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In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals so that security and liberty may prosper together. Eisenhower 1/17/61
Originally posted by m khan
The US govt has been taken over by fascist Nazis who want to depopulate the human race. The UN is just one of their fronts. They have unlimited money and the US military and govt and media at their disposal. They like to pay stupid individuals to keep up a smoke screen of confusion so the sheep don't get alerted before the slaughter. Why anyone would be sadistic enough and hateful enough to work for them is beyond me, no matter how nice the paycheck might look.
The revised emblem consisted of a map of the world on polar azimuthal equidistant projection surrounded by two olive branches. These two symbols speak for themselves. The olive branch can by traced back to ancient Greece as a symbol of peace. The world map is a symbol of the area with which this organization is concerned in achieving its main purpose: peace.
Originally posted by rick1
reply to post by ProtoplasmicTraveler
If you want to talk about Rome I believe you already have a thread for that. I think it is quite rude to continue to bring your thread here in an attempt to derail or guide this thread toward your thread. Every post you have made so far has been about Rome and not about this thread. Get with it Dude!!!!
Originally posted by SLAYER69
In a follow up after thinking through some of your data. Washington is like an infested head. Full of Millionaire Lice. I can't speak to the rest of the world. But I can say that those millionaires are looking out for their interests and investments probably in China and not here at home and absolutely not looking out for the middle class Joe Sixpack.
The Fifth column is all smoke and mirrors and a crutch in which Our Government on this side of pond uses like a sledge hammer wielding it against the masses in order to carry out their agenda. ----spit!
The United States is fast becoming two countries. One side is becoming more socialist with it's ideals of the control of the means and ways of production, the subornation of the individual to the State, and a large and intrusive central government that takes more of our freedoms, our wealth, and property to redistribute to those groups and individuals that the government deems worthy of or to "right" past "wrongs".
The other side is those Americans who still believe in capitalism and personal profit, limited government, and the representative republic that the founding fathers gave us. Socialism and republican self-government, both a political and economic issue, cannot exist in the same place and the same time and sooner or later the issue will have to be decided. Since it appears that neither side will back down the only alternative to a bloody revolution is a peaceful secession of the United States with each side going it's own way. That is what the Confederacy Project is all about.
Originally posted by Rockpuck
reply to post by SpartanKingLeonidas
I never said you were, nor did I presume to make the assumption that you thought you were friend. I'm only saying that the more you try to tie into one conspiracy, the more... unorganized.. it gets.
Originally posted by Rockpuck
IMO the biggest conspiracy of them all is Human Nature.. we are a violent species hell bent on destroying our selves. We have Globalist, who for the most part exhibit many sociopathical tendancies, dominating economies all over the World. Globalism allowed wealth to be consolidated to such high levels.. technology allows them to travel anywhere in the World.. so the wealthy are no longer bound to estates in Britain, France, Russia, USA, etc.. the billionaires of Russia want to party in London and in Dublin, and the Brits want to visit the south of France with a penthouse in Manhattan and a yacht in Sydney.
Originally posted by Rockpuck
If I were a Billionaire (or hell a very rich millionaire) I wouldn't give a damn about the local laws of where I park my Yacht. I wouldn't. I wouldn't care if I was in Indonesia, Florida, Britain or Spain .. I'd feel way to self important. And if a local law got in the way of me making money, much less having fun, I'd make damn sure my money found it's way into someones pocket to increase my cash flow.. whether that meant changing laws to bribing people.
Originally posted by Rockpuck
Few.. precious few.. say no to cash. If someone offered you $10m you'd take it in a heartbeat. You might for an instance have a flaring self righteous epiphany .. but it's quickly shut down by the prospect of what that money means.
Originally posted by Rockpuck
That is the definition of Globalism.. take what you want, where you want, how you want, when you want, and f@^ over anyone who gets in your way. Only the working class are Patriots my friend.. precious few rich people would take poverty to help their people, and to few poor would refuse a generous handout from an outsider.
Originally posted by Rockpuck
You and I .. we see conspiracies because .. no one is on our side. Who defends us, who represents our desires.. who is going to try and further our wealth, protect our way of life, defend our ideologies?
Originally posted by Rockpuck
Politicians serve the rich, the rich serve themselves. The Government serves the poor because the poor are to ignorant to distrust the hand that feeds them.
Originally posted by Rockpuck
The result is a portion of the population without representation, footing the bill for the poor, for the rich, for other nations and an arrogant government. this is why historically the middle class leads revolts and revolutions.. before it was the Merchant Class, then the bourgeoisie and now we simply call it "middle class".. All we are doing by looking for conspiracies is trying to understand why.. how.. who left us out in the cold.
Quote from : The Underground Empire - Where Crime and Governments Embrace : Excerpt
[Page 3:] The inhabitants of the earth spend more money on illegal drugs than they spend on food.
