Confronting The Terror Within

We could start with the number one propaganda campaign in history, Rupert Murdoch and FOX (Fascist Orthodox Xenophobia) on demand, where the only manufacturing jobs left in America are fabricating "the news."

It should simply be called Bush Broadcasting, or as Condi calls them, "my guys at FOX."





The Hidden 2001 Plan to Carve-up Iraq
by Greg Palast, author of the New York Times bestseller, "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy." ...


And when it comes to oil, the Plan leaves nothing to chance-or to the Iraqis. Beginning on page 73, the secret drafters emphasized that Iraq would have to "privatize" (i.e., sell off) its "oil and supporting industries." The Plan makes it clear that-even if we didn't go in for the oil-we certainly won't leave without it.If the Economy Plan reads like a Christmas wishlist drafted by U.S. corporate lobbyists, that's because it was. From slashing taxes to wiping away Iraq's tariffs (taxes on imports of U.S. and other foreign goods), the package carries the unmistakable fingerprints of the small, soft hands of Grover Norquist. Norquist is the capo di capi of the lobbyist army of the right. In Washington every Wednesday, he hosts a pow-wow of big business political operatives and right-wing muscle groups-including the Christian Coalition and National Rifle Association-where Norquist quarterbacks their media and legislative offensive for the week.
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Once registered as a lobbyist for Microsoft and American Express, Norquist today directs Americans for Tax Reform, a kind of trade union for billionaires unnamed, pushing a regressive "flat tax" scheme.



Below a huge framed poster of his idol ("NIXON- NOW MORE THAN EVER"), Norquist could not wait to boast of moving freely at the Treasury, Defense and State Departments, and, in the White House, shaping the post-conquest economic plans-from taxes to tariffs to the "intellectual property rights" that I pointed to in the Plan.






Norquist wasn't the only corporate front man getting a piece of the Iraq cash cow. Norquist suggested the change in copyright laws after seeking the guidance of the Recording Industry Association of America.And then there's the oil. Iraq-born Falah Aljibury was in on the drafting of administration blueprints for the post-Saddam Iraq. According to Aljibury, the administration began coveting its Mideast neighbor's oil within weeks of the Bush-Cheney inauguration, when the White House convened a closed committee under the direction of the State Department's Pam Wainwright. The group included banking and chemical industry men, and the range of topics over what to do with a post-conquest Iraq was wide. In short order, said Aljibury, "It became an oil group." This was not surprising as the membership list had a strong smell of petroleum. Besides Aljibury, an oil industry consultant, the secret team included executives from Royal-Dutch Shell and ChevronTexaco. These and other oil industry bigs would, in 2003, direct the drafting of a 300-page addendum to the Economy Plan solely about Iraq's oil assets. The oil section of the Plan, obtained after a year of wrestling with the administration over the Freedom of Information Act, calls for Iraqis to sell off to "IOCs" (international oil companies) the nation's "downstream" assets-that is, the refineries, pipelines and ports that, unless under armed occupation, a Mideast nation would be loathe to give up.

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A sign over the entrance to Dachau concentration camp in Germany reads:

"Those who do not know their history are condemned to repeat it."
http://www.flashpoints.net/palast/Greg_Palast_On_Adventure_Capitalism.html