What follows is to a large extent an abridged version of a very illuminating article by Steve Kangas, who died under mysterious circumstances, some say because of the kind of truth he exposed in what he wrote. This carefully footnoted and well documented article originally appeared at the American Patriot Friends Network web site. http://www.apfn.org/apfn/mockingbird.htm. Go there to read all the footnotes.
Included in the article that follows is a summary of one of investigative reporter Gary Webb's last articles to appear before he too died under mysterious circumstances. In the San Jose Mercury News, Webb alleged that the CIA was complicit in large-scale drug smuggling into the US that allowed a good percentage of the millions in drug profits to be funneled to the Contra cause in Central America. Problem was, the smuggling operation fueled a disastrous crack explosion in L.A. and other cities, and enabled drug gangs to buy automatic weapons, sometimes from the CIA operative, Oscar Danilo Blandon, who managed the smuggling operation. As a result, parts of L.A. became a virtual war zone and many people died.
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The wealthy have always used many methods to accumulate wealth, but it was not until the mid-1970s that these methods coalesced into a superbly organized, cohesive and efficient à ‚¬Ëœmachine.' After 1975, it became greater than the sum of its parts, a smooth flowing organization of advocacy groups, lobbyists, think tanks, conservative foundations, and PR firms that hurtled the incomes and wealth holdings of the richest 1%, and especially the top tenth of 1%, into the stratosphere.
The origins of this wealth concentration à ‚¬Ëœmachine,' interestingly enough, can be traced back to the CIA. The principle creators of this wealth concentration à ‚¬Ëœmachine' were Irving Kristol, Paul Weyrich, William Simon, Richard Mellon Scaife, Frank Shakespeare, William F. Buckley, Jr., the Rockefeller family, and others. And almost all had CIA backgrounds.
During the 1970s, these men would take the propaganda and operational techniques they had learned in the Cold War and apply them to the Class War that the à ‚¬Ëœmachine' was designed to help them wage. It is therefore no surprise that the American version of à ‚¬Ëœthe machine' shares some features with the foreign versions of machines designed to fight communism.
The CIA's expert and comprehensive organization of the business class would succeed beyond their wildest dreams: In 1975, the richest 1% owned 22% of America's wealth. By 1992, they would nearly double that, to 42% à ‚¬" the highest level of inequality in the 20th century. And the concentration of wealth in the hands of the top 1% has since then continued to grow, unabated.
How did this alliance start?
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