Gardens, I have found, come with back pain.  Your small amount may soon 
affect the small of your back Allan.

On Wednesday, 15 April 2015 15:08:02 UTC+1, Allan Heretic wrote:
>
> It is nice to know we are not alone in home projects..  finally i get a 
> small amount garden..
>
> It id nice to know the young kids are being drawing into creative 
> projects.. please keep me informed of what is going on..
>
> Politics is really  boring. . The latest republican candidate has raised 
> my eye brow. Sounds like he is going to let Clinton take on the rampant  
> corruption then ride the propaganda surf..  
>
> تجنب. القتل والاغتصاب واستعباد الآخرين
> Avoid; murder, rape and enslavement of others
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Molly <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Wed, 15 Apr 2015 12:51 PM
> Subject: Re: Mind's Eye Propaganda
>
> I am about to turn TV off and go strictly to streaming. The political 
> scene isn't worth my time much anymore, and it woes me to see my younger 
> family members buying in to the rhetoric. Yeah - Hillary Clinton will fight 
> for the middle class - (after she has redistributed the global wealth into 
> her pocket through her foundation.) None of it moves me anymore.
>
> Glad spring is here. I've enlisted my resident carpenter to help me create 
> a circle study for the garden shed and have begun painting again. that 
> ought to keep me happy until the snow begins to fall.
>
> At work we have begun to engage the young creative culture into making and 
> sharing video downtown. These kids have imagination and enthusiasm. Very 
> contagious. The politics and economy go on without my influence, (and 
> unless it all happens in my wake) it seems nothing calls me there. I feel 
> grateful.
>
> On Wednesday, April 15, 2015 at 4:10:45 AM UTC-4, Allan Heretic wrote:
>>
>> Hmm. April 15th is tax filing  day. I fully  understand.   Just fished 
>> doing my taxes both here and in the states.. two different  countries 
>> wanting taxes on the same money. My tax rate is very high.. 
>> As for the bribery well there is a new one here. And it will be 
>> interesting in the outcome. . Both banks and the police are involved.,
>>
>> Bribery in the states realising I am an expat.. I am aware  and concerned 
>> as what is going on.. because I  am not in the states I am not bombarded by 
>> the constant propaganda. Until I  came to the Netherlands it didn't bother 
>> me because didn't know different. 
>>
>> Today it seems the propaganda has greatly increased. I see massively 
>> excessive amounts of money flowing freely and politicians getting richer or 
>> at least it seems  that way.. like the weasel bush buying a huge ranch for 
>> less money than we paid for our house.
>>
>> All this what  I consider inappropriate political behaviour was quickly 
>> covered up by the spin doctors with propganda.. they have no laws to stop 
>> them. Wait a minute there are laws against  bribery but who is going to 
>> enforce them the politicians wait  a minute  they are benefiting so why 
>> would they.. 
>>
>> The news stations are interested in sensationalism rather than reporting 
>> news for the benefit of society.. for them it is all about selling 
>> propaganda and they do that by selling numbers not truth.
>> We wondr why society  seems to be going to hell in a hand basket. .
>>
>>
>>
>> Bad pun
>>
>>
>>
>> تجنب. القتل والاغتصاب واستعباد الآخرين
>> Avoid; murder, rape and enslavement of others
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Don Johnson <[email protected]>
>> To: Minds Eye <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Wed, 15 Apr 2015 8:43 AM
>> Subject: Re: Mind's Eye Propaganda
>>
>> Damn no wonder all youse Euros hate our guts if this dross is what passes 
>> for journalism across the pond. I did like the "War of Northern Agression" 
>> referance tho. That's what the Rebs called it. Of course the Emancipation 
>> Proclamation was political. So was Lincoln saying he had no intentions of 
>> ending slavery when he was trying to get elected. Of course he was working 
>> for/with the capitalists they paid for just about everything including the 
>> war. The man sure could turn a phrase tho, couldn't he? Churchill was like 
>> that as well. What a pair of bastard politicians these fucks were. 
>>
>> We need lies Neil. This near atheist agnostic believes we need God. Not 
>> the asshole but the forgiving, male, blue-eyed and blond hippie dude. 
>> Peace, love and all that. We need the xtian work ethic and the charity. 
