Showing posts with label Pentagon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pentagon. Show all posts

Thursday, 12 June 2014

The Truth About Ukraine (video)

Pfc. Sandoval, Amber Larson, Wisdom Quarterly; Christopher Greene, Alternative Media (AMTV)

Misleading Mainstream Media Reports PROMOTE war:
Russia sending tanks across border into Ukraine, Kiev says
Russia goes back on its promise to secure its border with Ukraine against further infusions of weapons and fighters. Ukrainian troops destroy some of the Russian convoy.

In dramatic move, Tesla releases patents to rival automakers
In dramatic move, Tesla releases patents to rival automakers: Musk says the move will be of modest help to rival car companies and should speed the adoption of electric cars.

Wednesday, 2 April 2014

Trying to escape the Surveillance State (video)

Ashley Wells, Pfc. Sandoval, Wisdom Quarterly; author, researcher, and journalist Julia Angwin with Amy Goodman, Nermeen Shaikh, Juan González (democracynow.org)


Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Julia Angwin visited Democracy Now! to discuss her new book, Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security, and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance. Currently at ProPublica and previously with The Wall Street Journal, Angwin details her complex path toward increasing her own online privacy as a private citizen.

According to her research, the private data collected by East Germany’s Soviet-era Stasi secret police at its height of abuse pales in comparison to the information revealed today by an individual’s Facebook profile or Google search history, which is never erased by Google even when we clear our history. It is used by the government for unconstitutional unwarranted spying on Americans, by police to give everyone a police record, and by advertisers to target individuals. More

Tuesday, 11 March 2014

"Awaken to the Truth" with John Lear (audio)

Pfc. Sandoval, Pat Macpherson, Wisdom Quarterly; John Lear (thelivingmoon.com)
The truth is too hard to awaken to, so when someone blows the whistle, we tend to duck and shield our eyes from the shattering revelations ("Immaculate Deception" movie).


Edward Snowden (The Guardian) The NSA will not shut up about whistleblower Snowden, but what about the spy who stole more? ...Snowden speaks out against the NSA via Google Hangouts at SxSW... technologists can really fix the deficiencies in the Internet to protect standards.

Thursday, 6 March 2014

"Afghan Hustle" - US out (Daily Show)

Wisdom Quarterly; Jon Stewart, Pres. Hamid Karzai, TheDailyShow.com
(March 5, 2014) "Afghan Hustle," departing Afghani President Hamid Karzai harshly criticizes the U.S. for not being a sufficiently considerate war instigator (04:27). Watch more clips from this episode or the entire show.

Saturday, 15 February 2014

Secrets of China's Ancient Pyramids (video)

CC Liu, Ashley Wells, Wisdom Quarterly; National Geographic; Nick Redfern (CLE)
Modern Chinese Buddhist pyramid structure and stupa (reliquary), Buddha Memorial Center, Fo Guang Shan Temple complex, Taiwan, Republic of China (Bernard Gagnon)
(National Geographic) Documentary on the pyramids of China and its view of the afterlife

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18897314-the-pyramids-and-the-pentagon?from_search=true For decades, government agencies have taken a clandestine and profound interest in pyramids and other archaeological, historical, and religious puzzles.
 
Why and how have they been doing this?  What profound and powerful secrets are sequestered in secret vaults and archives, and what would happen if the truth were revealed? Focusing primarily upon the classified work of the U.S. Government, The Pyramids and the Pentagon invites us to take a wild ride into the fog-shrouded past. It is a ride that incorporates highlights such as:
  •  The CIA’s top secret files on Noah’s Ark
  •  U.S. Army documents positing that the Egyptian pyramids were constructed via levitation
  • Claims of nuclear warfare in ancient India
  • Links between the "Face on Mars" and the pharaohs...
Modern Buddhist pyramid (Zosoiv71/flickr.com)
Nick Redfern is the author of more than 30 books, including The Real Men in Black; On the Trail of the Saucer Spies; Contactees; and The Pyramids and the Pentagon. He writes for UFO Magazine, Mysterious Universe, and Mania.com. Originally from the UK, Redfern now lives in Dallas, Texas.

