I've finally achieved consistency in my life. Any person of average or above intelligence can predict what I will say next with unerring accuracy. And what I say will always be wrong.

Saturday, July 02, 2011

[ItsAllAboutMeMan] Re: Your submission to LOOKBOOKS [1 Attachment]

 
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Dear Eric,


I am doing fine, thank you, and may I make the same inquiry as to your well-being?

I would humbly and respectfully ask you to review your opinion, and consider a reversal of it.  I have been careful to try to observe the standards of decency established by Talenthouse. My understanding of these standards were formed by careful observation of other people's entries - for example, GARE Art's entry for the VolBeat contest (attached)

If I'm not mistaken, this entry is a representation of a guitar's headstock being inserted into the rectum of a naked transvestite.

In contrast, I don't believe the images I used to highlight my good looks are art, not pornography.  I believe they are not indecent - I believe the supreme court would find them to be sensual.  There is no penetration involved in them.

In particular, the Knucklehead one brought out my inner playa - a man that the ladies all love because he treats them well.... buys them lots of bling, and slaps them around less than Chris Brown would.
 
Rum pa pum pum!

Yours most sincerely,

Matt Love


On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 12:08 PM, Eric Perron <eric@talenthouse.com> wrote:
Hi Matt,

I hope you are doing well.

I wanted to reach out to you to let you know that we have deleted your submission to the LOOKBOOKS creative invite per the article 3(d) or our Talenthouse Terms of Use Agreement;

(d) will not post Contributions that: (i) are defamatory, damaging, disruptive, unlawful, inaccuratepornographicvulgar, indecent, profane, hateful, racially or ethnically offensive, obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, threatening, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable or incite, encourage or threaten immediate physical harm against another, including but not limited to Contributions that promote racism, bigotry, sexism, religious intolerance or harm against any group or individual, or (ii) contain material that solicits personal information from anyone under 13 or exploits anyone in a sexual or violent manner.

The decision was made following a few complaints that the images submitted are indecent and because the submission does not comply to the guidelines of the creative invite.
We embrace all artists and we are glad that you are part of our community Matt. In fact, I know you have been active within our community and I have enjoyed a lot of your past submissions. Thank you for your time and please don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions or concerns.

Sincerely,

Eric
Director of Customer Support



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Will there be gathering in the woods and beating on drums communally?  If so, I'm soooo there, bro!

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[ItsAllAboutMeMan] Re: [progressive] Tea Party Activist urges attack on Gaza Flotilla

 

I recently left an anti-tea party group on facebook, becuase they focus on the many small (still largely hypothetical) depravities of the tea party, while overlooking the many huge depravities the two branches of the ruling party are engaged in right now.  


It doesn't take an Einstein to see that our first string psychopaths (Obama and Clinton) are saying the same thing as the benchwarmers shouting their encouragement from the sidelines, they just use language in a bit more clever way:  "the Obama administration is taking a strong stand against the flotilla, even suggesting that Americans on board cannot expect the US to intervene on their behalf if Israel attacks."

In blunt language, he is saying "go ahead."

It reminds me of the ex-CIA guy's explanation for plausible deniability.  At the cabinet meeting, the conversation turns to Allende.  Everybody agrees it's a worrisome development. Nixon says, "Yes, it's a shame, a real problem. It's too bad that somebody can't just, you know, take him out. BUT THAT WOULD BE WRONG."

The people in the room all understand this to mean "make it happen," but if they are successful in reaching their goals and Allende ends up dead, they can say "it's true that the topic came up in a cabinet meeting, but the president explicitly rejected the idea, because of his love for justice and fair play, and his devotion to the Constitution.  We have detailed minutes of the meeting to prove it."

Of course, things have changed. A foolish consistency in the application of the rule of law is no virtue; crimes in the persuit of foreign policy goals are no vice.  Obama can publicly urge the Israeli's to "bring it on" - nobody needs to pretend he warned them to lay off the flotilla - he can say "I warned the flotilla they were asking for trouble" and that apparently is enough to quench the American thirst for justice.

