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Posted May 29, 2005
Mood: Stale as usual.
Music: Worlock by Skinny Puppy
So we all just saw a movie about evil secret society cultists scheming in secret to overthrow democracy under the aegis of a fabricated war used to justify the passing of 'emergency powers'. What a ludicrous notion.
Pure fantasy, that. Laughable, this notion of 'democracy'. As if such a thing could exist.
We all know that 'democracy' has for the past century or so been a Madison Avenue term for a particular method of managing public dissent. If your vote could actually count for anything, you wouldn't get one, would you now?
Not that that's a bad thing. Majority rule tends to suck for us minorities (ie, non-orthodox pseudointellectuals).
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What I think and stuff.
Posted Oct 20, 2004
Bored is me.
Time to rant. I can scream my discomfort into the void of the internet. The internet can suck it down with a hollow sort of schlurping sound. The echo will resonate around the little 3x3 virtuality that is my private space on H2G2.
What's worse? Rascist Nazi eugenics nutbars with an army of stormtroopers and gas cans, or paranoid Christian doomsday cultists in control of a massive arsenal of nuclear weapons and the capability to terraform the planet into a watery smog pit?
I've noticed our American neighbours are slowly getting the hang of not being totally intellectually flaccid. Sort of. I mean, at least a few of them are actually showing vague signs of awareness.
It's come to the point where conspiracy theorists are actually better sources of informed opinions than the mainstream media. At least the paranoiacs are actually asking questions.
The crappy little imperialist wars in Afghanistan and Iraq aren't the main concern here. Yeah, it's sucky, but it's nothing new... just business as usual. Think the Splendid Little War of 1895. Ho ho ho.
Gangsters running the country is nothing new either. Sure, this cabal running the White House is a little less idealistic than the guy who hand-picked them, Richard Nixon... but whether its Robber Barons or Masons or whatever calling the shots, the democratic ideals of a nation have never in history survived first contact with the merchants and opportunists, and people have never been able to resist voting themselves handouts from the public purse.
Maybe Stalin's Utopian ideals were right after all; just kill em all, crack people's thick hollowed skulls together and enjoy the coconut sound of stupidity and greed feeding on itself... cuz there's nothing else that keeps people busy.
I'm not even that surprised to see Americans sitting around blinking groggily in the fog of TVland while the star and co-star of The Running Man get elected to governerships, the constitution gets used as an asswipe on airforce-1, NATO shuts down conveniently during a 'terrorist attack' on American Soil, the president votes himself emergency powers, the Nazi Enabling Act is reborn as the 'Patriot Act', etc. etc. Ever since JFK was killed on live TV they've all been afraid to change the friggin channel or go to the john during commercial breaks. See, it's all a friggin action movie to them. Germans in 1933 had myths of supermen too, but they didn't have a multi-billion dollar industry backing it up.
What bugs me is this: people. People. Are. Stupid. I mean they are really heart-breakingly astoundingly vapidly soulless in general.
It all comes down, you see, to pragmatism. Truth is what works.
Hitler treated people like morons. "What luck for leaders that men do not think," he said. And he played the crowd like Hendrix plucking guitar strings. He told them what they wanted to hear, he gave them bogeymen and common sense, and they lined up to salute and shove their neighbours into ovens.
Bush and his government treat people like morons. Lie, lie lie, deny, deny, deny. Rhetoric, rhetoric. Evil, terrorism, terrifying terrorists of terror, axis of evilism, blah blah. And they buy it. The ones who aren't buying it needed Michael freakin' Moore to spell it out to them, and Michael Moore doesn't exactly have a clear idea what's going on himself.
Women who insist it'd be different if the other gender was in charge tend to forget that the Auschwitz camp had secretaries looking the other way while they stamped the paperwork.
Treat people like idiots and they will never fail to rise to the occasion. Know why? Cuz they are. The average IQ is 100. That means you were able to comprehend two-syllable words and differentiate between squares and rectangles on a written test; and half of the population are below that level.
The most fantastic elements of Star Trek were never the costumes, sets, aliens, time warps, or virtualities; it was the notion of people cooperating, behaving ethically as a reflex, and using logic to solve problems that made Star Trek a surreality.
