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Mon Mar 01, 2010 at 00:26:06 PST
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And I have to say I'm death on outright lies being told to me, personally, and then being expected to help and support that person despite the lies. Yeah, yeah, there's the political process that has been inculcated into each one of the American would-be serf cognoscenti, again and again and again.
Things about coalition building. Tactics such as "vote for me on this bill and I'll let you vote no on that bill, so as to look better to your constituents." Things about so-called political pragmatism which is as opposite to the actual pragmatism of running a country for the benefit of its people.
People on liberal blogs will tell you that the Republicans are 100 times worse, and so the natural thing to do is to work for and vote for Democrats to keep the Republicans from getting office.
And, if you subscribe to that theory, yeah, there's some truth in it. There are many names for this reasoning -- it's called "extortionist reasoning" with much truth by some, but from people who employ it sincerely I'm going to call it the "keep the boogeyman at bay" argument.
You see, there's a dangerous boogeyman outside your door. What he wants to do is take all your belongings, rape your spouse, sell your children into indentured servitude and burn your livestock -- what you are a serf and you don't have livestock? Ok, your pets then.
I'll circle back to that.
In America of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, we've been steeped in a culture of lies. Much of it comes with a wink and a nod, and through an initial culture of consumption. And despite the fact that people bemoan that Americans are clueless, unschooled and unsophisticated in some ways, for example not being able to find Afghanistan on a map, we have become very sophisticated (I might prefer the term "jaded") in some ways.
When we see advertisements on TV, or on the radio or in print media, we're totally used to being lied to with wild abandon. We know that the products and services we're being sold come with a passel of lies. We know that vacuum cleaner just will not work flawlessly for years and as a side effect clean the air we breathe. If we are sophisticated, we know that the paid programming with the latest get rich quick scheme is a total con job.
So, we're expected to be sophisticated about it, and if we're not sophisticated, we're gullible dupes. Because of this expectation of sophistication, no one else has to take any responsibility for their lies, on the expectation that those who were sold a bill of goods should have known better. That TV station that aired the total con job with the criminal liar isn't responsible for any lies the criminal liar tells -- heck they even SAID they weren't responsible!
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Wed Feb 10, 2010 at 19:59:20 PST
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copyright © 2010 Betsy L. Angert. BeThink.org
It happened once, twice; I trust the third time could not charm me more. I have witnessed the power of a gesture, one made without words. I have seen the light that glows when people connect in quiet ways. Now experienced on more than one occasion, I have come to appreciate the peaceful power of consistent communication. I had not fully acknowledged what could be accomplished until I arrived on the scene, alone. Then I saw it. I felt it. I could hardly believe that a single steadfast individual, could convey a message without words, and still receive such a resounding response. Yet, while there, it occurred. I was struck by what had not been apparent for near a decade. The stance of a quiet soul, stated calmly, clearly, and with care, can move more persons than I ever imagined.
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Thu Jan 07, 2010 at 12:03:51 PST
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I guess now that it's the dead of winter, the time when people can really get sick, the "Swine Flu" panic is a thing of the past.
We have many more things to panic about now, right? I mean, we've got the official CNN 24/7 "terrorgasm", we've got coffers to bill at Big Corporations who can Supply Things To Us That Will Keep Us Safe.
And considering that there was a case of a suicide bomber somewhere (Afghanistan?) hiding the bomb up his rectum, Colbert's suggestion that all Muslim men have a colonoscopy before boarding an aircraft doesn't seem like something that would be far-fetched in today's world.
But that's not what this is about. This is about --- gosh, I almost forgot it myself, how distracting today's panics are! -- "Swine Flu", you know that thing that was supposed to kill all of us, that thing we were all geared up to be SCARED SCARED SCARED about -- and more importantly that thing that was designed to open all our wallets.
You'll never see this on our 24-hour news terror programs, but for some reason the European Parliament has decided to investigate this scam:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/i...
The Council of Europe member states will launch an inquiry in January 2010 on the influence of the pharmaceutical companies on the global swine flu campaign, focusing especially on extent of the pharma's industry's influence on WHO. The Health Committee of the EU Parliament has unanimously passed a resolution calling for the inquiry. The step is a long-overdue move to public transparency of a "Golden Triangle" of drug corruption between WHO, the pharma industry and academic scientists that has permanently damaged the lives of millions and even caused death.
