Media Manipulation

In the 2000 elections when no one was listening to Al Gore and George Bush was flying into Flint Michigan onboard the Enron Corporate jet and wheeling nursing home patients out in the middle of the night so he could have a photo-op, there was one Presidential candidate who already had a mass following.

Ralph Nader’s 2000 Presidential campaign, propelled by grass roots Green party locals, achieved early and decisive advantage in acquiring populace support. Across the country Nader’s campaign was funded through speaking events where 6 to 8 thousand people would pay up to $8 a person to hear the Presidential candidate speak.

Several venues were sold out and a local speech here on the campus if the University Of Illinois had nearly as many people waiting outside to get in as the overflow crowd inside. In a Chicago interview he was asked why he thought he would be a good President, whereupon he answered in 3 different languages. When asked if he thought he could navigate the bureaucracy of Washington, he informed his interviewer that he had “successfully sued every federal agency”.

So wouldn’t you think that a Presidential candidate, funding his campaign not with corporate donors but through “charging” people to hear him speak in all the major cities across America would be news?

It would be, except for the fact that Nader was not one of the chosen ones to win.

I’m not sure just how long this “pre-election choosing” has been going on, but I do know it was front and center in the 2000 election and every election since, wherein “certain” candidates are pre-selected as official candidates for electability.

This pre-determination is then manipulated and maintained through the cunning control of the nations media. Mass media empires owned and controlled by a small group of people who obviously have vested interest in making sure the right kind of candidate is elected. Media control so great as to not only control the message but manipulate the events on which they allegedly report.

The 2012 election is shaping up to be another banner guile year, wherein lies and deceit will win over truth and honesty. And no better example is available than that of the Ron Paul campaign and the centrifuge of media blackout being perpetrated against him.

In the 08 campaign, Ron Paul won nearly every straw poll, yet it was never mentioned. This year the money men thought they would try and stack the deck against Paul and openly touted the Iowa Caucus, promoting it big time, by constantly highlighting certain candidates.

This advertising tsunami resulted in the only female candidate winning the Iowa Caucus, but by only 1 point over Ron Paul. The news the next day of course, was all about Bauchmann’s win and the third place finisher dropping out of the race but never any mention of Ron Paul’s second place win.

With Bauchmann’s campaign now in shambles, the latest media darling is the Yosemite Sam of Texas, that rootinist tootnist character called Rick Perry, a C and D college student who goes running each day packing a 9mm with a laser sight. A man who claims to have created jobs, even though the Texas Governorship is little more than a janitorial position since it has virtually no powers.

A Builderberg Man who claims job creation, with half of them being governmental salaries, a state who executes the most people, a school system that ranks last in the nation for high school diplomas, the worst environmental record and I could go on, but you get the idea. A thug of a man for the money men, someone willing to tear it all down and tell the lies needed in order to gain power.

But it is the attack on the real patriot named Ron Paul by the media’s darling Rotwieler that is most telling and the subsequent media blackout of Paul’s campaign successes that tells us who is once again in charge of this years elections. Creating the illusions of success where none lay, as they never allow the honesty of Ron Paul to be heard.  http://www.huntingtonnews.net/9134

Here are the debate highlights. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyex8HH6B4c

And how he would fix the economy   http://revolutionarypolitics.tv/video/viewVideo.php?video_id=16160

But my all time favorite is his “What If” speech, the questions no one else dares ask.  http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CBYQtwIwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D4s_IUwwGq-A&ei=rERsTo3sEY3QgAfo-qT1BQ&usg=AFQjCNG7DcKu_mux8yTJgu_MTEzyd3I5-g

The bottom line is that Ron Paul is un-electable even though he is one of  the most popular of all the Presidential candidates, because the sheeple are easily lead through the same electoral gate. Ron Paul is unelectable since the men who control America have deemed him a threat to their plans. Because unless you support the Builderberg plan, your chance of ever achieving success in a Presidential campaign is like a snowball’s chance in the third largest desert in the world - Texas.

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rsp wrote on February 11, 2013 at 11:02 am

Just curious- do you do

Just curious- do you do anything besides look up plots behind every corner? It must be exhausting.

Sid Saltfork wrote on February 11, 2013 at 4:02 pm

He has help looking.  He,

He has help looking.  He, himself, and their other self meet regularly to discuss the evil conspiracies.  If they need another opinion, they consult the bathroom mirror.  The mail carrier is an F.B.I. informant.  The guy at the gas station is a C.I.A. agent.  The kid down the street with the tricyle works for the N.S.A.  Multiply Penn by one, or more in every community; and you realize the problem with the lack of reasonable gun regulations.  

All that you can do is to keep calling them out, and exposing them.  Trying to get them to get help is a waste of time.

SaintClarence27 wrote on February 11, 2013 at 4:02 pm

If only I hadn't replied to

If only I hadn't replied to this post initially...

Sid Saltfork wrote on February 11, 2013 at 10:02 pm

This thread has been going

This thread has been going since Sept. 2011.  If you have not figured it out; Penteller, and buz are one, and the same just like Charlie McCarthy, and Mortimer Snerd.  Bluegrass is real.  At least, he has a decent conversation regarding political issues.  Conspiracy theories abound in the comments.  The interesting part is reading the comments on Ron Paul written back before the GOP primary election.  Even though the conspiracies did not come true, it does not stop them from creating new ones.  The subject is Media Manipulation; and they try.  

bluegrass wrote on February 13, 2013 at 7:02 pm

OH MY GOD!!!!  I am real?

OH MY GOD!!!!  I am real?  I'm really for real, real?  I KNEW IT!!  I mean, I always suspected.... but this.  I mean, this is definitive proof.......  Things are gonna start happening to me now.

alabaster jones 71 wrote on February 13, 2013 at 7:02 pm
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You mean you're gonna stay

You mean you're gonna stay that color???

 

Don't worry, we'd all still love you even if you were the color of a baboon's butt.

bluegrass wrote on February 13, 2013 at 8:02 pm

Hilarious!

Hilarious!

alabaster jones 71 wrote on February 13, 2013 at 8:02 pm
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I would suggest Tab and

I would suggest Tab and Twinkies for everyone, but sadly neither of those fine products can be purchased anymore.

Sid Saltfork wrote on February 13, 2013 at 9:02 pm

There is an outfit planning

There is an outfit planning on buying the Twinkies outfit.  With all of the media coverage over the loss of a national icon like Twinkies, another company is going to start up production.  I heard it on the news.  I read it in the paper.   OMG...... they really are manipulating us !

 

alabaster jones 71 wrote on February 13, 2013 at 10:02 pm
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When there is an outpouring

When there is an outpouring of fierce public support for something, the gears usually get in motion and it eventually happens.  When word of the Hostess bankruptcy got out, it created quite a frenzy among the news pages, water coolers, and Facebook walls of America.

Sure, our debt problem, subpar education system, increasing income disparities, the industrialization of our military, etc. are all a damn shame and all, but when we lost Twinkies?  Now that was when we knew that our great country was really in decline.  That was just unacceptable.  We need our Twinkies and Ho Hos back.  Those other problems can just wait another year, or twenty, or more, before we bother worrying about them.  

bluegrass wrote on February 14, 2013 at 9:02 am

The answers to the questions

The answers to the questions of the universe can be found in the Jerk...


"It's a PROFIT deal.  That takes all the pressure off!"

SaintClarence27 wrote on February 13, 2013 at 8:02 pm

If?

If?

alabaster jones 71 wrote on February 13, 2013 at 5:02 pm
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The really sad thing about

The really sad thing about most conspiracy nuts is that they actually make some really good points about how corrupt and destructive "the system" usually is, and how easy it is for governments and corporations to manipulate public thought.  Unfortunately, those good points are usually drowned out by endless exaggeration, hyperbole, and lazy logic.

Penteller wrote on February 11, 2013 at 7:02 am

“We are dominated by the

“We are dominated by the relatively small number of persons… who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind, who harness old social forces and contrive new ways to bind and guide the world. - Edward Bernays

A perfect example of this mind control process is the Sandy Hook shooting, wherein this Black-Op travesty is being buried deeper every day. From the chain link fence that now surrounds the school, to the dozens of contradictory and unanswered questions surrounding the event, all is off limits to any real journalistic inquiry.

All of this is to make possible, a successful UN Vote in March that will restrict citizen firearms world wide, a treaty that opens the door to UN troops being used on American soil to enforce gun laws. A manipulated ruse that now has VP Joe Biden openly saying what millions of gun owners and free thinking Americans already know, yet the assault on our Constitution and sovereignty goes on.
http://xrepublic.tv/node/2086

What is really most telling in all of this, is how easily deceived the American people are. By simply repeating a false slogan of “fair and balanced”, one of the most manipulative and bias organization in the world is perceived as an honest broker in news. Just one of several “news” organizations that are broadcasting reports at a ratio of 8 to 1 in favor of gun control, while burying the congressional testimony in favor of gun ownership, by a Sandy Hook parent.
http://markamerica.com/2013/02/04/a-sandy-hook-parent-whose-testimony-di...

This bias assault is a result of our media being owned and controlled by a select few. Manipulated control that has a British Marxist and admitted liar of a leading entertainment talk-show, masquerading as a news organization, calling for “US” to amend our Constitution.
“WE”? And what “we” are we talking about – Red Coat!  http://xrepublic.tv/node/2071

Programming of the masses comes in many different forms, some of it includes occult glorification and ceremony by a high priestess who said, “The Superbowl is kind of like the Holy of Holies in America. I’ll come at halfway of the “church experience” and I’m gonna have to deliver a sermon.” – Madonna
http://vigilantcitizen.com/musicbusiness/madonnas-superbowl-halftime-sho...
An occult worship service witnessed by over 100 million people that included the exploitation of Monarch Slave children in controlling American thought, then baptizing the assembled worshipers in half light and half darkness, just before complete darkness – a fitting tribute to Lucifer’s power.
http://vigilantcitizen.com/vigilantreport/super-bowl-2013-recap-the-illu...

