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*** Four Star General Fired For Organizing Coup
Against Neo-Cons?
Reporter suggests Brynes discovered plan to
turn nuke exercise into staged terror attack
Paul Joseph Watson &
Alex Jones | August
10 2005.
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Thursday, August 11, 2005
Bylined to: Franz J. T. Lee
This is why Yankee magnicide permanently threatens President Chavez Frias!
University of
Los Andes (ULA) professor Franz J. T. Lee writes: President
Fidel Castro Ruz always underlines the historic relevance of his
university study of political economy, and how it has helped him and
his comrades to understand Socialism better, and how to apply this
knowledge victoriously to Marxist praxis and theory, to the Cuban and
Latin American revolutionary processes. On the other hand, here in
Venezuela, like elsewhere, traditionally the basics of political
economy were not treated in primary, secondary and university schools
... something that the various, current, educational, Bolivarian
missions definitely have to include in their programs.
Many erudite scholars still argue that modern economics and politics are not intimately inter-related ... already Aristotle formal logically gave politics a superior role, hence relegating economics to a subordinate inferior existence ... nowadays, as a result of the triumphant emergence of "intellectual labor" and of the progressive demise of "physical labor", some social scientists even claim that economics has been integrated into the social superstructure itself.
In this way, ideologically the real social functions of politics, of the State, of capitalist, bourgeois democracy, are hidden from the already heavily mind-controlled world public.
Of course, among other ruling class interests, all these attempts are directed against dialectics, against the social interests of the "wretched of the earth", slaves, peasants, serfs and workers, against social class analysis, against the class struggle, against the method of political economy; in the last analysis, against scientific and philosophic socialism, against Marxism.
For Venezuela, for Latin America, for the Bolivarian Revolution, that have to fight against world economic exploitation and global political domination on various historical equal, unequal, combined and transcendental levels, degrees and spheres, in order to create socialism of the 21st century, for us, it is imperative to know, and to know how to apply the Marxist politico-economic method, the powerful emancipatory praxis and theory, the formidable social weapon of popular self-defense, of Citizens' Power.
Here, as brief commentary, we will just introduce this Marxist conditio sine qua non for the construction of any scientific and philosophic socialism today on a global scale.
According
to Marx: "It would seem to be the proper thing to start with the real
and concrete elements, with the actual preconditions, e.g., to start in
the sphere of economy with population, which forms the basis and the
subject of the whole social process of production."
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1859/critique-pol-economy/appx1.htm#205
This revolutionary method analyzes the social base, the sovereign, the citizens, the population of Venezuela, of Latin America, then it focuses on the obvious division of this population into antagonistic social classes, a historic result of oligarchic puntofijismo, into those that live near Plaza Francia, in Altamira, and into those that vegetate in the slums of the big cities, in the countryside, also into those impoverished millions who have nothing left except their cheap, physical, labor force to offer in unequal exchange on the capitalist labor market, that has reduced 80% of them already to critical, chronic poverty, to unemployed or sub-employed, to street children, to prostitutes, to informal, economic beggars, to the real, true, modern base of future, socialist revolutionary creation here in Latin America, in Venezuela, and elsewhere.
If we succeed, fine!
If we don't, also fine: at least, as incorruptible socialists we will have tried everything possible with all our might ... less we should not do, more we cannot do ... and will therefore have no excuse whatsoever for not having given our utmost best, our most sacred weapons, our very lives to rescue billion-fold Humanity from the mortal fangs of Globalization, from the lethal pangs of World Fascism.
This is why Yankee magnicide permanently threatens President Hugo Rafael Chavez Frias!
Hence, in political economy, having departed from true people, living in a global class reality, that is, from the population, we now continue to analyze Venezuela's seas, lakes, rivers, beaches, gas, oil, minerals, flora and fauna, biodiversity, the different branches of production, especially the oil industry, PDVSA, exports, imports, inflation, prices, annual production and consumption, etc. This is precisely what President Chávez does every Sunday in his program "Ola Presidente."
Why, by studying only the "population" as such ... the Venezuelans, the people, the sovereign, the human beings, even the "Children of God" ... the concept itself becomes a mere, generalized, empty abstraction?
For the simple reason that the whole population of Latin America is composed of different social classes; one must be totally blind not to notice this obvious phenomenon. However many ministers, professors, students, even part of the intellectual Left creme de la creme, very seldom talk or write about severe class struggles in Venezuela, in Latin America. Some do not even use the concept "capitalism" anymore, instead of using the method of political economy in their works, they hide their anti-Marxism behind the "market economy", their anti-socialism behind fraudulent "democracy" or stale "social democracy", some even hide their ignorance behind Greek or Latin word manufacturing.
As such political economy itself will stagnate, unless we revolutionize it urgently.
