1984 movie One more brainwashing reinforcement Obama spewing nonsense and lies way before he became the country's 'leader ' continues the game for the television watching public. A 'Big Brother' — someone to see as human, with a wife and family. Orchestrated lies given to a public increasingly absorbed in non-life by the monster of the brain-washing instrument. The newer televisions now coming at people with their physical attributes of brainwashing A process of radiation wavelengths spewing from the instrument to bring that which is required for the moment:   fear, anger, acceptance of an individual's smallness in the greater political venue, then the recognition of helplessness and submission. Obama, an almost perfect candidate for the never-ending game. Orwell did not have the understanding of radionic physical brainwashing when he wrote 1984, he only understood the mass hypnotic reality that could be imposed with film and television. Photo: 1984 movie
1984 movie One more brainwashing reinforcement Obama spewing nonsense and lies way before he became the country's 'leader ' continues the game for the television watching public. A 'Big Brother' — someone to see as human, with a wife and family. Orchestrated lies given to a public increasingly absorbed in non-life by the monster of the brain-washing instrument. The newer televisions now coming at people with their physical attributes of brainwashing A process of radiation wavelengths spewing from the instrument to bring that which is required for the moment:   fear, anger, acceptance of an individual's smallness in the greater political venue, then the recognition of helplessness and submission. Obama, an almost perfect candidate for the never-ending game. Orwell did not have the understanding of radionic physical brainwashing when he wrote 1984, he only understood the mass hypnotic reality that could be imposed with film and television. Photo: 1984 movie
1984 movie One more brainwashing reinforcement Obama spewing nonsense and lies way before he became the country's 'leader ' continues the game for the television watching public. A 'Big Brother' — someone to see as human, with a wife and family. Orchestrated lies given to a public increasingly absorbed in non-life by the monster of the brain-washing instrument. The newer televisions now coming at people with their physical attributes of brainwashing A process of radiation wavelengths spewing from the instrument to bring that which is required for the moment:   fear, anger, acceptance of an individual's smallness in the greater political venue, then the recognition of helplessness and submission. Obama, an almost perfect candidate for the never-ending game. Orwell did not have the understanding of radionic physical brainwashing when he wrote 1984, he only understood the mass hypnotic reality that could be imposed with film and television. Photo: 1984 movie
1984 movie One more brainwashing reinforcement Obama spewing nonsense and lies way before he became the country's 'leader ' continues the game for the television watching public. A 'Big Brother' — someone to see as human, with a wife and family. Orchestrated lies given to a public increasingly absorbed in non-life by the monster of the brain-washing instrument. The newer televisions now coming at people with their physical attributes of brainwashing A process of radiation wavelengths spewing from the instrument to bring that which is required for the moment:   fear, anger, acceptance of an individual's smallness in the greater political venue, then the recognition of helplessness and submission. Obama, an almost perfect candidate for the never-ending game. Orwell did not have the understanding of radionic physical brainwashing when he wrote 1984, he only understood the mass hypnotic reality that could be imposed with film and television. Photo: 1984 movie
1984 movie One more brainwashing reinforcement Obama spewing nonsense and lies way before he became the country's 'leader ' continues the game for the television watching public. A 'Big Brother' — someone to see as human, with a wife and family. Orchestrated lies given to a public increasingly absorbed in non-life by the monster of the brain-washing instrument. The newer televisions now coming at people with their physical attributes of brainwashing A process of radiation wavelengths spewing from the instrument to bring that which is required for the moment:   fear, anger, acceptance of an individual's smallness in the greater political venue, then the recognition of helplessness and submission. Obama, an almost perfect candidate for the never-ending game. Orwell did not have the understanding of radionic physical brainwashing when he wrote 1984, he only understood the mass hypnotic reality that could be imposed with film and television. Photo: 1984 movie
1984 movie One more brainwashing reinforcement Obama spewing nonsense and lies way before he became the country's 'leader ' continues the game for the television watching public. A 'Big Brother' — someone to see as human, with a wife and family. Orchestrated lies given to a public increasingly absorbed in non-life by the monster of the brain-washing instrument. The newer televisions now coming at people with their physical attributes of brainwashing A process of radiation wavelengths spewing from the instrument to bring that which is required for the moment:   fear, anger, acceptance of an individual's smallness in the greater political venue, then the recognition of helplessness and submission. Obama, an almost perfect candidate for the never-ending game. Orwell did not have the understanding of radionic physical brainwashing when he wrote 1984, he only understood the mass hypnotic reality that could be imposed with film and television. Photo: 1984 movie
1984 movie One more brainwashing reinforcement Obama spewing nonsense and lies way before he became the country's 'leader ' continues the game for the television watching public. A 'Big Brother' — someone to see as human, with a wife and family. Orchestrated lies given to a public increasingly absorbed in non-life by the monster of the brain-washing instrument. The newer televisions now coming at people with their physical attributes of brainwashing A process of radiation wavelengths spewing from the instrument to bring that which is required for the moment:   fear, anger, acceptance of an individual's smallness in the greater political venue, then the recognition of helplessness and submission. Obama, an almost perfect candidate for the never-ending game. Orwell did not have the understanding of radionic physical brainwashing when he wrote 1984, he only understood the mass hypnotic reality that could be imposed with film and television. Photo: 1984 movie
Endless 9-11's
It should be obvious to those who visit this site that there is something very 'fishy' about the Christmas day plane incident.
With regard to the smell that is.
Accepting there are millions of people who would like to see something of a not pleasant nature take place with regard to America's interests is a likely posit.
But then having the incidents take place as they did:
1.   American intelligence fully warned and tracking the individual.
2.   The father, someone who had worked with the CIA on numerous occasions, warning that same agency of his son.
3.   The need to have some 'justification' for the killing of men women and children by the US military in Yemen — there are photographs on this very page, posted days before Christmas, of US massacre of families in Yemen.
4.   The publication of Obama signing consent for these US massacres on Yemen, weeks before Christmas — the day he accepted the Norwegian peace prize?
Well 'fishy' is not the word — deliberate activity by US and Illuminati black ops to cause the incident is appropriate.
As 9-11, a devised war game played out
One more brainwashing reinforcement.
Obama spewing nonsense and lies way before he became the country's 'leader ' continues the game for the television watching public.
Obama a 'Big Brother' — someone to see, with a wife and family.
Orchestrated lies given to a public increasingly absorbed in non-life by the monster of the brain-washing instrument.
The newer televisions now coming at people with their physical attributes of brainwashing.
A process of radiation wavelengths spewing from the instrument to bring that which is required for the moment:  fear, anger, acceptance of an individual's smallness in the greater political venue, then the recognition of helplessness and submission.
Obama, an almost perfect 'Big Brother' for the never-ending game.
Orwell did not have the understanding of radionic physical brainwashing when he wrote 1984, he only understood the mass hypnotic reality that could be imposed with film and television.
1984 — the movie
1984 — produced in 1954 movie
Even the names of the four Ministries by which we are governed exhibit a sort of impudence in their deliberate reversal of the facts.
The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war.
The Ministry of Truth with lies.
The Ministry of Love with torture.
And the Ministry of Plenty with starvation.
These contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result from ordinary hypocrisy; they are deliberate exercises in doublethink.
For it is only by reconciling contradictions that power can be retained indefinitely.
In no other way could the ancient cycle be broken.
If human equality is to be for ever averted — if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places permanently — then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity.
      George Orwell 1984      
The frayed threads anchoring the American government to reality have finally snapped, just at the moment radiologists are reporting that Americans are getting too fat to be x-rayed or shoved into any existing MRI tube.
The gamma rays can't get through the blubber, same way actual conditions in the outside world bounces off the impenetrable dome of imbecility sheltering America's political leadership.
Behind ramparts guarded by a coalition of liars extending from Rupert Murdoch to the New York Times, from Bill O'Reilly to PBS, America is totally shielded from truth.
Here we have a Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, who gazes at the rubble of Lebanon, 300,000 refugees being strafed with Israel's cluster bombs, and squeaks happily that we are "witnessing the birth pangs of a new Middle East."
Here we have a president, G. Bush, who urges Vladimir Putin to commence in Russia the same "institutional change" that is making Iraq a beacon of freedom and free expression.
Not long after Bush extended this ludicrous invitation the UN relayed from Iraq's Ministry of Health Iraq's real casualty rate, which was running at least 100 a day.
H.D.S. GREENWAY

The return of '1984'

