Green Supremacism: The Morgenthau Plan Reborn
The other night, I was watching a 1995-era History Channel show on the Nuremberg Trials — it was a classic case of clicking ’round the Roku box to see what was “new” at Netflix. I put “new” in quotation marks since so much of what’s available there in streaming format unfortunately consists of flotsam and jetsam I had either watched a decade or two ago, and/or shows I probably wouldn’t give the time of day to, except that the novelty of streaming video via the Internet still hasn’t worn off.
The History Channel show on the Nuremberg Trials mentioned in passing the Morgenthau Plan, a scheme for postwar Germany that was viciously punitive, if understandably so, and crafted by Henry Morgenthau, Jr., FDR’s Treasury secretary, around 1944. Here’s what Wikipedia has to say about it:
The Morgenthau Plan, proposed by United States Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr., advocated that the Allied occupation of Germany following World War II include measures to eliminate Germany’s ability to wage war.
- In the original proposal this was to be achieved in three main steps.
- Germany was to be partitioned into two independent states.
- Germany’s main centers of mining and industry, including the Saar area, the Ruhr area and Upper Silesia were to be internationalized or annexed by neighboring nations.
- All heavy industry was to be dismantled or otherwise destroyed.
At the Second Quebec Conference on September 16, 1944, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Henry Morgenthau, Jr. persuaded the initially very reluctant British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to agree to the plan, likely using a $6 billion Lend Lease agreement to do so. Churchill chose however to narrow the scope of Morgenthau’s proposal by drafting a new version of the memorandum, which ended up being the version signed by the two statesmen.
The memorandum concluded “is looking forward to converting Germany into a country primarily agricultural and pastoral in its character.”
As that Wikipedia page goes on to note, cooler heads eventually prevailed after the war. Otherwise, just as East Germany traded one totalitarian regime for another, West Germany would have traded the nightmare of Hitler’s scorched earth policy when he knew the war was lost for the Allies’ own scorched earth policy afterwards. Wikipedia quotes former president Herbert Hoover, who reminded advocates of the Morgenthau Plan in 1947 that “There is the illusion that the New Germany left after the annexations can be reduced to a ‘pastoral state’. It cannot be done unless we exterminate or move 25,000,000 people out of it.” West Germany would go on to become an industrial powerhouse, albeit one with a US military base located within it, just in case…
And while the Morgenthau Plan is now merely a footnote in history, ever since the late ’60s and early 1970s, the desire for punitive reprimitivization on a global scale has become all the rage amongst the wackier elements of the environmental left, including the fellow recently spotlighted by John Aziz at the Zero Hedge econo-blog, whom Aziz dubs “The Face of Genocidal Eco-Fascism”:
This is Finnish writer Pentti Linkola — a man who demands that the human population reduce its size to around 500 million and abandon modern technology and the pursuit of economic growth — in his own words.
He likens Earth today to an overflowing lifeboat:
What to do, when a ship carrying a hundred passengers suddenly capsizes and there is only one lifeboat? When the lifeboat is full, those who hate life will try to load it with more people and sink the lot. Those who love and respect life will take the ship’s axe and sever the extra hands that cling to the sides.
He sees America as the root of the problem:
The United States symbolises the worst ideologies in the world: growth and freedom.
He unapologetically advocates bloodthirsty dictatorship:
Any dictatorship would be better than modern democracy. There cannot be so incompetent a dictator that he would show more stupidity than a majority of the people. The best dictatorship would be one where lots of heads would roll and where government would prevent any economical growth.
We will have to learn from the history of revolutionary movements — the national socialists, the Finnish Stalinists, from the many stages of the Russian revolution, from the methods of the Red Brigades — and forget our narcissistic selves.
A fundamental, devastating error is to set up a political system based on desire. Society and life have been organized on the basis of what an individual wants, not on what is good for him or her.
Dude.
Or to put it a bit more articulately, “The ecochondriacs mean it: This’d be a pretty nice planet if we didn’t live here,” Mark Steyn wrote a few years ago, a quote we referenced back in 2008 rounding up additional examples of what James Taranto dubbed a few years later, “Green Supremacism.”
Linking to the above post at Zero Hedge, Glenn Reynolds responded this past Friday:
As Bob Zubrin has pointed out, such sentiments, if usually a bit less bluntly stated, are driving environmental policy nowadays. It’s Himmler in a green shirt. These are not nice people who want good things for everyone. These are evil people who hanker after mass death.
Still, it’s educational to hear things like this: “The United States symbolises the worst ideologies in the world: growth and freedom.”
If you like growth and freedom, these people are your enemies. Remember that and treat them accordingly.
Responding to Linkola’s manifesto, John Aziz writes at Zero Hedge (and I urge you to read his whole post), “My suggestion for all such thinkers is that if they want to reduce the global population they should measure up to their words and go first.”
They’re cracked eggs and they’ve been pampered and listened to when they should have been ignored or disciplined.
