Image via WikipediaThe Cult That Is Destroying America
It’s increasingly obvious that what we’re looking at is the destructive influence of a cult that has really poisoned our political system.
The cult that I see as reflecting a true moral failure is the cult of balance, of centrism.
Think about what’s happening right now. We have a crisis in which the right is making insane demands, while the president and Democrats in Congress are bending over backward to be accommodating — offering plans that are all spending cuts and no taxes, plans that are far to the right of public opinion.
So what do most news reports say? They portray it as a situation in which both sides are equally partisan, equally intransigent — because news reports always do that. And we have influential pundits calling out for a new centrist party, a new centrist president, to get us away from the evils of partisanship.
The reality, of course, is that we already have a centrist president — actually a moderate conservative president.You have to ask, what would it take for these news organizations and pundits to actually break with the convention that both sides are equally at fault?
In the Topical Index, the file 'Perception Alteration' was originally titled 'Overton Window' ; from the phrase 'moving the Overton window' - which is often called 'moving the goalposts.' It refers to a technique based not on convincing by argument - but of subtly changing what seems reasonable. Debating 'points' are ineffective against it.
Now add public diplomacy to the mix - but disregard any representation that it is applied only outside the country unless or until proven. That would be tough even without the domestic influence of foreign news.
What was that about al Jazeera not being available in the U.S. again ? And if it is...was the problem it presented 'solved' ?Your Submitted Comment
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To call a Rand Corp style operation of military media control and political assassination a 'cult' correctly points up a mindset : it does nothing to expose systematic and organized psyops played in the Homeland.Youtube is not the only source of expanded context.
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/232738-The-Essential-Rules-Of-Tyranny
http://www.alternet.org/vision/151850/8_reasons_young_americans_don%27t_fight_back:_how_the_us_crushed_youth_resistance/
http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2011/07/globalist-imperial-network.html
Those were all in yesterday's Morning Picks
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How Khan Academy Is Changing the Rules of Education
Carpenter, a serious-faced 10-year-old wearing a gray T-shirt and an impressive black digital watch, pauses for a second, fidgets, then clicks on “0 degrees.” Presto: The computer tells him that he’s correct. The software then generates another problem, followed by another, and yet another, until he’s nailed 10 in a row in just a few minutes. All told, he’s done an insane 642 inverse trig problems. “It took a while for me to get it,” he admits sheepishly.
Initially, Thordarson thought Khan Academy would merely be a helpful supplement to her normal instruction. But it quickly become far more than that. She’s now on her way to “flipping” the way her class works. This involves replacing some of her lectures with Khan’s videos, which students can watch at home. Then, in class, they focus on working problem sets. The idea is to invert the normal rhythms of school, so that lectures are viewed on the kids’ own time and homework is done at school. It sounds weird, Thordarson admits, but this flipping makes sense when you think about it. It’s when they’re doing homework that students are really grappling with a subject and are most likely to need someone to talk to. And now Thordarson can tell just when this grappling occurs: Khan Academy provides teachers with a dashboard application that lets her see the instant a student gets stuck.“I’m able to give specific, pinpointed help when needed,” she says.
Some of his fans believe that Khan has stumbled onto the secret to solving education’s middle-of-the-class mediocrity. Most notable among them is Bill Gates, whose foundation has invested $1.5 million in Khan’s site. “I’d been looking for something like this—it’s so important,” Gates says. Khan’s approach, he argues, shows that education can truly be customized, with each student getting individualized help when needed.
Will The Federal Gasoline Tax Be Grover Norquist’s Next Hostage?
The gas tax, in addition to serving important environmental goals, is the means by which the federal government finances investments in transportation infrastructure.
Transportation Committee Chairman John Mica (R-FL) is already pushing a transportation bill that will starve the country’s infrastructure and devastate job creation in both the short- and long-term. If the gas tax becomes a new hostage, the situation will only get worse.
