Long Live Al Qaeda! We (the USA) will send them Money, munitions, advanced technology AND something to fight when ever Military Industrial Corporate Profits ARE IN DANGER!!!! <Since the Russians no longer want to play the lucrative Arms race having been bankrupt by it once already>
In exchange we'll get a 'defense' budget we can't cut, so Social programs get the ax instead, well get the bill for murdering people abroad who until we screwed with them, didn't hate us, and we'll get all the FEAR EVERYONE BUT THE USA Propaganda you can stand. Even Canadians and Mexicans are bad people, one won't let out corporations trash their lands, the other after trashing their lands the people whoa re put out of work risk death illegally crossing the border to come here and work. What's so dim about that? GE and the CIA explained it quite well to us after Vietnam was over. Invest in methods of propaganda since they couldn't (then) outright own a media outlet, so now they own all the companies that advertise on the media, and if the media doesn't support them, a mere 2 weeks of no advertising will bankrupt ANY Media outlet. GE made it plain, that every the USA was not in constant war, that they were in danger of going bankrupt. http://www.la.indymedia.org/news/2003/04/47530.php http://www.nationofchange.org/illusion-choice-1329843747 <click on graphic to make it readable> http://i.imgur.com/PVpFY.jpg http://www.tinyuploads.com/album/view2/tgfbci_fullb If you can understand 20% of what is in those links, you should be able to understand more then 50% of what is actually happening in 'the land of the free' (TM). Scott > Long Live Al Qaeda! We (the USA) will send them Money, munitions, advanced > technology AND something to fight when ever Military Industrial Corporate > Profits ARE IN DANGER!!!! <Since the Russians no longer want to play the > lucrative Arms race having been bankrupt by it once already> > > In exchange we'll get a 'defense' budget we can't cut, so Social programs > get the ax instead, well get the bill for murdering people abroad who > until we screwed with them, didn't hate us, and we'll get all the FEAR > EVERYONE BUT THE USA Propaganda you can stand. Even Canadians and Mexicans > are bad people, one won't let out corporations trash their lands, the > other after trashing their lands the people whoa re put out of work risk > death illegally crossing the border to come here and work. > > What's so dim about that? GE and the CIA explained it quite well to us > after Vietnam was over. > > Invest in methods of propaganda since they couldn't (then) outright own a > media outlet, so now they own all the companies that advertise on the > media, and if the media doesn't support them, a mere 2 weeks of no > advertising will bankrupt ANY Media outlet. > > GE made it plain, that every the USA was not in constant war, that they > were in danger of going bankrupt. > > http://www.la.indymedia.org/news/2003/04/47530.php > > http://www.nationofchange.org/illusion-choice-1329843747 > > <click on graphic to make it readable> > http://i.imgur.com/PVpFY.jpg > > http://www.tinyuploads.com/album/view2/tgfbci_fullb > > If you can understand 20% of what is in those links, you should be able to > understand more then 50% of what is actually happening in 'the land of the > free' (TM). > > Scott > >> >> Published: Monday 10 December 2012 >> Apparently nobody is offering any kind of dissent to this policy of aid >> to >> terrorists, or if they are, they are being transferred to Nome, >> Greenland >> or some other remote assignment where there are poor cell phone and >> wireless connections. >> >> A Case of Just Looking Stupid? The Not-So-Bright Bulbs at the White >> House >> and Pentagon >> >> >> Let me see if Ive got this right. >> >> Back on September 11, 2001, according to the official government story, >> a >> bunch of Muslim fanatics working for a terrorist outfit called Al Qaeda >> attacked the US. They had been trained to take over and fly several >> fully >> loaded and fueled wide-bodied jets into the Pentagon, the World Trade >> Center towers and, allegedly, the White House, and managed to hit three >> out of their four targets with devastating impact. >> >> Because their maximum leader Osama Bin Laden was holed up in >> Afghanistan, >> a guest of the Taliban government there, and had some bases there where >> he >> was reportedly training his terrorist army and preparing for more >> mayhem, >> Congress, at the request of President George Bush and Vice President >> Dick >> Cheney, declared war not just on Afghanistan, but on Al Qaeda and on >> terror in general, unleashing the whole US military on anyone who so >> as >> much as wrote an email to someone else suggesting that it might be fun >> to >> blow out the windows in a storefront post office. >> >> Flash forward a decade or so. As the Arab Spring, a wave of popular >> uprisings against sclerotic dictatorships and anachronistic, ossified >> sultanates in the Middle East, swept across the Arabian peninsula and >> North Africa, eventually the cartoonish tyrant Col. Muammar Gaddafi came >> under threat. Libyans of many political persuasions poured into the >> streets in the capital of Tripoli, the second city of Benghazi and >> elsewhere, and a civil war erupted. The US, which in many of the Arab >> Spring uprisings chose to side, at least until the cause was seen as >> doomed, on the side of the dictators (Egypt, Yemen and Bahrain) or the >> royals (Tunisia), in Libyas case quickly moved to back the rebels. >> Oddly >> though, many of those rebels the US was backing turn out to have been >> fundamentalist Muslims, sometimes linked directly to Al Qaeda. The >> blowback came quickly too, with a deadly attack on the US Consulate in >> Benghazi, in which the visiting US ambassador, Chris Stevens, and three >> other Americans were killed. >> >> Most news sources are funded by corporations and investors. Their goal >> is >> to drive people to advertisers while pushing the corporate agenda. >> NationofChange is a 501(c)3 organization funded almost 100% from its >> readersyou! Our only accountability is to the public. Click here to >> make >> a generous donation. >> >> That disaster hasnt deterred the US from a policy of backing Al Qaeda, >> though. In Syria, where another popular uprising against a brutal >> tyrant, >> this time Bashar Hafez al-Assad, the son of long-time Syrian dictator >> Hafiz al-Assad, finds the US enthusiastically if surreptitiously helping >> to arm and organize the rebels, despite knowing that much of the >> rebellions leadership and many of its fighters are fundamentalist >> Muslims >> who self-identify with Al Qaeda. These people are being supplied with >> not >> just rifles, machine guns, mortars and anti-aircraft weapons, but with >> deadly Stinger wire-guided, shoulder-fired missiles -- the kind that are >> easily smuggled and that are easily capable of taking down a 747 or A330 >> jumbo jet on takeoff or landing from as much as a mile away. >> You might think that at least someone in the White House War Room, or in >> the Pentagon, would look back at the history of arming and training >> terrorists and fanatics and say, Hey, we provided those kinds of >> weapons >> to the Mujahideen in Afghanistan back in the 1970s and 1980s when they >> were fighting the Soviets there, and we provided money, arms and >> training >> to Osama Bin Laden back then too to help him organize an army of >> volunteer >> Muslim freedom fighters against the Russians, and that didnt work out >> so well in the end. >> >> >> Apparently, though, nobody is offering any kind of dissent to this >> policy >> of aid to terrorists, or if they are, they are being transferred to >> Nome, >> Greenland or some other remote assignment where there are poor cell >> phone >> and wireless connections. >> Im thinking that if Americas much-touted Libyan adventure, in which we >> kept our soldiers and pilots safely out of the war zone, but bombed the >> crap out of Gadaffis military using French and British air forces and >> of >> course our handy fleet of Predator and Reaper drones, and then dumped a >> lot of heavy arms into the hands of the rebels, turned out to be such a >> bust, we should be pretty concerned now that Bashars regime looks to be >> on the ropes in Syria. Libya, while loaded with oil, is a pretty dinky >> little country population-wise, with only some 6.5 million people. >> Syria, >> on the other hand, while smaller geographically, is quite a bit bigger, >> with nearly 21 million people, and it has a lot more weapons, even not >> counting the ones that the US, France, Britain, and other European >> countries are currently pouring in (Iran and Russia are also pouring >> weapons in to aid the government side). >> >> When the government finally falls, which is looking increasingly likely, >> I >> think its pretty predictable that the result will be either a >> government >> heavily influenced by Al Qaeda-type hotheads, or a prolonged period of >> tribal war and instability with no real central government. >> >> Kind of like Afghanistan today. >> >> Nice work Washington. >> >> Now, if you look at this picture, one conclusion you might come to is >> that >> American foreign policy and military policy is in the hands of a bunch >> of >> real first-class bozos. One part of me, having lived through the whole >> era >> of the Vietnam War, has no trouble believing that. But then there is >> another conclusion you could also come to: namely that these people in >> Washington and Arlington may actually be happy to see all the chaos in >> places like Libya and Syria and Yemen, etc. Having a bunch of crazed Al >> Qaeda terrorists threatening terrorist actions against US interests >> abroad >> and occasionally at home, after all, is what keeps the War on Terror >> going. >> >> Just recently, Jeh Johnson, the top attorney at the Pentagon, in an >> address at Oxford University, speculated about how the War on Terror >> might >> be declared over, and how that would mean an end to all the special >> laws >> limiting civil liberties in the US, and the special powers granted to >> the >> executive branch of the government. Those huge underminings of the >> Constitution have been endorsed by the Supreme Court on the grounds that >> in wartime, and in a war zone, especially, the Bill of Rights and >> the >> separation of powers enshrined in the Constitution dont apply. There >> must >> have been a collective shudder in the top echelons of the Pentagon when >> they read news reports of Johnsons talk. >> >> How inconvenient it would be for those who are thriving on limited >> freedom >> and on unchecked executive power, if the justification for those things >> -- >> a seemingly unwinnable and unending War on Terror, in which the battle >> zone includes the United States itself -- were suddenly to end. >> >> Providing weapons to the rebels in Syria, as in Libya earlier on, would >> seem to be a great way to see to it that such a dreaded thing doesnt >> happen. >> >> >> >> Get Email Alerts from NationofChange >> >> >> ABOUT DAVE LINDORFF >> Dave Lindorff is an investigative reporter, a columnist for >> CounterPunch, >> and a contributor to Businessweek, The Nation, Extra! and Salon.com. He >> received a Project Censored award in 2004. 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