In all of this, is the most “smoking gun” story that the media refuses to report on, the story of corrupting advertizing dollars that flow from a cartel that is one of the biggest industry donors to political campaigns. A world-wide drug cartel, producing drugs that cause violence - psychotic drugs involved in most of the mass shootings.
http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/ssriviolence.php

Then there are the trolls of the world, living under the bridge to understanding, who creep out and fog the way by spreading doubt and confusion, to keep those less informed away from the sources of truth. Truth that must be assaulted, so as to preserve the assaulting of truth.
http://consciouslifenews.com/paid-internet-shill-shadowy-groups-manipula...

“All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.” ― George Orwell

Penteller wrote on February 04, 2013 at 4:02 am

"The further a society drifts

"The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those that speak it." - George Orwell

Every once in awhile, a tiny ray of hope pierces the dim overcast of disinformation and lies that have become the cover of our nations media. One such article was the NG’s publishing of the Tribune article by Cal Thomas on Sunday, February, 3d, entitled “60 Minutes missed opportunity.”

Although the article called into question the “fluff” interview of President Obama, it was merely window dressing. By reporting on the most egregious example of poor journalism, it made it look like journalists actually care about truth, when in fact they are many times the purveyors’ of questionable story telling.

Recently the international conglomerate that I slave for, installed the Corporate News Network (CNN) in our break room. What was once a fairly tranquil place to rest for a moment every 2 hours, has now become a programming room for the easily deceived.

As you walk past the glass fronted room that once had people talking with each other, joking and sharing experiences, all you see now are unblinking blank stares at the large screen TV, mouths agape, looking like the 1984 bald headed drones in Apples iconic Super Bowl ad that eventually reframed everything in America today.

If you try and converse with one of the hypnotized, the experience is like a scene out of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”, struggling to hear what you’re saying, they suckle wide eyed, on the flickering screen. If a reply is eventually wrestled from them, it’s rarely ever directed at you, but spoken to their Masters on the wall, in a halting, disjointed and disemboweled voice.

It is like walking into some sort of alternative universe, were once vibrant and engaging people have been turned into zombie creatures, receiving their “download” of data to be regurgitated later. But then, that is exactly the purpose of the Corporate News Network, to dis-inform, confuse and train the mind in corporative consumption.

Pierce Morgan, the Marxist British actor masquerading as a Newsman, said a few weeks ago in an interview on PBS, that it’s OK for journalists to lie. His demeanor and rhetoric speaks volumes in his and his colleagues membership allegiance, in the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), which controls nearly all major journalists.

This ultra secret organization operating in plain sight, has for nearly a century, controlled not only how we get our news but what we hear. An international organization that begins its selection and training of journalists early, in media colleges across the country, then promotes and rewards those journalists who expound the CFR’s agenda best.
http://www.crossroad.to/Quotes/globalism/cfr.htm

As muscle for the New World Order, one of the CFR’s current agendas is the passage of the UN vote coming in March that will disarm the citizens of the world, especially the last remaining and heavily armed American citizen militias, now being vilified by the CNN actors.

As a media shill, Morgan has little depth in honesty and when confronted by a real patriot who speaks truth, Morgan scurries for cover under a new subject, to only have it shredded, exposing him for the NWO circus clown that he is.
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=Pierce+Morgan+interview+with+Ron+paul&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&ved=0CDgQtwIwAg&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailymotion.com%2Fvideo%2Fxoc00a_full-ron-paul-interview-on-piers-morgan-02-03-12_news&ei=UZEPUc-IFpTUyQG2_IAo&usg=AFQjCNFopWR5i7sGZ5lN6u4GUwNo2IQoTA&bvm=bv.41867550,d.aWM

The Sandy Hook shooting is the best example of the criminal nature of today’s media. It’s blatant refusal to investigate and report the multitude of anomalies and contradictory facts associated with Sandy Hook, is only surpassed by its obvious manipulative live reporting of events.

 The best example of CNN’s criminal involvement in the Sandy Hook crime, is Anderson Cooper’s, green screen deception. The “OK to lie” is apparently OK in everything, as CNN made up Anderson Cooper to look like he was onsite at Newtown, when in fact he was “green screened” to look like it. I guess virtual journalism is the wave of the sheeple’s  future.
http://theintelhub.com/2013/02/03/anderson-cooper-confronted-at-cnn-you-were-in-front-of-a-green-screen-and-you-are-a-liar/

Of course, what will not be reported by our lapdog media, is the amo waiting lists, the hundreds of sheriffs around the country who are telling their constituents to arm themselves and have sworn to ignore federal gun control laws. Never reported are the states and municipalities passing laws in such favor, nor the mass movement of people banding into militia’s in preparation of the Federal move against us. Nor the former and current military personnel who have sworn to ignore such orders. NWO plans long in place and now in play.

“It is through this front group, called the Council on Foreign Relations, and its influence over the media, tax-exempt foundations, universities, and government agencies that the international financiers have been able to dominate the domestic and foreign policies of the United States.” - G. Edward Griffin

And now for those famously creative folks who have such a rich repertoire of delightful commentary, whose sole purpose is apparently to keep my name off the primary forum page. Always talking about me and never the subject, tag teaming in verbiage as clever as the Muppets Statler and Waldorf, sitting in The Muppets Show balcony…. Actually, come to think of it - Statler and Waldorf had better lines.

CUE THE INTERNET TROLLS!

Sid Saltfork wrote on February 04, 2013 at 11:02 am

There is no New World Order. 

There is no New World Order.  There is no "mass movement of people banding into militias in preparation of the Federal move against us".  There is no conspiracy being conducted by the Council on Foreign Relations.  There is no "tag teaming" talking about you.  It is the subject of conspiracy which you represent that draws the comments toward you.  You wallow in it with your long, repetitive comments against our country.  You represent the danger that people see regularly of the deranged conspiracist.  If anyone needs to be cued, it is the men in white suits with butterfly nets.  My sympathies to your co-workers at 'the international conglomerate" that you "slave for".  By the way, who gets a work break after two hours of work?  

Penteller wrote on January 27, 2013 at 6:01 am

"When a well-packaged web of

"When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic." Dresden James.

This is a response from the Flu Shots thread, when alabaster jones asked, “I really hope you don't seriously believe that the News Gazette has ever printed an article in response to one of your posts.”

Over time there has been a noticeable pattern in the NG’s publishing of articles. On more than one occasion after highlighting a particular issue, even those that were outside the news cycle of the time, an article would appear shortly afterward in opposition to the statements presented. Sometimes large articles, some from a specific industry, whitewashing the issue with dis-informational rhetoric, never followed up or challenged by the NG.

It is a pattern we see every day, wherein “we” (you and me) are restricted to 250 words in challenging the powers that control our lives and “they” the institutions that help generate revenue for the NG, are given unlimited space to pontificate their views.

Another pattern you will notice, is that besides unlimited and unquestioned column space for institutional, corporate and mainstream political views, a political bias is maintained. Overt bias through their own editorials in proclaiming a particular conservative party support, and through headlines that many times slant negative on articles not adhering to their particular corporate beliefs.

When challenging an editor a few years back about the limitation of a 250 word “letters to the editor” that only serves to mention an issue, potentially triggering an unlimited response from opposing institutions, I was told that Lincoln made history with some 250 words in the Gettysburg Address?

What hypocrisy, what audacity and what arrogance. The statement showed not only the contempt for people like you and me in the publishing process, but the relegation to the back seat of the bus!

Today’s media controls virtually every aspect of our lives. The best example recently; is that it has now been announced “officially” by media outlets that no assault riffle was used in the Sandy Hook shootings. Yet over the last two days the media has broadcast both Senator Durbin and Vice President Biden, talking about the assault weapon that was used - statements unchallenged by our lapdog media.

When have you heard on the news that countries around the world are demanding their countries gold be returned, even demanding to see their gold stored here in the US by the private corporation called the Federal Reserve? Requests that have been denied.

When did you hear that billions of dollars in deposits are being withdrawn from the largest US banks across the country and no body seems to know why? Not since 911 have these kinds of numbers shocked the Bankers.

And where in American media coverage did you hear Kissinger, tell us about the plan for us all, recently saying this about Iran, “foreseeable future” will lead to a nuclear war and a “turning point in human history,”

When did you hear that more and more Pacific tuna is showing up radioactive, where any analysis of radiation fallout on US soil was done, the radioactive rainfall now showing up in the Midwest or that radioactive debris are washing up on US shores from Fucushima.

When did you hear about the Pentagon’s cyber warriors who put out false information on social media sites, maintain fictitious personal accounts, and what about the internet trolls who now are paid to discredit those who speak truth to power and report on the activities of others?

Have you been hearing about all the Sheriffs around the country who are standing against the onslaught of gun control, who have encouraged their constituents to arm themselves and who have said they will NOT enforce federal gun control?

Have you seen anything about the fact that our federal agencies track virtually every kind of crime statistic, yet never track the 10’s of thousands of ENFORCEMENT abuses that result in wrongful convictions, destroyed property, physiological trauma, death and destruction?

When did you hear about Greenland and their financial recovery after the crash in 2008, a recovery that began after taking over the banks that caused it, then convicting and putting in prison the bankers who orchestrated it.

Where have you seen any substantive debate about the psychotic drugs used by most of the “shooters”, highly profitable drugs that are only effective in15% of the worst cases, drugs that are linked to infertility, suicide and violent outbursts?

How about coverage of the occult symbols and practices now embedded in today’s pop music and integrated into television, especially the award ceremonies where satanic prayers and rituals are performed?