Friday, 31 January 2014

"Kill Anything That Moves!" (video)

Pfc. Sandoval, Wisdom Quarterly; Mitch Jeserich (KPFA.org, 01-30-14), The Tet Offensive
(Movieclips) A scene from "Platoon" showing how Christian American soldiers treated innocent Buddhist civilians in a war that had nothing to do with religion and everything to do with money and our peculiar form of war-profiteering capitalism. See you in hell, Charlie.

We are currently doing the exact same thing to Afghans in Afghanistan without ever wondering who gets us into these apparently pointless wars (which are not pointless but based on lies that fall apart under scrutiny). "Truth is the first casualty of war." And "those who forget history are condemned to repeat it" as new White House and Pentagon officials seek more adventures in genocide, slavery, and atrocities in our and/or our God's name.
 
Not the Buddha but the monk and Bodhisattva Hotei (Budai), Vietnam
 
The historical Shakyamuni Buddha (WQ)
Journalist Nick Turse, author of Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam (nickturse.com), talks about our previous adventure in American empire -- the U.S. War on Vietnam (and Laos and Cambodia). That was when we began to explain our fear-based massacres with koans like, "We had to burn the village to save the village." 

In the second 30 minutes of the show, Jane Gleeson-White talks about how accounting, bookkeeping, and high finance make everything possible -- including saving the world -- based on historical research from her fascinating book, Double Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Created Modern Finance. (download)

Wednesday, 8 January 2014

News of the Day; Statement of Purpose

Ashley Wells, Dhr. Seven, CC Liu, Pat Macpherson, Bhante, Wisdom Quarterly (EDITORIAL)
Left vs. Right: peace activist offers flowers to establishment army (wallpapervortex.com).

Greenpeace continues to turn up the heat on its “Save The Arctic” campaign, this time with a melancholy video featuring the music of Radiohead (“Everything In Its Right Place”), a voiceover from Jude Law, and one very sad polar bear, lost on the streets of London. “As the Arctic sea ice melts, polar bears are being forced to go far beyond their normal habitat to find food and look after their young. This film is a powerful expression of how our fates are intertwined, because climate change is affecting all of us no matter where we live....” More

Statement of Purpose
2014 Wisdom Quarterly editors
My friends are a bunch of Bohemian left-leaning, vegetarian-ish, anti-establishment types, who think government “conspiracies” -- activities planned in advance rather than just events that happen for no particular reason -- are something to point out.

Try this at home, but make sure you film it so we can see the carnage.
 
The fringe-right has never been closer to agreeing: everyone sees that our government conceals the truth, deceives us, and tricks the public as if it were in their job description. The left is called names because we are not running a PR campaign. Everyone is looking for the truth. We hope.
 

dirtywars.org

The left pushes against the sexism and racism and socioeconomic inequality of our Western history; the right seems to want to do all it can to conserve or it get back to an imaginary “golden age” of 1850's/1950's sexist, racist, class-bound “prosperity,” and that means being pro-war. We oppose war and a war mentality (like waging “war” on drugs, the poor, disease, education).
 
Brave, beautiful Kajol Kahn, 8, loves deadly snakes (nagas).

The Buddha (B.  Tan/flickr.com)
The “war on poverty” was a terrible name and notion for a wonderful program. The right hates it. We need a social safety net, which is the only thing that kept us from entering a new Great Depression. This Great Recession is due to who? Banking conspiracies -- planned events to impoverish the many to benefit the few. Thank you, The Fed, the private banking consortium that runs monetary policy. What will the government be doing about it? Everything it can to keep those private bankers going, apparently in the hopes of getting corporate jobs after their government careers. 

Meet you on the golf course? - Git 'er done!
Even the right can't want that, but those bankers are part of the right, conservatives, class-warfare opponents of everyone else (the 99%). The moderate right wing -- namely, the Obama administration -- swings hard to the right. Although labelled “left” or “socialist,” things in Washington D.C. are actually, if we look at the facts and numbers, just a continuation of previous Bush administrations. Who is destroying the environment, making  and expanding wars, aching to drill in Alaska, to frack everywhere, to drain public resources and destroy the last remnants of Native American lands? Bush-Obama.

