May 25, 2025 "Cutting Through the Matrix" with Alan Watt --- Redux (Educational Talk From the Past): "Puppets, Pearls, and Palaver -- If I Had a Rocket Launcher"
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This is Melissa and today is the 25th day of May 2025 and I hope you're all doing well. I want to let you know that I have started a sub stack this week and that is cutting through the matrix dot sub stack dot com and what prompted me to do that at this time would be a place to house the videos that I'll put up

that are for the book club discussion of Waiting for the Miracle. But it's already morphing into other things as well. There will be content for paid subscribers and free content as well. And one idea that was inspired by a longtime listener, I'm calling the Time Capsule Project. And that is going to be cutting through in the years of COVID-19.

essentially going through some excerpts and maybe some articles that Alan posted during the year, during the time between February of 2020 and February 2021. There will be other things that occur to me to put up here at this new outlet, and I hope that you'll join me over there, cuttingthroughthematrix.substack.com.

And all of your support, as always, in any way that you give it, whether it's encouragement or donating or now subscribing to this new venture, it's all appreciated. Thank you so much. I called my Aunt Betty this evening to see how she was doing, and she was ready for bed.

She likes to go to bed and watch a movie until she goes to sleep or maybe she can stay awake for the whole movie. And if it's not a good one, she'll watch one of the sitcoms that they play, usually on public broadcasting or something like that. I think Father Brown is what they've been replaying lately and she likes that, but she prefers a movie. She said, oh, there's nothing on but war movies.

So I think she was going to end up with Father Brown. Nothing on but war movies because tomorrow is Memorial Day. This is Memorial Day weekend. And it is a federal holiday. Isn't that weird that we have holidays where people have barbecues and picnics and so forth? But it's a somber thing. You honor and mourn.

military people who have died while serving in the U.S. Armed Forces. So that's Memorial Day. And I wanted to pick out something that maybe touched a little bit on that, because that's what we get over and over, is some conflict, some war, and the inclination that we have to pick a side. And that's so studied because we are, as Alan always pointed out,

tribal by nature. So there were just a couple of things that I wanted to mention and I'll put up some articles. Off the bat, a couple of weeks ago, the first white South Africans who were granted refugee status by the Trump administration began to arrive in the U.S. And of course, this is derided in the mainstream press as a publicity stunt.

that there is not in any way a problem in South Africa with any kind of racist against whites. And I've covered a little bit of this with Darren in South Africa. It's a sad situation, the history of that country, particularly the last 40 years, but all of it. And those longtime listeners to Alan have heard him talk quite a bit about South Africa's role

So in terms of resource acquisition and a greater plans for the establishment, the Anglo-American establishment, as laid out by Carol Quigley, a historian we've covered in Tragedy and Hope and his Anglo-American establishment. So The Nation is a very far left-leaning publication in the U.S.,

And a couple of months ago, it published an article, Why Trump is Threatened by South Africa. And I don't think Trump is threatened by South Africa at all. But this is a piece of theater that is being played out for us. And one thing I've noticed in the right-leaning press, the conservative press here, is repetition of the idea that

that what has happened in South Africa is going to happen in the U.S. or is already happening in the U.S. So for three or four decades, the U.S. didn't pay that much attention to South Africa. There was a lot of coverage at the end of apartheid, and then we just let that country be.

and there was no more coverage. So we are always told, are we not, what we're supposed to think. And we can line up. We've got two sides. That's it. So from the nation in March, this is from March, it said, last May, the Heritage Foundation called for the United States to cut aid to South Africa until the country aligns with American values.

a claim repeated by Marco Rubio in his February announcement that he would not attend the coming G20 this November, chaired for the first time by an African country. It's easy to see that U.S. attacks on South Africa and Trump's offer of refugee status to Afrikaners are based on racist lies.

All but a small group of far-right South Africans have treated the offer with derision, for the facts are well known to them. White people currently make up 8% of the population of the Republic of South Africa, yet hold 75% of the country's wealth. Thanks to market liberalization, their wealth actually grew after apartheid.

Only a handful would trade living in a constitutional democracy where they have deep roots for a handout in Trump's America. Trump's fear-mongering about black threats to white safety repeats apartheid era propaganda and betrays deep ignorance about South African history since 1990, when Nelson Mandela was freed and the country as a whole began its long, slow walk to freedom.

I won't read any more of that, but I will post it and you can read that. And one thing that is interesting there, just as an aside, is that it says there in that that only a fringe would agree with Trump's assessment. Now, we don't know. I don't know. It's very hard for me to keep up with everything that's going on in the world because

So the plane arrived a couple of weeks ago with the first group of 59 white South Africans. But I have read elsewhere that 67,000 white South Africans have expressed an interest in being granted refugee status by Trump administration. So that 67,000 is hardly a percentage.

You could not call that, I don't think, a fringe far-right South African contingent. So it's interesting. What, again, I say is very interesting is the way that this is being promoted in the right-wing press as a kind of fear-mongering thing of what is going to happen here in the U.S. And I don't doubt that this could be part of the flattening of the U.S. Remember, the giant eating machine is coming home here.

Also this week, a sad thing happened in that two young people left a museum function near the, ironically, directly across the street from the FBI headquarters. This happened Wednesday night, where two Israeli embassy staff members were shot to death.

The suspect in a Wednesday night shooting near the Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., which left two Israeli embassy staff members dead, returned to the building after the attack, according to a witness.

