Dec 28, 2013

Karachi Uncovered: Part Of The BBC Documentary On The Pakistani City Of Karachi




Video: Scottish Actor Atta Yaqub, star of Ken Loach's controversial film Ae Fond Kiss, goes on a journey to discover the cosmopolitan city of Karachi in Pakistan. Immersing himself in the glamorous world of supermodels and slick TV shows, he finds his misconceptions about the country his parents came from challenged and his opinions changed.

Arriving in the country for the first time in 20 years, Atta gets himself into a press conference for the Lux Style Awards -- Pakistan's equivalent of the Oscars. Befriending A list stars, he finds a country in the grip of a television boom.

At one of the myriad satellite stations broadcasting a diet of music, fashion, and drama he sees how television is influencing the aspirations of modern urbanites. To get in on the act, he tries out for a part in a top drama, but in a toe curling audition, finds his Urdu is not up to scratch.


Originally Published By The BBC Here

Nov 28, 2013

Rush Limbaugh & GOP's strategy is to take baseless, unresearched rumor as fact



 
In the South you are either "one of ours" or "one of thiers" [“Anatomy of Injustice”: Death in a small town]. Nixon used this racist strategy to fool the South during a time of confusion (they used to be Democrats and now they think they are "Republicans"). Once loyalty is bought they stay loyal (basic slave mentality, I think the slave behavior from the early days of the Republic transferred to the white Southern population just like the beliefs of Native Americans did (i.e. because of guilt). Brings new meaning to the phrase, "What is killed becomes the father"). Anyways, meet Rush Limbaugh the Leader of the GOP & The Last Light of Nixon...
 
The following Rush Limbaugh example shows that there is literally a market for stereotypes and bigotry with an angry tone (a 'self-righteousness') and that he is either still on drugs or he is in need of psychiatric care...

Moment Of Zen: Notice what the members of the crowd are shouting, especially at approx 2 mins into the following video: "You are the Anti-Christ" 

On Rush Limbaugh...
Turns out Rush Limbaugh is well respected in the Republican party. He's supposed to be one person who "speaks everyone's mind" (which reminds me of the borg). All this time I spent in Oklahoma and I never realized that the leader of the crazy, violent, fundamentalist rhetoric was basically one man. A radio shock jock.

The Vulgar Games

Fox News compares Rush Limbaugh to Bill Maher, and accuses comedians of having a liberal double standard.


Republicans Get a Pep Talk From Rush Limbaugh
To all the advice for the new Republicans coming to Congress, add this from Rush Limbaugh: A hostile press corps lurks inside the Beltway.
"You will never ever be their friends," the talk-show host warned most of the 73 Republican freshmen at a dinner here tonight. "They don't want to be your friends. Some female reporter will come up to one of you and start batting her eyes and ask you to go to lunch. And you'll think, 'Wow! I'm only a freshman. Cokie Roberts wants to take me to lunch. I've really made it!' " The audience laughed.
"Seriously," he added. "Don't fall for this. This is not the time to get moderate. This is not the time to start trying to be liked."
The freshman class, which included not a single "femi-Nazi," one of Mr. Limbaugh's favorite epithets for supporters of women's rights, whooped and applauded, proving itself one big fan club of the man it believes was primarily responsible for the Republican avalanche in November.

 Fox News gets upset because a democrat used their own 'Nazi' tactic on them...

Notice how paranoid and delusional Rush Limbaugh is (probably because of the drugs he has been on, they must have messed with his brain!)...
Heatsteria: Part-time weather balloon Rush Limbaugh exposes the government-manufactured heat index conspiracy, while SpongeBob brainwashes kids with global warming propaganda.
Rush Limbaugh [at 1 minute 34 seconds] 'they are playing games with us, messing with our heads with this heat index thing, government trying to tell us how to feel (an example of full blown paranoia... and of a fat guy getting disturbed by a composite number as layers of fat make it harder for the body to regulate it's temperature i.e. it's bad for metabolism)

The following is proof that birds of a feather, really do, flock together!
Or, in this case, sluts, such as Rush, Newt and Cain, stick together! (eewww! I meant protect each other sheesh!)

Background info (news reports):
The Gingrich Women: Newt's Three Wives Jackie, Marianne and Callista Gingrich, from 1974 to 2012.
Newt Gingrich wanted 'open marriage,' ex-wife says
Gonzalez: Cain is making Clinton look like an innocent
Hermain Cain's story has changed a number of times as his campaign desperately tries to fend off allegations that he sexually harassed a number of female employees while running a Washington lobbying organisation.

As the number of sexual harassment allegations increased... people realized that Herman Cain was only ONE extra marital affair behind Newt Gingrich!

He Said, She Said, She Said, She Said, She Said, She Was Paid Not to Say

Allegations of an extramarital affair lead Herman Cain to reassess his candidacy and consider leaving his election-lover's pizza half-baked.

 Above: "If these allegations prove true, that means you are only one extramarital affair behind Newt Gingrich." -- Stephen Colbert.

Turns out it's true!

Indecision 2012 - Herman Cain Won't Be Stopped

Herman Cain appears on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" shortly after a fourth woman steps forward with graphic sexual harassment accusations.


Even Rush Limbaugh will NOT go against a fellow conservative slut... er, black pizza guy (also see the second paragraph of this post)...
Herman Cain's sexual harassment scandal doesn't hurt his campaign fundraising, and Rush Limbaugh shares his racial stereotype expertise...

Rush Limbaugh continued to defend Herman Cain against slut ... er, extra-marital affair... accusations...
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2011/11/30/the_herman_cain_ginger_white_saga
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2011/12/01/who_s_going_after_herman_cain

When Newt Gingrich has proven himself a slut, Herman Cain has proven himself a slut... and Rush defends them... then obviously, Rush likes sluts of the male variety. In fact, Rush Limbaugh could easily be a closet homosexual who wants Harman Cain all to himself! (note: closet homosexuals do often marry women)

What the question has become now...
Rush Limbaugh is a "shock jock". In the United States there are people such as Limbaugh or that other guy who was on radio but is now on Satellite Radio (probably would be considered a liberal shock jock, name is Howard Stern) who say and do shocking things to gain publicity. Limbaugh is one of these people.
What's interesting is that the whole GOP and Fox News is copying him! Why the hell would do they that?

