these two seemingly disparate stories relate to different elements of our mad reality, but i think many here will appreciate their internal connections.
first off, we have a story relating how the most recent revival of the '80s alien drama 'V,' is peppered with contemporary references to the Obama agenda:
ABC Network Portrays Aliens, Hell-bent on Destroying Planet Earth, as the Obama Administration By Lori Price 04 Nov 2009 The ABC television network has brought back the science fiction series, 'V,' in a remake of the 1980's classic by the same name... During the interview, interspersed with scenes from a meeting of a nascent resistance movement, Anna, the Visitor's leader, announces that the Visitors are going to open medical clinics all over the country, as a gift to humanity. The interviewer actually asks, 'Oh, do you mean like universal health care?' And Anna, the scourge of mankind, replies, 'Yes, I believe that is what your people call it.' The implication by the ABC producers of 'V': An alien lizard fascist, trying to take control of earth and who must be destroyed at any cost, will provide universal health care as a cover to control all earthlings and to take over the planet.
http://www.legitgov.org/price_abc_v_aliens_as_obama_admin_041109.html
even a cursory reading prompts one to see how the various theories of David Icke and possibly that guy Jeff loved to quote (???) could possibly be corralled into a post-disclosure smear campaign directed against various black-listed world leaders in classic anti-commie style. i think this immanent re-release of 'V' begs several questions viz-a-viz the related memes we've seen propagated on the internets in recent years.
and then there's this from cryptogon:
U.S. Needs Hit Squads, ‘Manhunting Agency’
November 4th, 2009
Ah, so now we can pretend that the U.S. hasn’t had this capability for decades?
Via: Wired:
CIA director Leon Panetta got into hot water with Congress, after he revealed an agency program to hunt down and kill terrorists. A recent report from the U.S. military’s Joint Special Operations University argues that the CIA didn’t go far enough (.pdf). Instead, it suggests the American government should set up something like a “National Manhunting Agency” to go after jihadists, drug dealers, pirates and other enemies of the state.
America’s military, intelligence and law-enforcement agencies already devote thousands of people and billions of dollars to tracking down top terrorists and insurgents. But even the most successful of these efforts — like going after Iraqi militant leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi — have been “ad hoc” efforts, with units cobbled together from different corners of the government. Report author and retired Lt. Col. George Crawford instead would like to see a permanent group with clear authority, training, doctrine and technology to go after these dangerous individuals. These “manhunting teams would be standing formations, trained to pursue their designated quarry relentlessly for as long as required to accomplish the mission,” he writes.
Sometimes, that will mean operating “in uncooperative countries.” In those cases, the teams must be prepared “to act unilaterally, with no support or coordination with local authorities, in a manner similar to that employed by Israel’s Avner team in response to the Munich Olympics massacre.” (That was the controversial unit, fictionalized in Steven Spielberg’s movie, that allegedly roamed the world, assassinating Palestinian militants in response to the 1972 Olympic attack.)
The hit squads would only be one part of the manhunting agency, according to the Joint Special Operations University monograph, uncovered by Inside Defense. “Dedicated teams must be assembled, able to respond ‘on-call’ in the event of a raid on a suspect site or to conduct independent ‘break-in and search’ operations without leaving evidence of their intrusion,” Crawford notes.
Manhunting will also “require personnel who are experts at conducting surveillance of particular facilities, personnel, or activities without arousing suspicion or being detected,” he adds. “Picture in your mind a typical city street scene, with a little old lady walking her dog, the phone repair crew descending into a manhole, two little old men playing an innocent game of checkers, or the homeless person sleeping on the park bench, and you are on the right track.”
Such a group wouldn’t just go after terrorists. “Human networks are behind narcotics trafficking, arms proliferation, piracy, hiding war criminals from authorities, human trafficking, or other smuggling activities,” Crawford writes. “Human networks also lie at the core of national governments, offering an increased potential to nonlethally influence state actors with precision. A robust manhunting capability would allow the United States to interdict these human networks.”
Crawford, who says he served as the “lead strategist” for developing U.S. Special Operations Command’s “advanced intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capabilities for counterterrorism operations,” compares manhunting to “curling, the Winter Olympics sport. As a skater releases the heavy stone onto the ice, a few strokes from a broom can alter the speed and trajectory of the stone. Likewise, a small amount of precise influence or force employed at an early point in a developing situation might divert the trajectory of an event away from crisis or full-scale conflict.”
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/11 ... ps-report/
at first glance we can see the further entrenchment of state-sanctioned murder evolving toward a level of imperviousness approaching the high watermark set by the gestapo. this, naturally, overlaps the significance of the lizard impostor meme assuming the legacy of communist agent paranoia.
it is crucial to absorb Kevin's rudimentary observation: this type of program has long been the bread and butter of Cold War "counter" terror. and what is interesting is to note how the official sanction of these programs is
a) directed against a universal actor. whereas the communist threat admitted only a cast of hemispheric penetration, it is the 'terrorist' threat whose actors have penetrated the inner reaches of all minoritarian struggles world-wide. we can see this meme is cleverly 'smoothing out imperialism's battle-space.'
b) the notion of an existential enemy provides the causus beli for 'gloves off' Western agents of dubious provenance. just as it was precisely this mentality that provided the glue between the Cold War- Western Response- Terror War, it seems patently obvious that such apologies are designed to bridge the gap between faltering Islamic terror and the next Schmittian Other/Enemy(!)
