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Catapult the Truth: Bush Has Failed in Fighting Terror

A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL

The Busheviks believe that if you state a lie over and over again it becomes the truth.

Cheney is the best illustration of this, but Rumsfeld and Bush are right up there.

In fact, as has been noted before, Bush told some school children (his peer group, so to speak) that his role as President was to repeat the same message over and over again to "catapult the propaganda." (The full quotation is ""See in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda." You can listen to Bush say it here, as he did on May 24, 2005 to middle and high school students in Rochester, New York.)

Of course the truth to Bush is the truth as he sees it, or as Dick Cheney tells him it is. For them the truth becomes determined by the unrelenting drumbeat of a series of lies. Lies become the truth.

War is peace; peace is war.

Increasing the Number of Terrorists is Fighting a War on Terrorists.

Failure is success; success is failure.

If you have any doubt about the effectiveness of the GOP's ability to "catapult the propaganda," just think about the recent polling results that indicate 50% of Americans still think weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq.

The number of the misled sheeple had gone down, but Rick Santorum, in a Bushevik "catapulting of propaganda," held a timely diversionary news conference to announce that useless chemicals found in Iraq were actually "discovered" weapons of mass destruction.

The mainstream media -- television, radio and print -- gave prominent headlines to Santorum's lie (almost certainly supplied and planned by Rove's operation) that these chemicals were viable weapons of mass destruction. The disproof of Santorum's claim hardly made the news, if at all, a couple of days later.

As a result (and Rove knows it is the initial false claim -- lie -- that sticks in the minds of at least half of Americans who receive virtually all their news from headlines), the ludicrous assertion that weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq is considered truth by half of the residents of our nation!

To those progressives who disdain the mainstream media, you disdain it at a serious cost to restoring democracy. "Catapulting the propaganda" works in the absence of a media counterforce that conveys the truth as headlines, not the propaganda. Television is the particularly pernicious conveyor of propaganda in the form of news headlines. Right-wing radio is a close second, particularly in rural areas. The news wire services follow up in third place. Then comes the mainstream newspapers that print the wire service stories.

Mastering the issues is insufficient. We need the media outlets to convey the truth.

Nonetheless, we make our small BuzzFlash contribution by repeating this message once again: Bush has failed America in fighting terrorism and, therefore, has put this nation at great risk.

From his childish dismissal of a CIA intelligence warning in August of 2001 that bin Laden was determined to dtrike in the U.S., to his failure to capture bin Laden, to his failed war on nation states instead of terrorists, Bush has put America's national security in peril.

He has underfunded and mis-allocated funds for "homeland security," most recently adopting a politically-driven allocation of "homeland security" money. This is the infamous "Homeland Security Department" grant report that found that Indiana had the highest number of potential terrorist targets in the United States.

Bush's entire war on terror is like someone who is playing the carnival game where, with a mallet, you try to hit clowns that pop up, only Bush is always hitting the wrong clowns.

His is a faux "war on terrorism" that is part petulance, part arrogance, part juvenile arrestment, part neo-con desire to control natural resources (as in oil), part "master of the universe" syndrome – and all partisan politics.

Whatever it is, it is not a successful war on terrorism.

To "catapult" the truth, it is a war that creates more terrorism.

Osama bin Laden, Iran, and Hezbollah couldn't ask for a better recruiter for them than George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and Condoleezza Rice. Hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars are being egregiously misspent to recruit terrorists. That’s the reality.

As we have said before, there is an old axiom that a fool is someone who keeps doing the same thing over and over again, failing over and over again, but continues doing it, expecting a different result.

And a fool is a danger to the national security of the United States.

There’s a truth to catapult into a headline, if only the mainstream media were willing to report the truth – and not the propaganda.

A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL

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Grassroots Catapult

Direct action on the sidewalks of New Haven 90 minutes ago coast to coast from the Washington Post to the San Francisco Chronicle.

Further, the story, first linked on Buzzflash two hours ago, has moved Joe Lieberman much closer to losing his credentials as a Democrat than all the whining about the failure of Senate Democrats to grow a "spine" by people who use the bottom of theirs mostly to sit on in front of a keyboard.

Three cheers to the old style lefties who remember how get out from behind the PCs and into the streets.

