In 2000 there were a group of military/ Wall Street folks meeting to decide the military intervention policies of America in the Middle East. The individual this was built around was a professor at the Navy War College named Thomas P.M. Barnett. He was advocating for intervention in Iraq before 9/11. They were holding the meetings with the Wall Street firm Canter Fitzgerald at the Windows on the World of the World Trade Center. The meetings were broken up by the destruction of the WTC by the same group that had tried to bomb the WTC earlier. But there was an aggressive military planning going on at the time. Stupidly they held the meetings in a place with Arab busboys and chefs that were from the community where the bombers for the first attack on the WTC worshipped.
Barnett bragged about it in a lecture to the War College that was broadcast on c-span here. I own the DVD of his lecture. Barnett missed dying by one week to the hour but Canter-Fitzgerald was destroyed since their offices were on the 100 floor of the WTC. Today we have people arming themselves from the right in our general population. They have taken over the courts including the Supreme Court (with the right wing Federalist Society) and have chosen one President that took us to war. What is not being said is that the right wing libertarians are dragging up the old Southern stories about slavery and identifying them with socialism through the Koch brothers Cato Institute here. They have history teachers in the military academy that are teaching such revisionist garbage to the leaders of the army of the future. Socialism is being equated with the slave owners. Obviously trying to make a break into the black vote and the preponderance of minorities in the military. Of course the "Socialists" were NOT the slavers but were the Indians that the slavers were capturing, murdering every man over 14, breeding the women to African men and shipping out the fourteen year olds to the Islands where they couldn't run home. Indians were the source of socialism here and the success, in the Cherokee nation, at Capitalism functioning as an Indian family corporation (socialism) brought on their 9/11 when they were marched to Oklahoma in the dead of winter and the same number were killed as were at the WTC on 9/11 but from a smaller population base. It seems somehow like Europe in 1930. Gaslighting is blaming the other side for what you yourself are doing. With Frank Luntz and the Republican propagandists that is exactly what has happened here. Revisionist historian McDonald at West Point is functioning in that tradition of mis-information in a highly fascist authoritarian (Spartan like) environment. http://www.cato.org/pubs/catosletter/catosletterv9n4.pdf The goal is Guns, The Federalist Society (the Courts), and the destruction of American Culture since the Depression. I'm sure they believe it's 1880 but it sure seems like Weimar and all of the stories by second rate, 2nd and 3rd generation wealthy minds pushing the rest around. Note that this revisionist is a teacher at West Point, the Army's Military Academy for the future leaders of the Armed Forces. I wonder if he still pines for revenge against the Campbells at Glencoe. We are living in a cold civil war. The banks and the world economy are just making money off of it. Wasn't there a Broadway musical about this? REH From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Keith Hudson Sent: Saturday, October 08, 2011 5:13 AM To: RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, , EDUCATION Subject: [Futurework] A new Geneva Conference is required There's a three-party race going on right now as to who can preach world-wide doom and disaster the most persuasively. Presumably, when the financial disaster actually occurs, they all want to take credit for warning us. One party is comprised of the three credit ratings agencies, Fitch, Standard & Poor and Moody's, which are steadily downgrading both nation-states and banks. Another party is composed of senior politicians such as Obama, Sarkozy, Merkel and Cameron. Because their pessimism is normally so uncharacteristic of politicians, we can only presume that they are feeling extremely exposed and desperate. The third party is the most venerable of them all -- central bankers such as Chairman Ben Bernanke and Governor Sir Mervyn King -- who now have the chutzpah to publicly blame politicians for the present mess. (A year or two ago they'd have been immediately sacked for saying these things. Not now. They're inviolable.) And, of course, there's a raggle-taggle of individuals right at the back of the race who really don't count very much because they are saying so many different things. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of economists in academe and financial institutions who want to embellish their CVs for possible future career use. Then there are tens of thousands of bloggers on the Internet, such as your own humble servant, who are flourishing theories ranging from the bizarre to the passably sane. However, there's a relatively small group of runners who are already at the winning post, patiently waiting for the others to arrive! They've been there for about a hundred years. And they've been saying the same thing fairly consistently for the whole of that period. And they've not only been forecasting the present financial disaster but also have the solution. They are known, often pejoratively, as the Austrian School, deriving from a brief intellectual ferment in Vienna a hundred years ago which kick-started many new ideas in physics, psychology and the arts as well as economics. At present they tend to cluster around the Ludwig von Mises Institute website, but there's also a small group within the economics department of George Mason University, Virginia, others are scattered around Western academia in ones and twos, and there is even one US Senator, Ron Paul (a Presidential contender at present). What they are saying is that it's OK for a country to print money ad lib if it is in physical peril from another country. This way, there can be sufficient money to pay for armaments, at least for a while. For example, when England went to war against Germany in 1914 it was paying for its armaments with real money, gold. However, within a few weeks, the Bank of England realized that the Great War (as it was known then) was going to continue for much longer and it would soon run out of gold. So it had to start printing additional gold promissory notes (banknotes) on the strict understanding -- be it known to every Englishman and every English arms supplier -- that the new banknotes wouldn't be redeemable with gold until after the war. Soon, all the European countries (and America, a late joiner) were at it, friend and foe alike. The problem really started in 1922 at a conference in Geneva, eight years after the war was over, when the countries (including America) tried to get back onto the gold standard as it was before 1914. But by that time governments were already addicted to the idea of printing money and they ended up with a half-cocked scheme of trying to retain gold as the basic currency discipline but also being able to print money whenever they got into debt. The result? Bursts of inflation in all sorts of places. But the Grandaddy of them all was inflation in America, followed by a sub-prime-type house-building boom and the Wall Street Crash of 1929. The subsequent Great Depression only came to an end in the 1940s with yet more inflation as the co-partner of rearming for World War II. Well, that's where we are again today, waiting for Wall Street Crash II. This time, however, there are a few small voices still echoing from the Austrian School. Central banks all over the world, despite their official propaganda against gold, are now quietly buying gold. (This is why the price of gold has already gone up five-fold in the last ten years.) Gold mines in Russia, China, Central Asia, South Africa, Brazil and elsewhere are mining gold as fast as they can. The Chinese have started the Pan Asia Gold Exchange in order to stimulate gold buying and selling, and this will be extended soon to sales points and vending machines in Europe (and even in America if Congress let's them). We can but hope that this time, when printed currencies such as the dollar and the euro have finally fizzled into decimal points, that there's a chance of a sensible, stable currency again. A new Geneva Conference is required, though it might be in Beijing this time. Keith Hudson, Saltford, England http://allisstatus.wordpress.com/2011/10/
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