war

For days all you see on the news is the coverage about Barack’s Vice Presidential Pick and I’m trying really hard here but my interest in the presidential campaign went away a while ago. It would be something else if everything was fine in this country, and I would probably also not mention anything if we weren’t at War with a country that never attacked us. On top of that violence is starting to flare up again in the country that warranted exclaiming the fact that the mission was accomplished. In retrospect all Bush accomplished on that day on the air craft carrier was to get out of the plane.

It’s amazing really. The country that’s leading the world when it comes to waging warfare, the country that has the most ignorant president in US history is struggling decyphering what the news headlines mean. Russia attacks Georgia! Does that mean Atlanta is under fire? No that’s not what it means. It means you have to go back to school if you thought that. While Americans can’t tell the difference between Eurasia and North America the American President has the audacity of critizing Russia for their act of aggression towards a foreign country.

Mark Sanford, a McCain supporter was on CNN’s Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer where he was asked to point out some key differences between McCain and Bush. I personally wouldn’t want this guy getting on TV for me, but then again I’m not a Republican Strategist so what do I know?

Yeah, it sucks to be on TV and to draw a blank on something you should be able to cite blindly.

If you have followed US foreign policy after WWII you will notice that are interventionist strategies are driven by one thing: economic interest. That’s a very nice way of saying Slavery, in the Millennium we live in. Things have become more subtle today, and where people don’t walk around in chains that anyone else could see, the same situation does exist today. The United States already tried to take over Iran as I’ve mentioned in this article and it’s common knowledge that the United States and Europe have always been keen on seizing the country’s asset as part of our global campaign of economic enslavement.

The banner text is taken from George Orwell’s Book “1984″ a book in which he described a society that is completely controlled by the government. Of course we’re controlled by the government today as well, but what Orwell describes in his book is more extreme than what we’re currently experiencing. Seeing how things are going currently I don’t think we have a long way to go. As I write this, I have the TV going on in the background and Sean Hannity is interviewing a Black man in reference to Spike Lee’s comments towards Clint Eastwood. Apparently Lee complained that in “Letters from Iwojima”, a film directed by Eastwood, not one black person is seen throughout the film. Hannity turns to the guy he’s having on and says “..you’re friends with OJ Simpson aren’t you?”. As always, Sean Hannity proves that he is a contributing factor to the down fall of this country. It’s people like him that only have one thing in mind: their personal enrichment.

It’s very obvious to me that Sean Hannity doesn’t have the best of this country at heart. He wraps himself in the false blanket of Patriotism, where true American Patriotism stems from being a critical, aware individual in a society that demands this of its citizens. The style Hannity follows just isn’t intellectually honest and where I know he has a large following, I hope many people realize that what Fox News and others are doing is to deceive the population. Instead of giving you the information we need, they give us hatred filled opinions that don’t serve any other purpose than keeping the viewer ship.

I’ll give you another personal example of how I feel Republican Cronies are ruining this country. A while ago I had gotten another lead for work from a friend. After some correspondence with the client I went to work on his project. Unfortunately miscommunication plagued the project from the very beginning and when things turned sour, I did some research on the people I was dealing with. First of all both gentlemen I was dealing with were closely associated to the Republican party and one of them is actually a politician. Then the very disappointing part that I found out, was that one of the men was actually an owner of a security company! In other words, he had contracts from state and federal level for security work in Louisiana. Let me say that I have done no research on the legality of these deals and that’s not my point here. My point is that one of the websites I viewed which belonged to my clients, was full of patriotic BS. In other words, it had a mission statement on the page that read something close to “doing business with partners that share our patriotic view of US”. Maybe I’m just too big of a cynic to be able to accept that as is but anyone who wraps themselves in the American Flag to do business in that way is a whore in my eyes and should be ashamed of themselves.

I admit I got a bit off point here as I kept writing but it doesn’t change my main point which is the fact that Fox News and others are contributing to the level of ignorance this country is exposed to. By continuing to misinform the population, the population is lulled into some sense of normalcy that keeps them thinking that things aren’t that bad. With gas over $4.00 / gallon I hope people realize who did this to us.

