Max Blumenthal, writing for the Nation, describes how a young man went from being oppressed as a young Christian, to rebellion via various occult traditions, to murder and suicide. The media played a part in blaming his violence on his beliefs during his rebellious phase, while avoiding or glossing over the crucial role his earlier brainwashing played in eroding his mental health. This story is three pages long, and well worth the read.
A few miles down the road from Colorado Springs [a home to James Dobson's Focus on the Family], in the quiet bedroom community of Eldredge, a deeply disturbed young man named Matthew Murray followed the unfolding debacle at New Life Church [once under the stewardship of Pastor Ted Haggard] with an interest that bordered on obsession. Murray, a sallow-faced, bespectacled 24-year-old, had been indelibly scarred by a lifetime of psychological abuse at the hands of his charismatic Pentecostal parents. Murray’s mind became crowded with thoughts of death, destruction, and the killings he would soon carry out in the name of avenging what he called his “nightmare of Christianity.”
Read the rest and leave comments. What do you think will happen with the many kids being raised the same way Murray was?
Just two days after Sharon Tate’s murderer died and left the prison system, her former husband is put behind bars. On Saturday, Sept. 26, Polish-French filmmaker Roman Polanski was arrested on a 31-year-old warrant at Zurich Airport. He was en route to Switzerland’s Zurich Film Festival to receive the “Golden Eye” Award.
Roman Polanski
Back in 1977, the world-renowned movie director pleaded guilty to one charge of having unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor, according to a cnn.com article. He wielded a 13-year-old girl into various sex acts with alcohol and sedative drugs when he was 43-years-old. Polanski fled the United States before he could be sentenced, and U.S. authorities have had an outstanding warrant for his arrest since 1978. Polanski went to France and then to Poland, (he has dual citizenship in both places) and the U.S. has wanted to extradite him for years. But, a previous political asylum agreement has allowed French and Polish authorities to deny the request, and thus Polanski has remained a free man.
Overwhelmed yet? Yea, it’s a sticky mess. When the U.S. got wind that Polanski would be traveling to a country where he is not granted asylum, they saw their chance and requested that Swiss police arrest him. Now, Polanski is being kept in an undisclosed Switzerland prison, fighting his deportation back to the U.S. According to this “Los Angeles Times” article, he faces months behind bars, given the lengthy legal processes ahead: “The U.S. has 40 days from the arrest to lodge a formal extradition request, a period that can be extended to 60 days if necessary. The Swiss Justice Ministry then has a week or two to examine the request. If authorities accept the request, Polanski can file a formal appeal in federal court, which would take another few weeks.”
Polanski’s arrest has sparked heated debate in the U.S. and Europe. Fellow filmmakers worldwide and French and Polish ministries have continually shown their support for his release, highlighting his career achievements. Others feel that the case is irrelevant and should be dismissed because it is decades old. On the other end, however, many are appalled at this prospect of social status trumping law. Interestingly, Polanski’s victim, now 45-year-old Samantha Geimer, is among those arguing that the case be tossed.
According to cnn.com, Geimer says that she is no longer a 13-year-old girl, has moved on with her life, and would like the incident to finally be put to rest: “Every time this case is brought to the attention of the Court, great focus is made of me, my family, my mother and others. That attention is not pleasant to experience and is not worth maintaining over some irrelevant legal nicety, the continuation of the case.” Geimer sued Polanski years ago and received a settlement, so at this point he is no longer under fire for rape, just for fleeing the country.
I’m not sure where I stand with this one. I feel that a crime is a crime, regardless of an individual’s worldly prominence, and for that reason the U.S. should continue the battle to have Polanski deported. An Academy Award should not downplay his legal offenses. However, taking into account Geimer’s desire not to reopen old wounds, we need to be careful how we talk about this situation. The victim has dropped charges, and so she should not be weighted down by the extradition case. But, obviously she will be involved by default because she is the reason Polanski fled the U.S. in the first place. I hope that both the government and the public respect that the charges against Polanski have changed, and that the count of unlawful sexual intercourse has already been dealt with. Extradition would bring legal justice, but if it is at the expense of a victim’s well-being…I just don’t know…!!! What do you all think?
Writing in the journal Science nearly four decades ago, State University of New York sociologist Erich Goode documented the media’s complicity in maintaining cannabis prohibition.
He observed: “[T]ests and experiments purporting to demonstrate the ravages of marijuana consumption receive enormous attention from the media, and their findings become accepted as fact by the public. But when careful refutations of such research are published, or when later findings contradict the original pathological findings, they tend to be ignored or dismissed.”
A glimpse of today’s mainstream media landscape indicates that little has changed — with news outlets continuing to, at best, underreport the publication of scientific studies that undermine the federal government’s longstanding pot propaganda and, at worst, ignore them all together.
Here are five recent stories the mainstream media doesn’t want you to know about pot: 1. Marijuana Use Is Not Associated With a Rise in Incidences of Schizophrenia
Over the past few years, the worldwide media, as well as federal officials in the United Kingdom, Canada and the U.S. have earnestly promoted the notion that smoking pot induces mental illness.
Perhaps most notably, in 2007 the mainstream media reported that cannabis “could boost the risk of developing a psychotic illness later in life by about 40 percent” — a talking point that was also actively promoted by U.S. anti-drug officials.
So, is there any truth to the claim that pot smoking is sparking a dramatic rise in mental illness? Not at all, according to the findings of a study published in July in the journal Schizophrenia Research.
Investigators at the Keele University Medical School in Britain compared trends in marijuana use and incidences of schizophrenia in the United Kingdom from 1996 to 2005. Researchers reported that the “incidence and prevalence of schizophrenia and psychoses were either stable or declining” during this period, even the use of cannabis among the general population was rising.
“[T]he expected rise in diagnoses of schizophrenia and psychoses did not occur over a 10-year period,” the authors concluded. “This study does not therefore support the specific causal link between cannabis use and incidence of psychotic disorders. … This concurs with other reports indicating that increases in population cannabis use have not been followed by increases in psychotic incidence.”
As of this writing, a handful of news wire reports in Australia, Canada, and the U.K. have reported on the Keele University study. Notably, no American media outlets covered the story.
2. Marijuana Smoke Doesn’t Damage the Lungs Like Tobacco
Everyone knows that smoking pot is as damaging, if not more damaging, to the lungs than puffing cigarettes, right?
Wrong, according to a team of New Zealand investigators writing in the European Respiratory Journal in August.
Researchers at the University of Otago in New Zealand compared the effects of cannabis and tobacco smoke on lung function in over 1,000 adults.
They reported: “Cumulative cannabis use was associated with higher forced vital capacity [the volume of air that can forcibly be blown out after full inspiration], total lung capacity, functional residual capacity [the volume of air present in the lungs at the end of passive expiration] and residual volume.
“Cannabis was also associated with higher airways resistance but not with forced expiratory volume in one second [the maximum volume of air that can be forcibly blown out in the first second during the FVC test], forced expiratory ratio, or transfer factor. These findings were similar amongst those who did not smoke tobacco. … By contrast, tobacco use was associated with lower forced expiratory volume in one second, lower forced expiratory ratio, lower transfer factor and higher static lung volumes, but not with airways resistance.”
They concluded, “Cannabis appears to have different effects on lung function to those of tobacco.”
Predictably, the scientists’ “inconvenient truth” was not reported in a single media outlet.
3. Cannabis Use Potentially Protects, Rather Than Harms, the Brain
Does smoking pot kill brain cells? Drinking alcohol most certainly does, and many opponents of marijuana-law reform claim that marijuana’s adverse effects on the brain are even worse. Are they correct?
Not according to recent findings published this summer in the journal Neurotoxicology and Teratology.
Investigators at the University of California at San Diego examined white matter integrity in adolescents with histories of binge drinking and marijuana use. They reported that binge drinkers ( defined as boys who consumed five or more drinks in one sitting, or girls who consumed four or more drinks at one time ) showed signs of white matter damage in eight regions of the brain.
By contrast, the binge drinkers who also used marijuana experienced less damage in 7 out of the 8 brain regions.
“Binge drinkers who also use marijuana did not show as consistent a divergence from non-users as did the binge drink-only group,” authors concluded. “[It is] possible that marijuana may have some neuroprotective properties in mitigating alcohol-related oxidative stress or excitotoxic cell death.”
To date, only a handful of U.S. media outlets — almost exclusively college newspapers — have reported the story.
4. Marijuana Is a Terminus, Not a ‘Gateway,’ to Hard Drug Use
Alarmist claims that experimenting with cannabis will inevitably lead to the use of other illicit drugs persist in the media despite statistical data indicating that the overwhelming majority of those who try pot never go on to use cocaine or heroin.
Moreover, recent research is emerging that indicates that pot may also suppress one’s desire to use so-called hard drugs.
In June, Paris researchers writing in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology concluded that the administration of oral THC in animals suppressed sensitivity to opiate dependence.
Also this summer, investigators at the New York State Psychiatric Institute reported in the American Journal on Addictions that drug-treatment subjects who use cannabis intermittently were more likely to adhere to treatment for opioid dependence.
Although a press release for the former study appeared on the Web site physorg.com on July 7, neither study ever gained any traction in the mainstream media.
5. Government’s Anti-Pot Ads Encourage, Rather Than Discourage, Marijuana Use
Sure, many of us already knew that the federal government’s $2 billion ad campaign targeting pot was failing to dissuade viewers from toking up, but who knew it was this bad?
According to a new study posted online in the Journal of Health Communication, survey data published by investigators at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania found that many of the government’s public-service announcements actually encouraged pot use.
Researchers assessed the attitudes of over 600 adolescents, age 12 to 18, after viewing 60 government-funded anti-marijuana television spots.
Specifically, researchers evaluated whether the presence of marijuana-related imagery in the ads ( e.g., the handling of marijuana cigarettes or the depiction of marijuana-smoking behavior ) were more likely or less likely to discourage viewers’ use of cannabis.
Messages that depict teens associating with cannabis are “significantly less effective than others,” the researchers found.
“This negative impact of marijuana scenes is not reversed in the presence of strong anti-marijuana arguments in the ads and is mainly present for the group of adolescents who are often targets of such anti-marijuana ads ( i.e., high-risk adolescents ),” the authors determined. “For this segment of adolescents, including marijuana scenes in anti-marijuana ( public-service announcements ) may not be a good strategy.”
Needless to say, no outlets in the mainstream media — many of which donated air time to several of the beleaguered ads in question — have yet to report on the story.
This table is the best way of telling your peers “hey, I have a problem.” Then I saw the original price: two point five thousand goddamn dollars. Scratch that, whatever you are doing, keep doing it. It is obviously working out for you.
mirrored hollywood regency table – $250 (glen park)
this is a beautiful mirrored table. can be used as a coctail table between two chairs (mid century feel) or as a bedside table. i paid 2500. and i’m letting it go for 250.
it’s 2′/2′/18″ (deep)
Super Policeman Mike catches bad guys with 1,375 POUNDS OF MARIJUANA. Cheech and Chong couldn’t even claim that was for personal use, so they were obviously big dealers. So of course they go to prison for a really long time, right? Not exactly:
It has been nearly 2 years since I seized this jackpot of green-ness. Know what the perps got for it? Probation and $5,000 fines! Pathetic!
That’s sad, but I’m not surprised. I run an Internal Audit group. We catch people stealing thousands of dollars of cash and/or property and they get no jail time plus an interest free loan — i.e., they pay back part of what they stole over time, but if they can’t afford to pay it back there are no consequences.
