November 16, 2012
Hostess going out of business; nearly 18,000 to be laid off
IRVING, Texas - Say goodbye to your Twinkies.
North Texas-based Hostess Brands, Inc. has decided to go out of business and liquidate its assets after failing to win back striking workers.
The company posted a statement on a website set up specifically for people following the strike.
"We deeply regret the necessity of today's decision, but we do not have the financial resources to weather an extended nationwide strike," said Gregory F. Rayburn, chief executive officer. "Hostess Brands will move promptly to lay off most of its 18,500-member workforce and focus on selling its assets to the highest bidders."
About one-third of the company's workers are union members who are unhappy about the company's cutbacks during its bankruptcy reorganization.
But problems with several unions -- including the Bakery, Confectionery, and Tobacco workers and the Grain Millers International Union -- have prevented the company from moving forward.
Hostess said it will seek bankruptcy court permission to sell all of its assets. The company said bakery production has already shut down.
Some of the brands' products include Twinkies, Ding Dongs, Ho-Hos, Fruit Pies and Wonder Bread.
Stay with FOX 4 news and myfoxdfw.com for further information throughout the day.
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Friday, November 16, 2012
John McCain on Senate Floor: “This President and This Administration has Either been Guilty of Colossal Incompetence or Engaged in a Cover-Up” – Video
Nov. 16, 2012
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This is what integrity looks like. Something that Obama is incapable of.
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BC @ Im41.com
This is what integrity looks like. Something that Obama is incapable of.
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Dear Barack Obama (A Letter From Joseph Goebbels)
November 16, 2012
I realize receiving a letter from a time traveler can be confusing, and you may believe this is some kind of a prank. To verify my time-traveling skills, I have enclosed within this envelope a tuft of white hair from a man of African descent. It is yours and it’s from the floor of your favorite barbershop ten years from now, by which point you will appear to be much older than 61. Please have it carbon-dated after verifying the DNA. Shocking, yes?
I’m here to tell you something. In short: I am impressed.
As a propagandist, you have achieved everything I set out to do. You soared to victory this week like a Bundesadler in a Leni Riefenstahl film. I’m amazed der Juden and der junge are so devoted to your cause, as it seems you are determined to extinguish both. But what really impresses me is the blind faith with which more than half of America follows you. These are people who couldn’t care less about politics, yet somehow they are in a trance. Why? Because you promised them you care. Amazing. An entire generation of young men stand proudly behind you simply because you play basketball. And you’re not even good at it!
In New York, an American state that hasn’t voted for a Republican presidential candidate in almost 30 years, people flocked to the polls and insisted their friends do the same. I saw them tell their friends they felt “empowered” and that they were “real, true Americans.” When you won, New Yorkers all over the city cheered with glee despite having no idea about your policies. I asked many of them to distinguish between your opponent’s healthcare program and yours, and they had no idea. All they knew was their vote “made a difference” and “that’s what counts.” These are people with the math skills of a 12-year-old. You made an entire nation love you merely because you were black while claiming you were hated for precisely that reason. You are the most brilliant Negro I have ever seen.
After all but allowing an attack on your Libyan consulate you sent out a spokesperson denying such an event existed, and it worked. Instead of talking to world leaders you go on women’s talk shows. When unemployment soars, you say it would have gone much higher without you. You kill the space program and devote the resources to making Muslims feel better about themselves. MUSLIMS!? Isn’t America at war with a great number of them? You tell those disgusting Zionists to go back to the borders of nearly half a century ago and when they protest, you add that they must leave Iran alone. (This was my favorite part, BTW—I must have gone back and watched this 100 times.)
You convinced antiwar liberals that it’s OK to extend the Patriot Act AND do warrantless spying AND create a “kill list” AND conduct drone wars AND send a massive surge of new troops to Afghanistan AND keep Guantanamo despite promising the opposite. Then your propaganda machine convinces the country it’s your opponent who is the warmonger.
When you dig the deepest debt any president ever has, you say it had to be done. The nation’s young people will inherit this debt but you’ve convinced them that they don’t need to care. I’m about to go back in time and kill my kids, but you make me feel like a pussy. Imagine the Schadenfreude I feel when I hear adolescents call someone with twice as many Harvard degrees as you “stupid.” You control more young minds than that Ronald McDonald character.
You have somehow convinced the Obama Youth any fact that is “divisive” (I love that word) is not worth knowing. If someone points out a failure, you blame the previous administration, and 50% of the voters blindly agree. You made politics about pop culture and fashion, and now the Dumb Community worships you. You’ve convinced the nation that begot “Don’t Tread on Me” that it needs a government that “cares about them.” Amazing. You’ve turned them into dependent infants.
I haven’t seen propaganda this effective since Roosevelt. He managed to convince post-Depression America that it was the government’s job to make things right. Roosevelt instilled in the lower classes a permanent reliance on government that persists today and will go well past the Second Civil War of 2030.
Fox News appears to be the only one asking questions, but only old people are watching and they will all die shortly. Old people ask too many questions.
This is why I killed Andrew Breitbart. I had seen him pollute the populace like a virus. The most important part of good propaganda is not caring about the truth. I am still worried about this group who call themselves libertarians. Like Andrew, they seem open to debate and have no allegiance to anyone. Though they scoffed at your National Socialism, they also objected to your opponent’s foreign policy and the prohibition of drugs. This is dangerous because where there is loyalty to truth, there is no loyalty to leaders. However, I think it’s this lack of loyalty to one group that will be the libertarians’ downfall.
Your acceptance speech reminded me of all my hard work and I felt proud. After the Depression and before the war, I told a room full of fans, “This nation will again start making history.” Imagine the joy I felt when, 80 years later, I heard you say, “We have fought our way back and we know in our hearts that for the United States of America the best is yet to come.”
The masses are dumb, uneducated fools who can’t think for themselves. They need the government to solve their problems. They need a fascist dictatorship where one great leader chooses who will run the economy.
You are the black eagle on my coat of arms and the only negative thing I could possibly say is that you make me feel slightly inferior. On that note, I am off to kill my family. Watch out for those libertarians and keep up the good fight. Auf Wiedersehen und Gute Nacht!
—Dr. Joseph Goebbels
source: Gavin McInnes
* originally posted November 9, 2012
| Joseph Goebbels |
I’m here to tell you something. In short: I am impressed.
As a propagandist, you have achieved everything I set out to do. You soared to victory this week like a Bundesadler in a Leni Riefenstahl film. I’m amazed der Juden and der junge are so devoted to your cause, as it seems you are determined to extinguish both. But what really impresses me is the blind faith with which more than half of America follows you. These are people who couldn’t care less about politics, yet somehow they are in a trance. Why? Because you promised them you care. Amazing. An entire generation of young men stand proudly behind you simply because you play basketball. And you’re not even good at it!
In New York, an American state that hasn’t voted for a Republican presidential candidate in almost 30 years, people flocked to the polls and insisted their friends do the same. I saw them tell their friends they felt “empowered” and that they were “real, true Americans.” When you won, New Yorkers all over the city cheered with glee despite having no idea about your policies. I asked many of them to distinguish between your opponent’s healthcare program and yours, and they had no idea. All they knew was their vote “made a difference” and “that’s what counts.” These are people with the math skills of a 12-year-old. You made an entire nation love you merely because you were black while claiming you were hated for precisely that reason. You are the most brilliant Negro I have ever seen.
After all but allowing an attack on your Libyan consulate you sent out a spokesperson denying such an event existed, and it worked. Instead of talking to world leaders you go on women’s talk shows. When unemployment soars, you say it would have gone much higher without you. You kill the space program and devote the resources to making Muslims feel better about themselves. MUSLIMS!? Isn’t America at war with a great number of them? You tell those disgusting Zionists to go back to the borders of nearly half a century ago and when they protest, you add that they must leave Iran alone. (This was my favorite part, BTW—I must have gone back and watched this 100 times.)
You convinced antiwar liberals that it’s OK to extend the Patriot Act AND do warrantless spying AND create a “kill list” AND conduct drone wars AND send a massive surge of new troops to Afghanistan AND keep Guantanamo despite promising the opposite. Then your propaganda machine convinces the country it’s your opponent who is the warmonger.
When you dig the deepest debt any president ever has, you say it had to be done. The nation’s young people will inherit this debt but you’ve convinced them that they don’t need to care. I’m about to go back in time and kill my kids, but you make me feel like a pussy. Imagine the Schadenfreude I feel when I hear adolescents call someone with twice as many Harvard degrees as you “stupid.” You control more young minds than that Ronald McDonald character.
You have somehow convinced the Obama Youth any fact that is “divisive” (I love that word) is not worth knowing. If someone points out a failure, you blame the previous administration, and 50% of the voters blindly agree. You made politics about pop culture and fashion, and now the Dumb Community worships you. You’ve convinced the nation that begot “Don’t Tread on Me” that it needs a government that “cares about them.” Amazing. You’ve turned them into dependent infants.
I haven’t seen propaganda this effective since Roosevelt. He managed to convince post-Depression America that it was the government’s job to make things right. Roosevelt instilled in the lower classes a permanent reliance on government that persists today and will go well past the Second Civil War of 2030.
Fox News appears to be the only one asking questions, but only old people are watching and they will all die shortly. Old people ask too many questions.
This is why I killed Andrew Breitbart. I had seen him pollute the populace like a virus. The most important part of good propaganda is not caring about the truth. I am still worried about this group who call themselves libertarians. Like Andrew, they seem open to debate and have no allegiance to anyone. Though they scoffed at your National Socialism, they also objected to your opponent’s foreign policy and the prohibition of drugs. This is dangerous because where there is loyalty to truth, there is no loyalty to leaders. However, I think it’s this lack of loyalty to one group that will be the libertarians’ downfall.
Your acceptance speech reminded me of all my hard work and I felt proud. After the Depression and before the war, I told a room full of fans, “This nation will again start making history.” Imagine the joy I felt when, 80 years later, I heard you say, “We have fought our way back and we know in our hearts that for the United States of America the best is yet to come.”
The masses are dumb, uneducated fools who can’t think for themselves. They need the government to solve their problems. They need a fascist dictatorship where one great leader chooses who will run the economy.
You are the black eagle on my coat of arms and the only negative thing I could possibly say is that you make me feel slightly inferior. On that note, I am off to kill my family. Watch out for those libertarians and keep up the good fight. Auf Wiedersehen und Gute Nacht!
—Dr. Joseph Goebbels
source: Gavin McInnes
* originally posted November 9, 2012
10 Good Reasons Not to Assassinate Obama
America has now elected its first half-black president to a second term, which, if you understand math, means that America has finally elected a fully black president to one term. A little more than half of America is gloating like drunken pigs on moonshine. A little less than half of America is brooding with a smoldering sense of resignation and perhaps permanent cultural defeat.
Among the latter contingent is a young fat blonde pimply idiot woman in California who recently Tweeted the following:
Another four years of this nigger, maybe he will get assassinated this term..!!
Several news agencies blacked out (pun intended) the word “nigger,” while others opted for variants such as “(N word)” and “n———r,” the latter of which may have caused unsuspecting souls to wonder whether she meant to say “nitpicker,” “Northerner,” “naysayer,” “NASCAR driver,” or “nougat-eater.”
The woman lost her job as a result. It was reported that she was being “probed” by the Secret Service, and we all know how painful that can be.
This is not the first time someone has publicly hinted it’d be a good idea for Obama to be assassinated, and for some reason young white women (such as this one and this one) seem to be leading the pack. But young black men have also made similar threats and a young man of apparently Hispanic derivation even shot at the White House last year, perhaps not realizing Obama was on vacation.
Louis Farrakhan has said that “they,” which almost always means “the Jews,” want a Muslim to kill Obama, while others allege that Mossad wishes to slay him. There have been numerous other assassination threats against involving such disparate elements as a Waffle House, a bail bondsman, and an Irish Muslim.
Barack Obama himself, who occasionally waxes nearly as grandiose about himself as his supporters do about him like the salivating Pavlovian zombie dogs they are, has compared himself to the successfully assassinated Abraham Lincoln and the unsuccessfully assassinated Ronald Reagan.
Because I can’t even bear Jehovah’s Witnesses knocking at my door and therefore wouldn’t like it if Secret Service agents came a-knockin’, I suppose here is where I should offer the disclaimer that I don’t think it’d be a good idea if someone were to assassinate the president. Here are ten reasons why.
1. BECAUSE IT WOULD MAKE TYLER PERRY THE MOST SUCCESSFUL BLACK MAN IN AMERICA
Nobody wants this to happen. Nobody. Sure, Obama has big ears, but Tyler Perry dresses in drag and wears fat suits. Perry’s ascendance to the #1 spot would be an American cultural catastrophe.
2. BECAUSE IT’S WHAT “THEY” WANT
I must clarify that the word “they” in this case doesn’t necessarily connote “the Jews,” although there are doubtlessly several Jews huddled inside this rancid horde. “They” are the ones, many of them white, who have been rubbing whites’ noses in their demographic decline and loss of power, who insist that it’s a virtue to placidly accept such things and “hateful” to resist them. They are the ones who, even though Americans have now elected a partially black man president twice in a row, insist that Americans can’t handle a black president. If Obama were to be shot, it would in a very perverse way satisfy those who love him even more than those who hate him.
