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Feb 14, 2015

Robbie Martin aka videohoax behind Dishonest Creepy Trolling

No, I'm not "exposing" Mr. Martin...he  "exposed" himself.

A little back ground...

Back before I understood the 911 Truth gig was a scam, I wrote a piece published at 9/11 Blogger  titled:  "Heroes: The Metaphor and Evolution in 911 Activism Part 1" .  The commenter "videohoax", a dishonest troll, commented very strangely. One can see the original post here, where the user link is :

http://911blogger.com/users/videohoax

Now if one goes to that URL, one will be sent to Robbie Martin's profile:

Robbie Martin

History

Member for
8 years 23 weeks
Blog
View recent blog entries

And sure enough, if one goes to the ghostpage of the blog, http://911blogger.com/node/19332  , there he is.

Comparison :





 I had no idea my troll was Abby Martin's brother.  Oh, yeh, it's that Robbie Martin:


Iraq Beheading Video Hoax Press Release - Vanderford ...
videohoax.ctyme.com/
This is the first episode of Media Roots radio with hosts Abby and Robbie Martin. First we introduce each other and explain our personal political awakenings ...

So "videhoax" is a reference to the belief the Iraq beheading video is fake.  And this guy thinks it's smart to play creepy games on the Internet while his sister is exploiting a mentally unwell woman to push the conspiracy theories. That looks more and more like funding for a lifestyle...




This is exploitation, pure and simple.  If Martin was a real journalist, she'd have done her research on Lindauer and discovered some disturbing things:

 She was jailed for about a year but was released from custody in 2006 after another judge ruled that the government couldn't force her to be medicated for her delusions so she could stand trial.

In agreeing with the psychiatrist's finding, Preska noted the defendant once stuffed tissues into her mouth when she was admonished not to speak out during a hearing without consulting her lawyer.


 Martin might also become aware Lindauer was unable to answer questions put to her by the Occupy community:


  2 points by SLindauer (12) 3 years ago
I was fulfilling the role usually handled by diplomats. I would communicate messages back and forth between U.S> Intelligence & Libya/Iraq. The Arab govts greatly appreciated my work at the U.N. against sanctions, and I was well known on the Security Council. Whether they liked my politics depended on their position on sanctions, but I was well known there. It's only the American public that was ignorant of what I had done for years.
When the CIA got warnings about 9/11, in April & May of 2001, I was ordered to deliver threats of War to Iraq's diplomats at the United Nations-- in the event that Iraq discovered intelligence about the conspiracy & failed to pass it back through my back channel. I was instructed to say the threat originated, and I quote "at the highest levels of government above the CIA Director and above the Secretary of State." That was the exact wording.
The Bush White House was already setting up Iraq. Of course Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. Again, even if you're tired of 9/11, you've got to know what actually happened, so that you can understand why the War on Terror has been a public fraud to exaggerate White House & Congressional performance on national security. You can't fight back without the facts. You don't need all the details about 9/11 to do that. But you have to know that it was an act of public deception in total. The whole thing was a con job on the American public.


  1 points by Democracydriven (658) 3 years ago
Thanks for the response Susan but you forgot to answer my questions.
What exactly is a back channel?
Who were you actually working for and who was paying your expenses?
How did you end up in this back channel position?
I am really curious as to how somebody could end up in such a influential position.
After three years, no response.  That by itself suggests Lindauer was being "handled" or coached by one of the frauds.  If she was doing this on her own, she'd have been allowed to ramble until she was banned.  Her coach probably noticed this was not a community that would swallow tin foil easily. 

But that's idle speculation.  What isn't speculation:  it's obvious that Lindauer is not credible.


I've written before I thought Abby Martin was being played by Russia Today.  I'm forced to go farther and conclude Martin is not a journalist, serious or otherwise,  but is a Libertarian opportunist.  Bringing us to her brother, dear Robbie.

Both support Ron Paul, even years after being proven beyond a shadow of the doubt, Paul is a fringe rightwing loon who hobnobs with Nazi sympathizers and made millions publishing his racist newletters. Newsletters Lew Rockwell, another Libertarian "truther" profited from:


In 1984, as he left Congress, Paul also set up Ron Paul & Associates (RP&A), with his wife and daughter and his former congressional chief of staff, Lew Rockwell. The next year, RP&A began publishing several publications including The Ron Paul Investment Letter, The Ron Paul Survival Report, and The Ron Paul Political Report. By 1993, RP&A was earning $940,000 per year.

Yet Martin and Martin are proud "Voices of Liberty, Powered by Ron Paul":

Robbie Martin - Voices of Liberty, Powered by Ron Paul www.voicesofliberty.com/bio/robbie-martin/
Sep 9, 2014 - Robbie Martin. http://www.mediaroots.org. Co-host of Media Roots Radio with Abby Martin. Founder of RecordLabelRecords.org. Writer for ...
This would be laughably hokey, except for the fact that Libertarian Liberty Loons are almost always pushing a hidden racist, reactionary, agenda.

Not hard to find.  Either these two intrepid "journalists" are too incompetent to discover this on their own, or, much more likely, they know they're part of a dishonest propaganda machine connected to sleazy racist frauds. 

Let's go back to dear, dear Robbie's comments on my blog and see what the point of them could be.

  i feel sorry for whoever

i feel sorry for whoever read that rant!
Well!  I never!

But seriously, Robbie aka VH seems to be trolling for discouragement by being dismissive and bitchy.  Little did he know, had he simply been honest about being knowingly involved in a right-wing racist fraud, I would have fled the so called "movement" a long, long time ago.  

But Robbie wanted to keep that under his hat.  Not only that, but he was keenly interested in recruiting leftists to the cause.


  i think with the right

i think with the right marketing push and distribution chain this film could get just as popular as some of the recent liberal/left leaning documentaries like Freedom to Facism, Why we Fight, and Who killed the electric car. I wonder what the disinformation people are doing beyond these initial screenings. I firmly believe we could see something like this at sundance or even cannes
thoughts?

But when he knew he was talking to a left liberal he's dismissive and bitchy?  He's doing it wrong.

