tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35123170414319417532024-03-13T13:29:06.399-04:00America RevealedToday we face a climate of ever increasing misdirection by popular media. This site, along with others, aims to reveal the reality of America and the loss of fact inherent to the over riding theme of our current political and social confusion: Purposeful deception.sforresthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12778318395686111784noreply@blogger.comBlogger1553125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512317041431941753.post-65846637455216889992013-09-12T09:50:00.001-04:002013-09-12T09:51:23.710-04:00A Plea for Caution From Russia<div class="MsoNormal">
<b><i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">What
Putin Has to Say to Americans About <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Syria</st1:place></st1:country-region><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">by Vladimir V.
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events surrounding <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Syria</st1:place></st1:country-region> have
prompted me to speak directly to the American people and their political
leaders. It is important to do so at a time of insufficient communication
between our societies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">Relations
between us have passed through different stages. We stood against each other
during the cold war. But we were also allies once, and defeated the Nazis
together. The universal international organization — the United Nations — was
then established to prevent such devastation from ever happening again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">The United
Nations’ founders understood that decisions affecting war and peace should
happen only by consensus, and with <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">America</st1:country-region></st1:place>’s consent the veto by
Security Council permanent members was enshrined in the United Nations Charter.
The profound wisdom of this has underpinned the stability of international
relations for decades.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">No one
wants the United Nations to suffer the fate of the <st1:place w:st="on">League
of Nations</st1:place>, which collapsed because it lacked real leverage. This
is possible if influential countries bypass the United Nations and take military
action without Security Council authorization.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">The
potential strike by the <st1:country-region w:st="on">United States</st1:country-region> against <st1:country-region w:st="on">Syria</st1:country-region>, despite strong opposition from many
countries and major political and religious leaders, including the pope, will
result in more innocent victims and escalation, potentially spreading the
conflict far beyond <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Syria</st1:country-region></st1:place>’s
borders. A strike would increase violence and unleash a new wave of terrorism.
It could undermine multilateral efforts to resolve the Iranian nuclear problem
and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and further destabilize the Middle East
and <st1:place w:st="on">North Africa</st1:place>. It could throw the
entire system of international law and order out of balance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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by Paul Craig Roberts<o:p></o:p></div>
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Washington has been at war for 12 years. According to
experts such as Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes, these wars have cost
Americans approximately $6 trillion, enough to keep Social Security and
Medicare sound for years. All there is to show for 12 years of war is fat bank
balances for the armament industries and a list of destroyed countries with
millions of dead and dislocated people who never lifted a hand against the
United States.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The cost paid by American troops and taxpayers is extreme.
Secretary of Veteran Affairs Erik Shinseki reported in November 2009 that “more
veterans have committed suicide since 2001 than we have lost on the battlefields
of Iraq and Afghanistan.” Many thousands of our troops have suffered
amputations and traumatic brain injuries. At the Marine Corps War College Jim
Lacey calculated that the annual cost of the Afghan war was $1.5 billion for
each al-Qaeda member in Afghanistan. Many US and coalition troops paid with
their lives for every one al-Qaeda member killed. On no basis has the war ever
made sense.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Washington’s wars have destroyed the favorable image of the
United States created over the decades of the cold war. No longer the hope of
mankind, the US today is viewed as a threat whose government cannot be trusted.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>"I'm an upstanding citizen and I'm not doing anything
wrong. I just don't want the government invading my privacy."<br>
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I got into a heated argument, a disagreeable shouting match
over that idea today -- mostly being shouted at for nitpicking someone <i>on
my own side</i>. I find the above rationale to be a surface response
without any thought behind it or any acknowledgement of how actual
surveillance-societies of the past devolved into Orwellian abominations.
Worse still, the current drive for a "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Awareness_Office#Components_of_TIA_projects_that_continue_to_be_developed"><i>Total
Information Awareness</i></a><i>" </i>society, where birth to death
communications will be stored forever by the government, looms over us. NSA /
Booz Allen Hamilton whistleblower Edward Snowden has said:<o:p></o:p></div>
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"they are intent on making every conversation and every
form of behavior in the world known to them."</blockquote>
To that end, the NSA's operating budget has increased
steadily, avoiding any cutbacks from the so-called "sequester."
