- A few weeks ago I wrote about the idea that America apparently
now has a King, not openly of course but in reality, because Monarch's
were a major part of medieval times: that for the idea of a King to have
taken root in the American government of today-seemed ridiculous.
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- Recently one of John Pilger's documentaries was released
on the web. This one is "The War on Democracy" and it deals with
American foreign policy, as those polices were applied in Central and South
America over the last fifty plus years. During an interview with Duane
Claridge (the head of the CIA's Latin American Division in the early nineteen-eighties)
the following exchange takes place:
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- John Pilger: "What right have you; the CIA - the
United States government or any foreign power: What right do you have to
do what you do in other countries?"
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- Duane Claridge: "National Security Interests."
- JP: "But that's a 'Divine Right' isn't it-because
the people that you do it to have no say in this."
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- DC: "Well that's just tough we are gonna protect
ourselves and we're gonna go on protecting ourselves, cause we end up protecting
all of you. And let's not forget that! We'll intervene whenever we decide
it's in our National Security interests to intervene-and if you don't like
it-lump it!
- Git used to it world, we're not gonna put up with nonsense.
If our interests are threatened we're gonna do it!"
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- Of course a lot of Americans might think that "National
Security" involves a whole lot more than just stealing other people's
countries or killing anyone that does not agree to be taken over. Real
national security ought to be based on the welfare of the entire population
and not merely on the phenomenal criminal wealth of those international
elites that benefit directly from these fascistically brutal policies.
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- Blind arrogance was the reason why the world outlawed
many of the policies and practices of this administration, decades before
Cheney-Bush was born. But the facts of law and international policy have
never bothered these extremists-these new American Capitalists that have
appointed themselves to rule the planet. What this government has become,
in their zeal to complete their Empire, has taught them to use fascism
to force political changes in the world: That's the Fascism that Cheney-Bush
calls 'democracy.'
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- With the coming of the North American Union the White
House now wants to bring the kinds of changes, which the film clearly illustrates,
to Canada and Mexico as well as to what used to be the United States. This
might prove to be much tougher than they think.
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- The film covers the CIA attack upon Chile: launched on
September 11, 1973. This brutal invasion was called a "coup d'etat"
and it brought back the Inquisition this time to overthrow a democratically
elected government. After beginning under Pinochet as a fascist dictatorship
in the seventies, Chile was selected in the 1980's to become the new American
model for conquered nation-states. 'On the surface everything seemed 'normal'-modern,
prosperous-but life had been privatized and the rich are getting richer.'
This: thanks to Milton Friedman and his "Chicago Boys" who restructured
Chile's economy and called it "Shock Therapy." Chile today appears
to be the new model for privatization that will be used to undercut Canada
and Mexico and the USA if the NAU becomes a fact. That's why the history
matters in Pilger's film. What came to Latin America unbidden-is about
to come back to haunt the people of the 'United' States who have profited
directly from these same crimes for so many decades.
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- However The War on Democracy also shows how the USA and
it's partisan institutions have been stopped in Latin America-Big-time-on
at least two occasions.
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- In Venezuela, in 2002 the ordinary people rejected the
American backed Coup against Chavez. They came out from their slums in
their tens of thousands and demanded the return of their elected leader.
The military changed sides to join them, and Hugo Chavez was returned to
his presidential palace.
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- In 2000 the people of Bolivia fought the American company
Bechtel that had privatized their water-and the people of the streets finally
won.
- In 2003-those same Bolivian people finally took back
their country from the American puppet that had been running it, when they
descended in their tens of thousands from the slums to overwhelmingly elect
one of their own: Eva Morales to the presidency. All in all this film presents
us with a lot to think about, in these times, where the new fascists are
now seeking to bring their dreams of privatization to all of North America.
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- If this policy were being inflicted anywhere else, it
would be pawned off on the resistant people as just another mandatory regime-change.
But if the ordinary populations of these three nations that comprise North
America, do not firmly resist this brutal sham of privatization, then the
NAU will become every bit as subservient as Chile has been for all of the
thirty-four years that they have remained an artificially-created slave-state.
(1)
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- There are two other massive crimes that were used against
the people of the United States: These did not directly create the climate
in which our criminal Latin American policies were formed-but their existence
undermined all the laws of this country-because they illegally imposed
taxes upon the citizens of the US and almost simultaneously gave away our
ability to print and control our own money to a foreign consortium of international
bankers. This 'Jekyll Island deal' resulted in the illegal-creation of
the Federal Reserve.
