The United States of Illusion

I am catching up with my fellow bloggers and two items have made me scramble back to Picasso Dreams in able to share this disturbing information with you.

The first tidbit is from The Grudge Report, a link to the "14 Signs of Fascism" by political scientist Dr. Lawrence Britt. I may have posted it here before, but it is worth repeating.

1. Powerful and Continuing Nationalism

2. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights

3. Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause

4. Supremacy of the Military

5. Rampant Sexism

6. Controlled Mass Media

7. Obsession with National Security

8. Religion and Government are Intertwined

9. Corporate Power is Protected

10. Labor Power is Suppressed

11. Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts

12. Obsession with Crime and Punishment

13. Rampant Cronyism and Corruption

14. Fraudulent Elections

Click on the link for further definitions.

If that's not bad enough, I found this excerpt from The New York Times on Republic of T:

In the summer of 2002, after I had written an article in Esquire that the White House didn't like about Bush's former communications director, Karen Hughes, I had a meeting with a senior adviser to Bush. He expressed the White House's displeasure, and then he told me something that at the time I didn't fully comprehend -- but which I now believe gets to the very heart of the Bush presidency.

The aide said that guys like me were ''in what we call the reality-based community,'' which he defined as people who ''believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.'' I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. ''That's not the way the world really works anymore,'' he continued. ''We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.''

Who besides guys like me are part of the reality-based community? Many of the other elected officials in Washington, it would seem. A group of Democratic and Republican members of Congress were called in to discuss Iraq sometime before the October 2002 vote authorizing Bush to move forward. A Republican senator recently told Time Magazine that the president walked in and said: ''Look, I want your vote. I'm not going to debate it with you.'' When one of the senators began to ask a question, Bush snapped, ''Look, I'm not going to debate it with you.''

Why are Americans letting the cabal get away with this? We need to get past the "it can never happen here - this is America!" mindset because it is happening. If Bush steals the election again, come November there will be a mass exodus of intelligent American citizens and their assets from these man-made borders. People will not tolerate four more years, and they certainly won't work as taxpaying slaves to fuel the demands of imperialism. The United States has a military presence in almost every nation on this planet! Over 130 countries! This is insane!

My solution? Send George and Dick and Don and Paul and Condoleeza and Greenspan and every CEO of every defense contactor and every person who voted for the war in Iraq and Patriot Act to Gitmo or Abu Ghraib. Seize all of their assets; cancel ALL debt, what you have is what you have (but adopt a one house per person rule) and use the seized assets to finance the next several years of government. “Victory through Hemp” will be the new motto. Defense will be a state industry. There will be no biological weapons laboratories, chemical weapons laboratories, or nuclear weapon production. We have enough lethal weapons. How many times over do we have to There will be no profit on war. (Gun sales to the public will remain private, for-profit businesses. While I'm on the soapbox, all troops will be returned to the United States and replaced with a strong National Guard who will be used in emergencies, which would hopefully be only natural disaster-related. Think of the money we would save! Let's face it, we are an isolated country. Canada and Mexico are our friends. They are not going to overrun the United States. The Russians and Chinese are not going to send nuclear missiles into the United States and try to kill all Americans and move their populations into a radioactive wasteland. It makes no sense! I cannot believe that fear mongering that created the Cuban Missile Crisis, all because the US government intervened in another nation's affairs to install a capitalism-friendly dictator. Defense companies were salivating over that one.

If we take the profit out of war and make it illegal for any person elected or working for the government to deliberately misconstrue or lie to the public, with strong repercussions if caught, there will be no more war in the United States. Instead, web sites are shut down for trying to expose the truth.

Perhaps the scariest news story of the week came from TBRNEWS.org, which disappeared off the net for a few days after the story broke. Coincidence? There are so . It disappeared after a presence on the net for over a year. Was it coincidental that the site was taken down shortly after publishing this?

http://tbrnews.org/Archives/a1130.htm October 10, 2004: “This time, friends, I have some very important news for all of you. Unlike the usual silly gossip that goes on around the White House, intermingled with loud praying, this is really news. We are about to embark on another war! Yes, it has been decided and carefully planned. Who are we going to war with? Iran. Background here: (I am taking this from a paper which I have to return)

Thesis: Iran hates the United States and Israel. Iran has atomic weapons and missiles (the Shahab, courtesy of North Korean/Russian technicians) It can easily reach Tel Aviv. It can also reach US troop concentrations in Iraq. Israel is scared shitless. Their pressure groups have leaned on the White House, with a great deal of assistance from Cheney and the Neocons. The actual plan is this:

The U.S. has no troops available for an Iranian adventure and the Israelis would rather not lose any warm bodies so…it has been firmly decided that both Israel and the U.S. will launch a surprise attack against 1., Iranian missile sites, 2. Iranian nuclear facilities and 3. the leadership of Iran located in and around Tehran. How will this be done? By aircraft attack using U.S. developed “smart bombs” and the so-called “bunker-buster” bombs designed to destroy underground reinforced concrete facilities .We just sent these to Israel. Because of the political ramifications, the Israelis will conduct the main strikes, supported by U.S. aircraft as needed. The aim will be to wipe out any vestige of nuclear weaponry, its delivery system and all the Iranian leaders capable of starting any attacks on Israel (mostly Tel Aviv…too many fellow Muslims in Jerusalem.) Since it would be a problem for Israeli Air Force units to fly round trip from Israel, the solution will be to launch these attacks from U.S. aircraft carriers located in the Persian Gulf area. As I write, the super carrier USS John F. Kennedy (CV 67) is now in the Persian Gulf along with the so-called Essex Expeditionary Strike Group (ESG) [31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) (SOC)] which consists of:: USS Essex (LHD 2) USS Juneau (LPD 10) USS Harpers Ferry (LSD 49) USS Mobile Bay (CG 53USS Hopper (DDG 70) USS Preble (DDG 88) The initial attacks will be an early-morning surprise attack launched to coincide with religious services in Tehran’s Muslim mosques with the idea of catching not only the leading Mullahs inside but a large number of their congregations as well. One attack will concentrate on these religious centers and the other will hit both the underground nuclear facilities and identified (courtesy of U.S. satellite shots) missile-launching sites. The U.S. will supply observation and radio surveillance aircraft with radar-jamming capacities operating out of Turkey and Italy. The entire attack is scheduled to last no more than one hour with at least three waves of Israeli aircraft utilized. No warning will be given to the Iranians and no declaration of war. The possible deaths of foreign diplomats in the attacks has been discussed and accepted as part of the price. This attack has the full support of the President who wants it launched before the elections. He can then make a speech to the American people stating that the evil Iranian nuclear weaponry has been destroyed by the Israelis with the full cooperation of his government as part of his heroic war against terrorists. Believe me, that speech has already been written and I have seen a copy of it. The brass here feels that this will have a tremendous impact on the American people, just before the elections. No U.S. ground troops will be used; Bush will stress that this is a joint U.S.-Israeli anti-terrorist project. Part of the speech deals with ongoing Shiite Iranian physical support of their Shiite brethren in Iraq and that by knocking out the Iranian nuclear weaponry, at the same time, they are protecting GIs from ongoing guerrilla warfare. The brass is literally rubbing it’s hands and drooling over what they see as Bush’s Final Victory. I have seen a negative report copy from someone in the Pentagon [who is not going to get promoted] that says if the Iranians get wind of this little game, they might strike first and they might also realize that large numbers of vulnerable American troops are concentrated inside Iraqi cities, prime targets for a nuclear tactical attack. These people are literally insane and I really hope you don’t delete this. Something really has to be done to stop these maniacs before we all die of radiation sickness!”

Is this just alarmist, some crazy conspiracy theory? Or is it just coincidence theory and Bush-bashing at it finest? Did TBR pull a fast one, or did they stumble onto something big? Do stories like this derail the plans of those who may want to stage another Reichstag illusion?

I want to escape this madness and star my own version of Christiana.

Comments

[Tom]

Thankfully, TBRnews is back online. The article is still there. I've watched their "voice of the White House" for a number of months now and I have to admit, they're pretty darn good at 'predicting' the future. My gut tells me there's something there. That said, however, we must remember the tactics of those in power: burying truth in plain site works well to keep the rabble guessing.

I don't know why they went off and they haven't posted any explanation. I'm just glad they're back.

[Tom]

Oh they're back allright- and with a vengence! Check out the latest in the "Voice of the White House"

TBR is cool! I just wish they'd change that picture on the home page. The guy with the fat nose and the shiner just doesn't make me want to read about him. I commented along those lines to the site and was told in a somewhat curt manner that if I'd click on the picture, I'd learn about David Irving. To date I haven't, but I read the sites news regularly. They're cool in spite of the picture of the guy with the schnozz.
Tom