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"They can run but they can't hide!" Achille
Lauro hijack
"To watch the courageous Afghan freedom fighters
battle modern arsenals with simple hand-held weapons is an inspiration to those
who love freedom." - Ronald Reagan, March 21, 19831985 National
Security Decision Directive 166,29 is a secret plan to escalate covert action
in Afghanistan dramatically: Abandoning a policy of simple harassment of Soviet
occupiers, the Reagan team decides to secretly let loose on the Afghan
battlefield an array of US high technology and military expertise in an effort
to hit and demoralize Soviet commanders and soldiers.
CIA supplies mujahideen
rebels with extensive satellite reconnaissance
data of Soviet targets on the Afghan battlefield, plans for military operations
based on the satellite
intelligence, intercepts of Soviet communications, secret communications
networks for the rebels, delayed timing devices for tons of C-4 plastic
explosives for urban sabotage,
and sophisticated guerrilla attacks, long-range sniper rifles, a targeting
device for mortars that was linked to a US Navy satellite, wire-guided
anti-tank missiles, and other equipment.
1986 The mujahideen have been
provided with more than 1,000 state-of-the-art, shoulder-fired Stinger
antiaircraft missiles.
1987 Annual supply of
arms had reached 65,000 tons, and a
"ceaseless stream"
of CIA and Pentagon officials are visiting Pakistani Inter-Services
Intelligence (ISI) headquarters in Rawalpindi.
At any one time
during the Afghan fighting season, as many as 11 ISI teams trained and supplied
by the CIA accompany mujahideen across the border to supervise attacks.
The teams attack airports,
railroads, fuel depots,
electricity pylons, bridges and roads.
CIA operations
officers help Pakistani trainers establish schools for the mujahideen in secure
communications, guerrilla warfare, urban sabotage and heavy weapons
training.
Mujahideen trained in these
techniques using chemical
and electronic delay bomb timers supplied by the US carry out numerous car
bombings and assassination attacks in Kabul.
"The
influence of establishment insiders over
our foreign policy has become
a fact of life in our time. This pervasive
influence runs contrary to the real long-term
national security of our Nation. It
is an influence which, if unchecked,
could ultimately subvert our
constitutional order. The viewpoint of the establishment today is called
globalism.
In the globalist
point of view, nation-states and national boundaries do not count for anything.
Political philosophies and political principles seem to become simply relative.
Indeed, even constitutions are irrelevant to the exercise of power.
Liberty and tyranny are viewed as
neither necessarily good nor evil, and certainly not a component of policy. In
this point of view, the activities of
international financial and industrial forces should be orientated to
bringing this one world design - with a convergence of the Soviet and American
systems as its centerpiece - into being. All that matters
to this club is the
maximization of profits resulting from the practice of what can be described as
finance capitalism, a system which rests upon the twin pillars of
debt and
monopoly. This isn't
real capitalism. It is the
road to economic concentration and to political slavery." - Senator Jesse
Helms 15 December 1987 comments directed to
Ronald Reagan on the
floor of the Senate
"Government's view of the economy
could be
summed up in a few short phrases:
If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving,
regulate it.
And if it stops moving, subsidize it."
"Politics is supposed to be the second
oldest profession.
I have come to realize it bears a very close resemblance
to the first."
"Government does not solve problems;
it
subsidizes them."
"Ronald
Reagan was one of the nearly 100 million
Americans who tuned in on November 20,
1983, to watch the
television movie "The Day After," about the
consequences of a
nuclear holocaust.
In his diary, Ronald Reagan reported that
the movie left him
"greatly depressed."
According to the film's director, after the
Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty was signed in Reykjavik, Iceland, in
1987, he received a telegram from Reagan's office saying: "Don't think your movie didn't have any
part of this, because it did." - Kelly M. Greenhill
"A moment I've been dreading.
George
brought his n'er-do-well son
around this morning.
He asked me to find the kid a job.
Not the
political one who lives in Florida.
The one who hangs around here all
the time looking shiftless.
This so-called kid is already almost 40 and
never had a real job.
Maybe I'll call Kinsley over at The New Republic and see if
they'll hire him as a contributing editor or something.
That looks like
easy work." - REAGAN DIARIES, May 17, 1986
Office of Public Diplomacy
"Ronald Reagan's administration brought
CIA tactics to
bear domestically to reshape the way Americans
perceived the
world." - Robert Parry November 23,
1981
Reagan approves
National Security
Directive 77 providing a budget of $19.3 million for the
Contras.