One thief was a convicted felon who we fired after an external agency informed us of his record. Turns out his record was past some sort of arbitrary time limit so he sued and we hired him back. His repayment for our employment of him was to steal as much as he possibly could. And after his arrest he threatened physical harm to employees at the company. Not exactly a serious case of repentance.
Did he do time? Nope, once again the prior felony was too old to hold against him. Will he pay back the money? Doubtful. The sentence will require it but all he’ll have to do is claim he can’t afford it and he’ll be off the hook.
You really don’t want the public to know that you get one big “free” theft before you see any jail time!
DynCorp, Blackwater and now Triple Canopy trading booze for weapons and ammo….
This has been going on for years….
This was done simply because the agency / contractor the US Department of State, Diplomatic Security Service is so dysfunctional they do not have enough ammo to even have a combat load. Alcohol, Steaks, whatever of value was traded. We traded with the U.S. Military, British, Canadian military whoever had what we needed and should have had from the State Department to operate in a combat environment. We mainly sought 5.56mm ammo but we also got loads of 9mm ammo for training since the State Department only allocated 50 rounds every 6 months for training. Any good operator knows you need to be shooting at least 500 to 1,000 rounds a week to be at the level they expect. We also got Claymores, C4, AT-4’s, L.A.W.S Rockets, Hand Grenades (Fragmentation as well as smoke and stun). Other items we were forced to trade for were Medical items such as needed IV’s and bandages. Medicine for common illnesses, along with pain medicine for emergency treatments such as, Morphine. These sought after items were essential to accomplish the mission. Without these items it simply places our people at risk, not to mention the Diplomats we are assigned to protect.
The issue here should not be with the “Horrible Contractors” it should be with the ineptness of our established Government agencies who should not have a pencil clerk assigned to order equipment for Special Operations guys in a war zone. That would be like having us in charge of ordering make-up for women, we can do it but it is almost guaranteed to order the wrong thing and not enough.
I want to add a note for these low level diplomats that enjoy throwing those of us under the bus any chance they get, if any of these “Diplomats” truly think any operator will truly risk their live to protect them they have another thing coming. The only reason any operator is there in that position can simply be explained like this. The Operator is there in a position with “Bait” (Diplomat) when the bad guys come we can kill them. Mark my words the State Department, Diplomatic Security Service has had these Contracting firms hire many “Cops” who like themselves are highly trained in “Creative Report Writing”, unlike those of us from Special Operations that would simply write; “there was a bad guy and we fired an entire drum from our m249 and they were killed”. This was not politically correct enough therefore;
The “Cops” would write, “I was in fear for my life, the life of the principle, our team mates we took all evasive actions to avoid confrontation and shot to stop the threat only after using hand and arm signals, verbal commands and Firing a Pen Flare at the threat. We were instructed prior to the mission of the Force Continuum and Use of Deadly force 30 minutes prior to operations”.
As for the Diplomats we were assigned to protect, These folks are clueless. Why do you think nothing is being solved? These are the folks our government calls a “Diplomat” to promote policies. Let me point out two situations specific, 1st in Afghanistan, while assigned there we were sent out with “Female” diplomats to deal with local war lords. As you know that alone is an insult in their culture. The result was that we the body guards would handle the policies in some circumstances. Now another incident when I was in Iraq one such “Diplomat”, Linda Allen. During a gun fight in Baghdad in 2007 she told us that and I quote, “if you stop shooting at them they will stop shooting at you”. Do I need to say more?
People stop looking for scandal with the Contractors…
Look at the government that hired them and for every scandalous event you will surely find 10 with their “Full time” government counterpart.
The brilliant thinkers that wrote our Constitution had it right… They had just fought a war to overthrow an oppressive government, and they had won it by having similar technologies to this oppressive Government and tactics more suitable to the type of war they were fighting. These geniuses wrote the Second Amendment to ensure that this balance continued for the future of this great Nation.
“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a Free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”
- The Second Amendment to the US Constitution
There is a story from my wife’s family that makes this so perfectly clear…
“During the year 1780 Lord Dunmore conducted a campaign against the forces of Revolutionary General Andrew Lewis, who was placed in the area of Mathews County. Dunmore’s assault was by sea up the Pianketank River and by landing party via Point Pleasant. This placed Milford Haven, home of Houlder Hudgins, was directly in the line of battle. Enraged by this, Houlder Hudgins fitted out one of his fleet, the brigantine ‘Queen Charlotte’ as a war vessel, manned it and presented it to General Lewis to repel the invaders. There ensued the Battle of Gwynns Island, at the end of which the attack was thwarted and the forces of Lord Dunmore dispersed.”
An account of the above incident appeared in the July 10, 1812 issue of The Virginia Argus follows;
“Houlder Hudgins, Esq.; was a member of the Gloucester County Committee of Safety, and in 1780 fitted out, manned and presented to General Andrew Lewis a vessel called ‘Queen Charlotte’ which played a critical part in The Battle of Gwynns Island in which the forces of Lord Dunmore were decisively defeated. Mr. Hudgins was the owner of a fleet of vessels trading to and from the West Indies. His home was situated directly in the line of attack of the Dunmore forces. It was a natural and patriotic action for him to assist in the destruction of the enemy by driving him from the shores of his own country and his very home.”
A 21st Century Houlder Hudgins, faced with an Aegis cruiser in his backyard would have no such option. Imagine for a moment, walking out your door to find an M1-A2 tank outside. Can you own anything that can do more than annoy a tank? No, you cannot. Can you own anything that can even reach an F-16? No, you cannot. The FBI or BATF would knock on your door within hours if you tried to order such an item, or even discussed it with any intent. (Attention all Federal agents…this is all discussed as a matter of potential future interest, not a plot to overthrow the Government today…ya got it….?)
So…what must our 21st century Houlder Hudgins do to free his home from a future oppressive Government? Simple…Vote Libertarian!
The Libertarian Party is the only political party that is totally committed to the principle of the Second Amendment. In a Libertarian society Government would be so small and limited in power and authority that it would be terribly unlikely for Government to get out of control. The People however must always have the ability to make Government fear the people rather than the People fear the government as so many do today.
I thank the geniuses that wrote our Constitution, as well as patriots like Houlder Hudgins for giving us the gift of Freedom! We cannot allow our generation to be the one that watches it slip away. Vote Libertarian!
The Senate Finance Committee keeps wading through that long list of amendments to the Baucus bill, and interesting nuggets keep popping up. The latest to catch our eye: An amendment adopted today that would force pharmacy benefit managers that participate in health-insurance exchanges to share key information with the government.
The amendment is conveniently located on page 129 of this PDF.
PBMs are little known but powerful players that manage companies’ prescription drug benefit plans. They’re none too happy about the prospect of disclosing how much of the savings they negotiate from drug makers are passed on to consumers, and similar sorts of details.
The amendment, sponsored by Washington Dem Maria Cantwell, specifies that the information would be kept confidential by the government. But Mark Merritt, president of the PBM trade group Pharmaceutical Care Management Association, said that information might leak out. That would hurt PBMs’ ability to negotiate low prices for drugs and lead to higher prices for patients, he argued.
“There’s no way this is going to benefit consumers, taxpayers or the federal government,” he told the Health Blog. Merritt’s group represents the biggies in the field, including Medco, Express Scripts and CVS Caremark.
Cantwell disagrees. “What we’re after here is transparency of drug pricing,” she said in a statement. “This kind of transparency will help drive down drug prices in a significant fashion.”
The CBO has estimated that the Cantwell amendment would be budget neutral, Merritt said. In 2007, CBO said requiring managers of Medicare Part D plans to disclose the rebates they receive would “very likely” cost Medicare less than $10 billion over 10 years.
As the WSJ noted last month, the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s health-overhaul bill also included a provision that would require more disclosure from PBMs.
I was going to write about an idea1 I had about creating an urban drug Olympics, where you would take users of things such as meth, crack, pcp, and smack, and pit them against each other in competition. Think Cops2, just more creative and an awards ceremony at the end; nothing amazes me more than a tweaker running from the cops.
Although the Junkie Olympics3 will not fully be discussed here today, something more important will be.
NA, NA, NAH, NA, NA I am going to Beer Fest!
Yes, my name is JP and I am five. If you have been reading for a while you may know I have been brewing my own beer for about 7-8 years and I keep getting better with ages.4 I have always heard about the Great American Beer Fest in Colorado, and have always wanted to go. I realize they charge too much and the cup they give you is pretty small, but you are also talking to the guy who drank Kona Brewing Company’s Pipeline Porter dry at the NOVA Brew Fest and got totally hammered with brass in the State Department; I love my friends.
Its not about the price or the size of your glass5 it is the Fest itself. To wander the isles checking out new and upcoming breweries or the old guard. The entire festival is broken into regions, so of course I have my plan of attack all mapped out. I am going to destroy the Pacific and Rocky Mountain sections, as we in the East, rarely get the chance to check them out. Don’t get me wrong, the East has many of my favorites, but the West is like the rare tuna you can only get at the pricey sushi joint you have always wanted to go to.
Anyways, my point is I am really excited about trying new things and having a well deserved good time. Next week I have some pretty awesome guests stopping by to season your melon with goodness. So, at the butt-crack of dawn tomorrow, I will be taking off to end my 35 days of sobriety and hopefully starting a new or at least different chapter in the Gospel of JP.
1Like all good ideas this one came to me while dropping a deuce the other day.
2I know you have watched. We all have watched at some point in our life.
3Its mine. You can borrow, but don’t steal.
4Can someone remind me to bottle the Saison I have fermenting in DC while I am there please?
5You totally were expecting me to reference my penis, I know.
or: If Obama is Montgomery Brewster, then who is playing Spike Nolan?
or: Andy Taylor would arrest Obama for fingering Aunt Bee’s pie in Mayberry
I am a dedicated politico. I find it is fun, interesting, and never boring, following politics; this is because of the general outrage and regular shock to the system that results in a life trying to track the public figures out there today. By no stretch of the imagination can I claim to have the whole story any time I report on these things. I check my facts against three different papers and then I extrapolate my own paranoid bias from these, creating a firestorm of controversy and disgust at the inferences and comments I make on these subject. Recently a few things have surfaced and been reported on that freak me the fuck out. I mean I am truly shaken at my core by what is going on out there today, and I cannot sit idly by as these things occur and unfold under public scrutiny. What is going on today has serious overtones though I am having a tough time tying it all together as some policy the White House stands by. For the most part I feel like this administration is diving head first in to a pool that has yet to be confirmed as half full or half empty.
First point I would like to address is the President’s public plea for David A. Paterson to withdraw from a bid for a full term in 2010. Mr. Paterson has been a thorn in the side of the Democratic Party as he has made major missteps over the last few months that the White House has had to deal with. The Legally-blind, African-American, New York Governor has upset Obama’s allies, snubbed them publicly even, openly defied the White House, and most recently he made comments that the criticism of his ability to govern was racially motivated and that Obama would soon suffer the same scrutiny. The brass balls on this guy.
