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Are we ever going to wake up and die right in this country?

Dec 16

Posted by A. Peasant in 9-11, Afghanistan, Mind-fucking | 3 Comments

More information comes out all the time about the real crimes being committed in our names as Americans. I know people know, but do we really know? Do we really appreciate the horror of pain and suffering inflicted on innocent people in our names? This morning was one of those mornings when I just can’t take it reading things like this:

“We were walking, I was holding my grandson’s hand, then there was a loud noise and everything went white. When I opened my eyes, everybody was screaming. I was lying metres from where I had been, I was still holding my grandson’s hand but the rest of him was gone. I looked around and saw pieces of bodies everywhere. I couldn’t make out which part was which.”

How can any human being go on? Think about some of the petty things people turn into tragedies in this country, and yet our weapons routinely inflict this unspeakable suffering on innocent people. We’re fighting wars and killing people because of 9/11, a crime premeditated and carried out by the intelligence world. It’s beyond sick what’s going on and how long it has been going on, and how many innocent people have suffered grievously because of it. All this ridiculous nonsense about trials for the “masterminds” and the “terrorists” behind these attacks. Spare us. The intelligence world plans these attacks. They are the masterminds and the terrorists. Everything else is an elaborate show for the benefit of people who refuse to get real.

When it is going to end? I just want to know before I lose my mind.

But then, I refuse to lose my mind. What good would that do? Sanity means devotion to reality at all costs. So I can’t lose my mind. I must preserve it and guard it as I lay my heart on the altar instead. I must suffer the agony of knowing, of understanding, that our country is doing these horrible things to innocent people, and especially to children, as I try to imagine their agony. In a runaway corrupt world, can we make that sacrifice? Can we stop telling ourselves lies that make us feel good? Can we stop offering our minds to evil men who wish to control our thoughts? Can we more jealously guard our minds from liars while sacrificing our hearts freely to God instead?

There is a destiny that makes us brothers: None goes his way alone.
All that we send into the lives of others, comes back into our own. - Edwin Markham

The Price of Sanity is Now Happiness

Sep 11

Posted by Marlena in 9-11, Bush/Cheney, Citizenship, Iraq, Israel, McCain/Palin, Media, Military, Nuclear Weapons | No Comments

Well here we are again. The seventh anniversary of the day of infamy. What can one say about today? Well, that really depends on where your mind has gone over the past seven years. I am going to keep this personal, and tell you how 9/11 has changed my life.

I used to be a happy person. When George Bush stole the 2000 election, I knew he was stealing and I knew things were bad. What the hell was the matter with people? How come they could not see through this man? Real men did not need to strut around like roosters and talk with an affected phony accent, but millions found this act charming. The destruction of the American mind, the withering away of our ability to discern reality, had already been sufficiently advanced to allow a complete and obvious impostor like GWB to be taken seriously. Of course, the corporate media shills moved mountains to make this happen. None of this could have happened without their constant facilitation, an unforgivable betrayal that will land many of them in the ninth circle of hell, where they belong.

Of course I believed that terrorists attacked us on 9/11, but I couldn’t bring myself to support Bush even then. He always creeped me out. Somehow I was immune to his wiles and knew we had to get rid of this guy in 2004. People were digging up the truth about his National Guard service and other lies, like the ones used to get us into Iraq; and many blatant lies were documented. But no. The cancer had spread. Republicans refused to hear the truth, and they became vicious in Bush’s defense.

Around that time I also began doing a little research into 9/11. Questions had been bubbling, but the commission had people that we thought we could trust, like John McCain. Surely, after being eviscerated by Rove’s machine, he would sidle up close to Bush and stick the shiv in. Wasn’t that what he was doing? How could he let these treacherous liars get away with it — all these dead Americans? McCain was a war hero. He would save us from Bush using his position on the 9/11 commission. Ha! Wrong again. He never did anything of the sort. On the contrary, he overlooked everything and tucked in nice and cozy.

