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		<title>Control of Jerusalem</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:53:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Statism Is Dead</title>
		<link>http://openfreepress.com/2008/12/05/statism-is-dead/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 11:41:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A &#8220;Must See&#8221; video doesn&#8217;t come along that often but I feel confident in suggesting that Statism is Dead Part 3 (below) falls into that category. As succinct and comprehensive account of your true status as &#8220;Human Livestock&#8221; as you will find anywhere. This 16 minute presentation effectively summarizes the nature of our lack of [...]]]></description>
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<p>A &#8220;Must See&#8221; video doesn&#8217;t come along that often but I feel confident in suggesting that <strong>Statism is Dead Part 3</strong> (below) falls into that category. As succinct and comprehensive account of your true status as &#8220;Human Livestock&#8221; as you will find anywhere. This 16 minute presentation effectively summarizes the nature of our lack of freedom and most of the key systems of deception and dissimulation that are employed by those who farm us.<br />
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Stefan Molyneux does not merely shine a light here, but takes a laser beam to cut into the true structures of control and the deluded condition of most of us here on the farm. Freedom beckons and this presentation is a clarion call to dispel the deception and begin the process of becoming freemen and freewomen.</p>
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<p>Parts 1, 2 and 4 can be found below.</p>
<p><strong>Part 1</strong><br />
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<p><strong>Part 2</strong><br />
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<p><strong>Part 4 : Free Range Empires</strong><br />
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<p>For more info and presentations in a similar vein, visit:  <a href="http://www.freedomainradio.com" target="blank">Free Domain Radio&lt;</a></p>
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		<title>The EU, A Great Example Of Collective Mental Illness</title>
		<link>http://openfreepress.com/2008/01/28/collective-mental-illness-the-eu/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:22:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 4 videos below form “Britain on the Brink”, a 40 minute presentation that details a sobering view of how the EU is being developed and to what end. Coercive political agendas such as the EU are symptomatic of a collective mental illness within the organisation(s) that push them. This is not a new phenomenon. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://openfreepress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/tower-painting-parliament.jpg" title="babel eu"><img src="http://openfreepress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/tower-painting-parliament-150x150.jpg" style="margin-right: 10px" alt="babel eu" align="left" /></a><strong>The 4 videos below form “Britain on the Brink”</strong>, a 40 minute presentation that details a sobering view of  how the EU is being developed and to what end. Coercive political agendas such as the EU are symptomatic of a collective mental illness within the organisation(s) that push them. This is not a new phenomenon.</p>
<p>The bulk of conflicts throughout history have been driven by groups that, in their collective ego state, initiate all manner of suffering. Often the so-called leaders within these groups are simply the ones whose egos are the most developed and consequently the ones who are most mentally ill, ie psychopathic. Stalin, Hitler, Churchill and Mao fulfill the stereotype;  recently we&#8217;ve had George Bush Sr and Jr, Henry Kissinger, Dick Cheney, Tony Blair and so on. This &#8220;condition&#8221; is not limited to well known political figures but has been and continues to be prevalent within the higher orders of religions, private banking dynasties, multinational corporations and so on. The list is a long one and the names familiar.</p>
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<p>Throughout history these are the individuals who act as a fulcrum around which other mentally ill people gravitate. The end result is that they, the inner members of the group, take up ever more extreme positions against an enemy which they have  brought into being and which  justifies their existance. In most cases however, the mass of people are deceived by these individuals and groups because they are always told that the actions that are to be taken are in their best interest. It&#8217;s always portrayed as beingfor the good of all of us and only trouble makers would disagree.</p>
<p>These patterns of apparent logic as spewed forth by our &#8220;would be leaders&#8221; are beginning to lose their hold on the people. An awakening is taking place. For example, it is becoming ever more obvious that the EU  exists primarily for the benefit of the ego driven originators and supporters of the plan, and  to the detriment of the mass of people who live within the area currently designated as the EU.</p>
