A book every Patriot should read...
Trusting the system but losing the dream…
By: Ken La Rive
It isn’t easy understanding
what goes on in this world. Most of us are in denial. We turn a blind eye to
the strong currents under the surface of our civilization, even as it sweeps us
along in our little micro-worlds. Ignorance is bliss, I’ve heard said, and we
are indeed what we think we are. Sure, it’s easy to say these idioms, with
feeling, like they are justifications in their own right.
There is a law of force in
every person on this earth, believe it or not, and we gravitate to what we hold
as evident and true. It keeps us all sane to feel that we know and understand
the mechanics of the world we live in, and emphatically deny that we could ever
be coerced, or could possibly be carried along by forces beyond our scope of
understanding. How unsettling it would be to realize that we have been duped.
Sometimes I think we are just
too close to this life to see what it’s all about. We are so busy, so caught up with our tangled
lives that we fail to grasp even a portion of the total picture.
Memory is fuzzy, history is
distorted by bias, and time just presses on.
It’s unsettling when a bit and piece of the puzzle emerges after the
fact, and we can sometimes begin to see that our reality has been carefully fed
to us, by the Fed!
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, where the forces of power strive to control our
thoughts, our behaviors, and what we hold sacred as a nation? I’ll get to the
point…
It is human nature to try and
justify the workings of the world. 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? What ideal is that? Shouldn’t war, even a cold
war, have a reason? How can we justify
our actions as a nation when we aren’t informed as to why we take it in the
first place? You had better sit down for this one…
If you don't choose one, it will be chosen for you...
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 a 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 it dearly…
Our economy
survived the 1980’s by the skin of our teeth.
I left three companies, from mergers to bankruptcy. Louisiana
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. I
did what I had to do to survive, as so many oil field workers do: 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 (Progressives) 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 wasn’t published.
All wars are banker wars...
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.
With no more
investment dollars, the oil industry dried up to a burned out shell. 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.
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 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...
So what are
the almighty powers of our “One World Order” doing with our lives now? Can we figure out the strategy they seem to
set for reasons known only to them? 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 welfare as the primary goal, and not a selfishly motivated concern. 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.
Mr. Reagan, bless his heart, knew these answers. They are lost now to a man spent his last days by his sunny window with Alzheimer disease. 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.
“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.
War is a racket...
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