1. Relevant: 1st: "Ever wonder why it is that Fox News can lie over and over again - yet continue to call itself "News"? It's because Fox News is a corporation"--- and so they are allowed to! Proof is here.
2. Notice that Murdoch has been involved in phone hacking scandals on stuff related to 9/11 and murdered children... then read this = I have outlined all the treasonous activity by the Murdochs, the owners of the news channel that copies Limbaugh, here
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Note 1: Defined as 'war on citizens' by the Constitution -i.e. look-up article 3, section 3 of the US Constitution.
Note 2: Mitt Romney said "It's not the language I would use", i.e. he believes using contraceptives to reduce the problem of ovarian cysts is being a slut! i.e. he is participating in Fox-News/GOP slander (also notice - below - that Mitt Romney uses the same tactic of silent agreement with Donald Trump on the birther "issue", this is how he "tells" his followers that these people are right, he just can't say it cause this is an election. This man MUST be vetted properly!!!)
 
Donald Trump is a guy who has failed at EVERY business he has attempted (and gotten bailed out by friends). Currently Trump does a show called "Apprentice" where he teaches the tactics that brought him 4  bankruptcies ... to everyone... for free! [BTW, how incompetent MUST Donald Trump be to bankrupt a CASINO?] He is also a part of the GOP, so he is using the same "he is an alien" strategy (this strategy takes many forms, from "closet muslim" to "anti-christ" (see above) - Publicly they say closet muslim (or whatever is politically correct) and privately they say anti-christ, basic Southern racist behavior (don't let anyone know what we think but get angry at the kids if they act like us cause we didn't teach them to lie.)
Donald Trump is a perfect example of why the GOP is focusing on outsourcing, economic terrorism and the birther issue. The birther issue is thier only way they can keep the attention of a racist population that doesn't particularly like the North to begin with. Obama is both black and a Northerner (from Chicago nevertheless!)... thus he must be wrong, "we just havn't found the proof yet"... in the meantime, ignore proof of all other sorts for thier own masters/leaders(see traditionalism of the peasant population of the South below).
From CNN:

5.30pm: CNN has now blogged its own report on Wolf Blitzer's birthtastic interview with Donald Trump, which is a good place to start for those wanting a post-match summary:
Blitzer presented Trump with newspaper announcements of Obama's birth.
Trump interrupted, "Can you stop defending Obama?"
"Donald, you're beginning to sound a little ridiculous, I have to tell you," Blitzer replied.
"You are, Wolf," Trump fired back. "Let me tell you something, I think you sound ridiculous."
Trump then alleged that the practice of filing US birth announcements for an overseas birth was commonplace, though he offered no evidence.
At any moment it seemed like Trump was going to say "I know you are, but what am I?"
Later tonight, as mentioned previously, Trump and Romney appear together at a fundraising event in Las Vegas. But it may be that Trump's big mouth has stepped on tonight's big news, that Romney finally and mathematicaly clinches the Republican nomination once the Texas primary result is in. But we can deal with that tomorrow.
5.20pm: Even before Donald Trump's epic rant at Wolf Blitzer just now, the Obama campaign's Stephanie Cutter had been putting the boot into Mitt Romney:
Mitt Romney's continued embrace of Donald Trump and refusal to condemn his disgraceful conspiracy theories demonstrates his complete lack of moral leadership. If Mitt Romney lacks the backbone to stand up to a charlatan like Donald Trump because he's so concerned about lining his campaign's pockets, what does that say about the kind of President he would be?
5.06pm: Anyway, while all that was going on, Bob Dylan was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Barack Obama. As was former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, astronaut John Glenn, author Toni Morrison, and several others.
Presumably President Romney will award the medal to Donald Trump in 2015.
5pm: Politico's Dylan Byers is quick to spot that Donald Trump blames CNN's low ratings on the network's lack of coverage and its coverage of the Barack Obama's birth certificate "controversy":
During a phone interview from Las Vegas, Trump defended his ongoing claims that Obama may not have been born in the United States, a charge that Mitt Romney has sought to distance himself from even as he courts Trump's support.
"Many people do not think [his birth certificate] was authentic," Trump said. "Frankly, if you would report it accurately, you would probably get better ratings than you're getting."
Later in the segment, Trump accused Blitzer and CNN of covering the birtherism charge "because you feel its probably going to get a few more people watching your station, which they're probably not doing.

