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Financial Terrorism January-February 2009
Financial News Analysis in Context
Last Updated Sunday, February 15, 2009
Continuation of this report: Financial Terrorism March 2009
Previous report: Financial Terrorism November–December 2008
Financial Terrorism January-February 2009
G7 sets sights on 'new world economic order', Agence France-Presse, February 14 2009
'ROME (AFP) – The world's richest nations called Saturday for urgent reform of global finance to save the world from the economic devastation that is dragging more and more countries into recession. Italy's Finance Minister called for a "new world economic order" as he wrapped up the crisis meeting of finance leaders from the Group of Seven leading economies over which he presided here. In a joint declaration, the G7 called for "urgent reforms" of the international financial system. ... "A new world economic order might seem rhetorical," he told reporters. "But it is a true goal we should be aiming towards... today right here in Rome we've embarked on a very significant journey, both technical and ethical." ... The global crisis "has highlighted fundamental weaknesses in the international financial system and that urgent reforms are needed," the statement said. US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner vowed that his country, the biggest economy in the world and the source of much of the financial drama in recent months, would work with other nations for a consensus on reforms. "We need to begin the process of comprehensive reform of our financial system and the international financial system, so the world never again faces a crisis this severe," Geithner said after the talks. Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) -- the body coming to the rescue of some crisis-hit countries -- said restructuring banks damaged by the credit crunch was the main problem facing governments. ... The document hailed stimulus actions taken by other countries, singling out China which it also praised for its "continued commitment to move to a more flexible exchange rate." '
The New World Order is really pretty much a fait accompli. Being an ostrich doesn't really serve any function. The arsonists have taken over all the fire brigades in town, and in every town and city. The hyperinflation of the dollar is an irreversible done deal. The following Glenn Beck video from FOX News graphically shows the official United States debt, which is the same as the amount of U.S. currency in existence. See it by each decade from 1900 to 2006 here. This isn't even the tip of the iceberg however of what has deliberately been orchestrated by the financial houses in New York. The quadrillion+ dollar (1000 trillion dollars) derivatives paper-debt that nobody can exactly quantify nor fully comprehend – a mirage, a contrived and manufactured financial gibberish paper con-game calculatingly instrumented by the very arsonists who are now clamoring to lead the fire-brigade to save the world – is what is being referred to here: "We need to begin the process of comprehensive reform of our financial system and the international financial system, so the world never again faces a crisis this severe". And their solution is: "A new world economic order".
Meanwhile, the arsonists are crashing the dollar in the guise of fighting that lighted fire by the various open-ended deficit spending Bills in trillions, as the new mantra of "stimulus". This includes payout of billions for overpriced bank bailouts – up to 10 and 20 times the asset value – in the name of shoring up the equity side of the equation since, as the financiers argue, nothing may now be done about the astronomical liability side of the equation incurred by the derivatives bubble. How convenient! See The Bank Swindle in Perspective in order to appreciate the complex looting of the public treasury in legal guise, sanctioned by the mighty United States Congress, and then forced across the world as the only solution to the financial crisis. To acutely comprehend why the "stimulus" is just another mantra, a Rand/CFR joint production like the "WMD in Iraq" and "Al Qaeeda" mantras, see "Mr. Obama's New Deal" and Why won't President Obama's 'Stimulus' work?. As Captain Rhett Butler had shrewdly observed:
"Oh, yes! What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one." -- Gone With The Wind
Soon the arsonists will go back to Congress and lament: 'oops!, the stimulus didn't work; sorry, the dollar is now worthless, we are in the middle of the worst depression known to mankind, there are riots everywhere, food shortages everywhere, global warming is gonna cause floods, Osama bin Laden has unleashed a bio-terror nuclear attack; so we need to create a new economic union, a new full spectrum mutual defense union, and a new world order Constitution for the American continent to protect our peoples and address the global threats'.
That baby-step solution for the collapsed dollar will be the North American Union under a common central bank. It has been under subversive instrumentation as part of the Trilateralists' agenda for as long as the European Union, and will be just as rapidly deployed with an iron fist despite similar popular public opposition, because, "World government could only be kept in being by force". Understand Glenn Beck's and Bill O'Reilly's mocking-chutzpah and double entendres displayed in this video clip in "Why Not Be An Ostrich".
And the most fruitful realization of Captain Rhett Butler's swashbuckling truism is yet to come, the profiting "from the upbuilding" of civilization: the new Gold Standard which will be pitched with Congressman Ron Paul's help as the panacea demanded by the peoples. Since all the world's gold bullion supply, and the world's gold mines, are already under monopoly control of the same arsonists, no problem.
In the New Economic World Order, with global central banks – themselves controlled from behind the scenes by the same handful of private family banks owned by the Rothschilds, the Rockefellers – managing the world's merged global monetary system as well as all the world's political governments in a global governance architecture, it won't be a problem returning to the Gold Standard. All the fine gold will have to be purchased from the same private international banksters in order to back the trillions in new common currency issued for transacting the entire world's commerce. How convenient once again!
The new monetary system will be happily made inflation averse amidst cheers from the foolish goyem of the world. The new gold based standard after all, does have to protect the enormous wealth of the private banksters from inflationary-erosion in a largely serf-world of the New World Order, wherein, the only real asset owners are the banks. The new financial empire also has to be stable enough to last a millennium! Can't have inflation eroding away all its loot as it did moms and pops meager assets and life savings in the twentieth century. Why indeed the Gold Standard will now make perfect sense for the banksters and the handful of real wealth owners of the world, was so passionately explained over a hundred years ago by William Jennings Bryan, that it is best refreshed in the goy's mind directly from the horse's mouth. The contorted dialectical brilliance of the devilish banksters is truly unsurpassed!
Interview of Dr. Jerome Corsi with Alex Jones says it all, February 09, 2009
Not much needs to be added to Dr. Jerome Corsi's statements beyond the following critique, and a reference to Project Humanbeingsfirst's exposition on 'carbon-credit' to explain its significance in the greater scheme of things. Dr. Corsi suggests in the above interview that his making the "secrets" about the North American Union public has delayed the inevitable, and Alex Jones agrees with that congratulatory self-pat on the back. I can't stand these vacuous self-adulations. We have a very famous couplet in the Urdu language, loosely translated it means: "to console the [delusional] heart, this thought is very nice".
We, the handful of conscionable activists who genuinely give a damn enough to put our personal stake in the ground with our name and our public activism, we who risk telling the unvarnished truth on a matter of principle, and who aren't dialectically participant in the Machiavellian orchestration of manufacturing dissent, haven't accomplished a darn thing nor averted a farthing's worth of fait accompli. The conspiracy for one-world government is itself becoming public because it is time for it to "break-surface", to emerge from the shadows as astutely predicted by David Icke ten years ago that it would when the globalists were good and ready for it. The moon is deliberately playing hide-and-seek in the clouds as the Sun orchestrates its visibility by modulating its own furnace, and the great Shaman in the Andes thinks it is managing the moon's shadow-play in its own battle against the rapacious predator!