By H.D.S. Greenway | June 24, 2005
IF YOU TAKE something to read at the beach this summer make sure it is not one of George Orwell's books. The comparison with current events will ruin your day.
In what was then the futuristic, nightmare world of "1984," written in 1949, Orwell introduced the concepts of "newspeak," "doublethink," and "the mutability of the past," all concepts that seem to be alive and well in 2005, half a century after Orwell's death.
In the ever-changing rationale of why we went to war in Iraq, we can imagine ourselves working in Orwell's "Ministry of Truth," in which "reality control" is used to ensure that "the lie passed into history and became the truth."
And what about the Bush administration's insistence that all is going well in Iraq?
In the Ministry of Truth, statistics are adjustable to suit politics — "merely the substitution of one piece of nonsense for another," Orwell wrote. "Most of the material that you were dealing with had no connection to anything in the real world, not even the kind of connection that is contained in a direct lie. Statistics were just as much a fantasy in their original version as in the rectified version."
Welcome to the Iraq war, Mr. Orwell.
Rumsfeld's newspeak, or was it doublethink
What of Donald Rumsfeld's newspeak, or was it doublethink, saying that "no detention facility in the history of warfare has been more transparent" than Guantanamo?
We have the FBI's word for it that prisoners were chained hand and foot in a fetal position to the floor, left for 18 to 24 hours with no food and no water, left to defecate and urinate on themselves.
The deaths by torture in Abu Ghraib and Afghanistan sound very much like what happens in Orwell's fictional torture chamber: Room 101.
He might as well have been writing about the Bush administration's redefinition of torture when he wrote about using "logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it."
In Orwell's profoundly pessimistic view: "Political language . . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."
There is something profoundly Orwellian, too, about the administration's attempts to impose thought control on public broadcasting. The sometimes secret machinations to place impositions on editorial freedom, the efforts to see which people interviewed by Bill Moyers might be considered anti-Bush or anti-Defense Department or insufficiently conservative, were just the kind of efforts to squash intellectual opposition to state power that Orwell wrote about.
I was amused to see even a conservative Republican senator, Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, was branded as a "liberal" because he dared criticize the Pentagon — a "thought criminal" in Orwell's parlance.
The drum beat by some conservatives to bring down an independent judiciary is another case in point. We learned from the case of unfortunate, blind, and brain-dead Terri Schiavo that it isn't activist judges who are the enemy. It is judges who are not active in the correct causes.
It is the intended persecution of Michael Schiavo, who defended his wife's right to die, however, that has for me the most sinister echoes of Orwell.
Florida Governor Jeb Bush, according to news reports, will have the case reopened after 15 years to investigate how long it took Schiavo to dial 911. Thus will Michael Schiavo feel the displeasure of the state for challenging the conservative orthodoxy.
The defense of the indefensible.
In the effort to squash dissent, as evidenced by moves to change the Sentate's filibuster rules, there seems to be the belief among the majority that they will always stay in the majority, that they will never lose the Senate, and, therefore, never themselves need to filibuster.
Orwell had something to say about this too. "Power worship blurs political judgment," he wrote in an essay, "because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible."
There are any number of Guantanamo defenders who could fit neatly into George Orwell's essay when he wrote: "In our time, political speech and writing is largely the defense of the indefensible."
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The problem was how to keep the wheels of industry turning without increasing the real wealth of the world.
Goods must be produced, but they must not be distributed.
And in practice the only way of achieving this was by continuous warfare.
The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labour.
War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent.
Even when weapons of war are not actually destroyed, their manufacture is still a convenient way of expending labour power without producing anything that can be consumed.
A Floating Fortress, for example, has locked up in it the labour that would build several hundred cargo-ships.
Ultimately it is scrapped as obsolete, never having brought any material benefit to anybody, and with further enormous labours another Floating Fortress is built.
In principle the war effort is always so planned as to eat up any surplus that might exist after meeting the bare needs of the population.
In practice the needs of the population are always underestimated, with the result that there is a chronic shortage of half the necessities of life ; but this is looked on as an advantage.
It is deliberate policy to keep even the favoured groups somewhere near the brink of hardship, because a general state of scarcity increases the importance of small privileges and thus magnifies the distinction between one group and another.
      George Orwell 1984      
Friday, 27 January 2006
US plans to 'fight the net' revealed
Adam Brookes
By Adam Brookes
BBC Pentagon correspondent
Internet cafe in Iraq A newly declassified document gives a fascinating glimpse into the US military's plans for 'information operations' — from psychological operations, to attacks on hostile computer networks. The document says information is ;critical to military success'
The document says information is ;critical to military success'
A newly declassified document gives a fascinating glimpse into the US military's plans for "information operations" — from psychological operations, to attacks on hostile computer networks.
Bloggers beware.
As the world turns networked, the Pentagon is calculating the military opportunities that computer networks, wireless technologies and the modern media offer.
From influencing public opinion through new media to designing "computer network attack" weapons, the US military is learning to fight an electronic war.
The declassified document is called "Information Operations Roadmap".
It was obtained by the National Security Archive at George Washington University using the Freedom of Information Act.
Officials in the Pentagon wrote it in 2003.
The Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, signed it.
The "roadmap" calls for a far-reaching overhaul of the military's ability to conduct information operations and electronic warfare.
And, in some detail, it makes recommendations for how the US armed forces should think about this new, virtual warfare.
The document says that information is "critical to military success".
Computer and telecommunications networks are of vital operational importance.
Propaganda
The operations described in the document include a surprising range of military activities: public affairs officers who brief journalists, psychological operations troops who try to manipulate the thoughts and beliefs of an enemy, computer network attack specialists who seek to destroy enemy networks.
All these are engaged in information operations.
US Defense Secretary at the Pentagon. A newly declassified document gives a fascinating glimpse into the US military's plans for 'information operations' — from psychological operations, to attacks on hostile computer networks. The wide-reaching document was signed off by Donald Rumsfeld
The wide-reaching document was signed off by Donald Rumsfeld
Perhaps the most startling aspect of the roadmap is its acknowledgement that information put out as part of the military's psychological operations, or Psyops, is finding its way onto the computer and television screens of ordinary Americans.
"Information intended for foreign audiences, including public diplomacy and Psyops, is increasingly consumed by our domestic audience," it reads.
"Psyops messages will often be replayed by the news media for much larger audiences, including the American public," it goes on.
The document's authors acknowledge that American news media should not unwittingly broadcast military propaganda. "Specific boundaries should be established," they write.
But they don't seem to explain how.
"In this day and age it is impossible to prevent stories that are fed abroad as part of psychological operations propaganda from blowing back into the United States — even though they were directed abroad," says Kristin Adair of the National Security Archive.
Credibility problem
Public awareness of the US military's information operations is low, but it's growing — thanks to some operational clumsiness.
Late last year, it emerged that the Pentagon had paid a private company, the Lincoln Group, to plant hundreds of stories in Iraqi newspapers.
The stories — all supportive of US policy — were written by military personnel and then placed in Iraqi publications.
And websites that appeared to be information sites on the politics of Africa and the Balkans were found to be run by the Pentagon.
But the true extent of the Pentagon's information operations, how they work, who they're aimed at, and at what point they turn from informing the public to influencing populations, is far from clear.
The roadmap, however, gives a flavour of what the US military is up to — and the grand scale on which it's thinking.
When it describes plans for electronic warfare, or EW, the document takes on an extraordinary tone.
It seems to see the internet as being equivalent to an enemy weapons system
It reveals that Psyops personnel "support" the American government's international broadcasting.
It singles out TV Marti - a station which broadcasts to Cuba - as receiving such support.
It recommends that a global website be established that supports America's strategic objectives.
But no American diplomats here, thank you.
The website would use content from "third parties with greater credibility to foreign audiences than US officials".
It also recommends that Psyops personnel should consider a range of technologies to disseminate propaganda in enemy territory: unmanned aerial vehicles, "miniaturized, scatterable public address systems", wireless devices, cellular phones and the internet.
'Fight the net'
When it describes plans for electronic warfare, or EW, the document takes on an extraordinary tone.
It seems to see the internet as being equivalent to an enemy weapons system.
"Strategy should be based on the premise that the Department [of Defense] will 'fight the net' as it would an enemy weapons system," it reads.
The slogan "fight the net" appears several times throughout the roadmap.
The authors warn that US networks are very vulnerable to attack by hackers, enemies seeking to disable them, or spies looking for intelligence.
"Networks are growing faster than we can defend them... Attack sophistication is increasing... Number of events is increasing."
US digital ambition
And, in a grand finale, the document recommends that the United States should seek the ability to "provide maximum control of the entire electromagnetic spectrum".
US forces should be able to "disrupt or destroy the full spectrum of globally emerging communications systems, sensors, and weapons systems dependent on the electromagnetic spectrum".
Consider that for a moment.
The US military seeks the capability to knock out every telephone, every networked computer, every radar system on the planet.
Are these plans the pipe dreams of self-aggrandising bureaucrats? Or are they real?
The fact that the "Information Operations Roadmap" is approved by the Secretary of Defense suggests that these plans are taken very seriously indeed in the Pentagon.
And that the scale and grandeur of the digital revolution is matched only by the US military's ambitions for it.
There was, of course, no admission that any change had taken place.
Merely it became known, with extreme suddenness and everywhere at once, that Eastasia and not Eurasia was the enemy.
George Orwell 1984
It seems the Cheney administration's decision to negotiate with the Iraq insurgents actually made the Sunday babbling head shows today.  One of the more teling moments was Rumsfeld's effort to justify the new party line by creating a fresh linguistic distinction between the Sunni insurgents and the foreign terrorists:
"They [contacts] go on all the time,” he added.  “Second, the Iraqis have a sovereign government.  They will decide what their relationships with various elements of insurgents will be.  We facilitate those [relationships] from time to time."
But Mr. Rumsfeld said no negotiations are taking place with hardened terrorist elements belonging to al-Qaida or those, as he put it, "with blood on their hands."
I suspect we'll be hearing a lot more about this crucial distinction in the weeks and months ahead.  Hell, before you know it — depending on how the talks go — Rummy may be referring to them as Sunni "freedom fighters."
But such abrupt shifts in the party line are always jarring — as in Orwell's famous description of Big Brother's security agents frantically ripping down propaganda posters that suddenly had the name of the wrong enemy on them.
...The social atmosphere is that of a besieged city, where the possession of a lump of horseflesh makes the difference between wealth and poverty.
And at the same time the consciousness of being at war, and therefore in danger, makes the handing-over of all power to a small caste seem the natural, unavoidable condition of survival.
      George Orwell 1984      
                          To rebel is right, to disobey is a duty, to act is necessary !
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         America’s False Memories              
Iraq war stories play tricks on the mind
by Anna Salleh
Research on the way people processed media reports about the Iraq war tells us more about how we create our beliefs and memories.
Psychologist Professor Stephan Lewandowsky of the University of Western Australia and team report their study of more than 800 people from Australia, the US and Germany, in the March issue of the journal Psychological Science.
Lewandowsky says the study, which was conducted in 2003 during the closing phases of the war and soon afterwards, was triggered by the number of retractions that occurred in the media at the time.
"It struck us as remarkable how many things were reported and then subsequently corrected," he says.
The first part of their study looked at how people processed corrections that occurred in the early days of the war.
The researchers asked whether people believed statements based on two kinds of press reports: one type that had been retracted and one that continued to be reported as fact.
The four statements based on reports that participants knew had been retracted were:
UK Terror State Blair and Brown
-The allies captured an Iraqi general during the first one to two weeks of the war
-Allied POWs (Prisoners of War) were executed by the Iraqis after being captured and/or surrendering
-Toward the end of the first week of the war, there was a significant civilian uprising against the Iraqi Baath Party militia in Basra, and
-During the first few days of the war, an entire Iraqi division (some 8000 soldiers) was captured and/or surrendered to the allies.
"We tried to be as balanced as possible whether it put the Iraqis in a bad light, or the Coalition forces, to the extent that that was possible," Lewandowsky says.
Sceptics and non-sceptics
The researchers also classified people as sceptical if they disagreed with the official reason given for war, ridding Iraq of weapons of mass destruction (WMDs).
The results showed there were far fewer sceptics in the US than in Germany and Australia.  And that such sceptics were less likely to believe statements that they knew had been retracted than those people classified as non-sceptical.
"The main finding about suspicion is confirming what we have known for quite a while from laboratory studies," says Lewandowsky.
"People do not discount corrected information unless they are suspicious about it or unless they are given some other hypothesis with which to interpret the information."
He says this has important implications in the judicial system where judges often instruct juries to disregard certain information.
"It turns out that jurors don’t disregard information even if they are directed to do so unless they are being made suspicious about why the information was actually used in the first place.  So, exactly what we found."
False memories
The study also supports certain theories about the formation of false memories, says Lewandowsky.
"The constant hinting at WMDs was sufficient to make some people believe that they have been found," he says.
Lewandowsky says the study confirmed previous findings that around 30% of US respondents say weapons of mass destruction have been found in Iraq since the war started.
By contrast, he says, only 17% of Australians and only 5% of Germans believe this was the case.
"Given that that is in fact not true, given that none has ever been discovered, we would classify those responses as a false memory," says Lewandowsky.
He can’t explain why this is the case but thinks that scepticism may also play a role.
"Overall, our scientific understanding of human memory reveals it as a device that is prone to considerable error and distortion," says Lewandowsky, referring to other research on the ability of victims to remember perpetrators of a crime.
"Even when they are not being actively manipulated, there is consistent evidence that people often mistakenly identify ’perpetrators’ from a line-up of entirely innocent people."
UK Terror State War Criminals Blair and Brown
http://abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1316359.htm
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but it is morally treasonable to the American public."
President Theodore Roosevelt
"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive.  The People are the only sure reliance for the preservation of liberty.
Thomas Jefferson
"War is a racket...conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the very many...of course it isn’t put that crudely in war time.  It is dressed into speeches about patriotism, love of country, and "we must all put our shoulders to the wheel," but the profits jump and leap and skyrocket and are safely pocketed."
Marine Corps General Smedley Butler
Posted by : the junky scientist, Saturday 12th March 2005
Article written by Anna Salleh, March, 2005
Kentucky Senator Jim Bunning revealed that he watches only Fox News for information. California Congressman Chris Cox recently lied to a crowd,
 
