PSYOP : The "War On Terror" Is A Fraud - It Is Not Meant To Be Won, It Is Meant To Be Continuous

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The "War On Terror" Is A Fraud - It Is Not Meant To Be Won, It Is Meant To Be Continuous

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Author and historian Webster Tarpley exposes the Orwellian lie known as the "War On
Terror" before Orwell's 1984 provides a glimpse into our own age.

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10 George Orwell Quotes that Predicted Life in 2014 America

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Posted on 25th August 2014 by Administrator in Economy |Politics |Social Issues

1984, boot, George Orwell, Police State, truth




Written by Justin King | The Anti-Media


http://www.theburningplatform.com/20...-2014-america/


George Orwell ranks among the most profound social critics of the modern era. Some of
his quotations, more than a half a century old, show the depth of understanding an
enlightened mind can have about the future.

1) “In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics.’ All issues are political
Issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.”

Though many in the modern age have the will to bury their head in the sand when it
comes to political matters, nobody can only concern themselves with the proverbial
pebble in their shoe. If one is successful in avoiding politics, at some point the effects of
the political decisions they abstained from participating in will reach their front door.
More often than not, by that time the person has already lost whatever whisper of a
voice the government has allowed them.

2) “All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably
from people who are not fighting.”

Examining the nightly news in the run up to almost any military intervention will find
scores of talking heads crying for blood to flow in the streets of some city the name of
which they just learned to pronounce. Once the bullets start flying, those that clamored
for war will still be safely on set bringing you up-to-the-minute coverage of the carnage
while their stock in Raytheon climbs.



3) “War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they
are going to profit from it.”

It’s pretty self-explanatory and while it may be hard to swallow, it’s certainly true. All it
takes is a quick look at who benefited from the recent wars waged by the United States
to see Orwell’s quip take life.

4) “The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into
history.”

My most prized books are a collection of history books from around the world. I have an
Iraqi book that recounts the glory of Saddam Hussein’s victory over the United States in
1991. I have books from three different nations claiming that one of their citizens was
the first to fly. As some of the most powerful nations in the world agree to let certain facts be
“forgotten,” the trend will only get worse. History is written by the victor, and the victor will never be asked if he told the truth.

Huffington Post journalist detained by military police in Ferguson, Missouri




5) “In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”

Even without commentary, the reader is probably picturing Edward Snowden or Chelsea
Manning. The revolutions of the future will not be fought with bullets and explosives,
but with little bits of data traveling around the world destroying the false narratives with
which governments shackle their citizens.

6) “Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is
public relations.”

Make no mistake about it; if an article does not anger someone, it is nothing more than
a public relations piece. Most of what passes for news today is little more than an official
sounding advertisement for a product, service, or belief.



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7) “In real life it is always the anvil that breaks the hammer…”

In every conflict, it is not the side that can inflict the most damage, but the side that
can sustain the most damage that ultimately prevails. History is full of situations in
which a military “won the battles but lost the war.”

8) “The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity
for not even hearing about them.”



Haditha. Panjwai. Maywand District. Mahmudiyah. These names probably don’t ring a
bell, but it is almost a certainty that the reader is aware of the brutality that occurred in
Benghazi. The main difference is that in the first four incidents, those committing the
acts of brutality were wearing an American flag on their shoulder.

(Answer: D)

9) “Threats to freedom of speech, writing and action, though often trivial in isolation,
are cumulative in their effect and, unless checked, lead to a general disrespect for the
rights of the citizen.”

Everyday there is a new form of censorship or a new method of forcing people into self-
censorship, and the people shrug it off because it only relates to a small minority. By
the time the people realize their ability to express disapproval has been completely
restricted, it may be too late. That brings us to Orwell’s most haunting quote.



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10) “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human
face—forever.”

Once the people are indoctrinated with nationalistic beliefs, and the infrastructure
to protect them from some constantly-changing and ever-expanding definition of an
enemy is in place, there is no ability for the people to regain liberty. By the time all
of the pieces are in place, not only is opportunity to regain freedom lost, but the
will to achieve freedom has also evaporated. The reader will truly love Big Brother.

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Why Do most Americans Feel Politically Powerless?...Because They Are





The Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision gave the wealthy almost unlimited means
to influence elections at the expense of the average voter. But the voices of rich
individuals and corporations had long drowned out the concerns of most Americans,
according to a new study.

In their work “Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and
Average Citizens,” Martin Gilens and Benjamin I. Page argue that ordinary Americans
have almost no influence on policy. “Not only do ordinary citizens not have uniquely
substantial power over policy decisions; they have little or no independent influence on
policy at all,” according to the study, due to be released this fall.

