acts of war premeditated + cold-blooded = aggressive, illegal, Nuremberg-class war

.. AusBC ...

  .. + Barker ...

    .. = filthy lies

Thesis/Subtitle: These criminals - US+Zs - are rampaging across the world. Add UK & Aus = Anglo/Judaic then France etc. = prime perpetrators, plus their snivelling quisling sycophantic hangers-on (SQSH-Os) regimes (like Denmark (NATO useful idiot) or Sweden (pursuing Assange)), all must be stopped. Our so-called 'leadership' has and continues to fail: Tumbrels.

-=*=-

Preamble: One *could* think, that the ME correspondent for 'our' AusBC might be just in 'the wrong place and/or time.' Wrong. For about the 1st half of my life, the AusBC was pretty-well my exclusive 'news' source. Around the time of the '67 aggressive Zionist war on the immediate Arab world, I was deliberately misinformed by same AusBC. Proof: I was prepared to argue *against* the hapless Palestinians' cause = attempting to reverse the violent dispossession of almost an entire nation by invading aliens. It wasn't 'brave David' facing down the 'ugly Arab/Muslim hordes' but fully reversed; the Zionists attacked first - as they did after UNGA181, see Plan Dalet (Deir Yassin massacre, etc.), and have been so doing, right down to the current moment (illegal settlements, internationally so designated) - in order to steal ever-more of Palestinians' land/property. The fact that the AusBC *dares* misinform U,WTP = us, we the people convicts the AusBC as accessory to murder for spoil, there/then to here/now Palestinian soil. Ditto for murder for Afghanistan pipeline routes, Iraqi & Libyan oil, current subversion of Syria then Iran as next target - all to 'enable' US/Z murdering theft.

-=*=-

Trigger article 0:

Video Interview, Democracy Now
March 23, 2007
  «"We're going to take out seven countries in 5 years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran" --
General Wesley Clark. Retired 4-star U.S. Army general, Supreme Allied Commander of NATO during the 1999 War on Yugoslavia.» 
[democracynow via globalresearch/Amy Goodman]

Comment: It's called 'telegraphing their punches;' so hubristic were they (still are), that they told us (those who heard *and* listened) in advance. Not just Clark but well before him, PNAC = criminal US/Z cabal.

-=*=-

Trigger article 1:

Monitors hear pleas for intervention in Syria
By Middle East correspondent Anne Barker and wires
Updated December 28, 2011 11:02:50
  «"The regime used the last several days as an opportunity to escalate their attacks on several ... neighbourhoods in Homs and other cities prior to the deployment of these monitors," State Department deputy spokesman Mark Toner said.» 
[AusBC 'news'/111228, 11:02:50]

Comment 1: Associated video showed the monitors being harassed by 'activists.' One news broadcaster looked dreadfully crestfallen that no 'smoking guns' had been found; see another headline "Observers say 'nothing frightening' in Homs." Note: AusBC is now in the 'business' of revising history; what they publish may be replaced by a 2nd or 3rd ... 'bite,' so originally published content may be 'lost' to the world.

Comment 2: The cited text shows just who's 'pulling the strings' here. Other reports say 'no independent observers can confirm ...' - IMHO, *totally* giving the game away. One should not go to war on (lying) propaganda-rumours - ooops! - they already did, in this past year, in (hapless, oil-rich & previously high HDI) Libya.

Trigger article 2:

Iran threatens to block Strait of Hormuz
By Middle East correspondent Anne Barker and wires
Updated December 29, 2011 11:52:36
  «US State Department deputy spokesman Mark Toner had dismissed Mr Rahimi's threat as another attempt "to distract attention from the real issue, which is their continued non-compliance with their international nuclear obligations".
...
The United States and other Western countries accuse Iran of using its uranium enrichment program to build nuclear weapons, a charge which Tehran denies.» 
[AusBC 'news'/111229, 11:52:36]

Comment 1: "... their continued non-compliance with their international nuclear obligations" is an outright lie. If the US had any such real evidence, they would have obliterated most of Iran a very small few micro-secs after trumpeting same to the world.

Comment 2: According to the considered, collective verdict of all US 'intel'-agencies, Iran had abandoned any attempt at building a bomb, latest 2003. Yet almost every 'report' from Barker includes the above *unsupported* allegation in some form or other. Filthy propagansiste!

Comment 3: It may well be, that Iran could legally close Hormuz, see here for confirmation. Hmmm. The oil 'price' (not value) may sky-rocket - this time independently of speculators; see here for some discussion (like ~60% of oil price could be due to speculation by hedge funds, banks etc.).

-=*=-

Trigger article 3:

Syrian violence continues despite observer mission
By Middle East correspondent Anne Barker, wires
Updated December 29, 2011 23:24:27
  «Human rights activists say in the latest violence, security forces killed 14 civilians including a five-year-old child in the city of Homs, where observers spent two days touring restive neighbourhoods.
...
He said people were going down into the streets in Hama to await the delegation. Security was heavy and marksmen were seen on rooftops.» 
[AusBC 'news'/111229, 23:24:27]

Comment 1: This one's a real bewdie; one needs to read it all (with an appropriately jaundiced eye) to appreciate all the lying allegations. This s**t is called 'news?'

Comment 2: "... marksmen were seen on rooftops" was a propaganda technique also deployed before the NATO rape of Libya; it is effective because the (lying) allegation causes fear and revulsion - in the target *audience* = us, we the people = 'manufacturing consent' = we just shuddup & resign ourselves to yet another round of mass-murdering for spoil.

Comment 3: In general, any 'activist' opposing the US/Zs is called a 'terrorist' and may be summarily executed by drone, say = extra-judicial killing = murdered without due process, or any other process except the US/Zs' arbitrary say-so. On the other hand, all 'activists' opposing a US/Z-declared enemy are embraced by the AusBC & other criminally lying sycophants; we are to hang off their every (lying) word. Self interest, anybody? See what happened in Libya; one of the 1st changes was to establish a new (rogue) central bank, ??? Good system! Great for truth & justice!

-=*=-

Fazit: Our so-called 'leaders' are corrupt = criminal psychopaths and/or totally insane; spruiking lies as they send 'our boys' off to foreign = invasive wars grounded in lies. The taxpayer-supported AusBC is corrupt & venal, just like the commercial MSM - they not only transmit but actively extend the leaders' lies. In a so-called 'democracy,' the leaders are supposed to represent U,WTP = us, we the people, and implement the will of the majority whilst safeguarding all minorities. Concentrating the world's wealth into the hands of a fraction of 1% - by a crooked economics system = neoliberalism, including military intervention = mass-murdering for spoil is *not* in our interest: Tumbrels, for murder/theft-ordering leaders & pro-war liars both. And do not forget for the smallest part of a pico-sec that they are also driving us deep into unsustainability vis-à-vis resource depletion and deadly pollution (excess CO2 = climate-crash) both.

lies suspected when the reporter is Anne Barker

.. we just ...

  .. do not 'do' ...

    .. coincidences

Thesis/Subtitle: Just one lie = all credibility gone

-=*=-

Trigger article:

Syrian forces 'ordered to shoot to kill'
By Middle East correspondent Anne Barker and wires
Updated December 16, 2011 10:02:35
  «A report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) says Syrian soldiers were given orders to "shoot to kill" in the crackdown against anti-government protesters.» 
[AusBC/Barker]

Comment 1: Notice how it's done; HRW "is an international non-governmental organization that conducts research and advocacy on human rights. Its headquarters are in New York City and" ... it is 'privately' financed and has neither official standing nor accountability. They, as anyone, are free to tell us lies, and producing 'activists' or 'lists of names' could all be totally fictitious.

Comment 2: To be effective, pro-war propaganda has to push some lie, and a good way of doing that is to shock the audience - as here, as earlier in Libya, by mentioning snipers. Any regime fearing US/NATO/Z attack would be mad to provoke such, so it is unreasonable to think that snipers would be deployed by a government against their own people. Whatever these alleged tyrants, be they US- or Z-claimed enemies are, they are not idiots, so all such sniper-talk must be considered outright lies ahead of any other explanation.

-=*=-

One has to consider demonstrated form, modus operandi and cui bono?

The world's #1 & #2 monster rogue-regimes are the US & Zs; instead of peace being allowed to break out after WW2 we got the twin A-bomb war crimes by the US against Japan (justified as 'saving US lives' = since proved to be total bullshit), then the incredible injustice of the aggressive, murdering invasion of Palestine by alien Zionists. Basically, the violence against civilian populations in resource-owning countries coveted by the US & Zs has not stopped since then. Latest victims are Afghanistan, Iraq & Libya, the aggression against Syria is being 'ramped up' and has been continuous against Iran since 1979, when Iranians broke free - by popular, largely violence-free revolution - from the US-puppet installed after the UK&US deposed the democratic Mossadegh (How the United States Destroyed Democracy in Iran in 1953.)

The criminal viciousness of the US & Zs is not often mentioned, let alone ever fully discussed in the corrupt & venal MSM, and the fact that I personally was wickedly ill-informed by the AusBC re: Israel is my proof of the AusBC's participation in the 'conspiracy of lies and silence' waged against us, we the people.

You can see AusBC propaganda in full-flight in almost any report on Iran by-lined by Barker (time of writing: 'About 354 results'), for example hardly an article goes by without her (by her own hand, or by 'stenographing' the reports of others, as with the above HRW's) - without the appearance of some arrangement of 'Iran is suspected of building an A-Bomb,' (try "The international community must stop, before it is too late, Iran's race for nuclear weapons which endanger the whole world"), when no one, including all US intel, can provide a single shred of credible evidence that it may be so.

Consider this AusBC report:

US military marks end of its Iraq war
Updated December 15, 2011 23:30:18
  «The withdrawal ends a war that left tens of thousands of Iraqis and nearly 4,500 American soldiers dead, many more wounded and 1.75 million Iraqis displaced, after the 2003 US-led invasion unleashed brutal sectarian fighting.» 
[AusBC/'news']

Comment: Specifically, this bit: "tens of thousands of Iraqis" dead.

A *credible* report by the Lancet published on 11 October 2006, methodology approved by the UK military, estimated 654,965 excess deaths - a vast difference from '10s of 1000s,' and other, more current estimates are well over 1.4mio dead, with 2mio+ internally displaced and another 2mio+ fled the country.

As for "sectarian fighting," no one knows how many of the terrorist bombings are 'black-flag' covert ops (CIA, Mossad, MI6) - recall the two Poms caught in Basra with their car full of bomb-making materials (caught red-handed with all the tools necessary to launch "suicide bombs" against the people); when they were incarcerated by Iraqis, the UK sent tanks in to bust them out of gaol.

Democracies simply cannot function properly with a deceived electorate - not to mention the deaths inflicted by the monster rogue-regimes in their filthy murdering for spoil (soil, oil.)

The world is facing an excess-CO2 caused climate-change catastrophe, but inaction prevails, partly caused all eyes keep being dragged back to the ME, all because of the deliberately inflicted presence of the criminal Zionist murdering for soil = land/property-thieves, and the US coveting of oil = ditto murdering-thieves.

It's wrong and it must be stopped; a good place to start is to stop AusBC/Barker telling us lies.

being wrong still doesn't stop erring ideologists - too bad

.. if at first ...

  .. you don't succeed ...

    .. keep trying 'more of the same?'

Preamble: "The sky is falling! Quick, do something!"

