Kettle Calling The Pot Black
From The Ramparts
Junious Ricardo Stanton
Kettle Calling The Pot Black
With all
the brouhaha about alleged Russian hacking of the 2016 presidential election
you would think the Democratic Party, the US Deep State (shadow government FBI,
CIA etc), US politicians and the corporate media would not risk making fools of
themselves if the masses knew the US has been quit busy attempting to undermine
and influence election outcomes around the world since the late 1940's. In fact I'll bet most people forgot President
Obama tried to persuade voters in the United Kingdom not to vote to exit
the European Union two months prior to the June 23, 2016 vote. He spoke openly
on several occasions in support of the UK remaining in the European Union.
Many feel Obama's pro EU push is what made Brits vote so overwhelmingly to
leave the European Union!
But that
was, chump change, an extremely passive attempt to influence British politics
by the US
government. The US
has a far more aggressive, imperialist and neo-colonial history of interference, intervention and meddling
around the world. Recent research by Dov Levin a postdoctoral fellow at
Carnegie Mellon University's Institute for Politics and Strategy discovered the
US government worked assiduously to influence the outcomes of foreign elections
at least eighty-one times between 1946 and 2000 and that doesn't include the countless
coup d'etas, assassinations and regime change campaigns of candidates the US
wanted to toppled and get rid of. http://investmentwatchblog.com/us-intervened-over-80-times-in-foreign-elections/
Using declassified "intelligence" and Congressional reports on CIA
activities, academic research and reports Levin reported the US was actively
engaged in propaganda, misinformation, provided cash or foreign aid, created
campaign material for their favored candidate(s), made open and veilled threats
against a candidate and other sundry mischief. Again that was between 1946 and
2000 which didn't include the dirty tricks and lethal activities employed by
the US CIA.
For the US to accuse Russia of interfering or hacking an
election is like the kettle calling the pot Black. But that's what hypocrites
and psychopaths do. Think about all the regime change the US has engaged in since 2000. For the record, some of the more infamous and
egregious examples are: supporting a coup against Hugo Chaves of Venezuela in
2000, removing the Taliban from power in Afghanistan in 2001, murdering Saddam
Hussein in 2006, support the coup against Manuel Zelaya of Honduras in 2009, killing
Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, ousting Viktor Yanukovych of Ukraine in 2014 and
their ongoing attempts to replace the duly elected president of Syria Bashar
al-Assad just to cite a few.
Speaking of
hypocrisy, the US
charged Saddam Hussein gassed Kurdish Iraqis. They alleged this prior to the US warmongers
settling on the weapons of mass destruction deception as the reason for the
2003 Iraqi invasion. The fact of the matter is the United
States sold Saddam Hussein the tear gas, sarin and other
chemical and biological weapons he used in his war against Iran. The US even had satellite footage of
Iraqi troops using sarin gas against Iranian forces in 1988. There is no proof
Hussein gassed the Kurds living in Iraq. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article1148.htm
In 2013 the
US
claimed Syrian president Bashar al Assad gassed his own people killing over one thousand Syrians. The
corporate media jumped on the story and the Obama administration tried to use
the anti-Assad propaganda as a pretext
to do to Syria what they did
to Libya.
During the debate, Putin stepped in and brokered a deal whereby Assad agreed to
turn over all the country's chemical weapons and allow full unfettered inspections.
This prevented the US from declaring
a no fly zone over Syria or
invading and the US
warmongers have not forgotten or forgiven Putin for that.
Subsequently
Assad asked Putin for help fighting the Western backed "rebels" who
were waging a proxy war on behalf of the US and its Israeli, Turkish and
Saudi Arabian allies. Putin sent in Russian bombers, missiles and logistical
support. This along with the active support of Iran and Hezbollah turned the tide
in Assad's favor. Now the US
is saying Assad gassed Syrian civilians at a time when by all accounts he and
his allies are winning!? It doesn't make sense nor is it logical, except if you
see this as a ruse to rationalize US and NATO direct military engagement.
This is a repeat of the Saddam gassed the
Kurds and the 2013 claims Assad gassed civilians. Hopefully except for dolts
like Donald Trump people will not go for the okey-doke again. Fool me once
shame on you. Fool me twice shame on me.
