Thursday, July 11, 2013

Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it. hdt




It is part of the moral tragedy with which we are dealing that words like "democracy," "freedom," "rights," "justice," which have so often inspired heroism and have led men to give their lives for things which make life worthwhile, can also become a trap, the means of destroying the very things men desire to uphold." Sir Norman Angell (1874 - 1967), 1956.

"When faced with a choice between confronting an unpleasant reality and defending a set of comforting and socially accepted beliefs, most people choose the later course". W. Lance Bennett








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mox....much of this is old news to those engaged in finding out the truth,  I see exponentially many more waking-up today than ever.....together a collective conscience with a moral compass pointed toward the light, the joy of occupying this planet, and away from the darkness of man's debasement...kos






Magazines like Jack Ruby Slippers and Adbusters have begun to promote the concept of "culture jamming." What does it mean? And what are its roots? According to important culture jammers such as Mark Dery, it is an attempt to "jam" the transmissions of our corporate-controlled, media-consumer-industrial complex. Dery suggests that we consider our mental environment - the realms of signification we encounter every day, especially in omnipresent advertising - and that we take direct political action so as to protect that environment just as fiercely as the 'natural' or physical one.

The origins of culture jamming probably lie with the Situationist International in France, and its practice of detournement or inversion. The roots of detournement itself probably lie in the Feast of Fools and other medieval ceremonies where the social order was inverted and the authorities paraded around in fools' costume, revealing their "natural" or "divine" authority to be socially created and maintained. Situationist Guy deBord suggested in the 60s that we were living in a "society of the spectacle" - where real leisure and real living had been replaced by pre-packaged experiences and media-created events. Other Situationists practiced detournement as a response: most would take images from advertising, the mass media, or popular culture, and change the dialogue subtly so as to reveal the ideologies masked in everyday media experience.



Writing in the Situationist vein, the French philosopher Baudrillard calls our postmodern existence "hyperreality." Real experiences and things have been replaced with simulacra - copies without an original. Due to the power of mass media advertising, our relationship to the signifier has changed. Now it hides the absence of a signified: conceals the inability to deliver real satisfaction by cleverly simulating it. Part of our hyperreal lives is the fact that our simulations are more real than real. Given a better imitation, people choose it over the real thing; hence Disney's Matterhorn enjoys more visitors than the real one in Switzerland. More insidiously, through various obfuscations, people come to think the simulacrum is the real McCoy, and forget about the historical and physical reality it represents.


Modern advertising critics like Mark Crispin Miller often note the hidden messages concealed within the cool graphics and media saturation of Madison Avenue and MTV. Originally, they suggest, advertising often connected the product being sold with some sort of self-image or way of life (pastoral, pleasant, family-oriented.) Often, it was conveyed that the product would somehow confer various advantages - popularity, sexiness, fame, success, power, even individuality. Today, ads are filled with a strange sort of rugged selfishness, misanthropy, and mean-spiritedness ("touch my doritos and die.") A person is told sternly to buy as much as they can of the product but never to share with friends. "Get your own," they're told.


While various moral crusaders seek to combat the various sexual innuendos of TV programming, they rarely challenge the more subtle but socially disruptive images found in commercials and other advertising.


The product, no longer able to offer satisfaction on its own ground ("a potato chip is a chip is a chip"), instead offers the consumer a chance to be part of a certain 'crowd' or 'scene.' They belong to a cool "product tribe," revelling in the image and sensibility that the product somehow mystically confers - the fetishism of commodities, hyperaccelerated for Generation X. Analysts of postindustrial America suggest this is the secret hidden within these advertising campaigns - that more and more people are being sold style, image, and celebrity, since there is no substance or material satisfaction to the product-in-itself. Concealed within the jump-cut flash of postmodern advertising is a simple code: consumption is a mode of transcendence, a way to take part in something larger than yourself, "the Pepsi Generation."



Corporations utilize various techniques to carve Americans into various market profiles - not based on what products they use, but on what media messages they respond to. In other words, they are to be sold on the images they want to project to themselves and others, and not on the intrinsic usefulness of consumer items. Whatever values they supposedly respond to, are translated into clever pitches, suggesting that the product somehow represents or embodies those values. Subliminal seduction has never been that important in advertising, despite the hype, but the use of semiotic strategies certainly has. Products are often "pitched" to specific ethnic groups, minorities, or subcultures, often using the Marcusian co-optation strategy of appealing to their own sense of difference or deviance. ("Wear our clothes, and then you'll be a real rebel.")
Is there a way out of hyperreality and the society of the spectacle? Yes.



