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What is the end-game in the Middle East?

What is the end-game in the Middle East?

by Jon Rappoport

September 3, 2013

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The end game for the Middle East?

Why, of course. It’s Free Trade.

Let’s jump ahead four decades to see what that looks like.

Reuters/USIA—July 6, 2053. The birth of the first genetically-engineered baby in Cairo has sparked riots in the capital. As of late last night, UN-NATO peacekeepers had the protests under control.

Answar Campbell, the Harvard/Cambridge-educated PhD who just ascended to the three-man oligarchy that runs Egypt, declared false the rumors that an “Islam gene” had been removed from the child.

“There is no Islam gene,” Campbell said. “People should focus on the economy, which is our biggest challenge. For example, the impending vote on whether to allow Burger King franchises in our country to compete against our erstwhile partner, McDonald’s, is far more important than this diversion.”

McDonald’s, in conjunction with Halliburton-Bechtel, has converted four million acres of inhospitable desert into resorts, industrial parks, and parking lots.

Along with the Monsanto-Dow project to grow GMO wheat varieties on land that receives less than three inches of rain per year, these recent free trade partnerships have elevated Egypt’s GNP to levels never seen before in the nation’s long history.

Pharaoh Land, the province surrounding the famed ancient pyramids and the Sphinx, has just obtained an injection of $2.5 billion from Disney to complete a feeder river-tour branching from the Nile.

Bayer-Farben Labs, an ambitious sprawl of 400 buildings south of Cairo, is introducing a new enterprise called Gene Drift, in which more than 50 insect genes are blown by desert winds into every irrigated crop in Egypt.

“It’s the faster way to go,” stated Vilsak Michael Taylor, the US Ambassador to Egypt-Jordan-Syria. “In this fashion, we can strengthen all food crops at once, lowering the need for water, soil nutrients, and other old-fashioned necessities of agriculture that have been plaguing farmers for centuries.”

The three-man Egyptian oligarchy has just released figures showing 38% of all desert lands have been reclaimed for business and industry. United Pavers, an offshoot of the Carlyle Group, has already laid down 45 billion cubic feet of concrete and asphalt on the desert floor.

“That’s how you start,” stated George Bush III, a Carlyle representative. “Pave, pave, pave, bury the sand, and then build upward and outward.”

The 32-mile-square Google Mall is an example of this strategy. Situated in the former Morsi-Brotherhood empty quarter, the Mall is producing massive income for its inhabitants on a 24/7/365 basis.

US, French, and British troops provide Mall security.

“This is all coming from Arab Spring,” Campbell stated. “That’s where the revolution began. We can now understand its true purpose. It really had nothing to do with politics. It was an economic operation. A few thousands disaffected students sitting in cafes with mobile devices posting on Facebook? Please. Arab Spring was a carefully calculated, carefully prepared moment. Free Traders were behind it. Economic development was the objective. And look how it’s turned out. Only a few miles from the Capitol Building, next to the site of the largest mosque in the country, which is now a museum, the Glaxo-Merck-Pfizer Tower rises today. From its top-floor platform, aerosol vaccines and mood enhancers are pumped into the atmosphere, at once guaranteeing immunity from childhood diseases and relief from the stresses of daily life. It’s a true miracle.”

Campbell could also have pointed to the Nissan-Toyota-Ford plant in the shadow of the Pharma tower. Two thousand cars per day roll out of that factory, along with nine thousand pairs of Nissan-Nike shoes produced by Egyptian robots working along side human operators.

The Matrix Revealed

And three miles down the road, the NFL is building its first Middle East stadium, for the Babylon Tigers, a new League franchise, owned by the California State Employees Pension Fund, in partnership with the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

The stadium food and drink concession is currently up for bid, with two high-profile candidates contending: New Jersey Waste Management Inc., and Kissinger Associates.

The New York Times Cairo is reporting that assessment of all carbon taxes for Egypt is also on the auction block. Vying for the contract: Gore-Obama-Romney Ltd. and the Ken Lay Memorial Foundation.

“The business of Egypt is business,” stated a virtual hologram of David Rockefeller on the occasion of his 142nd birthday. “Notwithstanding the relocation of 27 million disaffected Egyptians to education camps, the enthusiasm in the country is palpable. This is a new era, and our predictions are coming true. Once all barriers to trade and investment have been taken down, life flourishes.”

Chase-Morgan-Goldman are major Egyptian financiers. In the past six years, they have poured over two trillion dollars into the nation’s industrial development.

“Some people have called our six-billion-dollar reparation to the Muslim Brotherhood a payoff,” said Goldman-Sachs-Zion-Jerusalem president Chelsea Clinton. “That’s just not true. It was calculated on the basis of the Lewinsky algorithm, a means of adding up ‘monetary damage to reputation.’ All parties agreed to the sum, and everyone went away happy.”

Clinton spoke from a dais in the press room at Brennan Air Force base, where 106,000 American soldiers are stationed on permanent duty, and the Egyptian national police participate in ongoing training courses, along with Isis-Spectrum information specialists, members of a corporate association connected to the US NSA.

After her statement, Ms. Clinton moved on to a meeting of the Egyptian Banking Association, where she witnessed a private ceremony renewing a Middle East pact to retain the US dollar as the reserve currency for all oil transactions.

“This is just a formality,” she stated. “A recognition of a long-held agreement among Egypt, Libya, Syria, and Iraq.”

Exit From the Matrix

A few protestors outside the Banking Association building held signs pointing out that the US had launched ancient wars against these very countries.

Police arrested three protestors, who were making inflammatory comments supporting a long-planned (2013), but never completed Syrian pipeline, which would boost Iran’s heavily sanctioned economy through sales of that country’s natural gas across to Europe.

As Ms. Clinton was boarding her plane back to New York, a Cairo News reporter asked her whether Israel was playing any part in the recent repartitioning of warring ethnic Syrian provinces.

“No,” she said. “Israel has no interest in the ruling Syrian Council’s plans, which are instituted through consultation with the Trilateral Commission. “Israel is not involved in Middle East politics. It only seeks to bolster its own security.”

The new Egypt is on the move. Apparently, nothing can stop it now.

Jon Rappoport

The author of two explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED and EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free emails at www.nomorefakenews.com

Syria: Obama, Congress, and media collaborating on a con job

Syria: Obama, Congress, and media collaborating on a con job

by Jon Rappoport

September 2, 2013

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Oh, our illustrious legislators will have their day to puff themselves up and speak about Principle! The networks will cover it.

They’ll prance and they’ll bray, because this is war, the nation’s most solemn undertaking and its most profitable business. And they’ll even refer to that suddenly rediscovered document, the Constitution.

The President asked them to pass judgment, and they shall.

House and Senate members will call in their tailors to let out their trousers, to give them more breathing room. Action on the floor will require baritone and basso, and rhetoric that shakes the walls.

Alas, there are no oily orators left in the Congress. Where is Ev Dirksen, dripping multi-syllables from every pore, when we need him? Where is Hubert Humphrey in his prime?

But today’s sad flowers will give it their best shot, because the nation will be watching. Syria doesn’t have to be Pearl Harbor or Saigon. It’s the idea of war and death and invasion and retribution that inflames voices.

Our legislators will imitate greatness. Their aides will ride herd on speechwriters to give these strutting little Congressmen a chance to shoot the moon and become heroes.

Obama, poised above and behind the show, will pretend to listen and consider their arguments.

“This is, finally, democracy at work,” said an anonymously anonymous but well informed (psyop) source. “We’ve got the president, the Congress, and the people trying to come to a very tough decision together. Part of it is the Constitution, part of it is, of course, the dire situation in Syria. But this is how we do things in America. Not by unilateral edicts, but through honest debate and the airing of differences…”

Well, no. How we do things in America is through a series of charades posing as reality. The media gives these phony episodes the aura of credibility.

Meanwhile, it’s the people of Syria who are caught in a squeeze play.

No US missile attack is going to change that situation. If Assad is the problem, the solution called massive chaos is only going to make things worse.

