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“I have no plan to order the lives of the 40 million uninsured. I have no plans for how you should run your life, what insurance you should have, or where you should spend you money; and frankly I find it a little creepy that you have a plan for ordering my private life. And let’s face it, you don’t plan to insure 40 million Americans, you plan to force the other 250 million Americans to do it.”
But then, you would have to have the Audacity to Hope that the Lefty Lemming you’re conversing with has the ability to discuss and consider — rather than prejudging your ideas based on whatever Obama, Chris Matthews, and Saul Alinsky have taught them about you and your inability to cogitate.
It’s important to understand that what Apple has done with their iPad is more important for what computing will be like for everyone 8-10 years from now — than how it will impact the market between now and next Christmas. So this device is really a concept that competes with time and the slow-moving nature of consumers’ willingness to think outside the box.
But as revolutionary as it is, it also compares unfavorablythis year with devices that are designed for the low-cost hi-tech market.
One example that I really like is the Mirus Classmate, an under-$500 netbook (available from WalMart.com and Amazon.com) that adds a touch-screen and stylus.
Even though this comes with the netbook-standard 1024×600-pixel screen (which I couldn’t live with for a personal laptop), the ergonomics look ideal to me for managing support tickets while roaming around a building. There is no need for special programming (you could even use Flash!) when developing for Windows XP — if Apple had used a scaled-down version of their own MacOS X (instead of their iPhone operating system), we wouldn’t be having this discussion. But to reach into enterprise markets, the iPad is going to have to add (by software update or otherwise) some rather banal features which Steve Jobs was OK with leaving out of the first-generation iPad.
Our conversation is with Yuri Alexandrovic Bezmenov. Mr. Bezmenov was born in 1939 in a suburb of Moscow. He was the son of a high ranking Soviet Army officer. He was educated in the elite schools inside the Soviet Union; and became an expert in Indian culture and Indian languages.
He had an outstanding career with Novosti, which was, and still is, I should say, the press arm or press agency of the Soviet Union; it turns out this is also a front, for the KGB.
He escaped to the West in 1970 after becoming totally disgusted with the Soviet system; and he did this at great risk to his life. He certainly is one of the worlds outstanding experts on the subject of Soviet propaganda; and disinformation and active measures.
ED GRIFFIN:
Well, you spoke before about “ideological subversion” and that’s a phrase that I’m afraid some Americans don’t understand. When the Soviets use the phrase “ideological subversion” what do they mean by it?
YURI BEZMENOV:
1. Ideological subversion is the process which is [a] legitimate, old word, and open. You can see it with your own eyes. All American mass media has to do is to “unplug bananas” from their ears, open up their eyes, and they can see it. There is no mystery.
It has nothing to do with espionage. I know that espionage intelligence gathering looks more romantic. It sells more deodorants through the advertising.
That’s probably why your Hollywood producers are so crazy about James Bond types of films. But in reality the main emphasis of the KGB is NOT in the area of intelligence at all.
According to my opinion, and the opinions of many defectors of my caliber, only about 15% of time, money, and manpower is spent on espionage as such.
The other 85% is a slow process which we call either ideological subversion, active measures, or psychological warfare. What it basically means is: to change the perception of reality of every American that despite of the abundance of information no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interest of defending themselves, their families, their community, and their country.
It’s a great brainwashing process which goes very slow and is divided into four basic stages.
The first stage being “demoralization”. It takes from 15 to 20 years to demoralize a nation.
Why that many years? Because this is the minimum number of years required to educate one generation of students in the country of your enemy exposed to the ideology of [their] enemy.
In other words, Marxism-Leninism ideology is being pumped into the soft heads of at least 3 generation of American students without being challenged or counterbalanced by the basic values of Americanism; American patriotism.
Most of the activity of the department [KGB] was to compile huge amount / volume of information, on individuals who were instrumental in creating public opinion.
Publishers, editors, journalists, uh actors, educationalists, professors of political science. Members of parliament, representatives of business circles.
