the burbank digest

digest intro: OTHER VOICES
Arthur Silber fearlessly rips the mask off US injustice and hypocrisy. Silber doesn't claim to be a revolutionary. As 'recovering' left liberal ('recovering' since while righteously denouncing the US political system & its major electoral arms, shredding 'hopeful' liberal illusions its politicians could make systemic changes, he also suggests that libertarian Ron Paul might, if allowed). A passionate, instructive radical libertarian, Silber is a 'fa real' ally. A few brief edited excerpts from his "Once Upon a Time: Power of Narrative" blogspot:

The Nightmare Made Real: Torture, Murder and Endless Horror Institutionalized and Normalized -- by Democrats
5/3/08 http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/2008/05/nightmare-made-real-torture...
I didn't want to write this post. It gives me no pleasure finally to have to make certain judgments, and to recognize it is almost impossible there will ever be any reason to revise or amend them. I have been very harsh in my evaluation of the Democrats and those who ceaselessly work for Democratic electoral victory...Nonetheless, I still had clung to an exceedingly slim thread of hope that at least a few of the Democrats and/or their supporters would act on behalf of the sanctity of human life, of civilization, of the most basic sense of decency. That hope is now gone, probably forever.

digest intro: Why MLK gets bigger & better:

Things were going very badly for the US after unleashing state terror in Afghanistan and Iraq, while declaring justified resistance 'terrorism'. Most of the world turned against US 'global war on terror' and its frontman GWB who added fuel to the fire, and new tactics were called for to advance its bipartisan 'national security' strategy for global domination. After analysis ad debate in all the usual think-tanks, military & otherwise, NGOs, academies and foundations, it was decided then heralded by State Dept. diplomat-in-chief Clinton, that soft power would 'resurge', elevated now to equal-partner with 'hard' power, as 'smart power. The first major trial run was US AFRICOM vs. Libya, in this administration's MENA version of the failed Bush administrations BMENA campaign to conquer the African continent, essential for US global supremacy. (see previous digest issues on 'the Arab Spring' as part of the newly energized and militarized 'strategic non-violence')
Here's why MLK non-violence is more important than ever -- especially opposed to revolutionaries like Malcolm X. Finally there's a 1978 analysis by Carter's Secty. of State, now Obama 'consultant', Zbigniew Brzezinski, of the vital connection to US 'interests' between 'Black Africa and the U.S. Black Movement".

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
At the White House Rose Garden on November 2, 1983, President Ronald Reagan signed a bill creating a federal holiday to honor King. Observed for the first time on January 20, 1986, it is called Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Following President George H. W. Bush's 1992 proclamation, the holiday is observed on the third Monday of January each year, near the time of King's birthday.On January 17, 2000, for the first time, Martin Luther King Jr. Day was officially observed in all fifty U.S. states...

'CHEEKY' TEACHER AN INSPIRATION, HE DARES TO STRUGGLE AND WIN!
CELEBRATE HAWKING, LIVING LIFE PASSIONATELY, TO THE FULLEST, FOR HUMANITY AND THE FUTURE

Stephen Hawking dismisses belief in God: 'There is no heaven; it's a fairy story'
In an exclusive interview with the Guardian, the cosmologist shares his thoughts on death, M-theory, human purpose and our chance existence
Ian Sample, science correspondent
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/may/15/stephen-hawking-interview-...
Photograph: Solar & Heliospheric Observatory/Discovery Channel
In a dismissal that underlines his firm rejection of religious comforts, Britain's most eminent scientist [and Director of Research in Physics at Cambridge University] said there was nothing beyond the moment when the brain flickers for the final time.
Hawking, who was diagnosed with motor neurone disease at the age of 21, shares his thoughts on death, human purpose and our chance existence in an exclusive interview with the Guardian today. The incurable illness was expected to kill Hawking within a few years of its symptoms arising, an outlook that turned the young scientist to Wagner, but ultimately led him to enjoy life more, he has said, despite the cloud hanging over his future. "I have lived with the prospect of an early death for the last 49 years. I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first," he said. "I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark".

Making it clear that US runs its client state, not the other way around as US apologists absurdly pretend

U.S. Saudi deal assures Israel's QME:

Morris J. Amitay, former head of AIPAC the Pro-Israel lobby, told ABC a chief aim of the sale is insuring that Saudi Arabia can serve as another regional military counterweight to Iran... "It is an attempt to bolster the Saudis at a time when the Iranians are trying to be a hegemonic power for the entire region,"
"Our six-decade-long security relationship with Saudi Arabia is a primary security pillar in the region. This package continues that tradition."
" Defense Sec. Robert M. Gates and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Nov. 16 letter to congress.
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/critics-slam-obama-administration-hiding-m...