A dog and pony show in Congress, followed by Obama’s final decision on use of force, is about as effective and meaningful as wielding a feather to knock over a tank.

And that’s assuming, falsely, that the destabilization of the Middle East is really the outcome of some spontaneous uprising called Arab Spring.

The situation is actually much worse than trying to knock out a tank with a feather. All these so-called popular revolutions were engineered from a distance, playing on and using populations’ genuine suffering and desire for freedom as fodder, as fuel.

It’s not chaos, it’s Operation Chaos. And the elite Order that follows has the objective of controlling every inch of the Middle East.

Congress? It’s a stage play designed to convince the American people that the nation can still take serious matters seriously. But the truth is, on the floor of the Senate and the House, they may as well be carrying on a debate between Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck.

Disneyesque operators build American reality wall to wall, the people buy their tickets (taxes), salute it, and then believe it means something.

On the other hand, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness have been central in the minds and desires of every human on this planet since the dawn of time—but no government or priest class has consistently served that desire.

Where these ideals have been put into action, individuals have taken it upon themselves to declare what was theirs to begin with, beyond the reach of any ruling force.

The Matrix Revealed

No one in the upcoming Congressional debates will be touching on that subject.

They’ll be pontificating on the juice of their own elevated positions. As they always do.

And in the aftermath of debate, media parrots will exclaim, “This proves, once again, that the system works.”

If you want a few real clues about Syria, consider these two: the Assad government has erected tariff barriers to restrict imports; and agriculture is the country’s number-two industry behind oil. Globalists want to knock down those barriers and bring in “free trade” (aka multinational-corporate ownership of the Syrian economy), and…Monsanto wants to show up in Damascus, announcing it’s there to save the country and rescue local farmers from their impoverished lives.

In other words, business as usual.

Jon Rappoport

The author of two explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED and EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free emails at www.nomorefakenews.com

Buying a ticket to the war: no moron left behind

Buying a ticket to the war: no moron left behind

by Jon Rappoport

September 1, 2013

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You’re just a click away on your remote. Get the popcorn. It’s a blast. This one has moral stature. They used chemical weapons, so they will pay.

Don’t miss Chris Matthews. He’s tingling all over. “The president did the right thing and he upheld the Constitution. Only a living god could figure out how to pull that off.”

Welcome to the Syrian theater. All the players are assembled. Which one will intervene and turn a two-day blitz into a global conflagration?

We realize you don’t have whatever it takes to actually enlist in the Armed Forces and do six insane tours in Afghanistan building A-frames and wondering when one of those villagers will shoot you in the head. No problem. You can experience a very good simulacrum in your own mind. The anticipation. The adrenaline flow. The sweaty palms. Then the limbic thrust of revenge.

And as a bonus? No court martial when it turns out you killed an Afghan who was just reaching in his coat pocket for a screwdriver to attach his new front door!

The Syrian run-up is almost as good as the first missile launch. Click to Wolf Blitzer as he recalls his coverage of Gulf War One, when he made his bones purely on the basis of his name.

Catch the living cadaver, Scott Pelley, as he flashes back on his work at the Davidian siege at Waco.

Count down to the first explosion with the eternal newsboy riding his bike and flipping papers on front porches, Brian Williams.

Feel the undertone of sodden grief with Dianne Sawyer (weeps for everybody/all the time) as she does war as only a former America’s Junior Miss can.

And then, boom! You’re there. The attack is on! The sky over Damascus lights up! What unknown newsman, standing on a rooftop, narrating the unfolding scene, will emerge from the carnage with name recognition and a sudden career bump that makes his colleagues want to murder him in his sleep.

It’s the news! Tune in!

Exit From the Matrix

America is united again. Feel it. What took us so long to find each other once more? Post your experience on Facebook. Share your ecstasy with faux friends. Recite the Pledge of Allegiance against a hip-hop track and hope it goes viral.

Finally, all the goody-two-shoes questions about who used chemical weapons and which side we’re backing in Syria and who is al Qaeda and the CIA sending weapons and killers from Libya to Syria are gone. Erased. This is the show! This is what counts! Pretext? Invented provocation? False flag? Don’t bother me, I’m eating war!

If only we still had the Rat Pack around. Frank, Dean, Sammy, Lawford, and Joey Bishop. They could do a Sarin Night at the Desert Inn and wow the crowd with their support for the guys who launch the Tomahawks.

If your brother-in-law is over at the house as you watch the missile strike and he says, “You know, there’s no good proof Assad used poison gas,” poke him in the eye with a sizzling hot dog on a stick and yell, “USA! USA! USA!”

You might also try, “Obamacare! Immigration reform! Climate change! Carbon tax! NSA! Surveillance State! Gun control! Drone attacks!”

Suddenly, they’re in. They were out, but now the Commander-in-Chief has his hand on the pulse of the nation. We’re off life support. Who cares about Fast&Furious, the IRS non-profit division, Benghazi? They’re in the rearview mirror and we’re accelerating down the superhighway to fame and fortune. Jobs? We can live off our own fumes!

Mind-controlled androids? This is who we are! Love it, live it, watch it, soak it in!

God bless Congress for giving Obama back Constitutional authority to kill the enemy of the terrorists we’re backing.

Jon Rappoport

The author of two explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED and EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free emails at www.nomorefakenews.com

Obama seeking to become a wartime president

Obama seeking to become a wartime president

by Jon Rappoport

September 1, 2013

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Obama wants the Congress to approve his plan to attack Syria so he can become an officially certified wartime president, and put the country on “unified status.”

Even in the wake of a brief air invasion, this stance would improve his standing in the eyes of the press, the Congress, and the public.

The press, in particular, would have a new reason to fawn over him, praise his effort and his moral position, adding that “the nation is behind him.”

Factually, it means very little, but for PR purposes, it’s gold. Suddenly, Obama would become generalized as a “unifying president,” which would be extrapolated to mean that his other programs and plans carry additional weight.

This is the way the press operates. A victory in one arena is taken to imply validity in other areas. It’s about as logical as inferring that a mule who can knock down an old fence with a kick should be anointed heavyweight boxing champion of the world.

“Mr. Obama emerged from the missile attack on Syria with an enhanced presidency. He has earned respect from our allies, even those who refused to back his plan. And domestically, the bipartisan support he was able to gather from the Congress has cast him in a new light…”

Absolute nonsense, but it works.

“The attack on Syria was a brave move, given that Russia and other nations opposed it. Obama emerges as the winner…New polls today showed a sharp jump in his overall approval rating…”

Keep slicing that baloney. Sell it.

Think of it as a mini-mini-911. Obama is doing a Bush. His predecessor in the Oval Office could barely navigate a teleprompter, but his response to the attacks on the Trade Center and the Pentagon earned him a year or two of immortality.

The art of PR creates goodwill on the slenderest of threads. It transmits the impression that what it is celebrating is the end result of public acclaim, when in fact it is inducing acclaim through bald pretense.

Reputations are built out of thin air this way. The phrase used to be “overnight sensation.”

“President Obama has gotten his groove back…”

Were chemical weapons used in Syria? If so, who really used them? How many people died in the US missile attacks? Dead issues. The important thing is the President won support from Congress and went to war. It was “clean and decisive.”

And network news ratings soar. Maybe we’ll even see a few anchors standing on rooftops in the Middle East at night, wearing Dan Rather bush jackets. Wolf Blitzer can get his groove back, too.

“This may look like a fireworks display in the evening sky, but these missiles are deadly and precise and smart…”

Bring all the old jive artists out of mothballs.

Exit From the Matrix

“The country needed this. In the wake of Benghazi and other troubling scandals, the administration was mired in problems. But now…”

Whoever came up with the bright idea of going to Congress to approve an attack on Syria deserves a PR plaque for ingenuity. Even if the Congress turns thumbs down on the Obama plan, he can “go it alone.”

“A valiant President, rebuffed by Congress, stood on principle and launched an attack and sent a message to international criminals…”

Somewhere in the bowels of the White House, an advisor is making midnight notes, trying to sort out the op: “Let’s see. We’re backing the thugs and terrorists in Syria. We helped arm them. If anyone used chemical weapons in Syria, it’s most likely those people. And now we’re supporting them with a missile strike against Assad, which could ultimately put them in power, with access to all the weapons, of every kind, that Assad possesses. What the hell is going on?”