In 1966, Professor Carroll Quigley in his book "Tragedy and Hope" had already observed that the globalists were almost ready and their stranglehold on world's affairs was almost complete. So today, their pronouncements are brazenly appearing in all sorts of mainstream newsmedia, and the Financial Times Oped of December 08, 2008 was only among the first. And before that, it wasn't particularly a state-secret either. Please see "The Enduring Capitalist Conspiracy For World Government". The CFR document by Robert A. Pastor "Building a North American Community" has been publicly available since May of 2005 from the Council on Foreign Relations Press, 175 pages, ISBN 0876093489, $15.00, Task Force Report No. 53. And even that wasn't news, because anyone following the Trilateralists' agenda and having read and analyzed the import of the many words of David Rockefeller, knew it. Please refer to the Monetary Reform Bibliography.
And were the globalists not so confident of the inevitable now being unstoppable, and all the eventualities and contingency planning now legally already in place for any minor ineffectual disturbances here and there, they wouldn't now be so brazenly proclaiming in the mainstream media their long, and hitherto only mildly-undertoned, subversive agenda for one-world government! The agenda which has so surreptitiously been orchestrated in the backdrop of their own manufactured crises. Even its core-principle of operation was accurately explained by G. Edward Griffin in his 1970 documentary film after he had studied W. Cleon Skousen's commentary on Carroll Quigley's book aptly titled "The Naked Capitalist":
"Create conditions so frightful at home and abroad, that the abandonment of personal liberties and national sovereignty, will appear as a reasonable price for a return to domestic tranquility and world peace.... If those who seek world dominion can raise the spectre of an enemy, armed to the teeth with superior atomic weapons on the verge of launching a nuclear holocaust, and also offer world-government as the prevention, then millions of Americans can be programmed to accept the loss of national sovereignty, as our last best hope for peace."
And the fact that Jerome Corsi published a book on the North American Union in 2007 and Alex Jones suggests that they (superficially) denied its thesis in the mainstream news at the time while the New York Times simultaneously listed it on its Best Seller list, only makes it the moon's shadow play of mocking the 'dumb and dumber'. A simple visit to cfr.org in the past few years would have made any mainstream denial of North American Union straightforwardly manifest to anyone from among the public inclined to do a bit of reading. In fact, Richard N. Gardner had outlined the subversion for ending national sovereignty in CFR's Foreign Affairs way back in April 1974 in his article "The Hard Road To World Order" thusly:
"In short, the 'house of world order' will have to be built from the bottom up, rather than from the top down. It will look like a great 'booming, buzzing confusion' to use William James' famous description of reality, but an end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece will accomplish much more than the old-fashioned frontal assault."
The public relations game in the mainstream media played out for the benefit of the 'dumb goy' has nothing to do with protecting state secrets. Had it really mattered to the 'ubermenschen' that this matter be kept secret – never mind that CFR would no more have published it than PNAC would have published "Rebuilding America's Defenses" in 2000 brazenly letting on about their calculated need for a mobilizing pretext such as a "New Pearl Harbor" a full year before it transpired – both Mr. Jerome Corsi and Mr. Alex Jones would have met the fate of JFK, MLK, RFK. Or minimally, at least that of iconoclast Eustace Mullins.
The latter, a truly revolutionary Socratic detective – and to my mind, the one genuinely deserving of the accolade "most important intellectual alive" without any need to append "arguably" to it – the only living protégé of American poet-philosopher Ezra Pound (whose other three protégés each won a Nobel Prize in Literature), can't even get any of his self-published out of print books re-published because of lack of resources. And here Dr. Jerome Corsi has the grand daddy of all mainstream publishers – Simon and Schuster – excitedly reprint a new edition of his "The Late Great USA: NAFTA, the North American Union, and the Threat of a Coming Merger with Mexico and Canada (Paperback - Feb. 17, 2009)".
Eustace Mullins was the first one to reveal the Secrets of the Federal Reserve post World War II, and has been hounded by the Federal government in ways that has been denied many a worthy dissenter. But even so, the octogenarian is also still alive. If any of them were such a real threat, they'd surely "sleeps with the fishes" by now or at least had a sensational "Washington suicide"! To really understand why it is not a major concern for the oligarchs of any public revelation of their open-secrets which are only hidden in plainsight anyway, please see the Foreword 2005 of Prisoners of the Cave! Anyone with an iota of interest, and not entirely consumed by the voluntary pursuits of his or her 'American Dream', can uncover any of this information.
And the reason the globalists feel so confident in now loudly proclaiming their proposed solutions of global structures for political and monetary governance, and yes within their own contorted shadow-play of sometimes brazenly mocking, and sometimes testing the water for public readiness, is because the only force that could have possibly caused any consternation to them – the world's peoples collectively caring for what's happening to them – have very effectively been neutralized. Their secret sauce to the recipe, so to speak, lies in such revelations not having any (timely) mass mobilizing impact, and they have already taken astute and systematic care of that in the preceding decades. The first key subversion was to get rid of labor unions – and they got rid of the nation's production base which helped cement those matters. Now it is all off shored to labor slums of economic conscription in dictatorships which rule with an iron fist – no worries about any labor problems. The other core subversion was to transform the two political parties into lobby-group heavy elitist plutocracies representing the same oligarchic interests, whereby, the voting masses are now reduced to picking from a carefully culled sampling of inepts, crooks, and other motley fools who can easily be led by their ignoramus or elongated nose for they at least know which side their bread is buttered. The rare sprinkling of an honest politician being the exception rather than the norm.
And if you think I am making all this up, just witness this candid admission by Congressman Paul KanJorski, D-Penn 11th District, Chair of Capital Markets Subcommittee, of his incompetence and inexpertise in economics and monetary matters while responding to a distraught caller on Washington Journal about the House Economic Stimulus Proposal:
And where were the organized mass demonstrations and shut-down strikes in either October 2008, or now in February 2009? Precisely!
Still not convinced that it is okay today to let the mainstream public know what is already not such a big-secret because in reality, the public is entirely neutralized, and at best, they will only riot out of desperation when the food runs out and that works well to serve the oligarchs' own purposes of more pretexts of a police-state to keep the law and order? Take a look at the official US debt by decade between 1900 and 2006 in the 2006 book by Van K. Tharp (Pg. 158, Figure 6.1) which is today taking America for a ride on the horns of economics gibberish. Now watch this engaging video clip of Glenn Beck at Fox News showing the same data updated to 2009, which is directly indicative of the premeditated hyperinflation direction of the fiat dollar.