-=*=-

Trigger article:

Merkel, Sarkozy unveil tough eurozone plan
Updated December 06, 2011 13:29:45
  «The two leaders backed automatic sanctions against EU member states whose deficits go over 3 per cent of gross domestic product.
They also called for a "reinforced and harmonised golden rule" on deficits, which could oblige some states to enshrine the commitment to balance their public finances in their constitution or legislation.» 
[AusBC/'news']

Comment: Typical neoliberal rubbish, here "balance their public finances."

More:

  «"The goal that we have with the chancellor is for an agreement to have been negotiated and concluded between the 17 members of the eurozone in March, because we must move quickly," Mr Sarkozy said, warning of a "forced march to re-establish confidence in the euro and the eurozone".» 
[AusBC/'news,' ibid.]

Comment: Why the rush? To force action before others can think?

More:

  «With debt contagion threatening to spread throughout the eurozone, Italy kicked off a critical week by presenting a draconian package of cuts, taxes and pension reforms to parliament as Europe tries to pick up the pace to keep the euro alive.» 
[AusBC/'news,' ibid.]

Comment 1: Typical neoliberal rubbish, here "a draconian package of cuts, taxes and pension reforms" = IMF-type SAPs.

Comment 2: IMHO, "debt contagion" is a furphy; as the speculators cripple one country (bankrupted by soaring interest rates [hereafter shortened to %s], aggravated when not actually caused by short-selling, say), the speculators move on to the next. That's not 'contagion' but serial crime.

More:

  «Prime Minister Mario Monti warned that Italy risks a Greek-style "collapse" if it is not adopted, as financial markets cheered the proposals.» 
[AusBC/'news,' ibid.]

Comment: Who is more important here, financial markets or the people?

More:

  «It was hoped that the proposals would be seen as a credible guarantee that eurozone governments will at last bring their deficits under control and satisfy restive markets.» 
[AusBC/'news,' ibid.]

Comment 1: Is the correct description 'satisfy restive markets' OR 'ward off speculator attacks?'

Comment 2: This ('restive markets') is 'the crunch,' not the two others mentioned in the cited article; more on crunches below. Here is one more, a 'double' quote:

  «European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi has said he could then take action, and many hope the bank will intervene to protect European banks from a credit crunch and buy bonds to rein in soaring rates on government borrowing.
However, Mr Sarkozy said that Germany and France were "in complete agreement to say that eurobonds are in no case a solution to the crisis, in no case."
"How can we convince others to make the efforts we are making ourselves if we pool our debts as of now? None of this makes any sense," he said.» 
[AusBC/'news,' ibid.]

Comment 1: Note that Draghi and Merkozy do not agree. As well as 'the crunch,' we have 'the controversy' = they can't agree = another way of saying that there is *no* acceptable theory. This doesn't necessarily mean no theory at all - after all, 'neoliberalism' is theory - but few and none effectively ('officially') contest this - IMHO *erring* - theory. What we can see is neoliberalism failing in practice, just that nobody ('officially') acknowledges the failure. I write "('officially')" to distinguish 'what they say' (OR what they don't say) from observable reality.

Comment 2: Another key here is "soaring rates;" the EU *on purpose*, does not have a facility like the Aus' RBA, which may set the 'official' %. Nooo, they in the EU have to go to 'the market' to borrow, and 'the market' sets the % = out of all control, except 'the market,' which may be (massive understatement) polluted by speculators, all of whom wish to get rich soonest, so it's in the interest of 'the market' to extract the biggest profit, fastest. Get my drift, here? Hint: What of the people's interests?

Comment 3: This illustrates one of the problems with 'economic rationalism,' namely they always try and often succeed to *sound* rational. Best example: We (the people) have to balance our budgets, so why not countries? It is, of course, a fallacious argument, *proven* by the US deficit, currently 'reported' at ~15trio (but what of the ~13-16trio 'given' to the WallSt. banksters' bail-outs?) The US has *no* intention whatsoever, of *ever* paying their deficit off.

Comment 4: Next, try "TINA!" (Thatcher's "There is no alternative!") There was then, just as there is now, some alternative. Tip: IF hear "TINA!" THEN run the other way. Merkozy (as others) claim threatening debt-bombs, but they were deliberately constructed, 1st by (neoliberalism) cutting govt. income (typically cutting taxes off the rich 1%) and trying to cut services (typically off us, the other 99% *non-rich* rest), but coming up short - and so 2nd, going into debt. A 3rd is the 'nature of the beast,' namely that all $s/€s/whatevers are a) now fiat and b) issued ('printed') as debt (consider the BND, mentioned elsewhere. But quickly, IF a government bank issues *all* the money, THEN that government also collects *all* the % and is in a *much* better budget position, including delivering services = to the %, effectively 'for free!')

Comment 5: Not for nothing, does the expression 'bankster' exist. Since 15Aug'71, when Nixon dropped the gold-standard (some say: The US went broke), all $s(€s/whatevers) are fiat = arbitrarily printed. Even when some money was 'real' (= gold, say), 'leverage' was used by the banks, this being called 'fractional reserve banking.' In a nutshell, this enabled 'trading' banks to issue a multiple, say 10*, of the 'real' money they had on deposit at the central bank, then loaning that out at some % = 'earning' massive, *unearned* profits! As for banksters, 'trading' banks have a literal 'right' to print their own money = a rip-off, and *proof* of the expression 'bankster.'

Comment 6: The sky never falls on its own; there is no Q: "Did it fall or was it pushed," it is *always* pushed. In this case by neoliberalism, cutting taxes off the 1% and loading charges onto the 99% - who, because of another charming aspect of our (actually, not 'ours' but 'theirs' = corrupt economists', banksters', politicians' et al., aka the filthy swindlers') erring ideology - because of a reverse = down-side of neoliberalism, namely globalisation (off-shoring, down-sizing, part-timing, sub-contracting, lean-and-meaning, etc.), we the people are more than a bit 'down-income' = poorer, and so can't compensate for the fat-cats' tax-cuts. Result is rich richer, govts, as us, poorer.

Fazit; the really BIG Q: Where are the decent thinkers, the clever, compassionate & countervailing force, to bring these crims (corrupt economists, banksters, politicians et al.) to justice? Oh yeah, whilst bringing those brigands to justice, don't forget the liars in the almost universally corrupt & venal MSM, incl. big bits of the AusBC.

IF in an 'ole THEN stop digging UNLESS erringly ideological

.. neoliberalism ...

  .. foist upon us 'unasked' ...

    .. bipartisanly = un- & anti-democratically

Musing: I recall some debate; contra = 'race to the bottom,' pro = 'a rising tide lifts all boats' and 'a smaller slice of a larger pie may actually turn out bigger.' Also, neoliberalism was sold as if it would enable the poverty-struck to pull themselves out of their misery. Well, we can see how well it all worked out; lots of the already-rich got richer, and many/most of the non-rich rest got viciously ripped-off = *further* impoverished.

There's only one 'real' question, Q: Did they know what they were doing?

Suggested A1: No, all the damage was 'accidental' = 'they' were pig-higorant = criminally negligent, or

Suggested A2: Yes, all the damage was deliberately inflicted = 'they' were outright criminal; but whatever, in both cases 'they' must be brought to justice.

As usual with major crime, we have the prime-perpetrators = 'they,' the string-pullers, the 'powers behind the throne.' 'They' are basically hidden, for it's not openly acknowledged that in our democracies, there may be 'outside influencers' - who have purchased 'special considerations.' But that's obviously what's happened; the prime-perpetrators have their accessories, first the so-called 'leaders' = politicians - of both 'sides' (bipartisan = un- & anti-democratic), here more often than not acting *against* our, we the people's interests. Then come the rest of the perpetrator/exploiter/accessories forming the M/I/C/4a-plex[1], and dragging along at the rear, the various apologists, including the pro-war + pro-crime = pro-corruption internet trolls. Since the perpetrators' modi operandi include deception, oppression and murdering theft, I see only one effective solution: Tumbrels, then a new start; this time down the correct, socially just path.

-=*=-

Trigger article 1, some history:

Debt and Democracy – Has the Link Been Broken?
By Michael Hudson
December 02, 2011
  «By giving taxpayers this voice in government, the Dutch and British democracies provided creditors with much safer claims for payment than did kings and princes whose debts died with them. But the recent debt protests from Iceland to Greece and Spain suggest that creditors are shifting their support away from democracies. They are demanding fiscal austerity and even privatization sell-offs.
...
This is being dictated by financial proxies euphemized as technocrats. Designated by creditor lobbyists, their role is to calculate just how much unemployment and depression is needed to squeeze out a surplus to pay creditors for debts now on the books. What makes this calculation self-defeating is the fact that economic shrinkage – debt deflation – makes the debt burden even more unpayable.» 
[ICH, nakedcapitalism/Michael Hudson]

Comment: One could recall "no taxation without representation." It's no good for representatives to 'do what they want;' first they have to present a 'platform' then proceed to honour their 'mandate.' But not only, as our representatives they must do their best *for us*, not kowtow to just anyone offering them $s. Consider: The representative model's time has passed; time to stop the lies, cut out the politician middle-wo/men & move to 100% *direct* democracy.

Trigger article 2, some ideas:

Dec 1, 2011
ECB a barrier to crisis exit
By Ellen Brown
  «One solution might be for the publicly-owned banks of eurozone governments to exercise their right to borrow from the ECB at 1.25%, then use that liquidity to buy up the country's debt, or as much of it as does not sell at auction. (The Federal Reserve does this routinely in open market operations in the US.) The government's securities would be stabilized, keeping speculators at bay; and the government would get the interest spread, since it would own the banks and would get the profits back as dividends.» 
[atimes/Ellen Brown]

Comment 1: Note: "keeping speculators at bay;" why are we still being plagued by such scum?

Comment 2: There are few publicly-owned banks, i.e. Aus' C'wlth was privatised by Labor (traitors). So the first step is to nationalise the trading banks, whilst disbanding the investment banks (as being more than merely un- but counter-useful.) Whereas 'nationalise' may be synonymous with socialism, itself next to communism, the right-wing rhetoric becomes tiresome. Time to return to what's known to work, as opposed to the predominate US-brand of capitalism = mindless exploitation = *erring* ideology.

More:

  «Europe is in the process of being "structurally readjusted" by a private banking cartel. If its people are to resist this silent conquest, they need to rise up and, using the ballot box and public banks, throw out the new banking hegemony before it is too late.» 
[Ellen Brown, ibid.]

Comment: One big, if not *the* biggest problem is that the people don't even realise the details of what's really going on (= threatening financial collapse and/or serfdom), thanks, but "No, thanks!" to the corrupt & venal MSM (including 'national' = taxpayer-funded broadcasters like the AusBC), misinforming the people = deliberately omitting info - when not telling outright lies[2]. I term this process the pushed-propaganda paradigm, dumbing the people down (i.e. the sheople are being ppp-dd'd.)