Some are concerned simply with planning the logistics of future wars.
Others devise larger and larger rocket bombs, more and more powerful explosives, and more and more impenetrable armour-plating.
Others search for new and deadlier gases.
Or for soluble poisons capable of being produced in such quantities as to destroy the vegetation of whole continents.
Or for breeds of disease germs immunized against all possible antibodies.
Others strive to produce a vehicle that shall bore its way under the soil like a submarine under the water.
Or an aeroplane as independent of its base as a sailing-ship.
Others explore even remoter possibilities such as focusing the sun's rays through lenses suspended thousands of kilometres away in space.
Or producing artificial earthquakes and tidal waves by tapping the heat at the earth's centre.
      George Orwell 1984 - First Published 1949      
From the video 'Holes in Heaven' — Brooks Agnew, Earth Tornographer
In 1983 I did radio tornography with 30 watts looking for oil in the ground.
I found 26 oil wells over a nine state area.
100 hundred percent of the time was accurate, which is just 30 watts of power beaming straight into solid rock.
HAARP uses a billion watts beamed straight into the ionosphere for experiments.
Picture these strings on the piano as layers of the Earth, each one has its own frequency.
What we used to do is beam radio waves into the ground and it would vibrate any 'strings' that were present in the ground.
We might get a sound back like ___ and we would say, that's natural gas.
We might get a sound back like ____ and we'd say that's crude oil.
We were able to identify each frequency.
We accomplished this with just 30 watts of radio power.
If you do this with a billion watts the vibrations are so violent that the entire piano would shake.
In fact the whole house would shake.
In fact the vibrations could be so severe under ground they could even cause an earthquake.
Download or watch   HAARP Holes in Heaven
— Complete version available for mp4 download
Download or watch movie on HAARP — Advanced US Military research weapon on behaviour modification
weather change, ionesphere manipulation — click here
Download or watch audio of Dr. Nick Begich talking on HAARP
— The 2006 update to 'Angels Don't Play This HAARP'.
'Angels Still Don't Play This HAARP: Advances In Tesla Technology'.
Planet Earth Weapon by Rosalie Bertell
ozone, HAARP, chemtrails, space war — click here
HAARP/Chemtrails/Alien aircraft/Illuminati involvement
1 hour FreemanTV.com video — click here
(has 30 second lead in with blank screen and silence)
Angels Dont Play This HAARP weather manipulation
1 hour 36 minutes video — click here
(poor quality to watch but well worth listening)
Dr. Nick Begich, his book and his articles can be found here
       http://www.earthpulse.com/      
Article on Chemtrails — unusual cloud formations in the US.
There was, of course, no admission that any change had taken place.
Merely it became known, with extreme suddenness and everywhere at once, that Eastasia and not Eurasia was the enemy.
George Orwell 1984
The law of unintended consequences:
Zbigniew Brzezinski, National Security Advisor under Carter, acknowleded in a 1998 interview with Le Nouvel Observateur that the Carter administration began funding the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan six months before the Soviets invaded (a statement corroborated by former CIA director Robert Gates).
Brzezinski:  "According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979.
"But the reality, secretly guarded until now, is completely otherwise:  Indeed, it was July 3, 1979 that President Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul.
"And that very day, I wrote a note to the president in which I explained to him that in my opinion this aid was going to induce a Soviet military intervention."
Question:  When the Soviets justified their intervention by asserting that they intended to fight against a secret involvement of the United States in Afghanistan, people didn't believe them.  However, there was a basis of truth.  You don't regret anything today?
Brzezinski:  "Regret what?  That secret operation was an excellent idea.
"It had the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and you want me to regret it?
"The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border, I wrote to President Carter:  We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war."
At this point in history, one need hardly elaborate on the short-sightedness of a policy which sought to give the Soviets their own Vietnam at the small cost of a few "stirred up Muslims".
But for the rare, obtuse reader, let's state it flat out: there's a direct line leading from this ill-conceived decision to the events of September 11, 2001.
But the principal, underlying cause was that, as early as the beginning of the twentieth century, human equality had become technically possible.
It was still true that men were not equal in their native talents and that functions had to be specialized in ways that favoured some individuals against others; but there was no longer any real need for class distinctions or for large differences of wealth.
In earlier ages, class distinctions had been not only inevitable but desirable.
Inequality was the price of civilization.
With the development of machine production, however, the case was altered.
Even if it was still necessary for human beings to do different kinds of work, it was no longer necessary for them to live at different social or economic levels.
Therefore, from the point of view of the new groups who were on the point of seizing power, human equality was no longer an ideal to be striven after, but a danger to be averted.
In more primitive ages, when a just and peaceful society was in fact not possible, it had been fairly easy to believe it.
The idea of an earthly paradise in which men should live together in a state of brotherhood, without laws and without brute labour, had haunted the human imagination for thousands of years.
And this vision had had a certain hold even on the groups who actually profited by each historical change.
US Hunter Drones now killing people
US military hailing the killing operation as the first of its kind
The heirs of the French, English, and American revolutions had partly believed in their own phrases about the rights of man, freedom of speech, equality before the law, and the like, and have even allowed their conduct to be influenced by them to some extent.
But by the fourth decade of the twentieth century all the main currents of political thought were authoritarian.
The earthly paradise had been discredited at exactly the moment when it became realizable.
Every new political theory, by whatever name it called itself, led back to hierarchy and regimentation.
And in the general hardening of outlook that set in round about 1930, practices which had been long abandoned, in some cases for hundreds of years — imprisonment without trial, the use of war prisoners as slaves, public executions, torture to extract confessions, the use of hostages, and the deportation of whole populations — not only became common again, but were tolerated and even defended by people who considered themselves enlightened and progressive.
      George Orwell 1984      
                          To rebel is right, to disobey is a duty, to act is necessary !
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Reflections on Orwell
In the end the party would announce that 2 plus 2 made 5, and you would have to believe it.
It was inevitable that they should make that claim, sooner or later, the logic of their position demanded it.
George Orwell, in 1984
BuzzFlash: Eason Jordan, the former head of CNN News, was fired for allegedly suggesting, off-the-record, that the U.S. military had targeted journalists in Iraq.
He quickly back pedaled, yet he was still "resigned," so to speak.
Now the facts indicate that Jordan was right.
For instance, an attack on an Al Jazeera reporter was recorded on film in the documentary "Control Room."
We also had the deadly attack by American soldiers on journalists at the Palestine Hotel.
We’ve had reports of numerous reporters killed in the field, and just this week Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena was shot, even though these people were known reporters.
The bottom line: Orwellian or not?
Robert Kane Pappas: In 1984, Winston Smith worked for the Ministry of Truth, in the department that rewrote past news items to make them conform to the present political realities.
As his assignments came in, his daily creative endeavors concerned intuiting how the party might want this done.
Winston says:
"All that was needed was an unending series of victories over your own memory."
It’s uncanny how close his job seems to today’s lackey editors.
Imagine today’s news correspondents’ mental gymnastics.
They were wringing their hands over the Ukrainian exit polls, using them as a basis to call that election into question, but they were unable to mention (or remember?) what had occurred in their own country only weeks before.
Straight-faced irony worthy of Winston Smith.
I think it was November 4th of 2004 that I was listening to "Imus in the Morning," which had a phone interview with Jeff Greenfield of CNN.
Imus asked something like, "What about this disparity between the exit polls and the vote?"
Greenfield set him straight immediately (I paraphrase): "Oh that’s all clear now, we found out through the exit polls that to voters it was about values . . . this was the unforeseen factor that made all those new voters break for Bush" . . . (voters who historically break for the challenger).
Judging from his tone of voice, Greenfield had already internalized the new truth.
That was it.
End of analysis.
End of Imus’ foray into exit poll discrepancies.
As Orwell wrote, "All that was needed was an unending series of victories over your own memory."
Australian police doing bidding of their criminal elite paymasters
BuzzFlash: Just when you think it can’t get more Orwellian, it does.
A guy who made his living as a prostitute was doing a daytime gig as a White House shill in the press room, even though he never had any legitimate journalism credentials — and the mainstream press largely ran from the story as if it were the plague.
Maybe the D.C. reporters, the journalism prostitutes in the White House press corps, sympathized with Gannon/Guckert?
Robert Kane Pappas: Those journalists who speak too plainly, who dig too deep, disappear — not in the 1984 sense of being vaporized, but they disappear from the airwaves.
Witness Eason Jordan, Dan Rather.
Career implosions are not lost on journalists who want to survive in the mainstream.
Helen Thomas, White House reporter for 10 Presidents, questions Bush prior to Iraq invasion.  Suddenly, she’s no longer called on.  Banished to the back of the room.
Then a new guy is called upon by the President, Jeff Gannon.
No credentials, advertises himself as a gay escort.
But not digging too deep into Gannon is safe.
It’s curious that criminal allegations about Rush Limbaugh and sexual harassment charges against Bill O’Reilly did not derail their careers.
But not dotting all the i’s on a report about Bush’s military service was a career killer.
Highlighting that contradiction in the wrong venue would be one as well.
BuzzFlash: The Democrats still think they can win by debating public policy.  But it appears to us that, particularly for those who rely on mainstream news coverage, it’s almost impossible to figure out what the facts are on any public policy issue.  How do you think we can overcome this problem?
Robert Kane Pappas: One of the underlying notions of "Orwell Rolls In His Grave" is not being able to see the forest for the trees.  What strikes me about the present string of outrages is that, as they pile on, even thoughtful people almost don’t know what to say — you lose the forest.
We BuzzFlash readers have to fix upon the opposition’s vulnerabilities, and attack, attack, attack.  The individual examples of jaw-dropping corruption and cronyism will not stop.  With each new incident, a big portion of the Left says to itself: "No way they can get away with this—it’s too blatant, the media is going to jump on this," but then the media drops it, again.  This won’t change, the big lie is in place.
We, like the Right in the early 70’s, have to fund ourselves, and attack relentlessly at the structural level, and we have to fund that attack in a big way, and it can’t be 3 famous lefties, we need a thousand populist economic, journalistic, legal, sociological and philosophical experts attacking the corporate media.
One other thing.  My guess is that most Jews in Germany couldn’t bring themselves to believe that Hitler would try to exterminate them.
Although not directly comparable, I don’t believe most people on the Left can make themselves believe that the Bush gang actually systematically stole the 2004 election, and that 2000 and 2002 were trial runs.
It’s too earth-shaking to accept that the other side is not playing by some basic rules.  But I’m sure somewhere in his mind, George Orwell was utterly certain that what he was describing in 1984 could happen in spades.
BuzzFlash: In your fabulous documentary, "Orwell Rolls," which several thousand BuzzFlash readers have ordered, you end with a slightly hopeful note.
In the film, Charles Lewis suggests that there is a narrow window of opportunity with the Internet for free speech to reassert itself.
But that window may close up if the major Broadband and DSL providers charge a fee for posting on their "tubes."
What’s left after that, holding up signs on a street corner?
Robert Kane Pappas: I’m not technically savvy enough to say how the large media corporations will try to control the the Internet—but I am certain that they will try.
They have to, the Internet is a threat.
From those I have spoken with, saving the Internet’s open character should be job #1.
The problem is that these companies think ahead, so watch for a solution to some other problem — say terrorism or child porn or identity theft — and the solution to that will include an element with the "unforeseeable" consequence of changing the Internet.
"Unforeseeable" . . . sure.
Once the change is made, it becomes a fact on the ground and becomes very hard to get rid of.
Kind of like making tax cuts permanent.
The other issue is FCC regulation of the high speed Internet, this issue is being debated in the courts.
Michael Powell had it decreed an informational network, not subject to regulation.  At least one court has disagreed.
One more note on the Internet.  Watch out for mutations in the copyright debate.  Media corporations have identified this area as a method to control, and to maximize income.
BuzzFlash: Okay, let’s get to the bottom line, as in profits.  Isn’t it sort of strange that the man who ultimately oversees CBS News is the vice-president of Viacom?
You cover the multimedia conglomerate ownership of the "information industry" in your documentary.  But it appears to be getting worse all the time. 
We have a one-party government in bed with the so-called news industry, which is really not a news industry at all.  It’s a public relations profit center.
Every day we wake up with new "truths," the old ones erased as if the blackboard had been cleaned.  How do we get the truth out to people in Oklahoma?
Robert Kane Pappas: I think Mark Crispin Miller puts his finger on it in my film.  To paraphrase him: "...we need antitrust activity, not for economic reasons, primarily, but because the crucial content of the news is corrupted by these large commercial entities."
Informing the public, while conceiving of it as a purely bottom line activity, has tragic consequences.
Regulators and legislators, drunk on the "free market is god" mantra, are profoundly harming this country.
In different countries around the world, including ours, politicians fear taking on Rupert Murdoch because he can destroy political careers.
BuzzFlash: Dan Rather got "resigned" for airing purportedly phony National Guard letters about Bush that were, by all accounts, filled with the truth.
When we have an allegedly phony document that contains the truth, isn’t it kind of Orwellian to ignore the truth and just say it’s all phony?
Robert Kane Pappas: There appears to be a calculus to killing stories.
First, try not to respond to their main thrusts, but, rather, find an ostensible flaw in some minor point in that story, or attack the person related to the story.
Presto, the story is now tainted.
The expert-spokesman methodology of the corporate media makes this very easy to do.
The common joke, that the networks would pit two experts, one saying the world is flat, the other saying it’s round, is unfortunately, all too true.
Stop this elite criminal war
BuzzFlash: What has happened to journalists’ role in holding government accountable?
Robert Kane Pappas: Something has happened since the Bush administration took power.  They are off limits for the media in some ways past administrations clearly were not, and for a couple of reasons.
First, the Republicans now control all three branches of government.  There simply cannot be a Congressional investigation into something they don’t want investigated.
Even in such cases as Ken Lay/Enron and secret Cheney energy meetings or the Valerie Plame CIA outing, suddenly the wheels of investigations are slowed down to a glacial pace and the story never achieves a major level of public awareness.
Meanwhile, the Martha Stewart case happens and justice moves with dispatch and huge media fanfare.  So there is no accountability in the Bush Administration, not Bush, not Cheney, not Rumsfeld, not Rice, no one.
But there is no accountability for another reason.  The Bush administration has a relationship with media corporations that is unprecedented.
For instance, Bush’s first cousin is John Ellis, who was head of FOX’s election desk on election night 2000.  FOX was the first network to call the election for George Bush.  Even more outlandish — Murdoch, who in my opinion controls a worldwide privatized propaganda service, is firmly in Bush’s camp; the FOX New Network is literally an arm of the Republican Party.
So through this relationship, they control a big hunk of the dynamics of the media feeding frenzy.
But this relationship has even further repercussions because the other giant media corporations give FOX a professional courtesy pass.