And what about school children from the Sandy Hook massacre being paraded onstage to sing “Over the Rainbow”, a key song and mindset programming tool, used in Monarch Slave training?

I could go on and on but you get the point, without these threads and the cyber roads to travel on, there is virtually nothing in the “official” media world to address our interests, allow for alternative perspective and protect our liberties.

“The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them.” Albert Einstein

alabaster jones 71 wrote on February 14, 2013 at 2:02 am
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  "Over time there has been a

 

"Over time there has been a noticeable pattern in the NG’s publishing of articles. On more than one occasion after highlighting a particular issue, even those that were outside the news cycle of the time, an article would appear shortly afterward in opposition to the statements presented."

 

Examples, please.

 

Somehow, I seriously doubt that the N-G has ever published an article for the purpose of refuting one of your posts.  I also doubt that anyone on the N-G staff has given more than two seconds of thought towards you at all.  But, if believing otherwise makes you feel more important, go for it.  You have nothing to lose except for what's left of your grasp on reality.

Sid Saltfork wrote on January 28, 2013 at 1:01 pm

I would recommend that the

I would recommend that the News Gazette limit comments to 100 words, or less.  Repetive paragraphs similar to a middle school term paper should be discouraged.  Authors of such comments should e-mail themselves to support their self image rather than bog down the readers with nonsensical statements.

bluegrass wrote on January 28, 2013 at 5:01 pm

Sid, are you suggesting, in a

Sid, are you suggesting, in a thread entitled "Media Manipulation," that the News Gazette should censor certain comments based on their length, repetition, and or the style in which they are written?   I didn't read it because frankly, with my Fox News mentality I have only about 8.6 seconds of attention span.  May I suggest that instead of asking the News Gazette to limit the number of words one may write, you simply don't read it?  

Sid Saltfork wrote on January 28, 2013 at 6:01 pm

Aw.. bluegrass shows up to

Aw.. bluegrass shows up to defend the conspiracy theorist.  I have to admit that I would advocate the censorship of the right wing, conspiracy fanatics.  You indicate that you "didn't read it"; but you comment defending the thread entitled "Media Manipulation".  At least, you admitted your FOX News mentality.  I tried to keep my comment under 8.6 seconds.

SaintClarence27 wrote on January 28, 2013 at 5:01 pm

Fair; however, the N-G could

Fair; however, the N-G could still allow commenters to be blocked by other posters. While we're at it, why do all of the links in the track section not work? They have "cms." in front of the actual links, you you can edit, but it's annoying. Finally, all of these captchas are driving me insane. Shouldn't you just need a captcha to sign up for an account?

Penteller wrote on December 22, 2012 at 3:12 am

“Media. I think I have heard

“Media. I think I have heard of her. Isn't she the one who killed her children?”  ― Neil Gaiman

The coverage by the media of the Sandy Hook event, was in the beginning a complete sham. Never before in broadcast history, have all the major broadcasters been so wrong on so many things. Virtually nothing reported in the early hours of the coverage, was accurate, other than the state, the town and school involved.

Now a week later, the networks are all about repeating what “officials” are feeding them, some of the same officials who may have been responsible for the original misinformation. Of course, no network group will ever dare perform an “investigation” of their own, as that would be nixed immediately by the powers who control them.

Towards the end of WWII, the Germans had finally developed radar capabilities. To combat those early and simplistic radar systems, aluminum foil strips were thrown out of the bombers by the thousands, so that radar screens looked like it was snowing, eliminating the ability to accurately define anything.

That snow job, seems to now be incorporated in the control of the hearts and minds of the American people. It seemed so odd at first, that the media had screwed up so badly, then we heard the justification by the media that it’s because of fierce competition that they jumped the gun and reported false information.

So because of competition they sacrificed their principles - and they ALL did it? Seems a little odd that on this singular occasion they all screwed up? And what about the “unnamed” officials, who were they and why were they talking, wouldn’t a real media with honesty and integrity, investigate why they were all lied to?

It just does not add up and the whole affair is so suspect, that in the weeks ahead, I’m sure we will find out some very interesting and questionable things to ponder. None of it made since, until reading a quote yesterday, from one of the great illusionary masters. Then I understood why.

“No amount of “judicious study” of false-flag events is ever going to undo the powerful first impressions hammered into the deepest levels of the public mind by media propaganda.” - Karl Rove

buzorro wrote on December 22, 2012 at 9:12 am

Here's he same 'message' that

Here's he same 'message' that includes a timeline of events:

Sandy Hook massacre: Official story spins out of control

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/12/20/sandy-hook-massacre-official-sto...

Sid Saltfork wrote on December 22, 2012 at 10:12 am

Pen writes four rambling

Pen writes four rambling comments to himself without any comments from others over a six month period of time only to be followed by the other personality, buz.  Of course, both personalities are opposed to medications for psychological disorders.   Maybe; it would be better for all, or one of them, to print a newsletter, and post it on his refridgerator along with the medication reminder.

SaintClarence27 wrote on January 28, 2013 at 5:01 pm

Scientologist?

Scientologist?

Penteller wrote on October 05, 2012 at 4:10 am

Men go mad in herds but only

Men go mad in herds but only come to their senses one by one. - Charles Mackay

The Roman Circus has not only come to town, it is permanent.

To keep the commoners who do not think on their own, and make them believe that they actually have a choice, a constant dribble of drivel is feed to them. As they sit wide eyed and captivated by the flicker of the strobbing light, their country and their lives are up for auction to the highest bidder.

This social phenomena was best explained to me by a good friend who had taken his family to Indianapolis Zoo this last summer. Midway through the aquatic show of big mammals, there was a pause in the presentation for a few moments. In-mass, much of the audience who are accustomed to millisecond delays in their normal programming by today’s media, got up and began filing out.

As the show resumed for the second half, they all stopped like the herd they have been trained to be and stared once again at the animals performing before them - their own reflection in the glass. Blocking the view of those who held intelligence and understanding and had remained seated, the standing herd was little different than the animals in the water performing tricks. Once the show ended they filed out, never realizing what they had just done, but on their mass migration once more to the next Circus event to hold their minds captive.

So it is with today’s population and the media who programs them.

In the 2000 Presidential elections, an organization called the Commission On Presidential Debate took over the Presidential debates. Up until that point, the League of Women Voters had held these pivotal events and after contentious negotiations with the COPD, withdrew their support, calling it a “scam”.

Since then, the COPD a highly secretive and hidden hand organization has perpetrated one of the greatest frauds on the American public. It is a covert duopoly run by the former heads of the Democratic and Republican parties, who not only exclude any 3d party candidates but pre arrange the entire format and questions of the contrived event. For which the candidates can prepare in advance.

It is a pre-arranged game show style event, with the American people and their pocket books being the prizes offered. Then to add an air of respectability and credibility to this comedic farce, the nations media conglomerates, owned and controlled by the same people who own everything else, report and analyze for days afterward, the nuances of the scripted replies.

So what you saw in the 2012 Presidential debacle, were the mammals performing on queue, the trainers who own them and set up the stage being pleased, as the public who paid to see the spectacle, happy and ready to gallop on to the next arena. All the while, thinking that something great and wonderful had just happened.

Penteller wrote on July 15, 2012 at 9:07 am

A funny thing happened on the

A funny thing happened on the way to the GOP convention. The ignored, derided, locked out, defrauded, the generally disrespected Ron Paul and his supporters, never got the message to GO AWAY.

So after a year of media blackout that kept the American people from knowing the truth about the overwhelming popularity of the Paul campaign, where overflow crowds and phenomenal grass-root support swept many states GOP election processes, the media has a serious dilemma on its hands.

The problem? How do you now report about a large number of Paul delegates that will be showing up at the GOP convention, a Presidential campaign that was “written off” in media reports that claimed Cayman Isle Romney as the de facto GOP winner?

What do you now say about lawyers and lawsuits being initiated at the grass roots level in many of the states where vote fraud was perpetrated against the Paul campaign, along with potential litigation against the GOP convention itself? Nothing of course. But what do the powers who control all this, do with the Ron Paul delegates who have the power to hold the GOP accountable for their treachery?

It’s really quiet simple when you control everything - especially since the American public is so incredibly gullible and historically challenged, you simply begin running “official” articles about the people who will be attending the convention with the headline that reads, “It is a rebirth” under the subliminal heading Libertariansm.

Ironically although not surprisingly, this July 8th, 2012 News Gazette article in the papers Commentary section covering 1 ½ pages, produced by the Associate Press who buried much of the Ron Paul campaign, cannot seem to be found on this site.

Of course in such “re-adjustment” articles, the focus is on the “crazies” so as to discredit the group as a whole, like the woman whose issue is raw milk. Never mind that the Amish have virtually no allergies of any kind and the scientific community believes it has to do with the raw milk drank by the community. But then - what the ignorant American’s don’t know, can only bring more profit to the 1%ers pharmaceutical portfolios.

Anyway, there you have it, a media that has to somehow explain how people who did not exist are suddenly there. The solution is that you report them as “residue” left over from the fracas, crazies who are begin patronized through the altruism of the inclusive GOP.

Aren’t the GOP and the Media just wonderful folks to allow those who are mentally challenged to participate in such a momentous occasion? Wonder what they’ll now do with Ron Paul himself and the lawyers for Ron Paul who have more than likely created this Illuminatory readjustment.

Penteller wrote on June 17, 2012 at 5:06 am

Yes, it is all about a matter

Yes, it is all about a matter of trust and who would you trust more - international conglomerates, owned by a handful of oligarchs with vested interest in controlling what you know, or small independent organizations with individuals that have little if no interest in manipulating your perspectives. Including people like you and me who make little if nothing off of what they do, other than the satisfaction that the truth is set free.

