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Bill Maher Admits His Audience Are 'Brainwashed Liberals'

A truly marvelous thing happened on the season premiere of HBO's Real Time... more

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Bill Maher New Rules - Socialism

"A little Levity to share, Enjoy!!!" =)

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Bill Maher on Texas Gov. Perry

Maher on Perry in New Rules.

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Bill Maher: 2007 vs Today On Inciting Violence & Hate

Bill Maher 2007 vs. Today http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-z-jjUfmOVE

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MEDIA BIAS BILL MAHER HYPOCRITE

Bill Maher Quote "Dogs are like retarded children."... more

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THE PHANTOM LEFT : Sanity & what was also lost yesterday !

The phantom left took a central role on the mall this weekend in Washington. It had performed admirably for Glenn Beck, who used it in his own rally as a lightning rod to instill anger and fear. And the phantom left proved equally useful for the comics Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, who spoke to the crowd wearing red-white-and-blue costumes.

The two comics evoked the phantom left, as the liberal class always does, in defense of moderation, which might better be described as apathy. If the right wing is crazy and if the left wing is crazy, the argument goes, then we moderates will be reasonable. We will be nice. Exxon and Goldman Sachs, along with predatory banks and the arms industry, may be ripping the guts out of the country, our rights—including habeas corpus—may have been revoked, but don’t get mad. Don’t be shrill. Don’t be like the crazies on the left.

The American left is a phantom. It is conjured up by the right wing to tag Barack Obama as a socialist and used by the liberal class to justify its complacency and lethargy. It diverts attention from corporate power. It perpetuates the myth of a democratic system that is influenced by the votes of citizens, political platforms and the work of legislators. It keeps the world neatly divided into a left and a right. The phantom left functions as a convenient scapegoat. The right wing blames it for moral degeneration and fiscal chaos.

The liberal class uses it to call for “moderation.” And while we waste our time talking nonsense, the engines of corporate power—masked, ruthless and unexamined—happily devour the state. The loss of a radical left in American politics has been catastrophic. The left once harbored militant anarchist and communist labor unions, an independent, alternative press, social movements and politicians not tethered to corporate benefactors. But its disappearance, the result of long witch hunts for communists, post-industrialization and the silencing of those who did not sign on for the utopian vision of globalization, means that there is no counterforce to halt our slide into corporate neofeudalism.

This harsh reality, however, is not palatable. So the corporations that control mass communications conjure up the phantom of a left. They blame the phantom for our debacle. And they get us to speak in absurdities. - CHRIS HEDGES http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_phantom_left_20101031/

"How to get people to vote against their interests and to really think against their interests is very clever. It's the cleverest ruling class that I have ever come across in history. It's been 200 years at it. It's superb." - Gore Vidal

"A society whose citizens refuse to see and investigate the facts, who refuse to believe that their government and their media will routinely lie to them and fabricate a reality contrary to verifiable facts, is a society that chooses and deserves the Police State Dictatorship it's going to get." - Ian Williams Goddard

Just a hint...
Before one exports democracy, one tries to have it at home !The phantom left took a central role on the mall this weekend in Washington. It had... more

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Bill Maher's latest Christine O'Donnell release / montage of celebrity reactions

The montage is from a number of her appearances on his show Politically Incorrect, and... more

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ORWELL WAS NAIVE

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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This is and awesome speech!

This is so true. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=if88PgI-vfU&feature=player_embedded

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Michael Moore on Bill Maher

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DEAR MR. TERRORIST...

Hello and Happy New Year from an American friend. I hope your new year is one that offers both health, spirtual enlightenment and an opportunity to learn what you have gotten yourself into before its too late. Take a look at that man beside you, the one who will some day hand you a bomb and tell you to kill yourself and, maybe, dozens of women and children, many Muslims. Are you really sure he is who he says he is? Like the "Al Qaeda" leaders in Yemen, you know, the ones who Dick Cheney decided to release for some unknown reason, are you, maybe, taking orders from someone like this?

You remember Usama bin Laden, Sallahu Alayhi Wa Sallams, do you not? Remember why he said he had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks? He said the Koran would not allow it. Does not the Koran say this is sin? Look at poor Abdulmutallab, sitting in a prison in Milan, Michigan. How do you think he was helped thru airport after airport, all run by Israelis, put on a plane full of Muslims, men, women, families, going back to their home in Detroit, Fi AmanAllah, with orders to blow it up?

Do you think the people who walked him around passport control at Schipol Airport could have only done so with the highly secure special keys available only to the security company running the airport? Of course you know who these people are.

Let us say your are in Afghanistan. Did you ever wonder where all those brand new weapons come from? Look at the markings. Does it say "Made in India?" So, you are heading into Pakistan to kill Muslims with your new weapons from Israel and India. You think they were free?

Imagine the laughter in Tel Aviv and Mumbai.

You believe you are acting in Fi Sabillah (for the cause of allah)? Do you believe that America goes to war to make money for their defense companies and big oil? Are you aware that much of the ownership of America's military suppliers is from the Middle East? Without money from Saudi Arabia and the UAE, the money financing the bombs and planes, Islamic money, would there be a war?

Many say they fight America because it is here, in an Islamic country, supporting a puppet government. America is here to fight you, you are here to fight them. Who is winning? Will you want a government like the Islamic Republic of Iran? There is now little difference between the government there today and the puppet dictatorship of the Shah. Patriots are being murdered by secret police now as they were 40 years ago.

Years ago, when America was cast out of Iran and hostages were taken, did not Iran turn to Israel to bargain with the Americans for weapons to trade? Perhaps giving away your trust without opening your eyes to what can be seen is unwise.

No matter if the US stays in Afghanistan or goes, India and Israel will control the country as they do so many others. If they don't, then China will. Look at the map. Only Pakistan has nuclear weapons, a powerful military and an elected government, albeit problematic and unstable.

You would destroy it and turn it over to India and Israel in the name of Islam.

Who do you serve?Hello and Happy New Year from an American friend. I hope your new year is one that... more

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BIG HAT, NO CATTLE

Uncle Sam, the GOP, petro-creationists & corpo-supremacists are having... more

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Maher Rips Baucus Bill: "I'm Going To Start Going To Town Halls and Screaming Now"

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Mr BURNS vs OBAMA : TOTAL RECESS

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