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Very well, then it HAS served a purpose :-)

As long as there are those interested in examining and discussing the issues or points brought up rather than making ridiculous commentary about the sources cited so they can dismiss and/or ignore them and what is said at them.
Yeah, silly me. One should never be concerned about the source of the crap we believe in. Just let whatever in without considering the mindset of those presenting the information. Imagine the sheer stupidity of a person who would prefer to get their information straight from the source (like the NSA) instead of Michael Savage. Yeah, the purity of your sources has nothing to do with what you believe in. I really do appreciate the NSA site but Infowar is nothing but diatribe without logic.

Your right Cap'n. It's all about the guvemint trying to destroy America. Your also right. I will maintain my insistence on good sources of information and completely ignore people like Michael Savage because he's a bitter, insensitive person who just wants someone to blame like defenseless autistic children, homosexuals and liberals. Sorry, but that's just the way it is.

I need to go report to my master's at HAARP that we have failed in our attempt to control your mind with our hidden machine. Maybe we need to increase the amount of chemicals in your drinking water to poison you. After all, rainbows in the water are unnatural because the government is placing chemicals in the water. This information is available at some of the websites that I have been told to read because the good information is in there somewhere. Silly me. I should have read a little further.

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Thanks for a fine, fresh batch of word sewage :-)

Surely you can stir us up even more

Keep it coming :-)

More "ridiculous commentary about the sources cited"... MORE .... Please MORE ....
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Old 08-25-2008
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Re: The News Media is a Weapon of War on Your Mind

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Greetings and Felicitations,



Not until today. It's an interesting site. However, you act likes its supposed to be some great mystery that the government does things we don't know about. Of course, it does. What I deny is that is part of some great conspiracy. If it were then it would show some kind of direction instead of each incarnation pursuing goals that other incarnations had worked against.

You see Norrin Radd I don't deny that things occur that are secretive. The actions of this government in pursuing their own selfish goals has been incredible. The thing that gets me is the abrogation of responsiblity of people like you. Nothing is your fault. Instead it's some conspiracy. In some ways this is like talking to racist. It's not their fault that they have crappy lives. It's the fault of some Jewish conspiracy to take over the world and destroy white people. For you, its some conspiracy seeking to take over education. Unlike some people I don't expect the education system to educate my children or myself. If that were the case I wouldn't force my children to study math and science deeper than the school system does. I know that schools systems are designed to focus on the average student and try to bring the slower students up to average. That is why I make sure to take an active hand in my childrens education and not rely on the system to do it all. But. I don't blame some foundation in New York for it. I blame the local preference for ignorance because thats enough by itself.

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Wow, you replied to me?

Sweet.

I thought you might like the NSA archive.

Thanks for admitting you had not been there before.

I love when people are honest.

As hard as you might find ti to believe, you and I might not be that different.

I AM A STICKLER FOR SOURCES.

I have verified almost every piece of information I use as evidence.

Occasionally I will post something I have not verified, but I work harder to verify my sources than most journalists do.

Still, you have me pegged all wrong.

You claim I am worried about a jewish conspiracy, or some conspiracy over education, but that it is not accurate.

There is no single group that controls everything.

It is not about being jewish, or any single religion.

What it is about is several rich, powerful groups getting together and wanting their families to remain the most powerful families in the world until the end of time.

Is that really so hard to believe?
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What it is about is several rich, powerful groups getting together and wanting their families to remain the most powerful families in the world until the end of time.

Is that really so hard to believe?
Not at all. That doesn't make it a conspiracy it just makes it old-style human nature.

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Not at all. That doesn't make it a conspiracy it just makes it old-style human nature.

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Right.

However, if these individuals and groups make any kind of an agreement to commit an illegal, or immoral act, in secret, then it is a conspiracy.

So actually, it isn't a conspiracy, it is thousands of conspiracies.
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However, if these individuals and groups make any kind of an agreement to commit an illegal, or immoral act, in secret, then it is a conspiracy.
I will give you that some things might be illegal. However, determination of morality depends on who is defining the morals. Perhaps a presentation of what you consider moral would allow me to understand where you are coming from.

