Pretext for War and Dominion

In the past, many times leaders of nations have needed a pivotal event, a trigger, in order to shake loose the masses from their inertia.  Evil men are not above manufacturing such pretexts:  the Reichstag Fire, the "invasion" of Germany by Poland in 1939 are among a long string of criminal actions.

Well, a friend sent me something that has caused me to rethink some things.  More below the flip.

We all suspect (and some of us adamantly believe) that the Bush and the Cheney cabals are composed largely of sociopaths, men who have no empathy for others and view others as tools to be used or squandered.  We know they are driven by a lust for power and wealth.  And, in a country where Ford would make a cost/benefit analysis that the costs of lawsuits were less than fixing a product that killed hundreds of people, why is it too outlandish to contemplate that truly evil men would "invest" innocent lives for a greater cause?

So, what my friend sent me was this link.  Watch the video, it will take an hour or so.  At the least it is unsettling and raises disturbing questions.  And consider what has occurred since 9/11, the gargantuan transfer of wealth between different sectors of industry and different economic strata of our population.  

Hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars have changed hands, flowing in certain very specific directions.  And we now have a police state, with Congress a lapdog, the media a de facto organ of the state, and the judiciary subsumed by the executive branch.  Look long and hard at where we are, at what has actually transpired at the macro level, and tell me whether you think it is too preposterous to contemplate.