Showing posts with label propaganda. Show all posts
Showing posts with label propaganda. Show all posts
20180912
Bucailleism: When Pseudoscience is Used to Gain New Converts in Islam
Islamic science requires scientific method to separate the pseudoscience of Bucailleism from the pursuit of science.
Using the Koran to prove the Big Bang is like using the Christian Bible to disprove it: you have to suspend disbelief in divine inspiration and make preposterous conjectures about science relying on a holy book that is given such a higher authority that to criticise it is offensive to most Muslims.
Thus most Muslim scholars do not criticise Bucailleism because propaganda based on it is useful to gaining new converts.
What is ironic is most of Muslim science came from ancient Greek scientists who lived in Anatolia and in the Middle East from 800 to 1250 CE.
References
https://wikiislam.net/wiki/Bucailleism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_attitudes_towards_science
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_in_the_medieval_Islamic_world
20151019
Sexual Stereotyping Evidence of Patriarchy's Gender Binary Propaganda (satire)
Regarding women seeking the strongest type, not all strong men are capable of becoming the equal in a relationship.
Likewise the stereotyping of men as always looking for other women. In certain cases, this may be true but most of the time, the man has female friends who are not truly rivals, but are sought out because the girlfriend or wife is unable to articulate herself in a straightforward way that makes sense to a man.
Flirting with a rival male to make a male significant other jealous isn't straightforward. It is a mindgame because a simple request to pay attention to her ought to be a part of the social compact that males and females implicitly agree to.
Mind reading by either sex is also a mind game since neither of us is telepathic.
Thus, the statement — "the males are like Bluetooth and females, WiFi" — is flawed.
Any male or female who tries to use it as a guide to a strong relationship will eventually find the stereotypes enable fallacies about male and female human beings, which may lead to either fanatical belief in, and enforcement of, the gender binary or worse, unhappy relationships and marriage.
Relationships are very much more complex than the internet and its technology.
Even so, the humor is appreciated. If you thought I was being sarcastic, then you are correct.
For sexual stereotypes are tools used by the patriarchy to maintain the lie that gender is binary.
Neoconservative elites of the patriarchy both in the Church and the State need to make money, and simplifying gender into a binary is what heteronormative means, since it simplifies the sales of product based on the gender binary of man and woman.
While I am not an expert on gender and relationships, I do understand that the statement that "men=Bluetooth and women=WiFi" means that we have a lot of work to do to expose the fallacy of gender as binary for the lie that it is.
Furthermore, the fallacy that men and women are like technology shows that this hilarious post reflects the extent that the "gender as binary" propaganda of neoconservative elements in Church and State is spoonfed into children's minds from cradle to grave.
YMMV
Synopsis of what I just wrote: men and women are not technology but instead are complex people. If you believe that gender only exists as a binary of man and woman, then you have fallen for the propaganda that follows us from cradle to grave. 😉
Reference
Source: https://plus.google.com/105754529195653970581/posts/FC6G8oQab7d
20150213
Oil, 911 and the Jihadi Threat (satire)
Back in 2001, almost everyone misinterpreted my comment sometime after 9-11 that whoever planned it had the right to protest but I disagreed with its execution. Yet the moderate Muslim clerics in America soon decried it.
Ever since then, the mainstream media (MSM) has filtered out their response and provided what I perceived as unfair commentary. What rankled me the most was the Russian Orthodox church taking a Crusader attitude to it.
Then the US government led a neo-Crusader war in Afghanistan and later in Iraq. I call these conflicts neo-Crusader because the optics in the Middle East and most Muslim countries is colored by religion.
According to Muslim claims, one reason 9-11 happened because of one US military base on Saudi soil. The result of this is the current Islamic State in northern Iraq, and the radicalization of individuals in the West sympathetic to the jihadi cult and its extremism, worldwide.
Not all of this war is positive: the Taliban, al Qaeda, and even the Islamic State are barely contained.
FWIW I view in general terms the conflict in the Middle East as a global conflict where secularism and its variety of consumerism versus the political extremism that I call "the jihadi cult."
To call it radical Islam may be mistaken, since the MSM have filtered out the historical justification that the jihadi cult makes, which paints it as a continuation of the Crusades but with American secularism having replaced the Catholic church as defenders of Western values.
After reading about the Jordanian pilot being burned alive by the Islamic State, I heartily agree with the Jordani call to "wipe them out."
However, it is because of the oil wells in Syria that that conflict continues; it is because of the pipeline across Afghanistan that region may see more conflicts with the Taliban; and it is because of the pipeline from Russia into the Ukraine that is behind that conflict.
No nation is willing to admit to that. Even the US government will censor it. Instead, the Islamic State is a distraction as are the terrorist incidents in America, in the UK and even in Canada.
So is the Charlie Hebdo attack, the killing of a British soldier in the UK, the Bostom Marathon bombing, and the bombings in London. The MSM will never expose the fact that our worldwide oil supply is running out is the main reason for these conflicts.
Instead, the pretext for the conflicts (the West's demand for oil and its consumption) will be discounted as conspiracy theory.
Meanwhile, the propaganda against Islam continues unabated, despite the fact that most of the propaganda is too a distraction from the truth: the jihadi cults of al Qaeda, Islamic State and the Taliban are no longer tacitly supported by most moderate Muslim clerics. Ergo, the Islamophobes' fear mongering is no cause for concern, for it only feeds into the fears of right-wing conservatives without balancing it with the simple fact that most Muslims are not blood-thirsty terrorists.
Even Salafi Muslims are distancing themselves from the Islamic State.
Radical Islam is the threat, but not one MSM outlet will suggest bombing those oil wells that the Islamic State own. That is because the conflict is over oil and who owns it.
Update: February 13, 2015
Perhaps the Noble Qur'an in Surat Al-Baqarah, specifically Surah 2:6-21 (Shakir translation) best sums up extremist groups such as Al Qaeda, Islamic State and the Taliban as well as their allies in Nigeria and in Kenya.
Surely those who disbelieve — whether you warn them or not, it is the same to them — will not believe. God has set a seal upon their hearts and upon their hearing and there is a covering over their eyes, and there is a great punishment for them.
There are some people who say: "We believe in God and the last day"; and they are not at all believers. They desire to deceive God and those who believe, but they deceive only themselves and they do not perceive.
There is a disease in their hearts, so God added to their disease and they shall have a painful chastisement because they lied. When it is said to them, "Do not make mischief in the land," they say: "We are but peace-makers."
Now surely they themselves are the mischief makers, but they do not perceive. When it is said to them: "Believe as the people believe," they say: "Shall we believe as the fools believe?" Now surely they themselves are the fools, but they do not know.
When they meet those who believe, they say: "We believe;" and when they are alone with their Shaitans, they say: "Surely we are with you, we were only mocking." God shall pay them back their mockery, and He leaves them alone in their excessiveness, blindly wandering on.
These are they who buy error for the right direction, so their bargain shall bring no gain, nor are they the followers of the right direction. O men! serve your Lord Who created you and those before you so that you may guard against evil.
This quote is in reference to Muslims, specifically extremists, and in it God admonishes the true believer in Islam to not "make mischief in the land" while declaring themselves peace-makers and reformers.
Apparently the extremists in the Islamic State claim to be serving God yet their acts speak for themselves: wanton acts of violence against innocent Christians, Muslims, Yazidis and humanitarian aid workers. This is not Shariah; this too is a mockery of Shariah.
Despite claiming to be Muslim, the Islamic State has mocked God while committing horrible acts of violence, contrary to Islamic law. It is no wonder that the whole world has decried what they did to the Jordanian pilot.
Because of this latest spectacle of violence, most Muslims have aligned with the West, specifically America, including Canada, Japan, the UK and also Jordan, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and even Saudi Arabia — to name a few of the Middle East nations. Their religious leaders have condemned the violence, and their political leaders have sent personnel to bomb the extremists. Other nations have sent humanitarian aid.
Recently the Syrian Foreign Minister criticized the violation of Syrian air space by the Jordanians. He has also rejected plans by the West to send in ground troops on Syrian soil.
Since the Islamic State occupies both sides of the border between Syria and Iraq, it is expedient to deal with the imminent threat of the extremists and let the diplomats both Syrian and Jordanian to work out the rules of engagement.
As well, the lack of protection of humanitarian aid workers has led to kidnappings and murders by the Islamic State. This is sad and tragic for their surviving families, especially since innocent lives have been lost.
Earlier I have endorsed the opinion that Jordan should help wipe out the Islamic State. Now that the UAE is also stepping up to the plate to help defeat the extremists, this is both good news and bad news. The bad news: more innocent victims might be killed. This is a given, considering the ruthless violence that the Islamic State is capable of. As for the good news, it disproves the conservative fallacy that "all Muslims are not to be trusted."
For not all Muslims are terrorists.
Indeed, extremism and other acts of violence that lead to terrorism are the work of jihadi cult members who pretend to believe in God and violently carry out their version of Sharia as the only true law. Were they truly believers of God's Oneness, they would not excuse their violence against Muslims and non-Muslims by misquoting the Quran.
