Reality Observed. . .

Some Have The Ability To See The Actual Reality - Here Are But A Few...
by The Old Hippie Because You Still “Allow,” Even With All The Exposed Lies And Destructions.

-  “How Lethally Stupid Can One Country Be?”       Presidents and prime ministers will lie their countries into war --       but why do We the People keep buying it?   -  “The Degeneration of American Education”       “Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you       commit atrocities,” said Voltaire, it is a good reminder for our time.   -  “So?”       reporter: “...two-thirds of Americans say it's not worth fighting.”       Cheney cut her off with a one word answer: “So?”

Bush Actually Did Say It...  (And You Pretty Much “Allowed” Him To Prove It.)

“Stop throwing the Constitution in my face.

It's just a goddamn piece of paper!”

George W. Bush

[For those who doubt he actually said it - Here is the quote’s verification link.]

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A“Below The Fold” bonus - Concerning the influencing of the 2nd world...  Enjoy the read...

“New World Order”
Why America is losing the race to influence the “second world.”

THE SECOND WORLD

Empires and Influence in the New Global Order

By Parag Khanna

“To most Americans, small is not beautiful.  We like being Number One.  We take pride in a military that is second to none.  We boast that Wall Street drives the world's financial markets (even if it's downward); that American scientists win more Nobel Prizes than anyone else; that our universities draw scholars and students from around the globe; that our symphony orchestras match Europe's best; and, of course, that Hollywood films suspend disbelief everywhere.

Is it possible, though, that Pax Americana has come to an end?  If so, should we seek less ambitious goals abroad and rely less on military means to achieve them?”

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Reality Observed. . .

Some Have The Ability To See The Actual Reality - Here Are But A Few...
by The Old Hippie Because You Still “Allow,” Even With All The Exposed Lies And Destructions.

-  “Censoring Science:”       Inside the Political Attack on Dr. James Hansen at NASA.       [- The full Democracy Now! video presentation. -]   -  “Bush’s War”       PBS’s Frontline documentary is powerful television → But as Ray       McGovern (ex-Intel/CIA) says, “Too Timid, Too Little, Too Late”   -  “Us versus Them” - The Money Party  (part 5)       Mr. Collins centers on the wealth-transfer-theft also.  An excellent       comparison to my “your allowing,” -vs his- “we all allowed.”

Bush Actually Did Say It...  (And You Pretty Much “Allowed” Him To Prove It.)

“Stop throwing the Constitution in my face.

It's just a goddamn piece of paper!”

George W. Bush

[For those who doubt he actually said it - Here is the quote’s verification link.]

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A“Below The Fold” bonus - An article about the Brand New China...  Enjoy the read...

“The Big Yam”  [from the February 18, 2008 issue of The Nation.]

“In Brand New China, Jing Wang uses Chinese advertising as an optic through which to scrutinize this tension between Eastern and Western approaches to the market, between the Haier of the Big Yam and the global company that many Americans don't even realize is Chinese.  A professor of Chinese cultural studies at MIT, she is well situated with one foot in each camp: straddling not just China and the United States but also advertising and academia.  Her book is a thoroughly enjoyable and well-written tour d'horizon of branding and advertising strategy informed by her knowledge of the field and summers spent at the advertising firm Ogilvy & Mather Beijing.  She tells great stories about Haier, Lenovo, Wahaha and other Chinese firms that may or may not be building a new type of market economy.  But in her eagerness to identify a uniquely Chinese approach to the buying and selling of things, Wang underestimates some of the deeper structural forces that drive capitalism in both East and West.”

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Perspective. . .

Just So You Can Keep “Things” In A Reality-Based Perspective...
by The Old Hippie Because You Still Aren't Stopping Them, Still “Allowing.”

As I have pointed out redundantly in previous postings, and as many other more qualified people have also redundantly pointed out in other blogs, and independent media, outside of the control of the six-corporation-controlled “mainstream” media, that does nothing but hide the reality from you to mainly protect their over-all profits from all of their interlinked corporations...  It is your “allowing” of their continued across-the-board destructions of your freedoms and security, to protect themselves from your possible ability to stop them... that is the problem.

