Quote Originally Posted by Hanna View Post
Hehe Croc! There are always different ways to interpret history.
But it's interesting that lately there it is always the same country that invades other countries and builds up endless stories of how gruesome these countries are, and why they need to be invaded for everyones best. Yet when you scratch the surface; oil, currency or spreading commercialism is always there in the background.
You are leaning much more towards the Fox News interpretation of things than I am.
If I see a clear pattern then no amount of hype can get me to look around it.
And I feel there is a pattern.
How do you divide hype from clear-patten criteria, and give the latter credence? How to identify Real from Not-Real? What you mention above about "it's interesting.." is similar to the often-mentioned Bilderberg theory. (I'm actually a fan of that theory - some of it checks out, and it's plausible, if a little manic.)
But with respect: Most of the people who work in politics in my US are (imho but w/ citations!) idiots - far below the requisite intellect of folks who can fool the people en-masse.. The type of idiots that, when some objectile should be propelled toward their face at a high-profile press conference abroad in a hostile country, would try to CATCH said object instead of, oh, I don't know, taking cover. (An acinine reference, but it's shoe .. er, true. ) We have people in politics in America with severe drug problems, marital problems, deep-seated honesty problems - senators that fake their deaths, cheat on their wives, and get caught on TV just hoping it will IMPROVE their career. We even generated a Jimmy MacMillan recently, which is telling enough on its own about us. -- For crying out loud, one of our biggest states is governed by a halfwit Austrian ex-bodybuilder who is himself in the midst of a divorce... (It's not that America doesn't turn out great people. It's just that precious few of our great people are politicians.)
I would not doubt the idea that people like Berlusconi or Medvedev or someone else would be smart enough to be part of the Bilderbergs and leave us none the wiser. But when I try to imagine people like Hilary Clinton and Joe Biden being privy to the goings-on of this uber-powerful phantom-group, I can't help but laugh at the idea. Honestly, in my opinion, Obama's the first politician we've had in a long time who isn't a towering, rosaceic embarassment to us by just being on camera. He was the first president in my lifetime I can actually imagine as being smart enough to fool us. (And Kennedy, the one before him, was, fittingly enough, assassinated.)
Hanna, I for one don't doubt we're being fooled. But I know the puppeteer has got to be better than the ones we've seen.