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Thu 6 Jul, 2006 03:35 am
The Matador's Veil
When I set out to understand some particular matter I start with some model of what I think is the answer I am after. From this point I modify my papier-mâché like intellectual model until I reach some kind of understanding for the question I posed to myself in the beginning.
The question I started with many years ago was ?'How does my world operate'? My metaphor, that represents "how the cow ate-the-cabbage", is bullfight. I would call this my world view but more appropriately it is my nation view, because I only know my nation--the United States.
The Matador waving a red cape to manipulate a giant muscular bull is my understanding of how my world functions. The bull is the people; the Matador is the oligarchy that controls the people with various ideologies.
In America the oligarchy consists primarily of the leaders of CA (Corporate America). It is the wealth and organization of corporations that comprises the corner-stone of American power.
I recently watched the DVD copy of the movie "The Insider". This depicts the story of Jeffrey Wiegand, former executive of Brown & Williamson Tobacco, who decided to make known to the world the facts of Big Tobacco.
The movie clearly demonstrates the power of CA and the pain they can inflict on any person who attempts to reveal their secrets. Comparing the DVD movie to the TV show the "Sopranos" I decided that there is little difference between the two modes of operation except for the fact that the actions of the Sopranos are often illegal whereas the actions of the corporations are most often legal.
I think that both shows are valuable viewing for the public because both shows peel back the surface layer of reality to expose the layer that is not obvious to the common sense realism we perceive life to be.
When I speak of oligarchy I do not mean an elected government. I mean clandestine group of individuals who rule behind the scenes. I mean a group of people that only a few individuals in the nation even know. This group rules without the consent of the governed.
You would love the book The Biggest Secret by David Icke.
Chances are you may have already read it.
cheers
I think that we must become detectives if we wish to ?'see' beyond the cape. The important things are often well hidden and without detective skills and a critical self-consciousness we cannot see beyond the first layer of reality.
The detective must analyze evidence and draw lines of incrimination between possibilities, what is in accord with human nature, and motive.
The power rests in the hands of a few. This few are like all humans inclined to protect their own selfish needs. The people are like bovine, either staring vacantly into the distance or running with the herd. If CA CEOs do not run America then they are dimmer than I think they are.
These leaders of corporations, banks, media, elite universities, insurance, military, think tanks, etc. network with one another and already control most of America's power they would have little reason not to run things. There is nothing to stop them.
hope you're not going to follow in the footsteps of these David Icke followers, coberst:
Quote:Henning tape tells of meeting the bloody man she called D
By Joline Gutierrez Krueger
Tribune Reporter
For Linda Henning and Diazien Hossencofft, it was love at first bloody sight.
Jurors on Friday viewed a 1-hour videotape of Henning as she describes to Albuquerque Police Department detectives how she met the man who changed her life - and left her fighting for it in a death penalty trial that began Tuesday.
The taped interview was conducted before Henning became a suspect in the Sept. 9, 1999, disappearance and presumed death of Girly Chew Hossencofft, the estranged wife of Henning's beau, Diazien Hossencofft.
"I don't even know how to pronounce his name," a soft-spoken but steady Henning told Albuquerque police Detective Michael Fox in the Sept. 12, 1999, interview. "I always call him D."
Henning in the tape said she first noticed Hossencofft on June 20, 1999, at a nine-hour lecture by David Icke, an international soccer player-turned-soothsayer who talked about blood-drinking alien reptiles and global conspiracies.
http://web.abqtrib.com/archives/news02/100502_news_henning.shtml
um, the husband/boyfriend claimed to have killed his wife as preparation for waging war on the 4th dimensional reptiles of the New World Order, per David Icke:
Quote:In 1999, he published The Biggest Secret, in which he wrote that the secret world government consists of a race of reptilian humanoids known as the Babylonian Brotherhood, and that many prominent figures are, in fact, reptilian, including George W. Bush, Queen Elizabeth II, Kris Kristofferson, and Boxcar Willie.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Icke
that's the book CarbonSystem thinks you'd love--evidently you haven't read it yet. it actually seems to be available online here:
http://kamita.com/misc/icke/The.Biggest.Secret.pdf
haven't read it yet myself.
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