The Real Grand Chessboard & the Profiteers of War

[Jan Klimkowski]

A most sophisticated and astute evisceration.

Peter Dale Scott's analysis of Brzezinski is absolutely correct in all aspects. Indeed, to the real powers, Brzezinski himself is a useful idiot. A few steps up on the rung from a useless eater.

the so-called Private Military Contractors (PMCs) who are authorized to commit violence in the name of their employers. These corporations are reminiscent of the marauding condottieri or private mercenary armies contracted for by the wealthy city states of Renaissance Italy.[25]

With the hindsight of history, we can see the contribution of the notoriously capricious Condottieri to the violence they are supposedly hired to deal with. Some, when unemployed, became little more than predatory bandits. Others, like the celebrated Farinata whom Dante placed in the Inferno, turned against their native cities. Above all, the de facto power accumulated by the condottieri meant that, with the passage of time, they came to dictate terms to their ostensible employers.[26] (They were an early example of entrepreneurial violence, and the most common way of avoiding their path of destruction was "to buy reprieve by offering bribes."[27])

Entrepreneurial violence.

A most resonant, compelling and insightful phrase.

What we have been talking about until now is advocacy disguised as expertise. But overseas associates of Diligence LLC and its allies have also been accused of false-flag operations intended to provoke war.

The passage of the Patriot Act generated a new realm of profit for SAIC contractors -- domestic surveillance of U.S. citizens – as well as new intelligence fusion centers to carry this out.

I was 27 years old the first time I died...

Words uttered by the character Jack Starks, played magnificently by Adrien Brody, in The Jacket.

Jack London seen through the prism of Ken Kesey and Dr John C Lilly.....