Trigger article 3, some reality:

By Marshall Auerback
Eurozone Catastrophe: How Saving the Euro Could Mean Blood on the Streets
The whole future shape of Europe must be resolved in a week or so. It’s a high-stakes game of poker that the Germans are determined to win--at the expense of misery for many.
December 2, 2011
  «The eurozone is facing two distinct, but related, problems: Problem #1 is a national solvency issue, which only the European Central Bank (ECB) can solve. Problem #2 is deficient "aggregate demand" (a fancy term for the spending power of consumers), which calls for a stronger fiscal policy response to offset declining investment and purchases in the private sector.
...
The only institution in the EMU that can spend without recourse to prior funding is the ECB. That is the consequence of the flawed design of the monetary system that the neo-liberal conservatives in Europe forced upon the member states at the inception of the common currency.
...
From what I can see, there's no chance that the ECB would fund and at the same time mandate the higher deficits needed for a recovery, because the Germans will never allow it. In which case the only thing that will end the austerity is blood on the streets in sufficient quantity to trigger chaos and a change in governance.» 
[alternet/Marshall Auerback]

Comment 1: 'National insolvency' is a direct result of, primarily, deliberately reducing govt. income - by cutting taxes off the 1%, say. 'Deficient aggregate demand' is a direct result of, primarily, cutting wages, opportunities (via off-shoring), conditions & benefits from the 99%. Both govt. income & expenditure cuts result from the neoliberal *erring ideology*, as opposed to any *proven* theory. Proof is in the results.

Comment 2: We have the choice; wait for the damage THEN try to recover OR act soonest on what we can foresee, trying to save a lot of BIG TROUBLE in advance. Prevention is better than cure.

Fazit: the current result could hardly have been better for the 1%, or much worse for the 99%, and since we don't 'do' coincidences, I presume neoliberalism was thusly designed. Our so-called 'leaders' have sold us out = betrayed us; they are nothing other than filthy traitors. The 'normal' penalty for treason = execution, hence tumbrels. For both the string-pullers and the M/I/C/4a-plex order-givers, plus their should-know-better order-takers, and ditto for apologists = pro-crime + pro-war = pro-corruption internet trolls, say; off to gaol with the lot - some directly to death-row.

-=*end*=-

PS I, as a dilettante/dabbler with 'normal' allocation of brains and time, can see what's going on, as could anyone in my circumstances = able to bypass the 'info-gatekeepers' = the corrupt & venal MSM. IF I can see (proof = this article + citations), THEN what of the so-called 'leaders' = politicians with big-$ backing, supposedly clever staffs, not to mention the 'real' bastions of deep-thought = university departments (like economics, say?) The magnitude of the problems speak directly to the so-called leaders' (+ accessories', apologists') failures; once more: Tumbrels.

-=*=-

Ref(s):

[1] M/I/C/4a-plex = Military-Industrial (as per Eisenhower), then Congress (US for parliaments), the 4th Estate = corrupt & venal (including lying) MSM and 'a' = whatever parts of academia wanted by the 1% and prepared to sell-out - which seems to be lots, starting with economics (neoliberalism, 'economic rationalism,' globalisation; all together = race to the bottom for workers, wages & conditions) and psychology (more lying = scientifically designed propaganda).

[2] lie2  -n. 1 intentionally false statement (tell a lie). 2 something that deceives. -v. (lies, lied, lying) 1 tell a lie or lies. 2 (of a thing) be deceptive.  give the lie to show the falsity of (a supposition etc.). [Old English] [POD]

I can't complain nobody listens

.. but not only ...

  .. does nobody listen ...

    .. nobody ever improves anything

Thesis/Subtitle: The so-called 'world leadership' are not 'merely' corrupt & incompetent - they are viciously criminal, why is this *allowed*?

Musing: Each day goes by, little different from the preceding. No problem seems to change unless it gets worse; consider the themes of the day ... year ... century: Most important, excess-CO2 climate-change catastrophe, then war, economy, politics and so on down to family-life, health & education, jobs etc.. (another 'merely;' like basic survival issues.)

-=*=-

1. Climate/survival. Google: climate conference durban 2011

About 6,460,000 results

Hit #1:

Divergent views signal tough climate talks ahead
  «US chief delegate Jonathan Pershing said the United States, which shunned Kyoto as unfair, would accept legally binding emissions limits in the future as long as all major emitters took on equal legal obligations.
...
Opposition in Congress, which includes outspoken climate skeptics and a Republican majority generally considered climate-unfriendly, has prompted a widespread belief that US negotiators are foot-dragging on emissions issues. ...» 
[dawn/AP]

Comment: Instead of pursuing the only possible effective strategy - sharply *reduce* digging coal, sharply *reduce* pumping oil, then keep reducing the fossil-carbon burn until CO2 drops *below* a safe level, they haggle over details, all shouting "You first!" - But hardly anyone acts, so far nobody effectively, as is *proven* by the following:

Trigger article 1:

Scientists sound alarm over Southern Ocean warming
AM
By Bronwyn Herbert
Updated November 29, 2011 14:20:38
  «He says satellite measurements show the Southern Ocean has been warming by about 0.2 degrees Celsius per decade.
"One of the impacts of a warming ocean may be that the ice that flows off Antarctica into the ocean may melt more rapidly," he said. ...» 
[AusBC/'news']

Comment: Idiotic 'climate sceptics' shout "Prove it!" - Melting Southern ice proof enough? Perhaps not, so:

Trigger article 2:

Arctic sea ice is melting at its fastest pace in almost 40 years
  «Arctic sea ice has melted to a level not recorded since satellite observations started in 1972 – and almost certainly not experienced for at least 8,000 years, say polar scientists.
...
Last year (2010) tied with 2005 as the warmest year on record.» 
[guardian/environment]

Comment: That's both north & south ice; perhaps no amount of proof will ever be enough for some sceptics, but that should not stop properly clever, *real* leaders - from saving our once jewel-like planet's comfortable life-sustaining ecosphere.

-=*=-

2. War/murder for spoil. Google: Syrian forces murder, torture and rape

About 1,300,000 results

Hit #3:

Syrian army murdering, torturing, raping: UN
By North America correspondent Jane Cowan, wires
Updated November 29, 2011 13:53:42
  «The UN commission of inquiry interviewed more than 200 victims, witnesses and defectors.
It concluded Syrian military and security forces had committed crimes including murder, torture and rape. ...» 
[AusBC/'news']

Comment 1: Further down in the story, this: « ... and grant access to media, aid workers and human rights monitors.»

So, to a Q: IF they are demanding access, THEN they don't have it (or don't have enough), so how can they «... interview more than 200 victims, witnesses ...?» Throughout this whole 'Syrian saga,' reports have repeated that reports cannot be verified - looping, on *no* information. Which itself strongly suggests that the UN is believing something (here, the worst about Syria) - in the absence of evidence. Or simply lying outright.

Comment 2: Not just the AusBC which is corrupt & venal, but most of the (mainly 'Western') MSM as well; they retail lies but not only, they embellish = assist the lying, criminal perpetrators, here the aggressors preparing to strike Syria.

Comment 3: Other stories mention snipers - as did the stories about Libya, and children being killed. Snipers are by definition hidden; how to the reporters presume to prove their allegations? In clear text, how would anyone know that snipers were active? If children are in the demos - unlikely, even less likely to be targeted by government forces, why are children there at all? (Possible A: To flash V-for-victory signs for the Hollywood camera teams.) What of parental responsibility?

Comment 4: Stories of snipers, rape etc. are *most likely* to be nothing but lying propaganda, because of the revulsion the stories are designed to invoke. Good one, AusBC.

Comment 5: Here, of course, I'm not blaming Syria, but the gathering murder-for-spoil vultures about to add to this (post 9/11) list: Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and after Syria is destroyed, Iran next. All ME, all Muslim/Arab, all oil-owners and/or in some way 'enemies' of Israel, that illegitimate and murdering land/property thief foist upon the world by the I/J/Z-plex, with 'great' power support = UK + US, 'allowed' via the corrupted UN - and apparently tolerated when not sycophantically supported by the majority - of so-called *leaders* (as distinct from we, the people.)

-=*=-

3. Economy/erring ideology. Google: obama US help EU but no money

About 46,300,000 results

Hit #1:

Obama offers EU support, but no money
(Nov. 28)

  «Wary of Europe's deepening debt crisis, President Barack Obama said Monday the United States stands ready to do its part to help the continent, even as the White House ruled out any financial contributions from U.S. taxpayers. ...» 
[washingtonpost/video]

Comment 1: How can the US help, without moving some $s? Cheering? - "C'mon!" - Yeah, that would just about do it.

Comment 2: The fact that the EU has a crisis, and even more, the fact that the world got the GFC thrust upon it/us, means that the economic theories they 'adhere' to are nothing other than *bloody rubbish*.

Comment 3: That the economic theories they 'adhere' to are *rubbish* has been long known (to this observer); we can see how neoliberalism, 'economic rationalism,' globalisation; all together = race to the bottom for workers, wages & conditions has worked - see immediately prior comment 2 - yet I hear no so-called 'leader' deny neoliberalism, only ever doing 'more of the (neoliberal) same' = known disaster. Why? Are they all sooo stupid?

-=*=-

4. Life, the universe and everything.

Dear reader, by now you might have seen my point; the penny might have dropped. I could go on, but I'm assuming you don't have all day to read an ever-longer litany of woes. Either your family-life, health & education, jobs etc. are all under control or not, and let us not get 'hung up' on individual stories, but look to a bigger picture. Which is grim, and exactly my point.

-=*=-

Fazit; long story short: Our so-called 'leaders' are not 'stand-alone,' they have advisors, whole government departments, university faculties, private think-tanks etc., all churning out, one might expect, the best possible advice.

Ignoring what they say, in favour of inspecting what they actually do, one may see that what they, our so-called 'leaders' are producing are utter disasters, as good as everywhere we look.

Recalling 'the best possible advice,' and think of the computing GIGO = garbage-in, garbage-out, it can only mean that the orders to the advisors are specifically to create the criminal-chaos we see resulting.

Dear reader, you may now make your own conclusion to this, my sad tale.

the leaky bucket vs. the magic pudding- somebody is lying

.. we, the people are immersed in a lie-cloud ...

  .. namely, the pushed-propaganda paradigm ...

    .. forcibly dumbed-down - but what about the liars?

Thesis: OWS blames the 1% (= ultra-rich) for the troubles inflicted on the 99% (= we, the people).

Me: I blame a wider group, namely the M/I/C/4a-plex[1]; of course, these are mainly 'front' organisations for the actual beneficiaries, the aforesaid (possibly fewer than) 1% = the obscenely rich - who, oddly enough, just can't get enough (here $s), so they drive the M/I/C/4a-plex to make the mostly already rich *ever richer*, partly by ripping us (we, the people) off but not only; they rip much of rest of the world off as well (like any/all resource-owner/producers, especially oil, or in the criminally tragic case of stolen = invader-Z improperly-alienated Palestine, soil). And if the resource-owner/producers don't immediately capitulate/surrender their patrimony, then in goes the US (or Z) military (see Perkins' "Economic Hit Man").

-=*=-

I don't need to prove my above assertions; all any fair person needs to do is a) open their eyes and b) *look* - all obvious (once the 'normal,' usually TV-propagated 'ppp/dd conditioning' is bypassed/abandoned).

Also obvious, is that US-style capitalism (no other style currently permitted) - seems to *need* rip-offs and criminal violence up to and including mass-murder for spoil (prototyped in pre-'48 Palestine (Plan Dalet, Deir Yassin massacre, etc.), all the 63+ years to today passing illegal invasions of Iraq, latest Libya and Iran next?) - in order just to struggle along. Surely, if they didn't need it, they wouldn't do it? (Risking Nuremberg-class punishment, say.) Looks like they do it, not 'merely' because they can, but because they *want* to. To save our world, the 1% + M/I/C/4a-plex cannot be allowed to so continue.