<p>You may find it challenging to not automatically move into a state of reactive anger when you view these videos. On one level that response is wholly understandable. On another, it isn&#8217;t a response that has much to recommend it, for should you act out of it, out of anger, it will simply perpetuate the ego virus and spread it more rapidly.</p>
<p>Most of us are, to lesser or greater degrees, suffering from this mental illness that is the ego. We have to watch it in ourselves to understand that in collective structures such as the EU, this disease is in full bloom. We may have a slight cold of the ego but these characters are suffering pneumonia of the ego and the intense nature of their mental suffering can be seen in the underhand plans that they repeatedly draw up and seek to implement against the mass of humanity (the &#8220;enemy&#8221; as far as they are concerned).</p>
<p>&#8220;The Impact Of Science On Society&#8221;  a book written by Bertrand Russell in the early 1950&#8242;s  is for all purposes a confession of the diseased ego, in this case Russell&#8217;s. Bewailing the fact that two world wars had failed to cull the population down sufficiently, he longed for the regular visitation of plagues to cut back the population to more manageable levels. If these could be scientifically regulated he wrote, so much the better.</p>
<p>Although not as violent (yet), the EU is heading in the same direction of all encompassing control as these videos show.</p>
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		<title>Gordon Brown, John Terry And The World&#8217;s Poorest Countries</title>
		<link>http://openfreepress.com/2007/08/01/gordon-brown-john-terry-and-the-worlds-poorest-countries/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2007 21:01:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gordon Brown is touted as having a sharp brain. At least that&#8217;s what his mum says. This observation is also made by many pundits within the UK press who, one can only assume, are blunt brained. Brown, the new UK Prime Minister, is on a gadabout right now, smooching and schmoozing with the demented (G [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://openfreepress.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/gbrown2.jpeg" style="margin-right: 15px; float: left" align="left" height="113" width="83" /><big><big><big><big>G</big></big></big></big>ordon Brown is touted as having a sharp brain. At least that&#8217;s what his mum says. This observation is also made by many pundits within the UK press who, one can only assume, are blunt brained. Brown, the new UK Prime Minister, is on a gadabout right now, smooching and schmoozing with the demented (G W Bush) and the deluded (the United Nations) and no doubt anyone else that&#8217;s worth a press call.</p>
<p>In today&#8217;s &#8220;The Independent&#8221; there runs the following:</p>
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<strong><br />
Brown: We are failing the world&#8217;s poorest countries<br />
By Andrew Grice, Political Editor in New York<br />
Published: 01 August 2007 The Independent<br />
(Click <a href="http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/article.ece" target="_blank">HERE</a> for full article)<br />
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<p>Gordon Brown declared a &#8220;global emergency&#8221; yesterday as he launched a major new campaign to tackle poverty, ill health and poor education in the developing world.</p>
<p>Launching his first major foreign policy initiative since becoming prime minister, he admitted that world leaders had failed to lived up to their promises to solve the crisis in the poorest nations.</p>
<p>His &#8220;wake-up call&#8221; won the backing of 12 other leaders, including President George Bush, and the bosses of 20 global companies, including Microsoft&#8217;s chairman, Bill Gates. The campaign, to be run through the UN, will be based on a new partnership between governments, the private sector and faith and pressure groups.</p></blockquote>
<p>These are dumb remarks, deceptive ones too, though whether Brown is aware of this no one knows, not even Brown himself. His &#8220;wake-up call&#8221; won&#8217;t work either. It never has and never will. Because the only action that will transform this situation PERMANENTLY, is an action that none of them are willing to take.</p>
<p>Or will take.</p>
<p>Ever.</p>
<p>The action that needs to be taken is a simple one by the way and it&#8217;s this.</p>
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<p><strong>A complete transformation of the world&#8217;s money system.</strong></p>
<p>Ok, I lied. It&#8217;s a complex thing and not so simple to fix. The main challenge is getting all these road-block do-gooders like Brown and Gates and Bush and Bono and Geldorf out of the way or at least educated as to what the root problem is. Which most of them won&#8217;t accept anyway because to do so will lead to a loss of a great part of their monetary hoard. And that hurts you know. It&#8217;s like starvation to them. Dear things.</p>
