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OUR ANTI-CHRIST NATION HAS AN IMMORAL ETHOS MENTALITY. AMERICAN VALUES CONTINUOUSLY EMBRACE IMMORAL VALUES AS THEIR WAY TO SALVATION.
Let America be America again!
The poem below by Langston Hughes reveals his feelings and thoughts and his feelings and thoughts are similar to my personal feelings and thoughts.
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15609
Here are two good articles to read!
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Hiding-Behind-God-Frankli-by-Rev-Dan-Vojir-110427-383.html
Religious cowards!
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Legislated-Dictatorship-C-by-Steven-Jonas-110425-623.html
State dictatorship is here and it will never leave us.
@dnarnadem:
I agree with both of your last entries. Yes, the dummies, and most probably a large number of them were/are racists, may have believed in the right-wing propaganda but it also resulted in diverting attention away from the real issues...like unemployment, the economy, and our criminal wars in the middle east.
If it looks like a fascist, smells like a fascist, and acts like a fascist...it is probably a fascist..and you are right that it took corporations and other top business people to get Hitler into power. And I believe you are right that it could very well turn out to be worse than the Nazis....the Nazis only had IBM cards and tabulators(from IBM) to keep tabs on it's people and the dissenters. Our government(and I should qualify that to say that government in itself is not bad and even necessary...it is the government that is controlled by big business and wealthy interests against the people) has the internet and social media monitoring data collection programs. They have had, for many years now, a program called Echelon that uses dictionary computers that listen for certain words that are either typed or spoken on a phone..cell or land. They even monitor not only the words and what is said but how it is said. They have facial expression analysis and I wouldn't doubt that they are working on being able to monitor one's thoughts from a distance. The have devices that can see through walls. They have "crowd control" devices that can either pierce our ear drums or fry our brains with microwaves. Of course, you probably already know about that and that they are gathering all kinds of information about each of us...what we say...how we say it....and in some instances watch us from pin hole cameras that they choose to secretly install in our homes in order to monitor what we do. I know it sounds like paranoia....but it is not paranoia if it is true. It sounds crazy but it is not...it is frightfully true. Yes, it could be a thousand time worse than the NAZIs. And remember the terminalogy that Papa Bush used..."thousand points of light" sounds an awful lot like "thousand years reich". I know about the Bush family association with Hitler. I know how some of our corporations and banks had collaborated with the enemy. They still do...problem is that they are now in control over our lives and our deaths.
... "and all this just to boil water", as the wonderful and much beloved Norm says.
If we have the tech to engrave a thousand 3-D maps of the world on a speck the size of a grain of sand (which we do) -- don't tell me we can't figure out how to boil water without killing each other or the entire Amazing Divine Gift of A Miraculous Planet That Came Complete with Real Food Ready Made in Berries, Greens, Seeds, Nuts, Roots, Tubers, Plants, and Medicines That Were Given To Us Already Complete and Gave Themselves Freely --- And Beauty --- Beauty EveryWhere....From the Amazonian Dancing Color Birds -- to the Fleeting Glance of the Snow Leopard -- To the Hummingbird Outside your Window -- we will Destroy all that?
... to boil our water?
Wow, this Wormwood guy is dumb. A brown dwarf is several times more massive and larger than Jupiter. If there were one between Mars and Jupiter, it would have been noticed before Newton invented the reflecting telescope.
And ~~ooh~~ rich countries have launched infrared telescopes. Because, you know, there's no reason scientists want to look at infrared in space other than one invisible star that all real scientists think doesn't exist!
I know you won't say it, Thom, but I will. That guy is an idiot.
a caller today challenged SUV effect on warming comparing to volcano. isn't there a difference of "burning" vs "heated"?
Thom,
One resopnse to the coal guy who claimed that burning coal for electricity is 'good' could have been that before the 1950s, the type of coal used for this purpose was anthracite, which was practically pure carbon. Today, the major coal being burned for electricity is bituminous, which is chock-full of junk like crude oil, sulfur and phosphorous.
Obviously, the deleterous effects of industrial coal burning today has little relationship to the pollution profile of yesteryear.
