Re: Why is the national press (Fox, too) silent about the Pentagon-White House "retired general" propaganda scam?

On May 14, 5:56 am, Willie.Moo...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
The DOD tells itself that America lost the war in Vietnam because it
lost the hearts and minds of the American people.  So, the folks who
are responsible for the security of the United States thought about
this in the only way they could.  They had to get control of the
situation.  The result?   Info-war.

Now, information warfare is far more than merely securing the IT
assets of the Pentagon (though it includes that too) - info-war,
according to one definition is controlling the epistemology of your
enemy.   That is, you exercise the global information environment in
ways that promotes your goals and undermines the goals of your
enemies.

You tell lies, but lies so well crafted in their nature, their method
of delivery, and their supporting information and with a process -
that makes them real in the minds of your target population.

At the end of world war two the United States abandoned democracy.
Ken Arrow  explained Condorcet's curious finding about cycles in
voting - and demonstrated conclusively (receiving a Nobel Prize for
his work) that voting cannot do what we expect it to do.  As a
practical matter voting (and buying too) doesn't do all we expect.
This has to be a red flag to those at the CIA and the State Department
who no longer have any rational basis to respect or honor Democracy.

What has happened is that this has morphed into honoring our 'way of
life' or 'our form of government' - gone is any reference to democracy
truth and all that - because according to the experts - its all a
phantasm anyway - and any rational analysis must deal with that
reality.

In short, we've abandoned democracy in the 1950s - and have ceded
power to those who vowed to keep us safe from nuclear annihilation.
They're the new royalty.  The 9.5 million millionaires are the Barons
who are tapped to pay for it all.  The rest of us are serfs.   And if
you're an American serf - well,your way of life and form of government
is honored - you can vote - but the range of discourse and what you
can actually do - cannot transgress 'national security' which means
affect the power of those who are really running the show.

This is so painfully obvious I don't know why you even ask the
question.

In fact CNN trumpets this daily - with phrases like - The Constitution
isn't a death pact among free peoples - which is one of the last
things I remember hearing on CNN with the run up to the latest Gulf
War.

The problem is common mode failure in the system we're relying on, and
the inability of the systemto self-regulate.  Despite the
schizophrenic disconnect between what we tell ourselves about
democracy and what it is capable of doing - and ditto for the markets
- there is one thing about markets and democratic processes - they're
capable of emergent behavior - and adapt at times to chainging
conditions - and are capable of reinventing themselves in the face of
common mode failure.   Royalty no matter how logically consituted,
cannot do this and eventually fails being divorced from their own
failures - and they'll take all of us down with them.

I hate to bitch bout things and not have a solution in hand.   Its
akin to whining.  My feet hurt!   Is a worthless statement.  Get a new
pair of shoes, soak your feet, or get a massage - but whining about it
is stupid.

So, I hesitate to state the obvious here - cause I don't have a
solution.  I certainly support the idea we need to avoid global
thermonuclear war in the modern age, everything after that is a bit
fuzzy - and I certainly don't have enough information to make rational
decisions - or even if rational decisions are possible.

All I'm saying is that there seem to be common mode failures that the
current royal class - the folks that run the CIA, KGB what have you -
and Barons - haven't even acknowledged let alone do something about.
And i'm so far outside the loop, I can't add anything except to point
to the problem and say hey, maybe we should think about this
creatively.

I think we need a modern day Magna Carta - where the 9.5 million
millionaires in the world get together and tell the military
intelligence types that there's gotta be some wiggle room for crazy
ass ideas and change - otherwise we're doomed.

That's my two cents.

Bush's biggest mistake in the war on terror was allowing embedded
journalists in the field.We all know that 98% of today's so called
"journalists" are leftist kooks that oppose Bush, and the war on
terror. They should've done like they did in WW2. The military decides
which "news" the public gets.
.

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