American Journalizm

Vice President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales have been indicted

2008-11-19T02:41:00.000-08:00

Loved Ones....the individual responsible for the downfall of the United States in the eyes of the world is Dick Cheney....At present Vice President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales have been indicted on state charges involving federal prisons in a South Texas county that has been a source of bizarre legal and political battles under the outgoing prosecutor.

The indictment returned Monday has not yet been signed by the presiding judge, and no action can be taken until that happens.

The seven indictments made public in Willacy County on Tuesday included one naming state Sen. Eddie Lucio Jr. and some targeting public officials connected to District Attorney Juan Angel Guerra's own legal battles.

Regarding the indictments targeting the public officials, Guerra said, "the grand jury is the one that made those decisions, not me."

Guerra himself was under indictment for more than a year and half until a judge dismissed the indictments last month. Guerra's tenure ends this year after nearly two decades in office. He lost convincingly in a Democratic primary in March.

Guerra said the prison-related charges against Cheney and Gonzales are a national issue and experts from across the country testified to the grand jury.

Cheney is charged with engaging in an organized criminal activity related to the vice president's investment in the Vanguard Group, which holds financial interests in the private prison companies running the federal detention centers.

It accuses Cheney of a conflict of interest and "at least misdemeanor assaults" on detainees because of his link to the prison companies.

Megan Mitchell, a spokeswoman for Cheney, declined to comment on Tuesday, saying that the vice president had not yet received a copy of the indictment.

The indictment accuses Gonzales of using his position while in office to stop an investigation in 2006 into abuses at one of the privately-run prisons.

Gonzales' attorney, George Terwilliger III, said in a written statement, "This is obviously a bogus charge on its face, as any good prosecutor can recognize." He said he hoped Texas authorities would take steps to stop "this abuse of the criminal justice system."

Another indictment released Tuesday accuses Lucio of profiting from his public office by accepting honoraria from prison management companies. Guerra announced his intention to investigate Lucio's prison consulting early last year.

Lucio's attorney, Michael Cowen, released a scathing statement accusing Guerra of settling political scores in his final weeks in office.

"Senator Lucio is completely innocent and has done nothing wrong," Cowen said, adding that he would file a motion to quash the indictment this week.

Willacy County has become a prison hub with county, state and federal lockups. Guerra has gone after the prison-politician nexus before, extracting guilty pleas from three former Willacy and Webb county commissioners after investigating bribery related to federal prison contacts.

Last month, a Willacy County grand jury indicted The GEO Group, a Florida private prison company, on a murder charge in the death of a prisoner days before his release.

The three-count indictment alleged The GEO Group allowed other inmates to beat Gregorio de la Rosa Jr. to death with padlocks stuffed into socks.

The death happened in 2001 at the Raymondville facility.

In 2006, a jury ordered the company to pay de la Rosa's family $47.5 million in a civil judgment. The Cheney-Gonzales indictment makes reference to the de la Rosa case.

None of the indictments released Tuesday had been signed by Presiding Judge Manuel Banales of the Fifth Administrative Judicial Region.

Last month, Banales dismissed indictments that charged Guerra with extorting money from a bail bond company and using his office for personal business. An appeals court had earlier ruled that a special prosecutor was improperly appointed to investigate Guerra.

After Guerra's office was raided as part of the investigation early last year, he camped outside the courthouse in a borrowed camper with a horse, three goats and a rooster. He threatened to dismiss hundreds of cases because he believed local law enforcement had aided the investigation against him.

Loved Ones...what do you think...the U.S. government turns its back on Katrina victims?...Valerie Plame outed?...Iraq invaded?....$700+Billion dollars for Wall Street...and No health care for you!...the finger of truth points directly at the handler for the hypnotized G.W.Bush...the finger points directly at Dick Cheney.

At this time I petition for those souls presently bringing this entity to justice to be enclosed with the White Light of the Holy Spirit....I petition and ask that in Mother God's Name...and I petition that Mr. Richard Cheney learn all his lessons with the least amount of pain.