More than they spend on housing, clothes, education, medical care, or any other product or service.
The international narcotics industry is the largest growth industry in the world.
Its annual revenues exceed half a trillion dollars -- three times the value of all United States currency in circulation, more than the gross national products of all but a half dozen of the major industrialized nations.
To imagine the immensity of such wealth consider this:
A million dollars in gold would weigh as much as a large man.
A half-trillion dollars would weigh more than the entire population of Washington, D.C.
Narcotics industry profits, secretly stockpiled in countries competing for the business, draw interest exceeding $3 million per hour.
To what use will this money eventually be put?
What will be its ultimate effect?
Though everyone knows narcotics is big business, its truly staggering dimensions have never been fully publicized.
The statistics on which the above statements are based appear in classified documents prepared with the participation of the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency.
These studies are circulated in numbered copies with warnings of "criminal sanctions" for unauthorized disclosure.
Why is this information withheld from public view?
The international narcotics industry is, in fact, not an industry at all, but an empire.
Sovereign, proud, expansionist, this Underground Empire, though frequently torn by internal struggle, never fails to present a solid front to the world at large.
It has become today as ruthlessly acquisitive and exploitative as any nineteenth-century imperial kingdom, as far-reaching as the British Empire, as determinedly cohesive as the states of the American republic.
Aggressive and violent by nature, the Underground Empire maintains its own armies, diplomats, intelligence services, banks, merchant fleets, and air lines.
It seeks to extend its dominance by any means, from clandestine subversion to open warfare.
Legitimate nations combat its agents within their own borders, but effectively ignore its power internationally.
The United States government, while launching cosmetic "wars" on drugs and crime, has rarely attacked the Empire abroad, has never substantially diminished its international power, and does not today seriously challenge its growing threat to world stability.
Why is this so?
Do the world's governments not want to eliminate this expanding source of criminal wealth and power?
Has there in fact never been an attempt to mount a truly effective global assault against it?
Has there never existed -- does there not exist today -- some hidden, unpublicized, international force struggling against the Underground Empire?
Originally posted by ghostsoldier
reply to post by On the Edge
Stalin wasn't a Communist. He served Americas interest by helping to create the cold-war and polarise the world, collapse it, and create a one-world super-power. ie America.
You're talking out of context, this is what they want you to do, brainwashed by the red-scare.
[edit on 30/4/10 by ghostsoldier]
Kirkus Reviews : Amazon Review :
The former national security advisor is still a believer in geopolitics after all these years. Like most foreign-policy aficionados weaned on the Cold War, Brzezinski (Out of Control, 1993) has been forced by the disintegration of the Soviet Union to broaden his perspective--but not very far.
He sees the US as the only global superpower, but inability to maintain its hegemony indefinitely means that ``geostrategic skill'' is essential.
To what end is not specified beyond the vague shaping of ``a truly cooperative global community'' that is in ``the fundamental interests of humankind,'' but in this genre, goals are commonly assumed rather than examined.
In any case, Brzezinski casts Eurasia as the playing field upon which the world's fate is determined and analyzes the possibilities in Europe, the former Soviet Union, the Balkans (interpreted broadly), and the Far East.
Like a grandmaster in chess, he plots his strategy several moves in advance, envisioning a three-stage development.
Geopolitical pluralism must first be promoted to defuse challenges to America, then compatible international partners must be developed to encourage cooperation under American leadership, and finally the actual sharing of international political responsibility can be considered.
The twin poles of this strategy are a united Europe in the West and China in the East; the central regions are more problematic and, for Brzezinski, not as critical in constructing a stable balance of power.
This updated version of East-West geopolitics is worth taking seriously but it is also an amazing example of how a perspective can be revised without actually being rethought.
Originally posted by mike dangerously
The true 5th column movement are the moles that are planted within every country they are in financial companies,government and media they are sent into grass roots political groups to undermind,incite,to provoke.PT I don't buy into the new Roman Empire theory.I think that the age of power bases is over with this wireless tech and all we now truly have the age of Transnational Empire not one of the worlds major cities are major power centers any longer the Oligarchs truly operate in the shadows now.Leo,you have done great work on this thread sorry that I came into it a bit late. but S&F as always.
PS:thanks for the invite!
Originally posted by Doc Velocity
Ironic that FDR warned of fifth columnists in America, yet FDR essentially created the United Nations, arguably the greatest anti-American organization allowed to exist on American soil.
Quote from : Wikipedia : American Volunteer Group
The American Volunteer Groups were volunteer air units organized by the United States government to aid the Nationalist government of China against Japan in the Second Sino-Japanese War.
The only unit to actually see combat was the 1st AVG, popularly known as the Flying Tigers.