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Wars and Rumors of War
From the Ramparts
Junious
Ricardo Stanton
Wars and Rumors of Wars
During
the last two weeks the risks of open conflict between the US and Russia
over Syria and the US and China
and Russia over North Korea
have escalated. The hypocrites in the corporate media who were lambasting Trump
for his flip flop on Syria
were also enthusiastically cheering him for launching sixty cruise missiles at
an airbase in Syria!
Meanwhile
North Korea displayed it
military and weapons during a celebration of the 105 anniversary of the founder
of the North Korean Republic
which included the attempted launch of a new missile. Last Sunday North Korea
in a move of self-determination and self protection test fired a missile but it
exploded.
The
US media played up the
failure and there are now reports circulating the US may have had something to do
with the malfunction. "North Korea's botched missile test may have been disrupted
by a secretive US
programme of cyber and electronic warfare designed to sabotage launches... The attempted test, and
a weekend parade of Pyongyang's
military hardware, prompted international condemnation and an American promise
of further action if the hermit state failed to end its provocations. Under Barack Obama, the US
stepped up electronic and cyber attacks on North Korea's missile programme.
Those efforts are reported to include hacking and the use of electromagnetic
weapons capable of disrupting electronic equipment." http://postnewsd2.blogspot.in/2017/04/north-koreas-botched-missile-test-on.html
This is nothing new the US has been
using cyber warfare for years viruses like Stuxnet to attack the Iranian
nuclear program. https://www.nytimes.com/topic/subject/cyberattacks-on-iran-stuxnet-and-flame These are acts of war!
We must not forget the people of Syria elected Assad as their president, that it
is the West and its fanatical Wahabi jihadist partners from Saudi Arabia who are attempting to overthrow
Assad, usher in a bogus Islamic Caliphate which will propagate Neo-Colonialism
on behalf of the West and make Israel
the dominant power in the region.
With regards to North Korea, remember the Korean
War was never resolved, no peace treaty was ever signed. The opposing sides
merely agreed to withdraw their forces below the "Demilitarized Zone"
that splits Korea
and serves as a buffer to the North and South. The fact of the matter is the
Koreans would like their country unified and to live together in peace. If Germany could be reunited so can Korea, but the
West doesn't want a resolution there. If the West wanted peace they would aggressively
pursue peaceful solutions. But noo, they maintain an adversarial stance towards
North Korea.
Naturally the North Korean leadership wants to protect itself from the American
warmongers!
The corporate media played up the recent
events in an alarmingly cavalier fashion providing analysis no on the potential
these events have to trip start WW IV (WWIII is the ongoing covert operations,
interventions, destabilization campaigns, coups, economic sanctions, imperialism
and Neocolonialism of the US, UK, NATO, Israel etc following the official end
of hostilities for WWII.) Nowhere in the corporate media do we hear voices
calling for restraint, pleading for the mobilization for PEACE against the
Trump administration's bellicose and discombobulated foreign policy if you can
call it that. The corporate media are the megaphones and sycophants of the
ruling class Deep
State and their puppets
in the government.
So amidst this tension, saber
rattling and games of chicken, here are the actual reasons for all of this
instead of the corporate media's lies. The NeoCon, global banking cartel,
military industrial, security/surveillance state hydra's dream of a New American Century where the American
Empire is the only super power in the world are swiftly imploding around them
and they are in panic mode. China
is about to eclipse the US
as the largest economy in the world. The US dollar is losing its status as the
world's reserve currency, the BRICS nations (Brazil Russia, India, China
and South Africa)
are challenging the World Bank, IMF and Bank of International Settlements usury
monopoly with their New Development Bank and using alternative currencies in
their mutual trade agreements and transactions. This means the end of US dollar
hegemony, and the Western plutocrats are having conniptions. So they have
unleashed the hellhounds by demonizing Putin, destabilizing Brazil's economy, fomenting tension between India and Pakistan
and attempted a color revolution in South Africa in 2014. These are
acts of war or precursors to war.
These current tensions and moves are
all part of their panic because the BRICS and the Shanghai Cooperative Group (Russia and China's version of NATO) are not
backing down and are taking precautions to protect themselves. http://investmentwatchblog.com/breaking-news-china-and-russia-send-ships-after-united-states-aircraft-carrier-moving-toward-north-korea/ We are facing a Mexican Standoff of
gargantuan proportions. Stay tuned.