When your little child smears poop repeatedly all over the bathroom walls, what do you do? Today’s liberal mommies give him a time-out, if that, and let him continue to do it, over and over again, hoping maybe, before he’s 50 or so, he’ll tire of it. Before their minds were scrambled, old time mommies used to give him a spanking and send him to bed without supper until he figured out not to do it. It didn’t take very long.
The poop smearers have now turned 70, and they’re still hard at it. It’s too late to ignore them. They must now be destroyed.
But this is the natural consequence of environmentalism just simply taken to it’s logical conclusion. Man is the sole source of pollution and natural degradation. Pollution and ecosystem degradation are killing the planet. Therefore, man is the problem. Solution? Eliminate man.
Insidious but very pervasive and hard to counter. Especially since environmentalism is becoming the new dominant religion.
Personally, I think that human ingenuity will be the source of solutions to our problems. But it all comes down to how a society believes in itself or loses confidence.
This is the sort of dangerous crap you get when civilizations lose their will to exist. The rise of the eliminationists is unique to modernity, however.
Don’t worry. The EPA will save us all from ourselves.
Gotta wonder what makes Pentti Linkola and the others so sure they’ll be one of the 500 million left standing? Just because they’re useful idiots now doesn’t mean they’ll always be useful (even though they’ll likely still be idiots.) Ernst Röhm did a whole lot more for Nazism than Linkola is likely to do for Eco-Fascism, but poor old Ernst and his whole SA became expendable anyway. Something for Pentti to think about during the time he probably does not spend on personal hygiene.
This is how Pol Pot and his crew were able to do what they did.
I’m going to write a sentence I never thought I would or could write. At least Hitler, Stalin and Mao believed in a positive, industrial future for mankind, or at least some segment thereof. And they were fully evil. These folk don’t even have that. They’re ashamed that homo sapiens exists. And they don’t even have the courage of their convictions to live a simple life, unlike the unabomber guy.
This guy makes me ashamed to be Finn. Wake up and smell the coffee, you idiot!
If the greens are so interested in re-booting society, then go for it. After they are all gone we can see if it worked. I’m sure that once they are all gone everything should be ok.
There are serious problems in the world, organ trafficking, corruption in the DEA, ATF, DOJ, NSA, and every other alphabet agency, the UN is cesspool of bribery and scandal, the European Banking system is siphoning cash into the trillions, The US economy is being sold off to the highest bidder, there are dozens of serious problems facing the nation.
Mexico is a serious problem and there is very little discussion of Its impending collapse.
Idiots and fools should not be given attention, the only result is empowering them to spread their Manure.
There are serious problems, yet civilized life is better than it has ever been. Recent archaeology does suggest that hunter-gatherers lived a better life than early agriculturalists, but that was only true of the survivors, not of the vast majority that died of disease and violence.
There may well be a culling of the herd in our future, but I don’t trust man to guide it, better we just fight it out than let a Pol Pot decide.
Of course the real shame is that practically unlimited, pollution-free power is readily available: it’s just that you have to be very high tech in order to get to it. Specifically, you have to be able to live and build off-planet and put your power stations in space.
Perhaps the answer to every ill is not “more high-tech”, but I just got back from visiting the Renaissance Faire. Do these people have any clue just what life was like back then? Are they really willing to live in the conditions that they say that they desire? We invented 21st century technology for a very good reason! Dentistry and antibiotics are not the least of them.
The SCA folk I knew way back in the 1980s certainly understood “just what life was like back then.” However much they enjoyed weekend visits to a simulated, sanitized and idealized past none ever wanted to live in the real past.
And if you don’t want satellite solar stations, you can build nuclear plants, which are safe and extremely reliable.
This is the latest and most severe call to arms for anti-humanists.
Catholic author, Robert Zubrin, writes on this in his latest book, “Merchants of Despair”.
Zubrin points out that human ingenuity has repeatedly come up with new ways to improve our lives and feed, clothe, and shelter more people.
Asimov had these folks’ number a long time ago: in an essay “best foot backwards”, he notes in reality what they want is to go back to a primitive era WITH THEMSELVES as rulers, philosopher-kings, gentlemen-farmers, or whatnot — but never, ever, as the half-starved peasants who made up most of the population. They’re for slavery, famine, and disease — but, of course, only for OTHER PEOPLE.
So did Ayn Rand.
Thank you for refrence to Asimov!
Read Jung Chang, “Mao”.
>>>>Do these people have any clue just what life was like back then? Are they really willing to live in the conditions that they say that they desire?
Oh, they are sure they if they had lived back then THEY would have been the queens and kings and counts and princesses, and there would have been be plenty of people — OTHER PEOPLE — to do all the backbreaking work to make their food, clothes, etc.
Agreed. The folks advancing these lines of thought assume that they will be elite members of the Planetary Management Authority when that day arrives and will dine on dainties, quail and fish in abundance as recompense for their tireless efforts to save Gaia.
