02-01-2009, 08:18 PM
Charlie, I find a cabal of US and Soviet intell types in regrd to JFK not at all unlikely. Elsewhere on this forum I mentioned the unusual multi-millionaire, Armand Hammer, for his absolute open door access to the very top Soviet officials throughout the cold war. Hammer was an unremitting and unapologetic Capitalist.
Where did Stalin draw the line? Capitalists who weren't prepared to indulge his power needs - plus his outrageous urge to personally financially benefit from selling off the Romanoff treasure (well, some of it anyway - a great deal ended up in Manchuria and thence Japan following the latter's conquest of "Manchuckuo" in 1932).
As always it is the elite who pull the strings and who produce shadow matinee performances from behind the curtain, to keep us all guessing and to flummox us with perpetual misdirection.
As Linda says, it was the elite who ran drugs from the very beginning starting with Opium. So why should anyone imagine they would turn over such a massively lucrative trade to their state managers which today we call like to "government"?
In other words does anyone know of a case where a hired Plantation "manager" took control of his masters lands?
Not f**king likely is it.
Where did Stalin draw the line? Capitalists who weren't prepared to indulge his power needs - plus his outrageous urge to personally financially benefit from selling off the Romanoff treasure (well, some of it anyway - a great deal ended up in Manchuria and thence Japan following the latter's conquest of "Manchuckuo" in 1932).
As always it is the elite who pull the strings and who produce shadow matinee performances from behind the curtain, to keep us all guessing and to flummox us with perpetual misdirection.
As Linda says, it was the elite who ran drugs from the very beginning starting with Opium. So why should anyone imagine they would turn over such a massively lucrative trade to their state managers which today we call like to "government"?
In other words does anyone know of a case where a hired Plantation "manager" took control of his masters lands?
Not f**king likely is it.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14