Red Team, Blue Team?

One of the most interesting things to watch after Mr. Obama became president was how the American media changed roles.   It was a bit like the wrestling, where all the good guys became bad guys and all the bad guy became good guys.   So all the left wing media that had spent eight years exposing and criticising the creeping fascism of the Bush administration were suddenly cheering on the same policies under Obama.  On the opposite side of the coin, we had the right wing media suddenly becoming deeply concerned about abuses of state power now that a democrat was in charge, abuses that had never bothered them in the slightest when carried out by Republicans!

So what's going on here?  Are these people just paid actors who will play any role for the money?   Probably yes.  But then I wouldn't be surprised if they really do feel an affiliation to their particular team.  Just look at the way people support sports teams.  They feel an incredible passion for either the red team or the blue team, it could be Liverpool or Everton, Manchester United or Manchester City.  Everyone knows there's no ideological difference between these teams, no difference in style and they're all corporate entities, but that doesn't stop fans loving one and hating the other in equal measure.  Why then should we be surprised to find the same blind devotion to the red team or the blue team in politics, where we can all at least pretend there's a real ideological difference, even if we're deluding ourselves.

In the video below Abby Martin exposes exactly this behaviour in the political comedian Bill Maher, a man I enjoyed watching during the Bush years who has now abandoned every principal it would appear he never really stood for in the first place.  Come on you Blues!!!

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The Colour of My Dreams

      

   

I saw this poem on the wall of a pre-school the other day.  If I had children, I'd send them there.

Colour of My Dreams

I'm a really rotten reader

the worst in all the class,

the sort of rotten reader

that makes you want to laugh.

I'm last in all the readin' tests,

my score's not on the page

and when I read to teacher

she gets in such a rage.

She says I cannot form my words

she says I can't build up

and that I don't know phonics

and don't know a c-a-t from k-u-p.

They say that I'm dyslexic

(that's a word they've just found out)

... but when I get some plasticine

I know what that's about.

I make these scary monsters

I draw these secret lands

and get my hair all sticky

and paint on all me hands.

I make these super models,

I build these smashing towers

that reach up to the ceiling

and take me hours and hours.

I paint these lovely pictures

in thick green drippy paint

that gets all on the carpet

and makes the cleaners faint.

I build great magic forests

weave bushes out of string

and paint pink panderellos

and birds that really sing.

I play my world of real believe

I play it every day

and teachers stand and watch me

but don't know what to say.

They give me diagnostic tests,

they try out reading schemes,

but none of them will ever know

the colour of my dreams.

- Peter Dixon

More of the work of the poet and educationalist Peter Dixon can be found here:

http://www.peterdixon.org/

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Secret Courts, an Update

Quick link to an article in today's Daily Mail about a recent and most disturbing secret court case.  If the Mail has gotten it right, a father was imprisoned for merely sending a public Facebook message to his grown up son, with whom he lived, wishing him a happy birthday.  This is in the UK by the way, not....., well actually I don't know of a country where identifying your children as your own is illegal.  To quote one of the apt comments beneath the article; 'How deep do we have to fall down the rabbit hole before we awake and realise we're in wonderland?'

Here's an exert: 

'A father has been jailed at a secret court hearing for sending a Facebook message to his grown-up son on his 21st birthday.

Garry Johnson, 46, breached a draconian gagging order which stops him publicly naming his son, Sam, whom he has brought up and who still lives with him. 

In a case which is certain to fuel concerns about Britain’s shadowy network of secret courts, a judge sent the former music executive to prison for contempt at a closed-doors family court hearing in Essex at the beginning of last month.

He was not arrested by police or even represented by a lawyer.'

Read the full article here:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2334123/Secret-court-jails-father-sending-son-21st-birthday-greeting-Facebook-gagged-naming-him.html

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Dead Men Tell no Tales?

This is a follow up to my previous post questioning the narrative being presented on the Boston bombings.

On the 22^nd of May the FBI went to question Ibragim Todashev, an alleged associate of bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, at his home in Florida.   The story initially went that just as Todashev was about to sign a confession to a triple homicide, he pulled a knife and attacked the FBI agents causing them to shoot him dead.  Then the story changed, suddenly there never had been a knife, leaving the FBI shooting an unarmed man six times, once through the back of the head, in his own home.

Here's Abby Martin breaking this down

Mr. Todashev's father (pictured above) believes his son was executed to keep him silent regarding something he knew about either the bombings themselves, or the FBI's links to the Tsarnaev brothers.   In the video below, investigative journalist and former police officer Michael Ruppert, further breaks down the problems with the official story.  Mike Ruppert was amongst the most prominent investigators of the September 11^th attacks as an act of false flag terrorism, he speculates that the Boston bombings may well have had a similar origin in state sponsored violence.