Instead, they would treat both Muslims and non-Muslims kindly. Indeed, the extremists commit acts of violence that invalidate their claims of being Muslims, for they have become a law unto themselves.
While this war could be shortened by taking out the oil wells and sabotaging the oil pipeline leading to Banias, Syria, both sides want to keep these assets from harm, lest pollution from burning raw oil contaminate the landscape. Most importantly, if oil assets are destroyed, the war may escalate into a scorched earth scenario that will lead to more innocent lives being lost.
Since neither side wants that to happen, we shall see the continuation of the endless war which began when the US government sent its troops to "liberate" Baghdad in 2003.
It is quite clear that the West wants Assad's oil. Heck, the West also wants Russia's oil, which explains the current Ukraine crisis.
So this endless war is not going to stop any time soon. Meanwhile, more home-grown terrorism in Asia, Europe, The Americas (Canada and the US) and even Australia and New Zealand will be uncovered in the future.
Originally posted Feb 7, 2015 at 1:14 AM PST
References:
Background on Islamic State: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_State_of_Iraq_and_the_Levant
The Oil Factor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oil_Factor
Drop in Oil Prices - News Junkie Press: http://newsjunkiepost.com/2015/02/07/a-discussion-about-saudi-arabia-will-isis-come-home-to-roost/
Muslim American associations and organizations that condemned 911:
http://gandhara.blogspot.com/2015/02/muslim-american-organizations-that.html
Quote from Quran: http://quran.com/2
Syrian Foreign Minister says Syria does not need help: http://www.cp24.com/world/syria-s-foreign-minister-says-country-doesn-t-need-help-battling-is-1.2227156
Syria rejects foreign ground troops to fight ISIS: http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2015/02/09/Syria-rejects-foreign-ground-troops-to-fight-ISIS-.html
Background on the Yazidis: http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-28686607
Humanitarian aid worker dead: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-31375445
Oil from Iraq and Saudi Arabia are moved through pipelines to Banias in Syria and Sidon and Tripoli in Lebanon. — page 226, The Arabs, Edward Atiyah
Ever since then, the mainstream media (MSM) has filtered out their response and provided what I perceived as unfair commentary. What rankled me the most was the Russian Orthodox church taking a Crusader attitude to it.
Then the US government led a neo-Crusader war in Afghanistan and later in Iraq. I call these conflicts neo-Crusader because the optics in the Middle East and most Muslim countries is colored by religion.
According to Muslim claims, one reason 9-11 happened because of one US military base on Saudi soil. The result of this is the current Islamic State in northern Iraq, and the radicalization of individuals in the West sympathetic to the jihadi cult and its extremism, worldwide.
Not all of this war is positive: the Taliban, al Qaeda, and even the Islamic State are barely contained.
FWIW I view in general terms the conflict in the Middle East as a global conflict where secularism and its variety of consumerism versus the political extremism that I call "the jihadi cult."
To call it radical Islam may be mistaken, since the MSM have filtered out the historical justification that the jihadi cult makes, which paints it as a continuation of the Crusades but with American secularism having replaced the Catholic church as defenders of Western values.
After reading about the Jordanian pilot being burned alive by the Islamic State, I heartily agree with the Jordani call to "wipe them out."
However, it is because of the oil wells in Syria that that conflict continues; it is because of the pipeline across Afghanistan that region may see more conflicts with the Taliban; and it is because of the pipeline from Russia into the Ukraine that is behind that conflict.
No nation is willing to admit to that. Even the US government will censor it. Instead, the Islamic State is a distraction as are the terrorist incidents in America, in the UK and even in Canada.
So is the Charlie Hebdo attack, the killing of a British soldier in the UK, the Bostom Marathon bombing, and the bombings in London. The MSM will never expose the fact that our worldwide oil supply is running out is the main reason for these conflicts.
Instead, the pretext for the conflicts (the West's demand for oil and its consumption) will be discounted as conspiracy theory.
Meanwhile, the propaganda against Islam continues unabated, despite the fact that most of the propaganda is too a distraction from the truth: the jihadi cults of al Qaeda, Islamic State and the Taliban are no longer tacitly supported by most moderate Muslim clerics. Ergo, the Islamophobes' fear mongering is no cause for concern, for it only feeds into the fears of right-wing conservatives without balancing it with the simple fact that most Muslims are not blood-thirsty terrorists.
Even Salafi Muslims are distancing themselves from the Islamic State.
Radical Islam is the threat, but not one MSM outlet will suggest bombing those oil wells that the Islamic State own. That is because the conflict is over oil and who owns it.
Update: February 13, 2015
Perhaps the Noble Qur'an in Surat Al-Baqarah, specifically Surah 2:6-21 (Shakir translation) best sums up extremist groups such as Al Qaeda, Islamic State and the Taliban as well as their allies in Nigeria and in Kenya.
Surely those who disbelieve — whether you warn them or not, it is the same to them — will not believe. God has set a seal upon their hearts and upon their hearing and there is a covering over their eyes, and there is a great punishment for them.
There are some people who say: "We believe in God and the last day"; and they are not at all believers. They desire to deceive God and those who believe, but they deceive only themselves and they do not perceive.
There is a disease in their hearts, so God added to their disease and they shall have a painful chastisement because they lied. When it is said to them, "Do not make mischief in the land," they say: "We are but peace-makers."
Now surely they themselves are the mischief makers, but they do not perceive. When it is said to them: "Believe as the people believe," they say: "Shall we believe as the fools believe?" Now surely they themselves are the fools, but they do not know.
When they meet those who believe, they say: "We believe;" and when they are alone with their Shaitans, they say: "Surely we are with you, we were only mocking." God shall pay them back their mockery, and He leaves them alone in their excessiveness, blindly wandering on.
These are they who buy error for the right direction, so their bargain shall bring no gain, nor are they the followers of the right direction. O men! serve your Lord Who created you and those before you so that you may guard against evil.
This quote is in reference to Muslims, specifically extremists, and in it God admonishes the true believer in Islam to not "make mischief in the land" while declaring themselves peace-makers and reformers.
Apparently the extremists in the Islamic State claim to be serving God yet their acts speak for themselves: wanton acts of violence against innocent Christians, Muslims, Yazidis and humanitarian aid workers. This is not Shariah; this too is a mockery of Shariah.
Despite claiming to be Muslim, the Islamic State has mocked God while committing horrible acts of violence, contrary to Islamic law. It is no wonder that the whole world has decried what they did to the Jordanian pilot.
Because of this latest spectacle of violence, most Muslims have aligned with the West, specifically America, including Canada, Japan, the UK and also Jordan, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and even Saudi Arabia — to name a few of the Middle East nations. Their religious leaders have condemned the violence, and their political leaders have sent personnel to bomb the extremists. Other nations have sent humanitarian aid.
Recently the Syrian Foreign Minister criticized the violation of Syrian air space by the Jordanians. He has also rejected plans by the West to send in ground troops on Syrian soil.
Since the Islamic State occupies both sides of the border between Syria and Iraq, it is expedient to deal with the imminent threat of the extremists and let the diplomats both Syrian and Jordanian to work out the rules of engagement.
As well, the lack of protection of humanitarian aid workers has led to kidnappings and murders by the Islamic State. This is sad and tragic for their surviving families, especially since innocent lives have been lost.
Earlier I have endorsed the opinion that Jordan should help wipe out the Islamic State. Now that the UAE is also stepping up to the plate to help defeat the extremists, this is both good news and bad news. The bad news: more innocent victims might be killed. This is a given, considering the ruthless violence that the Islamic State is capable of. As for the good news, it disproves the conservative fallacy that "all Muslims are not to be trusted."
For not all Muslims are terrorists.
Indeed, extremism and other acts of violence that lead to terrorism are the work of jihadi cult members who pretend to believe in God and violently carry out their version of Sharia as the only true law. Were they truly believers of God's Oneness, they would not excuse their violence against Muslims and non-Muslims by misquoting the Quran.
Instead, they would treat both Muslims and non-Muslims kindly. Indeed, the extremists commit acts of violence that invalidate their claims of being Muslims, for they have become a law unto themselves.
While this war could be shortened by taking out the oil wells and sabotaging the oil pipeline leading to Banias, Syria, both sides want to keep these assets from harm, lest pollution from burning raw oil contaminate the landscape. Most importantly, if oil assets are destroyed, the war may escalate into a scorched earth scenario that will lead to more innocent lives being lost.
Since neither side wants that to happen, we shall see the continuation of the endless war which began when the US government sent its troops to "liberate" Baghdad in 2003.
It is quite clear that the West wants Assad's oil. Heck, the West also wants Russia's oil, which explains the current Ukraine crisis.
So this endless war is not going to stop any time soon. Meanwhile, more home-grown terrorism in Asia, Europe, The Americas (Canada and the US) and even Australia and New Zealand will be uncovered in the future.
