The CIA always was the wealthy and powerful’s tool and not an “intelligence” agency:

Although many people think that the CIA’s primary mission during the Cold War was to “deter communism,” Noam Chomksy correctly points out that its real mission was “deterring democracy.” From corrupting elections to overthrowing democratic governments, from assassinating elected leaders to installing murderous dictators, the CIA has virtually always replaced democracy with dictatorship. It didn’t help that the CIA was run by businessmen, whose hostility towards democracy is legendary. The reason they overthrew so many democracies is because the people usually voted for policies that multi-national corporations didn’t like: land reform, strong labor unions, nationalization of their industries, and greater regulation protecting workers, consumers and the environment.
So the CIA’s greatest “successes” were usually more pro-corporate than anti-communist. Citing a communist threat, the CIA helped overthrow the democratically elected Mohammed Mussadegh government in Iran in 1953. But there was no communist threat — the Soviets stood back and watched the coup from afar. What really happened was that Mussadegh threatened to nationalize British and American oil companies in Iran. Consequently, the CIA and MI6 toppled Mussadegh and replaced him with a puppet government, headed by the Shah of Iran and his murderous secret police, SAVAK. The reason why the Ayatollah Khomeini and his revolutionaries took 52 Americans hostage in Tehran in 1979 was because the CIA had helped SAVAK torture and murder their people.
Another “success” was the CIA’s overthrow of the democratically elected government of Jacabo Arbenz in Guatemala in 1954. Again, there was no communist threat. The real threat was to Guatemala’s United Fruit Company, a Rockefeller-owned firm whose stockholders included CIA Director Allen Dulles. Arbenz threatened to nationalize the company, albeit with generous compensation. In response, the CIA initiated a coup that overthrew Arbenz and installed the murderous dictator Castillo Armas. For four decades, CIA-backed dicatators would torture and murder hundreds of thousands of leftists, union members and others who would fight for a more equitable distribution of the country’s resources.
Another “success” story was Chile. In 1973, the country’s democratically elected leader, Salvadore Allende, nationalized foreign-owned interests, like Chile’s lucrative copper mines and telephone system. International Telephone & Telegraph (ITT) offered the CIA $1 million to overthrow Allende — which the CIA allegedly refused — but paid $350,000 to his political opponents. The CIA responded with a coup that murdered Allende and replaced him with a brutal tyrant, General Augusto Pinochet. Pinochet tortured and murdered thousands of leftists, union members and political opponents as economists trained at the University of Chicago under Milton Friedman installed a “free market” economy. Since then, income inequality has soared higher in Chile than anywhere else in Latin America.
Even when the communist threat was real, the CIA first and foremost took care of the elite. In
testimony before Congress in the early 50s, it artificially inflated Soviet military capabilities. A notorious example was the “bomber gap” that later turned out to be grossly exaggerated. Another was “Team B,” a group of hawkish CIA analysts who seriously distorted Soviet military data. These scare tactics worked. Congress awarded giant defense contracts to the U.S. military-industrial complex.

This is nothing but racketeering except it’s being done by the powers described by Woodrow Wilson in this statement:

“Some of the biggest men in the United States… are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They know there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it” 1914

So.. JP Morgan’s will reveals he only owned 17% of his vast empire. And then there’s this:

The Rothschild family is one of the wealthiest families the world has ever known. By the early 1800s they established themselves as the most important bankers in all Europe. By the mid 19th century they’re said to control half the wealth of the world. As Rothschild biographer Derek Wilson explains, Rothschild critics have justification for their anxiety. The House of Rothschild is immensely more powerful than any financial empire that has preceded it and its able to control governments behind the scenes.

These are clues as to this vast web that Obama kowtows like mad to and that chart people’s destinies as if they were gods and not just corrupt, ethnic cleansing, genocidal criminals.