Glenn Beck presented the above analysis just recently on mainstream right-wing television station that was as gung-ho on the Iraq War, and as supportive of Israeli genocide of the Palestinians, as any mainstream news television can be of its oligarchic ruling-elite. And yet, Mr. Beck is today getting away with loudly critiquing the government's policy. Notice however, how he gallantly hesitates to label it the palpable criminal conspiracy of the bankers to deliberately crash the dollar – because that assertion, of what is outright obvious, on mainstream news, would only see him hanging at the end of a rope! Also see the analysis of Glenn Beck's conversations with Ron Paul January 21, 2009 in which both cleverly tango around the core-lies to sustain the mythology that it is all due to unfortunate shortsightedness, or see the unraveling of Ron Paul's errors of calculated omissions on CNBC, January 27, 2009. And those aren't this revolutionary rebel's only omissions either. See this Open Letter to Ron Paul Supporters for some very fine political craftsmanship of Ron Paul, and its unraveling.
Never mind the public outrage, never mind the complicit ruling-elite and their tortuous instruments of psyops upon the gullible public – where is the commonsense of the middle-tier educated elite class and of the 'haves'? Are they as gullible as the masses to not see that the criminal conspiracy for world government is actually unfolding before their very eyes, and that none of this is due to happenstance or due to the incontrovertible laws of economics? That it is all deliberately manufactured on the horns of economics gibberish?
Only anecdotally speaking of course, not one person I personally know, either in the West or the East, gives a damn for anything other than their own tiny microcosm. Not one educated ignoramus with Ph.D. or MBA I know has any clue about the Federal Reserve System, nor cares enough to show outrage in the streets when they do know. And nor the many filthy-rich CEOs of corporations and business friends I run into here and there – in America and in Pakistan – give a bloody hoot! For many, "god is running the world". And they look at me strangely when I suggest that perhaps it's the devil who is. The last executive acquaintance I ran into was just this past weekend at a restaurant – a serial entrepreneur who knew all about financing companies and "leverage" – and he had his eyes glaze over when I started to explain the agenda behind the financial crisis after he had first explained to me, in technical jargon, how loans might be instantly called in by the banks as soon as the businesses re-calibrated their real worth today which is why they were avoiding it. I think he told me at least twice to eat my food instead. The 'haves' simply have too much at stake in the system to buck it – denial is the safest, for this way, they still remain hopeful of the crumbs that will surely fall in their lap if they keep up their industriousness of pursuing their 'American Dream' with blinkers on. This co-opted technocrats force – for that's really the only honest word left to describe them once all their hypocrisy and their self-justification for their ignorance are peeled away – makes for a perfect middle-management system in the new world order. They espouse the selective conscience, the selective expertise in their profession, the self-delusion of being rather virtuous and with clean hands, and show the eager willingness to remain silent participants in the core-lies of the system, all of which are necessary mercenary traits to perpetuate the world order and be amply rewarded for it. Thus, the sale of Mega yachts has shot through the roof, according to the Miami Herald's David Gelles.
I am really not making this up as I go along. Mr. Gelles reported in the Sunday Edition of October 26, 2008 – right after the bailout bill had passed – the yacht industry complaint that "megaships continue to be built faster than they can be staffed, ... There are too many large vessels being built right now, and we already have too many boats out there," Mr. Gelles further informed the beleaguered rank and file of Sunny Miami: "This year, 1,000 motor yachts longer than 80 feet are under construction, a steep jump from the 87 such ships being built 10 years ago, according to the report." While most of America is having trouble paying their bills for food, a Venture Capitalist acquaintance just purchased a multi-million dollar home in the mountains. And his previous home was already palatial to start with. Why would he give a damn and risk losing his fortune to an IRS audit, or donate a 100 million dollars to take on the Rockefeller Foundation as a public service? I did sort of pitch the idea of backing the monetary reform agenda to him, never heard back of course, nor invited again to visit. In fact, at this VC's party, I had met the most educated ignoramii pretentious millionaires of America who seemed to know far less about the nature of money that was in their pockets than one might have expected. None willing to risk losing it, they each spoke as if they understood it all, each had their favorite horse between Obama and McCain, and perhaps thought I was a raving lunatic when I explained that both had a Brzezinski behind them, and that money was made out of thin air. They'd in fact be silly to wanna risk their good life for some abstract principle of truth and justice. Narratives is all they understand, and indeed tell to each other in their brief respites from making more money.
Okay you say, that's the filthy rich of the world. They are all alike everywhere. Surely the 'have-nots' in the rank and file give a damn?
Not the immigrant cabbie I met recently! Complaining of too few customers in these rough times to make ends meet, when I tried to tell him about the world according to the lonely Socrates and why he had so few customers, he just shrugged and moved on to worry about his next meal. And nor does the working class engineer friend of mine who lives comfortably in a posh locality and who simply replied: "I'll take care of my camels, god will take care of Its own property". He was referring to some largely mythical event in a 1500 year old history that he swears by as his moral guide and passport to heaven. When I persisted in explaining the devilish global agenda to him and that there was only hell at its end for the majority of us, he ended it by calmly asserting "I don't have the time to study any of this", and "god is running the world".
So okay, maybe I just don't know that many people in the world. Perhaps the goodly conscionable people are all out there somewhere, in the millions, among the 6.5 billion. And it is in their consideration, in their fear of retaliation, that Jerome Corsi's book, as he maintains, caused the ruling-elite to delay their evil agenda. In the interview to Alex Jones, Corsi stated that he has even made that premise the thesis of the epilogue in the new edition of his book.
The empirical evidence of such principled peoples existing on planet earth who would scare the pants off the hectoring hegemons is scant however. The Gaza protest against the Israeli shoah of the Palestinians which I attended in San Francisco on January 10, 2009, was minuscule compared to the one in February 2003 on the eve of the criminal invasion of Iraq. Even fewer people give a damn today despite all the horrible exposures by the globalists' own mouth piece, the New York Times, in the last 5 years, than they did back then. And conditions in the United States are at least an order of magnitude worse than they were 5 years ago! The fact that civilians and babies were being butchered didn't seem to phase out too many Americans. For that matter, dead children shot in the head at close range, and burning bodies from phosphorous bombs, didn't seem to have phased too many other nations either beyond the usual lip-service. No one declared war on the pariah state, no one sent in their armies to protect the civilians. Only one lonely courageous "Dignity" sailed to their symbolic rescue, instead of one million for some real efficacy! Only one beleaguered nation that is itself under the gun, dared to send in some token supplies on a boat which was trivially held up by conspiring mercenaries en route. See "Happy-Happy in Hope and Voluntary Servitude" for more empiricism for the worldwide neutralization of public response.
Therefore, claiming that publishing a book of eloquent prose on matters already apparent has averted or delayed some grotesque fate that is awaiting all of us, is the height of narcissistic self-delusion. Humility of course was hardly ever a hallmark of Western intellectualism in the first place. Our Zeitgeist has even demonstrated its profound infertility between the 'Manufacturing Consent and Manufacturing Dissent' of the Rhett Butler mercenaries too cowardly to admit it, and the dreamstate of the handful of genuine Socrates riding hard on a treadmill of slogans amidst great incestuous applause.