There are a few things here that alarm me. First off, that the administration is trying, publicly, to get him to lay off a 2010 bid at all. Look, his approval rating is in the toilet and Cuomo can carry the Dem ticket by himself, and in this climate I think he can win it handily, which can then undo the Caroline Kennedy snubbing and debacle when he takes over. Secondly, I think this is just a war the White House can’t win without looking terrible. Meddling in local politics will not look good on them no matter how it falls. If they push him over for their own gain they look like big government muscle making the public’s decisions for them. Besides that they are shoving a black, blind man out, and you can’t win a fight with a cripple whether you beat them or not. If they can’t get him to step aside they run the risk of showing descent in the Dem ranks and look foolish for not being able to exert strength, which the GOP will latch right on to. Just like a fist fight with a cripple you either look terrible for beating up on the handicapped, but if you lose you look ri-goddamn-diculous for losing the fight. No upside.
This is only the most recent play the white house has made for local races to try and get the right man for the job in to the seats so they can have a united front. This bothers me in the way they are handling New York, as well as Massachusetts, Illinois, and others. Dems right now are trying to pass massive ‘big government’ legislature that the GOP and the general public are weary of, i.e. Health Care. It does not help their cause right now to be looking like the government their opponents are supposedly ‘painting’ them to be. Here they are trying to socialize medicine on an unprecedented scale and then they go and start jumping right in to states’ backyards with the federal government putting their hand in small town pies. This is a tough one to spin and you can bet your ass that loud people are latching on to this.
Outside of this Obama is going on a campaign blitz with an all out assault on the media this last Sunday morning. Obama did individual interviews for five news networks, as well as a translation for Univision, on Sunday morning alone, making him the first to do since Lewinsky’s lawyer accomplished this feat over a decade ago. There was one network he left out and boy it does not bode well for him. He left the #1 rated news broadcasting network off his list; Fox News. This was a blatant jab at Fox News, and rightly so. They had it coming, but boy was it wrong to just snub them. If it were my call they would have been first on the list and I would have had Beck himself interviewing Obama. Put Beck to the test in this spot. This is a man who has called the government socialist, accused them of tearing apart the fabric of America, destroying our values, oh and called Obama an ‘all out racist’. Who better to have to look Obama in the eye than Beck? Instead of making Beck the most uncomfortable broadcaster in America and letting the twit have it, Obama just fed their fire by leaving them out. This has created a backlash that the White House is a bad sport, whiney, and doesn’t want to give the opposition a fair shake. This move makes it undeniably true and in this Obama has infuriated the Fox News viewers and given the broadcasters more ammunition. Boy, wouldn’t it have been great to see Obama go toe to toe with Beck and just let him have it, face his accuser and tell the heir apparent of his opposition what he thought of Fox, Beck, and the filth they air. Man, would have paid pay-per-view prices for that show!
Where else are we going wrong, the name escapes me. I remember this county, had some issues with it in the last decade, we sent people there, they are still there, oh and we have no idea how to get out of it…is it quicksand? No, it’s Afghanistan. Yes, remember before we took on Iraq, we went to this place to get terrorists and make this country safer? No, well turns out there is still some shit going down, and now that Obama has done some work to try and get us out of Iraq, turns out our fair general McChrystal wants some more boys for Afghanistan or else we’re gonna ‘lose’. (as if we aren’t already) In a U.N. speech at the generally assembly, he did not really touch on the subject, though he covered a ton of other topics. Right now this administration is trying to decide on a strategy in a protracted eight year conflict that has lost us massive amounts of money, loss of life, and a loss of confidence in America as a national power. We lost all respect as a nation years back and the fact that we are still at this is ridiculous. I have said this before, but you can’t declare a war on a noun, I don’t care how many syllables it has. Drugs: not going well. Terrorism: refer to ‘drugs’.
The President doesn’t know whether to pull out, go in, go in to another country, take back the troops he already sent, root out Taliban in Pakistan and Afghanistan, stay to ‘rebuild’, etc. There seems to be true, and honest, confusion in the administration as they decide on how to proceed in meeting after meeting with no consensus. Another massive mistake on his part would be to upset both the public and fellow democrats by increasing America’s participation in the middle east. He needs a win badly right now, and a great move that the public would love would be the ned, or planned end to our foreign clusterfuck. Despite being a massive financial drain it is something he has done little about since being President and it seems that a lot of things he could be winning on are killing him right now. He needs a feather in the cap to point at, but the closest thing he has is the ‘Cash for Clunkers’ program, and frankly anything with ‘clunker’ in the title should not be top on your list of ‘pros’.
Outside of all of this the economy is still fucked, they are considering up-ing the first time buyers rebate incentive from 8,000 to 15,000 and extending the deadline from Nov 31, to the first of 2010 to get people back in to homes in this country. The bailouts…let’s not talk about that. The stimulus package…let’s pass on that, we can’t find al the money yet. Health Care…never mind that. Oh, how about the talk that Obama would be willing to listen to proposals by newspapers about bailout programs for failing news gathering organizations. What!? Now you wanna hear about it!? Are you fucking kidding me? This should have been one of the first things you handled; the utterly vital distribution of information so that this nation can be knowledgeable enough to stop being so afraid of everything, and now you’re thinking about helping. This is too little too late. This is a serious industry under duress, but I fear it is another bad investment. I could not in good conscience watch him hand out hundreds of millions to newspapers that are going to fail anyway; it would be Chrysler all over again. Can you imagine the situation though, where the government has it’s hands in industry, banking, and the free press? Talk about a Trifecta for the Communism junkies out there.
Overall I have to say that I am a bit nervous about how this government will try and spend it’s way out of it’s problems next. Spending money like a bad Brewster’s Millions clip and not thinking of the backlash. In the same fashion as Brewster it is all kinds of hush hush and vague why we are investing in such frivolous things that are not solid, but fleeting items and events that have no long term return for us to look forward to. It seems Obama is having a tough time getting things done. I have a theory though. When I have a list of things to do I write them out, all of them, on a sheet of paper, and then I start off with the easiest items. There are a couple reasons for this; first I want to get a lot of things off the list and starting at simple is good, and secondly I want to feel a sense of accomplishment on the day if I could not get to it all. When I didn’t get it all done, because I bite off more than I can chew pretty often, I knew the next day was just a couple of things. Obama seems to be starting, as a first term President, with the toughest and most laborious items first, like a terminal patient getting the big stuff out of the way before the end. This is disturbing because it makes me feel like he is legislating and governing this country as if he won’t get re-elected, as it he only has the four years and is going for broke; acting as President in this manner, this ‘nothing to lose’ ideology, will lead to one thing…only the four years. God help us then…Palin 2012(shudder).
Un grupo de policias antidrogas del condado de Polk,Florida entraron en una propiedad buscando drogas,armas y mercancias robadas pero dejaron a un lado sus deberes y decidieron entretenerse un rato jugando Wii, sin percatarce de que el lugar contaba con camaras de seguridad.
Las imágenes fueron difundidas el martes por el canal local WFLA TV de la ciudad de Tampa.
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Hollywood! Hollywood the city of pill popping and cocaine snorting.
One particular incident, while attending a rooftop gathering in Hollywood I got to witness the “No Shame” attitude out here. I went into the restroom of this venue and while in the stall I heard giggle and rambling in the stall to my right. Being the investigative person, I peaked under the stall and saw three pairs of shoes. Less than two seconds later I noticed a little purple cap roll over to my stall. One of the girls had the nerve to ask me “Hey! Could you pass me that?”
I’ve met people who abuse extasy, pain killers, sedatives, etc. A pill for breakfast, one for lunch, maybe dinner too. ”Would you like one?”
I have come to the harsh conclusion that people in Los Angeles think it’s natural to use these drugs in public. It’s okay to just snort a line of coke and not have anyone think anything of it. It’s “HOLLYWOOD!” I fully understand that drugs are abused in other states also but from what I’ve seen they at least have the decency to do it behind closed doors.
During chow that evening, I secluded myself from my normal dining companions, while brooding over my dilemma. Due to the stress which our “relationship” had been wrecking on my body, my weight drastically declined (by close to 30 lbs in less than two months) from lack of nutrition; and this evening was no exception. I could not help, but to concern myself with Mrs. Johnson’s emotional and mental well-being; for I took responsibility to keep her safe, regardless of what may happen to me. I felt I was miserably failing my duty; besides if I hadn’t agreed to become involved with her, my presence would not be compounding her entire grief (with respect to her marital situation)…still, I could not fathom a life, without her in it. Staring at the now cold food before me, nauseum settled in my stomach; so I gave the food away, and headed for the exit.
Stopping outside to light a cigarette, a spanish gentleman approached me. We recognized each other from a previous institution, as he happened to be an old cell partner of Bushwick’s, while the three of us were there. Handing me a piece of paper, the amigo nodded his head, and returned to the small cluster of spanish inmates. Finishing the cigarette, I made my way back to the dormitory and went straight to my rack. I was a little anxious to read what the amigo had to say; for we hardly spoke to each other, except for the occasional words of respect, at having the same friend.
Pulling out the letter, I recognized that the handwriting was feminine, but I didn’t recognize whose penmanship it was. The only thing that struck a vague cord of recognition, were the initials at the letter’s conclusion. The initials were “Brenda’s”, Bushwick’s baby sister.
pencil on pillow case. by Josh Wilson
Bushwick was approximately my age, and a drug runner out of the Hampton Roads area. Traveling between Virginia and South Carolina, a tight crew of three or four guys, had worked for a rising “kingpin”, from the deep south. Somehow or another, during one of their expeditions, a substantial amount of drugs and money came up missing. After all the accusations and finger pointing reached its critical apex; Bushwick decided to walk away. Seeing how he had to care for his sister, a girlfriend, and three young children (only one sired by himself), Bushwick began operating on his own, back in Virginia. (I shall get into more depth shortly). Anyhow, he got busted and sentenced both here in Virginia, as well as South Carolina. Brenda, his overly paranoid sister, who I greatly adore; believed he had been set up. Her avid belief in this, coupled with two notably violent incidents involving her brother and myself; caused Brenda to be excessively discreet, when communicating with specific friend’s of Bushwick. Whenever Brenda seeks to reach me, it is done in one of two ways: she will have someone else write and send me a letter, or; she will send a letter to a mutual acquaintance of Bushwick and I, for the message to be delivered.
Today, the Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP) had it’s first ever meeting on SCSU’s campus. You can find out information about the organization, which has over 100 chapters in the U.S. and more in other countries, on its Web site. Though it might be easy to assume otherwise because it is a college organization regarding drugs, the organization does not promote the use of drugs or necessarily support the legalization of narcotics. Instead, it is focused on more sensible drug policies on the campus, city, state, or national level, namely due to the failures of the United States’ current War on Drugs. The mission statement, also available on their Web site along with other helpful information, is as follows:
Students for Sensible Drug Policy is an international grassroots network of students who are concerned about the impact drug abuse has on our communities, but who also know that the War on Drugs is failing our generation and our society.
SSDP mobilizes and empowers young people to participate in the political process, pushing for sensible policies to achieve a safer and more just future, while fighting back against counterproductive Drug War policies, particularly those that directly harm students and youth.
Again, as per their values statement available on the Web site, SSDP “neither encourages nor condemns drug use.” Instead, it seeks “a just and compassionate society where drug abuse is treated as a health issue instead of a criminal justice issue.” Furthermore, the SSDP continues, “As scholars we seek solutions to society’s drug problems through focused research, honest dialogue, and informed debate, instead of unquestioned extremism, punishment, and propaganda.”
So that’s the SSDP. Now that SCSU officially has a chapter, I hope the issue of sensible drug policy can more earnestly be discussed on campus. In fact, I’m rather optimistic that this can happen even after just the first meeting tonight. There were good ideas brought up about spreading awareness and contributing useful dialogue. We are still discussing the scope of our focus (thinking primarily the campus-level at the moment) and the types of policies we should be promoting, but I’m confident this organization has the capability of creating meaningful discourse and even implementing helpful changes because I know there are members working on this who are eager, intelligent, and devoted to the issue.
