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There is the fringe element in Barbados who continue to be dissatisfied with the operandus of how news is disseminated. The reality appears to be the willingness of our population to be fed sanitized news by the Rhelm of the Fourth Estate, a stinging indictment on our democracy. In case we have forgotten, a democracy is only a democracy when ordinary citizens participate. Barbadians can be consoled to the fact that the control of the Fourth Estate is a global reality and one which John Citizen has been on the shitty end for sometime now.

We miss the weekly columns which flowed from the fearless pen of the late Gladston Holder, who wrote ad nauseam about the clandestine workings of the Council of Foreign Relations (CFR). Unfortunately since his death not one single media practitioner has dared to walk his trail. Some of us in the BU household, many years after his death, suffer from chronic fits of convulsion caused by the void of his departure. His legacy which has been created by a relentless quest to discover and expose the truth which is usually masked by the ‘establishment’ will probably linger for generations to come (we know that there is a book which has a collection of his best writings).

This week a member of the BU household had an encounter with the media in Barbados which reinforced our cynicism in that most noble profession. It reminded us why we decided to start the Barbados Underground. Whatever happens we feel vindicated that as individuals who have benefited from some level of education offered by Barbados, we have found the courage to overcome the real fear of advocating opinions which sometimes are anti-establishment. We are sad when the Carl Moores (albeit retired) of the profession allow themselves to become nothing more than pawns in the grand scheme of things. We were reminded by a view held by Mohamed Nassar of how many Barbadians have failed education.

For those of you who are not familiar with the Council of Foreign Relations (CFR) which is a topic the late Gladston Holder wrote at length about, you can become enlightened by viewing the short video presentation.

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34 responses to “Barbadians Continue To Soldier On”

  1. freewilly Avatar
    freewilly

    The world as we know it is coming to an end…when i say as we know it i mean us as “free people” will no longer be free.Bottom line stop watching channels like Fox news that are bias and have an agenda ..that agenda,is to keep the American public brainwashed until it’s time to call marshal law,put the Verichip in their hands and return to Facism..remember Hitler and how he did things right?..that is where we are heading my friends..history repeating itself once again.

  2. Green Monkey Avatar
    Green Monkey

    MOCKINGBIRD
    The Subversion Of The Free Press By The CIA

    “You could get a journalist cheaper than a good call girl, for a couple hundred dollars a month.” – CIA operative discussing with Philip Graham, editor Washington Post, on the availability and prices of journalists willing to peddle CIA propaganda and cover stories. “Katherine The Great,” by Deborah Davis (New York: Sheridan Square Press, 1991)

    As terrible as it is to live in a nation where the press in known to be controlled by the government, at least one has the advantage of knowing the bias is present, and to adjust for it. In the United States of America, we are taught from birth that our press is free from such government meddling. This is an insideous lie about the very nature of the news institution in this country. One that allows the government to lie to us while denying the very fact of the lie itself.

    The Alex Constantine Article:

    Tales from the Crypt, The Depraved Spies and Moguls of the CIA’s Operation MOCKINGBIRD
    by Alex Constantine

    Who Controls the Media?

    Soulless corporations do, of course. Corporations with grinning,double-breasted executives, interlocking directorates, labor squabblesand flying capital. Dow. General Electric. Coca-Cola. Disney. Newspapers should have mastheads that mirror the world: The Westinghouse Evening Scimitar, The Atlantic-Richfield Intelligentser. It is beginning to dawn on a growing number of armchair ombudsmen that the public print reports news from a parallel universe – one that has never heard of politically-motivated assassinations, CIA-Mafia banking thefts, mind control, death squads or even federal agencies with secret budgets fattened by cocaine sales – a place overrun by lone gunmen, where the CIA and Mafia are usually on their best behavior. In this idyllic land, the most serious infraction an official can commit – is a the employment of a domestic servant with (shudder) no residency status.

    This unlikely land of enchantment is the creation of MOCKINGBIRD.

    It was conceived in the late 1940s, the most frigid period of the cold war, when the CIA began a systematic infiltration of the corporate media, a process that often included direct takeover of major news outlets.

