stop being "sold to" by the corporate media. become human again..

When i turn on the national media anymore all i see is an infomercial. garbage. "tune out" and "turn into" reality.

by Shelley MoMelly on Monday, May 30, 2011 at 1:17pm

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Perhaps the Beltway elites could be partially excused if these popular views had suddenly sprung out of nowhere, without rhyme or reason. Or if the growth of government recently was explosive, unprecedented or arbitrary. Or if there wasn't a centuries-long history of elites fighting the will of the people over progressive taxation and enhanced social welfare. But none of these is the case. In fact, it's taken a tremendous effort by elites to block out three well-established historical facts, which add tremendous muscle to the effort CAF, CEPR and FAIR (all organizations trying to bring the voices of the people to the media and stop the one sided corporate monologue we hear now.) are spearheading:

1) That government grows in size as economies mature to meet the needs of the people. This is known as "Wagner's Law," first articulated by Adolph Wagner, perhaps the leading conservative economist in Bismark's Germany.

2) That such government spending is profoundly popular in America, not just with liberals, but with self-described conservatives as well. The recent polling opposed to the Ryan Plan has decades of similar results behind it.

3) That there's a direct relationship between democracy, progressive taxation and enhanced social welfare on the one hand, and elite rule, regressive taxation and reduced social welfare on the other. This is why even today, blue states are more prosperous than red states, even though blue states tend to subsidize red states by giving more to the federal government in taxes than they get back in spending.  (hypocritical teabaggers who pay in less than they receive and then blame the feds for it.  i look around me in MS and i see billions worth of infrastructure being built.  men working who would be sitting on their asses if not for the federal government, bitching about taxes and deficits.  it's ok to be taxed as long as it's THEY PERSONALLY who benefit.  they should lose their jobs and be forced onto unemployment if they don't want this more prestigious welfare check.)

Let's look at each of these in turn.
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THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT YOU!

We, all of the people of the world MUST WAKE UP to the realities. make propaganda useless to them.

by Shelley MoMelly on Monday, May 30, 2011 at 9:23am

I have no faith in the oligarchs who manipulate and propagandize us. they make us believe that serving THEIR interests of securing resources and cheap labor around the world is somehow securing our freedoms. it's not. those rich bastards at the top tell us when to fight and what to fight for. they lie. nobody should have any faith in them because they only work to enrich themselves with the blood and sweat of soldiers and other-wise good people of conscience who just keep quiet and let them loot us.
i saw a video yesterday of people getting arrested at a dc memorial for DANCING, SINGING and otherwise frolicking. the men who did these arrests need to be guided. those they arrested are the one's paying their bills, not the government who cut the check to them. they need to figure out what freedom is and start working toward it because in that video they did everything they could to quash freedom.
the military takes an oath to protect us from foreign and domestic threats. when these corporations start wars in far off places, they are not securing our safety. they are making our safety impossible. every nie (national intelligence estimate) since 2000 has spelled out exactly how we are creating more radical people around the world by killing them and occupying their lands and stealing their resources.. but they have you believe that it's all about freedom and patriotism here. IT'S NOT.
if there were some way that they could magically get every ounce of worth out of this planet at one time, they'd bring the soldiers home to shut us up here. to control us. go to my wall today and read the article i re-posted from an author who GET'S IT.
so our duty, our only job, is to get american's working for and with americans again and NOT be the fodder for these unscrupulous corporations. THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT YOU AND YOU WOULD HAVE NO BENEFITS WHATSOEVER IF THEY COULD GET AWAY WITH TAKING THEM FROM YOU.
shelley

We Need To Fear Ourselves For Becoming Willing Sheep

Marti Oakley
No true terrorist gives a rat’s behind what laws we pass (especially the "patriot act"); if they did, they wouldn’t be terrorists. Nothing in the Patriot Acts will stop terrorism especially when it emanates from within.

