Sunday, April 24, 2005

THE ILLUSION THAT SURROUNDS US ALL

And how we can see through it.

9/11 - ALL THE PROOF YOU NEED!

Some things are so disturbing that they are almost impossible to believe. That is why, in the 9/11 enigma, less is more.

Until these questions are answered there is no need to establish more doubt. What we have here is solid undisputed evidence that we were never told the truth.

Thursday, April 21, 2005

Bid to sue over LSD rejected

A federal judge has tentatively ordered dismissal of a $12 million lawsuit against the U.S. government, filed by a former deputy marshal who said he was unknowingly drugged with LSD as part of a CIA mind-control program before trying to hold up a San Francisco bar nearly a half century ago.

In earlier rulings, U.S. District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel rejected the government's attempts to dismiss Wayne Ritchie's suit and said he had shown that a CIA mind-control experiment code-named MKULTRA was operating in San Francisco in December 1957, when Ritchie says he was drugged.

During the program, which lasted at least a decade at the height of the Cold War, hundreds of unwitting Americans were given LSD and other drugs to study their possible use in behavioral control.

LOOK FOR THE MEDIA LABELS

By Ted Rall
Tue Apr 12, 7:58 PM ET
An Examination of the Propaganda of Nomenclature

NEW YORK--If you read newspapers, listen to the radio or watch television, you know that the media has assigned Muqtada al-Sadr a peculiar job title: radical cleric. "Gunmen fired on supporters of the radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr on Friday," reports the Associated Press wire service. National Public Radio routinely refers to "radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr." "The protesters were largely supporters of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr," says CNN. Even Agence France-Press refers to him the same way: "Followers of a radical Shiite cleric marched in Baghdad."

I wonder: Does he answer his phone with a chipper "Muqtada al-Sadr, radical cleric!"? Does it say "radical cleric" on his business card?

It's a safe bet that neither al-Sadr nor his Iraqi supporters considers him particularly "radical." And, if you stop to think about it, there's nothing inherently extreme about wanting foreign troops to leave your country. Radical is a highly subjective word that gets thrown around without much reflection. What's more radical, invading another nation without a good excuse or trying to stop someone from doing so? But that's the problem: the media has become so accustomed to absorbing and regurgitating official government propaganda that they never stop to think.

A Google News search of the terms "Muqtada al-Sadr" and "radical cleric" brought up 616 news and opinion stories, the latter derived from the former. Despite the prime minister's obvious status as an American-appointed puppet, "Iyad Allawi" and "collaborationist" yielded zero results. The message is clear: al-Sadr, and by extension Iraqis who oppose the U.S. occupation, are marginal wackos. Those who support it are referred to by questionable legitimatizing honorifics--prime minister, in Allawi's case--because the U.S. government called a press conference to announce him as such.

Repetition is key to successful advertising. The American media uses repeated arbitrary labeling in its supposedly impartial coverage in a deliberate campaign to alter public perception. Americans were meant to feel less sympathy for an kidnapped Italian woman shot by U.S. soldiers manning a checkpoint in Iraq after the talking heads repeatedly referred to her as a "communist journalist." A Fox News reporter in the same story would never have been dubbed a "neofascist journalist." John McCain (R-AZ) might become president someday but "maverick senator John McCain" probably won't. Ralph Nader's name rarely appears in print without the unappealing word "gadfly" or a form of "crusading." Why not describe figures in the news using terms that aim for neutrality, like "Italian reporter" or "former Green Party candidate Ralph Nader"?

Wednesday, April 20, 2005

Orwell Rolls In His Grave

Controlled perceptions - the ulitmate power. A film about "The Ministry of Truth."

Saturday, April 16, 2005

Friday, April 15, 2005

The Time to Oppose the Draft is Now

In February, the Army missed its recruiting goal for the first time in nearly five years. The Army missed its March goal by 32 percent while the need for soldiers is on the rise. The United States Armed Services have announced a new plan to solve their recruiting problems--convincing parents to get their children to enlist. At the same time, parents are organizing to ensure the military draft does not return. The battle lines for the bodies of America's youth are beginning to take shape.