Most of these people were divided roughly into two groups: those who would tow the Soviet foreign policy, they would be promoted to positions of power through media and public manipulation; [and] those who refuse the Soviet influence in their own country would be character assassinated OR executed physically, come Revolution.
Same way as in a small town of Hua in South Vietnam; several thousands of Vietnamese were executed in one night when the city was captured by [the] Viet Cong for only two days; and American CIA could never figure out – how could [the communists] possibly know each Individual, where he lives, where to get him; and [in order that they] would be arrested in one night basically in four hours before dawn, put on a van, driven out of the city limits and shot.
The answer is very simple. Long before communists occupy the city, there was extensive network of informers; local Vietnamese citizens who knew absolutely everything about people who are instrumental in public opinion – including Barbers and Taxi Drivers.
Everyone who was sympathetic to United States was executed. Same thing was done under the guidance of the Soviet Embassy in Hanoi, and same thing I was doing in New Delhi.
To my horror, I discovered that in the files were people who were doomed to execution. There were names of pro-Soviet Journalists, with whom I was personally friendly.
ED GRIFFIN:
Pro Soviet?
YURI BEZMENOV:
Yes, absolutely. They were idealistically minded leftist communists who had made several visits to the USSR; and yet the KGB decided, that come Revolution, or drastic changes in political structure of India – they will have to go. ED GRIFFIN: Why is that?
YURI BEZMENOV:
Because they know too much. Simply, because, you see the USEFUL IDIOTS; the leftists who are idealistically believing in the beauty of Soviet or Communist or Socialist or whatever system; when they get disillusioned, they become the worst enemies.
That’s why my KGB instructors specifically made the point, “never bother with leftists, forget about these political prostitutes – aim higher” this was my instruction.
Try to get into, uh, large circulation, established conservative media. Reach filthy rich movie makers, intellectuals in so-called academic circles. Cynical, ego-centric people who can look into your eyes with angelic expression and tell you a lie. This are the most recruitable people; people who lack moral principals – who are either too greedy or too, uh, suffer from self-importance, uh, they feel that they matter a lot. Uh, these are the people who KGB wanted very much to recruit.
ED GRIFFIN:
But to eliminate the others; to execute the others, don’t they serve some purpose – wouldn’t they be the one’s to rely on?
YURI BEZMENOV:
No they serve purpose only [up] to the stage of destabilization of a nation. For example, your leftists in [the] United States; all these professors and all these beautiful civil rights defenders.
They are instrumental in the process of the subversion; only to destabilize a nation.
When the job is completed, they are not needed anymore. They know too much.
Some of them, when they get disillusioned – when they see that Marxist-Leninist come to power. Obviously they get offended; they think that THEY will come to power.
That will never happen, of course; they will be lined up against the wall and shot.
But they may turn into the most bitter enemies of Marxist-Leninists when they come to power; and that’s what happened in Nicaragua.
You remember most of these former Marxist-Leninists were either put to prison or one of them split and now he’s working against the Sandinistas
It happened in Grenada when Maurice Bishop, he was already a Marxist – he was executed by the new Marxists who was more Marxist than this Marxist.
Same happened in Afghanistan, when, uh, first there was Taraki he was killed by Amin, then Amin was killed by Karmal with the help of KGB.
Same happened in Bangladesh where Mujibur Rahman, very pro-soviet leftist; was assassinated by his own Marxist-Leninist military comrades.
It’s the same pattern everywhere. The moment they serve their purpose, all the useful idiots are either executed entirely; all the idealistically minded Marxists.
Or exiled, or put in prisons like in Cuba many former Marxists are in Cuba, and in prison.
So basically America is stuck, with demoralization; and unless, even if you start right now this minute; you start educating new generation of Americans – it will still take you 15 to 20 years to turn the tide of uh, ideological perception of reality; uh back to normalcy and patriotism.
The result? The result you can see — most of the people who graduated in the 60’s, dropouts or half-baked intellectuals, are now occupying the positions of power in the government, civil service, business, mass media, and educational systems. You are stuck with them.