These Acts will however:

Stop YOU from traveling unmolested by government agents.

Will also violate your right to privacy and to be,

Secure from illegal search and seizure

Makes legal (not lawful) warrantless searches

Allows unwarranted data mining of any and all information on you, including:

Any comments, beliefs, political opinions, social positions, religious beliefs, political party affiliation, and any other belief system or political view not approved by government.

These Acts are the foundation of the police state being systematically assembled and implemented by Homeland Security

The hunting of the American people

They aren’t looking for terrorists…..they are looking for you.

There is far more to this police state Act than we can go into here. We all know this Act for what it is: The end of our Constitutional Republic and the rise of the police state. And 79 of our Senators took it upon themselves to vote away our liberty and to allow this monster to grow.

Too many of us dutifully comply with the sexual assaults perpetrated by TSA agents across the country. As passengers mewl and whine about how they “are just trying to keep us safe” I have to wonder just how egregious the invasion of our property and most especially the invasion of our persons has to become before we admit that what TSA is doing has nothing to do with your safety. It has everything to do with conditioning and training you to submit and comply, and god knows there are plenty of perverts more than willing to spend their days fondling the genitals of compliant passengers or watching the naked body scanner images. The sexual assaults perpetrated on the public have produced not ONE terrorist unless of course you count the TSA agents. (hay, what can we do man? we're just doin our JOBS!)


TSA is now planned for public buildings, malls, train stations and stadiums. And bunches of you sheeple will whine about how they are just trying to keep you safe! And to add insult to injury, the 2002 homeland Security Act has been amended to include a snitching-for-dollars program which we like to call “The Stool Pigeon Protection Act”.

Fusion Centers are proliferating across the country. These centers do nothing but data mine, snoop, and collect any and all data they can, indiscriminately and without regard to your liberty or civil protections. These are manned by your friends, neighbors and family members who lack morality and any sense of patriotism; people who quickly forgot who they are and where they come from.

Obama and several state senators and governors are contemplating a “per mile” surveillance tax system to be paid for by taxpayers. This new system would require surveillance equipment to be installed on your vehicle, not so much to generate revenue, but more to track your movements so that information could be added to your CIA/FBI/NSA dossier. Once identified in this new system, your ability to purchase gas could be shut off instantly simply by deactivating your vehicle ID number. It could shut off access for one vehicle . . . or all vehicles.

Our police and sheriff departments have been militarized under Homeland Security. (THEY ARE WILLINGLY FIGHTING AGAINST AMERICANS FOR A CORRUPTED AUTHORITARIAN GOVERNMENT) Our police and sheriff department vehicles no longer have the words “To protect and Serve” emblazoned on the sides. This, thanks to a SCOTUS ruling that said law enforcement was under no obligation to protect us unless they arrest us, and then only in a limited fashion . . . and besides . . . they are essentially military units now.

They are hunting you and me…..do you get it yet?

SCOTUS has become a threat to the country at large, ruling time and again against the Constitution and your liberty and protected rights, and in favor of corporate interests many of whom now openly run various agencies of government. When Citizens v United came down, this court should have been immediately disbanded. This decision vested incorporeal, fictional entities with human rights.

We have major cities across the country now purchasing military equipment for use against their communities. A 911 call will elicit a SWAT team response, replete with star wars gear and uniforms, worn by badge heavy, testosterone pulsing storm troopers who don’t care if you have committed a crime or not. (remember yesterday's video of that cop at the memorial in DC taking down those scary dancers?)  They have guns and other weapons and carte blanche to break any and all laws (that apply to civilians) in defense of “government”. These law enforcement officers, once the hero’s of children and many adults are now a menace to their communities and present a greater threat than your run of the mill criminal.  (we will have to stop them someday.  hopefully they can be reasoned with.)

