Rep. Ron Paul in Congress 12/10/2008

Thank you, Dr. Paul.

Excuse the Matrix footage, please. I couldn't find another video with both speeches in it.

Guns N Roses - Civil War

I'm going to do something that has been so far uncharacteristic of me. I'm going to post a music video. Why when all of my posts have been about politics and economic philosophy? It's simple. I'm not straying that far off base.

I'm posting a Guns N Roses song called Civil War. This is possibly my favorite anti-war song because of two verses that Axl Rose wrote that for me encapsulates how the welfare-warfare state works. Much like the way you cannot get rid of the IRS without getting rid of the Federal Reserve, you also cannot rid the warfare state without getting rid of the welfare state. Below the video are, I think, some of the most important anti-war lyrics written.



My hands are tied
The billions shift from side to side
And the wars go on with brainwashed pride
For the love of God and our human rights
And all these things are swept aside
By bloody hands time can't deny
And are washed away by your genocide
And history hides the lies of our civil wars

My hands are tied
For all I've seen has changed my mind
But still the wars go on as the years go by
With no love of God or human rights
'Cause all these dreams are swept aside
By bloody hands of the hypnotized
Who carry the cross of homicide
And history bears the scars of our civil wars

I don't need your civil war
It feeds the rich while it buries the poor
Your power hungry sellin' soldiers
In a human grocery store

The Calamity of Bush's Conservatism

I've been meaning to post this for a while now and haven't gotten around to it. This is a video of Lew Rockwell's Speech made at the Ron Paul Rally in Minnesota.

9/11/2001 Is A Conspiracy Theory No Matter How One Looks At It

Whether one believes that the United States Government had foreknowledge of the attack and allowed it to happen to be used as a pretext for President Bush's personal vendetta against Saddam Hussein for making an attempt on Daddy's life or whether one believes as the official story goes that al Qaeda is the guilty party, it is a conspiracy theory regardless of who believes what.

From the back of Jim Marrs' book The Terror Conspiracy: Deception, 9/11 and the Loss of Liberty:

According to the U.S. Government's official conspiracy theory, nineteen suicidal Middle Eastern Muslim hijackers, their hearts full of hatred for American freedom and democracy, hijacked four airliners. Reportedly, two planes were crashed into the Twin Towers of New York City's World Trade Center, a third into the Pentagon, and the fourth crashed in rural western Pennsylvania after its passengers fought with the hijackers. This whole "Misson: Impossible" operation, able to defeat the United States' four-hundred-billion-dollar defense system, reportedly was under the total control of a zealous Muslim cleric using a computer while hiding in a cave in Afghanistan.

According to http://www.dictionary.com/, a conspiracy is "an evil, unlawful, treacherous, or surreptitious plan formulated in secret by two or more persons". Conspiracy is a derivative of the Latin word conspirare, literally translated into "to breathe together". In our culture it is taboo to believe in a conspiracy theory. This is a culturally fascist attitude never more strongly represented than by those who "debunk" conspiracy theories. These attitudes wreak of state worship and arise from a sense that our elected officials couldn't or wouldn't act against the interests of the people with deliberate intention. This is a false philosophy. I understand that quotes are quotes and are only good to the extent of their usefulness but I'd like to quote Frederic Bastiat and say that government is the great fiction by which everyone endeavors to live at the expensive of everybody else. Government from its inception is evil incarnate because for it to function it has to rely on thievery.

That's what these Stalinists and Trotskyites, or more commonly referred to as the Democrats and the Republicans (respectively), don't understand.

No matter what one believes, the events of 9/11/2001 were the result of a group conspiring together. This fact is not up for debate.

These People Shouldn't be Voting Part III

More racist sciolism from the McCain- Palin cohort.

The Moment I Said It- Imogen Heap

Easy listening for the heavyhearted.

Chalmers Johnson and the Decay of the American Empire

Chomsky on the ADL (Anti-Defamation Leauge)

An excerpt from Noam Chomsky's 1989 book Necessary Illusions.

"The ADL has virtually abandoned its earlier role as a civil rights organization, becoming 'one of the main pillars' of Israeli propaganda in the U.S.… These efforts, buttressed by insinuations of anti-Semitism or direct accusations, are intended to deflect or undermine opposition to Israeli policies, including Israel's refusal, with U.S. support, to move towards a general political settlement."

More to come on this issue.

The Toppling of Saddam Statue Propaganda?

The link below is an entry that I came across on The Tribal Messenger. The entry suggests that the toppling of the the Saddam statue in April of 2003, may have been a staged event by the U.S. and the U.S. tax dollar backed FIF (Free Iraqi Forces). The event, as suspected by the author, was a propaganda move orchestrated by the Bush administration to rally ongoing support for U.S. activities in Iraq.

http://www.tribalmessenger.org/t-media/saddam-statue.htm

Tainted Lunch Meat : I love the money fires

Everyone here thought the Onion video about the National Money Hole was hilarious. I think. Anyway, apparently other more serious people are coming around to the conclusion that setting the bail-out money on fire, in a hole or not, is a more sensible idea than using it to invest in continually falling bank stocks. No longer questioning the wisdom of bail-outs, they seem to benefit the people they were intended to benefit. Not me. Still wondering why we get suckered into going along with bail-outs. Capitalism at it's finest, unless the ruling class is in some way inconvenienced, then socialism for them, jack for everyone else. Fucking bizarre that we can't see how badly we're being fleeced.

Second link found on Alternet , and followed to Sadly, No!