Learning from the past. But wrong lesson.
Obama is not Bush. He might as well be. Under the surface, he just continues his policies. Whoever controlled the former controls the latter. The movers and shakers behind the scenes -- groups we call the “military-industrial complex” -- are the same. Isn't Obama worse for appearing so much nicer, speaking so much better, and uttering much nicer sounding lies? Bush and Cheney were odious. Even the right is ashamed of them now. Obama and Biden have been continuing the same policies, in some cases making more draconian choices, but we are all just glad it's not Bush.

Wolves can be a human's best friends with understanding.
 
Revolucion hasta la victoria siempre!
“Evil” is a terrible word, almost always misleading and pointless to accuse anyone of. Yet if it applies to Bush and Cheney, one has to conclude that it applies to Obama for continuing on the same disastrous course.
 
The right wastes no time accusing Obama of every problem we face, when they were so quiet about Bush doing the same things. That leaves the left sitting on its hands. We can't criticize a guy who speaks so nicely, who says all the right things (even if they aren't true), and we sure can't side with right wing wackos. 

But if someone is correct, even if they are on the right, we have to give them credit. Maybe they are motivated by racism or party politics or fantasies of American exceptionalism, and wild dreams of being the “true” patriots, sovereign citizens, and blah blah blah. And maybe racist dictator Hitler created the Volkswagen (folk's wagon). We can't say a line of cars is wrong because a creator is wrong. 

Living in harmony with local environment
Like Smiley and West, we have to call out Obama. Like Ed Snowden, Jeremy Scahill, J. Assange, Michelle Alexander, G. Greenwald, Amy Goodman, Chelsea Manning, and the next maverick -- all wonderful activists for freedom and justice -- we have to call out the actual guilty parties and policies wherever they come from, whatever sheep's clothing they put on. We have to save the world, or at least some part of it!

Save Afghanistan; US out!
The Buddha and Buddhism teach two things above all other things, wisdom and compassion. So many right wing people -- Tea Partiers, Republicans, Libertarians, Reactionaries, and Xenophobes -- talk about the Christ and Christianity. If everyone were true to his/her espoused ideal, wouldn't we all get along milk and water? Oh, Green Partiers, Democrats, Occupiers, Radicals, and Philanthropists, we have to rise above because the right is unlikely to extend a hand first.

If Chito could get along with a reptilian, we can all learn something.
 
News of the Day
US "War on Poverty" (KPFA, Jan. 8, 2014
This is  the 50th anniversary of LBJ's "War on Poverty" address with Prof. Annelise Orleck, Dept.  of History, Dartmouth College and Sharon Parrott, from the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities.
 
The Pentagram, our U.S. Dept. of War
US Imperial War(s): The Pentagon "is very reluctant to label anything a ‘base’ because of the negative political connotations associated with it," said Alexander Cooley, a political scientist at Barnard College and Columbia University who studies overseas bases. "Some of these facilities, such as the Manas Transit Center in Kyrgyzstan, may not be officially counted as ‘bases,’ but it is the most important U.S. facility in central Asia..." More
 
Bad Religion, The Offspring, Linkin Park, and Heart want to help victims of climate chaos
in the Philippines after Typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda at the Nokia in L.A. (musicforrelief.org)

Sunday, 1 December 2013

Split up NSA and Cyber Command leadership?