You and all your loved ones are always in my prayers,
Samuel Joseph Bell
www.angelicinfusion.com

Sarah Palin's will ban books she does not approve...she has already demonstrated that

2008-09-12T04:38:00.000-07:00

Loved Ones…what do you think?…

are the actions of book banning that of an open leader…

leading by example…or actions of something else?....in fact it is true Sarah Palin's much-criticized inquiry into banning books actually occurred at her hometown library.

Shortly after taking office in 1996 as mayor of Wasilla, a city of about 7,000 people, Palin asked the city's head librarian about banning books.

Later, the librarian was notified by Palin that she was being fired, although Palin backed off under pressure.

Palin alleged attempt at book-banning has been a matter of intense interest since Republican presidential nominee John McCain named her as his running mate last month.

Taylor Griffin, a spokesman for the McCain campaign, said Thursday that Palin asked the head librarian, Mary Ellen Emmons, on three occasions how she would react to attempts at banning books.

He said the questions, in the fall of 1996, were hypothetical and entirely appropriate. He said a patron had asked the library to remove a title the year before and the mayor wanted to understand how such disputes were handled.
Records on the city's Web site, however, do not show any books were challenged in Wasilla in the 10 years before Palin took office.

Palin notified Emmons she would be fired in January 1997 because the mayor didn't feel she had the librarian's "full support."

Emmons was reinstated the next day after public outcry, according to newspaper reports at the time.

Still, one longtime library staffer recalls that the run-in made everyone fear for their jobs.

"Mayor Palin gave us some terrible moments and some rather gut-wrenching moments, particularly when Mary Ellen said she was going to have to leave," said Cathy Petrie, who managed the children's collection at the time.

Recent outrage has been fueled by Wasilla housewife Anne Kilkenny, whose 2,400-word critique of Palin's legacy as mayor is widely posted on the Internet.

Kilkenny described Palin's actions as "out-and-out censorship."

But the McCain campaign, in a statement, said the charge "is categorically false ... Governor Sarah Palin has never asked anyone to ban a book, period."

Emmons, a former Alaska Library Association president who now goes by Mary Ellen Baker, did not return calls seeking comment.
According to the Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman newspaper, Emmons did not mince words when Palin asked her "how I would deal with her saying a book can't be in the library" on Oct. 28, 1996, in a week when the mayor had asked department heads for letters of resignation.

"She asked me if I would object to censorship, and I replied 'Yup'," Emmons told a reporter. "And I told her it would not be just me.

This was a constitutional question, and the American Civil Liberties Union would get involved, too."

The Rev. Howard Bess, a liberal Christian preacher in the nearby town of Palmer, said the church Palin and her family attended until 2002, the Wasilla Assembly of God, was pushing to remove his book from local bookstores.

Emmons told him that year that several copies of "Pastor I Am Gay" had disappeared from the library shelves, Bess said.

"Sarah brought pressure on the library about things she didn't like," Bess said. "To believe that my book was not targeted in this is a joke."

Other locals said the dust-up had been blown out of proportion.
"That was many years ago and Sarah never had any intention to ban books," said David Chappel, who served as Palin's deputy mayor for three years. "There were some vocal people in the minority, and it looks like they're still out there."

Jim Rettig, who heads the American Library Association based in Richmond, Va., suggested that lingering quarrel raises issues that are still relevant as librarians prepare to celebrate Banned Books Week later this month.

"Librarians are very committed to the principles of the First Amendment of the Constitution and that means we don't allow one individual or a group of people to dictate what people can or cannot read," he said.

"Most librarians if they got that sort of a question would be curious as to what the intent of the questioner was."

Are we ready for this type of “leadership”?
Are these the acts of someone who you can trust?

