It's pretty stupid to sell out your intelligence ...

Erm, does anyone else see the folly of using private contractors to spy for the US military? This from the NY Times: U.S. Is Still Using Private Spy Ring, Despite Doubts

I'd say that's almost as dumb as using private companies to collect and count your votes for you (using non-transparent,proprietary software) if you want to have a true democracy. But I guess that's the mentality of the new United States, where our troops have been outnumbered by private contractors in both Afghanistan and Iraq.

Makes you wonder if we aren't losing control of our country, doesn't it?

Bush inaction on 9-11

This short video ties in with my post on the 10th.

Bush 9/11 Inaction from NewsFocus on Vimeo.

Mind Control Theories and Techniques used by the Mass Media

Article from the Vigilant Citizen.

As one 9-11 blogger, Alison, commented:

"The more self awareness we each individually possess, the less we can be influenced and manipulated by this evil. Think for yourself and practice self awareness techniques that are appropriate for you."

No Justice, No Peace

It's been almost a decade since the world-changing events of 9-11. Over the years we have been shown time and again that the people in power at the time have lied repeatedly about things like weapons of mass destruction, yellowcake uranium and "Mission Accomplished." They have personally OK'd torture and signed bills and executive orders eviscerating our civil rights. Yet they themselves have never been held accountable, never had to testify under oath about what happened that day, despite some very suspicious actions:

Dick Cheney and Norman Mineta's testimony

Bush says he saw first plane hit the World Trade Center at Sarasota Photo Op

9-11-01: An interesting day for the President

Obama says we need to move forward. Does that mean we excuse the lies, the treasonous outing of undercover operatives for political gain, and simply not examine very suspicious behavior of the previous administration regarding the events of 9-11? Excuse me, crimes are, by their nature, always committed in the past. How can we move on where there is no justice for those who may have been hurt or killed by the previous administration's actions?

Xenoglossy in the news

Croatian teenager wakes up from a coma speaking fluent GERMAN

Compare this to a story in 2007 when a Czech speedway rider hit his head and woke up speaking perfect English (which he barely knew).

I wonder about cases like this. Is it possible to acquire a whole new set of abilities that one never learned in this lifetime? What does that mean?

The people have lost control of their government

Is it true, as this article implies, that no one cares?

I have said on one of my radio commentaries that I consider there are two wrong turns the US has made that still threaten to destroy it:

1) the enthronement of corporations
2) the establishment of the Federal Reserve

As the aforementioned article says, we've pretty much privatized this country right out of our control. "Right now in Afghanistan there are 104,000 Department of Defense contractors alongside 68,000 U.S. troops." What does it mean when we've handed over our own defenses to privately owned companies (Xe, Kellogg, Brown & Root)? Our own election system (Diebold, ES&S)? Our own monetary system?

We end up with a system where profits are privatized and losses are socialized, i.e., when the economy is good the rich party hardy, and when the piper must be paid the working class foots the bill with their taxes (and the inevitable cuts in social programs).

This is disgusting. How much longer are we going to put up with this?

When false flags don't fly

Thanks to CasaZasa for bringing this video to my attention.