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Episode 4 – Social Business and Nu Capitalism
Oct 1st
Research Bibliography While Watching Video:
http://altbib.com/r/174/ra/4._Social_Business_and_Nu_Capitalism
Download Full High-Quality Video: http://WikiWorldOrder.org/download/episode4
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http://blip.tv/file/4194291
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ywfxVeZn1w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwiRrXooLz8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Efm5U9ccmXA
Full Transcript/Essay
We now see Americans increasingly rebelling against the endless predictable crises promoted by the established left and right throughout this decade. Even the mainstream media has had to cover such transitions both parties must undergo.
Acknowledgment of the corruption found on both sides of the political aisle is one of the core concepts which amazing outlets like We Are Change, Infowars and the Corbett Report attempt to spread. I have always found the current two-party system completely inadequate for aggregating the will of the people. I have long adored the idea of having either more parties or no parties.
On larger issues, both parties give us the same results. On smaller manufactured issues, the polarizing effects of having primarily two extreme camps to choose from is hurting more than helping. The negative effects of such polarization also skyrocket when single ideologies are forced on all scenarios, instead of a more flexible case by case basis.
Fortunately the freedom movement has loud voices warning people not to follow any one ideology. So this is a humble request for everyone to keep pushing past the confines separating us, to keep finding increasingly targeted solutions to counter-offer those provided from the top-down system. Avoiding the following two pitfalls might help the movement hone our arguments and improve the messaging of our alternative analysis of deep politics.
More Government VS Less Government?
No. Quality Over Quantity.
The first pitfall I see appeals to many of my good patriot friends who stand firmly behind slogans for “Less Government.” To my eyes and ears, such statements feel a bit counterproductive to our shared goals.
The concept of “Less Government” (or “More Government” for that matter) is vague enough to be co-opted by almost any harmful solution provided. This formula should also not be endlessly applied, and our libertarian friends sometimes follow this mantra far too blindly. Most importantly, the slogan implies that the size of government has a causal relationship with its level of corruption or negative impact. Larger organizations of any type may have more room for bad apples to hide and prosper, but they also have potential for greater good as they grow, like Grameen Bank in Bangladesh. So I argue that our society’s policies and incentives, promoted by our manufactured culture, have far greater influence on the positive or negative nature of the impact of organizations (governmental or not).
With a smaller government than our current monstrosity, in a similarly apathetic political climate, it might be even easier for a given corporation to influence the government and its policies. At the same time, there is a real threat of “Big Government” when corporations can entrench entire departments. They are pro-actively using government agencies to directly enact their corporate agenda and creatively increase their government contracts and budgets in order to keep growing.
We saw this quite publicly during George W Bush’s years as the military-industrial puppet, when in that “small government” administration we saw corporate-owned departments strip themselves down as much as possible, completely disassembling any form of meaningful regulation over themselves. A fresh and painful example of this came to light with the documented failures of the Minerals Management Service to provide any meaningful oversight or regulation on British Petroleum’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig. But don’t worry, the department has been re-branded as the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement so we should probably assume it’s all fixed. Our current, predictable “Great Recession” also could have been avoided or at least postponed if trillions of dollars in profit incentives had not been allowed to manifest in the first place as derivatives, sub-prime mortgages and other legal Ponzi schemes.
But if the incentives of our culture were shifted enough, and more procedures were made ~100% transparent to the public, we might be able to find some governmental G spot where the government actually reflects the public’s interest. This may be theoretical, but it should be nearly attainable, not even requiring a revolution but incremental changes in the correct direction. And isn’t this what we should be striving for: an ever more pure realization of those constitutional ideals inspiring us to believe in our remarkable republic, or democracy?
But this process must begin with all deliberate speed. The Tea Parties, initially started years ago by the Ron Paul rEVOLution, were recently co-opted and largely taken over by the GOP in 2009…at least as far as the mainstream eye can see. And I give props to the now very rare Tea Party candidates and their supporters who remain opposed to the GOP, and are willing to keep thinking outside of the mainstream box and trying new things…no matter how distasteful some of their select views may be to me.
On the other side, Democrats don’t seem to be promoting interesting candidates to vote FOR, and are settling in for classic fights for the lesser of two evils…despite ever present disapproval for congress and their utter failure to progress in the past two years. I need to see more liberal candidates to grow balls as big as those rare tea partiers, resisting the lame/moderate/useless Democratic party line…no matter how distasteful select views of theirs may be to me.
The causality implied between more government and bad government does not seem theoretically sound. With a truly responsible government, an increase in size could simultaneously increase citizen freedoms. We must look at the results of our government’s efforts, and its degree of transparency, in order to judge it. We need to focus on uprooting the incentives for corruption in government, perhaps starting with campaign finance reform and revolving door protections, instead of just saying we want to change its size. A wise woman once told me it is not really the size of your government that matters, it’s all about how you use it.
The Capitalism VS Socialism Paradigm
This paradigm is even more polarizing, and I consider it another ridiculous pitfall. Capitalism and socialism often represent the only two options offered to align with, but we don’t even consider trying to come up with any new forms of national economic or governmental organization. Case by case, those rooting for capitalism might tend to dismiss socialist solutions, and vice versa…staying loyal to their dominant ideology. But as humans we sometimes get trapped into acting like these ideologies are some mythical unified theory.
How many “socialized” or “nationalized” services and industries does the public generally approves of? I think of “free” government services like the Highway System, Federal Waterways, National Park Service, Federal Bureau of Investigations, Bureau of Prisons, Census Bureau, Social Security, Small Business Administrations and of course, THE MILITARY and the services for veterans. And how many “capitalist” services does the public generally approve of? And are we the people currently healthy and happy with the choices provided for necessities like our food, housing, health care and energy?
From the start, our country (and most “developed” countries) has used a collection of “capitalist” and “socialist” tools. For an added challenge, try to factor in the constant increase of private contractors used by nationalized services, like with Blackwater and Halliburton. A September ProPublica headline highlights a classic example of this: “This Year, Contractor Deaths Exceed Military Ones in Iraq and Afghanistan.” Even better are the number of recent cases we’ve seen where the profits were privatized while the risks were socialized, such as the painful bank bailouts and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
I also think the nature of who or where the finances come from to run our government should be a critically important factor in what people think is worth paying for. Just 100 years ago, typical American citizens did not pay ANY income tax. Now Fortune 500 companies just move to the Cayman Islands and in August of 2008, CNN reported:
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) examined samples of corporate tax returns filed between 1998 and 2005. In that time period, an annual average of 1.3 million U.S. companies and 39,000 foreign companies doing business in the United States paid no income taxes – despite having a combined $2.5 trillion in revenue.
The study showed that 28% of foreign companies and 25% of U.S. corporations with more than $250 million in assets or $50 million in sales paid no federal income taxes in 2005. Those companies totaled a combined $372 billion in sales for the largest foreign companies and $1.1 trillion in revenue for the biggest U.S. companies.
I strongly oppose any Bush-style income tax cuts which worsen our wealth disparities. But I do like the idea of taxes being collected from corporations where profits are created from business models, instead of collecting from a laborer’s wages. There are also many who argue that our income tax of last 100 years is even unconsititutional, and I think this is a topic worth considering. For more info on this, you might start your research by watching Aaron Russo’s 2006 film, America: Freedom to Fascism.
The point of terms like ‘crony capitalism’ or ‘predatory capitalism’ is to point out just how far we are from the pure idealized form of capitalism touted by talking heads, or even Adam Smith. It seems the massive mutant capitalist corporations have become so efficient at their business that they went ahead and took over our governments for us, saving us the trouble of regulating those companies. But if we reign in the corporate-industrial complex soon, and we force our government to start buying solar panels instead of bombs, we will encourage the growth and development of less destructive markets.
Unfortunately these ‘ism’s may be false options on yet another level. Because for decades now, our country might best be defined as fascist. This is rooted in the comprehensive corporate influence on the most important functions of government, and controlling both candidates in a single-party state. It might also be defined as a plutocracy (or corpocracy, or corporatocracy) — whatever it is, it has now emerged quite clearly.
I also find it bizarre that there is such passion for any of these existing economic systems, as we have seen examples of all of them producing failed states when implemented inappropriately…bringing us back my focus on quality over quantity. Our capitalist experiment has been going for just a few hundred years, and this current incarnation of crazed crony-capitalism has clearly dominated at least for the past three decades.
Our form of capitalism has been incentivized by selfish wealth maximization without regard to externalities, while providing amazing technological advances with potential for enormous benefits for our species in the long run. But the jury is still out due to our pollution, loss of biodiversity, food mono-cultures, unregulated GMOs, and nuclear and biological weapons industries. But at least we’ve got record-high wealth disparities.
The final problem I have with these false options is that capitalism and socialism don’t seem to be mutually exclusive. As Noam Chomsky says, there is no reason businesses cannot be managed democratically, controlled by their workers and community, and compete with other businesses managed the same way and others. But there are other ways to improve the capitalism formula without even giving up the typical management hierarchies of today’s world.
Social Businesses and Nu Capitalism
One of my dad’s core mantras I’ve adopted is about looking for the right questions to ask. Despite Chomsky’s blind spots and/or self-censoring on select topics he is of course brilliant and inspiring, and he is a relatively early influence on my world view. I really like his approach on this (click here for video):
“We don’t have capitalism, it’s nothing remotely like it. We have some various varieties of state capitalism, including the USSR. That was one variety of state capitalism, was based on wage labor, on management control, central coordination of production. In fact its’ in many ways very much like corporate capitalism. It’s just a different kind of organization.
So of the various kinds of state capitalism that are around, which are the best? I don’t honestly think that’s the kind of question we should be asking. Suppose you’re in the 18th century. Should you be asking, ‘Which is the best kind of feudalism?’ I mean that’s all it was. So which is the best kind of feudalism, and slavery, and monarchy and so on and so forth. It just wasn’t the right question. I mean the right question is, ‘Is there something better?’ Like say, parliamentary democracy. Even though there were no examples of it. There were seeds of it, but no functioning examples. I mean seeds of had it been developed and usually crushed, as in England, but these were legitimate struggles. And you know, they succeeded. I mean by now you have parliamentary democracies, which aren’t fantastic but are better than feudalism.” – The World: The Noam Chomsky Sessions
So suppose you’re in the 21st century, what is the best kind of capitalism? What is the best kind of socialism? Is capitalism better than socialism, or vice versa? Why are we limited to these options?
Currently, businesses think they must only compete by maximizing-profits in ways which are very selfish and short-sighted. But this is just how we’ve been taught to play, and what consumers have been taught to buy. Businesses used to be thought of as helpful members of their communities, not psychopaths. If you haven’t yet, please watch the 2003 film titled, “The Corporation.”
Capitalism is very flexible, and we must stop supporting large-scale businesses which make themselves legally bound to maximize profits for shareholders no matter the side-effects. We must support businesses which try to maximize benefits for all dimensions of human life. But customers and investors must take more initiative to carefully vote daily with their dollars for social-benefit-maximizing businesses which show enough conscience to mitigate their externalities while providing the world beneficial products and services.
In the “Nu Capitalism” paradigm, the companies which provide the most net social benefit will also be the most profitable. Let me repeat that. In the “Nu Capitalism” paradigm, the companies which provide the most net social benefit WILL ALSO BE THE MOST PROFITABLE.
The Social Business model of maximizing social-benefit is a marvelous idea championed by Muhammad Yunus. Yunus pioneered the potentially world saving concept of microcredit when starting Grameen Bank in Bangladesh in 1976 which is credited for bringing millions out of poverty. Wikipedia describes the Grameen Bank as
…a microfinance organization and community development bank … that makes small loans (known as microcredit or “grameencredit”) to the impoverished without requiring collateral. … The system of this bank is based on the idea that the poor have skills that are under-utilized. A group-based credit approach is applied which utilizes the peer-pressure within the group to ensure the borrowers follow through and use caution in conducting their financial affairs with strict discipline, ensuring repayment eventually and allowing the borrowers to develop good credit standing.
I will discuss microcredit more in a future episode on why and how we should End The Federal Reserve. And I strongly recommend you explore this concept and this beautiful human much more, but here is a quick excerpt to whet your appetite:
Muhammad Yunus – The Social Business Model

This general concept of a social business is also finally catching hold in America. Yunus was just last year awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Barack Obama. And a few test-runs of similar microcredit banks are finally being started up in America.
B Corporation (B Labs) is a leading firm to certify businesses adhering to enough social business principles. According to their web site, over 300 companies have become certified with a branded B Corporation status since 2006, including one I always see at the store named Seventh Generation. The 315 businesses represent $1.5 billion in revenues and 54 industries.
There is a parallel movement around the country to grant legal tax status to B Corporations which will offer various benefits back to these businesses. Already, my home state of Maryland signed the nation’s first Benefit Corporation legislation on April 13th and Vermont passed it on May 19th of this year. Whether or not your state is ready for it yet, your business can start NOW by taking a confidential survey on their website to learn what areas they need improvement on, to work towards a longer-term goal of becoming fully certified, or just becoming a Social Business.
Dollar votes are currently the most powerful form of voting we have, far better than false choice A or B every 2 to 4 years. Quick resources of information needed to educate our daily decisions will be in higher demand, like the The Better World Handbook and a very intriguing iPhone App called the GoodGuide. The GoodGuide app takes advantage of the Universal Product Code system and allows you to scan product barcodes at the store with your iPhone’s REGULAR CAMERA (not the special barcode scanner) and pulls up a quick rating of the product and the company that makes it. It gives four scores for each product scanned: Health, Environment, Society, and an Overall Rating, plus more detailed breakdowns if you’re interested. It of course doesn’t have every product in the world rated yet, but the app is free and you can suggest new items to be rated if you don’t find them in there.
GoodGuide is also certified as a B Corporation, but just like with food, we must perpetually fight to ensure product labeling is as honest, accurate and informative as possible. This is absolutely essential. There is also a separate problem of people buying all the totally useless sh*t they don’t need, whether or not it is made by a good company in a good way. We call this “trinket capitalism.”
So tools like the GoodGuide are already helping consumers take charge of their purchasing powers to make capitalism more consciously democratic. But at the same time, wise progressive businesses will find more ways of clearly posting (and lying about) how good their products are for the health of your mind, body, community, society and world. Already, the battle is on for proper labeling of organic or non-GMO foods. But companies can, and hopefully will, also start directly labeling their products with something like their GoodGuide scores or B Corporation ratings to make it easier for consumers to choose their products over others.
