Naturally the Government can simply not allow the free flow of unapproved information. Its in our best interest REALLY.



SEX WITH COMMON HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCES! (Is the government planning another attempt to censor the Internet?)
A funny thing has been happening in my email lately. Just a few weeks ago, both my wife and I started getting junk mail advertising porno sites. Not your average run-of-the-mill porno either, but really extreme stuff, seemingly intended to shock and outrage, advertising photos of sex involving under age partners and with life forms having more than two legs! In most cases, the mechanism to remove ones address from these mailing lists does not work.

Some of my friends have also started getting these ads as well. And a phone call to my local ISP confirms that this has become a problem in recent weeks, with people suddenly being recipients of ads for "fringe market" porn. Nobody can imagine how a company that deals in that sort of product line managed to get our names on their email addresses.

Ah, but all this has a familiar feel to it!

Back in 1995, before web browsers had really taken off and usenet was still the predominant means of social communication on the internet, there was a sudden influx of pornography being flooded onto the usenet newsgroups. Like the present case, the porno was of a character which seemed intended to shock and outrage. Even though there were (and still are) usenet newsgroups set aside for this kind of material, this particular flood of porn was being posted to usenet groups normally used for trading cooking recipes, sharing astronomical data, etc. When the readers of those non-sexual groups gently suggested that the posters of the porn move their activities to the usenet groups set aside for such things, the posters responded with a few obscene comments and proceeded to pour even more "fringe market" porn into totally inappropriate venues, including those likely to be viewed by children. Knowing that nobody but an FBI informant could ever be such an arrogant ass hole, knowledgeable internet observers began to suspect that the source of the porn had to be a government propaganda operation (not unlike the infamous Black Panther Coloring Book from the FBI's COINTELPRO scandal), and indeed headers of some of the posted porn tracked back through .gov and .mil servers.

We didn't have long to wait. Only a few weeks after this sudden onslaught of porn in inappropriate newsgroups appeared out of nowhere, Senator Exon stood up on the floor of the U.S. Senate during debate on the Senate Telecommunications Competition and Deregulation Act, waving about his now-infamous "blue book" of net-porn and demanded laws that (among other things) allowed for the operators of internet service providers to be held legally liable for the behaviors of their customers. The mainstream media, then as now the obeiscent servant of the state's agenda, droned on and on about how "everyone" in the nation had to be aware that porn was now an epidemic requiring government intervention. Exon got his law passed.

And, in the most telling sign of all, no sooner had the law been passed then, like a switch, the porn "epidemic" was gone. Overnight, those parties who had poured a flood of shocking and outraging porn all over usenet simply vanished; subtlety and finesse never having been a part of the US Government's Propaganda machine.

So now we are in a time when the US Government is waging open warfare on the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. The only venue of mass communication not yet under total control of the state is the internet, which functions as a modern day descendant of the "Samizdat"; the network of fax machines and copiers that allowed the citizens of the former USSR to expose the corruption of their government, leading to its collapse. And just as the Stalinists wanted to shut down the Samizdat, so too does the government of the United States, fearful of having its own corruptions exposed, search for a way to close down the free and open internet; to bring it under control of the state much as the mainstream media has been.

So when you open your email application and start seeing ads for "Sex with home appliances", "Sex with space aliens", or "Sex with politicians", you may be seeing your own tax dollars at work, to trick you into support of the government taking over control of the very last means of open and uncensored communications available to you, to plug that one last opening in the wall the government is building around your eyes and ears, so that you will have no choice but to believe that the world is really what the government tells you it is. And when that same government that leaves you no choice tells you that you are free, you will have no choice but to believe that as well, even though common sense will tell you that those without choices are really slaves, even if they do not realize it.


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UPDATE!

Check out http://www.rense.com/general17/porn.htm.


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That is why, they say, Buyer beware.

It pays to read newspapers from around the world to see different view points.

Got a "Page cannot be found" bit when I tried the URL you posted ... any chance a typo?

It is not a typo. Sometimes when pages display anti-goverment/corporation info, they die quickly. Try this one.