You will never hear another network mention that FOX, the patriotic network, is owned by a man who is from Australia, who changes citizenship as it suits him, and who is currently building a home outside of Beijing with his his 3rd wife, Chinese-born Wendi Deng, with whom he has 2 young children.
Murdoch controls a large portion of the Chinese media.
You will never hear this discussed in the mainstream news programs.  It’s like a mutual protection racket on a huge scale.
And just to top off this structural disaster, the administration controls the FCC, which can and does exert regulatory control over the networks.
Remember that last year many stations declined to air "Saving Private Ryan," essentially an anti-war film, even though it had been seen previously on TV.
BuzzFlash: We know Karl Rove stage manages every Bush appearance.  He only allows Republicans in, and reporters are confined to a pit that they cannot leave without a Soviet-style minder.
In fact, at the Inauguration reporters were not allowed to roam freely.
If they left their designated area, they had to be accompanied by a "minder."
And then there are the people arrested or removed from Bush events for wearing T-shirts that indicate they are Democrats.
Stalin must be smiling down on Bush as a protege.  What do you think?
Robert Kane Pappas: I’m staggered on a daily basis by what reporters fail to mention—for instance, how controlled the Bush campaign events were, who they let in, what they could bring to events.
At one event, boxes were used as set decorations to imply manufacturing jobs, but the boxes were stamped "Made in China" just off-screen.  It’s creepy.
Imagine a radio sports reporter not mentioning that the football game is being played in a blizzard.  It would be grounds for getting fired.  There’s way more truth in a "reality TV" show.
BuzzFlash: Former Ambassador Joe Wilson recently observed that so-called modern journalism feels the necessity to give each side their statement and then write up a story.
In short, the facts of one side get countered with the lies of the Bush administration, but the reporters don’t point out that they are lies.
Wasn’t the job of journalism at one time to get to the truth?
Robert Kane Pappas: Orwell wrote, "In the end the party would announce that 2 plus 2 made 5, and you would have to believe it.  It was inevitable that they should make that claim, sooner or later, the logic of their position demanded it."
Read the flip flops on how the Bush administration characterizes Social Security, their analysis of the tax cuts’ impact on deficits, the technique of repeating an untruth endlessly.
We witnessed this in the run-up to the Iraq War.
"WMD, WMD, WMD" — and it’s happening again.
The Social Security issue reminds me of the observation in 1984:
"There had been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to 20 grams a week.
And only yesterday, he [Winston] reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to 20 grams a week.
Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only 24 hours?
Yes, they swallowed it."
And Winston asks himself, "Was he, then, alone in the possession of a memory?"
BuzzFlash: Is it our imagination, or isn’t the front page of The New York Times looking more and more like Pravda everyday?
And we don’t mean that it’s Communist.  Quite to the contrary, it’s a Bushevik Neo-con Republican Pravda.
The ultimate irony, America’s paper of record is really just a regurgitation of White House spin.  Doesn’t Pravda mean truth?
Robert Kane Pappas: The spin process is very effective, both in newspaper reports and on TV and in radio.
If you make it your business to be informed, what happens is, you end up watching the mainstream news with your mouth hanging open.
If you watch only what they offer, you’re largely intellectually lobotomized.
Your opinions are determined by two-and-three-word sound bites:
"Death Tax"
"Conspiracy Theory"
"They hate our Freedoms"
"Democracy"
"Liberal Bias"
"Class Warfare."
As Winston’s co-worker Syme says with glee:
"Every year, fewer and fewer words, and the range of consciousness always a little smaller."
BuzzFlash: Once again, thanks for reminding us of Orwell’s wisdom.
Robert Kane Pappas: You’re very welcome.
Robert Kane Pappas is the director of the mass media-critiquing documentary, beloved by BuzzFlash readers, "Orwell Rolls in His Grave."
This week he agreed to revisit George Orwell’s prophetic anti-utopian novel, 1984, and to reflect on recent events in terms of Orwell’s vision of a nightmarish future.
Are we there yet?
A BUZZFLASH INTERVIEW
http://www.buzzflash.com/interviews/05/03/int05012.html
Posted by : Buzzflash
Thursday 10th March 2005
Part of the reason for this was that in the past no government had the power to keep its citizens under constant surveillance.
The invention of print, however, made it easier to manipulate public opinion, and the film and the radio carried the process further.
With the development of television, and the technical advance which made it possible to receive and transmit simultaneously on the same instrument, private life came to an end.
Every citizen, or at least every citizen important enough to be worth watching, could be kept for twenty-four hours a day under the eyes of the police and in the sound of official propaganda, with all other channels of communication closed.
The possibility of enforcing not only complete obedience to the will of the State, but complete uniformity of opinion on all subjects, now existed for the first time.
      George Orwell 1984      
There was, of course, no admission that any change had taken place.
Merely it became known, with extreme suddenness and everywhere at once, that Eastasia and not Eurasia was the enemy.
George Orwell 1984
Australian police doing bidding of their criminal elite paymasters
Trying to find terrorists
BAGHDAD — The public war on the Iraqi insurgency has led to an atmosphere of hidden brutalities, including abuse and torture, carried out against detainees by the nation's special security forces, according to defense lawyers, international organizations and Iraq's Ministry of Human Rights.
Up to 60% of the estimated 12,000 detainees in the country's prisons and military compounds face intimidation, beatings or torture that leads to broken bones and sometimes death, said Saad Sultan, head of a board overseeing the treatment of prisoners at the Human Rights Ministry.
He added that police and security forces attached to the Interior Ministry are responsible for most abuses.
The units have used tactics reminiscent of Saddam Hussein's secret intelligence squads, according to the ministry and independent human rights groups and lawyers, who have cataloged abuses.
"We've documented a lot of torture cases," said Sultan, whose committee is pushing for wider access to Iraqi-run prisons across the nation.
Torture — Most worked during Saddam's regime.
"There are beatings, punching, electric shocks to the body, including sensitive areas, hanging prisoners upside down and beating them and dragging them on the ground….  Many police officers come from a culture of torture from their experiences over the last 35 years.  Most of them worked during Saddam's regime."
The ordeal described by Hussam Guheithi is similar to many cases.
When Iraqi national guardsmen raided his home last month, the 35-year-old Sunni Muslim imam said they lashed him with cables, broke his nose and promised to soak their uniforms with his blood.
He was blindfolded and driven to a military base, where he was interrogated and beaten until the soldiers were satisfied that he wasn't an extremist.
At the end of nine days, Guheithi said, the guardsmen told him, "You have to bear with us.  You know the situation now.  We're trying to find terrorists."
But it was also clear that an all-round increase in wealth threatened the destruction — indeed, in some sense was the destruction — of a hierarchical society.
In a world in which everyone worked short hours.
Had enough to eat.
Lived in a house with a bathroom and a refrigerator.
And possessed a motor-car or even an aeroplane.
The most obvious and perhaps the most important form of inequality would already have disappeared.
If it once became general, wealth would confer no distinction.
It was possible, no doubt, to imagine a society in which wealth, in the sense of personal possessions and luxuries, should be evenly distributed, while power remained in the hands of a small privileged caste.
But in practice such a society could not long remain stable.
For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate and would learn to think for themselves.
And when once they had done this, they would sooner or later realize that the privileged minority had no function, and they would sweep it away.
In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance.
      George Orwell 1984      
                          To rebel is right, to disobey is a duty, to act is necessary !
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Save Democracy, Shut Off Chris Matthews
Sound the alarm!
America, the land of the free, is now under attack.
Not by Al Qaeda.
Not by Iraqi "insurgents"
Not by an enemy confronted on foreign soil.
Not even by one that homeland security could ever stop.
It is an insidious, invisible assailant, more hidden than a terrorist cell.
It is one that invades virtually every American household on a daily basis without leaving a trace of its deceitful, dangerous nature.
Its whores, draped in dignified apparel, sit in front of the American flag, speaking with an air of genuineness and concern for public welfare, while all along, their statements are empty rhetoric.
Politically motivated!
Aimed at distracting!
Misinforming!
Programming!
And keeping Americans ignorant!
All for the narrowest of self-interest based on pathological obsession with the bottom line.
Indonesia seeking access to 72 migrant workers kept at US military camps in Iraq despite ending of employment contracts
New York Times important trader in media deception
You don’t have to look at the blatant examples of "fake news" such as Armstrong Williams or Jeff Gannon (AKA Jim Guckert) or the contrived, infrequent press conferences the White House stages to see this.
Even the New York Times has become an important trader in this media deception.
After keeping up the pretense of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq was no longer profitable, the New York Times printed an editorial note confessing its tendency to accept the word of official government sources about WMDs without carefully investigating them.
Like a child caught with its hand in the cookie jar, it "came clean" — a cheap, self-serving form of repentance buried in an editor’s note instead of transparently plastered on its own front page.
But what it didn’t admit was its own corporate pressures to tread lightly on the government.
The Times Corporation was, in fact, a major lobbyist before the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), seeking further deregulation of media ownership.
Trading favors with it
Far from being the watchful media eye on government, keeping the public up to speed on corruption in the Bush administration, it was trading favors with it.
And why did so many Americans believe there was a connection between Saddam Hussein and Bin Laden?
Association psychology worked like a charm when Bush mentioned these names in the same breath.
But the media did nothing to dispel the myth.
Worse, it helped to propagate it by repeating official government sources — like Cheney — instead of doing its own investigative reporting.
It was more "cost effective" to parrot official sources than to spend money to probe and investigate.
Tanks to protect the criminal elite puppet masters
When CNN, "The most trusted name in news" presented the story of the Abu Ghraib prison abuses, it reported that Bush was "concerned" about the abuses, not that he said he was concerned.
Concerned about protecting his own hide
If the abuses were ordered from the top, he would have surely been concerned, but primarily about protecting his own hide; but the press didn’t look into that.
When Bush’s back bulged with a cylindrical receiver-looking appearance, as caught in a photo taken by a Fox News photographer during the first presidential debate, the NY Times dismissed the story with a simple quotation from a Bush Campaign official denying any credibility.
Again there was no follow up.
Yet there was a vivid picture displaying the curious bulge along with an extended discussion on Salon.com.
And, after the election, when a Berkeley study emerged with credible evidence that the exit polls could not have been so far off, the Times along with the rest of the mainstream media followed suit in dismissing the possibility of election fraud.
In contrast, when the Ukraine, came up with such skewed election results, the election was declared invalid and a new one was conducted.
When Haiti’s President Aristide phoned Maxine Waters and others and claimed that he did not resign but was instead kidnapped by the US and French forces, the media played it down.
Complete nonsense
The New York Times buried the story on page 10 only to dismiss the allegations with an official White House rejection of the claim as "complete nonsense."
Brit Hume on Fox, in his usual fashion, parroted back Colin Powell’s comments, saying "he wasn’t kidnapped... he went on the plane willingly, and that’s the truth."
And the rest is history.
Examples of media soft peddling government can be multiplied ad nauseam.
There can be just one conclusion: the corporate media is succeeding in keeping Americans uninformed, and worse, misinformed.
Censorship, government propaganda, parroting of official government sources, and media manipulation have replaced careful investigative reporting as the norm.
Violates Constitutional safeguards on diversity
And things continue to worsen as the government finds ways (some more subtle than others) to relax media ownership rules to let fewer and fewer media giants control more and more markets.
This trend toward government deregulation of corporate media ownership violates Constitutional safeguards on diversity, public interest and the capacity to self-govern.
The popular rebuttal that we now have more stations so, therefore, more diversity, is a glaring fallacy.
When these bountiful stations have but a few owners, a few very wealthy ones, it’s not hard to see what side of the political divide they’ll land on.
There is, of course, the Internet, the last bastion of free speech.
When there is chatter on the Net, it’s often hard for the mainstream media to ignore it.
But corporate media presence on the Net is expanding and there is now a threat looming to the free access architecture of the Internet itself.
Corporate media has increasingly been successful at controlling the cables that carry information.
As more and more Americans switch from dial up modems to high-speed cable connections, they will inevitably be restricted to one ISP provider — Comcast, Adelphia, or some other large corporation.
The problem is that whoever controls the conduit can control the content.
Unless corporate media is stopped, this last bastion of democracy will also topple.
So, the question is how to stop these dangerous, degenerative, media trends.
Currently, there is a burgeoning grass roots movement against media consolidation.
Even the NRA has joined forces with NOW to oppose deregulation.
Media activist organizations like the Free Press have organized grass roots campaigns resulting in literally millions of letters sent to Congress protesting deregulation, and over 700,000 letters were sent to the FCC.
Michael Powell has now resigned as chair of the FCC.
He had been unwilling to listen to this growing public outcry against deregulation of the corporate media.
As this movement builds there is a future opportunity for the FCC to heed the word, and stop this degenerative, media metastasis that is devouring free speech in the U.S.
So Americans need to fight back.
Stop the criminal elite
Not private property of corporate monsters
The air waves are public property, not the private property of these corporate monsters.
To slay these mighty dragons we need to stop patronizing them.
Like Freddie Kruger, they can only exist as long as we stay tuned.
They need us to survive, but we no longer need them.
The Internet is still a place to go to find out things about America and about the world.
Shut off CNN
We can go on line to read the Guardian in London instead of the New York Times, and we can shut off CNN and go to Salon.com or MotherJones.com.
We can shut off Chris Matthews and the other media whores and check out Znet or BuzzFlash or Mediachannel.org.
There is a "Media Reform Information Center" you can also visit to get a useful list of enlightened media outlets.
BuzzFlash also publishes a list on their website.
The corporate media is not transparent, but there are organizations like the Free Press and Common Cause that have taken on the cause of exposing the mainstream corporate media for the charlatans that they really are.
So long as the Internet remains a democratic forum, we need to avail ourselves of these resources.
Most powerful, secretive government in U.S. history
But our time is limited as corporate media in collusion with the most powerful, secretive government in U.S. history increases its control over information.
This formidable enemy would like nothing better than to keep Americans ignorant and gullible.
It is urgent that we arm ourselves with information.
This is the proverbially stake through the heart of totalitarianism.
Without a free press, that’s just where we’re heading!
Unite, Americans, we have nothing to lose but our (corporate) chains!
Posted Sunday 13th March 2005
"Now I will tell you the answer to my question.  It is this.
The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake.
We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power.
Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power.
What pure power means you will understand presently.
We are different from all the oligarchies of the past, in that we know what we are doing.
All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites.
The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives.
They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just round the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal.
We are not like that.
We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.
Power is not a means, it is an end.
One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
The object of persecution is persecution.
The object of torture is torture.
The object of power is power.
Now do you begin to understand me?"
      George Orwell 1984      
          
