{"id":20048,"date":"2016-04-19T21:04:54","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T02:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=20048"},"modified":"2016-04-19T21:05:18","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T02:05:18","slug":"recycling-societies-for-power-and-profit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=20048","title":{"rendered":"Recycling Societies for Power and Profit"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2016\/04\/recycling-societies-power-profit.html\">Recycling Societies for Power and Profit<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"entry-meta\"><strong>The Cruel Fate of the Pawns of Empire<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>A curious diplomatic spectacle is playing out, as the imperial senate tussles over how hot to make it for the Saudis, and how close to hold the vassal sheikhs\u2019 feet to the fire.<\/p>\n<p>Once again we are shown how weak and vulnerable is the position of terrorist patsy, whether it be an individual or a nation state.<\/p>\n<p>The Saudis clearly had no real, operative connection to 9\/11. Bandar Bush merely obliged the real plotters by providing patsies, or at least identity thefts of alleged hijacker identities.1<\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabia is also being strung up now for helping finance the founding of Al Qaeda to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan. Of course they were invited to do this by the US, and being staunchly anti-communist, and eager to spread their doctrine, they obliged whole-heartedly.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, the Saudi retort was about money, about dumping $750 of US assets so they can\u2019t be frozen.<\/p>\n<p>The whole argument is presumably about money. The empire may be trying to twist arms to get a better deal to prop up the petrodollar economy. Another dream scenario for Wall Street would be a color revolution overthrowing the Saudi princes, and installing the usual post-revolutionary kleptocracy to privatize the oil wells and anything else of value on the Arabian peninsula.<br \/>\n<span id=\"more-55523\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Now this got me thinking about a recurring pattern: How the New World Order has supplanted older orders throughout modern history.<\/p>\n<p>By an \u201cold order\u201d I visualize a stable society, with a coherent ethical or religious foundation, including a mission to advance the interests of the individual society, and maintain its independence. It is strongest and most stable when it has progressive leaders who invest in social capital. When good leaders are lacking, societies decline, leaving them weak and susceptible to revolutionary overthrow.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recycling Societies for Power and Profit The Cruel Fate of the Pawns of Empire A curious diplomatic spectacle is playing out, as the imperial senate tussles over how hot to make it for the Saudis, and how close to hold the vassal sheikhs\u2019 feet to the fire. Once again we are shown how weak and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[259,13543,2957,1268,626,643,1980,701,860,5510],"class_list":["post-20048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-geopolitics","tag-empire","tag-john-paul-leonard","tag-kleptocracy","tag-new-world-order","tag-petrodollar","tag-power","tag-profit","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-wall-street","tag-washingtons-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20049,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20048\/revisions\/20049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}