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For the first time in modern history, one of the two major parties is in the hands of a faction so extreme that it is willing to destroy the economy if it doesn't get its way.' Robert Kuttner, The American Prospect
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If there is one thing that the office of President Barack Obama demonstrates it is that democracy does not exist in the United States. This may seem a rather outlandish statement. For many people, the fact that the 44th president is the first black man to preside over the White House with its Amer
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For months Americans have been focused on raising that debt ceiling, as onscreen countdown clocks ticked away to disaster. In the process, few have asked the obvious question: Isn't it time to lower America's war ceiling?
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Once that realization sinks in, it can only hasten the day when the long national nightmare of the Murdochization of America, now well into its fourth decade, will be over.' Frank Rich, New York Magazine
Letter from Libyan Journalists
Marie Edwards
NATO bombed three satellite dishes in Tripoli early on Saturday morning, July 30th, in an attempt to put state television off the air, but the channel has continued to broadcast.NATO at first distributed a press release video to journalists titled "NATO silences Qadhafi's terror broadcasts" but later changed that to "NATO strikes Libyan state TV satellite facility".
Statement by the Employees of the Libyan Broadcasting Authority
Sat. 30.07.2011
In an act of international terrorism and in violation of UNSC resolutions, NATO targeted the facilities of the Libyan Broadcasting Authority in the early hours of this morning. 3 of our colleges were murdered and 15 injured while performing their professional duty as Libyan journalists.
NATO admitted the crime sighting ( citing ) “silencing Gaddafi’s propaganda machine” as a justification for such a murderous act.
Barry Cooper - Libyan Mission is War of Choice
A couple of weeks ago, Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird stopped in Benghazi to meet members of the rebel Libyan National Transitional Council. Baird was en route to Istanbul for a NATO meeting to discuss negotiating with the Brother Leader of Libya, Moammar Gadhafi.Baird’s account of his Benghazi talks, published in the National Post, is most revealing. “The international community was compelled to act,” he said, “to protect the Libyan people.”
The main point of such wars is to stop governments or factions that aim to become governments (such as the transitional council) from committing mass murder. They are not peacekeeping missions, though, like peacekeeping, they are optional — wars of choice they are often called.
This means that Canada, NATO and the “international community” was in no way compelled to act. By insisting on the opposite, Baird and other advocates of humanitarian war involve themselves in paradoxes, dilemmas and incoherencies. In Libya, intervention is intended not just to protect victims of the Gadhafi regime, but to achieve an objective that dares not speak its name: regime change. Obviously, such a purpose violates the semi-sacred principle of national self-determination and gives credence to Gadhafi’s anti-colonial narrative. But why is Gadhafi so strong?
We can stay and fight for a long, long time — and not just by dropping bombs — or decamp and leave chaos. Even if you stay and get rid of a tyrant such as Saddam Hussein, the results are not clear. Has any humanitarian warrior wondered why the Iraqis show such little gratitude?
The incoherence of humanitarian war has one possible outcome: to draw the humanitarians ever deeper into the conflict. The other diplomats at Istanbul seem to have realized this.
( 'Reporting' from a 'war' zone tends to be more miss than hit. For instance
The Iraq Math War
Why the CDC and the Pentagon sought to discredit the first scientific tally of Iraq's civilian death toll.
At least 919,967 people have been killed in Afghanistan and Iraq
Did you know Obama's war in Afghanistan has casualty rates 500% higher than Bush?
Then there's the information in 'Lost' Topical Lists
Deaths from military actions
- Iraq
- Vietnam
- iCasualties
- Casualties in Iraq - 2009
- War Victims Monitor
- DoD War Casualties - PDF
- The Military Death Toll While Enforcing the Occupation of Iraq
Uganda: AFRICOM Chief Pledges U.S. Role In Fighting LRA
Stuttgart, Germany: The United States Military has pledged to join the imminent hunt for Lord’s Resistance Army leader Joseph Kony, by providing logistics and surveillance support to the militaries of Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo and Central African Republic who are preparing for the exercise.Addressing journalists at the US Africa Command base in Stuttgart, Germany, Gen. Carter Ham, the new Africom Commander, said the US military will encourage and facilitate the coordination between the three primary countries who are engaged in the exercise, encourage and foster the sharing of information that can be useful to the parties involved.
