[cia-drugs] Re: Good-Bye. Truth Has Fallen and Taken Liberty With It
With over 21 per cent unemployment as measured by the methodology of 1980 After hearing Paul Craig Roberts say 18%, we have been hearing 20% a lot. Now PCR himself is saying 21%. You know there are city and demographic pockets that are far higher, too. -Bob --- In cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com, homepu...@... wrote: Editor: When Paul Craig Roberts gave us permission to post this article, he indicated to Alex Jones that it would probably be his last. Regular readers of PCR's outstanding columns will be disappointed to hear that he is bowing out for the time being. Alex will discuss the reasons behind this on tomorrow's show. Roberts has also told us that he will probably appear as a guest on The Alex Jones Show later next week to expand on why he has decided to sign off, as he puts it in the following article. Good-Bye Truth Has Fallen and Taken Liberty With It By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS There was a time when the pen was mightier than the sword. That was a time when people believed in truth and regarded truth as an independent power and not as an auxiliary for government, class, race, ideological, personal, or financial interest. Today Americans are ruled by propaganda. Americans have little regard for truth, little access to it, and little ability to recognize it. As the pen is censored and its might extinguished, I am signing off. Truth is an unwelcome entity. It is disturbing. It is off limits. Those who speak it run the risk of being branded anti-American, anti-semite or conspiracy theorist. Truth is an inconvenience for government and for the interest groups whose campaign contributions control government. Truth is an inconvenience for prosecutors who want convictions, not the discovery of innocence or guilt. Truth is inconvenient for ideologues. Today many whose goal once was the discovery of truth are now paid handsomely to hide it. Free market economists are paid to sell offshoring to the American people. High-productivity, high value-added American jobs are denigrated as dirty, old industrial jobs. Relics from long ago, we are best shed of them. Their place has been taken by the New Economy, a mythical economy that allegedly consists of high-tech white collar jobs in which Americans innovate and finance activities that occur offshore. All Americans need in order to participate in this new economy are finance degrees from Ivy League universities, and then they will work on Wall Street at million dollar jobs. Economists who were once respectable took money to contribute to this myth of the New Economy. And not only economists sell their souls for filthy lucre. Recently we have had reports of medical doctors who, for money, have published in peer-reviewed journals concocted studies that hype this or that new medicine produced by pharmaceutical companies that paid for the studies. The Council of Europe is investigating the drug companies' role in hyping a false swine flu pandemic in order to gain billions of dollars in sales of the vaccine. The media helped the US military hype its recent Marja offensive in Afghanistan, describing Marja as a city of 80,000 under Taliban control. It turns out that Marja is not urban but a collection of village farms. And there is the global warming scandal, in which NGOs. the UN, and the nuclear industry colluded in concocting a doomsday scenario in order to create profit in pollution. Wherever one looks, truth has fallen to money. Wherever money is insufficient to bury the truth, ignorance, propaganda, and short memories finish the job. I remember when, following CIA director William Colby's testimony before the Church Committee in the mid-1970s, presidents Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan issued executive orders preventing the CIA and U.S. black-op groups from assassinating foreign leaders. In 2010 the US Congress was told by Dennis Blair, head of national intelligence, that the US now assassinates its own citizens in addition to foreign leaders. When Blair told the House Intelligence Committee that US citizens no longer needed to be arrested, charged, tried, and convicted of a capital crime, just murdered on suspicion alone of being a threat, he wasn't impeached. No investigation pursued. Nothing happened. There was no Church Committee. In the mid-1970s the CIA got into trouble for plots to kill Castro. Today it is American citizens who are on the hit list. Whatever objections there might be don't carry any weight. No one in government is in any trouble over the assassination of U.S. citizens by the U.S. government. As an economist, I am astonished that the American economics profession has no awareness whatsoever that the U.S. economy has been destroyed by the off-shoring of U.S. GDP to overseas countries. U.S. corporations, in pursuit of absolute advantage or lowest labor costs and maximum CEO performance bonuses, have moved the production of goods and services marketed to Americans to
Re: [cia-drugs] Re: Good-Bye. Truth Has Fallen and Taken Liberty With It
