tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77808702510286816172024-03-13T18:13:29.287+00:00What on EarthIf you don't read newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read newspapers you're misinformed. (M Twain)Marc J Vinklehoffenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07027258519790492936noreply@blogger.comBlogger74125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780870251028681617.post-67160215519458731182010-11-19T23:22:00.006+00:002010-11-19T23:39:26.767+00:00Quantitative Easing ExplainedMarc J Vinklehoffenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07027258519790492936noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780870251028681617.post-36944849329987258372008-07-10T13:32:00.003+01:002008-07-10T15:05:07.074+01:00Chomsky: What makes the mainstream media mainstream? (part two)OrwellOrwell wrote Animal Farm in the mid-1940's, a satire on the Soviet Union, on a totalitarian state. "Literary Censorship in England" was an introduction to that novel, but it was suppressed and wasn't discovered until some 30 years later. In it Orwell says that whilst England isn't a totalitarian state, and doesn't have the KBG breathing down peoples necks, the result is pretty much the sameMarc J Vinklehoffenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07027258519790492936noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780870251028681617.post-17120076241662465622008-07-06T13:28:00.010+01:002008-07-06T15:32:20.608+01:00Chomsky: What makes the mainstream media mainstream? (part one)What follows are detailed notes of a talk Chomsky gave at the Z Media Institute in June 1997. The talk was called what makes the mainstream media mainstream?The media readily lends itself to being studied. The evidence of what is and is not being reported, the focus of what is reported, what is ignored or suppressed, etc, can be analysed every day by looking at the press itself.Studying the mediaMarc J Vinklehoffenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07027258519790492936noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780870251028681617.post-74888807333274474782008-07-04T00:54:00.011+01:002008-07-05T16:37:05.275+01:00The BBC: "a mouthpiece for establishment views""Media commentators have been quick to point out that the communal door linking BBC, government and business executives has been turning for a very long time."~Thanks to a recommendation I was recently introduced to the website medialens, a 'UK-based media-watch project which offers authoritative criticism of media bias and censorship'.Whilst I'm new to the site I was particularly interested in Marc J Vinklehoffenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07027258519790492936noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780870251028681617.post-48756611538730060832008-06-22T17:42:00.007+01:002008-06-22T18:02:20.842+01:00Television and the media: the almighty inventors of false realities."I know the secret of making the average American believe anything I want him to. Just let me control television...You put somemthing on television and it becomes reality. If the [real] world contradicts the images [on television], people start trying to change the world to make it look like the images [on television]." (Hal Becker)"They must find it difficult: those who have taken authority as Marc J Vinklehoffenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07027258519790492936noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780870251028681617.post-38157803722318999392008-06-16T22:38:00.011+01:002008-07-02T18:01:54.863+01:00FILM: Money as Debt"The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled."John K Galbraith (Canadian economist, 1908-2006)If you're like me you've probably never asked yourself how banks 'create' money. Similarly you probably didn't realise that 'creating' money was something banks did. Well, they do.~Everytime you take out a loan from a bank it 'creates' money. It does so by simply Marc J Vinklehoffenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07027258519790492936noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780870251028681617.post-79280688037355930322008-06-15T13:55:00.000+01:002008-06-15T14:59:56.100+01:009/11 Truth Movement: Karen Johnson at Arizona State SenateOn 10 Jone 2008 Arizona State Senator Karen Johnson called on the Arizona Senate to endorse a new and independent investigation into the 9/11 attacks. Johnson spoke of the inadequacy of the official 9/11 investigations which failed to reveal the full truth of the largest terrorist attacks on US soil in the country's history. Johnson paid specific attention to the overwhelming evidence supporting Marc J Vinklehoffenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07027258519790492936noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780870251028681617.post-47344759647961148222008-06-14T15:48:00.000+01:002008-06-16T15:30:54.557+01:00BBC's Pro-Israeli Bias by Stephen LendmanWhilst the main focus of Lendman's article is the BBC's pro-Israeli bias, his overall analysis of the BBC at the begginning of the article seems accurate to me. Pro-government, pro-big business; "a propoganda system for elite interests". Whilst here and there