January 4, 2012
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1 Headlines.
2 Okay, so the Repubz have their man. Isn’t democracy engaging?
3 The fun thing is to go past the stories that are purportedly “news” and read some of the online headlines.
4 Here are a few of them from AOL:
Rosie O’ Donnell Turned Away at Diddy’s New Year’s Eve Party
Biggest Celebrity Wardrobe Malfunctions
Brothel Endorses Ron Paul for President
Adorable Turtle Has Trouble Eating
5 No news.
6 I grew up at a time when journalism was revered. I had a journalism class in high school as well as in college. At one point, I wanted to be a reporter.
7 It might have something to do with my love of comic books as a kid.
9 They start you out on Superman, and you naturally move and eventually land at Spiderman. But Superman was the grandaddy of them all, and I was a DC freak as a young lad.
10 As most people know, Clark Kent worked at a place called The Daily Planet in Metropolis. He worked with co-workers Jimmy Olsen and Lois Lane. The younger Olsen was constantly under fire by boss Perry White for not knowing how to chase a good story.
11 Perry White had a temper, and wanted to make sure that his staff reported the news. He would often holler the journalist motto, “If a dog bites a man, it isn’t news. If a man bites a dog, that’s news!”
12 The two images would be illustrated, and in full color.
13 If Olsen, Kent, or Lane would come in with a headline like “Adorable Turtle Has Trouble Eating” they would have been threatened with certain body parts getting ripped and replaced from Perry White.
14 There simply is no news, and clearly no reporters any longer. It is frightening to see what has become of what passes for news reporting nowadays.
15 There are HUGE stories out there, but we are not getting the truth out of any of these cretins who consider themselves reporters. Well, I can’t really call them cretins. I can just say that the media is ridiculously controlled, and “reporters” aren’t asked to report the real news any longer, but anything that will get hits by the masses. And not following the company line could lead to dismissal by the robots who consider themselves journalists nowadays.
16 Sensationalism and P.T. Barnum circus acts are the order of the day.
17 They used to have a name for it. They used to call it ”Yellow Journalism”. Anyone who ever took a journalism course recognizes the term. It now passes for mainstream news.
18 Rosie O’ Donnell didn’t get invited to a party? And they put a horrible picture of a completely disoriented Rosie up on their page. She looked like a grown-up cooty.
19 A brothel endorses Ron Paul? Really? I imagine thousands of brothels endorsed JFK when he ran against Nixon. I can’t even imagine any self-respecting brothel having endorsed Nixon. It would have been silly even to bring the issue up. I can tell you right now that Kennedy got the brothel crowd, and they got him. People would have snickered. It might even have been a landslide if news got out.
20 We were taught things about the news. We were taught that journalism was the watchdog of everything that goes on in the government. Well, it never really was, but at least we had real journalists who persued real stories in a classic, investigative fashion.
21 Not anymore.
22 KSFO radio in San Francisco, for example, is now a propaganda machine for the extreme right. KGO radio has fired tons of staff and has pushed a ridiculous motto, “More news, less talk.” Really? Must be that “liberal” media everyone is talking about, but that clearly is not even close to “liberal”. Who controls the present?
23 I’m not worried about silly old farts like myself. A lot of us know what’s going on; we’ve been screaming about it for years. But we also assumed the nation would continue to get smarter, since we grew up with excellent educations.
24 Ladies and gents, I’m here to tell you that schools are trying, but that they are in dire trouble. It began with getting rid of grammar, accurate history books, coupled with the infiltration of “dumbing downers” into our educational system. The people who want to control us already control us. They are controlling schools, libraries, politicians, judges, police departments, and on and on. It is as plain as the noses on our faces.
25 I won’t even go into what has happened, but I just saw a “documentary” called America: The Story of Us. It starred Donald Trump, Sean ”P. Diddy” Combs (the guy who wouldn’t let Rosie come to his party), Newt Gingrich, and such other esteemed historians as Tony Bennett, Sheryl Crow, Sean Hannity, Martha Stewart, Michael Douglas, the list goes on.
26 What’s wrong with this picture?
27 When it first came out, sixty per cent of the American people liked it, but many complained about its celebrity hosts.
28 I would have been a bit more upset by its absolute innaccuracies: the fact that it left out the entire War of 1812, the Wright Brothers, and that its accompanying book had a picture of the Manlicher Carcano rifle that Lee Harvey Oswald used to shoot Kennedy. Yep. Tried, found guilty, and did it all alone, according to this “documentary”. Anyone with an ounce of a brain knows that clearly isn’t what happened.