One thing led to another, and I became hooked on finding out why nothing makes sense in this country. And I found out enough. Do I have the answers to every question? Certainly not, but I found out enough to know that we are ruined, and how, and by whom. I found out enough to know that I brought three children into this world and their future is bleak, and my heart is broken. I found out enough to understand why this country constantly talks about Israel, and Israel’s security, and what’s good for Israel. I found out enough to know that for just two or three percent of our population, Jewish people hold a truly amazing number of key government and corporate media jobs from which they shape both policy and narrative. I found out enough to know that this whole war on terror is a big cock-up designed to keep us at war because some people profit handsomely from death and destruction. I found out enough to know why the vast majority of Americans have to work harder and harder to maintain a declining standard of living. I found out enough to know that the official story of 9/11 makes no sense, and even if the truth movement has been littered with misinformation designed to discredit honest people, the official story still makes no sense and they obviously have much to hide. I found out enough to know that our Constitution no longer protects us, but our government doesn’t even have the balls to admit that we live in a dictatorship because they’re so greedy and cowardly they want everything for free, even unlimited power over the American people. And I found out enough to know that all these things are connected.

That’s what I did since 9/11/01. And now I am no longer happy. I ceased to be happy five years ago, and in fact, I live in a state of grim depression. But that is the sacrifice I made to understand, in an imperfect way, what has happened to our country. It is the price of living in reality. I am depressed, but I am sane. I am depressed because I am sane. And I encourage every American to start somewhere, and to start to apprehend the truth in all its depressing darkness, because that is the only way to honor all the people, and there are so many, who have been murdered as a result of this day seven years ago. It is the only way out of the growing insanity that we have become. The entire world watches in horror, wondering if we will emerge from the swoon in time or take the entire planet down in a final fit of insane delusion.

What next?

Aug 6

Posted by Marlena in 9-11, Bush/Cheney, Russia | No Comments

You know your country is beyond help when you start rooting for the Russians.

Russian Energy Might is Wilting W’s Dreams includes the following satisfying statements:

Russia has already made it clear they will counter the Bush Missile Shield folly militarily. Make no mistake, there are many millions of very unhappy people in Europe because Bush is such a juvenile punk that he would be so offensive and confrontational with Russia since he can’t get his way in Iraq or Afghanistan or the Caspian Basin, nor can he attack Iran as he and Israel long to do.

The Russians have already cut the Czech Republic oil supplies by 50% to remind them who heats their homes and powers their economy and cars.It is not the fault of Russia or Iran that George W Bush is a colossal failure.

W is the sole reason for his failures and needs no help from anyone in creating them. He is ‘The Decider’ - always decisive…and always wrong.

Wake up to reality, America. These people in DC are nothing less than criminally psychotic and stupid. And they are certifiably insane if they think they are the true leaders of this world. The world laughs and mocks our leaders and has no intentions of kneeling to them.

And so forth…

Putting that in context with the analysis here, basically stating that Russia is the target because it has all sorts of landlocked energy resources that will smash US hegemony, things begin to be clearer and clearer. This is via Winter Patriot:

Henceforth, patsy groups like the TIP are to be used increasingly against “enemy states” like China and Russia, the two targets who have gone to the top of the list, displacing the earlier focus on the far less significant Iran and North Korea. Any attacks by the TIP on Chinese territory will of course represent acts of war by the US-UK against China, and could easily generate incalculable consequences over time. Under the Brzezinski Plan, the US-UK will be messing with the biggest country in the world, and one which comes equipped with ICBMs and H-bombs that can strike US territory.

Pentagon boss Robert Gates, a Brzezinski man going back to the Carter NSC in 1977-79, said this week that irregular warfare and soft power are the wave of the immediate future, and that may be exactly what we are about to get in spectacular form. This speech may well have been a signal that something big and very messy in the irregular warfare department is about to happen at the Olympics. “Al Qaeda,” the CIA’s Islamic Legion, traces its origins back to the Carter-Brzezinski years, just after the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in response to Brzezinski’s playing of the Islamic fundamentalism card against them.