The parliament motion was introduced by Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg, former SPD Member of the German Bundestag and now chairman of the Health Committee of PACE (Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe). Wodarg is a medical doctor and epidemiologist, a specialist in lung disease and environmental medicine, who considers the current "pandemic" Swine Flu campaign of the WHO to be "one of the greatest medicine scandals of the Century."[1]
The text of the resolution just passed by a sufficient number in the Council of Europe Parliament says among other things, "In order to promote their patented drugs and vaccines against flu, pharmaceutical companies influenced scientists and official agencies, responsible for public health standards to alarm governments worldwide and make them squander tight health resources for inefficient vaccine strategies and needlessly expose millions of healthy people to the risk of an unknown amount of side-effects of insufficiently tested vaccines. The "bird-flu"-campaign (2005/06) combined with the "swine-flu"-campaign seem to have caused a great deal of damage not only to some vaccinated patients and to public health-budgets, but to the credibility and accountability of important international health-agencies."[2]
The Parliamentary inquiry will look into the issue of „falsified pandemic" that was declared by WHO in June 2009 on the advice of its group of academic experts, SAGE, many of whose members have been documented to have intense financial ties to the same pharmaceutical giants such as GlaxoSmithKline, Roche, Novartis, who benefit from the production of drugs and untested H1N1 vaccines. They will investigate the influence of the pharma industry in creation of a worldwide campaign against the so-called H5N1 "Avian Flu" and H1N1 Swine Flu. The inquiry will be given "urgent" priority in the general assembly of the parliament.
In his official statement to the Committee, Wodarg criticized the influence of the pharma industry on scientists and officials of WHO, stating that it has led to the situation where "unnecessarily millions of healthy people are exposed to the risk of poorly tested vaccines," and that, for a flu strain that is "vastly less harmful" than all previous flu epidemics.
There you have it, in plain English.
What everybody knew, who was paying attention. Of course NOW they decide to do this, NOW, after the pharmaceutical companies have sold all the vaccines they could, I mean, if you haven't gotten a vaccine by now, you're probably not gonna get one, right?
This reeks of the "I am shocked, shocked, that gambling is going on here" line from Casablanca (and forgive me if i'm not quoting it correctly).
I mean, the EU sure wouldn't want to actually infringe on a corporation's god-given natural rights to scam the public into making money? But to keep a little legitimacy in the public eye, they'll sure pretend to investigate it afterwards, probably to slap a few fines on the perps so they can share the wealth, you know?
I was saying it back when they fear was being ramped up to fever pitch (excuse the pun) over this bogus flu. That the WHO must have been corrupted. Because it was, well, just obvious as fuck (pardon the language)..
The world is completely corrupt. You can't believe anything any more.
But the public keeps getting punked. It seems every year the public is ever-more-easy to punk.
Why is that?
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Sat Nov 21, 2009 at 13:59:59 PST
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I am not a good person. I've known this for a long time now, but for some reason people insist on disbelieving me. It's true, though-I'm a bad man, and I work in an evil business, full of bitchy little plastic people with humorless agendas and fearful, envious hearts. It absolutely sucks, and yet conversely I feel right at home being a judgmental jerk among my peers and colleagues. Admitting that took a little while, but I've always felt inherently bad-or at least "not good"-and I think that is one of the reasons why I've lasted so long in this wretched industry. I've dispensed with the illusion that I'm a well-intentioned, vaguely friendly person full of good will toward all humanity.
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Wed Jan 09, 2008 at 18:34:00 PST
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Recently NewsCorpse decided to start posting on Docudharma.com. NewsCorpse runs a site by the same name http://newscorpse.com/ and I've been a fan for a while. The site combines amazing original graphics with hard hitting important stories. So I took the opportunity to request an interview and this is the result:
Thanks for your reply and invitation to get in touch. I'm a back-end developer mostly and am interested in who links to what and why...recently I signed Docudharma up on Blogburst and that system has been placing our headlines onto sites like the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Reuters etc.
I saw your headlines from another Wall Street Journal story and when I did it reminded me of other times I saw your news on Google News and places reserved, usually, for News Sources not mere blogs.
Until we registered on Blogburst I thought it was nearly impossible to get linked from the top dogs. You were able to do it much earlier than most. Until recently I was just submitting links anywhere possible, hoping that would raise the site's rankings. Once I got into news feeds I realized there is a lot of hidden potential on the development side.
You appear to understand the concept of a blog/website as a dot com....I am just getting to that point now so here are some questions (below the fold):
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