Originally posted Feb 7, 2015 at 1:14 AM PST
References:
Background on Islamic State: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_State_of_Iraq_and_the_Levant
The Oil Factor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oil_Factor
Drop in Oil Prices - News Junkie Press: http://newsjunkiepost.com/2015/02/07/a-discussion-about-saudi-arabia-will-isis-come-home-to-roost/
Muslim American associations and organizations that condemned 911:
http://gandhara.blogspot.com/2015/02/muslim-american-organizations-that.html
Quote from Quran: http://quran.com/2
Syrian Foreign Minister says Syria does not need help: http://www.cp24.com/world/syria-s-foreign-minister-says-country-doesn-t-need-help-battling-is-1.2227156
Syria rejects foreign ground troops to fight ISIS: http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2015/02/09/Syria-rejects-foreign-ground-troops-to-fight-ISIS-.html
Background on the Yazidis: http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-28686607
Humanitarian aid worker dead: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-31375445
Oil from Iraq and Saudi Arabia are moved through pipelines to Banias in Syria and Sidon and Tripoli in Lebanon. — page 226, The Arabs, Edward Atiyah
20150120
The Armenian Genocide as Propaganda (satire)
Armenians inside Turkey have a different opinion on the Armenian Genocide propaganda that the Republic of Armenia PM Kocharian stated in 1998, who said: "The Armenians will never forget the genocide and always try to remind the rest of the world of this tragedy ... The Genocide remains unpunished and the international recognition and reproach are inadequate and insufficient”.
To this, Dikran Kevorkian, Kandilli Armenian Church Pastor, said the following on 7th October 2000 in a television programme named “Nutshell”:
'Genocide and replacement denote two different concepts. The imperialist schemes and the Armenian apolitical dream leaders (media, churches and the clergy) are the causes of this situation. The Patriarch is a spiritual leader and a blunder is committed when his opinions are sought about political matters. What could ASALA and PKK do if there were no political support behind them? There was a German pressure on the Sublime Porte for the replacement, in an attempt to shake the existing order and to secure itself economic benefits through the Berlin-Baghdad railroad.'
For the assimilation claims, Kevorkian stated the following words:
'Today, it is only in Turkey among all countries of the world that the Armenians manage to maintain their own identity. The Armenians in the Diaspora abroad continue their struggle for existence by changing their names because there are efforts there to assimilate the Armenians. The Diaspora knows very well that the Sunday rites in all major American churches are in English and the Armenians are gradually forgetting their own language. When we say these we are criticised. It is for these reasons that we, as the Armenians living in Turkey declare our regrets against these efforts, because an injustice is being committed to the concept of “National Forces” entrusted to us by Atatürk. All this is a stratagem conducted from abroad, including the ASALA, PKK and Kocharian’s declaration. We, as the citizens of Turkey believe that an injustice is perpetrated here. If Armenians are intelligent enough, they should not allow themselves to be used for the interests of others.'
In short, Kevorkian means that Kocharian's declaration is propaganda designed to make the world feel for Armenians what they felt for the Jews as their story of genocide became known in the post-war period.
Later propaganda by parties sympathetic to the Jews led to a reactionary rise of neo-Nazi sentiment that was quickly suppressed until today, where the younger generation in the West pick which side to be behind based on whether the coolness of being a Nazi or backing the underdog is important to them.
Sadly, both sides of that political battle use the either you are for me or against me fallacy to bully disinterested third parties into choosing between Nazism and Zionism.
In the case of the Armenian Genocide, it becomes a case of choosing between Armenia and Turkey with the same type of bullying of third parties.
However, that choice is also based on the same kind of fallacy.
Both sides of the Armenia versus Turkey political propaganda think of themselves as being right. The Turkish side puts up great arguments to refrain from listening to the propaganda.
So I politely refuse to endorse either side, just as I refuse to endorse either side of the Nazism versus Zionism debacle.
My reason for remaining neutral and not choose sides is because if I pick one side, then the other side might have arguments that I may not consider. I present the Turkish side because despite its propaganda (implying that support for Armenia means Turkey fall into a civil war over the Armenian Genocide), it presents a view that I have not read.
I am neutral about Nazism versus Zionism because it is a case of fascism versus reactionary socialism. Neither side is worth defending because both of them are chauvinistic, promoting their political ideology at the expense of the other side.
In both cases, the "us versus them" mentality makes me feel less inclined to pick sides. Even the propaganda from the Turkish side quoted at the beginning of this blog entry makes me wary of the political motive behind it, which was to refute the Armenian diaspora's call for justice.
Please note that I present the Turkish side not because I believe them but because out of all fairness, it needs to be examined too.
Introduction to Armenian Issue: CURRENT SITUATION: http://www.ermenisorunu.gen.tr/english/intro/current.html
Armenian Genocide: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_Genocide
To this, Dikran Kevorkian, Kandilli Armenian Church Pastor, said the following on 7th October 2000 in a television programme named “Nutshell”:
'Genocide and replacement denote two different concepts. The imperialist schemes and the Armenian apolitical dream leaders (media, churches and the clergy) are the causes of this situation. The Patriarch is a spiritual leader and a blunder is committed when his opinions are sought about political matters. What could ASALA and PKK do if there were no political support behind them? There was a German pressure on the Sublime Porte for the replacement, in an attempt to shake the existing order and to secure itself economic benefits through the Berlin-Baghdad railroad.'
For the assimilation claims, Kevorkian stated the following words:
'Today, it is only in Turkey among all countries of the world that the Armenians manage to maintain their own identity. The Armenians in the Diaspora abroad continue their struggle for existence by changing their names because there are efforts there to assimilate the Armenians. The Diaspora knows very well that the Sunday rites in all major American churches are in English and the Armenians are gradually forgetting their own language. When we say these we are criticised. It is for these reasons that we, as the Armenians living in Turkey declare our regrets against these efforts, because an injustice is being committed to the concept of “National Forces” entrusted to us by Atatürk. All this is a stratagem conducted from abroad, including the ASALA, PKK and Kocharian’s declaration. We, as the citizens of Turkey believe that an injustice is perpetrated here. If Armenians are intelligent enough, they should not allow themselves to be used for the interests of others.'
In short, Kevorkian means that Kocharian's declaration is propaganda designed to make the world feel for Armenians what they felt for the Jews as their story of genocide became known in the post-war period.
Later propaganda by parties sympathetic to the Jews led to a reactionary rise of neo-Nazi sentiment that was quickly suppressed until today, where the younger generation in the West pick which side to be behind based on whether the coolness of being a Nazi or backing the underdog is important to them.
Sadly, both sides of that political battle use the either you are for me or against me fallacy to bully disinterested third parties into choosing between Nazism and Zionism.
In the case of the Armenian Genocide, it becomes a case of choosing between Armenia and Turkey with the same type of bullying of third parties.
However, that choice is also based on the same kind of fallacy.
Both sides of the Armenia versus Turkey political propaganda think of themselves as being right. The Turkish side puts up great arguments to refrain from listening to the propaganda.
So I politely refuse to endorse either side, just as I refuse to endorse either side of the Nazism versus Zionism debacle.
My reason for remaining neutral and not choose sides is because if I pick one side, then the other side might have arguments that I may not consider. I present the Turkish side because despite its propaganda (implying that support for Armenia means Turkey fall into a civil war over the Armenian Genocide), it presents a view that I have not read.
I am neutral about Nazism versus Zionism because it is a case of fascism versus reactionary socialism. Neither side is worth defending because both of them are chauvinistic, promoting their political ideology at the expense of the other side.
In both cases, the "us versus them" mentality makes me feel less inclined to pick sides. Even the propaganda from the Turkish side quoted at the beginning of this blog entry makes me wary of the political motive behind it, which was to refute the Armenian diaspora's call for justice.
Please note that I present the Turkish side not because I believe them but because out of all fairness, it needs to be examined too.
Introduction to Armenian Issue: CURRENT SITUATION: http://www.ermenisorunu.gen.tr/english/intro/current.html
Armenian Genocide: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_Genocide
20140908
Do you know what Your Girls Are Doing On-line? (satire)
Parents: You'd be shocked if you only knew what your girls were doing on-line.
It's not a phase they are doing through. Some of your girls are flashing guys on Kik. They are also allowed to tease the boys on Younow while banning guys for objecting to it.
I could go on, but it was exposed by Amanda Todd. And the real reason why she hung herself was because her mother cut her off from unconditional love.
Of course, if you can't handle the truth, then go ahead and believe the propaganda that it was all because of some non-existent on-line stalker.
Why do police consistent wait until a crime happens before they do anything about it? This reactive form of policing is vexing.
They told Amanda Todd's mother to keep Amanda off the Internet because of her exhibitionist response to being deprived by her mother of the loving and caring attention that would have reduced her on-line activity.
Now we have the media circus where the lie that Amanda was stalked on-line until she was bullied by her classmates, all of whom resorted to bullying to get her to tow the line.
That line is best summed up as "stop showing off your body to the Internet".