    SNIP

    Most consumers of the corporate media were – and are – unaware of the effect that the salting of public opinion has on their own beliefs. A network anchorman in time of national crisis is an instrument of psychological warfare in the MOCKINGBIRD media. He is a creature from the national security sector’s chamber of horrors. For this reason consumers of the Corporate press have reason to examine their basic beliefs about government and life in the parallel universe of these United States.

    http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/MOCK/mockingbird.html

  3. freewilly Avatar
    freewilly

    classic examples:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqS7jK6E6h8

  4. Green Monkey Avatar
    Green Monkey

    18 Tales of Media Censorship

    By Michelle Goldberg, AlterNet. Posted April 1, 2002.

    Between them, the authors of the incendiary new book “Into the Buzzsaw,” out this month from Prometheus, have won nearly every award journalism has to give — a Pulitzer, several Emmys, a Peabody, a prize from Investigative Reporters and Editor, an Edward R. Murrorw and several accolades from the Society of Professional Journalists. One is veteran of the Drug Enforcement Administration and a best-selling author, another is a Nieman Fellow at Harvard.

    And most of them are considered, at best, marginal by the mainstream media. At worst, they’ve been deemed incompetent and crazy for having the audacity to uncover evidence of high crimes and misdemeanors committed by government agencies and corporate octopi.

    Edited by ex-CBS producer Kristina Borjesson, “Into the Buzzsaw” is a collection of essays, mostly by serious journalists excommunicated from the media establishment for tackling subjects like the CIA’s role in drug smuggling, lies perpetuated by the investigators of TWA flight 800, POWs rotting in Vietnam, a Korean war massacre, the disenfranchisement of black voters in Bush’s election, bovine growth hormone’s dangers and a host of other unpopular issues.

    Borjesson describes “the buzzsaw” as “what can rip through you when you try to investigate or expose anything this country’s large institutions — be they corporate or government — want to keep under wraps. The system fights back with official lies, disinformation, and stonewalling. Your phone starts acting funny. Strange people call you at strange hours to give you strange information. The FBI calls you. Your car is broken into and the thief takes your computer and your reporter’s notebook and leaves everything else behind … The sense of fear and paranoia is, at times, overwhelming.”

    http://www.alternet.org/story/12753/

    From the Inside Flap
    Here for the first time in the history of American journalism, almost two dozen award-winning print and TV journalists have collaborated to produce a book of devastating essays about the dangerous state of American journalism today. Writing in riveting, often gut-wrenching detail about their personal experiences with the “buzzsaw”–concerted corporate and/or government efforts to kill their controversial stories and their careers–the contributors to INTO THE BUZZSAW reveal the awesome depth and breadth of censorship in America today. Their essays portray a press corps that regularly engages in self-censorship and attacks reporters who come under fire for not doing so. They describe a Fourth Estate that has largely relinquished its watchdog role and that has been coopted by corporate and government powers. The bigger picture is that of a press actively contributing to the demise of democracy in America.

    Collectively, these essays paint a picture that is as vivid and shocking as it is utterly credible. Riveting first-person accounts detail what these investigative reporters risked and what they uncovered about the government’s investigation into the crash of TWA Flight 800; the CIA’s involvement in the War on Drugs; the U.S. military’s efforts to cover up the massacre of hundreds of civilians during the Korean War, and the conspiracy to court-martial a returning POW from Vietnam; the writing on the wall foreshadowing the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001; and much, much more.

    If you want to know what’s really going on in our nation’s corridors of power, or if you read or watch the news on a regular basis, this book is indispensable. One thing is certain: after finishing INTO THE BUZZSAW, you will never again see or hear the news in the same way.

    http://www.amazon.com/Into-Buzzsaw-Leading-Journalists-Expose/dp/1573929727

    If you have a high speed connection, watch this Youtube snip (below) from the Canadian documentary “The Corporation” where a couple of Fox investigative journalist, Steve Wilson and Jane Akre, explain how they got fired (after attempts to bribe them failed) when their TV station and Fox came under pressure from Monsanto to quash their planned TV documentary report on the human and animal health problems associated with Monsanto’s Bovine Growth Hormone product. The product was sold to US farmers (it could not get regulatory approval in Canada and Europe) to increase milk production in dairy cows.

    What is really significant about their particular case is that initially they won an unfair dismissal case against the station under Florida’s whistle blower protection act. However, the ruling was overturned on appeal when the appeals court ruled that their employer was under no legal obligation to tell the truth in its news programming and therefore they were not protected by the provisions of the whistle blower act.

