http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=communist Fri, 24 May 2013 00:28:10 -0400 Liveleak http://edge.liveleak.com/80281E/u/u/ll2/logo.gif http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=communist Thu, 23 May 2013 19:10:17 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f69_1369349309 Baron_Kaz So after going jingoistic and ballistic on Japan, Vietnam, India, Phillipines on border issues, the Chinese Premier is on a "mending" mission traveling through India, Pakista, Germany and Switzerland. As a rational thinker, I am inclined to believe this is the kind of propaganda bullshit only a 1950's style communist Dictatorship can think up. Some functionaries rile up the neighbors and create a furor for internal consumption, then the new leader goes out and fixes everything. Typical cult of personality propaganda mechanism. Especially so, since China with drew on every front after making aggressive moves. Moves which did not make strategic sense, since antagonizing nearly several neighbor on every front is nary the action of the sane. In fact quite similar to what the pudgy poison dwarf in N. Korea did recently with his posturing and threats and poorly made animated videos of missiles attacking DC. So China is settling in its new leadership, and there begins another horrific saga of the people being ground by the communist boots. A single voice of reason resonates, that of blind dissident Chen Guandcheng who recently escaped from house arrest in Beijing. Chen was pretty categorical "The Chinese government cannot be trusted", he said. "Chinese people aren't like that, but the government's word can never be trusted. It is an authoritarian regime." He also talked about the Tibetans in exile in India, led by the venerable Dalai Lama, "I say a big yes for China to talk to the Dalai Lama. It is China's own propaganda to defame the Dalai Lama. It is important the international community pressurises the Chinese government to give freedom to Tibet", he said. Story from National Geographic: April, 29, 2013. "Tibetans continue to burn. This week, two monks from Taktsang Lhamo Kirti monastery, Lobsang Dawa and Konchok Woeser, set themselves on fire to protest Chinese rule. A week earlier, a young mother by the single name Chugtso self-immolated, leaving behind her husband and a three-year-old child. Well over a hundred Tibetans have sacrificed themselves in this way since 2009. Yet it's very difficult for journalists to cover the burnings, because Chinese authorities block access to the areas where they occur, and impose punishments on those who provide information to the outside world. The self-immolation a year ago of Jamphel Yeshi, however, took place in India, beyond the Chinese news blockade." As rational, reasonable human beings we put up with a lot of bull shit from China. We treat them like the bully kid in school, who has to be tolerated since he is also giving out cheap candy. But how much more? They stole our money, by refusing to honor debts incurred by the government before the communists came to power. They poisoned babies and puppies with melamine laced products, sold endangered lives by selling counterfeit eggs and grapes made with unsafe chemicals (watch the video on my channel), supported every known despot dictatorship, pegged the yuan to the dollar and made the US take resounding losses, stole technology from us. When do we say enough is enough? Buddhism is one of the most peaceful religions in the world, and Tibet is one of the most peaceful places. How many more innocents need to burn, before we wake up or awake our sleeping political over lords, to take action to preserve our own humanity and our duty towards our fellow men? Attached are some heart rendering images of monks silently burning themselves to death, under the belief their sacrifice will stir an emotion in our heart. That we will for a few minutes stop watching stupid television programs, porn, lusting after our neighbor's hot latina wife, or picking our noses, to write an email to our local congress man or senator, demanding action. And a free Tibet is in the interest of the free world. Another friendly nation, in between China, Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan... can you imagine the strategic importance of that? So please see the attached images, and do what your heart tells you to. God Bless. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f69_1369349309 Baron_Kaz What about the Dalai Lama and the Tibetans in exile... Tibet Thu, 23 May 2013 07:21:35 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=4c4_1369307745 Lake8737 His speech will gain more popularity among average Chinese people in China than among those students in the USA who are mainly offspring of corrupt communist officials or millionaires, beneficiaries of the current regime in China. Google translate U.S. Vice President Joe Biden on May 13 at the University of Pennsylvania commencement address, said China is not "alternative thinking" or "free breathing" of the country, caused by the presence of Chinese students dissatisfaction. According to Hong Kong, "South China Morning Post," 22 reported that the school Chinese students have drafted a letter asking Biden made http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=4c4_1369307745 Lake8737 Biden asked for apology by Chinese students for attacking China china,chinese,usa,student,freedom Mon, 20 May 2013 02:07:57 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=9e4_1369029266 star53 Impeach Comrade Barack Hussein Obama...arrest and convict his tyrannical Regime http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=9e4_1369029266 star53 IRS Shake Down of 'True the Vote' Involved Visits From FBI, OSHA and ATF - Who Checked Gun Safe Impeach, Comrade Barack Hussein Obama,Communist, tyrannical Regime,FBI, OSHA,ATF, Wed, 22 May 2013 20:03:21 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c89_1369265541 star53 For those of us that actually take the time to do our own homework, to investigate the facts, and learn the truth..We already know a lot about of what Mr. Larry Grathwohl is saying in this interview. How the communist, Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn and The Weather Underground terrorist group, nurtured, and financed, Barack Hussein Obama along to be the radical un-American that he is today. How they eventually became so called, respected Marxist Professors at prestigious colleges,teaching their Marxist ideology to the Progressive Liberals, dumbing them down, making them hate America,Our forefathers,our constitution and bill of rights, our way of life. As we have taken the time to do our own homework, to investigate the facts, I suggest you take the times to watch and listen to this interview. I did and Mr. Larry Grathwohl spoke of some things I wasn't aware of, and maybe you are not aware of either. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c89_1369265541 star53 Bringing Down America by Larry Grathwohl Larry Grathwohl,Bill Ayers,Bernardine Dohrn,Weather Underground terrorist group,Barack Obama and Michelle Obama Wed, 22 May 2013 10:23:21 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=587_1369232264 AlunHill North Korea TV: USA Perversions - Special Report, All Perversions Covered, Except One In this in-depth report, North Korea Television looks at perversions in the USA today. The report, filmed at great personal risk to the presenter, Alun Hill, includes the sins of under-utilized caffeine, homosexualism, double entendre shampoo, lesbianism, sadism, radioactive atomically energetic militarism, mob starvation riotism, communist-coached sex educationalism, pornographicism, and other 'isms' left unnamed. He also shows the government-sponsored perversion shelters - which have been built in the United States in every town and city - to house all upstanding, incorruptible American families in their valiant but ultimately in vain efforts to remain normal. Can you work out the missing perversion? (Residents of Oregon are not eligible. For obvious reasons.) Answers below, please. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=587_1369232264 AlunHill North Korea TV: USA Perversions - Special Report, All Perversions Covered, Except One north korea, america, perversions, Tue, 21 May 2013 22:55:44 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=23d_1369191177 roburat The dire manners and "uncivilised behaviour" of some Chinese tourists abroad are harming the country's image, said a top official who lamented their poor "quality and breeding", according to state-run media. Wang Yang, one of China's four vice premiers, singled out for condemnation "talking loudly in public places, jay-walking, spitting and wilfully carving characters on items in scenic zones". Such "uncivilised behaviours" were "often criticised by the media and have damaged the image of Chinese people and caused vicious impact", he said, according to the website of the People's Daily, the ruling Communist Party's mouthpiece. China proclaims itself a 5,000-year-old civilisation but at a government meeting Thursday on a new tourism law Wang said: "The quality and breeding of some tourists are not high yet." Chinese consumers have become increasingly affluent on the back of its economic boom and foreign holidays are ever more popular, with shopping often a key activity. Destination countries, including debt-laden European states, have been easing visa restrictions to attract more tourists from China, but reports have also emerged of complaints about etiquette. "Improving the civilised quality of the citizens and building a good image of Chinese tourists are the obligations of governments at all levels and relevant agencies and companies," said Wang, a former party chief of Guangdong province, which borders Hong Kong. Authorities should "guide tourists to conscientiously abide by public order and social ethics, respect local religious beliefs and customs, mind their speech and behaviour... and protect the environment," he said. A mainland Chinese mother who asked her son to relieve himself