Examples Of How The "Right" Reframes Lies Into "Truths"
George Bush ALMOST Admits Iraq War Was For Oil
Dick Cheney: The Ultimate Laissez-Faire Capitalist?
Fox News' Bill O'Reilly addresses the IRS scandal, Muslim profiling, and the Justice Department's crackdown on reporters:
Blog post 1 on Socialism (using Road to Serfdom) - Socialism part 2
"Enemy of the State"?
O' Reilly is defending the Tea Party - which he created with Glenn Beck and Hannity & the Koch Brothers.
BTW, on looking up Fox News reporters emails.... Rupert Murdoch's newspaper was caught hacking.
Notice the fuzzy math he uses to justify persecuting Muslims:
14,000 acts of terror justifies blaming the whole Muslim people but killing 1.2 million Muslims doesn't exist. (Everyone from Rumsfeld to Fox News avoid this and avoid the military rape problem and the fact thatthey lied for thier bloody convention - even Mitt Romney joined in on the hypocrisy - figures, he would be broke without the GOP bailouts). Even Greenspan admitted that the 1.2 million acts of terror in Iraq was for oil (1.2 million people were killed in Iraq for oil doesn't that make it 1.2 million cases of terrorism as per Bill O Reilly's argument?)... before he retracted his words. Now Rumsfeld and Fox News are acting like they made Iraq better off (political reputation is at stake... especially when your whole case rests on not doing what they did and just repeating these lies again and again in the GOP owned media).
Related:
"Bill Moyer's 1987 scathing critique of the Executive Branch of the US Gov & The GOP Civil War"
US TV News Media: Fox News Echo Chambers
The Iraq Effect (2007): New Study Finds 600% Rise in Terrorism Since US Invasion of Iraq
Haditha Massacre: Was it an Isolated Event and Did the Military Try to Cover it Up?
Bush's Legacy: Massacres, War Crimes, Neo-Nazi's, Murder & Terrorism
― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
“By this method thousands of humans have been brought to think that humility means pretty women trying to believe they are ugly and clever men trying to believe they are fools. And since what they are trying to believe may, in some cases, be manifest nonsense, they cannot succeed in believing it and we have the chance of keeping their minds endlessly revolving on themselves in an effort to achieve the the impossible.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
On one side...
Islam... Memo: Containing Radical Islam: Now all over the world, extreme Muslims believe they're allowed to kill people with whom they disagree. They even kill each other. Thousands of people are dying and the world's response is largely silence. Remember, the Sudanese government is allowing killers to slaughter hundreds of thousands of civilians in Darfur. As China blocks action in the U.N., the world just stands by and watches. There is no question that Muslim killers are a threat to the entire world. Iran is funding and arming Hezbollah, which may start a war in Lebanon any time. Pakistan is allowing the Taliban sanctuary so it can kill Afghans and Americans at will. And Al Qaeda is actively seeking ways to kill just about everybody. With Pakistan already having nukes and Iran on the way to getting them, you'd have to be a complete moron not to understand the danger here.
On the other side...
Christianity... To Peter King: O'REILLY: It is wrong. I agree. I've known you for a long time. You're not a racist. And Mr. Rush and Miss Dukes are cheap for playing that race card against you. But the timing of what you said — what you said was harsh. It was harsh. And you know, the man just died. He has people who love him. In hindsight, might you have waited a week? Read more.
Who is Peter King?
Article 1 on Peter King: But according to experts in counterterrorism law, if the tough-on-terror policies King trumpets today had taken effect a few decades earlier, King himself might have been subject to prosecution. Over parts of three decades, from his days as an aspiring politician in Long Island through his early years in Congress, King was one of the nation's most outspoken supporters of the Irish Republican Army and a prolific fundraiser for the Irish Northern Aid Committee (NorAid), allegedly the IRA's American fundraising arm. The IRA waged a paramilitary campaign against the British presence in Northern Ireland for decades before peace accords were signed in 1998. Part of that effort included bombings and shootings that resulted in civilian deaths in England and Northern Ireland. During the period of King's involvement, the US government accused both NorAid and the IRA of links to terrorism.
Article 2 on Peter King: "The British government is a murder machine," King said. He described the IRA, which mastered the car bomb as an instrument of urban terror, as a "legitimate force." And he compared Gerry Adams, the leader of Sinn Fein, the IRA's political wing, to George Washington.
In fact, all of Fox News seems to join in on the slander...
The Fox News rapid-response team distinguishes violence in the name of a religion from the practitioners of that religion -- as long as it's Christianity...
O'Reilly declares... "Andre is not Christian as you don't kill in that faith"
Yet... from Andre: "Considering the fact that my martyrdom operation draws ever closer I decided to bring one to enjoy with my extended family at our annual Christmas party in December."
