Economic Warfare: Risks and Responses

[Marcus Bryant]

http://www.scribd.com/doc/49755779/Economic-Warfare-Risks-and-Responses-by-Kevin-D-Freeman

[Winehole23]

Phase one is price manipulation, finger pointed at the OPEC.

Phase 2 raises the possibility of a domestic fifth column, since the source of the bear raids still isn't "traceable".

In Phase 3 the future machinations of an international cabal are described.

[Winehole23]

Looks like a corporate pitch for a private security firm to me. Says Wall Street can't be trusted to police this.

[Winehole23]

That said, the threats described are totally plausible.

[Winehole23]

This is (http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2011/03/01/the-protocols-of-the-learned-elders-of-opec/)Glenn Beck territory (http://www.google.com/search?hl=&q=Glenn+Beck+caliphate&sourceid=navclient-ff&rlz=1B3GGLL_enUS412US413&ie=UTF-8#sclient=psy&hl=en&rlz=1B3GGLL_enUS412US413&source=hp&q=Glenn+Beck+caliphate&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=Glenn+Beck+caliphate&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.&fp=3f40f95b1b9c7c0d) – but the difference here is that this nonsense was paid for by you, the American taxpayer. I wonder how much the Pentagon shelled out to Freeman’s company, “Cross Consulting and Services, LLC,” for this farrago of falsehoods and fantasy?http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2011/03/01/the-protocols-of-the-learned-elders-of-opec/

[Winehole23]

“It is hard for the plain people to think about a thing, but easy for them to feel. Error, to hold their attention, must be visualized as a villain, and the villain must proceed swiftly to his inevitable retribution. They can understand that process; it is simple, usual, satisfying; it squares with their primitive conception of justice as a form of revenge…. [The average reader] is not at all responsive to purely intellectual argument, even when its theme is his own ultimate benefit…. But he is very responsive to emotional suggestion, particularly when it is crudely and violently made, and it is to this weakness that the newspapers must ever address their endeavors. In brief, they must try to arouse his horror, or indignation, or pity, or simply his lust for slaughter. Once they have done that, they have him safely by the nose. He will follow blindly until his emotion wears out. He will be ready to believe anything, however absurd, so long as he is in his state of psychic tumescence.”