Saturday

Things I read today 06-12-08

New World Order Being Taught In Schools!

Nope, no brainwashing here.

Brain tests show child wealth gap - BBC News
Duh, when you spend most of your life chasing 'The American Dream' and not getting anywhere, there is little time left to talk to your kids. That's the nanny's job for the rich.
Intelligent 'have better sperm' - BBC News
So, if the rich are more intelligent and the more intelligent have better sperm; why is it that the poor seem to breed more?

India reserves right to strike Pakistan in response to Mumbai attack - Janes
Bring on WWIII.

Indian police arrest 2 men in Mumbai investigation - Google News
The witch hunt and demonizing of people that make their living from the black market. This is also about having anonymity when buying SIM cards. 'They' want to have a 'trail' for everyone.

Afghanistan: Another Untold Story - by Michael Parenti
Who controls the present, controls the past. Very enlightening article. Not what they teach in schools.

An African scorecard - Story
Ah, the propaganda machine in full swing. Nope, no brainwashing here.

Friday

Things I read today 05-12-08

Governor General - I Thank You Not
Another point of view on the Harper / coalition thing
The Case For The Coalition Reloaded
More Desperate Harperisms
Jean's decision sets 'very dangerous' precedent: constitutional expert - CBC News

Dissent in Liberal ranks appears after Parliament suspended - CBC News
And the games are beginning; even knocking the video quality of Dion's speech.

Opposition vows to topple Canadian leader Harper - Newsweek
And this one, nice headline. What is bound to happen is an election with a Harper majority in the end. I hope I'm wrong.

Meanwhile ... How About That Shiny, Brand New Arms Race We Got Ourselves? - Article
And while everyone is busy with a 'crisis' ...

Meteorite hunter lucks out - Canoe News
Everything about money. The beginning of the article says that he was "eking" out a living.

If I had four trillion dollars - By David Suzuki
Save the planet? Not economically viable

President Bush Signs H.R. 2040, S. 602, and S. 1193 Into Law - White House
Look at the second one "Child Safe Viewing Act" - must be ok, it's for the children.

Fact Sheet: Defending Against Weapons of Mass Destruction Terrorism - White House
At least Bush is leaving.

AFRICOM China and Congo Resource Wars - By F. William Engdahl
AFRICOM - nope, no world domination here.

Customs warns of killer consoles - The Register
A fine example of government backed fear marketing. Buy the original as the other 'may' cause harm.

Thursday

Things I read today 04-12-08

Don't these look very similar?


Nope, no brainwashing here.

'No time for backroom deals,' Harper tells Canadians - CBC News
The weasel tried to lie and 'fear' the public using words like 'separatists' and 'democracy'. The title changed and so did the story as the CBC is nothing but a propaganda machine.
More here

Iran Questions Story Behind Mumbai Attacks - Blacklisted News
More questions

Neo-cons still preparing for Iran attack - Asia Times
The M.I.C. in the background.

Joining the euro looks a better option; currency becomes a safe haven in global economy storm - Blacklisted News
Is this what it takes to get them to join? Sounds like a puff piece for the Euro and it may even ease the acceptance of an 'Amero'. Poor Iceland; they allude to the fact that had it had the Euro, it would be better.

Brussels to project 'soft power' in post-Soviet zone - Blacklisted News
"The EU is an economic giant that is increasingly becoming a political player and assuming its responsibilities," he said. "This partnership shows what could be called the power of soft power, the ability of the EU to attract others and bring about changes in societies." - what are these changes?

Top 5 must-have conversations - Canoe.ca
Can you guess what they are? Now ask yourself, why?
Other good things to discuss
Nope, no brainwashing here.

GG agrees to suspend Parliament: Harper - CBC News
The weasel gets to sidestep the people.
More from BBC

Financial crisis could trigger social unrest, warns UN chief - Blacklisted News
Maybe that is what we need; too many have been silent all these years while the rich got richer.

Exposure to Media Damages Children’s Long-Term Health - Blacklisted News
I think the exposure affects all of us.

Ohio: Hungry? Turn In Your Guns, Get Food - Blacklisted News
The disarming of the Americas continues.

Berlusconi plans to use G8 presidency to 'regulate the internet' - Blacklisted News
And while we are busy with all the 'crisis' we are going to lose the Internet.

project bluebeam: tv fakery, holographic projections & audio spotlights - Article
Do you believe everything you see?

U.S. Auto Chiefs Appeal to Congress for Emergency Aid (Update4) - Bloomberg
“Forces beyond our control have pushed us to the brink.” - No it is the short-sightedness of yourselves and of the free market system that brought you there.

Queen's speech and biggest shake-up - Article
Everyone to cut welfare. There is no free ride. Now get back to work.