Weapons of Mass Deception
Monday 25 April 2005
By Christian Hendersonn
 
Schechter analysed the US mainstream media for his film
In the prelude to the war, the Bush administration hinted at the existence of a link between Iraq and the attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon.
However, intelligence investigations commissioned by the White House and Congress have since determined the suggested links were false.
According to Danny Schechter, a media veteran of almost 40 years who nicknamed himself the News Dissector, the 70% figure suggests US media failed their public and led them to believe a baseless claim.
As the invasion played out on television screens around the world, Schechter "self-embedded" in his living room and examined US media coverage of the war.
He turned his conclusions into Weapons of Mass Deception www.wmdthefilm.com, a documentary film that examines how the media covered the war.
In the post-September 11 nationalistic ardour, the film concludes the US mainstream media failed to challenge Washington over its reasons for going to war, shut out anti-war voices and blurred the lines between commentary and journalism.
Aljazeera.net spoke to Schechter on the sidelines of last week's Aljazeera Television Productions Festival in the Qatari capital, Doha, where Weapons of Mass Deception was shown.
Aljazeera.net:  Why did you make this film?
Danny Schechter:  I have been a journalist since the 1960s.  And in some ways, this project grew out of a lifetime of work. I worked in radio; I worked in local television; I worked in cable news; I worked in ABC; I worked in mainstream and I worked in independent [media] so I think I had a wide range of experience.
I have also written six books about media issues, so I have had a chance to think about it more deeply; I think all that uniquely qualified me to take on this project.
Aljazeera.net:  What are you trying to do in this film?
Danny Schechter:  I try to offer some fresh insights.  I also try to speak to journalists about what this means in terms of our responsibilities to challenge and what this means in terms of democracy.
In the film, I make the suggestion that the Bush administration practices deception as part of its strategy and military strategy.
WMD accuses the US media of group think 
We know that everything they were saying about WMD (Weapons of Mass Destruction)and the link with Usama [bin Laden] were not true and many of us knew it then and we said so, but everyone was saying something different.
Now, with study after study they say it was "group think" in the intelligence community.  That's why they screwed up.
If there was group think in the intelligence community, what about the journalistic community?  There was group think there, too.
Aljazeera.net:  Are you influenced by Noam Chomsky and his theory of manufacturing consent?
Danny Schechter:  Noam Chomsky doesn't watch television; he is more of an analyst of the New York Times and elite journalism so I didn't go to him for an interview.
I was more interested in journalists who covered the war and how they were debating it.  So I feel that Chomsky had a brilliant analysis of media, but more of it is oriented toward print.  It doesn't always take into account the techniques of the media.
Aljazeera.net:  What do you think of Chomsky's critics who accuse him of overestimating the sophistication of media control, and that - in reality - it is more to do with day-to-day decisions and market forces?
Danny Schechter:  I don't buy the conspiracy theories of media.  I remember a group of Syrians came to our office and they said:  'We agree with you because we really know the Jews run everything.'  This was their analysis.  I said, excuse me, Rupert Murdoch is not Jewish the last time I looked.
You know the problem is corporate media and corporate-controlled media and how they operate within their framework.
Aljazeera.net:  What do you mean when you use the term post-journalism era?
Danny Schechter:  Journalism is at a crossroads.  There are many journalists today who still believe in the values of journalism but who are frustrated by the difficulty of practicing it because the companies they work for do not really respect journalistic principles.  What they are there to do is satisfy their bottom line concerns, they have closed bureau after bureau.
 
