I had two minutes left at the SFPL on their 1 hr. checkout PC's. I knew that was more than my usual free association style.
Ken Freeland (and I can dig up more) by this sure is a Holocaust Denialist. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kpft/message/92 http://houston.indymedia.org/news/2002/11/5348_comment.php#5480 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/change-links/message/24938 Ms. Jela Jovanovic, fwds. Freeland posting Israel Shamir. http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/msg107168.html Jela Jovanovic is an unhinged Serbian nationalist (she hosted Greg Elich who has written for CAQ, on that North American Solidarity Delegation to Serbia, in which they had a meeting w/ that far right nationalist, Vojislav Seselj, who controlled some esp. vicious para-militaries during the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia. Jovanovic, once posted on a left list that Kosovar muslims were stealing the kidneys of Serbs. Whatta loon. Israel Shamir, a fave of the far right and a few on the Left (Socialist Viewpoint, a magazine funded by Rod Holt, one of the founders of Apple Computers, has repeatedly printed his pieces, as well as once, prionting a piece by the hard right, prolific conspiracy theorist, Gordon Thomas, from the neo-fascist faux populist American Free Press of Willis Carto. Israel Shamir, on his Shamir Readers list @ yahoogroups.com a few months ago said that , "we must listen to the voices of such as David Duke." Yup, listen and agree w/ that fascist scumpuppy lookalike of Dick Clark. The respected anti-Zionist lefty, Nigel Parry, has an extensive set of docs here, by leftists like Meredith Tax about the noxious ideology of Shamir, http://nigelparry.com/issues/shamir/ .
One last bit of Freeland before I make the same political criticism, in a more coherant fashion re: Right/Left United Fronts. A few yrs. ago, I made the acquaintance of Ken on a list and started up a lengthy set of exchanges with him on such topics as the Federal Reserve, which I got Doug to join in on, as well as other bits of obsession among those that made one of Jim Marrs recent book one that reached #19 on the NYt bestseller list. That was given away as a premium by Gary Null on WBAI for a $60 donation. That cites in the text and footnotes, as fact, the anti-semitic classic, "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion." When I really got Ken going was by sending him this bit of truly inspired lunacy from the late Milton William Cooper, author of a classic in the genre, "Behold A Pale Horse, ", http://www.akasha.de/~aton/swfqw.html , "Secret Weapons For Quiet Wars, " the most elaborate conspiracy theory doc. I've ever read. Which he totally believed.
Googling around found Brian Siano on William Cooper. http://www.briansiano.com/Hangin%20with%20Zontar.htm
"They're good fine people, Stuart, But they don't know what the queers are doing to the soil. . . The government says it's bad farming, but I know it's the queers. They're in it with the aliens. They're building landing strips for GAY MARTIANS! I SWEAR TO GOD! You know what, Stuart? I like you." -- The Dead Milkmen, "Stuart"
Which brings us to William Cooper...
If Wanzala on the Listener Advisory Board of KPFA or Ken Freeland,
whatever role he has at Houston Pacifica station, want a united front from
above and below, w/ rightists, whether Libertoons, or Paleos, in the belief
that the families that make up the mass base of MFSO http://www.mfso.org/
to pick an example, since I saw in the latest American Free Press, that the
Willis Carto crowd gave them sympathetic coverage (as In These Times has as
well, see the recent interview w/ Stan Goff) will somehow overlook
this opportunistic melange of Third Period Comintern ultra-left hatred of
those wily socdem "social fascists" that Cockburn inherited from his Dad,
reactionary small town American nativism of the paleos with all that anti-
enlightenment cultural conservativism, in an attempt to conjure up a
philosophically and politically incoherent coalition which betrays the best
of what all sectors of the American Left, from Leninist, anarchist and
social democratic have seen as what is most fucked up w/ capitalism and why
it breeds war and fascism, as the very means by which it reproduces the
conditions necessary to accumulate more and more wealth and power to the
upper 1% feeding off the exploitation of the rest of us, then...well...go
ahead. But, don't expect all the rest of us aren't gonna keep on fughting
such foolishness. You are sheep walking into the wolves den. And smart
rightists, esp. those that are ex-leftists, can and will milk your
sillyness for all it is worth for their cynical games.