The suspect, identified as 30-year-old Elias Rodriguez of Chicago, killed a man and woman near the Capitol Jewish Museum and shouted, "Free, free Palestine," as he was arrested, police said. The victims were leaving an event at the museum organized by the American Jewish Committee focused on coalition building in the Middle East when they were targeted.

The attack comes days after Israel launched a major ground offensive in Gaza, dubbed Operation Gideon's Chariots. Israel says it must eliminate the militant group Hamas from Gaza for its own security. Israel has launched a campaign targeting Palestinian militant group Hamas in the Gaza Strip in a war that has set tensions aflame across the wider Middle East.

It began after the Hamas attack on southern Israel on October 7, 2023, that saw 1,200 people killed and some 250 hostages taken to Gaza. Israel's campaign in Gaza has since killed more than 53,000 Palestinians, many of them women and children.

The fighting has displaced 90% of the territory's population of roughly 2 million, sparked a hunger crisis and obliterated vast swaths of Gaza's urban landscape. From Public Broadcasting Station, an article from the 20th of May: "Israel's latest military offensive kills 85 in Gaza despite mounting international criticism.

It goes on to repeat these airstrikes that killed at least 85 Palestinians, and Israeli officials said that they allowed in dozens more trucks carrying aid. Two days after aid began entering Gaza, the desperately needed new supplies have not yet reached people in Gaza, which has been under an Israeli blockade for nearly three months, according to the United Nations.

Experts have warned that many of Gaza's 2 million residents are at high risk of famine. Now, that sort of contradicts what I just last read, because that article that I read from Newsweek said that 90% of the 2 million residents have been dispossessed or relocated or are homeless or somewhere else. So I don't

What we do know is that the original two million, there probably aren't that many people that are there. As I was considering what old talk of Alan wants to put up, I looked at a couple and for one reason or another decided to go a different direction. But in one of those talks that Alan gave, I think it might have been from the year 2017 or 2018, he cited

article from the Council on Foreign Relations. It was a special report and when I clicked on that link it was naturally dead. I was able to find it on the Wayback Machine at Internet Archive or archive.org and this was from November of 2016 and the authors were Robert D. Blackwell and Henry A. Kissinger and Philip H. Gordon.

a senior fellow for the CFR. "The U.S.-Israel relationship is in trouble," warned Council on Foreign Relations senior fellows Robert D. Blackwell and Philip H. Gordon in a new Council special report, "Repairing the U.S.-Israel Relationship."

Significant policy differences over issues in the Middle East, as well as changing demographics and politics within both the United States and Israel, have pushed the two countries apart. Blackwell, a former senior official in the Bush administration, and Gordon, a former senior official in the Obama administration, call for a

Deliberate and sustained effort by policymakers and opinion leaders in both countries to repair the relationship and to avoid divisions that no one who cares about Israel's security or America's values and interests in the Middle East should want.

For strategic, historical, and moral reasons, both governments should do all they can to reframe and revive the U.S.-Israel Strategic Partnership. Okay, I will post that link from the Wayback Machine, and you can take a look at that. So this was released by the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, the 1st of March, 2025. This is just...

U.S. Department of State official PR press release. I have signed a declaration to use emergency authorities to expedite the delivery of approximately 4 billion in military assistance to Israel.

The decision to reverse the Biden administration's partial arms embargo, which wrongly withheld a number of weapons and ammunition from Israel, is yet another sign that Israel has no greater ally in the White House than President Trump. Since taking office, the Trump administration has approved nearly $12 billion in major FMS sales to Israel. This important decision

coincides with President Trump's repeal of a Biden-era memorandum which had imposed baseless and politicized conditions on military assistance to Israel at a time when our close ally was fighting a war of survival on multiple fronts against Iran and terror proxies.

So sometimes you have to go to quite a few different sources to start to put together anything for yourself. But just about four days after that press release came out, this is something from March 5, 2025 from the American Jewish Committee, what every American should know about USAID to Israel. So it goes on to give you the background, what happened on October 7, and so forth.

And it's very detailed, much more detailed than that press release and gives gives you a even clearer idea of how much aid the US has supplied to Israel. And this is from AP News. This is from October 7, 2024, before

press release and the additional pledge of spending from this year. The United States has spent a record of at least $17.9 billion on military aid to Israel since the war in Gaza began and led to escalating conflict around the Middle East, according to a report for Brown University's Costs of War project. And then it

It goes over this in great detail. Immediately, the Trump administration, Trump tweeted something about how this was a terrible anti-Semitic attack. And I think when you...

that the first knee-jerk reaction that the FBI gives us and other people is that this is a terrorist attack, and then it's an anti-Semitic attack. And again, you look at everything, everybody lines up left versus right. I'm going to put up a couple of things that I saw about a manifesto that Elias Rodriguez published

released, evidently, before he shot these two young employees of the Israeli embassy to death. One of them was an American woman, the other an Israeli man. Evidently, they were in a relationship, and it was said that they were about to become engaged. I personally

I'm going to put this up. This was the full manifesto by Elias Rodriguez entitled Explication. And I put it up because it's very well written and it makes you stop and ask some questions. It makes me stop and ask some questions about this person and about the role that he is playing.

and whether or not he is a lone operator, if you will. And I'm not one that jumps immediately on false flags and that this didn't happen the way that we're being told that it happened and it's not real and this person is a tool and we can all think whatever we want to think about these events. You don't need to have me tell you what to think.

