by NIKOS RAPTIS
When in 1861 Jacob Bigelow, a physician, “baptized” a new institute as the “Massachusetts Institute of Technology” (MIT), in Boston, he intended through this name “to indicate that the study of science at MIT, rather than being a form of polite learning, would be directed toward practical ends.”
If alive today, would Doctor Bigelow agree that among MIT’s “practical ends” could be the study and “creation” of armaments for war, that is for the extermination of human life? Who knows; he died in 1897.
To be fair, among the “practical ends” MIT includes disciplines that are beneficial to humanity. Take my field, “soil mechanics”, which deals with landslides, quakes, soil liquefaction, (Katrina) dikes, tunnels, bridges, railroads, etc that protect or ameliorate human life.
However, what Bigelow could not envision was that MIT could give “birth” (or better; “manufacture”) to an “army” of US-controlled native elites all over the world as “tools” for dominating the planet.
Given that Greece is in the news almost daily, it is interesting to examine the MIT “offspring” that have become ruling-elites in Greece, for the benefit of the US elites.
In my previous ZNet Commentary, “Quakes: Call on Turks and on Greeks”, of November 18, 2011, I mentioned: “So, part of the population of northern Greece was forced to inundate Athens and start building… tens of thousands of Le Corbusier ‘creations'”, that is concrete multi-story apartment buildings.
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