What Really Happened?

From my friend MaryAnn

"... The story of the uncovering of the largest spy ring ever discovered inside the United States should be the story of the century, if indeed the US media is looking out for the best interests of the American people. That this spy ring helped drug smugglers evade investigators should be a major scandal, if indeed the US media is looking out for the best interests of the American people. That the spy ring includes companies able to track and tap into any phone in America, including the White House, should be a cause celebre' [sic], if indeed the US media is looking out for the best interests of the American people.
"But they are not. The media is trying to bury this story. They are spiking it, erasing it from their web sites in a chilling real-life Orwellian rewriting of history ..."
Source

More Interesting Info:

- NY Attack

Thanks MA for your usual great info!

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Has Fox News Excluded Ron Paul?

December 28, 2007 10:39 pm EST
ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA – According to the New Hampshire State Republican Party and an Associated Press report, Republican presidential candidate and Texas Congressman Ron Paul will be excluded from an upcoming forum of Republican candidates to be broadcast by Fox News on January 6, 2008.
“Given Ron Paul’s support in New Hampshire and his recent historic fundraising success, it is outrageous that Dr. Paul would be excluded,” said Ron Paul 2008 campaign chairman Kent Snyder. “Dr. Paul has consistently polled higher in New Hampshire than some of the other candidates who have been invited.”
Snyder continued, “Paul supporters should know that we are continuing to make inquiries with Fox News as to why they have apparently excluded Dr. Paul from this event.”

SOURCE: Ron Paul 2008 Presidential Campaign Committee
Ron Paul 2008 Presidential Campaign Committee
Jesse Benton, 703-248-9115

Leave it to "faux' news and their newspeaking journalists....

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Shit - It's Starting!

The propaganda flows from the administration's favourite warmongering mouthpiece
Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Wednesday, Sept 5, 2007

Following yesterday's revelation that Dick Cheney has ordered top Neo-Con media outlets to unleash a PR blitz to sell a war with Iran, Fox News has already responded with two prime time slots devoted to all out warmongering propaganda in favour of a strike on Iran's facilities.
The New Yorker magazine reported yesterday that Barnett Rubin, the highly respected Afghanistan expert at New York University, had a conversation with a member of a top neoconservative institution in Washington, who told him that "instructions" had been passed on from the Office of the Vice-President to roll out a campaign for war with Iran in the week after Labor Day.
Read More...Fox News Responds To Cheney Call For Iran Attack PR Blitz

I also found this posted at:
Within Reason - Fox responds to Cheney

Related Article: U.S. Government Uses Al-Qaeda To Attack IranBush authorizes group formerly headed by alleged 9/11 mastermind to be bankrolled & armed by CIA for covert regime change

Recent revelations illustrating the fact that the U.S. government is using a Sunni Al-Qaeda terrorist group formerly headed by the alleged mastermind of 9/11 to carry out bombings in Iran undermines the entire war on terror as a monumental hoax that is being exploited purely to realize a geopolitical agenda.
"President George W Bush has given the CIA approval to launch covert "black" operations to achieve regime change in Iran, intelligence sources have revealed. Mr Bush has signed an official document endorsing CIA plans for a propaganda and disinformation campaign intended to destabilise, and eventually topple, the theocratic rule of the mullahs."
"The CIA is giving arms-length support, supplying money and weapons, to an Iranian militant group, Jundullah, which has conducted raids into Iran from bases in Pakistan," the London Telegraph reported yesterday.
Jundullah is a Sunni Al-Qaeda offshoot organization that was formerly headed by alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Even if you believe the official story of 9/11 to the letter, the fact that Bush has personally authorized U.S. support for this group completely dismantles the facade of the war on terror.

Rod said...
I think this is a good point in our lives to go back and heed the warnings from Uncle George (the good one, from across the pond...):
1. And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. "Who controls the past" ran the Party slogan, "controls the future: who controls the present controls the past."
2. If there was hope, it must lie in the proles, because only there, in those swarming disregarded masses, eighty-five percent of the population of Oceania, could the force to destroy the Party ever be generated.
3. Until the become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
4. The very word "war", therefore, has become misleading. It would probably be accurate to say that by becoming continuous war has ceased to exist. ... "War is Peace."
5. And in the general hardening of outlook that set in ... practices which had been long abandoned ... -- imprisonment without trial, the use of war prisoners as slaves, public executions, torture to extract confessions, the use of hostages and the deportation of whole populations -- not only became common again, but were tolerated and even defended by people who considered themselves enlightened and progressive.
6. There are only four ways in which a ruling group can fall from power. Either it is conquered from without, or it governs so inefficiently that the masses are stirred to revolt, or it allows a strong and discontented Middle group to come into being, or it loses its own self-confidence and willingness to govern. These causes do not operate singly, and as a rule all four of them are present in some degree. A ruling class which could guard against all of them would remain in power permanently. Ultimately the determining factor is the mental attitude of the ruling class itself. ... From the point of view of our present rulers, therefore, the only genuine dangers are the splitting-off of a new group of able, under-employed, power-hungry people, and the growth of liberalism and scepticism in their own ranks. The problem, that is to say, is educational. ... and ... the level of popular education is actually declining.
7. All past oligarchies have fallen from power either because they ossified or because they grew soft. Either they became stupid and arrogant, failed to adjust themselves to changing circumstances, and were overthrown; or they became liberal and cowardly, made concessions when they should have used force, and once again were overthrown. ... It is in the ranks of the Party, and above all the Inner Party, that the true war enthusiasm is found. ... If human equality is to be for ever averted -- if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places permanently -- then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity.
8. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. ... We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means, it is an end. ... How does one man assert his power over another ... By making him suffer. Obedience is not enough. Unless he is suffering, how can you be sure that he is obeying your will and not his own? Power is inflicting pain and humiliation. ... A world of fear and treachery and torment, a world of trampling and being trampled upon, a world which will grow not less but more merciless as it refines itself. ... If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face--for ever...
P.S. Can you tell I'm re-reading 1984?

