Kiss Your Internet Good-bye 

SERVANDO GONÁLEZ aft. 14mar03

In a short, but forceful article, [below] Peter Sparacino pointed out that constitutional tools are no longer valid in our losing battle against a government out of control, rapidly becoming a totalitarian dictatorship. According to Sparacino, neither the ballot box, nor the jury box can be used to stop its advances -- not even the cartridge box. The only thing left to fight back, he states, is freedom of the press.

But, as media critic A.J. Liebling rightly expressed, freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one. Though in theory the opportunity to own his own printing press was open to every American citizen, in practice just a few, and lately only the very rich and powerful, were able to own one.

Granted, the media monopoly was never total, and many small presses proliferated, but the big ones, later joined by the network TV channels, just played the game, giving the false image of independent thinking. But suddenly, less than ten years ago, a technological breakthrough changed the rules of the game in a radical way, bringing about what media guru Marshal McLuhan envisioned more than thirty years ago: the global village. This revolutionary new medium is the Internet.

The Internet is a totally new type of communication medium that has changed our lives. It allows for easy, fast, and cheap exchange of ideas in an optimum way. Thanks to the Internet, owning your own press is as cheap as $20 a month. Almost anybody can afford it.

As soon as the people realized the power of the tool they had in their hands, many began using the Internet not only to gather the information they wanted, but also to become themselves providers of information. Sites offering the most surprising, contradictory, interesting, and useful information mushroomed, soon to be followed by many offering not-so-useful, in-your-face, sometimes disgusting or plainly gross content. But, even with its nasty aspects, the Internet radically changed the way most of us get the daily news.

Initially, the powerful media giants, both in printed and TV form, ignored the Internet as a curiosity or a passing fad. But sites like the Drudge Report, NewsMax, or WorldNetDaily, just to mention a few of the most successful, soon began attracting more and more readers, while newspapers like the New York Times, the Washington Post or the Los Angeles Times began losing theirs. Soon after, the big TV networks experimented their own dramatic loss of viewers.

Faced with the strong, unexpected competition, the media giants joined the Internet bandwagon, but they were in for a big surprise. Contrary to the traditional printed media and TV, where money plays a cardinal role -- only the very rich can afford to hire the qualified personnel and promote and market the product -- the Internet seems to be a pure product of the human intellect. As the extraordinary success of the Drudge Report indicates, most people don't visit a site because it has a fancy design or is professionally made, but because it is a place where they can find provoking, non-mainstream ideas that make them think; exactly the type of thinking they were not able to find in the orchestrated, self-censored mainstream media. Consequently, a site made by a housewife right from her kitchen in Hot Springs, Arkansas, or by an almost unknown journalist from his home office in Oregon or Florida, can compete on equal footing with the New York Times. This is exactly how extraordinarily successful sites like the Drudge Report and WorldNetDaily were born. Like the Colt .44 in the Old West, the Internet became the great equalizer.

But the people who control the media monopoly were not going to see their power challenged without a fight. After their initial skepticism and scorn, and their failed attempts to extend their media monopoly to the Internet, they began a subtle process of infiltration. For example, I was surprised when, in June, 2001, the notorious Alexander Haig Jr. joined NewsMax's advisory board. It is probably only a coincidence, but lately NewsMax has become a sort of mouthpiece for the Republican Party and an uncritical provider of the Bush administration's propaganda. Its most recent no-brainer is a "boycott France" campaign. I stopped visiting the site several weeks ago. On the other hand, if only half of what I found in this article [below] is true, perhaps NewsMax's problems have deeper roots than I thought.

There is a saying in Latin America: "A los periodistas se les paga o se les pega." ("Journalists: you buy them or you hit them.") I don't think it is much different here. I expect that after some unsuccessful attempts to derail some of the most successful sites, just to bring an example, the media powers will try to buy them. But, even though I don't think it would be easy for them to do it, and they may resort to strong arm tactics, the bottom line is that, because of its inherent characteristics -- the Internet is an off-shoot of the Arpanet, a military communications decentralized nodular network designed to survive a full scale nuclear attack on the U.S. -- the Internet is uncontrollable. It is a Hydra of innumerable heads.

