back that up.

Failure to engage in deeper analysis of how the actually existing combined money/murder systems evolved and operate enables all kinds of mainstream morons and reactionary revolutionaries to spout superficial "solutions" which do not admit and address what the problems actually ARE! At the present time, the currently existing combined money/murder systems were made and maintained by the most psychotic psychopaths, who engaged in false flag terrorism, in order to get their "War on Terror" going as a self-fulfilling prophesy, through vicious spirals of INTENDED BLOWBACKS.

In my view, the analysis presented by the article above was IDIOTIC when it assumes “blowback terrorism” was "unintended." Of course, that then leads to being able to propose RIDICULOUS "solutions" which do not admit what the problems actually are!

The real problems are the existing murder systems, and any realistic resolutions to those real problems must necessarily be different murder systems, which are extremely problematic after the development of weapons of mass destruction. In my view, the way to perhaps be able to develop different murder systems would be to go through intellectual scientific revolutions and profound paradigm shifts, that integrated and surpassed those which were already achieved in physical science, which could be applied to political science in general, and the combined money/murder systems in particular.

In order to actually implement any better integrated human, industrial and natural ecologies, the death controls are necessarily the central features, with the human murder systems being the most extreme form of those. However, at the present time, the only realistic way to think that might happen is that the eruptions of death insanities might drive the development of different death control systems, amongst those who survive those severe social storms blowing through.

I eschew the false fundamental dichotomies between presuming it is death insanities or no death controls at all, as the impossible ideal alternative. Rather, the only things that actually exist are the already operating death controls, and the only things which can actually evolve are things which actually exist. What we need are profound paradigm shifts in militarism, as the ideology of the murder system. It is from within the old paradigms, that false flag terrorism, and its intended vicious spirals of blowback, are being developed. Only better paradigms, which are able to include that, and thereby go beyond that, would actually be workable ways to more effectively "use the big brain to face our problems."

Sun, 11/22/2015 - 05:30 | 6823758 KashNCarry
Sun, 11/22/2015 - 19:00 | 6823794 Radical Marijuana
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Thanks for that link, KashNCarry.

I added it to my collection of Excellent Videos on Money Systems.

Tue, 11/24/2015 - 01:54 | 6830402 KashNCarry
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+5000 Great Collection...

Sun, 11/22/2015 - 05:20 | 6823747 KashNCarry
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This is what the NWO lives for. Make the populations fearful, begging the controllers for security from the terrorists.

Sun, 11/22/2015 - 08:19 | 6823912 grekko
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"Painful as it is to admit, the West, especially the United States, bears significant responsibility for creating the conditions in which ISIS has flourished."

 

Wasn't that the plan of TPTB all along?  Hence the ability to create the DHS and pass the Patriot Act.  More blowback, more tyranny at home.  It appears to me that the plan worked beautifully.  Playing catch-up and getting rid of these monstrosities passed into law are the hard part.  If you say something about it, they question your patriotism.  This shit comes right out of the Nazi playbook.

Sun, 11/22/2015 - 08:36 | 6823927 grekko
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"First, US President Barack Obama should pull the plug on CIA covert operations. The use of the CIA as a secret army of destabilization has a long, tragic history of failure, all hidden from public view under the agency’s cloak of secrecy. Ending CIA-caused mayhem would go far to staunch the instability, violence, and anti-Western hatred that fuels today’s terrorism."

 

JFK wanted to do that and look where it got him.

 

 

 

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