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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i> Have you noticed that since AOC's election to Congress, dumb blonde jokes have become outdated? </i></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7004833821877183483.post-87924422610107719122018-10-31T10:32:00.005+08:002018-10-31T10:32:32.645+08:00Ten Reasons to Expect a Red Tsunami in the 2018 Midterm Elections<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">At least as
early as July of this year, I’ve been forecasting a red wave in the 2018
midterm elections.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Now I’m more
confident of it than ever.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Here’s why.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Reason #1:</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Opinion polls give the false impression that Democrats and Republicans
are evenly distributed within congressional districts.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact, Democratic voters are more disproportionately
packed into Democratic-controlled congressional districts than Republican
voters are.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A Democratic landslide in
one district often takes place at the expense of a narrow Democratic defeat in
a nearby district.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This usually means
that an average of 5% of the Democratic votes are wasted on candidates who are
going to win anyway.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thus, if the
Democrats have a 5% edge over the Republicans nationwide, in practical terms,
they’re running neck-and-neck.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Reason
#2:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Republicans have the momentum.</b> A
month ago, in generic ballots, the Democrats had a 17% advantage over the
Republicans.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A few days ago, the
Democratic advantage was more like 3% and closing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Reason
#3: For midterm elections, opinion polls usually ask the wrong people.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Candidates don’t win elections by having more
people in favor of them; they win by getting more supporters to the polls.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fewer than 40% of registered voters will vote
in the 2018 midterm elections, but most opinion poll samplings imply that 100%
of registered voters will vote.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact,
60% of their answers are worthless and misleading.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Roughly 20% of registered voters will decide
the election.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Reason
#4:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Who will vote and who won’t vote?</b>
With fewer than 40% voting in the midterms, the winners will be the candidates
who do the best job of energizing their base.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>That usually means that the winners will be the ones who do the best job
of framing the issues.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Republicans
are framing the election as a choice between continued progress on hot button
issues and a return to higher taxes, excessive regulation, and other issues
that are hot buttons for no more than 10% of the voters. President Trump’s voter
base is closer to 30%.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Reason
#5: Who is making the fewest serious mistakes?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> Both
Republicans and Democrats are making strategic mistakes, but the Democratic
mistakes are more serious.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The biggest
Republican mistake was for Paul Ryan to continue as Speaker of the House
instead of stepping down and being replaced by Jim Jordan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Democrats have been making massive
mistakes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They include calls for protesters
to harass officials who are going about their business, threats to raise taxes
on average Americans, and threats to destroy American jobs by restoring
job-killing regulations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Reason
#6:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">
The Kavanaugh Effect. The persecution of Brett Kavanaugh was intended to
energize the Democratic Party’s most radical base.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For the most part, it has had the opposite
effect—and then some.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Married women,
especially the mothers of teenage sons, are alarmed at the thought that their
sons may one day be presumed guilty by accusation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Kavanaugh Effect has likely struck a
nerve among blacks and Hispanics as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Blacks and Hispanics are all too familiar with being presumed guilty
without evidence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Kavanaugh witch
hunt has become such a disaster for the Democrats that MSNBC and other
Democratic-leaning networks lately have complained that other networks have
been unfair in their reporting of the process.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Reasons
#7: The Black Vote.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> Democrats have tried to make the 2018 midterm
elections a referendum on the presidency of Donald Trump, and they’ve gotten
their wish.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Over the past two years,
black support for Republicans has quadrupled.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This has been largely because blacks have seen the disparity between the
crime and poverty in Democratic-controlled areas such as south Los Angeles and
Chicago; and the jobs and opportunities offered by President Trump and his
supporters.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Reason
#8: The Hispanic/Immigrant Vote. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Not all Hispanics are
immigrants, and not all immigrants are Hispanic. Democrats, cloistered in their
bi-coastal bubble, have deceived themselves with the notion that Hispanics are
opposed to President Trump’s policy of securing the border.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In point of fact, Hispanics—both native born
and immigrants—as well as immigrants who are not Hispanic—want their children
and grandchildren to find the same opportunities in America that immigrants now
find when they arrive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They don’t want
America to be turned into the kind of country that other people are
fleeing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Small wonder that Hispanic
support for President Trump has more than doubled since the 2016 election.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Reason
#9: The Numbers in the Senate Races.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of the thirty-five contested senate seats,
twenty-six are held by Democrats; nine are held by Republicans.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To win control of the Senate, Democrats have
to win two of the nine Republican-held seats.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Republicans need only to hold onto the ones they have, and they have
twenty-six opportunities to increase their majority in the Senate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>West Virginia has already flipped into the
Republican column.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>North Dakota and
Florida are on the way there. Others are likely.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Reason
#10: Increases is Republican Registrations, Requests for Absentee Ballots for
Registered Republicans, and Early Voting by Registered Republicans in Florida,
North Carolina, Wyoming, Arizona, Ohio, and Iowa.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All these factors indicate a surge in GOP
voting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The desperate
Democrats in Washington DC and in the Pravda press outlets such as the Clown
News Network and MSNBC have been pushing the notion that there’s no need for
Republicans to go to the polls because all is lost anyway.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Democrat desperation is becoming more and
more evident with each passing week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I forecast that
the Republican Party will gain around eight seats in the U.S. Senate, several
seats in the House, several more governorships, and control of several more
state legislatures.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’ll see<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With strong Republican
majorities in both houses of Congress—real Republicans and not RINOs such as
the departing Jeff Flake and Paul Ryan—and with an Attorney General who will do
his job, President Trump can finish his task of draining the swamp, securing
America’s borders, strengthening America’s economy, securing peace and fair
trade with other countries, and making America great again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="line-height: 16.478px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> “In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="line-height: 16.478px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">― Friedrich Nietzsche<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="line-height: 16.478px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“The easiest way to gain control of a population is to carry out acts of terror. [The public] will clamor for such laws if their personal security is threatened”.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="line-height: 16.478px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">– Josef Stalin<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16.478px;"> There can be no doubt that false flag attacks are a reality. Washington’s Blog has documented at least <b><a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/02/x-admitted-false-flag-attacks.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;">53 false flag attacks</a></b> to which government officials in various countries—including the U.S.—have later admitted.</span><span style="line-height: 16.478px;"> Only the most cowardly, self-deceived individuals can doubt the existence of false flag attacks.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 16.478px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Several web sites offer anywhere from three to fifteen clues on how to recognize false flag attacks. I’ve gleaned through them and added a few of my own. There are really too many to cover in detail in a single article. Instead, I’ve chosen simply to list them and perhaps go into further detail a few at a time, on some future occasion.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 16.478px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> In a false flag attack or other psyop, several (or many) of the following phenomena are evident:</span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The
Narrative<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">There
is an immediate comprehensive narrative, including a convenient culprit. Law
enforcement, government agencies, and the mainstream media immediately proffer
a narrative that completely explains the event and encourages citizens to tie
their intellectual understanding of the tragedy to the emotions they
experience.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even before there is time for investigation,
the “news” media has quickly and conveniently named and demonized the “culprit”
(read: patsy).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The
official narrative has obvious domestic and geopolitical advantages for the
governing body.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The
narrative behind the attack serves to leverage emotions such as fear, as well
as patriotism, in order to manufacture consent around a previously
controversial issue. (e.g. calls for gun confiscation)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Media
and government officials promote a narrative against scapegoat groups and/or an
agenda to deprive citizens of life, liberty, or property.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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official narrative keeps changing, adjusting to new facts that contradict the
official narrative.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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matter how many times the narrative changes, people who question the official
narrative are demonized as “conspiracy theorists” or something worse.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The Nature of the Event<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">8.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It’s a
high-profile event. According to a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/03/us/how-often-do-mass-shootings-occur-on-average-every-day-records-show.html?_r=0">New York Times news article</a>, mass murders
(murders of four or more people at one time) occur an average of once a day in
the U.S.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The overwhelming majority of
mass murders are ignored, but a select few are covered 24/7.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">9.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The
event seems too theatrical to be real, or at least too theatrical to be taken
at face value.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Obvious Holes in the Official Narrative<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">10.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Official narrative contradicts boundary
conditions (e.g., the narrative that a non-pilot such as Hani Hanjour taught
himself to fly a Boeing 757 more expertly than an experienced Boeing pilot.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">11.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Significant
omissions in the official narrative<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(e.g., the fact that, only two weeks before 9/11, Hani Hanjour was not
allowed to rent a Cessna 172 due to his poor piloting skills).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">12.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Official
narrative contradicts experience (personal or historical) (e.g., that no
high-rise building in history has ever collapsed due to fire damage, yet it
supposedly happened three times at the same place on the same day.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Official Behavior before or during the
Event<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">13.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Military
training drills or police drills occur on the day of and very near the attack
itself, simulating an event that’s virtually identical to the “real” event that
is taking place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This often causes
confusion, muddles eye witness testimony, and allows orchestrators to plant
both patsies, disinformation, and backup operatives.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">14.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Government
or media foreknowledge (e.g. BBC announcing the collapse of WTC-7 some 20
minutes before it actually occurred).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">15.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Ignored
warnings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">16.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Authorities
facilitated the event, either actively or passively.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">17.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Serious
violations of protocol.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(In the Sandy
Hook psyop, almost everyone in any official capacity violated the law and
failed to follow required protocol.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The Suspect(s)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">18.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Suspects
usually have new social media accounts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">19.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Suspect
leaves a manifesto.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">20.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Suspect
has had no military training, yet he shoots extremely fast and accurately.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">21.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The
suspect(s) have a demonstrable connection to the CIA, FBI, or another
intelligence agency.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">22.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The
suspect has no credible means of funding.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(e.g., James Holmes, an unemployed medical student who had $26,000 worth
of armaments, body armor, bomb-making equipment, and other paraphernalia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unaccountably, he also had the skills to make
the bombs, rig the booby traps, and use the guns and ammo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wow!)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">23.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Suspect
dies before he can be brought to trial.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">24.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In the
case of a terrorist group, PR is clearly designed for domestic consumption
(e.g., when organizational initials or other PR symbols are in English when one
would reasonably expect them to be in the native language of the terrorist
group.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Note: the acronym ISIS stands for
the English words Islamic State of Iraq and Syria).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The Witnesses<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">25.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">On
local news stations, eyewitnesses who have accounts conflicting with official
narrative are ignored by the national media.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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whose accounts may be fatal to the official narrative are killed, drugged, or
“suicided;” or they die under other suspicious circumstances.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">27.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Family
or witnesses supporting the official narrative often have elite or acting
backgrounds.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">28.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Witnesses”
make official talking points. (E.g., 9/11 “Harley guy” claiming that WTC 1
& 2 collapsed “mostly due to structural failure because the fire was just
too intense.”) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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speak in “officialese” (e.g., “multiple gunshots” instead of “several (or a
specific number of) gunshots,” or, “I witnessed…,” instead of, “I saw…”)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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witnesses are present at two or more events.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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speak in generalities, so as to avoid the risk of telling too different a story
as other “witnesses.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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statements are reinterpreted or shut off by an interviewer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Victims and their Families<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">33.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Fake
“victims;” the same “victim” get killed in two or more separate events.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">34.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Families
of “victims” appear on TV within 24 hours, showing little or no emotion, and
even snigger and laugh.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Robbie
Parker”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>James Foley’s smiling sister’s
“duping delight”: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">35.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Non
sequiturs (e.g. that victims’ families wouldn’t want to know how their loved
ones died; or pulling out of an illegal war would be disrespectful of “the
troops;” or that “an investigation of a terrorist act would invite another such
offense.”)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">36.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Victim’s
families don’t sue anyone for negligence, but receive millions in unsolicited
federal payouts<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">News Reports after the Event<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">37.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">There
is no obvious motive for the attack.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">38.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">News
media may obsess over a search for a motive, thereby diverting attention from
any realistic search for evidence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">39.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Credible
reports of accomplices (e.g., “John Doe Number Two”) are ignored or quickly
covered up.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">40.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Reporter
or other authoritative accounts contradict official narrative (e.g. McIntyre’s
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXKYI9wkbSg">(McIntyre’s first version)</a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEiJW7rRLnE">(McIntyre’sflip flop)</a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHeYFTPG4KQ">Walter’s flip flops</a>; or
FBI crime stats revealing that no murders were committed in or around Newtown,
Connecticut, in 2012, the year of the alleged Sandy Hook shooting).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Investigators after the Event<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Bono?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Who benefits?) Neither the news
media nor investigators ask this question.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">42.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Other
key questions are never investigated and are left unanswered.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">43.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Key
evidence is conveniently destroyed before a thorough investigation can take
place.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">44.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Official
behavior contradicts official narrative (e.g. outbound flights arranged for the
bin Laden family while bin Laden was being blamed for an atrocity, even as all
other flights are grounded).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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begins to “take action” against the scapegoat or moves along the lines of the
media narrative.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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officially proposed solution wouldn’t have prevented the events.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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in pop media (foreshadowing) (Use your favorite web or video search engine to
find “predictive programming.”)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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anomalies, which may or may not be found in more than one psyop event.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Other anomalies” can cover a wide range and
be very difficult to spot or may be nothing more than anomalies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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list.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not everything is a conspiracy,
but conspiracies do happen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Politics, by
its very nature, is conspiratorial. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> [Note: Veterans Today posted a detailed article about nineteen signs of a false flag event. It covers some of the same points I've covered in this article, but it gives much more detail and explanation. It's well worth reading.] <a href="https://www.veteranstoday.com/2013/06/24/19-telltale-signs-of-fake-terror-part-iv-of-a-birds-eye-view-of-contrived-terror/">[LINK]</a></span></div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7004833821877183483.post-51119374133445853812018-01-19T08:43:00.002+08:002018-01-19T08:44:22.787+08:00Congressional Investigation into Why Hillary Lost (a mockumentary)<b> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hillary Clinton said in an interview that there should be a high-level investigation into the causes of her 2016 defeat. Her standards of credibility for the proposed investigation are pretty low, as she said that the investigation should be along the lines of the 9/11 Commission "investigation."</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b> She probably won't get her wish, but that hasn't stopped me from trying to come close. I've taken audio and video recordings of her words, interspersed with questions of my own making.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b> Enjoy it and share it with others. If you like, I can use not-yet-used clips to create a video in which Hillary praises President Trump for the excellent job he's doing as President.</b></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7004833821877183483.post-5717858188092869772017-08-08T10:44:00.003+08:002017-08-08T14:33:50.381+08:00What's Driving President Trump's Low Approval Rating? <div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A friend of mine recently wrote to me about President Trump's low approval rating. He said, "The media claims Donald's support is down to 38%. I don't believe it. Everyone I know is still behind him and believes he is the best thing for this country."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Of course, one robin doesn't make a spring. My friend has a higher-than-average education; and, from my knowledge of him (and that he's a retired computer science teacher,) I know that he's very bright. He probably associates mainly with bright people (such as I.) A typical leftist might grasp at straws ans accuse him of dwelling in something like their safe space: an echo chamber of ideas.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> What about people who live and work outside my friend's circle of acquaintances? What about the 62% who either disapprove of President Trump's performance or the clueless clods who have no opinion of him because they spend most of their time distracted by <i>Game of Thrones</i>, ESPN, or the Kardashians? The ones who'd rather look for Pokemon than look for a job?</span><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBd_wj2ABjEhjDZzKzi6vIqiB30ClsUrLt4z9N3LnpTCTBSbVbxgM5dkqX7_j2vPkMTYoicDnU-FqKxHneQXLdTAmNQKPjW3GMXS1kU9Dh03wQganr6xD60C1cIF4ukewnmLzdYu5H3Bg/s1600/The-Metaphorical.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="358" data-original-width="640" height="355" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBd_wj2ABjEhjDZzKzi6vIqiB30ClsUrLt4z9N3LnpTCTBSbVbxgM5dkqX7_j2vPkMTYoicDnU-FqKxHneQXLdTAmNQKPjW3GMXS1kU9Dh03wQganr6xD60C1cIF4ukewnmLzdYu5H3Bg/s640/The-Metaphorical.jpg" width="640" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Rather than taking the words of the <b>C</b>ounterfeit <b>N</b>ews <b>N</b>etwork and <b>BS</b>NBC at face value, let's take a look at the polls on President Trump's 38% approval rating. There are
several points to consider.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The 38% in question is the finding of the same
pollsters who told us that Clinton had a 97% chance of winning the 2016
election. The Rasmussen poll, which came closest to being accurate in 2016, which uses the most reliable sampling, and which asks only
people who are likely voters, says Trump has a 41% approval rating.
That's about 3 percentage points lower than Obama's at the same
point in his first term of office. Obama had a honeymoon period; Trump
didn't.<o:p></o:p></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Trump is attacked daily in the corporate media, while
Obama largely got a free ride. According a survey of news reports a
month or so ago, the most Trump-friendly "news" outlet (Fox) was
negative on Trump around 60 percent of the time. CNN was negative
97% of the time, and they even chose to ignore important issues just so
they could hammer him over petty lies such as whether he ate two scoops of
ice cream or just one.<o:p></o:p></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">During the 2016 campaign, voters naturally compared
Trump to Clinton and, of course, Trump won. After nine months of
hammering, with no flesh-and-blood opponent, most voters
unconsciously compare Trump to an imaginary ideal President. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Voters have short memories. During the campaign,
the opposition was constantly saying in so many words that Trump was
promising things that no one could achieve. Remember what Obama said to the Carrier air conditioning
employees about Trump's promise to save their jobs and to bring
manufacturing and coal jobs back to America? Obama called Donald Trump's jobs promises a cruel hoax. (When half the jobs were returned, and other jobs opened up elsewhere, the Obamatards attacked Trump for not saving all the Carrier jobs and for not using traditional Republican means to save and create jobs.) Remember what the Democrat naysayers said
when Trump promised to raise the GDP to 2%, 2.5% or even higher?