The new <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center#Purpose">NSA
storage facility in Utah</a> is a central piece of this total data capture
society:<br>
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"An article by Forbes estimates the storage capacity as
between 3 and 12 exabytes in the near term...advances in technology could be
expected to increase the capacity by orders of magnitude in the coming
years." (Wikipedia)</blockquote>
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Binney</a> revealed further problems at the National Security Agency and
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" Binney alleged... controls that limited unintentional
collection of data pertaining to U.S. citizens were removed, prompting concerns
by him and others that the actions were illegal and unconstitutional. Binney
alleged that the Bluffdale facility was designed to store a broad range of
domestic communications for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_mining">data mining</a> without
warrants." <b> </b>(<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center#Purpose">Wikipedia</a>)</blockquote>
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Edward Snowden has also said:</div>
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"I also had the capability without any warrant to search
for, seize, and read your communications. Anyone's communications at any
time. <b>That is the power to change people's fates."</b></blockquote>
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Changing people's fates is the key phrase here. How
and why can this personal data be used? With lifelong surveillance of everyone,
we are little better off than goldfish swimming from glass wall to wall, always
under the complete scrutiny of the authorities. It doesn't take any
imagination whatsoever to see the implications of total scrutiny by secretive
government or quasi-governmental entities (or others!).<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The three most powerful nations all operate prison
systems that are places of sadism, sickness, and madness unfit for human
habitation, much less human reformation. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They also lead the world with astonishing rates of
imprisonment far higher than in other industrialized nations. “The U.S.
incarceration rate of 737 per 100,000 people is the (world’s) highest, followed
by 611 in Russia,” Reuters reports. Compare the above rates with
the following nations: Spain, 149; Canada, 114; Australia, 103; The
Netherlands, 82; Germany, 80; Norway, 71; Denmark, 68; Sweden, 67; Finland, 60;
and Japan, 54.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">America has 2.3 million souls behind bars; China ranks
second with 1.5 million, and Russia places third with 870,000---a figure Deputy
Justice Minister Yury Kalinin says actually is closer to 2 million. Whatever,
all three inflict gruesome tortures on their prisoners.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Despite the steady hue and cry by government agencies about
the need for more police, more sophisticated weaponry, and the difficulties of
preserving the peace and maintaining security in our modern age, the reality is
far different. Indeed, violent crime in America has been on a<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/29/justice/us-violent-crime" target="_hplink">steady
decline</a>, and if current trends continue, Americans will finish the year
2013 experiencing the <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/05/us-murder-rate-track-be-lowest-century" target="_hplink">lowest murder rate in over a century</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Despite this clear referendum on the fact that communities
would be better served by smaller, demilitarized police forces, police agencies
throughout the country are dramatically increasing in size and scope. Some of
the nation's larger cities boast police forces the size of small armies. (New
York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg actually likes to <a href="http://rt.com/usa/bloomberg-nypd-army-york-599/" target="_hplink">brag
that the NYPD is his personal army</a>.) For example, the Los Angeles Police
Department (LAPD) has reached a <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-lapd-10k-20130429,0,7160383.story?track=lat-email-topofthetimes" target="_hplink">total of 10,000 officers</a>. It takes its place alongside
other cities boasting increasingly large police forces, including <a href="http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/The-312/August-2012/City-Size-and-Police-Presence/" target="_hplink">New York</a> (36,000 officers) and <a href="http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/The-312/August-2012/City-Size-and-Police-Presence/" target="_hplink">Chicago</a> (13,400 officers). When considered in terms
of cops per square mile, Los Angeles assigns a whopping 469 officers <i>per
square mile</i>, followed by New York with <a href="http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/The-312/August-2012/City-Size-and-Police-Presence/" target="_hplink">303 officers per square mile</a>, and Chicago with <a href="http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/The-312/August-2012/City-Size-and-Police-Presence/" target="_hplink">227 cops per square mile</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Of course, such heavy police presence comes at a price. Los
Angeles spends <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-lapd-10k-20130429,0,7160383.story?track=lat-email-topofthetimes" target="_hplink">over $2 billion per year</a> on the police force, a 36%
increase within the last eight years. The LAPD currently consumes over 55% of
Los Angeles' discretionary budget, a 9% increase over the past nine years.
