Abused By Illusions

I thought this was an interesting quotation. How about you?

C.I. Abramson


"Capital must protect itself in every way...Debts must be collected and loans and mortgages foreclosed as soon as possible. When through a process of law the common people have lost their homes, they will be more tractable and more easily governed by the strong arm of the law applied by the central power of leading financiers. People without homes will not quarrel with their leaders. This is well known among our principal men now engaged in forming an imperialism of capitalism to govern the world. By dividing the people we can get them to expend their energies in fighting over questions of no importance to us except as teachers of the common herd."

-- Taken from the Civil Servants' Year Book, "The Organizer" January 1934

I hope the 18 to 26 year old crowd is paying attention. The U.S. Army expects to miss it's recruiting goals again this month as it did last month. Next month and the month after doesn't look any better.

C.I. Abramson

Army likely won't meet recruiting goals

One of my professors mentioned to me that there was going to be an antiwar demonstration at West Town Mall in Knoxville, Tennessee on Saturday, March 19th. I told him that I hadn't heard about it. He said that apparently no one else had either. Let me add that I'm not the typical antiwar protester or what I remembered one to be. I'm an eight year veteran of the United States Air Force in which I served in the Security Police, now called Security Forces. In that time I had some experience with antiwar protesters both in Belgium and in Montana. At the time I was on a riot control squad and not an antiwar protester. My memory of antiwar protesters from that time was of a much younger group than the one I found this Saturday morning. In all fairness, I was much younger back then myself.

The first thing that struck me as strange is that there was not more young people there. It would seem, that with daily reports of the incredible strain that this new concept of permanent war is placing on the "all-volunteer military," that more young folks might take the threat of a coming draft more seriously. Perhaps President Bush's "No Child Left Behind Act" has resulted in a generation of super patriotic youth? I am unsure.

A second observation, the one that made me keep expecting Rod Serling to run out of the hedges, was how almost everyone wanted to know if I was with the police, or the FBI, CIA, etc due to the fact that I was taking pictures. Why would the authorities walk right up to you and ask to take your picture when they have telephoto, zoom lenses etc, not to mention satellites that wouldn't require their presence at all. After all, what crime are we talking about? Aren't we talking about the fundamental rights of peaceful assembly and freedom of speech? These are indeed strange days and getting stranger everyday.

To end on a happy note. A gentleman on a flute accompanied by a man on a drum were happy to let me to take a picture to include their face. A nun, wearing a t-shirt that read Sisters for Justice, was also happy to let me photograph her and her sign. She beamed a smile that personified the love and understanding of one another that we must all find if peace and justice is ever to be a reality. These last two groups restored my faith that indeed cosmic geometry is being helped along by active grassroots activism right here in Knoxville, Tennessee.

C.I. Abramson

P.S. Pictures from Saturday's March can be seen below. Also the Knoxville march
was included as a news item on on the 20 March edition of What Really
Happened.
I would also invite anyone who hasn't ever read Retired Major General Smedley
Darlington Butler's essay entitled WAR IS A RACKET. It is as true today as when it was written in the 1930's.

Pictures taken at Saturday March 19 Two-Year Anniversary of the Iraq War at West Town Mall in Knoxville, Tennessee.

 

Pictures taken at Saturday March 19 Two-Year Anniversary of the Iraq War at West Town Mall in Knoxville, Tennessee.

 

Pictures taken at Saturday March 19 Two-Year Anniversary of the Iraq War at West Town Mall in Knoxville, Tennessee.

 

Pictures taken at Saturday March 19 Two-Year Anniversary of the Iraq War at West Town Mall in Knoxville, Tennessee.

 

Pictures taken at Saturday March 19 Two-Year Anniversary of the Iraq War at West Town Mall in Knoxville, Tennessee.

 

Pictures taken at Saturday March 19 Two-Year Anniversary of the Iraq War at West Town Mall in Knoxville, Tennessee.

 

Pictures taken at Saturday March 19 Two-Year Anniversary of the Iraq War at West Town Mall in Knoxville, Tennessee.

 

Pictures taken at Saturday March 19 Two-Year Anniversary of the Iraq War at West Town Mall in Knoxville, Tennessee.

