Constructing our Reality

posted by The Vidiot @ 11:33 AM Permalink

Don't you feel like they're priming the pump?

Excerpt: There is a "very high" probability that a terrorist group will strike using nuclear, chemical or biological weapons, a senior U.S. counterterrorism official said in comments published Tuesday.

Everything is being made out to sound so imminent.

Excerpt: World renowned investigative reporter and terror expert Kenneth R. Timmerman, author of the bestselling book "Countdown to Crisis: the Coming Nuclear Showdown with Iran," and Carl Limbacher, reporter for NewMax.com, reveal that the US and Israel will destroy Iran's nuclear facilities in less than 10 weeks from now.

"Boo!" said bin Laden, unconvincingly.

Excerpt: The reason the tape is as phony as Niger yellowcake documents and Saddam's weapons of mass destruction is as plain as day. Bin Laden quotes from the introduction of a book written by long-time Washington, DC progressive author and journalist and a friend of mine, Bill Blum. Bill was once an editor and contributor to Covert Action Quarterly, a magazine devoted to exposing CIA operations like the arming, funding, and training of Bin Laden and his mujaheddin guerrillas during the Afghan-Soviet war.

(Lot of words to come from a dead man, huh?

And even though it's pretty obvious the Iran couldn't do much of anything for years.

Excerpt: I've seen this coming for a while now. Despite the fact that Iran is still probably years away (ten years away according to a recent NIE) from producing even one nuclear weapon, right-wing threat mongers are trying to convince the public that even one Iranian nuclear weapon could bring America to its knees.

No matter how hard they try to make us think they are capable of nuclear mayhem.

Excerpt: Tehran plans a nuclear weapons test before March 20, 2006 ñ the Iranian New Year, moves Shahab-3 missiles within striking range of Israel

It's also obvious that this administration needs something bad to happen in order to justify attacking Iran. One their end, they're doing as much as they can to shove Iran into a corner.

Excerpt: Condoleezza Rice on Wednesday brushed aside suggestions about a possible resumption of negotiations with Iran on its nuclear program.

(Prediction: There will be a terrorist attack in Italy.)

Why the rush? I'll give you one guess.

Excerpt: The Iranian government has finally developed the ultimate "nuclear" weapon that can swiftly destroy the financial system underpinning the American Empire. That weapon is the Iranian Oil Bourse slated to open in March 2006. It will be based on a euro-oil-trading mechanism that naturally implies payment for oil in Euro. In economic terms, this represents a much greater threat to the hegemony of the dollar than Saddam's, because it will allow anyone willing either to buy or to sell oil for Euro to transact on the exchange, thus circumventing the U.S. dollar altogether. If so, then it is likely that almost everyone will eagerly adopt this euro oil system

(Here's one article on the bourse and here's another.)

Meanwhile, Syria and Iran are forming their own mini-NATO.

Excerpt: Syrian President Bashar Assad and his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad closed ranks in talks between the two allies on Thursday, both nations facing growing international pressure.

How much you want to bet Russia and China are part of it?

And this latest comment by France:

Excerpt: In the broad address, Chirac warned unspecified "leaders of states that would use terrorist means against us" that they could face "a firm and fitting response." Analysts and presidential aides said he had no specific country in mind, but newspaper editorialists widely read them to be directed at Iran, and possibly North Korea.

At whom was it REALLY directed?

Well, it's part of the narrative they want us all to be swallowing: Iran is evil. They can bomb us at any time. Terrorism is real...

Excerpt: Terrorism is the weapon used in a new type of war. At the same time, international terrorism, in complicity with the media, becomes the manager of global processes. It is precisely the symbiosis between media and terror, which allows modifying international politics and the existing reality.

So when some sort of staged terror event followed by war happens, it's perfectly logical and believable and not out of the blue.

But remember, al Qaida means "base" or database which means its probably just a database of guys the CIA has used to destabilize various and sundry regimes.

Excerpt: But the Arabs commonly used the short word Al Qaida which is the Arabic word for "base." The military air base of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia is called 'q eidat 'riyadh al 'askariya.' Q eida means "a base" and "Al Qaida" means "the base."
"In the mid-1980s, Al Qaida was a database located in computer and dedicated to the communications of the Islamic Conference's secretariat.