Facing up to the tortuous reality the way it actually is, and not imposing one's own imaginative narratives upon it like the globalists do to hypothesize a different world, can be a bit more useful in meeting the real challenges. If only they'd stop patting themselves on the back for their noisy run on the treadmill, and instead, donate all the proceeds of their bestseller books and documentaries rehearsing the crimes of empire and the suffering of its victims, to create a Foundation for Justice, to fund a JPAC (Justice Political Action Committee), etc. Without effort towards such mass mobilizing, institution building, and negotiating power wielding infrastructures, and without sinking massive funds into it like the oligarchs do, the mantra of dissent has become big business in the West. Like everything else here, truth too has a price.
I would like to know how many dissent-space acclaimed authors and con-fession artists whose books line the shelves of major bookstores chains and grace the New York Times bestseller list, who command high speaking fees on the lecture circuit and make a good living peddling their narration of crimes of empire, gave away their harvest to the Iraqi and Afghani families? There are at least a hundred if not a thousand books on 911. How many donated the proceeds to the victims of 911, both in the United States, and in the rest of the world? At least, Captain Rhett Butler, even as a mercenary was still intellectually honest enough to un-hypocritically admit his capitalist instincts and the reality of defeat of the side he was helping in Gone with the Wind:
'And have you so much money, Captain Butler?
What an ill-bred question, Mrs. Hamilton. I'm surprised. But yes. For a young man cut off without a shilling in early youth, I've done very well. And I'm sure I'll clean up a million on the blockade.
Oh, no!
Oh, yes! What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one.
And what does all that mean?
Your family and my family and everyone here tonight made their money out of changing a wilderness into a civilization. That's empire building. There's good money in empire building. But, there's more in empire wrecking.
What empire wrecking are you talking about?
This empire we're living in – the South – the Confederacy – the Cotton Kingdom – it's breaking up right under our feet. Only most fools won't see it and take advantage of the situation created by the collapse. I'm making my fortune out of the wreckage.
Then you really think we're going to get licked?
Yes. Why be an ostrich?'
The blood-drenched transformation stage that we find ourselves in today – the wreckage of civilizations – is truly "Between Two Ages". That brilliant description is not mine, but the title of Zbigniew Brzezinski's seminal book which got him discovered by David Rockefeller, and which got him appointed as the Executive Director of Rockefeller's Trilateral Commission. There are more than a dozen Trilateralists and CFRs in Obama's Administration pushing the banksters' agendas across different fronts. The money behind them, at least in the United States, is primarily the Rockefellers' who own the majority stake in the New York Fed, which in turn largely controls the Federal Reserve System. In Europe, the money is primarily the Rothschilds' who control all the world's private central banks with complex interlocking relationships. One cannot fight an infinite supply of money that is conjured out of nothing and which pervades all public and private institutions from universities to businesses to governments, with mere talk and chest thumping.
To genuinely reverse it, requires an order of magnitude different strategies and tactics than blaring into a bull-horn and publishing books! It requires mass mobilizations and the common man's commandeering of structures of power worldwide to shut down the world. No food on the store shelves, no garbage picked up, no containers unloaded, all civic services stopped, etc. Apart from the fact that all this requires money, organizations, time to build them up, labor unions, political institutions which can mobilize the rank and file, and strategies and tactics of no less convolution than what CFR conjures up, there are also no masses to mobilize, and more importantly, no un-compromising leaders to lead them. Random destructive riots in the streets out of individual desperation doesn't, and will not, cut it. Ineffectual riots, in fact, are the calculated tactical plan of the globalists themselves, because that enables them to play their fait accompli inducing trump card – martial law! And the FEMA detention camps on military sites have already been made ready to welcome many a malcontent! To understand this matter forensically, see "Why bluff martial law".
Never mind waking up the sheeples. The genuine "ostrich" activists, the "quite gallant and graceful-looking people", themselves need to wake up to the grotesque reality first, without any syntactic sugaring sweetening their early morning coffee.
Please read the rest of this news analysis very dispassionately, with an analytical eye, to comprehend that there is zero efficacy to all these current efforts to halt the enormous momentum towards one-world government that has been a very long time in the making. And the criminals are very very clever, almost devilish, and a good people enjoying their truth-telling in their Hyde-corner simply cannot match them in tortuous planning, funding, institutionalizing of their corruption, and construction of complex lies within lies and disseminating them through billion dollar media outlays and convoluted psyops. Between Huxleyan and Orwellian controls of the masses in the West, and between struggle for daily bread and barely surviving in the East, matters have now progressed so far forward that only adverse chemotherapy, which can potentially kill the patient, can possibly also save the patient.
I must confess I am totally impressed with the accurate sociological insight of H. G. Wells one hundred years ago when he stated in his book "The New World Order" (which apparently few people have actually bothered to read as they often quote the following passage from it quite out of context – see here):
"When the struggle seems to be drifting defiantly towards a world social democracy there may still be very great delays and disappointments before it becomes an efficient and beneficent world system. Countless people – will hate the New World Order – and will die protesting against it. When we attempt to evaluate its promise, we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents, many of them quite gallant and graceful-looking people."
Please sit back and watch how the real patriots do it to the predators of their jungle:
Disturbing Confirmation of the Post Modern Coup is Emerging, January 30, 2009
As if the 'Obama Kids' Song' wasn't indication enough, Steve Watson at Prisonplanet.com reported on Wednesday, January 28, 2009, the following chilling confirmation of the above analysis. The diabolical cultivation of a 'Messianic' figure under that 'CHANGE' mantra whose obligatory love and allegiance is being seeded into the very consciousness of the people, starting with young school children in public schools: 'School Children Complain Of "Obama Worship" During Lessons'.
And as if that report wasn't confirmation enough, the 'CHANGE' mantra driven new President of the United States is continuing to fix America's future with another trillion dollars bailout bill in the true spirit of 'CHANGE' from his predecessor's policies. As has been explained in "The entrenched notion of Public Debt in America", the principal of the money in circulation which is constructed as a public debt, is not designed to be ever paid back but to increase infinitely until the currency eventually collapses by becoming so diluted that it becomes worthless. The compound-interest on the rising principal however, is collected annually from the American tax payer in perpetuity. This additional trillion dollars if injected into circulation for the bailout of non-GDP producing toxic-assets, is apparently targeting the crashing of the rapidly diminishing dollar sometimes early during this presidential term. As the American guy and gal lose their shirt and skirt in a double whammy of rising inflation and almost no availability of consumer credit, the analysis made in "Why Bluff Martial Law" will soon be realized.
The triumph of marketing to sell the 'CHANGE' magic to the dumb and dumber of America was even acknowledged by Advertising Age which named Mr. Obama its 2008 "Marketer of the Year" right before the November presidential elections. The manufactured 'messiah' representing the globalist banksters and tutored by their master-agendist Zbigniew Brzezinski for the next crucial phase of the American journey towards world government, beat out his nearest rival for that recognition by 9 percentage points – Apple!