My diatribe on the issue
What is my take on the issue of drug policy? I don’t know how aligned my views are with the rest of the group’s but I think we can all definitely agree the War on Drugs has been a fantastic failure. The research and academic literature on this issue is immense, and I cannot possibly address it all. To make a seriously thorough post on this topic is probably beyond my capability, especially for the purpose of crafting a blog post (so I won’t pretend to address every or even most of the salient points, which are important and have been discussed diligently elsewhere). One thing has become abundantly clear, though: Prohibition does not cause things to go away; it makes things more dangerous among other adverse social effects. The argument in support of the War on Drugs are plentiful and nuanced (mostly coming from the conservative right), but usually fall flat when seriously scrutinized.
Of particular interest has been the issue of marijuana. Increasingly, the American public has been concerned with the government’s harsh laws on marijuana and there has been a very strong push for legalization (or at least decriminalization), even to such an extent that President Obama and his administration had to respond. The response has been less harsh than that of President Bush’s, but it still falls short.
But we cannot even begin to talk about the criminalization of marijuana without first acknowledging its purpose. There is a reason why marijuana is illegal (and alcohol is not, for example). History actually ran a show about it (Hooked: Illegal Drugs and How They Got That Way—I recommend everyone watch it). The reason is because it was associated with “deviants” (read: minorities). So the policy has its roots in racism. The laws are still quite racist, in fact. The only way to justify them is through bigotry.
There is no medical reason for banning marijuana (a claim strongly supported by the medical literature). Certain drugs, including marijuana, have become criminalized because they’re associated with what’s called the “dangerous classes,” meaning poor people. That’s why, for example, gin was criminalized in 19th century London and whiskey was not. Poor people drank gin. This is why the sentencing for crack is so much harsher than for powder cocaine. Poor people use crack. For marijuana, it was Mexicans bringing it in. That’s why you’ve got to criminalize it.
So, yes, it’s also quite true that there was a time when these things weren’t prohibited. Society functioned still. In fact, there are places were it’s currently not criminalized. Take Portugal for example. They’re a functioning society. In fact, since they’ve legalized marijuana, they have said it has benefited their society (teen drug use decreased, HIV from needle sharing decreased, and treatment increased). Of course, one should not be surprised by this.
As it happens, places such as the National Treatment Improvement Evaluation Study and the RAND Corporation have done studies the cost effectiveness of certain approaches. Invariably, what they find is that treatment and prevention is the most cost effective (and by large margins). Law enforcement, police work, and incarceration was more expensive and less effective. Even more expensive and even less effective is border intervention. The least effective and most costly? Extra-national operations. So what approach do the United States take? We actually do it in the opposite direction. We’re spending more money on doing things like engaging in chemical warfare on Colombia’s farms. The next biggest place we spend money is on border intervention, and down the line. Why is it done this way? Because it helps corporations and the government. It’s used as a cover for counter-insurgency, clears the land of peasants so large multinational corporations can come in for resource extraction and agrobusiness, benefits the prison-industrial complex, grows the government, unconstitutionally expands their power, etc. But it doesn’t stop drug use. And this is no small amount either. We’re spending hundreds of billions of dollars on this so-called war on drugs. And for what? For naught. (In fact, it’s making things worse.) All the while we could be making billions from the legal sale of it in taxes. On the other hand, while we’re losing hundreds of billions, drug cartels and other illegal enterprises are making billions. Does that really seem logical to anyone?
When the news came out late last week that Burt Reynolds had been in rehab for painkiller addiction, reports suggested previous drug abuse in the 1980s, “after he was diagnosed with temporomandibular joint disorder, a painful condition which affected his jaw.” The drug was Halcion.
Why a sleep med for dealing with TMD?
If a person has the habit of nighttime clenching and bruxing (grinding the teeth from side to side), this can lead to or intensify the effects of TMD. We presume anti-anxiety and sleep drugs may be given to try to reduce the behavior that increases pain and discomfort.
We don’t think “drug therapy” of any kind is a good way for dealing with TMD – even as painkillers, antidepressants and anti-anxiety drugs may give temporary relief from symptoms. Drugs add to the overall toxic body burden and increase the risk of greater health problems down the line. Of course, they also have their immediate risks, as well, via so-called “side effects.” Really, it would be more appropriate to call them “direct effects.” The drug causes them directly; they’re just not the preferred effects.
As an interesting side note, some drugs can actually cause conditions that lead to TMD – most notably Prozac and other SSRIs. Some who have never clenched or bruxed before develop the habit upon taking these drugs.
Most times, TMD can be treated through the use of night guards, orthodontic devices to realign the bite and other nontoxic, non-invasive measures. If immediate pain relief is needed, a wide variety of homeopathics, herbs and nutritional supplements may be used. Neural therapy, acupuncture and various types of body work (e.g., therapeutic massage, Rolfing) can also help alleviate pain without the use of drugs…which seem inevitably to do more harm than good.
We wish Mr. Reynolds the best to as he adapts to a new and – we hope – drug-free life.
The annual two day music festival had over 20,000 people flocking from across the nation to the small, east coast town of Byron Bay. The out-of-towners set up camp in tents, rented over-priced houses or simply slept in their cars.
The invasion of tourists began on Friday morning, a day before the event opened its gates. The majority of locals not attending or involved in the festival, left town or retreated indoors for the weekend. Fridges were stocked and alcohol cabinets filled; before shelves at Woolworths and the bottle-o could be cleared out by the hectic influx in population by festival goers.
Friday night saw the town heaving with people; having already consumed large quantities of alcohol and copious amounts of drugs. The long awaited party had begun. Bands such as Blocparty were rumoured to be playing at The Great Northern Hotel, and Powderfinger were apparently busking on a street somewhere. The weekend began with a mash of attendees and musicians, partying with the same energy of anticipation.
Saturday morning saw people dribbling in to see Manchester Orchestra, for an early start of 1pm; after minimal sleep or continuous consumption. This weekend was no place for the weak. Walking through the gates after crossing a barrier of at least ten sniffer dogs and countless police officers (who did a poor job at finding drugs but a grand job of intimidating a paranoid crowd), I witnessed the first patron being hauled out on a stretcher. The gates had been open for an hour and a drug O.D. was already in progress.
The line-up of bands who attended was phenomenal; including Little Birdy, Friendly Fires, MGMT, Hilltop Hoods, Grinspoon, Doves, The Specials and Birds of Tokyo; to name a few. The festival was as close to an attempt that 2009 could make of the ‘60’s; with acid, pill and weed taking and a friendly, loving vibe to boot. People were happy, musicians were amped and recycling was encouraged through monetary rewards.
From the selection of music I chose to attend: all performed well besides Decoder Ring who became monotonous and dampened my mood and Jane’s Addiction who decided to cancel at the last minute, pissing numerous people off. Event holders took any opportunity to screw every last dollar out of a wasted crowd, charging ridiculous amounts for food and drink, but at the end of the day; it was to be expected.
The Monday morning aftermath saw the blockage of the main road out of town and a pile up on the Pacific Highway. Campervans, ute’s and cars were laden with hazy eyed attendees fleeing home to their beds. In the early afternoon the crowds began to lessen, the traffic started to finally flow and a town was left raped yet loved in many, many ways.
There is a violence inside of me I will truly never let go of. I personally LOVE IT more than any other emotion I have. Yes I just said “violence” is an emotion to me….because it is. It is like an abstraction of anger, in which my imagination takes over and I truly begin fantasize about violence in art, violence among the people and places around me and violence among myself. I know it seems angst, but trust me, it is beyond that. It is me, and I am Violent. I have a few new pieces coming to show this.
Today was the 25th anniversary of Operation Dawn, or 晨曦會. Operation Dawn is an organization that provides Christian Spiritual Therapy for drug addicts. By living in these compounds called therapeutic communities, recovering drug addicts at Operation Dawn are cut off from their supply of drugs and focus completely on detoxing not just their physical addiction but also their psychological cravings and dependence.
I had the opportunity to live at one of these therapeutic communities last summer. As part of my senior thesis research on substance abuse recovery in Taiwan, I sought out Operation Dawn and they sent me to one of their therapeutic communities for two weeks out in the countryside of this little town called Hukou. Of course I was pretty freaked out at the prospect of having to live with drug addicts, but at the same time I was excited to have this unique opportunity. Needless to say there I gathered some very inspiring and touching narratives. But another thing happened as well. I too was transformed. As my Harvard academic adviser told me before I left for Taiwan that summer, “anthropology research will not only shape you as an academic but it will also shape you as a human being.”
The therapeutic community in Hukou. I lived here for two weeks with around 20 other guys. Out of everyone, including the teachers and directors, I was the only one who had never used drugs before. Everyone there at one time or another was a drug addict.
We all slept together in the same room. My bed is on the bottom, the messier one. They offered me to sleep in another room by myself but I gently declined and opted to stay with them instead. This made for some very interesting late night conversations.
Every morning we wake up at 6:30am and do morning exercises out in the courtyard. The brothers live at the therapeutic communities for a year and a half. There is no TV, radio or newspaper and the schedule everyday is roughly the same. It definitely took some adapting for me.
Afterwards we took our showers here. It was funny because all the shower heads had "Eric" branded on them for some reason.
Breakfast. Before every meal we sang a little worship song and prayed. Everyone ate so fast and would be done in like 2 minutes. I was usually the last one eating because I ate slower and of course ate a lot as well.
Some of the brothers chilling under the tea shack. During our downtime in between classes or before and after meals we would relax here. This is where I heard a lot of their stories and jokes. Because I was an ignorant American they would teach me a lot of Chinese slang and even once tried to offer to sneak me out at night and take me to a strip club under the guise of "participant-observation research."
In addition to classes we did many service projects, including watering the garden and on occasion driving into Taipei to help people move furniture. I was somewhat surprised that they could leave the therapeutic community. In actuality if they wanted to they can leave whenever they wanted to because the doors are never locked and there are no security cameras...stark contrast to the prison I'm working at.
Every day for lunch we made our noodles. This is me making some noodles from scratch.
Hmm something isn't quite right.
There we go! The food there was surprisingly delicious. One of the brothers had worked in a restaurant in Hong Kong for 20 years so he did all of the cooking. On the last day he cooked up a feast with roast duck, fish, and tofu.
Pastors from outside volunteered their time and came to give sermons. One pastor decided to get creative and used movies, such as Wanted, to relate a gospel message. For Operation Dawn, it's not enough to just physically stop using drugs. People's hearts have to change as well. For them, they detox not only drugs but also sin.
Worship at night. As odd as this might sound, you were supposed to wear shoes and clothes in the classroom. I once got scolded for not wearing either (only had on boxers). Don't blame me! Most of the time we walk around in our boxers so I thought it was ok.
They had a little gym with some benches, weights, a treadmill, an ab-wheel and 2 ping pong tables. Just enough for a good workout. Once some of the brothers and I played rock paper sissors. The first loser did bench presses, the second did ab-wheels, and the third did push-ups. Yea, so manly.
On Sundays we all dressed up and went to church. If you knew who they were you would be surprised too. Each one has a unique story. All of them were addicts for years, some decades. Almost all of these brothers had been members of the underground society and had been to prison. Some of these brothers have had near-death experiences or attempted suicide. Some had relapsed many times. For some this is their first time in Operation Dawn, for some it's their third. But for all of them one thing is certain. They will always be in recovery for the rest of their lives.
