From: Land Destroyer Report
The US intelligence community, in conjunction with Wall Street
corporate-financier interests, have spent an inordinate amount of time
positioning themselves for a possible military coup and martial law take
over of the United States. This is being done under the guise of the
fraudulent "War on Terror" as preparation for a very real and
inevitable economic collapse. In particular, one personality above all
others is being groomed by intelligence operatives and policy wonks,
while built-up by the corporate media [1][2] in the eyes of the public
to intercede in America's accelerating political, economic, and even
global tactical decline. This man is General David Petraeus who served
as former head of US Central Command which included combat operations in
Iraq and former commander of US forces in Afghanistan before being
sworn in as the current director of the Central Intelligence Agency
(CIA) in September 6, 2011.
Image: Julius Caesar crosses
the Rubicon, on his way to seize power in Rome via a military coup and
become the republic's first emperor. America is not immune from
suffering a similar prolonged, ignoble death to the extreme, parasitic
elitism that empire breeds.
Posing as a venerable American hero, "leading" American troops through
two wars in service to his nation, Petraeus' ties are in fact to Wall
Street and London corporate financier oligarchs. His membership [3] in the corporate-financier Council on Foreign Relations
[4] is perhaps the most significant conflict of interest in America's
political landscape. He has been both commander of America's troops
and now director of the CIA, all while privately associating with the
unelected policy makers of the CFR; an organization that represents the
collective interests of the largest banks, private institutions, and
corporations on earth. Whether Petraeus is guilty or not of
improprieties amidst this enormous conflict of interest is irrelevant.
The fact that he hasn't shown the proper judgment to rectify such a
conflict by either resigning, or ending his CFR associations, should be
alarming to all Americans.
To add further fears regarding the ambitions and agenda of Petraeus,
one must examine those that are gravitating around him and indeed
prodding him along.
In 2010, Petraeus gave a speech before the American Enterprise
Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI) [5], another private
institution funded by corporations, working on behalf of corporations,
essentially producing their own self-serving policy and using their
vast connections and resources to have it rubber stamped by Congress
and executed by the US Government at the American people's expense. In
his speech, Petraeus would praise Neo-Conservative policy wonk
Frederick Kagan who he credited for developing the "surge" strategy in
Iraq.
In fact, almost all military strategy comes not from a large mahogany
desk with maps strewn across it with a calculating general hovering
above, but rather from institutions like AEI and other corporate-funded
think-tanks including the Brookings Institution or the RAND
Corporation. Frederick Kagan, along with other "resident scholars" at
AEI, have also developed the current strategies being employed in
Afghanistan and soon in Pakistan
[6]. One might say that Petraeus, and many other lackluster officers
in the United States military are nothing more than empty vessels with
administrative and operational capabilities merely carrying
corporate-funded, crafted, and serving policies onto the battlefield,
while equally empty vessels for politicians sell the policies and their
tremendous costs back at home to the American people.
AEI's board of trustees
represents a wide variety of corporate-financier interests including
those of the notorious Carlyle Group, State Farm, American Express,
and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co (also of the CFR). Dick Cheney
also acts as a trustee. Joining policy wonk Frederick Kagan as members
of AEI’s “research staff” are warmongers Newt Gingrich, John Bolton,
Richard Perle, John Yoo, and Paul Wolfowitz. AEI's work is done
entirely with the concept of "American exceptionalism" in mind, or, in
other words, American global hegemony. The AEI's own annual report
is rife with talk of US strategic preeminence and its assertion over
the sovereignty of foreign nations in the form of sanctions, military
operations, invasions, and occupations. The AEI, in tandem with the
Heritage Foundation, Foreign Policy Initiative, and many others, all
with interconnecting memberships and corporate-financier sponsors, are
literally the "Project for a New American Century (PNAC)" in motion.
If a general commanding the summation of America's military might and
now America's immense, omnipresent intelligence network, being bent to
the will of corporate-financier interests who literally write the
script from which he acts isn't frightening enough, then maybe it is
the fact that these same apparently "Neo-Conservative," "right-wing"
organizations are also engineering and executing the latest "liberal-humanitarian" war in Libya.