    It absolutely boggles the mind that there are so many people out there who swallow without a hiccup the Fox “fair and balanced” crapola.

    Ask yourself how many other journalists are there that we don’t know about who have been placed in a similar situation and succumbed to the bribery or figured that je0pardising their kids’ college fund and their pension plan or having to risk losing their house after getting fired would not be worth the hassle and decided to just “go with the flow”.

    Here is the snip where Steve Wilson and Jane Akre explain how they got fired:

    You can also watch the whole documentary The Corporation at the link below (it’s in 3 episodes of roughly one hour each):

    The Corporation (2003)

    “Since the late 18th century American legal decision that the business corporation organizational model is legally a person, it has become a dominant economic, political and social force around the globe. This film takes an in-depth psychological examination of the organization model through various case studies. What the study illustrates is that in the its behaviour, this type of “person” typically acts like a dangerously destructive psychopath without conscience. Furthermore, we see the profound threat this psychopath has for our world and our future, but also how the people with courage, intelligence and determination can do to stop it.” -imdb.com

    http://www.moviesfoundonline.com/corporation.php

  5. Adrian Hinds Avatar
    Adrian Hinds

    freewilly // May 1, 2008 at 5:44 am

    The world as we know it is coming to an end…when i say as we know it i mean us as “free people” will no longer be free.Bottom line stop watching channels like Fox news that are bias and have an agenda ..that agenda,is to keep the American public brainwashed until it’s time to call marshal law,put the Verichip in their hands and return to Facism..remember Hitler and how he did things right?..that is where we are heading my friends..history repeating itself once again.
    =================================

    Are you serious? Foxnews is the most open source of reporting on American TV.

  6. Adrian Hinds Avatar
    Adrian Hinds

    BU where and or how can i get a copy of this Gladstone Holder book. The truth is that i could never understand his writings, and would often give up in fustration, now that i am older i am willing to give them another go. I don’t hold out much hope of learning anything beyond good grammar and spelling which i don’t really care for, but we will see.

    The video: I do believe that there is consolidation of interest to control the world’s assets but i don’t believe that this CFR has the reach that the video is suggesting. A lot of the mergers mentioned occured after Gladstone Holder died, and where finanacial failures as well. If true that the CFR sought and gain control of the largest American Newspaper and later control of the Broadcast companies, it certainly cannot be of much benefit today, as the majority of large American papers continue to hemerage sales and subcribers. Americans have long abandon the print media except for Sundays when there is an abundance saving coupons. Everybody in America is publishing and therefore there is no longer any control of the kind this CFR is rumoured to have had and may still have. Case in point it was the independence of blogs that brought down Dan Rather, one of the mentioned CFR members. On top of all of this where is the BBC, and the British base Economist magazine in all of this? Did they sit by and allow this domination?

  7. Green Monkey Avatar
    Green Monkey

    Are you serious? Foxnews is the most open source of reporting on American TV.

    You have got to be kidding right? Please tell me you just forgot to add the “sarcasm” tag.

  8. Adrian Hinds Avatar
    Adrian Hinds

    Green Monkey // May 1, 2008 at 10:01 am

    Are you serious? Foxnews is the most open source of reporting on American TV.

    You have got to be kidding right? Please tell me you just forgot to add the “sarcasm” tag.
    =================================

    Well tell me what is the most open source of reporting on American TV. Let me compare.

    Let me make a distinction here, I am refering to Fox cable news, and you maybe discussing the activity at a Fox news affilliate in Florida both own by the same parent company but have completely seperate editorial oversight. By the way I don’t watch the Fox providence (wnac-tv) or MyFox Boston (wfxt) both local fox affiliates in my neck of the woods.

  9. Green Monkey Avatar
    Green Monkey

    For any BU reader who might take it seriously when AH states “Foxnews is the most open source of reporting on American TV“, may I suggest you watch the documentary Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism.

    You can view it online at the link below:

    “Outfoxed” examines how media empires, led by Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News, have been running a “race to the bottom” in television news. This film provides an in-depth look at Fox News and the dangers of ever-enlarging corporations taking control of the public’s right to know.”

    http://www.moviesfoundonline.com/outfoxed.php

  10. Adrian Hinds Avatar
    Adrian Hinds

    But GM if Fox CABLE news is not the most open source reporting on American TV then who is??? I need know, as I need to be watching them.

