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Junious Ricardo Stanton
AmeriKKKan Empire Employs Mercenaries
“As of today an administration can intervene anywhere without making an official US commitment and without worrying about the consequences of an enraged public when things go wrong, as they did in Somalia several years ago. The sight of American soldiers being dragged through the streets of Mogadishu underscored the aversion to risk which has become part of the US military post-Vietnam bag of traumas. Being spattered all over CNN and the nightly network news might mean a replay of Vietnam era protest and subsequent rejection of the military . At present the administration can haul out the old ‘plausible deniability’ ploy to cover itself. In any case the American public is kept in the dark while paying for everything.”-Diane Alden NewMax.com 09-03-99
As the fascist Bush administration plows headlong into war in Iraq against the wishes of the majority of the citizens who didn’t vote for him in the 2000 presidential election, don’t be surprised if mercenaries or their new euphemism “Corporate Soldiers for hire” are employed behind the scenes to maintain order, do the really gruesome dirty work like assassinations, torture and ethnic cleansing, or actively help topple governments, prop up and protect whatever puppet regime the US will inevitably impose upon the Iraqi people in the name of democracy. This is not a new phenomena, most Indo-European invaders, colonists and imperialist have used mercenaries since antiquity from Alexander of Macedonia, to the Romans, to the British who used Hessian troops against US colonists. So it should come as no surprise to learn AmeriKKKa is using retired senior military personnel that have come together to form companies expressly for such work. These mercenaries are not the rag tag crass opportunists of folklore, the bumbling Keystone Cop types that attempted to overthrow Fidel Castro in the ill fated Bay of Pigs invasion in the early ‘60's or the contract operatives long employed by the CIA to do its dirty work. No sir, these corporate soldiers for hire are upper level career military men employed by well connected, unscrupulous, bottom line conscious corporate business suit types who recognize the potential of providing top flight security, military training, clandestine operations and support for a price. These contract soldiers or trans-national corporate security businesses bring in tons of money, their clients are governments as well as other corporations. The top handful in the world are doing buffo business. They are Vinnell Corporation, Brown and Root ( a subsidiary of Dick Cheney’s former company Haliburton), Britain’s Sandline Ltd, South Afrikaner’s Executive Outcomes (recently renamed Lifeguard) and Military Resource Professionals Inc. (MRPI). They sell their services to the highest bidder, they train armies, serve as military advisors, fight wars as well as provide counter-insurgency, security and protection for personnel, equipment and installations. They are equipped with the latest high tech weaponry, artillery and even use support jet planes and helicopters. For example the MRPI client list includes the US State Department, US Department of Defense, Joint Chiefs, Army War College, US Army and Department of Interior. The US total forces has shrunk since the Gulf War so employing a contract army is cost effective from a military, economic and clandestine point of view. These companies work for legitimate governments as well a multi-national corporations like Gulf-Chevron, the DeBeers Diamond Cartel and others. MPRI earned a reported 50 million dollars for its work in Bosnia. MPRI is currently providing security for the AmeriKKKan puppet president of Afghanistan. While many of these contract armies are multi-national in make up the upper echelons and major stock holders are usually European.
As AmeriKKKa embarks upon its imperialist crusade, a sly and cunning leader like a Bill Clinton, Tony Blair or George W. Bush can call upon the expertise and resources of these mercenaries to cover their backs, do the dirty work while avoiding the negative fall out of their grab for natural resources (like oil, natural gas, minerals etc) or geo-strategic positioning all over the globe. The Clinton administration used MRPI in the Bosnia campaign and didn’t have to commit US ground troops to harm’s way or suffer the damning consequences of a national scandal when several mercenaries were discovered operating a sex slave ring out of their quarters. Bush, given his access to daddy’s Carlyle Group’s influence will most certainly employ one or more of these companies (probably Kellogg Brown and Root given Dick Cheney’s affiliation with that company) to do the really dirty work in Iraq as well as other spots his cohorts have targeted to rip off the resources, destabilize any opposing forces (who will be branded as terrorists) or overthrow a sovereign government. The US is not the only nation to employ corporate mercenaries, Tony Blair’s government used Sandline Ltd. and Executive Outcomes in Sierra Leon and Papua. Many African heads of state use these companies to start a coup or to protect themselves from one. One example is the recent coup in Zaire.
One reason the Bush administration is not fazed by the impending demonstrations against his Iraq bogard, aside from the fact the corporate owned media/PR propaganda machine is in lock step support of his program, is because he knows he has access to better trained more experienced mercenaries willing to do his dirty work and keep what they do hush hush. These mercenaries have no scruples, they can do as the please nor are they accountable to the AmeriKKKan Congress or public. There will be no displays of body bags on the nightly news to undermine Bush’s grab for oil because the mercenaries work clandestinely. Plus, the funds to cover the operations will come from the myriad illegal activities such as drug and weapons sales and smuggling the CIA and related agencies are engaged in, if the Congress regains its sanity and decides to limit the expenditures for his wars. Either way the fascists win and the AmeriKKKan public loses.
