December 5, 2002
FREEDOM - IT WAS FUN WHILE IT LASTED
If you didn't believe that the
global elite were running things before, there couldn't be a more
blatant wake up call than this beauty of an image designed for
Dubya's new Department of Homeland Security. The all-seeing eye
gazing upon the entire planet is classic Illuminati symbolism which
leaves absolutely nothing to the imagination, a simple in-your-face
slam against anyone who was every concerned about the fascist
leanings of the Bush administration. As an article on alternet.org
points out: "The list of dangerous and unconstitutional powers
granted to the new Homeland Security department is lengthy.
Warrantless searches, forced vaccinations of whole communities,
federal neighborhood snitch programs, federal information databases,
and a sinister new "Information Awareness Office" at the Pentagon
that uses military intelligence to spy on domestic citizens are just
a few of the troubling aspects of the new legislation."
MORON OR SOCIOPATH?
Of all the post-"What a moron" analysis out
there, the Toronto Star seems to have published the two most
interesting articles. The first, by Thomas Walkon, claims that Bush
perfectly fits the medical dictionary definition which explains that
morons are "educable and do not require institutionalization but
need some supervision in working at some simple job." The article
points out the Bush is carefully supervised by Dick Cheney, Donald
Rumsfield and John Ashcroft, and reminds us all that "since the
president's inauguration, he's only been left unsupervised once - to
watch a football game on television...and look what happened. He fell
off the couch, choked on a pretzel and hurt his head." Other
analysts take a much darker view. Mark Crispin Miller, professor of
culture and communication at New York University, has been compiling
Bushisms (Dubya's infamous verbal gaffes) since the 2000
presidential campaign, and his research reveals a man whose syntax
and grammar are perfect when he's talking about punishment,
violence, and revenge, but who makes simple mistakes when trying to
discuss basic values such as compassion, idealism or altruism.
Miller's conclusion is that Bush has a sociopathic personality and
is incapable of empathy, with an inordinate sense of his own
entitlement, and that he is an angry, violent, and vengeful man. "I
call him the feel bad president, because he's all about punishment
and death," says Miller. "It would be a grave mistake to just play
him for laughs."
WAR IS BLOODY EXPENSIVE
The World Game Institute
(worldgame.org)
has once again released figures on the annual military expeditures
worldwide, along with some idea of how much money we are wasting
with our misguided priorities. In 2002, global military expenditures
exceeded $800 billion dollars, with the U.S. at the top of the list,
spending about $342 billion. With 30% of the global total (about
$810 billion) the World Game Institute figures we could accomplish
all of the following for every person on Earth: eliminate starvation
and malnutrition ($19B), promide shelter ($21B), remove landmines
($4B), eliminate nuclear weapons ($7B), provide relief for refugees
($5B), eliminate illiteracy ($5B), provide clean, safe water ($10B),
provide health care ($21B), provide clean, safe energy ($33 B), and
retire developing nation debt ($30B), and much, much more. Despite
their overly optimistic estimates, it still gives a good indication
of how much money we're wasting on killing each other.
GUILTY AS CHARGED
If ever there was a more blatant indictment of
the American government's involvement with the attacks of 9/11, it's
got to be the appointment of Henry Kissinger as the head of an
"independent commission" set up to discover "what really happened"
on Sept. 11, 2001. If you haven't yet seen The Trials of Henry
Kissinger or read up on the atrocities which this man has committed,
do yourself a favour and learn why Kissinger is considered a blatant
liar and mass murderer. Having this man, who works within the inner
circle of the global elite (with positions at the top of the
Trilateral Commision, the Bilderburg Group, and the Council on
Foreign Relations), in charge of the inquiry is nothing less than a
ridiculous mockery of "justice." Expect nothing less than more lies
and cover-ups.
WE HAVE WAYS OF MAKING YOU TALK
Scientists are coming ever closer
to creating a brain scanning machine that will be able to accurately
expose whether a person is lying or telling the truth, and be able
to reveal if a person recognizes a familiar face whether that person
wishes to conceal it or not. The machine, called a functional MRI,
is able to read brain activity which is highlighted when certain
emotions are experienced by a person. Researchers are trying to
perfect the technique, and hope to have a real lie detection machine
to replace the discredited polygraph machine, which can only reveal
a person's lies if that person is in a state of anxiety over the
lies he or she tells. In contrast, the MRI should be able to reveal
untruths regardless of a person's psychological make-up, and will
also be used to pick up brain abnormalities which characterize those
prone to violence.
(Philadelphia Inquirer)
PSYCHO OF THE YEAR
Don't miss your chance to vote for Voxnyc's
first annual Psycho of the Year Award, at www.voxnyc.com. Along with
choosing 2002's scariest psycho, you can also vote in various
intriguing subcategories, such as "Most Rampant War Profiteerer,"
"Most Obvious Psy-op," "Biggest Liar," "Mass Murderer of the Year
Award," and "Most Rapid Transformation from Total Scumbag to
National Diety."
ART IS DEAD
A Dutch artist who made his entire art exhibit out of
chocolate is trying to figure out Plan B after the entire work was
eaten by art lovers. George Moormann's artwork consisted of 200
chocolate letters. "I took into account that children might steal
one or two letters and ordered the chocolate factory to make some 20
letters extra. But I see now they have eaten my whole exhibition."