  11. freewilly Avatar
    freewilly

    Let me be more specific for the sheep that are asleep,the New World Order controls the media,therefore what we see on television and the press and the internet mostly is fabricated news to suit an agenda..that agenda is to have a microchipped population,de-populating the earth right now of at least 2 billion people through wars,famine,disease and basically forming a One World Government run as they wish,they meaning big corporations and bloodline families who are dead set on controlling the earth until the end of time.

    They consist of mostly of the organizations we are familiar with,The World Bank,IMF,The United Nations,all the types of institutions are run by the NWO..and as i said their main goal is global dominance,research and enlighten youselves.

  12. no name Avatar
    no name

    freewilly,

    “global dominance”

    Someone I hold in high regard told me that this would happen in my lifetime (which is far more than half gone).

    Who wants to believe it will happen in our lifetime? Looks like we should start believing and, more importantly, those of us who have not yet started, start getting our houses in order.

    The master plan for the World is becoming more obvious.

    Our knees need to be calloused.

  13. Adrian Hinds Avatar
    Adrian Hinds

    wait wait i thought George Bush senior ushered in the New World order? It is yet to come???? No name how do we get our house in order? what must we do???

  14. no name Avatar
    no name

    Adrian Hinds,

    Ensure our consciences are clear and do what we know we should.

  15. Linchh Avatar
    Linchh

    David:

    I feel your pain
    But then, again
    Why are you standing in the rain?
    Perhaps, your sense is down the drain,
    While the rest of you has gone to Spain,
    And falling, calling, gives no gain,
    But just a sad refrain.
    (With apologies to everyone who loves poultry!!)

    ***************************************
    “We miss the weekly columns which flowed from the fearless pen of the late Gladston Holder, who wrote ad nauseam about the clandestine workings of the Council of Foreign Relations (CFR).”

    I have to confess that I am happy to miss GH’s columns. You see, in his other life he was, among other things, the Government’s Chief Information Officer, but EWB, the PM of the day did not have the slightest interest in anything that Holder wished to produce. As a brash young man I once asked Holder how did he plan to overcome negative public response to what he produced, when members of the listening public turned off their radios/tv sets as soon as they heard the GIS signature tune.

    The masthead logo of the New York Times newspaper proclaims “All the News that’s fit to print”. Maybe, the theme of the media in Barbados should be all the news that is fit to read, or hear, or listen to. But who decides what’s fit, fat, or fiddlesticks? Isn’t that the real question?

  16. Ian Bourne Avatar
    Ian Bourne

    4th Estate Matters from a Bajan askance – I saw CM at a Geo Lamming lecture and said he took real blows from the blogs and he huffed that he gave back some good ones, Ho Hum, LOL!

    See how BFP had the Ghanaian rape matter 7 days before the Nation?

    This is why blogs are disliked, we dare to unearth what is there as it happens, before the dead-trees or tv & radio whose souls are stored very securely at the Company Store

  17. Indo-Guyanese Avatar
    Indo-Guyanese

    Wow!. People like Adrian can make sense sometime but simply plays the ass when it come to racial issues, especially regarding indians.

    So pathetic!

  18. Chris Halsall Avatar
    Chris Halsall

    My humble opinion of the most open source news available in the US (and here in Bim):

    PBS — http://www.pbs.org/
    BBC — http://www.bbc.co.uk/
    CBC — http://www.cbc.ca/

    Note that none of the above are heavily dependent upon advertising revenue…. Simply correlative, or causal?

  19. Adrian Hinds Avatar
    Adrian Hinds

    Indo-Guyanese // May 1, 2008 at 12:23 pm

    Wow!. People like Adrian can make sense sometime but simply plays the ass when it come to racial issues, especially regarding indians.

    So pathetic!
    ================================
    Indo, wuh um is that you selling and that i refuse to buy? 😀

  20. Adrian Hinds Avatar
    Adrian Hinds

    no name // May 1, 2008 at 11:59 am

    Adrian Hinds,

    Ensure our consciences are clear and do what we know we should.
    =================================

    Make sure our conscience is clear? as in empty our thoughts and become blank slates??? If we do that on what or who’s instructions can begin to do what we know we should do??????