On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 11:26 PM, Scott Peden wrote:
 

Yeah, Second string psychopaths would make statements like this, and the Psycho loving Main Stream Media would completely over look it as worthy of letting the general American Public know how we are being represented, and thusly viewed by the rest of the world (as at the very least, third rate psychos).



 

Opinion Tea party activist urges attack on flotilla
Bush era speech writer says most Americans are 'cool with' Israeli forces
shooting US citizens on Gaza bound aid boats.
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*Those aboard the 2009 Gaza Flotilla (who were not injured or killed)
were imprisoned after being intercepted in international waters by the
Israeli military [GALLO/GETTY] *

This week the second international Freedom Flotilla will embark to Gaza from
several ports in Europe. The flotilla represents an act of non-violent civil
disobedience aimed at ending Israel's four year long illegal blockade of the
tiny strip of land populated by 1.6 million Palestinians.

At least ten ships carrying dignitaries, doctors, professors, artists,
journalists, and activists as well as construction supplies and humanitarian
aid are expected to sail. The *New York Times* and *CNN* are among several
outlets sending
journalists<https://mail.aljazeera.net/owa/redir.aspx?C=348b737ce8424021a8544683903d7ceb&URL=http%3a%2f%2fmediamattersaction.us1.list-manage.com%2ftrack%2fclick%3fu%3d0e7994932b5c293ad6e9e40d8%26id%3d1ca3ace638%26e%3da64676712d>to
cover the event.

Critics of the flotilla contend that it is an unnecessary provocation - more
of a political statement than a relief mission - because Israel has lately
been allowing more goods into Gaza and Egypt has, since the revolution,
intermittently opened its side of the border.

Even if that is true - even if the need is somewhat less urgent - the
blockading of Gaza should be protested as illegal, as are all forms of
collective punishment.

*Israel's rights*

Israel has the right to keep weapons that might be used against Israelis out
of Gaza (assuming that, as is the case, Gaza remains under Israeli
occupation). But it has no right to keep out consumer goods like certain
foodstuffs or the construction material needed to rebuild homes and schools
after the devastation Israel inflicted on Gaza during the 2008-09 onslaught.
That one-sided war took 1400 Palestinians lives (including several hundred
children).

Nonetheless, under pressure from the Israeli government and its lobby, the
Obama administration is taking a strong stand against the flotilla, even
suggesting that Americans on board cannot expect the US to intervene on
their behalf if Israel attacks (in 2009, the IDF killed 9 passengers on a
Turkish relief ship).

The far right is already lining up in support of whatever action Israel
takes against the unarmed civilian relief activists.

Take a look at these tweets from Joshua
Treviño<https://mail.aljazeera.net/owa/redir.aspx?C=348b737ce8424021a8544683903d7ceb&URL=http%3a%2f%2fmediamattersaction.us1.list-manage.com%2ftrack%2fclick%3fu%3d0e7994932b5c293ad6e9e40d8%26id%3d26d7208015%26e%3da64676712d>,
who was formerly a speechwriter in the Bush administration, a staffer for
the failed senatorial campaign of Tea Party candidate Chuck DeVore (R-CA)
and an employee of the Texas Public Policy Foundation. Treviño condemned
Palestinians as morally depraved and deserving of any evil that befalls
them.

However, Treviño went much farther than that. He openly
called<https://mail.aljazeera.net/owa/redir.aspx?C=348b737ce8424021a8544683903d7ceb&URL=http%3a%2f%2fmediamattersaction.us1.list-manage.com%2ftrack%2fclick%3fu%3d0e7994932b5c293ad6e9e40d8%26id%3dbd33637894%26e%3da64676712d>for
the Israelis to kill any of his fellow Americans who get in their way.
"Dear IDF: If you end up shooting any Americans on the new Gaza flotilla -
well, most Americans are cool with that. Including me."

