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A deadly monster: Part 1. An overview of the military-national security, industrial, political triumvirate

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The entire corpocracy, not just this triumvirate is full of conspirators looking out for the interests of each of its members. An overriding interest is to keep the corpocracy's marriage intact. Other interests to protect and expand, some more important for certain members of the corpocracy than for others, include  staying for a lifetime in public office; protecting corporations' fraudulent constitutional rights, not citizen rights; ensuring legislation, regulations, and judicial verdicts that protect corporate interests, not the public's interests or the general welfare; keeping the government's plentiful and endless hand outs; privatizing public services; controlling the mass media; keeping the marketplace free, not fair; and expanding and protecting a profitable hegemony in other lands (corporations want global markets and politicians want global influence).

 

Any member therefore within the corpocracy but outside of this particular triumvirate can be considered a conspiratorial supporter of it. Prominent examples include the Business Roundtable, the Carlyle Group, the interlocking network of CEO corporate directors, the Council of Foreign Relations (called by historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., a "front organization for the heart of the American Establishment"), the G8 club, the International Monetary Fund,  the Transatlantic Business Dialogue, the Trilateral Commission, the World Economic Forum, the World Bank, the World Trade Organization, and Bilderberg. If you have never heard of Bilderberg, that's fine with Bilderberg. They are a top secret cabal of the power elite who meet once a year to plot how they are going to turn the world into one large corpocracy (their inaugural meeting was held in the Hotel Bilderberg, Germany).

 

The conspirators, think tanks and front groups, incidentally are not mutually exclusive groups.

 

Trumped up and/or provoked foreign enemies

 

If there is no enemy de jour (as if that has ever happened) this triumvirate trumps up an imaginary one or provokes a potential friend into becoming a foe. Who can forget the WMDs that were figments of the Bush administration's inner circle and the Defense Policy Boards' imagination and excuse for devastating Iraq?

 

America also has a knack for turning potential friends into enemies to be blasted away. There was the Korean War in which upwards of four million Koreans, mostly civilians were bombed to death simply because of the American hype and hoax of the "falling dominoes," the rationalization that hid the real reason, fear of U.S. imperialism being crimped. There was the Vietnam War. A Viet Cong soldier reportedly asked an American drafted soldier, "Why do you fight us, we admire America." We could go on and on case by case through 300 some U.S. wars and lesser wars throughout America's history but what would be the point of hammering it to death like we do our enemies?

 

Well, there is a case since 1949 that sticks out like yet another war waiting to erupt, the case of Israel. With a "friend" like Israel America is guaranteed a cornucopia of enemies throughout the world. The U.S. reportedly spends more on Israeli defense than Israeli taxpayers do! [18] That is outrageous and reckless, if not also treasonous.

 

Charles Derber, a sociologist and major influence on this writer's book, The Devil's Marriage: Break Up the Corpocracy or Leave Democracy in the Lurch, contends "---today's regime "can survive only by practicing a foreign policy of bad faith that [he calls] "marry-your-enemy.'"[19] This writer offers a different metaphor, "today's regime gives birth to enemies."

 

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