tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7594366310437242857.post139985947301021738..comments2023-09-25T05:36:27.538-04:00Comments on Big Dan's Big Blog: Big Dan's Big News Nov 22, 2010Big Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11750364112179020584noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7594366310437242857.post-83677777550226054142010-11-23T07:27:39.283-05:002010-11-23T07:27:39.283-05:00The right wing IS the CIA. Sarah Palin is one of ...The right wing IS the CIA. Sarah Palin is one of its "assets"<br /><br />The following is a typical example of how the "New Media" operates. As most political observers know, the Republicans suffer from a "gender gap," in which women prefer Democrats by huge majorities. This is, in fact, why Clinton has twice won the presidency. But, curiously enough, as the 90s progressed, conservative female pundits began popping up everywhere in the media. Hard-right pundits like Ann Coulter, Kellyanne Fitzpatrick, Laura Ingraham, Barbara Olson, Melinda Sidak, Anita Blair and Whitney Adams conditioned us to the idea of the conservative woman. This phenomenon was no accident. It turns out that Richard Mellon Scaife donated $450,000 over three years to the Independent Women's Forum, a booking agency that heavily seeds such female conservative pundits into the media. (23)plungernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7594366310437242857.post-80667707921485580372010-11-23T06:29:31.419-05:002010-11-23T06:29:31.419-05:00MOCKINGBIRD was extraordinarily successful. In no ...MOCKINGBIRD was extraordinarily successful. In no time, the agency had recruited at least 25 media organizations to disseminate CIA propaganda. At least 400 journalists would eventually join the CIA payroll, according to the CIA’s testimony before a stunned Church Committee in 1975. (The committee felt the true number was considerably higher.) The names of those recruited reads like a Who's Who of journalism:<br /><br /> * Philip and Katharine Graham (Publishers, Washington Post)<br /> * William Paley (President, CBS)<br /> * Henry Luce (Publisher, Time and Life magazine)<br /> * Arthur Hays Sulzberger (Publisher, N.Y. Times)<br /> * Jerry O'Leary (Washington Star)<br /> * Hal Hendrix (Pulitzer Prize winner, Miami News)<br /> * Barry Bingham Sr., (Louisville Courier-Journal)<br /> * James Copley (Copley News Services)<br /> * Joseph Harrison (Editor, Christian Science Monitor)<br /> * C.D. Jackson (Fortune)<br /> * Walter Pincus (Reporter, Washington Post)<br /> * ABC<br /> * NBC<br /> * Associated Press<br /> * United Press International<br /> * Reuters<br /> * Hearst Newspapers<br /> * Scripps-Howard<br /> * Newsweek magazine<br /> * Mutual Broadcasting System<br /> * Miami Herald<br /> * Old Saturday Evening Post<br /> * New York Herald-Tribune<br /><br />Perhaps no newspaper is more important to the CIA than the Washington Post, one of the nation’s most right-wing dailies. Its location in the nation’s capitol enables the paper to maintain valuable personal contacts with leading intelligence, political and business figures. Unlike other newspapers, the Post operates its own bureaus around the world, rather than relying on AP wire services. Owner Philip Graham was a military intelligence officer in World War II, and later became close friends with CIA figures like Frank Wisner, Allen Dulles, Desmond FitzGerald and Richard Helms. He inherited the Post by marrying Katherine Graham, whose father owned it.<br /><br />After Philip’s suicide in 1963, Katharine Graham took over the Post. Seduced by her husband’s world of government and espionage, she expanded her newspaper’s relationship with the CIA. In a 1988 speech before CIA officials at Langley, Virginia, she stated:<br /><br /> We live in a dirty and dangerous world. There are some things that the general public does not need to know and shouldn’t. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows. <br /><br />This quote has since become a classic among CIA critics for its belittlement of democracy and its admission that there is a political agenda behind the Post’s headlines.plungernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7594366310437242857.post-7468151824571675772010-11-23T06:22:02.003-05:002010-11-23T06:22:02.003-05:00CIA = Rockefeller, and always has:
Another "...CIA = Rockefeller, and always has:<br /><br />Another "success" was the CIA’s overthrow of the democratically elected government of Jacabo Arbenz in Guatemala in 1954. Again, there was no communist threat. The real threat was to Guatemala’s United Fruit Company, a Rockefeller-owned firm whose stockholders included CIA Director Allen Dulles. Arbenz threatened to nationalize the company, albeit with generous compensation. In response, the CIA initiated a coup that overthrew Arbenz and installed the murderous dictator Castillo Armas. For four decades, CIA-backed dicatators would torture and murder hundreds of thousands of leftists, union members and others who would fight for a more equitable distribution of the country’s resources.plungernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7594366310437242857.post-62770104986061867372010-11-23T06:13:44.372-05:002010-11-23T06:13:44.372-05:00The Origins of the Overclass
The wealthy have alw...The Origins of the Overclass<br /><br />The wealthy have always used many methods to accumulate wealth, but it was not until the mid-1970s that these methods coalesced into a superbly organized, cohesive and efficient machine. After 1975, it became greater than the sum of its parts, a smooth flowing organization of advocacy groups, lobbyists, think tanks, conservative foundations, and PR firms that hurtled the richest 1 percent into the stratosphere.<br /><br />The origins of this machine, interestingly enough, can be traced back to the CIA. This is not to say the machine is a formal CIA operation, complete with code name and signed documents. (Although such evidence may yet surface — and previously unthinkable domestic operations such as MK-ULTRA, CHAOS and MOCKINGBIRD show this to be a distinct possibility.) But what we do know already indicts the CIA strongly enough. Its principle creators were Irving Kristol, Paul Weyrich, William Simon, Richard Mellon Scaife, Frank Shakespeare, William F. Buckley, Jr., the Rockefeller family, and more. Almost all the machine's creators had CIA backgrounds.<br /><br />During the 1970s, these men would take the propaganda and operational techniques they had learned in the Cold War and apply them to the Class War. Therefore it is no surprise that the American version of the machine bears an uncanny resemblance to the foreign versions designed to fight communism. The CIA's expert and comprehensive organization of the business class would succeed beyond their wildest dreams. In 1975, the richest 1 percent owned 22 percent of America’s wealth. By 1992, they would nearly double that, to 42 percent — the highest level of inequality in the 20th century.<br />How did this alliance start? The CIA has always recruited the nation’s elite: millionaire businessmen, Wall Street brokers, members of the national news media, and Ivy League scholars. During World War II, General "Wild Bill" Donovan became chief of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the forerunner of the CIA. Donovan recruited so exclusively from the nation’s rich and powerful that members eventually came to joke that "OSS" stood for "Oh, so social!"<br /><br />http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/L-overclass.htmlplungernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7594366310437242857.post-86599002804562743832010-11-23T04:50:52.440-05:002010-11-23T04:50:52.440-05:00My band used to play "I'm A Man" by ...My band used to play "I'm A Man" by Chicago - and yes, I played cowbell on that one.plungernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7594366310437242857.post-40226019578594986392010-11-23T04:49:11.676-05:002010-11-23T04:49:11.676-05:00Nice to see it spelled out - how the ruling elite ...Nice to see it spelled out - how the ruling elite (Rockefellers) cynically view their serfs as children, capable of mass-scale societal manipulation on the basis of a fictitious character giving them "double something for nothing."<br /><br />This is the underlying basis of the planned destruction of the American Dream - intentionally pursuing a finite path of destruction - for control and profit.plungernoreply@blogger.com