The only thing unclear at this time is how much dumber can the goy get, that the sorcerers are laughing their way to the bank and the gentiles cheer – led in that venture by cleverly manufactured leaders! When, with a single signature, the goy can put the entire demonic cabal and their foundations behind bars or on the gallows and takeover their own currency issue, they continue to permit a bunch of shysters to control their money.
While the Americans may ardently love their moneychangers despite Jesus having thrown them out of the temple, the rest of the world most certainly doesn't! Unless the developing nations of the Global South urgently band together, unilaterally declare all their paper debts null and void, and create a new non-interest bearing public currency as the basis of their own monetary system and the primary and only instrument of trade among themselves, this very minute, hallelujah is approaching fast!
This rational appeal is to the peoples of the third-world nations specifically, to prevail upon their mercenary leaders by hook or by crook, because the developed nations with their private central banks controlling their respective nation's jugulars, are already done-in!
Ron Paul, in a fantastic conversation on MSNBC's morning joe, January 27, 2009
Ron Paul is certainly a remarkable Congressman. He is very articulate, and also very intelligent. So he must also be very astute. He has figured out how to suggest many factual things which no one dare speak about, while still keep the fundamental axioms of empire intact and unexamined. Watch him repeat once again, that Bin Laden is making America bankrupt. But 'Bin Laden' is the 'Ali Baba' of empire. He dare not articulate that fact. Watch him repeat once again that it is the recklessness of overspending due to shortsightedness, and uncourageously avoid stating the blatantly obvious that it is a diabolical plan. See the analysis of Ron Paul's January 21, 2009 interview with Glenn Beck, and Henry Kissinger's January 20, 2009 oped below. Also see the analysis of Fred Thompson's December 03, 2008 self-promotion video "Spending yourself to prosperity plan" on the same theme of reckless overspending and convenient omission of diabolical intent to manufacture deliberate crises as pretexts for ushering in the key controls for world government, in the November-December 2008 report on Financial Terrorism.
While all this farcical puppetshow is going on among the talking-heads, co-incident with the new President, Mr. Obama's very first day in the highest office in the land, two watershed moments in American history silently transpired. The United States Supreme Court invalidated the Fourth Amendment (see "Letter to Editor – Confessions of a gullible idiot Tuesday, January 27, 2009"), and H.R. 645 was introduced in the House (see Paul Watson's Report on Prisonplanet.com)
Ron Paul, Interviewed by Glenn Beck on Fox News Channel, January 21, 2009
In this dynamic and engaging conversation, both Congressman Ron Paul and Fox News anchor Glenn Beck refuse to draw the blatantly obvious conclusions from their own analysis. So, even though they both predict the collapse of the dollar due to its deliberate and systematic dilution, 70% since October 2008, and its eventual replacement with a new global currency and new monetary system which they project to be based on gold, they refuse to see this path as the devilishly premeditated plan for global currency, nor divulge the fact that the bulk of the world's gold supply is now held in the hands of the same International banking cartel and their surrogates like Barrick Gold.
Are Glenn Beck and Ron Paul so intelligence-challenged to not recognize the multivariate criminal sting operations under manufacture that will soon acquire an unbreakable stranglehold upon the entire world? Or are they simply astute enough to understand the permissible envelop of discourse so that crucial omissions are their life-vests as they pseudo-challenge the conventional mainstream wisdom in the lofty guise of dissent?
Why do they project, in effect, that the bankers are morons, the Congress is irresponsible, and that this is all just sheer recklessness which if not checked will crash the dollar? Why don't they instead, blanketly and correctly assert that the Congress and the Executive are both beholden to the banksters and in on the scam, and that this path is a criminal premeditation, a monstrous conspiracy on the part of the globalists to create a 'one-world' government? That its sine qua non is the control and consolidation of the world's monetary system into one set of elitist financial hands? That the global hijacking of world's money supply will once again be suitably camouflaged just as the Federal Reserve System was in 1913 – setting it up as a partnership between the private banking cartel and the government, with the government having only insubstantial and ineffectual powers?
Congressman Ron Paul continually resists the temptation of putting his trigger-finger on these crimes against humanity as an inside job! Watch him do his repeat performance also with respect to 911 and the manufactured 'war on terror', as merely the blowback of a reckless foreign policy rather than an inside job with a fabricated enemy, in this 'Open Letter to Ron Paul's supporters'. Half-truths, like half-doctors, have rarely if ever accurately diagnosed, let alone cured, any disease except through the sheer 'luck of the Irish'. And the world is running rather short of leprechauns right now. Half-truths can only lead to absurdities, like a yogi sitting cross-legged on his rump in the Hindu Kush and armed to the teeth only with secure cellphones and laptops, bringing down the mightiest sole-superpower in the history of mankind while demolishing its three tall buildings into fine rubble, all from his reclusive hideout! Ron Paul perpetuates this absurdity to the blazing accolades of his fawning followers. And more importantly, to the convenience of maintaining the sacred-cow axioms of the establishment.
Henry Kissinger, The world must forge a new order or retreat to chaos, The Independent, January 20, 2009
'As the new US administration prepares to take office amid grave financial and international crises, it may seem counterintuitive to argue that the very unsettled nature of the international system generates a unique opportunity for creative diplomacy. That opportunity involves a seeming contradiction. On one level, the financial collapse represents a major blow to the standing of the United States. While American political judgments have often proved controversial, the American prescription for a world financial order has generally been unchallenged. Now disillusionment with the United States' management of it is widespread. At the same time, the magnitude of the debacle makes it impossible for the rest of the world to shelter any longer behind American predominance or American failings. Every country will have to reassess its own contribution to the prevailing crisis. Each will seek to make itself independent, to the greatest possible degree, of the conditions that produced the collapse; at the same time, each will be obliged to face the reality that its dilemmas can be mastered only by common action. Even the most affluent countries will confront shrinking resources. Each will have to redefine its national priorities. An international order will emerge if a system of compatible priorities comes into being. It will fragment disastrously if the various priorities cannot be reconciled. The nadir of the international financial system coincides with simultaneous political crises around the globe. Never have so many transformations occurred at the same time in so many different parts of the world and been made accessible via instantaneous communication. The alternative to a new international order is chaos.'
And there you have it once again, within the short span of 6 weeks. Henry Kissinger floats the same trial balloon as Gideon Rachman previously did in 'And now for a world government', Financial Times, December 8 2008. Project Humanbeingsfirst's response to the Gideon Rachman's oped also applies to unraveling Dr. Kissinger's disingenuous "Now disillusionment with the United States' management of it is widespread" and "The alternative to a new international order is chaos." Especially, when his globalist financial cohorts, and 'full spectrum dominance' Zionist advocates, are the very ones who have calculatingly planted, germinated, nurtured, fully grown, and now ready to harvest, those very seeds of chaos as per CFR's 1974 paradigm argued in 'The Hard Road To World Order':
"In short, the 'house of world order' will have to be built from the bottom up, rather than from the top down. It will look like a great 'booming, buzzing confusion' to use William James' famous description of reality, but an end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece will accomplish much more than the old-fashioned frontal assault."
