Spy
agencies beholden to private sector titans and their contractors use their
immense surveillance powers for the elite's narrow political and financial
goals. The "Military Industrial Complex" that President Eisenhower feared has
become an "Intelligence Industrial Complex" that is even more dangerous.
The
prosecution of Siegelman, Alabama's most successful Democrat in recent decades,
contains many clues to sinister military influences that pervade politics
nationally. To recap:
The
state and federal joint task force arrayed against Siegelman operated out of Maxwell-Gunter
Air Force Base in Montgomery under the leadership of an Air Force reserve colonel.
This ensured maximum security for the task force's perfidious work. Mark Fuller, the chief federal judge who
railroaded the defendant, secretly owned up to 44 percent of a closely held
contractor that received $300 million from 2006 to 2009 in Bush Air Force contracts
unknown to the defense.
Alabama
attorney Dana Jill Simpson, a former Rove confederate, took pity on Siegelman
and his co-defendants by urging a private eye to help document the judge's
corruption via research using the database of ChoicePoint. But the presiding judge
used his influence to cancel the investigator's access. ChoicePoint, like so
many federal contractors undertaking work formerly run by civil servants, caters
to private clients in unaccountable fashion.
The
Jeb Bush administration in Florida, for example, hired a ChoicePoint subsidiary
to purge voter rolls before the 2000 election. The company obliged by removing 91,000
eligible voters, primarily Democrats, shortly before the
election. Their purge without notice enabled the narrow Bush-Cheney victory, according to BBC
correspondent Greg Palast and his best-seller, All the Democracy Money Can Buy.
Much
of this has been reported on OEN, which is why I'm so grateful for the forum and
the ongoing learning opportunities from those in this community.
Editor
Joan Brunwasser, for example, has tirelessly illuminated many legal scandals
through her detailed interviews. Also, she encouraged me to dig deeper into the
complexities of electronic vote rigging and, later, the powerful Bilderberg
Group. Washington Post Chairman Donald Graham, David Rockefeller, and Henry Kissinger have been serving
together on the board of the American Friends of Bilderberg. That suggests something
about why the Post's news coverage is so slanted.
I
try to connect the dots over a narrative that includes a century-long review of
the Mormon Church. That history illustrates the largely unreported danger for
the country if the church's proud scion, Mitt Romney, had been able to run the nation
"like a business," as his top transition planner, Mike Leavitt, recently described.
Last
fall, I tried to push the book into print in time for the election. Upon
reflection, I thought it better to delay until now and focus on the election result
implications for the public.
Candidates
come and go. The puppet masters remain.
Rockefeller,
age 98, attended the Bilderberg secret meetings last month at a posh hotel
outside of London. Joining him were 130 others, who reputedly included Graham,
Petraeus, UK Prime Minister David Cameron, and CEOs of many of the social media
companies now implicated in the surveillance scandals.
The
Masters of our Universe, in other words gathered for annual policy discussions that
media titans in attendance pooh-pooh as too unimportant for news coverage.
My
view is different. Puppetry publication was July 4, Independence Day. It is high
time for the public to take back the country in the spirit of the original
patriots.
Let me share a short video clip of the title song from Yankee Doodle Dandy, a 1942 musical starring James Cagney as the Broadway showman George M. Cohan. The film convey a serious, patriotic message along with flashy entertainment. The title song was adapted from the American Revolutionary War anthem, which illustrated a sassy independence from the oppressive British.
That's worth recalling as Britain and France try to reassert their
colonial influence in Mideast wars, most currently in the horrific Syria battle
that Obama wants to join on the side of NATO and the oil-rich Gulf monarchies.
The movie's director,
Michael Curtiz, also directed Casablanca, which similarly used patriotic themes to encourage the fighting spirit needed to prevail during World
War II.
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