in a bottle in a crowded Hong Kong restaurant sparked an outpouring of online anger in February in the former British colony, where some locals deride mainlanders as "locusts". Travel authorities in rich eastern province of Jiangsu earlier this year urged travellers to "take less cash, never show off money or valuables" after 23 Chinese visitors were robbed in Paris. http://ph.news.yahoo.com/chinese-tourists-uncivilised-top-official-065348761.html http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=23d_1369191177 roburat Some Chinese Tourist Have Uncivilised Behaviour uncivilised behaviour, tourist, chinese Mon, 20 May 2013 19:46:36 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=aad_1369093394 Detroit Iron A group of Chinese fishermen are said to be held hostage in North Korea, straining ties already frayed by North Korea's missile launches. By Arthur Bright o A daily summary of global reports on security issues. The Chinese embassy in North Korea is "working on" securing the release of the crew of a Chinese fishing boat held by unidentified armed North Koreans, who are reportedly seeking a ransom. The Associated Press reports that, according to the ship owner Yu Xuejun, the Liaoning -based boat was seized on May 5 by kidnappers demanding 600,000 yuan ($100,000) ransom for the 16 crew members' safe return. In another plea for help on Monday, Yu wrote on his blog that he received another call from "the North Korean side" on Sunday night, still demanding money. "My captain gave me the phone, his voice was trembling, could feel he was very afraid, told me no later than 5 p.m. today," Yu wrote. He said he suspected his crew had been mistreated. RECOMMENDED: How much do you know about China? Take our quiz. Mr. Yu said that the boat was seized in Chinese waters, although the kidnappers reportedly claimed it was in North Korean territory. RECOMMENDED: How much do you know about China? Take our quiz. Yu told Agence France-Presse that he believes the kidnappers are part of the North Korean military , though he is not certain. He reported the incident to the Chinese government, but took to social media to publicize his crew's predicament after becoming frustrated with a lack of official action. "It has almost been two weeks, but I haven't seen any results," he told AFP. Chinese state news agency Xinhua published its first report on the matter on Sunday, writing that the Chinese embassy in North Korea "is working on the detention" and is "asking Pyongyang to ensure the safety and legitimate rights and interests of the fishermen." The incident comes amid a tense situation on the Korean peninsula . North Korea in recent months has conducted several missile launches and nuclear tests, including six short-range rocket launches over the weekend and two more today . China , a traditional ally of North Korea, has been showing greater irritation with its neighbor, including supporting UN sanctions against Pyongyang over its most recent nuclear test. AP writes that kidnappings of Chinese nationals by North Korean pirates are actually fairly common - including a similar event last year in which 29 fishermen were seized by armed North Koreans and later released. "Whatever you call North Korea - rogue state or whatever - these kind of cases just keep happening," said a Liaoning Maritime and Fishery Administration official who identified himself only by his surname, Liu. "We had such cases last year and the year before. There's very little we can do to prevent them." The Global Times, a Chinese Communist Party newspaper, suggests that the current tension between Beijing and Pyongyang may result in a greater willingness for the Chinese to publicize the incidents - and that North Korea is deliberately targeting China . Cui Zhiying, director of the Korean Peninsula Research Center at the Shanghai -based Tongji University , told the Global Times that as the relations between China and North Korea are gradually changing from traditional ideological allies to normal bilateral relations, these kinds of reports are being disclosed more frequently than before. Jin Qiangyi, director of the Asian Studies Center at Yanbian University, told the Global Times Sunday that China has been inclined to deal with such disputes in a low-key manner, which has been taken advantage of by North Korea to infringe upon Chinese fishermen's interests. "It's also possible that the nuclear state is taking revenge on China after the UN imposed a series of sanctions on it following its third nuclear test," said Jin, stressing that the Chinese government should hold firm in safeguarding the safety of its citizens, otherwise, such incidents will reoccur in the future. http://news.yahoo.com/north-korean-pirates-seize-chinese-hostages-demand-ransom-123609892.html http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=aad_1369093394 Detroit Iron North Korean pirates seize Chinese hostages, demand a ransom North Korea, China Sun, 19 May 2013 17:17:21 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f6e_1368998042 dfaugust 