Oh great.

Some people need to be hit over the head with a cast iron frying pan.

Aug 5

Posted by Marlena in 9-11, Bush/Cheney, Corruption & Crime, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Media, Military, Unreality | No Comments

In the past week we have all learned a few important things. Some of us have even been shocked.

1. Sy Hersh reveals that Cheney and friends met to discuss ways to trigger a war with Iran under false pretenses.

2. The anthrax story has got inside job stamped all over it.

3. New evidence emerges that the White House ordered a back-dated forged letter from the head of Iraqi intelligence to Saddam Hussein to portray a link between Hussein and al Qaeda.

The fact is these people lie to start wars. That’s what they do, and they have been caught.

At this point, we can actually set aside the monstrosity of 9/11. We can set aside every theory about why they lie to start wars, whether for money, power, Israel, the New World Order, or what have you. I mean, what difference does it really make? The 4,000+ American soldiers are still dead, as are the untold number of people killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. They all died because of lies. Not ‘mistakes.’ Not ‘misunderstandings.’ No. These are Lies. Premeditated, murderous Lies. That much we can ascertain. These are Conspiracy Facts.

So…it should be grimly amusing to listen to the Bush apologists this week, if you’re into that sort of thing. It would be interesting to know why exactly it’s OK to lie us into wars, or why these murderers should all be pardoned instead of sent to the Hague yesterday already, or why we should listen to one single thing out of their lying mouths about Iran or any other topic on God’s green earth.

Aren’t we done with these people yet?

Here is one life taken by the liars. Multiply by one million, and keep going.

When do they start to pay for their crimes?

Is it still a conspiracy ‘theory’?

Aug 1

Posted by Marlena in 9-11, Bush/Cheney, Iran, Israel, Media, Military, Nuclear Weapons | No Comments

1. 9/11 was a false flag operation to start the war in Iraq, which itself was premeditated by the neocons dating back many years. For more information on the premeditated nature of current events, go here. The order of countries that threaten Israel — correction: that Israel feels threatened by — are Iraq, Iran, Syria. Thus the current obsession with Iran.

2. Iran is not a threat to the US. Iran’s only ‘crime’ is challenging Israel’s hegemony over the Middle East.

3. The only way to start a war with Iran is under false circumstances, false flag, causus belli, what have you. No legitimate reason exists to start WW III. None, nada, zip.

4. Dick Cheney is on the job making up a reason.

Just so it’s very crystal clear, Dick Cheney does not give one rat’s ass about the people in the military, or any other people on earth for that matter. Starting a war with Iran would cause tens of millions of deaths and in all likelihood would unleash the unthinkable consequences discussed here and here.

Many people will die. Many American military people, many innocent civilians, and then, many American civilians — minding their own business — will die. (Perhaps instead of minding our own business we might consider paying some attention.) ‘Many’ meaning thousands, millions.

Because these ideas were rejected, as far as we know, The New Yorker decided this little horror show did not rise to the level of newsworthiness. Because apparently it’s not newsworthy for Americans to comprehend how blithely, how callously, how deceptively Bush, Cheney and the dual US-Israeli citizen neocons will toss the lives of other people away in order to start a war for Israel.

During the journalism conference event, I asked Hersh specifically about this meeting and if he could elaborate on what occurred. Hersh explained that, during the meeting in Cheney’s office, an idea was considered to dress up Navy Seals as Iranians, put them on fake Iranian speedboats, and shoot at them. This idea, intended to provoke an Iran war, was ultimately rejected:

HERSH: There was a dozen ideas proffered about how to trigger a war. The one that interested me the most was why don’t we build — we in our shipyard — build four or five boats that look like Iranian PT boats. Put Navy seals on them with a lot of arms. And next time one of our boats goes to the Straits of Hormuz, start a shoot-up.

