'Fasten
Seat Belts': Post election 2000
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Post-Election Certainties:
- Paralyzed Government/Full Speed Globalization
- Recession
- War in Colombia
"FASTEN
SEAT BELTS"
by
Michael C. Ruppert
(c)
Copyright 2000, "From The Wilderness" Dec 14, 2000 issue.
Reprinted with
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Reserved. May not
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[The Dec issue of FTW, for subscribers only, contains a chilling breakdown
of the true history and danger behind U.S. plans for biowarfare in Colombia.
Read the real story behind Fusarium oxysporum by Dan Russell only in
the December issue of "From The Wilderness"]
December 14, 2000 - What happened during Campaign 2000 is nowhere near
as important as what will happen after it. "If voting could change
the system it would be illegal." So said an anonymous political
cynic and I could not agree more. FTW has purposely avoided frenetic
bulletins about recounts and lawsuits, demonstrations and allegations
of voter fraud because we do not, and did not, endorse either candidate
and we never trusted either side. Neither could we see any particular
benefit to having either George Bush or Al Gore as President. To quote
our good friend Catherine Austin Fitts, "Passing all understanding
is the special insanity that is so obvious now that somehow permits
people to transfer all the evil of their faction onto the other side.
People are scared to death and they are making choices that have nothing
to do with reality." As Republicans, in their zeal to avenge Clinton
corruption, forget about Iran-Contra, The Savings and Loan scandal,
death squads and their own HUD scandal, Democrats systematically forget
about Kosovo Iraqi sanctions that have killed thousands of children,
Plan Colombia, Democratic Party drug money, campaign finances, welfare
reform, NAFTA and the fact that almost 800,000 non-violent drug offenders
have been added to the prison population under Bill Clinton and Al Gore.
Somewhere down the road an unbiased forensic logician will look at
the way the election scenario played and conclude that decisions were
made by both sides that could have had no other objective but to prolong
the crisis and corrode the authenticity and cachet of the government
of the United States. It is the best living proof I have yet seen that
a globalized New World Economic Order, the bane of both left and right,
is emerging from shadows into light. It will not be long before we can
see its shape more clearly as powerful economic "necessities"
drive events at an accelerated pace. In the
end, a President who is widely viewed as being incompetent, uninspired
and lackluster, further hobbled by divisiveness so precise that it could
only be contrived, is exactly what the situation calls for. We need
not fear a dictator yet. But the current situation is the best Petrie
dish for breeding one that this country has seen since 1929. The next
four years will determine how quickly that comes - and perhaps only
the next two.
Our biggest hero on election night was Pacifica Radio's legendary Amy
Goodman who, from WBAI in New York, kept a really frustrated Bill Clinton
(thinking he had called in for a "Get Out The Vote" rally),
on the air for 30 minutes. Goodman called him to task on many of the
issues that mainstream Democrats seem so amnesiac about. In doing so
she gave essential voice to the growing numbers of Americans who are
breaking free from hypnosis. As Pacifica Radio struggles through the
second year of a purge to drive out any remaining independent thinkers
we salute Goodman for her courage and perseverance. Current efforts
to remove her from American airwaves, if successful, would serve as
a chilling omen of coming fascism. Let us see how long she survives.
The Government
"Splintered," ""Fragmented," "Lacking
in Clarity" - these were some of the terms that rolled in on December
12th as the Supreme Court decision was read over MS-NBC. Such adjectives
accurately describe what the entire government will look like after
January 20th. The Senate is split 50-50. Counting four Independent members
the Republicans will have a mere five vote margin in the House. A President
who lost the popular vote will have to appoint a cabinet. What does
it mean for Americans? Under the Constitution the branch of government
responsible for enforcing the laws, especially those laws that protect
citizens and consumers is the executive branch - the President. These
powers pass down through the President's cabinet secretaries to the
various agencies, from the FBI to the SEC to the DEA to the FAA, etc.
Cabinet posts have enormous power and for the next four years they will
become virtually autonomous fiefdoms, unaccountable and unstoppable,
more indebted to partisan and corporate interests than to a central
government or the public interest.
It is critical to understand the role of major multi-national corporations
in the running of the various agencies of the U.S. government. Corporations
like Lockheed-Martin and Dyncorp, with strong CIA ties, have the contracts
for data processing and financial management of accounts at HUD (mortgages),
the Department of Justice (asset forfeiture fund) and the Pentagon.
Just recently the GAO (see story this issue) announced that nearly $2.4
trillion has disappeared from HUD and the Department of Defense alone.
This money is not lost. It has been stolen. Under a new Administration
no agency will have the political will to investigate since a large
portion of the stolen money goes back into partisan campaign coffers.
How can Congress hold oversight hearings when both parties are implicated
and neither party holds a mandate? The situation is tailor-made for
both parties to engage in a looting spree unparalleled in human history.
This is certain for no other reason than because both will be convinced
that the other side is doing exactly the same thing.
For President "W" to get his nominees approved there will
be a great deal of back room barter. More than one or two cabinet posts
will go to the democrats as concessions and to keep up appearances that
the government still holds legitimacy. The Republicans will, of a certainty,
retain close control of State, Treasury and Justice. Less certain however,
is the Department of Defense which may go to a Democrat like retired
Senator Sam Nunn of Georgia. The rationale for this is that a massive
war in Colombia is an absolute economic necessity for Wall Street corporations
backing both sides. Do not expect Bush cronies like Richard Armitage
and Ted Shackley to be placed in nomination for key posts because a
50-50 Senate would not confirm them. Also do not expect President "W"
to be a bully with Cheney's Senate tie-breaking vote too soon. The real
tie-breaker in the Senate will be the Federal Reserve and Wall Street.