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Used alone, neither left nor right, neither more nor less government, neither capitalism nor socialism can save us. So let us please not choose our preferred solutions solely because they fit into one ideology or another. We need to rationally look at the situation and find the maximum good we can muster, no matter what ‘ism’ it implies.
Either ideology, taken to the extreme, can become quite a scary beast, so please don’t use them as your primary basis for every decision. We cannot be tempted to just vote with our party on every issue…are we voting for the lesser of two evils? Such ideologies are like many drugs, which can only be used safely in moderation.
‘Do you lean towards Capitalism or Socialism?’ – Nope, I’m mostly into Social Businism!
In this current economic transition, we need to replace a portion of the worthless trinket capitalism products and services, as well as industries of destruction, with social businesses. We must compete with the corporate-industrial complex, first targeting the industries vital to human life and well-being. With the proper public education via accurate product labeling and wider accessibility to healthier products, we can gradually shift to only pay for products made with our long-term interest in mind, instead of someone else’s bottom-line.
We absolutely need our key industries to start offering competitive Social Business options in the marketplace. There will also always be room for profit-maximizing businesses to coexist, but the decision between social businesses or purely profit-maximizing options would be in the hands of consumers. Simultaneously, we need efforts to upgrade labeling to help customers support healthier options for our minds, bodies, communities, societies and planet.
We can fight with our dollars NOW. We can buy products from Social Businesses NOW. We can start Social Businesses NOW. We can start converting our current employers into Social Businesses NOW. Why wait for Washington when we can make these moves ourselves?
In the 21st century, we the people of the world will do everything possible to ensure that companies which provide the most net benefit to the world WILL ALSO BE THE MOST PROFITABLE companies in the world.
Appendix A: My Personal Preferences for Nu Capitalism
For each area of our society I have listed, I will describe my best estimate for how our current system runs, followed by my current preference…the point to which I want to see us grow.
| Current System |
My Preference |
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| Judicial and Legislative Branches | Public, with some private non-governmental organizations (NGOs) providing additional oversight | Public, with increased private NGOs providing additional oversight |
| Regulatory Agencies (for all types of industries) | Public, with some private NGOs providing additional oversight | Public, with increased private NGOs providing additional oversight |
| “DEFENSE”/MILITARY, Homeland Security | Public, with significant outsourcing to private profit maximizers | Public, but dramatically reduced, and no more contracting to private profiteers, and far greater transparency |
| Federal Bureau of Investigations, Immigration Enforcement, Bureau of Prisons | Public, with significant outsourcing to private profit maximizers | Public, but dramatically reduced, and no more contracting to private profiteers, and far greater transparency |
| Central Intelligence Agency | Public with private contracting, but also has significant secret budgets (and actions) for which we have NO oversight | Public, but completely REPLACE it with Public Open Source Intelligence with 100% transparency |
| Federal Reserve System | Quasi-Public (Dennis Kucinich: “No more federal than Federal Express”), with risks public and profits private | Public, but REPLACE with a publicly controlled, completely transparent system serving the needs of the other 90% of the world’s population |
| Highway System, Federal Waterways, National Park Service | Public | Public, but always room for more transparency |
| Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid | Public | Public, but work on solving the root causes, work to change the systemic policies which intentionally keep low-income families down |
| Energy | Private, with some rare Social Business and Public Options | Private, but dominated by Social Business, kick started by the federal government switching as many purchases as possible over to renewable energy |
| Health Care | Private, with some very rare Social Business options, and Public Option still in debate | Single-Payer Public Option, with other Private Options dominated by Social Businesses |
| Food | Private, with increasing Social Business options | Private, but dominated by Social Businesses |
| Housing | Private, some limited Public Options for low-income families, plus the Quasi-Public cases like Freddie and Fannie with public risks and private profits | Private, but dominated by Social Businesses, with some limited Public Options for low-income families until unnecessary |
| Transportation | Private with limited Public Options, and Social Businesses are now finally showing up more | Private, but dominated by Social Businesses, and vastly expanded Public Options |
| Education | Public, with Private Options | Public with far greater funding but also reduced federal control of curriculum, plus Private Options dominated by Social Businesses |
New Petition Challenges 9/11 Discussion (press release)
Sep 17th
NEWS ADVISORY: September 17, 2010
CONTACT: Morgan Lesko – (301-646-5894) or info//at//WikiWorldOrder//dot//com
(SAN LEANDRO, CA) – Suspiciously high-tech particles of highly incendiary nano-thermite were found in the wreckage of the World Trade Center, but the mainstream media has all but overlooked this evidence – even though it clearly points to involvement of persons with access to technology far beyond the reach of the terrorists who carried out the attacks.
What other information about the attacks does the public have the right to know?
In the past few years, solid scientific evidence came out against the official narrative of 9/11 as described by the 9/11 Commission and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Possibly the most important new evidence appeared in a peer-reviewed science paper last year in The Open Chemical Physics Journal by Niels H. Harrit, Jeffrey Farrer, Steven E. Jones and others titled, Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe.
the ’9/11 Truth’ movement gains momentum, members of the media are being encouraged to reach further than official agency explanations and investigations for answers to the World Trade Center attacks and other life-and-death global issues.
On Sunday, Wiki World Order released the following petition calling for greater transparency in investigating global terrorism on Change.org to members of SF Truth Action, Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth and We Are Change:
http://www.change.org/petitions/view/false_flag_boycott_the_hegelian_dialectic_resistance_pact
For full details, watch the third episode of the Wiki World Order report titled “False Flag Boycott: The Hegelian Dialectic Resistance Pact” (1 hr):
Download Full Quality: http://WikiWorldOrder.org/download/episode3
On YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iIrMc7BeUY
Transcript: http://WikiWorldOrder.org/2010/09/11/false-flag-boycott-the-hegelian-dialectic-resistance-pact/
This new microscopic alternative media outlet, Wiki World Order (WWO), just started up in July with its first two quick episodes just laying out some background information and larger concept for this collaborative outlet. For more information on WWO, please watch the first episode (10 min):
Download Full Quality: http://WikiWorldOrder.org/download/episode1
On YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHEEvcvFc1U
Transcript: http://WikiWorldOrder.org/2010/07/22/definition-the-wiki-world-order/
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Episode 3 – False Flag Boycott: The Hegelian Dialectic Resistance Pact
Sep 11th
Research Bibliography While Watching Video: http://altbib.com/r/167/ra/Wiki_World_Order_3._False_Flag_Boycott_The_Hegelian_Dialectic_Resistance_Pact
Download Full High-Quality Video: http://WikiWorldOrder.org/download/episode3
Download Audio Podcast Version: http://WikiWorldOrder.org/download/podcast3
Please Sign the Change.org Petititon:
http://www.change.org/petitions/view/false_flag_boycott_the_hegelian_dialectic_resistance_pact
Original Wiki World Order music track:
http://WikiWorldOrder.org/music/Wiki_World_Order-History_Repeating_By_The_Whips_Of_A_Pimp.mp3
Full Episode in One Part on Blip.TV:
http://blip.tv/file/4165024
Full Episode on YouTube:
Part 1 of 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iIrMc7BeUY
Part 2 of 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E21rdJ12kUw
Part 3 of 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WPPO_e38u8
Part 4 of 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYi9Px3nmRU
Part 5 of 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLE4XgDKHL8
TRANSCRIPT/BLOG:
False Flag Boycott: The Hegelian Dialectic Resistance Pact, version 1.0
If there is any form of terrorist attack not openly and officially claimed by any foreign government, we the people will not support any reactions of aggression or war against anyone, foreign or domestic. Instead we support the forming of a commission to investigate the goals of the (alleged) terrorists, in an honest effort to understand the root CAUSES, of which violence is a symptom, and analyze potential responses with legislative and diplomatic concessions. In even the very worst case, any violence in reaction must be respectively equal or lesser than the violence inflicted upon us.
http://www.change.org/petitions/view/false_flag_boycott_the_hegelian_dialectic_resistance_pact
This means that in the event of any crises, we the people will be looking very critically at ANY voices looking to ESCALATE violence. We will be looking at the parties with the most to gain in wealth, power or position. We will be looking at documented financial transactions proving foreknowledge of any such events. We will be looking for cover-up commissions which ignore evidence or allow it to be destroyed.
We recognize that for the past century, the United States of America is in fact the LARGEST EXPORTER OF TERRORISM IN THE WORLD. For this reason, we the people will also be listening to any VALID concerns and demands of such terrorists willing to give their lives trying to tell us their message. We the people support reductions to our Anglo-American imperialist actions and bases around the world. We think these types of changes in our reactions will reduce the number terrorists, and feed them less hate to live off of. First we must stop impeding the freedom and self-determination of other nations, if we are to expect it in return. For more details on this, see the Golden F*CKING Rule. This change in paradigm and policy is not seen as a concession, but as truly logical steps in the right direction for the best of all parties.
Let me be clear: I DO NOT IN ANY WAY CONDONE ANY FORM OF VIOLENCE, and I know that we the people around the world will ONLY win through non-violent methods. I would never never never commit suicide, as there is much to much beauty in this world even though it’s bittersweet and f***ed up…you can do so much more in life than death. Now, this is just my humble opinion, but why are we so quick to dismiss the wishes, goals or demands of [alleged] terrorists? When absorbing information at our preferred flicker-rate, we very easily buy into the ideas of our favorite talking heads. But how many of those heads believe so strongly in what they are saying and doing that they would die for their cause? How many have root goals of money, fame and/or power?
If, as a society, we have driven anyone to feel that their only option is to turn to violence or even self-sacrifice, then is it not our duty to take that serious look in the mirror and figure out how to inch our country towards growing up, instead of punching back in blind rage every time? Oh, yea and these people attack us because they “hate our freedom,” and to deal with their jealousy they attack us, instead of freeing themselves. — Oh wait, WE are actually the ones oppressing them in THEIR HOME, whether there is a physical or military occupation or not.
But aside from the intent, views or demands of terrorists, we must also have more critical reactions to crises themselves. This is because of the thoroughly documented history of the agility of some governments to stage acts of terrorism and frame the enemies of their choice, and the massive expansion of government secrecy ever since the Manhattan Project and the creation of the Central Intelligence Agency, the CIA has only increased this. We the people have NO OVERSIGHT to shed light on a significant portions of our own government which do significant damage to our world…and we claim to be a “free” “democracy”.
In some well-planned crimes, a criminal plants evidence to throw the cops onto the wrong trail, or even to actively setup and blame someone else. When the crime is an act of terrorism, this form of framing someone is called a “False Flag” attack, and we know this is not just a thing of history. In October of 2008, Wiki Leaks released a US Special Forces counterinsurgency manual which had been US Army policy since 1994 and teaches about the staging of false flag attacks for these same purposes of psychological warfare in the countries we are occupying.
Now, if you’re new to the Infowars (Infowars.com), you might not have heard the term “false flag.” You also may not have also heard of the Hegelian Dialectic. It makes for a bit of a cumbersome title for my little pact, but this phrase could use a serious Colbert Bump in the mass consciousness. Wikipedia describes the Hegelian Dialectic as:
“usually presented in a three-fold manner…comprising three dialectical stages of development: a thesis, giving rise to its reaction, an antithesis, which contradicts or negates the thesis, and the tension between the two being resolved by means of a synthesis.”
This strategic method of Thesis-Antithesis-Synthesis is also known as ‘Order Out Of Chaos’ (by Paul Joseph Watson) or Problem-Reaction-Solution. One of the most classic examples is Adolf Hitler’s use of this tool just four weeks after becoming Chancellor of Germany.
PROBLEM: There was an arson attack on the Reichstag building, the home of the German Parliament, in Berlin on February 27, 1933.
REACTION: Wikipedia explains that the fire was used as evidence by the Nazis that the Communists were beginning a plot against the government.
SOLUTION: This was used to justify and pressure widespread suspension of civil liberties, mass arrests, and the Nazis took majority power, only consolidating from there on out.
Problem. Reaction. Solution. Hello World War II.
Most of us cannot fathom attacking people of our own country…or ANYONE for that matter! But we can see examples of many leaders, past and present, near and far, who clearly do not share this conscience. But how many of those leaders, considered horrific in retrospect, had the support of significant portions of their populations leading right up until atrocities start…and even beyond? We must be able to recognize that tyrants rarely come out of nowhere, and even democracies can allow for a slow and consensual takeover by one faction which is just as comprehensive. Luckily, such a takeover is also a house of cards, falling if we can only focus our vision on it enough to call out the myths in the foundation.
America has long passed the tyrant standard, effectively finding ways to kill MILLIONS around the world, in most decades of the past century. With the most advanced forms of propaganda known to history, much of the population need not worry about our exported atrocities…vigilant for better footing the in the rat race while skyscrapers play empire builder. So I vote for voluntarily giving up our empire to return to being a regular country which obeys the rules of war and human decency…the golden rule…before everything is taken from us in retaliation.
Please understand, I have immense gratitude and respect for all the troops in harms way on all sides. They are fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, theoretically defending their respective theoretical freedom. My own pops served in the Navy during the Vietnam War and I am really glad it helped him overcome some fears — like trying pizza for the first time as a young picky eater — but it did significantly form him and make him the man he is. We all know how painfully pointless and costly that whole war was looking back at the Fog of War, but it was not pointless just because of the idiotic counterinsurgency strategy. It was also pointless because the Gulf of Tolkin incident was not a legitimate reason to initiate a war IN THE FIRST PLACE. The PROBLEM for which a previously intended REACTION AND SOLUTION could be provided.
Just recently in 2008, the National Security Agency was forced to release documents and Steven Aftergood, director of the Federation of American Scientists project on government secrecy, told Agence France-Presse (AFP):
“What this study demonstrated is that the available intelligence shows that there was no attack. It’s a dramatic reversal of the historical record….There were previous indications of this but this is the first time we have seen the complete study,” Aftergood said.
Now we were duped into this major war of my father’s generation and if this is news to you, many apologies….from the mainstream media. We were also duped into the main wars of my generation. Everybody is familiar with Bush Junior’s alleged WMDs (Weapons of Mass Destruction), right?
PROBLEM: Saddam Hussein and the country of Iraq has Weapons of Mass Destruction!
