Radical Honesty SA to John Pilger; Re: Lannan Foundation Censorship of The War You Don’t See documentary Root Cause Problem Solving: Scientific Journalism Campaign Cc: Wikileaks, Lannan Fnd; Noam Chomsky, et al 13 June 2011 Dear Mr. Pilger, I read about the e-mail you received from Barbara Ventrello (the Lannon foundation's Cultural Freedom Special Projects director) saying that Patrick Lannan had called from California to instruct them to cancel your events (Lannan Foundation abruptly bans, and cancels the US premiere of, John Pilger’s film “The War You Don’t See” (which, therefore, you won’t see)1 and Lannan Foundation cancels on controversial speaker: Outspoken investigative journalist 'perplexed' by vague last-minute email2) I don‘t know why your documentary is being censored by Mr. Lannan. I was curious whether your documentary negligently or consciously avoided including two fundamental root cause issues in the promotion of war (in which the media play a primary role); but which your documentary did not address at all. In the absence of root causes problem solving; any problem cannot be solved; and hence any documentary or policy which fails to address the root causes of any problem; is nothing less than bullshit the public PR image management. In 2010 the Radical Honesty culture in South Africa, an offshoot of the Radical Honesty culture founded by Dr. Brad Blanton, former Green Independent candidate for US congress in 2004 and 2006, filed a ‗direct access‘ writ of Habeus Mentem application to the SA Constitutional Court (Radical Honesty SA v. 88 SANEF Media Publications and their Editors (CCT 06-11)) which addresses both these censored issues ignored by your War You Don’t See media censorship documentary. The direct application to the SA Constitutional Court was dismissed within less than 8 hours by the entire bench of the Constitutional Court as being ‗not in the interests of justice‘. It argued on behalf of a Scientific Journalism Campaign; establishing a Scientific Journalism Media Publication rating system, which could be monitored by anonymous Media Inspectors, similar to Restaurant and Hotel Inspectors. To issue an advisory ruling, with expert witness input from Wikileaks and/or OpenLeaks ‗scientific journalism‘ experts, in support of a clear classification system of ‗media corporations‘; similar to Hotel Star Ratings and Smoking Label warnings. For example: (a) Three Star Media Corporations practice unbiased and politically incorrect scientific 1
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journalism; (b) Two Star media corporations practice left or right ideological propaganda when it contradicts scientific journalism truths, and withhold from their readers access to the original documents they are reporting their bias upon; (c) One Star gutter yellow smear propaganda journalism, which has no interest whatsoever in scientific truthful reporting, only profiting from spreading gossip and malice. All media corporations are required to publish their ‗scientific journalism‘ hierarchical star status, in a designated space on their front page, clarifying their Star Status, and what that start status means regarding the scientific journalism or not quality of factual information being sold to the reader.
Censored from Causes of War Enquiries: One: Population Growth Cannon Fodder Breeding Wars The media play a direct role in encouraging population growth and covering up the local, national and international resource war consequences of population growth colliding with finite or declining resources; as documented in among others Dr. T. Michael Maher‘s study: How and Why Journalists Avoid the Environment-Population Connection. The title of the writ -- Habeus Mentem - is borrowed from Aldous Huxley‘s A Brave New World Revisited; where he describes the insidious conspiracy to manipulate the masses by propaganda and lies, so as to make them controllable under the ―steadily increasing pressures of over-population and of the over-organization imposed by growing numbers and advancing technology‖ ―It is perfectly possible for a man to be out of prison, and yet not free -- to be under no physical constraint and yet to be a psychological captive, compelled to think, feel and act as the representatives of the national State, or of some private interest within the nation, want him to think, feel and act. There will never be such a thing as a writ of habeas mentem; for no sheriff or jailer can bring an illegally imprisoned mind into court, and no person whose mind had been made captive by the methods outlined in earlier articles would be in a position to complain of his captivity. The nature of psychological compulsion is such that those who act under constraint remain under the impression that they are acting on their own initiative. The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free. That he is not free is apparent only to other people. His servitude is strictly objective.‖
Two: War as Social Release of Suppressed Tensions resulting from Political Correctness ―War as a general social release. This is a psychosocial function, serving the same purpose for a society as do the holiday, the celebration, and the orgy for the individual---the release and redistribution of undifferentiated tensions. War provides for the periodic necessary readjustment of standards of social behaviour (the "moral climate") and for the dissipation of general boredom, one of the most consistently undervalued and unrecognized of social phenomena. ―War fills certain functions essential to the stability of our society; until other ways of filling them are developed, the war system must be maintained -- and improved in effectiveness.‖ -Excerpt from Report from Iron Mountain on the Possibility and Probability of Peace; as quoted in Radical Honesty SA TRC Fraud Letter to FW de Klerk, Mandela & Tutu et al 3
The Radical Honesty culture is the only culture to my knowledge that provides its members with the skills and capabilities that do not require them to suppress their anger or frustrations to one another; but to express them honourably face-to-face in day to day relations. There is no such thing as being politically correct, polite, or diplomatic in Radical Honesty. Members of Radical Honesty commit to sharing their anger honestly to each other; and to remain in such conversation until all their anger is released, i.e. they have attained sensate 3
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forgiveness. Put differently; their commitment to share their anger (sensate tension) in the moment; honourably face-to-face enables them to resolve – release the sensate tension in the moment – their disagreements and misunderstandings, whereby there is no suppressed tension remaining in their body (no tight jaw or shoulders, no sweaty palms, etc; all sensate tensions are released; i.e. sensate forgiveness is attained). When such disagreements are sincerely resolved; it also builds real sincere trust. Consequently Radical Honesty members are able to release and redistribute their tensions daily, hourly; and resolve them, and such tensions do not build up within such individuals. Such individuals – as a result of not being a walking time bomb of suppressed emotions – are impossible to be manipulated by politicians when such politicians decide it is time to pull the clips from their walking time-bomb of suppressed tensions hand-grenade consumer citizens; with any false-flag terrorist attack, or false-flag ‗terrorist is assassinated‘ propaganda story (which of course plays right into the hands of the ‗If It Bleads, It Leads corporate editorial policies). Evidence submitted on behalf of Radical Honesty Writ of Habeus Mentem (Censored):
The Corporation, based on The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power, by Mark Achbar
Unequal Protection: The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Theft of Human Rights, by Thomas Hartmann
Green Candidates call for end of Corporate Personhood, by Greenchange
When Corporations Rule the World, by David Korten
The Century of the Self, by Adam Curtis, BBC
The Age of Manipulation, and Architects of Control Program, by Michael Tsarion
Deception was my Job: Soviet Subversion of the Free World Press, Yuri Alexandrovich Bezmenov (also known as Tomas David Schuman)
The CIA and the Media, Carl Bernstein, Washington Post
The Persuaders, by Douglass Rushkoff, PBS
Life, Inc: How the World became a Corporation and How to Take It Back, Douglass Rushkoff
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (1988), by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky
Manufacturing Consent in Democratic South Africa: Application of the Propaganda model, by Scott Lovaas
Corporate Bodies and Guilty Minds: The Failure of Corporate Criminal Liability, by William S. Laufer;
Gangs of America: The Rise of Corporate Power and the Disabling of Democracy, by Ted Nace
Flat Earth News: An Award-Winning Reporter Exposes Falsehood, Distortion and Propaganda in the Global Media, Nick Davies
Our media have become mass producers of distortion: An industry whose task should be to filter out falsehood has become a conduit for propaganda and second hand news, Nick Davies
Media Advertising’s Effect on Culture, by Mark Crispin Miller, Professor of Media Ecology, author: Mad Scientists: The Secret History of Modern Propaganda
Don't shoot messenger for revealing uncomfortable truths, Julian Assange, The Australian
Stalking the Wild Taboo, by Garrett Hardin: Part 4: Competition: (20) Competition, a Tabooed Idea in Sociology; (21) The Cybernetics of Competition; (22) Population, Biology and the Law;
(23) Population Skeletons in the Environmental Closet; (24) The Survival of Nations and Civilisations
The EndGame, by Derrick Jensen
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, by Jared Diamond
Arithmetic, Population and Energy: Sustainability 101, by Dr. Al Bartlett
Crash Course, by Dr. Chris Martinson
Is Humanity Suicidal?, By Edward O. Wilson, New York Times Magazine
Revisiting The Limits to Growth: Could The Club of Rome Have Been Correct, After All?, by Matthew R. Simmons
[German] Military Study Warns of Potentially Drastic Oil Crisis, by Stefan Schultz, Der Spiegel
US Military warns oil output may dip causing massive shortages by 2015, Terry MacAlister
Fueling the Future Force: Preparing the Department of Defense for a Post-Petroleum Environment Center for a New American Security (CNAS)
Joint Operating Environment – 2010, issued by United States Joint Forces Command
The Culture of Future Conflict, US Army War College, Parameters, Major Ralph Peters
Central Intelligence Agency and Pentagon Officials in Nightline, 2000 documentary with Ted Koppel; politicians refusal to confront reality, and the lack of political will, to act on exponential population growth colliding with declining resources, are the root causes of current resource wars over oil; which shall soon be manifested as resource wars over water, soil, arable land, etc.
