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Wi-Fi candidates fueled by unlimited corpo-supremacists funds (Thanks Supreme Court) will spin the 2010 US election into a brand new realm of deceit, fraud & rape of our constitution and democracy.
More than ever...
"We are watching a poorly staged rendition of Wag the Dog , interpreted for the morbidly stupid and performed by the criminally insane." - Jules Carlysle
& ever so sadly...
"It's here that the American dream decided it liked the taste of the vomit it was chocking on. Just rolled over on its back and screamed for more drugs. it didn't die." - Warren Ellis
BACKSTORY
2010 ELECTION BOUGHT & SOLD
http://current.com/news/91280296_2010-election-just-been-bought.htmWi-Fi candidates fueled by unlimited corpo-supremacists funds (Thanks Supreme Court)... more
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1950-ongoing : WORLDWIDE.
George Orwell's grim novel of totalitarianism, 1984, and his satirical political novel, Animal Farm, describe all too well the mechanisms of oppression and distortion of the truth by the state and the realities of political power. Orwell was opposed to totalitarianism in all its forms, whether Stalinist, fascist or pseudo-democratic. Ironically, Orwell had unknowingly fallen into the clutches of the very propagandists and distorters of truth he vilified and satirized. His British publisher, Fredric Warburg, was secretly working for the CIA. Warburg would later become notorious for publishing and distributing a CIA propaganda magazine, Encounter, for one of the CIA's countless front organizations, the ironically named Congress for Cultural Freedom.
Following Orwell's death in 1950, Warburg persuades his widow to unwittingly sell the movie rights to 1984 and Animal Farm to the CIA's Office of Policy Coordination (OPC), a creation of Rockefeller cousin, Hitler Project kingpin and Nazi shyster cum CIA head, Allen Dulles. According to its secret charter, OPC's activities on behalf of the "free" world include propaganda, economic warfare, sabotage, demolition and subversion. Two of the CIA's Psychological Warfare Workshop staff obtain the screen rights to Orwell's novels. The head of the operation is none other than CIA operative Howard Hunt, who will later become infamous as a member of the Watergate gang of criminals. Hunt selects Louis De Rochemont to be the producer of the animated Animal Farm at Paramount. De Rochemont has considerable experience with propaganda, having created The March of Time series for Henry Luce and, during the Second World War, working with the U.S. Navy's propaganda film unit. To meet the CIA's objectives, the ending of Animal Farm is changed and the point of the story, that cruel capitalist farmers are no better masters than tyrannical Stalinist pigs, is destroyed.
The CIA's sanitized version of Animal Farm is distributed around the world by a CIA front, the U.S. "Information" Agency (USIA). The CIA then produces 1984 in Britain in 1954. Inevitably, Orwell's message is distorted and perverted by the CIA to suit the goals of the U.S. ruling class.
The CIA's Orwellian sabotage of two of the most powerful political works in literature is a masterstroke of pre-emptive mind control. As the psychological warfare experts at the CIA are only too aware, a successful movie, like television, can be seen by tens or hundreds of millions of people and, consisting of graphic images, is much more powerful and widely assimilated than the written word. By sabotaging the movie versions of 1984 and Animal Farm, the CIA effectively stopped the vast majority of Americans ever learning of the relevance of Orwell's writing to their own situation.
The role of the CIA in sabotaging Orwell's masterpieces is hidden for half a century. To the present day, many American school teachers use the CIA's movie version of 1984 to "teach" the novel, spoonfeeding young Americans "prolefeed" created by the CIA rather than the true, chilling and all too relevant message of Orwell's book.1950-ongoing : WORLDWIDE.
George Orwell's grim novel of totalitarianism,... more
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WITH ALL DUE RESPECT :)
Would it be fair to suggest that uncle Sam has a huge 9-11 dildo stuck up his arse ?
Investigative reporter Greg Palast inches his way up the facts gestalt and finds that it seems to have been the case from the get go !
Down to the country of origin of the device, the place where Sam wants to hand it back (for even the warranty is void) and all the while the seller remains nowhere to be found...
NOTE : The article is dated Thursday 5 November 2009 & while the clip is a blast from the past.... BBC Newsnight. Broadcast November 6, 2001.
That is what is described as... Conceptual Continuity !
Enjoy for Sam seems uneasy about it all ;)
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TALIBAN = 9/11??
