re: ["Whooooaaaa.... Message #20672 from RMF at 1/13/2010 4:21:34 AM"]
re: Glenn Beck
First, if you were a regular reader here, you would know how I feel about Glenn Beck, and why I said...
"Ignore the messenger, and focus on the message."
I've stated many times, that personally, I don't care for Glenn Beck. But, that doesn't mean the research and reporting that he and his staff are doing, isn't both accurate and informative.
The reason the progressives (socialists) hate Beck, is not because of what he says, it’s because of what he exposes them saying.
Van Jones and Anita Dunn were forced out of the Obama administration not because of what Glenn Beck said, but because of what they said.
The left hates Glenn Beck not because of what he says, but because of what he does.
The leftists would have preferred that Cass Sunstein, Mark Lloyd, Van Jones, Robert Creamer, and Anita Dunn’s history, beliefs, and agendas, would have remained in the shadows, but Beck did something that few others in the mainstream media are willing to do, he simply brought the disinfectant of sunshine to the American public.
And it was the American people, not Glenn Beck, who forced the exodus of Van Jones and Anita Dunn.
Truth comes from the message, not the messenger.
Why can’t people figure that out?
Why can’t people separate the message from the messenger?
One of my favorite investigative journalists is John Pilger. I’m a big fan of his documentaries and I’m presently reading one of his books.
Pilger is leftist and regularly attends and speaks at socialist events, such as “Socialism 2000” this past July in San Francisco, where he gave this presentation entitled: ”Empire Obama”
Once again, truth is found in the message, not the messenger.
Sadly, most people can't separate the two.
re: "That guy is an ADMITTED Drunk with NO education."
As far as being an admitted drunk and a recovering alcoholic, at least Beck's open and public about it. I mean it's not like he drove his secretary off a bridge and left her to die, like Ted Kennedy did.

Divers removing Mary Jo Kopechne's body from Ted Kennedy's abandoned car at Chappaquiddick
And at least Beck hasn't come on air, and stumbled, stammered, and slurred his words while drunk as a skunk, like Sen. Max Bacchus (D-Mont) recently did on the Senate floor...
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And yes, Beck did drop out of Yale, so he is a college drop out, just like Bill Gates, Paul Allen, and Michael Dell.
So was billionaire Edgar Bronfman Jr. of Seagrams & Warner Music fame.
So was billionaire Larry Ellison, the co-founder of Oracle. He dropped out of the University of Chicago and the University of Illinois.
So was billionaire Sheldon Adelson, the casino and hotel developer.
So was billionaire Roman Abramovich, the richest man in Russia,
So was billionaire Barry Diller, the Hollywood mogul, Internet maven, and chairman of IAC/InterActive Corp. He dropped out of UCLA to work in the mail room at the William Morris agency.
So was billionaire David Geffen, the founder of Geffen Records and co-founder of DreamWorks. Dropped out of the University of Texas at Austin after his freshman year. Also flunked out of Brooklyn College. Started work by sorting mail at the William Morris Agency (must something about that William Morris Agency mail room).
So was Clint Eastwood, the Oscar-winning actor, director, and producer. He attended at least half a dozen schools and excelled at none of them. Enrolled at Los Angeles City College, but never graduated. Among other jobs, he bagged groceries, delivered papers, fought forest fires, and dug swimming pools.
So was Barry Goldwater, U.S. senator and presidential candidate. He dropped out of the University of Arizona after one year to take over the family department store.
So was Winston Churchill, one of the great orators in history.
U.S. President Harry Truman never went to college.
So was William Safire, columnist for the New York Times. Dropped out of Syracuse University to take a job as a researcher for a newspaper columnist.
J.K. Rowling, bestselling novelist, and the first billionaire author, never attended college, she’s only a high school grad.
They're all college drop outs, or never attended college.
And check out this list of high school drop outs...
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Carl Bernstein, the Pulitzer Prize winning reporter, was a high school drop out at age 16.
Richard Branson, the billionaire founder of Virgin Airlines, and Virgin Music. Another high school drop out at age 16.
Andrew Carnegie, the billionaire philanthropist, dropped out of school at age 13.
Actor Sean Connery, yes, 007 is a high school drop out.
Walt Disney, he dropped out of high school at age 16 to join the Army.
Thomas Edison, multimillionaire inventor of the phonograph, light bulb, and many other inventions. He quit formal schooling after his teacher called him addled. Was home- schooled by his mother. Joined the railroad at the age of 12.