Because not only does today’s mainstream media control the publics perspective through selective reporting of current events, but they are also active participants, in re-writing history and therefore the peoples understanding of current affairs. 

On June 8, 1967 at 2:00 in the afternoon, one of America’s most advanced and unarmed surveillance ships, sailing in international waters and flying a large American flag came under attack by unmarked aircraft. For 20 minutes the USS Liberty was assailed by rockets, napalm, and cannon, concentrated on her antennae arrays - an initial attack that left eight dead and 100 wounded.

During this first attack wave, a distress message is sent to the Sixth Fleet and four F-4 fighters are sent to help. Shortly after their deployment, U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert MacNamara orders the return of the F-4’s.

Then torpedo boats attacked Liberty using 20 and 40mm cannon, eventually the attack resulted in a direct hit by a torpedo, killing another 25. Circling the stricken ship, the torpedo boats continued to shot at the crew trying to fight the fires onboard, until the call to abandon ship was given.

As the crew began their abandonment the torpedo boats moved in using their cannons, destroying most lifeboats before they could be launched and once in the water, the lifeboats and crew ware again attacked, sinking two of the crowded lifeboats.

Then a launch of 12 rescue aircraft from the USS America and USS Saratoga is undertaken to rescue Liberty crewmembers. McNamara then once again informs sixth fleet command, to recall all aircraft, under the order of President Johnson.

Rear Admiral Lawrence Geis, commander of the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean, protests the decision to recall rescue aircraft to Secretary of Defense McNamara. At which point, President Johnson comes on the phone and says he "didn’t care if the ship sunk..."

After several hours of brutal and cold blooded attack on a ship with no defense capabilities, the attack ended as other nation’s ships and aircraft made their way to the killing, with Liberty barely remaining afloat. In all, 34 service men lost their lives that day and 171 were wounded, as a false flag event intended to justify naked regional aggression had failed.

The reward for those that died that day - a monument that reads “Died in Eastern Mediterranean”. For the survivors – a swearing of secrecy for life upon pain of imprisonment. For those official reports, detailing the events of that day and those responsible – permanently sealed.

Now, nearly 50 years later, after all of those directly involved are now dead and only a handful of younger crewmen are still living and have begun telling of their ordeal, the re-write begins in the multi-generational plan to manipulate an ignorant America.

To this end an unusually large photograph was published on June 8th, 2012, in one of Chicago’s premier newspapers under their Almanac (today in history) section, showing a wounded Liberty sailor being helped from a rescue helicopter, with a caption referring to the “accidental” attack. Propaganda programming of a new generation, about a once highly classified and secret event, keep for nearly 50 years from the public’s knowledge.

And one has to wonder, just how many other publications across the country carried the same overly large photo that day, in a section that most publications nearly always keep texted based.

So now, this brutal attack long kept from the American public, is today being reconstituted under the guise of “accident”, like it was some sort of random unplanned occurrence, carried out by those who have our best interest at heart and those whom we have entrusted the future of America.

May God have mercy upon us - for if these are the kinds of people we call friend, then we surely have no fear of any real enemy, as they are nothing by compare to those who seek to destroy us from within.

Penteller wrote on June 10, 2012 at 4:06 pm

Well it’s nice to see we

Well it’s nice to see we agree on at least one item.

So the candidate with the second highest candidate count who could at the convention have some of the other open delegates go his way, thus giving him the majority win, is suppose to stay home and not even attend, because another candidate has a current majority?

Stop and think about what you just wrote. How is it that in an alleged “democratic” process that only at the last moment, after months of voter fraud, at the very end, did the one candidate, a darling of the media “squeak” out enough electoral candidates to “win” – a proclaimed win before the convention even begins? While the second place holder of candidates for much of the campaign, never covered, never mentioned, never spoken of, who continually held the second place position, was never reported?
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How is it that the only candidate that blew out nearly every one of his venues such as here at the University of Illinois, was never highlighted as a phenomenal trend? How is it that he is the only one who ever speaks about the real problems of corporate greed, parasitic bankers, an imperial warlord nation, unlimited foreign aid, corporate welfare and corruptive campaign funding, is never given a second of airtime?

Do you not find any of this, troubling in any way? Do you really believe that all is well in our imperial Nation, run by men, put in office by institutionalized and industrialized money, who must swear allegiance to another land in order to be in Washington?

As for a mushroom cloud, that doesn’t come until we attack Iran, “coming soon to a big flat-screen near you!” As for time frame? The radiation is already here and growing from Fucushima, a slow motion death as the massive radiation that has been released and the seeping waters of the Japanese coast, proliferate throughout the Pacific. That big pond to the west of us that rotates around and around, bringing things like broken ships and millions of tons of tsunami rubbish to our shores.

Besides the original air born fallout across the US and Canada that has entered the Grass,Cow,Milk,Children cycle that poisoned an entire generation in the early 1950’s, we now have showing up, the upper level predators who ate the little ones that were irradiated, or were irradiated themselves. Big fish that can take decades to grow, now inedible, unless you want to glow in the dark - fishes passing water through radioactive gills every day as they swim along our shores..

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=Radioactive+Tuna&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CFUQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffingtonpost.com%2F2012%2F05%2F28%2Fradioactive-bluefin-tuna-japan-fukushima-california_n_1551431.html&ei=9Q3VT_rBOMbE2gWb6ZGlDw&usg=AFQjCNHUQ4HKb9xDu9fF-ANniQpen0zQ3g

Not sure why these things are of no concern for you, but for me and many others they are a most sobering trend that does not bode well for our future. But then they are things that the media makes sure the masses know little if nothing about, so as to control their couch potato perspectives and dancing with the stars mind.

alabaster jones 71 wrote on June 11, 2012 at 2:06 pm
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We've been through this

We've been through this before, but here we go.  I really do not trust many of the sources you get your information from, I personally believe that most of them are just another example of someone pushing a doctrine or a dogma (the "hidden conspiracy" doctrine in this case).  At the same time, I could definitely believe that there is a lot more danger to this nuclear fallout situation than we are being told and that it does in fact pose  a serious danger to us.  My personal belief is that I really have no way of knowing for sure either way, and neither do you.

As for Ron Paul, his own son endorsed Romney the other day.  Either Rand has suddenly embraced the mainstream Republican doctrine and has disowned his father's ideas, or he sees the writing on the wall too.  There are even some conspiracies out there that, after Ron lost in Iowa, he entered a deal with the devil of sorts with Romney to attack the other candidates and mostly leave Romney alone.  I find that kind of hard to believe, since I'm not sure what would be in it for Dr. Paul, but it did seem like he went after the others a lot more than he did Romney, especially after Iowa.  Interesting to speculate about, if nothing else.

I agree with you that our presidential primary system is an undemocratic joke.  I agree that Ron Paul did not recieve a fair amount of coverage, and I do find that disturbing.  And although I think many of Ron Paul's ideas are terrible, I strongly prefer him to both Obama and any of the other Republican candidates who ran, since unlike the rest of them he has the courage to admit that our country is in terrible shape and needs a hell of a lot more than the cosmetic changes that others are proposing.  On that note, I hope you will join me in voting for either Gary Johnson, or perhaps Nader if he runs again, this November.

Penteller wrote on June 02, 2012 at 7:06 am

It’s been some time since

It’s been some time since posting here, but Thursday’s evening TV News (5-31-12) was such a perfect example of the ongoing and increasing deception being perpetrated upon the American people that I just had to post this.

Besides the impending extermination of the planets population because of Fucushima’s meltdown, Ron Paul’s second place Texas Aces holding of Republican delegate numbers and his regular crowd turnouts numbering in the thousands that overflow venues, or the slow motion train-wreck of world wide economic collapse happening in Europe and brought to you by the money lenders, the people who control our lives continue their plans unabated.

The extensive report by one of Americas largest media manipulators, was about New York’s plan to “outlaw” large cola drinks. A stellar example of why Americans no longer trusts corporate controlled media, wherein industrialized conglomerates manipulate the core truths of understanding.

This particular manipulation is about the ongoing attempt by international agricultural interests to reclassify “high fructose corn syrup” as “corn sugar”, because of the evolving evidence of corn syrup’s poisonous characteristics. To this end, this particular three letter media conglomerate, followed their directive in delivering false information to an ignorant population.

In their stoolie report, it showed cubes of sugar dropped into a glass, representing  the amount of “sweetening” that “high fructose corn syrup” provides in each serving of cola. Throughout the entire report the term " high fructose corn syrup” was never mentioned, while repeatedly used the word "sugar", thus helping to promote the belief that “high fructose corn syrup” is “sugar.”
 
“HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP” is NOT “SUGAR”! So why the deception?

It’s simple, high fructose corn syrup contains the poisons of Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) crops, designed to kill insects and allow for unlimited use of the weed killing Glyphosate, all of which is processed into our foods. Processes that include the use of chemicals such as glutaraldehyde used in making high fructose corn syrup, a poisonous liquid cocktail found in many food products today- especially cola’s.
http://www.naturalnews.com/032948_high_fructose_corn_syrup_glutaraldehyde.html

None of this occurs with “sugar”, a drug used since the 11th century around the world, with little weight gain among the populations. Unlike “high fructose corn syrup” that can be directly correlated with the increase in obesity and heart disease over the last 40 years of its use. Something the agricultural and food processing industry is desperate to keep from the public understanding.
http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S26/91/22K07/

However, the real story in all of this and the smoking-gun held in the hand of the media manipulators who just shot dead another truth, is a deception on a national scale. Wherein, a false and misleading report, occurred on the same news cycle that the request by the Corn Refiners Association to reclassify “high fructose corn syrup” as “corn sugar” was denied by the FDA.
http://www.argusleader.com/article/20120531/UPDATES/120531016/FDA-rejects-petition-call-high-fructose-corn-syrup-corn-sugar-

Pretty kewl hu? Not report the real story and falsify the end result, just so the 1% can continue making billions through the slow and painful deaths of the 99. You just gotta love it when a plan comes together, especially on a global Bilderberg scale such as this.
And just who are these folks? Here’s the 2012 Bilderberg attendees list - http://vigilantcitizen.com/latestnews/bilderberg-2012-the-official-atten...