 Satire: Colbert Report Explains...
Notes/Summary:
1. Republican 'purity test' is basically 'anti-Obama',
2. Republicans believe unsubstantiated rumors,
3. No compromise on the debt ceiling,
4. Republicans have a record of re-naming things (called 're-frame' - see interview with Frank Luntz below).
1.A GOP purity test? The "Resolution on Reagan's Unity Principle for Support of Candidates" outlines 10 conservative principles the group of signees wants potential candidates to abide by. The principles include support for: (1) Smaller government, smaller national debt, lower deficits and lower taxes by opposing bills like Obama's "stimulus" bill (2) Market-based health care reform and oppose Obama-style government run healthcare; (3) Market-based energy reforms by opposing cap and trade legislation; (4) Workers' right to secret ballot by opposing card check (5) Legal immigration and assimilation into American society by opposing amnesty for illegal immigrants; (6) Victory in Iraq and Afghanistan by supporting military-recommended troop surges; (7) Containment of Iran and North Korea, particularly effective action to eliminate their nuclear weapons threat (8) Retention of the Defense of Marriage Act; (9) Protecting the lives of vulnerable persons by opposing health care rationing and denial of health care and government funding of abortion; and (10) The right to keep and bear arms by opposing government restrictions on gun ownership "President Ronald Reagan believed, as a result, that someone who agreed with him 8 out of 10 times was his friend, not his opponent," the resolution states. But if a candidate disagrees with three of the above, then the group wants the RNC to withhold financial assistance and an endorsement from that candidate.
Context to understand the effects of the GOP on actual politicians is reflected in the following interview: This interview is with the ex-GOP president, notice how different he is...
Notice Michael Steel's use of the word 'establishment republicans' and that there was a change in republican party from the 1850s (from individuals to institutions)... i.e. the official (or rather unofficial) party direction is to help business over the individual which, over time, naturally came to be corporations. That's how the republican party became what it is today (also read True Republicanism)
2. Stephen Colbert, "Unsubstantiated rumors about people you don't support become majority beliefs"
Proof - Article Extract: To get to the data, our April 20-23 USA Today/Gallup poll showed that 9% of all Americans say that Obama was “definitely” not born in the U.S. Another 15% say that Obama was “probably” not born in the U.S. That’s about a quarter of the U.S. adult population, 24% who have doubts about Obama's being "natural born," the constitutional requirement for a president. That contrasts with 38% of Americans who say Obama was “definitely” born in the U.S. and another 18% who say he was “probably” born in the U.S. Another 20% said that they didn’t know enough to say or refused to answer. Who were those 24% who suspect Obama was not born in the U.S.? Beliefs about Obama's birthplace are certainly related to education . Although 13% of those with post-graduate educations say that Obama was probably or definitely not born in the U.S., that’s half the 28% of those with some college and 26% of those with only a high school education or less who believe Obama was not native born.  Beliefs about Obama’s birth are strongly related to partisanship: 43% of Republicans say that Obama was not born in the U.S., including 15% who are definite in their beliefs and another 28% who say “probably.” Of some concern to the White House and Obama’s 2012 re-election strategists is the fact that 20% of independents believe Obama was probably or definitely not born in the U.S. Nine percent of Democrats agree.  Naturally enough, this partisanship connection means there is a connection between beliefs in Obama's place of birth and intent to vote for Obama. Seventy-five percent of registered voters who say Obama was born in U.S. would consider voting for him. Fifteen percent of those who say he was not born in the U.S. would consider voting for Obama, while 85% say they definitely would not.
3. On the debt ceiling = [Case Study] Political Nonsense of the Debt Ceiling "Debate"
4. Renaming things...
Tips on the following topics from above video:
1. Body language tips,
2. Handling audience tips,
3. Creating a more positive phrase for 'drilling for oil' became 'energy exploration'. (inaccuracy doesn't matter as long as there is a sliver of fact - KISS principle, i.e'. keep it simple stupid),
4. 'climate change' as opposed to 'global warming' ,
5. 'simple truth' (not a lie as it contains a sliver of fact!),
6. 'you decide' to lock in the last manipulative phrase (most of the viewers decisions are based on the views of who they trust... even the books they read ),
7. 'buzz words' - words that people focus on opposed to facts,
8. Use 'simple truth' only once in a discussion or article ?,
9. A criminal getting caught should apologize 3 times, "I'm sorry, I made a mistake, forgive me'
10. Uses the sighing gesture in an interesting way... separating interview reality from fox news manipulations realities,
11. Frank Luntz is marketing a book, which is why he is exposing fox news/tea party secrets... we should get more fox news 'analysts' to write books! . [fox news interview is here - Learn from this book for political success. Words like 'imagine' and 'real time' and other words/tactics used by Frank Luntz above, I first encountered when I started studying hypnosis about 13-14 years ago. Some further research links...
From Wikipedia "The Milton Model lists the key parts of speech and key patterns that are useful in directing another person's line of thinking by being "artfully vague", and in principle the model states that larger chunks (more general use of language) can lead to more rapport, while smaller chunks, (more specific language) is more limiting and has a greater chance of excluding concepts from a person's experience."

Why do these manipulative tactics work on 47% of US population?
Because of emotional attachment to tradition...
The question remains...
why does Mitt Romney do so well?
Answer: Because the Republican party is more traditional than many analysts realize. With John McCain's support, the "waiting in line" torch was passed on to Mitt Romney and so he is now the unofficial 'party head'.
Despite the tea party’s extraordinary energy over the past year, it looks like former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney will win his party’s nomination. At the end of the day, Republicans are following a familiar pattern: Nominating the mainstream candidate who has waited his turn. This is the party that’s had a Bush or a Dole on its ticket for 20 years. It’s a party that also had Richard Nixon on its presidential ticket for 20 years.

