:arrow: The Office of Strategic Services, the CIA's predecessor, had jurisdiction over wartime covert operations and propaganda in the fight against fascism. OSS chief William Donovan recruited heavily among social and academic elites. When the CIA was launched in 1947 at the beginning of the Cold War, these pioneers felt that they had both the right and the duty to secretly manipulate the masses for the greater good.
OSS veteran Frank Wisner [his son is part of the elite community and was on the TOP 150 supoena list for the 9/11 inquiry] ran most of the early peacetime covert operations as head of the Office of Policy Coordination.
Wisner created the first "information superhighway." He called it his "Mighty Wurlitzer." - the CIA's worldwide propaganda machine.
:arrow: Propaganda and Disinformation: How the CIA Manufactures History -- Victor Marchetti, ex. CIA, author - The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence in 1974: “In the eyes of posterity it will inevitably seem that, in safeguarding our freedom, we destroyed it. The vast clandestine apparatus we built up to prove our enemies' resources and intentions only served in the end to confuse our own purposes; that practice of deceiving others for the good of the state led infallibly to our deceiving ourselves; and that vast army of clandestine personnel built up to execute these purposes were soon caught up in the web of their own sick fantasies, with disastrous consequences for them and us.
The real reason for the official secrecy, in most instances, is not to keep the opposition (the CIA's euphemistic term for the enemy) from knowing what is going on; the enemy usually does know.
The basic reason for governmental secrecy is to keep you, the American public, from knowing - for you, too, are considered the opposition, or enemy - so that you cannot interfere."
Rick healthy skepticism is good. One shouldn’t just take everything at face value. One should read widely, investigate and then make their own decisions.
In general terms I guess, with a conversation style exchange I don't always bother with links or type from books/reports - one can get lazy. My apologies. I shall provide more detail. Yet, please note that I am with only my left hand and one right finger for a few weeks... this is taking me hours
The ultimate irony: The masses are skeptical of alternative thought - i.e. what they deem “conspiracy theory” - such as that the Iraq invasion was about oil or that 9/11 was an inside job; yet they take mainstream ABC, FOX etc at face value. The reality is it should be the other way around.
This is the credo of the defacto star of 9/11 and Peak Oil - Michael Ruppert. Here are a few snips of reports on detailed foreknowledge by the US government on 9/11 - all referenced to mainstream news sources.
September 12, 2001 (14:15) Yesterday at the headquarters of Central Intelligence Service in Langley a confidential meeting between one of the Deputy Directors of CIA and a special messenger of Russian Intelligence Service took place. According to NewsRu sources he delivered to his American colleagues some documents including audio tapes with telephone conversations directly relating to terrorist attacks on Washington and New York last Tuesday. According to these sources, Russian Intelligence agents know the organizers and executors of these terrorist attacks. More than that, Moscow warned Washington about preparation to these actions a couple of weeks before they happened.
SIGINT: For more than eighteen months Italian authorities wiretapped an al Qaeda cell in Milan. Starting in October 2000, FBI agents assisted Italian authorities in analyzing the tapes, and this resulted in a direct warning to the US from Italy that planes might be used as weapons against US targets.
SIGINT/ELINT/HUMINT: Italian authorities obtained information from wiretaps of al Qaeda cells that a possible attack was planned to kill President Bush at the G8 Summit in Genoa scheduled for July.
Additional information suggested that Egyptian intelligence had achieved HUMINT penetrations of al Qaeda cells that confirmed information from the wiretaps and surveillance. Some conversations were recorded as a result of the bugging of a Citroen automobile used by Egyptian terrorists in Italy who are
close to bin Laden. As a result the airspace around Genoa was closed and the conference was ringed with anti-aircraft weapons.
[this dispells the myth that airplanes could be used as weapons]
SIGINT: British sources disclosed that telephone conversations between Osama bin Laden and associates in Pakistan and Afghanistan in the weeks prior to 9/11 were monitored and that the attacks were generally discussed in those conversations.
Throughout the world the independent media organizations have done an outstanding job of picking up and reporting on independently published stories which the major media overlooked. One of the most outstanding examples of this was a July 16, 2002 piece posted at the web site of Portland Indy mediathat reproduced the following short article originally found at The Memory Hole.
"NPR [National Public Radio] interview on 9-11 confirmed attack was 'not entirely unexpected.'
"It's certainly one of the most disturbing and important indications that the government knew the attacks of September 11, 2001, were coming. On that morning, National Public Radio (NPR) was presenting live coverage of the attacks on its show Morning Edition. Host Bob Edwards went to a reporter in the field-David Welna, NPR's Congressional correspondent-who was in the Capitol building as it was being evacuated. Here is the crucial portion of Welna's report:
"'I spoke with Congressman Ike Skelton-a Democrat from Missouri and a member of the Armed Services Committee-who said that just recently the Director of the CIA warned that there could be an attack-an imminent attack-on the United States of this nature. So this is not entirely unexpected.'
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/040804_condi_rice.html
As well, check out the report on the PROMIS software - the program that leaves behind a trail of dead bodies.
Canadian “Peter Dale Scott, Ph.D. Scott, a Professor Emeritus at UC Berkeley and noted author - “Drugs, Oil, and War: The United States in Afghansitan, Columbia, and Indochina”. Peter, upon hearing of the details of my involvement [with PROMIS], frankly told me that Promis frightened him.”
