To understand what is going on in
this world is no easy task. Lies are projected into our minds from every side,
and this constant barrage of deceit envelops and taints not only our perception
of reality, but enslaves us collectively into a state of denial. Yes, denial,
most likely the best mechanism we can use to keep our sanity as human beings,
but all of us, seemingly united in what can only be called human nature, just
hates to be played the fool... and knowing this, that there is a point where
some will say “enough is enough,” solace and hope can still give us a worthy
standard of purpose...
A playground bully stealing our
lunch money as a kid, feels the same as a government stealing your future as an
adult, and most have been taught to turn a blind eye. It is justified, we are
told, by a fight or flight response that tells us to choose our battles, even
as we are swept along by them. We have learned to turn a blind eye to the
strong currents under the surface of our civilization, undermining the very
framework of our Republic... Ignorance is bliss, I’ve heard said laughingly,
and we are indeed what we think we are as a product of our environment... Sure,
it’s easy to say these idioms, and with feeling too, like they are
justifications in their own right. Justifications for the blind faith that not
only motivates us, but keeps us safe to fight another day. But the day of
reckoning does come, as is witnessed all around the world... when people
finally have enough.
Sometimes we think we are just too
close to this life to see what it’s really all about. We are so busy, so caught
up with our tangled lives that we fail to grasp but a portion of the total
picture... Memory is fuzzy, history is distorted by bias, and time just presses
on... It’s unsettling when a few pieces of the puzzle emerges after the fact, and
we can glimpse, even for just a moment, that our reality has been carefully fed
to us, orchestrated, manipulated, influenced, and truth withheld
from us with the inflection that we are mindless fools...
Does our life still have meaning if
our reasoning rational is found to be based on a lie? Should we feel betrayed
if our thoughts were discovered to be manipulated? Could we ever truly trust
authority again, knowing we have been used without our knowledge? Are we
considered just working fools, beasts of burden, where the forces of power
strive to control our thoughts, our behaviors, and what we hold sacred as a
nation is treated as if it is all a farce?
Is there such a thing as a noble
cause? And is there any cause worth dying for?
It is human nature to try and
justify the workings of the world, and yes, to manipulate them with our will.
We would like to believe that a young man who goes to war these days has a
justified reason to do so. He is placing his life in real danger for a real
ideal, isn’t he? Shouldn’t he be there because he sees a noble cause? Shouldn't
an ideal come first? And shouldn't it be strong enough to rouse him, by the
passion of honesty and truth, without being manipulated by a lie, or forced by
a draft? Shouldn’t war, even a cold war, have a true reason, and shouldn't that
reason be based on a justifiable accolade? How can we uphold our actions as a
nation when we aren’t informed as to why we take action it in the first place?
Would we consent to go to war for the profit of an international war machine? I
don't think so... and, without a doubt, that is the reason for the lie!
The light of truth, after the
fact...
Ronald Reagan is said to be one of the 100 most influential people in the
20th century. As he occupied the White House in the mid-1980’s he accentuated
two things that I will attempt to explain here. One, as an ultra-conservative,
he implemented a free enterprise fiscal policy, including sweeping tax cuts and
deregulation of the oil
industry, and two, swore to tip the balance of the cold war.
Mr. Reagan succeeded on both counts,
but there was a price to pay, and we Americans in the south, unknowingly, paid
for it dearly…
Our southern economy did not
entirely survive the 1980’s, we had to start mostly from scratch, as seven of
our 10 local banks went belly up... I left three companies, from mergers to
bankruptcy, and Louisiana and Texas was devastated. I read the paper every day for information and hope, but
oil prices continued to plummet, and good hard-working people lost everything
in an avalanche of ruined dreams and hopes. No one I knew could tell me why...
I did what I had to do to survive,
as so many oil-field workers did: to keep food on the table. Our wives and
children helped pull us through, combining salaries to get by. In 1986 it was
so bad that I couldn’t even find a house to paint. I left the states to work in
a hotel for two years, displacing my family and leaving my friends behind. I
couldn’t sell my house in Crowley for 1/5th of what I still owed on it! I had a
bumper sticker that read:”Last one out turn out the lights.”
I blamed myself. If I could have
been smarter, stronger, or positioned myself better… I thought that the new
environmental liberals had fined the oil companies out of existence. I thought
it was a normal correction, but I couldn’t figure out for what! I was wrong. I
was too close to it to understand, we all were, and information, the truth,
wasn’t published.
Here are a couple of points to
ponder…
• Congress did away with tax
benefits previously given to oil and gas drilling.
• There were massive and unprecedented tax reforms, by the White House.
• There was an undeniable link between the oil industry, the Saudis, and the eventual collapse of the USSR.
• There were massive and unprecedented tax reforms, by the White House.
• There was an undeniable link between the oil industry, the Saudis, and the eventual collapse of the USSR.
With no more investment dollars, the
oil industry dried up to a burned out shell, and the Soviet Union took it full
on the chin. It was a “geopolitical blow” according to the book: Victory: The
Reagan Administration’s Secret Strategy that hastened the Collapse of the
Soviet Union, by Peter Schweizer.
