Jeanine Pirro: Are You Experienced? By: Nicole Belle @ 9:03 AM - PDT
from the Pirro For Attorney General campaign
It turns out that Jeanine Pirro does have some very interesting crime-related experience:
The saga of Jeanine Pirro is about to take a dramatic new turn, with the disclosure that while serving as district attorney of Westchester, Ms. Pirro was in the habit of secretly recording work-related telephone conversations, and a federal grand jury wants to hear them.[..]
One of the reasons this is of interest is that that Ms. Pirro's successor now is in possession of a tape suggesting Ms. Pirro failed to disclose evidence that could have helped a man whom Ms. Pirro subsequently charged with murder. But the existence of any tapes immediately raises the question of whom Ms. Pirro was talking to over her years in office and what conversations, whether of a political or legal nature, might be recorded in the surviving tapes.
Do you think her buddy, Sean Hannity, will defend this too?
Monica Goodling brought human resource management best practices to the Department of Justice. Her collaboration with Highlights to create a Goofus and Gallant human resource primer is about as cutting edge as it gets. It's the kind of work one expects from a Regents University Law School grad.
CNN allowed Beck's global warming special to use industry-funded 'experts' CNN Headline News host Glenn Beck's May 2 hour-long special, Exposed: The Climate of Fear, purported to present the "other side of the climate debate that you don't hear anywhere."
* Thursday, May 10 at 6:30 p.m. at the Museum of the City of New York: Amy Goodman will participate on the panel discussion, "New York City's Impact on World Affairs," in conjunction with the museum's exhibition, "Facing Fascism: New York and the Spanish Civil War."*
More info: http://tour.democracynow.org/2007/05/new_york_ny_16.html
A study funded by the US government has concluded that conservatism can be explained psychologically as a set of neuroses rooted in "fear and aggression, dogmatism and the intolerance of ambiguity". The report's four authors linked Hitler, Mussolini, Ronald Reagan, and Rush Limbaugh as suffering from the same affliction.
The Copyright Royalty Board in Washington, DC has more than tripled the royalty rates for web casters and if left unchanged they will *KILL* the future of Internet radio!
Anonymous said... A study funded by the US government has concluded that conservatism can be explained psychologically as a set of neuroses rooted in "fear and aggression, dogmatism and the intolerance of ambiguity". The report's four authors linked Hitler, Mussolini, Ronald Reagan, and Rush Limbaugh as suffering from the same affliction.
Should we deem conservative thinking as a mental illness? with so many dead bodies on their hands and so much delusional thinking,should we start opening up clinics for the conservatively insane?
ok shit head I missed that fine line, I've been listening to the rush o'riley som other religious war suppoter talk shows and its really given me the creeps
bob said... ok shit head I missed that fine line, I've been listening to the rush o'riley som other religious war suppoter talk shows and its really given me the creeps
blah blah blah said... remember that scene near the end of dr. strangelove where the pilot with the big texas hat rides the nuke down like its a bucking bull.
War Dog's totally spammy. I think he's scared Seder's new blog will let peeps ignore him and ban him from the side blogs/diaries, so he's going totally nuts now. Poor scared little runt.
blah blah blah said... remember that scene near the end of dr. strangelove where the pilot with the big texas hat rides the nuke down like its a bucking bull.
bibimimi troll'p said... we need a new thread, this one loads a slow as a galvanized turd. May 7, 2007 4:30 PM ------------------------------ Zinc sphincter. I don't have a joke to go with it. I just like the way it sounds.
This morning on CBS’s Face the Nation, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich advised fellow conservatives not to talk about President Bush’s record. “President Bush is not the future. He’s not a solution. He doesn’t solve Social Security. He doesn’t solve Medicare. He doesn’t solve the economy. He doesn’t solve the environment. He doesn’t solve education. He’s a current fact,” Gingrich said.
This morning on CBS’s Face the Nation, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich advised fellow conservatives not to talk about President Bush’s record. “President Bush is not the future. He’s not a solution. He doesn’t solve Social Security. He doesn’t solve Medicare. He doesn’t solve the economy. He doesn’t solve the environment. He doesn’t solve education. He’s a current fact,” Gingrich said.
we know all about Matthews and his sticky-gooey man-love for all things Bush. The way he keeps saying Bill Clinton better 'watch himself' if he goes back 2 the WH is real hetero-hate.
look there conbo yes your clever wit went right over my head as i was thinking about how for the most part the best the libs can do is comedy and bitch ... not that I have any ideas or anything new to say .. its just seems really surreal, this generation seems so defeated ... hey that is funny oh well.. I would bet your life bush would stand a reasonable chance at reelections if he could ..
Like 9/22[sic], the 4/29 attacks also appeared as a quadruple attack:
* Gas tanker collapses the 80/580 in Oakland * Gas tanker severely damages the Interstate 375 overpass in Saint Petersburg * Gas tanker destroys Interstate 10 in Texas<> * Golden Gate Bridge attack avoided after the tanker’s wheels flew off prematurely.
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I like the bit about 4 x 29 = 116 which is 911 upside-down
does anybody know why wolf blitzer afternoon email is reporting that the chimps poll numbers are going back up. google comes up empty handed and the cnn web site doesn't have the story.
Cathy in Seattle said... War Dog, are you really planning to vote for a democrat for president in 2008? Because unless you are, you're just full of shit.
"(from Alex Cockburn’s introduction to Chronicles of Dissent)
“But it’s all so depressing,” cried JoAnn Wypijewski, managing editor of The Nation, when Chomsky had finished outlining to her his analysis of some supposed breakthrough in Palestinian-Israeli peace talks.
“It’s not my job to cheer you up,” Chomsky replied. "
Bush’s guests. Included in the list of dignitaries invited to tonight’s state dinner in honor of Queen Elizabeth: Elisabeth Hasselbeck, host of The View, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger; former Secretary of State Colin Powell; NFL Quarterback and Bush supporter Peyton Manning; NBC White House correspondent David Gregory; and Newsweek White House correspondent Richard Wolffe. Full list here.
20: Number of senior Bush administration aides who have “either retired or resigned from important posts at the White House, Pentagon and State Department in the past six months.” NYU professor Paul Light notes, “You would expect to see vacancies arise as things wind down, but it’s about six months early for this kind of a mass exodus.”
Government Agencies Push Back On Waxman Request For Rove’s Emails Last month, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-CA) wrote letters to at least 24 government departments and agencies directing them to preserve e-mails received from or sent to non-governmental e-mail accounts (i.e. gwb43.com, georgewbush.com and rnchq.org) used by White House staffers.
Since both the RNC and the White House have said they did not preserve some of these communications from White House staffers, Waxman is attempting to acquire the emails through an alternative route.
The agencies pushed back on Waxman’s request:
Waxman’s Democratic staffers earlier sent out a letter demanding e-mails, but agencies reported back that the request was unclear.
The Examiner obtained a new memo sent to federal agencies from Waxman’s committee which provides “additional guidance” for conducting a wide search for e-mails involving White House political adviser Karl Rove and other political aides:
“The search should include any e-mails received or sent by any covered agency official after January 20, 2001 and before April 12, 2007,” says the two-page memo, a copy of which was obtained Monday by The Examiner. […]
Its memo lists four types of “covered agency officials” - basically political appointees. It specifically mentions 15 people in whom the committee is particularly interested. They include Rove, former Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman, and 13 other current and former White House aides.
“For each covered agency official, the search should include the official’s e-mail account, any archive of e-mail account including printed e-mails where appropriate, servers, and any backup tape or other backup media containing e-mails to or from the official,” the committee memo states.
Sen. Patrick Leahy has warned of further action if the lost messages are not found. “Those e-mails are there, they just don’t want to produce them. We’ll subpoena them if necessary.”
World Bank panel finds Wolfowitz guilty of conflict of interest Michael Roston Published: Monday May 7, 2007
A World Bank panel has found President Paul Wolfowitz guilty of a 'conflict of interest,' according to a breaking report at the New York Times website.
"A bank committee formally transmitted its findings that he was guilty of a conflict of interest in arranging for a pay raise and promotion in 2005 to Shaha Ali Riza, his companion," wrote Steven Weisman late on Monday afternoon.
The panel's finding have not been made public, and Weisman added that "It was not clear whether the committee, consisting of 7 of the bank’s 24 board members, would remove Mr. Wolfowitz from his post or, more likely, express a loss of confidence in his leadership in a manner that might persuade him to resign."
The news came as Wolfowitz's adviser Kevin Kellems resigned, complaining that the cloud over the Bush appointed president made his work at the institution useless.
The satirical website Wonkette also was reporting rumors late on Monday that Wolfowitz resigned, but the site was unable to back the rumor up.
"Year in and year out, the press uses haircut stories to paint Democrats as vain hypocrites. Vain because they "care too much about how they look", and hypocrites because Democrats "claim" they care about working people but "in truth only care about their appearances". The press, and, it seems, a significant number of ardent followers of the press love to play numerous variations of Hypocrite Police with Democrats. Teeing off on the breaking haircut news, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd recently ridiculed Edwards. Referring to him as the Breck Girl and the Material Boy, she claimed Edwards' lavish lifestyle meant he wasn't qualified to talk about working-class woes in America. "You can't sell earnestness while indulging in decadence," she sanctimoniously lectured Edwards. Belittling Edwards for being out of touch, Dowd felt the strange urge to prove she had a working-class bond, so she invoked her dad, a cop who got .50 cent haircuts in his day. Of course, it would have been more persuasive if Dowd had referenced something from her adult life, but since I'm guessing she pays more than $400 for her SoHo rinse and trims, dear old dad had to do. Meanwhile, NBC anchor Brian Williams appeared as a guest on David Letterman's show last week where discussion soon turned to nothing other than Edwards' haircut.
Asked what was the most he'd ever paid for a trim, Williams responded, "probably $12." Really? I have to pay $16, plus tip, for a trim at a little barbershop in the 'burbs. But Williams, who lives in a restored farmhouse in Connecticut where he parks his 477-horsepower black Porsche GT2 (that is, when he's not decamping on the Upper East Side), gets his haircut for just $12. Now, Williams enjoys a $10 million salary. He's a celebrity journalist and recent Men's Vogue cover boy who up until just a few years ago was probably known as much for his perfectly coiffed locks as he was for his reporting skills. Yet, eager to project himself as one of the guys, Williams insists his trims cost chump change. Did you see NBC's Tim Russert being interviewed on Bill Moyers' recent PBS documentary Buying the War, which looked at the media's weak lapdog performance during the run-up to the Iraq invasion? Pressed at one point about why he allowed himself and Meet the Press to be co-opted by the White House in 2002 and 2003, Russert responded, "I'm a blue-collar guy from Buffalo and I know who my sources are. I work 'em very hard". Salt of the earth, Tim Russert is.
Then again, presenting himself as a Working Joe has become something of an obsession with Russert over the years, albeit a Working Joe who makes seven figures a year and, as the Daily Howler has noted, summers with the swells on Nantucket, lounging around in his multimillion-dollar beach island home; a "sprawling gray-shingled house, with rooftop sundeck and cutting garden," as Washingtonian magazine breathlessly described it. The point is that journalists who often announce that Democratic haircut stories matter because they pierce the "folksy" working-class persona that campaigns work so hard to create, are often the very same six-and-seven figure journalists who work so hard to create their own "folksy," working-class personas. - adapted from Eric Boehlert's "What The Haircut Story Tells Us About The Press" at Media Matters.
Since it isn't the outright theft of 2 U.S. Presidential Elections through criminally fraudulent Diebold blackbox "voting", just what exactly are these just plain folks not reporting all the time they tirelessly reveal the fakeries of The Democrats Who Only Pretend To Care? Here's what: "In addition to his long-time Ronald Reagan connections, Politico CEO Frederick Ryan was also, along with Jonathan Bush and Joseph Allbritton, himself a Board Member of the scandal-ridden Riggs Bank, which was involved with hiding money for the Saudis, fined $25 million, then fined $16 million, and which invited the South American dictator Pinochet to open an account after Pinochet was widely accused of corruption, illegal arms sales, and torture. Riggs was involved with improperly transferring oil revenues for Equitorial Guinnea, and was investigated for involvement with aspects surrounding 9/11. Ryan, in addition to serving as Politico CEO, is also President of Allbritton Communications (a subsidiary of Allbritton Group, Inc., which in turn is a subsidiary of "Perpetual Corporation"). To take a step back, the picture that emerges from all of this is both clear and familiar.
Like most billionaires with diverse business interests, Joe Allbritton had political relationships of all sorts. But the coterie around him, and those who created the Politico, including the Politico's current CEO, are plainly firmly entrenched in the right-wing political "movement", with overlapping business and other ties to the Bushes, all kinds of international financial interactions with the Saudis and various right-wing governments, and long-standing ties of many kinds to the Reagan circle. We hear incessantly, over and over from the very well-funded, very well-paid and very well-fed yet self-styled and self-proclaimed "champions of the working man"; the Limbaughs, O'reilleys, Hannity's, Coulters, and Becks of the world, about how Media Matters is covertly funded by George Soros, as though that fact all by itself indubiably proves beyond a scintilla of doubt Media Matters political affiliations, and by implication (with Rush and Bill it's always by implication) Media Matters "elitist" not-for-the-working-man objectives and thus, presumably, bad unpatriotic secret agenda against good patriotic Americans. There is in fact quite a bit more than a bit of projection going on here.
After partisan scrutiny which would enable the detection of a mustard seed let alone a needle in a haystack, facts indicate that Media Matters is not actually funded by Soros. Media Matters reports on inaccuracies, misrepresentations and outright lies in the media, and does not purport to be a nonpartisan newspaper or source of news, although to a very real extent it is, as Media Matters actually does provide the "Fairness And Balance" that FOX (owned by billionaire Rupert Murdoch) and many other outlets featuring the aforsaid highly paid pundits, constantly represent themselves as providing. Yet in reality FOX does not even try to provide fairness or balance to their average viewers, who are themselves very busy every day paying through the nose for everything, and most especially for gas at the pump, primarily because research and development of effective alternatives to gas at the pump, along with any alternatives to poisonous nuclear generation, have systematically been supressed and thus effectively thwarted for at least the past 50 years. The Politico, too, claims to be a nonpartisan source of news. Surely then, by Limbaugh, O'Reilleys et al's very own standards; by the very same token they incessantly hammer into everyone's consciousness day after blessed day, it is not only notable but much more than a little suspect that those who created The Politico and formerly operated the big-oil and dictatorship-friendly Riggs, those very same people who are in charge of The Politico's operation, are in real honest-to-goodness reality themselves long-time GOP operatives and firmly implanted in right-wing circles.
Now, if these facts are not suspect by Rush and Bill and Sean and Anne and Glen's own standards, then why not? Why, again, is Edwards hair an issue worthy of such intense scrutiny by the Politico? And what did John Kerry's windsurfing have to do with anything? Is windsurfing unpatriotic? Does enjoying a healthy and environmentally clean sport threaten our national security? It rather enhances it, if anything. Surely when considering his ability to understand and coordinate processes which may very easily have prevented the outrageous and disasterous wars which have so negatively effected our nation in the estimation of a clear and ever-growing majority of Americans, Kerry's valiant military service in Viet Nam and his numerous years of experience on our U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Comittee was far more relevant to vital issues than his windsurfing. Coiffed windsurfing patrician though he may be, Kerry also saw the real horrors of combat which the Cheneys, Bushs, Roves, Rices, Limbaughs, Hannitys, and Becks so eagerly advocate and readily prescribe for everyone else, but not for themselves or their familys. Indeed, it was Kerry who repeatedly urged every serious continual effort at negotiation and diplomacy before any contemplation or threat of use of military force, and then only as a very last possible resort.
Amazingly, after all America has been through, well over six years after the theft of the 2000 election, some Republicans are just now beginning to suggest that negotiation may possibly be a somewhat important element in the conduct of our U.S. foreign policy. Hannity, in a recent debate performance versus the eminently humble, factual, polite and sincere Democratic Salt Lake City Utah Mayor Rocky Anderson which can only be described as a disgustingly shameful and atrocious attempt to further hoodwink, bamboozle, patronize, hector, harass, frighten, propagandize, prey upon, scare the starch out of, and grossly lie to the American public even more than Hannity already has, that unusually well-paid average joe spared no effort in repeating that a number of Democrats supported the same disasterous war by voting for it, yet he persistently failed to address or even so much as acknowledge the fact that these votes were based on what has now clearly been shown to be deliberately false cooked intelligence which Cheney and Bush repeatedly presented in scripted television episodes rivaling in mis-en-scene anything Boris Karloff or Alfred Hitchcock ever offered, not only to Anderson and other Democratic lawmakers, but to our entire nation; false intelligence which Hannity himself took elaborate measures to constantly repeat for years on our airwaves, which had been deregulated from our 1949 Fairness Doctrine provisions under Reagan, and kept that way by none other than General Colin Powell's son over at our FCC. Could these and so many other well-renumerated members of the media establishment, particularly the henhouse guardians at FOX, possibly be trying to divert attention from things which they know much more about than they are saying, but would prefer at all costs, even to America herself, not to discuss? We Report, You Decide." -adapted from Glenn Greenwald's "The Politico, Exhibit A For Our Broken Political Press"
Republicans, counting on relatively short human memory when it comes to the negative in general, and the negative consequences to America of Reagan's failed policys in particular, have conceived a typically revisionist hagiography that has Reagan somewhere between Alexander the Great, Gandhi and Houdini. Democrats ought not let the tiniest bit of light between Bush and his GOP enablers, but should rightfully place all of them directly in the laps of Junior and the Reagan Retreads, exactly where they belong. "Going back to good Reagan conservatism" is nonsense. So-called "Conservatism", which is nothing more than the most dangerously radical anarchy, as we shall see, is a necessarily miserable failure no matter who's in charge. They all operate on the same "principles." -adapted from Digby at Hullabaloo. Allow me to explain. Character asassination, sabotage, deception and subterfuge are not incidental to "conservative" politics but central to it. To so-called "conservatives", politics without such things doesn't even feel like...politics. Catch them in a relaxed moment, and they freely admit it - with relish. In 2005 I spoke as the token liberal at a "conservative" conference at the Madison Program at "Princeton University." I put "Princeton University" in quotes because the center is in fact a humanities-and-social sciences version of the "financially independent" right-wing-funded campus front groups that allow "conservatives" to claim to speak with the authority of our great universities, even as these groups need not adhere to the very personnel standards that make these universities great in the first place. The Institute, investigator Max Blumenthal has established to what should be Princeton's shame, is funded by "cultlike Catholic group and right-wing foundations to support gatherings of "movement activists", fellowships for ideologically correct visiting professors and a cadre of conservative students." It is, in fact, an institutional embodiment the very core of "conservative" politics: crafty false-front deceptions. - adapted from an article by Rick Pearlstein. In light of the following, Pearlstein's observations on the nature of GOP politics may be one the largest understatements in history:
Why do countless American people go along with the War on Iraq? Why do so many people call for a police state control grid that eliminates their own freedoms? A major component to a full understanding of this kind of governmental and corporate corruption is to discover the modern science of mind control and social engineering. It's baffling to merely glance at the stacks of documentation that this world government is not in fact being constructed for the greater good of humanity. Although there are a growing number of people waking up to the reality of our growing transparent soft cage, there seem to be just enough citizens who are choosing to remain asleep, and the much-vaunted yet narrow victory of Sarkozy in the French Presidential contest, garnering adulatory notice in the press for "not being above betrayal" bears this out. Worse yet, there are even those who were at least partially awake at one time but found it necessary to return to the slumber of dreamland. This is no accident; this is by carefully managed design. The drive to dumb down the populations of planet earth is a deception that existed long before the United States ever did.
One component to understanding and deciphering these illegitimate systems of control is to become a student of the wielders of influence and propaganda. In order to defeat dictators, it is imperative that we understand how they think and what they believe, and it manifestly is not individual freedom, liberty, justice, or genuine democracy. When people think about mind control, they usually think in terms of "conspiracy theory" referring to Project MkUltra. It is also helpful to recognize that great effort has been expended to invariably append the word "theory" anytime the word "conspiracy" is ever used in any context anywhere, in order to reinforce the false concept that conspiracies are merely "theory" and thus do not in fact exist. There is no question that they do. MkUltra is merely one of many proven examples of 'overt mind control. The project had grown out of an earlier secret program known as Project Bluebird that was officially formed to counter Soviet advances in brainwashing. But above both the Soviets and Americans, and above all government, exists an essentially sociopathic international tyranny which intentionally plays all sides against each other, the better to divide and conquer for themselves. In reality, the CIA had other objectives with MkUltra. An earlier aim was to study methods 'through which control of an individual may be attained'. The emphasis of experimentation was 'narco-hypnosis', the blending of mind altering drugs with carefully hypnotic programming. A CIA team was formed that could travel, at a moments notice, to anywhere in the world. Their task was to test the new interrogation techniques, and to ensure that victims would not remember being interrogated and programmed. All manner of narcotics, from marijuana to LSD, heroin and sodium pentathol (the so called 'truth drug'), were regularly used. Despite poor initial results, the CIA-sponsored mind control program flourished. On 13 April 1953, the secret project MkUltra was born. Its scope was broader than ever, and only those in the top echelon of the CIA were privy to it. Declassified CIA documents describe it as an 'umbrella project' with 149 'sub-projects'. Many of these sub-projects dealt with testing illegal drugs for potential field use. Others dealt with electronics. One explored the possibility of activating 'the human organism by remote control'. Throughout, it remained a major goal to brainwash individuals to become couriers and spies without their knowledge.
