I described myself as having "mild schizophrenia" in my last diary post "The War They Wouldn't LET Me See Pt1":
http://www.dailykos.com/...
..so let me explain why it is that I use that particular reference.
In my searching of the above referenced video and subsequently not finding it, or finding it and getting blocked, I went out to Twitter to see if anyone at all was mentioning the shocking censorship that I myself was encountering. Nothing - zero - a big goose egg. WHAT???How can that be? Was anyone aware that we were being deliberately censored..like REALLY censored. Reeling from shock I ran through dozens and dozens of posts - incredulous. In all that roaming I came upon a name I knew sounded familiar - IF Stone. An article had been written in the Guardian about an upcoming book of his life. And you know how way leads unto way..that's the Schizo part of me..
http://www.guardian.co.uk/...
Great article...but I was curious to know more ..so...I went digging. I tried to find some videos on YouTube - nothing. Already frustrated from my fruitless search for John Pilger's now CENSORED documentary "The War You Don't See", I decided to get away from videos all together and I found the most delightful website!! Delightful for me who loves to trace derivations..derivations of words..History, Religious Doctrine, Political Doctrine. I had found the ARCHIVES of IF Stone!! So, I picked a date..random and not, for on April 5 1971 I was exactly one day old. Kinda like those Birthday cards you sometimes get that tell you what the price of gas was, or what the #1 song in the country was the day you were born..I always liked those cards. Aaaaaaannnndddd that is where my fun ended.
http://www.ifstone.org/...
The crazy irony of every SINGLE story mirroring today's papers..it just TOO much!!! Covered in this paper are the timeless classics:
1."The defeat of the SST reflects an awakening in every section
of this country to environmental dangers, to military waste and
folly, and to the urgency of new priorities if our country's
future is to be safeguarded. A new America, freed from the
grip of militarism and imperialism, would be able at last to
turn its giant energies to reconstruction and racial reconciliation.
2."That Same Old Tunnel, 18 Years Later
Let me say I know when we are getting out. We have
a plan, it is being implemented . . . But as far as a
deadline is concerned, while the next announcement, I
am sure, will give some indication as to the end of the
tunnel, we are not going to tell them now . . .
âNixon to Howard K. Smith, ABC-TV, March 27."
3."Ben Gurion Speaks Up
ISRAEL'S ELDER STATESMAN, David Ben Gurion, himself a
a hard liner in his time, says in the Saturday Review (April 3),
"Peace Is More Important Than Real Estate". If he were still
Prime Minister he would give back all the occupied territories
and return to the 1967 borders except for East Jerusalem and
the Golan Heights. "Real peace with our Arab neighborsâ
mutual trust and friendship," he said, "that is the only true
security.""
4."The Buddy System on Capitol Hill
The leadership had the freshman Democrats down to
a session the other day. All of them (House Speaker
Albert, Majority Leader Boggs, Majority Whip O'Neil)
were giving it to us: "Don't be afraid to speak out . . .
we need you to prod us . . ." That sort of thing. Right
then I thought about asking them about the Vietnam
war resolution that's coming up at our next caucus.
I started to say "what about helping us on this one?"
But I didn't and it was all sort of buddy-buddy . . . I
kicked myself later on for not doing it.
âRep. Drinan (D.-Mass.) Wash. Daily News Mar. 20."
5.""Nixon ON MARKET If PROVING CORRECT AFTER 11
MONTHS," said a New York Times financial page headline
'March 28. The Dow-Jones index has indeed risen more than
40 percent since Nixon met privately with Wall Streeters at the
White House last May and set the stage for the rise. But it
went up because he told insiders he was going to pump fresh
funds into the money market again. But the only rational basis for the rise is an unhealthy kind of confidenceâconfidence that we are facing another prolonged period of inflation because
Nixon is determined to have a stock market boom for the election.
Pumping in more credit (and further weakening the
dollar) will not solve the long range problems of American
business. The market rise is rouge on the pale cheeks of a sick
economy."