At this time I petition for the liberty of librarians to be fully protected…I petition and ask that in the name of Mother and Father God…

You and all your loved ones are always in my prayers
Samuel Joseph Bell
www.angelicinfusion.com

"Exxon John" and "BP Palin" love oil money

2008-09-04T06:28:00.000-07:00

Loved Ones…we created our environment and thoughts are things…read the following and consider the consequences ….

Sarah Palin, the governor of Alaska who has shot to prominence as John McCain's choice as running-mate, is best known as a passionate believer in new oil and gas exploration, including in Alaska's National Widelife Reserve - something McCain himself rejects.

But campaigners say she has a mixed record on her dealings with the oil corporations to which the Republican party has so many historic ties.

"There is no question that Palin's appointment as the Republican vice-presidential candidate cements the fact that John McCain is the candidate of big oil," Dan Weiss, a senior fellow at the Centre for American Progress, a Washington-based think-tank stated.

"She supports the agenda of big oil - of more drilling - and she opposes investments in clean and renewable energy," he said.

Ms. Palin has presented herself as a challenger to corporate interests in Alaska, although that is because she believes the major energy companies have not acted swiftly enough in carrying out drilling and pipeline projects in the state.

The Alaskan governor also sees more drilling of US oil reserves as a way of ending US dependence on oil imports from the Middle East and elsewhere.

"I beg to disagree with any candidate who would say we can't drill our way out of our problem," she told Investor's Business Daily magazine earlier this year.

In 2006, she acted to renegotiate a deal with Exxon, BP and Conoco Phillips to build a pipeline carrying natural gas from Alaska's North Slope region across Canada to the US.

Palin also pushed for legislation to provide $500m in state funds to the companies to act on the project and eventually agreed to give the contract to TransCanada, a Canadian firm.

She also introduced a new tax on oil companies operating in Alaska and went as far as saying she supported Barack Obama, the Democratic candidate, when he proposed a windfall tax as part of his energy policy earlier this year.

However, her husband, Todd Palin used to work for the British Petroleum oil corporation in Alaska's North Slope region and she has collected almost $13,000 from lobbyists connected to the oil industry, reports say.

And Matt Gonzalez, environmentalist Ralph Nader's running-mate for his presidential campaign in 2008, says Palin has characterized the windfall tax in different ways depending on the audience and that she has not taken on oil corporations in the way she has claimed.

"We know that the oil companies have been making profits that have never been seen before, and the taxes that Palin has introduced are trivial in comparison," he stated.

Environmentalists have expressed concern about Palin's views on the causes of climate change.

"A changing environment will affect Alaska more than any other state, because of our location. I'm not one, though, who would attribute it to being man-made," she said in an interview in August this year.

Palin has also threatened to sue the US government over its ruling on having the polar bear designated as an endangered species and opposed protection for salmon threatened by pollution from the mining industry.

The Palin connection has worried campaigners already concerned about McCain's ties to large oil firms that have led to him being dubbed "Exxon John" by Democrats.

McCain has received more than $1.5m from oil and gas interests for his presidential campaign, nearly four times more than the amount Obama has taken, according to figures up to July from the Centre for Responsive Politics.

Haly Barbour, the governor of the state of Mississippi, hosted a lavish party for executives from the American Petroleum Institute to meet Republicans on Tuesday, an event targeted by protesters and activists.
Randa Fahmyhudome, a former Bush administration energy official, said Palin was right to call for drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
"In America, we are world's number one consumer of petroleum in the world and no-one knows better than Alaskans themselves what is good for environment. We ought to look to Alaskans and Governor Palin on this issue," she said.

"New technology will help us protect the environment while we develop these resources," she added.

Loved ones…can you think of any good reasons to prevent Ms. Palin from becoming the next president of the united states?....loved ones…just imagine what will happen to our home land environment!

At this time I petition for the Republican Party and its members to all learn all their lessons with the least amount of pain….I petition and ask that in the name of Mother and Father God.