-=*=-

So, what's about 'the leaky bucket vs. the magic pudding?'

Well, that's another thing the 'new economics' seems to need - permanent growth, i.e. a 'magic pudding.'

Seems to need - but doesn't exist, because of the 'leaky bucket' twice; once since we have a finite planet ("Limits to Growth," 1972), and 2nd because of 'leakage' = 2nd law of thermodynamics = everything wears out, full-stop. Part of the leakage & 2nd law combined is pollution; IF we poison the planet THEN we all stand to die sooner, if carried too far then the human race itself may be endangered. CO2 is a pollutant, it is going / has gone into excess, the Arctic ice is melting; no coincidences, please.

-=*=-

One glaring, outright & deliberate lie[2] is all one needs to derail the 1%-wagon, and 'needs - but doesn't exist' is such a grievous lie exposed, twice. Of course, there are many other lies, outrageous on their face, like “increasing productivity by reducing workers' wages & conditions is good for you!” Shame, also twice, a) that they push such lies, then b) that such lies are apparently 'accepted' (then recall 'ppp dd' = pushed-propaganda paradigm dumbed-down.)

Another glaring, outright & deliberate lie is that 'the market knows best,' and so it goes. *All* these pernicious neoliberal lies are culminating in economic collapse almost everywhere, to which the currently preferred 'fix' is austerity - which will only drive the collapses further, faster.

Previously mentioned, and cannot be ignored, is the excess-CO2 climate-catastrophe cliff, which the 1% + M/I/C/4a-plex are driving the world over - aka down the tor-let.

-=*=-

Only a few of the lies we are immersed in have been mentioned, but the lying, on important topics, is practically seamless (indeed, the lies form a coordinated, 'narrative' guided - but nevertheless false - tapestry). Since we are lied to, we cannot make rational electoral decisions (possible exception: Choose your preferred liar.) Since the so-called 'representatives' once elected proceed to abuse our interests, any so-called 'democracy' we may be offered is a total sham. So we, the people have no effective input, are allowed none.

Long story short: The rulers are stuffing the world up.

Q: Where is the countervailing force, the truly smart people who could stop the vicious, lying & criminal 1% + M/I/C/4a-plex killing our once jewel-like planet, dragging *all* of us down with it?

-=*end*=-

Ref(s):

[1] M/I/C/4a-plex = Military-Industrial (as per Eisenhower), then Congress (US for parliaments), the 4th Estate = corrupt & venal (including lying) MSM and 'a' = whatever parts of academia wanted by the 1% and prepared to sell-out - which seems to be lots, starting with economics (neoliberalism, 'economic rationalism,' globalisation; all together = race to the bottom for workers, wages & conditions) and psychology (more lying = scientifically designed propaganda).

[2] lie2  - n. 1 intentionally false statement (tell a lie). 2 something that deceives.  - v. (lies, lied, lying) 1 tell a lie or lies. 2 (of a thing) be deceptive.  give the lie to show the falsity of (a supposition etc.). [Old English] [POD]

you don't know what you've got ‘Til it's gone - google's lying cache

.. one thing I condemn ...

  .. *more* than censorship ...

    .. is deliberately damaged data

Thesis/Subtitle: Lying is a crime; it's the entry crime enabling progress to cheating, theft & murder.

-=*=-

Q: Why do crims rob banks?

A: It's where the money is.

Similarly, crims cannot have (successful) lives of crime without lying about it - for to admit to a crime is (normally) a one-way ticket straight to gaol (*un*-normal = if the cops are corrupt pigs and/or the laws are rigged. Hmmm, think about corrupt cops & rigged laws for a few secs. Our so-called 'leadership' has a lot to answer for - only just laws may earn respect; only cops on our, we the people's side can properly support just laws.)

Point: IF google sabotages its own cache THEN it means that the cache/index is not correct; that means a google search is *not* guaranteed to return correct results - which is a crime against truth.

I have proof of such errors, i.e. that the cache -> index is not correct.

Note: *One* data/cache/index fault = error puts *all* into question;

 - one cannot know what is *missing* from any search.

  .. you don't know what you've got ‘Til it's gone...

if US democracy has any meaning at all, then it's this: ABO; means Anyone But Obama

.. IF reps play up ...

  .. THEN no option but ...

    .. de-elect (Note: *after* the damage is done!)

Thesis/Subtitle: One must *never* reward such malfeasance.

-=*=-

Trigger article:

Obama’s Pepper Spraying Cops
November 22, 2011
Dave Lindorff
OpEd
  «The Obama presidency has been one of the greatest disasters for progressives in modern history, as a man who ran for office promising change and a new respect for the Constitution, almost immediately picked up where his predecessor had left off, escalating the country’s illegal wars, enlarging the share of the nation’s wealth going to the Pentagon and to the secret intelligence services, shoveling money to the biggest banks, endorsing the torture abuses at Guantanamo and at the many CIA black-sites around the world, authorizing the summary execution of American citizens abroad, and ignoring the looming catastrophe of global climate change.» 
[eurasiareview/Lindorff]

Comment: Agreed without the 'almost;' Obama's villainy began even before his 'reign' started by his refusal to condemn the then-current Z-atrocity, being the slaughter of ~1400 Palestinians, mostly civilian, in the 08/9 illegal, full-on military attack on the (open-air prison) Gaza.

For the entire world, Obama's been a one-way, *bad* trip.

He should not be allowed to stay, full stop.

euthanasia of the rentiers

Keywords: Out-sourcing, off-shoring, down-sizing, lean- & mean-ing.

Had the already rich fat-cats not been sooo greedy, they might have got away with it.

Starting with Thatcher and Reagan, neoliberalism = globalism, economic rationalism, voodoo economics, whatever you like to call it, but 'the system' was successively changed, with the current chaos as the result, with the 1% ripping-off the 99% and governments going broke = forced into austerity incl. privatisations plus toll-booths being forced onto the commons almost everywhere. What the WB/IMF = "Economic Hit Men" forced onto the 3rd world, what US "Shock'n Whore" brought to Iraq and now Libya, is now being forced onto the 1st world by the US-regime, WB/IMF & the EU, to the benefit of Wall St & other private banks and the mostly already obscenely rich fat-cat shareholders who stand behind them.

Now every questionable practice, and that includes every little neoliberal thing, needs to be closely examined.

The direction is not now and probably never was sustainable - due to extremism of the neoliberal program. It's only common sense, that if taxes are cut, mainly to benefit the rich, that wages and conditions are reduced, jobs shipped overseas and expenditures = 'benefits' for the very less well-off are reduced if not eliminated, then happiness/contentment stands to be reduced in parallel. Yet those reductions were exactly what were and still are being forced upon the 99%. The only 'excuses' offered (that I'm aware of) were that 'a smaller share of a larger pie may in fact itself be larger' and 'a rising-tide lifts all boats.' Didn't happen; some baubles (= wide/flat TVs, say) got 'cheaper' - largely because of sweat-shop labour & ignored externalities (like pollution = destroying habitat, but only "not in our (immediate) backyard.")

Productivity is one thing, but anything which causes a shift of wealth from the people to the already rich fat-cats is - basically - wrong, because egalitarian implies at least sharing, and that fairly. (The extension after 'at least' is transfers to the needy - i.e. would you let someone bleed to death for lack of cash, or would you staunch the bleeding 'for free' = community cost?)

Consider cost-plus vs. the rip-off that economic-rent is.

The cost of digging Iraqi oil up is estimated at ~$1,- but crude oil is traded at between $91 (Texas) and $121 (Tapis) and 'no,' I can't explain the vast difference. But $91 to $121 - $1 = $90 to $120 'profit' = resource- = economic-rent. Q: Who does this 'profit' belong to, a) the resource owners (we the people) or b) the miners? Why? (Note that "because that's capitalism" is not a good answer, because equity[1](= the 'justice' aspect) must be part of any acceptable answer. Because we the people = 99% are civilised.)

As for Iraqi oil, so Aus coal & iron-ore etc.. Hence the attempt at an MRRT by Labor, now successful but at a too-low % & coverage.

Some of the problems are lies[2] (venal MSM incl. big bits of the AusBC), vested interests (the miners and their fat-cat shareholders) and outright corruption (so-called 'representatives' who sell us, we the people, out.)

Another (big, bigger, BIGGEST) problem is that the greedy neoliberals do not stop with self-enrichment, they - because they also just happen to control the world - are driving us off an environmental cliff = down the excess-CO2 climate-catastrophe tubes = down the tor-let.

Recall that "Foxes do not soil their own nests."

Which makes foxes smarter than the 1%.

Solution? Please refer to my headline.

-=*end*=-

PS Kindly note, that we the people are *not* to blame.

A principal tenet of democracy theory is "You get the government you deserve." Oh, really?

This is wrong in at least three ways; 1) dumbed-down electors (lying MSM), 2) dumb choice of candidates (bipartisan = un- & anti-democratic), then 3) even dumber representatives - who sell us out to vested interests = lobby-ocracy.

It means that 'the system' is broken; just as we didn't vote our way in, having been falsely informed(bad), given false choices(worse) then being betrayed(worst) - so we can't vote our way out (even if now better = internet informed), hence an OWS-type methodology, perhaps.

Economic theory has effectively become a monoculture of erring ideologists - thanks to Friedman-Hayek&Co and corrupt 1% patronage, see here for more on the vile & criminal M/I/C/4a-plex = corrupt & undemocratic tyrannical plutocracy. After the rentiers, then rest of the guilty. Warm up the tumbrels.

-=*=-

Ref(s):

[1] equity  n. (pl. -ies) 1 fairness. 2 principles of justice used to correct or supplement the law. 3 a value of the shares issued by a company. b (in pl.) stocks and shares not bearing fixed interest. [Latin aequitas: related to *equal] [POD]

[2] lie2  -n. 1 intentionally false statement (tell a lie). 2 something that deceives. -v. (lies, lied, lying) 1 tell a lie or lies. 2 (of a thing) be deceptive. give the lie to show the falsity of (a supposition etc.). [Old English] [ibid.]

position vacant - applications called for

The US/Zs attack at leisure. No one is safe.

Iraq and Libya had high HDIs, now both bombed back to the stone-age.

At the same time, the world is going down the tubes (fig. being flushed down the tor-let), by excess and still climbing atmospheric CO2 concentration.

Most 'Western' nations, plus other psychotic sycophants, not only do not resist, they collaborate. (i.e. Rasmussen/DK, Gillard/Aus, say - but why Merkel/D? Is she / are they sooo stupid?)

Democracy is a 'non-starter' (= doesn't work, not allowed to work) - so don't blame us, we the sheople.

What's needed is a countervailing *force* (recall 'pen mightier than sword') - to turn our ecosphere's outlook around = save the planet ...

 .. and not just BTW, restore sanity & justice to the world, starting with honouring the hapless Palestinians 'right of return' = all Zionists, dependants & descendants *out* & back to whence they came.

Bonus available for an elegant, more for a quick, *effective* result.

Envisaged solution to include gaol/tumbrels/gallows for all irresponsible lying / cheating / thieving / murdering perpetrators & accessories, also apologists & pro-war trolls.

you know it's wrong by the unjust results; all known in advance

.. coincidences ...

  .. could happen; ...

    .. this is conspiracy

Key quote: "Bad news, boys."