In an effort to aid the Nationalist government of China and to put pressure on Japan, President Franklin Roosevelt in 1941 authorized the creation of a clandestine "Special Air Unit" consisting of three combat groups equipped with American aircraft and staffed by aviators and technicians to be recruited from the U.S. Army, Navy and Marine Corps for service in China.
The program was fleshed out in the winter of 1940-1941 by Claire Lee Chennault, then an air advisor to the Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek, and Lauchlin Currie, a young economist in the Roosevelt White House.
They envisioned a small air corps of 500 warplanes, though in the end the number was reduced to 200 fighters and 66 light bombers.
The 1st American Volunteer Group was equipped and recruited in the spring and summer of 1941.
Originally posted by Doc Velocity
I have always viewed FDR's protracted administration as the foundation of the fifth columnist movement in the USA. Interestingly, earlier presidents — including Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Teddy Roosevelt — all warned of corporate entities and "shadow governments" attempting to undermine the U.S. Constitution and America's sovereignty.
Originally posted by Doc Velocity
Yet, when FDR publicly addressed the subject, he spoke in the past tense, as though those insidious corporate entities had already assumed control of America:
For too many of us the political equality we once had won was meaningless in the face of economic inequality. A small group had concentrated into their own hands an almost complete control over other people's property, other people's money, other people's labor, other people's lives. For too many of us life was no longer free; liberty no longer real; men could no longer follow the pursuit of happiness. Against economic tyranny such as this, the American citizen could appeal only to the organized power of government.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
Personally, I think FDR was a fifth columnist, a liar, an anti-Semite, an underminer of the Constitution, an anti-American sonofabitch, and one of the founders of the modern Global Union.
God's curse on his rotten socialist soul.
— Doc Velocity
[edit on 4/30/2010 by Doc Velocity]
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.
Helen Keller
Originally posted by kenochs
I hate to say it but this thread is confusing ramble/rant. I always find it a bit shocking that anyone who does any research would believe that the U.N. is nothing more than a bloated bureaucratic mess of a place, with grand ideals.
Don't get me wrong, I think it is a necessary mess (just like democracy) but a mess just the same.
And in all actuality I'm often impressed that they manage to get anything done at all, especially in regards to sanctions against a country like Iran (because a big portion of the Sec. Council are in bed with the mullah's).
Still, when I see a thread suggesting that the U.N. is some powerhungry group of world elies, I just yawn, and can't be convinced.
Learn without thinking begets ignorance.
Think without learning is dangerous.
Confuscious
Originally posted by Rockpuck
reply to post by kenochs
The only reason those sanctions even get done is because the US makes it happen .. if the US wasn't in the UN they would just be a bunch of suits with their thumbs up their ass wondering what they could do to make the world filled with skittles and unicorns.
The only thing the UN has done successfully on it's own is rape children in Africa.
Quote from : Wikipedia : Chapter VII : Article 51
Article 51 provides for the right of countries to engage in military action in self-defense, including collective self-defense (i.e. under an alliance).
This has been cited as support for the legality of the Vietnam War.
“ Nothing in the present Charter shall impair the inherent right of individual or collective self-defence if an armed attack occurs against a
Member of the United Nations, until the Security Council has taken measures necessary to maintain international peace and security.
Measures taken by Members in the exercise of this right of self-defence shall be immediately reported to the Security Council and shall not in any way affect the authority and responsibility of the Security Council under the present Charter to take at any time such action as it deems necessary in order to maintain or restore international peace and security.
Originally posted by m khan
The US govt has been taken over by fascist Nazis who want to depopulate the human race. The UN is just one of their fronts. They have unlimited money and the US military and govt and media at their disposal. They like to pay stupid individuals to keep up a smoke screen of confusion so the sheep don't get alerted before the slaughter. Why anyone would be sadistic enough and hateful enough to work for them is beyond me, no matter how nice the paycheck might look.
[edit on 30-4-2010 by m khan]
Originally posted by SpartanKingLeonidas
reply to post by AccessDenied
All it takes is one voice.
One Voice
Imagine, if we were politically aware, instead of politically correct.
Imagine, if we were responsible adults, instead of immature idiots.
Imagine, if we were socially adept, instead of socially inept.
Imagine, if we taught our children, instead of learning from them.
Imagine, if we learned our children's day by asking, instead of getting a teachers note.
Imagine, if we taught our children about politics, instead of politically crippling them.
Imagine, if we read the newspaper to our children, instead of allowing television to raise them.
All it takes is one voice.
Originally posted by rick1
reply to post by ProtoplasmicTraveler
If you want to talk about Rome I believe you already have a thread for that. I think it is quite rude to continue to bring your thread here in an attempt to derail or guide this thread toward your thread. Every post you have made so far has been about Rome and not about this thread. Get with it Dude!!!!