US MSM ADVERTISING OF VIOLENCE AND FEAR = TERRORISM SERVES THE CORPORATE STATE

September 29, 2014 by concisepolitics

US MSM ADVERTISING OF VIOLENCE AND FEAR = TERRORISM SERVES THE CORPORATE STATE

Click for Source Article, “Terrorism Serves the State” by Brian Martin, Spet 29, 2014 on Truthout

Terrorism = Justify State Control and Power = Peaceful Negotiations have NO VOICE

Corporate MSM = Makes it nearly impossible to escape unending Homeland Terrorism threats so lets TERMINATE THEM.

At least in the Cold War the MSM could hype a plausible danger that a WMD could take out a city but Terrorism Kills FAR LESS THAN lightening does and much less than Accidental Suffocation in bed.

MSM found GOLD I TELL YA’ in BEHEADINGS and SUDDENLY FAKED NEW TERROR GROUPS that popup and disappear as needed. = NO hope of any “peace dividend” to improve human life on the Planet or save the Planet.

Terrorism and Beheadings = Ideal Corporate MSM pretext for REPRESSION OF DEMOCRACY and FREEDOM at HOME to prevent citizens from exercising their RIGHTS to having a JUST, HONEST, AND FAIR GOVERNMENT.

Terrorism unlike nuclear arsenals = NO serious threat to survival of populations or GOV

Terrorism = A government-corporate-generated hyped panic far beyond its objective seriousness.

GOV WEAPONS = Biggest dangers to human life = Genocides in Guatemala, Rwanda and ex-Yugoslavia, 2003 blockade of Iraq leading to a million deaths, millions killed in central African wars.

US CORPORATE MSM = Drums up shoe-bombers + Pants bombers

US CORPORATE MSM = GOES BALLISTIC about BEHEADINGS that happened 19 times in August 2014 in Saudi Arabia = WHO FUNDS ISIS(L) and FUNDED 9ll.

Terrorism = Focuses on threats from the OTHERS = Small non-state groups the WEST sells weapons to commit their murders.

USA MSM = Quiet as mice on USA mass killings and drone attacks and other USA forms of terror.

GOV SPYING = “to detect potential terrorist” = Collection of public INFORMATION for Corporate use.

Violent attacks by others generate a MSM spectacle but then BACKFIRE to provide even more pretext for ever more USA violence.

Alternatives to US MSM ADVERTISING OF VIOLENCE AND FEAR

Honest Peaceful Negotiations

Nonviolent action – including boycotts, strikes, sit-ins….

Social movements challenge repression, exploitation, corruption and abuses of power.

Remove physical threat to opponents, nonviolent movements.

Nonviolent movements pursue the same goals as armed movements.

MSM = LOVES ONLY VIOLENT MOVEMENTS and IGNORES NON-VIOLENT MOVEMENTS (suppresses support — virtually invisible — ZERO PROPER SUPPORT).

SOUTH AFRICA = Precedent for collecting public intelligence in its apartheid regime was boycotted. = BDS Movement in Israel = Boycott, Divest, and Sanctions

Promote peaceful social justice = To combat torture, exploitation, poverty, inequality and discrimination. The global justice movement is one of the most effective antidotes to the terrorist impulse.

End Funding Sources for Violence = Qatar + Saudis funding ISIS(L)

US MSM Role = PROMOTE CONCEPT OF TERROR TO AMERICANS

US MSM Role = Aid terrorists by quickly airing all their Slick Hollywood-Style Video and Madison Avenue-Style Propaganda as soon as Israel can get it distributed.

US MSM Role = Unlimited Publicity for Terrorists to Market FEAR AND VIOLENCE that is essential to their GOALS especially if it involves civilians or journalists to magnify the FEAR FACTOR.

US MSM Role = Amplifies Terrorist Violence to STRIKE FEAR and ANGER in the HEARTS of Americans = OBL’s primary goal is to BLEED AMERICA INTO BANKRUPTCY.

US MSM Role = Would never downplay or ignored terrorist attacks as the US CORPORATE GOV would crack down on the CORPORATE RUN MSM.

US MSM Role = Corporate Governments collude and pressure Corporate media not to report certain matters like death tolls caused by USA BOMMBS or SANCTIONS.

US MSM Role = Corporate Governments encourage giving unending attention terrorism and threats that justifies BOMBING and.or elaborate GOV SPYING systems.

US MSM OPTIONS = Peace journalism that gives attention to nonviolent alternatives — Perhaps the potential of social media can move to PEACEFUL Alternatives of MSM spreading VIOLENCE and FEAR.