Might cost some lives. And it was rejected because you can’t have Americans killing Americans. That’s the kind of — that’s the level of stuff we’re talking about. Provocation. But that was rejected.

Now looking back at the Strait of Hormuz incident, which I covered here, here and here, it seems very plain that it was just the first attempt at such a causus belli, and one handled very clumsily. Why on earth would anyone think they won’t try something else? Time is running out for them. OF COURSE they will try something. Count on it.

Everything you need to know has been exposed already. It’s all there. These people plot in the open. The only thing missing right now in this country is the will to face the truth. Every day that we remain in denial is a day when more innocent people die.

Resist Lemminghood

Jul 30

Posted by Marlena in 9-11, Psychology, Unreality | 3 Comments

What does it mean to have an open mind? I wrestled with this idea yesterday but couldn’t quite pin it down in words. As luck would have it, I stumbled across this.

The ancient Greek philosopher Socrates taught his students that the pursuit of truth can only begin once they start to question and analyze every belief that they ever held dear. If a certain belief passes the tests of evidence, deduction, and logic, it should be kept. If it doesn’t, the belief should not only be discarded, but the thinker must also then question why he was led to believe the erroneous information in the first place. Not surprisingly, this type of teaching didn’t sit well with the ruling elite of Greece. Many political leaders throughout history have always sought to mislead the thinking of the masses. Socrates was tried for “subversion” and for “corrupting the youth”. He was then forced to take his own life by drinking poison. It’s never easy being an independent thinker! Today, our ruling government/media complex doesn’t kill people for pursuing the truth about the world (at least not yet!) They simply label them as “extremists” or “paranoid”, destroying careers and reputations in the process. For many, that’s a fate even worse than drinking poison hemlock!

Every news story you are about to review in this research paper is true and easily verifiable. This investigation represents 10 months of careful study, research, analysis, source verification and logical deduction. Every event and quote presented here is 100% accurate. There are about 200 detailed footnotes which I encourage, nay, urge, readers to explore and verify for themselves. The Internet version of this paper will allow users to obtain instant verification for each and every footnote by clicking on the footnotes/links. Others can obtain easy verification by entering the key search words (provided at the end of the paper) into the Yahoo or Google.com search engines. Due to the fact that well organized efforts are under way to suppress these facts, some of these news links are mysteriously disappearing even as we speak. Fortunately, this information has all been transcribed by many websites and has therefore been preserved from the censors. These footnote searches will take you directly to the news sites of many well known established media organizations throughout the world as well as opening up doors to a world of knowledge and information that has been concealed from you. With just a little common sense and a few clicks of a mouse, Google and Yahoo now enable anyone with an ounce of curiosity to become a Sherlock Holmes.

This is no opinion piece. Rather it is a collection of buried, but undeniable facts, events, and quotes which, when assembled in one place, will state their own conclusions. In putting together this research in a logical and sequential format, great care was taken to confirm, double confirm, and triple confirm every piece of information. Any and all questionable data which could not be independently verified to this author’s satisfaction was discarded.

Taken individually, each story, quote and event may not amount to a full case. But when taken collectively, this mountain of facts should hammer home the truth to even the most skeptical reader. There are of course those who have fallen under the hypnotic spell of the TV talking-heads and “experts” whom they worship as authority figures. Unaccustomed to thinking for themselves, no amount of truth can sway them from their preconceived prejudices. They will even deny that which they see with their own eyes. They are victims of a psychological affliction known as “the lemming effect”. Lemmings are small rodents who have been observed to follow each other as they charge to their deaths into raging rivers or even off of cliffs. Lemminghood is an innate psychological phenomenon, present in most mammals and observable in common people as well the most sophisticated and educated elites. Lemminghood is not an intellectual phenomenon - it is psychological. As such, no socio-economic class is immune to its strangulating effect. A grant-seeking university scientist can be a lemming just as much as a fashion obsessed teen-age girl. One blindly follows the latest trendy theory while the other follows the latest clothing style. What’s the difference? Neither can resist the force of nature.
The power to fit in with one’s social peers can be irresistible. To a human lemming, the logic behind an opinion doesn’t count as much as the power and popularity behind an opinion. Man, like lemming, behaves collectively. And it could be no other way. Naturally, the individual must be equipped with this trait. Otherwise, the smallest steps toward civilization could never have been made. Lemminghood is a survival trait, an inborn instinct in the majority of people. However, as with all natural phenomena, this tendency can be manipulated and used for harmful purposes. It is this lemming effect which enables entire segments of a society to lose their sense of judgment all at the same time.