You and all your loved ones are always in my prayers,
Samuel Joseph Bell
www.angelicinfusion.com

NBC NEWS is Lowintensity warfare or white propaganda

2008-06-07T17:18:00.000-07:00

Loved Ones….your television which is sending a stream of concepts into your mind as you relax on your sofa is a tool of effective mind control….please appreciate your innocence as you watch the tube and read the following:

Christopher Simpson, author of The Science of Coercion subtitled communication research and psychological warfare, 1945-1960 oxford univ press 1994
CS also points to National security directives of the Reagan and Bush administration, a Collecton of declassified National security council records from the Reagan and Bush administration and it gives a good overview of what contemporary security policy is in the words of the national security council and the president themselves. Its a reference book to be found in libraries.
About CS book 'The Science of Coercion' (=TSC)

DE:In this book you collate two basic elements of contemporary american society, Psychological warfare(=PW) and Mass Communication Research (=MCR) We start by giving a working definition of each.

CS:Psychological warfare first entered the english language as a translation, a mutation of a nazi german concept called Weltanshaungskrieg which means world view warfare and during WWII the Americans built on that and expanded it and used it to mean a whole range of wartime type tactics involving propaganda, dirty tricks, covert operations, whatever, to carry out a war. Where it emerges into a modern reality came in the wake of the war when more so called peace time types of essentially the same tactics emerged. For years now the government has told us that we're living in the world of no war no peace and what that has meant as a practical matter is that we're living in a world of ongoing low-level warfare and one of the early terms that was used to describe this is psychological warfare. Nowadays they call it lowintensity warfare.

Sometimes it's called more politely 'public diplomacy'.

Just to build on that point for a minute. When you hear people talk about lowintensity warfare, it simply means lowintensity compared to nuclear weapons.
Lowintensity warfare from the standpoint of people who are subjected to it is quite high intensity thank you very much! Some people would refer to it as total warfare conducted at the grass roots level.

Its basically a form of terror.
Against union organizers, I am talking about central America now, church people, community activists of whatever sort. And in central America alone you're talking about fatalities measured in the hundreds of thousands. All right, communications research is the sort of Ivory Tower version of much the same sort of thing.

There are schools of communication research at most major universities of the US and sometimes its folded into the sociology department. In any case its a box of preconceptions and of tools. Preconceptions of what communication is. And of tools of studying communication.

And these preconceptions and tools are used to train journalists, public relations specialists, TV and Radio personalities, all sorts of people, college professors (I'm talking about myself now) all sorts of people who might be called ideological workers in US society.

People who's day to day profession is to shape other peoples ideology and ideas.

Communication research is very much tied up with that because in part it provides methods for measuring how successful these types of ideological campaigns have been.
DE:We should make the point that psychological warfare does not in any way preclude the use of deadly force. That the type of warfare that is called psychological warfare is warfare that is generated for the specific purpose of producing its primary reaction in the psychological field. This does not necessarily imply however that no blood is shed.

CS:No, by no means and in fact from its inception from its earliest definition in classified government records, psychological warfare is defined to include assassinations, covert operations, gerilla warfare counterinsurgency etc. From its inception psychological warfare has been the mating of violence on the one hand and what people would call today propaganda or mass communication on the other hand. Another thing that's interesting about psychological warfare, from its inception it has also targeted the people of the United States, the common preconception is that for better or for worse this is something we do to them. The reality is that from the governments standpoint, from the standpoint of those who are paying the bills for its development the targets always involve not only foreign audiences but domestic audiences as well.