3. BECAUSE IT WOULD GIVE THE GUN-GRABBERS MORE REASON TO GRAB GUNS
Obama didn’t waste much time after his reelection in endorsing a United Nations measure that appears to supersede American sovereignty regarding gun ownership, and if he were to be killed with a firearm—especially a large, high-caliber, shiny, and undeniably phallic one—it would constitute a public-relations holocaust for the gun lobby.
4. BECAUSE JOSEPH BIDEN WOULD BECOME PRESIDENT
President Biden would become the new Andrew Johnson to Obama’s new murdered Lincoln. President Biden would yell at babies, roll his eyes mockingly at senior citizens, and grope unwilling biker women in public. Plus, “Bidencare” doesn’t have quite the same ring to it as “Obamacare.”
5. BECAUSE IT WOULD UNDERMINE URBAN-RENEWAL EFFORTS
If Obama were to be assassinated, legions of unkempt, ill-mannered, malodorous, blue-gummed, and yellow-eyed “urban” “people” would likely burn cities to the ground from coast to coast. It would become a national riot, and I don’t mean this in the sense of a “laugh riot.”
6. BECAUSE IT WOULD PLACE UNDUE STRESS ON AN ALREADY OVERWORKED SECRET SERVICE
As I’ve already documented, our public servants in the Secret Service are already running themselves ragged investigating fat dumb young blonde women on Twitter. They are also exhausted from bagging Colombian prostitutes. If they wound up getting blamed for not protecting Obama from assassination, this might constitute one of those rare cases of God giving someone too much to handle.
7. BECAUSE OBAMA WOULD BECOME A MARTYR
Sure, in the long run, being assassinated didn’t do much for McKinley or Garfield’s Q Score, but it cemented Lincoln and Kennedy’s fame for perpetuity. It would also grant him eternal saintliness and possibly even a higher spot in the Pantheon of Murdered Black Demigods than that of Tupac Shakur. And think of all the Barack Obama Boulevards and Barack Obama Memorial Fountains. And does any one of us really want to see the inevitable Steven Spielberg movie about it? As it stands, I think Obama is already, you know, sufficiently mythological.
8. BECAUSE IT WOULD CONSTITUTE AN UNNECESSARILY EMOTIONAL OVERREACTION
I realize that many Americans are unhappy with the election’s results, but that’s no reason to go bananas—or even bonkers, for that matter. As they say in anger-management classes, it would be a major “thinking error” if someone were to kill him. Many psychologists would rightly describe it as an instance of “acting-out behavior.” An Obama assassin would obviously have “issues” and need “meds.” So if you’re thinking about doing this, I suggest you take it down a notch. Take a “time out” and swallow a “chill pill.” Get a foot rub. Sip some tea. Do some yoga. Cool your jets. Don’t go getting any crazy ideas. No need to get your camouflage panties in a bunch over all this.
9. BECAUSE IT WOULD THREATEN TO DIVIDE AMERICA
Killing Obama as he soars like a giant black falcon over this proud nation would destroy the achievements of a man who has obviously brought this country together. It would divide a house against itself. It would bring discord to the message of unity and harmony he’s been pushing like a dope dealer on a Lower East Side street corner.
10. BECAUSE NOBODY COULD BLAME THE NEXT FOUR YEARS ON OBAMA
If the economy collapses and the country implodes as I expect it to do, killing Obama now would exempt him from much of the blame. Folks, we all know that wouldn’t be the right thing to do. Right, folks? So don’t assassinate him. As the saying goes, it just makes a double “ass” out of U + Me. Don’t even kill him with kindness, because he clearly doesn’t deserve it.
source: tikimag
Among the latter contingent is a young fat blonde pimply idiot woman in California who recently Tweeted the following:
Another four years of this nigger, maybe he will get assassinated this term..!!
Several news agencies blacked out (pun intended) the word “nigger,” while others opted for variants such as “(N word)” and “n———r,” the latter of which may have caused unsuspecting souls to wonder whether she meant to say “nitpicker,” “Northerner,” “naysayer,” “NASCAR driver,” or “nougat-eater.”
The woman lost her job as a result. It was reported that she was being “probed” by the Secret Service, and we all know how painful that can be.
This is not the first time someone has publicly hinted it’d be a good idea for Obama to be assassinated, and for some reason young white women (such as this one and this one) seem to be leading the pack. But young black men have also made similar threats and a young man of apparently Hispanic derivation even shot at the White House last year, perhaps not realizing Obama was on vacation.
Louis Farrakhan has said that “they,” which almost always means “the Jews,” want a Muslim to kill Obama, while others allege that Mossad wishes to slay him. There have been numerous other assassination threats against involving such disparate elements as a Waffle House, a bail bondsman, and an Irish Muslim.
Barack Obama himself, who occasionally waxes nearly as grandiose about himself as his supporters do about him like the salivating Pavlovian zombie dogs they are, has compared himself to the successfully assassinated Abraham Lincoln and the unsuccessfully assassinated Ronald Reagan.
Because I can’t even bear Jehovah’s Witnesses knocking at my door and therefore wouldn’t like it if Secret Service agents came a-knockin’, I suppose here is where I should offer the disclaimer that I don’t think it’d be a good idea if someone were to assassinate the president. Here are ten reasons why.
1. BECAUSE IT WOULD MAKE TYLER PERRY THE MOST SUCCESSFUL BLACK MAN IN AMERICA
Nobody wants this to happen. Nobody. Sure, Obama has big ears, but Tyler Perry dresses in drag and wears fat suits. Perry’s ascendance to the #1 spot would be an American cultural catastrophe.
2. BECAUSE IT’S WHAT “THEY” WANT
I must clarify that the word “they” in this case doesn’t necessarily connote “the Jews,” although there are doubtlessly several Jews huddled inside this rancid horde. “They” are the ones, many of them white, who have been rubbing whites’ noses in their demographic decline and loss of power, who insist that it’s a virtue to placidly accept such things and “hateful” to resist them. They are the ones who, even though Americans have now elected a partially black man president twice in a row, insist that Americans can’t handle a black president. If Obama were to be shot, it would in a very perverse way satisfy those who love him even more than those who hate him.
3. BECAUSE IT WOULD GIVE THE GUN-GRABBERS MORE REASON TO GRAB GUNS
Obama didn’t waste much time after his reelection in endorsing a United Nations measure that appears to supersede American sovereignty regarding gun ownership, and if he were to be killed with a firearm—especially a large, high-caliber, shiny, and undeniably phallic one—it would constitute a public-relations holocaust for the gun lobby.
4. BECAUSE JOSEPH BIDEN WOULD BECOME PRESIDENT
President Biden would become the new Andrew Johnson to Obama’s new murdered Lincoln. President Biden would yell at babies, roll his eyes mockingly at senior citizens, and grope unwilling biker women in public. Plus, “Bidencare” doesn’t have quite the same ring to it as “Obamacare.”
5. BECAUSE IT WOULD UNDERMINE URBAN-RENEWAL EFFORTS
If Obama were to be assassinated, legions of unkempt, ill-mannered, malodorous, blue-gummed, and yellow-eyed “urban” “people” would likely burn cities to the ground from coast to coast. It would become a national riot, and I don’t mean this in the sense of a “laugh riot.”
6. BECAUSE IT WOULD PLACE UNDUE STRESS ON AN ALREADY OVERWORKED SECRET SERVICE
As I’ve already documented, our public servants in the Secret Service are already running themselves ragged investigating fat dumb young blonde women on Twitter. They are also exhausted from bagging Colombian prostitutes. If they wound up getting blamed for not protecting Obama from assassination, this might constitute one of those rare cases of God giving someone too much to handle.
7. BECAUSE OBAMA WOULD BECOME A MARTYR
Sure, in the long run, being assassinated didn’t do much for McKinley or Garfield’s Q Score, but it cemented Lincoln and Kennedy’s fame for perpetuity. It would also grant him eternal saintliness and possibly even a higher spot in the Pantheon of Murdered Black Demigods than that of Tupac Shakur. And think of all the Barack Obama Boulevards and Barack Obama Memorial Fountains. And does any one of us really want to see the inevitable Steven Spielberg movie about it? As it stands, I think Obama is already, you know, sufficiently mythological.
8. BECAUSE IT WOULD CONSTITUTE AN UNNECESSARILY EMOTIONAL OVERREACTION
I realize that many Americans are unhappy with the election’s results, but that’s no reason to go bananas—or even bonkers, for that matter. As they say in anger-management classes, it would be a major “thinking error” if someone were to kill him. Many psychologists would rightly describe it as an instance of “acting-out behavior.” An Obama assassin would obviously have “issues” and need “meds.” So if you’re thinking about doing this, I suggest you take it down a notch. Take a “time out” and swallow a “chill pill.” Get a foot rub. Sip some tea. Do some yoga. Cool your jets. Don’t go getting any crazy ideas. No need to get your camouflage panties in a bunch over all this.
9. BECAUSE IT WOULD THREATEN TO DIVIDE AMERICA
Killing Obama as he soars like a giant black falcon over this proud nation would destroy the achievements of a man who has obviously brought this country together. It would divide a house against itself. It would bring discord to the message of unity and harmony he’s been pushing like a dope dealer on a Lower East Side street corner.
10. BECAUSE NOBODY COULD BLAME THE NEXT FOUR YEARS ON OBAMA
If the economy collapses and the country implodes as I expect it to do, killing Obama now would exempt him from much of the blame. Folks, we all know that wouldn’t be the right thing to do. Right, folks? So don’t assassinate him. As the saying goes, it just makes a double “ass” out of U + Me. Don’t even kill him with kindness, because he clearly doesn’t deserve it.
source: tikimag
Why Did Cantor Protect Obama?
Nov. 16, 2012
By Cliff Kincaid
(Accuracy In Media) - The central figures in the David Petraeus sex scandal are not talking. That includes Virginia Congressman and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor. Yet, the decision by this top Republican to turn to the FBI rather than his colleagues in the House with inside information about the scandal has proven to be monumental, a development that enabled Barack Obama to win the presidency without getting tainted by the allegations of immorality and corruption that are now the subject of daily news reports.
The record shows that Cantor had knowledge of the affair from an FBI whistleblower before the election but decided not to go public with the allegations of high-level misconduct by the CIA director. He stayed silent as Obama campaigned for re-election as a foreign policy statesman and efficient manager of America’s national security interests. FULL STORY>>
By Cliff Kincaid
(Accuracy In Media) - The central figures in the David Petraeus sex scandal are not talking. That includes Virginia Congressman and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor. Yet, the decision by this top Republican to turn to the FBI rather than his colleagues in the House with inside information about the scandal has proven to be monumental, a development that enabled Barack Obama to win the presidency without getting tainted by the allegations of immorality and corruption that are now the subject of daily news reports.
The record shows that Cantor had knowledge of the affair from an FBI whistleblower before the election but decided not to go public with the allegations of high-level misconduct by the CIA director. He stayed silent as Obama campaigned for re-election as a foreign policy statesman and efficient manager of America’s national security interests. FULL STORY>>
SHOCK VIDEO – “Obama’s Yes We Can” Played Backwards – “Thank you Satan”
Nov. 16, 2012
For the life of me, I don't understand. I mean, I really should be surprised right?
NewsNinja2012.com:
There are so many things that you can say for this video and I am left speechless with what I heard so I leave that to you to decide.
I happened upon this video today and I didn’t know that over 4M people had viewed it already. Things make sense if you understand the implications of what could happen.
See the video here>>
For the life of me, I don't understand. I mean, I really should be surprised right?
NewsNinja2012.com:
There are so many things that you can say for this video and I am left speechless with what I heard so I leave that to you to decide.
I happened upon this video today and I didn’t know that over 4M people had viewed it already. Things make sense if you understand the implications of what could happen.
See the video here>>
A Sign of the Times..
Nov. 16, 2012
Left-wing radio shows dumped (After helping Obama's re-election)
The end of the election seasons is taking a toll on progressive talk in the Pacific Northwest. The Everett Post reports CBS Radio will flip “Progressive Talk 1090” KPTK, Seattle to an affiliate of its CBS Sports Radio network. The station has changed its call letters to KFNQ, hinting at a “Fan” branding. If accurate, the station would take on “710 ESPN” KIRO, sports KJR (950, 102.9) and “Fox Sports 1380” KRKO. Clear Channel dumped liberal talk from KPOJ, Portland for sports last week.
source: inside radio
Left-wing radio shows dumped (After helping Obama's re-election)
The end of the election seasons is taking a toll on progressive talk in the Pacific Northwest. The Everett Post reports CBS Radio will flip “Progressive Talk 1090” KPTK, Seattle to an affiliate of its CBS Sports Radio network. The station has changed its call letters to KFNQ, hinting at a “Fan” branding. If accurate, the station would take on “710 ESPN” KIRO, sports KJR (950, 102.9) and “Fox Sports 1380” KRKO. Clear Channel dumped liberal talk from KPOJ, Portland for sports last week.
source: inside radio
SEE THE VIDEO: Israeli airstrike kills Hamas militant chief
Nov. 16, 2012
New York Post
JERUSALEM — An Israeli airstrike killed the commander of the military wing of Gaza's Hamas rulers Wednesday, Hamas officials and Israel confirmed, in a dramatic resumption of Israel's policy of assassinating Palestinian militant leaders.
