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<big>'''Ignorance is Strength'''</big><br> | <big>'''Ignorance is Strength'''</big><br> | ||
+ | '''Exit Arab Spring, Enter, [[Seven countries in five years|Four countries in five years]]'''<br> | ||
+ | As the US prepares to create regime change in Syria for the second time ([[List of military interventions of the United States|the first was in 1949]]), it is worthwhile considering the reasons why it has acted so coyly about invading. Obviously there is an advantage to its rare display of patience; if it can make the case that the entire world is begging it to invade, then it suffers less of a PR hit. But there is another reason: if the US loses it, temporarily, as a cheap source of oil, it still retains a torture state. According to a former CIA case officer, "If you want a serious interrogation, you send a prisoner to Jordan. If you want them to be tortured, you send them to Syria. If you want someone to [[Forced disappearance|disappear]]—never to see them again—you send them to Egypt." <ref name="CP05-12-05">[http://www.CounterPunch.org/rajiva12052005.html Lila Rajiva, "The CIA's Rendition Flights to Secret Prisons: The Torture-Go-Round"], ''CounterPunch'', 5 December 2005</ref> | ||
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+ | The US attack's opportunism is of course pathetically transparent: unfounded assurances and teams searching for weapons have all happened before, Russian inspectors found the rebels to be the cause, the US is preparing for the attack before the UN inspectors get back, the UN's factfinding mission only stayed a token day or two, the US uses chemical weapons and has backed every regime that has ever used them, the US has enough WMDs in the form of nukes to blow up the whole world many times over, [[List of military interventions of the United States|the US has used military interventions and other means]] to attempt regime change of countries unfriendly to US Capitalistic interests nearly a hundred times in the past two centuries, etc etc. | ||
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+ | Syria is #32 in the list of oil-producing nations, but this is only part of the story. There are only nine nations left in the top 31 that are not white European nations, or under the thumb of the US, and they are all either too large for the US to take over (China, Russia and for the moment, Iran), or are poised for regime change with the same propaganda mill setting them up in the public eye as failed or rogue states or some such: Iran again, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Nigeria, Venezuela and Ecuador. | ||
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+ | In the top 30 and recently brought under US control: Iraq, Egypt and Libya. Coming soon, Syria. So much for the Arab Spring. Instead, it has only been part of [[Seven countries in five years|Four countries in five years]]. Admittedly, this is three short of what was said to be planned, and one country that was not said to be planned. But after our suspicions about the Arab Spring have been borne out, it seems clear that what most of the world hoped was Freedom was in fact only Free Market. In the one tiny state that is still more free than it had been before the revolution, Tunisia, the embezzling rulers still got away with the cash. And Tunisia will fall, as Egypt has; someone assassinated the opposition leader on 28 Aug 2013, and the party that took over after the revolution was unwise enough to dissolve itself and make new elections,<ref>[https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/02/06-0 Update: Tunisia to Dissolve Government After Assassination, Day of Mass Protests]</ref> which US puppets will win, in falsified elections, or by whatever other means necessary. Afghanistan was, of course, taken over to make secure the oil pipelines to the Caucasus. But do not be taken in by the characterization of this as a War for Oil. It is only a Battle for Oil, a minor if penultimate part of the War for Capitalism, and it has been going on since at least the 19th century. | ||
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+ | Wondered why there was so little coverage of the Arab Spring in these pages? Well, sure, we're lazy. But mostly it was because we ''saw Egypt coming'', and we did not believe PBS' (Proving We're Not Liberal Since 1989) Gwen Ifil, when she called the anti-Libyan mercenaries armed with rocket launchers and with anti-aircraft guns mounted to the back of their pickup trucks, "demonstrators". Egypt has gained absolutely nothing from its revolution-the Wikileaks leak for Egypt included a memo from Mubarak asking the US to install the army in a coup, roughly for the principle that they were sons of bitches but they would be THEIR sons of bitches. Always think in terms of the US trying to take over the world, and you will only be wrong a small percentage of the time. | ||
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+ | '''Theoretically'''<br> | ||
Propose a new theory: '''Manifest SNAFU!''' The opposite of Manifest Destiny, which has made a wholly undeserved return to an undead halflife as a misinterpretation by the Wrong of a version of [[Wikipedia:Exceptionalism|Exceptionalism]] ([[Howard Zinn]] [http://video.mit.edu/watch/the-myth-of-american-exceptionalism-9935/ on the myth of Exceptionalism]). With no more chance than Manifest Destiny of being right, Manifest SNAFU! nonetheless COULD be more right, and is thought-provoking. It postulates that there must be some reason that things are, as is apparent, Situation Normal-All Fucked Up. As is equally apparent, this because the losers were always right, and the winners always mistaken. Or to put it another way, the reason why there are winners is that they are mistaken. | Propose a new theory: '''Manifest SNAFU!''' The opposite of Manifest Destiny, which has made a wholly undeserved return to an undead halflife as a misinterpretation by the Wrong of a version of [[Wikipedia:Exceptionalism|Exceptionalism]] ([[Howard Zinn]] [http://video.mit.edu/watch/the-myth-of-american-exceptionalism-9935/ on the myth of Exceptionalism]). With no more chance than Manifest Destiny of being right, Manifest SNAFU! nonetheless COULD be more right, and is thought-provoking. It postulates that there must be some reason that things are, as is apparent, Situation Normal-All Fucked Up. As is equally apparent, this because the losers were always right, and the winners always mistaken. Or to put it another way, the reason why there are winners is that they are mistaken. | ||
Revision as of 08:53, 31 August 2013
- ↑ Lila Rajiva, "The CIA's Rendition Flights to Secret Prisons: The Torture-Go-Round", CounterPunch, 5 December 2005
- ↑ Update: Tunisia to Dissolve Government After Assassination, Day of Mass Protests
- ↑ Aruspicina: study of entrails to see the future Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan (1651). "Lastly, to the Prognostics [who] have added innumerable other superstitious ways of Divination[:]...Sometimes in the Entrails of a sacrificed beast; which was Aruspicina..."
- ↑ Manufacturing Climate Solutions – Carbon-Reducing Technologies and U.S. Jobs Center on Globalization, Governance & Competitiveness (CGGC), an affiliate of the Social Science Research Institute at Duke University
- ↑ Demonstration of Caterpillar C-10 Duel-Fuel Engines in MCI 102DL3 Commuter Buses
- ↑ Thomas Rubin, in the "free minds and free markets" outlet Reason Foundation, criticized the report as being "far removed from actual “real world†experience." because the average occupancy of buses is so low. But it is Rubin who is not accurately portraying the real world, by using an average value, see main text
- ↑ Passenger Transport (Fuel Consumption). Hansard. UK House of Commons. URL accessed on 2008-03-25.
- ↑ http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-collections/415044/puppet-power/