Basic Psychology - The Emotional Nature of Decision Making
(Thus meditation and critical thinking are important to civilization)
The myth that 'Man is a rational animal' is so old that people often believe it without question. A modern philosopher, Bertrand Russell, has made this comment on the belief of our rationality, "It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this."Of course, this was a long time ago and was a comment based on personal observation.
Nowadays, we need studies (which is a good thing if insight into human nature can be proven for consensus), so...
Study: Emotion rules the brain's decisions The evidence has been piling up throughout history, and now neuroscientists have proved it's true: The brain's wiring emphatically relies on emotion over intellect in decision-making. A brain-imaging study reported in the current Science examines "framing," a hot topic among psychologists, economists and political hucksters. Framing studies have shown that how a question is posed — think negative ads, for instance — skews decision-making. But no one showed exactly how this effect worked in the human brain until the brain-imaging study led by Benedetto De Martino of University College London. The brain images revealed the amygdala, a neural region that processes strong negative emotions such as fear, fired up vigorously in response to each two-second (on average) gambling decision. Where people resisted the framing effect, a brain region connected to positive emotions such as empathy, and another that activates whenever people face choices, lit up as well, seeming to duke it out over the decision. "We found everyone showed emotional biases, more or less; no one was totally free of them," De Martino says. Even among the four participants who were aware they were inconsistent in decision-making, "they said, 'I know, I just couldn't help myself,' " he says.
Research into organizational decision making has shown a similar result...
Toxic Decision Processes: A Study of Emotion and Organizational Decision Making Organizational research has increasingly recognized the emotional nature of organizations and organizational life. We now widely accept organizations as "emotional arenas" and acknowledge the emotionally saturated nature of people’s work experience. Even decision-making research, one of the most cognitively oriented domains of organizational behavior, shows a growing concern for the role of emotion. The emotionality of organizational decision processes can be very subtle, as in many highly routinized decisions, while other issues provoke intensely emotional decision processes. Potential mergers, acquisitions, and downsizing, for instance, can have dramatic effects on how employees feel about themselves and their organizations; knowing this can have significant impact on the way these decisions are made.
Given how emotions affect our decision making its obvious that the more balanced our emotions are the better our decision making skills will be. This approach is addressed in the concept of Emotional Intelligence in basic psychology. The following gives an outline of this approach...
Emotional Intelligence:
Emotional intelligence (EI) refers to the ability to perceive, control and evaluate emotions. Some researchers suggest that emotional intelligence can be learned and strengthened, while others claim it is an inborn characteristic.
1. Perceiving Emotions: The first step in understanding emotions is to accurately perceive them. In many cases, this might involve understanding nonverbal signals such as body language and facial expressions.
2. Reasoning With Emotions: The next step involves using emotions to promote thinking and cognitive activity. Emotions help prioritize what we pay attention and react to; we respond emotionally to things that garner our attention.
3. Understanding Emotions: The emotions that we perceive can carry a wide variety of meanings. If someone is expressing angry emotions, the observer must interpret the cause of their anger and what it might mean. For example, if your boss is acting angry, it might mean that he is dissatisfied with your work; or it could be because he got a speeding ticket on his way to work that morning or that he's been fighting with his wife.
4. Managing Emotions: The ability to manage emotions effectively is a key part of emotional intelligence. Regulating emotions, responding appropriately and responding to the emotions of others are all important aspect of emotional management.
Note:The idea that emotional intelligence could be only inborn and not have anything to do with life experiences seems to contradict the idea that environment has any effect on behaviour. However, rather than arguing that point in this general article, I thought I would just point out that even simple changes in environment can change our emotional outlook and therefore our decision making.
For example: The following study looks at how a little emotional indulgence in luxury can skew decision making... "Luxury-primed individuals tend to make decisions that are self-interested and arguably unethical." A second, word-association experiment suggested that luxury does not necessarily induce "nasty" behavior toward others, but more indifference toward them. The findings are sure to touch a nerve in an era of mega-sized corporate bonuses and the parallel currency of limousines, private jets and other pricey perks. After all, it was John Thain's lavish $1.2 million office renovation, including an infamous $35,000 antique commode, that is remembered more than his salary in the final days of the brokerage firm Merrill Lynch. The researchers said that, in practical terms, the same business meeting could reach different decisions when held at a fancy resort as opposed to in a modest conference room. "Working in a business setting surrounded by money and luxuries might well have an effect on cognition and decision making," said Chua and Zou. "Perhaps limiting corporate excesses and luxuries might indeed be a step toward getting executives to behave more responsibly."

Video - The Emotional Brain: An Introduction To Affective Neuroscience


Real Life Examples
1. Interview: A discussion of rational vs. emotional decision making

2. Interview: A look at how an emotion such as love can cloud your decision making skills (and a model made by a dating site based on some neuroscience to try and match people together)...

More Background...

Is Mitt Romney A Robber Baron?

Mitt Romney Isn't Trying Anymore. He's LITERALLY Hiding Something.

The Connections Between Corporate Media and Examples of "Echo Chambers"

[Bot Bites] The GOP Are Messing With The Economy Just To Get Obama!

Newt and Mitt Are Allied With The Koch Brothers On Building Racist Feelings In The Tea Party!

[Bot Bites] "The Dumbing Down of America" Example 3 - Michelle Bachman

[Also, Bill O'Reilly does his best to help and so does Sean Hannity ...and the Koch Brothers are actually in a whole league of their own.]













Nov 20, 2013

{Reprint} The Rise Of The GOP Neo-Nazis & The Cult Of Romney





Background:
Hear No Evil - Fox News ObamaCare Lies & Other Panic Inducing Strategies



 The origins of the Nazi's in the United States, actually goes back to world war 2...

"Operation Paperclip" scientists at Fort Bliss, Texas, in 1946. Until 1945, these men worked for Adolf Hitler, but as soon as the war ended these “rare minds” began working for the American military and various intelligence organizations, the details of which remain largely classified. Rocket scientist Wernher von Braun is in the front row, seventh from the right with his hand in his pocket. Source: NASA

The above is published on the Fox News website. Whats utterly amazing is that since World War 2 America has increasingly become more and more filled with hate groups, particularly of the Neo-Nazi variety... did Hitler actually win the war? His message now fills the United States of America! Well, not really 'fill' more like permeates the society at a subliminal level where good citizens try to compromise with haters and end up adopting some level of hate for balance. The Nazi's never should have been allowed to enter America, now their groups cover the countryside. Be careful, Hitler found a way to attack from within...

Republicans Embrace Tyranny, the KKK and Skinheads...

Texas Governor Rick Perry has recently taken a dangerous extremist right-wing position, a message that continues to echo from Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, Eric Cantor, Bobby Jindal, Sarah Palin and others.Perry’s recent not-so-veiled references to a potential Lone Star State secession tapped into the radical and dangerous fringe groups of the KKK, skin heads and attempted to whip up anarchy against the Federal Government of the United States of America, which Perry has called upon dozens of time for help.  The hypocrisy is Perry’s anti-Washington sentiment was not only wrong I believe it is treasonists.  Perry seems more intent in becoming the Grand Master of the Ku Klux Klan.

Perry spurred on this anti-American rhetoric on more than one occasion, calling President Obama a socialist because he wants a minor tax increase for a small fraction of Americans, raising the tax rate of people making over $250k a year from 36% to 39%, while at the same time giving tax cuts to 95% of all hardworking, taxpaying citizens.  While President Obama would prefer to spend Americans tax money on helping people, creating jobs and rebuilding this country’s decaying infrastructure rather than conducting wars of dubious origin, Perry would prefer to lie to Texans for the purpose of political gain. Perry is doing what Republicans do best, putting politics over people.   Anyone, especially a governor, calling for the overthrow of the federal government at the behest of wealthy right wingers demonstrates how pathetic the Republican Party has sunk.  Rick Perry is acting like an irresponsible and spoiled child, as the GOP has not only become the Party of “NO”, but is a very weak, defeated, directionless group of old white men out of ideas for the 21st century.   Desperate people do desperate things.