<p>Pouring money into say Africa has always caused more problems because the TYPE of money that is poured in works just like pouring gasoline onto a fire. On their logic, Brown or any of the other luminaries mentioned above wouldn&#8217;t make it into the local fire brigade.</p>
<p>Understanding all the different aspects of the monetary mayhem is a big meal to gulp down. Not sensible to try eating a 15 course dinner when your digestive system is used to beans on toast. So lets take it one bite at a time. Say hello to John Terry.</p>
<p><img src="http://openfreepress.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/johnterry1.jpeg" style="margin: 5px; float: right" height="104" width="120" />John Terry is a very good footballer playing in the English Premier League. Scanning the net earlier this week I came across a <a href="http://haveringhavers.blogspot.com/2007/07/greed-is-unattractive.html" target="_blank">brief report</a> and commentary on Mr Terry&#8217;s new pay packet deal &#8211; a whopping £7 million a year. He&#8217;ll never worry about buying another pair of football boots ever again. Handy that.</p>
<p>I responded to the article. And in doing my bit for the great recycling movement, thought I&#8217;d append my response here as it eases in nicely with the money issue.</p>
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<strong>&#8220;Is it any wonder that our society is becoming hooked on greed?&#8221;</strong></p>
<p>Hmmm. I think it more a case of footballers being showcased as role models with which to delude the upcoming generations with &#8220;Yes, learn to kick a football very well and you too could earn squillions and live in a world of boys toys, blondes, breast implants, lager and 3 hour long vacuous interviews on Sky&#8221;.</p>
<p>There was a great ad that used to appear in US comic books in the 60&#8242;s and 70&#8242;s headlined: &#8220;Don&#8217;t Envy Plumbers &#8230; Be One!&#8221; Plumber envy was a big issue back then and went through a revival recently here in the UK. I guess that line could now be tweeked to read &#8220;Don&#8217;t Envy Footballers &#8230; Be One!&#8221;</p>
<p><img src="http://openfreepress.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/brown-greenspan1.jpeg" style="margin: 5px; float: right" height="94" width="150" />Of course, a question lurking behind all this is, just what is it that John Terry will be paid in? Pounds, apparently. But what are they? Hardly anyone knows. Not even Alan Greenspan, the infamous recent ex-head of the US Federal Reserve, who said that they no longer have a working definition of what money is. He was being disingenuous. But he has to be, he&#8217;s a banker.</p>
<p>If you follow the money, you get a rather interesting picture of what John Terry is about to be paid in. Here&#8217;s most of the trail -</p>
<p>Fred, a fan, shells out £60 (or whatever) to go see Chelsea v A Team That Can&#8217;t Win The Premiership Utd. This £60 (plus lots more of them) pay John and his Chelsea chums.</p>
<p>Fred is, ta da, a plumber. He got paid £800 by Mrs Wilkinson for replacing her dodgy sink.</p>
<p>Mrs Wilkinson, no longer able to earn a crust at the Chelsea Fan Shop where she has been replaced by a robot with breast implants, had to re-mortgage for a couple of grand to pay Fred and buy some food to live. She likes food.</p>
<p>The Bank enabled Mrs Wilkinson to re-mortgage. They switched the figures round on her account and blobbed £2000 into her current account.</p>
<p>Question; where did the bank get the £2000 from?</p>
<p>Answer; nowhere, they just made it up. Out of thin air. And dropped interest charges onto it also. Nice.</p>
<p>98% of all the so-called money we use in the UK is created out of thin air by banks as credit at interest. The banks always are owed more money than exists. That&#8217;s a bit of a thought isn&#8217;t it. In musical terms, our money system is in a permanent, ever increasing feedback loop. And soon, it will go BANG.</p>
<p>The nature of the system is such that the only solution is for the predominant mass of people to get ever more deeper into debt, forever. If they don&#8217;t, people like John Terry wouldn&#8217;t get paid because no one would have borrowed the money into existence for it to be there to pay him. Who said Football was a simple game?</p>
<p>The debt is wholly unrepayable because the system has been designed to make it that way. On purpose. As this structure ensures that a very few people can control everyone else by carrot and stick technology (you get credit, you don&#8217;t get credit). Think this unlikely? Ask yourself why you were never taught about money in school.</p>
<p>So where does this leave John Terry? Well, I would suggest playing for a pointless team in a pointless league which is now a part of showbusiness and no longer acts as the great community fire lighter it once used to.</p>
<p>I suggest an English Football League where the Stanley Matthews Boot is the only allowable footwear, shirts must have collars, fans have to use rattles and pitches must cut up easily bring mud back into the game.</p>
<p>Nice site btw.