This research paper will likely be wasted on many lemmings. For lemmings, denial is a basic psychological defense mechanism used to not only shield themselves from unpleasant realities,but also to reassure themselves that they will still fit within the acceptable range of opinion held by their peer group. Lemmings are absolutely terrified at the thought of being labeled as an “extremist” or a “conspiracy theorist”. At all costs, their beliefs must always be on the “right” side of the issue and conform within the boundaries of their lemming peers. Lemmings simply cannot bear the burden of responsibility, or the social discomfort, which comes with thinking independently. They will resist any efforts to change their misguided beliefs with all their mental energy. We can try to open their closed minds and free them from their self-imposed blindness, but it’s not easy fighting the force of human nature. The chains of ideological conformity have too strong of a grip, and breaking them is a difficult task. With the limited resources at our disposal, it is next to impossible to compete with the media lemming-masters. The lie of the emperor is always believed before the truth of the peasant. Nevertheless, some of us must make the meager attempt, and thus lay the foundation upon which the truth might one day rise again.

There are those few among us who do possess both the courage and intellectual capacity to break free of the shackles of lemminghood and accept the truth when it is presented in a clear and logical sequence. To those open minded and independent thinkers I wish to state clearly and unequivocally. I intend to set forth in this paper an overwhelming body of evidence which should forever destroy the ridiculous notion that some Saudi Arabian caveman and his band of half-trained, nerdy Arab flight school attendees, orchestrated the most sophisticated terror operation in world history. The very idea is utterly laughable. And yet, due to the blithering barrage of bullshit dished out by the government/media complex, millions of “patriotic” Americans have accepted this fantastic fairy tale, this moronic mendacity, this silly superstition, this dangerous delusion, with a religious conviction bordering on insanity. As an admittedly useless public service to my helplessly misinformed countrymen of today, and as a gift to a posterity which will hopefully be more enlightened than my bewildered contemporaries, I have published this research so as to liberate as many people as I can from the oppressive yoke of media brainwashing and state sponsored lies. Do you have what it takes to break free from the lemming mob? If so, read on!

Here is the rest. Set aside a chunk of time and read.

Do you know where your country is?

Jul 4

Posted by Marlena in 9-11, Bush/Cheney, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Military | No Comments

Brilliant

Jul 3

Posted by Marlena in 9-11, Bush/Cheney, Citizenship | No Comments


Go here and see the others.

What I like best is the snark. I personally think it’s really important at this point to pile on about the RIDICULOUS quality of the official narrative.

Americans like to be cool, but you can’t be cool when you’re a sap. So work on the premise that you have to hit people where it hurts. And since we’re a shallow culture, I think pointing out how believing the government story makes one an idiot is as good a place as any to start.

What are they going to do about it? Fight back with facts? Try and prove us wrong?

Go for it.

The moral depravity of the Iraq war

Jun 30

Posted by Marlena in 9-11, Bush/Cheney, Citizenship, Injustice, Iran, Iraq, Military, Psychology, Stupidity | No Comments

Watch this video. About seven or eight minutes in you can see bound detainees being forced off the top of a three story building. It appears that American soldiers are doing this, though you can’t see them clearly from the video. People in military uniforms come and whisk away the detainees after they fall.