Yes, once again American media continues to contribute to the decline of America as it helps facilitate one of the primary objectives – ignorance.

"Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people" - John Adams

alabaster jones 71 wrote on June 06, 2012 at 6:06 am
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Is there a timeframe you can

Is there a timeframe you can provide regarding when the nuclear cloud will wipe out all population?  If so, could I interest you in a thousand dollar bet that the nuclear fallout doesn't kill us both in that timeframe?

As for why the media didn't cover Ron Paul's latest event?  I can think of a good reason...he lost.  He conceded.  Romney clinched the necessary delegates.  The party's over.

At least we agree about high fructose corn syrup.

Penteller wrote on April 03, 2012 at 4:04 pm

And it only gets worse.I

And it only gets worse.

I haven’t posted much on this thread because it’s just been more of the same. Where massive Ron Paul rallies that contain “the” most diverse groups of supporters are never mentioned or aired, venues that overflow and must be moved to accommodate the large crowds like at the University of Illinois. Or his 2nd and 3d place finishes that are hardly if ever mention and where his speeches to thousands are never soundbit.

No mention either of the massive GOP vote fraud that has been documented in virtually every state election, where delegates are bared, votes are lost and elections rigged in marginalizing the only GOP candidate that has consistently shown in national polls, to beat Obama in a Presidential election.

Even his current 2nd place convention delegate total is off-limits to the gatekeepers of American ignorance, as they fall all over themselves to do their Masters bidding by repeating everything wonderful about all the other candidates who are owned by those who own us all.

So as Japan begins to glow from their evolving China Syndrome called Fukushima and we increasingly bear the brunt of massive radiation fallout. While the FDA uses swat teams to raid dairy farmers selling fresh milk while allowing BPA to poison our bodies and Michigan begins shooting hogs and charging farmers with felonies because they raise pigs naturally, the agricultural industry increases it poisoning of our food supply while destroying pollinating insects. Meanwhile the Pharmaceutical Industry continues to control politics, reaping huge profits and drugging several generations in the process. While the government controlled by international powers, continues accelerating the creation of all kinds of Owellian control points using military systems designed and refined over 12 years of Imperial War.

No news here – just move it along folks - the evening news will tell you all you need to know. And if you suspect anything odd about your neighbor or someone on the web, be a good citizen and report them using the NSA’s new phone app, Master will be so proud of you.

Penteller wrote on February 13, 2012 at 8:02 am

READ THIS - and watch this

READ THIS - and watch this unfold over the next few months.

For those of you who may still be chaffing at the bit to discredit my words while believing all you are told by our government and the “official” media cartel that owns “our” airwaves, I have nothing to offer you except more frustration.

However, for those of you who can still think on your own and do question what you are told by “official” sources, the following will be a real eye-opener into how the process works, in “programming” the American people minds and the results it achieves.

The publicly stated objective – Enact Federal food labeling changes, to reclassify Fructose as Sugar.

This move by America’s most powerful agricultural corporate interests’, is in response to growing evidence and public concern that fructose is one of the major causes in America’s obesity and diabetic epidemic. A “sweetener” product that transcends nearly every food product, with no labeling or testing required in its content, other than the word “fructose”.

Today’s corn and corn production is a highly origins-controlled and chemically induced commodity, making billions in profits for corporate interests. From the genetic engineering that creates plant toxins that kill insects, to the chemical tolerance of cancer causing herbicides like glyposate (Roundup) and 2-4-D that are being used at ever increasing amounts, all are toxins now processed into our foods and drinks.

As a child growing up in the 1960’s, there were virtually no obese people to be seen. Every thing was fried in animal fat - and “sugar” - was in virtually everything. For nearly a thousand years “sugar” was produced and consumed in ever increasing amounts, with no culture on the planet becoming obese.

Yes, wars were fought over it, people executed for being in possession of it, entire races abusively enslaved to meet demand and the first Presidential scientific commission recommended it to be a controlled substance like opium and other addictive drugs. All outlined in a wonderful book on the subject called “Sugar Blues” that highlights its real health risks such as tooth decay, hemorrhoids, etc.

It has only been within the last 40 years that we have all become fat due to “fructose” and as the public becomes more aware of this fact and begins to question its use, the very people who have created the problem now begin to re-define the issue so the people will be conned once more through the help of media programming.

In short, legislation has already begun, along with the public programming. From TV and radio ads that expound the virtue of “sugar” in plant products like corn, to news agencies running reports that repeat, repeat, repeat the word “sugar” when referring to products that have “fructose” in them. All are designed to re-program American minds.

So now you can watch over the ensuing months as your friends and colleagues begin using the term “sugar” when referring to products that contain the destructive “fructose”. Programmed people, who would never dream of calling their representative to object to a change in food labeling, since they now believe these products to be laced with “sugar”.

Corporate welfare, funding corporate profits, through corporate advertising, backed by unlimited corporate funded campaign contributions, to lawmakers herded by corporate lobbyists, who claim the public is behind the legislator because no one calls to object.

Pretty nifty manipulations don’t you think! - Or do you?

CRAAACCK – Keep them cattle moving to the corral of conformity and slaughtered for corporate bottom lines… ye ha!

DLEmerick wrote on February 14, 2012 at 2:02 pm

Wow?  Where to begin, when

Wow?  Where to begin, when you censorily disavow the news media, as to what in the world you are relying upon, as sources of information.  Gossip, rumor and opinion become your standard sources of what is or is not that fact in the world?

You quote as fallows: "Such as it is, the press has become the greatest power within the Western World, more powerful than the legislature, the executive and judiciary. One would like to ask: by whom has it been elected, and to whom is it responsible?" --Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Well, I'd dare reply to him, or you, this way:  who said the arbiters of truth were matters of popularity, of elections, one way or the other?

For Solzhenitzen, that would be a primary lesson, of understanding that not everything in the world is controlled by the government, as was the case of the world in which he matured as a person.  For you, though, it ought to be elementary to observe that there is, in fact, no big bad wolf of a unified media conglomerate -- no controlling news source.

There is, of course, media competition, the side effect of which is that the media listen to one another, as well as to other sources, in trying to decide what the "story" is, the one that the people want to hear about.

So, when the media begin to blather, about this issue or that, about this candidate or that, there is always the possibility of a self-fulfilling prophecy, that what the media thinks the people want to hear about, in their news coverage, will, in fact, curiously, perhaps, be what the people want to hear about, or, even maybe not.

Now, it seems to me, if some part of the media has got the message wrong, then they will quickly pay for it, because audience ratings will fall, advertisers will pressure them to get it right or else they'll spend their dollars elsewhere.

For, afterall, that is what the media, every one of them, is after -- income and money -- for, no matter how inflated the media may be, egotists all, at the end of the day, the month, the quarter, the year...they have to balance the books.  That is the heart and soul of fair and balanced news, not some idealistic sense of the just and true, but some compromised idea of what, in the end balances all the competing responsibilities.

Some like Fox news, IMHO, are greedier than other media outlets, but greed is only an inappropriate excess of the desire to please (for profit), a fawning if you will, a catering to the vices of ignorance, which you know you'd rather be reinforced in your beliefs, than informed about how the facts lie against your views.

The media, in its entirety, is there for you to discern, as to how it is telling the truth, and who is merely misleading you, because you are willing to be fooled, as, for instance, so many who follow Fox news, or Limbaugh, are willing to be fools.

buzorro wrote on February 14, 2012 at 6:02 pm

If I may jump in here, let

If I may jump in here, let first say that, while I would never speak for Penteller, we're on the same page on this issue.  It is my contention that the US media is controlled in that we're told what they want us to know, not what we need to know.  Although our Founding Fathers included a 'free press' as one of our 'rights,' their intention was that the press could report freely any instances of crimes or corruption in or government without being persecuted or prosecuted for it.  The purpose of a 'free press' was to be the ever-vigilant watchdog for We the People, because, being an agrarian society, the vast majority of citizens were busy tending their farms and unable to travel at will to DC and make sure our political leaders were on the up and up.

Now it may be difficult to address certain arguments you pose, because you are not using the English language properly.  I noticed this on almost all of your other posts also.  I'm not beating you up about it, as long as the person conveys his message, I can overlook any mis-spelling, made-up words, or improper word usage.  Example: '...you censorily disavow the news media...'  I couldn't find a definition for 'censorily.'  What did you mean to say?

At any rate, in the many forums that I've taken part in, usually one party will eventually question the 'credibility' of the other's source of information.  If the source happens to be an article or blog from the internet, then the retort will most likely be, 'Oh, people can say anything on the internet.'  Implying that the internet articles or blogs aren't credible, or at the least, not as credible as the talking heads of the few mainstream news media (MSM) we have left.  

If you're familiar with the child's tale, 'The Boy Who Cried Wolf,' then you know why I summarily dismiss anything that is heard on the ABCCBSNBCMSNBCFOX entertainment/news channels.  Just as the local villagers heard the boy falsely cry, 'Wolf!' just to get their attention and knew to avoid him altogether, after hearing so many lies propagated by the MSM over the years by those who have the resources to know the truth, I also have learned just to ignore them altogether.  By spreading, or repeating false propaganda 'intentionally,' I'll go another step farther and declare that the MSM obviously has an agenda (corporate globalism = the New World Order) and is our enemy.

