While Greece and Norway are seeking compensation after canceling swine flu vaccination orders, and truckloads of vaccines returned unused in Albany a couple months ago, in Kentucky it's only the 'crazy' conspiracy theorists who don't wan't the vaccine, the 'good ol boys' around the water cooler know better. (Apparently in West Virginia, tomatoes also don't exist except in the mind of conspiracy theorists.) Unlike the U.S. solution of bravely charging through the skeptics and free thinkers out there with armfuls of unused vaccines to the rescue, the Council of Europe is investigating if Swine Flu was indeed a profit making hoax for the pharmaceutical industry.
The British newspaper, The Guardian, as well is reporting on a possible loss of confidence in the WHO over Swine Flu exaggerations. But I mean, why should anyone lose confidence? The prediction of 65,000 deaths in the UK was only off by about 64,640. New Jersey is definitely still on the band wagon as I can see from an email I recently received below.
And for some in the UK, bastion of health consciousness that it is, it is in fact a race against time to get vaccinated! You've ONLY GOT 24HOURS!! Apparently that's all the time you have left to get the last doses of that vaccine that no one actually wants. Better snatch it up quick. As the Daily Echo reports, “It will be back in the autumn so now is the time for parents to prepare and take action now." Or maybe get it twice? How about three times?
Below are two videos of Alex Jones in an explosive CNN interview. Before you watch those two videos I would like to preface them with a few personal comments relating to my feelings on watching them. I used to both watch CNN regularly as well as read The New York Times for much of my adult life. A few years ago things started to change. After 9/11, which caught most of us by surprise, and the events that followed, Amercia took what seemed like a new turn. Suddenly it was 'OK' for America to start wars of aggression against countries with little or no relationship to the acts of 9/11 which were used as their justifications. Hundreds of thousands have died in those wars, period. They reflect much more closely then a willingness to 'stop' terrorism, a geopolitical goal of occupying Central Asia as a military strategy. Who that strategy serves is something which should be debated. Clear however is that it is not the terrorists who have taken away our rights, but our own government, through the so called 'Patriot Act' and other legislation. It has gone so far that the government claims it can justifiably pick out Americans for execution without trial or otherwise, and eliminate them. It can incarcerate Americans forever if it wishes. It can shut down our lines of open communication in a state of emergency. It listens in on our telephone communications. It has secret lists of those it deems as 'threats.' These are the actions, not of healthy democracies, but of tyrannical regimes. The October Surprise of 1980, the Supreme Court election decision of 2000, and the Ohio vote rigging of 2004, bring the validity even of our own elections into question. This is the legacy of PNAC documents, the corrupt elements of the Reagan Revolution, and neoconservatism, as well as a spinless Democratic Party which seems to rather fight small battles, ingratiate itself with Wall Street, and find hidden benefits for themselves as the larger issues of corruption go forward, a corruption often fully supported by mainline Republicans fooled into thinking it is "good for America.' I used to read the New York Times and watch CNN. I do so occaisionally still, but knowing now that what I am reading is, if not pure, then at least largely propaganda. Sure, occaissionally a good article is in the New York TImes, and the New York Post for example is even worse. Nonetheless it is media institutions like the New York Times or CNN which wholeheartedly have given fake liberal backing to our wars of aggression, our loss of liberty, and constantly look for support for future military engagements with Iran, just to use one example. They have become with few exceptions, warmongering elements of the media, and Alex Jones is right to say that "they have blood on THEIR hands." Though I support and respect Alex Jones, I might not agree with everything Alex Jones says or believes. I have some differences with the negative view he takes towards all forms of modern socialism for example. I know from some of my experiences living in modern Europe, that some 'socialist' policies do not imply tyranny any more then capitalism does, if moderated and combined with respect for individual rights and the rights of the people as a whole. But in the end the struggle of today is not truly between left and right. The struggle today is between real and fake, between the 'Truthers' who want to know the reality of the world we live in, and react to it in a positive, democratic and rational way, and who support investigations of government and corporate actions, and the 'Fakeans' if you will, those that prefer to live in a fake world dictated to us through open lies in our media, and corrupt policies of propaganda and distortion that they believe keeps them 'safe.' Being lied to does not make me feel safe.