At the 25th anniversary celebration on September 19, 2009. Here are the distinguished directors, teachers, and workers of Operation Dawn. Many of them were former drug addicts and they now have devoted their life to helping drug addicts struggle with their substance abuse, cravings, family problems, unemployment, and motivation to live. Essentially all of the addicts who come to Operation Dawn have hit the end of the road. They've already tried everything, including medicine, and been in prison for several years. They have nowhere else to turn and at Operation Dawn they have a chance to change their lives and live in a meaningful way.
The head of Operation Dawn, Reverend Simon Lau. He was also a former drug addict for 10 years before entering Operation Dawn in Hong Kong. There he was able to turn himself around and now he has devoted his life to helping hundreds of other drug addicts. Today there are numerous therapeutic communities around the world, and he has also set up halfway houses, vocational training centers, disciple training centers, and a specific center for addicts suffering from HIV. Reverend Lau is one of the most dynamic speakers I have ever seen because he speaks with such passion, experience, wisdom and love.
Living at the therapeutic community was powerful because it allowed me to witness and experience firsthand the transformation of these brothers. I have learned so much from these guys and I was glad to see some of them today at the gathering. This past weekend I was also an interpreter for this guy who came from India and only knew how to speak English. Adu turned out to be the director of Operation Dawn in Nagaland and even welcomed me to come live there.
Don't worry I didn't know where it was either.
Operation Dawn also has therapeutic communities in Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Myanmar, China, Hong Kong, Canada and the United States. Maybe I’ll get a chance to visit all of them!
It was awesome being a part of something special today and seeing how lives have been touched and transformed. Congrats to Operation Dawn!
New research with mice has provided some fascinating insight into how addictive drugs hijack reward signals and influence neural processes associated with learning and memory. The research, published by Cell Press in the September 10th issue of the journal Neuron, helps to explain why and how drug-associated memories, such as the place of drug use, drive and perpetuate the addiction.
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The neurochemical dopamine, a key player in the brain’s reward system, is known to be involved in the process of addiction. Research has indicated that dopamine participates in neural processes associated with learning, such as the strengthening of neuronal connections, called synaptic potentiation. Evidence also implicates the hippocampus, a deep-brain structure that is critical for formation of new memories, in the development of drug addiction.
"Although addictive drugs like nicotine have been shown to influence the induction of synaptic potentiation, there has been little or no research in freely moving animals that monitors ongoing induction of synaptic potentiation by a biologically relevant drug dose," explains senior author Dr. John Dani from the Department of Neuroscience at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. Dr. Dani and Dr. Jianrong Tang recorded from the brains of freely moving mice while applying physiologically relevant concentrations of nicotine, the addictive component in tobacco.
The researchers observed that nicotine induced synaptic potentiation correlated with the mice learning to prefer a place associated with the nicotine dose. Importantly, these effects required a local dopamine signal within the hippocampus. This finding reinforces the view that dopamine enables memory for specific events.
Taken together, these results point to some intriguing possibilities about how drug-associated memories might contribute to behaviors associated with addiction. "An animal’s memories or feelings about the environment are updated when the dopamine signal labels a particular event as important, new, and salient. Normally these memories help us to perform successful behaviors, but in our study, those memories were linked to the addictive drug," concludes Dr. Dani. "When specific environmental events occur, such as the place or people associated with drug use, they are capable of cuing drug-associated memories or feelings that motivate continued drug use or relapse."
If I were part of a very small group of elite individuals and families from around the world whom together held 90% of the entire world’s wealth along with the power to print its money and manipulate the value of that money, and I wanted to keep it that way for myself and pass this fortune and privilege on to my sons and daughters… what would I do to make sure I (we) remained in control of both the money, and more importantly my power over the world, specifically the United States?
The following is what I would do:
*** Disclosure: Any similarities to actual events or happenings from the last 50-100 years, with regards to people, beliefs, lies, manipulations, theft, treason, genocide, politics, religion, culture, money, industry, media or entertainment are strictly coincidental, and are, I assure you, accidental in very much a purposeful way:
1. I would implement incremental change slowly over many, many years.
This simply means that I would manipulate the laws, cultures, beliefs, medias, entertainments, religions, and truths of the entire nation in such a prolonged yet purposeful manner that the vast majority of its citizens would not notice my efforts. Generationally speaking, the change would be both alien and destructive to the cohesion of any older generation’s morals and values, which they would attempt in vein to transfer or pass down to their new age children. The “New Age” would be every generation’s own crusade against the last. In fact I would change these things so slowly, say over a 60 year period, that these people would not only accept these incremental changes (changes which separately add up to a total change over time), but would actually think that the ideals behind them were in fact their own, pulling the spotlight away from my small group of elites who hide behind the celebrities, public officials, and politicians who sell and implement these changes. Adolph Hitler – whose efforts are used here as an example of the non-incremental fascist take-over of a society – in my eyes could not succeed due to the rapid degradation of the impression or illusion of freedom amongst the people of Germany and around the world. I, as part of this elitist group, would even fight against this type of take-over (and they did) in order to put into place my more sound incremental technique of domination over a society, until the country was no longer a sovereign nation, but one of corporate ownership under our foreign banks and partners, which would be controlled by a central construct (like the United Nations) that would slowly (incrementally) strip the nation of its property, land, and infrastructure, as well as its deeply rooted independence and sovereignty.
2. I would put into place a puppet government whose strings I could pull, which would take the blame both currently and historically for my secretive groups’ undertakings.
In order to plausibly deny any and all connections to me with regards to public policy, our totalitarian laws, unjust or illegal taxes and legislation that is overtly anti-Constitutional, socialist, and fascist, or any type of less incremental (sudden) changes which would only benefit us and our corporate monopolies, I would rig or fix elections in order to give the people the illusion of their participation in the voting process for their favorite candidate – in most cases their favorite Cult of Personality spokesman – who in reality would be culled, prepped, empowered, funded, and completely controlled by us. Thus, the responsibility for all of the problems within the economy of the country (though they be caused by us), the attacking of other countries (though this too is our doing), and the constant ups and downs in monetary instability, recession, and depression (again us), would be blamed solely on the President of the United States and his cabinet, of whose invisible strings I would pull. If a president or any other elected or appointed candidate of whom we put into power were to have a change of heart or attempt a coo against us, I would simply set up or assassinate them, and quickly replace him or her with our standby safety measure (like the vice-president) until the next election. I would slowly (incrementally) replace paper ballots, which leave a transparent and re-countable paper trail, with voting machines made by one of our conglomerate corporations in which the programming and systems information are kept top secret by federal law from any regulatory bodies, including the senate and congress (whom incidentally, also do our bidding). In this way, tallies can be instantly modified to ensure the correct candidate be placed into office, and we can ensure that no paper trail be left behind to double-check the actual individual voter tallies. Since both candidates in the two-party system we created and control would be placed there by us, we could rest assured that the losing candidate would never chase or require a full recount in the election, and would accede the vote to our other candidate. In this and other ways, checks and balances would be dissolved while keeping up the appearance of a fair election process. This left/right paradigm of political competition would pit those voters who are conservative against those who are liberal, keeping both sides busy fighting amongst themselves and blaming each other’s administrations for the political and economic problems that we engineer, while we at the top of the power pyramid continue to clandestinely take control of the country.
3. I would never let a third political party gain any considerable control in the state or federal governments, unless I either controlled them as well, or had access to information which would discredit their candidacy once elected.
A number of third party candidates would always be allowed to appear on the ballot in order to keep the illusion of voter freedom, free will, and free-choice alive in the conscious of the uneducated voting pubic who, through carefully crafted and projected propaganda, would actually still believe that they live in a free country and that their votes are legally counted. But these alternative candidates would never be allowed to actually win any seat of power that would take away from my accessibility to the electorate, which I control. Of course the occasional dark horse, grass-roots, or “no other choice” candidate would be allowed to be “elected” in the short term to an insignificant political position, but the sheer majority of the two-party, democrat/republican, left/right paradigm will always trump any truly altruistic attempts at politically changing the system for the good of the people. I would also spread a doubt and disinformation campaign amongst the voting masses, convincing them against all logic and reason that a third-party candidate could never actually win an important post, nor would he or she ever possibly be able to effect change within the dominant two-party system, portraying them as a “lone wolf” with no supporters from the two dominant parties in the legislature. This would ensure even against the most tenuous of election campaigns that a third party candidate, from an intellectually brainwashed voters standpoint, could never be elected. I would also fund the campaigns of certain unpopular, off-the-wall, politically incorrect, or downright crazy third party candidates in order to further discredit the very ideal of voting for anything other than the established two-party system. This brainwashing would manifest in political conversations as anger, irrational confrontation, absolute denial, or sheer ignorance of the fact that any third party candidates are even on the ballot until voting day arrives. It would also show in the unreasonable shame one would feel when voting for an alternative candidate in the voting booth; a subconscious irrational feeling of guilt, dismay, or hopelessness for even the most ardent supporters of said third party candidate.
Essentially, when one party would begin to fall, the other one would be there to win the election. This teeter tottering of popularity between left and right would continuously serve to prop up the opposite party for election. When one becomes obviously corrupt, our controlled media would shine favorably on the other. By establishing an eight year term limit, which would be enough time for the people to forget or forgive the previous president – or more importantly his or her affiliated party – and by perpetrating nonsensical ideals such as ‘presidents always win re-election campaigns during war-time’, we would appease each supporting group of the populace every four or eight years, as they celebrate the triumph over the competing party. By using idealistic and emotional concepts like good and evil, liberal and conservative, left and right… each party would consider themselves to be on the correct side of modern politics. This combined psychological operation would ensure our two-party system’s un-fatigable, perpetual motion.
4. I would use each generation gap against the next, ensuring differing views, ethics, and ideals that would make one generation blame the others before and after them for the corruption and problems in society as a whole.
Responsibility breeds reaction. Blame insures inaction. Perpetual blame and inaction assures the continuity of government. Fads, fashions, movie stars and themes, music, sitcoms, technology, beliefs, traditions, institutions, and educational differences and limitations would all contribute to the differing views and ideals of each new generation. While the elderly would remember the way things used to be and wonder at the degradation of society, the middle-aged will be wondering what happened to their youth, while changing the rules and laws to benefit themselves and their future retirement at the expense of even their own children, as these youth are busy with the impression of changing the world (to the extent that we allow and promote) and realizing the middle-agers are becoming corrupt and are responsible for their lower work standards, wages, and seemingly poor economic outlook. This never-ending cycle will be repeated until the end of time, as we will always be there to corrupt the middle-aged and guide the youth into middle age. I would promote disparaging nicknames for each new generation through the media (such as Generation X), providing continuous negative commentary on the supposed fact that each new generation is “lost” or “misguided”.
5. I would decimate or make illegitimate the idea of the “role model” or “hero”.
By slowly changing the perceptions of the younger sections of our society who would ordinarily admire and strive to seek vocational, heroic, professional, or even family oriented individuals as their mentors… I would flood the media and entertainment outlets, including large percentages of the news, with sports and sports figures: individuals who in the eyes of our youth would become like idols. (Also: rock stars, actors, entertainers, models, porn stars, etc…). Thus, regardless of the fact that the chances of success in professional sports are literally a one in a million long shot, the perception that this or other non-realistic goals are attainable will illogically take precedence over scholastic goals and realistic career choices. So much so, that most youth will put such a low emphasis on education that they will be easily assimilated into the skill-less workforce which will tower up around them, and which will be the only alternative to their dreams. Farming, ranching, industry, health-care, fire-fighting, and so many other essential vocations would be reduced to second-chance jobs; consolations whose standards and practices we would simultaneously yet incrementally lower over time in order to accommodate the 99.9% of failures to these idealistic, popular, unrealistic dream jobs and sports star aspirations.
