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<DIV><FONT size=3>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.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3>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.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3>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.. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3>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.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3>Charlie</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3>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?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3>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</FONT><FONT size=3> will not change until we get the big special interest money out of
politics and go to a system of public financing of campaigns?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3>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." </FONT><FONT size=3>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.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3>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?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3>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 . </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3>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.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3>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.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3>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<FONT id=rolx_document face=Arial color=#000000><FONT id=rolx_document face=Arial color=#000000><FONT id=rolx_document face=Arial color=#000000><FONT id=rolx_document face=Arial color=#000000><FONT id=rolx_document face=Arial color=#000000> the totally bogus "War on
Terror."</FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3><FONT face=Arial color=#000000><FONT face=Arial color=#000000><FONT face=Arial color=#000000><FONT face=Arial color=#000000><FONT face=Arial color=#000000></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3><FONT face=Arial color=#000000><FONT face=Arial color=#000000><FONT face=Arial color=#000000><FONT face=Arial color=#000000><FONT face=Arial color=#000000>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.</FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3><FONT face=Arial color=#000000><FONT face=Arial color=#000000><FONT face=Arial color=#000000><FONT face=Arial color=#000000><FONT face=Arial color=#000000></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3><FONT face=Arial color=#000000><FONT face=Arial color=#000000><FONT face=Arial color=#000000><FONT face=Arial color=#000000><FONT face=Arial color=#000000>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.</DIV></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></BODY></HTML>