As an aside at this point, I find it very ironic that the majority of people rightly complain of the price of gas at the pump, how it rises and falls in almost perfect 'sync' with each other, rightly put the blame on a lack of competition between the big oil corporations, saying that they're in bed with each other, but for some unknown reason cannot recognize the same cause and effect with the news corporations.

Perhaps the best example of the power of the news media was a quote by the granddaddy of 'yellow journalism,' Randolph Hearst, prior to the Spanish/American War over a hundred years ago.  At that period of time the US had conquered the West and our government was anxious to spread it's empire farther.  Cuba was an enclave of Spain at the time and local Cubans, as they had before, rebelled against their oppressors.  A minor rebellion started and US newspapers rushed their journalists and photographers to the scene.  After waiting around for some action for a few weeks one of Hearst's reporters wired him with a request to return home, stating 'There is no war here.'  Hearst wired back for him to stay.  'You supply the stories, I'll supply the war.'  And he did...

The controlled media doesn't just lie us into unnecessary wars.  Hearst, again, often printed false tales of 'Negroes snorting cocaine, wrecking cars and raping white women,' and the public ate it up.    When Prohibition was repealed, all those G-men, including his nephew, suddenly found themselves unemployed.  Hearst didn't think it was right for his own nephew to have to get a real job, so he set about making an edit to those earlier stories.  Now he was printing new ones saying that 'Negroes were smoking marihuana, wrecking cars and raping white women.'  Most people had no idea what marihuana was.  If Hearst had identified this new 'threat' as hemp, then people would have wondered if he was smoking it, because everyone knew what hemp was.  Doctors knew what marihuana was, it's oil was in about 40% of all pain medications.  But Hearst's nephew, Henry J. Anslinger, took an armful of his uncle's newspapers across the country to DC, told Congressmen of this 'new' threat to US society, and had them read Hearst's news stories as 'proof.'  One congressional hearing was held on one day, a law prohibiting pot was passed, and the rest is history.  The G-men were back to work, and making Anslinger the head of the new bureaucracy was the icing on the cake.  That's power...

More recently, whenever national tragedies occur, scores, if not hundreds, of news reporters swarm the scene of the crime.  In the first hours we'll hear of 'conflicting reports,' but soon enough government officials will handily describe the sequence of events, MSM reporters will parrot the 'official line,' and that will be that.  Anyone questioning the 'official explanation' is immediately branded as a 'conspiracy nut.'  It happened at Ruby Ridge, Waco, Oklahoma City, Desert Storm, the events on 9-11, the War on Terror, the attack on Saddam, etc.  Individuals cannot credibly question government official explanations.  They are, after all, professionals with access to inside information.

Well, DLE, you wanna know why all MSM is losing readers and viewers?  Competition.  Saddam didn't have WMD's, now did he?  Will you concede that we now know that this was a lie?   Name me one of the MSM that questioned the validity of the claim that he did by Bush and his neo-cabal.  Can't do it, can you?  Where was this 'media competition' that you speak of?  No, the only competition to the MSM is the WWW.  That's why every year there's a clamor in the legislature for internet censorship.  People are realizing that the truth will not be found in the MSM.  It's only available on the internet.  Get on there and print everything you can because the day will almost certainly come when the powers-that-be will succeed in controlling what we have access to.  That's how powers keep control.  No one gives up power voluntarily, it must be taken from them.  After all, that's how they got it.

So in closing, DLE, pray tell me which news organiztion 'hasn't' been downsizing?  Google 'Operation Mockingbird.'

Penteller wrote on February 12, 2012 at 12:02 pm

Once again the powers who

Once again the powers who control our media and therefore the elections, has nullified yet another win by the only candidate that has consistently polled and won elections in the upper numbers. A manipulating media that buries national polls, showing Ron Paul winning against the Never Keep a Promise Obama over all the other Republican neophytes. “The” most conservative member of our congress, regularly shunned by the party that claims to be conservative – no hypocrisy there!.

Amayzing isn’t it, how they announced Romney won, long before the total vote count was done. It was of course to bury the real numbers for Paul. A state in which Ron Paul out polled all other candidates by considerable margins, a number rarely mentioned and never highlighted.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/lv?authkey=CKT21ZkH&hl=en_US&key=0AjQBwcCtzwG8dEdGUWZjS1FwTW8wTzVyOEJ6dmg4cHc&toomany=true#gid=1

Of course the usual daily programing is all about the aggressor Iran, a country that has never attacked anyone and whose very soul is all about being slapped first, since personal martyrdom is the nations mantra. Our media will never show you pictures like the
following, because to do so is to call into question who the real aggressor is, instead the gullible American people are programmed so well as to support by 50% an attack on Iran.
Just a few of the nearly 1000 military bases that the worlds preeminent imperial nation maintains.
http://whatreallyhappened.com/IMAGES/threatmapsplash.jpg

And it is quite possible that Paul won even more of the voting states, but then you’re not to know that, or anything remotely associated with a Paul success.
http://revolutionarypolitics.tv/video/viewVideo.php?video_id=17722

alabaster jones 71 wrote on February 19, 2012 at 5:02 am
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Paul never had a chance in

Paul never had a chance in the GOP primary to begin with though.  There was certainly far less news coverage of Paul than there should have been, but it's his views and not the news coverage that hurt his candidacy the most.  Most Republican primary voters are extremely repelled by some his views, particularly on foreign policy.

His ideological consistency may have helped him gain the supporters he had, but it killed his chances with the rest of the primary voters in many ways.  In particular, I thought the should have bit the bullet and pandered a little on Iran, emphasizing that he wouldn't sit on his hands if Iran committed acts of aggression against the U.S.  His refusal to take responsibility for and/or adequately explain the racially questionable newsletter content was another big mistake.

I imagine Paul would do a lot better than Santorum or Gingrich in a general election though, and almost all the polls I have seen suggest that. 

The upcoming Michigan primary may very well ultimately determine if Romney is the nominee or not.  Some chatter out there that losing his home state to Santorum (Santorum currently is up double digits in the polls there, wow!) is the one thing that could really deliver a fatal blow to his candidacy and end the current general assumption that he is still the inevitable nominee.  Despite his current surge, Santorum can't be taken too seriously either.  He lost his Senate seat a few years ago by a larger margin than any incumbent senator had lost by in decades.  Plus, Republicans need women and independents to trend their way instead of repelling them.

So maybe there will be a brokered convention.  Conventional wisdom says that would be a disaster, and that the nominee would be too wounded to have any chance to beat Obama, but I think it would be worth it for them if they could get someone like Paul Ryan, Chris Christie, Marco Rubio or someone else who some people might actually be excited to vote for.  If Romney is the nominee and beats Obama, it will be because Romney voters want Obama out of office, not because they actually like Mitt or have any enthusiasm towards Mitt, the dullest and most robotic candidate you could ask for and who apparently was tragically born without a personality.

Penteller wrote on January 27, 2012 at 11:01 pm

Bluegrass,"Such as it is, the

Bluegrass,

"Such as it is, the press has become the greatest power within the Western World, more powerful than the legislature, the executive and judiciary. One would like to ask: by whom has it been elected, and to whom is it responsible?" --Alexander Solzhenitsyn

I’m always “civil” in everything I do, it’s just that when telling the truth, a lot of people just think they’re catching hell from me (Truman paraphrased).

Little by little it is obvious that you’re beginning the journey to a more enlightened state of mind, as you being to question the programming by the talking-heads of the right. One part of the programming deeply ingrained, through constant repetition in every broadcast, is the lie of a “left wing liberal media”.

This repeated programming phrase is the very cornerstone of their mind control and manipulation of those who rarely think outside the cloistered order of the right, where brutality and war is always in vogue and always in play. Where bashing, screaming and cutting off, anyone with an alternative thought, is the way to “entertain” those being programmed.

Now at this point there are many who have taken offense to these statements and claim some sort of superiority through the likes of OxyLimbaugh, O’Realy, and the Savage. However, those in glass houses should not throw stones, as virtually all of the devout listeners to these kinds of voices, have absolutely no clue as to the owners of these radio personalities and the coordinated message they program into the subconscious of millions each day.

All of these talking heads are beholding to Bain Capital (Romney’s money cow) who owns Clear Channel, the largest radio station group owner in the United States. Clear Channel owns the networks that air radio talk shows such as, The Rush Limbaugh Show, The Glenn Beck Program, The Sean Hannity Show, America Now with Andy Dean, Coast to Coast AM, The Savage Nation, The Mark Levin Show, and The Dave Ramsey Show.

This concentration of media power is just part of a megalithic and orchestrated assault upon the American psyche, engineered and designed to manipulate and facilitate a hidden agenda in plain sight. A world wide agenda that can easily be understood, if you understand who the owners, board chairs and shareholders of Bain Capital are - which will reveal why Romney is their chosen candidate.

So each time we hear the term “left wing liberal media”, it is understood as a programmed response to invalidate any thought, outside the cloister of the Clear Channel Order. The direct programming channel to millions of devout listeners who regurgitate verbatim all they are told each day and call it entertainment

I’d debate the hypocrisy in claiming some sort of moral higher ground in condemning Paul, while the serial adulterous Gingrich or the 1% Romney who thinks $370,000 is not much money, gets by without mention.But this is not about the 2012 elections.

This thread is about the gross manipulation and contrived political marketing by powerful media forces in this country, of those candidates who support the owners agenda. This is about how America has lost its very soul to those who control the airwaves and are like sheep to the slaughter, ignorant and un-caring, that the very foundation of our democracy is being destroyed

To this end it has been once again a truly amazing couple of weeks, as the media streetwalkers continue to ply their trade in the 2012 elections and from what the media reports you would think that only 2 candidates are running, Romney and Newt.

