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Title: We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.
Source: whale
URL Source: http://www.whale.to/b/casey_h.html
Published: Oct 14, 2013
Author: William Casey, CIA Director
Post Date: 2013-10-14 09:34:52 by Itistoolate
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Views: 543
Comments: 21

We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.-- William Casey, CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)
"The CIA worked very closely with them and United States supported Saddam Hussein at every level - gave him arms, gave him money, gave him political backing, the military helped him; none of this is really fully understood by the American people." - Peter Camejo
"The connections piled up quickly. Contra planes flew north to the U.S., loaded with cocaine, then returned laden with cash. All under the protective umbrella of the United States Government. My informants were perfectly placed: one worked with the Contra pilots at their base, while another moved easily among the Salvadoran military officials who protected the resupply operation. They fed me the names of Contra pilots. Again and again, those names showed up in the DEA database as documented drug traffickers. When I pursued the case, my superiors quietly and firmly advised me to move on to other investigations." - Former DEA Agent Celerino Castillo, Powder Burns, 1992
"We live in a dirty and dangerous world. There are some things the general public does not need to know, and shouldn't. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows." - Katherine Graham (1 image)
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#1. To: Itistoolate, *9-11* (#0) (Edited)
Cross-referencing 4um Title: Man Behind Syrian ‘Chemical Weapons’ Claim Is Fiction Writer Who Ran Benghazi Cover-Up

Ben Rhodes, the White House national security advisor behind the claim that President Bashar Al-Assad used chemical weapons in Syria, is a fiction writer with zero educational background in government, diplomacy or national security who also played a key role in covering up the truth behind the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi.
35-year-old Rhodes has been a speechwriter for Obama since 2007 and now enjoys the role of deputy national security adviser for strategic communication. He created the infamous term “kinetic military action” to describe the bombardment of Libya which [allegedly] allowed Obama to skirt around the constitutional question of having to declare war.
Rhodes’ expertise revolves around manufacturing narratives. “He earned a master’s degree in fiction-writing from New York University just a few years ago,” writes Ed Lansky. “He did not have a degree in government, diplomacy, national security; nor has he served in the CIA, or the military.

Similarly:
The Corbett Report: Learn History with Philip Zelikow! (video) | and Podcast format: Episode 284 – Learn History with Philip Zelikow! | YouTube version: Learn History with Philip Zelikow!

As Philip Zelikow prepares to teach an online history course, we peel back the layers of propaganda from the former Executive Director of the 9/11 Commission. From cover up to predictive programming, we examine the ways that Zelikow helped to shape (and write) the history he's now teaching.

At 6:51 Zelikow's role in the 9/11 Commission
At 11:54 pre-written with Ernest May; Problem-Reaction-Solution, "like Pearl Harbor" -- past and future divided into before and after
At 20:28-26:24 Zelikow's area of specialization - public mythmaking

Philip D. Zelikow - Wikipedia
historycommons.org: Public Myths; Zelikow and Pearl Harbor

October 15, 1998: Future 9/11 Commission Executive Director Zelikow Says ‘Public Assumptions’ Shape Views of History
In his opening remarks at a conference on contemporary political history organized by the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia, future 9/11 Commission Executive Director Philip Zelikow emphasizes that the public understanding of history is shaped by what are sometimes referred to as “public myths.” “[U]nderstanding contemporary political history is extremely important and constantly alive in public discourse. ‘Contemporary’ is defined functionally by those critical people and events that go into forming the public’s presumptions about its immediate past. This idea of ‘public presumption’ is akin to William McNeill’s notion of ‘public myth’ but without the negative implication sometimes invoked by the word ‘myth.’ Such presumptions are beliefs (1) thought to be true (although not necessarily known to be true with certainty), and (2) shared in common within the relevant political community. The sources for such presumptions are both personal (from direct experience) and vicarious (from books, movies, and myths).” Zelikow says that public assumptions often grow out of “searing events”: “particularly ‘searing’ or ‘molding’ events take on ‘transcendent’ importance and, therefore, retain their power even as the experiencing generation passes from the scene.” [Zelikow, 1999] In a previous publication, Zelikow had written about how a “catastrophic terrorism” event could constitute a momentous, history-shaping milestone: “An act of catastrophic terrorism that killed thousands or tens of thousands of people… would be a watershed event in America’s history.… Like Pearl Harbor, such an event would divide our past and future into a ‘before’ and ‘after’” (see November 1997-August 1998).

