Propaganda

The buck stops here.

Cogent and shattering analysis in a number of places by Richard C. Cook of the financial Armageddon. I’ve commented on various sections, interspersed throughout Cook’s article.

“Train-wreck” doesn’t even begin to describe what is starting to happen to the U.S. today with the financial crisis, an onrushing depression, and the failure of George W. Bush’s war policy as he is faced down by Iran and the Russian bear.

But in an even broader sense, the West, as a civilization, after a century of world war and the utter failure of global finance capitalism, may have reached its limits.

If you watched the video in yesterday’s post, you would have seen that debt growth is reaching the asymptote. It’s unsustainable and we are running out of resources to loot. When the sums being discussed are in the trillions, you know that we left Kansas a very long time ago.

Those with a vested interest in the status quo dismiss any suggestion that something is wrong. This includes Donald Luskin, author of an article in the Washington Post on Sunday, September 14, titled: “A Nation of Exaggerators: Quit Doling Out That Bad Economy Line.”

Luskin writes, “The relentless drumbeat of pessimism in the media and on the campaign trail” is “a virus.”

He continues: “Sure, there are trouble spots in the economy, as the government takeover of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and jitters about Wall Street firm Lehman Brothers, amply demonstrate. And unemployment figures are up a bit, too. None of this, however, is cause for depression — or exaggerated Depression comparisons.”

Continue reading, and you find out who Luskin is: a campaign adviser to John McCain.

Why aren’t there heads on spikes yet?

Are these people inhabiting any kind of reality? I woke this morning to find that my bank, the Halifax, had been bought by Lloyds TSB for over £12BN. Can anyone imagine for even a moment that such a monumental event would have been allowed by any government a year ago? A monster has been created in the aftermath of a Jacobean tragedy and these amoral monsters are telling me that everything is OK.

Each and every one of my friends knows that things are bad. Some of my friends cannot sleep at night. (I have no such trouble, fortunately. Insha’Allah is one of the greatest blessings ever afforded to a Muslim. Now I know why I experienced poverty in the past. I thank my Creator for that lesson!)

We know that “where you stand depends on where you sit”—and who pays you for advice. So is a catastrophic meltdown coming?

If so, probably a majority of the people in the world are thinking: “Serves them right.” For the last 500 years, the West has been striding across the globe, armed to the teeth with firearms, warships, bombers, and—more recently—depleted uranium, enforcing the “white man’s burden” by enslaving nations and peoples and confiscating everything of value—ranging from art objects to gold to oil—that can be carried away.

It’s not a “chippy paki” that said that - Richard C. Cook is a former U.S. federal government analyst, whose career included service with the U.S. Civil Service Commission, the Food and Drug Administration, the Carter White House, NASA, and the U.S. Treasury Department. His articles on economics, politics, and space policy have appeared on numerous websites. His book on monetary reform entitled We Hold These Truths: The Hope of Monetary Reform will be published soon by Tendril Press. He is also the author of Challenger Revealed: An Insider’s Account of How the Reagan Administration Caused the Greatest Tragedy of the Space Age , called by one reviewer, “the most important spaceflight book of the last twenty years .”

Truth comes out when the chips are down and when there’s nothing to lose, or gain.

The financiers behind it all have also used the diabolically clever practice of creating money “out of thin air” to put the natives everywhere into debt, and, when that has proven insufficient, of doing the same to their own populations.

All this is rationalized by various brands of racism, cultural superiority, social Darwinism, historical determinism, “dominion of the Elect,” “God’s chosen people,” etc. Or, simply, “might makes right.”

Some call it “The New World Order.”

Blimey, anyone would think this guy was a conspiraloon. Are you reading Ms. Norfolk? (because you’re not from London, not like me and my friends, who so are). Don’t like it? Sue me!

You brand a few decent people who had the temerity to question whether the government was telling the truth with the tag “conspiraloon” and now you must be so confused to observe that the whole world is a conspiraloon, leaving only you, a fawning band of Islamophobes and mendacious racists and the murderers in power that you so blindly and loyally support. Now who’s out on a limb?

