Khruschchev

Last week my computer exercised its own discretion and blocked the publication of certain material.  It was not censorship in the classical sense. I was going to add a quote and photo of Khrushchev, but they were rejected!

The quote rings true as to the KGB's efforts and was ominous in its description of how socialism would be (and has been) incrementally put upon us. However, researchers, apparently, have not been able to verify the validity of the quote. (But, this may be spin too.)

The quote was pure Frankfurt School/Columbia University/Cloward-Piven subversive leftist stuff.  It was likely a fraud and is used in the same way The Protocols of Zion are still used by true believers in order to champion their personal version of reality.

The cover images, herewith, show Khrushchev was correct about the media being Russia's main tool, quote below. There are many more covers that were released upon us. The KGB was astounded how their propaganda was reprinted in the U.S. I am not astounded.

A Russian joke that is quite old now: America is the only place the communist party is legal.

I will not comment on the phallic symbols anymore than I just did. Perhaps, they are crude NLP spin or a stupid joke? This was the era subliminal advertising as a gimmick to sell marketing campaigns. There is truth to the system, of course, but most of the commercial encoding was weird and the Mad Men, along with academics, were the source of  governmental lying.

I stopped buying Time after high school. Not long after, I stopped buying US News and World Report. The main reason was the content dissolved into promoting movies and albums along with one page pap written by four "journalists." Time-Life was promoting its own crap and selling ads. More oligarchy pretending to be socialist. I was a kid in college who read The Economist. 

I have not purchased a New York Times since it covered up the Clinton veto in the Security Council of a resolution to send a small force into Rwanda to stop the pending, documented genocide,  resulting in about 1,000,000 dead. As a British officer said at the time in Rwanda, a hand full of soldiers could have stopped the genocide.

The killers had a written plan that stated Clinton would do nothing because of the political fall out from Somalia. They were right.  If one can stop mass murder, but chooses to block all others from doing so, is he not a mass murder?  I do not need history to make a judgment.

The ever-sensitive Clinton, not long ago, agreed that was a mistake to not permit action in Rawanda. Ah, gee, isn't that nice? It is time we understand the communist world was correct is one thing, we have been colonialists who act upon the whim of the crown. This is true today. We are not a moral republic in any sense. Indeed, we now abandon our own colonial troops when politically timely. The "journalists" are not interesting in this story where a leftist is in charge of helping us reform.

Let me add a few quotes of Mr. K, starting with a favorite:

• Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river. 

• Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will dig you in. (We will bury you. 

•  I once said, 'We will bury you,' and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you. 

• Berlin is the testicle of the West. When I want the West to scream, I squeeze on Berlin.  

• The press is our chief ideological weapon. 

• Call it what you will, incentives are what get people to work harder. 

• If you live among dogs, keep a stick. After all, this is what a hound has teeth for-to bite when he feels like it! 

• The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace 

• Economics is a subject that does not greatly respect one's wishes.

I have an after thought.  

When I was an engaged fan or our system, believing it to be a moral, Constitutional republic, albeit a Baby Huey, I resisted notions of American imperialism. This was especially true talking with Canadians (I lived in Ontario for years.) 

Now, I can see with some objectivity what we have been doing for decades. It does not matter what we Americans have been led to believe. Good intentions are as useless as faith without good works. We need to see the truth in what Forest Gump said: stupid is as stupid does.We are a colonial power that works at the direction of large financial institution and certain large corporations. We spend our children's money to create enemies throughout the world. 

Caveat: April 2, 2012

About 95% of all TV programming comes from a group of seven companies – Disney (ABC), News Corp. (FOX), NBC (owned by Comcast and General Electric), CBS, Time Warner, Viacom, and Discovery Communications.
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The interesting news is that competition is close via the Internet: Intel, Google, Microsoft, Sony, Apple. Still not much of a world view. It is weird that Russia TV covers the United States news with items that never make it to our TV.  


The Internet should be the source of free information, but the government and industry will eventually control it. If you can think of a new distribution channel, you will be very rich.


I am not a fan of national socialism, but I doubt one should fight it with national oligarchy:

...A recent FAIR study of nine major media corporations and their major outlets,Disney (ABC), General Electric (NBC), CBS, Time Warner (CNN, Time),News Corporation (Fox), New York Times Co., Washington Post Co.(Newsweek), Tribune Co. (Chicago Tribune, L.A. Times) and Gannett(USA Today) found connections to six different insurance companies. Five out of the nine media corporations studied shared a director with an insurance company; two insurance companies—Chubb and Berkshire Hathaway—were represented by more than one media corporation director.