'Conspiracy[1]' theories:

Elvis is still alive ... and living somewhere in exile.

UFOs, ETs, area 51, alien abductions & flying saucers.

The CIA was intimately involved in the JFK assassination.

The invasions of Iraq & Libya were murders for spoil.

The world is 'run' by mostly Jewish bankers.

9/11 was an 'inside' (CIA/Mossad) job.

Some deity promised it to us[3]!

Disclosure: My aim is best described as IDWT = I Don't Want Trouble, not for myself personally, not for my family & friends, nor for truth, peace & justice seekers any/everywhere. But I *do* want trouble (including with 'extreme prejudice') for dickheads everywhere who rip-off their neighbours and otherwise indulge in unjust and/or cruel, often criminal behaviours.

Preamble: The absolute worst of the worst dickheads are those who are *failing* to prevent the excess-CO2 climate-change catastrophe.

The 2nd worst of the worst dickheads are those who murder for spoil, primarily the US & Z rogue-regimes, plus those who are *failing* to prevent the thieving carnage.

The 3rd worst of the worst dickheads are those who are *reversing* previous progress towards 'the Enlightenment.'

Thesis: That all these dickheads are in the one 'boat' named so-called 'leaders,' and that they are involved in a conscious conspiracy against us, we the people.

-=*=-

Discussion: I don't care a fig for Elvis or ETs, except to note that a) such conspiracy theories are obviously nutty, and b) the nuttiness is pushed onto *all* conspiracy theories, as a way of dismissing both any substance and the theorists themselves - not quite fair and in fact viciously fallacious, especially when a 'conspiracy theory' offers a better explanation than the 'official line' does. I.e. the *three* 9/11 towers did *not* fall due to jet-fuel fires alone (if to fires at all); the three towers had 'help' of some explosive kind, planted by agents unknown (but see five dancing Israelis jumping for joy in Liberty State Park) - either totally missed (= inconceivably criminal incompetence) or actively assisted by the CIA or such, say. See my "9/11 as test of 'belief'." That *someone* knew is supported by the far too many odd coincidences (recall "We don't do coincidences"); like none of the four allegedly hijacked planes 'squawked' the appropriate hijack codes, NORAD was effectively 'stood down,' the incredible accuracy of the flying, etc. - and WTC7. IF anyone knew THEN the CIA, in addition (to Cheney, say) or (less likely) alone.

I don't care to discuss the JFK assassination, except for two observations, 1) the CIA operates covertly; secrecy is an enemy of democracy (not IF but WHEN misused), a covert agency is the *obvious* place for a 'secret government' = crooked conspiracy and 2) the sometimes alarming inaccuracy & incompleteness of the 'official explanation' leaving room for massive suspicion = conspiracy theories (now looping, but applies to 9/11 'in spades.')

That the invasions of Iraq & Libya were murders for spoil should not be seriously in doubt; even if oil is not the whole story, we know that the US legislature is 'owned' by the Zionists (who hated Saddam [About 1,230,000 results] & Gaddafi [About 6,870,000 results]), and then there's US hegemony. Back to oil, sure they (US+) could just buy it, but they always want the lot = control (to deny China, say) and max-$s = economic rent. Then Greenspan told us.

If the world is run by mostly Jewish bankers is a bit moot, both on the Jewish (hoist with their own Zionist petard[3]) and the running; what we can see is the world going ever deeper into debt to the banks, who are now strangling whole countries almost everywhere (currently working on the PIIGS), be the stranglers WB, IMF, EU or Goldman Sachs&Co = Wall St.. Concomitant with strangling is the grabbing of wealth from the 99% = us, we the people for the benefit of the already obscenely rich 1%, ergo OWS.

Call it neoliberalism, globalisation, economic rationalism or whatever, the most notable aspect is the near-simultaneous application almost everywhere, bipartisanly = un- & anti-democratically, and the lack of any definitive argument let alone countervailing theory. All too simply done; promise tax-cuts to the voters then cut taxes mostly off the rich, allow social-service 'benefits' to bankrupt the governments, then rip the people off via privatisations AND slashing benefits. The 'austerity' being demanded will drive the spiral ever lower.

One thing on the political/financial system should be observed above all: It is *not* operating in we the people's interests, again ergo OWS.

Proof: By the nature of conspiracies (= secret criminal plan), proof is a bit hard to come by, especially when lacking sufficient leaks/whistle blowers, say. [Imagine a CIA defector, and how long s/he might 'last.'] So we turn to less direct methods, here circumstantial evidence; Q: Who is visibly doing what to whom, and then ask cui bono?

A: Possibly for some, a surprise answer; look carefully at national broadcasters = publicly-financed, like 'our' AusBC. The lies[2] have to reach us somehow, and it is no surprise at all that Murdoch's theAus has been lying to us for longer than I can recall (with a noteworthy early episode being the 100+ day attack on Whitlam & his govt..) That 'private enterprise' may lie in pursuit of profit is a 'given;' it is one of the holiest of capitalist 'principles.' But 'our' AusBC was (repeat *was*, still *is*) expected to be different; as publicly-financed, I expected the truth, the whole truth & nothing but the truth. Wrong, both my naïveté & their modus operandi. In a nutshell, 'our' AusBC lies to us, deliberately (they are so-called 'professionals' = many Uni graduates, after all - and to our cost. Point: They should know lie from fact, it's their *job*). The proof of AusBC's perfidy is their biased = lying, pro-Zionist reporting. Shocker. They should not lie at all, yet they lie to support a foreign, criminal project. But then thinking; Q: Why, how come? A: The AusBC's *specific* task is to propagandise = lie to us, with bipartisan = un- & anti-democratic support. Nothing else fits.

IF one can accept that, THEN all the other pieces start falling into place. It means that Lib/Lab are proven to collude, for if not then at government change-over, the AusBC would be slaughtered for supporting l'ancien régime. (In fact the AusBC seems to prefer Liberal, an utter outrage against 'balance' - and Q: You wonder why Labor tolerates it? A: Because Lib, Lab + AusBC all lie together in the same - conspiracy. This is not a loop, it's an observable fact.) Similarly from country to country, the leaders of the minnows collude/cave in to their 'masters,' the US & Z rogue-regimes. The only question becomes how freely they cave vs. the degree of coercion. That coercion exists is clear; look no further than the Zionist 'possession' of the US legislature. Watching the pro-Israel grovelling is truly sickening.

The charges are serious (= deliberately disadvantaging us, we the 99%), and as the dirty deeds include mass-murdering for spoil (Iraq, Libya, Iran next?) - so should the penalties be; warm up the tumbrels.

-=*end*=-

PS Q: How wide is the conspiracy? A: Recall Eisenhower's warning about the Military-Industrial complex. Now that the politicians = so-called 'leaders' are in, now that the publicly-financed broadcasters are in, a further addition is academics (they brew up and/or do not challenge 'voodoo economics' = neoliberalism, others brew up psychological manipulations = pushed-propaganda paradigm), we get military, industrial, Congress (US for parliament), 4th estate = corrupt & venal MSM incl. national broadcasters and finally academics, all together the vile & criminal M/I/C/4a-plex. Oh yeah, add in the militarised cops = pigs.

-=*=-

Ref(s):

[1] conspiracy  n. (pl. -ies) 1 secret plan to commit a crime; plot. 2 conspiring. [Latin: related to *conspire] [POD]

[2] lie2  -n. 1 intentionally false statement (tell a lie). 2 something that deceives. -v. (lies, lied, lying) 1 tell a lie or lies. 2 (of a thing) be deceptive.  give the lie to show the falsity of (a supposition etc.). [Old English] [ibid.]

[3] This one is not so much a conspiracy as a risible, lying gambit. Its interest lies in deploying an imaginary being (as a feeble 'excuse') to a real-world, criminal circumstance, namely the premeditated theft of an entire country by aggressive, armed invading aliens (= Zionists) from the hapless, mostly Palestinian erstwhile legal owner/occupiers = ELO/Os. This Zionist outrage has the potential to bring shame and dishonour to every Jew on the planet, only those who do their utmost (and succeed) in restoring justice to the Palestinians, including proper compensation and the revesting of all improperly alienated land/property or more and acceptable compensation, may hope to escape such shame and dishonour.

no choice = no chance; effective action required

.. business as usual = current trends to continue ...

  .. ever more war & CO2 = catastrophe ...

    .. that all OK with you?

Subtitle: None should doubt the seriousness of the problems facing us, nor the apparent and total inability of our so-called 'leaders' = usurping puppet/tyrants to even recognise the problem, let alone moving to save our once jewel-like planet's comfortable life-supporting ecosphere.
 
[update, 19Nov'11]

Disclosure: My aim is best described as IDWT = I Don't Want Trouble, not for myself personally, not for my family & friends, nor for truth, peace & justice seekers any/everywhere. But I *do* want trouble (including with 'extreme prejudice') for liars, cheats, thieves & murderers = US-regime, Israeli-regime (aka Z-ray-hell), plus all SQSH-Os = snivelling quisling sycophantic hangers-on and their filthy accessories, apologists and propagandistic = lying, criminal internet trolls. Also *professional* liars, aka the corrupt & venal MSM, including big bits of the AusBC.

-=*=-

Trigger article 1:

November 17, 2011
The Good Old Days – They Were Simpler
Menu for Today’s Tricky Planet: Use Your Head
by Gabriel Kolko
  «The first and most important consideration is that the world’s status quo is heading toward disasters - political and military, ecological, and economic. Violence both between and within countries and ethnic groups is more and more common. A handful of dominant nations - the United States being the preeminent - control the world’s future to a large degree, ... » 
[counterpunch/Kolko]

Comment: The US *rogue* regime, plus its illegitimate side-kick Israel dominate the world via lies and coercion = ultimately physical violence. They dominate not to lead but to rip-off, hence their ultimate modus operandi: Murder for spoil. That is not the pinnacle of human intelligence but its nadir.

Trigger article 2:

Desktop “Militants” And Public Intellectuals
By James Petras
17 November, 2011
  «In the context of the rise of neo-liberal ideology and policies, many progressive writers argue about the “decline of the public sphere”. This argument overlooks the fact that the “public sphere” has increased its role in society, economy and politics on behalf of capital, especially financial capital and foreign investors. The “public sphere”, specifically the state is much more intrusive in civil society as a repressive force, particularly as neo-liberal policies increase inequalities. ...» 
[countercurrents/Petras]

Comment 1: Almost the worst 4-letter word on the planet: "Neoliberalism." If ever there was an erring ideology, this is it. Neoliberalism may not be our only problem, but it certainly is a key contributor, along with lies, cheating and theft, ending with murder for spoil.

Comment 2; a Q: How did we get neoliberalism? A: Bipartisanly.

Proof:

1. The UK; started by Thatcher, continued by Blair.

2. The US; started by Reagan, continued by Clinton.

3. In Aus; started by Hawke/Keating, continued by Howard.

But: Bipartisan = un- & anti-democratic (no choice, see?)

-=*=-

Then: It's the same with support for the US, Israel, wars in general and fossil-fuel burning in particular. We the voters cannot choose a way out, for both Lib/Lab give us essentially the same bipartisan result; choosing Green or some lesser 3rd party is to retreat to the margins.

More: Our so-called 'democracy' is sham; a) lied-to voters (we are) cannot make informed choices, b) as above; bipartisan = un- & anti-democratic = no meaningful choice of candidates, and c) when elected, our so-called 'representatives' more often than not work against our, we the people's interests.