Why Are Wars not being Reported Honestly; John Pilger
How and Why Journalists Avoid the Population – Environment Connection, by Dr. T. Michael Maher
You might also be interested to know that the Radical Honesty SA Complaint 4 to the International Criminal Court (ICC) filed against 88 SA Media Publications and Editors; the New York Times, Daily Telegraph and Algemene Dagblad, for their censorship of TRC FRAUD also remains censored. Complainants allege the Defendants cover up and censorship of the ANC and Anti-Apartheid Movements (i) Frantz Fanon/Black Consciousness (‗liberation by violence on the rotting corpse of the settlers‘) (ii) Black Liberation Theology (‗violent elimination of ‗whiteness‘); and (iii) Houari Boumediene/Black Power Breeding War (―The wombs of our women will give us victory‖)5 inspired TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSION FRAUD (―TRC FRAUD‖) perpetrated against citizens of South Africa, and predominantly against white Afrikaner/Boer/Settlers; is committed in the context of endorsing the ANC‘s institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and domination by Africans over other racial groups, particularly Boer/Afrikaners and committed with the intention of maintaining the ANC regime.
Respectfully,
Lara Johnstone Radical Honesty SA Encl. Excerpts from Founding Affidavit of Lara Johnstone, Member of Radical Honesty culture; in Application for Direct Access for a Writ of Habeus Mentem (CCT 06-11). 4
http://why-we-are-white-refugees.blogspot.com/search/label/**%20ICC%3A%20TRC%20Fraud%20Genocide ―One day, millions of men will leave the Southern Hemisphere to go to the Northern Hemisphere. And they will not go there as friends. Because they will go there to conquer it. And they will conquer it with their sons. The wombs of our women will give us victory.‖ -- Houari Boumediene, President of Algeria, at the United Nations, 1974 (Boumediene was an ardent supporter of the ANC and SWAPO) 5
ISSUE: ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT OF CORRUPT CORPORATE PERSONHOOD 1.
The documentary, The Corporation6, based on The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power shows the development of the contemporary business corporation, from a legal entity that originated as a government-chartered institution meant to effect specific public functions, to the rise of the modern commercial institution entitled to most of the legal rights of a person. One theme is its assessment as a "personality", as a result of an 1886 case in the United States Supreme Court in which a statement by Chief Justice Morrison R. Waite7 led to corporations as "persons" having the same rights as human beings, based on the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The film's assessment is effected via the diagnostic criteria in
the
University
DSM-IV; of
Robert British
Hare,
a
Columbia
psychology professor and a consultant to the FBI, compares the profile of the contemporary
profitable
business
corporation to that of a clinicallydiagnosed psychopath. 2.
A critic of corporate personhood, Thom Hartmann8 argues in Unequal Protection: The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Theft of Human Rights9, subsequent editions: Unequal Protection: How Corporations Became "People" - And How You Can Fight Back that there was an intentional misinterpretation of the Supreme Court case on behalf of Corporate Personhood inserted into the Court record by reporter J.C. Bancroft Davis. The Secret of Life: Corporate Personhood10 provides a brief description of Hartmann‘s argument: Bancroft Davis had previously served as president of Newburgh and New York Railway Co. According to Hartmann in the May 10, 1886: Santa Clara County vs. the Southern Pacific
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The Corporation (www.thecorporation.com) is a 2003 Canadian documentary by Joel Bakan, Mark Achbar & Jennifer Abbott. "The court does not wish to hear argument on the question whether the provision in the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which forbids a State to deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws, applies to these corporations. We are all of the opinion that it does." However, the Supreme Court decision did not itself address the matter of whether corporations were 'persons' with respect to the Fourteenth Amendment; in Chief Justice Waite's words, "we avoided meeting the question". (118 U.S. 394 (1886) - According to the official court Syllabus in the United States Reports) 8 Thom Hartmann (born May 7, 1951) is an American radio host, author, former psychotherapist and entrepreneur, and a progressive political commentator. His nationally-syndicated radio show, The Thom Hartmann Program, airs in the United States and has 2.75 million unique listeners a week. In 2008, 2009, and 2010, Talkers Magazine named Hartmann the tenth most important talk show host in America, defining him as the most important liberal host (the nine above Hartmann are conservatives). 9 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unequal_Protection:_The_Rise_of_Corporate_Dominance_and_the_Theft_of_Human_Rights 10 http://secret-of-life.org/corporate-personhood 7
Railroad Company - Supreme Court Case: The entire case was not even decided by the Supreme Court Justices, what happened was that the headnotes, which are not legally binding and which were written by a clerk of the court (not a Justice) said that the case had decided the issue of corporate personhood in the favor of the railroad company, even though it had not. This decision however, influenced future court cases for many years to come. Once it had been embedded in the US court system, there was no turning back. So what was the case about, that ended up being decided by headnotes from a clerk of the court? One, aspect of the concentration of wealth that worried Jefferson and most American legislatures in those decades was that with enough wealth, a corporation can keep trying in the courts for centuries (literally centuries, because they don't die), no matter how much it costs until they get what they want. And ultimately that's what happened... In the decade leading up to this May Day in 1886, the railroads had lost every Supreme Court case that they had brought seeking 14th amendment rights. To this day there has been no Supreme Court ruling that could explain why a corporation -- with its ability to continue operating forever -a legal agreement that can't be put in jail and doesn't need fresh water to drink or clean air to breathe -- should be granted the same constitutional rights American founders explicitly fought for, died for, and granted to the very mortal human beings who are citizens of the United States [and the world] to protect them against the perils of imprisonment and suppression they had experienced under a desperate king. See also documentary: Thom Hartman vs. Corporate Personhood11. 3.