...Homeland Security has ordered 500 roving vans complete with x-ray scanners to be used across the country. You can be scanned walking down the street, in public places or even in your own yard. Why? You might be a terrorist. With our economy in shambles, and the national debt posing a real threat, the best they could come up with is to spend another estimated ½ billion dollars on vans to cruise our streets and surreptitiously x-ray to see if we have weapons on us? Really?

There is far more to this than the few items listed here. A repeal of the Patriot Act 1 and the misnamed “Security Enhancement Act of 2003”…an expansion of the first Act, would go along way in restoring the integrity of government and our freedom. But today, 79 Senators decided you were not worth it. 79 Senators committed an act of treason against the people they are supposed to represent and sold off their freedom, liberty and rights.

79 Senators…that’s all it took to lay waste to the Constitution. Not to worry! Several of them will be on various cable news shows talking about “keeping America safe”, “national security”, “the war of terror”, and trying to convince us that the only way we can be safe is if we forfeit our rights, freedom and our Constitution.

79 Senators…and not one of them will admit that the terrorists you need to fear, the people you need to be protected from…..is them.


http://howthehellshouldiknow-wallyworld.blogspot.com/2011/05/have-you-had-enough-of-this-nonsense.html

Just a fb note.

did you know most of you have preferences set so that every time you add a friend it shows up on everyone else's wall? just go to "account" "privacy settings", edit your sharing and and connecting details, to block out those features that you don't want everyone to see. i'm trying to get everything working in facebook for myself. it's sometimes hard to navigate but once it's gone, i hope it's really gone. is anyone seeing when i add friends, for example? why would i want anyone to know when i add a friend? that's default for fb.

Why do we pay for Israel's bidding? Pay the costs both human and financial?

Escobar Brilliantly Summarizes Obama’s New Middle East Policy

Pepe Escobar had another brilliant piece on Obama’s recent Middle East speech, and as always he is on the money:

So to make a story short, here’s a concise New Middle East Obama policy. We support “our” bastards (dictators) who are sophisticated enough to beat, arrest and kill their own people in the low hundreds (Bahrain). We get slightly annoyed by “our” war on terror collaborators who crudely beat, arrest and kill their own people also in the low hundreds (Yemen). We’re strongly inclined to ditch our support for unreliable, Iran-aligned dictators who beat, arrest and kill their own people in the high hundreds (Syria).

We unleash war – via the North Atlantic Treaty Organization as a weaponized arm of the United Nations – over unreliable oil-wealthy dictators who beat, arrest and kill their own people in alleged thousands (Libya). And we remain absolute mute about “our” monarchical bastards who pre-empt the possibility of democratic protests (Jordan, Morocco, Saudi Arabia) or invade their neighbors to smash ongoing peaceful protests (Saudi Arabia).

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2011/05/24/obamas-new-middle-east-policy-ambitious-fiction-and-monarchial-bastards/
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And this on Obama’s flowery rhetoric which failed big time to conceal what that speech was all about:

And when Obama stressed that “endless delay” won’t “make the problem go away” he totally missed the point; it’s by employing “endless delay” tactics that every Israeli government has kept settlement-building on overdrive and totally encircled East Jerusalem, while relentlessly applying a “divide and rule” strategy (pitting Fatah against Hamas) to crush Palestinian morale.

No flowery rhetoric can conceal that this is all about – what else – “protecting” Israel (mentioned 28 times in the speech). Further factual confirmation this weekend, when Obama addresses the annual American Israel Public Affairs Committee bash, and next Monday, when Netanyahu addresses that Tel Aviv talk shop known as the US Congress.

