Bush Faked Out The Nation And The Congress, with an Issue As Phony As Kennedy's Missile Gap, But Far More Deadly! G W Bush, used an old campaign ploy on Americans, who unlike their father and grandfathers during WW II, are ever the suckers with a phony "WAR ON TERROR, A NEW KIND OF WAR...LONG LASTING," the moment I heard him speak those words I knew it was a play to attack forever and attempt to and perhaps succeed in enslaving fools. It was something, actually right out of Orwell's 1984. One must however, ask the question, why were some Americans not fooled by the ruse, and why were congress fooled by an obvious, (to some of us) childish TV ploy, worthy of the worst TV hucksters, including Johnny Carson's, famous sleazy Al Fern, but not nearly as humorous.
A plan to carry out the invasion of the oil nations was hatched in a board game I designed back in 1960. It was intended as a sarcastic, satirical, commentary, on American fascist, Right Wing greed, lust and covetousness. I called it Total Warfare. I produced high quality board games for education and fun, not profit. Total Warfare was a game with fixed moves for each piece like chess, no dice, no spinners, no cards, so that little was left to luck. A 3600 square game board, with islands, land, harbors, canals, factories, troop training centers, 480 Rubber and metal pieces; soldiers, tanks, cannon's, ships, airplanes, carriers, ground to air to ground rocket missiles, trucks, amphibians, and helicopters, to carry troops, ordinance, supply cartons, without which nothing could move, land and water mines, barbed wire, cash, bonds, four nations with production of all needed equipment and training grounds, and the coveted oil wells. A similar game idea without the sarcasm and satire had simultaneously occurred to others who meant it not as an insult to the avaristic, because they were the avaristic. Nixon, Reagan and Bush Senior, called them the crazies.
The decision to attack Iraq first came in 1984, apropos, no? (Hey, that rhymes). It lacked only opportunity and someone evil enough, sadistic enough, and ethics challenged enough to carry it out.
Enter G W Bush. The idea was that if they won the 2000 election they would attempt to bait Saddam into a war, steal the oil, all of the Iraqi's profitable businesses and then go on to Iran, Syria, Venezuela, and later maybe even Russia and China and corner the world oil market.
However, to make the unhealthy plan work, the Constitution and Bill of Rights had to be scuttled, so that pesky dissidents like those which wrecked the Viet Nam fiasco, could be jailed, assassinated or put in prisons without trial and never heard from, or of, again.
Then along came a "terrorist" moment, a thing that comes long, maybe once in a lifetime, and the Neo-cons turned it into the greatest swindle since before Reaganomics. They bulldozed a pussycat congress and a jelly back-boned public into a ploy worthy of Yellow Kid Wile. 9/11 happened because of the incompetence of the Bushites administration. Clinton warned him personally about Osama Bin Laden, Clarke warned him and so did others, but Bush had other things on his mind, like how could he goad Saddam into a war and get the oil. 9/11 didn't happen in Johnson's administration, or in Nixon's, or in Ford's, or Carters, or Bush I's, or either of Clinton's. Why not? Because whatever one has against any of them, they had their eyes on the ball and America was free of major attacks. Bush blew it plain and simple, or his Neo-cons planned the 9/11 attacks, without even asking his permission, or informing him. They probably were afraid he'd botch it up or spill it.
Bush fooled many people who voted, and many other people (Single working women, Blacks and a few others) failed to vote, had they he would not have won. In addition, a few millions misguided, ill advised others voted for Nader, a wasted vote accomplishing only one thing, allowing the worst national leader since Adolph Hitler. Nice going Nader Backers. The Dems did not listen to many of us, about making a deal with Nader. Their arrogance didn't begin in the Gore/Bush debacle; it started in the Johnson Era. In the midst of the Reagan sweep in 1980, I was Campaign Chair for Democratic Municipal candidates fro mayor and trustees and we reversed the Republican City Council of 7 Republican's 1 Democratic, to 7 Democrats and 1 Republican and added a Democratic mayor, and the Republicans haven't won since in that city.
I wrote to many Senatorial Candidates about the Military Industrial Medical Financial Complex very back then. The only one who listened with interest was John Glenn, who invited me to visit him at his Chicago office, but he had no chance to win and my ideas died with him. JFK, my early patron was dead, Mayor Daley was gone, and my minor degree of influence with them both. I quit politics, frustrated and sad about JFK, still two decades later. An era ended, and I focused on making money. A few years later, after success in the market I sold my businesses and began to teach-a wealthy, tenured Professor with actual real world experience. That was a hateful image among left-wing faculty, at least until they had gotten to know me. Later my spiritual re-conversion occurred (for the third time since age six and the polio which laid me out for two years.)
Things had changed while I ignored politics. I sold my business interests to teach, and later took an early retirement from teaching. I realized, as my Grand-pappy said I would, later in life, that justice is not something to be found on the Planet where God sends us to experience evil first-hand, because He knows no one can ever imagine, or appreciate it from mere stories. Then Bush came along and he did something the Democrats, who from time to time called me to re-interest me in politics, only to be rebuffed, could not do. Bush gave me a reason to become active again. This time however, not by running campaigns, but by writing.
