Sunday, November 2, 2008

Barack Obama warned that terror attacks could soon test mettle

"The US intelligence briefings to the Obama campaign have focused on international threats rather than his personal safety. They cover three main dangers: major strikes against US allies - Israel would be the likely top target - that might lead to a dangerous world crisis; attacks on US forces or targets such as embassies; co-operation between unnamed enemy states and terrorist groups to mount the attacks.

"Mr Biden embarrassed his own campaign when an audio tape of his comments to the fundraiser in Seattle were made public. John McCain has regularly referred to the remarks to bolster his argument that Americans should elect him president rather than his inexperienced rival.

"'Mark my words,' Mr Biden said. 'It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We're about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America. Remember I said it standing here if you don't remember anything else I said. Watch, we're gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy. I can give you at least four or five scenarios from where it might originate.'

"The military source told The Sunday Telegraph: 'Biden had received those briefings and dropped a real clanger when he revealed the conclusions.'"

PROPAGANDA TECHNIQUES OF GERMAN FASCISM

Learn from the past to prevent it from happening again:

"The power of propaganda increases as its control becomes more centralized, as the trend to monopoly increases. In democratic countries this takes place when competing propagandists resolve their differences and agree upon one propaganda. This maneuver can be seen in amalgamations or agreements within political, economic, educational, and religious groups. As various groups come to collaborate in terms of common interests, their propaganda programs tend to coincide and to increase in power. This process is stimulated by the centralization of the control of the economic structure of a country. A tendency toward a monopoly of wealth is accompanied by a corresponding tendency toward a monopoly of propaganda.

"Contrasted with the relative freedom for the dissemination of propaganda in democracies is the complete or nearly complete elimination of this freedom in totalitarian countries. Fascist Germany illustrates how propaganda is used both to bring a dictator into power and to aid him in maintaining that power. In Germany the propaganda which helped convince the people of the efficiency of the National Socialist(4) solution for the country's political and economic problems was reinforced by an army of storm troops that weakened opposition through terrorism. Such methods made difficult and dangerous the promulgation of competing propagandas. The power of the Nazi propaganda was increased further by the financial support of certain business men and by the political intrigues of Colonel Franz von Papen and other officials of the Weimar Republic.

"With the establishment of the National Socialist régime its monopoly of propaganda was rapidly achieved. Suppression of opposition was thorough. Every source of public information and nearly every instrument capable of affecting public opinion came under its control. Although some of the church groups were difficult to dominate, in general the National Socialist propaganda drive went forward with a thoroughness which exceeded that of World War propaganda."

and

"Sometimes a demagogue is sincere in his propaganda; usually he is confused. Typically, a demagogic clique is corrupt in whole or in part. The corrupt elements are usually successful in proportion to their astuteness and unscrupulousness. They will agitate for a fee; they will exact for their services all that the traffic will bear; they will serve or pretend to serve many interests. The extent to which Hitler and his Nazi clique were sincere, astute, or unscrupulous may never be fully known. At the critical moment the NSDAP did receive the secret financial backing of a small group of Germans who wanted a government which would abolish freedom of speech, press, and assembly; which would eliminate labor unions; and which would deal effectively with expressed opposition. Such a government was established in Germany in 1933 under the leadership of Adolf Hitler."

and

"To win their way to power the National Socialists used all the techniques of propaganda, all the avenues for its dissemination which modern science and invention have made possible, and all the old appeals and shibboleths. Professor Schuman(10) gives a vivid picture of one of the thousands of carefully planned great mass meetings: the waiting, the expectancy, the late hour when people's resistance is low, the decorations, the company of storm troopers drilling, the dramatic torchlight parade, the bands, the singing, finally the hush, a crash of drums and trumpets, the slow solemn entrance of a well disciplined procession to stirring martial music or perhaps Richard Wagner's 'Entry of the Gods into Valhalla'; at the end a special bodyguard, the uniformed party leaders, and then, 'the centre of all eyes, Der Führer—in his tan raincoat, hatless, smiling, and affably greeting those to right and left. A man of the people! Germany's Savior!' 'Heil! Heil!' and the third 'HEIL!' swells into a great ovation. Speeches, spotlights, cheers, waving of arms. The audience responds at the end with an overwhelming chorus, 'Heil! Heil! Heil! Hitler!' The bands blare forth, and the multitude chants the 'Horst Wessel Lied."

and

"A Canadian friend who has heard Hitler speak many times expresses succinctly the power of the Leader's eloquence or demagogy, whatever you may call it.