I had the warped “pleasure” of sitting in an undergraduate seminar, back when dinosaurs roamed the earth, when the subject of eugenics came up, and everyone but me was for it. The professor moved this fascinating discussion along by requesting us to suggest the prime requisites for permission to breed, and everyone else said “Intelligence, of course.” When it was my turn, I pointed out that while everyone at that seminar table had a high measured IQ, without exception we were all wearing vision correctives – and who were we to say that 20/20 vision might not be a high priority for a eugenics program?
Wasn’t the first time I was told that I “just didn’t get it.”
“Who were we to say that 20/20 vision might not be a high priority for a eugenics program?” Coming from a different direction, but reaching the same destination, Pol Pot ordered those who wear eyeglasses to be killed in Cambodia:
As John Perazzo noted at Front Page in 2005 “Under Pol Pot, Cambodians’ lives always hung by the barest thread; people were at all times just a single minor mistake or accident away from the torture chamber or the executioner’s rifle. Between 1975 and 1979, hundreds of thousands of Cambodians were executed by Khmer Rouge henchman.”
Er, I just clicked on the link and saw his photo. Who says he didn’t give up on modern technology? Clearly he gave up on combs, psychiatric medicine, electric razors, and mass-produced soap.
Man…that is some serious whackjobbery…I’ve been telling the local eco-nazis for years that if they really think human generated carbon dioxide is a pollutant,they should man up and do the right thing for once in their lives…sell their cars and kill themselves…but nooooo they only want other people to do that..
This type of thinking permeates the Leftist controlled bureaucracy. I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised to find out that deep within the bowels of the CDC are true believers working on a virus to wipe out large numbers of humanity. And while they’re working on their earth balancing virus, they’re working on an anti-virus for themselves. I can see someone like Kathleen Sebelius of HHS running an op like this. Leftists are pure evil.
12 Monkeys
See also “Rainbow Six” by Tom Clancy. (The original novel, not the computer games.) Reading “Debt of Honor” and “Executive Orders” first helps, too.
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http://www.bing.com/search?q=stern+siga+smallpox+&qs=n&form=QBRE&pq=stern+siga+smallpox+&sc=0-0&sp=-1&sk=
–you mean, like that?
Bringing the world population back down to 500,000,000 is a simple process, just as destroying the industrialized world. It was already nearly done by the Norwegians last year when they made haemoragic fever airborne transmittable. Its a disease that is 90% fatal. Yes, those wonderful Norwegians, who are left-wing, and love the Moslems, have already created the weapon that can do everything unspeakably imaginable with no nukes or residual radiation or poisoning the water supply or damaging any resources. Its the country that can.
Could not help but be reminded of one of the econut’s earlier success stories, the banning of DDT worldwide. That single act is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people every year from malaria, mostly African, mostly children.
Don’t know about y’all, but when someone calmly rationally states that they intend to destroy my way of life and threaten the lives of my children and grandchildren I tend to invoke the natural right of self defense. Seems to me their continued use of precious oxygen is a criminal waste and should cease immediately.
The anti-humans never go completely away. They always retain a foothold — usually, by exploiting the “respect for differences of opinion” expected of the rest of us. Just now, they’re allying with the forces attempting to subjugate us completely — and because their thesis is so useful to power-seekers, they’re getting a more respectful hearing than you’d imagine.
You first indeed! Why do these morons always place themselves in the vanguard of irreplaceable people who get to stay around and, of course, get a pass on doing what everyone else will be forced to do?
So many of the squishy greenies who don’t understand how badly windmills and solar panels perform at scale, also fail to grasp the evil they’re in bed with. But among the conscious green fascists, there seems a universal belief that of course they’ll be among the survivors, since they obviously see themselves as part of the elite ruling class that knows all the right answers.
I think this is all part of the psychological issue of feeling trapped in a cage. Prior to now, humans have always had somewhere else to go. And this is why I think we need a space exploration program that someday promises colonization of Mars or the Moon. It will help people be less crazy than Pentti Linkola and his ilk.
The problem with the deep-green Ecofascists, as with most millenarian fantasists, is that they believe that they will never bear the consequences of the policies they advocate. The best response to someone like this Linkola character, who advocates killing 13/14 of the human is his immediate, public, messy death. As a society we need to beef up our immune system against pathogens like him.
These eco-freak assholes are driving me broke.
I just ordered another case of ammo to break open in case Pentti Linkola or his drones ever get too frisky.
They can have my carbon foot print when they pry it from my cold dead fingers. I intend to follow my own version of the Kuribayashi doctrine if it ever hits the fan. They may take me down, but I’m taking at least 10 of them with me.
