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November 19, 2007

The Art of Mental Warfare Opening Statement: Let The Media War Begin
Posted By David @ 12:01 am - Filed under: Excerpts, Features

For my opening statement I am going to say some things that are obvious to
those of us who spend the majority of our time researching and analyzing power
politics. We have come to understand that the mainstream media is an elaborate
and sophisticated propaganda apparatus that is designed and utilized to
deceive, manipulate, dumb down, distract and marginalize the American public.
We realize that the mainstream media is not giving us the vital information
that we need to develop informed opinions and participate in this so-called
"democracy."

However, the average US citizen still does not understand this. They are too
busy working hard trying to make ends meet, trying to provide for their
families, trying to pay off their homes, credit cards and debt. They don't
have the time to spend hours everyday researching issues that the mainstream
media doesn't even mention or discuss.

In fact, with hundreds of television channels, radio stations, magazines,
newspapers and movies, the average citizen thinks the amount of viewpoints in
the media are overwhelming and diverse. They don't realize that the vast
majority of media companies are controlled by a handful of the world's most
powerful interrelated corporate interests. They don't realize that over the
past 25 years we have experienced a scandalous concentration in media
ownership and an all out attack on public TV and radio.

The number of corporations dominating the US mainstream media:

1983 = 50
1993 = 14
2007 = 5

Government spending on public broadcasting per person:

Germany $85
UK $83
US $1.54

The US has the lowest per capita funding of public broadcasting in the
industrialized world.

"Never before has censorship been so perfect. Never before have those who
are still led to believe, in a few countries, that they remain free citizens,
been less entitled to make their opinions heard, wherever it is a matter of
choices affecting their real lives. Never before has it been possible to lie
to them so brazenly. The spectator is simply supposed to know nothing, and
deserve nothing." - Guy Debord, Comments on the Society of the Spectacle

The censorship most prevalent today is the most dangerous form. Not the
censorship of explicit words, sex or violence, but the censorship of any
thoughts outside of elite corporate ideology. Any views that lead to critical
thought on the prevailing elite market dominance are not allowed to enter into
public consciousness (the mass media).

"The media's the most powerful entity on earth.. The press is so powerful
in its image-making role, it can make a criminal look like he's the victim and
make the victim look like he's the criminal.. If you aren't careful, the
newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving
the people who are doing the oppressing." - Malcolm X

The Imperial War

Since Cheney and Bush began their disastrous "War on Terror," terrorism
incidents have increased over 600%. The invasion and occupation of Iraq has
created worldwide hatred toward America on an unprecedented scale. If we had a
critical and informative media system, the Bush administration would have
never been able to launch a war built on lies, distortion and misinformation -
a war that has already claimed the lives of over 750,000 Iraqi civilians, and
killed, wounded or maimed over 30,000 US soldiers. As costs continue to
escalate, the war will cost the US taxpayer well over a trillion dollars -
with billions of tax dollars stolen and unaccounted for!

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired
signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed,
those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending
money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its
scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any
true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of
iron." - President Dwight D. Eisenhower

For those of us who have researched and read the strategy papers that have
driven the Bush administration's foreign policy - all written before 9/11 -
specifically the Strategy of the Silk Route, James Baker's and the Council on
Foreign Relations' Strategic Energy Policy, the Project for a New American
Century's Forces and Resources For a New Century and other crucial documents,
we know that these documents clearly demonstrate that the war on terror is
mostly a front for a geo-strategic imperial war designed to control the
majority of the earth's remaining oil supply. And the fact that this subject
is almost never seriously discussed in the mainstream press is an edifying
example of just how scandalous the mass media system has become.

This imperial war for resources brings us to the next urgent crisis of our
time, the current and coming environmental catastrophe.

Environmental Crisis

The earth's resources are being quickly depleted. As the three billion people
in China and India become more modernized and begin living and polluting like
the modern US consumer, the earth's resources and fragile balance will become
undone. Billions of people, literally billions of people, will die - from the
lack of food and water that will lead to mass starvation, to the lack of
medicine for treatable diseases and the spread of infectious diseases.

Half of the world's population now lives on $2 per day or less.

