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The Post-Bush
Regime: A Prognosis
By Richard K. Moore
12/30/07 "Global
Research" -- --
-In order to understand anything about American political
affairs, it is necessary to have some understanding of who it is
that really makes the decisions behind the scenes, and what
their interests are. In this way we have some hope of
identifying the hidden agendas being served by government
actions and programs, and some hope of identifying the
longer-term strategies that are in play.
It turns out—and informed people should already know this—that
the U.S. is essentially owned and managed by a small clique of
wealthy families—the ones who own and control the Federal
Reserve. The Rockefellers are the obvious and well-known members
of this clique, but there are others less well-known, not all
American, and some whose identity remains to this day a
carefully guarded secret. We don’t even know exactly who it is
that’s running the show.
Such has been the nature of our ‘democracy’ since 1913, when the
Federal Reserve Act was snuck through Congress during Christmas
recess, by the same folks who funded Woodrow Wilson’s campaign
and who became the private owners of the new all-powerful
central bank. The first major initiative of these folks, the
ancestors of our current ruling clique, was to finance both
sides in Europe during World War I, and then to connive the
entrance of the US into the war just in time to tilt the balance
to the side favored by the clique—the same pattern that later
characterized World War II.
From that point forward American policy-making has been firmly
in the hands of the original Federal Reserve clique and its
descendents. The mainstream media is also under the thumb of the
same clique, so that public opinion is never allowed to
interfere with fundamental clique objectives. The media can be
used to support sitting Presidents, or to undermine them,
depending on which best enhances those objectives. No President
who has turned on these people has survived long in office, as
we saw most recently in the case of JFK. The tentacles of the
clique reach also into the top echelons of all the Intelligence
services and the Pentagon, and into those influential globalist
forums, such as the WTO, the Trilateral Commission, and the
Bilderbergers.
Bush and the neocons have been mere tools-of-the-day for this
clique. The neocons happened to be promoting a package that
appealed to the clique, that promised to advance some of its
objectives. In selecting the neocons to be the drivers behind a
new administration, the clique was by no means adopting the
neocon philosophy, nor were they buying into the whole PNAC
package. They were simply employing a convenient tool that was
aligned tactically with clique interests for the time being. Any
such tool can be discarded whenever its behavior becomes
counter-productive, or when a better tool comes along. There is
always a Plan B in the wings for any tool that might go rogue or
go sour.
Bush, who has probably never even read the PNAC agenda, was
selected for entirely different reasons. Knowing that the agenda
would be highly unpopular, the clique decided that defending it
logically would be very difficult, even with complete control
over the media. An articulate and intelligent President would
look like a fool if he tried to defend the insane policies. So,
our clique slyly figured, why not put someone up there who is
obviously a fool, right through his whole little soul, so that
the public will believe they are struggling against the
foolishness of one man, and have no understanding of what’s
really going on. Of course Bush, being clueless on all matters
apart from golf, looting, cocaine, and womanizing, would need to
be kept far away from any role in running the White House. Hence
the need for Cheney, the shadow real president, who leaves all
the photo ops to Bush, who stays out of the public eye himself,
and who carries the Black Armageddon Box with him everywhere he
goes, something only official Presidents have done in the past.
This was the project that went operational in the form of Bush’s
initial Presidential campaign. The ducks were all lined up for
launching a major imperialist venture, the preparations for 9/11
were well underway, and no power on Earth was going to stop the
Bush Show. Of course Bush The Clueless was going to win, no
matter how much vote fixing and media lying was required, or how
many Supreme Court Justices were needed to accomplish the task.
As a last resort they wouldn’t have hesitated to off Gore, one
of their own boys, if it was the only way to open the path for
their current man, a tactic they used earlier with Bobby
Kennedy. Of course now that we have Diebold machines, all of
this can be accomplished by a single computer command message,
specifying which candidates are to get which percentage of votes
in each precinct. Exit polls have been abandoned since they
provide hard statistical evidence of the systematic fix.
