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Brave American pilots will show Iraqi children how it feels to be vaporized...
By John Kaminski skylax@comcast.net 3-8-3
Dictator Bush and his wimpy quisling suckups at the New York Times, CNN, and Fox have proved that Adolf Hitler's strategy was right - if you tell a lie enough times it soon becomes the truth in the public mind.
And we see how this technique has now come full circle in this prerecorded nondebate about bombing Iraq into a deeper level of oblivion.
Remember late autumn 2002, when from seemingly out of nowhere Bush pulled the long-dormant Iraq issue out of nowhere? At the time the U.S. media were awash in stories about how many Americans would die from the president's ill-considered order to vaccinate the entire population for smallpox. That the president's father had just acquired a substantial interest in the company that was to make the vaccines never quite managed to make the front page.
The unsolved anthrax murders had already dissapeared as a story from the mainstream media, once the trail of suspicion led straight to the U.S. government's door. A permanent rigor mortis had already set into the 9/11 probe and the unsolved sudden murders of more than 3,000 Americans. But Enron and Halliburton's troubles seemed to be percolating a bit, as many business executives who had stolen millions from innocent but greedy Americans seemed to be headed for embarrassing questions in various courts. It was not until later that a Bush-appointed appeals court judge's order would take the heat off Cheney for engineering that whole deal that stole billions in energy costs from the people of California. Cheney never liked California; he's a Wyoming boy.
What the criminal administration needed was a distraction from all this consternation, and Iraq has been that and more.
Now, not one of those overpaid media succubi who smirk on the TV screen every night and tell you America is going to win this war against Iraq has the gonads to tell their dictator that his planned invasion of that bomb-pocked nation breaks every law known to man and signed by the United States: the Geneva Accords, the Nuremburg agreements and every treaty civilized people have endorsed since the Romans bugged out of Britain " it is illegal to attack someone if they're not attacking you. A pre-emptive war is not allowed by civilized people.
Hey, why would they ask such a question? It's only the reason why there's any peace in the world at all, that's why. You don't go around gunning down your neighbors because you think they're going to do something bad to you sometime in the future. Only a criminal psychopath would do something like that.
But the current president of the United States knows something more than all the diplomats in human history put together. After all, he says he's a religious man. And Jesus did say he brought not peace but a sword. That's George W. Bush's kind of religion. I'm sure you could convince him that somewhere in the Bible it says it's OK to obliterate anyone you suspect of having weapons of mass destruction even though you can't prove it. Wasn't that the rationale of the Biblical Israelites when they wiped out all those other tribes?
Or if it's not in the Bible, maybe those sophisticated designers of the Project for the New American Century, the ones who wrote America needed "a Pearl Harbor-type event" shortly before the World Trade Center came crashing down, can get it put in. Maybe in a new version of Deuteronomy 28:56-58, that part where God says mothers will have to eat their own children if they don't obey God's holy law, maybe Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz can change that to it's OK to nuke innocent families because their leader didn't obey orders from their masters to give them all the oil they wanted.
Probably most Christians wouldn't even notice the change. It's all about the collection plate, anyway.
Or I guess some religious people like the singing. Onward Christian Soldiers, marching off to war, with the cross of Jesus, going on before. Amen.
I heard the crosses they're taking to Iraq are made out of depleted uranium, too. A lot harder than gold. They can really smite the enemy with them, just like our drug czar, that Barry McCaffrey guy. You know he used to be a general and he was in charge of the operation that gunned down all those Iraqis trying to run away from Kuwait after the first Gulf War. They called it the "Highway of Death." A lot of American pilots thought it was just like a shooting gallery at an amusement park. I don't know if they got points for it or not. McCaffrey became real famous for killing all those people who didn't have a chance, driving rusted-out trucks trying to escape American jets. He's a true American hero.
Yep, America's really going to put on a show. The American armed forces have the coolest high-tech weapons ever, and they've been saying " especially that Rumsfeld fellow " that they're going to use some new weapons nobody's ever seen before. I'll bet they'll be on TV, too. I wonder if CNN will make up a jingle like "Showdown with Iraq" to go along with Rumsfeld's plans to use "calmative agents" on the population of Baghdad, so as to reduce the resistance to American forces, y'know.
I can just imagine the new logo on Fox: "Gassing the masses." The ratings will probably be good.
Calmative agents. I like that term. Just like the Russians used on those Chechen terrorists who tried to hijack that Russian theater awhile back. Just shot the gas in there and they all went to sleep. I think that's a big improvement in warfare, and Americans should be proud to use stuff like that. I mean, instead of dropping all these humongous bombs on people and blowing them to bits, just spread a little cloud of chemical smoke over them and put them all to sleep. That's a real improvement in warfare, and Americans should be real proud to use something like that. It makes war a lot more civilized. Just put 'em to sleep instead of blowing 'em to bits.
'Course the problem in Russia was that a lot of 'em didn't wake up.
But there'll still be bombs. Plenty of bombs that we'll watch on TV. Cameras right in the tips of the bombs. Ride 'em right down to the target. See all those buildings blow up. Cool. 'Course they don't show the people being blown up. They won't show the searing heat from those heralded U.S. laser-guided bombs incinerating the crinkled skin of already-sick Iraqi children. Try to imagine the sound that crackling would make and think of something appropriate for a U.S. military recruiting poster.
That wouldn't be right on TV. Hell, if you showed that, bodies flying apart and heads being blown off, the skin of little children crackling in flames, people wouldn't want to go to war at all, would they? Hell, we can't have that.
They also were going to use some kind of fancy bomb that knocked out everybody's electronics in the area it was used, but I think they ditched that idea when they figured it would also probably make all their own airplanes fall out of the sky.
But the best part, I think, the most effective form of warfare, is the depleted uranium ammunition, the gift that keeps on killing year after year after year.
Could anything be more illustrative of the top leadership in America being completely and certifiably insane than using ammunition that guarantees a bitter harvest of disease and death among its own troops for years to come. Consider the casualty factor from the first Gulf War. Only 147 American personnel were killed during combat, a substantial number of those from accidental (we hope) friendly fire. But now, the Gulf War death toll 13 years later is around 10,000 Americans (if you check around on the Internet), with another 140,000 afflicted with really nasty diseases that are passed to those wives and children who manage to survive for any length of time.
Sure, you get the standard argument from the psycho U.S. government that these maladies are caused by other things, like the oil well fires (now alleged by some veterans to have been set by American personnel) and poison gas attacks. But the two main suspected carcinogenic culprits continue to be depleted uranium ammunition and strange vaccinations about which the U.S. government never would say and won't to this day what was actually in them. Go wave your damned American flag about that one, buddy.
America kills it own soldiers just by using DU ammunition. People get rich selling nuclear waste to ordnance manufacturers. And American soldiers die because of it. You can't deny it. There's too much evidence, everywhere.
Now we must return to the lead of our story: lies told often enough that they become the truth in the minds of an addled and distracted populace that wishes the whole story would just go away.
It is not Iraq that has weapons of mass destruction and uses them against its neighbors. It is the United States.
Compare the two nations. How many nations has Iraq invaded under its present leadership?
Answer: Two. First Iran, with the eager backing of the United States, which supplied it with chemical and biological weapons (and now proposes to use the same weapons to attack Iraq for using chemical and biological weapons of mass destruction). Second, Kuwait, which was stealing Iraqi oil, and anyway, the claim that it is a part of Iraq is legitimate; Kuwait, Iraq and Saudi Arabia were all created arbitrarily by the oil companies (as was Saudi Arabia).
Then, how many countries has America invaded and used weapons of mass destruction against during the same time period.
Answer: Try 13. Grenada 1983, Lebanon 1983, 1984 (both Lebanese and Syrian targets), Libya 1986, El Salvador 1980s, Nicaragua 1980s, Iran 1987, Panama 1989, Iraq 1991-2000, Somalia 1993, Bosnia 1994, 1995, Sudan 1998, Afghanistan 1998, Yugoslavia 1999. (Thanks to William Blum, "Rogue State.")
So when those mostly white men (they're all white at heart) gather around the table at the United Nations and make their judgment that Iraq needs to be invaded, they're just pulling out the same story that the Western powers have used ever since the Crusades were started to go and loot the dark-skinned natives. The lie is so colossal that it just makes me want to throw up.
When Americans " otherwise intelligent and kind " say Iraq should be invaded because they are connected with the 9/11 attacks " there is no recognized shred of evidence that this is so " it makes me want to throw up as well.
And when the world's media feigns hysteria about Iraq being a menace to its neighbors " at the same time when not far away Israel is perpetrating one of the great genocides in human history, the erasing of the entire nation of Palestine, and because most newspapers are owned by Jews, no one is saying a word " it makes me want to ... well, you know.
The world is, in fact, mad. Willfully and deliberately so.
People of principle need to assert themselves now. A poison has spread around the entire globe. Every echo of every thought emanating from virtually every radio station, television channel and major newspaper throughout the entire world (well, certainly the Western world, anyway) is a lie. And for this lie, thousands of people are being murdered every day.
The United Nations itself, consisting of representatives of all the countries on Earth, looks with favor on this newest lie, that Iraq is the threat to the world and needs to be divested of its leaders and its resources. So, the whole world agrees to participate in this lie, presumably in exchange for future political advantages from the aggressor government that seeks, as is its usual custom, to perpetrate this particular lie for its own geopolitical and financial gain, yet couches its motives in phrases of perfunctory and insincere nobility.
The big news in this is that the whole world is agreeing to participate in the slaughter of innocents because the most powerful country wishes to perpetrate its continuing campaign of dishonest, imperialistic gambits in order to increase its wealth. There is no other reason. The alpha dog wishes to destroy an entire nation, and the subservient pups that all other nations have become gather round, hoping to steal leftover scraps from the slaughter.
In all this, where are the principles of a free society of free people living in a free world? Where is the compassion that supposedly distinguishes humans from other animals? Where is the basic integrity of members of any society who agree to be civilized and not kill other people except in self-defense?
I'll tell you where they are. They're gone.
Of this event, our posterity will calculate the loss of our humanity and our honor, but in sociological terms, this complicity of the entire world to participate in this latest vigilante lynching of Iraq may well signal for us as a species the end of evolution and the beginning of entropy ... and the long, slow slide toward an ignominious extinction.
The future of the whole world is mortgaged to the vicious caprice of the American police state. Honest men cower in their castles and calculate the cost of their betrayal of the human race. The dream is in flames.
John Kaminski is a writer who lives on the coast of Florida, and has a book coming out soon filled with essays a lot likethis one.
Jewish Media Myths Leading Us To World War III
skylax@comcast.net 2-25-3
Lately I have involved myself in topics about which I seem to offend partisans on both sides of the same question.
As a journalist, this gives me great satisfaction, because true objectivity demands constructive criticism of both sides of any given issue, and in this I often succeed. But as a human being, it frustrates me that everybody from all points of the political spectrum can be so blindly biased; so unwilling to admit their own faults; so profoundly dense not to see that other people's arguments are often the same as their own though couched in different terms; so lacking in understanding, empathy, and fairness; so selfishly parochial as a new unprecedented worldwide disaster closes in on us.
Like, why should the United States have the right to declare other nations not suited to possess weapons of mass destruction? Or, why should one country have them (Israel) and another country not (Iraq)? Does it all hinge on Condoleezza Rice's statement that we are a nation of truth and goodness and can determine what is right for everyone? And what of those who disagree? Are they wrong? Are they evil? Isn't the United States the country most likely to use weapons of mass destruction?
No wonder there are so many wars. Everybody says they're listening, but nobody's hearing anything, because everyone's consciousness is set up in such a way that they believe they are right, and anybody who says anything else is automatically an evil enemy. Objectivity seems to be an impossibility, determined entirely by those who control the methods of communication.
This process of getting caught in the middle of these kinds of arguments and being blasted from both sides regularly happens to me because I consort with people from all angles of the political spectrum, from pistol packing Patriots to grandmoms eager to lay in the street in front of tanks. Both groups, the nobility of whose motives are not really to be questioned, routinely fall into the careless use of stereotypes to characterize the nefarious forces they believe oppress them.
The Patriots call the Clintons Communists when they are actually cynical stooges for corporate totalitarians, and the lefties tag those on the way-right as selfish gun-toting racists when they are actually arguing for principles that would enrich all our lives. But seen from a slightly different angle, those same Patriots (and libertarians, too) become shills for those very processes that now threaten to plunge the world into the darkness of war, and liberal lefties " who preach that if we all don't make it to freedom and security, none of us are going to make it " are all too often oblivious to the destruction of individual rights that they themselves espouse in their political campaigns. Never the twain seems to meet.
Anyway, the latest tar baby that has attached itself to my butt involves really kind of a toss-off line I used in my last essay about "The Dead Zone," when I waxed poetic that I was sitting on the shore of Vichy France waiting for the American bombers to arrive and change the nature of the world. To those certain few of my e-penpals who have identified with my previous critiques of Israel's fascist behavior throughout recent decades, it was as if I'd blasphemed the messiah.
How could I denigrate Hitler, when he was clearly a victim of the Western chapter of the worldwide Jewish conspiracy which set him up to take the big fall?
Whoa, Nellie! Just because I happen to believe in that worldwide Jewish conspiracy doesn't mean I have to believe that the little fruitcake with the funny mustache was a good guy. I mean, nobody made him invade France, Poland, Czechoslovakia and all those other countries. Nobody made him preach a gospel of racial superiority (that now, very oddly, seems to have been adopted by the Jews) and herd his little coterie of black-uniformed twits into venom-spewing, hate-mongering robots out to obliterate the rest of the world.
No conspiracy made him do that. He took the ball and ran with it.
Just because I believe that Western business interests have manipulated worldwide markets and armies into numerous wars doesn't make me a fan of someone who wanted to take over the world.
But the real reason I can't identify with Hitler is that I can see from his philosophical descendants that he was pure, insane evil. And who are those philosophical descendants? Well, they are the Bush family, tied into the Hitler legacy through the second Bush president's forebears, Herbert Walker and Prescott Bush, who both made millions off their backing of German businesses during World War II. This is no fiction. Do a Google search. It's easy to find. These are Hitler's real philosophical descendants: the pro-war, Zionist Christian Republican establishment.
The Nazi legacy was passed to the conquering Americans through the CIA and the Dulles brothers, and the American space program, which wouldn't have succeeded without the help of German scientists. Nazi principles live on in the American corporate establishment, which condones absolutely anything in the name of profit and now has been given its favorite Nazi gift: the indefinite imprisonment (or even murder) of mere suspects without trial or appeal.
Yes, I can believe there was funny stuff going on prior to WW II involving Jewish control of the media and the financial markets that uncannily reflects what is going on now. I know about the implications of the Balfour declaration: Germany would have won World War I, except that Jewish interests got the U.S. to enter the war after Britain made a secret promise to Zionists that they could have Palestine. But no, despite what was major provocative Jewish propaganda against him, I still believe Hitler was a white racist bent on destroying anybody who didn't have the kind of genetic heritage he preferred (and didn't even possess himself).
But just because I revile Hitler doesn't mean I believe the fictions the Jewish dominated media have spun about the Holocaust. I have been driven irrevocably into the category of Holocaust denier (a 1947 AP story said 875,000 Jews were killed in Germany during WW II) simply because of the way the Jewish community has trumpeted its martyrdom for financial gain, how the Jewish community has destroyed freedom of speech in a dozen European countries by making it a crime to talk about the events that led up to World War II.
I mean, if what the Jews were saying were actually true, they wouldn't need to pass laws to prevent their opponents from talking about it. They'd simply defeat them in an empirical argument, or in a court of law.
But to pass laws about talking about the events of World War II ... I mean, that's almost as bad as George W. Bush preventing a thorough investigation into the events of 9/11/2001. It's a certain admission of guilt, an undeniable indication of a falsehood being perpetrated.
I submit the degree to which a reader of this may be horrified by this pronouncement is exactly the degree to which this same reader has been indoctrinated by media myths that severely alter the truth.
And when you realize that the Jewish community has stamped out freedom of speech throughout much of Europe, you naturally have to ask what that same group has done to legitimate political debate in the United States of America.
Back in World War II, there never was much coverage about how Eisenhower let two million Germans starve to death in French prison camps that didn't even have buildings or latrines, an event surely as shameful as German concentration camps.
It's more of the same today. Nothing on TV or the big newspapers about the investigations into 9/11 or the anthrax murders, no coverage of the Palestinians being caged up in prison camps and murdered indiscriminately by bulldozers and helicopters on a daily basis, and not an audible peep about how it is Israel that has violated U.N. mandates about weapons of mass destruction and inhuman treatment of political prisoners. Yet the U.S. gives Israel so much money ($14 billion per year) that it has begun to tip over the entire American economy, and still not a peep in the American mass media ... because it is totally controlled by Jewish interests. This is not an exaggeration, no matter what trendy, left-leaning mass media observers like FAIR have to say about it.
But that still doesn't mean I have to like Hitler, or think he was right about anything, least of all Aryan superiority.
Same deal with Saddam. I can rail against how unjust and immoral the continuing target practice against Iraq is without saying anything nice about the Iraqi leader. Hell, the worst thing I can say about him was that he was a partner of the Bush family in acquiring weapons of mass destruction for his war against the truly legitimate democracy of Iran.
So, the Nazis say I'm soft on Israel because I don't like Hitler, and Jews call me an anti-Semite because I don't like Israeli soldiers putting bullets through the heads of old ladies and little babies. Everywhere I look I'm busted.
Anti-Semite. Hah. That's a laugh.
As many observers have written recently, an anti-Semite used to mean someone who hated Jews because they were Jews. Now, the term anti-Semite is used by Jews to tar and feather anyone who disagrees with Jewish policies, influences, and effects. Complain about Israelis burying alive Palestinian residents of Jenin and Jews say you're an anti-Semite. Wonder about the preponderance of Jewish influence on the American government and you're an anti-Semite. Worst of all were the recent remarks by Harvard president Lawrence Summers and his henchman Alan Dershowitz, who decried the recent rise of anti-Semitism. All this means to me is that Harvard is no longer a great university, but just another influential vehicle for Jewish propaganda. Check out the school's Enron investments sometime.
It's not a rise of anti-Semitism; it's a rise of disgust by thoughtful people who are appalled by the Jewish failure to admit the appalling crimes against humanity their Israeli cousins are perpetrating against the dark-skinned peoples of the region, and their political double agents are doing to the integrity of the American government.
This is a smokescreen kind of lie in which Jews exploited the so-called Holocaust for a kind of political immunity. Let's be nice to them because they've had a hard time, everyone was encouraged to think. And now we have more of the same: a worldwide wave of anti-Semitism used to camouflage obvious genocide in the Middle East.
I'm not an anti-Semite. I'm anti-Israel, an illegal nation which has inherited all the worst traits of Hitler's regime and passed them onto the United States. And I'm anti-Jew because there are so few Jews with the honesty to admit their beloved sanctuary of Israel is a lethal menace to every decent nation and ethnic group on earth, including itself. This too is a Jewish legacy that has been successfully passed to the United States.