I just found this and while it certainly pulls no punches it very accurately, in my view, sums up what these people are doing not just to this country but around the world:

1. Use violence and terrorism rather than academic discussions.
2. Preach “Liberalism” to usurp political power.
3. Initiate class warfare.
4. Politicians must be cunning and deceptive – any moral code leaves a politician vulnerable.
5. Dismantle “existing forces of order and regulation.” Reconstruct all existing institutions.”
6. Remain invisible until the very moment when it has gained such strength that no cunning or force can undermine it.
7. Use Mob Psychology to control the masses. “Without absolute despotism one cannot rule efficiently.”
8. Advocate the use of alcoholic liquors, drugs, moral corruption and all forms of vice, used systematically by “agenteurs” to corrupt the youth.
9. Seize properties by any means to secure submission and sovereignty.
10. Foment wars and control the peace conferences so that neither of the combatants gains territory placing them further in debt and therefore into our power.
11. Choose candidates for public office who will be “servile and obedient to our commands, so they may be readily used as pawns in our game.”
12. Use the Press for propaganda to control all outlets of public information, while remaining in the shadows, clear of blame.
13. Make the masses believe they had been the prey of criminals. Then restore order to appear as the saviors.
14. Create financial panics. Use hunger to control to subjugate the masses.
15. Infiltrate Freemasonry to take advantage of the Grand Orient Lodges to cloak the true nature of their work in philanthropy. Spread their atheistic-materialistic ideology amongst the “Goyim” (gentiles).
16. When the hour strikes for our sovereign lord of the entire World to be crowned, their influence will banish everything that might stand in his way.
17. Use systematic deception, high-sounding phrases and popular slogans. “The opposite of what has been promised can always be done afterwards… That is of no consequence.”
18. A Reign of Terror is the most economical way to bring about speedy subjection.
19. Masquerade as political, financial and economic advisers to carry out our mandates with Diplomacy and without fear of exposing “the secret power behind national and international affairs.”
20. Ultimate world government is the goal. It will be necessary to establish huge monopolies, so even the largest fortunes of the Goyim will depend on us to such an extent that they will go to the bottom together with the credit of their governments on the day after the great political smash.”
21. Use economic warfare. Rob the “Goyim” of their landed properties and industries with a combination of high taxes and unfair competition.
22. “Make the ‘Goyim’ destroy each other so there will only be the proletariat left in the world, with a few millionaires devoted to our cause, and sufficient police and soldiers to protect our interest.”
23. Call it The New Order. Appoint a Dictator.
24. Fool, bemuse and corrupt the younger members of society by teaching them theories and principles we know to be false.
25 Twist national and international laws into a contradiction which first masks the law and afterwards hides it altogether. Substitute arbitration for law

This country is like a con-game; the “institutions” of democracy are there but they are there to actually protect and implement the genocide and corruption. Pretty frigging sick.

Then again, with “wise decisions”, extremely articulate too, such as these:

The ruling was written by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. In support of his argument that the interest of the states in a “pure” gene pool outweighed the interest of individuals in their bodily integrity, he argued:
“ We have seen more than once that the public welfare may call upon the best citizens for their lives. It would be strange if it could not call upon those who already sap the strength of the State for these lesser sacrifices, often not felt to be such by those concerned, in order to prevent our being swamped with incompetence. It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime, or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind. The principle that sustains compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the Fallopian tubes. ”
Holmes concluded his argument with the infamous phrase “Three generations of imbeciles are enough”.

and overseeing this http://www.leap.cc/cms/index.php?name=Web_Links&l_op=visit&lid=152

to say nothing of the CIA’s little “war for drugs” con for decades in order to poison its own minorities…lol

it all kind of fits. Like watching a Nazi movie in real time (did u folks know that Joseph Mengele was at China Lake Nuclear Weapons Station in SoCal and not in Brazil? moth*rf*ck!). Man, I will make sure this is all documented for posterity and disseminated widely.

The picture emerging for me is that every so-called Islamic terror group is infiltrated by intelligence agencies, and every terrorist incident furthers the agenda of those agencies, which is to increase the power and reach of a national security state, both domestically and internationally. But I don’t think the cover story can be maintained much longer. The Christmas incident is even beginning to make the likes of Huffington, Olbermann and the Daily Kos, as well as Obama himself, wake up to the possibility that there might be minions of Cheney in the intelligence services that are not loyal to the commander in chief, who want Obama to look bad, weak and ineffectual in the “War on Terror” – even though Obama has gone overboard to look like Bush on steroids and outraged his own base in doing so. Maybe Obama is beginning to think that these people are going to screw him no matter what he does. In that case he will have no choice but to fight back, and if we observe the slightest fissure opening up between Obama and the national security state, we must support Obama politically with all our might.

