"Going to where the silence is. That is the responsibility of a journalist: giving a voice to those who have been forgotten, forsaken, and beaten down by the powerful."
Amy Goodman, DemocracyNow.org
This month's "Political Commentary" is a series of quotes from sources of information/opinion that are persistently suppressed by our merged-to-the-hilt corporate newspapers, radio, and television, as well as by government-run "education."
Mania for Sport
French-born author and Sufi Muslim, Rene Guenon (1886-1951) sums up the "Anglo-Saxon mania for sport" that reaches a fever pitch every year with the Superbowl celebrations.
"There is no longer any place for intelligence, or anything else that is purely inward, for these are things that can neither be seen nor touched, that can neither be counted nor weighed; there is only place for outward action in all its forms, even those that are the most completely meaningless. For this reason it should not be a matter of surprise that the Anglo-Saxon mania for sport gains ground day by day: the ideal of the modern world is the 'human animal' who has developed his muscular strength to the highest pitch; its heroes are athletes, even though they be mere brutes; it is they who awaken popular enthusiasm, and it is their exploits that command the passionate interest of the crowd. A world in which such things are seen has indeed sunk low and seems near its end." (Crisis of the Modern World)
Words of prophecy? To borrow the mantra from Fox News, "We report. You decide."
What "Globalization" Really Means
For those who are fans of George Orwell's novel 1984 -- the term "corporate merger" is classic Orwellian double-speak. A "merger" is nothing more than a take-over of the many, i.e. the small fish, by the few, i.e., the big fish.
That brings us to the phenomenon of "globalization." Former Deputy Prime Minister of Canada -- and a Canadian institution in his own right -- Paul Hellyer, in his book "The Evil Empire: Globalization's Darker Side" (1997; available in your public library) addresses one of the great elephants in the living room of our society, i.e., the true agenda behind what mainstream media and education so innocuously refer to as "globalization." Mr. Hellyer characterizes the phenomenon in the preface to his book,
"Globalization is simply a code word to camouflage what is really going on. Globalization is not about trade, as its promoters would like us to believe, it is about power and control. It is an attempt by the largest international banks and multinational corporations to run the world their way, for their own benefit and by their own set of rules, rules that would allow them to undo a century of social progress and to alter the distribution of income from inequitable to inhuman. In fact the empire they plan would be an evil empire in the truest sense. It would be an empire where individual countries, especially the small ones, would lose the flexibility to pass good and humane laws in the interests of all the people. Gold would be the absolute monarch and goodness a mark of disloyalty. This evil empire is not a figment of the imagination. Plans are well advanced and it will become a reality unless we take immediate steps to stop it."
Royal Bush Dynasty
Reality, it seems, is something buried alive on a daily basis by mainstream media. It appears I will go to any length to dig up bits and pieces of it for my readers. Case in point: here's a Washington Times piece dated July 6, 1988 -- far more relevant today than it was back then. The article was entitled "Bush Related to Europe's Royal Blood", and reads as follows,
"Vice-President George Bush is a distant cousin of Queen Elizabeth II and has blood ties with every other European royal family on or off the throne, according to the publishing director of a blueblood directory ... Harold Brooks-Baker, an American who has made a name for himself analyzing royal lineages, especially where they link up with the White House.
"Without a shadow of a doubt, Vice-President George Bush is connected to more imperial, royal, and noble houses than any previous president."
This week [Mr. Brooks-Baker] released a copy of Mr. Bush's family tree traced by his directory, Burke's Peerage, back to the 1400's. It says that Mr. Bush is a long-lost relative -- 13th cousin twice removed -- of Britain's current monarch, and is a direct descendant of King Henry VII, of one of Charles II's mistresses and of Henry VIII's younger sister, Mary, who married King Louis XII of France ...
Mr. Brook Baker said that while very few Americans are descendants of European monarchy, "An unbelievably high proportion of American presidents are connected to the 'Blood Royal."
Mr. Bush is without doubt connected to more great royal families than any reigning head of state today except His Serene Highness Prince Franz Josef of Liechtenstein. The vice-president also is related to 21 of Britain's 26 dukes, he said."
Funny how this information hasn't come up once in mainstream news or education the past 20 years.
Microwaves and You
The following is a summary of a report by BBC News on findings pertaining to microwave ovens and health.