The neocons have accomplished much for their elite puppeteers,
and have been given in return free reign to loot at will,
funneling all those billions for the Iraq War into their own
corporate coffers and investment portfolios. They for their part
have established the foundations of a fascist state in the US
and Canada, secured Iraq’s oil reserves, built permanent forward
mega-bases in Iraq, successfullly destabilized Iraq and prepared
it for balkanization, secured pipeline routes in Afghanistan,
restored the profitable opium trade, and made progress toward
achieving the first-strike capability that will be needed when
the time comes to take on Russia and China. Quite a bundle of
major achievements in a very short time indeed. But to our
clique, the question always is, “What have you done for me
lately, Sunshine?”
The neocon intention to bomb Iran was the point where the tool
went sour, and threatened to go rogue. Anyone who thought
seriously about what bombing would lead to knew that an attack
would quickly spiral out of anyone’s control—given the advanced
arms that Russia has supplied to hot-headed Iran, and given the
fact that the powder keg would involve a trigger-happy, nuclear
potent, clinically-deranged Israel. Russia and China would of
course be on ultra-high scrambled alert, poised to intervene
with due force if the spiral crossed certain unspecified lines
in the sand. The neocons knew this and the clique knew this. Any
attack on Iran, no matter how well planned, limited, and
executed, would be playing Russian roulette with World War III.
The neocons were ready to take this step, to play this game, and
they were in a very advanced stage in their preparations, of
both the military and the psy-op variety. Quite obviously they
were not deterred by the possibility of all-out global nuclear
war. This has nothing to do with Bush’s pretended belief in
Revelations and the ascension of the elect, but rather with the
neocons’ evident belief that they were ‘ready for the big one’,
copying a page directly out of Dr. Strangelove, with the neocons
in the role of Jack D. Ripper. Unlike the demented SAC base
commander, however, the neocons were forced to telegraph their
moves, and the clique was not pleased with the scenario. They
knew the first-strike capability was not nearly ready—and
Russian roulette is not a game they ever play. They play only
when they hold all the top cards and own a controlling interest
in the casino.
So the time had come to pull the plug on the neocon tool. It was
surprisingly easy to do. The first step, taken who knows how
long ago, was to put the word discreetly to the Joint Chiefs
that the Iran project is off, regardless of what orders might
come from the White House or the Black Box. This news, of
course, was to be kept in the room, as it surely was. Once the
castle was thereby made secretly safe, it was a trivial matter
to plant the seeds that would unravel the whole gone-sour,
rogue-threatening, neocon bandwagon. A simple but devastating
Intelligence announcement, a few whispers to key Bilderberger
players that it was open season on the American contingent at
the next meeting, and various other subtle and quite easy moves.
It takes little, after all, to bring down a house of cards,
particularly one propped up by a weak joker. The clique as usual
remains invisible.
Certain elements in the White House know what’s happening by
now, while others seem to still think the neocon agenda is the
order of the day. It seems pretty obvious that Cheney was
briefed in advance, and has some kind of golden parachute in his
Xmas stocking. I haven’t heard a peep from him since we first
learned of the clique reversal, when the Intelligence
announcement became public knowledge. Bush is by now imagining
Cheney as a reincarnated Judas, and practicing how he’ll say “Et
tu, Brute?” if the opportunity arises. And yet Bush evidently
still hasn’t caught on that his chip has been turned off, him
and that fellow Gates, both of whom still act as if the tractor
is still in gear. I guess they’ll go down like the fellow in the
Monte Python film...“Go ahead, cut off my other arm. I’ll still
beat you.”