Afghanistan by Hypnosis
http://www.gregpalast.com/taliban-911-afghanistan-by-hypnosis/
On September 11, 2001, my office building, the World Trade Center, was attacked by al Qaeda, a murder cult of Saudi Arabians, funded by Saudi Arabians. And so, in response to the Saudis' attack, America invaded ... Afghanistan. Like, HUH?
And here we go again. New York Times headline last Friday: "Pakistani Army, In Its Campaign In Taliban Stronghold, Finds A Hint Of 9/11." http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/30/world/asia/30pstan.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=PAKISTANI%20ARMY,%20IN%20ITS%20CAMPAIGN%20IN%20TALIBAN%20STRONGHOLD,%20FINDS%20A%20HINT%20OF%209/11&st=cse
Google it and you'll find the Times report repeated and amplified 5,785 times more.
Taliban = 9/11. Taliban = 9/11. Taliban = 9/11.
Your eyelids are getting heavy. Taliban = 9/11. Taliban = 9/11.
It's the latest hit from the same crew that brought you Saddam = 9/11 and its twin chant, Saddam = WMD, Dick Cheney's chimerical tropes which the New York Times' Judith Miller happily channeled to the paper's front page.
And they're at it again.
Every war begins with a lie. In addition to Saddam = WMD, I'm old enough to remember the Gulf of Tonkin resolution authorizing the war in Vietnam, based on a fictional Vietnamese gunboat attack on our Navy. (White House recordings have Lyndon Johnson gloating privately, "Hell, those damn stupid [US] sailors were just shooting at flying fish.") http://www.gregpalast.com/how-mcnamara-lost-world-war-ii/
In the Glorious War against the Taliban in Afghanistan, the lie is thus: al Qaeda is "based" in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. If we don't fight the wily Taliban, as the British once fought the wily Pathan, al Qaeda will attack America again from Talibanistan.
The latest Taliban=9/11 fantasy is a yarn spun wildly outward from the finding of a passport of an al Qaeda flunky who worked with suicide pilot Mohammed Atta in the same mountain area where, years later, a Taliban group operated. It's a stretch, but when you want to sell a war, it will do.
But selling the re-invasion of Afghanistan requires a repetition of Lie #1: that the original attack on the World Trade towers and the Pentagon were planned from Afghanistan's and Pakistan's mountains with the connivance of the Taliban.
It's not true, of course. The September 11 attack was neither organized nor directed from Afghanistan by the Taliban. In fact, as our BBC Report found, it was clear that the attack on my friends and co-workers was planned and carried out by al Qaeda operations in Falls Church, Virginia; Paris, France; Sarasota, Florida; Hamburg, Germany;— and, I repeat, funded and manned from Saudi Arabia. Neither the Sunshine State nor the Aryan namesake of the original beef patty sandwich were, nor are they now, convenient targets for a revenge attack by the 101st Airborne. http://www.gregpalast.com/september-11-what-you-%25E2%2580%259Cought-not-to-know%25E2%2580%259D/
And revenge was what it was and remains: on September 11 the skunks hit us and we, goddamnit, were going to HIT BACK. ANYONE. SOMEONE. So we hit the odious, and conveniently weak, Taliban, who'd, undeniably, given refuge to killer Osama bin Laden. Though let us not forget that Osama’s safe passage from the Sudan to Afghanistan was initially encouraged by the US government.
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2002/01/osama200201?currentPage=2WITH ALL DUE RESPECT :)
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Get a third job ! Sell a vital organ ! Move in a card box by the river ! …but stop your whining bucko ! You are a victim of your own imagination. You suffer from a severe case of "mental recession"… Now get over it !
GOP's Phil Gramm, had a way with words. As vice chairman of Swiss bank UBS and "Maverick" McCain's economic adviser was laying it down for us the rabble. Realize how fortunate we really are to be on the receiving end of their stick ?
Remember ?
"We have sort of become a nation of whiners. You just hear this constant whining, complaining about a loss of competitiveness, America in decline" despite a major export boom that is the primary reason that growth continues in the economy, he said. We've never been more dominant; we've never had more natural advantages than we have today. We have benefited greatly from the globalization of the economy in the last 30 years.
Meanwhile back at ranch harsh...
The Financial Crisis Is Driving Hordes of Americans to Suicide
http://www.alternet.org/workplace/123563/
“Pushed past their breaking points, people are robbing banks to pay the rent, setting homes on fire -- even taking their own lives.”
Suicide Spreads as One Solution to the Debt Crisis In a culture where credit rating is the key measure of self-worth, the increasing response to huge debts is "Just shoot me!" http://www.alternet.org/workplace/93077/
You know what ?
