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Titolo: Does The West Have A Future?

Does The West Have A Future?
 
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts | Friday, May 11, 2012, 15:03 Beijing
 
Living in America is becoming very difficult for anyone with a moral 
conscience, a sense of justice, or a lick of intelligence. Consider:
 
We have had a second fake underwear bomb plot, a much more fantastic one 
than the first hoax. The second underwear bomber was a CIA operative or 
informant allegedly recruited by al-Qaeda, an organization that US 
authorities have recently claimed to be defeated, in disarray, and no 
longer significant.
 
This defeated and insignificant organization, which lacks any science 
and technology labs, has invented an “invisible bomb” that is not 
detected by the porno-scanners. A “senior law enforcement source” told 
the New York Times that “the scary part” is that “if they built one, 
they probably built more.”
 
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton declared that “the plot itself 
indicates that the terrorists keep trying to devise more and more 
perverse and terrible ways to kill innocent people.” Hillary said this 
while headlines proclaimed that the US continues to murder woman and 
children with high-tech drones in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, and Africa.
 
The foiled fake plot, Hillary alleged, serves as “a reminder as to why 
we have to remain vigilant at home and abroad in protecting our nation 
and in protecting friendly nations and peoples like India and others.”
 
FBI Director Robert Mueller told Congress that the fake plot proves the 
need for warrantless surveillance in order to detect–what, fake plots? 
In Congress Republican Pete King and Democrat Charles Ruppersberger 
denounced media for revealing that the plot was a CIA operation, 
claiming that the truth threatened the war effort and soldiers’ lives.
 
Even alternative news media initially fell for this fake plot. 
Apparently, no one stops to wonder how al Qaeda, which has become so 
disorganized and helpless that it is on the run and left its revered 
leader, Osama bin Laden, in a Pakistan village alone and unguarded to be 
murdered by US Navy Seals, could catch the CIA off guard with an 
“undetectable” bomb, to use the description provided by Senate 
Intelligence Committee chairman Dianne Feinstein, who was briefed on the 
device by US intelligence personnel.
 
Notice that the Secretary of State has committed the bankrupt US and its 
unravelling social safety net to the protection of “India and others” 
from terrorists. But the real significance of this latest hoax is to 
introduce into the fearful American public the idea of an undetectable 
underwear bomb.
 
What does this bring to mind? Anyone of my generation or any science 
fiction aficionado immediately thinks of Robert Heinlein’s The Puppet 
Masters.
 
Written in 1951 but set in our time, Earth is invaded by small creatures 
that attach to the human body and take over the person. The humans 
become the puppets of their masters. Large areas of America succumb to 
the invaders before the morons in Washington understand that the 
invasion is real and not a conspiracy theory.
 
On clothed humans, the creatures cannot be detected, and the edict goes 
out that anyone clothed is a suspect. Everyone must go about naked. 
Women are not even allowed to carry purses in their hand, because the 
creature can be in the purse attached to the woman’s hand.
 
Obviously, if the CIA, the news sources, and Dianne Feinstein’s briefers 
are correct that defeated al-Qaeda has come up with an “undetectable” 
bomb, we will have to pass through airport security naked.
 
If so, how will this be possible? If each airline passenger must go 
through a personal screening by disrobing in a room, how long will it 
take to clear “airport security”?
 
I doubt there is any place in North or South American that the traveller 
couldn’t drive there faster. Or perhaps this is an answer to depression 
level US unemployment. Millions of unemployed Americans will be hired to 
view naked people before they board airliners.
 
As the Transportation Safety Administration division of Homeland 
Security has taken its intrusions, unchallenged, into train, bus, and 
highway travel, are we faced with the total collapse of the clothing 
industry? Stay tuned.
 
A couple of years ago a noted philosopher wrote an article in which he 
suggested that Americans live in an artificial or virtual reality. 
Another noted philosopher said that he thought there was a 25% chance 
that the philosopher was right. I am convinced that he is right. 
Americans live in the Matrix. Nothing that they know or think that they 
know is correct.
 
For example, our non-truth-telling “leaders” continually declare that 
“Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East.” This myth is one of 
the many reasons rolled out to justify American taxpayers’ declining 
incomes being taxed to provide the Israeli government with the means to 
murder Palestinians and steal their country.
 
Israeli democracy a myth you say? Yes, a myth. According to news reports 
compiled and reported by Antiwar.com (May 8), the September 4 Israeli 
elections have been cancelled, because the “opposition leader Shaul 
Mofaz is joining the government.”
 
Mofaz sold out his party for personal power, a typical politician’s 
behavior.
 
Mofaz’s treachery produced protests from his followers, but, according 
to news reports, “israeli police were quick to crack down on the 
protest, terming it ‘illegal’ and arresting a number of journalists.”
 
Ah, “Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East.”
 
In truth Israel is a fascist state, one that has been in violation of 
international law and Christian morality during the entirely of its 
existence. Yet, in America Israel is a hallowed icon. Like Bush, Cheney, 
and Obama, millions of American “christians” worship Israel and believe 
it is “God’s calling” for Americans to die for Israel.
 
If you believe in murdering your opponents, not debating with them, 
dispossessing the powerless, creating a fictional world based on lies 
and paying the corporate media to uphold the lies and fictional world, 
you are part of what the rest of the world perceives as “The West.”
 
Let me back off from being too hard on The West. The French and Greek 
peoples have shown in the recent elections that they are unplugging from 
the Matrix and understand that they, the 99%, are being put by their 
elites in a position to be the sacrificial lambs for the mistakes of the 
1% mega-rich, who compete with one another in terms of how many billions 
of dollars or euros, how many yachts, collections of exotic cars, and 
exotic Playboy and Penthouse centerfolds they have as personal possessions.
 
The central banks of the West–the US Federal Reserve, the European 
Central Bank, and the UK bank–are totally committed to the prosperity of 
the mega-rich. No one else counts. Marx and Lenin never had a target as 
exists today.
 
Yet, the left-wing is today so feeble and brainwashed that it does not 
exist as even a minor countervailing power. The American left-wing has 
even accepted the absurd official account of 9/11 and of Osama bin 
Laden’s murder in Pakistan by Navy Seals. A movement so devoid of mental 
and emotional strength is useless. It might as well not exist.
 
People without valid information are helpless, and that is where Western 
peoples are.
 
The new tyranny is arising in the West, not in Russia and China. The 
danger to humanity is in the nuclear button briefcase in the Oval Office 
and in the brainwashed and militant Amerikan population, the most 
totally disinformed and ignorant people on earth.
 
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 and technology labs, has invented an “invisible bomb”
 
la bomba invisibile è l'ordigno fine-di-mondo della propaganda
orwelliana. Se credi a quella, puoi credere a tutto.