With no action, all we'll get is more of the same = catastrophe.

With no choice we have no chance - unless we the people ourselves begin and complete the effective actions required to save our planet. Perhaps OWS is trying to show us a way; man the barricades, prepare the tumbrels.

-=*=-

^
Update, 19Nov'11; PS Whereas the prime threat to humans' continued existence on roughly the current scale (~7bio+) is the excess-CO2 caused climate catastrophe, the biggest moral threat comes from the rogue regimes of the US and Israel.

Trigger article 1:

UN passes fresh Iran nuclear resolution
Posted November 19, 2011 07:27:42
  «That in turn is likely to disappoint Israel, which has not ruled out military action against its arch-foe if diplomatic means fail to stop a nuclear program which the Jewish state sees as an existential threat. ... » 
[AusBC/'news']

Comment 1: Israel may have 200-300 nuclear weapons, the US is known to have 1000s (like 5,113, say). Both are in breach of UN laws; if anyone is under nuclear-threat it is the entire non-US/Z world. Consider the statement from Obama: 'All Options on the Table' Over Alleged Iran Plot (or even if Iran looks sideways, one assumes). It is a crime to threaten - aggressive war the worst.

Comment 2: Consider the intemperate language: arch-foe. It is not, never has been, that Iran is threatening anyone; exactly the opposite - as Israel [and/or the US] "has not ruled out military action" *proves* (over and over again). 1st the UK (starting when they began to switch their navy from coal to oil fuel), then the US and now Israel (plus a few other immoral externals like France) are the ME-aggressors.

Comment 3: Like Nuremberg-class war crimes ("To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole"), this 'story' from the AusBC contains within itself accumulated evil by the bucket-full.

1. In the 1st instance, Israel has no right to exist - since it sits on land violently stolen from the mainly Palestinian erstwhile legal owner/occupiers (ELO/Os), and similarly has no right to defend such improperly alienated land/property. The immoral, illegal Z-project should have been terminated - by the UN - no later than Plan Dalet including the Deir Yassin massacre, etc. outrages showed the world what filthy, murdering criminal thieves the invading Zionists were (and still are). Israel cannot be de-legitimised, since it was from the very beginning an outlaw-construct, i.e. never legitimate (= immoral) - the UN had/has no valid authority to allow the violent dispossession of almost an entire country. The 'creation' of Israel was nothing other than a slow-motion war of aggression = Nuremberg-class war crime.

1a. The incredibly biased, pro-Israel reporting by the AusBC - over all the years that I can recall - provides absolute *proof* that the AusBC is itself another rogue.

2. In the 2nd instance, there is no proof of Iran's intent, and even if there were, so what? Iran is already under heavy surveillance (while no one is allowed so much as a peep into Dimona - but many thanks, Vanunu.) Given the asymmetry (many 1000s to 1), Iran could never do a "1st use" - but it could retaliate, such nuclear-gaming was and still is behind the MAD-doctrine. In a nutshell, having just one nuke would effectively prevent a US/Z attack - must be a 100% +ve, yes?

2a. More language: "Last week's IAEA report presented a stash of intelligence ..." - both the US and Z-ray-hell are known to 'invent' = lie; see 'reports' about 'stolen (Iranian) laptops,' say. Use of "stash," even if merely 'stenographed' by the AusBC shows its unprofessionalism.

3. That the UN can so act *proves* (over and over again) that the UN is itself corrupt. From 1948, allowing the horrible travesty that is Israel, from not stopping the aggressive, "Shock'n Whore" attack on Iraq 2003, then 2011 = now allowing the US/NATO(F+UK) rape of Libya, the UN shows itself as part of the problem - exactly the opposite of its stated purpose. When someone says one thing and does another, that's the exact definition of "Liar!"

4. "The IAEA's 35-nation board passed a resolution with a clear majority ..." illustrates how democracy is perverted, by US/Z coercion of the SQSH-Os = snivelling quisling sycophantic hangers-on. These people, so-called 'diplomats' are much better briefed (one would think) than I can ever be, yet they collude with the world's worst rogues against a hapless picked-upon oil-owner = Iran, just because the US can't bring Iran 'to heel' (why should it?) - and Israel continuously quivers in its illegitimate boots - because Israel knows it's 100% in the wrong, and deserves one day to be brought to justice. Best, soonest.

-=*=-

Trigger article 2:

Arctic sea ice is melting at its fastest pace in almost 40 years
John Vidal, environment editor
guardian.co.uk, Sunday 11 September 2011 22.20 BST
  «Arctic sea ice has melted to a level not recorded since satellite observations started in 1972 – and almost certainly not experienced for at least 8,000 years, say polar scientists. ... » 
[guardian/environment]

Comment: As long as there remains just a bit of ice in the Esky, the beer can remain cool. The Arctic ice is going, soon to be gone.

-=*=-

Fazit: The world is warming dangerously, most probably catastrophically - due to a) human action = burning ever-more fossil-carbon, but more importantly b) due to a total lack of effective action from our so-called 'leaders,' who prefer to play at war = murder for spoil, than work on our behalf to save the planet. Time they, as all other criminals, were brought to justice. Best, soonest.

[«back»]

brutality vs. brains those with bigger guns 'win' greedy, antediluvian troglodytes

.. lies ...

  .. theft ...

    .. mass-murder

Thesis/Subtitle: The criminally smart-arse Americans' M/I/C/4-plex does not win by being brainy, they dominate by being brutal.

The I/J/Z-plex is equally criminal, equally foul; the US+Zs' main modus operandi is lying, cheating, then murdering theft for spoil.

-=*=-

Instead of working together with all the world's people, hopefully towards a post-WW2 golden age, the US+Zs have turned into greedy, grovelling grave-robbers, grabbing oil (US), soil (Zs), and any other resource they can get their grubby little fingers onto. Every ghastly, isolated carrion-eater for him/herself!

Perhaps the worst bit is that the 'rest of the West' regimes align themselves with the worst of the worst = US+Z rogue-regimes. Why? Not a decent bone in any body amongst them, not in the lead-gangsters, banksters or the rest of the immoral herd = Anglo/Judaic + snivelling quisling sycophantic hangers-on (SQSH-Os) - regimes, as opposed (shock, horror!) to the mostly decent people = the electorate.

Part 1, military:

I often start my history of the US with the dual A-bombings of Japan; they were *not* as portrayed = "saving myriad US soldiers' lives" but far more sinister-prosaically, a demonstration to the Soviets of American power and - yes, brutality, some (more) revenge on the Japanese (although many consider that the US provoked Japan to attack the US, by resource-isolating Japan - yes, including the perennial oil), plus the desire to get 'live data' on the nuke-damage to real (~¼mio, almost exclusively civilian) people.

The Zs' infamy may be considered to begin with Herzl (1897), then via Balfour, Jabotinsky, the alien invading terrorists = Irgun, Lehi, Stern Gang, Haganah et al., leading to the Nakba ('48, genocidal ethnic cleansing of Palestine) and the regular if random continuation of more of the same terrorism right down to the current moment; amongst latest outrages Gaza '08/9 (~1400 mainly civilians slaughtered), high-seas murdering piracy against the peace-fleet = Israel flotilla raid '10, live-ammunition/sniper attacks on non-violent protesters in Golan Heights, '11.

The US' infamy is longer, try starting with a list of interventions for “regime change” here, which notes 1st such in 1893 against Hawaii.

Long-story short: The list of US+Zs' depredations is as long as it is filthy.

The really big question is Q: Why does the rest of the world tolerate this evil, without ever making a real protest, let alone an effective one?

Part 2, economics:

Theme; Q: Best use of resources to maximise peoples' life-experience?

A: Not for the Zs (utterly inhumane treatment of Palestinians), not for the US (impoverishing rip-offs, exhaustive exploitation, casino-capitalism), not for their snivelling quisling sycophantic hangers-on (SQSH-Os) - regimes.

Three bits of 'evidence;'

Article 1, a very short history of parts of neoliberalism:

How Did Economists Get It So Wrong?
By Paul Krugman
September 6, 2009
  «When it comes to the all-too-human problem of recessions and depressions, economists need to abandon the neat but wrong solution of assuming that everyone is rational and markets work perfectly. The vision that emerges as the profession rethinks its foundations may not be all that clear; it certainly won’t be neat; but we can hope that it will have the virtue of being at least partly right.» 
[nytimes/Krugman]

Comment 1: Too much to summarise; recommend reading it all (I did.)

Article 2, some detail on FIRE:

Theology and Neoliberal Economics
The Friedman Institute Upgrades Theology to Condone Neoliberal Greed.
By Prof. Michael Hudson
May 23, 2010
  «The problem with the Friedman Institute is that its economic doctrine rose to notoriety in the Pinochet period, the high tide of the Chicago Boys in Chile. Privatization of public enterprise, “freeing” markets from usury laws and promoting deregulation is the antithesis of nearly all religions, whose guiding purpose after all was to socialize their members and create a moral state.» 
[globalresearch/Michael Hudson]

Comment 2: Ditto.

Article 3, some detail on banksters:

Publicly-owned Banks as an Instrument of Economic Development: The German Model
by Ellen Brown
October 13, 2011
Web of Debt
  «The example of Germany shows that even success is no guarantee in the face of a relentless onslaught of propaganda by large privately-owned banks interested only in making money for their CEOs, wealthiest clients and shareholders. But peering behind the propaganda, the public banking model that helped underwrite Germany’s economic success might be the fast track to a U.S. banking system that serves Main Street rather than Wall Street.» 
[globalresearch/Ellen Brown]

Comment 3: see comment 1.

Part 3, ethics:

Theme; Q: Cooperation is better than confrontation?

A: Not for the US, not for Zs.

Once, there was a movement towards "The Enlightenment" typified by "Liberté, égalité, fraternité" whereby the aim was, loosely translated, a fair go for all. Not anymore; now we have what may be called 'social Darwinism' = the rich get richer by preying on the 'less well-off' and the predators claim to be 'better, more appropriately evolved.' In fact, they are all vicious crooks with a self-serving (erring!) ideology as (obviously!) feeble 'excuse.' Plus, of course, they've got the law (best Congress $s can buy = corrupt) and force (military murderers, thuggish police = pigs) on their payroll.

We see it demonstrated daily; the US military expenditure and hostile, murdering-theft operations across the world, concentrating on (oil-owning!) Muslim/Arab ME, the Zs' continuing illegal occupation and ever-increasing theft of Palestine land and property.

The US 'voodoo economics,' aka economic rationalism or neoliberalism, dating from both Reagan & Thatcher (hear "TINA" - run!) - have been implemented 'at home' (US, UK), forced onto some by war (starting, say, with the 1973 Chilean coup d'état against Allende, lately Afghanistan, Iraq & now Libya, Iran next?), onto others via the IMF (mainly '3rd world,' see Perkins, "Economic Hit Man") - and far worse in a way, 'voluntarily' by 'Western' regimes, like in Aus (Boo! Hiss! Shame - traitors!) Amongst the many crimes against us are the vile privatisations of the people's natural monopolies - like water supplies, sewage, elec. Etc.. This is nothing other than theft to enrich the already obscenely wealthy, it loads the utilities up with debt we the people must finance through higher charges, and reduces the delivery by abandoning preventative maintenance via the 'rationalising' = lean-and-meaning job cuts.