'It was a man like him that they feared would come to possess the presidency' Amid a three-pronged attack on the U.S. Constitution by Democrats, talk-radio host Michael Savage reminded his listeners that America's Founding Fathers built into the nation's founding document checks and balances that anticipated the rise of a dictator who would try to seize power. Barack Obama is the type of "petty dictator" the Founders envisioned, Savage told his national audience tonight. The top-rated talk host noted Obama expressed frustration in an interview Sunday regarding the limits imposed by the Constitution "without even understanding that it was a man like him that feared would come to possess the presidency one day." You've always known that "Liberalism is a Mental Disorder": Get Savage Solutions Obama told NBC's Matt Lauer Sunday that "people" have been "frustrated" that "I have not been able to force Congress to implement every aspect of what I said in 2008." "Well, you know," the president continued, "it turns out that our Founders designed a system that makes it more difficult to bring about change than I would like sometimes." Savage also pointed to Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's disdain of the U.S. Constitution in an interview with Egyptian television in Cairo last week and a New York Times story published today that characterized the founding document as old and insufficient for today's world. Ginsburg said in the interview with Al Hayat television Feb. 1 that the Middle East country's revolutionaries should not regard the U.S. Constitution as a model. "I would not look to the U.S. Constitution, if I were drafting a constitution in the year 2012," Ginsburg said. "I might look at the constitution of South Africa. That was a deliberate attempt to have a fundamental instrument of government that embraced basic human rights, have an independent judiciary. It really is, I think, a great piece of work that was done." Savage commented that there's been "a concerted effort on the part of Obama, Ginsburg - and now the New York Times is chiming in - saying the Constitution is out of date, it's old, it guarantees too few rights and it's time to change ." "They want the Constitution to be rewritten," Savage said. The New York Times article, by Adam Liptak, began with asserting the Constitution "has seen better days." "Sure, it is the nation's founding document and sacred text," Liptak wrote. "And it is the oldest written national constitution still in force anywhere in the world. But its influence is waning." Savage surmised that Liptak's ancestors likely fled czarist Russia or a similar land "specifically so they would be protected by the U.S. Constitution." "And now their subterranean grandson, Adam Liptak, is dong the bidding of the petty dictator by saying the Constitution has seen better days," he said. Liptak wrote that the Constitution is "out of step with the rest of the world in failing to protect, at least in so many words, a right to travel, the presumption of innocence and entitlement to food, education and health care." Savage commented: "In other words, because the U.S. Constitution does not guarantee a socialist or communist view of the world, it is, therefore, useless." The Times writer also characterized the right to bear arms as an "idiosyncrasy," pointing out that only 2 percent of the world's constitutions protect that right. "Do you have any idea what is going on here?" Savage asked. "Do you realize that we have a power-mad Leninist in the White House, Barack Obama?" http://www.wnd.com/2012/02/savage-founders-envisioned-petty-dictator-like-obama/ http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f6e_1368998042 dfaugust Founders envisioned 'petty dictator' like Obama obama, tyranny, the Constitition, America, communism, socialism, progressives, propaganda, democRATs, liberals, the left Sat, 18 May 2013 08:15:30 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7d2_1368878891 Detroit Iron By Colbert King East Germany's Ministry for State Security, also known as the Stasi, posed a major challenge during my three-year stint as an attache at the U.S. Embassy in Bonn during the 1960s. Detecting and preventing Stasi agents from penetrating the security of U.S. diplomatic facilities in West Germany was a 24-7 undertaking. The East German secret police were even more ruthless and relentless in operations against their own citizens. Political suppression in that communist state was total. There was no room for dissent. Thousands of East Germans were arbitrarily imprisoned for "internal security" reasons. So it was especially galling to learn upon returning to the states in 1969 that the FBI had a counterintelligence program, known as COINTELPRO, that was, in some ways, as pernicious as the threat we were working against overseas. Senate hearings in the 1970s revealed that the FBI, under the guise of protecting national security, had treated rights guaranteed by the First Amendment as little more than a collection of antiquated wishes best ignored. With