>> These things exist. I see them in person fairly frequently. Is there a dark 
>> side? Absolutely. Are there ratfuck preachers and priests? You betcha. 
>> Should we paint the entire institution with the pedo brush? I don't think 
>> so. Civilization needs moral structure. The ChiComs and the Soviets wanted 
>> to replace God with the State. Nice try; never gonna work. They both 
>> figured this out. Society needs the lies. Perhaps we need them about our 
>> leaders as well. 
>>
>> That article had me mostly nodding in agreement right up until it 
>> mentions the West's staunch ally Vladimir Putin. Piss. You want to talk 
>> about Emperors this is the guy. Real scary guy. I just read Red Notice by 
>> Bill Browder. It's scary as fuck to see what can happen to a country when 
>> 20 or so super rich people run the show with no regard for law and order. I 
>> see us all headed down this path. America is attacking itself. Like a dog 
>> chewing it's own leg off. The Federal government using Alinsky tactics to 
>> subdue "upstarts." Rules For Radicals being used by the powers in the White 
>> House. Facist attacks on State government trying to protect religious 
>> freedoms originally passed on the Federal level bipartisanly by Bill 
>> Clinton himself. 
>>
>> I'm tellin ya, I am not liking what I'm seeing. And to top it all off I 
>> have to send a big fat check to the lying, scum sucking, filthy election 
>> fixing bastards at the IRS today. People suck. 
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 5:03 PM, archytas <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Your clear ethical and moral foundation is fine Allan.  Mine might be 
>>> half-good.  But most people think they have such a foundation.  So no 
>>> answers there I suspect.
>>>
>>> Across anthropology we find people with clear ethical and moral 
>>> foundations based on absolute crap.  And people are firmly Xtian one day, 
>>> firmly Muslim the next - women convert easier which may be because they 
>>> don't have to go through adult circumcision.  So what were the form beliefs 
>>> really?  They say the brave man dies only once, the coward a hundred times 
>>> - yet dying ain't a good move in competitive evolution.  Altruism and 
>>> heroism should die out, yet in fact, even celibacy runs in families!
>>>
>>> The propaganda can seem political - yet it is surely in deeper than 
>>> that.  People believe they can spot the bad guy and can make sensible 
>>> decisions when they are very ignorant of facts and how to get them.
>>>
>>> I'm sure I'm right on this and that the implications for rational 
>>> dialogue are that it is more or less excluded from our public domain.  You 
>>> and I don't need to 'do rational' with each other Allan - though I suppose 
>>> we lapse to it from time to time.  I suspect some of the young fogey 
>>> Americans who used to grace these pages will be amazed at what they said a 
>>> few years back after the next crash.  They generally think they are 
>>> rational, though I saw no sign of that.  Don always struck me as the most 
>>> consistent and honest.
>>>
>>> The mistake may be our insistence on 'being rational' - when we mean 
>>> don't be nasty all the time, don't swear and other stuff.  We are way too 
>>> dumb to distinguish rationality from convention.
>>>
>>> I've been wondering why the propaganda is all so bad - stuff like the TV 
>>> Westerns, the soaps and on to NCIS and nearly all films are truly dreadful 
>>> in standard. Something like this has been happening across education - 
>>> we've been calling this dumbing down but I suspect coercion.  
>>>
>>> Be good to be able to do something, other than just die thinking we 
>>> missed the worst!   
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tuesday, 14 April 2015 15:22:55 UTC+1, Allan Heretic wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I agree there are deeper mechanism of propaganda than anyone realises.  
>>>> In our world it is so prevelant that it goes unnoticed  .. everything from 
>>>> the blatant to the subliminal.  40 years ago the amount of information 
>>>> available was truly amazing. . Today the information available makes 
>>>> intelligence of forty years ago look like a starvation diet. The saving 
>>>> grace is i think the ability to interpret it lacks the connection  to 
>>>> understand as intelligence is becoming dependent on computers.
>>>> By the same idea propaganda is much more controlled. Psychology is 
>>>> playing a much greater roll as it has a much greater understanding of 
>>>> human 
>>>> response.  With that greater knowledge of human  psychology the ability to 
>>>> apply this psychology in the form of extremely effective propaganda. . 
>>>> Over 
>>>> here there is a new republican declared  candidate that needs watching..  
