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The True American Show
A nice movie depicting a long-running TV series starring True American as himself; written and conceived by the CFR.
True American is an everyman, living in what appears to be paradise. Here, surrounded by eternally smiling neighbours, the news is always good (except when it comes from any part of the world that isn't America). He and his neighbours' sunny reactions to news of the various American armed interventions around the world is secured by their knowledge that everything is as it should be; for they have liberal, democratic values.
"The Iraqis don't mind the constant drone attacks--they know we have their best interests at heart!"
"They only hate us for our freedoms!"
He is constantly reassured that he is living in the finest place on earth.
The rest of the world is a real hellhole!
Unknown to True American, however, his entire world is a fabrication, in a man-made bubble, sealed off from the chaos of the real world. The masterful choreographer of his world is a mysterious man (Rupert) who manages True American's perception of the world--but from time to time, little portions of the truth manage to slip past our hero's formidable defenses.
Here falling interest rates (just before they hit zero) are not accompanied by lower unemployment.
"You've got to listen to me! This isn't the real world! The rest of the world views American foreign policy as naked aggression! They don't hate us for our freedoms--they hate us for what we've done to them!" -- "Okay, let's have falafel instead of pizza then!"
True American is flabbergasted by these tiny glimpses of the truth--but each time, Rupert (through various surrogates) is able to calm him down with a reasonable explanation.
"Well, of course unemployment didn't fall. The economy in the rest of the world is too weak! If not for the European sovereign debt crisis (see newspaper headline) our economic models would work perfectly!"
"I'm sorry--she's completely crazy! A conspiracy theorist! Always going on about black helicopters, Ron Paul, and 9-11! Don't worry--it's not your fault. She's sick!"
His best friend is always ready to drop by with a six-pack of beer and reassurances.
Friends don't let friends think and drive.
Foreign policy issues are always carefully framed to include insignificant differences to create the illusion of meaningful debate.
"We should continue with our policy of sanctions on Iran, and only resort to bombing if they continue in their intrasigence." -- "I respectfully disagree. We should bomb them immediately, and if they continue resisting world opinion, follow up with continued sanctions."
Eventually the truth crashes through True American's defences.
Fox News assured me that nuclear power was safe!
Stumbling on another bit of the truth.
This time the hurried cover-up is to no avail.
Confronting the truth is painful.
But Rupert's control of reality is too strong. Facing the truth is painful--very much so. Far easier to avoid the truth. Especially when the Superbowl (or the Kardashians) is on TV.
"You'd feel better if you'd just kick back and watch the game with me. Have another beer!"
Viewers of the show can call in and talk to Rupert about the show. A common question is why True American is unable to see beyond Rupert's illusions.
"We accept the world as it is presented to us. If True American really wished to discover the truth, I would be unable to prevent him from doing so. But he is much happier in my artificial world than he would be in the real world. Since there are so many painful consequences to seeking the truth, he quite rightly prefers to live in my artificial world."
And so, True American is never able to escape his prison. (What, you thought he did? You must be thinking of another movie).
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So why were there questions about McCain's eligibility?
I question McCain's fitness to be President, but I am unaware of anyone questioning McCain's eligibilty serve prior to Birthers questioning Obama's birthplace after the election.
It's kinda fun to point out that McCain was actually born in Panama to those who believe Obama wan't born in the U.S.
Not to go too far down this road because at this point I really don't give a shit - but at the time in question - that was not the law.
The law hasn't changed at all in the last 200 years. The "law" that contains the requirement that the President be a natural born citizen is the U.S. Constitution. Anyone who is born to a U.S. citizen is a natural born citizen of this country, and always has been.
Obama was born in here. If he wasn't, he can still serve as president as his mother was a citizen. Funny how an article about propaganda has a thread containing the "big lie" that Obama can't be president because he wasn't born here.
How fucking ironic is this?
Sorry, but your understanding of the Constitution and the law could not be more wrong. I won't bother to explain it here, but if you have any interest in actually understanding the subject, just a minute or two of online research will clear it up for you.
If Obama was born in Hawaii, no problem, he's a citizen - but if he was born out of the country, he would not qualify based upon his mother's status. Read and learn: http://travel.state.gov/law/citizenship/citizenship_5199.html
Again, I'm sorry, but you are wrong. Well, yes/no, he would be a citizen, but not a "natural born citizen," which is what the Constitution very clearly specifies/requires. Why is that so hard for people to understand?
