STTPML Introduction:
The “Cold” War: Began Pre-1917; is Not “Over”–Thus U.S. Has Not “Won; Never that “Cold”[as the term used]; About Changing the “Color of the Corpses”
The “Cold” War is not over; not by a long-shot. The “Cold” War was, is and will continue to be not that “Cold”. The term “Cold” in this meme/label for an historical period 1945 to 1992, some say 1917 to 1992 during which warfare between the social formation and dominant ideology of U.S. Government and its allies and the USSR state and its allies, was largely non-conventional, non-kenetic, involving uses of proxies, in operations largely covert (source plausibly deniable), clandestine (operation conducted in secret not to be discovered), false-flag (operation destined to lay “credible blame” on another entity) and social systems encirclement/engineering/destabilization campaigns using, embargoes, quarantines, demonization/isolation campaigns against targeted societies and their state regimes.
This view of the “Cold War” is typical for those Americans and others who learn a little geography only when the U.S. goes to war (they learn for the first time where Iraq is, possibly at least a couple of countries that border Iraq and a few may even learn the proper pronunciation of Iraq in Arabic) overtly enough that there may be implications on U.S. blood and treasure (anybody else’s blood and treasure is not “our” concern).
This view of the Cold War denies some of the critical dimensions, reasons, forces, masks, fronts, and imperatives of the empire-builders/protectors behind and driving the CW and will continue to do so unless exposed with hard facts, data and some of their own internal documents and players. For example, Carroll Quigley from Georgetown University one of the clone factories of the U.S. Imperial Establishment, Deep State, Intelligence Services and the Anglo-American Establishment analyzed by Quigley and of which he was also a member on one of the outer layers of several secret societies named, was a pioneer in this area of scholarship. This view of a “Cold War is over and the U.S. won” is typical of those who argue that deaths, carnage, mayhem, duration, scope, depth of covert wars to be concerned about only as they affect America, on American soil and with losses of American people and treasure.
We believe that rather than the kinds of self-impeaching rage and freaky conspiracy theories of the far-right and some on the nominal left about cabals, secret world government and the like (promoted by some of those same elites as these types are self-impeaching in their rhetoric and lack of real evidence), what is needed instead, and some of us at the STTPML Collective have actually done some of this work ( in the context of analysis of underground economies, leadership and their networks), is to do the same kinds of sober and scientifically-approached work as done by the likes of Domhoff and others.
We propose, and point to some research sources and methods, that we use the same techniques used by law enforcement and the intelligence agencies in “network analysis”; and we develop approaches to the overall Political Economy of Oligarchy and Plutonomy” that includes: geometrics; sociometrics; econometrics; politicometrics; historical analysis; legal analysis on the linkages, history, dynamics, trade-craft, fronts, real agenda, masks, operations, legal protections and crimes of plutocratic, oligarchic groups and influential secret societies.
http://jimcraven10.wordpress.com/2012/08/14/skull-and-bones-bilderberg-and-trilateral-commission-selected-memberships-and-activities-as-of-may-2012/ or http://jimcraven10.wordpress.com/2012/08/14/3052/ and to show how this can be done on the micro level of analysis: This is a sample of the type of “Inductive Analysis” img243PR (Specific DATA and FACTS to Generalizations) rather than the usual “Deductive Analysis” (General Assumptions to Specific Conclusions) that we developed and the type of work that we did.
These sources point to some of the networks, fronts, key players, power structures and pathways of succession, and strategic objectives of these elements of the Anglo-American Establishment. They also reveal the horrible costs and revisionist history of covert, clandestine, false-flag, non-transparent, non-accountable, not freely and fairly hired proto-and-outright-fascist Plutocracy.