Of course the real reason was, by this time, those wittingly involved in the truther fraud has sussed out I would never push Ron Paul, would never let Holocaust denial slide, would never swallow any "red pills".  Robbie/videohoax wasn't the first passive/aggressive "troll" trying to tell me, via a code so obscure Alan Turning would be at a loss, that I was unwelcome.  As I've said before, these people have no one to blame but themselves:
The problem with using left political rhetoric, slogans and ideas is, um...well, the obvious: they set themselves up to get leftists interested in what they had to say.  And if they set up their con well(and for several years they did), those leftists are going to get involved and expect them to walk the lefty anti-racist talk.  And they'll be very unhappy when the movement "leaders" refuse to denounce, and kick out the racists(Barrett, Fetzer, Bollyn, Thorn, Dice, Tarpley, etc, ad nausum).   

Someone didn't think that one through.

Now, with Robbie's wee correction to his 911blogger account, I'm aware of yet one more fraud to add to the list.  A few searches will show his sister is promoted on this website:

http://mycatbirdseat.com/2014/06/hillary-clinton-2016-a-recipe-for-endless-war/

My Catbird Seat June 18, 2014 1
Abby Martin calls out former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton over her lucrative speaking tour in the run up to the 2016 presidential elections as well as outlining the former first lady’s corporate ties
On the same website, Merlin Miller is a contributor:
http://mycatbirdseat.com/2014/05/traitors-in-our-government-allegiance-to-israel/

Traitors in our Government Allegiance to Israel

Merlin Miller May 10, 2014 4 There's a fifth column in America. A Trojan Horse within our laws, composed of dual citizens and foreign nationals.
 Merlin Miller is a racist with direct ties to the White Supremacist American Freedom Party.

This disgusts me to no end.  Of course Robbie and Abby will plead they have no control over who supports their stuff, and how unfair they're being picked on here, "guilt by association", etc.   But maybe they should have thought about that before claiming to be "powered by" a racist scumbag like Ron Paul.

Mind, I would have never known that I was the focus of Robbie's attention if the owners of 911blogger had deleted my account and comments because I do not want anything I've said going to support what is now obviously a fraud.  That request was made some time ago.  I would never have noticed who my troll was if they had been responsive.  Maybe the Martins would like a wee chat with the 911blogger owners about that....

And the owners are perfectly capable of removing blogs/comments/accounts.  For instance, they've removed the only one I left live...about how Craig 'Killtown' Lazo is friends with Lew Rockwell, Ron Paul's right hand man, proving the truther fraud goes to the top of the Libertarian Party:

If this is it....Part 5- “Killtown”, Lew Rockwell and the Ludwig von Mises Institute

Access denied. You may need to login below or register to access this page.

Access Denied / User Login


Showing the "never delete" policy is a lie and Keogh and Orangatan are hypocrites.  I suspect it was one comment in particular they found troublesome:

Possibly the most important message in this blog--

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/12/26/ron-paul-95-percent-of-black-men-are...
Indeed, it is shocking to consider the uniformity of opinion among blacks in this country. Opinion polls consistently show that only about 5% of blacks have sensible political opinions, i.e. support the free market, individual liberty, and the end of welfare and affirmative action…. Given the inefficiencies of what D.C. laughingly calls the “criminal justice system,” I think we can safely assume that 95% of the black males in that city are semi-criminal or entirely criminal.
“But, whoever actually wrote them, the newsletters I saw all had one thing in common: They were published under a banner containing Paul’s name, and the articles (except for one special edition of a newsletter that contained the byline of another writer) seem designed to create the impression that they were written by him--and reflected his views. What they reveal are decades worth of obsession with conspiracies, sympathy for the right-wing militia movement, and deeply held bigotry against blacks, Jews, and gays. In short, they suggest that Ron Paul is not the plain-speaking antiwar activist his supporters believe they are backing--but rather a member in good standing of some of the oldest and ugliest traditions in American politics.”
“To understand Paul’s philosophy, the best place to start is probably the Ludwig von Mises Institute, a libertarian think tank based in Auburn, Alabama. The institute is named for a libertarian Austrian economist, but it was founded by a man named Lew Rockwell, who also served as Paul’s congressional chief of staff from 1978 to 1982.”
“The politics of the organization are complicated--its philosophy derives largely from the work of the late Murray Rothbard, a Bronx-born son of Jewish immigrants from Poland and a self-described “anarcho-capitalist” who viewed the state as nothing more than “a criminal gang”--but one aspect of the institute’s worldview stands out as particularly disturbing: its attachment to the Confederacy.”
And
Now I must regretfully caution all 9/11 truth activists of African descent, or who identify as African descent or who LOOK LIKE they could be of African descent: there are bono fide racists(er, supporters of “the Confederacy”) operating in 9/11 truth and we know how dangerous racists can be. Under no circumstances let anyone manipulate you into surrendering your anonymity unless it is your informed decision.
http://coljennysparks.blogspot.com/2010/06/if-this-is-itpart-5-killtown-...


Now you have to think why would anyone who is not a racist want to hide proof of racists in the 911 truth movement?

It's all good...anyone can still read that blog here:

 http://coljennysparks.blogspot.com/2010/06/if-this-is-itpart-5-killtown-lew.html


As for Robbie Martin aka videohoax, I should feel sad for him wasting his life on this fraudulent conspiracy crap.

Then I remember he almost certainly knows it's a front to organize the fringe racist right.  He is likely one of the parties behind the heavy Russian webtraffic, here and here, as his Facebook page has him actually living in Russia:

https://www.facebook.com/FluorescentGrey







In any case, it's a lesson in how not to do diplomacy.  If Robbie's someone's useful idiot, he might consider dropping the gig.

Maybe the next time Robbie thinks about luring leftists into a fringe right propaganda machine just so he can try to bully them when they don't play ball, he'll think twice.

But I doubt it. The grandiose entitlement of "truther" frauds seems without end....