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So actually, it isn't a conspiracy, it is thousands of conspiracies.
In other words, the same good-old-boy network that has been around for centuries.

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Greetings and Felicitations,



I will give you that some things might be illegal. However, determination of morality depends on who is defining the morals. Perhaps a presentation of what you consider moral would allow me to understand where you are coming from.



In other words, the same good-old-boy network that has been around for centuries.

Sincerely Yours,
C. David Neely
Immoral.

Giving Suharto the green light to invade East Timor with US weapons, even though it was known what would result.

Making up a second event at the Gulf of Tonkin in order to escalate a "police action" leading to the deaths of 68,000 Americans and huge numbers of Vietnamese and Cambodians.

The CIA being directly involved in the drug trade and using the profits to fund covert operations.

US companies trading with NAZI Germany, even after Pearl Harbor was attacked.

Dosing American people with LSD, without their knowledge, to see what would happen.

Punishing people for telling the truth, people like Sibel Edmunds, Joseph Settepani, Alexander Apostolou, Richard Burroughs, Gary Webb, to name a few. Many, many, examples, too many to list here.

Have you ever done a search where you type these words into Goggle.....

"WHISTLE BLOWERS PUNISHED" ?

It is very enlightening.

.....just a few examples.
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I believe the media is beign controlled. Not directly censosed like the Soviets did, but indeirectly by a combination of our culture and the need for ratings. I mean, let's face it, most Americans hate hearing the truth, we (for the most part) are much happier to know what brittney spears is doing than to actually start questioning the actions of those is authority. The people here are being controlled by things such as political correctness. The powers that be like to use things like political correctness to in a sense to control our thoughts, after all, don't we think in our language as well as speak it? I'm not in support of going around spouting racial slurs, or to discriminate against people, but come on, If a white guy says the n word in a comedy routine, then it's pretty apparent that there is no hate behind it.


Also, the government obviously needs the media to be controlled, it's the only way for them to be in power, and to increase there power. After all, the media's orginal purpose was to be the "watchdog" of the government. Why do you think that freedom of the press was put in the first ammendment?

Also, the root of our problem is in our culture. It's even apparent in public school. In class, it's okay to ask questions, as long as they are things that don't undermine the authority of the teacher. It's the same mentality of our current culture, we don't want to question things, because to do so would mean to have to risk a struggle, and we are, for the most part, living a life consisting of waking up, going to work, paying taxes, and dying. And listening to iPods, and watching youtube in the middle. (Don't get me wrong, I love my iPOd, and youtube, I"m not saying we should get rid of it or anything like that.)

If the people would start the wake up, and unify, then the government would have to fear us, like they are supposed to.




I do love conspiracy theories.
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This is another link to the story on the first page.
This shows how neo nazi -like our media has become.
Notice the last paragrapgh!
Disgusting...

"NEW YORK, July 23 (Reuters) - Protesters gathered on Wednesday outside Fox News Channel to denounce what they claim is its racist campaign coverage, including a pundit who called Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama a terrorist.

The crowd of some 150 people wielded a petition with more than 600,000 signatures objecting to news coverage by Fox, owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp (NWSa.N: Quote, Profile, Research), organizers said.

Some demonstrators held signs that crossed out the network's "Fair and Balanced" slogan and replaced it with the words "Fairly Racist!"

Led by activist groups MoveOn.org and ColorOfChange.org, protesters cited incidents on Fox including an on-screen graphic calling Michelle Obama "Obama's baby mama" and a pundit who confused Obama with Osama bin Laden and joked they should both be assassinated."

UPDATE 1-Protesters denounce Fox News as racist | Reuters


Regarding the "enhanced interrogation" (Ahem!), torture in english, censored by the TV/print media are details such as are embraced by McCain...