Treviño justified his twisted reasoning by likening the Americans bringing
relief to the Gazans to Americans who served in the German army during World
War II. After Kurt Schlichter, who writes for Andrew Breitbart's Big
Government site, called for the sinking of the flotilla, Treviño
wrote<https://mail.aljazeera.net/owa/redir.aspx?C=348b737ce8424021a8544683903d7ceb&URL=http%3a%2f%2fmediamattersaction.us1.list-manage.com%2ftrack%2fclick%3fu%3d0e7994932b5c293ad6e9e40d8%26id%3d587b248b43%26e%3da64676712d>,
"Not morally different from a Nazi convoy, is it?"

Treviño's words are even more offensive when you consider that a Holocaust
survivor<https://mail.aljazeera.net/owa/redir.aspx?C=348b737ce8424021a8544683903d7ceb&URL=http%3a%2f%2fmediamattersaction.us1.list-manage1.com%2ftrack%2fclick%3fu%3d0e7994932b5c293ad6e9e40d8%26id%3d8e623461cb%26e%3da64676712d>will
be on the flotilla. If she or a
*New York Times *reporter is shot, then Treviño's
words<https://mail.aljazeera.net/owa/redir.aspx?C=348b737ce8424021a8544683903d7ceb&URL=http%3a%2f%2fmediamattersaction.us1.list-manage.com%2ftrack%2fclick%3fu%3d0e7994932b5c293ad6e9e40d8%26id%3db687e0e311%26e%3da64676712d>would
leave one to assume that it's just like the death of a member of the
Wehrmacht or an al Qaeda terrorist.

*Humanitarian combatants?*

Even worse, Treviño sees no difference between people bringing humanitarian
relief and enemy combatants.

In case you ever wondered about the kind of people who would justify opening
fire on the Red Cross, take a look at Treviño's contemptible tweets. The
most amazing thing of all: he thinks he is a good American while calling for
the execution of other Americans by a foreign military force.

Asked if he endorses killing Americans overseas, Treviño
responded<https://mail.aljazeera.net/owa/redir.aspx?C=348b737ce8424021a8544683903d7ceb&URL=http%3a%2f%2fmediamattersaction.us1.list-manage1.com%2ftrack%2fclick%3fu%3d0e7994932b5c293ad6e9e40d8%26id%3d2bf118d7fa%26e%3da64676712d>,
"Sure, if they adhere to our enemies. Flotilla participants do." Another
right-wing columnist, Ben Shapiro, who loves to tout his patriotism, also
said<https://mail.aljazeera.net/owa/redir.aspx?C=348b737ce8424021a8544683903d7ceb&URL=http%3a%2f%2fmediamattersaction.us1.list-manage1.com%2ftrack%2fclick%3fu%3d0e7994932b5c293ad6e9e40d8%26id%3db96fa8ab8f%26e%3da64676712d>he
has "no problem" with Israel "taking out" any and all flotilla
participants. One has to wonder what Israel would do with Israelis who
openly endorsed the killing of their fellow Israelis by a foreign army.

And what does Treviño say to those who might be offended by characterising
Holocaust survivors and Noble laureates as Nazis? Why, they're just part of
the "Israel-hating, pro-Hamas left," he explained.

But for Treviño, *New York Times* reporters or Holocaust survivors are
probably of secondary importance. (His tweets, however, do indicate that he
sees everyone on the flotilla as being equally guilty.) The man's real
enemies are the Arabs and Muslims who dare defy Israel's blockade.

The Americans on the boat, as he sees it, are useful idiots being used for
propaganda purposes. The Arabs, Muslim and other "them"-looking people
taking part in the flotilla are fair game. (Here he is last year showing
displeasure at the news that one Muslim participant in the last flotilla was
not killed. "Oh well. Next
time,"<https://mail.aljazeera.net/owa/redir.aspx?C=348b737ce8424021a8544683903d7ceb&URL=http%3a%2f%2fmediamattersaction.us1.list-manage.com%2ftrack%2fclick%3fu%3d0e7994932b5c293ad6e9e40d8%26id%3dbdd7aae497%26e%3da64676712d>he
chimed in.)

