"The Poetry of Death" = US holding out (like Israel) for as much mileage/territory as they can get
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Subject: "The Poetry of Death" = US holding out (like Israel) for as
much mileage/territory as they can get
Date: May 11, 2010 7:34 AM
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The Poetry of Death = US holding out (like Israel) for as much mileage/
territory as they can get before the collapse of the US dollar and
then the Martial Law...
When David Rockefeller wrote his dissertation in the 1950s on
Resources and Heiney re-wrote it in the 1970s,
http://www.actionlyme.org/DURHAM_BUSH_CRIME.htm
this was a good 40-60 years after Albert Einstein won his Nobel Prize
for the same Economics Equation:
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.med.diseases.lyme/msg/8591b95e0ece47f7?dmode=source
Meanwhile, because of stubborn Iraqis (who are like stubborn Irishmen
http://www.actionlyme.org/KAPLAN_IRISH_PEOPLE_BAD.htm ),
the Zuckerman/AIG-Kroll/Netanyahu gang held off further management of
Petrodollars with their intended World Bank HQ in Baghdad with
"financial instruments."
We don't expect the LameStream to run with any Coalescence of
EconoReality. They're the third party in this Military-Bankster
menage de trois.
Kathleen M. Dickson
http://www.actionlyme.org
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The Poetry of Death: Patterns of State Terror PDF Print E-
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Written by Chris Floyd
Monday, 10 May 2010 14:06
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The found poetry of state terror continues its strange mutilations of
the English language. The bizarre verbal heavings of Donald Rumsfeld,
for example, are rightly celebrated as choice examples of the genre.
And noted English playwright David Hare once fashioned a whole play
built largely on the "thought-tormented music" wrought from verbatim
transcripts of the principal authors of the war crime in Iraq.
In this regard, as in almost every aspect of the Terror War,
"continuity" has been the hallmark of the Obama Administration. But we
would do the progressive, forward-looking president a grave disservice
if we were to imply that this dynamic, historic figure has confined
himself to mere continuity. No, in field after field of governmental
endeavor, Barack Obama has striven mightily not just to uphold the
many authoritarian and militarist innovations of the Bush
Administration, but to expand them -- increasing their scope and
depth, codifying, normalizing and making permanent many practices
which his predecessors had enshrouded with ambiguity, deception and
deliberate murk. Bush and Cheney were afflicted with a vestigial
embarrassment at the howling illegality and constitutional subversion
of many of their Terror War policies, and seemed to fear these acts
would provoke some kind of public outcry or political controversy --
or even prosecution -- should they be made too explicit.
But our cool, savvy and thoroughly post-postmodern president carries
none of that dead lumber from our long-vanished past. Where Bush was
content with smirks and hints about his assassination program, Obama
is bold, sending his security chief to declare openly before Congress
that the president now has the unrestricted right and power to murder
anyone, Americans included, in cold blood, by the simple expedient of
declaring his victim a suspected terrorist of some vague description.
Whereas Bush and Cheney usually resorted to backroom bureaucratic
knife-twisting or bombastic but empty public threats to try to silence
and cow officials who expose high crimes of state, the Obama
Administration brazenly brings down the draconian power of federal
prosecution against whistleblowers. Our progressives-in-power will not
just take away your government job or bluster at your editors if you
give your fellow citizens a glimpse of the blood-soaked sausage-making
that goes on behind the imperial curtain; no, they will put you in the
penitentiary, to rot away with murderers and child abusers, which is
where they rank all such treacherous tellers of truth.
So we should not be surprised to find the Obama Administration
outstripping its mentors and models from the Bush years in the
production of Orwellian nomenclature. Nor is it remarkable that these
perversions of language are leading to further perversions of law,
morality and plain common sense.
We refer to the recent story in the Los Angeles Times about the vast
expansion of the CIA's powers to murder people in Pakistan with
missiles fired by robot drones. These remote-control killings were
originally aimed at specific, known, named individuals suspected of
being top "militant" leaders. But now, people are being targeted not
because of any action they are known or alleged to have taken, but
simply because they seem to fit an arbitrarily designated "pattern of
life" -- even if the remote-control killers don't know the victim's
name.