The marauding US+Zs continue their crimes, as all the while excess CO2 builds up in our atmosphere; decent people the world over are preoccupied with surviving the US+Zs' onslaughts, as our once jewel-like planet's comfortable life-supporting ecosystems are trashed.

Thanks, but "No, thanks!" to the US+Zs & their SQSH-Os rogue-regimes.

Musing: We simply have to get rid of the criminal predators.

Fazit: Perhaps OWS et al. can find a redeeming way.

-=*=-

PS It's easy to prove my above assertions of villainy:

1. We the people are being lied to, continually and not just with 'little-whites,' by our so-called 'leaders' and their puppet-masters (military-industrial complex), via the (corrupt & venal) MSM, including big bits of the AusBC (Boo! Hiss! Shame - more traitors!) In addition, universities have gone degenerate, turning out graduates, notably in economics (voodoo, casino = rip-offs) and psychology (propaganda = scientifically developed lies), graduates who are contributing to the crimes against us.

2. Lies are deployed to deceive [lie2  -n. 1 intentionally false statement (tell a lie). 2 something that deceives. [POD]]

3. We are being deceived to conceal crimes - partly against resource-owning targets, partly actually against us, we the people.

4. We see the results; carnage in US target countries, corrupt and degenerate capitalism dependent on swindles (Wall St.) when not outright theft (Palestine as ME beachhead, Iraq & Libya, etc.), mainly oil but also economic rents (MRRT shemozzle in Aus, say), growing grief amongst subject populations typified by unaffordable health system for many = 10s of millions in the US lower income groups and spreading unemployment -> poverty - now ~46mio in US on food-stamps. Then there's the GFC & continuing EU debt crisis - so-called leaders - and even the banksters themselves - almost everywhere are demonstrating that they just don't have a clue. Bah! Warm up the tumbrels...

PPS, 13:51 - try fixing this, Obama! (Haven't yet; bet ya can't):

a picture 'worth' more than a squillion words.

The Wanton Destruction Of Sirte

Criminally foist on a negligently insouciant world by US+NATO(F+UK)

All those who did not / do not resist such evil are culpable.

the murder of the social contract the forced end of the Enlightenment neanderthal rulers = troglodytic tyrants

.. just one lie ...

  .. kills all credibility ...

    .. only one lie? - squillions!

Thesis/Subtitle; Q: Newton's 3rd law = no action without an equal & opposite reaction - so where is the effective opposition?

A: Apparently none available in our so-called 'democratic system' = DIY is a *must*.

Musing 1: Always, the complications. Nothing - or very little - is truly simple, even so-called 'elementary' particle/entities (photons, electrons, protons etc.) act in complex ways - but any system can be broken down into ever smaller aggregates, with accompanying behavioural simplification - until of course, some Heisenberg-indeterminacy or Gödel-incompleteness limit is reached. It doesn't mean that our problems are insoluble - where there's a will, there's usually a way (in general = try harder, hardest).

-=*=-

Trigger article:

Schoolchildren rampage over holiday cut rumour
Posted October 01, 2011 05:58:42
  «Several hundred French schoolchildren went on the rampage after false rumours spread that president Nicolas Sarkozy's government wanted to take away a large slice of their school holidays.
...
The UNL however "warned the government not to touch summer holidays at all" and said in a statement it wanted to protest austerity measures that amounted to "a catastrophic new term" in 2011.» 
[AusBC/'news']

Comment 1: A 'good' one; shows us that some children are not so stupid that they can't see a 'current danger' (bipartisan = un- & anti-democratic so-called 'leaders' neoliberalising our social contract to death), that 'austerity measures' are the newest tool to be deployed against us, we the people, and that the student body feels so under attack that they are running an organised campaign in opposition - itself showing a perceived lack of effective 'representation.'

Comment 2: Note the language, "false rumours" [rumour = "general talk, assertion, or hearsay of doubtful accuracy" [POD]]. In fact, the 'rumours' are most likely true; they are *fully* compatible with the Sarkozy&Co's (erring!) neoliberal ideology, and it's really just a matter of time before such policies are indeed implemented - unless someone stops the neoliberal-juggernaut [Hindi Jagannath, = lord of the world [ibid.]]

Musing 2; Q: What is it with the so-called 'wo/man in the street,' that they apparently accept the continual degradation in societal morals - demonstrated by the West's = 'our' murdering wars for spoil and the continual degradation in societal conditions - demonstrated by 'our' corrupt governments' continual destruction of the social contract?

A: Apparently, it's like the 'frog in the (ever-warming) saucepan of water,' the average wo/man in the street seems too 'desensitized' to notice (= dumbed-down; prime-suspect TV-infotainment as psychologist-manipulated 'PR' = brain-washing) - except for a few small groups like the little Froggies in my citation, good for their still accurately functioning perceptions.

Fazit: There's only one way I can see out of this, and that's widespread, organised and effective revolution, starting with we, the few who can see, then recruiting the masses. Otherwise, total disaster will be forced upon us - by our bipartisan = un- & anti-democratic rulers, as described in my headline - troglodytic tyrants.

9/11 as test of 'belief'

.. just ...

  .. one lie ...

    .. kills credibility

Preamble: 'Believing'[1] is what they do in the absence of evidence.

To say: "That's unbelievable!" - reveals credulity[2]; better might be: 'Especially preposterous[4] assertions require substantiation, please supply proof.'
End preamble.

Disclosure: I don't want trouble.

But: As a seeker of truth, I must a) follow where the evidence leads, and b) expose any and all lies that I detect along the way. In addition to truth-seeking, I advocate for justice, as in "Fair go, ya mug!"
End disclosure.
 
[update 110916, update 110917.]

-=*=-

Consider the confusing: 'The exception proves the rule.' In fact it *doesn't*, since there's a bit left out, namely: 'the existence of;' altogether: 'A specific exception proves the existence of some general rule.' This points to the necessity for precision; both in science as in logic, an exception = contradiction or counter-example *disproves* the applicable thesis.

One assertion I make is that we are being propagandised {n. 1 organized propagation of a doctrine by use of publicity, selected information, etc. 2 usu. derog. ideas etc. so propagated.[POD]}, by which I mean more specifically, *lied* to. Since lies are deployed to deceive {lie2  -n. 1 intentionally false statement (tell a lie). 2 something that deceives. -v. (lies, lied, lying) 1 tell a lie or lies. 2 (of a thing) be deceptive.[ibid.]}, we are forced to ask 'Why are we being deceived?' - to which the obvious answer is: 'To be ripped-off in some way or other.' In this context it is useful to ask after motive, plus cui bono = who benefits?

Lies are difficult things to handle; by definition they differ from the truth = reality but worse, the differing may be divergent (i.e. capable of producing contradictions which would expose the lies - considered a bad thing, especially by the caught-out liars = disgrace, then possibly gaol or gallows.) A propaganda technique is to associate lies with a *narrative*, thus allowing coordination = apparent consistency.

When (note: Not 'if') we suspect we're being lied to, we may inspect the underlying narrative; any 'strong' lie (note again: Even 'little-white' lies are still lies) - any lie will act to disprove the underlying narrative. Examples: "Saddam has WMDs; we must disarm him!" (Result = Iraq destroyed, 1mio+ dead etc.), "Gaddafi's mercenaries (on Viagra) are attacking (and raping) citizens; we must save them!" (Result = Libya destroyed, 50k+ dead - so far - etc.). It's not too hard to see the lies; I suspect that the dumbed-down sheople are not all that dumbed-down that they can't see through the lies; propaganda is deployed to 'manufacture consent' which really means to club the electorate into (ever greater) subservience.

Now consider this narrative: “19 Saudi/Muslims (learnt to fly light planes in US, organised via Germany from ObL's cave in Afghanistan), hijacked 4 airliners, crashing 1 into a field, 1 into the pentagon, 2 into WTC 1 & 2, the latter *2* crash-and-burns causing WTCs 1, 2 and 7 = 3 towers to collapse (uncannily as if demolished); 'we' [= the US rogue-regime] give ourselves permission to attack any country - especially Muslim/Arab ones, starting with Afghanistan before 'moving on' to Iraq!” Latest is Libya; Syria or Iran next? On an informed guess, it would be the US/Z's preference to attack Iran; it has more oil.

Trigger article 1:

Robert Fisk: For 10 years, we've lied to ourselves to avoid asking the one real question
Saturday, 3 September 2011
  «By their books, ye shall know them.
I'm talking about the volumes, the libraries – nay, the very halls of literature – which the international crimes against humanity of 11 September 2001 have spawned. Many are spavined with pseudo-patriotism and self-regard, others rotten with the hopeless mythology of CIA/Mossad culprits, a few (from the Muslim world, alas) even referring to the killers as "boys", almost all avoiding the one thing which any cop looks for after a street crime: the motive.» 
[antiwar/independent/Fisk]

Comment 1; note: "international crimes against humanity," interesting comparing ~3000 WTC-dead against the US-regime's 'score' in Iraq alone = 1mio+ dead and the Z-regime's theft of almost an entire country, lying and ethnically cleansing as they genocidally go.

Comment 2; note: "rotten with the hopeless mythology of CIA/Mossad culprits," see McGovern next (and more to come).

Comment 3: Fisk's answer to the motive Q: "US support for Israel as a root cause of al-Qa'ida's opposition to the United States."  IMHO, Fisk gets at least that correct; the Zs rank equal 1st with the US as world's worst evil-doers.

Trigger article 2:

Neither ink nor air
Did Tenet Hide Key 9/11 Info?
By Ray McGovern
August 17, 2011
  «Bulletin for those of you who get your information only from the New York Times, the Washington Post and other outlets of the Fawning Corporate Media (FCM): Former White House director for counterterrorism Richard Clarke has accused former CIA Director George Tenet of denying him and others access to intelligence that could have thwarted the attack on the Pentagon on 9/11.» 
[ICH/Consortiumnews/McGovern]

Comment 1: McGovern goes on to give some proof that Tenet is a liar. No real surprise given that Tenet was a political appointment to the CIA and "All politicians lie," thanks, but "No, thanks!" - to JWHoward et al..

Comment 2: More serious is the report on some evidence known to have been so withheld: "If, as Tenet says in his memoir, it was the Aug. 6, 2001, PDB that prompted his visit on Aug. 17, what might have brought him back on Aug. 24? I believe the answer can be found in court documents released at the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui, the fledgling pilot in Minnesota interested in learning to steer a plane but indifferent as to how to land it."

Comment 3: This approaches 'he said, she said ...' etc.. One BIG problem is that once someone is proven to be a liar, *nothing* s/he says can be trusted = they've killed their own credibility. (Note that incomplete and/or contradicting reports were a big feature of the ObL-slaying-raid narrative - and no proof produced there either, rather some body/thing allegedly dumped into the Arabian Sea.)

Trigger article 3:

September 2, 2011
CounterPunch Diary
The 9/11 Conspiracists: Vindicated After All These Years?
  «We’re homing in on the tenth anniversary of the destruction of the Wall Street Trade Towers and the attack on the Pentagon. One in seven Americans and one in four among those aged 16-24, (so a recent poll commissioned by the BBC tells us) believe that there was a vast conspiracy in which the U.S. government was involved. But across those ten years have the charges that it was an “inside job” –– a favored phrase of the self-styled “truthers” — received any serious buttress?
The answer is no.» 
[counterpunch/Cockburn]

Comment 1; note: *His* answer is no.