You can’t get rid of to them. They are contaminated. They are programmed to think and react to certain stimuli in a certain pattern [alluding to Pavlov]. You can not change their mind even if you expose them to authentic information.
Even if you prove that white is white and black is black, you still can not change the basic perception and the logic of behavior.
In other words [for] these people the process of demoralization is complete and irreversible. To rid society of these people you need another 15 or 20 years to educate a new generation of patriotically minded and common sense people who would be acting in favor and in the interests of United States society.
ED GRIFFIN:
And yet these people who have been programmed and as you say [are] in place and who are favorable to an opening with the Soviet concept [meaning NEW WORLD ORDER]- these are the very people who would be marked for extermination in this country?
YURI BEZMENOV:
Most of them, yes. Simply because the psychological shock when they will see in [the] future what the beautiful society of EQUALITY and social justice means in practice, obviously they will revolt.
They will be very unhappy [and] frustrated people, and Marxist Leninist regime does not tolerate these people. Obviously they will join the [ranks] of dissenters; dissidents.
Unlike the present [1984] United States there will be no place for dissent in future Marxist-Leninist America.
[Now] you can get popular like Daniel Ellsberg and filthy rich like Jane Fonda for being a dissident [and] for criticizing your Pentagon.
In [the] future these people will simply be [he makes a squishy noise] squashed like cockroaches for criticizing the government.
Nobody is going to pay them nothing for their beautiful [and] noble ideas of EQUALITY. This they don’t understand and it will be the greatest shock for them, of course.
The demoralization process in the United States is basically completed already for the last 25 years.
Actually, it’s over fulfilled because demoralization now reaches such areas where not even Comrade Andropov and all his experts would even dream of such tremendous success.
Most of it is done by Americans to Americans thanks to lack of moral standards. As I mentioned before, exposure to true information does not matter anymore.
A person who was demoralized is unable to assess true information. The facts tell nothing to him, even if I shower him with information, with authentic proof, with documents and pictures.
Even if I take him by force to the Soviet Union and show him the concentration camps…he will refuse to believe it…. until he is going to receive a kick in his fat bottom.
When the military boot crashes – then he will understand. But not before that. That’s the tragedy of the situation of demoralization.
2. The next stage is destabilization….
this time, subverter does not care about your ideas and the patterns of your consumption. Whether you eat junk food and get fat and flabby doesn’t matter any more.
It only takes 2 to 5 years to destabilize a nation. This time what matters is essentials; economy, foreign relations, [and] defense systems.
And you can see it quite clearly that in some… sensitive areas such as defense and [the] economy, the influence of Marxist-Leninist ideas in the United States is absolutely fantastic.
I could never believe it 14 years ago when I landed in this part of the world that the process will go that fast.
3. The next stage of course is crisis, which may take only up to 6 weeks to bring a country to the verge of crisis. You can see it in Central America now; and after crisis, with the violent change of power structure and economy, you have the period of so called “normalization” [which] it may last indefinitely.
Normalization is a cynical expression, borrower from Soviet Propaganda. When the Soviet tanks moved into Czechoslovakia in 1968, comrade Brezhnev said “Now the situation in brotherly Czechoslovakia is normalized”. This is what will happen in [the] United States if you allow all the shmucks to bring the country to crisis.
To promise people all kinds of goodies, and the paradise on Earth. Uh to destabilize your economy to eliminate the principal of free market competition; and to put a big brother government in Washington D.C.; with benevolent dictators like [1984] Walter Mondale [2008 Obama] who will promise lots of things – Never mind whether the promises are fulfilled or not.
He [the dictator] will go to Moscow to kiss the bottoms of a new generation of Soviet Assassins. Never mind [nothing to see here, move along], he will create false illusions that the situation is under control.
Situation is NOT under control. Situation is disgustingly out of control.
Most of the American politicians, media, and educational system train another generation of people who think they are living at the peacetime. False.