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0812/79998.html?hp=l13
Ex NPR Hill reporter quits, wants to be a real journalist
14 years on the Hill, Lied to daily
Do not be alarmed by the Black Hawks training in Minneapolis. It's just urban training for the imminent sand hut invasion in the middle east.
http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2012/08/27/downtown-mpls-serves-as-black-h...
The comments on that site remind me of ZH - just without the "Bitchez" and swearing. I'm happily surprised.
Go fuck yourself. I don't like people who try to control words. Swearing,cursing, obscene language, no they are not foul words. If you take offense keep it to yourself. Politician, Banker,Leader, Manager, federal reserve I consider those words obscene. No one gives you the right to tell others how they should act ,talk or relate if they are not effecting your life.
You must work for the government then? No, then keep it to yourself or grow up.
Jesus Fucking Christ dude - take a valium. Who's trying to control language? - I couldn't give two shits who swears to high heaven here or anywhere else. I was just pleased a mainstream media site had commentary as enlightened as here.
We, in Virginia, refer to the Black Hawks as "Urban Assualt Manuveuvers". The last time I saw that was after the police were acquited for beating Rodney King.
The author seems pretty confused, the CFR is a solid Soros/Progressive foundation solidly aligned with the MSM(NYT, WaPo, CNN, ABC, NBC, NPR, PBS, CBS, MSNBC, Huffpoo etc etc). While Fox does provide some cover where interests of the elites overlap, Soros would like nothing better than to end Fox.
For reference the membership list(Rupert is there but so is Soros and son, BJ and Chelsea etc and most MSM "reporters/journalists", and the usual suspect RINOs like Cheney);
http://www.cfr.org/about/membership/roster.html?
My sister refuses to believe that Barack Obama is a total fake, she listens to NPR, thinks the Huffington Post is real, Michelle Obama is "the coolest lady...EVER!" all of that media claptrap. It's disconcerting, especially since she's so goddamn intelligent, but people have that normalcy bias, that unwillingess to accept the fact that the game is rigged, the jolly roger is flying over their country.
I asked my father, who is a retired Aerospace engineer and once told me "we're not killing enough people in Iraq", how an airliner could have pulled of that aerobatic maneuver that allowed it to slam into the Pentafgon and vapourize. **crickets**. I sent him the film Fall of the Republic, and that helped. But not enough....he's 75 and ain't changin' his mind.
The delusion is alive and well with a lot of people.
I love watching people confront the collapse of WTC7. They either go: "holy shit" with a visible light bulb appearing above their heads (rare) or just sort of twitch while failing to come up with a plausible excuse, kinda like a broken Stepford wife, before disconnecting from the whole process.
Its insane to believe that a group of people went into every building that collapsed on 9/11 and, undetected by anyone, installed the hundreds of separate explosive charges necessary to destroy those buildings, wired them all together and detonated them.
Expecialy when there was no requirement that those building collapse. Mereley hitting the two towers with hijacked planes would have been enough to get the desired political results. WTC7? If you are going to claim it was brought down by explosive charges, then explain why it was ever wired with explosives and destroyed in the first place. It wasn't hit by any planes, and if it never collapsed, our country still would have done every single thing it used 9/11 as an excuse to do. WTC7 added nothing to 9/11! So Marriot lost a hotel, bfd.
Furthermore, as 9/11 was used to justify invading Iraq and Afganistan, it would seen likely that government would have claimed the hijackers were citizens of those two countries if 9/11 was a government conspiracy, and not from Saudi Arabia, a country we never attacked and still claim to be friends with.
My dad just turned 83 yesterday. He had been an autoworker for most of his working life and he was a life long democrat voter. It took him all these years and this "president" for him to see things for what they are.
Same with religion. It's not a simple matter of digesting facts, it's admitting everything they know and everyone they ever trusted in their life was either lying or also deceived.
"Inconceivable!"
"You keep saying that but I do not think that word means what you think it does."
A couple years back I was talking to a friend, and I remarked "I never picked you true believer, but you've got god man, and your religion is western civilization." He had no idea what my meanign was - he kept saying he was an athiest .. nope I said, you are a believer. Athiests don't like to be told they 'got religion' :P
Thats why it is so difficult to get through to people - because no amount of information is going to 'prove god doesn't exist'. You want them to give up their eternal soul .. irrefutable logic simply doesn't cut it.