Meanwhile, street repair and maintenance spending has declined by 36%, and in
2011, one-fifth of the city's fire stations lost units, <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-lapd-10k-20130429,0,7160383.story?track=lat-email-topofthetimes" target="_hplink">increasing response times for 911 medical emergencies</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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declining crime rates, the data just doesn't show a direct correlation. In
fact, many cities across the country actually saw decreases in crime rates
during the 1990s in the wake of increasing prison sentences and the waning
crack-cocaine epidemic. Cities such as Seattle and Dallas actually cut their
police forces during this time and <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-lapd-10k-20130429,0,7160383.story?track=lat-email-topofthetimes" target="_hplink">still saw crime rates drop</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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“civil-forfeiture”(CF) laws aimed at drug kingpins are being twisted to
confiscate the property of people “never charged with a crime,” <i>The New
Yorker </i>magazine (August 12) asserts. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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fighting a home eviction after their son sold a small amount of marijuana to an
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more, a high proportion of the victims appear to be African-Americans and
Latinos, the magazine says.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">Example: <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Tenaha</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Texas</st1:state></st1:place>,
where victims of CF actions were motorists who had been pulled over for routine
traffic stops, “and the targets were disproportionately black and Latino,” <i>The
New Yorker </i>quotes one defense attorney as stating.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">Under laws
once enacted to penalize drug dealers and their ilk, the authorities using CF
“are routinely targeting the workaday homes, cars, cash savings, and other
belongings” of the innocent, writes magazine reporter Sarah Stillman.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">“In
general, you needn’t be found guilty to have your assets claimed by law
enforcement; in some states, suspicion on par with ‘probable cause’ is
sufficient. Nor must you be charged with a crime or even be accused of one,”
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Originally posted on <b><span style="color: orange;"><a href="http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2013/05/23/why-disinformation-works-paul-craig-roberts/">Institute
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to acknowledge it. The regime ruling in Washington today lacks constitutional
and legal legitimacy. Americans are ruled by usurpers who claim that the
executive branch is above the law and that the US Constitution is a mere “scrap
of paper.”</span></em><i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><br>
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of allegiance requires defense of the Constitution “against all enemies,
foreign and domestic.” As the Founding Fathers made clear, the main enemy of
the Constitution is the government itself. Power does not like to be bound and
tied down and constantly works to free itself from constraints.</span></em><i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><br>
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Obama Regime, like the Bush/Cheney Regime, has no legitimacy. Americans are
oppressed by an illegitimate government ruling, not by law and the
Constitution, but by lies and naked force. Those in government see the US
Constitution as a “chain that binds our hands.”</span></em><i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><br>
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in Washington. The apartheid Israeli regime in Palestine is more legitimate.
The Taliban are more legitimate. Muammar Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein were more
legitimate.</span></em><i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><br>
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</span></i><em><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">The only constitutional protection that the Bush/Obama regime has left
standing is the Second Amendment, a meaningless amendment considering the
disparity in arms between Washington and what is permitted to the citizenry. No
citizen standing with a rifle can protect himself and his family from one of
the Department of Homeland Security’s 2,700 tanks, or from a drone, or from a
heavily armed SWAT force in body armor.</span></em><i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><br>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The
surveillance state is even bigger, and scarier, than we thought.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">And, as a
result, it's time that we broke up the failed national security experiment
known as the Department of Homeland Security. Returning to dozens of
independent agencies will return internal checks-and-balances to within the
Executive branch, and actually make us both safer and less likely to be the
victims of government snooping overreach.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Last
Wednesday, the <i>Guardian</i>'s Glenn Greenwald revealed that the
National Security Agency is secretly collecting the phone records of millions
of Verizon users. The agency received authorization to track phone
"metadata" over a 3 month period from a special court order issued in
April.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">We now also
know that what the <i>Guardian</i> uncovered is just the tip of the
iceberg of an ongoing phone and internet records collection program that likely
includes almost all major U.S. telecommunications companies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">President
Obama - who promised the "most transparent administration ever" - now
finds himself and his DHS at the center of yet another civil liberties
controversy. That controversy has deepened in the wake of two reports published
last night in both the Washington Post and the Guardian that outlined a
different NSA snooping program – a data mining initiative code-named
"PRISM."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">by Daniel Ellsberg</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In my estimation, there has not been in American history a
more important leak than <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/09/edward-snowden-nsa-whistleblower-surveillance?guni=Network%20front:network-front%20full-width-1%20bento-box:Bento%20box:Position1">Edward
Snowden's release of NSA material</a> -- and that definitely includes <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon_Papers">the Pentagon Papers 40
years ago</a>. Snowden's whistleblowing gives us the possibility to roll back a
key part of what has amounted to an "executive coup" against the US
constitution.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since 9/11, there has been, at first secretly but
increasingly openly, a revocation of the bill of rights for which this country
fought over 200 years ago. In particular, the fourth and fifth amendments of