The fake world presented to us by the large corporations and political establishment is all intrusive and has many levels. We see it in the false 'official stories' which simply do not hold up under scrutiny of major events such as the JFK assassination or 9/11. We see it in the constant blitzkrieg of mindless advertising which we are subjected to. We see it in the plastic, manipulative and fake manner in which our politicians often talk down to us. We see it in the fake scare campaigns of swine flu, Wall Street bailouts and body scanner technology designed to make insiders of the corporate system even more rich. We see it in Wall Street itself, falsely inflated by its supporters and their policies. We can even see it in the degradation of popular art forms such as rock music, originally a gutsy music of rebellion, now a scared remnant steered by corporations into a form of advertising, escapism and somniferous elevator music at best, and outright propaganda for the establishment at worst.
Here is finally Alex Jones, in the belly of the beast:
A newly leaked classified CIA report details possible strategies for maintaining public support for the Afganistan War in Germany and France.
Here are only a couple small examples of the kinds of things found in the report:
Example 1. Obama
The confidence of the French and German publics in President Obama’s ability to handle foreign affairs in general and Afghanistan in particular suggest that they would be receptive to his direct affirmation of their importance to the ISAF mission—and sensitive to direct expressions of disappointment in allies who do not help.
Example 2. Women
Afghan women could serve as ideal messengers in humanizing the ISAF role in combating the Taliban because of women’s ability to speak personally and credibly about their experiences under the Taliban, their aspirations for the future, and their fears of a Taliban victory. Outreach initiatives that create media opportunities for Afghan women to share their stories with French, German, and other European women could help to overcome pervasive skepticism among women in Western Europe toward the ISAF mission...Media events that feature testimonials by Afghan women would probably be most effective if broadcast on programs that have large and disproportionately female audiences. (C//NF)
These examples and the four page report itself offers a glimpse into how war propaganda is discussed in intelligence circles, and seems almost like a how-to manual for the Obama administration and the mainstream media to utilize to shore up public support for the conflict should it sag under the pressure of increasing war casualties.
There are reports that the North Koreans have sunk a South Korean navy ship. Other reports claim that the ship may have sunk from its own explosives. A military conflict between two nuclear armed nations is serious news that made the price of gold soar today, yet CNN chooses to bury it behind a story on a high school prom dispute. No joke. Their headline reads Gay teen in prom case hated, lauded. Other featured articles are Hot Tub Time Machine,Roller derby girls play tough, Donny Osmond rips Beyonce, Lady Gaga, Forgotten star workout videos, Ads on your airline snacks and Dog chews off cop car's bumber. Here is a screenshot of what greeted visitors to CNN this morning:
I guess that's an insight into the American mind, or perhaps more significantly, an insight into the mindless issues that corporations like CNN would like us to spend our time thinking about.
An article on Prison Planet entitled Korea Tensions Pale Alongside Agenda To Attack Iran suggests that "An incident in the Yellow Sea that could trigger further heightened tension between North and South Korea is likely to be played down by the globalist power structure in the U.S. because it threatens the focus of their agenda in the middle east."
You can be sure if Iran even sunk so much as a life raft of one of their neighbors, we would probably have U.N. resolutions and perhaps an all out military strike. You can be sure it would be all over CNN. But it wasn't Iran, it was North Korea, and so CNN runs with their sleep-inducing mind dribble.
A lecturer from the University College Dublin, Julian Mercille, on Russia Today explains that Nato and the US are actually supporting those involved with the drug trade in Afganistan. The Taliban only receive in comparison 5% of their income from the drug trade, according to the lecturer.
On Cryptogon is an article about the CIA and U.S. State Department targeting of Wikileaks personnel for surveillance. Ultimately from this article and also one on Harper's Magazine and True/Slant you get the picture that the Pentagon, the CIA and State Department all want to get rid of this troublesome site. Troublesome because it provides a forum for whistleblowers to expose the secretive actions of governments and corporations today. More specifically however, the recent aggressive surveillance might have something to do with one of their twitter postings:
# WikiLeaks to reveal Pentagon murder-coverup at US National Press Club, Apr 5, 9am; contact press-club@sunshinepress.org
That probably is what Wikileaks is refering to when they say this on their twitter page:
If anything happens to us, you know why: it is our Apr 5 film. And you know who is responsible.