US' special fascist democracy friends:

Saudi Arabia's government takes the form of an Islamic absolute monarchy...Interior Minister Prince Nayef as his new heir...
www.wn.com/Saudi_Arabia__A_British_journalist_crying_in_Old_Jeddah
Saudi Arabia's new crown prince Nayef bin Abdel-Aziz, ultraconservative interior minister directly involved in sending troops to suppress pro-reform protests in Bahrain is close to Islamic fundamentalists..US Secretary of State Clinton called Sultan a "good friend to the United States". It is not known what effects succession would have on reforms to allow women to drive and vote

Ensuring Israel's Qualitative Military Edge, QME
Andrew J. Shapiro, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Political-Military Affairs
Remarks to The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
Washington, DC, November 4, 2011
http://www.state.gov/t/pm/rls/rm/176684.htm

See in context of US "Hegemonic Quicksand" geostrategy: http://www.burbankdigest.com/node/378
and Russia Pays for Refuses to Cooperate http://www.burbankdigest.com/node/377

U.S. to establish new fund supporting NGOs in Russia
December 15, 2011 http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/news/86623/

TO KNOW THE CLASS ENEMY, READ BRZEZINSKI
Zbigniew Brzezinski, former national security advisor to president Carter, is now Obama foreign policy consultant.
BRZEZINSKI'S NEOLIBERAL GEOSTRATEGIC ANALYSES HAVE STRONGLY INFLUENCED U.S. IMPERIALISM AND THE WORLD IT RULES. . THE 'NEOCONS'T ACTICALLY SHIFTED COURSE CONVINCED THAT UNDER BUSH, THE POST-SOVIET WORLD PROVIDED A SMALL WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY TO GO FOR BROKE, GRAB IT ALL AT ONCE.
BRZEZINSKI DIDN'T OPENLY CLASH WITH PNAC, BUT, WITH HUGE CAPITALIST 'AID', INCLUDING GEORGE SOROS' 'MOVE ON', LAID THE GROUNDWORK FOR A 'WELL PRIMED NEW WORLD ORDER LEADER' AS KISSINGER DESCRIBED OBAMA.
BRZEZINSKI SHEDS UNUSUALLY STARK 'INSIDER' LIGHT ON THE HEGEMONIC PLAYERS & OBJECTIVES METICULOUSLY BURIED UNDER BIG LIES BY STRATEGIC INFORMATION 'NEWS'. TO SAVE THE SHIP OF STATE, MEDIA FRAMES EVERYTHING POLITICAL IN REDUCTIONIST, MIND-FUCKING PARTISAN politics, FOCUS ON NON-SUBSTANTIVE POLITICIANS/POLICIES TACTICAL DIFFERENCES, TO 'DISAPPEAR' THE WORLD-ORDERING & DESTROYING FINANCE CAPITALIST POLITICAL-ECONOMIC SYSTEM - WHICH ONLY BE SUBSTANTIVELY & FUNDAMENTALLY CHANGED BY GENUINE REVOLUTION (which U.S. 'revolutions' are designed to avert), NOT BY ELECTORAL-FACE-CHANGES.

The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Geostrategic Imperatives,
Zbigniew Brzezinski, 1997
"For the United States, Eurasian geostrategy involves the purposeful management of geostrategically dynamic states and the careful handling of geopolitically catalytic states, in keeping with America's twin interests: the short-term preservation of its unique global power and the long-run transformation of it into an increasingly institutionalized global cooperation.

GEOPOLITICAL STRATEGIC CONTEXT
digest intro:
US global domination requires permanent, perpetual wars, on world, regional and/or national scales, they all geostrategically interconnected, all under pretext of some noble 'casus belli', with old & new 'partners', carrot and/or sticks tactics depending on conditions - and increasing desperation as its ruling grip on the old world order is outdone, challenged, defeated and doomed.
Trying to understand the 'apocalyptic' chaos and destruction to decide what can be done, is futile by relying on media 'news', 'strategic information', literally covering each new relentless disinformation horror as a sudden out-of-nowhere crisis so the significance and interconnectedness of the 'grand chessboard' pieces are not visible as manipulated elements of the bipartisan US National Security Agenda [US NSS]

Seductively simple and safe information war for imperialist-zionist predators, their pundits and pimps portraying this political-economic system as the best possible. Or if you don't buy that, better believe it's all-powerful and 'if you aren't with us you're with the terrorists', psywar is disarming and dangerous to lull justice and peace seekers with the well-honed 'electoral opposition' scam that by now we should know all ends up on the same basic world-planet destroying course to save finance capital. Or taking the line of least resistance, succumbing to paralysis from the selectively pruned 'trees' bombardment that obscures or obliterates very knowable and available truth - with its clear and urgent directional action signals.