They can keep buying and coercing people and eventually may get control over the most successful Internet sites, but other people will come forward, and their sites will rapidly become extremely successful. The attempts of the media monopolists to control the Internet the way they managed to get control of the printed press, the TV channels, and, most recently, am radio, will never be successful. Currently, they are extremely concerned about such a powerful tool in the hands of the American people. The Internet has become a growing obstacle to their plans.

Therefore, what will they do? Very simple: They will destroy it. The only solution to solve the Internet's growing challenge to the media monopoly is to shut it down and throw the key away.

How it will happen? One of these days, out of the blue, the Internet will be used for launching a devastating terrorist attack on the United States. Somehow, this cyberattack will cost the lives of scores of American citizens. In order to avoid more damage, the government, putting to good use the recently approved anti-terrorist laws, will shut the Internet down and ban the use of the Internet as we know it.

But most government agencies rely heavily on the Internet. How can they function without it? No problem. The replacement already exists; it is called Internet 2, reportedly a consortium being led by more than 200 universities working in partnership with industry and government to develop and deploy advanced network applications and technologies, accelerating the creation of tomorrow's Internet. But, contrary to the deceptive techno-babbling rhetoric, Internet 2 is nothing more than a controlled Internet, similar to the one currently in place in totalitarian countries like China and Cuba.

Internet 2 will be fully controlled by the state. In order to access it, or to have e-mail access, you must be a member of, or be affiliated to, any of the government-authorized organizations and have a sort of security clearance. Internet 2 will be out of the reach of the general public, and every person trying to have unauthorized access to Internet 2 will be charged with terrorist activities, and severely penalized

The unavoidable fact is that the Internet is incompatible with a totalitarian system of government. Therefore, either we are a bunch of delusionary paranoids, and what we see happening in this country is only a figment of our feverished imagination, and, consequently, the Internet will not be banned, or we are right, and it will disappear. Actually, the disappearance of the current free Internet will serve as a litmus test that will accurately mark our final loss of freedom.

The banning of the Internet, the cancellation of the Second Amendment rights, and the closing of our borders -- not to stop illegals from entering the country, but to stop Americans from fleeing it -- in exactly that order, will be important steps in the implementation of this evil plan.

In the meantime, hope for the best, and enjoy the Internet while you can.

Servando González is a Cuban-born American writer. Among his most recent books are The Secret Fidel Castro: Deconstructing the Symbol and The Nuclear Deception: Nikita Khrushchev and the Cuban Missile Crisis. Currently he is working on Fidel Castro Supermole, the second volume of a trilogy he is writing on Castro.

source: http://www.intelinet.org/kiss_internet.html 7apr03

Constitutional Tools No Longer Valid

PETER SPARACINO / NewsWithViews.com 14mar03

Ballot Box: Election fraud has gone national ( as witnessed by the last presidential election). Our election system can no longer be relied upon to express the will of the people especially since the one hundred year old secret ballot system has been nullified by the mail-in-ballot inaugurated first by the state of Oregon. It will be used nationally in the 2004 presidential election thus making effective security impossible to otherwise defeat gross election fraud.

Jury Box: For all practical purposes judges have outlawed so-called jury nullification. Moreover, juries have been so dumbed down that they do not understand this legal principle: presumption of innocence must prevail unless the state can prove guilt beyond any reasonable doubt. The staggering conviction rates on mere circumstantial evidence and the growing number of innocent defendants convicted and given the death penalty only to be later proved innocent by DNA evidence makes my point.

Cartridge Box: Military like Swat Teams are now standard throughout our powerful nation, and would squash any attempted armed rebellion in its infancy; thus making violent overthrow of our government by its citizens impossible.

What is left? Freedom of the press is the last bastion. If it falls all is lost. President Bush had a White House press conference this month that in effect nullified Freedom of the Press. Worse! The White House Press Core seemed to go along with a scripted format and the silencing of Core veteran, Helen Thomas, who until now has never been silenced.

What to do? In my opinion to save America from itself: patriotic writers must target the latent goodness in their readers, particularly of those in positions of power, who might be urged via their own latent goodness to do the right thing. Barring that remote possibility... it is all over except for the shouting.

