[PAA-Discuss] A suggested project

[ChasMauch at aol.com]

Our primary problem today is that most people are  not political junkies 
and are therefore unaware of many important  things they desperately need to 
know. Consequently they are easily  misled by the hate mongers and corporate 
criminals who manipulate them to vote  against their own best interests, and 
we will never have the  necessary popular groundswell demanding total basic 
change until  some way if found to get the truth out. So rather than 
endlessly debate  about our situation with the other members of the choir, let's 
try to take  some positive action to do whatever little bit we can to help 
set  the record straight. Here is one suggestion - I am open to others.
 
We could generate and distribute a list of the 10 or  so most important 
facts/events/ideas that we believe most people do  not know about or understand 
because they are routinely either  misrepresented or suppressed by the MSM, 
since they are  subversive of the status quo and therefore unmentionable. 
Which of course  is the very reason we ought to "mention" them as often and 
loudly as  we can.
 
Once we can agree on the list I propose we make a simple  talking-head 
video, post it on YouTube, and distribute it as widely as  possible. All we 
would need is an articulate person to read the list  (possibly with a few simple 
illustrations). We have people in our community  who could make the video 
and post it on YouTube. It would be easy to do and  would cost very little. 
Hopefully this exercise - if distributed  widely - would be educational for 
many people and might help us  to organize and rank order some of our own 
thinking.. 
 
Ten possible topics off the top of my head are  listed below (in no special 
order of importance). Please  provide additions, revisions, or other 
recommendations that you think would  be useful. Should the list be longer? I am 
not thinking about items  such as Project Censored normally provides which it 
considers the least covered  stories - we need fairly obvious and easily  
provable facts/events/ideas that are essentially not covered at all or are  
the subject of propaganda or disinformation. Your help and/or comments  on 
the 10 items below and this project in general would be greatly appreciated.  
Thanks.
 
Charlie
 

1.   Bush and Cheney have committed multiple  horrendous crimes and do not 
even bother to deny it - in fact they write books  and give interviews 
bragging about it - but there is no condemnation of any of  this in congress or 
in the media, and no indication that they will ever be made  to answer for 
their crimes. Why is it not obvious that this is  unacceptable?
 
2.   Our elected "representatives" do not remotely  represent the best 
interests of their constituents. Due to our corrupt  electoral system they must 
raise vast sums of money and are therefore  beholden to their major 
contributors and serve their best interests, not those  of the people they 
supposedly represent. Isn't it clear this will not change until we get the big 
special interest money out of  politics and go to a system of public financing of 
campaigns?
 
3.   Criticism of Israel is totally suppressed and  brings swift 
retaliation to anyone who dares to violate this rule. The latest of  many examples is 
the case of Helen Thomas, an outstanding journalist who  recently told a 
workshop on anti-Arab bias in Dearborn, Michigan that  Jewish influence made it 
impossible to criticize Israel in the United States.  She said "Congress, 
the White House and Hollywood, Wall Street are owned by the  Zionists." She 
was immediately blasted by the ADL  and others as a racist anti-semite, and 
all institutions that have  presented her with awards were called on to 
withdraw them.
 
4.   Noam Chomsky has been called "A global  phenomenon...perhaps the most 
widely read voice on foreign policy on the planet"  by the NY Times Book 
Review but has been  totally suppressed by all  major U.S. print and broadcast 
media for years. This is also generally true of  communists, socialists, and 
any others considered too far left of center. Why is  the MSM afraid of 
free speech and critical voices?
 
5.   The CIA is a rogue organization that operates  virtually without 
supervision all over the world conducting assassinations,  kidnappings, 
extraordinary renditions, torture, subverting elections,  overthrowing legally 
elected governments, and other unknown "black ops" with  little or no 
"interference" from nominal congressional oversight. It has  a secret budget of unknown 
size and is essentially unaccountable for  its use. The victims all over the 
world are only too well aware of all this - it  is only the American people 
who do not know. This does not serve our  country well and goes against 
everything it is supposed to stand  for . 
 
6.   Class warfare is clearly being waged  but seldom if ever mentioned. 
The rich object to "wealth  redistribution" unless it is from the lower and 
middle classes upward  into fewer and fewer hands of the already wealthy. This 
is not a natural  occurrence but the result of the capture of both 
political parties by  the special interests and ruling elites of the 
military-industrial-banking  complex.
 
7.   The World Health Organization  ranks the U.S. 38th in health-care 
quality, below Dominica and Costa  Rica and above Slovenia and Cuba, even though 
we spend half again as much  per capita as our nearest competitor. Allowing 
private for-profit insurance  companies to control the system is the 
problem here, since they  obviously have incentive to charge as much for and 
deliver as little  health care as possible. But the primary thing they WERE able 
to "insure"  was that their lobbyists delivered enough money to key members 
of congress  during the recent debate about reforming the system to make 
sure that public  financing (Medicare for all) was considered "off the table" 
right from the  start.
 
8.   The U.S. has been practicing military  Keynesianism since World War II 
using the false rational that maintaining a big  military is a good way to 
provide jobs and keep the economy going. In reality it  is one of the least 
efficient but is maintained by the  military-industrial complex which always 
needs an enemy, with the latest  being the totally bogus "War on  Terror."
 
9.   Corporations  complain about taxes but in 2008 the Government 
Accountability Office found that  two out of every three United States corporations 
paid no federal income taxes  at all from 1998 through 2005. The worst 
example of this type of problem  is Big Oil giant Exxon Mobil, which last year 
reported a record profit  of $45.2 billion but paid no federal Income  tax.
 
10.   The official  investigation report of the 9/11 disaster leaves many 
troubling questions  unanswered and raises widespread suspicions of a 
false-flag operation  and possibly even an inside job but congress and the MSM 
refuse to consider  these things, refer to those who continue to ask for a more  
through investigation as "conspiracy theorists", and insist that the matter 
 is  closed.
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