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That's three well chosen examples of stuff we should keep an eye on.
I like the way Catherine Austin Fitts talks about all of this. Her goal is to get her clients to understand how (she believes that) the world works. From the way she talks, she sees every story you talk about, but her goal is not to spur people to tilt against the windmills of the world. That would only get them killed.
No, her goal is to make it so her clients can create lives of meaning while staying out of the way of the machine, avoid falling into the pits, and understand about the black budget and all it implies for each of our lives. And then go about creating meaningful lives - whatever that means for them individually.
In my small way I'm trying to do the same thing in my little corner. When I advise people to avoid the news, watch prices, and remain relatively detached - the gang in charge of "financial entertainment TV" wants you listening to the news, and wants you in an emotional state, preferably fearful or greedy, so they can get you to sell your stuff at the lows (OIL GLUT OIL GLUT) so they can buy it up cheap, and then sell it back to you once prices have gone up, rinse-repeat. Fear and greed are the tools of control in wall street.
(Swing high today in XLE; you've seen the wash cycle, now here comes the rinse, most likely)
But I say, there's no need to get angry, or protest, or blow up the world - just understand how it works, so they can't trick you. Once you know the trick, it stops working on you, and they lose all their power. There's no need to fear either. If they were all powerful, they wouldn't need to resort to these sorts of tricks - tricks are a mark of weakness, not strength.
Myself I'm glad for the intro on the whole WTC-7, and the background on neocon agendas and where it might have come for, but being a busy executive (!), the "executive summary" was sufficient. I feel appropriately armed now and I have a proper lens through which I can view all this mid-east activity. As with everything else, I don't feel well-served by getting angry about it - I just want things clear in my mind, so I can sort through how I might act if I ever had an opportunity to do anything about it.
My desire to avoid anger about these things is somewhat personal. My mother was quite angry at all these events you talk about. She took all this stuff very personally. Two years ago she died of cancer that I'm convinced came at least in part because of her great unhappiness with how the world was going. And in the end, the anger she could not let go of ended up hurting her and our family, and nobody else.
So…no anger for me. Its just not helpful. People think it is, but it isn't. At least not from what I've seen.