A private insight: I'd really love to experience fatherhood someday. Really. I like kids. I'd like to pass on what I know. I'd like to have that experience of caring for something besides myself. But unless I adopt, I doubt that will happen. I can't imagine professing to care for someone while being the one responsible for their having to participate in this sorry, dying world. It seems ludicrously hypocritical.
And at last I can give a name to this emotion: hate. I hate and resent the doomsday profiteers who have robbed me of the genetic birthright to procreate in good faith that the planet will in some form be around for succeeding generations to play the game of darwinian struggle to the best of their ability. I hate that these planet-raping demoniacs are borne to power by IQ 90 cosmologists who presume to know better than Einstein did what the universe is about, what God wants, and the endless prattle about how everything should conform to their fantast sollipsism.
Watch Crossfire on CNN. Imagine the panelists replaced by monkeys screeching and throwing shit at each other. Notice how much more articulate they seem that way.
It's a metaphor for all politics. For all human behaviour.
As opposed to another X decades or centuries of squabbling over what colour pajamas God likes to wear, maybe a nuclear war wouldn't be the worst thing in the world. For 30 minutes or so at least we'd shut up, look at the sky, and realize collectively what a bunch of stupid assholes we all are. Wherever God is, I think he'd have to smile at that.
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Vonnegut on Librarians
Posted Aug 16, 2004
I, like probably most of you, have seen Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11. Its title is a parody of the title of Ray Bradbury’s great science fiction novel, Fahrenheit 451. This temperature 451° Fahrenheit, is the combustion point, incidentally, of paper, of which books are composed. The hero of Bradbury’s novel is a municipal worker whose job is burning books.
And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and have refused to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles.
So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.
And still on the subject of books: Our daily sources of news, papers and TV, are now so craven, so unvigilant on behalf of the American people, so uninformative, that only in books can we find out what is really going on. I will cite an example: House of Bush, House of Saud by Craig Unger, published near the start of this humiliating, shameful blood-soaked year.
In case you haven’t noticed, and as a result of a shamelessly rigged election in Florida, in which thousands of African Americans were arbitrarily disenfranchised, we now present ourselves to the rest of the world as proud, grinning, jut-jawed, pitiless war lovers, with appallingly powerful weaponry and unopposed.
In case you haven’t noticed, we are now almost as feared and hated all over the world as the Nazis were.
With good reason.
In case you haven’t noticed, our unelected leaders have dehumanized millions and millions of human beings simply because of their religion and race. We wound and kill ’em and torture ’em and imprison ’em all we want.
Piece of cake.
In case you haven’t noticed, we also dehumanize our own soldiers, not because of their religion or race, but because of their low social class.
Send ’em anywhere. Make ’em do anything.
Piece of cake.
The O’Reilly Factor.
So I am a man without a country, except for the librarians and the Chicago-based magazine you are reading, In These Times.
Before we attacked Iraq, the majestic New York Times guaranteed that there were weapons of mass destruction there.
Albert Einstein and Mark Twain gave up on the human race at the end of their lives, even though Twain hadn’t even seen World War I. War is now a form of TV entertainment. And what made WWI so particularly entertaining were two American inventions, barbed wire and the machine gun. Shrapnel was invented by an Englishman of the same name. Don’t you wish you could have something named after you?
Like my distinct betters Einstein and Twain, I now am tempted to give up on people too. And, as some of you may know, this is not the first time I have surrendered to a pitiless war machine.
My last words? “Life is no way to treat an animal, not even a mouse.”
Napalm came from Harvard. Veritas!
Our president is a Christian? So was Adolf Hitler.
What can be said to our young people, now that psychopathic personalities, which is to say persons without consciences, without a sense of pity or shame, have taken all the money in the treasuries of our government and corporations and made it all their own?
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9/11 - I told you so.
Posted Jun 27, 2004
Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 911 doesn't go nearly far enough.
New 9/11 book - Inside Job
Jim Marrs breaks down the findings in his new book 9/11 book, Inside Job:
• A wide variety of standard defense mechanisms designed to prevent such an attack systematically failed on 9/11. Especially notable are the atypical failures which occurred simultaneously within the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the National Military Command Center (NMCC), and the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), all charged with protecting US airspace.
• Interceptor jets were not scrambled for more than thirty minutes after it was obvious that four airliners had gone off course and were presumably hijacked. In the case of Flight 77, which reportedly slammed into the Pentagon, an hour and forty-five minutes elapsed with no interception.