It’s not the kind of contemplation that will make it into a later tell-all book or memoir.

Engineering perception is first order of business for any White House. They’ve got their hands on a valuable moment, and they’re going to squeeze every last bit of juice out of it.

Jon Rappoport

The author of two explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED and EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free emails at www.nomorefakenews.com

Syria, lies exposed, broken paradigms, dead pigs

Syria, lies exposed, broken paradigms, dead pigs

by Jon Rappoport

August 31, 2013

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Update: WAR=UNITY. The President just gave his speech on Syria. He intends to launch an air attack. He wants Congress to approve it. He didn’t say what he’ll do if Congress refuses, and he didn’t say how the attacks will limit Assad’s ability to use chemical weapons on his people in the future. He’s utterly convinced, he claims, that Assad deployed chemical weapons. He’s “seen the evidence.”

Why should we believe him? There are ample reports that “the rebels” used those weapons. Those would be the rebels the US government is backing and arming.

Obama appears to trust he has the votes in Congress to approve his attack. He sees this as a feel-good moment when Congress and the White House are united. “Look, we can work together.”

He referred to Congress as “representatives of the American people.” So Obama is a comedian now. He’s suggesting that all of America will share in this act of war. Congress represents the American people the way a herd of lions is accountable to deer and antelope.

Here is the piece I’d already finished an hour before Obama made his speech. I don’t need to change anything, except perhaps to elevate the dosage of mescaline it would take to make Brian Williams finally “see the light.”

Brian Williams, the leading disinformation media specialist on American television, has accidentally ingested a drug before his broadcast.

Somehow, through a manufacturer’s error, mescaline was inserted in a headache pill. Brian just happened to take a pill in that bad batch.

His mind is scrambled.

He suddenly realizes he’s been on a lying jag for decades. What a revelation.

He sees a glint of daylight. He can go on television and tell the truth for once…and what better story to explore than the imminent US attack on Syria. Yes, he’ll do it. He’ll try for redemption.

He sits there on camera, his eyes shining. His mind is all over the place. But he bites his lip and begins:

“—Ladies and gentlemen…

I’m Brian Williams. Freedom is the wild card in any so-called system. How’s that for my opener?

That’s what I want to tell you, folks…the wild card. Yes…uh…

So listen up: Bureaucrats and other lackeys of the State are trained to work as if they are dealing with closed systems. They react to any deviation (freedom) as if it’s a black widow spider in a hotel bed.

Technocrats, the leading edge of the State, are trying to build a machine that incorporates all humans. They hail this as a future in which “the right answer” will always be obtained.

You have no right to be wrong. This is what we are coming to.

Get it?

You can see this in the run-up to the planned attack on Syria. Leaders are telling us, just as they did prior to the invasion in Iraq, that all the facts add up to the right answer. Once that answer is extracted, there is no turning back.

Syria. Chemical warfare was used. The Assad government used it. That’s the correct answer. Therefore, war. End of debate.

Meanwhile, behind the scenes, the picture looks a little different. I’m picturing that picture, ladies and gentlemen. The commander-in-chief is being briefed:

“Well, Mr. President, I want to recap where we are on Syria. I’m waiting for Prince Bandar to tell us. Ha-ha. Anyhow, we enabled the Syrian rebels or the terrorists, or al Qaeda, or the freedom fighters, or whatever we’re calling them today. We helped arm them. Now we’re about to bomb Syria to keep them in the game. These rebels are the same people we’re supposedly fighting in Afghanistan, right? I’m not against any of this, but I’m just saying it’s getting harder to sell it. And if our story line crumbles, we’re in deep trouble, Mr. President. People are more aware now. We’ve played both sides against the middle so many times before, the scenario is almost dead on arrival…”

Hi. Brian Williams still here. Let me make a leap, all you good folks out there in television land. The massive op/narrative called The New Age, which began its rapid spread in the 1960s, was designed to disguise our fascist government by moving consciousness to an appreciation for, and an insistence on, so-called spiritual unity.

Barack Obama was supposed to be the first president standing for that apotheosis. He would, in a sense, rule by faith, the faith of his supporters. He would sweep away all objections to government as the supplier of spiritual unity.

Government’s only hope is to somehow appear supernatural and inevitable. It can’t stand on its own.

Wars, especially, require “spiritual faith” in the mission. Obama has failed on this count, and with the opposition to an attack on Syria coming from so many quarters, there is very little cover left for him.

On a larger scale, the attempt to create a closed system, through a military-industrial-oil complex, is falling apart. Oil as the only recognized energy source for the planet determines the chessboard and the playbook. In one stroke, it names the geopolitical hot spots and the conflicts and the need for war as the American solution.

In truth, there are many technologies that could, if developed sufficiently, take us on the road to energy abundance. They are being stopped by the military-industrial-oil complex, not only to keep us on the oil teat, but also to keep us pinned to the need to make war to guarantee the oil flow.

But this system is losing its solid feel. It’s becoming more transparent as an op, long past its prime.

Every significant geopolitical story on the nightly news is a dead pig painted with lipstick.

On the home front, media, fed by politicians, are focusing on “dangerous people” who value freedom. This is a tale so old it creaks. It was told in ancient Egypt, in Greece, in Rome during the death throes of the Empire. Now, in America, it can only be spun by fatuously accusing freedom lovers of racism.

The Surveillance State is losing public support by the day. The notion that the government has to spy on everybody all the time to find “the terrorists” is so off-key, it sounds like a barroom medley sung by drunken sailors. Or a pronouncement rolled out at the height of the Catholic Inquisition.

To impose a closed system on the populace, it’s necessary to reduce the definition of what a person is. In this modern age, that strategy involves promoting stripped-down, lowest-common-denominator thought as a marvelous advance that will enable “human-machine” interactions…bringing us to the brink of a new techno-paradise.

It’s such a desperate tale, one wonders how the sellers can make it through the day without falling down and laughing themselves out of court.

The answer is: government funding. Like the oil monopoly, like the war machine, like the nuclear-energy titan, the government dispenses $$ to make the myths endure.

The pinnacle of this corruption is war. Offensive war. Not war to protect the home front, but to establish new beachheads of conquest, under the pretension of helping to liberate the oppressed. To create a sense of unity where unity was lacking.

The proposed attack on Syria is the latest footnote.

It’s not working.

The Matrix Revealed

People are waking up. Also, the man in the White House just can’t create new jobs. He’s putting on a show of trying, but he can’t do it, because he’s not interested in doing it. He wants more victims. So the people are looking at him with a tougher gaze. They don’t trust him.

On the issue of war against Syria, Obama can only try to take a moral high ground based on the idea that a chemical attack occurred. That’s all he’s got. He can’t peddle spiritual unity in this case. He’s dying on the vine.

The whole thing is a sham and a scam and a cardboard front. Get it? I’m trying to tell you, my fellow Americans, ladies and gentlemen, all you good folks out there, what’s really happening. I’m hitting the high points.

We, in the media, are your basic liars. That’s our skill. That’s what makes us great. Right now, we’re selling the war to you. We’re trying, damn it, but it’s not easy. We’ve got so little to work with.

Dianne Sawyer, Scott Pelley, and I are carnival barkers. We dress it up, but that’s all we are. We fake it every night. I don’t even need to be here. You could have a CGI of me, programmed with messages from the White House, polished by our writers at NBC. Now, in fact, looking back at my career, that’s what it feels like. I was never here. I don’t know where the hell I was, but through a stroke of fate, I’m back. And I’m trying to feed you a little truth.

Just think oil and keep thinking oil. Oil pipeline through Syria. Oil in the Middle East.

Anyway…where was I? I could show you pictures of a hundred, two hundred places around the world where governments are torturing and killing their own people and putting them in cages. Is the US supposed to go into all those places and liberate the oppressed? Are we supposed to force free elections from the North Pole to Tierra del Fuego?