let your voices on this matter be heard.  Do we take care of ourselves and, in the process, forge a strong and lasting peace in the middle east or do we continue with Israel's plan of wiping palestine off of the face of the map, literally, not figuratively in order to steal their land once and for all? Israel has our government doing it's bidding by being a powerful lobbying committee in washington.  They lobby to get our tax dollars transferred to israel and then reinvest those dollars into our military industrial complex.  a sort of incestuous relationship that keeps the rich and powerful, rich and powerful.  it's a cycle that will never end until we bring light onto it's existence.  we give them our tax dollars, they lobby to take more of our tax dollars which crush palestinians which just serves to continue the cycle and not make any one of us, palestinians, americans or jews, any safer, but only to make israel more powerful.  only we can stop this but only if we know what's happening.  i know that sometimes these issues seem to be far apart but they are not.  transfer of wealth and power is at the basis of all that our governments do.  once they know we are through with them using american workers as their private atm's, we can stop them.  but how do they know that we know if we don't tell them?  we have to knock their hair back with the knowdge that we know what they're doing.  they need to fear us.
does all my writing help you to know what is going on?  if not, tell me what to say to make you understand!  we're allowing them to rape and pillage us in the name of raping and pillaging palestine in the name of raping and pillaging us.  kind of an international money laundering scheme.  in the name of a trumped up security scheme that protects NOBODY. and has costs us trillions over the years to sustain on the backs of innocent people all over the world.   most horrendously, against one set of people who had everything they owned by them taken from them 70 years ago by the swipe of a pen with no recourse for them.  palestinians.

The big blue country between Iraq and Afghanistan is Iran.  Next to Saudi Arabia, which is the country south of Iraq, Iran is the richest in oil.  It is the only place in the middle east that our corporations and military do not have a military presence.  Our corporations are champing at the bit to get to that oil.  It is the only reason you even know the word "Iran".  Don't fall for more wars that only succeed in profiting our corporations while wassting our lives.  Iran is no danger to us.  None.

Someone asked the difference between the Republican and Democratic party. This was my response.

historically democrats have been the party of the working class and republicans the party of the investor and corporate class. nowadays though, working class americans are brain washed into thinking that the republican party is their party because they speak out about things that don't affect those working masses but which those masses hate, like gays and abortion. doesn't affect them personally at all but it's red meat to feed them to make them vote against their own best financial interest. and even when they were in power, 6 years with both houses of congress and the presidency and the right wing supreme court, they did nothing about those social issues that the duped working masses who voted for them, voted for them for.
democrats were the party fo the working masses and most still are, but there are what are called "blue dogs" who vote for everything corporate against their own party. i wish they'd just switch parties and go to where they belong and give the working masses back their party. the democratic party is the party that brought us social security, medicare, medicaid, food stamps, a 40 hour work week, a minimum wage, unemployment benefits, job safety requirements because so many laborers were being unnecessarily harmed on the job. harmed or losing their jobs. they brought us workman's compensation in case a worker is injured on the job, the job pays for his or her recovery. republicans HATE all of those programs and are trying to disassemble them one at a time or each one a little at a time. republicans think that if we deserve any of those programs, a private entity should be making a profit off of our tax dollars before we get them. they call it "private" but they are paid with tax dollars. the only difference being that they make a profit and keep it, public services do make a profit (held in treasury bonds usually) and are reinvest it into serving the public.

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A Conversation With a Friend

Conversation started when he thought that Obama was going to let tax cuts expire on everyone. That's what the article he sent me said. But I took him into the realm of the media and it's manipulation of reality.

I have came to the point where I don’t care what they do with this problem as I sick and tired of each side blaming the other about what going to happen. If the country goes down the tube so be it and if it start to come back so be it. I'm to the point where I don’t care anymore one way or the other, but i will still let them know what I think.

