"What a man believes upon grossly insufficient evidence is an index into his desires -- desires of which he himself is often unconscious. If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way." - Bertrand Russell - 1872-1970 - Philosopher, educator - Source: Roads to Freedom
ACTIVIST POST FEATURED ARTICLES
TSA VIPR team patrols California train station
Activist Post
American Academy of Pediatrics and Big Pharma Agree:
Toxic Mercury in Vaccines Is OK
Brandon Turbeville
Economic Outlook for 2013
Jeff Berwick
Blows Against Big Pharma and Its Vaccine Culture Fortress
Catherine J. Frompovich
A Message To The 'Left' From A 'Right Wing Extremist'
Brandon Smith
The New Inquisition
Dan and Sheila Gendron
The media’s claims about 30,000-strong Iranian
“terror and assassination force” are dubious at best
Madison Ruppert
Monarch Butterflies in Decline Due to Proliferation of GM Crops
Alex Pietrowski
10 Things for Conscious People to Focus on in 2013
Dylan Charles
New Must-See Videos
TSA VIPR team patrols California train station
FluorideGate: An American Tragedy
Today's Forum Topics
Activist Post Writer Brandon Turbeville
to Appear on Radio With Vinny Eastwood Tonight 6 PM EST
Truth or Denial in the Age of Information Overload
Multiple Paths Lead To One World Order
Other Key Articles From Around the Web
U.S. Government is Running Scared Over Fast and Furious Inquiry
Attorneys to challenge constitutionality of NY gun control laws
Monsanto versus the people
US Mint Out Of Silver Coins - Suspends Sales
FBI to ACLU: Nope, we won't tell you how, when, or why we track you
TSA scraps 'naked' X-ray scanners, can't guarantee privacy
Police Radio Indicates Multiple Shooters at Sandy Hook
Impeach Obama!
Marijuana Possession Arrests Exceed Violent Crime Arrests
Iraq: A Twenty Two Year Genocide
By Felicity Arbuthnot
Incredibly
it is twenty two years to the day since the telephone rang in the
early hours and a friend said: "They are bombing Baghdad."
Stay Out of Mali
By Dan Simpson
French
aircraft bombing Malian towns and French troops defending the capital
of an African country carries with it the strong, pungent odor of
neocolonialism, whatever "terrorist" label the French may try to put on
the Malian rebels.
Burn, Burn - Africa's Afghanistan
By Pepe Escobar
Forget about spotting any Americans; these are - what else - contractors who do not wear military uniforms.
Algeria and Mali: An Obscene Remake of Earlier Western Interventions
By Robert Fisk
We are outraged not by
the massacre of the innocents, but because the hostages killed were
largely white, blue-eyed chaps rather than darker, brown-eyed chaps.
Syria: Reuters Spreads Another Syrian 'Massacre' Lie - Debunked
By Moon Of Alabama
Reuters: Massacre of over 100 reported in Syria's Homs
Law Professor Tries & Fails to Legalize an Israeli Attack on Iran
By Nima Shirazi
If this passes for
astute legal analysis these days, it's no wonder the United States has
little to no respect for basic tenets of international law.
Obama: Money Power's Point Man
By Stephen Lendman
Throughout his tenure, Obama's done what supporters thought impossible. He's governed to the right of George Bush.
Inequality of Exceptionalism Pervades Our Culture.
By Kim Carlyle
Foreign nationals are
less valuable than Americans. Our losses are tragedies; theirs are
collateral damage. The American public remains callously indifferent to
the suffering of human "others."
Clean Hands, Dirty Hands... No Hands!
By Philip A Farruggio
This is a must read for anyone who wishes to understand more about the true history of this great nation.
The Military-Industrial Complex
Dwight D. Eisenhower
"In
the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of
unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the
military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of
misplaced power exists, and will persist."
The Lies Of Democracy and the Language Of Deceit
By Colin Todhunter
The
state-corporate fraudsters, murderers and liars who wrap themselves in
the language of freedom and democracy have been getting away with it
for so long.
Toll in Iraq attacks rises to 29:
The
toll from a spate of attacks across Iraq on Thursday rose to 29 dead
and 120 wounded, officials said, amid weeks of anti-government protests
and a political crisis engulfing the country.
