august 2011 - the coming war, the path to peace - william grigg - radioliberty.com

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August 2011

The Coming War: The Path to Peace

Dear Friend of Radio Liberty,

Militarism is the one great glamour public-works project upon which a variety ofelements in the community can be brought into agreement.John T. Flynn, As We Go Marching (1944)

"Look back at FDR and the Great Depression," advised Meet the Press's resident droningdullard. "What finally resolved that economic crisis? World War II.... With strongRepublican support in Congress for challenging Iran's ambition to become a nuclearpower, [Obama] can spend much of 2011 and 2012 orchestrating a showdown with the

mullahs. This will help him politically because the opposition party will be urging him on.And as tensions rise and we accelerate preparations for war, the economy will improve."Washington Post columnist David Broder. (1)

"We are slaves to our king six new moons of the year; he pockets our blood and our sweat,and leaves us to our tears. More, more, more, the lawmakers cry; In the name ofbrotherhood, the rivers run dry. And now the masters print greenbacks in place of gold;But the vaults have no bullion so they levy our children's souls...Contemporary singer-songwriter Gino Vannelli, We the People.

Three years ago, Robert Dyas was an 18-year-old high school graduate with a steady job, asteady girlfriend, and ambitious plans for the future. The young resident of Nampa, Idahointended to marry Kasey, his High School sweetheart, buy a farm, and raise a family. A hardworker and careful steward of his earnings, Robert had enough money to buy a 1966 PontiacLeMans through an internet auction, and he was eager to restore it with the help of his dad.

All of this came to naught when Roberts job became a casualty of the Greater Depression. Likemany other young people in similar predicaments, Robert was attracted by the job security andsupposedly guaranteed benefits offered by the military, so he enlisted in the Army. In lateSeptember, Roberts parents received a visit from an Army Notification Team wearing Class Auniforms. Their son had died in a shootout in Afghanistans Khandahar Province. (2) Dyas ishardly the first young American to be sucked into the economic draft, and he will hardly be thelast. Witness the remarkable fact that in August, the U.S. economy created not a single job of anykind. (3) Fewer than 30 percent of American teens found a job last summer; the unemploymentrate for Americans age 18-29 was nearly 45 percent in 2010. (4) There are nearly 6 millionAmericans between the ages of 25 and 34 who are living with their parents. (5) The longer onegoes without work, the less employable he becomes. And many of these unemployed youngpeople are burdened with college debt they cannot repay, and in the case of government-issuedstudent loans cannot discharge through bankruptcy.

Today, there are hordes of young people that should be entering their most productive years thatare sitting home with nothing to do, summarizes the End of the American Dream blog.Many of them have worked incredibly hard throughout high school and college. Many of them


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have stayed out of trouble and have done everything that the system asked them to do. But oncethey got finished with school, the promised rewards simply were not there. Instead, millions ofyoung Americans are faced with crushing student loan debt loads in an economy where theycan't find good jobs. When you are in your twenties, it can be absolutely soul-crushing to sendout hundreds (or even thousands) of resumes and not get a single interview. Most of us grew upbelieving that we would be something when we got older, and millions of young Americans arehaving those dreams brutally crushed right now. Americans under the age of 30 voted for BarackObama in droves back in 2008 because they believed that he would make things better. Instead,Barack Obama has made things even worse. Significant numbers of young Americans arestarting to wake up and realize that neither political party is providing any real answers, and theyare starting to get mad as hell about it.(6)

A handful of those increasingly desperate young people turned for help to a singularly unlikelysource - rock star Sammy Hagar of the band Chickenfoot. Three and a Half Letters, a songfrom the bands most recent album, takes its lyrics from letters Hagar received from angry,frustrated young Americans who are unemployed and facing homelessness and destitution.Ironically, Hagar is one of the few public figures who actually understands the roots of oureconomic catastrophe: As a member of the classic rock band Montrose thirty-seven years ago,Hagar wrote a song called "Paper Money" lamenting the end of the gold standard and theeconomic destruction caused by the Regimes fraudulent, worthless, paper currency: Take awayall my silver, take away all my gold; hand me a stack of paper but paper money dont hold.

A generation after composing that protest song, Hagar is now chronicling the human costsattendant to the unraveling of the fiat money system.