(Now it's 2.6% and climbing.) What about other economic
indicators? (They're all skyrocketing to their highest levels in 15
years.) Curbing illegal aliens? (Illegal border crossings are down by three fourths.)
Name the promise. Except for the promises that depended on the cooperation of RINOs
such as Songbird McCain, Snitch McConnell, Swish Graham, and Paul
RINO, he has kept his promises beyond all expectation. After doing
what the Democrats said was impossible, they whine that he didn't do
enough.<o:p></o:p></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There's one other point about Trump's approval rating:
the word <i>approval </i>is open to interpretation. Voters can
support every one of his initiatives and still not "approve" of
him as a person. By contrast, Justin Trudeau is destroying Canada;
but, according to <i>Business Insider</i>, four out of ten Americans
would rather have Trudeau as U.S. President. And what words of praise
does <i>Business Insider</i> have for Trudeau? His flashy
clothes and celebrity status. But wait a minute. If four out
of ten Americans would rather have Trudeau than Trump, that would mean
that six out of ten would rather have Trump or are not sure which they'd
rather have. That goes back to what I said about Trump needing to be
compared to a real person and not an imaginary ideal. When compared
to Clinton, Trump won. Now, compared to Trudeau, Trump still wins.</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Now that Donald Trump has done more for the American people in seven months than Obama had done in eight years, what are the Democrats doing to counter his moves? They've come up with a new slogan: "A Better Deal." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> A better deal than what? A better deal than they've been giving us? A better deal than Trump is already delivering? Why are they promising a better deal now that they're out of power and can't deliver on their promises? If they can do better than Donald Trump is now doing, why did they say his promises were cruel hoaxes that would be impossible for anyone to keep?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> They still don't realize that every political issue represents human needs and human desires. They still think that political issues are all about public relations. When the policies are disastrous for the American people, we don't need a better public relations initiative; we need better policies.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> We're supposed to believe that the Democrats' "better deal" will be given to us by the same people who gave us a really rotten deal. So why doesn't it fill me with confidence?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> <b><span style="font-size: large;"> "A Better Deal"? No thanks. President Donald Trump is already giving us the best deal we've had in my lifetime.</span></b></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7004833821877183483.post-39953136828612090062016-08-08T15:15:00.001+08:002017-06-03T19:37:15.519+08:00The Corporate Shills in MSM are in Panic Mode over the Clinton Presidential Campaign's Meltdown<div style="font-size: 16px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Distressing news about Donald Trump has been coming hot and heavy, and a meltdown is clearly taking place; but hold on a minute. Trump's campaign is not the one that's melting down; the corporation-controlled media is melting down. The entities that used to be known as the "news media" are practically wearing tinfoil hats. In case you missed some of it, here are some recent items that the corporate shills are trying to pass off as news:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> The Associated Press published a 33 1/2-inch article in which a world Olympic committee member (himself an American who admits he supports Hillary Clinton) is warning that a Trump victory in November would imperil Los Angeles's bid to host the next Olympics. He offered no evidence for his incredible statement, and that's all the article said. Who but a wildly desperate agency would devote almost a yard of newsprint to a non-story like that? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Reuters News Agency recently published a poll claiming that Clinton has bounced 9% or 10% ahead of Trump. When you look at the sample surveyed, you find that almost half the sample were self-identified Democrats, and barely 10% called themselves independents. You probably know from experience that from 30% to 40% of the American public call themselves independents, and the rest are almost evenly split between Democrats and Republicans. Not content with that blatant lie, Reuters has gone back to some of their previously published polls and changed their methodology to reflect their prearranged conclusions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> ABC is making a big-to-do about the Republican leadership making contingency plans in case Trump drops out of the race due to his (ha, ha, ha!) low poll numbers. The truth is, in every major race, strategists have to consider this possibility, however remote it may seem. ABC knows this, but they're trying to build a story from it. It's the biggest non-story of the year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> When the mother of one of Hillary Clinton's Benghazi victims (yes, negligent homicide is murder) finally said on television what the warfare state shills had chosen to ignore for years, the media blistered Trump, supposedly for taking political advantage of a woman who was out of her mind with grief. When it was Hillary's turn, she did the same, and the media blistered Trump for pointing out that, though the son was a hero, the father was not the son.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> And apparently no one in the corporate-shill media bothered to tell us that everything Mr.Khan<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%;">—</span>a lawyer who certainly knew better<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%;">—</span>told us about the Constitution was a lie. Not one of Trump's proposed measures Khan that condemned was unconstitutional. Hillary called the mothers of her Benghazi victims liars; any careful reading of the Constitution reveals that Mr. Khan is a liar.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> No doubt, the father's grief was real, but it was far from pure. Khan is a lawyer specializing in Muslim immigration from terrorist-infested countries in the Middle East and South Asia. His website lists New York City as his office address, but the phone number is in Washington, DC. When an investigator called the number, the person who answered it said that it wasn't Khan's number, but he refused to say whose number it was. When the investigator did what news reporters are supposed to do, he found that the number was for a Muslim organization with suspicious connections.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> <b><a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/08/is_there_a_backstory_about_khizr_khan_and_donald_trump.html">Here</a></b> and <b><a href="http://shoebat.com/2016/07/31/what-the-media-is-not-telling-you-about-the-muslim-who-attacked-donald-trump-he-is-a-muslim-brotherhood-agent-who-wants-to-advance-sharia-law-and-bring-muslims-into-the-united-states/">here</a></b> are two links that strongly indicate <span style="font-size: 18.64px;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Khizr M. Khan's</span></span></span> close ties to both Islamic terrorism and the Clinton Foundation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> I used to have doubts about Trump's sincerity; I wondered if it were all a hoax or even a Trojan horse for Hillary, but not any more. The way the corporate shills are now in panic mode and practically wearing tinfoil hats when they read the "news" from their teleprompters tells me that Donald Trump is the real deal. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> If you want a clue as to how popular Trump really is (and we can no longer trust polls), take a look at Google Trends. Google Trends measures how many Internet searches there are for almost any topic. Internet interest is not the same thing as voter support, but lack of interest shows lack of support. In that sense, it's a rough guide.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> In 2008 and 2012 elections, I would key in the names of candidates and throw in the name of a famous movie star just to get some basis for comparison among non-political people (many of whom vote, though many others are too young to vote). In the past, Paris Hilton generated more interest than any candidate. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This year, it's different. Limiting searches to the United States during the past 30 days, the charts show that Trump and Clinton generate more interest than Beyonce, Matt Damon, or Jennifer Lawrence. Johnson and Stein, relative to one another, generate a level of interest that is tantalizingly similar to their comparative poll numbers. Trump is generating more interest than Harry Potter; but, as of August 4, Harry Potter was generating more interest than Clinton. Clinton's numbers will soon rise above the fictional wizard's, but she's clearly not holding public interest as well as Donald Trump. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> You can see why the Clinton campaign and the corporate shills are panicking. The so-called "news media" are so desperate that they no longer care about their credibility.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">June 3, 2017 ADDENDUM: The corporate shills are still in panic mode, and it's called Trump Derangement Syndrome.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7004833821877183483.post-61705712770793820392016-08-04T13:54:00.002+08:002017-02-25T09:25:27.298+08:00The Hillary Clinton Fairy Tale <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The official campaign biographies of Hillary Clinton read like a mashup of fairy tales, legends, and popular American memes. The narrative flits about like Tinkerbell from one image to another. At one moment, you think you're reading a Cinderella rip-off; in the next moment, Hillary comes off more like Joan of Arc. Her Horatio Alger rags-to-riches story begins in one of the richest and whitest suburbs in the United States; and progresses from one symbolic gesture to another, with Hillary treading well-worn pathways and calling it "breaking down barriers" and "breaking glass ceilings." Scandals, abysmal failures, and utter disasters are glossed over and forgotten.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Many videos have exposed the lies for what they are. I've decided to take a different approach. Below are links to my three-part video in which I play along with the Clinton fairy tale. Hillary is presented alternately as Cinderella, Joan of Arc, and other champions of female empowerment. Somehow, though, reality keeps intruding on the fairy tale.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> In Part 1, we see the fairy tale version compared to the reality of Hillary's "average American" childhood.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In Part 2, we take a look at her wilderness years, during which she showed how much of a champion of women and children she was (in particular, the rights of a 12-year-old girl). Part 2 ends with the disaster of Hillarycare.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> In Part 3, we see her rise from former First Lady to various positions that had already been held by dozens of women before her: Senator, Secretary of State, and presidential candidate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b> The 2016 Democratic primaries, of course, were the grandest fairy tale of the year.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7004833821877183483.post-72401862453071193812016-03-17T17:40:00.005+08:002016-03-19T11:11:53.926+08:00How Trump will get the Post-March 15 Delegates He Needs to Win the GOP Nomination<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> As of March 15,
Donald Trump has gained 693 of the 1,237 delegates he’ll need to win the
Republican presidential nomination, putting him 544 delegates short of his
goal. With only 1,041 delegates still up
for grabs, he’ll have to win at least 53% of the remaining delegates before he
can grab the nomination. How can he do
it?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> I poured over
many opinion polls and finally settled on an on-line polling site called
isidewith.com. Isidewith.com has two
major advantages: It’s fairly consistent with other polls, and—unlike other
polls—it’s updated every few minutes.</span></div>
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see below was actually my working paper; but I saw no reason to redo it. If you find any errors,
please let me know. Now let’s jump into
my findings.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> As I said, Trump
has already won 693 of the 1,237 delegates he needs to win (Source: Wikipedia),
which puts him 544 delegates away from his goal. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> First let’s look
at the <span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">winner-take-all</span>
(with no ifs, ands, or buts) states.
Even in a three-way race, Trump enjoys double-digit leads in all five
winner-take-all states for which polling data are available. The only polling data of any kind I can find
for South Dakota* (with 29 winner-take-all delegates) includes Democrats,
Republicans, candidates, and former candidates.) Here are the five states, with their number
of delegates in parentheses: Arizona (58), Indiana (57), Nebraska (36), Montana
(27), and New Jersey (51).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> Those five
states will likely give Trump 229 delegates.
By the math, this puts Trump 315 delegates away from his goal. Subtracting 229 from the 1,041 delegates
still up for grabs, Trump has to get only 39% of the remaining 812 delegates. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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at the states where delegates are<span style="background-color: cyan;"> winner-take-all</span> if the winner gets more than
50% of the vote (otherwise, delegates are allotted proportionally.) They are Utah (40) and Connecticut (28). Probably no one will get 50% of the vote in Utah,
so I’m calculating that Trump will get at least 16 of Utah’s 40 delegates. He’ll take all of Connecticut’s 28
delegates. These 44 delegates will put
Trump 271 delegates away from his goal. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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at the three states that will allocate delegates proportionally. They are Oregon (28), Washington (44, but
only to candidates with 20% or more of the vote), and New Mexico (24). I calculate that Trump will win 16 delegates
in Oregon, 23 in Washington, and 13 in New Mexico, for a total of 52 delegates,
putting him 219 delegates away from his goal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> Finally, setting
aside Colorado’s 37 “unbound” delegates (the mention of which recalls bitter
memories of the disgraceful behavior of party leaders at the 2012 (or was it 2008?) convention), let’s
look at the <span style="background-color: lime;">winner-take-all (split)</span> states.
Some are a combination of winner-take-all and proportional <span style="background-color: white;">(WTA/)</span>. They are Wisconsin (42), New York (95),
Maryland (38), Pennsylvania (71), and West Virginia (34). In California (172), congressional districts
are winner-take-all (WTA/CD). Together,
these six states will send 452 delegates to the National GOP Convention this
summer. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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category of states, it’s not possible for me to calculate just how many delegates
Trump will win, but it looks promising for the Donald. Donald Trump enjoys double-digit leads in all
six winner-take-all (split) states. Unless
he (as he once suggested) stands in the middle of Times Square and shoots
somebody, he’ll get at least half these 452 delegates, which should be more
than he needs to get the nomination. He’ll
probably get much more than that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Establishment will try to blackmail Trump into selecting Jeb Bush or other Insider
as his vice presidential running mate. To
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everyone must be aware of former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright’s
remark, “Just remember, there’s a special place in hell for women who don’t
help each other,” in the context that women who don’t vote for Hillary Clinton
will go to an especially agonizing place in hell. Clinton responded to Albright’s sexist remark
with a rasping laugh and applause; then she reached for a drink. When Clinton was asked later why she didn’t
distance herself from that remark, Clinton gave out another rasping laugh and croaked
condemnation of anyone who would disapprove of Albright’s “very light-hearted
but pointed remark.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> After a firestorm of protest over the remark,
Albright apologized—well, no, she didn’t actually <i>apologize</i> apologize.
Actually, she <i>kind of</i>
apologized. No, come to think of it, she
didn’t exactly do that either. It’s more
like, she repeated the remark, using different words. She still implied that women who don’t vote
for Hillary are failing in their responsibilities as women. Check out Time magazine’s pro-Hillary
valentine and see for yourself. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> Do the visuals in that clip look anything like
objective reporting? Nahhhh.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://time.com/4220323/madeleine-albright-place-in-hell-remark-apology/"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">http://time.com/4220323/madeleine-albright-place-in-hell-remark-apology/</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> </span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> How do Albright and Clinton fare by their
own standard? Not very well. By their own standards, there’s a special
place in hell for Clinton and Albright.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> In
1995, a study by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization found
that over 500,000 Iraqi children under the age of five had died under
then-President Clinton’s policy of economic sanctions. In 1976, CBS interviewer Lesley Stahl asked
then-UN Ambassador Albright about it, and Albright replied, “I think this is a
very hard choice, but the price—we think that the price is worth it.” <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> When you get into numbers as high as
500,000, the emotional impact of that many deaths doesn’t sink in. Okay, try to imagine how you’d feel about a
school bus loaded with 75 first graders running off a cliff and killing every
child on board. Now try to imagine that
happening to 6,667 school buses, each loaded with 75 first graders. If that many school buses were lined up in
Massachusetts, the buses would stretch the entire 50 miles from Massachusetts’s
northern border (New Hampshire) to its southern border (Connecticut).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> In the entire state of Arkansas, there are
an estimated 192,814 children under 5 years old. <b><a href="http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/05000.html"><span style="color: red;">(link)</span></a> </b></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> Madeleine Albright justified killing
2.6 times that many—and counting, until January 20, 2001. Roughly half the children Albright justified
killing were girls, and most of them had mothers. To further then-President Clinton’s political
power goals, Madeleine Albright said that Clinton’s mass pedocide was “worth
it.” By Albright’s own standards, she
has a special place in hell for not helping women.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> What about Hillary Clinton? How well does she support women? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> In 1991, when Anita Hill accused Supreme Court
justice nominee Clarence Thomas of telling two off-color jokes her presence,
Hillary Clinton and a political lawyer named Gloria Allred said that Hill, as a
woman, had “a right to be believed.”
(Never mind the presumption of innocence until guilt is proven beyond a
reasonable doubt.) On this basis, they
unsuccessfully tried to deny Thomas a seat on the Supreme Court.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> Also in 1991, when Juanita Broaddrick
accused presidential candidate Bill Clinton of rape, Kathleen Willey accused
him of sexual assault, and Paula Jones accused him of exposing his privates to
her, Hillary Clinton (in Willey’s words) “wrote the book on terrorizing women."<span style="color: red;"> <b><a href="http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2015/12/28/in-their-own-words-why-bills-bimbos-fear-a-hillary-presidency/">(link)</a></b> </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> The Clinton Administration, with Hillary as enabler-in-chief, attacked
Bill Clinton’s victims as “bimbos.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> Broaddrick was audited by the Internal
Revenue Service—a favorite tool of terrorism by the powers-that-be—and charges
were tossed out of court because the only two witnesses to the crime (Broaddrick
and Clinton) disagreed on what had happened.
On November 29, 1993, the very day that Willey publicly accused Clinton,
Willey’s husband was shot to death.
Investigators ruled it a suicide.
Paula Jones eventually accepted an $850,000 out-of-court settlement from
Bill Clinton.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> Hillary Clinton’s war on women didn’t stop
or start there. Recently, an audiotaped
interview surface, in which Clinton bragged and laughed about a mid-1980’s case
in which she managed to free a rapist pedophile whom she knew was guilty. Here’s
the audio tape:<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> Former prosecutor and Judge Jeanine Pirro
showed court documents revealing that Clinton falsified evidence against the 12-year-old
victim of her client—and she laughed about it.
