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By Vi Ransel

8/5/07

Ancient genetic signals can be resurrected after lying
dormant for millions of years, awaiting only the right
trigger to release them.

In the early Carboniferous there arose an organism
with, for the very first time,
more information in its brain than in its genes,
and the brain grew more dominant over time.

The modern brain’s blueprint is a story
of successive accretion and specialization,
which freed us from the hardwired tyranny
of DNA’s monopoly on total information.

The three interconnected parts of the modern brain
correspond to the evolutionary emergence
of reptiles, mammals, primates
- especially humans -
and represent a major burst forward

in overall brain development,
each step adding a new function and a new layer.
And since these were laid down over existing systems,
the preexisting systems had to be accommodated

because making basic change deep within the fabric of life
very frequently turns out to be fatal.
Adding new layers while retaining the old ones
allows major change consistent with survival.

Today’s triune, or three-part brain
consists of the R-complex at its core,
surrounded and surmounted by the limbic system,
which is enveloped by the massive neo-cortex.

The R-complex is the most ancient part,
the dinosaur component of human nature,
seat of reptilian ritual and aggression,
territorial and hierarchical behavior.

No carefully-weighed decisions happen here,
no nuances of emotion’s wrenching contradictions,
just the stolid acquiescence to the dictates of its genes,
no thought or action taken of its own volition.

The R-complex lies below the limbic system,
which was added during the development of mammals.
It generates emotions, changes of mood and states of mind
and the maternal instinct found in warm-blooded animals.

Emotions can be triggered by hormonal exudations
of endocrine systems such as the amygdala.
Stimulating the amygdala can make a placid animal frenzied
or cause a cat to cower from a mouse in abject terror.

The limbic system is the seat of subtle emotions
which we think uniquely ours among the animals,
but altruism may have gotten started here
and love may be an invention of the mammals.

The neo-cortex is layered over the limbic system,
and accounts for 85% of the brain’s mass.
Its frontal lobes most likely are connected
with deliberation and regulation of our actions.

Transforming experience into symbolic languages
is a primary function of the neo-cortex,
the extrasomatic manifestation of knowledge
expressed as reading, writing, speaking and mathematics.

It may control anticipation of the future
and cause worry about the possibility of disaster,
but in our attempts to regulate the future we produced
ethics, science, legal codes and magic.

There’s a price to be paid for knowing there’s a future,
and the price is living with anxiety about it.
But we also know how to sidestep many disasters
by foregoing short term gain for long term benefit.

And while control of many bodily functions
is shared by different parts of the brain,
the parts that lie beneath the neo-cortex
still operate in ancient hardwired ways.

At the core of the complexity of the modern brain,
the R-complex still performs its simple reptile duties
because it’s woven so deeply into the fabric of life
it can’t be bypassed or discarded with impunity.

* * * * * * * * *

If you control the means of communication,
and five mega media corporations do,
you control the view The People have of world events
and can make public opinion a mirror of your views.

ALL of the vehicles for transmission of “the news”,
newspapers and radio, magazines and TV,
will only give exposure to your side of the issues
and create the world the way you want it seen.

This manipulation is particularly insidious
when you know that your views, if stated openly,
would be voted down, rejected by The People,
so you make them unwitting accomplices in your story.

First, you create a problem -
an assassination, a terrorist attack, a war,
an economic collapse - it could be anything,
and then you get your media to report it.

And now that you’ve created the problem,
you also have to set up a scapegoat.
Again, this could be anything or anyone,
as long as it furthers your original purpose.

Communists, “illegal” immigrants, liberals,
single welfare moms, drug users, gays and lesbians,
affirmative action recipients, pacifists -
but let’s go with Middle Eastern Arab Muslim men.

This provides the further advantage
of tapping into reliable latent racism,
fear of strange languages, peoples and religions
and revenge based on jingoistic nationalism.

The People will be eager to attack this scapegoat,
who’s also the designated Fall Guy/Boogey Man,
created to get The People to ask you to do
what was originally unacceptable to them.

Crank up faux-balanced pundits and talking heads
reading talking points off scripted teleprompters.
Dumb down public opinion by using oxymoronic phrases
spouted by “reporters” who are neo-con stenographers.

Using talking points to dumb down national discourse
by shrinking the range of what it is that’s talked about,
like using a, b and c, but not the rest of the alphabet,
and by refusing to entertain any reasonable doubts.

They hate us for our democracy and freedoms.
9/11 Al-Qaeda Saddam
If you’re not with us, you’re with the terrorists.
Yellow cake. Aluminum tubes. Smoking gun.