"Libya is too important in the world system to have Western strategic priorities in Libya unfulfilled and U.S. businesses shut out."
Libya Is Too Big to Fail
International intervention is the right move - not just for humanitarian reasons.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/03/18/libya_is_too_big_to_fai...
Jason Pack, Libya researcher at Oxford University's St. Antony's College, worked in both Tripoli and Washington, D.C., on strengthening U.S.-Libya relations.
...Libya is not peripheral to the world system. It is at its very core. Libya possesses 1,800 kilometers of Mediterranean coastline. The country produces 2 percent of the world's oil, with 85 percent of exports going to Europe Since the beginning of the Great Recession and the slump in global demand in 2008, Libya has allocated $200 billion toward new infrastructure spending.
What makes Libya so important? Any real estate agent could tell you: location, location, location. Control of the country has always been a remarkably effective way to project power into Egypt, the Mediterranean, and beyond. Similarly, denying a hostile power (be it the Soviet Union, Muammar al-Gadhafi, or terrorists) the ability to destabilize surrounding countries from Libyan territory has been a consistent thread in U.S. policy since the end of World War II.

Opening Salvo of U.S. 'Middle East and North Africa' Campaign in the 'GWOT'
Libya, a critical move in the U.S. war to 'own' the African continent, led by USAFRICOM, depended on 'soft power' propaganda personalizing Gaddafi as a 'hated', must be punished 'dictator' with monstrous big lies disinforming, degrading and demonizing his leadership, the conditions in Libya and him.

digest: U.S. 'smart power' wars for global domination based on 'casus belli'
WWII started in 1939 but the US refused to enter the war until the Pearl Harbor attack it engineered December 7, 1941. Contrary to the 'great anti-fascist war' myth, its entry was delayed until so its 'allies' did most of the dirty ground work because the US strategic goal was not 'anti-fascist': it was defeating the then revolutionary Soviet Union, an anti-imperialist and socialist beacon to oppressed peoples and nations worldwide, the major threat to U.S. global domination. 'Mopping up the 'allies' spoils to restructure world capital with the Marshall Plan secured U.S. finance capitalist supremacy.
The 'GWOT' today, merging soft & hard power, e.g. 'smart power', is the continuation of this same U.S. 'manifest destiny mission, the expansion of its historically unprecedented state terrorist slaughter and destruction in the name of democracy, liberation, human rights and development.
Using the bogus European 'credit crunch', US blames Europe for delaying its 'recession recovery' and maneuvers to tighten dominance of European 'allies' by creating a 'fiscal union' of preferred western nations under IMF and other US dominated vehicles

2000 One year before 9/11, the Project for a New American Century (PNAC) called for "some catastrophic and catalyzing event, like a new Pearl Harbor", which would serve to galvanize US public opinion in support of a war agenda.
2000 “Rebuilding America’s Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources for a New Century”, basis of 2002 US NSS
http://www.newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf

911, "Mini Pearl Harbor", the 'big bang' PNAC needed to launch US GWOT
Pentagon's P20G "Proactive, Preemptive Intelligence Operations Group": provoke 'terrorist attacks' to justify US attacks

"The amount of money the central bank parceled out...dwarfed the Treasury Department’s $700 billion TARP. Add up guarantees and lending limits, and the Fed committed $7.77 trillion as of March 2009 to rescuing the financial system"

Secret Fed Loans Helped Banks Net $13B
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-11-28/secret-fed-loans-undisclosed-to...
The Federal Reserve and the big banks fought for more than two years to keep details of the largest bailout in U.S. history a secret... the financial crisis of 2007 to 2009 emerges from 29,000 pages of Fed documents obtained under the FOIA and central bank records of more than 21,000 transactions.
The Fed didn’t tell anyone which banks were in trouble so deep they required a combined $1.2 trillion Dec. 5, 2008, their single neediest day. Bankers didn’t mention they took tens of billions of dollars in emergency loans as they were assuring investors their firms were healthy. And no one calculated until now that banks reaped an estimated $13 billion of income by taking advantage of the Fed’s below-market rates...Saved by the bailout, bankers lobbied against government regulations, made easier by the Fed, which never disclosed details of the rescue to lawmakers even as Congress doled out more money and debated new rules aimed at preventing the next collapse...