UPDATE: According to the Daily Mail, the April 5 US National Press Club presentation by Wikileaks is "its plan to make public unencrypted footage of an air strike in Afghanistan on May 7 last year that killed 97 civilians."
As the infotainment and pro-war propaganda pump out of the bought and paid for corporate cesspool that is the U.S. media, here are some things many might have missed.
Former Business Week columnist, former Wall Street Journal editor, and former Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury, Paul Craig Roberts writes in what is meant as his final editorial, a tale of censorship for opposing the Bush wars of aggression and of the downfall of an ignorant and deceived America.
An article in the Dailymail describes how a journalist attempted to arrest Tony Blair for war crimes at the European Parliament in Brussels.
Though Tony Blair in the article is quoted as defending himself with "I think it's important for you guys as well to not always mistake the protest for the general view of the whole population," the comments on the internet version of the article heaped scorn on him and applauded the man for attempting to arrest him. The website removed the comments, but it can clearly be seen that 203 comments were at one time posted. ( Screenshot of bottom half of article below. Notice "203 comments" next to "No comments have thus far been submitted." Yeah right. )
UPDATE:
The comments are back....here is some of the warm support for the former Prime Minister in a screenshot below.
As the U.S. is in debt and running out of money, tough decisions need to be made. For the purpose of provoking thought, let's use one example to contrast the cutbacks being made in social services in this country with the expenditures being made for our military overseas.
For one New York State school system, Minisink Valley, cutbacks in state aid means firing 27 teachers for a school system with less then 5000 students. The students are angry and protesting the decision, and as one student said, "only one of my teachers next year is going to be here. The rest of them are fired."
One soldier in Iraq or Afganistan costs roughly 1 million U.S. dollars each year. That would pay for 15 teachers each year in Minisink Valley if one uses the average salary of a Minisink Valley teacher as a guide.
That leaves us with the following equation. Bring just two soldiers back from Central Asia, and you could keep all 27 teachers as well as hire 3 new teachers for Minisink Valley. Which is more important?
This deserved its own headline. An article in the Daily News details the tricks played by an FBI informant to bait a Bronx man into committing terror acts such as bombing two Bronx synagogues. According to the mother of the Bronx man, the FBI informant even promised the suspect a liver transplant for his dying brother. The suspect, David Williams, told his mother "Mom, I met a good Muslim brother; he is going to help us.'"
Another article on NBC New York details a motion for dismissal of the terror indictment against Williams and three others by their lawyers. According to the article, the same FBI informant "suggested there could be as much as $250,000 available" but "he failed to motivate the defendants to any action on their own. Months went by between meetings, and the filings quote Cromitie as saying, "I'm not gonna hurt anybody" and "The plane thing ... is out of the question."
Mmm...Sort of reminds me of that FBI informant mixing the bomb for the WTC back in 93'. You know the time the FBI decided not to substitute fake explosives and the bomb went off killing six people? Although this time the Feds seem to have been even more blatant in baiting their reluctant terrorists.
Gotta make it real easy for them... to be cold-blooded anti-semetic American hating jihadi islamofascists about to blow things up and take over the world. Yeah, that's the ticket. Drive a BMW and promise them lots of money. Oh they turned you down? Ah well don't worry, you can bring them in on terrorist charges in the U.S. anyway. Not like anyone will notice...or will they?
Here is the article on the NBC New York website. The FBI informant practically did it all for them, even promised them money and lavished them with fancy cars and they still said no. Eventually they were arrested trying to bomb a synagogue with the supposedly fake explosives sold to them by the authorities however. But shouldn't the FBI be finding terrorists, not creating them?
In this video, author Hank Albarelli discusses LSD experiments on unwitting subjects conducted in secret by the CIA.