the US constitution, which safeguard citizens from unwarranted intrusion by the
government into their private lives, have been virtually suspended.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The government claims it has a court warrant under FISA --
but that unconstitutionally sweeping warrant is from a secret court, shielded
from effective oversight, almost totally deferential to executive
requests. <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/06/obama-administration-nsa-verizon-records">As
Russell Tice, a former National Security Agency analyst, put it</a>: "It
is a kangaroo court with a rubber stamp."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We are living in a Police State... A Fascist State... A non-American State</span>sforresthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12778318395686111784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512317041431941753.post-49150825603059179422013-06-07T17:08:00.002-04:002013-06-07T17:08:58.819-04:00Beyond Orwell: Obama Says Gov Spying Protects Civil Liberties & Freedom<div class="MsoNormal">
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<a href="http://occupycorporatism.com/"><b>Occupy Corporatism</b></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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President Obama came out to publicly endorse PRISM because
it promotes public safety and protects of civil liberties.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Obama <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/06/07/obama-clapper-national-security-agency-leaks/2400405/">said </a>that
this “modest encroachment on privacy . . . helps us prevent terrorist attacks.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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According to the president Americans must accept this
“trade-off” that creates balance between privacy and safety. He said: “Nobody
is listening to your telephone calls. That’s not what this program is about. In
the abstract you can complain about Big Brother and how this is a potential
program run amok, but when you actually look at the details, I think we’ve
struck the right balance. There are trade-offs involved.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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In defense of unnecessary government surveillance on all
Americans, Obama said: “You can’t have 100 percent security and also then have
100 percent privacy and zero inconvenience. We’re going to have to make some
choices as a society.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Simply put, Obama<a href="http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/06/obama-bush-nsa-phone-comapred.html"> explained </a>that
“if the intelligence community actually wants to listen to a phone call,
they’ve got to go back to a federal judge.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Disclosure of the PRISM program in mainstream media has <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usI4Aoy1A1U&feature=player_embedded">alerted </a>the
general public to the fact that the US government has been collecting
information on US citizens for national security purposes over several
presidencies.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Americans is nothing new.<o:p></o:p></div>
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its prison </span></span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="color: orange;">health care system</span></span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></span>to a private
contractor, the First District Court of Appeals ruled on Wednesday. The
privatization plan was<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></span><a href="http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/12/07/1301011/court-again-strikes-down-florida-attempt-to-privatize-prison-health-care/"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="color: orange;">blocked</span></span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></span>by a judge last
year, after a lower court found that the state Department of Corrections had
circumvented the legislative process. Another judge killed the plan in 2011
because some state lawmakers had tried to sneak privatization through a budget
rather than attempt to pass a bill explicitly about prison health care.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It’s no wonder
Florida officials have tried to downplay the privatization plan. Private prison
contractors have become popular with many Republican lawmakers across the
country because of their promises to cut costs. But these companies also often
cut corners to increase their own profits, leading to <span style="color: orange;"><a href="http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/04/10/1843291/over-18-months-nations-first-privately-owned-state-prison-has-declined-rapidly/"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">abysmal
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care companies have especially bad records on inmate treatment. Nightmarish
stories of inmates dying from treatable diseases because they were refused care
are <span style="color: orange;"><a href="http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/06/26/506492/cut-costs-by-denying-care/"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">frighteningly</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></span><a href="http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/10/01/932321/arizona-state-prisons-private-health-care/"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">common</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></span></span>in prisons that have
outsourced their healthcare. One of the largest prison health care providers,
Correctional Medical Care, is under<span style="color: orange;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></span><a href="http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/04/15/1864151/ny-private-prison-health-care/"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">criminal
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private prison health care can forecast the conditions Florida inmates will now
face. A Kaiser report on these systems found<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="color: orange;"><a href="http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/07/23/563131/states-privatized-prison-health-care/"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">“inhumane”
conditions</span></a>, </span>with terminally ill inmates left in soiled linens
without food or water for days. One Arizona man with lung cancer begged for
treatment, only to be told by medical staff that he should drink energy shakes
to cure his symptoms. Others who have begged for medical aid have been told
they were simply making it up or that they should “pray to be cured.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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already privatized several prisons entirely, with terrible consequences. One
prisoner, Robert Boggon, was<span style="color: orange;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></span><a href="http://www.floridavoices.com/columns/rick-outzen/floridas-prison-privatization-isnt-paradise"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">sent to
jail</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></span></span>after suffering a mental episode in a Dollar Tree store.