So they diabolically manufacture the cataclysms, and then propose exactly the solutions they prefer that would fulfill their globalist agendas! It once again brings to full circle implementation these ominous words of G. Edward Griffin from 'The Capitalist Conspiracy': "Create conditions so frightful at home and abroad, that the abandonment of personal liberties and national sovereignty, will appear as a reasonable price for a return to domestic tranquility and world peace."
What more proof does one need, with tortuous events continually repeating and always serendipitously being conforment to the requirements of their desired solutions that only make them richer, more powerful, and owning greater and greater combines, that there is a diabolically orchestrated conspiracy for one-world government by the financial oligarchs, and that it is now brazenly 'breaking surface'?
The fact that it is a coterie led by a handful of world's most powerful Jewish families is perhaps insignificant, for as W. Cleon Skousen observed in 1970, they are aided and abetted by several million peoples of all stripes:
'Of course we should be quick to recognize that no small group could wield such gigantic power unless millions of people in all walks of life were "in on the take" and were willing to knuckle down to the iron-clad regimentation of the ruthless bosses behind the scenes. As we shall see, the network has succeeded in building its power structure by using tremendous quantities of money (together with the vast influence it buys) to manipulate, intimidate, or corrupt millions of men and women and their institutions on a world-wide basis.'
Watch for more and more mainstream news reports, books, opeds floating this very idea so diabolically seeded into the mainstream discourse space by the devilish mastermind Dr. Henry Kissinger "The alternative to a new international order is chaos". He along with his twin, the other diabolical mastermind, Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski, are both under the ideological pay-strings of misanthrope David Rockefellers' various Councils, Commissions, Foundations, and Population Reduction Memorandums. The new occupant of the White House does not come empty handed.
For more analysis and prior context, see Financial Terrorism November–December 2008.
Also visit the Monetary Reform Bibliography for detailed references.
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explain the resurgance of ambient drone etc
the internet is too broad/vague. be specific.
explain the resurgance of ambient drone etc
the internet is too broad/vague. be specific.
my little sisters gone nuts for it over the last year and shes a very well adjusted human, down to earth, normal, not a freak.
Outside of your little sister who else is into it?
The explanation, I would guess, is the internet.
Αι ψυχαί οσμώνται καθ΄ Άιδην.
must be the internet eh. lock thread.
I wouldn't be surprised if this was the case tbh as music has BECOME AMBIENT, whether or not it was designed to be.
It's constantly accessible, and so constantly playing, in the background. Nobody sits down and listens to music without any distractions anymore.
What is wanted, most of the time, is a pleasant accompaniment to browsing social media.
I often read on the tube with music in my headphones, and I am constantly forced to stick on some ultra-agreeable classical music or ambient (Eno 'On Land') just so it doesn't distract me from reading.
OFFTOPIC but its similar to the situation with visual art, in which we're so overwhelmed with images these days that images that used to shock or inspire or overwhelm people now have to be stared at for a considerable length of time, perhaps with explanatory captions, in order to puncture our overstimulated senses. Imagery is ambient too.
Αι ψυχαί οσμώνται καθ΄ Άιδην.
william basinski
stars of the lid
max richter
pauline oliveros
loads of stuff. insatiable appetite for it. came out the blue.
What do you make of my half baked theory?
Here's another one:
It's a REFUGE from the madness of the ultra connected world. Unplug. Forget about Trump. Forget about Twitter. The feed.
(SIDENOTE: growth of MINDFULNESS MEDITATION connected?)
Αι ψυχαί οσμώνται καθ΄ Άιδην.
i think all those theories are good theories. good point about images too.
let's work in something about the prevalence of panic attacks these days too
I thought the mid-90s was the Golden Age of ambient? Orb, Willy Orbit, Future Sound Of London, Aphex, Massive Attack, all of that.
Though I guess some of this vapourwave stuff is verging on ambient.
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Really depends how you define 'ambient'.
Dont think it ever went away though, its been a recurring theme in nearly every decade since the 50's and has broken through into the mainstream on several occasions.
If there's one factor that Id say is different now its the sheer number of producers and the massive amounts of music being released.
def escapism
Not to tie everything in with rap, but have you noticed these ambient textures are now everywhere in rap and R&B? Clams Casino, 40, the weeknd etc.
By ambient textures I mean reverb heavy, thick, nebulous, atmospheric...
Αι ψυχαί οσμώνται καθ΄ Άιδην.
Look at the people in Luka's list. Basinski - deeply melancholic studies on decay, Richter & Stars of the Lid - defined narrative structures with periods of extreme intensity - they represent a strain within ambient that has very little to do with the traditional definition. Drone as a genre is characterised as much by its stark bleakness as anything else.
This is not the escapism of New Age, prog hippies like Fripp and Hillage, 90's chill out bliss or Eno's canonical period.


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Beverly Clevenger performs solo during the 2010 Homecoming pregame. Clevenger promised her gradaughter Julia Bosley of Excelsior Springs she would perform at the game if Bosley elected to attend the University of Missouri.
Beverly Swafford Clevenger is a woman of her word.
Not only was she a 67-year-old woman who hadn't picked up her baton in four years, but she also had broken several bones in her left foot after falling down some stairs in November 2009. The injury required corrective surgery, three titanium screws, two pins and intense therapy.
"I had no idea how this would work out while looking at my cast that winter," says Clevenger, who was an MU feature twirler in 1961. "But Julia had been accepted to Mizzou, and I had to do it."
Clevenger, who attended MU from 1961–63 and finished her degree at UMKC in 1989, made the promise during Mizzou's 2005 Homecoming, when she performed with the alumni band for the third time and took along Bosley, then an eighth-grader.
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The cast of Starz's "Magic City" enjoyed shooting in Miami, but L.A. did the job for Tuesday's premiere event. The 1959-set series screened at the DGA, and guests trekked to the Chateau Marmont for the afterparty.
Starz's Chris Albrecht and creator Mitch Glazer introduced the skein's first episode, spurring Glazer to reminisce about seeing the lavish Florida hotels and beautiful women when he was a young boy.
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CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn on Monday signed into law the nation's strictest regulations for high-volume oil and gas drilling.
"This new law will unlock the potential for thousands of jobs in Southern Illinois and ensure that our environment is protected," Quinn said in a news release announcing his widely expected signature on the bill that he pushed for and that the Legislature passed overwhelmingly a few weeks ago.
The new law establishes rules that oil and gas companies must follow during hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, which uses high-pressure mixtures of water, sand or gravel and chemicals to crack underground rock formations and release oil and natural gas. Companies will be required to disclose chemicals and to test water before and after drilling as well as hold the companies liable for contamination.
Opponents of the legislation — who unsuccessfully pushed a 2-year moratorium to allow more time to study the environmental and health impact of fracking — said they are considering a legal challenge to the law.