"I just returned from Afghanistan spent four years in the military service," writes one ofHagar's correspondents. "I'm 24, strong, and I can't find work in my hometown. I'm married withone beautiful son seven months old today. Never had a chance to buy a home. Can't afford theapartment we've been living in. [We're] moving in with Debbie's parents, whose home is inforeclosure. Can you help?" That young man, who was caught up in the economic draft, has

learned that service in the imperial military does not lead to economic security.Hagar and his bandmates have promised to do everything they can to publicize the plight of suchpeople, even if doing so is as pointless as using childrens aspirin to treat an aggressive cancer.The only legitimate treatment is to kill the tumor but those who rule us are feeding it instead.History suggests that when all other attempts at stimulus fail as they will they will eventuallyresort to the ne plus ultra of Keynesian stimulus by using mass bloodshed to prime the economicpump.

To paraphrase Machiavelli, if a ruler has gold, he can always purchase iron. However, our rulershave been financing their empire on debt - and the market for our official debt instruments israpidly contracting. Weve finally reached the pump at which those who have been financing theempire are gagging on our worthless dollars. At that point, the regime will have to find

something else to collateralize the loans on which the Empire depends.Washington and its internal provinces (once known as "free and independent states") are alreadypawning infrastructure to foreign creditors. So what's left?

Consider that question in terms of a bankrupt household. Once the appliances have been pawned,the car and house has been repossessed, maybe the only thing left to sell would be the blood inthe debtor's veins. As the songwriter Gino Vannelli observed, when theres no bullion left in thebank vaults, our rulers will levy our childrens souls; that is to say they will use our flesh andblood - our children - as collateral. Conscription and universal national service would be a blood


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tax imposed on behalf of the foreign creditors funding our empire. This blood-for-debt swapbecomes even likelier when one takes into account the accelerating implosion of domestic"entitlement" programs.

Here's how Anne Williamson, one of the most astute analysts of the Power Elite, summarizes thecoming Grand Bargain:

"Thanks to the enterprising left, a palatable framework of universal service' is evolving, inwhich all of America's young people will be registered for national service and, drawing onpersonal information gleaned from the giant government databases now being built, will beassigned to community service, combat service, or homeland defense. The kicker may be arequirement of completed service before access to higher education and government financingfor it will be granted. It is not improbable to see a deal' over Social Security reform on thehorizon, i.e. in exchange for reduced benefits and an increase in the retirement age Boomerseniors will be guaranteed the services of enscripted community brigades' for home care."(7)

This bargain, Williamson speculates, would include some form of international tax to fund theincreasingly militarized multinational institutions that were so conspicuously scorned by theBush Regime - except for those situations in which Security Council resolutions can be invoked

to justify aggressive war.

No American would relish paying such an international tax, of course, and American parentswouldn't readily embrace a return to conscription, "but - having chosen security over liberty -they will eventually resign themselves to their children's universal service.'... And once theintentionally confused and clueless American electorate sees that much of the costs of the Waron Terror are being fobbed off on other people through an international tax, that the need fordomestic cannon fodder is reduced, and that in their dotage they will have the personal servicesof young people (to whom they are not related and therefore otherwise not obliged) enforced bythe US military [via the Selective Service System], it's quite likely they will largely cheer on thenew arrangements."(8)

As John T. Flynn observed decades ago, every collectivist state eventually becomes a permanentwar economy. In his indispensable bookAs We Go Marching, Flynn examined the undeniablebut little-appreciated kinship between the Italian and German corporate states and the one thathad been inflicted on the U.S.A. during World War II. The real test of one's commitment todefeat fascism, he emphasized, was not the intensity of his loathing for the Axis powers, butrather his eagerness to oppose and reverse America's descent into militarism and corporatesocialism.

"Among all the means for producing government-created income none is so successful asmilitarism," observed Flynn, tracing the progression of that disease in Italy and Germany anddemonstrating its ominous parallels in this country. Echoing James Madison's warning that theWarfare State is the greatest enemy of "public liberty," Flynn observed that the key symptom ofmilitarism is the maintenance of "large national armies and navies in time of peace," a condition

that rarely persists as long as governments have perverse incentives to entangle their subjects inwars.

"Inevitably, having surrendered to militarism as an economic doctrine, we will do what othercountries have done," Flynn predicted in 1944. "We will keep alive the fears of our people of theaggressive ambitions of other countries and we will ourselves embark upon imperialisticenterprises of our own."


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To adherents of the New Deal cult, Hopkins a likely Soviet agent (9) - was Aaron to FDR'sMoses: When Hopkins spoke, his voice was giving form to the will of the Dear Leader himself.(10) Following a career as a social worker, Hopkins was appointed as FDR's vicar in charge ofwarfare. In January 1941 he was dispatched to assure Churchill that FDR would contrive to getthe United States involved in the European war.

