"The
press, or at least most of it, has lost the passion, the outrage, and
the sense of mission that once drove reporters to defy authority and
tell the truth." - Chris Hedges
"Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play." - Joseph Goebbels
"Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other." - Albert Pike
"A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history." - Mahatma Gandhi
"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett
CBS Libya 'Factcheck' Will Live in Infamy
CBS Evening News (10/17/12) provides another example of corporate media's through-the-looking-glass media "factchecking" of the Libya exchange at the second Obama/Romney debate (FAIR Media Advisory, 10/18/12). CBS's Jan Crawford set up the issue this way:
For weeks, Republicans have said the
president's reluctance to call the attacks terrorism is a sign his
administration doesn't have a competent national security policy. Last
night, the president said he did call it an act of terror within 24
hours of the attacks. That is a new explanation, and it triggered a
clash between the president, Romney and the debate moderator.
Note how the framing accepts the GOP's version of reality: The
"president's reluctance to call the attacks terrorism" is presented as a
fact that the Republicans are offering an interpretation of (that it's a
sign of incompetent policy), and the president's now month-old remarks
are identified as a "new explanation."CBS then played the debate exchange, followed by Obama's actual Rose Garden statement (9/13/12):
No acts of terror will ever shake the resolve of this great nation,Then Crawford editorializes:
alter that character or eclipse the light of the values that we stand for.
But with that statement, Mr. Obama didn't directly say the Libya attack qualified as one of those acts of terror. Earlier in his remarks, he seemed to suggest the attacks instead were triggered by an anti-Muslim video.
FDR said the DATE would "live in infamy," but he didn't actually say the ATTACK was infamous.Perhaps Roosevelt was alluding to the assassination of Cicero on December 7, 43 BCE? Or Jesse James' first bank robbery on December 7, 1869?
More than likely, though, Roosevelt expected us to assume that the date would live in infamy because of the Japanese attack, since that was the whole reason he was giving the speech in the first place.
The second part of that paragraph made the strangely common media argument that suggesting that the Benghazi violence was motivated by outrage over the Muhammad video (which is what the people who carried out the violence said when they were asked by the New York Times) implies that you think that the violence was not terrorism–as if terrorists can't be outraged by a video, I guess. It's not an argument that bears a lot of thinking about.
Here's a thought experiment: Imagine that for some reason it was considered a political liability to have claimed that the Benghazi attack was terrorism. In the debate, Romney accuses Obama of having called it an "act of terror," and Obama denies it. Do you think CBS Evening News, or anyone else, would be running segments explaining that while Obama used the phrase in his statement about the attack, he didn't explicitly say he was talking about the attack in that sentence? That would be no more peculiar than the segment CBS actually ran.
Crawford concluded:
Now, many Republicans say they think that Romney missed a real opportunity last night to forcefully challenge Crowley and the president over what they say, Scott, is a new timeline that just doesn't square with the facts.She began with Republican spin and ended up with Republican spin. At least she's consistent.
The End of the New World Order
By Seumas Milne
In the late summer of 2008, two events in quick succession signaled the end of the New World Order. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32804.htm
Implosion of Syria Myths a 'Nervous Breakdown' for US, Allies
By Daniel McAdams
The New York Times has finally reported what many watching the Syria insurgency have noticed all along: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32799.htm
Palestinian Authority to Hold Sham Elections
By Stephen Lendman
Longtime
Israeli collaborators Mahmoud Abbas and Salam Fayyad scheduled West
Bank municipal elections on October 20, 2012. Democracy isn't on the
ballot. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32796.htm
Billboard Wars
The Savage vs. the Civilized
By Lawrence Davidson
"Israel is not fighting Jihadists but rather genocidally destroying Palestinians." http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32800.htm
"How we can solve the Palestinian-Israeli problem",
Video Documentary by Sami Moukaddem
"I simply got tired of western mainstream media presenting the Palestinian-Israeli issue as being complex. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32792.htm
The U.S. Is A Slave To Israel
America: From Colony to Nation to Slave
America: From Colony to Nation to Slave
By Michael Scheuer
Obama
and Romney have enslaved themselves and their country to Israel and
some few thousands of disloyal Jewish-Americans and their equally
disloyal Christian Evangelical allies. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32805.htm
Sold Into "a Piece of Hell:"
A Death of Innocence at Gitmo
By Jason Leopold
