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Further to the Wikileaks comments previously posted … Arthur Silber writes a provocative essay on the subject of obedience, how it arises in our culture and how it is transferred from parents to other authority figures in adulthood.

Silber avers that obedience is all about laws and rules – and the need to obey them for obedience’s sake. It’s an interesting post and his plea to “break the goddamn rules” strikes a chord. You can read it HERE.

Wikileaks has done it again – rubbed our political masters up the wrong way – by releasing thousands of pages of classified info on the war in Afghanistan. I want to applaud Julian Assange and his historically significant project. The more I think about it, the more I see it as a manifestation of that famous line in the movie “V”: People shouldn’t be afraid of their governments, governments should be afraid of their people.

When I first saw “V” I loved the idea behind that statement, but realised that people mostly do fear their governments. However, the Wikileaks project is showing the way – that it is governments that really need to fear their people.

What Julian Assange is doing is to use the internet in the way it should be used – to bring that which is “secret” into the open, and to make people aware of what it going on. He is using the internet as a radical freedom tool – to raise people’s consciousness as to what is really happening in the world.

One of the most powerful weapons in the government propaganda arsenal is the ability to control information. One bit of information the military wanted to control in Afghanistan was the fact that the Taliban appeared to have ground to air missiles, and used them to bring down some helicopters.

Instead of reporting this truth, it was considered counterproductive to the war effort – in that it may lead the public to connect such a fact to the events leading so the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan – precisely because of the same missiles in the past.

It is in such ways that the news is “managed” in order to keep us in the dark. If we know too much, too many gory details, then we may rise up and seriously protest against the prosecution of this and other wars.

I say “bring on Wikileaks, and bravo Julian Assange”.

P.S. As this article suggests, Wikileaks is the world’s first stateless news organisation. But will the warmongers manage to turn such leaks to their own advantage? Chris Floyd thinks so. Fred Reid has some additional things to say about why the Pentagon hates Wikileaks.

Addendum: This interesting article by Andrew Fowler is worth a read.

Apparently  books telling the tale of the German Weimar inflation are being reprinted and read again. With the massive expansion of the money supply that has occurred in many countries, it’s only a matter of time before the possibility of hyper-inflation is on the cards.

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard comments on this possibility in his article: Death of Paper Money

Noises coming out of the US Fed appear to indicate a reluctant acceptance of the serious condition of the economy. But there’s a lot more to it than they are letting on, as David Galland opines in Bring Out The Dead.

I’ve just published a 17 page free report which I’ve entitled: 8 Critical Steps You Can Take Now To Survive And Thrive During The Coming Global Financial Crisis

It’s brief and to-the-point, but it includes serious information as to how you can best prepare for the economic storm that is bound to come.

You can download your copy from HERE.

Jeff Clark thinks so – and explains why and how.

Harvard professor and historian, Niall Ferguson, warns about the real possibility of a sudden collapse of the US empire – brought on by the growth of debt.

David Galland asks, “What if, I wonder, the whole modern construct of what passes for making the right moves in an advanced society is plain wrong?”

Government Mules

Observing the ongoing war in Afghanistan is frustrating to the extreme. Here we are, all western nations suffering from economic turbulence, financial destitution and collapsing confidence – busy spending blood and treasure on a hopeless endeavour and apparently incapable of pulling the plug and simply getting out.

Simon Jenkins exposes the whole rotten charade perfectly in his essay: Afghanistan is a Catastrophe. But we will have to wait for another Chilcot to admit it

Jeff Clark has noticed an interesting fact. From April 2009 to April 2010 gold stocks mirrored the S&P. But not any longer. It appears that gold stocks are now tracking the gold price – something which is very significant, as explained in: Time to Board The Gold Stocks Train?