REACTION: This somehow threatens us, and what if the smoking gun comes in the form of…
SOLUTION: Mission Accomplished! BUT, even if one did feel that [this] situation warranted the preemptive invasion of another country, we would surely not be in this situation had our government not supported Saddam Hussein for at least a decade prior to our wars there. This was a repeat of a decade earlier with Bush Senior.
It often surprises me how a president or administration can be simultaneously widely known for lying, while also being believed on other critical and related issues. The administration successfully silenced dissenters in its own agencies and manipulated all the intelligence to make their case on weapons of mass destruction to the United Nations. But after we found out about these lies, we continue to believe much of the intelligence passed down to us.
What kind of crazed conspiracy theory is 19 hijackers from caves defeating the most robust and expensive military-industrial complexes on the planet…four times in one day?! In the week following, the BBC and some other ‘respectable’ news agencies reported that several of those alleged hijackers were still alive and had been in the middle east at the time of the attacks. Though five years later, the BBC explained this was an error: cases of mistaken identity. But whichever side of this aspect of the story is correct, the Federal Bureau of Investigation to this day has never listed the atrocities of 9/11 on their Most Wanted poster for Osama Bin Laden. This is because there is simply not enough evidence to accuse him of these crimes in a court of law…let alone to start wars with sovereign nations.
But why is it so hard for us to understand, and accept, that [rogue] elements within our own government were capable of pulling off the attacks on 9/11? You might have been scared away from information about “9/11 conspiracy theories” because some presentations try to inject religion or race, which has helped divide and conquer the 9/11 Truth movement more in the past. Personally, I think if there is any single group responsible for these attacks, it is more likely they only share a geopolitical philosophy or life strategy/attitude, not a specific religious sect. But more importantly, we do not have enough information to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the suspects on our list are guilty. Hence the 9/11 Truth movement generally just fights for a new investigation and to END THESE ORWELLIAN WARS.
Let me briefly explain why I started researching 9/11. That day, I was baffled and offended at the instant war drum beat and the quick certainty in targeting the enemy, Osama bin Laden within minutes…it smelled fishy from the start. But in the coming years, there were major problems with the official story which forced me to keep researching: PHYSICS, my personal favorite of the hard sciences.
In New York that day, two planes hit two buildings and three buildings collapsed. Yes, THREE buildings collapsed that day. Have you heard of World Trade Center 7, the third building which collapsed later that day on 9/11? If not, please Google “WTC 7″ after this episode. ALL THREE of these buildings collapsed at nearly free-fall speed, in 10 to 15 seconds, into their respective footprints. This means that the tops of the World Trade Center buildings fell nearly as fast as they would have if only AIR was beneath them, or a vacuum. But in a world where the basic laws of physics apply (quantum physics miracles aside), all of that steel and concrete below the tops of those buildings should have offered tons of resistance. I finally brought this simple science experiment to perform for people at this month’s street action on the 11th in San Francisco.
According to all video and seismic records, the tops of the buildings in fact managed to fall through the path of MOST resistance through the entire building below, instead of falling off the sides of the buildings which would have offered no resistance. Furthermore, if Al-Qaeda really wanted to inflict maximum damage and death on the people of New York, it would be infinitely easier to make the building topple over to the side than imploding it completely into its own footprints.
It takes a highly scientific controlled demotion team usually days to setup for the collapse of building that large, specifically so that they fall in their own footprint. So, according to the 9/11 Commission Report, it seems like controlled demolition companies should be thinking about just using airplanes to collapse buildings into their footprint instead of wasting all that time ‘planning.’ WTC 1, 2 and 7 were also the first three, and last three large steel buildings to collapse from fire and damage IN HISTORY.
Now despite loving physics most of my life, I majored in Computer Science with a minor in Mathematics, and you shouldn’t take my word alone for anything. So here is Stephen Jones…
My name is Dr. Stephen Jones. I have a PhD in physics from Vanderbilt University, 1978. I have a Bachelor of Science degree from Brigham Young University, 1973, I graduated magna cum laude. After PhD work I did post-doctoral work at Los Alamos Meson Physics Facility.
In June 2007 I was examining a dust sample which I had obtained from Janette McKinley. I was using a loop and also just looking at it with my eyes and an ordinary optical microscope, although stereo so that I could see better in three dimensions. And what I found was a chip that looked like it might be a paint chip. I mean early on I was thinking, ‘maybe not too interesting.’
But this chip was rather striking in its appearance. It had an orange-red color first of all. And then I found several of these and they all had some gray material adhering to the side of the red material. So later we found multiple layers but most of these chips had two layer, red, gray. I did take one of these chips down to the electron microscope, the scanning electron microscope, and we looked at it with electron microscope and then we used a system where we could determine the elements. What we found in the red material is a combination of aluminum and iron oxide, and these are the components of thermite.
Of course now we looked with an electron microscope, we looked deeper and deeper, with higher and higher magnification. And I pulled in a colleague of mine Dr. Jefferey Farrer, he’s an expert on the electron microscope machine. So he actually broke a piece off of one of these red chips, and then later he did four different samples, broke a piece off, that gives you a fresh surface. Because in the dust there’s all sorts of stuff, there’s zinc and titanium and calcium, all sorts of stuff.
So he broke off a tip so he could look at a fresh surface. And then what you see in all four samples that we studied in this detail: carbon (which is significant), oxygen, iron and aluminum. We looked at this, and these again are the ingredients (except for the carbon) — and we found that experimenters working with super thermite trying to beef it up, make it more explosive, tailoring it to different weapons applications, they would have silicone in there and an organic material (which means a carbon). So a polymer such as viton (sp?) they would add to this to give it the properties they wanted.
So that fit. Now see that was surprising to me to find silicone and carbon, but then we find in the literature that’s what these guys are doing in the weapons labs, Livermore and Los Alamos. They’re adding organic because that gives you a gas production. When the thermite goes off now you also have gas production, which gives you the explosive force, for instance.
Take a sample of this red-gray chip material and run it through a very sensitive instrument called a differential scanning calorimeter. And he did that. What it does, you heat temperature slowly and a material will react if it’s going to. And if it reacts and produces heat, you’ll get a spike in your calorimeter. And then if it reacts quickly you’ll get a narrow spike. If it, say, burns over a long period of time you’ll see a big broad spike. And the total area there is the total amount of energy released, and it gives you a lot of information.
What we found – what Dr. Farrer found first, and he was real excited when he told me about this. He took one of these chips and he put it in the differential scanning calorimeter, and sure enough it went off at right about 430 centigrade. But more importantly the peak was high, which means a lot of energy released, and narrow, which means (in his terms) it blew up. You know, you say, ‘Man this is it, this stuff blows up.’ It behaves just like nano-th– it has the ingredients of nano-thermite.
He said, ‘Well there should be in a thermite reaction, you should produce molten iron.’ So you should see some spheres of iron. Think of spraying water in the air and you get droplets that are more or less spherical because the surface tension pulls the liquid into a sphere, it’s very simple. Same thing with molten iron from the thermitic reaction, whether it’s ordinary conventional thermite or this super nano-thermite, either way you get this molten iron and you should get these droplets of iron. So he said we’ve got to look for those. If you don’t find those, maybe who knows what it is. But we’ve got to find droplets of molten iron otherwise we’re not sure we have the thermite reaction — the thermitic reaction, in this case it is nano-thermite.
So we looked, and wow what a beautiful sight. As you look at this, after the red materials reacted there are these little spheres, just tons of them. And we compared the traces that we got in this sophisticated calorimeter with traces obtained with known thermite, and these are published data, and our peak is actually narrower. I mean this stuff goes off very rapidly, and with more energy than had been reported by these other researchers working with known nano-thermite.
- Loose Change 9/11: An American Coup
I used to go to the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) yearly for science competitions and that building and organization was like one of my heroes growing up. But here I feel this same organization is been now lying to me right to my face about the very laws of physics they helped instill in me 15 years ago. NIST is in charge of standards for hard core things like HOW MUCH ONE GRAM WEIGHS. How could its leadership betray such logic and trust for this cause?
Under pressure from the Bush administration, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) told the brave first responders they DID NOT need masks to protect them from the very toxic dust, and those most inspiring humans have kept painfully dying ever since. In August of 2003, the EPA published a report saying:
“The White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) influenced, through the collaboration process, the information that EPA communicated to the public through its early press releases when it convinced EPA to add reassuring statements and delete cautionary ones.” – EPA
New York Daily News recently reported that Paula Rodriguez, 44, an New York Fire Department emergency medical technician, died May 30 of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, while pushing for important legislation for the needed care for all of the first responders and their families. It says she is one of 900 related first-responder deaths, but as New York Democrat Carolyn Maloney explains, “thousands of 9/11 first responders and survivors have serious illnesses that will require medical care for life, and our bill will ensure that they get the care they need.”
Some day, more American first-responders will have died from 9/11 than the 3,000 victims taken from us on that day. Just last month this issue has made it to congress again and I encourage all of my listeners to check the recent inspiring clip of Congressman Anthony Weiner defending a bill to improve aid for 9/11 first responders.
In the weeks after the tragic event, CBS and the San Francisco Chronicle among others reported on the millions made on the stock market that day. There was an notably high number of ‘put’ options, bets that the stock’s price would FALL, on American Airlines and United Airlines, the two airlines hijacked on 9/11. Despite plenty of solid leads for major red flags on prior knowledge to 9/11, the final 9/11 Commission Report contained this infamous and offensive statement:
“To date, the US Government has not been able to determine the origin of the money used for the 9/11 attacks. Ultimately the question is of little practical significance.” – Chapter 5
Also particularly interesting, one of the testimonies given before the 9/11 Commission, was by the Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta. Captured on CSPAN, preserved through You Tube, he says,
When I got to the White House, it was being evacuated. I met briefly with Richard Clark, a National Security Council staff member, who had no new information. Then the Secret Service escorted me down to the Presidential Emergency Operations Center, otherwise known as the PEOC. …
I was made aware of it during the time that the airplane coming into the Pentagon. There was a young man who had come in and said to the vice president, “The plane is 50 miles out. The plane is 30 miles out.” And when it got down to, “The plane is 10 miles out,” the young man also said to the vice president, “Do the orders still stand?” And the vice president turned and whipped his neck around and said, “Of course the orders still stand. Have you heard anything to the contrary?”
Click here to read Norman Mineta’s full testimony
This testimony was OMITTED by the final report, because it conflicted with Vice President Dick Cheney’s alibi. When Lee Hamiliton, the chair of the commission, was later asked about this, he said:
“I do not recall.” When pressed, he expands, “Well, we think that Vice President Cheney entered the bunker shortly before 10 o’clock. And there is a gap of several minutes there, where we do not really know what the Vice President really did. There is the famous phone call between the President and the Vice President. We could find no documentary evidence of that phone call.”
Most people also assume that these things could not be kept secret because someone in such a vast operation would blow the whistle. The problem there is that there have been several very public whistle-blowers regarding 9/11 like Sibel Edmonds, William Bergman, Coleen Rowley, J. Michael Springmann, Robert Wright, Indira Singh, Barry Jennings, and Richard Andrew Grove…but I guess they were not important enough to dominate news cycles.
I find all of this highly offense…HIGHLY OFFENSE. Who do they think they are?! Who do they think we are?! Why are they treating us like naive children with all of this propaganda used to overcome the basic laws of physics and rational logic. What kind of f*cked up game is this?!
In retrospect it feels like a horror movie with some open eyes in the audience yelling, “Don’t go in there! Don’t go into that mindset the bad guy led you right into! That paradigm is going to take us right to war!” Coming soon to theaters near you, Cube 247: Trapped in the Corporate-Industrial Complex!
If you haven’t already, it is absolutely required that you find out what information is out there on this event…unless you wish to repeat history, and you wish your children to repeat history, and so on. For an overview of the applicable laws of physics check out the ten minute, or two hour, video Blueprint for Truth by Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth. For analysis of the official narrative, evidence and 9/11 Commission report, I recommend starting with David Ray Griffin’s 9/11: The Myth and The Reality, an excellent lecture. Then watch Loose Change Final Cut for some deeper followup info if interested. Once you’re convinced of how appallingly ridiculous the official story for 9/11 is, you might want to watch Fabled Enemies to start investigating the leads as to who in fact carried the attacks out. These are all free online, just Google it, because I have only just scratched the surface.
You can search in AltBib.Com for every mainstream article presented in those films and read each entire article to see if the evidence is taken out of context, exaggerated or just to add or remove salt from your take on that piece of evidence. You can try to search for follow-up information on those documents to see if it was later refuted, etc. This process will continue being made easier by using my new tool on AltBib.Com, Research-Alongs…check it out, but there will be more on this coming later.
If this information is new to you, please do your best not to be afraid. It takes almost EVERYONE at least a year or two to really come to terms with most of the evidence against the official story. But at some point in the future, you will look back feeling more open-minded and enlightened, and more impressed with humanity’s ability to fight back with information, knowledge and the shining light of truth.
The 9/11 Truth movement is a truly awe-inspiring story of major underdogs with truth on their side, which I publicly joined all too late but followed from the start. For the past eight years I was effectively self-censored, completely silencing these views of mine for fear of diminishing credibility for my active, public and already stigmatizing work fighting to end the War on Drugs. But for a few years now there has just been far too much solid and scientific evidence to ignore this reality.
I don’t think we have enough evidence yet to know what really happened, but the last eight years of work in open source intelligence by the 9/11 Truth movement and its friends has provided ample evidence for a controlled demolition of the official narrative…into its own footprint. The 9/11 Commission was a cover-up of the highest order on par with the Warren Commission…we just don’t know what exactly was covered up.
So, PROBLEM: 9/11.
REACTION: War vs Anti-War.
SOLUTION: Removal of rights, then Mission Accomplished.
“You’re free! And free is beautiful. And you know, it will take time to restore chaos, and order — order out of chaos — but we will.” – George W Bush
Instead of debating whether or not we should have gone to war, we first really needed to determine whether or not anyone from another country actually attacked us. We needed to first be absolutely sure that elements of our own government were not more responsible than other parties, and had not intentionally allowed the attacks to happen. We needed to investigate the crime first. Outside of shoot-em-up movies, are the police allowed to shoot up a whole neighborhood searching for someone, BEFORE proving beyond a reasonable doubt that they committed a crime? In this crime as much evidence as possible was destroyed, omitted or shielded with state secrecy and national security.