I gotta give them all the credit in the world because I'm a tired old bastard myself who mostly sits on the bottom of his busted up spine in front of a keyboard. -Steve

George Vreeland Hill Exposes President Bush And The GOP

George W. Bush and the Republican way of cover-ups, lies, and more! Bush will get what he wants no matter what. Bully. Break the law. Lie. Then come up with reasons why he is right. Well guess what? Bush is wrong! You do not spy on Americans without legal permission. That is KGB like. The courts are starting to agree. You do not go to war with another country without proof of the need for war. Iraq was no threat to the United States. Yes, Saddam Hussein was evil and had a lot of people killed, but how many Iraqi citizens have been killed since this war started? How many of our brave service men and women have been killed in Iraq? How many more will die? Iraq right now, is in the worst mess it has ever been in. This was not the case before Bush started this war. Hey Bush: This war is against terrorists, not with countries. WMD? Not there! Did you know that George W. Bush once made fun of the issue of Weapons of Mass Destruction? He did, and in front of some shocked people during a black-tie event in 2004. He said.... (While looking under a piece of furniture) "Those weapons of mass destruction have got to be here somewhere." Then, while pretending to look out of a window, Bush laughed as he said..... "Nope, no weapons over there." While he was laughing, there were men and women fighting and dying in Iraq because of WMD. George W. Bush should be removed from office because of that alone. Face it, Bill Clinton lied about having sex, and was impeached because of it. George W. Bush however, did far worse, as he laughed at the very people who are fighting for the United States of America! Bush laughs at a lot of things. While we were under attack, he just sat there. He has no clue about how to run things. Speaking of running, that is what many Republicans are doing right now. Running from their own corruption. How many are in trouble now? From Nixon/Agnew to Scooter and Cheney, all we get from Republicans are cover-ups, lies, and more. Even President Reagan's defense secretary, Caspar W. Weinberger, who recently passed away, was so bad, that George H. W. Bush had to bail him out with a pardon to help save the Republican name. Face it.... the Republican Party is a disgrace. Time for a change. It is also time for us to take back our country from the Republican mess that YOU are paying for. I am, GEORGE VREELAND HILL * Here are some tidbits of note: Our Republican leaders have failed to catch bin Laden, even though Bush said that his capture was a top priority. When it became evident that bin Laden was not going to be caught any time soon, Bush then said that it did not matter if we capture him. Say what? The fact is that Bush changed his mind to save face. We have left our borders open to let millions of rapists, thieves, loafers, and killers enter our country. These numbers are since 9/11. Much of California's bad economy was blamed on Gray Davis, but the fact is, that illegals broke California. Why was that not stopped? In New Hampshire, during the 2002 election for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Robert C. Smith, the New Hampshire GOP hired GOP Marketplace of Virginia, to jam another phone bank being used by the state Democratic Party in an effort to turn out voters on behalf of then-governor Jeanne Shaheen on Election Day. John E. Sununu, the Republican candidate, won a narrow victory. Wikipedia, a free on-line encyclopedia, states that three men have been convicted of, or pled guilty to, federal crimes and sentenced to prison for their involvement as of 2006. A fourth is under indictment. However, investigators and those who have followed the scandal closely believe that there were more people involved at the national level. It has been suggested that some high-ranking Republican Senate leaders were aware, and more recently records showing phone calls from the political operative convicted of engineering the scheme have raised questions as to whether officials in the Bush Administration were involved as well. According to The Raw Story, the fourth man indicted in this phone-jamming scheme, will argue at trial that the Bush Administration and the national Republican Party gave their approval to the plan, so says a motion filed by his attorney. CIA leaks. Bush giving the finger to people. Would FDR have done that? Republicans can't stand the truth. When a topic comes up that exposes them, these cowards will discredit the reporter or change the subject in order to made themselves look good. Their tactics no longer work. The people are on to these Republican cowards who can't fess up. My thoughts on Iran: Iran may be a threat in the future, but it is not a threat now. We have time to think about what to do with Iran. We need to start thinking about the best ways to solve problems in the Middle East, and not create new ones. Because Bush and the Republican Party have no clue how to fix the mess we are in with Iraq, it is best that he and they do nothing with Iran. Wait until the voters pick better leaders, and believe me, that will not be a hard thing to do. * Some extra tidbits: Here are some videos that show the real George W. Bush. Look at how stupid he is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKQ098sOpJ8 Drinking Bush: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5n2rIpT2bxA Not wanted at Stanford: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YDOHpzskeM Here are some funny vids! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqLvBUSJucg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpaLmxrWiyY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxtR0s-lrU4