Boggon never received a psychiatric evaluation even though he was rocking on
the floor of his cell and urinating on himself. After 11 days in jail, Boggon
was found dead, naked, and strapped to an emergency restraint chair with a
towel around his head in his cell in the jail infirmary. The death was ruled a
homicide, but the medical examiner placed the blame on no one.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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saves the state money have not lived up to their promise. However, private
prison companies have donated heavily to Florida lawmakers to ensure they
continue to back privatization. The industry donated nearly<span style="color: orange;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></span><a href="http://whyihatecca.blogspot.com/2011/05/what-million-bucks-can-buy.html"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">$1
million</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></span>to mostly Republican campaigns in 2010, and have already
padded Scott’s re-election campaign with more than<span style="color: orange;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></span><a href="http://whyihatecca.blogspot.com/2012/04/geos-deep-pockets-in-florida.html"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">$100,000</span></a></span>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA. --- Overall, President Obama has
been “a force for destruction” who has “advanced inequality, wealth
concentration, deportations, imprisonments, and the de-funding of basic
services in order to fund banks, billionaires, and bombers,” distinguished
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former staff aide to Rep. Dennis Kucinich’s presidential campaigns, said Obama
has done nothing to better the lot of the nation’s poor, including Americans in
the ghettos, apart from reducing “the disparity in crack-powder cocaine
sentencing.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Noting that Obama has attempted to identify himself with
the late civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Swanson was asked if he saw
any resemblance. His reply was “Two eyes and two ears and two feet and in
Obama’s case two mouths. He got a Nobel Peace Prize before he did anything for
peace,” Swanson said. “So did King, and King followed through and retroactively
earned it. Perhaps that led to the ludicrous bestowing of the prize on Obama,
who proceeded to give a pro-war acceptance speech in which he insultingly and
arrogantly denounced King’s approach to world change.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The shocking minutes
relating to President Putin’s meeting this past week with US Secretary of State
John Kerry reveal the Russian leaders “extreme outrage” over the Obama regimes
continued protection of global seed and plant bio-genetic giants Syngenta and
Monsanto in the face of a growing “bee apocalypse” that the Kremlin warns “will
most certainly” lead to world war.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">According to these minutes,
released in the Kremlin today by the Ministry of Natural Resources and
Environment of the Russian Federation (<a href="http://www.mnr.gov.ru/english/" target="_blank">MNRE</a>), Putin was so incensed over the Obama regimes refusal
to discuss this grave matter that he <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2321001/Vladimir-Putin-keeps-John-Kerry-waiting-THREE-HOURS-visit-Russia-Syria-talks.html" target="_blank">refused for three hours</a> to even meet with Kerry, who
had traveled to Moscow on a scheduled diplomatic mission, but then relented so
as to not cause an even greater rift between these two nations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">At the center of this
dispute between Russia and the US, this MNRE report says, is the “undisputed
evidence” that a class of neuro-active insecticides chemically related to
nicotine, known as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neonicotinoid" target="_blank">neonicotinoids</a>, are destroying our planets bee population,
and which if left unchecked could destroy our world’s ability to grow enough
food to feed its population.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">So grave has this situation
become, the MNRE reports, the full European Commission (EC) this past week
instituted a two-year precautionary ban (<a href="http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1112840296/eu-bee-protection-pesticide-ban-nenicotinoid-clothianidin-imidacloprid-thiametoxam-050713/" target="_blank">set to begin on 1 December 2013</a>) on these<a href="http://worldradio.ch/wrs/news/switzerland/switzerland-puts-in-place-partial-ban-of-bee-killi.shtml?35568" target="_blank">“bee killing” pesticides</a> following the lead of
Switzerland, France, Italy, Russia, Slovenia and Ukraine, all of whom had
previously banned these most dangerous of genetically altered organisms from
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Originally posted on <b><a href="http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2013/05/23/why-disinformation-works-paul-craig-roberts/"><span style="color: orange;">Institute for Political Economy</span></a></b></span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">What I have noticed is that
whenever a stunning episode occurs, such as 9/11 or the Boston Marathon
bombing, most everyone whether on the right or left goes along with the
government’s explanation, because they can hook their agenda to the
government’s account.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The left-wing likes the
official stories of Muslims creating terrorist mayhem in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region>,
because it proves their blow back theory and satisfies them that the
dispossessed and oppressed can fight back against imperialism.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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likes the official story, because it proves <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region> is attacked for its
goodness or because terrorists were allowed in by immigration authorities and
nurtured by welfare, or because the government, which can’t do anything right,
ignored plentiful warnings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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says, no matter how problematical, the official story gets its traction from
its compatibility with existing predispositions and agendas.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">A person can see this
everywhere. I could write volumes illustrating how agenda-driven writers across
the spectrum will support the most improbable government stories despite the