And what is a free election? I’ll tell you. It’s the same big-time players behind the scenes cooking the vote for a new bunch of tyrants.

The only way to stop that—and it’s a long shot—is to form a government based on severely limiting the power of government.

Wow. What an idea! Where did that come from? Am I, Brian Williams, the first person to see that?

Anyway, Syria is a crazy op that’s gotten out of control.

We’ve got Egypt, Libya, Syria, Iraq. Why would the US government be trying to upset the apple cart in those places? To free the people? Don’t be stupid. To obtain cheaper oil prices? How is that working out?

If Dianne, Scott, and I were real reporters, this is the issue we’d be working on. Is this a destabilizing operation aimed at disrupting the flow of oil? Is this a high-level game in which the US and other industrial economies take a huge energy hit? Is this a prelude to the acceleration of the forces of elite Globalism? Is this the old create-chaos and then bring in order on top of that?

Right now, that’s what it looks like to me. Sitting here, that’s my thesis. I don’t think I’ll be able to get anybody in the White House to give me a straight answer, though.

But it’s a start. So…for all the good people here at NBC News, good night. I’ll be back tomorrow, possibly broadcasting from a holding cell under CIA headquarters at Langley. In which case, don’t believe anything I say. Signing off. Brian Williams.

Jon Rappoport

The author of two explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED and EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free emails at www.nomorefakenews.com

Rappoport replies to a Salon.com charge that he’s a conspiracist

Rappoport replies to a Salon.com charge that he’s a conspiracist

by Jon Rappoport

August 30, 2013

www.nomorefakenews.com

I just became aware that, this past June, Salon.com ran a story headlined, “Here come the Edward Snowden truthers.” The author, Alex Seitz-Wald (twitter), took several writers to task, including me, for doubting Snowden’s story.

Seitz-Wald wrote: “Why would these people find it easier to believe Snowden is an [sic] CIA plant than a whistle-blower? Conspiracists are reflexively skeptical of the ‘official narrative,’ even when it should confirm their worldview. Snowden should be a victory for them, but because the mainstream media and the government are corroborating much of what Snowden leaked, the mainstream account immediately becomes suspicious.”

Salon.com is now considering whether to publish this article.

Let’s see. Seitz-Wald claims I would doubt any mainstream account, right? Well, he’s absolutely on the money. I do. Like clockwork. I get up in the morning, I do 70,000 pushups, check my screen, read a “mainstream account” (of anything), and the pleasure of doubt moves right in. I pour milk on my doubt, a few strawberries, and that’s breakfast.

I doubt medical news, political news, economic news, energy news, military news, intelligence-agency news, and news about media. And that’s just for starters.

Am I a conspiracy theorist if I believe Ed Snowden’s leaks are important, but have serious doubts about his account of events leading up to his enormous data-grab at the NSA?

Let’s look at what Snowden told Glenn Greenwald about his background.

In 2003, at age 19, without a high school diploma, Snowden enlists in the Army. He begins a training program to join the Special Forces. He breaks both legs in a training exercise. He’s discharged from the Army. Is that automatic? How about healing and then resuming his Special Forces training?

If he was accepted in the program because he had special computer skills (why else?), then why discharge him simply because he was put into two casts?

“Listen, Ed, we’ve come to the conclusion that, although you’re a computer genius, your broken legs will, from this point on, destroy your unique talent. You’re fired.”

Snowden next joins the CIA, in IT. He has no high school diploma.
In 2007, the Agency sends Snowden to Geneva. He’s only 23 years old. The CIA gives him diplomatic cover there. Serious status. He’s put in charge of maintaining computer-network security. Major job. Obviously, he has access to significant classified documents. Sound a little odd? Maybe he has his GED by now. Otherwise, he still doesn’t have a high school diploma.

Snowden says that during this period, in Geneva, one of the incidents that really sours him on the CIA is the “turning of a Swiss banker.” One night, CIA guys get a banker drunk, encourage him to drive home, the banker gets busted, the CIA guys help him out, and then with that bond formed, they eventually convince the banker to reveal deep secrets to the Agency.

Snowden is soured by this? He’s that naïve? He doesn’t know by now that his own agency, CIA does this sort of thing all the time? He’s shocked? He “didn’t sign up for this?”

In 2009, Snowden leaves the CIA. Why? Presumably because he’s disillusioned. It should be noted that Snowden claimed he could do very heavy damage to the entire US intelligence community in 2008, but decided to wait because he thought Obama, just coming into the presidency, might make virtuous policy changes.

After a year with the CIA in Geneva, Snowden really had the capability to take down the whole US intelligence network, or a major chunk of it? He had that much access to classified data?

In 2009, Snowden leaves the CIA and moves into the private sector. He works for two defense contractors, Dell and then Booz Allen Hamilton. In this latter job, Snowden is assigned to work at the NSA.

By virtue of his 2013 hack, he claims to have grabbed so much sensitive NSA data that he can take down the whole US intelligence network in a single day. Really? In a single day?

How did he execute the hacks? According to press reports (and this isn’t necessarily Snowden’s version), the magic wand was a thumb-drive. Snowden waltzed into work with one, plugged in, and stole the farm and the Holy Grail and the kitchen sink.

Snowden’s claim of theft, by whatever method, is problematic, dubious, and suspect. Why do people insist on treating the NSA, on the one hand, as the most awesome, talented, resource-rich spying agency in the world and, on the other hand, as an astonishing bunch of morons who just happened to forget to develop their own useful internal security?

The NSA’s business is to intrude, spy, hack, tap, get into everybody’s system, yes? Right? But protecting themselves from the same kind of treatment is just too much to ask.

They never compartmentalized their own data to prevent somebody from climbing the ladder all the way to the top. They considered, but never made it mandatory to have two analysts sign off on every trip into classified areas.

They never got around to installing myriad checks and counter-checks, devised by their in-house geniuses, to prevent employee theft.

This is like saying, in the heyday of the Mafia, a junior hitman from New York could fly to Vegas and sign off on papers making him the owner of ten casinos and hotels on the Strip.

It’s like saying a radio man on a nuclear submarine could launch missiles by throwing a few switches.

“Yes, Mr. President, he bypassed our procedures and took out 24 islands in the Pacific before we could stop him. Well, we didn’t exactly stop him. He jumped into a lifeboat and paddled to shore before we knew what happened. But I swear, we’re going to fix this so it’ll never occur again.”

Or: “Yes, Mr. President, it turns out that the most dangerous weapon we face in the eternal war against terrorism is the thumb-drive. Who knew? Snowden made off with our most sensitive data. We forgot to make our systems secure. I think there was a meeting about it nine years ago, but I was on a plane home to my cousin’s nephew’s birthday party.”

The Matrix Revealed

Keep in mind that the very essence of being an intelligence officer is lying. Lying then, lying now, lying later. If you don’t get this, you know nothing about that world.

Given this fact, and given how unlikely it is that the NSA never installed extremely tight internal security, there is a strong chance that Snowden didn’t steal the farm. That’s not the way it happened.

Looking for a clue about how Snowden really operated, the most obvious place to start would be his former employer, the CIA. Would you rather start with his high school gym teacher or Putin?

I picked the CIA, an agency that has been at war with the NSA for a very long time. To boil it down, the agencies battle over federal funds, and the CIA has been losing. Why? Because intelligence-gathering has shifted from human vacuum cleaners to electronic ones. And there, the NSA is king.

Wired Magazine, June 2013 issue. James Bamford, author of three books on the NSA, states:

“In April, as part of its 2014 budget request, the Pentagon [under which the NSA is organized] asked Congress for $4.7 billion for increased ‘cyberspace operations,’ nearly $1 billion more than the 2013 allocation. At the same time, budgets for the CIA and other intelligence agencies were cut by almost the same amount, $4.4 billion. A portion of the money going to…[NSA] will be used to create 13 cyberattack teams.”

That means spying-money. Far more for NSA, far less for CIA.

Turf war.

