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Sex, Lies, and Julian Assange
ABC’s (Australia) Four Corners, July 23
Edit (August 24): The excellent documentary has been removed from YouTube. It told most of the story, and I think the truth became quite clear. I hope it will soon be back.
Edit (August 25): The documentary can be seen here, on Four Corners’ website.
Några länkar om Assange
De synpunkter på fallet Assange som idag framförs av Helene Bergman och Anders Carlgren i DN och tidigare i veckan av Paul Craig Roberts (på svenska på Fria Tider) måste beaktas, oavsett vad man anser om Assanges WikiLeaks-verksamhet. Hinner inte kommentera detta närmare nu men återkommer eventuellt här senare.
Daniel Estulin: The True Story of the Bilderberg Group
Trine Day, 2009 (2007) Amazon.com
Book Description:
Delving into a world once shrouded in complete mystery and impenetrable security, this investigative report provides a fascinating account of the annual meetings of the world’s most powerful people – the Bilderberg Group. Since its inception in 1954 at the Bilderberg Hotel in the small Dutch town of Oosterbeek, the Bilderberg Group has been comprised of European prime ministers, American presidents, and the wealthiest CEOs of the world, all coming together to discuss the economic and political future of humanity. The working press has never been allowed to attend, nor have statements ever been released on the attendees’ conclusions or discussions, which have ramifications on the citizens of the world. Using methods that resemble the spy tactics of the Cold War – and in several instances putting his own life on the line – the author did what no one else has managed to achieve: he learned what was being said behind the closed doors of the opulent hotels and has made it available to the public. This second edition includes an entirely new chapter and updated information on topics such as an earlier attempt to break up Canada and the portents of a North American union.“If you want to know who really runs the world and the lengths to which they will go to establish their globalist hegemony, you must read Estulin’s well-documented The True Story of The Bilderberg Group.” carolynbaker.net
“For some 15 years, Estulin has been a thorn in the sides of the Bilderbergers, relentlessly hunting down their secret meeting places, gaining inside sources who divulge what goes on behind closed doors, even photographing attendees and publicly disclosing it all. Now he has put it all in a book that every person who values freedom and democracy should read.” Onlinejournal.com
Wolfgang Hetzer: Finanzmafia
Wieso Banker und Banditen ohne Strafe davonkommen
Kurzbeschreibung:
Die Finanzkrise ist kein Ergebnis einer Naturkatastrophe, wie uns häufig vorgegaukelt wird. Außerdem unterstellt der Begriff “Krise” dass es sich um ein vorübergehendes Ereignis handelt, das durch Krisenmanagement beherrschbar ist. So wird davon abgelenkt, dass Organisationen, Institutionen, Einzelpersonen und Gruppen – als übliche Bankengeschäfte getarnt – hemmungslos ihre eigenen Interessen verfolgt haben. Mit krimineller Energie haben sie große Mengen Geld bewegt und in Netzwerken, die der Organisierten Kriminalität vergleichbar sind, dubiose Geschäfte getätigt. Doch die strafrechtliche Aufarbeitung des Geschehens hat bisher nicht stattgefunden. Wolfgang Hetzer fragt nach den Gründen und untersucht, welche Straftatbestände greifen könnten. Für ihn ist es höchste Zeit, dass das traditionell gegen die “Unterschicht” eingesetzte Strafrecht auch endlich gegen die “Oberschicht” angewendet wird.Jacques Ellul: Propagandes
Economica, 1990 (1962) Amazon.fr
Présentation de l’éditeur:
Cet ouvrage, publié pour la première fois en 1962 a été l’un des tout premiers à mettre en évidence le caractère omniprésent et multiforme de la propagande. Dépassant les définitions classiques, il a montré que la propagande n’était pas l’apanage des dictatures, mais une nécessité pour tous les régimes, qu’elle ne se limitait pas à la guerre psychologique, mais englobait aussi les public and human relations destinées à adapter l’homme à une société. Près de trente ans après sa publication, ce livre demeure une référence indispensable pour la compréhension d’un phénomène qui n’a cessé de s’étendre et de se perfectionner.
Biographie de l’auteur:
Jacques Ellul n’a cessé d’approfondir sa réflexion sur la technique dans des livres devenus des classiques. Mais on ne peut comprendre son oeuvre sans se reporter à ce livre fondateur. Prophétiques lorsqu’elles ont été écrites, ses vues sur la technique comme fait central de nos sociétés conservent plus de 35 ans après une étonnante et parfois inquiétante actualité.
Barbara Walters’s Interview with Bashar al-Assad
Gore Vidal: Imperial America
Reflections on the United States of Amnesia
Nation Books, 2004 Amazon.com
Book Description:
Following the publication of Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace and Dreaming War comes award-winning Gore Vidal’s long-awaited conclusion to his landmark, best-selling trilogy. Now, Vidal has written his most devastating exploration of Imperial America to date. “Not since the 1846 attack on Mexico in order to seize California,” Vidal writes, “has an American government been so nakedly predatory”. Bush’s apparent invincibility, and what he might or might not know – especially about those new “black box” voting machines being installed all over the country – is one of the central themes of “State of the Union 2004,” a magnificent and witty Olympian survey of American Empire, where the war on terror is judged as nonsensical as the “war on dandruff,” where America is an “Enron-Pentagon prison,” a land of ballooning budget deficits thanks to the growth of a garrison state, tax cuts for the privileged, and the creeping totalitarianism of the Ashcroft justice department. Collected in this volume are Vidal’s earlier State of the Union addresses, a tradition inaugurated on the David Susskind show in the early seventies as a counterpoint to “whoever happened to be president.”Book Description (second edition):
Gore Vidal: Dreaming War
Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta
Nation Books, 2002 Amazon.com
When Gore Vidal’s recent New York Times bestseller Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace was published, the Los Angeles Times described Vidal as the last defender of the American republic. In Dreaming War, Vidal continues this defense by confronting the Cheney-Bush junta head on in a series of devastating essays that demolish the lies American Empire lives by, unveiling a counter-history that traces the origins of America’s current imperial ambitions to the experience of World War Two and the post-war Truman doctrine. And now, with the Cheney-Bush leading us into permanent war, Vidal asks whose interests are served by this doctrine of pre-emptive war? Was Afghanistan turned to rubble to avenge the 3,000 slaughtered on September 11? Or was “the unlovely Osama chosen on aesthetic grounds to be the frightening logo for our long contemplated invasion and conquest of Afghanistan?” After all he was abruptly replaced with Saddam Hussein once the Taliban were overthrown. And while “evidence” is now being invented to connect Saddam with 9/11, the current administration are not helped by “stories in the U.S. press about the vast oil wealth of Iraq which must- for the sake of the free world – be reassigned to U.S. consortiums.”Gore Vidal, 1925-2012
2009

Bill Kauffman, ‘The Last Republican’ (2008 review of Selected Essays of Gore Vidal)
Brian Doherty, ‘Goodbye to Gore Vidal, America’s Biographer and Champion’
Edit, August 3:
Justin Raimondo, ‘Patriotic Gore’ (2004 review of Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson)
Michael Lind, ‘Gore Vidal: The Virgil of American Populism’
Cf. my post ‘Till frågan om populismen‘ (in Swedish)