absence of any evidence simply because the government’s line can be used to
support their agendas.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We are certainly living in
the midst of a very dark period in American history. This is a nation that is
not advancing, it is regressing; it is no longer growing, it is rapidly
declining. This is a country that possesses monumental wealth but, at the same
time, is plagued by a myriad of critical problems that seem to be
insurmountable.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Where is the evidence that
supports this premise? It's everywhere; just look at the deteriorating
conditions in this country, the absence of a functioning government and the
mounting extreme violence in this society. When <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region> needs leadership and
direction there is none to be found. There are no signs or indications that
this government is ready to reassume the responsibilities of governing this
country in a competent manner and doing what is in the best interests of the
American people.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Republicans block, obstruct
and filibuster. Democrats vacillate, cave in and refuse to change the
filibuster rules. We have a president who won't prosecute the Wall Street
criminals but goes after whistleblowers instead; a president who has done more
to restrict the constitutional rights and freedoms of the American people than
any other in our history. Don't believe it; then do some research and find out
for yourself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Originally posted on <a href="http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2013/05/10/how-elites-and-media-minimize-dissent-and-bury-truth-paul-craig-roberts/"><span style="color: orange;">Institute for Political Economy</span></a></span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Over the last several years
I have watched the rise of an important new intellect on the American scene.
Ron Unz, publisher of The American Conservative, has demonstrated time and
again the extraordinary ability to reexamine settled issues and show that the
accepted conclusion was incorrect.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">One of his early
achievements was to dispose of the myth of immigrant crime by demonstrating
that “Hispanics have approximately the same crime rates as whites of the same
age and gender.” You can imagine the uproar, but Unz won the debate.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Unz provoked and prevailed
in another controversy when he concluded that Mexican-Americans have
approximately the same innate intelligence as whites, with their lower IQs
being due to transitory socio-economic deprivation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">He next surprised by showing
the connection between the declining real value of the minimum wage (about
one-third less than in the 1960s) and immigration. Americans cannot survive on
one-third less minimum income than four decades ago, and the unfilled jobs are
taken by Hispanics who live many to the room. A higher minimum wage, Unz
pointed out, would cure the illegal immigration problem as American citizens
would fill the jobs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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strikes are creating cadres of anti-American fighters, furious over the killing
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Far from the drone attacks being “on a very tight leash,” as President
Obama claimed, they have generated widespread terror across Muslim populations
in the attack regions as they disrupt civilian lives and activities, literally
driving people mad, reliable authorities state.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">According to an article in the <st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region>
<i>Guardian, </i>the Pakistani ambassador to the UN Zamir Akram charged that
more than 1,000 Pakistani civilians have been killed by <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> drone
strikes. The use of drones, he said, “leads to greater levels of terror rather
than reducing them.” Other estimates put the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Pakistan</st1:place></st1:country-region> death toll from drone
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Author Gregory Johnsen told McClatchy News Service the drones attacks in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Yemen</st1:place></st1:country-region> are
“exacerbating and expanding” resistance. “We have seen AQAP (al-Qaida on the
Arabian Peninsula) expanding from 200-300 fighters in 2009, when the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> bombing
campaign began, to more than 1,000 fighters today.” Johnsen is author of <i>The
Last Refuge, </i>a new book on <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Yemen</st1:place></st1:country-region>
and al-Qaida.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">And retired Marine General James Cartwright told <i>The Nation </i>magazine
the drones cause anger, bitterness, and resentment among Muslim populations and
predicted their use will cause “blowback” attacks against <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region>. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Paul Forrest</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"><a href="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/User/My%20Documents/americarevealed.org"><span style="color: orange;">AmericaRevealed.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>This was one of the topics discussed on <a href="http://www.newdissidentradio.com/breaking_taboo.html"><span style="color: orange;">Breaking Taboo - New Dissident Radio</span></a>. To listen to the show, <b><a href="http://lakotaphillips.com/breakingtaboo2013/breakingtaboo5613_spaulforrest.mp3"><span style="color: orange;">CLICK HERE</span></a></b></i></span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">It is a
simple thing really. We Americans watch
the news to acquire some understanding of minimal what the hot topics are on
everything from local to national happenings and accept the stories as truth. Most of this news is comprised of to-the-point,
quick snippets to fill our informational desires in a short period of time but
when these snippets glaze over the details of those issues that affect our
lives to a greater extent, it is time to hold media accountable for their
delivery of disinformation and our politicians for the false agendas they
propel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">Take as
an example, the Sandy Hook Elementary shootings and Boston Marathon Bombings.