DE:One of the points that we should make just in passing is that the illusion that psychological warfare does not necessarily produce bloodshed or is not necessarily very bloody appears to have contributed to rationalizations of some of the people who bridge the gap between psychological warfare and mass communication research, they rationalize their use of psychological warfare by saying that this would lead to a reduction of blood shed or less violent methods of coercion

CS:Sure and there are circumstances where that is true. For example if you have a batallion of surrounded troups and you can use leaflets and loudspeakers to convince them that they are better of surrendering than fighting to the death etc. But that's a very limited part of how these techniques are actually used. The mean way application both measured in terms of how often, how much money is spent, how much academic attention is given to it. The mean use of psychological warfare has been the suppression of rebellious, prodemocratic movements in countries that the united states government felt that it wanted to dominate. Generally because of the natural resources of the country, sometimes because of its geostrategic position. Thats what psychological warfare has actually been used for. Sometimes that meant beating up union organizers, sometimes it meant death squads. Sometimes it meant systematic training of police organizations and of course as time has passed, its more than fifty years since 1945 now, and the science if you will, has not stood still in this time. As this has become more and more sophisticated, new techniques have emerged, to both intensify the violence and to divorce or to separate the sponsoring country or organization from responsibility for the violence.

This was one of the big lessons of Vietnam, from the standpoint of am security planners, that you kept american troops out of the line of fire to the maximum degree possible, because there was a political price to pay if too many kids came home in body bags.

So what do you do, you send down the green berets to train and equip the salvadoran police force or their treasury police which then becomes an organized form of death squad. To carry out a quite bloody civil war in El Salvador that lasted for a decade in the 1980s. As horrifying as that war was, its just one name on the list, there are many other examples like that, that have unfolded over the last 30-40 years.

DE:In your discussion of psychological warfare you talk about light propaganda, black propaganda and grey propaganda do you think it would be appropriate to discuss the role of some of these personnages and institutions that are involved on the one hand with psychological warfare and on the other hand with mass communication research as perhaps a form of grey propaganda

CS:Sure, part of what the book argues is that this area of academic study in the various schools that are connected to it and the body of knowledge that is connected to it and most importantly, the preconceptions that are connected to it, the preconceptions that are tied up with communication research, emerged in very important part due to goverment psychological warfare funding at the height of the cold war.
DE:A definition of grey propaganda?

CS:OK, white propaganda is like the Voice of America, its like NBC News, it is info that is repeated constantly that has the appearance of veracity, objectivity, naturalness and so on, but which in fact has a distinct ideological subtext, distinct set of preconceptions about the message that one is trying to put across.

Black propaganda on the other hand is what most people would call covert ops, assassinations, insurgencies, counterinsurgencies, dirty tricks of a variety of sorts, sabotage, the Contra affaire in Nicaragua, and then building on that the whole Iran-Contra business, then building on that the whole business of the Iran Contras and the drugs. Those would be examples of black propaganda.

Grey propaganda to get to your question exists somewhere between the two. And it has characteristics of both. The most common type of grey propaganda is where the organization that's sponsoring it puts disinformation misinformation into the news media, that have the appearance of being independent from that sponsoring organization.

A rather simple example of this would come from, say if the CIA puts a ...back when Libya was on the list of our worst enemies.. the CIA had a psychological warfare campaign to paint him as sexually impotent, as somebody who had a variety of sexual fetishes etc.

They planted this info as though it where truths in european newspapers. That's grey propaganda, the next step is when the information blows back to the United States and the story could be read in the tabloids. Later this was exposed as having been a misinformation campaign. If you follow all the details of what's going on it is possible understand it but most of us dont have time and we get this barrage of information, fake information usually from the media that takes on the appearance of being true, when in reality its manufactured by people who have a story to promote. And by and large the manufacturing is done by people who have the money to pay PR firms and so on to put this story out. Those of us who cant afford that have more difficulty to get access to the media. Now your program Dave gets out pretty well. But Dan Rather has a bigger audience.

