The reason not to reward inaction is to progress. (not backwards by increasing the military budget)There is nothing mean-spirited abou tit. If Obama cant take it (I’m sure he doesnt read this site) then he shouldve stayed out of policitcs.

The “racism” claim is getting so worn out you wont be able to use it when real racism happens. No on expected Obama to fix things in 6 most didnt expect that he’d increase the military, completely sell out to the insurance industry, allow extraordinary rendition, on and on. Im sure youve read it all.

Millions of peoples’ lives are a at stake here you know! What country do live in—one pretty safe from NATO invasion?

CONSPIRACY THEORIES
The fact that, in the US, discussing theories about conspiracies—aka politics as usual—has
been associated with ‘Conspiracy Theories’—the tinfoil-hat brigade—is perhaps the
greatest, and wittiest, expression of Bernays’s manipulation of reality - aka the US Reality
Distortion Field - tm Steve Jobs - Apple Marketing genius but truth? HA!

Robin Ramsay of UK Lobster magazine, now online, has been a reporter of (real-life)
conspiracies for over thirty years.  He wrote a very useful little book on the difference between
theories about conspiracies and conspiracy theories.  An article on the difference, in no way
as good as the book. http://www.serendipity.li/eden/laconspi.html

Book - Amazon - http://tinyurl.com/4hahen

http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/robin-ramsay.htm

Conspiracy Theory - the Mel Gibson film - was based on truth - MK ULTRA. Mel Gibson
version - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PUybiuyOvg

TORTURE WORKS - FACTS
Naomi Klein was able to interview one of the victims of the CIA’s perverted 1960s MK ULTRA
brainwashing program at the Montreal Allan Memorial Clinic of Dr Ewen ‘Mengele’ Cameron.
She described her treatment (for supposed depression) as dozens of ECT shock treatments.
The effect of the treatment was to ‘de-personalize’ her. A married adult woman and mother of
two children, her personality was deliberately destroyed and she was reduced to the mental
capacity of an infant. This was irreversible.

After spending billions of dollars, literally, the result of the CIA program was that ‘de-
personalization’ was produced not with exotic drugs, surgery, or electro-shock, but with two
simple procedures. Firstly, self inflicted pain - the use of stress positions. Secondly the
complete removal of sense stimulation from the body; touch, sight, sound.

Hence the use today of stress positions; hooding or blindfolding and headphones.

Naomi Klein - Torture works - http://www.naomiklein.org/articles/2005/05/tortures-dirty-
secret-it-works

Klaus Barbie’s methods - same old same old -
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/Barbie.html

US-organized escape, to Bolivia, to apply those same techniques there for the US -
http://www.archives.gov/iwg/research-papers/barbie-irr-file.html

Father Roy Bourgeois - the School of the Americas -
http://www.hulu.com/watch/69785/global-voices-father-roy-inside-the-school-of-
assassins

John Stockwell -  “Third World War” - Forty years of Secret Wars of the C1A - 6 to 20 million
killed - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3ioJGMCr-Y

Naomi Klein - Shock Doctrine - http://www.naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine

MK ULTRA - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKULTRA

FAKE PROGRESSIVE NEWS

@ Jean Gerard, October 11 at 1:18 pm #
> why not just graciously say “thank you” to the"nice Norwegians”, consider the
prize as a feather in our national cap (though we don’t deserve it) and get back
to some serious lifting.

Bingo! Agree entirely. _Lots_ of heavy lifting.

MICHAEL MOORE
It all becomes _much_ clearer when one sees Michael Moore’s Capitalism - A
Love Story. -

“I made Roger and Me twenty years ago - 1989. I can’t go on doing this.
Without the help of those of you in the audience. And could you speed it up
please.” -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeROnVUADj0

That, and disregard fake progressive web sites—and cartoonists—that only
ever give you stories that undercut any progressive ideas. Got Operation
Mockingbird Mk 2?

Operation Mockingbird - Mk 1 -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird

Namebase.org - http://www.namebase.org/xoea/Operation-Mockingbird.html

Social network diagram - http://www.namebase.org/cgi-bin/nb06?
_OPERATION_MOCKINGBIRD_

Excellent points, de profundis clamavi!!

Do you have a website?

sure, it’s nice to have these smiling norwegians say officially that they approve of the new tone of the american president. sure, it think it’s great that obama charmed the arabs in cairo and says we’re going to close guantanamo and won’t have secret black site prisons anymore and won’t engage in torture anymore. i think it’s great that obama has halted programs for nuclear missile “defense” in central europe so we’re not directly provoking russia, at least not just now. it’s nice that obama doesn’t use unnecessarily provocative terms like “axis of evil” or “war on terror”.
but those nice norwegians don’t have to live in a country where poverty and inequality grow more extreme each day, and will continue to do so unless and until the president of the united states steps up and directly confronts the power of the banks, the corporations and the pentagon. those nice norwegians live in a country where every citizen takes for granted public education, publicly supported arts and media, public transport, public health care, public income and social support that we would not reach after a thousand years of obama’s timid, corporate-friendly “leadership”.
those nice norwegians live in the kind of egalitarian society that only “left wing extremists” in the USA advocate, the kind of “left wing extremists” who are dismissed from mainstream public dialogue and marginalized even in obama’s supposedly change-driven democratic party.
according to one of our major mainstream parties, those poor norwegians suffer under “socialist tyrranny”. according to all but the “extreme left” of our other mainstream party, the policies that have made the scandinavian countries among the richest, most stable, peaceful and democratic in the world are simply “inappropriate for America” and are not worthy of discussion.
those nice norwegians don’t have to live in a country where state and municipal governments are going bankrupt, teachers and state workers are being laid off, police and fire departments are being cut, bridges are falling down, whole towns and regions have been economically reduced to rubble, all in the name of maintaining profits for a tiny elite, while the people whose impoverishment grows worse every day watch as their government continues to borrow trillions of dollars from foreign governments to finance a bloated military establishment and a far flung militaristic empire that benefits nobody but the defense contractors and whose aims, vaguely referred to as “American interests”, could best be described as “making the world safe for Exxon Mobil”.   
our military establishment is a voracious cancer eating away at the vital organs of american society, but obama apparently does not recognize that, or if he does he refuses to say so.
it’s no skin off the norwegians’ nose if obama squanders what is perhaps the last opportunity this country will have to make the kind of major structural reforms we need to stave off irretrievable economic and social meltdown, because obama hasn’t got the guts to call off a war with vague objectives in the same country that militarily and financially exhausted the soviet union, leading to its collapse. 
our empire can collapse, too, from financial exhaustion if nothing else, and if that happens, the resulting political tone of the united states of america is unlikely to be anything peaceful or moderate.
sure, it’s nice the norwegians gave obama the prize, and it’s not just nice for him - it’s nice for all americans. It’s sort of like the norwegians sent us some pretty flowers with a card that says “hope you’re feeling better”.
thank you norway, we are feeling a bit better. but our corporatist militarist disease is serious and late stage. it will be terminal for american democracy if it isn’t treated.
it’s nice for a sick person to receive cards and flowers. but it doesn’t cure his disease.

a picture like this is worth a thousand words…and a thousand thanks!

I’m going to circulate this.

Fish, I think you have a very accurate illustration of what Tariq Ali said today on DemocracyNow:

“watch what american polictican or leaders ‘DO’, not what they say”.

Great and apropo!

I might throw up.