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Saturday, March 10, 2012
Looking for Anarchists? N/A
Those who are desperate to save their illusion of control in government often use words such as anarchism to label those who point out their criminal nature.
Anarchism is thought to be a person who believes all forms of government are oppressive. These are the thoughts of a child as honest government is key to a nations survival. The creation of these metaphors in the English language serve as an attack upon context itself, such as the black bloc.
Authoritarianism is also in play and often to instigate more illusion that what is being done upstairs is logical all seemingly powered by the rampart want for more killing. To have common sense and know this is actually one of the primary world problems gets you the anti-label which is only another lie.
The definition of anarchism also claims this is an active resistance and terrorism against the state and that it is also used by anarchists and finally that they reject all forms of coercive control and authority.
These are simply attacks upon context and to say that authorities are god and answer to only themselves. The trend in government is quite clear, it is corruption and thievery.
There is no reason to resist government if government is fair and honest and without monetary rule. The game now is the game of economical contagion as power over all life. Resisting corruption does not make you an anarchist except in the eyes of those who believe corruption is acceptable.
The implication of violence is also an attack on context and meant to label people for the black-bloc. These are those who can't handle context as the story goes, so destroying the circumstances and to change the setting that determines the truth of the matter is a propaganda ploy meant to keep others away from the truth.
Many people growing up in America today would certainly rebel against the coercive nature which is defined as intimidation and force by threat. To accept this as authority while being called a terrorist is insane and a sign of pyschopathology present in perceived authority.
The warmongering bigots seem to now profess this as institution when it is clearly a pathology. So who is actually being threatened in this sociological affair?
| Research: Word: anarchism n. (no root) Suspected form: upon article, removal of context Starter root: bher-1 anaphora n. deliberate repetition End root: ar- anarthrous adj. lacking joints, occurring without article |
Friday, March 9, 2012
TSA Threatens MSM Reporters Over Coverage Of Body Scanner Story
TSA Threatens MSM Reporters Over Coverage Of Body Scanner Story by Steve Watson
Two mainstream media reporters have revealed that the TSA has “strongly cautioned” them not to cover the story of an engineer revealing major flaws in the agency’s $1 billion dollar body scanner program.
As we reported earlier this week, Engineer Jon Corbett of the popular blog TSA Out of Our Pants! posted a video that demonstrates how the TSA’s radiation firing scanners can easily be bypassed, when carrying metal objects.
Despite YouTube initially restricting the video for no discernable reason, the story went viral and the TSA was forced to respond, albeit in a way that only made the subject more pressing.
Now Corbett, who was the first person in the country to sue the TSA over the body scanners, says that two mainstream media journalists have contacted him to make it known that the TSA warned them off the story.
“I’ve been on the phone all day for the last 2 days with reporters and journalists of all kinds,” writes Corbett.
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Two mainstream media reporters have revealed that the TSA has “strongly cautioned” them not to cover the story of an engineer revealing major flaws in the agency’s $1 billion dollar body scanner program.
As we reported earlier this week, Engineer Jon Corbett of the popular blog TSA Out of Our Pants! posted a video that demonstrates how the TSA’s radiation firing scanners can easily be bypassed, when carrying metal objects.
Despite YouTube initially restricting the video for no discernable reason, the story went viral and the TSA was forced to respond, albeit in a way that only made the subject more pressing.
Now Corbett, who was the first person in the country to sue the TSA over the body scanners, says that two mainstream media journalists have contacted him to make it known that the TSA warned them off the story.
“I’ve been on the phone all day for the last 2 days with reporters and journalists of all kinds,” writes Corbett.
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Getting Underneath the KONY Propaganda
Here are two video production teams that have contributed to the vectoring of truth necessary originally infesting the Twitter sphere. Please share these and post them on your blogs and pages so that others are aware now.
What is wrong with Kony 2012?
KONY 2012 - TheSOTTReport
What is wrong with Kony 2012?
KONY 2012 - TheSOTTReport
NATO Game Over 2012 - English
NATO Game Over 2012 - English
| Comment: As with anyone who has a quarter or half neuron firing, the "war on terror," had been known to eat your brain and the next thing you know your whole country has gone to hell. And as with the recent declamation from the warmongers, stopping this ignorance is a priority. Please note that the "war on terror," is a big fat lie. |
Resist AFRICOM
Resist AFRICOM - Sott.net
AFRICOM: The expansion of US military interests on African soil
'Stop Kony': the Pentagon's effort to get YOU behind its global war machine!
AFRICOM: The expansion of US military interests on African soil
'Stop Kony': the Pentagon's effort to get YOU behind its global war machine!
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Top 10 Genius Reasons to Keep Troops in Afghanistan
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By leading anti-war activist David Swanson, author of Day Break and War Is A Lie, who runs the websites DavidSwanson.org and WarIsACrime.org (formerly AfterDowningStreet.org)
1. When you’re setting a record for the longest modern war, cutting it short just increases the chances of somebody breaking your record some day.
2. When Newt Gingrich, Cal Thomas, and Lindsey Graham turn against a war, keeping it going will really confuse Republicans.
3. If we pull U.S. troops out after they have shot children from helicopters, kicked in doors at night, waved Nazi flags, urinated on corpses, and burned Korans it will look like we’re sorry they did those things.
4. U.S. tax dollars have been funding our troops, and through payments for safe passage on roads have also been the top source of income for the Taliban. Unilaterally withdrawing that funding from both sides of a war at the same time would be unprecedented and could devastate the booming Afghan economy.
5. The government we’ve installed in Afghanistan is making progress on its torture program and drug running and now supports wife beating. But it has not yet mandated invasive ultrasounds. We cannot leave with a job half-finished, not on International Women’s Day.
6. We have an enormous prison full of prisoners in Afghanistan, and closing it down would distract us from our essential concentration on pretending to close Guantanamo.
7. Unless we keep “winning” in Afghanistan it will be very hard to generate enthusiasm for our wars in Syria and Iran. And with suicide the top killer of our troops, we cannot allow our men and women to be killing themselves in vain.
