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Written by Rohaan Solare on Tuesday, March 3, 2009 11:55 - Comment
CIA CHIEF LEON PANETTA and The Fallacy of “Politically Unbiased Intelligence”
Taking first place this week for the most absurd political statement is new CIA chief Leon Panetta who promises: “to perform our job with integrity and with respect for the laws and for the constitution that we are all pledged to uphold,” and to deliver “the very best intelligence, independent judgments not influenced by the politics of the situation, but truly real, objective information that can be presented to the president and the policymakers of this country so that they can protect the American people.”
If we are to believe Mr. Panetta then does he mean the CIA’s continuing legacy of covert operations throughout the world are going to stop?
Intelligence gathering is one thing, but covert government operations designed to destabilize foreign governments, topple anti-US leaders or interfere in a foreign country
‘s domestic affairs are to be considered nothing less than political actions authorized by the highest political offices and done under the cover of secrecy and darkness. The CIA is a misnomer since the agency has powers that go far beyond intelligence gathering.
The CIA represents the very essence of the principal political strategies employed by all governments–subterfuge, deception and surveillance. The CIA is compelled by design to deceive all–save those who they must answer to.
It is their mission to conceal every aspect of their undercover activities. We can never expect them to say anything resembling the truth. They report to their masters and we get to hear whatever they have been cleared to say publicly. Fortunately for us leaks happen.
Case in point. George Bush knew Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction in advance of the Iraq war. George Tenet, former Head of CIA told Bush personally that Iraq had no WMD several months prior to the war. Yet, when the field report came out with the conclusion that Iraq had no WMD it was George Tenet who took the fall. The American public was lied to in order to politically justify an invasion of Iraq. Tenet did not disclose to the public that the President was lying about his knowledge of Iraqi WMD.
By creating an agency separate from the executive, congressional and judicial branches, the government big dogs put up a firewall to protect themselves from blowback. The CIA is simply a glove the power holders put on to do their dirtiest work. It is a way of conducting domestic or geo-political black ops at a distance so when the shit hits the fan the big time political leaders do not take a direct hit.
Let’s not forget about the CIA’s involvement in the coup against President Chavez of Venezuela. And look at this laundry list of CIA political activities produced by historian and author Chalmers Johnson.
From the overthrow of the Iranian government in 1953 through the Bay of Pigs, the failed attempts to assassinate Fidel Castro of Cuba and Patrice Lumumba of the Republic of Congo, the Phoenix Program in Vietnam,
the “secret war” in Laos, aid to the Greek colonels who seized power in 1967, the 1973 killing of Salvador Allende in Chile and Ronald Reagan’s Iran-contra war against Nicaragua, there is not a single instance in which the agency’s activities did not prove acutely embarrassing to the United States.
The CIA continues to get away with this primarily because its budget and operations have always been secret and Congress is normally too indifferent to its constitutional functions to rein in a rogue bureaucracy. Therefore the tale of a purported CIA success story should be of some interest.
According to the author of the newly released Charlie Wilson’s War, the exception to CIA incompetence was the arming between 1979 and 1988 of thousands of Afghan moujahedeen (“freedom fighters”). The agency flooded Afghanistan with an astonishing array of extremely dangerous weapons and “unapologetically mov[ed] to equip and train cadres of high tech holy warriors in the art of waging a war of urban terror against a modern superpower,” in this case, the USSR
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Anticipating Personal and Collective Shifts in Relation to MMAC Time Science
The word shift is commonly used in reference to the motifs associated with the 2012-“End of the Mayan Calendar” phenomena (2012-MC). The expectations of those most realistically attuned to the mytho-symbolic significances of 2012-MC sense that there are large scale socio-cultural shifts in the works. Emergent-Culture.com is essentially dedicated to the planet wide socio-cultural movement (planetary culture) that I believe lies at the heart of the “co-incidence” between the end of the 5125 year Maya Long Count Cycle and the unprecedented levels of socio-economic turbulence seen all around the world.
The notion of mere “coincidence” is dispelled once one understands what the Ancient Mesoamericans (Maya, Toltecs, Olmecs, etc) discovered about the nature of time and reality. I use the the term Ancient Mesoamericans because precolumbian Mesoamerica was home to upwards of 80 different tribes and most followed the same calendrical system. Additionally the Maya were not the first to use the core of the Mesoamerican calendrical system—-the tzolkin cycle. Although they were the ones who developed Mesoamerican calendrics to its highest degree. I also prefer to use Ancient Mesoamericans because it helps differentiate between present day Mesoamericans and those who lived in Middle America prior to the European invasion.
Since it was the ancient ones who were responsible for the development of Maya-Meso-American Calendrical system. (MMAC)
And What is Time?
In the Western world time is a very muddled concept. Western science is only now beginning to acknowledge that their classical conception of time is ill defined, overcomplicated and just plain wrong. Have a look at Wikipedia’s treatment of time to get a taste of what I mean. Time has been so misunderstood that Western scholars have written entire books about the subject without reaching any kind of conclusion or consensus about what time is.
Those of you familiar with my writings on time and Mesoamerican calendrics (calendar/time science) know that from my vantage point, time is nothing more than movement and that’s how the Ancient MesoAmericans (AMA) saw it as well. Albeit a special kind of movement.Something I call ordered movement. There are various definitions of time and many are useful, but I’m talking about time in the most fundamental of terms. Time is not the fourth dimension as Einstein believed.[…]
[NOTE: The foregoing paragraphs serve as an introduction to a chapter on my developing book on The Legend of 2012. The remaining text below this note is the tail end of the chapter where I show how one may apply MMAC time science to one’s life in order to anticipate significant personal life events, and as a way to self validate what I consider to be the most profound and universally relevant cosmology (worldview) presently available. It is universally relevant because it applies to everyone regardless of whether one believes in it or not. It is universally relevant because it’s a mesocosmically scaled cosmology and that means that you don’t need to understand equations or use special tools to observe and appreciate, e,g. microscope, telescope.
The chapter goes on to develop the idea of time as ordered movement/change and of how the earth’s basic movements translate into the scheduled and sequential movements of all organisms. The mechanism is detailed down to the DNA molecular level in an attempt to show how all of life unfolds to the beat of some cosmic piper. The piper’s “musical score” is intrinsic to the earth’s movements, the workings of DNA code and all human activity in general. I suggest that the Ancient Mesoamericans discerned the cosmic score from their study of astronomical and earthly cycles both overt and subtle. Some cycles are so subtle that no other culture discovered them. The most subtle of these cycles were encoded into their Tzolkin cycle calendar.
I also relate the tzolkin and genetic codes and then show their relationship to the implicate and explicate orders that the Physicist David Bohm describes in his Holomovement cosmology. This article focuses on a particular type of movement we call a shift or transition. These shifts happen at predictable time scales because the growth and development of all organisms happen according to timing constants built into the very fabric of our reality. It seems that the AMA discovered those constants. The following excerpt tells you how to apply those constants.] click here to read entire article
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