Global warming is quickly making these numbers grow and we are already facing
a crisis unprecedented in human history. The past three years have been the
hottest three years ever recorded. In the early nineties leading scientists
and organizations tried to inform us. In 1992, long before Hurricane Katrina
and Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth, 1700 of the world's top scientists signed an
official document, a Warning To Humanity, stating:

"Human beings and the natural world are on a collision course. Human
activities inflict harsh and often irreversible damage on the environment and
on critical resources. If not checked, many of our current practices put at
serious risk the future that we wish for human society and the plant and
animal kingdoms, and may so alter the living world that it will be unable to
sustain life in the manner that we know. Fundamental changes are urgent if we
are to avoid the collision our present course will bring about."

In 1997, the World Watch Institute reported that storms would be, "more
frequent, more intense, and more destructive." Yet these dire warnings went
unheard. Paid-off energy industry experts and lobbyists marginalized them, and
they were never given fair coverage in the mainstream corporate media - media
companies that have shared economic interests with the energy industry that
they serve.

If you thought the recent upsurge in catastrophic hurricanes, tornados, heat
waves, droughts and other climatic disasters have been bad, you need to
understand that this was only the opening act, only a warning shot as to what
lies ahead.

"The economy has now come to declare open war on humanity, attacking not
only our possibilities for living, but our chances of survival.. When an
all-powerful economy lost its reason - and that is precisely what defines
these spectacular times." - Guy Debord, Comments on the Society of the
Spectacle

Economic Crisis

The war and environmental crisis will only exacerbate the current economic
inequalities that have been growing ever wider. Even in the US, which once
prided itself as being a nation with a thriving middle-class, the financial
wealth of the top 1% of households now exceeds the combined wealth of 98% of
households. That's 1% having more wealth than 98% combined! The US now leads
the industrialized world in inequality of wealth.

Right now, the American middle-class is hanging by a thread. The average
American is in more debt today than ever. Consumer and household debt are at
unheard of levels.

"There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation.
One is by sword. The other is by debt."
- John Adams, US President

The economic top 1% has looted the economy and enslaved the US public like
never before. Out of the recent trillions of dollars in tax cuts more than
half has gone to the economic top 1%. Tax cuts for top 1% are larger than
health, education, and all other initiatives combined.

But this is just the beginning of the theft from the American middle-class.
Our federal debt has reached an all time high. It is reported over and over
again that the federal debt has reached a staggering eight trillion dollars.
However, based upon the Financial Report of the United States, issued by the
Treasury Department - a report the corrupt corporate media has suppressed and
not reported on - the true total federal debt is actually over $50 trillion!
$50 trillion! We are paying over $300 billion each year in interest alone.
Your share of the federal debt, as a taxpaying American, is already $400,000.
That's your share! $400,000 out of your pocket and it is growing even higher.

Political Crisis

We can no longer rely on a co-opted, bought and paid for political system. Our
current politicians have proven over and over again that they only make bold
moves when they act in the power and greed-addicted interests that they serve.
The two-party system has become a sham! Greedy Republicans and weak Democrats
serve the same corporate elite masters.

Last year's change in Congress and the coming change in president are only
changes on the surface. The overwhelming majority of us will be relieved when
Bush and Cheney finally leave office, but Bush is just a figurehead, just a
spokesman, just a puppet on a string! He will eventually leave, but the
underlying system and institutions will remain in place. Bush did not decide
to go into Iraq alone, he had the support of almost every member of the Senate
and an overwhelming majority in Congress. And most importantly, he had the
vital support and backing of the mainstream corporate press who brazenly and
uncritically trumpeted the call for this disaster. Bush is just the fall guy
now, a patsy for the elite interests he serves. The press and Congress will
bash him, as they rightfully should, and he will now take the blame, as he
rightfully should. But when he leaves office things will only appear to be
better.

Just look at the newly empowered Democratic Congress. Despite their rhetoric,
they have been incredibly weak and inept in stopping the Iraq war and cleaning
up congressional corruption and ethics rules. They continue to pass
legislation that funds the war without any meaningful timetable for withdrawal
and have officially endorsed the Bush/IMF plan to rob Iraq of their oil. And
another significant and underreported fact is that none of the war funding
bills have included a proposed provision that would have required the Bush
administration to get congressional approval for an attack on Iran.

