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Re: John Perkins

Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Friday, April 1 2011, 13:18:40 (UTC)
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...most interesting. I find myself listening intently for what I call "false notes"...not meaning that anyone is lying, just being inconsistent.

The idea that military force must always have some objective in mind, or else why spend the money and lives and time, is I think false. We´re way beyond those old dayswhen you had to have a reason to go to war...these days going to war is its own reason...and it has different goals than defeating enemies or taking territory.

We say we have to fight in the MidEast, or Latin America, to ensure oil supplies...or increase profits...but Saddam and Chavez too was and is selling oil to us anyway...these countries sell oil because they too have to eat...but what war does is give the pretext to raise prices where there would be no other justification...it´s never explained exactly why prices have to go up, except to say "instability in the oil markets"...but who brought that instability...Saddam or Bush? Saddam was content to sell oil to anyone...he might raise the price, but it went up anyway, and Iwould guess far above where Saddam would have raised it. So, are we really fighting for oil...or for some additional source of trillions of dollars that would be closed to us if we did NOT go to war?

I believe our Treasury is the sole reason we go to war these days...not oil or pipelines or even markets...all of those can be accomodated in other ways and turned to our benefit...but we can´t get money out of the Treasury like we can when we go to war....I think we go to war because it makes money....and makes it faster than even oil can make it.

In one week Libya cost us 600 million...in seven days, and counting...and all that money eventually winds up in corporate hands, not Libyan. Do oil revenues match that? And even if they did, even if they brought in more money than that, one should DIVERSIFY ones portfolio...go ahead, make gobs of money on oil...but why not make more gobs on war?

And war sells so well....because it´s all about saving people, about democracy and freedom and liberty and helping "rebels", you know, like James Dean...helping them now that they found their Cause.

Eisenhower warned us to watch out not because our military would involve us in wars...he knew all about the need for war...but that they would become an arm of corporations who would involve us in wars for profit...for money. And, worse, not any money they were going to make from the oikl or other resources of those we waged war against, money we could make anyway just by exploting markets the way we have, without war, but because going to war was THE way to profit...not from "enemies" but from our Treasury, right here at home.

That´s what he was warning about...war as profitable because it siphons off our OWN money and hands it over gladly, no questions asked, to our corporations, who are "saving us". We aren´t fighting anywhere to win in any normal sernse of the word, and we aren´t in the MidEast to secure oil...we´re in the MidEast because it provides the perfect, right-sounding pretext to turn our Treasury over to warmongers who can make more money through war than they can in almost any other way.

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John Perkins Marcello - Friday, April 1 2011, 3:49:38 (UTC)
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