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Got this from A European List. KNEW you'd want to see it.WHAT
MATTERS-13 --October 1, 2001
A Woody Allan quote,
+ an essay on George Bush�s Orwellian Address by Jacob Levich,
+ letting you know about a �short book� on the conspiratorial aspects of
the
9.11 Attack by Michael Rowbotham
________________________
Dear list members,
Woody Allan has this to say about the Oedipal Bush connection:
"If George W. is sincere about wanting to hunt down and kill the people
responsible for Osama Bin Laden, he might as well start with his father.
It
was the Reagan/Bush CIA, after all, that made Bin Laden what he is
today.
Everybody knows this but nobody mentions it, partly because it's so
inconvenient, and partly because we're so embarrassed by the obvious
Freudian implications of it all, and the thought that thousands and
thousands of people may be about to die for what boils down to a rivalry
over the sexual favors of Barbara Bush."
I read this Woody Allan quotation in a post from Robert Rodvick, the
media
analyst who has worked so hard, and I believe sacrificed a holiday, to
search out alternative news and comments relevant to the 9.11 Attack. It
is
entirely relevant to the short essay below, which Robert found at
http://www.commondreams.org/views01/0922-07.htm. The essay is called
Bush's
Orwellian Address � Happy New Year: It's 1984 and is by Jacob Levich -
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - a writer, editor, and activist living in Queens,
New
York.
I also need to refer you to a 21,000 word treatise on the conspiratorial
aspects to the 9.11 terrorism, by Michael Rowbotham, called Written in
Belief, and available from him as an attachment -
[EMAIL PROTECTED] .
�In this short book,� writes Michael, �I argue that there is strong
evidence
that the events of 11th September represent a terrorism of a kind not
currently being discussed, and include the involvement of agents and
agencies not publicly imagined as being associated with such acts. I
believe
that this suspicion, voiced by many others, must be taken seriously and
its
public disproof demanded by all concerned citizens and NGOs.�
Michael Rowbotham will be known to many list members as the author of
the
ground-breaking books for monetary reform, Grip of Death and Goodbye
America, both published by Jon Carpenter in England.
What Michael, who is a WHAT MATTERS list member, has done in his
treatise is
draw together the many news items and articles sent over the
internet in the wake of 9.11, with particular emphasis on the essays by
Michael Chossudovsky and Richard Moore.
There is also a good deal of incidental material gleaned from the WHAT
MATTERS postings, or arising out of WHAT MATTERS leads. Without
acknowledgement, which saddens me. Especially as this material � for
example, the radio interviews with Lyndon LaRouche, and the $8 billion
U.S.
gas pipeline through Afghanistan that the Taliban said No to � is
important
to the case that Rowbotham represents. Namely that �the events of 11th
September involve a terrorism of a kind not currently being discussed,
and
include agents and agencies not publicly imagined as being associated
with
such acts.�
As Woody Allan points out, the terrorists who have been created by one
Bush
administration are now to be hunted down by the next. It is all part of
a
1984 World Order game play, in which the players themselves hardly know
what
they are doing, but which George Orwell anticipated in marvellously
creative
form. Because it has been �in the air� for at least 150 years.
My function in spreading awareness of the nature of what is unfolding
has
been to act as an editorial channel for the important research of
friends
like Robert Rodvick in Canada, Michael Ericson of the Schiller Institute
in
Stockholm, Dick Eastman in Yakama, Washington, and David Weston in
Britain �
along with the collative work of Michael Chossudovsky and Richard Moore.
We all know that the final score is not thanks just to the �big names�,
like
the strikers in football, who put it all together with a coherent goal
in
mind. To be told on the telephone this afternoon by Michael that my
postings
have been used in his �book�, thank you very much, and not to read that
in
the text is discouraging. Wherever there is teamwork, the team members,
specially the mid-fielders, thrive on open thanks, wilt when taken for
granted.
It is vitally important for us to preserve our friendship as dissidents,
in
the face of the permanent staged war that the son of George Bush and his
particular circle of unsavoury friends are drawing the world into, as
per
Jacob Levich�s brilliant short essay below.
In Levich�s essay I think the follow through consequences of 9.11, which
Michael Rowbotham alludes to in his �short book�, are set out with
startling
clarity.