So I propose this: Snowden didn’t steal the crown-jewels of information, they were given to him by CIA people who had accumulated them, carefully, over a long period of time, to put a hole in the mid-section of the agency they hate: the NSA. Snowden wasn’t capable of penetrating the NSA’s security, which was not a sieve. It was very, very good.

The CIA, of course, couldn’t be seen as the leaker. They needed a guy. They needed a guy who could appear to be from the NSA, to make things look worse for the NSA and to shield the CIA.

They had Ed Snowden. He had worked for the CIA in Geneva, in a high-level position, overseeing computer-systems security.

Somewhere in his CIA past, Ed meets a fellow CIA employee who sits down with him and says, “You know, Ed, things have gone too damn far. The NSA is spying on everybody all the time. I can show you proof. They’ve gone beyond the point of trying to catch terrorists. They’re doing something else. They’re expanding a Surveillance State, which can only lead to one thing: the destruction of America, what America stands for, what America is supposed to be. The NSA isn’t like us, Ed. We go after terrorists for real. Whereas NSA goes after everybody. We have to stop it. We need a guy…and there are those of us who think you might be that guy…”

During the course of this one disingenuous conversation, the CIA is killing 20 innocent civilians in a faraway land with drones, but that’s, ahem, beside the point.

Ed says, “Tell me more. I’m intrigued.”

After a series of chats, it gets serious. Eventually, Ed buys in.

And what Snowden’s theoretical CIA handler said, in his completely cynical self-serving way, is true. The Surveillance State isn’t about catching terrorists.

Or perhaps the handler is really a patriot inside the system. He and a few others want to wound and expose the NSA for good reasons.

Either way, Snowden takes the assignment.

I think my hypothesis is far more believable than the one in which the NSA has no clue about how to protect itself from an analyst at Booz Allen who shows up for work in Hawaii with a thumb-drive.

Unfortunately, the press and public are conditioned to look at disruptions in the body politic as one-move chess games. The hero (or villain) executes a single powerful play and then all hell breaks loose.

Intelligence work doesn’t operate that way. It never has. It’s about prelude, lead-in, middle strategy, end-move, cover story, false trail, and limited hangout.

No, the people who simultaneously accept the NSA as miracle-genius and mushhead-buffoon at its own trade are the conspiracists. They just happen to agree with the theme of mainstream press reporting.

Exit From the Matrix

Ask yourself this. Has any significant television anchor or Sunday-morning newstalk-host, with an NSA representative on camera, ever asked why we should swallow such an absurd genius-buffoon contradiction about the NSA? Has he asked the question with any degree of heat, and has he followed up, and has he stuck to his guns to press the issue further and further to a resolution or a meltdown?

No. And why not? Because those media stars know how far they can go, before the kind of official access they need to keep their jobs would evaporate in a wind of ill-will. To put it another way, they’re cowards.

Imagine, if by some miracle, David Gregory had NSA mob boss Keith Alexander in the chair on Meet the Press, and said, “Look General Alexander, we’re going to sit here until you explain to me exactly how your Agency can spy on untold numbers of people, utilizing the best minds in the business, and yet fail to secure your own temple against a single intruder who spies on you. I’m not looking for a facile gloss-over here. You’re budget is billions and billions of dollars. So let’s go. Buckle up…”

Just for starters. It’s my firm belief that the whole Snowden affair could then have unraveled in a much different way.

For another even greater miracle, suppose Alexander finally, after heavy grilling, finally jumped out of his chair and said, “Okay, you want the story? Here it is. It wasn’t our fault. We’re not bumblers. We have security that would make an ant squirm to get through, and even he wouldn’t make it past first base. Somebody with far more skill than Snowden penetrated us, and it’s a heavy blow, and we’re working on it!”

Then, all bets would be off.

The question readers will raise, of course, is: if Snowden was operating as an agent, as I suggest, does it matter? He took the files he took. The answer to that question is a subject for another story, but, yes, it does matter.

I’m fully aware that many people can’t and won’t separate a good deed from the doer, because they’re committed to believing, in a brain-addled fashion, that the two must harmonize. They would would prefer this sort of proposition: If JFK really, as some say, wanted to get us out of the horror called the Vietnam war early on, then he couldn’t have cheated on his wife a few thousand times.

Good luck. The world doesn’t always cooperate with such a puerile view. And, by the way, perhaps Snowden is a kind of hero, but with a significantly different twist.

So, if what I’m discussing in this piece is evidence that I’m a conspiracist, as Seitz-Wald claims, and the dubious statements Snowden has made are all resolvable, and the NSA really is an exceedingly brilliant but feeble-minded monster, so be it.

Jon Rappoport

The author of two explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED and EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free emails at www.nomorefakenews.com

New owner at Washington Post: packaging insanity in bubbles

New owner at Washington Post: packaging insanity in bubbles

by Jon Rappoport

August 17, 2013

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There is deep context for every political story in the news. Of course, the networks and major newspapers don’t explore it. But it’s there if one wants to bother tracking it down.

How do you cover “quantitative easing” (printing endless money) unless you discuss what the Federal Reserve is and isn’t? You can’t. You get a body with its head chopped off. You get severely truncated information.

And this describes what the news does and what politicians do. They omit context. From A to Z. They chop heads.

The effect? A trance.

A trance IS what happens when the mind enters the dead zone where information doesn’t have a basis. A trance is that float.

Watching and listening to news and political statements is entering the float. The questioning mind piles up queries until it goes on overload and surrenders.

Because there is no context.

It’s like walking into a room where a group of strangers is discussing a story in midstream. You play catch-up. You try to fill in the blanks. But you’re lost.

Tech blather has already begun, since Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, bought the Washington Post at a fire sale. Jeff Genius will invent new ways to transmit the news to ‘people on the go’ and make the Post a smashing success. (See Wired, “How Jeff Bezos Will Reinvent Legacy News Media,” by Puneet Mehta.)

The new Washington Post. Mobile devices. Multiple platforms. Digital, taking over from print. Ads customized to fit readers’ interests (profiling). News stories customized to fit readers’ interests (more profiling).

I can see it now. John Smith spends every waking hour watching porn. So HIS Washington Post will sport a page-one headline, LINDA LOVELACE RETROSPECTIVE RAISES PROTESTS.

Just what we need. Perfect.

A Democratic voter in Chicago will get a different page-one headline, OBAMA PROMISES NEW PROGRAMS FOR CRIME PREVENTION.

Streamlined media. Market-driven. More absurd than ever. A reflexive bubble inside which the reader can be entertained. Your own search engine without the need to search.

Another way of delivering content without context.

The Post will become an updated corpse burying the old corpse of the paper. Here’s my headline: WAPO PIG WITH LIPSTICK LAYS TO REST WAPO PIG WITHOUT LIPSTICK.

The Matrix Revealed

This is what a real publisher would do, in case anyone’s interested:

He’d assemble his key editors and reporters in a room, lock the door, and say: “All right, we have a handful of scandals here. The IRS targeting specific kinds of groups on non-profit status. Michael Hasting’s death. The NSA spying on AP reporters. Fast and Furious. Benghazi. NSA-Snowden. Now, if you were honest and open and unafraid, by some miracle, which one of these stories would you pick for a good old-fashioned slaughter?

“Which scandal do you think goes the deepest? If you were inclined to do an actual investigation, no holds barred, all the way to the bottom of the dung pile, to find the REAL secrets, which scandal would you choose? I’m talking about a series of, say, 50 page-one stories, during a relentless six-month blood bath.”

And then that publisher would sit back and listen to his lackeys bloviate for an hour or so.

Then he’d interrupt: “No, I don’t think you understand me. I’m not asking for pontification. I’m asking for reporters’ opinions. The real opinions. The ones you may have had before you sold out to the demands of your former employer. Get it?”

Then, assessing some of the blank looks around the room, he’d fire half his staff. Just as a warm-up.