You can take charge of your mental environment, and become a culture jammer. Culture jamming means semiotic jujitsu - using media power against itself. The Adbusters' Media Foundation does this all the time with famous spoofs of the Absolut Vodka ads ("Absolut death," etc.) Other culture jammers often take commercials or TV programs and replace the dialogue and soundtrack with something subversive. Yet others take to billboards or road signs and cleverly rearrange the letters to say something different. As one activist suggests, "where critique is no longer a possibility, parody is always an alternative response."



In our global media village of multinational media conglomerates and satellite TV, culture jamming is necessarily a global enterprise. As the Western consumerist message increasingly spreads to the masses of the Third World/Periphery, it is the task of culture jammers to go there too and jam the signal. Surely, some have remarked, we must be living in hyperreality when Taco Bell opens in Mexico City and Pizza Hut opens in Rome. Or when more schoolchildren know Joe Camel better than they can recognize the current president. Slowly, the lines between information and entertainment are being blurred, producing a fuzzy sort of "infotainment" in which real facts are irrelevant but audience ratings are key


 Culture jamming is more than just a clever game. In an era in which conspicuous consumption is slowly eating up the entire planet, it may just be the key to survival itself. We may not be able to stop the signal at its source, but at least we can jam its reception. The point is to awaken people to their media-controlled life, to stop and notice the signal and noise that is their mental environment. Like "Rowdy" Roddy Piper in They Live we may suddenly notice a host of things we previously ignored.


 Messages from all around us telling is to sleep, procreate, consume, but not to question. Culture jamming shows these hidden Barthian 'mythologies' - through satire, it forces people to confront that which seems most 'natural' to them. Today, more than ever, culture jamming is the key weapon in the 2000's information 'war,' the outcome of which could well determine our collective fate.

As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascinations.When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.... Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)




Listen to your conscience insted of the news, the news and the truth are not the same thing.
Keep fighting the good fight, with your minds as weapons!
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How Egypt's 'Revolution' Betrayed Itself
By Ramzy Baroud
These very forces were openly involved in toppling the democratically-elected president and his party, as they happily celebrated the return to oppression as a glorious day of freedom.
The U.S. was a Passive Observer in Egypt - If You Believe the New York Times
By Glen Ford
The lies told by the Times and its ilk cannot alter the reality of U.S. decline; they can only make Americans oblivious to the facts.
Arab Oil Cash to Kill Democracy in Egypt
By Finian Cunningham
In order to determine whether the turmoil in Egypt is in the best interests of the mass of ordinary Egyptians, we should use the trusted maxim - follow the money.
Edward Snowden Exposes The US in More Ways Than One
By Harini Calamur
If Gitmo does not tell you how much the US has moved away from its core ideals, then look at the way that the US, led by President Obama, has persecuted Julian Assange and Edward Snowden.
Do We Control Government, Or Does Government Control Us?
Oliver Stone on NSA Spying
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All Americans should stand up for our civil liberties at this critical moment in history, -- by asking our representatives in Congress to roll back the surveillance state.
No Military Coups for America? What About November 1963?
By Jacob G. Hornberger
To suggest that the Pentagon, the CIA, and the NSA would help foreign militaries oust their rulers to save their countries but would not do the same for the United States when faced with similar circumstances makes no sense.
Mandela's Greatness May Be Assured -- But Not His Legacy
By John Pilger
When I reported from South Africa in the 1960s, the Nazi admirer Johannes Vorster occupied the prime minister's residence in Cape Town. Thirty years later, as I waited at the gates, it was as if the guards had not changed.
Bringing Back Jim Crow
By Robert Parry
Many U.S. historians have soft spots for Thomas Jefferson, despite his gross hypocrisy on slavery, and for the Confederates and their supposed gallantry in their fight to preserve slavery. But apologizing for historical racists only invites more racism, warns Robert Parry.
The Mean Team Piles on Jobless Americans
By Jim Hightower
Without jobless payments, you see, desperate millions will be forced to whatever low-wage, no-benefit, dead-end jobs the barons design.