Sectarian tensions are pushing Iraq to the brink:
Prime minister Nouri al-Maliki has become a dictator. He must resign to prevent a bloody confrontation with Sunnis and Kurds
Explosion kills 12 in Syria's Aleppo:
Twelve
people were killed when an explosion rocked a government -held
district of the disputed Syrian city of Aleppo on Friday, a monitoring
group said, and both sides in the conflict accused the other of
mounting the attack.
Syria crisis: BBC sees evidence of Homs massacre:
The
BBC has found evidence to support reports from Syria of a massacre
this week in which at least 100 people were killed and burned in their
homes. A team visited the village of Haswiya, on the edge of the
central city of Homs, and saw charred bodies still lying inside one of
the houses.
French journalist killed by sniper fire in Syria:
Debay,
who was shot once in the head and once in the chest, was brought to
Turkey overnight where medical staff pronounced him dead on arrival,
the official said. Syrian anti-government rebels said Debay had been
shot in the northern city of Aleppo.
Assad approval ratings rising across Syria:
Franklin
Lamb: An analyst says the Syrian president is enjoying increased
support from the peoples' majority in defiance of armed opposition and
illegal US-led sanctions.
Iran, China consider Assad plan to end Syria crisis realistic:
Deputy
Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian
made the remark after his meetings with Chinese Foreign Minister Yang
Jiechi and Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Zhijun on the Middle East
developments in Beijing on Wednesday.
Hostage situation ongoing, dozens of captives and militants dead:
The
militants who seized an Algerian gas plant, taking scores of hostages,
have demanded the release of terrorists, one of whom was involved in
the 9/11 attacks. At least 30 hostages, including several foreigners,
have died in rescue attempts.
60 foreign hostages 'still missing':
Algerian
special forces resumed negotiating today with the militants holed up
in the refinery, according to the news service, quoting a security
source. The report said "more than half of the 132 hostages" had been
freed in the first two days, but it could not account for the
remainder, saying some could be hidden throughout the sprawling desert
site.
Mali army 'regains Konna' as Nigerian troops arrive:
Mali's
army has recaptured Konna after Islamist rebels fled, the military and
residents in the strategically important central town have said.
Algerian government says terrorists came from Libya:
The
Algerian government has said that the Islamist guerrillas responsible
for capturing and killing a number of hostages came from Libya. Citing
European and American security sources, France's Le Figaro newspaper
has reported that the attack had been planned well before the French
military intervention in Mali
Algeria: Militants Demand Safe Passage to Libya :
Islamist
militants who seized Westerners at an Algerian gas plant are demanding
a safe passage to nearby Libya, authorities said, as fallout from the
French offensive in Mali reverberates globally.
US helping but hesitant on Mali intervention:
Al-Qaida's
expanding foothold in Mali has the Obama administration declaring it
cannot accept new terrorist sanctuaries and promising to support French
and African efforts to restore security.
Making sense of Mali's armed groups:
After
spending weeks reporting from the country's restive north, Al
Jazeera's May Ying Welsh reviews some of the different groups and what
they want.
Mali: fragile democracy and clumsy US policy: Op-Ed:
"Under
siege by drones in Pakistan and Yemen, al-Qaida 3.0 has exploited the
'Arab Awakening' to create its largest safe havens and operational
bases in more than a decade across the Arab world. This may prove to be
the most deadly al-Qaida yet."
Report: Libya on the road to oil failure?:
An
editorial from Bloomberg News states that Libya may eventually fail as
a petro-state unless it does more to address ongoing security and
political woes.
CIA intelligent agents arrested in Tehran:
Iranian
Intelligence Ministry has said that its agents have discovered a group
of CIA undercover agents in what the Ministry defined as 'constant and
smart operations.'
Emirati citizen found guilty of espionage:
The
UAE citizen stands accused of providing a foreign state with secret
military intelligence via a foreign consulate. This comes amidst
reports that the suspect's wife is an Iranian national. The UAE citizen
pleaded guilty to the charges and was sentenced to 7 years
imprisonments.
Rubio's New Foreign Policy Adviser Called For War With Iran:
Rubio
- considered to be a top contender for the Republican nomination for
president in 2016 - "has worked to establish his credentials in foreign
affairs," the Times notes, "espousing a hawkish view as he sits on
foreign relations and the intelligence committee."