The directive is made after the Contras have begun earning a
gruesome reputation as human rights violators and terrorists.
To change
this negative perception of the
Contras, the Reagan administration designs a full-blown, clandestine propaganda
operation.
1983
William Joseph Casey
participates in the creation of an inter-agency public diplomacy mechanism that
included the use of seasoned
intelligence specialists to accomplish what a covert CIA operation in a
foreign country might attempt – to change the opinion of and Congress and
the American public that Reagan administration's policies followed the right
path - specifically give aid and support to human rights violators and
terrorists.
Involved in the propaganda initiative were veteran populace
officer Walter Raymond Jr. and chief of the Intelligence Directorate of the
National Security Council
Donald Gregg - a specialists in propaganda and
disinformation.
This effort resulted
in the creation of the Office of Public Diplomacy for Latin America and the
Caribbean in the State Department (S/LPD), headed by Otto Reich*, a Cuban
exile.
A senior American official described Office of Public Diplomacy
of the National Security Council
as 'a vast psychological
warfare operation of the category the military conducts to influence a
population in enemy territory.'
On one occasion, intelligence experts from the
Army's 4th Psychological Operations Group at Fort Bragg, North Carolina,
were assigned to work with Otto Reich's fast-growing operation.
National
Security Council staffer
Lt. Col. Oliver North
served directly under Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger and
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Global Strategic Affairs,
Richard Norman
Perle.
Oliver North Worked with Cocaine Traffickers to Arm
Terrorists
1986 Walter Raymond Jr. sent a
memo to William Casey which described a
shift of control of the S/LPD to the control of the Bureau of Inter-American
Affairs, which was headed by Assistant Secretary of State Elliott Abrams*.
Richard R. Miller, former head of public affairs at AID, and Francis D.
Gomez, former public affairs specialist at the
State
Department and USIA, were hired by S/LPD through
sole-source, no-bid contracts
to carry out a variety of activities on behalf of the Reagan administration
policies in Central America.
They became the key link between the State
Department and the Reagan White House with the private
groups and individuals engaged in a myriad of endeavors aimed at influencing
the Congress and public opinion.
The
truth is the State Department was used to run a prohibited, domestic, covert
propaganda operation.
An investigation by the congressional General Accounting Office found
that Office of Public
Diplomacy of the National Security Council had engaged in 'prohibited,
covert propaganda activities'.
Established despite résistance from the
Secretary of State, and reporting directly to the
National
Security Council, the S/LPD attempted to mask many of its activities from Congress.
American journalists who
reported information that undermined the pro-Contra propaganda were targeted by
S/LPD. News executives removed or punish out-of-step reporters.
Another
Walter Raymond Jr. authored memo dated Aug. 9, 1983 suggests the right-wing
media mogul, Rupert Murdoch, was already part of the covert
propaganda
operation.
"Keith Rupert, a Melbourne Australia newspaper
publisher, married Elisabeth Joy Greene, daughter of Rupert Greene
a Conservative Jew in
1928. Keith Rupert was educated at Geelong private school and went to
Oxford University in
England." - Candour (UK)
magazine.
"Today's powerful right-wing media gained
momentum as part of the Casey-Raymond operations of the early 1980s." - Robert
Parry "Unification
Church founder Sun Myung Moon, publisher of the Washington Times, also showed
up in the Iran-Contra
operations, using his newspaper to raise contra
funds and assigning his CAUSA political group to organize support for the
contras.
In the two decades since the
Iran-Contra
scandal, both Rupert Murdoch and Sun Myung Moon have continued to pour
billions of dollars into media outlets that
have influenced the course of US history, often through the planting of
propaganda and disinformation much like a CIA covert action might do in a
hostile foreign country." - Robert Parry
Elliott Abrams was
convicted of misleading Congress in the Iran-Contra and later pardoned by
George Herbert Walker Bush. Elliott Abrams then
became deputy adviser to George Walker Bush's
National
Security Council, where he directed US-Middle East policy.
Otto
Reich became a senior advisor for Republican presidential candidate John McCain
on Latin American affairs.
Reagan
Doctrine, consisted mainly of supporting four anticommunist and
ostensibly pro-democratic insurgencies:
UNITA in Angola, the
Khmer Rouge in Cambodia,
the Mujahedin in
Afghanistan and the
Contras in
Nicaragua.
In retrospect, the results of this policy were decidedly
mixed.
