It's Like Interviewing Nazis About the Falling Crime Rate.

"Political language -- and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists -- is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. "- George Orwell, Politics and the English Language

Today, after listening to Talk of the Nation (TOTN), on the decline of crime rates, any doubts I had about NPR being as much an inaccurate, misleading and run of the mill propaganda outlet as Fox News, are gone.  

None other than the chairman of the murky criminal corporation that is Kroll - the privatized CIA Inc., who profited massively from the horror that took place on 9/11, who merged with the secretive industry giant, Marsh McLennan (World Trade Center tenant with 1,700 employees where plane impacted), who made a killing on pre-9/11 inside trading, and who capitalized on the heightened corporate fears of terrorism created by 9/11 - explained this apparent decline in crime to TOTN host, Neal Conan.

It is, in fact, security firms like Kroll Associates, Burns Security, Teg, Wackenhut, and their ilk that should garner our interest at least as much as the web of conservative think tanks that have welded in place the parameters of "mainstream" debate - for it is through these very firms that the former stars of law enforcement have gone through the revolving door into the lucrative private sector. It is a world where former military types mix with various operatives of the CIA, FBI, DEA and any number of alphabet soup agencies charged with the security of our nation.

Could it be that this "decline" in crime may have something to do with the fact that the thugs are now in charge?  And isn't it funny how NPR covers the so-called declining crime rate; however, totally failed to cover  the NYPD police thugs, including the pepper spraying of several young women standing on the sidewalk while penned in by orange netting, during Occupy Wall Street.  You see how that works.  The thugs are the law.

So, with the exception of "Fresh Air" and a few local broadcasts, NPR is now just another conformist militaristic propaganda machine. Oh sure, they claim they are "listener-sponsored", but in reality, NPR/PBS is in large part financed by grants from corporate donors. Bland, politically-correct, and totally compromised by their sponsors, that's about all you'll get tuning into public radio. So, what's the difference between this and commercial broadcasting? Nothing. All news is now bought and paid for by corporate-think.

Everything in Nazi Germany was clean and orderly; there were no slums; the trains ran on time. By 1938, the crime rate was at an all-time low because repeat offenders were being sent to a concentration camp after they had completed their second sentence. Anyone who did not have a permanent address and some visible means of support was hauled off the Dachau and put to work.

Once again, we can thank Ronald Reagan for it is he who repealed the Fairness Doctrine.

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In the Name of National Security Emerges the Bizarre Orwellian Police State That Is the U.S.

Occupy Wall Street protesters in Phoenix

Never mind that there are well over 2 million Americans in jail, mostly for non-violent "offenses".

Never mind that the US has the world's highest incarceration rate, surpassing Russia and China, and the world's largest prison population.

Never mind that with less than 5% of the world's population, the US now has one-third of the world's prisoners.

Never mind that there are six times as many Americans behind bars as are imprisoned in the 12 countries making up the entire European Union, even though those countries have 100 million more citizens than the US.

Never mind the countless impossible-to-follow laws and regulations.

If those aren't enough to constitute a police state, in the name of national security, there are no legal limits as to what the state can do: warrantless searches and wiretapping, national ID cards, free speech zones, frisking of children, militarized police departments, the ability of the federal government to declare individuals, whether or not they are citizens, to be official enemies with whom the United States is at war, the legal power to confiscate anything and everything that you own, etc. In other words, the state can do anything it wants with impunity.

So, in the spirit of the United States Police State, the TSA, an agency of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security - the third largest Cabinet department with over 200,000 employees after the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs - that exercises authority over the safety and security of the traveling public in the US is trying to expand its horizons beyond the airport.  The Visible Intermodal Prevention Response (VIPR) team, which is a division of the TSA, comprised of federal air marshals, surface transportation security inspectors, transportation security officers, behavior detection officers and explosives detection canine teams were conducting random searches on Tennessee highways.

Earlier this year, the TSA was temporarily kicked out of Amtrak stations when it screened passengers coming off a train, including patting down a 9-year-old boy.

"I see 1st, 4th, and 5th amendments as a privilege that is a public safety issue," -- TSA head John Pistole, Congressional Quarterly, 2010

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The US Is Fast Becoming a Third World Police State

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Bank Transfer Day: Is There an Underlying Agenda?

When I first heard about Bank Transfer Day,, supposedly, an effort completely independent of “Occupy Fill-in-the-blank” that wants to ensure the banking institutions will always remember the 5th of November by encouraging everyone to dump their banks and transfer our money to credit unions, I thought it was a great idea. One can imagine the impact, if 99% of us actually take this step, or can one? 

Then, with the knowledge that Bank Transfer day is endorsed by Occupy Wall Street, and, moreover, the mainstream media coverage it's receiving, I considered the possibility that there is an underlying agenda of which we're not aware. Because anyone who pays any attention at all knows the msm only pays attention to what it's instructed to pay attention to from the few corporations that run, basically, 99% of the mainstream media entities, not to mention, a good percentage of the alternative media entities.

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Vatican Calls For Central World Bank

Uh-oh...here we go. The NWO. Is this what Occupy Wall Street wants? Really?

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Occupy Wall Street:: Astro-Turf Rallies?

Is Occupy Wall Street (OWS) the work of the Serbian contract revolution organizers, the Center for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies [C.A.N.V.A.S] and Otpor!? Is this the elite power structure replacing one corrupt system with another, even more corrupt system? Are they channeling the energy of a fed-up American public to nowhere? To usher in an even more destructive banking system?

The mainstream media's coverage of this "occupation", the lack of severe injury and/or fatalities, President Obama's endorsement, the lack of clear demands, and the services of a glitzy public relations firm makes it hard to believe otherwise.

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