  21. Adrian Hinds Avatar
    Adrian Hinds

    Ian Bourne // May 1, 2008 at 12:16 pm

    4th Estate Matters from a Bajan askance – I saw CM at a Geo Lamming lecture and said he took real blows from the blogs and he huffed that he gave back some good ones, Ho Hum, LOL!

    See how BFP had the Ghanaian rape matter 7 days before the Nation?

    This is why blogs are disliked, we dare to unearth what is there as it happens, before the dead-trees or tv & radio whose souls are stored very securely at the Company Store
    =================================

    Ian my friend. 😀 How are you? I hope you notice that as much as i does cuss you, and will continue too, 😀 that i use your good work at your current location to “show up” Carl Moore’s lack of traction in his presidentcy of the quieter Barbados organization. Did he attempt to get ideas from you? He should.

  22. Sam Gamgee Avatar
    Sam Gamgee

    Culture of ‘bondage’
    Published on: 5/1/08.

    by TREVOR YEARWOOD

    THE CARIBBEAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION (CBC) is short-changing Barbadians as it seeks to capture the attention of youths in its programmes.

    Barbadian novelist George Lamming made this charge on Tuesday night, after delivering a lecture in a series sponsored by the Barbados Community College (BCC).

    In the lecture, the author of the classic In The Castle Of My Skin spoke of a need to “decolonise” Barbadians’ eating habits and advised caution for those seeking “First World status” for the developing nation.

    Responding to questions and comments after the lecture, Lamming told the gathering in the Grand Salle of the Tom Adams Financial Centre that his beef with CBC was its caricature of the Bajan language in its programmes.

    “The fuss I make is when I hear the oral tradition being caricatured by people who think if you make it sound ordinary and ordinary and ordinary, the more popular [it becomes] . . . .

    “I regret I have to say I think CBC has been one of the greatest betrayals of public trust.

    “This attempt to catch something called the youth, to catch the youth, to catch the youth . . . has forced them into all sorts of nonsense.”

    CBC did not realise “that the youths are really casualties of the market, that that easy access . . . which the consumer society has given to things has actually put a whole generation into a new kind of bondage”, he added.

    Quality of life

    In the lecture focusing on Nation, Culture And The School, Lamming noted the frequently made statements
    about the need to have Barbados upgraded to a First World nation.

    “These statements are [usually] made by people who fail to recognise that in those areas you call First World the phenomenal increase in standards of living reveals a corresponding decline in the quality of life,” Lamming said.

    He also touched on Barbados’ high food import bill and the need to change consumption patterns.

    “How do you decolonise the eating habits of the people who have surrendered their palates to foreign control?” he asked.

    “I live in an island where the synonym of breakfast is Kellogg’s. How do we reverse that? It can’t really be done by legislation.

    “It has to be done by some revolution, some turning upside down of the way in which you see yourself,” he added.

    Lamming saw it as “most unfortunate” to arouse the expectations of local farmers and then force them to engage in a rivalry with imported food, much of it largely subsidised.

    He complained that despite a fertile sea and land with the potential to meet basic food needs Caribbean people had surrendered their cultural sovereignty.

    “There is a crisis in cultural sovereignty when patterns of consumption bear little relation to basic needs and cannot
    be supported by the productive base of the societies,” he said.

  23. Green Monkey Avatar
    Green Monkey

    AH said:

    Let me make a distinction here, I am refering to Fox cable news, and you maybe discussing the activity at a Fox news affilliate in Florida both own by the same parent company but have completely seperate editorial oversight. By the way I don’t watch the Fox providence (wnac-tv) or MyFox Boston (wfxt) both local fox affiliates in my neck of the woods.

    The two reporters in question say that threats of lawsuits and withdrawal of advertising were made to the Fox owned TV station as well as to Fox in general. You would have thought if you listened to how right wing, republican blowhards carry on about the benefits of the US system vs. the totalitarian controls on free speech and freedom of the press in nasty, dictatorial commie states like those run by Castro and Chavez, Fox would have used their corporate resources to stand behind the TV station’s reporters and get this important story on the air to inform Americans of the dangerous crap Monsanto was putting into the food supply instead of folding to Monsanto’s heavy handed threats. However, thanks to the internet at least you can till find out what Fox and Monsanto don’t want you to know. Just go to this website http://www.foxbghsuit.com/ where Jane Akre and Steve Wilson have posted some information regarding the issues they were researching re. rBGH in the US milk supply.