Check out this segment on Countdown today:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/#34694863

In many aspects, they’ve also outsourced different things like interrogation and torture. The govt. can “officially” say we don’t condone torture, it’s against U.K. law, etc. But it’s been proven many times that what they’ll do is this. Officially we don’t do it. But we have no problems at all taking intelligence from others who do torture.

Now that more former detainees are speaking out, what’s happening? The denials continue. But now there’s hopefully more pressure to actually hold someone accountable. The govt. will fight it as long as possible with “national security” and other labels. But another part of it is the U.K. trying not to be a pushover to Obama. Either you do what we say. Or we cut you off from all new intelligence. Labour is dealing with a new election. The last thing Brown needs is to somehow be perceived as “weak on terrorism.”

Enter David Cameron. If he won, so far he’s shown no signs that he’d be any different. He’ll always have the “he’s too posh” label to deal with. But other than that, he’s never said he’d withdraw from Afghanistan or make any cuts in the military industrial complex.

In their view, why should they? North Sea oil supplies are going down. Other than the banking industry supplying a large part of govt. revenue, what other sources are there? Higher cigarette, booze taxes and VAT will only go so far. Arms is one of the biggest income sources for the govt.

Neither Brown or Cameron will prosecute Blair or those responsible for the global depression. Will Clegg do anything? At this point, I’m not sure.

So a lot of people can still say Brown does what Obama says. And despite the tough talk from Brown to the contrary, he doesn’t have the political guts to really break away from the States on several key issues.

Witness the recent dismissal of the Blackwater murderers of Nisoor Square… How can there be justice or accountability in this society? with this government? with this justice system?

What would make any of this change?

RP does make a good point when he says “there must be an agenda” for that patsy Nigerian kid to be ushered into Detroit, and really suprised/impressed me when he related it to all the pre 9/11 warnings that were “unheeded”(he mentions the hijackers not learning how to land, FBI’s non concern).

In the linked Greg Miller piece it is clear he buys into the bogus rational for the phony “war on terror”. The CIA did not waterboard KSM 183 in order to prevent anything but to get false confessions and make it look like maybe this Al-CIA-duh might just be real.(yeah right).

Sibel, your daughter is adorable(big suprise). One person’s cheesy fiction is another’s mind relaxer, stress detoxifier. I personally do not read any fiction since Milan Kundera’s last but do many other things others would consider a complete waste of time. Like put on “Exile On Main Street” REAL loud and bang away at my drums like a madman for an hour. Stones rock! Life is not all struggle strife and heroism. Without music, poetry, nature walks, love and laughter….none of what you do would be worth it. Peace

They have overstepped their franchise, even with some sort of legitimacy of congress and become operation organizations carrying out all sorts of nasty tasks right up to assassination.

We were sold on the notion that we need intelligence gathering to keep us informed on the enemies activities and capabilities. This of course, assumes that we have these enemies which have capabilities to attack and significantly hurt America.

The USSR was thought to be an adversary similar to the Nazis with expansionist and hegemonic goals. For some reason the USA decided that their place at the top of dog on the planet needed to remain that way as it gave our corporations access to the world’s wealth, markets, resources materials and labor. We then declared the USSR the competitor for influence or control of the emerging nations and began the cold war. Our alley from WWII was not cast as our enemy and treated as such. The CIA was born and the paranoia ramped up. Remember Sen Joe McCarthy and the House on UnAmerican Activitites Committee in congress. The CIA, FBI and the entire spook nonsense sprung up. Spying and spooking around became accepted and as American as apple pie.

Americans were manipulated to fear the USSR, to hate the USSR and communism and to believe that they were out to get us. There was no evidence of that whatsoever. But that didn’t matter. Every American was brainwashed to believe this. The MIC found reason to grow into the bureaucratic monster it is today and began all sorts of proxy wars around the world with the USSR and the “communists”. Viet Nam, Iran, Africa, Cuba, Afghanistan and so forth were where these battles were fought. Our CIA stood up anti communist governments by any and all means, regardless of whether they espoused demicratic principles. The enemy of my enemy is my friend. We got in bed with horrible reginmes, we kept them in power, we pumped weapons to prop them up and oppress their own people. Think Marcos, Noriega, Shah of Iran, Mubarak… the list is endless.

