The efforts to "stimulate the economy" sound like the plot of an Adam Sandler movie. (I really should get a camera/vlog, and make my own YouTube channel.)
[the movie announcer preview voice]
Congress has only four weeks to spend two trillion dollars, or the entire economy will collapse!
How can they spend such a huge amount of money in such a short period of time?
Watch Adam Sandler assist Congress in their zany quest to spent as much money as possible in only one month!
Starting Friday at a government near you!
Watch "Scumdog Trillionaire" starring Adam Sandler!
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Adam Sandler Congress
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What's interesting is that as soon as I saw this story I came to your site to tell you about it. Then poof! There you already have it. lol. It has become almost comically simple and easy to quickly identify pro-state fnords like this one. The Bernard Madoff and Stanford stories are deciphered as "The financial system is not corrupt, only certain individuals are corrupt within it.". The Nixon scandal and resignation story oft-repeated on the propaganda err, "History Channel" is deciphered as "The office of the President is not corrupted, only certain individuals who hold it.".
The so-called "Women's Rights" movement that is lauded by our self-appreciating politicians as such an achievement of democracy is a fnord that covers up the reality that women were forced out of the home and men's salaries were cut in half with the two genders then splitting it. With virtually no net gain in salary for the home and now both parents working as corporate wage slaves, and with the commute, it's no wonder there is no sense of family or community anymore. Going all the way back to the CPI (Committee on Public Information) in President Wilson's day which manufactured the "Red Scare", there have been think tanks which operate with the purpose of manufacturing consent, exploiting cognitive reasoning, and perpetrating falsehoods of any kind on the public. By now it is more accurate to say that there is really no such thing as the two parties known as "Democratic" or "Republican", there is only the "Business Party" with two 'factions' known as Democratic or Republican. Both factions serve the same master party and spend millions of dollars every year supporting think tanks all over the country and these institutions have become quite efficient.
The Cato Institute, the Brookings Institute, The Center for American Progress, The American Enterprise Institute, The Project for a New American Century, and so on, are complete with state-of-the-art facilities, press briefing rooms with cameras, conference rooms, Internet access, Libraries, and memberships that are attained and maintained in an esoteric manner. These are the places where buzz words, phrases, political language, and policy initiatives are born from expert-level study of the brain, of psychology and neurology, sociology, human behavior and other areas. The "War on Drugs", the "War on Terror", "Pre-emptive strike", "Axis of Evil" etc. are examples among the fnord techniques that you often identify.
As with a lot of us, you have used intellect and other natural instincts, along with perhaps a little luck by surroundings, and have recognized many techniques of pro-state brainwashing the "old-fashioned way" which is very much to your credit. Beyond that, I feel that it may be very useful to our cause to pay as much attention to these "think tanks" as we can in the hopes that if we can start as close to the originating point of the misinformation stream as possible, and gain more insight on the way fnords are constructed in the first place, we can more expeditiously and efficiently deconstruct them.
Robert
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