Ahmed Jabari was the most senior Hamas official to be killed since an Israeli invasion of Gaza four years ago. Jabari has long topped Israel's most-wanted list. Israel blamed him for in a string of attacks, including the kidnapping of Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit in 2006.
DIRECT LINK>>
New York Post
JERUSALEM — An Israeli airstrike killed the commander of the military wing of Gaza's Hamas rulers Wednesday, Hamas officials and Israel confirmed, in a dramatic resumption of Israel's policy of assassinating Palestinian militant leaders.
Ahmed Jabari was the most senior Hamas official to be killed since an Israeli invasion of Gaza four years ago. Jabari has long topped Israel's most-wanted list. Israel blamed him for in a string of attacks, including the kidnapping of Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit in 2006.
DIRECT LINK>>
Another Repub bigwig turnscoat
Nov. 16, 2012
Barbour: GOP needs a 'proctology exam'
(CNN) – While Republicans continue to soul search after their party's loss in the presidential election, former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour injected a new term Wednesday to describe the GOP's introspection... MORE
Barbour: GOP needs a 'proctology exam'
(CNN) – While Republicans continue to soul search after their party's loss in the presidential election, former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour injected a new term Wednesday to describe the GOP's introspection... MORE
Thursday, November 15, 2012
Prayers for a fellow blogger
Nov. 15, 2012
The Daily Gator
I was stunned, and saddened today, reading at Zilla’s blog, that Amusing Bunni is very sick, and needs every prayer that can be offered up. Head over to Zilla’s place if you can help in any way
Amusing Bunni is a dear friend, a blogger, and the maker of the most adorable kitty videos ever. She used do a lot of Conservative blogging (from Chicago!) but a while back the death threats she received (from sickos who didn’t even TRY to hide their IP addresses!) got to be too much so she backed off from the politics and just did adorable videos mostly, while coming to other Conservative blogs and making them better for her having stopped by there in our comments sections. I knew something was going on with her when I saw this:
Sometimes, you get news in life that is so awful, so horrible, and
the worst is when you can do NOTHING about it to change it. So, in those times, the best
thing to do is just
Hug your teddy bear!
[...]
I’m still shell shocked by Tuesday’s horrid news that cements America’s path on the road to ruin. That news is almost as bad as what else I learned, but I’ll save that for another time. Prayers are needed all around, for America, and for me! RTWT
So I had to ask, and eventually, she told me. I have her permission now to tell you. Brace yourself, this is copied from an email she sent me:
There is no good way to put this, so the cold hard truth is:
I was in hospital for 8 days, after all the tests, biopsies, bone scans, mri, cat scans, ultra sounds, etc. etc. It’s confirmed I have 5th stage inoperable liver cancer, HCC. There is NOTHING to be done to treat it. I have been given 3 to 6 months to live.
So, I’m terminal. There are so many tumors in my abdomen, and the liver is enlarged very much, they can’t operate, the tumors and blood vessels are too much and too close, they can’t do chemo, or NOTHING, so I just will be seeing palliative care Dr.’s for medicine adjustments to help with the pain, and then just get my affairs in order and wait to die.
Bunni is now (obviously) unable to work and she has mortgage and other bill payments still to worry about and she will need help covering medical and other expenses as well. Here is her PayPal button:
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I was stunned, and saddened today, reading at Zilla’s blog, that Amusing Bunni is very sick, and needs every prayer that can be offered up. Head over to Zilla’s place if you can help in any way
Amusing Bunni is a dear friend, a blogger, and the maker of the most adorable kitty videos ever. She used do a lot of Conservative blogging (from Chicago!) but a while back the death threats she received (from sickos who didn’t even TRY to hide their IP addresses!) got to be too much so she backed off from the politics and just did adorable videos mostly, while coming to other Conservative blogs and making them better for her having stopped by there in our comments sections. I knew something was going on with her when I saw this:
Sometimes, you get news in life that is so awful, so horrible, and
the worst is when you can do NOTHING about it to change it. So, in those times, the best
thing to do is just
Hug your teddy bear!
[...]
I’m still shell shocked by Tuesday’s horrid news that cements America’s path on the road to ruin. That news is almost as bad as what else I learned, but I’ll save that for another time. Prayers are needed all around, for America, and for me! RTWT
So I had to ask, and eventually, she told me. I have her permission now to tell you. Brace yourself, this is copied from an email she sent me:
There is no good way to put this, so the cold hard truth is:
I was in hospital for 8 days, after all the tests, biopsies, bone scans, mri, cat scans, ultra sounds, etc. etc. It’s confirmed I have 5th stage inoperable liver cancer, HCC. There is NOTHING to be done to treat it. I have been given 3 to 6 months to live.
So, I’m terminal. There are so many tumors in my abdomen, and the liver is enlarged very much, they can’t operate, the tumors and blood vessels are too much and too close, they can’t do chemo, or NOTHING, so I just will be seeing palliative care Dr.’s for medicine adjustments to help with the pain, and then just get my affairs in order and wait to die.
Bunni is now (obviously) unable to work and she has mortgage and other bill payments still to worry about and she will need help covering medical and other expenses as well. Here is her PayPal button:
So, you still believe "internment" or "FEMA" camps inside of the U.S. is a conspiracy theory huh?
I think the better question should be asked like this: "Why is the U.S. conspiring against her citizens?" -W.E.
UPDATE: A friend (THANKS CHARLENE!) just sent me this PDF that is mentioned in the video and elsewhere in the below article. It is a U.S. Army document entitled "Internment and Resettlement Operations". These are important documents to keep possibly on a flash drive to show people that you really aren't as nutty as they think.;)
"This publication is available at
Army Knowledge Online (www.us.army.mil) and
General Dennis J. Reimer Training and Doctrine
Digital Library at (www.train.army.mil)."
Crossroad
Quotes from Barbed Wire Camps for American Citizens (2007):
"The Master Arrest Warrant... directs the head of the FBI to: arrest persons whom I [the U.S. Attorney General] deem dangerous to the public peace and safety. These persons are to be detained and confined until further order.'"1
"[Y]ou could, in the name of stopping terrorism... evoke the military and arrest Americans and put them in detention camps." (U.S. Congressman Henry Gonzalez)2
"‘Intelligence Activities, Senate Resolution 21' exposed the covert agenda... to monitor, infiltrate, arrest and incarcerate a potentially large segment of American society."3
Skip down to Background Information and History of Internment Plans
November 2012 (More will be added soon)
New Nationwide FEMA Camps Should Raise Eyebrows: "The staffing requirement or cadre for FEMA personnel for these camps -- which are identified as being located in five (5) distinct regions throughout and within the borders of the USA, with camps located in each and every state -- was three to fifteen each. The size of these camps will vary around 5 acres per 1,cres for populations of 500 or fewer inhabitants within the camps' boundaries.
"This requirement also had a minimum square footage for each inhabitant: ...approximately 8 feet on each side. This is slightly less than current Federal Court(s) requirements for housing prisoners.... Perimeter fencing or barricades is required to be six feet high...with security restricting all traffic and access....
"Another anomaly was the requirement that the 'off limits' area was to be enclosed before anything else.... Fencing and barricades are required within 36 hours for 'phased' setup timeframes, and 72 hours for the rest..."
"To sum up: the solicitation to bid for the staffing of FEMA camps within 72 hours is a curious proposition, since it appears to predict a calamity that will affect the entire nation simultaneously --completely unlike a location-specific natural disaster.
"...what I found most striking was the 'off limits' areas within each camp and staffing with 'displaced persons'... all undefined. As citizens, we need to know the exact purpose of these camps..." See FEMA Camp Footage
Video: Camp FEMA: American Lockdown - FULL MOVIE - 86 min: "Recent legislation attempting to legitimize the use of internment camps to detain U.S. citizens in the event of an uprising or civil unrest has many people asking what nation they live in.
"In a country born out of political dissent, we watch our leaders in Washington slowly pass bills that label ordinary Americans as thought criminals and potential domestic terrorists and their impassioned supporters listed in secret government reports that call their allegiance into question and brand them as fanatics and extremists.
"Senate committee hearings and official FBI documents further illustrate the mindset of our elected officials as they classify homeschoolers, gun rights activists and anti-abortionists as threats against the existing social and political order; by default creating an entire nation of radicals and revolutionaries - where everyone is a suspect equally guilty until proven otherwise.
"How has our government shown that they will deal with these people? The same way as every other totalitarian regime throughout history - marginalize their activities then lock them up. Prisons are being built; internment camps constructed and laws passed that deal severely with anyone who dares to step out of line or ask too many questions.
"Who are the potential domestic terrorists that will end up in these camps? Read the documentation for yourself..."
September 2012
Leaked U.S. Army Document Outlines Plan For Re-Education Camps In America: "The document makes it clear that the policies apply 'within U.S. territory' and involve, 'DOD support to U.S. civil authorities for domestic emergencies, and for designated law enforcement and other activities,' including 'man-made disasters, accidents, terrorist attacks and incidents in the U.S. and its territories.'...The manual lists the following roles that are designated to the 'PSYOP team'.
- Identifies malcontents [who are unhappy about Obama?], trained agitators, and political leaders...
- Develops and executes indoctrination programs to reduce or remove antagonistic attitudes.
- Identifies political activists....
- Plans and executes a PSYOP program that produces an understanding and appreciation of U.S. policies and actions." See Barbed Wire Camps for American Citizens
Desert Compound Mystery: "Over the past five months, this 'compound' has taken shape out in the central Arizona desert, in the middle of nowhere near Blackwater and Sacaton Arizona, along the dry Gila River. It looks to be about a quarter mile long by an eighth mile wide. It has razor wire all around it, power lines run to it and about half of it is cleared of vegetation. It is in an inhospitable and inescapable area of the Sonoran desert....You'd be lucky to walk one mile in the summer heat there....Summertime temps are routinely 120 F or even higher. Could this be for Guantanamo Bay detainees? Coming civil unrest? Illegal aliens? Mortgage defaulters? ...I will keep you posted. See ARTICLE
Background Information and History of Internment plans:
Rex 84: FEMA’s Blueprint for Martial Law in America (August 20, 2006): "The Cheney/Bush administration has a plan which would accommodate the detention of large numbers of American citizens during times of emergency. The plan is called REX 84, short for Readiness Exercise 1984. Through Rex-84 an undisclosed number of concentration camps were set in operation throughout the United States, for internment of dissidents and others potentially harmful to the state....
"Existence of the Rex 84 plan was first revealed during the Iran-Contra Hearings in 1987, and subsequently reported by the Miami Herald on July 5, 1987. 'These camps are to be operated by FEMA should martial law need to be implemented in the United States and all it would take is a presidential signature on a proclamation and the attorney general’s signature on a warrant to which a list of names is attached.'
"...the real purpose of FEMA is to not only protect the government but to be its principal vehicle for martial law. ...We are dangerously close to a situation where ~ if the American people took to the streets in righteous indignation or if there were another 9/11 ~ a mechanism for martial law could be quickly implemented and carried out under REX 84."
Oliver North Questioned - Rex 84 Exposed During Iran Contra: "FEMA plans on suspension of the US constitution exposed during Iran contra hearings. Oliver North is questioned by Jack Brooks."
The National Defense Authorization Act is the Greatest Threat to Civil Liberties Americans Face (December 5, 2011): "If Obama does one thing for the remainder of his presidency let it be a veto of the National Defense Authorization Act – a law recently passed by the Senate which would place domestic terror investigations and interrogations into the hands of the military and which would open the door for trial-free, indefinite detention of anyone, including American citizens, so long as the government calls them terrorists. So much for innocent until proven guilty. So much for limited government...."
"Project Overview and Anticipated Project Requirement": "The National Defense Authorization Act is the Greatest Threat to Civil Liberties Americans Face."
Civil Disturbances Support Plan, Coast Guard (COGARD GARDEN PLOT) : The department of the Army Civil Disturbance Plan (DA GARDEN PLOT), promulgated in reference (a), is the governing publication for planning, deployment, employment, and redeployment of federal military resources involved in countering domestic civil disturbances. Coast Guard units may be placed within a Department of Defense (DOD) task force under operational control of the designated task force commander in GARDEN PLOT operations....The secretary of the Army is the Executive Agent for DOD in matters pertaining to civil disturbances."
KBR awarded Homeland Security contract worth up to $385M: "KBR, the engineering and construction subsidiary of Halliburton Co. ...has been awarded a contingency contract from the Department of Homeland Security to supports its Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities in the event of an emergency. ...The contract, which is effective immediately, provides for establishing temporary detention and processing capabilities to expand existing ICE Detention and Removal Operations Program facilities in the event of an emergency influx of immigrants into the U.S., or to support the rapid development of new programs."