Fight ‘em there, or fight ‘em here. War on Terror.
9/11 WMD Saddam
Mushroom cloud. Islamofascist jihad.
Slam DUNK. Cake WALK, Bring ‘em on.

Marinate the airwaves, print media and American minds
with a shock and awe bouillabaisse of your views
with relentless, ritual repetition of propaganda
via newspapers, talk radio and Evening Entertainews

with carefully orchestrated images of the event
9/11 9/11 9/11 9/11
a 24/7 blitzkreig of terror by the best means
of manufacturing consent ever invented.

Want to give police and military more power
for home invasions and warrantless searches?
Wire taps on citizens? A National I.D.?
The ability to detain citizens without charges?

The People will react with “Somebody do something!”
and that something will dovetail quite precisely
with what it was you wanted in the first place,
now presented as a way out of this crisis.

9/11 9/11 9/11 9/11
They’ll come running to you for protection,
cowering in fear of the Fall Guy/Boogey Man
created specifically to control and to oppress them

into accepting growing limits on their freedoms and their rights
which is passed off as in the national interest,
but has nothing at all to do with The People’s agenda
and, in fact, is a laundry list of your own wishes.

And that is really all that there is to this “Sting”.
Problem. Reaction. Solution.
A simple, yet Machiavellian technique
that short circuits even thoughts of Revolution.

You actually set up those who’d oppose you
to see your legislation as the only possible solution
to the problem you created in the first place
and then get them to demand you introduce it.

Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing
Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism.
USA PATRIOT was rushed through seven weeks after 9/11,
ostensibly for National Security and the public’s protection.

But with PATRIOT Act Two it’s a concerted assault
on constitutional laws and civil liberties
which violates privacy rights and protection
from illegal searches and seizure of property.

Without any means of judicial review
it legalizes sweeping surveillance of US citizens,
and for the very first time in the history of America,
secret arrests and indeterminate detention.

It imposes more death penalty provisions
and gives government the right to strip us
of citizenship should we belong to a group
that the Decider deems “domestic terrorism”.

The Military Commissions Act lets the President decide
who will be designated as an enemy combatant,
stripped of habeas corpus, subjected to torture
with no evidence but Dubya’s word, now Law of the Land.

It gives GWB the power of life and death
over everyone on the face of the Earth, in fact,
they’re subject to military tribunal, no lawyer, no appeal,
with the innocent prosecuted as if they were caught in the act.

With the John Warner Defense Authorization Act
Bush signed away a 200-year-old provision
with a change in the 1807 Insurrection Act
which in all those 200 years had prohibited

the use of United States military forces
for law enforcement purposes domestically
unless Congress sees fit to authorize it
in cases of national emergency.

The President has authorized himself to declare
a public emergency and impose martial law.
The Insurrection Act change lets him send our own troops
to put down what he decides is public disorder -

pro-choice rallies, anti-war protests,
environmental activists’ demonstrations,
gatherings advocating immigrants’ rights,
labor unions marching against globalization.

Any group of citizens unwilling to tolerate
policies detrimental to the general welfare
and demanding restoration of their constitutional rights
will find themselves in the Bush Administration’s crosshairs.

The Real I.D. Act goes into effect in 2008
to meet federal identification standards benchmarks
and makes it mandatory for citizens and legal residents
to carry a standardized national identity card.

In order to conduct essential business,
you will be asked, in effect, “Vere ah your peppahs?!”
When you vote, open a bank account or board a plane,
remember, this device for control is keeping us “safer”.

It may eventually require an RFID chip-
radio frequency identification technology -
embedded in the national identity card
to track your movements, transactions and activities.

Bush authorized a blueprint for military dictatorship
by signing NSPD-51 and HSPD-20,
entrusting himself to run the entire federal government
in whatever he decides is a “catastrophic emergency”.

In the event of an “incident” anywhere in the world
that causes mass casualties, property damage or disruption
that affects the US population, its environment, the economy,
its infrastructure or on-going government functions,

cooperative efforts to “provide for orderly succession”
will be coordinated by the Office of the President.
The “appropriate transition of leadership” will be his decision
with just a nod and a wink at the rest of our government.

The Authorization for Military Force
pushed through Congress only a week after 9/11,
is responsible for Bush’s seizing dictatorial powers
by using this act in order to claim his justification

to ignore that goddamn constitutional piece of paper
and pass all the preceding illegal legislation.
He didn’t even have to worry about getting away with it,
since pundits praise him openly as he parades it.

