23-04-2014, 06:19 AM
In its modern form, 'intelligence' [spying and covert operations] were a feature of the superrich, before they gradually became, nominally, agencies of the State in the last centuries. I've heard the name 'the Room'...but can't locate my references to it yet. All one has to do, however, is note that the first VISIBLE intelligence agencies in the USA, UK and a few other 'western' countries were headed by bankers, corporate types, and their lawyers....in fact, they still are...with the addition of the military increasingly.
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass