A DEMOCRACY?

from VETERANSTODAYwebsite.com June 27, 2011: When the Public Rises, . . .

by David Swanson:

For the majority of people in the United States — a majority does not vote, a majority believes the government is broken, a majority thinks our public policy is headed in the wrong direction — the fact that we call this place a democracy is apparently outweighed by the fact that our national government almost never does what a majority of us want done. Some of the things we don’t want done include the destruction of the planet’s environment, the mass slaughter of war, the spreading of violence, and the concentration of wealth in the hands of a tiny aristocracy while millions at home and billions abroad suffer horrifically for lack of readily available resources.

from OFTWOMINDS.COM JUNE 28, 2011,by CHARLES HUGHES,

Greece is a Kleptocracy:

Strip away the bailouts and the bogus austerity plans, and the truth is revealed: Greece is a kleptocracy, and the banks and the ECB Eurocrats are both complicit.

Despite a veritable flood of financial and political analysis about Greece, nobody seems to have noticed the obvious: Greece is a kleptocracy. Just as a refresher, here is the definition of kleptocracy. Ask yourself is this doesn't fit Greece like a supple leather glove:

Kleptocracy, alternatively cleptocracy or kleptarchy, from the Ancient Greek for "thief" and "rule," is a term applied to a government subject to control fraud that takes advantage of governmental corruption to extend the personal wealth and political power of government officials and the ruling class (collectively, kleptocrats), via the embezzlement of state funds at the expense of the wider population, sometimes without even the pretense of honest service. The term means "rule by thieves".

He asks the next day, if it makes you squirm to admit you live in a kleptocracy too?

With Love and Kindness,

THE HATMAN

MSM

To all bloggers, internet contributors, fellow gripers and complainers:

If you are incensed,offended and disappointed by the crappy news presentation on TV and radio. If you' re angry at the lies of ommission,

misrepresentation, and misleading news stories. If you think Paul Krugman

is a dope and the talking heads on CNBC, CNN, CBS NBC and XYZ are

fascist, socialist, communist leaning meatheads, then why, pray why do you watch TV and listen to these jerks?

Your TV and radio have an off button, but you have to use it.

Try it, you'll like it.

With Love and Kindness,

THE HATMAN

BORING, BORING Zzzzzzz

Will someone please write something new?

The internet is becoming a Pete and Repeat saga of nothingness squared

and then doubled.

Seemingly one guy gets a thought , Dum Dum Bernanke or The

empty suit president makes a scripted address and twelve writers pick it

up and make the same comment ( in 500 or more words).

Does anyone not know:

l. The Navy Seals killed a dead guy in Pakistan

2.Some cleric says the world will end 5/20/11 at 6 P.M.

3. The financial cabal torpedoed and is holding down the price of silver.

4. Our manufacturing base has been shipped overseas.

5. Obama's birth certificate is another forgery.

6.The war in Libya does not have congressional authorization.

7. Quantitative Easing is creating price inflation.

8. Gold and Silver are increasingly in demand.

9.The U. S. favors the repressive regimes in Yemen and Bahrain.

10.The U. S. will support Israel no matter what they do or stand for.

Give us a break! Have an original thought or tell us something we don't already know or can figure out for ourselves. Jim Rogers accurately called you guys "a bunch of monkeys with typewriters using group think".

Where did these guys come from that are so highly regarded on the net?

Chris Martenson, John Mauldin, Mike Shedlock, P. Radomski? You guys haven't been right yet. Sorry, Addison Wiggins-- but you are known by the company you keep.

These guys are wondering why I singled them out because there are

dozens, no hundreds, more like them.

The dumbest has been the "debate" as to whether we were going to have inflation or deflation or whether there would be a QE3.

Dumb and dumber!

With Love and Kindness,

THE HATMAN

ARE WE NUTS OR WHAT?

More and more we who were formally sane , well balanced souls who reacted rationally to stories in and on the media, are questioning whether we live in an insane asylum with the inmates running it.

The propaganda and BS issuing forth from the government, Wall Street, the medical and pharmaceutical industry, pentagon and corporate America swallows us up in a sludge of words and ideas, from which there are no islands of truth to cling to.

From The TruthSeeker.com "When the Walking Half Dead become the Undead by Smoking Mirrors May 20, 2011

:

"Real life has now outdistanced Hollywood and network TV in the fabrication of unbelievable scenarios and what that means is that the engine of illusion that has spellbound the populace for so long, has now reached the limits of its possibilities. It can only get crazier and more unbelievable, until the system devourers itself just like the approaching wave of apocalyptic zombies will be devouring what’s left of whoever is left in the web nets of the engine of illusion.

You tell yourself that it can’t be as twisted as you think it is. There must be something wrong with your perceptions. Can government and religion really be barking mad? Can Butch Napolitano and the rest of the front crew of zombie fascists, really be sawing off one of the top branches on the crazy tree, while they are on the far end of it? Apparently this is true. It’s unbelievable but so has been the handling of Katrina, the Gulf of Mexico disaster, Fukushima and the wave of gratuitous wars engaged in by the former home of the brave and land of the free.

All those vaccinations and vomiting propaganda and they didn’t come up with either for the tsunami of insanity that is sweeping the globe. That’s the real pandemic of concern. The people in charge are out of their minds and you see that in the recent behavior of the Zio-Ogre head of the IMF and the general policies of every agency, governmental, religious and financial in these times. This is the doing of the cosmos. This is where you wind up after traversing all of the steps from seemingly rational to obviously bat @@@@ lunacy. Ogres and zombies share similar dietary preferences.

You can’t look for material cause here. You can’t analyze the conditions of the times and come up with any rationale, for so much of the various juntas flailing around in the deep end of the pool. There is no sanity or sense to what is taking place. It’s not so much a matter of the world ending on Saturday. The world as we thought we knew it has already ended.

If you are an individual in the midst of this and are viewing it as it very much appears to be, what do you do? You can’t do anything about the mass of it taking place in front of your eyes and at a distance. You have to react to it from within yourself and make personal adjustments in respect of it. You have to hold to your center, while all about you are losing theirs.

This is not some temporary state of aberration. This is a world wide snake dancing into the cauldron of wild improbability. It can’t be happening but it is. I don’t know if pulses from the sun are causing this; some mysterious planet that we can’t see, the shifting of the magnetic poles, alien radio waves or some inexplicable, logical progression of materialism coming into fruition. Is it any of these, something else or a combination of things already mentioned? Who knows?

. .. The insanity around us is truly matched by the evil of certain individuals and forces like Rupert Murdoch and those controlling the directions of government and religion. All of these individuals, collectives and forces have literally sold their souls to the dark side, for whatever profit they are finding there. I don’t see the payoff but that’s me.

Consider well what you are reading here and seek your center with all due diligence because just as Nature is throwing all sorts of natural events at various locations, waves of madness are also swelling in portions of the human mind and I suspect these are powerful waves that can sweep up the unwary and carry them an appreciable distance before they have any idea what has happened to them. If you’re not seeing what I’m talking about, it is time to open your eyes before you wind up an appreciable distance from all things familiar, within and without."

With Love and Kindness,

THE HATMAN

POWER SEEKERS

RE: www. Goldseek.com12/20/2010 Interview of Richard Maybury by David Galliand

[Richard Maybury coined the term "Chaostan", delieneating an area in the Mideast and Asia that was destined to be unstable and atwar or civil upising for decades to come because they lacked the constraints of Common Law.

This very smart guy is astounding in his perception of reality in world affairs.

How does anyone get this smart?]

"DG: Returning just for a moment to your contention that governments need to exercise power. Is this just a psychological aberration amongst power seekers, or is there more to it than that?

RM: I regard it as a mental illness. People such as you and me and our readers are generally wealth seekers. We want to live a prosperous, comfortable life and we seek wealth in order to do that. By contrast, people who rise to the top in government are power seekers. They get their satisfaction from forcing other people to do what they want. They are essentially bullies.

Let's offer a little proof here. Practically every piece of legislation enacted in the last 100 years has involved the use of force on persons who have not harmed anyone. Anybody who wants that privilege has to have something wrong with them, so I think it's a given that when you're dealing with a high-level politician or a high-level bureaucrat, you're dealing with somebody who likes to push other people around, and that's the fundamental factor that the American founders were looking at when they created the Constitution. They understood that political power corrupts the morals and the judgment."

The United State's foreign poilicy is dictated by the power seeker mentality.

We like to push people and countries around, either with monetary and weapon bribes or military force or the threat thereof. We are partcularly fond of picking on small weak countries bur get all bent out of shape whena country like China doesn't cave in to our huffs and puffs.

Our constitution was designed to protect the citizens from these bullies, but notice how these facists are busy undermining and destroying our fundemental rights. Mr. Bush and Mr Obama: Our constitution is more than "just a piece of paper".

With Love and Kindness,

THE HATMAN

OSAMA, OBAMA and GADDAFI

Yes, we all know that Osama Bin Laden was behind the 9/11 attack on the Trade Center complex, because our government and complicit media told us so. We know he has been hiding from us since then except when they parade him out of the White House cellar to make a videotape whenever there was an election or popularity polls were flagging.

We didn't know that the Afghanistan government offered to turn him over to us if we would provide proof of his guilt. Our illustrious President Bushher replied that "everyone knew he was guilty so no need for proof" -- or words to that effect.

In December of 2001, Osama did an interview with a Pakistani newspaper: Daily Unmat in Urdu, in which he denied involvement in the Trade Center attacks on September 11, and further suggests that secret forces within the U.S. government

should be investigated. Now why would he deny involvement then make a video bragging that his plan had succeeded. Curiouser and curiouser. Did the Navy

Seals kill a dead man, a double or no one? Why did the CIA claim he died from natural causes years ago?

Senator Inhoffe says he saw the classified pictures of Osama's corpse and verified

that it was Osama ( The senator did not say when he had met Osama).

The U. S. government would not lie, would they?

The recent fiascos of the war upon Lybia for "humanitarian reasons", fraudulent birth certificate copy and the "murder"and burial at sea of the long-dead (2001) Osama Bin Laden illustrate the clumsiness of the Obama's group, where the ink is hardly dry on the lies before the slowest of wits perceive they have been duped.

Comes now the push to get rid of (kill) Gaddafi . Why do they want him removed from power? Quoting from Michael S. Rozeff's article: "Why the

West Is Attacking Gaddafi" RE: Lew Rockwell.com:

"The basic reason is simple. Gaddafi confronts their power. He confronts the status quo of the Empire. He demands greater power for Africa and the African Union. He demands greater power for smaller countries in the United Nations. Gaddafi calls for investigations of past wars. He is calling for a new way forward that reduces the powers of any one or a few countries to dominate the world.. . . .

Gaddafi is a shrewd man of power, who has shown pragmatic flexibility in doing what it takes to stay in power. He likes being in power. He knows how to use power, with brutality when he deems that necessary. However, no man of power is purely good or evil. He is no exception.

Like those who run Western states, Gaddafi is a statist. They all think entirely in terms of the system of states. Although this system has violence and immorality at its heart and throughout its breadth, these leaders all employ a rhetoric of justice as well as a rhetoric of utilitarianism (that they do evil things at times for the sake of a greater good).

So, it is not just about Oil, although that is apart of this willful killing spree endorsed by that great Nobel Peace Award winner, President Barack Obama.

Oh come on America, are you so propagandized, dumbed down and

dull of wit that you have no discernment or judgement whatsoever?

With Love and Kindness,

THE HATMAN

INFORMATION ASSAULT

"More and more human beings live in vast urban environments surrounded by other human beings and the creation of human beings. The natural world.the traditional source of self-awareness is increasingly absent.

Furthermore, within the last century we have come to live increasingly in a compelling world defined by electronic media. These media have evolved a pace that is utterly alien to our true natures. It is bewildering to live in a world of ten second spots, each one urging us to buy something, do something, or to think something. Human beings in the past were not so assaulted.

And I think this constant assault has made us pliable in a certain unhealthy way. Cut off from direct experience. Cut off from our own feelings, and sometimes our own sensations, we are only too ready to adopt a viewpoint or perspective that is handed to us, and is not our own"--Michael Crichton, "Travels" , Ballantine Books, 1998

I haven't watched TV for several years. We have a TV set, but only watch movies

or recorded programs--no live TV. Prior to finding the off button, I increasingly felt

I was being programmed and manipulated as to what to think, do or believe. They (TV producers) were conditioning me to believe and accept as normal and natural all sorts of things that I had previously rejected, such as inter-racial marriage, co-habitation without marriage, incredible profanity that added nothing to the plot or story, females in macho roles, and constant politically correct verbage and pictures.

When the North Koreans did this it was called "brain washing" i.e. repetitive exposure

to propaganda critical to patriotic opinions.

You can tell those who are TV junkies by the opinions they hold and the ignorance of

financial, global and political affairs. They think, speak and act the "party line" .

With Love and Kindness,

THE HATMAN

LIES, LIES, AND MORE LIES

We are surrounded and inundated with lies, half- truths and mis-statements,originating from everywhere and all directions, from which escape is impossible.

Lies come from the President, from the federal government, state government, county and city, Chamber of Commerce and furniture stores,

Doctors, lawyers, engineers, Electric power suppliers, nuclear power

stations and regulators.

Lies come from Wall Street, stockbrokers, accountants, corporate analysts

and chart readers and of course, the Federal Reserve. Government financial regulators, hedge fund managers and even Warren Buffett.

Lies come from our employers and employees, elected officials, and unelected officials. Lies come from those who are responsible to guard our health. our safety and our shores.

I have left out NBC, CNBC, CNN. CBS, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Time and Newsweek and many others in the Main Street Media.

Ah , but there is one sanctuary from deceit: the internet--where we can always get the truth! Baloney! and BS! The infiltration of lies grows every day.

Where is truth to be found? Only in your own perception and discernment. Get your BS filter in place and "don't leave home without it".

Oh come on America, are you so propagandized, dumbed down and

dull of wit that you have no discernment or judgement whatsoever?

With Love and Kindness,

THE HATMAN

THE GULLIBLE MIND

Here is one theory about gullible minds:

Mike Adams – Natural News May 5, 2011

In light of the string of the blatant falsehoods being announced by the U.S. government these days (FDA, DHS, White House, etc.) it’s interesting that so many people still believe whatever they are told by “official” sources. It brings up the question of the functioning of their brains: How could a person swallow official information so gullibly and so completely without even asking commonsense questions about the reliability or factual basis of that information?

These people, it turns out, are operating from what I called The Gullible Mind. It is a psychological processing malfunction that filters out information based on its source rather than its integrity. People who operate from The Gullible Mind tend to have misplaced trust in governments, institutions, mainstream news networks, doctors, scientists or anyone who wears the garb of apparent authority.

Whereas a normal, intelligent person would raise commonsense questions about information they receive from all sources, the Gullible Mind wholly accepts virtually any information from sources that occupy the role of apparent authority in society.

Governments never lie

But how does this work inside their heads? It’s an interesting process. Gullible Mind people do believe it is possible for a government (or institution) to lie; but they believe that governments, institutions and doctors choose NOT to lie even when it would serve their own self interests to do so.

Follow this carefully, because this is the fascinating part. These Gullible Mind people effectively believe that even though a government official could lie about something, they would never actually do so. And why wouldn’t they? Because, ultimately, the Gullible Mind crowd believes that governments, institutions and mainstream media outlets operate from a sort of honor code. So even if it were in the interests of our own government to lie to us, it would never happen because that would violate this imaginary honor code.

Where does this honor code exist? Where is it written down? Nowhere, of course. It is imaginary. But to The Gullible Mind, it seems real. Interestingly, even though this “honor code” only exists in the imagination of The Gullible Mind person, they project this honor code onto sources of authority, imagining that they abide by it.

Extreme gullibility

This is how The Gullible Mind person believes that network news always reports the truth. The news networks have a sense of “honor,” they believe, and this sense of honor requires them to always report the truth and never manipulate the news for any nefarious purposes. So news networks never “shape” the news and they only report what is factually true without any consideration whatsoever of politics or advertiser profits.

This view of the world is, of course, laughably naive. And yet it is the core belief system of at least half the population – the Gullible Mind half that believes everything it is told by its own government, media or authority figures.