In Green Candidates call for end of Corporate Personhood12, Greenchange report that over 110 Green Party Candidates have endorsed ―stripping [corporations] of artificial ‗personhood‘ and constitutional protections,‖ along with ―revoking the charters of corporations that routinely violate safety, health, environmental protection or other laws.‖
Among others, Democratic Congressional Representative Dennis Kucinich13,
former Candidate‘s for U.S President Ralph Nader14 and Mike Gravel15, the non-partisan group Reclaim Democracy16 have all called for the abolishment of corporate personhood, due to corporate personhoods toxic effects on republican democracy.
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Thom Hartman vs. Corporate Personhood: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hziy7WR9TQc Corporate Personhood and Money as Speech: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FtSfUSy28w 12 http://www.greenchange.org/article.php?id=6133 13 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6FY3YlxND4 14 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ-k3eCcU0w and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DM585_htT-8 15 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEwRR0eFuAQ 16 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FtSfUSy28w
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In When Corporations Rule the World, David Korten17 critiques current methods of economic development led by the Bretton Woods institutions and asserts his desire to rebalance the power of multinational corporations with concern for environment sustainability. Korten criticises consumerism, market deregulation, free trade, privatization and what he sees as the global consolidation of corporate power. Above all he rejects any focus on money as the purpose of economic life. His prescriptions include excluding corporations from political participation, increased state and global control of international corporations and finance, rendering financial speculation unprofitable and creating local economies that rely on local resources, rather than international trade.
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In his award winning 2002 documentary for the BBC, The Century of the Self18, Adam Curtis19 describes how Sigmund Freud's family, exerted a surprising amount of influence on the way corporations and governments throughout the 20th century have used Freuds theories to psychologically engineer and manipulate citizens into the false illusionary belief that the power is finally in their hands, that they live in a ‗democracy‘; that they are in charge, while their sense of identity has been subconsciously manipulated from that of citizen to consumer, fueling the massive growth of the mass-consumer society, and the corporatist Orwellian dictatorship.
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In Michael Tsarion‘s20 documentaries, The Age of Manipulation21, and Architects of Control Program22: he deals extensively with the evidentiary information on the role of media, advertising and public relations as a psychic dictatorship to manipulate the masses by psychological warfare brainwashing techniques to destroy citizens identity‘s as patriotic rational citizens, and mould their identities into psychologically insecure, dumbed-down, consumerist mind-enslaved automatonic zombies. One of Tsarion‘s conclusions being that the Soviet Union was a massive experiment in social control; and how many of the methods for social control perfected under the Soviet Union are used by the West in more subtle ways. Psywar – The real battlefield is your mind23, also provides background information on this phenomena.
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David C. Korten (1937– ) is an American economist, author, and former Professor of the Harvard University Graduate School of Business, political activist and prominent critic of corporate globalization, "by training and inclination a student of psychology and behavioral systems". 18 2002: The Century of the Self (BBC Four) documented how Freud's discoveries concerning the unconscious led to Edward Bernays' development of public relations, the use of desire over need and self-actualisation as a means of achieving economic growth and the political control of population. It received the Broadcast Award for Best Documentary Series and the Longman/History Today Awards for Historical Film of the Year. It was released in the US through art house cinemas and was picked as the fourth best movie of 2005 by Entertainment Weekly. 19 Adam Curtis (born 1955) is a British television documentary maker who has during the course of his television career worked as a writer, producer, director and narrator. He currently works for BBC Current Affairs. His programmes express a clear (and sometimes controversial) opinion about their subject, and he narrates the programmes himself. 20 http://michaeltsarion.com/ 21 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7l-T61gJoHs 22 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7MUGZ6JuRI 23 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7A2hVDdB10
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Yuri Alexandrovich Bezmenov (also known as Tomas David Schuman; 1939 – 1997) was a journalist for RIA Novosti and a former KGB informant from the Soviet Union who defected to Canada. After being assigned to a station in India, Bezmenov eventually grew to love the people and culture of India, while, at the same time, he began to resent the KGB-sanctioned oppression of intellectuals who dissented from Moscow's policies. He is best known for his interview with Edward G. Griffin: Deception was my Job: Soviet Subversion of the Free World Press24, wherein he explained the psychological warfare methods used by the KGB to secretly subvert the democratic system of the United States.
8.
In The CIA and the Media25, Carl Bernstein, from the Washington Post, writes about how ―Americas Most Powerful News Media Worked Hand in Glove with the Central Intelligence Agency and Why the Church Committee Covered It Up‖.
9.
In The Persuaders26 Douglass Rushkoff of PBS explore‘s what‘s going on in today‘s marketers and advertising businesses; how the Public Relations industry has been given the responsibility to maintain the entire system of meaning, through which consumers get their sense of consumer identity and understanding of their role as a consumer in the world of consumerism identity. What are the new and surprising methods the PR industry is using to decipher who citizens are and what they want and how to manipulate them. How the study of cults was adapted to marketing brands, to manipulate a brand‘s consumers into blind consumer obedience, in the same way cults manipulate their cult followers, and what the future holds.
10. In Douglass Rushkoff‘s27 book Life, Inc: How the World became a Corporation and How to Take It Back28 Rushkoff takes a look at physical currency and the history of corporatism. Beginning with an overview of how money has been gradually centralized throughout time, and pondering the reasons and consequences of such a fact, he goes on to demonstrate how our society has become defined by and controlled by corporate culture. Douglas Rushkoff‘s philosophy views everything except for intention as media, he frequently explores the themes of how to make media interactive, how to help people (especially children) effectively analyze and question the media they consume, as well as how to cultivate intention and agency.