http://jimcraven10.wordpress.com/2013/09/21/outrageous-influence-covert-and-clandestine-and-intrigue-in-the-white-house/
COOKING THE HISTORY BOOKS–THE ‘THANKSGIVING’ MASSACRE: GENOCIDE THE FATHER AND SLAVERY THE MOTHER
Skull and Bones: Effete Proto-Fascism and Affirmative Action For Preppy Inbreds
“Skull and Bones Blueblood John Kerry Seeks Destruction of Syria”
The Old and ‘New’ Skull and Bones: Gothic Proto-fascism Hip and Not Only Pasty-In-Bred White
Business Insider: The 15 Most ‘Powerful’ Members of Skull and Bones–Affirmative Action for Inbreds
http://jimcraven10.wordpress.com/2012/07/06/interview-with-tiocasin-ghosthorse-wbai-ny-on-thanksgiving-and-skull-and-bones/
The few (whether individuals or systems and ideologies) who have ruled the many throughout human history and through various types of social systems, have always faced the problem of being grossly outnumbered no matter how sophisticated and powerful their weapons and technologies of conquest and rule. And those few ruling the many have always counted on “wonder weapons” and “technology” to save them from their own folly, the unfolding contradictions in their own systems of rule and the wrath of the masses. And in all cases known historically, the technologies and weapons they thought would save them from their own folly and wrath of the masses they oppressed, were either turned against them, not as effective as they were promised, or not used effectively, or were countered by other weapons and defenses. Whatever humankind can invent, it can also invent a counter to just as any code or algorithm invented can be cracked ultimately.
They need minions to carry out their covert ops and agenda intended to hide from or displace any legal or other accountability for the covert acts and real intentions behind them: what all criminals do as there is no need to hide or cover-up what is clean only what is dirty. They also need and seek some kind of rationale or authority for their rule that many of those being ruled will buy into–at least for a time: Divine Ordination; Divinity; Manifest Destiny; Lebensraum; Eretz Israel; Divine Ordination to Christianize, Civilize and Liberate; Natural Order; Social Darwinism; Exceptionalism; etc. They need the many being ruled to accept and not resist, if not welcome and actually pay for, their own oppression and being ruled by the chosen few. From the secret report on Plutonomy by Citi Bank:
➤ Plutonomy stocks at a premium, but relative pricing power is key.
➤ Our Plutonomy Symposium take-aways.
The key challenge for corporates in this space is to maintain the mystique of prestige
while trying to grow revenue and hit the mass-affluent market. Finding pure-plays on the
plutonomy theme, however, is tricky.
➤ Plutonomy and the Great Conundrums of our age.
We think the balance sheets of the rich are in great shape, and are likely to continue to
improve. Don’t be shocked if the savings rate worsens as equities do well.
➤ What could go wrong?
Beyond war, inflation, the end of the technology/productivity wave, and financial collapse,
we think the most potent and short-term threat would be societies demanding a more
‘equitable’ share of wealth.
Citigroup Equity Strategy
Plutonomy: Buying Luxury, Explaining Global Imbalances
October 16, 2005
Summary
- The World is dividing into two blocs – the Plutonomy and the rest. The U.S., UK, and Canada are the key Plutonomies – economies powered by the wealthy. Continental Europe (ex-Italy) and Japan are in the egalitarian bloc.
- Equity risk premium embedded in “global imbalances” are unwarranted. In plutonomies the rich absorb a disproportionate chunk of the economy and have a massive impact on reported aggregate numbers like savings rates, current account deficits, consumption levels, etc. This imbalance in inequality expresses itself in the standard scary ” global imbalances”. We worry less.
- There is no “average consumer” in a Plutonomy. Consensus analyses focusing on the “average” consumer are flawed from the start. The Plutonomy Stock Basket outperformed MSCI AC World by 6.8% per year since 1985. Does even better if equities beat housing. Select names: Julius Baer, Bulgari, Richemont, Kuoni, and Toll Brothers.
- https://sttpml.org/plutonomy-on-steroids/
The Cold war has never been simply about U.S. and its allies vs USSR and its allies or some generic “East versus West”; there has always been a “North-South” dimension to it. The Cold War has never been “Cold” in the sense that only or primarily clandestine (concealment of operations) or covert (concealment of sources of operations) or false-flag operations (others to be blamed), or propaganda. The Cold War has always involved conventional as well as irregular warfare, open (under pretexts) as well as covert and clandestine warfare, use of proxies as well as open use of U.S. and allied forces.
