The US divide and rule policy comes to the fore

[NVMojo]

...not everyone is wasting their time on the Schiavo bill ...

March 19, 2005—George W. Bush has a new spring in his step nowadays. After all, isn't he the kingpin in his administration's scheme to deliver "freedom and democracy" to the Middle East?

A noble quest the more gullible in the region and the West might have supposed as they wiped those saline drops from the corner of their eyes, while watching purple-fingered Iraqis make the victory sign or, later, fresh-faced Lebanese students waving their cedar standards.

Then there are those who believe "democracy on the march" is nothing more than a catchy sound bite hiding a far more sinister agenda.

When it comes to Iraq's "flowering democracy," let's put aside the spin and the spiel. How on earth can a war-torn country under occupation and stringent emergency laws be considered democratic?

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http://www.onlinejournal.com/Commentary/031905Heard/031905heard.html

[Gyre]

1. "freedom and democracy" to the ME

=s "kick their ass and steal their gas", to the liars in the WH.

Gyre

[applegrove]

2. The British called it "indirect rule" and they encouraged tribalism where

there was none at times.

[Nikki Stone 1]

3. That's how you get good supply colonies without the adminstrative costs

Destroy their defenses, divide their people, make corrupt deals with governments of questionable validity, protect your corporate assets as you suck the region dry of its natural resources. And you can comfort yourself with the illusion that these people weren't really people anyway--they are illiterate and unthinking tribespeople (because you bombed their civilization into the stone age) and are unimportant.

Sounds a lot like what is happening in the US right now. Wonder whose supply colony we really are.

[applegrove]

4. You are the colony of the Elites in the USA. Funny - they turn colonialism

at their own people. But it just lets you know how little they care for you all.

[Nikki Stone 1]

5. Colony of Elites?

??

[applegrove]

6. With Indirect rule the colony is built up in its tribalism so that the

'empire' (elites) can rule the wealth & resources at the top..while the little people are kept busy fighting each other and not looking up long enough to say: "hey there are more of us..why don't we have a government that takes care of our needs at the very top?".

[Nikki Stone 1]

7. Ah. Thanks for the clarification. Though you are assuming that

the elites are American.

[applegrove]

8. In the case of the tribalism being purposely created in the USA so

that Repukes can easily rule (and repukes represent the elites) yes. The Elites would be American.

What I am saying is that USA has taken a page for British Empire's book. Democracy is slow and not all the money goes to military..some goes to schools & hospitals. Empire Elite USA sees democracy (& its slowness) as something good for the rest of the world to have. While Empire Elite USA in the form of republicans want the colony to be in the USA. That way the elites..republicans can rule...as long as they keep the hoards busy with patriotism, religion, phony issues like gay marriage, they can keep enough Americans apart so that they will not vote as one.. and the republicans will win elections. What did you think that Karl Rove meant when he said Republicans will be in power in the USA for 20 years?

The colonial practice that worked so well for the British Empire is being used by neocons & REpukes..to rule over the masses of Americans .. who are always tempted to vote for their best interest rather than the best interest of the elites. So the Elites using "indirect rule" are in fact American Elites. And they are using it on Americans. That way they get their quick "chop chop" military perpetual wars...and their military industry is happy, corporations are happy that in every country in the world universal health care does not break out (because universal health care is in every western country except the USA)and that human beings are threatened into staying out of the market. And the rich in America get all their taxes because the last thing this Elite REpuke American Empire wants is well funded and powerful middle class. They may ask for things to be improved at home? And why would the elites who overpay themselves care about that? There is more corporate money to be made abroad and if USA can spend all its money on weapons.. then the USA can Knock down the Satellite of say "Brazil" that does not want to give corporate USA access to its forests because it wants to keep the forests for the use of its own people (that is not what is going on right now in Brazil..but it could change..but it cannot change to excluding USA corporate needs from its economy for public good reasons if USA has Trillion dollar weapons that can turn off all of Brazil's satellites). Corporate USA does not want to be shut out of the emerging economies of Brazil, China, India, Russia because these economies...with their growing Middle Classes will be together 10 times bigger than the total economies of all Western nations right now. There are 3 Billion people in those emerging markets right now. Only 3/4 of a Billion people, if that, in the current Western Markets.

So you can see how the whole democracy of the USA is being transformed into a beast whose job it is to spend all of its money to have the best weapons in the world... not so much for world peace.. but so that Corporate USA can get into all the other markets (or force its way in) and so they can take over things they need (CANADA will belong to the USA when USA runs out of water and Oil...because we have tons). And nobody will be able to say no.

Africans might have said to themselves.. you know this market thing works like crap for us... our soil is horrible...we want to go back to sharing everything with the people in small towns. BOOM they will be at war. Because nothing can interfere with the corporations and the minerals they need from Africa.


So, in my view, the elites in the USA know that Americans would never vote for huge military spending that does not help 1/2 the American population and in fact will cause even more unequal distribution of wealth.. and will shrink the middle class. So American elites have to convince people that tribal things like patriotism (which costs them nothing to deliver on) and old religion (which cause fights because it imposes old customary law on modern people) are the way to go. That way they have turned the huge pile of middle class & poor voters into waring tribes who cannot get together long enough to vote for better distribution of wealth..or health care... or less war...or no draft..or more delivery of pulbic (human) goals using the market..

So the elites have to tame the beast of democracy in the USA. Then they promote democracy elsewhere (so that the governments of democracies are busy fulfilling the needs of their people and cannot spend of military) and the American Corporations and Elites are the "big dog" of the world.

And just to show how silly corporations are at distributing the world's resources... they came up with SUV just before peak oil. Brilliant eh? Some day soon only the cops will have access to gasoline. All the rest of us will be driving slow hydrogen/ethanol cars. But the corporations upped their profits by coming up with a new "brand of car" that everyone wanted.. and it used lots of gas which was nice for big oil to make money off of.


IMHO

[Wilms]

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