it is possible to find honest investigative reporting on the BBC (for instance Panorama's recent Daylight Robbery by Jane Corbin), such Marc J Vinklehoffenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07027258519790492936noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780870251028681617.post-80940796573422500462008-06-05T21:06:00.000+01:002008-06-08T11:02:30.883+01:00FILM: Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's war on journalism [notes]These are some of the notes I took whilst watching the documentary Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's war on journalism (on freedocumentaries). Much of the film consists of testimony from former FOX insiders. Some were only willing to speak on condition of anonimity.TRAILERSTATISTICSMurdoch's Empire9 satellite television networks100 cable channels175 newspapers40 book imprints40 television stations1 fim Marc J Vinklehoffenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07027258519790492936noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780870251028681617.post-55875313045944897492008-05-20T15:50:00.000+01:002008-05-21T22:28:22.597+01:00The Home Office is creating a database to store details of every phone call, email and web page visited in BritainBy Andy Bloxham writing for the Telegraph. ~~~"The Home Office will create a database to store the details of every phone call made, every email sent and every web page visited by British citizens in the previous year under plans currently under discussion, it has emerged." "The Government wants to create the system to fight terrorism and crime." ~"A Home Office spokesman said the move was neededMarc J Vinklehoffenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07027258519790492936noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780870251028681617.post-41870816214906271132008-05-20T15:07:00.000+01:002008-05-23T19:14:06.854+01:00Mario Savio: Speaking in 1964Marc J Vinklehoffenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07027258519790492936noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780870251028681617.post-11451802399041259842008-05-20T00:29:00.000+01:002008-06-07T10:46:16.485+01:00Sibel Edmonds and the Machine: chewed up and spat outSibel Edmonds was born in 1970 and is Turkish-American. Up until March 2002 she worked as a translator for the FBI. During the course of her work she encountered evidence that the the FBI was actively supressing evidence of US involvement in the illegal sales of nuclear materials and technologies to Turkey (often on behalf of Pakistan's ISI), drug trafficking, money laundering, terrorism, and Marc J Vinklehoffenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07027258519790492936noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780870251028681617.post-64393619238267116972008-05-17T09:58:00.001+01:002008-06-30T06:10:23.502+01:00The Orchestrated Eradication of Liberty in Britian"Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is the highest political end."(Lord Acton)Around five or six months ago I decided to keep a file dedicated news articles about the increasing number of ways the British state is spying on us. I was partly motivated after finding out that home secretary Jacqui Smith had quietly passed a law in July 2007 giving 795 public companies and Marc J Vinklehoffenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07027258519790492936noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780870251028681617.post-57706206650223439192008-05-15T17:21:00.000+01:002008-05-15T17:23:09.711+01:00Keith Fucking Nails ItMarc J Vinklehoffenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07027258519790492936noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780870251028681617.post-41086540480194135642008-05-11T10:23:00.000+01:002008-05-20T00:19:01.607+01:00Project CensoredFounded in the US in 1976 Project Censored conducts research into important national news stories that are 'underreported, ignored, misrepresented, or censored by the US corporate media'. Between 700 and 1,000 stories are submitted to Project Censored each year. Of these, through the work of over 200 Sonoma State University faculty, student and community members, 25 stories are selected for Marc J Vinklehoffenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07027258519790492936noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780870251028681617.post-87555367980920294222008-05-03T19:45:00.000+01:002008-05-05T00:01:01.836+01:00Volvanic Eruption In ChileMarc J Vinklehoffenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07027258519790492936noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780870251028681617.post-28246258770358597902008-05-02T10:19:00.000+01:002008-05-03T17:20:41.609+01:00Steven Jones et al Publish Paper in The Open Civil Engineering JournalRead the paper from Steven Jones blog linked below.Fourteen Points of Agreement with Official Government Reports on the World Trade Center DestructionOn the question of NIST's refusal to investigate or even consider the possibility that World Trade Centre building 7 was brought down in a controlled demolition, the paper mentions the following exchange (below), which says something about NIST's Marc J Vinklehoffenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07027258519790492936noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780870251028681617.post-80541828082711052882008-05-02T09:33:00.000+01:002008-05-03T17:23:22.918+01:00The Bank Of England & The Federal ReserveI've heard many times that the international bankers which owned the Bank of England are the same people that established the US Federal Reserve bank in 1913. I recently came across the following charts from the Congressional House Banking Committee Staff Report, published August 1976, which explain the somewhat complex links between the major London and US banking institutions. They also detail Marc J Vinklehoffenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07027258519790492936noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780870251028681617.post-72155826156099632062008-04-26T22:24:00.000+01:002008-05-11T07:21:22.427+01:00Chomsky: The Obedient Rise, The Disobedient FallThe following excerpt is from Anarchy in the USA, an interview Chomsky gave to Charles M Young for Rolling Stone magazine on 28 May 1992.~~~QUESTION: Do you ever wonder about the psychology of these American commissars? You've written about the filtering process by which the obedient rise to the top and the disobedient end up elsewhere, but I wonder what goes on in their heads.CHOMSKY: I don't Marc J Vinklehoffenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07027258519790492936noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780870251028681617.post-84241045654440640102008-04-14T00:16:00.000+01:002008-04-15T05:23:24.479+01:00Steve E Jones Paper To Be Published In Science JournalOn 4 April Steven E Jones revealed on his blog that he has had a paper on his 9/11 research peer-reviewed for publication in a mainstream science journal. Whilst I don't know the content of the paper this is nevertheless another major step forward for Jones and the 9/11 Truth movement. Science journals don't deal with "conspiracy theories" (whatever the hell they are), they - like Jones - deal Marc J Vinklehoffenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07027258519790492936noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780870251028681617.post-23871475938509736712008-04-13T22:29:00.000+01:002008-05-11T08:34:55.839+01:00Joined Up Journalism IIFBI Head Predicts Al-Qaeda Defeat (7 April 2008, BBC)A week is a long time in the 'war on terror'. The head of the FBI Robert Mueller (speaking in London to an audience which included Johnathon Evans, head of MI5, and Ian Blair, the metropolitan police commissioner) said that the West can achieve victory over Al-Qaeda within three-and-a-half years.~(One may wonder what this victory might look Marc J Vinklehoffenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07027258519790492936noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780870251028681617.post-42469812073112543392008-04-11T08:25:00.000+01:002008-04-11T08:33:02.097+01:00David Lynch: Explaining His Thesis Of The Role New Mobile Phone Technology Has Played In The Advancement Of CinemaMarc J Vinklehoffenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07027258519790492936noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780870251028681617.post-62198186993999587302008-04-04T17:25:00.000+01:002008-04-10T01:58:57.340+01:00The Gulf of Tonkin: "It didn't happen."The Gulf of Tonkin incident occurred on 4nd August 1964. On that day the US Maddox, a naval destroyer, was said to have been attacked by North Vietnamese patrol boats whilst carrying out missions in the Gulf of Tonkin. The media lept on the story that the communist Vietnamese had attacked a US vessel. And on the basis of the attack the US Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin resolution. This Marc J Vinklehoffenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07027258519790492936noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780870251028681617.post-54102265990780854782008-03-24T12:46:00.000+00:002008-05-03T18:44:02.553+01:00John Dewey: The Individual and the WorldRecently I heard Chomsky quote an American philosopher, psychologist and educational reformer called John Dewey (1859-1952). I had never heard of Dewey before and have since learned that he was a significant influence upon Chomsky's thinking. This is the quote:"Government is the shadow cast by business over society."Chomsky elaborated by saying that changing the shadow does not change the Marc J Vinklehoffenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07027258519790492936noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780870251028681617.post-20821229172611423972008-03-16T19:49:00.000+00:002008-05-03T18:12:45.134+01:00The Azores Summit: Still Lying After All These YearsAt the Azores summit five years ago today President Bush declared that the US “has the sovereign authority to use force in assuring its own national security.” This sentiment was echoed by Prime Minister Blair: Iraq was a threat to us and its neighbours. Notably Iraq was said to be a threat with or without Saddam. That is, even if Saddam left Iraq - something which was rumoured to be a Marc J Vinklehoffenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07027258519790492936noreply@blogger.com0