The Democratic Congress has even been cutting secret "trade" deals that mean
billions in corporate handouts. The Republican Party is dominated by Neo-cons
who believe in world domination by military force, and the Democratic Party is
in the hands of Neo-liberals who believe in domination by economic force -
leaving 98% of Americans without any representation.

Fighting Back: The Media War

These are just some of the serious problems now staring us in the face. It is
imperative that we start getting these messages out to the mainstream and
quickly swing into action. We must get our message through elite corporate
censors who seek to maintain the status quo and only half-heartedly attempt
half-measures. The time for half-measures is over! We must begin to take bold
actions now.

We need to widen the scope of debate and expand the spectrum of thinkable
thought. We have to create a culture of accountability and destroy the support
systems that have led us toward devastation. We must destroy the propaganda
system and dismantle the concentration of media ownership!

"I think one has to say it's not just simply a matter of capturing
people and holding them accountable, but removing the
sanctuaries, removing the support systems."
- Paul Wolfowitz

The power elite expend such great effort in controlling our communication and
information system because they fear the American public more than any other
enemy. They understand that if they lose their grip on our mass media, their
lies and injustices will be exposed to the very people who can put a stop to
their crimes!

The famed military strategist Carl von Clauswitz wrote in his study, On War,
that the key to defeating an enemy is to identify and strike at "the hub of
all power and movement, on which everything depends."

The mass media is the foundation of the elite power structure. Without
domination of the mass media the elite power structure is a house of cards.

"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil,
to one who is striking at the root."
- Henry David Thoreau

Once the people can get their message through elite censors, the necessary
evolution will occur. And thanks to the internet the tide has begun to swing
back in our favor. The internet has given us a major weapon to battle these
entrenched interests.

The internet is the one method of mass communication where you can research
news and information for yourself, where you can use your own critical
thinking and judgment skills, where voices are not censored through elite
corporate interests.

The internet has been for us what pamphlets were to our forefathers; a new
form of mass communication that is not censored by elite interests.

People are going to the internet and finding out all the information and facts
that the corporate media is not letting the public in on. So, right there, you
have a critical mass of informed and outraged citizens.

"Never in my lifetime have people all over the world demonstrated
greater awareness of the political forces ranged against them
and the possibilities of countering them."
- John Perkins, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

People are using the internet for organizing and movement building.

The corporate elite are well aware of this. They see an informed citizenship
rising up. The elite do not want us getting together and discussing political
issues. They want that to be something that the aristocracy decides, not you.
That is why they are currently attacking the open architecture of the
internet.

"Every new technology necessitates a new war."
- Marshall McLuhan

The internet has become the frontlines of the latest battle for justice,
freedom and democracy. The internet is democracy's last avenue. Cyberspace is
our Underground Railroad.

The bottom line is that we are at the most crucial and pivotal time in human
history. The actions we take within the next few years are of vital historical
importance. Every one of us, whether we realize it or not, or whether we want
to be or not, is in a war, a war unlike any other.

"You can't be neutral on a moving train."
- Howard Zinn

And the train is racing toward devastation at a quickened pace.

Unless we evolve from passive, apathetic spectators into active participatory
citizens and overthrow the corporate elite, we will eventually pay the
ultimate price.

It's just a matter of time. tick. tick. tick.

We are here to fight a war, an information war, a media war, a war for the
survival and advancement of our species. However grandiose this may sound, it
is the unfortunate reality of our current situation.

It is not a war that I want to fight, I wish I could ignore the power politics
of the day, but I cannot, we cannot turn away from this crisis. When you see a
major catastrophe heading your way you have to confront it and fight it with
every tool at your disposal! Will you fight this war with us?

Sign up to get involved, stay informed and voice your own opinions and
concerns.

"Are you brave enough to see?
Do you want to change it?"
- Trent Reznor, The Hand That Feeds

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- This opening statement is an adapted excerpt from David Vincent's book,
The Art of Mental Warfare.

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1.

As you say, this may be obvious to us internet news junkies, but it sure
as hell is lost on the majority of the US public. You do a good job of putting
many issues into a pretty concise piece here. I am going to send this to my
email list. :-)

Comment by Kat - November 19, 2007 @ 10:40 am

2.

The email newsletter subscription link does not seem to be working.

Comment by Mark Welkie - November 19, 2007 @ 11:14 am

3.

