Ik vind het verhaal van Ian Shilling (ian56) steekhoudend, en plaats het hieronder.
We know its not to fight terrorism. Its recruited more terrorists & increased terrorism - see Syria, ISIS, Paris, Jakarta etc. etc.
This guy had a good stab at it:-
Financial collapse leads to war
http://cluborlov.blogspot.ru/2016/01/financial-collapse-leads-to-war.html
He is correct that perpetual war feeds the MIC and that failure to win wars is irrelevant because the media won't call them out on it. And he is correct that it is better for the MIC to fail to win wars because the media will call for more war / escalate the war and to INCREASE military spending to "try harder" on a counter productive strategy. Increasing the military budget, increases the power of the MIC.
The Neocon Agenda and it's results
http://ian56.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-neocon-agenda-and-its-results.html
This guy had a good stab at it:-
Financial collapse leads to war
http://cluborlov.blogspot.ru/2016/01/financial-collapse-leads-to-war.html
He is correct that perpetual war feeds the MIC and that failure to win wars is irrelevant because the media won't call them out on it. And he is correct that it is better for the MIC to fail to win wars because the media will call for more war / escalate the war and to INCREASE military spending to "try harder" on a counter productive strategy. Increasing the military budget, increases the power of the MIC.
The Neocon Agenda and it's results
http://ian56.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-neocon-agenda-and-its-results.html
( Deze blog van ian56 heb ik in zijn geheel hieronder weergegeven)
But he didn't really get to the heart of the matter - I guess, though he is clued up, he was either hiding what he really thinks and toned the article down appropriately or he hasn't thought through things enough yet.
If you have more money than anyone could spend in 100 lifetimes what else do you want?
Sure, the elites always want more money - that's how they compare themselves against other billionaires. But does that give them "job satisfaction"? I think not.
I guess scamming someone or a group of people and making another $10m will give most of them a temporary buzz. But a temporary buzz is not really "it".
The real measurement (in the eyes of the super wealthy) is how much power and influence you wield. How many people you employ and directly control, how many other billionaires you could destroy, how many politicians you can buy.
Real power is to manipulate and control people, no matter how far away the story you are telling is from the truth.
Tell people black is white or up is down and they believe it - that's real power.
Control entire governments - that's real power.
Control entire economies - that's real power.
Orwell clearly laid out the agenda in his book 1984.
The elites want total control.
How do you get total control?
Make people scared of some unseen enemy, so they want a big government to "protect" them.
Create perpetual war - it doesn't matter whether its real or imagined as long as most people believe it is real.
Make them poor so they are too busy working to think, so there are fewer dissenters.
Punish any dissenters or people that can think and have seen through the lies with Room 101 (currently its more likely to be an IRS audit or to get beaten up by the Police or have a SWAT raid).
Spot and discourage any potential dissenters with Big Brother Mass Surveillance.
The purpose of the Neocon Wars IS 1984
But he didn't really get to the heart of the matter - I guess, though he is clued up, he was either hiding what he really thinks and toned the article down appropriately or he hasn't thought through things enough yet.
If you have more money than anyone could spend in 100 lifetimes what else do you want?
Sure, the elites always want more money - that's how they compare themselves against other billionaires. But does that give them "job satisfaction"? I think not.
I guess scamming someone or a group of people and making another $10m will give most of them a temporary buzz. But a temporary buzz is not really "it".
The real measurement (in the eyes of the super wealthy) is how much power and influence you wield. How many people you employ and directly control, how many other billionaires you could destroy, how many politicians you can buy.
Real power is to manipulate and control people, no matter how far away the story you are telling is from the truth.
Tell people black is white or up is down and they believe it - that's real power.
Control entire governments - that's real power.
Control entire economies - that's real power.
Orwell clearly laid out the agenda in his book 1984.
The elites want total control.
How do you get total control?
Make people scared of some unseen enemy, so they want a big government to "protect" them.
Create perpetual war - it doesn't matter whether its real or imagined as long as most people believe it is real.
Make them poor so they are too busy working to think, so there are fewer dissenters.
Punish any dissenters or people that can think and have seen through the lies with Room 101 (currently its more likely to be an IRS audit or to get beaten up by the Police or have a SWAT raid).
Spot and discourage any potential dissenters with Big Brother Mass Surveillance.
The purpose of the Neocon Wars IS 1984
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Neocons are not conservatives - in fact they are the exact opposite of "conservatives". Their agenda is global domination through perpetual war. In order to do this they set out to destabilize the entire Middle East from "Algeria to Afghanistan" - excluding Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States.
A second agenda is the undermining of National Sovereignty and Laws in favor of increasing the power of elite bankers and crony Corporate control.
The original Neocons (people like Irving Kristol) were hard left revolutionary trotskyites and members of the Democrat Party. They just switched parties. They are also acolytes of Leo Strauss who advocated a totalitarian regime ruled by a small clique of technocrat "experts". Paul Wolfowitz was originally a "leftie" and was mentored by Strauss at Chicago University. (Loads of bad things have come out of Chicago - Al Capone, Leo Strauss, Paul Wolfowitz, Obama to name but a few. It's still extremely bad. Rahm Emanuel is Mayor & Chicago is bankrupt.)
Neocons completely infest the GOP and totally dominate the leadership of the Democratic Party. They are also ensconced in America's closest Western allies - the UK, Canada and Australia.
Unfortunately the Neocon agenda also requires Corporate Fascist control and $1tn a year of war spending, both of which have totally bankrupted the US. It has also completely shredded the US Bill of Rights and set up a turnkey, defacto Police State (the key has yet to be turned on).