One of the things frequently overlooked by “back to the old ways” types is that preindustrial farming is MUCH harder on the environment than modern farming (just look at the devastation in 3rd world countries as their populations go up, but their farming methods don’t improve); simply as a means of saving money, fertilizers and pesticides got far more effective (and correspondingly less are necessary) and have less environmental impact than they did in the past (which is NOT to say that they have NO impact). If the population went to 1/14 its current size and went to Medieval-style farming, I doubt that much less actual farmland acreage than is in use now would be required, so how, exactly, is this a gain?
The whole area I hunt; I’ll wait for the collective gasp from you liberals out there, is strewn with dilapidated farm walls now buried in the trees from a bygone era.
My wife and I hike the Appalachian Trail often, and particularly in New York state, you cross over old farm walls all the time. We can’t believe some of the tops of mountains and so forth that people actually used to fram.
Let’s be clear:
Any proposal that suggests murdering X% of the human population (by any means) justified by specious and unprovable rationalizations for the sake of the health of the planet is simply: evil.
Vile, despicable, abhorrent, evil nihilism. The rantings of lunatics, cowards, bankrupted of morality, faith in humanity, and bereft of a shred of inspiration.
If they believe that man is that bad that he must be “culled,” then they should do us all a favor and lead by example.
There is a Tom Clancy novel, Rainbow Six, which centers around an eco-elite that tries to make the world into their private game preserve through a bio-engineered epidemic. Very interesting ending — the epidemic is thwarted and the eco-elite get exactly what they wanted, which turns out to be rather unpleasant.
A fun read after listening to this idiocy.
PJ O’Rourke noted this phenomenon years ago with a chapter on “overpopulation” in one of his books subtitled, “Just Enough of Me, Way Too Much of You.”
The death-loving Left is itching to put their murderous plans in motion. I’d say it’s already started in the underdeveloped world, where the bounty of golden rice, for example, is being denied. Ditto things like DDT.
The book in question was aptly titled “All The Trouble in The World”. O’Rourke quoted one enviro-enthusiast as loudly and happily proclaiming that their “green campaign” was a “nonviolent war” against the evils of civilization.
Yes, groups like Earth First, the Animal Liberation Front, etc., are just SO non-violent.
As with the Islamist radicals, the people who want to kill us are openly declaring war upon us. At what point do we begin to take them at their word?
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Whenever these neo-Malthusians drone on about how overpopulated the world has become and how necessary it is to reduce our numbers I immediately counter that they are right and they should lead by example…
Sounds like a variation of the Unabomber Manifesto. Pennti Linkola even looks like Ted Kaczynski. They belong in the same cell, IMO.
And yet the greens got their green panties in a triple knot over the Heartland billboard that said essentially that.
Well, well, now we’re getting to the heart of the “enviro” movement. At least we know where this snake lies. Not like the others who espouse genocide and murder via “women’s rights” and “women’s health issues”, or Godlessness via celebrity worship.
Himmler in a green shirt.
Y’know, people didn’t take Himmler and his associates very seriously at first. Mostly considered them a bunch of violent clowns who might cause some occasional mayhem but were too marginal and confused to ever get organized enough to pose a real problem.
The way they rose to power was basically through five steps:
1) creating an internal organization united by devotion to a cultish philosophy that replaced any traditional religious views of it’s members.
2) financing themselves through sympathetic government officials allowing them to tap into the public treasury.
3) recruiting and organizing violent thugs into enforcer brigades that kept discipline within party ranks and eventually helping to steal elections through intimidating (and ocassionally murdering) opponents and voters alike.
4) Siezing a sliver of power when the incompetent and decadent leadership of the day hatched an economic disaster that led to social breakdowns, then using their trained thugs and ruthless political manipulation to parlay a share of power into total power.
5) Once in power in one country, pursuing their written and well-publicized agenda of conquest, slaughter and extermination.
Frankly, I’m thinking we might want to learn from history and strangle this eco-Nazi movement in it’s cradle.
Hate to break the news to you, but it got out of the cradle and toddled down the road years ago. It’s now riding a bike, and looking for an airplane.
And almost forgotten is the story of how Finnish spree-killer Pekka-Eric Auvinen, whose mother is linked to Linkola’s movement, made a tribute video to Linkola before he killed seven students, his teacher and, thankfully, himself.
According to Whittaker Chambers (at least) in ‘Witness’, the Morgenthau plan for the post war destruction of Germany’s industrial might was credited to Harry Dexter White, then number two at the Treasury. As Chambers puts it regarding White, and of course Alger Hiss, “In a situation with few parallels in history, agents of an enemy power were in a position to do much more than purloin documents. They were in a position to influence the nation’s foreign policy in the interests of the nation’s chief enemy.” Holdren and other Czars fill those approximate roles today.
Robert @ #31; good points –also, Alger Hiss was FDR’s man on forming the UN, and was USA’s very first ambassador to the UN. Eric Holder’s law firm, Covington & Burling, was prominent on the Hiss family’s defense team. Covington & Burling literally jumped on board the war on terror gaining the right to pro-bono defend the soon long numerous string of Yemeni detainees at Gitmo. With dozens of open cases getting the full effort, the cross-fertilization between Holder’s people and all the interested parties on all sides of the law, including the Yemeni shadow and official govts, has been extreme for over a decade now.