Sold
for a $5,000 bounty, Adnan Latif was among the first prisoners
detained at Guantanamo. A federal judge and two presidential
administrations said he didn't belong there. A decade later he left in a
box - and no one will say why. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32795.htm
The stitch-up
Stench of Hicks Prosecution Lingers as Court Exposes its Flimsy Basis
Stench of Hicks Prosecution Lingers as Court Exposes its Flimsy Basis
By Richard Ackland
John Howard had an election that year and his government had nominated David Hicks as Australia's terrorism poster-boy. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32791.htm
Obama's Report Card
By Philip Giraldi
The
terrifying prospect of a Mitt Romney foreign policy has somehow
obscured just how badly President Barack Obama has performed. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32793.htm
CIA Demands Drones Despite 80% Civilian Death Rate
By RT
The
news comes just a day after the Pakistani Interior Minister quoted
statistics suggesting 80 per cent of people killed in US drone attacks
have been civilians. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32794.htm
The Nobel Peace Prize for War
By Michael Parenti
EU
member states have sent troops to Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and
additional locales in Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia,
usually under the tutorship of the U.S. war machine. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32797.htm
Obamneycare Converts Health Care Into Profits
By Paul Craig Roberts
While
the two sides yell and scream at one another, the concrete hardens
around the new common policy of shorter lives for the elderly and more
profits for private corporations. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32801.htm
Karl Rove's Permanent Republican Presidency
By Steven Jonas, MD
With Obama's strong performance in the second debate, the GOP may have to fall back on cheating to secure victory. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32802.htm
Lessons from the Early History of the Church of Latter Day Saints
Beware the Mormon in the Grass
By Christopher Ketcham
The Mormon sect grows throughout the 1830s and 1840s, and so do the scams: Land theft, bank fraud, cattle rustling. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32806.htm
The Alamo II:
Texans Up in Arms over TransCanada Land Grab
By Jen Alic
Texans
- have always been the friends of Big Oil, TransCanada is changing the
rules of the game in a legally-aided land grab that will test just how
tough Texans are. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32798.htm
Why You Need a Passport Now!:
By Robert Wenzel
At a future point, it may be impossible to get one.
Hard News
26 people killed in Yemen fight:
Suicide bombers attacked a military base in south Yemen Friday,
killing at least 14 soldiers and 12 al-Qaida operatives, military
officials said.
http://is.gd/suWZh2
Blast kills 19 en route to Afghanistan wedding:
An explosion from a roadside bomb tore into a minibus carrying people to a wedding in northern Afghanistan on Friday, leaving 19 dead and 16 wounded, authorities said.
An explosion from a roadside bomb tore into a minibus carrying people to a wedding in northern Afghanistan on Friday, leaving 19 dead and 16 wounded, authorities said.
Pakistan: Six militants among nine killed in Bara blitz: Nine
people, including six militants, were killed while seven others
sustained injuries in shelling by the Pakistan Air Force (PAF)
jetfighters in Zawa area of Bara tehsil in Khyber Agency on Thursday,
local sources said. http://is.gd/IGmqo9
23 Children reported killed in Syria air strike: "We have recovered 44 corpses from under the rubble," one worker told an AFP news agency correspondent at the scene.
8 killed as deadly blast strikes Lebanon's capital: Ambulances
rushed to the scene of Friday's blast in the Achrafiyeh district, a
mostly Christian neighbourhood, as smoke rose from the area.
Protests, gunfire in Lebanon after Beirut killing: Sunni
Muslims take to streets of Beirut, Sidon after bomb targeting senior
Lebanese intelligence official Wissam al-Hassan kills 8, wounds 80;
Former PM Hariri blames Syria's Assad for attack. http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=288538
Syrian minister condemns Beirut car bomb: Syrian
Information Minister Omran al-Zoabi condemned what he referred to as
"the cowardly acts of terror in the Ashafriyeh neighborhood" in Beirut,
adding that "these terrorist attacks, no matter where they take place,
must be condemned and are unjustified."
Syrian rebels 'killed Palestinian leader': Gunmen
from the Free Syrian Army on Friday assassinated a Palestinian leader
in Deraa refugee camp, the Palestinian Front for the Liberation of
Palestine - General Command said.
In Syria, Sunni rebels besiege Shiite villages: Anyone
who tries to slip out of the Shiite villages of Zahraa and Nubl is
risking his life. Sunni rebel snipers stand ready to gun down anyone
who dares. Roads are blocked with barricades and checkpoints.
Turkey "retaliates" after shells fired from Syria: state TV: Turkey's
military fired back into Syria on Friday after two shells launched
from Syria landed in Turkish territory, Turkish state broadcaster TRT
reported, without specifying where the incident occurred.