The girl was so badly injured in the rape that she was in a coma for
several days; and she can never have children. <span style="color: red;">
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=680oj8VC61M">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=680oj8VC61M</a> </span> Yes, Hillary did “believe the accuser” in
this case, but she tormented the girl just the same, and she even laughed about
it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> Women's rights involve more than "women's issues;" they involve human rights. As such, Clinton's treatment of the grieving mothers and widows of Benghazi is an issue here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> Within 24 hours of the murder of four Americans at Benghazi, Clinton had emailed her daughter Chelsea and to the Egyptian prime minister, telling them the facts of how four Americans had died. At the casket ceremony, however, Hillary Clinton lied to the mothers and widows about how their sons and husbands had died. She also went on worldwide television and repeated the lie. She later denied that she had ever said what she was clearly on record as having said. When a reporter said to her that either she or the grieving mothers and widows had lied, Clinton said, "It wasn't me," callously accusing the women of lying.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> If there’s a “special place in hell for
women who don’t help” other women, for whom should women vote? Hillary Clinton or someone—whether male or
female—who actually cares about people?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> When you get right down to it, Hillary Clinton can not honestly claim that her election to the presidency would "empower women," either. Her only two claims to the presidency are the X chromosome she received from her father and the name recognition she received from her husband.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> Thanks to the
Internet and alternative news sites, we’ve seen the absurdity of believing that
ordinary office fires could cause skyscrapers to collapse like three (including
Building 7) houses of cards. Fetzer and many
others of his ilk post videos, and they tell us what we see in the videos. The prearranged conclusion is that Insiders, most
of whom were American citizens, and some of whom were “Muslims,” used thermite
to bring down the buildings in “classic implosions.” They point out other things to us, and we’ve
learned to listen to them instead of the corporate press-titutes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> What else have
we learned from the alternative media?
For one, we learned that government officials and the press-titutes
collude to slant the news after events have occurred.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> Welcome to the Outer
Matrix. That’s the buffer zone created
for people who have woken up to the fact that they’re living in the Matrix and
are trying to get out. The Matrix created
this buffer zone, and they’ve planted Judas goats in the alternative media to
keep people from finding the exit.
Regardless of whether you’ve taken the blue pill or the red one, you’re
still in one of two versions of the Matrix. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> Think of Plato’s
Parable of the Cave. Prisoners chained
in a cave see shadowy figures on a wall and think they’re seeing the real
world. At some point, one of the
prisoners wriggles in his chains until he’s able to turn his head. He then discovers that puppet masters are the
reality and that the shadows on the wall are no more than illusions that the
puppet masters want him to see. At that
point, he thinks he has discovered what the world is really like. He fails to realize that the cave itself had
been created by the puppet masters, and that a greater reality exists outside
the cave. His vision is still limited to
what the puppet masters are willing to concede to skeptics.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> Alex Jones, a
self-proclaimed alternative media leader, is a case in point. Alex Jones’s parent company is Time-Warner,
which is also the parent company of CNN, which Jones often criticizes. Former CIA intern Anderson Cooper, a top
shill for CNN, is one of Jones’s favorite targets. Do you really believe that a shill for Time-Warner is going to make a habit of saying things that are damaging to other
Time-Warner shills? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> Jones never
tires of telling about Cooper’s and CNN’s use of green-screen technology to trick
viewers into thinking that Cooper was interviewing someone in front of a church
in Newtown, Connecticut, when in fact Cooper was in a television studio,
probably in New York. He also excitedly tells
his viewers that CNN was using crisis actors posing as witnesses or survivors
of (supposedly) horrific events such as the one at Sandy Hook. Both those revelations were all over the
Internet before Jones said anything about them, and neither of them are fatal
to the corporate media’s claim that the Sandy Hook shooting really happened.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> Only in the past year or so have Alex Jones and
other Judas goats finally conceded what the rest of us have known for over two
years: that the Sandy Hook shooting never happened. (The red pills that Alex Jones dispenses are just placebos.) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> For many of us,
Sandy Hook was a watershed event. We’d
known (as the fake alternative media talking heads are willing to admit) that
the corporate media lies to slant news events after they’ve happened. Now we know what the fake alternative media
don’t tell us until it can no longer be denied: that the corporate media acts
with prior knowledge, slanting people’s perceptions of real or fabricated
events even as they’re taking place. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> Two more of
Jones’s big issues are the Bilderberg group and alleged activities at Bohemian
grove. Even the sleepiest person in the
Matrix already knows that businessmen and politicians cultivate relationships
with each other—How can anyone expect them to do otherwise?—but Jones
habitually shows up outside Bilderberg meeting sites, bullhorn in hand, making
a spectacle of himself. Despite the
claim that the giant owl statue at Bohemian Grove represents the god Moloch, Jones
proves only that groups of Republicans go to Bohemian Grove and act like
drunken frat boys. Jones isn’t touching
anybody’s third rail; everything that he and other corporate “alternative”
media shills say is well within limits of the Matrix’s buffer zone. Jones and others like him serve as fire breaks to keep fires of protest contained.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> When Jim Fetzer
appeared on the Alex Jones show, and they agreed that Donald Trump is “the real
deal,” it raised my doubts about Donald Trump.
In the video above are some of the highlights of an Alex Jones interview with Donald
Trump. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> As Albert Pike (33<sup>rd</sup> Degree
Mason) said, “Whenever the people need a hero, we shall supply him.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> If you want to
know what happens when a researcher really touches a third rail, take a look at
Dr. Judy Wood and Rebekah Roth. Those
two women have uncovered things that are truly outside the Matrix. They’ve gotten a little too close to the truth
to suit the puppet masters. As a result, characters such as Jim Fetzer and his guests have come at them with sharpened claws.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> I don’t know if you’ve ever witnessed a
building implosion. I stood less than a
block from the Wade Hampton Hotel when it came down in 1985. I find myself comparing what I saw that day
with what I see today on 9/11 videos.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> When the World
Trade Center came down, the clouds of dust should not have been as thick, as
heavy, or widespread as the ones we saw.
There should have been much more rubble than we saw. Since metal vehicles blocks from the site
were burned, the papers scattered all over the streets should also have been
burned; they weren’t even singed. Thermite
could have reduced the buildings to rubble, but it could not have turned them
to dust, nor could it have caused a steel tower to vanish like smoke. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> Dr. Judy Wood’s scientific
explanation for these anomalies is beyond my understanding, and possibly yours,
but she makes one thing clear: We may not know what reduced the buildings to thick
clouds of dust, but we know what it wasn’t.
It wasn’t planes, and it wasn’t thermite. For stating the obvious, trolls in the 9/11 “Truth”
movement have viciously attacked Doctor Wood. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> Rebekah Roth claims to be a former airline
stewardess and, judging from her grasp of how airline stewardesses operate, she
almost certainly is. In her radio
interviews and in her books <i>Methodical
Illusion</i> and <i>Methodical Deception</i>,
she points to things that the hijacked 9/11 stewardesses said that suggest (to a
stewardess) that the planes were not in the air when the phone calls were made;
that they were in a hangar somewhere.
She also explores the question of where the hangar was located. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> This claim helps
to answer many of the unanswered questions of 9/11, the foremost of which is, “If
no planes were used on 9/11, what happened to the planes?” As expected, the claws were sharpened and
Rebekah Roth is attacked on whether she wears a wig, whether she wears glasses
to look more intelligent, whether men are fooled by her because (supposedly)
she’s “pretty,” whether Rebekah Roth is her real name, and whether we should
believe a novelist. In short, she’s attacked for everything but
her airline experience, her facts, and her reasoning.
By providing a both a rationale and evidence for the no-planes theory, she has touched a
third rail that shows she has breached the Matrix.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> In addition to accusing the Bush
Administration of complicity in 9/11, Roth also accused the Israeli Mossad. By mentioning the Israeli regime, Rebekah
Roth had touched another third rail and got burned for it. Typically, Matrix shills pretend that she
hasn’t said anything about Bush Administration complicity, and they accuse her
of saying that “the Jews” were solely responsible, as if religion had anything
to do with it. When her critics deliberately confuse an Israeli spy
organization with the Law of Moses, they show their true colors. The Israeli regime and their media lackeys use Jews as human shields.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> There’s much
more I could say about controlled opposition and how the puppet masters give skeptics just
enough of the truth to steer them away from learning “too much.” I’m not saying that we should trust the likes
of Roth and Wood instead of Jones and Fetzer—or that you should trust me, for
that matter. Instead, each of us should trust
himself or herself. I’m also saying that we
should be aware that, amid the honest researchers and reporters in the legitimate alternative media, there are Judas goats in false alternative media out there
and we should beware of them. As Agent Scully said, "The truth is also out there, but so are lies."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> By way of providing you with tools to aid you in your search for truth, here’s a crash course for you:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> <span style="color: red;"> <b><a href="http://americanactionreport.blogspot.tw/2013/08/fifteen-questions-that-will-improve.html">“FifteenQuestions that will Improve your Thinking Skills”</a></b> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7004833821877183483.post-17385006515168161372016-01-11T17:03:00.001+08:002016-01-29T18:47:48.453+08:00Gun Control Legislation? Disarm Congress before Disarming Citizens!<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If the American people were truly safer without guns, as Obama and many members of Congress tell us, why do Obama and congressmen feel the need to hide behind swarms of armed guards? Why don't they follow their own advice and dial 911 when trouble strikes?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Common sense tells us that they know, as we know, that dialing 911 sometimes doesn't get help fast enough to stay alive. What do you do while waiting for the police arrive, assuming that they may arrive? Turn on your laptop, start a Facebook group called "Down with Murderers," and see how many "likes" you get? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> We’ve seen it all
before, haven’t we? In 1964, when the
Civil Rights Act made racial discrimination in hiring illegal, the bill was
touted as good for the American people.
Typically, the bill was written in such a way that it exempted Congress and the President from the provisions of the bill. In 2010, when Congress signed the deceptively misnamed Patient
Protection and Affordable Care Act, it was also touted as good for the American
people. As usual, Congress and the
teleprompter-reader-in-chief were exempted from the bill’s requirements.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Federal laws and
regulations display the same double standards in many other areas. To give one example, when a military veteran applies for Social
Security, the federal government will take nothing less than an original hard
copy of the veteran's record, and it has to be certified by government
bureaucrats who have physically seen and held the paper, photocopied it, and
stamped it as a “true copy.” When Barry
Soetoro was running for teleprompter-reader-in-chief in 2008, all he had to do
was produce a computer-generated image resembling a birth certificate, which any amateur could have
produced on Photoshop </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">in just a few minutes</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. In fact, Barry's CGI'd certificate had so many flaws in it that it
probably </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">was</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> produced by an amateur
in a few minutes. </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.usavsus.info/ObamaBirthCertifInconsistencies.html">(Link)</a> </b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Gun control is no
exception to the rule that Washington’s minions create for themselves exceptions
to rules. Congressional sock puppets and
the teleprompter-reader-in-chief are protected by swarms of well-armed men in
uniform and in plainclothes, even as the usual suspects are arguing that the
American people would be much safer from gun violence if they—that is, the
American people—had no means of self-defense.
The fly in the buttermilk is that American gun owners are hard to convince. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> I propose that we
take a lesson from the world of business and economics. Under a scheme called Free Economic Zones, some businesses can have higher taxes and more government regulation while businesses in certain zoned places can have lower taxes and less government regulation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> I propose that we
try a similar scheme for the issue of gun control. (By the way, the term <i>gun control</i>, strictly speaking, is a misnomer. The issue has never been whether there should
be gun control but who should control the guns.
In my proposal below, I’m strongly pro-gun control in that I believe
that guns should be controlled by as many non-governmental citizens as
possible.) Here is my proposal:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> With few
exceptions, no one holding a federal job will be allowed the protection of
firearms. That includes, but is not
limited to, congressmen, Presidents (or whoever is filling that capacity at the
time), Secret Service agents, the FBI, the CIA, TSA petty thieves and perverts,
DHS, FEMA, White House guards, and government regulators.
The sole exceptions to the requirements of this law will be active-duty military personnel during duty hours. Whenever a military
serviceman leaves the base or is otherwise off-duty, he must leave his firearm
in the base armory, except when he is in the war zone of a lawfully declared
war. It will be illegal for a federal
jobholder to enter a dwelling or other place that has a firearm; the
consequences of this provision will apply both to the federal jobholder and to
the homeowner who allows him/her to enter.
Anyone violating this law will face a mandatory five years in
prison. The provisions of this law will
also apply to anyone who has contracted to work on behalf of the federal
government.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Constitutionally authorized bearers of weapons (such as city policemen) will, however, be allowed to respond to 911 calls from a federal employee in the event of an emergency. Just in case the police don’t respond fast
enough to save the federal employee’s life, pizza delivery personnel may be
deputized and armed. Then, at least,
help is guaranteed to arrive in less than fifteen minutes, and they can celebrate their rescue by having a pizza.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> The goal of this
proposed law is to make places occupied by federal employees as safe as other
gun-free zones, such as schools, churches, and movie theaters.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> People who are slow to catch on might argue that the President and members of Congress, for example, need to be
surrounded with armed men as a means of protection against people who would
wish to harm them. Well, excuse me, but
that’s the same excuse that gun owners give for wanting to have guns. Obama, Pelosi, and others of their ilk shouldn’t
be allowed to get away with that lame excuse. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Besides, haven’t you heard the ancient Roman proverb, “The love of the
people is the king’s protection”? The
ancient Romans had the idea that, if the love of the people wasn’t protection
enough, the king didn’t deserve to live.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> One of the
founding principles of the American Republic is that the government should fear
the people—not the other way around. The characters who demand firearms protection for themselves and for nobody else are as hypocritical as an undertaker trying to look sad at a million-dollar funeral.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> But wait a
minute. How does this argument square with the assassinations of President Kennedy, Senator Robert Kennedy, and Martin
Luther King? Very well, thank you. If the CIA, the FBI,
and LBJ had not had access to firearms, those three assassinations probably would not
have happened.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Yeah, let’s try
it—the sooner the better. As soon as the
American people see how safe federal employees have become by living in
gun-free zones, they won’t be able to get rid of their guns fast enough. During the 2008 presidential election, Obama
famously sneered at the American people for “clinging to their guns and
religion.” <b><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/apr/14/barackobama.uselections2008">(Link)</a></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Let’s see if Mr.
Obama was right—or if America <i>really was</i> built on God, guns, and guts.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7004833821877183483.post-19477433424626882412016-01-07T13:24:00.006+08:002017-10-08T07:17:13.469+08:0046 Tips for Recognizing a False Flag or other Psyop<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> “In individuals, insanity is rare; but in
groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">―
Friedrich Nietzsche<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“The
easiest way to gain control of a population is to carry out acts of terror.
[The public] will clamor for such laws if their personal security is
threatened”.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">–
Josef Stalin<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"> There can be no
doubt that false flag attacks are a reality.