However, the mainstream media sticks to the stalker propaganda instead of telling the truth and thus are complicit in the propaganda.
This is because society cannot handle the truth: your girls have the potential to become flashers on-line if you deprive them of love and nurturing.
So, parents, do you know what your girls are doing on-line?
It's not a phase they are doing through. Some of your girls are flashing guys on Kik. They are also allowed to tease the boys on Younow while banning guys for objecting to it.
I could go on, but it was exposed by Amanda Todd. And the real reason why she hung herself was because her mother cut her off from unconditional love.
Of course, if you can't handle the truth, then go ahead and believe the propaganda that it was all because of some non-existent on-line stalker.
Why do police consistent wait until a crime happens before they do anything about it? This reactive form of policing is vexing.
They told Amanda Todd's mother to keep Amanda off the Internet because of her exhibitionist response to being deprived by her mother of the loving and caring attention that would have reduced her on-line activity.
Now we have the media circus where the lie that Amanda was stalked on-line until she was bullied by her classmates, all of whom resorted to bullying to get her to tow the line.
That line is best summed up as "stop showing off your body to the Internet".
However, the mainstream media sticks to the stalker propaganda instead of telling the truth and thus are complicit in the propaganda.
This is because society cannot handle the truth: your girls have the potential to become flashers on-line if you deprive them of love and nurturing.
So, parents, do you know what your girls are doing on-line?
20140618
You Failed, DEA! (satire)
To the DEA and the RCMP in Canada: "I told you so." Your anti-cannabis agenda was never about eradicating a dangerous drug, and you know it. It was about spreading propaganda and disinformation to make it look like you were saving society from the "devil weed." In the process, you demonized pot smokers and treated some of them as though they were major drug fiends who would become like Justin Bourque.
The truth is, Bourque — and the celebrity Amanda Bynes — are rare cases of THC psychosis caused by the intricate interaction between THC and stress on the human mind, and would clear up had the person just moderated their THC intake.
In short, "less is more" as in "less pot results in more control over stress in one's life." High consumption of marijuana never results in less stress since it is a fallacy to assume THC cures stress. What it does is chill you the fuck out, but beyond a certain level of consumption that calmness leads to anxiety, and later insomnia, mania and even psychosis.
IMO this is why the hard core pot advocates will disagree with me on this. They smoke so much the mania that THC causes in high doses prevents them from understanding that high THC consumption will lead to more anxiety and might spiral out of control.
Yet one symptom of psychosis is a state of constant denial, because it is easier to deny the truth than to give up one's current grasp on reality. If we let go of our preconceived notions of reality, then we might learn something deep and meaningful about reality itself.
However, you DEA and you RCMP have failed in stopping the War on Drugs. Your only reason for continuing the war is to look like a hero and hoodwink Americans and Canadians.
In fact, by establishing yourself in Canada, you are contributing to the problem rather than solving it.
I'm sure the only reason the DEA moved to Vancouver and Toronto was to pressure PM Harper to introduce minimum sentences on marijuana possession and related nonsense.
I also suspect that certain gangs in BC formed because the strategy of placing key members of teen gangs in the same prison and youth remand centres without keeping adequate checks and balances due to the fact that youth corrections personnel have little training in self defense against violent teenaged gang members.
In short, the shortcomings of BC youth corrections combined with more violence teenagers who have been groomed to become narcissistic led to even more violent youth gangs.
As well, it is a well known fact that families were broken up over marijuana charges, due to the propaganda against cannabis.
20140116
A Lone Pacifist Speaks (satire)
One by one, our rights in B.C. are being lost.
While our right to protest has become eroded by legislation, not all the protesters are in solidarity. Some of them are even throwing a monkey wrench into the struggle.
However, I refuse to become militant. For non-violent confrontation works for me.
The B.C. Liberals haven't changed from my grandparents' days.
Today, it isn't the Japanese community that's under attack. Now it's almost anyone who won't follow the corporate agenda, and become the sheep at photo-ops where the participants gleefully throw our tax dollars at symbols of the attack on the environment, on the homeless, and on anyone with the guts to stand up to them.
I refuse to follow the New Left because they vowed to bring disorder and chaos; and I refuse to follow the NDP because their compassion is shallow.
For those people in power will not resist the temptation to abuse their authority. Lord Acton still has it right after all those years: "Absolute power corrupts absolutely."
THE ONLY ANSWER IS NON-VIOLENT CONFRONTATION.
Peace, Love, Unity, and Respect -- the four truths I live by.
It is time for a change, people of BC. Big Business should not be contributing to a political campaign of an election, but this is why the BC Liberals are still in power. It is also why the Conservatives are in power federally.
Thus, federally, the Green Party gets my vote every four years, while provincially, it will be the Greens once again.
My reason for this is because the People have never been heard by any other party. If you think they were, then you are mistaken. As long as first-past-the-post elections are held, the voice of the People will continued to be ignored.
For it is a tradition to only pick either the Liberals or the Conservatives, but it is Big Business that almost always supports the winner because they pay for the disingenuous politicking. This includes the mainstream media in BC.
Everything on the television is merely propaganda, be it advertising or PR from Victoria.
Yet mainstream media will filter out alternate views that challenge the status quo, usually by banning it. Censorship has kept out the fact that much of the daily news is slanted in such a way as to favor the neo-conservatives, given that they have a lot of money to sue people who reveal a truth everyone but they want known.
Therefore this never was a free country. Since WW 1, Canada has routinely interned enemy aliens, be it Ukrainians, Japanese Canadians, peaceful German farmers, and even Doukhabour children kidnapped from their parents.
If this was a free country, then it would legalize marijuana. Instead, Ottawa made marijuana laws so tough that if three or more pro-marijuana farmers agreed to grow and distribute marijuana for medical reasons, then they will be falsely charged with conspiracy to traffick and spend a minimum of ten years in jail. Being that there are more than three people in that medical marijuana operation, it is also gang-related. For that they will get another 10 years. This is why in BC, the police claim that "all grow-ops are not mom & pop; they are gang-related." In this way does Ottawa manufacture gang members through their drug crime laws.
If this was a free country, then prostitution would be legalized and made a health concern too. Pandering and pimping however would remain a crime. Any dissent by the moral minorities can easily be remedied by showing them how many of their brothers were Johns, and that repression of prostitution is done mainly to avoid competition with the second oldest profession: religion.
Sadly, we cannot ban politicians because if politics were banned, we'd have more sociopaths who promise us heaven but cause hell when they can't live up to their promises.
Original post: March 10, 2007 4:32 PM
While our right to protest has become eroded by legislation, not all the protesters are in solidarity. Some of them are even throwing a monkey wrench into the struggle.
However, I refuse to become militant. For non-violent confrontation works for me.
The B.C. Liberals haven't changed from my grandparents' days.
Today, it isn't the Japanese community that's under attack. Now it's almost anyone who won't follow the corporate agenda, and become the sheep at photo-ops where the participants gleefully throw our tax dollars at symbols of the attack on the environment, on the homeless, and on anyone with the guts to stand up to them.
I refuse to follow the New Left because they vowed to bring disorder and chaos; and I refuse to follow the NDP because their compassion is shallow.
For those people in power will not resist the temptation to abuse their authority. Lord Acton still has it right after all those years: "Absolute power corrupts absolutely."
THE ONLY ANSWER IS NON-VIOLENT CONFRONTATION.
Peace, Love, Unity, and Respect -- the four truths I live by.
It is time for a change, people of BC. Big Business should not be contributing to a political campaign of an election, but this is why the BC Liberals are still in power. It is also why the Conservatives are in power federally.
Thus, federally, the Green Party gets my vote every four years, while provincially, it will be the Greens once again.
My reason for this is because the People have never been heard by any other party. If you think they were, then you are mistaken. As long as first-past-the-post elections are held, the voice of the People will continued to be ignored.
For it is a tradition to only pick either the Liberals or the Conservatives, but it is Big Business that almost always supports the winner because they pay for the disingenuous politicking. This includes the mainstream media in BC.
Everything on the television is merely propaganda, be it advertising or PR from Victoria.
Yet mainstream media will filter out alternate views that challenge the status quo, usually by banning it. Censorship has kept out the fact that much of the daily news is slanted in such a way as to favor the neo-conservatives, given that they have a lot of money to sue people who reveal a truth everyone but they want known.
Therefore this never was a free country. Since WW 1, Canada has routinely interned enemy aliens, be it Ukrainians, Japanese Canadians, peaceful German farmers, and even Doukhabour children kidnapped from their parents.
If this was a free country, then it would legalize marijuana. Instead, Ottawa made marijuana laws so tough that if three or more pro-marijuana farmers agreed to grow and distribute marijuana for medical reasons, then they will be falsely charged with conspiracy to traffick and spend a minimum of ten years in jail. Being that there are more than three people in that medical marijuana operation, it is also gang-related. For that they will get another 10 years. This is why in BC, the police claim that "all grow-ops are not mom & pop; they are gang-related." In this way does Ottawa manufacture gang members through their drug crime laws.