“Okay now, the rest of you—you castrati who’ve been living off the largesse of this paper. Wake up or get out. We’re going to cover a scandal the way it should be done. We’re going to give our readers context for it. Actual background. Prior crimes, hidden players, covert ops, that sort of thing. Am I getting through at all, or do I have to hire kids who are currently working at high-school newspapers?….Excuse me? What did you say? You want to know what this has to do with mobile platforms and customized news for subscribers ON THE GO?…Is that what you actually said? I want to remember it word for word so when I write a letter to your mother I can explain what a complete moron you are and why I fired you…

“Anyway, since you buffoons can’t come up with the one scandal we should cover wall to wall, I’ll go with my own gut. It’s Benghazi. There’s murder there, and a major cover-up. Liars at the State Department, which means Hillary, and liars at the CIA and the Pentagon. And that’s just for starters.

“I want to know EVERYTHING about where the missiles went and who shipped them. I want witnesses who’ll testify the US government has been arming low-level terrorists to fight in Syria with those weapons. Nail it. Track it. Find out who’s covering it up. Climb the ladder. Can you see it? WHITE HOUSE USING TERRORISTS TO MAKE WAR. There are people in this city who have the answers…”

Yes, that’s the stuff of movies; not real life in the pigpen of major media. In real life, papers like the Washington Post are part of the cover-up. Their actual work is no work at all. Their principal mission is making sure they don’t dig deep on certain scandals.

There should be Pulitzer Prizes for media outlets based on stories they avoided and covered via limited hangout.

“This year, the Committee awards a Pulitzer for Omission and Limited Hangout to the Washington Post for its ‘coverage’ of SSRI antidepressants pushing children into committing suicide and murder all across America. What coverage? Exactly. Congratulations.”

I’m looking forward to a Washington Post that runs, on mobile devices, 5000 different page-one headlines every day, beamed at profiled readers.

THIRTY YEARS OLD AND LIVING IN YOUR PARENTS’ BASEMENT? NEW STUDY SHOWS VITAMIN D COULD IMPROVE SKIN HEALTH

SELLING WORTHLESS STOCKS TO SUCKERS: STEP ONE IN A CLIMB TO THE TOP

PENTAGON CHIEF SAYS BOYS WHO EAT FROZEN DINNERS MAKE BETTER SOLDIERS

TOP UNIVERSITIES SEEKING STUDENT ATHLETES WHO CAN’T READ: ABSOLUTELY NO BARRIER TO GRADUATION (If you’re a high school coach, read this headline to a 300-pound tackle.)

25 TO 44 YEAR OLD READERS WITH DISCRETIONARY INCOME FORM CLUB TO DISCUSS BEST MOBILE DEVICES, AS PREDATOR DRONES ATTACK IRAN NUCLEAR LAB

Yes, I see a great future for the Washington Post.

The big lie? “Once a great newspaper…” No, I’m afraid not. Mainstream journalism periodically reinvents its own past to pad its reputation. Straight con. There was never a golden age of journalism.

Actual investigative reporting was always the rare exception in major media. And these days, it’s virtually extinct.

Ditto for “the golden age of television broadcast news.” Ed Murrow. Chet Huntley. David Brinkley. Cronkite. I was there. I watched them do their dog and ponies night in and night out. Never an authentic context for a story in the whole lot of them. What they had was deadpan self-assurance. That was the basis of their act. It played well.

The Washington Post built its rep on Watergate, which was twisted from the beginning. Nixon was in David Rockefeller’s crosshairs. That’s where it all began. Nixon had laid tariffs on certain goods coming into the US. He violated the sacred Rockefeller principle of “free trade” (Globalism). He had to go. When he did go, a sop named Gerald Ford moved into the White House and brought along David’s brother, Nelson, as his vice-president.

I hope Jeff Bezos, or someone of his persuasion, ends up owning the NY Times and the LA Times, too, and turns them into advertising giants. Forget news content, except as pauses between commercials.

It’s what these papers deserve. They’re poseurs who’ve pretended to provide the real news for decades. Fake depth takes very little skill.

Most mainstream reporters are extremely low-level insiders, which means they can attend cocktail parties on the East coast and rub elbows with people who help shape government. These reporters come to know there is a standardized list of reliable sources for stories. A quote from such a source qualifies a media piece as authentic.

Attempting to write stories that cross swords with those sources’ agendas dooms a reporter. Access is thereafter denied. The result? The toilet flushes and his career spins down into the sewer.

A journalist who lasts 20 years in the business has sold out everything he has to sell. He comes to believe the bubble in which he lives is the only reality. He’s like the high-fashion PR person who hypes grotesque and buffoonish clothes stick-figure models wear in runway shows, insisting nothing is more beautiful.

The main difference between reporting and investigative reporting? In the first instance, the journalist moves laterally between two basic sources, each of which has a different version of facts or meaning. In the latter enterprise, the reporter digs down vertically and gathers testimony and documents that expose an underbelly. Then he looks for confirmation of what he’s found, while digging still deeper.

Exit From the Matrix

In the summer of 2009, while the CDC was promoting Swine Flu as the next end-of-the-world pandemic, Sharyl Attkisson at CBS discovered the CDC has stopped counting Swine Flu cases in the US.

This was explosive. How then could CDC, the agency tasked with reporting case numbers, claim Swine Flu was everywhere when they weren’t even countng. The CDC reacted with anger and began sidestepping and making absurd excuses.

The story was just taking off. It obviously had more secret compartments, but someone at CBS flashed a red light, and the coverage stopped in its tracks.

Now, four years later, writing in the online British Medical Journal, Peter Doshi has added another major layer to the scandal. Every year, Doshi states, samples from hundreds of thousands of people in the US, who have been diagnosed with flu, are sent to labs for analysis. Only 18% of those samples reveal the presence of ANY flu virus!

Knowing this in 2009, the CDC would have had a very good reason to stop counting Swine Flu cases. Their whole vaccine-promotion campaign was a fraud.

OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF SWINE FLU CASES IN THE US HAVE NO FLU AT ALL. CDC KNEW.

CBS was on the cusp of blowing it all wide open, and they stopped.

“Yes, we here at CBS do a little investigative reporting, but only a little. When things get too hot, we run for the hills and hide.”

Mainstream media outlets have an important job to perform. They must build up politicians and experts as very important and authoritative figures. After all, comments from these towers of power drive many stories. So it all has to look on the up-and-up.

If CBS hit the CDC amidships with a series of torpedoes, suddenly the leaders and the experts at the agency would appear to be utter quacks and crooks, which is exactly what they are. That can’t happen. It would, among other things, reduce the prestige of CBS, because the network relies on such people to impart a major gloss to the news.

One domino falls, two dominoes fall, and pretty soon…“CBS regrets to announce that upwards of a hundred experts and political leaders on whom we’ve been basing our broadcasts and stories are all idiots and liars who should be in jail.”

And believe me, if CBS had pursued the Swine Flu/CDC story to its core, that agency would have collapsed. There are many more scandals hiding out at the CDC, not the least of which is the absurd contention that poisons in vaccines cannot cause what is called Autism.

The CDC scratches CBS’ back, and CBS returns the favor. They’re partners. Sharyl Attkisson never had a chance of tracking the Swine Flu story to its conclusion. She would have, had her bosses let her, but there was too much at stake.

That’s why turning major media outlets into mobile-device “on the go” advertising platforms, with all their users profiled, is a logical conclusion to the history of these organizations.

Jon Rappoport

The author of two explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED and EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free emails at www.nomorefakenews.com

NBC’s Meet the Press hits lowest rating in 21 years

NBC’s Meet the Press hits lowest rating in 21 years

by Jon Rappoport

August 15, 2013

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Another media ship is going down. Break out the champagne.

The big-3 Sunday morning news shows are basically politicians talking through the screen to their colleagues in Georgetown. Gibberish from idiots to other idiots.

