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foreign power
Paul Joseph Watson & Yihan Dai
Prison Planet.com
Thursday, October 30, 2008
According to reports out of top Chinese mainstream news outlets, the
RAND Corporation recently presented a shocking proposal to the
Pentagon in which it lobbied for a war to be started with a major
foreign power in an attempt to stimulate the American economy and
prevent a recession.
A fierce debate has now ensued in China about who that foreign power
may be, with China itself as well as Russia and even Japan suspected
to be the targets of aggression.
The reports cite French media news sources as having uncovered the
proposal, in which RAND suggested that the $700 billion dollars that
has been earmarked to bailout Wall Street and failing banks instead be
used to finance a new war which would in turn re-invigorate the
flagging stock markets.
The RAND Corporation is a notoriously powerful NGO with deep ties to
the U.S. military-industrial complex as well as interlocking
connections with the Ford, Rockefeller, and Carnegie foundations.
Current directors of RAND include Frank Charles Carlucci III, former
Defense Secretary and Deputy Director of the CIA, Ronald L. Olson,
Council on Foreign Relations luminary and former Secretary of Labor,
and Carl Bildt, top Bilderberg member and former Swedish Prime Minister.
Carlucci was chairman of the Carlyle Group from 1989-2005 and oversaw
gargantuan profits the defense contractor made in the aftermath of
9/11 following the invasion of Afghanistan. The Carlyle Group has also
received investment money from the Bin Laden family.
Reportedly, the RAND proposal brazenly urged that a new war could be
launched to benefit the economy, but stressed that the target country
would have to be a major influential power, and not a smaller country
on the scale of Afghanistan or Iraq.
The reports have prompted a surge of public debate and tension in
China about the possibility that a new global conflict is on the horizon.
China's biggest media outlet, Sohu.com, speculated that the target of
the new war would probably be China or Russia, but that it could also
be Iran or another middle eastern country. Japan was also mentioned as
a potential target for the reason that Japan holds the most U.S. debt.
North Korea was considered as a target but ruled out because the scale
of such a war would not be large enough for RAND's requirements.
The reported RAND proposal dovetails with recent comments made by Joe Biden, Colin Powell, Madeleine Albright and others, concerning the
"guarantee" that Barack Obama will face a major "international crisis"
soon after taking office.
It also arrives following a warning from Michael Bayer, chairman of a
key Pentagon advisory panel, who echoed the statement that the next
administration will face an international crisis within months of
taking office.
One would hope that good people, or at least sane people who don't
wish to start a global nuclear war, will oppose the RAND proposal,
such as top the military generals who threatened to quit if Bush
ordered an attack on Iran. Admiral William Fallon, the head of US
Central Command, quit in March last year as a result of his opposition
to Bush administration policy on Iran.
Translations from Chinese provided by Yihan Dai.
SOURCES (sorry `bout the cut and paste... SO MUCH MORE at the websites and I can`t get the URL`s to come through as a "hyperlink", oh well... the reads are worth thr investigation.
Sohu.com:
http://news. sohu.com/20081030/n260330741. shtml
Ifeng.com:
http://news.ifeng.com/ mil/4/200810/1029_342_ 851523.shtml
Rough computer translation of Sohu.com article. Accurate translation
of full article provided by native Chinese speaker Yihan Dai.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/rand-lobbies-pentagon-start-war- to-save-us-economy.html
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ParanoidTimes/
Evidence of Pentagon Psychological Warfare Operations Against U.S.
Citizens Surfaces in Want Ads
The U.S. military’s domestic operations command says it is not
planning or conducting a secret psychological warfare campaign to
manipulate the opinions of American citizens, despite a U.S. Air
Force document suggesting such activities might be taking place.
“We do not do information operations against the American public,”
said Lt. Cmdr. Sean Kelly, a spokesman for the Pentagon’s Northern
Command, known as NORTHCOM, based in Colorado Springs, Colo.
Kelly confirmed that there is a “psyops,” or psychological warfare
operations, unit at NORTHCOM but said its work is “designed to
influence and deter foreign enemies from attacking the United
States.”
NORTHCOM was created after the 9/11 attacks to direct military
operations, including intelligence analysis, air defense and support
for civilian first responders, inside the United States. It shares
the military’s counterterrorism mission with the Pentagon’s Pacific
Command, Central Command and Strategic Command.
The possibility of a propaganda program run out of the military’s
domestic headquarters surfaced with a phrase in an online employment
ad.