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<p>The same type of money that pays John Terry is the same type that Mr Brown will end up using to support the World&#8217;s poorest countries. And in so doing, it will make them poorer because there will be interest to pay. Somewhere, someone always pays interest and the financial asphyxiation of humanity continues.</p>
<p>Cheered up now? You should be. You&#8217;ve just been shown a glimpse of the bizarre and life destroying results of a money system that works to drive more and more wealth into fewer hands. On purpose of course, but so brilliantly disguised that, as John Maynard Keynes the eminent (apparently) economist once said &#8221; . . not one man in a million will understand how it works&#8221;. Make that two shall we.</p>
<p>Education is also one of Mr Brown&#8217;s stated passions. Maybe he&#8217;d like to introduce the teaching of fractional reserve banking into schools up and down the UK. That would then enable the next generation to forcibly dismantle the privately owned Bank of England and put in its place something a little more useful to the vast majority of people. Like a latrine for instance.</p>
<p><strong>Paul</strong></p>
<p><strong>ADDENDUM</strong></p>
<p>One thing that happens a lot (though you still have to dig them out) is the outbreak of conscience amongst the ex banking chiefs in their later years. Here&#8217;s three you may find edifying.</p>
<p><img src="http://openfreepress.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/josiah-stamp.jpg" style="margin: 5px; float: right" height="142" width="120" />&#8220;Banking was conceived in iniquity and was born in sin. The Bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create deposits, and with the flick of the pen they will create enough deposits to buy it back again. However, take it away from them, and all the great fortunes like mine will disappear and they ought to disappear, for this would be a happier and better world to live in. But, if you wish to remain the slaves of Bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, let them continue to create deposits.&#8221; <strong>&#8211; Sir Josiah Stamp At the time the 2nd wealthiest man in England and an ex Director of the Bank of England</strong>.</p>
<p>And &#8230;</p>
<p><img src="http://openfreepress.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/regmckenna.jpeg" style="margin: 5px; float: left" height="90" width="72" />&#8220;I am afraid that ordinary citizens will not like to be told that the banks can, and do, create and destroy money. And they who control the credit of the nation direct the policy of governments, and hold in the hollow of their hands the destiny of the people.&#8221;<strong> &#8212; &#8216;Mr Reginald McKenna&#8217; (when Chairman of the Midland Bank in London)</strong></p>
<p>And &#8230;</p>
<p><img src="http://openfreepress.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/rothchild-brothers.gif" style="margin: 5px; float: right" height="178" width="149" />&#8220;The few who can understand the System (Cheque Money and Credits) will either be so interested in its profits, or so dependent on its favours, that there will be no opposition from that class. While on the other hand, the great body of people mentally incapable of comprehending the tremendous advantage that capital derives from the system, will bear its burdens without complaint and perhaps without even suspecting that the system is inimical (hostile, hurtful) to their interests.&#8221; <strong>&#8211; &#8216;Rothschild Bros of London&#8217; (to New York firm of bankers &#8211; 25 June 1863)</strong></p>
<p>Not to worry though. Worse things happen at sea.</p>
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		<title>Dick Cheney Stuns Washington, Becomes Baker</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2007 16:45:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, 4 July, 2007 &#8211; Dick Cheney, right hand man to President George W Bush, the man known to have put the &#8220;vice&#8221; into the US Vice Presidency, today stunned colleagues by announcing his departure from politics. Cheney, 66, plans to open a chain of bakers shops called &#8220;Dick&#8217;s Doughnuts&#8221;. &#8220;Dick does eat them every [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>WASHINGTON, 4 July, 2007</strong> &#8211; Dick Cheney, right hand man to President George W Bush, the man known to have put the &#8220;vice&#8221; into the US Vice Presidency, today stunned colleagues by announcing his departure from politics. Cheney, 66, plans to open a chain of bakers shops called &#8220;Dick&#8217;s Doughnuts&#8221;.</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;Dick does eat them every day, but not twenty, more like five or six&#8221;<br />