Clergy Response Teams
Hat tip: Weeping Eagle
UPDATE: A friend (THANKS CHARLENE!) just sent me this PDF that is mentioned in the video and elsewhere in the below article. It is a U.S. Army document entitled "Internment and Resettlement Operations". These are important documents to keep possibly on a flash drive to show people that you really aren't as nutty as they think.;)
"This publication is available at
Army Knowledge Online (www.us.army.mil) and
General Dennis J. Reimer Training and Doctrine
Digital Library at (www.train.army.mil)."
Crossroad
Quotes from Barbed Wire Camps for American Citizens (2007):
"The Master Arrest Warrant... directs the head of the FBI to: arrest persons whom I [the U.S. Attorney General] deem dangerous to the public peace and safety. These persons are to be detained and confined until further order.'"1
"[Y]ou could, in the name of stopping terrorism... evoke the military and arrest Americans and put them in detention camps." (U.S. Congressman Henry Gonzalez)2
"‘Intelligence Activities, Senate Resolution 21' exposed the covert agenda... to monitor, infiltrate, arrest and incarcerate a potentially large segment of American society."3
Skip down to Background Information and History of Internment Plans
November 2012 (More will be added soon)
New Nationwide FEMA Camps Should Raise Eyebrows: "The staffing requirement or cadre for FEMA personnel for these camps -- which are identified as being located in five (5) distinct regions throughout and within the borders of the USA, with camps located in each and every state -- was three to fifteen each. The size of these camps will vary around 5 acres per 1,cres for populations of 500 or fewer inhabitants within the camps' boundaries.
"This requirement also had a minimum square footage for each inhabitant: ...approximately 8 feet on each side. This is slightly less than current Federal Court(s) requirements for housing prisoners.... Perimeter fencing or barricades is required to be six feet high...with security restricting all traffic and access....
"Another anomaly was the requirement that the 'off limits' area was to be enclosed before anything else.... Fencing and barricades are required within 36 hours for 'phased' setup timeframes, and 72 hours for the rest..."
"To sum up: the solicitation to bid for the staffing of FEMA camps within 72 hours is a curious proposition, since it appears to predict a calamity that will affect the entire nation simultaneously --completely unlike a location-specific natural disaster.
"...what I found most striking was the 'off limits' areas within each camp and staffing with 'displaced persons'... all undefined. As citizens, we need to know the exact purpose of these camps..." See FEMA Camp Footage
Video: Camp FEMA: American Lockdown - FULL MOVIE - 86 min: "Recent legislation attempting to legitimize the use of internment camps to detain U.S. citizens in the event of an uprising or civil unrest has many people asking what nation they live in.
"In a country born out of political dissent, we watch our leaders in Washington slowly pass bills that label ordinary Americans as thought criminals and potential domestic terrorists and their impassioned supporters listed in secret government reports that call their allegiance into question and brand them as fanatics and extremists.
"Senate committee hearings and official FBI documents further illustrate the mindset of our elected officials as they classify homeschoolers, gun rights activists and anti-abortionists as threats against the existing social and political order; by default creating an entire nation of radicals and revolutionaries - where everyone is a suspect equally guilty until proven otherwise.
"How has our government shown that they will deal with these people? The same way as every other totalitarian regime throughout history - marginalize their activities then lock them up. Prisons are being built; internment camps constructed and laws passed that deal severely with anyone who dares to step out of line or ask too many questions.
"Who are the potential domestic terrorists that will end up in these camps? Read the documentation for yourself..."
September 2012
Leaked U.S. Army Document Outlines Plan For Re-Education Camps In America: "The document makes it clear that the policies apply 'within U.S. territory' and involve, 'DOD support to U.S. civil authorities for domestic emergencies, and for designated law enforcement and other activities,' including 'man-made disasters, accidents, terrorist attacks and incidents in the U.S. and its territories.'...The manual lists the following roles that are designated to the 'PSYOP team'.
- Identifies malcontents [who are unhappy about Obama?], trained agitators, and political leaders...
- Develops and executes indoctrination programs to reduce or remove antagonistic attitudes.
- Identifies political activists....
- Plans and executes a PSYOP program that produces an understanding and appreciation of U.S. policies and actions." See Barbed Wire Camps for American Citizens
Desert Compound Mystery: "Over the past five months, this 'compound' has taken shape out in the central Arizona desert, in the middle of nowhere near Blackwater and Sacaton Arizona, along the dry Gila River. It looks to be about a quarter mile long by an eighth mile wide. It has razor wire all around it, power lines run to it and about half of it is cleared of vegetation. It is in an inhospitable and inescapable area of the Sonoran desert....You'd be lucky to walk one mile in the summer heat there....Summertime temps are routinely 120 F or even higher. Could this be for Guantanamo Bay detainees? Coming civil unrest? Illegal aliens? Mortgage defaulters? ...I will keep you posted. See ARTICLE
Background Information and History of Internment plans:
Rex 84: FEMA’s Blueprint for Martial Law in America (August 20, 2006): "The Cheney/Bush administration has a plan which would accommodate the detention of large numbers of American citizens during times of emergency. The plan is called REX 84, short for Readiness Exercise 1984. Through Rex-84 an undisclosed number of concentration camps were set in operation throughout the United States, for internment of dissidents and others potentially harmful to the state....
"Existence of the Rex 84 plan was first revealed during the Iran-Contra Hearings in 1987, and subsequently reported by the Miami Herald on July 5, 1987. 'These camps are to be operated by FEMA should martial law need to be implemented in the United States and all it would take is a presidential signature on a proclamation and the attorney general’s signature on a warrant to which a list of names is attached.'
"...the real purpose of FEMA is to not only protect the government but to be its principal vehicle for martial law. ...We are dangerously close to a situation where ~ if the American people took to the streets in righteous indignation or if there were another 9/11 ~ a mechanism for martial law could be quickly implemented and carried out under REX 84."
Oliver North Questioned - Rex 84 Exposed During Iran Contra: "FEMA plans on suspension of the US constitution exposed during Iran contra hearings. Oliver North is questioned by Jack Brooks."
The National Defense Authorization Act is the Greatest Threat to Civil Liberties Americans Face (December 5, 2011): "If Obama does one thing for the remainder of his presidency let it be a veto of the National Defense Authorization Act – a law recently passed by the Senate which would place domestic terror investigations and interrogations into the hands of the military and which would open the door for trial-free, indefinite detention of anyone, including American citizens, so long as the government calls them terrorists. So much for innocent until proven guilty. So much for limited government...."
"Project Overview and Anticipated Project Requirement": "The National Defense Authorization Act is the Greatest Threat to Civil Liberties Americans Face."
Civil Disturbances Support Plan, Coast Guard (COGARD GARDEN PLOT) : The department of the Army Civil Disturbance Plan (DA GARDEN PLOT), promulgated in reference (a), is the governing publication for planning, deployment, employment, and redeployment of federal military resources involved in countering domestic civil disturbances. Coast Guard units may be placed within a Department of Defense (DOD) task force under operational control of the designated task force commander in GARDEN PLOT operations....The secretary of the Army is the Executive Agent for DOD in matters pertaining to civil disturbances."
KBR awarded Homeland Security contract worth up to $385M: "KBR, the engineering and construction subsidiary of Halliburton Co. ...has been awarded a contingency contract from the Department of Homeland Security to supports its Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities in the event of an emergency. ...The contract, which is effective immediately, provides for establishing temporary detention and processing capabilities to expand existing ICE Detention and Removal Operations Program facilities in the event of an emergency influx of immigrants into the U.S., or to support the rapid development of new programs."
Clergy Response Teams
Hat tip: Weeping Eagle
CULTURAL MARXISM
Nov. 15, 2012
By Robert F. Beaudine
crossroads
Throughout history, ideas have been used for good or for evil. They have also led to the greatest evil – war. This is reflective in a nation’s language.
By the end of 1932, Germany was in upheaval. The unemployment rate soared to 43%. As the Nazis rose to power, new ideas emerged; new words were introduced; old words were discarded and others changed. “Juden verboten” became a popular phrase as the Juden, the Jews, were blamed for all their ills. They were denied basic rights as citizens, and most activities were verboten.
In 1933, when Adolf Hitler consolidated power with the “Enabling Act,” modern art and architecture were condemned. Many artists fled their homeland, as art became a tool of the regime. The Reichstag was privately mocked as the most expensive glee club, as their members sang paeans to their Fuhrer.
The Nazi minister of propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, defined the new order and foretold the consequences, “When I hear the word ‘culture’ I reach for my gun.”
The regime was “fascist,” a word coined in 1921. This obscured their ideology – “national socialism” – a clever term somewhat palatable to their fellow nationalists in the military and industry. They telescoped this into “Nazi” to further hide its origins from the world. When scholars claim this was a regime of the far right, they are either duped or dishonest.
Under the Nazis, their prominent leaders were well-read. Goebbels boasted of his library, complete with all the works of Edward Bernays, most notably his Propaganda. He implemented Bernays’ program with great success. When this was discovered after the war, propaganda was redefined as P.R., “public relations.”
For their fanatical followers and the rest of the masses who decided to stay, anti-intellectualism was decreed. Books were burned, the media censored. French words were purged from their vocabulary. Free speech became dangerous, as even children were spies for the state.
The universities became centers to regiment thought. In a nation acclaimed for its scholarship, this betrays either their madness or a diabolical agenda – the blueprint used by all the totalitarian dictators.
Eventually, many renowned scholars fled and brought their unique heritage to America.
Verbal Engineering
In 1949, George Orwell, unfurled his vision of a nightmarish future in 1984. “Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible because there will be no words in which to express it.” Orwell’s protagonist, Winston Smith, learned something about his world: When words are eliminated from the common vocabulary, the thinking of the common people becomes limited.
Later, his novel showed how perceptions are manipulated when the definitions of fundamental words are changed, i.e., peace becomes defense which then becomes war – a classic illustration of Hegel’s dialectic. Here, the thesis – or status quo – refers to the current usage of the word. When it undergoes a slight change in meaning towards its antithesis, a new synthesis is born. If enough incremental changes occur, eventually the antithesis is established.
Because the term “Hegel’s dialectic” is missing from our common vocabulary, many of us have no awareness of this process in continual motion. Instead, we think every change occurs naturally.
By definition, a change towards the antithesis is adverse to that element of society who would “conserve” the status quo – the conservatives who revere their traditions and institutions.
In today’s world, many of our most important institutions and traditions – and the foundational words associated with them – have been so dramatically engineered towards the antithesis that conservatives no longer support the status quo.
The Philosophical Roots of the Social Sciences
Spanning the 18th Century of Western Civilization, the Enlightenment was an intellectual revolution based on reason. It produced two predominant types: Those who rejected all authority outside of reason, including religion and its divine right of kings, and those who remained true to Christianity. Because free speech was not a right, the most radical writers published anonymously.
Science rapidly unraveled the mysteries on Earth and in the sky above, and led to the belief that continued discoveries would enable humanity’s triumph over nature.
This also created despair for some Christians. As science flourished, many Medieval “truths,” i.e. the sun revolved around the Earth, had been proved as myths. Some Christians lost their faith. Yet, many leading scientists remained true to their faith. Science had not destroyed the authority of the Bible, only the misinterpretations.
In 1751, the first volume of l’Encyclopedie was published in France. Over the next twenty-one years, twenty-seven more volumes followed, edited by the brilliant French atheists, Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d’Alembert. Diderot admitted their aim was “to change the way people think.”
In The Closing of the American Mind, Allan Bloom wrote, “This project was a conspiracy, as d’Alembert said in the Preliminary Discourse of l’Encyclopedie, the premier document of the Enlightenment. It had to be, for, in order to have rulers who are reasonable, many of the old rulers had to be replaced, in particular all those whose authority rested upon revelation. The priests were the enemies, for they rejected the claim of reason and based politics and morals on sacred texts and ecclesiastical authorities.”
In 1798, the British professor, John Robison, wrote in Proofs of a Conspiracy, “A formal and systematic conspiracy against Religion was formed and zealously prosecuted by Voltaire, d’Alembert, and Diderot, assisted by Frederic II, King of Prussia … their darling project was to destroy Christianity and all Religion, and to bring about a total change of Government.”`
These conspirators claimed l’Encyclopedie had assembled all the accumulated knowledge throughout the ages. After initial censorship, it became the foremost reference source for knowledge, which spread their ideas undermining civil and Christian authorities.
The 19th Century French philosopher and founder of modern sociology, Auguste Comte, embraced Enlightenment thinking, of the type that rejected religion. His philosophy, logical positivism, claimed science as the only reliable approach to truth. Empirical observation leads to verification which leads to truth. Religion had to be abandoned.
American philosopher, Thomas Ellis Katen, explained, “Thus the positivist realm becomes a kingdom of thingdom and an ‘off-limits’ sign is put on areas of life most meaningful to men … when men’s souls cry out for an image of unity, the logical positivistic philosophy offers only further fragmentation.”