Pat Macpherson, Pfc. Sandoval, Wisdom Quarterly; Ellen Nakashima (mainstream media propaganda coverage from the Washington Post, 11-29-13)

Rand Paul to be discredited for taking a stand
Key senior administration officials have advocated splitting the leadership of the nation’s largest spy agency from that of the military’s cyberwarfare command as a final White House decision nears, according to individuals briefed on the discussions. At a White House meeting of senior national security officials last week, Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper Jr. said he was in favor of ending the current policy of having one official in charge of both the National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command, said the individuals, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. Also, officials appear inclined to install a civilian as director of the NSA for the first time in the agency’s 61-year history. More 

Wednesday, 20 November 2013

Salute to the Military (sutra)

(BY) In this deleted "Family Guy" scene, football hero, ill-used "patriot," and friendly-fire victim Pat Tillman is doomed by his ignorance and hatred of 9/11 and craving for revenge. It was later revealed that he was posthumously exploited by the military for propaganda purposes.
Where are my heroes after raping and killing each other and our enemies? (Invisible War)
I'll kill you, you stupid &$#@%head! - Don't, I'm injured (Johnathan Hobin/In the Playroom)
  
Want to become a soldier? Reconsider
Dhr. Seven and Amber Larson version, "Discourse to Yodhajiva the Warrior" (SN 42.3)
Yodhajiva the headman went to see the [Buddha]. Having bowed, he sat respectfully to one side. While sitting there, he said to the Blessed One: "Venerable sir, I have heard that it has been passed down by the ancient teaching lineage of warriors (the kshatriya caste) that:

(David Swanson/War is a Lie)
"'When a warrior strives and exerts in battle, if others strike him down and slay him while he is striving and exerting in battle, with the breakup of the body, after death, that warrior is reborn in the company of light beings (devas) slain in battle.'

"What does the Blessed One have to say about that?"
 
"Enough, headman! Set that aside. Do not ask this question."
 
But a second time and a third time Yodhajiva the headman asked.

"Headman, apparently I have not been able to get by saying, 'Enough, headman! Set that aside. Do not ask this question.' So I will answer directly: When a warrior strives and exerts in battle, his mind is already seized, debased, and misdirected by the thought (intention): 'May these beings be struck down, slaughtered, annihilated, utterly destroyed! May they cease to exist!'


(TM) Stewie talks to the famous WW II veteran who did as ordered and
dropped an atomic bomb on the innocent civilians of Hiroshima, Japan

"Fight War, Not Wars" (tcdailyplanet.net)
"If others strike him down and slay him while he is striving and exerting in this way in battle, with the breakup of the body, after death, he is reborn in the hell called the realm of those slain in battle.

"But if he holds such a view as this:  'When a warrior strives and exerts in battle, if others strike him down and slay him while he is striving and exerting in battle, with the breakup of the body, after death, he is reborn in the company of light beings slain in battle,' that is his wrong view (miccha ditthi, the antithesis of right view).
 
Kill and keep killing till we tell you to stop!!
"I tell you, there are two destinations for a person with wrong view. Either one is destined for hell or the animal realm."
 
When this was said, Yodhajiva the headman burst into tears and sobbed. [The Buddha then said:] "That is what I could not get by you saying, 'Enough, headman! Set that aside. Do not ask me that.'"
 
"I am not crying, venerable sir, because of what the Blessed One said, but because I have been deceived, cheated, and fooled for a long time by that ancient teaching lineage of warriors."
(The View) Gov. Jesse Ventura outs government pro-war conspiracies

Part I: America's glorious "Invisible War" - women in the barracks
"... I don't think they [US military and politicians] are very honorable people. I know they were lying.... we feel that there could have been something else that happened to Pat [Tillman] but -- I mean, we can't prove it. Every bit of evidence has been destroyed. ... Rumsfeld, Abizaid, Myers, and Brown collectively said, 'I don't know, I don't recall, I don't remember' about 82 times, and no one on that panel pressed them. No one did their research." - Pat Tillman's mother Mary on CNN's "Larry King Live." Filmmaker Michael Moore also wants the truth.

Monday, 18 November 2013

50th Anniversary: Who shot JFK?

Pfc. Sandoval, Pat Macpherson, Seven, Ashley Wells, Wisdom Quarterly; Roger Stone (StoneZone.com, LBJkilledJFK.com), John B. Wells (coasttocoastam.com, 11-16-13)
On the anniversary of a government assassination, author Roger Stone makes a case.
    