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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2307456730142665916 http://why-we-are-white-refugees.blogspot.com/2010/12/cia-and-media-fighting-cold.html 26 http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/persuaders/ and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hqWw3W5_bI 27 Douglas Rushkoff (born 18 February 1961) is an American media theorist, writer, columnist, lecturer, graphic novelist and documentarian. Rushkoff is most frequently regarded as a media theorist, and known for coining terms and concepts including viral media (or media virus), digital native, and social currency 28 2009. Life, Inc.: How the World Became A Corporation and How To Take It Back, by Douglass Rushkoff 25
11. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media29 (1988), by Edward S. Herman30 and Noam Chomsky31, is an analysis of the news media as business. The title derived from ―the manufacture of consent‖ by essayist–editor Walter Lippmann (1889–1974) in his book Public Opinion (1922). 12. Others include: The State of the Media32 a C-Span Town Hall Media and Democracy Congress Panel discussion, Corporate Bodies and Guilty Minds: The Failure of Corporate Criminal Liability, by William S. Laufer; Gangs of America: The Rise of Corporate Power and the Disabling of Democracy, by Ted Nace33; Capitalism's Achilles Heel: Dirty Money and How to Renew the Free-Market System, by Raymond W Baker, The Divine Right of Capital: Dethroning the Corporate Aristocracy, by Marjorie Kelly and William Greider, Manufacturing Consent in Democratic South Africa: Application of the Propaganda model, by Scott Lovaas; Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission - Jeffrey Tobin34, Colbert Report on Corporate Personhood; Letter to Justice Kennedy about Corporate Personhood35, Andrew Weinstein, Tikkun: Isn‘t it abundantly clear to you that by ruling that corporations are citizens that you are violating both the spirit and the letter of our founding document, the Constitution of these United States? Not only is this a gross violation of original intent, it seems to me, it beggars common sense and rates as rank stupidity. Corporate personhood is the Big Foot of legal theory -- there have been many sightings but no one has been able to bring forth any reliable evidence. By elevating corporations to persons with the rights of citizens you have cheapened citizenship and debased the Supreme Court and our system of laws. In fact, not only did many of the Founders have a deep mistrust of corporations, they also promoted a social charter for these non-human, non-citizen legal shells, with the corporate license liable to revocation if the corporation were found to be detrimental to society and did not enhance the public welfare. I also imagine that you would vehemently oppose any form of social charters for corporations.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_model Edward S. Herman (born 7 April 1925) is an economist and media analyst with a specialty in corporate and regulatory issues as well as political economy and the media. He is Professor Emeritus of Finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He also teaches at Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his Bachelor of Arts from University of Pennsylvania in 1945 and PhD in 1953 from the University of California, Berkeley. 31 Avram Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, and political activist. He is an Institute Professor and professor emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Chomsky is well known in the academic and scientific community as one of the fathers of modern linguistics, and a major figure of analytic philosophy. Since the 1960s, he has become known more widely as a political dissident and an anarchist, referring to himself as a libertarian socialist. Chomsky is the author of more than 150 books and has received worldwide attention for his views, despite being typically absent from the mainstream media. 32 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcqSB09xqIA & http://thefilmarchived.blogspot.com/2010/11/christopher-hitchens-bill-moyers-and.html 33 Ted Nace (born 1956) is an American writer, publisher, and environmentalist notable for his critique of corporate personhood and his anti-coal activism. 34 http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/249057/september-15-2009/citizens-united-v--federal-election-commission---jeffreytoobin 35 http://www.tikkun.org/article.php/20100219172647463 30
[..] The Founders knew that the democratic government and society they hoped would endure are bound together by bonds deeper than commerce, values more fundamental than markets. The American Dream that has evolved from ―the pursuit of happiness,‖ is not the relentless aggregation of wealth, property and power of the corporation in the hands of the few but is ever expanding opportunity for the many to express their full human potential. This is ―the greater union,‖ the American promise. 13. In Flat Earth News: An Award-Winning Reporter Exposes Falsehood, Distortion and Propaganda in the Global Media36, Nick Davies writes that ―journalism without checking is like a body without an immune system‖. He ―uncovers an industry awash in corruption and bias‖, where ―commercial forces are the main obstacle to truth-telling journalism‖. In Our media have become mass producers of distortion: An industry whose task should be to filter out falsehood has become a conduit for propaganda and second hand news,37 he writes: I commissioned research from specialists at Cardiff University, who surveyed more than 2,000 UK news stories from the four quality dailies (Times, Telegraph, Guardian, Independent) and the Daily Mail. They found two striking things. First, when they tried to trace the origins of their "facts", they discovered that only 12% of the stories were wholly composed of material researched by reporters. With 8% of the stories, they just couldn't be sure. The remaining 80%, they found, were wholly, mainly or partially constructed from second-hand material, provided by news agencies and by the public relations industry. Second, when they looked for evidence that these "facts" had been thoroughly checked, they found this was happening in only 12% of the stories. The implication of those two findings is truly alarming. Where once journalists were active gatherers of news, now they have generally become mere passive processors of unchecked, second-hand material, much of it contrived by PR to serve some political or commercial interest. Not journalists, but churnalists. An industry whose primary task is to filter out falsehood has become so vulnerable to manipulation that it is now involved in the mass production of falsehood, distortion and propaganda.
ISSUE: ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT OF TRANSPARENT SCIENTIFIC JOURNALISM: ―Once a culture becomes advertising friendly, it ceases to be a culture at all‖
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―Advertising and Propaganda are antithetical to real journalism. In a democracy people have to have access to unbiased factual information to make rational reasonable decisions‖39 -- Mark Crispin Miller, Professor of Media Ecology 40, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development, New York Univ., author: Mad Scientists: The Secret History of Modern Propaganda41
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/Flat-Earth-News-Award-winning-Distortion/dp/0701181451 http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/feb/04/comment.pressandpublishing 38 The Persuaders, PBS http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/persuaders/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hqWw3W5_bI 39 Russia Today Interview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFPmUVU6eYE 40 http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/faculty_bios/view/Mark_Crispin_Miller 41 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HImJbRrs9kY 37
14. In Don't shoot messenger for revealing uncomfortable truths42, The Australian, December 08, 2010, Mr. Julian Assange writes: ―WikiLeaks coined a new type of journalism: scientific journalism. We work with other media outlets to bring people the news, but also to prove it is true. Scientific journalism allows you to read a news story, then to click online to see the original document it is based on. That way you can judge for yourself: Is the story true? Did the journalist report it accurately?‖ 15. In Andy Greenberg's Forbes Interview of Assange43, Greenberg asks Assange: What do you think WikiLeaks mean for business? How do businesses need to adjust to a world where WikiLeaks exists? Mr. Assange proceeds to describe how Wikileaks restricts corrupt corporations or governments from abusing a commons, what psychologists refer to as the social trap44, such as for example: overfishing. In this case the exploitation of the ‗corporate trust and responsibility citizenship commons‘, the erosion of which leads to anarchy and a total breakdown of the rule of law: WikiLeaks means it‘s easier to run a good business and harder to run a bad business, and all CEOs should be encouraged by this. I think about the case in China where milk powder companies started cutting the protein in milk powder with plastics. That happened at a number of separate manufacturers. Let‘s say you want to run a good company. It‘s nice to have an ethical workplace. Your employees are much less likely to screw you over if they‘re not screwing other people over. Then one company starts cutting their milk powder with melamine, and becomes more profitable. You can follow suit, or slowly go bankrupt and the one that‘s cutting its milk powder will take you over. That‘s the worst of all possible outcomes. The other possibility is that the first one to cut its milk powder is exposed. Then you don‘t have to cut your milk powder. There‘s a threat of regulation that produces self-regulation. It just means that it‘s easier for honest CEOs to run an honest business, if the dishonest businesses are more effected negatively by leaks than honest businesses. That‘s the whole idea. In the struggle between open and honest companies and dishonest and closed companies, we‘re creating a tremendous reputational tax on the unethical companies. No one wants to have their own things leaked. It pains us when we have internal leaks. But across any given industry, it is both good for the whole industry to have those leaks and it‘s especially good for the good players.