Wednesday

Things I read today 03-12-08

Jobless could be forced to carry out 'community punishments' - Blacklisted News
This kind of thing is happenig every where. The worst part is that the masses actually support it because they fear that 'they' are being cheated by the Welfarites or they are jealous theat they cannot do it. They spout things like: there are no free rides, everyone must do their part.
More here on the Welfarite cheats.

Amero to become USA’s new currency when dollar collapses - Blacklisted News
The Amero has a deer on it. (check the source) When this does happen it shouldn't be a surprise.

U.S. May Be in for ‘Great Recession,’ Longest Postwar (Update1) - Bloomberg
Most are still in denial as they think "it doesn't affect me".

US carmakers publish rescue plans - BBC News
Let GM be bought out by the other two. Funny though how this is a loan and would actually help 'some' of the working class while the banks were a 'bailout' and will help out 'some' of the rich class.
Another angle for your mind
Auto union makes key concessions

PM dares Dion to face voters with coalition plan - CBC News
I double dare ya. The clowns continue.
"political crisis"
More 'crisis'
More here - good read

The International Backers of the Mumbai Attacks - Blacklisted News
And More
An interesting analysis

US seeks urgent action on Mumbai - BBC News
Rice there to 'ease tensions'? With words like 'urgency' and 'resolve'?

With WMD Attack Likely, Can the U.S. Cope? - ABC News
With the boosting to 20,000 troops, what are they talking about? Nope no brainwashing here.

Big Brother police to get 'war-time' power to demand ID in the street - on pain of sending you to jail - Daily Mail
And the liberties keep eroding

Saving the Big 3 for You and Me ...a message from Michael Moore

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008

Friends,

I drive an American car. It's a Chrysler. That's not an endorsement. It's more like a cry for pity. And now for a decades-old story, retold ad infinitum by tens of millions of Americans, a third of whom have had to desert their country to simply find a damn way to get to work in something that won't break down:

My Chrysler is four years old. I bought it because of its smooth and comfortable ride. Daimler-Benz owned the company then and had the good grace to place the Chrysler chassis on a Mercedes axle and, man, was that a sweet ride!

When it would start.

More than a dozen times in these years, the car has simply died. Batteries have been replaced, but that wasn't the problem. My dad drives the same model. His car has died many times, too. Just won't start, for no reason at all.

A few weeks ago, I took my Chrysler in to the Chrysler dealer here in northern Michigan -- and the latest fixes cost me $1,400. The next day, the vehicle wouldn't start. When I got it going, the brake warning light came on. And on and on.

You might assume from this that I couldn't give a rat's ass about these miserably inept crapmobile makers down the road in Detroit city. But I do care. I care about the millions whose lives and livelihoods depend on these car companies. I care about the security and defense of this country because the world is running out of oil -- and when it runs out, the calamity and collapse that will take place will make the current recession/depression look like a Tommy Tune musical.

And I care about what happens with the Big 3 because they are more responsible than almost anyone for the destruction of our fragile atmosphere and the daily melting of our polar ice caps.

Congress must save the industrial infrastructure that these companies control and the jobs they create. And it must save the world from the internal combustion engine. This great, vast manufacturing network can redeem itself by building mass transit and electric/hybrid cars, and the kind of transportation we need for the 21st century.

And Congress must do all this by NOT giving GM, Ford and Chrysler the $34 billion they are asking for in "loans" (a few days ago they only wanted $25 billion; that's how stupid they are -- they don't even know how much they really need to make this month's payroll. If you or I tried to get a loan from the bank this way, not only would we be thrown out on our ear, the bank would place us on some sort of credit rating blacklist).

Two weeks ago, the CEOs of the Big 3 were tarred and feathered before a Congressional committee who sneered at them in a way far different than when the heads of the financial industry showed up two months earlier. At that time, the politicians tripped over each other in their swoon for Wall Street and its Ponzi schemers who had concocted Byzantine ways to bet other people's money on unregulated credit default swaps, known in the common vernacular as unicorns and fairies.

But the Detroit boys were from the Midwest, the Rust (yuk!) Belt, where they made real things that consumers needed and could touch and buy, and that continually recycled money into the economy (shocking!), produced unions that created the middle class, and fixed my teeth for free when I was ten.

For all of that, the auto heads had to sit there in November and be ridiculed about how they traveled to D.C. Yes, they flew on their corporate jets, just like the bankers and Wall Street thieves did in October. But, hey, THAT was OK! They're the Masters of the Universe! Nothing but the best chariots for Big Finance as they set about to loot our nation's treasury.

Of course, the auto magnates used be the Masters who ruled the world. They were the pulsating hub that all other industries -- steel, oil, cement contractors -- served. Fifty-five years ago, the president of GM sat on that same Capitol Hill and bluntly told Congress, what's good for General Motors is good for the country. Because, you see, in their minds, GM WAS the country.