Things certainly had changed, now even the Democrats have bought into a phony issue, of a mythical and non-existent World Terrorist Conspiracy. It was/is the Kings New Clothes, in which instead of politicians educating and leading the ant-brains of society, they, like parents buying-off spoiled offspring, make the semi-fictional World Terrorist Conspiracy, a reality, encouraging, hiring and promoting, stupidity and benefiting politically from it.
Well, they gave the whiners something to do. They bought Duct Tape and plastic sheeting and prayed to a Jesus they invented, who had nothing in common with the Jesus of history, or the Jesus of the Bible! In addition, why not, the ones who got frightened, had already Kissed their pathetically mustard seed-sized brains good-bye. In the words of Bette Davis in All About Eve, fasten your seat belts folks it's going to be a bumpy ride.
E. B. White: Prophetic Reporting In 1948/49, in a musing about New York, E. B. White wrote in Here Is New York, White produced an elegant essay that presaged September 11 as clearly as a prophet might: "The city, for the first time in its long history, is destructible. A single flight of planes no bigger than a wedge of geese can quickly end this island fantasy, burn the towers, crumble the bridges, turn the underground passages into lethal chambers, cremate the millions. The intimation of mortality is part of New York now: in the sound of jets overhead, in the black headlines of the latest edition. As dwellers in cities must live with the stubborn fact of annihilation; in New York the fact is somewhat more concentrated because of the concentration of the city itself, and because, of all targets, New York has a certain clear priority. In the mind of whatever perverted dreamer might loose the lightning, New York must hold a steady, irresistible charm."
In the 19th Century, "terrorists" were everywhere, fighting against the foulest Imperialist Terrorist Nation, since the Rome of the Caesars, Great Britain. She annihilated, discombobulated and fractionalized small nation after small nation, arming both sides and urging them to rebel and then watching to see who would win, and eventually graduated to terrorizing larger, but under-developed nations like India and the entire Middle East. Then, the winner, pretty much drained and bereft of energy and in need of new manpower were a simple group to infiltrate and command. In other cases, they simply agitated and armed both sides, but armed the side they preferred to win with better weapons and kept the supplies coming until their favorite prevailed.
A few times their first choice did not prevail, however, since they'd supplied both, their coupe worked anyway. They ran into a few problems with the IRA over the generations, which assisted in disassembling British Imperialism, which under Tony Blair is attempting a reincarnation. However, in the end, it will fail and his name and family will end up under heaps of vilification, decades after his ill-advised avarice led him down the proverbial Primrose path with the New Adolph Hitler. To the enlightened, Blair will reign forever, in the trash-heap of history, as one with promise who sold his soul to the Anti-Christ. Blair, the product of the Party of Avarice-the Neo-con, Fascists, Nazi's hiding behind citizenship of America, but vying to hold citizenship in an another mountaintop nation, above the toxic pollution they've created.
In Great Britain's version of the CIA, the BSIS, and their Superspy, the fellow which Ian Fleming used as his prototype for James Bond, Salomon (Shlomo) Rosenblum, or Georgi Rosenblum better known as Lieutenant Sidney George Reilly, MC, played every side against the middle, but mostly helped the New Roman Imperialists, Great Britain, along with Germany, created the milieu which fostered eventual rebellion against white Anglo-Aryan Imperialism. That Imperialism shared by enemies, inevitably was the prelude to WW I and WW II, much as the current fascists running the American Government are creating hatred around the world which will see China, Russia and Europe, in a few generations, unite to annihilate what is left of the once noble USA, after the Bushites have ravaged it.
The world has always had "terrorism" and always will and it is no more dangerous than it was the day after we exploded the first nuclear device. 9/11 was a freak accident, perhaps even staged by American Fascists in control, themselves, to take control of a weal-kneed, cringing populace grown soft on TV, sponge cake, beer and crab-legs. The strong over-belly of our nation lies in it's minority of morally Spartan, intellectual, athletic, prophets, only recognized by the enlightened, which have led a life more dedicated to anti-consumptionism, non-materialism. In the end, they are the nations only and last hope.
Professor Bagnolo is a Renaissance man: Cultural Anthropologist, Architectural designer, painter, writer, novelist, theologian. As a child prodigy, abed with polio for almost two years, with an off the charts IQ, reading at the graduate level by 5th grade, offered an opportunity to skip three grades at age 8. Later He was a recipient of an Art Institute scholarship at age 11, a Ford Foundation Fellowship in Anthropology and in Painting and a merit scholarship in art, and was appointed a Graduate Research Assistant position in college. He holds a triple bachelor's degree in Painting and Drawing, Anthropology, Architectural Design Advertising. MA's in Cultural Anthro, Painting and more. After being tenured he taught; architecture, anthropology, Theology, advertising, painting and drawing, entrepreneuring and Creative Profit Making. He produced a star-studded Music festival, had a radio talk show in Chicago, and cable TV show. Now, retired from Teaching, he paints, writes, and pursues other ventures.