6. I would shift the countries independent export economy into a dependant import economy.
Simply put, I would ruin the food and agricultural economy at home by imposing inane mandates and laws through a central governing body (like the FDA) which again is funded by us, replacing wholesome and nutritious crops with unnecessary and unhealthful commodities that could be traded predictably and profitably as futures, for the purposes of producing non-food items such as fuel (like ethanol), feed crops (like hay and aleph-alpha), and filler foods (such as soy beans). I would impose government subsidies or incentives for farmers to switch from growing healthy food to growing what we wanted them to grow. In this way, a farm eventually could not operate without money from the government, which as you remember, is controlled and funded by me, through your taxes. I would slowly invest in all of the seeds and seed companies which farmers must buy to plant their fields each year, and once we owned a majority of these seeds – including ones we genetically modify and then patent as intellectual property so that no one may use them without our permission, I would pass legislation that farmers be required to buy my seeds and use my pesticides or pay heavy fines. I would design these seeds so that they’re fruit would bear no seeds of their own, thus forcing farmers to buy new seeds every year, instead of traditionally re-using the seeds which were produced in the previous years crop yield. Thus, by incrementally slowing or stopping the production of common whole and nutritious fruits, vegetables, and nuts in this county, America would then be forced to purchase from other countries (import) most of it’s eatable produce. Of course I would also have control of these countries of export, meaning that we would be making the profits from this international trade and would also be able to set the health, pesticide use, and growing standards for these foreign and domestic farms of import. I would then sabotage the laws regarding the labeling of nutrition information on these foodstuffs, so that the facts about where they were grown, whether or not they’re organic or GMO (genetically modified organisms), and they’re nutrition information would no longer be required to be listed by U.S, international, or United Nations law. Of course we would have the corporations that produce these pesticides and GMO seeds and foods in our back pockets, and award lucrative, no-bid contracts to them for “research and development” purposes, in exchange for huge kickbacks to us, systematically destroying any smaller independent companies who seek market shares in the food industry. And finally, once the industry was in ruins and the food market and farmers were in serious trouble, I would establish a new governmental body controlled by me to replace the FDA, which would be “legally” voted in by the congress and senate, whom of course we would control with equally transparent strings, and signed by the president. A few contrived or “false flag” food emergencies and contaminations leading to total recalls of meat, dairy, or produce, would serve to help pass this new administration – under the guise of protecting the food supply, or for food safety. What better way to control people than to control the people’s food supply? Also, by allowing monopolistic corporations like Wall Mart and Target to overtake the marketplace (which would import most of their cheaply made products from Asian, African, and South American markets for pennies on the dollar, while putting quality American farms, manufacturers, and small businesses out of business), I would ensure a declining industrial and manufacturing base in America until the economy was almost completely consumer oriented and import dependant. Pride in one’s country would be incrementally destroyed, and younger generations would never know the difference as they seek work in the only industry remaining: the service industry. And finally, I would develop technology which would allow larger companies to outsource work to other countries for cheaper wages, even while American workers go unemployed, and not punish these companies for atrocities and crimes committed in these foreign places related to pollution, sweatshops, unfair wages and working conditions, and other human rights violations.
7. I would systematically dumb down the population through the destruction of its system of education, and through it’s entertainment outlets.
“Educated men are as much superior to uneducated men as the living are to the dead.” – Aristotle: 384-322 B.C.
By slowly (incrementally) and legally altering the very definition of education over many years, I would transform the school system in this country from one of learning to one of socialization, liberalism (wealth sharing and welfare conscious), law enforcement, military, and non-skilled job training. I would organize a methodically efficient board of “education specialists” whose main objective is to covertly manipulate the parents and taxpayers into supporting controversial “education” programs (Sex Education, Health Education, Drug and Alcohol Education, Death Education, Critical Thinking Education, etc…) against their better judgment. I would liberalize the majority of kids and young adults in order to pressure the still critical thinking older conservative minority into submission and acceptance of this re-education process. I would slowly alter and rewrite the history books to reflect a more pro-military, pro-Federal Government, pro-world-government, anti-republic, pro-democracy, anti-Constitution, pro-socialism, pro-depopulation, and pro-illegal-immigration agenda, so that future citizens would conform easily to the incremental take-over of America by the United Nations and other international organizations, and bankers like us. I would replace critical thinking problems and exercises with multiple choice answer sheets. I would introduce machines for testing and grading, so that writing became obsolete. Fill in the blank would become fill in the bubble, with alternative test answers so obviously wrong that failure would be nearly impossible. I would first manipulate, and then require the use of teaching materials such as text-books, educational films, and other modified tools of education, basically re-writing history and text books so that our cause is cast in a positive light. I would then universally ban the use of certain non-fiction writings and all too relevant or realistic fiction books and movies in the classroom, to ensure the conformity of our new re-education process. Through media outlets I would change perceptions about home-schooling in the general populace, and then outlaw this form of education through use of the courts, mandatory inoculations, claiming parental incompetence, and threatening custody battles for non-compliance of education and vaccine laws.
8. I would attack the family structure in America.
A constant attack campaign on the traditional ideal of the family unit through media and news outlets would be employed. Its goal would be to destabilize the structure and bond of the family and to liberalize and empower women and children in order to turn them against their parents or spouses on most issues, and disrupt any natural harmony in the family unit. This combined with other assaults to the moral fabric of society, such as the establishment and acceptance of the abortion and porn industries, would surely reduce the reality of family for young people from an ideal to a consequence of unsafe sex. Homosexuality would be projected as fun and acceptable and laws would be passed to protect its sanctity, with dissent thereof to be punishable by federal and state laws. I would produce, introduce, and maintain harmful and even deadly sexually transmitted diseases in order to promote condoms, reinforce birth control, and contribute to our depopulation agenda through the communicable spread of these transmittable diseases and fear of sex. Christmas and Thanksgiving would be morphed into repulsive, twice a year get-togethers, which families would actually see as a dreadful experience and begin to feel disdain and even stress towards these once cherished holidays, while the actual spiritual meaning would loose out to consumer advertising, Santa Claus, and gift giving. Sons and daughters would lose any appreciation of the sacrifices their parents made for them while growing up, and would be too busy or not care enough to take care of their mother and father when old age, senility or health issues strike in later life. The very idea of the duty and responsibility of parental care would be transformed into a repulsive subject through media outlets. Convalescence would become a state responsibility through insurance and hospice centers with little or no quality of care. And these businesses along with pharmaceutical manufacturers would take over the industry of death, profitably prolonging misery and sickness while allowing their consumer-minded children to continue in their full-time work as contributing members of society, ignoring the natural duty of parental care. By changing the economy from an industrial and food producing country into a service, consumer, and skill-less work based society, longer work hours and the necessity of both parents to work, specifically mothers, would consequentially make home-schooling and family values begin to degrade. Nanny’s, teachers, and baby-sitters would log more hours with children than their actual parents possibly could, making the juxtaposition towards outside influences opposed to family values and parental influence unavoidable. This constant struggle would hopefully serve to drive a wedge between father and son, mother and daughter. Beloved animated movies and children’s programming, which might subtlety steer children away from the foundations of family and morals, would take the place of parental guidance and quality family time. Unhealthy, mentally debilitating, and disease causing snack foods would be pushed onto the palates of children through advertising on kids programming and cartoons, magazines, and in schools causing serious health, developmental, social, learning and behavioral problems. Simultaneously, pharmaceutical drugs that would counter these developmental problems would be introduced and prescribed as a cure for the contrived side effects of these poisonous food ingredients we have inundated the food supply with. Of course, these built in side effects of prescription drugs would make children docile, socially inept, and ultimately controllable for life. For as they get older, adult versions of these drugs would be made available as well, since almost all of the manufactured consumer food supply would eventually be tainted in this way. How? We would simply purchase or take over all food-manufacturing companies and destroy the farming, meat and dairy industries by forcing them to use our GMO seeds, growth hormones, and GMO feed for their livestock. Our FDA or equivalent governing body would ensure that this was done legally, imposing largely un-payable and probably bankrupt-able fines and taxation for non-compliance of the rules and regulations we set. Since most farmers would already be subsidized by us the government (us), they would be forced to comply or loose these subsidies and go out of business.
9. I would make all valuable and medically necessary drugs illegal, and covertly import illicit and addictive substances, ensuring they are dispensed throughout the nation by illegal means.
By owning or micro managing pharmaceutical companies and the drugs they manufacture, I would require that they be available by prescription only (illegal substances unless prescribed) and require a doctor to prescribe them. In this way, the medical industry (also controlled by me) will have a constant influx of citizens seeking permission to acquire illegal drugs through medical prescription. The slow sabotage and removal of healthy food choices, the inclusion of harmful substances into most manufactured food products, the fluoridation of the water supply, and the introduction of high fructose corn syrup and “sugar free” additives such as Aspartame and Sucralose would insure this influx of sick citizens with chemically induced illnesses. I would ensure the need of even more pharmaceutical drugs and prescriptions by systematically building side effects into these medicines, so that drugs to ease the side effects of the original drugs would be required. Knowing the cornucopia of health, medical, clothing and other benefits derived from hemp, I would equate this weed to the marijuana family of the cannabis plant in order to control its use and production, though it has no psychedelic or THC properties. Inversely, I would slowly (incrementally) make marijuana a medically permissible and easy to acquire prescription drug (still illegal) one state at a time, fooling the public into thinking that it is now a legal substance, as opposed to the still highly government grown, controlled illegal plant that it is. I would invade Afghanistan and take over the poppy seed fields, using low-level, uneducated enlisted army soldiers to guard the fields: pawns and cannon fodder who don’t ask questions. This would ensure the oversight and continued controlled production of mood-altering and addictive opium-based prescription drugs like Valium, Xanax, Provigial, and other anti-depressants and anti-anxieties, as well as illicit and more deadly addictive compounds like heroin. The Opium of the masses, as they say…
10. I would promote abortion as birth control.
I (we) would incrementally push the logic and righteousness of abortion as a legitimate form of birth control, specifically in the less wanted ethnicity groups (African-American, Hispanic, etc…). In this way, population control of what we as eugenicist’s consider the lesser forms of the human species with respect to race, geographic location, and poverty levels could be accomplished through the enabling powers of cooperative group-think acceptance. Simultaneously, we would set up “Family Guidance” centers (like Planned Parenthood), mostly in these poorer neighborhoods, sponsored by apparently altruistic means (like The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, The Ford Foundation, etc…). By offering free and at cost “services” like counseling and abortion procedures, eugenics would become an unfathomed reality. Also, we would establish such clinics in third world populations and require through international law these services by local and world government (United Nations) decree. Denial of “mentally unstable”, single, or financially inadequate mothers to the privilege of bearing a child would be necessary, and so forced abortions and one child policies would become commonplace and even eventually acceptable. Constant propaganda through mass media and respected public figures would reinforce the fallacious and deceptive worldly perspective that over-population is on the verge of destroying the planet. Thus, we would ensure a non-empathetic response from the masses as we depopulated the planet. Abortion would play a key role in this effort, ensuring that only evolutionally superior races would substantially propagate.
