Just a post to show my readers a classical (and all-too-common) example of smooth apology for capitalism, with the media, in this case, MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell, hardly raising any objections to the verborrhea of lies. (The time for polite is over, media people. Help the public or get the fuck out of the way.)
Observe this guy’s schtick. His name is Kevin Madden. And don’t be fooled by his “dreamy” looks (so I’m told by my girlfriend). Evil more than often appears in bland or appealing ways. This is a guy who comes fully armed with the usual spiel used by “conservatives” over and over again. A script riddled with lies, cynical lies at that. But artfully finetuned to fit the current circumstances. Of course, as we might expect, this pezzo di merda, as they say in the ole country, is a Romney advisor. So with the typical audacity of a trained disinformer (see below a bioblurb on him) he attacks Obama for supposedly hampering our poor capitalists in the pursuit of profits…is that a laugh or what? Read more…
Editor’s Note: This is the first item we run on the virulent (and ludicrous) liberaloid scam going down by the name of “KONY 2012″, an audacious maneuver to sell intervention abroad behind the veil of “humanitarianism and justice”, and currently being spread via YouTube and similar social media. So far, supposedly tens of millions have seen the video (the promoters deliberately targeted a young demographic), and many more heard about it thanks to the mainstream media’s enthusiastic endorsement. Despite its “success” the video has detonated its share of highly articulate critics. (The video we present below is precisely one such example.) This quick response is rather notable (and encouraging). In far too many cases the real left has been slow to respond to such naked stabs at influencing public opinion on matters of foreign policy. Another difference is that till now the drumbeat to war—picking up on cues from the political class— has usually originated within the subservient media. In this case, we see an “outsourcing” of such fabrications, with a third party playing the critical role of “discoverer”of the outrage needing rectification. Read more…
In 2010 the FBI invaded the homes of peace activists in several states and seized personal possessions in what the FBI–the lead orchestrator of fake “terrorist plots”–called an investigation of “activities concerning the material support of terrorism.”
Subpoenas were issued to compel antiwar protestors to testify before grand juries as prosecutors set about building their case that opposing Washington’s wars of aggression constitutes giving aid and comfort to terrorists. The purpose of the raids and grand jury subpoenas was to chill the anti-war movement into inaction. Read more…
By David Sirota, Truthdig Shopping frenzies are not uncommon in modern culture. -
In 1977, two Boeing 747s collided on an airstrip in the Canary Islands. According to accident investigators, those who survived the initial blast in one plane had time to escape before a fire consumed the wreckage. But eyewitnesses reported that many remained in their seat looking perfectly content—as if nothing was wrong.
Not surprisingly, dozens of these dazed victims were burned to death, and the episode became a reminder of the so-called normalcy bias—a cognitive phenomenon whereby many who are faced with imminent disaster instantly convince themselves that everything is normal and that they don’t have to modify their behavior. Read more…
“One Law for Lion and Ox is Oppression.” –William Blake
“Where is the place of understanding? Where is wisdom to be found?” –The Book of Job
The author picks Ron Paul as the least objectionable of an obnoxious lot.
Info coming at us at the speed of light—gigabytes per nano-sec—and our horse-and-buggy bio-chem brains struggle with ancient grammars, syntaxes and texts! Even our metaphors are now wretchedly overwrought: Not, “how to connect the dots,” but how to perceive, measure, record and duck the shot-gunned info-pellets rushing at our faces! No wonder the world has gone gaga—not Lady!—for predictions! “The world is too much with us,” so maybe those Mayan calendrical types knew a thing or two. Maybe Nostradamus. Maybe Cayce. Somebody must know something! Read more…
ANNOTATED Chris Hedges on Christopher Hitchens (radio interview)
Christopher Hitchens is remembered here by Chris Hedges (above), who faced off against Hitchens in his writing and public debate about U.S. foreign policy and Hitchens’ brand of atheism. Chris Hedges is the author of books including “The World As It Is”, “Death of The Liberal Class”, “Empire of Illusion”, and “I Don’t Believe In Atheists.” (Intro courtesy by CBC). Read more…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
There was nothing witty, cute, or endearing about the late Christopher Hitchens, a racist to the core whose association with the Left served only to discredit it. “Beneath his mutterings against ‘Islamofascism’ he was nothing more than an angry white guy who wanted brown people to be conquered or dead.” A man of many prejudices but no real loyalties or principles, he flowed with the money. “Why toil away as a left winger known only within that smaller group, when more money and media attention awaited a cheerleader for pax Americana and white supremacy?”
“In the end all his words amounted to nothing more than fighting for the rights of white people to control everyone else in the world.” Read more…
Revolutionary Violence vs Institutionalized Violence
"There were two 'Reigns of Terror,' if we could but remember and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passions, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon a thousand persons, the other upon a hundred million; but our shudders are all for the "horrors" of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty and heartbreak? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief terror that we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror - that unspeakable bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves..." —Mark Twain, writing about the French Revolution.
Make creeps like Kissinger
and Palin miserable.
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