I recommend sitting through these lectures by Michel Chossudovsky.  He peels away the layers of war, financial warfare, oil and resource wars, terrorism, 9/11, privatization and deregulation, financial crises, a slide to fascism and military conquest.  He also states that truth can bring down the entire system and is the ultimate enemy of those pulling the strings behind this system.  If you can understand what he is saying then you will have a pretty good picture of how the world works.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3117338213439292490

Some of my notes:

• He discusses a war agenda and military doctrine which involves oil pipelines and oil reserve control but is about much more than these things.
• The New American Century is a blueprint for world domination and lays out a game plan for conquest using the War on Terror as an excuse to move into the middle East.
• Al Qaeda is a creation of and continues to be a US intelligence asset
• There are four opposing factions including the US/British, Euro zone, Russia and China.  A silent war is currently raging between these groups around the defense industry/arms, oil and currency.
  
• Nuclear war is now part of the strategy in US preemptive warfare.
• Globalization of poverty is the result, not due to scarcity but due to the destructive expansion of the empire via privatization and deregulation.
• Financial crises is a result of the shift of resources to the military complex away from the real productive economy.  The agenda is to privatize all public assets and activities into centrally controlled corporations.  Unlike WWII, the war economy will not create jobs and bring economic well being to US citizens.  The opposite is happening.
  
• We see a slide into Fascism.  Outside of the US it looks like military and economic conquest.  Inside the country it looks like a police state via the militarization of the police force.
• 9/11 serves to justify the war on terror (war of conquest).  But this is a false cover and much like Pearl Harbor, could have been avoided and was used as an excuse to move forward with war plans.
• Dealing with the criminalization of the state.  Politicians on both sides are highly compromised and complicit in keeping the system running.  High level politicians are puppets.
  
• American citizens are uneducated and unaware of truth.  Media has failed to inform people for many reasons.  Government propaganda machine overwhelms truth that does make it out.
• Must question the legitimacy of what is behind all these plans.  Must identify the corporate interests involved including central banks, Wall St., defense industry, pharmaceutical industry, big oil, big agriculture, etc.  Must then get behind who runs these highly centralized businesses and sets their agendas.
• Watch out for dissent movements that serve to demobilize and distract the truth movement.  Manufacturing dissent is used to redirect dissent in ways that actually support the system as a whole.
• Truth is the enemy of this system.  Truth will destroy it.  Truth can be spread person to person in a grass roots movement.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5524526231174165759

Lecture: The Global Financial Crises — The Great Depression of the 21st Century with Michel Chossudovsky Causes and consequences of the financial meltdown.

• The speculative onslaught
• Financial fraud and the “bank bailouts”
• Bankruptcy of the real economy
• Impacts on employment, wages and social services
• Towards a spiralling public debt
• The economic crisis and its relationship to the Middle East war
• The centralization of corporate power
• The concentration of wealth
• The globalization of poverty
  

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