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An Egyptian military source told the London-based Arabic-language al-Hayat newspaper on Thursday morning that Egyptian army forces have killed 32 members of Hamas and arrested several others over the past few days in the Sinai Peninsula.
Officials on all sides deny report that Egypt killed 32 Hamas fighters in Sinai?
Israeli, Egyptian and Palestinian sources on Thursday denied an Arabic newspaper report that claimed the Egyptian army has killed some 200 gunmen in Sinai, including 32 Hamas members, and arrested 45 others over the past several days.
Pro-Morsi alliance calls for million-man Cairo march on Friday:
Brotherhood-led 'Alliance to Support Legitimacy' calls for Friday million-man march in Cairo to protest Egypt's new 'usurper' government, demand ousted president's reinstatement
Sudden Improvements in Egypt Suggest a Campaign to Undermine Morsi:
As the interim government struggles to unite a divided nation, the Muslim Brotherhood and Mr. Morsi's supporters say the sudden turnaround proves that their opponents conspired to make Mr. Morsi fail.
Egypt's Brotherhood vows to keep defying coup:
Supporters of ousted President Morsi say "popular will of the people shall triumph over force and oppression".
Raids Kill 16 in Iraq's Restive Western Province:
Insurgents launched two days of bloody assaults on security force posts in Iraq's restive Anbar province, killing at least 16 at the start of the holy month of Ramadan, authorities said Thursday.
Two suicide bomb attacks kill five policemen in Iraq:
The first bomber opened fire on a checkpoint as he approached the police station, shooting two dead before entering the building and blowing himself up, killing a further three.
Syrian army inflicted heavy losses on rebels:
The army targeted rebels' positions in the towns of Ghanto, Rastan, Zafarani, Kafr Laha in Homs, local reports said, adding that many of the rebel militants were killed.
Syria's al-Nusra Front - ruthless, organised and taking control:
The al-Nusra Front, defies the cliche of Islamist fighters around the Middle East plotting to establish Islamic caliphates from impoverished mountain hideaways. In north-eastern Syria, al-Nusra finds itself in command of massive silos of wheat, factories, oil and gas fields, fleets of looted government cars and a huge weapons arsenal.
Al Nusra torture room found in Rif Dimashq: Video report:
Several areas around the shrine of Sayyida Zainab (PBUH) have come under army's control following heavy clashes which left many terrorist dead or injured.
Meeting al-Qaeda in Syria:
Al-Qaeda's Syrian branch has been cementing control of villages near Turkey's border and aims create an Islamic state.
Syrian Jihadists lose support as abuses mount:
"Out, out, out, the [Islamic] State [of Iraq and Syria] must get out," protesters shouted at a rally in the northern town of Manbij this week, referring to an Al-Qaeda front group.
Syrians protest against Islamist rule:
Residents of towns near Aleppo demonstrate against al-Qaeda linked group
Syrian rebels behind Aleppo sarin attack, not Assad forces - Russian inquiry to UN : Video report:
That's according to a Russian team that conducted an on-site investigation and believes the chemical trail leads straight to the rebels.
Lavrov: Syrian Opposition Undermining Geneva Talks:
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says the new president of the so-called Syrian National Coalition (SNC) is hindering attempts to hold the proposed Geneva talks, which aim to find a political solution to the crisis in Syria.
US senator calls for military strikes on Syria:
The influential chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Carl Levin (D-Mich.) who has returned from a fact-finding trip to the Middle East, also expressed support for arming the militant groups fighting against the government of President Bashar al-Assad.
UK parliament wins veto over any move to arm Syrian rebels:
Britain's parliament backed a motion on Thursday, July 11 requiring Prime Minister David Cameron to give it a veto over any future move to arm Syrian rebels, in a symbolic vote the government said it would heed, according to Reuters.
Exiled dissidents claim Iran building new nuclear site:
The National Council of Resistance of Iran exposed Iran's uranium enrichment facility at Natanz but analysts say it has a mixed track record and a clear political agenda.
Photos suggest Saudis targeting Iran, Israel with ballistic missiles:
Daily Telegraph says analysts who examined satellite images from surface-to-surface missile base deep in Saudi desert spotted two launch pads with markings pointing north-west towards Tel Aviv and north-east towards Tehran
5-year-old Palestinian detained by IDF:
 Child suspected of throwing stones near Hebron detained by IDF, transferred to Palestinian Police. Father claims to have been beaten by soldiers. Watch B'Tselem's video
Two successive roadside bombings kill five in southern Afghanistan:
Officials say a twin bombing in southern Afghanistan has killed five people, three civilians whose car struck a roadside bomb and two police officers who had rushed to the scene to help the victims when the second bomb went off.
Pakistan quietly preparing for civil war in Afghanistan:
Recognising the realities on the ground leading to fast changing events inside Afghanistan, with no one having a clue to what might happen subsequently after Nato withdraws next year, Pakistan is focusing on how to 'secure' its own territory, as it does not rule out a 'civil war' once again.
Three killed in mosque blast in Pakistan:
At least three people were killed and 10 others injured when a bomb went off outside a mosque in Pakistan's northwest Kohat district Thursday, Urdu media reported.
Clive Stafford Smith On Hunger Strike Over Guantanamo Detainee Shaker Aamer:
Clive Stafford Smith, a top human rights lawyer and activist has declared himself on hunger strike in solidarity with Shaker Aamer, the last British man held in Guantanamo
Reprieve: When will White House transfer cleared Gitmo prisoners?: -
If you were disturbed yesterday by the video we released of Yasiin Bey (aka Mos Def) being force-fed like a Guantánamo prisoner, please consider: right now this is happening 90 times a day at Guantánamo Bay. (If you haven't seen it yet, the video is here. You may find the images distressing.)
Bradley Manning's Defense Rests:
Prosecutors, who plan to call rebuttal witnesses on Monday when the trial resumes, have argued that Manning knew al Qaeda would see the documents online.
Blowback from the White House's vindictive war on whistleblowers: Op-Ed:
Edward Snowden is explicit: seeing whistleblowers like me punitively treated only motivates citizens of conscience more
Wikileaks to begin fundraising for Snowden 'Flight of Liberty':
The whistleblowing website said via Twitter that it was on the verge of beginning what it called a "Flight of Liberty" campaign.
Obama gives himself control of all communication systems in America:
The powers he provides to himself and the federal government under the latest order are among the most far-reaching yet of any of his executive decisions.
US allies Mexico, Chile and Brazil seek spying answers:
The reports, based on leaks by fugitive Edward Snowden, said the US ran a "data-collection base" in Brasilia. The O Globo newspaper said the US facility in the Brazilian capital was part of a network of 16 such bases maintained by the National Security Agency (NSA) around the world to intercept transmissions from foreign satellites.
Pressure builds in Germany over Edward Snowden claims:
Angela Merkel under pressure to demand a freeze on transatlantic data-sharing
US must fix secret Fisa courts, says top judge who granted surveillance orders:
James Robertson breaks ranks and says he was shocked to hear of changes to allow broader authorisation of NSA programs
Tiny Utah-based ISP makes a name for itself by rebuffing government snoops:
 Meet Xmission, the internet service provider embracing transparency as it shields customers from warrantless authorities
EU raids telecoms firms in Internet probe:
The European Union said Thursday that its inspectors raided the offices of several telecommunications companies this week to see if they had abused their dominant position in the global market for Internet traffic.
Boston bombing suspect pleads not guilty:
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev responds to 30 charges connected with the deadly bombings in April.
Tens of Thousands of California Prisoners Launch Mass Hunger Strike:
The strikers are calling for an end to long-term solitary confinement and better prison conditions.
The Horrible Psychology of Solitary Confinement:
In the largest prison protest in California's history, nearly 30,000 inmates have gone on hunger strike. Their main grievance: the state's use of solitary confinement, in which prisoners are held for years or decades with almost no social contact and the barest of sensory stimuli.
Lawmaker demands the National Guard patrol the streets of Chicago to stop gun violence:
Davis, a 76-year-old Democrat who represents Chicago in the Illinois House of Representatives, said Tuesday that Gov. Pat Quinn should order both the Illinois State Police and the Illinois National Guard to assist with law enforcement efforts in her city aimed at curbing crime.
Global Corruption Report 2013:
World's Biggest Countries For Bribes, According To Transparency International: In the United States, roughly 1 in 14 people said they paid off officials. Of those, 7 percent said they bribed the police, 11 percent said they bribed educators and 15 percent said they bribed judges. Americans also said they saw political parties as the most corrupt public institution,.
Crisis-Struck Europeans Say They're Losing Faith in Governments:
Less than 10 percent of people surveyed in the European countries hardest hit by the region's debt crisis say that their leaders are doing a good job at fighting corruption, a survey by the anticorruption group Transparency International has found.
Eurozone House Price Decline Worsens In Q1:
Spain registered the biggest decrease with prices falling 12.8 percent. Portugal and the Netherlands followed with declines of 7.3 percent and 7.2 percent, respectively.
UK: Homelessness reaches five year high:
"Behind these numbers are thousands of families up and down the country who have lost the battle to stay in their homes. In these tough times more and more people are struggling to pay their housing costs, but changes to housing benefit mean the safety net that prevents families from losing their homes if they become ill or lose their job is no longer sufficient to catch them."
Greek unemployment rate scales new high in April:
Unemployment rose to 26.9 percent from 26.8 percent in March, the highest reading since statistics service ELSTAT began publishing jobless data in 2006. It is more than twice the average rate in the euro zone, which hit 12.2 percent in May.
Jobless Claims in U.S. Unexpectedly Rise to Two-Month High:
First-time claims rose by 16,000 to 360,000 in the week ended July 6 from a revised 344,000, Labor Department figures showed today in Washington.