Of course the primary MO of the media is “exclusion”, because out of sight is out of mind the 24/7 world of hyper media. Fox completely excludes a candidate from the coverage - then is forced to report the truth.
http://12160.info/group/ronpaulforpresident2012/forum/topics/fox-news-ron-paul-debate
But what do you expect after the man spanked the Fox on national airwaves.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duhaz-WYl3k

While the endorsements continue to flow in from all corners, the media is silent about them as well.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/ron-paul-receives-key-endorsements-from-three-south-carolina-state-senators-2012-01-17

And why would any self respecting reporter follow up that Gingrich has committed a federal offense in his campaign, (18 U.S.C. § 599) punishable by up to 2 years in prison.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/01/18/1056110/-Newt-Gingrich-Promises-Palin-a-Presidential-Appointment-and-Commits-a-Felony?via=siderecent

As the venues are packed whenever Paul is there, while Gingrich has to cancel appearances because so few show up. But the real news is how the rules have been changed for this years Republican election, so that only the chosen will win.
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2012/01/20/gingrich-cancels-event-after-few-show-up/?mod=google_news_blog

In short, it’s all about the Weapons of Mass Persuasions
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30368.htm

I could go on and on with countless other instances, but you get the message, if you don’t by this point, then you’re obviously not part of the solution to America’s crisis.

Penteller wrote on January 15, 2012 at 4:01 pm

Bluegrass,If I could offer

Bluegrass,

If I could offer some assistance, so as to not have double spacing. Use a “soft” return of combined keys “Shift - Enter”, which will not promote the double spacing your posts are creating. For some reason the NG has allowed a change to the site, which double spaces a hard return “Enter”. An indication of just how important this troublesome media is to them.

Anyway, I would love to debate the merits of your excellent post, which had some wonderful links in justifying your position, if only this thread were about the qualifications or dismissal of Ron Paul’s candidacy. Again, if you would care to create such a thread I’d be more than happy to participate.

There is one point, upon which it should be noted – that of race baiting by the media.

You will notice that the media “fielded” the issue of his alleged racism, just prior to the Iowa elections, where it fell like a lead balloon. In fact, it seemed to increase his numbers in those states holding straw polls that are politically controlled by people of sans color.

So there is a reason why the media has dropped the issue for now, as the elections are currently occurring in states with few people of color in positions of power. But have patience, your outrage will be rewarded shortly, as the media will roll out in force, voices loud and virulent in condemning his alleged racism, when elections begin occurring in states that contain people of color in larger voting numbers.

All of this can be explained by the greatest non-violent jihadist of them all - Gandhi

"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." - Mahatma Gandhi

We’ve seen the media implement the first two definitions, with little effect upon his candidacy. Now we get into the really ugly part of a knock down, drag out and all out war on Ron Paul.

The media still performs the first two, ignoring his continuing wins and gains. Such as winning most straw polls across the country like he did in 08.
http://www.dailypaul.com/204237/ron-paul-wins-tx-saddle-up-straw-poll

The media even admits that they are manipulating the publics perceptions.
http://revolutionarypolitics.tv/video/viewVideo.php?video_id=17347

With subliminal imaging being the favorite method in discrediting his opposition to un-Constitutional wars and actions,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=RYN-BQqwEIo

Never mind that Paul has received twice as much military personnel campaign contributions as all the other candidates combined.
http://revolutionarypolitics.tv/video/viewVideo.php?video_id=17342

And how do these alleged un-bias reporters feel about Ron Paul. Well like Dana Bash of CNN, they’re worried that he may win and spoil their owners party plans.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXuceZO4YTM

But the real fighting fracas has now begun and it will be ugly, such as Working Girls raising funds for Paul.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nv3wieJh9_8&feature=g-u&context=G23cbe65FUAAAAAAAIAA

Which means that all the vile, lowbrow, disgusting appearances will begin, such as alleged KKK supporters showing up at Paul Rally’s and getting massive media attention, along with al-Qaeda  and other low life support. All intended to discredit his rapidly rising popularity.

And why all this insanity? Why all the effort going into trying to destroy the man? Because he speaks the truth that resonates with even what is called “left wing” people like myself, saying what many of us already know or at least suspect - that our future is being chosen for us and unless we act quickly, others are now choosing our fate,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdMsPuIxyYk

What is really the funniest thing in all of this - is the stupidity of the talking heads like O'Really, Oxycodone Limbaugh and Ignorant Savage. If they really wanted to help destroy Paul, they would point out his massive support by the left, those illusionary left wing lunatics that they have built their dynasties on by programming their brain dead followers to hate. Make sure their "entertained" listeners understand the support of the left wing and you erode the support of those on the right.

Funny hu? The wall of hatred they have created now keeps them locked inside, because to use the truth of Paul's support by the left is to destroy their credibility with the lemmings they have created on the right. What a quandary for them indeed.

bluegrass wrote on January 16, 2012 at 8:01 pm

First and foremost, thanks

First and foremost, thanks for the civil discourse.  Second, thanks for the "return" tip.  I'll give it a shot.
My point with regard to the Paul stuff is that the media doesn't need to manipulate what is there in black and white, and to be honest I don't even see much talk about it except for in our posts.
I'm not sure what you mean by the media trying to "destroy" the man.  This is the point I've been trying to make with regard to media manipulation.  I feel like Paul has gotten a free pass by the majority of mainstream media for a reason.  I don't think there is some left wing journalism club, although there has been some evidence of this in the past.  However, I think that most journalists are likely lefties at heart.  I also believe that most journalists believe, as do I, that the better Paul does, the better the chance of Obama being re-elected, which is why he is generally being ignored.

 

buzorro wrote on January 15, 2012 at 10:01 pm

Paul-Haters Caught Planning

Paul-Haters Caught Planning To Dress Up As KKK, Pose As Paul Supporters

 

http://www.theendrun.com/paul-haters-caught-planning-to-dress-up-as-kkk-pose-as-paul-supporters

Penteller wrote on January 12, 2012 at 7:01 pm

Buzz.Good to see you once

Buzz.
Good to see you once again back among the cyber living. And as always, precise and to the point in your gentle ways.

Bluegrass,
Your post is most appreciated, because it defines in stark definition, the very point we are trying to make in this thread. That the American people can no longer trust the mainstream media, as it is owned and manipulated by a small cabal of individuals whose agenda is the manipulation of American perspectives.

Buz, pointed out one of the best examples of media manipulation – Ahmadinejad’s misrepresented statement about Israel. This kind of spin is very typical of today’s national media, who also hides alternative perspectives from the public.

One such hidden perspective that you were not to know about is Ahmadinejad’s meeting with New York Orthodox Jewish leaders on September of 07, a love-fest meeting where they presented Ahmadinejad with a Silver chalice in appreciation of his leadership.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-r04SQ97_Q

As for Ron Paul, there are a couple of your statements that highlight in even more stark contrast, the way that average Americans are programmed to believe certain perspectives. It’s been widely reported that the “newsletter” incident was 20 years ago and yet you believe it’s been “10 years worth of black and white evidence”. Could you provide us with some of this “evidence” over 10 years?

As for being Racist, there is nothing in Paul’s candor, manor or character that indicates anything racist yet that is all the narrow neo-con talkers repeat. Never do they mention his fight against unequal justice, which is at the very heart of Americas’ racism today. Again, the programming continues.

The continued under-reporting and miss-reporting of Ron Paul’s candidacy should be the major concern to Americans, proof of the coordinated and planned media manipulation of the 2012 elections. A great example - for over two months the media never showed any of the candidates rallies and why? Because only Ron Paul drew huge gatherings while the others were sparse, only recently have the “chosen ones” drew enough people to broadcast and compete with Paul’s popularity. But then you never questioned that did you? Nor did millions of your fellow Americans.

But it is the daily programming of the population that is the most troubling, the daily sound bites and subliminal messaging that herd the American population down the corporate road of profitability.
http://www.activistpost.com/2012/01/unplug-yourself-how-advertising-and.html

bluegrass wrote on January 15, 2012 at 10:01 am

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Elections/President/2011/1229/Racist-newsle...

 

An excerpt from the article reads,

"1985 to 1994

 The controversial statements that have surfaced stem largely from this period. They were contained in newsletters with titles like Ron Paul’s Freedom Report, the Ron Paul Political Report, the Ron Paul Survival Report, and the Ron Paul Investment Letter, rarely under a byline (although many contained first-person references that readers would assume referred to Paul himself).

Some samples: A December 1989 newsletter quoted by James Kirchick in the New Republic predicted "Racial Violence Will Fill Our Cities" because "mostly black welfare recipients will feel justified in stealing from mostly white 'haves.' "

Another letter said "I think we can assume that 95 percent of the black men in that city [Washington] are semi-criminal or entirely criminal."

An August 1992 edition of the Ron Paul Report labeled former Rep. Barbara Jordan (D) of Texas "the archetypal half-educated victimologist," according to the Houston Chronicle."

 

These are only a few of the nuggets mined from the decade of brilliance that was the Ron Paul Newsletter.  There are more.  We all know there are more.  Ron Paul and his followers say either it doesn't matter, he didn't know about it, it didn't happen, or he apologized for it so it's no problem.   So which one is it?  

 

Okay, so I'll play along and assume for the moment that Ron Paul, as most of his followers claim, is not a racist.  At the very minimum, he benefited either monetarily or with publicity or both, from putting out a newsletter that contained incredibly racist commentary.  Even if I believe in some of the things Ron Paul says, that fact the benefited in some way gives me the intellectual freedom to disallow him as a potential candidate. I do agree with Paul that the number one threat to our republic is our national debt.  However, I don't believe that the solution to that problem is re-electing Obama.

 

In politics on a certain level, it doesn't matter what your record is.  One mistake, even something that really has no impact on your political leanings at all, can sink you.  Dan Quayle's potatoe, Weiners weiner text; the list is long.