What really happened (http://www.whatreallyhappened.com)

Just on the topic of government info and FOI there is a well known fellow whose website is called The Black Vault (although I think he's looking to change the name of the site). He has a reputation for not giving up on getting information out of the Govt. under the Freedom of Information Act. I find it a very interesting website but haven't had much time to look into it thoroughly. You might be interested yourself.

Teri

Congressman Ron Paul, House of Representatives, November 29, 2001
Keep Your Eye on the Target
Mr. Speaker:
http://www.house.gov/paul/congrec/congrec2001/cr112901.htm

PLEASE FORWARD THIS URL TO ALL MEMBERS OF CONGRESS....

The 545 People Responsible For All of America's Woes
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/woes.htm

HOW TO CONTROL PEOPLE
by Charley Reese
http://disc.server.com/Indices/149495.html

The difference between true education and vocational training has been
cleverly blurred. Here are a few tips on how smart people can control
other people. If any of this rings a bell - Well, then wake up!

The first principle of people control is not to let them know you are
controlling them. If people knew, this knowledge will breed resentment
and possibly rebellion, which would then require brute force and terror,
and old fashioned, expensive and not 100 % certain method of control.

It is easier than you think to control people indirectly, to manipulate
them into thinking what you want them to think and doing what you want
them to do.

One basic technique is to keep them ignorant. Educated people are not as
easy to manipulate. Abolishing public education or restricting access to
education would be the direct approach. That would spill the beans. The
indirect approach is to control the education they receive.

It's possible to be a Ph.D., doctor, lawyer, businessman, journalist, or
an accountant, just to name a few examples, and at the same time be an
uneducated person. The difference between true education and vocational
training has been cleverly blurred in our time so that we have people
successfully practicing their vocations while at the same time being
totally ignorant of the larger issues of the world in which they live.

The most obvious symptom is their absence of original thought. Ask them
a question and they will end up reciting what someone else thinks or
thought the answer was. What do they think Well, they never thought about
it. Their education consisted of learning how to use the library and cite
sources.

That greatly simplifies things for the controller because with lots of
money, university endowments, foundations, grants, and ownership of
media, it is relatively easy to control who they will think of as
authorities to cite in lieu of doing their own thinking.

Another technique is to keep them entertained. Roman emperors did not
stage circuses and gladiator contests because they didn't have
television. We have television because we don't have circuses and
gladiator events. Either way, the purpose is to keep the people's minds
focused on entertainment, sports, and peripheral political issues. This
way you won't have to worry that they will ever figure out the real
issues that allow you to control them.

Just as a truly educated person is difficult to control, so too is an
economically independent person. Therefore, you want to create conditions
that will produce people who work for wages, since wage earners have
little control over their economic destiny. You'll also want to control
the monetary, credit, and banking systems. This will allow you to inflate
the currency and make it next to impossible for wage earners to
accumulate capital. You can also cause periodic deflation to collapse the
family businesses, family farms, and entrepreneurs, including independent
community banks.

To keep trade unions under control, you just promote a scheme that
allows you to shift production jobs out of the country and bring back the
products as imports (it is called free trade). This way you will end up
with no unions or docile unions.

Another technique is to buy both political parties so that after a while
people will feel that no matter whether they vote for Candidate A or
Candidate B, they will get the same policies. This will create great
apathy and a belief that the political process is useless for effecting
real change.

Pretty soon you will have a population that feels completely helpless,
and thinks the bad things happening to them are nobody in particular's
fault, just a result of global forces or evolution or some other
disembodied abstract concept. If necessary, you can offer scapegoats.

Then you can bleed them dry without having to worry overly much that one
of them will sneak into your house one night and cut your throat. If you
do it right, they won't even know whose throat they are cutting.

BOLIVIA VANISHES: SEE STYLE SECTION
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BOLIVIA VANISHES:SEE STYLE SECTION
by Gregory Palast
from the MediaChannel 26 July 2000

In April, five people were shot dead in Bolivia, a military policeman was lynched and the president declared a state of siege following a general strike that shut down much of the nation. At the end of it all, for the first time in a decade anywhere in the world, American and British corporate giants, the targets of the protest, were booted out of the Andean nation, a stunning reversal of the march of globalization.