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Move Over Imus

Imus isn't the only one who uses derogatory name calling as a way to get his point across. Why is it that no one is up and arms over Bill O'Reilly then? Perhaps because he works for Fox News and is under the wings of the "good 'ol boys" and thus is one of the untouchables?

STUDY: Bill O'Reilly Uses Derogatory Names 'More Than Once Every Seven Seconds

Think Progress blog
May 2, 2007
http://journalism.indiana.edu/papers/oreilly.html
A new study by Indiana University media researchers finds that Fox News host Bill O'Reilly calls "aperson or a group a derogatory name once every 6.8 seconds, on average, ornearly nine times every minute during the editorials that open his program each night." The study documented six months worth, or 115 episodes, of O'Reilly's "Talking Points Memo" editorials "using propaganda analysis techniques madepopular after World War I." Researchers found that O'Reilly "was prone to inject fear
into his commentaries and quick to resort to name-calling. He also frequently assigned roles or attributes - such as 'villians' or r downright 'evil' - to people and groups.
Full item here:http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/02/oreilly-derogatory/

An Aside:
O'Reilly is a self-described independent and has used several terms to describe his views. In his book Culture Warrior, he identifies himself as a traditionalist and a populist. Previously a registered Republican for an unknown period of time, O'Reilly has been registered as having no party affiliation since 2001.

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WTF??

70-Year-Old Man Found Dead in Front of TV a Year Later
Saturday, February 17, 2007
By Hannah Sentenac
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,252591,00.html
HAMPTON BAYS, N.Y. — Vincenzo 'Vinnie' Ricardo was the proverbial tree that fell in the forest: No one knew.
From what police in Hampton Bays, N.Y., can determine, the 70-year-old was sitting alone watching TV in his two-story home when he died.
That was more than a year ago, and when workers were summoned to his house last week after a report that freezing temperatures had caused the home's pipes to burst, they found Ricardo's mummified body still sitting on the couch, the TV still on.
A neighbor of Ricardo's, Deanna Devon, was shocked that no one discovered him sooner.
"He was blind and he used to wander into the street. I used to worry he would get hit," she told FOXNews.com.
Vinnie was often seen walking in the streets with his cane, Devon said.
Ricardo had been stricken blind in his 50s and suffered from diabetes.
He apparently died of natural causes, according to Dr. Stuart Dawson, Suffolk County deputy chief medical examiner.Due to the dry air in his house, Ricardo's body was well-preserved, leaving his features and hair intact.
"You could see his face. He still had hair on his head," morgue assistant Jeff Bacchus told Newsday. "I've been on the job 35 years, and I've never seen anyone dead that long."
"Vinnie had people who came to help take care of him, so I don’t understand this," Devon said.
Hampton Bays is a small hamlet of 12,200 people on the eastern end of Long Island. Town detectives handling the case did not return phone calls Saturday.
Ricardo was widowed years ago and had lived alone since then, Newsday reported. The house was set in the woods far back from the road, according to neighbors, which made it difficult to observe Ricardo's actions.
"He hasn't been heard from in over a year. That's the part that baffles me," Dawson said. "Nobody sounded the alarm."
"We heard he had family somewhere nearby, but he was estranged from them," Devon added.
Neighbor April Cowden told the paper that she used to help Ricardo by reading his mail to him, paying his bills and buying his groceries. But in the summer of 2005, he began to demand more of her time, and when she couldn't comply, they had a falling out.
"I needed to go to work [one day] and he wanted me to stay," Cowden, 37, told Newsday.
About a month later, Cowden said, she saw an ambulance at his house. Later, when she saw the mail begin to pile up, Cowden thought he was in the hospital.
Authorities are at a loss as to how the electricity remained on in Ricardo's home all this time. Attempts to reach the Long Island Power Authority were unsuccessful Saturday.
"Something just seems really strange about all this. There are so many little things that don't make sense," Devon said.
"I didn’t really know him very well, but apparently nobody did."
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
How the hell can something like this happen in this day and age? Is this what we have become? A Country where we don't even care about each other? Maybe we deserve what we get!

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