John

John, read that article again. it's talking about if congress does nothing, taxes will rise on everyone. but obama is fighting to keep tax cuts for everyone making under $200,000 and $250,000 (single or family) and increasing taxes by 2 or 3% on those making over that amount. just letting the bush tax cuts expire on that group, back up to what it was during the clinton era. i don't think you're in that group! i know i'm not! and if i were, i'd only be paying that extra couple of percentage points on that amount OVER $200,000.. i'd still get the tax cuts that everyone else is getting up to that amount.

so never give up honey. just know the facts so you know what you're fighting for. sincere people have to stand up for what they believe in. and you got heart. knowing what is actually going on rather than what we are being told is going on is the trick. they(the powers that be that profit off of manipulating us.) own the media. i don't believe anything they say unless it can be cross-referenced with a lot of independent sources.

did you notice that the story about israel bombing palestine that you posted yesterday has been silenced? nobody claimed responsibility for the rockets launched into an empty field in israel. i can't prove it and i am not sure yet, my opinion, knowing what monsters they are in israel, is that they did it themselves so that they wouldn't be stopped from stealing more land and building more settlements all because of some bothersome peace deal. they don't want peace EVAHHH. but that's how our media is manipulating us. they can tell us anything and we just uncritically believe it.

remember when osama bin ladin was criminal number one for 9/11 by the fbi? if you go to their site, it doesn't he's wanted for 9/11 at all. he isn't. and when asked what he was wanted for, cheney said that he had no evidence that bin ladin had anything to do with 9/11. but that's not what he was selling before the wars. you know that as well as i do.

When the FBI was asked why 9/11 isn't listed under Bin Laden's crimes, the FBI responded by saying "There's simply no evidence linking Bin Laden to 9/11".

"9/11 is not mentioned on Osama bin Laden's Most Wanted page. He has not been formally indicted and charged in connection with 9/11 because the FBI has no hard evidence connected Bin Laden to 9/11." -- FBI agent Rex Tomb, June 6, 2006."

cheney saying that he and the bush administration never made the case that osama bin ladin was responsible for 9/11.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_1_huLZJx4&feature=related

why am i telling you this? because i know you still believe it and i know this whole hysteria against muslims (who have been in this country since the 1500's due to slavery) is all a media-manufactured lie to control the population. republicans need fear to get people to vote for them. they're experts at wielding that sword too. it's all a media-manufactured lie. i knew this stuff before the iraq war started because i looked at every UN release, every independent piece of news out there. i knew they were lying. and yet, when i told any right winger, they'd call me a traitor and an america hater. i say the person who allows themselves to be lied to at the tune of thousands of our dead and millions of muslim dead is the traitor. not caring enough to even investigate what liberals were telling them. not caring if it were true or not. they were trained to hate muslims and they went along with it all. so why are we in iraq and afghanistan again? (i'm pretty sure i told you about the pipeline the oil industry wants to run through afghanistan) the government even showed a video of a guy who looked like osama bin ladin admitting to planning the attacks and being so delighted when the planes caused more damage than he thought they would. the video was shown to be a fake. a look alike. it was all over the main stream media. a corporate owned conglomeration that tells you what to think, and feel and after they've done that, they tell you what to do.. duct tape those windows! duck and cover! red alert! kiss your ass goodbye! they're coming after you! talk about never letting a tragedy go to waste. bush and cheney are war criminals.

bin laden on the fbi's most wanted list. no mention of 9/11.
http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/fugitives/laden.htm

people who don't know things should learn what a person who does know things sounds like so they can listen to them. like this global warming. it is a certainty. my husband is an oceanographer (a branch of climatology), most of the people we associate with are scientist. they are not bought by any wind mill or solar company to write up bogus science. they just find something that needs to be explained and then use physics to explain it. if 2 or 3 other phd. level scientists agree that the scientific method used is sound, it passes for a reality-based theory. there is a scientific consensus. over 98% of scientists agree that global warming is a reality. over 90% believe it is exacerbated by human actions.

never give up john. just know who to trust. the last people you want to trust are in the corporate media unless you can back up what they say with independent media. i can give you many sources of independent media if you are interested in cutting through the lies. i hate to hear you saying you give up. don't do it. just know what you are fighting for!
shelley

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BECK IS A SERPENT

You know, there has been, "us and them" throughout history. The “have's and have not's”, the “educated and the uneducated”, the “working and the not working”, the “employed and the self-employed”, the “stupid and the smart”, but Beck has created his own little "us and them".. You see Beck's "us" is anyone who follows him. They are the "real Americans with honor and integrity". (even though Beck has neither, he's milking the "useful idiots" for all they're worth).