Tyree described an actual physical point in space, further out than ever thought possible and now used by US satellites. This distance is made possible by Promis progeny so evolved that they make the
original software look primitive. The social research, which included pioneering mathematical work - apparently facilitating the creation of artificial intelligence - postulated that a similar remote hypothetical position would eliminate randomness from all human activity. Everything would be visible in terms of
measurable and predictable patterns - the ultimate big picture.
For more than a year and half, members of the National Security Section of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) have been travelling through the US, often in the company of a savvy female
homicide detective from the small California town of Hercules named Sue Todd.
Even now questions linger as to what the Canadians were really after. But there is absolutely no question that while surreptitiously in the U.S. the Mounties spent more time with author and investigative reporter Cheri Seymour than with anyone else. And for good reason.
Seymour, under the pen name of Carol Marshall is the author of a meticulously researched e-book entitled The Last Circle. So meticulously researched and documented is the book that FTW's
researcher has fact checked it and found it flawless. Same with Bill Hamilton and the Mounties, who have also told me of its precision. Anyone seeking to understand the Promis story must include this book as a part of their overall research....
The essence of those documents was that, not only had the Republicans under Meese exploited the software, but that the Democrats had also seen its potential and moved years earlier. Nowhere was this connection more clearly exposed than in understanding the relationship between three classmates from
the U.S. Naval Academy: Jimmy Carter, Stansfield Turner (Carter's CIA director), and billionaire banker and Presidential kingmaker (Carter's Annapolis roommate), Arkansas' Jackson Stephens.
The Tyree diagrams laid out in detail how Promis, after improvement with AI, had allegedly been mated with the software of Jackson Stephens' firm Systematics. In the late seventies and early eighties, Systematics handled some 60-70% of all electronic banking transactions in the U.S. The goal, according to the diagrams which laid out (subsequently verified) relationships between Stephens, Worthen Bank, the Lippo Group and the drug/intelligence bank BCCI was to penetrate every banking system in the world.
This "cabal" could then use Promis both to predict and to influence the movement of financial markets worldwide.
In the fall of 1997, Bill McCoy, having recently gone off of his heart medication was found dead in his favorite chair. In the days and weeks before he had been advised by Tyree that a Pakistani hit man, on an Israeli contract had been in the states seeking to fulfill a hit on McCoy. There had been other hints that someone closer to McCoy might do the job. Tyree recently told FTW that just before his death, he had given McCoy information on "Elbit" flash memory chips, allegedly designed at Kir Yat-Gat south of Tel Aviv.
The unique feature of the Elbit chips was that they worked on ambient electricity in a computer. In other words, they worked when the computer was turned off. When combined with another newly developed chip, the "Petrie," which was capable of storing up to six months worth of key strokes, it was now possible to burst transmit all of a computer's activity in the middle of the night to a nearby receiver - say in a passing truck or even a low flying SIGINT (Signals Intelligence) satellite. According to Tyree this was the methodology used by Jonathan Pollard and the Israeli Mossad to compromise many foreign embassies in Washington.
Within 48 hours of his death Bill McCoy had been cremated and in less than four days all of Mac's furniture, records and personal belongings had been removed from his home by his son, a full Colonel in the Army. The house had been sanitized and repainted and, aside from the Zen garden in the back yard, there was no trace that McCoy had ever lived there.
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/pandora/052401_promis.html
Scott is frightened the same way an acquaintance from the dark side of the intelligence community frightens me. Please refer to my comments at the end of the 1918 thread. This person knows that his/her own Intel agency monitors him/her - this is what they do to keep tabs on high value individuals in an effort to counter any espionage. The message (which I remember from by earlier times hanging out with ‘The Lone Gunmen’) which I must not forget and was told to me recently by this person, in the
strongest possible terms, was that the technology that we see and experience today is at least two decades behind what the Intel community has now available. “Think back, then think ahead.”
Rupperts reports above are only excerpts and have been updated and expanded in Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil. I recommend to everyone reading this thread to buy Rubicon.
Ralph Nader has said, “If you don’t turn on to politics, politics will turn on you.” Indeed it has.
This is the short review I posted on amazon, “The Document to Take Back Our Lives” -- “History will look back on this document as the most important of the century. This is the document that will be ‘everyman’s’ handbook to understand where we are and how we got here.
Unfortunately the results are not pleasant. The energy transition is upon us and the key at this stage is how to best manage the decline of industrial society. Rubicon outlines that ‘everyman’ must act now to ensure a peaceful transition - we cannot not leave it to the masters to solve this crisis. The establishment got us here and have demonstratively pursued an agenda of copious self-interest; we must take control of the levers.
Literally, the lives of you, your family and your friends depend on actions taken now. It is past time to get serious.”
That is an understatement. No one understands Peak Oil unless they walk around numb for two weeks - as I did (and I thought I knew the consequences - I was naive).
I know some are not interested in geopolitics or as I’ve heard so often, “I don’t want to know.” Sad because this comes from friends with children and they will have to answer to them.
Rubcion demonstrates quite clearly that the big picture is available, reported by credible mainstream news sources but it is in tiny bits and pieces of the puzzle. It is up to us to out it together.
Rick, cheers!