8. If we ended the war that created the 2001 authorization to use military force, how would we justify our special forces operations in over 100 other countries, the elimination of habeas corpus, or the legalization of murdering U.S. citizens? Besides, if we stay a few more years we might find an al Qaeda member.
9. A few hundred billion dollars a year is a small price to pay for weapons bases, a gas pipeline, huge profits for generous campaign funders, and a perfect testing ground for weapons that will be absolutely essential in our next pointless war.
10. Terror hasn’t conceded defeat yet.
Huffington Post Caught Censoring Again, This Time On Syria
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Let me be clear that this blogpost is not about sour grapes.
But the media cacophony on Syria has just become too shrill - reporters, too reluctant to raise obvious questions - to just sit back and let this one slide.
Especially when it is taking place under my nose at the place I have blogged for two and a half years. There's no other way to look at this: by refusing to publish all but one of my seven Syria articles, AOL-Huffington Post is censoring a viewpoint that challenges the dominant narratives on Syria in the mainstream media.
As all my articles were published without controversy in the period prior to AOL's purchase of the Huffington Post in early 2011, I can only surmise that AOL has established a new "editorial policy." In lieu of feedback from my editors as to why these articles remain unpublished, it isn't hard to conclude that the new company has altered course, and is more comfortable only nipping at the edges of the more irreverent blogosphere.
I have been blogging for the Huffington Post since September 2009, shortly after returning from a summer research tour through the Levant. Hanna Ingber, who recruited me as a blogger, was the founding World Editor of the Huffington Post. Hanna, who has since left the company, was particularly keen to have me write about my meetings and interviews with resistance groups Hezbollah and Hamas. I thought that was pretty ballsy for a US publication, online or not, and happily committed myself to bringing a fresh perspective on Mideast affairs to the pages of the Huffington Post.
At the time, the Palestinian-Israeli peace process had become a running joke, the "War on Terror" was an open-ended disaster, US-Iran tensions were front and center...it seemed a good time to question the premises of our assumptions.
I wrote hard stories about these issues. Face it, none of our political or economic problems are going to be solved with some gentle tweaks - we need to take an industrial-strength sledgehammer to our policies and rebuild many from scratch. My HuffPost blogging was not meek - I sought to unearth perspectives that were widespread in the Middle East, but consciously avoided by Washington decision makers...and by extension, the mainstream media.
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Financial Bubonic Plague
Charles Hugh Smith is really going over the top this week. It’s great when people let loose, when they’re on the edge, because we’re all on the edge, looking over the precipice into the Abyss; be it war, debt induced financial collapse, Anarchy or wholesale wiping out of a country by criminal politicians and banksters.
The financailization of the Western world is almost complete. CHS relates it to an infectious disease, which is very appropriate. We’re all infected. The banksters have bought governments, politicians, businesses and consumers, and used debt as the purchase currency. Somehow, our bankrupt $15.4 trillion in-debt nation can still threaten war and mayhem. But debt is an infectious disease. Another great “let’s pretend” article.
Our “Let’s Pretend” Economy: Let’s Pretend Financialization Hasn’t Killed the Economy
Submitted by Charles Hugh Smith from Of Two Minds
Like the bubonic plague, financialization has a lifecycle that cannot be reversed by Federal Reserve or European Central Bank intervention.
Let’s pretend the Federal Reserve can force the financialization lifecycle back into expansion. Why do we need to pretend this can happen? Because the entire U.S. economy and its expansionist Central State now depends on ever-expanding financialization for its survival.
Financialization is like the bubonic plague–it constantly needs new victims as it kills off its existing hosts. Housing? Dead, killed by financialization, aided, abetted and powered by the Federal Reserve. Now the Fed wants to “save” what it already killed via financialization–housing–by buying $1 trillion in plague-infested mortgages and brute-force efforts to keep interest rates below inflation, i.e. negative rates.
Interestingly, plague, financialization and the power of the Fed all follow the same curve of emergence, expanion, maturity, stagnation and collapse. Natural systems follow S-curves, as described in this seminal paper: A Simple Model for Complex Systems.
What is financialization? Simply put, it is finance infecting and hollowing out all levels of an economy by incentivizing leverage, debt, opacity, speculation, financial fraud, collusion and the perfection of crony capitalism, i.e. financial Elites’ ownership of the government’s regulatory and legislative bodies. Here is another less pungent description via Wikipedia: “Financial leverage overrides capital (equity) and financial markets dominate traditional industrial economy and agricultural economics.”
Here is a chart of the financialization lifecycle. Just as the plague reaches a point of maximum infection, levels off and then eventually disappears into protected pockets, financialization reached its maximum penetration in the housing bubble.
Being an intrinsically destabilizing force, financialization led to the global financial crisis of 2008. Central banks went into panic mode, printing and injecting trillions of dollars of new infectious material into the global economy in the hopes of sparking a new even grander cycle of financialization.
But you can’t create a new cycle of plague when the hosts are either dead or already infected. The world has run out of sectors that can be financialized; that plague has already killed or infected every corner of the global economy.
Ironically, all the central banks’ attempts to reinflate the speculative leverage-debt bubble are only hastening the disease’s decline and collapse. The global markets are cheering today because the plague-riddled corpse of Greek debt has been turned into a grotesque marionette that is being made to “dance” by the European Central Bank before an audience that has been told to applaud loudly, even though the ghastly, bizarre spectacle is transparently phony.
Why does this cruel stage-show have to continue? Because the Federal Reserve and the other central banks will decay and disappear if financialization can’t be revived. But since it can’t be revived, then we are stuck with a multi-year process of decline that will inevitably end with a massive fireworks-lit finale of collapse.
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
The Obsession of Thieves
In the course of human evolution there are aspects associating the properties of living things that depend on the processing of energy and these points of interest are specifically outlined in etymology, although upon first glance we assume the labels are valid and that of the influence generated.
This is most troubling as any good student already knows what man is obsessed with making and consuming, and also ensuring that an elite few control the consequences developed by that obsession. In fact, our understanding of the obsession is denied. There are many examples that would fit this profile of understanding.