Readers Comment: AFRICOM with promises for its `partners` (read African slaves) in order to get in its bases to grab African resources
Liveword panned by Web of Trust
( This is not necessarily a bad thing - it happens to some of the most revelatory sites - including Mathaba. A suspicious person might think that not a benign coincidence. Then again, I may have been 'hacked' with a 'bomb' when surfing from rabbitvoz years ago. That was,I believe, a since 'disappeared' Australian diver from Perth who posted Youtube videos debunking 9/11 - in 2004. )
"This is the truth: The WTC was destroyed by 3 underground thermo-nuclear explosions. They were detonated by the US government which used this as an excuse to lead the US and its allies into invading Afghanistan and Iraq. All these wars and deaths were based on a lie."
Will you help to tell the truth to the world?Be sure to watch the 26 part video there: http://www.911-truth.net/
We Are Change
Censorship of war casualties in the US
30 July 2011(FEDERALJACK) Why is it so easy for political leaders in the US to convince ordinary citizens to support war? How is it that, after that initial enthusiasm has given away to fatigue and disgust, the reaction is mere disinterest rather than righteous rage? Even when the reasons given ...
THE MISSING SECURITY TAPES FROM THE WORLD TRADE CENTER
02 August 2011(Susan Lindauer) Late on the night of August 23, 2001, at about 3 a.m. security cameras in the parking garage of the World Trade Center captured the arrival of two or three truck vans. Visual examination determined the vans were separate and unique from trucks used by janitorial ...
9/11/01: Truck Full Of Explosives & Two Suspects In Custody Caught on George Washington Bridge
02 August 2011(FEDERALJACK) WCBS 10:40 PM EST, A full report on the men arrested by the George Washington Bridge with a truck filled with explosives. I have told the story many times about my personal experience in the command center at Giants Stadium when they arrested these guys. They were Israeli ...
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9/11/01: Truck Full Of Explosives & Two Suspects In Custody Caught on George Washington Bridge
Marijuana will still be legal in Amsterdam FOR NOW.
Anthony Verias speaks with Mayor of Greece about economic crisis
Groundbreaking Interview With Lee Harvey Oswald’s Girlfriend Judyth Vary Baker
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Herman Cain Is Not For Freedom
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THE MISSING SECURITY TAPES FROM THE WORLD TRADE CENTER
Censorship of war casualties in the US
Bush says slow reaction on 9/11 was deliberate decision
An Example of How The Government Pushes Propaganda Via the Mainstream Media
Beware of a Possible False Flag Event, Media & Feds Pushing Fear for 10th Anniversary of 9/11
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Spectator Australia Event: We need a carbon tax to help combat global warming
( Look to the sidebar - or http://opitslinkfest.blogspot.com/2010/03/climate.html for notes around a scheme to milk the international community by taxing the use of fire via fearmongering and panic )
Check number 6 in 'Top 10 Craziest Solutions to Global Warming' > http://www.livescience.com
www.livescience.com Here are some of the wackiest solutions proposed to curb Earth's global warming.
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Here are some of the wackiest solutions proposed to curb Earth's global warming.
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A new study claims that clouds, not carbon dioxide, drive climate change, but climate scientists disagree strongly.
Unequal Protection: Corporate Control of Politics
The fastest way the modern Republican Party could recover its power over the next decade was to immediately clear away all impediments to unrestrained corporate participation in electoral politics. If a corporation likes a politician, it can ensure that he is elected every time; if it becomes upset with a politician, it can carpet-bomb her district with a few million dollars’ worth of ads and politically destroy her.
The majority decision, written by Justice Kennedy, was quite explicit in saying that the government has no right to limit corporate power or corporate “free speech.”
( Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy' wrote several vehement denunciations of this unleashing of corporate power to pervert process in a string of essays around corporate 'personhood.' )
Brain chemical may explain why heavy smokers feel sad after quitting
Early withdrawal leads to an increase in the mood-related brain protein monoamine oxidase A (MAO-A) This finding, which was published in the Archives of General Psychiatry, may also explain why heavy smokers are at high risk for clinical depression.
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