You Say You Want Proof?  [I'm not really sure that you do, but I'll give it my best effort.] Fox News, (as well as the other corporatistly controlled networks, even if to a slightly lesser degree of in-your-face-corporatist-propaganda-as-news,) - They do not report the news, they do not say what you want to hear either - They “report & discuss” what they want you to believe, to accept, and to allow.  And Fox is the most watched, the most popular “News” in America...  Even though every single measurement of “inform-ness” study/poll has proven, over and over again, that the Fox viewers, (and other corporatists’ news viewers,) are the least knowledgeable Americans of what their reality actually is. Only a small minority of Americans even bother to read or watch the news from other sources, such as reality-based independents, or any of the foreign media, even though the same studies/polls proved that they are the most accurately informed Americans - But their numbers are slowly growing, now that the reality of the effects of the corporatist take-over of the American government is beginning to smack the rest of America in the face, and pocketbook. “Land Of The Free?” - In all of the written history of this planet, no nation has ever locked up more of its citizens than America, no nation has ever locked up a higher percentage of its citizens, than America, the land of the free.  and the numbers are growing, and they're growing faster, and the recidivism rate is rising as the in-prisons education programs have been drastically cut. The Federal Reserve Banking System - Is not in any way a government entity, it is a private corporation.  This for-profit-private-corporation is completely outside the control and regulation of the government, (you.)  They control-the-control of all monies in the American banking systems. In the Face of Recession, Corporate Profits are at Record Levels - This single fact should remove the blinders-of-denial from at least a few of you.  Right?  You make less, you pay more, they pay less, they make more, faster.  And the “experts” are still trying to figure out why the corporatists are unable to hide their sneering smiles anymore... The Destruction of the Middle-Class’s Economic and Political Voice - If you don't understand the realities behind their success on this, then you really, (really,) haven't been paying any attention. That's enough for today - This is just too depressing for this old hippie...  As a last shot at your education, (if you haven’t done so yet,) make a real effort to view “Zeitgeist - The Movie” - It alone will open almost any doubter’s eyes to the realities of “their government.”

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[ Also - for a further perspective...  Not only did you “allow” him to say it...
you then “allowed” him to get away with saying it. . .  and you then...
(to add even further injury to his insult...)  “allowed” him to prove it. ]

“Stop throwing the Constitution in my face,
It's just a goddamned piece of paper!”

George W. Bush

[For those who doubt he actually said it - Here is the quote’s verification link.]

Not to mention your “allowing” of, (and the getting away with of,) his help in the destruction of the Separation of Church and State, the creation of “Free-Speech Zones,” the illegal invasion of another nation that was of no threat to us or their neighbors, had not attacked us, and had nothing to do with those that had actually attacked us, the doing away with Habeas Corpus protections, the “legalization” of torture, the unconscionable protection of corporate profits over all other concerns, including life itself. . .

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Another Reality Check. . .

Five Years - And You Are Still Allowing It To Continue...
by The Old Hippie Because You Keep Allowing The “Impossible” To Get Even Worse.

“...the war in Iraq is a political, strategic, and financial blunder of staggering proportions.”  Why is it that so many of the “experts” are blind to the fact that this openly criminal corporatist administration has been overwhelmingly successful at what it set out to do?  That being the effective transfer and control of all of this nations wealth into the hands of their very few, the destruction of the middle-class's political and economic voice, and the complete take-over of the control of the governmental structures, at all levels...  Therefore successfully safeguarding the stolen trillions by turning the Constitutional Democracy of, by, and for the people, into the plutocratic corporatocracy of, by, and for the corporations, that it has now become.

You allowed their successes.  You are still allowing them to have every good reason to openly sneer at your continued allowing of their ongoing theft of this nation’s wealth.

And yet there are those “experts” that are still trying to figure out why this twice-illegally seleted president, and all of his corporatist cronies, continue to have the optimistically sneeringly-smiles, that they can’t even hide anymore.  They got the wealth, they got the control of the wealth, they have secured the laws to protect their stolen wealth... successfully.  They won.

You were right Joe...  It was perfect.

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- Quote of the Week from The Crisis Papers site. -

“At some point, the congressional Democrats may have to face up to the hard choice before them: either put impeachment of Bush and Cheney back ‘on the table’ or accept that the United States has ceased being a constitutional Republic governed by the principle that no man is above the law.”

  -- Robert Parry

[ Also - for a further perspective...  Not only did you “allow” him to say it...
you then “allowed” him to get away with it. . .  and you then...
(to add even further injury to his insult...)  “allowed” him to prove it. ]

“Stop throwing the Constitution in my face,
It's just a goddamned piece of paper!”

George W. Bush

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Iran War, Before The Election.

When The War In Iran Begins - Everything Else Will Become Mute.
[The original of the following is here.]