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http://www.theaustralian.com.au/in-depth/wikileaks/dont-shoot-messenger-for-revealing-uncomfortable-truths/story-fn775xjq-1225967241332 http://blogs.forbes.com/andygreenberg/2010/11/29/an-interview-with-wikileaks-julian-assange/5/ 44 Social trap is a term used by psychologists to describe a situation in which a group of people act to obtain short-term individual gains, which in the long run leads to a loss for the group as a whole. Examples of social traps include overfishing, the near-extinction of the American bison, energy "brownout" and "blackout" power outages during periods of extreme temperatures, the overgrazing of cattle on the Sahelian Desert, and the destruction of the rainforest by logging interests and agriculture. The term social trap was first introduced to the scientific community by John Platt's 1973 paper in American Psychologist (Platt, J. (1973) Social Traps, American Psychologist, 28, 641-65) building upon the concept of the "tragedy of the commons" in Garrett Hardin's pivotal article in Science (Hardin, G. (1968) The Tragedy of the Commons, Science, 162, 1243-1248), Platt and others in the seminar applied behavioral psychology concepts to actions of people operating in social traps. By applying the findings of basic research on "schedules of operant reinforcement" (B.F. Skinner 1938, 1948, 1953, 1957; Keller and Schoenfeld, 1950), Platt recognized that individuals operating for short-term positive gain ("reinforcement") had a tendency to over-exploit a resource, which led to a long-term overall loss to society. 43
16. In Stalking the Wild Taboo, by Garrett Hardin45: Part 4: Competition: (20) Competition, a Tabooed Idea in Sociology; (21) The Cybernetics of Competition; (22) Population, Biology and the Law; (23) Population Skeletons in the Environmental Closet; (24) The Survival of Nations and Civilisations, he deals with the concept of Competition, a process that is inescapable in societies living in a finite resource world. He proves that the end result of perfect laissez-faire, competition‘s end result reduces all competitors until there is only one left. The monopolist will try to manipulate the machinery of society in such a way as to extend his powers everywhere, without limit. The same applies to labour monopolies. Under these conditions it is important to seek the boundary conditions within which the rule of laissez-faire can produce stability. An Act that may be harmless when the system is healthy and strong may be quite destructive when the system is stressed near its limits. To promote the goal of stability, a law must take cognizance not only of the act but also of the state of the system at the time the act is performed. Ben Bagdikian46 described the systemic process of corporate media cannibalism in Media Monopoly47. In that legal context, corporations who do not promote the goal of ecological stability, but who abuse the planet, should be denied any legal standing, and the law should take cognisance of the actions of corporations who promote the destruction of ecologically stable systems, including the state of the ecological system at the time of such corporate actions. 17. Derrick Jensen48 is the author of The EndGame49, wherein he alleges that western industrialized culture is the most destructive ecological footprint culture to ever exist, that it refuses to change; that it has effectively declared war on the planet and all other living species on behalf of profits: This Means War50. Cultures that live in ecological harmony with the earth, live in relationship to the natural environment; Corporate and/or industrial cultures consider the earth to be objects and resources to be exploited or used purely for profit. 18. In Jared Diamonds Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed51, he ―employs the comparative method to understand societal collapses to which environmental 45
Garrett James Hardin (21 April 1915 – 14 September 2003) was a leading ecologist from Dallas, Texas, who warned of the dangers of overpopulation and whose concept of the tragedy of the commons brought attention to "the damage that innocent actions by individuals can inflict on the environment". He was most well known for his elaboration of this theme in his 1968 paper, The Tragedy of the Commons. He is also known for Hardin's First Law of Ecology: "You cannot do only one thing". 46 In 1971, whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg gave Bagdikian — then an editor at the Washington Post — portions of the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret classified history of the Vietnam War. Bagdikian passed a copy of the documents to Senator Mike Gravel, who promptly read them into the Congressional Record. 47 The Media Monopoly, Boston: Beacon Press, 1983. 48 http://www.derrickjensen.org/ 49 Derrick Jensen: The EndGame: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8649250863235826256 50 Derrick Jensen: This Means War: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUtCKNEqfL8 51 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc4bXIg8JDk
problems contribute.‖ He lists 12 environmental problems facing mankind today. The first eight have historically contributed to the collapse of past societies: (1) Deforestation and habitat destruction; (2) Soil problems (erosion, salinization, and soil fertility losses); (3) Water management problems (4) Overhunting; (5) Overfishing; (6) Effects of introduced species on native species; (7) Overpopulation; (8) Increased percapita impact of people. The root problem in all but one of Diamond's factors leading to collapse is overpopulation relative to the practicable (as opposed to the ideal theoretical) carrying capacity of the environment. The one factor not related to overpopulation is the harmful effect of accidentally or intentionally introducing nonnative species to a region. Diamond uses a "framework" when considering the collapse of a society, consisting of five "sets of factors" that may affect what happens to a society: environmental damage, climate change, hostile neighbors, loss of trading partners, and the society's own denial responses and refusal to confront its ecological overshoot problems, before it is too late. Denial about & Cover-up of Ecological Overshoot Encouraging Instability & Anarchy: To promote the goal of stability, a law must take cognizance not only of the act but also of the state of the system at the time the act is performed. 19. If the State of the System is ‗Brink of Ecological Overshoot into Anarchy and Collapse‘; and the media‘s ‗act‘ is (a) censorship of root cause problem solving, while (b) encouraging the factors (population growth, resource consumption) towards Anarchy and Collapse; then the conclusion is that the Media‘s Actions are deliberate and intentional on behalf of Anarchy and Instability. 20. Where is Society in the Act of Understanding Exponential Population Growth colliding with Exponentially Declining Resources? What is the role of the Media in Society‘s Ignorance? What is the role of the media in deliberately keeping Society Ignorant, by means of Environment Population Connection censorship? Where is Ecological Societal System, in terms of Exponential Population Growth colliding with Exponentially Declining Resources? Is the Media Aggravating Instability by encouraging Population Growth and Increased Resource Consumption? Is the Media Encouraging Stability in favour of Population Stabilisation & Reduced Resource Exploitation? 21. Understanding Exponential Growth: Confronting Society’s Denial or Ignorance of its Ecological Overshoot problems: State of the System:
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As detailed in Is Humanity Suicidal?52 By Edward O. Wilson, in New York Times Magazine, on May 30 1993, ―Earth is finite in many resources that determine the quality of life – including arable soil, nutrients, fresh water and space for natural ecosystems. Doubling of consumption at constant time intervals can bring disaster with shocking suddenness. Even when a non-renewable resource has been only half used, it is still only one interval away from the end. Ecologists like to make this point with the French riddle of the lily pond. At first there is only one lily pad in the pond, but the next day there are two, and thereafter each of its descendants doubles. The pond completely fills with lily pads in 30 days. When is the pond exactly half full? Answer: on the 29th day.‖
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In Revisiting The Limits to Growth: Could The Club of Rome Have Been Correct, After All?53, by Matthew R. Simmons: ―In the book's chapter defining the deceptive powers of exponential growth and the apparent suddenness with which it approaches a fixed limit, the authors describe the French Riddle of the Lily Pond. In this riddle, the lily pond has a potentially virulent lily that apparently will double in size each day. If the lily grows unchecked it will cover the entire pond in 30 days, choking off all other forms of life in the water by the time it covers the entire pond. If a skeptic waited until 50% of the pond was covered before taking any remedial action to save the pond, when would he act? The answer: on the 29th day of the month! But by then, would be too late. The world can debate when corrective action needs to begin, if exponential growth suddenly shows all the classic signs of pending overshoot. But everyone should agree that waiting until the proverbial 29th day is a classic and unrepentable blunder of the first order.‖
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World Population Balance: Understanding Exponential Growth54: ―When most people talk about "growth" in our country, they consider it a completely positive and necessary thing, essential for maintaining the vitality and health of our economy and society. Our society's most revered economic indicators are all based on this fundamental idea: that continuing growth is vital for the health and preservation of our economy and country. In fact, growth is pretty much the only thing they measure! However, natural scientists (such as biologists, chemists, and physicists) know that this assumption must be false. In order for growth to continue forever, we would need an infinite amount of space, energy, and other
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resources to keep the growth going... and those resources are not infinite. So what happens to steady growth in a limited space? To help explain, we're going to use a simple example of bacteria growing in a bottle.‖ It asks the questions: ―If you were one of the bacteria, when do you suppose you'd start to worry about overcrowding? Would that leave you enough time to do anything about it?‖ 4.