MSM HYPE AND FEAR-MONGERING LIES TO AMERICANS = SERVED USA CORPORATE GOVERNMENTS NEED TO JUSTIFY BOMBING SYRIA

September 29, 2014 by concisepolitics

MSM HYPE AND FEAR-MONGERING LIES TO AMERICANS = SERVED USA CORPORATE GOVERNMENTS NEED TO JUSTIFY BOMBING SYRIA

Glenn Greenwald: Media Overhyped Khorasan Group Threat

Click for Source Article on The Intercept

MAKE UP A TERRORIST NAME AND HYPE THE THREAT! = fearsome powers = ‘a clear and present danger’

Glenn Greenwald lambasted MSM Overhype of sudden new threat to the world to justify the start of the bombing campaign in Syria – Then Khorasan narrative simply evaporated as quickly as it materialized.

THE FAKE TERROR THREAT HYPED BY USA MSM

MSM HYPE WORDS: Associated Press then CBS

USA GOV = difficulty of getting and sustaining public support – Uses Beheadings as common as TEXAS MURDERS and EXECUTIONS in Saudi Arabia

Khorasan group – Name refers to a province of Afghanistan.

Brand new terror threat!

FAR WORSE THAN ISIS!

An unprecedented threat!

Too radical even for Al Qaeda!

A secret group even scarier and more threatening than ISIS!

Poses a direct and immediate threat to the American Homeland!

Warn of this new shadowy, worse-than-ISIS terror group!

Band of extremists!

Mix of hardened jihadis poses a more direct and imminent threat to Americans!

Bomb-makers to target U.S. aviation!

Linked to veteran al-Qaida who did 9ll!

Sent by al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri to board a U.S.-bound airliners!

AP warned Americans!

“the fear is that the Khorasan militants will provide these sophisticated explosives to their Western recruits who could sneak them onto U.S.-bound flights.”

The Khorasan Group “is considered the more immediate threat.”

HIGHLY CLASSIFIED!

The need to protect Americans from being exploded in civilian jets! “ominous voice tones by host narrator on CBS”

We are learning of a new and growing terror threat from Syria Al Qaeda cell!

You probably never heard of them!

Nearly everything about them is classified.

SSome consider more dangerous than ISIS.

Orr announced that while ISIS is “dominating headlines and terrorist propaganda”

Orr “sources” warn of “a more immediate threat to the U.S. Homeland.”

CBS flashed alternating video showing scary Muslims in Syria with innocent westerners waiting in line at airports

U.S. officials ordered “enhanced screening” for “hidden explosives.”

Orr warns ”an emerging threat in Syria” where “hardened terrorists” are building “hard to detect bombs.

U.S. government, Orr explained, is trying to keep this all a secret!

Orr said UUS GOOV won’t even mention the group’s name in public!

Orr “sources confirm the Al Qaeda cell goes by the name Khorasan.”

Orr they’re “developing fresh plots to attack U.S. aviation.”

Obama administration officials publicly touting the group as the KNOWN LIAR James Clapper warned starkly: “In terms of threat to the homeland, Khorasan may pose as much of a danger as the Islamic State.”

MMSM — “Supreme Threat” — A big secret the government was trying to conceal.

NYT — “U.S. Suspects More Direct Threats Beyond ISIS…posed a more direct threat to America and Europe…Cell in Syria that may be the most intent on hitting the United States…led by a senior Qaeda operative so close to Bin Laden (he) knew about the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks before they were launched.”

The threat is “Members of the cell are said to be particularly interested in devising terror plots using concealed explosives.”

Khorasan-attacking-Americans alarm!

Daily Beast‘s Eli Lake warned, “American analysts had pieced together detailed information on a pending attack..”

“Use hard-to-detect explosives on airliners!”

“launch more-coordinated and larger attacks on the West in the style of the 9ll!”

Josh Rogin claimed, “Iran has long been harboring senior al Qaeda, al Nusra, and so-called Khorasan Group leaders as part of its complicated strategy.”

Richard Engel tweeted “Khorasan is a threst to USbecause it aims to bring down airplanes with explosives!”

NBC Nightly News — “The New Enemy!” with Engel “it wants to bring down airplanes with explosives.”

CNN claimed, ”the group was actively plotting against a U.S. homeland target and Western targets!” say anonymous sources said the group posed an “imminent” threat.

CNN later said the threat was not imminent.

“The plots were believed to be in an advanced stage!

“Militants obtained materials and were working on new improvised explosive devices!”

“The terrorist group even planned to conceal explosive devices in toothpaste or flammable clothing!”

Holder claimed: “they were getting close to an execution date!”

CNN’s Barbara Starr, “all necessary to stop a Khorasan attack very close to being carried out against the west!”

CNN: “Khorasan Al Qaeda veterans planning an attack against the US homeland and Europe — perhaps in its final stages — of planning that attack.”