After FDR successfully opened the back door to war by manipulating Japan into firing the firstshot - as Henry Stimson so memorably put it (11) - Hopkins was placed in charge of the Lend-Lease program that built up the Soviet war machine. In that capacity he did more than his shareto see that many of the urban poor whose plight had moved him to such distress would berelieved of their burdens by dying in distant battlefields on behalf of London's declining empireand to the greater glory of Stalin's expanding one.

Like the unspeakably evil Bernard Baruch, who presided over Woodrow Wilson's version of warsocialism, Hopkins was enchanted by the prospect of collectivizing the entire economy in thename of war planning. Hopkins memorably gave voice to his ambitions in "You Will BeMobilized," an essay published in the December 1942 edition ofAmerican Magazine (andexcerpted a few months later inReader's Digest).

Historian Thomas Fleming, in his important bookThe New Dealers' War, describes Hopkins'essay as "a draconian sermon" on the supposed virtues of a totalitarian planned economy, inwhich the author eagerly anticipated "an American Sparta laboring under the grim-visagedbureaucrats of the OPA and other war agencies."

"No one knows how the mobilization of workers will actually operate," admitted the commissar,"but probably at first able-bodied persons in non-essential work will be given a wide range ofchoices as to what they will do and where they will work." Of course, the only real option wouldbe for workers to "choose" to do as instructed by their superiors: "If they don't move voluntarily,their manpower organization will direct them to specific jobs."

Hopkins cheerfully predicted that earnings and expenditures in fact, every facet of life would likewise be regimented by the war planning elite:

"Through forced savings and taxes, our spending will be limited and priorities far morewidespread than at present will determine the kinds of food, clothing, housing and businesseswhich we will have and will affect every detail of our daily lives. We should not be permitted toride on a train, make a long distance telephone call, or send a telegram without evidence thatthese are necessary."

For decades, the formula for regimentation described by Hopkins has been followed covertly bythe Power Elite. A year ago, David Broder of the Washington Postscandalized the punditocracyby openly endorsing the implementation of that formula as a prescription for both the ailingeconomy and Barack Obama's increasingly enfeebled presidency.

"I am not suggesting, of course, that the president incite a war to get reelected," lied Broder

immediately after doing exactly that. "But the nation will rally around Obama because Iran is thegreatest threat to the world in the young century. If he can confront this threat and contain Iran'snuclear ambitions, he will have made the world safer and may be regarded as one of the mostsuccessful presidents in history."

How Iran, or any other country on earth, could threaten the world more than a regime capable ofconcocting a conflict as an economic stimulus program, Broder didn't explain. His suggestionshocked Washington's bien-pensants - not because of its content, but rather because of itscandor. It may be obvious to perceptive adults that wars are manufactured in such cynical ways,


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but it's bad form to offer unvarnished admissions of that kind in public. Furthermore, this kind ofthing has been going on throughout most of recorded political history.

Centuries before the phrase "Wag the Dog" entered the American vocabulary, an earlierAmerican superpower perfected the use of politically convenient phony wars. Through the use ofstage-managed, conspiratorial conflicts called "Flower Wars," the Aztecs became the dominant

Meso-American military power, assembling an empire of tributary states. (12)"The Aztecs ... were the chosen people of the sun," writes historian Alfonso Casos in The Aztecs:People of the Sun. "They were charged with the duty of supplying him with food. For that reasonwar was a form of worship and a necessary activity that led them to establish the Xochiyaoyotl,or 'flower war.' Its purpose, unlike that of wars of conquest, was not to gain new territories nor toexact tribute from conquered peoples, but rather to take prisoners for sacrifice to the sun."

Aztec rulers would approach leaders of other tribes and arrange for wars to be fought in whichfew warriors would be killed, but thousands of prisoners would be taken. Concealing themselvesbehind a barricade of flowers, the treacherous leaders would witness the consummation of theirbetrayal as their armies were taken away to serve as fodder for Aztec altars.

The Flower War was devised by an Aztec warlord-priest named Tlacaelel, who for decades wasthe power behind the Aztec throne. He was also the chief architect of the Aztec kingdom'sforeign policy, in which the Aztecs allied with the city-states of Texcoco and Tlacopan againstTlaxcala, Cholula, and Huexotzinco. One historian notes that following the creation of this grandalliance, "the Aztecs carried out these highly ritualized campaigns against their neighbors,especially the Tlaxcalans. Curiously, they refrained from conquering Tlaxcala because itprovided a training ground for young Aztec warriors and a source of sacrificial victims." In short,the entire scheme devised by Tlacaelel was intended to bring about a state of perpetual warfare,with the Aztecs either preparing for war or fighting wars against enemies they would neverentirely destroy.