The German philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche, offered no help. He upended metaphysics in the late 19th Century and ended Germany’s Western tradition in philosophy. Nietzsche announced to the world that “God is dead!” which gave humanity the freedom to create their own values. He said philosophers had a moral duty to create the new myths for society. He also declared all scientific achievement was the result of a “will to power.”
Allan Bloom wrote, “The history of liberal thought since Locke and Smith has been one of almost unbroken decline in philosophic substance.”
The Science Behind the Social Sciences
The most popular social sciences – sociology and psychology – were conceived as sciences but do not resemble science in its popular conception, except in one respect – revelation was rejected as a source of knowledge.
Each expands with every new theory postulated alone or attached to an observational and/or statistical study. But there is little science underlying all their vast proclamations. Innumerable definitions, generalizations, abstractions, and assumptions mask the truth that most of their causal constructions are hypothetical.
These social sciences were established and staffed by Progressives and became their scholarly haven.
The two most influential foundational thinkers were sociologist Max Weber and psychologist Sigmund Freud.
In the German tradition, Max Weber wrote convoluted sentences typically over ten lines long and invented or redefined words. He coined “Protestant ethic” and “lifestyle,” and helped change the definition of “charisma.” With his definition, charismatic authority became the new force for change within any given organization.
Weber studied all the great religions, the resulting economies, and the values they promoted. When he claimed that all religions were myths, their values became relative. This led decades later to the Values Clarification approach used in our public schools today.
Weber was an antipositivist who thought ethos must reject what reason demands because of the widespread irrationality of society. In Economy and Society, he wrote, “Under the conditions of mass democracy, public opinion is communal conduct born of irrational ‘sentiments.’ Normally it is staged or directed by party leaders and the press.”
He also wrote, “We know of no scientifically ascertainable ideals. To be sure, that makes our efforts more arduous than in the past, since we are expected to create our ideals from within our breast in the very age of subjectivist culture.”
Freud was also concerned with the irrational. He searched the unconscious for answers to our brutal behaviors. He used the German term for “soul,” but his conception was godless. To Freud religion was myth.
The British psychoanalyst, James Strachey, seemed justified when he mistranslated Freud’s “soul” as “mind” – leading British and American psychologists felt psychology should be categorized as a medical science, and the “soul” was distinctly unscientific. Strachey’s translation redefined Freud with a spurious scientific consistency, typical of Progressive deception.
Sigmund Freud had a poor view of the masses of humanity, with their untreated neuroses and animal instincts. In The Future of an Illusion, he wrote, “Among these instinctual wishes are those of incest, cannibalism, and lust for killing.”
Earlier he wrote, “For masses are lazy and unintelligent; they have no love for instinctual renunciation, and they are not to be convinced by argument of its inevitability; and the individuals composing them support one another in giving free rein to their indiscipline.”
He added, “It is only through the influence of individuals who can set an example and whom masses recognize as their leaders that they can be induced to perform the work and undergo the renunciations on which the existence of civilization depends.”
When psychologists observe and describe human behavior, they resemble scientists, but when they explain human behavior, they propagate hypothetical opinion.
Several observations are apparent: The more popular psychology becomes, the more widespread our problems have become. The more couples are referred to marriage counselors, the worse our divorce rate gets. Our problems are not being solved by our psychologists or the pop-promoters of this pseudoscience, like Abby and Ann Landers.
There could be a simple reason: If God exists, much of the social sciences become theoretical nonsense, which means society is harmed by their neglect of “the soul” and their mockery of religion.
The Frankfurt School
Another ominous event occurred in 1933. With the rise of Nazism, the “Frankfurt School” fled Germany, settled in Geneva for a year, and then temporarily relocated to New York City as an affiliate of Columbia University. Founded by Marxists in 1923 as the Institute of Social Research at Frankfurt University, it was modeled on the Marx-Engels Institute in Moscow.
Their philosophy built upon Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche and his radical successor, Martin Heidegger, who carried forward much of Nietzsche’s extremism into the 20th Century. Their social sciences relied on Freud and Weber. And they drew upon the revolutionary theories of Italian Communist Antonio Gramsci and Hungarian Socialist Georg Lukacs.
Gramsci was shocked that the Bolshevik Revolution didn’t inspire their oppressed fellow workers in Europe to rise up in rebellion. While in a prison cell, he discovered that Judeo-Christian values was the problem and must be destroyed before revolution was possible.
Gramsci called for a methodical approach to infiltrate, capture, and reform education, the press, the cinema, theatre, the government, and the church, what he called “the long march through the institutions.” He said Capitalism had a cultural hegemony through violence and coercion, both political and economic, but also ideologically, which is where the battle lay.
Lukacs, perhaps the most brilliant Marxist theorist of the 20th Century, was more discerning regarding mass uprisings. All the successful revolutions were engineered by a small cadre of intellectuals. In 1922, he met with the early Frankfurt founders for a week in Ilmenau, Germany. A year later, the Frankfurt School was conceived as a think tank that trained agents of change.
One of the directors, Max Horkheimer, developed Critical Theory as opposed to Traditional Theory. Critical Theory doesn’t offer any solutions. Instead, it criticizes in a concerted attack until it creates an atmosphere of crisis. Crises lead to changes – opportunities to incrementally engineer society towards cultural Marxism.
The Frankfurt elite, Horkheimer, Erich Fromm, Herbert Marcuse, Wilhelm Reich, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, and later, Jurgen Habermas, used verbal engineering to facilitate their social engineering. They wrote extensive attacks on the Judeo-Christian institutions and traditions, and redefined them as evils.
They rebranded the foundational words. “Private property” and “profit” became selfish pursuits. “Individualism,” “personal industry,” and “self reliance” became oppressive, as the world was divided into two types of people, “oppressors” or “victims.” Religion became the greatest evil – a superstition that led to intolerance and war. Nationalism was the second greatest evil and also led to war.
The Frankfurt School studied the psychological techniques of the Nazis. One result, Adorno and three Berkeley scholars wrote The Authoritarian Personality, which was widely acclaimed by our social scientists. It was later debunked as left wing propaganda. Allan Bloom called it meretricious fabrication. Among other theoretical heresies, it redefined fatherhood as tyrannical. This was a triumph for feminism as women became an oppressed class.
This verbal engineering set in motion the long march to undermine the love of God, family, and country.
From 1937 to 1941, Adorno worked for the Radio Research Project alongside future president of CBS, Frank Stanton and three other social scientists. Funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, its purpose was to study the effects of the mass media and develop more effective methods of mass persuasion.
Meanwhile, Edward Bernays, the premier of propaganda, used his uncle’s psychology – Sigmund Freud’s – coupled with that of B.F. Skinner to create a consumer society. Eventually, the masses became too concerned with their own interests to have time for the deeper concerns, like those of their civilization.
In 1946, Kurt Lewin, the founder of social psychology, laid the foundation for sensitivity training as he pioneered applied psychology. He fine-tuned the methods that overcame the “resistance to change.” This spawned the National Training Laboratories in 1947, located in Bethel, Maine, far from everyone’s comfort zone. In a group setting, the training takes three steps to change the trainee’s perception. First, they attempt to bypass the natural defense mechanisms and dismantle the “mind set” using peer pressure and other psychological techniques. That leads to the change, a transitional period of confusion. Then the new mind set is “freezed” in step three, and comfort levels return to normal.
This training disorients the recipient and then reorients them in a relative world. In 1962, in their manual “Five Issues in Training,” the NTL defined their training as, “coercive persuasion in the form of thought reform or brainwashing.” Since then, the NTL has expanded and developed specialized labs for industry, universities, churches, and community organizers.
Lewin associated with the Frankfurt School scholars, but he was also the director of the Tavistock Clinic in 1932.
Tavistock
In 1920, the secretive Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology was established in England and soon renamed the Tavistock Clinic. There are few public records – Tavistock was likely a creation of British Intelligence. Some researchers claim that Sigmund Freud was the first director. Certainly, his influence was supreme. They initially specialized in the treatment of shell-shocked soldiers, which revealed insights into humanity’s breaking point and became a topic of intensive research.
In June 1940, John Rawlings Rees, the director of Tavistock Clinic, revealed their agenda in a speech titled, “Strategic Planning for Mental Health.” He said,
“We have made a useful attack upon a number of professions. The two easiest of them naturally are the teaching profession and the Church; the two most difficult are law and medicine … Public life, politics and industry should all of them be within our sphere of influence … If we are to infiltrate the professional and social activities of other people, I think we must imitate the Totalitarians and organize some kind of fifth column activity! If better ideas on mental health are to progress and spread we, as the salesmen, must lose our identity … Let us all, therefore, very secretly be fifth columnists.”
“Fifth column” was coined in 1936 and refers to a conspiracy that sympathizes with the enemy and engages in subversion within a society.
In 1947, with a Rockefeller Foundation grant, the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations was created as another agency for change. Their primary interest was applied psychology on a global scale, also called “psy-ops.” They established research facilities at universities and think tanks in the U.S. and across the globe to analyze all the methods of mind control including hypnosis, electromagnetic radiation, psychotherapy, pharmacology, propaganda, and drugs both legal and illegal – they worked with the pharmaceutical giants like Sandoz and Eli Lily. The mind control research behind MK Ultra did not originate in the CIA. The British were actively engaged before the CIA was born, and Tavistock became the bridge between the two intelligence agencies.
In 1955, Bernays wrote The Engineering of Consent which detailed the propaganda campaign that led to a US-engineered coup in Guatemala. This reference book became the Tavistock blueprint to overthrow any country that would not align with their long term goal of one-world-government.
The Tavistock elite analyzed all the media, including radio, music, movies, magazines, pop-art, and TV. In August 1959, Fred Emery, a Tavistock senior staffer, wrote an article titled, "Working Hypotheses on the Psychology of Television." He stated, “The psychological after-effects of television are of considerable interest to the would-be social engineer.”
According to Dr. John Coleman, a disgruntled intelligence agent, Tavistock created the love affair between our youth and the Beatles. It is impossible to understand the frenzy and mass hysteria created by the Beatles without knowledge of mass-psychology and mass-manipulation. Coleman claimed the crowds had been tutored by earlier news footage. When the Beatles first arrived in JFK airport in 1964, busloads of girls from a local Bronx school had been paid to scream hysterically. They duplicated this effort for the first few events, and this trend perpetuated, as all good fads do.
If Dr. Coleman is correct, then the amazing coincidences behind America’s early Rock and Roll scene become more logical. As investigative journalist David McGowan has documented, our early musicians all bypassed the three centers of music in Detroit, New York City, and Nashville to assemble in Laurel Canyon in California, where there was no live music scene and no music producers. They eventually created their own scene, most likely with a little help from their friends at Tavistock.
More surprisingly – or perhaps not – most of these musicians came from families immersed in military intelligence, including Jim Morrison whose father was an Admiral. (Others included Frank Zappa, David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Cory Wells, Mike Nesmith, John Phillips, Cass Elliott, Joni Mitchell, and Jackson Browne, to name a select few.)
One of the founders of the Rand Corporation, Albert Wohlstetter, also made Laurel Canyon his home and conducted seminars there. The Rand Corporation is a think tank affiliated with Tavistock, not coincidentally.
Perhaps a future social scientist will propose a theory that explains how such a mass awakening occurred at the same time as the arrival of Rock and Roll. This revolutionary music helped radically change an entire generation … and each succeeding one.
The Tyranny of the Social Sciences
The positivistic philosopher might agree with Henry Ford’s claim that history is bunk, because history cannot be empirically verified. The world historian would disagree. History is much more dangerous – it can be used as an agent for change. History is typically written by the victors. As each succeeding victor revises it, history can lose its validity and become propaganda for the State.
Orwell portrayed this in 1984, when Winston Smith was asked to repeat a Party slogan: “Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past.”
By 1960, sociology was the most popular course of study in American Universities, and Progressive ideas spread across our campuses.
As our social scientists analyzed new territories, our history had to be radically rewritten. They discovered that our founders were not freedom fighters at all. Sure, they risked the penalties of high treason – hanged until unconscious, then revived, disemboweled, beheaded, cut into quarters, and boiled in oil. But they risked their lives because they were oppressors who longed for power.
In America, we didn’t need a bonfire to destroy the books that supported our cultural heritage. Earlier generations had rejected the historical revisions in the 1940’s and 1950’s, but this time the public was too busy to notice.
In 1960, “White Anglo-Saxon Protestant” was coined, but no one claimed authorship. It began a few years earlier as a slur among our social scientists. In 1964, WASP was popularized when sociologist E. Digby Baltzell published his critical work “The Protestant Establishment: Aristocracy and Caste in America.”
The creation and negativity behind WASP is a manifestation of the language rules that’s become known as political correctness. For decades, political correctness was undefined and remained covert. But its ideology was well-defined. In the Sixties, it helped shape the counter-culture.
The Frankfurt School provided the ideas for the new youth movement, while the Tavistock Institute provided the distractions – movies, music, and drugs. Rock and Roll reinforced their rebellion, gave them a new language, and the freedom from all restraints. It seems Freud was right. The masses have no love for instinctual renunciation.