The narrative in the mainstream media was limited to debating whether or not we should go to war, not about the what actually happened and why. We have to learn from our history to see that many administrations are willing to lie during these situations to maximize their power, and to use the mainstream media to propagate these lies. And we ourselves must become more critical of the information we’re provided now that we live in an age of freedom of CHOICE OF INFORMATION.
Even the mainstream media has recognized the similarities between the current Iraq/Afghanistan wars and the Vietnam War from pretty early on, but we have not been able to stop our war machine. Eisenhower warned us, but now it’s all grown up. Now, these examples are offensively similar and blatant, but the formula applies many types of situations and scales. For example…
PROBLEM: Oklahoma City Bombing.
REACTION: Domestic extremists are a threat to national security.
SOLUTION: Increase targeting of domestic threats. “We’re going need to see some of those rights of yours — oh and if you agree our government has become oppressive, can you please hold this stigma.” The official story is that Timothy McVeigh accomplished this attack alone, and I feel confident enough that at least this is not true. But as always, WHETHER OR NOT there is a comprehensive conspiracy directly manifesting this event, THE RESULTS ARE THE SAME and the agenda of choice moves forward!
For more info on this I recommend starting by listening to the Corbett Report’s Episode #38: OKC was an inside job and Episode #140: Requiem for the Suicided: Terrance Yeakey. Then if you are still interested, please check out the documentation he provides, do some more research into all the other evidence you can find, applying your best guess for how much salt to add every single step of the way, and come to your own conclusion based on all the evidence you can lay your eyes on. For this is the best any of us can do.
PROBLEM: GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS! REACTION: Sub-prime mortgages (and derivatives) are the cause, we need bailouts to buy out the banks’ toxic assets. SOLUTION: Actually, we’re just going to buy up some struggling banks while further consolidating wealth, power and grip on markets.
Economics is surprisingly fascinating and pervasively important to EVERY OTHER FIELD OF INTEREST. So I encourage you to check out Corbett Report Episode #5: Central Banking is a Hoax, Episode #13: The dollar crash of 07, Episode #64: End the Fed, Episode #76: Meet the real economists, Episode #120: Economics 101, Episode #122: Hello, Iceland, and just last week’s Episode #139: Know Your History: Colonial Scrip.
PROBLEM: Health Care crisis caused by decades of stalling without much needed reform to our greed-oriented health care system.
REACTION: Public Option vs Anti-Public Option.
SOLUTION: Corporate fallacio. A few nice concessions for a segment of the population, but overall will this really be a step in the right direction? Is it one step forward with two steps back? Take a look at poor Dennis Kucinich’s face on Democracy Now after he was persuaded by Obama during an Air Force One flight, into voting for the health care bill. Now I sure haven’t read the whole bill or attempted to understand it all, but my gut says there’s more cumulative help in there for Big Pharma than for average citizens not a part of the pharmaceutical or medical-industrial complex.
PROBLEM: British Petroleum’s (BP) Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill.
REACTION: ~Coming Soon??
SOLUTION: ~Coming Soon??.. But we do know that years ago BP did not spend the extra $500K on an acoustic switch system. They are legally required to use this fail-safe system in many other countries like Norway, but they did NOT have to in the United States. We do know we have problems with revolving doors between the most profitable industries and government offices. We do know that Goldman Sachs sold 43% of its BP shares during the first quarter of 2010. We do know that then BP CEO Tony Hayward sold 1.4 million pounds in BP shares, one third of his holdings, just 35 days before this disaster. We do know that BP put consistent intentional pressure to rush the pace beyond safe drilling practices, and continued despite a reported problem with the blowout preventer.
But maybe the most troubling thing is the response. I understand that BP is responsible for the cleanup, but they were the ones reckless enough to cause this situation, why would we trust them with the physical logistics of capturing and cleaning the spill oil? Is that not our nation’s oil and many nations’ ecosystems? So I can understand Obama’s hands off approach to a point, but after a week or two showing only signs of very poor cleanup work, it seems rational to do all we can to help and send BP the bill.
And WHY IN THE WORLD, would our government EVEN ALLOW BP to react to this record-breaking spill of toxic crude oil by adding record-breaking levels of Corexit to the mix?! Corexit is a product line of solvents used to disperse the oil, but it too is highly toxic and currently banned in the United Kingdom! Independent reporters in the gulf have sent samples of water to labs finding…
Day 70 - Grand Isle, LA – Oil/Water samples from Gulf…VERY TOXIC – jamescfox
James Fox: Good morning world. We’re on the corner of Toulouse and Bourbon Street in New Orleans here. We just got back from Grand Isle, went and got these samples. It was pretty amazing, we ran into some workers that were working on the boats (some safety officers) which will remain nameless. And they invited us to go have a beer at the local bar there in Grand Isle. And after a couple of beers they introduced us to one of their coworkers who had collected oil 20 miles out on his boat and had given us a sample straight out.
Now all we can do is send these out and get some answers. We got this one from a shore break in Grand Isle. We got this one from the rock jetty in Grand Isle, right there at the very end, they call it the end of the world which is ironic, but that’s where we were. And this is the one we got from 20 miles out, you can see the oil blog right there.
Anonymous Lab Scientist On Phone: There is a lot of something that is not oil in the oil bugger, if you will, inside the water sample. And that’s why it wasn’t acting really like oil. Now I think a big clue were the results for the Propylene Glycol. Now I have a guestimate — I have an estimate here of how much is in there. Now the number I came up with was 430 parts per million (ppm). Okay that sounds — it’s actually a very large number for Propylene Glycol in water. That’s how much we’re getting from the water.
James Fox: What does that mean?
Scientist: What does that mean? Well let me put it this way, Propylene Glycol is actually part of Corexit, okay. So if I’m measuring 430ppm of Propylene Glycol in the water itself, this is just one part of Corexit…the Corexit itself has to be a much bigger number. And it turns out that the toxic level for Corexit for fish is 25ppm. So we’re measuring at least 425 as toxic in water. And if you’re in the presence of oil, if the fish encounters oil mixed in with Corexit it drops down to 2.6ppm as being toxic. So the sample you handed me is probably about 150 times the toxic level for fish. How’s that for a starter?
James Fox: You’re kidding me.
Scientist: No, I am not kidding you. So that’s just for the Propylene Glycol. Now that means, the fact that the Propylene Glycol is in the water, means that the other components of Corexit must also be in the water. And that means that anybody — that means this water is — well like I said, the fact that it was mixed with oil, that you had a sample there with oil in it, that means that the level of Corexit in that water was about 150 times the toxic level for fish. And for people that also certainly means that the number is way too high. So what I’m seeing here, you don’t even have to see the oil to be exposed to Corexit, because the Corexit is in the water, not only in the oil, it’s in the water itself. Because this G.C. I ran, I drew away from the oil, I did not get oil into the sample, it was just water. So I put just water in the machine, I’m getting 430ppm Propylene Glycol. And then of course the Propylene Glycol is considered to be a minor component, and that’s the stuff I was measuring. The Propylene Glycol itself is 430ppm, that’s just the Propylene Glycol that’s not the others. Those have to be even higher. If you add up all the components, that water was just jammed with stuff. The thing is that the level that you find on the surface is many times higher than what’s needed to kill fish. This stuff is hitting the beaches and it’s coming up as sea spray and people are breathing it. And that could explain — you know if you’re swimming in the stuff, if you’re breathing the stuff, you’re swallowing the stuff, you’re going to have problems. This reminds me, you know I’m thinking about those commercials from the governor of Florida saying “Don’t worry everything’s fine, come on down.” That reminds of that time when the EPA told the people at Ground Zero that there was no asbestos in the air. But there was. Okay. I don’t know where they are getting their information, but this water is poisonous.
Look, I sure don’t have all the facts on this spill yet, but it smells more than fishy. There seems to have been no real effort to prevent this crisis from happening or meaningful cleanup, while there are red flags pointing towards high-level foreknowledge and most solutions offered have made the problem worse either by increasing toxicity, or wasting time, or just burying the problem for some poor sap to find later.
So let us only support truly rational and appropriate solutions, if the administration or congress ever decide to use this crisis to move a political agenda forward. There is enough evidence here to treat all that has happened as somewhat intentional, which changes how we should react. I do not support environmental solutions which rely only on creating new carbon-based ponzi schemes, but more on modern environmentalism will come in an upcoming episode.
FUTURE PROBLEM: Internet False Flag?
FUTURE REACTION: Need for greater cybersecurity?
FUTURE SOLUTION: Relative censorship of the internet.
FUTURE PROBLEM: Middle Eastern/Axis of Evil False Flag Terrorism…again?!
FUTURE REACTION: Yes we believe whatever you, the national intelligence complex, say regarding who attacked us, as you have no vested interest.
FUTURE SOLUTION: Bomb, then invade Iran, Syria, North Korea, maybe Iraq again, whatever. Another steaming hot democracy delivered on time, Mission Accomplished!
PROBLEM-REACTION-SOLUTION!
PROBLEM-REACTION-SOLUTION!
PROBLEM-REACTION-SOLUTION!
Look, we shouldn’t feel too bad, this method has been very effectively used to manipulate and control populations for hundreds if not thousands of years. But, now we have the internet and we must be striving to know ‘the truth’ of significant events in REAL TIME. In a democracy, how are we possibly content with our government keeping such large secrets from us for up to 50 years, when all the bastards are dead by the time the info is finally declassified.
But in this chess game we’ve got to assume they are many moves ahead of us, and they have prepared our reactions for us, leading us anywhere on the board we can be suckered into. We must stop letting them bait us, and must refuse the solutions promoted by the minions in the mainstream media who compress all responses to given events into roughly two.
Open Source Intelligence! In our modern world, post information revolution, there is no reason to keep most intelligence secret. Secrecy is being used as a form of power and manipulation…enabling the most evil of human capacities. We are now ready to enter a new paradigm for intelligence and national security.
If we publish all the information and intelligence we collect and make it public, it turns a significant part of the spy game upside-down and puts the power into the minds of the masses to come to our own conclusions about what we as a country should be doing. Currently all the actionable intelligence is all funneled — and usually only intentionally released — with no way for us to independently verify.
I strongly urge my listeners to watch a 2008 film named Secrecy. It powerfully provides both sides to these issues of intelligence and secrecy and is one of the best documentaries I have ever seen. If you haven’t seen it, please move it to the top of your Netflix Queue today. I will discuss open source intelligence more in an upcoming episode.
One of the key issues is that legislation during crisis is just the worst. And the big ballers playing at the level above the Presidential Puppet position sure know how to create atmospheres of crisis and perpetual fear. We are also being fed plenty of misinformation on both sides. On top of this, the narrow narratives we are restricted to in the mainstream or Congressional discussion have severely limited how rational, balanced and effective our solutions are. No truth can be found on only one dimension, and our public dialogues really need to step it up and ditch the sound byte media in the digital dust.
Even without crisis, the large pieces of legislation passed have most helped the same people who have already consolidated wealth and power. Corporations can spend 364 days a year hurting the world and donate one day’s worth of profits to a charity to act like a good guy. Similarly, the few kick-backs we the people actually get are usually far outweighed by the advancement of the goals of the Corporate-Industrial Complex. At least in my lifetime, I feel the average has been one step forward, two or four steps back…indifferent to which party is in power. I would like to see this aspect of the problem improved with serious campaign finance reform and an end to political parties, or at least this duopoly.
As something of a side-note, I think what the old paradigm calls “conservatives” or “republicans,” naturally more skeptical of government, are quite far ahead of “liberals” or “democrats” in their understanding of the grave nature of these issues and threats to our freedom. This despite the biggest false flag attack in recorded history with the left’s best enemy they could hope for, archnemesis George W Bush in the puppet post, but we couldn’t get it going. And now “our guy” is in power, and despite doing very little to satisfy promises to the progressive left, if we are not vigilant and talking with each other about false flag attacks, we will be fooled and the big ballers pulling the strings of the Obama administration, and of course the congress, will be able to use the next crisis for whatever they have in store for us. We must understand that MSNBC, CNN and ABC are just as bad as FOX and will lie to us whenever needed and possible, even they say things we like more.
This is particularly important because of the natural cycles of politics making this fall’s elections and uphill battle for the Democrats in power. Just last month the Financial Times reported:
“The bottom line here is that Americans don’t believe in President Obama’s leadership,” says Rob Shapiro, another former Clinton official and a supporter of Mr Obama. “He has to find some way between now and November of demonstrating that he is a leader who can command confidence and, short of a 9/11 event or an Oklahoma City bombing, I can’t think of how he could do that.”
Please let that sink in for a minute, and think about it later. We have seen countless public remarks like this over the years of the last decade from the Neo-Cons, like the report by the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) titled Rebuilding America’s Defenses, published the year before 9/11, they describe all the transformation they wish to see in the country and world. Then on page 51 the report explicitly says, “Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor.” But Rob Shapiro’s recent comments are the most offensive similar comments which I have heard yet from the left, so we must remain 100% vigilant for any October surprises which may come this year, or every two years. And we must do our homework if we expect to keep return to a free democracy. We can no longer afford to restrict our discussions and solutions to the mainstream paradigm, and open source intelligence must win.
Whether or not this information is new to you, I recommend that all my listeners check out a brand new documentary which came out just in the last two months by Dan Dicks with Press For Truth, titled “United We Fall.” It is one of the best films I’ve seen on the North American Union and its ties to the Council on Foreign Relations and the Bilderberg Group. It’s definitely worth a watch and you can find it free online.
Now, it is true that when we discuss alternative theories of 9/11, we are talking about very shadowy circles of infinite power and danger, close to the centers of our countries’ public political arenas. The scope of these forces make one feel so awkward, scared and vulnerable — I imagine it feels like a spider is tip-toeing across your grundle — and it is no wonder we all go through denial at first. It has taken most of us a year or two after learning this painful information before we could really look it in the eye, and often another year or two before we could talk to anyone about it. But don’t be afraid, most of us in this fight are not here because of fear…we are angry and wish to counteract this evil we see with peace and love. We have simply looked at the evidence at hand, accounted for error bars on sources and information, and have found many alternative narratives to more closely resemble the reality we all sense. Of course please do not take my word for anything, a please do your own research, as it is the only way to come to your own conclusions.