Washington’s Blog has documented at least <b><a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/02/x-admitted-false-flag-attacks.html">53 false flag attacks</a></b> to which
government officials in various countries—including the U.S.—have later admitted.</span><span style="line-height: 107%;"> Only the most cowardly, self-deceived
individuals can doubt the existence of false flag attacks.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Several web
sites offer anywhere from three to fifteen clues on how to recognize false flag
attacks. I’ve gleaned through them and
added a few of my own. There are really
too many to cover in detail in a single article. Instead, I’ve chosen simply to list them and perhaps
go into further detail a few at a time, on some future occasion.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> In a false flag
attack or other psyop, several (or many) of the following phenomena are
evident:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><b>1. </b>T</span></span><span style="line-height: 107%;">here
is an immediate comprehensive narrative, including a convenient culprit. Law
enforcement, government agencies, and the mainstream media immediately proffer
a narrative that completely explains the event and encourages citizens to tie
their intellectual understanding of the tragedy to the emotions they
experience.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><b>2. </b> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="line-height: 107%;">The
official narrative has obvious domestic and geopolitical advantages for the
governing body.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><b>3.</b><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="line-height: 107%;">The
narrative behind the attack serves to leverage emotions like fear, as well as
patriotism, in order to manufacture consent around a previously controversial
issue. (e.g. calls for gun confiscation)
Media and government officials promote a narrative against scapegoat
groups and/or an agenda to deprive citizens of life, liberty, or property.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><b>4.</b>.<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="line-height: 107%;">Government
begins to “take action” against the scapegoat or moves along the lines of the
media narrative.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><b>5.</b><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="line-height: 107%;">Military
training drills and police drills occur on the day of and very near the attack
itself, causing confusion to obscure eye witness testimony and allowing
orchestrators to plant both patsies, disinformation and backup operatives.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><b>6.</b><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="line-height: 107%;">It’s a
high-profile event. According to a <b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/03/us/how-often-do-mass-shootings-occur-on-average-every-day-records-show.html?_r=0">NewYork Times news article</a></b>, mass murders (murders of four or more people at
one time) occur an average of once a day in the U.S. </span><span style="line-height: 107%;"> The
overwhelming majority of mass murders are ignored, but a select few are covered
24/7.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><b>7.</b><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="line-height: 107%;">The
event seems too theatrical to be real (or too theatrical to be taken at face value).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><b>8.</b>.<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="line-height: 107%;">Government
or media foreknowledge (e.g. BBC announcing the collapse of WTC-7 some 20
minutes before it actually occurred).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><b>9.</b><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="line-height: 107%;">Ignored
warnings.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><b>10.</b>.<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="line-height: 107%;">Facilitated
by authorities.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><b>11.<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></b></span><!--[endif]--><span style="line-height: 107%;">Protocol
ignored. (In the Sandy Hook psyop, almost
everyone in any official capacity violated the law and failed to follow required
protocol.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><b>12.</b><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="line-height: 107%;">Official
narrative contradicts boundary conditions (e.g., the narrative that a non-pilot
such as Hani Hanjour taught himself to fly a Boeing 757 more expertly than an
experienced Boeing pilot.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><b>13.</b><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="line-height: 107%;">Significant
omissions in the official story (e.g.,
the fact that, only two weeks before 9/11, Hani Hanjour was not allowed to rent
a Cessna 172 due to his poor piloting skills).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><b>14.</b><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="line-height: 107%;">Official
narrative contradicts experience (personal or historical) (E.g., that no
high-rise building in history has ever collapsed due to fire damage, yet it supposedly
happened three times at the same place on the same day.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><b>15.</b><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="line-height: 107%;">No surviving
witnesses) (problematic witness or patsy gets killed, drugged, or “suicided.”)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><b>16</b>.<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="line-height: 107%;">There
is no obvious motive for the attack.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><b>17.</b><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="line-height: 107%;">Family
or witnesses in the event have elite or acting backgrounds<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><b>18.</b><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="line-height: 107%;">Fake
“victims;” the same “victim” get killed in two or more separate events.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><b>19.</b><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="line-height: 107%;">The
same witnesses are present at two or more events. <b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDMzbmxISIA">(Link)</a></b> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><b>20.</b><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="line-height: 107%;">Families
of “victims” appear on TV within 24 hours, showing little or no emotion, and
even snigger and laugh. <b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKr-av9jVx8">“Robbie Parker”</a></b> James Foley’s smiling sister’s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5h5rTqCIZ8"><b>“duping delight”</b>:</a> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><b>21.</b><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="line-height: 107%;">“Witnesses”
make official talking points. (E.g., 9/11 <b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5y8PtfKA14&list=PL9On8wg264bzcXf2eKXHsAtr0wuSExKw1">“Harley guy”</a></b> claiming that WTC 1
& 2 collapsed “mostly due to structural failure because the fire was just too
intense.”) <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><b>22.</b><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="line-height: 107%;">“Witnesses”
speak in “officialese” (e.g., “multiple gunshots” instead of “several (or a
specific number of) gunshots,” or, “I witnessed…,” instead of, “I saw…”)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><b>23.<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></b></span><!--[endif]--><span style="line-height: 107%;">Non
sequiturs (e.g. that victims’ families wouldn’t want to know how their loved
ones died; or pulling out of an illegal war would be disrespectful of “the
troops;” or that “an investigation of a terrorist act would invite another such
offense.”) <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><b>24.<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></b></span><!--[endif]--><span style="line-height: 107%;"> “Witnesses” speak in generalities, so as to
avoid the risk of telling too different a story as other “witnesses.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><b>25.</b><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="line-height: 107%;">Witnesses’
statements are reinterpreted or shut off by an interviewer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><b>26.</b><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="line-height: 107%;">Shooters
always have new social media accounts.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><b>27.</b><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="line-height: 107%;">Shooter
leaves a manifesto.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><b>28.</b><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="line-height: 107%;">Even
before there is time for investigation, the “news” media has quickly and
conveniently named and demonized the “culprit” (read: patsy).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><b>29.</b><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="line-height: 107%;">Patsy has had no military training, yet he shoots extremely fast and accurately.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><b>30.<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></b></span><!--[endif]--><span style="line-height: 107%;">The
suspect(s) have a demonstrable connection to the CIA, FBI, or another
intelligence agency.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><b>31.</b><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="line-height: 107%;">The
suspect has no credible means of funding.
(e.g., James Holmes, an unemployed medical student who had $26,000 worth
of armaments, body armor, bomb-making equipment, and other paraphernalia. Unaccountably, he also had the skills to make
the bombs, rig the booby traps, and use the guns and ammo. Wow!)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><b>32.<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></b></span><!--[endif]--><span style="line-height: 107%;">Victim’s
families don’t sue anyone for negligence, but receive millions in unsolicited
federal payouts<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><b>33.<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></b></span><!--[endif]--><span style="line-height: 107%;">The
officially proposed solution wouldn’t have prevented the events.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><b>34.</b><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="line-height: 107%;">The
official narrative keeps changing.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><b>35.<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></b></span><!--[endif]--><span style="line-height: 107%;">At or near
the same time and place as the event, officials are conducting drills
simulating an event that’s virtually identical to the “real” event that is
taking place.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><b>36.</b><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="line-height: 107%;">Cui
Bono? (Who benefits?)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><b>37.</b><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="line-height: 107%;">Key questions
are never investigated and are left unanswered.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><b>38.</b><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="line-height: 107%;">The case
is quickly closed<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><b>39</b>.<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="line-height: 107%;">Key
evidence is conveniently destroyed before a thorough investigation can take
place.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><b>40.</b><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="line-height: 107%;">Clues
in pop media (foreshadowing) (Use your favorite web or video search engine to
find “predictive programming.”)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><b>41.</b><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="line-height: 107%;">Eyewitnesses
have accounts conflicting with official narrative) and are ignored<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><b>42.</b><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="line-height: 107%;">Credible
reports of accomplices (e.g., “John Doe Number Two”) are ignored or quickly
covered up.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><b>43.</b><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="line-height: 107%;">Reporter
or other authoritative accounts contradict official narrative (e.g. McIntyre’s (<b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXKYI9wkbSg">McIntyre’sfirst version</a></b>) </span><span style="line-height: 107%;"> (<b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEiJW7rRLnE">McIntyre’s flipflop</a></b>) </span><span style="line-height: 107%;"> and
<b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHeYFTPG4KQ">Walter’s flip flops</a></b></span><span style="line-height: 107%;">; or
FBI crime stats revealing that no murders were committed in or around Newtown,
Connecticut, in 2012, the year of the alleged Sandy Hook shooting).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><b>44.</b><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="line-height: 107%;">Official
behavior contradicts official narrative (e.g. outbound flights arranged for the
bin Laden family while bin Laden was being blamed for an atrocity, even as all
other flights are grounded).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><b>45.<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></b></span><!--[endif]--><span style="line-height: 107%;">Terrorist
PR is clearly designed for domestic consumption (e.g., when organizational
initials or other PR symbols are in English when one would reasonably expect
them to be in the native language of the terrorist group. Note: the acronym <i>ISIS</i> stands for the English words<i> Islamic State of Iraq and Syria</i>).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><b>46.</b><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="line-height: 107%;">Other
anomalies, which may or may not be found in more than one psyop event. </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"> “Other anomalies” can cover a wide range
and be very difficult to spot or may be nothing more than anomalies. </span></div>
</div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Well, that’s my
list. Not everything is a conspiracy,
but conspiracies do happen. Politics, by
its very nature, is conspiratorial. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<i><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“The
price of freedom is eternal vigilance.”
—Thomas Jeffe</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">rson<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7004833821877183483.post-65275238851776710102015-12-23T11:44:00.002+08:002015-12-23T12:07:18.430+08:00Whole Systems Thinking and Global Warming Snapshots<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXv4lGm0ve6xfWTEykX2O_9PRFcER-RUKc5qMO69H6sYaA0cQfneN0yy6I6J5f3sdh5SspDiWh5VS_h3aoRIDwtjol5cQAhCoYu_w-dWttimCxSlFzUrZINWjC1Hb9p57dcbsRyTgmfHU/s1600/Cartoon++-+Cooling+and+Warming.png" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="242" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXv4lGm0ve6xfWTEykX2O_9PRFcER-RUKc5qMO69H6sYaA0cQfneN0yy6I6J5f3sdh5SspDiWh5VS_h3aoRIDwtjol5cQAhCoYu_w-dWttimCxSlFzUrZINWjC1Hb9p57dcbsRyTgmfHU/s320/Cartoon++-+Cooling+and+Warming.png" width="320" /></a></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> The following
snapshots appeared in the December 23, 2015 edition of the <i>Taipei Times</i>:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Snapshot
number one:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> “The nation [Taiwan] had its warmest winter
solstice in 67 years yesterday, with the highest temperature rising above 30°C
[80°F].”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Snapshot
number two:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> “The statistics also showed that the nation
experienced its third-warmest winter solstice in recorded history, only beaten
by 31.5°C recorded in 1934 and 30.7°C in 1948.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> I call these two
sentences snapshots, because snapshots represent only an instant of time in a
comparatively small spot. When a
snapshot is selected for publication, it’s selected from among possibly
thousands of snapshots to illustrate a point that the writer is trying to make.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> In the case of
literal snapshots, two photographers can attend the same lecture and take
pictures of the speaker and the crowd.
One photographer selects an audience photo showing many empty seats and
several disinterested people (the shot was taken during a less interesting part
of the speech.) The other photographer’s
photo shows many enthusiastic listeners (during a more interesting part of the
speech) packed into an area that has no empty seats. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> It’s the same
speech, the same audience, and the same venue; but the two selected photos give
completely opposite impressions of how well attended the speech was and how
interested the listeners were. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> Snapshots of
events can be very different from whole histories of the same events. Let’s look at how the two </span><span style="line-height: 17.12px;">above-mentioned</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> snapshots of temperatures may be seen in the light of whole systems thinking. <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> In the light of
whole systems thinking, these figures tell us that the world as a whole wasn’t especially
hot on December 22; the figures apply only to Taiwan: an area only a little
larger than Maryland. It also tells us
that it was hotter on that day 67 years ago (1948)—several decades before the
alleged “</span><span style="line-height: 17.12px;">man-made</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> global warming” became an issue (around 1978). You cannot reasonably infer "global warming" from a single hot day on a tiny portion of the globe.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> The only other
time in recorded history that it was hotter on that date than it was this year
was in 1934. In the 37 years that global
warming has been a significant issue, Taiwan has never experienced a winter
solstice as hot as it was 30 years before the scare began.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> It’s also worth
asking, “How do they arrive at the global temperature figures the use?” Of course they use thermometers, but where
are the thermometers located?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> Here’s a map
showing the location of temperature measuring stations. Fully two thirds of the thermometers are
located in a fairly narrow band that includes only the middle two thirds of the
northern temperate zone. When more than 80% of the world is
underrepresented, how accurate can the system be?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> It gets
worse. Take a look at <a href="http://www.seafriends.org.nz/issues/global/climate3.htm"><b>“MeasuringTemperatures: How Temperatures are Measured,”</b></a> by Dr. J. Floor Anthoni. Measuring global temperatures is far from an
exact science.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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presented, are useful as a visual means of digesting facts. They’re not by any means a substitute for
facts. Check the facts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7004833821877183483.post-80870001325821649402014-08-22T15:01:00.001+08:002014-08-23T12:57:19.106+08:00Why Some People have a Phobia of Conspiracy Theories<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> <i>(This article is the second version of a
blog post I wrote a few months ago. The
first version was somehow lost. No, I
don’t suspect that it was destroyed by reptilian shape shifters that didn’t
want you to read it. My schedule has
relaxed enough now that I’m able to write a second version of this article. I hope it’s as informative as the first (missing) version.)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> We’ve all seen
articles purporting to explain why some people are attracted to conspiracy
theories. The rationale behind the articles
is that, if someone is aberrant enough to suspect that politicians sometimes
have ulterior motives, this suspicion requires a socio-psychoanalytical explanation—from a safe
distance, of course; and it should be performed only by someone who recognizes
the danger of examining the facts for oneself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> In a previous
article,<span style="color: red;"><b><a href="http://americanactionreport.blogspot.tw/2014/02/why-some-people-are-attracted-to.html"> <span style="color: red;">“Why Some People are Attracted to Conspiracy Theories,”</span></a></b> </span>I broke all
the rules and presented my politically incorrect findings. Yes, I admit it; I’m a thought criminal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> It's highly curious that a
belief in conspiracies is considered aberrant enough to warrant
socio-psychological analysis; but no one seems to question why some other
people are addicted to official narratives and have a phobia of conspiracy
theories. It’s as if the official
narratives are the default explanation of events (like the reasonableness of
wearing a hat as protection from the blinding rays of the sun), and that skepticism
of official narratives is considered an oddball alternative (like wearing a
lampshade over your head).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> (Actually,
it’s the conspiratophobe who likes to imagine “truthers” as the sort of people
who wear lampshades—probably so that people around the “truthers” will not be
blinded by the dazzling light of truth.
Doesn’t it seem odd to “accuse” a political opponent of wanting to know
the truth? For what it’s worth, the
opposite of <i>truthe</i>r is <i>liar</i>.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> In the
article, “Why Some People are Attracted to Conspiracy Theories,” I gave three
commonly given explanations and showed the absurdity of all three. To give equal time to conspiratophobes, I
give three explanations for why certain other people have a phobia of
anything—question, fact, or theory—that calls an official narrative into
question. Here are the three
explanations:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">1.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">They
are vain; to them, social responsibility is less important than a sense of
personal reward or the approval of others.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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either lazy or they’re moral cowards.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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miss the comfort and security of their mothers’ wombs.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> <b>They are vain; to them, social
responsibility is less important than a sense of personal reward or the
approval of others. </b>This motivation is rather tricky to examine because
certain virtues, such as social responsibility, are often compartmentalized. I’ve known conspiratophobes who gave very
much of themselves through organizations dedicated to helping others—deeds that
brought them considerable honor and praise. Belief in a conspiracy theory, however, calls for a similar level of
commitment to the needs of others, but very few people will praise you for
it. More often, it results in disrepute
and even social ostracism.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> It’s not that conspiracy deniers don’t see that there’s a problem.
Many conspiratophobes are highly intelligent, articulate people who use
their intelligence in the service of self-deceit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> Here’s the sort of example I’m sure you’ve
seen: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> Let’s say the
year is 2006. You tell someone that the
NSA has been conducting widespread warrantless wiretaps. Year after year, for he automatically rejects
any and all evidence you try to show him, declaring that it’s too evil to
contemplate. After all, we live in a
“democracy.” In a democracy “our”
government would never do something that evil and authoritarian. Fast forward to last year—Edward Snowden. To the conspiratophobe, this is a recent
revelation; (“Who could have known?” he says.)—notwithstanding that the
evidence had been around since 2006.
Just as suddenly, the evil, authoritarian practice of widespread,
warrantless wiretapping has become a good thing that is necessary to protect us
from Al Qaeda or some other boogey man of the day. All that is needed now is an
extra-constitutional Presidential Directive defining the limits of a practice
that has already overstepped constitutional limits.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> <b>They’re lazy or are moral cowards</b>. When a citizen has a healthy skepticism of
those in power, he assumes a burden that he had not had before the skepticism
arose. He’s required to use critical
thinking skills instead of simply responding to spin doctor-generated
stimuli—the same sort of stimuli that advertisers use to convince gullible
people to pay twice as much for a pair of shoes as it’s really worth, all
because it has a corporate symbol on it, or because the corporation has paid
millions of dollars for a famous athlete to wear it in a television commercial.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> It’s not that
they can’t get excited about something and generate energy as a result of that
excitement. They can get very excited
about the Super Bowl, a rock star, the latest fad, or some other pointless
diversion. Those things don’t require
taking a stand that someone else may oppose.
Those who find it fashionable to get excited about meaningless things
are the very people who give the fisheye to people who display even a little
passion about things that matter—such as the genocide of Palestinians (a sure
ticket to being labeled anti-Semitic), the Bill of Rights (easily dismissed as the
work of home-grown terrorists”), GMO (luddites), or the Bible (intolerance). There’s always a convenient label to
marginalize anyone who upsets the status quo, and to shut down a conversation
so you can go back to your mindless game of moving dots around on your
so-called “smart” phone.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> <b>They miss the comfort and security of their mothers’ wombs.</b> An addiction to official narratives is key to
their paradigm for “understanding” the world around them. In their world, there are no stakeholders but
themselves, and the world revolves around their desire for security and happiness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> In their
world, the news media have to tell them the whole truth at all times because
the news media have only one stakeholder: the newspaper buyer or the news
program viewer. Like the babe in the
womb, they fail to see the owners, investors, sources, creditors, advertisers,
and others who also have a stake in the news media. As often as not, the other stakeholders have
interests that are completely against the interests of the newspaper buyer or
television watcher. (See <b><a href="http://americanactionreport.blogspot.tw/2012/04/mythical-beings-that-inhabit-matrix.html"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a></b>)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> In the world of conspiracy denial, politicians have only one stakeholder: the voter. The conspiratophobe’s one measly vote (if he
votes at all) is more than a match for campaign donors, high-powered lobbyists,
intelligence agencies, foreign diplomats, international bankers, and many
others—if they enter his thinking at all.