In fact, when President Chavez always speak about a "positive, middle class", then, at least, we still will have a "negative, middle class", also an upper and a lower class in Venezuela, whose class interests definitely differ. All these determine the severe class struggles in Venezuela, that have trans-historic, anti-colonial, anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist and pro-socialist features. That we still have no socialist vanguard or even strong anti-capitalist cadres worth mentioning, does not alter the revolutionary essence of these volatile, social, class conflicts.
Political economy teaches us, that historically, in Venezuela, in Latin America and the Caribbean, different social classes have different social interests, that epitomized in violent class struggles. In Europe, there exists even inter-class struggles, some already terminated in global class struggles, in inter-imperialist, fascist World Wars, some over-spill into the current "New Bush Wars", that already involve Venezuela as a major oil- and gas-producing country.
Having identified the various, real, concretely existing social classes of Venezuela and Latin America, we will discover that these classes in themselves also remain empty, unless we analyze their social relations, fill them with the political and economic factors on which they depend. Some classes produce masters, others slaves; some possess the means of production and communication privately, others only possess their physical labor force; some have capital, others receive wages, etc.
In fact, at a closer glance, we notice, that capital is nothing without wage-labor, without exchange or surplus value, without cost and prices, that if capitalists would disappear, then wage-labor would also vanish; if no worker or laborer exists, no capitalist can survive. As such we concretely learn the dialectical method of political economy.
Yes, as many believe, so little as Marxism is archaic, so little all these common truths, that we live and see daily around us, are obsolete. And yet, who teaches us political economy?
Having launched the tremendous revolutionary task of sending all of us to invent, to experiment, to create the New Socialism of the 21st Century, President Chavez of Venezuela, in fact has asked us to develop our own Latin American world outlook, our own Venezuelan Science and Philosophy, our own Global Logics, our own Socialist Politico-Economic Method.
This still "correct scientific method", completely valid to analyze any social phenomenon of current imperialist, corporate capitalism ... as was globally verified by the three excellent economic treatises of the late Ernest Mandel ... Marx himself, over 140 years ago, described it as follows:
"The seventeenth-century economists, for example, always took as their starting point the living organism, the population, the nation, the State, several States, etc., but analysis led them always in the end to the discovery of a few decisive abstract, general relations, such as division of labor, money, and value. When these separate factors were more or less clearly deduced and established, economic systems were evolved which from simple concepts, such as labor, division of labor, demand, exchange-value, advanced to categories like State, international exchange and world market. The latter is obviously the correct scientific method."
Marx has explained that no social structure radically changes unless all its possibilities have been realized, have been materialized; only then, the reigning productive relations, the property relations, become chains of the productive forces, starting to brake them, only then the old mode of production has become obsolete, and a new epoch of social revolution sets in.
More than ever, the above is valid for Latin America and Venezuela, for the Bolivarian Revolution, but, even more so, for Marxism and Socialism themselves. In Globalization, the objective, subjective and "transjective" conditions and factors are given, as was explained in the Communist Manifesto, for Permanent World Revolution, for Socialism of the 21st Century.
The real, true, emancipatory iron-test for Marxism has just begun. The Bolivarian Revolution should not confound "real, existent" caricatures with revolutionary science and emancipatory philosophy, should not mistake "social democracy" or "real, true democracy" for Socialism, should not exchange the reality of the Marxist politico-economic method for Platonic, Christian, virtual metaphysics.
To survive the current, fierce Yankee attacks, we ourselves have to act, to think, to excel, our Socialism of the 21st Century, all of, by and for ourselves.
One thing is sure, we will not allow another Intellectual, Metropolitan Conquest, another Northern Mental Holocaust, to overrun us again.
In conclusion, let us allow Marx himself to explain to us this revolutionary truth, the raging battle of ideas, the ferocious class struggle between Northern capitalist ideology and Southern socialist theory, that is so fundamental for the immediate future tasks of the Bolivarian Revolution:
"The
Christian
religion was able to contribute
to an objective understanding of earlier mythologies only when its
self-criticism was to a certain extent prepared, as it were
potentially. Similarly, only when the self-criticism of bourgeois
society had begun, was bourgeois political economy able to understand
the feudal, ancient and oriental economies. In so far as bourgeois
political economy did not simply identify itself with the past in a
mythological manner, its criticism of earlier economies - especially of
the feudal system against which it still had to wage a direct
struggle - resembled the criticism that Christianity directed against
heathenism, or which Protestantism directed against Catholicism."
This Marxist master key of understanding socialist political economy,
of permanent, revolutionary práxis and theory, is simply
human
self-critique; it is to know, that Latin American Liberty is the
scientific and philosophic insight into global emancipatory Human
Necessity, it is that what Rosa Luxemburg understood by "Freedom is
always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently".