Citizens make seek to change their country’s policy direction
and these acts were put in place to combat that opposition
by allowing pre-emptive crackdowns on potential threats
to the implementation of American totalitarianism.

These vicious acts of dictatorial suppression
need just a 9/11-like trigger to make them operational.
And just in case our soldiers and the National Guard
might not turn on the American population,

they’ve been conveniently shipped out and pinned down
halfway across the world in Mesopotamia,
so our patriotic servicemen and women
won’t be able to do a thing to rescue America.

When Cheney-Bush imposes martial law
they’ll be able to count on Pentagon brass,
because they supply the jobs and pay the salaries,
so the brass will obediently rise to the odious task

and take command of the new S.S. private army
of sinister assassins employed as Blackwater mercenaries
who stood guard over opulent mansions in New Orleans
while American citizens were left to rot like so much garbage.

Not convinced? FEMA R.E.X. 84
was established to keep order
during a “mass exodus” of illegals
flooding across the Mexico/US border
who’d be rounded up and detained
by Immigration prior to being deported.

REX 84 also allows military bases
to be closed and converted into prisons.
In early 2006, KBR,
a Halliburton subsidiary was given
a 324 million dollar contract to build
detention processing capabilities
to expand Immigration’s Detention
and Removal Operation’s Program facilities

in order to house people in the event
of that emergency influx of immigrants,
a natural disaster, or new government
programs in need of rapid development.

World War II Japanese Internment camps
are also in the process of being rehabilitated.
With the addition of German/Italian POW Camps,
over 800 of these facilities are operational.

Though all of these facilities are standing empty,
in the event of martial law it only takes two signatures -
one on a Presidential Proclamation, the other
on a warrant from the Attorney General

with a list of dissenters’ named attached to it
who’ll serve as forced labor for the War Machine,
the realization of corporate nirvana - no wage labor -
in the last vestiges of our American industries.

The people who proposed the legislation are the people
who created the problem so they could impose it.
The cost? A few thousand American sacrificial lambs
and hundreds of thousands of Arab Muslim scapegoats.

It works by exploiting instincts that are hardest to control,
triggering our most ancient behaviors by pushing buttons
of territoriality, hierarchy, ritual and aggression,
the basic bundle of R-complex reptile functions.

LET’S BE CLEAR

Territoriality limits not only area, but outlook,
a provincialism prone to becoming vainglorious
when amplified by the injection of terror alerts
transforming it to full-blown xenophobia

and a proprietary identification with the “Homeland”,
which serves as a springboard for wanton aggression
that may begin as threats, but always escalates
to an unprovoked act, an assault or an invasion.

Hierarchical behavior is a pecking order
based on the infliction of pain.
Each member submits to pecking by those higher
and pecks those below with no fear of retaliation.

It’s intrinsic to vertebrate evolution, since it’s the first
primitive thought pattern and cerebrative mode of action.
In non-cerebrating, cold-blooded vertebrates
pecking order is completely genetically mechanical.

Each level assumes authority over the one below it,
fostering unquestioning obedience to authority
instead of individual freedom of judgment and action
and paves the way for a dictator’s rise to glory

or that of a small, dictatorial cabal
which assumes it has the right to command,
enforce dogma and obedience, and make all final decisons
while promoting their own private interests and personal plans.

Ritual is a way of doing things,
an obligatory ceremony set in concrete,
considered right and proper, with a strict set of rules
established by custom, by habit or by authority.

Territoriality. Provincialism.
Proprietary identification with the “Homeland”.
Xenophobia. Hierarchical behavior.
Authoritarianism and Unprovoked Aggression.

Ritual ties them all together and reinforces them,
ax of aggression in the center. This is the fasces,
an ax tied up amidst a bundle of rods,
the symbol of the Roman Empire’s iron authority

We need more terror to sustain our Foreign Policy
and laws were passed to create the levers of power
for declaring martial law and suspending elections.
We’re one False Flag from living with Big Brother.

But since the brain can resist the reptile’s siren song,
they need to do an end run ’round the neo-cortex sentry
and speak directly to the dinosaur component
that longs to hear the talking points of tyranny.

And the only way to achieve these obscene objectives
is to play the last card left in the neoconservative deck
by punching down through the volatile limbic system
with a massive dose of terror in order to affect

what was once held in check by the distractions
of the smokescreen we call the American Dream
and resurrect it from the depths of the R-complex
by sacrificing what makes us human beings,

replacing it with the atavism of the reptile “mind”
by using “Remember the Maine!” and the Lusitania,
the Gulf of Tonkin and Pearl Harbor-like False Flags
to rouse The People to a terrified hysteria

and get us to acquiesce to the neutering
of our unalienable rights and constitutional freedoms
and to support what the Nuremberg Tribunals termed
the “supreme national crime”, a war of aggression.