The film accuses the media of shutting out anti-war voices
There has been a pattern of dumbing down, and by dumbing it down it means people inside media are dumbing themselves down.  They are not asking good questions, they are not challenging official narratives the way they should be.
If you look at Fox News, there is very little journalism, very little reporting.  Mostly it is talk shows posing as news programmes and [they are] opinion driven, you have three times more pundits on air as opposed to journalists.  That's another sign of the post-journalism era.
Aljazeera.net:  Are blogs an alternative to mainstream media sources?
There are now 10 million blogs.  Of those, maybe 10% claim to be journalistic.  Some of the bloggers are very responsible, really challenging and doing investigative digging that mainstream media are not.

Some are motivated just by ideological concerns. Recently, for example, Eason Jordan, the former chief of news at CNN - when he said at Davos 12 journalists had been killed by US soldiers there was a big shock and he was forced to resign.  In that case, a blogger took an off-the-record meeting and just blasted it out there with out having a full record of what was said.
I think a lot of blogging can be very irresponsible and some of it is sponsored by political forces by the Republican party or the Democrat party and the like, so it has a political and ideological not a journalistic function.
But in my blog www.mediachannel.org what I try to do every day is take the top stories and report what is not being reported by comparing and contrasting.
Aljazeera.net:  You credit American journalists who helped you make this film.  Do you think many in the US media are sympathetic to your message?
Journalists review copies of the 9/11 Commission report
 
Danny Schechter:  Whenever I talk to people in the media off the record, including anchormen, people are very supportive, people slip me footage from various networks.  People are very helpful, but a lot of them are living in a lot of fear.  Everybody feels vulnerable, people have mortgages; they have families - it's difficult to be courageous.
Many American media people feel vulnerable and as if they are being bullied, they feel totally insecure.  In the culture of the newsroom, if you put your head up, it will get chopped off.  Everybody is getting along by going along and that's a dangerous kind of conformity.
Aljazeera.net:  If the US is involved in another war, how do you think it will be reported in the US media?  Do you think the media have learned from some of the mistakes of the Iraq war.
Danny Schechter:  The institutional practices have not changed.  I feel like the coverage of the elections was very similar to the coverage of the war.  The same templates are being used, the same approach, the lack of political scrutiny, the lack of other voices, the way things are being framed, the lack of investigative checking.
The American media reported the Iraqi elections as a great victory for democracy.  Everyone else reported them and asked Iraqis why they were voting and they said to get the Americans out and to end the occupation.  Their reasons are very different from the way it was presented on American televisions.  So we still have this propaganda system, in effect, but its credibility is starting to be questioned.  And I hope my film will contribute to that.
What I want to see is more journalists taking more responsibility for what they do and showing more solidarity when other journalists are shot and killed.
How many people in the American media protested the killing of Tariq Ayub [Aljazeera's correspondent slain in Baghdad by US fire on 8 April 2003]?  That was blatant, a completely blatant assassination and yet nobody said a word.  We need to challenge that and show more solidarity with other media workers.
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       Catherine Austin Fitts — Dillon Reid and Co. Inc. And the Aristocracy of Stock Profits      
       US used white phosphorus chemical and thermobaric fuel-air weapons      
       War Crimes — Fallujah — Graphic Images    
This is the worst environmental president we’ve had in American history.
If you look at NRDC’s website you’ll see over 400 major environmental roll backs that are listed there that have been implemented or proposed by this administration over the past four years as part of a deliberate concerted effort to eviscerate 30 years of environmental law.
It’s a stealth attack.
The White House has used all kinds of ingenious machinations to try to conceal its radical agenda from the American people including Orwellian rhetoric.
When they want to destroy the forests, they call it the Healthy Forest Act.
When they wanted to destroy the air, they called it the Clear Skies Bill.
But most insidiously, they have put polluters in charge of virtually all the agencies that are supposed to protect Americans from pollution.
      Robert F. Kennedy, Jr      
      Speech delivered at the Sierra Summit 2005      
UZBEKISTAN:  AUTHORITIES INTENSIFY STATE PROPAGANDA ON ANDIJON TRAGEDY
Gulnoza Saidazimova 8/14/05
The fight for the hearts and minds of Uzbeks has intensified since the Andijon bloodshed on 13 May.   The government has clamped down on independent journalists and led a campaign against foreign media for reports that contradict the official version of the events.   State propaganda now seems to be getting the upper hand, with television broadcasts of so-called "documentaries" about Andijon.   One of the films shows Akram Yuldoshev, whom the government accuses of founding the alleged Akramiya Islamist group.   In the film, Yuldoshev admits to being behind the May unrest — despite the fact that he has been in prison since 1999.
AZERBAIJAN
Photo: Shahin Abbasov for EurasiaNet
As Azeri parliamentary elections slated for November drift closer, government crackdowns on opposition movements are once again becoming more common.
Controversial events, including the recent arrest of the head of the Yeni Fikir political youth organization and the quashing of a government opposition rally in Baku, seen here, are slowly stoking antagonism between pro-government supporters and opposition members in Azerbaijan.
Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA, a prominent opposition party) headquarters have become the target for regular attacks by pro-government protestors throwing stones, eggs, and tomatoes.   City police, usually quick to crack down on unauthorized street actions, have not acted vigorously to stop the protests.   On August 8, police forces could be seen pinning PFPA members up against the building, while protestors attempted to enter it.
Asked whether the protest had been authorized by police, Kamal Velishev, deputy chief of the Sabayil district police department supervising police forces at the rally, told EurasiaNet that the street action did not qualify as a "picket" and, therefore, did not require official approval before it could be held.   In a statement to Turan news agency, the Interior Ministry characterized the demonstrations as "popular protests" that do not require police intervention, adding that the police "just control the situation."   Eight people were injured during the August 8 protest.
PFPA members have denounced the protests as an attempt to fuel discord.   PFPA leader Ali Kerimli charged that the government was behind the attacks.   "We have information from inside the government about a special plan of provocation aimed at capturing the PFPA headquarters," said Kerimli, who has urged party members to stay inside the building and not respond.
The PFPA claimed that at an August 10 meeting, Minister of Youth, Sports and Tourism Abulfaz Garayev urged athletes to actively participate in the demonstrations against PFPA.   The ministry has denied the charge, but a PFPA press release went on to claim that its office in Lankaran had been attacked on August 10 by a group of athletes under the direction of Azad Kazimov, head of the ministry’s Lankaran branch.   The party also claimed that members of its branch in the exclave of Nakhichivan were severely beaten by police and unidentified assailants on August 9.
Pro-government television channels and newspapers financed by the government have broadcast and published a steady stream of stories attacking opposition political forces, echoing the charges voiced during anti-PFPA street protests.
The film "Temptation Leading Toward The Abyss" was broadcast on Uzbek state television on 30 July.
It shows Yuldoshev asking forgiveness from the Uzbek people and admitting he was behind the Andijon bloodshed, which broke out between police forces and public demonstrators protesting the arrest and trial of 23 local businessmen accused of religious extremism.   Authorities say the unrest led to the death of 187 people, including many police officers and government troops.   Human rights groups put the number much higher.
"I am the greatest culprit in the past events, because it was I who brought together 20 young men and urged them to take up arms," Yuldoshev says in the televised footage.   "During the [13 May] tragedy, I urged my religious brothers to start fighting jihad.   I issued a fatwa for this purpose.   Even though I knew that weapons were likely to be used and blood was likely to be shed, I issued a fatwa.   I am the greatest culprit, I am the greatest criminal, I am the most villainous man, I am to blame for this."
In the documentary, Yuldoshev also appears to implicate another alleged Akramiya member, Qobiljon Parpiev, in the unrest.   Parpiev, who was in the Andijon regional administration building on 13 May and held negotiations with Uzbek Interior Minister Zakir Almatov, managed to escape the violence.   He fled Uzbekistan and instantly became one of the country’s most wanted men.   Parpiev spoke to RFE/RL from an undisclosed location.
"I haven’t seen the film myself, but I spoke to those who had," Parpiev said.   "They and I believe [Yuldoshev] was in a very difficult situation.   He was tortured, because he looked very different — not like he looked before, when some people visited him [in prison].   He looked very thin and exhausted.   It was clear that he was tortured."
Another film, "The Flame of Ignorance," was broadcast on 5 August and was devoted to Andijon city prosecutor Ganijon Abdurahimov, who was killed, allegedly by Andijon militants, on 13 May.
Parpiev saw this video but said it was government troops — not his fellow demonstrators — who murdered Abdurahimov.
"In the previous video, they showed shots that, as they put it, were made by terrorists," Parpiev said.   "But if you noticed, they didn’t show any shots of demonstrators who were speaking at a microphone set up at the Bobur monument.   If they had shown them, people would see what Ganijon said that day.   He said he received an order from the government to try the 23 men a year ago.   He was shot by sniper as he said this.   Why would we kill him?   He was a witness.   We needed him.   He was the first they killed because of what he said."
Another video, "The Night That Shook the Golden Valley," broadcast on 16 July, accuses the international community of "having geopolitical interests in Central Asia" that have led to "attempts by some major powers to make Central Asia dependent on them" and "bring Uzbekistan under their control."
The international media also come under attack.   The video accuses foreign journalists of siding with alleged terrorists, saying:  "They tried to justify the criminal group armed with assault rifles, pistols, and Molotov cocktails.   They called them peaceful demonstrators, and then turned a blind eye to the aggression and onslaughts by the terrorists."
The state-sanctioned Andijon documentaries are seen as part of a government propaganda campaign aimed at convincing Uzbeks the official version of the events is true. Have they had the desired effect?   People in the Uzbek capital Tashkent appeared to have a mixed reaction.
"What can I say about the film?   One doesn’t know whom to believe," said one Uzbek woman.   "Everyone has his or her opinion.   If you ask my personal view, for example, I wouldn’t say I believed everything 100 percent."
"Yes, I believe it," said another woman.   "Finally, the people get a clear picture of what happened.   Rumors are disappearing now.   They showed how terrorists had used a peaceful population as human shields."
A third woman said:  "I saw two documentaries, but didn’t get an answer as to why the people went to the demonstration.   They didn’t tell it openly.   They should have explained the reasons of the people’s unrest.   There is always a reason.   But they hid it."
Bahodir Musaev, an independent sociologist from Tashkent, accused Uzbek authorities of adopting Soviet-style brainwashing — blocking the flow of independent information while intensifying their own propaganda efforts.   But Soviet methods are no longer effective, Musaev said.   People now understand there is often a vast difference between what authorities say and what is actually happening.
In addition, said Musaev, there are new sources of information, like the Internet, that are difficult to control.   That, in turn, dilutes the effect of state propaganda.
"I don’t think [the propaganda is effective]," Musaev said.   "I think no one takes it seriously because very few people watch our television.   It became clear several years ago that people didn’t trust our mass media.   I don’t know who [the authorities] want to deceive.   Only themselves?!"
Sharof Ubaydullaev, a Tashkent-based independent journalist, agreed and said the recent documentaries might backfire.
"It’s nothing but a fable, it’s a fable to say [Yuldoshev] was able to run everything from behind bars," Ubaydullaev said.   "Our secret service wants to convince us of this.   But don’t they understand that we are now even more likely to think of Akram Yuldoshev as a great, and even godlike, figure?   I think those who are doing all of this up should think of the possible consequences.   For example, the question that may arise is what has [the security service] been doing?   Hacking around?"
Both Ubaydullaev and Musaev said Uzbek officials are aware of the limited effect of state propaganda — but are using every means available to hold on to the power that was seriously challenged in Andijon.
Posted August 14, 2005 © Eurasianet
"We are the priests of power," he said. "God is power.  But at present power is only a word so far as you are concerned.
It is time for you to gather some idea of what power means.
The first thing you must realize is that power is collective.
The individual only has power in so far as he ceases to be an individual.
You know the Party slogan: "Freedom is Slavery".  Has it ever occurred to you that it is reversible?  Slavery is freedom.
Alone — free — the human being is always defeated.
It must be so, because every human being is doomed to die, which is the greatest of all failures.
But if he can make complete, utter submission, if he can escape from his identity, if he can merge himself in the Party so that he is the Party, then he is all-powerful and immortal.
The second thing for you to realize is that power is power over human beings.
Over the body but, above all, over the mind.
Power over matter — external reality, as you would call it — is not important.
Already our control over matter is absolute."
      George Orwell 1984      