Many of the
Executive Orders given by
Reagan were actually authored by
George HW Bush or his
legal associates.
1919 The Radio Corporation of America
(RCA) is founded by
General Electric.
1953 General Electric
Theater debuted as an "all-incorporation project" sponsored by GE's
Department of Public Relations Services.
November
1954 General Electric
Department of Public Relations Services sends Ronald Reagan to twelve
cities with GE plants to promote the program idea, further his identity as
spokesman, and become familiar with the incorporation.
1962
General
Electric Theater Ronald Reagan had visited GE's 135 research and
manufacturing facilities, and met some 250,000 individuals. The tour provided
the platform for Ronald Reagan to sharpen his rhetorical skill. The connections
Ronald Reagan made at this time gave him the foundation to run for President.
1986
General Electric
reacquires RCA, primarily for the NBC television network.
2004
General
Electric bought Vivendi's
television and movie
assets, becoming the third largest media conglomerate in the world. The new
incorporation was named NBC Universal.
The divisions of
General Electric
include GE Capital, GE Technology Infrastructure, GE Energy Infrastructure, GE
Consumer & Industrial and NBC Universal.
NBC Universal
includes: NBC Network Television stations which are WNBC - New York, KNBC - Los
Angeles, WMAQ - Chicago, WCAU - Philadelphia, KNTV - San Jose/San Francisco,
KXAS - Dallas/Fort Worth, WRC - Washington, WTVJ - Miami, KNSD - San Diego,
WVIT - Hartford; NBC News; NBC Sports; NBC Studios; NBC Universal Television;
Universal Media Studios; NBC Universal Television Distribution; NBC Universal
International Television.
NBC Universal
Cable includes the A&E Television Networks which consist of
A&E, The Biography Channel, The History Channel, History Channel
International, The History Channel en Español, Military History Channel,
Crime & Investigation Network and Bravo, Chiller, CNBC (co-owned with Dow
Jones), CNBC World (co-owned with Dow Jones), MSNBC (co-owned with Microsoft),
NBC WeatherPlus, mun2, Sci Fi Channel, ShopNBC, The Sundance Channel, Sleuth,
USA Network, Universal HD, The Weather Channel, WeatherPlus.
NBC Universal Global
Networks include LAPTV (Latin America) - co-owned with Paramount
Pictures (Viacom),
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (owned by MGM Holdings) and 20th Century Fox (News Corp);
Telecine (Brazil) - co-owned with Globosat Canais, Paramount Pictures,
DreamWorks (Viacom), MGM and 20th
Century Fox Film Corporation; Universal Channel Latin America (except Brazil);
Universal Channel Brazil (co-owned with Globosat Canais); Sci Fi Channel Latin
America; NBC Universal Global Networks España.
Telemundo which
includes KVEA/KWHY - Los Angeles, WNJU - New York, WSCV - Miami, KTMD -
Houston, WSNS - Chicago, KXTX - Dallas/Fort Worth, KVDA - San Antonio, KSTS -
San Jose/San Francisco, KTAZ - Phoenix, KBLR - Las Vegas, KNSO - Fresno, KDEN -
Longmont, Colorado, WNEU - Boston/Merrimack, KHRR - Tucson, WKAQ - Puerto Rico.
TiVo.
Universal
Studios (co-owned with Vivendi), Universal Pictures, Focus Features,
Rogue Pictures, Working Title Films, Universal Studios Licensing, Universal
Animation Studios, Universal Interactive, Universal Pictures International,
Universal Home Entertainment, Universal Home Entertainment Productions, United
International Pictures (co-owned with Paramount Pictures/Viacom);
Universal Operations Group, Universal Production Studios, Universal Parks &
Resorts, qubo - Qubo Venture LLC
Ronald Reagan was the only modern
president to leave office more popular than when he entered.
Ronald
Reagan was the ever smiling eternal optimist; ignoring
unpleasant facts, idealizing hopeful
fantasies, glossing over the
grimmest realities while often relying on dubious anecdotes and statistics.
Ronald Reagan romanticized the past and drew on an essential American
optimism about the
future.
Ronald Reagan was the penultimate celebrity president.
Ronald Reagan was supremely suited to take
advantage of the electronic corporate media that now dominate and shape modern
political dialogue, placing image over substance. Ronald Reagan enjoyed
American culture's subconscious recognition
of him as a larger than life wild west cowboy,
World War II, and
football movie hero, who with the
blessing of American society stepped out of
the fantasy world of
Talmudwood to hold the reins of Presidency of the USA.