But if you get it, and you decide you agree, please go to Facebook and/or Change.org now and sign the False Flag Boycott: the Hegelian Dialectic Resistance Pact. Because maybe, just maybe, we can force these topics to become common in our mainstream discussions of current events. And if we ensure that we ALL learn ALL the REAL lessons we should learn from 9/11, then perhaps those precious lives taken from our world will not have been lost completely in vain. Don’t be afraid to talk about these issues with your family and peers. Please let the world know we are awake, we are mad as hell, and we are not going to take it any more!
This Episode’s Music: Wiki World Order mash-up of Crystal Method and Propellerheads featuring Miss Shirley Bassey, History Repeating By The Whips Of A Pimp. It features samples from Danny D on Democracy Now on June 23, 2010, and Alex Jones’ July video short, “THE ROAD, an Allegory of Life”. Then you hear…
2. MC Chris – Older Crowd
3. Lady Sovereign – Public Warning
4. Pretty Lights – Aimin’ At Your Head
5. Basement Jaxx – Lucky Star
6. Santagold – You’ll Find A Way
7. Santagold – Shove It
8. Nas – America
9. Dialated Peoples – Proper Propaganda
10. Busdriver – The Troglodyte Wins
11. Santagold – Starstruck
12. Passion Pit – Sleepyhead (Starsmith Remix Feat. Ellie Goulding)
13. Couer de Pirate – Comme Des Enfants (Matos Remix)
Episode 1 – Definition: The Wiki World Order
Jul 22nd
Download Episode’s High Quality Video: http://WikiWorldOrder.org/download/episode1
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We are stuck in a truly epic saga between “good and evil”, but almost all sides believe they work for some greater good…so I am searching for perspectives beyond what we know, and fresh chess moves on the grand board. I’m generally trying to avoid one-dimensional analysis where discussions get a severe bipolar disorder. Nonetheless, these battles might be best reduced to transparency against secrecy.
Many of us see true beauty in all of humanity and want to minimize oppression, while unlocking and unleashing the inner passion and genius inside of each and every one of us. But very clearly, there exist those who consciously seek to mold humans into sheeple, even cattle, treating the masses with great contempt, both publicly and privately, both with words and laws.
Open source software is really built by communities of end-users, so on a long enough time-scale, these solutions better meet the needs of these end-users. And they are also not built to break a few months after a warranty expires. The level of bottom-up collaboration humans have achieved in Wikipedia alone is wildly impressive, but it is only the first step. I want to see almost EVERY industry start trending much faster towards open source domination.
You might have seen some TED talks, where many very powerful solutions are presented to some of the world’s most urgent problems. One key way I envision us surviving here is if some of those technologies of a certain societal significance are not made patentable, but instead made free for reuse and remix under open source or creative commons licensing. Such open source blueprints will be translated into languages and materials of people around the world.
We urgently need to replace greed with collaboration for sustainable energy, food and water technologies. These will all inevitably be issues of life and death for our species on this planet…or anywhere we travel. So screw trinket capitalism, boycott it! And why build up a police state instead of preventing these inevitable crises. Let’s replace the CIA and privatized/corporate intelligence with open source intelligence.
Oh and did I ask you, “Who killed the electric car?” Oh, WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR?!?!
Would the electric car have been killed in an open source paradigm? I don’t think so. I will discuss this in an upcoming episode, in a thought experiment posing:
What If we had British Petroleum and General Motors give up any and all intellectual property rights related to alternative energy creation, storage and usage…and then re-released it under some kind of Open Source/Creative Commons license? Don’t they both owe us enough?
We do not go along with solutions A or B: both promoted, bought and paid for by the same set of corporate interests with the most hide or gain. Campaign finance reform is an absolute LYNCHPIN which could open up countless legislative avenues for us, but the Supreme Court sure hasn’t been helping there. Therefore, we really need to step it up and start focusing more on voting DAILY with our dollars to de-fund the mega-corporations which own our governments.
At this point in my studies of various slivers of the world, the only solutions I can consistently support are open source and/or increase transparency. It is for this reason that I’m naming this growing counter-force to oppression, the ‘Wiki World Order.’ Infinitely boosted by the internet, this global movement has already taught me a great deal, collaboratively shedding light on the darkest of blind spots and promoting solutions from the bottom-up.
BUT my time and perspective cannot report on this progress alone, it is collaborative by definition. So just in case any one of YOU out there want to start a little web-base show on related issues, you are free to reuse and remix my episode template graphics and music (please see link in video notes). Anyone can upload their own reports to You Tube and email the link for the video and/or podcast or blog/transcript to reports~AT~WikiWorldOrder.org, and I will be happy re-post all your work on WikiWorldOrder.org. I welcome you to this experiment, and a huge Thank You in advance to anyone who takes me up on this offer, or even lends their ear to this Morgan’s random ideas.
But to avoid getting too heavy in my first episode, I will leave you with these quotes used in the theme song in the background, “And You’ve Got To Let Freedom Ring,” which is based on some of my favorite tasty beats by Alex Gopher, Demon and Squarepusher.
Because the alternative is too bleak, we will remain optimistic and envision the win, as we make it happen together. Please be the change you want to see in the world. Thank You.
http://WikiWorldOrder.org/music/Wiki_World_Order-And_You%27ve_Got_To_Let_Freedom_Ring.mp3
Alex Gopher & Demon - The Shell
http://s23.last.fm/preview/2514216/499/0007260637/13/746899790.mp3
Squarepusher – Iambic 5 Poetry
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUXWLGz2Eqw
With some inspiring quotes laid on top…
“There’s a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart that you can’t take part, you can’t even passively take part. And you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus. And you’ve got to make it stop, and you’ve got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you’re free the machine will be prevented from working at all.”
- Mario Savio: Sproul Hall Steps, December 2, 1964
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcx9BJRadfw
“Let freedom ring. And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true. So let freedom ring. From the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire, let freedom ring.”
- Martin Luther King Jr: I Have a Dream speech, August 28, 1963
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEMXaTktUfA
“I don’t know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the streets. All I know is that first, you’ve got to get mad! You’ve got to say, I’m a human being, goddamn it! My life has value!”
- Peter Finch in Network (MGM, 1976)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90ELleCQvew
“Well up next on world business today, you may not have heard of it, but some say Bilderberg is secretly trying to take over the world. We’re trying to find out why some of the biggest names in business and politics are currently meeting very discretely in Germany.”
- Charles Hodson, CNN: Bilderberg Group News Report, 2007?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6I3sqpRtKUA
“We have the opportunity to forge for ourselves and for future generations, a New World Order…”
- George H W Bush: New World speech (one of them), January 16, 1991
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc7i0wCFf8g
“The very word ‘secrecy’ is repugnant, in a free and open society.”
- John F Kennedy: Secret Societies speech,
American Newspaper Publishers Association,
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City, April 27, 1961
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhZk8ronces
“In other news, LeBron James is moving to Florida to play for the Miami Heat, and that fact will not affect your life in any way.”
James Corbett: Internet Strikes Back, LeBron Who?, Israeli Nukes
Sunday Update, July 11, 2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ymmWFcixME
“So of the various kinds of state capitalism that are around, which are the best? I don’t honestly think that’s the kind of question we should be asking. Like in the 18 – Suppose you’re in the 18th century, should you be asking ‘Which is the best kind of feudalism?’ I mean that’s all it was. So which is the best kind of feudalism, and slavery and monarchy and so and and so forth? That just wasn’t the right question. I mean the right question is, ‘Is there something better, like say, parliamentary democracy?’ Even there were no examples of it.”
Noam Chomsky: Alternatives to Capitalism
Source unknown, removed from YouTube, backed up on AltBib.Com:
http://altbib.com/bak/youtube/swf/1761.swf
“But today we might better look at geopolitics in the world as the same globe with roughly 200 countries and huge clouds drifting around it, knowing no national borders, following no specific sets of laws. These are the big corporations. They strike deals with the Chinese, and the Taiwanese, and the Tibetans, and the Israelis and the Arab nations. They strike deals with anybody who has resources or markets that they covet. And they have really taken over the planet. They are calling the shots. Wherever you go, the big corporations are calling the shots, make no mistake about it. And the good news is, that the big corporations are totally dependent on you — or your tax dollars. They can’t survive without you. And the marketplace is democratic, if we only choose to make it such.”
“Every time you buy something, or don’t, you’re casting vote. And it’s a very important vote, in fact, I would dare say it’s equally important as or maybe more important than any vote in the voting polls.”
“Let’s change this world! Let’s create a sustainable, just and peaceful world! Let’s not just talk about it, let’s not just look at movies about it, let’s not just theorize about it, LET’S DO IT!”
“This empire has been created without most of us realizing that it’s been happening, and I think that’s extremely dangerous. We claim to be a democracy, and yet a democracy is built on the premise that you have an informed electorate.”
“..he can’t possibly hope to inherit a sustainable, just and peaceful world unless every child growing up in Botswana and Bolivia and Indonesia and Palestine AND Israel has that same expectation. We MUST realize this. We have to understand that we can’t have homeland security here, until we recognize that the whole planet is our homeland. We are truly one people.”
“We know there are conspiracies. There was a conspiracy to keep us all in the dark about weapons of mass destruction.”
“You know the most important thing that you can do, is to follow your passion.”
John Perkins: Economic Crisis – The Hit Men Strike Home
Mt. Diablo Peace & Justice Center, Walnut Creek, CA, February 22, 2010
Side-Note: I attended and gave Mr. Perkins a copy of my DVD with an offline backup of InfowarDocs.org.
http://fora.tv/2010/02/22/John_Perkins_The_Hit_Men_Strike_Home
Even Further Beyond Left and Right
Jun 29th
A Thought Experiment Ending with Transparency and Social Businesses
We can see Americans increasingly rebelling against both the establishment left and the right. Even the mainstream media has had to cover this aspect of the transitions which both political parties are going through during this decade of endless predictable crises.
Acknowledgment of the corruption found on both sides of the political aisle is one of the core concepts which amazing outlets like We Are Change, Infowars and the Corbett Report attempt to spread. I have always found the current two-party system completely inadequate for aggregating the will of the people, and have long adored the idea of either more parties or no parties. So I am very excited to see this reach an ever more conscious level of the national dialogue, but I want to tease the ball a few steps further to help expand the range of potential solutions we consider for upcoming debates.
Below is a more relaxed, long-brewing brainstorm on a couple of paradigms I think might also contribute to paralyzing, if not controlling or co-opting, our best courses of action. These could hypothetically be highlighted to help divide and conquer the masses.
In some cases, the polarizing effect of having primarily two extreme camps to choose from on sub-issues may be hurting more than helping. We also sometimes see the negative effects of such polarization skyrocket when single ideologies are be forced on all scenarios, instead of a more flexible case by case basis. Fortunately the movement has loud voices warning people not to follow any one ideology.
So this is a humble request for the movement to keep pushing past the confines separating us to keep finding increasingly targeted solutions to counter-offer those provided from the top-down system. The better we can hone our arguments and improve our messaging to newcomers to alternative analysis and deep politics.
More VS Less Government? Quality NOT Quantity.
This is a simpler example, and relates to many of my good patriot friends who stand firmly with slogans for “Less Government.” To my eyes or ears, such statements feel a bit counterproductive to our shared goals for a few reasons, but maybe it only irks me.
“Less Government” is vague enough to be co-opted by almost any harmful solution provided. It is also not a rule/ideology you can always follow, unless you’re an anarchist…but then your sign should probably read, “No Government.” This formula should not be endlessly applied, and our libertarian friends sometimes take this mantra too far too blindly.
But more importantly, it implies that the size of government has a causal relationship with its level of corruption or negative impact. In my book, this feels quite unfair.
Larger organizations of any type may have more room for bad apples to hide and prosper. But our society’s policies, manufactured culture and promoted incentives have a far greater influence the positive or negative nature of the impact of organizations (governmental or not).
In a similarly apathetic political climate, a given corporation might have even less trouble buying out a smaller government than our current monstrosity. At the same time, there is a real threat of “Big Government” when corporations can entrench departments and pro-actively using government to directly enact corporate agenda, find ways to increase their budgets to keep expanding their government cloaked work, as we saw more publicly during George W Bush’s military-industrial reign. In the same administration we saw other corporate owned departments strip themselves down as much as possible, completely disassembling any form of meaningful regulation over themselves.
Our current [predictable] economic bubble burst could have been avoided/postponed if trillions of dollars in profit incentives not been allowed to manifest in the first place as derivatives, sub-prime mortgages and other legal Ponzi schemes. That scale of money is not just a motive with a universal adapter on it, but also notably contributes to increasing the vast wealth disparity.
Along these lines, and somewhat ironically, many of those using the “Less Government” slogan might also likely be in favor improving/returning real banking regulations to once against prevent these abuses which the world people and economies are suffering. I assume that a ban on toxic financial products (or any other way to regulate them) would generally be interpreted as “More Government” on this scale.
But if the incentives of our culture were shifted enough, and procedures were made ~100% transparent to the public, we might be able to find some government G spot where the government reflects the public’s interest. This might be theoretical, but it should be nearly attainable, not even requiring a revolution but incremental changes in the correct direction for a change. And seems to be what we should be striving for…ever more pure realization of those ideals inspiring us as youth learning about our republic/democracy (sorry, still insufficient understanding of that paradigms).
The causality implied in this association between more government and bad government also does not seem theoretically sound. With a truly responsible government, an increase in its size could simultaneously increase citizen freedoms. In conclusion, I argue we need to focus on uprooting the incentives for corruption in government, perhaps via campaign finance reform and revolving door protections, instead of just saying we want to change the size. A wise woman once told me it is not really the size of your government that matters, it’s all about how you use it.
The Capitalism VS Socialism Paradigm
This is a case with much graver polarization, and it might be totally unnecessary. One of my dad’s core mantras is all about looking for the right questions to ask. Despite Chomsky’s blind spots or self-censoring on select topics, he is of course brilliant, inspiring and an early influence of mine. So I really like his approach on this here (click here for video).