All I'm telling you is the writing is good, very good. And so one thing that is being characterized about this man from people who support what he did, and there are people who support what he did, which is murder, which is just killing two people to make a statement. And

The two people that he chose to kill, allegedly, again, we're in a country where you are innocent until proven guilty, right? But the two people that he shot probably don't have anything at all. And even in the most tangential way, with this war that is playing out in front of our eyes for the past year and a half, they're just people. He does...

remind us in this so-called manifesto of others who have tried to shift public opinion by taking a stand that involves harming others or harming themselves when he reminds us of Aaron Bushnell, who self-immolated. He put himself on fire. He was, and I say this for this Memorial Day weekend,

a 25-year-old serviceman of the United States Air Force who died after setting himself on fire outside the front gate of the Embassy of Israel in Washington, D.C. Immediately before the act, which was live-streamed on Twitch, Bushnell said that he was protesting against what people have been experiencing in Palestine at the hands of their colonizers.

and declared that he will no longer be complicit in genocide, after which he doused himself with a flammable liquid and set himself on fire. Elias Rodriguez had been involved in leftist Black Lives Matter and similar kinds of protests for a number of years.

And he criticized America's invasion of Iraq as a genocidal, imperious war. He scorned his father's service as an Army National Guardsman. And he wrote, he said this, and I'm not sure what format he said this in, but he said, when my dad came home from Baghdad, he came with souvenirs.

"One was a magazine pouch with a warning in Arabic: 'To back away or my dad would shoot and kill you,'" Rodriguez wrote. He joked that the print was so small an Iraqi would be dead long before they had a chance to read it. He also gave me a patch of Iraq's national flag, one he ripped off an Iraqi soldier's uniform because he could.

So Rodriguez, this shooter here, this alleged killer of these two people outside the museum said, I don't want to see another generation of Americans coming home from genocidal imperialist wars with trophies. Elsewhere, as this left side versus right side gets whipped up, I see that yesterday,

This is, I think, originally from the New York Post. Anti-Israel parent group uses a New York City school name for activism and holds vigils to spew anti-Semitic hate.

A Brooklyn elementary school has become an epicenter of hatred since anti-Israel protesters started holding, quote, vigils, end quote, on and around the property, spreading anti-Semitic literature and harassing Jewish neighbors.

The rallies by PS 139 Families for Palestine, scheduled every Sunday from 11 a.m. to noon at or next to the Flatbush School, have sparked fears that such actions will incite hatred and violence against Jews, especially since the cold-blooded murders this week of two young Israeli embassy aides in Washington, D.C.

It endangers Jewish lives and embeds bigotry into the fabric of our educational system, said Tova Plaut, a city pre-K coordinator and activist against anti-Semitism in New York public schools. It ensures that hatred of Jews takes root in the hearts of our youth. Everybody has a right to protest, but to use New York City school property to do that is wrong.

said the uncle of a student at the Rugby Road School. They hate Jews. If you're Jewish, it's automatically assumed you're pro-Israel and pro-war. And he makes a good point there because not all Jewish Americans are pro-Israel and pro-war. So again, I'm talking about tribe and race.

aligning with left versus right. And it's so natural and it's used against us. One of the articles quoted the Plan Daleth, which was the master plan according to Walid Khalidi, who published this, I think probably back in the 80s and originally in a publication of the Institute for Palestine Studies.

Zionism's responsibility for the Palestinian exodus and diaspora is an integral part of the genesis of the State of Israel. In their heart of hearts, most Israelis know this, which at least in part accounts for their pervasive sense of insecurity.

But the Israeli government will never admit to this responsibility and for the last 40 years has tried to divert attention from it through the propagation of the lie that in 1948 the Arab leaders broadcast orders to the Palestinians to evacuate their country preliminary to its quote "invasion" by the regular Arab armies.

The issue of responsibility for the Palestinian exodus will remain so long as there is a Palestinian problem. But it was particularly acute in the 1950s and 1960s because until the 1967 war,

All five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council were officially committed to the Palestinian right of return to Israel on the basis of UN Resolution 194, which they had annually endorsed for 20 consecutive years.

In the last two decades, the highlighting by Israel and the World Zionist Organization of the assumed right of return of Soviet Jews and the automatic equation of their desire for immigration from the USSR with this right are at least partly designed to submerge and snuff out the Palestinian right of return.

I am going to put up some more about this for you because it's always good to have as deep an understanding as we can have before we just jump on board and say it's this or it's that. But plan Daleth.

was a Zionist military plan executed during the 1948 Palestine War for the conquest of territory in Mandatory Palestine in preparation for the establishment of a Jewish state.

The plan was the blueprint for Israel's military operations starting in March 1948 until the end of the war in early 1949, and so played a central role in the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight known as the Nakba.

And the Nakba is the ethnic cleansing of Palestinian Arabs through their violent displacement and dispossession of land, property, and belongings, along with the destruction of their society and the suppression of their culture, identity, political rights, and national aspirations. And again, we can be played like puppets on a string.

But this is a historical event that happened. And there have been people, including Israeli historians, who have weighed in. One is Ilan Pape, who asserts that Plan Dalet was a blueprint for ethnic cleansing, which spelled it out clearly and unambiguously. The Palestinians had to go.

The aim of the plan was in fact the destruction of both rural and urban areas of Palestine. So think before you are used. Think before you let your emotions and even your sense of righteous indignation guide you to align with something that you may not understand very well at all.