Netanyahu 'will not dismantle settlements':
Israel's
prime minister has said no Jewish settlements in the West Bank will be
removed during his next term in office if he wins elections on
Tuesday. benjamin Netanyahu told Israel's Maariv newspaper: "The days
when bulldozers uprooted Jews are behind us, not in front of us
Saudi Arabia to grant $100m to Palestinians:
Saudi
Arabia will give the Palestinian government in the Israeli-occupied
West Bank $100m to help alleviate a worsening budget crisis, the
Palestinian president's office has said.
U.S. Senator to Abbas: U.S. rejects Palestinian's intention to join UN agencies:
U.S.
Senator Rand Paul told Abbas after a meeting in the West Bank city of
Ramallah that the United States will impose sanctions on the
Palestinian National Authority (PNA) if it decided to join UN agencies.
How the media let Israel get away with murder:
Israel
spends a lot of time talking about secure borders and how the need for
them drives its policies regarding the Palestinians. With few
exceptions, the media act as willing promoters of this perversion of
reality.
Hamas, Fatah agree to implement unity agreements:
The
most recent reconciliation agreement, which was signed in Doha, Qatar,
envisages the establishment of a unity government headed by
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.
Pakistan says it will free all Afghan Taliban detainees:
Pakistan
plans to release all Afghan Taliban prisoners still in its detention,
including the group's former second-in-command, an official said on
Friday, in the clearest signal yet that it backs reconciliation
efforts.
Pakistan strikes deal with opposition cleric:
Canadian-Pakistani Tahir-ul Qadri calls off four-day protest in Islamabad after government makes concessions.
WikiLeaks suspect's motive no defense: US judge:
A
US military judge ruled Wednesday that Bradley Manning's motive for
allegedly leaking a huge cache of secret files to WikiLeaks is no
defense against the long list of charges he faces.
Supreme Court to consider if silence can be evidence of guilt:
The
Supreme Court on Friday agreed to consider whether a suspect's refusal
to answer police questions prior to being arrested and read his rights
can be introduced as evidence of guilt at his subsequent murder trial.
TSA 'Viper' team makes appearance in train stations:
People
are used to seeing TSA inspectors at airports but on Wednesday, a
specialized team made their presence known at the Amtrak station in
Emeryville
With Cash and Commandos, U.S. Escalates Its Battle Against the Mexican Cartels:
The
U.S. military is getting ready to send its elite troops to help in the
fight against Mexico's drug lords. American special operations forces
will expand their training of Mexican commando teams, teaching them to
hunt cartel chieftains like they were al-Qaida extremists.
More Preschoolers Than Cops Get Shot Dead:
According
to a new report from the Children's Defense Fund in 2008 and 2009 -
the two years after the Virginia Tech shootings - 173 kids age five and
under died from gunfire in the US. By comparison, 89 police officers
were shot and killed during the same period.
China sovereign wealth fund may cut US debt holdings:
China's
sovereign wealth fund, which has more than US$480 billion in assets,
could cut holdings of US Treasury Bonds as they are becoming a less
attractive investment, state media said on Tuesday.
Keystone's Tar Sands Waste Said to Warm Climate More Than Coal:
Refining
Canada's oil sands into gasoline may speed global warming more than
previously estimated after accounting for use of a waste product, which
can be burned like coal.
If You Are Unemployed In These States, Move!:
The
following states are the worst to live in if you are unemployed.
Connecticut tops the list with its massive wealth disparity - more than
one $200,000 household for every household earning less than $10,000.
New York, California, and D.C. are close behind with Oregon and Alabama
in 19th and 20th 'worst' place to be unemployed.
The Institutionalization of Tyranny — Paul Craig Roberts
Republicans and conservative Americans are still fighting Big
Government in its welfare state form. Apparently, they have never heard
of the militarized police state form of Big Government, or, if they
have, they are comfortable with it and have no objection.
Republicans, including those in the House and Senate, are content for big government to initiate wars without a declaration of war or even Congress’ assent, and to murder with drones citizens of countries with which Washington is not at war. Republicans do not mind that federal “security” agencies spy on American citizens without warrants and record every email, Internet site visited, Facebook posting, cell phone call, and credit card purchase. Republicans in Congress even voted to fund the massive structure in Utah in which this information is stored.
But heaven forbid that big government should do anything for a poor person.
Republicans have been fighting Social Security ever since President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed it into law in the 1930s, and they have been fighting Medicare ever since President Lyndon Johnson signed it into law in 1965 as part of the Great Society initiatives.