US Mulls Syria No-Fly Zone: The
United States says it is still considering a no-fly zone for northern
Syria as cross border shelling with Turkey threatens civilians on both
sides
Iran would accept Assad fall through elections: Annan says Tehran will only accept fall of Syrian leader if Syrians are allowed to decide through elections.
11 Killed as 'Libya in chaos, divided as never before' : Video report - The country remains close to chaos following the Western-backed armed rebellion last year
Libyan Islamist says he was at U.S. consulate during attack: A
Libyan militia commander who U.S. officials say is under investigation
in connection with the attacks on the American consulate in Benghazi
which led to the death of the ambassador said he was present during the
incident but was not one of the ringleaders.
International Law Suffers Another Blow in Libya Conflict: Op-Ed: NATO silent as its client regime vows "no mercy" for city of Bani Walid.
CIA seeks to expand drone fleet, officials say: The
CIA is urging the White House to approve a significant expansion of
the agency's fleet of armed drones, a move that would extend the spy
service's decade-long transformation into a paramilitary force, U.S.
officials said.
In show of hypocrisy:
UN chief: Hezbollah drone launch 'reckless': U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called Hezbollah's recent drone launch into Israeli airspace a "reckless provocation" in a report submitted Thursday to the Security Council, and warned that the war in Syria was destabilizing Lebanon.
UN chief: Hezbollah drone launch 'reckless': U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called Hezbollah's recent drone launch into Israeli airspace a "reckless provocation" in a report submitted Thursday to the Security Council, and warned that the war in Syria was destabilizing Lebanon.
'Palestinian push for UN upgrade likely to succeed': UN
General Assembly president Vuk Jeremic says most expect Palestinian
bid for non-member status will succeed, warns US against cutting
funding to UN over issue. http://is.gd/rqg3K9
Thousands of Israeli Bedouins protest against home demolitions: "While
the media is busy with the elections, the state has opened a war of
destruction against the Bedouin villages," Abu Rass said, adding that
"people are afraid they won't have a roof over their heads." http://is.gd/FKyP7J
Chomsky makes first Gaza visit::? Noam
Chomsky reportedly called for an end to Israel's siege of Gaza, on his
first ever visit to the Hamas-ruled enclave on Thursday. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4294235,00.html
28 Turkish troops hurt in Iran-Turkey pipeline attack: Twenty-eight
Turkish soldiers were wounded and Iranian gas supplies to Turkey
interrupted Friday after Kurdish rebels attacked a pipeline linking the
two countries, media reports said. http://is.gd/G7GTby
Engineering Consent For An Attack Iran?
U.S. targets al-Qaida operatives in Iran: The U.S. State Department announced it authorized rewards of up to $12 million for information about two al-Qaida operatives believed to be in Iran. http://is.gd/OFKJbZ
U.S. targets al-Qaida operatives in Iran: The U.S. State Department announced it authorized rewards of up to $12 million for information about two al-Qaida operatives believed to be in Iran. http://is.gd/OFKJbZ
Knocking at Iran's door: US Israeli forces to stage drill: The
United States and Israel are set to launch a major military exercise
in a show of unity aimed at Iran, despite friction between American and
Israeli leaders over how to counter Tehran's nuclear ambitions. http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=54962
Attack on bus kills 4 Pakistani Shiite pilgrims in central Iraq:
Salahuddin provincial police say Friday's attack involved a roadside bomb that struck the pilgrim's bus near the town of Balad. http://is.gd/JVmE9n
Salahuddin provincial police say Friday's attack involved a roadside bomb that struck the pilgrim's bus near the town of Balad. http://is.gd/JVmE9n
Iraq inks deal to buy 18 F-16 jet fighters: Iraq
has signed a contract to buy its second set of 18 F-16 fighters from
the United States, part of a deal to purchase 36 of the jets to rebuild
its air force, Iraq's acting defence minister has said. http://is.gd/mM3NxG
UK complicity in unlawful treatment of Iraqi detainees 'was institutional':
The former chief legal adviser to the army in Iraq has said the UK's complicity in the unlawful treatment of detainees was "institutional" and must be wiped out to prevent future abuses by British troops. http://is.gd/YNXPHG
The former chief legal adviser to the army in Iraq has said the UK's complicity in the unlawful treatment of detainees was "institutional" and must be wiped out to prevent future abuses by British troops. http://is.gd/YNXPHG
Families of slain British soldiers win right to sue government: Relatives
of British troops killed in the war in Iraq will be able to sue the
government for negligence and pursue damages if they can prove factors
such as inadequate equipment led to the soldiers' deaths, an appeal
court ruled on Friday. http://is.gd/JwXtos
