Cheney “Secret” Visit, Bush Climate Change Change: Ruse for Super-Secret World Domination Conference
As the government in Myanmar is finding out, it’s hard to keep oppression, corruption and institutional violence a secret in the age of blogging, satellite surveillance and global economics. So when Dick Cheney and others convened in Salt Lake for a meeting of the “secret” Council for National Policy, I was skeptical. After all, this organization that’s supposedly “cloaked in secrecy” as the news media cliche exhorts, has its own frickin’ website! When you go there, the organization not only has an “About Us” page, they have an entire list of their participants and their recent speeches.
Cheney’s obsession with secrecy is a joke here because everyone knows what he stands for and how he operates. If these powerful, rich, white guys are so interested in gaining crucial public support- which I believe is the point- why are they so secretive? More so, with all the information available on the meeting from those attending it, are we really in the dark when we know what is going on i.e. plotting how to manipulate the political process to dominate and control public policy? Heck, even Deseret News “editor” Joe Cannon got in and is even speaking to them. How crafty can these people be?
If we’re able to follow events in Myanmar during a government crackdown on one of the most secretive societies in the world, it should be a lot easier to follow the twisted machinations of a right-wing conspiracy right in our own state. Right? Unless- it’s all a ruse. A Cheney body-double comes here to divert attention from the real meeting that’s taking place in Kennebunkport right now with Bush, Petraeus, Wolfowitz, Rice and the other members of the cabal. And that explains Bush’s sudden and uncharacteristic interest in global warming. That wasn’t really W at the Polluters Summit at all. It’s all starting to make sense now…
Update: Fellow Utahn Tom Clay also questions the “secrecy” of the Council for National Policy in a comment on Paul Rolly’s blog. It appears the “cloak” is made of Saran Wrap.
September 29th, 2007 at 3:25 pm
The Council for National Policy wants to keep its meetings off the record because public figures, even Cheney, don’t want the crazy things they say to be quoted anywhere. The group was founded by a co-author of the Left Behind books.
Here’s the group to worry about: Freedom’s Watch, founded this summer, is dedicated to keeping America stuck in Iraq forever and bombing the living daylights out of Iran. They have the biggest right-wing money men, plus Mary Matalin and Ari Fleischer. They were behind the $15 million ad campaign telling us that the occupation of Iraq is payback for 9/11.
September 29th, 2007 at 4:11 pm
Quick,where’s secret my decoder ring?
If bush is a believer in human induced global warming now, then we can pretty much say for sure that the theory is in the crapper.
His greatest contribution to the lessening of greenhouse gases will occur when he shuts his pie hole, and his administration expires. Though the carcass will be emitting vile gases for years I’m sure.
September 29th, 2007 at 4:40 pm
Mo: Good stuff. Ironically, Bush might then be personally violating the Clean Air Act.
September 29th, 2007 at 6:16 pm
Sad about Myanmar, but all the looking in the world won’t stop a junta that does not care, and knows repression like LA knows Paris Hilton.
Meanwhile we won’t do anything meaningful. Why? Oil. Burma has it. The military dictatorship has cooperated in supplying labor in the past for the multinational oil companies that work the area. Slave labor. The unlucky Burmese that are victims of it, are rounded up, and were ordered to build a pipeline. For the French oil company TotalFinaElf. Total(bummer) for short.
Not only are they worked at gunpoint, but are responsible for providing their own sustenance, under penalty of death.
Anyone notice how the new douchebag neo-con sarkozy recently elected in France is a supporter now of bush and cabal. The infection has spread, the goons are in control.
Once again People, there are no good guys out there, and most hue and cry of human rights are just lip service to the real cries for freedom. As in our own Revolution, there have to be peaceful supporters, but someday, it may behoove the monks to follow in the path of Qui Chang Cain(Kung Fu), and do some ass kicking in the name of justice, rather than peace marching. Nothing wrong with marching, would however be more effective if some of those monks were marching with the real means of Freedom in their hands.
Remember that the chinese government has tolerated these Burmese goons for years next door, and to quote the late great Mao Tse Tung…
“Power comes from the end of a gun”.
September 29th, 2007 at 7:01 pm
Mo, you are rockin’ me. But I still believe there are good guys: us. My sister-in-law’s family escaped from Burma after World War 2 with their lives and you’re right on when you talk about the unprecedented oppression allowed to go on (makes Iraq under Saddam look like Epcot). Myanmar is similar to Indonesia (East Timor most notoriously) in that the atrocities committed in the name of oil and order have not only been tolerated but engineered by Henry Kissinger, Gerald Ford and other American stalwarts (all this is well-documented in the documentary “The Trials of Henry Kissinger” and Christopher Hitchens’ book). As for China, they have Tibet. Only question about Sarkozy: Is the French word for douchebag- douchebag?
September 29th, 2007 at 7:30 pm
Poche de Douche? Sac de Douche?
Yes, we try. It’s we the People, of the world, against THEM. I really have nothing against military people, except their penchant to follow blindly that brainwashing that has been imparted on them, which is of course something we all do, to a lesser or greater extent, dependent on ego. The comments about what Kissinger thinks of military people, I don’t share, though everyone has to a few completely misguided lives to leave before ascension. Just ask those Burmese Buddhist monks.
I have read Hitchens’ book, and concur with your thoughts on oil industry Kiss Ass Inger, though his appropriate designation would be;
Royale Sac de Douche!
Bring on the trial of the “Odious One”, a dual passport rat of vile odoriferous proportion.
September 30th, 2007 at 7:43 am
Richard: ask and ye shall receive: Freedom’s Watch on the radar
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/30/us/politics/30watch.html?hp
September 30th, 2007 at 8:05 am
That’s the link I posted in my comment above. Really good article. Freedom’s Watch first popped up on the radar last month with the “they attacked us” ad campaign, catapulting the propaganda.