This talk from Alan Watt is from February the 1st, 2007. Puppets, Pearls, and Palaver. It includes the neocon Richard Pearl's speech to students at the Oxford Union and quite a lot of other interesting things. And if I am able to, on all of the channels, leave the music in there that Alan chose for this blurb,

you will be able to hear Tears for Fears, Everybody Wants to Rule the World, If I Had a Rocket Launcher by Bruce Cockburn. And just in case I have to cut some of this out due to copyright, because that sometimes happens, here are the lyrics for If I Had a Rocket Launcher.

Here comes the helicopter, second time today. Everybody scatters and hopes it goes away. How many kids they've murdered, only God can say. If I had a rocket launcher. If I had a rocket launcher. If I had a rocket launcher, I'd make somebody pay.

I don't believe in guarded borders and I don't believe in hate. I don't believe in generals or their stinking torture states. And when I talk with the survivors of things too sickening to relate, if I had a rocket launcher, if I had a rocket launcher, if I had a rocket launcher, I would retaliate. On the Rio Lecanton, 100,000 wait.

To fall down from starvation or some less humane fate. Cry for Guatemala with a corpse in every gate if I had a rocket launcher. If I had a rocket launcher. If I had a rocket launcher. I would not hesitate. I want to raise every voice. At least I've got to try.

Every time I think about it, water rises to my eyes. Situation desperate. Echoes of the victim's cry. If I had a rocket launcher. If I had a rocket launcher. If I had a rocket launcher. Some son of a bitch would die. Hi folks, I'm Alan Watt, and today it is February the 1st, 2007. Music

Welcome to Snowden, why aren't you acting on your best behavior? Nature, everybody knew who the world was. Help me to this, help me. My style of greed and my pleasure will never last forever. It

I thought I would kick off this talk with a speech or parts of a speech that Richard Perle

gave at Oxford University in 2006, June the 7th. This can be found on various sites, but globalresearch.ca has parts of it up. And you can take your pick. I'm sure each one has selected parts from this whole speech, but with Perl, he doesn't hold too many punches, so it doesn't matter which version you read. This particular column

It kicks off with a quote from Zygmunt Brzezinski. Now remember how these guys play so many roles. Zygmunt Brzezinski was on television. He was the first guy on TV after 9-11 claiming that al-Qaeda and bin Laden residing in Afghanistan had brought down the towers. And he said this before the dust had settled. The same man, remember, who...

amongst the myriad of books he's put out there on global policies, released the Grand Chessboard a few years before 9-11, with the need to go into the Middle East and take over oil and so on. All that kind of stuff. The Council of Foreign Relations guy, Trilateral Commission and a whole host of other organisations. Big player. This is a quote from him.

I think of war with Iran as the ending of America's present role in the world. Iraq may have been a preview of that, but it's still redeemable if we get out fast. In a cold war with Iran, we'll get dragged down for 20 or 30 years. The world will condemn us. We will lose our position in the world. And that was in Vanity Fair 2006. He speaks truth here.

And these guys will often speak truth as they play different sides and swap back and forth to confuse the public or stir up the public even. Because this man wanted this war. The organizations he belongs to have talked about the coming war for years and the necessity for having it. It reminds me of Benjamin Franklin when the high mason that he was came out of the conventional meeting for the Constitution.

and spoke to the lowly people, the public who were barred from getting in. Well, the Masons put it together for them. And when he was asked, what kind of government have you given us? He said, a republic, if you can keep it. And I'm sure he said it with a little smile on his face because he was well aware of the real role that America was deemed to play. Same thing with Brzezinski as he talks out of two sides of his mouth.

To continue with the article on Richard Perle, it goes on to say one U.S. carrier task force is already in position in the Persian Gulf. Two more task forces are moving swiftly to take up their positions in the Iranian theater. The controversial neoconservative American bureaucrat Richard Perle visited Britain on the eve of the papal audience between Prime Minister Tony Blair and Pope Benedict XVI.

Earlier in the same week, the Iranian Nobel laureate for peace, Dr. Shirin Ebadi, was in Britain to voice her concerns about a confrontation between the West and Iran. In London, Metropolitan Police swooped down on two suspected Islamist terrorists believed to be in the process of building a chemical bomb

Summertime tensions are building. So there's always these little things supposedly happening when these meetings are going on. At least we're told this to get the tension raised. It gives more credence to the meetings about terrorism. In bland remarks delivered to a small audience of students at the Oxford Union, Richard Perle outlined the Bush administration's response to the crisis of 9-11 and the neo-conservative doctrines of pre-emptive war. Pre-emptive war means

is taking the right to attack a people on the suspicion that they might bode ill will towards you in the near future in a droning monotone designed to anesthetize his keen academic audience pearl explained the need for an invincible american military apparatus

and a foreign policy predicated on the bush doctrine of pre-emptive war permitting direct and simultaneous interventions into multiple theatres multiple theatres

really, it's not just different techniques of waging the war, which it does, that's part of it, but it's also multiple fronts, if need be. And we know the history of those who have taken on more than one or two fronts at the most. It's no surprise to find you overextend yourself and ultimately you're vanquished. While Perl stated his hope that the need for military interventions would be minimal, he

He left the impression that his definition of excessive use of military power might well differ from that of the average American or European citizen. Perl is on the public record advocating pre-emptive strikes against North Korea, Syria, Iran and a list of other countries. Some of his critics accuse Perl of darkly malignant machinations. That was reported in Sourcewatch.