Our court-selected leadership makes a fetish
of our most ancient instincts and involuntary reactions,
enshrining the authority of black-and-white certainty
over the individual liberty of democratic action.

And by punching down through reason with emotion
to reach that instinctual pecking order authority,
they’re replacing our representative democracy
with a government by stone-cold, corporate sociopathy.

What makes us so uniquely human is our free will,
choice based on critical thought and reasoned deliberation,
conscience, empathy, just and honest actions,
humility and the ability to put off gratification.

We don’t have to be governed by sociopaths
just because they’ve figured out how to exploit us.
Contrary to Hobbes’ assertion life’s nasty, brutish and short,
human nature doesn’t doom us to misery and injustice.

But lurking at the base of our impressive modern brains
lies waiting patiently one day to be anointed,
the primitive, reptile atavist to be used
by other reptiles with the ability to exploit it.

False Flags will be flown by fraudulent leaders
with psy ops, public diplomacy and perception management
at critical, historical junctures intended to prepare us
for totalitarianism using terror as the catalyst.

9/11 9/11 9/11 9/11
Problem. Reaction. Solution.
False Flag. Martial Law. Fascism.

The antidote?

DEMOCRACY

Accept NO substitutions.

ADDENDUM:

“Find out what people will quietly submit to, and you have found the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”

- Frederick Douglass, Abolitionist, Author, Orator

“The more we do to you, the less you seem to believe we are doing it.”

- Dr. Josef Mengele, Auschwitz Angel of Death

“There is no subjugation so perfect as that which keeps the illusion of freedom, for in that way one captures volition itself.”

- Jean-Jacques Rosseau, author

“The illusion of freedom will continue for as long as it’s profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, pull back the curtains, and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.”

- Frank Zappa, musician

“In our dreams, we have limitless resources and the people yield themselves with perfect docility to our molding hands. The present education conventions fade from their minds, and unhampered by tradition, we work our own good will upon a grateful and responsive rural folk. We shall not try to make these people or any of their children into philosophers or men of learning, or men of science. We have not to raise up from among them authors, editors, poets or doctors, preachers, politicians, statesmen, of whom we have an ample supply. The task we set before ourselves is very simple as well as a very beautiful one, to train these people as we find them to do in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way, in the homes, in the shops and on the farm.

-John D. Rockefeller’s General Education Board’s Occasional Letter No. 1, 1902

“Ours must be a leadership democracy administered by the intelligent minority who know how to regiment and guide the masses. … The voice of the people expresses the mind of the people, and that mind is made up for it by the group of leaders in whom it believes and by those persons who understand the manipulation of public opinion. It is composed of inherited prejudices and symbols and cliches and verbal formulas supplied to it by the leaders. … It must be enlightened propaganda through the creation of circumstances, through the high-spotting of significant events and the dramatization of important issues.”

- Edward Bernays, architect of Woodrow Wilson’s Committee on Public Information, the Father of Public Relations, and nephew of Sigmund Freud

“Our first objective is to prevent the re-emergence of a new rival, either on the territory of the former Soviet Union or elsewhere, that poses a threat on the order of that posed formerly by the Soviet Union. This is a dominant consideration underlying the new regional defense strategy and requires that we endeavor to prevent any hostile power from dominating a region whose resources would, under consolidated control, be sufficient to general global power.” “The U.S. must show the leadership necessary to establish and protect a new order that holds the promise of convincing potential competitors that they need not aspire to a greater role or pursue a more aggressive posture to protect their legitimate interests. In non-defense areas, we must account sufficiently for the interests of the advanced industrial nations to discourage them from challenging our leadership or seeking to overturn the established political and economic order. We must maintain the mechanism for deterring potential competitors from even aspiring to a larger regional or global role.” “We must, however, be mindful that democratic change in Russia is not irreversible, and that despite its current travails, Russia will remain the strongest military power in Eurasia and the only power in the world with the capability of destroying the Untied States.” “In the Middle East and Southwest Asia, our overall objective is to remain the predominant outside power in the region and preserve U.S. and Western access to the region’s oil.”

- The Defense Planning Guidance for 1994-99 (dated 2/18/92), written by Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, Paul Wolfowitz and his deputy, Irving Lewis (Scooter) Libby. It was so controversial it was substantially re-written under the close supervision of Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney and Colin Powell, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Many of the original tenets are today intrinsic components of the Bush Doctrine.