DE:Certainly, one of my favourite expression is an old turkish proverb: 'He who tells the truth gets chased out of nine villages' - - - Chris you talk about the interrelationship between psychological warfare and mass communication research as involving three major types of intersections: 1) You discuss US psychological warfare as applied communication research and much of the funding for communication research has come from national security related institutions and that this in turn was shaping the post WWII nature of mass communication research as an academic discipline and you traced the genesis of this relationship to a number of different institutions which where centers of psychological warfare during the WWII, I'd like to briefly read a quote from page 25 of TSC and ask you to develop this further. 'Virtually all of the scientific community that was to emerge during the 1950s as leaders in the field of mass communication research spent the war years performing a plant study of US and foreign propaganda, allied troop moral, public opinion both domestically and internationally, clandestine OSS operations, or the then emerging technique of deriving useful intelligence from analysis of newspapers magazines, radio broadcasts and postal censorship intercepts. This old boy network had much to do with shaping the immediate post WWII academic discipline of mass communication research as well as psychological warfare'

CS:WWII was a particular type of war - 'the good war' according to Studs Turkle(?) trying to make the point that it was a time when the country was unambigously united... And this hasn't been the case since 1945 During the war you had these networks of psychological warfare specialists created.

Moving into the cold war period the networks persist. Some of those who were quite influential during the wartime period moved on to become the directors and senior scientists at the main foundations like the Ford foundation and the Rockefeller brothers foundation, the social science research council and so forth. What is a major source of money for social research.

Some of the others went into publishing and broadcasting. A quote from Edward Beret(?) who ended up as a dean at a graduate school of journalism in Columbia Univ, founded the Col Journal Review Talks about where his colleagues ended up. 1953: Publishers of Time, Look Fortune, several daily newspapers editors of magazines such as Holiday, Coronet, Parade and Saturday Review, Editors of Denver post, New Orleans Times Deca.?, Heads of Viking press, Harper and brothers, Strass and Young, 2 Holywood Oscar winners, a 2 time Pulitzer price winner, the board chairman of CBS, a dozen key network executives, president Eisenhowers chief speech writer, the editor of Readers Digest International edition, at least 6 partners of large adverticing agencies, the point being here is not that all of these people thought alike and where engaged in some big conspiracy but rather that they had a common wartime experience and a series of common preconceptions about what communication is and how its supposed to be used and how to be studied. That has had enormous impact on what we today take to be communication.

Communication is trickier or it's richer in meaning than it seems at first you know. The root word comes from latin Communmunia(?) sharing of burdens, a two way exchange of information... It doesnt mean that burdens at Roman times where equally shared, but nevertheless, but a multiway sharing remains true. But nowadays... it means 'How I can tell you what to do'

DE: quoting from p 62 of TSC 'As will become apparent, the dominant paradigm of the period proves to be in subst part a paradigm of dominance in which the appropriateness and inevitability of the /a? lead control of communication was taken as given. As a practical matter the key academic journals of the day demonstrated only a secondary interest in what communication is. Instead they concentrated on how modern techology could be used by elites to manage social change, extract political concessions or win purchasing decisions from targetted audiences'. Thats a very different type of communication from the root definition. CS discusses whether that type of communication and violence are really linked together and gives an example.

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FTR78b
About a synthesis of social science and national security operations
NSC 4, NSC 4a and NSC 10/2
NSC=National Security Council the principle advisors to the president on national security issues
Up until the end of the Roosevelt administration you had the military advisors shouting in one corner and the political advisors shouting in the other and president Roosevelt was crafty enough to handle both but as a new world emerged Truman and later presidents wanted a staff to combine the military and the political questions into a single group of advisors.
One of the first things they worked on was psychological warfare and the combination of propaganda and violence.
Confidential NSC 4: US Information Agency and Voice of America for hardhitting propaganda against the russians. This was the officially secret but really public definition of psychological warfare against the russians. A confidential document is the lowest level of government secrets. Although formally it is 'secret' information, in practise confidential information is seen on the front page of newspapers virtually every day.
Minutes after NSC4 the national security council took up the NSC 4a which was a top secret decision. And a top secret classification is considerably stricter than confidential and one of is aspects is that the existence of a top secret decision is secret. No government official can legally acknowledge that a top secret decision has been made.