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- The film by Aaron Russo speaks for itself. Aaron died
yesterday, but his legacy gave the people of the United States some critically
absent facts, that we might use, to take back much of what has been stolen
from all of us. (2)
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- kirwanstudios@sbcglobal.net
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- 1) The War on Democracy Pilger
- http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18236.htm
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- 2) America: Freedom to Fascism video in four parts
- http://www.surfingtheapocalypse.tv/f2f.php
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- Also from Jukes:
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- Israeli
army opens fire on farmers in Beit Hanoun
- Nisreen Qumsieh, IMEMC News Aug 24, 2007
- Israeli troops, positioned on the borders of Beit Hanoun,
northern Gaza Strip, have opened heavy gunfire on Palestinian farmers while
they were toiling on the ground on Thursday at midday. . . . On Tuesday,
the Israeli army killed tw o children. Abed Al Qader Ashur, 13, and Fadi
Al Kafarnah, 13, were playing with friends in a field near a school in
Beit Hanoun, when a nearby Israeli tank targeted them.
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- US
survey raises eyebrows in Jerusalem
- Herb Keinon, THE JERUSALEM POST Aug 23, 2007
- A survey by a respected journal showing that 15 of 108
foreign policy elites in the US believe Israel does not serve US national
security interests has raised eyebrows in Jerusalem. . . . The journal
billed the respondents, whose na mes were not supplied, as America's "top
foreign-policy experts." Forty-five [out of 108] of the respondents
described themselves as Democrats, 24 as Republicans, and the rest as Independents.
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- A
Boycott Of Israel: Something Has Changed
- John Pilger, New Statesman, UK Aug 23, 2007
- [Editor A.N. -- Veteran Australian war correspondent
and BBC filmmaker, John Pilger, has covered the Middle East for four decades.]
"The ethnic cleansing of Palestine is as much America's crusade as
Israel's. On 16 August, the Bu sh administration announced an unprecedented
$30bn military "aid package" for Israel, the world's fourth biggest
military power, an air power greater than Britain, and a nuclear power
greater than France. No other country on earth enjoys such immunity, allowing
it to act without sanction, as Israel. No other country has such a record
of lawlessness: not one of the world's tyrannies comes close. International
treaties, such as the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, ratified by Iran,
are ignored by Israel. There is nothing like it in UN history. But something
is changing. . . . The swell of a boycott is growing inexorably, as if
an important marker has been passed, reminiscent of the boycotts that led
to sanctions against apartheid South Africa. . . . In Britain, an often
Jewish-led academic campaign against Israel's "methodical destruction
of [the Palestinian] education system" can be translated by those
of us who have reported from the occupied territories into the arbi trary
closure of Palestinian universities, the harassment and humiliation of
students at checkpoints and the shooting and killing of Palestinian children
on their way to school."
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- Gross:
Bush needs to rescue homeowners
- CNNMoney.com Aug 23, 2007
- Editor CE- A Wall Street bond tycoon asks for a
billion dollar gift with a straight face. Bring out the tar and feathers
for Mr. Bill Gross, his idea i s a fraud on those of you who
did not borrow too much to buy too big a home purchased from someone at
too high a price. Gross, a bond speculator with other people's money, is
pretending that the money printed at the FED is free and no one has to
repay it. Not so, it is economics 101 inflation...there is a payback
time. Not only is it criminal to bail out home investors with
printed money, but it will not work; there is no way to sort out which
ones are innocent moms and dads caught in speculative craze and which ones
are rank speculators buying three or even thirty houses with no money down,
with the hope of a fast profit. If the truth was known, Mr. Gross probably
is one of the latter, I wonder how many mortgage derivative bonds he owns?
He says: "This rescue, which admittedly might bail out speculators
who deserve much worse, would support millions of hard-working Americans
whose recent hours have become ones of f rantic desperation." Gross,
a founder of the fixed-income investment firm PIMCO and a columnist for
Fortune."
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- A
TALE OF TWO CITIES: WARSAW AND GAZA
- Benjamin Heine, Desert Peace, Israel Aug 23,
2007
- No one seems to hear the cries from Warsaw enough to
act, despite the reports that talk about imminent economic collapse, dangerous
food shortages, total aid dependency and impending humanitarian disaster.
Neither the cries nor the reports appear in the headlines or news alerts
in our mainstream media." [Editor A.N. Why do Christian Evangelical
pastors support a repeat of this horror in the 21st Century in Jesus' name?
What Israel is doing to the Palestinians is barbaric, inhumane, and a crime
against humanity. Israel has 6 million people. 4.8 million are Russian
émigrés who took advantage of US generosity to get them out
of Russia.
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- Progress
called "extremely disappointing and frustrating to all
- Associated Press Aug 23, 2007
- Updated report states: "finding some progress but
judging that the Baghdad government may not be able to carry it forward,
a defense official said Thursday"..."U.S. spy community concluded
that Iraqi leaders will be hard p ressed to craft a lasting political settlement
or improve their security capabilities in the next year and a half."