What a long, sad fall from grace we witnessed on November 19th when the three blind mice had their knuckles slapped and then were sent back home to write an essay called, "Why You Should Give Me Billions of Dollars of Free Cash." They were also asked if they would work for a dollar a year. Take that! What a big, brave Congress they are! Requesting indentured servitude from (still) three of the most powerful men in the world. This from a spineless body that won't dare stand up to a disgraced president nor turn down a single funding request for a war that neither they nor the American public support. Amazing.

Let me just state the obvious: Every single dollar Congress gives these three companies will be flushed right down the toilet. There is nothing the management teams of the Big 3 are going to do to convince people to go out during a recession and buy their big, gas-guzzling, inferior products. Just forget it. And, as sure as I am that the Ford family-owned Detroit Lions are not going to the Super Bowl -- ever -- I can guarantee you, after they burn through this $34 billion, they'll be back for another $34 billion next summer.

So what to do? Members of Congress, here's what I propose:

1. Transporting Americans is and should be one of the most important functions our government must address. And because we are facing a massive economic, energy and environmental crisis, the new president and Congress must do what Franklin Roosevelt did when he was faced with a crisis (and ordered the auto industry to stop building cars and instead build tanks and planes): The Big 3 are, from this point forward, to build only cars that are not primarily dependent on oil and, more importantly to build trains, buses, subways and light rail (a corresponding public works project across the country will build the rail lines and tracks). This will not only save jobs, but create millions of new ones.

2. You could buy ALL the common shares of stock in General Motors for less than $3 billion. Why should we give GM $18 billion or $25 billion or anything? Take the money and buy the company! (You're going to demand collateral anyway if you give them the "loan," and because we know they will default on that loan, you're going to own the company in the end as it is. So why wait? Just buy them out now.)

3. None of us want government officials running a car company, but there are some very smart transportation geniuses who could be hired to do this. We need a Marshall Plan to switch us off oil-dependent vehicles and get us into the 21st century.

This proposal is not radical or rocket science. It just takes one of the smartest people ever to run for the presidency to pull it off. What I'm proposing has worked before. The national rail system was in shambles in the '70s. The government took it over. A decade later it was turning a profit, so the government returned it to private/public hands, and got a couple billion dollars put back in the treasury.

This proposal will save our industrial infrastructure -- and millions of jobs. More importantly, it will create millions more. It literally could pull us out of this recession.

In contrast, yesterday General Motors presented its restructuring proposal to Congress. They promised, if Congress gave them $18 billion now, they would, in turn, eliminate around 20,000 jobs. You read that right. We give them billions so they can throw more Americans out of work. That's been their Big Idea for the last 30 years -- layoff thousands in order to protect profits. But no one ever stopped to ask this question: If you throw everyone out of work, who's going to have the money to go out and buy a car?

These idiots don't deserve a dime. Fire all of them, and take over the industry for the good of the workers, the country and the planet.

What's good for General Motors IS good for the country. Once the country is calling the shots.

Yours,
Michael Moore
MMFlint@aol.com
MichaelMoore.com

Tuesday

Things I read today 02-12-08

Obama vows to continue to invest in military - Blacklisted News
In more 'Change' you can count on ...

1 In 5 Young People Has Personality Disorder - Blacklisted News
What is this "everyday life" or "ordinary functioning" that they mention? There's that "loner" again; duck.

Sick babies denied treatment in DNA row - Blacklisted News
WTF? "private intellectual property rights over human DNA"
More on I.P.

Pentagon Hires British Scientist to Help Build Robot Soldiers that ‘Won’t Commit War - Blacklisted News
I can see the Apple i-Robot adds now.

Report Sounds Alarm Over Bioterror - Blacklisted News
"growing threat"? More 'you need us to protect you' BS. I do like how these reports tell 'terrorists' what is possible and how.

Genetic Testing Promises to Reveal Your Child's Sports Aptitude - Blacklisted News
The worst part is that parents are actually doing this.

Court quashes Thai government and exiles PM from politics - CBC News
Note the use of the word "coalition" - nope, no brainwshing here
Asia Times uses word coalition once

Harper says Dion playing 'biggest political game in history' - CBC News
Should I fear a 'coalition' government?

Bush FCC chairman considering 'porn-free Internet' - Raw Story
Free Internet? There is nothing free about censored access. And noooooooooooooooo not the porn

Rwanda singer jailed for genocide - BBC News
inciting violence charges, seems to be a lot more of that lately.

JP Morgan axes 9,200 jobs at WaMu - BBC News
Thanks for the cash and the cheap aquisition; now we get rid of dead weight.

Terrorists on tour - Jane's Information Guide - Intelligence and insight you can trust
This would make me a terrorist; how about you?

