Comedy | October 18, 2009 | 4 comments

Monty Python's Killing Joke ?

source: http://vodpod.com/watch/2349444-a-terror-industrial-complex-

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Powell warned of ‘terror-industrial complex’ in 2007 interview

When MSNBC's Keith Olbermann welcomed three former members of Monty Python to Countdown on Wednesday, his biggest surprise was a question from Terry Gilliam, "How come that Colin Powell interview about the terror-industrial complex didn't become a bigger story?"

Olbermann was taken aback by the question, but by the next day he had uncovered Powell's September 12, 2007 interview with GQ Magazine. Powell's apology in that interview for his use of faulty intelligence prior to the Iraq War grabbed the headlines at the time, but he also delivered a far less-noticed warning against what Olbermann now calls "an entire aspect of the nexus of politics and terror."

"What is the greatest threat facing us now?" Powell asked. "People will say it’s terrorism. But are there any terrorists in the world who can change the American way of life or our political system? No. ... The only thing that can really destroy us is us. We shouldn’t do it to ourselves, and we shouldn’t use fear for political purposes—scaring people to death so they will vote for you, or scaring people to death so that we create a terror-industrial complex."

Observers had been expessing concern about the rise of the homeland security industry for several years prior to Powell's remarks. Tim Shorrock's groundbreaking 2005 article, "The Spy Who Billed Me," revealed how "the government has outsourced everything from spy satellites to covert operations -- and well-connected companies are cashing in." A blog inspired by the article has continued to pursue the subject.

A March 2007 Vanity Fair article on homeland security contractor SAIC and Raw Story's May 2007 expose of a questionable anthrax vaccine maker with Bush administration connections explored other aspects of the emerging terror-industrial complex in the months immediately before the Powell interview. The subject has drawn less attention in the last few years, but the rediscovery of Powell's warning may put it back in the spotlight.

This video is from MSNBC's Countdown, broadcast Oct. 15, 2009.

GQ Icon:Colin Powell
http://www.gq.com/news-politics/newsmakers/200709/colin-powell-walter-isaacson-w...

The Spy Who Billed Me
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2005/01/spy-who-billed-me
BLOG : http://www.thespywhobilledme.com/

Washington's $8 Billion Shadow
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2007/03/spyagency200703?printable=tr...

Well-connected drug company obtained anthrax vaccine contracts despite side effects
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Wellconnected_drug_company_obtained_anthrax_vaccin...

PS : The elephant in the room here is the concept of false flag...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_flag
False flag operations are covert operations conducted by governments, corporations, or other organizations which are designed to deceive the public in such a way that the operations appear as though they are being carried out by other entities.

False Flag Terrorism
http://www.wanttoknow.info/falseflag

Examples of documented 'False Flag Terrorism'
http://deeperpolitics.gnn.tv/blogs/7329/Examples_of_documented_False_Flag_Terror...

Which begs the observation...

"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly. But the traitor moves among those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not traitor, he speaks in the accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their garments, and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared." - Cicero
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4 comments // Monty Python's Killing Joke ? // Video

  • Denica_Cassandra
  • PlatoTacius
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      PlatoTacius  

    • Needless to say, we've been bamboozled for far too long now...with no hint of accountability...

      When the hard rain falls, we will have to take our own measures to avoid drowning...

    • 2 years ago
  • WhiteNoise
  • WhiteNoise
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      WhiteNoise  

    • Meanwhile...

      Why do I feel like the American Empire is sounding increasingly like the Black Knight ?

      The Black Knight is a fictional character in the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail. As his name suggests, he is a black knight who guards a tiny bridge for unknown reasons.

      Although supremely skilled in swordplay, he suffers from unchecked overconfidence and a staunch refusal ever to give up.

      Though he only appeared in one scene, he has become one of the most popular characters of the entire film. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Knight_(Monty_Python)

      Meanwhile Back at the Ranch...

      "The American nation is in the worst condition I can remember in my lifetime, and our prospects for the immediate future are even worse. I am surprised and embarrassed to be a part of the first American generation to leave the country in far worse shape than it was when we first came into it. Our highway system is crumbling, our police are dishonest, our children are poor, our vaunted Social Security, once the envy of the world, has been looted and neglected and destroyed by the same gang of ignorant greed-crazed bastards who brought us Vietnam, Afghanistan, the disastrous Gaza Strip and ignominious defeat all over the world. The stock market will never come back, our armies will never again be No. 1. " - Hunter "Gonzo" Thompson

      These past years were more than just the most shameful, corrupt and incompetent period in the history of the American legislative branch. These were the years when the U.S. parliament became a historical punch line, a political obscenity on par with the court of Nero or Caligula -- a stable of thieves and perverts who committed crimes rolling out of bed in the morning and did their very best to turn the mighty American empire into a debt-laden, despotic backwater, a Burkina Faso with cable. - MATT TAIBBI

      “One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It is simply too painful to acknowledge -- even to ourselves -- that we've been so credulous“ - Carl Sagan

    • 2 years ago
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