When it was formed in 1947, the CIA was forbidden by law to have any domestic police or internal security powers. In short, it was authorized only to operate 'overseas'. From the very start MkUltra staff broke this Congressional stipulation and began testing on unwitting American citizens. Precisely how extensive illegal testing became may never be known because Richard Helms, CIA Director and chief architect of the program ordered the destruction of all MkUlta records shortly before leaving office in 1973. Despite these precautions some documents were misfiled and came to light in the late 1970's. They laid bare the spy agency's cynicism. Despite the widespread knowledge of MkUltra and the civil lawsuits that followed, this form of behavior modification is not the most expansive. The real dangers are the types of thought control that are 'covert' and not the subject of several dozen Hollywood movies like "Clockwork Orange" and Mel Gibson's "Conspiracy Theory."
Our founding fathers faced enormous challenges in the formation of this country and its bill of rights. One challenge was laying down the groundwork or a free society without knowing what kind of technological advances would be made. They may not have guessed in those times that we needed an article in the bill of rights to specifically forbid our own government and it's associates from engaging in mind control or thought control, although these methods have existed for milennia, so there is evidence, especially since Franklin and others were notable scientific researchers in their own right, that they were at least aware of the true state of technological development at that time, and did what they could to curb abuses of it given the political constraints at the time. In a story that may or may not be apochraphal, Franklin is said to have been asked by a Colonial Lady immediately after signing our U.S. Constitution "What form of government have you given us?", to which Franklin cryptically replied "A Republic, if you can keep it". The widely-read and phenomenally knowledgable researcher Alan Watt, who has an encyclopedic understanding of these pathocratic mechanisms ascribes Franklin's remark to his foreknowledge of the role which America was assigned to play in the ensuing centuries-long unfoldment of the international drama. The closest item that promises our protection from the government is the 4th Article in The Bill of Rights which establishes "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
Even so, as many are just now beginning to note, the US Constitution and its Bill of Rights are merely given lip service by our supposedly elected officials, Bush has for all intents and purposes sold out debt to the Chinese, who are also rapidly attaining globo-cop status, our military is run through the U.N., and plans are well underway to eliminate our borders in order to create a single MexAmeriCanada, the better for the globalists to have us compete in amusing contests for their entertainment with the EU and Pacific Rim blocs, of which it is intended that there shall be only these three, to maximize returns for the self-appointed never-elected "Non-Governmental" engineers of this profoundly dystopian scheme, incidentally calling for the "reduction" of tens, if not hundreds of millions in "Population". You may know them more familiarly, the population, that is, as Human Beings. Halliburton has constucted numerous prison camps in various U.S. areas, and there is a rather large installation in Michigan at the present Canadian border, where gunboats now patrol the adjacent Great Lakes. One imagines that if panic were to drive US citizens to seek refuge in Canada, this installation might come into play, but from all reports Canada is no longer the enlightened haven of rationality it may once have been in the Vietnam era, and is in some respects even more repressive and agressively in favor of despicable "social science" eugenic theories masquerading as "Bioethics" than even some of their more unhinged U.S. counterparts.
One of the most common examples of mind control in our so-called free and civilized society is the advent and usage of the television set. This isn't to say that all things on TV are geared towards brainwashing you. They're not. But most of the programming on television today is run and programmed by the largest media corporations which have interests in "defense" contracts, such as Westinghouse (CBS), and General Electric (NBC). This makes perfect sense when you see how slanted and warped the news is today. Examining the conflicts of interest is merely glancing at the issue, although to understand the multiple ways that lies are distorted into an appearance of truth, we need to examine the techniques of brain washing that the networks are employing. Radio isn't any different in its ability to brainwash a population into submission. Sixty-seven years ago, six million Americans became unwitting subjects in an experiment in psychological warfare. It was the night before Halloween, 1938. At 8 p.m. CST, the Mercury Radio on the Air began broadcasting Orson Welles' radio adaptation of H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds. As is now well known, the story was presented as if it were breaking news, with bulletins so realistic that an estimated one million people believed the world was actually under attack by Martians. Of that number, thousands succumbed to outright panic, not waiting to hear Welles' explanation at the end of the program that it had all been a Halloween prank, but fleeing into the night to escape what they believed to be actual alien invaders. This stands as a very instructive, disturbing, important and cautionary lesson on the power of media to create reality, which almost 70 years later many of us seem never to have learned or to have forgotten altogether. Aliens may or may not exist, but that is not the question or the point. The point is, what do you believe and why, and upon what do you base the beliefs which lead you to actions? This is called critical thinking for a very good reason, as such introspection is the only way we have to arrive at sound judgements.
According to researcher Mack White ( http://www.mackwhite.com), "Psychologist Hadley Cantril conducted a study of the effects of the broadcast and published his findings in a book; 'The Invasion from Mars: A Study in the Psychology of Panic'. This study explored the power of broadcast media, particularly as it relates to the suggestibility of human beings under the influence of fear. Cantril was affiliated with Princeton University's Radio Research Project, which was funded in 1937 by the Rockefeller Foundation. Also affiliated with the Project was Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) member and Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) executive Frank Stanton, whose network had broadcast the program. Stanton would later go on to head the news division of CBS, and in time would become president of the network, as well as chairman of the board of the RAND Corporation, the influential think tank which has done research on, among other things, mass brainwashing. Two years later, with Rockefeller Foundation money, Cantril established the Office of Public Opinion Research (OPOR), also at Princeton. Among the studies conducted by the OPOR was an analysis of the effectiveness of "psycho-political operations" (propaganda, in plain English) of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Then, during World War II, Cantril and Rockefeller money assisted CFR member and CBS reporter Edward R. Murrow in setting up the Princeton Listening Center, the purpose of which was to study nazi radio propaganda with the object of applying nazi techniques to OSS propaganda. Out of this project came a new government agency, the Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service (FBIS). The FBIS eventually became the United States Information Agency (USIA), which is the propaganda arm of the National Security Council. Thus, by the end of the '40s, the basic research had been done and the propaganda apparatus of the national security state had been set up, just in time for the Dawn of Television." It is dispiriting to note that nazi techniques have been adopted by some Americans, but knowledge of these facts sheds light on what has and is going on and why, so there may be a silver lining to this dark cloud on genuine American and Human freedom.
Experiments conducted by researcher Herbert Krugman reveal that when a person watches television, brain activity switches from the left to the right hemisphere. The left hemisphere is the seat of logical thought. Here, information is broken down into its component parts and critically analyzed. The right brain, however, treats incoming data uncritically, processing information in wholes, leading to emotional, rather than logical responses. The shift from left to right brain activity also causes the release of endorphins, the body's own natural opiates. Thus, it is possible to become physically addicted to watching television, a hypothesis borne out by numerous studies which have shown that very few people are able to kick the TV habit. It's no longer an overstatement to note that the youth today that are raised and taught through network television are intellectually dead by their early teens.
"The age of the television show "The Waltons" is gone, gone, gone. John-Boy's had the crap kicked out of him, been held up by his ankles and had all his lunch money dumped out. TV screens are crawling with grim cops, steely interrogators and glitzy, state fair-level talent/weight loss competitions. Popular music is dominated by angry, tattooed, fist-pumping, crotch-thrusting teens. There can be only one conclusion as to what values America now embodies and what form our national spokesperson takes: Forget the "aw, shucks ma'am, it was nothing" archetype. He is now a boisterous, text-messaging fathead in a sports bar, his rosacea flaring at any mention of the word "turban". And though he is not without experience and has ambition galore, his open-up-a-can-of-whup-ass temperament trumps any wisdom and humility he might have picked up along the way to where he is now. Winning At Any Cost has become the staple diet, replacing good ol' honesty and fair play. It has become the primary goal in American life. It's on all the brochures and in the instruction manual. It's made Jesus into a jock and Joe McCarthy into a martyr. It's made humility humiliating and turned the grester world outside of our national borders into a big, scary Them.
And how does the world regard us, who were once greeted by grateful and war-weary Europeans with an admiring "Hi, Joe!"? As arrogant, petulant, strong-arming, sabre rattling, pissed-off ogres who clearly have had enough of the nancy-boys' mewling. Peace is for pussies. America™'s Bush and Cheney's ham-fisted and ham-headed leadership has the country in a headlock and there is no choice but for the body to flop around helplessly wherever the head's being dragged. This smarmy, two-headed tyrant and all he embraces has made America appear as a strutting behemoth who stomps where it was supposed to tread with care. Virtually every incident the media reports is permeated with bilious rhetoric and faux-middle-brow bombast delivered in steely tones of manly resolve fairly drenched with testosterone and faint whiffs of country down-homeism, a specialty of both Regan and Bush, the kind of stories that subtly promote the triumph of the musclebound over the meek while making it seem like that's the god-given right of a modern democracy. The Right's political theatrics have even gone so far as to promote their cadre of perspective presidents by bestowing upon them the classic traits of stereotypical strongmen: the heroically monikered Mitt Romney's square jaw and graying temples, as if conceived by Stan Lee, the scarred warrior John McCain's well documented refusal to fold under torture and his nervously admired temper positively cause conservatives to swoon and willingly drown in their own lubrication.
Throw these guys up against the cerebral but passionate Dennis Kucinich, or the dripping-with-charisma-but-tragically-pencil-necked Barak Obama and you might as well air it on ESPN as "Bully-Palooza '08". You have to think that so many bullies means so many bullied and this is so. That's balance. But despite bloody, historical episodes of colossal hubris, bullies get their comeuppance eventually. That's balance, too. If not, the snake eating its own tail would have consumed itself long ago. Because as everyone knows who's ever been pushed into a hedge, slammed into a locker or had his or her patriotism questioned, inside every bully is a self-loathing coward. No wonder no one wants to play with us." - adapted from "Born To Win" by Steven Weber
The dumbing down of humanity is represented by another shift which occurs in the brain when we watch television. Activity in the higher brain regions (such as the neo-cortex) is diminished, while activity in the lower brain regions (such as the limbic system) increases. The latter, commonly referred to as the reptile brain, is associated with more primitive mental functions, such as the "fight or flight" response. The reptile brain is unable to distinguish between reality and the simulated reality of television. To the reptile brain, if it looks real, it is real. Thus, though we know on a conscious level it is "only a film," on a conscious level we do not; the heart beats faster, for instance, while we watch a suspenseful scene. Similarly, we know the commercial is trying to manipulate us but on an unconscious level the commercial nonetheless succeeds in, say, making us feel inadequate until we buy whatever thing is being advertised. The effect is all the more powerful because it is unconscious, operating on the deepest level of human response. The reptile brain makes it possible for us to survive as biological beings, but it also leaves us vulnerable to the manipulations of television programmers. This is where the manipulators use our own emotions as strings to control us. The distortions and directions we are being moved to are taking place in the subconscious, often undetected. Propaganda techniques were first codified and applied in a scientific manner by journalist Walter Lippman and psychologist Edward Bernays (nephew of Sigmund Freud) early in the 20th century. During World War I, Lippman and Bernays were hired by then United States President Woodrow Wilson to participate in the Creel Commission, the mission of which was to sway popular opinion in favor of entering the war on the side of Britain. Edward Bernays said in his 1928 book 'Propaganda' that "The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country."
The Creel Commission provided themes for speeches by "four-minute men" at public functions, and also encouraged censorship of the American press. The Commission was so unpopular that after the war, Congress closed it down without providing funding to organize and archive its papers. The war propaganda campaign of Lippman and Bernays produced within six months such an intense anti-German hysteria as to permanently impress American business (and hitler, among others) with the potential of large-scale propaganda to control public opinion. Bernays coined the terms "group mind" and "engineering consent", important concepts in practical propaganda work. The current public relations industry is a direct outgrowth of Lippman's and Bernays' work and is still used extensively by the United States government. For the first half of the 20th century Betrays and Lip Man ran a very successful public relations firm. World War II saw continued use of propaganda as a weapon of war, both by Hitler's propagandist Joseph Gobbles and the British Political Warfare Executive, as well as the United States Office of War Information.
Turn on your local newscast. You have a few minutes of blue-collar crime, hardly any white collar crime, a few minutes of sports, misc. chit chat, random political jibber-jabber, and a look at the weather that no one is forecasting correctly. Is that what happened in your town? And we're supposed to own the airwaves. The mainstream media openly supports the interests of the prison industrial complex. The stories focus on variously designated criminal groups, and exploit some genuine threats to appear much more dangerous than they are. If there is no "problem" to "fix", then one will be provided. Genuine problems, on the other hand, need not be fixed, and are invariably left to grow if they merely effect the taxpayers footing the bill for the real guests at this grand party. Think about the growing per capita number of prisoners in the country. Then remember that this is happening at the same time that our prison boom began. The police on our streets are intentionally creating criminals even as U.S. foreign policy is intentionally creating terrorism. Thus the intentionally cognative-dissonant yet otherwise necessarily meaningless phrase 'War On Terror' is in reality a war of terror. The focus is to keep us in a state of fear, the method whereby self-appointed elitists can attack any group they wish without fear of consequence. The as yet unaccounted for events of 9/11 are repeatedly invoked as an all-encompassing rationale and justification for all of this and more. The filmmaker Arron Russo was explicitly informed of this ruse in these exact terms several months before 9/11 by Nicholas Rockerfeller, and was promised a personal microchip bearing the initials "KMA", standing for "Kiss My Ass", which Russo was assured would permit him free passage in the otherwise total lock-down New World Order to be ushered in by these "events". When asked why Rockefeller would wish to participate in this hidiously cruel and perverted scheme, he answered Russo to the effect that "the masses" "had" to be "ruled" by "the elite", and besides, "we can"; hitler said much the same.
This is why the media continues to use the ancient and insidious "art" of dehumanization, and why the existing power structure had Reagan remove our 1949 Fairness Doctrine provisions. The techniques are increasing in their sophistication over time as the mind scientists which serve the empire continue to discover scientific "breakthroughs" as to how the human brain functions, learns, retains information, and behaves. The most effective brainwashing techniques are used on the most successful propaganda networks. Examine the music. Observe the graphics with the music. They're glitzy and flashing. Like the monkey that is attracted to shiny objects, it's our monkey brain controlling the hand that controls the remote, often stopping the search for entertainment when a certain degree of glamour catches our attention. Most importantly, notice the repetition behind the lies that the politicians and their corporate media groupies use. You see, the unimaginably distorted fallacies are created as 'truth' not because they're logical or provable, but because of the broken record technique of repetition. No matter how ridiculous the lie, it's repeated often enough that the brain doesn't know the difference between reality and manufactured propaganda.
This technique is vastly underestimated by us in its ability to allow various puppeteers to hypnotize millions of people. Instead of "Fair and balanced" it is actually "We say it enough times, and you believe it." It's a tragic day when our state, which properly belongs to us, secretly engineers the enslavement and imprisonment of the population. Hollywood will continue to frighten us with films on the mafia, gangsters, and the corrupt blue collar criminal whose stupidity and greed get them caught. Our minds are thus already being pre-conditioned to accept living in a police state economy and society because we read it in the paper, saw it praised on the news and talk shows, or saw it in a movie. This is known as "Predictive Programming". There are several movies planned right now that support the official story of 9/11 and a few movies that glamorize the war on Iraq. According to David L Robb, Author of Operation Hollywood, "Hollywood and the Pentagon have a long history of making movies together. It stretches back to the early days of silent films, and extends up until the present day. It's been a collaboration that works for both sides. Hollywood producers get what they want - access to billions of dollars of military hardware and equipment; tanks, jet fighters, nuclear submarines and aircraft carriers, and the military gets what it wants; films that portray the military in a positive light, films that make it easier for the services to recruit. The Pentagon is not merely a passive supporter of films, however.
If the Pentagon doesn't like a script, it will usually suggest script changes that will allow the film to receive military support. Sometimes these proposed changes are minor. But sometimes the changes are dramatic. Sometimes they change dialogue. Sometimes they change characters. Sometimes they even change history." What they create is something coined 'disinfotainment'. They mix disinformation with entertainment and call it disinfotainment. Unadulterated Violence is now accepted on regular TV. Killing in the name of the government is praised, that is unless the violence is committed in self defense to protect someone from the system. Sharp shooters, bombers, and assassin are worshipped if they are fighting for the system, are in the military, or are associated with groups that control the masses locally, such as the local police department. I don't condone violence, it is never desireable and it is not neccessary, yet it's entirely hypocritical, cynical, and specious to portray violence as somehow "acceptable" in one form when it favors the self-proclaimed elite, yet condemn it in protection of one's land, freedom, or loved ones. This specious double-standard reality transfers itself into the shady world of video games that are steeped in plots and tasks to kill as much as the player can. The players are getting younger and younger with 7 out of 10 children playing games with a 'Mature' rating. Recently I was browsing the PC video game selection at a very large electronics store. I was appalled to see nearly 50 different games in which the setting of the game is Iraq, and the goal is to kill as many "insurgents" as possible to "fulfill the mission". Children today are being insidiously indoctrinated through their "favorite" "games" and "law enforcement TV shows" to be the button-pushers of the weapons of mass destruction of tomorrow's world. Given these realities, not to mention the advanced scientific capability of governments to engioneer weather through HAARP and dozens of programs we know exist yet still know nothing about, many unanswered and frankly troubling questions remain as to the real nature and timing of events and their reportage as "reality" which merely "occurs". The recent case of Pat Tillman which "occured" does not enhance our confidence or raise our spirits with respect to either the intentions nor the transparency of these operations that we pay for and which are carried out in our name.
There are two house bills and a senate bill (with more on the way) that are giant steps in dismantling the free speech of the general public. These bills together would kill (PEG) cable access centers where the public still owns the airwaves. It's the programming created locally, without censorship or commercial gain. Their income is derived from franchises within the local cities and a small percentage cable subscriber frees. This is a corporate takeover because this is centralizing communication by removing the locally based programming and moving the audience to the more "official", nationalistic, and sensationalized programs which promote violence, uniformity, and slavery over peace, diversity and freedom. Cable access features free speech and information with perspectives neglected by mainstream television. It also features a free flow programming system with fresh programs being aired by new producers on a rotating basis. This keeps the content and information creative and locally based while network TV is rigid with regular time slots and repetitive programming. Bush is also attempting to ramrod a wholesale dismantling of our Constitutionally guaranteed right of privacy over the telephone, but even more dehumanizing is the realization that this very important issue itself may already at this point simply be a red herring, as there is no way for the general public to know how pervasive the illegal, unethical and amoral montoring of our every activity already is, given the secrecy surrounding technologies which are far in advance of anything we can imagine, but very probably do exist, and as Alan Watt points out, "announcements" of "new" technology are often nothing more than "Notices" that they have already been here and been used against you for some time; prefunctory ass-coverings done after the fact to legitimate entirely illegal, immoral, and inexcusable breaches of individual privacy, freedom, and Liberty.
The blocks of programming that are universally accepted parallel the shift to engineer our entire lives without our knowledge or consent towards the factory's bell and the illusion of time. This is the creation of the "hive mind." The hive mind is result of massive brainwashing of the general public. Everyone shares the same thoughts, goals, knowledge and understanding. A hive mind society gears itself towards conformity and ignores diversity while masquerading as the road to utopia on mainstream television. Network programming, whether it's the news or drama, is geared towards artificially creating your world and reality "for you". With the proper amount of entertainment and sensationalism, we may even be living our lives through the television set. Many anchors and actors are beautiful and research shows that attractive people are usually perceived as trustworthy. While the real news rolls quickly by on the bottom of your screen premanipulated in its reportage, the anchor is selling you on the idea of having your very own police state hell hole right here in your local jurisdiction, or on how two opposing sports teams chasing around on a court for two hours in an attempt to score points means something important to you. No education, no information, nothing but spin, otherwise known as lies. Today the media represents an insidious tool of brainwashing and indoctrination that is utilized on behalf of the owners interests, not yours.
Since the 1996 Telco act, television and radio stations all across the nation were bought out by major international media outlets. Clear Channel and Infinity are the two largest corporations in radio today. This, combined with the elimination of our Fairness Doctrine Provisions, has centralized the distribution of information and has imperiled our free society to an extreme degree. If we ought to be scared, then this, combined with the deplorable lack of genuine education and actual critical thinking skills, and not endless repetitions of a deliberately cognitive-dissonant phrase, is what we ought to be scared about. The media drums to the beat of its owners, whose interests are not those of the general public, except insofar as they may be most efficiently fleeced. Instead, they are interested in their other financial endeavors such as weapons contracting, the oil business, political parties, influencing of legislation, and of course, the prison industry. The conflicts of interest are now monumental as a result of the deregulation of corporations. The lines are deliberately blurred between one network's coverage of the war and the other. Once we come to the conclusion that the media is intentionally deceiving us, we can apply the principle of problem-reaction-solution to understand the mechanisms at play. This formula takes a problem by either creating it or allowing it to happen, and then presents that "problem" to the population. It could be terrorism, molestation, extraterrestrials, global warming. While pollution and greenhouse gasses are a very real problem, covert and illegal HAARP technology is being used to artificially warm our climate. If the pathocrats would simply leave things alone they would improve, but history shows they generally do not unless they somehow perceive it to be in their own best interest, or they are forced to by general consensus of the vast majority whom they tyrannize.