Fred in Massachusetts
"They may be fascist but not necessarily Nazi."
Not yet anyways. Don't forget, the corporate fascists in Germany opened up the way for the Nazi's, not the other way around. If the modern day corporate fascists succeed at destroying our Democratic state, they will be paving the way for something that may turn out way worst then the Nazis!
"I suspect that the whole birther issue was done, despite that they knew the truth anyway (or not), for the purpose of propaganda to keep peoples attention away from those things that really matter.."
You need a receptive audience to sell this LIE! So the tea-baggers and the Birthers are a receptive Racist audience.
How much does watching your child suffer from asthma, or your brother die from cancer cost?
Why is measuring the Quality of Life always the empty measurement?
It is a useless measurement. Don't these people have kids? Sisters?
He isn't stupid. He knows about carbon. He knows windmills don't create any.
Are they all so stuck in the pay of their lobbyist gig that they can't look at the truth anymore?
This interview caller is out of his mind.
If he does care about the environment getting cleaner, than won't he come clean?
You may not insult Thom, who has more integrity in his left shoe than the caller has in his whole paycheck.
Wait, so Myron Ebell thinks that we're building less solar power capacity because it takes so long to get permits for a coal-fired power plant??
Thom, I was wondering who to apply to in order to become a conservative sock puppet. Love to be able to spread truthieness and progressive values out from under my sock for salary and benefits. Thanks
The true answer to health costs is to remove the cause of illness: pollution, poisons in the air, in the water, in the food, in the soil, in the materials we build with, and spray on our lawns. Now fish from the Gulf has "Correctexit" in it (want to drink a bottle of that?) and the fish from the Pacific are radioactive.
The true answer to war is to remove the cause: oil, damned oil, the sin of the last century. The secret that everyone knows -- and everyone ignores out of convenience or connivance. Who has gone to war over a windmill?
The true answer to poverty is wealth for everyone. And ------ if you can generate your own power, you are wealthy. You do not have to live in the fear that you cannot keep yourself warm in winter. That your children are cold. That you cannot get where you need to go, that you are cut off from information, light, your access to the use of tools. What you earn you may keep. Instead of giving it to the nasty bits that sit in suits all puffed up and acting like they are smarter than all of us put together. And they have been so far. As they have fooled us into thinking we have to go along with this. That there is no other way. Bull-Frisbees.
The technology for solar and wind, etc. has been around forever --- and has been suppressed because if we all have to get power from only one source we are all dependent on that source and must obey and serve that source. It is like some silly myth about a dark crystal.
We have no right to poison the oceans, we have no right to generate nuclear waste which no one knows how to store safely for 50 years -- much less 20,000 years or more.... WE HAVE NO RIGHT.
If we withdraw all the fake subsidies from these poisons and take that NASA solar tech and fast track it to adhesive applied film we can be there. Combine it with wind and hemp tech for misc. materials. We can do it. It will not bring back the dead. It will not undo the damage. But we may be spared the shame of allowing the necromancers to eat this whole planet alive and toss the burnt carcass back into the dust of the universe.
@US Citizen:
You are right, of course, both the Democrats and the Republicans are toadies and useful idiots for the corporations. It's time we stopped thinking that the Democrats are going to start truly representing the people. There are very few Democrats that care about the people...all they care about is helping to delude the people they pretend to represent. And Obama is right there at the top of that ponzi scheme of corruption and lies. If there was ever a case for "taxation without representation" it is now. And since it is more than obvious that the Republicans represent the rich we need to get rid of all the scum and pestilential rats who, themselves, live high off the hog and have excellent tax-paid health care while they vote against good affordable and honest healthcare for everyone else...instead voting for a forced-pay crap-sandwich that they shove down our throats and will continue to enrich the healthscare insurance racket. I'd rather be forced to pay a government-run healthcare system than a profit maximizer system that has death panels for profit and rich CEOs raking in millions of blood-money dollars.
I'm glad you caught yourself, Thom, and said "man-made".