 

Pictures taken at Saturday March 19 Two-Year Anniversary of the Iraq War at West Town Mall in Knoxville, Tennessee.

 

Pictures taken at Saturday March 19 Two-Year Anniversary of the Iraq War at West Town Mall in Knoxville, Tennessee.

 

Pictures taken at Saturday March 19 Two-Year Anniversary of the Iraq War at West Town Mall in Knoxville, Tennessee.

 

Pictures taken at Saturday March 19 Two-Year Anniversary of the Iraq War at West Town Mall in Knoxville, Tennessee.

 

Pictures taken at Saturday March 19 Two-Year Anniversary of the Iraq War at West Town Mall in Knoxville, Tennessee.

 

Pictures taken at Saturday March 19 Two-Year Anniversary of the Iraq War at West Town Mall in Knoxville, Tennessee.

 

Pictures taken at Saturday March 19 Two-Year Anniversary of the Iraq War at West Town Mall in Knoxville, Tennessee.

 

Pictures taken at Saturday March 19 Two-Year Anniversary of the Iraq War at West Town Mall in Knoxville, Tennessee.

 

Pictures taken at Saturday March 19 Two-Year Anniversary of the Iraq War at West Town Mall in Knoxville, Tennessee.

 

Pictures taken at Saturday March 19 Two-Year Anniversary of the Iraq War at West Town Mall in Knoxville, Tennessee.

 

Pictures taken at Saturday March 19 Two-Year Anniversary of the Iraq War at West Town Mall in Knoxville, Tennessee.

 

Pictures taken at Saturday March 19 Two-Year Anniversary of the Iraq War at West Town Mall in Knoxville, Tennessee.

 

Pictures taken at Saturday March 19 Two-Year Anniversary of the Iraq War at West Town Mall in Knoxville, Tennessee.

 

Pictures taken at Saturday March 19 Two-Year Anniversary of the Iraq War at West Town Mall in Knoxville, Tennessee.

 

Pictures taken at Saturday March 19 Two-Year Anniversary of the Iraq War at West Town Mall in Knoxville, Tennessee.

 

Pictures taken at Saturday March 19 Two-Year Anniversary of the Iraq War at West Town Mall in Knoxville, Tennessee.

 

Pictures taken at Saturday March 19 Two-Year Anniversary of the Iraq War at West Town Mall in Knoxville, Tennessee.

 

Pictures taken at Saturday March 19 Two-Year Anniversary of the Iraq War at West Town Mall in Knoxville, Tennessee.

 

Pictures taken at Saturday March 19 Two-Year Anniversary of the Iraq War at West Town Mall in Knoxville, Tennessee.

 

Pictures taken at Saturday March 19 Two-Year Anniversary of the Iraq War at West Town Mall in Knoxville, Tennessee.

 

Pictures taken at Saturday March 19 Two-Year Anniversary of the Iraq War at West Town Mall in Knoxville, Tennessee.

 

Pictures taken at Saturday March 19 Two-Year Anniversary of the Iraq War at West Town Mall in Knoxville, Tennessee.

 

Pictures taken at Saturday March 19 Two-Year Anniversary of the Iraq War at West Town Mall in Knoxville, Tennessee.

 

Pictures taken at Saturday March 19 Two-Year Anniversary of the Iraq War at West Town Mall in Knoxville, Tennessee.

 

Pictures taken at Saturday March 19 Two-Year Anniversary of the Iraq War at West Town Mall in Knoxville, Tennessee.

 

Pictures taken at Saturday March 19 Two-Year Anniversary of the Iraq War at West Town Mall in Knoxville, Tennessee.

 

Pictures taken at Saturday March 19 Two-Year Anniversary of the Iraq War at West Town Mall in Knoxville, Tennessee.

 

Pictures taken at Saturday March 19 Two-Year Anniversary of the Iraq War at West Town Mall in Knoxville, Tennessee.



 

A haunting multi-exposure taken during two-year anniversary protest at West Town Mall in Knoxville, Tennessee. 

Pictures taken at Saturday March 19 Two-Year Anniversary of the Iraq War at West Town Mall in Knoxville, Tennessee.
 

Pictures taken at Saturday March 19 Two-Year Anniversary of the Iraq War at West Town Mall in Knoxville, Tennessee. 

A March 15, 2005 article from Sierra Times is one of those things that make me scratch my head and say, "huh?" The U.S. Governments official conspiracy theory, as outlined in the 911 Commission Report, is that a group of Arab hijackers hijacked this plane and flew it into the Pentagon. There is only one problem with the government conspiracy theory once one reads and reviews the autopsy report and passenger manifest provided with the article. Where did the Arabs go?

C.I. Abramson

Autopsy: No Arabs on Flight 77
By Thomas R. Olmsted, M.D

How far does the rabbit hole go?
C.I. Abramson


Click below to Prison Planet for the Audio.
Elite Sex Slave Rings: The Gannon-Thompson Connection

Alex Jones interviews Tom Flocco on his latest story, Photographer for White House child sex ring arrested after Thompson suicide, and is also joined by former Senator John DeCamp to discuss the evidence of high level government pedophile rings and how they tie into the Jeff Gannon and Hunter S. Thompson stories

Photographer for White House child sex ring arrested after Thompson suicide

by Tom Flocco

WASHINGTON -- March 13, 2005 -- TomFlocco.com -- Photographer Russell E. "Rusty" Nelson was recently arrested two days after journalist Hunter Thompson reportedly committed suicide four weeks ago on February 10, according to two phone interviews with attorney John DeCamp last week.

Read the full story here.

Is it just me or does the United States get more and more like the old Soviet Union every day? Read the following story about the CIA's new pilot program in American Universities and tell me what you think.

C.I. Abramson

Exposing the Pat Roberts Intelligence Scholars Program
The CIA's Campus Spies
By DAVE H. PRICE

An excellent article from Axisoflogic on how we the people are being hoodwinked by the current war profiteers and empire builders using the heglian dialectic. For too long you have allowed them to trigger the most primitive part of your brain, the reptilian part, into shutting down by uttering the words "conspiracy theory."

I want you to think back to the last trip that you took with friends or relatives. How well would that trip have went if you hadn't discussed with them where it was that you all were gonna meet for your planned trip? How about if everyone just took off in their respective autos on whatever day they chose? Those who argue "coincidence theory" are arguing this ludicrous line of reasoning.

A further way these same people attempt to shut down your brain is by arguing that large groups of people could not keep a secret long enough for any conspiracy to work. The government has a device that is rather ingenious for eliminating this problem. It is called "split knowledge." What this means is that knowledge of any opeartion is split between those that participate in any operation with no one knowing the operation in totality. Thus, the large group not being able to keep a secret argument doesn't hold water either.

C.I. Abramson

From AxisofLogic.com

Global Empire
THEY WOULDN'T... WOULD THEY?
By Lynn Stuter
Mar 4, 2005, 20:23




In the not too distant past, the American people learned that Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) knew Pearl Harbor (December 7, 1941) was coming before the day arrived. Yet, for years, we have listened to replays of FDR’s speech to the nation in which he voiced what appeared to be righteous indignation and horror for the events of Pearl Harbor. Those events were the spring board for America’s entrance into World War II. As the American people took up the cause of World War II; as fathers, brothers, sons and husbands went off to war; as the women took up the call of “Rosey the Riveter;” did they know that their president knew Pearl Harbor was coming and took no action to stop it? No, they didn’t.

What we see here is the Hegelian Dialectic at work: create the crisis to effect the wanted solution. Knowing what the Japanese had planned, FDR allowed it to happen to justify America’s entrance into World War II. The price was the loss of American lives justified by the stated goal. But what was the unstated goal?

For many Americans, the knowledge of what FDR did was their first inkling that things might not be too ethical in the halls of our government. For many, a long shadow was cast over the legitimacy of subsequent “crisis” that affected the lives of the American people, some of which were undoubtedly real. Others, even knowing what FDR did, justified his actions in the name of “national security.”

Recently, a document came to my attention called the “Northwoods Document.” In the normal course of events, I sought the authenticity of this document which led me to the George Washington University Website and a section entitled “National Security Archives.” There I found the Northwoods Document.