These phony "topics" create real fear, and no one in their right mind would support terrorism, crime, or global warming. We are thus conditioned to percieved it as acceptable to be blasted by the television, papers, and radio with 'the problem.' The natural reaction from human beings with minds thus made pliable through fear is a "request" for more control to "ensure" more "safety", a request with which the social engineers are only too happy, eager and willing to oblige. Most let fear and emotion control decisions and usually respond with a thought-stream which translates into something akin to: "The government needs more power over our lives to make us safer and freer from tyranny. I believe what the media tells me so I will support whatever decisions they make." Today's mainstream corporate news program discourages dissent of the war and paints activists with a negative brush that hints of treason. At the same time, the so-called journalists are cogs in a much larger machine, who know that if they report a story which reflects negatively on this system of control and government, it's likely to remain on 'the wire' and off the front pages, where every journalist yearns to see their story. So there remains a built-in disincentive to report the truth and a built-in incentive to lie, to say the very least.
The most disturbing aspect of spending a single hour examining network cable news and modern Hollywood films are the reoccurring themes in the backdrop. The central ideas of countless "investigative reports" or "Friday night special" features are about a threat of some type over the horizon. The end of the world as we know it is being sold. If the news isn't feeding it to you, then the History Channel or Discovery Channel are either talking about the crusades, asteroids, UFOs, earthquakes, terrorism, or exposes about serial killers.
They are deliberately cobbling together a very carefully concocted message to you that our world is unstable, and of course it is in large part due to these messages and their constant efforts at destabilization, and that this big threat which is always an invisible and dangerous one is something which only more and more military and police, and never the individual or pair or family can fix. In essence, the world is run as a giant protection racket, holding various parties hostage whom the criminals behind their manufactured facade of government and corporate "respectability" deem to be able to profit from.
When you record and log all the messages, you end up with a script, produced through the think tanks and manufactured by the movie studios of Hollywood, portraying a nightmare. I am not alone in this observation. Local and network news are designing their editorials about despair and fear because the owners, producers, and editors understand that fear sells. The end result are the desired ratings, delivered as expected. The masters of modern spin understand that we have become so degraded by these deliberate processes that many now actually derive enjoyment from being terrified. Just look at the success in the action/suspense/terror genres that have plopped onto the conveyor belt and been packaged for our gleeful consumption. When the editors in charge found out that simply plastering a terror alert chart didn't scare people the same way it used to, they began to kick up the campaign of terror a few notches with new and creative ways to sell the notion of the "attractiveness" and "advantages" of living in a sickening morally contemptible total control police state.
When you get to the other side of the terror alerts of all shapes and sizes, you find another nightmare masquerading as the savior. The 'Ministry of Truth' will protect you. The government is here to rescue you and squash this brown terrorist bug, this gray alien, this avian bird flu, and every other nightmare that the nightly news brought you. The public relations specialists take the science of worshipping our kings down to a frame by frame level. Bush is pictured in numerous poises with a halo around his head. In other pictures, he stands tall with dozens of American flags blowing in the wind behind him. A more blasphemous display features him speaking in front of the cross of Jesus Christ. The message send couldn't be more clearly presented. Our current leaders are of the messiah status and only through them will we reach the gates of safety. The lie that has been accepted by so many as truth is that this is a religious war. Numerous prime-time programs are now narrating the story of the crusades (with sanitized horrors) to synch our hive-mind vibrations up to something out of the 13th Century, yet this is 2007. If the America people accept the fact that the crusades are here, that Bush reports directly to god, and that revelations are here, then they have won the war for our minds. What is only dimly perceived by most is that the true state of technology which is currently in existance is actually very far advanced from even what we believe to be currently advanced technology. All technology, regardless of what it is, existed far in advance of the time it was released for use by the general populace, and thus the time when the public could become aware of these technological capabilities. In some cases, this time lag has been very long indeed, up to hundreds of years. Throughout history, those in control of technology have kept people in the dark about the real capabilities which actually exist at any given period. Virtually everything mentioned in the Book Of Revelations can in fact be created by classified technological processes which do currently exist. Think about this, then think about the financial and political control which religious leaders excersise, particularly through television.
A loudspeaker whispers, "All our problems are by accident, never by design." Across the room the system's minion snorts, "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear." It's that plot that says Middle Eastern terrorists from an Afghan cave are the reason behind our little "War On Terror", and please disregard the fact that we provided millions of dollars worth of texbooks and madrassas to create those very same Jihadists, whom we must now spend billions more tax dollars to kill. Related messages in the script demonize young minority males or various other groups selected for marginalization, and suggest extraordinarily harsh punishments for any "crimes" they may possibly commit, or merely be perceived to have comitted, or, most frightening of all, may merely be perceived to possibly be contemplating. They don't come out overtly and state this hideously unconstitutional, sociopathic and racist mind-control thought police agenda. They come at you from the side by airing the same crime news repetitively, usually when it's committed by some minority group or perceived "other". The networks love the fact that TV establishes the norms in society today, and hence political opinion. Who would imagine that in the United States of America, both candidates of both parties in the 2004 election would be members of the Skull and Bones society at Yale University? Out of 290 million Americans, is this the best we could come up with?
It is the decision of the owners to influence producers, editors, and others involved to paint with a brush to fit the objective, which is the bottom line. If sports is what the people want, then they get it, usually in large doses. Multi-media sports (or spectator sports) is just an escape from our own existence. It's like gambling, or drug addiction. It provides that buffer zone of rooting for something with other people that we've been told is good. People's fantasies also lead them to fixating on sports. It's simulated masculinity, in an age where there's a push to change us from men to robots. It's human nature to resist and fight that which is suppressing us. The sociologists and psychologists in areas of influence know this. Spectator sports provide an internal dose of what has been stripped away from us. We've lost the right to rebel and change our government, or even contemplate doing so through warfare if necessary, which it is not. However, regulation of thought itself is a far cry from any possible conception of freedom. Today the bulk of our nation's population doesn't know what's really going on with the fall of the American dollar and the plans for the transfer of American wealth to other countries. However, most can tell you who the top basketball or football players are. A lot of fans wish they were the stars, out there on the stage, the court, and the drag strip. Either you're "numero uno" in center stage or you're nothing. End of story, according to the culture of television. The message is "if you don't conform to whatever we decide is the norm then you are useless and inadequate".
What I never understood when I was in school was why my peers and friends would act naïve or ignorant in a "Wayne's World" or "Beavis and Butthead" kind of way. What I've learned since then is that the numerous programs that are promoting themselves as 'entertainment' are actually demographically targeted to the lowest common denominator. This is especially true with Radio disc jockeys and talkshow hosts today. The reason our airwaves are saturated with mindless content centered on fart jokes, private parts, borderline racism, and general trash talk is because it is selling. In the meantime, large numbers of our children, young adults, and older audiences are mimicking what they see and hear because our minds are wired to do so, and because the current self-reinforcing 'norm' is selling this behavior as cool or 'chic.' When the conditioned is so intense that these forms of content are considered normal, anything else seems either bizarre or uninteresting to the average American with an attention span which is decreasing daily and induced to decrease through mountains of corporate pharmaceuticals urged on us by medical authority figures all over the media. Hypothetically, if a producer on any network could get away with a feature story genuinely exposing government corruption at the highest levels, chances are the larger impact necessary for change to occur wouldn't be realized because the average viewer's brain has already been conditioned to seek out these various types of disinfotainment. We go back to sleep. If all of this isn't a conspiracy, then the word has no meaning whatever.
The media has created the picture of a "perfect society" that "could" exist if we would "only do things their way" (their interests/government interest). It tells us what happiness is and what it is not and the same for love, hate or anything else they can implant into our subconscious. We become slaves to the system through indoctrination given through network TV. Over time, the messages are becoming increasingly racist, violent, and dishonest. But the programming began decades ago and few have the eyes to see it for what it has become. We live in a world where populations give their minds away to the official version of events, where utopia is always just around the corner as long as big brother is riding shotgun. It's a world where Hollywood can make you believe anything, even that you are free. It's a world in which the prosecutor and the judge sit on the same side of the bench. The most obvious reason that our minds are being controlled on a massive psychological scale is that our culture is being deliberately conditioned to a self-incriminating TV, radio, and newspaper-generated paradigm. We are given the world reality through a screen, some ink, or radio waves. The truth is hiding in plain site. The indoctrination through these mediums warns us that views other than those presented by them are unimportant and to be condemned. This Administration and media monopoly has a carefully prepared dehumanization program involving each layer of beurocracy and willing brownshirt collaborators among the brainwashed citizenry who pathetically believe they are doing their "patriotic" duty, for anyone that dissents from the official version of events. Of course, the collaborators never stop to think about the time when they will become the victims of this dictatorship; they are always assured it will always be the "other". Disagree with these domestic terrorists, the modern- day American equivalent of the hitler youth, and you become a thought-criminal straight out of 1984, Brave New World, all of it, much of which was predictive programming itself. When researching these topics, you will begin to understand that these agendas have existed for a very long time indeed, and that the world is far older than you were ever taught or realized.
Some people are wrong about 5% of the time. Some are wrong most of the time. I wish I was wrong all the time. A lot of people deal with these intense realities by asking me rhetorically "What's the solution, smart guy?" or "Well, is it better anywhere else?" but these, sadly, do not address the degree of humanity which has been stolen from us and future generations. Remember, it's the viewers, the consumers and all the other little votes called dollars that helped this oligarchic system lay its concrete foundation in our backyards. We must recognize the truth about why the system is flawed and enslaving of us if we wish to change it for the better. The most important solution to fighting this type of brainwashing and mind control is to start with ourselves and our own awakening in the smaller things. In this case, it's brainwashing, but after awhile we break Outside The Box and begin venturing outside the system and into unknown terrain. Fighting with people and forcing them to understand 'our truth' is not a solution. If our free will created this nightmare, than only our free will can change it. This is why the war to overcome human free will is so evil and insidious. The battle begins in the heart and mind of the beholder, and then extends outward from there, only to those open to the information.
If you choose to travel the road to the truth, then you must be prepared for the obstacles that await you. You may be condemned or criticized by your family, your friends, your lovers, or your co-workers, and many are. You will find that many people really do not want to know the truth, they feel threatened by it, and they will dislike you for telling it. A big part of this is their programming which began at birth and is doing exactly what it's designed to do. Another element is that you may be perceived by others subconsciously as posing a threat to the status quo. It can be quite lonely, but you're going to have to be stronger than that. You must realize that there is a reality which exists outside of this controlled artificial system. Once you do wake up, it's as if a hypnotist came along and snapped his fingers. You wake up and say to yourself, "I can see it now. Why did it take me so long to wake up?" For some it can be a major shock. Like anything else, take this information and knowledge in stages. If it took a lifetime to mold your reality for you, then you know it may take longer than a day to fully awaken. Remember, the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. The most important thing is to keep an open mind, to never stop dreaming, and to keep your hopes alive. It's not easy, but nothing worthwhile ever is. - adapted from "Mass Mind Control Through Network Television" by Alex Ansary. Further Information at: www.CuttingThroughTheMatrix.net and www.AlexAnsary.com
The headlines about Foley's pedophiliac behavior, which have earned him not a long trip to jail but a $60,000 per year taxpayer-sponsored pension, illustrate the greater issue of a leadership off its moorings and afflicted by the collective perversion of defiling our foundational equity and justice-for-all letter and spirit of what our nation long claimed to stand for, but no longer does if it ever did. Nearly everyone in the administration, Congress and courts, share the guilt of having by their actions destroyed Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address to "resolve....that this nation....shall have a new birth of freedom (in a) "government of the people, by the people, for the people (that) shall not perish from the earth." They have conspiratorially participated in the crimes of a nation that go against Lincoln's hope that the dead he spoke of hadn't "died in vain" on "the great battle-field" where he stood. They have also defiled what the Founders stood for and gave us in 1787 when 55 of them met in the Philadelphia State House, where the Declaration of Independence was signed 11 years earlier, and framed an historic foundational document for the new federal republic they hoped would last into "remote futurity." Franklin openly and presciently warned us to keep our republic. Alan Watt at http://www.CuttingThroughTheMatrix.net has claimed on more than extensive and extremely well-documented evidence that Franklin was quite aware of the motives of those who would attempt to cynically use and subvert our democracy for the purposes of usurping our American republic and thus our very freedom itself, and that this was intended to be within the context of a larger yet never declared design, engineered by those who could not and never would do so due to the nefarious anti-human character of their ends. Where are the leaders now with the kind of wisdom, foresight, character, courage and honor our Founders and Lincoln had?
A modern-day Diogenes would search in vain. We've come a long way in the last 220 years and since the time Lincoln spoke of a nation "conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal." Today democracy and freedom are somewhere between life support and the crematorium, and Ben Franklin would have said "I warned you". The only speculation now is whether it's too late to save the republic. Since the outright theft of the 2000 U.S. Presidential Election, our "worthy experiment" has gone entirely awry because those with the power to nurture it spurned the chance. They sacrificed it on the alter of corrupt power corrupting absolutely. Even at its outset, the flaws in the republic were broad, but we managed to survive anyway and grow as a nation in spite of them. We had a remarkable foundational start, and it helped in no small measure that along the way we had enlightened periods like the late 19th century Progressive Movement and later the New and Fair Deals and Great Society, when our government actually did serve the needs of our people. It didn't last. The modern-day "great transformation" south began in the early 1970s with the breakdown of the post-WW II Bretton Woods international economic order when the enormous debt from the Vietnam war forced Richard Nixon to close the gold window and make the dollar a fiat currency backed by nothing but the good faith of the issuing authority. "Trilaterialism" emerged then to counter what its influential members saw as a "crisis of democracy," meaning too much of it. It was founded by Chase Manhattan bank president David Rockeller (scion of the king of the original "robber barons"), Zbignew Brzezinski (Jimmy Carter's national security advisor) and had about 300 other "eminent private citizen" members of an elite international ruling class whose power is centered in the dominant transnational corporate interests aiming to rule the world and make it safe for unfettered capital at the expense of the genuine public interest. Free trade is a very good thing, and is a vital part of the free enterprise system which has brought us all great blessings, yet free trade unrestrained by sensible conscience or tyrannically regulated for dictatorial purposes is not free, but a voracious dangerous beast.
The period when capital began to be deregulated and the socio-economic trends cynically monikered "neoliberalism" emerged to counter and erode the social and economic legacy of the FDR through LBJ years. Republican President Dwight Eisenhower, a American military General of integrity and valor, again warned us publicly of the grave dangers inherent in what he accurately termed the "military-industrial complex" in the 1950's, and Ike was also wise enough to leave in place the New Deal policies which he knew were enlightened and good for our nation's overall health, wealth, prosperity and well-being. The Trilateralists had other ideas, however, and they only took a few years to begin reversing the great social gains begun under Franklin Roosevelt, which began to rapidly atrophy with the engineered election of Ronald Reagan in 1980. Despite the Hollywood b-actor-turned politician's phony proclamation of a new "Morning In America", Reagan and his administration set about the dismantling and restructuring of our American government to be one of, for and by the privileged, to serve only the interests of capital, and to abuse the people who had been hoodwinked into electing the wolf in sheeps clothing. We still had a semblance of real elections then, but it didn't help. The entire process had already by that time been predicated on the substitution and triumph of media jargon and deception over all genuinely legitimate considerations.
Today, even the pretense of equitable elections based on rational debate has been lost as technology wedded to the corruption of power has destroyed the most fundamental elements of our democratic society, rendering the American principles of "Responsibility" and "Values" constantly touted by the promoters of this agenda so much palaver dressed up in the garb of relics from another era. A free and fair election process is not the stock and trade of the current neocon Bush regime, which was proven twice over as we, regarded as sheep by these criminals, were led to believe through the narcotic of television and $300 rebates of our own tax monies that the fraudulent "incumbent" and a large number of his congressional cohorts were somehow actually our legitimately elected choices when they manifestly were not. The only way the neocons could be considered legitimate would be if by "the people", we meant those of extreme privilege and already accumulated and consolidated advantage who stood to gain the most by fraudulently installing themselves in office through elaborate fakery, the manipulation of Diebold black-box voting, and the wholesale distortion of our electoral process through redistricting, illegal voter supression, and other unamerican and anti-democratic processes ad nauseum. In 2006, all but the most credulous of the Republicans finally woke up, and a scant balance of sanity was restored through a resurgence by the Democrats, but only through extreme vigilance at the polls, where it was finally understood that these deceptions are most easily perpetrated.
One day, George W. Bush's inauguration on January 20, 2001 will be remembered as a day of infamy in the nation's history. It was also disturbingly reminiscent even then of the fall of Paris on June 14, 1940 to the nazi wehrmacht when the people of that city were assembled to watch the jack boots parade along the Champs-Elysees turning the "City of Light" to darkness and despair. So too, a shroud of gloom fell over our capitol and nation on our dark day for those who knew what would follow from the fall of our government and democracy to the invading neocons. They wasted no time, and as soon as the inaugural festivities ended they began a process of dismantling what remained of our democratic freedoms in earnest. Before he could even find the West Wing, Bush immediately signed executive orders reversing the few more enlightened policies of his predecessor. It was a clear sign of what was coming. It has been an agenda of tyranny aided by a tsunami of socially destructive and authoritarian executive orders enabled by the legislative and judicial acquiescence to a shameless, corrupted front-man stooge for a cabal of neocon bandits led by Cheney in the role of Vice-President. This alliance has jeopardized our republic to the point where it now hangs by a thread that could give way on any pretext, and indeed the closer the neocon machine comes to their deservedly ignoble end, the more fearful reports of shootings, disasters and suchlike "events" appear in our conveniently deregulated media, because that's all they have left. Like previous "master race" regimes, their morality and agenda are corrupted by a Machivellian world vision and delusions of superiority that they have a God-given moral authority to rule the world with an unchallenged and closed fist.
To these amoral sociopaths, democracy, freedom and the rule of law are anathema, as such principles stand in the way of their quest for global dominance and the subjugation of everyone through the barrel of a gun abroad, and the so-called Department of "Homeland" Security at domestically which is nothing more than a rehash of hitler's gestapo state police and his schutzstaffel praetorian guard, or "Protective Squadron" known as the "SS", which had administrative control over the entire nazi "homeland security" operation. Both these agencies became symbols of terror as justice under them was cruel, unconstitutional, arbitrary, capricious and entirely lacking in due process or any legitimate authority. These methods have now become standard practice under the Cheney/Bush neocon "rule", where anyone for any reason can now be seized without cause, designated an "enemy combatant", "renditioned" to a torture-prison hellhole in an undisclosed corner of the earth with no chance to be free again or any chance of help. In the view of the CIA, the law of our once-free land now allows the state to do openly what it's been secretly doing all along - make everyone it targets "ghost prisoners" taken on "ghost planes" to be held in secret "ghost prisons",subject to the justice of a military tribunal with no competent defense or right of appeal. If no simulation of cause can be fraudulently manufactured, illegal domestic terrorist gangs and cabals are allowed to harass and interfere with private individuals in their own homes and neighborhoods in despicable contravention of all American law and right. There is no clearer definition of tyranny than than this complete disregard for our American law, rights, and freedoms.
Bush showed his dark sadistic attitude and behavior early on, progressing from a young boy blowing up frogs for "sport" with firecrackers, to now invading countries with media-hyped "shock and awe" "campaigns". Along the way, as governor of Texas he shamelessly mocked a condemned and desperate woman's pleas for help at the eleventh hour before she was executed, refusing to show any mercy, or even human decency in an interview he gave at the time, yet this man and his followers set themselves up as having "Christian Values". Bush takes "credit" for having presided over more executions as Texas governor than any other governor in the nation since capital punishment was reinstated by the Supreme Court in 1976. Even his own Texas aides said of him that Bush is a man who enjoys killing. The proper word for such behaviour is psychopathy.
He enjoyed inflicting pain in his college days as well, as evidenced by a 1967 so-called fraternity initiation rite he was involved in that was exposed by the Yale Daily News and reported in the New York Times at the time. It involved a barbaric "hazing" procedure used by Delta Epsilon Kappa (DKE) fraternity when Bush was a Yale senior and fraternity president. New members then had to undergo painful hours of being kicked and beaten with wooden paddles lasting into the early morning hours leading up to the sadistic climax of being burned on their posteriors with a hot branding iron in the shape of the letter Delta. It was enough to cause second degree burns and leave a permanent scar on the skin area as well as in the memories of those initiates going through it. When word got out about the practice, DKE fraternity was censured and fined $1,000, and the practice was banned by the university. People of conscience who believe in the letter and spirit of the law would have blanched at this kind of information and more that was suppressed when George Bush was a presidential candidate in 2000. It was no commonplace history of a young man sowing his wild oats or going through his rites of passage. This is a man whom former Texas Governor Ann Richards once aptly described as "someone born on third base (thinking) he hit a triple." It also reveals a man who thinks he has a right to use and abuse anyone for his own amusement or self-interest. Had the voters known any of this, at the least it would have given them pause about whether this was the kind of man they wanted as chief executive, but the deregulated, bought and paid for media utterly failed to do their job, preferring to enable Cheney and Bush rather than risk losing "access" to these criminals. As things turned out, it didn't matter who was actually elected, as five arrogant U.S. Supreme Court justices previously installed for just bsuch purpose "decided" that their own votes counted more than all of ours. They wanted a Republican president, and so deprived Albert Gore of the office he legitimately won. The Supreme Court annulment of our most fundamental American democratic right to vote and to have our votes fairly counted, without which there can be no democracy, put America directly on a road to ruin, and this has been by the design of interests who want America to be ruined.