The Frankfurt alum, Herbert Marcuse, became the most popular thinker of the New Left. As Allan Bloom noted,
“Herbert Marcuse appealed to university students in the sixties with a combination of Marx and Freud. In Eros and Civilization and One Dimensional Man he promised that the overcoming of capitalism and its false consciousness will result in a society where the greatest satisfactions are sexual, of a sort that the bourgeois moralist Freud called polymorphous and infantile.”
In 1965, Marcuse justified intolerance when he wrote Repressive Tolerance:
“The conclusion reached is that the realization of the objective of tolerance would call for intolerance toward prevailing policies, attitudes, opinions, and the extension of tolerance to policies, attitudes, and opinions which are outlawed or suppressed … what is proclaimed and practiced as tolerance today, is in many of its most effective manifestations serving the cause of oppression.”
Our universities took it further and refused to hire conservative professors.
In 1946, when Hans Gerth and C. Wright Mills translated some of Weber’s essays, “lifestyle” became an American word. Actually, they translated two German words as “lifestyle,” but that’s a semantic issue. In the early 1960’s, “lifestyle” became popular, as it legitimized a variety of once-deviant behaviors. Everyone was free to be whatever they wanted to be. As long as there was a label, there was a valid lifestyle.
Because we no longer study “etymology” – the history of words – we are unaware of the social engineering that results from verbal engineering.
Competition and Tolerance American-Style
The “inferiority complex” was discovered in 1922 by Austrian psychiatrist Alfred Adler. It took time to filter into our society. Recently, our community sports directors discovered that “competition” created winners and losers, and being labeled a loser was cruel. So, when many children begin organized sports, some teams no longer keep score, everyone gets a trophy, and no one’s self-esteem is harmed.
Our children’s math scores illustrate this phenomenon. In 2006, they ranked 25th in the world, far from its supremacy. But this doesn’t worry them, because their self-esteem on mathematical matters is supreme. They believe they are brilliant.
When the market place proves their inadequacy, they will instinctively blame the market place as the problem. Their teachers had forewarned them that “Capitalism” was the root of many modern evils: exploitation, materialism, pollution, and greed. Their textbooks depicted a dog-eat-dog kind of “competition.”
So, competition – one of the fundamentals of life – has become a negative word among our youth. Its replacement – mediocrity – is the flimsy word building a toppling structure on Socialism.
It is illogical to instill in our youth a smug overestimation of their abilities and folly to teach them that our fundamental economic system is the problem – unless another result is desired. Charlotte Iserbyt makes a strong case in her aptly titled “The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America.”
Our youth are also taught to be tolerant of all the different lifestyles. Through public education, our children are exposed to a wide world of varied and vibrant cultures, each with their own values, truths, and ways of life. “Truth” becomes relative, akin to “belief,” which quenches any desire for personal enlightenment because no truth is valid.
To ensure this lesson is learned, our students endure the psychological training called Values Clarification. The experts claim that students arrive with value confusion. Values Clarification gives children the authority to create their own values from the available array. Whatever they like, they are autonomous, free of parental authority and any traditional values. Vice can become virtue as long as it is valued.
The ancient Greek historian, Herodotus, established the opposite tradition. He searched the world to find the good and the bad in each culture. These truths, he reasoned, would enlighten his own culture. Our educational experts claim this approach is absurd. Because there is no ultimate authority on good and evil, we must respect all ways of life.
Political Correctness
In the 1930’s, both Stalin and Hitler perfected the language rules of political correctness. People literally risked their lives when they spoke.
In the early 1990’s, when our media overtly and eagerly adopted the new language rules called “political correctness,” rule violators risked their jobs and suffered the media’s wrath.
Patrick Buchanan explained the ideology behind these rules,
“Political Correctness is Cultural Marxism, a regime to punish dissent and to stigmatize social heresy as the Inquisition punished religious heresy. Its trademark is intolerance.”
Dr. Gerald L. Atkinson wrote, “Critical Theory, as applied mass psychology, brought forth a ‘quiet’ psychic revolution which facilitated an actual physical revolution that has become visible everywhere in the United States of America.”
Multiculturalism is a product of political correctness which breeds diversity and divides our nation. Our cultural melting pot used to meld immigrants into Americans. Today, except for the oppressive ruling class, most citizens define themselves as hyphenated Americans: Hispanic-American, Chinese-American, African-American, Native-American, et cetera. No longer are we united by one language and one culture.
Our founders envisioned a commonwealth of freedom extending from coast to coast. Commonwealths, by definition, are established for the “common good,” which our founders defined as freedom from tyranny and the protection of unalienable rights – bestowed by God – those of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. This meant there were natural limits because of natural law. The pursuit of the fruits of labor was limited when it infringed upon other’s unalienable rights.
Multiculturalism requires a new definition of “common good,” one for a godless society where rights are granted by governments. The left think tank, Center for American Progress, claims that government is essential when people pursue their dreams. They redefined the common good as governmental policies that benefit everyone while balancing self-interest with the needs of the entire society. Perhaps that explains why Texas removed “the common good” from their public education’s textbooks. The common good has become a progressive term that refers to entitlements for the disadvantaged, but also includes big bailouts for our megacorporations.
Higher Education American-Style
When our universities openly endorsed political correctness, the free speech of one sector of society was verboten. Constitutional flag-wavers became bigoted chauvinists whose ideas were dangerous and unwelcome – they supported Nationalism and Capitalism and the traditional rule of elite white men. In the reign of tolerance, this was intolerable. The universities banished their ideas.
The two primary goals of all totalitarian states is to reduce independent critical thought, and eliminate individual moral responsibility. Our universities have been instrumental in this success. Over twenty years ago, Bloom lamented, “What happened to the universities in Germany in the thirties is what has happened and is happening everywhere.”
As our universities evolve for the worse, they are becoming irrelevant. In the distant past, “college graduates” had studied the broad spectrum of knowledge – philosophy, theology, history, science and the arts. They had mined the human record for the hidden gems of genius. The great books of the great thinkers were commonly discussed: Homer, Herodotus, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Justin Martyr, Origen, Tertullian, Eusebius, Augustine, Aquinas, Dante, Milton, Luther, Pascal and Descartes, Swift, Hobbes, Hume, Locke, Shakespeare, Rousseau and Voltaire, even Goethe, to name a few from the olden days.
Because we’ve eliminated whole branches of learning from our universities, we’ve crippled our awareness. A liberal education used to teach independent thought, which led many students to continue their education throughout their lives, which enhanced their ability to think critically and creatively. This is intolerable today because it would create dissent from the tyranny of public opinion, which destabilizes a totalitarian State.
Sex American Style
Throughout America’s history, sex outside the marriage was considered immoral. In the Sixties, sex was liberated among our youth. Eventually, much of the rest of society was engineered into acceptance. (Many more qualified writers have detailed the specifics.)
Today, sex is a natural feature of modern life and a popular term of discussion. We have become sophisticated and discuss sex unabashedly in every detail regardless of the company. Something private has been made public and in the process, “love” became “lust.”
Because of this preoccupation, most conversation is spiritually dead, focused on two topics – trivial matters and sex.
Psychologists studied the appeal of the sex story. In the past, men would separate from the women, and a few would entertain the others with their exploits. As genders were redefined, naturally women had to be included, and those with bravado try to outdo the men.
The Doom of Language
Our most prominent psychologists and sociologists are deliberately engineering our society toward cultural Marxism by changing our most important institutions and traditions – and the associated language. They are creating a culture of hopelessness and despair. They assume when nihilism prevails, we will be ready for their Socialistic solution.
They have used their discoveries to perfect the methods of mass-persuasion and mind control. This is reflective in the ideas and the language they have given us.
Ideas can be more powerful when the masses have no clue, as all the successful dictators have shown. Changes can be manipulated right before their eyes.
When new ideas become popular, words are created to express the changes, while others are modified or discarded. Words change naturally, but sometimes they change deliberately to further a cultural agenda.
Today, “truth” has become relative. Values are “self-actualized.” And Fromm’s “soulless automaton” is epidemic. “Guilt” is no longer a motivation for change. It is unhealthy. Freud’s “sublimation,” with its association with “repression,” was finally freed. “Man” was an animal and had learned to behave like one.
The “soul” has been banished from education, the media, and modern art, and is rarely cultivated. American writer, Saul Bellow, lamented, “We live in a thought-world, and the thinking has gone very bad indeed.”
“Charisma” has changed into its opposite. It used to be a spiritual word derived from the Greek word, “charis,” which means “grace” from God. Sometimes this grace was endowed upon a leader, which enabled him or her to lead with divine sanction and express his views more powerfully.
Today, many of our leaders strive for self-enrichment. Some of these are called charismatic because they stir up our emotions and compel us to follow. They rejected “public servant” in favor of self-service and receive no inspiration from our grace-giving God.
When the common vocabulary is missing the vital words and ideas from the Great Books of genius, awareness will remain narrow. And those who neglect their language and their heritage will be unaware that they are missing anything.
Every word acquired in memory and every etymology studied increase awareness. Every great book that is read enhances awareness. “Orwellian” can be understood superficially by a trip to the dictionary, but the real journey to understanding begins by reading Orwell’s work.
The noble words of our forebears have fallen silent. In the past, inquiring minds would gather together and discuss religion or politics in light of their historical traditions. Today, there is no inquiry, no curiosity, and no shame as these topics are banned from ordinary conversation as controversial.
Our social scientists have long studied human behavior, our language, beliefs, and habits. Some have sold out to industry and use their knowledge to develop better propaganda and advertising campaigns.
Others are more perverse and work with the Progressives of Frankfurt and Tavistock to develop more powerful methods to influence both our behavior and our thinking. They’ve infiltrated our education, our churches, our government, the mass media, even the arts.
Recently, many patriots have been aroused from their sleep and now fight on the political front with some apparent success, but this seems to have little overall effect. As they fight this skirmish, the all-out war rages around them in all the other arenas of life. We might be surrounded, but this is no time for the faint-hearted. There is no time for retreat. Our brave warriors must no longer fight on one front. It is time to engage the whole battlefield with all our might, mind, and spirit, and let our Lord lead us to victory.
In the olden days, the common language was never taken for granted. Many learned to read specifically so they could study the Holy Scriptures. Their lives were much harder, but their minds were more pure. This Book inspired many of the greatest heroes of history. Some were blessed with charisma – in its original sense. If more of us were engaged in the study and contemplation of this Greatest Book, we would produce more leaders who follow them in this greatest tradition. And our nation would once again be blessed.
By Robert F. Beaudine
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Throughout history, ideas have been used for good or for evil. They have also led to the greatest evil – war. This is reflective in a nation’s language.
By the end of 1932, Germany was in upheaval. The unemployment rate soared to 43%. As the Nazis rose to power, new ideas emerged; new words were introduced; old words were discarded and others changed. “Juden verboten” became a popular phrase as the Juden, the Jews, were blamed for all their ills. They were denied basic rights as citizens, and most activities were verboten.
In 1933, when Adolf Hitler consolidated power with the “Enabling Act,” modern art and architecture were condemned. Many artists fled their homeland, as art became a tool of the regime. The Reichstag was privately mocked as the most expensive glee club, as their members sang paeans to their Fuhrer.
The Nazi minister of propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, defined the new order and foretold the consequences, “When I hear the word ‘culture’ I reach for my gun.”
The regime was “fascist,” a word coined in 1921. This obscured their ideology – “national socialism” – a clever term somewhat palatable to their fellow nationalists in the military and industry. They telescoped this into “Nazi” to further hide its origins from the world. When scholars claim this was a regime of the far right, they are either duped or dishonest.
Under the Nazis, their prominent leaders were well-read. Goebbels boasted of his library, complete with all the works of Edward Bernays, most notably his Propaganda. He implemented Bernays’ program with great success. When this was discovered after the war, propaganda was redefined as P.R., “public relations.”
For their fanatical followers and the rest of the masses who decided to stay, anti-intellectualism was decreed. Books were burned, the media censored. French words were purged from their vocabulary. Free speech became dangerous, as even children were spies for the state.
The universities became centers to regiment thought. In a nation acclaimed for its scholarship, this betrays either their madness or a diabolical agenda – the blueprint used by all the totalitarian dictators.
Eventually, many renowned scholars fled and brought their unique heritage to America.
Verbal Engineering
In 1949, George Orwell, unfurled his vision of a nightmarish future in 1984. “Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible because there will be no words in which to express it.” Orwell’s protagonist, Winston Smith, learned something about his world: When words are eliminated from the common vocabulary, the thinking of the common people becomes limited.
Later, his novel showed how perceptions are manipulated when the definitions of fundamental words are changed, i.e., peace becomes defense which then becomes war – a classic illustration of Hegel’s dialectic. Here, the thesis – or status quo – refers to the current usage of the word. When it undergoes a slight change in meaning towards its antithesis, a new synthesis is born. If enough incremental changes occur, eventually the antithesis is established.
Because the term “Hegel’s dialectic” is missing from our common vocabulary, many of us have no awareness of this process in continual motion. Instead, we think every change occurs naturally.
By definition, a change towards the antithesis is adverse to that element of society who would “conserve” the status quo – the conservatives who revere their traditions and institutions.