29 They later went on to call Oswald a “cretinous individual”, as though the mountain of evidence against that boushit story never existed. They “solved” the greatest murder mystery of the twentieth century in two sentences. Who controls the past?
30 According to Wikipedia, a tremendously inconsistent source if ever there was one, the History channel then launced “its largest ever educational outreach initiative and offered a DVD of the series to every school and accredited college in the United States.” The History Channel, by the way, has become a bugaboo for the “government”. The History Channel no longer gives us history. It now distorts history drastically. America: The Story of Us, for example, has the early explorers, but all in neat little packages.
31 No mention of Columbus’ second voyage, in which his men burned the villages of Native Americans, raped their women, and turned them into slaves.
32 The “news” should be reporting that an enormous piece of propaganda is being handed to schools and colleges all over the country, and the distorted and horrific coverage of our violent past is going to be passed on to our children, and then on to their children. It lies, and lies, and lies.
33 It’s right out of 1984.
34 Here’s a source: Dictionary.com:
propaganda [prop-uh-gan-duh]
noun
1. information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc.
35 The real news should be exposing all of the falsehoods and omissions in that ridiculously inaccurate and tasteless DVD that everybody seems to be flaunting.
36 But if I know schools, they’ll take anything that is free, and overworked teachers will pop that puppy into a DVD player and get some grades done.
37 I used to do that too, but I made sure that students got the truth. This nonsense is going to pass for news, and it clearly covers up the coup that eventually put the Bushes in charge of everything, and gave us the Animal Farmland we are now pretending we don’t live in.
38 Prescott Bush was a good pal of the Nazis. Why is that not mainstream news?
39 It’s out there. There is pretty darned good documentation. He hung out with the Dulles brothers, Allen and John Foster, who were higher-ups in a law firm called Sullivan and Cromwell, who represented a German company called I.G. Farben, which funded the Nazi death camps. This stuff is practically mainstream now, and nobody seems to care.
40 I won’t go on a diatribe, because I just won’t. I just thought that I’d point a few things out before people take Celebrity Wardrobe Malfunctions as news. The real news, the stuff I just pointed out, won’t be touched by any mainstream “reporters” because they aren’t brave enough to take on the real issues.
41 You might get this book from Amazon: Family of Secrets by Russell Baker. He is a well respected reporter who dug into the history of the Bush family. It isn’t political; it is accurate. And it retells the history of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It is a scary book. But we need to read scary books if we want a better world for our children.
42 Baker is a level-headed former reporter for several distinguished magazines and is currently gathering ex-reporters and statespeople and going on a real “Truth” movement. He isn’t a sensationalist like Alex Jones (I know there are Jones lovers out there, but be careful with him. He’s got some interesting ties, and I don’t know that you’ll be comfortable once you find out what is driving him.)
43 I will deliver some better researchers to you in the coming weeks, but don’t trust anybody who is out there and mainstream. There’s a reason they aren’t dead. The real reporters don’t sensationalize. The real reporters remember guys like Perry White, tough, investigative sorts who line up facts with citations and level-headedness. And it is absolutely scary for a person to be a real investigative reporter nowadays. I remember a time when being called an investigative reporter was considered an insult, since all reporters are investigative.
44 The best reporter of them all is the very brave Dave Emory who has been blowing the lid off fascists and all their propaganda for years. He is difficult to believe at first, but after years of listening to him, I have come to find that as scary as some of the things he says are, his accuracy and his citations and resources know no bounds.
45 Everything he ever said over the past years has materialized. He is ten years ahead of the headlines. And now we have posers being used to jackass the seriousness of what has taken place in America over the past hundred years.
46 And it isn’t the fictional America:The Story of Us, I’m sorry to say.
47 You might start out with Russell Baker. He’s the real deal, and as brave a journalist as there is out there. You might start out with Family of Secrets. Baker is on it, but he is happy to borrow from Emory. Emory lays out the sources, but his information is hard for people beginning all of this to grasp.
48 It is the true story of us, and it isn’t always pretty. But Baker blows the lid off the Bush family. And as I said, it has nothing to do with democrats or republicans. It has to do with the power structure that was put in place before and following the killing of Kennedy. Gore Vidal declared it the most important book of the past fifty years.
49 He should give his book to the schools. I’m quite certain that the schools would reject his work outright while keeping the fairy tale that is America: The Story of Us stocked and delivered to our future generations.
50 Who controls the past? We can, if we are brave enough.
51 Peace.
~H~
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