For us in Venezuela, it means to take new, original,
revolutionary
steps, to formulate the corresponding new ideas, words and theories.
We have to understand what "in" and "inside" the established global,
fascist, world order, really and truly mean. To capture what "in form"
denotes, what "in-volution" connotes, what is "in-formation" about the
"re-volution".
Only as such, we can take brandnew actions, that nobody ever has
undertaken until now, and can create our own corresponding scientific
and philosophic concepts like: transhistory, trifference,
transvolution, exformation or exvolution. However, we should not forget
that the real Rose of Emancipation (Rosa) is the true concept, as
Shakespeare already indicated,
across
the centuries, no matter by which name we call her, she
will
always smell sweeter than ever.
Franz J. T.
Lee
franzjutta@cantv.net
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Four Star General Fired For
Organizing Coup Against Neo-Cons?
Reporter suggests Brynes discovered plan to
turn nuke exercise into staged terror attack
Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones | August 10 2005
The head of Fort Monroe's Training and Doctrine Command, four star general Kevin P. Byrnes, was fired Tuesday apparently for sexual misconduct according to official sources.
Other sources however have offered a different explanation for Byrnes' dismissal which ties in with the Bush administration's unpopular plan to attack Iran and the staged nuclear attack in the US which would provide the pretext to do so.
According to reporter Greg Szymanski, anonymous military sources said that Brynes was the leader of a faction that was preparing to instigate a coup against the neo-con hawks in an attempt to prevent further global conflict.
Indications are that, much like popular opinion amongst the general public, half the military oppose the neo-con's agenda and half support it.
Further revelations were imparted by journalist Leland Lehrman who appeared today on The Alex Jones Show.
Lehrman's army sources, including a former Captain in intelligence, became outraged when they learned that the official story behind 9/11 was impossible.
They told Lehrman that the imminent Northcom nuclear terror exercise based in Charleston, S.C, where a nuclear warhead is smuggled off a ship and detonated, was originally intended to 'go live' - as in the drill would be used as the cover for a real false flag staged attack.
This website has relentlessly discussed similar style drills which took place on the morning of 9/11 and on the morning of 7/7 in London.
"Speculation exists that he had potentially discovered the fact that it was gonna go live and that he was trying to put a stop to it or also speculation indicates that he may be part of a military coup designed to prevent the ridiculous idea of doing a nuclear war with Iran, " said Lehrman.
Lehrman said that other sources had told him all army leave had been cancelled from September 7th onwards, opening the possibility for war to be declared within that time frame.
Northcom officials also admitted to Lehrman that CNN had been using its situation room as a studio.
Earlier this week, Washington Post reported that the Pentagon has developed its first ever war plans for operations within the continental United States, in which terrorist attacks would be used as the justification for imposing martial law on cities, regions or the entire country.
American Conservative Magazine recently reported that Dick Cheney had given orders to immediately invade Iran after the next terror attack in the US, even if there was no evidence Iran was involved.
Government and media mouthpieces have been fearmongering for weeks about how a nuclear attack within the US is imminent.
Now would be the most opportune time for the Globalists to stage a major attack, as it would head off any potential indictments against the Bush administration for their involvement in illegally outing CIA agent Valerie Plame.
While rumors circulating about indictments having
already taken place against Bush and Cheney should rightly be treated
very carefully, the fact that there is an ongoing criminal
investigation into the matter is something that's admitted and
shouldn't be viewed as speculation.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/august2005/100805fourstargeneral.htm
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Guys,
here is additional information on that matter. Worth a look.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/august2005/100805fourstargeneral.htm
Best,
Jutta
----- Original Message -----
Subject: Re: U.S. seeks to let air passengers keep shoes on
K., Carl,
I agree that a fascist state makes almost impossible for a mutiny or coup
to occur, but I know for a fact that there are powerful military sectors
which have the capacity and the probable desire to shut the all-powerful
government down in the event it goes to far for them to tolerate. For
example, in the first Gulf War, 250,000 body bags were ordered sent to
Iraq. The Navy Seals showed up and backed the President down, saying that
that kind of carnage would not be tolerated. Consequently, there were only
about 70 actual deaths of American soldiers killed in combat in that war.
You might be surprised to know the facts. But these sectors are vary
careful, reserved and very constitutional in their actions. The fact is,
that shutting Bush down right now would not amount to a "coup" but would
actually be a removal of a military officer (the President is the
"Commander in Chief") from his position for incompetence or for "high
crimes and misdemeanors". That can be done only in time of war. In times of
non-war, it requires impeachment proceedings.
