The best link to start with is infowars.com – and it is not pro-Republican, now that Obama will be prez. It is managed by genuine truthseekers – they’re big in the alter-world. Much of the news comes from the ms press – but they join the dots and link to important side stories. The matter is too complex to tackle in blog comments.

You see, you people are so self-righteously cocooned in your little ‘sane’ world, calling us, the investigators of tyranny, ‘kooks’, that it is difficult to know at which level to start. But if I am a tin-foil wearing kook, then so were former presidents John F Kennedy, Woodrow Wilson and Dwight Eisenhower, as also was 19th century British PM Benjamin Disraeli.

A good way to start is to see what they had to say. Here are a few good quotations (they weren’t kidding):

John F. Kennedy not long before his assassination:

“The very word ‘secrecy’ is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it. Even today, there is little value in opposing the threat of a closed society by imitating its arbitrary restrictions.

Even today, there is little value in insuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it. And there is very grave danger that an announced need for increased security will be seized upon by those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of official censorship and concealment. That I do not intend to permit to the extent that it is in my control. And no official of my Administration, whether his rank is high or low, civilian or military, should interpret my words here tonight as an excuse to censor the news, to stifle dissent, to cover up our mistakes or to withhold from the press and the public the facts they deserve to know.”
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Woodrow Wilson:

“The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.”

And:

“Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men’s views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the U.S., in the field of commerce and manufacturing, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.”
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Dwight Eisenhower, 17.01.1961 (from farewell speech):

“This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence – economic, political, even spiritual – is felt in every city, every Statehouse, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society.”
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Benjamin Disraeli:

“The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments’ plans.”
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And finally, the master himself, Joseph Goebbels, gives us a peep into his secret ways:

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
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Now if you want to know what Obama thinks you will never find out by following his speeches, for he says nothing substantial. But you can start be researching the people he will be appointing… they’re coming out:

Rahm Emanuel as Chief of Staff – a proven tyrant, known for mailing a stinking dead fish to an ‘enemy’: http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/node/10236

Intelligence ‘Czarina’ Jane Harmon for top post at CIA or Homeland Security (she was one of the staunchest defenders of President Bush’s eavesdropping laws).

And possibly Dennis Ross as senior foreign affairs advisor, one of the main architects of the Israeli-centred policy in the Middle East for both Clinton and George Dubya.

So, start with http://www.infowars.com, http://www.prisonplanet.tv, http://www.waynemadsenreport.com and http://therealnews.com/t
– these are sufficient, ‘lite’ sources for whoever wants to start waking up. Then there are non-US sites like http://www.russiatoday.com (with 24 hr TV news, also on youtube.com/russiatoday) and the Iranian http://www.presstv.ir. Few British sites are up to standard – Britain is going down the loo at a much faster rate.

You build up your own sources as you go along. But remember, just as we used to check the dissident press, not Pravda, to find out what’s going on in the USSR, we cannot rely on the five major networks that control the West’s news.

[Daphne – I think you need a blog of your own.]

You may not want to reveal your secret ways and means, but maybe you can tell everyone here how they can find the inside story rather than relying on what appears in the media.

Take Obama’s choice for Chief of Staff: Rahm Emanuel. There’s plenty of baggage there – you can do your research (include Irgun as a keyword). One interesting facet of this man is his obsessive to introduce “complusory service” for all between the age of 18 and 25 – not unlike the draft or the Soviet “Sluzhba”. Obama has also spoken of a powerful, well-funded “civilian security force” to assist the “military”.

This is a warmongering nation gone mad! I wouldn’t put it past another false flag operation, this time with chemical or biological weapons – there is a lot of preparation going on in this field. Something is going to happen because the usual suspects are rattling.

Terr’rsts are everywhere, people! Check beneath your beds before you go to sleep! Al CIAeda are coming! Al CIAeda are coming! But your government will protect you!

Here’s Howard Zinn (a great American historian) discussing Obama’s chances of bringing change:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_M2W5SisPs&feature=related

Note how he also unwittingly provides Daġhne with an interesting argument to be used against AD in future elections.

Deep in our hearts we all miss Adam West.

I do not claim benefits which I don’t need unlike them. I’m merely stating that I do not steal from other people’s pocket. I just want to keep my savings.

“Anyway, it’s up to you people in the community to help let the authorities know about their fraudulent behaviour. There are ways to do it anonymously, you know? Otherwise you have to live with the knowledge that YOU are paying for their expensive cars and boats.”

We live in Republic of Bananas. Tahseb li il-gvern ha joqod jibat xi hadd bix imur jiccekja lil Cikku? L-ewwel ma jaghmel jara hekk hux tal-istess fehma politika tieghhu umbad jara jekk jibatux jew le. That is how Malta works, with either party in government.

“I’ve always been amazed by the high prices of second-hand cars in Malta. It’s unbelievable that a 14 year-old Skoda could cost Lm1000.”

As I said before. Value for money. It has endured enough bumpy roads and rapid accelerations/decelerations and it still works perfectly. Today they don’t make things that LAST. Today’s mentality is ‘usa e gietta’. Skoda was engineered by brilliant Czech engineers and the company was later acquired by Volkswagen, which is world-renowned for quality and reliability.

Let’s get real, why don’t we? I’d much rather pay for higher electricity bills and know that the money the government used to subsidise our bills with would be invested in other things (such as renewable energy sources for the industry, for example). And all this hullaballoo about the car licenses – my license went up by some 30 euros. So what? It’s not that I’m rich but we can’t expect to have everything for free.

I really can’t understand why we expect everything to be state-subsidised. I’m sure we all want our holidays abroad and luxuries but, indeed, in order for us to achieve a higher quality of life, we have to restructure the economy. And the reduction of subsidies (from my limited economic knowledge) is one of the measures which needs to be adopted in order for this to be achieved.

Therefore, let’s stop whining and let’s consider this as yet another step in the direction of long-term improvement in our quality of life.

[Daphne – Kevin, nobody who reads or watches the news and its attendant commentary can fail to know who Ralph Nader is. On the other hand, not many people know about Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, and its significance in terms of the American Civil War. In historical terms, Uncle Tom’s Cabin is important but Ralph Nader is not. Only those who are obsessed with the idea of the US as the Great Satan – the European version of Iranian thinking on America – fixate on these things.]