Conservatives accuse liberals of the “institutionalization of compassion.” Writing in the February, 2013, issue of Chronicles, John C. Seiler, Jr., damns Johnson’s Great Society as “a major force in turning a country that still enjoyed a modicum of republican liberty into the centralized, bureaucratized, degenerate, and bankrupt state we endure today.”
It doesn’t occur to conservatives that in Europe democracy, liberty, welfare, rich people, and national health services all coexist, but that somehow American liberty is so fragile that it is overturned by a limited health program only available to the elderly.
Neither does it occur to conservative Republicans that it is far better to institutionalize compassion than to institutionalize tyranny.
The institutionalization of tyranny is the achievement of the Bush/Obama regimes of the 21st century. This, and not the Great Society, is the decisive break from the American tradition. The Bush Republicans demolished almost all of the constitutional protections of liberty erected by the Founding Fathers. The Obama Democrats codified Bush’s dismantling of the Constitution and removed the protection afforded to citizens from being murdered by the government without due process. One decade was time enough for two presidents to make Americans the least free people of any developed country, indeed, perhaps of any country. In what other country or countries does the chief executive officer have the right to murder citizens without due process?
It turns one’s stomach to listen to conservatives bemoan the destruction of liberty by compassion while they institutionalize torture, indefinite detention in violation of habeas corpus, murder of citizens on suspicion and unproven accusation alone, complete and total violation of privacy, interference with the right to travel by unaccountable “no-fly” lists and highway check points, the brutalization of citizens and those exercising their right to protest by police, frame-ups of critics, and narrow the bounds of free speech.
In Amerika today only the executive branch of the federal government has any privacy. The privacy is institutional, not personal–witness the fate of CIA director Petraeus. While the executive branch destroys the privacy of every one else, it insists on its own privilege of privacy. National security is invoked to shield the executive branch from its criminal actions. Federal prosecutors actually conduct trials in which the evidence against defendants is classified and withheld from defendants’ attorneys. Attorneys such as Lynne Stewart have been imprisoned for not following orders from federal prosecutors to violate the attorney-client privilege.
Conservatives accept the monstrous police state that has been erected, because they think it makes them safe from “Muslim terrorism.” They haven’t the wits to see that they are now open to terrorism by the government.
Consider, for example, the case of Bradley Manning. He is accused of leaking confidential information that reveals US government war crimes despite the fact that it is the responsibility of every soldier to reveal war crimes. Virtually every one of Manning’s constitutional rights has been violated by the US government. He has been tortured. In an effort to coerce Manning into admitting trumped-up charges and implicating WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange, Manning had his right to a speedy trial violated by nearly three years of pre-trial custody and repeated trial delays by government prosecutors. And now the judge, Col. Denise Lind, who comes across as a member of the prosecution rather than an impartial judge, has ruled that Manning cannot use as evidence the government’s own reports that the leaked information did not harm national security. Lind has also thrown out the legal principle of mens rea by ruling that Manning’s motive for leaking information about US war crimes cannot be presented as evidence in his trial. http://www.armytimes.com/news/2013/01/ap-judge-limits-motive-evidence-wikileaks-case-bradely-manning-011613/
Mens rea says that a crime requires criminal intent. By discarding this legal principle, Lind has prevented Manning from showing that his motive was to do his duty under the military code and reveal evidence of war crimes. This allows prosecutors to turn a dutiful act into the crime of aiding the enemy by revealing classified information.
Of course, nothing that Manning allegedly revealed helped the enemy in any way as the enemy, having suffered the war crimes, was already aware of them.
Obama Democrats are no more disturbed than conservative Republicans that a dutiful American soldier is being prosecuted because he has a moral conscience. In Manning’s trial, the government’s definition of victory has nothing whatsoever to do with justice prevailing. For Washington, victory means stamping out moral conscience and protecting a corrupt government from public exposure of its war crimes.
Republicans, including those in the House and Senate, are content for big government to initiate wars without a declaration of war or even Congress’ assent, and to murder with drones citizens of countries with which Washington is not at war. Republicans do not mind that federal “security” agencies spy on American citizens without warrants and record every email, Internet site visited, Facebook posting, cell phone call, and credit card purchase. Republicans in Congress even voted to fund the massive structure in Utah in which this information is stored.