Even historically... "Augustine Gave the policy of persecution his personal approval, supplied theological justification, concern heresy and schism rather that paganism. We ought to be careful about those converted through the sword, those who accepted Christianity for political or social advantage. Scarcely ever is Jesus thought for His own sake."
[Note: Accusing someone of heresy means death in the old world, if believed. Augustine condemned a whole sect, i.e. he authorized genocide. In other words, there is historical precedent or the massacres o the Native Americans]
Bill O Reilly's War On Christmas...
Tuesday December 13, 2005 Bill O'Reilly campaigns against the secularization of Christmas by putting those who wish 'Happy Holidays' on the naughty list....
Reply by Bill O'Reilly, "Yes, it does."
Miscellaneous:
Article: December 4, 2005: This Season's War Cry: Commercialize Christmas, or Else The American Family Association is leading a boycott of Target for not using the words "Merry Christmas" in its advertising. (Target denies it has an anti-Merry-Christmas policy.) The Catholic League boycotted Wal-Mart in part over the way its Web site treated searches for "Christmas."
Bill O'Reilly, the Fox anchor who last year started a "Christmas Under Siege" campaign, has a chart on his Web site of stores that use the phrase "Happy Holidays," along with a poll that asks, "Will you shop at stores that do not say 'Merry Christmas'?"
Daily Show: The War on Christmas Returns! O'Reilly responds to the 'Daily Show' host mocking the 'War on Christmas' scenario
Bill O Reilly's "War on Christmas" continues...Congress Forbidden to Wish Merry Christmas on Tax Payer Dime
Gotcha TV: Crews Stalk Bill O’Reilly’s Targets
O’Reilly Dines in Harlem, Talks About It, Then Hears About It
Perhaps no one better portrays himself as a pugnacious champion of the little man than Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly.
Bill O'Reilly loses his temper over a teleprompter problem on the set of "Inside Edition."
The Catholic Church punishes Patrick Kennedy for being pro-choice, but takes 20 years to suspend a pedophile priest. (03:38)
Angst over a ten-year killing spree by a neo-Nazi group
Militia members plotted to kill federal officials, prosecutors say
“Whenever all men are...hastening to be slaves or tyrants we make Liberalism the prime bogey.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
The miniseries begins in the 1820s and is told mainly through the third person narration of Jacob Wheeler (Matthew Settle) and Loved By the Buffalo (Joseph M. Marshall III), although episodes outside the direct observation of both protagonists are also shown. The plot follows the story of two families, one white American, one Native American, as their lives become mingled through the momentous events of American expansion. The story intertwines real and fictional characters and events spanning the period of expansion of the United States in the American West, from 1825 to 1890.
How differences in perspective or culture can be used to demonize
“Whenever all men are...hastening to be slaves or tyrants we make Liberalism the prime bogey.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
GOP/Tea-Party Nonsense In A Nutshell: Outsiders are "Nazis"
Proven here:
The Red Indians were "savages" and buffalo (with thier curved horns) 'were of the devil'. Such attitudes still exist today.
All art reveals something about the artist and the culture he/she lived in. Gardens can also reveal the perspectives of a culture and/or individual - as 'everything man makes, he makes in relation to some aesthetic that he feels or wishes to express'. The following is a guy explaining how a bit of ourselves is reflected in stuff we (humans) make or tend to...
Wade Graham: Wade Graham reveals what American gardens in closets with grow lights say about the culture.
They came from a lifetime of living in nature...
Such differences in culture often lead to demonization in environments that are highly emotionally charged.
Examples of Genocide in the US towards their tribal race
Note: To the European mind (which is half of the mind set of people in the US) tribal people are "savages"(though it often seems to bethe other way round).
1. Massacre Example 1 (wishita),
2. Sand Creek Massacre ,
3. Trail of Tears
Examples of Genocide in the US towards the modern day non-whites (Most populations consist of several races and religions. Christians are also dying in Iraq and elsewhere such as Lebanon. Anyone ever even heard of the Catholic post from Lebanon called Khalil Gibran?)
PDF Documents (i.e. these are the sorts of activities that lead to 1.2 million deaths)...
War Crimes In Iraq 1
Illegal War in Afghanistan
War Crimes In Iraq 2
War Crimes in Afghanistan
A quick look at the types of illegal and covert wars the United States Government has been involved in (which in turn creates problems for other countries in the region such as Israel and almost all of these actions seem to inevitably lead to war)...
OVERVIEW: Nooney Tunes - GOP are like fish! i.e. they have no memories. :(
1. Lt. Col. Daniel Davis: Commanders Sending False Impressions of Afghan War: - Army Lt. Col. Daniel Davis recently criticized top military brass, including retired Gen. David Petraeus, saying they have misled Congress and the American people about progress in the war in Afghanistan. Margaret Warner speaks with Davis about his whistleblowing, why he went public and what his future may hold in the military.