“Suppose you’re in the 18th century. Should you be asking, ‘Which is the best kind of feudalism?’ I mean that’s all it was. So which is the best kind of feudalism, and slavery, and monarchy and so on and so forth. It just wasn’t the right question. I mean the right question is, ‘Is there something better?’ Like say, parliamentary democracy. Even though there were no examples of it. There were seeds of it, but no functioning examples. I mean seeds of had it been developed and usually crushed, as in England, but these were legitimate struggles. And you know, they succeeded. I mean by now you have parliamentary democracies, which aren’t fantastic but are better than feudalism.” – The World: The Noam Chomsky Sessions
Suppose you’re in the 21st century, what is the best kind of capitalism? The best socialism? Is capitalism better than socialism? What blend of the two would be best? Why are we limited to these questions?
Capitalism or socialism often represent the two main options offered to us in response to most problems, but we don’t even consider trying to come up with any new forms of national economic or governmental organization. Case by case, those rooting for capitalism might tend to dismiss socialist solutions, and vice versa, mostly to stay loyal to their dominant ideology. But as humans we sometimes get trapped into acting like these ideologies are the mythical unified theory of everything in physics, applying it to every aspect of society.
An occasionally mentioned aspect to the discussion is how many ‘socialized’/nationalized services and industries, most people have long approved of like THE MILITARY, Highway System, Federal Waterways, FBI, Bureau of Prisons, Census Bureau, National Park Service, Social Security and all the other free services provided by the executive and legislative branches. So it seems we could have been considered a part-capitalist, part-socialist country for decades. Even better are the number of recent cases we see where the profits privatized while the risks a nationalized, like the painful bank bailouts and Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
The point of terms like ‘crony capitalism,’ is to point out just how far we are from the pure idealized form touted by talking heads. In fact, it seems the bigger mutant capitalist corporations have become so efficient at their business that they went ahead and took over our government, saving us the trouble of regulating them. But if we reign the beast in soon, we may yet have a chance to replace weapons research budgets by incentivizing less harmful technologies across the board.
Unfortunately these ‘ism’s may be false options on yet another level, given another alternate analysis arguing that our country has been best defined as fascist for decades now. This is rooted in the comprehensive corporate influence on most important functions of government, controlling both candidates in a single-party state. A plutocracy (or corpocracy, corporatocracy) has emerged very clearly, along side some of the largest and most offensive wealth inequities in modern history.
It is also bizarre that there is such passion for either of these economic systems, as we have seen examples of both producing failed states when inappropriately implemented…bringing us back my focus on quality over quantity. Our capitalist experiment has been going for just a few hundred years, and this current incarnation of crazed crony-capitalism has clearly dominated at least the past century. It seems clear the technological advances provided by our capitalism incentivized by wealth has potential for enormous net benefits for our species in the long run…but the judge is still out, between our food mono-cultures, biodiversity, GMOs, nuclear and biological weapons.
Another large unmentioned issue when debating socialist versus capitalist solutions is the source of the taxes. An interesting thought experiment is to first ask some one if they would favor socializing some service, perhaps health care. Then ask them if they would still be opposed to it if typical citizens once again did not pay any income tax, while the Fortune 500 moves out of the Cayman Islands to start correcting the record wealth disparities. The nature of who or where the finances come from to run all nationalized services should be a critically important factor in what people think is worth paying for.
The final problem I have with these false options is that they don’t seem to be completely mutually exclusive. As Chomsky says later in the video above, there is no reason businesses cannot be managed democratically controlled by their workers and community, and compete with other businesses managed the same way and others. But there are other ways to improve the capitalism formula without giving up the typical management hierarchy of today.
Capitalism doesn’t say businesses must compete by maximizing-profits, which is very selfish and short-sighted, that’s just how we’ve been playing. If more large-scale businesses stop going public to make them legally bound to maximize profits for shareholders, they will be free to be the best business they can be across all dimensions which humans care about.
If customers and investors take more initiative to carefully vote daily with their dollars for social-benefit-maximizing businesses, which show enough conscience to mitigate their externalities while provide the world beneficial products and services. Dollar votes are currently the most powerful form of voting we have, far better than the false choice A or B every 4 years. More resources for the information required to educate these daily decisions are likely to emerge, like The Better World Handbook. But this social-benefit-maximizing business model is a marvelous idea champions by Muhammad Yunus, the Social Business. I strongly recommend you explore this concept and this man more, here is an except to wet your appetite:
Muhammad Yunus – The Social Business Model
This general concept of a social business is also finally catch hold in America. This is possibly a side-effect of the long-awaited liberal pendulum swing, and the tough economic times of our decade. Yunus was just last year awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Barack Obama.
His microcredit banks have brought millions out of poverty in Bangladesh over the past four decades — side-note: this should theoretically be a plus for eugenicists because population naturally stabilizes as a country develops, and this may be the most natural, positive and creative method being successfully tried. A few test-runs of similar microcredit banks are finally being started up in America.
According to the web site of B Corporation, a leading certification firm to certify businesses adhering to enough of these kinds of social business principles, over 300 companies have become certified with a branded B Corporation status since 2006, including Seventh Generation. The 300 represent $1.1 billion in revenues, 54 industries, and $750k in annual savings.
There is a parallel movement around the country to grant legal tax status to B Corporations which one assumes will offer various benefits back to these businesses. My home state of Maryland signed the nation’s first Benefit Corporation legislation on April 13th and Vermont passed it on May 19th, 2010. Whether or not their state is ready for it yet, businesses can start taking a confidential survey NOW to learn what areas they need improvement on, to work towards a longer-term goal of becoming fully certified.
Full disclosure: my very cool 9-5 work, Rescue Social Change Group, based in San Diego, is already looking into this process and looks forward to becoming certified without having to alter our existing small social business model infused from the beginning. What can I say other than, “Be the change you want to see in the world.”
Conclusions: Transparency and Social Businesses
Alone, neither left nor right, neither more nor less government, neither capitalism nor socialism can save us. So let us please not choose our preferred solutions solely because they fit into one ideology or another. Rationally look at the situation and find the longest-term good we can muster no matter what ‘ism’ it implies.
In place of protesting for less (or more) government, I would protest for transparent government. Any sized government can work for its people if they have information and access. What jerks in Congress can forever avoid voting for bills if they are specifically honed only on increasing transparency? As a general note, shorter bills in Congress may generally help both these issues and finding more worth-while common ground. Campaign finance reform is quite possibly the other most serious roadblock to real control over our own government.
‘Do you lean towards Capitalism or Socialism?’ – Maybe I’m into Social Businism!
Either ideology, taken to the extreme, becomes quite a scary beast, so please don’t use them as the primary basis for every decision. It’s just like being tempted to just vote down your party-line…what does that party stand for, exactly…and as related to a specific modern-day issue?
In this next economy transition, we could try to replace a portion of the 100% worthless trinket capitalism products and services with social businesses to compete on a few fronts with the corporate-industrial complex, targeting first the industries vital to human life an well-being. With the proper public education, product labeling and accessibility, we can gradually shift to only pay for products made with our long-term interest in mind, instead of someone else’s short-term bottom-line.
And it should turn out that plenty of industries and niche markets do not need to ditch their profit-maximizing models. Hopefully many key industries will end up dominated by social businesses and see a rebirth to provide options healthier for us, our neighbors and our planet. There will also always be room for profit-maximizing businesses to coexist even after this, but that decision would be in the hands of those markets.
So if enough people like this, it is one possible direction we could try to steer towards while we’re fighting the smaller battles: the widespread conversions and start-ups of real Social Businesses, followed up by communities supporting them simply with our patronage.
Why wait for Washington when we can make these moves ourselves?
InfowarDocs.org Renamed AltBib.Com, The Alternate Bibliography
Jun 28th
As a life-long activist, there came a point in my studies of alternative analysis of historical and current events when a need to act took hold: April 2009. One constant block in my progress was a the lack of a quick resource for the core source documents used to backup select so-called ‘conspiracy theories,’ spread and splintered across the net from various inspiring alternative media outlets. In discussing these ideas with my loved ones, having such mainstream articles to show how information presented through the exact same sources they trust could simultaneously be used to ‘prove’ a completely different narrative. This is difficult to do this quickly/instantly without memorizing hundreds of news headlines and efficiently finding the correct, full or ‘original’ (for the web) version. This was the personal need which sparked the first embryo of this concept, though it surely may not be novel.
Already having my hands full with plenty of after-hours activist work, it didn’t at first occur to me this should be my task. Instead the instinct to coach from the sidelines instead of dive in won the first round. I lazily sent an email to Infowars headquarters in Austin explaining my idea, curious if they knew of any existing solutions or would value dedicating some resources to it. One week later without response (no offense taken), it was clear to me that I needed to build this, if nothing other than a personal educational/research tool.
I consequently hope this can be a lesson to others who are temporarily paralyzed from action: If you are unsure how to help a issue, cause or situation so large no one individual has control over, try…
- Thinking about what you wish the leaders/titans of your movement were doing,
- Checking to make sure it isn’t already happening. – If it is, you can help if you’re motivated to.
- Just start doing it. – If you can’t do it, then why not and is it worth investing in getting to a point you can. Otherwise, keep thinking until you find something you can do and dip your toes in.
It has now been just over one year since the InfowarDocs.org research database was started, and it now contains 4,675 Reference Links, with 6,287 Tags/Keywords, with 45,692 Taggings! According to my basic statistics written in PHP (unintentionally almost three times larger than Google’s stricter Analytics), the database has been queried over 300,000 times by by 44,000 visitors. My very crude automated backup process has already successfully helped to preserve 43 documents which have been removed from their online location since being added to the database. I have nonetheless spent very little time over the last year improving the database’s usability and appearance, and as the site’s primary user became quite used to it. But the time has been overdue for some real improvements to try to open this resource to a wider audience’s interest, while still hoping to accommodate dorkier researchers like me.
The change of name comes largely just from a slow discovering of the identity of this database, there was not a full picture of the end result when it got started. I feel this new name of Alt Bib, the Alternate Bibliography does a much better job of encapsulating this somewhat weird research experiment of mine. For better or worse this lessens the association with Infowars/Prison Planet, possibly the most influential operation in the Alternative Media. I’m happy not to step on any such toes with the name, and really like removing “war” from my domain name as a pacifist.
So there’s no change in how the database is run or who is running it, this is just a re-branding before some much more exciting tools will be launched for much better interaction and collaborative knowledge sharing. Once the new functionalities are more settled, a professional graphic designer friend will be giving the site a visual face-lift. I’m so excited I want to spill those beans now, but please stay tuned for those to be announced in the coming few weeks, as they will truly start to tie together some of the core objectives of the resource.
A big Thank You to all of the visitors who have submitted links, added tags, and shares this resource with their networks. An extra HUGE Thank You to the anonymous artist who sent me the header graphic used for the past year, and the few people generous enough to donate a bit of fiat currency towards my effort. Your collaboration is priceless, here’s to blooming more in the next year as AltBib.Com, The Alternate Bibliography to Learn the New ABCs!
‘War on Terror’ Narrative Case Study: The Christmas Day Bombing Attempt
Apr 25th
Essay – ↓ Assumptions – ↓ Data Dump – ↓ Stocks

A couple days after Christmas, a loved one asked me if my gut said this terrorist attempt was a false flag event or other not as officially covered. My reply was yes, but that much more research was needed for a more serious response. So the primary goal of this narrative case study is to clarify the kind of research and mental processes many alternative media followers and researchers use to read between the lines of mass media. This is always research in progress, and there is not yet any specific group(s) to blame beyond the obvious, but we can at least trace some indicators we see in many other narratives, past and present…
- Early planning and implementation stages of research, function and integration of new ‘security’ technologies
- Security versus privacy discussions with slow, gradual mental conditioning of the masses to accept the desired changes, whether or not the propaganda succeeds
- Testing implementation of technology and related propaganda in small locals long before creating a nationwide policy (no, there’s nothing inherently wrong with this process, but it does point to some level of conscious intent)
- The rarity of alternative analysis evidence breaking out for a full news cycle in the mainstream discussion, reaching echo chamber status and becoming a ‘valid’ talking point (all these seem to be relative whitewash in this case study)
- Parallel implementation, media spin and narratives in other ‘developed’ countries
- Sometimes finding the key differences in the coverage between the different ‘developed’ countries expand perspective on an issue ten-fold (nothing big in this case study)
Comparison of international media coverage before, during and after the event often teaches new facts and shines light if any narratives are being sold at home. This particular narrative is part of a 10 YEAR documented effort to trade new specific privacy concessions for new false senses of security when boarding planes. Testing in a few airports in a country at a time, [AP, 1999] we have gradually been prepared for this. They have used this time to hone their messaging and propaganda arguments for the inevitable nationwide discussion on whether the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) should even be using these. In different local trials, results are always promoted as very favorable. [London Guardian, Independent, CSMonitor] Manufacturers would also simultaneously discuss both how high-resolution details were required in order for the machines to be effective [Washington Times] and how they blur the images for privacy (presumably reducing their effectiveness). [UK Daily Mail] The manufacturers have gone through countless difference animation styles in search for the proper balance of security and privacy, [Global Security, London Telegraph] but either way, England has drawn a line where they consider its use child porn. [The Register, London Guardian] Promoters of the technology have always insisted that all the images captured are immediately destroyed, [CNN] like the London Evening Standard just days before a Bollywood superstar autographed print-outs for girls running his naked body scan in February. [ACLU]
To this day, naked x-ray scanning is voluntary in the places the machines are installed, and “more intense” pat-down searches are offered as the alternative, [AP] but given the decade of novel infringements of our rights, we cannot afford to give up any more fundamental ground we are pushed toward raising the bar yet another notch. [Chicago Tribune, BBC] A few years ago, the UK started the discussion of also adding similar x-ray scanners into their jaw-dropping arsenals of cameras on city streets! [BBC] The mainstream media is already starting to line up the next manufactured security need, as real terrorists can still take their cause one step forward by putting explosives in a body cavity. [UK Daily Mail, New York Post]
If they are implemented on a larger scale as an optional choice to a pat-down, then they can be avoided and are logically useless. Some experts have even demonstrated how these machines might be worked around by hypothetical terrorists. [The Register] If they will be required for all searches of that level, then would they want to use a virtual strip search to search many more people who they wouldn’t regularly strip search? So what, other than pure profit-maximizing greed, could the real motive of advance this security arms race? This seems at best a modest transfer of wealth, and at worst a self-fulfilling prophecy for increased terrorism and erosion of constitutional rights.
