What to do? War and threats of war have been used historically to distract the population and deflect public scrutiny from economic calamity.
Perhaps that explains the sudden breakout of war in Georgia on August 8, just 3 months before the November elections. August 8 was the day the Olympic Games began in Beijing, a distraction that may have been timed to keep China from intervening on Russia’s behalf. The mainstream media version of events is that Russia, the bully on the block, invaded its tiny neighbor Georgia; but not all commentators agree. Mikhail Gorbachev, writing in The Washington Post on August 12, observed:
“What happened on the night of Aug. 7 is beyond comprehension. The Georgian military attacked the South Ossetian capital of Tskhinvali with multiple rocket launchers designed to devastate large areas. Russia had to respond. To accuse it of aggression against ‘small, defenseless Georgia’ is not just hypocritical but shows a lack of humanity. . . . The Georgian leadership could do this only with the perceived support and encouragement of a much more powerful force.”
Part of that careful planning may have been the unprecedented propping up of the dollar and bombing of gold and oil the week before the curtain opened on the scene. Gold and oil had to be pushed down hard to give them room to rise before anyone shouted “hyperinflation!” As we watch the curtain rise on war in Eurasia, it is well to remember that things are not always as they seem. Markets are manipulated and wars are staged by Grand Chessmen behind the scenes.
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"Markets are manipulated and wars are staged by Grand Chessmen behind the scenes."
Yes, and when those so-called Grand Chessmen commit murder to distract from their economic failures, to prop up their currency, to gain access to oil resources, or to scare smaller nations into a Missle Shield agreement, they are no better than the murderers in our prisons!
The Georgian forces deliberately cut down women, children, the elderly and civilians, and the pictures are horrific. We have 1,000 military advisors in Georgia; our fingerprints are all over this whole shameful slaughter that prompted Russia to come in and put it down.
What does all this say about our president and his administration? No wonder this disgrace of a president, with the lowest approval ratings in history, is being increasingly ridiculed in the press for his arrogance and hyprocrisy, like the Paul Craig Robert's article this week, "President Bush, Will you please shut up?" (http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts08132008.html)
Here's a excerpt:
The US is financially bankrupt, with budget and trade deficits that exceed the combined deficits of the rest of the world together. The dollar has wilted...
America long ago lost the moral high ground. Hypocrisy has become America’s best known hallmark. Bush, the invader of Afghanistan and Iraq on the basis of lies and deception, thunders at Russia for coming to the defense of its peacekeepers and Russian citizens in South Ossetia. . .It is certain that the Georgian invasion of South Ossetia was a Bush Regime orchestrated event.
President Bush,
Why don’t you shut up? Do you really think anyone gives any importance whatsoever to your words after 8 years of your criminal and murderous regime and policies? Do you really believe you have any moral ground whatsoever and do you really imagine there is a single human being anywhere on this planet who does not stick up his middle finger every time you appear on a TV screen?
Do you really believe you have the right to give any opinion or advice after Abu Ghraib? After Guantanamo? After the massacre of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi citizens? After the torture by CIA operatives?
The US. . .run by imbeciles who were installed by stolen elections arranged by Karl Rove and Diebold. It is a laughing stock, that ignorantly affronts and attempts to bully an enormous country equipped with tens of thousands of nuclear weapons.
If Kenneth Rogoff is right with his prediction today it will be hard to distract from:
Kenneth Rogoff, the former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, reportedly said Tuesday that a large U.S. bank will collapse in the next few months. "We're not just going to see mid-sized banks go under in the next few months, we're going to see a whopper, we're going to see a big one, one of the big investment banks or big banks," Rogoff told a conference in Singapore, according to a Reuters report
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