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"America's Ship Is Sinking" Former Bush Official Exposes The Unfixable Corruption Inside The Establishment

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"This ship is sinking," retired U.S. Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson tells Abby Martin, adding that "today the purpose of US foreign policy is to support the complex that we have created in the national security state that is fueled, funded, and powered by interminable war."

The former national security advisor to the Reagan administration, who spent years as an assistant to Secretary of State Colin Powell during both Bush administrations reflects on the sad but honest reflection on what America has become as he exposes the unfixable corruption inside the establishment and the corporate interests driving foreign policy.

"It's never been about altruism, it's about sheer power."

 

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Mon, 12/21/2015 - 12:53 | 6949307 Demdere
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Yes.  Consider how few people understood the effect WWII would have on them.

If they had, they would certainly all have left Europe, and the various political parties would have had different prospects.

https://thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/2015/09/21/germanys-jewish-problem/

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 08:24 | 6948292 FX223
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Most will perish but some always survive, seen the matrix, mad Max, star wars etc etc

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 08:25 | 6948294 WTFUD
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The wheels on the bus go round and round . . . all day long.

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 08:30 | 6948303 sTls7
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And this is news, everyone knows this.  

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 08:32 | 6948307 Monetas
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I've given up on my French press .... too much cleaning and too much mud and silt in the bottom of the mug .... I brought out my old Gevalia promotional coffee maker .... I heat the water in a tea pot .... then pour it over the filter basket and into the reservoir .... it was designed to take the heat and more .... I turn the coffee maker on for about 5 minutes .... voila .... Algore would be proud ?

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 08:52 | 6948341 Infinite QE
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I suggest some therapy for you. No one wants to hear about your domestic problems

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 09:00 | 6948355 Monetas
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You are my therapy .... and I thank you ? LOL

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 08:43 | 6948326 Son of Captain Nemo
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Gee... Thank you Lawrence!

For writing the narrative that you knew was a lie about that Country's stockpile of chemical weapons we sold to them and completely demolished in 1991 that gave our veterans Gulf War syndrome and got more than a million Iraqi men women and children killed and millions more displaced.  Then with your finger in the air and the "sea change" getting negative you made a new career for yourself as controlled opposition in the MSM with a mea culpa telling us all you were real sorry for the lie and that it's time to "tell the truth"!...

Why is it again you haven't yet put that shot gun in your mouth and pulled the trigger for the treason you knowlingly committed?...

Perhaps after all these years since you came out of the closet in 2007 asking us for a pardon it should have been us lynching your ass for having the temerity to be making the rounds getting paid from CNN, FOX and MSNBC then becoming a tenured professor at William and Mary teaching those youngins about "truth"!   After all... What's a war criminal to do after he loses his job?!!!

Just sayin!

 

 

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 08:54 | 6948345 Monetas
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Obama is the maximum expression .... of a war criminal .... and he got the Nobel peace prize .... just sayin' ?

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 12:06 | 6949053 Son of Captain Nemo
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Obama is the maximum expression .... of a war criminal .... and he got the Nobel peace prize .... just sayin' ?

Obama... Colin Powell... G.W. ..., The "Dick" Cheney... Donald Rumsfeld... Condolo Rice... Colonel Wilkerson...

Collect 'em!... Trade 'em!...

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 08:57 | 6948349 Monetas
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JFK had his Peace Corps .... Obama has his ISIS .... his own international SS .... without congressional supervision ?

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 09:02 | 6948361 cpgone
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3.55 

Real debt of the US is 220 TRILLION,

L. Kotlikoff

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 09:13 | 6948384 shovelhead
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Well then, there you have it.

Revolution.

Time to hippy up and start making Molotov cocktails again but the music will probably suck this time around.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZKaCVNJ0hg

 

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 09:53 | 6948489 J Jason Djfmam
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I love the smell of gasoline in the morning.

It smells like... Revolution.

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 10:16 | 6948567 smacker
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"Molotov cocktails"

I'd prefer an RPG.

