🚀 go-pugleaf

Some people enjoy being silly and some enjoy being serious. Some
Americans aren't troubled by the fact that their tax dollars have
caused the needless deaths of millions of people, when you look look at
Vietnam, Africa, & Iraq.  The blind lead the blind, and to them - the
truth is stranger than fiction.

We must never forget the shock and awe - when the US dropped tens of
thousands of  bombs on the good people Baghdad - a city of 6+  million
(more people than both Los Angeles & Houston together).   Despite the
fact that the corrupt US news media proudly proclaimed that it was a
matter of the "empire striking back",  it was terrorism.  Thousands of
defenseless women and children were needlessly massacred and Americans
were encouraged to be proud of and to support Bush's so called 'war on
terror'.

By supporting the Bush regime, people are indeed supporting terrorism.
Most of them have been led to believe that the biggest terrorist regime
in the world is actually fighting terrorism. They're simply guilty of
being too gullible, of believing the lies of the most skilled liars and
advanced propaganda system of all time.

The truth will set us (free from chicken hawks and their  ugly wars).

KB
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"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a
revolutionary act."
 George Orwell

George Orwell wrote in  "1984":

"It's not a matter of whether the war is not real, or if it is, Victory
[peace] is not possible. The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to
be continuous  [to last forever and to remain extremely profitable for
a few extremely rich men].   Hierarchical society [where the rich get
richer and the poor are pissed on] is only possible on the basis of
poverty and ignorance... In principle, the war effort is always planned
to keep [significant parts of] society on the brink of starvation [with
many struggling & barely getting by].

The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects  [who are
intentionally kept down (poor), so some of them will be desperate
enough to put on a uniform & fight for the insanely greedy
capitalists]...
... [the war's] object is not the victory... but to keep the very
structure
of [our deception & greed based, totalitarian bastard led] society
[where the super rich grow fatter and fatter, while the average people
- especially non-whites, get pissed on] intact."

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"One reason that propaganda often works better on the educated than on
the uneducated is that educated people read more, so they receive more
propaganda. Another is that they have jobs in management, media, and
academia and therefore work in some capacity as agents of the
propaganda system--and they believe what the system expects them to
believe. By and large, they're part of the privileged elite, and share
the interests and perceptions of those in power. " Noam Chomsky

A good short article:
Propaganda American Style by Noam Chomsky
http://www.zpub.com/un/chomsky.html
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Media Education Foundation
Elite Propaganda
THE MYTH OF THE LIBERAL MEDIA
The Propaganda Model of News

watch/listen to free 60 min. video:

Video
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6435.htm

Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky demolish one of the central tenets of
our political culture, the idea of the "liberal media." Instead,
utilizing a systematic model based on massive empirical research, they
reveal the manner in which the news media are so subordinated to
corporate and conservative interests that their function can only be
described as that of "elite propaganda."

"If you want to understand the way a system works, you look at its
institutional structure. How it is organized, how it is controlled,
how it is funded." -Noam Chomsky

"The Mainstream media really represent elite interests, and what the
propaganda model tries to do is stipulate a set of institutional
variables, reflecting this elite power, that very powerfully influence
the media." -Edward Herman

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"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience.
Our problem is that numbers of people all over the world have obeyed
the dictates of the leaders of their government and have gone to war,
and millions have been killed because of this obedience. . . Our
problem is that people are obedient all over the world in the face of
poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty. Our problem
is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves,
and all the while the grand thieves are running the country. That's our
problem."    Howard Zinn, "Failure to Quit", p. 45

"We cannot afford to differ on the question of honesty if we expect our
republic permanently to endure. Honesty is not so much a credit as an
absolute prerequisite to efficient service to the public. Unless a man
is honest, we have no right to keep him in public life; it matters not
how brilliant his capacity."  Theodore Roosevelt

" The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the
growth of private power to the point where it becomes stronger than the
democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism - ownership of
government by an individual, by a group or any controlling private
power." President Franklin Delano Roosevelt

"I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and
causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. As a result of the
war, corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high
places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavour
to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until
all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is
destroyed."  Abraham Lincoln

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"Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible
government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to
the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy
alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first
task of the statesmanship of today."  President Theodore Roosevelt

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"We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most
completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world - no
longer a Government of free opinion, no longer a Government by
conviction and vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion
and duress of small groups of dominant men."  Woodrow Wilson

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"The problems of mankind are real but solvable.
The solution lies within your grasp.
Take your brother's need as the measure for
your action and solve the problems of the world.
There is no other course. "
The World Teacher


BernardZ wrote:
> In article <Xns9839B39E42E14thefrogprince@70.169.32.36>, usenet2
> @DE.LETE.THISljvideo.com says...
> > Subject: Re: Ending war, terrorism & poverty forever
> > From: Larry in AZ <usenet2@DE.LETE.THISljvideo.com>
> > Newsgroups: dc.general, soc.culture.jewish, soc.culture.israel, soc.culture.usa, az.general
> >
> > Waiving the right to remain silent, know_buddee@hotmail.com said:
>
>
> In his case it might be better to remain silent and let people think he
> is a fool rather then speak and confirm that he is a fool.
>
>
> --
> The people that believe that the world is flat are proof that heaps of
> time, huge amounts of scientific evidence, plenty of eyewitness
> accounts, numerous experts opinion and  mountains of photographs are not
> enough to convince some people!  What is particularly frustrating is
> that there are many such people on the Usenet.
> 
> Observations of Bernard - No 104