There were indeed tragic events which continue to call into question whether we
here in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region>
are safe to send our children to school or even whether we can attend a public
event without worrying we will be slaughtered like sheep. Some measure of safety indeed needs to be instituted
to make us safer but when our politicians use these happenings to propel their
own, distorted agenda; it is time to examine what is truly going on.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">To many
of us, the <st1:place w:st="on">Sandy Hook</st1:place> killings now represent a
sad event where innocent children were terrorized and yes, slaughtered by a
mentally disturbed individual. Many were
shocked and sickened by this event and politicians wasted not a second in vowing
to bring an end to the violence by addressing gun control. Sounds like a great idea when viewed in a ten
second news blurb but when taken to the next level of consideration,
politicians put more into their efforts than the news ever reported. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">After the
bodies were counted and facts collected, many began calling for stricter gun
laws. President Obama was very verbal in
this argument and has vowed to make <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region> safer. He has used this event to push to the
forefront an agenda to control our Right to Bear Arms and has employed the
media to spread the word of his valiant efforts. When the Gun Control Bill was voted down in Congress, many
shouted "Shame!". The news stations have portrayed Mr. Obama’s
efforts as honorable but upon further examination; they have proven to be far
from that. In fact, our President had already
been in talks with the United Nations for the past few years to limit our Right
to Bear Arms and has seen this as the perfect opportunity to propel his agenda
to limit our rights to defend ourselves as the 2<sup>nd</sup> Amendment was designed
to guarantee.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><i>In the spirit of celebrating the re-election of a silver tongued fascist (actually the faux election), I offer the following repost...Enjoy the coming years.</i></span></div>
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<br>A
fascist state exists where a nation begins to allow the control of its
government by corporatism, single party political interests and law enforcement
that reaches beyond the normal necessity of such. There are many other defining
characteristics of a fascist condition but in the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States of America</st1:place></st1:country-region>, these
basic ingredients have come to define a developing system that is leading the
American people into a cage of control.<br>
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Most recently in this country, fascism has taken the form of overzealous
faux-patriotism and its accompanying legislation in order to garner control of
our nationalistic interests, domestic and abroad. It has condemned the
speakers, the activists, the natural food producers, the non-Christians, immigrants
and the poor. In fact, it has attacked everything that is <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region>.<br>
<br>Fascism is not new to this country, nor is it a conspiracy theory by half-baked
paranoids. It is alive and growing in this, our Republic and has been for quite
a long time. Any developed country has, as part of its governing system, a
certain level of fascism. There needs to be a police element otherwise there is
anarchy. A certain level of governmental control of information is necessary to
secure military counter actions in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/They-Thought-Were-Free-Germans/dp/0226511928?ie=UTF8&tag=permacultucom-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969">national
defense</a> interests. Prisons are established to correct criminal
behavior. These defining principles of fascism are present intrinsically in any
government. The issue that needs to be watched and contained by the people, is
to what level of existence the fascist element is present within said
government.<br>
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<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region>
was supposed to be the land of the free. The Statue of Liberty was meant as a
beacon; calling to those across the globe to come to our door for refuge. It is
a place where religion was to be practiced freely, speech guaranteed, and a
citizen had a right to vote for real representation. Why then, are so many of
our politicians uniting to close our borders, religion closed to anyone not
Christian, and our electoral college a scene out of Himmler’s own daydream?<br>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><i><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: white;">This article originally posted on:</span></span></i><span style="color: black;"> <a href="http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2012/09/08/spinning-bad-financial-news-into-good-paul-craig-roberts/"><b><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: orange;">Institute for Political Economy</span></span></b></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">During the second half of the 20th century the United States was an opportunity society. The ladders of upward mobility were plentiful, and the middle class expanded. Incomes rose, and ordinary people were able to achieve old-age security.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the 21st century the opportunity society has disappeared. Middle class jobs are scarce. Indeed, jobs of any kind are scarce. To stay even with population growth from 2002 through 2011, the economy needed about 14 million new jobs. However, at the end of 2011 there were only 1 million more jobs than in 2002.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Only 426,000 of these jobs are in the private sector. The bulk of the net new jobs consist of waitresses and bartenders and health care and social assistance. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, over the 9 years, employment for waitresses and bartenders increased by 1,188,000. Employment in health care and social assistance increased 3,087,000. These two categories accounted for 1,000% of the net private sector job growth.