Roger Stone (tintuchangngay.org)
Mystery finally solved. Author Roger Stone combines decades of insider political knowledge with cutting edge JFK assassination research to arrive at a startling conclusion, the same conclusion the Russian KGB previously arrived at: Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson arranged the assassination of John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963.

Coast to Coast radio co-host John B. Wells talked to Stone to lay out the case that future-president Lyndon B. Johnson manipulated the situation in Dallas to have JFK killed. He even sent in his own gunman (Malcolm Wallace), arranging for him to be on the sixth floor of the book depository.

ANNIE HALL: Funny Alvy Singer (Woody Allen) uses the Single Bullet Theory and JFK "conspiracy" as an obsessive excuse to avoid intimacy with his first wife.
 
In his book The Man Who Killed Kennedy, Stone describes LBJ as an amoral psycho who was coarse, corrupt, ruthless, greedy, dishonest, crude, and vicious. He was being indicted on the same day as the assassination and would have been formally charged and potentially imprisoned had he not ascended to the presidency that fateful day.

LBJ routinely abused people and was known to conduct meetings from the toilet to humiliate his Ivy League staffers, which he inherited from JFK. According to Stone, LBJ can be tied to at least eight murders, including one to cover-up the voter fraud that led to his first election victory.
 
Chaotic scene that once terrorized a nation as badly as 9/11 footage haunts citizens now
 
LBJ: for banks, war profits, revenge...
JFK's brother Robert Kennedy hated LBJ and did not want him on the presidential ticket with his brother, Stone explains, adding that JFK had already selected and asked Stuart Symington to be his running mate. 

But LBJ visited JFK late one night to blackmail him threatening to release a dossier on his sexual exploits (given to him by his neighbor FBI head J. Edgar Hoover) if he did not put him on the ticket, Stone reveals. 
 
Stone further connects LBJ to numerous criminals and nefarious dealings that were sure to eventually land him in jail. "The only way for him to stay out of prison was to become president himself," Stone says.
(RT/Breaking the Set) Abby Martin speaks with former Nixon White House
advisor and self-proclaimed "GOP Hitman" Roger Stone about his book

Oswald's girlfriend Judyth Vary Baker explains why
LBJ used his political power to hide secret CIA programs in the aerospace budget, control military contracts, get Mob (Mafia) payoffs to protect illegal gambling operations in Texas, and look out for large oil interests in his home state, Stone explained. LBJ basically had a unique relationship with every party involved in the plot to kill JFK.

According to Stone, LBJ vacationed with mob boss Carlos Marcello at a resort owned by Texas oil man Clint Murchison, Sr., who hated JFK because he was trying to repeal a giant tax giveaway known as the Oil Depletion Allowance. One of the triggermen was LBJ's right hand man.

Stone also points out that US Ambassador Joseph Kennedy, JFK's father and a former gangster, had blackmailed mob bosses Carlos Marcello, Santo Trafficante, and others for money and support of his son in the election, threatening that if they did not help they would face deportation. 

Baker lives in constant fear of assassination
But LBJ is the linchpin of the plot to kill JFK: He controlled Dallas and urged JFK go there and to take the exact route he took, which violated Secret Service safety protocols, in that a 120 degree turn was involved. Texas governor and LBJ protégé John Connally nevertheless insisted JFK go through Dealey Plaza. 
 
Stone believes that there were multiple shooters used that day, including one on the grassy knoll, as JFK was shot from the front and back. He credits Malcolm "Mac" Wallace, a Marine marksman LBJ used to kill several people, with shooting JFK from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository. His fingerprint was recovered from his sniper's nest.

The fingerprint evidence and an eyewitness place Wallace at the scene of the crime, Stone explains, adding that patsy Lee Harvey Oswald's prints were planted there. The gun Oswald is said to have used could not possibly have been used in the commission of this act due to its limitations, the time it takes to fire off two consecutive shots, and Oswald's marksmanship.
 
It has been proven that the Marines' best marksman could not make the shot today with such a weapon nor cock and fire off as many shots as Oswald is said to have discharged. All of this is detailed and documented in Stone's book The Man Who Killed Kennedy: The Case Against LBJ.