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Top 10 CENSORED News Stories of the 90's

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WhiteNoise
JUST SO NOBODY CAN SAY... I DIDN'T KNOW !

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The media are awash with talking heads bloviating about the top stories of the last decade. The wired-in society. The growth of organic food. The new frugality. This is the ritual that reveals their true function in the culture: pacification. It's their way of signaling the masses that Bigger Thinkers are looking after things, so go back to your Wii or Survivor or Facebook reveries.

The amazing thing is how little is ever mentioned about the stories that really mattered, those that affected the very nature of our society, its institutions, and the relation of the people to their state and society. Those stories paint a picture of danger, of a people who have lost control of their government and the corporations that own it. But you'll hear nary a word about such difficult truths from any storyteller in the conventional media.

So here, in no particular order, are my Top Ten Stories of the Naughties, the ones that really matter.


1) Iraq was all premised on lies, yet we're still there. Saddam Hussein wasn't pursuing Weapons of Mass Destruction. He wasn't involved in 9/11. He wasn't engaged with Al Qaeda. We know all these things. And we know they were false at the time they were proffered. Yet, there we are, with no intent to leave, our very presence spitting in the face of International Law and the international community we so unctuously pretend to respect. [To read a newspaper editorial showing the blatant lies of top US leaders used to promote war in Iraq, http://www.wanttoknow.info/disappearededitorial ]

2) The fact that 2/3 of all economic growth went to top 1%. John Kennedy's social contract had a rising tide lifting all boats. But over the last decade 2/3 of all economic growth has gone to the top 1% of income earners. Meanwhile the middle class has suffered a $13 trillion writedown in wealth as a result of the housing collapse. The banking bailout and the health care "reform" debate showed as never before the extent to which corporations have captured government and use it to redirect national wealth to themselves and their owners. [For revealing media reports on startling income inequality, http://www.wanttoknow.info/incomeinequalitynewsarticles ]

3) The Global War on Terror [GWOT]. Or more specifically, the ease with which the "GWOT" has replaced the Cold War as the justification for the ever-increasing militarization of society. What happened to the post-Cold War "Peace Dividend"? The U.S. continues to spend more on the military than all the rest of the world combined. http://www.wanttoknow.info/usmilitaryspending It continues to maintain over 700 military bases around the world. And it continues to manufacture excuses for foreign interventions whenever weapons makers and military logistics companies need more profits — which is forever. [For a top U.S. general's highly revealing two-page essay exposing the roots of war, http://www.wanttoknow.info/warcoverup ]

4) Bush knew of 9/11 long before it actually happened. Three years before Bush took office, the neo-cons' Project For a New American Century called for a "new Pearl Harbor" to galvanize the nation into a war to seize Middle East oil. http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11timeline60pg#pnac And even before the event itself, Bush-as-president was warned dozens of times of the imminent attack, the most notorious being the August 6, 2001 Presidential Daily Briefing titled, "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S." http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11timeline60pg#briefing Amazingly nothing was done to prevent the attack. But even less is it advertised that Bush knew. [For more powerful information on this, click here to read the two-page summary of major media reports with links raising serious questions about 9/11 http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11cover-up ]
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14 comments // Top 10 CENSORED News Stories of the 90's

  • calm_incense
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      calm_incense  

    • 1. If all of these were censored, how come I already knew about all of them?

      2. Seems like these have more to do with the 00's than the 90's...

    • 3 years ago
  • WhiteNoise
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      WhiteNoise  

    • Dear Samtheshit,

      Don’t take it personal then, you just accidentally happened to embody everything I’ve grown to despise. I felt oblige to defend the post while in a bad mood, now piss off ;)

    • 3 years ago
  • Conniepae
  • samthesixth
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    • WhiteNoise:

      I never attacked your post. In fact I agreed with the majority of it and stated so. I don't know what you despise, but I doubt very seriously I represent that. In no way was I defending Bush's actions. In fact I have roundly condemned them. No difference of opinion tolerated? How progressive of you!

      signing off,

      samthesick er samtheshit er whatever is you think I am

    • 3 years ago
  • samthesixth
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    • Wow! All that vitriol for little old me. I am flattered. You read way too much into my comments, but that is your right. I wont argue with your assessment of me. Instead, I will let your simulacra speak to the world. Again I enjoyed the read and have thought much about what you wrote.