"We have already put together a legal team with attorneys from all over the country to look at various aspects of the bill," said Annette McMichael, a property owner in Johnson County who belongs to a coalition that opposes fracking. "We are looking at what legal avenue to pursue."
One of the sponsors of the bill, Sen. Michael Frerichs, D-Champaign, said the fact that fracking is already happening in Illinois makes the law that much more important as the state moves to "protect the environment while allowing for job creation."
Environmental groups that helped craft the legislation said they were hopeful the safeguards will address their continued concerns about the method's "environmental impact."
"The environmental community looks forward to working with the governor and agencies to make sure that this bill is strongly enforced," Jan Walling, executive director of the Illinois Environmental Council, said in statement released by Quinn's office.
According to Quinn's office, the law would make Illinois the first state in the nation to require hydraulic fracturing operators to submit chemical disclosures to the state both before and after fracking, as well as require the companies to conduct water testing before the fracking process and then again a number of times after it's completed.
While state records indicate that hydraulic fracturing has begun on a limited basis in parts of Illinois, it will it will be a while before it begins in earnest because the state's Department of Natural Resources must hire dozens of new engineers, inspectors, attorneys and other experts.


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The main character is the eccentric Rollie Zerbs of La Porte, Missouri, an elderly man living with Alzheimer's disease. He has baited hooks connected to the keys of an old typewriter by the side of the Mississippi so the local fish can write poetry. He keeps stacks of old newspapers piled up to his bedroom ceiling, and he doesn't know why. But Rollie does have one (sensible) thing going for him – a rare 1909 Chicago Cubs tobacco baseball card, one of the most valuable cards in existence. And even though he can't remember where he just put it, he's on his way to Chicago to see what the card will bring.
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LYNN, Ind. (AP) — An Indiana hunter who killed what wildlife experts say is the "deer of a lifetime" could be denied a spot in the record books because authorities say he took the buck illegally.
Austin Spain, 21, of Lynn, told investigators he killed the 16-point trophy buck the weekend of Nov. 17 in Randolph County. The buck's size makes it eligible for a national record book kept by hunter-conservationist group Boone and Crockett, The Star-Press (http://tspne.ws/RC0yuT ) reported.
But it won't be eligible if authorities prove Spain took it illegally. Indiana law allows hunters to take just one buck each year. Conservation officer Jake Carlile said Spain had already taken an antlered buck earlier in November.
Spain could not be reached for comment because there was no phone listing available.
Investigators found the trophy buck at a taxidermy shop in Eaton and interviewed Spain on Monday. Carlile said Spain initially indicated the buck had been taken in Michigan but that he eventually told detectives he had shot it in Randolph County.
Spain faces misdemeanor charges of illegally taking and tagging deer.
Based on its size, the deer would qualify for the Records of North American Big Game, a book similar to the Guinness World Records books that's maintained by Boone and Crockett, Carlile said.
"That deer is a deer of a lifetime. A person could hunt for 30 years and not see a deer that large."
Keith Balfourd, spokesman for the group, said a deer must measure 160 inches to qualify. Scores are calculated using the number of points on each antler, the spread between the right and left antlers, the length of the antlers, the length of the points and the circumference of the antlers.
The buck Spain took measured about 180 inches.
Balfourd said few hunters ever take a qualifying deer.
"I have hunted white-tailed deer for 35 years and I haven't shot one that was 160 inches," he said. "Less than one half of one percent of hunters ever take a Boone and Crockett-qualifying trophy."
The deer is at least the second trophy buck illegally killed in Indiana in recent months. A hunter was charged in October with illegally shooting a 10-point buck nicknamed "Nightmare" for its size and ability to elude hunters near Eagle Creek Park in Indianapolis.
Don Ward faces a felony charge of criminal recklessness with a deadly weapon and three misdemeanors in that case.
Information from: The Star Press, http://www.thestarpress.com
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Stemming from the unparalleled success of the Billabong ASP World Junior Championships, ASP International will be instituting the world's first ASP World Junior Tour, commencing in 2010.
The proposed, three-event ASP World Junior Tour will following January's Billabong ASP World Junior Championship (which will crown the 2009 ASP World Junior Champions).
"The expansion of the ASP World Juniors is a direct result of the continuing global surge in ASP Pro Junior events," Brodie Carr, ASP International CEO, said. "When we partnered with Billabong in 1998 on this concept, we had just 12 global junior events, and through our joint vision, it has grown to over 50 events as recently as 2008."
Joel Parkinson (AUS), 28, two-time past ASP World Junior Champion (1999, 2001), knows all too well the benefits that development through the ASP Pro Junior tem can provide. The Australian is currently holding down a runaway lead on the ASP Dream Tour ratings and is en route to his inaugural ASP World Title.
"The Billabong ASP World Junior Championships has been a major stepping stone to the highest levels of surfing for over 10 years now," Parkinson said. "It started me on my career path, and if you look at the guys who have won it from Andy (Irons) to Jordy (Smith) to Adriano (de Souza), they've all made major impacts on professional surfing."
Each event will host 48-man and 18-woman fields, running formats similar to those found on the ASP Dream Tour. The Billabong ASP World Junior Championships will retain the third and final slot on the tour (crowning the ASP World Junior Champions), however the remaining two slots for ASP World Junior Tour events are presently available with ASP International now taking bids.
In honor of the newly founded ASP World Junior Tour, each of the three events will increase the prize purses to US$75,000 for the men and US$20,000 for the women in 2010. ASP World Junior Tour events will also be encouraged to run in venues holding excellent surf, further preparing the athletes for competition at the highest levels of the sport.
"We will be taking the ASP World Junior Tour to the best waves in the world just like the ASP World Tour," Carr said. "The winner will be the undisputed ASP World Junior Champion and with the added bonus of a boost up the ASP WQS rankings for the following year, will be en route to the ASP Dream Tour."
In addition to being the most prestigious and richest junior tour on the planet, the winner of the men's ASP World Junior Tour will receive a wildcard into the last seeded round any ASP World Qualifying Series (WQS) event he chooses to compete in. The men's Runner-Up and Women's ASP World Junior Champion will also be seeded into the second-to-last seeded round at any ASP WQS event they choose to compete in (similar to how it operates at present).
Qualification for the ASP World Junior Tour will remain the same as it is presently for the Billabong ASP World Junior Championships. Surfers (aged 20 and under) will compete on their respective regional ASP Pro Junior Series for a chance at qualifying for the ASP World Junior Tour.
"These are the best kids in the world and with three events, the ASP World Junior Tour is the recognized career path that all the kids know they need to follow to reach the ASP Dream Tour," Carr said.
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1999: Joel Parkinson (AUS)
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Reforming Republican Foreign Policy (II)
Nikolas Gvosdev advises the Republicans to come to grips with their disadvantage on foreign policy:
Any Republican nominee for president in 2016, therefore, has an uphill battle in trying to convince the electorate that the GOP can and should be trusted with America's national security. And it will require the Republican Party to have an honest and frank discussion of its recent past. Only then can the GOP advance a vision of conservative internationalism grounded in realism, one that might again capture the hearts—and votes—of a majority of Americans.
