Paul Craig Roberts at antiwar.com scared the crap out of me yesterday with a nice summary of what BushCo is actually going to get away with as he waves to the crowds on 1.20.09.The success of the Bush Regime's propaganda, lies, and deception with gullible and inattentive Americans since 9/11 has made it difficult for intelligent, aware people to be optimistic about the future of the United States. For almost 8 years the US media has served as Ministry of Propaganda for a war criminal regime. Americans incapable of thinking for themselves, reading between the lines, or accessing foreign media on the Internet have been brainwashed.
As the Nazi propagandist, Joseph Goebbels, said, it is easy to deceive a people. You just tell them they have been attacked and wave the flag.
It certainly worked with Americans.
Amazing that quotes like this aren't plastered all over the billboards of Generica.
Roberts goes on to list the damages:
1.25 million dead Iraqis.
4 million displaced Iraqis.
Iraq's infrastructure destroyed.
And we don't even know the death toll in Afghanistan.
What we do know is that all this murder and destruction has no justification and is evil. It is the work of evil men who have no qualms about lying and deceiving in order to kill innocent people to achieve their undeclared agenda.
That such evil people have control over the United States government and media damns the American public for eternity.
America will never recover from the shame and dishonor heaped upon her by the neoconned Bush Regime.
And apparently it's too much "shame and dishonor" for even The Messiah to allieviate, let alone address.
Even Obama, who promises "change" is too intimidated by the neocon's success in brainwashing the American population to do what his supporters hoped he would do and lead us out of the shame in which the neoconned Bush Regime has imprisoned us.
It's important, Roberts reminds us, to realize that the rest of the world isn't buying the lies anymore, if they ever did in the first place. Only the citizens of America, dumb as a stick, sit brainwashed in front of the corporate MSM buying this shit.
To what shit does Roberts refer?
9/11
WMDs in Iraq
al Qaeda connections
Yellowcake
Anthrax attacks
Iranian nukes
"The United States doesn't torture"
Bombings of weddings
Bombings of funerals
Bombings of children's soccer games
Abu Ghraib
Gitmo
Various fabricated "terrorist plots"
The assault on civil liberties
And so on...
John McCain declared: "In the 21st century nations don't invade other nations." Bush later echoed the same sentiment.
Really? Do we really live in a place where these two impotent old men can say such things and be challenged on them only by "fringe" embodiments like Dennis Kucinich?
I guess so. And I leave you with Roberts' necessarily bleak outlook on our future.
Unless enough Americans can overcome their brainwashed state and the rigged Diebold voting machines, turn out the imbecilic Republicans and hold the neoconservatives accountable for their crimes against humanity, a crazed neocon US government will provoke nuclear war with Russia.
The neoconservatives represent the greatest danger ever faced by the United States and the world. Humanity has no greater enemy.
And that's the quintessential truth, Ruth.
One love.
23 comments:
Dude, this is awesome, thanks for sharing that link and good post! I'm trying to convince myself this election is so important that I need to get out and work for Obama. Certainly the neocons would take a big hit with a Pres. Obama. They won't go away, but they'll be damaged.
Good read.
Coyote!!! Are you out there?? I'm going to lunch but I've gotta tell you guys what she sent me, it's SAWEEET!!
Yay! You got it! It's a small thing, but still pretty cool.
Thanks. It kinda sums up the current state of the world to me.
Coyote sent me this card, an ad for an up-coming Germs show. It's signed, "Hi, I'm Don's autograph" at the top, whom I assume is drummer Don Bolles, then there's a cartoon bubble over his face in the picture that reads, "Hi Jeff" in delightfully atrocious handwriting. That dude wrote a book, I think, you know anything about it, Coyote?
It's great, thanks so much! I'm gonna get it treated somehow or a little frame and hang it up in the bunker. It's AWEsome!!
Apparently, Don started out writing "Hi Steve" but my friend bonked him on the head and made him write "Jeff" instead. What a goof. And there was a book about the punk scene a couple years ago, I read it, but I can't remember the name of it. Wiki doesn't have the title either, at least not on the Germs page.