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Like you, I've been following the gripping images of political unrest in Egypt - but there's one major story about the protests you probably haven't heard.

Amnesty researchers near Tahrir Square have uncovered a disturbing wave of rape and other sexual violence against women sweeping through demonstrations in Egypt. With alarming frequency, women and girls demonstrating near Tahrir Square are being sexually assaulted by mobs. Authorities have turned their backs on survivors.

Tell Egypt's leaders there is no excuse for rape and sexual assault at protests.

In the past few days, survivor stories have been pouring in, and they paint a horrific scene. Tens if not hundreds of men isolate and surround a woman or girl (sometimes even separating mother and daughter), tearing off her clothes and veil, unzipping her trousers, and groping her breasts and backside. Sticks, blades and other weapons are used in these attacks.

Show these brave women and girls you've got their backs. Speak up for their rights.

Write to Egypt's political leaders. Call on them to condemn sexual violence and take action to end it.

Women's groups collaborating with Amnesty have reported over 90 attacks in June, and 80 attacks and growing in July.

Equally appalling - Egypt's lawmakers blame the women for the violence.

Members of parliament told survivors that they brought the attacks upon themselves by attending the protests, and that women should not mingle with men during demonstrations.

Authorities also told survivors - we have bigger priorities.

Wrong response! There is no greater priority than defending the human rights of your citizens.

Remind them of their responsibility. Join together with Amnesty activists all around world in demanding an end to the sexual assault of Egyptian women protesters.

The repetition of these frightening attacks is a stark reminder of how successive Egyptian governments have failed to address gender-based violence and discrimination.

That's why we must keep the spotlight turned way up.

We know it works. Thanks to unyielding pressure from activists like you, two years ago Egypt's army promised to no longer carry out forced "virginity tests" on female detainees.

Keep standing up for equality - your voice makes a difference.