Meanwhile, the *New York Times* reported today that the Israeli government
has been circulating a YouTube video featuring a gay rights activist whose
participation in the flotilla was ostensibly rebuffed by the flotilla's
organisers. The
video<https://mail.aljazeera.net/owa/redir.aspx?C=348b737ce8424021a8544683903d7ceb&URL=http%3a%2f%2fmediamattersaction.us1.list-manage.com%2ftrack%2fclick%3fu%3d0e7994932b5c293ad6e9e40d8%26id%3da8b0cd844d%26e%3da64676712d>uses
the gay man's experience as a jumping-off point for a full-blown
attack
on the flotilla as a Hamas operation, riddled with bigotry and reactionary
politics.

However, the *Times*
reports<https://mail.aljazeera.net/owa/redir.aspx?C=348b737ce8424021a8544683903d7ceb&URL=http%3a%2f%2fmediamattersaction.us1.list-manage.com%2ftrack%2fclick%3fu%3d0e7994932b5c293ad6e9e40d8%26id%3da12a7af800%26e%3da64676712d>that
the video, promoted by the prime minister's office and the foreign
ministry, is a total hoax. The supposed American gay activist is actually an
aspiring Israeli actor. This is from the *Times*.

*Smear campaign*

Ali Abunimah, the Palestinian-American founder of the *Electronic Intifada*,
suggested on Twitter that the video hoax was not a prank but part of a
public relations campaign to support the Israeli government's naval blockade
of Gaza by seeking to tarnish the Gaza flotilla activists as homophobic.

While there is no evidence of homophobia by the activists, and indeed some
of the participants in the new flotilla are gay, the Israeli actor featured
in the video has recently worked with a producer who appears to be opposed
to the flotilla campaign.

The actor, Omer Gershon - who is a minor celebrity in Tel Aviv - recently
directed and appeared in this commercial for Puma, which was produced by
Elad Magdasi. The commercial is currently featured on the home page of Mr
Magdasi's YouTube channel, which also features a link to videos made by "a
nonprofit Israel advocacy organisation" called Stand With Us.

At the very time that New York was passing its historic bill legalising gay
marriage, Israel's right-wing government was exploiting the gay community to
advance its indefensible hysteria about the flotilla. Expect more hoaxes of
this kind as the Netanyahu government sinks deeper into paranoia as
September's UN vote on the establishment of a Palestinian state approaches.

It is important to remember that Binyamin Netanyahu is not Israel. However,
the longer he stays in office, the harder it becomes for Israel's friends to
make people understand that. To put it simply, he is endangering everything
Israel's founders accomplished - not to mention the lives of Palestinians,
Europeans, Americans and others who dare get in the way.

*MJ Rosenberg is a Senior Foreign Policy Fellow at Media Matters Action
network.*

*This article previously appeared in Foreign Policy
Matters<http://us1.campaign-archive2.com/?u=0e7994932b5c293ad6e9e40d8&id=8aae8d03c3&e=a64676712d>,
a part of the Media Matters Action Network.*

*The views expressed in this article are the author's own and do not
necessarily represent Al Jazeera's editorial policy.*
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Friday, July 01, 2011

[ItsAllAboutMeMan] Re: [OregonDems_etc] Drowning Fish?

 

Thank you for posting this. I used to subscribe to Palast's newsletter, but I got repeated notices that I had unsubscribed (I had not). I wrote to Palast's people about it and asked if it was happening to anybody else, but they didn't seem concerned about it, so I decided to not be paranoid.  I eventually gave up trying to subscribe. Maybe I'll try again, since you've reminded me again why I value Palast's work.

I sent the following message to NPR's On The Media (usign the online form at http://www.onthemedia.org/emailform/contact-otm/).  I've said repeatedly I question the value of "speaking truth to power" - I believe in "speaking truth about power" - when I post to the message boards on NPR, I'm writing for other listeners, not NPR.  I'm distressed On The Media's new format seems to preclude this.