    • 3 years ago
  • WhiteNoise
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    • Dear samthesick,

      First, I’m through arguing facts with America. The intellectual pabulum its been fed for way too long renders logic & reason pretty much obsolete & furthermore, all one has to do is blown whatever thought-fart out of one’s ass & presto… A new reality is magically born & Mindfuck Inc.makes dam sure we henceforth all have to deal with it, so what’s da fuckin’ use hey ;)

      But, I’ll go down swinging anyway for sure…

      1 ) The 1000 lies wrong reason to rationalize pillage & murder…

      I imagine the 1,366,350 Iraqis Slaughtered In US War And Occupation Of Iraq, along with the 4,691 U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In U.S. War And Occupation Of Iraq & the 1,572 International Occupation Force Troops Slaughtered In Afghanistan would probably disagree but they’re gone, so who gives a flying fuck hey ! http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq http://icasualties.org/Iraq/index.aspx http://icasualties.org/Iraq/index.aspx
      2) The neo-cons & 9-11…

      If at this point & time you still actually believe the Bush/Cheney 9-11 narrative & the ‘official’ 9-11 report WTF can I say. Console yourself in knowing that all those people here (http://patriotsquestion911.com/) are stupid fuckin’ ignorant peasants pigs & assholes and feel great & proud that your own amazing credentials trumps all of theirs into shame ;)

      3) The media Florida recount…

      Again them pesky facts & numbers ;) This is a personal favorite for it is the one that got me starting on my somewhat political activism. I discovered Greg Palast trough Kristina Borjesson’s book ”Into The Buzzsaw” and it infuriated me that them racist petro-creationists where acting like blacks where still but niggers. Thus the clip… Lynching by Laptop 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCR6IdTQTeE

      So believe WTF you want for you’ve got what’s left of your head & brain so up Glen Beck’s & friends arse that I’m afraid that browny hue & aura you so proudly strut around is definitively here to stay as your main attribute.

      4) That elusive free market…

      Our sanctimonious supreme court is about to make it all come to past; so relax, you’re almost there ;)

      CORPORATIONS WITH MORE RIGHTS THAN PEOPLE ?
      http://current.com/items/91661478_corporations-with-more-rights-than-people.htm

      I leave you with my lasts posts to chew on, hoping that they will straighten you up toward a fact based reality but don’t count on it ;)

      DUMB ALL OVER
      http://current.com/items/91761533_dumb-all-over.htm

      BIG HAT, NO CATTLE
      http://current.com/items/91739901_big-hat-no-cattle.htm

      Now remind me to ignore you some other time ;)

    • 3 years ago
  • conclusius
  • Nephwrack
  • trut
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      trut  

    • Sammy, are you forgetting all the times Bush/Cheney lied about wmds? If Bush/Cheney had talked about these "1000 suspensions of the ceasefire" there would have been no invasion and occupation.

    • 3 years ago
  • samthesixth
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    • trut:

      Perhaps you are correct. But, I am not so sure given that the Clinton-Gore administration had called for Saddam's removal by force if necessary. It would seem as though it was a bipartisan fiasco.

    • 3 years ago
  • samthesixth
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    • An interesting post that will cause much thought. While I agree with much of what you say, here is some disagreement.

      1. The Bush administration gave the wrong reason for restarting the war with Iraq. The reason he should have given was Iraq violated the cease fire agreement that suspended hostilities in the first Gulf War over 1000 times.

      4. The fact that the neo-cons had an agenda does not mean Bush knew ahead of time on the specifics of 9/11.

      6. Several media organization (to include the washington post and NYT) did their own recount after the Supreme Court stopped the count. They overwhelmingly found that Gore would not have won a recount (It's Florida not Minnesota).

      8. I would argue we don't have a free market system. We have a quasi capitalist quasi socialist system. I don't think you can separate the two, isolate one side, and find fault with it.

    • 3 years ago
  • WhiteNoise
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    • Dear Frog,

      Do you notice that the watter is getting hotter?

      Do you notice that there is steam rising from the water?

      Do you notice that there are bubbles forming around you?

      I know that the water started off nice and cool . . .

      And then it got pleasantly warm . . .

      And then it wasn't really so bad . . .

      I know that you're getting sleepier and sleepier, and that the warmth and gentle rocking motion of the bubbles are making you dream happy dreams . . .

      BUT YOU BETTER WAKE UP AND DO SOMETHING RIGHT NOW OR YOU'LL BE BOILED ALIVE AND EATEN BY SOME BIG FAT GLUTTON!