• Missile batteries designed to protect Washington, DC, failed to stop the strike on the Pentagon, one of the world's most protected structures, and fighter jets on constant alert at Andrews Air Force Base just twelve miles away were never scrambled.
• By a "bizarre coincidence," two government homeland defense agencies (NORAD and the NRO) were practicing war games on the morning of 9/11. The games simulated responses to a scenario in which hijacked planes were crashed into buildings. This fact could explain the government's lack of rapid response to the real hijackings, yet this plausible alibi has never been brought to public attention. One also wonders: How did the hijackers know the time and date of these war games in order to time their attacks to coincide with them?
• President Bush proceeded with a photo op at a Florida elementary school even after he and his aides knew that three planes had been hijacked. He lingered in the classroom for nearly twenty minutes after being informed that a second plane had struck the World Trade Center (WTC).
• Not one steel-framed high-rise building in history has collapsed solely due to fire. The free-fall speed collapse of the Trade Center towers, with attendant melted steel and powdery dust, exhibited all the characteristics of a controlled demolition.
• Just such a controlled demolition apparently occurred about 5 p.m. that same day when, according to the leaseholder of the WTC complex, the 47-story Building 7 was "pulled," i.e., intentionally demolished.
• Vital evidence, including the buildings' structural steel, was destroyed through rapid removal and destruction by US government officials with no investigation. This is only one of the many reasons why Fire Engineering magazine called the official investigation "a half-baked farce."
• An eight-mile-long debris trail indicated that Flight 93 was destroyed in the air rather than in the Pennsylvania crash reportedly caused by an onboard struggle between the hijackers and passengers.
• More than a dozen countries firmly warned US authorities that an attack on American soil was imminent, some only days before the events.
• Strong evidence points to complicity in the attacks by senior intelligence operatives from Israel and Pakistan who are closely aligned with American intelligence agencies.
• A classified Congressional report incriminates senior officials in the Saudi Arabian government, showing that they had close ties to the hijackers. The Saudis enjoy long-term business and social ties to the Bush family and close political ties to the US government.
• The US government expedited the swift departure of over 100 Saudis from the country, even as the American public had been denied the right to fly. Two dozen members of bin Laden's own family, presumably potential witnesses, were allowed to leave the country without interrogation.
• Insiders with foreknowledge of the events to come engaged in massive and highly profitable short-selling of shares in American Airlines and United Airlines, as well as other stocks readily affected by the disaster. The public has still not been presented with the final results of official investigations into these transactions-if there are any.
• A growing number of whistleblowers from within the federal government have pointed to evidence that various agencies were well aware of the possibility of attack, and were prevented by seniors officials from mounting full investigations.
• Far from being a mere reaction to 9/11, evidence now proves that the US invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq were the culmination of long-standing plans which only awaited a provocation such as 9/11.
• The official explanations for the invasion of Iraq, such as the need to capture weapons of mass destruction, and to "bring democracy" to the country, have proven false.
• Within a few hours, the FBI released names and photos of the suspected hijackers although later many of those named turned up alive in the Middle East.
• Also within hours of the attacks, FBI agents were scouring the houses, restaurants, and flight schools they frequented. If no one had foreknowledge of the hijackers or their activities, how did they know where to look?
• Far from ordering a full and objective investigation to determine who was responsible for the 9/11 tragedies, the Bush administration dragged its feet and actually took actions to impede a swift and truthful probe into the events of that day. It was nearly two years after the events that mounting pressure from the public, led by families of 9/11 victims, finally forced the creation of an "independent" investigatory commission.
• No one in government has been reprimanded or even scolded for what we are told was the greatest intelligence and homeland-defense failure in US history. In fact, the very agencies which failed the nation watched their budgets increase dramatically, and some of the officials ostensibly at fault were actually promoted.
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Primakov: Saddam cut a deal with U.S.
AFP/Kurdish Media --June 26
Former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein cut a deal with the United States before the March 2003 invasion of Iraq, former Russian prime minister Yevgeny Primakov said in an interview published on Thursday.
“There was an understanding with the Americans, as paradoxical as it may seem,” Primakov told the Russian daily Gazeta in a lengthy interview.