What happens next will be ratcheting in gains and preparing a
fresh new story line. That is to say, none of the very
impressive (ie, horrific) achievements of the neocons will be
undone, and yet the American people will be led to believe that
the evils are in the past—the same standard tactic that we saw
work so well when Nixon resigned. The media will be filled with
fresh new story lines, along with bright intelligent confident
reassuring empathetic Earth-loving new faces, plus other new
fantasies—and the Bush experience will fade from public memory,
along with last season’s football scores. Such an advantage it
is for our rulers, that we Americans have such tiny memory spans
and such limited powers of independent observation, compared to
the rest of the world’s population. I guess the purpose of the
melting pot was to melt away our basic intuitive judgment.
It’s not quite time for the surprise attack on the Wicked
Witches of the East. Space-based warfare is still in Beta Test.
Nor is it necessary to proceed at the moment with the full
unleashing of the Gestapo, the SS Storm Troopers, concentration
camps, forced labor, and the whole nine yards. The neocons have
diligently built the foundations for all this, both in concrete
and in legal precedent, but the project is for the moment on
hold and the neocons off mission. When the time comes to resume
project, that will be perceived as a new response to an
unexpected emergent scenario, and no deferred continuity with
the Bush era will be noticed.
I suggest that we can see the focus of the next US
administration by paying attention to Al Gore. He’s going around
preaching the gospel of climate change, and that is rapidly
becoming the new cause celebre for the ‘international
community’. It’s more than a campaign by Gore, we’re seeing a
campaign being supported by the mass media, by the powers that
be. We are clearly being prepared for a ‘new show’, after the
‘Bush show’, and the ‘new show’ is going to be about carbon
taxes and credits, new energy sources, more efficient cars,
biofuels, and all those other things that are allegedly related
to climate change and peak oil.
In order to clear the way for the new show, it seems pretty
clear that the new administration will begin with some easy
political wins, by rapidly cleaning up some of the obvious
messes left by the neocons. Closing down Guantanamo, and
declaring that rendition flights have been abandoned, would gain
a lot of points at no real cost (secret flights and prisons
would undoubtedly continue). Iraq has already been destabilized
and prepared for balkanization, and permanent US bases have
already been built. Another easy win will be for US troops to
withdraw to their bases and the oil fields, for the war to be
declared over, and for Iraq to be split up into ethnic
provinces, leaving them to squabble among themselves. It can all
be portrayed in the media as a ‘victory for peace and
democracy’.
What then, can we expect from this new show? What consequences
are likely to follow from implementing the kind of policies that
Al Gore and the media have been talking about, around climate
change, energy independence, etc.? What is our ruling clique
really trying to accomplish?
At a general level, it is clear that those kinds of policies do
not involve fundamental changes in how our societies operate.
We’ll still have cars, only they might be a bit more efficient,
and we’ll be paying more for fuel and taxes to operate them.
We’ll still be shipping products from China that we could
produce locally, and we’ll still be depending on long-distance
trucking. We’ll still be using agricultural methods that are
highly petroleum-dependent, for tractors, fertilizers, and
pesticides. Research and development of new energy sources will
lead to lots of government subsidies, and it may get us a bit
more energy, but not nearly enough to replace petroleum. As long
as our transport and other infrastructures remain basically
unchanged, we remain unsustainable, dependent on petroleum, and
none of the Gore-like initiatives change the overall energy
picture, carbon picture, or climate picture in any significant
way.
In order to begin figuring out what the real agenda is, behind
Gore-like policies, let’s look first at one example: biofuels.
Producing biofuels does give us another energy source, but it
also removes land from food production. As a consequence of the
already-existing biofuels market, market prices for grain and
other potential biofuels are now being driven by energy prices.
Global food prices are therefore rising rapidly, while at the
same time food-production acreage is being reduced. These two
things will directly and drastically increase world hunger and
starvation, particularly in the poorest regions. A Gore-inspired
administration will be promoting an expansion of biofuel
programs on a global scale, and it will be patting itself on the
back for its noble oil-saving deeds.
All of this will be occurring in a context where we are facing a
global food crisis generally. We haven’t seen many headlines on
this topic, but the world is sitting on the brink of a major
food crisis. Emergency stockpiles are at low ebb, production
levels are down, crop failures are up, etc. It’s a very nasty
picture even without biofuels.