You didn't read the story? Come now, it was right there in the Washington Post ... in paragraph 10 of the story, on page 13 of the Style section. I kid you not: the STYLE section. It dangled from the bottom of a cute little story on the lifestyle of some local anti-WTO protesters.
And so, one of the most extraordinary international stories of the year just when PFZZZT! - and disappeared from sight.

Here's what you didn't hear. In the 1990s, Bolivia became the World Bank's South American poster child for neo-liberal "reform" by following with pathologic care all the Bank's dicta. This included the forced sale of all the nation's public water systems. But when the new Anglo-American owners of one city's water company hiked prices 35 percent to 150 percent per World Bank orders, a general strike shut the town. The government's bloody reaction helped spread the protests nationwide. After 13 days, Bolivia's president, in fear of the strengthening protests, took back the water company from the U.S.-British operators and canceled the price hikes.

Some vital stories get buried because they fail the "sex" test of hot photos, or they have no domestic news hook. But Bolivia had it all. Networks could obtain high-quality video footage of the military gunning down civilians. At the center of the story were huge American and British multinationals, including Bechtel of San Francisco and Britain's United Utilities. Most importantly, this general strike in South America offered a dramatic and bloody parallel to protests in Washington against the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, which were occurring that very week. By any normal news measure, this was a helluva story of globalization stopped dead in its tracks ... all while McDonald's burned in Washington.

James Wolfensohn, president of the World Bank, was so shaken by events in Bolivia that on April 12, in the midst of responding to the Washington demonstrations against the Bank, he took time to denounce the Bolivian protesters as "rioters." Wolfensohn's wild statement (the rioters were peaceful demonstrators led by the town's archbishop) was meant to discourage the press from writing sympathetically about the Bolivians.
He need not have worried. There was nothing on the tube; and aside from the mention in the Post's Style section and a few news wire paragraphs in The New York Times, for the mainstream media, the Bolivians simply vanished.
I can't say there were NO reports. The Financial Times sent a reporter to Bolivia. The lead paragraph of his April 26 report informed us that on the wall of the protesters' headquarters hung "faded portraits of Che Guevara and Fidel Castro." There was no mention at all that five civilians and a policeman had died.

The FT reporter, who should have known better, picked up the line that drug traffickers were somehow behind the water protests. This fanciful accusation originated in a Bechtel news release. (As one Bolivian told me, deadpan: "Traficantes don't care about their water bill.") Bolivians themselves were also denied the full story, but by more direct means. The courageous editor of the Bolivian newspaper Gente (People) published an investigative series exposing the sweetheart deals between the U.S.-European investors and politically connected Bolivians. At the end of April, Gente's publishers, admitting to threats of financial ruin by the water system's Bolivian partners, demanded that the editor, Luis Bredow, print a retraction of his reports. Bredow printed the paper's retraction ... and his resignation in protest.


gregory.palast@guardian.co.uk

machaon

It was news to me too. I do not know, what we can do to solve world problems or what we (sciforum members) could have done to prevent IMF/WB bad advice to Bolivia. I think we discussed this elsewhere in the forum. What is needed is education. There are philanthropic organizations out there that do help to educate people. Again it boils down to buyer beware. Unless we form a world government which looks after these countries, groups of people that are taken advantage of....well, there is not much we can do.

Any ideas to solve these type of problems are welcome...

"Exploitation of the poor can be extinguished not by effecting the destruction of a few millionaires, but by removing the ignorance of the poor and teaching them to non-cooperate with their exploiters.²

"The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. He frees himself and shows the way to others. Freedom and slavery are mental states. Therefore the first thing is to say to yourself, ¹I shall no longer accept the role of a slave. I shall not obey orders as such but shall disobey when they are in conflict with my conscience.O The so-called master may lash you and try to force you to serve him. You may say, ³No, I will not serve you for your money or under threat.² This may mean suffering. Your readiness to suffer will light the torch of freedom which will never be put out."

Sounds logical to me...

Excellent stuff.
Just because you´re not paranoid it doesn´t mean they´re not out to get you :D

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