its surveillance of citizens, infiltration of civil rights groups and disruption of legal activities, the FBI's counterintelligence program echoed the behavior of East Germany's Stasi. The FBIacknowledges on its Web site that "COINTELPRO was later rightfully criticized by Congress and the American people for abridging first amendment rights and for other reasons." Fortunately, Congress reined in the FBI, placing it behind, and not beyond, the Constitution. Where are we now? The revelations that the Justice Department had secretly seized journalists' phone records and that the Internal Revenue Service had targeted conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status show that government's heavy hand has not been lifted. Are these examples of COINTELPRO revisited? Not quite, though they are disturbing. Governments spend millions to prevent secrets from falling into enemy hands. A Justice Department probe into a compromised Middle East intelligence operation last year was not focused on the surreptitious work of a foreign power. The unlawful disclosure came from within. The Justice Department sought to discover who in the U.S. government allegedly told the Associated Press about a failed al-Qaeda plot in Yemen. The compromised Yemeni operation differs from some breakdowns in national security for its cause. Chalk up that serious breach to hubris: the leaker's puerile chest-thumping about having bested a sworn enemy or, worse, a self-serving desire to burnish the Obama administration's credentials as an al-Qaeda slayer. In this regard, the administration has only itself to blame. On top of the mistakes made by a U.S. official leaking the nation's secrets, the administration compounded things by launching a dragnet for the records of callsreceived and made from 20 phone lines (including office, home and cell numbers) of the AP journalists in five area codes and three states. Talk about power running amok. Meanwhile, back in the bureaucracy, Internal Revenue Service workers were having a high old time putting conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status through hoops. IRS employees were instructed to be on the "lookout" for groups with "tea party" and "patriot" in their names, according to the report of the Treasury Department's inspector general for tax administration. The acting IRS commissioner has already been forced to walk the plank, and more heads may roll. The IRS has a steep hill to climb to gain the public's trust. But there is one bright spot: This misbehavior was detected and exposed by government self-policing. Of course, the selective screening never should have occurred. But the inspector general system created to ferret out government fraud, waste and abuse worked in this case. The Justice Department, meanwhile, is in an even deeper hole. Who can take seriously the department's mission, as stated by its Office of Privacy and Civil Liberties, "to protect the privacy and civil liberties of the American people"? Famed First Amendment lawyer Floyd Abrams told the Daily Beast this week that the Justice Department's broad seizure of journalists' phone records was "certainly one of the most intense intrusions by the government into a pressroom that I can remember." "Why couldn't they put this issue before a judge?" Abrams asked. "What they have done is foreclose any meaningful response by the AP. This isn't just seeking a record of one journalist for one day. This is breaking and entering into the heart of the journalistic process of the Associated Press." Media outlets covering D.C. affairs should also be concerned. Journalists who draw on confidential sources while aggressively covering the city's corruption scandal may now wonder if U.S. Attorney Ronald Machen is going after their phone records. After all, it was Machen's office that served the subpoenas in the AP case. COINTELPRO? No. Unchecked government power? Yes. http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/colbert-king-disturbing-abuses-of-power/2013/05/17/915a7264-bea9-11e2-9b09-1638acc3942e_story.html?hpid=z2 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7d2_1368878891 Detroit Iron Disturbing abuses of power U.S. Justice Department, Internal Revenue Service, Fri, 17 May 2013 22:35:58 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=160_1368844405 plokiju The communist party is not amused by the criticism and is censoring them. Amusing. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=160_1368844405 plokiju China's giant pornographic building China's, giant, pornographic, building, criticism, censor Fri, 17 May 2013 04:38:15 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f81_1368779635 omniradar The Left vs. the Liberal Media Media Lens debunks the BBC's humanitarian interventionists By Neil Clark May 16, 2013 "Information Clearing House " -" The American Conservative "- It all started in July 2001 when two men, concerned about bias in the corporate news media in the UK, began to send out "media alerts" to a small number of family and friends. Twelve years on and Media Lens-the brainchild of writer David Edwards, a former manager in sales and marketing, and David Cromwell, a physicist by background-has established itself as the UK's media watchdog. There's no doubting the impact they have made. "Without their meticulous and humane analysis, the full gravity of the debacles of Iraq and Afghanistan might have been consigned to bad journalism's first draft of bad history," is the verdict of veteran reporter and filmmaker John Pilger. It's been an eventful twelve years. In addition to the "debacles" of Iraq and Afghanistan, we've had the (ongoing) menacing of Iran on account of an unproven nuclear-weapons program and Israeli military assaults on Lebanon in 2006 and on Gaza in 2008 and again in 2012. Add in the global financial crash of 2008, and there's been plenty to keep the two Davids occupied. David Cromwell's new book, Why Are We The Good Guys? , discusses these events and the work that he and Edwards have done to counter the "elite-friendly value assumptions and judgements" that characterize their coverage in Britain. Although he is clearly a man of the left-his working-class childhood was an "interesting mix of Catholic and Communist" influences-Cromwell's not one to be deceived by labels, an important skill to possess in an age when wars are sold as "humanitarian interventions" to gain support from liberals. Media Lens has been outspoken, when the need arises, in its critique of so-called liberal-left media. Many on the British center-left give the BBC a free pass because they have swallowed the line that the organization is somehow "left-wing." Yet Cromwell and Edwards have shown that when it comes to propagandizing for illegal wars and peddling establishment views, the BBC has at least as bad a record as commercial news networks. When I caught up with David to talk to him about his new book, the BBC was in the middle of what has been described by some as the biggest crisis in its 90-year history: the resignation of its Director-General and other bigwigs after the fallout from a "Newsnight" program on child abuse. But while heads rolled over the state-owned broadcaster getting allegations wrong on just one program, Cromwell points out that the BBC was never held accountable for the role it played in the lead up to the Iraq War. "There was no such pressure for senior BBC staff to go over the broadcaster's systemic failure to challenge US-UK propaganda over Iraq's non-existent WMD. This media failure paved the way towards war in Iraq and the subsequent brutal and bloody occupation. Instead of responsible public-service journalism, BBC News provides a reliable conduit for government propaganda, most notably the state's supposedly benign intentions in foreign wars and international relations. That is the daily news diet we are all spoon-fed." No such presumption of good faith applies when journalists discuss the actions of countries that don't toe the Washington line. "It is, of course, fine for journalists in the West to point to the crimes of official enemies and to mock them for their transparent propaganda efforts. Thus, the BBC's Emily Maitlis was able to introduce the flagship television program 'Newsnight' with a touch of sardonic wit: 'Hello, good evening. The Russians are calling it a "peace enforcement operation." It's the kind of Newspeak that would make George Orwell proud.' "Maitlis was referring to the invasion of Russian forces into the Georgian province of South Ossetia in August 2008. By contrast, imagine a BBC presenter referring skeptically to the government's claim of a 'peace enforcement operation' for the West's invasion of Afghanistan, Iraq, or Libya and describing such language as 'the kind of newspeak that would make George Orwell proud.' It just would not happen." I ask Cromwell how he would respond to those who say that Media Lens should devote all its energies on attacking neocon "uber -hawks rather than criticizing the liberal media, which might agree with the group's standpoints, say, 70 percent of the time. "Media Lens has indeed spent more time analyzing the liberal media than right-wing outlets. Why? Because the liberal media is often regarded as the outlets where the most progressive and the most challenging views can be seen and heard. If you like, it's one end of the acceptable spectrum of news and views. But if even here there are severe limits on permissible challenges to state-corporate power, what does that say about society generally? It's like a litmus test for dissent." Cromwell believes that the role of the media in promoting the doctrine of "liberal interventionism" has been absolutely crucial. "If the public was better informed, and not so often misled by those in power, there would likely be a stronger rein on the governing elite. But it's not happening. A major reason for this is that the corporate media acts as an echo chamber and amplifier of government propaganda. Even when challenged, senior journalists say that their role is to report what those in power say and do-even