I was pretty angry this morning -- I yelled at the TV when the blow-dried anchor talked about how Obama was considering trying 9-11 cases under a (no doubt hidden from the public) military tribunal. And recently they pulled out this old chestnut -- the American born "Al Quaida" Adam Gadahn (whose real name is Adam Pearlman, grandson of some big mucky-muck in the ADL, that is, the Anti-Defamation League, which was caught spying on Americans for Israel in 1993 ... I knew about this guy years ago!). I just couldn't believe the newswhores really expected people to swallow this crap ... and I was really really angry because by and large, people do!! In my angrier moments, I feel just like this guy does:
I hate what America has become
Monday, March 8, 2010
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Um, does anyone remember there's a war going on?
Something somewhat disturbing happened when I moved from San Francisco to Ft. Wayne ... I started watching television. No big surprise, there ... I moved into a motel and all motels (except the seedy SRO's for the homeless in San Francisco) come standard with TV and cable. Even though an apartment would be cheaper, I never bothered to find one because frankly my references suck and renting by the month suits me -- it discourages hoarding (the bane of my existence in SF), comes with no-fuss furniture and utilities, and I can leave whenever I want to. Unfortunately, it encourages an insidiously bad habit -- watching TV.
My entire adult life has passed without ever having cable, except when I lived in motels. I wouldn't own a TV, either, if it meant I had to buy one. But when you live in a motel, it's right there, front and center, remote control and everything ... and so while I con myself into thinking I have nothing better to do, I flip through the channels and the next thing you know I'm addicted to American Idol, Ghost Hunters and Moonlight marathons. Watching TV re-arranges your frame of what's important and what isn't, and it's pretty obvious in the United States, the "wars" we're supposed to be engaged in are on the very back burners of pop consciousness.
I mean, if you could take someone from 1943 or even 1967 to visit us here in 2010, and then informed them "you know, we're actually involved in two different wars ..." what do you suppose they'd think?? Because, you know, we sure don't act like we're "at war." Yes, we are making sacrifices, but they seem to all be sacrifices of personal liberty, economic oversight, sovereignty ... and they are being exacted so expertly that no one seems to notice too much. It's not like we're being asked to follow rations. We just can't afford to buy the things we need.
No one seems to give a rip about the soldiers overseas, or the people whose land they're occupying. Not on TV, anyway. I hardly ever hear anyone talk about the fact that we're supposed to be at war. Doesn't this seem strange to you? It does to me.
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My entire adult life has passed without ever having cable, except when I lived in motels. I wouldn't own a TV, either, if it meant I had to buy one. But when you live in a motel, it's right there, front and center, remote control and everything ... and so while I con myself into thinking I have nothing better to do, I flip through the channels and the next thing you know I'm addicted to American Idol, Ghost Hunters and Moonlight marathons. Watching TV re-arranges your frame of what's important and what isn't, and it's pretty obvious in the United States, the "wars" we're supposed to be engaged in are on the very back burners of pop consciousness.
I mean, if you could take someone from 1943 or even 1967 to visit us here in 2010, and then informed them "you know, we're actually involved in two different wars ..." what do you suppose they'd think?? Because, you know, we sure don't act like we're "at war." Yes, we are making sacrifices, but they seem to all be sacrifices of personal liberty, economic oversight, sovereignty ... and they are being exacted so expertly that no one seems to notice too much. It's not like we're being asked to follow rations. We just can't afford to buy the things we need.
No one seems to give a rip about the soldiers overseas, or the people whose land they're occupying. Not on TV, anyway. I hardly ever hear anyone talk about the fact that we're supposed to be at war. Doesn't this seem strange to you? It does to me.
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Thursday, February 11, 2010
9-11 bloopers
The BBC reported that WTC 7 (the 3rd building that collapsed on 9-11 -- which wasn't hit by a plane, BTW) collapsed a full 23 minutes before it actually did. You can see it clearly in the live feed behind the anchorwoman's head!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJidW9_AhXE
Bush says he saw the *first* plane hit the *first* tower on TV: "That must have been a terrible pilot!" What channel was he watching???