At the same time, politicians (most of whom have never created value in
their entire lives) have the magical abilities to do things that everyone knows
can’t be done—such as creating millions of jobs just by signing a name to a
sheet of paper. (See <a href="http://americanactionreport.blogspot.tw/2012/04/mythical-beings-that-inhabit-matrix_24.html"><b><span style="color: red;">here</span></b></a></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">.) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> The world as
imagined by your typical conspiratophobe is a world that hasn’t existed since
he was in his mother’s womb, or in story books his mother read to him as a
small child. It’s a world populated by
magical beings that exist only to perform miracles especially for the
conspiratophobe. In short, a typical
conspiratophobe is someone who has an irrational aversion to reality because
reality calls for responsibility and is sometimes uncomfortable.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> A conspiracy
theorist, by contrast, is the following:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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who believes that human events are caused by humans.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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who believes that politicians sometimes have ulterior motives.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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who believes that the assassination of Julius Caesar wasn't a spontaneous
event. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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who believes that Richard Nixon “knew something” about Watergate before he read
it in the <i>Washington Post</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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who, when a politician says, “Read my lips,” also takes care to watch his
hands.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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who believes, as Lord Acton did, that “Power tends to corrupt; absolute power
corrupts absolutely.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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who believes that politics, by its very nature, is conspiratorial.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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who, when a politician pats him on the back, is smart enough to know whether
the politician is just feeling for a place to put the knife. When a politician pats a conspiratophobe on
the back, he’s attaching a sign that says, “I’m gullible. Trick me.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> Here are a couple of videos that the
average liar (the opposite of truther) dares not watch:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hxMaAAmaX0">6 Corporations that Control your Perception</a></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gd1MgToetNM">Top 5 Conspiracy Theories that are True</a></b></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7004833821877183483.post-62795870161043067092014-02-03T14:25:00.000+08:002014-08-22T15:10:27.959+08:00Why Some People are Attracted to Conspiracy Theories <div class="MsoNormal">
<b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;">This article is the first part of a two-part
series. The working title of the second
part is tentatively titled “Why some People are Attracted to Official
Narratives.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> No doubt you've already read articles with
titles like “Why some People are Attracted to Conspiracy Theories.” All such
articles have taken the approach that official narratives are the default view,
and that any rejection of an official narrative is an aberration that needs to
be explained in socio-psychological terms.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> Logic, fairness, and respect for Truth, however,
demand that both phenomena—attraction to, and automatic revulsion to,
conspiracy theories—must be evaluated by the same standards. Let’s begin with the most common arguments
offered by conspiratophobes. In the
next article, we’ll deal with the conspiracy theorists. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> If you’re in need of a socio-psychological
term for conspiracy theorists, just call them conspiratophiles. If you require
a term to explain what kind of theorist a conspiratophobes is, you may call
them excretory theorists; that is, people who believe that “stuff” just
happens.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> In trying to explain some people’s
attraction to conspiracy theories, conspiratophobes typically offer three
explanations:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">1.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Arial;">Conspiracy theorists tend to be distrustful of
authority figures. This leads them to
look for alternative explanations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">2.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Arial;">Official narratives sometimes leave some questions
unanswered. Conspiratophiles tend to
“fill in the blanks” with explanations that seem to fit their worldview.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">3.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Arial;">Academic studies have shown that, typically, conspiracy
theorists don’t actually propose theories; they simply point to “anomalies” in
the default explanation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> Regarding point #1, it’s entirely true
that conspiracy theorists tend to be distrustful of authority figures. The most notorious conspiracy theorist in
American history—Thomas Jefferson, by name—is a case in point. Below are some of his conspiratorial
opinions:<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="background: white; font-family: Arial;"> (<b>Ahem! Just remember what private banking institutions did to us in 2008
and on a few earlier occasions.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">“Single
acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a
series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period and pursued unalterably
through every change of ministers, too plainly prove a deliberate, systematic
plan of reducing [a people] to slavery.”
<b>(Ahem! George W. Bush’s acts of
tyranny and war making progressed unabated throughout the reign of Barack
Obama. Except for the dates of these
events, it’s virtually impossible to tell which “President” committed which
offense.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;">“But when a long train of abuses and usurpations,
pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under
absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty to throw off such
Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security….The history of
the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and
usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute
Tyranny over these States.” <b>(Thus, our nation’s founding document, the
Declaration of <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Independence</st1:place></st1:city>,
was built on conspiracy theory. The
thirteen colonies declared their independence, not only for what the British
regime had done to them but for what <st1:place w:st="on">Jefferson</st1:place>
and others claimed that the British regime was planning to do to them.)<span style="background: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> <span style="background: white;">"Confidence
is everywhere the parent of despotism.
Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence….The two
enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second
down with the chains of the Constitution so the second will not become the
legalized version of the first….In questions of power then, let no more be
heard of confidence in man but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the
Constitution." <b>(Notes from
various drafts of Jefferson’s <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:state w:st="on">Kentucky</st1:state></st1:place>
Resolution of 1798)<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: Arial;"> If Mr. Jefferson were alive today, we
should not be surprised to hear of his name being added to the DHS terrorist
watch list.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: Arial;"> Let’s turn to explanation #2: That some
people are attracted to conspiracy theory as a means of “filling in the blanks”
in unanswered questions. Actually, I
have never heard of anyone doing that.
Almost invariably, the blanks are filled in, but conspiracy theorists
think that the blanks have been filled in incorrectly. Let’s look at a few examples:<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="background: white; font-family: Arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm8L8OPiKgKZNucCo2F62hvXLlRDM9WdnfWSZdoBVaZI3e4fAhxNvAQ6Lo5chhRNZ7G5PeXmEqp58IdvnYCWobA3P4FtvoQEi2xkQn11PDdT8i0SE9ditgRZLowYnFHf0L4eqMcoLkVjI/s1600/16building7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm8L8OPiKgKZNucCo2F62hvXLlRDM9WdnfWSZdoBVaZI3e4fAhxNvAQ6Lo5chhRNZ7G5PeXmEqp58IdvnYCWobA3P4FtvoQEi2xkQn11PDdT8i0SE9ditgRZLowYnFHf0L4eqMcoLkVjI/s1600/16building7.jpg" height="367" width="400" /></a></span></div>
<ol start="1" style="margin-top: 0in;" type="1">
<li class="MsoNormal"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on"><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial;">World</span></st1:placename><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial;"> <st1:placename w:st="on">Trade</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Center</st1:placetype> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Building</st1:placetype></span></st1:place><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial;"> #7 imploded at near free-fall
speed into its own footprints because of _(a)_________________ and (b)______________. (Conspiracy theorists refuse to accept
the answers (a) <u>two small fires that firemen said they could put out
with two lines</u> and (b) <u>twelve feet of parapet that was broken away
from the roof of Building #7.</u></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial;">The Pentagon was damaged when a
(a)(who) _______________________ (b) (did what) _____________________________.
(Conspiracy theorists refuse to accept the answers (a) </span><u style="font-family: Arial;">novice
pilot who was unqualified to fly a Cessna 172</u><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial;"> (b) </span><u style="font-family: Arial;">expertly flew a
Boeing 757, effecting a 370-degree turn during a steep dive at 530 miles
per hour, upon which he leveled off and hit the Pentagon at close to
ground level without disturbing so much as a blade of grass.)</u></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial;">(Multiple Choice) Who is </span><span class="watch-titlelong-titleyt-uix-expander-head"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: -0.35pt; padding: 0in;">Victoria
Muñoz?</span></span></li>
</ol>
<ol start="1" style="margin-top: 0in;" type="1">
<ol start="1" style="margin-top: 0in;" type="A">
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">A close acquaintance of Nancy Lanza, the mother
of <st1:place w:st="on">Sandy Hook</st1:place> shooter Adam Lanza
(December 2012).<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">An eyewitness to the Boston Marathon bombing
(April 15, 2013).<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">An eyewitness to the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Watertown</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Massachusetts</st1:state></st1:place>,
shootout (sic) (April 19, 2013)<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">An eyewitness to the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Albuquerque</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">New Mexico</st1:state></st1:place>,
stabbing (April 28, 2013). .<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">All of the above. <b>(Conspiracy theorists refuse to
believe that E is the correct answer. Of course it was just a coincidence that all four women had the same face and hair, same voice, and same mannerisms.)</b><o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Finally, let’s look at explanation #3: That’s the
assertion that conspiracy theorists usually don’t offer conspiracy theories;
they simply point to “anomalies” and use those anomalies to question the
official version of events.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> That’s an incredible assertion. Anomalies, by definition are facts (facts that "deviate from what is standard, normal, or expected.") As I've often said, a fact can’t be a
theory. How can someone be called
conspiracy theorist if he offers facts rather than theories?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> Further, it’s an understatement to use the
word <i>anomaly</i> to describe
impossibility. While many dubious events
present suspicious anomalies, conspiracy theorists rarely rest their cases on
unanswered questions or anomalies.
Almost without fail, the tipping point is the discovery that the
official explanation of events is impossible.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> For example, it’s impossible for a man to
use a rifle to kill someone if that rifle is locked in the trunk of a car. It’s also impossible for ordinary office
fires, which burn no hotter than 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit, to liquefy steel,
which liquefies at no less than 2,500 degrees Fahrenheit. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> It may seem curious that an academic can
come up with so ludicrous an assertion that conspiracy theorists usually don’t
have conspiracy theories. A casual
glance at the dictionary should clear up any puzzlement over this (ahem!)
anomaly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> One of the definitions of the word <i>academic</i> is, “having no useful or
practical purpose.” I’m a university
instructor, so I should know. Here’s how
it works:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> People at a university decide to host an
academic conference; that is, a conference that has no useful or practical
purpose. They issue a call for academic
papers—papers that (unlike toilet paper) have no useful or practical
purpose. The quality of the papers are
reviewed according to academic standards; that is, if the reviewer suspects
that something in the paper has a useful or practical purpose, either that part of the
paper must be changed or the paper is rejected altogether.
The people who go in for that sort of stuff are called academics; so
that should tell you all you need to know about those people.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> In part two of this series, I will attempt
to examine the perceived inner needs that drive some people to blindly accept
even the most risible narratives that talking heads and other authority figures
hand them. (Hint: If they questioned
authority figures even once, they’d have to leave the womb, think for
themselves, and take responsibility for their lives. They may even—heaven forbid!—have to turn off
their television sets.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7004833821877183483.post-12364197570259539302013-08-27T21:13:00.000+08:002013-08-27T21:16:51.786+08:00Fifteen Questions that will Improve Your Thinking Skills<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;"> A major part of thinking more
reasonably—of judging our own best interests and the best interests of
others—is knowing which questions to ask.
You've heard some of these questions before. Others, such as the first, are so basic that
you may have never considered them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<ol start="1" style="margin-top: 0in;" type="1">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">What are we really
discussing? (That is, what is the
core issue? Suppose, out of concern
for the safety of a deaf child, neighbors wanted the local government to
put up a sign reading, “Slow. Deaf
child playing,” but there’s no such sign that can legally be placed there. That the child is deaf may tug at our
heartstrings, but it has nothing to do with the issue that even hearing
children can thoughtlessly run in front of cars. A sign reading, “Caution: Children
Playing” would serve the same purpose without labeling the deaf child as
“different” from her peers.)<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Is this an objective
reality or a social reality? This
is similar to #1, though it’s more specific. It’s absolutely true that “the
government wouldn’t lie to you” because government is a social reality;
it exists only as an agreed-upon concept.
When most people use the word <i>government</i>,
they’re really referring to politicians and bureaucrats; those people will
lie like bed wetters. Many social
realities are based on false assumptions.
As an example, corporate logos are just marks; yet millions of
dollars in advertising can convince gullible people that corporate logos
are talismans that magically transform the wearer into worthy people.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">What difference does
it make? (Sometimes it doesn’t make
any difference. When it does, it’s
vital to know just why it makes a difference—otherwise, you can be
distracted by things that are interesting but not vital.)<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Is it true? (Rule of thumb: If “everyone knows” that
such-and-such is true, but no one seems to know how he “knows,” you’re
probably being manipulated and the assertion is probably false. Here's a familiar example of an is-it-true question: "How hot would office fires have to get before they can liquefy steel, and do office fires actually get that hot?" Here's one I've never heard anyone ask before: "How is it possible for accidental fires to heat steel in perfect symmetry so as to cause every core column and supporting column to liquefy at precisely the same instant?")<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">What are the
underlying assumptions, and are they true?
(For example, the popular model of environmental responsibility is
that we should do the same things in the same way, only do less of it. This assumption leads to the belief that
environmental responsibility must come at the cost of lowering our
standards of living. I have learned
that, by shifting our focus from “what brand we should buy” to “what
benefits do we want,” we can raise our standards of living, spend less
money, make healthier choices, and become more environmentally responsible
all at the same time.) For further
information, click <b><a href="http://americanactionreport.blogspot.tw/2013/07/benefitsnot-brands-are-you-getting-your.html">here</a></b>. </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">If it’s true (or
false), what can we reasonably expect to see? Do we in fact see it? If not, what do we really see, and
what’s the most reasonable explanation for it?<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Are there other
explanations or options?<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">How do people
elsewhere—especially in other countries or cultures—handle similar
situations, and how well does their method work? (It’s amazing how this question
automatically broadens our options.
I did a study of 31 “default” selections for our culture as
compared to “alternative” selections.
To my surprise, even when I wasn’t consciously looking for better
alternatives, Depending on what I was measuring and comparing, I found
better alternatives 28.57% to 96.88% of the time—overall average, 75% of
the time. In every case, the
alternative selection was as good as or better than the default selection.)<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Who benefits?<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Who had the motive,
the means, and the opportunity?<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">In deciding between A
and B, what are the costs versus rewards of being right or wrong? (Uncertainty in the abortion debate is an
opportunity to use this model. The
issue hinges entirely on whether the human fetus is a person; and, though
we may never know the answer for sure, the person facing this decision has
consequences regardless of our beliefs.
If the fetus is not a person, and an abortion is performed, no harm
is done; if the abortion is not performed, a pregnant woman may be
inconvenienced without good cause.
If the human fetus is a person, and an abortion is committed, an
innocent human being has been killed for the sake of convenience; if no
abortion is committed, the life of an innocent human being is spared,
perhaps at the cost of someone else’s convenience.)<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Does this rationale
or explanation fit the facts? If
not, what does? (For example, when
a politician has ulterior motives—which they often do—he’ll offer a
rationale that doesn’t stand up under scrutiny. Most people will react to the
discrepancy by thinking, “<i>Oh, this
issue is too complicated for me to understand</i>,” which is exactly what
the politician is hoping you’ll do.)<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">What am I expected to
do as a result of believing what I’m being asked to believe; and, if this
belief were not an issue, would it be in my best interest to do it? (For example, would you think it was in
your best interest to allow someone to monitor your telephone calls if you
weren’t convinced that the person monitoring your calls was protecting you
from being murdered? Chances are,
the problem and the solution were concocted in the same laboratory and
they’re both bogus. As Edmund Burke
said, “Men are seldom disposed to give up their liberties except under
some pretext of necessity.”)<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">In making this
decision, what facts are essential?
(To avoid decision paralysis or confusion, leave out everything
else. Some years ago, a coronary
care physician discovered that doctors could make right decisions in the
emergency room twice as often if they reduced the number of factors
considered from twenty to four. His
decision model is now standard procedure.
See question #3.)<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Does this version of
events pass the reenactment test? (That is, mentally reenact the received
version of events in detail and see if it makes sense. It’s amazing how easily a lie comes
unraveled when the liar’s story is reenacted.)<o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ol>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;"> These questions have been quite valuable
to me. I hope you’ll also find them
useful.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7004833821877183483.post-45004992188172786872013-08-05T21:13:00.000+08:002013-08-05T21:13:36.000+08:00The Diaoyutai/Senkuka Islands Conflict and a Way to Peace, Part 2 of 2<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial;"> In part 1 of this article, I said
elliptically, “Peaceful solutions to the Diaoyutais/Senkukas controversy and
other lingering controversies from <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Japan</st1:country-region></st1:place>’s militarist past are
impossible without the support of the great Japanese people. Before any such peace movement can gain
critical mass, however, the matter must be deemed important to the world at
large. That would require, as I said
earlier, raising the diplomatic stakes to a new level. It would require capturing the imagination of
the world in a way that would gain the peace movement international support and
demands for a peaceful settlement.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial;"> In part 2 of this article, I suggest a
strategy for capturing the world’s imagination to the degree that the people in
<st1:country-region w:st="on">Japan</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Taiwan</st1:place></st1:country-region>, and
throughout the world should demand an international settlement. First, let me point out some of the
shortcomings of earlier attempts to bring the issue to the world’s attention.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial;"> Over the past decade or so, activists have
openly challenged the Japanese government’s claim to the disputed archipelago.
They have been content merely to land on the main island and plant a flag
claiming the island in the name of their respective countries. The Japanese government has always met force
with force, and the activists have always been foiled. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial;"> Every attempt was a tempest in a teapot,
little worthy of anyone’s attention. As
a consequence, not one of the activists’ attempts ever drew the attention of
more than a few people within this immediate vicinity. It was nothing more than local news that the
locals soon forgot, or as Shakespeare wrote, “…full of sound and fury,
signifying nothing.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial;"> What activists need is a narrative that transcends
narrow self interest—one that resonates across national and cultural boundaries
in a highly visible and positive way.