Obama claims, “Once again, it must be clear to anyone who would plot against America and try to do Americans harm that we will not tolerate safe havens for terrorists who threaten our people.”

Then Pentagon claimed airstrike killed “the Khorasan leader!”

Once Khorasan served its purpose of justifying the bombing in Syria it simply evaporated as quickly as it materialized – “No Credible Evidence” of plan to attack USA.

September 25, NYT just days after hyping the Khorasan threat to the homeland — Noted how little evidence actually existed for all those claims about imminent threats to the homeland: “One senior American official…said that there did not yet seem to be a concrete plan in the works.”

FEW DAYS = MSM went from “perhaps in its final stages of planning its attack” to “there did not yet seem to be a concrete plan in the works.”

James Comey, FBI director = acknowledged U.S. did not have precise intelligence – “I don’t know exactly what that word means…’imminent’” — a rather consequential admission given that said imminence was used as the justification for launching military action in the first place.

Even more remarkable — The very existence of the “Khorasan Group” was an invention of the American government. NBC’s Engel had serious second thoughts about the group’s existence. Nexus found no existence prior to the HYPE September 13, 2014. Comey said as much.

Former terrorism federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy wrote in NEW article in National Review that the group was a scam: “You haven’t heard of the Khorasan Group because there isn’t one.”

What happened here is all-too-familiar propagandistic rationale for bombing = ISIS beheading videos from Israeli source + FAKED Khorasan

“never-before-heard-of group that was Worse Than ISIS = “hardened terrorists,” posed an “imminent” threat to the U.S. homeland + “final stages” of plots to take down U.S. civilian aircraft + could “launch more-coordinated and larger attacks on the West in the style of the 9ll.”

ALL based on Anonymous sources and almost no evidence for any of this. MSM did their JOB OF LYING TO AMERICANS to HYPE YET ANOTHER WAR while pretending the U.S. government was trying not to talk about all of this — too secret!

Once the damage was done, the evidence quickly emerged about what a sham this all was. But, as always with these government/media propaganda campaigns, the truth emerges only when it’s impotent.

CLIMATE CHANGE SOLUTIONS

September 28, 2014 by concisepolitics

It’s Time to Act on the Climate Crisis September 21, 2014

Panel on Urgency of climate change

Click for Video of Climate Change Panel on The Real News Network

Chris Hedges
Naomi Klein
Bill McKibben
Kshama Sawant, Seattle Council member
Senator Bernie Sanders

This sculpture by Issac Cordal in Berlin is called “Politicians discussing global warming.”

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Click for Source Review of Naomi Kleinn — “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate” in Guardian

SOLUTION = Fair world-level regulation of Climate.

Capitalism = Whole point is to find resources and exploit them = Extractivism

Politics = Law and democratic structures = Politicians must do what people want.

Capital learned = Disaster is a cash cow = IRAQ TWICE + Katrina + NOW Climate Change

Capital = Separates humans from the world around

Our great collective misfortune = Just as leaders started waking up to Climate Change in 1990s = in Parallel we had WTO + NAFTA + hyperactive deregulation + Tax-cutting + Privatization of public Duties + TERROR WARS = Climate movement, “struggling, sputtering, failing utterly” and corporate globalization, “zooming from victory to victory”.

Climate movement = Use capital to get real

“Sacrifice zones” = Places most depredated by climate: “Poor out-of-the-way places where residents lack political power = Race + Language + Class WARFARE

In Rich world = Most people ignore the dwindling of nature in their parks and gardens. OR They are so sickened, they have to stop noticing right away = People are WORN OUT!

Marshall Plan for the Earth = NOT an abstract, sciencey matter = Far too important to be left to the knit-your-owns.

SOLUTION = “a politics based on reconnection” involve real, ordinary, active humans, working in properly modern, complex societies.

Green industries = Renewable energy and public transport = More labor-intensive than fossil-fuels = Massive “job creator as well as a community builder and source of hope.”

“IS EARTH FUCKED?” by Brad Werner models the likely progress of “earth-human systems” towards various unpleasant outcomes unless “people or groups of people” resist.

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CHRIS HEDGES TELLS IT LIKE IT IS ON CLIMATE CHANGE!

The Last Gasp of Climate Change Liberals by Chris Hedges Sept 2014

Click for Source Article by Chris Hedges on TruthDig

Climate change March in NYC Sept. 21, 2014 = Last gasps of conventional liberalism’s response to the climate crisis = 2 days before UN gathering of World Representatives in NYC called by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to discuss the November 2015 U.N. Climate Conference in Paris.

Marchers = Will dutifully follow Route laid down by NYC Police.

No one will reach the UN BUILDING + NO speeches + NO List of demands = A climate-themed street fair. Some of the groups backing the march are little more than corporate fronts.