Investigative reporting proved how corrupt the electoral process was in 2000 due to the mass-disenfranchisement of millions of eligible voters. It got worse in 2004, slightly better in 2006, and may very well be off the charts in 2008 unless very serious reforms insuring a free, fair, and honest vote is enacted immediately. Democrats will be hard-pressed to do it now that electronic voting machines run by large corporations control over 80% of the total vote. But we now know full well that these machines can and have been easily manipulated in secret, assuring that the companies controlling them get enough of the candidates they favor elected, ending any pretense that there can ever again be a free and fair election with these machines or these companies ever in charge of our American voting processes, and this is yet another reason why generally half of the still-enfranchised public never bothers to show up at the polls. They believe it's all a fraud anyway, and to the extent that we do not restore free, fair, open and honest elections, they are absolutely correct. Why bother to vote if your choice goes by fraud to a candidate whom you did not vote for, or if your vote is never counted, or even if it is counted doesn't effectively matter anyway, because the only choice is what Ralph Nader has accurately called "the evil of two lessers."? Our system has become a de facto one-party state. Author and social critic Gore Vidal calls it the "Property Party" with two right wings: Republicans and Democrats together forming a plutocracy. Others call it fascism, but by any definition, it's the tyranny of capital enforced by storm trooper brutality and military tribunal justice spelling the end for our democratic republic, unless we impeach Chyeney and Bush immediately and demand that our government return to the processes that have served us in the past, and institute only those innovations which genuinely support our genuine American principles of liberty, freedom, privacy, fairness, equality, opportunity, justice, equity, and security, not merely in name, but in actual practice and for all Americans. This is a tall order, merely because all of this has been deliberately stolen from us. It is our task to take back our nation for ourselves, for our descendants, and for the future of humanity.
We see the results of our loss of liberty and privacy today in the kinds of people serving in high office, and the unmitigated harm their malice, greed and lust for power cause. They shamelessly used 9/11 as a launching platform to go to war in order to assert control, and to exploit for political and economic gain, and to control oil resources which were deliberately made necessary through the supression of the development of hundreds of available sources of clean and free independent American energy alternatives. Cheney and Bush invented lies in order to justify a mission of madness, planned years earlier, starting in the Middle East and Central Asia, and continuing until its sick unamerican goal of "full spectrum dominance" is achieved over all land, sea, air, outer space and information. Congress is spending billions of our tax dollars developing these horrors. If it can be done, we'll all be forced to live by the rules it makes for an "integrated world economy" which it hopes to establish in order to serve the interests of capital devoid of all social conscience or responsibility, which regards human beings as "production inputs" to extract value from and then be discarded. Would anyone with a shred of human decency or real understanding of this agenda accept it, especially if they realized that they themselves must necessarily fall prey to it eventually?
Israel has the power and influence of a giant. We fund and arm it lavishly and support it's defense, as we should. Yet, for nearly sixty years, Israel has been warred upon and has warred with it's neighbors. Israel has every right to exist, and to co-exist peacefully with it's neighbors, as do all people, but neither the U.S., nor any other nation has any right to sumarrily declare empire and to thereby justify endless war that destabilizes and ruins everyones genuine peace, opportunity, privacy, and security. War is an unimaginative, non-creative, destructive, morally reprehensible and criminally false justification to continue to amass illegitimate and fundamentally corrupt profits, always by force and always at the greatest expense of some "other" group. It is not ever right, except in defense of life itself, but to remorselessly pit peoples and nations against each other, and to further profit from the ensuing bloodshed is the depth of inhumanity, cruelty, and amoral madness. As human beings we most certainly can and we absolutely must do better than this for ourselves, for our children, for our nations, and for our future.
No other US administration in history can match the appalling six year record of the Bush neocons. The harm they've done and the price free people are paying for it is incalculable. They have brazenly killed nearly 500,000 human beings under the guise of "bringing" their survivors the "benefits" of "western civilization," and they have doomed millions more to misery, suffering and death through unconscionable and inhuman engineering of war, disease, famine, pestilence, and all the horrors generated through trillions of dollars of technological equipment, when a fraction of this money, effort, and energy could bring peace, stability, freedom, understanding, hope and progress to those who freely choose those things should they so desire them without undue influence, inducement, or coersion. Freely means genuine freedom, a word which seems to have lost all respect among those who most loudly and militarily purport to support it. Cheney and Bush have trashed sacred constitutional and international laws and norms, institutionalized the use of mass-imprisonment, torture and dehumanizing and degrading barbaric acts to force their illegal will on Americans and on others, they have a ready set of new targets in their queue, and they have created a proto-fascist national "security" police state at home, which is not security but rather comprises the most insidious form of mind control and coercive totalitarian unamerican nazi-style dictatorship, tolerating no dissent nor affording any protection of our sacred American and International Constitutional Rights of Habeas Corpus and of Due Process, which have now effectively been annulled. The illegitimate, unauthorized and unamerican police state uses numerous illegal, immoral, anti-human and inexcusable overt and covert secret technologies to pry, spy, mind-control and entirely invade human individual privacy, freedom, and Liberty. The United States does not, cannot and will not ever stand for such unregulated activities, and most especially on our own American soil against our own American private individuals, whether from land, sea, air, or space. Such activities are diametrically opposed and anathema to every principle of every American of any conscience or character whatever, and must never be permitted under any circumstances. The use of these technological methods violates every principle of American and International law, and every principle of human right.
People of conscience demanding justice and accountability are outraged that officials responsible for this agenda may never have to answer for their crimes in a court of law. But that doesn't mean they've gone unnoticed or unaddressed. The Bush administration has now become the first one in US history to be charged with war crimes by the International Committee of the Red Cross and the only other one the ICRC ever charged besides nazi Germany. Those named culpable are George Bush, Richard Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, top military commanders and many members of our own American Congress. Their crimes match the worst of those in the hitler regime put in the Nuremberg Tribunal dock to stand trial. The ones found guilty there of the "supreme international crime" of illegal aggression were hanged, while others of lesser culpability were sentenced to appropriate prison terms for lengths of time commensurate with their crimes. In a world not ruled by victor's justice, Cheney, Bush and their conspiratorial allies would be held just as accountable and made to face the exact same standard of judgment at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague, as the worst of the nazi criminals did at Nuremberg.
The threat of that happening after he leaves office may be why it's been reported George Bush bought a 98,842 acre farm in Paraguay to go along with the 173,000 acres his father already owns there. Both properties border Bolivia and Brazil and comprise in total an astonishing 2.7% of the whole country. Are they considering buying a controlling interest in it? It's not known what the Bush family has in mind there, but it is known that Paraguay has no laws criminalizing money-laundering or anti-terrorism or terrorist financing, even though it does have an extradition treaty with the US if it will ever dare to find the will to use it against the well-deserving Cheney and Bushes. Bush may have gotten advice to seek a safe haven because he and his cohorts have very much to answer for to the US public and to the world community, including having financed their despicable Orwellian agenda on the back of a growing mountain of over 9 trillion dollars of unrepayable debt which has caused some analysts to believe they've helped to bankrupt our beloved American nation, and that thus an eventual fiscal calamity is unavoidable, the end result being what most people hold unthinkable - that the richest, freest, and at one time most repected and revered of all nations may eventually default on its sovereign debt, and that entitlements which millions are counting on and think are safe, and all other financial obligations will be abrogated, because either there won't be enough resources left to pay them or we'll just have near-worthless fiat currency which no one any longer wants. This is the specter of a potential future "elephant in the room" calamity which very few in high places will even admit is there. Nor is there much talk that this was all engineered by successive administrations, a complicit Congress and a friendly private for-profit Federal Reserve (owned and controlled by the largest banks and by Wall Street giants), always willing to print up all the ready cash needed to keep the party going.
As long as they can get away with it, they will keep operating this way (as they are doing now), because once it stops the "good times" are over, and so is the freewheeling neocon imperialistic death machine. While it lasts though, the self-admiring "high-rollers" are benefitting directly at the American public's expense from a dollar-financed Ponzi scheme using the world's dominant reserve currency debt to advance the interests of capital, and to build a global US empire to secure it. The ugly scheme has gone on unchecked for decades, it accelerated during the Reagan years and went into overdrive under the Bush neocons and their agenda of endless imperial wars for world dominance which need lots of cash and mountains of debt to create it. Today we have their legacy, and we're governed recklessly by an authoritarian band of amoral marauders with delusions of grandeur for their sick conception of a brave "new world order" which threatens not only our genuine American heritage, but all of humanity as well. It's a delusional vision of corporatism enforced with unchallengeable military might, and made possible by the magic of printing press debt monetization which other central banks have to go along with. They haven't much choice as they're tied to the majority of America's industrial base which now operates in their countries, but more importantly, they're entrapped in a US-controlled dollarized world where over half their foreign reserves collectively are now in the US currency, China alone holding $1 trillion of them. All the players need to keep the scheme going like a worldwide fiscal game of musical chairs being played on the edge of a cliff. They can't let the music stop even though they know one day it will, and then they'll face the same fate as the Mother Goose character Humpty Dumpty. Herb Stein, Richard Nixon's chief economic advisor, knew all about the nursery rhyme symbolism. He explained it once when he said: "Things that can't go on forever, don't." He omitted the part about what happens next, but he understood the penalty for excess is high, painful, inevitable and at that point there's nothing "All the king's horses and all the king's men" can do about it.
This is the legacy of a generation of greed capped by the never-elected Cheney Bush neocon coup-d'etat which will go down in history as a blight on humanity, the likes of which may end up exceeding anything preceding it anywhere - and that is if we survive to reflect on it. Contrast this to an earlier Age of Enlightenment which helped inspire our liberating revolutionary spirit, creating the grand experiment of a democracy never before tried outside of an imperfect earlier version for a few decades in ancient Athens. Theirs ended as ours seems to be now, and many share the blame besides this rogue regime, Congress and Courts. As much fault lies with the dominant interests in corporate boardrooms, without whose complicity none of this would be tolerated, the Zionists and Christian fundamentalists with enormous influence on policy which is by our constitution mandated to be independent of all religious influence, and those in academia and most especially in the major media who sold their souls pledging allegiance to a criminal enterprise posing as a legitimate government. They're all conspiratorially allied in this mission of madness for the benefits they get at the expense of the American public, and of many all over the world, and of the ultimate price that one day will have to be paid for their transgressions. Some blame, but not nearly as much, since they have been intentionally deceived for so long, must go to the many millions of ordinary people so pre-occupied in our daily lives that they somehow allowed themselves to take the word of a sadist and inveterate liar making empty promises to combat terror threats that were deliberately cooked up, as with the millions of Jihadist textbooks funded by $51 million dollars of our tax monies, or which never existed, all while claiming to care about the democratic social equity and justice-for-all principles which Cherney, Bush, our Congress, courts and other dominant interests don't give a tinkers damn about, although now that people may be holding them accountable, they have suddenly found some justification to actually begin once again to uphold our American and international laws.
How often the public falls for this scam, and how easy it is for those in power to deceive us any time they want to invent a new threat to scare us into going along with whatever scheme they have in mind all while fleecing us in the process without our ever being the wiser. The next "big crisis" is "Global Warming". Again, Greenhouse Gasses are a threat, and pollution is a very serious problem, but HAARP technologies are being used to artificially warm the atmosphere in service to this hoax and others. If the psychopathocracy would simply desist from their Machivellian routines, the earth and its inhabitants could get along very well without them, but then they would have to change, and history show that they do not unless it is either in their perceived self-interest to do so, or if they are forced to change. Like those they rape and plunder, we, too, are victims - of our own indifference that likely won't change unless our loss becomes so great that everyone takes notice, but by then it may easily be too late. We the people are letting the psychopathocracy get away with their destructive scheme of endless imperial wars, income redistributionist tax cuts for the rich and corporate giants, the erosion of essential social services and the repressive USA Patriot Act and others which "legalize" all intrusions into our lives and lead to even more abuses, such as the Military Commissions Act which effectively annuls the Constitution, criminalizes dissent and makes us all "enemy combatants" with no legal rights left to defend ourselves, including the bedrock of habeas and due process. How willing so many have been to go along. The crime of the nation is the shame of a failed state no longer seen abroad as a beacon and symbol of hope and freedom. We are now an out-of-control dystopian rogue enterprise run by a craven unelected leadership fighting a war of terror against humanity, that's taking all of us on a road to hell, using the Bible as a business plan. Is there still time to stop this criminal insanity and save our American republic? We'll never know unless we finally realize the enormity of the threat and actually fight back in our own self-defense. You can make a difference, but only if you take peaceful and positive action. It is up to you to save your nation. Demand that your representatives act in your interest now. - adapted from an article by Steven Lendman
Russia to respond to threats from US system: military Published: Monday May 7, 2007
Russia will respond to any threat from the US missile defence system to be deployed in central Europe, the Russian army's chief of staff said on Monday.
"If we see that these installations, which could be set up in Europe, represent a threat, then we will definitely plan actions against them," Yury Baluyevsky told reporters in Moscow, Interfax news agency reported.
Russia will take "corresponding measures" if the US missiles and radar are deployed in Poland and Czech Republic as planned, Baluyevsky was quoted as saying, without giving further details.
Moscow, which has been increasingly vocal in its public criticism of US policy in recent weeks, says the shield poses a strategic threat by undermining its own missile deterrence capabilities.
Washington says the anti-missile shield, which would not be operational before 2012, is designed to shoot down ballistic missiles that could in the future be fired by Iran or other "rogue states."
Also Monday, the head of Russia's strategic missile forces, Nikolai Solovtsov, threatened an "adequate response" against the US defence system, Interfax said.
"If the US does take the decision... then the Strategic Rocket Forces can take adequate measures to offset the threat that could arise for the Russian Federation," Solovtsov was quoted as saying.
Hey anonymous...I like Steve Lendman too...did you know he has his own radio show now?
The Steve Lendman News & Information Hour It is an hour of fact-filled information on vital world and national issues with occasional guests as able and listener call-ins each Saturday at noon US Central Time / 10 AM Pacific at The Micro Effect.com
I got your email Toni...I will work on it tonight...Too bad I lost contact with the person who found my birth mother & 1/2 sister...but I'll try to assist ... :)
did anyone see Bill Mahr on Charlie Rose today? that was a mistake Charlie won't likely be making again anytime soon. He went irrational and got petty, even asked Maher how good his health was. Low blow.
Maher just let it bounce all of and kicked his ass!!! Hahahaha.
Charlie Rose was whining about the blogs and how anything you say on TV ends up on You.tube 15 minutes later.
hahahaha! what a whiny beyotch.
Is Charlie Rose aware that he is being recorded for a moving picture box when he sits behind his desk?
-conbo
wah wah wah the bloggers see all and hear all and then mock me on their blogs! wah wah wah
Sam, The guy in your old Mon-Fri slot sucks [ this is not me kissing up, he REALLY does suck]. Can't we harrangue someone in order to get you back on the air at your old time slot ? Jb
okay Sammy Baby... we now the date now, but how's about giving us the time you'll be airing...
We love ya, man and need to know WHEN to listen!!
I know someone who will be recording the show... and they have been tinkering with the idea of letting the rest of us listen to his recordings...
Any comment on being a part of the digital underground of AAR shows where us poor college students can listen without having to fork over the cash for an AAR premium account?
sam, missing your show more than words can say. you were doing an OUTSTANDING JOB> such a talent are you and your humor, your guests and your sane rants and raves. i met m. green at a media bkfst and gave him an earful of why YOU mattered. oh well how can we help to get you more time on any air? Im afraid sundays wont be enough. oh how i dream of you replacing imus. wishing you and your family all the very best jane jacobs
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«Oldest ‹Older 601 – 732 of 732Jeanine Pirro: Are You Experienced?
By: Nicole Belle @ 9:03 AM - PDT
from the Pirro For Attorney General campaign
It turns out that Jeanine Pirro does have some very interesting crime-related experience:
The saga of Jeanine Pirro is about to take a dramatic new turn, with the disclosure that while serving as district attorney of Westchester, Ms. Pirro was in the habit of secretly recording work-related telephone conversations, and a federal grand jury wants to hear them.[..]
One of the reasons this is of interest is that that Ms. Pirro's successor now is in possession of a tape suggesting Ms. Pirro failed to disclose evidence that could have helped a man whom Ms. Pirro subsequently charged with murder. But the existence of any tapes immediately raises the question of whom Ms. Pirro was talking to over her years in office and what conversations, whether of a political or legal nature, might be recorded in the surviving tapes.
Do you think her buddy, Sean Hannity, will defend this too?
These people placed in office by this admin must have a mark on them that, when recognized, allows them to take office
Goofus and Gallant: A DOJ Human Resources Primer
Monica Goodling brought human resource management best practices to the Department of Justice. Her collaboration with Highlights to create a Goofus and Gallant human resource primer is about as cutting edge as it gets. It's the kind of work one expects from a Regents University Law School grad.
You have to look at this presentation!!!
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The American people are proud to welcome Your Majesty back to the United States, a nation you've come to know very well.
After all, you've dined with ten U.S. Presidents.
You helped our nation celebrate its bicentennial in 17 -- in 1976.
(Laughter.) She gave me a look that only a mother could give a child. (Laughter.)
CNN allowed Beck's global warming special to use industry-funded 'experts'
CNN Headline News host Glenn Beck's May 2 hour-long special, Exposed: The Climate of Fear, purported to present the "other side of the climate debate that you don't hear anywhere."
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Hullabaloo
Sunday, May 06, 2007
Better Things To Do
by digby
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It's their war. Why aren't they fighting it?
operation yellow elephant
Gonzalesgate: More Fun With The Patriot Act
By: Logan Murphy on Monday, May 7th, 2007 at 10:02 AM - PDT
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Don't you just love it when Europe swings to the right...???
I know I do...!!!
Too much laziness over there, don't you think...????
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World War II and Hitler were
fun times...ah...good times
-conbo
Cool pic, Toni! Thanks! :)
* Thursday, May 10 at 6:30 p.m. at the Museum of the City of New York: Amy Goodman will participate on the panel discussion, "New York City's Impact on World Affairs," in conjunction with the museum's exhibition, "Facing
Fascism: New York and the Spanish Civil War."*
More info: http://tour.democracynow.org/2007/05/new_york_ny_16.html
Another shameless blog plug...
Just updated
jbenet said...
It's their war. Why aren't they fighting it?
operation yellow elephant
jbenet:Thanks for posting that site.I've never seen it before.I'm bookmarking that puppy. :)
World War II and Hitler were
fun times...ah...good times
-conbo
May 7, 2007 2:54 PM
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If you were a Communist you would think the Socialists were too far right..
If your a Frenchman...
You think the Socialists are too far left...
It's just like America...
Folks just get tried of pulling a wagon full of freight...
And then they vote to lighten the load....
“The Man of Two Havanas": Max Lesnik on His Transition From Cuban Revolutionary to Exile to Target of Terrorist Attacks by Anti-Castro Cuban Militants in Miami
We are going to need both the French and the Germans in the Battle of Iran..
The British will be there of course..
Italy, Spain..
The Battle of Iran..
That would make a hell of an October Surprise wouldn't it..???
Mitt Romney: Are Your Five Sons Wusses? Be A Man! Enlist!
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the Nation - Cuba Issue, pdf
how badly do I wanna see Schlozman and Goodling spanked?
very badly.
I say we ship all the lazies off to work camp!
-conbo
toniD said...
Another shameless blog plug...
Just updated
Damn good blog too! That's were I go when Wart Dump starts spamming this site. :)
All the liberal and Mexican lazies can stop milking the system.
We can make little patches for them. Different colors for them. And they can help rebuild our Glorious Society!
But what about parades?
OH YES THERE WILL BE PARADES!!!!
-conbo
Anonymous said...
I say we ship all the lazies off to work camp!
-conbo
I have a Doctor's note :)
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Sweet Jesus it will be better than the Rapture and Vietnam all wrapped togther!
War Makes Health!
can't wait
-conbo
I have a Doctor's note :)
May 7, 2007 3:18 PM
Work is good for what ails you.
-conbo
The Warheads are not going to make themselves!
Oh no!
And Iran is not going to bomb itself
Everyone has to roll up their sleeves and help out.
So put on a Uniform
Or make one!!!
You feel pride in yourself for once in your wasted lives!!!!
-conbo
All the liberal and Mexican lazies can stop milking the system.
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I think you're headed into trouble with the Mexicans again..!!!
Mexicans are like Asians...
They come to America to build themselves a better life..
They would resent be lumped with Liberal Lazies...
It's your Liberals that go to the government with their hand out wantin....
This is how your Liberals think:
http://mfile.akamai.com/5020/wma/rushlimb.download.akamai.com/5020/shanklin_archives/Socialism.asx
not that I should explain myself to sockpuppet trolls but, I was mocking War Dog and his Global Conservative War
-conbo
I call new people should read the archives before making comments about other bloggers.
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who the fuck is conbo - why don't you get a gun a stick it in your mouth go to jeasus, be a man
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For God sake Bob, take your meds...
Connie
Conbo..
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Krush
I warned her though...
I new she would get in trouble with that Mexican stuff again..!!!!
One better than conservatives...who leave the thinking part out of everything.
mmrules said...
jbenet:Thanks for posting that site
a ref of a ref
thank you tonid
I upset the Wardog
hahahahahaha
It's a good thing such an emotional lad doesn't have a finger on the button
Alas for poor War Dog he only fantasizes about Nukes, he will never get to be behind one
-conbo
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I upset the Wardog
hahahahahaha
It's a good thing such an emotional lad doesn't have a finger on the button
Alas for poor War Dog he only fantasizes about Nukes, he will never get to be behind one
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Why do you think I am upset..???
Where did that come from..???
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Those were the good Ol' days...
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I just don't know??????
hahahahahaha
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Those guys were funny..!!!!
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Shell, check your email. I sent you a question!!
