Thursday
Feb282013
CAUGHT ON TAPE: Obama Lies About Sequester
Remember when Obama supported the sequester cuts?
Hypocrisy on display. Has Obama forgotten that Youtube exists.
Busted for lying for the umpteenth time. Youtube is killing the Deficit President. Even Democrat Bob Woodward felt the need to call out Obama for his blatant lies about not only having supported the automatic spending cuts, but actually having introduced the idea himself. This is a must read.
WOODWARD: Obama lies on budget cuts...
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Meanwhile, the U.S. Debt Machine rolls on, borrowing $50,000 per second.
- Blink! U.S. Debt Just Grew By $11 Trillion - Bloomberg
- Why $16 Trillion Only Hints at the True U.S. Debt - WSJ
Tillion Dollar Tuna by William Banzai7
Feb 28, 2013 at 12:36 PM
Reader Comments (11)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hh_Kx7UKndI
Conan's audience doesn't seem to grasp that every news report is scripted exactly like this one. Either that or they find their own brainswashed belief in 100% propaganda hilarious.
I just posted the Conan clip on the front page about 20 minutes ago - In fact, exactly 3 minutes before you posted it here. Someone sent it to by email earlier. That is some bizarre timing.
There is no austerity my friend. $85 billion in cuts, most of them going to defense, that is NOT austerity. That's called the best thing I've heard all week.
New policy as of now: if it's on TV and it's not a score, a temperature, or a price, I refuse to believe it until independently verifying it first hand.
I am so sick of both sides playing these games. The republicans should just let it pass and give him enough rope to hang himself. If he cuts wisely it will be beneficial to everyone.....if he makes cuts to punish the people they will rebel against his administration. He can't win if the GOP smartly lets the sequester happen. It was OBAMA'S idea....a case of unintended consequences awaits him. Already blaming this on the GOP is falling flat. He has no way out unless they GIVE it to him. I hope they don't fall for the bait....again
ENJOY THE PROSE:
Morning Bell: Obama and the Seuss-quester
On Pennsylvania Avenue, right near the end, there lived a President who wanted to spend.
He knew spending meant power, so hour by hour, he thought up more spends from his Washington tower.
“I’ll spend without limits; I’ll spend without blame! Raising taxes to pay—that’s the name of the game.”
Down the street, though, a House filled with thriftier folk had a budget to pass, or the country’d go broke. “We can’t spend all day; we’ve got bills to pay! Let’s keep deficits and higher taxes away.”
The Senate next door to the House just refused. “We don’t like your budget. We’ve got some bad news: The President says we can spend all we want, and we’ll simply raise taxes whenever we choose.”
So they spent and they spent and they borrowed some more. And when all that was spent, they spent same as before.
But not everyone thought the spending was nice. In the House and the Senate, some spenders thought twice. “We’ll cut down on spending. We have a bad feeling…” then—SMACK!—right on schedule, they hit the debt ceiling.
Then the President’s office, confronted with debt: “If it’s cuts they want now, then it’s cuts they shall get. We’ll threaten such cuts that NO one would take, and show them that cuts are not smart to make.”
“This will make Congress move. We’ll just float out a tester… broad, haphazard cuts that we’ll call the sequester.”
The Senate and even the House said, “Okay! That will motivate us to find a good way. We’ll figure this out and stave off those cuts—to allow them to happen, we’d have to be nuts.”
So the deadline was set, but the spending went on. A year and a half had soon come and gone. The House passed a budget; the Senate said no; the President very much enjoyed the show.
“Spend higher! Spend faster! Grow the welfare rolls! Soon, love for the spending will show up in the polls.” He even raised taxes, but it wasn’t enough—the levels of spending grew too fast to keep up.
“Don’t you mind the sequester,” he told Capitol Hill. “You said you would fix it, and I’m sure you will.”
But they could not agree on ways to cut spending, and before they knew it, the sequester was pending.
“Oh no!” they all cried. “We can’t let these cuts stand!”
And the President said, “WHO thought of this terrible plan?”
They didn’t remember his plan all along. He distracted them with his spending-cut song. Now he returned to save them from harm, and to keep them forgetting all but his charm.
So the President said with a glint in his eye, “You tried to cut spending. I saw how you tried. But it’s just too painful—I’m sure you can see. From the beginning, you should have listened to me.”
“I’ll save you all from the spend-cutters’ axes. You see, the solution is just to raise taxes.”
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We don’t know yet how this story will end. Will Congress raise taxes and continue to spend? We need a balanced budget with smarter cuts—reforming entitlements will take guts.
Let the President know that we’re onto his plan. Share this story with as many people as you can.
http://blog.heritage.org/2013/02/22/obama-sequester-plan-tax-and-spend-dr-seuss/
Were you brainwashed? It bothers me that TV is such a source of propaganda. Reminds me of how they kept repeating "he can't win" about Ron Paul ....and people still repeat it even today. He should have won. He was the only hope the GOP had for beating Obama. The only hope for America because he was the only one who would have made the changes we needed.
