Abused By Illusions

Is it a sign of the times? A sign of the changing readership of Forbes? Or just a change in the vacation destinations of choice of said readership? Check out the article at Forbes.com . What do you think?

P.T. Barnum is often quoted as saying, "there is a sucker born every minute." Tim O'Shea has posted an excellent article at Thedoctorwithin.com that expands on Barnum's saying in this modern age. The title of Mr. Oshea's article is THE DOORS OF PERCEPTION: WHY AMERICANS WILL BELIEVE ALMOST ANYTHING. The author does an excellent job of demonstrating and documenting how the perception of Americans is created almost whole cloth with the three elements of deceit, dissimulation, and distraction. Reading Mr. Oshea's work made me think that if Barnum were alive today he might revise his maxim to something along the lines of, "there is a sucker created every second." From reading Mr. Oshea's essay it would appear that this revised maxim might apply to many of us and if one takes an honest look around our country might one discover that we have become a nation of programmed suckers. Give his essay a read and tell me what you think?

Check out this interesting and highly informative essay by Alfred Lehmberg titled Sociopathy of Conspiracy. The author, in my opinion, makes some very interesting observations that seem to run counter to the generally accepted thinking on this topic and ties his observatons in with numerous sociological studies. Sometimes I wonder if generally accepted thinking is not in and of itself a pathology indicative of a mass societal psychosis. What do you think?

Check out this interesting interview by Rita Cosby of Terry Nichols son and what he says about the OKC Bombing here!

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Heads roll at Veterans Administration
Mushrooming depleted uranium (DU) scandal blamed

by Bob Nichols
Project Censored Award Winner

Preventive Psychiatry E-Newsletter charged Monday that the reason Veterans Affairs Secretary Anthony Principi stepped down earlier this month was the growing scandal surrounding the use of uranium munitions in the Iraq War.

Writing in Preventive Psychiatry E-Newsletter No. 169, Arthur N. Bernklau, executive director of Veterans for Constitutional Law in New York, stated, “The real reason for Mr. Principi’s departure was really never given, however a special report published by eminent scientist Leuren Moret naming depleted uranium as the definitive cause of the ‘Gulf War Syndrome’ has fed a growing scandal about the continued use of uranium munitions by the US Military.”

Bernklau continued, “This malady (from uranium munitions), that thousands of our military have suffered and died from, has finally been identified as the cause of this sickness, eliminating the guessing. The terrible truth is now being revealed.”

He added, “Out of the 580,400 soldiers who served in GW1 (the first Gulf War), of them, 11,000 are now dead! By the year 2000, there were 325,000 on Permanent Medical Disability. This astounding number of ‘Disabled Vets’ means that a decade later, 56% of those soldiers who served have some form of permanent medical problems!” The disability rate for the wars of the last century was 5 percent; it was higher, 10 percent, in Viet Nam.

“The VA Secretary (Principi) was aware of this fact as far back as 2000,” wrote Bernklau. “He, and the Bush administration have been hiding these facts, but now, thanks to Moret’s report, (it) ... is far too big to hide or to cover up!”

Read the full story at SFBayview.com!

Check out John Pilger's article The Death of British Freedom over at Antiwar.com via the supplied link. It seems that Britan, like the United States, is in the process of legislating the freedoms of her people away.

Isn't it interesting that more and more credible mainstream sources are beginning to come forward with grave doubts on the governments conspiracy theory? Could the dam be bursting? Check out this article by Paul Joseph Watson and Alex Jones at http://www.propagandamatrix.com/articles/april2006/040406mainsuspect.htm .