Can we approach this problem and learn how that might have been abused? Yes, I think we can and this will reveal how ignorance travels through time and becomes overrefined. The dictionary provides an adjective that explicitly implies this notion. It is called recherché. It follows something called réchauffé described as "leftover food."
Man has no choice but to create his reality and to monitor what man perceives as real. We know that genetics is recessive or having a tendency to go backwards in the alteration of biology with dying plants that do not produce seeds and to classify these pretentious notions onto people in the obsession.
So what is recherché about? Can this be described properly? Yes, this is the sun and how the surface reacts which is best described by recidivism. This is to be learned from, not become as this is also a possibility in thinking and has been addressed particularly in the roots.
Is it possible that this obsession with heat has now become a contagion? Again, yes, it is. We see this in wars, we see it in genetics with the denials of god and that just maybe Earth has a purpose that was beyond what men who possess the demon progress, we see it in science with the claim of the big bang and frozen rocks flying through space which have no ice, we see it in mathematics which has become the grand obsession with death.
You'll probably ask how did all the r-words get into all these other roots? The prefix re- got moved around a lot, and had two forms. One was considered backwards while the other was thought to bestow something. In total, the first version of re- was attached to 110 additional roots in the backward formation. In the additional formation it was only referred to as a "thing," defined in Latin as rēs.
In the last formation it is given four programs, the first version of "real, rebus, reify, and republic." All the other versions revert to the backward concept which is the sun. It is also true that Pi and the letter R are the same thing.
If you were a historian or of those who were given prestige through the ignorance of time, and you wanted to protect the obsession, what would you do in the form of literature to ensure the obsession remained effective? You would most likely create a word to address it and then add this word to everything under the sun in order to warm over the idea that it truly was real.
An intelligent student already understands that influence is in play in relation to time, and the English language which seems to reach back into time, however, this is quite limited. What we do know is that its influence is as the recherché. There is much more influence occurring than actual fact and you can pick up on this by observing the strange definitions. It would be as if the English language forced into your mind as an invisible hand that told you how to interpret life without realizing the dynamics of ignorance.
So that is what a language is. It is uncommon, rare, exquisite, choice, overrefined, forced, pretentious, overblown and defined in the AHD© in French as "to research." In this sense, it may be a linguistic field that is formed and depending on the language predominance to determine influences.
Again the historian will focus on the réchauffé to develop the influences necessary to enhance the obsession with heat and the new language of the sun. This will be accomplished by altering some of the Phoenician symbology to accommodate the illusion. It is given the name kappa or kaph meaning "hand," but comes from the Semetic aleph or ox which is moved.
This is what happened and how heat is addressed in the English language.
Analecta: SupermanThis is exactly what we have become but please note my influence in choosing analecta as a method of study and guidance. The student can now address what the main influence is and how that is meant to change our views and to keep us feeding on ignorance. The Pokorny's (in orange) are words chosen by me from page references to assist in study.
1. 7-caress-charity-cherish-kama-kamasutra1-whore-whoredom-et-kā- To like, desire (kamasutra2 - syū-) [Pokorny kā- 515, dialectic]
2. 15-accident-cadaver-cadence-cadent-caducous-cascade-case-chance-chute-decay-deciduous-escheat-incident-occasion-recidivism-et-kad- To fall, Latin cadere, to fall, die [Pokorny 1. kad- 516, Diaspora]
Analecta: Utilitarianism
3. 16-abscise-caelum-caesura-cestus2-cetus-cement-chisel-cide-circumcise-concise-decide-excise-incise-precise-recision-scissors-et-kaə-id- To strike (cestus1 - kent-) [Pokorny (s)k(h)ai- 917, indelible]
4. 2-heat-hot-et-kai- Heat [Pokorny kāi- 519, die-hard]
This changes everything and seems closely associated with the building of a figment in the mind which may in fact be tied to British intelligence and the spreading of lies to assist the historians who had the prestige of obsession built in. Actual history covers these issues quite well if you look in the right places.
Anyway, let's say that someone really screwed up and their ignorance has blossomed for all to see. It's almost embarrassing, as the crime rate in Britain is like nearly traceable, yet they have more cameras than anywhere else on the planet. Would you say they are obsessed? Obviously!
What are they looking for? Themselves? Will they eventually find themselves? Who knows.
But it seems they were pegged by those who understood dynamics better than they did. In my personal opinion I understand them to be Khazars but it is obvious that America has many of these infestations. I was also subject to this butchery.
The notion of tumescent masculinity is addressed in English etymology, also called Indo-European. When it is addressed, four roots are specified to address it. Are these also the Balfour declaration? I will let you decide on the level of ignorance that is capable of penetration.
I know you may want to resist the idea that the matrix is real. You remain convinced that coincidence is predominant to consequence. This may be the only thing Ayn Rand got right. You may notice that in the beginning of the k-roots the word accident is addressed. This is like food for those who have developed it and the consequences are what is left.
These falling backs or recidivism's are described as criminal in nature just like the bouncing ball. Although gravity is not a crime but is power will be used as such beginning in the set specified which is initiated by the first version called bhel-1- To shine, flash, burn; shinning white and various bright colors.
After the blitzkreig and the flame we have three of the references in sequence and one additional root that comes after numbers 21 through 31 of the letter B.
Analecta: MagnetismI have left particular words in bold as my emphasis and to express the suggested overriding influences that are being used in your mind. For example, the idea that a ballot is a phallus and so on and this is physically instituted to impress a continuing tumescent masculinity in one's thinking. However, I would only associate this with males, females on the other hand would have to express their interpretation.