911blogger.com: Philip David Zelikow: Catastrophic Terrorism More Shocking than PNAC! [another YouTube on Zelikow posted there; 10.25 minutes. Discusses his "Catastrophic Terrorism" publication and contains a reading from it, starting at the 0:30 seconds mark through 2:34.]

In 1998, Philip Zelikow published an article in Foreign Affairs, the journal of the Council on Foreign Relations, entitled CATASTROPHIC TERRORISM: Imagining the Transformative Event. Nearly two years later, PNAC picked up the CFR-Zelikow language, saying that the desired transformation "is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event -- like a new Pearl Harbor..."

democraticunderground.com: Philip Zelikow, the author of PNAC [another source with the YouTube on Zelikow, linked above at 911blogger.com]
newworldliberty.com and Virginia.edu: PNAC's Zelikow Appointed to Obama's Intelligence Advisory Board

September 7, 2011 — President Obama appointed Philip Zelikow, associate dean for graduate academic programs in the University of Virginia's Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, to serve on the President's Intelligence Advisory Board, the White House announced Tuesday.
Zelikow will serve with 13 others, including former U.S. Senators David Boren and Chuck Hagel, who co-chair the board.

Edited: last 2 YouTube link paths + sequencing format, with additional source-notation in brackets.

GreyLmist posted on 2013-10-16 16:13:39 ET Reply Untrace Trace Private Reply
#3. To: GreyLmist (#1)
"They're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time." -- Col. Puller, USMC

Itistoolate posted on 2013-10-16 19:05:13 ET Reply Untrace Trace Private Reply
#4. To: Itistoolate (#3)
From the Comments section at PressTV - History abandons Israeli regime

There has always been that risk that the power elites have dreaded so much, that “peace” might just break out, spoiling their plans. This is the great enemy that they have armed themselves against.
they are not winning at all. What keeps them afloat is the tel-a-vision in the corner of most homes, monopolized zionist media with its lying narrative, rolling out lie after lie...such as the 9/11 storyline where the script was written well in advance.....truth is hunting them down...should any of them choose to jump ship the time is now

GreyLmist posted on 2013-10-16 19:31:18 ET Reply Untrace Trace Private Reply
#7. To: GreyLmist (#4)
No comment.

Cynicom posted on 2013-11-07 18:59:39 ET Reply Untrace Trace Private Reply
#17. To: Cynicom, GreyLmist (#7)
No comment.

I'll comment.

You cannot run the war machine at the fever pitch that corporate executives and all their dependents have become accustomed to without a casus belli. With the cold war at an end there was a desperate need to construct a new juju mask to shake in the face of a terrified public. The attacks on the East Coast in 2001 were timed to provide just that.

And that's been said many times more exhaustively and eloquently that I can by disinterested experts in a number of fields, most with little to gain and, some of them, much to lose in promoting an unconventional interpretation of said events.

That's as plain as the nose on your face.

How else could we be expected to sustain decade long cost overruns on projects like the V-22 and F-35, to feed the the Imperial Navy, the black budgets, the battalions of spooks, engineers and technocrats whose need to be fed engulfs our fiscal household in a pyroclastic flow of derelict spending?

In order to produce a product of genuine utility like a cell phone or refrigerator, producers have to make an honest profit in line with costs and markets. In "defense" this discipline along with any sense of ethics is out the window. There is only the hysterical cry for MORE at any cost. Lockheed Martin and Northrop and their paid lawmakers get the cake and catering and there's crumbs for the folks.

As for the assertion that "they are not winning at all," it seems that they're doing just damn fine, as far as I can see.

randge posted on 2013-11-09 11:21:45 ET Reply Untrace Trace Private Reply
#21. To: randge, *US INDUSTRIAL WAR MACHINE* (#17)
Lockheed Martin and Northrop and their paid lawmakers get the cake and catering and there's crumbs for the folks.

timesofisrael.com | Lockheed-Martin to open major subsidiary in Israel: Defense giant Lockheed-Martin plans to open a major subsidiary in Israel that will employ hundreds of people, while simultaneously looking to purchase Israeli companies and integrate itself into the Israeli economy, according to a Sunday report.

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