Now, I dont know if I convinced him of much - but I just kept askign him how he knew things - where did he get the information, if it wasnt first hand - then why accept that as the only possible version of things - surely that is not an act of reason, but an act of faith. Im sure only one of us was enjoying the conversation.
college football goes into high gear this weekend
you get to *pick* the team you want to root for in each game, which is pretty cool
and experts tell you what's going on and what the players did wrong and what they should do next, which makes you feel kind of smart and part of game, so you can talk to your colleagues on monday and defend a point of view
don't know about you but I'll be glued to the tv all day
True in the US and everywhere else, here too. Try to write something that goes against the gospel, even if it's a fact and you will be vilified.
like the fact 400 americans own more capital than 150 million americans
watch the junk come out
Without mention of or reference to why and how that situation came to be, the comment is empty class-warfare rhetoric with a strong subtext of naked envy.
.. " Foreign policy issues are always carefully framed to include insignificant differences to create the illusion of meaningful debate. "
+Avogadro's
And Europe is so much better? Imagine a place where every TV station is MSNBC. Every radio station is NPR. Every newspaper is the the New York Times (I don't mean this in a good way). And every magazine is the the New Republic.
Keep in mind, that by European standards, the Democrats would be considered a right wing party.
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/archive.cgi?noframes;read=169261
Left gatekeepers chart. US foundations fund phony left publications
THE GATEKEEPERS": FOUNDATION FUND PHONEY "LEFT" MEDIA - CHART
And so, True American is never able to escape his prison.
They don't want to escape. They want back into the Matrix that was 2006. Hummers, steak, and beer for Americans. To hell with the rest of the world.
Truth be told, I think they want to revert a little further back and party like it's 1999. Ya know, when the 'end of history' had been proclaimed, the naz was propelling trading accounts to the moon, a coat of housepaint smelt like fresh collateral for a new home equity loan, and billy 'first black president' clinton was leading us all to the surplus land. If those days weren't peak delusion, then we aren't currently experiencing peak denial.
It's quite simple and somewhat binary...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arcJksDgCOU
The problem is not how things are, but how things will be.
What happens when people can't afford the cable telly? When they can't make that cross country trip to go to yet another college football game? When they can't afford to go to another mindless Hollywood movie? When their 401k goes to shit and they have nothing left? When the cities and towns have no more money and can't fund the police or fire departments?
When that happens we all suffer, because we are talking mass unemployment. Because all of us are plugged into the system. And then it's either anarchy or totalitarianism.
Yes there will be pockets that do ok, but in general there's no escape if you are an American citizen.
That's, ultimately, what it means to be an American, in the end. Your parents or grandparents or great grandparents left a perfectly good place, and came to a magical, fantasy land insane asylum.
What happens when people can't afford the cable telly? When they can't make that cross country trip to go to yet another college football game? When they can't afford to go to another mindless Hollywood movie? When their 401k goes to shit and they have nothing left? When the cities and towns have no more money and can't fund the police or fire departments?
That's already happened. Look around you. Most folks just get depressed and do a lot less.
The problems are only going to occur if people stop EATING regularly. There have been numerous examples over the past few years from other parts of the world.
What happens when people can't afford the cable telly?
Cable is as important in this game as DoD. It will be provided for free.
Here's another perspective.
Liberalism has become the defacto "state" religion. It's an infection that has permeated the bureaucracy of government, officials and in many cases, across political lines, without even knowing it.
Go back in time and you'll notice that churches (of different denominations) provided hospitals and schools. During that imperfect, but earlier period, people took care of their parents, uncles, aunts. Many families had a relative live with them.
Along came liberalism which said we have a better way of doing things... we'll give you hospitals along with abortion and a host of other "new" options. School curriculums were "updated" to include more "modern" views and ideas (just watch one hour of TV this evening and you'll understand what I'm talking about). Welfare came along and replaced a societal approach which was rooted in religious value... all at an economic price. It was a glorious time when politicians created their own state religion and we are now paying for it.
If you try to talk with liberals and their ilk and can get past their smug self-assured views on making the world a better place (their religious world view ) you'll find that their fervor is rooted in something deeper. They, like all people have the desire to seek God. It's just that their pride, vanity and desire to be popular blinds them to what they are really looking for. Their misplaced desire to do good has failed miserably. Their house of cards is collapsing. What is going on today is not a crisis in capitalism (as many liberals content), rather what we have is a crisis in liberalism.
No wonder we're in the mess we're in.
That's a big bunch of bullshit. "Liberalism" isn't a religion at all, and not everyone has a desire to "seek God."
Wishful thinking on your part, bot.
