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News comes and goes quickly. Remember the
Phone
Hacking Scandal? Or The Ansbacher
Accounts?, the MP's
Expenses scandal?
How about David Drumm, Ray Burke, Willie O'Dea?
What about Abu Graib, rendition, the blockade on Cuba, the attempted
overthrow of Hugo Chavez, Contras, Weapons of Mass Destruction? No?
Move on and Forget, Consume and
Stay Silent. Or read someone like Jean-Paul Marat,
whose writings still ring true over 200 years after his death.
The landscape of our world is populated
with vast
mountain ranges of myth, each one studiously inflated with bluster and
probably bibulous froth by some "great man" or other. Most of these
great men lived in an age before electricity, before mankind had the
ability to use technology to seek out and share knowledge, before
x-rays, radar, cat scanners, telephones, cameras, hubble space
telescopes, or even reading glasses.
These myths are taught to us from an early
age, and
become part and parcel of the filter through which we view the outer
reality. They affect how we inter-react with the world and with other
people. They have become like crocodiles living deep within our
unconscious minds, only rising up to drag the offending thought back
down when something struggles on the
surface of our consciousness.
Self education is the only way to sort the
myths out
from the reality (whatever that is!) - hours of research and
comtemplation, by viewing the material with as little pre-judgement as
possible, and making up your own mind for yourself. Review what Darwin,
Malthus, Einstein, Newton, Leakey, Smith, Agassiz and all the rest of
the "great men" expounded, and use the mass of resources now available
on the internet and in the libraries to look at this web of interwoven
ideas, these mountains of myth, under the new spolight of modern
research.
Religion, of course, is one of the greatest
myths, as
expounded by pope leo "The myth of christ has served
us well". You can
pray to whichever
god you want, but dont expect him to save you in your hour
of need,
as
they don't do that for some reason. All religions have common
threads:
self-interest (help me god), compulsive-obsessive behaviour (do
5 hail
marys every day so that the sky
won't fall down), fear
of the unknown (the dominicans had vivid imaginations to say the
least),
and delusions
Who owns the world (or the largest part of
it?) The british queen
perhaps. And who owns Britain
and Ireland?
Without land every human is a slave, having to earn money to buy food,
instead of growing it on his own land. "Save our
countryside" the sycophants shout. Next time you travel down the
motorways, what do you see? Miles and miles of empty fields. Who owns
them? Why are the people herded into the concrete jungle? Nothing to do
with Enclosures or the grindstone of the Industrial revolution?
Is the Earth the centre of the universe? Is
the Sun
powered by nuclear energy? Were the craters on the moon (and indeed on
the Earth) caused
by bombardment? An electric universe? Check it out
Did the history of man really start in
Eden? Or as a monkey?
Or were there ancient civilisation that have been destroyed?
Where does money really come from and who
controls it? What is the reason for the collapse of Western Capitalism?
Heard of Echelon, Total
Information Awareness System, Carnivore,
the NSA, the NRO? These people have TOO much time on their hands, and too much
money to play with. Maybe using all that money to eradicate hunger,
provide housing and welfare and healthcare to the dusty masses of
impoverished people worldwide would be a better option than constantly
bombing them back to the Stone Age. Something like the Cubans do for free,
for example. If they can afford it, think of what the USA and Europe
could do!
Ever wondered why the dictatorships in
South America used to wear jackboots and goosestep?
Heard of about Project
Paperclip,
or the early development of the CIA? Or Project Artichoke / MKUltra? Come on people, get with the programme!
The Occupation of Wall Street - Sept 25
After 7 days of occupation, finally there
is a mention
in the mainstream press - mainly about unrurly protestors being
arrested. Did that happen in Green square, Egypt, or in Spain? Good God, they're asking for real democracy!
It was just a mistake that Yahoo blocked their emails.
The capitalist system must not be
questioned; it's a democracy for god's sake! Bonuses Must be paid.
Gary Null's "In the Name of Freedom, Peace, and Democracy"
These 2 podcasts are a concise history of the real
foreign policy persued by the powers that be
over the last number of decades. Forget about the rhetoric that flows
endlessly out of their mouths, discover the reality of what has
actually occurred. Gary's incisive research is excellent. Right-click
the links below and save the mp3 files to listen later, or left-click
to listen now.
In the Name of Fredom, Peace, and Democracy Part 1
In the Name of Fredom, Peace, and Democracy Part 2
Other of his talks are here
UN Speeches -The Headmasters walk out (as usual) - Sept
23
I wonder how many of them actually bothered
to read Ahmeninajad's speech?
Would they even have time, with all the Lunches they have to eat? Would
they even care what he said? I think not.