The event would have to fit a narrative that is familiar, popular, and
pre-existing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial;"> Let
me give some examples of what I mean by resonant narratives.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial;"> Of all the stories told of World War I
hero Alvin York, one of the most memorable concerns his marksmanship in a
turkey shoot. Two shots hit the
bull’s-eye dead center, the second entering the hole made by the first. The tellers of that story probably told and
retold it because it resembled stories that were already well known and
popular. Davy Crockett and Robin Hood
had performed similar feats.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial;"> The David-and-Goliath narrative is
popularly retold. How many times have
you heard of conflicts described as David-and-Goliath struggles? The comparison is made and catches on because
it resonates.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial;"> Similarly, people are thrilled by
narratives of brains over brute force.
Odysseus, the Swamp Fox, and the Gray Ghost come to mind. People are also inspired by “feel good”
stories in which idealism triumphs over (especially if it wins over) cynicism
and opportunism. People are also
fascinated by quest stories.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial;"> Here’s what I envision:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial;"> Instead of resorting to a full frontal
assault, about a half dozen people from different backgrounds and persuasions
can secretly slip onto the island. (What
about the Japanese Coast Guard, you wonder?
Well, a guard can cover only the ground beneath his feet.) Instead of trying to plant the flag of one of
the national claimants on the main island, they can claim the islands in the
name of the rightful owner of the archipelago: the Creator Himself. Nothing is really ours; everything is on loan
from our Creator. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial;"> Activists can do this in a strikingly
visible, memorable, and environmentally friendly manner. Nothing would be polluted or defaced, and
nothing brought to the island would remain on the island. It would also be done in a way that is
startling to all who see it or know of it—and in a way that few could imagine
or think is possible. It would also be something
that no one should be able to undo without incurring international scorn.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial;"> Who would those intrepid souls be? They should number at least five but no more
than eight. They should be as varied as
the legendary Eight Immortals. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial;"> There are two reasons I believe they
should be this varied. First, their
combined talents would be needed to make the project a success. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial;"> Then there’s the question of
resonance. A more disparate crew would
increase the chances of each newspaper reader identifying with at least one of
the volunteers. They should include
young, middle aged, and older; male and female; professionals and trade,
prosperous and poor. It should include someone
of each Taiwanese ethnic group (Hoklo, Hakka, “mainlander,” and aborigine) and
probably others.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial;"> There should be no government policymakers
involved. Nor should the <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Alliance</st1:place></st1:city> for the Defense
of the Diaoyutais be involved; I’m fully convinced that the ADD is a government
front group, though I won’t say for which government. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial;"> Here are some areas of important skills:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 33.75pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 33.75pt; text-indent: -.25in;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">1.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Arial;">A naturalist, biologist, chemist, or all three<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 33.75pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 33.75pt; text-indent: -.25in;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">2.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Arial;">Someone who is skillful at all aspects of sailing a
small boat (No sailboat will be needed—only the skills are desired.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 33.75pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 33.75pt; text-indent: -.25in;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">3.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Arial;">A sea woman (that is, a woman who lives along the
coast and makes her living from the sea)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 33.75pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 33.75pt; text-indent: -.25in;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">4.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Arial;">A fisherman<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 33.75pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 33.75pt; text-indent: -.25in;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">5.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Arial;">A cameraman or video journalist<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 33.75pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 33.75pt; text-indent: -.25in;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">6.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Arial;">A farmer (no, not for planting—just for harvesting)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 33.75pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 33.75pt; text-indent: -.25in;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">7.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Arial;">A craftsman (for example, someone who can weave palm
fronds, make braids, or transform fibrous plants into rope.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 33.75pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 33.75pt; text-indent: -.25in;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">8.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Arial;">Three or more people with effective communication
skills in one or more of these languages: English, Chinese, Japanese<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 33.75pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 33.75pt; text-indent: -.25in;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">9.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Arial;">A medical person.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 33.75pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 33.75pt; text-indent: -.25in;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">10.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Arial;">A person with skills as an outdoorsman.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 33.75pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 33.75pt; text-indent: -.25in;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">11.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Arial;">A computer geek.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial;"> That’s more than eight, but some people
can claim skills in more than one of those areas. Volunteers should be prepared to live off the
land for a few days. Behind the scenes,
someone would have to have the money to finance the enterprise. From what I’ve read in the papers, boat
captains have been pretty mercenary, charging more for activists than for
tourists. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial;"> I’ll be happy to advise those whom I
trust. I expect I must be content to be
the penman of this peaceful revolution (or as some activists like to spell it,
r3VOLution.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial;"> <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Taiwan</st1:country-region></st1:place> is not my country, but it is
my home. The Japanese are my neighbors
across the creek. They’re good neighbors
to <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Taiwan</st1:place></st1:country-region>,
and not simply because of good fences.
We’re having a difference of opinion; but if we hunker down and jaw it
out, I’m sure we can see things eye to eye.
Apart from government, the people of all three countries, in their
private capacities, are perfectly capable of answering to what <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Lincoln</st1:place></st1:city> called “the better angels of our
nature.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial;"> The politicians are another matter
altogether. If the politicians won’t see
the light, citizens of all three countries may have to hold their feet to the
fire and help them to feel the heat.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial;"> The key to peace, then, is in the hands of
the good people of <st1:country-region w:st="on">Taiwan</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Japan</st1:country-region>, and—to whatever degree they can speak for
themselves—<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">China</st1:place></st1:country-region>. The people of those three nations can be
reasonable enough and open hearted enough to make an end run around
narrow-minded politicians and do what is best for all of us and most pleasing
to heaven. In the end, each of us must
stand before a just God and answer for our stewardship over His creation and to
whatever degree we have loved our neighbors.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7004833821877183483.post-21214079563664306072013-07-31T02:55:00.000+08:002013-08-05T21:23:17.517+08:00The Diaoyutai/Senkuka Islands (East China Sea) Dispute and a Way to Peace, Part 1 of 2<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial;"> The <st1:placename w:st="on">Diaoyutai</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">Islands</st1:placetype>—known in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Japan</st1:place></st1:country-region> as the
Senkukas—is as unfamiliar to most people today as Archduke Ferdinand was to his
contemporaries in 1914. Just as it was
in 1914, an accidental (or deliberate) spark in the vicinity of that tinderbox
can start a major war than no one other than international bankers could want. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial;"> Three nations—<st1:country-region w:st="on">Taiwan</st1:country-region>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">Japan</st1:country-region>, and <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">China</st1:place></st1:country-region>—claim the
Diaoyutais/Senkukas as their sovereign territory. All three nations make historical claims to
the one island and the seven rocky islets in that archipelago. <st1:country-region w:st="on">Taiwan</st1:country-region>
and <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Japan</st1:place></st1:country-region>
both point to treaties and other official documents to bolster their
claims. I briefly alluded to them in the October 15, 2010, <i>American Action Report</i> article <b><a href="http://americanactionreport.blogspot.tw/2010/10/diaoyutaissenkadus-whose-are-they-and.html">“The Diaoyutais: Whose are They?”</a></b> In fact, the issue is extremely complicated,
and there’s no telling what lawyers will decide when they get their heads
together.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial;"> Here’s the rub: The issue has not yet reached
the level at which the public demands international arbitration, but it has
reached the level at which a single miscalculation could result in a war
between <st1:country-region w:st="on">China</st1:country-region> and <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Japan</st1:place></st1:country-region>. Worse, the security treaty between the <st1:country-region w:st="on">United States</st1:country-region> and <st1:country-region w:st="on">Japan</st1:country-region>
would guarantee that the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United
States</st1:place></st1:country-region> would be drawn into this war, should
it occur.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial;"> <st1:city w:st="on">Beijing</st1:city>’s
String of Pearls strategy for maritime supremacy over the Indo-Pacific regions
postulates maritime supremacy by the year 2050, and a war with the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>
by 2035. The Diaoyutais/Senkukas
conflict could start a war a couple of decades earlier than anyone could
desire.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial;"> A key component of <st1:city w:st="on">Beijing</st1:city>’s
String of Pearls strategy is to keep <st1:country-region w:st="on">Japan</st1:country-region>
in a “post-war” status for as long as possible; and harping on <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Japan</st1:place></st1:country-region>’s history
books and wartime atrocities are part of this strategy. Nothing the Japanese can do to atone for war
crimes will be enough to cause <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Beijing</st1:place></st1:city>
to admit that enough is enough. To make
matters worse, in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Taiwan</st1:country-region>
there are a few quislings who fawn over <st1:city w:st="on">Beijing</st1:city>
as slavishly as Renfeld fawned over Dracula and are just as eager to do <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Beijing</st1:place></st1:city>’s bidding.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial;"> <st1:country-region w:st="on">Japan</st1:country-region>’s
best defense against <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Beijing</st1:city></st1:place>’s
propaganda offensive is to take and occupy the moral high ground. There is a significant peace movement among
the Japanese people, and it’s a considerable source of untapped strength. Unfortunately, Japanese militarists and the
politicians who are beholden to them are unwittingly doing <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Beijing</st1:place></st1:city>’s work for them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial;"> Here’s a possible solution: Raise the
diplomatic stakes to a new level by capturing the imagination of the world
while encouraging a significant portion of the Japanese population to demand a
peaceful settlement to this issue and related issues. A peaceful settlement would likely result in
one of, or a blend of, the following outcomes:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<ol start="1" style="margin-top: 0in;" type="1">
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">A determination that the Diaoyutais/Senkukas
belong to one of the three claimants,<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">A determination that two or all three claimants
share sovereignty over the Diaoyutais/Senkukas. (Some have brought forth the example of <st1:place w:st="on">Antarctica</st1:place>.
We may also point to <st1:country-region w:st="on">Andorra</st1:country-region>,
which is jointly administered by <st1:country-region w:st="on">France</st1:country-region>
and <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Spain</st1:place></st1:country-region>.)<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> A
determination that the Diaoyutais/Senkukas belong to the commons; or, if
you will, that the Diaoyutais/Senkukas belong to their Creator; and that
the claimants are caretakers for the common good. Those who take this position disagree on
whether “the common good” may be defined as mutual development or—to use
the awkward phrase some have used—“mutual non-development.” This use of the word<i> developmen</i>t is misleading and possibly blasphemous, since the
Creator has already developed the Diaoyutais/Senkukas.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ol>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial;"> I have a great deal of faith in the fairness
and good sense of the Japanese people.
The greatness of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Japan</st1:place></st1:country-region>
has come about because of the people—often in spite of the government. Let me give a few examples.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial;"> 1. It was the Japanese people who built
one of the greatest civilizations in history.
The government deserves little or no credit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial;"> 2. After World War II, the Japanese
government used taxes taken from the Japanese people to promote economic
enterprises that the government said would boost Japanese prosperity. A certain electronics business (well known
today) applied for a government subsidy and was refused. The Japanese government said that <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Japan</st1:place></st1:country-region> had no
future in electronics. Thus, Japan’s
signature industry and core competency was built in spite of the government—in
spite of having to bear the added expense of paying taxes to support less
productive enterprises.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> 3. During the 1990’s, it was a Japanese
historian (not the Japanese government, which concealed the truth) who uncovered
the fact that, during World War II, the Japanese government defrauded and even
kidnapped as many as 300,000 Asian young women and girls as young as 14 and
dragged them off to far-flung military bases to be raped from 30 to 50 times a day
for years. When this scandal was exposed,
the Japanese government denied it. When
proof was given, the Japanese government claimed that the women were willing
prostitutes. When this lie, in turn, was
disproven, the Japanese government hid behind an agreement that exempted the
Japanese government from responsibility for any as-yet-undisclosed war crimes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> 4. It was the Japanese people who took it
upon themselves to take up a collection for the surviving “comfort women” as
they were euphemistically called. It
was the Japanese people, not their government, who apologized to the women. To
this day, the militarists in the Japanese government have done nothing to propitiate
for their crimes against these women, preferring instead to live in infamy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> Peaceful
solutions to the Diaoyutais/Senkukas controversy and other lingering
controversies from <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Japan</st1:place></st1:country-region>’s
militarist past are impossible without the support of the great Japanese
people. Before any such peace movement
can gain critical mass, however, the matter must be deemed important to the
world at large. That would require, as I
said earlier, raising the diplomatic stakes to a new level. It would require capturing the imagination of
the world in a way that would gain the peace movement international support and
demands for a peaceful settlement.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;"> (To be continued in <b><a href="http://americanactionreport.blogspot.tw/2013/08/the-diaoyutaisenkuka-islands-conflict.html">part 2 of this 2-part series.</a></b>)</span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7004833821877183483.post-31462980380495163252013-07-09T18:22:00.003+08:002013-07-09T18:35:14.272+08:00Benefits—not Brands: Are You Getting Your Money’s Worth?<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> You've probably heard the saying, "You can't get more than you pay for." If you're like most people, you're not even getting your money's worth.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Here's why:</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Nobody buys a product because he really wants that product. He buys it because he wants a benefit that he expects to get from it. Really. Nobody buys a Coke because he wants a Coke. After all, as soon as the drinks it, he no longer has it. He buys a Coke for refreshment and flavor, and maybe quick energy.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> This principle applies to everything you buy.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Advertisers know this. One of the first rules of advertising is, "Sell the benefit." What I didn't realize until a couple of years ago was that advertisers pull a sleight of hand. Once you're hooked on wanting a certain benefit, they try to convince you that you won't get the benefit you want unless you buy their brand of that product.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> You've seen so many advertisements for competing brands that you're not gulled into thinking that you need that particular brand. Nonetheless, most people are gulled into believing that they have to buy either that brand or another brand of a similar product.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> When was the last time an advertiser tried to convince you that you didn't really have to buy a manufactured product</span>—<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">or anything at all</span>—<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">to get the benefit you wanted? Growers of fresh foods rarely if ever advertise; it's the producers of junk foods that have to advertise. </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Advertisers even try to convince people to buy inferior versions of things that people already have. For example, why would manufacturers of baby formula have to advertise to, and give free samples to, new mothers if the manufacturers were convinced that their produce was superior to what the mother already had?</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Why should you care what you wear when you go to bed? Wouldn't old clothes do as well as new clothes that were manufactured especially as sleepwear?</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> So many supermarket items come in plastic bags, including zip lock bags, that there should be few reasons to buy sandwich bags or zip lock bags. If you already have them, why throw them away, only to buy them soon thereafter?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I have been putting together a series of videos pertaining to 30 items that people commonly buy or want to buy. For each, I've asked and answered two questions: "What benefit does the buyer hope to receive?" and "What's the best way of getting that benefit?" By taking this approach, I'm convinced that much of the time we can raise our standards of living, spend less money, make healthier choices, and become more environmentally responsible—all at the same time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I have completed four videos discussing the first 6 of 30 items. I've tried to make them entertaining as well as informative and insightful. Some, by nature of the subject matter, some of them must be treated dispassionately.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Below are the first four (or six, depending on whether you're counting items or videos):</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oDocb_Kq8U">Benefits</a></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oDocb_Kq8U">—not Brands (Parts 1-3)</a></span></b><br />
<b> </b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mitWSlM9104" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; white-space: nowrap;"><b>Processed vs Fresh Foods: Benefits—not Brands (Pt. 4 of 30)</b></a><br />
<h1 class="yt" id="watch-headline-title" style="border: 0px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 13px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-wrap: normal;">
<span style="font-size: small;"> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYnwdEahY_8">Infant Formula vs Breastfeeding: Benefits</a></span><span style="font-size: small; letter-spacing: -0.05em;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYnwdEahY_8">—not Brands (Pt. 5 of 30)</a></span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"> </b></h1>
<h1 class="yt" id="watch-headline-title" style="border: 0px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 13px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-wrap: normal;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVCp8ygcK88">Air Conditioners vs Comfort: Benefits</a></b></span><b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVCp8ygcK88">—<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">not Brands (Part 6 of 30)</span></a></b></span></h1>
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<span class="watch-title long-title yt-uix-expander-head" dir="ltr" style="-webkit-user-select: auto; border: 0px; color: black; cursor: pointer; letter-spacing: -0.05em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" title="Air Conditioners vs Comfort: Benefits—not Brands (Part 6 of 30)"> <b> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(Note: For some odd reason, I was unable to import the videos from YouTube. Just click the links.)</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7004833821877183483.post-87563993606954074772013-07-01T12:22:00.001+08:002013-07-01T12:35:14.114+08:00A Paradigmaclastic View of Parisian Painters and other Popular Images<div class="MsoNormal">
<b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></b><st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Paris</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-family: Arial;"> is the most romantic city in the world, right? As you read those words, you probably tilted
your head in some expression of agreement.
After all, <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Paris</st1:place></st1:city>
has even more of a reputation for romance as it does for insulting Americans on
the street. Not only that but—like it or
not—you have become conditioned to be agreeable.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> Now enter your imagination. In your mind’s eye, try to envision a painter
in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Paris</st1:place></st1:city>. You probably imagine this person as an
artist. He may be standing before an
easel, holding a thin brush.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> Oh, no, I don’t mean <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Paris</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">France</st1:country-region></st1:place>. I mean <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Paris</st1:city>,
<st1:state w:st="on">Texas</st1:state></st1:place>. All of a sudden, the image you have of that
painter changes. His brush has suddenly
gotten considerably wider. Instead of
looking like the painter on the left (below), he looks more like the painter on
the right. Ha! You fooled yourself, didn't you?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> Ha!