The fact is that Texas receives 94% of the money back that is sends to Washington, compared to other states, mostly northern that only receive 65-75% back.  What is Rick complaining about? His contribution to the current economic recession is to deny Texans healthcare and unemployment benefits offered by the Federal Government. Thanks “Rickie”

It is unconscionable Rick Perry and the Republican Party would attempt to raise the issue of secession and other ideas that would destabilize our country and our democracy.   Words matter, public officials’ statements matter because of the harm and instability they cause.  Perry’s statements transcend irresponsibility by echoing a violent uprising in this state, in attempting to create civil unrest and stir up the worst fringe groups.

To check out a map of how far the hate groups have spread - including the Nazi "invasion" groups - check out his website.

Fox News has to voice the opinion of its constituents - it is important to keep in mind that their constituents includes the Ku Klux Klan and The Neo-Nazi's. thus, their broadcast has to encompass all their views or they will lose ratings.

In the cult/fundamentalism of Neo-Nazism REPETITION IS KEY TO SUCCESS...
“Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.” Adolf Hitler
“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
AND
“See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda."—” George W. Bush (too dumb to realize this was only for his ears)

 


The Emergence Of The Cult Of Romney

GOP Counters Ron Paul Delegates with Romney Loyalty Oath...


Rachel Maddow reports on the Massachusetts Republican Party making delegates take an oath to vote for Mitt Romney -an effort to purge their ranks of infiltrating Ron Paul supporters.


Related:

1. The Mormon Church is a Corporation

2. In Bain deals, Romney gave stock to Mormon church

3. Creepy stuff (such as baptizing ANN FRANK!!!!)

4. *Karger estimates that Mormons contributed $30 million of the $42 million total raised in support of Proposition 8, which passed in November 2008. "They completely altered the landscape," he says. "They took over every aspect of the campaign." This wasn't the Mormons' first foray into the fight over same-sex equality. The church has long frowned upon homosexuality; more recently, it has focused on opposing gay-marriage initiatives across the nation. (Though it should be noted that not all Mormons oppose gay marriage.) Thanks to Karger, that once-quiet effort has been outed. This slideshow explores the Mormon Church's ongoing campaign to roll back gay rights.*

5. *Yesterday I wrote that although Mitt Romney's teenage "pranks" are, by current standards, fair game for journalists, "pretending that this makes him an anti-gay bully today isn't. He's got decades of adult experiences that tell us what kind of man he's become."*

The New Fake Republicans and Cult Of Romney
... answer ONLY to institutions/corporations

Useful info about modern corps - The Corporation (complete, chapters 1 to 23)  [First published here]
An Interview Where Michael Steele Unintentionally Exposes the GOP fetish with corporations...
Notice Michael Steel's use of the word 'establishment republicans' and that there was a change in republican party from the 1850s (from individuals to institutions)... i.e. the official (or rather unofficial) party direction is to help business over the individual which, over time, naturally came to be corporations. That's how the republican party became what it is today
Moment Of Zen - A Terrorist Is In Charge Of Homeland "Security"
i.e. Republican Peter King suppots killing white people with car and bus bombs (he may even graduate to plane bombs at some point... and this is the guy in charge of US Homeland Security!!!)
Peter King's links to terrorism...
Who is Peter King?
Article 1 on Peter King: But according to experts in counterterrorism law, if the tough-on-terror policies King trumpets today had taken effect a few decades earlier, King himself might have been subject to prosecution. Over parts of three decades, from his days as an aspiring politician in Long Island through his early years in Congress, King was one of the nation's most outspoken supporters of the Irish Republican Army and a prolific fundraiser for the Irish Northern Aid Committee (NorAid), allegedly the IRA's American fundraising arm. The IRA waged a paramilitary campaign against the British presence in Northern Ireland for decades before peace accords were signed in 1998. Part of that effort included bombings and shootings that resulted in civilian deaths in England and Northern Ireland. During the period of King's involvement, the US government accused both NorAid and the IRA of links to terrorism.
Article 2 on Peter King: "The British government is a murder machine," King said. He described the IRA, which mastered the car bomb as an instrument of urban terror, as a "legitimate force." And he compared Gerry Adams, the leader of Sinn Fein, the IRA's political wing, to George Washington.
To read more about the GOP's religious hypocrisy concerning Christianity Introduction to Bill O'Reilly
Note: Fox News is connected to the Federal Government = The Connections Between Corporate Media and Examples of "Echo Chambers"

Understanding Fundamentalism and The Formation of Cult-like Groups
Definition of Fundamentalism: For fundamentalism to exist you have to take a side so completely that the 'other' side (whatever that side may be) MUST be beaten at all costs for survival.

Modern dictionary definitions of fundamentalism:

From Merriam Webster:

Definition of FUNDAMENTALISM
1
a often capitalized : a movement in 20th century Protestantism emphasizing the literally interpreted Bible as fundamental to Christian life and teaching b : the beliefs of this movement c : adherence to such beliefs
2
: a movement or attitude stressing strict and literal adherence to a set of basic principles

A definition of modern Christian fundamentalism:
–noun
1.
( sometimes initial capital letter ) a movement in American Protestantism that arose in the early part of the 20th century in reaction to modernism and that stresses the infallibility of the Bible not only in matters of faith and morals but also as a literal historical record, holding as essential to Christian faith belief in such doctrines as the creation of the world, the virgin birth, physical resurrection, atonement by the sacrificial death of Christ, and the Second Coming.
2.
the beliefs held by those in this movement.
3.
strict adherence to any set of basic ideas or principles: the fundamentalism of the extreme conservatives.

In the cold war the 'other' was communism...