In so far as the shows reach the general viewing public…

The unspoken premise of This Week, Meet the Press, and Face the Nation goes like this: Given the fact that America is making constant war to expand the imperial corporate empire, the military industrial complex is suffering a hernia from carrying so much money, multiple agencies are spying on everybody all the time, the medical system in America is killing 2.25 million people per decade, millions of acres of untested GMO food plus Roundup are a runaway health disaster, the Fed Reserve is a private banking monopoly posing as a government agency, the Mexican border is a sieve for the Sinaloa Cartel to kick off their Washington-approved drug routes to a distribution hub called Chicago, only “the cops and thugs should have guns,” the government-sponsored mental-health monopoly called psychiatry is destroying the brains of countless numbers of children, vaccines are filled with toxic ingredients, the federal government is pouring wet cement on the Constitution every hour of every day, more people are using food stamps than are working, our children are learning how to become little robots in school, the free and independent individual is an anathema, television is brainwashing 300 million people, and all presidents are vetted to ensure they’ll support a Globalist planet…NONE OF WHICH WE’LL TOUCH ON IN THE NEXT HOUR…

WHAT’S NEW THIS WEEK?

“Well, David, gurgle, gurgle, ahem, and then we have, but of course, some people believe, although I would say…”

Riveting.

These Sunday morning shows should be a ring of Hell, where sinners experience an eternity of soul-eating boredom and rage.

The challenge for David Gregory (Meet the Press (NBC)), George Stephanopoulos (This Week (ABC)), and Bob Schieffer (Face the Nation (CBS)) is: how do I make the interviews and conversations sound real, when more and more viewers realize we’re just doing another trance-induction?

The basis of hypnotic trance is: no authentic context. That’s it. The victim narrows his focus, under the direction of the hypnotist, producing a free-floating state devoid of any significant external connections.

David Gregory’s ratings-dive to third place, among the Sunday puppet shows, is mainly the effect of him failing to affect a persona that enhances the basic hypnotic effect of the non-news. He’s just a bland gray egg.

He doesn’t produce the sing-song mesmerizing rhythms of Bob Schieffer, who learned that trick as an anchor. Stephanopoulos, the “boy wonder” from the Clinton years, works an earnest front for the This Week audience, pretending he’s really “searching for answers” to weighty questions.

Gregory is basically a poor actor. He’s clueless about how to present clueless news. And he replaced the popular Tim Russert, who made his reputation by liking every disingenuous moron he ever interviewed.

The Matrix Revealed

The Sunday morning news-talk shows were invented to transmit the impression the networks were doing “public service by exploring political issues in greater depth.” They became prestige items for corporate advertisers.

The Sunday shows also evolved, over the years, to present the entirely phony idea that, on all major subjects of interest, the two political parties in America hold widely diverging views. Media companies, of course, specialize in that nonsense. The public must never learn there is basically one political party in the US.

Absent any prurient scandal, mass shooting, or disaster, these shows hobble along until election season, when they really swing into gear and feature The Horse Race. At that point, they vibrate between giving free ad time to candidates and asking deep thinkers to assess how the competing election PR teams are doing in their efforts to rope in voters.

In general, the Sunday morning viewing audience is supposed to feel they’re peering through a window to obtain insiders’ views on topics of great import.

David Gregory is dying on camera. Perhaps Mr. Wackadoodle, Chris Matthews, will ascend to the Meet the Press throne.

However, in the endless op to persuade Americans that the two-party system encompasses the whole spectrum of political thought, the Sunday shows have already been upstaged by more asinine and, therefore, popular installments: MSNBC and FOX. There you can find bigger hacks and hustlers shoveling 24/7 manure. They don’t bother with the niceties. They just pile it on by the ton. There, also, the proof of the pudding is in the eating during election season. If there is any lingering hope that newspeople believe the Constitution holds a shred of validity, those networks dispel it when they start wall to wall campaigning for the latest presidential crime figures.

Exit From the Matrix

About-Face on the Nation, This Weak, and Meat the Press don’t stand a chance. They’re relics of a time when lies were supposed to be delivered politely.

The three major networks should bury those corpses and use the time to re-air the most outrageous partisan political moments of the week, from FOX, MSNBC, and CNN.

A special segment, called Operation Mockingbird, would feature a CIA spokesman delivering “the best lie we planted as a news story in the past seven days.”

A final feature, played for comic value, The NSA Spies on an Entirely Innocent Private Citizen, would highlight the blow-by-blow tracking of an American at work and at home.

And then it’s on to golf, infomercials for vacation paradises and juicers, and Mail Your Money to This Particular TV Preacher Before It’s Too Late.

Not to worry. I’m developing an exciting Sunday show called The Food Stamp President. We’ll take cameras into the homes and cardboard boxes of formerly employed Americans who are learning a valuable lesson: Dependence means never having to say you’re sorry. We’re negotiating with a primary sponsor. Planned Parenthood. They have deep pockets, via your generous tax contributions to the federal government.

The overriding message? The gov will always and forever save you, but you should abort all those extra family members before they come into this world. It’ll give you a stress-free existence.

Other sponsors? Cell-phone companies. “Talk is cheap, and we’ll prove it. Sign up for your gratis phone. The White House loves you.”

Jon Rappoport

The author of two explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED and EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free emails at www.nomorefakenews.com

Why the Washington Post sold itself to Amazon man

Why the Washington Post sold itself to Amazon man

by Jon Rappoport

August 9, 2013

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We could start with the fact that the buyer, Jeff Bezos, the boss at Amazon.com, is a Bilderberg attendee. So the newspaper “stays in the family.”

But the Post sold itself because it was hemorrhaging money.

It was going deep into the red because of the Internet—no, strike that. It was wallowing in debt because it was failing to give people what they wanted:

The truth.

There it is.

And that’s why other “great” newspapers are also crashing on the rocks.

Truth sells. Who knew?

Conversely, the same tired lies from the same tired sources wear out. The same heavily restricted contexts surrounding news stories put readers to sleep.

There is a way print newspapers can survive and thrive, even now. But they would have to cancel their membership in the Psyop Club.

These newspapers have major resources. They have reporters who, if let loose, without restraints, would eventually learn how to cover a real story. Anyone could.

And covering an explosive story, from the editor’s and publisher’s angle, means pounding on it week after week, month after month. It means printing, on occasion, two editions of the paper a day, because the story is so hot.

It means digging deeper and deeper, which results in sources who were formerly silent coming out of the woodwork and adding new pieces. The story grows. It sprouts new branches. It encompasses more. It indicts multiple criminals. It exposes roots.

This is the way journalism is supposed to work. Balls to the wall.

Journalism is supposed to make readers eager and excited and on fire to pick up the latest edition.

It’s also supposed to shatter reality. Now, we’re getting down to it. This is what conventional reporting and publishing are afraid of. Bursting the reality bubble.

For example—-the study I’ve often cited: July 26, 2000, Journal of the American Medical Association, Dr. Barbara Starfield, “Is US health really the best in the world?”

Starfield determines that the US medical system kills 225,000 people a year. 106,000 of those die as a direct result of drugs which have been approved by the FDA as safe and effective.

Therefore, every decade, 2.25 MILLION Americans are killed by the medical system. 1,060,000 people are killed by the drugs.

This explodes the reader’s sense of reality. And it’s a starting point for a real story. I say starting point because, in the wake of the initial shock and the denials from medical experts (which puts them and their lies on the record), the newspaper launches a full-bore investigation.

There are plenty of people to talk to. Doctors will emerge from the shadows and confirm the death-numbers. More doctors will show up on their heels. This means new breaking stories. This means trapping liars in their own statements.

One of the heaviest protected sectors of society (the medical cartel) begins to ignite from the truth. It breaks into flames. It can’t defend itself.

Reporters get a sense for what a real story is. They feel like they’ve been let out of prison. They wake up from their trance. Their own bosses are telling them to tell the whole truth and torpedo the criminals.

The FDA suddenly swims into the spotlight. That agency certified all the killer drugs as safe and effective. How? On what grounds? What dirty deals with Pharma were concocted? This aspect of the story is waiting to be mined for months. FDA whistleblowers emerge. The Agency is revealed as a rogue murderous enterprise that’s been operating outside the law for decades.

Then we have the CDC. They’re supposed to keep track of, and report on, mortality figures. But they’ve been saying nothing about medically induced deaths in the US—which rank as the third leading cause of mortality, behind heart disease and cancer. The CDC has been looking the other way. They come under the gun. Squealing rats scurry from the shadows.