The study also found crossover between these media corporations and several large pharmaceutical companies, such as Eli Lilly, Merck and Novartis, whose profits would also likely be negatively impacted by a single-payer system. Out of the nine media corporations studied, six had directors who also represented the interests of at least one pharmaceutical company. In fact, save for CBS, every media corporation had board connections to either an insurance or pharmaceutical company.

For example, the board of directors of the Chubb Corporation, whose accident and health division has offered health insurance for over 30 years, shares directors with two major media companies: Gannett and General Electric. A search of the Nexis database from January 1 through June 30, 2009, found just six articles mentioning single-payer in USA Today, Gannett’s major outlet. Out of those, only one (6/12/09) is from an advocate—a reprinted block quote from Sen. Bernie Sanders (Ind.-Vt.) originally published in the Huffington Post (6/8/09). On NBC News, GE’s major outlet, single-payer was mentioned on only two occasions in the past six months. Of those two occasions, one was on Meet the Press (6/28/09), in which both Republican strategist Mike Murphy and former Governor Mitt Romney asserted that a public option would lead to a single-payer plan. The other NBC News mention of single-payer was favorable, but very brief—PBS’s Tavis Smiley named Obama’s move away from the plan as one of his concerns after Obama’s first 100 days (4/25/09).

At the Washington Post Co., two directors are on the board of insurance conglomerate Berkshire-Hathaway, whose subsidiary General Re sells health reinsurance. In fact, Washington Post director Warren Buffet not only chairs Berkshire-Hathaway’s board, he is the company’s CEO. (Berkshire-Hathaway is also one of the 10 biggest U.S. advertisers, along with pharmaceutical company Abbott Labor-atories—Ad Age, 6/22/09.) Another Washington Post director, Thomas Gaynor, is the vice president of insurance company Markel Corporation. In the past six months, the Washington Post has published hundreds of articles on the subject of healthcare reform, fewer than 25 of which mention single-payer. Fewer than 30 percent of the sources who spoke about single-payer in these articles were advocates of the plan. 
In all, though healthcare reform has been mentioned thousands of times in the output of these media corporations’ major outlets, single-payer was mentioned in only 164 articles or news segments from January 1 through June 30, 2009; over 70 percent of these mentions did not include the voice of a single-payer advocate. Over 45 percent of the pieces that did include a single-payer advocate were episodes of the Ed Show, an MSNBC program whose host, Ed Shultz, frequently advocates for single-payer healthcare. Without the Ed Show, just 19 percent of articles or news segments that mentioned single-payer would have included an actual advocate of the plan. 

While it should go without saying that correlation is not causation—and MSNBC’s example proves that interlocking directorates are hardly the only factor in media coverage—this study indicates that, at the very least, corporate media and the insurance and pharmaceutical industries’ interests are fundamentally aligned.

Liar of the Senate

Paul Kengor has revisted a document released by the Russians, some time ago, then, later, resealed, imagine that, wherein Edward Kennedy wrote to the Russians requesting help in defeating Ronald Reagan. He suggested a PR strategy.

A forward:

Art III, Sec 3: Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.

US CODE:

§ 953. Private correspondence with foreign governments

Any citizen of the United States, wherever he may be, who, without authority of the United States, directly or indirectly commences or carries on any correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government or any officer or agent thereof, with intent to influence the measures or conduct of any foreign government or of any officer or agent thereof, in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both....

The original document, one that has never been disputed as authentic

here

Summarization from Kengor:

Special Importance

Regarding Senator Kennedy's request to the General Secretary of the Communist Party Y. V. Andropov

According to the memo, Senator Kennedy was "very troubled" by U.S.-Soviet relations, which Kennedy attributed not to the murderous tyrant running the USSR but to President Reagan. The problem was Reagan's "belligerence."

This was allegedly made worse by Reagan's stubbornness. "According to Kennedy," reported Chebrikov, "the current threat is due to the President's refusal to engage any modification to his politics." That refusal, said the memo, was exacerbated by Reagan's political success, which made the president surer of his course, and more obstinate -- and, worst of all, re-electable.