Flashback:
Propaganda: Remember the Kuwaiti babies?
If you liked the lie about the murder of Kuwaiti babies after Iraq’s
invasion of the oil-rich emirate in 1990, you’ll love the Office of
Strategic Information.
That is, if the Pentagon’s new office of shadow plays survives in the
form it had been envisioned.
Last week The New York Times reported that the Defense Department is
paying the Rendon Group, a Washington-based international consulting
firm, $100,000 per month to help the OSI with a broad campaign that
would include “black” propaganda, or disinformation — commonly known
as lies.
This brought to mind one of the most notorious pieces of
disinformation promulgated the last time the government wanted to
build public support for a war against Iraq. It was fabricated by
Hill and Knowlton, one of the world’s largest public relations firms.
This is the story that in 1990 invading Iraqi soldiers pulled Kuwaiti
premature babies from their incubators and left them to die on the
cold floor. The Bush administration has scrambled away from the storm
of criticism sparked by the Times’ report, and the president promised
Monday that his government would not lie about defense policy. On
Sunday, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on NBC’s “Meet the
Press”: “The person in charge is debating whether it should even
exist in its current form, given all the misinformation and adverse
publicity it has received.”
The OSI was created shortly after Sept. 11 to build public support
abroad for the U.S. war on terrorism.
On Wednesday, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas J. Feith
told reporters that the Pentagon would never lie to the public. But
United Press International’s Pentagon correspondent Pamela Hess wrote
that Feith “refused to rule out the possibility that hired guns –
private lobbying or public relations firms with more legal latitude –
would spread misinformation on the Pentagon’s behalf.”
On Monday a spokeswoman in the Office of the Secretary of Defense
said Feith’s words had been misconstrued.
“I don’t think he said that we might hire ‘hired guns,’” said Army
Lt. Col. Catherine Abbot. “I think that’s a misinterpretation of what
he said.”
But the transcript of the Feb. 20 Defense Writers’ Group breakfast
meeting supports Hess’ interpretation. Feith was asked twice if he
had ruled out the possibility of contractors spreading
disinformation, and he evaded the question both times.
The Rendon Group said it would not lie.
Spokeswoman Jeanne Sklarz declined to discuss the nature of Rendon’s
contract with the Pentagon. “Let me just say that we have a
confidentiality/nondisclosure agreement in place” with the Department
of Defense. “We don’t speak about the work we do for clients,” she
told UPI.
“The only thing I can say is that we have not, do not, and will not
engage in disinformation.”
According to The New York Times, “the Rendon Group has done extensive work for the Central Intelligence Agency, the Kuwaiti royal family and the Iraqi National Congress, the opposition group seeking to oust President Saddam Hussein. … The firm is well known for running
propaganda campaigns in Arab countries, including one denouncing
atrocities by Iraq during its 1990 invasion of Kuwait.”
Reminded of Hill and Knowlton’s incubator story — which echoed World
War I Allied propaganda that invading German soldiers had bayoneted
and mutilated Belgian babies in 1914 — Sklarz said: “We would not do
that. … (President) John Rendon really believes that you don’t need
anything other than the truth to deliver messages.”
UPI asked Hill and Knowlton if it now acknowledges the incubator
story as a deception. “The company has nothing to say on this
matter,” media liaison Suzanne Laurita replied. When asked if such a
deception would be considered part of the public relations business,
she answered: “Please know again that this falls into the realm that
the agency has no wish to confirm, deny or comment on.”
The Iraqi invaders were guilty of enough acts of gratuitous cruelty,
as numerous eyewitnesses reported, that one wonders why inventing an
atrocity was considered necessary.
Hill and Knowlton did not produce the deception under a federal
contract, but rather on behalf of the oil-rich Kuwaiti government. An
appearance of U.S. government validation, however, came from a
hearing of the Congressional Human Rights Caucus on Oct. 10, 1990.
In his 1992 book “Second Front: Censorship and Propaganda in the Gulf
War,” Harpers magazine publisher John R. MacArthur wrote that the
caucus is not a committee of Congress, before which it would be a
crime to lie under oath. “Lying from under the cover of anonymity to
a caucus is merely public relations.”
The 15-year-old star witness was indeed anonymous, identified only by
her first name of Nayirah. “According to the caucus, Nayirah’s full
name was being kept confidential to prevent Iraqi reprisals against
her family in occupied Kuwait,” MacArthur wrote.