For more on the bankrupt toxicity of the Libertarian Party read this great article:


What's wrong with libertarianism




Jul 29, 2014

28pages.org: Latest Libertarian "Truther" Swindle

 Update: 9/10:

The webmaster is apparently going public with Abby Martin, according to his Twitter feed--that he links to from his website, and therefore it shouldn't be too difficult for some people to suss out who he is, sigh):

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 Original Post begins
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It all started at Facebook where someone asks who's responsible for the 28pages.org website.  A simple search shows 28pages.org is soley being promoted by the conspiracy bridage:

About 66,400 results (0.42 seconds)
Search Results

    Congressman Thomas Massie Has my Attention: Press ...
    www.dailypaul.com › Forums › Daily Paul Liberty Forum
    Daily Paul
    Jul 11, 2014 - 14 posts - ‎13 authors
    Massie speaks at Press Conference Regarding 9/11 Documents ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Massie ... That's a bunch of baloney, as if not having access to the 28 pages prevents people from knowing the truth.
    28Pages.org: "Because Foreign Government Involvement in ...
    www.dailypaul.com › Forums › Daily Paul Liberty Forum
    Daily Paul
    Jul 17, 2014 - 6 posts - ‎5 authors
    And that's why we've launched 28Pages.org. More than a ... Check out the site and read the rest of this intro at 28Pages.org : ... 9/11 Truth.
    Rep. Massie on 9/11 Report's 28 pages - Ben Swann
    benswann.com/rep-massie-on-911-reports-28-pages-shocking-but-wont-...
    Mar 12, 2014 - Massie on 9/11 Report's 28 pages: Shocking, but won't hurt national ... "I do not think a nation like America will remain strong if the nation does not demand the truth. .... http://www.aneta.org/911experiments_com/AceElevator/
    Rep Thomas Massie Demands Release of the SECRET ...
    nz911truth.org/.../rep-thomas-massie-demands-release-of-the-secret-shoc...
    Jul 14, 2014 - Uncovering the Truth of September 11. Rep Thomas Massie Demands Release of the SECRET, “SHOCKING” 28-Pages of 9/11 Documents — Says ... HighRiseSafetyNYC.org – NY1 coverage of the High-Rise Safety Initiative ...
    Congressman “shocked” by suppressed 28 pages on 9/11
    americanvision.org/.../congressman-shocked-by-suppressed-28-pages-on...
    4 days ago - Congressman “shocked” by suppressed 28 pages on 9/11: “challenges you to ... But for these mild annoyances, the payoff in truth is great:.
    911Blogger.com | Paying Attention to 9/11 Related News
    911blogger.com/
    3 days ago - Visit http://HighRiseSafetyNYC.org for more info. Coverage: .... Make this Independence Day a Celebration of 9/11 Truth · AE911Truth. All over ...
    All Articles | 911Truth.org
    www.911truth.org/all-articles/
    9/11 Truth movement
    11, 2001, urged the president to declassify 28 pages from the 9/11 congressional investigation report, providing more information to the general public.
    Bob Graham Archives | 911Truth.org
    www.911truth.org/tag/bob-graham/
    9/11 Truth movement
    DemocracyNow.org. In his film ... the attacks published a report in December 2002 and redacted about 28 pages. .... By Gregor Holland 911truthmovement.org

It's painful to watch people again and again fail to get the obvious:  911 "Truth" is a far right con.  So it's no surprise the person  behind 28pages.org is yet another "Freedom, Liberty, Constitution"  Paulbot.  Ron Paul wrote the book on selling political cons for years and making millions to boot.

28pages.org is the website of  Ron Paul fanatic Brian McGlinchey.   He promotes it at Facebook on his LibertyMcG page:

 https://www.facebook.com/pages/LibertyMcG/383080208372978

A page for followers of LibertyMcG.com, Brian McGlinchey's brand-new blog on politics and policy from a perspective that values individual freedom and...
LibertyMcG shared a link.
It's time to finally declassify those 28 pages of the 9/11 Report
McGlinchey also promoted 28pages.org under his personal account:

 https://www.facebook.com/RepThomasMassie/posts/834056359951863

Brian McGlinchey Thank you for your vocal leadership in the drive to declassify 28 pages from a 9/11 report detailing foreign government involvement in 9/11. There's a new site to support the cause: http://28pages.org/
 

McGlinchey is the sole owner of the website at this time:


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Registrant ID:CR172094481
Registrant Name:Brian McGlinchey
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Registrant Street: 434 Breesport St
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Presumably in an attempt to obfuscate the fringe right origins, McG has wasted no time wooing a misguided "truther" into the 28pages orbit:

28Pages.org Thanks to Jon Gold for capturing the CSPAN broadcast. His channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC66YC8HKheNZC5NTTLZq3yg

This soon after foolishly jumping onto this scamwagon with both feet:

If and when the 28 redacted pages of the Joint Congressional Inquiry are released, and people in our Government try to use those pages as an excuse to go to war with Saudi Arabia (which I don't think they can do since Saudi Arabia owns a large portion of this country), we will need to make sure the whole history of the relationship between Saudi Arabia and those two hijackers in San Diego is known, that the whole history of the CIA seemingly protecting those two hijackers in San Diego is known, that one of the first things Bush did when he came into office was to tell the alphabet agencies to "back off" the Saudis and the Bin Ladens, that we have protected Saudi Arabia's support for terrorism since long before 9/11, that the Bush Family, George Tenet and Prince Bandar were really good friends (money connected to those two hijackers in San Diego came from the Bandar family), that George W. Bush and Bandar were talking about the need for "decisive action" in Iraq in the months before 9/11, that Bandar said Saudi intelligence was following most of the hijackers "with precision," that Philip Zelikow and Prince Bandar both belong to the Aspen Strategy Group, that the Consulate in Jeddah where some of the hijackers got their Visas was the same consulate used in the 80's to bring "terrorists" to the U.S. to train for the Afghanistan/Russia War, that the VIsa Express Program, a program used by some of the hijackers to get visas, applied only to Saudi Arabia and was started months before 9/11. Stuff like that…

Any doubts about 28pages.org being a fringe extremist astroturf project should be demolished by this post at the Daily Paul:
[UPDATE: link to Daily Paul has been scrubbed.   Who knows why..possibly to obscure the anti "gubmint"politics of the Alt-Right Libertarians now they have an ear in Trump "gubmint".   So here's a Wayback link...bitches. ]




28Pages.org: "Because Foreign Government Involvement in 9/11 Shouldn't Stay Secret"