The reason the house of cards is collapsing is because too many people believed that lie that "there'll be more money tomorrow." Liberal/conservative has nothing to do with it. It happened everywhere.
Sorry for insulting your limousine liberal sensitivities. I'm sure you're also into revisionist history and think only illiterate peasants believe in God.
Go check your facts about how churches contributed to North American culture and how liberalism has become the dominant state religion since the 1950s. Facts are facts - like it or not.
Regarding God... well that's your problem, but consider one fact... every, I mean every culture that has existed since recorded history has had a belief in God... even cultures that were isolated for thousands of years (Australian Aboriginals, for example) had a belief. There is something innate in all human to connect with the creator. Your blind liberal arrogance doesn't allow you to see this. Communist atheism has won you over. Supremacy of human thought unfortunately is your only criteria for truth.
Perhaps once you've gotten some gray hair and have some more life experience, you'll come to review your arrogant stance regarding your creator.
You're really dependent on that God thing, eh?
None of what you suggest about me happens to be true. I don't assert God's existence, but if he shows up, I'll give him his due.
If you can't interpret your world without a "holy war" going on, why not choose Islam? That's generally a more popular choice with you primitives.
At least it's a religion, unlike liberalism.
every culture that has existed since recorded history has had a belief in God
By the way--according to YOUR Priest-caste, none of the ancients believed in "God." They were pagan idolatrists. It's almost as if you don't even believe your own bullshit.
Keep drinking the koolaid there buddy - your agitation tells me that I've struck a cord with you.
You know - when Liberals like you are taken on and your bankrupt theology is threatened, you always reach for the tried and true tools of your ilk - "holy wars", right-wing extremism, pedophile priests, the Inquisition, Galileo, etc... It's the only diversion that you Liberals have available to deflect away legitimate exposure of your bankrupt theology. I have yet to meet at Liberal who you can have a challenging debate with without reaching for the mud slinging. Your world view is ending.
The ideology of liberalism is receiving its rightful finish on the anvil of history.
What's to debate? You've just made a claim with nothing to support it. I raised a few points about your errors, and you ignored them to focus solely on me personally.
BTW: what koolaid do you think I'm drinking? Is there koolaid that causes people to call you an idiot?
Oddly enough, I live where Truman was filmed. Irony doesn't begin to describe the bubble mentality here. We've been flipping houses again for nearly 2 years and tourism has never been better. Who doesn't love a $3m box of wood in hurricane alley? Surfs up bra!
"Good morning, and in case I don't see ya, good afternoon, good evening, and good night!"
And, also of some importance, Fema coffins can be recycled: http://tinyurl.com/8ndz64y
"He and his neighbours' sunny reactions to news of the various American armed interventions around the world is secured by their knowledge that everything is as it should be; for they have liberal, democratic values."
The concept had potential but that illogical, baseless and patently false statement turned out to be the fulcrum of the whole clever construct. It's a waste of electrons.
Is the human mind capable of processing a complex idea? The answer is yes but logic seems to be inversely proportional the the number of humans involved. Sadly, this relation is not biologically sustainable.
The simple truth is that Americans are the bad guys. That is why so many prefer to remain within their fantasy.
I'm confused.
Is this about the media, in general, or Fox News in particular?
I see no difference between any news outlet and Fox News, except that Fox (or any Murdoch enterprise) has a slightly different angle. They still say the same things, but just push a different ideology. It's a matter of degrees.
So why are Murdoch and Fox singled out here?
And, for what it's worth, it's unlikely a Fox News believer would wind up on Zero Hedge. It's unlikely the Fox News believer would wind up on the Complex World blog, for that matter. So this is, in essence, a rant to other people of like mind(s) to reassure themselves "Not to worry, those silly Fox Newsers are just stupid and misguided, unlike us hyper-intelligent macrobeings."
Which isn't all that different from how Fox Newsers (or believers in other media outlets) think of themselves. So this makes the person writing this piece.....self-indulgent to the point of irrelevance.
Nice work and a good way to look at the world, but seriously not worth reading. I crapped out on this piece 1/5 of the way through because it became a self-evident piece of mental masturbation.
You are right about the different news outlets.
As for the rest, do you have the same comments about William Banzai's work? Possibly one or more of the denizens here might know someone who might have a look.
Actually, the audience of ZH and that of the World Complex are different. TWC is primarily aimed at academics and near academics. If there is anyone who is more ensnared in the Truman Show, I can't think of who it would be. For academics (and government researchers and the like) the trap is more insidious because they are so smart they think they can't be fooled.