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<p>&#8220;Dick has always loved baking&#8221; said Lars Meathook, an old friend of Cheney&#8217;s who has accompanied him several times on shooting trips. &#8220;Dick has many sides to him and one has been baking. It&#8217;s been a problem for him, his heart condition hasn&#8217;t been helped by it, he eats quite a lot of what he bakes&#8221;. Indeed, it has been the stuff of gossip and rumour for several months that Cheney was eating up to twenty doughnuts a day.</p>
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<p>&#8220;Dick does eat them every day, but not twenty, more like five or six&#8221; said Meathook. It was their mutual love of cakes that brought Meathook and Cheney together. &#8220;On the first shooting trip I took some battenburg and profiteroles. Me and Dick wolfed &#8216;em down and we&#8217;ve been friends ever since&#8221;. Meathook has a weakness for marzipan and fairy cakes and suffers from &#8220;farzipancreitas&#8221;, a growing medical condition that can cause hypertension and temporary blackouts.</p>
<p>Photographs taken of Cheney several years ago showed him in full bakers regalia, apron, hat, burning oven in the background, a circle of ginger bread men, his face speckled with large dollops of doughnut mixture. It was rumoured at the time that Cheney was a member of the secret order of &#8220;The Bakers&#8221; a group said to be even more powerful than the Masons or Skull and Bones of which President Bush is a known member. But his open move as a real baker along with the support given him by his wife and close friends has put all that behind him.</p>
<p>To some however the move is a cynical one. Charles Lemon, political analyst for Donkey Doughnuts, who will no doubt be in competition with Dicks Doughnuts later this year, sees this is a diversion. &#8220;Cheney is a member of The Bakers&#8221; asserts Lemon. &#8220;This is a ruse by him, a sort of double bluff, something which he is known for. A leopard don&#8217;t change its spots&#8221;.</p>
<p>The Bakers dark reputation stems from their supposed ability to carry out assasination via cakes and assorted types of bread. Teacakes have also been used. An international order that began in France during the French revolution, the Bakers are said to have been the advisors to Marie Antoinette.</p>
<p>According to Lemon, when she said &#8220;Let them eat cake&#8221; it was a code signalling the Bakers to begin a series of murders. But due to a rolling pin shortage the plan never came to fruition. The Bakers were discovered and many fled to America. Lacking the complex baking recipes of the French wing of the order, the American Bakers were left to start again and hit upon the doughnut as a way back to power.</p>
<p>Throughout this and the debate that is sure to follow, Cheney has been unavailable. His predilection for machiavellian financial arrangements has seen him off the Washington radar for several months. As Christopher Storey has reported extensively at <a href="http://www.worldreports.org/news">World Reports</a>, Cheney is under suspicion for acquiring and using trillions of dollars illegally stolen from Leo Wanta. If that turns out to be true, then Cheney&#8217;s only route back to the bakery may be via prison cell.</p>
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		<title>Gulp, looks like Tony Blair doesn&#8217;t like the The Free Press . . .</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Which is fine, as we don&#8217;t care much for him either. Let&#8217;s see, here&#8217;s a man who&#8217;s lies to the country have resulted in an escalation of violence and death in the middle east, telling us about standards of communication. Hmmm. Sanctimonious city or what? Ok, we believe you Tony. Thousands wouldn&#8217;t. Millions don&#8217;t. Pots, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Which is fine, as we don&#8217;t care much for him either. Let&#8217;s see, here&#8217;s a man who&#8217;s lies to the country have resulted in an escalation of violence and death in the middle east, telling us about standards of communication. Hmmm. Sanctimonious city or what? Ok, we believe you Tony. Thousands wouldn&#8217;t. Millions don&#8217;t. Pots, kettles, lights, camera, action.</p>