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A study funded by the US government has concluded that conservatism can be explained psychologically as a set of neuroses rooted in "fear and aggression, dogmatism and the intolerance of ambiguity". The report's four authors linked Hitler, Mussolini, Ronald Reagan, and Rush Limbaugh as suffering from the same affliction.
Conservatives Are Mentally Ill - US Gov. Study
-conbo
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for condo : )
Jeasus
Save Internet Radio
The future of Internet radio is in Jeopardy!
The Copyright Royalty Board in Washington, DC has more than tripled the royalty rates for web casters and if left unchanged they will *KILL* the future of Internet radio!
Anonymous said...
A study funded by the US government has concluded that conservatism can be explained psychologically as a set of neuroses rooted in "fear and aggression, dogmatism and the intolerance of ambiguity". The report's four authors linked Hitler, Mussolini, Ronald Reagan, and Rush Limbaugh as suffering from the same affliction.
Conservatives Are Mentally Ill - US Gov. Study
-conbo
Haha, Connie...Good study!
Should we deem conservative thinking as a mental illness?
with so many dead bodies on their hands and so much delusional thinking,should we start opening up clinics for the conservatively insane?
Yahoo Answers
-conbo
Hannicatch of the week
Wart Dump Hookup
Like the conservative women that hate feminists. Why are these people so wacked out? It is beyond bizzare....
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ok shit head I missed that fine line, I've been listening to the rush o'riley som other religious war suppoter talk shows and its really given me the creeps
remember that scene near the end of dr. strangelove where the pilot with the big texas hat rides the nuke down like its a bucking bull.
now that's a wado dream...
eeeeahhhh.
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I have a Doctor's note :)
May 7, 2007 3:18 PM
Work is good for what ails you.
-conbo
May 7, 2007 3:20 PM
I did work for about 35 years.That's how I got Nerve Damage/Chronic pain.So,yes I do have a Dr's note.......
Slim Pickins! :)
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ok shit head I missed that fine line, I've been listening to the rush o'riley som other religious war suppoter talk shows and its really given me the creeps
May 7, 2007 4:10 PM
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Relax Robert....
Try to Have some fun...
Life's too short to get all wound up..!!!
slim pickens sounds right.
remember - no fighting in the war room.
I did work for about 35 years.That's how I got Nerve Damage/Chronic pain.So,yes I do have a Dr's note.......
May 7, 2007 4:11 PM
I was parodying Hitleresq metality
work makes free, ect
sorry
i guess I wasn't very clear on what I was doing
-conbo
that's not Bob, wardog
Bob isn't that stupid
-conbo
blah blah blah said...
remember that scene near the end of dr. strangelove where the pilot with the big texas hat rides the nuke down like its a bucking bull.
now that's a wado dream...
eeeeahhhh.
May 7, 2007 4:11 PM
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45TQQtNGBk0
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hans and hans video
cooking with marijuana
Anonymous said...
that's not Bob, wardog
Bob isn't that stupid
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May 7, 2007 4:17 PM
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Go easy Connie...
You might step in it again..
Robert has a tough time...
OH YES THERE WILL BE PARADES!!!!
-conbo
May 7, 2007 3:17 PM
this girl, she kill me.
Blah blah blah-
Nuclear combat,toe to toe with them Ruskies:
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War Dog's totally spammy. I think he's scared Seder's new blog will let peeps ignore him and ban him from the side blogs/diaries, so he's going totally nuts now. Poor scared little runt.
we need a new thread, this one loads a slow as a galvanized turd.
Go easy Connie...
You might step in it again..
Robert has a tough time...
Ok compassionate War Dog
hahahahahahaha
-conbo
today is backwards days
Im wearing my PJ's to work!
speaking of, I better go
here's the scene i was thinking of.
i guess I wasn't very clear on what I was doing
-conbo
NP-I just took it wrong.I just have to take my meds.And I'll be HapHapHappy!! :)
blah blah blah said...
remember that scene near the end of dr. strangelove where the pilot with the big texas hat rides the nuke down like its a bucking bull.
now that's a wado dream...
eeeeahhhh.
It's this one Blah 3
Major Kong
mmrules said...
Blah blah blah-
Nuclear combat,toe to toe with them Ruskies:
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May 7, 2007 4:29 PM
HaHa Beat you all to it.
bibimimi troll'p said...
we need a new thread, this one loads a slow as a galvanized turd.
May 7, 2007 4:30 PM
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Zinc sphincter. I don't have a joke to go with it. I just like the way it sounds.
wow, connie rules the blog
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"NEWS CONSUMER" said...
Hey guys,
Just stopped by to say hi.
bbl -
WHat is with the accolades
sort of annoying.
-conbo
ATTENTION!
war-dog!!
DIDN'T YOU GET THE MEMO:
Don’t Talk About Iraq, Katrina, Walter Reed, Attorneys, Or Bush
This morning on CBS’s Face the Nation, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich advised fellow conservatives not to talk about President Bush’s record. “President Bush is not the future. He’s not a solution. He doesn’t solve Social Security. He doesn’t solve Medicare. He doesn’t solve the economy. He doesn’t solve the environment. He doesn’t solve education. He’s a current fact,” Gingrich said.
(and a wanker, too)
ATTENTION!
hair of a dog!!
ARE YOU A TRAITOR?
if you are not a traitor do the following...
Don’t Talk About Iraq, Katrina, Walter Reed, Attorneys, Or Bush
Lionel;
"with one name like God"
wigga, please.
More like "Cher"
Mark Green--you suck.
This morning on CBS’s Face the Nation, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich advised fellow conservatives not to talk about President Bush’s record. “President Bush is not the future. He’s not a solution. He doesn’t solve Social Security. He doesn’t solve Medicare. He doesn’t solve the economy. He doesn’t solve the environment. He doesn’t solve education. He’s a current fact,” Gingrich said.
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Don't be shocked if Newt comes into the race when Fred Thompson makes his move....
They will be part of the second wave that takes the place of drop outs....
With such a long time until 2008 Newt is in no hurry to mix it up...
Let some of the little guys knock themselves out...
hey, Michael Steele!
Bangle bass player, not the lame ass unky-tom lt gov of MD.
ATTENTION!
war-dog!!
REPEAT: "don't mention the war"
Are you clean and sober today ONO????
I am a Democrat Remember...
Do I need to make you an appointment with the new Blog Psychologist..???
She made those boy straighten up last night....
She might help you..!!!
the bush administration
(stick a fork in it)
see bldg 7 at the right
BBC Reported Building 7 Collapse 20 Minutes Before It Fell
so
in view of possible impeachment:
who's gonna be the moron who sez Bush and Cheney s/b pardoned 'to begin healing the nation'? We gonna get fooled again?
Tweety is interviewing George Tenet on Hardball right now.
So far it's a love fest!
//She might help you//
no hope for me...
i'm in the process of mass extinction of last nights incriminating posts
a purge if you will
a shredding of evidence...
i
am
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conservative!!!!!!
So far it's a love fest!
May 7, 2007 5:04 PM
toni;
we know all about Matthews and his sticky-gooey man-love for all things Bush. The way he keeps saying Bill Clinton better 'watch himself' if he goes back 2 the WH is real hetero-hate.
look there conbo yes your clever wit went right over my head as i was thinking about how for the most part the best the libs can do is comedy and bitch ... not that I have any ideas or anything new to say .. its just seems really surreal, this generation seems so defeated ... hey that is funny oh well.. I would bet your life bush would stand a reasonable chance at reelections if he could ..
Did someone say something about being Sober??
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Mathews' mouth is going 2/40 and he's spitting and drooling again!!
I'm warn out just listening to shotgun mouth Chris Mathews. He is on the next subject b4 anyone can answer the first question.
Alot of " why didn't you" from him though.
logged myself off
(don't know how, but i did)
so logging back in
oakland freeway collapse
Like 9/22[sic], the 4/29 attacks also appeared as a quadruple attack:
* Gas tanker collapses the 80/580 in Oakland
* Gas tanker severely damages the Interstate 375 overpass in Saint Petersburg
* Gas tanker destroys Interstate 10 in Texas<>
* Golden Gate Bridge attack avoided after the tanker’s wheels flew off prematurely.
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I like the bit about 4 x 29 = 116 which is 911 upside-down
War Dog, are you really planning to vote for a democrat for president in 2008? Because unless you are, you're just full of shit.
War Dog said...
Are you clean and sober today ONO????
I am a Democrat Remember...
Do I need to make you an appointment with the new Blog Psychologist..???
She made those boy straighten up last night....
She might help you..!!!
May 7, 2007 4:56 PM
does anybody know why wolf blitzer afternoon email is reporting that the chimps poll numbers are going back up. google comes up empty handed and the cnn web site doesn't have the story.
Cathy in Seattle said...
War Dog, are you really planning to vote for a democrat for president in 2008? Because unless you are, you're just full of shit.
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With a maybe Edwards....
But not Obama ... He is a 2016 guy..
I gotta see who the GOP shakes out...
Remeber War And Taxes...
"Who is good for America..?"
Blah 3, Wolf took an average of all the polls so they showed his polls up a little.
They are still lower than many presidents.
complete books and articles by: Richard T. Ely
Chomsky's Job
"(from Alex Cockburn’s introduction to Chronicles of Dissent)
“But it’s all so depressing,” cried JoAnn Wypijewski, managing editor of The Nation, when Chomsky had finished outlining to her his analysis of some supposed breakthrough in Palestinian-Israeli peace talks.
“It’s not my job to cheer you up,” Chomsky replied. "
http://www.mickeyz.net/
Bush’s guests. Included in the list of dignitaries invited to tonight’s state dinner in honor of Queen Elizabeth: Elisabeth Hasselbeck, host of The View, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger; former Secretary of State Colin Powell; NFL Quarterback and Bush supporter Peyton Manning; NBC White House correspondent David Gregory; and Newsweek White House correspondent Richard Wolffe. Full list here.
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20: Number of senior Bush administration aides who have “either retired or resigned from important posts at the White House, Pentagon and State Department in the past six months.” NYU professor Paul Light notes, “You would expect to see vacancies arise as things wind down, but it’s about six months early for this kind of a mass exodus.”
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Five minutes alone with Chris Matthews in Bob's basement is enough
to straighten him out!
You can see, he is absolutely begging to be sorted out. Begging!
;-)
Government Agencies Push Back On Waxman Request For Rove’s Emails
Last month, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-CA) wrote letters to at least 24 government departments and agencies directing them to preserve e-mails received from or sent to non-governmental e-mail accounts (i.e. gwb43.com, georgewbush.com and rnchq.org) used by White House staffers.
Since both the RNC and the White House have said they did not preserve some of these communications from White House staffers, Waxman is attempting to acquire the emails through an alternative route.
The agencies pushed back on Waxman’s request:
Waxman’s Democratic staffers earlier sent out a letter demanding e-mails, but agencies reported back that the request was unclear.
The Examiner obtained a new memo sent to federal agencies from Waxman’s committee which provides “additional guidance” for conducting a wide search for e-mails involving White House political adviser Karl Rove and other political aides:
“The search should include any e-mails received or sent by any covered agency official after January 20, 2001 and before April 12, 2007,” says the two-page memo, a copy of which was obtained Monday by The Examiner. […]
Its memo lists four types of “covered agency officials” - basically political appointees. It specifically mentions 15 people in whom the committee is particularly interested. They include Rove, former Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman, and 13 other current and former White House aides.
“For each covered agency official, the search should include the official’s e-mail account, any archive of e-mail account including printed e-mails where appropriate, servers, and any backup tape or other backup media containing e-mails to or from the official,” the committee memo states.
Sen. Patrick Leahy has warned of further action if the lost messages are not found. “Those e-mails are there, they just don’t want to produce them. We’ll subpoena them if necessary.”
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World Bank panel finds Wolfowitz guilty of conflict of interest Michael Roston
Published: Monday May 7, 2007
A World Bank panel has found President Paul Wolfowitz guilty of a 'conflict of interest,' according to a breaking report at the New York Times website.
"A bank committee formally transmitted its findings that he was guilty of a conflict of interest in arranging for a pay raise and promotion in 2005 to Shaha Ali Riza, his companion," wrote Steven Weisman late on Monday afternoon.
The panel's finding have not been made public, and Weisman added that "It was not clear whether the committee, consisting of 7 of the bank’s 24 board members, would remove Mr. Wolfowitz from his post or, more likely, express a loss of confidence in his leadership in a manner that might persuade him to resign."
The news came as Wolfowitz's adviser Kevin Kellems resigned, complaining that the cloud over the Bush appointed president made his work at the institution useless.
The satirical website Wonkette also was reporting rumors late on Monday that Wolfowitz resigned, but the site was unable to back the rumor up.
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"Year in and year out, the press uses haircut stories to paint Democrats as vain hypocrites. Vain because they "care too much about how they look", and hypocrites because Democrats "claim" they care about working people but "in truth only care about their appearances". The press, and, it seems, a significant number of ardent followers of the press love to play numerous variations of Hypocrite Police with Democrats. Teeing off on the breaking haircut news, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd recently ridiculed Edwards. Referring to him as the Breck Girl and the Material Boy, she claimed Edwards' lavish lifestyle meant he wasn't qualified to talk about working-class woes in America. "You can't sell earnestness while indulging in decadence," she sanctimoniously lectured Edwards. Belittling Edwards for being out of touch, Dowd felt the strange urge to prove she had a working-class bond, so she invoked her dad, a cop who got .50 cent haircuts in his day. Of course, it would have been more persuasive if Dowd had referenced something from her adult life, but since I'm guessing she pays more than $400 for her SoHo rinse and trims, dear old dad had to do. Meanwhile, NBC anchor Brian Williams appeared as a guest on David Letterman's show last week where discussion soon turned to nothing other than Edwards' haircut.
Asked what was the most he'd ever paid for a trim, Williams responded, "probably $12." Really? I have to pay $16, plus tip, for a trim at a little barbershop in the 'burbs. But Williams, who lives in a restored farmhouse in Connecticut where he parks his 477-horsepower black Porsche GT2 (that is, when he's not decamping on the Upper East Side), gets his haircut for just $12. Now, Williams enjoys a $10 million salary. He's a celebrity journalist and recent Men's Vogue cover boy who up until just a few years ago was probably known as much for his perfectly coiffed locks as he was for his reporting skills. Yet, eager to project himself as one of the guys, Williams insists his trims cost chump change. Did you see NBC's Tim Russert being interviewed on Bill Moyers' recent PBS documentary Buying the War, which looked at the media's weak lapdog performance during the run-up to the Iraq invasion? Pressed at one point about why he allowed himself and Meet the Press to be co-opted by the White House in 2002 and 2003, Russert responded, "I'm a blue-collar guy from Buffalo and I know who my sources are. I work 'em very hard". Salt of the earth, Tim Russert is.
Then again, presenting himself as a Working Joe has become something of an obsession with Russert over the years, albeit a Working Joe who makes seven figures a year and, as the Daily Howler has noted, summers with the swells on Nantucket, lounging around in his multimillion-dollar beach island home; a "sprawling gray-shingled house, with rooftop sundeck and cutting garden," as Washingtonian magazine breathlessly described it. The point is that journalists who often announce that Democratic haircut stories matter because they pierce the "folksy" working-class persona that campaigns work so hard to create, are often the very same six-and-seven figure journalists who work so hard to create their own "folksy," working-class personas. - adapted from Eric Boehlert's "What The Haircut Story Tells Us About The Press" at Media Matters.
Since it isn't the outright theft of 2 U.S. Presidential Elections through criminally fraudulent Diebold blackbox "voting", just what exactly are these just plain folks not reporting all the time they tirelessly reveal the fakeries of The Democrats Who Only Pretend To Care? Here's what: "In addition to his long-time Ronald Reagan connections, Politico CEO
Frederick Ryan was also, along with Jonathan Bush and Joseph Allbritton, himself a Board Member of the scandal-ridden Riggs Bank, which was involved with hiding money for the Saudis, fined $25 million, then fined $16 million, and which invited the South American dictator Pinochet to open an account after Pinochet was widely accused of corruption, illegal arms sales, and torture. Riggs was involved with improperly transferring oil revenues for Equitorial Guinnea, and was investigated for involvement with aspects surrounding 9/11. Ryan, in addition to serving as Politico CEO, is also President of Allbritton Communications (a subsidiary of Allbritton Group, Inc., which in turn is a subsidiary of "Perpetual Corporation"). To take a step back, the picture that emerges from all of this is both clear and familiar.
Like most billionaires with diverse business interests, Joe Allbritton had political relationships of all sorts. But the coterie around him, and those who created the Politico, including the Politico's current CEO, are plainly firmly entrenched in the right-wing political "movement", with overlapping business and other ties to the Bushes, all kinds of international financial interactions with the Saudis and various right-wing governments, and long-standing ties of many kinds to the Reagan circle. We hear incessantly, over and over from the very well-funded, very well-paid and very well-fed yet self-styled and self-proclaimed "champions of the working man"; the Limbaughs, O'reilleys, Hannity's, Coulters, and Becks of the world, about how Media Matters is covertly funded by George Soros, as though that fact all by itself indubiably proves beyond a scintilla of doubt Media Matters political affiliations, and by implication (with Rush and Bill it's always by implication) Media Matters "elitist" not-for-the-working-man objectives and thus, presumably, bad unpatriotic secret agenda against good patriotic Americans. There is in fact quite a bit more than a bit of projection going on here.
After partisan scrutiny which would enable the detection of a mustard seed let alone a needle in a haystack, facts indicate that Media Matters is not actually funded by Soros. Media Matters reports on inaccuracies, misrepresentations and outright lies in the media, and does not purport to be a nonpartisan newspaper or source of news, although to a very real extent it is, as Media Matters actually does provide the "Fairness And Balance" that FOX (owned by billionaire Rupert Murdoch) and many other outlets featuring the aforsaid highly paid pundits, constantly represent themselves as providing. Yet in reality FOX does not even try to provide fairness or balance to their average viewers, who are themselves very busy every day paying through the nose for everything, and most especially for gas at the pump, primarily because research and development of effective alternatives to gas at the pump, along with any alternatives to poisonous nuclear generation, have systematically been supressed and thus effectively thwarted for at least the past 50 years. The Politico, too, claims to be a nonpartisan source of news. Surely then, by Limbaugh, O'Reilleys et al's very own standards; by the very same token they incessantly hammer into everyone's consciousness day after blessed day, it is not only notable but much more than a little suspect that those who created The Politico and formerly operated the big-oil and dictatorship-friendly Riggs, those very same people who are in charge of The Politico's operation, are in real honest-to-goodness reality themselves long-time GOP operatives and firmly implanted in right-wing circles.
Now, if these facts are not suspect by Rush and Bill and Sean and Anne and Glen's own standards, then why not? Why, again, is Edwards hair an issue worthy of such intense scrutiny by the Politico? And what did John Kerry's windsurfing have to do with anything? Is windsurfing unpatriotic? Does enjoying a healthy and environmentally clean sport threaten our national security? It rather enhances it, if anything. Surely when considering his ability to understand and coordinate processes which may very easily
have prevented the outrageous and disasterous wars which have so negatively effected our nation in the estimation of a clear and ever-growing majority of Americans, Kerry's valiant military service in Viet Nam and his numerous years of experience on our U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Comittee was far more relevant to vital issues than his windsurfing. Coiffed windsurfing patrician though he may be, Kerry also saw the real horrors of combat which the Cheneys, Bushs, Roves, Rices, Limbaughs, Hannitys, and Becks so eagerly advocate and readily prescribe for everyone else, but not for themselves or their familys. Indeed, it was Kerry who repeatedly urged every serious continual effort at negotiation and diplomacy before any contemplation or threat of use of military force, and then only as a very last possible resort.
Amazingly, after all America has been through, well over six years after the theft of the 2000 election, some Republicans are just now beginning to suggest that negotiation may possibly be a somewhat important element in the conduct of our U.S. foreign policy. Hannity, in a recent debate performance versus the eminently humble, factual, polite and sincere Democratic Salt Lake City Utah Mayor Rocky Anderson which can only be described as a disgustingly shameful and atrocious attempt to further hoodwink, bamboozle, patronize, hector, harass, frighten, propagandize, prey upon, scare the starch out of, and grossly lie to the American public even more than Hannity already has, that unusually well-paid average joe spared no effort in repeating that a number of Democrats supported the same disasterous war by voting for it, yet he persistently failed to address or even so much as acknowledge the fact that these votes were based on what has now clearly been shown to be deliberately false cooked intelligence which Cheney and Bush repeatedly presented in scripted television episodes rivaling in mis-en-scene anything Boris Karloff or Alfred Hitchcock ever offered, not only to Anderson and other Democratic lawmakers, but to our entire nation; false intelligence which Hannity himself took elaborate measures to constantly repeat for years on our airwaves, which had been deregulated from our 1949
Fairness Doctrine provisions under Reagan, and kept that way by none other than General Colin Powell's son over at our FCC. Could these and so many other well-renumerated members of the media establishment, particularly the henhouse guardians at FOX,
possibly be trying to divert attention from things which they know much more about than they are saying, but would prefer at all costs, even to America herself, not to discuss? We Report, You Decide." -adapted from Glenn Greenwald's "The Politico, Exhibit A For Our Broken Political Press"
Republicans, counting on relatively short human memory when it comes to the negative in general, and the negative consequences to America of Reagan's failed policys in particular, have conceived a typically revisionist hagiography that has Reagan somewhere between Alexander the Great, Gandhi and Houdini. Democrats ought not let the tiniest bit of light between Bush and his GOP enablers, but should rightfully place all of them directly in the laps of Junior and the Reagan Retreads, exactly where they belong.