18. 29-bale-baleen-ball1-balloon-ballot-bawd-bilberry-biltong1-bold-bole-boll-bollix-boulder-bowl-bulk-bull-bullock-bulwark1-fils2-follicle-fool-full2-ithyphallic-(pall-mall)-phallus-phellem-phelloderm-phellogen-rocambole-et-bhel-2- To blow, swell; with derivatives referring to various round objects and to the notion of tumescent masculinity (ball2 - gwelæ-) (biltong2 - dnghū-) (bulwark2 - werg) (fils1 - dhē(i)) (full1 - pelæ-1-) [Pokorny 3. bhel- 120. attract] (The following derivatives of this root are entered separately: bhel-3-, bhelgh-, bhleu-.)
19. 37-blade-bleed-bless-blood-bloom-blossom-blow2-cherval2-deflower-defoliate-effloresce-emblements-enfleurage-exfoliate-ferret2-feuilleton-flora-floriated-florid-florigen-florin-florist-florous-flourish-flower-foil-foliicolous-folio-folium-gillyflower2-milfoil2-perfoliate-phyllo-phyllous-podophyllin2-portfolio2-trefoil-et-bhel-3- To thrive, bloom. Possibly from bhel-2. (blow1 - bhlē-) (cherval1 - gher-2) (ferret1 - bher-1) (gillyflower1 - kar) (milfoil1 - gheslo-) (podophyllin1 - ped-) (portfolio1 - per2) [Pokorny 4. bhel- 122, auricle]
Analecta: Lotus eaters
20. 6-bellows-belly-billow-bolster-budget-bulge-et-bhelgh- To swell [Pokorny bhelgh- 125, autoecious]
32. 19-affluent-bloat-confluent-effluent-fluctuate-flueric-fluent-fluid-flume-fluor-fluvial-flux-fluviomarine-influence-mellifluous2-phloem-phlyctena-reflux-superfluous-et-bhleu- To swell, well up, overflow (mellifluous1 - melit-) [Pokorny bhleu- 158, Bay of Pigs] Additions: fluoride
Living under the law of accident man is doomed to remain extremely ignorant as he is now. His leaders are no such thing, they are imagined because he walks the Earth with two heads, one on his shoulders, and one in his pants, and all of life will argue over the results of it, but its main goal is thievery.
The thievery will be approved in the consensus and those who claim its power.
Again, human origin is only circumstance and has no guilt. It is what you become that matters and that should matter to everyone.
Am I saying that a thief has come in the night and placed itself into the history books?
Obviously that is the case and upon studying one can see how the word was made at least the influences that English hold upon it. Hebrew also reveals much just from the symbology in addressing Pi, tāw, and sin, and the samekh. It all is still pretty much there in the language however English has revealed much more. The shin was converted it seems into several versions bhel-1- being one of them.
The word in question 'Israel," is a thief at least according to the way it is first described in the Holy Bible. Having been stolen from existence human life was not and the whole idea if it. To think of this one would obviously feel chosen, but that comes right back to the recherché.
The idea that the thief is worthy is not going to last. We can now see it spreading like a militant disease where those who fester upon it would leave humanity to rot for their privileges and rape of logic and to defy history itself which is not coincidental but they would demand that it is to strengthen their illusion.
I suggest you forget all of it and go find the truth yourself. Once you get going, you won't stop and you'll know that love and compassion hold more value to you than all these ignorant thoughts.
On the other hand, you may want to consider that truth may find you.
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Drones in Texas and Tanks in Tampa: Inside the Out-Of-Control Weaponized Homeland Security State
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Government budgets at every level now include allocations aimed at fighting an ephemeral "War on Terror" in the United States.
At the height of the Occupy Wall Street evictions, it seemed as though some diminutive version of "shock and awe" had stumbled from Baghdad, Iraq, to Oakland, California. American police forces had been "militarized," many commentators worried, as though the firepower and callous tactics on display were anomalies, surprises bursting upon us from nowhere.
There should have been no surprise. Those flash grenades exploding in Oakland and the sound cannons on New York's streets simply opened small windows onto a national policing landscape long in the process of militarization -- a bleak domestic no man's land marked by tanks and drones, robot bomb detectors, grenade launchers, tasers, and most of all, interlinked video surveillance cameras and information databases growing quietly on unobtrusive server farms everywhere.
The ubiquitous fantasy of "homeland security," pushed hard by the federal government in the wake of 9/11, has been widely embraced by the public. It has also excited intense weapons- and techno-envy among police departments and municipalities vying for the latest in armor and spy equipment.
In such a world, deadly gadgetry is just a grant request away, so why shouldn't the 14,000 at-risk souls in Scottsbluff, Nebraska, have a closed-circuit-digital-camera-and-monitor system (cost: $180,000, courtesy of the Homeland Security Department) identical to the one up and running in New York's Times Square?
So much money has gone into armoring and arming local law-enforcement since 9/11 that the federal government could have rebuilt post-Katrina New Orleans five times over and had enough money left in the kitty to provide job training and housing for every one of the record 41,000-plus homeless people in New York City. It could have added in the growing population of 15,000 homeless in Philadelphia, my hometown, and still have had money to spare. Add disintegrating Detroit, Newark, and Camden to the list. Throw in some crumbling bridges and roads, too.
But why drone on? We all know that addressing acute social and economic issues here in the homeland was the road not taken. Since 9/11, the Department of Homeland Security alone has doled out somewhere between $30 billion and $40 billion in direct grants to state and local law enforcement, as well as other first responders. At the same time, defense contractors have proven endlessly inventive in adapting sales pitches originally honed for the military on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan to the desires of police on the streets of San Francisco and lower Manhattan. Oakland may not be Basra but (as former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld liked to say) there are always the unknown unknowns: best be prepared.
All told, the federal government has appropriated about $635 billion, accounting for inflation, for homeland security-related activities and equipment since the 9/11 attacks. To conclude, though, that "the police" have become increasingly militarized casts too narrow a net. The truth is that virtually the entire apparatus of government has been mobilized and militarized right down to the university campus.