Who does affect policy? As might be guessed, it’s the wealthy and powerful interest
groups. “Economic elites are estimated to have a quite substantial, highly significant,
independent impact on policy.” According to the study, that group is the most influential
in terms of getting what it wants out of elected officials. Organized interest groups are
also influential.

The data leading to these conclusions was gathered from 1,779 policy cases between
1981 to 2002, so anecdotal evidence would lead one to believe the problem is actually
now worse than represented by the study.

Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich writes that part of the reason for the decline of
influence of the average voter has come because of changes that have come since
about 1980. Before then, many Americans were represented by unions and were
members of civic and other organizations. Then, “something profoundly changed,” Reich
wrote. “Grass-roots membership organizations shrank because Americans had less time
for them. As wages stagnated, most people had to devote more time to work in order to
makes ends meet. That included the time of wives and mothers who began streaming
into the paid workforce to prop up family incomes.”

As this was going on, union membership began to fall, spurred by President Ronald
Reagan’s firing of striking air traffic controllers. In addition, community businesses
which often had the ear of local politicians began to give way to national chains that had
less concern for the rank-and-file worker than the bottom line.

Another factor, as explained by political scientists Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson in
Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer--and Turned Its Back
on the Middle Class, is that, beginning in the mid-1970s, large corporations began
organizing into well-funded lobbying groups like the Business Roundtable and the U.S.
Chamber of Commerce. These groups, which had leaned Republican, realized that it
would be more effective to influence members of Congress from both parties.

Part of the blame should be shouldered by the electorate, or rather, what there is of it.
Voter turnout historically is highest among the well-off and falls as the income of the
population does. According to statistics compiled by the U.S. Census Bureau, 67.1% of
members of families with annual incomes higher than $150,000 a year reported being
registered to vote in 2012. That percentage drops with each income group down to
59.5% for families with incomes between $10,000 and $14,999.

“We have to establish a new countervailing power,” Reich wrote. “The monied interests
are doing what they do best – making money. The rest of us need to do what we can do
best – use our voices, our vigor, and our votes.”

-Steve Straehley, David Wallechinsky

To Learn More:

Who Rules America? (by Allan J. Lichtman, The Hill)

The Disease of American Democracy (by Robert Reich)

Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens (by
Martin Gilens and Benjamin I. Page) (pdf)

Democracy and the Policy Preferences of Wealthy Americans (by Benjamin I. Page,
Larry M. Bartels, and Jason Seawright) (pdf)

Super Rich Have Different Government Spending Priorities…and More Influence (by
David Wallechinsky, AllGov)

http://www.allgov.com/news/top-stori...re?news=854060

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[Cidersomerset]

None of this is new it has happened at various times thru US history, but
it seems more intense now even than during the Anti War protests in the
60's over Vietnam.....


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August 26, 2014


Police Response in Ferguson Rooted in Systemic Violence and Militarism

The Police-Industrial Complex

by BRIAN TRAUTMAN


The police response to public protests in Ferguson, Missouri in the wake of the deadly
August 9 shooting of Michael Brown, Jr., an unarmed eighteen-year-old black man killed
by a white police officer, was a prime illustration of the hyper-aggressive nature of
policing in America today. The residents of Ferguson fed up with hostile and abusive
police behavior continue to flood the streets to demand justice for Mike Brown and other
victims of police brutality. They have been joined in solidarity by people of conscience in
other cities (e.g., Oakland, NYC). Their anger and frustration was exacerbated by the
heavy-handed tactics used against the mostly peaceful protestors in Ferguson during
the first week or so of the demonstrations – tear gas, rubber bullets, smoke, deafening
sirens as well as assault rifles fixed on protestors were some of the violent methods
employed by law enforcement. In addition, a mandatory curfew imposed by the Missouri
governor, verbal threats of physical harm from police, and arrests of journalists, among
other ill-advised and counterproductive reactions, only escalated the tensions between
protestors and police.

Read more.....

http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/08/...strial-complex


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Tanks on the Streets? Police Required to Use Military Equipment within a Year or Return It



Tuesday, August 26, 2014



Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle belonging to Willimantic,
Conn. (population-17,700) police (AP Photo)


The militarization of America’s police forces has been the result of federal policy
that not only provides the means to give men-in-blue the same tools as combat
soldiers, but in fact requires law enforcement to “use it or lose it” when it comes
to military equipment.

Specifically, the Department of Defense’s 1033 program—which funnels all kinds
of military surplus goods to police—has a provision that clearly says that any
participating law enforcement agency must use its equipment within one year
of receiving it. If they don’t, they have to give it up.