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCtb9nlV_20
Rumsfeld slips up and acknowledges that Flight 93 (the one over Pennsylvania) was "shot down":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6Xoxaf1Al0
Many of the 9-11 hijackers were alive after 9-11:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7ixuf236Dk
We're still involved in two very expensive and immoral occupations because of the lies of Sept. 11, 2001. Let's find out what really happened and hold the criminals accountable!
https://truthaction.org/?q=node/5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJidW9_AhXE
Bush says he saw the *first* plane hit the *first* tower on TV: "That must have been a terrible pilot!" What channel was he watching???
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCtb9nlV_20
Rumsfeld slips up and acknowledges that Flight 93 (the one over Pennsylvania) was "shot down":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6Xoxaf1Al0
Many of the 9-11 hijackers were alive after 9-11:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7ixuf236Dk
We're still involved in two very expensive and immoral occupations because of the lies of Sept. 11, 2001. Let's find out what really happened and hold the criminals accountable!
https://truthaction.org/?q=node/5
Monday, February 8, 2010
We Are Change TV
This looks like a promising new show! Not only do they star my heroes from We Are Change, among the first interviewees are Cindy Sheehan and C. Vietch from the Love Police!
Monday, February 1, 2010
Monday, January 25, 2010
Bush and Clinton in charge of Haiti Rescue Fund?? Creepy.
I've refrained from talking about Haiti the past couple weeks because, believe it or not, the whole thing kind of creeps me out. God knows I've engaged in wild-eyed speculation on this blog, and I'm certainly not afraid of forwarding unpopular "conspiracy theories;" but though it's been years since I've heard that HAARP could cause earthquakes and I know that America has bloodied its hands through years of interference with Haitian foreign policy, there's something about the scale and horror of what just happened at Port-au-Prince that makes me really, really not want to go there. Kind of like Michael Ruppert (one of the earliest researchers of the events of 9-11): I Really, Really Do Not Like This Story
But hearing a Royal Navy flotilla withdrew from the Caribean weeks before the quake ("...the unpublicised cut marked the first time that the Royal Navy has had a significant gap in cover in the Caribbean since the 17th century") and this story: The Militarization of Emergency Aid to Haiti
and just the general creepiness of putting George W. Bush and Bill Clinton in charge of emergency fund-raising ... well, I've got to say something. I don't like the way things are smelling. How surreal is it that the guy who said "You're doing a heck of a job, Brownie!" while the head of FEMA totally fucked up Katrina disaster relief was just on television saying, "One of the things that [President Clinton] and I will do is to make sure your money is spent wisely."
Suppose that Anchorage, Alaska was totally flattened by an earthquake (it's happened before!) and nearby Russia says it's sending about 10,000 troops to "help out" -- and they've already taken over the airport, controlling the flow of all relief supplies. According to Michel Chossudovsky, that's what's going on in Haiti ... beginning to sound more like an invasion than a rescue mission, isn't it?
But hearing a Royal Navy flotilla withdrew from the Caribean weeks before the quake ("...the unpublicised cut marked the first time that the Royal Navy has had a significant gap in cover in the Caribbean since the 17th century") and this story: The Militarization of Emergency Aid to Haiti
and just the general creepiness of putting George W. Bush and Bill Clinton in charge of emergency fund-raising ... well, I've got to say something. I don't like the way things are smelling. How surreal is it that the guy who said "You're doing a heck of a job, Brownie!" while the head of FEMA totally fucked up Katrina disaster relief was just on television saying, "One of the things that [President Clinton] and I will do is to make sure your money is spent wisely."
Suppose that Anchorage, Alaska was totally flattened by an earthquake (it's happened before!) and nearby Russia says it's sending about 10,000 troops to "help out" -- and they've already taken over the airport, controlling the flow of all relief supplies. According to Michel Chossudovsky, that's what's going on in Haiti ... beginning to sound more like an invasion than a rescue mission, isn't it?
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