Anti-Semite. That's a good one.
Jews aren't Semites at all; they're Turkic Mongols, who stormed their way across Asia with Genghis Khan 1500 years ago, became Khazars in the Ukraine a thousand years ago, adopted Judaism as a political strategy, then infiltrated eastern Europe, always ashamed of their Oriental lineage, which they have done their best to conceal.
But it's no secret; they're still behaving like Genghis Khan, taking what they want and lying about it. They picked up a lot of good pointers from Hitler, that's all. They have become like Hitler, but they always were like Hitler, because they're a lot like Genghis Khan, the greatest butcher of all time (although the Bushes are in the running), because they're descended from him.
It's a terrible hoax, just like the Holocaust. Zionists had an office at Hitler's headquarters to funnel a "chosen" few to Palestine. And because Zionists controlled the American media, we fell for the myth of the Holocaust, although it wasn't really introduced into the public until 20 years after the war ended. Just like we're falling for it now " Israel freedom fighters against Palestinian terrorists. Hah. Israelis are stealing Palestinian land. They, and we, are the real terrorists.
America, controlled by Israel, is the genuine terrorist threat, just like the Christian crusaders of long ago were the real terrorists butchering the indigenous inhabitants of Arabia and India. Just look at any of the current polls. The whole world knows the real axis of evil: America, Britain and Israel, trying to bribe the whole world into seeing things in their ugly way. Everybody knows this except the American people, who are kept in the dark by Jewish media.
We are the real terrorists, people. Time to wake up.
Having said all this, I can't fault the Jews for being to any great degree worse than anyone else. Consider the Europeans, from whom most of you reading this are descended. Consider the European heritage from an American Indian perspective.
Who are the real killers now? Who are the true manipulators now? Pass out the smallpox blankets, people. Just plead guilty and take the deal. It's too late to argue. The verdict has been in for more than a century. It's just that you don't hear it because the media are all controlled by Europeans and Jews, trying hard to tell us what great folks we are, and how we have the right to destroy the world in order to rule. Just like Genghis Khan. We are all descended from Genghis Khan. Or Charlemagne. Same difference.
I don't have to prove any of this to anyone, because I don't want to kill anyone to defend a deep dark secret, and they do. They want to kill to take what they want so they can keep their deep dark secret.
Nothing gets fixed until the secret gets exposed. The secret is this: there are no colors and no nationalities. We are all members of the same tribe. Those who establish differences are just trying to make money off conflict. It's no more complex than that.
But in this game of political roulette happening right now on the eve of World War III, it's just a case of heads they win, tails we lose. It's a coin flip we can't win. The minute you turn on the TV or open a well-known newspaper, the game is fixed. Reasons to kill are plentiful and continually repeated: "They hate our freedom."
I'm going to lose the argument no matter what I say, because everyone has been conditioned to believe that there has to be good and there has to be evil. No one " or damn few, anyway " have even considered the possibility that the striving for this "good" is the very thing that creates the "evil."
Consider this conversation I had with two schoolteachers the other night. Of course, I managed to offend both of them. One asked me what to do about children he could not reach, because they were only interested in computer-game retribution and seeing things in black and white.
I told him he wouldn't gain their confidence until he convinced them he believed there was a conspiracy against them. Silence followed. All teenagers know there's a conspiracy against them. They feel like adults but they're treated like kids. It's only the adults who pretend there isn't a conspiracy. And there is a conspiracy: kids are honest, adults are not. These same adults are the ones who wave the flag and support war.
I can argue til I'm blue in the face that the human race has been conditioned to look to war and conflict as a way to solve its problems, but until each one of us in an actualized way realizes that we die and are not going to some holy place in the sky because we've exterminated those we've decided are infidels or enemies, nothing is going to get fixed, no message of peace " no matter how articulate and compassionate " is ever going to get through to us, because we're always going to have that enemy to be vanquished " even though the true enemy is always ourselves.
My response was greeted with uncomfortable silence. I had given them the right answer, but they couldn't even hear it. It made me wonder what myths they would actually teach.
So this is how I manage to offend people on both sides of the same issue. I like to think it's good journalism, which is more important to me than whether you like me, or agree with me.
And damn! I think I've just done it again.
John Kaminski is a writer who lives on the coast of Florida and belongs to no political party, no religion, and " would that he could " no particular nationality or ethnic group.
What do we do when confronted by the certainty of evil?
By John Kaminski skylax@comcast.net 2-21-3
These days hang heavy, languid, dreamlike. I imagine how it must have been sitting in a park on the coast of France staring at the gray ocean sky in those dreary days right before World War II.
The Nazis had stolen your country and you wondered how long it would be before your life, if you kept it, would be changed forever. That's about like how it is now as we sleepwalk through these hollow days of well-worn lies, listening intently for the echo of each footstep, as we wait for the bombs to start falling.
It is a common theme used in several short stories I have read, although the only one I can readily identify was by Ray Bradbury: what would you do if you could go back in time, before the conflagration started, knowing now all the heartache and carnage Hitler had triggered? What would you do? The heroes in some of these fanciful stories - maybe this was a Twilight Zone episode; I'm envisioning the actor Christopher Plummer - went back in time and tried to stop the Führer's ruthless rampage before it started.
But the message in all these stories was mostly the same: history could not be changed, and proceeded as the history books surely tell us, despite the best-intentioned efforts of the inspired hero.
More recently, Stephen King's "The Dead Zone" was developed along these lines; in the movie version, it was the eerie Christopher Walken playing clairvoyant Johnny Smith who could read the future and foretell that evil Senate candidate Gregg Stillson, portrayed by Martin Sheen in a masterfully dastardly way, would nuke the world if allowed to achieve his destiny. Old Johnny, mimicking all those other heroes, decided he had to follow his intuition and save the world from a holocaust, so he went after the demented politician with a thirty-ought-six. He didn't have to kill him, though; the threat was enough to reveal the villain's true character (he tried to hide behind a baby, and all the newspapers snapped the photo). It cost Johnny his life, but it saved the world from disaster.
Oh, if real life only was as simple as popular fiction.
Lately, this archetypal fable has been floating at the periphery of my thoughts. Much in the same way George W. Bush fantasizes about how simple life would be without Saddam Hussein, many others, I'm sure, are having the same thoughts about Bush himself. And not a few of them, I'm equally sure, would put him in the same class of human being with Hitler, since many of his recent achievements bear a striking resemblance to the resumé the Führer so cravenly assembled.
A number of folks lately have suggested such that doing such a number on Bush would be an appropriate remedy for many of the ills of the world, especially in light of recent provisions of the Patriot Act, which mandate instant termination for anybody deemed to be consorting with known terrorists " something our character-challenged commander-in-chief has certainly done simply by hanging out with people like Rumsfeld, a known terrorist if there ever was one. Hey, he sold Iraq its weapons of mass destruction, didn't he?
This radical and illegal recommendation of offing the big boss has lately become known as "pulling a vox," after the suggestion of the popular New York columnist and Internet legend who recommended invoking the Patsy Act provision on Duhbyah. But all that earned the voxman was a midnight visit from forty or so federal agents and the destruction of his website " which lives on, by the way, in numerous and anonymous mirror websites lovingly maintained by admirers who seriously appreciated his suggestion, and his outspoken insistence that the tragic atrocities of Sept. 11, 2001 were an inside job, engineered by the petronazis in Washington, D.C.
These are the stark facts. Current American leaders are proven liars, particularly in the recent cases with Colin Powell at the U.N. and the subsequent terror alert based on the lie of a prisoner. In a court of law, one lie disqualifies all previous and subsequent testimony of any witness. It is not improper to infer that the lies told by the Bush administration in these two instances render everything its lackeys have said as fabrications to hide some other purpose, some other action. This inference can logically be taken back to the events of 9/11, whose coverup without investigation has lasted so long that there can be no doubt that the official version of those events " blaming Osama bin Laden and saying the American defense apparatus was taken by surprise " are total lies. There can be no doubt about this.
If the leaders of America are proven to be liars, why are they allowed to continue in authority? Because the entire government is collaborating on a gargantuan lie that it is operating in the best interests of the American, when it is crystal clear it is not.
And that is precisely what leads us to this "Dead Zone" scenario. We know, from the perspective of history, what results Hitler was allowed to perpetrate because no one had the foresight or courage to stop this demented dictator before he pillaged most of Europe. If no one does anything now about Bush and his designs on world conquest, will we reap the same harvest? Will the entire world be consumed in torrents of depleted uranium flames. It seems very likely that we will.
What will we do when we finally realize we have the reincarnation of Hitler on our hands? Bush even venerates Hitler memorabilia that is kept by his college fraternity. Will we stop the madman in Washington, or will we let him have his way?
I myself do not believe in the death penalty for any reason, not even for a proven lover of capital punishment and mass murder such as George W. Bush. I guess that's how I'm different from virtually all the leaders of the so-called free world, who now generally approve of killing thousands of innocent Iraqi children in order to divvy up that beleaguered nation's oil reserves among themselves.
Despite their superficial protestations of "let the inspections work before we bomb them," none of them really measures the situation in terms of babies with birth defects or mothers who have to watch their children die of easily curable diseases because U.S. sanctions prevent doctors in Iraq from obtaining even the most basic kinds of medicine. None of them assesses the current crisis in terms of lives to be lost. In their crass calculations of budgets and political influence, human life is valueless to them. All that seems to matter to them is control of commodities, and kowtowing to the wishes of Israel, which manipulates the U.S. like a puppet to achieve its own aspirations to empire.