28 Turkish troops hurt in Iran-Turkey pipeline attack: Twenty-eight
Turkish soldiers were wounded and Iranian gas supplies to Turkey
interrupted Friday after Kurdish rebels attacked a pipeline linking the
two countries, media reports said. http://is.gd/G7GTby
Shiite protests pose major challenge for Saudi Arabia: Labad,
26, and two teenage relatives were fatally shot by police Sept. 26 as
they sat in plastic chairs on the narrow sidewalk in front of their
house in this broken-down little town in the far east of Saudi
Arabia. http://is.gd/iFjaYX
Saudi protesters say no links with Iran: The
outbreak of civil unrest, which the Washington Post Friday termed the
worst in years in Saudi Arabia, was sparked by the fatal shooting by
police of an outspoken critic of the government's treatment of Shiites
and needed no provocation from the outside world. http://is.gd/xZsNqV
Where oil and gas development goes, health problems often follow. : Yet
industry representatives and policymakers seeking to expand drilling
often dismiss claims of health impacts as "personal anecdotes" and
isolated incidents. http://is.gd/gpIzMt
Bernie Suarez
Truth and Art TV
The Supreme Court says that corporations are people. Let's take a closer look at the argument
A corporation cannot breathe
A corporation cannot give you a hug
A corporation cannot get in trouble for playing hooky
A corporation cannot wake up in the morning
A corporation cannot go to sleep at night
A corporation cannot graduate High School
A corporation cannot cry at the loss of a loved one
A corporation cannot meditate
A corporation cannot use the toilet
A corporation cannot play one on one basketball
A corporation cannot have grandma’s knit sweater in the attic space
A corporation cannot be best friends with max the house dog
A corporation cannot remember that first kiss
A corporation cannot be nervous about the prom
A corporation cannot give birth to a child
A corporation cannot marry your best friend’s daughter
A corporation cannot tell you its blood type
A corporation cannot try out for the varsity team
A corporation cannot remember the childhood days
A corporation cannot be allergic to cats
A corporation cannot taste the garlic in the chicken
A corporation cannot loose its first tooth
A corporation cannot feel hungry
A corporation cannot learn to ride a bike
A corporation cannot say that it is a natural manifestation of the miracle that is life!
Bernie Suarez is an activist, critical thinker, radio host, musician, M.D, Veteran, lover of freedom and the Constitution, and creator of the Truth and Art TV project. He also has a background in psychology and highly recommends that everyone watch a documentary titled The Century of the Self. Bernie has concluded that the way to defeat the New World Order is to truly be the change that you want to see. Manifesting the solution and putting truth into action is the very thing that will defeat the globalists.
............................keep fighting the good fight, with your minds as weapons...................
....................kosmicdebris....................
Truth and Art TV
The Supreme Court says that corporations are people. Let's take a closer look at the argument
A corporation cannot breathe
A corporation cannot give you a hug
A corporation cannot get in trouble for playing hooky
A corporation cannot wake up in the morning
A corporation cannot go to sleep at night
A corporation cannot graduate High School
A corporation cannot cry at the loss of a loved one
A corporation cannot meditate
A corporation cannot use the toilet
A corporation cannot play one on one basketball
A corporation cannot have grandma’s knit sweater in the attic space
A corporation cannot be best friends with max the house dog
A corporation cannot remember that first kiss
A corporation cannot be nervous about the prom
A corporation cannot give birth to a child
A corporation cannot marry your best friend’s daughter
A corporation cannot tell you its blood type
A corporation cannot try out for the varsity team
A corporation cannot remember the childhood days
A corporation cannot be allergic to cats
A corporation cannot taste the garlic in the chicken
A corporation cannot loose its first tooth
A corporation cannot feel hungry
A corporation cannot learn to ride a bike
A corporation cannot say that it is a natural manifestation of the miracle that is life!
Bernie Suarez is an activist, critical thinker, radio host, musician, M.D, Veteran, lover of freedom and the Constitution, and creator of the Truth and Art TV project. He also has a background in psychology and highly recommends that everyone watch a documentary titled The Century of the Self. Bernie has concluded that the way to defeat the New World Order is to truly be the change that you want to see. Manifesting the solution and putting truth into action is the very thing that will defeat the globalists.
............................keep fighting the good fight, with your minds as weapons...................
....................kosmicdebris....................
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