Benjamin Franklin, inventor, scientist, inventor, diplomat, author, printer, publisher, politician, patriot, signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence. Like Edison, another Home Schooler, with less than two years of formal education.
William Faulkner, Nobel and Pulitzer prize-winning novelist, dropped out of high school after his second year. Also later attended but dropped out of the University of Mississippi.
Bobby Fischer, Grandmaster chess player, is a high school dropout.
Peter Jennings, news anchor, ABC's World News Tonight. Failed the 10th grade. Left high school at 16 to work as a bank teller. He later attributed his failure in high school to boredom and laziness.
Kirk Kerkorian, billionaire investor and casino operator, owner of MGM movie studio, Mirage Resorts, and Mandalay Bay Resorts. An eighth-grade dropout who trained fighter pilots during World War II.
Ray Kroc, founder of McDonald's, was a high school dropout, and didn't start McDonald's until age 52.
Wolfgang Puck, chef, owner of 16 restaurants and 80 express bistros, quit school at the age of 14 and got a job as a cooking apprentice at a hotel.
John D. Rockefeller Sr., billionaire founder of Standard Oil, philanthropist. History's first recorded billionaire. Dropped out of high school two months before graduation. Took some courses at a local business school.
Frank Lloyd Wright, architect, interior designer, leader of the Prairie School of architecture. Voted as the greatest American architect of all time by the American Institute of Architects. Attended a high school in Madison, Wisconsin, but apparently never graduated. He was admitted to the University of Wisconsin as a special student and took classes part-time for two semesters. He left school without getting a degree. He left to work at an architectural firm in Chicago, Illinois and taught himself while learning on the job..
Now what was your point about no "real" education?
Have you talked to any recent college grads lately?
We're not educating, as much as we're indoctrinating. And it's the same at the high school level.
And the one thing we really suck at teaching, is critical thinking. All individualism, all creativity, all thinking outside the box is discouraged, and instead, students are taught to arrive at a group consensus, and to share collective, common values.
And did you notice, that the same collectivist, socialist values being mandated in Brazil, are being instituted worldwide by UNESCO, including in the USA.
If you want a real eye opener about America's public education system, then watch this documentary by Charlotte Iserbyt.
"The Deliberate Dumbing Down Of America"
Iserbyt served as Senior Policy Advisor in the U.S. Department of Education, during the first Reagan Administration, where she blew the whistle on a major initiative which would control all curriculum in America's public school classrooms.
Her 1989 report "Soviets in the Classroom: America's Latest Education Fad," covered the details of the Carnegie Foundation’s institution of a Soviet designed educational system in America.
You can download her best selling book of the same name in pdf, ebook format here:
deliberatedumbingdown.com
re: "Limbaugh is an ADMITTED drug addict with no real education."
Limbaugh?
Who said anything about Rush Limbaugh?
I think you'll find more libertarians here than Republicans, as well as a lot of ex-Bush supporters who now support Ron Paul.
It sounds like you arrived here with an agenda, because Rush Limbaugh is rarely, if ever discussed here. You’re way off base there.
re: "This stuff scares me alright, but it doesn't scare me about Socialism or Communism, it SCARES me about FASCISM."
As far as Marxist-Leninism, socialism, Fabianism, communism, statism, corporatism, collectivism, communitarianism, or (F)fascism, I wouldn't get too hung up on the pseudo-intellectual 'ism debate, because this administration's playbook pulls from all of them.
They've drawn on everything from Alinsky's Rules for Radicals, to the Cloward-Piven strategy. They’ve appointed unelected Leninist NGO Czars, and instituted Mussolini style Fascism, given all the public- private, monopoly partnerships like the deals Obama cut with Big Pharma on health care, the faux flu vaccines, and with corporations like Whirlpool and GE in his stimulus spending package.
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How about we just call it -- Obamunism?

Are you okay with that?
re: “You guys are getting PLAYED...and I don't really care about that, but you may REALLY screw up this country with your simplistic thoughts and I REALLY care about that.”
As far as who's being played, and screwing up the country, I think we've thoroughly covered the vehicles politicians use to “play” the country. We discuss everything from classic Hegelian, thesis-antithesis-synthesis, to the false left- right paradigm, of America’s illusory two party system as exposed by the CFR’s own historian, Professor Carol Quigley of Georgetown (Bill Clinton’s mentor)…
"The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to the doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can "throw the rascals out" at any election without leading to any profound or extreme shifts in policy."