I wouldn't want to be like them. I pity them. If this is our future " if this is the way humans are supposed to behave " well, I guess this is not my kind of planet. As my old friend Guido, just past 90 and still messing with the authorities, says: "Once a person is dead, there's nothing you can do. All those possibilities of a long life lived, those connections, those achievements, those relatives, those inventions, they're gone, and the world is a lesser place."
This all seems so obvious to most thinking, feeling people. So obvious it's not even necessary to state it. Yet it's a thought that apparently escapes the thinking of our erstwhile leaders. So who are they, and who are we to let them ignore it?
And all this talk about "beginning" a war against Iraq is equally repellent to me. Sometimes, when I'm walking down the street, I want to run up to some businessman, grab him by the shirt, and scream: "Do you realized we've killed a million Iraqi children?!"
Do YOU realize the United States has killed a million Iraqi children in the last decade?
So, that's why I don't take kindly to talk about STARTING another was against Iraq, because the first war has never really stopped.
But conceding how many Iraqis America has already killed is not something the froth-mouthed George W. Bush would readily admit to. He's just not that kind of person.
All he's interested in doing is creating a "Dead Zone" of his own, a whole series of them actually. Of course, recruiting a Johnny Smith to cut short his career wouldn't solve the problem, because there are plenty of pathetic political poltergeists willing to walk in Bush's shoes and pursue his identical objectives, in which ordinary humans just don't count for much. Just look at who's next in line: our own Dr. Strangelove, Dick Cheney, the one person in the world who can make George W. Bush look like a humanitarian.
For that matter, just look at the situation now unfolding in Iowa caucuses, look at the so-called opposition party. More Bush clones, all willing to push that button and bomb Baghdad on the bogus basis of the lies that have been in place for a decade now. Gephardt, Kerry " all those pseudo-Democrats except Kucinich " would all eagerly step into Bush's shoes and continue this assault on humanity and common sense, ordering the needless deaths of thousands more brown-skinned innocents simply because the men who really push the buttons behind the scenes say this is the thing to do.
America is the new dead zone, morally and spiritually dead, where for some time now the price of gasoline has been a far more important topic than the lives of innocent people. That's what happened in the first Gulf War: America wholeheartedly endorsed the slaughter of 150,000 people in a few weeks just to keep the price of gasoline from rising too high.
Don't you realize the war in Iraq has never stopped? And don't you realize that if something seriously radical isn't done about the situation as it exists now, this new War on Terror is never going to stop. When Bush spoke at West Point two summers ago, he said that there were 60 countries that harbored al-Qaida terrorists.
If we don't stop him here and now, that's 60 wars we have to look forward to. Sixty new Dead Zones. The U.S. already has armed troops in 40 different countries. I guess that means we need a bigger defense budget, right?
I never thought I'd have to say this, but the "Dead Zone" scenario is real, not fiction. It's here and it's now. If the world ever regains any degree of real freedom and equanimity, I cringe at what the historians are going to say about us, and about how we let a man with the IQ of a pea roam around the world killing thousands for reasons that were so obviously lies.
Then the question remains: what do we do when confronted by the certainty of evil? Especially when the vast majority of the people in authority don't consider it to be evil, and have basically signed on to the evil course of action.
We need at least to remember that the people in power who endorse this plan of action, who endorse the coverup of 9/11 and the abandonment of the anthrax investigation, who back the continuation of the attacks on hapless countries around the world, need to be separated from that authority as soon as possible. Immediately, if not sooner.
In our own distinctive ways, we all need to turn into Johnny Smiths, heed the unmistakable handwriting on the walls of our hearts, and take our own kind of action " humane and compassionate but effective action " to stop this menace that threatens to destroy the world as we know it.
To motivate yourself, simply consider the alternative if no action is taken. It's right there in the history books.
John Kaminski is a writer who lives on the coast of Florida and is running out of ways to say the madmen in Washington need to be stopped before it's too late for all of us.
Hit The Streets On Saturday & Say What You Feel
By John Kaminski skylax@comcast.net 2-13-3
Several billion people in the world - including myself - are wondering why:
* America is hellbent on destroying its own Constitution. The first Patriot Act torpedoed most of it, but now the new Patriot Act II - currently under wraps and about to be deployed secretly for a rigged vote in Congress - actually contains a provision to revoke the citizenship of American citizens if they are deemed to be connected with a terrorist organization. This decision would require no proof, only an assertion by the government. It means that people who attend peace protests are now eligible for indefinite detention without access to lawyers or phone calls to family. To be clear, it means quite literally that America is no longer a free country, and that its citizens are no longer Constitutionally protected from arbitrary punishment by its war-mad government.
Several billion people don't understand why all Americans aren't out screaming in the streets that their freedom has been taken away by rich fascists who don't tell the truth about anything.
* Nobody is talking about the experiments by an Israeli astronaut that may have brought down space shuttle Columbia. Despite controversial photos of lightning hitting the craft, and knowledge that Ilan Ramon was working on a new way to spy on Iraq, the phrase "americium-242" - which is apparently the new technology to take us to Mars - remains hidden from the public. As Yoichi Clark Shimatsu wrote: "The negative charge of the high-energy electron pulse from the americium-242 would attract the positive charge of the gas plasma generated by sprites (lightning is positive in the upper elevations) .... A lightning burst would account for the sudden surge in temperature, the immediate shutdown of heat sensors and communications systems (why the ghostly "last words" were never transmitted to NASA monitors), and for the tumbling that sent Columbia, a flaming chariot of the heavens, to her doom." Ramon was testing an infrared spy camera that can see through clouds.
* Anyone believes these "terror alerts" so frequently declared by the American government. More people are beginning to notice that these things are called for one of two reasons: either when some nasty bit of political revelation threatens to further tarnish the already-trashed reputation of the Bush regime - as most recently when Secretary of State Powell used plagiarized material to impress the world about how dangerous Iraq was - or, when the Bush regime wants to clandestinely sneak another repressive legislative measure past American's comatose Congress, as it does now, with Patriot Act II. Because the spinoff stories completely seize control of the attention of the prostituted major news media, these terror alerts are clearly meant to distract the public from the actual news, as in the current case, which is the dismantling of the Constitution, and the continued coverup of Bush financial crimes.
* There has never been an effort to investigate the events of 9/11 and explain what happened on this sad day to the general public. Clearly most of the several billion - including myself - believe that the reason is obvious: because the people who did the crime are doing the coverup. How else could eight of the named hijackers still be alive? A good point made by a friend the other day was that how could Osama bin Laden have been praising the devotion of suicide hijackers when eight of them were still alive. Or how about: how does Colin Powell already know what bin Laden is saying before the TV station which is going to reveal the piece has done so? Did you know al-Jazeera used to be a BBC outlet? Who is bin Laden, what is his purpose, and who does he really work for? Um-hmm.
* Few people are raising questions about the obviously false statements we have been told about 9/11? Why did it take 28 minutes for flight controllers to notify NORAD two planes had been hijacked when the average time to do so in such a case is 3 minutes? Why were fighters scrambled from a base 180 miles away when seven other bases had fighter jets ready that could have done the job in a fraction of the time? Why was FEMA in New York the night before the crashes? Why did those fires at the base of the towers burn for 100 days? Why did Bush read a book for a half hour when he knew two planes had hit and two more were hijacked? Why was the binLadin family flown out of the country when all flights were grounded? Why did the FBI chief say we had no warning this was coming and everybody else in the FBI say we had plenty of warning? Who did make the billions of dollars from all those put options on two airlines the day before the attacks? These are only a fraction of the question the government continues to cover up, as several billions of people know.
* All the targets of American aggression in recent history have been former allies who were armed and supported by Washington, but then suddenly "went bad." Saddam and Osama bin Laden are only the latest examples. Iraq was a staunch U.S. ally when it was using chemical weapons sold by Donald Rumsfeld against Iran. Osama bin Laden was the recipient of billions of U.S. aid when he was involved in fighting the Soviets. Panama's Manuel Noriega was a personal friend of the first President Bush when he suggested he was going to blow the whistle on American drug smuggling; soon, 5,000 Panamanians were killed by U.S. soldiers and Noriega's doing 40 in a Supermax. How does it happen that who America supports with guns and money soon become America's enemies? Is there an American formula to "set up" other countries with military aid only for the purpose of creating threats to be combatted in the future? It is very easy to read history in this way, and it makes you wonder who Saddam and Osama are actually working for, not to mention Yasir Arafat. Will we soon invade Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and all those Stans to whom we have recently given so much money?
* There is no legitimate opposition party in Washington, D.C. Zealous American patriots, many of whom voted for George W. Bush, used to castigate the Soviet Union as being an evil one-party dictatorship, but given the recent votes in Congress, how can there be any doubt that the United States has become " or perhaps has always been " a one-party state? Only eight senators voted against continuing America's falsely framed aggression against Iraq. Virtually the entire Congress voted for Patriot Act I without even reading it, according to Rep. Ron Paul, the principled Texas congressman who has undoubtedly been targeted for deportation by Jewish groups. Virtually the entire Congress accepts the premise that Iraq should be invaded because it represents a threat to the United States, when in fact, this sanctions-ravaged country is not even a threat to its nearest neighbors.
It is crystal clear to billions of people around the world that the United States is doing the bidding of Israel, which controls vital communications and financial systems in the U.S. and plans to conduct the mass expulsion of Palestinians once the U.S. provides adequate cover with its invasion of Iraq.