"Going back to good Reagan conservatism" is nonsense. So-called "Conservatism", which is nothing more than the most dangerously radical anarchy, as we shall see, is a necessarily miserable failure no matter who's in charge. They all operate on the same "principles." -adapted from Digby at Hullabaloo. Allow me to explain. Character asassination, sabotage, deception and subterfuge are not incidental to "conservative" politics but central to it. To so-called "conservatives", politics without such things doesn't even feel like...politics. Catch them in a relaxed moment, and they freely admit it - with relish. In 2005 I spoke as the token liberal at a "conservative" conference at the Madison Program at "Princeton University." I put "Princeton University" in quotes because the center is in fact a humanities-and-social sciences version of the "financially independent" right-wing-funded campus front groups that allow "conservatives" to claim to speak with the authority of our great universities, even as these groups need not adhere to the very personnel standards that make these universities great in the first place. The Institute, investigator Max Blumenthal has established to what should be Princeton's shame, is funded by "cultlike Catholic group and right-wing foundations to support gatherings of "movement activists", fellowships for ideologically correct visiting professors and a cadre of conservative students." It is, in fact, an institutional embodiment the very core of "conservative" politics: crafty false-front deceptions. - adapted from an article by Rick Pearlstein. In light of the following, Pearlstein's observations on the nature of GOP politics may be one the largest understatements in history:
Why do countless American people go along with the War on Iraq? Why do so many people call for a police state control grid that eliminates their own freedoms? A major component to a full understanding of this kind of governmental and corporate corruption is to discover the modern science of mind control and social engineering. It's baffling to merely glance at the stacks of documentation that this world government is not in fact being constructed for the greater good of humanity. Although there are a growing number of people waking up to the reality of our growing transparent soft cage, there seem to be just enough citizens who are choosing to remain asleep, and the much-vaunted yet narrow victory of Sarkozy in the French Presidential contest, garnering adulatory notice in the press for "not being above betrayal" bears this out. Worse yet, there are even those who were at least partially awake at one time but found it necessary to return to the slumber of dreamland. This is no accident; this is by carefully managed design. The drive to dumb down the populations of planet earth is a deception that existed long before the United States ever did.
One component to understanding and deciphering these illegitimate systems of control is to become a student of the wielders of influence and propaganda. In order to defeat dictators, it is imperative that we understand how they think and what they believe, and it manifestly is not individual freedom, liberty, justice, or genuine democracy. When people think about mind control, they usually think in terms of "conspiracy theory" referring to Project MkUltra. It is also helpful to recognize that great effort has been expended to invariably append the word "theory" anytime the word "conspiracy" is ever used in any context anywhere, in order to reinforce the false concept that conspiracies are merely "theory" and thus do not in fact exist. There is no question that they do. MkUltra is merely one of many proven examples of 'overt mind control. The project had grown out of an earlier secret program known as Project Bluebird that was officially formed to counter Soviet advances in brainwashing. But above both the Soviets and Americans, and above all government, exists an essentially sociopathic international tyranny which intentionally plays all sides against each other, the better to divide and conquer for themselves. In reality, the CIA had other objectives with MkUltra. An earlier aim was to study methods 'through which control of an individual may be attained'. The emphasis of experimentation was 'narco-hypnosis', the blending of mind altering drugs with carefully hypnotic programming. A CIA team was formed that could travel, at a moments notice, to anywhere in the world. Their task was to test the new interrogation techniques, and to ensure that victims would not remember being interrogated and programmed. All manner of narcotics, from marijuana to LSD, heroin and sodium pentathol (the so called 'truth drug'), were regularly used. Despite poor initial results, the CIA-sponsored mind control program flourished. On 13 April 1953, the secret project MkUltra was born. Its scope was broader than ever, and only those in the top echelon of the CIA were privy to it. Declassified CIA documents describe it as an 'umbrella project' with 149 'sub-projects'. Many of these sub-projects dealt with testing illegal drugs for potential field use. Others dealt with electronics. One explored the possibility of activating 'the human organism by remote control'. Throughout, it remained a major goal to brainwash individuals to become couriers and spies without their knowledge.
When it was formed in 1947, the CIA was forbidden by law to have any domestic police or internal security powers. In short, it was authorized only to operate 'overseas'. From the very start MkUltra staff broke this Congressional stipulation and began testing on unwitting American citizens. Precisely how extensive illegal testing became may never be known because Richard Helms, CIA Director and chief architect of the program ordered the destruction of all MkUlta records shortly before leaving office in 1973. Despite these
precautions some documents were misfiled and came to light in the late 1970's. They laid bare the spy agency's cynicism. Despite the widespread knowledge of MkUltra and the civil lawsuits that followed, this form of behavior modification is not the most expansive. The real dangers are the types of thought control that are 'covert' and not the subject of several dozen Hollywood movies like "Clockwork Orange" and Mel Gibson's "Conspiracy Theory."
Our founding fathers faced enormous challenges in the formation of this country and its bill of rights. One challenge was laying down the groundwork or a free society without knowing what kind of technological advances would be made. They may not have guessed in those times that we needed an article in the bill of rights to specifically forbid our own government and it's associates from engaging in mind control or thought control, although these methods have existed for milennia, so there is evidence, especially since Franklin and others were notable scientific researchers in their own right, that they were at least aware of the true state of technological development at that time, and did what they could to curb abuses of it given the political constraints at the time. In a story that may or may not be apochraphal, Franklin is said to have been asked by a Colonial Lady immediately after signing our U.S. Constitution "What form of government have you given us?", to which Franklin cryptically replied "A Republic, if you can keep it". The widely-read and phenomenally knowledgable researcher Alan Watt, who has an encyclopedic understanding of these pathocratic mechanisms ascribes Franklin's remark to his foreknowledge of the role which America was assigned to play in the ensuing centuries-long unfoldment of the international drama. The closest item that promises our protection from the government is the 4th Article in The Bill of Rights which establishes "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
Even so, as many are just now beginning to note, the US Constitution and its Bill of Rights are merely given lip service by our supposedly elected officials, Bush has for all
intents and purposes sold out debt to the Chinese, who are also rapidly attaining globo-cop status, our military is run through the U.N., and plans are well underway to eliminate
our borders in order to create a single MexAmeriCanada, the better for the globalists to have us compete in amusing contests for their entertainment with the EU and Pacific Rim blocs, of which it is intended that there shall be only these three, to maximize returns for the self-appointed never-elected "Non-Governmental" engineers of this profoundly
dystopian scheme, incidentally calling for the "reduction" of tens, if not hundreds of millions in "Population". You may know them more familiarly, the population, that is, as Human Beings. Halliburton has constucted numerous prison camps in various U.S. areas, and there is a rather large installation in Michigan at the present Canadian border,
where gunboats now patrol the adjacent Great Lakes. One imagines that if panic were to drive US citizens to seek refuge in Canada, this installation might come into play, but from all reports Canada is no longer the enlightened haven of rationality it may once have been in the Vietnam era, and is in some respects even more repressive and agressively in favor of despicable "social science" eugenic theories masquerading as "Bioethics" than even some of their more unhinged U.S. counterparts.
One of the most common examples of mind control in our so-called free and civilized society is the advent and usage of the television set. This isn't to say that all things on TV are geared towards brainwashing you. They're not. But most of the programming on television today is run and programmed by the largest media corporations which have interests in "defense" contracts, such as Westinghouse (CBS), and General Electric (NBC). This makes perfect sense when you see how slanted and warped the news is today. Examining the conflicts of interest is merely glancing at the issue, although to understand the multiple ways that lies are distorted into an appearance of truth, we need to examine the techniques of brain washing that the networks are employing. Radio isn't any different in its ability to brainwash a population into submission. Sixty-seven years ago, six million Americans became unwitting subjects in an experiment in psychological warfare. It was the night before Halloween, 1938. At 8 p.m. CST, the Mercury Radio on the Air began broadcasting Orson Welles' radio adaptation of H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds. As is now well known, the story was presented as if it were breaking news, with bulletins so realistic that an estimated one million people believed the world was actually under attack by Martians. Of that number, thousands succumbed to outright panic, not waiting to hear Welles'
explanation at the end of the program that it had all been a Halloween prank, but fleeing into the night to escape what they believed to be actual alien invaders. This stands as a very instructive, disturbing, important and cautionary lesson on the power of media to create reality, which almost 70 years later many of us seem never to have learned or to have forgotten altogether. Aliens may or may not exist, but that is not the question or the point. The point is, what do you believe and why, and upon what do you base the beliefs which lead you to actions? This is called critical thinking for a very good reason, as such introspection is the only way we have to arrive at sound judgements.
According to researcher Mack White ( http://www.mackwhite.com), "Psychologist Hadley Cantril conducted a study of the effects of the broadcast and published his findings in a book; 'The Invasion from Mars: A Study in the Psychology of Panic'. This study explored the power of broadcast media, particularly as it relates to the suggestibility of human
beings under the influence of fear. Cantril was affiliated with Princeton University's Radio Research Project, which was funded in 1937 by the Rockefeller Foundation. Also affiliated with the Project was Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) member and Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) executive Frank Stanton, whose network had broadcast the program. Stanton would later go on to head the news division of CBS, and in time would become president of the network, as well as chairman of the board of the RAND Corporation, the influential think tank which has done research on, among other things, mass brainwashing. Two years later, with Rockefeller Foundation money, Cantril established the Office of
Public Opinion Research (OPOR), also at Princeton. Among the studies conducted by the OPOR was an analysis of the effectiveness of "psycho-political operations" (propaganda, in plain English) of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Then, during World War II, Cantril and Rockefeller money assisted CFR member and CBS reporter Edward R. Murrow in setting up the Princeton Listening Center, the purpose of which was to study nazi radio propaganda with the object of applying nazi techniques to OSS propaganda. Out of this project came a new government agency, the Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service (FBIS). The FBIS eventually became the United States Information Agency (USIA), which is the propaganda arm of the National Security Council. Thus, by the end of the '40s, the basic research had been done and the propaganda apparatus of the national security state had been set up, just in time for the Dawn of Television." It is dispiriting to note that nazi techniques have been adopted by some Americans, but knowledge of these facts sheds light on what has and is going on and why, so there may be a silver lining to this dark cloud on genuine American and Human freedom.
Experiments conducted by researcher Herbert Krugman reveal that when a person watches television, brain activity switches from the left to the right hemisphere. The left hemisphere is the seat of logical thought. Here, information is broken down into its component parts and critically analyzed. The right brain, however, treats incoming data uncritically, processing information in wholes, leading to emotional, rather than logical responses. The shift from left to right brain activity also causes the release of endorphins, the body's own natural opiates.
Thus, it is possible to become physically addicted to watching television, a hypothesis borne out by numerous studies which have shown that very few people are able to kick the TV habit. It's no longer an overstatement to note that the youth today that are raised and taught through network television are intellectually dead by their early teens.
"The age of the television show "The Waltons" is gone, gone, gone. John-Boy's had the crap kicked out of him, been held up by his ankles and had all his lunch money dumped out. TV screens are crawling with grim cops, steely interrogators and glitzy, state fair-level talent/weight loss competitions. Popular music is dominated by angry, tattooed, fist-pumping,
crotch-thrusting teens. There can be only one conclusion as to what values America now embodies and what form our national spokesperson takes: Forget the "aw, shucks ma'am, it was nothing" archetype. He is now a boisterous, text-messaging fathead in a sports bar, his rosacea flaring at any mention of the word "turban". And though he is not without experience and has ambition galore, his open-up-a-can-of-whup-ass temperament trumps any wisdom and humility he might have picked up along the way to where he is now. Winning At Any Cost has become the staple diet, replacing good ol' honesty and fair play. It has become the primary goal in American life. It's on all the brochures and in the instruction manual. It's made Jesus into a jock and Joe McCarthy into a martyr. It's made humility humiliating and turned the grester world outside of our national borders into a big, scary Them.
And how does the world regard us, who were once greeted by grateful and war-weary Europeans with an admiring "Hi, Joe!"? As arrogant, petulant, strong-arming, sabre rattling, pissed-off ogres who clearly have had enough of the nancy-boys' mewling. Peace is for pussies. America™'s Bush and Cheney's ham-fisted and ham-headed leadership has the country in a headlock and there is no choice but for the body to flop around helplessly wherever the head's being dragged. This smarmy, two-headed tyrant and all he embraces
has made America appear as a strutting behemoth who stomps where it was supposed to tread with care. Virtually every incident the media reports is permeated with bilious rhetoric and faux-middle-brow bombast delivered in steely tones of manly resolve fairly drenched with testosterone and faint whiffs of country down-homeism, a specialty of both Regan and Bush, the kind of stories that subtly promote the triumph of the musclebound over the meek while making it seem like that's the god-given right of a modern democracy. The Right's political theatrics have even gone so far as to promote their cadre of perspective presidents by bestowing upon them the classic traits of stereotypical strongmen: the heroically monikered Mitt Romney's square jaw and graying temples, as if conceived by Stan Lee, the scarred warrior John McCain's well documented refusal to fold under torture and his nervously admired temper positively cause conservatives to swoon and willingly drown in their own lubrication.
Throw these guys up against the cerebral but passionate Dennis Kucinich, or the dripping-with-charisma-but-tragically-pencil-necked Barak Obama and you might as well air it on ESPN as "Bully-Palooza '08". You have to think that so many bullies means so many bullied and this is so. That's balance. But despite bloody, historical episodes of colossal hubris, bullies get their comeuppance eventually. That's balance, too. If not, the snake eating its own tail would have consumed itself long ago. Because as everyone knows who's ever been pushed into a hedge, slammed into a locker or had his or her patriotism questioned, inside every bully is a self-loathing coward. No wonder no one wants to play with us." - adapted from "Born To Win" by Steven Weber
The dumbing down of humanity is represented by another shift which occurs in the brain when we watch television. Activity in the higher brain regions (such as the neo-cortex) is diminished, while activity in the lower brain regions (such as the limbic system) increases. The latter, commonly referred to as the reptile brain, is associated with more primitive mental functions, such as the "fight or flight" response. The reptile brain is unable to distinguish between reality and the simulated reality of television. To the reptile brain, if it looks real, it is real. Thus, though we know on a conscious level it is "only a film," on a conscious level we do not; the heart beats faster, for instance, while we watch a suspenseful scene. Similarly,
we know the commercial is trying to manipulate us but on an unconscious level the commercial nonetheless succeeds in, say, making us feel inadequate until we buy whatever thing is being advertised. The effect is all the more powerful because it is unconscious, operating on the deepest level of human response. The reptile brain makes it possible for us to survive as biological beings, but it also leaves us vulnerable to the manipulations of television programmers. This is where the manipulators use our own emotions as strings to control us. The distortions and directions we are being moved to are taking place in the subconscious, often undetected. Propaganda techniques were first codified and applied in a scientific manner by journalist Walter Lippman and psychologist Edward Bernays (nephew of Sigmund Freud) early in the 20th century. During World War I, Lippman and Bernays were hired by then United States President Woodrow Wilson to participate in the Creel Commission, the mission of which was to sway popular opinion in favor of entering the war on the side of Britain. Edward Bernays said in his 1928 book 'Propaganda' that "The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country."
The Creel Commission provided themes for speeches by "four-minute men" at public functions, and also encouraged censorship of the American press. The Commission was so unpopular that after the war, Congress closed it down without providing funding to organize and archive its papers. The war propaganda campaign of Lippman and Bernays produced
within six months such an intense anti-German hysteria as to permanently impress American business (and hitler, among others) with the potential of large-scale propaganda to control
public opinion. Bernays coined the terms "group mind" and "engineering consent", important concepts in practical propaganda work. The current public relations industry is a direct outgrowth of Lippman's and Bernays' work and is still used extensively by the United States government. For the first half of the 20th century Betrays and Lip Man ran a very successful public relations firm. World War II saw continued use of propaganda as a weapon of war, both by Hitler's propagandist Joseph Gobbles and the British Political Warfare Executive, as well as the United States Office of War Information.
Turn on your local newscast. You have a few minutes of blue-collar crime, hardly any white collar crime, a few minutes of sports, misc. chit chat, random political jibber-jabber, and a look at the weather that no one is forecasting correctly. Is that what happened in your town? And we're supposed to own the airwaves. The mainstream media openly supports the interests of the prison industrial complex. The stories focus on variously designated criminal groups, and exploit some genuine threats to appear much more dangerous than they are. If there is no "problem" to "fix", then one will be provided. Genuine problems, on the other hand, need not be fixed, and are invariably left to grow if they merely effect the taxpayers footing the bill for the real guests at this grand party. Think about the growing per capita number of prisoners in the country. Then remember that this is happening at the same time that our prison boom began. The police on our streets are intentionally creating criminals even as U.S. foreign policy is intentionally creating terrorism. Thus the intentionally cognative-dissonant yet otherwise necessarily meaningless phrase 'War On Terror' is in reality a war of terror. The focus is to keep us in a state of fear, the method whereby self-appointed elitists can attack any group they wish without fear of consequence. The as yet
unaccounted for events of 9/11 are repeatedly invoked as an all-encompassing rationale and justification for all of this and more. The filmmaker Arron Russo was explicitly informed of this ruse in these exact terms several months before 9/11 by Nicholas Rockerfeller, and was promised a personal microchip bearing the initials "KMA", standing for "Kiss My Ass", which Russo was assured would permit him free passage in the otherwise total lock-down New World Order to be ushered in by these "events". When asked why Rockefeller would wish to participate in this hidiously cruel and perverted scheme, he answered Russo to the effect that "the masses" "had" to be "ruled" by "the elite", and besides, "we can"; hitler said much the same.
This is why the media continues to use the ancient and insidious "art" of dehumanization, and why the existing power structure had Reagan remove our 1949 Fairness Doctrine provisions. The techniques are increasing in their sophistication over time as the mind scientists which serve the empire continue to discover scientific "breakthroughs" as to how the human brain functions, learns, retains information, and behaves. The most effective brainwashing techniques are used on the most successful propaganda networks. Examine the music. Observe the graphics with the music. They're glitzy and flashing. Like the monkey that is attracted to shiny objects, it's our monkey brain controlling the hand that controls the remote, often stopping the search for entertainment when a certain degree of glamour catches our attention. Most importantly, notice the repetition behind the lies that the politicians and their corporate media groupies use. You see, the unimaginably distorted fallacies are created as 'truth' not because they're logical or provable, but because of the broken record technique of repetition. No matter how ridiculous the lie, it's repeated often enough that the brain doesn't know the difference between reality and manufactured propaganda.
This technique is vastly underestimated by us in its ability to allow various puppeteers to hypnotize millions of people. Instead of "Fair and balanced" it is actually "We say it enough times, and you believe it." It's a tragic day when our state, which properly belongs to us, secretly engineers the enslavement and imprisonment of the population. Hollywood will continue to frighten us with films on the mafia, gangsters, and the corrupt blue collar criminal whose stupidity and greed get them caught. Our minds are thus already being pre-conditioned to accept living in a police state economy and society because we read it in the paper, saw it praised on the news and talk shows, or saw it in a movie. This is known as
"Predictive Programming". There are several movies planned right now that support the official story of 9/11 and a few movies that glamorize the war on Iraq. According to David L Robb, Author of Operation Hollywood, "Hollywood and the Pentagon have a long history of making movies together. It stretches back to the early days of silent films, and extends up until the present day. It's been a collaboration that works for both sides. Hollywood producers get what they want - access to billions of dollars of military hardware and equipment; tanks, jet fighters, nuclear submarines and aircraft carriers, and the military gets what it wants; films that portray the military in a positive light, films that make it easier for the services to recruit. The Pentagon is not merely a passive supporter of films, however.
If the Pentagon doesn't like a script, it will usually suggest script changes that will allow the film to receive military support. Sometimes these proposed changes are minor. But sometimes the changes are dramatic. Sometimes they change dialogue. Sometimes they change characters. Sometimes they even change history." What they create is something coined 'disinfotainment'. They mix disinformation with entertainment and call it disinfotainment. Unadulterated Violence is now accepted on regular TV. Killing in the name of the government is praised, that is unless the violence is committed in self defense to protect someone from the system. Sharp shooters, bombers, and assassin are worshipped if they are fighting for the system, are in the military, or are associated with groups that control the masses locally, such as the local police department. I don't condone violence, it is never desireable and it is not neccessary, yet it's entirely hypocritical, cynical, and specious to portray violence as somehow "acceptable" in one form when it favors the self-proclaimed elite, yet condemn it in protection of one's land, freedom, or loved ones. This specious double-standard reality transfers itself into the shady world of video games that are steeped in plots and tasks to kill as much as the player can. The players are getting younger and younger with 7 out of 10 children playing games with a 'Mature' rating. Recently I was browsing the PC video game selection at a very large electronics store. I was appalled to see nearly 50 different games in which the setting of the game is Iraq, and the goal is to kill as many "insurgents" as possible to "fulfill the mission". Children today are being insidiously indoctrinated through their "favorite" "games" and "law enforcement TV shows" to be the button-pushers of the weapons of mass destruction of tomorrow's world. Given these realities,
not to mention the advanced scientific capability of governments to engioneer weather through HAARP and dozens of programs we know exist yet still know nothing about, many
unanswered and frankly troubling questions remain as to the real nature and timing of events and their reportage as "reality" which merely "occurs". The recent case of Pat Tillman which "occured" does not enhance our confidence or raise our spirits with respect to either the intentions nor the transparency of these operations that we pay for and which are
carried out in our name.