In fact, as notorious "Neo-Con" Paul Wolfowitz, an AEI "visiting scholar," expounded the merits of "Obama's war" in Libya [7] and the desirable effect it could have on helping topple regimes in Syria and Iran, one might recall Wolfowitz' aspirations back in 1991
where he spoke with General Wesley Clark about an opportunity to clean
up the old Soviet "client regimes" before the next super power rose up
and challenged western hegemony [8]. Amongst these "client regimes"
were Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Sudan, Somalia, Libya, and Iran. It would
appear than one linear agenda serving these corporate-financier
interests unfolds regardless of who is in office.
With this in mind, we see that Petraeus is in no shape, form, or way a
"political" or "establishment" outsider, or by any means a hero capable
of saving America from its decline. He is amongst one of the most
entrenched "insiders," with his position in the CIA digging him in even
deeper. His, or others like him, potentially entering into the
political fray will be nothing more than a dangerous new ploy used to
manipulate the American public. As Republican hopefuls flounder in
front of an increasingly skeptical and angry public and the path for
real political outsiders is being opened, the American people must be
ever vigilant against pretenders like Petraeus, or other "military men"
who might attempt to cross the proverbial Rubicon and pose as
"reformers," or "saviors" here to rescue us from our flawed form of
government.
It should be noted, that Republican candidate Rick Perry is also
entirely compromised by the special interests described above. Perry,
who farcically claimed America "cannot afford four more years of this
rudderless leadership," already has the very men currently engineering
Obama's multiple wars behind the scenes, lining up behind him for
indeed, four more years of what Perry called "rudderless leadership." Foreign Policy reported
[9] that notorious "Neo-Cons" including Douglas Feith, William Luti,
Andrew McCarthy, Charles Stimson, and Daniel Fata, with the help of
certified warmonger Donald Rumsfeld, had been introduced to Rick Perry
to help him "brush up" on foreign policy. Also meeting with Perry was
Dan Blumenthal of the above mentioned AEI, Peter Brookes of the Fortune 500-funded Heritage Foundation (page 35), and Zalmay Khalizad, a PNAC signatory and a member of the extraterritorial meddling National Endowment for Democracy's board of directors, to help Perry define his "hawk internationalist" foreign policy stance.
By "hawk internationalist," Foreign Policy indicates that it means,
"embracing American exceptionalism and the unique role we must play in
confronting the many threats we face." This of course is the same
"American exceptionalism" promoted by the corporate-financier funded AEI
along with the Heritage Foundation, the Brookings Institution, the
Council on Foreign Relations, and the Foreign Policy Initiative and is
nothing more than a misleading way to describe modern day imperialism
pursued by these organizations' various corporate sponsors.
It should be clear that the establishment is attempting to supply us
with a wide variety of political and non-political poseurs and
solutions from which we are to choose, before they continue on in
earnest with their agenda. Expending energy fighting over these false
choices is beyond futile. Instead, the path to restoring the American
Republic starts with each and every one of us. The system is only as
corrupt as the amount we continue paying into it. We must recognize the corporations lurking behind this system,
seen by many as benign or even beneficial to modern America, and
realize that they indisputably dominate both America domestically and
all that falls under American influence abroad. Boycott these corporations into destitution and replace them
with local, decentralized, practical alternatives based on real
markets, real competition, real progress, and technological innovation.
Video: The indispensable Dr.
Webster Tarpley discusses Libya, the global economy, and the prospect of
General Petraeus' potential role in bringing Bonapartism openly to America's shores. Via Tarpley.net.
Notes
[1] The Telegraph, "David Petraeus for President: Run General, run," April 3, 2010
[2] The Guardian, "Petraeus in profile: the man who could be president," April 27, 2011
[3] Council on Foreign Relations, Membership Roster, letter 'P' for "Petraeus," as of September 30, 2011
[4] Council on Foreign Relations, Company Membership, as of September 29, 2011
[5] AEI Speeches & Testimony, "The Surge of Ideals," May 6, 2010
[6] The Stanley Foundation, "The Case for Larger Ground Forces," by Frederick Kagan & Michael O'Hanlon, April 2007
[7] AEI via the Wall Street Journal, "Why Gadhafi's Fall is in America's Interests," by Paul Wolfowitz, June 23, 2011
[8] FORA.tv Conference Channel, "Wesley Clark: A Time to Lead," October 3, 2007
[9] Foreign Policy Magazine, "Rick Perry, the "hawk internationalist," August 10, 2011
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