In reading, on PrisonPlanet.com, the excellent commentary:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=13551The Nature of the Current Financial Crisis: The System is designed to exert Total Control over the Lives of Individuals
The Report from Iron Mountain Revisited
by Richard C. Cook
I first learned of the "Report from Iron Mountain".
In reading the famous work, published in the 1960’s, available in its entirety at:
http://www.projectcamelot.org/Report_from_Iron_Mountain.pdfREPORT FROM IRON MOUNTAIN:
ON THE POSSIBILITY AND DESIRABILITY
OF PEACE
With introductory material by Leonard C. Lewin
The Dial Press, Inc. 1967, New York
Library of Congress Catalog card Number 67-27553 Printed in the U.S.
I couldn’t help but notice the fact that a few passages seem to presage our entire present historical period, beginning with this description of the social control purpose of military conscription and other forms of corvee labor:
“The most obvious of these functions is the time-honored use of military
institutions to provide antisocial elements with an acceptable role in the social
structure. The disintegrative, unstable social movements loosely described as
"fascist" have traditionally taken root in societies that have lacked adequate
military or paramilitary outlets to meet the needs of these elements. [William Rausch’s note: Weimar Germany, the obvious referent of the above sentence, had the size of its armed forces armed forces limited by the Treaty of Versailles to an extent which left their numbers insufficient to guarantee law and order under conditions of elevated unemployment (in the immediate postwar period, and ten years later at the beginning of the Depression) and active foreign political destabilization (during the early 1930’s)] This function has been critical in periods of rapid change. The danger signals are easy to recognize, even though the stigmata bear different names at different times. The current euphemistic clichés--"juvenile delinquency" and "alienation" -- have had their counterparts in every age. In earlier days these conditions were dealt with directly by the military without the complications of due process, usually through press gangs or outright enslavement. But it is not hard to visualize, for example, the degree of social disruption that might have taken place in the United States during the last two decades if the problem of the socially disaffected of the post-World War II period had [William Rausch’s correction: not] been foreseen and
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effectively met. The younger, and more dangerous, of these hostile social
groupings have been kept under control by the Selective Service System. “
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Alex has spoken of the UFO “threat” as a favorite antagonistic principal peddled by the gradualist/multiculturalist/fabian socialist faction within the ruling class prior to their having settled upon the global warming hoax for this purpose. Here’s the Iron Mountain Report’s open discussion of precisely this ruse:
[p. 51] “Credibility, in fact, lies at the heart of the problem of developing a political
substitute for war. This is where the space-race proposals, in many ways so well
suited as economic substitutes for war, fall short. The most ambitious and
unrealistic space project cannot of itself generate a believable external menace.
It has been hotly argued that such a menace would offer the "last, best hope of
peace," etc., by uniting mankind against the danger of destruction by "creatures"
from other planets or from outer space. Experiments have been proposed to test
the credibility of an out-of-our-world invasion threat; it is possible that a few of
the more difficult-to-explain "flying saucer" incidents of recent years were in
fact early experiments of this kind. If so, they could hardly have been judged
encouraging. We anticipate no difficulties in making a "need" for a giant super
space program credible for economic purposes, even were there not ample
precedent; extending it, for political purposes, to include features unfortunately
associated with science fiction would obviously be a more dubious undertaking. “
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And, immediately following the above, is a passage which might be seen as presaging the global warming hoax itself:
“Nevertheless, an effective political substitute for war would require "alternate
enemies," some of which might seem equally farfetched in the context of the
current war system. It may be, for instance, that gross pollution of the
environment can eventually replace the possibility of mass destruction by
nuclear weapons as the principal apparent threat to the survival of the species.
Poisoning of the air, and of the principal sources of food and water supply, is already well advanced, and at first glance would seem promising in this respect;
it constitutes a threat that can be dealt with only through social organization and
political power. But from present indications it will be a generation to a
generation and a half before environmental pollution, however severe, will be
sufficiently menacing, on a global scale, to offer a possible basis for a solution.
“It is true that the rate of pollution could be increased selectively for this
purpose; in fact, the mere modifying of existing programs for the deterrence of
pollution could speed up the process enough to make the threat credible much
sooner. But the pollution problem has been so widely publicized in recent years
that it seems highly improbably that a program of deliberate environ- mental
poisoning could be implemented in a politically acceptable manner.”
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And here’s proof that maintaining the hegemony of the ruling class was the sole determinative of social desirability in the eyes of the authors of this report:
“However unlikely some of the possible alternate enemies we have mentioned
may seem, we must emphasize that one must be found, of credible quality and
magnitude, if a transition to peace is ever to come about without social
disintegration. It is more probably, in our judgement, that such a threat will
have to be invented, rather than developed from unknown conditions. For this
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reason, we believe further speculation about its putative nature ill-advised in
this context. Since there is considerable doubt, in our minds, that any viable
political surrogate can be devised, we are reluctant to compromise, by
premature discussion, any possible option that may eventually lie open to our
government.”
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And this passage seems to supply justification for our current Edward Bernays-driven consumerist, fluoridated water-drinking, football-watching society:
[p. 53] “ Another possible surrogate for the control of potential enemies of society is the reintroduction, in some form consistent with modern technology and political
processes, of slavery. Up to now, this has been suggested only in fiction,
notably in the works of Wells, Huxley, Orwell, and others engaged in the
imaginative anticipation of the sociology of the future. But the fantasies
projected in Brave New World and 1984 have seemed less and less implausible
over the years since their publication. The traditional association of slavery with
ancient preindustrial cultures should not blind us to its adaptability to advanced
forms of social organization, nor should its equally traditional incompatibility
with Western moral and economic values. It is entirely possible that the
development of a sophisticated form of slavery may be an absolute prerequisite
for social control in a world at peace. As a practical matter, conversion of the
code of military discipline to a euphemized form of enslavement would entail
surprisingly little revision; the logical first step would be the adoption of some
form of "universal" military service.”
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The very next passage seems to supply the political and sociological motivation for 9/11 and the “terrorist threat”:
“When it comes to postulating a credible substitute for war capable of directing
human behavior patterns in behalf of social organization, few options suggest
themselves. Like its political function, the motivational function of war requires
the existence of a genuinely menacing social enemy. The principal difference is
that for purposes of motivating basic allegiance, as distinct from accepting
political authority, the "alternate enemy" must imply a more immediate,
tangible, and directly felt threat of destruction. It must justify the need for
taking and paying a "blood price" in wide areas of human concern. “
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And, immediately following that, here’s an expression of the need for making 9/11 a genuine mass-casualty event, followed by a massive propaganda barrage, which is especially chilling when read in the context of the plan for Operation Northwoods, issued four years earlier:
“In this respect, the possible enemies noted earlier would be insufficient. One
exception might be the environmental-pollution model, if the danger to society
it posed was genuinely imminent. The fictive models would have to carry the
weight of extraordinary conviction, underscored with a not inconsiderable
actual sacrifice of life; the construction of an up-to-date mythological or
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religious structure for this purpose would present difficulties in our era, but
must certainly be considered. “