New site launched as a "resource for the growing movement to declassify a 28-page finding about foreign government involvement in 9/11"...
Foreign Government Involvement in 9/11 Shouldn’t Stay Secret
And that’s why we’ve launched 28Pages.org. More than a website, it will serve as an information and activism hub for citizens, elected officials and journalists who want to follow or join the growing, bipartisan movement to declassify a 28-page finding about foreign support for the 9/11 terrorists.
The 28-page redaction at issue is found in the report of the Joint Inquiry into Intelligence Community Activities Before and After the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001. Not to be confused with the 9/11 Commission, this inquiry was a separate undertaking of the House and Senate intelligence committees.
While the resulting 838-page volume features many redacted words, sentences and paragraphs, President George W. Bush’s censorship of this particular section was comprehensive: 28 consecutive pages fully masked from public view, with only a few introductory paragraphs left intact. Within what little that is visible, we find the inquiry reviewed “FBI and CIA documents suggesting specific potential sources of foreign support for the September 11 hijackers.”
Check out the site and read the rest of this intro at 28Pages.org :
http://28pages.org/2014/07/17/foreign-government-involvement...
There is no "growing movement".  It's the same pool of fringe reactionary loons that brought us the Y2K scare and invented the "Truth" movement. For instance the Facebook page has a total of 25 likes at this time.


This swindle is aimed at a very small slice of the Facebook community.  For comparison NARAL ProChoice Texas  has 8,100 likes.   Granted, they've been around longer and have more chapters, but if the conspiracy scam ringmasters can't rally more that 25 of the Alex Jones/Icke troops after a week, maybe it's time to throw in the towel.

  Any doubts about McGlinchey's Libertarian DNA should be
dispelled with this photo with racist loon Ron Paul:







McGlinchey isn't the first Libertarian to plug the "truther" con.

[See: Lew Rockwell and Craig "Killtown" Lazo.
 http://jennyquarx.blogspot.com/2014/07/occupy-retospective-at-lady-liberty.html
 http://jennyquarx.blogspot.com/2014/04/on-rand-paul-tea-parties-and-white.html
 http://jennyquarx.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-anti-semite-elephant-in-room.html
 http://jennyquarx.blogspot.com/2014/02/lew-rockwell-gullible-libertarian-or.html
]

Sadly it doesn't look like he'll be the last.

Maybe there's something to these 28pages legitimate authorities should investigate.

But it's more likely, given Libertarian "truther" history, the agenda behind the 28pages.org website is to keep the "truther" con alive and/or promote the anti-Semite, anti government, conspiracy worldview fringe right political interests have exploited for decades.

Viva la Madness!

 For more on McG go to his linked in profile:


 https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianmcglinchey






28pages.org




Update:  Mild hilarity can be had at the expense websites run by frauds, pretending to disparage each other ...

Wow. Didn't think you could so easily top yourself. My statement that I am lobbying to have you demoted is not a threat as the statement is it's own action. What I said is already lobbying.
I'd also point out that I find your use of the term threat and suggestion that I make threats to be totally inappropriate and far beyond acceptable behavior for comments on this site. Who among us does everything we hope to do? I'm quite sure I haven't delivered on every promise. But "threats" are something else and you should know that.
Your behavior here further confirms my concern about your moderation. Or perhaps you need a break. Maybe you are burnt out just like anyone who really cares about this can be. Maybe you need to re-evaluate your position and get back to me, or rather us.
I don't 'believe' this stuff. I've learned how it works. Good strategy is not opinion but historical fact. The history of social movements and the history of this movement. Some things don't work and I do not intend to accept you laughing at me because I know what does. That's a direct act of ignorance, and it has no place in a movement about truth.


..... while both promote the exact same conspiracy blog about 28pages:

Site 1
Site 2

 "This is something real,"
Please. Stop.  This isn't funny.  It's sad.  In fact it's all a direct act of ignorance .


Jul 21, 2014

Occupy Retospective at Lady Liberty Lamp, Ron Paul and General Lunacy

With a couple amusing jabs at the Ron Paul political machine.

A couple of friends of mine got heavy into Occupy, one with an unfortunate fixation on Ron Paul, no matter how much evidence of Paul's racist associations leaked out.    It was like a perverse version of voting for the lesser evil strategy, except that Ron Paul was actually the greater evil. 

Occupy itself was fraught with issues before the scammers and loons Lady Liberty analyses jumped on the bandwagon, but this doesn't take away from LLL excellent points.  

One observation from the getgo is most of the infiltration is by political groups, conartists, or corporate opportunists from both camps.  Very little directly by the "gubmint", though of course this is happening, but in a much more subtle way. 

Infiltrators of the Occupy Movement.


Popular activist movements attract all manner of scavengers and hangers-on, most of which seek to capitalize on the success of the more popular group to compensate for the fact that the majority of society regards them as a bunch of babbling kooks. The Occupy Movement is no different, with everyone from The American Spectator to Zeitgeist seeing the mass throng of people as easy pickings by which to enlarge their subscriber base and coffers. Some of these groups, however, see the Occupy Movement as a means to seek legitimacy for their own morally reprehensible causes, whether that takes the form of racism, fraud or selling out activists to the feds.
Here then, is a list of some of the most odious and dangerous groups and individuals currently sucking off the teat of the Occupy Movement. These people shouldn’t be considered part of the broader Occupy Movement, no matter what sort of “authority” they claim.
A list follows heavily represented by"Patriot" pro militia groups, including our "friend" Dr. Paul:


-The Ron Paul Movement


Ron Paul cult of wackos

Personality cult built around a racist old coot. Why they’re involved with this is puzzling, because the overall thrust of the movement has been agitating for increased government oversight on Wall Street and banks and increased taxes on millionaires, which is something Ron Paul categorically opposes as being “un constitutional.” They want your money and your vote.

 Underline mine.

As the savvy are aware, the Ron Paul Campaign for Liberty was never far from the 9/11 "truth" conspiracy franchise, what with Ron Paul's wingman Lew Rockwell up to his eyeballs in Craig "killtown" Lazo's 911 movement forum. 

Zeitgeist deserves mention since it was pushed aggressively in "truther" circles at one time as a new "paradigm" or some-such.