And the Cold War was never only about “Communism” or “Socialism” versus “Democracy” or “Capitalism”. It has been about Imperialism and Colonialism versus Marxism and any purported versions of it; but not only Marxism and Marxist-guided regimes. Even “Democratic Socialism”, religious anti-Imperialism or Colonialism, or even “Religious Pacifism”, were and are on the target-list of bivalency (you are for us or against us no middle or non-aligned ground possible). Thus the CW has always not only East-West but North-South and was and is a World War III for control and influence over hearts and minds, systems and dissolution of ideologies, institutions and relations supporting them.
The Cold War has always been about a global war between ideologies and systems purported to be guided by those ideologies. The real origins of the Cold War go back even before the Bolshevik Revolution and formation of the USSR. One might even attribute Queen Victoria, Benjamin Disraeli and others as the sources of the institutions, secret societies and ideology composed of notions or “doctrines” embodied within and driving the so-called “Cold” War: “Muscular Evangelical “Christianity”; Puritan Theo-proto-fascism; Exceptionalism, White Supremacy; “Westerer Movement; Social Darwinism; Elitist and Racist Eugenics and Social Engineering; Cognitive Infiltration and Control of Education; Full Spectra Dominance Over the Commanding Heights of the Global Economy; God’s Ordination to Rule the Earth and the peoples on it; Spreading “Civilization, Democracy and Development” and countering “Existential Threats” to the same; Westward March of Civilization From Origins in the Caucasus, Like the Sun, Westward, to the Final Conquest of Barbarian China; Anglo-Saxon-Teutonic-Nordic Racial Superiority; Outsiders as Barbarians etc.
Under the Cold War, a “free, fair and democratic” election is defined as one in which the menu of “choice” of possible candidates, the groups and persons allowed to vote, the acceptable memes and themes of candidacy, outside funding of selected candidates, along with the final outcomes of the election, can all be rigged and engineered to produce outcomes favorable to the U.S. and its allies (when they are in concert) and/or to effectively remove a targeted regime. An unfair and undemocratic election is one in which the opposite occurs: the election cannot be manipulated from the outside and/or even if it can, the results are not was was intended by the covert and clandestine operations designed for other outcomes. How else to explain the refsual to recognize the internationally-monitored (and freer than in the U.S. elections) of Hamas and Hizbollah or of Salvador Allende in Chile among many others?
“I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.” Henry Kissinger
The Cold War has never been about winning hearts and minds over to a given ideology through open debate of contending ideas and supporting evidence, or peaceful competition between competing ideologies and social systems in terms of which really delivers the most for the most people as defined democratically by those people what they want and need delivered. The Cold War is about controlling, threatening, making fearful, assassinating, and cultivating hearts and minds to the extent to which they influence actions and outcomes deemed favorable or unfavorable to imperial interests and intentions.
Since the introduction of COIN and CT operations in Laos and Vietnam in 1958, COIN (seen as muscular and multi-dimensional nation building) was initially done by Special Forces A-Teams in the bush working with mountain tribes, plus some fronts disguised as charities. But COIN brings results long-term if at all, if it is really about removing the conditions that breed insurgency including first and foremost occupation by foreign forces. The notion that “the insurgent is to the people as the fish is to the water”, demanded taking out or denying the insurgent the environment (hidden among and supported by the people) by putting the people into fortified strategic hamlets away from their ancestral homes. Also the metaphor taking oxygen away from the fire to extinguish the fire of insurgency was used.
Then came Counter-terrorism (CT) teams composed of SEALS, LRRPS, local mercenaries, CIA operators and SOG that did kill or capture raids (mostly kill) that led to creating more insurgents than killed. Under the CIA Phoenix Program CIA admits to some 27,000 killed, other estimates up to about 42,000 people killed, and, like in Iraq and Afghanistan, special operations forces using mercenaries and bounties wound up killing many innocents turned in because of family feuds, payback, bounty inducements and the like.
Perceived protracted costs and poor results leading to erosion of public support back home, replaced with CT or counter-terrorism with more immediate, “kinetic” and sensational “results” to keep public thinking the war is being won, “peace with honor is in sight”, with finally some kind of “surge” of forces to allow losses (exits) with supposed “honor” and a lost war was supposedly really won or objectives completed.