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 09:13 | 6948385 deerhunter
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freedom stops when the tax man knocks.  It always has and always will.  We are groomed to feed the beast from childhood.  The answer is not anarchy,  though a touch of that may be needed.  The answer is accountability.  If you rail against the MIC you are declared unpatriotic.  If you rail against the taxman you are declared unamerican.  If you rail against homsexuality and its agenda you are declared homophobic.  If you have an adult conversation that offends any class of people you are declared "insensitive."

Have you ever heard of taxation without representation?  I am not trying to be condescending.  The only thing that will turn our country around is the citizenry becoming aware.  War?  What is it good for?  Generally speaking,  at least since the Korean War,  making money,  lots of it,  for an extreme few.  Is America fixable?  We may all find out together. 

I would like to wish all a Merry Christmas.  I would say peace on earth but I won't.  I am a realist.  As long as war is profitable we will have wars.  As long as young men and women are willing to go fight and die and get maimed we will have the military.  As long as our fellow countrymen and women are too lazy to find out the real reasons and profitablities of war we will have war.

I will say may all your wars be peaceful ones.  Good day all.

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 09:32 | 6948431 headhunt
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Well said, I will add that the reason many join the military is the lack of a stable job which is why the leftists and fascist import illegals wherever possible.

Give a family a stable job/income and the MIC has problems.

 

Merry Christmas

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 10:11 | 6948555 Graph
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After the Christmas truce 1914, if the (well armed) soldiers, after leaving their own opposing officers with bullet holes between eyes, had together roamed the Continent and did some "search" on their own?

My Christmas wet dream.

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 10:21 | 6948576 shovelhead
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"It's not just a job...

It's an adventure."

As long as there are 18 year olds who are 10' tall and bulletproof, they'll never be a shortage of cannon fodder.

They're gonna run amok somewhere anyway, so you might as well use em to some purpose.

The Sumerians figured this out some time ago.

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 09:30 | 6948421 mog
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"America's Ship Is Sinking"

I wish the Russians would slam a few good missiles into it and finish it off.

I'm sick of waiting.

The planets sick of waiting.

I even suspect many Americans are sick of waiting.

Everyday means more death and destruction.

Vlad - do us all a favour - its like a wounded animal. lashing out at all and sundry.

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 11:44 | 6948938 conscious being
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Confirmed. Americans are sick of waiting.

 

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 09:31 | 6948427 Still Losing Money
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who cares as long as they legalize pot. that is america's number one problem. not enough legal pot shops

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 10:21 | 6948575 Boubou
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Yes. Also you could look at it the Zen way.

Most ZH readers feel intense pain when they look at any event in the world and can see through the rampant lies and hypocrisy. This can sour your life, and yet there is NOTHING you can do except vent.

They call that suffering. Suffering is all in your brain. Cure it there. Joint or meditation. Yes the power brokers will win even if they vapaorize the planet, but hopefully they feel like shit.

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 09:34 | 6948439 kk1532003
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and you sir for contributing to all of the ills you so aptly point out.  During this holiday season I would like to send along a very merry fuck you in the neck. The list is made, you are on it.

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 09:35 | 6948441 ajkreider
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I wonder.  If you were a site, say Telesur, who had on going series called "The Empire Files", whose sole organizing principle is finding stories critical of the U.S. - could find one person, in the hundreds of thousands of Pentagon employess, to say something along these lines. 

Hmm . . . I wonder.

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 10:09 | 6948548 smacker
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Are you suggesting the video was a false voice over? And Wilkerson didn't actually say what is in it?

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 10:28 | 6948605 ajkreider
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No, I'm suggesting that if you want to find one nutter out of a million to fuel your agenda, you can - for any agenda.  Somehow, I think Powell would have a different story to tell - and I trust him a hell of a lot more.

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 10:45 | 6948667 Caleb Abell
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Powell?

Oh yes, I remember him.  He was Nixon's affirmative action general who helped in an attempt to cover up the Me Lai massacre and later committed treason at the UN to enable a war.