"Anthropogenic" is a misnomer when applied to global warming or climate change. "-genic" means that it makes whatever is indicated by the prefix, and "anthropo-" means person or people. Unfortunately, there's no suffix that means "made by", so we have to use a two-word phrase.
Evidently, Obama's own law school professor thinks Obama didn't learn much about the constitution or law.
"More than 250 of America's most eminent legal scholars have signed a letter protesting against the treatment in military prison of the alleged WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning, contesting that his "degrading and inhumane conditions" are illegal, unconstitutional and could even amount to torture.
The list of signatories includes Laurence Tribe, a Harvard professor who is considered to be America's foremost liberal authority on constitutional law. He taught constitutional law to Barack Obama and was a key backer of his 2008 presidential campaign.
Tribe joined the Obama administration last year as a legal adviser in the justice department, a post he held until three months ago.
He told the Guardian he signed the letter because Manning appeared to have been treated in a way that "is not only shameful but unconstitutional" as he awaits court martial in Quantico marine base in Virginia.
Tribe is the second senior figure with links to the Obama administration to break ranks over Manning. Last month, PJ Crowley resigned as state department spokesman after deriding the Pentagon's handling of Manning as "ridiculous and counterproductive and stupid".
The intervention of Tribe and hundreds of other legal scholars is a huge embarrassment to Obama, who was a professor of constitutional law in Chicago. Obama made respect for the rule of law a cornerstone of his administration, promising when he first entered the White House in 2009 to end the excesses of the Bush administration's war on terrorism."
It's time we all "broke ranks" with Obama as he is obviously just another criminal and a big, big mistake!
--http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20110411045515731
Let's be clear. It's not just the Republicorps that don't want single payer. The majority of the Corporcrats are also against it. Remember, Obama's back room deals regarding gov't negotiation with the drug companies and eliminating the faux public option, let alone eliminating Medicare for All. Both parties are going against the wishes of the people and putting corporate interests over the public good.
They may be fascist but not necessarily Nazi.
I'm routing for Vermont! And hope they set the good example for all other states to follow. It is about time the damn death-panels-for-profit healthscare insurance companies got shut down and run out of town...tarred and feathered....better yet...roll out the guillotines! The Republicans screeched inanely about "government death panels" but the real death panels, the insurance companies, murdered more people than anyone really knows. But the loved ones know.
"Our job is to give people not what they want, but what we decide they ought to have."
-- Richard Salent, Former President CBS News.
"News is what someone wants to suppress. Everything else is advertising".
former NBC news President Rubin Frank
Asked to give a toast before the prestigious New York Press Club in 1880, John Swinton, the former Chief of Staff at the New York Times, made this candid confession [it's worth noting that Swinton was called "The Dean of His Profession" by other newsmen, who admired him greatly]:
" There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job.
If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. The business of the journalist is to destroy the truth; to lie outright; to pervert; to vilify; to fawn at the feet of Mammon, and to sell the country for his daily bread. You know it and I know it and what folly is this toasting
an independent press. We are the tools and vassals of the rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes. "
---http://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/LIE/lie.html
I suspect that the whole birther issue was done, despite that they knew the truth anyway (or not), for the purpose of propaganda to keep peoples attention away from those things that really matter...like the criminal activities of their puppetmasters, the banksters, corporateers, and Wall Streeters. Anything, no matter how ridiculous, is acceptable to them for that reason. The one thing they don't want us to concentrate on is their criminal misdeeds and treasonous actions against the rest of us. It works because the news media laps it up and that's all we hear about in the news....over and over again..like they are brain washng us to pay attention to ridiculous sh!t. But I rarely pay much attention to the major news media and never watch Fox Noise. The news I tend to favor comes from "alternative" news sources such as FSTV, Thom Hartmann, and from select sources on the internet.
I did catch a flyer on one news channel, however, as my eye caught the banner flying across the bottom of my TV...something about Wall Mart complaining that it's customers could no long afford to shop there anymore because they were running out of money. Maybe the wealthy can shop there and keep them in business so no Chinese worker will lose out on the good life. And by the time our banks sucker them into a credit trap of a mortgage they'll regret capitalism even more than many Americans. That's what happened in Russia, Latvia, most of Europe, Greece, Iceland........