In today’s world, many of our most important institutions and traditions – and the foundational words associated with them – have been so dramatically engineered towards the antithesis that conservatives no longer support the status quo.
The Philosophical Roots of the Social Sciences
Spanning the 18th Century of Western Civilization, the Enlightenment was an intellectual revolution based on reason. It produced two predominant types: Those who rejected all authority outside of reason, including religion and its divine right of kings, and those who remained true to Christianity. Because free speech was not a right, the most radical writers published anonymously.
Science rapidly unraveled the mysteries on Earth and in the sky above, and led to the belief that continued discoveries would enable humanity’s triumph over nature.
This also created despair for some Christians. As science flourished, many Medieval “truths,” i.e. the sun revolved around the Earth, had been proved as myths. Some Christians lost their faith. Yet, many leading scientists remained true to their faith. Science had not destroyed the authority of the Bible, only the misinterpretations.
In 1751, the first volume of l’Encyclopedie was published in France. Over the next twenty-one years, twenty-seven more volumes followed, edited by the brilliant French atheists, Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d’Alembert. Diderot admitted their aim was “to change the way people think.”
In The Closing of the American Mind, Allan Bloom wrote, “This project was a conspiracy, as d’Alembert said in the Preliminary Discourse of l’Encyclopedie, the premier document of the Enlightenment. It had to be, for, in order to have rulers who are reasonable, many of the old rulers had to be replaced, in particular all those whose authority rested upon revelation. The priests were the enemies, for they rejected the claim of reason and based politics and morals on sacred texts and ecclesiastical authorities.”
In 1798, the British professor, John Robison, wrote in Proofs of a Conspiracy, “A formal and systematic conspiracy against Religion was formed and zealously prosecuted by Voltaire, d’Alembert, and Diderot, assisted by Frederic II, King of Prussia … their darling project was to destroy Christianity and all Religion, and to bring about a total change of Government.”`
These conspirators claimed l’Encyclopedie had assembled all the accumulated knowledge throughout the ages. After initial censorship, it became the foremost reference source for knowledge, which spread their ideas undermining civil and Christian authorities.
The 19th Century French philosopher and founder of modern sociology, Auguste Comte, embraced Enlightenment thinking, of the type that rejected religion. His philosophy, logical positivism, claimed science as the only reliable approach to truth. Empirical observation leads to verification which leads to truth. Religion had to be abandoned.
American philosopher, Thomas Ellis Katen, explained, “Thus the positivist realm becomes a kingdom of thingdom and an ‘off-limits’ sign is put on areas of life most meaningful to men … when men’s souls cry out for an image of unity, the logical positivistic philosophy offers only further fragmentation.”
The German philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche, offered no help. He upended metaphysics in the late 19th Century and ended Germany’s Western tradition in philosophy. Nietzsche announced to the world that “God is dead!” which gave humanity the freedom to create their own values. He said philosophers had a moral duty to create the new myths for society. He also declared all scientific achievement was the result of a “will to power.”
Allan Bloom wrote, “The history of liberal thought since Locke and Smith has been one of almost unbroken decline in philosophic substance.”
The Science Behind the Social Sciences
The most popular social sciences – sociology and psychology – were conceived as sciences but do not resemble science in its popular conception, except in one respect – revelation was rejected as a source of knowledge.
Each expands with every new theory postulated alone or attached to an observational and/or statistical study. But there is little science underlying all their vast proclamations. Innumerable definitions, generalizations, abstractions, and assumptions mask the truth that most of their causal constructions are hypothetical.
These social sciences were established and staffed by Progressives and became their scholarly haven.
The two most influential foundational thinkers were sociologist Max Weber and psychologist Sigmund Freud.
In the German tradition, Max Weber wrote convoluted sentences typically over ten lines long and invented or redefined words. He coined “Protestant ethic” and “lifestyle,” and helped change the definition of “charisma.” With his definition, charismatic authority became the new force for change within any given organization.
Weber studied all the great religions, the resulting economies, and the values they promoted. When he claimed that all religions were myths, their values became relative. This led decades later to the Values Clarification approach used in our public schools today.
Weber was an antipositivist who thought ethos must reject what reason demands because of the widespread irrationality of society. In Economy and Society, he wrote, “Under the conditions of mass democracy, public opinion is communal conduct born of irrational ‘sentiments.’ Normally it is staged or directed by party leaders and the press.”
He also wrote, “We know of no scientifically ascertainable ideals. To be sure, that makes our efforts more arduous than in the past, since we are expected to create our ideals from within our breast in the very age of subjectivist culture.”
Freud was also concerned with the irrational. He searched the unconscious for answers to our brutal behaviors. He used the German term for “soul,” but his conception was godless. To Freud religion was myth.
The British psychoanalyst, James Strachey, seemed justified when he mistranslated Freud’s “soul” as “mind” – leading British and American psychologists felt psychology should be categorized as a medical science, and the “soul” was distinctly unscientific. Strachey’s translation redefined Freud with a spurious scientific consistency, typical of Progressive deception.
Sigmund Freud had a poor view of the masses of humanity, with their untreated neuroses and animal instincts. In The Future of an Illusion, he wrote, “Among these instinctual wishes are those of incest, cannibalism, and lust for killing.”
Earlier he wrote, “For masses are lazy and unintelligent; they have no love for instinctual renunciation, and they are not to be convinced by argument of its inevitability; and the individuals composing them support one another in giving free rein to their indiscipline.”
He added, “It is only through the influence of individuals who can set an example and whom masses recognize as their leaders that they can be induced to perform the work and undergo the renunciations on which the existence of civilization depends.”
When psychologists observe and describe human behavior, they resemble scientists, but when they explain human behavior, they propagate hypothetical opinion.
Several observations are apparent: The more popular psychology becomes, the more widespread our problems have become. The more couples are referred to marriage counselors, the worse our divorce rate gets. Our problems are not being solved by our psychologists or the pop-promoters of this pseudoscience, like Abby and Ann Landers.
There could be a simple reason: If God exists, much of the social sciences become theoretical nonsense, which means society is harmed by their neglect of “the soul” and their mockery of religion.
The Frankfurt School
Another ominous event occurred in 1933. With the rise of Nazism, the “Frankfurt School” fled Germany, settled in Geneva for a year, and then temporarily relocated to New York City as an affiliate of Columbia University. Founded by Marxists in 1923 as the Institute of Social Research at Frankfurt University, it was modeled on the Marx-Engels Institute in Moscow.
Their philosophy built upon Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche and his radical successor, Martin Heidegger, who carried forward much of Nietzsche’s extremism into the 20th Century. Their social sciences relied on Freud and Weber. And they drew upon the revolutionary theories of Italian Communist Antonio Gramsci and Hungarian Socialist Georg Lukacs.
Gramsci was shocked that the Bolshevik Revolution didn’t inspire their oppressed fellow workers in Europe to rise up in rebellion. While in a prison cell, he discovered that Judeo-Christian values was the problem and must be destroyed before revolution was possible.
Gramsci called for a methodical approach to infiltrate, capture, and reform education, the press, the cinema, theatre, the government, and the church, what he called “the long march through the institutions.” He said Capitalism had a cultural hegemony through violence and coercion, both political and economic, but also ideologically, which is where the battle lay.
Lukacs, perhaps the most brilliant Marxist theorist of the 20th Century, was more discerning regarding mass uprisings. All the successful revolutions were engineered by a small cadre of intellectuals. In 1922, he met with the early Frankfurt founders for a week in Ilmenau, Germany. A year later, the Frankfurt School was conceived as a think tank that trained agents of change.
One of the directors, Max Horkheimer, developed Critical Theory as opposed to Traditional Theory. Critical Theory doesn’t offer any solutions. Instead, it criticizes in a concerted attack until it creates an atmosphere of crisis. Crises lead to changes – opportunities to incrementally engineer society towards cultural Marxism.
The Frankfurt elite, Horkheimer, Erich Fromm, Herbert Marcuse, Wilhelm Reich, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, and later, Jurgen Habermas, used verbal engineering to facilitate their social engineering. They wrote extensive attacks on the Judeo-Christian institutions and traditions, and redefined them as evils.
They rebranded the foundational words. “Private property” and “profit” became selfish pursuits. “Individualism,” “personal industry,” and “self reliance” became oppressive, as the world was divided into two types of people, “oppressors” or “victims.” Religion became the greatest evil – a superstition that led to intolerance and war. Nationalism was the second greatest evil and also led to war.
The Frankfurt School studied the psychological techniques of the Nazis. One result, Adorno and three Berkeley scholars wrote The Authoritarian Personality, which was widely acclaimed by our social scientists. It was later debunked as left wing propaganda. Allan Bloom called it meretricious fabrication. Among other theoretical heresies, it redefined fatherhood as tyrannical. This was a triumph for feminism as women became an oppressed class.
This verbal engineering set in motion the long march to undermine the love of God, family, and country.
From 1937 to 1941, Adorno worked for the Radio Research Project alongside future president of CBS, Frank Stanton and three other social scientists. Funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, its purpose was to study the effects of the mass media and develop more effective methods of mass persuasion.
Meanwhile, Edward Bernays, the premier of propaganda, used his uncle’s psychology – Sigmund Freud’s – coupled with that of B.F. Skinner to create a consumer society. Eventually, the masses became too concerned with their own interests to have time for the deeper concerns, like those of their civilization.
In 1946, Kurt Lewin, the founder of social psychology, laid the foundation for sensitivity training as he pioneered applied psychology. He fine-tuned the methods that overcame the “resistance to change.” This spawned the National Training Laboratories in 1947, located in Bethel, Maine, far from everyone’s comfort zone. In a group setting, the training takes three steps to change the trainee’s perception. First, they attempt to bypass the natural defense mechanisms and dismantle the “mind set” using peer pressure and other psychological techniques. That leads to the change, a transitional period of confusion. Then the new mind set is “freezed” in step three, and comfort levels return to normal.
This training disorients the recipient and then reorients them in a relative world. In 1962, in their manual “Five Issues in Training,” the NTL defined their training as, “coercive persuasion in the form of thought reform or brainwashing.” Since then, the NTL has expanded and developed specialized labs for industry, universities, churches, and community organizers.
Lewin associated with the Frankfurt School scholars, but he was also the director of the Tavistock Clinic in 1932.
Tavistock
In 1920, the secretive Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology was established in England and soon renamed the Tavistock Clinic. There are few public records – Tavistock was likely a creation of British Intelligence. Some researchers claim that Sigmund Freud was the first director. Certainly, his influence was supreme. They initially specialized in the treatment of shell-shocked soldiers, which revealed insights into humanity’s breaking point and became a topic of intensive research.
In June 1940, John Rawlings Rees, the director of Tavistock Clinic, revealed their agenda in a speech titled, “Strategic Planning for Mental Health.” He said,
“We have made a useful attack upon a number of professions. The two easiest of them naturally are the teaching profession and the Church; the two most difficult are law and medicine … Public life, politics and industry should all of them be within our sphere of influence … If we are to infiltrate the professional and social activities of other people, I think we must imitate the Totalitarians and organize some kind of fifth column activity! If better ideas on mental health are to progress and spread we, as the salesmen, must lose our identity … Let us all, therefore, very secretly be fifth columnists.”
“Fifth column” was coined in 1936 and refers to a conspiracy that sympathizes with the enemy and engages in subversion within a society.
In 1947, with a Rockefeller Foundation grant, the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations was created as another agency for change. Their primary interest was applied psychology on a global scale, also called “psy-ops.” They established research facilities at universities and think tanks in the U.S. and across the globe to analyze all the methods of mind control including hypnosis, electromagnetic radiation, psychotherapy, pharmacology, propaganda, and drugs both legal and illegal – they worked with the pharmaceutical giants like Sandoz and Eli Lily. The mind control research behind MK Ultra did not originate in the CIA. The British were actively engaged before the CIA was born, and Tavistock became the bridge between the two intelligence agencies.
In 1955, Bernays wrote The Engineering of Consent which detailed the propaganda campaign that led to a US-engineered coup in Guatemala. This reference book became the Tavistock blueprint to overthrow any country that would not align with their long term goal of one-world-government.
The Tavistock elite analyzed all the media, including radio, music, movies, magazines, pop-art, and TV. In August 1959, Fred Emery, a Tavistock senior staffer, wrote an article titled, "Working Hypotheses on the Psychology of Television." He stated, “The psychological after-effects of television are of considerable interest to the would-be social engineer.”
According to Dr. John Coleman, a disgruntled intelligence agent, Tavistock created the love affair between our youth and the Beatles. It is impossible to understand the frenzy and mass hysteria created by the Beatles without knowledge of mass-psychology and mass-manipulation. Coleman claimed the crowds had been tutored by earlier news footage. When the Beatles first arrived in JFK airport in 1964, busloads of girls from a local Bronx school had been paid to scream hysterically. They duplicated this effort for the first few events, and this trend perpetuated, as all good fads do.