    BTW, If Fox is all that great a news source, how would you account for this story (I can bet this is one story that was not covered by the well coiffed, bloviating gasbags and flag lapel-pin wearing, faux-patriots at Faux News):

    A new study by the Pew Research Study shows that viewers of the Daily Show and the Colbert Report have the highest knowledge of national and international affairs, while Fox News viewers rank nearly dead last:

    snip

    The results about Fox News echo findings of previous surveys. In 2003, University of Maryland researchers studied the public’s belief in three false claims — that Iraq possessed WMD, that Iraq was involved in 9/11, and that there was international support for the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.

    The researchers stated, “The extent of Americans’ misperceptions vary significantly depending on their source of news. Those who receive most of their news from Fox News are more likely than average to have misperceptions.” Fox News viewers were “three times more likely than the next nearest network to hold all three misperceptions.”

    http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/16/daily-show-fox-knowledge/

    AH said:

    But GM if Fox CABLE news is not the most open source reporting on American TV then who is??? I need know, as I need to be watching them.

    Hate to break it to you AH, but none of them can be trusted. They are not called corporate media whores for nothing. A few corporate conglomerates (some of them with interests in the arms making “defense” industries) basically own and control 90% of the US media outlets these days and while they may or may not overtly set the agenda as to what news will make it to air and how it will be presented, it’s not like the journalists and reporters would need to get detailed instructions as to how to handle stories every day, (unless they blatantly step off the reservation like the two at Fox) . I would think a junior reporter will quickly get a handle on what types of stories and what slants on stories get approval from the bosses and pats on the back and bring on pay raises and promotions and what stories and slants on coverage result in him/her spending a career covering the equivalent of the debates at city hall on funding for new garbage trucks etc.

    In 1983, 50 corporations controlled the vast majority of all news media in the U.S. At the time, Ben Bagdikian was called “alarmist” for pointing this out in his book, The Media Monopoly. In his 4th edition, published in 1992, he wrote “in the U.S., fewer than two dozen of these extraordinary creatures own and operate 90% of the mass media” — controlling almost all of America’s newspapers, magazines, TV and radio stations, books, records, movies, videos, wire services and photo agencies. He predicted then that eventually this number would fall to about half a dozen companies. This was greeted with skepticism at the time. When the 6th edition of The Media Monopoly was published in 2000, the number had fallen to six. Since then, there have been more mergers and the scope has expanded to include new media like the Internet market. More than 1 in 4 Internet users in the U.S. now log in with AOL Time-Warner, the world’s largest media corporation.

    In 2004, Bagdikian’s revised and expanded book, The New Media Monopoly, shows that only 5 huge corporations — Time Warner, Disney, Murdoch’s News Corporation, Bertelsmann of Germany, and Viacom (formerly CBS) — now control most of the media industry in the U.S. General Electric’s NBC is a close sixth.

    http://www.corporations.org/media/

    “The modern susceptibility to conformity and obedience to authority indicates that the truth endorsed by authority is likely to be accepted as such by a majority of people, who are innately obedient to authority. This obedience-truth will then become a consensus-truth accepted by many individuals unable to stand alone against the majority. In this way, the truth promulgated by the propaganda system – however irrational – stands a good chance of becoming the consensus, and may come to seem self-evident common sense.”

    David Edwards, author of Burning All Illusions

    http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Media_control_propaganda/Media_Control.html

    I’ll just leave you with this snip from an article by Norman Livergood PhD, a former department head at the US Army War College where he researched and wrote papers on topics like brainwashing, psychological warfare, mind control etc.

    Brainwashing America

    The puppet Bush regime is using new, aggressive forms of brainwashing to change the very way Americans think and feel.

    This is the psychological dimension of the demonic cabal’s general onslaught against American workers, just as the “war on terrorism” is the military dimension and corporate crime and tax cuts for the rich comprise the economic dimension.

    We are living under the beginning stages of a military dictatorship in precisely the same way that 1930s Germans suffered under the Nazi regime.