This from the state of Missouri’s “application to participate” in 1033: “Property
obtained under this SPO must be placed into use within one (1) year of receipt,
unless the condition of the property renders it unusable, in which case the
property can be returned to the nearest DLA Disposition Services Site. If
property is not put into use by the LEA (law enforcement agency) within one
(1) year, the State/LEA must coordinate a transfer of property to another
LEA or request a turn-in to return the property to the nearest
DLA Disposition Services Site.”

Another problem with the Pentagon’s decision to shower police forces with
military hardware is that it’s not accompanied by training, Amanda Taub noted at Vox.

Kara Dansky, a senior counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union, who
wrote the organization’s report on police militarization, told Taub she was
unaware “of any training that the government provides in terms of use of
the equipment,” or of “any oversight in terms of safeguards regarding the
use of the equipment by the Defense Department.”

While SWAT teams from large police departments train with their equipment
regularly, small-town forces often don’t have the resources to spare officers
for such exercises. Thus, often the only time they use the surplus equipment
is during an emergency.

-Noel Brinkerhoff

http://www.allgov.com/news/top-stori...26?news=854075

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Dozens of police departments suspended for losing US military-grade weaponry

Wednesday 27th August 2014 at 07:03 By david-icke





‘Close to 200 state and local police departments in the United States have been
suspended for losing military-level equipment transferred to them by the
Pentagon, a new investigation found.

According to the media outlet Fusion, its independent investigation into the
Pentagon’s ’1033 program,’ which equips state and local police departments
across the US with excess military equipment, turned up an alarming trend:
Not only did many law enforcement agencies fail to comply with the program’s
guidelines, they routinely lost dangerous weaponry.

Already, the investigation has found that police departments in Arizona,
California, Mississippi, Missouri, Georgia, and others have lost or cannot
account for various types of weapons. This list includes M14 and
M16 assault rifles, .45-caliber pistols, shotguns, and even vehicles.’




Read more: Dozens of police departments suspended for losing US military-grade weaponry

http://rt.com/usa/183000-police-depa...tary-weaponry/


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The Final Nail in the Coffin: The Death of Freedom in Our Schools

Wednesday 27th August 2014 at 06:52 By david-icke





‘Young Alex Stone didn’t even make it past the first week of school before he became
a victim of the police state. Directed by his teacher to do a creative writing assignment
involving a series of fictional Facebook statuses, the 16-year-old wrote, ‘I killed my
neighbor’s pet dinosaur. I bought the gun to take care of the business.’

What followed is par for the course in schools today: students were locked down in
their classrooms while armed police searched Stone’s locker and bookbag,
handcuffed him, charged him with disorderly conduct, arrested him, detained him,
and then he was suspended from school. No weapons or dead dinosaurs were found.’

Read more: The Final Nail in the Coffin: The Death of Freedom in Our Schools


http://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/08/j...ublic-school/?

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And these events and stories happen daily............from 2013



Florida Man Records Himself Getting Attacked by Cop for not Rolling Down Window all the wa

Wednesday 27th August 2014 at 04:36 By david-icke





short vid on link.....http://photographyisnotacrime.com/20...ng-window-way/



‘A horrifying video has emerged showing St. Petersburg police forcing a man out of his
car before pouncing on him, leaving him hospitalized with several injuries, all because
the cop claimed he was in fear for his life.

The video, however, shows it was Curtis Shannon, a young man from Florida who was
probably fearing for his life during the arrest.

It also shows that he remained professional as he tried to hand the cop his license and
registration through a small opening after the cop pulled him over for what he claimed
was erratic driving.’

Read more: Florida Man Records Himself Getting Attacked by Cop for not Rolling Down
Window all the wa

http://photographyisnotacrime.com/20...ng-window-way/

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This whole thread is fear mongering at its best.

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This whole thread is fear mongering at its best.

But True Unfortunately, ask people in parts of the Middle East , Ukraine
and parts of the US. There are still billions oblivious to these goings on
and are more concerned about earning enough for food, paying the rent
and general living and there are many millions having a good life content
with there lot whether wealthy or not.............

Then there are a few % that have power and wealth at ridiculous level
compared to the starving in the slums of many cities.

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Nato Wales summit security ring outlined

Serious crowd fencing !

Policing the nato summit in south wales next week ( 4-5th sept) will be "completely uncharted territory", says the officer running the security operation.

Assistant chief constable chris armitt said 9,500 officers from across the uk would be drafted in, including 1,500 from south wales.

The 150 visiting heads of state and ministers will require armed protection.

Around 10,000 support staff and 2,000 journalists will be attending.

Mr armitt, who is gold commander in charge of the operation, said any armed policing would be discreet.

But he warned any protesters who were intent on disruption and breaking the law that the response would be swift

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-28953445