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<p>The article titled &#8220;Blair backs new online journalism regulator&#8221; ran in the Daily Telegraph. Go <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=BLOGDETAIL&amp;grid=F11&amp;blog=yourview&amp;xml=/news/2007/06/12/view12.xml">HERE</a> to read it direct. Not that you have to as we&#8217;ve placed the whole thing, along with <strong>Free Press</strong> interjections and commentary below.</p>
<p><strong>-START-</strong></p>
<p><strong>Blair backs new online journalism regulator &#8211; By George Jones, Political Editor &#8211; 13/06/2007</strong></p>
<p>Tony Blair hinted today at new restrictions on internet journalism, saying online news coverage had become &#8220;more pernicious and less balanced&#8221; than traditional political reporting.</p>
<p>Tony Blair: British media are like &#8216;a feral beast&#8217;<br />
Tony Blair: &#8216;New forms of media can be even more pernicious&#8217;</p>
<p><strong>FREEPRESS:</strong> <em>The war of course is on your consciousness and the alternative internet press is gaining momentum against the pathocracy that Blair is a part of. Interestingly it can be easily noted that Mr Blair is &#8220;more pernicious and less balanced&#8221; and &#8220;a feral beast&#8221;.</em></p>
<p>In a farewell lecture on public life, he said that much of the British media behaved like a &#8220;feral beast, just tearing people and reputations to bits&#8221;.<br />
But he had particularly harsh words for non-traditional media outlets, particularly the internet.<br />
&#8220;It used to be thought &#8211; and I include myself in this &#8211; that help was on the horizon,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>&#8220;New forms of communication would provide new outlets to by-pass the increasingly shrill tenor of the traditional media.</p>
<p>&#8220;In fact, the new forms can be even more pernicious, less balanced, more intent on the latest conspiracy theory multiplied by five.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>FREEPRESS:</strong> <em>Ahh, that old chestnut, the &#8220;conspiracy theory&#8221;. They&#8217;re trotting this one out with ever increasing frequency. Mr Blair I assume is therefore a &#8220;coincidental theorist&#8221;; of the school that asserts that wars and economic control of populations are just large scale, unforeseen accidents of history.</em></p>
<p>The emergence of internet-based news and 24-hour television news channels meant reports were &#8220;driven by impact&#8221;. He said that there was a need for the distinction between news and comment to be reasserted.</p>
<p><strong>FREEPRESS:</strong> <em>No, stop it Tony already, you&#8217;re too much. You mean that what the BBC puts out is News? But I thought it was simply a platform for introducing the new wolrd order agenda through the hegellian dialectic. I mean, it does stand for the Better Brainwashing Corporation right?</em></p>
<p>With newspapers increasingly moving online, he said the regulatory systems for papers and TV needed to be revised. Currently they are monitored by separate watchdogs.</p>
<p>&#8220;As the technology blurs the distinction between papers and television, it becomes increasingly irrational to have different systems of accountability based on technology that no longer can be differentiated in the old way,&#8221; Mr Blair said.</p>
<p>The outgoing Prime Minister said senior figures in public life had now become &#8220;totally demoralised&#8221; by the completely unbalanced nature of reporting.</p>
<p><strong>FREEPRESS:</strong> <em>The demoralisation of senior figures in public life is a good thing. It will enable these figures to more strongly empathise with the people of this country who are also &#8220;totally demoralised&#8221; by the complete absence of wisdom in Tony Blair.</em></p>
<p>He conceded that relations had always been fraught, but said the situation now threatened politicians&#8217; &#8220;capacity to take the right decisions for the country&#8221;.</p>
<p><strong>FREEPRESS:</strong> <em>No, stop it Tony. You&#8217;re doing it again. Talking shite. But you are funny. Politicians have never had the &#8220;capacity to take the right decisions for the country&#8221;. It&#8217;s not what they do. You don&#8217;t. You never have. You&#8217;ve set the example and they&#8217;ve followed.</em></p>