- Carrol Quigley, in his book “Tragedy and Hope.”
You can find links to G. Edward Griffin's University of Texas lecture on "The Quigley Formula" in the post below:
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And if you want to find out who's really playing America, I'd highly recommend Anthony Sutton's trilogy on Wall Street, which you can in the post below:
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But speaking of who’s actually being played right now...
What’s up with John Pilger’s expose` of “Brand Obama” at the West coast’s “Socialist 2000?”
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What’s up with the Eastern Liberals turning on “Brand Obama” with this recent piece in the Village Voice, titled:
“George H. Obama”
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Even the unions are feeling “played by Obama” with them now facing huge tax bills on their so-called “Cadillac” union health plans?
And what happened with Obama's promise to re-negotiate NAFTA and save union jobs?
What happened to ending wars and bringing the troops home?
What's up with sending 30,000 more troops to expand the war in Afghanistan, and then using private contractors to replace the few troops we’re bringing home from Iraq?
Not to mention a new front opening up in Yemen, and the potential for Obama to win yet another "War is Peace," Nobel Prize for what appears to be a when, not if, war in Iran.
And then there's the expansion of AFRICOM. Obama is already sending in the Blackwater mercenaries into Somalia…
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Obama is making Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowicz, and Perle, seem like a bunch of pacifists.
And speaking of the the Neo Cons, what happened to those war crimes investigations? Cheney has basically taunted Obama, virtually daring him to investigate.
It sure looks like Cheney is playing Obama. Maybe John Pilger is correct about Obama being a CIA puppet. After all, there are those missing years from Colombia ( can you say Tavistock), none of his peers remember him, and his first job was for notorious CIA front company - “Business International Corp.?”
Obama's first job was with CIA front - "Business International Corp."
Did the CIA & their puppet just play the entire left?
And what happened with repealing the Patriot Act, ending the Bush- Cheney, Neo Con Police State, and returning America's privacy rights?
And what's up with Preventive Detention and the new NSA spying?
Obama not only renewed all the Bush Neo Con imitatives, he expanded them!
Even leftists like Salon.com, and MSNBC’s Keith Olberman & Rachel Maddow went off on that, until they were muzzled…
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As Glenn Greenwald pointed out in Salon… salon.com “In other words, beyond even the outrageously broad "state secrets" privilege invented by the Bush administration and now embraced fully by the Obama administration, the Obama DOJ has now invented a brand new claim of government immunity, one which literally asserts that the U.S. Government is free to intercept all of your communications (calls, emails and the like) and--even if what they're doing is blatantly illegal and they know it's illegal--you are barred from suing them unless they "willfully disclose" to the public what they have learned. ("New and worse secrecy and immunity claims from the Obama DOJ," Salon, April 6, 2009)
And what's up with continuing the torture?
What's up with continuing the secret US rendition camps in Europe like this one in Lithuania featured by the Huffington Post?

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What's up with expanding the drone attacks that are killing more civilians than terrorists?
And what happened to Obama’s promise to post all major legislation online for at least five days so Congress could read it, and the people could debate it?
What happened to all the jobs the American Recovery and Re-Construction Act was supposed to create?
What happened to the public option that Obama promised the Democratic Party?
Wasn’t that what Obamacare was supposed to be about? Even Howard Dean said Obama sold out the Democratic party and the people who elected him.
And what happened to that promise to put the final health care negotiations on CSPAN?
What's up with giving Fannie & Freddie another $800 billion dollars and trying to sneak it by the American public on Christmas Eve?
What's up with raising the debt ceiling again, and again?
What's up with another stimulus package?
What's up with floating a trial balloon about converting private 401K's and IRA's to government annuities?
What's up with giving the single most corrupt law enforcement agency in the history of the world, Interpol,immunity in the US?
And what's up with these 10 Governors "appointed" by Obama, where the military, Homeland Security, FEMA, and state governments are synthesized under control of the executive branch, while bypassing Congress?
Sure sounds like the Neo Con's "Continuity of Government" Martial Law plan being iprepared, with America divided into the 10 FEMA regions?
Forget the pablum about this being “Bush’s Third Term,” Obama is Bush with ‘Roid Rage!”
Now what was your question about being played again?
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