Monday, April 11, 2005

"an atrocity masquerading as war"

Iraqis protest American invasion

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Chanting “Death to America” and burning effigies of President Bush and Saddam Hussein, tens of thousands of Iraqis flooded central Baghdad on Saturday in what police called the largest anti-American protest since the fall of Baghdad, the capital, exactly two years ago.

Well, ya'll have done a SUPER job of "winning the hearts and minds"! What's wrong with these people? Can't they see that all the killing and maiming and depleted uranium was/is to LIBERATE them!?!?

Who would Jesus torture?

How many prisoners would Jesus torture?

How many innocents would Jesus bomb?

When would Jesus break his sworn oath?

How often would Jesus slaughter innocents by the cityful?

How often would Jesus have employed his disciples as torturers, so he could say his hands were clean?

How often would Jesus have hidden the guilty, that their crimes would not be known to the world?

Please, all of you good Christian friends, family, neighbors and co-workers, answer these questions.

Friday, April 08, 2005

How to Protect Your Child from the Coming Draft

Draft? What draft?

The Body Snatchers: Kids, Did Your Recruiters Tell You About the Shallow Graves?

Why Go to College, When You Can be Cannon Fodder?

President John F.Kennedy, The Federal Reserve and Executive Order 11110

Man arrested, cuffed after using $2 bills

Soon, we'll all be cuffed/arrested for using ANY Federal Reserve Notes because soon it will be a requirement to be microchipped so all you'll do is scan your chip to make your purchase.

The Invisible Hand (of the U.S. Government) in Financial Markets

Summary: The U.S. government is manipulating all major U.S. financial markets—stocks, treasuries, currencies. This article shows how it is possible and how it is done, why it is done, who specifically is doing it, when they do it, and where they get the money to do it.

Thursday, April 07, 2005

Johnny Gosch, Jeff Gannon, Hunter Thompson and the unraveling of a troubling tale.

Homeland Security: 'We're still looking for Gannon credentialing'

"While I remain deeply disappointed that the President and White House continue to stonewall Congress and the American people by not providing any details on the nature of their relationship with this disgraced, discredited 'reporter,' I am pleased to see the Department of Homeland Security complying with our request for more information," said Rep. Slaughter. She continued, "Maybe now we will finally get to the bottom of this disgusting display of media manipulation."

Tuesday, April 05, 2005

Onward Christian Soldiers

Wow, war is so much FUN! (and oh so profitable too!)

Make Love, Not Strangelove

Atomic weapons are the perfect symbol for the modern state. Homicidal, genocidal, all around the enemy of civilization and despoiler of social norms of discourse and harmonious relationships. Surely it isn’t a coincidence that the “counter-culture” and a more self-indulgent and irresponsible social ethos pervaded American society at the same time that MAD –Mutually Assured Destruction- was enthroned as a rational doctrine for the defense of civilization.

Even more insane is that after the horrors of the Second World War, so-called “peace-loving, democratic” States are still allowed by their subjects to plot and prepare to rain down death upon any who challenge its existence or merely seek to frustrate its aims.

Saturday, April 02, 2005

Caring for the Wounded in Iraq - A Photo Essay

Thank you, BushCo.

Disconnecting the State’s Feeding Tubes

Bastards!

Diving Into Falluja

To Hell and Back with documentary-Maker Mark Manning. For the past two years, Manning has been making a documentary, American Voices, crisscrossing the United States and asking hundreds of Americans if they could explain why, exactly, the U.S. is at war with Iraq. He was profoundly disheartened, he said, by the lack of facts and accurate information out there. Very few of the people he interviewed could back up their opinions with facts. Even worse, he realized, neither could he. That’s when he decided he had to see what life was like on the receiving end of Operation Enduring Freedom.

Any idea how long I'm going to have to remain vigilant?

Any idea if this "Jimbo" dude is part of the problem or part of the solution? Yuck-Yuck-Yuck-ain't gonna lit dem tirrirsts win! Gimme annuder cana Bud!