11. I would incrementally set up a surveillance grid, systematically requiring a national ID card, RFID, and biometric identification measures, ultimately leading to a computerized, plugged-in, cashless society in a complete and total control grid.
Slowly building confidence in the public through the media and entertainment venues, shows like Cops, America’s Funniest Home Videos, Candid Camera, Cheaters, and “undercover investigative” news programs would be used to push public acceptance of the positive and entertaining effects that constant surveillance and closed circuit television (CCTV) have on a society through crime-prevention and security. “Reality shows” like Big Brother, The Real World, and many others would be created to downplay the intrusiveness of cameras in the home and to get the masses used to being under 24 hour surveillance. A total surveillance grid could then be slowly (incrementally) put into place – virtually under (or over) the noses of the public – in the form of traffic light cameras, built-in computer web-cameras, security cameras on every corner, cable box and video game console cameras, satellite high definition surveillance feeds, and eventually mandatory government monitored in-home cameras (first in child custody and criminal cases, and later for every home), as well as digital wireless wire taps, cell-phone conversation recordings, collection and filing of text messages and emails (in federal fusion centers), and tracking through GPS positioning on cell-phones, products, and ID cards containing RFID tags, RFID embedded car license plates and on-board services like On-star and other GPS based devices. Playing on the ease and convenience of ATM, credit card, radio frequency ID (RFID), microchip, and other paper-free solutions, I would then push to make cash an obsolete form of payment, incrementally phasing out paper money in lieu of bank cards, credit and biometric scanning (thumb, body, and eye scans). By creating a cashless society, all forms of payment could then be tracked without discrepancy, taxed without fail, clandestinely monitored for suspicious activities (against us), sold to product placement organizations, and would ensure that the privacy of cash transactions be abolished. In this way, a total control and tracking system of all money and wealth would be accomplished. If a citizen steps out of line or is found to be contemptuous of the puppet government or our new social order, this dissenter and anyone involved with him would be shut off, his credit and digital bank account drained, his life ruined or his rendition approved… squashing any rebellion before it can receive adequate funding or become an menace to us. Also, by requiring permits for any type of protest or group meetings or gatherings, no unapproved, underground, political, or dissenting clubs or groups would be able to be formed, and secrecy would be increasingly difficult for these groups to maintain. They could easily be infiltrated, assigned provocateurs and watchers, and be remotely listened to or spied upon through cell phones and other clandestine listening and recording devices.
12. I would ask citizens to monitor the actions of other citizens and offer rewards for tips and information, so that the people began to police themselves.
With the fear of being turned in or reported by their neighbors and friends, policies of conservation, curfew, housing conformity, rationing, wealth-sharing, auto maintenance, yard maintenance, diet guidelines, child welfare, association codes, criminal activity, public displays of emotion or affection, visitor logs, and general societal conformity would be strictly adhered to for fear of fines, confiscation, child custody loss, and imprisonment for violation of the law. Punishment would be a constant fear no matter where a citizen traveled. A small percent of the population would thrive on this type of “tattletale” behavior and feel empowered by it… and even volunteer to be trained as unpaid “thought police”. The use of RFID readers could be implemented here so that no cases of mistaken identity could take place, ensuring the total accuracy of citizen reporting (once the cataloging and mandatory RFID chipping of the population had taken place).
13. I would give law enforcement powers to private security firms and use them to police the masses.
Blackwater, Bid Patrol, and other private security mega firms and corporations would be given no-bid contracts to assist police in their patrol and monitoring of the citizenry, once presidential directives and legislature mixed with secretive martial law mandates were put into effect. I would give these private security patrols “stand down” power, meaning they would have authority over state and local police officers. Felons, disgruntled immigrants, ex-military, dishonorably discharged ex-military and police, and other undesirables in law enforcement would be sought after to fill the ranks of these security firms. This would accomplish the same loyalty to the security firm as it would to such organizations as the mafia, and ensure the willingness to fire upon, arrest, and force civilians into internment camps: innocent men, woman and children. Foreign soldiers would also be utilized (through the United Nations or similar global governing body), since firing upon and imprisoning a foreign populace is not as difficult as firing on your own countrymen.
14. I would start a media empire (like Hollywood) in order to subliminally project our views, policies, and propaganda through the entertainment industry.
We would write and produce books, movies, and television series that actually tell the people of our plans, but that are portrayed in a way that makes them seem fictional or even impossible. Thus, the masses would train themselves that terms like world government, conspiracy theory, New World Order, Illuminati, Free Masonry, secret societies, and Big Brother to name a few, are ridiculously unreal concepts and that the people who talk about them are crazy or insane conspiracy theorists. At the same time, these media outlets would covertly project our controversial themes and ideals such as global depopulation, eugenics, sterilization, quarantine and forced vaccination, the correctness of war, illogical patriotism towards these wars and the country, belief in the holocaust, placement of troops in the streets against the very Constitutional laws forbidding it, color (green) revolutions, political correctness, non-rebellion, anti-Constitutional views, pro-police state views, surveillance and tracking, positive or humorous drug and alcohol use, desensitization from blood, torture, police brutality, and violence, and many other global themes. I (we) would feminize the idea of the masculinity of men, promoting the positive aspects of homosexuality, and give the impression through television and movies that women are stronger and more intelligent than men, and that men are the unintelligent dreg of society.
15. I would degrade the quality of music and its lyrics to the point that, only through intense repetition and hype could a song be liked or accepted as popular music.
After incrementally purchasing or corporately taking over almost all of the radio stations in the country, as well as the corporations which produce, chart, and sell such music, I would only allow to be aired on radio those songs and bands whose lyrics were non-dissenting, non-anti-government, non-anti-war, and generally degrading towards women, police, family values and morals. By establishing a federal censoring hub (such as the CDC) I could ensure that only group approved themes and conforming lyrical messages get airplay. I would force popular music to be kid and high school oriented: so immature in fact, that older generations would not be able to relate to the childlike, unimpressive, and immature messages in the music. I would actively discredit culturally significant forms of music and label them as alternative, unpopular, or old. In retrospect, I would disassemble music programs in public schools through budget cuts to reinforce the cultural hole I’ve created by these actions, filling that hole with sports and other non-vocational activities and re-educational types of subjects. I would create nationally syndicated talent shows in order to let the “voting” public decide their favorite entertainer, and then contractually exploit their “choice” as the next big thing. I would ensure that drugs and alcohol be introduced and/or sustained within bands to ensure the short lived legendary status of truly great musicians and artists.
16. I would build a corporate empire out of the prison industry.
I would imprison at least 1% (1 out of 100 people = 3 million people) of the entire United States population and hold that minimum internment percentage on a permanent basis. I would in turn grant government and corporate business contracts to these private, state, and federally run prisons, essentially turning them into forced labor camps, paying much less than minimum wage and saving our corporate partners huge amounts of capital. Funding for the overhead of these prisons could easily be taken from each state tax fund, and this would continually help to keep states on an over-budget mode, forcing state debt to our central banks through their borrowing to pay for their falsely inflated budgets. I would project a sense of the righteousness of these prisons through media and entertainment, blacking out of the news the true nature of these facilities as indentured servitude, for-profit institutions.
17. I would form an international representative group of all countries (very much like the United Nations) in the name of international law, conservation, and humanitarian efforts to halt poverty and hunger… and slowly (incrementally) turn over the country, its military, and its laws to this group.
While the state and local propositions and laws would have the illusion of being decided by ballot initiatives as well as local and state legislature, I would ensure that through presidential directives, federal mandates, congressional billing, and senatorial decree, that the law and power structure in the United States and world-wide would be transferred steadily yet incrementally over time to this international, or new world government (order). I would keep this information secret from the public for as long as possible, and even project it (the U.N.) as weak and un-influential in world and U.S. policy through the controlled media.
18. I would implement social networking websites.
Sites like MySpace, Facebook, and YouTube would be portrayed as the ultimate form of expression, where your virtual self can be free of physical constraints, and where you can say whatever you want without fear of persecution, castigation, or criminal charges. In reality, they would become voluntarily storable catalogs of each citizens’ personal information, tastes, likes, dislikes, product placement preferences, sexual preferences, criminal thought processes, buying habits, musical tastes, legal and illegal download and upload histories, future plans and travel destinations, conformity scale (susceptibility to brainwashing and hypnotic suggestion), opinions about their puppet government, and weather or not they have an actual comprehension of their ruling elite class (us).
19. I would slowly (incrementally) and covertly gain influence over religious institutions as a means to further control the easily suggestible church-going masses.
“What better way to conquer a nation, than to take away it’s spiritual release?” – The Fixx: 1986
I would place on the payroll and give airtime to the most charismatic of evangelical speakers to preach the word of God, as I would require it to be projected. In turn, these evangelists would subvert the churches and use their members by way of voting in elections for our interests on measures, initiatives, and for certain two-party candidates. Through a Federal regulatory body (like F.E.M.A.), I would institute a set of mandates to religious leaders, ideals like gun control, gun bans and confiscation, obeying the laws of the land no matter how tyrannical, and submitting to checkpoints and internment or “relocation” camps without crime or guilt in the case of quarantine or martial law. In turn, these mandates would be passed down to individual church ministers across the land, dubbed – Clergy Response Teams – which would include these mandates as part of their lessons and sermons. A general message to obey and submit to the government by decree of God would be disseminated through these institutions of faith, as well as the use of only non-violent, peaceful response or protest.
20. I would project a constant state of irrational fear onto the hearts and minds of all citizens through our corporate controlled media.
In a state of perpetual fear, hypnotized citizens would become compliant, develop controllable patriotism in support of warfare, and concede to the willingness to relinquish rights and freedoms in exchange for government protection and intervention… and to the loss of their individual liberties. Therefore, I would ensure that through lies, false flag (government staged) terrorist attacks, media propaganda, seemingly humanitarian efforts, and the alleged spread of freedom and democracy throughout the world, the perception of imminent threat be thrust onto the citizenry in return for their support of our corporate take-over of the world through military intervention and occupation. Our ownership of the media would ensure that the United States was always portrayed in a positive light, while the millions of innocent men, women, and children who are in the way of our progress are continuously bombed, killed, displaced, and forcibly removed from their homeland… blaming the terrorists (us) and insurgents (native people fighting to preserve their homeland we invade – or us playing this part) for the many war crimes and atrocities we deliver. After destroying the infrastructure of the country we occupy (the electric grid, water supply, gas lines, living conditions, food stocks, and supplies) I would award taxpayer funded no-bid contracts to our own corporations who would, in a deliberately slow and sub-standard fashion, rebuild the economy and restore the weakened (by us) infrastructure. I would place a U.S. government friendly leader or dictator in power who would have no recourse but to sign over the newly built up economy (food, mineral deposits, oil, water, etc…) as debt paid to the United States (or the United Nations) for our “help” in the restoration of the their country and its infrastructure (which again, we destroyed in the first place). If the new leader has a change of heart and refuses to continue to pay the debt at the expense of his peoples welfare, instead using the profits to actually help rebuild and assist in the livelihood of his or her people and country… we would simply invent a new reason to attack and occupy that country, assassinate or forcibly remove that U.S. funded and appointed leader or dictator, stage a political coo to remove the leader through subversion of the countries media or through our (CIA, MI6, or Mossad) assets, and start the whole process over again. I would continually stage nearly successful terrorist plots, which were narrowly avoided using “known terrorists” (our agents and assets) as suspects, and continuously televise these events. The continuance of these never-ending warlike operations, campaigns, and occupations would be necessary to keep the terror scheme in motion (but never actual declarations of war, since that would involve Geneva Convention war crimes and other human rights law protections and restrictions). Torture, indefinite imprisonment, rendition, assassination, and other usual “war crimes” would be incrementally publicized to the masses as acceptable forms of interrogation and prisoner management, since these are only crimes during “declared” wartime. However, the “War On Terror” would not fall under the category of declared war, but instead as an offensive and preventative measure for the protection of the homeland. The use of private security contractors (like Blackwater) for these actions would be most imperative for the success of this type psychological operation, since they are not subject to U.S. military law while serving privately in other foreign regions.
