The State of the U.S.A. Today In One Image

10 Comments

1. 

   Arthur Gilroy on June 20, 2014 at 4:59 pm

   What do you see?

   AG

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     The Voice In The Wilderness on June 20, 2014 at 5:18 pm

     Interesting! After staring at the ad for a while I notice the subliminal(?) message above the picture.

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       Arthur Gilroy on June 20, 2014 at 5:38 pm

       Yup.

       It’s not exactly a “plot” though, Voice. Not necessarily meant to act subliminally. It just does. This is simply the way the competing memes pan out in the digital world. Like the crawl beneath mainstream news stations. You don’t actually see it, but it’s being perceived on some level.

       But there’s much more there.

       Anybody?

       S.

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         The Voice In The Wilderness on June 22, 2014 at 8:19 pm

         I’ll bite, Arthur. What did I miss with these old eyes?

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           Arthur Gilroy on June 22, 2014 at 11:14 pm

           Well for starters, there’s your sig:

           “No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country.” – FDR

           It’s so out of date!!!

           Here’s the deal now…witness the ongoing flood of minimum wage laborers being flooded into this country as well as out of its public schools.

           The real deal.

           “No business which depends for existence on paying any more than bare survival living wages to its low level workers has any right to continue in this country.” – The Corporate Owners of the Permanent Government

           The real deal.

           Once again…Ross Perot’s prophetic words during the 1992 Democratic primary debates. (Emphases mine.):

           Q: …I’d like to direct my question to Mr. Perot. What will you do as President to open foreign markets to fair competition from American business, and to stop unfair competition here at home from foreign countries so that we can bring jobs back to the United States.

           PEROT: That’s right at the top of my agenda. We’ve shipped millions of jobs overseas and we have a strange situation because we have a process in Washington where after you’ve served for a while you cash in and become a foreign lobbyist, make $30,000 a month; then take a leave, work on Presidential campaigns, make sure you got good contacts, and then go back out. Now if you just want to get down to brass tacks, the first thing you ought to do is get all these folks who’ve got these one-way trade agreements that we’ve negotiated over the years and say, “Fellows, we’ll take the same deal we gave you.” And they’ll gridlock right at that point because, for example, we’ve got international competitors who simply could not unload their cars off the ships if they had to comply — you see, if it was a two-way street — just couldn’t do it. We have got to stop sending jobs overseas.

           To those of you in the audience who are business people, pretty simple: If you’re paying $12, $13, $14 an hour for factory workers and you can move your factory South of the border, pay a dollar an hour for labor, hire young — let’s assume you’ve been in business for a long time and you’ve got a mature work force — pay a dollar an hour for your labor, have no health care — that’s the most expensive single element in making a car — have no environmental controls, no pollution controls and no retirement, and you don’t care about anything but making money, there will be a giant sucking sound going south.

           So we — if the people send me to Washington the first thing I’ll do is study that 2,000-page agreement and make sure it’s a two-way street. One last part here — I decided i was dumb and didn’t understand it so I called the Who’s Who of the folks who’ve been around it and I said, “Why won’t everybody go South?” They say, “It’d be disruptive.” I said, “For how long?” I finally got them up from 12 to 15 years. And I said, “well, how does it stop being disruptive?” And that is when their jobs come up from a dollar an hour to six dollars an hour, and ours go down to six dollars an hour, and then it’s leveled again

           . But in the meantime, you’ve wrecked the country with these kinds of deals. We’ve got to cut it out.

           I repeat:

           “…when their jobs come up from a dollar an hour to six dollars an hour, and ours go down to six dollars an hour, and then it’s leveled again.”

           And that is exactly where we are headed…errr, aaahhh…being herded.

           Seventeen years after Ross Perot said that…just a little off of his 12-15 year schedule…suddenly we were in what now is being called “The Great Recession.” What a coincidence!!!

           And the wages came tumbling down.

           Real wages. You know…in relationship to expenses?

           The real deal.

           The wages come tumbling down.

           AG

2. 

   Oui on June 20, 2014 at 5:53 pm

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3. 

   Oui on June 20, 2014 at 6:17 pm

   Ukraine unrest fits pattern of Russian invasion drills

   The recent pattern of pro-Russian unrest and fierce fighting in eastern Ukraine resembles a Russian military playbook used in exercises simulating invasion drills, according to a new analysis.

   The analysis, by ex-NATO commander Wesley Clark [remember stand-off with Russia in Kosovo: Gen. Mike Jackson refused to enforce Clark’s orders, reportedly telling him “I’m not going to start the Third World War for you.”] and Phillip Karber, a former Defense official in the Reagan administration, comes as Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko unveiled a 14-point peace plan Friday.

   …
   Janusz Bugajski, an analyst at the Center for European Policy Analysis in Washington, says the pattern described in the analysis — of sponsoring civil and ethnic unrest — is an old Soviet and Russian tactic “that has been refined by modern technology, more extensive channels of disinformation and professional special forces.”

   ○ Janusz Bugajski Biography
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     Arthur Gilroy on June 20, 2014 at 7:39 pm

     Bugajski-a typical CIA media asset.

     AG

4. 

   Arthur Gilroy on June 21, 2014 at 10:14 am

   And now it’s my turn.

   What do I see here?

   Where to start, where to start?

   At the top, I guess.

   “USA Today.” The branding name. To its left a logo. A smileyface green plate with a stylized plastic fork where the nose would normally be, feeding the happy little face from the USA Today logo. Or perhaps leading it by the nose. Underneath? “A Gannett Company.”

   Hmmmm…

   What do we know about “The Gannett Companies?” Well, we know this, for sure.