"In Istanbul, Jamail bore his independent reporter's witness to the thousands of Iraqis tortured in Abu Ghraib and other US-run prisons. His account of what had happened to a civil servant in Baghdad was typical. This man, Ali Abbas, had gone to a US base to inquire about his missing neighbours. On his fourth visit, he was arrested without charge, stripped naked, hooded and forced to simulate sex with other prisoners. This was standard procedure. He was beaten on his genitals, electrocuted in the anus, denied water and forced to watch as his food was thrown away. A loaded gun was held to his head to prevent him from screaming in pain as his wrists were bound so tightly that the blood drained from his hands. He was doused in cold water while a fan was held to his body."

The ghost at Gleneagles


So busy are the incredibly strange newscasters who died and became mixed up neo nazi dung beetles pushing balls of s... on us everyday, they never analyze the former POW's support for heinous acts and atrocities.


"From sleep deprivation to loud music to solitary confinement to imprisonment in tiny claustrophobic cages to intimidation and bites by attack dogs to verbal abuse to food and water deprivation to heat exposure to the wearing of blinding hoods to asphyxiation to being submerged in water to having all appendages tied together to laying motionless on the ground for days, surrounded by your own fecal and urine waste to getting punched with fists throughout your body to getting struck by rifle butts in the head to being forced to live life completely nude (the most disgraceful form of punishment to Muslims) to being beaten and kicked to being forced to perform degrading sexual simulations with other prisoners to being sexually raped to being anally sodomized by brooms and light fixtures to being slowly electrocuted with wires attached to your appendages and private parts to slowly being pummeled to death to getting shot in the stomach without medical assistance to finally succumbing to human evil and leaving the wretched world you had been trapped in. This is the work of wickedness, of an evil whose dehumanization will leave those not yet dead wishing they were. This is the product of the Amerikan Nazis, of Amerikan Terrorists."

Rise of the Amerikan Nazis: Part III of III: Amerikan Terrorists, American Tragedy

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I believe the media is beign controlled. Not directly censosed like the Soviets did, but indeirectly by a combination of our culture and the need for ratings. I mean, let's face it, most Americans hate hearing the truth, we (for the most part) are much happier to know what brittney spears is doing than to actually start questioning the actions of those is authority. The people here are being controlled by things such as political correctness. The powers that be like to use things like political correctness to in a sense to control our thoughts, after all, don't we think in our language as well as speak it? I'm not in support of going around spouting racial slurs, or to discriminate against people, but come on, If a white guy says the n word in a comedy routine, then it's pretty apparent that there is no hate behind it.


Also, the government obviously needs the media to be controlled, it's the only way for them to be in power, and to increase there power. After all, the media's orginal purpose was to be the "watchdog" of the government. Why do you think that freedom of the press was put in the first ammendment?

Also, the root of our problem is in our culture. It's even apparent in public school. In class, it's okay to ask questions, as long as they are things that don't undermine the authority of the teacher. It's the same mentality of our current culture, we don't want to question things, because to do so would mean to have to risk a struggle, and we are, for the most part, living a life consisting of waking up, going to work, paying taxes, and dying. And listening to iPods, and watching youtube in the middle. (Don't get me wrong, I love my iPOd, and youtube, I"m not saying we should get rid of it or anything like that.)

If the people would start the wake up, and unify, then the government would have to fear us, like they are supposed to.




I do love conspiracy theories.
Good post.

These are some of the ways our media is controlled.

Also, through pressure from corporations.

Through CIA assets in the media, as Bernard Goldberg told us in his Rolling Stone interview.

Through CFR members in high positions in the media.

Through fear of being ostracized, just for a journalist admitting he/she voted for Reagan, or is against abortion, or is against gun control, or is against higher taxes on the rich.

YouTube - The CFR Controlled Media Cabal [3/3]
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Good post.

These are some of the ways our media is controlled.

Also, through pressure from corporations.

Through CIA assets in the media, as Bernard Goldberg told us in his Rolling Stone interview.

Through CFR members in high positions in the media.

Through fear of being ostracized, just for a journalist admitting he/she voted for Reagan, or is against abortion, or is against gun control, or is against higher taxes on the rich.

