While revisiting some of the economic changes afoot during
the 1990s I was reminded of this episode with France. This took place while I
was still stationed in Italy. There were many subsequent episodes after 9/11
and the 2003 Iraq Invasion.
The 1990s was a strange 'in-between' time. After 2001 the
world of espionage entered a new 'Golden Age' akin to the 1950s, an age in
which the restraints have been removed and its organisations and members have been
allowed to drink deeply from the well of shadowy endeavours, dark deeds and murderous
plots.
This seemingly minor incident, all but forgotten provides a
small window into a larger world of CIA activities. We learn that the CIA is
involved in economics, both getting intelligence for American corporations,
working in concert with him and we might also mention the CIA itself is
involved in a fair amount of business. Many businesses are layered,
'legitimate' at the surface but also serving a larger agenda. There are many
agents at work in the corporate world and Wall Street. They are also vehicles
for foreign penetration, moving finances and hiding deeds.
We also learn that the US does not trust its allies nor does
it respect them. The 'allies' are tools in the imperial arsenal, tools to be
used and manipulated. The CIA knows that information is power, power to act and
power to harm. There's no doubt the CIA and the host of similar organisations
also collects information in order to spread disinformation and all too
frequently to blackmail.
The US has a very mixed attitude toward the European Union.
In the 1990s it was viewed as an ascendant rival. Today it's viewed as a
necessary bulwark against Russia and a sometime proxy and aid in US Middle
Eastern policy. On the one hand it represents an economic threat which
necessarily implies it is viewed as a rival power. But on the other hand the EU
has been used and manipulated (often with NATO) to help the US consolidate
power. NATO itself can also serve as a means of manipulation and threat. Its
very presence increases tensions that lead to one of the most useful tools in
the imperial arsenal... fear.
France is not innocent either and has its own aspirations. But
I can't blame them for acting as they do and while they claim the mantle of
democracy they don't claim the moral narrative that's promoted by USA, one they
find hypocritical and repugnant. Woolsey's comments and the article try to
present France as the originator of the cycle, as the ones who were really
disloyal. The CIA is presented as benign, just a little foolish. This ignores
decades of history and scheming by the United States to manipulate Europe and
in particular the French. Once again the New York Times is exposed not as a
leftist newspaper but for the most part as an Establishment one. Even when it's
upsetting the order by running a controversial story one wonders if its role is
to challenge or to run interference.
Why write about this? The more American Christians learn
about the true nature of their country, its system and its deeds they will be
able to question the narratives they have been taught. And what I also hope is
that when they listen to their teachers and the Right-wing pundits who haunt
Talk and Christian radio they will have some discernment and begin to
understand that they're being fed a lot of lies and half-truths. They'll begin
to see a lot of these Christians for what they are, not only fear mongers but
propagandists and manipulators trying to sell them a false product. They're
after your money, your vote, your voice and hopefully your children. They want
soldiers both in the corporate and military world. They're fighting a war but
it's a dirty one.
The nations of the world are not innocent but they don't
claim to be Christian nations engaged in and implementing righteous and moral
policies. The former CIA agent Robert Baer admits that in the end all agents
are thieves and liars. That's what the CIA does. That's what it is. They go
into other countries to steal information, manipulate, recruit and blackmail
citizens into working for them and operate under a cloud of deceit.
We can expect pagans to operate this way and justify this
sort of thing in the violent world of dog-eat-dog. Christians in order to
justify this turn to Consequentialism and hide behind the doctrine of Vocation
under which individuals are allowed to behave in completely anti-Christian ways,
but the behaviour is justified because it's being done in the capacity of
office or sphere.
How many Christians have I met that admire the CIA and would
be proud to be a part of it and who look up to those in it? They are thieves,
liars and murderers. Look at what Sacralism does. Look at how it distorts one's
viewpoint and moral perspective.
The US is a wicked empire. There have been plenty of those in
history but when you add the pseudo-Christian element there's something
particularly nefarious about it. There is a real level of spiritual evil at
work. Like the previous Western incarnations of Empire (Rome and Britain) it
seems less despotic and more humane than the cruel Oriental variety. But I
would remind readers that as far as Daniel's visions go it was the final beast
that symbolised Rome. And it was that Beast which was the most terrifying and
evil. The lesson is spiritual, it's not a question of body counts or the degree
by which a nation is ruled by law.
In terms of worldly terror and military destruction Rome was
terrible, Britain and America no less. But compared to Babylon, Persia or even
the Greeks the Roman Empire seemed more principled. We could say the same when
comparing Britain and American vis-à-vis some of the other modern empires, for
example the Ottomans, the Soviets or Chinese.
Yet, spiritually speaking there's another element to what the
Western empires do in terms of their holistic cultural vision and its means to seduce
and conquer the hearts of men that make them particularly sinister... again
from the spiritual perspective. The Soviets and Chinese were particularly
terrible and indeed many citizens were brainwashed and yet these systems were
never able to spiritually harm the Christian church in those lands. Christians
were not taken in by any of it. The same cannot be said for Rome, Britain and
certainly not the United States. The American system poisons the very soul.