Ecological Overshoot and the Importance of Waking Up to the Reality of Understanding Exponential Growth are dealt with in detail in Dr. Al Bartlett‘s55 celebrated
one-hour
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Sustainability 10156 and Dr. Chris Martinson‘s Crash Course57: Chapter 3 focuses on Exponential Growth58. 22. What shall be the Consequences of Refusing to Confront and Plan for Mitigating Ecological Overshoot?: Anarchy and Resource Wars: 23. Military Predictors: According to Major Ralph Peters, The Culture of Future Conflict, US Army War College, Parameters, Winter 1995-96, pp. 18-27. ―Resource scarcity will be a direct cause of confrontation, conflict, and war. The struggle to maintain access to critical resources will spark local and regional conflicts that will evolve into the most frequent conventional wars of the next century. Today, the notion of resource wars leads the Westerner to think immediately of oil, but water will be the fundamental need of some states, anti-states, and peoples. We envision a need to preserve rainforests, but expanding populations will increasingly create regional shortages of food-especially when nature turns fickle. We are entering the century of "not enough," and we will bleed for things we previously could buy. [.. ] Gross overpopulation will destroy fragile possibilities for progress in much of the non-Western world, and much of this problem is the West's fault. Our well intentioned introduction of relatively crude concepts of sanitation and disease control, combined with our determination to respond generously to local famines, has allowed populations to explode. [..] Basic resources will prove inadequate for populations exploding beyond natural limits, and we may discover truths about ourselves that we do not wish to know. In the end, the greatest challenge may be to our moral order.‖
24. According to the Central Intelligence Agency and Pentagon Officials in Nightline, 2000 documentary59 with Ted Koppel; politicians refusal to confront reality, and the lack of political will, to act on exponential population growth colliding with declining resources, are the root causes of current resource wars over oil; which shall soon be manifested as resource wars over water, soil, arable land, etc.
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http://www.albartlett.org/presentations/arithmetic_population_energy.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9znsuCphHUU 57 http://www.chrismartenson.com/crashcourse or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnXZzx9pAmQ 58 http://www.chrismartenson.com/crashcourse/chapter-3-exponential-growth and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2rTQpdyCFQ 59 Nightline Documentary Embedded Video available at: Boer Volkstaat 10/31/16 Theses: Briefing Paper: Executive Summary: TRC Just War Fraud: Population Policy Common Sense: [1] Population Policy Common Sense: Eco-Numeracy, Exponential Functions & Carrying Capacity, Youth Bulges Population Pressure Conflicts and Competitive Exclusion Principle: http://www.jussanguinis.com/BP/exec-summ.htm 56
25. As detailed in Matt Savinar‘s: Life After the Oil Crash60: Civilization as we know it is coming to an end soon. This is not the wacky proclamation of a doomsday cult, apocalypse bible prophecy sect, or conspiracy theory society. Rather, it is the scientific conclusion of the best paid, most widely-respected geologists61, physicists62, bankers63, and investors64 in the world. These are rational, professional, conservative individuals who are absolutely terrified by a phenomenon known as global "Peak Oil." Oil will not just "run out" because all oil production follows a bell curve. This is true whether we're talking about an individual field, a country, or on the planet as a whole. Oil is increasingly plentiful on the upslope of the bell curve, increasingly scarce and expensive on the down slope. The peak of the curve coincides with the point at which the endowment of oil has been 50 percent depleted. Once the peak is passed, oil production begins to go down while cost begins to go up. In practical and considerably oversimplified terms, this means that if 2005 was the year of global Peak Oil65, worldwide oil production in the year 2030 will be the same as it was in 1980. However, the world‘s population in 2030 will be both much larger (approximately twice) and much more industrialized (oil-dependent) than it was in 1980. Consequently, worldwide demand for oil will outpace worldwide production 66 of oil by a significant margin. As a result, the price will skyrocket, oil dependant economies will crumble, and resource wars will explode67.
26. Mr. Savinar‘s site addresses Peak Oil‘s consequences on food production, medicine, the illusions of alternative energy sources, most of which are totally reliant on cheap oil, etc. In regards to Peak Oil‘s consequences on the financial system the following is stated: The relationship between the supply of oil and natural gas and the workings of the global financial system is arguably the key issue to dealing with Peak Oil as robost and smoothly function global capital markets must exist in order to power an orderly (or semi-orderly) transition process. In fact this relationship is far more important than alternative sources of energy, energy conservation, or the development of new energy technologies, all of which are discussed in detail on page two of this site 68. In short, the global financial system is entirely dependent on a constantly increasing supply of oil and natural gas 69. To illustrate, if home and business loans are issued with interest rates in the 7% range, the assumption underlying the loans is that the monetary supply will increase (on average) by 7% per year. But if that 7% yearly increase in the monetary supply is not matched by a 7% yearly increase in the amount of economic activity (goods and services), the result is hyper-inflation. The key is this: in order for there to be an increase in the amount of economic activity taking place, there must be an increase in the amount of net-energy (i.e. the net-number of BTUs) available to fuel those activities. As no alternative source or combination of sources comes even remotely close to the energy density of oil (125,000 BTUs per gallon, the equivalent of 150-500 hours of human labor), a decline or even plateau in the supply of oil carries such overwhelming consequences for the financial system. Dr. Colin Campbell presents an understandable model of this complete relationship as follows: 60
http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/ http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/102302_campbell.html 62 http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/111704_end_oil.shtml 63 http://www.texasmonthly.com/2008-02-01/feature2.php 64 http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2005/12/26/8364646/ 65 http://www.princeton.edu/hubbert/current-events.html 66 http://money.cnn.com/2005/03/21/commentary/column_hays/hays/ 67 http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=1888 68 http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/SecondPage.html 69 http://www.museletter.com/archive/149.html 61
It is becoming evident that the financial community begins to accept the reality of Peak Oil. They accept that banks created capital during this epoch by lending more than they had on deposit, being confident that tomorrow’s expansion, fuelled by cheap oil-based energy, was adequate collateral for today’s debt. The decline of oil, the principal driver of economic growth, undermines the validity of that collateral which in turn erodes the valuation of most entities quoted on Stock Exchanges.70 Commentator Robert Wise explains the connection between energy and money as follows: It's not physics, but it's true: money equals energy. Real, liquid wealth represents usable energy. It can be exchanged for fuel, for work, or for something built by the work of humans or fuel-powered machines. Real cost reflects the energy cost of doing something; real value reflects the energy expended to build something. Nearly all the work done in the world economy, all the manufacturing, construction, and transportation, is done with energy derived from fuel. The actual work done by human muscle power is miniscule by comparison. And, the lion's share of that fuel comes from oil and natural gas, the primary sources of the world's wealth.71 Author Dmitry Orlov offers the following explanation of how the debt-based financial currency used in a modern economy is actually dependent on an increasing supply of energy. Emphasis added: Although it is often thought that a [modern] economy produces value, as an empirical matter it can be observed that what it produces is debt. One borrows money in order to provide and to receive goods and services. Loans are extended based on the expectation that, in the future, demand for these services will be even higher, driving further economic growth. However, this economy is not a closed system: the delivery of these goods and services is linked to external energy flows. Greater flows of energy, in the form of increased oil and natural gas imports, increased coal production and so forth are failing to occur, for a variety of geological and geopolitical reasons. There is every reason to expect that the ability to deliver goods and services will suffer as a result of energy shortages, collapsing the debt pyramid.72 In October 2005, the normally conservative London Times acknowledged that the world's wealth may soon evaporate as we enter a technological and economic "Dark Age." In an article entitled "Waiting for the Lights to Go Out" Times columnist Bryan Appleyard reported: Oil is running out; the climate is changing at a potentially catastrophic rate; wars over scarce resources are brewing; finally, most shocking of all, we don't seem to be having enough ideas about how to fix any of these things. Almost daily, new evidence is emerging that progress can no longer be taken for granted, that a new Dark Age is lying in wait for ourselves and our children . . . growth may be coming to an end. Since our entire financial order from interest rates, pension funds, insurance, to stock markets is predicated on growth, the social and economic consequences may be cataclysmic. 73 27.