Today's Press Conference

If anyone had the chance to view bush’s press conference today you were witness to another display of diversion, distortion and play on words from a man that is hardly a master of the English language, which is in of itself quit a feat. There was one telling moment when bush was asked to explain, in the light of the fact that nothing he told us about our reasons for going into Iraq were true to begin with, how, with all that’s gone wrong, we’re any better off now than before bush invaded? Bush of course gave the standard talking points about how would it be if we had left Hussien in power, just how much more danger would we be in (which is a very debatable subject to begin with) and “at the time” because of the intelligence his decision to invade was correct, and that although no WMD were found it was STILL the right thing to do because Hussien had the “capacity” to make WMD’s. Of course with that argument we might as well invade any nation, for they all have the capacity. But I was wondering just how long it would take before he invoked 9/11? It didn’t take long. To the credit of the reporter he interrupted bush and pointed out that Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11, from which bush went into attack/defense mode using the “umbrella conclusion” that if we had left Hussien in power his “presents” and “danger to the surrounding region” would have fostered further 9/11’s. (Again a very debatable and highly subjective subject) But of course none of this is going to get in the way of this administration until they are held accountable for at least one criminal act they’ve committed. So unless we the people can come out in force large enough in November so that not even the Diebolds and thugs can pull off another rigged election – we’re screwed.

If you read it, you will know 911 was an False Flag operation

If you read it, you will know 911 was an False Flag operation pw 9/11: The Myth and the Reality David Ray Griffin (Authorized Version) http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20060405112622982 .....In any case, a third problem with the official account of the collapse of these three buildings is that all prior and subsequent total collapses of steel-frame high-rises have been caused by explosives in the procedure known as "controlled demolition." This problem is made even more severe by the fact that the collapses of these three buildings manifested many standard features of the most difficult type of controlled demolition, known as implosion. I will mention seven such features. First, the collapses began suddenly. Steel, if weakened by fire, would gradually begin to sag. But as one can see from videos available on the Web,72 all three buildings are completely motionless up to the moment they begin to collapse. Second, if these huge buildings had toppled over, they would have caused enormous death and destruction. But they came straight down. This straight-down collapse is the whole point of the type of controlled demolition called implosion, which only a few companies in the world can perform.73 Third, these buildings collapsed at virtually free-fall speed, which means that the lower floors, with all their steel and concrete, were offering no resistance to the upper floors. Fourth, as mentioned earlier, the collapses were total collapses, resulting in piles of rubble only a few stories high. This means that the enormous steel columns in the core of each building had to be broken into rather short segments---which is what explosives do. Fifth, great quantities of molten steel were produced, which means that the steel had been heated up to several thousand degrees. Witnesses during the clean-up reported, moreover, that sometimes when a piece of steel was lifted out of the rubble, molten metal would be dripping from the end.74 Sixth, according to many fire fighters, medical workers, journalists, and World Trade Center employees, many explosions went off before and after the collapses. For example, Fire Captain Dennis Tardio, speaking of the south tower, said: "I hear an explosion and I look up. It is as if the building is being imploded, from the top floor down, one after another, boom, boom, boom."75 Firefighter Richard Banaciski said: "It seemed like on television [when] they blow up these buildings. It seemed like it was going all the way around like a belt, all these explosions."76 Thanks to the release in August of 2005 of the oral histories recorded by the Fire Department of New York shortly after 9/11, dozens of testimonies of this type are now available. I have published an essay on them, which will be included---along with an essay on "The Destruction of the World Trade Center," which I am here summarizing---in a forthcoming book on 9/11 and Christian faith.77 A seventh feature of controlled implosions is the production of large quantities of dust. In the case of the Twin Towers, virtually everything except the steel---all the concrete, desks, computers---was pulverized into very tiny dust particles.78 ....... http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20060405112622982 + THERE ARE THOUSANDS OF 9-11 WEBSITES (GOOGLE IT) THAT PROVE THAT THE BUSH/PNAC ADMINSTRATION PLANNED AND ORCHESTRATED 9-11...HERES A FEW OF THEM http://911blogger.com/ http://www.reopen911.org/ http://www.geocities.com/killtown/ http://www.standdown.net/ http://www.911truth.org/ http://thewebfairy.com/killtown/911links.html http://st911.org/ http://www.tvnewslies.org http://www.prisonplanet.com/911.html

catapult

the world needs a better catapult.everytime we get hit by one of their flying loads of crap, we circle the lies and catapult it right back at them.right now the only tv catapults we have are the daily show and the colbert report. it's a shame when only comedians and a comedy network have the balls to throw this crap back in the faces of the bushiviks. i haven't watched tv for a year or more, i get everything off the net, including the daily show and colbert, even a day late it beats the crap out of any network or cable news.you have a great catapult going here buzz.