These policies have now hollowed out the US economy to the extent that:-
over 90% of the population has seen a decline in living standards since 2000
the wealth creation powers of the US has all but been eliminated
the rest of the world started owning more of the US than the US owns of the rest of the world since 2000
the US runs a trade deficit of $600bn a year
it has a government deficit of $1tn a year
it wastes over $1tn a year on the military
it wastes over $1tn a year on Corporate Welfare to increase the wealth of the top 0.1%
it wastes over $800bn a year on subsidies to the big banks
well over 50% of the population is now dependent on the government (either via some form of welfare payment or via direct employment or via government contracts for things like arms manufacture or outsourced government "services" like private spy contractors and TSA).
The above has hastened the end of $ hegemony and with it US hegemony, helped accelerate the rise of China and the BRICS, put the US on the path to $3tn (and still exponentially increasing) deficits by 2023, a national debt of $40tn by around 2025, the collapse of the global financial system and the US economy.
A selection of Neocons:-
There are a great many more that could be named, e.g. Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, John Boehner, Dianne Feinstein, Lindsey Graham, John Brennan (CIA), Ashton Carter (Def Sec), Strobe Talbott (Brookings - Hillary's choice for Sec of State), Mark Comey (FBI), Keith Alexander (ex-NSA), Tony Blair, David Cameron, Stephen Harper, Tony Abbott, Bernard-Henri Levy, over 50 Washington "Think Tanks" (fellows of CFR, AEI, Brookings, Heritage Foundation, Hudson Institute, Carnegie Endowment for War etc.), NED, - every member of the Senate Foreign Relations, Intelligence and Armed Forces committees, just about every other senior politician in DC, the Op-Ed writers and senior editors for the New York Times, Washington Post, Economist, Wall Street Journal, etc. and every talking head on Fox News. The list is endless.
N.B. Neocons that are members of the Democratic Party like to be called "Neoliberal Interventionists". This just means they are Neocon Fascists who support abortion and gay rights.
Must read article on the history, strategies and agenda of the Neocons:-
“The machiavelian threefold game of the neoconservatives”
http://www.voltairenet.org/article178638.html
Nazi jurist taught Leo Strauss - Neocon mentor
http://www.larouchepub.com/eiw/public/2003/eirv30n12-20030328/eirv30n12-20030328_055-nazi_jurist_taught_leo_strauss_n.pdf
A second agenda is the undermining of National Sovereignty and Laws in favor of increasing the power of elite bankers and crony Corporate control.
The original Neocons (people like Irving Kristol) were hard left revolutionary trotskyites and members of the Democrat Party. They just switched parties. They are also acolytes of Leo Strauss who advocated a totalitarian regime ruled by a small clique of technocrat "experts". Paul Wolfowitz was originally a "leftie" and was mentored by Strauss at Chicago University. (Loads of bad things have come out of Chicago - Al Capone, Leo Strauss, Paul Wolfowitz, Obama to name but a few. It's still extremely bad. Rahm Emanuel is Mayor & Chicago is bankrupt.)
Neocons completely infest the GOP and totally dominate the leadership of the Democratic Party. They are also ensconced in America's closest Western allies - the UK, Canada and Australia.
Unfortunately the Neocon agenda also requires Corporate Fascist control and $1tn a year of war spending, both of which have totally bankrupted the US. It has also completely shredded the US Bill of Rights and set up a turnkey, defacto Police State (the key has yet to be turned on).
These policies have now hollowed out the US economy to the extent that:-
over 90% of the population has seen a decline in living standards since 2000
the wealth creation powers of the US has all but been eliminated
the rest of the world started owning more of the US than the US owns of the rest of the world since 2000
the US runs a trade deficit of $600bn a year
it has a government deficit of $1tn a year
it wastes over $1tn a year on the military
it wastes over $1tn a year on Corporate Welfare to increase the wealth of the top 0.1%
it wastes over $800bn a year on subsidies to the big banks
well over 50% of the population is now dependent on the government (either via some form of welfare payment or via direct employment or via government contracts for things like arms manufacture or outsourced government "services" like private spy contractors and TSA).
The above has hastened the end of $ hegemony and with it US hegemony, helped accelerate the rise of China and the BRICS, put the US on the path to $3tn (and still exponentially increasing) deficits by 2023, a national debt of $40tn by around 2025, the collapse of the global financial system and the US economy.
A selection of Neocons:-
There are a great many more that could be named, e.g. Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, John Boehner, Dianne Feinstein, Lindsey Graham, John Brennan (CIA), Ashton Carter (Def Sec), Strobe Talbott (Brookings - Hillary's choice for Sec of State), Mark Comey (FBI), Keith Alexander (ex-NSA), Tony Blair, David Cameron, Stephen Harper, Tony Abbott, Bernard-Henri Levy, over 50 Washington "Think Tanks" (fellows of CFR, AEI, Brookings, Heritage Foundation, Hudson Institute, Carnegie Endowment for War etc.), NED, - every member of the Senate Foreign Relations, Intelligence and Armed Forces committees, just about every other senior politician in DC, the Op-Ed writers and senior editors for the New York Times, Washington Post, Economist, Wall Street Journal, etc. and every talking head on Fox News. The list is endless.
N.B. Neocons that are members of the Democratic Party like to be called "Neoliberal Interventionists". This just means they are Neocon Fascists who support abortion and gay rights.
Must read article on the history, strategies and agenda of the Neocons:-
“The machiavelian threefold game of the neoconservatives”
http://www.voltairenet.org/article178638.html
Nazi jurist taught Leo Strauss - Neocon mentor
http://www.larouchepub.com/eiw/public/2003/eirv30n12-20030328/eirv30n12-20030328_055-nazi_jurist_taught_leo_strauss_n.pdf
The Structural Elite power structure and main Neocon events so far:
The Quigley Formula - G Edward Griffin on Cecil Rhodes, the Round Tables, the CFR and world governance by elites