 

http://motherjones.com/politics/2012/01/ron-paul-newsletter-iowa-caucus-...

bluegrass wrote on January 15, 2012 at 10:01 am

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Elections/President/2011/1229/Racist-newsle...

 

An excerpt from the article reads,

"1985 to 1994

 The controversial statements that have surfaced stem largely from this period. They were contained in newsletters with titles like Ron Paul’s Freedom Report, the Ron Paul Political Report, the Ron Paul Survival Report, and the Ron Paul Investment Letter, rarely under a byline (although many contained first-person references that readers would assume referred to Paul himself).

Some samples: A December 1989 newsletter quoted by James Kirchick in the New Republic predicted "Racial Violence Will Fill Our Cities" because "mostly black welfare recipients will feel justified in stealing from mostly white 'haves.' "

Another letter said "I think we can assume that 95 percent of the black men in that city [Washington] are semi-criminal or entirely criminal."

An August 1992 edition of the Ron Paul Report labeled former Rep. Barbara Jordan (D) of Texas "the archetypal half-educated victimologist," according to the Houston Chronicle."

 

These are only a few of the nuggets mined from the decade of brilliance that was the Ron Paul Newsletter.  There are more.  We all know there are more.  Ron Paul and his followers say either it doesn't matter, he didn't know about it, it didn't happen, or he apologized for it so it's no problem.   So which one is it?  

 

Okay, so I'll play along and assume for the moment that Ron Paul, as most of his followers claim, is not a racist.  At the very minimum, he benefited either monetarily or with publicity or both, from putting out a newsletter that contained incredibly racist commentary.  Even if I believe in some of the things Ron Paul says, that fact the benefited in some way gives me the intellectual freedom to disallow him as a potential candidate. I do agree with Paul that the number one threat to our republic is our national debt.  However, I don't believe that the solution to that problem is re-electing Obama.

 

In politics on a certain level, it doesn't matter what your record is.  One mistake, even something that really has no impact on your political leanings at all, can sink you.  Dan Quayle's potatoe, Weiners weiner text; the list is long.

 

http://motherjones.com/politics/2012/01/ron-paul-newsletter-iowa-caucus-...

buzorro wrote on January 10, 2012 at 11:01 pm

Update: Iowa and New

Update: Iowa and New Hampshire have both voted for more wars for Israel.

 

Ron Paul wouldn't last very long as President.  History proves that those presidents that act to break up the banking cartel end up being assassinated.  At Mr. Paul's age it wouldn't even take a bullet.  An induced heart attack during a hospital stay for a minor cause would do the trick.

 

But, in a sense, Ron Paul has already won.  By sticking to the US Constitution during his entire career, and spreading the 'liberty & freedom' message to millions of young people, he has already made his mark in history.  My favorite Ron Paul sign?  'Ron Paul cured my apathy!'

 

And for those who have swallowed the bait, hook, line, and sinker, that he is a racist, probably also believe that the President of Iran threatened to 'wipe Israel off the map,' and I only have the following quote for those 'unthinkers:'  Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.'

bluegrass wrote on January 11, 2012 at 5:01 pm

Funny how some people can

Funny how some people can take the whisper of reality, the faintest whiff of a fact, the tiniest shred of a particle of evidence, add a whole lotta conjecture, throw it all into a big pile and call it the absolute truth that only the most courageous have the ability to believe.  We sheeple call this a conspiracy theory.  And yet, presented with 10 years worth of black and white evidence of a newsletter that has different variations of names all of which contain "Ron Paul," facts become so easily cast aside like, well, yesterday's newsletter.  Furthermore, those who dare to bring up black and white facts are chastised as "unthinkers."  In addition, it apparently is now a sin to believe that someone who puts out a racist newletter is, in fact, a racist.

 

If one wants to that Ahmadinejad didn't say "wipe Israel off the map,"  I would entertain that.  Not being a student in the lingustic nuances of Arabic, Persian or Islamofacist Puppetmasterism, I freely admit I haven't the slightest clue.  However, even if he didn't say that specific phrase, one can still look to the body of work that the mullahs in Iran like to put out about Israel.  This handiwork cannot be denied.  Anyone can make a mistake one time, but when you put out a body of work, like for instance 10 years worth of a newsletter with your name at the top, that is what really provides a window into the reality of a situation. 

 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/did-ahmadinejad-re...

 

The fallout from the Ron Paul Newsletters is not media manipulation.  The fallout from the Ron Paul Newsletter is the consequence of putting out a racist newsletter.

 

 

buzorro wrote on January 11, 2012 at 7:01 pm

First, I want to apologize

First, I want to apologize for using that disparaging label.  It's truly not my way to be condescending, it's just that I get frustrated by some who have not done their homework.  I've done little except research on a variety of subjects over the years and thanks to the internet I don't even have to leave the comfort of my home.  The over-riding lesson that I've learned so far, and I learned it years ago, is summed up in the opening sentence of an article written by the now-retired truth-teller, Charley Reese.  'One of the hardest things for Americans to accept is that their leaders will lie to them.'  I've heard those lies and recognized them as such ever since the presidency of George Bush the Elder, when my political awakening began.  'Desert Storm,'...just another war based on lies to justify building up the US Empire using the blood and treasury of the
US taxpayer.

When I communicate my reasoning for holding some of the opinions that I have, it is because of this homework that I have done, the thousands of articles, books, and videos that I have read and watched in alternative media.  Why 'alternative media?'  Because of the propaganda that was later proven to be lies spewed forth by the mainstream media.  Think of the childhood story of, 'The Boy Who Cried Wolf.'  He lied every time he cried 'Wolf!,' and eventually the townspeople simply started ignoring his lies.  Our mainstream media now walks in lockstep with pronouncements from the Administration and the leaders of Congress, instead of being the public's watchdog as was intended by our Founding Fathers.  According to the latest figures that I've seen, 97% of the public is being 'informed' by six families.  We've experienced first-hand the result of independent oil companies and gas stations being swallowed up by the bigger ones (I'm sure I'm not the only one who remembers the occasional 'gas wars'), now the price of gas at the pump seems to all rise and fall in unison nationwide.  You could say that the price of gas is now 'fixed' by a small number of oil company executives,...a cartel, if you will.  Is it so hard to imagine the same thing occurring in the US mainstream media?  The oil companies could charge a lesser price for gas, just like the media could tell the truth.  But their goal is to make more money, not less.  The Supreme Court may have ruled that corporations have the same 'rights' as people, but they have no 'morals,' they have no loyalty to the US public.

When I talk to people and spoon-feed them some little known facts, I always tell them, 'Don't believe me, do your own homework, look it up for yourself.'  Out of those thousands of sources of information, I've kept little of them for reference.  I don't do all this research for anyone but me in order to see 'the big picture' and watch how it evolves.  I did a quick search, however, for a couple of examples out of many that have formed the basis for my opinion on the two topics mentioned:

Is Ron Paul a racist? - I got this from doing a search on of the two websites that I regularly monitor, whatreallyhappened.com  As always, anyone is more than welcome to prove this is false and I will 'man-up' and admit that I stand corrected.

  Originally written in Jan 2008 -

"Austin NAACP President Nelson Linder, who has known Ron Paul for 20 years, unequivocally dismissed charges that the Congressman was a racist in light of recent smear attempts, and said the reason for him being attacked was that he was a threat to the establishment."

Oh, yeah...he IS a threat.

Also this video about an event during the '60's.  A black man enters a hospital with his white pregnant wife who is about to go into labor.  All the doctors shunned them EXCEPT for Dr. Ron Paul.  Does that sound like something a racist would do?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=8Rv0Z5SNrF4

Did President Ahmadinejad of Iran threaten to wipe Israel off the face of the earth?

The full quote translated directly to English:

"The Imam said this regime occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time."

http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1751895/pg1

When the USSR failed and broke apart, did the countries 'vanish from the face of the earth?'

 

Penteller wrote on January 07, 2012 at 11:01 pm

Bluegrass,If you would like

Bluegrass,

If you would like to start a thread to discuss some of the issues surrounding his candidacy, I’d be more than happy to participate.

As for “once the mainstream media decide to bury him”, they’ve obviously been doing that for months now and its starting to fail as his popularity continues to grow. But since looking back seems to be the “in” thing, let’s take a look at some of our media people and their affiliations, trained in controlling perspectives on subjects like anti-Semitism which cannot be discussed in America.
http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2011/12/doing-background-check-on-cnn.html

Ironic isn’t it, how the party of old white men has an opportunity to bring onboard a huge number of youth and people of color, yet continue to marginalized Ron Paul.
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/ron-paul-won-all-age-brackets-under-40-iowa-caucuses-says-entrance-poll

But then the media has always been about manipulating perspectives and herding the American people into the coral of conformity, especially when it comes to war, where truth is always the first casualty.
http://www.bushstole04.com/

Of course Ron Paul’s win in Idaho was all over the media, with story after story about his winning ways and front runner positions in all the other states. You’ve seen them – right?
http://www.localnews8.com/news/30155704/detail.html

Once in awhile though, a little peek into the media mind sneaks out, allowing us to fully understand the sinister nature of the corporate media machine and how they manipulate the American people and how reporters feel about patriots like Ron Paul.
http://revolutionarypolitics.tv/video/viewVideo.php?video_id=17210

But then just blatant omission of a candidate by a national media conglomerate is still the best way to keep the American people ignorant and ready for further programming.
http://revolutionarypolitics.tv/video/viewVideo.php?video_id=17241

However the real news which I’m sure you’ve been hearing over and over again throughout the day, is how there just might be a little smell to the Iowa caucus numbers and its not from the farm upwind. Imagine that, a possible Iowa vote fraud by the ultra honest Republicans. Can’t BE!
http://occupytvstations.com/news/13940