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Revolt of the Plebs Keith Johnson & Deanna Spongola Discuss the Zionist Infestation
Deanna Spingola Keith Johnson Revolt Plebs Discuss Truth Hitler israel Much More.wmv
| Comment: I've added communism as the current state of affairs which is a combination of belligerent nationalism and racism as the plug for hiding the corporate state fascism and the bunds of Zionist hypocrites. |
Monday, March 5, 2012
NYPD Destroys "Food Bank of America", Roughs up Protesters and Media
NYPD Destroys "Food Bank of America", Roughs up Protesters and Media - OccupyTVNY
February 29, 2012: at 12:33 p.m. Occupy protesters observing the national Shut Down The Corporations Day of Action begin to set up a "Food Bank" to give away food outside a Bank of America branch. They begin to set up an awning to protect the food from the pouring rain, but police seize the awning, and quickly clear the sidewalk, violently shoving people. One cop repeatedly strikes a photographer's lens as Mandolin, one of event organizers, is carried off by his hands and feet.
February 29, 2012: at 12:33 p.m. Occupy protesters observing the national Shut Down The Corporations Day of Action begin to set up a "Food Bank" to give away food outside a Bank of America branch. They begin to set up an awning to protect the food from the pouring rain, but police seize the awning, and quickly clear the sidewalk, violently shoving people. One cop repeatedly strikes a photographer's lens as Mandolin, one of event organizers, is carried off by his hands and feet.
AIPAC Works for the 1 Percent
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Chris Hedges gave this talk Saturday night in Washington, D.C., at the Occupy AIPAC protest, organized by CODEPINK Women for Peace and other peace, faith and solidarity groups.
The battle for justice in the Middle East is our battle. It is part of the vast, global battle against the 1 percent. It is about living rather than dying. It is about communicating rather than killing. It is about love rather than hate. It is part of the great battle against the corporate forces of death that reign over us—the fossil fuel industry, the weapons manufacturers, the security and surveillance state, the speculators on Wall Street, the oligarchic elites who assault our poor, our working men and women, our children, one in four of whom depend on food stamps to eat, the elites who are destroying our ecosystem with its trees, its air and its water and throwing into doubt our survival as a species.
What is being done in Gaza, the world’s largest open-air prison, is a pale reflection of what is slowly happening to the rest of us. It is a window into the rise of the global security state, our new governing system that the political philosopher Sheldon Wolin calls “inverted totalitarianism.” It is a reflection of a world where the powerful are not bound by law, either on Wall Street or in the shattered remains of the countries we invade and occupy, including Iraq with its hundreds of thousands of dead. And one of the greatest purveyors of this demented ideology of violence for the sake of violence, this flagrant disregard for the rule of domestic and international law, is the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC.
I spent seven years in the Middle East. I was the Middle East bureau chief for The New York Times. I lived for two of those seven years in Jerusalem. AIPAC does not speak for Jews or for Israel. It is a mouthpiece for right-wing ideologues, some of whom hold power in Israel and some of whom hold power in Washington, who believe that because they have the capacity to war wage they have a right to wage war, whose loyalty, in the end, is not to the citizens of Israel or Palestine or the United States but the corporate elites, the defense contractors, those who make war a business, those who have turned ordinary Palestinians, Israelis and Americans, along with hundreds of millions of the world’s poor, into commodities to exploit, repress and control.
We have not brought freedom, democracy and the virtues of Western civilization to the Muslim world. We have brought state terrorism, massive destruction, war and death. There is no moral distinction between a drone strike and the explosion of the improvised explosive device, between a suicide bombing and a targeted assassination. We have used the iron fist of the American military to implant our oil companies in Iraq, occupy Afghanistan and ensure that the Muslim world remains submissive and compliant. We have supported a government in Israel that has carried out egregious war crimes in Lebanon and Gaza and is daily stealing larger and larger portions of Palestinian land. We have established a network of military bases, some the size of small cities, in Iraq, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Kuwait, and we have secured basing rights in the Gulf states of Bahrain, Qatar, Oman and the United Arab Emirates. We have expanded our military operations to Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Egypt, Algeria and Yemen. And no one believes, except perhaps us, that we have any intention of leaving.
And let us not forget that deep inside our secret world of offshore penal colonies, black sites, and torture and interrogation centers, we practice the cruelty and barbarity that always accompanies unchecked imperial power. There were scores of graphic pictures and videos from the prison in Abu Ghraib that were swiftly classified and hidden from public view. And in these videos, as Seymour Hersh reported, mothers who were arrested with their young sons, often children, watched in horror as their boys were repeatedly sodomized.
This was filmed. And on the soundtrack you hear the boys shrieking. And the mothers were smuggling notes out to their families saying, “Come and kill us because of what is happening.”
We are the biggest problem in the Middle East. It is we who legitimize the Mahmoud Ahmadinejads, suicide bombers and radical jihadists. The longer we drop iron fragmentation bombs and seize Muslim land, the longer we kill with impunity, the more these monsters, reflections of our own distorted image, will proliferate.
“If you gaze into the abyss,” Friedrich Nietzsche wrote, “the abyss gazes into you.”
I am no friend of the Iranian regime, which helped create and arm Hezbollah, is certainly meddling in Iraq, has persecuted human rights activists, gays, women and religious and ethnic minorities, embraces racism and intolerance, and uses its power to deny popular will. And yes, it is a regime that appears determined to build a nuclear weapon, although I would stress that no one has offered any proof this is occurring. I have spent time in Iranian jails. I was once deported from Tehran in handcuffs. But I do not remember Iran orchestrating a coup in the United States to replace an elected government with a brutal dictator who for decades persecuted, assassinated and imprisoned democracy activists. I do not remember Iran arming and funding a neighboring state to wage war against our country. Iran never shot down one of our passenger jets, as did the USS Vincennes—nicknamed Robocruiser by the crews of other American vessels—when in June 1988 it fired missiles at an Airbus filled with Iranian civilians, killing everyone on board. Iran is not sponsoring terrorist strikes within the United States, as our intelligence services and the Israeli intelligence services currently do in Iran. We have not seen five of our top nuclear scientists since 2007 murdered on American soil. The attacks in Iran include suicide bombings, kidnappings, beheadings, sabotage and “targeted assassinations” of government officials and other Iranian leaders. What would we do if the situation were reversed? How would we react if Iran carried out similar acts of terrorism against us?