Now, I hear, Trump has switched his attack to the legitimacy of Obama's education....grades...etc. Yes, these people can be pretty disgusting and unrelenting. That they are laughing stocks to most intelligent people is besides the point...when the whole reason is to "wag the dog" in distracting us on the real and really important issues.
I am not happy with Obama's performance because he is either complicit with our enemies or he is letting our enemies push us around...maybe because he has no other choice...I don't know...I suspect that if Obama really fought for us hard enough...as he said he would....then the neocons/neoliberals would find yet another patsy to take the blame for yet another assassination.
This is what the Modern American/Trans-national Corporate Propaganda Machine looks like – an almost direct use of what that arch Nazi propagandist Goebbels used to mentally brainwash a whole German Nation into a fascist war-mongering genocidal killing machine! Can’t happen here? Think again. Carefully read the principles below, and unless you are totally clueless or already one of these propagandists, these are the very same tactics that Karl Rove, the Corporate Conglomerates and all those right wing Think Tanks and media outlets are using today to brainwash the American Public today!
Knowledge is Power! If the American people can come to realize how they are being manipulated and brainwashed by corporate elites, Corporate Media, Political conservative groups, religious fundamentalists, then the better they can fight this insidious contagion! Learn it and question everything! Clue – when EVERY member of a certain Political party or a Religious group is repeating VERBATIM what everyone else is saying in different mediums, then you know it is scripted and propaganda. When “Buzz” words they are using suddenly change because they are having a “Boomerang” effect against the messenger, then this is propaganda. When Paul Ryan’s End Medicare Plan and lower taxes for the Rich, become “Vouchers” and “Creating Jobs”, then that is propaganda. Already the right wing money machine is gearing up to the tune of Millions of $$$ to propagandize this lie and lies in a media blitz of monumental proportions! Stay tuned – you may be seeing 1000s of these ads and millions of robo-calls soon!
The following list below can be found at:
http://thepropagandaproject.wordpress.com/goebbels%E2%80%99s-principles/
Summarized by Leonard W. Doob in his essay, Goebbels’ Principles of Propaganda
PRINCIPLE 1: PROPAGANDISTS MUST HAVE ACCESS TO INTELLIGENCE CONCERNING EVENTS AND PUBLIC OPINION
PRINCIPLE 2: PROPAGANDA MUST BE PLANNED AND EXECUTED BY ONLY ONE AUTHORITY – (Like Karl Rove!)
PRINCIPLE 3: THE PROPAGANDA CONSEQUENCES OF AN ACTION MUST BE CONSIDERED IN PLANNING THAT ACTION
PRINCIPLE 4: PROPAGANDA MUST AFFECT THE ENEMY’S POLICY AND ACTION – (The concerted attack against Obamas’ Healthcare plan for example!)
PRINCIPLE 5: DECLASSIFIED, OPERATIONAL INFORMATION MUST BE AVAILABLE TO IMPLEMENT A PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGN
PRINCIPLE 6: TO BE PERCEIVED, PROPAGANDA MUST EVOKE THE INTEREST OF AN AUDIENCE AND MUST BE TRANSMITTED THROUGH AN ATTENTION-GETTING COMMUNICATIONS MEDIUM – (Fox Noise for example! – Like Obama wasn’t born in America!)