In fact, she was a member of the Kuwaiti royal family, and her
father — ambassador to the United States Saud Nasir al-Sabah — sat
listening in the hearing room. Sobbing, Nayirah described how she, as
a volunteer at al-Addan Hospital in Kuwait City, had seen Iraqi
soldiers remove 312 babies from their incubators and leave them to
die on the floor.
On Jan. 12, 1991, the U.S. Senate approved support of the war against
Iraq by a narrow, five-vote margin. Did the story about the murdered
babies make the critical difference?
Let’s hope we don’t get any “stories” like this from contractors
working for the Office of Strategic Information.
(Deleted by US ‘sic’ intelligence.)
http://page15.com/2004/07/evidence-of-pentagon-psychological.html
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A working man voting for Bush is like...
a chicken voting for Colonel Sanders
By R J Shulman
30 Oct 2008 (Satire)
PHOENIX -- (PTSD News) -- To counter Senator Barack Obama's unprecedented half-hour "Closing Argument to the Everyman" that aired on several networks, Senator John McCain announced that he will be airing his own closing argument on Fox tomorrow night. Entitled "Thanks for Nothing, You Ungrateful Whores," the speech is basically a rant of "all the unfiltered straight talk the party bosses stifled me from saying for all these long months," according to McCain.
The presentation begins with McCain in full military uniform holding a picture of Barack Obama and saying "terrorist Muslim socialist" for ten minutes. McCain then blasts his own party for putting "the straight talker in a straight jacket." He calls the Republican party a bunch of bible-thumping morons who are following George W. Bush to the gates of hell because "that's surely where that sadist is headed."
"And thanks a lot, you imbeciles, who made me select Palin over Lieberman," McCain says. "Friggin' Mike Tyson would have been a better choice. He would have split the black vote and could have at least bitten off Biden's ear at the debate. Seeing Russia from her house, my ass," McCain sneers as he pumps a cardboard cutout of Sarah Palin full of lead.
The last ten minutes are almost completely incomprehensible except for the phrase "friggin' economy" and "eight, nine houses, what's the goddamn difference?" The presentation ends with McCain staring into the camera and saying, "I'm John McCain, and I didn't approve of any of this crap."
"Once the American people can see the real John McCain giving them the unfettered straight talk," said Rick Davis, head of the McCain campaign, "they will know exactly who to vote for."
http://www.legitgov.org/shulman_ mccain_tv_ ad_301008. html
Lori R. Price
Managing Editor
Citizens For Legitimate Government
http://www.legitgov .org/
life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time. And then you die.
What's that? A bonus? I think the life-cycle is all backwards.
You should die first and get it all over with. Then you live in
an old age home. You get kicked out when you're too young. You
get a gold watch. You go to work. You work forty years until
you're young enough to enjoy your retirement. You do drugs,
alcohol and party. You get ready for high school. You go to grade
school and become a kid. You play. You have no responsibilities.
You become a little baby & go back into the womb. You spend your
last nine months floating...
Then, you finish off as an orgasm. I like it."
- Everybody Knows-
Leonard Cohen
Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows that the war is over
Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
Thats how it goes
Everybody knows
Everybody knows that the boat is leaking
Everybody knows that the captain lied
Everybody got this broken feeling
Like their father or their dog just died
Everybody talking to their pockets
Everybody wants a box of chocolates
And a long stem rose
Everybody knows
Everybody knows that you love me baby
Everybody knows that you really do
Everybody knows that youve been faithful
Ah give or take a night or two
Everybody knows youve been discreet
But there were so many people you just had to meet
Without your clothes
And everybody knows
Everybody knows, everybody knows
Thats how it goes
Everybody knows
Everybody knows, everybody knows
Thats how it goes
Everybody knows
And everybody knows that its now or never
Everybody knows that its me or you
And everybody knows that you live forever
Ah when youve done a line or two
Everybody knows the deal is rotten
Old black joes still pickin cotton
For your ribbons and bows
And everybody knows
And everybody knows that the plague is coming
Everybody knows that its moving fast
Everybody knows that the naked man and woman
Are just a shining artifact of the past
Everybody knows the scene is dead
But theres gonna be a meter on your bed
That will disclose
What everybody knows
And everybody knows that youre in trouble
Everybody knows what youve been through
From the bloody cross on top of calvary
To the beach of malibu
Everybody knows its coming apart
Take one last look at this sacred heart
Before it blows
And everybody knows
Everybody knows, everybody knows
Thats how it goes
Everybody knows
Oh everybody knows, everybody knows
Thats how it goes
Everybody knows
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