Oh, and yes, nice post, MV!
Um, yeah? Hello!! (rolls eyes)
Yeah. MV, this is a great point you don't hear much. The Damage Is Done, as Neil would say, and we've dug ourselves into a really dark, deep hole with this administration that only was in power because they stole two elections. They weren't even elected.
This was a good read, your post and the link.
Has anyone seen the 1st episode of "True Blood" I think it's called, the vampire show Sunday nights on HBO? I've watched it three times now, I dig it. Sexy, campy, creepy....or am I just too medicated?
I have it recorded still. Prolly watch it tonight.
I love vampire stuff, but I'm dumping HBO. I'll give the show a look on On Demand.
And a delightful photo. And your grammar was excellent! MV, you are a GOD!
Oh, and Fuck Ron Paul!
*wink*
Oh, and Fuck Ron Paul!
Ah, if only Dr. Paul would gimme the time of day.
Someone's got a man-crush!
He totally does, Coyote. He homo fo dat man!
Chuck from Sandfrog went up to MPLS for some RPaul gathering. He's really devoted.
I think you two are fookin' nuts, but I love ya.
I'm looking at my Germs card and grinning right now. Man, college was so awesome finding little bands playing in church basements and local bars and frat houses and convinced they're gonna be big. In my case it was The Bowery Boys and Titanic Love Affair in Champaign, then Chicago's Loud Lucy. Man, I followed those bands ANYwhere. I love these old ads, the Replacements' oral history has tons of 'em. Who woulda thunk to save them, though?
And I don't care what either of ya say, the vampire show on HBO is good fookin' stuff!
Glad to bring you good memories, sweetie! We had a couple local bands around here that we'd support at all the local clubs. One was all girl blues band, they even played at my friend's b-day party. I vaguely remember that one. I know another friend of mine was caught pissing in the yard, 'cos she didn't want to wait in line for the bathroom. 'Course she was known for her penchant for pissing anyone the mood struck her, even in downtown Seattle parking lots. Embarrassed me quite a few times...
Huh. I mean, guys pee everywhere, why not? I've never thought of this before, really. I've seen women do it. Hell, MV, here's a Norman Rockwell Moment: We were coming back from a football game in Champaign, we were young, don't remember how young, kids, and all the adults are fooked up from drinking all day, including the rides down and back, and Aunt Donna led our mom out to the middle of a corn field to take a pee. You remember this?
Hasn't every pissed in the woods or in a cornfield? We were outside as kids from sunup until 10 at night, and during the summer slept outside as well. That was in MI for me.
No, I'm talking about crouching behind the car on the third level of a parking garage outside the ballpark with families walking by. When my friend has to go, she goes.
Lexicon Devil was the name of the book. It wasn't specifically about the Germs, but about the scene they lived in. Stuff we heard tell of way back in flyover country, and always wanted to see. Not quite as romantic a life as you'd think, really.
I remember several family roadside pissings. And I've pissed on many a gravel road, snowy yard, corn field, garbage dumpster, and dorm room closet floor.
Fook it. Nature calls, whatchu gonna do?
Plan, maybe? Lesse, we're going 300 miles, should I have the big gulp or not? Plus this triple latte? Oy.
Course sometimes it's just easier to pull over, but I can time it so I sweat out what I take in and only have to stop between gas fillups.
And I have to say, I LOLed for a while; the parking garage had a painted floor, inclined toward the center for drainage. Luckily, my friend peed behind the van two spaces down, so whoever saw that thin trail of piss from the corner of the garage to the center of the floor wouldn't know who did the peeing!
Last time I was in Jeff's hometown of River City, I believe we pissed on something. It's vague in my memory, but I'm almost sure something outside got pissed on.
Jeez, I hope it wasn't anything at your house, dude.
Nah, I'm thinking downtown somewhere.
Fook it. Nature calls, whatchu gonna do?
Ain't it the truth... I even carry a roll when I gotta go #2. I don't care... my exeperience (or rule of law) has always been the closer I am to a commode the least I have to go... the further away I go, the more the urge to purge sets in.
And yes MV, most excellent post!
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