“Why weren’t the bridges of the Tigris blown up when the American tanks approached Baghdad? Why weren’t Iraqi aviation and tanks used, and where are they now?” asked Primakov, a former head of the Russian secret service and a specialist in Arab affairs who was formerly on good terms with Saddam.
“Why was there an immediate ceasefire? Why was there practically no resistance a year ago?” he added.
Primakov, who now heads Russia’s chamber of trade and industry, also cast doubt on the authenticity of footage of Saddam’s reported capture that circled the world on December 14.
“They showed two soldiers with guns with palm trees in the background near the hole (where Saddam was reportedly hiding). At that time of year, date palms are never in bloom,” he said.
“Finally, any man can tell you that such a long beard (as Saddam had when he was reportedly caught) could not grow in seven months,” he said.
“All evidence suggests that Saddam surrendered earlier and the story of the hole was invented later,” he said. Primakov, who was also Russian foreign minister, made two secret trips to Iraq at the request of President Vladimir Putin, shortly before the invasion by US and British troops.
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Luke Skywalker was a Terrorist
Posted Nov 28, 2003
From Libertythink:
As George Lucas said in Time Magazine:
"All democracies turn into dictatorships—but not by coup. The people give their democracy to a dictator, whether it's Julius Caesar or Napoleon or Adolf Hitler. Ultimately, the general population goes along with the idea ... What kinds of things push people and institutions into this direction?
...That's the issue that I've been exploring: How did the Republic turn into the Empire? That's paralleled with: How did Anakin turn into Darth Vader? How does a good person go bad, and how does a democracy become a dictatorship? It isn't that the Empire conquered the Republic, it's that the Empire is the Republic."
"Lucas' comments clarify the connection between the Anakin trilogy and the Luke trilogy: that the Empire was created out of the corruption of the Republic, and that somebody had to fight it.
"One day Princess Leia and her friends woke up and said, 'This isn't the Republic anymore, it's the Empire. We are the bad guys. Well, we don't agree with this. This democracy is a sham, it's all wrong.'"
The none-too-subtle staged terrorist attack against Senator Padme Amidala's ship to usher in an era of "security" and ultimately the take-over by the Dark Side did not go unnoticed. I didn't miss the similarities to the problem-reaction-solution system that has been utilized by world leaders as far back as the history books go. The kids who's parents paid $8 admission charge for them to see Episode 2 didn't seem to miss the point. Even the children got it.
Ask your average American why they think Hitler became supreme commander of Germany. Did he just "pull the wool over their eyes"? Was everybody "brainwashed"? or did his stormtroopers burn the Reichstag building down, blame it on terrorists, and tell the people: "I cannot protect you, unless you give me full control."
Irrational Reactionism: The Last War on Terror
In the end, the last War on Terrorism didn't go so well for Germany. They not only lost their War on Terrorism, but their regime was ultimately defeated, not by the "terrorists", but by a foreign alliance because of their response to terrorism.
The foreign alliance felt justified in removing a hysterical empire from existence, who apparently could not deal with terrorism in a rational manner. If history is to repeat itself, Russia and China will feel the same moral justification when they attempt to do the same.
The sheeple are simply more happy thinking they have a government that is incompetent than a government that is evil, when in fact they have a government that is so incompetent that it can't recognize its own evils.
The Psychology Behind Mass Subservience to Tyranny
"Everyone likes to say, "Hitler did this," and "Hitler did that." But the truth is Hitler did very little.
He was a world class tyrant, but the evil actually done by the Third Reich, from the death camps to WWII, was all done by German citizens who were afraid to question if what they were told by their government was the truth or not, and who, because they did not want to admit to themselves that they were afraid to question the government, refused to see the truth behind the Reichstag Fire, refused to see the invasion by Poland was a staged fake, and followed Hitler into national disaster."
"America has escaped the clutches of a dictatorship thus far only through the efforts of those citizens who, unlike the Germans of the 1930s, have the moral courage to stand up and point out where the government is lying to the people."
"The reality is that the American people, as individuals, have lost their courage. The government prefers it that way, as a fearful people are easier to rule than a courageous one..."
Perhaps as Goddard said:
"A society whose citizens refuse to see and investigate the facts, who refuse to believe that their government and their media will routinely lie to them and fabricate a reality contrary to verifiable facts, is a society that chooses and deserves the Police State Dictatorship it's going to get."
Another galaxy, another time.
What's next? Ask PNAC.
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