Beating the Drum for War on IRAN (cartoon)

Wisdom Quarterly, RT.com, Jason Bermas

The abuses do not begin and end with cracking down on Occupy Movement free speech. The goal is far greater -- even more war and Perkins-style economic assassinations. Apathy means the war machine goes forward. The goal of occupiers is to call attention to the corporate greed and military madness behind our US policy of endless war as Orwell described in Nineteen Eighty-Four.

(RT ) Iran war drumbeat on CrossTalk with Mark Levine and guests

Nov. 14, 2011 - Is the latest IAEA report a case for a war with Iran? Why does the US get to read it first? Is there enough evidence to conclude that Iran's nuclear program goes far beyond peaceful purposes? And why is no-one questioning the credibility of the IAEA?

("Invisible Empire") The military-industrial complex

It's a Police State now (video)

(Niknak72) This footage is unbelievable. So please spread it as quickly as possible before it gets removed. Authorities have already spoken to Google and YouTube demanding that all police brutality videos be taken down. So much for free speech.

Pretext: "It's not healthy for these kids to camp like they're homeless." Force: Coordinated paramilitary city police. Victim ("enemy"): Peaceful demonstrators occupying public square to call attention to broken economic, political, and educational system. The world is not working under American capitalism, which is owned, controlled, and in service of corporations not the people they purport to serve. Solution: More occupiers.

The police did not feel safe. So they suited up and mowed down the unarmed opposition. It's just like NFL football... except with guns, concussive grenades, tear gas, blunt force trauma inducing batons, torture technique training, and virtual immunity from prosecution for brutality and assault.

Protesters vow return to plaza despite ouster
(LA Times) Occupy San Diego protesters vowed Friday to return to the civic plaza behind City Hall despite being ousted and their tents removed by a massive police sweep hours earlier. "The police were completely out of line," said protest leader Ray Lutz. "This insidious show of force has only energized our movement. We're going to be even stronger." More

(RT.com)

CIA/"Bin Laden" wants war in Afghanistan

Losing the Plot: The Afghan War after bin Laden
Jim Naureckas (fair.org)

With Osama bin Laden [Emmanuel Goldstein long gone and now "officially"] dead, can the United States finally bring an end to the Afghan War, its longest-lasting foreign military conflict?

It’s an obvious question, since the invasion of Afghanistan was largely portrayed as an effort to catch the leader of the group that carried out the September 11 attacks. [Create a problem, overcome reaction, and people will demand the "solution" you want -- because a pretext for war is easy if war is the goal.*]

Corporate media did sometimes address this issue.

On ABC (5/4/11), Christiane Amanpour asked in regard to bin Laden’s killing, “And many people are saying, well, does this require the U.S. to leave Afghanistan right now?”

She answered her question: “The job is not finished there. You’ll talk to the commanders. We’ll talk to them, it’s the Taliban there who are waging war against the United States, and that job is not finished.” More

*"Problem-reaction-solution" manipulation/propaganda technique explained by David Icke:

Area 51 Uncensored: UFOs or USSR trick?

Terri Gross (NPR, Fresh Air, WHYY, May 17, 2011)

U.S. Geological Survey "Area 51" from above in 1968

• LISTEN

[The cover up continues with a new and outrageous twist: Russian genetic anomalies in a UFO-like spy plane were crashed in the US to scare Americans.]

Seventy-five miles north of Las Vegas sits a land parcel in the middle of the desert. Called Area 51, the parcel is just outside of the abandoned Nevada Test and Training Range, where more than 100 atmospheric bomb tests were conducted in the 1950s.

Officially, the U.S. government has never acknowledged the existence of Area 51. Unofficially, it has become a place associated with conspiracy theories, alien landings and tiny spaceships.

Journalist Annie Jacobsen tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross that the site has remained classified for many years -- not because of aliens or spaceships, but because the government once used the site for top-secret nuclear testing and weapons development.

In Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base, Jacobsen details how several agencies -- including the Atomic Energy Commission, the Department of Defense and the CIA -- once used the site to conduct controversial and secretive research on aircraft and pilot-related projects, including planes that traveled three times faster than the speed of sound and nuclear-propelled, space-based missile launch systems.