All of this made possible with the CIA, and the military intel operations. In fact, ideology almost did not matter, it was a bureaucratic momentum that was built on the false red scare which provided cover for corporations to steal around the world with impunity, for banks to rob the nations of their wealth.

The USSR collapsed from its inability to keep up with the insane battles with the USA – arms race, and proxy wars started by the CIA meddling.

We Won!

The Berlin wall came down and the two Germanies kissed and made up and went on to economic prosperity. The USA with it’s fake NATO alliance kept the war menace theme alive and tuened its sights on the rising social and economic justice struggles in Europe. They created Gladio to suppress the left and social movements which wanted to break the inequities created by capitalism.

The generals and the soldiers were not about to go home with no enemy to defend us against. The MIC was consuming up to half the US’s budget. This was too good to stop.

We need a new enemy!

We’ll just take our trained anti communist guerrillas who helped us kick the Soviet supported Afghan government out and turn them into a loose cannon who turned on their masters. Al Qaeda it would be called. They wanted us out of Afghanistan, of the Arab peninsula. They wanted Arabia for the Arabs and not run by some oppressive royals. They were the same brand of revolutionaries as the left leaning social movements around the world. And they were not friendly to international coroporations meddling in their countries.

Finally a new enemy to fight!

But it was a bunch of rag tag fighters who we gave some stinger missiles to, a bit of insurgency training…. how could this be a match for the largest defense establishment in the world? It couldn’t of course and Americans wanted their peace dividend. They wanted to focus on quality of life improvements at home – housing, schools, education, health care. Sorry can’t afford that we are still fighting to protect our way of life and our national security interests around the world – oil, resources, markets.

Just to make sure people “got it” they staged 9/11. That hit home and made this enemy look like they were capable of harming us. Three thousand people died… billions of property destroyed in our premiere city… and they even hit at the Pentagon… the heart of our defense establisment.

This enemy was WORSE than the USSR. They were hiding inside the USA and everyone was a possible suspect. The gloves came off, our rights went out the window. The MIC grew by leaps and bounds. It even outsourced to new contract corporations which would fight in this war: Halliburton, KBR, Blackwater, CACI, Titan, and the list goes on and on and on.

So what is really happening? Who IS really benefiting from all this? Cui Bono? Who IS behind this 60 year agenda? How did they manage to wrest control of our nation and its agenda?

They used greed to do it, bribery, fear, media created mind control – manufacturing consent. We have become a nation of sheep, uneducated and ignorant about the world and completely consumed in either day to day survival or self indulgence of consumerist pleasure. We are sheeple. We now do exactly as they want. We don’t even know what we can do. They steal elections, pensions, jobs, homes and the nutrition from our food.

Who does this? Corporations who run every aspect of our lives for profit of the few stakeholders and executives at the top. The even sold you the American dream that you too can get up to the top and enjoy all the perks of wealth and power, if you work hard or want it hard enough.

See: The Century of the Self:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/features/century_of_the_self_episode_1.shtml

You’ll understand how this was done and how it is being done.

LOOK FOR THE FACTS not at the spin.

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Can I help you?

Yes. I’m here to apply for your liability coverage.

Are you CIA? NSA?

You don’t have clearance for that.

Right. You need the “you-don’t-need-to-know” policy. Where will you be stationed? Iraq?

I was in Iraq. Now I’m being transferred to Kabul.

Oh, then I recommend our full protection policy. Covers you on everything from basic interrogation to almost every commonly practiced form of torture worldwide.

Have you ever been investigated, prosecuted. Or called to testify before any Congressional committee?

No.

Good. No “pre-existing conditions” to worry about.

Are there any special terms and conditions in this policy?

Not really. Just the usual we-deny-all-knowledge-that-this-ever-took-place if you’re caught or captured, you’re-on-you-own, etc.

Any other questions?

What’s the ceiling on the payout from this policy?

It used to be the standard $1 million. But due to the rising costs of rendition, secret black prisons, attorney fees, there is no ceiling. It’s all part of the govt.’s black budget.

At first, there was a “white budget”.

Really?

Yes. But then CIA management decided that was rather silly. A white budget covering torture and rendition? Just didn’t work.

What you don’t know you don’t need to know.

Exactly.

And, for a very reasonable premium too, by the way.