2. Confessions of an Iraq War Whistleblower: The State Department fired me for telling the truth about US failures in Iraq. Here's why I don't regret it. What I saw while serving the State Department at a forward operating base in Iraq was, however, different. There, the space between what we were doing (the eye-watering waste and mismanagement) and what we were saying (the endless claims of success and progress) was filled with numb soldiers and devastated Iraqis, not scaredy-cat bureaucrats. That was too much for even a well-seasoned cubicle warrior like me to ignore, and so I wrote a book about it, We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the War for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People. I was on the spot to see it all happen, leading two Provincial Reconstruction Teams in rural Iraq while taking part up close and personal in what the US government was doing to, not for, Iraqis. Originally, I imagined that my book's subtitle would be "Lessons for Afghanistan," since I was hoping the same mistakes would not be endlessly repeated there. Sometimes being right doesn't solve a damn thing.
3. Petraeus and the signature of U.S. terror: The CIA pressures Obama to step up indiscriminate attacks in Yemen
4. The GOP's CIA's "War On Yemen"
5. Enemies of The Constitution?
6. From PBS: Timeline | The Decade-Long Covert War Against Iran
7. DRUG FALLOUT: The CIA's forty-year complicity in the narcotics trade (i.e. there's opium in Afghanistan!)
In conclusion (links & explanation with more links):
War & Glory: Selling War Through The Ages... Illustrated IN Cartoons!
"The Emergence Of The Corporate Oil War Economy In The USA (Proven Mostly In Cartoons!)"
In Cartoons: War Bonds, Advertising & War Propaganda
Morgan Freeman on the tea party, racism and Obama
IN CARTOONS: Racism 1 - North-South Cultural Division in The USA
IN CARTOONS: Racism 2 - North-South Cultural Division in The USA
IN CARTOONS: Racism 3 - North-South Cultural Division in The USA
KKK/Nazis: The Rise of Right-Wing Militias in America (They Are IN The Tea Party)
CNN Documentary: God's Christian Warriors (Nazi's are a white CHRISTIAN Movement)
White Terrorists Probed in Killings of the Texas DA (ONLY white males are suspects in shootings!)
The simple reality is that no matter how righteous "Christians" in the South (and thier Fox News liars, er, I mean leaders) like to feel about their beliefs, technically, they are far more violent, both historically and presently, than any culture known to man. Except maybe the Mongols. So far. This is because they seem to think any word in the immense historical document of the Bible is meant to be taken literally. Some off the contradictions are funny (to me), in that it is the basis for thier arguments supporting suppression of basic women's rights and they are just as expressive on the epidemic of rape in the US military or supporting rapists babies and giving rapists visitation rights, or attacking someone for being gay while the same book such as Leviticus will have verses forbidding pork, mixed textiles and tattoes all of which are ignored in favor of repressing women's rights and going after gays. In other words, even where they shouldn't be following some scripture cause the New Testament (Jesus - below) says it's outdated they are following the stuff of hate and ignoring stuff that they already do. If that isn't hypocrisy that can infect the hearts and minds of a population to commit horrendous atrocities, I don't know what is. Also note that after committing murder some people will justify it. With Iraq it's pretending the war wasn't for oil because it destroys their whole legal justification. Poor Greenspan was thinking of old school politics of Monarchy rule. What if have is a weird sort of Oligarchy with an info-war going on.
For example:
New Testament
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Matthew 5:17: "Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them." (ex. thou shalt not kill)
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Matthew 22:36-40
36 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”
37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’]"="">[a] 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’]"="">[b] 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.
How do people in the west believe 2 contradictory statements? Because that's how they were taught rom hildhood. Notice the following dichotomies.
Old Testament
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Leviticus 15:19
"When a woman has a discharge, if her discharge in her body is blood, she shall continue in her menstrual impurity for seven days; and whoever touches her shall be unclean until evening."
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Hosea 13:16 (King James) Samaria will bear her guilt because she has rebelled against her God.
They will fall by the sword; their little ones will be dashed to pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.
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Numbers 31: 17-18
17. Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.
18. But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
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Deuteronomy 20:16
However, in the cities of the nations the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes.
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1 Samuel 15:2-4
2 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I remember that which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt.
3 Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.
4 And Saul gathered the people together, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.
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Psalm 137:8-9
8 O daughter of Babylon, O destroyed one, O the happiness of him who repayeth to thee thy deed, That thou hast done to us.
9 O the happiness of him who doth seize, And hath dashed thy sucklings on the rock!
More in depth scriptural outlines:
"God's Muslim Warriors: Iran" & The Results of Bad Foreign Policy...
"God's Jewish Warriors" & The Future Of Israel...
"God's Christian Warriors" & The Beginning Of The End For Christianity?