* There are no actual human beings among the world's leaders. In all of the discussions about how to split up Iraq, there has been no discussion by any of the principal leaders of the world about the people of Iraq, who have been savaged by 12 years of unrelenting bombing, and continue to suffer from the effects of illegal bombing and poisonous uranium contamination, all approved by not only the American people but by the populations of all its major allies as well. Even Germany, France, and Russia, who recently have expressed support for additional moves to forestall the cynical American invasion, are not doing it to protect the millions of innocent people who will surely be killed or injured by such an invasion. They're doing it because they want to get more leverage when Iraq's oil is stolen by the capitalist vigilantes who covet it.
* Why are we so willing to throw away our freedom? The obviously false pronouncements that we hear everyday are merely justifications for the robbery and enslavement of all the world's people by the evil men who control our money, our media, and our beliefs. They believe that they can buy their friends. They believe that if you give someone enough money, those who accept these bribes will look the other way when their neighbors are killed. The "blackmail, terror and mass murder" President Bush speaks of are not something the U.S. and its allies are combatting, they are things the U.S. is perpetrating. This is the Orwellian doublespeak that now assails us.
The famous Indian philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti once described the difference between an individual and a human being. An individual is someone who is concerned only with aspects of his own life; a true human being is concerned with aspects of the lives of every person in the whole world.
We are on the cusp of a new world. Whether we advance toward a new age of enlightened empathy and understanding or regress back into the dark ages of traditionally secret political manipulation is a question that currently hangs in the balance.
Perhaps a billion people all over the world will be out on the streets Saturday (2/15/03) to express which way they hope this question will go. There are demonstrations against the unjust invasion of Iraq planned in virtually every American city. Find out where it is and go. If you don't, there may come a day - and maybe real soon - when you can't.
John Kaminski is a writer who lives on the coast of Florida and is very encouraged that anti-war protests are being scheduled in even some of the smallest towns around the world. You won't hear it on TV, because TV is the corporate enemy, but virtually everyone with a brain is against what's happening in the world right now. If anyone is for it, it's because they are being paid to be for it. Don't let our freedom slip away. Say something.
We're As Stupid As They Think
By John Kaminski skylax@comcast.net 2-8-3
How stupid do they think we are? Only hours after our much-praised Secretary of State is revealed to have been using material plagiarized from a college student to justify why we're going to kill thousands of people with bombs, our government issues a terror alert and expects us to believe it?
And how stupid are we? We believe it.
Everybody takes it seriously even though Colin Powell has been shown to have perpetrated a colossal lie before the entire world, sitting in front of the assembled multitude of rectitude at the United Nations, exposed as having tried to pass off a decade-old college post-graduate thesis as supposedly cutting-edge Department of Defense intelligence. Used before the most august leaders of the world, this is supposed to be the best we can do? For all that money in the defense budget?
I mean, shouldn't we be embarrassed to be caught in such a childish lie? Could the U.S. government have reached a new low in their sluggish and unintelligent efforts to convince the world it should bomb everything that doesn't "love our freedom?"
But it didn't matter. The American people have become such dullards that apparently nobody made the connection concerning lying about the reasons for bombing Iraq and lying about the terror alert. Certainly not the TV news robots.
Stupidest of all? The terror alert was meant to cover up the Secretary of State's very own sophomoric faux pas, but the piggies needn't have bothered.
The TV anchorpeople, who worry a lot more about their hair than they do the fate of the world, didn't even blink an eye, didn't even make the connection, that if Powell is fabricating evidence culled from the out-of-date research - the grad student's work was assessing conditions in Iraq more than a decade ago - then what possible evidence could this most "humane" member of the Bush Cabal of Death have been using to suddenly whip up a new terror alert - which served no greater purpose than to take the world's focus off his own obvious incompetence and insincerity.
His own lies. There could be no clearer evidence that the United States is lying - not only about its own objectives but also about its own methods, its own performance - and, as I'm sure our genuine enemies would notice, and most dangerous of all - its actual capabilities. There may be no doubt that the U.S. could totally vaporize Baghdad, and no doubt that America's demonic weapons of mass destruction have turned large swaths of Third World countries into radioactive wastelands, but there are real doubts that this two-faced gang of armchair cutthroats have the ability, the will or the intent to defend our country.
Just look at the investigation into 9/11, the biggest crime in American history, and let me know if you see one. Just look at Enron, the biggest robbery in American history, and let me know if you see the big perps being brought to justice.
Lies. Everywhere you turn are lies, couched in trite buzzphrases, uttered by incompetent functionaries like Ashcroft, who couldn't even make a decent middle school debate team, not to mention Bush, who will never learn that sincere statements later learned to be false mean you can never reach people again.
Or maybe you can. Maybe people don't really care if the world is destroyed, if their own sons return to the Fatherland contaminated by radioactivity and poison vaccines. The insincerely enraptured media suckups, who have their own challenges to overcome, insist Bush is popular, but average people at the shopping center now only say that if they think the Homeland Security camera is on them.
Lies. Like the new information about the Patriot missiles that the U.S. has sold to practically every country that wanted one. During the first Gulf War massacre, the Pentagon claimed a 100 percent kill-ratio against those evil Scud missiles launched by Saddam. Now the news is the Patriot missiles never hit a single Scud, or that the kill-ratio was somewhere in the range of 7 percent, at best.
Just like the phony U.S. missile tests we see in the news every now and then. Those missiles can't hit spit unless there's a GPS beacon in the target. But the well-coiffed media harlots always reports those tests as if they were some actual triumph of technology, rather than the totally bogus corporate political propaganda they are. Speaking of that, did you hear Raytheon, the company that made the Patriot missiles, was also hired to evaluate their performance, for a cool half million? It's the Arthur Andersen principle, still working fine.
Our genuine enemies - as opposed to the ones cooked up at CIA secret meetings and funded covertly by third parties (are you listening, Bob Graham?) - must be noticing that a Patriot missile couldn't hit a mule in the ass with a banjo.
Just like the phony scripted news alerts on CNN that don't mean anything, either - they just condition people to ignore all news alerts - all this talk about terror alerts reveals to our genuine enemies that we are all bluster without competence, all talk and no game, not to mention genuine toughness. Living the soft life of the complacent West, we rely on our high-tech toys to do our killing for us, and when those toys don't work, those softie Western soldiers have a real problem, like crashing their own helicopters or bombing their own allies because they're doing too many drugs. Too bad the war on drugs doesn't work on the drugs used for war.
The only reason for this terror alert was to take the focus off Powell's laziness, his unprofessional reliance on a British report that was nothing more than verbatim excerpts from an out-of-date war college paper, which he passed off as the best the American government could produce about its knowledge of what is really going on in Iraq. An utterly pathetic and incompetent performance by a government that has received a permanent free pass from uncritical media stooges.
These stooges are fakes themselves, and so is Powell, and so are his terror alerts. And by their belief in all these false statements " these fake terror alerts " so are the American people, who have become, in the eyes of so many innocents abroad, the scourge of the earth, for their misinformed malice and imbecilic indifference.
The biggest terror alert of all - 9/11 - was an event manufactured by the very people who are supposed to be our leaders, our benefactors, not our plunderers. Don't argue " the evidence is plentiful, despite the stalled official investigation. Now, the biggest worry becomes the matter of when they will decide we need another dose to convince us we are in danger and they are our saviors.
9/11 occurred at a time when the cabal was devising new and draconian restrictions on our freedom called the Patriot Act, which was passed shortly after that disaster. Now comes word that a new Patriot Act II has been devised in secret.
Can we make the connection between the act of writing the new rules for totalitarian control and the horrendous act necessary to justify its imposition? And can we make it in time?
Not likely, because we're as stupid as they think we are.
John Kaminski lives and writes on the coast of Florida while watching the destruction of civilization by shallow and insincere men who don't tell the truth most of the time and don't really care that they don't.
Best News, Information And 911 Sites - 4th Edition
By John Kaminski skylax@comcast.net 2-4-3
If you were to read every story on every website mentioned in this post, we wouldn't hear from you for years.
However, if you were to scan all the sites mentioned here, and picked out stories that piqued your interest, something profound would happen. You would never trust what you read in your local newspaper or believed what you heard on TV ever again.
And that is exactly the point of this list.
The World Wide Web is where the genuine information is today. The mass media have deteriorated into a deceptive and delusional miasma of propaganda pitches designed not to tell the truth about current events, but to spin them in ways that will be profitable to the patricians who own the media outlets and pay for the deceptive advertising that ruin the health and the fortunes of ordinary citizens who are just trying to live their lives in a peaceful and orderly manner.
Print and broadcast mass media are the agents of deception and delusion - no exceptions.
The corporate mainstream media are all colluding in a criminal obstruction-of-justice coverup with corrupt government officials who have morphed the United States of America from a relatively functioning democratic republic into a private plunder preserve for the rich where ordinary people are regularly robbed of their hard-earned money and the privileged yet uneducated elite are free to trash the resources of the world's most gifted nation and sell them to the highest bidder.
With the help of corrupt judges and conscienceless politicians, America has become the scourge of the world as it loots country after country at the same time it deprives its own citizens not only of their basic rights that were once protected by a functioning Constitution, but also of their security, their wealth, and their self-respect as scam after scam " drugs, wars, and products you don't need that don't work " are foisted on unsuspecting consumers.
The information contained on these websites will help you see things differently, and more accurately.
This is the fourth time I've compiled this list. Each time it has expanded and changed slightly. A few sites have dropped off. Many more have been added.
If you're reading this, it's because we write regularly, you've sent me an interesting e-mail, or you are the creator of or work for an interesting website. This list is only one person's opinion of what's out there on the web regarding information about the coverup of 9/11.