Anyway, here is my message:

I tried to post this on your website, but the internet gremlins apparently ate it:

Wow, hate your [website] format. Seems designed to exclude dialogue. I want to pitch a story idea, but not sure where or how to do it. Greg Palast wrote:  "According to the scientists on NPR, every one of whom is in BP's pay, Mother Nature herself was cleaning up the oil from BP's blow-out, so don't worry about the fish. But [Palast Associate] Zach [Roberts] found out that BP's fish story was baloney. "  Wow, is this true?  If so, how about an investigation into how NPR selected scientists to comment on the BP disaster, and how they've let the public down by their lack of balance?  Also, I used to hear Palast a lot on local NPR talk shows.  Then one time the formerly congenial host (Ross Reynolds) went after him like  a Schnauzer and he was never on again. Did NPR headquarters send down the word there'd be no more funding for KUOW if they didn't toe the line and exclude him as a guest (like Chomsky)?  Or is there a Palast smear squad that follows him around (like the one Chomsky has) that got to Reynolds?  Remember, your name is "On The Media" - you've been doing a lot of fluff lately, this could be a really good story!

On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 3:10 AM, Scott Peden <scotpeden@cruzio.com> wrote:
 


 

Drowning Fish?

by Greg Palast
June 30th, 2011




July 3 would have been my parents' 67th Anniversary. 67 years. Maybe it was the triumph of Hope over Reality (still have that Obama 2008 poster?). Or maybe something else, something that those of us who haven't walked that far down the path can't imagine.

My Dad's last wish the night before he died last November was to dedicate some of his small savings to the Palast Investigative Fund.

It's the only time I wished he'd been an investment banker. He wasn't, so the Gil Palast Memorial Fund is small. And therefore, I appreciate deeply the donations many of you added to it.

My mom asked me to wait until my parents' would-have-been anniversary to announce the recipient of the Gil Palast Really Tiny Memorial Fellowship in Investigative Reporting.

And the winner is: Rob Roberts, fish biologist.

Except his name isn't Rob and he doesn't know a damn thing about fish.

His real name is Zachary "ZD" Roberts, photo journalist extraordinaire.

Zach, under the name Rob, scoped out the Gulf Coast for our team immediately the BP Deepwater Horizon explosion.

If you google Zach Roberts, "Greg Palast" also comes up, making his undercover work more difficult than it need be. But google the name Rob Roberts and you get lots of hits including a sex offender and a fish biologist.

Using the name Rob (one of his many legal names, so it's legit), Zach could go where US media fear to tread: where BP doesn't want cameras to snoop.

Here's what he found. According to the scientists on NPR, every one of whom is in BP's pay, Mother Nature herself was cleaning up the oil from BP's blow-out, so don't worry about the fish. But Zach found out that BP's fish story was baloney. From local fisherman, Zach learned that fish were DROWNING.

Until I heard this from Zach, I didn't know a fish could drown.

They can, a biologist (a real one) explained to me. And they have, by the gazillions - but BP's rent-a-professor operation had drowned out the findings.

Yes, Mother Nature has created bacteria that can eat crude oil (good), and the bugs have had a party feasting on BP's gunk. Then these bacteria had bacterium babies (bad). These little buggers, like all creatures, breathe — and so they sucked all the oxygen out of the water. Result: fish drowned.

BP denies it — and the Department of Interior can't find the fish corpses. The Department hired these same biologists who are suckling on the BP money teat. They could not find the dead fish despite searching by sticking their white canes in the Gulf waters.

But we could. It's not easy finding a biologist who is not licking BP's candy cane. But we found a couple: You can meet them — and the deceased fish—in our film on BP, broadcast last week in Europe. The full-monty US version is on its way.

This year, Zach completed the first round of shooting in Alaska for his film on Sarah Palin. Click here for some of the killer shots from his portfolio, including the one at the top of oil from the Exxon Valdez — taken 21 years after the spill by Roberts in advance of our filming in the Arctic for our Arctic-to-Amazon investigation of BP and Big Oil.

Zach, by the way, conceived and edited the comic book, Steal Back Your Vote (2008), and convinced Bobby Kennedy and I to write it, along with artists Ted Rall and Lloyd Dangle.

The Fellowship will provide Zach a small stipend to work with us for one year. [I'd like to make it two years, and would appreciate your tax-deductible donations to do so. I don't want to pressure you, but my mother is 89 and it would break her heart if the Gil Palast Memorial Fund ran out of funds. Mom has also requested the list of names of all you subscribers who have NOT donated; which gives you a hint as to how she maintained a successful 66-year marriage.]