In 2006 and 2008, Dems took congress and the the White House, and the ancient and largely peaceful Mexico-USA drug running biz suddenly exploded into fully formed militarized criminal armies at war with one another, AQ moved into Yemen, and a nasty banana territory war in Colombia ended.
AQ-in-Yemen became a new worry, and piracy off the coast of Yemen became extensive, with a rolling fleet of ships and crews in the dozens captured, harbored and held hostage for ransoms paid by the shippers’ insurance companies. Maritime insurance rates have over-compensated into nosebleed territory, and a line-extension into a Covington & Burling specialty –a claims business on behalf of victims of terrorism –began including the piracy hostages in the terrorism victim class (though the sea takings as well as the hostage conditions are –despite the odd sensational exception –uniquely non-violent) has just a week ago received the mana-from-heaven of a new UN imprimatur via an official UN proposal to create a global claims pool for ‘victims of terrorism’ (see Claudia Rosett’s column one or two past).
That banana war went into the courts in 2007, longtime Chiquita consiglieri Eric Holder defending Chiquita Banana for the deaths of nearly 800 (of a number of 4000 total deaths) peasants murdered by arms smuggled to both sides of what is usually and utterly wrongly characterized as a political commies vs death squads guerrilla war. What Chiquita was doing was clearing an area via destabilization through gun violence –arming both sides –precisely what “Fast and Furious” is known to have been doing on our borders –and which without the 2010 election blowout by the Tea Party, and the concomitant rise of courage inside the federal agencies, would no doubt have gone forever merely rumored and never proved.
Chiquita oddly enough initiated and leads a boycott against the oil from the Canadian tar sands. On environmental grounds, natch, though such is a road to Damascus moment of laughable starkness. A Norwegian oil shipper named John Fredriksen will surely benefit from killing the Keystone pipeline, though. Fredriksen recently was outed as receiving deep discount oil from the Yemeni oil ministry –”Oil-for-Food” style, in a scheme reminiscent of Eric Holder’s associate from the Clinton era, Marc Rich –the progenitor of the UN ‘scandal of the century’ at the time –a scandal that may never have seen light of day were it not for the prodigious and dogged –and personally dangerous –work of PJM writer Claudia Rosett, who would’ve won a passel of Pulitzers for it had not it so badly impugned the American Democratic party.
Det Norske Veritas is a Norwegian engineering firm with extensive ties to Fredriksen operations, as well as through board directorate with Aker Biomarine, a Norwegian Krill fishery, and Fredriksen’s own seafood processor and exporter, the second or third largest such in the world. Det Norske Veritas also has started up a training school that maritime insurers are patronizing, training ship’s crews how to respond non-violently to pirate boardings (no authority has ever answered why not simply mount a few machine guns aboard?). Det Norske Veritas was also selected by the Obama administration to be the non-partisan certification agent of the report produced by the investigation of the blowout preventer which had failed on the BP Macondo blowout (an investigation BTW forever compromised by an unauthorized access to the 24-hour guarded BOP by a well-known expert BOP mechanic ”mistakenly” allowed by DNV, or the administration, or BP, or Transco the driller, or the lawyers of the insurers –take your pick from a flurry of charges which rose and then was almost instantly buried).
Aker Biomarine is currently hitting the TV advertising market hard with the ”Mega Red” Omega-3 plus Krill oil capsules, through distributor Schiff and a mega-deal with Walgreen’s. A big lawsuit is underway, or has recently settled, concerning the health properties of Krill oil vs Menhaden fish oil. This suit is mainly between Aker and American Gulf of Mexico Menhaden fisher, processor, and fish oil seller Omega Protein, HQ’d in Houston. Omega Protein was hit hard by the enormous kill of Menhaden by the Corexit dispersant (from Nalco, a Chicago company invested by Soros and allied hedge funds) used on the Macondo disaster, and by the persistent charges by individuals claiming illness from the nerve agents in the Corexit that are argued to have entered the Gulf of Mexico food chain.
During the lawsuit, Omega Protein suffered the loss of one of its seven trawlers, along with three of the crew, when the Sandy Point was rammed broadside and sunk in a rare accident in a placid Mississippi ship channel by the London Equus, an ocean-going large freight hauler four times the size of Sandy Point, under contract to and hauling bananas for a company still represented by Covington and Burling: Chiquita Banana.
All of this material is on the web –and believe me, editing this comment to its present size was tough, because there’s a whole lot more.