This list as meant as a recommendation of where to find valid information not curdled by corporate contempt.
It is not meant to be a complete list, and apologies to all those great sites out there I haven't found yet. I always like getting recommendations and I understand that what I like might not be what you like.
Nevertheless, after a year of surfing every day, these are the sites I've found to be most valuable. I would sincerely urge you to check all of them out at your leisure and support them financially if you are able.
Everything recommended on this list is free (although with some, you can get add-ons that do cost money). I have taken pains not to include any sites of an overtly religious or spiritual nature, being a believer in the following statement: Anytime an adherent of one religion says anything at all about another religion, it is not to be taken seriously because the speaker can't help but be completely biased, and is therefore unreliable.
I have also excluded the categories of economics and the law, because not being an economist or a lawyer, I'm not sure when I'm being bamboozled by fancy rhetoric and references to documents with which I am unfamiliar.
BEST 911 SITES - 4th EDITION
Most Important Site
Best News Sources
http://www.rense.com/ http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/ http://www.globalresearch.ca/ http://www.questionsquestions.net/ (See note at end) http://www.guerrillanews.com / http://www.apfn.org/apfn/kenvardon.htm http://www.communitycurrency.org/index.html http://www.onlinejournal.com/ http://www.lovearth.net/ http://www.madcowprod.com/ http://www.tomflocco.com/ http://www.lewisnews.com/
Best 9/11 Timelines
http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/home.htm http://home.att.net/~Resurgence/CIAtimeline.html http://www.911pi.com/
Best Liberal Leftie Sites
http://www.wsws.org/index.shtml http://www.legitgov.org/ http://www.iacenter.org/ http://www.freedomroad.org/home.html http://www.yellowtimes.org/index.php http://globalcircle.net/00globalization.htm http://www.flybynews.com/
Best Patriot Right Sites
http://www.americanfreepress.net/ http://proliberty.com/observer/index.htm http://www.public-action.com/ http://www.sierratimes.com/ http://www.savethemales.ca/index.html http://www.thenewamerican.com/
Best Mainstream Right Sites
http://www.lewrockwell.com/ http://www.antiwar.com/ http://strike-the-root.com/ http://www.drudgereport.com/
Best All-around Analytical Websites
http://www.americanstateterrorism.com/AmericanStateTerrorism.html http://www.hermes-press.com/index.html http://www.sumeria.net/wnew.html http://serendipity.magnet.ch/index.html http://www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/index-old1.htm http://www.911-strike.com/index.htm
Best Site Destroyed By The Federales
Best Site Bought Off By The Israelis
http://www.emperors-clothes.com/
Best Wild And Wooly Websites http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/ http://www.davidicke.com/icke/index1a.html http://www.skolnicksreport.com/ http://www.paranoiamagazine.com/ http://www.nexusmagazine.com/index.html http://www.konformist.com/
Best Elected Official Sites
http://www.house.gov/mckinney/ http://www.house.gov/lee/ http://www.house.gov/kucinich/ http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/welcome.htm
Best Essays
http://www.americanfreepress.net/09_03_02/NEW_SEISMIC_/new_seismic_.html http://www.questionsquestions.net/kolskegg_911.html http://www.narconews.com/goff1.html http://www.sumeria.net/politics/bushknew/ghostriders.html http://www.sumeria.net/politics/shadv3.html http://www.afn.org/~vetpeace/madness.html http://www.lannan.org/_authors/roy/transcript.htm
Best International News Sites
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/ http://www.narconews.com/index.html http://www.timewedo.com/ http://www.colombiareport.org/index.htm http://www.bluegreenearth.com/ http://www.globalspin.org/world_news_sources.html http://www.khilafah.com/home/lographics/index.php http://www.iran-daily.com/daily.shtml http://english.pravda.ru/
Best News Digests
http://newsinsider.cjb.net/ http://www.davidcogswell.com/ http://truthout.com/
Best Medical Sites
http://www.whale.to/index.htm http://redflagsweekly.com/index.html http://www.mercola.com/index.htm http://www.tetrahedron.org/ http://www.vaclib.org/ http://www.naturodoc.com/library/public_health/truth_re_smallpox_vaccine.htm
Best education site
Best Blog Site
Best Chatroom
Best All-Purpose Publication
http://www.wired.com/wired/current.html
Best Mind Control Sites
http://www.heart7.net/mcf/index.htm http://www.trance-formation.com/NewMain.htm
Best Humanitarian Site
http://www.nonviolence.org/vitw/
Best Bush Sites
http://www.awolbush.com/ http://www.disinfo.com/pages/dossier/id195/pg1/ http://www.dcia.com/ic.html http://www.allhatnocattle.net/new_page_1.htm http://www.campaignwatch.org/more1.htm http://www.tarpley.net/bush2.htm
Best Election Sites
http://www.talion.com/vote-rigging.html http://www.vote.org/fraud.htm http://Votescam.com/chap1.html
Best newsletters you can get only in e-mail form: (sign up for all of them) GlobalCirclenet <webmaster@globalcircle.net > CCW <ccw@wolfenet.com > MUTANEX Communications <mutanex@aloha.net > Preventive Psychiatry eNewsletter <gkohls@cpinternet.com >
Best Talk Radio Shows
www.Meria.net http://www.infowars.com/
One of the best stories you can read off the bat is: http://www.questionsquestions.net/gatekeepers.html because it details how many popular left websites such as Common Dreams, The Nation, The Progressive, Z magazine, Alternet, and Tom Paine are tainted by subterranean connections to the CIA. Almost all of them write little about 9/11 and won't even entertain the notion that the tragedies were generated by forces within the U.S. government, making them suspiciously useless in my mind.
Bonus item: To find out the location of an e-mail address by the suffix at the end, here is a list of country codes: http://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/websoft/wwwstat/country-codes.txt
Start reading and learn as much as you can. Our collective future depends on it.
John Kaminski is a writer who lives on the coast of Florida and usually goes berserk every time he watches TV news.
Random Ideas For A New Society
By John Kaminski skylax@comcast.net 1-24-3
I live in Florida but the e-mails I got this week came from Michigan, Arizona, Denmark, the UAE, Texas, British Columbia, Hungary, South Africa, Hawaii, the Bronx, Australia, Delmarva, England, Sweden, Vermont, Arkansas, and Venezuela, to name just a few places. All of these messages said essentially the same thing: we thank you for your writing, but we need to know what to do as the U.S. rushes toward war against the entire world, and our police agencies get more and more aggressive about freely-speaking citizens in own own communities.
Do you know when they will be beating down our doors? some of the messages ask. I'm afraid to say anything in public, write many, because if someone tells the cops what I said, they might come and pick me up. I'm afraid for my children, say a few, about what kind of world they will grow up in.
While I'm honored to receive these questions, I'm as puzzled as the writers about how to deal with this new totalitarian police state threat that is growing like a nuclear-powered giant fungus in the United States and engulfing the entire industrialized world. America has told so many lies about Iraq, for instance, that people don't really know to feel about either Iraq or the U.S., although international polls clearly show that most people consider America to currently be the greatest threat to world peace.
The one thing I know for sure is that the entire American power structure " the president and his appointees, the vast majority of judges and prosecutors and police, the Congress and federal regulators " are all not to be trusted because they have all " and you can quibble with the percentage, but it's disgustingly high " proven themselves to be untrustworthy by their previous lies, or cynical votes in legislatures after receiving bribes that are devious and hard to trace. Imagine, almost all of them voted immunity for a drug company that makes a vaccine that ruins the lives of thousands of children with autism.
This stuff happens everywhere in America, and probably the rest of the world, because utter corruption is always the state of the species.
But the level of it, and the widespread resignation about it, has risen to such proportions that nobody can trust anything any public official says anymore, which has resulted in our current state of depression and mistrust.
Not to mention horror at the grisly fact that America is about to invade a poverty-stricken country with essentially no defenses. And we civilized Americans will use the devil's own arsenal of high tech poisons and devices of explosive torture for no valid reason, other than to steal a dictator's oil.
This is neither the action of a democracy nor a republic, nor the choice of a free and just society. It is the selfish act of a petroleum soaked vampire. American pride has become an unmitigated horror.
The American governmental system has completely broken down. Just think about who is in charge of what. The vice president can continually ignore a court order to reveal how he personally helped his billionaire friends rip off billions of dollars from the people of California. And the president can block an investigation into the greatest tragedy in American history without even uttering any reason at all.
OK, we're all agreed. Things are much worse than we ever thought they'd be.
This radical state of corporate-sponsored human self-destruction, I think, demands radical solutions.
I pose some suggestions here only because people have asked me what should be done. I don't pen them because I think they can be instantly implemented, but I just want you all to think about the possible efficacy of the ideas. On our present path of unchecked growth, we are racing toward species suicide, and we're going to take the rest of the biosphere with us.
We need to change direction. Here are some suggestions.
No absentee landlords. I'm not talking about factories, public facilities, or places of business. I'm talking about domiciles that house families. I'm talking about homes.
Absentee landlords are responsible for all the slums of the world, and most of the environmental problems. If a person lives on the premises he or she owns, chances are excellent they will care for it, nurture it, make it comfortable and secure, because that's where they live. If they don't live there, they don't really care about how nice it is, they only care about the profit from it. This is human usury. It should be abolished, and many of world's most pressing problems would be eliminated just by doing this one thing, just by passing this one law. Home ownership would spread across the planet, friendly neighborhoods would be reestablished, and harmony would replace strife if actual owners of homes were interacting with their neighbors in the best interests of the community. This is clear as glass.