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Bras don't Work?

A fifteen year long French study has concluded that Bras don't actually work, that is to say they don't really do anything to decrease back pain or stop women's breasts from sagging.  On the contrary they actually encourage it by causing atrophy in the muscles and ligaments that should be working to support breast tissue.   I'm not really in a position to have an opinion on this myself, but it does have a certain appeal, why would the human body need a device that nature didn't see fit to provide strapped around it to stop it from going wrong?  Is this just one more societal norm that people (in this case women) have been conditioned to accept? Who knows, maybe in the future we'll look back on women wearing bras as a strange practice akin to the corsets of the 19th century.

You can read an article written by an actual woman here:
http://guardianlv.com/2013/04/bras-dont-prevent-sag/

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Student Science Experiment Finds Plants won't Grow Near Wi-Fi Router

I bought a new router a few months ago, one that I could connect to my computer by cable so I wouldn't have to have the Wi-Fi switched on all the time.  I can't say I'd looked too deeply into it, I'd just see posts on various website from time to time calling into question the safety of excessive exposure to Wi-Fi.   Better safe than sorry I thought!

The short article I'm linking to below is about a group of teenage girls from Denmark, who ran an experiment to see how well cress would grow when placed between two Wi-Fi routers. The results, as the photo above shows, give cause for concern.  The experiment has apparently caused 'a stir' in the scientific community, with a Swedish Professor looking to replicate it in more controlled conditions.  Three cheers and more to the girls for alerting us to this potential danger, given all the money that's been spent testing the safety of Wi-Fi, it'll be truly amazing if they've found something the experts haven't.

Here's and exert:

"The students placed six trays filled with Lepidium sativum, a type of garden cress into a room without radiation, and six trays of the seeds into another room next to two routers that according to the girls calculations, emitted about the same type of radiation as an ordinary cellphone.

Over the next 12 days, the girls observed, measured, weighed and photographed their results. Although by the end of the experiment the results were blatantly obvious — the cress seeds placed near the router had not grown. Many of them were completely dead. While the cress seeds planted in the other room, away from the routers, thrived."

Full article available here:
http://www.mnn.com/health/healthy-spaces/blogs/student-science-experiment-finds-plants-wont-grow-near-wi-fi-router

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Saffron - Cooking for Peace with Iran

"Ask the average person in the West what they think of Iran and chances are they'll mention bombs, nukes, war. And that's just if you get them on a good day.

Quite frankly, I'm over this.

At a time of increased military tensions, a project which humanises Iranian people, dispels stereotypes, gives a voice to a people rarely seen or hear in the Western media and promotes cross-cultural understanding could not be more important.  Saffron aims to do just this, guiding readers on a fascinating journey into the hearts (and stomachs) of Iranians today."

                                                      Yasmin Khan

I just happened upon this project whilst looking for something else on a friends facebook page.  I'm certainly glad I did because it's one of the most interesting ideas I've come accross this year.  Yasmin Khan  is a half-Iranian writer, campaigner and most importantly cook.  She's hatched a plan to travel across Iran sharing recipes and cooking with the people she meets and turning this journey into a documentary and cook book.  This project however is about more than just cooking, it's about humanising the Iranian people in our eyes, showing that they're real people too, who enjoy doing the same kind of things we do.  Here's the short film she's made explaining the concept some more

Wars can only take place in the absence of empathy, and getting to know a people is a really good cure for being indifferent as to whether our governments want to kill them or not.  For this project to go ahead Yasmin needs to raise £8,500 by the 21st of May.  She's already a good part of the way there, but needs all the help she can get.  Please visit her campaign website below and if you feel so inclined, make a donation.  I'm sure that if everyone who sees this and thinks 'that's a really great idea!' just gave a few pounds then Yasmin would easily hit her target.  The more connected we here feel to the people of Iran, the less chance there is that it'll become the next Iraq!

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Boston Bombings - Hallmarks of a False Flag?

There's nothing pleasant about speculating on who was really behind terrorist attacks that have claimed the lives of several people and injured hundreds more.  It is however my view that there is very good reason to believe that governments themselves have played a role in carrying out many of the major terrorist events we have witnessed over the past several years, and it therefore becomes necessary to ask these difficult questions.

