1. This is about what sounds like a great new film
documentary by filmmaker Jen Senko. Jen Senko is mentioned on the Wikipedia page
on Mind control. You might be aware of much of this but
maybe not all of it, like that the major media is comprised of six
(6) corporations selling what they want TV watchers and talk radio
listeners to believe.
"Fox News 'Brainwashed' So Many Dads: 'People Are Being Bamboozled on a Massive Scale,'" by Gary M. Kramer, Salon, March 21, 2016. Also at Alternet (link). "Fear and anxiety were exploited by zealots and fools."--Phillip Zelikow (Wikipedia link), the director of the 9/11 Commission ".....because what matters most is convincing the American people the world is a scary place."--Professor Dennis Coleman Jett (Wikipedia link). See below.
This link is to The Brainwashing of My Dad movie home page.
Salon.com is doing a great job with news right now.
2. Here's another one, a huge demonstration of the problem that is dealt with in that Jen Senko film documentary. I became more and more ashamed of my country when I saw this next:
"NBC’s coverage of the Brussels attack was stunningly irresponsible,'" by Jack Mirkinson, March 22, 2016
3. In the past I have sent many articles on my poor country's use of torture. Here are two of them. They are well worth reviewing.
--sent July 8, 2008 The Battle for a Country's Soul--
This is one essay I expect to print and pass out to some people on paper. [I did, of course.]
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/21716
New York Review of Books
The Battle for a Country's Soul
Essay by Jane Mayer [Wikipedia link]
Here are a couple of short excerpts:
[Eric Haseltine, the former top adviser on science and technology to the Director of National Intelligence, said,] "I came away from my many visits to the Middle East convinced there is a widespread belief that if America abuses prisoners then there can be no true freedom for anyone... It seemed to me that our greatest sin in the eyes of Muslims was not invading the Middle East, or even our support of Israel: our greatest sin was robbing Muslims of hope."
....
In Charlottesville, Virginia, Phillip Zelikow, the director of the 9/11 Commission, who returned to teaching history at the University of Virginia, tried to take stock. In time, he predicted, the Bush administration's descent into torture would be seen as akin to Roosevelt's internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II. It happened, he believed, in much the same way, for many of the same reasons. As he put it, "Fear and anxiety were exploited by zealots and fools."
It seems to me that torture coming to be seen as something that happened historically when fear and anxiety were exploited by zealots and fools is the best we can hope for. If it's ok for our moral leaders to operate without rules other than guns on innocent poor people then I guess it's ok for anyone to operate without rules other than guns, on anyone else who can't defend himself or herself. I think we all have to be aware that the rules the government follows do affect our country's soul. Is there anything left? Or is it just too late already? Larry
Read the full essay:
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/21716
Jane Mayer is a staff writer for The New Yorker. This essay is based on her book The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals, which was published in July by Doubleday. (August 2008)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385526393/
--sent March 16, 2008 America Must Not Justify Torture
[This is an excerpt from a Miami Herald piece of the above title that is no longer available. The author is Professor Dennis Coleman Jett (Wikipedia link), a former U.S. ambassador to Peru and Mozambique.]
"In his final months in office, President Bush is desperately trying to improve his place in history. ...
"The administration had to endorse torture [despite torture being both wrong and completely worthless] because what matters most is convincing the American people the world is a scary place. So scary that only officials willing to trash what this country supposedly stands for can make us safe. And so scary that invading Iraq was justified."
love,
Larry, March 23, 2016
"Fox News 'Brainwashed' So Many Dads: 'People Are Being Bamboozled on a Massive Scale,'" by Gary M. Kramer, Salon, March 21, 2016. Also at Alternet (link). "Fear and anxiety were exploited by zealots and fools."--Phillip Zelikow (Wikipedia link), the director of the 9/11 Commission ".....because what matters most is convincing the American people the world is a scary place."--Professor Dennis Coleman Jett (Wikipedia link). See below.
This link is to The Brainwashing of My Dad movie home page.
Salon.com is doing a great job with news right now.
2. Here's another one, a huge demonstration of the problem that is dealt with in that Jen Senko film documentary. I became more and more ashamed of my country when I saw this next:
"NBC’s coverage of the Brussels attack was stunningly irresponsible,'" by Jack Mirkinson, March 22, 2016
3. In the past I have sent many articles on my poor country's use of torture. Here are two of them. They are well worth reviewing.
--sent July 8, 2008 The Battle for a Country's Soul--
This is one essay I expect to print and pass out to some people on paper. [I did, of course.]
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/21716
New York Review of Books
The Battle for a Country's Soul
Essay by Jane Mayer [Wikipedia link]
Here are a couple of short excerpts:
[Eric Haseltine, the former top adviser on science and technology to the Director of National Intelligence, said,] "I came away from my many visits to the Middle East convinced there is a widespread belief that if America abuses prisoners then there can be no true freedom for anyone... It seemed to me that our greatest sin in the eyes of Muslims was not invading the Middle East, or even our support of Israel: our greatest sin was robbing Muslims of hope."
....
In Charlottesville, Virginia, Phillip Zelikow, the director of the 9/11 Commission, who returned to teaching history at the University of Virginia, tried to take stock. In time, he predicted, the Bush administration's descent into torture would be seen as akin to Roosevelt's internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II. It happened, he believed, in much the same way, for many of the same reasons. As he put it, "Fear and anxiety were exploited by zealots and fools."
It seems to me that torture coming to be seen as something that happened historically when fear and anxiety were exploited by zealots and fools is the best we can hope for. If it's ok for our moral leaders to operate without rules other than guns on innocent poor people then I guess it's ok for anyone to operate without rules other than guns, on anyone else who can't defend himself or herself. I think we all have to be aware that the rules the government follows do affect our country's soul. Is there anything left? Or is it just too late already? Larry
Read the full essay:
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/21716
Jane Mayer is a staff writer for The New Yorker. This essay is based on her book The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals, which was published in July by Doubleday. (August 2008)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385526393/
--sent March 16, 2008 America Must Not Justify Torture
[This is an excerpt from a Miami Herald piece of the above title that is no longer available. The author is Professor Dennis Coleman Jett (Wikipedia link), a former U.S. ambassador to Peru and Mozambique.]
"In his final months in office, President Bush is desperately trying to improve his place in history. ...
"The administration had to endorse torture [despite torture being both wrong and completely worthless] because what matters most is convincing the American people the world is a scary place. So scary that only officials willing to trash what this country supposedly stands for can make us safe. And so scary that invading Iraq was justified."
love,
Larry, March 23, 2016