Sincerely,

Cristina Finch
Managing Director
Women's Human Rights Program



Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable..JFK
Category: News and Politics
Address before the American Newspaper Publishers Association. April, 27 1961. John F Kennedy. "The very word "secrecy" is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it. Even today, there is little value in opposing the threat of a closed society by imitating its arbitrary restrictions. Even today, there is little value in insuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it. And there is very grave danger that an announced need for increased security will be seized upon by those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of official censorship and concealment. That I do not intend to permit to the extent that it is in my control…."(we all know what happened the day the music died November 22, 1963……bye, bye American pie.
While we Americans enjoy our self indulgent lifestyles, oblivious to the consequences, the rest of the world is telling us we are going to get what we deserve. All my life I have been a optimist and refused to entertain the thought that our government could be working against our best interests. I set out to prove the dissenters wrong, that America is great and the gloom and doom people were just misinformed(lying). After four years of searching for the truth I have come to the shocking discovery that we Americans are being fed a steady diet of bullshit, our nationally broadcast news media is nothing but a giant corporate propaganda machine churning out misinformation, false leads, red herrings, rumors and the like, the real intent being to shield the unknowing populace into a false sense of security based on what now appears to be a very fragile house of cards. While we American Romans dance with the stars the rest of the world is watching our great nation burn. Some of the things I have learned are downright terrifying, one of the more significant things I learned has to do with our telecommunications via satellites, if two or three of these are taken out, economic collapse of finance and banking…your plastic will be useless as well as your paper, as well as your cell phone, the internet, our communications from the outside world would stop……and the way things look our so called enemy will not be the source, next or simultaneously power grids gone…. As in no electricity, no gasoline, no heating oil, no radio waves, jammed except state sponsored propaganda. Has anyone else ever wondered why so many survival shows on the history or discovery channels, and others these days, why would such a modern society need such information? We may be building walls around our country to keep illegals out, but walls would also serve to keep us inside. There is a very good chance within the next two years many unspeakable horrors are going to be a reality, this is not a prophesy but history already in motion. Problems cannot be fixed ignoring the signs, like a leaky roof when the rain starts to fall we will realize it is too late. To protect those we love we have got to become better informed and learn to think independently outside political divisions about what is best for all of us. If we nuke Iran we can never go back and un-ring the bell.
These comments were gleaned from different sites around the country and the world.
The People speak….
…….Palestine, Lebanon, Iraq and then Iran? I reckon there is a limit to what the huge, decent majority of the world's Muslims will take. A strike like this wouldn't guarantee oil supplies, but it would assure eternal Muslim hatred of the west. Cruel, unnecessary and a damned stupid idea.
…….Maybe there will be an outside chance that when an order to war is issued it will be ignored. On the other hand maybe we need to get the war started so that the next civilization can start over. It would seem that we are a failed species and are incapable of making the proper connections to live within our environmental limits.
……….Of course they will attack Iran. They will also ignore Museums and head right to the oil fields to protect goo as they did in Iraq.
Incidents such as the flying of LIVE nuclear weapons over the US are staged to get us used to the idea that these weapons may be used. Can't wait for the fallout. Its obvious that the end of easily obtained Oil is coming. Bush will have to move to an island to be safe after his pres-dent-cy is over, if ever. He and the heartless one truly are Devils.
…….I am nearly overwhelmed by feelings of hopelessness and helplessness. No one outside of the neocons and Christian millenialists want a war with Iran, yet no one with any power seems capable or even interested in preventing it. I have yet to hear a Democrat stand up in Congress to demand that the President obtain Congressional approval before starting such a war, nor have I heard any threats of impeachment if he proceeds without it.
…….Anyone who thinks that the United States is still a democracy needs to be shaken vigorously until he comes to his senses.
…….Hey, here is a chilling thought: what if Bush declares martial law in the middle of his next self-manufactured crisis and suspends the constitution? Voila, it's not longer an election year and he can have all the power he wants. Can't happen here you say … that is exactly why it CAN happen here; too many people are complacent with this power grabbing, lying, duplicious administration. We get the government we deserve if we are not willing to stand up and do something before it's too late. Don't count on those spineless democrats. The window for political solutions in this nation is rapidly closing, leave us with only a revolutionary one. God help us all.
……It appears to me that the elite of both parties running the US Government apparently have decided that the American people will refuse to tolerate the inevitable decline in our quality of life and national power as the oil starts to run out. They are certain that it will cost them their power and wealth, so they want to defend that with all of their power.
Of course, many of us already understand the implications of Peak Oil and want to start working on preparing for the post-petroleum world now. That is not in the elite's interest, so they will fight it tooth and nail.
Therefore, they will continue to invade until the entire Middle East is either under US control or the whole thing blows up in their faces and into a shooting war: World War III. This, of course plays into the hands of the military-industrial complex, as well as the easily manipulated far Right Fundamentalists with their fears/hopes of Armageddon. Remember, their sick theology "predicts" this, so they will be cheering loudly as the blood gets deeper and deeper.
……I think that this situation may already be far outside the control of the American electorate, even if they knew what all of this really means.
As far as where the US would get the troops, it is already well-established that the US has been quietly arranging for a new draft for a few years now. A long bombing campaign gives them time to hurry a bunch of cannon fodder through basic training and into place. Remember, we have about 2 years of Dubya's administration left to go. That's ample time to do this if they start soon. Thus, no matter who is voted in after Dubya will face a fait accompli. The US will "own" 60% of the remaining oil in the world, and the US Dollar will be secured as the only currency for petroleum, thus securing its position and stability.
……The Democrats understand Peak Oil as well as the Republicans do, which is why they will make lots of noise but will be 'unable' to stop the current push towards war with Iran by the Republicans. They can 'blame' it all on the Republicans if they are elected, and if they lose there will BE no blame. Of course, many involved are in effect neck deep in what is essentially treason, but they think that they won't be caught or punished.
……..I believe Americans who oppose illegal, immoral and unethical actions, resulting in the murder of tens of thousands of innocent people, should start bringing this government to a halt. We should 1. refuse to pay taxes, 2. take to the streets in mass protest, 3. block access to US government buildings, especially those relating to war…how long are we going to tolerate this evil? The Democrats are worthless. We elected them IN January to end the war and they are more agreeable than the Republicans in handing Bush on a silver platter anything he wants.
1. The boundaries that we see on world maps marking the territories of countries are just what we see: lines on a piece of paper. Iranians are not confined to lines drawn by European powers decades ago. Iranians live not only in Iran but also, en masse, in all the countries in the region. Certain parts of Iran's neighbors even speak dialects of Farsi. So if the United States bombs Iran, since there is no way they have any intentions of invading, they would be declaring war on parts of every country surrounding Iran. This would mean that the United States would be at war with every country in the region since civil war would breakout in all the US installed puppet regimes. This could explain why the United States has created a new map of the middle east.
2. Not only are Iranians spread out in the region, they are also living, en masse, in the rest of the world. The Iranian Diaspora Population map shows that approximately 2.5 million live in the US alone, 700,000 in the Canada, 300,000 in the UK, and 2 million in India. If a war breakouts between the US and Iran then what transpired with the internment of Japanese Americans and Canadians during World War II will become a distant memory and a travesty that will be repeated. Unfortunately it appears that the United States is prepared for this scenario, since it has already built 800 FEMA prison camps which are fully operational and ready to receive prisoners.
3. Iran could stop exporting oil and/or "get tough and close down all oil-tanker traffic that comes within range of (its) missiles–which would mean little or no oil from Iraq, Saudi Arabia, or the smaller Gulf states". This is a very likely scenario, but what exactly does this "global oil rationing, industrial shutdowns, and the end of the present economic era" mean? One way to fully understand the impact of such an event is to look at Africa. The population of Africa at the present is approximately 1 billion. According to a recent presentation at a United Nations conference, it is estimated that "nearly 75% of the continent could come to rely on some sort of food aid by 2025". If there is "global oil rationing" then it is safe to assume that feeding Africans would become a low priority operation for the rest of the world. This would mean that 750 million people could starve to death in Africa.
4. Just to put things into perspective, making sure that it is fully understood what the impact of an attack on Iran really means, consider this. The United States has already stated that they will use nuclear weapons in an aerial bombardment campaign against Iran. Since the creation of the atomic bomb, it has been accepted that once nuclear weapons are used again in any war, then they will continue to be used until there is no one left to kill. As the saying goes, you do not bring a knife to a gunfight, so once a nuclear weapon has been used on any country then that country and its people have a right to use unclear weapons in retaliation. Albert Einstein once said, "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones". I personally hope that we will not fulfill Einstein's prophecy.
WW3 Has Already Started or: 18 Ways To Stop The Bomb

On April 17 2006, Seymour M. Hersh, "an American Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist and author based in Washington, DC", reported in 'The New Yorker' that the United States is considering the use on "bunker-buster tactical nuclear weapon, such as the B61-11, against underground nuclear sites" in Iran. This story was also carried on CNN.