But heaven forbid that big government should do anything for a poor person.
Republicans have been fighting Social Security ever since President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed it into law in the 1930s, and they have been fighting Medicare ever since President Lyndon Johnson signed it into law in 1965 as part of the Great Society initiatives.
Conservatives accuse liberals of the “institutionalization of compassion.” Writing in the February, 2013, issue of Chronicles, John C. Seiler, Jr., damns Johnson’s Great Society as “a major force in turning a country that still enjoyed a modicum of republican liberty into the centralized, bureaucratized, degenerate, and bankrupt state we endure today.”
It doesn’t occur to conservatives that in Europe democracy, liberty, welfare, rich people, and national health services all coexist, but that somehow American liberty is so fragile that it is overturned by a limited health program only available to the elderly.
Neither does it occur to conservative Republicans that it is far better to institutionalize compassion than to institutionalize tyranny.
The institutionalization of tyranny is the achievement of the Bush/Obama regimes of the 21st century. This, and not the Great Society, is the decisive break from the American tradition. The Bush Republicans demolished almost all of the constitutional protections of liberty erected by the Founding Fathers. The Obama Democrats codified Bush’s dismantling of the Constitution and removed the protection afforded to citizens from being murdered by the government without due process. One decade was time enough for two presidents to make Americans the least free people of any developed country, indeed, perhaps of any country. In what other country or countries does the chief executive officer have the right to murder citizens without due process?
It turns one’s stomach to listen to conservatives bemoan the destruction of liberty by compassion while they institutionalize torture, indefinite detention in violation of habeas corpus, murder of citizens on suspicion and unproven accusation alone, complete and total violation of privacy, interference with the right to travel by unaccountable “no-fly” lists and highway check points, the brutalization of citizens and those exercising their right to protest by police, frame-ups of critics, and narrow the bounds of free speech.
In Amerika today only the executive branch of the federal government has any privacy. The privacy is institutional, not personal–witness the fate of CIA director Petraeus. While the executive branch destroys the privacy of every one else, it insists on its own privilege of privacy. National security is invoked to shield the executive branch from its criminal actions. Federal prosecutors actually conduct trials in which the evidence against defendants is classified and withheld from defendants’ attorneys. Attorneys such as Lynne Stewart have been imprisoned for not following orders from federal prosecutors to violate the attorney-client privilege.
Conservatives accept the monstrous police state that has been erected, because they think it makes them safe from “Muslim terrorism.” They haven’t the wits to see that they are now open to terrorism by the government.
Consider, for example, the case of Bradley Manning. He is accused of leaking confidential information that reveals US government war crimes despite the fact that it is the responsibility of every soldier to reveal war crimes. Virtually every one of Manning’s constitutional rights has been violated by the US government. He has been tortured. In an effort to coerce Manning into admitting trumped-up charges and implicating WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange, Manning had his right to a speedy trial violated by nearly three years of pre-trial custody and repeated trial delays by government prosecutors. And now the judge, Col. Denise Lind, who comes across as a member of the prosecution rather than an impartial judge, has ruled that Manning cannot use as evidence the government’s own reports that the leaked information did not harm national security. Lind has also thrown out the legal principle of mens rea by ruling that Manning’s motive for leaking information about US war crimes cannot be presented as evidence in his trial. http://www.armytimes.com/news/2013/01/ap-judge-limits-motive-evidence-wikileaks-case-bradely-manning-011613/
Mens rea says that a crime requires criminal intent. By discarding this legal principle, Lind has prevented Manning from showing that his motive was to do his duty under the military code and reveal evidence of war crimes. This allows prosecutors to turn a dutiful act into the crime of aiding the enemy by revealing classified information.
Of course, nothing that Manning allegedly revealed helped the enemy in any way as the enemy, having suffered the war crimes, was already aware of them.
Obama Democrats are no more disturbed than conservative Republicans that a dutiful American soldier is being prosecuted because he has a moral conscience. In Manning’s trial, the government’s definition of victory has nothing whatsoever to do with justice prevailing. For Washington, victory means stamping out moral conscience and protecting a corrupt government from public exposure of its war crimes.