    As in the case of Nazi Germany, state-sponsored propaganda (brainwashing) is a vital part of the Bush regime’s strategy.

    New propaganda slogans are being overtly and subliminally implanted by Bush and his gang through their speeches and actions:

    * Dissent is treason

    * Constitutional liberties are less important than security

    * The “war on terrorism” excuses any attack on civil liberties

    * The Bush administration has the right and the duty to bring about “regime change” in any nation it chooses

    * The economy is basically sound

    * Only a few bad apples are found in the corporate barrel, which requires no new oversight laws

    * If Bush and Cheney say they’re not guilty of corporate crimes, then believe it and shut up

    * It’s okay to lie about weapons of mass destruction as a pretext of starting a pre-emptive war against Iraq

    * The election in 2004 was completely fair and legal

    * Karl Rove can out a CIA agent and not have to face any legal repercussions

    * Using the Republican Party strangle-hold on the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government to institute a dictatorship is okay

    SNIP

    In an earlier article, I reviewed the varied aspects of personality profiling and simulation. While serving as Head of the Artificial Intelligence Department at the U.S. Army War College, 1993-1995, I conducted studies on profiling, psychological programming, and brainwashing. I explored and developed personality simulation systems, an advanced technology used in military war games, FBI profiling, political campaigning, and advertising. Part of my discovery was that:

    * unenlightened human minds are combinations of infantile beliefs and emotional patterns

    * these patterns can be simulated in profiling systems

    * these profiling systems can be used to program and control people

    Personality simulation systems are being used to create political campaigns that apply voter profiles to control their voting behavior. TV commercials and programs use personality simulation to profile viewers to control their purchasing and viewing behaviors. And sophisticated propaganda and brainwashing techniques are being used by the Bush junta to keep American citizens under control.

    http://www.hermes-press.com/brainwash1.htm

    My only advice would be to get your news from as wide a variety of sources as possible, including the blogs and the web and from overseas sources such as overseas newspaper web sites etc. , and don’t assume that because a story came from a so-called mainstream source it must therefore be true or it must be the “correct” way to look at some issue. Most importantly always be prepared to question authority.

  24. Adrian Hinds Avatar
    Adrian Hinds

    George Lamming has been telling it like it is for some time now. I am surprise that Carl Moore would find him worthy of his attention.

  25. Adrian Hinds Avatar
    Adrian Hinds

    As i was saying:

    http://www.economist.com/business/PrinterFriendly.cfm?story_id=11294258

  26. Ian Bourne Avatar
    Ian Bourne

    Trevor Yearwood shocks me, as to the angle he chose, but that is good as it leaves me with another spin for my News Blog, please keep watching my space, LOL!

    Mr Hinds, I am pleasantly surprised we are in are in correlation for the moment, I’ll enjoy while I can…

  27. Keltruth Corp. Avatar
    Keltruth Corp.

    Chris Halsall suggested a correlation between advertisers and news content.

    This is not surprising. Media makes its money on ads. Government and big business place many ads. Businesses serve their customers.

    The good news is that both in America and Barbados, bloggers are making big changes by publishing news and by shaming the media to publish.

    No news source is unbiased. My solution is to look at several news sources with DIFFERENT biases. This may not be possible when news is being suppressed!

  28. Adrian Hinds Avatar
    Adrian Hinds

    GM thanks for attempting to answer my question. There will always be people wanting to hide news for whatever reason and they will most likely never succeed for any length of time.
    There is no need to tell me to get my news from multiple sources, the skeptic that i am have determine this to the best approach, but more importantly is that i continue to ask questions, look for established facts and then find the history and ideas that led them becoming facts to get to the core of a situation. I read all news source, when looking at a particular topic i don’t shut out any media house base on their percieved political slant.

    i read from NYTIMES to Stratfor with National reveiw and the dailykos sandwish somewhere in between. I still find Fox Cable news the least partisan of all the cable and public TV news stations in America, would you like to dispute that? Interestly enough i never knew of Fox or Bill O’reilly it being a subscription channell ( I am a proud cheapo) until a visit to Barbados and seeing him live on so many BLP supporters tv. 😀

  29. Adrian Hinds Avatar
    Adrian Hinds

    Keltruth Corp. // May 1, 2008 at 4:47 pm

    Chris Halsall suggested a correlation between advertisers and news content.