If this was a free country, then prostitution would be legalized and made a health concern too. Pandering and pimping however would remain a crime. Any dissent by the moral minorities can easily be remedied by showing them how many of their brothers were Johns, and that repression of prostitution is done mainly to avoid competition with the second oldest profession: religion.
Sadly, we cannot ban politicians because if politics were banned, we'd have more sociopaths who promise us heaven but cause hell when they can't live up to their promises.
Original post: March 10, 2007 4:32 PM
20131224
Canada Lacks al-Qaeda Terorrists (satire)
Contrary to US propaganda, the US has not been bumping off al Qaeda with precision. If they have, the amount of collateral damage would be less than it is now.
For every al Qaeda killed, there appears to be up to nine noncombatants killed.
In certain areas such as Syria, collateral damage is up to 20 times greater e.g. for every al Qaeda member killed by Syrian government, up to 180 or more Syrians are killed.
However, the incident of al Qaeda in Canada is 20, assuming that al Qaeda implies home-grown terrorists inspired by al Qaeda activity in the Middle East. All of these home-grown terrorists in Canada never committed a terrorist act. Rather, they have been purported to have committed attempted terrorist acts, which is not the same as a completed act.
Therefore Canada lacks true al-Qaeda terrorists. Attempted terrorism is not the same as a completed act of terrorism.
What the RCMP actually "caught" are would-be terrorists groomed by CSIS operatives in an entrapment scheme.
None of these so-called terrorists are actually terrorists. The only reason that the mass media news outlets reported them was to make us feel secure in knowing that the RCMP can catch terrorists that State operative have groomed.
Thus this is a red flag that in Canada, the State is willing to label victims of its fake terrorist entrapment scheme as al-Qaeda.
Such is the price we pay regarding propaganda about the fallacy of home-grown terrorism in Canada.
For every al Qaeda killed, there appears to be up to nine noncombatants killed.
In certain areas such as Syria, collateral damage is up to 20 times greater e.g. for every al Qaeda member killed by Syrian government, up to 180 or more Syrians are killed.
However, the incident of al Qaeda in Canada is 20, assuming that al Qaeda implies home-grown terrorists inspired by al Qaeda activity in the Middle East. All of these home-grown terrorists in Canada never committed a terrorist act. Rather, they have been purported to have committed attempted terrorist acts, which is not the same as a completed act.
Therefore Canada lacks true al-Qaeda terrorists. Attempted terrorism is not the same as a completed act of terrorism.
What the RCMP actually "caught" are would-be terrorists groomed by CSIS operatives in an entrapment scheme.
None of these so-called terrorists are actually terrorists. The only reason that the mass media news outlets reported them was to make us feel secure in knowing that the RCMP can catch terrorists that State operative have groomed.
Thus this is a red flag that in Canada, the State is willing to label victims of its fake terrorist entrapment scheme as al-Qaeda.
Such is the price we pay regarding propaganda about the fallacy of home-grown terrorism in Canada.
20131204
Mass Media Perpetuates Propaganda In Wake of Shooting
By not reassuring the American people, CNN, Fox News and other mass media outlets have once again used propaganda to unnecessarily scare its viewers.
By perpetuating social stigma against mentally ill people, viewers who think they are mentally ill will hide at home because of the delusion perpetuated by this propaganda that they might be dangerous to others.
God forbid that they make the mistake of buying a gun!
Therefore I will emphasize once again that Adam Lanza most likely killed his mother, 20 children and 6 adults because his mother improperly stored her guns.
His motive was simple: jealous rage at his mother for neglecting him due to her hobby.
For he was afraid of being deprived of the close proximity to his mother by being sent to an institution suited to meet his need for a disciplined, orderly and regular environment.
Therefore, mental illness has nothing to do with this tragedy.
For Adam Lanza was not crazy: he was in a rage due to the fear reaction he had at the prospect of being deprived of his mother's love.
While this may sound irrational to a mature adult, it is reasonable speculation on my part to suggest this scenario, rather than the propaganda that mass media outlets peddle which socially stigmatizes the mentally ill, who are four times more like to be a victim of violence than to harm another person.
We also do not need the NRA to peddle this propaganda, too.
As well, the other propaganda being peddled is the "rising murder rate". In fact, murder rates are higher in cities with 250,000+ people than in rural towns with 10,000 people, but are slightly less than they were 20 years ago, in America.
Easy access to firearms is the sole problem. When you have one immature individual, you might have a mass school killer. It makes no difference about their gender or whether they are mentally ill.
This is a crime of passion by a young man whose own mother had fears of her own about the world. Those fears were exhibited by her growing interest in survivalism and in firearms (her hobby), which includes firearms training for both her and her son.
Quite possibly, she may have also favoured Adam to the point of inculcating in him the seeds of dependency. Today we have no way of knowing this, because both he and his mother are dead.
Even so, Adam Lanza is yet another example of how fear distorts mother love into such a strong bond between mother and child that the child expresses his rage at his mother in a tragic manner.
Originally written: January 3, 2013 at 11:50 PM
FBI Uniform Crime Reports Table 1
http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in-the-u.s.-...
FBI Uniform Crime Reports Table 16
http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in-the-u.s.-...
FBI Uniform Crime Repots Table 8
http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in-the-u.s.-...
Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Hook_Elementary_School_shooting
By perpetuating social stigma against mentally ill people, viewers who think they are mentally ill will hide at home because of the delusion perpetuated by this propaganda that they might be dangerous to others.
God forbid that they make the mistake of buying a gun!
Therefore I will emphasize once again that Adam Lanza most likely killed his mother, 20 children and 6 adults because his mother improperly stored her guns.
His motive was simple: jealous rage at his mother for neglecting him due to her hobby.
For he was afraid of being deprived of the close proximity to his mother by being sent to an institution suited to meet his need for a disciplined, orderly and regular environment.
Therefore, mental illness has nothing to do with this tragedy.
For Adam Lanza was not crazy: he was in a rage due to the fear reaction he had at the prospect of being deprived of his mother's love.
While this may sound irrational to a mature adult, it is reasonable speculation on my part to suggest this scenario, rather than the propaganda that mass media outlets peddle which socially stigmatizes the mentally ill, who are four times more like to be a victim of violence than to harm another person.
We also do not need the NRA to peddle this propaganda, too.
As well, the other propaganda being peddled is the "rising murder rate". In fact, murder rates are higher in cities with 250,000+ people than in rural towns with 10,000 people, but are slightly less than they were 20 years ago, in America.
Easy access to firearms is the sole problem. When you have one immature individual, you might have a mass school killer. It makes no difference about their gender or whether they are mentally ill.
This is a crime of passion by a young man whose own mother had fears of her own about the world. Those fears were exhibited by her growing interest in survivalism and in firearms (her hobby), which includes firearms training for both her and her son.
Quite possibly, she may have also favoured Adam to the point of inculcating in him the seeds of dependency. Today we have no way of knowing this, because both he and his mother are dead.
Even so, Adam Lanza is yet another example of how fear distorts mother love into such a strong bond between mother and child that the child expresses his rage at his mother in a tragic manner.
Originally written: January 3, 2013 at 11:50 PM
FBI Uniform Crime Reports Table 1
http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in-the-u.s.-...
FBI Uniform Crime Reports Table 16
http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in-the-u.s.-...
FBI Uniform Crime Repots Table 8
http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in-the-u.s.-...
Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Hook_Elementary_School_shooting
20131129
Mass Media A Propaganda Tool That Only Paints Authentic Pictures of Success
Anyone ever notice that the majority of celebrities come from good homes? Not one rags to riches story among them?
Gad, now I know why they have problems acting poor authentically in a show or movie, especially on soap operas.
I feel Traffik was more authentic than Silence of the Lambs, as even Hannibal Lector and his dead sister were born of good parents. His psychopathy had to do with the evil of other men who kills his sister, and his inability to let go of anger. I do not believe anger should ever be allowed to be vented in a violent manner.
Rather anger requires loving-kindness to transmute into compassion and a righteous concern for the welfare of others.
However, killing brings everyone down to their lowest denominator: survival.
Mercy in contrast needs compassion and loving-kindness to throw away the Law of Hammurabi and replace it with Roman-based laws, of which most of Western civilization is based.
It also takes an act of mercy for a celebrity to actually see a poor person as a human being. Charlie Sheen.sometimes acts out of mercy when he's sober, more so than when he's either drunk or high on recreational drugs, as is evidenced by his ex-wives and ex-girlfriends, not all of whom are on a higher road than the one he travels. Mercy is derived from the power of humility to transform a person's life.
Though, I don't take the moral high ground on the matter of celebrities. For the moral code according to Hollywood are mean and despicable, and ought not judge the poor, and the inaccurate portrayals of people on poverty are indeed telling.
Unlike today, when you look at an old movie and the family is portrayed authentically as poor, the movie is in black and white, so you know it represents a time when becoming a celebrity was a rags to riches story.
