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We must overcome the programming effects of 'perception
management' if we are to grasp the gravity of the profound crisis
in which the world finds itself today.

The war propaganda slogan of World War I was, "The War to End
All Wars."  And then for World War II it was, "To Make the World
Safe for Democracy."  What do we have today?  Leaders of the
US and British governments have said again and again that the
wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are being waged in order to make
the world secure against terrorism.

Make the World Secure Against Terrorism!

This is but war propaganda  --  a calculated lie. The terrorist
attacks against the US and the UK were not the work of Islamic
terrorists based in Afghanistan or Pakistan, but the facts plainly
prove that it was the US, Britain and Israeli intelligence services
that staged the terrorist events, such as September 11th, 2001, and
July 7th, 2005, as a  pretext to wage wars of conquest in order to
set up a global empire  --  the nєω ωσrℓ∂ σr∂єr.

Evidence of British government involvement in the July 7, 2005
attack in London is presented in the docuмentary film TerrorStorm,
Second Edition.  

1) Former Justice Department prosecutor and FBI
terrorism expert John Loftus explained that Haroon Rashid Aswat,
the alleged mastermind and recruiter of the apparently unwitting
bombers, was an asset of M16.  

2) The British government hired the
firm Vizor Consultants to carry out a drill simulating the exact
attack which was carried out at precisely the same time as the real
attack that day.  

3) David Sheyler, former M15 agent, mentioned
that eyewitnesses had seen one of the bombers frantically
attempting to examine the contents of his rucksack after a bomb
detonated in the train, which resulted in the floor metal pointing
upwards.  4) The bombers' behaviour was inconsistent with that of
terrorists who would be taking part in a ѕυιcιdє mission, such as:  
A) buying return tickets, B) arguing over the price of a ticket, C)
playing cricket the evening before the attack, etc.

The corporate media, like the public education system, are not
in the business of performing a public service.  What they provide
for the public is no more a service to them than the service that
prison guards provide for the incarcerated. They do perform a
service however, but ultimately not for the public or for their
benefit.  The public is severely disadvantaged in this regard
because it depends on the media and the educational system
almost totally, to provide the data and information which are the
basis for forming judgments about the government and almost
everything else -- yet providing such data and information is
precisely the function they perform, and in so doing, they perform
the service for the corporatist state that the Western
democracies have become -- for the private corporate interests
that control the state, and ultimately for the financial elite who
occupy the commanding heights of monetary, and therefore
indirect but effective, political power over the private and public
institutions of nations.

The corporate media constitute what is perhaps the most vital organ
of what has become the privatized state, performing perhaps the
most important of functions for the corporatist state they were
taken over or created to serve:  that of forming the images that
constitute the basis of understanding in the public mind.  By
performing this function they control the mind of the populace and
manipulate their behavour through perception management
so that the citizenry become the docile subjects of the state they
formerly democratically ruled.

Christopher Story explains that the United States, "like the covert
continuing Soviet Union, is also inherently and historically a
revolutionary power.  And has adopted an arrogant expansionist
mentality and an agenda of global revolution, which is becoming
almost as much of a threat to world peace as the USSR's overtly
predatory global behaviour under Lenoid Brezhnev." (Christopher
Story in Soviet Analyst, July-August, 2002).  

This is the Americanism that is the ideology behind the
expansionist and militaristic policies of American Imperialism.  
Most Americans (as John Pilger explains in his lecture, Invisible
Government) and those heavily influenced by American media
and culture are, thanks to the 'perception management' practiced
against the public by the controlled corporate media, unaware of
its existence and its malevolent objectives. The
Anti-Americanism that is prevalent in Latin America, the Asian
and Islamic countries etc., and to a lesser extent in Europe, is
directed against this predatory entity and the ideology that
supports it.  It is not essentially a racial hatred of white Americans,
of Americans in general or of American culture, but it often leads to
that due to the excesses of American political and economic
domination and oppression of other nations and the military
aggression against other nations that has outstripped the
oppression and predations of the former Soviets and the British
Empire before them.

John Pilger (a world renowned journalist, Pilger began his career in
1958 in his homeland, Australia. www.johnpilger.com) observes,
"During my lifetime, America has been constantly waging war
against much of humanity:  impoverished people mostly, in
stricken places." (2001 in Wikipedia)  This has not changed under
Obama, as is so aptly expressed again by John Pilger:  "No one
knew what the new brand actually stood for.  So accomplished was
the advertising -- a record $75,000,000 was spent on television
commercials alone -- that many Americans actually believed
Obama shared their opposition to Bush's wars.  In fact, he had
repeatedly backed Bush's warmongering and its congressional
funding. Many Americans also believed he was the heir to Martin
Luther King Jr's legacy of anti-colonialism.  Yet, if Obama had a
theme at all, apart from the vacuous 'Change you can believe in,'
it was the renewal of America as a dominant, avaricious bully.  'We
will be the most powerful,' he often declared." (2009)

If the reader needs more convincing about the imperialistic nature
of Americanism then he should read:  Rebuilding America's
Defenses by the Project for the New American Century, and
Zbigniew Brzezinski's (one of Obama's mentors) The Grand
Chessboard.

I have a friend who recently spoke with an archbishop in the
Vatican who thought there was no serious reason for concern
about the possibility of another world war.  According to his mind,
there is some legitimate concern about terrorism, and he even
mentioned Al-Qaeda, but he saw no major geopolitical
developments threatening world peace.  

My friend replied to him, "It is interesting that you mention
Al-Qaeda, because that organization was created by the CIA with
the help of other State intelligence agencies."