And what about the most vaunted medical schools in America? Why haven’t they exposed the medical system as a killer? What’s been happening there? Who’s paying the bills?

We have the government agency, the National Institutes of Health, sucking up billions and billions of federal dollars. They’ve reported nothing on the subject.

And Big Pharma is selling lethal poisons like there’s no tomorrow.

After a few months, this story is a tidal wave.

The newspaper doesn’t let up. It attacks. Its people learn what it means to be relentless.

Some advertisers cancel and back away. But others come on board, because the paper’s circulation figures are through the roof.

If a major newspaper covered a hundred stories of this magnitude, it could forget about the red and it would see only black. It would blow the competition out of the water.

Truth be told, it’s easy to edit a paper like this. You let your reporters sniff out a great story and you let the hounds loose. It isn’t complicated.

The Matrix Revealed

Well, you say, this is a great dream but it would never happen. And you’re right. But here’s the kicker. In this day and age of information, NOT following this path of truth guarantees death for a news organization. Eventually, it will fold up and die.

So what we’re looking at with the Washington Post and the NY Times and other huge newspapers is: suicide.

The Washington Post selling itself isn’t a sad day. It isn’t something for “veterans of the news business” to mourn over. Their eulogies are self-serving nonsense. More baloney from the baloney makers.

This is a cause for celebration. If people had any sense, they’d be dancing in the street. Another great lying machine has stumbled.

A newspaper is a mind for the public mind. It selects the important stories, it shapes the information for those stories, it provides the context, it decides which sources to rely on, it buries and ignores other stories. It’s only valuable when it reflects what people actually want to know.

Otherwise, it sculpts false realities. Through covert partnerships, through the influence of money, it becomes a psychological warfare operation.

Its skills are devoted to covering up that fact. It must appear to be doing all the things we expect from authentic investigators, while doing none of those things.

The Washington Post could launch a new policy tomorrow, which would consist entirely of offering a detailed explanation of how it has conned its readers for the last 50 years. That would be the whole substance of its future issues—and it would sell more papers than it is selling now.

Journalism schools should begin teaching students how to invent spurious realities from the ground up, piece by piece. Bring it all out in the open.

Every major newspaper is a covert intelligence agency. Their actions mirror those of a CIA or an MI-6. Agents (reporters), case officers (editors), fake cover stories (articles), false trails, limited hangouts, the invention of superficial enemies, false flags.

The agents (staff reporters) are the true believers. They support and sustain the whole operation by their conviction that the illusion is real. Those reporters who don’t buy into the illusion can keep their jobs by going along with the charade and keeping their mouths shut.

If they speak out, they lose. They’re fired and blackballed.

The newspapers have a standard “book of dreams.” All stories emanate from that book, which establishes the context out of which reporting proceeds.

So it is with most people’s lives. They perceive reality and respond to it in patterned ways. They exist within defined boundaries.

But as a civilization declines, people yearn for escape. They want something new. They want open spaces.

If, by some miracle, major newspapers provided an exit from straitjacket realities, by exposing the underlying manipulation of informational mind control, they wouldn’t be able to print enough editions to satisfy their customers.

But they prefer suicide. So be it.

Jon Rappoport

The author of two explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED and EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free emails at www.nomorefakenews.com

The George Zimmerman trial: life and death in the American psyop

The George Zimmerman trial: life and death in the American psyop

by Jon Rappoport

July 13, 2013

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There were at least six extraordinary moves before the suspect, George Zimmerman, was brought up on charges.

An out-of-date photo, showing Trayvon Martin as a young innocent boy, flashed across television screens all over the world.

News stories asserted that a white man named Zimmerman killed a black child.

NBC-edited 911 audio between Zimmerman and a police dispatcher made it seem as if Zimmerman was voluntarily profiling Martin as black, when this was not the case. Several NBC employees were fired over the editing incident.

In the same 911 audio, according to CNN and other media sources, Zimmerman said, “Fucking coons.” This was corrected to “fucking cold.” Finally, this became “fucking punks.”

President Obama said if he had a son, that son would have looked like Trayvon Martin.

NBC and CNN weren’t the only the major network outlets that presented false information to the public. ABC obtained footage of Zimmerman at the police station on the night of the Martin killing. The network claimed there was no visible evidence Zimmerman had sustained head wounds. But then a still from the video surfaced which showed cuts on the back of Zimmerman’s head, supporting his statement that he and Martin had been in a fight. At that point, ABC broadcast the video, stating they’d “re-digitized” it and the wounds were now apparent.

These actions, taken together, defined the case as a black-versus-white hate crime.

The door was pushed wide open, letting in millions of voices to assert their positions and feelings on the matter of race.

The whole race issue was dealt a blow when it turned out that Zimmerman wasn’t white. His father was white. His mother was Peruvian. Her grandfather was African-Peruvian.

But by then, it was too late. Media forces and politicians and hustlers and private citizens on both sides of the race issue had already shoved in their chips and rolled the dice. They couldn’t turn back.

They couldn’t say, “Oh, well, this is the murder of a black boy but a white man didn’t do it, so let’s re-frame it as another tragic killing…”

Al Sharpton couldn’t say, “We thought we had the quintessential white-on-black murder of a young boy, but we don’t. Let’s fold our tent and go home and wait for another day and a better reason…”

Likewise, it was hard to put the genie back in the bottle after the press reported that Zimmerman said, “Fucking coons.” Ensuing corrections to the translation of his words didn’t affect the black- versus-white scenario.

Nor did that scenario dissolve when it turned out NBC had perniciously edited a section of Zimmerman’s 911 call, to make it seem as if he had put Trayvon Martin’s race front and center. NBC’s admission it had cooked the books was looked upon as a grievous media slanting of the truth, but the basic black-vs.-white storyline was still intact.

This is all quite astonishing when you stop and think about it.

The wave was building, it had already been put into motion, and nothing was going to stop it, not even the simple glaring fact that Zimmerman wasn’t white.

Obama weighed in. He took the wave to another level. If I had a son, he would have looked like Trayvon Martin. (Looked like Martin in which photo? The first one, or later ones?)

The Matrix Revealed

The race of the accused is the whole issue, and yet everyone can see, right out in the open, that his race has been wrongly identified—and it doesn’t matter.

“We’re going to go forward as if Zimmerman is white.”

None of the above is proof that Zimmerman is innocent or guilty. Taken together, it is all about establishing black-vs.-white as the context.

That context is patently false, but it functions as enduring symbolism for the issue of race.

It’s as if Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson, OJ Simpson’s purported victims in the 1994 murders, had turned out to be black, after America was already riveted by a “black-on-white” crime and refused to let go of it.

How many people have ever heard of the 2008 murder of James Shamp, a black man, by Richard Bordelon, Hispanic, in Los Angeles? Two factors prevented nationwide publicity. Bordelon was a gang member—and it was a Hispanic-vs.-black case.

Zimmerman-Martin is part-Hispanic vs. black, but it’s not playing that way.

Claims that Trayvon Martin was stalked and profiled would not be enough to turn the Zimmerman trial into a national event, unless Zimmerman were still held up, even if only in false memory, as a white man.

Many media outlets and politicians, including the president, have been instrumental in forwarding this psyop.

Inflaming racial hatreds and grabbing guns are two objectives of the op.

But Zimmerman-Martin is part of a much larger program: identifying so-called racial characteristics and cementing them in the mind. White=certain qualities. Black=certain qualities.

At bottom, this is one more way of insisting that the individual no longer matters. It’s a way of claiming that what matters is the group an individual belongs to. In this instance, skin color defines the group.

The primacy of the group over the individual is the true devastating operation in America.

Individuals have freedom. Individuals have independence. Individuals have potential power. These elements are anathema to fascists.

Groups only have agendas. They seek fulfillment of those agendas through government. That kind of partnership increases, in the long run, the dominance of government.

Underneath it all, this is what we’re talking about here: individuals must go, only groups should remain.

Black vs. white is the useful occasion and the smokescreen for the deeper aim.

Jon Rappoport

The author of two explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED and EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free emails at www.nomorefakenews.com