Interestingly, the Gullible Mind is also inwardly gullible because it does not recognize its own gullibility. Instead, it believes it is operating as a Rational Mind. This false Rational Mind believes it functions as a critical filter of incoming information, but even this is self deception. In truth, this false Rational Mind is on “auto filter” so that it filters out any information that conflicts with the information it is receiving from official sources.

This is the key to understanding the Gullible Mind — it isn’t the quality of the information itself that matters; it is the confirmation of the story from official sources that “makes it real” in the Gullible Mind.

The Easter Bunny killed Bin Laden!

For example, let’s say a Gullible Mind person comes across an announcement that says the Easter Bunny has killed Osama Bin Laden. The report claims that colored eggs were found near Bin Laden’s body, and there was evidence of feathers being left at the scene, which proves the Easter Bunny was there

.

Now, an intelligent, rational mind would have a lot of questions about this. For starters, rabbits don’t have feathers. And the Easter Bunny is a piece of fiction, too. On top of that, how could the Easter Bunny kill Osama Bin Laden? An intelligent person would, upon reviewing the holes in the story, be forced to conclude the story is fiction. The only logical conclusion from that is that the government is lying to them.

A Gullible Mind person, however, would not ask whether rabbits have feathers, or whether the Easter Bunny is capable of conducting a military raid. Instead, the Gullible Mind person would first look to other confirming news sources in order to determine the reliability of the story. They would turn on the TV or surf the internet, looking for the news to be repeated through “official” sources.

Once they found CNN, or Fox News, or some other “official” source reporting that the Easter Bunny killed Osama Bin Laden, then that news report would instantly become “real” in their minds. Suddenly it has shifted from their mental processing queue to the “absolutely truth” part of their brain, and from that point forward, no one can question that reality in their heads.

Don’t bother arguing with a Gullible Mind – they are immune to facts

At this point, their rational mind is completely shut off on the topic. No accumulation of facts can, at that point, rattle their “reality.” For example, a person who believes the government’s story of 9/11 has already embraced the Easter Bunny version of terrorists flying airplanes into the World Trade Center towers. So how did this act cause the WTC 7 building to collapse in a demolition-style free-fall a few hours later, when WTC 7 was never struck by airplanes? How can a steel and concrete building suddenly and magically collapse in perfect structural synchronicity merely from being on fire?

The answers don’t matter to The Gullible Mind, you see. There is no room for facts inside their heads, because all the space has been taken up with what is essentially a cult-like belief in institutions of authority.

We saw this in the Heaven’s Gate cult in California a few years back. The leader of that cult, a man named Applegate, positioned himself as the one and only source of authoritative information among the cult followers. So HE became the authoritative source whose information was wholly accepted without questioning or skepticism of any kind. At that point, he was able to quite easily convince his followers that an alien race was going to land a UFO on the far side of a comet, and that if they killed themselves, they would be transported onto the alien ship (or something like that).

The belief in such a story may seem silly… until you realize that the governments of the world use the exact same cult-like tactics to get their own “followers” to believe everything they say, without question. So if President Obama announced that an alien race was going to land a mother ship on the White House lawn, and that people who voted for him would have their consciousness transferred to an immortal alien body, the remarkable truth is that millions of people would believe that. Perhaps tens of millions. They would even worship him as an interstellar saint.

Remember Orson Welles’ radio program that announced aliens had invaded the Earth and were destroying our cities? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wa…) Huge numbers of people believed it was really happening… and not because it made any sense, but because the information came from the source they trusted. To those people, the alien invasion was just as real back then as Bin Laden’s official death is to government followers today.

Throughout history, many conspiracy theories have turned out to be true

Government lying, of course, has been going on for as long as governments have existed. Not all conspiracies theories are true, of course, but so many of them turn out to be true that the idea of “not believing” in conspiracies makes no rational sense.

To not believe in conspiracies means you don’t believe two people have ever sat down and plotted to take advantage of others in some unethical and deceptive way. Well gee, that describes virtually every board meeting of every large corporation in the world! Conspiracies are not just commonplace; they’re practically synonymous with modern-day capitalism! Even right now, Apple is being accused of a conspiracy to keep employee wages artificially low: http://www.appleinsider.com/article

With Love and Kindnes,

THE HATMAN

WHO THE HECK ARE YOU ANYWAY?