The Climate Group Endorsing March = Members = BP + China Mobile + Dow Chemical + Duke Energy + HSBC + Goldman + JPM + Greenstone

Environmental Defense Fund = “work[s] with companies rather than against them”

Faux environmental organizations = Designed to neutralize GOALS = Exposes the march’s failure to adopt a meaningful agenda or pose a genuine threat to power.
RADICAL GROUPS = Our only hope = Global Climate Convergence and Popular Resistance. = Real fight will come once people disperse on 11th Avenue.

Kevin Zeese of Popular Resistance = We need direct action against the UN during the meeting = Blockades and Disruption of the meeting itself + Highlight the fact UN has sold out to corporate interests Logos on display + UN last meeting on climate change in Poland — Held a simultaneous conference to promote coal as a clean energy source. = UN meetings = Corporate trade shows hijacking meetings to promote corporate interests. Obama announced continuing USA stance of voluntary climate goals.

Fossil fuel industry = ExxonMobil to Koch author our legislation = Stacked the courts with their judges and the airwaves with their PROPAGANDISTS + Fund our scientific research and have effectively silenced dissidents = CONTROLUnited Nations setting up in UN exhibition halls to profit from the climate crisis = “clean” coal + biofuel + nuclear power + WORST OF ALL carbon trading.

Counter narrative = REPRESSED at 2009 climate summit in Copenhagen = Swiftly silenced by U.N. security = Fences + Security Barriers + Protesters herded by police + Controlled “free speech” zones outside = NYC ruthlessly dealt BLOWS TO OCCUPY + Physically removing journalists and Photographers = U.N. demands preapproved wording for T-shirts worn at its gatherings. = Elitists attending U.N. summits have no intention of GIVING AN INCH of their wealth, power and privilege = MONEY RULES and PEOPLE DO NOT FIT their equation.

FACT: USA + EUROPEAN democracy = Elaborate public relations charade = Ifwe accept this charade we are irrelevant.

Understand power = Waged on two fronts = Disrupt the machinery of corporate capitalism + Build parallel, autonomous structures for self-governance that address basic needs such as food and green energy.

Capitalism = System of economic exploitation justified by hijacking the ruling political and economic ideologies for ceaseless expansion and commodification of the natural world and human beings. = A battle for ideas as well as a battle for power.

BETTER SOLUTION = Peaceful incremental reform in which elected politicians representing the People that elected them will VOTE for laws that thwart corporate abuse + A United Nations that serves the interests of people around the globe rather than corporate profit + Vigorous, open and free debate in the public arena + A judiciary that is NOT a wholly owned subsidiary of the corporate state + Freedom to express dissent without GOV monitoring + Where Basic civil liberties are protected = But we do NOT LIVE in such a system.

MULTINATIONAL CORPORATE STATE = Response to climate change = Pass a series of Draconian laws and set up a vast security and surveillance apparatus that obliterates our privacy + Allows us to be snatched off the streets by the military and held without due process in indefinite detention + Criminalizes dissent + Criminal state holds in its hands the legal and physical tools to shut us down.

MULTINATIONAL CORPORATE STATE = Response to climate change is not to alter course, but to silence any who resist.

Sacrifice zone (West Virginia + Indian Reservations) activists have learned something many Americans have yet to understand—corporations are willing to poison Earth and all of its inhabitants for profit = NO limits. = Despair + Joblessness + High cancer rates + Loss of hope + Increased state repression + NO POWER = Often retreat into drugs and alcohol, the only way for many to blunt the pain

MULTINATIONAL CORPORATE STATE = As the environment devolves, the planet becomes one vast sacrifice zone.

NYT published a new UN report on Climate Change:

“Runaway growth on the emission of greenhouse gases is swamping all political efforts to deal with the problem, raising the risk of “severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts” over the coming decades..Global warming is already cutting grain production by several percentage points… Higher seas, devastating heat waves, torrential rain and other climate extremes are also being felt around the world as a result of human emissions…The world may already be nearing a temperature at which the loss of the vast ice sheet covering Greenland would become inevitable..it would be unstoppable and could result in a sea level rise of 23 feet, with additional increases from other sources like melting Antarctic ice, potentially flooding the world’s major cities.”
The rising carbon emissions and the extraction of tar sands—and since the industry has figured out how to transport tar sands without building the northern leg of the Keystone XL pipeline, this delivery seems assured—will continue no matter how many police-approved marches are held.

FACT: Play by the rules and we lose. ORGANIZED WORK STOPPAGE + Breach police barricades + Jail time + Direct confrontation + Physically disrupting the corporate machinery + Severing ourselves from the dominant culture to build small, self-sustaining communities + Refuse to do what we are told + Turn from a liberal agenda of reform to embrace a radical agenda of revolt.