As far as giving Palestine recognition as a
state, they
have only been waiting for 30 years and have no oil. Read Mahmoud Abbas's speech, and see what he has
to say on the subject.
Luckily America has a democratic power of
veto (their vote counts for more, because they're worth it), so Obama's
speech is nothing surprising. The same goes for Netayahu's.
They are only a few pages long.
This
site shows a few statistics, and this
has few maps that may make the subject of that conflict a bit
clearer. Remember Kurdi Bear or brave Rachel Corrie? Heard about the Israelis who rebuild demolished Palestinian homes?
The Libyan
rebels?
Well that's another matter altogether. They have already been
recognized without any elections or suchlike. They Shall have a
democracy, at any cost, although it is difficult to see how civilians
are being protected by bombing them. And what's all this about Libya
already being
a democracy? People voting without
politicians? Such rotten behaviour! Only the Headmasters know what is
good for you.
News coverage of Ireland's upcoming budget - Sept 8
There has been a constant wittering on the
news
channels about the upcoming budget. Everything is presented as being in
a state of uncertainty. Why don't they (and you) just read the agreement
with the IMF? It is all clearly presented in that document.
Too much to read? Too depressing? Poor you,
roll over
and go back to sleep, or go and watch an episode of coronation street.
What are you doing here anyway?
Lies about Libya - Sept 8
This article
tells us what we need to know about the news media's coverage of Libya,
and a lot of other facts about the country. Notice that the mainstream
news has already gone quiet about it.
Spooks - Sept 6
All this talk of spooks in the UK and
elsewhere co-operating with spooks in Libya reminded me of the Lockerbie bombing
and the murder of PC Yvonne Fletcher.
How could we know what really happened? All
we can be
sure of is that all governments have consistently lied to us again and
again.
Astronaut in Salamanca? - Sept 6
It's a nice photo anyway!
Take
a look
Don't you just Love Facebook? - Sept 3
Who would have thought it?
They've only gone and made up false
facebook accounts to manipulate events.
And silly me thought that all egyptians
syrians iranians et al tweeted in english. Doooh!
Lizzie Phelan - Sept 2
As one of the few independant reporters in
Libya,
Lizzie and others were eventually able to get to safety after being
threatened. Great news that these brave people avoided whatever fate
the rebels had in store for them. Read the story here
Lizzie's wbsite has been shut down since
the invasion of Tripoli began, but you can see one of here last reports
from Libya here
Thanks to Lizzie and the other independant
reporters
for their bravery. I wish there were more like them, and less of the
mainstream rats who spread whatever lies they are told.
NATO surpasses itself - Aug 28
In the name of preventing a humanitarian
crisis,
Nato have gone one better and produced a real humanitarian disaster. No
water, no food, armed gangs roaming the streets, summary executions,
hospitals overwhelmed, massive civilian casualties, continual aerial
bombardment by Nato warplanes, you name it, they are doing it.
A great success!
An
article by Dr James B Thring, and one by Stephen
Lendman
Neutral in Shannon -August 2011
Showing a marvellous interpretation of the
meaning of "neutral", the Irish government did not want American military
transport to cease using Shannon airport as a stopover. Would it be
the same for Libyan military, or Venezuelan?
Looking at the figures presented in tables
in
the RTE article, there is a discrepancy between tonnes of "cargo"
arriving, and departing. What military stores are off-loaded in Ireland
which weigh in total 243 tonnes? Are they being stored in Shannon?
The London Riots -August 2011
It seems strange that HM government can mobilise 16,000 (yes thousand)
police people to cope with a bit of looting and a few burnt buildings
(cost: £100 million?) and arrest over 1000 people for petty crimes,
when they havent been able to arrest anyone over the looting of the
public purse of £850
billion
by the financial markets and various banks, nor have they mobilised
even 1600 police people to investigate those crimes. That's the
equivalent of 800+ brand new hospitals that could have been built this
year. Think of the employment that would have created. Maybe the
rioters could have gotten jobs out of it.
The damage done to property in London
during those
riots is not even as severe as ONE Nato airsrike, and there have been
over 1500 of them on Libya alone in the last few months. Every one of
those strikes has destroyed buildings,
infrastructure, and people. But nobody complains, and the press
slithers over the reports, making out that it is quite normal.
People inspect the rubble of a residential building, which Libyan
officials say was hit by a NATO air strike.
Mahmud Turkia/AFP/Getty Images. Image from National
Post
David Norris -July 2011
Yes, David Norris may have gotten "caught with his trousers down" for
pleading clemency for his boyfriend, but he wasn't
president then .
Whereas Moshe
Katzav was president
of the very country that leaked the document against Norris, and has
been convicted of rape. No one in the press thought to mention the fact
though.
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