21. I would kill the 2nd Amendment, ban all guns and ammunition, and disarm the public.
Through news media, movies, uninformed “liberal” revolutions, and staged (false flag) shootings at schools and in public places, the right to own firearms would be challenged on a daily basis from all sides though the constant projection of these incidents. Gang shootings, domestic violence, crime, and suicide with gun-related angles would be the headlines and main stories on news programs, newspapers, and editorials by highly respected public figures and news-castors, which are actually change-agents on our (CIA) payroll. This increase in gun-related incidents would seem true due to our constant publicity of it, and despite the actual lessening of gun-violence statistics in America due to the fluoridated water supply, prescription anti-depressants and other calming medications, and through our psych campaigns. “Clergy response teams” (local priests and key religious figures) would be instructed to preach about the evil of gun-ownership, why they should be banned, and for good churchgoers to obey the laws of confiscation – and all “laws of the land”. Gun rights groups would be portrayed in a dark light through extremely emotionally disheartening anti-gun documentaries funded by us and pushed by the controlled media (though they appear to be grass-roots, very much like Michael Moore’s “Bowling For Columbine”). The more these groups appeared to be outlawed and crazy, the more guns would be universally disliked. Of course, as board members and owners of the largest weapons manufacturing companies in the world, we would still distribute guns and other weapons to foreign countries we later intend to attack, occupy, use the armies of to invade other countries – including our own, or use them as large-scale media examples of why guns are evil. As with other Constitutional infringements, clandestine legislation would be passed in our corrupt, bought and paid for legislature long before the actual confiscations would take place, which would allow us to outlaw guns under “extraordinary circumstances”. Of course, we would then manufacture an extraordinary circumstance, event, plague, riot, revolution, or other reason to ban guns which would comply with that previous legislation, that would allow us to declare martial law if necessary, and to unconstitutionally place the military on public streets per that legislation. The logical incremental order of this process would be: (1) guns released into society by us to gangs and criminal elements, (2) hunting portrayed as cruelty to animals, (3) gun vilification, (4) gun registration, (5) mandatory licenses to carry a gun, (6) bullet registration, (7) automatic (machine) gun ban and confiscation, (8) semi-automatic gun ban and confiscation, (9) handgun confiscation, (10) collectable weapon confiscation, (11) hunting to be outlawed, (12) total rifle confiscation, (13) bow and arrow confiscation, (14) and finally knife and sword vilification and later (15) confiscation.
22. I would implement a psychological warfare campaign through all of my resources that would convince the masses that non-violent protest is the only politically correct form of dissent.
This is perhaps our most important objective, for keeping these naïve unsuspecting slaves under absolute dominative power and control by only a handful of men is absolutely required… for if even 2% of the people ever united as one and fought back against us with the 2nd Amendment behind them, they would without question defeat us and our goals. Despite the fact that the United States is celebrated as historically winning its independence only through violent revolution against England and its monarchy, and that it was written by one of it’s founders, Benjamin Franklin that, “Occasionally, the tree of liberty must be stained with the blood of tyrants and patriots.” I would convince the people that although we – as an elite minority – work completely outside of and free from the constraints of the laws that supposedly govern us all, they (the people) must work only from within them. This hidden paradox is the key to our success. Through red tape and corruption in the highest levels of the government and in the court system, we would ensure that no punishment or consequences would befall any in our faction. Though we would allow for protests and dissenting views, they would receive no media attention and would eventually only be allowed in what we might call “free-speech zones”, by permission of a permit, and under police surveillance in a blocked off area away from the actual thing being protested. We would portray these dissenters as racist, unpatriotic, violent extremists, and anti-American. We would actively portray militia groups in the same light. We would make movies like ‘Gandhi’, which would reinforce the fact that non-violent protest is actually a viable form of implementing change, though in truth much violence ensued during that particular part of history, and no peaceful resistance has ever changed or replaced a government. We would use deterrents like police brutality and the arresting of protesters as scare tactics to prevent others from protesting at later dates. Once again, conformity would be garnered and the feeling of helplessness would be etched into the patriot movement since they would gain no access to our controlled medias, except the dark light that I would allow to be shown on them. Only the craziest fringe elements of these groups would be given the media spotlight, as well as our imposters and provocateurs posing as parts of these groups, discrediting the rest of the movement in the eyes of our media viewers. Lastly, under the guise of some unfathomable and improvable medical benefit, I would poison the country’s water supply with a toxin that would subdue its victims, ensuring complacency and eliminating the urge to fight back against our tyranny. Fluoride would be the ideal substance for this, since it was tested and worked beautifully in the Nazi concentration camps and in other tests on populations and prisoners in the early 1900’s. It also has the added benefit of causing osteoporosis and other toxic bone and tissue disease, which would increase profits in our medical and pharmaceutical endeavors. And, since fluoride is the waste product of the aluminum industry, our conglomerates will save millions of dollars from not having to dispose of this highly toxic substance, and instead would make a profit from selling this byproduct to the government. Everyone wins!
23. I would destroy man’s symbiotic connection and dependence on nature, replacing it with a dependence on my corporations, products, and institutions which would actually purge over time the ancient and intimate knowledge of farming, ranching, and natural medicines and healing, and eliminate the peoples capability of real self-sustainability, ethics, respect for nature, and even their love for one another.
“They took all the trees, and put them in a tree museum, and charge us all a dollar and a half to see them… They paved paradise, and put up a parking lot.” – Joni Mitchell
By transforming the rugged natural terrain and beauty of rural areas, cities, and communities into landscaped, manicured, manufactured, and easily recognizable or familiar settings (i.e. strip malls, grocery stores, fast food, department stores, recognizable chain stores, etc…) the feeling of comfort and unending sustenance would be established. So much so in fact, that roads would merely become paths to the next set of the same brand name stores, and travelers would be disappointed at having to try something new. Vacationers would begin to prefer a hotel with a chlorinated pool as opposed to natural beauty of a lakeside cabin. They would begin to leave unpopulated areas alone, except to populate them with more of the same. They would begin to care less about these wild places, not even noticing as species extinction, depopulation, mass pollution, and deforestation was taking place. And since I or my colleagues and co-conspirators would own the majority of environmental foundations and clubs, this type of news would never even reach the ears of the average consumer, and they would instead be sold on protecting species who need no protection at all. For instance, I would force farmers off their land by denying them water, making the land worthless to grow food. I would simply make these now liberalized consumers believe that a fish or bird, which was dependent on that water for its very survival, was going extinct due to the divergence of that water. No proof would be needed as long as it was presented in an emotional media campaign backed by our environmental groups. The water would be diverted by legislative act, the land would dry up, the farmers and their families would be forced to move off the newly infertile and dry farmland, and the vacant land would be ripe for the picking so to speak, under the guise of a drought or water crisis. Food shortages would be a welcome side effect of this land grab, making food prices soar and only benefiting our corporate partners, not to mention some starvation leading to more depopulation. A general lack of appreciation for nature would thus ensue, and would even manifest in the most inundated of city dwellers as abhorrence for anything natural, dirty, or living (animals, bugs, weeds, dirt, etc…). Un-manicured or uninhabited wild areas within or on the edge of these cities would be considered dirty and uncivilized. These still natural unpopulated areas would then lose value, both organically and monetarily, leaving vast expanses of undesirable land to be bought up by our companies for pennies on the dollar. Concern for those who we would force off of these sparse locations, families who might have settled that land hundreds of years previous, would be non-existent due to our control of the media. I would use eminent domain to forcibly buy their property either in the name of conservation or for government need. I would then, after a necessary period of time, use that land for mining, drilling, logging, factories, highways, or other reasons and resource management which were opposite of the supposed altruistic reasons that we originally acquired it. In this way, I would eventually force all people to live in the unnatural, unappealing, unhealthy, competitive, socialistic, non-self-sustaining, and smart grid biometrically wired mega-cities I would incrementally set up.
In a setting of constant competition, the system of ethics in the workplace could be suppressed or even eliminated. In a “dog-eat-dog-world” which I would create… manipulation, cutting corners, and even lying, cheating and stealing would be rewarded with promotion, praise and bonuses. Persons who either through proper upbringing or are morally and ethically idealistic by nature, would be forced to conform, quit, or become stagnant in their workplace. I would project this noble value system as unproductive, making it appear weak in the eyes of business management – though the opposite is true – so that non-conformity to the competitive system would leave the most strong-willed of people in a constant state of melancholy and dejection, never being able to get ahead. This would ensure only the most ruthless competitors would remain in charge, and serve to ensure that this competitive, non-ethical work environment would ultimately stay in place… eventually without even our supervision. As before, re-education in schools, media, and entertainment venues would be used to reinforce this conundrum. ‘From the top’ memos and propaganda from our CEO’s and board member meetings would also be used to strengthen this resolve and underpin these desired non-ethics, which would be repeated over and over again by news anchors and portrayed in television and film for reinforcement.
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This not-so-fictional work is very much what I see happening in this country today. Through the organizations and funds of the United Nations, our country has incrementally lost its independence from foreign domination. Be it England and its queen or the United Nations and its ambassadors, the effectual tyrannical rule is the same. The cost is astounding. And the loss of liberty is unacceptable. Our military is now under the control of this world governing body, and is unconstitutionally being used to patrol our streets and occupy the world. Our leaders are under its influence, and its policies are now our own.
The only way to stop this tyranny and to regain our sovereignty as a free nation is for the people to stand up as one united group and demand from our leaders that the United States, its government, and its legislature must immediately and unequivocally withdraw from the United Nations with no-strings-attached. The longer we wait, the more ingrained we will be in U.N. sanctions and red tape, and the harder it will be to get out. This is our last chance as an independent country; for the policies of this wicked organization has all but engulfed our constitution, our rights, and our freedoms with its anti-sovereign, pro eugenic agendas. If we don’t make a stand against our own corrupt government and this horrific United Nations stranglehold over our country, then the concept of America as a free and sovereign nation is all but over.
Freedom is not free. We must fight for it… together.
I hope that it is not too late.
God speed.
Clint Richardson (realitybloger.wordpress.com)
September 16, 2009
*** My wholehearted thanks to the true heroes, researchers, and patriots like Alex Jones, Steve Quayle, Mike Rivero, Alan Watt, Ron Paul, and so many others before them who have risked or lost their lives in the uncovering, publication, and exposing of these elites and their horrific agendas of which I speak, and which I assure you without hesitation are as real as you or me. They have opened my eyes to reality, and because of them I can attest that the truth will indeed set you free. Please turn off your televisions (controlled media outlets) and visit and support these brave people by clicking on their names, which will link to their websites. Read, listen, learn, and be free…