Continuing, citing Iraq as a glowing example of an obvious need for direct intervention, Pearl admitted that he had long advocated military solutions for regime change in that theatre. In his talk, he reminded us that President Bush had launched invasion on the basis of several triggering factors, including Nigerian yellow cake, weapons of mass destruction,

terrorist connections, democracy building and humanitarian issues. I love that humanitarian one where we're going to blow people up for humanitarian reasons. This prayer was finally reduced to justifying the Iraq war as a humanitarian crusade, a theme that struck hollow in the midst of reports of civil war, torture and US war crimes against innocent civilians in Haditha.

Questioned by a largely supportive audience of admiring students willing to attend a late lecture on a Friday night, Perle touched upon the diplomacy between the West and Iran in the most insipid terms he could muster. Taking into account the latest diplomatic developments, he gave his Oxford audience the impression that the outcome remains obscure in spite of the fact that he is one of the principal architects and the sternest.

of the Iran negotiations. Perl emphasized that President Ahmadinejad holds fanatical religious beliefs involving the necessity for an Armageddonite conflict to trigger the return of the hidden Imam at the end of the world in the Shiite tradition for the Last Judgement and the Islamic apocalypse. So once again they dig up the old stuff, which you can find in every religion,

and bring it to the surface and paint the followers as raging fanatics. That can be done with every, every religion. Peril signalled out the fanaticism of Islamic terrorism as the most serious threat to international security and he praised the Israeli airstrike against Saddam's nuclear reactor in 1981 as a model of pre-emptive military intervention.

In his view, the threat of precision airstrikes against the nuclear infrastructure of Iran constitute the best negotiating option. This makes me wonder because this is all about the nuclear reactors that Iran has been working on. It's so interesting to watch how India was allowed to get the atomic weapon. Their arch enemy, supposedly Pakistan, was also allowed to have it.

But for some reason Iran can't because they're trying to bring on the apocalypse and what's even more amazing Precision airstrikes against a nuclear reactor is when it caused incredible incredible leakage all over goodness knows what size of an area might round the world in fact remember the Chernobyl nuclear reactor meltdown, so how can you possibly have a an airstrike against a nuclear reactor? Safely, it's impossible

It looks to me like Perl, this Perl of wisdom here, would rather bring on the Armageddon. And then again it could all be theatre to terrify the whole planet into going along to a new way of living. Continuing, an Iranian student asked Perl whether he considered the Mershomer and the wallpaper, the Israeli lobby, to be anti-Semitic.

Castigating the 85-page paper as bad scholarship, Perl admitted that he did not know what he was talking about when he confessed that he had not read it in its entirety. This question put Perl on the defensive and he asserted that there was no secret agenda amongst America's plethora of Jewish groups that sought to place the national security of Israel above that of the United States.

In the limited time available, no one was able to follow up Pearl's pregnant point about the non-existence of a secret agenda with a question about the Israeli spy scandal that shook his own office at the Pentagon, when Larry Franklin was discovered to be the conduit between the Office of Special Plans and two Israeli officials who were later identified as espionage agents assigned to the embassy.

Neither was he questioned about the incident that took place in 1970 when an FBI wiretap revealed that Perl discussed classified intelligence with an official at the Israeli embassy. Washington insiders have long considered Perl to be an Israeli agent of influence. Another fact fuels these suspicions swirling around Perl since he serves as a director of Hollinger International which owns the Jerusalem Post.

Conrad Black's newspaper Conrad Black of Canada who was subsequently made Lord Conrad Black by the Queen. Perle has been paid millions for his work for Hollinger even though he is the only outside director on the executive committee. Perle's complicated business dealings have brought him under suspicion for conflicts of interest and the charge that he is attempting to profit from wars that he was strenuously working to create

and implement through his official capacity in the Department of Defense. In 2004, Perl's conflicts of interest resulted in his resignation from the Defense Policy Board. When a perceptive student asked about his preferences for the next president of the United States, Perl made some riveting remarks. He immediately stated his hope that Senator Joseph Lieberman would be the Democratic candidate himself.

Failing that miracle, Perl hopes former Governor Mark Warner will win the Democratic nomination. Perl warmly praised both right-leaning Democrats who are doyens of the Democratic Leadership Council. Richard Giuliani is Perl's favorite Republican. When asked about potential presidential candidates who would cause him concern, Perl swiftly reeled off a long list of Democrats led by Governor Howard Dean,

followed closely by Senator John Kerry, former Vice President Al Gore, former Senator John Edwards, and he finished with his list of neoconservative hate figures with a revealing comment about Senator Hillary Clinton. I don't know what could be more revealing than what's already been revealed. It is hardly secret that Senator Clinton had attempted to appeal to the Israeli right. When she visited Israel, she condemned the Palestinians, but Per was not impressed.

Quite the contrary, Pearl said that while she had made some smart moves in her attempt to appeal to the right, the left did not believe her. That gives impetus to, you know, don't let your left hand know what your right hand is doing. This comment gave the clear impression that Pearl did not believe her either. Criticizing other Democrats, Pearl said that Senator John Kerry did not understand power and was not able to perform the duties of the President of America. In his form of damnation by faint praise...

Perl said that Howard Dean was a much nicer man off the podium than on it, and he gave him pride of place at the top of his most worrisome democratic politicians. The love affair between Perl's base in Likud on the hardline Israeli rights and the EU conservatives of both US political parties is alive and kicking. Perl has long been associated with Likud,

that has been reduced to a weak rump huddling around benjamin netanyahu in the new knesset as a close associate of netanyahu pearl is seen as lacourde's top-ranking advocate in europe and america with his tentacles into both political parties

the Bush White House, the Pentagon and many other leading institutions. Next year it would not be surprising to find Perl's name on contributors lists to Giuliani, Lieberman and Warner. The man should get a prize for having so many disguises and faces. He's outdone Brahma with his amount of faces, this man. And who does he really, really work for? One thing is sure, it will never be the obvious.