Based on what I have observed so far, watching movies and reading the newspaper, mass media is manufacturing propaganda to urge consumers to lead productive lives so that they might be able to meet their favourite celebrity.
I don't think Hollywood can accurately portray poverty because hardly any actor ever goes that far into the rural Midwest or even Kentucky and Tennessee to be that accurate.
Often a news story focuses on a crime but the widening gap between the rich and the poor is overlooked because such details tend to politicize the crime and turn it into a moral drama.
Yet the purpose of mass media's obsession with success is to motivate consumers to become financially successful.
In doing so, mass media is complicit in manufacturing the myths about poverty and failure, which are just as exaggerated as the myths about wealth and success.
Indeed, we may need more stories about riches to rags to riches which may be more authentic than the stereotypical rags to riches story.
As well, to even out the mix, a few riches to rags stories could be told by a narcissistic homeless person. ;)
In my case, I live my life authentically as one of the millions of people known as the working poor. Since my father worked on the green chain at a sawmill, he would be one of the many working class poor. Most definitely, ours was a modest family financially.
So mass media wouldn't be knocking at my door because a consumerist society craves only success stories. In this way is mass media the biggest propaganda tool of the 1 percent manufacturing myths about the reality of poverty with any authenticity in its various portrayals.
That's because the writers are unable to get a sense of what it is like to be poor since it would not sell very well in the box office.
That's what makes mass media a propaganda tool for the myth of success.
Originally posted: February 4, 2013 at 0131H
Currently posted: November 28, 2013 at 2356H
Gad, now I know why they have problems acting poor authentically in a show or movie, especially on soap operas.
I feel Traffik was more authentic than Silence of the Lambs, as even Hannibal Lector and his dead sister were born of good parents. His psychopathy had to do with the evil of other men who kills his sister, and his inability to let go of anger. I do not believe anger should ever be allowed to be vented in a violent manner.
Rather anger requires loving-kindness to transmute into compassion and a righteous concern for the welfare of others.
However, killing brings everyone down to their lowest denominator: survival.
Mercy in contrast needs compassion and loving-kindness to throw away the Law of Hammurabi and replace it with Roman-based laws, of which most of Western civilization is based.
It also takes an act of mercy for a celebrity to actually see a poor person as a human being. Charlie Sheen.sometimes acts out of mercy when he's sober, more so than when he's either drunk or high on recreational drugs, as is evidenced by his ex-wives and ex-girlfriends, not all of whom are on a higher road than the one he travels. Mercy is derived from the power of humility to transform a person's life.
Though, I don't take the moral high ground on the matter of celebrities. For the moral code according to Hollywood are mean and despicable, and ought not judge the poor, and the inaccurate portrayals of people on poverty are indeed telling.
Unlike today, when you look at an old movie and the family is portrayed authentically as poor, the movie is in black and white, so you know it represents a time when becoming a celebrity was a rags to riches story.
Based on what I have observed so far, watching movies and reading the newspaper, mass media is manufacturing propaganda to urge consumers to lead productive lives so that they might be able to meet their favourite celebrity.
I don't think Hollywood can accurately portray poverty because hardly any actor ever goes that far into the rural Midwest or even Kentucky and Tennessee to be that accurate.
Often a news story focuses on a crime but the widening gap between the rich and the poor is overlooked because such details tend to politicize the crime and turn it into a moral drama.
Yet the purpose of mass media's obsession with success is to motivate consumers to become financially successful.
In doing so, mass media is complicit in manufacturing the myths about poverty and failure, which are just as exaggerated as the myths about wealth and success.
Indeed, we may need more stories about riches to rags to riches which may be more authentic than the stereotypical rags to riches story.
As well, to even out the mix, a few riches to rags stories could be told by a narcissistic homeless person. ;)
In my case, I live my life authentically as one of the millions of people known as the working poor. Since my father worked on the green chain at a sawmill, he would be one of the many working class poor. Most definitely, ours was a modest family financially.
So mass media wouldn't be knocking at my door because a consumerist society craves only success stories. In this way is mass media the biggest propaganda tool of the 1 percent manufacturing myths about the reality of poverty with any authenticity in its various portrayals.
That's because the writers are unable to get a sense of what it is like to be poor since it would not sell very well in the box office.
That's what makes mass media a propaganda tool for the myth of success.
Originally posted: February 4, 2013 at 0131H
Currently posted: November 28, 2013 at 2356H
20130831
Recap on the Gas Attack in Syria
Early this year, evidence appears regarding Britam facilitating movement of chemical weapons and other munitions into Syria via Turkey. This has been ongoing since before Stevens is killed in Benghazi last year, using Libyan weapons stockpiles captured by Libyan al Qaeda militants.
In Syria, munitions including chemical weapons falls into a Saudi militant's hands. He gets an untrained group of militants to handle the stuff.
Militants accidentally release gas that kills 1000 civilians in Damascus.
Militants then claim Assad dropped chemical weapons, and al Nusrah vows to drop chemical weapons on Assad in return.
Obama then claims Assad crossed red line regarding chemical weapons after drawing a line in the sand in July regarding use of such weapons.
UN sends in inspectors to examine bodies and take samples of evidence left over by accident.
CIA develops cover story that claims intelligence operatives hear official cussing out Syrian chemical weapons unit which gets news coverage by massmedia outlet. Everyone thinks al Jazeerah America is a reputable new source, despite being too pro-rebel and unbalanced in its reporting of Syrian civil war.
The truth gets airtime on conspiracy theory websites mainly because the truth would subvert the propaganda that Assad gassed his own people, and thus gets debunked as "fake."
Meanwhile, the fake news about Assad is accepted as "true" just because Obama and Kerry say it's true, because they have "proof."
Well, the truth is, America is strapped for oil and just wants another country not giving it oil to give it oil.
In Syria, munitions including chemical weapons falls into a Saudi militant's hands. He gets an untrained group of militants to handle the stuff.
Militants accidentally release gas that kills 1000 civilians in Damascus.
Militants then claim Assad dropped chemical weapons, and al Nusrah vows to drop chemical weapons on Assad in return.
Obama then claims Assad crossed red line regarding chemical weapons after drawing a line in the sand in July regarding use of such weapons.
UN sends in inspectors to examine bodies and take samples of evidence left over by accident.
CIA develops cover story that claims intelligence operatives hear official cussing out Syrian chemical weapons unit which gets news coverage by massmedia outlet. Everyone thinks al Jazeerah America is a reputable new source, despite being too pro-rebel and unbalanced in its reporting of Syrian civil war.
The truth gets airtime on conspiracy theory websites mainly because the truth would subvert the propaganda that Assad gassed his own people, and thus gets debunked as "fake."
Meanwhile, the fake news about Assad is accepted as "true" just because Obama and Kerry say it's true, because they have "proof."
Well, the truth is, America is strapped for oil and just wants another country not giving it oil to give it oil.
20130809
The Shaye Case Example of Danger of Reporting War on Terror
While America sends drones into Yemen to kill al-Qaeda members who won't go along with the current use of members in Syria, it tried to censor what the West knows of al-Qaeda through the journalism of Abdulelah Hader Shaye.
America did so by pressuring former Yemeni leader Saleh to keep Shaye in prison for five years, rather than pardoning him according to the will of the people of Yemen.
In doing so, America violates the sovereignty of Yemen.
Background: In late 2009, Yemen took credit for a botched assault on a village containing terrorists, killing women and children. In this assault, a Tomahawk missile was recovered, which meant a US warship shot the missile.
Shaye was the journalist that broke this story, which showed that the US forced the corrupt Saleh dictatorship to be the fall guy for its mistake.
Because Shaye wouldn't keep quiet about this, the US ask Yemen to force him into silence. Instead, the journalist went to a prominent Arab news media outlet to report it.
In 2010 he was arrested on trumped up charges and given five years in prison, so that the US could continue its mission to rid itself of al-Qaeda non-compliant to their use to fight wars for America.
Then after 3 years of pressure, the new Yemeni government released Shaye.
Reference:
The Dangers of Reporting The "War on Terror": http://aje.me/GM8ZIY
America did so by pressuring former Yemeni leader Saleh to keep Shaye in prison for five years, rather than pardoning him according to the will of the people of Yemen.
In doing so, America violates the sovereignty of Yemen.
Background: In late 2009, Yemen took credit for a botched assault on a village containing terrorists, killing women and children. In this assault, a Tomahawk missile was recovered, which meant a US warship shot the missile.
Shaye was the journalist that broke this story, which showed that the US forced the corrupt Saleh dictatorship to be the fall guy for its mistake.
Because Shaye wouldn't keep quiet about this, the US ask Yemen to force him into silence. Instead, the journalist went to a prominent Arab news media outlet to report it.
In 2010 he was arrested on trumped up charges and given five years in prison, so that the US could continue its mission to rid itself of al-Qaeda non-compliant to their use to fight wars for America.
Then after 3 years of pressure, the new Yemeni government released Shaye.