"Microwave ovens may be to blame for kick-starting the obesity epidemic in the USA, the UK, and Australia. Professor Jane Wardle, professor of clinical psychology at University College, London, says that obesity rates started to rise soon after 1984 -- around the time of the rapid spread in microwave oven ownership. The mid-1980s also saw the first ready-made meals appearing in shops.
In 1980, 8% of women and 6% of men were classified as obese. By 2004, this percentage had increased to more than a quarter of all women and men.
Children are also suffering from increased levels of obesity, with 16% of those aged 2-15 classed as obese in 2003 compared with 10-12% in 1995.
Professor Wardle said "I looked at the figures showing rates of obesity in the population over many years and it seemed very clear it began between 1984 and 1987. So then we looked at what changes were going on in the food activity world at that time , and one of the striking changes was there were differences in the speed with which we could prepare a meal as a consequence of the introduction of microwave ovens." http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6725775.stm
Black History?
French author Voltaire (1694-1778) once said, "History is the lie commonly agreed upon." Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul, speaking on Bill Maher's Real Time, exposed the "lie commonly agreed upon" that real agenda for the American Civil War was really the freeing of black slaves. The true agenda, to paraphrase his words, was to create a much larger federal govennment, i.e., in other words the subversion of the US constitution. Mr. Paul asked Mr. Maher if he had ever read Abraham Lincoln's true views on the subject of slavery. Here is a sampling of the views he was referring to.
Abraham Lincoln's Own Words on Slavery
"Free them, and make them politically and socially, our equals? My own feelings will not admit of this; and if mine would, we well know that those of the great mass of white people will not."
"There is no right, and ought to be no inclination in the people of the free States to enter into the slave States, and interfere with the question of slavery at all."
"Judge Douglas, and whoever like him teaches that the negro has no share, humble though it may be, in the Declaration of Independence, is going back to the era of our liberty and independence."
"It is nothing but a miserable perversion of what I have said, to assume that I have declared Missouri, or any other slave State shall emancipate her slaves. I have proposed no such thing."
"It does not follow that social and political equality between whites and blacks, must be incorporated, because slavery must not."
"I say that we must not interfere with the institution of slavery in the states where it exists, because the constitution forbids it, and the general welfare does not require us to do so."
"My paramount object in this struggle, is to save the Union and it not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it..."
"I have no purpose directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so."
(ref. http://academic.udayton.edu/race/02rights/slave07.htm)
Inflation
Inflation is a hidden tax. The nature and cause of inflation are addressed by Paul Hellyer in the above-mentioned book "The Evil Empire." But the pernicious effect of inflation on the average taxpayer are best summed up by a quote from author/historian G. Edward Griffin (The Creature from Jekyll Island").
"Inflation has now been institutionalized at a fairly constant 5% per year. This has been determined to be the optimum level for generating the most revenue without causing public alarm. A 5% devaluation applies, not only to the money earned this year, but to all that is left over from previous years. At the end of the first year, a dollar is worth 95 cents. At the end of the second year, the 95 cents is reduced again by 5%, leaving its worth at 90 cents, and so on. By the time a person has worked 20 years, the government will have confiscated 64% of every dollar he saved over those years. By the time he has worked 45 years, the hidden tax will be 90%. The government will take virtually everything a person saves over a lifetime."
On Education in General
All "education" institutions in our society are designed to turn students into employees. Ever wonder whether the entire education system is run by the employers? Social critic George Carlin recently referred to the education system as the churning out of "obedient workers."
As we humans are made in the image of their Creator -- we are creative beings. Sir Ken Robinson (recently knighted by the Queen of England) addresses the fundamental problem of education systems the world over, and how to fix it:
"Kids will take a chance: if kids don’t know, they have a go, am I right?
They’re not frightened of being wrong. I don’t mean to say that being wrong is the same thing as being creative. What I’m saying is, if you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original. By the time we get to be adults, most kids have lost that capacity: they have become frightened of being wrong.
We run our companies like this, by the way. We stigmatize mistakes. We’re now running national education systems where mistakes are the worst thing you can make. The result is, we are educating people out of their creative capacities. Picasso said 'All children are born artists. The problem is to remain an artist as we grow up.' I believe this passionately: that we don’t grow into creativity, we grow out of it, or rather, we get educated out of it."
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