911blogger.com/topics/zeitgeist

-Zeitgeist
UFO cult associated with something called The Venus Project, which is debunked in a very thorough manner here. The long and short of it is that they want your money.
One blog promoting Zeitgeist was frank about the vague mysteriousness or the promotional literature, often a "tell" of cult bait/switch:

 http://911blogger.com/news/2007-07-05/zeitgeist-movie-dvd-downloading-0

 Poor blogging
And poor website. After reading this blog, I know absolutely nothing about the film.
So I took the time to go to the website, and after looking at it, I know absolutely nothing about the film.
I don't even know why it would be a good reason and worth my time to go to the website, or watch the film.

 It's supposed to be a bit of a mystery
Therefore you don't get a long synopsis, only the Q: "What does Christianity, 911 and The Federal Reserve have in common?"
But in the blog, just look at the pictures here, the pictures.
Come on now, dear doughnut, just click the play button, you will not be wasting your time. Then tell us what you thought of it.
Seriously?   He needs to waste 2 hours of his life before he has any idea if it's worth it?

Another charming thread about Zeitgeist, with links to the Cassiopeia cult, and David Cole boosters like this guy:


Sorry pal, but after the monstrous 9/11 lie, why should anyone be shocked that 9/11 was not the first time history has been embellished and/or just plain made up? I would be surprised if 9/11 was the only or the biggest historical distortion of our ruling classes! War is always a tragedy for civilians, just ask the residents of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Oh it was a "just war" alright! It was very just the way everyone except the wealthy backers of both sides (the same people of course) got to suffer equally. 6 million is a symbolic number that has been used even after the official mainstream accepted number killed at Auschwitz was reduced from 4 million to 1 million. Everything you want people to think about those who question the official holocaust narrative is in fact true of those who helped to cause and have since manipulated, misrepresented, and profited from genuine suffering of Jewish people during WW2. The lies and gross exaggerations of Zionists were just atrocity propaganda sanctioned by the victors of the war and used to justify the theft of Palestinian land conveniently near the world's oil fields so that european imperialists could hide behind the seemingly noble cause of restitution to Jewish victims of German war crimes.
For those shocked to read such things, be sure to look up the work of Jewish holocaust revisionist David Cole, and see what ended up happening to him for daring to question the official history. 9/11 Truthers should learn from his experience trying to bring the truth to people who don't want to hear it!
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 And this guy:
When you look at what was done to David Cole...
Historian David Irving and many others who only search for truth you will know that the we're in the "violently opposed" stage of Holocaust discussion. Prof. Tony Martin is another example of someone, who merely questioned the Jewish role in the trans-Atlantic slave trade (and no more so than any other European race), and was attacked & threatened mercilessly.
It's the information age folks, put it to use.
Yes, poor, poor, poor David Cole-Stein the Con Man:

 http://jennyquarx.blogspot.com/2014/01/holocaust-denier-cole-infiltrates.html

Turns out he was less "oppressed" than just wanted to reinvent himself after deep professional embarrassment.  It's notable none of Cole super fans have flocked back to him after his outing.

But I digress.    Or perhaps when loons infiltrate a popular movement, the lunacy is doomed to propagate.

Viva La Madness.

Let's end on a hilarious exchange from the comments:

M. Kaney
By the way, I will be straight up and not try to dance around it. It is your classic portrayal of Ron as a crazy racist old coot.. that classic talking point that requires no independent thought or acknowledgement of a brilliant man is what gives you away as an infiltrator yourself. Like him or hate him, most of the people in the movement have been open enough to have intelligent and sincere conversations about the man and the ideas he champions. That’s what gave you away, your lack of intellectual humility.

Thelibertylamp
What ideas are those? That 95% of all black males in DC are criminals? That global warming is a myth? That evolution doesn’t exist? That the economy needs to be placed squarely in the hands of precious metals speculators? That labor unions have no right to exist? That abortion should be criminalized? That governmental regulation of private industry is a flawed idea? That banks and capitalism need to exist in an environment unhindered and unfettered by pesky regulations? Ron Paul’s only contribution is that his rhetoric variously demands either the auditing or abolition of the federal reserve– but there is no plan after that. We’ve always had a sincere position on Ron Paul: he’s a racist, theocratic old man who– apart from being profoundly anti-labor– is an advocate of the highest degree for the privileges of the ultra-rich to live without having to contribute anything to the communities in which they live.
And what about this term you threw in at the end– “intellectual humility?” Are you using this term because you mean to imply we are violating Mill’s credo that we are not humble about what we don’t know– that we are arrogant and close-minded? Or instead do you mean that we should humble ourselves before your sacred cows because we might offend you? Instead of readily dismissing criticisms of Paul for whatever reason, perhaps the entire Ron Paul movement needs to practice some intellectual humility of its own. I am sick and tired of seeing reams of denials and apologetics about Ron Paul’s racism in his own paper from members of his movement– when people are presented with incontrovertible statements (and even video footage, with regards to the evolution statement) from people about their political opinions, they generally understand those statements are those of the person making them. The overwhelming, rote, scripted chorus from the Ron Paul movement is “he didn’t really say that” or “he didn’t really mean that.” Who’s practicing “intellectual humility” now?

And for anyone in doubt about the source of Paul's opinion on Blacks, the environment, etc, look no further than Ron Paul's own new letters, written by Paul himself.

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Paul_newsletters
 http://wrongpaul.tumblr.com/post/16331619798/http-ronpaulnewsletters-blogspot-com

Ba-DUM.





Apr 2, 2014

On Rand Paul, Tea Parties, and the White Supremacist Roots

This wee gem is from an antiracist.org pdf March last year:

http://antiracist.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/TTT-V23-n3-summer-2010.pdf

The connection of Rand Paul and his politics to the "truth" movement might appear tangential, but Lew Rockwell's involvement in Craig Lazo aka "Killtown"s 911movement.org forum prove the Ron Paul political machine was deeply invested in "truther" propaganda:

 http://jennyquarx.blogspot.com/2014/02/lew-rockwell-gullible-libertarian-or.html

It's unlikely the apple falls far from the tree and expected Rand Paul will follow in daddy's footsteps, using the conspiracy crowd  to front his Tea Party friendly agenda.   This excerpt by Michael Novick explores how racist dogwhistle politics is integral to libertarian philosophy Rand Paul is pushing--a timely observation given long time "truther" leaders like Barrett have openly endorsed White Power politicians like Merlin Miller of the American Freedom Party(American Third Position):

Merlin Miller is a filmmaker and West Point graduate who has been fighting illuminati-dominated Hollywood for many years by putting out wholesome films rather than the usual toxic, degenerate trash. He ran for President with the American Third Position Party. (And I voted for him.)
And the Nazi scumbag LOST...to no one's surprise.