He's a megalomaniac who told people a miracle was going to happen today (yesterday now) and that God would be speaking through him. Since the bible says that if a man could speak "his" words it would be in tongues, I fully expected Beck to fall to the ground and roll around speaking in tongues. So you have the "us", the good Christians who Beck says needs to fear "them", that would be everyone who doesn't listen to or follow Beck, i.e. the un-American Americans. The heathens and peace loving Christians who you must guard against because they want to take away your way of life. They want to wipe Christianity out of history (a huge lie but suckers will believe it and watch him in order to find how to protect themselves from "them". Just like suckers will believe that Iran said they want to wipe Israel off of the face of the earth. A big lie. Look it up.).

Beck is an anti-Christ. He breeds fear and hatred of "them" on every show I've watched him do. He's an evil man because he knows what he's doing. He knows he has the power to manipulate millions of people to be his little army if he ever wants one. After that last Beck-nut who had a shoot out with the cops on his way to kill people at the Tides Foundation, an organization that Beck has demonized over and over again on his show, Beck started saying, "do it non-violently". I’ll be looking at his ratings since he started with this nonviolent meme because he is still setting the fires, but now he says, "rise up and kill them till nary a heathen is left standing" before he says, "but don't get violent".

He's a very good snake oil salesman. He's a serpent. Who better to make that sale? His fans don't notice the schizophrenia because they have short memories. They don't recall Beck embracing Imam Rauf in 2006 as the voice of moderation (2006 segment from ABC's "Good Morning America) . Now Beck says, (audio http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201008180027) "after you've killed 3,000 people you're going to now build your mosque?", and that it's "a blow America up mosque". He was sitting right at the table with Imam Rauf telling him what a great guy he was and how wonderful it was that he was trying to bring Muslims and Christians together. What a fake. Like all these right-wing talking heads. All fucking fakes. Whatever gets their party in power. They're cynical and the suckers fall for their lines every damned time.
Shelley

Here are ten common sense principles to frame the New Economy that we the people must now bring forth:

1. The proper purpose of an economy is to secure just, sustainable, and joyful livelihoods for all. This may come as something of a shock to Wall Street financiers who profit from financial bubbles, securities fraud, low wages, unemployment, foreign sweatshops, tax evasion, public subsidies, and monopoly pricing.
2. GDP is a measure of the economic cost of producing a given level of human well-being and happiness. In the economy, as in any well-run business, the goal should be to minimize cost, not maximize it.
3. A rational reallocation of real resources can reduce the human burden on the Earth’s biosphere and simultaneously improve the health and happiness of all. The Wall Street economy wastes enormous resources on things that actually reduce the quality of our lives—war, automobile dependence, suburban sprawl, energy-inefficient buildings, financial speculation, advertising, incarceration for minor, victimless crimes. The most important step toward bringing ourselves into balance with the biosphere is to eliminate the things that are bad for our health and happiness.
4. Markets allocate efficiently only within a framework of appropriate rules to maintain competition, cost internalization, balanced trade, domestic investment, and equality. These are essential conditions for efficient market function. Without rules, a market economy quickly morphs into a system of corporate monopolies engaged in suppressing wages, exporting jobs, collecting public subsidies, poisoning air, land, and water, expropriating resources, corrupting democracy, and a host of other activities that represent an egregiously inefficient and unjust distribution of resources.
5. A proper money system roots the power to create and allocate money in people and communities in order to facilitate the creation of livelihoods and ecologically balanced community wealth. Money properly serves life, not the reverse. Wall Street uses money to consolidate its power to expropriate the real wealth of the rest of the society. Main Street uses money to connect underutilized resources with unmet needs. Public policy properly favors Main Street.

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