The scientist discussed in the middle of the video who was dosed with LSD and allegedly 'committed suicide' was Frank R. Olson who worked at the U.S. Army's Fort Detrick Biowarfare Facility. Albarelli claims he was killed because of knowledge of an LSD experiment on a French town which resulted in many cases of madness and near suicide. The author also claims Rumsfeld and Cheney were involved in the cover-up of the Olson case.
Interestingly enough, Fort Detrick is the same facility where more recently Bruce Ivins worked who also 'commited suicide' as the FBI prepared to charge him in the anthrax attacks weeks after the 9/11 attacks in 2001. The anthrax attacks of 2001 concern letters which were sent to two U.S. senators and some in the media containing anthrax spores of the Ames strain which was developed at the U.S. Army facility at Fort Detrick, Maryland. As explained on Washington's Blog "the only congress people mailed anthrax-containing letters were key Democrats, and the attacks occurred one week before passage of the freedom-curtailing Patriot Act, which seems to have scared them and the rest of congress into passing that act without even reading it."
Those are the same anthrax attacks, already discussed in an earlier post, which the Obama administration is threatening to veto the intelligence budget over if it includes a further investigation of the attacks.
One theory also put forward about the death of Frank R. Olson, is that he was killed because of his knowledge of Plague and other biowarfare attacks allegedly used against North Korea during the Korean War. The video below describes what might have happened back then in Korea.
Well, of course, if you have something to hide, then the last person you want around is someone investigating it. Investigating the truth in the face of blatant lies from the mainstream news and governmental propaganda machine is what the 'conspiracy theorists' in many cases actually do. So what do you do if you are part of the establishment which doesn't want its secrets out? You start a smear campaign full of propaganda and patsies, something like what is going on right now, and scare people with articles like this one on Fox News about "Terrorists Targeting Children." The article goes on to describe how "the Internet often acts as the incubator and validator of dangerous conspiracy theories surrounding 9/11 and organ theft."
Dangerous conspiracies indeed! If people are stealing organs, or if elements within your own government conspire to aid terrorists or at the very least to cover-up the truth about 9/11, that is very dangerous indeed. It is even more dangerous if you know nothing about it and blindly eat up every fabricated morsel of propaganda dished out to you.
Maybe you have been following the fantastic stories of the new 'blond Al-Qaeda.' Apparently the newest development in the War on Terror is the use of blond women by the normally darker skinned male Islamofascists in their endeavors. They have names like Jihad Jane, and Jihad Jamie. What will they think of next? Maybe a wave of trained Al-Qaeda puppies?
Anyway, in one glorious hodge-podge of an article on the ABC News website, the writers manage to combine a story on Jihad Jamie and the blond Al-Qaeda wave with a reference to the role of the internet in providing forums for those with a "grudge against the government."
Expect more of this mixing of 'conspiracy theorists' with terrorists, blond Al-Qaeda, Nazis or flying dragons for that matter. The internet with its conspiracy theorists, investigators and generally unrestricted communication is a threat to the agendas of the establishment, and they don't tolerate threats. They frame them.
In another article we learn about Jihad Jamie's son, Christian. As it turns out Jamie renamed her son "Wahid." Wow, that must really play well in the Mid-West. Can you imagine?
His name was Christian! And they renamed him Wahid!
I can't wait for the Al-Qaeda puppy wave. Spot will be renamed Saeed.
With our country literally drowning in corruption, deception, cover-ups and scandals, the Obama White House is going to make sure that at least one FBI official story isn't going to be further investigated. Gotta clamp down on those damn investigations. Can't have the people finding out what's really going on. Hold on a second, I feel an Obama teleprompter moment coming....
This great nation, and the great and brave intelligence services which serve the people of this country, must look forward and not backward....
Blah blah blah.....shove it.
Here is a link to the article on the White House veto threat from Washington's Blog.
If the government cries "cyber-attack!", they can blame it on the group or country of their choosing. Who will be able to verify if and from where a cyber-attack comes?
As the numb-minded media and public watch on as corruption thrives and metastasizes throughout our society and the economy barrels forward into an abyss of debt, low wages and unemployment Marc Faber suggests a few things that might help.
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