Ten Easy Steps to Becoming a Third-World Country (Latest Edition 2013)
1. EDUCATION
Remove all material from the school
curriculum that might suggest people have any power or rights. Get them
prepared to work hard for some fairy-tale "Great Dream" and be gutted
when they enter the workforce by only teaching stuff that will be
useless to them. Program them to believe that the government knows best
and that authority is to be obeyed, no matter how stupid or illogical
its demands seem to be. Exclude all material that suggests they can
think for themselves or make a difference. Make them believe that they
are living in the luckiest of all countries so they won't be tempted to
visit other places and start asking questions. Let them use the
internet, but restrict their access to only approved websites and block
all social networks where they may get a real education. DO NOT, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, ALLOW THEM TO HEAR ABOUT THE CONSTITUTION.
If that subject is ever brought up, stress that this was an ancient way
of doing things back in the days of the Commonwealth and has been long
since superseded and that if they continue with this line of reasoning,
they WILL be dealt with by the Law system (8).
2. MEDIA
Take control of all media and completely
remove all instances of criticism of the government. Only allow
"titty-tainment", game shows, harmless but entertaining movies and soap
operas and specifically-tailoured news that occasionally displays
criminals getting caught and punished appropriately. Do not allow any
documentaries that show anything wrong with the country and thereby keep
the viewer's third-eye's effectively covered with black spray paint.
Continue to re-inforce that everything on internet is just mindless
rubbish or "conspiracy theories", unless it is the Prime Minister's
Twitter profile, Facebook page or Youtube channel - this includes any
opposing political parties. DO NOT, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, ALLOW THEM TO HEAR ABOUT THE COUNTRY'S FOREIGN DEBT -
instead, placate them with talk of "budget surpluses" so they think
everything is fine. Feel free to let them see the circus in Parliament
question time, as they will be sufficiently dumbed-down by the education
system (1) and the health system (5) not to notice anything is wrong.
3. TAX
Tax everything you can. Make it so every
transaction involves as many hidden taxes as possible. When you lower
any tax, make a big story of it on the media (2) and increase other
taxes so as to make even more profit. Invent new taxes using any story
that the now-deluded public will swallow. Create fake scenarios that
give you more reason to increase security and always keep up the image
that you are trying to protect the people from themselves. Make out that
things are far worse in certain areas than they really are -
particularly crime - thus justifying your intervention. Use the United
States as an example. Also use "safety" as an excuse to generate more
revenue by imposing penalties for anyone doing something "unsafe" and
make people have to have a "certificate" for even the simplest things,
thus gaining revenue from registrations and fines for those who dare to
try to do anything themselves - all assisted by the Law system (8). DO
NOT, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, ADMIT THAT THE PEOPLE ARE OVER-TAXED, BUT
CONTINUALLY REINFORCE THE BELIEF THAT WE HAVE ONE OF THE HIGHTEST
LIVING STANDARDS IN THE WORLD.
4. GOVERNMENT STRUCTURE
Create a virtual rabbit-warren out of
government departments and have them all fitted with excessively
inefficient answering services that force people to give up when trying
to make complaints. Name the departments in such a way as that people
never find out exactly which ones are responsible for anything. Provide
plenty of phoney assistance departments, but limit their power to do
anything. Make sure that the Governor General's office is adequately
funded and the Governor Genral him or herself instructed not to
interfere in any way with government operations, but to appear on TV,
shaking the PM's hand and his or her secretary instructed to entertain
all enquiries from the public in a friendly, helpful fashion and then
dismiss them.
5. HEALTH
Start to progressively ban all things
natural and good and instead, provide more and more reasons why people
should "see their family doctor". Make use of industrial waste to
contaminate drinking water and tell them it is good for something.
Deluge the country with as much electromagnetic radiation as possible,
through wifi, mobile phones and mobile towers and tell them it's
harmless and not to believe the thousands of articles and warnings on
the internet. Use the media system (2) to propagate false information
about foods, water and air quality. Create dangerous medicines that kill
people and set up phoney research foundations that attempt to find
cures fr the illnesses you create, but constantly fail. DO NOT,
UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, ALLOW THE PUBLIC TO HEAR ABOUT NATURAL REMEDIES
OR OLD-STYLE MEDICINES - CONSTANTLY ENFORCE PROGRAMMING THAT
ALTERNATIVE PRACTITIONERS ARE ALL QUACKS.
6. STATISTICS
Invent schemes to distort statistics so
that everyone is misinformed about the REAL state of the country.