Peter retired from the Nevada Hotel/Casino Industry as an Internal Security Specialist. He moved to Josephine County in Southern Oregon where he became involved in community affairs which led to the publication of his modest website that was launched in 1997: http://www.budget.net/~primose/catalog2.htm  E-Mail: primrose@budget.net

source: http://www.newswithviews.com/guest_opinion/guest4.htm 7apr03

NewsMax: Controlled "Opposition" Media

JACKIE PATRU / Babel Magazine 6oct02

Introduction by Paul Walker

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Newsmax is to the Right what the Nation is the Left, controlled opposition, never giving you more than half the truth. It’s the same thing in politics. It’s like a puppet show for the most part, nobody thinking for themselves or really wanting to face the facts objectively. It’s a sellout on both sides.

Policies are put forth as inevitable and we only see false debate on the issues, with falsely framed choices. "Mmmm, let's see, do you want your microchip in your hand or in your ass? Which way is best for you? That's tonight on Hardball.." or something to that effect, not even asking about how this even came into being or why we would want to be tracked ultimately like cattle by satellite, or how suddenly, immediately after 9/11, we were inundated with microchip propaganda ... oh, but its just a coincidence say the pundits.

Sure, if you put the Left and the Right together, you begin to get a more complete, though muddied, picture of reality. But what about a truly independent non-Hegelian media? Why not? Where is it? MSNBC now advertises itself as "fiercely independent". Have you noticed that? Did it make you groan and swear? It should. Even if they do produce "opposing" views to gain a better picture of reality, they do it again in a corporate-controlled fashion in the same way that the CFR is controlling the political Left and Right from the top. So don't be fooled. More and more people are getting sick of these games and realizing just how much of the media is there to control and channel public opinion through this Hegelian dialectic to achieve a secret Bilderberg-CFR agenda. It is pure mind-control, a form of mental slavery, a psychic dictatorship. Don't let them do this to us! Fight it and support real alternative media wherever you can find it.

If we the people do not move rapidly to establish a media that is geared toward facts instead of the globalist agenda, the truth will continue to be murdered by both the "alternative" and mass-media whores and die along with our freedoms.

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First, look at the board of NewsMax ...

Good ole' Arnaud de Borchgrave sits on it. Arnaud is a member of the CFR, and was an '80s member of the CNP (Council on National Policy) and I would guess still a secretive member of the CNP.

Remember too, Arnaud was editor of the Washington Times (Sun Myung Moon's newspaper run by his top boy, Bo Hi Pak).

When Arnaud left the Times, his trained CNP boy took over for him. Arnaud went on to head UPI for Moon after Moon bought it. There is the short version of the background of a board member of NEWSMAX. This is only one board member. Chris Ruddy was in the whole crowd doing the Mena Connection/Clinton Chronicles/Vince Foster stuff that Jeremiah Films (owner of Jeremiah Films another CNP man) was circulating, and Jerry Falwell (who has taken over $3 1/2 million from cultist Moon) was shilling for.

Terry Reed, who did the definitive story on Mena, was in the deep freeze with the conservative establishment because he really put the whole thing in perspective and tied CNP-member Oliver North and George Bush directly to Clinton and Mena.

I really admired Reed for that! Remember he also did that fantastic video about NAFTA.

It was supposed to be the first of a series but they ran into financial difficulties. There's a ton more, but this should suffice to give thought to the credibility of Ruddy and NewsMax ... all connected to the rightwing cabal of CNP who is all connected to the leftwing cabal through Rockefeller/Scaife and countless other players. It's a big joke on the American fools who think there's any difference between the goals of the left and right.

Just take a look at their columnists.

I could write a book just about them and their horrid connections... everything from Skull and Bonesmen to Moon!

Geez, hasn't anyone any discernment anymore?

For heaven's sake ... anyone who has listened to talk radio knows the backgrounds of these people.

Col. Stanislav Lunev is a shill and one to be very wary of ... he's a commie hack of Gorbachev's. This is not to say all of them are bad, but a damn big number of them are!