We are, and have long been, the primary engine for radicalism in the Middle East. The greatest favor we can do for democracy activists in Iran, as well as in Iraq, Afghanistan, the Gulf and the states that dot North Africa, is to withdraw our troops from the region and begin to speak to Iranians and the rest of the Muslim world in the civilized language of diplomacy, respect and mutual interests. The longer we cling to the doomed doctrine of permanent war the more we give credibility to the extremists who need, indeed yearn for, an enemy that speaks in the same crude slogans of nationalist cant and violence that they do. The louder the Israelis and their idiot allies in Washington call for the bombing of Iran to thwart its nuclear ambitions, the happier are the morally bankrupt clerics who are ordering the beating and murder of demonstrators. We may laugh when crowds supporting [President] Ahmadinejad call us “the Great Satan,” but there is a very palpable reality that informs the terrible algebra of their hatred. And since even the most optimistic scenarios say that any strike on Iranian nuclear installations will at best set back Iran’s alleged weapons program by [only] three or four years, we can be sure that violence will beget violence, just as fanaticism begets fanaticism.
The hypocrisy of this vaunted moral crusade is not lost on those in the Middle East. Iran signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Pakistan, India and Israel did not and developed nuclear weapons programs in secret. Israel now has an estimated 400 to 600 nuclear weapons. The word “Dimona,” the name of the city where the nuclear facilities are located in Israel, is shorthand in the Muslim world for the deadly Israeli threat to Muslims’ existence.
What lessons did the Iranians learn from our Israeli, Pakistani and Indian allies?
Given that we are actively engaged in an effort to destabilize the Iranian regime, given that we use apocalyptic rhetoric to describe what must be done to the Iranian regime, and given that Israel could obliterate Iran many times over, what do we expect from the Iranians? On top of this, the Iranian regime grasps that the doctrine of permanent war entails making “pre-emptive” and unprovoked strikes. And they know that if Iraq, like North Korea, had had a bomb they would have never suffered American invasion and occupation.
Those in Washington who advocate attacking Iran, knowing as little about the limitations and chaos of war as they do about the Middle East, believe they can cripple nuclear production and neutralize the 850,000-man Iranian army. They should look closely at the 2006 Israeli air campaign in southern Lebanon, which saw Hezbollah victorious and united most Lebanese behind the militant Islamic group. If the massive Israeli bombing of Lebanon failed to pacify 4 million Lebanese, how can we expect to pacify a country of 70 million people? But reality never seems to impinge on the neoconservative universe or the efficacy of its doctrine of permanent war.
I have watched over the years as these neoconservatives have meddled disastrously in the Middle East. The support by neoconservatives of the Israeli right wing—and I covered Yitzhak Rabin’s 1992 campaign for prime minister when prominent AIPAC donors poured money and resources into Likud to defeat Rabin—is not about Israel. It is about advancing this perverted ideology. Rabin detested these neoconservatives. When he made his first visit to Washington after being elected prime minister he dismissed requests from the lobby for a meeting by telling aides: “I don’t speak to scumbags.”
These neoconservatives, who like our own neoconservatives hide behind the rhetoric of patriotism, national security and religious piety, are not wedded to any discernable doctrine other than force. They, like all rabid nationalists, are stunted and deformed individuals, only able to communicate in the language of self-exaltation and violence.
“The nationalist is by definition an ignoramus,” the Yugoslav writer Danilo Kiš wrote. “Nationalism is the line of least resistance, the easy way. The nationalist is untroubled, he knows or thinks he knows what his values are, his, that’s to say national, that’s to say the values of the nation he belongs to, ethical and political; he is not interested in others, they are no concern of his, hell—it’s other people (other nations, another tribe). They don’t even need investigating. The nationalist sees other people in his own images—as nationalists.”
AIPAC does not drive Middle Eastern policy in the United States. I am afraid it is worse than that. AIPAC is one of an array of powerful and well-funded neoconservative institutions that worship force and drive our relations with the rest of the world. These neoconservatives choose an enemy and then our compliant class of journalists, specialists, military analysts, columnists and television commentators line up to serve as giddy cheerleaders for war. Moments like these always make me embarrassed to be a reporter. Our political elite, Republican and Democrat, finds in this ideology a simple, childish allure. This ideology does not require cultural, historical or linguistic literacy. It reduces the world to black and white, good and evil. The drumbeat for war with Iran sounded by AIPAC is part of this broad, sick, binary vision of a world that can be subjugated by force, a world where all will be made to kneel before these corporate and neoconservative elites, where none, including finally us, will be permitted to whisper dissent.
Pre-emptive war, under post-Nuremberg law, is defined as a criminal act of aggression. George W. Bush, whose disregard for the rule of law was legend, went to the U.N. for a resolution to attack Iraq, although his interpretation of the U.N. resolution as justifying the invasion of Iraq had dubious legal merit. But in this current debate over war with Iran, that pretense of legality is ignored. Where is Israel’s U.N. resolution authorizing it to strike Iran? Why isn’t anyone demanding that Israel seek one? Why does the only discussion in the media and among political elites center around the questions of “Will Israel attack Iran?” “Can it successfully carry out an attack?” “What will happen if there is an attack?” The essential question is left unasked. Does Israel have the right to attack Iran? And here the answer is very, very clear. It does not.
These neoconservatives were too blind and too enamored of their own power to see what invading Afghanistan and Iraq would trigger; so too are they unable to comprehend the regional conflagration that would be unleashed by attacking Iran, what it would mean for us, for Israel, for our allies and for tens, perhaps hundreds of thousands, of innocents.
“Where there is no vision, the people perish,” the Bible warns.