Especially, create Job Employment Bureaus and networks that specialise
in TRAINING and make people believe it's THEIR fault they can't get a
job. While they are in training, consider them employed and thus lower
the unemployment statistics. Employ statisticians and order them to make
the figures look better or else they, too, will have to join these same
employment training networks. Ensure that older, possibly interfering
websites like SOCIAL SECURITY LAW are permanently shut down and
continually change jobsearch agreements so that people are
inconvenienced and driven to create new forms of bsuiness you can tax
(3). DO NOT, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, EVER ADMIT THAT THERE ARE NO JOBS.
7. BUSINESS & FINANCE
Create so much bureacracy and red tape
that anyone starting a business has to have an EXTREMELY good business
plan to even survive. Tax them hard (3) and give them back a tiny bit at
the end of the year to make them think you are being kind. Create lots
of "cash-cow" schemes that you can wash your hands of when the
leadership changes and close down these departments and take the money.
Blame everything on the opposition and/or previous leaderships.
Continually assert that it is time for everyone to pull their belts in
and make more of an effort. Watch out for any industries that are making
a profit and tax them just before the point of shutdown, but no further
- this way, they will keep trying harder and harder to become more
efficient. Cut out all industry protection and any other measures that
could encourage a balanced economy. Sell your enterprises to foreigners
as quickly as possible - especially put all manufacturing and high-tech
industries in foreign hands. This will ensure that local research and
development is transferred overseas and that exports are made from the
parent plant or from some cheaper country other than here. Borrow masses
of money from overseas so that interest payments will bleed the country
dry and big foreign banks can dictate our policies and benefit
themselves and you through kickbacks. Encourage gambling, tourism and
fast-food industries to take up some of the slack in employment, with
workers paid a fraction of their former wages. Gradually decrease social
services so that eventually everyone has to rely on private charities
and tax them too.
8. LAW
Complicate the judicial system with a
plethora of laws, acts, statutes, legislations, amendments and anything
else you can invent that will confuse even the best scholars. Make life
easy for solicitors, barristers and judges so that the system is
extremely expensive and people are driven away from the courts. Turn a
blind eye where possible to corruption but occasionally take a random
official and publicly "punish" them and make an example of them by
having them resign. Use the media (2) to announce your no-tolerance
attitude to corruption and meanwhile, support it with the taxes from
(3). Go easy on certain serious offences such as drink driving, animal
cruelty and assault etc, so that the guilty can rejoin society again
quickly to re-offend and increase revenue from the the tax system (3).
Effectively close the courts as a means of redress by the people by
pricing reliable justice out of their reach. DO NOT, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, ALLOW THE PUBLIC TO HEAR ABOUT COMMON LAW OR THE CONSTITUTION.
Also, psychologically program the police force to hate the general
public via the use of the media system (2) and manipulation of crime
statistics (6) and thereby increase revenue through traffic
infringements (9) and domestic unrest caused by the tax system (3).
9. TRANSPORT
Install as many traffic lights as
possible, as each one contributes to congestion, which increases oil
consumption that you can tax (3). Add speed cameras everywhere for more
revenue. Be especially slow in improving the roads so that cars and
trucks need more maintenance and so that you have more reason for
stricter registration rules. Divert attention away from public transport
and use the media to advertise newer and better vehicles that appeal to
the young. DO NOT, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, ALLOW THE PUBLIC TO HEAR ABOUT ELECTRIC OR HYBRID VEHICLES
and place a ridiculously low power limit (say 200W) on electric
2-wheeled transport so people just give up and buy cars instead. Make
motorbikes especially expensive to register as these vehicles do not
contribute to traffic congestion.
10. ENERGY
Avoid alternative energy sources, but
pretend to show great interest in them using the media system (2). Keep
an eye out on the internet for anyone coming up with inventions that
could be a threat, visit them, try to buy them out and if that fails,
have them killed, announce they have suffered a drug overdose or a car
accident using the media system (2) and avoid backlash using the law
system (8). Juggle things so that energy becomes increasingly more
expensive, thus causing more and more people to work even harder to make
up for it. DO NOT, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, ALLOW THE PUBLIC TO HEAR ABOUT ANY NEW ENERGY DEVELOPMENTS.
~
If you play your cards right, you
should be able to make all of these systems support and assist each
other and make a bucketload by the time you decide with the opposition
leaders at the pub that it's time to swap sides.
No comments:
Post a Comment