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<div>David et. al.</div>
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<div>Ay, matey!</div>
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<div>"Great Pirates" indeed!</div>
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<div>Secrecy and specialization, both utilized to protect the pirates hegemony.</div>
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<div>From Fuller's text:</div>
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<div>"But these hard, powerful, brilliantly resourceful sea masters had to sleep occasionally, and therefore found it necessary to surround themselves with super-loyal, muscular but dull-brained illiterates who could not see nor savvy their masters' stratagems. There was great safety in the mental dullness of these henchmen. The Great Pirates realized that the only people who could possibly contrive to displace them were the truly bright people. For this reason their number-one strategy was secrecy."
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<div>"But specialization is in fact only a fancy form of slavery wherein the "expert" is fooled into accepting his slavery by making him feel that in return he is in a socially and culturally preferred, ergo, highly secure, lifelong position. But only the king's son received the Kingdom-wide scope of training."
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<div>Can we connect Fuller's description of the "Great Pirates" use of secrecy to the secrecy of the Bush Administration? Consider the theory that securing oil resources was a major factor in the Iraq invasion and occupation in the context of Cheney's (who some have called the "real" president, one of the masterminds of Bush's Middle East policy) secret meeting with top energy corporation executives, a secret meeting that resulted in a law suit to reveal what went on, that went all the way to the US Supreme Court:
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<div><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Cheney_Energy_Task_Force">http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Cheney_Energy_Task_Force</a></div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/28/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">david sarff</b> <<a href="mailto:davesway@hotmail.com">davesway@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:</span></div>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><br>Ted, I am reminded of something in this discussion. You have likely read<br>this old yet still relevant work but Sunil ( and some others) might enjoy
<br>Buckminster Fullers descriptions of " Great Pirates".<br><a href="http://reactor-core.org:80/operating-manual-for-spaceship-earth.html">http://reactor-core.org:80/operating-manual-for-spaceship-earth.html</a></blockquote>
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<div>Aye, booty a'plenty for the buccaneers:<br> </div>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">>Though I think protecting US access to the Middle East's huge fossil fuel<br>>reserves, in the context of the inevitable depletion of this non-renewable
<br>>and absolutely critical resource during the next century, was the raison<br>>d'etre for the Iraq invasion, for the small group of the most powerful,<br>>savvy, and realistic military and business/corporate strategists doing long
<br>>term planning, I think most people who supported the war had noble goals of<br>>other sorts.<br>></blockquote>
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<div>Ted Moffett</div><br> </div>