That's why it's been made obvious. The morning after his Oxford talk, Perle appeared on the very influential BBC radio programme Today, where he was interviewed by John Humphreys, the ranking heavyweight commentator in Britain. Admitting President Bush's political weakness, Perle made a revealing comment when Humphreys pressed him on US plans to bomb Iran.

When Humphreys pointed out that a unilateral US bombardment of Iran would be greeted with global howls of derision, Perle said, No American president who believes that there is a last opportunity to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear weapon state is going to be deterred by derision. He will do what he believes to be in the best interests of the protection of those who might come under attack from an Iranian nuclear weapon, including the United States.

That was on Today BBC 4, 3rd June 2006. When Humphreys pressed him harder by pointing out that the former British Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, you know the Straw Man, had termed the US bombing of Iran inconceivable, Pearl shot back with a revealing retort, well, it's no longer conceivable that he's the Foreign Secretary. Humphreys then asked whether Straw had been sacked over his offence putting Pearl on the spot by asking, you think there's a link there?

Perl replied, I don't know. He was expressing a view that the government had not concluded yet in a way that diminished the leverage to produce a political result, a diplomatic result. That's obviously unwise. This response left a clear impression that Straw had been removed specifically because he had ridiculed Washington's negotiating position and that Perl had been intimately involved in ordering and engineering the surprise sacking.

While Perle was undergoing his public interrogations before six million listeners on the BBC, Tony Blair was entering the Vatican for his long-awaited audience with Pope Benedict XVI. Blair's last papal audience occurred early in 2003.

shortly before the launch of Iraq war when he pleaded with the late pontiff John Paul II to support the crusade crusade again against Islamic terrorists oh a crusade a holy crusade interesting interesting terminology coming to the fore and Tony Blair remember has been in every other religion he's been in to see voodoo priests and everything else so I don't see what seeing the Pope does

I guess he has to play all the tunes for all the different peoples. The German Pope has been a strident critic of fundamentalist terror. This is the Vatican talking about fundamentalist terror. What a history. The Vatican's code term for Islamism. According to the published accounts, Blair and the Pope discussed the current negotiations with Iran.

The Sunday Times reported Pope Benedict XVI pressed Tony Blair to find a diplomatic resolution to the Iran nuclear crisis. The Pope is more than well aware of the escalation of the military planning on both sides. There can be little serious doubt that George Bush has given Tony Blair his marching orders. And this thing continues with a lot of speculation in little bits and pieces. And it's intended to heighten the tensions.

in the world. Perl is no dummy and Perl can only say what he's told he can say to the world because these characters were set up long ago as a separate organization almost a separate people really and they don't go by Judaism although they'll play all sides at the top they'll play all sides the old saying "when in Rome" applies here and Perl and all these characters that created the new American century club

got permission to do it by Britain because the US was meant to take over from Britain and it has been doing that since really World War I. That was the intent and it has the blessings of Britain and that's the special relationship that different Prime Ministers keep talking about between the US and Britain. This special relationship. This is an ongoing agenda, a very old one and the

They must get the crowds, all different sects of crowds following them, so they make sure they give us the leaders to follow. And then the people will condemn, every mob condemns the other mob. And then you have chaos stirred up. And when you have enough bloodshed and chaos and fear and terror, you come out with the solutions. It's interesting to see that around the late 1800s, revelations in the New Testament suddenly took different twists.

and something which was really almost a second class or third class bunch of scripture came to the forefront, deliberately so, with the creation of the authorized British Israeli or British Israel movement and the doctrine that all the British people were really the lost tribes or comprised some of the lost tribes. All this stuff came out of secret service committees

on how to control the empire and even expand the empire into a global empire and they found that by reinterpreting revelations they could convince followers. At the end of that time there were quite a lot of people who believed in their given religions. They could convince the followers that this was a natural thing, that Britain's empire taking over the world

And then they got their branches set up in America because America they knew would have to take over because it had more manpower, more industry, more space, and could put up more factories, and they would become the policemen of the world. We have the admissions of people at the top who went into Lebanon after World War I, such as Storrs, or Storr, who said we have created an Ulster in a hostile country, talking about

putting a new Israel in amongst the Arabs. Now who is we? Because Storr was talking on behalf of the crown, the empire. Looking back over history, this is nothing new, this ploy of putting in a people into a territory is either a buffer or to stir up tensions down the road whereby you could use as an excuse for going in to save somebody one or the other side or whoever.

In ancient times whole peoples were moved off their land at times. Not so much ancient either. When we look at the places like the Highland Clearances of Scotland from the 1700s into the 1800s, millions of people were just pushed off their land, put in boats and dumped overseas by orders of the Crown. That which they make very obvious will ensure the hate will build up. And that's what it's intended to do. The reasons that...

we can be fooled over and over by the same techniques are because we are so well conditioned and so well understood by those who have access to tremendous sciences of human nature. The representatives we see near the top in the public view may don prayer shawls or they may bow down to popes or like with Mr Blair popping to see voodoo priests

And it's all a charade because those people at the top on all sides don't believe in the myths of the old religions. They all belong to their own religion. Every person at the top of every side belongs to a single religion. That's why they plan the future. That's why they never retire. That's why they're just as fanatical at 80 years of age.

as they were when they were 25. They also are brought up to their own stature and power or sphere of influence by pre-existent authorities. You don't make your way up through the world by blasting a hole through the ozone layer of society and money and power. If you were not allowed up, you wouldn't get up. You'd be shot down halfway up.