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 On Rand Paul, Tea Parties, and the White Supremacist Roots
of Private Enterprise and Privatization

 by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action Los Angeles/People Against Racist Terror (ARA-LA/PART)

The victory of Tea Party and militia supporter Rand Paul as Republican nominee
for the U.S. Senate in Kentucky signaled the mainstreaming of allegedly ‘anti-
establishment’ right wing forces. It also prompted a lot of liberal and conservative attention to Paul’s support of private property rights against government, because of his “philosophizing” that the section of the Civil Rights Act which prohibits racial discrimination at restaurants and hotels violated the “free speech” rights of private business owners.

Rand Paul and his supporters claimed he was misrepresented. He wrote, “I was asked if I supported the Civil Rights Act of 1964. I stated that ‘I like the Civil Rights Act in the sense that it ended discrimination in all public domains, and I’m all in favor of that.’ In response, the interviewer asked me about private domains, and I did what typical candidates don’t - I discussed some philosophical issues with government mandating rules on private businesses. I think the federal government has often gone too far in regulating private citizens and businesses.” He claims that he was simply displaying atypical honesty. But these words make clear that Paul was simply using the same weasel code words of “private property rights’ and ‘state’s rights’ that were widely used at the time of the original debates over civil rights to defend racial segregation and de facto US apartheid. Paul specifically explains that “private clubs” restrict membership on a racial basis, which he says is “abhorrent” but protected.

What this really exposes is the covert white supremacy inherent in private
enterprise and in the privatization of public institutions in the US. For
example, in the wake of Brown v. Board of Education finding racial
segregation in public schools unconstitutional, there was massive ‘white
flight’ into private schools and suburban school districts. Ever since, through
vouchers and charter schools, there has been an ongoing effort to divert public
tax funding for education into private hands. This has been paralleled, after
the rebellions of the 60s, by the flight of private industry and capital (again
with tax subsidies) from the inner cities of the north and midwest and the
segregated old Confederate states of the US South into the global south. The
bitter consequences of these publicly supported private policies can be seen in
the destruction and depopulation of Detroit and New Orleans. We see it in LA,
where Black and Mexicano families are being seduced by for-profit schools
to escape the devastation of public schools starved by privatization and racist
budget cutting. We see it in Rand Paul’s adopted region, where Tennessee’s
Corrections Corporation of America is the largest private provider of
incarceration “services” to federal, state and local governments overwhelmed
by mass imprisonment. Private prisons, police, schools and even armies and
spies (like Blackwater) are the final culmination of the privatization of land
and the creation of corporations as the original instruments of empire building.

But Paul is blind to these realities of racism and colonialism in present day USA. He writes in his own defense, “In 2010, there are battles that need to be fought, and they have nothing to do with race or discrimination, but rather the rights of people to be free from a nanny state. For example, I am opposed to the government telling restaurant owners that they cannot allow smoking in their establishments. I believe we as consumers can choose whether to patronize a smoke-filled restaurant or do business with a smoke-free option.” He compares denying business owners the “right” to exclude Black people to forcing them to allow in people carrying guns. He goes on, “Now the media is twisting my small government message, making me out to be a crusader for repeal of the Americans for Disabilities Act and The Fair Housing Act. Again, this is patently untrue. I have simply pointed out areas within these broad federal laws that have financially burdened many smaller businesses. For example, should a small business in a two-story building have to put in a costly elevator, even if it threatens their economic viability? Wouldn’t it be better to allow that business to give a handicapped employee a ground floor office? We need more businesses and jobs, not fewer.”

 First, Paul is perpetuating a lie about the American with Disabilities Act (ADA), which would NOT require a small business in a 2-story building to install an elevator. Second, it was Rand Paul himself who raised the issue of the ADA, seeking to explain or justify his opposition to the Civil Rights Act restriction on private businesses by making a parallel to an area he felt would have less support than racial equity. People ‘shocked’ at Paul’s defense of BP against government ‘bullying’ seemed to buy this subterfuge.

Paul may have accurately measured the opposition to equal rights and access for people with disabilities. Commentary from liberal and left sources focused much more strongly on Paul’s arguments against the Civil Rights Act provisions or for BP than his remarks about the ADA. Ironically, in Detroit where the genocidal impact of the privatization and private property rights that Paul champions are most evident, the recent US Social Forum was oblivious of or hostile to the need for accommodations and access for people with disabilities. As Ryan Alley, an activist from CSU Fullerton wrote: “How can 20,000 ‘activists’ talk about liberation in a space with no accessibility or polygender bathrooms? Others get free shuttles and enter the front of the building via grand staircase. We pay to take the bus downtown, enter through a dark hidden alley and discover that the workshop we wanted to attend was moved to ...another (inaccessible) building. Then we fight for the third day in a row to find a place to pee...” In response to struggles raised about the lack of accessibility, conference organizers emailed back that people who had an interest in that should organize a caucus on the topic and make a presentation. It is outrageous for the “left” to be more backward on this issue than the state, the churches or even the bourgeoisie. Left blindness on, or outright hostility towards, affirmative inclusivity for people with disabilities is unconscionable and inexcusable, in an era when disability is growing exponentially due to war, corporate industrialism, environmental degradation and privatized medical care. What does it say about the left if a disabled soldier has better chances of accommodation by the Pentagon, or a disabled prisoner has a better chance of accommodation from the Bureau of Prisons, than a disabled activist has of accommodation and access to progressive or left activities and organizations?














Feb 28, 2014

Lew Rockwell: gullible "Libertarian" or cynical opportunist?

September of last year one of Lew Rockwell's chums published an "OMG they're stealing our gunz rights!" article on his website, LewRockwell.com.  The problem is the source was a satirical website, making me wonder are they really that dumb or do they just not care?