Ludicrous Diversion - 7/7 London Bombings Documentary

On the 7th of July 2005 London was hit by a series of explosions.
There were calls for an impartial inquiry which have been rejected by the British Labour govenment.
Tony Blair described such an inquiry as a ‘ludicrous diversion’.
What don’t they want us to find out?
You probably think you know what happened that day.
But you don’t.
       Ludicrous Diversion - 7/7 London Bombings Documentary      

       Click here     
       Last time we checked this was still allowed     
       Read the work here —          
       More on George Orwell —          
       Alternate site to read the work —          
       US Dention centers       
       Rise of Paramilitary Police Raids in America      
       State of the Union      
       Fake News technique — News culture divorced from reality          
       Suicide Bombing  Blair, Bush      
       Suicide Bombing is response to foreign occupation      
       Will stop once troops withdraw      
       Twenty Questions Radio/TV interviewers avoid asking about Israel      
       Which parts of the Declaration of Human Rights and Geneva Conventions don't Israelis understand?      
       Why is Israel still stealing Palestinian land for more illegal construction?      
        BBC bias towards Israel        
       Atrocities —        

       US and Israel atrocities        
       Israel using chemical weapons and phosphorous bombs.                Photos of Lebanon attacks on population by Israel        
       Injuries from White Phosphorus bombs        
      U.S. doctors linked to POW `torture'     
      They took a scalpel to my right chest     
      CIA MI6 — Penis cut       
      Guantanamo Hunger Strikers being tortured        
        Torture and America         
       Torture by US doctors, medics, psychologists and military personnel         
1984 — the movie
1984 — produced in 1954 movie
Unspeakable grief and horror
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                        ...and the circus of deception killing continues...
Most recent 'Circus of Killing' click here
— 2009
He says, "You are quite mad, Kewe"
And of course I am.
Why, I don't believe any of it — not the bloody body, not the bloody mind, not even the bloody Universe, or is it bloody multiverse.
"It's all illusion," I say.   "Don't you know, my lad, my lassie.   The game!   The game, me girl, me boy!   Takes on interest, don't you know.   T'is me sport, till doest find a better!"
Pssssst — but all this stuff is happening down here
Let's change it!
 
 





       Patriot Act — Iraq 2005 — Doris Colmes escaped Nazi Germany in 1938        
       Simple Questions — Iraq June 2005 photos         
      U.S. War Crimes — Falluja photos — Graphic Images      

      US used chemical and thermobaric weapons in Fallujah     
       Depleted Uranium — its use in Afghanistan, Iraq, Balkans      

       Photos of Iraq children being born deformed          
      The real news is the shady April 2002 deal to go to war,      
      the cynical use of the U.N. to provide an excuse,      
      and the secret, illegal air war without the backing of Congress       

       Downing Street Memo — How Bush and Blair took us all for a ride         
       Blair Brown Campbell Goldsmith Hoon Straw       
       U.S. and British bombing raids illegal.        
   US Fascism —
       Power, suffering,
           federal police,
              anti-terrorism act,
                  protection of people and state —
       Seed destruction —       
       Terminator seeds —        
       Globalization —        
       Rich corporations destroying the environment         
      Fire almost here       
      Work has intensified to a fever pitch      
       The role of the media in the second gulf war
Comprehensive study of how we were deceived by the media with links and photos
by New Zealand Editor Alastair Thompson         
Iraq — Death — Injury and Torture
— Military industrial complex
— Democracy in Thrall
       Bolivia — Indigenous Revolt Evo Morales President         
      In the dreamtime      
      Tough love in the wild, wild west            
       Globalization         
       Mental Health disorders effecting returning US troops       
       US and  War — Interview with George Galloway       
       Most religious people are on the same side as most progressive people        
       Hiroshima, Nagasaki — the bombs that incinerated 200,000 people — George Weller report         
       The Politics of Anti-Semitism      
       99 US Senators, 350 US House members attend AIPAC May, 2005 meeting     
       US veteran Mothers against the war:       

       So anyway that filth-spewer and warmonger, George Bush       
       was speaking after the tragedy of the marines in Ohio...        
      Coca-Cola and Plachimada, India        
      Deregulation, Accumulation of wealth       
      — India resistance and corporations       
      — India photos         

      Democracy in the United States and most of the rest of the industrial West
      is therefore a false front on a rich man’s mansion, a sham in which people are 
      given a political vote but then clock in each day to an economic system where
      their entire lives are regimented by a small group of executives busily downsizing
      whatever workplace rights people had gained in centuries of struggle.

      Agent Orange — Vietnam     
      Cleft palates      
      Mentally challenged      
      Extra fingers toes     
      How to End the War — Naomi Klein      
        Global weather, environment and climate change — includes photos      
       Why did you cut down the trees Grandma?       
       State of the World's Garden       
       Listing of Iraq War — includes photos       
       I beheld the wretch — the miserable monster whom I had created          
       World is actually running out of oil       
       Corporate toadies — John Kerry, John Edwards, Hillary Rodham Clinton — March 2005 Anti-war photos         
       The Negative Return Economy — a discourse on America’s black budget      
       Fascinating and lucrative    
       Black Budget?   What Black Budget?    
       With Bush's reinauguration, America now has the president it deserves      
        — Bush's reinauguration bash and the six children of Tal Afar      
      “When You Talk with God”      
        U.S. US Debt        
      State of the Union — USA      
      U.S. vote fraud continues      
      Cabal has usurped Washington — US      
       Broken promises — US Congress — Erosion of Democratic Process          
       Torture techniques no surprise       
       Israel: A Call for Divestment — Palestine photos          
      Mire of Death, Lies and Atrocities — Iraq      
      Iraq — US missiles from the sky      
      IRAN US Confrontation      
      U.S. Soldiers against the war     
      British soldier to refuse call to Iraq      
      US Foreign Policy Dangerously Slanted Toward Israel      
       Saving Children — Irena Sendlerowa          
      Bulge story continues into 2005      
       — NASA scientist shows Bush wired in debate      
      Abu Ghraib soldier, Concientious Objector
Aidan Delgado      
      Dr. Martin Luther King — War and Militarism —  Photos and images   Iraq   Vietnam 1967      
      World Terrorist Organization      
      Blair — WMD claims      
      Iraq death squads — Badr, White Toyota Land Cruisers      
      Glock pistols, Interior Ministry memo      
      Salvador Option      
      Fallujah photos — War — lunacy, bewilderment, panic, fear invading body, death      
      US once great nation transformed into a neo fascist nightmare      
      The Empire      
       U.S. destructive, psychotic fantasy:    The War On Terror       
       — 500 'bunker buster' bombs         
       U.S. to Israel:
        — An apocalypse of Evil being created       
       — 500 'bunker buster' bombs         
        CO2 record high levels in the atmosphere — Climate fear as carbon levels soar        
        Atrocities in Palestine        

        Ahmed and Asma, story of two children dying        
        Darfur pictures and arial views of destruction — 2003 - 2005       
      Jarwas, Onges, Shompens, Sentinelese, Great Andamanese      
        Faith Fippinger        
        Book of Merlyn        
        2005 hottest year on record,         
        2004 4th hottest,        
        2003 3rd hottest,        
        2001-2002 tied for 2nd.        
       Master Plan — Mess of coward's pottage       
        Rumi        
        Grief and Horror        

 
 
Outside World — Burma — Burma — Outside World — Outside World — Burma
Moment of reflection
How the elite controls
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More police!
More police!
More police!
BBC — Tuesday, 13 June 2006
Burma: Orwellian state, with teashops
George Orwell 1984 state, with teashops In central Rangoon, life goes on regardless of the politics
In central Rangoon, life goes on regardless of the politics
The BBC's Kate McGeown has just returned from Burma, where she talked to people about life under its repressive military regime.
As I stepped down from the plane onto Burmese soil, my head full of warnings about spies watching my every move, I was pleasantly surprised to find friendly faces rushing to greet me.
"Thank you so much for coming," said an elderly man, smiling through betel-stained teeth.
Where was the Orwellian nightmare I had been warned about?   Where were the police ready to cart me off to jail because they had found out I was a journalist?
The sun was shining, the people were open and friendly... it seemed like any other Asian country.
I found it hard not to wonder what all the fuss was about.
But it did not take long to find evidence of Burma's darker side.
George Orwell 1984 state, with teashops Even in rural areas, no one can be sure who is spying for the military
Even in rural areas, no one can be sure who is spying for the military
Gossip
Barely 20 minutes along the main highway from the airport, I saw a road leading off to the right that was completely shut off by heavily-armed police.
The tight security was not surprising, given that the road led to the home of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, whose term of house arrest had been extended just days before my arrival.
Local people never mention Ms Suu Kyi by name — they just call her The Lady, a term of deference towards a woman whom many Burmese, probably the vast majority, believe is the rightful leader of their nation.
Despite spending more than 10 of the last 17 years as a prisoner, she remains the main symbol of resistance against the military regime that has ruled Burma for four decades, and which often uses fear and intimidation to keep people in line.
Against this backdrop, Burma's 50 million citizens carry on with their daily lives as best they can.
Down the road from Aung San Suu Kyi's house, the people of Rangoon queue for the city's crowded buses, huddle in shops with working generators during the frequent power cuts or play their own version of the Thai national lottery.
Then they do what all Burmese do, and stop in one of the many teashops to gossip about the weather and the football.
But that does not mean that their anger at the military regime has disappeared.   If you talk to someone about their life, any veneer of contentment will usually evaporate.
One day, as we drove past a peaceful rural scene of villagers ploughing paddy fields with their oxen, I asked my taxi driver for his views on the political situation.
BURMA FACTFILE
Population of 50 million
Largely made up of Bamar people, but there are many other ethnic groups
Coup led by General Ne Win in 1962 heralded the start of military rule
Opposition won 1990 election but never allowed to take power
Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest

He had been singing a song to himself, but his face suddenly turned red and angry, and he said: "I hate the people who rule this country.   My hatred of the government knows no bounds."
In fact he got so upset that we had to stop the car so he could calm down.
Another man became equally animated when I asked him about the secret military informants who lurk around ever corner.
"They're like a virus — a disease ripping this country apart," he said.   "They are everywhere, and they see everything we do.
"So many of my friends have been caught and jailed over the years — some for doing hardly anything.   So many lives have been ruined."
Speaking out
It is hardly surprising that emotions run so high.
I was only in Burma for a short time, but I quickly found out how uncomfortable it is to be under surveillance — albeit by a somewhat amateur spy.
Teashop in Rangoon George Orwell 1984 state, with teashops Drinking tea is a way of life throughout Burma Even in rural areas, no one can be sure who is spying for the military
Drinking tea is a way of life throughout Burma
On my first day, a man walked into the lobby of my hotel and pretended to read a newspaper near where I was sitting.
He did not turn the page for 20 minutes, but the real giveaway was that the paper — a week-old copy of The Straits Times — was upside-down.
Despite the obvious personal risks of talking to a foreigner, many Burmese people were still willing to put aside their fears and share their lives with me.
They told me about their healthcare system, their schools, their views on the government and the extraordinary decision to move the country's capital to what was, until a few years ago, a rural backwater.
One day a tour guide showing me round one of the Burma's many pagodas turned to me and whispered: "Please let other people know what it's like for us here. We need the outside world to understand."
Outside World — Burma — Burma — Outside World — Outside World — Burma
But when the Outside World is gone —
Who will the elite have to fear?
More police
Coming to your town and city
More police!
More police!
More police!
Three polar bears on the Beaufort Sea coast within the 1002 Area of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Photo: Alaska Image Library
Burma's rulers appear reluctant to confront the publicly revered monks for fear of enraging the people
Photo: AP/BBC
BBC — Sunday, 23 September 2007
Nuns in Burma anti-junta rallies
Nuns in Burma anti-junta rallies George Orwell 1984 state Burma's rulers fear they may appear weak if protests continue
Burma's rulers fear they may appear weak if protests continue
About 2,000 Burmese monks have been joined by nuns for the first time on the seventh day of protests calling for an end to the military government.
Up to 150 nuns dressed all in white joined the march from the revered Shwedagon Pagoda in Rangoon.
It came a day after the Buddhist monks were greeted by Burma's detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
She emerged from the home where she has been under house arrest since 2003 as the monks were let through a roadblock.
The leaders of the demonstrations have vowed to continue until the collapse of the military government.
They have urged the Burmese people to hold prayer vigils in their doorways for 15 minutes at 2000 (1530 GMT) on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday.
The protests began last month when the government doubled fuel prices.
But they have taken on new momentum in the past week since the religious order became more widely involved.
In what appeared to be an unprecedented move on Saturday, guards allowed the monks to walk past the home of Ms Suu Kyi, who has spent 11 of the last 18 years in detention.
In 1990 her party won national elections, but these were annulled by the army and she was never allowed to take office.
Witnesses said Ms Suu Kyi walked out with two other women and cried as she watched the monks and prayed with them but did not speak.
Burmese activists hold pictures of Aung San Suu Kyi during a protest outside the Burmese embassy in Bangkok, Thailand, on 16 September 2007. George Orwell 1984 state, with teashops Even in rural areas, no one can be sure who is spying for the military
Also on Saturday in Rangoon, at least 2,000 monks were watched by plain clothes security officials as they took to the streets.
In Mandalay, a monastic centre of Buddhist learning, up to 10,000 monks held a rally.
Protests also took place across Burma in the five townships of Chauk, Shwebo, Mongwa, Taung Dwin Gyi and Ye Nan Chaung.
There were no reports of any violence on Saturday.
On Friday, the Alliance of All Burmese Buddhist Monks branded Burma's military rulers "the enemy of the people" and pledged to "wipe the military dictatorship from the land".
The protests have turned into the largest public show of opposition to the Burmese authorities since the uprising of 1988.
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On the run in Burma
By Andrew Harding
BBC News, Rangoon
Map of Burma George Orwell 1984 state Burma's rulers fear they may appear weak if protests continue
Buddhist monks may be able to protest in the streets of Burma, but other pro-democracy activists risk being labelled as "terrorists" and arrested by the authorities. Activist Nilar Thein has been on the run for one month.
Rangoon is looking shabbier than usual these days.
It is a damp, stagnant city trapped in a snaking curve of the Irawaddy river.
Ancient buses rattle past gloomy warehouses and bright pagodas. Grand colonial buildings green with moss back onto dark courtyards reeking of sewage and decay.
The generals who rule Burma moved out of the city last year, having built themselves a brand new — and spectacularly pointless — capital nine hours drive to the north. Thousands of frustrated civil servants were forced to follow them, almost overnight.
Since then, the authorities seem to have stopped paying for Rangoon's upkeep. And the trees now loom low over the avenues, patting the heads of passing cars.
Pro-democracy 'terrorists'
Today, somewhere in this city of nearly five million people, a Burmese woman called Nilar Thein is on the run.
She is 35, with a broad, open face, dark shoulder-length hair, and a reputation for extreme stubbornness.
She has been hiding for a month now — moving every couple of days to a new house — hunted by a huge force of security officials, plain-clothed policemen, informers and hired thugs.
Nilar is number five on a long list of "terrorists" — the generals' title for almost anyone who dares to challenge them.
Nilar and Jimmy with their daughter. George Orwell 1984 state Nilar Thein is number five on a long list of ' terrorists ' in Burma
Nilar Thein is number five on a long list of "terrorists" in Burma
They have already arrested her husband, Jimmy, and more than 100 other pro-democracy activists.
No-one knows where they are being held, or what will happen to them.
The authorities stopped allowing the Red Cross to visit their jails, and more than 1,000 political prisoners, a couple of years ago.
Used as bait
Nilar and Jimmy lived in a small second floor apartment in the north of Rangoon.
Not too far from the house where Burma's democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi is still being kept under house arrest.
Their apartment is now guarded by plain-clothed policemen.
Two at the door.
Two outside.
Two across the road.
They are waiting to see if Nilar will come back for something rather precious — her five-month-old daughter, Nay Kyi, or Sunshine.
Nilar took the child with her at first.
But Sunshine's cries were in danger of giving them both away.
Now Jimmy's elderly mother is looking after her.
Nay Kyi, or Sunshine. George Orwell 1984 state Nilar's five month baby, Sunshine, is left with her grandmother
Nilar's five month baby, Sunshine, is left with her grandmother
One night recently, Nilar sneaked back close enough to hear her baby crying through an open window.
"They are using her as bait," she said.
"I should be breast feeding her.   But I cannot give in."
She is, a friend told me admiringly, a stubborn woman.
88 Student Generation
Nilar and Jimmy are members of what is known as the 88 Student Generation, a reference to the last major uprising against the military here back in 1988.
They have both spent time in jail already.   Nilar nine years, Jimmy 16.
They both thought hard about whether to have a child at all, given their particular "lifestyles".
And now Rangoon is swirling with rumours that Jimmy's dead — tortured and killed in prison.
The rumours are probably not true.
Maybe they have been spread deliberately, to get Nilar to give up.
More likely they are just a product of the silence that festers here, in the absence of any independent news.
The newspapers in Rangoon are all tightly controlled.
No pictures about monks demonstrating this week.
Instead there are photos of the generals giving lavish gifts to monasteries.
Inside are venomous editorials — styled, it seems, on the North Korean model — lashing out at traitors within, and devious foreign enemies.
Sense of paranoia
I read the papers over breakfast, then stepped out of the hotel wrapped in a cloud of paranoia.
Surely the authorities have spotted the foreign journalist.
Why is that man watching me from the cafe over the road?
Did this taxi driver just happen to be driving past at the right time?
There is good reason to be wary. On the phone, diplomats and activists here talk carefully — no names, no details.   Rangoon slang.
In the past few weeks, hundreds of mobile phones have been cut off by the authorities.
Buddhist monks in Burma. George Orwell 1984 state Buddhist monks marched through the streets of Rangoon in protest
Buddhist monks marched through the streets of Rangoon in protest
The police write down the number plates of cars on certain roads. Informers watch every street corner.   E-mail is restricted too - Yahoo and Gmail accounts are often blocked.
Well, half blocked.
For all the security and the fear, this is not a competently-run country.   And it is not China.
Hotels and internet cafes use dozens of proxy servers to bypass the government's crude attempts to police the internet.
Public protests
And that is why footage of the latest protests here — of the thugs beating up demonstrators and of hundreds of monks marching through Rangoon — is leaking out to the world.
The protests seem to have caught everyone by surprise.   Certainly, almost no-one expected them to gain such momentum.
They were triggered by the government's unannounced, overnight decision to slash fuel subsidies.
Isolated in their new capital, the generals either did not know or care what impact this would have.
Suddenly millions of people could not afford the bus home, or to school.
So, how will the thieves react to this extraordinarily public humiliation?
Will they crack down like in 1988, or sit back and wait for fear to do its job?
There are 400,000 monks in Burma.
The fact is that so far, most have not taken to the streets.
Sitting quietly in his monastery, an older monk explained to me that everyone is born afraid here — and the army will never run out of bullets.
Hoping for change
Something has changed this week in Burma.
Perhaps something profound.
But there is a lot of wishful thinking going on too.
It is so tempting to imagine a velvet revolution.
Nilar Thein and Jimmy reunited with their baby daughter.
Aung San Suu Kyi walking calmly out of prison, her uncompromising stance finally vindicated after years of isolation.
But the odds are still not good.
The generals have their own version of reality — their surreal capital, their shiny new constitution.
Their plans for carefully supervised elections later in the year.
Somewhere in the backstreets of Rangoon, Nilar Thein is sitting alone and alert, waiting for the wrong sort of knock at the door.
Hope is keeping her going.
But in Burma, hope hurts.
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