The Northwoods Document is dated March 13, 1962 and concerns what would become known as the Cuban Missile Crisis. The document is damning, as well as revealing, in its content. The cover memo states:

“The Joint Chiefs of Staff have considered the attached Memorandum for the Chief of Operations, Cuba Project, which responds to a request of that office for brief but precise description of pretexts which would provide justification for US military intervention in Cuba.”

The operant word here being “pretexts.”

The opening salvo of the “justifications” memo re-iterates the aforesaid and continues:

“Cognizance has been taken of a suggested course of action proposed** by the US Navy relating to generated instances in the Guantanamo area.”

The operant word here being “generated.” Our first inkling that a crisis was being “generated” or created to justify US military intervention in Cuba. On page three of the justifications memo, we read,

“The suggested courses of action appended to Enclosure A satisfactorily respond to the statement of the problem. However, these suggestions should be forwarded as a preliminary submission suitable for planning purposes, and together with similar inputs from other agencies, provide a basis for development of a single, integrated, time-phased plan to focus all efforts on the objective of justification for US military intervention in Cuba.”

Appendix to Enclosure A makes some interesting disclosures, such as:

“Such a plan would enable a logical build-up of incidents to be combined with other seemingly unrelated events to camouflage the ultimate objective and create the necessary impression of Cuban rashness and irresponsibility on a large scale, directed at other countries as well as the United States … The desired resultant from the execution of this plan would be to place the United States in the apparent position of suffering defensible grievances from a rash and irresponsible government of Cuba and to develop an international image of a Cuban threat to peace in the Western Hemisphere.”

What could be considered in the logical build-up of incidents? The document suggests such things as starting rumors; land friendly Cubans in uniform over the fence to stage attack on the base; start riots near the base main gate using friendly Cubans; blow up ammunition inside the base and start fires; burn aircraft on the air base; sabotage a ship in the harbor creating large fires; sink a ship near the harbor entrance, then conduct funerals for the mock-victims. All of this to happen at, or in the vicinity of, the Guantanamo Naval Air Station, an American held facility located in Cuba. The document even goes into how to fake the downing of a US commercial airplane:

“The destination would be chosen only to cause the flight plan route to cross Cuba. The passengers would be a group of college students off on a holiday or any grouping of persons with a common interest to support chartering a non-scheduled flight.

a. An aircraft at Eglin AFB would be painted and numbered as an exact duplicate for a civil registered aircraft belonging to a CIA proprietary organization in the Miami area. At a designated time the duplicate would be substituted for the actual civil aircraft and would be loaded with the selected passengers, all boarded under carefully prepared aliases. The actual registered aircraft would be converted to a drone.


b. Take off times of the drone aircraft and the actual aircraft will be scheduled to allow a rendezvous south of Florida. From the rendezvous point the passenger-carrying aircraft will descend to minimum altitude and go directly into an auxiliary field at Eglin AFB where arrangements will have been made to evacuate the passengers and return the aircraft to its original status. The drone aircraft meanwhile will continue to fly the filed flight plan. When over Cuba the drone will being (begin) transmitting on the international distress frequency a ‘May Day’ message stating he is under attack by Cuban MIG aircraft. The transmission will be interrupted by destruction of the aircraft which will be triggered by radio signal. This will allow ICAO radio stations in the Western Hemisphere to tell the US what has happened to the aircraft instead of the US trying to ‘sell’ the incident.”
Does this scenario sound familiar? Is what the public was told about the downing of Flight 800 really true? What about the commercial flights supposedly involved in September 11, 2001? Were these planes really hi-jacked? Were those really commercial airplanes that hit the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon?

Read the rest of this story at Axisoflogic.com

Okay here are the rules for this thing. I'll offer to interview the next 2 (or so) people to respond to this post that will follow these rules.

1. Leave me (C.I.) a comment saying "interview me"
2. I will respond by asking you 5 questions here, they will be different from the one's below.
3. You will update your blog with the answers to the questions
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in your post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed you will ask them 5 questions.


My responses to Julie from juliepatchouli.

1. If you could meet anyone in the world, who would it be and why?

Cormac McCarthy
The Novelist. Because he is a former Knoxvillian and his writing is as addictive to a reader as heroin is to a junkie.