This "pattern" is put together from clumps of data gathered by
surveillance robots hovering high in the sky above Pakistani towns and
villages, watching people as they go about their ordinary business,
and from whatever bits of local gossip the CIA can glean from paid
operatives raking through their neighbor's private lives. Naturally,
the CIA refuses to describe "the standards of evidence" by which it
decides to kill unknown, defenseless people with missile strikes on
houses, compounds and neighborhoods. And of course, the Agency claims
it is targeting only "militants" (however that infinitely elastic term
is being defined these days).
Yet at the same time, the Terror War operatives cannot resist boasting
that they are sweeping up so much information that they can determine
"the characteristics of individual people." And since is it the
pattern of observed daily life that yields the designation of a person
as a "militant," the CIA must inevitably be tracking countless numbers
of innocent people as well. Otherwise, how could they discern specific
"patterns of life" that indicate the existence of a hitherto unknown
"militant" within a given population? You can only get such data by
observing that population as a whole.
In other words, the program, for all its technological whizbangery, is
essentially a crude KGB-style rape of the privacy of individual human
beings, whose lives are a forced open book, with every action and
interaction being judged by a remorseless spy, holding the power of
life and death in his hands. People who act "suspiciously" -- by
unknown criteria, determined in secret -- can be killed without
warning, without trial, without charge, without even their names being
known to their killers. But here, of course, our thoroughly modern
president outstrips the KGB, which usually picked off its victims
piecemeal, quietly, individually. Nowadays, we send heavy missiles
screaming through the sky to destroy whole buildings and city streets
in order to kill one unnamed, unknown suspect who has somehow
exhibited the wrong "pattern of life." In almost every case, many
people -- sometimes dozens -- die with the victim, regardless of the
"pattern of life" they displayed for the deadly peeping toms on the
Potomac.
As the Times notes, this particular tactic of state terror was
initiated in the last year of the Bush Administration, but has been
greatly expanded and "even streamlined" by the Obama Administration.
The result has been the deaths of hundreds of people. As the Times
reports:
Of more than 500 people who U.S. officials say have been killed
since the pace of strikes intensified, the vast majority have been
individuals whose names were unknown, or about whom the agency had
only fragmentary information. In some cases, the CIA discovered only
after an attack that the casualties included a suspected terrorist
whom it had been seeking.
The CIA was directed by the Bush administration to begin using
armed drones to track Osama bin Laden and other senior Al Qaeda
figures, as well as Taliban leaders who fled to Pakistan's tribal
areas after the Sept. 11 attacks.
President Bush secretly decided in his last year in office to
expand the program. Obama has continued and even streamlined the
process, so that CIA Director Leon E. Panetta can sign off on many
attacks without notifying the White House beforehand, an official
said.
Missile attacks have risen steeply since Obama took office.
Note the telling little details. In some cases, it is only after an
attack that our CIA guardians (or more likely, their paid private
contractors) discover there was a suspected militant among the
smoking, stinking pile of dead bodies that their drones have left
behind. And the "vast majority" of these officially claimed 500
victims (the true number of dead is much greater, of course) were
killed on the basis of "only fragmentary information" at best. What's
more, the LAT reports that these deadly attacks are being carried out
in Pakistan at the rate of one every three and a half days.
Let's be clear. A program like this, conducted on such a broad and
relentless scale, is in no way aimed solely at eliminating individual
"militant leaders" or even "insurgent networks." It is, quite
demonstrably and unarguably, a terrorist campaign, designed to
terrorize the target populations into acquiescence with the attacker's
agenda. Again, despite its use of advanced technology and
sophisticated Orwellian techniques -- Big Brother in the sky, with a
bomb -- it is no less primitive, morally and politically, than a
carload of fireworks and fertilizer left to explode on a city street.
The only result of the program will be to engender more hatred of the
United States (and of the vaunted "civilized values" the United States
purports to represent), and to provoke more retaliation, more
bloodshed, more extremism.
This is the "pattern of death" that a system based on terror, violence
and domination will inevitably produce. You can pervert the language
that surrounds it, cloaking it with security-geek jargon, or fine
phrases about freedom and security; you can tell jokes about it,
turning stone-cold mechanized killing based on "fragmentary
information" into a jolly jape to titillate sycophantic journalists
and vacuous celebrities. You can do anything you like to disguise the
reality of your terrorist campaign -- but you cannot change that
reality on the ground where it is occurring, nor stop the
reverberations from your evil and idiotic actions from spreading their
turbulence in ways you have never foreseen, and can never control.
"[Real] scientists are *fiercely* independent. That's the good
news."-- NIH's Top Fool, Anthony Fauci