This sounds like a communist manifesto to me. Can you come up with a
solution to the problems the Bush administration has created that does not
involve any manifestation of communism in any way?

Comment by concerned citizen - November 19, 2007 @ 11:23 am

4.

If I may suggest, the failure of the fourth estate is old news. Please
declare a candidate and tell us why you support him/her and why we should.
I have already turned off every television channel except
MSNBC's Countdown With Keith Olbermann.
I am tired of narrative's about narratives and want to know something I
already don't know.
While I realize I am ahead of the curve, I am, for the moment, your
target audience.
How you will or will not change that is up to people like me who will
spread the word.
I need details about how these corporations are making these secret
trade deals and with whom. What are the Congressmen and women's names. How and
by whom are they bought and paid for.
I am already boycotting CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS and am about to rule out the
Daily Show for their treatment of Elizabeth Kucinich.
In my opinion, Dennis Kucinich is the only REAL DEMOCRAT running for
President.
His campaign certainly could use your support and help

Comment by Blonde Sprite - November 19, 2007 @ 11:31 am

5.

Newsletter subscription link does not work.

I will still send a link to this website to my email lis.

Comment by JJ Barrera - November 19, 2007 @ 11:46 am

6.

Response to "sounds like a communist manifesto".

This text does not propose anything to do with communism. The only
proposal here is to better fund public television, which is a socio-democratic
measure (democratic measures within capitalism). It is certainly left-wing
since it flatly refuses elitism and prefers a more citizen-based democracy.

Treating anything left-wing or that is pro-social of being communist, is
an efficient propaganda to maintain the absence of political education (also a
problem in Quebec) and mental conformity.

Comment by Michael Lessard (Quebec City, Canada) - November 19, 2007 @
11:54 am

7.

Having lived a lot of life at 79 I've often wondered what is needed to
get the American public off their asses and into the streets to protest what
is going on in our once great country. The apathy of the people in my life is
overwhelming at times. I've even lost friends by bombarding them with whats
going on politically and in the media but it seems most people are occupied
with just surviving. Even voting seems to many as just an inconvenience.
I don't have any answers but I am encouraged that there are still some
like minded people out there.

Comment by indywally - November 19, 2007 @ 12:12 pm

8.

I like Lessard's comment the best.
"To quote my favorite coin operated beaver it's not getting it up that
counts.."
What is need is an informed resistance news service that tell the truth
as best it can.If one says "Space Aliens ate my kid." fine if one is telling
the truth. How come the most truthful news service is AlJazeera followed by
Goodman and Kline. There is a problem with Goodman which is her PC but she's
got more balls than the entire Fox staff combined.

Left right it's the coke pepsi argument. I trained with Smith and WeeGee
then Debord in France 68
Count me in if you are real. Lets haul some lying ass into the light.

Comment by Cord;ey Coit - November 19, 2007 @ 12:23 pm

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10.

I agree that the problem is deep but it seems to me your very
male-oriented approach to it is going to cause more of the same. There is a
male candidate I also support, Dennis Kucinich, and for my money, he is
talking about all of this a lot better than you are. Sorry to be so negative,
but more of what you are offering is not what is needed. We need action by
people who will talk to people who don't have either the time or the education
to deal with the complexities of these issues.

Comment by Deborah Emin - November 19, 2007 @ 12:51 pm

11.

We the good People of this great Nation believe Congress and the Federal
Government has reversed its Constitutional role and no longer serves the
people. So We the good People of this great nation follow the directives given
in our Constitution to protect our inalienable rights. Said rights have been
attacked, eroded and neglected by collective actions of our legislative,
judicial, and executive branches of Government.

We the People herein state that a Congress that will not act on
impeachable offenses committed by the President, the Vice President and
Attorney General is not worthy of the offices it occupies. We the People
believe that our Congress will neither uphold their oath of office, the
constitution nor rule of law. We further believe that our Federal Government
has abandoned the confidence of the majority. We the People herein state
numerous instances that Congress has forfeited our confidence.