2. What is the average flying velocity of an Afircan Swallow?

West African or South African?

3. Where is a place you want to travel to?

My next adventure will either be to Iceland or Argentina and may become a permanent move if a miracle doesn't happen soon and we aren't redeemed from the current Facism.

4. Favorite movie?

This is probably a toss up. Classic movie would have to be A Face in the Crowd with Andy Griffith and Patricia Neal. My favorite Modern Movie is Tim Burton's Big Fish. There is just something about it that moves me down to my very core.

5. Favorite blog, besides mine of course.

For information I like What Really Happened. For local happenings and a bit of debate in the forums I like South Knoxville Bubba. For knee slapping fun Jesus General just can't be beat!

I found this site the other day and I absolutely love it. It's called Treadmill USA. It makes the argument, and supports it rather well, that all of us here in the good ole US of A are on a treadmill. That is, we are going absolutely no where. We are being fed a constant diet of dung by the press and kept in the dark as to what is really going on in the world. Hell one has to read the foreign press to read any news whatsoever. Our press has been filled with the pablum of nothingness as of late. Ever read anything in the American press that touches on issues that even matter? All we ever read about anymore, or so it seems to me, is what celebrity is participating in what vulgar act, what teacher is caught in a sex act with what student, what politician has been recorded admitting to the use of drugs. Hello! Hello! There is a WAR going on! Does anyone still remember that? 1500 troops are now dead, if we believe the official count, which of course I don't. Why should I care less about any of the stuff that the press is trying to distract us with is beyond me.

Might the press be trying to make us forget that they were shills for the orginal changing lies as to why we were required to support this invasion? It sort of reminds me of back when I was in grammar school. A rather ingenious, if devilish, young man was caught putting gum in a young ladies hair by the school teacher. She had the young lad dead to rights. But hold the presses. The young lad being, even then, an ardent fan of "The Art of War" by one Master Sun Tzu, and seeing that he was indeed quickly finding himself in a no win situation chose what seemed to his young mind the most expedient solution available within galactic calculus. He placed gum in his own hair. The teacher thinking that no sane young man would put gum in his own hair thus deducted that he was innocent.

So! Apply Occam's razor to how ridiculously Buffoonish the American press has became and you tell me. Is the press putting gum in their own hair?

My Voice

C.I. Abramson

© 2005, by C.I. Abramson

2005-03-01
by Iva Butler
of The Daily Times Staff

A man caught by police early one summer morning in 2004 running naked and covered in nacho cheese pleaded guilty to burglary and four other charges on Monday.

Around 5 a.m. July 18, 2004, Michael David Monn Sr., 23, McCall Road, Maryville, ``was highly intoxicated, broke into the John Sevier Pool snack bar area, stole some snacks and did some damage and was caught naked with some stolen snacks,'' Blount County District Attorney General Mike Gallegos told the courtroom.

Officer Scott Spicer found Monn that Sunday morning in the parking lot of John Sevier Pool on Sequoyah Avenue. He apparently scaled an 8-foot-tall fence and was seen running toward a Jeep with a box of stolen snacks.

In addition to being naked, he had nacho cheese in his hair, on his face and on his shoulders, according to an interview with Spicer last year. He also had a strong odor of alcohol and was semi-incoherent, the officer said.

In his Jeep, Maryville officers found clothing and an open bottle of vodka.

Monn appeared before Blount County Circuit Court Judge D. Kelly Thomas and pleaded guilty to burglary, theft, vandalism, indecent exposure and public intoxication.

Read the Full story and the results of his sentencing at The Maryville Daily Times.

Having grown up in Maryville, it sure is good to see that some things never change. The older crowd makes sure there is nothing appraoching excitement ever allowed to move in and the younger crowd is always looking for the next most ignorant drunken adrenal pumping stunt to pull. The older, more dignified (sic) crowd, gets to slop on both ends, selling the mind numbing substances on the one, whilst prosecuting, representing, and incarcerating the yahoo crowd on the other. Sadly, I guess it is the American way. The new American gothic if you will.

As for me I'm just glad I got out of the game alive. Sadly, many of my friends were not as lucky as myself. That is except for those that like me who just got to old and fat to run anymore:)

My voice,

C.I. Abramson