      This has been a public service announcement from Americans Against Fascism.

      BIG MEDIA BROKEN BEYOND REPAIR ?
      http://current.com/items/91609325_big-media-broken-beyond-repair.htm

      "A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself": Joseph Pulitzer

    • 3 years ago
  • WhiteNoise
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    • 9) The collapse of the media. We once imagined it would guard the hen house. Yet that was an anomaly, a freak event around Vietnam and Watergate when it slipped its leash. Since then, sixty independent media outlets have consolidated into five, all retailing the ideology of the powerful, the perpetrators, laundering their lies, covering up the truth, and harassing the truth tellers. In every story mentioned above, the mainstream media have worked to ensure that the people didn't know the truth about the forfeiture of their government, their wealth, their security, and their rights. http://www.insightcourse.net/lessons/02b_media_deception [For concise summaries of 20 award-winning journalists revealing how vitally important news stories are shut down by corporate media ownership, http://www.wanttoknow.info/mediacover-up ]

      10) The meaninglessness of elections. This is the most embittering revelation of all. Despite the greatest electoral majority since Johnson crushed Goldwater in '64, Barrack Obama has betrayed everything he ran on. In nearly every case where he had the opportunity to confront power — in financial bailouts, financial regulation, health care, wars and military spending, utilities and global warming, national surveillance — Obama has sided with the rich and powerful against the interests of the American people. He has probably engendered more cynicism, more disaffection with government than any president since Richard Nixon. It will deal a staggering blow to the hopes of mobilizing masses of people again for a real takeback of government. And he's not even one year into it. [To understand why this has happened and what you can do to make a difference, http://www.wanttoknow.info/brighterfuture ]

      History paints decades with broad brushes – the Roaring Twenties, The Depression, World War II. Historians will look back on the Naughts as the time when Americans Lost Their Country. It was the decade when all the institutions that they believed would protect them – the media, the courts, Congress, the market, a messianic new president – in fact betrayed them. It will forever more be a different country.

      Robert Freeman writes on history, economics, and education. Email to: robertfreeman10@yahoo.com.

    • 3 years ago
  • WhiteNoise
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    • 5) The surrender of civil liberties. Despite the Fourth Amendment supposedly protecting us against unreasonable searches and seizures, the government can now read your email and listen to your phone calls without any probable cause. The Obama administration has gone to court to prevent the re-institution of Habeas Corpus, suspended during the Bush administration. We are much less free, much less protected from brutalization by our own government than we were just ten years ago. [For key major media articles revealing major erosion of privacy, http://www.wanttoknow.info/privacynewsarticles ]

      6) The Supreme Court hijacking the 2000 presidential election. This isn't even a historical controversy anymore. Al Gore won the national popular vote by 570,000. And we now know he would have won the Florida vote as well if the vote counting had not been stopped by the Supreme Court. This was literally a right wing judicial coup d' etat, so it's understandable that it's never mentioned in the "right" kind of circles. [For more critical information on this, read a BBC reporter's story available here http://www.wanttoknow.info/massmedia#palast ]

      7) The Neo-Feudalization of the American economy. The top 1% of wealth holders own 41% of all the assets in the country while the bottom 40% own absolutely nothing. Meanwhile, workers are saddled with $12 trillion of national debt, an effective indentured servitude that will bind them to their corporate masters for the rest of their lives. This is the working definition of feudalism, where the rich own everything and everybody else has nothing but their proffered labor and their obligations to their masters. The Hapsburgs, the Tudors, and the Bourbons would be jealous. [For intriguing major media articles on powerful secret societies intent on keeping the rich in power, http://www.wanttoknow.info/secretsocietiesnewsarticles ]

      8) The failure of "the free market" to sustain prosperity. The "free market" has long been an ideological dodge used to resist real government regulation of the economy. Still, the ideal was supposed to deliver prosperity in a stable, sustainable matter. Now we have the greatest global economic collapse since the Great Depression, with the government transferring $11 trillion to the banks to cover their sociopathically greedy bets that went bust. http://www.wanttoknow.info/a-bailout-trillions All in the name of deregulation, with future regulation vigorously resisted. Is this a deranged country or what? [For amazing media articles showing blatant greed, secrecy, and manipulation by top banks and bankers, http://www.wanttoknow.info/bankbailoutnewsarticles ]

    • 3 years ago

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