Reinventing the catapult

Along with hammering the mainstream media to provide the truth, we can continue to build other catapults, in addition to the internet. Freeway blogging, carrying signs wherever media are present, and disrupting government events with protests, signs, t-shirts etc are all ways to get a CLEAR SIMPLE message to the American public. Wherever you see a news camera is an opportunity to "get in the way" with a message.

Bush Represents the Death Machine

The Bush Crime Family represents private interests who make their money, and thus their "power," from murdering babies-- guns, tobacco, oil. It doesn't mater of the babies are "ours" or "theirs"-- the profit is the same. The Bushies took control of this government to do several things. The first was to destroy the enforcement powers of government, so that the oil and weapons companies wouldn't have to deal with either U.S. laws or taxes. The death machine has been trying to do this for 100 years. Just understand the history of these companies, especially the oil companies, who have always operated with an amazing arrogance and feeling that were above the law wherever they went. Apply that concept to what they are doing to the court system. The second is to destroy the U.S. middle class, so that there wouldn't be anything to uphold ideas of truth and justice. If people are spending every minute and every penny to just survive, it is very difficult for them to spend the time and money to protest anything or to seek justice. And the less money, the less access to the courts. The third was to create chaos in the middle east, to keep the price of energy as high as possible, to increase the death machine profits, and, thus, their power. Saddam was about to switch pegging his oil from the dollar to the Euro. That mandated that invasion. More terrorism= higher energy prices. These people murder for power. That's what they do. That's who they are. All the lying is just an little inconvenience, and if they do away with government regulations and accountability, then they don't have to bother wasting their time lying. Bush's grab for personal power is just a distraction-- something to keep him occupied so the real powers that be can go about their business without waking him up. He is just another tool, in both senses of the word. And, of course, the Liebermans of the world are in it, too, and maybe Hillary (on the board of Wal Mart, etc.). There is something else, though-- I am convinced that the president gets off sexually every time the death machine kills another baby. Harsh, I know, but it explains so much, especially that ridiculous smirk....

Rare Video Discovered

Chimp catapults truth to an adoring crowd http://www.toostupidtobepresident.com/shockwave/catapultpropaganda.htm

Fight Ignorance Response

I am not only deeply concerned with the security of our nation but also very concerned over the plight of our troops fighting in Iraq. If we really wanted to end this war in Iraq then all we would have to do is bring back The Draft with no exemptions except for those who are truly medically disabled. Think about it. If all families of this nation had to put their family members in harms way do you not think that they would think twice about this? Would they be so hawkish then when it is their children, brothers, sisters, wives or husbands that have been asked to go forth and conduct a war in Bush's name? But how could such a thing happen with an administration that is comprised of a bunch of draft dodging chickenhawks? How could this administration impose a Draft when they themselves never served? I am incensed that our troops, through a back door draft, have to serve more than one year on duty in Iraq, let alone two or even three tours of duty. Our troops deserve the best and instead are being used as fodder in a illegal war that was doomed to failure from the start. And yes, I am a veteran of a long forgotten war where our troops were spit upon when we came back home to the States. Give our troops the respect and most of all the real leadership they deserve.

A Warning To President Bush

Don't think you're fooling anyone wih these bogus terrorist plots that your intelligence spooks are busting every couple of weeks now; first in New York City, then in Miami, next in London and just this past week in Germany. One doesn't have to be a rocket scientist to see what you're up to. Scare us all half to death and then at a designated time and place, "Boom", another 9/ll, designed and engineered, as was the original, by one or more of our intelligence agencies. It's to be your excuse for destroying what's left of freedom and democracy in America and seizing absolute power, as per Adolph Hitler and Joseph Stalin, among others. But Mr President if you don't call off the scheduled catastrophe that your intelligence spooks are preparing for us Americans, you'll be in even more serious trouble than you are right now.. There are already millions of us who are on to you, and, as things now stand, after Congress impeaches you, you're to go on trial (for your crimes against humanity) at the International Court of Criminal Justice. What do you think the verdict will be, not to mention your punishment, when evidence is presented to the judges of said court proving that you gave the go-ahead to the intelligence agencies, even though you knew the number of lives your decision would cost. You'll never get away with it, Mr. President. So call it off! right now! Might save you some prison time.