We the People have no confidence in the integrity of the manner by which
federal taxes are levied, collected and distributed by the Congress and
President. There is no confidence that our taxes are being actualized for the
betterment and welfare of our good population. Furthermore it is observed that
the Federal Government instructs an Internal Revenue Service to intimidate and
sublimate the good People of this great Nation. It is further believed that
the income generated by said taxes fuel the malfeasance of a liaison between
private banking consortiums, corporations and unduly elected or appointed
members of this Federal Government. Lastly, a Congress that partakes of taxes
levied to fund salaries and benefits for itself, exempting itself from
realities it forces on the population cannot instill confidence of the People.

We the People distrust the mechanics and conduct of national elections.
We question the validity of their outcome. We believe that voter fraud, vote,
and election tampering has obscured the possibility of democratic rule and
increased the probability of an unfairly designated oligarchy. We believe that
the seeds of fascism in our democracy have been sown. Thus the People have no
confidence in the fair outcome of national elections. Furthermore this United
States Federal Government is consistently elected or appointed by means of its
ingratiation to the most wealthy and least populated segment of our population
as whole. It is observed that the laws created and passed by the three ruling
branches of government are to benefit the least of the population and
perpetuate a disparity of wealth.

We the People have observed that the Federal Government does engage in a
multitude of nefarious, malicious, and villainous activities for the purpose
of dominating the good people of this nation and forcing their submission. We
the People have further noted a consistent collusive effort to pit neighbor
against neighbor and divide the heart and will of the great people of this
nation. We have also noticed manipulation of the press and media to promulgate
false issues, false information, and to prevent honest scrutiny of
governmental activities such as our freedoms of press and speech were intended
to preclude.

We the People have no confidence that the Federal Government does not
imprison citizens for crimes that are insignificant and victimless solely for
the purpose of subjugating the majority of our Good People. We further believe
that our government will not respect Habeas Corpus, or the Geneva Convention
even with regard to its own citizenry.

We have no confidence that the Federal Government avoids war
profiteering, war mongering, and war provocation as it should. We believe that
gross fear mongering is routinely conducted to intimidate and disrupt the
progress of peaceful endeavors. We believe as well that the ruling elite
misuses the purpose of law for war profiteering. It entraps the best of our
youth into a military that fights not for defense but for profit. We observe
that despite personal sacrifice, returning soldiers are grossly neglected and
dishonored. We the People of this great Nation want our soldier's lives to be
considered as precious as the most wealthy. Instead We believe the Federal
Government colludes to sacrifice good young citizens and cause ruination of
lives for the mere perpetuation of elitist wealth.

We the People believe that the offices of the Federal Government have
grossly neglected the welfare of the Earth itself, thereby endangering the
entire planet. When the Federal Government should have exercised caution and
prevented erosion of our resources they chose instead to exploit it. We
believe that the ruling elite have led the good people of this nation into
harms way by neglecting to address the matters of global climate change in a
timely fashion. Furthermore the Federal Government condones actions of
corporations that harm our environment to the detriment our collective health,
and our pursuit of happiness. Beyond this the Federal Government grants itself
liberal and complete access to health care and denies its citizens the same.
Therefore we have no confidence that the Federal Government recognizes the
sanctity of life, liberty and health and happiness of the majority of citizens
of the United States

Therefore We the good People of this great Nation - country question the
authority of this Federal Government to continue destroying the principles of
our Constitution in the manner it has. Thus We engage the technological means
to promote the will of the heretofore silent majority to be expressed
specifically. We the good People seek the complete right to fund or unfund the
work of our Federal Government independent of the elective process. We the
people seek the specific right to ratify the laws that Congress passes. With
the technology and means to allow the will of individual citizens to be
expressed accurately comes the responsibility of individuals to seek out a
better reality for democratic rule. We the Great People of this Good Nation
have the moral obligation to engage in the process of government, inclusive of
funding and budgeting of government, and the creation of law in a manner
heretofore uncharted.

Therefore we work united to restore the spirit of fairness to our proud
nation. As The People of this Great nation it is time that we create a new
mandate for our Republic to generate conditions that promote the better
qualities of humankind. A Union of citizens themselves would be able to
generate a legitimate fourth branch of Federal government. That Union must
balance the instability that has arisen from the isolation of wealth and power
in the Federal Government. Only this measure of unity and size of union can
restore the principles of our Constitution to our life as Americans. Our
Constitution directs us to come together as United Citizens when it is needed
to remedy the erosion of democracy.