Oh come on America, are you so propagandized, dumbed down and

dull of wit that you have no discernment or judgement whatsoever?

The mysterious history of the black man in the White House. Why have we had such a difficult time learning about the birth, education,

financial circumstances of this current occupant of the Oval Office.

This disadvantaged person somehow had a lot of advantages, including travel to foreign countries, a college education including Columbia University pre-law and Harvard Law School. Amazing for a kid with

parents of average means! He claims it was all possible through

student loans, but of course there is no public accounting for these loans and their repayment.

Quoting Devvy Kidd, April 19,2011 www.NewsWith Views.com

"After several years of watching the putative president hop on his favorite toy (Air Force One) every time a serious issue needs to be addressed, to his total dependence on teleprompters, even some of his former loyal supporters now doubt the "brainy" candidate bringing hope and change.

Besides exposing fraud, I believe his college records will reflect Barry was a less than average student of less than average intellect. Quite the opposite of the manufactured image of this hot shot lawyer who gave up his law license (who also never had a single case in court). I believe it was to avoid being prosecuted for fraud and disbarment since he lied on the application when he said he never used any other names besides his current alias, Barack Hussein Obama.

Honestly, I don't know how the usurper has kept track of all his aliases: Barry Dunham, Barack Hussein Obama, Barry Soetoro, Barry Obama and Barack Dunham - all names known to be used by Mr. Cool in the White House. It is a fact he used Barry Soetoro while living in Indonesia. It is a fact he used Barry Soetoro while attending Occidental College. His mother used Barack Hussein Obama Soebarkah on one of her passport documents; I know because I obtained them under the Freedom of Information Act."

From a article by Devvy Kidd in www.Rense.com 4/28/11

"The display put on yesterday by the putative president was one of the greatest displays of unbridled hubris I have ever seen in my decades of being an activist, watching and studying political figures. It simply was breath taking in scope and so vile, you want to vomit. Backed up by an array of sycophants in the media, that cheap gangster from Chicago actually thought he could foist another forgery on the American people and go about his business of destroying this republic.

There are several excellent articles about what happened yesterday and why those who can still think are outraged by this latest horse and pony show. Many are speculating the usurper suddenly produced a birth certificate because of Donald Trump. Millions have been demanding that birth certificate for almost three years, yet, supposedly, Obama/Soetoro is so afraid of "The Donald" he flies an attorney to Hawaii to pick up the alleged document. As for Trump, I gagged watching him brag that he forced the president of the U.S. to produce a document no one else could. Donald Trump is nothing more than the modern day version of Elmer Gantry."

There are those including Hannity and O'Reilly, those great Patriots of Fox News, who label the quest for proof of Obama's U.S. birth as "birthers". To them and their ilk, violating the requirements of the Constitution the basis for all law in America, is of no importance and in concert with those who call it just a piece of paper.

So now they have produced a "Certificate of Live Birth", which is so full of goofs and inconsistencies that have answered nothing, other than the arrogance of those running our government, that the public of sheep will believe anything.

Sometimes I get so upset not about their lies, but at the gullibility of our otherwise intelligent population.

With Love and Kindness,

The Hatman

DONALD DUCK

I have witnessed over the years a number of candidates for public office, some good some bad, and some incredibly unqualified for the position they sought. Some were elected, some not- irrespective of their qualifications. Think about Lyndon Johnson, Spiro Agnew, George Wallace, Hubert Humphrey, John McCain or George W. Bush.

Yet, never, I say never has such a punk as Donald the Duck been considered as a serious candidate for the president of the United States of America.

This self-aggrandized blow hard has convinced some that he should be elected ( as a Republican no less ) to the presidency.

Oh come on America, are you so propagandized, dumbed down and

dull of wit that you have no discernment or judgement whatsoever?

As a so called billionaire businessman he has left a slimy trail of bankruptcies.lawsuits and failed business ventures all with other people's money. The uglinest of his business failures is matched by the ugliness of his buildings.

To witness his recent NH speech claiming that he alone forced Obama's hand to release a birth record is typical of a braggart without remorse. He is crude and he is rude. His ghetto styled remark to China will not be repeated here.

Given our present head of state , would Mr. Duck be an improvement?

I'm not sure.

With Love and Kindness,

THE HATMAN