That's the reality of the world we live in. The players we see are carefully chosen to play their parts on the world stage because it's the masses they must fool. It's not each other they must fool. They're all very high-ranking Freemasons, way above the nonsense you'll read about on your local bookstore shelves put out as PR ads.

about Freemasonry way above that. These are true believers, true believers in a very old esoteric religion and that's why they never retire. It's the only time you'll see such dedication on all supposed sides from the old men at the top. The only time you'll see that is in a religion and it's not the religions for the exoteric masses. Unfortunately the masses

have accepted identity they've been born with, the culture they've been born into, and then they've had their indoctrinations to make them blend into the mass, their assigned mass. And because of that, they can be counted on to behave exactly as they want them to behave at certain times when they press the button. This bunch goes off to kill that bunch, etc., etc., with the same arguments over and over until it's monotonous. Religion

has never given the opportunity to allow an individual to find their true potential in this world or who they are. The function of religion is to control the minds of the followers. That's why they're authorized religions. The conflicts will go on and on until this great work is achieved. Albert Pike, who wrote Morals and Dogma, which was considered to be the Bible of Freemasonry,

said himself, he said we could just as easily have taken the writings of Xerxes or some other ancient builder. The reason they took the Old Testament as a form of foundation was simply because most people in the West were Christianized. They could relate to some of the stories, but they could have picked any ancient builder or a Persian king. And he admits that this religion pre-existed

most of our given history. When the Pharaohs, for instance, were very young, the priests would educate them in how to maintain and hold power over the people, over the masses. These were sciences which were known thousands of years ago. And it's based on the understanding of human behavior, especially mass human behavior. And because of that, they can bring on conflict

at any time they wish. It's a simple formula. In pre-Christian Rome, the Romans who taxed every country that they went into, they robbed it, they pillaged it, really they drained them, the countries, to keep Rome itself living in an incredible luxury and a style so advanced compared to the countries they'd conquered and looted. And yet their own historians, tongue-in-cheek, would let slip little bits and pieces.

being authorized historians, no different from today. And they tell you that they were looting the countries that they went into under the guise of bringing civilization to them. Civilization. And here's Perl using similar terminology today. The simple formulas where you demonize a people you want to take over and bring this strange odd thing called democracy to them.

People are fighting over democracy with their left wings and their right wings and their left foots and their right foots and left eye and right eyes and very, very schizophrenic indeed that they can't figure it out. When I was really small, I noticed by simply reading from the adult libraries that the organisations such as the Royal Institute of International Affairs were predicting the future in their own publications.

As I grew up, I noticed that regardless of what wing they put in, left wing or a chicken wing, this agenda, sure enough, carried forth this bringing of democracy to the world. And you cannot get people to change their culture or traditional lifestyle quickly without violence. And it's obvious these characters who are forcing this agenda are going on a business plan. It's a business plan we see with times, dates,

money spent, time spent on certain parts of the project, the great builders, and they want to bring this humanitarian war to a close. They want the same standardized system worldwide. How monotonous. There's nothing perfect in any culture, since if we look back at the cultures and their systems, they all have so much in common to do with beginnings.

One family that's maybe a little taller, more aggressive than the rest simply conquer their neighbours and take them over and before you know it they own a county, they own an area, then they own ultimately a country through violence. The aggressive ones. And they end up being, after one or two generations of ritual and propaganda, they end up being set in the mindset of the people as somehow portraying their tribe.

the pinnacle of your tribe in fact forgetting how they started off through mass slaughter, murder and stealing so their gang gets to be the one on top and down through history they have other gangs come along and sometimes a new gang will take over and they become accepted by the people after a couple of generations as though they'd always been there and we watch pageantry and ritual so what you're looking at now is a battle of gangs

And there's no doubt about it, all cultures have their top elite gang on top that run the whole show. So naturally they're not going to like it too much if someone wants to take away their takings, the place where they get their takings from, their lifestyle, their prominence, their power, their status, their income. It always struck me as odd that that which you could see in the playground of schools between competitive gangs wasn't seen as

in the supposed acceptable forms of leading families, pre-eminent families, very wealthy families, because that's how they got their beginnings and that's how they held on to their power was by being completely and utterly ruthless. The deviants are in control and have been down through the centuries. Money

made it much much more easily easy for them to take over money rome did it too they forced the peoples they conquered to accept money and then they taxed it back from them and then paid them back in money to build for them and work for them it's a merry-go-round it's a concept a strange concept which most folk accept but never understand i'm surprised that some of the biggest betting shops in england

And they might actually be doing it because they do put bets on wars and so on to see which gang wins. The gang of the world that'll use, that'll recruit thousands of professors and writers to convince us very quickly how natural it all is, how natural this gang is in place and how much better off we are. The ancient kings were very good at that kind of thing. How they builded cities, as I said, using slave labour.

Yet without the participation of the brainwashed and all factions and are willing to kill each other for people will never ever see except on television the ones who tell us to go off and do this and do that and kill. Without our participation none of this would be possible. Once again the understanding of human nature. You'll notice that at least 20 years pass between major wars.