Is this the most salient point you got from Mr. Robert's article? ;-) - Original Message - From: muckblit muckb...@yahoo.com To: cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 12:28:27 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: [cia-drugs] Re: Good-Bye. Truth Has Fallen and Taken Liberty With It With over 21 per cent unemployment as measured by the methodology of 1980 After hearing Paul Craig Roberts say 18%, we have been hearing 20% a lot. Now PCR himself is saying 21%. You know there are city and demographic pockets that are far higher, too. -Bob --- In cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com, homepu...@... wrote: Editor: When Paul Craig Roberts gave us permission to post this article, he indicated to Alex Jones that it would probably be his last. Regular readers of PCR's outstanding columns will be disappointed to hear that he is bowing out for the time being. Alex will discuss the reasons behind this on tomorrow's show. Roberts has also told us that he will probably appear as a guest on The Alex Jones Show later next week to expand on why he has decided to sign off, as he puts it in the following article. Good-Bye Truth Has Fallen and Taken Liberty With It By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS There was a time when the pen was mightier than the sword. That was a time when people believed in truth and regarded truth as an independent power and not as an auxiliary for government, class, race, ideological, personal, or financial interest. Today Americans are ruled by propaganda. Americans have little regard for truth, little access to it, and little ability to recognize it. As the pen is censored and its might extinguished, I am signing off. Truth is an unwelcome entity. It is disturbing. It is off limits. Those who speak it run the risk of being branded anti-American, anti-semite or conspiracy theorist. Truth is an inconvenience for government and for the interest groups whose campaign contributions control government. Truth is an inconvenience for prosecutors who want convictions, not the discovery of innocence or guilt. Truth is inconvenient for ideologues. Today many whose goal once was the discovery of truth are now paid handsomely to hide it. Free market economists are paid to sell offshoring to the American people. High-productivity, high value-added American jobs are denigrated as dirty, old industrial jobs. Relics from long ago, we are best shed of them. Their place has been taken by the New Economy, a mythical economy that allegedly consists of high-tech white collar jobs in which Americans innovate and finance activities that occur offshore. All Americans need in order to participate in this new economy are finance degrees from Ivy League universities, and then they will work on Wall Street at million dollar jobs. Economists who were once respectable took money to contribute to this myth of the New Economy. And not only economists sell their souls for filthy lucre. Recently we have had reports of medical doctors who, for money, have published in peer-reviewed journals concocted studies that hype this or that new medicine produced by pharmaceutical companies that paid for the studies. The Council of Europe is investigating the drug companies' role in hyping a false swine flu pandemic in order to gain billions of dollars in sales of the vaccine. The media helped the US military hype its recent Marja offensive in Afghanistan, describing Marja as a city of 80,000 under Taliban control. It turns out that Marja is not urban but a collection of village farms. And there is the global warming scandal, in which NGOs. the UN, and the nuclear industry colluded in concocting a doomsday scenario in order to create profit in pollution. Wherever one looks, truth has fallen to money. Wherever money is insufficient to bury the truth, ignorance, propaganda, and short memories finish the job. I remember when, following CIA director William Colby's testimony before the Church Committee in the mid-1970s, presidents Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan issued executive orders preventing the CIA and U.S. black-op groups from assassinating foreign leaders. In 2010 the US Congress was told by Dennis Blair, head of national intelligence, that the US now assassinates its own citizens in addition to foreign leaders. When Blair told the House Intelligence Committee that US citizens no longer needed to be arrested, charged, tried, and convicted of a capital crime, just murdered on suspicion alone of being a threat, he wasn't impeached. No investigation pursued. Nothing happened. There was no Church Committee. In the mid-1970s the CIA got into trouble for plots to kill Castro. Today it is American citizens who are on the hit list. Whatever objections there might be don't carry any weight. No one in government is in any trouble over the assassination of U.S. citizens by the U.S. government. As an economist, I am astonished
[cia-drugs] Re: Good-Bye. Truth Has Fallen and Taken Liberty With It
Rather, assume I did not miss a word. Unless we are writing from Argentina, 21% unemployment stat from a figure of PCR's credentials could be important to those of us who are not asking ourselves self-satisfied rhetorical questions aside to the sidelines again as intellectual expatriates. -Bob --- In cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com, homepu...@... wrote: Is this the most salient point you got from Mr. Robert's article? ;-) - Original Message - From: muckblit muckb...@... To: cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 12:28:27 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: [cia-drugs] Re: Good-Bye. Truth Has Fallen and Taken Liberty With It With over 21 per cent unemployment as measured by the methodology of 1980 After hearing Paul Craig Roberts say 18%, we have been hearing 20% a lot. Now PCR himself is saying 21%. You know there are city and demographic pockets that are far higher, too. -Bob --- In cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com, homepu...