    This is not surprising. Media makes its money on ads. Government and big business place many ads. Businesses serve their customers.
    ================================
    The relationship is explain in this article

    “India’s newspapers embrace a profitable but questionable new sideline

    http://www.economist.com/business/PrinterFriendly.cfm?story_id=11294242

  30. White Rabbit Avatar
    White Rabbit

    For those seeking reporting of news as unbiased as possible let me suggest The Christian Science Monitor, widely regarded to be about as good as you will get in the U.S. As for TV news, what a joke, all sound bites and propaganda, not to mention the low IQ at which it is focused. CBC Channel 8 is due an award from the Barbados Library Service for encouraging reading. Not much difference in the U.S. Understanding the world around us requires reading, complete with correct grammar, spelling, punctuation, etc., all necessary for transmitting the subtle nuances that separate news and information from entertainment.

  31. Adrian Hinds Avatar
    Adrian Hinds

    White Rabbit // May 2, 2008 at 10:29 am

    For those seeking reporting of news as unbiased as possible let me suggest The Christian Science Monitor, widely regarded to be about as good as you will get in the U.S. As for TV news, what a joke, all sound bites and propaganda, not to mention the low IQ at which it is focused. CBC Channel 8 is due an award from the Barbados Library Service for encouraging reading. Not much difference in the U.S. Understanding the world around us requires reading, complete with correct grammar, spelling, punctuation, etc., all necessary for transmitting the subtle nuances that separate news and information from entertainment.
    =================================
    Here we are “expounding” (yuh like dah word? did i spell it write,right or wright? 😀 ) the benefits of diversifying our news scources and here you come, while sighting the same reasons as us for so doing, to give us only one choice.

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    But is the CSM free of the things that force us to seek multiply news sources? hardly.

    Did you believe Jill Carroll’s account of her abduction?

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    Project Censored noted that the Monitor often publishes articles discussing topics under-represented or absent from the mainstream mass media. In comparison to other major newspapers and journalistic magazines, the Monitor tends to take a steady and slightly upbeat approach to national and world news. Many readers prefer the Monitor because it avoids sensationalism, particularly with respect to tragedies; at the same time, the paper’s staff does operate under the close eye of the church’s five-member board of directors, and has sometimes been seen as avoiding issues that involve the church in controversial and unfavorable ways.

    Due to its church ownership, the “Monitor” largely avoids coverage about medicine, disease and death; articles that discuss these topics are carefully vetted for language viewed as inappropriate or unnecessary per church doctrine.Obituaries typically don’t mention the cause of death, and the ages of people in stories are rarely mentioned.

    Modernization
    The print edition continued to struggle for readership, and, in 2004, faced a renewed mandate from the church to turn a profit. The Monitor, more quickly than other newspapers, turned to the World Wide Web for its future. The Web offered the paper the opportunity to overcome the severe cost and logistical difficulties of mailing out a daily international newspaper. The Monitor was one of the first newspapers to put its text online (in 1996), and also one of the first to launch a PDF edition (in 2001). It was also an early pioneer of RSS feeds. The former editor was David Cook.

    Reporter kidnapping
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    In 2006, Jill Carroll, a freelance reporter for the Monitor, was kidnapped in Baghdad, and released safely after 82 days. Although Carroll was initially a freelancer, the paper worked tirelessly for her release, even hiring her as a staff writer shortly after her abduction to ensure that she had financial benefits, according to Bergenheim.[3]

    Beginning in August 2006, the Christian Science Monitor published an 11-part account of Carroll’s kidnapping and subsequent release, with first-person reporting from Carroll and others involved.

    Galloway scandal
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    In April 2003, the Monitor published papers that claimed George Galloway had received money for sympathy to Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. These documents were forgeries.

  32. freewilly Avatar
    freewilly

    If this video doesn’t wake up more people, then whatever these scumbags do to you and your families in the future you will have to accept.Remember their policies will affect us all.

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    freewilly

  34. Shannon1 Avatar
    Shannon1

    I know who Alex Constantine – that’s an alias – is. “His” name is Diane and “he” lives in San Diego. In the news group’s you’ll find that he is a former social worker.

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