I’m proud to be a conspiraloon if it means agreeing with Woodrow Wilson, or Richard Cook, or even Jesus Christ or Muhammad (peace be on them, yes even Wilson and Cook!) And I am so proud to be a Londoner, to be tolerant to be patient and so in every respect, nothing like you at all.

So today, we Americans, denizens of the “land of the free and the home of the brave,” victors in two world wars, bearers of “democracy” to Afghanistan and Iraq, allies of the brave Israelis who hold high the banner of Judeo-Christian values among the ungrateful Palestinians—well, we Americans owe our own bankers almost $70 trillion at most recent count. With the government takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, we owe holders of bad housing loans, including the governments of China, Korea, and Japan, another few trillion.

$70 TRILLION OF DEBT OWED TO BANKERS!

Cancel all of the debt. (It’s only numbers) and let’s see some heads on spikes, like the good old days. What’s it going to take for there to be a revolution? How long will we let these usurist, murdering thieves loot us and kill us and worst of all, divide us against each other while we try to spend our way out of indentured, indebted servitude?

The bluster of Kissinger, Brzezinski, the Kristols, the Christian fundamentalists, and their paid-off politicians and media millionaires notwithstanding, America—indeed, the entire West—has been found out, perhaps even checkmated on the world stage.

Maybe now would be a good time for me to learn Russian. Or Chinese. Or Persian?

The Bush/Cheney wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have blackened America’s name forever.

People of the world are not stupid. As I’ve repeatedly said, America is just another empire. America is an idea. There are people who have hijacked the idea, but America was actually loved by many for a long time. That love will come back if the Americans just turn up and get rid of the impostors who are destroying the world. Usurist, thieving Rothschilds, Rockefellers, Warburgs and the rest.

Iran has called our bluff. In Israel the gap between rich and poor is increasing as much as in the U.S. According to an article by Ian S. Lustick, the Palestinians have stood up to the Israelis to the point where more Jews are emigrating from that country than are moving in, and where those who remain are increasingly huddling around Tel Aviv as a safe haven. (Ian S. Lustick, “Abandoning the Iron Wall: ‘Israel and the Middle Eastern Muck’,” Middle East Policy , Vo. XV, No. 3, Fall 2008.)

If Israel tries any funny stuff with its neighbours, its neighbours, including Iran, have the ability to level Tel Aviv in the same way that the murdering Zionaxis levelled the whole of Iraq. And in the wasteland that will remain, nobody will come to build a ferris wheel. They’ll be coming to build homes for the Palestinians. Let the Europeans make amends for what they did to the Jews in the 30s and 40s.

In the 1990s, the European bankers used U.S. and NATO forces to dismember Yugoslavia so George Soros and the Rothschilds could gobble up Balkan resources. But that strategy is failing in the Caucasus, where the Russians fought back against the genocidal attack by Dick Cheney’s poodle, Mikheil Saakashvili, the New York-trained attorney the CIA got elected as the president of Georgia.

I’m afraid I know very little about the Caucusus, I forgot much of my ‘O’ level History and even that didn’t cover the region very well. I had no idea that Saakashvili was a New-York trained attorney though, but it wouldn’t surprise me if it was the CIA that got him elected. The CIA is great at getting all kinds of oppressive scumbags into power so that they can steal the resources of an entire nation. Somalia, Iran (Mossadegh), Indonesia (Suharto), Nicaragua and the list goes on and on and on.

And now the people of Ukraine, the “Little Russians,” realizing what the West has in store for them, are rushing back into the Slavic fold and may be only a year or so away from reuniting with their “Great Russian” cousins across the border.

A friend of mine who knows the region well assures me that this is indeed the case. I’m not learned enough to know what the truth is here.

I’m going to back off now for a few paragraphs; I don’t want to interrupt the best bit of writing here.

What is telling is to watch the Western financier press, chiefly the Washington Post and the New York Times , fume about Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin and his “authoritarian” manner. An example is the article by Times correspondent Ellen Barry on Putin’s September 11 press conference in Moscow. She wrote, “In three-and-a-half hours, in tones that were alternatively pugilistic and needy, Vladimir V. Putin tried to explain himself.”