Legalize marijuana now. And combine it with a general amnesty for all drug-related convictions that don't involve murder. Louis Armstrong, Paul McCartney, Bill Clinton and Carl Sagan can't be wrong. They all smoked pot and tried to do good things in their sphere of influence in the world. Study after study has shown that teens who smoke pot are more well-adjusted than teens who don't. Look it up on the Internet. But these studies have been suppressed by the same evil corporate influences that helped make cannabis illegal in the first place.
The biggest benefit would be that it would solve most of the world's drug problems. You wouldn't need Prozac if you were stoned and spreading it around, because you'd have too many friends.
Marijuana was outlawed as a result of efforts by the liquor industry, which correctly foresaw that widespread use of weed would seriously impede their profits, and by Dupont, which also correctly foresaw that hemp fiber is far more beneficial and useful than all these petrosynthetics they invented and reaped fantastic profits from.
The hysteria surrounding this subject has inflicted a three-pronged pox on the entire world.
1. It has deprived humanity of a tremendous biological force for peace in the recreational smoking of it. Everybody knows you don't kill people when you're high on pot like you do when your smashed on alcohol. Think peace, widespread, jovial, funloving peace.
2. The illegalization of weed provides governments with a perfect illicit substance, along with cocaine, heroin and opium, to make huge amounts of money to fund their illegal activities that they can't possibly get approved in a public budget. Think about what Britain did to China. Think about Iran-Contra, where the conservative hero Ronald Reagan and his fascist flunkie Oliver North funneled South American cocaine to dealers in the United States to pay for the weapons they illegally sold to Iran to get them to KEEP our hostages in prison until after Jimmy Carter was defeated in the 1980 election. The current U.S. military activities in Colombia, Kosovo, Afghanistan and to some extent Iraq are about maintaining their satanic hold on the world's drug trade as they are about anything else.
3. Spurious drug convictions account for more than 50% of all current U.S. prison inmates. These are some of the best and brightest people in our society who are actually recruited by paid law enforcement bounty hunters to swell the American prison population in order for prison industries to have more suckers working at 11 cents an hour, enabling those politically connected companies to manufacture office furniture (Internet: Unicor) and other saleable doodads at a lower cost, and thereby deprive non-convicted Americans of jobs in these industries because American furniture companies can't compete with slave prison labor. Sadly, it is the pill-popping, beer-swilling American cops who put innocent and naive potheads in jail who are the real criminals.
Legalize marijuana now and the world will almost instantly become a better place, no question about it.
Unconditional pardon for Leonard Peltier. Of all the atrocities we have committed, the greatest stain on the American soul is the callous extermination of 60 million Native Americans over the 400 year period of our history. And this is a genocide that continues to this day, as the U.S. continues to rob a far more noble race than our own their basic dignity and security.
If you've read Peter Matthiessen's famous "In the Spirit of Crazy Horse," you know beyond doubt that Peltier was railroaded into prison without a shred of evidence for the 1974 murders of two FBI agents. Numerous investigations since have only reinforced that popular perception; yet, the forces of the police state continue to maintain their lie while at the same time one of South Dakota's most prominent politicians, Senator Janklow, continues to evade responsibility for the rape and murder of a young Indian girl around the same time Peltier was unjustly convicted.
After 28 years in Leavenworth, Leonard Peltier continues to be the spiritual leader of the oppressed American Indian community. He is America's Nelson Mandela. A truly humane and conscientious country with the merest whit of honesty would pardon him immediately. He would make a much better president than the one we currently have, certainly.
All Jews must leave Israel. The nation of Israel, which has caused such consternation in the world's oldest neighborhood, is a totally illegal and immoral entity. It was rammed down the throats of the rest of the world by the U.S. and Britain, after a half-century of plotting and bribery. When the vote was taken in the United Nations in 1947, the entire world voted against the idea; yet, Israel was established. Since that time, Zionist terrorists have stolen the land of its orginal inhabitants, imprisoned them, tortured them, murdered them, and now it wants to deport the rest of them.
All of this has come about because Jews, suffering from centuries of neglect and inbreeding, misread their own holy teachings, and in their pain, came to believe that Zion was a geographical location, rather than what it really is, which is a place in the heart. As a consequence, Jews have misinterpreted what it means to be "the Chosen" people.
Especially given the discrimination they have suffered down through the ages, Jewish contributions in the world have been astonishing in many fields. Our fundamental perceptions of the world have been shaped by Jewish intellectuals like Freud, Einstein and Weinberg. But unfortunately, horrible persecution caused their political perception to become skewed; hence the perceived need for a fortress on earth, rather than the fortress in the heart they already possess.
Realizing this, the time will soon come for Jews to return to their real ethnic homelands in Poland, Ukraine and Argentina, where their creative efforts are sorely needed. They of course would be more than welcome in their satellite homes in South Florida and New York City, which are testaments to the Jewish genius for comfort and fellowship.
Since they have chosen to reject the fallible concept of an afterlife embraced by all of the other major religions on this earth, Jews will come to understand that their true mission as "the Chosen" means that God chose them to make a heaven on earth, and to assist all the peoples of the earth who are less enlightened than themselves in this honorable task.
And as they travel and spread their genius for brotherhood and intellectual achievement, they will remain secure in the knowledge that their Muslim brethren, in accordance with the teachings of Muhammad, will continue to preserve and protect and grant universal access to the Jewish holy sites. This is Allah's will.
A worldwide political and government "stand down" for ethical auditing. If humanity ever succeeds in implementing a truly just and functional society, in about the year AD 2500 the history books will speak of an event that happened somewhere along the way when the peoples of the world realized they could achieve better security and a more fulfilling satisfaction by better understanding what their governments actually did and who was actually running things.
Since civilization was first created around 3000 B.C., societies had been centered on military power and economic exploitation, often called by the neutral name "trade." But when the Earth's population reached unsustainable levels, around A.D. 2000, the peoples of the world realized that more planning was necessary to survival, and that previous formulas of unending growth were only necessary if the planet's population continued to increase. Economic growth, therefore, became impossible " an injurious objective " when Earth's population growth declined toward a relatively unchanging number.
If we, in fact, survive as a species, somewhere along the line we will look back and see that we finally realized there were limits to growth.
The realization that growth was an outmoded illusion would have compelled leaders to discuss ways to alter the dominant economic paradigm from one of growth to one of maintaining stability. They realized that this data could not be realistically gathered by a small cabal of men who controlled farflung corporate entities with post-industrial technological magic, but only by actual community leaders who knew firsthand the intimate details of the actual neighborhoods they were involved in.
This epiphany, so long in coming, would have begun an inevitable geopolitical trend toward genuine democratic decentralization, the thousands of representatives of which each contributed personnel to an egalitarian, worldwide police and judicial system that was not dominated by any single powerful entity (as it is now). This system would have necessarily produced far more arguments that the present system, but because of the egalitarian worldwide police and justice systems not dominated by any one power source, would have resulted in far fewer actual conflicts.
Essential to creating the genuinely egalitarian nature of this control system would have been "the stand down," or hiatus of the existing, corrupt political system, to be thoroughly dissected by the world's moral and educational leaders. Representatives of religious disciplines would have been excluded " or at least segregated " from this great conference, because a consensus of leaders and people would have realized that the old American idea of separation of church and state was essential to realistic dialogue, something our current president has worked so hard to destroy.
As Paul Harrison of the World Pantheist Movement has so eloquently pointed out, religion is separate from the earth " there is no real connection between religious precepts and geographical locations on Earth, other than for purposes of outmoded ritual " hence, there is no real point to including religious protocols to matters that involve geography and economics, other than a general prayer that these discussions would be conducted honestly and for the benefit of all.
Now, lapsing back out of the science fiction mode to the present political impasse on this planet, I see no hope of restoring the integrity of the United States without this kind of government "stand down," or hiatus, where all federal officers and judges are geniunely investigated by a politically impartial FBI for improper business dealings and criminal activity. I am supremely confident that the vast majority of officeholders in America in the year 2003 would wind up in jail as a result of this investigation. (Are you listening, Bill Frist?)
I understand that this essay is all utopian fantasy. This is a world where we talk about justice but don't really mean it. All the political badinage about helping this segment of society or that poor country is all just doubletalk as cynical aristocrats jockey for position to improve their public image at the expense of millions of anonymous poor people.
These ideas may be fantasy " especially the interrogation of corrupt governments, based on an imaginary viewpoint from the far future that we actually succeeded in creating a civilization to be proud of.
In point of fact, our civilization is something we cannot be proud of. Insincerity and duplicity rule. What appears in our public print little reflects the criminal machinations of a power elite that exploits the poor in every nation. Our most sincere teachers propagate myths that lead our children toward hate and discrimination, and our leaders mumble deliberately false propaganda that lead our impressionable offspring to believe that America is a land of truth and justice, while the most percipient of the older generation eventually come to realize that the basic dynamics of civilization have not really changed in 5000 years, and that the truth is bought and distributed by rich men to minds that have been deliberately shaped to not understand what is actually going on.
In lapsing back from future science fiction to contemporary political reality, I am forced to admit that it would be my fondest wish to see the entire U.S. Congress, all members of the presidential administration, all justices and judges above the level of normal courts arrested and jailed without trial and without access to lawyers for the encyclopedia of crimes they have all committed. I would like to see President Bush, Vice President Cheney, his entire Cabinet and the Department heads Bush has named shipped to and incarcerated at Guantanamo without access to counsel under penalties for aiding terrorists that they themselves created in the Patriot Act.