These are some examples of the narrative’s red flags of consistent messaging/conditioning. These omissions of certain topics in the mainstream debate increases suspicion that this event was, in some way, staged by some [small] component[s] of the military-intelligence-industrial complex. The primary motives are assumed to at least be what we’ve historically seen: short and/or long-term profit while tip-toeing forward a reduction of individual privacy. It is also interesting that when state legislatures pass pro-active laws to protect from more widespread us of similarly invasive technologies, [Idaho Reporter] they are generally generalized as paranoid nuts or coverage focuses on straw man religious arguments instead of constitutional or law-based arguments. [MSNBC]
Since performing the majority of my historical narrative research on this topic in mid-January, a bit more information has been confirmed which seriously conflict with the official story still being referenced weekly. Alex Jones/Infowars/Prison Planet and his now rapidly increasing ~3 million weekly listeners have become something of a hub in the alternative media world, similar to WikiLeaks. One of his listeners was a lawyer from Michigan named Kurt Haskell was one of the first-hand eye-witnesses on the plan, and his story which after being shared with the Infowars audience was covered locally in Michigan Live on Dec 31, Jan 2 and others, but not picked up at all by any other mainstream media except 5 minutes on NPR. His story includes these highlights:
- There was initially a second man on the plane (his “man in orange”) who was arrested/being held and who allegedly videotaping the incident.
- A sharp dressed “Indian man” attempting to talk a ticket agent into letting a supposed “Sudanese refugee” (Abdulmutallab) onto flight 253 without a passport.
- If his eye witness account is false, it could easily be proven by releasing the Amsterdam airport video tapes showing the “sharp dressed man”.
Patrick F. Kennedy, an undersecretary for management at the State Department, said Abdulmutallab’s visa wasn’t taken away because intelligence officials asked his agency not to deny a visa to the suspected terrorist over concerns that a denial would’ve foiled a larger investigation into al-Qaida threats against the United States.
ABC News, Jan 22 also gave it the final three short paragraphs in a two-page online article with the unrelated headline, Alert: Female Suicide Bombers May Be Heading Here From Yemen:
As part of the additional scrutiny, federal agents are conducting extensive background checks on every passenger who flew to Detroit on the Northwest flight in case one of them might have been sent as a “spotter” on the mission. Federal agents also tell ABCNews.com they are attempting to identify a man who passengers said helped Abdulmutallab change planes for Detroit when he landed in Amsterdam from Lagos, Nigeria. Authorities had initially discounted the passenger accounts, but the agents say there is a growing belief the man have played a role to make sure Abdulmutallab “did not get cold feet.”
- Whether or not the Obama administration, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Department of Justice (DoJ) properly responded to the terrorist attempt
- Whether or not if he was read his Miranda rights [Democracy Now]
- Politicians running campaigns fear mongering fund-raising [MSNBC]
- His father alerted officials and Abdulmutallab was on intelligence lists before his terrorist attempt (but stop short of investigating intelligence complicity or enabling) [CNN]
Similar to the sting felt every subsequent time the official story of 9/11 is used to justify policy, i will continue to cringe every time this Christmas Day Bombing Attempt is used as an example of recent terrorist attacks on the US which demand forcing solutions of varying oppression/freedom to people around the world.
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False flags and acts of treason stay quiet longest by requiring as few people involved as possible. So the benefit of the doubt is generally given to the vast majority of the people involved in such a ‘conspiracy,’ as they do not realize any involvement. Following the motive, money, media, name and organization trails, the owners, stakeholders of the suspicious organizations (and their associates who also profit) almost always have the most to gain, but does not make them guilty, even by association. Nonetheless, the question is important: Who has motives enough to justify such costs to innocent life, liberty or justice?
Historically, those most effectively controlling populations almost always use The Hegelian Dialectic, [Wikipedia] aka the Problem Reaction Solution paradigm, to progress their agendas generally in three steps:
2. The people react by asking for help, and are willing to trade something
3. Offer the solution that was planned long before the crisis
I’ve cataloged over 200 mainstream articles here in my documentation database beyond the highlights in the data dump below:
http://InfoWarDocs.org/?s=x-ray+airports
The media coverage of the privacy debate on these naked x-ray scanners goes back over 10 years. Here is a simplified time line of personal highlights, mingling multiple sides to this narrative with articles in GREEN if they are generally supporting/within the official narrative/discussion, and in RED if they contradict/hurt at least some aspect of the promoted narrative. This is a crude 0/1 spectrum, but also just the first experiment, advice welcome.
Seattle Times Oct 23, 2001 – Mentioned, post-9/11, as another security option. ACLU advocates a go-slow approach, “If there is a less-invasive alternative, it should be used.”
New York Times Aug 8, 2002 – Bob Barr, John Edwards and Charles Schumer request a programming change to blur body parts but still detect weapons.
London Telegraph Aug 11, 2002 – First mention found of Rapiscan/OSI Systems building and supplying naked x-ray scanners for TSA. First UK media hit.
London Times Nov 7, 2004 - First time naked body scanners used in random UK airport security searches in London Heathrow. Default search, with an opt-out for a hand search.
Boston Globe Dec 28, 2004 – “The technology has proven itself in prisons and among Customs and Border Protection agents who use it to search for drugs, illegal weapons, and contraband.” But what would happen, he wondered, if people began outsmarting the technology? ”It would be easy for people to start wearing clothes that are hard to X-ray. If so, then, what’s the point?”
Baltimore Sun Dec 31, 2004 – “For most people, even frequent flyers, this low exposure is probably safe – it would take at least 2,500 scans a year to reach the maximum recommended exposure. In fact, it’s less than the background radiation from the cosmic rays that you get from flying cross-country, far less than a dental X-ray, hundreds of thousands of times less than a whole body CT scan and millions and millions of times less than X-rays used to treat, say, prostate cancer.”
The Register (UK) July 11, 2005 – Report says the naked x-ray machines made by QinetiQ in the UK, at the time, would probably not have stopped the 7/7 London Underground bombings.
Washington Post Mar 4, 2007 – “When American Science and Engineering, which makes the backscatter machines, introduced the technology in prisons nine years ago, the point was to replace strip searches.” reprints in a few local papers
Technology Review Oct 30, 2009 – How some of these Terahertz Waves Tear Apart DNA A new model of the way the THz waves interact with DNA explains how the damage is done and why evidence has been so hard to gather.
ATW Dec 14, 2009 (airline industry news outlet) – Transportation Security Administration buy Rapiscan Systems and Smiths Detection machines in the next 30 days, but already had some steps in motion.
Smiths Group Dec 23, 2009! (Press Release) – Pitch for Smiths Medical, but mentions their Smiths Detection branch. This timing is curious, but may be for the ‘coincidence theorists’.
Dec 25, 2009 – Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s crotch bombing attempt
CNN Dec 26, 2009 – Passenger: Terror suspect seemed ‘stunned’. A man, sitting three or four rows behind Jafry jumped over a group of seats, tackled the suspect and put him in a headlock.
Associated Press Dec 26, 2009 – “US officials knew name of terror suspect who tried to blow up airliner in Detroit – King, the ranking Republican on the House Homeland Security Committee, said no federal air marshals were on the flights from Nigeria to Amsterdam and from Amsterdam to Detroit. Abdulmutallab did not go through full-body image screening at either airport, the congressman said.”
Michigan Live Dec 26, 2009 – First coverage of Kurt Haskell’s story: Flight 253 passenger: Sharp-dressed man aided terror suspect Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab onto plane without passport (MLive.com exclusive)…While Mutallab was poorly dressed, his friend was dressed in an expensive suit, Haskell said. He says the suited man asked ticket agents whether Mutallab could board without a passport. “The guy said, ‘He’s from Sudan and we do this all the time.’”
BBC Dec 27, 2009 – Summarizes the official corporate media whitewash analysis of this story: “Father alerted US about Nigerian plane bomb suspect.”…”US sources confirm a file was opened, but say the information did not warrant placing the accused on a “no-fly” list. Airports worldwide have increased security after the alleged attack.”
Time Dec 28, 2009 – This really shows the system worked because he had to smuggle a bomb that was so difficult to ignite.
National Public Radio Dec 28, 2009 – NPR Interviews Mark Haskell! “Did someone help Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab get onboard the flight from Amsterdam to Detroit? Well, according to two American passengers on Flight 253, an older man – tall and elegantly dressed – accompanied the young Nigerian to a counter before boarding. And they say the older man explained to a woman at the counter that the younger man had no passport.”
Michigan Live Dec 29, 2009 – Kurt and Lori Haskell talk Flight 253, passport ‘accomplice’ and FBI questioning – This week, he and his wife shared their story with several national media outlets.
The Detroit News Dec 30, 2009 – One of a few mainstream acknowledgments of Kurt Haskell’s account: ‘Ron Smith, chief Customs and Border Protection officer in the Detroit field office, said passengers from Flight 253 are likely giving accurate accounts when they say they saw dogs sniffing bags in the luggage area and a man led away in handcuffs shortly after they got off their Christmas Day flight on which a man created a small fire while trying to detonate explosive chemicals hidden under his clothes. ‘There was a second person taken into custody, but it had nothing to do with Flight 253,’ Smith said. ‘They did see dogs, but again, it was a totally different incident.’”
Xinhuanet (China) Dec 30, 2009 – One of only a few articles found mentioning the stocks of any related companies, who benefits. Almost only in international news, and Business Week. Thanks China.
Democracy Now Dec 30, 2009 – A Look at Obama’s Handling of the Case and the Media’s Coverage. President Obama has acknowledged that a “systemic failure” of the nation’s intelligence and security measures paved the way for last week’s aborted bomb attack on a Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam to Detroit.
Boston Globe Jan 2, 2010 – A more heavily covered aspect: The Chertoff Group, Michael Chertoff’s security consulting agency, includes a client that manufactures the machines. In the summer, TSA purchased 150 more machines from Rapiscan with $25 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds.
HomelandDefenseStocks.com Jan 4, 2010 – American Science and Engineering announces $39 million dollar govt contract for cargo x-ray machines.
St Petersburg Times Jan 5, 2010 – The Transportation Security Administration last week awarded a contract to L-3 Communications to buy up to $165 million worth of its ProVision scanners. The TSA recently said it ordered 150 Rapiscan scanners to be installed this year and had funding for an additional 300 from an unidentified source.
MSNBC Jan 5, 2010 – Olbermann – Detroit bomber intel failure: ‘Conspiracy or cock up?’ “That has got to be an area that the White House is looking into and, you know, motives can be hard to assess because it’s not clear that this person was easily identified as a terrorist. Even with the father coming forward saying they had concerns, was that more of a family concern or were there enough fingerprints here about the radicalization of this individual to suggest that it should have been taken to a different level – at the very least a security level beyond more than a nominal sharing of information. That’s where this inquiry, this internal inquiry, for the moment, has to go.”
Toledo Blade Jan 8, 2010 – Obama orders $1B spent in advanced-technology equipment, including body scanners, for screening passengers at airports.
McClatchy Jan 12, 2010 – Poll: Most Americans would trim liberties to be safer – The survey found 51 percent of Americans agreeing that “it is necessary to give up some civil liberties in order to make the country safe from terrorism.” At the same time, 36 percent agreed that “some of the government’s proposals will go too far in restricting the public’s civil liberties.”
CNN Jan 22, 2010 - Authorities were watching different Nigerian on Christmas Day flight – Emmanuel Chukwu shared the same travel itinerary with Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab, the suspect in the unsuccessful attempt to blow up the Amsterdam, Netherlands-to-Detroit flight. Both men were originally from Nigeria and had studied as engineers. – Federal agents pulled Chukwu aside for several hours of intense screening when Northwest 253 landed in Detroit, shortly after authorities say AbdulMutallab tried to set off an explosive device concealed in his underwear.
London Guardian Jan 26, 2010 – UK goes ahead and announced the pat-down will NOT be an alternative to the naked x-ray when it goes on trial a week from now in Heathrow airport.
The Detroit News Jan 27, 2010 – Admission that AbdulMutallab was more than just on a list, but actively being used in part of a larger project. “Revocation action would’ve disclosed what they were doing,” Kennedy said in testimony before the House Committee on Homeland Security. Allowing Adbulmutallab to keep the visa increased chances federal investigators would be able to get closer to apprehending the terror network he is accused of working with, “rather than simply knocking out one solider in that effort.”
Kurt Haskell via Prison Planet Jan 30, 2010 – “Since our flight landed on Christmas Day, Lori and I have been doing everything in our power to uncover the truth about why we were almost blown up in the air over Detroit. The truth is now finally out after the publication of the following Detroit News article”
UK Daily Mail Jan 30, 2010 – “Terrorists ‘plan attack on Britain with bombs INSIDE their bodies’ to foil new airport scanners”
BBC Feb 1, 2010 – “‘No scan, no flight’ at Heathrow and Manchester”…”It is now compulsory for people selected for a scan to take part, or they will not be allowed to fly. The new security rules have been introduced following the attempt to blow up a plane over Detroit on Christmas Day.”
Bloomberg Feb 5, 2010 – Airport Body Scanning Raises Radiation Exposure, Inter-Agency Committee on Radiation Safety says
Times of India Feb 9, 2010 – Australia to introduce body scanners after failed US attack
IBN Live Feb 10, 2010 – New 3D scanner at airports not to show body parts – Canada has also ordered installation of 44 scanners at all its important airports.
American Civil Liberties Union Feb 10, 2010 – Body Scanner = Naked Movie Star Pictures; That Didn’t Take Long – We’re not the type to say “I told you so.” Alright maybe we are. In this case we just couldn’t help ourselves.
NPR Feb 17, 2010 – Accused Christmas Bomber Listened to Music, Slept – “Well, I mean, it was a threat, of course, it was a threat because initially, he was trying to blow up the plane but he didn’t succeed. I mainly treat him this way because of how he reacted towards what he was doing. And what his actions told me on the plane was that he was in over his head, and that he didn’t exactly know what he was doing would entail.”
Reuters March 16, 2010 – U.S. air travelers complain about body scans
Chicago Tribune March 16, 2010 – Body scans eventually mandatory, TSA official says – Currently, air travelers have the option to submit to a pat-down and metal-detecting wanding. – “We expect at some point all passengers will receive a body scan”
CNN April 21, 2010 – Groups ask DHS to suspend full-body imagers – More than 30 privacy and civil liberties groups are asking the Department of Homeland Security to suspend the use of full body imagers at airports, saying there is evidence that privacy safeguards don’t work and the devices are not effective.
