[Nettime-bold] Have you seen this statement by Dr. Henry Kissinger? Must we agree?

["Dick Eastman" <eastman@wolfenet.com>]

Have you seen this statement by Dr. Henry Kissinger?

No reply necessary.

Richard  Eastman M.S., M.A.
Yakima, Washington
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Henry Kissinger in an address to the super secret Bilderberg Organization
meeting at Evian, France, May 21, 1992 said the following as transcribed
from a tape recording made by one of the Swiss delegates:

"Today American's would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to
restore order; tomorrow they will be grateful. This is especially true if
they were told there was an outside threat from beyond, whether real or
promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples
of the world will plead with world leaders to deliver them from this evil.
The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this
scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee
of their well being granted to them by their world government."

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"You have to understand. Future wars will be
fought by capitalists and anti-capitalists as society polarises. When that
happens, control of information will be as important as control of
territory used to be in conventional conflicts. If you can stop your enemy
from destroying your information, then you have a good chance of winning
the war."
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Major General Smedly D. Butler headed the Marine Corps for
many years when he wrote this article in Common Sense in the
November,1935 issue:

"There isn't a trick in the racketeering bag that the military
gang is blind to.  It has its 'finger men" (to point out enemies),
its "muscle men" (to destroy enemies), its "brain guys" (to plan
war preparations), and a "Big Boss" (supernationalistic capitalism).

"It may seem odd for me, a military man to adopt such a
comparison.  Truthfulness compels me to do so. I spent 33 years
and four months in active military service as a memeber of our
country's most agile military force -- the Marine Corps.  I served
in all commissioned ranks from second lieutenant to Major General.  And
during that period I spent more of my time being a high-class muscle man for
Big Business, for Wall Street and for the bankers.  In short, I was a
racketeer, a gangster for captialism.

"I suspected I was just a part of a racket at the time.  Now I am sure of
it.  Like all members of the military profession I never had an original
thought until I left the service.  My mental faculties remained in suspended
animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups.  This is typical with
everyone in the military service.

Thus I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil
interests in 1914.  I helped make Haiti and CUba a decent place for the
National City Bank boys to collect revenues in.  I helped in the raping of
half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street.  The
record of racketeering is long.  I helped purify Nicaragua for the
international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-12.  I brought light
to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in  1916.  In China
in 1927 I helped see to it that the Standard Oil went its way unmolested.

"During those years, I had, as the boys in the back room would say, a swell
racket. I was rewarded with honors, medals and promotion.  Looking back on
it, I feel I might have given Al Capone a few hints.  The best he could do
was to operate his racket in three city districts.  I operated on three
continents."
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13 June 2001

Top Firms Retreat into Bunker to Ward off Anarchists

By Steve Boggan

June 11, 2001

  Some of Britain's biggest companies are running their internet operations
on systems installed in a 300ft-deep nuclear blast-proof bunker to protect
customers from violent anti-capitalist campaigners.

  They are renting space in hermetically sealed rooms capable of
withstanding a one Kiloton explosion, electro-magnetic "pulse bombs",
electronic eavesdropping and chemical and biological warfare.

  Hundreds of companies have already installed systems in The Bunker -
formerly known as RAF Ash, outside Sandwich in Kent - and dozens more are
understood to be queuing up for space. They have been driven underground
by the IRA bombings of Canary Wharf and Bishopsgate in London and,
increasingly, by concerns over the operations of anarchists behind
sophisticated protests such as the May Day anti-capitalist rallies.

  At stake is billions of pounds worth of business conducted over the
internet. Companies are concerned that while electronic security - using
increasingly sophisticated encryption codes - is gradually making
customers feel more confident about conducting credit-card transactions
over the internet, the physical side of e-business is still vulnerable.
The fear is that servers, the small electronic boxes through which
customer traffic and business transactions on the web are channelled,
could be physically vulnerable to theft, damage or sabotage.
(end of excerpt)
http://news.independent.co.uk/digital/update/story.jsp?story=77374
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Charles Lindberg,   excerpted from   Of Flight and Life, 1948:

Our survival, the future of our civilization, possibly the existence of
mankind, depend on American leadership -- upon the wisdom of our policies
and action.  On the one hand, we know that peace has never existed for long
where some great power has not enforced it by military strength.  On the
other, we have seen that military strength is like a flame which consumes
the very stuf from which it springs.  Great military peoples have conquered
their known world time and time again through the centuries, only to die out
in the inevitable ashes of their fire.  Well over two thousand years ago,
the Chinese philospher, Laotzu, concluded that:

    "Weapons often turn upon the wielder,
     An army's harvest is a waste of thorns."

  We may have to resort to arms in the future, as we have in the past.  We
may have to use them to prevent atomic war from being launched against us.
But let us have the wisdom to realize that the use of force is a sign of
weakness on a higher plane, and that a policy based primarily on recourse to
arms will sooner or later fail.

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Dick Eastman
Yakima, Washington
Every man is reponsible to every other man.






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