We the people declare that such a time has arisen. We pray for peace,
prosperity and good health of our people. We the people pray that our efforts
will restore the health of our Earth. We pray that by our Union will we will
meet the needs of our Country that our Constitution will be honored, and that
the equality of all our People will be respected.

Comment by emily peyton - November 19, 2007 @ 12:57 pm

12.

THANK YOU ALL FOR THE KIND AND ENCOURAGING WORDS!!

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Comment by David - November 19, 2007 @ 1:14 pm

13.

I think you're incorrect, people are not getting the information they
need because they need to work too hard and are too busy. I'm involved in
local politics, committees, attend local meetings, and you know what it is,
lazy and complacent. Whine like babies but too lazy to show up. I hear whining
all the time, when I ask why they weren't at the council meeting Monday
evening it's oh, a football game was on. It's not because there's a thousand
channels, there are a thousand channels because people are looking for a
distraction as an excuse to do nothing. David is another one of those
enablers, giving people excuses, blaming somebody else for peoples own
reluctance to act like actual citizens. It's not my fault I'm too lazy to get
off the recliner and learn what's actually going on in my government, it's the
media's fault for giving me so much to watch. What kind of BS is that. We have
free will, we can hit that button and turn off the TV and get involved. We
CHOOSE no to. Local
elections here for city mayors, 20% turnout. 20%, only one fifth of the
REGISTERED voters, less if you consider those who aren't even registered.
Medias fault, I think not. You know who's attending the meetings, most of the
folks are over 50. Young people ??? Where the heck are the 20, 30, 40 year old
folks? The people who whine the most? Why, at home because Heroes is on. So,
who made the decision that Heroes is more important that issues that impact
your wallet and your childrens future, why not the network, it's Mr. and Mrs
couch potato wondering why they're getting fat. Decisions, to blame the media
for the problems is to claim people are too dumb to make them.

Comment by DReinert - November 19, 2007 @ 1:31 pm

14.

I get an error trying to use your page at:
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Comment by alain samoun - November 19, 2007 @ 1:44 pm

15.

David,
Thank you for what you are doing. As I read some of the criticism, I am
just grateful that there are people like you that are at least trying to do
something. It may not be right for everyone, but when you add all the
different ways to wake people up together hopefully it can be done before it
is too late.
Thank you for the having the guts to stand up for what is right.
We all need to take a stand and do what we can to make the changes
needed to bring us to freedom.

Comment by Vickie - November 19, 2007 @ 2:23 pm

16.

I couldn't agree more about the state of the fourth estate. However,
there are many of us out here who are trying to overcome the monopoly by
corporate puppetmasters.

Out There TV has been on the air since 2001, and we were the first
television program to question the official version of 9/11. In fact, the next
Sunday night, when we did our live show, we talked about the fact that the
demolition of the twin towers looked like an implosion.

We are out here trumpeting as best we can, and America One, our major
network, has let us air anything we want. We have aired Loose Change II and
Zeitgeist; we've interviewed everyone from Anthony J. Hilder to Jim Marrs to
David Ray Griffin and David Icke. They've never tried to censor us in any way.

We are available on broadcast to 24 million homes in the U.S. No - it's
not a major network, but we know that major networks have a squeeze on the
information.

So all of us have to support each other in the quest for truth, and to
bring to light candidates who would help dissemble the corporate stranglehold
on media and government.

Ron Paul is a Republican, but he is the ONLY one who has spoken out loud
and clear against the Patriot Act, against Income Tax, against corporate
schills in government. Dennis Kucinich is a nice guy, but he's also thrown in
his hat to the Corporate Health Insurance manifesto. I do not want health
insurance if it means I have to go in for a physical and MENTAL health
screening and be obligated to take the DRUGS they prescribe in order to keep
the coverage. Freedom of choice is important in health care.

I do disagree with Ron Paul on the woman's right to choose an abortion -
but I believe we are strong enough to overcome any attack on Roe v. Wade.

Please pay attention to the smaller media outlets. Out There is on
America One and the ITVI networks. Both of those networks, and WUFO out of
Washington, DC - all are allowing us to speak. Support those networks. If you
have products that need advertising, spend your money there - not on NBC (GE
war machine) or ABC, CBS, and definitely not FOX. Go to the independents for
your news. Build their ratings, and see how far the corporate machines can go
without the American public's support. Remember, if we TELL the advertisers
that we won't buy their products if they continue to sponsor the likes of Bill
O'Reilly and Sean Hannity, eventually, they will listen. But there is power in
numbers. Tell them you want to hear the REAL news - whether it's on Out There
TV or on Keith Olberman's show on MSNBC.