It was reported that on January 7 2007, an Israeli attack squadron comprising of three IAF F-16s, each carrying "conventional munitions—as well as a single 20-kiloton nuclear bomb" on a bombing raid to Iran were turned back by "U.S. planes under threat of missile interception."

On August 27 2007, MIT Institute Professor Noam Chomsky, a world renowned American linguist, philosopher, political activist, author, and lecturer, published an essay on ZNet entitled: Cold War II. In this article, Chomsky concludes that Washington's intentions to install a "missile defense system" in Europe "ratchets the threat of war a few notches higher, in the Middle East and elsewhere, with incalculable consequences, and the potential for a terminal nuclear war. The immediate fear is that by accident or design, Washington's war planners or their Israeli surrogate might decide to escalate their Cold War II into a hot one – in this case a real hot war." To put it more simply, Chomsky is predicting Nuclear War. Terminal Nuclear War. The End Game.

Two articles this month, one by Project Censored award winning writer Dave Lindorff entitled "Was That Nuclear-Armed B-52 Flight Destined for Iran?", and the other by Dr. Michael Salla, an international politics scholar, entitled "Was a Covert Attempt to Bomb Iran with Nuclear Weapons foiled by a Military Leak?", are both reporting that the recent B-52 Incident in the United States was an attempt to start Nuclear War with Iran. For those unfamiliar with the story, "A B-52 bomber mistakenly loaded with six nuclear warheads flew from Minot Air Force Base, N.D., to Barksdale Air Force Base, La., on Aug. 30, resulting in an Air Force-wide investigation."

Both, Dave Lindorff and Dr. Michael Salla, are reporting that Vice President Cheney was behind the incident. The same person who believes that "the US should not be pursuing a diplomatic path with Iran", but rather should "establish the policy and pathway to bombing Iran."

We have been lucky, according to Dr. Michael Salla, "the world has been spared a devastating nuclear war by courageous American airmen who revealed the true contents of an otherwise routine B-52 landing at Barksdale, AFB headed for a covert nuclear mission to the Middle East." However, this appears to be just the beginning.

The people in the United States administration are planning on attacking Iran, and they are doing everything in their power to do so. When Noam Chomsky, who is known for his ability to present an unbiased perspective by using the Scientific Method, is stating that we are close to a "Terminal Nuclear War", as in terminal cancer, we must take heed.

Why would the most distinguished linguists of all time and a world-renowned historian delve into the field of soothsaying, predicting a dismal radioactive future for us all? This seems to be absurd, until we fully grasp the implications of what the news reports linked above are stating.

We, as a world community, have come close to destroying ourselves. We are in trouble when Albert Einstein, one of the scientists "instrumental in facilitating" the development of the Atomic Bomb states: "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones", while the people in control of the largest nuclear arsenal in the world are stating that "all options on the table".

When every leading political figures in the United States is stating that "all options are on the table", then it is likely that nuclear weapons will be used when the United States bombs Iran "back to the stone age" as it threatened to do to a nuclear Pakistan.

Consider this: Technology is developing in such a way that it is becoming easier and simpler to create. From growing food, to making babies, to developing weapons: we are able to make them faster and better. In time, one society will always catch-up with its predecessor, especially in their
technological abilities. Hence those that have at the present must be wise enough to share what is needed with those that require, and cautious enough not to flaunt or misuse things that others desire.
For us to be able to prevent this nuclear Armageddon that the United States proposes we must be as diligent as those who propose it. If they are intend on using all options to contain Iran, then we must consider all options to contain them. The first step in resisting is to educate ourselves and those that follow us. War is no longer an option if humanity is to survive.

Below are some suggestions and resources to help in bringing about a positive change:

1. Spend time with who and what you love. Surrounding ourselves with love should help us to remember the beauty of life.

2. Learn to filter and recognize propaganda. It is corporations that profit from wars, not individuals. Always apply the filter: 'Ownership determines content.' "If we accept that it is desirable for individuals to practice moral agency as fully as possible, then we should seek to create a different kind of media system."