On that, the fourth and fifth paragraphs of Chebrikov's memo got to the thrust of Kennedy's offer: The senator was apparently clinging to hope that President Reagan's 1984 reelection bid could be thwarted. Of course, this seemed unlikely, given Reagan's undeniable popularity. So, where was the president vulnerable?

Alas, Kennedy had an answer, and suggestion, for his Soviet friends: In Chebrikov's words, "The only real threats to Reagan are problems of war and peace and Soviet-American relations. These issues, according to the senator, will without a doubt become the most important of the election campaign."

Therein, Chebrikov got to the heart of the U.S. senator's offer to the USSR's general secretary: "Kennedy believes that, given the state of current affairs, and in the interest of peace, it would be prudent and timely to undertake the following steps to counter the militaristic politics of Reagan."

Of these, step one would be for Andropov to invite the senator to Moscow for a personal meeting. Said Chebrikov: "The main purpose of the meeting, according to the senator, would be to arm Soviet officials with explanations regarding problems of nuclear disarmament so they would be better prepared and more convincing during appearances in the USA."

The second step, the KGB head informed Andropov, was a Kennedy strategy to help the Soviets "influence Americans." Chebrikov explained: "Kennedy believes that in order to influence Americans it would be important to organize in August-September of this year [1983], televised interviews with Y. V. Andropov in the USA." The media savvy Massachusetts senator recommended to the Soviet dictator that he seek a "direct appeal" to the American people. And, on that, "Kennedy and his friends," explained Chebrikov, were willing to help, listing Walter Cronkite and Barbara Walters (both listed by name in the memo) as good candidates for sit-down interviews with the dictator.

Kennedy concluded that the Soviets needed, in effect, some PR help, given that Reagan was good at "propaganda" (the word used in the memo). The senator wanted them to know he was more than eager to lend a hand.

Kennedy wanted the Soviets to saturate the American media during such a visit. Chebrikov said Kennedy could arrange interviews not only for the dictator but for "lower level Soviet officials, particularly from the military," who "would also have an opportunity to appeal directly to the American people about the peaceful intentions of the USSR."

This was apparently deemed crucial because of the dangerous threat posed not by Andropov's regime but -- in Kennedy's view -- by Ronald Reagan and his administration. It was up to the Kremlin folks to "root out the threat of nuclear war," "improve Soviet-American relations," and "define the safety for the world."

Quite contrary to the ludicrous assertions now being made about Ted Kennedy working jovially with Ronald Reagan, Kennedy, in truth, thought Reagan was a trigger-happy buffoon, and said so constantly, with vicious words of caricature and ridicule. The senator felt very differently about Yuri Andropov. As Chebrikov noted in his memo, "Kennedy is very impressed with the activities of Y. V. Andropov and other Soviet leaders."

Alas, the memo concluded with a discussion of Kennedy's own presidential prospects in 1984, and a note that Kennedy "underscored that he eagerly awaits a reply to his appeal."

What happened next? We will never know. None of the Kennedy admirers and court composers who serve as "journalists" bothered to ask, even with decades available to pose questions, beginning back in January 1992 when the highly reputable London Times broke the story.

In 2006, when my book was released, there was a virtual media blackout on coverage of the document, with the exception of conservative media: talk-radio, Rush Limbaugh, some websites, and mention on FoxNews by Brit Hume. Amazingly, I didn't even get calls from mainstream reporters seeking to shoot down the story. I had prepared in great detail to be grilled on national television, picturing the likes of Katie Couric needling me. I didn't need to worry.

I worked up a detailed op-ed on the document, where I even played devil's advocate by defending Kennedy, trying to get at his thinking, being as fair as possible. No major newspapers would touch it. The Boston Globe editors refused to acknowledge it or reply to my emails. The editor at the New York Times confessed to being "fascinated" by the piece but conceded that he wouldn't "be able to get it in."

One editor at a West Coast newspaper, a genuinely fair liberal, considered it carefully. We went back and forth. I was shocked to see that neither the editor nor his staff would do any investigating, not placing a single phone call to Kennedy's office. In the end, the editor rejected the piece, telling me: "I just can't believe Kennedy would do something that stupid."

Alas, here we are now, after Kennedy's death, and I'm reliving the same experience, as no one from the mainstream media has contacted me. Liberal reporters lionized Ted Kennedy in life and have begun the canonization process in death. They are liberal activists first, and journalists second.