>>>> he has a team in the background running full blown propaganda network 
>>>> guiding him through the maze.. and they know what they are doing..  he is 
>>>> dangerous as I know little about him.. the keywords are there and in 
>>>> place.   Very scary..
>>>>
>>>> Now the only way I see to escape the constant manipulation  and control 
>>>> lies in a clear moral and ethical foundation. 
>>>>
>>>> تجنب. القتل والاغتصاب واستعباد الآخرين
>>>> Avoid; murder, rape and enslavement of others
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: archytas <[email protected]>
>>>> To: [email protected]
>>>> Sent: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 12:05 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: Mind's Eye Propaganda
>>>>
>>>> My guess is deeper mechanisms than we know have been at work in keeping 
>>>> us ignorant and probably have a big role in making us sick.  Not sure what 
>>>> you mean by herbarium here - tends to have me thinking of plants.
>>>>
>>>> Going to make myself a cup of tea.  Weather colder than promised and am 
>>>> waiting for the sun to break through before taking the hounds on a 
>>>> riverbank rampage. Might do a bacon roll too.  Or crawl back into bed.  
>>>> It's not really cold - but we were promised decent sunshine and I'm 
>>>> disappointed.  Tea will bring me round.
>>>>
>>>> Propaganda critique usually winds up as a kind of propaganda itself, 
>>>> often going too far.  We need some spirit to break loose, but the usual 
>>>> one 
>>>> so far has been fascism.  This relies on most people being switched off 
>>>> from thinking.  They need that coral snake applied to ass!
>>>>
>>>> On Tuesday, April 14, 2015 at 10:14:43 AM UTC+1, Allan Heretic wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> That was interesting article or peice. Years ago I spent a summer 
>>>>> volunteering at old civil war fort.. found a  bottle while making  a 
>>>>> bridge.. was going to keep it until I found it was a herbarium specimen 
>>>>> of 
>>>>> a coral snake. Turned it in then everything became really  interesting as 
>>>>> the archeology department  of the state Georgia  showed up.. turned out 
>>>>> the 
>>>>> moat was cleaned 5 years before the civil war.  The interest turned to 
>>>>> who 
>>>>> had the knowledge to make such a specimen. .  (Never did find out)
>>>>> They showed me a side of the civil war i never had heard of before..   
>>>>> said the emancipation proclaimation was to prevent slaves from being 
>>>>> forced 
>>>>> to fight against the union forces. It also freed the irish slave England 
>>>>> had sold in America. 
>>>>> Slavery still exists  today world wide it is part of the hidden 
>>>>> underbelly of society. .  All societies. .
>>>>> When you sort out the justification babble there are not many 
>>>>> guidelines. . What I read was someone trying  to rewrite history.. as you 
>>>>> look through history what I keep seeing people trying to control others 
>>>>> by 
>>>>> any means. Oftentimes the strangest propaganda  is given. 
>>>>> The author of the piece sounds like he is English as it appears the 
>>>>> English leadership  is empire orientated .  Why is this person trying to 
>>>>> create a history  I never heard before.. 
>>>>> I  think cuntocracy controlled  by spin doctors is a good discription 
>>>>> .. a few people will actually  see the truth and learn to walk a 
>>>>> different 
>>>>> path..
>>>>>
>>>>> Can this reality be a testing ground seeing how the soul responds..  
>>>>> if that is true it make for one ¿mean? test. Especially when  there is no 
>>>>> fail grade just the determination of your future reality. .
