Alien Invasion: Krugman, Military Keynesianism, and Report From Iron Mountain
The LRC Blog
By Charles Burris
August 20, 2011
I am certainly enjoying reading the rampant chattering on the web concerning economist Paul Krugman’s latest Looney Tunes proposal for fixing the economy.
The NYT’s Nobel nabob believes that if we all just pretended nefarious space aliens were invading planet Earth, all good men sound and true would unite in defending Mother Gaia, and there would be interstellar stimulus and economic nirvana.
Two of the most perceptive analyses of Krugman’s fervid rambling can be found here and here. Some observers (in whose stolid camp I include myself) immediately thought Krugman was using the controversial Report From Iron Mountain (.pdf version) as his public-policy play book.
Check out this Wikipedia entry for the ongoing controversy surrounding this amazing document, then compare and contrast what Krugman said followed by text from the Report:
Follow @IntelHubKrugman: “If we discovered that space aliens were planning to attack and we needed a massive buildup to counter the space alien threat and really inflation and budget deficits took secondary place to that, this slump would be over in 18 months. And then if we discovered, oops, we made a mistake, there aren’t any aliens, we’d be better.”
“There was a Twilight Zone episode like this in which scientists fake an alien threat in order to achieve world peace. Well, this time…we need it in order to get some fiscal stimulus.”
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Report From Iron Mountain: “Credibility, in fact, lies at the heart of the problem of developing a political substitute for war. This is where the space-race proposals, in many ways so well suited as economic substitutes for war, fall short. The most ambitious and unrealistic space project cannot of itself generate a believable external menace.
It has been hotly argued that such a menace would offer the “last, best hope of peace,” etc., by uniting mankind against the danger of destruction by “creatures” from other planets or from outer space.
Experiments have been proposed to test the credibility of an out-of-our-world invasion threat; it is possible that a few of the more difficult-to explain “flying saucer” incidents of recent years were in fact early experiments of this kind.
If so, they could hardly have been judged encouraging. We anticipate no difficulties in making a “need” for a giant super space program credible for economic purposes, even were there not ample precedent; extending it, for political purposes, to include features unfortunately associated with science fiction would obviously be a more dubious undertaking.
“Nevertheless, an effective political substitute for war would require “alternate enemies,” some of which might seem equally farfetched in the context of the current war system.
It may be, for instance, that gross pollution of the environment can eventually replace the possibility of mass destruction by nuclear weapons as the principal apparent threat to the survival of the species.” (page 51)
The Alien threat is the Human Race. It must be conqured and destroyed.
Another talking head suffering from a lack of engagement of the brain.
Krugman, much like those who are supposed to be holding the reins, never stop yabbering long enough to ponder the consequences of actions.
Suppose the Earth united long enough to prepare for an Alien Invasion.
What would those preparations entail? Hoarding supplies and making weapons.
What would then follow after the Alien Invasion was discovered to be a hoax?
The countries of Earth, and alliances, would use them on each other.
So, Mr. Krugmans hypothetical turns out to be a trading of the economic plowshare… for the sword.
Sound familiar? It’s happened too often in Earth’s History. The Big Money folks (the banks/empires) hold all the investment cards. So, they play thier cards to win. By the time they figure out that thier economic bases are destroyed by the game, it’s too late, and they are in over thier heads.
I wonder if the Annunaki use a fractional reserve-based fiat currency.
Clearly there are many who think this is a joke, those of you who do are sorely misinformed and do not truly understand the meaning behind this plan for a so called “Alien Invasion”.
The ruling elite have been planning this for many years and it is to falsely unite the world into a single global governance and you are to become the servant and slave to this corporate money making machine.
I would guess they would need to do something very soon because of the pathetic following of the nations leaders who have adopted the FIAT currency owned and operated by the same people who own the Federal Reserve private bank in America.
The people of these nations are all being herded into this global market as human capital by these criminal Bankers and only a select few will be found marketable or sustainable for their end game of total control.
They actually have a plan to kill 6.3 BILLION PEOPLE by the year 2020 which will leave a very small fraction of the herd remaining to be their slaves.
So, if this is the future you want for yourselves and your grandchildren, even if you think you are in a position of authority, they WILL KILL YOU, as they have no heart, no conscience and no moral right that would prevent them from doing to you what they are doing to the people in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Syria, Pakistan and soon coming to America for the mass culling of the human race so they can meet their deadline of death and destruction by 2020.
This is NO JOKE people! They are into mass killing, just look what they did to our own people on 9/11! They enjoy killing and soon you will see death at YOUR DOOR so get used to it, you should be fairly nub to it by now with all the death and destruction they show you on television, so enjoy it while it’s still relatively calm because very soon you will witness these travesties up close and personal……..GET USED TO IT!