And that is because by that time those that were crippled are often dead from the last war. The new generations have forgotten all about it. The ones growing up to be recruited for the next war know nothing about it. They think it's all glory and wonder and each one wants to be the hero of his tribe. When he puts on that uniform he'll be just like Rambo when he can go off and slaughter millions and just yells he's got that big machine gun hanging there. Something that weighs about half a tonne round his neck.

The fantasy of it all, the tribal nature which is utilized and understood to the full, works over and over again. Have you ever noticed that as you watch these conflicts being manipulated, and how the peoples naturally withdraw into their own group, as if on cue, a natural response again? Have you ever noticed as they quote God, and all sides quote God, you see, that God's very quiet on the matter? We need people to tell us what God is thinking.

And they do. They tell us what God is thinking, or what God wants. And God is a generic term. Every ancient god in the past was called God. And that's no coincidence. That's the general term that's used. And yeah, we know that certain religions have their own secret word for God, deriving from the ancient times in the Arabian lands. Because knowing the name of a god meant the god had to serve you, he had to power over the genie.

The genie came out of the bottle and I often think the guys must have drunk the bottle first before they saw the genie. Yet we have all these people with all their fancy dresses on telling us what God wants. God's on our side eh? The irony of war after war after war and masses of slaughter manipulated by very clever people who all coerce together to bring all these things around and how the public respond like robots.

when the tribal button is pushed. People who would never, in ordinary life, without conflict, they'd never think of going and killing somebody, suddenly want to do it. The young men want to do it. The older ones don't. That's why they don't recruit older people for the military. They go after the young people, around 18, very immature, you see. They don't know any better. The movies have had tremendous effects on their minds. They think they're indestructible.

And to top it off, we have the admissions down through the years of the chemical tampering that's going on with troops to make them more aggressive. The new anti-malarial drugs that were given, even to Canadian troops, and some of which caused hallucinations while they were on duty in Somalia. And there was a CBC documentary on that. One guy said it was just like walking through rainbows.

and at one time he pulled a gun out to a child's head and pointed it just for the fun of it. It seemed very funny at the time. When they don that uniform, they belong privately. They've sold themselves. That's why they can be experimented on. And that's why the cultures that had the elders, which gave wisdom and kept the balance between the very young and the other age groups, that's why the elderly have been discredited and the families destroyed.

Because they certainly did not want older people to have input into a young person's mind. They might just put them off putting on a military uniform and going off to kill. For reasons they don't even question. That's another sad part of it. They're not interested in political strategies. They're not even interested in their long-term political goals or who benefits from

in which families benefit through the financial scams that we see going on through because war is very very profitable the average mercenary trooper and all peacetime soldiers are mercenaries doesn't concern himself with that he wants to be a hero he wants to be accepted by his peer group with honor and get little tin badges and little ribbons because deep down he suspects that in his life when he goes back to city street

he's going to get no respect at all probably a low-paid job and have nothing but repetitive boring stories to tell people i've watched people at remembrance day some of them call it veterans day in canada and in britain with these old codgers that dress up with their blazers their blue blazers or black blazers and their little berets on and try and march along the old guys from world war ii and now korea

And they'll cry when they tell their stories and so on and so on. And yet, because of the bonding they felt under the threat of their lives, you're talking about an increased bonding because of a survival instinct that was pressed to the full. They have nothing else. They feel like they've never lived after the particular war they were in. Their mind, in a sense, stopped right there.

the rest of their life has been an anticlimax of basic drudgery and that's a sad statement and yet they encourage the young those guys will encourage the young to go off and do the same the abused always seem to go to the abuser for help in this particular system the value system the value system of what for a few hundred families on the planet down through the ages

with various titles and honours and so on, can control the rest. The reason they can control the rest is because most people are afraid of risk taking. They conform, con-form, the priests form, they're conformed, shaped. They're scared to go against the grain because the other robots will look at them strangely. And that's what people are until they wake up.

and have that spark to find out what's going on. And that spark has to flare up into a real flame and get through all the nonsense that's there to trap you and all the finger pointing with traditional enemies to really mislead you. The reason families have never lost power down through the many, many centuries is because they've always with someone else to be the scapegoat. Always. And the public who don't think too far ahead

will jump always on the offered scapegoat. Sad commentary on the world. Those with memory will remember all of the snippets of information from the covert wars, as they were called, going on all over the world, Latin America and elsewhere, where everyone's involved, the special forces of all the Western powers, the quiet killings, quiet that is for those who were living pretty well,

in Europe and North America who didn't hear the screams as their tax money pounded and slaughtered often from the air and being told about it doesn't impact most people they have no empathy for anyone outside their own family that's a sad state of affairs but that's what we have today there's no cohesiveness a natural bonding between peoples divide conquer write down

to the individual and that's when the state reigns supreme when everyone is conquered and separated I'll leave you tonight with a Canadian singer who wrote this song after visiting some Latin American countries and how he expressed what he felt at what was happening the promotion of wars by the big military powers on peasantry for myself and Hamish it's goodnight

And please take your gods with you. Here comes the helicopter

Second time today Everybody scatters And hopes it goes away How many kids they've murdered Only God can say If I had a rocket launcher

If I had a rocket launcher, if I had a rocket launcher, I'd make somebody pay. I don't believe in garlic borders, and I don't believe in hate. I don't believe in generals.

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On the real lock and twin 100,000 ways To fall down from starvation Or some less humane fate Crying for Guatemala Corps and brigade If I had a rocket launcher

If I had a rocket launcher, if I had a rocket launcher, I would not hesitate.

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I'm going to raise every voice. At least I've got to try. Every time I think of water rises to my eyes.

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