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We’ve all been watching the melt-down in the Middle East and the
bizarre meddling of the West in general, and America in particular,
backing “rebels” in their grizzly and brutal attempts to overthrow the
“moderate authoritarian” regimes. We all saw the wickedly cackling
Hilary Clinton gloating over Qaddafi’s murder. Granted, Qaddafi was no
gentleman, but given the revelations about his financial and monetary
plans for Libya, and how he was actually spending that nation’s treasure
to help its people, it’s little wonder he ran afoul of the oligarchs of the West. The Iraq mess is well-known, and the Syrian one, as well.
I confess in Syria’s case almost complete befuddlement. The
geopolitical objectives seem clear, but, for the effort, paltry in
comparison for what might be gained by a change from yet another
“moderate, secular, authoritarian” regime like Assad’s, and the
head-chopping butchery of the Western-sponsored “rebels.” The
geopolitical goal, I suspect, is to pry loose the last tenuous Russian
toeholds in the region, and we can fully expect that after Syria is
settled – if it ever is – the next domino on the West’s hit list will
be, of course, Iran. I get that the West is desperately trying
to set up Huntington’s “clash of civilizations”, a new post Cold War
bogeyman to demonize, and a radicalized Islamic world would fit the
requirements nicely, much more nicely then the uncooperative Russians,
with their shared European and “Judeo-Christian” culture ever did.
But all along, I’ve sensed that at some profound and visceral level
that the interest of the Anglosphere oligarchs in the region lies at a
much deeper level, a level transcending the vicissitudes of geopolitics,
energy policy and politics, petrodollars, or all the conventional
explanations found in the types of journals that people like Henry
Kissinger of Zbigniew Brzezinski like to read. I sense that the
involvement has much to do with the region that lies at the ultimate
root of what we call western civilization, and of the indications of
technological sophistication in High Antiquity that its antiquities
indicate.
Which brings us to Egypt… to Giza, as it were, the premier
symbol of Egyptian antiquities. Egyptian antiquities are not, of course,
restricted to Giza. There is Sakkara, Heliopolis, Memphis, Edfu, Luxor…
but say the phrase “ancient Egypt” and the image that will pop instant
and principally to the mind of the hearer are the pyramids of Giza.
Why the unrest in Egypt…beyond the stupidity of the Obama
Administration, which never saw a radical Islamist regime it didn’t
like, in pushing for the ouster of Mubarek? What’s the goal? Egypt has
no appreciable oil supplies or reserves; it has little to offer on the
spectrum of geopolitical concerns save position.
But it does have antiquities…. lots of them. I have
long suspected that one of the deeply hidden agendas for Western
Meddling in the region is precisely to seek and gain control of key
antiquities, and also to remove key antiquities from public
view and scrutiny. Let it be remembered that even under Mubarek, Egypt
moved, inexplicably, to wall off the Giza compound, ostensibly in an
effort to “secure” the site against vandals and terrorists. I suspected
then, and suspect now, that the Egyptians found something, and that they weren’t sharing. I
have made no secret that I suspected antiquities were a deeply hidden
agenda of the Anglosphere in the invasion of Iraq: kick the French and
Germans out, and take over the sites. Then the Baghdad Museum looting
occurred, “American” soldiers were seen going in and out of the building
and removing things….a story broken by – coincidentally? - Der Spiegel. Then we learned the museum looting had all the hallmarks of “an inside job.” But by whom?
So back to Egypt:
Looters ransack Egyptian antiques museum and snatch priceless artefacts as armed police move inside stormed Cairo mosque
Egypt may not have been sharing its recent antiquities discoveries,
and where ancient high technology or indications thereof might be
concerned, I suspect the western oligarchs pull no punches: out with
Mubarek, and, with careful placement of agents provocateur, a few riots, and well-placed “looters,” and antiquities can “disappear.”
Of course, I grant you that this is all high octane speculation once
more, speculation that, if one remains focused on this story alone, and
does not view it in the context of the strange stories of Giza
antiquities that preceded it, nor in the context of the Baghdad Museum
looting, vastly exceeds the evidence. But when one does view
this story in those contexts, then the lineaments of a disturbing
outline begin to emerge, the outlines of a possible real, though very
covert, “antiquities war” being fought beneath the guises of “radical”
versus “moderate” Islamicists, behind the veil of geopolitics, oil, and
petrodollars.