United States is in a state of war; undeclared, total war against the basic principles and foundations of this system. And the initiator of this war is not Comrade Andropov of course – it’s the system. However, ridiculous it may sound, [it is] the world Communist system, or the world Communist conspiracy. Whether I scare some people or not, I don’t give a hoot.
If you’re not scared by now, nothing can scare you. You don’t have to be paranoid about it. What actually happens now; that unlike myself, you have literally several years to live on unless United States wake up. The time bomb is ticking.
With every second the disaster is coming closer. Unlike myself, you will have nowhere to defect to, unless you want to live in Antarctica with penguins.
This is it, this is the last country with freedom and possibility.
ED GRIFFIN:
Okay, so what do we do? What is your recommendation to the American people?
YURI BEZMENOV:
Well, the immediate thing that comes to mind is, of course, there must be a very strong national effort to educate people in the spirit of REAL patriotism, number one. Number two, to explain [to] them the real danger of socialist, communist, welfare state, Big Brother government. If people fail to grasp the impending danger; nothing ever will help the United States. You may kiss goodbye your freedoms, including [sending] homosexuals to prison inmate. All this freedom will vanish in 5 seconds – including your precious lives.
The moment at least part of [the] United States population is convinced that the danger is real, they have to FORCE their government, and I’m not talking about sending letters, signing petitions, and all this beautiful, noble activity, I’m talking about FORCING [the] United States government to stop aiding Communism….
This was an old presentation I found on my SlideShare.net account when someone asked me about the service… I’d posted it years ago, so it’s kind of funny:
Think the Presidential ‘Book of Secrets’ depicted in the movie ‘National Treasure II‘ was too far-fetched? Perhaps the movie just didn’t go far enough to explain that in addition to alien abductions and the answers to half the conspiracy theories ever concocted — there are personal secrets of our Presidents that are protected by the same legal barriers.
…which was revoked and replaced by Executive Order 13489, by President Barack Hussein Obama, on January 21, 2009. (He was inaugurated the day before, on January 20, 2009).
Never mind all the campaign speeches in which he told throngs of Believers that on his first day in office, he would do their bidding before anything else. Instead, the Icon of Change first did what every politician since the beginning of time has done — he covered his own ass.
Okaaaaay, once more for the kids in the back row (who were too busy carefully forming spitwads to pay attention in History or Math class to realize that they might need this stuff to be able to VOTE effectively as adults):
“Projected Deficit In the first independent analysis, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office concluded that President Obama’s budget would rack up massive deficits even after the economy recovers, forcing the nation to borrow nearly $9.3 trillion over the next decade.”
“WELL, AT LEAST WE AREN’T GIVING THE SAME TAX BREAKS TO THE RICH THAT BUSH WAS, RIGHT?”
That’s correct, we won’t be — nor will YOU be getting the same tax breaks. Oh, you didn’t know that YOU benefited as much as ‘those evil rich folks’ from Bush’s growth-incentive tax plan? Here’s what you gleefully gave up when you elected The One as your ‘Tax Savior’ (we’ll post another chart with a third column after Obama’s fourth year):
For a clearer picture of why the Progressives hope American voters are too stupid, ignorant, and uninformed to do the math, take a moment to read the illuminating post from last year: How Taxes Work — or, ‘How to Pay for Beer’.
There are ‘media professionals’ who we used to rely on to be objective, that now are firmly in the camp of more government, less individual freedoms — purely on the basis of their own philosophical wants (and completely aside from any evidence that such a utopia can be engineered despite the thousands of years of human history that says otherwise). Those media people, like Chris Matthews, who act as the mouthpiece of some imagined Moral Majority use tactics like ridicule, defamation, and sheer volume to shout down anyone who dares ask the right questions.
Wonder out loud if the government has a right to change the rules or business and finance ‘just to even out the playing field’? Your professionalism, work ethic, and personal life are now targets for the Leftist media to drag through the streets like the entrails of a half-dead dog.