You fooled yourself again. The
painter on the left (above) is Cathie Tyler, an artist and art teacher at <st1:placename w:st="on">Paris</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Junior College</st1:placetype>
in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Paris</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Texas</st1:state></st1:place>. The one on the right is an anonymous house
painter in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Paris</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">France</st1:country-region></st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Believe it or not, there really are black
people living in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Paris</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">France</st1:country-region></st1:place>. Many are of Algerian descent, as <st1:country-region w:st="on">Algeria</st1:country-region> used to be part of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">France</st1:place></st1:country-region>. Many others are of Haitian descent. (I’ll be you didn't know that the nineteenth
century writer Alexandre Dumas, the author of <i>The Three Musketeers </i>and other popular novels, was a black man from
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Haiti</st1:country-region></st1:place>.) Yes, that's right. As many times as you have seen pictures of Alexandre Dumas, you're just now noticing that he was black. All previous times, you reinterpreted what your own eyes told you in order to fit your preconceived notions.</span><o:p></o:p><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> Let’s look at some things you already knew
but chose to ignore, so as to adjust widely known facts to suit widely
practiced habits of thought.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> You already knew that many people in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Paris</st1:place></st1:city> have houses even if
it hadn't occurred to you that the houses sometimes need to be painted. The reality, however, doesn't fit the
habitually practiced image of Parisian painters. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> Elsewhere on this page you will see other
photos of <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Paris</st1:place></st1:city>
painters.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Don’t be too embarrassed over this failure
to consider that even French houses sometimes require a coat of paint. A Google search of “house painter” and “<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Paris</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">France</st1:country-region></st1:place>”
always yields images and articles about artists painting pictures of
houses. It wasn't until I keyed in, “peintre
en <span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333; font-weight: normal;">bâtiment,” “<st1:city w:st="on">Paris</st1:city>,”
that I found anything on house painters in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Paris</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">France</st1:country-region></st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> You also knew that there were black people
living in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Paris</st1:place></st1:city>,
but you ignored that fact because it didn't fit your customary image of
Parisian artists being white. What would
you bet that <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Paris</st1:place></st1:city> doesn't have any black artists? You
tricked yourself again, didn't you?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBF5Og7_iisKlLhhx0XpP-Y-eLd8WSKpYsEfA1ivJP0AKo4-zFS-7cmZACDgf6UXvvyBH9nAoCxj9HB0kSSRG19BzJmuLoA0t_iuAlM5bUcQMBWZwHkYVNtM04_8-5o7GDg6PmVhue6Ac/s625/Anonyme+1299945420_176717376_5-Je-recherche-un-emploi-de-peintre-en-batiment-interieur-ou-exterieur-Emploi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBF5Og7_iisKlLhhx0XpP-Y-eLd8WSKpYsEfA1ivJP0AKo4-zFS-7cmZACDgf6UXvvyBH9nAoCxj9HB0kSSRG19BzJmuLoA0t_iuAlM5bUcQMBWZwHkYVNtM04_8-5o7GDg6PmVhue6Ac/s200/Anonyme+1299945420_176717376_5-Je-recherche-un-emploi-de-peintre-en-batiment-interieur-ou-exterieur-Emploi.jpg" width="200" /></span></a><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> More than 90% of the things we say and do
arise from habit and habitual assumptions, and we rarely question those
assumptions. It’s not always because
we’re lazy. It’s just that we deal with
so much information each day, that we come to rely on reference points and
trigger words (such as Parisian painter) to help us to make decisions quickly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> The trouble starts when our assumptions
are mistaken. The trouble worsens when
authority figures acting the part of opinion molders use our assumptions
against us.</span><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><b> </b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> A perfect example of a trigger word being
used against us is then-president George W. Bush’s remark, “Americans don’t
torture.” For Americans, <i>American</i> is a trigger word that causes
us to have positive feelings. It’s hard
to think negatively about something that causes us to have positive feelings.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <i>Conspiracy
theory</i> is a well-known trigger.
Literally, it means only a belief that two or more people devised a
secret plan to do something that was illegal.
As a trigger, it signals the listener that the topic lies outside
acceptable discourse. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> Consider that fact in the light of Josef
Stalin’s remark about propaganda. Though
this isn't an exact quote, Stalin said something like, “The purpose of
propaganda is not to convince people that it is true, but to define the
parameters of acceptable discourse.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> Let’s add to that a quote from George
Orwell, “Words are sometimes deliberately misused to defend the indefensible.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> I’m not suggesting that we should try to
do away with habitual thought patterns in our daily lives. We need them to avoid information
gridlock. We should, however, make
ourselves aware of how opinion molders use trigger words and popular images to
circumvent—or even short circuit—our logical processes. </span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <b> In short, we should spend more of our time
questioning authority and thinking for ourselves. </b></span><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> Only four days before a hotly contested
mid-term election in the </span><st1:country-region style="font-family: Arial;" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Philippines</st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family: Arial;">,
crewmen from a Philippine Coast Guard vessel fired 45 machine-gun bullets into
an unarmed Taiwanese fishing boat, killing Hung Shih-cheng, a 65-year-old
fisherman. Philippine President Benigno
Aquino III immediately claimed that the shooting was an accident, that his
government had no reason to apologize, and vowed to protect Philippine “sovereignty”—without
mentioning that the Philippines has no clear sovereignty over the area in
question. According to the voyage data recorder, the murder was committed in an area where the
exclusive economic zones (EEZs) of both nations overlap, and in which area the </span><st1:place style="font-family: Arial;" w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Philippines</st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial;">
has refused to negotiate a fishing agreement.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> Rather than negotiate with <st1:country-region w:st="on">Taiwan</st1:country-region> directly, Aquino said he would negotiate
with <st1:country-region w:st="on">China</st1:country-region>, not even
acknowledging the existence of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Taiwan</st1:country-region></st1:place>’s
national government.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> Aquino, a third-generation political
princeling, has accused Taiwanese of muddying the waters by calling it
murder. Under international law, it </span><i style="font-family: Arial;">was</i><span style="font-family: Arial;"> murder. Any time a death occurs as a result of a
felony being committed, the law sees it as first-degree murder. Under international law, the Philippine Coast
Guardsmen committed a felony by peppering the unarmed vessel with machine-gun bullets. They committed yet another
felony by leaving the scene of the crime rather than render assistance to the
stricken survivors.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> Let’s look at the background of events.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> The Bashi Channel is a narrow waterway
where the exclusive economic zones (EEZ’s) of both <st1:country-region w:st="on">Taiwan</st1:country-region>
and the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Philippines</st1:place></st1:country-region>
overlap. The <st1:country-region w:st="on">Philippines</st1:country-region>
will not formally negotiate fishing rights in the area, supposedly due to the <st1:country-region w:st="on">Philippines</st1:country-region> adherence to a “One China Policy” in
which <st1:country-region w:st="on">Taiwan</st1:country-region> is presumed to
be part of the <st1:placename w:st="on">Peoples</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Republic</st1:placetype> of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">China</st1:place></st1:country-region> (Red China). Actually, that’s a lie; they won’t negotiate
fishing rights with <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Beijing</st1:place></st1:city>
or other nations either. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> A Philippine spokesman said that, in the
matter of the recent killing, they would negotiate only with the Manila
Economic and Cultural Office (MECO), an agency of Chinese Beijing. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> Under international law, a coast guard or
naval vessel under challenging a boat or ship in contested waters is permitted
to fire a warning shot over the bow of the challenged vessel. Instead, the Philippine Coast Guard vessel
opened up on the fishing boat with a withering barrage of .30 caliber machine-gun fire. It’s uncertain how long
the attack continued, but Taiwanese news reports say that the boat had 59
bullet holes in it, some 45 of which were entry holes. At least 24 bullets were fired into the
cabin, where four crew members had taken refuge.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;"> Bullet trajectories as determined by Taiwanese authorities are depicted below. Click for higher resolution.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> The Philippine government gave
contradictory excuses for the shooting.
On the day after the killing, they said the fiberglass fishing boat’s
operators were trying to ram the Coast Guard vessel and that the
Coast Guard gunners were deliberately firing at the boat to disable its
engine. The Ilocos-class Coast Guard vessel, at 35 meters (114 feet), was six times the size
of the fishing boat. The fishing boat's engine, of
course, would not have been in the crew’s quarters in the forward cabin. Furthermore, Taiwanese forensic investigators found no sign that the fishing boat had rammed anything.</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> One Philippine spokesman claimed that they
were trying to disable the engine while the fishing vessel was trying to
escape. Apart from the logistics of
firing into the forward end of a fleeing vessel, international law forbids
firing at a fleeing vessel unless it’s a warship in time of war.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> Next, Philippine officials came up with an
equally risible excuse: They said that the Coast Guard vessel’s gunners had accidentally
shot the fishing boat—45 times.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> Although Philippine government spokesmen
claimed they would investigate the event, they indicated that Taiwanese
investigators would be unwelcome. A few years ago, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Taiwan</st1:country-region> and the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Philippines</st1:place></st1:country-region>
signed an agreement providing for joint investigations of incidents such as
this. To date, the Aquino regime has refused <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Taiwan</st1:place></st1:country-region>’s
requests for a joint investigation, and they haven’t shared information with
Taiwanese investigators. <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Taiwan</st1:place></st1:country-region>, in
contrast, has shared their findings with Philippine counterparts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> What has become of the Filipino
investigation? I have vainly searched Internet news for information on their
supposed investigation. To date, I have
seen no news of witnesses have been interviewed or statements made by
investigators (if they exist at all); and the whole matter of an investigation
seems to have been dropped down a memory hole.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSvUXdGTedkhoyrXaDzkLaQF-YGZKR4JgzIEhCqGJYjHasqVVffBLgKgOjyppS197qkU7sF-sWMyzNmRTlxyBVJF8qKSqqlIXvLaIfIlkK-7ZY7Yja_Ju01OUyYUD78Y0I768yLE7L66M/s1600/BenignoAquinoIII.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSvUXdGTedkhoyrXaDzkLaQF-YGZKR4JgzIEhCqGJYjHasqVVffBLgKgOjyppS197qkU7sF-sWMyzNmRTlxyBVJF8qKSqqlIXvLaIfIlkK-7ZY7Yja_Ju01OUyYUD78Y0I768yLE7L66M/s200/BenignoAquinoIII.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial;"> Not one to let a good crisis go to waste,
Aquino (in the third generation of a politically elitist dynasty) and his
political allies spent the remainder of the mid-term election campaigns
thumping their chests over the shooting incident.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> Aquino’s political allies made clear gains
in Monday’s mid-term elections. At stake
were 12 of 24 seats in the senate, all 229 seats in the house, some 18,000
local elections, and the question of whether Aquino would be a lame duck for
his three remaining years in office. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> As it is, Aquino’s party increased their
number of senate seats from 4 to 13, made clear gains in the house (at this
writing, the exact number is unknown), and in local elections. There’s nothing
quite like an international crisis to pull an endangered politician’s chestnuts
out of the fire. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> If the international crisis was contrived
for political gain, why did Aquino’s party select <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Taiwan</st1:place></st1:country-region> as their foil? After all, they also have sovereignty spats
with <st1:country-region w:st="on">Vietnam</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">China</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Malaysia</st1:country-region>,
and <st1:country-region w:st="on">Brunei</st1:country-region>; and <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">China</st1:place></st1:country-region> has been
the most provocative threat to their claims.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <st1:country-region w:st="on">China</st1:country-region>
is too big and powerful for the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Philippines</st1:place></st1:country-region>
to threaten. <st1:country-region w:st="on">Vietnam</st1:country-region>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">Malaysia</st1:country-region>, and <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Brunei</st1:place></st1:country-region> are too
small and weak to be made foils for a show of nationalistic machismo. <st1:country-region w:st="on">Taiwan</st1:country-region>,
recognized by only 24 countries worldwide is isolated from the pack; and <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Taiwan</st1:country-region></st1:place>
is rich enough and powerful enough—but not too powerful—to make a suitable foil
in a machismo contest. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Furthermore, <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Taiwan</st1:place></st1:country-region> has a reputation for labor
abuses against Southeast Asian—including Filipino—laborers and caregivers. Salt was further rubbed into old wounds after
Taiwanese envoy Jackie Liu was arrested on charges of defrauding her two
Filipina housekeepers. She had signed a
contract promising to pay them <span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.5pt;">US$1,240, but she paid them only US$450 a
month. </span>She could have been charged with human trafficking, embezzlement, and
abuse; but after three months in the <st1:placetype w:st="on">Fort</st1:placetype>
<st1:placename w:st="on">Leavenworth</st1:placename> penitentiary (she could
have gotten five years) she was deported to <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Taiwan</st1:place></st1:country-region>, where charges against her
were dropped due to “lack of evidence.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> Liu was accused of
fraud in foreign labor contracting because her Philippine -housekeeper, who was
hired to work 40 hours per week and receive a monthly salary of US$1,240, in
fact had to work six days per week, 16 to 18 hours per day and received a much
lower salary.<span class="apple-converted-space"> <a href="http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2011/11/21/2003518802"><b>(LINK)</b> </a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> At
the time of her arrest, Liu said she didn't understand what the fuss was all
about. “It happens all the time in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Taiwan</st1:place></st1:country-region>,” she
was quoted as saying. <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Taiwan</st1:place></st1:country-region>’s
Ministry of Foreign Affairs protested Liu’s arrest, claiming that Liu had
diplomatic immunity because she was carrying out her “authorized functions.” She was stripped of her titles because she
had “damaged our nation’s image,” rather than because she had done something
evil. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Other details of this scandal and surrounding issues may be found <b><a href="http://joco913.com/news/home-isnt-so-welcoming-for-deported-taiwanese-envoy/">here</a>, <a href="http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2011/11/23/2003518975">here</a>, <a href="http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2011/11/13/2003518200">here</a>,</b> and <b><a href="http://ozsoapbox.com/taiwan/culture/taiwanese-government-authorises-foreign-labor-abuse/">here</a></b>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> In short, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Taiwan</st1:country-region></st1:place> makes a handy whipping boy
for political demagogues and has even contributed to the problem.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> To my surprise, political demagoguery in
this matter is as scarce in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Taiwan</st1:country-region>
as they are plentiful in the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Philippines</st1:place></st1:country-region>. As much as I hate to say anything good about
Ma <b><a href="http://www.chinasmack.com/2012/stories/the-economist-calls-ma-ying-jeou-a-bumbler-reactions.html">(“The Bumbler”)</a></b> Ying-jeou, I must admit that he has done everything right in
this crisis. Even those who, only a
month ago, were campaigning for his recall have suspended their campaign for
the time being.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> In all this justifiable anger against the
Philippine government, there is blessedly little anger against Filipinos
themselves. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> Several decades ago, I lived in the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Philippines</st1:place></st1:country-region> for
four months, and all my neighbors were Filipinos. I came to know the best of them, the worst of
them, and those in between. Here in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Taiwan</st1:country-region></st1:place>,
I have come to know and admire many more of them. The people of the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Philippines</st1:place></st1:country-region> are the salt of the
earth.</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> Their leaders, however, like the political
leaders of most countries, are little more than glorified gangsters. Throughout the history of the world, most
countries have been ruled by criminal gangs; and most gangster governments have
been ruled by criminal psychopaths.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> I served in the United States Navy for
over three years, and I came to know sailors from other countries as well. By nature, people accustomed to obeying
orders are unwilling to risk a firing squad by committing cold-blooded murder.
Even the American atrocities at Abu Ghraib came as a result of pressure from
very high in the American government.
Likewise, in the murder of Hung Shih-cheng, orders to violate
international law had to have come from someone very high on the chain of
command.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;"> As of this writing, Aquino has offered no real apology (just a lame excuse that it was all an accident), no offer of compensation to the family of the murdered fisherman, and no sign that he would welcome a joint investigation of the crime.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> Only international pressure can force the
Aquino regime to conform to civilized norms.