Things like the lawsuit ongoing by the USA Commodity Futures Trading Commission, a tiny wrist slap aimed at CFTC ‘taking action’ on the oil price manipulation that caused the summer of 2008 gasoline pump price spike that so unnerved American voters leading into the subprime crisis and bank panic that immediately preceded the election that brought in Obama with the freedom of a huge crisis with which to communize the country, and that could be blamed on Bush, Wall Street, GOP, and fat cats. The suit is aimed at rogue traders, ex BP employees, working for Fredriksen’s company Arcadia.
Fredriksen bought Arcadia in 2006 or 2007 from Mitsui Sumitomo. Mitsui had started up Arcadia in conjunction with Milio, started up by a Marc Rich trader, in Moscow in the early 2000s, both later moving HQs to Zug, Switzerland, nearby Transco HQ, the Macondo driller. Mitsui is a longtime Goldman Sachs partner, one of GS’s two largest investors when GS went public in the 90s (the other is Bishop Estates of Hawaii, a client of Obama’s grandmother, a prominent banker specializing in mortgages). Mitsui also happens to have a 10 percent interest in the Macondo well, and also happens to’ve gotten the Sochi Olympics heavy infrastructure contract from nationalist Vladimir Putin. Arcadia is in the oil deals with Yemen that are under fire for kick backing schemes. Yemen is where the failed bombers who keep us all un-nerved keep coming from –also where the administration saw fit very recently to out a mole that the British govt had managed to get inside of AQ. What was Obama –or Covington and Burling –afraid of, one wonders.
Goldman Sachs, and BP president Tony Hayward, sold off enormous chunks of BP stock just before the blowout –explaining the timing with the fact that the well had been having problems severe enough to damage the value of the stock. Yet the explanation for the actual blowout was ‘carelessness and being in a hurry, because BP wanted to cut costs’.
Cost-cutting –also the explanation for the BOP’s previous service & full inspection having been done in China –with no third or even second party day-sheets filed with any authority. The cost of a BOP R&R being infinitesimally small compared to overall well-drilling at sea, and the cost of a malfunction in the BOP being the same blue-sky but on the opposite scale, this also does not add up as ordinary things normal people in standard practice would even entertain the notion of doing.
Tell me, does this add up? A well dangerous enough to sell off billions worth of stock, being blown up by carelessness?
And Tony Hayward, upon the disaster clouding his BP presidency, quit his job, and went into a new venture, an oil exploration partnership –the partner buying him in –with the Rothschilds –who identified and backed the young George Soros, who control Standard & Poors, the rating agency which led the AAA rating of the subprime securities (creating the market value that inflated the whole bubble), and the rating agency which downgraded US credit rating last August, causing the thousand-point Dow drop that made fortunes for the Managed Funds Association, the Soros-led group of hedge funds that maintain the enormous short against the entire American enterprise, and which uses its power (Soros is hosting a meeting of these people this very moment, in Miami, in conjunction with various elements of the Democratic party support apparatus) to force the conditions to put their bets-to-lose in the money.
Peter Maass in the NY Review of Books wrestles nobly with the ‘carelessness’ theme (rather than the notion of a secret bring-the-NWO-thru-shorting-the-current-world-order-then-deriving-the-short-conditions cabal at the top of management), then concludes with:
Oil firms give codenames to their drilling sites, to throw rivals off the scent of where they are finding oil. The US government, when it sold a Gulf drilling lease to BP in 2008, called the site Block 252. BP, to help raise money for United Way, let its employees bid for the right to choose a codename; the winning group of employees decided on Macondo, after the town in Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude. No one could know how miserably appropriate the choice would be. Both García Márquez’s fictional town and BP’s Macondo were destroyed. The final twist of One Hundred Years of Solitude is relevant, too. A text that had been impenetrable is finally deciphered at the end of the novel. Written one hundred years earlier, it foretold the events that destroyed Macondo. When it comes to drilling for oil and the hazards of climate change, the texts that predict our future are accumulating. They are all too clear.
What Maass fails to notice is that after the naming contest, someone had to pick the winner, someone had to okay the result. The Chiquita plant at the center of Holder’s Colombian ‘Fast & Furious’ is in the town of Aracataca, in the Colombian Magdalena District. This happens to be author Marquez’ hometown, or birthtown, and as he has said before, long before the Holder-involved arms smuggling shoot-em up, it’s the real town that for the novel –the iconic Communist anti-colonialist magical-realistic God is a Communist Pulitzer-winner novel –was given the sui generis name “Macondo”.
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How did all these strands and the many many more right in front of our faces, ever manage to develop in a world of laws and a world brand-new lit end-to-end with time and space-destroying instant real time mass communications? I think it happened this way because –just like the first Russian honest men and women walked into their new offices with the ‘USSR’ freshly scraped off the doors –and there sat the American’s new privatization commissioner, VP Al Gore –that the new world of timeless and spaceless power was tragically born with the hyper-intelligent and super-charming moral idiot Bill Clinton in charge of the Earth’s model of the ideal. He and his wife, the acolyte of Saul Alinsky, of whom the people have yet to note, tho it’s right there in a 1972 Playboy interview, had spent his early adult years running with Frank Nitti, Al Capone’s enforcer, and his 20 hit man crew. The Mob is what was standing there when the new world was born.