Friday, January 05, 2007
Navy Admiral Goes to CENTCOM: Be Very Afraid
Also at Kos and at Pen and Sword

The “new way forward” team is taking shape.  Robert Gates is in as Secretary of Defense.  John Negroponte will move from Director of National Intelligence to Assistant Secretary of State.  Retired Vice Admiral Michael McConnell will take Negroponte’s old job as DNI.  Raw Story reports that Lieutenant General David Petraeus, the former day-to-day commander in Iraq, to replace General George Casey as the overall commander of U.S. forces in that country.

The news that has everyone a bit agog is that the head of Central Command, General John Abizaid, will be relieved by Admiral William J. Fallon.

ABC reports that “Fallon, who is in the Navy, is currently head of Pacific Command; he will be overseeing two ground wars, so the appointment is highly unusual.”

I think ABC is missing the point.

It seems highly unusual for a navy admiral to take charge of CENTCOM until you consider two interrelated things.  First is that Bush needs a senior four-star in the CENTCOM job who hasn’t gone on record as opposing additional troops in Iraq.  Second is that Fallon’s CENTCOM area of responsibility will include Iran.

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A conflict with Iran would be a naval and air operation.  Fallon is a naval flight officer.  He flew combat missions in Vietnam, commanded an A-6 Intruder squadron, a carrier air wing and an aircraft carrier.  As a three-star, he commanded Second Fleet and Strike Force Atlantic.  He presently heads U.S. Pacific Command.  His resume also includes duty in numerous joint and Navy staff billets, including Deputy Director for Operations with Joint Task Force Southwest Asia in Riyahd, Saudi Arabia.

If anybody knows how to run a maritime and air operation against Iran, it’s “Fox” Fallon.

No Check, No Balances

The legislature’s options for keeping Mr. Bush from sending more troops to Iraq is limited, but if he decides to unilaterally attack Iran, there’s virtually nothing Congress can do to stop him.

Bush and his legal beagle Alberto Gonzales could probably claim that the Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) from September 2001 gives the executive power to exert armed force against Iran, especially given the echo chamber’s recent rhetoric about Iran being responsible for the violence in Iraq.  And if you’ve been listening closely enough, you’ve heard the subliminal message associating Iran with the 9/11 attacks.

But Bush and Gonzales have a fallback position that’s darn near bulletproof.  The War Powers Resolution of 1973 gives a president up to 90 days to commit forces to combat without permission from Congress.  Ironically, the resolution was passed in the wake of the Vietnam conflict to prevent a president from waging extended conflicts without a declaration of war or “specific statutory authorization” from Congress, but today it gives Bush all the ammunition he needs to start a war with Iran (or anyone else, for that matter) on his own say so.

It’s doubtful the Supreme Court could stop him; and even more doubtful that it would if it could.

The only chance of checking whatever aggressive ambitions Bush may have on Iran would be a passive coup by the senior members of the administration’s civilian and military security team through a group resignation, and hoping for that is, well, hopeless.  After the latest round of musical deck chairs is complete, everybody still on board will have signed on to the program in blood (somebody else’s, of course).

What’s even more frightening is that the escalation strategy--that includes more troops in Iraq, an expansion of the military and use of armed force against Iran--comes from the core neoconservative cabal headed by Bill Kristol and supported by Dick Cheney that got us into our Middle East miasma in the first place.

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Commander Jeff Huber, U.S. Navy (Retired) writes from Virginia Beach, Virginia.
Read his commentaries at Pen and Sword.

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Don't Know Why I Bother. . .

You’ve Amply Proven Your Allowed “Allowing” Will Continue. . .
by The Old Hippie Because Your Continued “Allowing” smacks of cowardliness.

All historically successful conspiracies are called - “Government.” -- I have no doubt that you are going to allow them to get away with it... [-whichever of the current Constitutional-destroying, Democracy-busting, Profits-over-life-protecting, crime they’re committing-] again.  I say -again- because you allowed them to get away with all of the following well proven and verified crimes against your Constitution, your Bill of Rights, your freedoms, your security, your privacy... without any real protest, nor punishment, nor revolt.  The only reasons I can conceive of for your continual allowing, your continual self-destruction, is either unfathomable stupidity, (not ignorance, as the knowledge has been exposed and is available to you all,) or simple cowardliness, or you actually believe you are somehow profiting from the crimes.

{-The Way Many Picture Me-}

What You Have Allowed:  (so far...) - Theft of the entire Treasury into the hands of the very few. - Unprecedented transfer of wealth to those same very few. - Our manufacturing base outsourced to the 3rd world, for    the sole benefit of the same very few. - Destruction of the middle class as a political and/or    financial voice, for the sole benefit of the same very few. - An invasion & occupation of a nation that did not attack us,    and was of no threat to us or its neighbors, for their oil, and    now the very well proven corrupt war-profiteering profits    to the same very few. - The “free-speech” zones - For the singular purpose of not    allowing the few brave/patriotic citizens that do protest    their crimes to be seen by the criminals, the very few.