<p>The Prime Minister acknowledged that he had &#8220;contributed&#8221; to the deteriorating situation with the media by &#8220;spinning&#8221; too much in the early days of New Labour.</p>
<p>&#8221;We paid inordinate attention in the early days of New Labour to courting, assuaging, and persuading the media,&#8221; Mr Blair said in a speech to Reuters.</p>
<p>&#8221;In our own defence, after 18 years of opposition and the, at times, ferocious hostility of parts of the media, it was hard to see any alternative.</p>
<p>&#8221;But such an attitude ran the risk of fuelling the trends in communications that I am about to question.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>FREEPRESS:</strong> <em>A tremendous example of how psychopaths are unable to keep their condition hidden from view indefinitely. In the end, they are found out. Old Tony seeks to take the pragmatic and high ground all at the same time. He had to use the media that way, but now nobody else should because, gasp, they may undermine Tony and his deluded chums. Good logic there Tony. When do you leave again?</em></p>
<p>While insisting that he was not complaining about the coverage he gets as Premier, Mr Blair claimed there was less balance in journalism now than 10 years ago.</p>
<p>Mr Blair insisted that there was still a genuine desire for impartial news coverage among the public.</p>
<p>&#8220;At present, we are all being dragged down by the way media and public life interact,&#8221; Mr Blair said. &#8220;I do believe this relationship between public life and media is now damaged in a manner that requires repair.</p>
<p>&#8220;The damage saps the country&#8217;s confidence and self-belief; it undermines its assessment of itself, its institutions; and above all, it reduces our capacity to take the right decisions, in the right spirit for our future.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>FREEPRESS:</strong> <em> He&#8217;s at it again. Lying that is. We are not all being dragged down by the media, Tony is. And he don&#8217;t like it more no sirreee. The confidence of the country is sapped and eroded by being led by people who lack honesty, transparency and courage in the way they operate. Traits that are all familiar to Mr Blair. It is a truism that the qualities needed to get to the top of a political party are absolutely the last ones needed once you get into power ie, backstabbing, duplicitousness, doing deals with hidden backers, arranging special privelidges for special groups, lack of transparency, egotism, etc etc. Mr Blair, better than any other UK PM, exemplifies this dynamic better than any other predecessor. And for that we should all thank him. His great service to the country has been to use the media in such a way that it has made plain exactly what disservice the PM and his acolytes provide.</em></p>
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		<title>Brains Found In Politicians</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2007 22:06:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PARMA, Italy &#8211; - Three years ago Dr Eugene Mazzoli from the University of Parma began an anthropological study of politicians. Sponsored by Wazooli the Italian childrens TV show, his primary focus was to study the sleeping patterns of politicians whilst in power. Conventional wisdom at the time was that politicians slept for more than [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>PARMA, Italy &#8211; - </strong>Three years ago Dr Eugene Mazzoli from the University of Parma began an anthropological study of politicians. Sponsored by Wazooli the Italian childrens TV show, his primary focus was to study the sleeping patterns of politicians whilst in power. Conventional wisdom at the time was that politicians slept for more than 90% of the day, with a few fitful waking moments usually filled with gibberish. Brain activity was also believed to be extremely low, practically non-existant. But Mazzoli&#8217;s findings released in his recent report &#8220;Politicians May Have Brains&#8221; has rocked the established paradigm and ruffled several feathers.<br />
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<blockquote><p><strong>We were unable to establish any link with intelligence however. Politicians are truly little better than monkeys in that regard and aberrated monkeys at that.</strong></p></blockquote>