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The doc from Cooper that Ken Freeland bought. Hook, line and sinker.
Sucker. Didn't even have to put a worm on the hook.
http://www.akasha.de/~aton/swfqw.html
> ...TABLE OF STRATEGIES
Do this: To get this: Keep the public ignorant Less public organization Maintain access to control points for feedback Required reaction to outputs (prices, sales) Create preoccupation Lower defenses Attack the family unit Control of the education of the young Give less cash and more credit and doles More self-indulgence and more data Attack the privacy of the church Destroy faith in this sort of government Social conformity Computer programming simplicity Minimize the tax protest Maximum economic data, minimum enforcement problems Stabilize the consent Simplicity coefficients Tighten control of variables Simpler computer input data -- greater predictability Establish boundary conditions Problem simplicity / solutions of differential and difference equations Proper timing Less data shift and blurring Maximize control Minimum resistance to control Collapse of currency Destroy the faith of the American people in each other.
DIVERSION, THE PRIMARY STRATEGY
Experience has proven that the simplest method of securing a silent weapon and gaining control of the public is to keep the public undisciplined and ignorant of basic systems principles on the one hand, while keeping them confused, disorganized, and distracted with matters of no real importance on the other hand.
This is achieved by:
(1) disengaging their minds; sabotaging their mental activities; providing a low-quality program of public education in mathematics, logic, systems design and economics; and discouraging technical creativity.
(2) engaging their emotions, increasing their self-indulgence and their indulgence in emotional and physical activities, by:
(a) unrelenting emotional affrontations and attacks (mental and emotional rape) by way of a constant barrage of sex, violence, and wars in the media - - especially the T.V. and the newspapers.
(b) giving them what they desire -- in excess -- "junk food for thought" -- and depriving them of what they really need.
(3) rewriting history and law and subjecting the public to the deviant creation, thus being able to shift their thinking from personal needs to highly fabricated outside priorities.
These preclude their interest in and discovery of the silent weapons of social automation technology.
The general rule is that there is profit in confusion; the more confusion, the more profit. Therefore, the best approach is to create problems and then offer the solutions.
DIVERSION SUMMARY
Media: Keep the adult public attention diverted away from the real social issues, and captivated by matters of no real importance.
Schools: Keep the young public ignorant of real mathematics, real economics, real law, and real history.
Entertainment: Keep the public entertainment below a sixth-grade level.
Work: Keep the public busy, busy, busy, with no time to think; back on the farm with the other animals.
CONSENT, THE PRIMARY VICTORY
A silent weapon system operates upon data obtained from a docile public by legal (but not always lawful) force. Much information is made available to silent weapon systems programmers through the Internal Revenue Service. (See Studies in the Structure of the American Economy for an I.R.S. source list.)
This information consists of the enforced delivery of well-organized data contained in federal and state tax forms collected, assembled, and submitted by slave labor provided by taxpayers and employers.
Furthermore, the number of such forms submitted to the I.R.S. is a useful indicator of public consent, an important factor in strategic decision making. Other data sources are given in the Short List of Inputs.
Consent Coefficients -- numerical feedback indicating victory status. Psychological basis: When the government is able to collect tax and seize private property without just compensation, it is an indication that the public is ripe for surrender and is consenting to enslavement and legal encroachment. A good and easily quantified indicator of harvest time is the number of public citizens who pay income tax despite an obvious lack of reciprocal or honest service from the government.
AMPLIFICATION ENERGY SOURCES
The next step in the process of designing an economic amplifier is discovering the energy sources. The energy sources which support any primitive economic system are, of course, a supply of raw materials, and the consent of the people to labor and consequently assume a certain rank, position, level, or class in the social structure; i.e., to provide labor at various levels in the pecking order.
Each class, in guaranteeing its own level of income, controls the class immediately below it, hence preserves the class structure. This provides stability and security, but also government from the top.
As time goes on and communication and education improve, the lower-class elements of the social labor structure become knowledgeable and envious of the good things that the upper-class members have. They also begin to attain a knowledge of energy systems and the ability to enforce their rise through the class structure.
This threatens the sovereignty of the elite.
If this rise of the lower classes can be postponed long enough, the elite can achieve energy dominance, and labor by consent no longer will hold a position of an essential economic energy source.
-- Michael Pugliese