And since our elites have no vision it is up to us. The uprisings from Tunisia to Egypt to Greece to Occupy Wall Street to our gathering outside AIPAC’s doors in Washington are the same primal struggle for sanity, peace and justice, for a world wrenched free from the grip of those who would destroy it. And the abject fawning of our political elite, including Barack Obama, before AIPAC and its bank account is yet another window into the moral bankruptcy of our political class, another sign that the formal mechanisms of power are useless and broken. Civil disobedience is all we have left. It is our patriotic duty. We are called to make the cries of mothers, fathers and children in the squalid refugee camps in Gaza, in the suburbs of Tehran and in the bleak industrial wastelands in Ohio heard. We are called to stand up before these forces of death, the purveyors of violence, those whose hearts have grown cold with hatred. We are called to embrace and defend life with intensity and passion if we are to survive as a species, if we are to save our planet from the ravages of corporate greed and the specter of endless and futile war.
The Israeli poet Aharon Shabtai, in his poem “Rypin,” translated by Peter Cole, examined what power, force and self-worship do to compassion, justice and human decency. Rypin was the Polish town his father escaped from during the pogroms.
These creatures in helmets and khakis,
I say to myself, aren’t Jews,
In the truest sense of the word. A Jew
Doesn’t dress himself up with weapons like jewelry,
Doesn’t believe in the barrel of a gun aimed at a target,
But in the thumb of the child who was shot at—
In the house through which he comes and goes,
Not in the charge that blows it apart.
The coarse soul and iron first
He scorns by nature.
He lifts his eyes not to the officer, or the soldier
With his finger on the trigger—but to justice,
And he cries out for compassion.
Therefore, he won’t steal land from its people
And will not starve them in camps.
The voice calling for expulsion
Is heard from the hoarse throat of the oppressor—
A sure sign that the Jew has entered a foreign country
And, like Umberto Saba, gone into hiding within his own city.
Because of voices like these, father
At age sixteen, with your family, you fled Rypin;
Now here Rypin is your son.
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Shut Up and Go Away! US Congress passes authoritarian anti-protest law
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A bill passed Monday in the US House of Representatives and Thursday in the Senate would make it a felony - a serious criminal offense punishable by lengthy terms of incarceration - to participate in many forms of protest associated with the Occupy Wall Street protests of last year. Several commentators have dubbed it the "anti-Occupy" law, but its implications are far broader.
The bill - H.R. 347, or the "Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act of 2011" - was passed by unanimous consent in the Senate, while only Ron Paul and two other Republicans voted against the bill in the House of Representatives (the bill passed 388-3). Not a single Democratic politician voted against the bill.
The virtually unanimous passage of H.R. 347 starkly exposes the fact that, despite all the posturing, the Democrats and the Republicans stand shoulder to shoulder with the corporate and financial oligarchy, which regarded last year's popular protests against social inequality with a mixture of fear and hostility.
Among the central provisions of H.R. 347 is a section that would make it a criminal offense to "enter or remain in" an area designated as "restricted."
The bill defines the areas that qualify as "restricted" in extremely vague and broad terms. Restricted areas can include "a building or grounds where the President or other person protected by the Secret Service is or will be temporarily visiting" and "a building or grounds so restricted in conjunction with an event designated as a special event of national significance."
The Secret Service provides bodyguards not just to the US president, but to a broad layer of top figures in the political establishment, including presidential candidates and foreign dignitaries.
Even more sinister is the provision regarding events of "national significance." What circumstances constitute events of "national significance" is left to the unbridled discretion of the Department of Homeland Security. The occasion for virtually any large protest could be designated by the Department of Homeland Security as an event of "national significance," making any demonstrations in the vicinity illegal.
For certain, included among such events would be the Democratic and Republican National Conventions, which have been classified as National Special Security Events (NSSE), a category created under the Clinton administration. These conventions have been the occasion for protests that have been subjected to ever increasing police restrictions and repression. Under H.R. 347, future protests at such events could be outright criminalized.
The standard punishment under the new law is a fine and up to one year in prison. If a weapon or serious physical injury is involved, the penalty may be increased to up to ten years.
Also criminalized by the bill is conduct "that impedes or disrupts the orderly conduct of Government business or official functions" and "obstructs or impedes ingress or egress to or from any restricted building or grounds." These provisions, even more so than the provisions creating "restricted areas," threaten to criminalize a broad range of protest activities that were previously perfectly legal.
In order to appreciate the unprecedented sweep of H.R. 347, it is necessary to consider a few examples:
Under the ancien regime in France, steps were taken to ensure that the "unwashed masses" were kept out of sight whenever a carriage containing an important aristocrat or church official was passing through. Similarly, H.R. 347 creates for the US president and other top officials a protest-free bubble or "no-free-speech zone" that follows them wherever they go, making sure the discontented multitude is kept out of the picture.
- A wide area around the next G-20 meeting or other global summit could be designated "restricted" by the Secret Service, such that any person who "enters" that area can be subject to a fine and a year in jail under Section 1752(a)(1) (making it a felony to enter any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority to do so).
- Senator Rick Santorum, the ultra-right Republican presidential candidate, enjoys the protection of the Secret Service. Accordingly, a person who shouts "boo!" during a speech by Santorum could be subject to arrest and a year of imprisonment under Section 1752(a)(2) (making it a felony to "engag[e] in disorderly or disruptive conduct in" a restricted area).
- Striking government workers who form a picket line near any event of "national significance" can be locked up under Section 1752(a)(3) (making it a crime to imped[e] ingress or egress to or from any restricted building or grounds).
The Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act is plainly in violation of the First Amendment to the US Constitution, which was passed in 1791 in the aftermath of the American Revolution. The First Amendment provides: "Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech . . . or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." (The arrogance of the Democratic and Republican politicians is staggering - what part of "Congress shall make no law" do they not understand?)
H.R. 347 comes on the heels of the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which was signed by President Obama into law on December 31, 2011. The NDAA gives the president the power to order the assassination and incarceration of any person - including a US citizen - anywhere in the world without charge or trial.
The passage of H.R. 347 has been the subject of a virtual blackout in the media. In light of the unprecedented nature of the bill, which would effectively overturn the First Amendment, this blackout cannot be innocent. The media silence therefore represents a conscious effort to keep the American population in the dark as to the government's efforts to eviscerate the Bill of Rights.