Reference:
The Dangers of Reporting The "War on Terror": http://aje.me/GM8ZIY
20130611
I'm no Fan of Halloween and Michael Myers
In order to be a fan of the Halloween series, you would have to believe that psychic powers is a fact, that evil causes a human to live forever, and that a druid cult is the reason why Michael Myers killed his family members.
Truth is, psychic powers are fake. Good or evil may come of what a human being creates, and satanic cults cannot cause a child to kill his family from afar.
Ain't make believe fun? >:)
Seriously though, Halloween is not a credible source to base anyone's belief in good and evil. As for satanic cults, what the Halloween movie series is promote propaganda for impressionable minds.
Anyone who uses horror films to base their moral values in and believes in the supernatural only believes in an imaginary and undead avatar of evil, but that's not how evil works.
For evil may come of what a human being creates.
Belief in evil in the reified form of Michael Myers may make great horror, but to take it seriously as a fan may lead one to question the consensual reality and perhaps invent an abnormal one.
FWIW I find truth and a firm grip on reality a lot more fun than make believe.
Truth is, psychic powers are fake. Good or evil may come of what a human being creates, and satanic cults cannot cause a child to kill his family from afar.
Ain't make believe fun? >:)
Seriously though, Halloween is not a credible source to base anyone's belief in good and evil. As for satanic cults, what the Halloween movie series is promote propaganda for impressionable minds.
Anyone who uses horror films to base their moral values in and believes in the supernatural only believes in an imaginary and undead avatar of evil, but that's not how evil works.
For evil may come of what a human being creates.
Belief in evil in the reified form of Michael Myers may make great horror, but to take it seriously as a fan may lead one to question the consensual reality and perhaps invent an abnormal one.
FWIW I find truth and a firm grip on reality a lot more fun than make believe.
20130605
Note to Mass Media: Stop Putting Amanda Bynes in a Bad Light
I object to the unflattering pictures of Amanda Bynes being used.
This is only manufacturing the fallacy that Amanda Bynes is in the midst of a meltdown.
As well, the articles attacking Bynes have very little verification from a third-party health official sound byte.
In short, mass media outlets are complicit in manufacturing the rumor that Bynes is not right in the head. All of it is just a careful ploy to peddle your paper based on your vile contempt for Amanda Bynes.
Mass media did the same thing to Amy Winehouse and recently, Justin Bieber. You're not publishing the truth anymore. You're just using bits and pieces of facts to perpetuate stigma against mental illness to profit from.
Shame on you!
According to Thomas Szasz, psychiatry actively obscures the difference between misbehavior and disease, in its quest to help or harm parties in conflicts. By calling certain people "diseased", psychiatry attempts to deny them responsibility as moral agents, in order to better control them.
Sadly though when mass media plays arm-chair psychiatry on celebrities, they manufacture the illusion that their target is mentally ill.
In essence, mass media is used as form of social control of not only celebrities but also society itself.
This is only manufacturing the fallacy that Amanda Bynes is in the midst of a meltdown.
As well, the articles attacking Bynes have very little verification from a third-party health official sound byte.
In short, mass media outlets are complicit in manufacturing the rumor that Bynes is not right in the head. All of it is just a careful ploy to peddle your paper based on your vile contempt for Amanda Bynes.
Mass media did the same thing to Amy Winehouse and recently, Justin Bieber. You're not publishing the truth anymore. You're just using bits and pieces of facts to perpetuate stigma against mental illness to profit from.
Shame on you!
According to Thomas Szasz, psychiatry actively obscures the difference between misbehavior and disease, in its quest to help or harm parties in conflicts. By calling certain people "diseased", psychiatry attempts to deny them responsibility as moral agents, in order to better control them.
Sadly though when mass media plays arm-chair psychiatry on celebrities, they manufacture the illusion that their target is mentally ill.
In essence, mass media is used as form of social control of not only celebrities but also society itself.
20130512
Is Big Beautiful? Or Making Obesity Sexy?
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What is it about a voluptuous woman that turns men on, and sometimes turns their thinner rivals jealous?
It could be the assumed fertility of thick women. Who knows? My first girlfriend was morbidly obese (400+ at 5'9.5"), and said that her period was not monthly.
This revelation tends to agree with the hypothesis that extreme thinness and thickness causes menstral dysregulation, and that they ought to be the ONLY women getting the Pill.
However, today's women use the Pill to get the same play men have been getting since the dawn of post-modern society with mass media propagandizing youth and the meme "thin is healthy and sexy" to the point where young men are exposed to pedogenic influences both on TV and in computer media.
Perverts are not born; their minds are finely sculpted by propaganda.
If the memes were sanitized, then there'd be hoopla about mind control but mass media uses propaganda to promote soft-core pornography to sell product.
BTW, big is beautiful and sometimes, obesity is sexy.
Thank you, Linda Marie!
What is it about a voluptuous woman that turns men on, and sometimes turns their thinner rivals jealous?
It could be the assumed fertility of thick women. Who knows? My first girlfriend was morbidly obese (400+ at 5'9.5"), and said that her period was not monthly.
This revelation tends to agree with the hypothesis that extreme thinness and thickness causes menstral dysregulation, and that they ought to be the ONLY women getting the Pill.
However, today's women use the Pill to get the same play men have been getting since the dawn of post-modern society with mass media propagandizing youth and the meme "thin is healthy and sexy" to the point where young men are exposed to pedogenic influences both on TV and in computer media.
Perverts are not born; their minds are finely sculpted by propaganda.
If the memes were sanitized, then there'd be hoopla about mind control but mass media uses propaganda to promote soft-core pornography to sell product.
BTW, big is beautiful and sometimes, obesity is sexy.
Thank you, Linda Marie!
20130507
"Less than 1% of women own property": Debunking the myth
This isn't a myth; it's political opinion. It's also a form of propaganda.
By appealing to the emotions, it also is a logical fallacy.
For through marriage, women own property. Indeed, most of young feminists today have mothers who own property. Even in countries where women are oppressed, women own property either through their husband or their son(s).
"Almost half of world property is held in trust by women" would be closer to the truth.
Reference:
Phillip Cohen (March 8, 2013), The Atlantic, "'Women Own 1% of World Property': A Feminist Myth That Won't Die"
http://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2013/03/women-own-1-of-world-property-a-feminist-myth-that-wont-die/273840/
20130209
Propaganda Reason for Chinese Anti-Japanese Sentiments
Why do you think China is has antipathy towards Japan? Well, Beijing promotes antipathy but never tells the people Japan is one of China's biggest trade partners.
To get to the point, Chinese people are exposed to propaganda against Japan from grade school.
Anti-Japanese sentiment makes it easy to control the people by using them as political tools. When the CCP needs a bunch of people to protest against Japan, they have willing volunteers to hold signs and banners on which are written nasty stuff about Japan.
Additionally, the resulting prejudice may also cause backlash against people in the Japanese diasphora who never were born in Japan, and are mostly English-speaking Americans & Canadians, and Portuguese-speaking Brazilians.
When I first talked with Chhinese people on the internet, even I got the anti-Japanese sentiment. I had to explain to them that I was born in Canada, and hold no ties to Japan at all.
To the best of my knowledge I like whatever is progressive in Japan. Anyone Japanese who transcends the tradition-only mentality is a liberal-minded trail-blazer.
What I object to strongly is the fascist zealotry of Japanese ultra-nationalists who demand the Japanese Prime Minister keep his responsibility to honor the war dead at Yasakuni Shrine.
In memory there was one Japanese PM who didn't honor this traditional commitment, but he had a short run in the Japanese Diet.
Anti-Japanese sentiments are usually the work of propaganda. Yet we only see it in the People's Republic of China and occasionally in Tawianese politics.
From what I have observed, South East Asia has abandoned such sentiments because Japanese industries have invested in countries such as Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, and the Philippines.
Indeed, there also is a strong following of JPOP stars in SE Asian, Taiwan and Hong Kong.
Since we know that propaganda published by the CCP gets spoon-fed to Chinese people from cradle to grave, it would be interesting to see if Chinese international students going to universities in the West have strong anti-Japanese sentiments.
In conclusion I find the Youtube video included with this blog post to be apt. In contrast, the anti-American movie PROPAGANDA reveals more about Chinese propaganda and its effect on Chinese citizens than it does about America as land of decadent hedonism. Though, the majority of American propaganda is marketing consumer products to the consumers, who get indoctrinated on how to be successful as consumers.
YMMV
To get to the point, Chinese people are exposed to propaganda against Japan from grade school.
Anti-Japanese sentiment makes it easy to control the people by using them as political tools. When the CCP needs a bunch of people to protest against Japan, they have willing volunteers to hold signs and banners on which are written nasty stuff about Japan.
Additionally, the resulting prejudice may also cause backlash against people in the Japanese diasphora who never were born in Japan, and are mostly English-speaking Americans & Canadians, and Portuguese-speaking Brazilians.
When I first talked with Chhinese people on the internet, even I got the anti-Japanese sentiment. I had to explain to them that I was born in Canada, and hold no ties to Japan at all.