<p>&#8220;We did not set out to find brain activity in politicians. Given the paucity of data in this area who would?&#8221; Mazzoli stated during a recent press conference at the Wazooli studios. The immaculately dressed 55 year old Milanese Doctor was oblivious to the irony inherent in his comments. In the background Rip Van Bazooka, the corpulent Wazooli child entertainer could be seen throwing custard pies into a stunned audience of mainly children. It was not lost on anyone that Mazzoli&#8217;s comments thrown out to the 50 or so journalists in attendance were having a similar effect.</p>
<p><span id="more-24"></span>    &#8220;No one bothered to check to see if politicians had brains or intelligence as it was self evident from recorded history that they were lacking in both.&#8221; said Mazzoli. &#8220;Now we can clearly show that they do have active brains. It is not much activity that is true, but it is there. We were unable to establish any link with intelligence however. Politicians are truly little better than monkeys in that regard and aberrated monkeys at that. But given time and the right training, the small fluttering of brain activity we saw could develop into something substantial.&#8221;</p>
<p>Many of those gathered at the press conference laughed off the idea. &#8220;Mazzoli has misread the data and is beginning to think like a monkey himself&#8221; said Serge Hendricks, outgoing Professor of Spanners at the University of Heidelberg. &#8220;What he has done is to confuse flatulence with brain activity. The readings he obtained during the vast majority of his field trials are consistent with persistent flatulence, a condition we know for certain is prevalent amongst all politicians. It is these deep reverberating anal tremors that he has detected. An understandable mistake as most researchers have always agreed that if any brain activity in politicians were to be located, it would be found first in the rectal area. But he can&#8217;t see the wood for the trees.&#8221;</p>
<p>The counter arguments are varied. Elizabeth Vermin an oncologist from Edinburgh felt that Mazzoli had become too involved in the project and had let subjective feelings override his clinical observations. There was much support for her stance but the views of Serge Hendricks are the ones with the largest backing amongst the dissenters. A small but substantial group however are moving over to Mazzoli&#8217;s side and with each additional adherent, Mazzoli and his team grow in confidence that they have discovered something truly amazing.</p>
<p>The following morning after the press conference, I find Dr Mazzoli slurping his way through a cappucino, some froth conspicuously embedded in his moustache. He smiles at me and calls me over. &#8220;Look at that&#8221; he says pointing to a small procession moving across the piazza below. I note four men stood in a ramshackle circle arrangement, swaying gently on their feet as if they have been asked to replicate the movement of a palm leaf on a breezy day. &#8220;All those men were once politicians&#8221; he says. &#8220;Now look at them. They can almost talk.&#8221; I look again and see one of the men mouth the word &#8220;Sausage&#8221; but barely a sound escapes his lips. &#8220;We still have a little more work to do with them but the progress we have made so far is remarkable.&#8221;</p>
<p>Not convinced, I ask him why he has not made this aspect of his work public. &#8220;You saw how difficult it was yesterday&#8221; he says. &#8220;If we present too much too soon, this work will never be understood.&#8221; One of the four men looks strikingly similar to my local MP from Prestatyn some twenty odd years ago and I remark on this to Mazzoli. &#8220;That&#8217;s my father, he&#8217;s guiding them&#8221; he says.</p>
<p>A fictionalised film account has already been planned on Dr Mazzoli&#8217;s work. Mazzoli was invited to play himself but declined, although rumour has it that he will play Serge Hendrick for added irony. Filming is due to start later this year with Tom Hanks likely to play Mazzoli. &#8220;The film will bring extra additional funds in for the work. For me and my team we see it as a way of enabling us to do more in this area. If we go on to find intelligence inside politicians that will make the problems we have encountered so far seem very small by comparison.&#8221;</p>
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