The archbishop was utterly and absolutely incredulous, in shades
of Gaudete Rose!  It was as though my friend had announced to
him that Vladimir Putin was a space alien whose armed forces are
poised to attack the earth from the dark side of the moon!

The archbishop's reaction was a conditioned response. like
the conditioned response of Pavlov's dogs -- trained by 'perception
management' not to see the hostile action and presence of the
enemy which operates in plain view.  he and many others like him
have been rendered sightless like the natives of Tierra del Fuego
in South America who had never seen large warships before, and
so could not perceive the presence nor grasp the danger of the
Spanish warships poised to attack in the waters right before their
eyes.

If we are to regain our sight, we must not allow government and
media to do our thinking for us, but must employ our own
intellectual powers to analyze the fact sand realities that are
plainly in our view.  If we can refrain from conditioned reflex
judgments, examine the evidence and subject everything to critical
analysis will not take long before we grasp the absurdity of the
conclusions we are constantly being induce to accept an come to
the understanding that there is indeed a global war being waged,
but it is not a 'War Against Terror' being waged against shadowy
terrorist groups supported y militant Islamic or Communist regimes,
but against us -- against all of us -- in order to set up a global
government -- a perverse and genocidal anti-Christian, anti-Jєωιѕн,
anti-Muslim, anti-God police state. (John Pilger, "There is no War on
Terrorism; it is The Great Game speeded up. The difference is the
rampant nature of the superpower, ensuring infinite dangers for us
all." - 2002 - cf. Wikipedia.)

 

The following is such a praiseworthy post by Hobbledehoy, entered in
another thread of a somewhat related topic, but it is so entirely appropriate
to this topic that it seems to me worthy of copying here for all to see
and to add to this thread, since it adds much indeed:


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Quote from: Traditional Guy 20

I think comparing Obama to Lenin and Mao is going too far. As bad as Obama is, he's never starved or murdered anybody. At least I can agree with Obama on some aspects of foreign policy, which is more than I can say for the GOP.

In an interview I heard a long while ago, someone made a statement to the effect that Obama did not really change much in the field of foreign policy from Bush (this was on the eve of the Congressional elections in 2010): in fact, most things that Bush's administration installed were kept (Homeland, etc.), something for which the liberals chided Obama. If anything, Obama owes much to Bush regarding foreign policy, as both seem to keep spending money (that we don't have) on Israel and other things that are not in the interest of the American Republic.

The comparison implied in my statement was not just with Obama but with the coterie of leftists who support him and were responsible for his political ascendancy and his cultural apotheosis amongst the "sheeple" (despite his dismal failures and abysmal mediocrity). It is not a perfect or absolute comparison (analogies, similes, metaphors, &c., never establish identity between the two constructs in question), so of course there are discrepancies.

The comparison was particularly meant to elucidate upon the evolution of ideology that begins with Marx, goes through Lenin and Mao (who took Marxism and modified and implemented it as a logistically feasible polity and actually managed to build a political edifice thereupon). Obama, together with those who formed him and those whom he is forming, are the heirs of the Hegelian evolution of what Marx wrote, and what other misotheists and anthropocentrists that preceded Marx devised as an ideological rebellion against the teachings of right reason (Aristotle, St. Thomas Aquinas, &c.) and those of Divine Revelation as preserved and taught by Holy Mother Church.

Wow.  That was good.   Are you sure you don't want to copyright this??

As for the actual praxis of Obama's novel form of "Americanized" Marxist-Leninist ideology in not resulting in the persecutions such as those of Stalin and Mao, there is actually a persecution that is more subtle and that has resulted in discords amongst the classes and will eventually end in full-blown violence if things keep going the way they are:  the cultural, political and fiscal rape and torture of the American middle class, and the disenfranchisement of the American workers, whereby thousands are subject to undue taxation and have to pay for the blunders of Washington, wherein elitist liberals who have no notion of what "real life" is outside their bubbly little worlds of celebrity fundraisers, talk-shows, &c., do as they please.

These people engorge themselves in the blood of the innocent (the billions of children murdered by de-crimininalized abortion) and the tears of those workers who are defrauded from their pay (the over-taxed American workers): these sins (and then there is the cultural and political institutionalization of sɛҳuąƖ aberration, known by the "sheeple" as "gαy rights") cry out to Heaven for vengeance.

For those who may not remember, the four (4) sins that cry to heaven
for vengeance are the following:

1)  Defrauding a laborer his just wages
2)  Oppression of the poor
3)  Willful murder, especially of the innocent
4)  The sin of Sodom, the sin of unnatural impurity

And according to St. Paul in Romans i. 33, the label applies not only to
them that commit the sin firsthand but also to them who consent to
those that do them, that is, those who vote for political leaders who
commit these crimes.

Obama is not Lenin or Mao, but he belongs to the same progeny: that of the "father of lies," the "prince of this world," whom the enemies of Christendom have enthroned, just as the deicide Jews preferred Barabbas to the divine Redeemer and formally assented to the reign of Caesar before Pilate on Good Friday.

Quote from: Neil Obstat

Well, I'm not surprised you would have a strong opinion on this topic, Hobbles.

I'm a working man who is being told by rich leftist relatives how to feel and think regarding these matters, so yeah... I'm pretty ticked off when it comes to these issues.

I just can't believe some people gasp and almost tear their hair off when I say things like, "Well, looks like the Mayans were right about the calendar thing, because you people just elected some slick, lying commie as President of the United States."

Well, this person isn't gasping or tearing hair out, no, no, no, rather he is
jumping up and down cheering:   :rahrah:



In that last sentence I was going to change it to "just RE-elected" but I'm
not quite sure you didn't somehow intend exactly what you have, "elected."

Neil, "Making the world safe for democracy" was also a WWI slogan.