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- Our
Congratulations to the People of Turkey
- Israel Shamir Aug 23, 2007
- "Our congratulations to the people of Turkey on
the election victory of the Islamic Party! This is a fateful event: the
East returns to God, and finds its own way. Istanbul has followed Gaza:
the AKP-ruled Turkey will be a friend to Hamas-ruled Palestine, to Islamic
Iran, to Orthodox Greece and Russia, to the religious anti-occupation forces
of nearby Iraq. She will again take her place of pride as the centerpiece
of the Eastern mosaic, while its pro-American and God-hating generals,
the Turkish Dahlans, will creep back to their barracks. Faith in God unites
us, while the nationalists had divided us."
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- The
Great Middle East Peace Process Scam
- Henry Siegman, London Review of Books Aug
21, 2007
- [Editor A.N. -- <http://www.lrb.co.uk/contribhome.php?get=sieg01>Henry
Siegman, the director of the US/ Middle East Project, served as a senior
fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations from 1994 to 2006, and head
of the American Jewish Congress from 1978 to 1994. "If the US and
its allies were to take a stand forceful enough to persuade Israel that
it will not be allowed to make changes to the pre-1967 situation except
by agreement with the Palestinians in permanent status negotiations, there
would be no need for complicated peace formulas or celebrity mediators
to get a peace process underway. The only thing that an envoy such as Blair
can do to put the peace process back on track is to speak the truth about
the real impediment to peace. This would also be a historic contribution
to the Jewish state, since Israel's only hope of real long-term security
is to have a successful Palestinian state as its neighbor."
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- Settlers
cut Palestinian water supply to fill swimming pool
- Ronny Shaked, Ynetnews, Israel Aug 21, 2007
- Residents of the settlement of Elon Moreh in the West
Bank have cut a pipe carrying drinking water to a nearby Palestinian village,
and are using it to fill a small swimming pool located at a picnic site,
which w as itself built on land owned by the village. The pipe, which carries
water to the village of Dir al-Khatab, was rerouted in order to fill the
pool. The pipe channels fresh drinking water into the pool and drains dirty
water back into the village's water system. "They not only use water
that doesn't belong to them, but they also pollute the drinking water of
some of the village residents," said Yoel Marshak, head of the Kibbutz
Movement's Special Assignments Branch. "The little kids pee in the
water, which flows straight to the taps of the Palestinian school."
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- Christians,
Jews in Holy Land alliance
- CNN Aug 21, 2007
- Christian Zionists often converge on Washington by the
thousands to lobby members of Congress in support of Israel. Sen. Joseph
Lieberman, I-Connecticut, was among the speakers at last month's convention
of Christians United for Israel. "There are a lot more Christian
Zionists in America than Jewish Zionists," A recent poll found that
59 percent of American evangelicals believe Israel is the fulfillment of
biblical prophecy. The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs estimates 85
million evangelicals believe God tells them to support Israel - more than
six times the world's Jewish population.
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- IDF
Kills Nine in Israel kills ten or more in Gaza: referred to as "terrorists"
- Arutz Shevy, Israel National News Service Aug
21, 2007
- "An IAF helicopter struck a car full of Islamic
Jihad terrorists between Khan Younis and the Kissufim Crossing Tuesday,
killing at least three terrorists. According to the IDF, the men had been
involved in shooting attacks on IDF soldiers in recent weeks along the
Gaza border fence. Six Hamas terrorists were killed and one more wounded
in an air strike on their pick-up truck as it drove though central Gaza's
al-Bureij neighborhood Monday evening. One of the men was a local Hamas
commander, Muhammed Abu Arab."
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- Can
You Hear the Cries from Gaza?
- Sonja Karkar Aug 20, 2007
- Grim as the facts and figures are, they can never make
us feel the agony of the mother who does not have a grain of rice left
to feed her starving children, the desperation of the father who cannot
get his sick child through the closed border crossing for t reatment in
Egypt, the terror of the child who wets the bed every night wondering if
the soldiers will come again to ransack the house, the constant fear of
schoolchildren knowing that even school is no haven from soldiers' bullets
and mortar fire, the despairing distress of families who are not even given
time to save their belongings as bulldozers come to tear down their homes,
the desolation of thousands of people with no jobs to go to, the helplessness
of thousands more who have received no wages for months and the wretchedness
of the starving families who depend on the jobless and the unpaid. An entire
population is in shut down--more than a million stories of agonizing pain
and overwhelming grief. But, no one is hearing the cries.
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