Why would I say such a thing?  Partly because it's undeniably true, as this segment of Alex Jones' film 'Terrorstorm 911' shows, from the destruction of Iranian democracy in the 1950's to initiating the South East Asian Genocide we call the Vietnam war, governments (particularly the US government) have used false flag terrorism to goad their populations into accepting domestic oppression and engaging in foreign wars.

Many events that are suspected of being false flag terrorism contain certain hallmarks.   One of these is that security personnel will be engaging in a training exercise that that mimics the actual attack, at the same time and location the attack happens.  On September 11^th 2001, the US air force was engaged in a war game called Operation Vigilant Guardian, which amongst other things contained a simulated hijacking drill.   On July 7^th 2005, at the time bombs were going off on the London underground, a private company was running an exercise simulating bomb attacks at the same stations and times where the actual attacks happened.  And the same was the case in Norway, the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten reported that the police concluded an anti terror drill 'almost identical' to the attacks carried out by Anders Breivik, just hours before those attacks commenced.  To be precise, Breivik's bomb went of twenty six minutes after the exercise finished.1

So when those who question these things question whether a terrorist incident may be a false flag event, one of the first things they would look for is whether there was a 'training exercise' taking place at the same location and time that the actual attack took place.  And sure enough in Boston it appears there was. 

The next hallmark those who seek might expect to find, is the accused terrorists having a pre-existing relationship with one or more intelligence agencies.  This quickly turned out to be the case with the accused Tsarnaev brothers.  What's so strange about that, wouldn't you expect intelligence agencies to be monitoring such people? Well sure, but as the following video presentation by James Corbett shows, there may be a little bit more to it than that.   It turns out the FBI has been involved in every terrorist plot in the United States over the past ten years, an involvement that goes beyond monitoring to actually masterminding the plots themselves.   Back in 1993 they even supplied the bomb that detonated at the World Trade Centre killing six people.  The ultimate role of intelligence agencies may not be to protect their population from terrorist attacks, but rather to advance the imperial agenda of the state.

It's a matter of historical record that the United States government (or maybe more accurately corporatocracy) has unleashed unlimited brutality on the wider world in pursuit of it's goal of global hegemonic power.   The body count runs well into the millions with the weapons ranging from napalm in Vietnam to the training of death squads in El Salvador, and of course include the more subtle weapon of deception.2  It seems silly to me to on the one hand acknowledge this, yet on the other refuse to even consider that the US gov would ever committed an act of violence against its own population in order to advance this same imperial agenda.  And whether you agree that there's more going on here than we're being lead to believe or not, there's no doubting it's the imperial agenda that will ultimately benefit from this latest tragedy.

This has just been a very quick overview of the things that have most struck me about the Boston Bombings.  There's much more of interest, including pictures of military personnel at the marathon and inconsistencies surrounding the attempts to arrest the Tsarnaev brothers.   If you want to know more then I'd recommend both Global Research and Alex Jones' Infowars as the best places to go.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/

http://www.infowars.com/

1. For more on these 'exercises' see my previous post:
http://deepstatenews.blogspot.com/2013/03/predictive-programming-911-and-lone.html

2. If you want proof see 'Overthrow – America's Century of Regime Change From Hawaii To Iraq' by Stephen Kinzer. Alternatively read any book by John Pilger or go to his website and watch any of the documentaries. www.johnpilger.com

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Earfilms - Imagination is the New Technology

A friend of mine is involved in a project called Earfilms, a term I have now added to the dictionary on my word processor!   It's essentially a film which you 'watch' blindfolded, a combination of storytelling, 3D surround sound and music is intended to evoke images within the mind, so your imagination literally becomes the screen upon which the story is played out.   In a world where ever more sophisticated levels of technology are employed in our entertainment, it's really appealing to me to see a project that embraces the eternal technology of the eye of the mind.

The European premier of the first feature length Earfilm, 'To Sleep To Dream', is taking place at the Brighton festival from the 4^th to the 6^th of May. Here's a description of the film, along with a documentary about Earfilms that also gives you a short taste of what they're like.

In 2056 a great flood devastated the World, leaving just one city standing — Lhaytar — a society built under the supreme control of one corporation. Here, workers of the corporation are denied the freedom to breed, and even to dream. We follow deflated worker Jack Richards, an overworked giant of a man lost in the system — until one day he encounters a message left in the space between the waking and sleeping worlds and a strange new reality opens up for him.

Haunting and magical, this is a story about the power of the dreamer and the desire to find your strength in a world that makes you feel small.

