26 January 2005: Links

These are issues and recent stories that I have been looking at and may write about more later.

Why it is most likely that an American Airlines 757-223 hit it the Pentagon, by Joël van der Reijden
http://home.planet.nl/~reijd050/pentahole_dimensions_est.htm
I have read this through once but haven't scrutinized it. It has some useful photo and visual presentations that are different than other sites. I haven't read the other 9/11 related material on this site yet.

THE OIL RESERVE FALLACY by Bill Kovarik
http://www.radford.edu/~wkovarik/oil/index.html
Essential reading. Shows that oil industry figures on oil reserves are slanted in a way that favors foreign policy agendas in the mideast. And the "peak oil" gang are right in line with this. Be sure to follow the links for all 6 pages; there are some good bits in the end notes.

GEOPOLITICAL GENESIS AND PROSECT OF ZIONISM, Mohameden Ould-Mey, PhD
This has some useful, detailed research into the influence of the British imperialism on the origins of Zionism, although it has some bias. Also there isn't much on the sources of "Christian Zionism" from the same circles, which is also important.

Jerusalem Summit Calls for Alternative to UN
http://www.isralert.com/archives/2004/12/jerusalem_summi.php

Philotyrants, Inc. Review by George Crowder of Mark Lilla's The Restless Mind
http://www.econ.usyd.edu.au/drawingboard/digest/0201/crowder.html
This is a review of a book I haven't read, and I'm not familiar with the author. But it's a handy summary of some things I've been looking at, concerning very disturbing trends and historical influences behind the 60s New Left and 'postmodernist' left. This ties into my skeptical views concerning the Frankfurt School, Systems Theory, the "counterculture", New Left historical revisionism, radical ecology / environmentalism, and recent communitarian / utopian ideologies. I'll have to get into this more later on.

Leo Strauss as the first postmodernist [!]:
http://www.svabhinava.org/friends/JosephMartin/StraussConjecture.htm
"Strauss was the first postmodern, treating philosophic texts as indecipherable scriptures while even managing to deny (the anonymity of the interpreter!) that he was doing just that."

“Managing the planet”: the Ford Foundation in the mid-Sixties and early Seventies (pdf)
http://tinyurl.com/5zqe6
Very revealing, in that is shows — subtly — that the social engineering elite used many of the profound cultural turmoil in the late 60s and early 70s as a springboard for their plans. In other words, "they" were prepared for and desirous of certain countercultural "paradigm shifts".

Neocons and eugenics — there has been inadequate attention paid to the fact that the 'neocons' played a central role in the post-ww2 eugenics / racialism revival. I only became aware of it recently. It seems to be overlooked by those who only look at the well-known Nazi and pro-Nazi circles.
Racism, Intelligence and the Working Class (some info about Irving Kristol's role here)
http://www.plp.org/pamphlets/riwc.html
“You Have To Tell The Truth”—The Bell Curve After Ten Years
http://www.vdare.com/sailer/bell_curve_10yr.htm
(warning, this is from a supporter. Just as an illustration)

Some recent key articles about the 'neocon' power realignment in the new Bush admin.:

Bush, Cheney Team Up to Soften Americans for War on Iran by Jim Lobe
http://www.antiwar.com/lobe/?articleid=4522

A state of chaos George Bush has purged the last of his father's senior advisers, handing over control to his neocon allies
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1380713,00.html

Norman Podhoretz, The War Against World War IV, Commentary
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/special/A11902025_1.html

Israel plans targeted killings in US and other friendly countries
http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030115-035849-6156r

White House speechwriter, neocon David Frum goes berzerk over CIA "mutinous disloyalty" re: Sy Hersh's Iran bombshell
http://www.nationalreview.com/frum/diary011705.asp