Cannon Fodder?

The future is a mixture of inevitability and diverse possibilities.

One third of all of the United States naval assets are within striking range of Iran. This deployment is being called an Armada. Iran, with a large stockpile of missiles and drones, bolstered by Chinese and Russian hardware and intelligence must choose between unconditional surrender and full engagement. The terms and conditions of our lives at home are poised to suddenly and radically change.

Should we believe that the unrepentant promoter of the greatest mass poisoning in human history, Operation WarpSpeed, would not hesitate to sacrifice lives and hardware for some undeclared goal? The Trump administration and his newly formed Board or Peace openly herald the establishment of Technocratic governance in Gaza.

Whether or not Trump remains the Chairman of this Board of Peace, the office, and this Board, has appointed itself a nearly free hand to manage conflict zones. Could a humbled, divided, and despairing United States become a conflict zone, also subject to Technocratic governance?

The Dark MAGA Gov-Corp Technate — Part 2.

President Obama declared the existence of aliens then soon after President Trump promptly promised disclosure while saying that Obama had revealed classified information. Political rivals,both domestic and international, cooperate and coordinate their efforts. Every possibility to secure and maintain authority is kept open.

Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.

The animals of Manor Farm surrendered and subjugated their agency after being promised secure comfort and happiness by lying pigs. Barack Obama campaigned against domestic surveillance after G.W. Bush was criticized for snooping on library records. During his term the Edward Snowden revelations served to cause the American public to accept near limitless mass surveillance. Bill Clinton lost favor as a result of the Monica Lewinsky scandal. His base of support defended him saying things like”everybody lies about sex”. Much like now, a military deployment distracted the public. Now Donald Trump’s base of support refuses to acknowledge his intimate involvement with Jeffery Epstein. The entire mainstream of the political spectrum has been led to accept that a privileged class is free to abuse, in any imaginable way, and with little or no consequence.

It is a great tragedy that we, the public, accept liability for hideous crimes and submit willingly to monsters, all because we are afraid to face uncertainty or assume any responsibility.

Congressman Buffett’s speeches in the House reflect his continuing and systematic grasp of the issue of liberty vs. statism and the key role which war and empire play in undermining the former and promoting the latter. Thus, on March 22, 1944, he protested Secretary of the Interior Ickes’s plans to spend $165,000,000 on an Arabian oil pipeline. He characterized the proposal as “this gigantic long-distance venture into imperialism.” Such an asset would have to be defended by enlarged military forces, which might be based on conscription. Said Buffett further:

“It would terminate the inspiring period of America’s history as a great nation not resorting to intercontinental imperialism. This venture would end the influence exercised by the United States as a government not participating in the exploitation of small lands and countries…. It may be that the American people would rather forego the use of a questionable amount of gasoline at some time in the remote future than follow a foreign policy practically guaranteed to send many of their sons, if not their daughters [!], to die in faraway places in defense of the trade of Standard Oil or the international dreams of our one-world planners.”

For most people, the name “Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf” evokes the image of “Stormin’ Norman,” the U.S. Army general who oversaw Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm as commander of the military’s Central Command from 1988 through the effort to eject Saddam Hussein’s forces from Kuwait in 1991. The Desert Storm general, though, was the son of Maj. Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, whose varied and colorful career took him from being the founder and commander of the New Jersey State Police (where he led the investigation into the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby), to serving as a general in World War II, training Iran’s national police, and advising Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. In 1953, he was the CIA’s asset in Tehran when the country was convulsed by a coup.

Schwarzkopf’s role has been the subject of speculation since the day after Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh’s arrest on Aug. 19, 1953. On Aug. 20, the New York Times reported on Schwarzkopf’s visit to Tehran and noted an editorial in the Soviet newspaper Pravda accusing Schwarzkopf of delivering the orders for the coup. Now, 60 years later, the CIA has confirmed his role in declassified documents obtained by the National Security Archive.