But I know this won't happen. I know the world is not a noble place where justice does not rule " only money does. And this is why we continue, hellbent and headfirst, on our path to the destruction of own species and most of the other ones, too.
John Kaminski is a writer who often sits on the beach and listens to dolphins singing songs about how the ocean is dying.
What If America Was Really Invaded?
By John Kaminski skylax@comcast.net 1-22-3
What if America was really invaded?
If the U.S. government's defensive response was anything like it was on 9/11/2001, and the invasion was anything like we imagined during the Cold War, you could rest assured that all the targets would be destroyed, the perps would get away, and America would never figure out who actually did it.
Oh sure, the posers in Washington would SAY they knew who did it, but wouldn't offer any proof, and would say they couldn't release the proof they had because it would jeopardize national security.
While the bombs were raining down on American cities, our president would remain in an elementary school classroom reading a story about goats to children, even though he had had advance warning that the attack was going to take place. Later he would pick some hapless country far away to obliterate, saying this was where the proof he refused to produce indicated he should bomb, even though the perpetrators he claimed to name all came from another country, a country that was a nominal ally and leading oil supplier. Oddly, it would later be discovered that the country he chose to obliterate had been chosen for obliteration long before the invasion for which it was blamed actually occurred.
The president would also introduce a series of police state legislative measures designed to keep the actions of corporate military suppliers concealed from the public. In the name of national security, these measures would be hastily approved by the Congress, even though most who would vote for them would not even read what these measures actually prescribed. Maybe they already knew and didn't have to. Curiously, these measures would later seem to have been drawn up long before the invasion actually happened.
As enemy bombers streaked toward their targets, American air defenses would not be able to respond to the obvious threat because apparent orders from Washington mandated that they stand down until further notice, and because too few of the jet interceptors were loaded with actually live ammunition. Later, the president would say, "We had no idea this would happen," and promote the officers who carried out the nonaction to positions of much greater authority. The vice president would say, "I didn't know what was happening until I saw it on television."
It would only be much later that some newspaper reports would reluctantly reveal that the president in fact did have plenty of advance notice, and that the efforts of some legitimately diligent FBI agents on the trail of possible invaders were stifled by their politically appointed superiors.
After the disaster and recovery operations began, officials would cover up the cleanup so that bombs planted strategically in targeted buildings that were not actually hit would not be discovered by snooping reporters. Some members of the press (very few, actually) would ask why buildings that were supposedly bombed actually fell as if they were demolished from within, but these questions would quickly fade from the news as the president issued a series of hysterical terror alerts that kept the media focused on possible future attacks rather than thoroughly analyzing the one that just happened.
And as Congressional hearings were proposed to pinpoint the causes and perpetrators of the invasion, the administration in Washington would move to limit the scope of the investigation, explaining that a probe of unlimited scope would impede its efforts to get to the bottom of what really happened. And most amazingly of all, the American people would believe him.
Although U.S. officials would refuse to release the proof it had against the suspicious characters it claimed to be the perpetrators, it would nevertheless jail thousands of innocent people it deemed as "threats" to national security, even though there was no direct connection (other than maybe a little sympathy) between those arrested and the actual invasion.
And a little further down the line, the government would devise a sweeping new reorganization plan to further guarantee that the actual perpetrators and the true motive for the invasion would never be discovered, although the government would continue to ramp up its plans to invade this country or that in retribution for the invasion, even though the countries chosen for these deadly high-tech assaults would seem to be possessors of natural resources coveted by military suppliers rather than nation-states with provable connections to the invasion.
And a little further down the line than that, the government would reluctantly conclude that the real reason for the invasion was that the American people had simply been allowed to have too much freedom, and that to prevent future invasions (which could happen at any moment!), this freedom had to be curtailed in the name of security. Again, amazingly, the American people would applaud this line of reasoning, then flee into their houses behind drawn curtains and hope none of this would ever happen again.
Very soon after that, the history books would show that the real cause of this unprecedented invasion was clearly that Americans had simply practiced too much freedom, and because faraway terrorists had come to envy that freedom, to covet it, and were willing to destroy it for everyone because they couldn't have it for themselves, it had become clear to the president that unabridged freedom was certainly the greatest threat to freedom in the world, and it simply had to be curtailed wherever it raised its ominous head.
So this is what would happen if America ever was really invaded. The powers that be would determine - because they do have and have always had our best interests at heart - that unregulated freedom is the singlemost significant threat to the kind of "freedom" they seek to preserve.
And this is what we now teach, what you hear on TV every single freaking day, the new American ethos: that freedom is a threat to freedom!
Repeat it, roll it over on your tongue, sing it for me one time ... " ... freedom is a threat to freedom .... " Be sure to remember that when you cast your vote that won't matter. Because this is what would happen if America was really invaded.
John Kaminski is a writer who lives on the coast of Florida and thinks voting is the penalty you pay for not speaking up between elections.
The System Can't Be Fixed Commentary
By John Kaminski skylax@comcast.net 1-18-3
Our future is a dark age of vicious guards and powerless prisoners, unless ...
Our president is a criminal, if not surely guilty, at least chargeable for the following offenses:
Military desertion, cocaine smuggling, conspiracy to destroy American landmarks, conspiracy to commit mass murder in New York, Washington, Pennsylvania and Afghanistan. And treason, for sure.
Willful and deliberate destruction of the U.S. Constitution. Accessory to the theft of billions of dollars in the savings and loan debacle engineered and/or condoned by his father. Corruption for making repeated and continuing governmental decisions to enrich his relatives and friends. Obstruction of justice, innumerable counts, for blocking investigations into crimes that cost the lives of thousands of American citizens.
Kidnapping and torture, for putting thousands of innocent people in jail without trial and denying them their Constitutional rights, as well as killing some. Illegal persecution of racial and ethnic minorities. Accessory to obstruction of justice for allowing the U.S. vote system to be commandeered by criminals who can rig the vote without being detected. Complicity in the assassination of a political rival.
If we had a real attorney general who represented all Americans rather than only the rights of the wealthy, he would investigate these charges, and convene a legitimate invesitigation into the suspicious atrocities of 9/11/2001. But as he was appointed by the same man who is charged with committing all these crimes, no investigation is likely. In fact, the attorney general himself is probably guilty of many of the same charges as the president, as he is conspicuously involved in so many of the instances of obstruction of justice.
So, there is no chance that the sitting government is going to act on these obvious crimes, since the entire government is polluted by conspirators of the same political party who are beholden to the criminals who gave them their jobs. This deadlock also applies to virtually all of the judges in America, since most of them have been appointed by the same manipulators and their like-minded predecessors, who must promise to condone this corruption before they are ever appointed to the bench in the first place.
And even the legislative branch is subject to the same polluting influences, since it costs millions to achieve these posts and once elected, collusion in the secret and criminal activities of the power elite is essential to advancing one's career.
As preposterous as it sounds, the entire Congress (excepting a dozen or so idealists) needs to be dismissed and indicted for its corrupt actions. That says something about the direction our future must take if we are to actually be free.
We are supposed to have a two-party system in America, but it has been apparent for some time that the differences between the two parties are wholly cosmetic. An analysis of the recent vote on making war against Iraq is instructive, as only eight senators opposed it, despite the complete absence of hard evidence that Iraq should be invaded at all (something the rest of the world knows well, but that the American people choose not to know). The opposition included seven Democrats and one Independent, but the vast majority of Democrats supported the Republican president's position, even though it was clearly a lie. The situation is identical when it comes to the Israelis' continuing theft of the Palestinians' homeland.
Similar outcomes were recorded in the votes for the Patriot Act and Homeland Security bill, two legislative monstrosities which effectively curtailed most of the privileges recorded in our Constitutional Bill of Rights, which had remained essentially unmolested for two centuries.
These votes clearly indicate there is no genuine opposition party in the United States, only a false opposition whose differences with the party in permanent power are pretty much meaningless.
This is evident in the opposition party candidates who speak not of changing the current criminal system but only of modifying procedures in trivial ways that would give no relief to the beleaguered citizenry but only enrich their corrupt friends instead of the other guy's. Look hard at the principal candidates for the 2004 opposition presidential nomination: a member of the same college fraternity as the current president, and two partisan advocates of immoral support for a foreign power that is a principal abettor of tyranny in the world. This is no opposition, only another flavor of the same oppression. Thus, there is no reason to expect any kind of change after the next election. To put it more clearly, there is no reason to vote at all.
In short, there is no place for the average American citizen to turn for relief. This terminal disease of political corruption extends downward through the states, counties and muncipalities, where all elective offices are occupied by people able to pay their way into the ruling system, through alliances with corrupt judges and party bosses, with all machinations based on bribery and deception. Perhaps this is what America has always been " that's a long argument " but there is no argument that this is what America is now: a perverted cesspool of political payola.
Members of both parties were involved in the pivotal decisions of the past half-century that allowed the destruction of America's manufacturing base and the widespread practice of financial deception to cheat legitimate investors out of their hard-earned money. The coming impoverishment of the United States is a bipartisan achievement, but only insofar as the policies of both parties have been consistently to take the short-term profit and feed it quickly to elite investors and their political minions rather than to invest it prudently in the continuing well-being of the American economy. The flight of industry beyond our borders is chief testament to this policy, and the reason why, when this country goes broke beyond any solution the fast-talkers can fabricate, there will be no fixing the problem, and no ready solution to a chaotic poverty that will sweep the land.
This is the real reason why Ashcroft is talking internment camps, why people are fearful of boxcars with seats in them, and new, barbed-wire enclosures that are supposedly springing up all across t