If Dr. Coleman is correct, then the amazing coincidences behind America’s early Rock and Roll scene become more logical. As investigative journalist David McGowan has documented, our early musicians all bypassed the three centers of music in Detroit, New York City, and Nashville to assemble in Laurel Canyon in California, where there was no live music scene and no music producers. They eventually created their own scene, most likely with a little help from their friends at Tavistock.
More surprisingly – or perhaps not – most of these musicians came from families immersed in military intelligence, including Jim Morrison whose father was an Admiral. (Others included Frank Zappa, David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Cory Wells, Mike Nesmith, John Phillips, Cass Elliott, Joni Mitchell, and Jackson Browne, to name a select few.)
One of the founders of the Rand Corporation, Albert Wohlstetter, also made Laurel Canyon his home and conducted seminars there. The Rand Corporation is a think tank affiliated with Tavistock, not coincidentally.
Perhaps a future social scientist will propose a theory that explains how such a mass awakening occurred at the same time as the arrival of Rock and Roll. This revolutionary music helped radically change an entire generation … and each succeeding one.
The Tyranny of the Social Sciences
The positivistic philosopher might agree with Henry Ford’s claim that history is bunk, because history cannot be empirically verified. The world historian would disagree. History is much more dangerous – it can be used as an agent for change. History is typically written by the victors. As each succeeding victor revises it, history can lose its validity and become propaganda for the State.
Orwell portrayed this in 1984, when Winston Smith was asked to repeat a Party slogan: “Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past.”
By 1960, sociology was the most popular course of study in American Universities, and Progressive ideas spread across our campuses.
As our social scientists analyzed new territories, our history had to be radically rewritten. They discovered that our founders were not freedom fighters at all. Sure, they risked the penalties of high treason – hanged until unconscious, then revived, disemboweled, beheaded, cut into quarters, and boiled in oil. But they risked their lives because they were oppressors who longed for power.
In America, we didn’t need a bonfire to destroy the books that supported our cultural heritage. Earlier generations had rejected the historical revisions in the 1940’s and 1950’s, but this time the public was too busy to notice.
In 1960, “White Anglo-Saxon Protestant” was coined, but no one claimed authorship. It began a few years earlier as a slur among our social scientists. In 1964, WASP was popularized when sociologist E. Digby Baltzell published his critical work “The Protestant Establishment: Aristocracy and Caste in America.”
The creation and negativity behind WASP is a manifestation of the language rules that’s become known as political correctness. For decades, political correctness was undefined and remained covert. But its ideology was well-defined. In the Sixties, it helped shape the counter-culture.
The Frankfurt School provided the ideas for the new youth movement, while the Tavistock Institute provided the distractions – movies, music, and drugs. Rock and Roll reinforced their rebellion, gave them a new language, and the freedom from all restraints. It seems Freud was right. The masses have no love for instinctual renunciation.
The Frankfurt alum, Herbert Marcuse, became the most popular thinker of the New Left. As Allan Bloom noted,
“Herbert Marcuse appealed to university students in the sixties with a combination of Marx and Freud. In Eros and Civilization and One Dimensional Man he promised that the overcoming of capitalism and its false consciousness will result in a society where the greatest satisfactions are sexual, of a sort that the bourgeois moralist Freud called polymorphous and infantile.”
In 1965, Marcuse justified intolerance when he wrote Repressive Tolerance:
“The conclusion reached is that the realization of the objective of tolerance would call for intolerance toward prevailing policies, attitudes, opinions, and the extension of tolerance to policies, attitudes, and opinions which are outlawed or suppressed … what is proclaimed and practiced as tolerance today, is in many of its most effective manifestations serving the cause of oppression.”
Our universities took it further and refused to hire conservative professors.
In 1946, when Hans Gerth and C. Wright Mills translated some of Weber’s essays, “lifestyle” became an American word. Actually, they translated two German words as “lifestyle,” but that’s a semantic issue. In the early 1960’s, “lifestyle” became popular, as it legitimized a variety of once-deviant behaviors. Everyone was free to be whatever they wanted to be. As long as there was a label, there was a valid lifestyle.
Because we no longer study “etymology” – the history of words – we are unaware of the social engineering that results from verbal engineering.
Competition and Tolerance American-Style
The “inferiority complex” was discovered in 1922 by Austrian psychiatrist Alfred Adler. It took time to filter into our society. Recently, our community sports directors discovered that “competition” created winners and losers, and being labeled a loser was cruel. So, when many children begin organized sports, some teams no longer keep score, everyone gets a trophy, and no one’s self-esteem is harmed.
Our children’s math scores illustrate this phenomenon. In 2006, they ranked 25th in the world, far from its supremacy. But this doesn’t worry them, because their self-esteem on mathematical matters is supreme. They believe they are brilliant.
When the market place proves their inadequacy, they will instinctively blame the market place as the problem. Their teachers had forewarned them that “Capitalism” was the root of many modern evils: exploitation, materialism, pollution, and greed. Their textbooks depicted a dog-eat-dog kind of “competition.”
So, competition – one of the fundamentals of life – has become a negative word among our youth. Its replacement – mediocrity – is the flimsy word building a toppling structure on Socialism.
It is illogical to instill in our youth a smug overestimation of their abilities and folly to teach them that our fundamental economic system is the problem – unless another result is desired. Charlotte Iserbyt makes a strong case in her aptly titled “The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America.”
Our youth are also taught to be tolerant of all the different lifestyles. Through public education, our children are exposed to a wide world of varied and vibrant cultures, each with their own values, truths, and ways of life. “Truth” becomes relative, akin to “belief,” which quenches any desire for personal enlightenment because no truth is valid.
To ensure this lesson is learned, our students endure the psychological training called Values Clarification. The experts claim that students arrive with value confusion. Values Clarification gives children the authority to create their own values from the available array. Whatever they like, they are autonomous, free of parental authority and any traditional values. Vice can become virtue as long as it is valued.
The ancient Greek historian, Herodotus, established the opposite tradition. He searched the world to find the good and the bad in each culture. These truths, he reasoned, would enlighten his own culture. Our educational experts claim this approach is absurd. Because there is no ultimate authority on good and evil, we must respect all ways of life.
Political Correctness
In the 1930’s, both Stalin and Hitler perfected the language rules of political correctness. People literally risked their lives when they spoke.
In the early 1990’s, when our media overtly and eagerly adopted the new language rules called “political correctness,” rule violators risked their jobs and suffered the media’s wrath.
Patrick Buchanan explained the ideology behind these rules,
“Political Correctness is Cultural Marxism, a regime to punish dissent and to stigmatize social heresy as the Inquisition punished religious heresy. Its trademark is intolerance.”
Dr. Gerald L. Atkinson wrote, “Critical Theory, as applied mass psychology, brought forth a ‘quiet’ psychic revolution which facilitated an actual physical revolution that has become visible everywhere in the United States of America.”
Multiculturalism is a product of political correctness which breeds diversity and divides our nation. Our cultural melting pot used to meld immigrants into Americans. Today, except for the oppressive ruling class, most citizens define themselves as hyphenated Americans: Hispanic-American, Chinese-American, African-American, Native-American, et cetera. No longer are we united by one language and one culture.
Our founders envisioned a commonwealth of freedom extending from coast to coast. Commonwealths, by definition, are established for the “common good,” which our founders defined as freedom from tyranny and the protection of unalienable rights – bestowed by God – those of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. This meant there were natural limits because of natural law. The pursuit of the fruits of labor was limited when it infringed upon other’s unalienable rights.
Multiculturalism requires a new definition of “common good,” one for a godless society where rights are granted by governments. The left think tank, Center for American Progress, claims that government is essential when people pursue their dreams. They redefined the common good as governmental policies that benefit everyone while balancing self-interest with the needs of the entire society. Perhaps that explains why Texas removed “the common good” from their public education’s textbooks. The common good has become a progressive term that refers to entitlements for the disadvantaged, but also includes big bailouts for our megacorporations.
Higher Education American-Style
When our universities openly endorsed political correctness, the free speech of one sector of society was verboten. Constitutional flag-wavers became bigoted chauvinists whose ideas were dangerous and unwelcome – they supported Nationalism and Capitalism and the traditional rule of elite white men. In the reign of tolerance, this was intolerable. The universities banished their ideas.
The two primary goals of all totalitarian states is to reduce independent critical thought, and eliminate individual moral responsibility. Our universities have been instrumental in this success. Over twenty years ago, Bloom lamented, “What happened to the universities in Germany in the thirties is what has happened and is happening everywhere.”
As our universities evolve for the worse, they are becoming irrelevant. In the distant past, “college graduates” had studied the broad spectrum of knowledge – philosophy, theology, history, science and the arts. They had mined the human record for the hidden gems of genius. The great books of the great thinkers were commonly discussed: Homer, Herodotus, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Justin Martyr, Origen, Tertullian, Eusebius, Augustine, Aquinas, Dante, Milton, Luther, Pascal and Descartes, Swift, Hobbes, Hume, Locke, Shakespeare, Rousseau and Voltaire, even Goethe, to name a few from the olden days.
Because we’ve eliminated whole branches of learning from our universities, we’ve crippled our awareness. A liberal education used to teach independent thought, which led many students to continue their education throughout their lives, which enhanced their ability to think critically and creatively. This is intolerable today because it would create dissent from the tyranny of public opinion, which destabilizes a totalitarian State.
Sex American Style
Throughout America’s history, sex outside the marriage was considered immoral. In the Sixties, sex was liberated among our youth. Eventually, much of the rest of society was engineered into acceptance. (Many more qualified writers have detailed the specifics.)
Today, sex is a natural feature of modern life and a popular term of discussion. We have become sophisticated and discuss sex unabashedly in every detail regardless of the company. Something private has been made public and in the process, “love” became “lust.”
Because of this preoccupation, most conversation is spiritually dead, focused on two topics – trivial matters and sex.
Psychologists studied the appeal of the sex story. In the past, men would separate from the women, and a few would entertain the others with their exploits. As genders were redefined, naturally women had to be included, and those with bravado try to outdo the men.
The Doom of Language
Our most prominent psychologists and sociologists are deliberately engineering our society toward cultural Marxism by changing our most important institutions and traditions – and the associated language. They are creating a culture of hopelessness and despair. They assume when nihilism prevails, we will be ready for their Socialistic solution.
They have used their discoveries to perfect the methods of mass-persuasion and mind control. This is reflective in the ideas and the language they have given us.
Ideas can be more powerful when the masses have no clue, as all the successful dictators have shown. Changes can be manipulated right before their eyes.
When new ideas become popular, words are created to express the changes, while others are modified or discarded. Words change naturally, but sometimes they change deliberately to further a cultural agenda.
Today, “truth” has become relative. Values are “self-actualized.” And Fromm’s “soulless automaton” is epidemic. “Guilt” is no longer a motivation for change. It is unhealthy. Freud’s “sublimation,” with its association with “repression,” was finally freed. “Man” was an animal and had learned to behave like one.
The “soul” has been banished from education, the media, and modern art, and is rarely cultivated. American writer, Saul Bellow, lamented, “We live in a thought-world, and the thinking has gone very bad indeed.”
“Charisma” has changed into its opposite. It used to be a spiritual word derived from the Greek word, “charis,” which means “grace” from God. Sometimes this grace was endowed upon a leader, which enabled him or her to lead with divine sanction and express his views more powerfully.
Today, many of our leaders strive for self-enrichment. Some of these are called charismatic because they stir up our emotions and compel us to follow. They rejected “public servant” in favor of self-service and receive no inspiration from our grace-giving God.
When the common vocabulary is missing the vital words and ideas from the Great Books of genius, awareness will remain narrow. And those who neglect their language and their heritage will be unaware that they are missing anything.
Every word acquired in memory and every etymology studied increase awareness. Every great book that is read enhances awareness. “Orwellian” can be understood superficially by a trip to the dictionary, but the real journey to understanding begins by reading Orwell’s work.
The noble words of our forebears have fallen silent. In the past, inquiring minds would gather together and discuss religion or politics in light of their historical traditions. Today, there is no inquiry, no curiosity, and no shame as these topics are banned from ordinary conversation as controversial.
Our social scientists have long studied human behavior, our language, beliefs, and habits. Some have sold out to industry and use their knowledge to develop better propaganda and advertising campaigns.
Others are more perverse and work with the Progressives of Frankfurt and Tavistock to develop more powerful methods to influence both our behavior and our thinking. They’ve infiltrated our education, our churches, our government, the mass media, even the arts.
Recently, many patriots have been aroused from their sleep and now fight on the political front with some apparent success, but this seems to have little overall effect. As they fight this skirmish, the all-out war rages around them in all the other arenas of life. We might be surrounded, but this is no time for the faint-hearted. There is no time for retreat. Our brave warriors must no longer fight on one front. It is time to engage the whole battlefield with all our might, mind, and spirit, and let our Lord lead us to victory.
In the olden days, the common language was never taken for granted. Many learned to read specifically so they could study the Holy Scriptures. Their lives were much harder, but their minds were more pure. This Book inspired many of the greatest heroes of history. Some were blessed with charisma – in its original sense. If more of us were engaged in the study and contemplation of this Greatest Book, we would produce more leaders who follow them in this greatest tradition. And our nation would once again be blessed.
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