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The Big Lie Technique In Action
From the Ramparts
Junious
Ricardo Stanton
The Big Lie Technique In Action
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep
repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be
maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the
political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes
vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent,
for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth
is the greatest enemy of the State."- Joseph Goebbels Head of
Nazi Propaganda
We are witnessing
the application of tried and true propaganda techniques espoused by Nazi
propaganda chief Joseph Goebbles who studied and applied the mind control
tactics of US PR and advertising guru Edward Bernays. Burnays was the nephew of
Sigmund Freud and he applied many of his uncle's ideas about the unconscious
with the crowd psychology theories of Wilford Trotter and Gustove LeBon to
develop a successful advertising, PR and propaganda career.
Bernays
like Goebbles was about manipulating the masses, getting them to do what he and
his clients such as cigarette companies and the US government wanted them to do unbeknownst
to the people. In order to accomplish
this, Bernays developed techniques to influence people on the subconscious
level. He believed it was imperative for the masses to be manipulated and
controlled by a certain segment of society. He wrote, "The conscious and
intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is
an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen
mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true
ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes
formed, and our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of…. It is
they who pull the wires that control the public mind..." http://theconversation.com/the-manipulation-of-the-american-mind-edward-bernays-and-the-birth-of-public-relations-44393 Bernays used the term "democratic society"
despite the fact what he was espousing is the exact opposite of "democracy".
As a writer
Bernays was successful getting the public to go along with Woodrow Wilson's entry
into WWI. Afterwards he surmised those same techniques could be used to sell
products as well. Of course his advertising campaigns for products like
cigarettes, soap and appliances involved telling lies and creating perceptions
that were not true or real.
In 1920
Joseph Goebbles discovered Bernays and became a fan despite the fact Bernays
was Jewish. When Hitler came to power through deception and subterfuge (The Reichstag
Fire, and the lie Poland
attacked Germany)
Goebbles as Hitler's head of propaganda employed Bernays' techniques, tactics
and strategies to create a fanatical imperialist movement with mindless
obedience to its leader.
Today
Bernays' attitudes about controlling the masses, his techniques and tactics are
pervasive. They are all around us, we are bombarded with them twenty four hours
a day! The ruling class were Bernays' primary clients and they keep his legacy
of lies, publicity stunts, contrived, fake events and perception management
alive and thriving today. Remember Bernays was about mass manipulation in order
to control people's minds, their worldview and behavior! Do you see any
similarities in today's current events?
Here are
several examples of how Bernays' and Goebbles techniques have been applied in
recent years. In 1990 the Washington D.C. PR firm Hill and Knowlton created a multi-million
dollar propaganda campaign to convince the world Saddam Hussein was an evil man
to justify the first Gulf War, despite the fact prior to his invasion of Kuwait he was a US ally! They created a front group
called Citizens for A Free Kuwait, to spread lies about alleged rapes and Iraqi
soldiers killing Kuwaiti infants. Hill and Knowlton even staged a bogus hearing
on Capital Hill to simulate a Congressional Hearing where the daughter of the
Kuwaiti Ambassador posed as a witness to atrocities committed by Iraqi
soldiers. The corporate media covered and promoted the fake Hearing using them
to create Anti-Iraq sentiment. (Read Weapons of Mass Deception The Uses of
Propaganda in Bush's War on Iraq
by Sheldon Rampton nd John Stauber).
On
September 11, 2001 the corporate media broadcast round the clock pictures of smoldering,
collapsing twin towers with the caption America
Under Attack. These images, the screen captions and constant rhetoric
prepared our psyches for the first leg of their bogus War on Terror the US invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001. This
invasion was planned many months before 9-11 against a country that neither attacked
the US
nor had anything to do with 9-11! https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2001/11/afgh-n20.html
President Bu$h
demanded the Taliban turn Osama bin-Laden over to the US. The Taliban asked, as any
reasonable person or group would, for evidence proving Osama bin-Laden was
responsible for 9-11 (They knew a man living in a cave in Afghanistan could
not have pulled off such an attack!). Bu$h told them we don't have to give you
any evidence, proceeded to launch the invasion, and told us "You are
either with us or with the enemy."
The corporate media uncritically echoed the
charges against bin-Laden although no evidence has ever been produced to prove
he was the culprit. In fact the FBI's own Website doesn't mention him in
connection with 9-11!!! Nevertheless we have been at war around the world for sixteen
years over bogus propaganda and lies!
There are more
recent examples but let these marinate, I'm sure you will come up with more on
your own, (hint the Russia Did It narrative). Don't believe the hype and don't
fall for the Big Lie.
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