Well, yes, we now know White was a Soviet agent.
On the other hand, Morgenthau was one of the few who did something about the Holocaust, so I doubt it bothered him. It wouldn’t ahve bothered me, had I lived then.
Mmmmmm. Tasty Eloi.
Don’t forget the new wave of generational warfare being used to promote Malthusian population “correction” because of failing resources and food production.
Until that new version of class warfare, which continues to receive a surprising welcome among conservatives is addressed, this problem will not go away anytime soon.
I haven’t given any credibility to the World Wildlife Federation since they went to court to demand that the World Wrestling Federation give up use of the initials WWF. Funny thing, they won. But the original WWF was far more entertaining; and still is so, as the WWE.
It’s kind of like the “past- life regressionists” that were so popular in the eighties. Everyone seemed to be a royal in a past life, never a bourgeois, never a peasant. At Versaille, rather than the more numerous petty kingdoms in Central Europe, as well. And nobody remembered riding horses, or stables, or barnyards. Just perfume.
I think the most chilling book I’ve read in years was “The Black Book of Communism.” I couldn’t even read the whole thing, just chapters, or even paragraphs. I would read about a town, one from the beginning of history, and what the communists put the people through. One can read an adventure or a horror novel, and identify with the protagonist, or at least apply common-sense, and somehow imagine a way out of the pain and suffering. This book? This true history? There wasn’t any point that I thought I would survive, or that my children would survive. Not one moment, not one moment at all. My husband wouldn’t survive, either, possibly, since he was a soldier. That was horrifying, too, since every disaster, I think ” He’ll take care of us. We’re okay.” In the black book- there wasn’t a way for any of us to survive. I don’t know that I’ve read a scarier book in my life. I pray nightly, hoping that prayers reach across time, somehow, for mercy for these people.
There’s a collection of saint stories, set in Russia, after the Revolution. How saints appeared to humble Christians to help them. It’s kind of popular here, almost as samisdat. When one person mentioned it to a Russian, his response was that it was all made up. Can you imagine having to abandon all human hope? And then all divine mercy and possible hope?
–very expressive letter –you had a ‘teachable moment’ as they say, reading that book and having the fourth wall come tumbling down among the lines of little black and white glyphs. Been there, in the readings I mean, and have the shock memory.
The so-called ‘Tambov Uprising’ or ‘Tambov Rebellion’ is another thing you might want to look into.
JR Nyquist posted a very good introduction that takes about three minutes to read. Just search [ nyquist origins of a killer state ].
Then if you want, there’s plenty of ‘Tambov’ on the web. It’s nightmarish, and as you caught your breath on the dawning of ‘hey, these are REAL people, and my parents and grandparents were here in the USA enjoying life when it was happening –and no one knew’ –you’ll repeat the shiver of dread.
I recall reading essay written by George Orwell where he talk about “a kind of socialist you will only find in academia and amongs the upper class” that wanted to take man back to a pre-industrial age. Off course Orwell knew no woker would want to go back to digging potatos by hand or plow fields with ox and plow.
Am I the only one who was thinking, “I’m surpised nobody notied Charles Manson escaped from prison” about this guy’s photo?
I saw one TV show here in the Philippines where they praised one of the small islands in the Visayas for being a paradise, and said all the people there loved living their local traditional lifestyle.
Only two problems with that; One, in Philippine society, you tell people what they want to hear, not the truth if you disagree with someone whose rank is higher than you.
Two: My daughter in law comes from that island, and we have helped over a dozen folks from her area to our small town in Luzon to find jobs. Considering how they live in poverty here, it makes me shudder at what they left. But here, poverty means enough rice to eat, good schools, an income that lets to buy small things , and electricity in the home for a fan and TV.
Personally I agree with Tom Clancy: Put them in a jungle and let them try to survive for a year or two.
I had a big argument with my liberal psychology professor Aunt about a similar thing. She and her hubby went to Thailand. Her first time there. I’ve been to Thailand a number of times. She took a bus to someplace where they got to watch the ultra poor natives, and interact with them like it was some wildlife park. She tried to tell me how blissfully they lived and I got indignant. I asked, “How many prostitute did you step over on your way from your plane to your bus? Girls from those villages who come to Bangkok and other tourist destinations in hopes of sending home some money to their families.” I went on to try and explain more, but I could see my streetwise knowledge of Thailand was not as good as her one time liberal safari.
Cuban-American blogger Val Prieto once dubbed that sort of thing “Omnipotent Tourist Syndrome.”
Speaking of exterminating countless lives… I was a student at NYU in the mid 80s where I took a sociology class with an assistant adjunct professor, read grad student. She was from Papua New Guinea and, to borrow a line from Chris Rock, the bitch is (was) crazy! One of her favorite topics was the need for and benefit of an ENABLING CRISIS (echo chamber).