'I could listen to Hitler talk for an hour on one side of a subject,' he says, 'and then if he turned around and for the next hour directly contradicted everything he had previously said, I would follow him and believe him. That is what I think of Hitler's persuasive powers! If he can get me that way, how much more can he get the German audiences?
'This evening Hitler . . . swayed that audience as I have never seen any audience swayed before or since. He did not mention Hindenburg by name, but one of his perorations went something like this:
'"Certain parties are contending for the right to guide the destinies of the German people. Certain leaders . . . one of them is eighty-six; the other is forty-three. Which do you think is likely to survive to guide the destinies of our race?"
'. . . He could play with that audience just as he wished. As I looked down at the sea of faces from the platform, the 30,000 in the auditorium seemed to be subjects of mass hypnotism.'

"The evidence of Mr. McKenzie's Canadian friend is borne out by comments of American newspaper correspondents who point out that Hitler's addresses are often unintelligible. Large numbers of his listeners apparently listen with their emotions. When their tension becomes high, they intercept the speech by emotional outbursts at seemingly inappropriate times. Here we see the force of language with or without meaning as a molder of public opinion. Only intelligent citizens skilled in analysis of propaganda and immunized against the wiles of the orator were unaffected by Hitler. Among such doubtless were editors, writers, teachers, clergymen, and others who later were to be killed, imprisoned, or forced to acquiesce in silence to a régime they disapproved."

HOW LONG DO WE HAVE?

From an email:

About the time our original thirteen states adopted the new
constitution in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a history professor at the
University of Edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian
Republic some 2,500 years earlier:

"A democracy is always temporary in nature. It simply cannot exist as
a permanent form of government.

"A democracy will exist only until the Voters discover they can vote
themselves generous gifts from the public treasury.

"From that moment on, the majority always vote for the candidates who
promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that
every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which
is always followed by a dictatorship.'

"The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the
beginning of history, has been about 200 years'. 'During those 200
years, those nations always progressed through the following sequence:

1. From oppression by the government to spiritual faith;
2. From spiritual faith to great courage;
3. From courage to liberty;
4. From liberty to abundance;
5. From abundance to complacency;
6. From complacency to apathy;
7. From apathy to dependence on the government; and
8. From dependence back to oppression."

Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law, St. Paul,
Minnesota, studied the 2000 Presidential election and came up with the
following statistics:

Number of States won by Gore: 20
Number of States won by Bush: 30

Square miles of land won by Gore: 580,000
Square miles of land won by Bush: 2,427,000

Population of counties won by Gore: 127 million
Population of counties won by Bush: 143 million

Professor Olson observed that the map showed that the counties won by
Bush were mostly the rural and smaller city land owned by hard working,
tax-paying citizens with few residents living on welfare.

Most of the counties won by Gore had big cities in which a
significant percentage, if not a majority, of the residents were living
in government-owned tenements and were dependent on various forms of
government welfare.

Olson believes the United States is now in the "complacency and
apathy" stage of Professor Tyler's description of democracy. By 2002,
some forty percent of the nation's population had already reached the
"dependence on the government" stage.

The government is now talking about granting amnesty and citizenship
to twenty million foreign invaders called "illegal immigrants". When they
start voting we can say goodbye to our American democracy.

Pass this along to help everyone realize just how much is at
stake, knowing that apathy is the greatest danger to our freedom.
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Australia to implement mandatory internet censorship

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Majority of Allegheny prostitutes are on the Democratic side

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Twas the Night Before the Election

From an email:

'Twas the night before the election
And all through the town
Peoples' tempers were flaring
And high emotions abound!

Sitting in my bathrobe
With my dog on my lap
I had just shut down the TV
As it spewed so much crap.

When all of a sudden
I heard such a noise
I peered out my frosted window
to see Obama and his boys

Yes, they had come for my wallet
They wanted my pay
To "spread the wealth around"
For those who hadn't worked that day!

Well, he snatched up my earnings
And as quick as a flash
He'd jumped back on his bandwagon
And was off with my cash

Rallying his many henchmen
Who were pulling his cart
I could tell they were out
To rip our country apart!

On Fannie, on Freddie,
On Biden, On Ayers,
On Acorn, On Pelosi
he screamed at each pair!

They took off for his cause
And as he flew out of sight
I heard him laugh at our nation
That wouldn't stand up and fight!

So I leave you to ponder
this one final note --
TO STOP OBAMA'S SOCIALISM