There are two house bills and a senate bill (with more on the way) that are giant steps in dismantling the free speech of the general public. These bills together would kill (PEG) cable access centers where the public still owns the airwaves. It's the programming created locally, without censorship or commercial gain. Their income is derived from franchises within the local cities and a small percentage cable subscriber frees. This is a corporate takeover because this is centralizing communication by removing the locally based programming and moving the audience to the more "official", nationalistic, and sensationalized programs which promote violence, uniformity, and slavery over peace, diversity and freedom. Cable access features free speech and information with perspectives neglected by mainstream television. It also features a free flow programming system with fresh programs being aired
by new producers on a rotating basis. This keeps the content and information creative and locally based while network TV is rigid with regular time slots and repetitive programming. Bush is also attempting to ramrod a wholesale dismantling of our Constitutionally guaranteed right of privacy over the telephone, but even more dehumanizing is the realization that this very important issue itself may already at this point simply be a red herring, as there is no way for the general public to know how pervasive the illegal, unethical and amoral montoring of our every activity already is, given the secrecy surrounding technologies which are far in advance of anything we can imagine, but very probably do exist, and as Alan Watt points out, "announcements" of "new" technology are often nothing more than "Notices" that they have already been here and been used against you for some
time; prefunctory ass-coverings done after the fact to legitimate entirely illegal, immoral, and inexcusable breaches of individual privacy, freedom, and Liberty.
The blocks of programming that are universally accepted parallel the shift to engineer our entire lives without our knowledge or consent towards the factory's bell and the illusion of time. This is the creation of the "hive mind." The hive mind is result of massive brainwashing of the general public. Everyone shares the same thoughts, goals, knowledge and
understanding. A hive mind society gears itself towards conformity and ignores diversity while masquerading as the road to utopia on mainstream television. Network programming, whether it's the news or drama, is geared towards artificially creating your world and reality "for you". With the proper amount of entertainment and sensationalism, we may even be
living our lives through the television set. Many anchors and actors are beautiful and research shows that attractive people are usually perceived as trustworthy. While the real news rolls quickly by on the bottom of your screen premanipulated in its reportage, the anchor is selling you on the idea of having your very own police state hell hole right here in your local jurisdiction, or on how two opposing sports teams chasing around on a court for two hours in an attempt to score points means something important to you. No education, no
information, nothing but spin, otherwise known as lies. Today the media represents an insidious tool of brainwashing and indoctrination that is utilized on behalf of the owners interests, not yours.
Since the 1996 Telco act, television and radio stations all across the nation were bought out by major international media outlets. Clear Channel and Infinity are the two largest
corporations in radio today. This, combined with the elimination of our Fairness Doctrine Provisions, has centralized the distribution of information and has imperiled our free society to an extreme degree. If we ought to be scared, then this, combined with the deplorable lack of genuine education and actual critical thinking skills, and not endless
repetitions of a deliberately cognitive-dissonant phrase, is what we ought to be scared about. The media drums to the beat of its owners, whose interests are not those of the general public, except insofar as they may be most efficiently fleeced. Instead, they are interested in their other financial endeavors such as weapons contracting, the oil business, political parties, influencing of legislation, and of course, the prison industry. The conflicts of interest are now monumental as a result of the deregulation of corporations. The lines are deliberately blurred between one network's coverage of the war and the other. Once we come to the conclusion that the media is intentionally
deceiving us, we can apply the principle of problem-reaction-solution to understand the mechanisms at play. This formula takes a problem by either creating it or allowing it to happen, and then presents that "problem" to the population. It could be terrorism, molestation, extraterrestrials, global warming.
While pollution and greenhouse gasses are a very real problem, covert and illegal HAARP technology is being used to artificially warm our climate. If the pathocrats would simply leave things alone they would improve, but history shows they generally do not unless they somehow perceive it to be in their own best interest, or they are forced to by general consensus of the vast majority whom they tyrannize.
These phony "topics" create real fear, and no one in their right mind would support terrorism, crime, or global warming. We are thus conditioned to percieved it as acceptable to be blasted by the television, papers, and radio with 'the problem.' The natural reaction from human beings with minds thus made pliable through fear is a "request" for more control to "ensure" more "safety", a request with which the social
engineers are only too happy, eager and willing to oblige. Most let fear and emotion control decisions and usually respond with a thought-stream which translates into something akin to: "The government needs more power over our lives to make us safer and freer from tyranny. I believe what the media tells me so I will support whatever decisions they make." Today's mainstream corporate news program discourages dissent of the war and paints activists with a negative brush that hints of treason. At the same time, the so-called journalists
are cogs in a much larger machine, who know that if they report a story which reflects negatively on this system of control and government, it's likely to remain on 'the wire' and off the front pages, where every journalist yearns to see their story. So there remains a built-in disincentive to report the truth and a built-in incentive to lie, to say the very least.
The most disturbing aspect of spending a single hour examining network cable news and modern Hollywood films are the reoccurring themes in the backdrop. The central ideas
of countless "investigative reports" or "Friday night special" features are about a threat of some type over the horizon. The end of the world as we know it is being sold. If the news isn't feeding it to you, then the History Channel or Discovery Channel are either talking about the crusades, asteroids, UFOs, earthquakes, terrorism, or exposes about serial killers.
They are deliberately cobbling together a very carefully concocted message to you that our world is unstable, and of course it is in large part due to these messages and their constant efforts at destabilization, and that this big threat which is always an invisible and dangerous one is something which only more and more military and police, and never the individual or pair or family can fix. In essence, the world is run as a giant protection racket, holding various parties hostage whom the criminals behind their manufactured facade of government and corporate "respectability" deem to be able to profit from.
When you record and log all the messages, you end up with a script, produced through the think tanks and manufactured by the movie studios of Hollywood, portraying a nightmare. I am not alone in this observation. Local and network news are designing their editorials about despair
and fear because the owners, producers, and editors understand that fear sells. The end result are the desired ratings, delivered as expected. The masters of modern spin understand that we have become so degraded by these deliberate processes that many now actually derive enjoyment from being terrified. Just look at the success in the action/suspense/terror genres that have plopped onto the conveyor belt and been packaged for our gleeful consumption. When the editors in charge found out that simply plastering a terror alert chart
didn't scare people the same way it used to, they began to kick up the campaign of terror a few notches with new and creative ways to sell the notion of the "attractiveness" and "advantages" of living in a sickening morally contemptible total control police state.
When you get to the other side of the terror alerts of all shapes and sizes, you find another nightmare masquerading as the savior. The 'Ministry of Truth' will protect you. The government is here to rescue you and squash this brown terrorist bug, this gray alien, this avian bird flu, and every other nightmare that the nightly news brought you. The public relations specialists take the science of worshipping our kings down to a frame by frame level. Bush is pictured in numerous poises with a halo around his head. In other pictures, he stands tall with dozens of American flags blowing in the wind behind him. A more blasphemous display features him speaking in front of the cross of Jesus
Christ. The message send couldn't be more clearly presented. Our current leaders are of the messiah status and only through them will we reach the gates of safety. The lie that has been accepted by so many as truth is that this is a religious war. Numerous prime-time programs are now narrating the story of the crusades (with sanitized horrors) to synch our hive-mind vibrations up to something out of the 13th Century, yet this is 2007. If the America people accept the fact that the crusades are here, that Bush reports directly to god, and that revelations are here, then they have won the war for our minds. What is only dimly perceived by most is that the true state of technology which is currently in
existance is actually very far advanced from even what we believe to be currently advanced technology. All technology, regardless of what it is, existed far in advance of the time it was released for use by the general populace, and thus the time when the public could become aware of these technological capabilities. In some cases, this time lag has
been very long indeed, up to hundreds of years. Throughout history, those in control of technology have kept people in the dark about the real capabilities which actually exist at any given period. Virtually everything mentioned in the Book Of Revelations can in fact be created by classified technological processes which do currently exist. Think about this, then think about the financial and political control which religious leaders excersise, particularly through television.
A loudspeaker whispers, "All our problems are by accident, never by design." Across the room the system's minion snorts, "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear." It's that plot that says Middle Eastern terrorists from an Afghan cave are the reason behind our little "War On Terror", and please disregard the fact that we provided millions of dollars worth of texbooks and madrassas to create those very same Jihadists, whom we must now spend billions more tax dollars to kill. Related messages in the script demonize young minority males or various other groups selected for marginalization, and suggest extraordinarily harsh punishments for any "crimes" they may possibly commit, or merely
be perceived to have comitted, or, most frightening of all, may merely be perceived to possibly be contemplating. They don't come out overtly and state this hideously unconstitutional, sociopathic and racist mind-control thought police agenda. They come at you from the side by airing the same crime news repetitively, usually when it's committed by some minority
group or perceived "other". The networks love the fact that TV establishes the norms in society today, and hence political opinion. Who would imagine that in the United States of America, both candidates of both parties in the 2004 election would be members of the Skull and Bones society at Yale University? Out of 290 million Americans, is this the best we could come up with?
It is the decision of the owners to influence producers, editors, and others involved to paint with a brush to fit the objective, which is the bottom line. If sports is what the people want, then they get it, usually in large doses. Multi-media sports (or spectator sports) is just an escape from our own existence. It's like gambling, or drug addiction. It provides that buffer zone of rooting for something with other people that we've been told is good. People's fantasies also lead them to fixating on sports. It's simulated masculinity, in an age where there's a push to change us from men to robots. It's human nature to resist and fight that which is suppressing us. The sociologists and psychologists in areas of influence know this. Spectator sports provide an internal dose of what has been stripped away from us. We've lost the right to rebel and change our government, or even contemplate doing so through warfare if necessary, which it is not. However, regulation of thought itself is a far cry from any possible conception of freedom. Today the bulk of our nation's population doesn't know what's really going on with the fall of the American dollar and the plans for the transfer of American wealth to other countries. However, most can tell you who the top basketball or football players are. A lot of fans wish they were the stars, out there on the stage, the court, and the drag strip. Either you're "numero uno" in center stage or you're nothing. End of story, according to the culture of television. The message is "if you don't conform to whatever we decide is the norm then you are useless and inadequate".
What I never understood when I was in school was why my peers and friends would act naïve or ignorant in a "Wayne's World" or "Beavis and Butthead" kind of way.
What I've learned since then is that the numerous programs that are promoting themselves as 'entertainment' are actually demographically targeted to the lowest common denominator. This is especially true with Radio disc jockeys and talkshow hosts today. The reason our airwaves are saturated with mindless content centered on fart jokes, private parts, borderline racism, and general trash talk is because it is selling. In the meantime, large numbers of our children, young adults, and older audiences are mimicking what they see and hear because our minds are wired to do so, and because the current self-reinforcing 'norm' is selling this behavior as cool or 'chic.' When the conditioned is so intense that these forms of content are considered normal, anything else seems either bizarre or uninteresting to the average American with an attention span which is decreasing daily and induced to decrease through mountains of corporate pharmaceuticals urged on us by medical authority figures all over the media. Hypothetically, if
a producer on any network could get away with a feature story genuinely exposing government corruption at the highest levels, chances are the larger impact necessary for change to occur wouldn't be realized because the average viewer's brain has already been conditioned to seek out these various types of disinfotainment. We go back to sleep. If all of this isn't a conspiracy, then the word has no meaning whatever.
The media has created the picture of a "perfect society" that "could" exist if we would "only do things their way" (their interests/government interest). It tells us what happiness is and what it is not and the same for love, hate or anything else they can implant into our subconscious. We become slaves to the system through indoctrination given through network TV. Over time, the messages are becoming increasingly racist, violent, and dishonest. But the programming began decades ago and few have the eyes to see it for what it has become. We live in a world where populations give their minds away to the official version of events, where utopia is always just around the corner as long as big brother is riding shotgun. It's a world where Hollywood can make you believe anything, even that you are free. It's a world in which the prosecutor and the judge sit on the same side of the bench. The most obvious reason that our minds are being controlled on a massive psychological scale is that our culture is being deliberately conditioned to a self-incriminating TV, radio, and newspaper-generated paradigm. We are given the world reality through a screen, some ink, or radio waves. The truth is hiding in plain site. The indoctrination through these mediums warns us
that views other than those presented by them are unimportant and to be condemned. This Administration and media monopoly has a carefully prepared dehumanization program involving each layer of beurocracy and willing brownshirt collaborators among the brainwashed citizenry who pathetically believe they are doing their "patriotic" duty, for anyone that dissents from the official version of events. Of course, the collaborators never stop to think about the time when they will become the victims of this dictatorship; they are always assured it will always be the "other". Disagree with these domestic terrorists, the modern- day American equivalent of the hitler youth, and you become a thought-criminal straight out of 1984, Brave New World, all of it, much of which was predictive programming itself. When researching these topics, you will begin to understand that these agendas have existed for a very long time indeed, and that the world is far older than you were ever taught or realized.
Some people are wrong about 5% of the time. Some are wrong most of the time. I wish I was wrong all the time. A lot of people deal with these intense realities by asking me rhetorically "What's the solution, smart guy?" or "Well, is it better anywhere else?" but these, sadly, do not address the degree of humanity which has been stolen from us and future generations. Remember, it's the viewers, the consumers and all the other little votes called dollars that helped this oligarchic system lay its concrete foundation in our backyards. We must recognize
the truth about why the system is flawed and enslaving of us if we wish to change it for the better. The most important solution to fighting this type of brainwashing and mind control is to start with ourselves and our own awakening in the smaller things. In this case, it's brainwashing, but after awhile we break Outside The Box and begin venturing outside the system and into unknown terrain. Fighting with people and forcing them to understand 'our truth' is not a solution. If our free will created this nightmare, than only our free will can change it.
This is why the war to overcome human free will is so evil and insidious. The battle begins in the heart and mind of the beholder, and then extends outward from there, only to those open to the information.
If you choose to travel the road to the truth, then you must be prepared for the obstacles that await you. You may be condemned or criticized by your family, your friends, your lovers, or your co-workers, and many are. You will find that many people really do not want to know the truth, they feel threatened by it, and they will dislike you for telling it. A big part of this is their programming which began at birth and is doing exactly what it's designed to do. Another element is that you may be perceived by others subconsciously as posing a
threat to the status quo. It can be quite lonely, but you're going to have to be stronger than that. You must realize that there is a reality which exists outside of this controlled artificial system. Once you do wake up, it's as if a hypnotist came along and snapped his fingers. You wake up and say to yourself, "I can see it now. Why did it take me so long to wake up?" For some it can be a major shock. Like anything else, take this information and knowledge in stages. If it took a lifetime to mold your reality for you, then you know it may take longer
than a day to fully awaken. Remember, the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. The most important thing is to keep an open mind, to never stop dreaming, and to
keep your hopes alive. It's not easy, but nothing worthwhile ever is. - adapted from "Mass Mind Control Through Network Television" by Alex Ansary. Further Information at:
www.CuttingThroughTheMatrix.net and www.AlexAnsary.com
The headlines about Foley's pedophiliac behavior, which have earned him not a long trip to jail but a $60,000 per year taxpayer-sponsored pension, illustrate the greater issue of a leadership off its moorings and afflicted by the collective perversion of defiling our foundational equity and justice-for-all letter and spirit of what our nation long claimed to stand for, but no longer does if it ever did. Nearly everyone in the administration, Congress and courts, share the guilt of having by their actions destroyed Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address to "resolve....that this nation....shall have a new birth of freedom (in a) "government of the people, by the people, for the people (that) shall not perish from the earth." They have conspiratorially participated in the crimes of a nation that go against Lincoln's hope that the dead he spoke of hadn't "died in vain" on "the great battle-field" where he stood. They have also defiled what the Founders stood for and gave us in 1787 when 55 of them met in the Philadelphia State
House, where the Declaration of Independence was signed 11 years earlier, and framed an historic foundational document for the new federal republic they hoped would last into "remote futurity." Franklin openly and presciently warned us to keep our republic. Alan Watt at http://www.CuttingThroughTheMatrix.net has claimed on more than extensive and extremely well-documented evidence that Franklin was quite aware of the motives of those who would attempt to cynically use and subvert our democracy for the purposes of usurping our American
republic and thus our very freedom itself, and that this was intended to be within the context of a larger yet never declared design, engineered by those who could not and never would do so due to the nefarious anti-human character of their ends. Where are the leaders now with the kind of wisdom, foresight, character, courage and honor our Founders and Lincoln had?
A modern-day Diogenes would search in vain. We've come a long way in the last 220 years and since the time Lincoln spoke of a nation "conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal." Today democracy and freedom are somewhere between life support and the crematorium, and Ben Franklin would have said "I warned you".
The only speculation now is whether it's too late to save the republic. Since the outright theft of the 2000 U.S. Presidential Election, our "worthy experiment" has gone entirely awry because those with the power to nurture it spurned the chance. They sacrificed it on the alter of corrupt power corrupting absolutely. Even at its outset, the flaws in the republic were broad, but we managed to survive anyway and grow as a nation in spite of them. We had a remarkable foundational start, and it helped in no small measure that along the way we had enlightened periods like the late 19th century Progressive Movement and later the New and Fair Deals and Great Society, when our government actually did serve the needs
of our people. It didn't last. The modern-day "great transformation" south began in the early 1970s with the breakdown of the post-WW II Bretton Woods international economic order when the enormous debt from the Vietnam war forced Richard Nixon to close the gold window and make the dollar a fiat currency backed by nothing but the good faith of the issuing authority. "Trilaterialism" emerged then to counter what its influential members saw as a "crisis of democracy," meaning too much of it. It was founded by Chase Manhattan bank president David Rockeller (scion of the king of the original "robber barons"), Zbignew Brzezinski (Jimmy Carter's national security advisor) and had about 300 other "eminent private citizen" members of an elite international ruling class whose power is centered in the dominant transnational corporate interests aiming to rule the world and make it safe for unfettered capital at the expense of the genuine public interest. Free trade is a very good thing, and is a vital part of the free enterprise system which has brought us all great blessings, yet free trade unrestrained by sensible conscience or tyrannically regulated for dictatorial purposes is not free, but a voracious dangerous beast.
The period when capital began to be deregulated and the socio-economic trends cynically monikered "neoliberalism" emerged to counter and erode the social and economic legacy of the FDR through LBJ years. Republican President Dwight Eisenhower, a American military General of integrity and valor, again warned us publicly of the grave dangers inherent in what he accurately termed the "military-industrial complex" in the 1950's, and Ike was also wise enough to leave in place the New Deal policies which he knew were enlightened and good for our nation's overall health, wealth, prosperity and well-being. The Trilateralists had other ideas, however, and they only took a few years to begin reversing the great social gains begun under Franklin Roosevelt, which began to rapidly atrophy with the engineered election of Ronald Reagan in 1980. Despite the Hollywood b-actor-turned politician's phony proclamation
of a new "Morning In America", Reagan and his administration set about the dismantling and restructuring of our American government to be one of, for and by the privileged, to serve only the interests of capital, and to abuse the people who had been hoodwinked into electing the wolf in sheeps clothing. We still had a semblance of real elections then, but it didn't help. The entire process had already by that time been predicated on the substitution and triumph of media jargon and deception over all genuinely legitimate considerations.
Today, even the pretense of equitable elections based on rational debate has been lost as technology wedded to the corruption of power has destroyed the most fundamental elements
of our democratic society, rendering the American principles of "Responsibility" and "Values" constantly touted by the promoters of this agenda so much palaver dressed up in the garb of relics from another era. A free and fair election process is not the stock and trade of the current neocon Bush regime, which was proven twice over as we, regarded as sheep by these criminals, were led to believe through the narcotic of television and $300 rebates of our own tax monies that the fraudulent "incumbent" and a large number of his congressional cohorts were somehow actually our legitimately elected choices when they manifestly were not. The only way the neocons could be considered legitimate would be if by "the people", we meant those of extreme privilege and already accumulated and consolidated advantage who stood to gain the most by fraudulently installing themselves in office through elaborate fakery, the manipulation of Diebold black-box voting, and the wholesale distortion of our electoral process through redistricting, illegal voter supression, and other unamerican and anti-democratic processes ad nauseum. In 2006, all but the most credulous of the Republicans finally woke up, and a scant balance of sanity was restored through a resurgence by the Democrats, but only through extreme vigilance at the polls, where it was finally understood that these deceptions are most easily perpetrated.
One day, George W. Bush's inauguration on January 20, 2001 will be remembered as a day of infamy in the nation's history. It was also disturbingly reminiscent even then of the fall of Paris on June 14, 1940 to the nazi wehrmacht when the people of that city were assembled to watch the jack boots parade along the Champs-Elysees turning the "City of Light" to darkness and despair. So too, a shroud of gloom fell over our capitol and nation on our dark day for those who knew what would follow from the fall of our government and democracy to the invading neocons. They wasted no time, and as soon as the inaugural festivities ended they began a process of dismantling what remained of our democratic
freedoms in earnest. Before he could even find the West Wing, Bush immediately signed executive orders reversing the few more enlightened policies of his predecessor. It was a clear sign of what was coming. It has been an agenda of tyranny aided by a tsunami of socially destructive and authoritarian executive orders enabled by the legislative and
judicial acquiescence to a shameless, corrupted front-man stooge for a cabal of neocon bandits led by Cheney in the role of Vice-President. This alliance has jeopardized our republic to the point where it now hangs by a thread that could give way on any pretext, and indeed the closer the neocon machine comes to their deservedly ignoble end, the more fearful reports of shootings, disasters and suchlike "events" appear in our conveniently deregulated media, because that's all they have left. Like previous
"master race" regimes, their morality and agenda are corrupted by a Machivellian world vision and delusions of superiority that they have a God-given moral authority
to rule the world with an unchallenged and closed fist.