1min 50 seconds in :
A:We were all just muslims and not aware that we were muslims -
S: So there was no sense of 'Us' and 'Them'
A: us and them was all about communism and the rest
(i.e. cold war politics)


The following video shows how angry rhetoric has always been able to bias society AND there is always someone who thinks violence is the only answer and takes action on such beliefs
It also reminds me of the following quote "Naturally, every age thinks that all ages before it were prejudiced, and today we think this more than ever and are just as wrong as all previous ages that thought so. How often have we not seen the truth condemned! It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history." - Carl Jung

[Nowadays there is movement away from religious war to a more tenable 'cold war' type scenario (as fundamentalist war leads to annihilation -i.e. the fighting must go on till the other groups 'follows you or are annihilated'.]


Other types of fundamentalism:
The above video is an example of tax fundamentalism - Where no matter what the economic situation is OR how much tax rates have already been dropped, 'they must never rise again' [This pledge has been signed by several top Republicans, who are now stuck between a rock and a hard place - On one side is the economy and on the other a tax fundamentalist probably chase them for any tax increase for the rest of their lives.]

An article on the spread of hate groups in USA (The part of Hitler planning an invasion is a joke but the idea that such intelligent people can influence a certain segment of the population isn't - Also, they would accumulate money over time and probably have enough to make some politicians seek out their donations by promoting issues that appeal to such individuals). [Note: In the comments section of this post will will find this quote: “Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.”
Adolf Hitler
].

More views of fundamentalism in the USA...

The above is most certainly an attitude shared by Anders Behring Breivik as well as some others...

"You kill a group of people, your insane. You kill hundreds of thousands, your a conqueror. You blame others for your problems and kill them, your a patriot!"

From Salon.com

Anders Breivik's favorite American pundits show no shame in blaming liberals, Muslims for right-wing terror.

Some individuals in hate groups will decide to attack on their own some will work in small groups. Muslims are in a bad economic environment and a large part of global population with historical grievances. This is being duplicated in the west with the currant economic conditions and, fascinatingly enough, a recreation of history so that there may be historical grievances to fight against!

Scholars have criticized Barton for presenting facts out of context or in misleading ways, but that hasn’t stopped him from promoting his theories through books, television, and, yes, the textbooks that will teach the next generation of Americans. He promotes conspiracy theories about elites hiding the truth from average Americans in order to undermine the nation from within. Last summer, he declared that liberal and media attacks on the Tea Party were just like attacks on Jesus. In February, Barton spoke at the Connect 2011 Pastors Conference, where he said that Christians needed to control the culture and media so that “guys that have a secular viewpoint cannot survive.” Said Barton, “If the press lacks moral discrimination, it’s because we haven’t been pushing our people to chop that kind of news off.”

The above is about a man named David Barton who likes to take two or more separate facts and put them together. Then he markets them.

What Europeans need to realize is that he has allot of influence in American politics, guides the direction of fundamentalist Christianity and says stuff like 'just like attacking Jesus' (see quote above) which inflames his followers and any other Christian who is not aware of the facts (i.e. doesn't read), thus his movement, and with it the cultlike New Republican (GOP) party keeps growing. If the democrats in the States win there will be a great deal of genuine anger and conspiracy beliefs and, probably, more death. If Republicans win it could be worse. A great deal of their power comes from making some of their leaders untouchable. If they can be investigated internationally (as Obama doesn't have the political power or desire to expose certain war crimes etc.. that are already proven all over the place - including my blogs)






The rest of this post is a quick exposition in how Fox News is promoting political fundamentalism (which includes Christian fundamentalism).

Law 27: People have an overwhelming desire to believe in something. Become the focal point of such desire by offering them a cause, a new faith to follow. Keep your words vague but full of promise; emphasize enthusiasm over rationality and clear thinking. Give your new disciples rituals to perform, ask them to make sacrifices on your behalf. In absence of organized religion and grand causes, your new belief system will bring you untold power. [From "The 48 Laws of Power"].


"emphasize enthusiasm over clear thinking."

In the above video you will see how lies are used to inflame passions and encourage the blooming of the Tea party, while the video below proves that they were lying...

Also, this video above is from August 17, 2009 and The Obama as Hitler campaign had already begun. Also, with million of people without health insurance, Fox News was promoting the lie that 'America has the best healthcare system in the world' - A statement that defies the facts - World Healthcare system ranks USA healthcare at 37. (just 2 places above Cuba!)


Many lies from Fox News have been confirmed by the politics fact checking website...



Jon Stewart is considered to be a 'liberal activist' by Fox News so the full dynamic is played out on the daily show for all to see so I'm using allot of their videos to illustrate the method of cult creation and maintenance.
Step 1: Keep It Vague: Keep It Simple

"Done right, the combination of vague promises, cloudy but alluring concepts, and fiery enthusiasm will stir people's souls and a group will form around you."

"As a corollary to its vagueness your appeal should also simple. Most people's problems have complex causes: deep-rooted neurosis, interconnected social factors, roots that go way back in time and are exceedingly hard to unravel. Few, however, have the patience to deal with this; most people want to hear that a simple solution will cure their problems. The ability to offer this kind of solution will give you great power and build you a following. Instead of the complicated explanations of real life, return to the primitive solutions of our ancestors, to good old country remedies, to mysterious panaceas."


On one side, in the realm of economics, the new GOP slogans of balance the budget is simple and doesn't require any analysis of history of the intricacies of economic planning.

On the other hand Glenn Beck is one of the masters or promoting fear (which leads to anger... and violence? Obviously.) the following is a post I wrote a long time ago...

Beck says sarcastically "we are fighting our way back into the socialism we never had" implying that unions and people in unions are socialists. [Note: Socialism is defined as a centrally planned economy in which the government controls all means of production - to say that unions somehow control all means of production is absurd... and to imply that they are going to take over the government is probably not what he intended?]

He says, 'traditional values that we know and love and are trying desperately to hold on to' implying that everything any particular listener cherishes is under attack and this creates a need to respond - if he is wrong then what he has actually done is to create a psychological imbalance that could lead to problems.[Click here to watch video]
[Note: This is an idea that could have spread to many right wing groups through many different routes].

