Bhairitu, I agree.
IMO, there is a cabal of backroom "evil rich manipulators" running things, and it makes perfect sense that the "follow the money" concept is never supported in most documentary endeavors -- too risky to the film-maker to snoop around in Big Finance's underwear drawer, and way hard to get the legal access to do so. But, evil dictators, well, documentary makers CAN get the data on them. There was a reason for "Deep Throat" to keep his identity hidden, cuz he was telling Woodward and Bernstein to follow the money, and if the money folks found out, POOF! goes Deepy. As long as the masses are having their attentions misdirected towards focal-points of evil -- Hitler the person for instance -- then the money is not followed, and instead the group consciousness is put upon the failings of one person -- NOT HIS SUPPORTERS, CREATORS, BACKERS, BOSSES, whatever. The people who backed Hitler are still in business today -- sultan rich and Satan evil. Saddam was said to be the problem, ya see?, not the USA's obscene oil habit which caused the powers that be to think that they needed to control (own) Iraq's oil (the whole region actually) and so, suddenly, Saddam became the evil dictator that had to be stomped even though he was PUT INTO POWER BY THE USA. His country is invaded, 500 thousand INNOCENT civilians get killed, and Saddam's the blame -- when largely speaking, we supported and allowed his crimes that we armed him for and encouraged him to do. Poison gas sold to him by the USA killed the Kurds. And it was that very poison gas we called "a weapon of mass destruction" and used as a reason for the invasion. And, get this, Saddam would still be in power right now if he hadn't started messing around the value of the dollar by selling his oil and taking euros for it -- pushing the world closer to a petro-euro instead of a petro-dollar. That was Saddam's real, actual and ONLY mistake in the eyes of the lords of power. We prop up dictators all the time to deflect the world's attention to one person, one race, one ethnicity, like that. You don't have to look far for these evil types -- they're everywhere. The bankers arranged for a PRIVATE COMPANY to have ALL OF AMERICA'S seigniorage. The gold standard was tossed. Income tax for the non-rich. BigMedia's being in bed with BigMoney assures we'll always have a bad guy trotted out to piss off the masses enough to get another war going. We won't bomb Iran until after we make sure that the masses are certain that our soldiers have been bombed by Iran. We won't see headlines about all the ways we can employ to piss off Iran enough for them to bomb back at us. We won't be told -- simple as that. Pre-Pearl Harbor, we cut off Japan's oil supplies; do you think that pissed them off? 19 terrorists may have been all it took to make 911 happen, but what did it takes to get them pissed off enough to give up their lives to fight back? How about hundreds of millions of people being brutalized daily in a thousand ways? Abu Ghraib prison -- only the small fry got indicted, but generals on down knew about it. Kerry lost the election -- who is following the money that Supreme Court Justices get? Pelosi won't try to impeach Bush -- why? Cuz it will hurt her cash flow somehow -- follow the money and see what big companies are fluffing up her accounts. 20,000,000 Mexicans came across the border and no one noticed -- except BigMoney which needed temporary slaves. Okay, I'm going to stop here. Outta control again. Can't put my attention on these things without risking ruining my day. Edg --- In [email protected], Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The 14 hour Ken Burn's documentary on World War II debuted this week on > PBS. Since 14 hours is quite a bit to invest I have been archiving it > to watch when I have time. I just completed episode one and was struck > with something that isn't really covered: World War II was about going > after three tyrants: Hitler, Mussolini and General Tojo who were out to > establish empires. What's left out: how did they get there in the first > place? They didn't get their on their own. Who backed them? Who were > the industrialists and bankers who backed them and why? The answer so > far wasn't in the first episode so it will be interesting to see if it > is at all in the remaining ones. In fact the impression I got was that > the war was more a failed exercise in trying to reduce the world's > population dramatically. And there is a section on how they got people > in the US to buy bonds to finance the war but no answer as to who made > all the money off the weapons sales. That should be part of the story too. > > And isn't it interesting at a time when there is much saber rattling > over Iran such a documentary should come out? >