I’m sorry, Ms. Barry. You and your editors may think your writing is cute, but Vladimir Putin is the foremost figure on the world stage today. He will remain so after George W. Bush leaves the White House disgraced.

Putin is heir to an epochal movement of patriots who began in the 1970s to take back Russia from within. It started with a base of operations within the KGB and the Orthodox Church, led to Gorbachev’s glasnost in the 1980s, and culminated in the Second Russian Revolution of 1991. At that point, the Western financiers gleefully rushed in to support an assault from the Russian “oligarchs” who were looting Russia of everything it owned.

The oligarchs were the shock troops of a financier assault that had already begun to overlap in the West with the Russian Mafia. Cheered on by the Washington Post and aided by academic advisors from places like Harvard, this international syndicate nearly destroyed Russia during the 1990s. But when Putin was appointed interim president by Boris Yelstin in 1999, and after winning the presidential election of 2000 in his own right, he began to fight back.

From the mid-1970s to today, thousands of Russian gangsters, along with many hard-line Bolsheviks/Stalinists, were allowed to emigrate. Many settled in the U.S. and are here today, and many more settled in Israel. In fact, one reason the price of condos in New York, Miami, Tel Aviv, and elsewhere has inflated so much reportedly is the flood of cash from racketeering.

The crooks have allied themselves with the Colombian drug cartels and have heavily infiltrated the world’s financial systems, even setting up their own banks for laundering money and speculating in the commodities markets.

Today, Putin is cleaning out the remaining gangster class. His efforts reached a milestone in January with the arrest in Moscow of Semion Mogilevich, called “the world’s most dangerous man.”

Putin has declared that the world will not be governed in a “unipolar” manner; i.e. by the U.S. military as the police force for the global financiers. This does not mean Russia has to be our enemy. In fact the world would be much better off, and much safer, if we joined with Russia as allies in keeping the peace.

For more on how the oligarchs were allowed to destroy Russia and just what a thug Yeltsin was, I recommend Naomi Klein’s “The Shock Doctrine”. More learned readers should see fit to point me towards better resources.

What I learned was that Russia’s so-called “reforms” led to the impoverishment of 72 million people in only 8 years! And by 1996, 25% of Russians, that’s over 37 million people, lived in poverty described as “desperate” and by which time also there were 715,000 homeless children in Russia, though UNICEF put this figure as high as 3.5 million children.

The country was basically looted and pillaged by these oligarchs, but how was this possible given just how wealthy Russia was? Well guess what. It needed terror. From the torching of parliament (turning the Whitehouse into the Blackhouse - Reichstag anyone?) to the invasion and brutal repression of Chechnya to the total suspension by Yeltsin of any form of democracy. Indeed, Yeltsin’s “privatisation” minister, Anatoly Chubais stated quite brazenly that “In order to have a democracy in society there must be a dictatorship in power.”

I haven’t even scratched the surface of what happened in Russia and it would take me years of research to become knowledgeable.

It boils down to this. Rich, greedy, corporatist, usurist thieves suspend democracy by creating a terror diversion and then proceed to rob a nation of its liberty, its resources and its common wealth. As a friend says so eloquently and figuratively (of course!) - “HEADS ON SPIKES!”

But to do that our system would have to change, because finance capitalism is far too unstable to coexist with other nations as equals. It must either grow or die, because it always needs new victims to pay the interest on its usury practices and to finance its speculative balloons. As a last resort, it needs the kind of financial institution bailouts being engineered by Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson, where the only remaining stopgap is borrowing from public funds and adding to the national debt.

Once economic growth stops, as has now happened, and all the bubbles to restart it have blown up, as has also happened, the end really is nigh. Especially if the host—the U.S.—is bankrupt.

What is coming at us today isn’t just another downturn. If people like McCain adviser Donald Luskin doubt it, maybe, instead of writing campaign propaganda, they should ask the fired CEOs of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the stockholders of Lehman Brothers, whose shares have dropped ninety percent in less than a year, and the millions who are losing their homes.

Presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain are calling for “change.” Well, if I were standing on a beach with a 100-foot tsunami roaring in my direction, I would call for change too. Except I would not be standing around arguing about the meaning of the words “lipstick on a pig.”

By Richard C. Cook
http:// www.richardccook.com

HEADS ON SPIKES.

So when we grieved today over the approximately 3,000 people who lost their lives 7 years ago today, did we remember to grieve for the million who have lost their lives in Afghanistan, Iraq and Palestine because of Anglo-American/Israeli blood lust and revenge?

Or is Muslim blood not worth the same as Western blood?

Do you shed a tear when a lying bully sells and tells their fake tale in the Western media?

Whilst turning a blind eye to children your tax money has killed?

Probably the best film on 9/11 I have seen to date.

(Sorry I couldn’t embed it, it moved to Blip.TV and it’s too wide to fit here. I thoroughly recommend that you view this important film at Blip in full-screen mode, don’t bother with the low-res google and youtube versions)

Why is it that the most rabid fascists are the ones who fight for the media, the government and corporations? Listen out for the absolutely filthy work of Fox News, for the radio presenter interviewing McKinney and a couple of people defending the government line as if their children were being violated. It’s quite scary.

Look out also for McKinney’s definition of citizenship and finally, the touching stories of the first responders, especially the shattering line that ends the film.

First you create your background.

Using Photographs to Enhance Videos of a Static Scene from pro on Vimeo

Once you’ve done that, you create your characters.

Now you can create any reality you want, from any angle, in high definition and nobody would know the difference.

Actually, America is also heavily influenced by Crazy Zionist Christians, but it is currently Israel that America serves, only most Americans don’t know this.

You will see the heroic soldiers of the Israeli Occupation Force breaking the limbs of dangerous, stone-throwing children, who throw stones because their families are butchered and their land is occupied and they live in open concentration camps and nobody really cares.

A while back I worried whether I was being over the top when comparing Israel to the Nazis. I no longer see this as an untenable position, given that much more respected commentators, both American and even Israeli, use the same parallels.

I’m having some issues with the K2 theme I’m currently using. Every time I upgrade my Wordpress installation, the settings get trashed. With the latest WP update to 2.6.1, the plug-in for K2 finally gave up the ghost and I’m now considering moving to a paid-for theme.

Top of the list at the moment is the Thesis theme. Please bear with me as the blog remains ugly for a while.

Talking of ugly, I particularly enjoyed this perfect summary of Ms. C. Rice, for whom I’ve had a few harsh words in the past…

Since 2000, over a thousand Palestinian children have been murdered by the Zionist occupation. Quite a few have been no more than ten years old, going to school when an Israeli Occupation Force bullet has been fired deliberately into the centre of their forehead.

Bereaved father, Bassam Aramin, talks about the true spirit of Islamic justice in heart-breaking eloquence:

They have killed our children, Hussam. What can we do but fight on? We will never lay down our arms. For despite the advanced military technology and deadly force that we face, it is we who posses the most dangerous weapons of all. These are the weapons of morality and justice. We will not surrender these in the face of brutality, and we will be steadfast in demanding justice for our children. Ahmed and Abir’s murderers must be judged and sentenced as criminals. Let me be clear: we do not seek revenge. Justice for our beloved, dead children will not be served by the murder of a young Israeli girl in front of her school, or by the murder of a young Israeli boy by a bullet to the head. We will refuse to mirror the violent means of the occupation. You and I, and every Palestinian, must let our morals and our humanity and the teachings of our great faith be our guides.

No Western media outlet talks about the scale of child murder in Palestine, because of the most negligent apathy and institutional racism it is possible to imagine. A kind of deliberate nudge-nudge-wink-wink blindness, hand-in-hand with their Jewist allies, against the Arab terrorist Mozlem scum of the earth who need to be ground into the dust under the jackboots of glorious ashkeNAZI defenders of the blood-soaked earth that was never really Israel.