Find it odd that our President has no paper trail, no historical archive of college term papers, no certifiable birth certificate? You’re a kook, and as crazy as the ‘Moon Truthers’.
Want Congressional ‘transparency’ to stop being an ongoing campaign slogan, and to actually occur while it might still do some good? Your elected representatives are just acting in an obstructionist fashion by demanding to sit at the table, and asking C-SPAN to be let into the room.
Do you find it easier to find Socialist similarities between what is happening now under Obama’s watch, with the Left-heavy Congress patting each other on the back behind closed doors — and Hitler’s rise to power — despite all the ‘BusHitler’ name-calling of the last 8 years? You’re a Racist.
So the real question here is, “Are the Progressives/Liberals who run our three branches of government CORRECT — Are You Stupid?“
…because the 9-year-old has chosen it to sing in her school talent show (they’re using it to raise money to send for Haiti relief). (LYRICS)
I’d spent a few days hunting around the ‘net, looking for the backtrack recording. Failed.
I’m a keyboardist myself — but I’ve tried to pluck it out on a little guitar we have laying around. It’s a beautiful, but simple song… so if there was any chance in (hot place) for me to pick it up in time for her audition on Monday, I’d handle it. But the woman who promised to love, honor, and not hold back the positive criticism has not (yet) been impressed — so she’s trying to track down a friend of the family who might have a couple of hours to spare.
Now, after a week of struggling (my fingers just don’t bend around a fretboard yet), I just found (and bought) the backtrack and legit chord sheet from JJ Heller’s site — unfortunately it looks like they ship a CD, rather than sending it electronically: http://www.jjheller.com/store.asp …so it likely won’t be here by Monday.
I’m hoping Miss Twinkle Toes can audition with JJ’s original recording in a couple of days, if her school is understanding enough (I doubt it). But just in case, I’ll keep trying to get more comfortable with those cord changes on my own…
Below is my favorite version of it — with JJ playing the harmonica. The Wife likes the studio recording with occasional smatterings of piano (no harmonica); but she’s not always right, you see.
“This isn’t the Democratic party of our fathers and grandfathers. This is the party of Woodstock hippies. I was at Woodstock — I built the stage. And when everything fell apart, and people were fighting for peanut-butter sandwiches, it was the National Guard who came in and saved the same people who were protesting them. So when Hillary Clinton a few years ago wanted to build a Woodstock memorial, I said it should be a statue of a National Guardsman feeding a crying hippie.”
- John Ratzenberger at a rally for Massachusetts Republican Senate candidate Scott Brown
Studies suggest that homeschoolers succeed academically as compared to schooled peers, but do they grow into socially well-adjusted adults? This new study suggest that they do.
Findings
When measured against average Canadians ages 15 to 34 years old, home-educated Canadian adults ages 15 to 34 were more:
Socially engaged. 69 percent participated in organized activities at least once per week, compared with 48 percent of the comparable population.
Highly paid. Average income for homeschoolers also was higher, but perhaps more significantly, while 11 percent of Canadians ages 15 to 34 rely on welfare, there were no cases of government support as the primary source of income for homeschoolers.
Happier. 67.3 percent described themselves as very happy, compared with 43.8 percent of the comparable population. Almost all of the homeschoolers (96 percent) thought homeschooling had prepared them well for life.
Did you ever wonder why there are no dead penguins on the ice in Antarctica – where do they go?
Wonder no more ! ! !
It is a known fact that the penguin is a very ritualistic bird which lives an extremely ordered and complex life.
The penguin is very committed to its family and will mate for life, as well as maintaining a form of compassionate contact with its offspring throughout its life.
If a penguin is found dead on the ice surface, other members of the family and social circle have been known to dig holes in the ice, using their vestigial wings and beaks, until the hole is deep enough for the dead bird to be rolled into and buried.
The male penguins then gather in a circle around the fresh grave and sing:
“Freeze a jolly good fellow”
“Freeze a jolly good fellow.”
Then they kick him in the ice hole.
You really didn’t believe that I know anything about penguins, did you!?!?
