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Conspiracy Nation Vol. 09 Num. 01
Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 9 Num. 01
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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TRAFFICKERS OF DEATH
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[La Jornada, 8/25/96. Translation by Conspiracy Nation.]
Mexico -- The Ministry of Agriculture of the United Kingdom
"invited" the British authorities to not control the source of
more than 2 million cows exported to the European continent, in
spite of the danger of infections and death caused by "mad cow
disease." At the same time it decided to prohibit the sale of
the dangerous meat in continental Europe, it authorized its
exportation to eastern Europe and to the Third World. Also, you
will recall, the sale in Latin America of radioactive milk,
contaminated by the Chernobyl disaster, has been allowed -- milk
which still has no European market. In our country [Mexico], has
been destined for human consumption corn not fit for pigs. In
fact, money does not stink, as the Romans used to say and, when
it comes to business, there are no lack of states which push to
one side all scruples and play with death, for supposed
advantage.
The war in Chechnya, terrible for the number of victims and for
the atrocities suffered by a colonized people, is almost a case
study in how private fortunes are amassed at the cost of public
misery and misfortune. General Alexander Lebed, in his collision
with the recycled Establishment that controls always oil and
armaments and holds high places in the Russian government, has
denounced the fact that these persons have a financial interest
in war and oppose peace. Journalists add, for their part, that
behind the combats, what is liberated is a battle for oil and
lining the pockets of many military commands. The thing is that,
to its misfortune, Chechnya is very rich in hydrocarbons and oil,
and what is produced or passes through there can make
millionaires, in the blink of an eye, those who, in Moscow,
secretly export fuel. Besides, a war gives power to the military
and serves to conceal a contraband in weapons. It is enough, in
effect, to declare that the combatants have consumed or destroyed
quantities of arms and munitions beyond what has occurred in
order to be able to sell them clandestinely in the exterior via a
traffic that ensures that combats and bombings will be intensive
and will last as long as possible.
Power, evidently, corrupts so-called "democratic societies" as
much as it corrupts any others. The world technocrats, for their
part, tend to consider the common human being a simple,
predictable variable and to think that anything is good which
offers the opportunity to oil the economic machine -- even the
deaths of thousands of unknowns. Society, even in civilized
Europe, can control neither the governments nor the economic
decisions of the grand *senors* of finance. And from the point
of view of ethics, we live in a period similar to the period of
Roman decadence. More than ever is needed a total transparency
to reveal acts of government, and social control over that
government, a total liberty of investigation and information on
the part of a free and independent press. At first glance, this
might seem little, but that can be enough to put obstacles in the
way of those who massively line their pockets by means of death.
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