In friendship,
Boudewijn Wegerif
What Matters Programme
Folkhogskola Vardingeby **
________________________
Bush's Orwellian Address
Happy New Year: It's 1984
by Jacob Levich
Posted at http://www.commondreams.org/views01/0922-07.htm on 9.22.
Seventeen years later than expected, 1984 has arrived. In his address to
Congress Thursday [September 13], George Bush effectively declared
permanent
war -- war without temporal or geographic limits; war without clear
goals;
war against a vaguely defined and constantly shifting enemy. Today it's
Al-Qaida; tomorrow it may be Afghanistan; next year, it could be Iraq or
Cuba or Chechnya.
No one who was forced to read 1984 in high school could fail to hear a
faint
bell tinkling. In George Orwell's dreary classic, the totalitarian state
of
Oceania is perpetually at war with either Eurasia or Eastasia.
Although the enemy changes periodically, the war is permanent; its true
purpose is to control dissent and sustain dictatorship by nurturing
popular
fear and hatred.
The permanent war undergirds every aspect of Big Brother's authoritarian
program, excusing censorship, propaganda, secret police, and privation.
In
other words, it's terribly convenient.
And conveniently terrible. Bush's alarming speech pointed to a shadowy
enemy
that lurks in more 60 countries, including the US. He announced a policy
of
using maximum force against any individuals or nations he designates as
our
enemies, without color of international law, due process, or democratic
debate.
He explicitly warned that much of the war will be conducted in secret.
He
rejected negotiation as a tool of diplomacy. He announced starkly that
any
country that doesn't knuckle under to US demands will be regarded as an
enemy. He heralded the creation of a powerful new cabinet-level police
agency called the "Office of Homeland Security."
Orwell couldn't have named it better.
By turns folksy ("Ya know what?") and chillingly bellicose ("Either you
are
with us, or you are with the terrorists"), Bush stepped comfortably into
the
role of Big Brother, who needs to be loved as well as feared. Meanwhile,
his
administration acted swiftly to realize the governing principles of
Oceania:
WAR IS PEACE. A reckless war that will likely bring about a deadly cycle
of
retaliation is being sold to us as the means to guarantee our safety.
Meanwhile, we've been instructed to accept the permanent war as a fact
of
daily life. As the inevitable slaughter of innocents unfolds overseas,
we
are to "live our lives and hug our children."
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY. "Freedom itself is under attack," Bush said, and
he's
right. Americans are about to lose many of their most cherished
liberties in
a frenzy of paranoid legislation. The government proposes to tap our
phones,
read our email and seize our credit card records without court order. It
seeks authority to detain and deport immigrants without cause or trial.
It
proposes to use foreign agents to spy on American citizens. To save
freedom,
the warmongers intend to destroy it.
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH. America's "new war" against terrorism will be
fought
with unprecedented secrecy, including heavy press restrictions not seen
for
years, the Pentagon has advised. Meanwhile, the sorry history of
American
imperialism -- collaboration with terrorists, bloody proxy wars against
civilians, forcible replacement of democratic governments with corrupt
dictatorships -- is strictly off-limits to mainstream media. Lest it
weaken
our resolve, we are not to be allowed to understand the reasons
underlying
the horrifying crimes of September 11.
The defining speech of Bush's presidency points toward an Orwellian
future
of endless war, expedient lies, and ubiquitous social control.
But unlike 1984's doomed protagonist, we've still got plenty of space to
maneuver and plenty of ways to resist.
It's time to speak and to act. It falls on us now to take to the
streets,
bearing a clear message for the warmongers: We don't love Big Brother.
________________________
** Boudewijn Wegerif
What Matters Programme
Torsberget, 669 92 Deje, Sweden
Tel: +46.552.21112
Administration: Johanna Heckscher,
Folkhogskola Vardingeby,
150 21 Molnbo, Sweden
The What Matters Programme is an initiative by Boudewijn Wegerif to
spread
information about what is happening in the world today, and how things
could
be, given a schooling at all levels to free the self and the world from
debt/guilt oppression and money making for its own sake � a schooling in
love. The programme trustees are the executive collegiate of the
Folkhogskola Vardingeby, an Adult Education Residential College south of
Stockholm � www.vardinge.fhsk.se. Boudewijn is an internationally
known
speaker on �Love and Money Matters� and has led many workshops on �The
History and Psychology of Money�. He is also consulting editor of
monetary
reform publications sponsored by the members� owned, interest-free bank
JAK - www.jak.se .
