Uh,,, EVIDENCE? I'm not going to (and I would hope most people wouldn't) follow your lunacy blindly.
Well i posted theis elsewhere and got no response but maybe it will be relevent here.....
In 1950 the US was ran about %50 of the world's trade. Just coming off a successful war the economy was in kik *** shape and this appealed to the highers up (obviously). The use of a wartime economy to keep your country powerful is nothing new. Tied in with imperialism, a war economy keeps the industrial engine running and feeds itself with newly 'aquired' resources. With the british it was cotton, spices, furs, gold and the like. Today the biggy is Oil, but we'll get there in a second.
Now back to the 50s. Following WW2 we enter the cold war, while no real war was happening between the main contenders (The US and Russia) there is anger on both sides of the fence. This gave their respective governments an excuse to do pretty much whatever they wanted under the guise of 'fighting communism/capitalism'. The wars in Korea and Vietnam come to mind but they certainly wern't the only ones. The 'secret wars' in countries like Laos, Nigeria, and Cambodia as well as the CIA opertaions in the middle east and south america (Chilie, Nicaraugra, Brazil, Colombia) these were all justified by the "War on terrorism, err Communism " Also the assinations of dozens of democratically elected officials who were then replaced by cruel dictators by the CIA so the US could maintain control and not the people of these countries (these are documented facts, not liberial hippy BS). All the while the American people were just being lied to, for the most part completely unaware of the BS being commited by their government. The russians knew about, the people of Laos sure as **** knew there was bullets being fired at them, and pretty much every third world country being stomped on by the US knew and still know today. (Why were their some who got off you ask? The ability to retaliate; ISBMs and Nukes etc. I Wouldn't trust a world where the US were the only ones with ICBMs, the rest of us would be ****** up the ***)
Just a quick example that i'm sure you all remember. As part of a secret deal to purchase the release of American hostages held in the Middle East, the White House agreed to sell arms to the government of Iran. But that was really just the catalyst for their real objective. The NSC sold Iran weapons, and then funneled some of the proceeds to the Contra insurgency in Nicaragua. This was a blatant and intentional violation of federal law. This was 86 i believe? (Sorry i don't have my fact checker ) Sadly examples such as this aren't hard to find, though this one accually made the News. (Speaking of which, why the **** don't your reporters broadcast all the BS being done TODAY, so that the otherwise good people of america can say "Wait a minute, We've been dupped!!" )
Anyhow, with the end of the cold war the US gov lost its excuse to do ****, it had no war time economy and those in power could nolonger turn the PROFIT, for themselves, that they once could using the resources provided by the Taxpayers. (Just a note for yous who condone this BS, NOT ONCE has ANY of the illegal opertaions conducted during those periodes benefited the Country only the interestes of those in power, they infact cause great finacial loss to the country as well as giving the US a horrible reputation, Justly of course, but again its not the people's fault) So for about 12 years the Gov had lost it's excuse to commit terrible crimes because it is afetr all a democracy and eventhough they keep the people quite uneducated they can still reason, what the Gov needed was some tag of fear that they could use to blind the reason of the masses.... KABOOM!! 9/11.
Now instead of hoping into Chilie they hop into Iraq under false pretenses and boot out a man that they themselves put in, 'liberating' the people form a horrible life that they create with Sanctions from the UN (AKA the US) that left them living in a **** hole after Desert Storm, and being the 'liberators' they create a relationship where they become the soul source for their survival, through defense from the ARMED RESISTANCE groupes and trade dependancy (Kinda like a international "Protection" ring, which was another tactic used by the British empire, and the French and the Mafia...). The thing is that Neo-Imperialism is very real, it comes form 'Protection' and creating a trade dependency on the empire so it can maintain 'control' without 'controlling' the conquored country. (In this case, Iraq) and until they can nolonger use the war on terror as an excuse this trend will continue.
As i mentioned before the US used to control %50 of global trade, that has dwindled down to %20 with the EU above them and China looking like the next big one, not immedatly, but 100 years down the road. This war on terror is mainly just a bases by which the US wishes to regain its gusto. (Again i'm not blaming the People of America, its the ****** up gov)
As was said earlier though, its not just the US gov, its pretty much all governments and especially the powerful ones (Like pretty much ALL G8 countries) **** with the world as to maintain their power, by keeping people apathetic and in the dark the idiots/powers that be want us to be passive observes so they can turn a buck or a trillion. Finding ways to control the media is a great way to do so (Yah its against the law to directly **** with it, unless national security BS need-to-know etc comes into play, but that dosn't mean that folks can't greese the wheels to keep their interests, intersting