The following is a case of being too specific (a mistake in following this law, which resulted in patch up propaganda), which is understandable as Chris Wallace appears to be a true believer in the conservative faith and therefore wasn't thinking strategically.


2 minutes 6 seconds :

Stewart: "You believe that Fox news is the ideological equivalent of MSNBC News?"

Wallace: "I think we are the counter-weight. I think that they have a liberal agenda and that we tell the other side of the story." [Notice the use of "Other"]

Notice the number of fields of knowledge Stewart cites as part of Fox News being "right wing resin" - In particular he mentions that Fox News sees Science, History, facts as against the 'conservatives' i.e. a comedic perspective based on Fox News broadcasts. (click links for further proof on these statements).

As a consequence he had to do a retraction, which was a very bad one but enough for a true believer as all they need is any almost any vague explanation that appears logical and has the word "because" in it [for example: He believes X because of Y, even if it is a lie the explanation is accepted if it is presented by a respected authority figure.]

Around 1 min into the video a Fox News clip begins and Wallace says "I wish I had said the full story" in response to "we tell the other side of the story". The difference, the first is honest the next is either a lawyer idea or a planned line of attack chosen by the editors of the news cast.

About 5 minutes into the video Stewart describes Fox News game, which comes down to, 'if something is in line with Fox News 'conservatism' then it is fair and it it isn't it's liberal bias and if you try to prove them wrong they are being UNFAIRLY persecuted [playing the victim card]
Step 2: Emphasize the Visual and the Sensual over the Intellectual

"Surround yourself with luxury, dazzle your followers with visual splendor, fill their eyes with spectacle. Not only will this keep them from seeing the ridiculousness of your ideas, the holes in your belief system, it will also attract more attention, more followers."

Fox News is well known for having over done graphics and marketing. Sean Hannity's strategy is to use angry rhetoric and shouting down anyone he doesn't agree with (generally). [Creates spectacle, plus he's rich and supports the rich which is enough to dazzle some kinds of people].

Glenn Beck is also a great example of spectacle;

Step 3: Borrow the Forms of Organized Religion to Structure the Group

"The lofty and holy associations of organized religion can be endlessly exploited. Create rituals for your followers; organize them into a hierarchy, ranking them in grades of sanctity, and giving them names and titles that resound with religious overtones; ask them for sacrifices that will fill your coffers and increase your power. To emphasize your gathering's quasi-religious nature, talk and act like a prophet."


The Tea Party protests has the format of a religion. A movement, based on ideology, that requires sacrifices of time and money from its followers with rituals such as buying tea bags and I think I remember some kind of tea boxes stacking event.

Side note: When there is dissension in the ranks then the cult is falling apart, this is the time for escape.

Step 4: Disguise Your Source of Income

"Your followers want to believe that if they follow you all sorts of good things will fall into their lap. By surrounding yourself with luxury you become living proof of the soundness of your belief system. Never reveal that your wealth actually comes from your followers' pockets; instead, make it seem to come from the truth of your methods."


After the Tea Party movement was created, the creators (Fox News) distanced itself acting as if the Tea Party sprang up 'on its own'


About a minute into above Newt Gingrich says that the tea party 'kinda sprang up on its own'

Then Stephen Colbert proves that the Tea Party was founded by anchors of Fox News and activism ideas even came from the repub party chairmen.

About 3 minutes into the video Stephen says a bunch of nonsense, mixing various eras from history together with fiction, this is making fun of Glenn Becks theories which are historically and factually inaccurate.
Step 5: Set Up an Us-Verses-Them Dynamic

"First, make sure your followers believe they are part of an exclusive club, unified by a bond of common goals. Then, to strengthen this bond, manufacture the notion of devious enemy out to ruin you. There is a force of nonbelievers that will do anything to stop you. Any outsider who tries to reveal the charlatan nature of your belief system can now be described as a member of this devious force."

[such as playing victim]

They egg each other on to believe that the Social Democrats are guilty of all the horrors we'll come to experience; that immigrants rape and murder and that it's the socialists' fault. It is the fault of Mona Sahlin, former Social Democrat leader, that we will be forced to wear burkas and live under sharia law by 2020. I'm not saying it's wrong to have opinions about immigration, or to protest against the people who really do want Sweden to allow Muslims to have their own courts and laws. I don't think it's right that our borders should be wide open, without any controls – but I utterly reject these reactions. Hatred breeds nothing but hatred.

Creating the 'other': When Chris Wallace appears to be losing the factual argument immediately a 'Us vs. Them/Him' dynamic is created

About a minute of Fox News anchors repeating the same catch phrases again and again, drumming negative perspectives about Stewart into thier viewers (simple yet effective tactic used by Hitler). The race card on such a flimsy case shows desperation... one would think, but if many people believed it, then the flimsy race card was all that was needed!


The move towards terrorism or violent rhetoric...


Fox News gets upset because a democrat used thier own 'Nazi' tactic on them. [After the killing of a judge that possibly was because of an individual inflamed by fundamentalist right wing rhetoric - the lessons of which were either not learned or simply ignored]. In the above

video you will see why so many people believe Fox News anchors are always lieing and not just following a script. The reality is that when you are surrounded by one kind of rhetoric all day, all week, all year then you begin to believe it. Bill O Reilly literally says Ariana Huffington and the Nazi do the same thing but seems to geniunely believe that he is NOT making a comparision between a 'liberal' and the 'Nazis'.

[Was it any surprise that a judge was shot and anothe ralmost killed with this kind of rhetoric? I wasn't surprised by that, the Norway massacre, or the future massacres from both white, black, brown, yellow and purple polka dotted deranged individuals.]

"When you push the demonization of populations, you often end up with violence," —Heidi Beirich, research director for the Southern Poverty Law Center.

