http://www.nationofchange.org/nsa-spying-really-about-blackmail-1383294652
I POSTED A RESPONSE TO THE ABOVE ARTICLE:
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RE: the spying .. to target up-and-coming potential leaders of so-called “friendly states.”
AND your suggestion that the NSA might represent “the heads of key corporate interests“.
I am a citizen of a “friendly state” (Canada). There is an overlooked point in your very good article. My read on the reason for targeting by the NSA of “potential leaders” in other nations? . . .
Evidence points to a well-known practice of the American military-industrial-congressional complex:
set up PUPPET REGIMES in countries whose resources the corporations want to exploit.
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the NSA monitors the “potential leaders” in order to identify the ones with quisling potential
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the American military-industrial-congressional complex then BANKROLLS their selected candidate
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Once “elected”, the quislings can be relied upon to sell their souls and their country. The corporatocracy has taken over.
In Canada we have seen a terrible capitulation to “key (American) corporate interests”. Those interests have infiltrated our politics, bureaucracy and universities.
- Lockheed Martin & others in the war industry
- Monsanto & others in the chemical/GMO industry
- Oil & Gas companies
- Nuclear interests
The dismantling of democracy that has happened rapidly in the last years is breath-taking. Vote fraud is high on the list. Corruption? – – don’t look in Africa, it is abundant right here in North America. It is the consequence of “public-private-partnerships”.
The corruption is predictable. See Thinkers of the Day on the Unholy Alliances between Government (public institutions) and Industry