The failures of COIN and CT operations in Vietnam in terms of their own stated objectives, led to the Vietnam War going conventional with conventional force structures, doctrines, orders of battle, tables of organization and equipment along with tactics and definitions of “victory”, supported by massive carpet bombing raids like Rolling Thunder, suited to WWII but not the nature and environment of warfare in Vietnam. And again, as the losses mounted, as the death and carnage was no longer some long-distance abstraction, as the anti-War movement grew, came new talks of “surges”,”pacification”, stability and CT operations, “Vietnamization” (changing the color and non-American numbers of the corpses) designed to create a “face-saving” exit “with honor”. Sound familiar?
Also came the promise of no more foreign “8 division, 8 year wars”, like Iraq and Afghanistan that are neither over nor 8 years in duration, of new military force structures and doctrines for the most likely wars of the 21st century. Again they promise new weapons that are: “high-tech”; stand-off; increasingly but proportionately lethal, mobile and flexible; rapidly and covertly deployable; standardized to reduce costs and inter-service rivalries; precise; context-adjustable; reducing “collateral damage” to non-combatants as well as extended deployments, deaths, wounds and disruptions to large numbers of U.S. forces. The American public can go on “shopping til they drop”, “faking it til they make it”, “dressing for suckcess”, networking, “wanting it all and wanting it now”, the Imperial State with protect them, will not draft them against their will, will not desturb their creature comforts, will lower not raise taxes even in wartime, and will overcome any critical personnel issues with mercenaries, retired officials, and increasing privatization and corporatization of the state (Mussolini’s definition of fascism).
The Cold War has been bloodier, most costly, and of longer duration than any of the conventional or “hot” wars of the U.S.; in fact the war in Afghanistan has lasted longer, and has been more costly, than World Wars I and II combined and has lasted longer than the whole rise and fall of Nazi Germany. Of course, in America, many define wars in terms of how bloody and costly they are on Americans not on their victims as fellow human beings. Shock and Awe, high-tech-flexible-response,-precision-lethal-compact-“smart” weapons are supposed to deliver quick, relatively low-cost, precisely-targeted or “smart” weapons that promise quick and decisive military actions, only the bad guys taken out thus minimizing “collateral damage” that dampens winning hearts and minds or turning friends into insurgents, but fewer body bags coming home, lower costs than conventional wars and forces, new jobs and new kinds of high paying jobs in the defense industry, and, future enemies thinking twice before messing with the U.S. or its allies.
The Cold War has never been about the rule of law–international and otherwise–but rather assertions of rule of law governing some nation-states and groups with “exceptions” for those nation-states and groups that summarily assert/self-anoint/self-declare themselves to be “exceptional”, “destined” to lead and rule, “destined” to shoulder burdens and responsibilities others do not have. They assert themselves thus rightfully “excepted” from the norms and laws to which others are subject and to which even these “exceptional” types demand the obedience to by the “non-exceptional”.
And finally, the Cold War has always been about “The Deep State” (state within the state) which goes back to the genesis of the U.S. state itself founded by members of transatlantic secret societies, hidden powers and powerful banking and industrial interests never in the open, but always present and with measurable powers and connections. These were and still are mostly the pasty-white and smugly-proud of their whiteness (with “rank-ordering of whites also) they had nothing to do with, class-and-race-inbred, secret-societies-interlinked-very covert elements of an increasingly and globally interlinked “Superclass”.
Without their inbreeding and family connections, without their fixing jobs and positions of power for themselves and their kind, without their secret and non-accountable societies, these types would have no chance in really free, fair and open competitive hiring, elections, awards, or the like. They are like the little “Wizard of Oz” hiding behind curtains of covert and clandestine intrigue, secret societies, networking and the like.
The mentality of these creatures can be summed up in a poem by Bertolt Brecht:
Those who take the meat from the table,
teach contentment.
Those for whom the taxes are destined,
demand sacrifice.
Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry,
of wonderful times to come.
Those who lead the country into the abyss,
call ruling too difficult,
for ordinary folk
Bertolt Brecht
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/New_World_Order/Anglo_American_Estab.html
http://www.papelesdesociedad.info/IMG/pdf/quigley.pdf