To these amoral sociopaths, democracy, freedom and the rule of law are anathema, as such principles stand in the way of their quest for global dominance and the subjugation of everyone through the barrel of a gun abroad, and the so-called Department of "Homeland" Security at domestically which is nothing more than a rehash of hitler's gestapo state police and his schutzstaffel praetorian guard, or "Protective Squadron" known as the "SS", which had administrative control over the entire nazi "homeland security" operation. Both these agencies became symbols of terror as justice under them was cruel, unconstitutional, arbitrary, capricious and entirely lacking in due process or any
legitimate authority. These methods have now become standard practice under the Cheney/Bush neocon "rule", where anyone for any reason can now be seized without cause, designated an "enemy combatant", "renditioned" to a torture-prison hellhole in an undisclosed corner of the earth with no chance to be free again or any chance of help. In the view of the CIA, the law of our once-free land now allows the state to do openly what it's been secretly doing all along - make everyone it targets "ghost prisoners" taken on "ghost planes" to be held in secret "ghost prisons",subject to the justice of a military tribunal with no competent defense or right of appeal. If no simulation of cause can be fraudulently manufactured, illegal domestic terrorist gangs and cabals are allowed to harass and interfere with private individuals in their
own homes and neighborhoods in despicable contravention of all American law and right. There is no clearer definition of tyranny than than this complete disregard
for our American law, rights, and freedoms.
Bush showed his dark sadistic attitude and behavior early on, progressing from a young boy blowing up frogs for "sport" with firecrackers, to now invading countries with media-hyped "shock and awe" "campaigns". Along the way, as governor of Texas he shamelessly mocked a condemned and desperate woman's pleas for help at the eleventh hour before she was executed, refusing to show any mercy, or even human decency in an interview he gave at the time, yet this man and his followers set
themselves up as having "Christian Values". Bush takes "credit" for having presided over more executions as Texas governor than any other governor in the nation
since capital punishment was reinstated by the Supreme Court in 1976. Even his own Texas aides said of him that Bush is a man who enjoys killing. The proper word
for such behaviour is psychopathy.
He enjoyed inflicting pain in his college days as well, as evidenced by a 1967 so-called fraternity initiation rite he was involved in that was exposed by the Yale Daily News and reported in the New York Times at the time. It involved a barbaric "hazing" procedure used by Delta Epsilon Kappa (DKE) fraternity when Bush was a Yale senior and fraternity president. New members then had to undergo painful hours of being kicked and beaten with wooden paddles lasting into the early morning hours leading up to the sadistic climax of being burned on their posteriors with a hot branding iron in the shape of the letter Delta. It was enough to cause second degree burns and leave a
permanent scar on the skin area as well as in the memories of those initiates going through it. When word got out about the practice, DKE fraternity was censured and
fined $1,000, and the practice was banned by the university. People of conscience who believe in the letter and spirit of the law would have blanched at this kind of
information and more that was suppressed when George Bush was a presidential candidate in 2000. It was no commonplace history of a young man sowing his wild oats or going through his rites of passage. This is a man whom former Texas Governor Ann Richards once aptly described as "someone born on third base (thinking) he hit a triple." It also reveals a man who thinks he has a right to use and abuse anyone for his own amusement or self-interest. Had the voters known any of this, at the least it would have given them pause about whether this was the kind of man they wanted as chief executive, but the deregulated, bought and paid for media utterly failed to do their job, preferring to enable Cheney and Bush rather than risk losing "access" to these criminals. As things turned out, it didn't matter who was actually
elected, as five arrogant U.S. Supreme Court justices previously installed for just bsuch purpose "decided" that their own votes counted more than all of ours. They wanted a Republican president, and so deprived Albert Gore of the office he legitimately won. The Supreme Court annulment of our most fundamental American
democratic right to vote and to have our votes fairly counted, without which there can be no democracy, put America directly on a road to ruin, and this has been
by the design of interests who want America to be ruined.
Investigative reporting proved how corrupt the electoral process was in 2000 due to the mass-disenfranchisement of millions of eligible voters. It got worse in 2004, slightly better in 2006, and may very well be off the charts in 2008 unless very serious reforms insuring a free, fair, and honest vote is enacted immediately. Democrats will be hard-pressed to do it now that electronic voting machines run by large corporations control over 80% of the total vote. But we now know full well that these machines can and have been easily manipulated in secret, assuring that the companies controlling them get enough of the candidates they favor elected, ending any pretense that there can ever again be a free and fair election with these machines or these companies ever in charge of our American voting processes, and this is yet another reason why generally half of the still-enfranchised public never bothers to show up at the polls. They believe it's all a fraud anyway, and to the extent that we
do not restore free, fair, open and honest elections, they are absolutely correct. Why bother to vote if your choice goes by fraud to a candidate whom you did not vote for, or if your vote is never counted, or even if it is counted doesn't effectively matter anyway, because the only choice is what Ralph Nader has accurately called "the evil of two lessers."? Our system has become a de facto one-party state. Author and social critic Gore Vidal calls it the "Property Party" with two right wings: Republicans and Democrats together forming a plutocracy. Others call it fascism, but by any definition, it's the tyranny of capital enforced by storm trooper brutality and military tribunal justice spelling the end for our democratic republic, unless we impeach Chyeney and Bush immediately and demand that our government return to the processes that have served us in the past, and institute only those innovations which genuinely support our genuine American principles of liberty, freedom,
privacy, fairness, equality, opportunity, justice, equity, and security, not merely in name, but in actual practice and for all Americans. This is a tall order, merely because all of this has been deliberately stolen from us. It is our task to take back our nation for ourselves, for our descendants, and for the future of humanity.
We see the results of our loss of liberty and privacy today in the kinds of people serving in high office, and the unmitigated harm their malice, greed and lust for power cause. They shamelessly used 9/11 as a launching platform to go to war in order to assert control, and to exploit for political and economic gain, and to control oil resources which were deliberately made necessary through the supression of the development of hundreds of available sources of clean and free independent American energy alternatives.
Cheney and Bush invented lies in order to justify a mission of madness, planned years earlier, starting in the Middle East and Central Asia, and continuing until its sick unamerican goal of "full spectrum dominance" is achieved over all land, sea, air, outer space and information. Congress is spending billions of our tax dollars developing these horrors. If it can be done, we'll all be forced to live by the rules it makes for an "integrated world economy" which it hopes to establish in order to serve the interests of capital devoid of all social conscience or responsibility, which regards human beings as "production inputs" to extract value from and then be discarded. Would anyone
with a shred of human decency or real understanding of this agenda accept it, especially if they realized that they themselves must necessarily fall prey to it eventually?
Israel has the power and influence of a giant. We fund and arm it lavishly and support it's defense, as we should. Yet, for nearly sixty years, Israel has been warred upon and has warred with it's neighbors. Israel has every right to exist, and to co-exist peacefully with it's neighbors, as do all people, but neither the U.S., nor any other nation
has any right to sumarrily declare empire and to thereby justify endless war that destabilizes and ruins everyones genuine peace, opportunity, privacy, and security.
War is an unimaginative, non-creative, destructive, morally reprehensible and criminally false justification to continue to amass illegitimate and fundamentally corrupt profits, always by force and always at the greatest expense of some "other" group. It is not ever right, except in defense of life itself, but to remorselessly pit peoples and nations against each other, and to further profit from the ensuing bloodshed is the depth of inhumanity, cruelty, and amoral madness. As human beings we most certainly can and we absolutely must do better than this for ourselves, for our children, for our nations, and for our future.
No other US administration in history can match the appalling six year record of the Bush neocons. The harm they've done and the price free people are paying for it is incalculable. They have brazenly killed nearly 500,000 human beings under the guise of "bringing" their survivors the "benefits" of "western civilization," and they have doomed millions more to misery, suffering and death through unconscionable and inhuman engineering of war, disease, famine, pestilence, and all the horrors generated through trillions of dollars of
technological equipment, when a fraction of this money, effort, and energy could bring peace, stability, freedom, understanding, hope and progress to those who freely choose those things should they so desire them without undue influence, inducement, or coersion. Freely means genuine freedom, a word which seems to have lost all respect among those who most loudly and militarily purport to support it. Cheney and Bush have trashed sacred constitutional and international laws and norms, institutionalized the use of mass-imprisonment, torture and dehumanizing and degrading barbaric acts to force their illegal will on Americans and on others, they have a ready set of new targets in their queue, and they have created a proto-fascist national "security" police state at home, which is not security but rather comprises the most insidious form of mind control and coercive totalitarian unamerican nazi-style dictatorship, tolerating no dissent nor affording any protection of our sacred American and International Constitutional Rights of Habeas Corpus and of Due Process, which have now effectively been annulled. The illegitimate, unauthorized and unamerican police state uses numerous illegal, immoral, anti-human and inexcusable overt and covert secret technologies to pry, spy, mind-control and entirely invade human individual privacy, freedom, and Liberty. The United States does not, cannot and will not ever stand for such unregulated activities, and most especially on our own American soil against our own American private individuals, whether from land, sea, air, or space. Such activities are diametrically opposed and anathema to every principle of every American of any conscience or character whatever, and must never be permitted under any circumstances. The use of these technological methods violates every principle of American and International law, and every principle of human right.
People of conscience demanding justice and accountability are outraged that officials responsible for this agenda may never have to answer for their crimes in a court of law. But
that doesn't mean they've gone unnoticed or unaddressed. The Bush administration has now become the first one in US history to be charged with war crimes by the International Committee of the Red Cross and the only other one the ICRC ever charged besides nazi Germany. Those named culpable are George Bush, Richard Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, top military commanders and many members of our own American Congress. Their crimes match the worst of those in the hitler regime put in the Nuremberg Tribunal dock to stand trial. The ones found guilty there of the "supreme international crime" of illegal aggression were hanged, while others of lesser culpability were sentenced to appropriate prison terms for
lengths of time commensurate with their crimes. In a world not ruled by victor's justice, Cheney, Bush and their conspiratorial allies would be held just as accountable and made to face the exact same standard of judgment at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague, as the worst of the nazi criminals did at Nuremberg.
The threat of that happening after he leaves office may be why it's been reported George Bush bought a 98,842 acre farm in Paraguay to go along with the 173,000 acres his father already owns there. Both properties border Bolivia and Brazil and comprise in total an astonishing 2.7% of the whole country. Are they considering buying a controlling interest in
it? It's not known what the Bush family has in mind there, but it is known that Paraguay has no laws criminalizing money-laundering or anti-terrorism or terrorist financing, even though it does have an extradition treaty with the US if it will ever dare to find the will to use it against the well-deserving Cheney and Bushes. Bush may have gotten advice to seek a safe haven because he and his cohorts have very much to answer for to the US public and to the world community, including having financed their despicable Orwellian agenda on the back of a growing mountain of over 9 trillion dollars of unrepayable debt which has caused some analysts to believe they've helped to bankrupt our beloved American nation, and that thus an eventual fiscal calamity is unavoidable, the end result being what most people hold unthinkable - that the richest, freest, and at one time
most repected and revered of all nations may eventually default on its sovereign debt, and that entitlements which millions are counting on and think are safe, and all other financial obligations will be abrogated, because either there won't be enough resources left to pay them or we'll just have near-worthless fiat currency which no one any
longer wants. This is the specter of a potential future "elephant in the room" calamity which very few in high places will even admit is there. Nor is there much talk that
this was all engineered by successive administrations, a complicit Congress and a friendly private for-profit Federal Reserve (owned and controlled by the largest banks and by Wall Street giants), always willing to print up all the ready cash needed to keep the party going.
As long as they can get away with it, they will keep operating this way (as they are doing now), because once it stops the "good times" are over, and so is the freewheeling neocon imperialistic death machine. While it lasts though, the self-admiring "high-rollers" are benefitting directly at the American public's expense from a dollar-financed Ponzi
scheme using the world's dominant reserve currency debt to advance the interests of capital, and to build a global US empire to secure it. The ugly scheme has gone on unchecked for decades, it accelerated during the Reagan years and went into overdrive under the Bush neocons and their agenda of endless imperial wars for world dominance which need lots of cash and mountains of debt to create it. Today we have their legacy, and we're governed recklessly by an authoritarian band of amoral marauders with delusions of grandeur for
their sick conception of a brave "new world order" which threatens not only our genuine American heritage, but all of humanity as well. It's a delusional vision of corporatism enforced with unchallengeable military might, and made possible by the magic of printing press debt monetization which other central banks have to go along with. They haven't much choice as they're tied to the majority of America's industrial base which now operates in their countries, but more importantly, they're entrapped in a US-controlled dollarized world where over half their foreign reserves collectively are now in the US currency, China alone holding $1 trillion of them. All the players need to keep the scheme going like a worldwide fiscal game of musical chairs being played on the edge of a cliff. They can't let the music stop even though they know one day it will, and then they'll face the same fate as the Mother Goose character Humpty Dumpty. Herb Stein, Richard Nixon's chief economic advisor, knew all about the nursery rhyme symbolism. He explained it once when he said: "Things that can't go on forever, don't." He omitted the part about what happens next, but he understood the penalty for excess is high, painful, inevitable and at that point there's nothing
"All the king's horses and all the king's men" can do about it.
This is the legacy of a generation of greed capped by the never-elected Cheney Bush neocon coup-d'etat which will go down in history as a blight on humanity, the likes of which may end up exceeding anything preceding it anywhere - and that is if we survive to reflect on it. Contrast this to an earlier Age of Enlightenment which helped inspire our liberating revolutionary spirit, creating the grand experiment of a democracy never before tried outside of an imperfect earlier version for a few decades in ancient Athens. Theirs ended as ours seems to be now, and many share the blame besides this rogue regime, Congress and Courts. As much fault lies with the dominant interests in corporate boardrooms, without whose complicity none of this would be tolerated, the Zionists and Christian fundamentalists with enormous influence on policy which is by our constitution mandated to be independent of all religious influence, and those in academia and most especially in the major media who sold their souls pledging allegiance to a criminal enterprise posing as a legitimate government. They're all conspiratorially allied in this mission of madness for the benefits they get at the expense of the American public, and of many all over the world, and of the ultimate price that one day will have to be paid for their transgressions. Some blame, but not nearly as much, since they have been intentionally deceived for so long, must go to the many millions of ordinary people so pre-occupied in our daily lives that they somehow allowed themselves to take the word of a sadist and inveterate liar making empty promises to combat terror
threats that were deliberately cooked up, as with the millions of Jihadist textbooks funded by $51 million dollars of our tax monies, or which never existed, all while claiming to care about the democratic social equity and justice-for-all principles which Cherney, Bush, our Congress, courts and other dominant interests don't give a tinkers damn about, although now that people may be holding them accountable, they have suddenly found some justification to actually begin once again to uphold our American and international laws.
How often the public falls for this scam, and how easy it is for those in power to deceive us any time they want to invent a new threat to scare us into going along with whatever scheme they have in mind all while fleecing us in the process without our ever being the wiser. The next "big crisis" is "Global Warming". Again, Greenhouse Gasses are a threat, and pollution is a very serious problem, but HAARP technologies are being used to artificially warm the atmosphere in service to this hoax and others. If the psychopathocracy would simply desist from their
Machivellian routines, the earth and its inhabitants could get along very well without them, but then they would have to change, and history show that they do not unless it is either in their perceived self-interest to do so, or if they are forced to change. Like those they rape and plunder, we, too, are victims - of our own indifference that likely won't change unless our loss becomes so great that everyone takes notice, but by then it may easily be too late. We the people are letting the psychopathocracy get away with their destructive scheme of
endless imperial wars, income redistributionist tax cuts for the rich and corporate giants, the erosion of essential social services and the repressive USA Patriot Act and others which
"legalize" all intrusions into our lives and lead to even more abuses, such as the Military Commissions Act which effectively annuls the Constitution, criminalizes dissent and makes
us all "enemy combatants" with no legal rights left to defend ourselves, including the bedrock of habeas and due process. How willing so many have been to go along. The crime of the nation is the shame of a failed state no longer seen abroad as a beacon and symbol of hope and freedom. We are now an out-of-control dystopian rogue enterprise run by a craven unelected leadership fighting a war of terror against humanity, that's taking all of us on a road to hell, using the Bible as a business plan. Is there still time to stop this criminal insanity and save our American republic? We'll never know unless we finally realize the enormity of the threat and actually fight back in our own self-defense. You can make a difference, but only if you take peaceful and positive action. It is up to you to save your nation. Demand that your representatives act in your interest now. - adapted from an article by Steven Lendman
Russia to respond to threats from US system: military
Published: Monday May 7, 2007
Russia will respond to any threat from the US missile defence system to be deployed in central Europe, the Russian army's chief of staff said on Monday.
"If we see that these installations, which could be set up in Europe, represent a threat, then we will definitely plan actions against them," Yury Baluyevsky told reporters in Moscow, Interfax news agency reported.
Russia will take "corresponding measures" if the US missiles and radar are deployed in Poland and Czech Republic as planned, Baluyevsky was quoted as saying, without giving further details.
Moscow, which has been increasingly vocal in its public criticism of US policy in recent weeks, says the shield poses a strategic threat by undermining its own missile deterrence capabilities.
Washington says the anti-missile shield, which would not be operational before 2012, is designed to shoot down ballistic missiles that could in the future be fired by Iran or other "rogue states."
Also Monday, the head of Russia's strategic missile forces, Nikolai Solovtsov, threatened an "adequate response" against the US defence system, Interfax said.
"If the US does take the decision... then the Strategic Rocket Forces can take adequate measures to offset the threat that could arise for the Russian Federation," Solovtsov was quoted as saying.
Cold War Redux
Hey Butt-Checks, did ya think of Maybe useing a LINK??
Anon long post....
Do you honestly think anyone is going to read a post that long!!!
How about a synopsis of the story and a link!!!
That was outright spam!!
Hey anonymous...I like Steve Lendman too...did you know he has his own radio show now?
The Steve Lendman News & Information Hour
It is an hour of fact-filled information on vital world and national issues with occasional guests as able and listener call-ins each Saturday at noon US Central Time / 10 AM Pacific at
The Micro Effect.com
http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/
wow
and in bold too
'pressive
-conbo
Now for somthing Completely Different!!
Here's Sammy!! Yea!!
This what a Link is
Great pic of Huey on the mickey page, bridge..
http://www.mickeyz.net/images/Shames_002727_Huey_WEB_LG.jpg
Huey P. Newton listening to Bob Dylan
I got your email Toni...I will work on it tonight...Too bad I lost contact with the person who found my birth mother & 1/2 sister...but I'll try to assist ... :)
toniD: "That was outright spam!!"
Can't I just have eggs without the spam?
Toni, have you ever signed up for IPS news service? Chomsky likes it..it costs money though...just wondering if anyone's ever used it here...
Documents Linked to Cuban Exile Luis Posada Carriles Highlighted Targets for Terrorism Including Cuban Airliner Downed in 1976
Thanks Shell.
I was wondering if she might ne in the phone book. I tried on line but..
I appreciate the help. Figured since she was in CA and a quasi celeb!!
750 posts
hahaha!
did anyone see Bill Mahr on Charlie Rose today? that was a mistake Charlie won't likely be making again anytime soon. He went irrational and got petty, even asked Maher how good his health was. Low blow.
Maher just let it bounce all of and kicked his ass!!! Hahahaha.
Charlie Rose was whining about the blogs and how anything you say on TV ends up on You.tube 15 minutes later.
hahahaha! what a whiny beyotch.
Is Charlie Rose aware that he is being recorded for a moving picture box when he sits behind his desk?
-conbo
wah wah wah the bloggers see all and hear all and then mock me on their blogs! wah wah wah
it was great
I think afterwards Charlie Rose went into his little dressing room and cried and cried into his truffles.
-conbo
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/51544/
NEW THREAD
Glad you are going to be in the air but shame on air america for ditching you!
I only hop this DC affiliate will carry you.
ellen
What time on Sundays? I have to say, the radio hasn't been the same without ya Sam. Can't wait for the 20th.
Thank goodness, Sam's back soon! I can only listen to my FUBAR book-on-CD pretending it's Sam on the radio so many times.
Still calling AAR daily demamding your full return to the weekly lineup. The fight wages on .....
Sam,
The guy in your old Mon-Fri slot sucks [ this is not me kissing up, he REALLY does suck].
Can't we harrangue someone in order to get you back on the air at your old time slot ?
Jb
I miss you sam, can't wait until the 20th. Sam the democrats need you, you and randy educated the public, thanks for your help in opening our eyes.
Dear Sam miss you every week day at nine am.
when will you do your special on Comedy Centrazl?
Dear Sam,
Miss you a lot.
When will your special be on comedy Central?
okay Sammy Baby... we now the date now, but how's about giving us the time you'll be airing...
We love ya, man and need to know WHEN to listen!!
I know someone who will be recording the show... and they have been tinkering with the idea of letting the rest of us listen to his recordings...
Any comment on being a part of the digital underground of AAR shows where us poor college students can listen without having to fork over the cash for an AAR premium account?
sam,
missing your show more than words can say. you were doing an OUTSTANDING JOB> such a talent are you and your humor, your guests and your sane rants and raves.
i met m. green at a media bkfst and gave him an earful of why YOU mattered. oh well
how can we help to get you more time on any air? Im afraid sundays wont be enough.
oh how i dream of you replacing imus.
wishing you and your family all the very best
jane jacobs
What time?
Waiting in Tenn.
I'm seriously missing the show. Looking forward to the return....
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