- The throwing away of Habeas Corpus, for the sole purpose of protecting the very few... from
   your ability to dare to “question” your accusers - A right every 1st and 2nd world nation has
   had since the thirteenth century.  [If you don't fully grasp habeas corpus... go here.]
- Unconscionable environmental destructions to protect the profits to the very few, not you.
- Destruction of independence of the media, to benefit them, the very few, not you.
- Destruction of the Separation of Church and State, to benefit their control of you.
- The proven corruption of the last four national elections... left uncorrected by you.
- The total corruption of all of “our” regulatory agencies, to protect the very few, from you.
- The privatizing of federal prisons into for-profit corporate insanity, that has finally turned the
   “land of the free” -into a sick joke- by allowing our nation to become the most incarcerated
   nation, in written history, in raw numbers, and in the percentage of the population.
- Internal domestic spying on any, and all Americans, without warrants, without any checks and
   balances.  A blatant crime against your Constitutional right to privacy.  (You’re still allowing it.)
- The passage of “laws” to block previous laws that allowed citizens (you) to sue (them) the
   corporations for their -proven- crimes against you, nature, conscience...

So - As you can plainly see why...  I have no doubt you will again allow them to get away with the destruction of your freedoms and security to protect themselves.  Do I “hate their freedoms” as Bush claimed right after the crimes of 9/11/01?  You damn well better believe I do.  But what I hate more, is the fact that you keep “allowing” this criminal corporatist administration to -prove- that Bush was correct, when he said of the Constitution. . .  “It’s just a goddamn piece of paper!”

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Seriously - Get pissed off - At least - Enough - To do something...  Anything...
That will help you, to help America, stop its purposely manipulated self-destruction.

If you haven’t done it so far, go watch...  → “Zeitgeist - The Movie”  ←  now.

If you doubt anything in the movie’s presentation - Research it, look it up.  Obviously, since you are reading this on the internet, you have access to any search engine you choose to do the research necessary to disprove, or to verify, anything yourself.  Please - Do it.  Now.
(you aren’t stupid, but at this late stage that is becoming questionable.)

And if you still aren’t convinced → Go Here. ←

Otherwise - Please don’t bother me, as I simply don’t respond to trolls, and I do openly censor any sycophantic diatribe, and those that feed it by responding to it.

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The War On... Democracy?

by John Pilger



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Study the following article/link, and you will have a full understanding of Hillary's mind set...

An excellent example of the “how” of distortion propaganda, (commonly called lying.)


[ The image on the right is the real Obama. ]
(Click the link or picture, to learn the “how” of propaganda.)

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If You Truly Care. . .

It's Not Like I Expect You Do Anything, As Your Allowing Continues...
by The Old Hippie Because Without “correction” Your allowing Will destroy us.

As I have pointed out redundantly in previous postings, and as many other more qualified people have also redundantly pointed out in other blogs, and independent media, outside of the control of the six-corporation-controlled “mainstream” media, that does nothing but hide the reality from you to mainly protect their over-all profits from all of their interlinked corporations...  It is your “allowing” of their continued across-the-board destructions of your freedoms and security, to protect themselves from your possible ability to stop them... that is the problem.

The “problem” is not their destructions-for-profit, the problem is your continued, and quite frankly insane, “allowing” of their destructions-for-profits. As the infamous Pogo famously said  →  →  →  → Here are sites where you can actually do something:    →  Action and Activism Sites  ←   [Depending on your browser, you may need to scroll down.] That list of sites should give you an excellent start.  If you know of any others, please - Let me know - So I can add them to the listing so that others can take action, do something, that is constructive also.                             - Thank you -

When was the last time you actually saw, or read, anything of any real substance about the wars and occupations we are currently committing, or how other nations are reacting to the corporatists’ crimes, in “our” corporatistly controlled media?  Do you have the slightest curiosity as to why that allowed fact of no facts... is your reality?  You can change it.  Do something.

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Why are you still here - Follow the link above - Do something - Anything to stop them.

[ Also - for a further perspective...  Not only did you “allow” him to say it...
you then “allowed” him to get away with saying it. . .  and you then...
(to add even further injury to his insult...)  “allowed” him to prove it. ]

“Stop throwing the Constitution in my face,
It's just a goddamned piece of paper!”

George W. Bush

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