This lack of governmental authority will allow major corporations and
campaign donors to deal directly with cabinet Secretaries for their
"feeding" purposes. It will also permit multi-national corporations
pushing for WTO, globalization, and in close alliance with the International
Monetary Fund and the World Bank to operate virtually unfettered as
they parade their international efficiencies against the arthritic remains
of a once powerful central government. Expect Social Security to be
raided before the 2004 elections in response to a massive recession.
Recession
It is important to understand that a recession is not a depression and
that major corporations do not always suffer when recession or inflation
comes. People suffer. A few day upsurge in the Dow Jones industrials
or the beleaguered NASDAQ does not mean that everything is fine. As
reported by the conservative Salomon Smith Barney an estimated $4.2
trillion dollars were wiped off of the value of stocks on the various
US exchanges from March through mid-November. According to The New Federalist
whose political philosophy I disagree with but which has excellent factual
economic reports, this amount is, "equivalent to Japan's entire
annual Gross Domestic Product. Poof!" This money has gone poof
but only after it has gone into the pockets of corporations and brokerage
houses where it remains - at least at the levels it was invested at.
And, as FTW has been telling you for years now, trillions of new dollars
are needed to keep the structure from collapsing. I happen to agree
that a recession, that may well become a very deep one, is already here
and that it will put many people out of work.
In August, two noted Russian economists Oleg Grigoriyev and Mikhail
Khazin, writing in Russia's Exspert Magazine (and reported by Eric Baronov
in The Washington Insider) predicted a global economic collapse beginning
in November, 2000. They have bee right thus far. Using hard numbers
they established a precise correlation between the current U.S. economy
and that of the late 1920s and then unabashedly observed that the way
the US economy avoided a crash in 1998 after the Asian markets tanked
was by resorting to the artificial mechanism of blowing up Kosovo. In
this way Grigoriyev and Khazin agree with what FTW has been saying for
some time - that the imminent war in Colombia is essential to prevent
a total meltdown. They also agree with FTW that a lack of South American
support for Plan Colombia augurs an increasingly profitable role for
the Euro in the soon to be war torn continent.
The Russian economists also predicted two things which we find very
interesting in light of current events. First, they predicted that WTO
would eventually fail as the world regressed into feudal protectionist
economies and they also predicted that the "financial oligarchy"
would do everything possible to maintain control over the political
parties until after the election. This would be to prevent disclosure
of how weak the economy actually is and how large fourth quarter losses
are really going to be. Isn't it interesting to note that the results
of the election have been delayed until well after the normal reporting
period for quarterly earnings?
Colombia
For 200 years nothing has so intoxicated the American people, or distracted
us from our troubles as a war. It may well be that not since Pearl Harbor
was allowed to happen in 1941 has the American oligarchy and Wall Street
so needed one. In August, Bill Clinton, who created Plan Colombia traveled
to Cartagena with a host of American business executives to celebrate
Plan Colombia, a $1.3 billion military aid package supposed to help
the Latin American nation fight the drug cartels. For a year now we
have tracked the build-up and laid out the economic and political forces
driving us into another Vietnam war that FTW believes must eventually
involve American troops. Much of the implementation of Plan Colombia
and the opening stages of the war are mandated by bi-lateral agreements
approved by Congress last Fall. Not surprisingly, everything gets started
in January. Included here is the mandatory use of biowarfare (see story
this issue) against "coca" cultivation on lands controlled
by leftist FARC and ELN guerillas. The intent: drive coca production
onto lands controlled by the right wing paramilitaries and the government
so that the proceeds can be invested in Wall Street.
As massacres increase and as the government, right-wing Paramilitaries
like the AUC and the FARC and ELN guerillas all posture like Sumo wrestlers
seeking the greatest advantage before January, the certainty of a bloody
conflict increases daily. Here are just a few recent quotes from news
stories that you may have missed while awaiting the outcome of the Presidential
election. Washington still officially maintains that the creation of
two more "anti-drug battalions in January and the launching of
attacks in the southern half of the country has nothing whatsoever to
do with the civil war. May God have mercy on us all.
- "White House Drug Czar Barry McCaffrey on Monday predicted heavy
fighting in an approaching U.S. backed anti-drug offensive and warned
that there would be repercussions for Colombia's neighbors... Last week,
Colombia's largest leftist insurgency declared a freeze on peace talks..."
- The Salt Lake Tribune, November 21, 2000
- " The FARC's expansion, together with significant increases
by both the armed forces and rightist paramilitary squads, comes as
further evidence that Colombia's bloody conflict is heading for a major
upsurge as the military finalizes plans for a U.S.-backed assault on
drug traffickers and the rebels who protect them." The Miami Herald,
December 11, 2000.
- "...Evidence shows FARC guerillas supplied cocaine to
the [Mexican] cartel in exchange for cash and possibly weapons. This
development is another illustration of FARC's deep involvement in narcotics
trafficking. Since late 1999 the FARC has sought to establish a monopoly
position over the commercialization of the cocaine base across much
of Southern Colombia." - U.S. State Department Spokesman Richard
Boucher, November 29, 2000.
- "WASHINGTON - As U.S. assistance to war-fatigued Colombia
escalates, the Clinton administration portrays American military involvement
there as nothing more than basic anti-drug fighting aid. Haunted by
the shadows of Vietnam and El Salvador, administration officials vow
to avoid managing another war by proxy in a foreign land. The truth,
however, isn't that clear cut... Rep. David Obey, D-Wis., said he detests
Vietnam analogies, 'because nine out of 10 times they are all wet....
But I have to tell you," he said, 'this reminds me very much of
Vietnam... Whatever happens, there are going to be a lot of mother's
sons who are going to die who may or may not be Americans." - The
St. Petersburg Times, December 3, 2000.
Michael C. Ruppert
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