Cockburn goes on: «"The conspiracy virus is an old strand. The Russians couldn’t possibly build an A bomb without Commie traitors in the U.S.. The Russians are too dumb. ... JFK couldn’t have been shot by Oswald — it had to be the CIA." [Quoting some university person:] “I think the problem of conspiracy nuttery has got worse, and is part of a general trend. ... There wasn’t a single serious question about 9-11. The main engine of the 9-11 conspiracy cult is nothing political; it’s the death of any conception of evidence.
This probably comes from the decline of Western power. Deep down, almost everyone, across the political spectrum, is locked in a bigotry which can only attribute that decline to some irrational or supernatural power. The result is the ascendency of magic over common sense, let alone reason.”»

Comment 2a: Apart from any reservations there might be over the Russian A-bomb getting 'indirect' US/UK 'help,' or the Kennedy slaying being not what the 'official version' alleges, lumping those conspiracies in with 9/11 is a deliberate (nasty, fallacious) tactic designed to discredit - and as such hardly belongs in 'civilised discourse.'

Comment 2b: Bringing in unrelated information can be termed 'red herring' and/or non sequitur = both fallacious, and attacking an opponent is called the 'ad hominem' fallacy. Descending into fallacy -> kills credibility.

Then, consider a) "There wasn’t a single serious question about 9-11" and b) "the death of any conception of evidence."

Comment 3a: Interesting; it may well be 'technically' correct to say: "There wasn’t a single serious question" (emphasis = mine) - on the basis that there were/still are *many* serious questions...

Comment 3b: The two dare discuss 'evidence' while attempting to support the 'official version,' which itself goes out of its way to obscure, deny or outright ignore evidence.

-=*=-

There are three aspects to 9/11 evidence; 1) what's in the public domain (mostly 'news' videos), 2) what's *not* in the public domain, namely what was destroyed = WTC-wreckage (hastily sent to China as scrap), Pentagon-wreckage (incomplete, to say the least = no wings, say[7]) and Pennsylvania-wreckage (only a smouldering hole in the ground = non-existent? [8, 9 & 10]) and 3) what has been deliberately suppressed = hidden (we can't know what or how much, i.e. Pentagon = no film available - to us, we the people; why not?)

-=*=-

It's now 10 years; some Qs were immediately obvious 'back then' - like those prompted by the pictures of the smouldering holes in the Pennsylvania field (alleged UA93) & the Pentagon (alleged AA77). The first videos we saw were of the burning twin-towers, 'live' on our TV, with replays of jet-impacts. Then, one by one, the *3* towers collapsed - suddenly, symmetrically, compactly into their respective own footprints - highly 'unnatural' to say the least; here[5] are some videos, sourced via ae911truth (tip: To d/l your own copy, try <r-click>; 'save target as').

The most obvious Q is: 'How did they do it?' - where 'they' = 19 Saudi/Muslim alleged hijackers, and 'it' = *3* WTC symmetrical-collapses. They are, if you like, 3 *burning* questions; makes many a structural engineer go 'Hmmm,' such never happened before nor since - where 'such' = jet- or diesel- fuel fires causing structural-steel in 2*110-story & 1*47-story buildings, to melt then collapse the towers into great clouds of steel-lengths and concrete powder, and that Oh, so symmetrically, and at partly approximating free-fall speed to boot. (Free-fall speed would occur if all support immediately *below* was suddenly, totally removed = explosively demolished; ~working hypothesis. Watched any videos?)

These questions plus others, like the alleged mobile call from an hijacked plane - that turned out to be of zero-sec length[6](!!?) and not so BTW violating the cell-phone system's supposed capabilities, the fact that no air-to-air interceptions were made, that NORAD was (apparently, allegedly?) stood-down, that Bush continued reading fairy-stories to children -> approaching myriads of *BIG-Q*s, none of which have been *properly* addressed, if they were ever addressed at all; the 'official' enquiry was a fizzer - as, we find are most/all such enquiries = whitewashes. Nobody (who might be effective) seems to care, it's just 'Move on!'

-=*=-

Fazit, 1: The problem is that we *can't* just move on, because 9/11 *did* change our world, and (IMHO at least), for the *worse*. Consider Fisk's 'hopeless mythology of CIA/Mossad culprits.' The CIA, as the FBI, knew *something*, see the pilot-training stories. Mossad also knew *something*, see the The Five Dancing Israelis Arrested On 9-11. All, note, *before* the event. Others knew; there're the stories of (Israeli!) workers warned off going to work at the WTC-towers, massive Wall St. 'puts' against airline-stock, etc.. All this is so-called 'circumstantial' and vis-à-vis the actual perpetrators, no 'smoking gun.' Conned A'Sleeza (a specific Ms Rice) spoke of 'joining the dots' - mostly in the sense of having failed to do so; and/but: I'm *not* suggesting anything (excepting the odd extrapolation), basically letting the evidence we can see, plus what we might surmise as evidence 'destroyed/missing/hidden' - to speak for itself.

The most persuasive evidence I've seen is in the videos[5], and the Oh, so 'perfect' symmetry + ~free-fall speed. It was quite literally 'Wham, bam (pause, fire reducing); tower straight down.' WTC7, of course, was not struck, but had a minor fire - burnt out = stopped. Then pause; 'Wham, tower straight down.' A *thesis* (not at all mine alone), is that the *3* collapses so resemble 'controlled demolition' that it 'beggars belief' that it could have been anything other than that = controlled demolition - and that requires careful, thorough, beforehand *preparation* steps on *3* buildings = *not* 2 aircraft impacts on their own. Note that I just wrote 'belief' as part of an expression. I'm *not* a believer; believing is what others do in the absence of evidence.

The most unlikely evidence I've heard of is an alleged hijacker's passport that supposedly came fluttering down ('unsinged') out of the inferno.

IF you, dear reader, wish to believe that the 3 towers were caused to collapse by jet- or diesel-fuel fires, THEN you're welcome - and please move on; nothing (more) to see here - for you.

Fazit, 2: Preparation means pre-loading the towers with explosives plus associated detonator control systems, most likely would have been delivered via trucks to the loading-docks, access to columns & under-floors via ceiling crawl-spaces. The lift-system had recently seen maintenance-activity. Someone knew; it must have been seen & allowed - given that the towers had years-ago been internally bombed, security would have existed in the attempt at preventing a recurrence. If anyone knew (security company), so also the CIA/FBI *should* have known (who knows), but see Tenet = liar above. The concept of a 'black flag' attack by internal US operatives already 'had form,' see Operation Northwoods. Then, recall the five dancing Israelis. A 'CIA/Mossad as culprits' theory is not at all far-fetched (at least at the LIHOP level), but I always come back to the preparation; that was *certainly* not done by anyone with Arab/Muslim 'identities' = *authorisation*. Then, having 'primed' the towers, how convenient (no coincidences, please!) was it, for 19 Saudi/Muslim dead-beats to hijack 4 planes? Then perform amazing feats of airmanship, all practiced = 'perfected' in Cessna 150s/172s? "Wham!" - smack in the middle; at least one on a curved-approach (proven by visible bank-angle, see videos.)

Fazit, 3: Perhaps there's a *reasonable* explanation, but IF so THEN why doesn't the US-regime go after it? Save a lot of trouble, mostly for themselves. But when we talk about 'form,' we've since seen just how bad the US-regime can be (Afghanistan, Iraq, latest Libya) plus on reflection, just how bad the Z-regime is and has been all along, i.e. both murdering for spoil, one soil & the other oil - and lying about it, continually.

Now, you decide - believe in fantasies, or look to the facts.

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PS This 'work' (truth-seeking, justice-advocating) is not easy. One result is truly horrendous, namely that it is not 'merely' that our so-called 'leaders' = tyrannical rulers lie to us (proven with Iraq, aggressive invasion thereof = Nuremberg = gallows), but that they *may* have at least tolerated, if not directly carried out (via some rogue-agency, CIA/Mossad = 'prime suspects') - a 'black flag' operation against some 3000 of their own (if agency = US) or allied (if agency = Z) innocents. Once on the crime-path (again *proven* by Iraq after Afghanistan, now Libya), no 'offence' (mainly against morality, since law is both arbitrary and often ignored) - is too outrageous. Only true psychopaths can perpetrate such vile crime(s). Makes me sleep poorly, when at all.

PPS Pragmatics; where to from here? Some 9/11 “truthers” (thanks, but "No, thanks!" to Cockburn et al., for the malevolently arrogant, *erring* vilification), call for some 'full & fair' new enquiry; will never happen - see 'whitewashes' above. All such enquiries are 'poacher as gamekeeper,' only differing by degree. 'Baddies' are in control and until *forcibly* removed, will continue their lying and murdering for spoil, damaging good people instead of moving to save our once jewel-like planet's life-support system. Same old same old, but someone has to keep on agitating (and someone needs to *effectively* act) - the alternative is to cave-in to evil - not me.

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Ref(s):

[1] believe  v. (-ving) 1 accept as true or as conveying the truth (I believe it; don't believe him). 2 think, suppose. 3 (foll. by in) a have faith in the existence of (believes in God). b have confidence in (believes in homoeopathy). c have trust in as a policy (believes in telling the truth). 4 have (esp. religious) faith.  believable adj. believer n. [Old English] [POD]

[2] credulous  adj. too ready to believe; gullible.  credulity n. credulously adv. [Latin: related to *credo]

Usage  Credulous is sometimes confused with credible[3]. [ibid.]

[3] credible  adj. believable or worthy of belief. [Latin: related to *credo] [ibid.]

[4] preposterous  adj. 1 utterly absurd; outrageous. 2 contrary to nature, reason, or sense.  preposterously adv. [Latin, = before behind] [ibid.] 

[5] (Me: All care ...) World Trade Center Buildings 1 and 2

CBS footage of World Trade Center Building 1 Collapsing
  (9 seconds, 4.7 MB., MPEG Format)

World Trade Center Building 2 Demolition - South View
  (1 min and 53 seconds, 53 MB, AVI Format)

World Trade Center Building Demolition - North East View
  (45 seconds, 20 MB, MPEG-4 Format)

World Trade Center Building 2 - molten metal and base smoke
  (2 min. and 43 sec., 72.7 MB, MPEG-4 Format)

WTC2 Demolition - South East View
  (2 min. and 32 sec., 29 MB, MPEG-4 Format)

News Video of WTC2 Demolition Waves
  (1 min. and 11 sec., 83.7 MB, Windows Media Format)

WTC1 - Explosions Highlighted
  (5 min. and 31 sec., 30 MB, MPEG-4 Format)

WTC1 Collapse - North East View
  (18 sec., 3 MB, MPEG-4 Format)

WTC1 Demolition
  (56 sec., 70 MB., Windows Media Format)

WTC1 Collapse - CBS News Clip
  (40 sec, 16 MB, MPEG-2 Format)

PBS Footage of WTC1 Demolition
  (55 sec., 69.8 MB, Windows Media Format)

North View of WTC2 Collapse from ABC News
  (36 sec., 15 MB, MPEG-2 Format)

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World Trade Center Building 7

World Trade Center Building 7 Implosion
  (18 sec., 9.2 MB., MPEG-2 Format)

Dan Rather from CBS News Reports about WTC #7
  (25 sec., 4.4 MB, MPEG-4 Format)

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