Good job on the website, by the way. Kudos.

Kate Mucci
Producer
Out There TV
www.outtheretv.com

Comment by Kate Mucci - November 19, 2007 @ 2:31 pm

17.

[.] Continued. [.]

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18.

All MSM uses a catch prase for their network.

My reply to theirs is.

It's the LIES, Stupid!

Comment by bowncr1212 - November 20, 2007 @ 6:44 am

19.

[.] visited The Art of Mental Warfare tonight. It presents itself as a
"clarion call to action for an apathetic nation." [.]

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20.

I have long suspected that pornography, infotainment and "sports" are
instruments of the Pentagon-Intel community to neutralize civilian agencies in
the United States.

That's what television is for in America!

Comment by public.takeover - November 20, 2007 @ 12:03 pm

21.

Nice writing but let's see some strategy that will actually work, that
many, many people can & will get behind, that draws Americans from the
shopping & consuming narcotics and into action. Rhetoric about corporate media
is meaningless until it touches many people's lives.

Comment by stelladean - November 20, 2007 @ 12:09 pm

22.

[.] The Art of Mental Warfare Opening Statement: Let The Media War Begin
[.]

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23.

[.] Opening Statement: Let The Media War Begin The mainstream media is
an elaborate and sophisticated propaganda apparatus that is designed and
utilized to deceive, manipulate, dumb down, distract and marginalize the
American public. [.]

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24.

I LOVE the Media War part. Droppin Carl von Clauswitz and then leading
into the media as the hub of all power and movement. That's worth the price of
admission right there.

We need to stop Kevin Martin and these FCC rules he is trying to ram
through before Cheney and Co get out of town.

Comment by Derek - November 20, 2007 @ 4:41 pm

25.

A few weeks ago, I watched a program about Nostradamus on one of the
science/nature channels where I heard about 2012. After checking it out, after
doing some research, I felt like I fell down Alice's rabbit hole.

Since then, I have been obsessively researching, and have become
extremely alarmed. The problem is, according to what I have been researching,
we are rapidly approaching an attempt at total takeover of THE WORLD by
Satan-controlled NWO goons and their minions. If you think about it, the
perfect time for this would be before or right after the coming presidential
elections.

I found articles relating to American Concentration Camps and railcars
with shackles in them, Nazi-style, along with references to Red, Blue, and
Yellow lists, which were designations used by the Nazis to sort the prisoners
for processing. Information on millions of Americans is in the hands of
private security firms and being stored in caves somewhere on the East Coast
with lists possibly already drawn up as to what category each of us falls in.
Blackwater is supposedly already contracted to run the prison camps and
suppliers of the railcars are big companies hand in glove with most of our
government and world-wide leaders for years, the goal being reduce world
population by about two-thirds. Supposedly the ones that are left will either
be re-programmed by mind-control (see Monarch and MK-ULTRA) or worked and
starved to death. They consider us "sheep", and sheep are for slaughtering.

Research the backgrounds of our past and present leaders (and future
leaders)Freemasonry,Illuminati, NWO; this is real and it is rapidly
approaching a climax. EU countries are having their borders "blurred"; Bush &
cronies are conspiring with Mexico and Canada to create the North American
Union, and Executive orders allowing our President to declare martial law
after either a government created "natural disaster" or other created event
are already in place. They know people who express their concerns to others
who DON'T know, get the cuckoo sign behind their back.

Right after 9/11 I saw the folded $20.00 bill that depicts the twin
towers burning, and everyone who saw it was saying what a "remarkable
coincidence" it was. But if you check, you will see most of our money can be
folded the same way and show similar pictures. The odds of that occuring on
just ONE denomination of money has to be incredible.

Past and present information coming out shows the elite will go to any
lengths to control events to get what they want.which is control of the world
and everything in it.

What can we do? Document as much as possible and show it to anyone you
know that isn't aware of what is going on. Remember, there is a good reason
for old sayings still being used today..where there's smoke, there's fire or
if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, quacks like a duck..