To the best of my knowledge I like whatever is progressive in Japan. Anyone Japanese who transcends the tradition-only mentality is a liberal-minded trail-blazer.
What I object to strongly is the fascist zealotry of Japanese ultra-nationalists who demand the Japanese Prime Minister keep his responsibility to honor the war dead at Yasakuni Shrine.
In memory there was one Japanese PM who didn't honor this traditional commitment, but he had a short run in the Japanese Diet.
Anti-Japanese sentiments are usually the work of propaganda. Yet we only see it in the People's Republic of China and occasionally in Tawianese politics.
From what I have observed, South East Asia has abandoned such sentiments because Japanese industries have invested in countries such as Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, and the Philippines.
Indeed, there also is a strong following of JPOP stars in SE Asian, Taiwan and Hong Kong.
Since we know that propaganda published by the CCP gets spoon-fed to Chinese people from cradle to grave, it would be interesting to see if Chinese international students going to universities in the West have strong anti-Japanese sentiments.
In conclusion I find the Youtube video included with this blog post to be apt. In contrast, the anti-American movie PROPAGANDA reveals more about Chinese propaganda and its effect on Chinese citizens than it does about America as land of decadent hedonism. Though, the majority of American propaganda is marketing consumer products to the consumers, who get indoctrinated on how to be successful as consumers.
YMMV
20130120
Wanted for Crimes of State Terrorism
Addendum: cousin of celebrity Lauren Bacall.
Background: Peres' country is supported by America with collaboration regarding experimental arms. Thus Peres' government has violate Geneva Conventions on banned weapons including bombs which provided low collateral damage. These bombs used inert metal alloys which acted like razer sharp "wires" which could neatly cut off arms and legs.
20121229
Media Fabrication of War Not New
In 1898, Joseph Pulitzer's New York World and William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal were arguing for American intervention in Cuba. Hearst is reported to have dispatched a photographer to Cuba to photograph the coming war with Spain. When the photographer asked just what war that might be, Hearst is reported to have replied, "You take the photographs, and I will provide the war". Hearst was true to his word, as his newspaper published stories of great atrocities being committed against the Cuban people, most of which turned out to be complete fabrications.
On the night of February 15, 1898, the USS Maine, lying in Havana harbor in a show of US resolve to protect her interests, exploded violently. Captain Sigsbee, the commander of the Maine, urged that no assumptions of enemy attack be made until there was a full investigation of the cause of the explosion. For this, Captain Sigsbee was excoriated in the press for "refusing to see the obvious". The Atlantic Monthly declared flat out that to suppose the explosion to be anything other than a deliberate act by Spain was "completely at defiance of the laws of probability".
Under the slogan "Remember the Maine", Americans went to war with Spain, eventually winning the Philippines (and annexing Hawaii along the way). -- http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/ARTICLE5/
2001-2002: America and the UK collaborate to "prove" that weapons of mass destruction were being produced by Iraq, including fabricated reports, denials by investigators, a possible assassination of an investigator in the UK, and media hype.
By 2003, the Americans and British people were almost unanimous in their support of an invasion of Iraq. Anyone who tried to point out the economic reason of the war (oil) were dismissed as conspiracy crackpots.
In fact, the media had much to do with propagandizing for war in both Afghanistan and Iraq, much as they had done during the breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s.
Even the Kosovo War was heavily propagandized, with Roma Gypsies being decimated by both the Kosovo militants, who were supported by young Albanian males from America, and the Serbians, who were supported by Communists, drug dealers and thugs.
Today, even recent mass murders are propagandized. The Cho Seung-hui case is a prime example. Very few people are picking up on the slogan "Ismail Ax" in red ink on Cho's arm.
Instead, they are playing up on the "weird and creepy loner" angle.
Another example is the recent Newtown shootings. It's my contention that Adam Lanza had behavior similar to "hikikomori" especially social isolation.
In light of revelations made about him, Lanza's actions remind me more of an angry child, in a fit of jealous rage, than a killer who coldly calculated the deaths of innocent children.
Even despite carrying two handguns and a semi-automatic rifle, he shot himself before using all his ammunition precisely because of same reasons Marc Lepine, Eric Harris, Dylan Klebold, Kimveer Gill, and Seung-hui Cho did so: to prevent the hell of a murder trial.
Just as the mass media fabricates the weird and creepy loner to explain these mass school killings, so too did it fabricate weapons of mass destruction (WMD) before invading Iraq.
In doing so, mass media is but a propaganda tool of the State.
On the night of February 15, 1898, the USS Maine, lying in Havana harbor in a show of US resolve to protect her interests, exploded violently. Captain Sigsbee, the commander of the Maine, urged that no assumptions of enemy attack be made until there was a full investigation of the cause of the explosion. For this, Captain Sigsbee was excoriated in the press for "refusing to see the obvious". The Atlantic Monthly declared flat out that to suppose the explosion to be anything other than a deliberate act by Spain was "completely at defiance of the laws of probability".
Under the slogan "Remember the Maine", Americans went to war with Spain, eventually winning the Philippines (and annexing Hawaii along the way). -- http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/ARTICLE5/
2001-2002: America and the UK collaborate to "prove" that weapons of mass destruction were being produced by Iraq, including fabricated reports, denials by investigators, a possible assassination of an investigator in the UK, and media hype.
By 2003, the Americans and British people were almost unanimous in their support of an invasion of Iraq. Anyone who tried to point out the economic reason of the war (oil) were dismissed as conspiracy crackpots.
In fact, the media had much to do with propagandizing for war in both Afghanistan and Iraq, much as they had done during the breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s.
Even the Kosovo War was heavily propagandized, with Roma Gypsies being decimated by both the Kosovo militants, who were supported by young Albanian males from America, and the Serbians, who were supported by Communists, drug dealers and thugs.
Today, even recent mass murders are propagandized. The Cho Seung-hui case is a prime example. Very few people are picking up on the slogan "Ismail Ax" in red ink on Cho's arm.
Instead, they are playing up on the "weird and creepy loner" angle.
Another example is the recent Newtown shootings. It's my contention that Adam Lanza had behavior similar to "hikikomori" especially social isolation.
In light of revelations made about him, Lanza's actions remind me more of an angry child, in a fit of jealous rage, than a killer who coldly calculated the deaths of innocent children.
Even despite carrying two handguns and a semi-automatic rifle, he shot himself before using all his ammunition precisely because of same reasons Marc Lepine, Eric Harris, Dylan Klebold, Kimveer Gill, and Seung-hui Cho did so: to prevent the hell of a murder trial.
Just as the mass media fabricates the weird and creepy loner to explain these mass school killings, so too did it fabricate weapons of mass destruction (WMD) before invading Iraq.
In doing so, mass media is but a propaganda tool of the State.
20121226
The Truth About Propaganda
Propaganda consists of commercial marketing (advertising) and political marketing. Overall, there is no difference between the two.
Advertising consists of propaganda, which are full of white lies that markets product to consumers who are themselves manufactured from the People into zombies whose purpose in life is to get a 9-5 job and become model consumers.
However, both advertising and political marketing are reserved for Big Business.
Any kind of truth marketing is labeled "propaganda" in order to reduce confusion among consumers so that they do not experience cognitive dissonance and thus decide to stop buying product.
This is why anti-corporate and socialist marketing are considered propaganda, which most corporate advertisers will not run on billboards and newspapers.
Thus corporate propaganda is full of white lies, that only represent one side of whatever it is marketing, be it political or commercial.
In contrast, truth marketing (socialist propaganda) has been labeled by the powers-that-be to be the only propaganda.
Most propaganda contains the inherent logical fallacies resulting from emotional appeal.
Given that propaganda is full of logical fallacies, any person who buys into the myth which propaganda promotes is deemed a consumer, and consequently no longer is of the People, nor does he think for the People or even for himself, and looks down on anything created by the People.
For the consumer consumes product produced by Big Business, which is a gigantic zombie monster legally defined as a person with more rights than the People.
Advertising consists of propaganda, which are full of white lies that markets product to consumers who are themselves manufactured from the People into zombies whose purpose in life is to get a 9-5 job and become model consumers.
However, both advertising and political marketing are reserved for Big Business.
Any kind of truth marketing is labeled "propaganda" in order to reduce confusion among consumers so that they do not experience cognitive dissonance and thus decide to stop buying product.
This is why anti-corporate and socialist marketing are considered propaganda, which most corporate advertisers will not run on billboards and newspapers.
Thus corporate propaganda is full of white lies, that only represent one side of whatever it is marketing, be it political or commercial.
In contrast, truth marketing (socialist propaganda) has been labeled by the powers-that-be to be the only propaganda.
Most propaganda contains the inherent logical fallacies resulting from emotional appeal.
Given that propaganda is full of logical fallacies, any person who buys into the myth which propaganda promotes is deemed a consumer, and consequently no longer is of the People, nor does he think for the People or even for himself, and looks down on anything created by the People.
For the consumer consumes product produced by Big Business, which is a gigantic zombie monster legally defined as a person with more rights than the People.
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