The following excerpt of Ruddy's article should be a clue. It furthers the "terrorist threat" being propagated by the controlled media, which in turn has uninformed Americans in a state of constant fear and in a fever pitch for revenge on an unknown enemy.

At this point the mass collective mind is hell bent on: WAR -- if it lasts forever, who cares? Just get those bastard terrorists and so what if, in defense of the World Order, U.S. Soldiers will have to kill and die; BLOOD-SHED -- to hell with the death of innocents, that's just 'collateral damage, can't be helped; ORWELLIAN 'SECURITY MEASURES' -- the more military personnel in the airports, on our street corners, in our schools the merrier and we need a national I.D. To hell with individual rights to privacy, property, and self-defense; and most dangerous ... the "IF YOU AREN'T WITH US, YOU'RE AGAINST US" mentality -- which will have those clueless, thoughtless masses ready to tear us apart for our outspoken opposition to the war.

Excerpt from Chris Ruddy article on the AA Flight 587 crash in Queens:

An investigation first needs to be conducted, and only then a conclusion drawn. But the government is so anxious to calm an already panicked public it is trying, at every opportunity, to hold back any possibility of bad news. We saw how federal officials downplayed the anthrax attacks. Some officials are holding back the truth, perhaps to protect the economy.

Yes, the economy is shaky and another terrorist act against a civilian jet will only hurt. But in the long run, fairy tales don’t help. We ignore the truth and bad news at our peril. I don't believe in holding back bad news. Failing to tell the public "bad news" doesn't lead to better news, just more trouble. The reason we Americans are in this terrorist predicament is because of the increasing deceit coming from our government.

The government is anxious to calm the public? Have you watched or listened to the news? Hundreds of 'government' officials and military brass have been promulgating the fear since 9-11 ... even before 9-11.

The U.S. Government has never been OUR government. I would be shocked if you could find one -- just one -- ACT/Resolution/Bill ever passed by the U.S. Government (Congress) that was in the interest of the American people.

This June 5th, 2001 headline reads:

General Haig Joins NewsMax Advisory Board.

"General Alexander M. Haig Jr. (USA Ret.), former U.S. Secretary of State, NATO Commander and White House Chief of Staff, has joined the international advisory board of NewsMax.com, the company announced today.

"We are pleased that such a distinguished American statesman and business leader has joined us,” Lord Rees-Mogg, Chairman of NewsMax.com said.

"General Haig will join NewsMax's distinguished advisory board, which includes Robert Lohman, a former IBM executive; Nigel Evans, vice-chair of Britain's Conservative Party; Yonghao Pu, former chief economist of the Bank of China, now Senior Economist at Nomura Securities; former U.S. Congressmen John LeBoutillier and Dan Frisa, and several others. The company's Board of Directors includes journalist Arnaud deBorchgrave; Dallas businessman Michael Ruff, publisher James Dale Davidson and Adm. Thomas Moorer.

Quite a line-up of 'dignitaries' isn't it?

Mr. James Dale Davidson: co-author of a book, or books with Lord Rees-Mogg; London-Washington Publications; Founder & Chairman Emeritus of the NTU (National Taxpayers Union) which has - since its inception - lobbied heavily for a Constitutional Convention by state resolution. Alexander Haig: is a long-time member of the CFR (Council on Foreign Relations); and among other things (according to Canadian, Alan Watt) sits on the board of COSCO (China Overseas Shipping Co.) with Ted Heath -- Prime Minister of Britain, before Harold Wilson -- who is also a spokesman for Sun Myung Moon.

Among their line-up of writers is Phyllis Schlafly, founder of Eagle Forum who has received grants from the federal government (I believe the Department of Justice); featured Jeanne Kirkpatrick in her video on Global Governance; and is a Dame of the Knights of Malta (Sovereign Military Order of Malta). Kirkpatrick is a long-time CFR member, and served as Vice-chairman of the Board of the CFR 1993-94.

Can you possibly imagine why a real conservative/alternative news service would intentionally sleep with the enemy? If any further information is necessary here I fear it would be a useless and time-wasting effort.

source: http://www.babelmagazine.com/issue77/newsmax.html 7apr03