WHAT MATTERS-13 --October 1, 2001
A Woody Allan quote,
+ an essay on George Bush�s Orwellian Address by Jacob Levich,
+ letting you know about a �short book� on the conspiratorial aspects of
the
9.11 Attack by Michael Rowbotham
________________________
Dear list members,
Woody Allan has this to say about the Oedipal Bush connection:
"If George W. is sincere about wanting to hunt down and kill the people
responsible for Osama Bin Laden, he might as well start with his father.
It
was the Reagan/Bush CIA, after all, that made Bin Laden what he is
today.
Everybody knows this but nobody mentions it, partly because it's so
inconvenient, and partly because we're so embarrassed by the obvious
Freudian implications of it all, and the thought that thousands and
thousands of people may be about to die for what boils down to a rivalry
over the sexual favors of Barbara Bush."
I read this Woody Allan quotation in a post from Robert Rodvick, the
media
analyst who has worked so hard, and I believe sacrificed a holiday, to
search out alternative news and comments relevant to the 9.11 Attack. It
is
entirely relevant to the short essay below, which Robert found at
http://www.commondreams.org/views01/0922-07.htm. The essay is called
Bush's
Orwellian Address � Happy New Year: It's 1984 and is by Jacob Levich -
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - a writer, editor, and activist living in Queens,
New
York.
I also need to refer you to a 21,000 word treatise on the conspiratorial
aspects to the 9.11 terrorism, by Michael Rowbotham, called Written in
Belief, and available from him as an attachment -
[EMAIL PROTECTED] .
�In this short book,� writes Michael, �I argue that there is strong
evidence
that the events of 11th September represent a terrorism of a kind not
currently being discussed, and include the involvement of agents and
agencies not publicly imagined as being associated with such acts. I
believe
that this suspicion, voiced by many others, must be taken seriously and
its
public disproof demanded by all concerned citizens and NGOs.�
Michael Rowbotham will be known to many list members as the author of
the
ground-breaking books for monetary reform, Grip of Death and Goodbye
America, both published by Jon Carpenter in England.
What Michael, who is a WHAT MATTERS list member, has done in his
treatise is
draw together the many news items and articles sent over the
internet in the wake of 9.11, with particular emphasis on the essays by
Michael Chossudovsky and Richard Moore.
There is also a good deal of incidental material gleaned from the WHAT
MATTERS postings, or arising out of WHAT MATTERS leads. Without
acknowledgement, which saddens me. Especially as this material � for
example, the radio interviews with Lyndon LaRouche, and the $8 billion
U.S.
gas pipeline through Afghanistan that the Taliban said No to � is
important
to the case that Rowbotham represents. Namely that �the events of 11th
September involve a terrorism of a kind not currently being discussed,
and
include agents and agencies not publicly imagined as being associated
with
such acts.�
As Woody Allan points out, the terrorists who have been created by one
Bush
administration are now to be hunted down by the next. It is all part of
a
1984 World Order game play, in which the players themselves hardly know
what
they are doing, but which George Orwell anticipated in marvellously
creative
form. Because it has been �in the air� for at least 150 years.
My function in spreading awareness of the nature of what is unfolding
has
been to act as an editorial channel for the important research of
friends
like Robert Rodvick in Canada, Michael Ericson of the Schiller Institute
in
Stockholm, Dick Eastman in Yakama, Washington, and David Weston in
Britain �
along with the collative work of Michael Chossudovsky and Richard Moore.
We all know that the final score is not thanks just to the �big names�,
like
the strikers in football, who put it all together with a coherent goal
in
mind. To be told on the telephone this afternoon by Michael that my
postings
have been used in his �book�, thank you very much, and not to read that
in
the text is discouraging. Wherever there is teamwork, the team members,
specially the mid-fielders, thrive on open thanks, wilt when taken for
granted.
It is vitally important for us to preserve our friendship as dissidents,
in
the face of the permanent staged war that the son of George Bush and his
particular circle of unsavoury friends are drawing the world into, as
per
Jacob Levich�s brilliant short essay below.
In Levich�s essay I think the follow through consequences of 9.11, which
Michael Rowbotham alludes to in his �short book�, are set out with
startling
clarity.