<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Taiwan</st1:place></st1:country-region>
can display moral suasion by protecting the rights of Filipino caregivers and
migrant workers on Taiwanese soil. The laws to do so are already in place. All they lack is the will.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7004833821877183483.post-37178367141930364872013-03-18T10:09:00.001+08:002013-03-18T10:17:48.509+08:00Can Antarctica be the Lost Continent Atlantis? <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here are a few comments on a Vatic Report article concerning the Theory of Continental Drift and the possible whereabouts of Atlantis.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Over the past hundred years or so, the ocean floor has been so thoroughly mapped that we can say with reasonable certainty that Atlantis, if it ever existed, is not on the ocean floor. A recent Vatic Report article suggests that Atlantis may be buried beneath two miles of ice on the South Pole. As per the Theory of Continental Drift (and perhaps Polar Shift), Atlantis is said to have drifted, over a brief span of time, to where the South Pole now lies.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> The fossil record supports this theory. Fossilized leafy plants have been found under miles of Antarctic ice. Since leafy plants can't thrive in an area that receives only six months of sunlight a year, either the continent or the globe must have shifted.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> When comparing centuries-old maps to places today, we must take into account both the cartographic skills of the day and what could have been actually known at the times the maps were drawn. It's useful, then, to make a few comparisons to determine just how closely two maps of places can resemble each other before we can suppose that the two maps must represent the same place.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Below are three maps of Taiwan:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Now let's compare two maps of Japan:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Below are four maps to compare. One (A) is the Piri Reis map of Terra Australis Incognito (Southern Unknown Land), which, according to the 1513 map, was located where Antarctica is located today. The next (B) is Antarctica as it would appear without ice. Map (C) is an 1891 depiction of Atlantis, drawn from descriptions in myth and legend. It's worth noting that the map was drawn well before the earliest exploration of Antarctica. Map (D) is Antarctica as it is mapped today.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> As you can see, the maps of Atlantis, Antarctica, and Terra Australis Incognita are as close a match to each other as the three maps of Taiwan. In fact, they more closely resemble each other than the two maps of Japan. This doesn't prove that Atlantis, Antarctica, and Terra Australis Incognita are the same place. It does, however, help to make a case for the belief.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Skeptics would have a hard time making a case for a theory that Patroclus Kampanakis's 1891 map of Atlantis was a deliberate rendering of the Piri Reis map or Antarctica. The Piri Reis map had been unknown to the West, lost, and not discovered until 1929. <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piri_Reis_map#History"> (source) </a></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17.59375px;">Accurate maps of Antarctica were still later in coming. According to Paul Cooper of British Antarctic Survey’s Mapping and Geographic Information Centre (MAGIC), “It wasn’t until 1983 that the first broadly accurate map of Antarctica was produced. That was the first time a map brought together enough information for us to be pretty sure that we’d got all the <b><i><u>major</u></i></b> features in the right places.” <b><a href="http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/about_antarctica/geography/mapping.php">(source)</a> </b>(emphasis added)</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> The importance of this issue to our time is the understanding that it may shed some light on the origins of today's civilizations. There may well have been a highly advanced civilization on Earth more than 12,000 years ago. The survivors of whatever destroyed that early civilization may have contributed to "civilization" as we know it today.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> For more information, see Vatic Project's <b><a href="http://vaticproject.blogspot.tw/2013/03/zero-point-volume-i-of-3-messages-from.html">"Zero Point: Messages from the Past, part 1 of 3."</a></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7004833821877183483.post-52343498993951756532013-03-02T14:16:00.000+08:002013-03-02T14:16:06.079+08:00The Road to World War III is Paved with Fiat Dollars <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Probably not one of y'all would like to believe the claim that the powers that be are setting us up for a nuclear-charged World War III in the next few years. Go ahead; be skeptical of the claims of the following video. Skepticism is healthy and wise. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Here's what I suggest:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Reject every conclusion the creator of this video has to offer. Watch this video with pen in hand. Write down every factual claim the speaker makes and</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">—</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">as I said</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">—</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ignore his conclusions. Put a check mark beside the claims you know are true. Put a question mark beside those about which you're uncertain; look them up later.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Then come to your own conclusions. Ask yourself one question: Given that we live in a world governed by the Law of Cause and Effect, what may we reasonably expect to happen if events continue on their present trajectory?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> There is an old story in which two bad boys decided on a trick to stump a wise man. They caught a small bird, and one of them held it hidden between his hands. "Is the bird alive or dead?" they asked the wise man. Since it would have been easy to crush the bird, they could display a live bird or a dead one, depending on the wise man's answer.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> The wise man replied, "The answer is in your hands."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <b>Will we see a nuclear World War III in the next few years? Consider the wise man's reply.</b></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7004833821877183483.post-37187498352911066942013-01-25T14:01:00.002+08:002013-01-25T14:10:24.540+08:00Will the U.S. Military be ordered to Fire on American Citizens?<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> A Nobel Peace Prize nominee (of whom there
are more than 250 each year) has recently alleged that a “military legend” told
him that a high-ranking military officer (in turn) told him that, as a “litmus
test,” officers are asked if they would obey orders to fire on American
citizens. <b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzT6X3_Bg9o">(here)</a> </b>Thus, I’m telling you that
someone said that an anonymous person told him that another anonymous person
had told the previous person that this litmus test is now a determining factor in
whether a <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region></st1:place>
military officer may be considered for advancement.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> Can we believe an allegation from this
chain of anonymous sources, repeated by someone whose name is unfamiliar to
us? No, but we can believe facts that
are available to us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> I hold it as an enduring principle of life
that the existence and nature of things that are unseen can be inferred from
things we can see. If such a treasonous policy
as the aforementioned exists, we should be able to see evidence pointing to the existence of
this policy. We should be able to see
preparations for the contingency that the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region></st1:place> military would, in fact, be
ordered to fire on American citizens.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> We may reasonably expect to see large numbers of soldiers
returning from foreign deployments and returning to the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>
for stateside billets. <b><a href="http://www.blogger.com/1.http://vaticproject.blogspot.tw/2010/04/special-army-unit-ready-to-be-deployed.html">(here)</a></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> We may reasonably expect to see military exercises in which
servicemen hone their skills at house-to-house raids on American soil. <b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yT539Qbfb9M">(here)</a></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> We may reasonably expect to see military exercises in which
servicemen hone their skills in confiscating firearms from large numbers of
American citizens in single sweeps. <b><a href="http://www.blogger.com/3.%20http://www.infowars.com/missouri-national-guard-train-to-kill-militia-insurgents-in-exercise/">(here)</a> </b>and<b> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/4.http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/february2008/020408_shoot_americans.htm">(here)</a></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> We may reasonably expect to see false flag events being
staged to provide a pretext for confiscating American firearms. <b> </b><a href="http://americanactionreport.blogspot.tw/2012/12/sandy-hook-aurora-and-911-fake-mourners.html" style="font-weight: bold;">(here)</a>,<b> <a href="http://veraciousthoughts.wordpress.com/2012/07/27/james-holmes-lone-gunman-or-false-flag/">(here)</a>, </b>and<b> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/6.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=greuYvcMLDk">(here)</a></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> We may reasonably expect to see open and obvious efforts to
promote the view that supporters of the Bill of Rights—particularly the Second
Amendment—should be regarded as home-grown terrorists. <b><a href="http://www.blogger.com/7.http://www.infowars.com/drill-characterizes-disgruntled-second-amendment-advocates-as-terrorists/">(here)</a></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> We may reasonably expect to see pilotless aircraft known as
drones—the sort of which the Obama administration has used to kill hundreds of
civilians in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Pakistan</st1:place></st1:country-region>
and elsewhere—practicing in American skies. <b><a href="http://www.blogger.com/8.http://www.dallasnews.com/news/state/headlines/20100320-Drones-may-be-sent-soon-to-6833.ece">(here)</a></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> We may reasonably expect to see a paper trail showing that
federal government agencies have recently made very large purchases of
ammunition that can be used only within the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">United States</st1:country-region></st1:place>. (Hint: the Department of Homeland Security
has purchased more than two billion rounds of hollow point bullets that are
illegal under the Geneva Conventions.) <b><a href="http://www.examiner.com/article/dhs-adds-200-000-rounds-to-its-2-billion-round-stockpile">(here)</a><span style="color: red;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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be used against Americans, in case American servicemen refuse to violate their
oath to preserve the Constitution and protect Americans “from all enemies,
foreign and domestic.” <a href="http://musicians4freedom.com/2012/07/foreign-troops-to-confiscate-american-guns-under-un-treaty/"><b>(here)</b> </a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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officers claiming that they had been required to take a survey asking if they
would obey an order to fire on American citizens. <b><a href="http://www.blogger.com/10.http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1088237/posts">(here)</a></b></span><b><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial;"> </span></b></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_fY-F3NdrwOhey2VUnQk7MnbnCk3bD5_g67iaF0X9m9rQdIvfJzD2IQyzS-GJ4LayUxkZN_FCiEWzVByKuy3QkuEQv3UuDHl1da90MQfLwFq1Foqd2Oc1o7cLJkzA6TmfmsOxLKMaDXI/s1600/Joseph+Story.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_fY-F3NdrwOhey2VUnQk7MnbnCk3bD5_g67iaF0X9m9rQdIvfJzD2IQyzS-GJ4LayUxkZN_FCiEWzVByKuy3QkuEQv3UuDHl1da90MQfLwFq1Foqd2Oc1o7cLJkzA6TmfmsOxLKMaDXI/s200/Joseph+Story.jpg" width="152" /></a><b><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;">These are only a few of the many things we’ve seen
over the past few years. We can add to
this list of abuses and usurpations the passage and renewal of the USA PATRIOT Act, the repeal of posse
comitatus, the repeal of habeas corpus—the list goes on and on. Use your favorite search engine to look up
authoritative sources for Operation Mockingbird, Operation Northwoods, and
REX-84. Savvy netizens can add much more
to the list.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> Don’t give up your guns. As Supreme Court Chief Justice Joseph Story
wrote in 1833, “<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">The right of the
citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of
the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the
usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are
successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over
them.” <b><a href="http://www2.law.ucla.edu/volokh/2amteach/sources.htm#TOC8">(here)</a></b></span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7004833821877183483.post-67908759822365721822012-12-25T10:01:00.002+08:002012-12-25T10:22:03.197+08:00Sandy Hook, Aurora, and 9/11: Fake Mourners and False Witnesses<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> In the wake of the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Sandy Hook</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Elementary
School</st1:placetype></st1:place> shooting, it’s time to revisit the curious
phenomenon of smiling witnesses to mass murders. The smiling witnesses are obviously actors—and
poor actors at that; but why do government officials and the corporate media
need actors to play the part of witnesses to tragedy when there are plenty of
real witnesses available?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> You've probably already read a few of the
many anomalies surrounding the massacre at </span><st1:place style="font-family: Arial;" w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Sandy Hook</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Elementary
School</st1:placetype></st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial;">. To
give a particularly ludicrous example, the official story tells us that Adam
Lanza used a Bushmaster .223 caliber AR-14 to kill all his victims and himself,
after which the murder weapon was retrieved from the trunk of his mother’s car.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> (I watched that video several times and
compared the image I saw with other weapons known to have been owned by the
late (he supposedly killed her too) Mrs. Lanza.
The silhouette and the shell ejection port matched only one of the
Lanza guns: the Bushmaster .223 caliber AR-15.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> Of all the unbelievable aspects of the
official story, the most bizarre is the smiling, grinning, jovial young man who
suddenly transforms himself—on camera—into the grieving father of a slain
six-year-old girl.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> Here is a timeline from the time the so-called “Robbie Parker” appears on the screen: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial;">8.5 seconds:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> He first appears on camera. His head is tilted back as he displays a broad, teeth-baring smiling at the others on camera. At this point, he looks as if he’s laughing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial;">9 seconds</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;">: He is still smiling as he swaggers toward the microphone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial;">10 seconds</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;">: He makes a smirking comment to someone off camera, obviously please with himself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial;">11 seconds</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;">: He finishes his witticism and looks down, flashing a grin that even Cameron Diaz would envy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial;">12 seconds:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> He steps up to the microphone. His smile begins to fade.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial;">13 seconds:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> His smile has faded.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial;">14 seconds</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;">: He exhales and steps into the role of a grieving parent.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial;">14-24 seconds:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> Acts as if he is choking back sobs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial;">24 seconds:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> He announces, “My name is Robbie Parker.” Whitepages.com doesn't list that name, or anything like it for anyone of his age group in or near </span><st1:place style="font-family: Arial;" w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Newtown</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Connecticut</st1:state></st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial;">. Whitepages.com does list a </span><st1:place style="font-family: Arial;" w:st="on">Newtown</st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial;"> resident named Robert Parker, but he is 78 years old—more than twice as old as the actor in this scene.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">The on-line </span><i style="font-family: Arial;">Huffington Post</i><span style="font-family: Arial;"> features that same video, but they repeat the line
that “Robbie Parker” was choking back tears and “struggling to catch his breath.</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">The </span><i style="font-family: Arial;">Huffington</i><span style="font-family: Arial;">
shills had to have seen the same laughing and grinning that you and I saw, but
their story clearly claims that “Robbie Parker’s” sobs were real.</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Anyone who seriously believes that the “news”
media would not lie to us should take note of Huffington’s hypocrisy in this
episode.</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> Take a look at the photo and decide for
yourself: Does this man look as though he’s fighting back tears and struggling
to catch his breath?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> In Chinese culture, there is such a thing
as a paid mourner. Because Chinese are
expected to control their feelings, even at funerals, professional mourners are
hired to wail, cry, and otherwise loudly express grief. In </span><st1:country-region style="font-family: Arial;" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family: Arial;">, however, we have no need
to pay people to grieve on our behalf.
Even in Chinese culture, the paid mourner isn't paid to masquerade as a
family member of the deceased.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> Why, then, do mass murders in the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>
produce fake “mourners” and false witnesses?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> Even Barack Obama could not resist the
urge to act the part of a mourner. Take
a look at the following video clip and notice where Mr. Obama puts his finger,
supposedly to wipe away tears.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> Before watching this video, turn the
volume level to mute. Observe only his
actions. Does he look as though he is
saddened by the recent murder of 20 children?
Then turn up the volume and listen only to his tone of voice, ignoring
his spoken words. Does he sound
sad? Mr. Obama’s body language and tone
of voice don’t match the speechwriter’s words.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> The “crying” was obviously fake. Even when Obama’s critics mimicked his false
crying, the critics placed their fingers where people normally would place them
when wiping away tears. Is Mr. Obama so
unfamiliar with normal human emotions that he can’t do a convincing job of
wiping away fake tears?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> For other examples of false (and often
smiling) witnesses to mass murders, see <b><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7004833821877183483#editor/target=post;postID=4612043719863250682">“Why would Reporters Lie about 9/11 if the Truth is Worth a Pulitzer Prize?”</a> </b> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">As far as I know, the only false witnesses to
the recent <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Aurora</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Colorado</st1:state></st1:place>, shooting were government officials
and the corporate-owned media—but take a look at the sort of thing a real witness might say about a shooting that was supposedly done by a "lone nut."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> And the following is what can happen to a credible witness who is "too credible" and who "knows too much." Jenny Gallagher was the emergency room nurse who, according to her husband, "saw everything."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> As a rule of thumb, when government
officials and the corporate-owned media collude to provide false witnesses, you
can be sure of three things: 1.) their testimony will also be false, 2.) their
testimony will support the official story with no deviation from it whatsoever,
and 3.) at least that part of the official story will be false.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> Anyone who has been intimately involved in
politics from the inside knows the following adages and knows that they are
true:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Politics is theater, <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Politics, by its very nature, is conspiratorial,
and<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">In politics, nothing happens by
coincidence. If it happens, it was
planned.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> It’s no coincidence that both the “Batman”
shooting and the <st1:place w:st="on">Sandy Hook</st1:place> shooting took
place just as Congress was set to debate the issue of gun control. (In the case of the <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Aurora</st1:place></st1:city> shooting, Congress was debating a
United Nations resolution on gun control.)
Nor is it a coincidence that the 9/11 mass murder provided a rationale
for wars and other measures that had been planned as early as 1997. All three incidents—and others—were staged
events.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> (Note: Of all the anomalies mentioned in
all the blogs I've read, no one seems to have noticed the one about the
mask. One can argue that the Batman
shooter was wearing a mask because it was part of a costume; but why was “Adam
Lanza” (if it were really he) wearing a mask? I've never heard of a suicide shooter wearing a mask. Suicide shooters know they’ll be identified
after they’re dead, so they have no need to conceal their identities. More likely, the shooters (there were more
than one) and Adam Lanza’s body wore similar masks, and the real shooters got
away.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> We are left with the question, “With so
many real witnesses and real families of victims, what need do the government
and broadcast media have of false witnesses and fake families?” The answer is simple: Spinmeisters have no
way of knowing what a truthful witness or a real family member will say. Fake witnesses and family members can be
relied upon to follow the script.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> Take the "Harley shirt guy," who supposedly
witnesses both crashes into the WTC twin towers and their collapse—apparently
the only person on Earth who witnesses all four events, though he somehow
missed seeing the collapse of Building #7.
He enunciated the “official story” of 9/11 before anyone had even
investigated the crime. Ask yourself, "Does anyone who has just seen more than 2,000 people die talk like the man in this video?"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> The same goes for the actor calling
himself Robbie Parker. If a real family
member stood before the camera without being coached, there was too much chance
that he would lash out at the fact that, by federal law, not one teacher at <st1:place w:st="on">Sandy Hook</st1:place> was armed.
Since Congress was debating a ban on assault-style weapons that very
week, the words of a real parent could have been a disaster for the
spinmeisters. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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family of an apparently real victim at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Sandy Hook</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Elementary
School</st1:placetype></st1:place>.
The family has obviously been maneuvered into appearing on camera,
apparently thinking that they were honoring their slain relative by doing so. Meanwhile, the ghoulish interviewer Piers Morgan was clearly putting words into their mouths.
The father of the family would clearly rather be somewhere else; and,
throughout the interview, he showed contempt for the entire charade.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> That’s be best the spinmeisters could do
for a grieving family. Even when the
family is tricked into being cooperative, they’re not as dependable in
following the script as an actor would be. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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