So it was announced on Dec 14th that the companies building and selling the selected machines, Rapiscan Systems (interestingly run by Deepak Chopra) and Smiths Detection (British company), that the TSA would buy their machines in the next 30 days {ATW}, and i performed many thorough Google News searches in January to compile a history of this shorter narrative. Starting with a more general searches like: “X-ray body scanners terrorists“, sorted by date, then start filtering by eye for articles related to this kind of x-ray technology. Google News archive searches were also done, sorted by date, for each of the companies now making the x-ray naked scanning machines for airports, and each of the terrorists.
Though i was later able to find some more articles with different searches, this acted as one benchmark of how likely most people had heard the news on this terrorism narrative around Christmas. Google News, Default (Recent) Searches done in mid-January:
Smiths Detection – 6 Pages, about a dozen articles before Christmas mostly on announcement of new VP, earliest was Dec 14th
American Science and Engineering – 4 Pages, all after Christmas, earliest Dec 28, 2009
ICx Technologies – 8 Pages, all after Christmas, earliest Dec 30, 2009
You might notice how parallel the United Kingdom paths on homeland security and privacy, it’s often described as the Anglo-American Empire, they’re usually a few years ahead of us. Also notice (by article tags) how long the ACLU has been fighting this.
Since Christmas, the media coverage of course skyrockets, but the basic discussion is the same as it has been for 10 years. But now it is in all major headlines everywhere, and not just more local mentions for the areas with airports testing the technology. All the aspects and arguments summarized above were out there, but whichever ones you remember hearing from the mainstream is likely the version of the narrative desired at the top.
From reading through its media history, and reviewing the full time line generated on my database, it seems clear that elements of the military-industrial complex have been building and consistently pushing a wide variety of these naked x-ray scanners. But since such security equipment manufacturing corporations are lawfully required to maximize their profits for their shareholders, can we really even blame them if they did orchestrate this one? Brutal.
Given the potential contract with TSA, the high predictability of a rise in the stock price immediately after the bombing attempt is itself an opportunity for anyone with foreknowledge to profit on the short-term. But even if nobody took advantage of their foreknowledge, there’s a clear long-term benefit for shareholders and helping secure their next round of government contracts.
So it was announced on Dec 14th that the companies building and selling the selected machines, Rapiscan Systems (interestingly run by Deepak Chopra) of OSI Systems and Smiths Detection (British company), that the Transportation Security Administration would buy their machines in the next 30 days {ATW}
…then a negligable rise after a press release from Smiths Group on Dec 23rd
…and finally jumping from 22.02 just before the bombing, to 32.64 by Jan 8th, just shy of a 50% increase, and is the highest point in their 12 year history!
Smiths Detection, part of Smiths Group, is on the British market and while it did have some gains following the attempt, it was no outlier in the big picture of their stock.
Given the way in which this terrorist attempt should help solidify their pending contract with TSA and is likely to continue inflating their stock, i would be completely happy if i at least heard a US mainstream media outlet MENTION this obvious potential motive. But it seems possible that the TIMING of the bombing attempt could not have been any better for Rapiscan and Smiths.
Another company, though not mentioned as part of this month’s purchase is American Science and Engineering Inc, first mentioned regarding naked x-rays in airports in October 2001, but had been building these devices for PRISONS at least since 1998:
…with slow decline until the second half of 2004 when it rose to an all-time high in March ’06 of ~93
…waffling until a low of ~58 in March ’09, and rising steadily since then
…Dec 24th closed at 71.70, rising five points alone on the 28th, then announcing another $39 million govt contract for cargo x-ray machines on Jan 4th [HomelandDefenseStocks.com]
…then rising up to 83.53 by Jan 8th.
And the final company, which i learned of at the very end of this phase of the research, ICx Technologies, who makes other security devices:
…they close at 4.98 on Christmas Eve, and close out 2009 at 9.52, nearly doubling!
Interestingly, the deal merging Northwest Airlines with Delta Airlines had also just been completed and is in the final steps. [ABC] But Delta’s stock appeared unaffected by the incident.
But again, many defense contractor stocks increased in response to this terrorist attempt, as most such companies and government directly benefit from 9/11. This is just meant to demonstrate how tangible and concrete this motive is, both for these companies and financial speculators with inside information. After all, Wall Street is where the largest sum of wealth and power in world history are currently being consolidated.
Corrections, Additions, Feedback
Open Source Intelligence. I am 100% open to receiving constructive criticisms of this analysis in progress, and will incorporate anything else interesting learned into the essay to keep improving it (maybe until some massive new development in the story). So please teach me more, and add your comments on this essay with help like…
- Other articles or documents deserving highlights in the streamlined data dump, for any side of any sub-topic
- Important sub-topics missing from discussion
- Finding any more info on how the stocks lay over the narrative
- Suggest corrections to clarify phrasing, if mine is ‘fact’ually inaccurate
Revolving Door Reversal! Brief Case Study with Swine Flu
Feb 4th
Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg, until just a few months ago he was a leader of the Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe, the oldest institution uniting Europe since 1949, now representing 47 countries. He obtained his postgraduate qualifications in internal medicine and pneumology, in public health, social medicine, hygiene and environmental medicine in Germany and further training in epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University.
After resigning he immediately joined the fraud investigation regarding the Swine Flu Panic of ’09, he pushed it to the Council, and received their consensus in confirming various acts of corruption. In part, this must be due to the dozens of independent journalists around the world who have been collecting information since the months before the flu even started. Their flags of interest were raised by the FEMA/military preparations for pandemics and/or the growing billions of dollars of vaccine stockpiles approaching their expiration date.
We must encourage more of this kind of Revolving Door Reversal, where people leave to fight for justice, instead of succumbing to the greedy gravitation towards corporations. Push 100% for rational discussion and debate on any topic upon leaving, as we have been at a loss for checks and balances. Perhaps this can be the more typical Revolving Door of the next century, thank you Dr. Wodarg!
Key Points Now Officially Confirmed:
- World Health Organization (WHO) drastically changed the definition of “pandemic”
- Mass produced vaccine was not nearly adequately tested, and used adjuvants with unknown side-effects
- Officials received alternate vaccines without adjuvants
- Vaccines were patented, so supply and profits bottle-necked through a few big Pharma giants. He argues the better alternative is to allow no patents and share the process everywhere to enable local production.
- Some WHO officials were paid off to help promote the panic
- Poland, France and Germany were right not to take the vaccine
- Japanese already bought the vaccines, but now know, and aren’t sure whether to administer them
- One of his stated goals in pushing for this justice is to repair the WHO and restore its honor and trust with the world’s people
Full Interview from Feb 3rd. It’s in 3 parts, 30 minutes total:
…please start with 5 minutes if you’re nervous, and hopefully you’ll be interested
Part 1:
Part 2: http://youtube.com/watch?v=x7xy1cM45XI
Part 3: http://youtube.com/watch?v=xqOX8Q-Y4h4
There are layers of scandals i will not go into detail on, but each of the pharmaceutical companies making the vaccines have an offense track record to be chosen again by WHO. There was lots of obvious media to prepare our minds to accept martial law, quarantines and forced inoculations as the logical reactions to such a pandemic.
My foreknowledge of almost all of this fraud since the beginning, because Alex Jones/ Prison Planet/ Infowars is ONE OF my sources for news…
For two years, I have learned a lot from watching nearly every episode of Rachel Maddow, The Daily Show, Colbert Nation, many Democracy Now and Infowars broadcasts. A few times a month, Infowars will break a story they have received from listeners, then verified, by the over 3 million awakening people a week between radio, internet broadcast and people re-post on YouTube, etc. Then two or three weeks later the online buzz from inescapable facts covered by alternative media forces the information into the mainstream. We are often validated again by being able to accurately predict the narrative for the reaction to these facts, as presented in the mainstream media. Once you get the feel of their narratives, you’ll give the movie three thumbs down for predictability and unnecessary gore.
Thus watching the frequency of accurate analysis in my experience, the Infowars method is far more historically accurate for past, present and future events that the top-down media outlets, though the rest of those shows aren’t too terrible, they have topic limits. Alex Jones has evolving into more of a hub for this kind of information, and not some unilateral source. The bigger it gets, the more it becomes like a Wiki style media, collaborating with a broad variety of people with shared root concerns. And yes he can have a shock-style presentation sometimes, but given the gravity of his content i can rarely blame him for his passion. One should compensate for the bias behind any presentation of information, and even without any spin, the facts scream for themselves.
Here is a fairly clear prediction aired 11 months ago on the Alex Jones show…ONE MONTH before the flu startedand then hit the headlines. Dr. Rebecca Carley explains how she was already watching these companies because of the millions of vaccines about to expire. They also discuss some of the potential directions the conspirators could go with a consciously initiated pandemic, but there is more modern eugenics background needed to accept the possibility of those more hypothetical parts of their predictions. We can certainly now prove the basic fraud confirmed the Council of Europe this week.
Full disclosure on this doctor…this apparently happened: http://www.quackwatch.org/11Ind/carley.html
It looks like her license was revoked because people thought she was crazy, largely due to her vocal anti-vaccination position and trauma from her child’s vaccine reactions, “Dr. Labins also stated that the Respondent believes that the government is interested in pursuing all persons who are opposed to vaccinating children, which is part of a global government plot in collusion with the drug industry.” It is therefore ironic that almost a year after making these predictions she should be at least partially vindicated for her fears of vaccine conspiracies. She also charged fear of being discriminated against for her vaccine beliefs, which sounds like a discriminatory charge. I have not delved to her history, found this side-note interesting, and it does little to invalidate her now confirmed prediction in my mind.
Infowardocs.org also has over 200 articles chronicled, largely from those first months of Swine Flu Panic ’09:
http://infowardocs.org/index.php?allchron=1&x=OR&tag1=3366
And after watching media narratives and coverage trends for years, these are some more interesting articles which i felt were mentally preparing me/us for some kind of pandemic (dangerous or not) coming soon to a city near you…
Wired Mar 24, 2008 – flashback to March 24, 1976: Ford Orders Swine-Flu Shots for All – first observed at Fort Dix, New Jersey
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/03/dayintech_0324
Bloomberg Feb 10, 2009 – Panasonic Sends Workers’ Families Home on Flu Risk – Panasonic Corp. has instructed Japanese workers assigned to parts of Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe and South America to send family members back to Japan because of the risk of outbreaks of new influenza strains, Nikkei English News said, without citing anyone.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601101&sid=aXjbg7pIcXo4&refer=japan
Bloomberg Feb 24, 2009 – Baxter Sent Bird Flu Virus to European Labs by Error – The contamination was discovered when ferrets at a laboratory in the Czech Republic died after being inoculated with vaccine made from the samples early this month – experts later explain how this could not possibly be an accident with much of the Biosafety Level 3 standards which were supposedly in place
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aTo3LbhcA75I
Times of India Mar 6, 2009 – Virus mix-up by lab could have resulted in pandemic – It’s emerged that virulent H5N1 bird flu was sent out by accident from an Austrian lab last year and given to ferrets in the Czech Republic before anyone realized. As well as the risk of it escaping into the wild, the H5N1 got mixed with a human strain, which might have spawned a hybrid that could unleash a pandemic.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Health–Science/Science/Virus-mix-up-by-lab-could-have-resulted-in-pandemic/articleshow/4230882.cms
Scientific American April 2009 – Our Sick Farms, Our Infected Food – Congress and the FDA must upend the nation’s agricultural policies to keep its food supply safe – Graphic shows pigs, and explains how dirty farms can give humans diseases. Note that to make it in this issue, this was written before the outbreak.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=sick-farms-infected-food
CNN Apr 22, 2009 – (Two days beforethe virus news breaks) 3 virus vials missing from Fort Detrick, MD – In 97 percent of cases, humans with the virus suffer flu-like symptoms, but it can be deadly in about 1 out of 100 cases, according to Caree Vander Linden, a spokeswoman for the Army’s Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/04/22/missing.virus.sample/index.html
Following these hints,the first big Swine Flu story of the year breaks on April 24, 2009:
http://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=swine+flu&scoring=n&hl=en&ned=us&um=1&sa=N&sugg=d&as_ldate=2009/04&as_hdate=2009/04&lnav=dt
A CONCEPT: Wikication, a Wiki-Based Education Curriculum
Feb 3rd
So i had an idea this week which i’m throwing out there:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikication, but they promptly notified that it would be deleted for not being a real thing so…
http://www.youthrights.net/index.php?title=Wikication
http://educationalwikis.wikispaces.com/Wikication
http://ideas.wikia.com/wiki/Wikication
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=283309491091
Here is a copy of how it’s been started…
Goals – Foster curiosity and ability to research and think critically, by allowing students wider flexibility in study topics. Develop a more balanced history of the world based on less biased minds, if enough schools in the world incorporated this simple idea into their curriculum. Empowers students by publishing their work to the world to submit it.
University/High School/Middle School Classes
Assignment Prerequisites: Basic knowledge on the process of researching (to level desired), both in the Card Catalog and the Google. The students are taught the basic syntax and method of properly documenting their writing, Wiki-style.
The concept is one assignment template which could be integrated once into a curriculum, of be used for most parts of a curriculum, as appropriate. Multiple assignments could focus on specific a range, or each assignment having its own range, as required.
Basic Assignment Template
- A broad range of topics is defined for the assignment, hypothetical examples:
- Any Biology subjects
- Any topics/events related to Political Science from the 1990s
- Any Physics topics related to centrifugal forces
- Any biographies of European fiction writers
- Select the appropriate Wiki on the Web
- Wikipedia – wikipedia.org – more for older students
- Simple English Wikipedia - http://simple.wikipedia.org – Intended for English as a Second Language, but maybe appropriate for younger students?
- Wikidia - http://wikidia.wikispaces.com – Another Wiki for young people
- Each student finds an article on the Wiki which is either
- Empty, or nearly empty
- Has some substance but could use more details and whole areas of discussion yet to be explored
- Has thorough documentation, but lacks a key perspective and/or contains significant, prolonged inaccuracies
- The teacher approves the topic or asks them to choose another, until it is appropriate
- Each student does research to write or modify the Wiki page and publishes their final work, giving their teacher:
- A link to the article on the Wiki
- A separate copy of their contribution
- After grading, the students would be expected to correct any [unintentional] misinformation they contributed to the Wiki



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