It would be nice to think that American soldiers are all wonderful, brave people who would never stoop to such depravity, but that is what we call a “fantasy.” Given the many other sickening things that have broken through the media firewall (soldiers tossing puppies over cliffs, tormenting Iraqi children, testimonies of war crimes at Winter Soldier hearings, Haditha, drop weapons, etc.), it would be totally irresponsible and cowardly for any American to dismiss these actions as impossible. There it is on video. Somebody is doing it. Does that mean that everyone in the military is sick? Of course not. But the military, as an institution, has a civilian leadership; and those people are sick. The fish rots from the head.

Besides that, the fact remains that American soldiers are systematically trained to dehumanize ‘the enemy’ in order to be able to kill them. That is the purpose of having a military, after all. So let us not get all righteous and defensive when something like this comes out. It is time for Americans to get real and face the meat-grinding, dehumanizing machinery of the US military and see what it actually it does to people — our people and other people.

We have a military to kill people so we don’t have to do it ourselves. We subcontract the dirty job to others so we don’t have to carry the psychological burden. It’s just like buying steak all shrink-wrapped — we are preserved from the trauma of killing the cow and carving up its flesh. But somebody does those things, and it’s the same with the military. They are not all over there building schools and hugging babies, you know. Well over a million people have been killed in Iraq. Who is responsible for that? Why, we are. Did our people kill every single one? No, but we started the war, so let’s not get persnickety. The possibility of innocent people dying never did bother us that much.

What happens when you take the military and put it under a mentally deranged civilian leadership? You get utter moral depravity. Institutionalized psychopathy, with weapons. If you don’t like this, then stop glorifying the military and war. But don’t deny it. Don’t deny that we are all responsible for tossing bound detainees off the tops of buildings, murdering for fun, destroying an entire country that had nothing to do with 9/11, causing the untold suffering of millions and millions of people and the gruesome destruction of our own fellow citizens. We own it all because we don’t pay attention, and we are lazy, and we let ourselves be led around like a bunch of stupid idiots. We are so incredibly stupid that we are on the verge of letting this all happen again, to Iran.

I fear we are truly lost and the moral compass has been smashed. An attack on Iran would be as unjust if not more so than what we did to Iraq. It will cause unforgivable destruction, including our own this time. For certain, and here in the ‘homeland.’ It is all lies, just like the last time.

Do you have the nagging doubts? You must listen to them. That is what’s left of your conscience. If you can see the faint thread of truth, you must follow it. Pick up the thread and follow it quickly, as quickly as you can until you find the whole thing. Go now. Go.

Police State 2008?

Jun 24

Posted by Marlena in 9-11, Bush/Cheney, Citizenship, Civil Rights, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Media, Military, Nuclear Weapons, Stupidity | No Comments

You don’t have to take my word for it. I’m nobody.

Paul Craig Roberts, on the other hand, has qualifications.

Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury during President Reagan’s first term. He was Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal. He has held numerous academic appointments, including the William E. Simon Chair, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Georgetown University, and Senior Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He was awarded the Legion of Honor by French President Francois Mitterrand. He is the author of Supply-Side Revolution : An Insider’s Account of Policymaking in Washington, Alienation and the Soviet Economy and Meltdown: Inside the Soviet Economy and is the co-author with Lawrence M. Stratton of The Tyranny of Good Intentions : How Prosecutors and Bureaucrats Are Trampling the Constitution in the Name of Justice . Click here for Peter Brimelow’s interview with Roberts about the recent epidemic of prosecutorial misconduct.

And when you’re done watching that, please read The Coming Catastrophe? by David DeBatto, former U.S. Army Counterintelligence Special Agent and Iraqi war veteran.

I may be shrill from time to time.

OK OK… I’m shrill every day. But this is why. Should these things come to pass, they won’t be easily undone.