You may trust him, but the hundreds of thousands of corpses he helped create don't agree.

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 11:48 | 6948957 conscious being
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Honest question. Can you explain why you trust Colin Powell so much? Or do you just have a thing for authoritarian Black guys?

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 09:41 | 6948462 Monetas
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Many have died .... waiting for America to collapse .... now Europe has become a refugee magnet .... let's see how they handle it ?

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 10:02 | 6948523 WillyGroper
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So, he makes it to Colonel, retires, then spouts off about incompetence & how he didn't realize the skullduggery until his last tour of Afghanistan?

Equivalent to a death bead confession.

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 10:15 | 6948564 Lucky Leprachaun
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Maybe not. There's nothing in it for him, in contrast to his signing on to The Project and spouting ZioCon/MIC propaganda on TV.

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 10:05 | 6948531 maneco
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Watch your back Colonel Wilkerson. 

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 10:30 | 6948613 nah
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we can be informed and ask from more from our leadership

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or we can be slaves to ourselves

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which is actually preferable

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 10:38 | 6948636 wizteknet
Mon, 12/21/2015 - 11:23 | 6948838 physsilverbankr...
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This guy whether covering his own ass or not will not be acknowledged by ANY mainstream media outlet. You see as much as I read ZH and love it it occurs to me we are in our own echo chamber. As much as the kiss ass media and the beltway yesmen are. I try to convince people to read ZH, but it's hard the programming is that well entrenched into the public psyche that they tune you out. I think the only way to break into the minds of people is to mount a concerted very public blitz on media. There are enough of us to boycott the advertisers of the msm. much much smaller segments of the population boycotted these corporations and got results. It's also time to photobomb/ shout down live media events that the hypnotised are likely to watch(Premiers, award show red carpets, sports playoffs with national attention) with signs to websites like ZH. And finally as other activists hire agitators and bull horn cowboys we should do the same. We need to shout down live politician press confrences and rallies. Say what you want about black lives matter they are effective, no matter how distorted their message from their billionare backer's is.

 

 Ghandi said

First they laugh at you, then they will ignore you, once they attack you, you win

 

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 11:47 | 6948955 esum
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IKE laid it out...MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX.... 

take a look at Wash DC... looks like an oil boom town....and the constrution crane is the national bird...

the epicenter of bribes, kickbacks, crony deals, double dippers and useless scum in congress stealing billions on a daily basis....  generating revolution and global turmoil as the front for the obscene expenditures...

WE THE PEOPLE IS A JOKE and the CONSTITUTION IS A MOCKERY OF THE FOUNDING FATHERS.....with the current SUPREME COURT.... 

 

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 13:37 | 6949506 jcdenton
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If we think Col. Wilkerson is a whistle-blower, then how does one classify one that worked directly with the following: (when all were alive)

Bill Colby

Bill Casey

Vernon Walters

William French Smith

 

All directly under Ronald Wilson Reagan

Wanta reporting directly to Reagan. Not to Colby. Not to Casey. Not to Walters. Not to Smith. Certainly not to GHWB ..

Now imagine the following (~25 minute teaser) in closer to 2 full hours. Flooding the internet and some major theaters ..

https://youtu.be/tDuQRQj0AzM

Does he have a plan for America? You tell me ..

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/07/30/the-coming-return-of-the-real-us...

http://wantarevelations.com/2014/01/wanta-plan-macro-financial-economic-...

https://app.box.com/s/hfgvcqg7gqh7i27at6sv53ywu87lwarp (Read Me First)

 

Now get off your ass and spread the word!

 

If you notice in the Youtube comments to the Wilkerson talk, a fooser77 gives some advice to Abby Martin ..

I say we need more fooser77s giving advice to Abby Martins ..

That will bring some critical mass real quick ..

Or, you may just choose to start burning some tires in your local neighborhood ..

Your choice ..

Tue, 12/22/2015 - 00:57 | 6951849 onmail1
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