In this context, the net consequence of a major biofuel agenda
comes down to intentional genocide. In order to provide
marginally more fuel to the over-consuming industrialized
nations, untold millions will starve in the third world, in
addition to those untold millions that are already starving. The
marginal energy gain is so small by comparison, that we must
accept that the biofuels agenda is primarily about genocide.
However when we begin reading about new famines breaking out,
perhaps in Brazil where biofuels are now going into massive
production, the headlines will blame it on droughts, or crop
failures, or some other excuse, as they always do. We will
meanwhile feel a ‘green glow’ every time we fill up our Prius
with biofuels, unaware of what damage we are doing. And perhaps
we’ll donate to Oxfam, or adopt some third world child and send
them letters.
A Gore agenda is simply genocidal imperialism hiding under a new
mask, a new show. Instead of killing off the Indians by killing
their buffalo, it kills off populations by removing their access
to food in other ways. Once again, ‘they’ must be sacrificed so
that ‘our’ way of life can continue and expand. We might note
here that more Iraqis died under Bill Clinton’s sanctions that
have been killed in the current Iraq war. In Bill Clinton’s time
the pattern was invisible genocide, rather than the more violent
Bush variety. Apparently in Hillary Clinton’s time we are to
return to that earlier invisible pattern.
Clearly the consequences of a Gore agenda are genocidal, but one
might question whether that is a primary intended outcome. I’ve
been suggesting that it is, and I think more elaboration is in
order on that point. I haven’t made the case very well yet. I’ve
merely presented some of the evidence and suggested a pattern.
In order to get a proper perspective on this issue, we need to
step back a bit, and consider the bigger picture of the
industrialized world vis a vis the third world, in the face of a
broad range of mounting resource shortages—the strategic
perspective of our ruling clique.
It seems very clear that the industrialized nations have no
intention of changing the basic path they are on, or of
abandoning capitalism. We can expect only more industrial
growth, more energy consumption, continued use of
energy-intensive agricultural methods, etc. The energy band-aids
of a Gore agenda make no significant difference in this picture
whatever, they simply affirm the intention to proceed with
business as usual.
The only way the industrialized North can continue on this path
is by taking over more and more of the third world’s land,
water, and resources for its own use. As the industrial appetite
for resources continues to grow at a rapid rate, and as our
global resources are increasingly stressed, we are going to see
a very rapid expansion of third world hunger and starvation --
the globalization of African-scale famines. This is inevitable
while the North stays on this basic path, whether we have
Gore-like policies or some other set of policies is of little
consequence.
This ‘inevitability’ of mass die-offs in the third world is well
known to those who run the industrial nations. From the
perspective of the heights of power, the question becomes, “How
can we manage these die-offs so that they cause the least
disruption in the global economy, and so that they don’t arouse
too much public outcry?” Of course once you begin managing
die-offs, you are then engaging in genocide, ie, arranging for
particular populations to die in preference to others.
The pattern for the management strategy has been made very clear
in Sub-Saharan Africa, where all those civil wars, genocidal
atrocities, droughts, and famines have been occurring. Not many
people realize that these disasters have been systematically
imposed on Africa, by means of IMF requirements, covert
destabilization programs, denial of medical care, the widespread
distribution of automatic weapons, the manipulations of
international banks, the dedication of agricultural land and
water to Northern consumption, and the list goes on. Not only is
Africa being starved to death by market forces, but the process
is being accelerated by covert genocidal interventions.
In Africa we see a full-scale Holocaust, a massive genocide
program in process, or should I say we see it not. For in the
media it’s nothing like that. We read that ‘tribal conflicts
have flared up’, but we don’t hear about the two CIA bombings
that were each blamed on the ‘other side’, and which ignited the
fracas, a fracas that could become a civil war. We read about a
famine due to ‘drought’, and we aren’t told that there would be
plenty of water if it weren’t for all the coffee-export
plantations using up the local water. We don’t see genocide, we
see Africans befallen with unfortunate miseries, all due to the
vagaries of Mother Nature.