Gvosdev's recommendations are similar to what I was discussing in my columnyesterday. If Republican advisers and candidates want to understand how the party's advantage on foreign policy and national security was lost and how to begin recovering it, Gvosdev's article is a good place to start. The first thing Republicans will need to do to recover the public's trust and to become credible on these issues once again is to acknowledge the disastrous foreign policy record of the Bush administration.
That would involve recognizing at a minimum that the Iraq war was a major blunder. It won't be enough to say that they won't start another war like the one in Iraq. Romney said that, but it rang false. In order to be credible, Republicans need to internalize the lesson that preventive war is unwise and reckless. Regaining the public's trust will be an uphill battle, but it will become a virtually impossible one to win if Republicans don't understand why and how they lost that trust.
The "honest and frank discussion" of the party's recent past shouldn't be limited only to reviewing and understanding Bush-era mistakes. It should also include the more recent errors of the party's leaders and activists over the last four years. These derive in large part from a desire to defend Bush's awful record. Romney's foreign policy views were appalling in their "omni-directional belligerence," but what was it that drove him to adopt such ridiculous views in the first place? He was mostly just echoing the prevailing views of hawks in his party.
For example, many Republican hawks continue to fight rearguard defenses of Bush's discredited "freedom agenda" years after everyone else correctly wrote it off as a failure. Continuing to defend the "freedom agenda" does't seem to come from an assessment of what is in the best interests of the United States. By any sober reckoning, the "freedom agenda" was a costly disaster for the U.S. and for most of the countries affected by it. Defending it represents a strange need to insist that "Bush was right" about everything when almost the exact opposite is true. It ought to be easy for Republicans to discard the Bush-era obsession with democracy promotion, but that requires that Republicans to admit that Bush's attention to this was misplaced and mistaken.
Reforming Republican foreign policy should have some political benefits, but the main reason for this reform is to make sure that a future Republican administration conducts foreign policy competently and successfully. If a future Republican president follows the hawkish script of the last decade, he will end up repeating many of the same errors that Bush committed. Eventually there will be another Republican administration, so it would be best for the United States and the world if it were not still wedded to needlessly aggressive and confrontational policies.


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President Snow?
Many of your questions during our liveblog discussions on Tuesdays and Thursdays and your emails too involve casting for The Hunger Games series. Right now, no one has been confirmed. And from what I heard, as of early this week, there's not even a shortlist. So they are seeing everyone. And everyone wants it. Also the script and other logistical details are still being fine-tuned so we're a ways away. But we can still play, as Ausiello likes to call it, Armchair Casting Director.
As previously noted, Philip Seymour Hoffman is my Haymitch. Henry Hopper currently has my vote for Gale. There's a young Australian rather unknown actor (at least in North America) called Rhys Wakefield that I've had my eye on for Peeta. Click here for his IMDB. I've also included a clip of him below from a soap opera he worked on back home. Katniss of course is the big question mark. I hear you about Kaya Scodelario who was wonderful as Effy in Skins, obviously, and has proved she can excel at duplicity but I am fixated, straight up fixated, on wanting Katniss to be a complete new thing. Like a major find, out of nowhere, much like our flawed heroine herself.
Anyway, just now I was browsing through the photo agencies, getting updated after coming home from the gym. There are some new Kiefer Sutherland photos, walking around in Paris like a steezy badass. And then I realised: this is my personal President Snow. Have you heard is voiceovers for Ford? They're creepy. He can be so creepy. Easily. And evil too, no problem. Think of him maybe 10 lbs lighter, because Snow is very skinny, at least in my mind, with shock white hair, and some freak ass Nicole Kidman lips which I'm sure, in this era of special effects/makeup is easy to do, skulking around dropping white roses everywhere. It's him. It's totally him.
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Senior co-captain Monica Zdrojewski and the Crimson are 8-5 overall this season (photo courtes Harvard Athletic Communications).
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loss at the hands of Iona at Blodgett Pool Sunday afternoon. The
Gaels nipped Harvard, 12-11, in sudden-death overtime.
Harvard (8-5) led by as many as four goals during the contest, but timely scoring by Iona (4-3) put the Gaels back in the game. Iona had the last chance in regulation, putting a shot from nine meters off of the post to send the match to overtime.
With the score knotted at nine, the teams were set to play two three-minute overtimes, per NCAA regulations.
Each team had multiple defensive stops during the first overtime frame, until Harvard found the back of the cage for the only score of the period. The Crimson and Gaels then switched offensive sides during the break, as Harvard held on to a 10-9 advantage.
Harvard's Shayna Price gave the squad a two-goal lead in the second overtime, as the sophomore netted a score with just over two minutes remaining. Iona quickly answered with a score of its own with 1:48 left to put Harvard's lead back at one.
The Crimson took possession and ran the 35-second clock as much as possible, before firing a shot that Iona's goalie tipped out of play. With a fresh 35-second clock and just over a minute remaining on the clock, Harvard stalled out the shot clock to give Iona limited amount of time to get a tying goal.
The Gaels took over with 32 seconds to play in what was almost certainly going to be the last possession of the game, needing a score to send the game to sudden-death overtime. Iona got the tally it need in the form of a backhand shot from the middle of the pool that snuck past the right hand of Harvard goalie Ariel Dukes, and barely by inside the post to tie the score. Despite 12 seconds of time remaining, The Crimson could not muster a shot as the stanza expired.
Iona won possession at the start of the fourth frame and quickly ended the contest with the golden goal in the first 34 seconds. The Gaels used a lob shot over Dukes that landed tightly into the back corner to mark the final score.
The win gives Iona two victories over Harvard this season, as the Gaels have a 2-1 advantage in the series in 2012. The Crimson edged Iona, 14-13, in sudden death overtime Feb. 26.
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CAIRO, Feb. 16 (UPI) -- Three Korean tourists and an Egyptian driver died Sunday when a device exploded on their bus during a sightseeing trip in the Sinai, security officials said.
South Sinai governor Khaled Fouda said the blast likely resulted from an explosive device planted on the bus, but he cautioned that an investigation has not been completed.
The bus was hit in the Taba area and it was the first attack on civilians in the restive area where terrorist attacks have been on the wane in recent months.
Egyptian security sources told Ahram Online the victims were Korean. Another 27 people of varying nationalities were injured.
Authorities have closed off the road leading to Taba to search for the perpetrators.
It is not clear why the bus was targeted.
Sinai experienced a surge in terrorist violence after last year's ouster of President Mohamed Morsi by the Egyptian military. The attacks, however, were generally aimed at military and police installations.
The Islamist group Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, which Ahram said had ties to al-Qaida, is based in Sinai and claimed responsibility for several attacks around Egypt.


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