Ronald Reagan's survival of an assassination attempt set his
legendary life in stone.
The mark of Ronald Wilson Reagan's
presidency was paradox.
Ronald
Reagan campaigned as an implacable foe of government deficit spending but he
left office with a federal debt that was nearly triple its level when he took
office.
Ronald Reagan vowed to shrink government and eliminate Cabinet
departments but he wound up adding one, the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Ronald Reagan fired striking air traffic controllers ultimately
destroying their union although at one time he was union president of the
Screen Actors Guild.
Ronald Reagan claimed he to never bow to
terrorists and yet his
administration supplied arms and spare parts to
Iran in an
arms-for-hostages deal.
Ronald Reagan espoused basic small-town
American values but he was a divorced man with estranged children.
Ronald Reagan's tenure was epitomized by a freewheeling
entrepreneurialism
and free spending, with tax reductions for affluent who grew richer while the
number of families living below the poverty line increased by one-third.
I helped the Office of
Policy Development organize a two-day brainstorming conference on the subject
at Wye Plantation in Maryland, where the UK experience was reviewed, possible
privatization candidates assessed, and possible next steps debated. That led to
creation of an interagency Privatization Working Group, which the Reason
Foundation supported via a whole series of federal privatization studies (on
candidates such as the Postal Service, the air traffic control system, Amtrak,
and others).
Two tangible accomplishments followed from these efforts.
The first was the successful privatization of Conrail, the northeastern freight
railroad taken over by
the federal government from the
bankrupt
Penn-Central. It was sold via a stock offering to investors in 1987 for $1.6
billion.
The other was the appointment of the President's Commission on
Privatization in 1987.
There was more real privatization during the
Clinton administration than during Reagan's terms. Under Clinton, the federal
government sold off the Elk Hills Naval Petroleum Reserves ($3.6 billion), the
US Enrichment Corporation ($3.1 billion), and many billions of dollars' worth
of electromagnetic
spectrum, as well as the competitive contracting of more than a hundred
airport control towers and numerous military base functions.
Reagan's
Privatization Commission paved the way for the subsequent efforts by
Clinton and Gore, having made privatization ideas respectable enough to be
considered by National Performance Review of Al Gore and the National
Economic Council and Office of Management & Budget of the
White House.
Ronald Reagan changed the nature of the debate over the size and scope
of the federal government.
It remains
the job of our generation
to privatize many more assets and business enterprises of our overgrown federal
government." - Robert W. Poole Jr., director of transportation studies and
founder of the Reason Foundation, August 1, 2004 |
As Ronald Reagan's second term began concerns
about the mounting budget deficit led to greater interest in the possibility of
a federal privatization effort along the lines of Thatcher's, the idea being to
sell billions of dollars' worth of federal assets and enterprises to investors,
using the proceeds to pay down the national
debt.
Ronald
Reagan's zeal for deregulation of
industry caused the savings and loan debacle, which left
middle class
taxpayers holding the bag for
$200 billion in losses while
the soulless apostate
bankers bought assets for pennies on the dollar.
"Ronald Reagan persuaded Americans to believe in
themselves and in an imagined past, telling us we were better than other
people, God's chosen, citizens of a
shining city on a hill.
Simply speaking and speaking simply, Ronald Reagan had a gift for turning
issues into emotions. In reality, he dumbed down America, persuading us to
suspend belief by combining fact and fiction, persuading us to make politics
and governance just another subsidiary of his old business -
entertainment." -
Richard Reeves
"A more factual synopsis of
the Reagan presidency might read like this: Reagan was a transformative figure
in American history, but
his real revolution
was one of public-relations-meets-politics and not one of policy.
His 1981 tax cut was followed quickly by tax hikes that you rarely hear
about, and Reagan's real lasting achievement on that front was slashing
marginal rates for the wealthy - even as rising payroll taxes socked the
working class.
Reagan expanded the federal payroll, added a new cabinet
post, and forged a huge debt that ultimately tripped up
his handpicked successor,
George H.W. Bush - who
controlled the "President" during most of Reagan's term in office..
What Reagan did shrink was government regulation and oversight - linked
to a series of unfortunate events from the savings-and-loan crisis of the late
1980s to the sub-prime mortgage crisis of the late 2000s.
This nation
has never seen the kind of bold, crudely calculated and ideologically driven
legend-manufacturing as has taken place with Ronald Reagan." - Will Bunch
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