Thus the pattern of managing die-offs becomes clear. It has been
tested satisfactorily in Africa, and we can expect the proven
pattern to be employed in future. They pick a population that
they consider ‘redundant’, they undertake a program of acquiring
that population’s resources, and then to speed up the process of
removal they engage in various covert acts of genocide. In this
way the world’s population can be whittled down piecemeal, and
manageably, as the North gradually requires the utilization of
ALL the world’s resources for its own exclusive use.
Unfortunately for the North, even that won’t be enough to enable
industrial growth to continue. The South is being killed off
only that the unsustainable North can continue on its path a wee
bit longer.
Meanwhile, the media in the North paints a picture in which only
nature causes famines, and the role of the North is always to
provide aid, to the extent it can. Concerned viewers are given
convenient numbers to call, so they can dispel their concern
with a simple donation that will ‘save a child’, or ‘give a
family a goat’. No genocide around here; we’re the good guys.
See no evil, feel just fine. By the way, too bad about those
famines over there.
The Gore-style policies are not just genocidal, they are
formidably genocidal. When they start taking massive amounts of
land out of food production, and bring about a substantial
increase in global food prices, in the face of an already
stressed world food situation, they could bring about in a very
short time—one bad harvest season—famine on a scale we have
never seen before. How serious the outcome will be depends
entirely on how aggressively the new administration pursues the
Gore-style agenda. They’ve got genocide down to a science, with
tunable parameters.
Apparently, having field-tested Holocaust tactics in Sub-Saharan
Africa, a decision has been made to go global with the program.
For this purpose, the Gore-style policies have the potential to
be the appropriate Weapon of Mass Destruction, the equivalent in
the starvation game to nukes in the kill-by-fire game. This
decision to go global was evidently made some time ago, no doubt
just before Gore was asked to make An Inconvenient Truth. The
film was the first signal of which way the winds were going to
blow, the first preview of the ‘new show’.
The primary mission of the Hillary administration, under the
banners of ‘doing something about climate change and peak oil’,
will evidently be to undertake a massive resource grab in the
global South, leading to the selective and massive elimination
of certain populations through starvation. In other words, the
mission is to expand the starving-Africa model globally, a
process that will presumably be helped along by the usual
shadowy suspects in their usual destabilizing roles.
My big fear with the Bush regime was the likely attack on
Iran...or was it the unleashing of the Gestapo? It was a close
race in those dark days. Now we are on the verge of a regime
bent on genocide on a scale that would put the Nazis to shame. I
suggest that we have escaped the kettle only to fall into the
frying pan.
I hope no one out there has any romantic notions about the new
Administration, and I hope everyone realizes that the political
process can never be used to solve our problems; that system is
in fact the heart of our problem. I also hope it is clear to
everyone that global genocide is an inevitable consequence of
the continuation of this insane capitalist system, whether you
agree with most of my analysis or not. And in the end,
capitalism can’t last anyway.
Only when you have reached that deep level of hopelessness,
where you see no avenue of escape, can you clear your mind
enough to begin to see where the real problem lies. The real
problem lies, my friends, in the fact that you and I have
nothing to say about how our societies are run. Any one of us
has more sense than the people who are running things, and we
certainly have our fellow beings more at heart. Our problem lies
in our own powerlessness, leaving power in the hands of those
who always abuse it, in one way or another, in one age after
another.
Our challenge as a sentient species, and our response if we seek
to do anything about the growth-thru-genocide agenda, is to
begin to empower ourselves, us ordinary people, without
reference to the useless political process. How to pursue our
empowerment must be the aim of our investigations, and pursuing
that empowerment must be the point of our activism.
© Copyright Richard K. Moore, Global Research, 2007
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