By the time Mr. Reagan was reelected
in 1984, his secret economic strategies were taking its toll against Russia.
Credit from the west was gone, and export licenses for technology were denied.
Both liquid currency and traded Western technology slowed to a trickle. The
Siberian pipeline, expected to bring in hard currency for Russia, was years
behind schedule. The Reagan administration frustrated efforts further by a
concerted technical disinformation program against them.
These catalysts were in place. “We
wanted lower international oil prices largely for the benefit of the American
economy.” Said White House counsel Edwin Meese. “The fact that it meant trouble for Moscow was icing on
the cake.” To pull this off, they solicited the support of the world’s
largest producer of oil, Saudi Arabia... and as we poured over the paper for
any sign of reason and hope, nothing of this was mentioned... I may have
believed Mr. Meese's words having a morning cup of coffee with other unemployed
Mud Men... but not now. His words were lies.
It was easy for the Saudis to do. It
only cost about $1.50 back then to produce a barrel of oil, and they could
still maintain a healthy profit at a lower market price. Intelligence has found
since then, according to Mr. Schweizer, that the USSR had an annual loss of $13 billion from this
oil price drop.
The end came when the Soviets tried
to borrow more from the west. With lack of funds, projects died. Disinformation
made it weak, furthered by the devaluation of the dollar …but it was oil prices
that finally shut the doors. The country collapsed in 1991... as they were
fighting their Vietnam in Afghanistan, and as our CIA operative Osama ben Laden harassed Russian boys with US made weapons, trying to
protect their National pipe line, our Military Industrial Complex made billions
selling arms. It wasn't mentioned in our National Newspapers that we wanted
control of the poppy fields that supply Europe with high grade opium for
distribution around the world... And our solders are there guarding those crop
even today...It was opium that killed two of my shipmates in the Hong Kong
Hilton hotel in 1970, the only men to die in that specific. West Pacific
Vietnam experience on the USS Kitty Hawk... another profitable venture for the
arms trade... and what was it for? Democracy? We actually lost the war? But not
everyone lost, though over 80 thousand came back in body bags, about the number
of people, for a perspective, now living in Lafayette... the international arms
industry profited very well, and new tax structures took industry from our
shores to theirs... Korea, Japan, Cambodia, Vietnam, China...
What National Security?
So what are the almighty powers of
our monstrous centralized government doing with our lives now? Can we figure
out the strategy they seem to set for reasons known only to them? Insider
trading is lucrative, but unless you have a crystal ball everything you do is
based on a speculation... Do you think the international banks and the Federal
Reserve makes decisions based on speculation? Oh, did I say that? That would
mean they have a common interest, and it is taboo to use the word conspiracy.
Is the lack of information
considered a lie? Are we talking about national security here, or is it purely
about big bucks, or possibly just the power to control the masses? Of course,
we must realize too, that a certain amount of secrecy is necessary for security
reasons. So trust is an issue also. We have to trust that the people in power
in America have our Liberty
and welfare as the primary goal, and not a selfishly motivated concern, like a
black bottom line for their friends.... It is so easy to do when you are
totally exhausted working overtime to pay the interest on your credit cards...
Fifty percent of us are either too tied up to pay attention, or too tired to
care, and that is a speculative guess too....
Mr. Reagan, bless his heart, knew
these answers well, because he and his government created the questions... and
they are lost now to a man who sat and dreamed by his sunny window with
Alzheimer disease... for years before his death. What was lost to him, to all
of us, is beyond measure... It seems that what we are is what we are told to
be, and by that process our freedom to rationally choose is taken away, and our
American Dreams will remain just that... Sure, our founders told us that we the
people must pull the reigns of our government, but looking at the world, and
our influence on it, that could not be further from the truth... and that, I am
sorry to say, is the real truth of our reality.
I'll end this with a couple of
questions: “Do you think the USSR, that morphed into the Soviet Union, doesn't
remember those times? Do you think the KGB no longer exists? Do you think that
forgiveness is in their heart, as they now consider themselves an Orthodox
Christian nation?
“The humblest citizen of all the
land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the
hosts of Error.”-William
Jennings Bryan in a speech at National Democratic Convention (1896).
“Public office is a public trust.”-William C. Hudson, a newspaper man, produced this slogan
from various speeches of Grover Cleveland during his first campaign for
Presidency (1884).
“Let us have faith that right makes
might; and in that faith let us to the end, dare to do our duty as we
understand it.”-Abraham
Lincoln
“The answer to this dilemma of
unconstitutional government and runaway spending is simple: restore a burning
conviction in the hearts and minds of people that freedom works and government
largesse is a fraud. When the people once again regain their confidence in the
benefits of Liberty- and demand it from their elected leaders- Congress will
act appropriately. - Part
of Congressman Dr. Ron Paul's introduction in his United States Constitution
handout, 2004.
Author's note: I read the life of
Ron Paul in a little essay by Mrs. Ron Paul called The American Dream. His life
is an open book. It is no wonder he was so hated by those who had to seal
Obama's life's work from view... from school transcripts to police records, by
a court order. I have to take pause to ponder the quality of the
American mind... with a lobotomy of truth...
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