Area 51: An Uncensored History, Annie Jacobsen

Read an Excerpt

Operation Plumbbob

In the summer and fall of 1957, a series of atmospheric nuclear tests -- called Operation Plumbbob -- were conducted above ground at the Nevada testing and training range, located just outside of Area 51.

Twenty-nine explosions were set off while tests were conducted on troop readiness, accidental detonations and the effects of flying debris on living targets, according to documents declassified by the Department of Energy that Jacobsen details in her book.

During the explosions, security officer Richard Mingus stood guard outside many of the weapons-testing sites, including one with the largest atmospheric bomb that has ever exploded in the United States. More

The Unbearable Truth about 911 (video)

"Loose Change" (full-length video, 1:19:01)

(Sdlhsn) If anyone has the slightest doubt about the events of September 11th, weigh the facts and the overwhelming evidence supporting this unbearable reality: The events of 911 were set up. This work exposes the lies, disproving every aspect of the bogus 911 Commission report put forth by our corrupt government. Judge, investigate the facts, listen to the unpaid experts, and examine the footage and evidence before coming to a conclusion. The evidence is not going anywhere. But it is inevitably coming out. A comprehensive list of over 100 lies and omissions in the 911 Commission report can be found at septembereleventh.org.

• VIDEO: "Loose Change" (2nd edition)
• "9/11 - The Road to Tyranny"

Is America a "terrorist" nation invading country after country? Using the pretext that we are helping them or retaliating when in fact our businesses and government are robbing them? Installing dictators? Training secret police agencies? Trading blood for oil? Terrifying its own population and stirring up anti-Islamic sentiments (which it has been doing since it turned its eye on Iran in the 1970s)? Exporting a consumer-capitalist McWorld mentality? Launching propaganda campaigns to cover the Shadow Government's tracks?

We are not our government! This is not our way! This is not right. We must speak up against the corporatism and militarism that represent us.

To Delight in (Osama bin Laden's) Killing

Wisdom Quarterly
(upi.com)

The Karma
Staged gathering to incense Muslims around the world (like burning a Koran, making sure Afghans know it and riot about it to justify a subsequent backlash against them) or the youthful and spontaneous bad karma of schadenfreude masked as "patriotism"? To delight in killing or to call for killing means one approves of it. This is the mental and verbal karma of "taking the lives of living beings." Almost as bad is the delusion that killing is a solution and does not cause retaliation by those insulted.

Thankfully, this is all over, right? We can now all live in peace!

Except that Osama bin Laden was killed long ago, according to Pakistan's assassinated leader, not in a US drone strike like many others but in a plot and coup attempt. It was never Christians against Muslims, so there are no hard feelings, right? Killing solves problems, right? Hanging Saddam Hussein. Murdering Gaddafi's children.

Pres. Obama knew of this before the comedic press dinner yesterday. Why would he plan to break the news late on a Sunday night in Washington, D.C.? It is morning in the Arab world. Is it an act of provocation on the part of the US military? An odd choice for an exquisitely organized public relations-savvy administration.

• VIDEO: Is Iran's dictator America's new enemy?
• Osama bin Laden had nothing to do with 9/11

Because we go to war for oil -- to serve multinational energy companies, the "industrial" in military-industrial complex -- Yemen will be brought down then Saudi Arabia.

That is not the way one would predict. It was revealed by a corporate insider. An oil executive revealed that the goal is to bring gas prices up to a pre-planned level.

Egypt's leader did not step down, but was told to stand down. And when he refused, reneging on an agreement, he was taken down through illness and is now being held for trial (in a kangaroo court of sorts).

Yemen's leader agreed to step down. But when he reneged and said he would rather call out the police state military to kill protesters if necessary, he will be deposed by the US through subterfuge and force. Naturally, if things were as they are reported, one would not think that Saudi Arabia was in line for upheaval.