The coming 9/11

Between now and the November elections there will almost certainly be another terrorist attack of the "false flag" variety -- where agents of a government attack its own citizens in order to terrify them into submission.

I don't have a crystal ball, but my guess would be a nuclear event, a dirty bomb or an explosion, in a major city. They'll instantly blame it on Iran (just as they instantly blamed it on Osama bin Laden, who denied any involvement in 9/11 the day after it happened, and they've still got no hard proof because the FBI doesn't list 9/11 among the crimes he's wanted for), and use it as an excuse for airstrikes against Iran, perhaps nuclear as well.

I hope, and pray, that I'm wrong. But these days feel like the calm before a terrible storm.

The Date is 9/9 this year

There was a credible report that cut across the internet last month that said to be wary of 9/9 this year.... they were going to move up this year's "September Surprise" by two days to catch people off guard. No matter what date it is, we all know who the perpetrators are..... if you don't you haven't been listening to Alex Jones!!!

The Power of Repetition

Bush is tactically correct about the power of repetition. He is stupid (or perhaps incurious would be a better word) about most things, but not about political campaigns. His entire administration has been a brutally cynical—and brutally effective—political campaign.

The tragedy of the netroots is that we spend time attacking the Democratic leadership and attempting to outdo them in inventing better slogans and "frames." Repeating the existing few ones, like "rubber-stamp Republicans," would take back the Congress. Any slogan improves with repetition; a better is a worse one if no hears it, and it has to be heard six times to be heard once.

Taking back Congress--even one body--would be the first step in exposing the truth about, among other things, Homeland Security's failed response to Katrina. Katrina and 9/11 were perhaps the Administration's most terrifying failed responses to terrifying events. They hit close to close to home, in more ways than one.
We need Waxman and others like him with subpoena power, not just press releases. We need committee chairman because, as good as they are, Spike Lee and Michael Moore won’t get the job done.

Yes, Like Hitler, Bush is a propagandist. So what else is new?

-Steve

Netroots Opportunity Target

This is increasingly off-topic, but it goes to cracking the GOP stranglehold on the press.

I feel strongly that bitching about Bush and the DC Democrats is much less valuable than doing something on the ground. Even freeway blogging counts for more.

If I understand this Buzzflash cited article:

http://www.newhavenindependent.org/archives/2006/08/city_asked_to_u.php

there is an opportunity in every county in CT to raise holy hell with the Lieberman Campaign, giving it dozens of fires to try to put out.

So if you know anyone in CT, send email with the relevant links asking them to do a buck-and-wing dance down to the Registrar of Voters and start lobbying their local Democratic committee to get JoeMentum defrocked.

Bush's propaganda machine depends upon his lock on the national media, and the best chance of breaking that lock is to bubble a story up from the local media. This minutes-old story seems already to be rolling across CT via the AP and will probably hit the national news soon, esp. if blogsters can stir it up in other counties.

Fast action is indicated though because the Secretary of State may soon rule in favor of Lieb, which will let all the air out of the balloon. Until then, though, it's worth doing.

And it would be one helluva lot more fun that sending letters to the Senators asking them to strip Joe of his committee assignments. If Joe turns out not to be a Democrat any more because of grass-roots action, instead of of Senatorial action, it's almost like Dirty Harry to DC, "Do you feel relevant? Well do you, punk?"

-Steve

getting rid of bad dems is also necessary though

Franklin Delano Roosevelt governed in a time where many Democrats were conservatives and many Republicans were liberals. President Roosevelt felt that this blurred the lines thus making it easier for conservatives to get elected. This trend of line blurring saw dozens of conservative democrats sabotage progressive legislation, aid and abet Ronald Reagan's radical agenda, and basically help Newt Gingrich take over Congress. Today the lines are becoming more crystal as the few remaining sellout corporatist Dems and conservative Dems are being voted out. Once we get rid of every conservative in the Democratic party, we will have a broad coalition of progressives, liberals, and moderates. Then conservatives will be confined to one political party. And when that happens, the ideology crumbles and you'll even see conservatives lose primaries in their own party. (See what's happening in Kansas right now) Conservative ideas are fringe ideas and conservatives can't govern because they hate govt and people. This is the game plan FDR foresaw 3 1/2 score ago. It works for me. That's why we need to get rid of the Joe Lieberman's of the party. When the enablers are gone, the conservative party automatically follows suit.