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Ukraine Disinformation Battle: Little Green Men, Hamsters and the Fog of War

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There has always been a gap in how media on both sides of the former Iron Curtain have reported world events, and it’s growing as the crisis in Ukraine escalates. It has become increasingly difficult to obtain reliable information from any side — west, east, or further east — about what is going on in Eastern Ukraine. While powerful propaganda machines fill the public space with smoke and mirrors, one of the few facts that can be positively established in Eastern Ukraine is that the body count is steadily growing: a testament of just how easy it is for self-interested foreign powers to start, either intentionally or recklessly, a civil war in the heart of Europe. Continuing coverage is available at this link and this link.

Paul Krugman:

Paul Craig Roberts:

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US Media _________________
"Anyone who depends on print, TV, or right-wing talk radio media is totally misinformed. The Bush administration has achieved a de facto Ministry of Propaganda."

"The uniformity of the US media has become much more complete since the days of the cold war. During the 1990s, the US government permitted an unconscionable concentration of print and broadcast media that terminated the independence of the media.

Today the US media is owned by 5 giant companies in which pro-Zionist Jews have disproportionate influence. More importantly, the values of the conglomerates reside in the broadcast licenses, which are granted by the government, and the corporations are run by corporate executives — not by journalists — whose eyes are on advertising revenues and the avoidance of controversy that might produce boycotts or upset advertisers and subscribers.

Americans who rely on the totally corrupt corporate media have no idea what is happening anywhere on earth, much less at home."
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War On Terror _________________
Roberts asked "Is the War on Terror a Hoax", and claims it has "killed, maimed, dislocated, and made widows and orphans of millions of Muslims in six countries". Roberts called the attacks "naked aggression" on civilian populations and infrastructure which constitute war crimes. _________________
Republican Party _________________
Roberts is seriously dismayed by what he considers the Republican Party's disregard for the U.S. Constitution. He has even voiced his regret that he ever worked for it, avowing that, had he known what it would become, he would never have contributed to the Reagan Revolution. _________________
American Democracy and Oligarchy _________________
Roberts has been increasingly critical of what he deems as the lessening of democracy in the U.S.; instead accusing it of being run by oligarchs by stating:

"The west prides itself that it is the standard for the world, that it is a democracy. But nowhere do you see democratic outcomes: not in Greece, not in Ireland, not in the UK, not here, the outcomes are always to punish the innocent and reward the guilty.

And that's what the Greeks are in the streets protesting. We see this all over the west. There is no democracy, there are oligarchies, some of these smaller European countries are not even run by their own governments, they are run by Wall Street... There is probably more democracy in China than there is in the west.

Revolution is the only answer... We are confronted with a curious situation. Throughout the west we think we have democracy, we hold ourselves up high, we demonize China, we talk about the mafia state of Russia, we talk about the Arabs and so on, but where is the democracy here?" _________________
Farewell Speech _________________
"Truth Has Fallen and Taken Liberty With It,"

Roberts effectively announced his journalistic retirement. The article, published at Counterpunch.org, begins:

"There was a time when the pen was mightier than the sword. That was a time when people believed in truth and regarded truth as an independent power and not as an auxiliary for government, class, race, ideological, personal, or financial interest."

It proceeds to a bitter chronicle of the demise of American intellectual integrity, particularly that of financial journalists and economists. These have been thoroughly corrupted by monetary inducements to misrepresent and ignore what has been, in effect, the systematic dismantling of the nation's productive life, in the name of globalization.

He holds the members of his own journalistic profession largely responsible for abetting relentless outsourcing of American industry, thereby gutting the American middle class and effectively dooming the nation's future.

He describes his own ostracism from mainstream media access, the consequence of his relentless and unflinching criticism of the demolition process over the past decade. His column ends, "The militarism of the U.S. and Israeli states, and Wall Street and corporate greed, will now run their course. As the pen is censored and its might extinguished, I am signing off." _________________

Liberal?

"If by a 'Liberal' they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people — their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties — someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a “Liberal,” then I’m proud to say I’m a “Liberal."

John F. Kennedy, 1960
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Citizen's United

"[T]his Court now concludes that independent expenditures, including those made by corporations, do not give rise to corruption or the appearance of corruption. That speakers may have influence over or access to elected officials does not mean that those officials are corrupt. And the appearance of influence or access will not cause the electorate to lose faith in this democracy."

– Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission
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Monday, May 9, 2011

American Ineptitude (Don't-Know-How) Revealed: The People Living In Osama's "Neighborhood" Say Osama Never Here and No Way Any of This Happened!

In a country ever on the alert for "good" news (and disbelieving the "bad"), and as I only know what I'm told (on the TV!) . . . A little info seeps through from Osama's "neighborhood," Abbottabad (home of a large number of military personnel and headquarters of a very important and well-known Pakistani Army brigade). One comment made by one of the neighbors:

Osama was never here. . . . It's America and the dirty American policies. When America wants to take over an area, this is what they do . . . . American wants to destroy the image of the Pakistani Army.. . . . Even the members of the Anit-Terrorist Squad couldn't confirm the operation. . . . The locals in the neighborhood say it was a complete hoax.

People living the area say they never saw Osama and that he never lived in that house. But they're just lying. Right? USA USA USA !!!!!!! The following video is from CCTV.

Here are a few comments at that reporting site from among the less crazy "wise guys:"

Anymouse: The "elite" killer squad sent out to snuff the virtual phantom to save Osama O Ba Ma's lying ass were so inept (look at their handlers lies in the aftermath of this caper) that they shot down one of their own super duper absolutely incredibly amazing Stealth slash Black Hawk copters (or even more embarrassingly for these redneck jimmy bond style murderers hit the freaking garden wall) before perpetrating the murder of 3 unarmed and possibly sleeping men in front of women and children. They then hightailed out of there presumably with their own "friendly-fire" dead and wounded and their bagged elusive virtual phantom in the still functioning copter they didn't manage to crash or blow up. "Gotta get the phantom into the ocean, Nutman before he reconstitutes and blows up Amurika agiiin." "Right on Robin, set the super turbo hose pipe ejecto flush for the Arabian Sea!" All in all the entire idiotic stunt with its attendant gallery of White house jesters munching pizza and popcorn in "real" time that did or didn't see the "seal" show murder is nothing more than a sordid mess that shows yet again that murka is but a crude joke that has but one remaining semi viable functioning industry, the despicable Pentagon Kill Industries Inc but that too is going the way of everything else in this sorry shit hole due to the arrogance and ignorance and lack of all morality of a nation of mutts living long past its shelf life. As Monty Python put it "Bring out your dead" or "live with the stink"! cuthulan: As far as I see it... The US government is facing more war crimes in Libya after killing Gaddafis children and grandchildren , a GROSS WAR CRIME(but is there a war crime that is not gross?) They also want us to forget about the Japanese radiation and the economic meltdown and banker bail outs and bonuses and the mass demonstrations and the fact we are crushing real democracy protestors across the middle east. The government had to do something to distract us and get us behind the government again..... So lets pretend we got the bad guy!! In reality just whose family was slaughtered and their bodies dumped in the sea for an American PR stunt and the shouts of "USA, USA"?! IMHO this is the behaviour of desperation, a government in meltdown and panicking!! And an injured and cornered animal is still very dangerous, so we all better watch out!! stoneweapon: I'm no expert on crash and demolition sites, but where did the ash and residue go from the petroleum based products of interior parts and electrical components and instrumentation etc.? Does the helicopter look like it could have been salvaged from a previous crash site and laid out in the compound to replicate a crash site? Compare the following crash and burn sites: A fabricated crash and demolition of "America's most guarded 'stealth' secret?" http://www.maxfarquar.com/wp-content/uploads/2011... An authentic recent crash and demolition of an F15 in Libya http://images.publicradio.org/content/2011/03/22/... Tell me I'm crazy.

Er, not yet.

The In-Crowd Whiling Away the Afternoon _____________________

Peace

"A man of peace is not a pacifist; a man of peace is simply a pool of silence. He pulsates a new kind of energy into the world, he sings a new song. He lives in a totally new way his very way of live is that of grace, that of prayer, that of compassion. Whomsoever he touches, he creates more love-energy. The man of peace is creative. He is not against war, because to be against anything is to be at war. He is not against war; he simply understands why war exists. And out of that understanding he becomes peaceful. Only when there are many people who are pools of peace, silence, understanding, will the war disappear."
Osho

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American Ineptitude (Don't-Know-How) Revealed: The People Living In Osama's "Neighborhood" Say Osama Never Here and No Way Any of This Happened!

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