PRINCIPLE 7: CREDIBILITY ALONE MUST DETERMINE WHETHER PROPAGANDA OUTPUT SHOULD BE TRUE OR FALSE
PRINCIPLE 8: THE PURPOSE, CONTENT, AND EFFECTIVENESS OF ENEMY PROPAGANDA; THE STRENGTH AND EFFECTS OF AN EXPOSE; AND THE NATURE OF CURRENT PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGNS DETERMINE WHETHER ENEMY PROPAGANDA SHOULD BE IGNORED OR REFUTED
PRINCIPLE 9: CREDIBILITY, INTELLIGENCE, AND THE POSSIBLE EFFECTS OF COMMUNICATING DETERMINE WHETHER PROPAGANDA MATERIALS SHOULD BE CENSORED
PRINCIPLE 10: MATERIAL FROM ENEMY PROPAGANDA MAY BE UTILIZED IN OPERATIONS WHEN IT HELPS DIMINISH THAT ENEMY’S PRESTIGE OR LENDS SUPPORT TO THE PROPAGANDIST’S OWN OBJECTIVE
PRINCIPLE 11: BLACK RATHER THAN WHITE PROPAGANDA MUST BE EMPLOYED WHEN THE LATTER IS LESS CREDIBLE OR PRODUCES UNDESIRABLE EFFECTS
PRINCIPLE 12: PROPAGANDA MAY BE FACILITATED BY LEADERS WITH PRESTIGE – Senators, former senators and Presidents, Media Giants, etc)
PRINCIPLE 13: PROPAGANDA MUST BE CAREFULLY TIMED
PRINCIPLE 14: PROPAGANDA MUST LABEL EVENTS AND PEOPLE WITH DISTINCTIVE PHRASES OR SLOGANS – {This one is key! A. They must invoke desired responses which the audience possesses (like Welfare Queens – Sharia Law!!). B. They must be capable of being easily learned – (Obamacare!). C. They must be utilized again and again – (repeated infinitum on our media stations!). D. They must be boomerang-proof – they can’t go back and hurt the original messenger).
PRINCIPLE 15: PROPAGANDA TO THE HOME FRONT MUST PREVENT THE RAISING OF FALSE HOPES WHICH CAN BE BLASTED BY FUTURE EVENTS
PRINCIPLE 16: PROPAGANDA TO THE HOME FRONT MUST CREATE AN OPTIMUM ANXIETY LEVEL – (Al Qaeda or Terrorists, or Black Panthers, for Example)
PRINCIPLE 17: PROPAGANDA TO THE HOME FRONT MUST DIMINISH THE IMPACT OF FRUSTRATION
PRINCIPLE 18: PROPAGANDA MUST FACILITATE THE DISPLACEMENT OF AGGRESSON BY SPECIFYING THE TARGETS FOR HATRED – this one is self-explanatory!
PRINCIPLE 19: PROPAGANDA CANNOT IMMEDIATELY AFFECT STRONG COUNTER-TENDENCIES; INSTEAD IT MUST OFFER SOME FORM OF ACTION OR DIVERSION, OR BOTH – another self-explanatory! Our Country is going to pot, but discuss only the birther issue or the royal wedding in England!
Shades of the Third Reich that really is the Fourth Reich's spewing!!!
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rozeff/rozeff349.html
@dianhow, I know that my words do not sit well with you but I believe "to thy ownself be true." A man must do what a man must do.
Our electronic voting machines are rigged to keep Satan’s disciples in the majority forever. Florida’s bill will also keep Satan’s disciples in the majority forever.
Florida has passed a bill that would curtail voter registrations and making it next to impossible for low-income persons, students, and racial minorities from voting. Florida is definitely a Nazi-controlled state where Satan’s disciples prevail over the citizens. There should be minimal doubt that Nazi America has more disciples wearing brown shirts and jackboots. These devils are truly Nazis who prowl the fifty states seeking the ruin of souls.
Supreme Court decisions are favoring American corporations, the American rich, and transnational corporations. Corporations are protected from any legal relief for individuals. In Nazi America the Supreme Court is ruling that corporations can have death panel laboratories to kill off the human population from the United States to all the countries on our planet. American corporations have embraced Leo Strauss’ theory for the Project for the Next American Century. Leo Strauss has said that planet, Earth, can only sustain 500 million people. That means 6.5 billion persons will have their lives terminated. Nazi Germany had death panel laboratories and now Nazi America is emulating and completing the reduction in human population for planet, Earth.
Yes, Hitler was a monster. The United States of Mortal Sin has replaced Hitler and our nation is now the Anti-Christ. My words may sound harsh but the human population in the world is battling for survival from our evil country. We are in an endless life and death struggle against our Satan’s disciples who prowl the earth seeking the damnation of souls.