The foreign policy that everyone said was such a problem is proving to be the only real solution.
Our foreign policy has been a complete DISASTER for decades. Why doesn't anyone want to admit it?
That's how they influence elections....all it takes is for them to keep drumming something into your heads.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/07/30/198073/dollars-to-diplomats-how-to-become.html
Facebook stock almost hits IPO price, 14 months after rocky debut
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/30/us-facebook-ipoprice-idUSBRE96T1CI20130730
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2014/12/19/president-obama-sony-made-a-mistake-bowing-to-hackers/
…Sony: Um, We Did
http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2014/12/19/sony-responds-to-obama-actually-we-did-call-the-white-house/
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Sony Pictures Presents: the Propaganda Model
The Mighty Wurlitzer Plays On
By Bill Blunden, December 19, 2014
A few days ago both the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal cited anonymous officials who
claimed that North Korea was responsible for the recent cyberattack on Sony. These agenda-setting
elements of the press conveyed the information without question, despite the fact that the evidence
provided has been (as journalist Kim Zetter put it) flimsy. Contemplating the corresponding headlines is
instructive. Check them out below:
As I wrote in the Times back in September of 2014, sophisticated anti-forensic technology is actively
being developed by both American intelligence services and private sector companies. To think that
other countries aren't doing the same is naive. False flag attacks are standard spy tradecraft.
Furthermore high ranking, ostensibly credible, national security officers like Keith Alexander, James
Clapper, and John Brennan have demonstrated the tendency to lie to the American public. Not small
innocent lies but rather colossal brazen lies. Lies regarding essential constitutional rights. Why, pray tell,
should we trust what we've been told by officials?
Your author contacted Zetter to offer the proverbial high-five and she voiced her frustration about the
complete lack of skepticism by reporters like Sanger and Perlroth. Blind acceptance is part of the miracle
of modern propaganda. As Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman described in their classic text
Manufacturing Consent the large multinational corporations that constitute the mainstream press are
able to frame debate and control the acceptable boundaries of public discourse by leveraging an
impressive messaging apparatus which burns through literally hundreds of billions of dollars each year.
Of course this isn’t the only instance in which the stalwarts of the corporate media have botched their
job as society’s watchdogs. Anyone following what’s happening over in Ukraine will also notice an
astounding groupthink on behalf of the press corp. What’s painted as Russian expansion is also a NATO
expansion. Putin is responding to Western incursion. Even an establishment figure like Henry Kissinger
admits as much (and when a guy like Kissinger starts making sense it’s a sign that something is seriously
amiss).
All of this underscores the role of modern propaganda as an incredible tool of social control, a textbook
application of the science of coercion. The public is so distracted with celebrity gossip, mindless
entertainment, wildly inflated alleged national security threats, and empty consumption that they fail to
recognize the unraveling of our social fabric. Officials hyperventilate over an obscure contingent of
jihadists while disregarding far greater, but less spectacular, threats.
Sadly the countervailing ideologies and organizations that served to keep capitalism in check in the
aftermath of World War II have dwindled. Hence the plutocrats who funded the neoliberal revolution
have a captive audience and they’re free to kick and beat the rest of us with relative impunity, while
sanctioned policies like Quantitative Easing and offshoring allow them to swallow up nearly all economic
gains.
And to think that former NSA director Keith Alexander had the audacity to claim that Chinese cyber
espionage entailed the greatest transfer of wealth in history? Never mind the trillions spent on the selfperpetuating
military conflict in the Middle East.
As inequality grows and the global climate becomes less habitable, the immiseration of the average Joe
will inevitably lead to mobilization. The ruling class is well aware of what happened to French aristocrats
in the eighteenth century. To save themselves from a similar fate they will switch the cogs of the Mighty
Wurlitzer into high gear to give voice to popular discontent and subsequently co-opt emerging
movements. That’s how fascism normally works. Mass interception will also be employed to identify
activists and independent thinkers who see through the deluge of clever propaganda. Likewise a
militarized police force guided by programs like Garden Plot will be waiting in the wings as a last resort.
When this juncture is reached, where a critical mass of people are angry enough to take action, the
likelihood of a positive outcome will depend in part upon people acquiring access to alternative sources
of accurate information. In this way organizations can foster accountability and properly apply the
sustained pressure necessary to alter large systems. Looking out over a media landscape flooded by
corporate money and an endless series of murky deep-pocketed foundations, a modest self–funded
outfit at 251 West 89th Street is an encouraging sign: Season’s Greetings Cryptome.
Bill Blunden is an independent investigator whose current areas of inquiry include information security,
anti-forensics, and institutional analysis. He is the author of several books, including The Rootkit Arsenal
and Behold a Pale Farce: Cyberwar, Threat Inflation, and the Malware-Industrial Complex. Bill is the lead
investigator at Below Gotham Labs.