Here's a link to the Earfilms website:

http://www.earfilms.com/

You can also follow them on their facebook page for info on future events:

http://www.facebook.com/Earfilms

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Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms

I heard this on the radio the other day, obviously I've heard it before but never really paid any attention to the lyrics.  The presenter claimed it was specifically about the American Civil war, which made me listen in closely. Although I'm glad he said it, I'm not sure he was right as it appears to be about war in general and the contrast of the destruction and the comradeship it brings.  Absolutely captivating, I'm posting it here along with the lyrics just in case anyone else is like me and has heard it a thousand times with ever noticing what it was about!

These mist covered mountains

Are a home now for me

But my home is the lowlands

And always will be

Someday you'll return to

Your valleys and your farms

And you'll no longer burn to be

Brothers in arms

Through these fields of destruction

Baptisms of fire

I've witnessed your suffering

As the battle raged higher

And though they did hurt me so bad

In the fear and alarm

You did not desert me

My brothers in arms

There's so many different worlds

So many different suns

And we have just one world

But we live in different ones

Now the sun's gone to hell and

The moon's riding high

Let me bid you farewell

Every man has to die

But it's written in the starlight

And every line in your palm

We are fools to make war

On our brothers in arms

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Mrs. Thatcher - Blaming the Symptom, Avoiding the Cause

"In 1983, Thatcher sent the SAS to train the "coalition" in its own distinctive brand of terrorism. Seven-man SAS teams arrived from Hong Kong, and British soldiers set about training "resistance fighters" in laying minefields in a country devastated by genocide and the world's highest rate of death and injury as a result of landmines.

I reported this at the time, and more than 16,000 people wrote to Thatcher in protest. "I confirm," she replied to opposition leader Neil Kinnock, "that there is no British government involvement of any kind in training, equipping or co-operating with the Khmer Rouge or those allied to them." The lie was breathtaking. In 1991, the government of John Major admitted to parliament that the SAS had indeed trained the "coalition".  "We liked the British," a Khmer Rouge fighter later told me. "They were very good at teaching us to set booby traps. Unsuspecting people, like children in paddy fields, were the main victims.""

             John Pilger

There are two points I'd like to make with regard to Mrs. Thatcher.  Firstly, whilst not wishing to dance on anyone’s grave, she does appear to have been yet another fine example of a sociopath who rose to the highest levels of political power.   I don't think I'm being rude here, just calling a spade a spade.   As the John Pilger I'm linking to below amply demonstrates, whether it was sending the SAS to train the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, or supplying General Suharto with the weapons to carry out genocide in East Timor, Mrs. Thatcher seemed to have a very easy going attitude towards both murder and bare faced lies covering it up.1

Also all this stuff about 'protecting our boys' with regard to the Belgrano doesn't quite ring true to me either.  Not when her government spent the entire 1980's breaking the law to sell weapons to Saddam Hussein, weapons that were then used against 'our boys' during the first gulf war.  Of course they didn't know then that Britain would be going to war with Iraq, but Mr. Hussein's gassing of the Kurd's and brutal invasion of Iran might have provided a clue that arming him was a less than virtuous thing to do.2

The other point I'd like to make has less to do with the lady herself and more with the reaction to her passing, the negative reaction that is.  Whilst it's clear that Margaret Thatcher had a highly dysfunctional sense of morality, it seems kind of silly to me to place so much blame on her personally for the destruction she wrought.  We have a political system that consistently allows or even encourages moral degenerates to move to the top, to  blame whatever degenerate happens to be sitting on the throne this week seems to be misplaced, not to mention dis-empowering.  It's like blaming the puppet rather than the puppeteer.  Who is the puppeteer?  Some nefarious deep power structure that is selecting Presidents and Prime-ministers?  Quite possibly so, but it seems to me that the real puppeteer is the nature of government itself, that we excuse extortion, theft and violence when it is carried out by an entity known as 'The State.'

Blaming the man (or woman) at the top for the crimes of the State is like blaming Tony Soprano for the crimes of the Mafia, it's getting the cart before the horse.   Everyone can recognise that the Mafia wouldn't suddenly become a good organisation if only we could democratically elect the right folks to run it, it is by its very nature a violent criminal gang where the worst kind of people will always rise to the top.  It's obvious to all that any attempt at reform would be futile, the problem is we don't see that trying to reform the criminal gang called government is equally as futile.

From now on I'm intending to blog more on what society minus the state might look like, and how we might get ourselves to such a position.