The socio-political and economic consequences of Peak Oil will be severe, as detailed in [German] Military Study Warns of Potentially Drastic Oil Crisis, by Stefan Schultz, Der Spiegel74, 01 September 2010:
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http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/Archives2008/FinancialConsequences.html http://www.democrats.us/editorial/wise041105.shtml 72 http://www.democrats.us/editorial/wise041105.shtml 73 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/article575370.ece 74 http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,715138,00.html 71
A study by a German military think tank has analyzed how "peak oil" might change the global economy. The internal draft document -- leaked on the Internet -- shows for the first time how carefully the German government has considered a potential energy crisis. The term "peak oil" is used by energy experts to refer to a point in time when global oil reserves pass their zenith and production gradually begins to decline. This would result in a permanent supply crisis -- and fear of it can trigger turbulence in commodity markets and on stock exchanges. The issue is so politically explosive that it's remarkable when an institution like the Bundeswehr, the German military, uses the term "peak oil" at all. But a military study currently circulating on the German blogosphere goes even further. The study is a product of the Future Analysis department of the Bundeswehr Transformation Center, a think tank tasked with fixing a direction for the German military. The team of authors, led by Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Will, uses sometimesdramatic language to depict the consequences of an irreversible depletion of raw materials. It warns of shifts in the global balance of power, of the formation of new relationships based on interdependency, of a decline in importance of the western industrial nations, of the "total collapse of the markets" and of serious political and economic crises.
28. In US Military warns oil output may dip causing massive shortages by 201575, Terry MacAlister warns that the military report states that the ―shortfall could reach 10 m barrels a day, and that the cost of crude oil is predicted to top $100 per barrel, which would have significant economic and political impacts. 29. In the third military Peak Oil report of 2010 Fueling the Future Force: Preparing the Department of Defense for a Post-Petroleum Environment76 was published on 27 September by the Washington, DC ―national security and defence‖ think tank, Center for a New American Security (CNAS). It warns that the US Department of Defense‘s ―massive energy needs‖ are met by petroleum – and ―given projected supply and demand, we cannot assume that oil will remain affordable or that supplies will be available to the United States reliably three decades hence.‖ To remain as an effective fighting force, the entire US military must transition from oil over the coming 30 years. Of the three, the German one is the most blunt, as detailed in German Military Report: Peak Oil Could Lead to Collapse of Democracy77: Peak oil has happened or will happen some time around this year, and its consequences could threaten the continued survival of democratic governments, says a secret Germany military report that was leaked online. According to Der Spiegel, the report from a think-tank inside the German military warns that shrinking global oil supplies will threaten the world's economic foundations and possibly lead to mass-scale upheaval within the next 15 to 30 years.
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Guardian: 11 April 2010: http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/apr/11/peak-oil-production-supply http://www.cnas.org/files/documents/publications/CNAS_Fueling%20the%20Future%20Force_NaglParthemore.pdf 77 http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/0901/german-report-peak-oil-collapse-democracy/ 76
International trade would suffer as the cost of transporting goods across oceans would soar, resulting in "shortages in the supply of vital goods," the report states, as translated by Der Spiegel. The result would be the collapse of the industrial supply chain. "In the medium term the global economic system and every market-oriented national economy would collapse," the report states.
30. On 18 July 2006, PeakOil_RSA filed a 136 page Peak Oil Briefing Paper78 to the South
African Government, Media and Civic Society organisations, c/o and via the then Minister of Intelligence: Mr. Ronnie Kasrils, which asked: ―Is Gross Mismanagement of the nation‘s energy policy and impeachable offense?‖ The political secession and economic relocalisation suggestions for mitigating a Post Peak Oil world, included: (i) Limit Population, (ii) Develop Alternative Energies; (iii) Reinvent the Way Money Works, i.e. implement local currencies; (iv) Save Energy; (v) Foster local communities, (vi) Get Out of Debt and (vii) Educate and Raise Awareness. The Briefing Paper was ignored by SA political, media and corporate elite. 31. According to Joint Operating Environment – 201079, issued by United States Joint Forces Command, issued on 18 February 2010: ―The implications for future conflict are ominous, if energy supplies cannot keep up with demand and should states see the need to militarily secure dwindling energy resources. (p.26)…. By 2012, surplus oil production capacity could entirely disappear, and as early as 2015, the shortfall in output could reach nearly 10 MBD‖
ISSUE: ‘DELIBERATE INDIFFERENCE’ TO MEDIA CORRUPTION: 32. The issue of Deliberate Indifference by journalists and media editors to their own media corruption (intellectual dishonesty, hypocrisy and deception and fraud) is found by all Respondents to varying degrees in this chronology. While the Nazi Party, ‗evil Apartheid‘ and corruption on steroids ANC have individuals who are willing to risk their careers to expose ANC corruption, the only professional journalist who publicly spoken out about media corruption in South Africa is David Bullard (The Hollow Men of Journalism80, and A mosquito buzzing in the dark *81). 33. Mr. Bullard describes how Mondli Makhanya (Second Respondent) submitted forged documents into the court record during court proceedings; and how all SA media 78
18 July 2006: Peak Oil RSA Briefing Paper: PDF: http://issuu.com/js-ror/docs/060718__peakoil-rsa-briefingpaper http://www.jfcom.mil/newslink/storyarchive/2010/JOE_2010_o.pdf 80 http://www.newstime.co.za/rs_articles_contributors.asp?conid=9&recid=2357 81 http://www.newstime.co.za/column/DavidBullard/A_mosquito_buzzing_in_the_dark*/9/2200/ 79
editors informed hereof refused to publish this information. If those allegations were made against General Beki Cele or Helen Zille, the same media editors would be acting like starving vultures; but when it is one of their own, in fact the Chairman of SANEF, they cover it up; and remain silent. When it comes to media corruption, SA media‘s editors, professors and Ombudsman don‘t think the public have a right to know; that SA‘s self-righteous editors are as corrupt, if not more corrupt than the politicians and civil servants they publicly flagellate and condemn for their own financial profit. 34. Except for David Bullard, it appears that there are no journalists or editors with the Milgramesque82 skills and capabilities to either (a) resist the temptation from participating in the dominant media corruption paradigm, and (b) cross the yellow journalism line of silence to expose their fellow colleague‘s corruption. The media editor and media elite respondents herein cited, are as ideologically obedient to their code of silence about fellow media editors corruption, as Adolf Eichmann was to Nazism; they lack the capabilities to cross the yellow line and expose their own. 35. According to John Pilger: ―It is not enough for journalists to see themselves as mere messengers without understanding the hidden agendas of the message and myths that surround it.‖ 36. In a Guardian article: Why Are Wars not being Reported Honestly83; John Pilger describes journalists and editors confirming their role as censorship agents, along similar lines of reasoning as detailed in Dr. T. Michael Maher‘s report: How and Why Journalists Avoid the Population – Environment Connection,84 Pilger writes: "I am perfectly open to the accusation that we were hoodwinked," said Jeremy Paxman, talking about Iraq's non-existent weapons of mass destruction to a group of students last year. "Clearly we were." As a highly paid professional broadcaster, he omitted to say why he was hoodwinked. Dan Rather, who was the CBS news anchor for 24 years, was less reticent. "There was a fear in every newsroom in America," he told me, "a fear of losing your job... the fear of being stuck with some label, unpatriotic or otherwise." Rather says war has made "stenographers out of us" and that had journalists questioned the deceptions that led to the Iraq war, instead of amplifying them, the invasion would not have happened. This is a view now shared by a number of senior journalists I interviewed in the US. "Does that make journalists accomplices?" I asked him. "Yes... unwitting perhaps, but yes." 82