I'm inclined to go with the latter as there is ample evidence, in and out of the "truth" movement, that Rockwell primary motive for anything he does is $$$$$$$$$$.

Mr. Rockwell has a long history of cynically pushing political garbage to make money.  Look no further than the racist Ron Paul Newsletters he helped Paul publish and make millions off of for decades.
Then there's the Von Mises Institute Rockwell helped found with Murray Rothbard of the Cato Institute, putting Rockwell only one degree of separation from the Larouche origins of the "truth" movement.    Now Rockwell claims Mises and Cato are at odds, but we really on have his word for it:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/gordon/gordon37.html

And Rockwell's word isn't worth much these days, and it seems he and Ronnie had a rather cozy relationship with the Cato institute:
 Ed Crane, founder and president of the Cato Institute, told Reason that in a discussion of with Ron Paul during the period in which the newsletters were published, Paul said his chief source of campaign contributions was the mailing address for the controversial Spotlight magazine. Reason reports that the now defunct magazine, run by Holocaust Denier Willis Carto, promoted anti-Semitism.[27]
Lew Rockwell was involved with pushing 911 truth conspiracies from at least 2007 to 2009.   Rockwell was a frequent contributor to Rick Seigel's defunct 911researchers forum.  I don't know all of Siegel's story.  But I do know he funded many websites of the "truther" con.  It's possible Seigel was conned and his extreme libertarian ideals of "freedom" were exploited. If so, Rockwell would be one of the conartists.

Rockwell used to post on Liberty Forest, the old Ron Paul forum, where he pushed links to Craig "Killtown" Lazo's 911movement forum.

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 In fact Rockwell was an administrator at Lazo's forum:
 To recap, aimless supposed Green boy enjoying hippy chicks is drawn into the Libertarian party, and becomes a 911 online entity working with supporters of Lyndon Larouche, David Duke and various Holocaust deniers and confederacy sympathizers. Eventually KT would be de facto manager of a forum compiling information about activists—and one of his administrators is THE Lew Rockwell.
 Making Rockwell responsible for all the lies and cyber shenanigans at 911movement.org.  If anyone knew who "Slicks" wife was and wanted to blackmail "Slick", Rockwell would be a prime candidate.  After all, would he really want to risk being connected to the forum as he helped Ron Paul prepare for 2012?
Rockwell, with "Killtown" Lazo, was a supporter of the conspiracy movie September Clues:

The screenie above, hosted and imageshack and archiving Rockwell's witting self involvement and promotion of "September Clues" at Craig Lazo's forum, has been removed.  I have a copy somewhere.  Until then bask in the hypocrisy of Mr. Lazo and his associates who refuse to remove one jot of any of their published lies.
Not sure if it's the same, but it definitely archives Rockwell networking with Mr. Shack and Mr. Lazo:


And for kicks, here's one where Rockwell is agreeing to harrass photographer Devin Clark:


The same Devin Clark Lazo's buddy Ozzy made videos implying death threats.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sip3lIcyhMU
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6esBFmwrB4
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKzHtNchiMI


Stay classy, people.

Rockwell claimed among many things to be ex-military, something wikipedia seems unaware of.
 I'm former military, so I have a fair idea how this works.

Rockwell also engaged in stalking 911 survivors, reporting his exploits at 911movement.org.
Posted: May 14 2009, 11:17 AM
I just drove over there.
There is absolutely ZERO signage to indicate what's there except the street adress out front. (That still doesn't account for the Google map showing a wooded lot. I can seee my own care in my driveway when I put in my addy and my street isn't even listed on a mercator map.
Once you drive into the compound there's a a sign for deliveries, parking, etc, but again, nothing to indicate it's a Goldman Sachs Fraud Op. A woman is a black trench coat, slacks, sensible heels and wearing a dour look gave me the hairy eyeball, but other than that it looks like your average 1980's style office park, albeit small.

It might be interesting to find out how long they've occupied the building. If it predates Lisa's foundation, I think it's safe to say the foundation was a GS creation.
HTH
Rockwell's mix of sleazy companions and unfounded conspiracy innuendo, show the man is nothing less than a pathological liar, pushing anything that will support his agenda of the moment.  Not only is it dishonest and unethical, but, at it's extreme, it shows Rockwell is a fool.

Take the article published on Rockwell's website by Gary North:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/09/gary-north/kentucky-fried-trouble/

LewRockwell.com ANTI-STATEANTI-WARPRO-MARKET

Kentucky Trial Balloon: RFID Tracking Chips on All Guns

The Senate of the state of Kentucky wants to run an experiment. It has passed a bill that establishes a new law. As of January 1, all gun owners in one city must bring in their guns. The police will attach a battery-powered chip that will track its whereabouts. The police will charge the gun owners for this service.
Anyone who fails to do this could be fined or sent to jail.
The city chosen is Winchester. You think the politicians are not sending a message? If there had been a Kentucky city called Glock, they would have chosen it instead.
If the politicians get away with this, it is expected that the program will be imposed in every county in the state.
The preliminary report does not indicate that the governor has signed the bill into law.
If this does not lead to protests in Kentucky, gun-control lawmakers around the United States hope to get every state to impose this requirement.
Then, when confiscation day comes, the police will know where every gun is, other than those owned by criminals, who will not register their guns.
This is a trial balloon. The politicians will keep extending this law until they receive opposition sufficient to threaten their re-election.
Continue Reading on nationalreport.net
Gary North [send him mail] is the author of Mises on Money. Visit http://www.garynorth.com. He is also the author of a free 31-volume series, An Economic Commentary on the Bible.

Hope Mr. North's Bible work is better than his political research.  One has only to follow his link to National Report to see he's got the wrong end of the stick:

*DISCLAIMER: The views expressed by writers on this site are theirs alone and are not reflective of the fine journalistic and editorial integrity of National Report. Advice given is NOT to be construed as professional. If you are in need of professional help, please consult a professional. National Report is not intended for children under the age of 18.
The phraseology should make a thinking person suspicious this is something tongue in cheek.  Perhaps inspire a Google search:

National Report (nationalreport.net) is a satirical website devoted to often subtle parodies of real news which convince the unwary. It is published by Allen Montgomery.[1]
Among headline-generating spoofs are a report that Arizona's governor Jan Brewer intended to introduce mandatory gay-to-straight conversion courses into the state's public school system,[2] and a report that fooled researchers at Fox News Channel, in which the President was purported to have announced his intention to spend his own money to keep a Muslim museum open during a government shutdown.[3] Another report that fooled people in Wyoming claimed that a man in Hanna, Wyoming was the first recipient of a RFID chip which, the report claimed, was part of an Obamacare pilot program.[1]

It's satire, people.  See how easy that was?