In the meantime, the Hasbara parrots and their “Anglo-Saxon” admirers prolong the suffering by placing the blame firmly at the door of the people whose doors have been blasted in (along with the rest of their shack and resident family) in the concentration camp that is Gaza by a Zionist missile. In the meantime, only the brave few from the Western world (and occupied Palestine, i.e. Israelis) are brave enough to speak truth to evil.

The only reason the politicans and the mainstream media of the “Christian West” turns the other cheek is to turn a blind eye. After 60 years of hypocrisy and wilful negligence, patchy sight seems to be returning to some quarters of the media, if not our craven, shameless, lying, murdering, collaborating, fascist “leaders.”

The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do.

- Samuel P. Huntington

Palestinian boy's arm cut off by Jewish settlers

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2008/jul/30/beaumont.palestine

Start by having a look at the above video. A lot of us have seen some of this footage before. (I saw the illegal settler child spitting at the caged Palestinian woman last year, as did many others).

What gives this footage power now is that it is featured in the Guardian. This is a shift. I’m not sure I’m smart enough to figure out why it’s suddenly OK to show the Israeli occupation for the  murderers-with-no-connection-to-the-holocaust that they are, but if more people in the UK can wake up to what’s been going on since the nakbah of 1948, then perhaps we are witnessing the birth of a genuinely unified movement against the oppression of the murderous Zionist regime, in the same way that the anti-apartheid movement of the ’80s and early ’90s built up steam to become a truly global phenomenon.

That movement achieved success through a serious of crippling boycotts against South African business directly, and those that did business with the Apartheid regime indirectly. It’s much harder to achieve the same result now that the economies of the world are so inter-dependent and particularly when the Zionist-controlled USA is so ready to kill more if its children (in illegal wars that serve Zionist interests) and bankrupt more of its people (to fund the illegal wars that serve Zionist interests) to support Israel.

I often wonder why the truth of the holocaust visited on the Palestinians over 60 years is so ignored by the media here and I can only think of a few things actually:

1. They actually don’t think that the Palestinians are worth as much as the  Zionist terrorists. We’ve already heard our own Zionist embarrassment Maureen (Oberst) Lipman confess to as much and not be pulled up on it. Here’s what she said in  2006 in case you’ve forgotten:

“What’s proportion got to do with it? It’ s not about proportion is it? Human life is not cheap to the Israelis. And human life on the other side is quite cheap actually because they strap bombs to people and send them to blow themselves up”.

2. They are embarrassed about the fact that the state of Israel was founded by repeated acts of terrorism and that Britain (King David Hotel) cravenly caved in. So suddenly, a land with people (Arab Palestine) was purged of those people (ethnic cleansing) through the agency of Zionist terror gangs (stormtroopers, terrorists) and replaced with Jews. A land was taken away from its people by a third party and given to another. Imagine of America decided to give Britain away to the Gypsies.

3. They hate Palestinians and Arabs and Muslims. This is obvious from the blatant bias towards the terrorist state of Israel for several decades and the constant rewriting of history to present the Israelis as perpetual victims, living in the shadow of another holocaust, despite being the most heavily armed (NUKES!) country in the Middle East. All the while, ignoring the actual holocaust that continues to this day.

4. They created this mess and for that reason, they have to carry on lying and can never accept that they’re wrong. Even if it means collusion in genocide. What holocaust? Who said “Balfour”?

It’s a shocking conclusion. Only racism and hatred, concealed by weasel words and self-assuring chicanery can produce such a distorted picture of the reality of the holocaust in Palestine. Decade in, decade out, same old same old. And it works. Most people in this country think that the illegal settlers are Palestinians!

it goes right to the top. Our Prime Minister, Gordon BrNWO, surely not an uneducated man got to address the Knesset, on his knees. How embarrassing that he is our country’s representative. How embarrassing that such a holocaust-denying racist Zionist can ignore the wholesale theft and disaster of the last 60 years. He only speaks for hateful racists, not for decent people who care about the truth. (Whose side are you on?)

Only racism, hatred and sheer evil can explain the unprecedented bias displayed by our media and our leaders.