1. Link to John Pilger article at Stop the War Coalition:

http://stopwar.org.uk/index.php/united-kingdom/2412-john-pilger-dance-on-thatchers-grave-but-her-funeral-was-a-propaganda-stunt-fit-for-a-dictator

2. See Mark Curtis' book, 'Web of Deceit – Britain's Real Role in the World'

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Ron Finley - Urban Food Forest

“You see I'm an artist. Gardening is my graffiti, I grow my art.”

                                                   Ron Findley

Depressed at the lack of availability of real food in South Central LA ("The drive through's are killing more people than the drive by's"), Ron Finley started growing an Urban Garden upon the public waste land beside his house.  Having overcome opposition from the city authorities (yes really) he's now aiming to start a revolution on the thousands of acres of Los Angles' waste land, changing peoples perception of food along the way.  Very inspiring project!

Link to a a ten minute Ted talk by Ron Finley on his urban garden art:  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzZzZ_qpZ4w

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George Ought to Help - A Thought Experiment on the Legitimacy of the State

"If, then, taxation is compulsory, and is therefore indistinguishable from theft, it follows that the State, which subsists on taxation, is a vast criminal organisation far more formidable and successful than any "private" Mafia in history."

             Murray Rothbard

The following two videos (the second is the squeal to the first) offer up a thought experiment exploring the legitimacy of the State, its policies of taxation and its foundations in violence.  On this blog I often post about all the nefarious things States do and speculate as to the deep power structures that may lie behind them. I don't know who's ultimately pulling the strings of this world, whether there's a conspiracy run by secretive Illuminati type group, a more poly-centric corporate power structure or just politicians short sightedly bumbling along from one genocidal disaster to the next.  Whilst it's important and also fascinating to speculate on such things, for any deep power structure to exert power over us they must first convince us of one thing, and that is that violence is acceptable when it's carried out by a group called 'The State'.

Margaret Thatcher's famous line that 'there is no such thing as society' has been endlessly quoted since her passing.   I want to suggest something different, I want to suggest that there is actually no such thing as the State, that it is a mythical entity no more real than dragons or unicorns and is simply a way in which we legitimising violence.  You may think that the State is necessary, that civilisation may collapse and burn without it and you may of course be right.  But given the inherent and unlimited violence from which it draws its power, would it not be worth at least exploring to see if there is an alternative?

Here we have the film 'George Ought to help'

And here we have the follow up, the disscusion that took place between two friends after watching the film

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The European Tower of Babel

Here's the latest creepy European Parliament propaganda film, this time they're claiming to be the defenders of free speech in Europe.  I really have no idea what this means, are they suggesting that various nation state governments would have outlawed freedom of speech by now if it wasn't for intervention by wise European overlords?   There seems to be something flawed with the premiss that 'nation states can limit freedom, therefore we will create a super-state to protect freedom', a plan that could go super wrong!

As the European economy continues its meltdown and bank deposits are raided in Cyprus, my guess would be that the real message here is 'Say what you like, we don't care, we're going to do what we want anyway.'   It's only primitive dictatorships that directly limit freedom of speech, the more sophisticate ones allow people to say whatever they want, but just ensure it has no impact, creating the illusion of freedom.   No one rebels if they thing they are free.

Here's the video, watch it if you can stomach it:

Ok, enough of that, now lets ask another question about what freedom of speech in the European Union really means.

The above is a picture of the European Parliament building in Strasbourg, the Louise Weiss building.  A bit like the second Death Star it's left unfinished, apparently to reflect the unfinished nature of the European project.  What could it be based upon, a Colosseum perhaps?

Maybe, but here's another possibility.

The painting below is Pieter Brueghel's sixteenth century depiction of the Tower of Babel, the tower described in the book of Genesis.  The one that people built high up into the sky before God intervened to stop it, ensuring everyone spoke different languages ever after.  Although there are comparisons it would be a stretch to say that this is clearly the inspiration for the EU parliament.

Well maybe not, here's an EU poster depicting the parliament, I don't think there can be any doubt that this is clearly based upon Brueghel's painting of the Tower.  It is therefore in no way a stretch to suggest that this is where the architecture of the parliament building itself draws inspiration from.  

Is there something a little bit odd about this?  That the Parliament building of predominantly Christian Europe is based on a tower that God himself halted the construction of?  The slogan 'Europe: Many Tongues One Voice' takes on a whole different and sinister meaning when viewed in this context.  We could also ask about the upside down pentagrams, why a small group stand apart from the others and why European's (with the exception of the baby) are depicted as block heads.

Just in case you're still not sure, here they are side by side.

The Vigilant Citizen has written about this and you can read his more comprehensive article here:
http://vigilantcitizen.com/sinistersites/sinister-sites-the-eu-parliament/

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