6."RAIL-PAX Is A NEW NAME for an old tactic that has been
ruining U.S. railroads for a generation. The bright idea ever
since bankers took control has been to meet changing conditions
by giving less service for more money"
7."ADVERTISING AGE, "THE NATIONAL NEWSPAPER OF MARKETING",
has jumped into the controversy over the CBS,
"Selling of the Pentagon", with an editorial March 15 opposing
government advertising on the ground that it could be
used to punish dissent. It cited the threat to cut off CBS from
the Army's new $10,600,000 radio-TV campaign."
8."An Investors Magazine Skeptical About The Political Entanglement in Vietnam Oil:
Clues are beginning to pile up that there may be huge
quantities of crude oil in the waters of the Far East and
Southeast Asia. Discoveries by Natomas, Atlantic Richfield,
and Union Oil have triggered a frantic exploration
race off Indonesia. An optimistic report by a United Nations
team about possible oil deposits between Japan and Taiwan
is fueling speculation that the entire Far East could contain
oil deposits rivaling those of the Middle East."
9."The GAO and The Arms Lobby:
A TIP OF THE HAT to Bernard Nossiter for exposing
(Wash. Post March 16, 18, 19 and 27) how the General
Accounting Office allowed the big lobby trade associations of
the military-industrial complex to soften its study of defense
profitsâa sample of 146 contracts showed a 56.1 percent
return on equity capital, yet Deputy Defense Secretary Packard
(Wash. Post financial page March 17 by Nossiter) thinks "we
have to do something to get profits up a little bit"! And a
bravo to Rep. Bob Eckhardt (D. Tex) and 12 other House
Government Operations Committee members for forcing a
public hearing on these curious revisions."
10."Helping Profits Instead of Consumer Demand:
On January 11, President Nixon announced new
depreciation rules allowing businesses a faster writeoff
of expenditures for new equipment. The change will result
in a reduction of Federal revenues of $2.7 billion
in FY 1972, rising to $4.1 billion in FL 1976. This is
roughly equivalent to a 7-percent tax cut for corporate
business. Capital spending experienced a boom throughout
the 1960's, increasing considerably faster than output.
As a result of that boom, and of the recent downturn,
business is now operating at 76 percent of capacity.
It is, therefore, hard to believe that firms have
much of an incentive to increase investment in equipment.
The new rules represent a windfall gain for business.
Businessmen cannot buy machines for the sake
of buying machines; they do so with the expectation
that they will be able to produce and sell goods at a
profit. This expectation of production at a profit will
continue to be absent until something is done to stimulate
consumer demand. What is hard is understanding
how the President can allocate $2.7 billion to corporate
profits while vetoing funds for job training and public
service jobs."
âEagleton (D.-Mo.) in the Senate March 19 (abr.).
11."Too LATE FOR THIS ISSUE we have just received from that
"Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI" a selection of
documents taken from FBI offices with a manifesto which says
in part, "we believe that democracy can survive only in an order
of justice, of an open society and public trust . . . we believe
that the FBI has betrayed its democratic trust and we wish to
present evidence for this claim to the open and public judgment
of our fellow citizens," This is really in the Boston Tea Party
tradition."
12. Woops forgot one (please note Noam Chomsky's involvement - in 1971!!!)
"The decision by Judge Dooling, with Judge Feinberg concurring, voids that section of the McCarran-Walter Immigration Act of 1952 which bars "subversive" visitors unless specially exempted by the Secretary
of State and the Attorney General. Rogers recommended but
Mitchell denied the visa application. A group of scholars
including Noam Chomsky and Robert Heilbronner thereupon
retained the noted civil liberties lawyer Leonard Boudin as
counsel and sued. The Court ruled that though Mandel, as an
alien, had no constitutional right to enter, the scholars as
American citizens had a right to free exchange of ideas under
the First Amendment and that this and academic freedom were
violated when the visa was denied. It would be ironic and
shameful if on appeal the Supreme Court, as remolded by
Nixon and Mitchell, at a time when the Soviet Union is turning
back to neo-Stalinism, should also revert to closed society
doctrine and reinstate this little Iron Curtain of our own."
Does this all sound incredibly familiar to you?
They say that doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results is the very definition of "Insanity". But without a good understanding of History and a broader view, how can we ever hope to STOP doing it?
THIS is our Past..THIS is also our Present..and unless we do something to change it, THIS will be our Future.
I'd hate to look back some 40 years from now to find that to be true.