Radical Honesty SA Amicus Curiae: [II] Truth and Forgiveness Social Contract Principles: (B). Stanley Milgram Studies on Obedience: Legal, SocioPolitical Implications, para.29; (C). Common Law Reasonableness Test: Skills and Competencies, para.30; and (D). Rule of Law and Forgiveness: Individuality, Independent and Integrity, para.31-33 http://issuu.com/js-ror/docs/100718_rhwr-concourt-amicus?mode=a_p 83 http://johnpilger.com/articles/why-are-wars-not-being-reported-honestly 84 http://issuu.com/js-ror/docs/mahertm_journo-env-pop-connection?mode=a_p
What is the value of journalists speaking like this? The answer is provided by the great reporter James Cameron, whose brave and revealing filmed report, made with Malcolm Aird, of the bombing of civilians in North Vietnam was banned by the BBC. "If we who are meant to find out what the bastards are up to, if we don't report what we find, if we don't speak up," he told me, "who's going to stop the whole bloody business happening again?" 37. John Pilgers The War You Don’t See85 Pilger traces the motivations for such censorship back to the father of public relations: Edward Bernays, the nephew of Sigmund Freud. 38. In Bernays‘s 1928 book Propaganda86, he described the conspiracy of manipulating the public with ‗public relations news‘ to behave as psychologically insecure, dumbeddown, automatonic zombie consumers, instead of educating them to be rational selfsufficient ecologically responsible citizens, as follows: The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society.‖ Media Conspiracy to Manipulate the Habits & Opinions of in favour of Consumerist Society, for Profit: 39. In How and Why Journalists Avoid Population-Environment Connection87, Dr. T. Michael Maher writes: As we have seen, both land development economists and environmental experts acknowledge population growth as a key source of environmental change. But journalists frame environmental causality differently. Why? Communication theory offers several possibilities. First is the hegemony-theory interpretation: reports omit any implication that population growth might produce negative effects, in order to purvey the ideology of elites who make money from population growth. As Molotch and Lester (1974) put it, media content can be viewed as reflecting "the practices of those having the power to determine the experience of others" (p. 120). Since real estate, construction and banking interests directly support the media through advertising purchases, this interpretation seems plausible. A number of media critics (e.g., Gandy, 1982; Altschull, 1984; Bennett, 1988) have suggested that media messages reflect the values of powerful political and commercial interests. Burd (1972), Kaniss (1991) and others have pointed out that newspapers have traditionally promoted population growth in their cities through civic boosterism. Molotch (1976) even suggested that cities can best be understood as entities competing for population growth, with the city newspaper as chief cheerleader.
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Certainly most reporters would be incensed at the suggestion that they shade their reporting to placate commercial interests. But Breed‘s classic study of social control in the newsroom (1955) showed that news managers‘ values are transmissible to journalists through a variety of pressures: salaries, story assignments, layout treatment, editing, and a variety of other strategies that effectively shape news stories in ways acceptable to management.
40. In Nicholas Partridge‘s documentary ANC: VIP’s of Violence88: Rev. John Gogotya describes the media‘s role in glorifying political violence: ―The moderate blacks were not selling the papers. We were presenting a nonviolent strategy, that did not say ‗Burn, baby Burn‘. A strategy that said people must come together and sit down around a negotiating table. And this is not sensational stuff; it does not sell the papers.‖ – Rev. John Gogotya, ANC: VIP’s of Violence 41.
The Radical Honesty SA Amicus before the Constitutional Court, in The Citizen v. McBride89 – totally censored by all the SA media -- makes this point very clearly in paragraph 7: Equity will not allow a statute to be used as a cloak for fraud: Mainstream Access-toDiscourse-Gatekeeper Editors censorship90 of nonviolent political grievances and problem solving activism facilitate a pressure cooker socio-political reality for their ‗If it Bleads, it Leads‘ corporate propaganda profits, in knowledge application of: ‗As long as there is some possibility of getting results by political means, the chances that any political group or individual will turn violent are truly radically small, or maybe vanishingly small‘91; ‗The exposure in the media is what gets people‘s attention. People follow what is happening in the news, not what is happening in the courts‘92; ‗[Editors] abuse of media power, by means of strategies whereby they abuse public discourse/free speech resources; by providing certain parties with preferential and special access to such public discourse, and severely restricting or denying others any access to such public discourse93; Mainstream media avoid addressing or enquiring into root causes of problems as reported in How and Why Journalists Avoid Population – Environment connection 94; and censor non-violent root-cause problem solving activism95.
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http://why-we-are-white-refugees.blogspot.com/p/anc-vips-of-violence.html http://issuu.com/js-ror/docs/100718_rhwr-concourt-amicus?mode=a_p ―The moderate blacks were not selling the papers. We were presenting a non-violent strategy, that did not say ‗Burn, baby Burn‘. A strategy that said people must come together and sit down around a negotiating table. And this is not sensational stuff; it does not sell the papers.‖ – Rev. John Gogotya, ANC: VIP’s of Violence, documentary; ―For revolutionary groups, the more murderous the deed, the more certain the media coverage.‖ -- Nicholas Partridge, Presenter, ANC: VIP‘s of Violence. See: Transcript of ANC: VIP‘s of Violence at: http://why-we-are-white-refugees.blogspot.com/p/anc-vips-of-violence.html 91 Clark McCauley, Ph.D, Prof. of Psychology at Bryn Mawr College, in When Does Political Anger Turn to Violence?, by Benedict Carey, New York Times, March 26, 2010 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/28/weekinreview/28carey.html 92 Jean Pierre Mean, Group General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer, SGS Group, In Confronting Corruption: The Business Case for an Effective Anti-Corruption Programme, by PricewaterhouseCoopers Intnl [PDF: www.pwc.com/anti-corruption] 93 (I) Power and the news media, Teun A. van Dijk, Univ. of Amsterdam, D. Paletz (Ed.), Political Communication & Action. (pp. 9-36). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 1995: http://www.discourses.org/OldArticles/Power%20and%20the%20news%20media.pdf 94 CCT 23-10: Statement of Consent by Dr. T. Michael Maher: http://issuu.com/js-ror/docs/100522_cct2310_affid-dr-t-m-maher?mode=a_p How and Why Journalists Avoid Population-Environment Connection: http://issuu.com/js-ror/docs/mahertm_journo-env-pop-connection?mode=a_p 95 HC-WC 19963-09: 140 SA Elite Deliberate Indifference to Rule of Law: http://www.docstoc.com/docs/56239025/ 89 90