In friendship,
Boudewijn Wegerif
What Matters Programme
Folkhogskola Vardingeby **
________________________
Bush's Orwellian Address
Happy New Year: It's 1984
by Jacob Levich
Posted at http://www.commondreams.org/views01/0922-07.htm
Seventeen years later than expected, 1984 has arrived. In his address to
Congress Thursday, George Bush effectively declared permanent war -- war
without temporal or geographic limits; war without clear goals; war
against
a vaguely defined and constantly shifting enemy. Today it's Al-Qaida;
tomorrow it may be Afghanistan; next year, it could be Iraq or Cuba or
Chechnya.
No one who was forced to read 1984 in high school could fail to hear a
faint
bell tinkling. In George Orwell's dreary classic, the totalitarian state
of
Oceania is perpetually at war with either Eurasia or Eastasia.
Although the enemy changes periodically, the war is permanent; its true
purpose is to control dissent and sustain dictatorship by nurturing
popular
fear and hatred.
The permanent war undergirds every aspect of Big Brother's authoritarian
program, excusing censorship, propaganda, secret police, and privation.
In
other words, it's terribly convenient.
And conveniently terrible. Bush's alarming speech pointed to a shadowy
enemy
that lurks in more 60 countries, including the US. He announced a policy
of
using maximum force against any individuals or nations he designates as
our
enemies, without color of international law, due process, or democratic
debate.
He explicitly warned that much of the war will be conducted in secret.
He
rejected negotiation as a tool of diplomacy. He announced starkly that
any
country that doesn't knuckle under to US demands will be regarded as an
enemy. He heralded the creation of a powerful new cabinet-level police
agency called the "Office of Homeland Security."
Orwell couldn't have named it better.
By turns folksy ("Ya know what?") and chillingly bellicose ("Either you
are
with us, or you are with the terrorists"), Bush stepped comfortably into
the
role of Big Brother, who needs to be loved as well as feared. Meanwhile,
his
administration acted swiftly to realize the governing principles of
Oceania:
WAR IS PEACE. A reckless war that will likely bring about a deadly cycle
of
retaliation is being sold to us as the means to guarantee our safety.
Meanwhile, we've been instructed to accept the permanent war as a fact
of
daily life. As the inevitable slaughter of innocents unfolds overseas,
we
are to "live our lives and hug our children."
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY. "Freedom itself is under attack," Bush said, and
he's
right. Americans are about to lose many of their most cherished
liberties in
a frenzy of paranoid legislation. The government proposes to tap our
phones,
read our email and seize our credit card records without court order. It
seeks authority to detain and deport immigrants without cause or trial.
It
proposes to use foreign agents to spy on American citizens. To save
freedom,
the warmongers intend to destroy it.
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH. America's "new war" against terrorism will be
fought
with unprecedented secrecy, including heavy press restrictions not seen
for
years, the Pentagon has advised. Meanwhile, the sorry history of
American
imperialism -- collaboration with terrorists, bloody proxy wars against
civilians, forcible replacement of democratic governments with corrupt
dictatorships -- is strictly off-limits to mainstream media. Lest it
weaken
our resolve, we are not to be allowed to understand the reasons
underlying
the horrifying crimes of September 11.
The defining speech of Bush's presidency points toward an Orwellian
future
of endless war, expedient lies, and ubiquitous social control.
But unlike 1984's doomed protagonist, we've still got plenty of space to
maneuver and plenty of ways to resist.
It's time to speak and to act. It falls on us now to take to the
streets,
bearing a clear message for the warmongers: We don't love Big Brother.
________________________
** Boudewijn Wegerif
What Matters Programme
Torsberget, 669 92 Deje, Sweden
Tel: +46.552.21112
Administration: Johanna Heckscher,
Folkhogskola Vardingeby,
150 21 Molnbo, Sweden
The What Matters Programme is an initiative by Boudewijn Wegerif to
spread
information about what is happening in the world today, and how things
could
be, given a schooling at all levels to free the self and the world from
debt/guilt oppression and money making for its own sake � a schooling in
love. The programme trustees are the executive collegiate of the
Folkhogskola Vardingeby, an Adult Education Residential College south of
Stockholm � www.vardinge.fhsk.se. Boudewijn is an internationally
known
speaker on �Love and Money Matters� and has led many workshops on �The
History and Psychology of Money�. He is also consulting editor of
monetary
reform publications sponsored by the members� owned, interest-free bank
JAK - www.jak.se .
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