@... wrote: Editor: When Paul Craig Roberts gave us permission to post this article, he indicated to Alex Jones that it would probably be his last. Regular readers of PCR's outstanding columns will be disappointed to hear that he is bowing out for the time being. Alex will discuss the reasons behind this on tomorrow's show. Roberts has also told us that he will probably appear as a guest on The Alex Jones Show later next week to expand on why he has decided to sign off, as he puts it in the following article. Good-Bye Truth Has Fallen and Taken Liberty With It By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS There was a time when the pen was mightier than the sword. That was a time when people believed in truth and regarded truth as an independent power and not as an auxiliary for government, class, race, ideological, personal, or financial interest. Today Americans are ruled by propaganda. Americans have little regard for truth, little access to it, and little ability to recognize it. As the pen is censored and its might extinguished, I am signing off. Truth is an unwelcome entity. It is disturbing. It is off limits. Those who speak it run the risk of being branded anti-American, anti-semite or conspiracy theorist. Truth is an inconvenience for government and for the interest groups whose campaign contributions control government. Truth is an inconvenience for prosecutors who want convictions, not the discovery of innocence or guilt. Truth is inconvenient for ideologues. Today many whose goal once was the discovery of truth are now paid handsomely to hide it. Free market economists are paid to sell offshoring to the American people. High-productivity, high value-added American jobs are denigrated as dirty, old industrial jobs. Relics from long ago, we are best shed of them. Their place has been taken by the New Economy, a mythical economy that allegedly consists of high-tech white collar jobs in which Americans innovate and finance activities that occur offshore. All Americans need in order to participate in this new economy are finance degrees from Ivy League universities, and then they will work on Wall Street at million dollar jobs. Economists who were once respectable took money to contribute to this myth of the New Economy. And not only economists sell their souls for filthy lucre. Recently we have had reports of medical doctors who, for money, have published in peer-reviewed journals concocted studies that hype this or that new medicine produced by pharmaceutical companies that paid for the studies. The Council of Europe is investigating the drug companies' role in hyping a false swine flu pandemic in order to gain billions of dollars in sales of the vaccine. The media helped the US military hype its recent Marja offensive in Afghanistan, describing Marja as a city of 80,000 under Taliban control. It turns out that Marja is not urban but a collection of village farms. And there is the global warming scandal, in which NGOs. the UN, and the nuclear industry colluded in concocting a doomsday scenario in order to create profit in pollution. Wherever one looks, truth has fallen to money. Wherever money is insufficient to bury the truth, ignorance, propaganda, and short memories finish the job. I remember when, following CIA director William Colby's testimony before the Church Committee in the mid-1970s, presidents Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan issued executive orders preventing the CIA and U.S. black-op groups from assassinating foreign leaders. In 2010 the US Congress was told by Dennis Blair, head of national intelligence, that the US now assassinates its own citizens in addition to foreign leaders. When Blair told the House Intelligence Committee that US citizens no longer needed to be arrested, charged, tried, and convicted of a capital crime, just murdered on suspicion alone of being a threat, he wasn't impeached. No investigation pursued. Nothing happened. There was no Church Committee. In the mid-1970s
why all the muckblit misdirection routines? ;-) Re: [cia-drugs] Re: Good-Bye. Truth Has Fallen and Taken Liberty With It
dear Bob, regarding your initial spin, I wrote and asked you the following: Is this the most salient point you got from Mr. Robert's article? ;-) you/Bob responded with: Rather, assume I did not miss a word. I did not ask you about missing a 'word', so let's try again: Bob wrote: With over 21 per cent unemployment as measured by the methodology of 1980 After hearing Paul Craig Roberts say 18%, we have been hearing 20% a lot. Now PCR himself is saying 21%. You know there are city and demographic pockets that are far higher, too. to which ruxpert asks again: Is this the most salient point you got from Mr. Robert's article? yes / no? ;-) Truth Please / rather than more Bullshit On Bullshit || Jon Stewart on Crossfire http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cia-drugs/message/48977 - Original Message - From: muckblit muckb...@yahoo.com To: cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 2:19:49 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: [cia-drugs] Re: Good-Bye. Truth Has Fallen and Taken Liberty With It Rather, assume I did not miss a word. Unless we are writing from Argentina, 21% unemployment stat from a figure of PCR's credentials could be important to those of us who are not asking ourselves self-satisfied rhetorical questions aside to the sidelines again as intellectual expatriates. -Bob --- In cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com, homepu...@... wrote: Is this the most salient point you got from Mr. Robert's article? ;-) - Original Message - From: muckblit muckb...@... To: cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 12:28:27 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: [cia-drugs] Re: Good-Bye. Truth Has Fallen and Taken Liberty With It With over 21 per cent unemployment as measured by the methodology of 1980 After hearing Paul Craig Roberts say 18%, we have been hearing 20% a lot. Now PCR himself is saying 21%. You know there are city and demographic pockets that are far higher, too. -Bob --- In cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com, homepu...@... wrote: Good-Bye Truth Has Fallen and Taken Liberty With It By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cia-drugs/message/49067