Working for Jane's
"Jane's is a world leading global intelligence consultancy. We offer unrivalled information, consultancy and advertising solutions to the international defence, security, law enforcement and transport sectors. To help us achieve these goals we continually seek to employ and develop the best people in every area of our operations." - advertising solutions? employ and develop the best people? These are interesting things.

Monday

Things I read today 01-12-08

Minority Report comes to Britain: The CCTV that spots crimes BEFORE they happen - Story
The experiment of how much the British will actually put up with is continuing.

Poverty spreading in suburbs: study - Reuters
And they needed a study to figure this out? Won't be able to afford to do anything what with the 'financial crisis' and all.

Saakashvilli Admits Georgia Started War - Blacklisted News
Saakashvilli does a double, or triple step. Do you hear circus music?

FAO calls for New World Order for agriculture, $30 bn a year to end hunger - Blacklisted News
$30 Billion a year to end hunger; and why do we not do it? Oh yeah the greedy rich.

India to Mobilize in Aftermath of Mumbai Attacks - Blacklisted News
India's 9/11; nice. Off to war with you then, an abstract war, no real enemy, everyone is an enemy. Why not start with Pakistan?

India-Pakistan tensions may pull in U.S. - Reuters
U.S. in Pakistan? They don't want that. Nice how things worked out.

Latin America Leaders Agree To Create Joint Monetary Zone - Blacklisted News
The continued death of the dollar? The rise of the Amero? What will happen next?

Mumbai attackers trained by special forces: Russian expert - Story
Things that make you go hmmmmm

Chavez announces re-election plan - BBC News
Go Chavez go. Now if only the media gave him a chance.

EU to search out cyber criminals - BBC News
"Remote searches of suspect computers will form part of an EU plan to tackle hi-tech crime." - this means rootkits and backdoors for the government. Time to lose more liberties in the U.K.

The War Against Toys and Pharma-ganda - By Adam Engel
The joys of watching that T.V. Christmas Special.

Evidence suggests CIA funded experiments at state hospital - Blacklisted News
Brainwshing, toture and drug experiments. The history of U.S. intelligence and interrogation points to a CIA cover-up?

U.S. entertainment increases worldwide appeal, even if U.S. image doesn't - Story
At least the propaganda arm of the U.S. is still popular. Nope, no brainwashing here.

U.S. Military Boosting “Homeland” Force to 20,000 by 2011 - Blacklisted News
Looks like the troops inside the U.S. are there to stay. Let's not forget that those troops can be used in Canada for 'civil defense' - Check this

Sunday

Things I read today 30-11-08

The social cost of recessions - CBC News
As always Canada sickens me. Telling people that it won't be so bad due to our 'safety nets'. Unemployment insurance that you can only claim if you are laid off. If you are in a situation that is not healthy for you and quit, too bad, even after paying into it for years. A welfare system that discriminates and tells people "you need a job to apply for welfare". All the while all this is supported by the 'Canadians' which seem to think that these measures are fair because they will never think for themselves and stray off 'the path' of success.

Hidden Cost of a Buyout - Story
I like how the first lines refer to the 'American Dream' or 'fantasy'. Then it is about the fear of health care. Buy that "insurance", don't retire too early.

Grenade attack on Thai protesters leaves dozens injured - CBC News
And no one claims responsibility, wonder who could benefit from this.
Police warning to Thai protesters


Mumbai Terror Attack Aimed to Kill 5,000 People - Fox News
Fox news is at it again. Have to make it sound like a foreign 9/11.
More here

The age of 'celebrity terrorism' - BBC News
BBC tells us that the 'terrorists' are just Pop Idol wannabes.

Creditors humiliate woman on Facebook - Story
How is this notcyber-bullying? Oh yeas, because she owes money.

Wine makers crack open hi-tech tricks - BBC News
Particle accelerators used to make sure that 'the rich' are not getting ripped off. What a waste.

Plea deal offered to 8-year-old father-killer - Story
Wow, a plea for the rest of an 8 year old life. Why is an 8 year old needing a plea bargain?

Californian finds new life in Cambodia - Story
"expulsion from his homeland, the United States, to the homeland of his parents, Cambodia." - guess the U.S. reserves the right to choose its citizens. Ah freedom. Ask not what can your country do for you, but what you can do for your country ... GET OUT!

Man 'put mother's body in river' - BBC News
Doesn't the headline make you think it's a bad thing? Why is this news?

The oil industry still has many shills putting forth the lie… - By Steven Jonas
A brief history of oil. Read and learn.

Man acquitted of killing officer suing police - Story
Could this be a positive precedent? Why was he even charged?
More here

Treated Like a Terrorist by the DMV - Alternet
"We are at the mercy of lunatics." - Let's not forget the morons that the lunatics employ; never questioning.

Hope You Die Before You Get Old - by David Michael Green
Great read about our lagacy to the children.

The Lesson of Bangkok and Mumbai for the World - by The Old Codger
A terrorist can be anyone.