what they 'think.' "For example, when the BBC's Nick Robinson was the ITN political editor, he wrote of the war in Iraq: In the run-up to the conflict, I and many of my colleagues, were bombarded with complaints that we were acting as mouthpieces for Mr Blair. Why, the complainants demanded to know, did we report without question his warning that Saddam was a threat? Hadn't we read what Scott Ritter had said or Hans Blix? I always replied in the same way. It was my job to report what those in power were doing or thinking... . That is all someone in my sort of job can do. "Robinson performs the same compliant role today as political editor for the BBC," Cromwell says. In the '90s we saw an informal alliance formed between neoconservatives and progressives united behind their support for "liberal intervention." I ask Cromwell if he thinks that a similar alliance can be formed between the antiwar left and the antiwar right. "I'd be wary of an overt alliance with anyone, right-wing or otherwise, who espouses other views that I might find distasteful. But certainly traditional conservatives should be-and often are-vehemently opposed to what goes by the benign-sounding term 'neo-liberalism,' which I unpack in the book." One of the most riveting chapters in Cromwell's book is called "Beyond Indifference," in which he talks about his philosophical influences. He concludes-rather like Aldous Huxley-that if we do want to "free ourselves" and live better lives, it all starts with undertaking "small acts of kindness for others." And in contrast, he writes, Violence feeds on violence, as wise people have known for thousands of years. For example, if brutal state repression is met by violence from some elements of society, it provides an excuse for state forces to ramp up fire-power and crush dissent with even more brutal and widespread violence. The current state of Permanent War can only be ended by people coming together peacefully to overcome state power. Cromwell certainly thinks that in challenging elite state propaganda we're in a better position now than we were when Media Lens began in 2001. "One positive thing I've noticed is that more people are challenging the media, at least judging by the messages posted on our board and Facebook page, the emails we get and the tweets we receive. Often, even before we've worked up a media alert, we've been beaten to it by our readers-although, to be fair to ourselves, we do typically wait a few days or longer to see how an event is being played out in the media. Ideally, I would hope that in five years' time there would be less need for Media Lens to be on the internet 'haranguing' and 'vilifying' journalists, as skeptics and opponents sometimes say! And surely by ten years from now I can be happily retired and pottering about in a garden shed. Preferably my own and not some random neighbor's." Neil Clark is a UK-based journalist, blogger, and writer. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f81_1368779635 omniradar The Left vs. the Liberal Media Corporate Media Manipulation Exposed ! Sun, 05 May 2013 21:46:11 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d3c_1367803867 star53 This is an absolutely incredible video you need to watch from Mike Vanderboegh...Especially for One punch, (who suffers from short attention span) that tells me I don't know what Communism is. Maybe you should get in touch with Mr. Mike Vanderboegh who is an Ex Communist and tell him he doesn't know what what communism is either...You dumb ass! Mike Vanderboegh is an ex-communist who founded the Three Percenters Movement, which is based on the reality that only three percent of the early American colonists took to the battlefield and still won. He is also the guy who not only broke the Fast and Furious story in December of 2010, but continuously exposed breaking stories and accounts from confidential sources regarding this scandal. Vanderboegh is spot on concerning Collectivist butchers and the intentions of the Obama Administration. There are a couple of items in his video I especially enjoy. One concerns the language of Collectivists - a 'Radish' is a derogatory term that indicates a Communist who is only red on the outside. A 'Tomato' is red through and through. But a 'Killer Tomato' is a Communist who is willing to pull the trigger. Obama is the leader of the 'Killer Tomatoes.' I also enjoyed Mike's daughter's explanation of the difference between a Communist and a Socialist. Paraphrasing here... a Communist is a Socialist who has found his AK47 and is not afraid to pull the trigger. A Socialist is a Communist who has not found his AK47 yet and is afraid to pull the trigger. How true that is. All 'isms are just different vantage points of the same view. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d3c_1367803867 star53 Ex <span class="highlight">Communist</span> Mike Vanderboegh at Liberty Oath Keeper with Stewart Rhodes - Killer Tomatoes Ex Communist, Mike Vanderboegh,Killer Tomatoes,communism,One punch,dumb ass,Comrade Obama,Communist Party