I want to go back to the future, the one where Michael J. Fox was riding around with a hoverboard. What happened?

Here’s another example that shows what a bunch of crooks and liars Fox News are. I wish that for once they would have been as critical with the information the government fed us as they were with that Mayor. The blond anchor even said at some point “that’s an ongoing investigation”….that’s just hillarious because it shows how incapable they are of their own opinion and how dictated everything at that network is.

The main notion that Fox and Friends is trying to get across is that as Mayor he has to be fully welcoming of the arrival of the president and I have to applaud him for standing up and saying NO to that argument.

I mean you do have to give these crooks some credit for the way they have run their propaganda machine.Latest reports on how far the Military is embedded in the media as so called Military Analysts reveal that over 4,500 appearances were made on various topics. It’s important to realize what they accomplished by doing this. In the 24 hour news cycle we’re used to, it’s very common that news shows will call on experts to chime in on whatever topic it is they’re talking to death since the anchors themselves are barely qualified to open their mouths as it is. Where the basic concept of this makes sense, we can’t overlook what’s really going on.

As we all know what we see on TV influences us. I personally watch about 10 minutes of TV at home per day, which is just about enough to give me background noise while I’m eating. I have no scientific proof of this but I’m pretty sure I’m not really influenced by TV, it least not very much. I’m pretty sure that this isn’t the case for the general population. I remember when the first reports came out before we occupied Iraq and my Mom, who I consider a very intelligent individual was telling me how Saddam Hussein was a threat to this country. I was rather outraged by this statement, not because she said it but more because I knew where it stemmed from. They had been talking about it on some morning show and they probably had on some military analysts that helped push the message, giving many unsuspecting citizens the idea that we were actually in danger of being attacked by a Dictator who really couldn’t have attacked us if he wanted to. To support this argument, you can watch the video below, where Rice and Powell tell us that Saddam is no threat at all to this country.

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Unfortunately it seems that the common memory of events is closely tied to what they see on TV so once the tone changed in the media, the population went along with it. What came next was a rather genius implementation of what I can only call Goebbel style propaganda for the new millennium. For those of you that don’t know, Goebbels was in charge of state run propaganda. Needless to say there was no Youtube during WWII so the only source of moving pictures, were those available in the theaters. The Fascist government that reigned from 1933-1945 had the keen ability to able to lull the country into a state that was only losely tied to reality. Hitler and Goebbels both kept holding speeches, which consistently instilled fear into the citizien of Germany and even when almost all German men had either been killed, wounded or taken prisoners, the German government still pushed for people to join the army.

One of the reasons the fascist regime was so successful is because it knew how to play to the fears of the people and what I’m finding today is that the Bush government with all its crooks and liars is following the Nazi play book on how to deceive a nation. “Keep repeating it and people will believe it” is a very common phrase and I’m pretty sure these type of tactics stem from Nazi greats such as Goebbels. Karl Rove and others in the administration are basically doing the same thing the Nazis were. They’re changing the type of media you see and where they might not control everything you see, they surely are able to inject themselves into anything they want to influence. Embedded journalists are a good example of this. We thought they were giving is the close up view of what was going in Iraq but of course we know by now that these journalists were not close up at all, they were dependent on what the commanding officer told them they could do. The footage I saw from the Vietnam War was surely a lot different and I believe that Rove and others learned from history. They learned not to show the actual War to the people, because at the end of the day, everyone hates war and if we were shown how gruesome it really is, very few would still be in support of it.

I hope that we can break the current media conglomerate. Everyone now and then I take a minute and look up the bio for which ever news anchor I’m watching and today I looked up Andrea Mitchell - who I knew little about. She’s married to Alan Greenspan - yes that guy. I find that a rather great conflict of interest, but in this country, so many things are out of the norm that this doesn’t even surprise me anymore either.