Thanks again to you all. We're working hard to produce no-B.S. journalism and your support goes along way. We look forward to sharing our forthcoming reports with you over the next several months, and will keep you informed on "Rob" Roberts' ongoing work.

When in the course of human events it becomes necessary to expose the bastards, you can count on us.

— Greg Palast and the Palast Investigative Team

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Forensic economist and journalist Greg Palast, author of the New York Times bestsellers, Armed Madhouse and The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, wrote and presented the documentary, "BP: In Deep Water," for England's Channel 4 and Europe ARTE network. An interactive video-text version will be released in the USA in November.

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[ItsAllAboutMeMan] He didn't get it.

 

But how could he?  He doesn't know how to spell!

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[ItsAllAboutMeMan] Re: Story Of The Day

 

"Wouldn't be surprised if they wrote that song quickly."

I believe they said they wrote it in 12 or 13 minutes in the story. I'm surprised it took them that long. I too would happily plagerize "Little Drummer Boy" for $15,000.

On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 10:00 PM, Bob Lefsetz <bob@lefsetz.com> wrote:

"How Much Does It Cost To Make A Hit Song?"

http://n.pr/iWyEiV

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I forwarded this to a well-placed person at another label and this is what this person had to say:

"I think their one source Ray Daniels is wrong on the majority of the numbers.. He manages Rock City, the song writing duo. He's guessing on a lot of these points. Wouldn't be surprised if they wrote that song quickly.

Mixes cost $500 to $7k including studio time.

Most songwriters work just for publishing which can be worth millions if the songs are global hits. Very few command upfront fees. Most labels never offer those and almost all writers still want to be on the good projects. Rihanna prob does pay some because she probably has a huge budget and can afford to.

Those vocal production fees are high but getable on superstars.

Rihanna's writing camp was one of the biggest I've ever seen. The $25k for 10 studios per day sounds very possible as they use nice studios. Maybe even more including engineers and equipment rentals. I think they did it as an SOS as they were running out of time to make a set release date. It did produce most of the singles thus probably worth it for her. I think they got half the album or more from it. I know they didn't get the whole album from that writing camp.

We've done writing camps before. Usually at very little cost. Writing camps are usually around 3 or 4 studios/rooms and a fun, collaborative environment.

Many producers on her album get more than $20k/track. A-list producers are usually in the $15-$60k per song range, sometime more. Still you can find great tracks from $2k up. Those fees are advances on the producers royalties. One of the big changes of the last 10 years is producer fees. 10 years ago there were many hip hop producers getting north of $100k/track, now just a few in limited scenarios.

Note all three of her big hits from this album came from the production duo Stargate and two from the writer Ester Dean."


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Wednesday, June 29, 2011

[ItsAllAboutMeMan] Re: [progressive] We are now a fascist corpocracy ........

 

I found the Twain quote a little hard to swallow to... I did a little checking (The Google makes it so gosh darn easy, and found this:

"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it."

Abridged modern version of "Remember this, take it to heart, live by it, die for it if necessary: that our patriotism is medieval, outworn, obsolete; that the modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism, is loyalty to the Nation All the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it" - spoken by Tsar Nicholas II in Twain's The Czar's Soliloquy, 1905.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mark_Twain

The speech he put into the mouth of the Tsar probably at least partially reflects his beliefs, but we shouldn't make the mistake that he was saying that was his exact philosophy, any more than we should think Shakespeare believed that the first thing we should do is kill all lawyers.

I am a little protective of Twain because people are always trying to turn one of the greatest American thinkers into a writer of charming children's stories, or a racist, or a comic figure, something the current fraud in chief engaged in (see Barack Obama's Speech on Patriotism and Love of America @ usliberals.about.com/od/electionreform/a/ObamaPatriotism_4.htm) using a variation of this same "quote": "As Mark Twain, that greatest of American satirists and proud son of Missouri, once wrote, 'Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.'"