NSC 4a said that these propaganda operations of US Information Agency and Voice of America in NSC 4 would be supplemented by systematic campaigns of sabotage, gerilla warfare, covert operations, assassinations (TODAY SHOW host Frank McGee was a "silenced target"), insurgency, counterinsurgency. The authority to do this was pretty vague because the different security agencies were arguing who would get the brief to carry out this kind of warfare. And the decision on that came 6 months later as NSC 10/2

That was created in an entirely secret government agency, the Office of Policy Coordination and the function of this secret agency was specifically to carry out these types of covert operations. That secret government agency eventually became the so called Operations Directorate of the CIA, which has basically the same functions till this day.

DE:One of the institutions that you mentioned as examplifying this marriage of social science and warfare and propaganda is Public Opinion Quarterly (=POQ) a very influential academic journal which in many ways epitomizes this bridging of that gap.
CS:Wait, Yes I would like to talk about Public Opinion Quarterly but to get at this whole question of the interplay between the academic and violence, I think its necessary to take a step even further back then that. And that is to look at how mass consumer societies spread themselves, how they work. [The mass consumer society of today] runs on, how many Fords or Toyotas, cans of Coke or whatever it is that the various manufacturers can sell to their audiences.

Most of the real job that the mass media is involved in is the business of selling eye-balls to advertisers and it's all broken out rather precisely. If you want to buy advertising on Seinfeld or '60 minutes' the network can tell you with great precision how many million men between the ages of 16 and 25 watch this program, how many women with ages between 25 and 35 watch this program and so forth. If you watch the sitcom you can see precisely..

So what a TV station really does is not put on entertainment, where its money comes from is in selling your eye-balls to advertisers.

In order to do that, in order to make that work, there has to be ways to count, how many eye-balls are being sold. There has to be ways to survey this, to put forward a plausible argument from the media side to the advertisers as to why the advertiser should come up with a $billion a year or whatever it is to sell cosmetics for example. Or comparable numbers to sell automobiles.

Where the academic field of mass communication research begins was in the development of these techniques to do precisely that type of measurement.

To measure how many eye-balls (or how many ears in those years of radio) will look at particular advertisements and what impact this had on sale.

To what degree did the person reading an advertisement remember that ad etc. And there are lots of studies that you can find in the library that elaborate on these themes.

Now to come around to the question of violence, what we've seen since the 1930s was the expansion of this type of consumer society and I am not even talking about a left or right or whether one is capitalist or socialist, I am talking about the expansion of mass consumer society around the world.

What one had seen is that that type of society precludes it overwhelms other forms of social organisation. It counts them out. It proceeds rather frequently with great violence often including genocide in particular genocide of indigenous peoples as it spreads around the world.

As it spreads it carries particular ideals with it with preconceptions about what's good or what's bad and how things work. The point that I am trying to get around to here is
1) for consumer society to run there has to be some way to measure whats being bought and sold.
2) It expands only at the expense of existing society.
3) As it overwhelms an existing society, say as it arrives in Turkey or Libanon or Egypt or in South East Asia or in Peru, it breaks down the existing social structure and substitutes itself and that sets off a chain of both frequently damage to the people who live there and also resistance to these developments, so how do you manage the resistance to the arrival of Coca Cola and Ford motor company and so forth, when the local unions when the locla social activists when the local churches decide they've had it about up to here with what the companies are trying to push unto them. How do you manage these people?

Psychological warfare and the whole field of how economic 'development' comes about.
The main centers of communication research during the 1950s to 1960s were obsessed with these
Loved ones…turn the Television off and read a good book…you will be much more spiritually advanced if you do.

Samuel Joseph Bell
www.angelicinfusion.com

the goal is to create and maintain an ongoing civil war to tear the Iraq nation into fragments

2008-04-07T05:35:00.000-07:00

Loved Ones…as you sit on the couch and browse through the news on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN…you are exposed to filtered stimuli created to make you come to the conclusion we are in Iraq to bring Democracy to imprisoned peoples…

no mention is ever made of Oil…no mention is ever made of the 2nd largest known oil deposit on this planet which is beneath the soil of Iraq… A big silence/big lie… of the truth not being broadcast into your living room.