“If the device that exploded in 1993 under the World Trade Center had been nuclear, or had effectively dispersed a deadly pathogen, the resulting horror and chaos would have exceeded our ability to describe it. Such an act of catastrophic terrorism would be a watershed event in American history. It would involve loss of life and property unprecedented in peacetime and undermine America’s fundamental sense of security, as did the Soviet atomic bomb test in 1949. Like Pearl Harbor, this event would divide our past and future into a before and after. The United States might respond with draconian measures, scaling back civil liberties, allowing a wider surveillance of citizens, detention of suspects, and use of deadly force.”

- from a 1998 essay co-authored by Philip Zelikow, Executive Director of the 9/11 Commission, and chosen by Condoleezza Rice to be the primary drafter of NSS (National Security Strategy) 2002, which encompasses pre-emptive war and is virtually identical to the proposals of the Project for a New American Century

“Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event - like a new Pearl Harbor.”

- PNAC, “Rebuilding America’s Defenses”, Section V, “Creating Tomorrow’s Dominant Force”, 2000

“We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order.”

- David Rockefeller, to the United Nations Business Council, 1994

“Today, America would be outraged if UN troops entered Los Angeles to restore order (referring to the LA Riot). Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told that there was an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their wellbeing granted to them by the World Government.”

- Henry Kissinger, Bilderberger Conference, Evians, France, 1991

“An evil exists that threatens every man, woman and child in this great country. We must take steps to insure domestic security and protect our Homeland.”

- Adolf Hitler

“We can lead by force of high moral example…(but) fear is much more reliable, and lasts longer. Once we show that we are capable of dealing out terrible punishment to our enemies, our power will be far greater. We are a warlike people, and we love war.”

 - Michael Ledeen, American Enterprise Institute fellow, former NSC, State and Defense Department consultant

“Naturally the common people don’t want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a Communist dictatorship. …Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.”

- Reichmarshal Hermann Goering, Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe

(Strauss)”argues that the wise must conceal their views for two reasons - to spare the people’s feelings and to protect the elite from possible reprisal. … The people will not be happy to learn that there is only one natural right - the right of the superior to rule over the inferior…and the wise few over the vulgar many. … Lies are necessary to protect the superior few from the persecuting of the vulgar many. … And it does not take much intelligence for (his acolytes) to surmise that they are in a situation of great danger, especially in a world devoted to the modern ideas of equal rights and freedoms. So, they come to the conclusion that they have a moral justification to lie in order to avoid persecution.”

- Shadia Drury, author of The Political Ideas of Leo Strauss and Leo Strauss and the American Right

“Those who are fit to rule are those who realize there is no morality and that there is only one natural right - the right of the superior to rule over the inferior. … Such governance can only be established, however, when men are united, and they can only be untied against other people.”

- Leo Strauss, the Father of Neoconservatism

“During a war, news should be given out for instruction rather than for information. Not every item of news should be published Rather must those who control news policies endeavor to make every item of news serve a certain purpose.”

- Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s Minister of Propaganda

“Never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault or a wrong; never concede there may be some good in your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it.”

- Joseph Goebbels

“See in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.”

- George W. Bush

“This war has made possible for us the solution of a whole series of problems that could never have been solved in normal times.”

- Joseph Goebbels

“Think about ‘how do you capitalize on these opportunities’ to fundamentally change American doctrine, and the shape of the world, in the wake of September 11th.”

- Condolezza Rice, Secretary of State, (reportedly) to the National Security Council

“The neoconservatives ‘have taken full advantage of the nation’s outrage over 9/11 to advance their fully formed drive for empire.’”

- Claes Ryn, Professor of Political Science, the Catholic University of America

“To know truth is to have power. News is what powerful people don’t want you to know. Everything else is public relations.”

- Bill Moyers, Journalist

“Reason obeys itself; ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.”

- Thomas Paine, Founding Father, Revolutionary Radical Intellectual, Author

“Education makes a man unfit to be a slave.”

- Frederick Douglass, former slave

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

Godel, Kurt. Godel’s Proof and the Human Condition; Pecking Order, Competition and Institution - Government and Economic Policy. Monograph developed during the writing of Nature and the Course of Human Evolution as the Basis of Economic Policy.

Icke, David. Aliens Among Us. Interview in The Spectrum, 1999

Sagan, Carl. The Dragons of Eden. Random House, NY, 1977.

and with thanks to David Sirota for the term “no wage labor”.

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