re: Is Catherine Austin Fitts spot on or is she a conspiracy theorist. Reason of ME wars.

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Thoughts?

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Far more likely than Iran developing a nuclear weapon and attacking someone.

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If I keep with Catherine‘s explanation/theory every one in this thread continues to argue in the two rail sphere under the third rail totally ignoring the third rail. It’s understandable.

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I guess this is my fault for merging Christianity the religion with Christianity the culture.

To me Judeo-Christian culture is the underpinning for the entire western civilization.

I don't think Imperial Great Britain was a Christian Empire, they were a secular empire, the same with the EU, and the USA.

By that I mean, we are capitalistic (Smith), valuing a work ethic made popular by Northern European protestants (Luther), we value the scientific method as developed by those like Newton (Protestantish) and Galileo (Catholic) we value industrialization as exemplified by Watt (Deist). We also value Science (Darwin, Einstein) as an means to it's own end. We worship a deist (Jefferson) separation of State and Religion.

I do separate the fact that the "godless" have fully taken over western civilization from the idea that they are a different rail, but I do think your way of thinking is as good as mine is about it, just then the "power" in the rail of Christianity is extremely small.

Context is important. Digital money and the knock-on effects can and will be used for more govt control. It's not a new concept, governments everywhere and always use innovation to increase their control, because control is what governments want. Govts are, after all, run by people with a taste for power.

But to put this subject back into the current context, the ongoing war with Iran, are China and the Iranian regime the representatives of small govt and freedom in this discussion? Like I said, that's a hard sell. If you or Tucker or Ms. Fitts are saying geopolitics are complex and the motive for war is never pure altruism, that's correct. If you're using this theory to change minds about who's right vs wrong, good vs bad, in the Iranian conflict, I don't think you're making a good case.

There is a different case to be made that the US shouldn't be involved in this war. I think George Washington made that case in his farewell address and it's more relevant today than ever. We need to avoid foreign entanglements whenever possible. If for no other reason than we can't pay for them without debasing the US dollar. Was this war absolutely vital to US interests? I don't know the answer to that but I'm pretty certain that we are headed for financial trouble and this probably won't help.

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There is no "Judeo", it's just Christian. None of the founding fathers were Jewish and they were quite suspicious of them.

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This is more than America, especially since the mid 1800s Jewish Thought is very much driving a lot of conversations.

I don't think Christian thought unaffected by Jewish and secular "enlightenment thought" is driving much of it today.

I do think that's a problem, but in the end I don't want to sully Christianity with responsibility for driving a culture that worships abortion and homosexuality.