The bill would vastly expand a previous law making it misdemeanor to trespass on the grounds of the White House. An earlier version of the bill would have made it a felony just to "conspire" to engage in any of the conduct described above. The bill now awaits President Obama's signature before it becomes the law of the land.
What lies behind the unprecedented attack underway on the US Constitution and Bill of Rights is a growing understanding in the ruling class that the protests that took place around the world against social inequality in 2011 will inevitably re-emerge in more and more powerful forms in 2012 and beyond, as austerity measures and the crashing economy make the conditions of life more and more impossible for the working class. The virtually unanimous support in Congress H.R. 347, among Democrats as well as Republicans, reflects overriding sentiment within the ruling establishment for scrapping all existing democratic rights in favor of dictatorial methods of rule.
This sentiment was most directly expressed this week by Wyoming Republican legislator David Miller, who recently introduced a bill into the state legislature that would give the state the power, in an "emergency," to create its own standing army through conscription, print its own currency, acquire military aircraft, suspend the legislature, and establish martial law. "Things happen quickly sometimes - look at Libya, look at Egypt, look at those situations," Miller told the Star-Tribune in Casper, Wyoming. Repeating arguments employed by every military dictatorship over the past century, Miller declared, "We wouldn't have time to meet as a Legislature or even in special session to do anything to respond." Miller's so-called "doomsday law" was defeated in the Wyoming legislature Tuesday by the narrow margin of 30-27.
Riot Gear Police Arrest 31 Silent Protesters in Virginia
Riot Gear Police Arrest 31 Silent Protesters in Virginia by Andrew Jones
US - Capitol hill police in Richmond, Virginia arrested 31 protesters Saturday afternoon during their silent demonstration against the state's controversial ultrasound bill passing the General Assembly.
Police were outfitted in riot gear to monitor the nearly 500 protesters and took those who would not leave the capital steps into custody.
WATCH: Video from Youtube, which was published on March 3, 2012.
US - Capitol hill police in Richmond, Virginia arrested 31 protesters Saturday afternoon during their silent demonstration against the state's controversial ultrasound bill passing the General Assembly.
Police were outfitted in riot gear to monitor the nearly 500 protesters and took those who would not leave the capital steps into custody.
WATCH: Video from Youtube, which was published on March 3, 2012.
Sunday, March 4, 2012
Proof the Media is Lying About Syria
Proof the Media is Lying About Syria - SyriansWorldwide
Al Jazeera and other private media channels are lying through their teeth about people killed, detained and missing at the hands of the government forces in Syria. The UN reported that 5,000 people had been killed... the following Syrian investigative report found it to be complete BS, fabrications by the Syrian 'opposition' network in collusion with Western agents.
Al Jazeera and other private media channels are lying through their teeth about people killed, detained and missing at the hands of the government forces in Syria. The UN reported that 5,000 people had been killed... the following Syrian investigative report found it to be complete BS, fabrications by the Syrian 'opposition' network in collusion with Western agents.
How Humans and Letters Have Much in Common
Is it possible that our minds have been fooled on many aspects of interpretation and what we think of the world around us? It seems obvious by observing our financial world alone, we see a rampart feeding process that also seems to be acceptable as a form of government called democracy. With this particular thinking, those less fortunate are indicative of disease, but how did this come about?
The creation of money certainly seems an obvious result of our methods of thinking directly associated with the language itself and our arguments between what I refer to as the power of the digamma which is technically a "force," that has moved through time and has been specifically addressed in linguistics.
This force is addressed in many ways, first in English it is moved to the letter Y, but it is also representative of the nature of letters themselves as with the letter F. The idea that the letters alone are objects has beget our monetary world which carry a transient state. You can begin to sense this using a medical definition of objective which indicates a symptom or condition perceived as a sign of disease by someone other than the person affected.
This disease or contagion is called a free market assuming the supply and demand illusion. In essence it seems that the idea that comes with the concepts of subject and object were going to be arranged to hide velocity. This also confirms that the concept of intransitive which was vesting the force resulted in the letter W where placing the objective was impossible.
To understand this better, we may assume letters are not objects, they are subjects. The other way around is called debt and is a game of cards. The language gives it a root name that sounds exactly how inhibition feels called ghabh-, although other games address the reverse of this anomaly such as Scrabble. In this sense, Scrabble is telling the truth and debt is lying.
It also seems true that people became objects when they are only subjects, and to strengthen this illusion the courts have approved it. The truth must be contrary to this, people are not objects, we have an intransitive state meaning we form an inertial frame and we can only calculate our existence. We remember when we were young, but cannot go there. We estimate what will happen, but have no proof.
The idea that transition may be made the object as affection is called velocity. Here, it is assumed as reading where the ends of each bridge are lit. Velocity is the marker that is added to the language with the root ad-, and represents what density is capable of in vibration. The reverse is called mass and would be an assumption that mass always squares velocity in time. Upon looking at the table of measurements we see this is not true, that density has a unique relationship outside of mass.
Historically, the Romans were most obsessed with the logistics of the object subject dilemma and could only determine points of velocity in their references but at the same time they revealed the truth that the bridges would be enlightened. Eventually these numerals would be the objects and a new smell on the bridge.
Physics calls this acceleration and defined as "the rate of change of velocity with respect to time." After reading this you just want to scream. You should immediately see the digamma at work which is claimed by mass. But is that really mass? Not according to what science tells us.
I would argue also that what we perceive as acceleration is not acceleration but what density to saying in relation to the concept of time which we know can be added or that of the object subject thrill ride, and each time we possess these associations, what is perceived of time changes. This may be all that can be proven as tomorrow has never had this luxury.
In that respect, time does not exist unless added and confirmed by density. If we pay respect to time alone this is called acceleration. I think this is what drives people mad and again, others may awaken.
The merchants are bound to acceleration which only respects time. It seems to make sense when dealing the cards. This isn't anything humans really wanted, they instead wanted to be market free and not forced into slavery or bound to the few who reap the fruits of the pie.
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