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As for manufacturing jobs, they not only did not grow with the population but declined absolutely. During these nine years, 3.5 million middle class manufacturing jobs were lost. </span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Over the entire nine years, only 48,000 new jobs were created for architects and engineers.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the 21st century the US economy has been able to create only a few new jobs and these are in lowly paid domestic services that cannot be offshored, such as waitresses and bartenders. </span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The lack of jobs, especially high value-added, high productivity jobs, is the reason real median household income has declined and the distribution of income has worsened. Without rising real household income, there cannot be a consumer economy. </span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><a href="http://www.spaulforrest.com/2012/10/america-rip.html#more">Read more »</a>sforresthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12778318395686111784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512317041431941753.post-36267994977400164622012-10-11T11:39:00.001-04:002012-10-11T11:39:50.357-04:00Religion as a Control Mechanism<div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0pt;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">by S. Paul Forrest</span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Arial;">We discussed this as one of the stories - 10-08-12 - Breaking Taboo - Newdissidentradio.com - 7:00 PM EST - Be sure to <a href="http://newdissidentradio.com/archives/taboo/2012/october/taboo-100812.mp3"><span style="color: orange;">LISTEN HERE.<o:p></o:p></span></a></span></i></b></div>
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<span class="photo_right" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Religion is defined as a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature and purpose of the universe, containing a moral code governing the conduct of human affairs. It has always been and will always be, the most powerful tool ever devised to control the masses. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Since Man could first understand his place on this Earth and the.inevitable end of life which was forthcoming, there has been a desire based on the primal instinct of survival, to imagine life would continue on in some way after death. To many, the idea of an afterlife in the spirit world was comforting and helped to not only accept the deaths of their loved ones but acceptance of their own. Gods were imagined to reign in this after world and if the people were loyal in this life to those gods, they would enter into the chosen realm. Some men on Earth accepted rule over the masses as representatives of these Gods but as their influence and power grew, so did their hunger for more of it. With power comes inevitable corruption and as the power of these Earth bound men increased, so did the growth of that corruption as was seen in the Catholic Church of old.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">In today’s modern world, one would think the idea of some Ethereal Plain in which we will all exist after death would be seen with a bit more skepticism but the religious masses still continue to believe that when death arrives the soul somehow ascends into some mystical place. All one has to do to enter this realm is hold true to and worship the supposed teachings of characters like Christ, Muhammad or Buddha and pledge fealty to those who claim to represent these “prophets” without question. It is no small wonder why so many claim to represent them. After all, power is the ultimate aphrodisiac and what better way to acquire it than through the fear of spending an eternity in the pits of a fiery abyss if the rules set forth by these false leaders are not followed, without question.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Instead of the threat of eternal damnation, religion in <st1:country -region="-region" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country> is being rekindled by utilizing other, modern fear factors: A bad economy, “terrorist” threats and a failing system of government. Many politicians and self-touting religious representatives across the nation are using today’s troubles to herd a new flock toward following their self-serving ministries. This use or rather, abuse of the people’s faith and the irrepressible drive toward a closed minded, sheep filled society, stems from the very real, very frightening growth of extremism within the recesses of the Christian Right’s desire to control. They and their media counterparts are doing this by condemning any who would stand against them as un-American and the sheep are following without question. This type of religious falsity represents not God on this Earth but rather, the greatest evil ever devised by man.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Despite protests from the faithful of how religion brings peace, the truth of it is quite clear if one were to spend but a moment to open their eyes to it: As Karl Marx has rightly stated; “Religion is the sign of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.” If the conditions were not so soulless; the people not so oppressed, religion would not have such an impact and the people not following so blindly. One cannot help but consider whether religion is meant to salve the masses from oppression or whether it allows the propagation of it so those who oppress can flourish unchecked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">In terms of the here and now, one thing is most certain: Despite the insistence by politicians of this new, American age that God should be put back into all American lives, religious belief will not save this Nation; it will only allow those who stand to profit from it to gain more power and will inevitably cast us all into a hell of our own, ignorant making, moving our society backward into servitude rather than forward to acquire that Liberty and Justice so many have already died for.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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