Osama bin Laden = "Emmanuel Goldstein"

Wisdom Quarterly


Osama bin Laden is Dead
[Obama brags about ordering the kill]
(Politics Buzz) In a late Sunday night speech, President Obama will announce that Osama Bin Laden has been killed. Breaking news, obviously. The big question: Is the $25 million reward still on the table? And who gets it?

The Fabulous Distraction
Donald Trump must have really been out of the loop and getting under the Shadow Government's skin if the Obama administration has to pull out the "Osama bin Laden card" to distract attention. One time Donald Rumsfeld "lost" 3.5 trillion dollars. But before anyone could ask about it, 9/11 happened. Such efforts are well orchestrated by clandestine services, including Israel. Barry Obama knew before the press club dinner when he was making all those jokes about the fake Moon landing footage (we have been to the Moon, but the footage shown on TV was clearly faked either because what we found there had to be covered up or simply to make a better propaganda/public relations reel for posterity) and Roswell (which the FBI memo release seems to admit it was aware of, unless it was a similar incident in Aztec, New Mexico), and even joking about Tupac Shakur. Why risk being distracted by any potential Space Shuttle launch problems, a launch repeatedly rescheduled to control the news cycle and mute embarassment of not being invited to the royal wedding?

Anyone who reads the book 1984 is struck by the similarities between Osama bin Laden and a government's need for a pretext for constant war, homeland spying, and social control.

Who is Emmanuel Goldstein?
Wikipedia (Wisdom Quarterly edit)
"Emmanuel Goldstein" [a.k.a. Osama bin Laden] is a character in George Orwell's classic novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Despite being a key part of the story, he is only actually seen and heard on the telescreen [computer monitor, television, phone, the ubiquitous screens used to present propaganda and to spy on us], and may in fact be nothing more than a propaganda fabrication of the Ministry of Truth (shortened as everything is by 1984, "Minitrue").

In the novel, Goldstein is rumored to be a former top member of the ruling (and sole) Party. He had broken away early in the movement and started an organization known as "The Brotherhood" [Al Queda, "the list"], dedicated to the fall of The Party.

The novel raises but leaves unanswered the questions of whether Goldstein, "The Brotherhood," or even "Big Brother" actually exist. More likely, they are fabricated to control the population.

Each member of "The Brotherhood" is required to read the book supposedly written by Goldstein, The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism. Each person is said to have three or four contacts at one time which are replaced as people disappear [a collective network, much as we find amorphous "terrorist" cells and sleeper organizations], so that if a member is captured, he can only give up three or four others.

Goldstein is always the subject of the "Two Minutes Hate," a daily, 2-minute period when a purported image of Goldstein is shown on the telescreen (a one-channel two-way television-camera with surveillance devices in it that cannot be turned off) [much like a camera on a computer screen or iPhone].

Readers may surmise that a political opposition to Big Brother -- namely, Goldstein -- was psychologically necessary in order to provide an internal enemy. This "enemy" posed a threat to the rule of the Party and a handy pretext for perpetual war.

The constantly reiterated ritual of the Two Minutes Hate helps ensure that popular support for and devotion towards Big Brother is continuous.

It is never revealed whether Goldstein really exists. In fact, Inner Party member O'Brien adamantly refuses to reveal whether The Brotherhood truly exists when asked by the book's protagonist Winston Smith in the torture room:

• Winston: "Does the Brotherhood [Al Queda] exist?"
• O'Brien: "That, Winston, you will never know. If we choose to set you free when we have finished with you, and if you live to be ninety years old, still you will never learn whether the answer to that question is Yes or No. As long as you live it will be an unsolved riddle in your mind."
  

Although O'Brien claims to have collaborated in writing the book himself [making it a fake and showing that it has all been a ruse and a fraud], his statement still leaves the questions of Goldstein and the Brotherhood's existence unanswered. It could have been an untrue statement made by O'Brien in order to manipulate Winston's thinking and break his spirit [and the spirits of all revolutionaries].

Or, more likely, it could have been Orwell's understanding of the cynicism of how a police state works. He lived in Burma at the time and was very familiar with England and Germany's monarchy and dictatorship. More

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