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: archytas <[email protected]>
>>>>> To: [email protected]
>>>>> Sent: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 3:17 AM
>>>>> Subject: Re: Mind's Eye Propaganda
>>>>>
>>>>> I suppose a lot depends on how far it has all gone Allan.  I think 
>>>>> we've been had to such a degree that rational discussion is not possible 
>>>>> for most people.  I don't even believe we know the reasons for such as 
>>>>> our 
>>>>> 'civil wars' and WW1 & WW2.  This view on Lincoln is a classic of the 'we 
>>>>> get history upside down' brigade I tend to agree with - 
>>>>> http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-04-13/paul-craig-
>>>>> roberts-america-will-be-hard-pressed-survive-lies-it-lives
>>>>>
>>>>> On Monday, April 13, 2015 at 6:48:30 PM UTC+1, Allan Heretic wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Modern beliefs
>>>>>> Words spinning free
>>>>>> Concepts
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Ideas twisted
>>>>>> Bent to fit desires
>>>>>> Spiritually 
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Propaganda
>>>>>> Flowing  unabated daily
>>>>>> Spin doctors rule
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Confused beliefs 
>>>>>> Dictating life conditions 
>>>>>> With God
>>>>>>
>>>>>> تجنب. القتل والاغتصاب واستعباد الآخرين
>>>>>> Avoid; murder, rape and enslavement of others
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>> From: archytas <[email protected]>
>>>>>> To: [email protected]
>>>>>> Sent: Mon, 13 Apr 2015 4:49 PM
>>>>>> Subject: Re: Mind's Eye Propaganda
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I once thought we could wander about under a shield of innocence 
>>>>>> Allan - and perhaps one can personally.  The problem seems to be that 
>>>>>> when 
>>>>>> one looks around, everyone else is infected.  Some of us have started 
>>>>>> calling the current state of affairs a "cuntocracy" - 
>>>>>> https://pinkindustry.wordpress.com/sociology/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I tend to think very few of us are actually economically active 
>>>>>> directly and are already reclusive in bullshit jobs and retirement - 
>>>>>> even 
>>>>>> if we still look after our kids and put what seems a full week in.  I 
>>>>>> think 
>>>>>> education may have been so bad that most people might struggle to fill a 
>>>>>> couple of sides of A4 on memories of it. 
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Monday, April 13, 2015 at 3:08:21 PM UTC+1, Allan Heretic wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> When it comes to praganda nothing surprises me. It seem we live in 
>>>>>>> world totally  manipulated by propaganda that is in total  control or 
>>>>>>> at 
>>>>>>> least tries to control our reality. .
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> My questions  lie along the line of how does one escape such intense 
>>>>>>> propaganda. . Become isolated recluses?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> تجنب. القتل والاغتصاب واستعباد الآخرين
>>>>>>> Avoid; murder, rape and enslavement of others
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>>> From: archytas <[email protected]>
>>>>>>> To: [email protected]
>>>>>>> Sent: Mon, 13 Apr 2015 3:34 PM
>>>>>>> Subject: Mind's Eye Propaganda
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> We like to think we can do rational discussion, yet there is now so 
>>>>>>> much propaganda in our society it is hard to believe many of us are 
>>>>>>> remotely prepared to argue with facts.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://www.sprword.com/videos/psywar/
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The situation is much worse than even this over-long video manages 
>>>>>>> to put over.  Most entertainment drips with ideology and is made by 
>>>>>>> remarkably few people.  I meet Americans who think propaganda critique 
>>>>>>> like 
>>>>>>> this is aimed at them.  I would rather say that, if there are 174 
>>>>>>> countries, there are 174 different versions of the propaganda.  
>>>>>>> Leadership 
>>>>>>> tells the same lies everywhere, adjusting only the heroes and victims.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> One area that has been interesting me is the extent of propaganda in 
>>>>>>> the dire news and entertainment made available to us.  Why are series 
>>>>>>> from 
>>>>>>> Bonanza to NCIS so bad?  How do we end up with so many pro-police 
>>>>>>> series 
>>>>>>> given the weight of real incompetence and miscarriages of justice?  How 
>>>>>>> can 
>>>>>>> lawyers ever be presented other than as vile, fee-sucking parasites in 
>>>>>>> a 
>>>>>>> system in which justice is a rare fluke?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The name 'Bellissario' is in the credits of Magnum PI and NCIS.  
>>>>>>> This and a very few others are involved in making much of our 
>>>>>>> entertainment, totally lacking in critical edge.  The same wooden 
>>>>>>> actors 
>>>>>>> seem to dominate everything too.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> In the UK, half our journalists come from public schools (ie very 
>>>>>>> high cost private schools) when only 7% of kids go to these bastions of 
>>>>>>> privilege.  In the UK, it has taken a quarter of a century to bring the 
>>>>>>> truth about deaths at a soccer match to light (Hillsborough) - what 
>>>>>>> chance 
>>>>>>> then of the truth about wars and economics in such a secrecy-prone 
>>>>>>> society?
>>>>>>>
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