YouTube - The CFR Controlled Media Cabal [3/3]
Don't you find it interesting that it's always some left leaning person that is so quick to tell us that these are "only silly conspiracy theories"?

That way, we'll hopefully dismiss these things and remain happy to be ignorant and happy to be lied to and manipulated.

Which is exactly how leftists would like to keep us.

- "Tell them they're just being silly and paranoid. It will help them STAY silly and paranoid."
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another example of CNN becoming as bad as Fox in its fascsist leanings...

CNN Uses Racial Extremist as Source for Its 'Black in America' Series

"What is CNN doing interviewing the founder of an online discussion forum that promotes selective breeding of the human species?

This isn't the only time in recent history that CNN has turned to an unabashed bigot for commentary on controversial issues in America while cloaking the source's full identity."

Alex Constantine's Blacklist: CNN Uses Racial Extremist as Source for Its 'Black in America' Series


comedy central's Stewart comments on the poor state of news...

"Jon Stewart Blasts So-Called TV News

During a breakfast at the University of Denver, Jon Stewart told reporters that Fox's "fair and balanced" slogan is an insult "to people with brains." and that Fox News is "an appendage of the Republican Party."

Stewart also said "I'm stunned to see Karl Rove on a news network as an 'analyst.'"

Conspiracy Planet - Humor - Jon Stewart Blasts So-Called TV News
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Don't you find it interesting that it's always some left leaning person that is so quick to tell us that these are "only silly conspiracy theories"?

That way, we'll hopefully dismiss these things and remain happy to be ignorant and happy to be lied to and manipulated.

Which is exactly how leftists would like to keep us.

- "Tell them they're just being silly and paranoid. It will help them STAY silly and paranoid."
I have found that liberals and conservatives are pretty equally buried in denial when it comes to conspiracies.

Recognizing bias in the media is easier for conservatives, but that is likely because the entire t.v. media was slanted to the left before FOX news came along.

Almost all newspapers and magazines are also slanted to the left, as is Hollywood.

The only exception seemed to be Sunday news shows.

Media Matters - If It's Sunday, It's Conservative: An analysis of the Sunday talk show guests on ABC, CBS, and NBC, 1997 - 2005

For media credibility, all news sources are losing credibility among the people.

See....

Media Credibility Plummets, 'Most Trusted' CNN Believed by Just 30% | NewsBusters.org

More good stuff on media bias.......

Media Bias Basics
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I have found that liberals and conservatives are pretty equally buried in denial when it comes to conspiracies.

Recognizing bias in the media is easier for conservatives, but that is likely because the entire t.v. media was slanted to the left before FOX news came along.

Almost all newspapers and magazines are also slanted to the left, as is Hollywood.

The only exception seemed to be Sunday news shows.

Media Matters - If It's Sunday, It's Conservative: An analysis of the Sunday talk show guests on ABC, CBS, and NBC, 1997 - 2005

For media credibility, all news sources are losing credibility among the people.

See....

Media Credibility Plummets, 'Most Trusted' CNN Believed by Just 30% | NewsBusters.org
Which will only be dismissed as "the rantings of right wing lunatics."

"The media isn't losing credibility at ALL." We'll be told.

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More good stuff on media bias.......

Media Bias Basics
More stuff for leftists to ignore and dismiss.

Hey, if they want to ignore the fact that less people are paying attention to their propoganda, lies and garbage "media coverage," let 'em.

Then they'll wonder why they continue to fail.

Which sounds strangely like a major political party doesn't it

Dismiss, ignore, dismiss, ignore, dismiss, ignore, dismiss, ignore, dismiss, ignore, .... I just don't get it, why aren't people listening to us ?
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It just amazes me how anyone in todays world where the MSM is so liberally biased (favoring liberal causes and candidates) that anyone could see it another way.

I mean the evidence is overwhelming, but still some refuse to take off their blinders. There has to be some psychiatric term to diagnose and describe such willful ignorance.
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