To combat this demonization some activists are trying to balance the equation but are playing right into the trap of 'Us vs Them' by following tactics that are exact opposite of the cult (following the same tactic is also a trap, different law of power so not applicable here)
Avoid slogans, namecalling, and demonizing members of the Right.
Slogans and sound bites have their place, but they are not sufficient as an organizing strategy. Simple anti-Right slogans do not help people understand why the Right sounds convincing but is wrong. And responding in kind to being called names weakens your position with some of the listeners you are trying to convince. Phrases like “religious political extremists” are labels, not arguments, and often will backfire on the neighborhood and community level.

The above document shows how the democrats have chosen to handle the situation. It shows that they are on the back foot. In other words, lies and ideology are so effective in the states that simple facts can only be promoted as if in a defensive war. Allowing Fox News to control the political landscape with lies is clear indication of the failing American democracy. Ideas exported to Europe should be eradicated before they can take root.

Note: How can the following types of perspectives not lead to violence?

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The New Fake Republicans and Cult Of Romney
... Ignore Economics for Ideology! (Note: In Ron Paul's economic plan the military withdrawal solves the deficit problem. The GOP took half of Ron Paul's solution and turned it into a weapon against "we the people")

The Republicans' refusal to accept any tax increases to help America out of debt is like a doctor believing strictly in magic to cure a patient.

The debt ceiling is talked about allot in the media nowadays. An increase in the debt ceiling (which is done by a vote by the representatives of the country's citizens) failed to pass on May 31 for ideological reasons. Some Republicans think that NOW is the time to stop raising the debt ceiling (something done by the GOP leaders several times from 2002 to 2008). Why should we suddenly stop following a previous policy just when we are about to do something different on the economic field? I think its because the GOP leaders have lost faith in the American ability to overcome its challenges (as Republican rule put the country on the brink on economic collapse (remember 2008-09?).

Here is what is going on:

From Fox News:

The congressman said resolving the debt ceiling issue "is crucial for our place in the world economic system," adding that he's open to all ideas to balance the budget. One option the Washington Democrat is proposing is letting the Bush-era tax cuts expire. "The deficit would go down by $533 billion," he said. "So, there are a lot of ways we can get there."

Why is it so difficult to resolve this simple economic issue? The problem is ideology NOT economics...

The old Republicans used to be sensible. Then they got old. Problem is they brought up a bunch of 'old' children as well, stuck in ideology and not aware of the facts the way Republican's used to be. ‎[For example: My grandparents lived through the Great Depression which was so traumatic that they adopted, a 'great depression' perspective. Always worried, accumulating everything they can, wanting things not to change etc. They will often accept ideas from certain authoritive sources just because they have for a long time.]

Extract:

"It used to be that conservatism was a hard-headed set of ideas rooted in reality.
Unlike the abstract theories of Marxism and socialism, it started not from an imagined society, but from the world as it actually exists.

"This is the way things work," conservatives would patiently explain to wooly headed liberal professors. "Whatever you may want it to look like, this is what it really looks like."
But consider the debates over the economy these days. The Republican prescription is cut taxes - slash government spending, then things will always bounce back.

Now, I would like to see lower tax rates in the context of simplification and reform, but what is the actual evidence that massive tax cuts are the single best path to revive the U.S. economy? Taxes as a percentage of GDP are at their lowest levels since 1950. The U.S. is among the lowest taxed of the big industrial economies.

So the case that America is grinding to a halt because of high taxation is not based on facts, either past or present. It is simply a theoretical assertion.

The rich countries after all are in the best shape right now with strong growth and low unemployment are ones like Germany, Denmark and Canada - none characterized by low taxes.
"


More proof that the economic debate in the States is an ideological debate - i.e. watch the following talk between the economists on whether we should have jobs vs. whether we should be budgeting (I know I'm biased, but that sounds like my Grandparents... sensible for an individual in dire economic times but not for an economy/country). With jobs for our youth there will be a boost in demand driven by greater income. Add technological boosts and new/small business boosts and the demand in the country's economy will be even greater - i.e. we can think innovatively and succeed with the resources that we have.



Notice where it says 'in my judgement' in the following quote - another proof that this is an ideological debate...

"STOCKMAN: Yes. That's the dilemma that we're in. We're in a deflationary cycle. We can't afford to borrow more. We can't afford to create artificial demand and artificial employment. And so, therefore, we're likely to have unemployment in the teens for the balance of the teens, that is, for a decade or more.

That's the mess that we have created after 30 years of, you know, tax giveaways and lack of control on entitlements and running this massive $800 billion war budget that we don't need and can't afford. It sounds like very harsh medicine, but it happens to be reality. We cannot borrow our way out of this one, in my judgment. We're now facing the day of reckoning, literally."


Here is another direct quote (notice that what this Republican economist thinks should be done is an ideological perspective NOT an economic one {i.e. he is using metaphor of personal budgeting for understanding an economy)...

"Two years ago, Greece was borrowing two-year money at 3 percent. This morning, they're borrowing at 30 percent. There reaches a point when the bond market is no longer willing to tolerate the kind of fiscal irresponsibility we have, and I think we're very close to that, and it is very foolish to run a risk of trying to find out how much longer we can go on with this before the reaction sets in.

So, yes, I agree it would be nice if we could afford to spend money to put people to work or put money in people's pockets, although I don't think that's a good public policy. But we can't afford it. Literally, we are broke. Literally, we are at the edge of a financial calamity and we have to get beyond the idea that there is always enough balance sheet left to borrow some more money until we get to economic conditions that are more to our liking. The conditions that we have are the ones that we have to cope with, and that, unfortunately, is the fact of life today."


It is a fact of life for people. Economies function on different principles as my new REAL Economics blog will make clear. this post is just to make it clear that raising the debt ceiling an creating more opportunities and jobs VS. the current GOP leader's 'budgeting' approach to a country's economic system is an ideological one NOT an economic one.
 

The New Fake Republicans and Cult Of Romney... Pervert Ronald Reagan's Beliefs to Fool "We The People"(concerning Unions)...

Moment of Zen - Ronald Reagan supports unions and collective bargaining in a speech from the 80s. (00:09)
"Where free unions and collective bargaining are forbidden... freedom is lost." Ronald Reagan 





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