Twain was much more than a great satirist. I only learned recently that his writings on Teddy Roosevelt's version of Obama's wars, the bloody assault on the Philippines, went unpublished at the time of writing. Some of them were rejected (give us some more children's stories or jumping frogs, Mr. Twain, we don't want this ugly anti-war material) some he sat on because Mr. Roosevelt had done him some favor. It bothered him a great deal - it's a comfort and inspiration to me to know that even Mark Twain succumbed to social and psychological pressure... it gives me the courage to say "well, I will try again, and maybe I will be as brave as I need to be next time."

A nice companion piece to this article is one by Paul Craig Roberts:

http://counterpunch.org/roberts06292011.html

He too is comfortable in using words like "fascism", "nazis" "brownshirts" to describe what's going on. I figure that if somebody who was comfortable working for Reagan, as Roberts was, can use words like that, it's certainly worth paying attention to.

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 11:23 PM, <wytheholt@cox.net> wrote:
 

June 28, 2011
Hijacked Democracy / We Are Now A Fascist Corpocracy

By Allen L Roland

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Mark Twain once wrote[that] true patriotism, the only rational patriotism, is loyalty to the Nation ALL the time and loyalty to the Government ONLY when it deserves it. Our present corporate welfare state government does not deserve our loyalty for it has not only hijacked democracy but we have become a fascist corpocracy in the process. [True "patriotism," in my view, is loyalty to the working class, not to any artificial entity called a nation. WH]

Do you realize that the U.S. military spends a cool $20.2 billion on air conditioning annually in Iraq and Afghanistan? The U.S. military forks out a whopping $20.2 billion a year on keeping troops in Iraq and Afghanistan cool, it has emerged. This alarming figure is more than Nasa's entire annual budget and trumps the amount the G-8 has pledged to aid Egypt and Tunisia. It's even more than the clean up cost of BP's Gulf oil spill.

The Obama administration not only represents corporate welfare you can believe in but, in the process, we have moved from a democracy toward a fascist corpocracy ~ which millions of Americans patriotically celebrate while still being manipulated by false threats, false promises, and nightmares . President Obama's once formidable Main street base has now been replaced by Wall Street's financial elite and an arrogant and greedy corpocracy.

These days I often think of BBC's incredible documentary The Power Of Nightmares which was broadcast on November 3, 2004 and is still more than relevant today.

Mike Conley's transcript said it all ~ " Increasingly, politicians are seen simply as managers of public life. But now, they have discovered a new role that restores their power and authority.Instead of delivering dreams, politicians now promise to protect us from nightmares. They say that they will rescue us from dreadful dangers that we cannot see and do not understand. And the greatest danger of all is international terrorism. A powerful and sinister network, with sleeper cells in countries across the world. A threat that needs to be fought by a war on terror.

"But much of this threat is a fantasy, which has been exaggerated and distorted by politicians . It's a dark illusion that has spread unquestioned through governments around the world, the security services, and the international media."

Manufactured fear, corporate welfare, and false patriotism are also some of the 14 key characteristics of a fascist state . Dr. Lawrence Britt has examined the fascist regimes of Hitler (Germany), Mussolini (Italy), Franco (Spain), Suharto (Indonesia) and several Latin American regimes. Britt found 14 defining characteristics common to each ~ and America has virtually all of them:

1. Powerful and Continuing Nationalism -- Fascist regimes tend to make constant use of patriotic mottos, slogans, symbols, songs, and other paraphernalia.

2. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights -- Because of fear of enemies and the need for security, the people in fascist regimes are persuaded that human rights can be ignored in certain cases because of "need."

3. Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause -- The people are rallied into a unifying patriotic frenzy over the need to eliminate a perceived common threat or foe. [Remember the Cold War? The War on Terror? All those undocumented folks?]

4. Supremacy of the Military -- Even when there are widespread domestic problems, the military is given a disproportionate amount of government funding, and the domestic agenda is neglected. Soldiers and military service are glamorized .

5. Rampant Sexism -- The governments of fascist nations tend to be almost exclusively male-dominated. Under fascist regimes, "traditional" gender roles are made more rigid.