Assuming that our own Power Elite pursues a variation of the Flower War strategy wouldexplain a great many things. For instance: Why was our nation led into no-win wars in Korea,Vietnam, the Persian Gulf, Afghanistan, and elsewhere? Why do our rulers persist in creatingenemies and then waging inconclusive wars against them? Could it be that our own rulers, likethose of the Aztec empire, seek to perpetuate war just as James Madison had warned - ratherthan resorting to it reluctantly in the cause of national self-defense?

Some might object that while such conduct might be expected of superstitious, primitive peoplelike the Aztecs, it is alien to the outlook of our own sophisticated political class. But while theAztecs were indeed superstitious pagans, they were far from primitive, excelling at architecture,astronomy, and mathematics. They regarded the abominable practices of human sacrifice andcannibalism as practical necessities. Similarly, our own Power Elite considers perpetual war tobe a practical necessity, as it supplies the fodder upon which its War God feeds: Debt.

In The Creature From Jekyll Island, the definitive study of the Federal Reserve System, G.Edward Griffin points out that a fiat money system such as ours is based entirely on debt. Absentdebt, this paper money would effectively disappear. Federal Reserve Governor Marriner Ecclesmade this point explicitly in congressional testimony in 1941: "If there were no debts in ourmoney system, there wouldn't be any money." Charging interest on such debt has proven to be asingularly lucrative enterprise for those belonging to the Federal Reserve's banking cartel.

Nations, like individuals, are devoured by the banking cartel when they are driven into debt. Thisis the value of creating monsters like Saddam Hussein and other rulers and movements we could


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call The Best Enemies Money Can Buy. Writes Griffin: "If an enemy does not exist at all, itwill be necessary to create one by financing the rise of a hostile regime." It is also useful toensure that neither side emerges as the unambiguous victor.

Griffin calls this framework for perpetual war the "Rothschild Formula," named after thebanking dynasty that became notorious for underwriting both sides in various 19th-century wars.

The political elitists who follow that formula, Griffin observes, display "cold objectivity,immunity to patriotism, and indifference to the human condition ... [in propelling] governmentsinto war for the profits they yield.... As long as the mechanism of central banking exists, it willbe to such men an irresistible temptation to convert debt into perpetual war and war intoperpetual debt."

In our parallel with the Aztecs, the banking cartel plays a role akin to that of the Aztec priestswho supplied Huitzilopochtli with a steady diet of human victims and the Greater Depressiontheyve engineered would be a huge windfall for those adept in the demonic alchemy wherebythe blood of the innocent is transmuted into political power and financial profit.

REFERENCES(1) The War Recovery? David S. Broder, Washington Post, October 31, 2010.(2) Canyon County soldier Robert Dyas is 59th Idahoan Killed in War on Terror, IdahoStatesman, September 23, 2011.(3) Net Total Jobs Added in August: Zero, CBS News, September 3, 2011.(4) Census: Recession Takes Big Toll on Young Adults, Associated Press, September 22,2011.(5) Ibid.(6) The Mad as Hell Generation: 20 Reasons Why Millions of Americans under the Age of 30are Giving Up on the U.S. Economy, LewRockwell.com, September 28, 2011(7) Anne Williamson, The Neocons Second Front; accessible athttp://www.comedonchisciotte.org/site/modules.php?name=News&file=print&sid=1034(8) Ibid.(9) See -- http://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/28/opinion/a-soviet-agent-harry-hopkins.html(10) See -- http://www.historynet.com/harry-hopkins-president-franklin-d-roosevelts-deputy-president.htm/2(11) See -- http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,792673,00.html(12) A good brief overview of the Aztec Flower Wars can be seen here -- http://www.aztec-history.com/aztec-flower-war.html

Written by William Grigg

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I fear William Grigg is correct. The Establishment-controlled media has launched an organized

effort to convince the American people the current regime in Iran (the U.S. installed it in 1979)threatens the peace of the world.

When will the conflict begin? I dont know, but I fear Obama will attack Iran because it will helphim get re-elected in November 2012.

What can you do? You can obtain copies of the DVDs that we made during the recent RadioLiberty seminar because they will help you convince your friends that there is a godlessconspiracy, and that conspiracy controls the world.


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