Bill
Original Message:
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From: Carl Zimmerman carlfranz@optonline.net
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 11:01:34 -0400
Subject: Re: U.S. seeks to let air passengers keep shoes on
K., good point! That's why the Von Stauffenberg's assassination attempt
on Hitler in 1944 and attempted Soviet military coups vs. Stalin in 1930's
failed. However, their expressions of disgruntlement helped lead to faster
defeat of Nazi Germany in WW2 and some reforms in Soviet military. Regards.
Carl
----- Original Message -----
From: K.
To: William Lyne ; Administrator ; Iris Buehler ;
jutta@aktionspotential.de ; CARL ZIMMERMAN
Cc: stella
Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 12:27 AM
Subject: Re: U.S. seeks to let air passengers keep shoes on
Bill,
I do not "buy" the argument raised in the article. It a bit way over
board. There is no need for a military coup within the U.S establishment.
The military industrial complex controls the U.S government therefore a
coup against itself is not possible.
I agree that there could be some disgruntlement over the planning of the
next war against Iran especially with the use of Nuclear arms. This was
already reported openly in the main stream media. It raised a number of
questions but yet there are no answers. At the same, one must note that
under Bush the U.S has lost its 'prestige' and 'admiration' almost
everywhere across the globe. This is a fact.
The elites in the U.S are worried about their future economically. The
U.S borrows $2.5 billion daily in order to "stay alive" economically. It
does not have that 'powerful' voice internationally anymore, even the small
Third world countries are telling them to buzz off and rather
interestingly they do not have the capacity to respond economically or
militarily. The recent coup in Mauritania is a good example. The U.S cuts
off aid and the people cheers while the leaders smiles.
K.
----- Original Message -----
From: William Lyne
To: K. ; Administrator ; Iris Buehler ; jutta@aktionspotential.de
; CARL ZIMMERMAN
Cc: stella
Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 1:47 PM
Subject: Re: U.S. seeks to let air passengers keep shoes on
K.,
as if there's not enough to worry about, get a load of this:
http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index796.htm
Bill
----- Original Message -----
From: K.
To: Administrator ; Iris Buehler ; jutta@aktionspotential.de ; CARL
ZIMMERMAN ; billlyne@earthlink.net
Cc: stella
Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 9:39 AM
Subject: U.S. seeks to let air passengers keep shoes on
The Washington Times
www.washingtontimes.com
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U.S. seeks to let air passengers keep shoes on
By Audrey Hudson
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Published August 10, 2005
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The Department of Homeland Security is seeking new security screening
technology that would allow air travelers to board flights without removing
their shoes.
The department also is testing a privacy-sensitive version of an
X-ray machine that has drawn complaints because although it is able to
detect weapons beneath clothes, the initial version also provided a nude
image of travelers.
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is asking
companies to develop a machine that can examine shoes while still on
passengers' feet. Agency officials hope to begin testing this winter.
The agency also is testing a version of the contentious
backscatter X-ray machines that will outline the human form while screening
for weapons, unlike the current design that shows a realistic image of
naked bodies.
"We are continually searching for better tools that raise the bar
for security and reduce the hassle factor for passengers. We have to focus
resources on stopping terrorists, and that means being smart about how we
acquire new technology," said TSA spokesman Mark Hatfield.
Airport scrutiny of passengers' shoes was put in place after
British terrorist Richard C. Reid, also known as the "shoe bomber," tried
to ignite explosives in his shoes during an overseas flight in December
2001. Random passengers initially were asked to remove their shoes, but now
all passengers may be obliged to remove their shoes.
Backscatter technology, which can see underneath a person's
clothing, has been dubbed "a virtual strip search" by the American Civil
Liberties Union. The Homeland Security Department's testing program with
the system was put on hold last year until more privacy-sensitive
technology could be developed.
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff told Congress last
month that the technology would come online soon and that he did not want
to enter into an "endless debate" on the privacy ramifications.
The technology, which is used in some prisons to screen visitors,
also could be used to detect humans smuggled in cargo.
American Science and Engineering Inc. is using a $700,000
contract to test its Z(R) Backscatter screening system, which can detect
metallic and nonmetallic weapons and explosives hidden beneath clothing.
"The system is a safe and effective method to find most classes
of threats by displaying a clear and accurate image," said Anthony Fabiano,
president of the company.
The technology uses high energy X-rays to scatter -- rather than
penetrate like medical X-rays -- and the "backscatter" creates a highly
realistic image of the nude form.
Joe Reiss, the marketing director, said the company developed a
"privacy enhancement filter" for the technology so the exact human form is
not duplicated but weapons can still be detected.
"The image looks like an outline of a form with no details of
personal characteristics. When a child traces an outline of his hand, the
image would look something like that," Mr. Reiss said.
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Capitalismo de Estado y Socialismo" la Venezuela posible
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