6. Controlled Mass Media -- Sometimes the media is directly controlled by the government, but in other cases, the media is indirectly controlled by government regulation, or by media spokespeople and corporate executives sympathetic to the fascist cause [or by megacorporate interests very much into fascism].

7. Obsession with National Security -- Fear is used as a motivational tool by the government over the masses.

8. Religion and Government are intertwined -- Governments [and pressure groups] in fascist nations tend to use the most common religion in the nation as a tool to manipulate public opinion.

9. Corporate Power is protected -- The industrial and business aristocracy of a fascist nation often are the ones who put the government leaders into power, creating a mutually beneficial business/government relationship and power elite.

10. Labor Power is suppressed -- Because the organizing power of labor is the only real threat to a fascist government, labor unions are either eliminated entirely, or are severely suppressed.

11. Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts -- Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to higher education, and academia.

12. Obsession with Crime and Punishment -- Under fascist regimes, the police are given almost limitless power to enforce laws. The people are often willing to overlook police abuses and even [to] forego civil liberties in the name of patriotism .

13 . Rampant Cronyism and Corruption -- Fascist regimes almost always are governed by groups of friends and associates who appoint each other to government positions and use governmental power and authority to protect their friends from accountability .

14 . Fraudulent Elections -- Sometimes elections in fascist nations are a complete sham. Other times they are manipulated by smear campaigns against or even assassination of opposition candidates, use of legislation to control voting numbers or political district boundaries, and manipulation of the media [or the voting machines].

So are our present active duty military currently fighting for our nation, a democracy, or an increasingly fascist government corpocracy?

As the Rev. Michael Piazza writes in Liberating Word ~ " When war is profitable, it becomes too tempting to resist. We cloak our attitudes in terms of patriotism and supporting our troops, but the truth is, if war wasn't so profitable our troops might not be so endangered. Is it pure coincidence that the South, which is most economically dependent on military expenditures, is also the region where support for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is the greatest? Will we ever make truly ethical choices between war and peace if war is so profitable?"

And what has the war (Occupation) in Afghanistan really achieved? The Independent revealed the sordid truth yesterday ~ " At least 60 people died in a suicide bombing just 25 miles from Kabul yesterday. In a few days' time, a report on Afghanistan from the International Crisis Group will say that violence and the billions of dollars in international aid have brought wealthy officials and insurgents together. As a result, "the economy is increasingly dominated by a criminal oligarchy of politically connected businessmen". The negatives column in the Afghan war's balance sheet does not get any shorter. So far, the conflict has lasted nine years, eight months, and 17 days, cost the lives of 2,547 coalition troops, and between 14,000 and 34,000 civilians, created millions of refugees, and opened up a black hole in Western economies that has sucked in more $500bn dollars. Afghanistan costs the US around $10bn ( -6.3bn) a month; and Britain will pay -4.5bn this year."

A new report by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, called Afghanistan: The Impossible Transition, says that the idea of transition by 2014 is "unrealistic" and warns: "If the transition were carried out, it would provide a considerable boost to the insurgency and, ultimately, the defeat of the Karzai regime." Over the past two years, the security situation has deteriorated in the border provinces, according to the report. President Karzai is showing increasing signs of moving closer to Iran and Pakistan.

Please note, the Karzai regime is a U.S. appointed and manipulated puppet government or better yet, another budding fascist corpocracy .

Lastly, World War II air combat veteran and the late historian Howard Zinn, comments on the important difference between the Government and the Nation ~ and how " government" has hijacked patriotism in the service of the highest corporate bidders. As such, when our democratic government becomes a corpocracy and destructive of our founding rights, we have every right to alter or abolish that government or at the very least severely criticize it.

The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice -- and always has been - Mark Twain's Notebook

Allen L Roland

Author's Website: http://www.allenroland.com

Author's Bio: Allen L Roland is a practicing psychotherapist, author and lecturer who also shares a daily political and social commentary on his weblog and website allenroland.com He also guest hosts a monthly national radio show TRUTHTALK on Conscious talk radio www.conscioustalk.net



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