I don’t recall the examples given in class but, as happens, one such a crisis was evolving even as sat with our glazed over eyes in our Saturday, 8AM if memory serves, class. For the proverbial record, my eyes were glazed over because I was working full time, attending school full time and (along with my wonderful wife (you never know she may read this – grrr she just annoyed me… okay we’ve reconciled) I was also raising a growing family; I was exhausted. I suspect, though I can not say definitively, other eyes in the class were glazed over for other reasons. Hey it was the Village, it was the 80s; do the math. Anyway the AIDS crisis was hitting gay men particularly hard and the ensuing battle against the terrible virus galvanized the Gay community. Today, as evidenced by the once unimaginable discussion of gay marriage, it is a political force. I believe that it was also the time that homosexuals stopped – ironically – being (small g) gay. I think Angry would be a better moniker. The Hostile and Humorless monikers would remain available for other cantankerous people, okay (big L) Liberals.
Where was I? Ah yes, the AIDS crisis however was not the one this woman envisioned it was – are you sitting down, preferably in a bunker – nuclear holocaust (BOOM); that’s what she wanted. Seriously! I believe, again if memory serves, she came right out and said it, otherwise I would not have made the unthinkable connection. She longed for nuclear devastation! To coin a phrase, the end of the world as we know it and she’d feel fine. Well, in fact, none of us would feel anything for long. Her reasoning? Corruption, American corruption specifically, was just too deeply rooted and, therefore, it could not be undone. We (who I wonder were the “we”) would have to start all over again. Let’s take it from the top people… er… rats… um roaches…. (Picture Tim Gunn, from Project Runway…, I’ll be picturing Heidi) In fairness, to what’s-her-name-crazy-instructor it could be she just wanted to nuke the small us and/or the large US (United States)?
As background, I majored in business and was going to school at night and taking the way too early weekend morning sociology class with a way, way too, over the top, crazy, beyond the pale instructor because I need a social science elective. (There’s a whole other discussion about the cost of higher education and the cost/benefit of having to basically support social science departments by requiring such ridiculous electives.)
So, I suppose, the point for anyone still reading is Green Supremacist haven’t cornered the market on wanting to exterminate a good portion, if not all, of humanity. Like the magazine, it’s Mad – EEK!
I wonder, was she railing at corruption beyond the inherent? Beyond the irreducible ‘hungry animal’ element of human nature?
The left is committed to zealous pursuit of power. Zealotry plus control equals tyranny. I think Linkola would agree and endorse this observation. Clearly, he wants society to be organized based on determination of the ruling class as to what is in the best interests of the individual, not based on the desires of the individual. Obviously, this view is opposed to freedom — freedom for the masses, that is. I think that this view comprehends a justification for licesne exercised by the ruling class.
Seat belt laws have nothing to do with individual liberty and all to do with what the ruling class believes is in the best interests of the individual. (Seat belt laws also are a neat way to impose alternate taxation on individuals.) That, in New York State, the seatbelt fine is $130 with no points on one’s driver’s license tells us that what is sought is control AND dollars.
Now that seatbelt intrusion into personal autonomy is acceptable, what form of government intrusion is not to be anticipated ion our personal lives?
The NY Times today (May 22) includes this quote from President Obama, defending his attack on Romney’s record at Bain Capital — “‘My job is to take into account everybody, not just some.’” The Obama record on environmental issues tells me that he if he takes notice of “everybody”, he ends up promoting those who attend those $35,800 per person (or couple) fundraisers.
And so, Obamaism gives us government of, by and for the insiders. I think Linkola would approve. Actually this governance mindset is not a new development. Madison, opening Federalist Paper No. 57 took note of those seeking the “ambitious sacrifice of the many, to the aggrandizement of the few.”
Not for the left, pursuit of “the common good.”
THe proper term is the New Feudalism. Al Gore and his buying “indulgences” to maintain his huge carbon footprint is a prime example.
If you want to see it in practice, read about Mao’s China. Either of Jung Chang’s books, Wild Swans or Mao, is highly recommended.
P.S. I don’t blame Morgenthau one bit. He was one of the few that tried to do something about the holocaust (unlike that jerk FDR). If I was there when the camps were discovered, I wouldn’t care how many Germans were exterminated, after what they (not the Nazis, the German Volk) had done. (No, I don’t feel that way about the Germans today.)
It is an amusing (though sad) thing to observe the machinations of minds that reject God in favor of being their own gods. The end result without fail is the seeking of death … OH, NOT THEIR OWN! Goodness no! Just all of the lesser beings around them who do not recognize their wonderfulness, their brilliance, their sublime wisdom. Yes, yes, heads must roll and hands be hacked off with an axe … but never their own; no, no! They are simply too valuable and the new utopia just could not do without them. As the great philosopher B. Bunny was heard to say more than once, “What a bunch of maroons!”