Apparently not easy enough.  The comments swarm with people who don't stop for two seconds to wonder if this is real, not even after a fellow libertarian sounds the alarm that this is satire:

Len Libertarian
September 15, 2013 at 12:59 pm

The popular site LewRockwell.com picked up this satire news story and presented it as real news. Well done!

The syndicated talk radio show The Freedom Feens talked on their show today about LewRockwell.com getting punked by this. Archive is here:

http://www.freedomfeens.com/2013/09/15/traffic-cameras-are-proof-the-government-doesnt-work-live-freedom-feens-radio-archive/

–Len.
Almost six months later, and still no retraction at Lew Rockwell's website.

This tells us a couple things about right-wing Libertarians generally and the Libertarian's promoting the "truther" fraud specifically:
1.  As long as something supports their agenda, Libertarian leaders don't care about facts.
2.  Libertarian owners of websites, or newsletters for that matter, do not think it's their responsibility to edit anything, ever.   Years later when called out, they lie and/or pass the buck, without even trying to look credible to the public outside their bubble.
3.Libertarian propaganda is directed at loyal followers who will not question the obvious lies and discrepancies.   This means Libertarian leaders value brainwashed followers who will do what they say without question.
Now some will object that all parties do this.  But this is not true.   As a long time lefty I know registered Republicans who think the party's recent alliance with Tea Party extremists is insane.  And of course I know many Democrats who were unhappy Obama took so long to withdraw troops.  Normal people involved with the traditional parties do NOT vote or hold opinions in lockstep. And party leaders are highly aware they need to look like rational people when the come under fire.

Not so the official Libertarian Party.  Their leaders could not care less if regular voters saw them as sane as long the base is loyal.   And the base is defined by loyalty at all costs.

It's the extreme of Right Wing ideology: cynical leadership knowingly pushing lies, and gullible trusting followers any television preacher would envy. The politics of Libertarianism operate less like an economic model and more like a religion.  This isn't an accident.  If you can get people involved in a faith based ideology, you can manipulate them to react with religious fervor with friend and foe.
Bringing us to Rockwell's involvement in the "truth" movement. 

The 911 "Truth" Movement is one of many fringe right propaganda fronts.  They all had a natural life cycle:
initial broad appeal,
discovery of flawed facts and/or associations,
decline to small dedicated fringe. 
The Libertarian Party itself has followed this pattern, now a shadow of itself and the haunt of extremists.   It has one victory: being recognized as a national party.  But it's reputation as a mainstream alternative is over.  Even the openly racist America Freedom Party thinks it has better chances, perhaps because it never LIED about it's racist roots.

This is what did the 911"truth" movement in.
The initial appeal :
anti war activists unimpressed with Bush's over use of "terrorism" as an excuse for military action.  Why was he doing this?
Truth movement leaders and recruiters who either were strongly critical of Bush or pretended to be politically liberal offered answers.  What they didn't explain was the extreme right wing sources of their "theories".    They deliberately obscured them, as "debunking911" has said:
At 23 March, 2007 18:46,  debunking911 said... I can't hate on the people who have been suckered into this. Not everyone has the time to research this like we do. But I think people in the public eye have a special responsibility to find out the truth before opening their mouth. Some nutcase like McVeigh will try to kill someone some day because people like Rosie jumped to conclusions.

This gets frustrating. We don't have a radio station and fanatics like they do. We need a group to e-mail or fax these people our web sites like they have. We need someone who knows how to create videos like they do. The thing is people only get motivated by a crisis and they have a manufactured one.
D911 frustration was understandable, but like many debunkers, he was looking in the wrong direction.  Focusing on debunking hoax theories is laudable, but it's worthless if the source and political goals of the people inventing the theories is ignored.  Otherwise they'll just invent another theory, and it will be another game of wack-the-mole.

Once all the theories are identified as a fringe right propaganda machine, certain "truther" behaviours encouraged in "truthers" make more sense, particularly the quasi religious Matrix inspired "wake up" "witnessing".  Much like the big L libertarians don't want critical supporters, "truther" leaders, don't want critical members.  They want a mass of people ready to repeat faith based mantas.
 
Then the demonizing of anyone asking say Steven Jones questions about his termites, er, thermates, makes sense.   As does the hand waving over his OverUnity scam. Or, really, anyone expecting rational adult behaviour.

The faith based aspect of the "truth" movement has been over shadowed by theories, but is far more indicative of the psychology truther leaders were trying to exploit.  At least three leaders make claims to religious training and/or institutions: 
 Griffin, Jones and Barrett. 
The idea has appeal beyond the fringe right.  Most people have trouble seeing mild-mannered religious persons as fronting a scam.   Loud and brash ones sure; the typical TV preacher is assumed to be lining his pockets.  But to be knowing outright frauds, working with racist loons, that's hard for anyone to accept no matter where they are on the political spectrum.
 It takes proof to break the spell:
Griffin:  Publisher racist Barnes Review: this link to the The American Free Press/Barnes Review Conference of 2006 proves, better than any snark, that TBR is connected to the racist AFP at the hip.
Jones:  fraudulent paper, pushing OverUnity Hoax
Barrett: Holocaust denier and supporter of Merlin Miller, a White Power political candidate.
The only people left to defend these racist frauds are the "true believers", like Rockwell and the Paultards, remaining loyal out of blind faith, or because they have no place to go.   The leaders remain because there's still money to be squeezed out of the rubes.

The continued presence of Gary North's uncritical and badly researched article on Rockwell's website, is an example of the "thinking" rife in both the Libertarian Party and the 911truth movement: my theory, right or wrong.  Facts be damned!

It also proves "Lew" was never interested in any truth.  He's only interested in material to feed his libertarian propaganda machine, no matter how foolish it makes him look.  Because he knows the true believers will never question and always follow.