AMERICA IS NOT A NATION OF WHINERS !
Quite the opposite!
AMERICANS ARE WAY OVER THE TOP TOO INDULGENT !
Towards their leaders & institutions; they seem naive beyond belief...
Although being used, abused & oh so confused by our so-called leaders, big media and this one-sided economic system; they keep on chugging along still wanting to believe in the American dream they are still being sold every minute, every day.
The real whiners are the 1% of happy few plutocrats owning 90% + of the whole shabang. They are the ones we are bailing out. They are the ones constantly lobbying & begging for more deregulation & tax cuts. They are the welfare corporations slaughtering US's middle class and making them feel guilty about it too…
Today's Pig is Tomorrow's Bacon
http://www.gregpalast.com/todays-pig-is-tomorrows-bacon-a-labor-day-recipe/
As usual Palast was rignt on the button before/during & after the proverbial shit hit the fan !
USA 101 : The Great Society .... Who, how much & for how long ?
“The richest fifth of America owns 83% of all shares in the stock market. But that's a bit misleading because most of that, 53% of all the stock, is owned by just one percent of American households.”
“And what does the Wealthy One Percent want? Answer: more wealth. Where will they get it? As with a tube of toothpaste, they're squeezing it from the bottom. Median paychecks have gone down by 5.9% during the current regime, but Americans in the bottom fifth have seen their incomes sliced by 20%.”
“At the other end, CEO pay at the Fortune 500 has bloated by 51% during the first four years of the Bush regime to an average of $8.1 million per annum.”
“So who's winning? It's a crude indicator, but let's take a peek at the Class War body count.”
“When Reagan took power in 1980, the One Percent possessed 33% of America's wealth as measured by capital income. By 2006, the One Percent has swallowed over half of all America's assets, from sea to shining sea. One hundred fifty million Americans altogether own less than 3% of all private assets.”Get a third job ! Sell a vital organ ! Move in a card box by the river ! …but... more
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Sub-Prime Crime : An Economic 9-11 ?
Back story of a new/old White Noise clip...
The audio track was concocted within a week of the events. But life being what happens while you are busy making other plans, I never got to whip up the video & eventually though it was passé & kinda forgot about it.
But just like 9-11 changed everything, the subprime crime spree created havoc on the economy & keep on giving. After the illegal push for subprime deals that Spitzer tried to halt, Wall Street upped the ante & sold these fraudulent turds for triple A gold investment to the unspected international finance community causing a worldwide catastrophe.
As with the horrifying 8 years of abuse inflicted on America by the crime cartel we so-called the Bush executive branch, some brave souls tried to warn us to no avail.
This is the story of some of those patriots who where mostly ignored, ridiculed or got their ass served by the GOPs Rove bots army.
And to show our eternal gratitude to our tormentors, we will, although under the gun & placed in front of a 'fait accompli', be giving them the rest of our money & our children's & future generations too...
BRAVO !
"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly. But the traitor moves among those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not traitor, he speaks in the accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their garments, and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared." - Cicero, 42 B.C.
Original info : http://www.gregpalast.com/elliot-spitzer-gets-nailed/
As for putting the same guys that caused the problem in place to organize the rescue...
The universally accepted definition of INSANITY is to persist in the same behavior but expecting a different outcome.
"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." - Justice Louis D. Brandeis (1856-1941) US Supreme Court Justice
THE GREATEST THEFT IN THE HISTORY OF HUMANKIND
http://current.com/items/89330596_the_greatest_theft_in_the_history_of_humankind
"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a monied aristocracy that has set the government at defiance. The issuing power of money should be taken away from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs." - President Thomas Jefferson
"It is well that the people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning." - Henry Ford
"A banker is a man who loans you umbrellas when the sun is shining and demands it back the moment it looks like rain." - Mark Twain
"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies." - Groucho Marx
Marxism we all can believe in ;)
CITIZENS 2.0 : PLAYERS NOT CHEERLEADERS !
STOP JUDGING POLITICIANS ON WHAT THEY SAY BUT ON WHAT THEY DO !
"Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong." - Richard Armour
"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." - Albert Einstein
"Plus on est ignorant, moins on s'en aperçoit." - Louis Pasteur
VIVE LAFAYETTE ;)Sub-Prime Crime : An Economic 9-11 ?
Back story of a new/old White Noise clip...... more
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