The United States of America Washington Government goal is without a doubt to create and maintain an ongoing civil war to tear the Iraq nation into fragments resulting with SHELL OIL, STANDARD OIL, AND BRITISH PETREOLEOM entering and removing the national assets of the Iraqi people….providing fuels for United States SUV’s …

Not many common Americans have actually visited the country and really know the beautiful people of Iraq…following is the honest account of one true American…who saw what we are doing…and realized we are not there to free the Iraqi people…we are there to destroy them and steal their oil.

Camilo Mejia is a former staff sergeant in an infantry unit for the Florida National Guard who served in Iraq but later refused to return to combat and applied for conscientious objector status.

He was convicted of desertion in May 2004 and served a year in an army prison. He is now a prominent member of the Iraqi Veterans Against the War (IVAW) organization. "When I first arrived in Iraq, in the beginning we were all really skeptical and didn't know what to expect, but pretty soon it became clear that we were there to stay.

[During the invasion] we began to be attacked and obviously we responded with overwhelming force. [There was] an escalation of the battle because of the way that we were conducting ourselves, not only with total disregard for the lives and wellbeing of people but with disregard for our own tactics as soldiers.

We were instigating firefights and provoking the population of Iraq,

leading to the injury of many of our soldiers and also the killing of many unarmed Iraq civilians.

The first mission that we had was running an Iraqi prisoner of war camp.

In the camp we used mental techniques such as performing mock executions with a pistol to the head of a detainee, depriving them of light by putting bags on their heads, keeping them surrounded by concertina wire so they couldn't really move without injuring themselves and sleep deprivation and light deprivation.

All of these things in order to break them down emotionally and physically in order to, quote unquote "soften them up for interrogation".

I arrived back home [from Iraq] in Oct 2003 when I was given a two week furlough.

While I was in Iraq it was really difficult for me to make decisions based on my morality or my conscience as the environment was so intense, the number one priority was to keep alive.

But when I came home I had peace of mind to go back to these questions that were haunting me from the very beginning of the occupation.

I had to choose between being a good soldier and a good human being - I chose to follow my conscience and to not go back.

After I denounced the war in March 2004 there were no known public resisters to the Iraq war, much less veterans who have been there and were speaking about their own experiences and how Iraqis were being brutalized by the occupation.

The case became very public and much politicized and two months after my public surrender to the military I was tried by court martial but it was a very biased trial - you could tell from the beginning that the military weren't going to play nice.

Most of our arguments were denied by the military judge who did not allow the jury to hear anything of the sleep deprivation and the conditions.

I was found guilty of desertion and given a 12-month sentence in a military facility. I was also demoted to private, had forfeiture of pay and a discharge from the army.

Ending the war

Now, I think that Iraq is not something we can view from a hopeless perspective.

I think it's our duty to end the occupation and I believe the military has the power to end it because without the military muscle they cannot … wage endless immoral and pre-emptive war against the Iraq people.

I advocate the immediate and unconditional withdrawal of all occupying forces.

The Iraqis are a wonderful people, I have had the privilege of befriending Iraqis over there and they love their country and each other very much and they are determined to kick out the occupation and rebuild their country.

So I do believe there is hope for them, but I also believe that it is in their own hands to rebuild their country on their own terms.

Loved Ones...what role do the broadcastors play as they implement mind control via your television set...what is the journalists role in this crime you pay for now and will pay for in the future?

What are the spiritual costs?

What are the economic costs?

Loved Ones…include Camilo Mejia and all his loved ones in your prayers and petitions for protection and strength …I do.

You and all your loved ones are always in my prayers.

Samuel Joseph Bell
www.angelicinfusion.com