Finally, a postscript for these liberal Democrat "journalists:" We know they don't care that Ted Kennedy did this to Ronald Reagan. Fine. Well, how about this? As the Mitrokhin Archives reveal, Senator Kennedy did something similar to President Jimmy Carter in 1980 -- his own political flesh and blood.

Does that story interest liberal reporters? No. I likewise noted that gem in 2006. I didn't get a single media inquiry.

It will be left to future generations to examine these truths. As for Senator Ted Kennedy's motivations for doing what he did with the Soviet leadership? Alas, now we can definitively say, he will never tell us. The liberal media protected him, all the way to the grave.

So, now, imagine I walked into a newspaper last year with a document from, say, Russia quoting the text of a letter from George Bush was revealed where he asked for help defeating Obama because the man will disrupt the economies of the world. Do you think the media would run with it? Even if I were just me and not a respected author?

So, why do you read the NYT?

Want News?

I have to admit I find the Chinese Xinhua news service to be informative, balanced, and attuned to reporting news, rather than the latest regarding boobs and politicians, which are not always the same thing. I recommend the service as a good source of news, free of US, CBC, and BBC filters.

Below is a news piece offered to show you how real events pop up at Xinhua - important news on positive developments with the evil doers in N. Korea.

I do have to admit, this news has been mentioned in our media, much to my surprise as it means the current administration is doing something good. I am sure we will get back to more important news like whether Carl Rove uses boxers or briefs.

The N. Koreans seem willing to back down and shut down the Yongbyon reactor, if the U.S. will let them have their money back. It seems we blocked accounts, claiming the North Koreans, or as XINHUA refers to them - the DPRK, were engaged in criminal activity, not just state-sponsored terrorism. Maybe we can get Kim (I'm so ronry) Jung Il on tax evasion.

It is rumored, by me, that DPRK is actually afraid of Team America-World Police flying in to take out the government. [Lets put the "F" back in Freedom.] In any event, its nice to see that the communist North is using leverage, the threat of thermonuclear destruction, to get capitalist money.

Finally, they got it!

Check out the site. Click on the headline above. If you poke around, you will find pages where the events are reported as they happened, then, below, are links to the Chinese reactions, then other government reactions. What a bizarre way to report on world news.

By way of contrast, CNN's page this day had pictures of "People" protesting the US being in Sadr City (the people were curiously all males 18-30). CNN didn't seem to find a picture to use regarding the use of chlorine gas by the murderers, oh, insurgents in three attacks. Probably, because there were only a few dead and 350 with seared lungs. Or, as they put it, 350 injured.

There was one sentence on U.S. troops killing two gangsters setting up a roadside bomb. Superb balance.

FROM Xinhua:

BEIJING, March 17 (Xinhua) -- Kim Kye-Gwan, top negotiator of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), arrived here Saturday morning for the six-party talks on the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue.

Kim Kye-Gwan, top negotiator of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), arrived in Beijing Saturday morning.(Xinhua Photo) Photo Gallery>>>

The DPRK would not shut down the Yongbyon nuclear reactor if the United States did not first lift financial bans on DPRK accounts in the Banco Delta Asia (BDA), a Macao-based bank, Kim told reporters upon his arrival in Beijing for a new round of the six-party talks scheduled to open on Monday.

Kim, DPRK's vice foreign minister, said the DPRK has not received any notification regarding the lifting of financial sanctions yet.

He said it is "unnecessary" for the DPRK and the United States to set up liaison offices. Concerning the HEU (Highly Enriched Uranium) issue, the DPRK is willing to cooperate with the United States, and the DPRK would like to explain if the U.S. side provides evidence, Kim said.

The U.S. Treasury Department announced on Wednesday a plan to resolve the financial dispute with the DPRK by formally barring U.S. financial institutions from dealing with the BDA.

The United States slapped sanctions on the BDA in 2005 and put it on a money-laundering blacklist, prompting Macao to freeze the 24 million dollars believed to belong to the DPRK. In return, the DPRK boycotted the subsequent six-party talks for more than one year.

As part of the nuclear deal reached during the six-party talks in Beijing on Feb. 13, the United States agreed to settle the financial dispute with the DPRK within 30 days. The United States has accused the DPRK of using the bank to launder illegal earnings and the DPRK has urged the United States to lift the sanctions.

Related:

DPRK reported to have started preparations for shutting down Yongbyon facilities