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"Are Americans and Brits really posing as Arabs trying to set off bomb in peaceful Baghdad neighborhood, arrested, then liberated by Brit "Troops" with tanks and American Mercenaries? . . . . . . . . . ."
Yes, but we knew all that. Where have you been?
Doesn't everybody know already who is behind all this in order to provoke a civil war and fragment the entire middle east in the favor of you-know-who? - Well, if not, thanks for explaining it to the rest.
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amazin (31 articles, 0 quicklinks, 10 diaries, 377 comments)
on Monday, August 13, 2007 at 8:30:53 AM
Let's get something straight: Modern terrorism is a tool of imperialism. No one ever asks: Where do the terrorists get their weapons and explosives? Surely, they don't manufacture them. And, if they buy them, where are they getting the money to do so? The alleged fuel oil bomb at the Murrah building couldn't possibly cause the damage inflicted. The 1993 WTC bombing had FBI/CIA agents associated with the terrorists. No 757 100-ton jumbo jet can fit into the hole at the Pentagon. There's no evidence a jumbo jet crashed in Pennsylvania. The planes which hit the WTC weren't the original hijacked jets. Neither plane had the colors or decals of UA or AA airlines. How did this happen? Just ask the criminal cabal in the Pentagon basement. Bush Baby was on a need-to-know basis. His job was to sit tight in that classroom while Darth Cheney and Adolf Guiliani perpetrated the crimes and destroyed the evidence. Nine of the alleged 19 Arab hijackers are alive and well in the Middle East. Osama had nothing to do with 9/11. If you don't believe me, then why did the FBI and the CIA quietly close the 9/11 case against him for lack of evidence? 9/11 was the biggest act of treason in our nation's history. Osama is reportedly holed up in Waziristan which is a little bigger than Rhode Island and Delaware combined, the nation's smallest states. In this small area, the US military could root him out and bring him to justice. The question us: Why don't they? Why did Bush say he no longer has any interest in capturing Osama? Today's terrorists are armed and funded by the real terrorists: our own governments. It's time to wake up, professor Pete, and smell the treason.
Where have I been? This is an updated rewrite of 6/26/07 reportage of the day of the crimes. It was also a prediction I made in my novel of 1998-2003, Lost Seasons
Below is the nugget of the original here on OpEd, 6/26/07 the day of the horror.
Before being so presumptuous you ought to do what I require my students to do, research the archives of the person you are sniping at. Nothing you have said here is news to anyone, sir. Do some research before attacking people you do not know. Bytheway, I don't hide behind a pseudonym, my name is the buyline.
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Professor Emeritus Peter Bagnolo (144 articles, 1 quicklinks, 95 diaries, 1265 comments)
on Monday, August 13, 2007 at 12:23:45 PM
This piece is a feast of realpolitic, complex truth.
Jeez, where to begin?
My chief fear is that this is digging too deep into the real world of elite manipultions to be widely assimilated, but what a gem of social/psychological/financial insight.
An axiom in mathematics differs from a theorm in that the truth of a theorm must come from a proof, but an axiom is self evidently true.
To say it straight out, I think most of what the prof is writing about is axiomatic. The insidious connection beteen elites (let's just use that word for the unimaginably rich) and, say, rampantly available drugs (to drug the oppressed) and the TOTAL WAR on marriage, human sexuality, and spiritual bonds is brilliant. Of course, he's totally right about all these things, but how infinitely depressing to see the degree to which nearly all of man/woman kind is being manipulated with such fiendish subtlty.
It's like loving chocolate until you discover there's a chip in your brain that is causing it. Our marriages, the sex lives of married men, our interpersonal relationships, our very God's and breath are being jiggled by strings held by the Earth's multi millionaires and multi billionaires.
A recent study showed t that around 1000 people control 25% percent of the ENTIRE WEALTH OF THE PLANET. These people aren't just Gods and Goddesses. We need a more science fiction term for these "black holes' of wealth.
And how they love to play with us. How they love to manipulate even our marriages, our sex lives, and our mass produced religions. End result: broken, depressed, "hypnotized" consumers who have drugs on call.
As the prof shows with such heartbreaking realism, the elites are "inside our lives", brainwashing our minds, and drugging our bodies -- but not "too" much. We still have to pay all the taxes, sacrifice our children to their (neverending!) greed wars, and buy all the poisenous, contaminated crap that breaks our backs to purchase.
All of this is as far away from DUH-brained "politics" as a bullet in the face is as far from a mosquito. These people are MURDERING our children, they are MURDERING the planet, and the are MURDERING our lives.
So, let's not too impressed by Paris Hilton's "moves" or too impressed bewitched by the antics of the mega, mega rich, since, April Food, we already ARE bewitched, and this piece is just a small sample of how our magnificent human adventure has been reduced to a pitifully conditioned cattle consumer hell by a tiny contry club (say, 2% of the human race) of vampire elites.
Go prof!
If this isn't the suff of ABSOLUTE HARD BALL, then what the bloody hell is?
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W. Christopher Epler (Bill) (209 articles, 44 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 458 comments)
on Monday, August 13, 2007 at 6:02:57 PM