3. Your body, your voice, your mind, and your spirit are required at peace rallies for us to reach critical mass. Additional information at the following news sources: CODEPINK: Women for Peace, Raging Grannies, ANSWER Coalition, Stop War, United for Peace, Move On, Anti War, Common Dreams, bellaciao, PEJ News, OpEd News, Information Liberation , Project Censored , Information Clearing House , Global Research , Prison Planet , The Raw Story , Gush Shalom, and Truthout.

4. Stop watching corporate news on TV, they do not provide information, just propaganda. Frequent legitimate unbiased news sources such as: The Real News Network, Democracy Now!, International News Net, Sub Media TV, Free Speech TV, Link TV, and Alternative Radio: Audio Energy of Democracy.

5. Stop supporting corporate education and entertainment. Learn about your rights, how society functions, what we have done, and are doing to each other and the planet. Watch and learn from movies and documentaries such as: Earthlings, America: Freedom to Fascism, Fallujah: The Hidden Massacre, Chemtrail: Aerosol Crimes, The Oil Factor: Behind the War on Terror, The Future of Food , Liquid Crystal Vision, Marcus Garvey: Look for me in the Whirlwind, The Doomsday Code, Iraq For Sale, Plan Colombia, The Revolution will Not be Televised, Freedom Downtime: The Story of Kevin Mitnick, Zeitgeist, and Loose Change.

6. Learn about the financial institutions that have been established to profit from the ultimate consuming machine known as war. Watch and share: ZEITGEIST, The Movie: Part 3 of 3 (47:05), and the animated Money As Debt (47:07).

7. Stop supporting mass media that has been the voice of government and corporate propaganda and the driving force behind the recruitment, promotion, and continuation of the war agenda. Begin to acquire your news from actual people blogging and reporting on the true nature of life. News blogs such as: What Really Happened, Ya Ya Canada, Dahr Jamail's MidEast Dispatches, Desert Peace, Daily Kos, plus countless others available on the Internet.

8. Write, call, and personally contact your representatives in government, demanding that they begin to represent you and your family, not corporate money. Realize that most of our representatives have not even begun to grasp the "terminal" path that we are on.

9. Not only should you be consuming less and locally, but also producing locally. Corporations over the years have destroyed the infrastructure of local economies, but it is time for us to rebuild. Additional information at Post Carbon Institute, People and Planet , BALLE, 100 Mile diet and numerous other sources available on the Internet.

10. Reduce your dependency on oil by using public transportation and or alternative means of transportation. See Critical Mass for additional information.

11. Downsize your car and/or convert to hybrid transportation. The sooner you do this the better. This will not only save you money on fuel, it will also allow you to sell your large gas-guzzler before the rise in fuel prices reduces the value of your car to nothing. And you better hurry, because the waiting lists for hybrid cars are long and used models are selling for more then the new cars.

12. If you are working for an organization which is actively supporting war then try to find a different occupation which does not require of you to promote the destruction of humanity.

13. Begin to invest in yourself instead of Stock markets who launder money while profiting from war.

14. Begin to work with nature and not against it by learning about natural resources available in your area. Additional information at: World Changing, Planet Friendly network, and NI Business Info.

15. Make healthy eating choices. Studies have found that most bankruptcies are due to medical bills, and since the passing of the Bankruptcy Bill you will no longer be cleared of your debts if you declare bankruptcy in the US, which means that you will become a slave to the banking institutions. This will take away your freedom and force you to abide by their agendas, the main agenda of which is war.

16. Support artists against the war and boycott those that support the war. There are many who have officially spoken out against the war and are proactive in their attempts to bring us peace. Google your favorites see where they stand….morals or money?

17. Participate in civil disobedience. Peace organizers are now advocating "people in the antiwar movement to move from protesting to performing acts of civil disobedience that 'get in the way of the war machine.'"

18. Understand that we are one people occupying one planet, and that we are and will be held accountable for the actions of our governments. Learn about our history by reading books such as: Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace, A People's History of the United States, Hegemony or Survival, Wilhelm Reich in Hell, Mass Psychology of Fascism [PDF] , Pirates of the Caribbean: Axis of Hope, The Shock Doctrine, Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, and War Is a Racket written by America's most decorated general US Marine Corp Major General Smedley Butler. (I have tried to make sure the links listed work, the dancing frog phenomena may apply and prevent some from working so Google the subject being careful to screen the source. I encourage everyone not to take my work or word go look for yourself…… independently.)


In short, we must face problems which do not lend themselves to easy or quick or permanent solutions. And we must face the fact that the United States is neither omnipotent nor omniscient, that we are only six percent of the world's population, that we cannot impose our will upon the other ninety-four percent of mankind, that we cannot right every wrong or reverse each adversity, and that therefore there cannot be an American solution to every world problem. JFK…Speech at the University of Washington, Seattle, 16 November 1961.
………………………Kosmicdebris










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