   Wikipedia:

   Gannett Company, Inc. is a publicly traded media holding company headquartered in Tysons Corner, Virginia, near McLean in Greater Washington DC.[2][3] It is the largest U.S. newspaper publisher as measured by total daily circulation. Its assets include the national newspaper USA Today and the weekly USA Weekend. Its largest non-national newspaper is The Arizona Republic in Phoenix, Arizona. Other significant newspapers include The Indianapolis Star, The Cincinnati Enquirer, The Tennessean in Nashville, Tennessee, The Courier-Journal in Louisville, Kentucky, the Democrat and Chronicle in Rochester, NY, The Des Moines Register, the Detroit Free Press and The News-Press in Fort Myers. Gannett owns or operates 40 television stations through Gannett Broadcasting, Inc.[4] and is the largest group owner of stations affiliated with NBC and CBS.[5][6] Gannett also holds substantial properties in digital media including PointRoll, BNQT Media Group,[7] Planet Discover,[8] Ripple6[9] and ShopLocal through Gannett Digital.

   The key words here?

   “Near McLean.” Now McLean, VA is a company town, and that company is “The Company.” The CIA. Bet on it. Even the pizza joints are spooky-spook-spookish. Been there, smelled that. The plasticized American exceptionalist dream in all of its whited-out splendor.

   What does this particular Gannet Company do? It provides the following to that vast centrist cesspool that we laughingly call “The American Middle Class.”

   Sports  Life  Money  Tech  Travel  The Weather  Crosswords  Your Take  Investigations  Video  Stocks  More

   Wow!!! They got it all covered, right?

   Riiiiight…

   Then the spooky kicker. All greyed out with nowhere to go except right smack into your little sleeple brain:

   Ukraine unrest fits pattern of Russian invasion drills.

   “UH oh!!!” goes the fight-or-flight thalamus. “Gotta watch out fer them sneaky Russkies!!!”

   But…wait a minute!!! That’s not the message of this image, is it? Naaaaahhhh…It’s a picture of two almost-teeny girls in the back seat of an SUV and they are so happy!!! They’re listening to the Disney theme from “Frozen” or some other totally synthetic bullshit. And…wait another minute!!! They’re post-racial, too!!! It’s all gonna be alright, folks. Even brownish little girls can live the Disney life. Middle class like a motherfucker and USA Today-ed to near perfection.

   The bottom kicker?

   Sure.

   Our quality fuels are the energy behind your journey. Learn More.

                              

   Yup. Learn more?

   OK. Let’s.

   Some of the fine people who brought you the Blood For Oil wars, the ongoing collapse of the ecosphere and the already well completed total collapse of our government are the “energy behind your journey.” To where? It doesn’t really matter, does it? As long as you take the Exxon-Mobil road, it allg oes to the same place. It’s the journey that counts, after all. Right? Your journey in an oversized SUV (Stupid Ugly Vehicle) that guzzles fuel at military terror-enforced low prices so’s your children and their friends can listen to aurally compressed, artificially produced sound poison…errr, ahhh, music…on a pair of slave labor-assembled  earphones and thus grow up to be just like you, mindlessly swallowing USA Today’s disinfo while the Empire fights to preserve its perch on the top of a rapidly collapsing food chain.

   Enjoy your artificially colored GMO corn chips, Bunky, because that’s about all you’re really gonna get from these people. All the rest goes to the controllers. They have bought your attention with the same value level of junk that the Dutch used to buy Manhattan Island from its native dwellers, and now they are building flimsy skyscrapers on your soul. Them skyscrapers can fall down, if you remember. Yes they can. Bet on that as well.

   Have a nice day.

   You’re gonna need it.

   Let us pray.

   Or be preyed upon.

   I got yer SUV.

   Right here!!!

   

                                   VrrrrooOOOOMMM!!!

   Later…

   AG

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     Arthur Gilroy on June 21, 2014 at 1:37 pm

     i feel that must add here…this is just one image on one day. Imagine, if you can, the number of single images that are broadcast on a given day throughout the media and internet. If you were to try to put a percentage on them (including advertisements, the most powerful of all controllers), what percentage would be supporting various kinds of disinformation such as “The American Dream,” what percentage would be what one might call “neutral” and what percentage would be illuminating some kind of truth about the monstrosity that the U.S. has become since the Vietnam War first started?

     My own estimate? Maybe 85-90% disinfo, 5-10% neutral and whatever image bandwidth is left over after those two image wars are through for some kind of objective truth.

     Long odds, folks.

     Long, long odds.

     You wonder why we’re in trouble?

     That’s why.

     While our so-called minds are occupied with the daily soap opera of American life, our subconscious is being pulled 90% towards a sort of disinformational Dreamsville.

     Why do I say “Wake the fuck up” so often here?

     That’s why.

     Bet on it.

     Here’s the deal. If you do not:

     1-Know that you are being controlled.

     and

     2-Understand the primary control mechanisms.

     How can you function as an independent human being?

     The early Americans staged a “War of Independence.” They had it easy. They know who the enemy was.

     We are faced with an even more difficult task because most of us do not even seem realize who our controllers may be or the tactics that they use to control us. We need to wage a war of mental, emotional and physical independence. The need for mental and emotional independence should be fairly obvious once one grasps the enormity of what is happening, but…why physical? It’s physical because the poisons that we are eating, the pharmacological nightmare that is daily advertised on the media as “health” and the ongoing decay of the ecosphere is making us progressively weaker by the day.

     Wake the fuck up!

     Station WTFU signing off once again.

        NEWSTRIKE!!!

       MEDIASTRIKE!!!

     CULTURESTRIKE!!!

             VAYA!!!

     AG