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Junious Ricardo Stanton
Wall Street Ponzi
"There's a sucker born every minute." ‑ P.T. Barnum
"In spite of its utilitarian purpose of raising and distributing capital, the stock market also functions‑ and the most cynical anticapitalists would argue, functions primarily‑ as a pyramid."‑ from Coercion by Douglas Rushkoff p 250
The corporate owned mass media is trivializing the recent revelations of corporate bankruptcies and corruption by putting a spin on it that says it’s merely a few unscrupulous accountants and greedy CEO’s getting over on their shareholders; when in fact, the issue at Enron, WorldCom, et al is really about structural flaws within the whole system. The stock market is inherently elitist and the very essence of a good ol’ boy network. Sure, investing in the stock market is a way to raise capital, become part of a potentially profitable enterprise and make money simultaneously; but it also contains within it, insider wheeling and dealing and manipulation that goes on daily with or without the involvement of accountants or politicians. In the fifteenth century the desire for wealth brought European men of nobility and adventure together who pooled their resources, invested their money to form mercantile consortiums which, once they became profitable spawned imitators who went on to form companies like the Dutch East India Trading Company or the East India Company which were created to spur “trade” and generate wealth for themselves from Africa, Asia and the Americas. Initially these men charted ships to transverse the seas searching for both raw materials and finished products that could be sold in their native countries or elsewhere. As they became profitable they allowed others to “invest” in their enterprises. Eventually others started their own companies which subsequently opened up investment opportunities for still more. However you must understand during and immediately after Mediaeval times, most Europeans were surfs and peasants. The vast majority of the people were poor, they owned no land, money or assets. As the mercantile movement blossomed and Europeans benefitted from the trans-Atlantic slave trade, imperialism and colonialism with an improvement in their standards of living the vast majority of Europeans still weren’t able to invest seriously because they didn’t have much and they were locked out by the upper class. What many of the poor whites did to improve their lot was to sign on as indentured servants, seamen, slave catchers, pirate ship crewmen etc. Remember the English pirates called themselves privateers. They were businessmen who engaged in marauding and stealing the cargos of other country’s ships, splitting the spoils and bounty with the Crown and their investors. Actual trading and investment opportunities were limited to the nobility and upper classes. As those involved got richer, they kept it locked amongst their own group.
It has only been in the last century or so investment opportunities have been opened to the little man. Nowadays investing is open to everyone, people with limited incomes can form investment clubs or invest individually in retirement plans, mutual funds, stocks and bonds. Nevertheless investing is still essentially a gamble; when you stop to think about it, it’s actually a pyramid scheme. Douglas Rushkoff in his informative book Coercion Why We Listen to What “They” Say compares the stock market to a pyramid or Ponzi. “Respected investors and experts at the top of the pyramid buy the issues they want at the lowest price possible. Usually they will pick a stock that has gone out of favor for one reason or another. Their own large purchases bump up the price on the stock a couple of points. Then they issue reports or go on television and make buy recommendations on that same stock, based on the recent turnaround in the price. As investors scramble to match the moves of their favorite analysts, the recommended stock invariably shoots up, increasing the value of the expert’s portfolio and adding to his credibility. Once interest has reached a peak and the number of new buyers has reached the saturation point, the original buyers sell their stock to the last round of patsies- the lowest level of the pyramid, usually composed of the smaller individual investors- they are left holding the stock as everyone else sells. Then the price of the stock drops accordingly. With devalued stock in hand, the last investors can find no one to buy it at a price anywhere near what they paid. Then the experts issue sell recommendations, buy it again and the whole process starts all over.” p 250
This is exactly what happened at Enron only the big boys at the top were hooked up politically with major players in both parties and were part of a network of wheeler dealers making moves all over the world the US media won’t dare tell us about even if they wanted to. What made it really an insider deal/scam was, not only were they doing the usual “pump and dump”, they were funneling huge sums of money into their own pockets, and using big league accounting firms like Arthur Anderson to cover their fraud and thievery. Now Bush is forced to do damage control because the one thing that can upset the applecart is if the public- individual investors, pensioners, insurance company policy holders (who are on the bottom of the pyramid) , like the employees who were encouraged to purchase Enron stock as it was falling while the big boys were selling their shares at a profit- get too upset, they could bring down the whole system. They could actually demand thorough on-going congressional investigations and vote their elected officials who took money from lobbyists representing companies like Enron out of office if they don’t yield to the public good! Or they could take to the streets.
You hear talk about investor confidence, meaning the people who invest must willingly suspend their skepticism and believe the system is not rigged or fixed by and for those at the top even though the small time investor would gladly take full advantage of any insider tips or info if they could get any. So now Bush must pretend he will do something to clean it up. That’s only for public consumption because that’s the way the system works and Bush is an insider himself. He’s part of the ruling elite class that has wheeled and dealt, robbed and stolen for generations. Remember his brother Neil was the front man for the family as they ripped off the Silverado Savings and Loan Association for untold millions of dollars. His daddy George Sr. former CIA Director and President is getting richer by the minute off defense contracts, pharmaceuticals, energy and related deals George Jr.’s War on Terrorism is bringing his Carlyle Group buddies. His granddaddy and great grand-pappy helped rearm and re-industrialize Nazi Germany in the 20's and 30's! So, let the buyer beware. Remember P.T. Barnum said, “There’s a sucker born every minute.” Hopefully the suckers won’t continue to be us.
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