Comment by sezsue - November 20, 2007 @ 5:57 pm

26.

SIGN ME UP. When I first started to read this I was skeptical. But as I
kept going it kept getting better and better. You should be a presidential
speech writer. If only we could find a president who would actually say these
things. Dare to dream.

SS

Comment by Samantha - November 20, 2007 @ 8:12 pm

27.

[.] from the manifesto of The Art Of Mental Warfare : The power elite
expend such great effort in controlling our communication and information
system [.]

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28.

If you want some answers, I'd suggest spending a couple weeks listening
to the audio archives of Alan Watt. His site is
www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com.

Comment by mondo - November 22, 2007 @ 2:50 am

29.

Hi David,

I like your video, but I'm afraid that that's not going to be quite
enough to convince people like me of your sincerity anymore. We need more.
You've got to come all the way out of the closet, so-to-speak. You've got to
tell us things like who you are for, for president. You've got to come clean
and tell us exactly how you feel about the AIPAC, 911, George Bush, Israel,
the illegal Iraq invasion, the Federal Reserve, 911, 911, 911, and especially
911. All roads lead to and from 911. You find a way to solve that problem and
you will save the world. But I wouldn't hold my breath.

As a country we've go to come clean and strop lying to ourselves. And if
you want to be of any help in doing that, you've got to get out into the
mainstream media. Right now you're preaching to the choir. You've got to do
more to reach the masses.

But you are fighting a very steep uphill battle. Unless you've got a
private army like the CIA and billions and billions and billions of dollars,
you aren't going to make a dent of a difference. Ron Paul is a nice guy, a
very nice old man, but if he was ever elected President and tried to abolish
the Federal Reserve, like he said he would, he would be assassinated before
the words were out of his mouth. He wouldn't last five seconds in the White
House. The rich and the Israelis would see to that. And neither would anyone
else who tried to get rid of the IRS, the CIA, or the Federal Reserve.

But if we're really sincere about setting this country straight, these
are the things we've got to do. First of all, we've got to change our
country's mindset. You manage to put the people in jail who are really
responsible for 911 and you will change the world. But changing the world will
be like pulling teeth without the anesthetic. But that is exactly what we will
have to do.

I'm talking about changing how we see the world as well as ourselves. We
have a very morbidly weird sense of reality. We're celebrating Thanksgiving
while we're destroying an innocent country. We're parading in the streets and
telling each other how great we are as we kill hundreds of thousands of
innocent children. We are a very sick, sick nation; arrogant, insulting,
greedy, belligerent, and extremely stupid.

Comment by Ronnie Bushnell - November 22, 2007 @ 2:22 pm

30.

All I can do is try to air it on my tv show. (if that all works out
David)

This shit is going to take protests in front of the damn network tv
stations. Big fucking protests like the 60's. It's going to take freeway
blogging, and what I call gorilla warfare with live network tv cameramen. It's
going to take, the removal of these fucking electronic vote tabulation
devices. and accountability for oath breakers.

Bottom line is that ain't happening yet.

Comment by phil - November 25, 2007 @ 3:37 pm

31.

The statistic you give about the number of mainstream media outlets
reduced since 1983 are completely bogus. If you can name 20 of the supposed 45
that have been eliminated since 1983 I will kiss your ass, give you my house,
dress up like Mao, Stalin, or Pol Pot, (whomever your personal hero might, in
fact, be), etc..

On a side note, if you think you don't like the state of the media now,
especially since there is competing voices, try to imagine the world you'd
like to see where the government controls the whole thing.

Comment by Rick - November 25, 2007 @ 7:55 pm

32.

Informed America is not communist America - for those just too willfully
ignorant to do a little independent study.

You know who you are.

And if by chance you do it out of love for Neo Con ideology. well, you
become my target. Just like the Anti-Amercicans shown here:

http://www.light-to-dark.com/pox_americana.html

History will not look favorably at totalitarians. It never has and never
will.

Comment by Stephen Pitt - November 25, 2007 @ 8:32 pm

33.

Rick,

If you took a minute to click on the link that was provided for the stat
you mention, you wouldn't have to dress up like your hero Dick Cheney and
wonder the streets homeless because you just lost your home:

http://www.stopbigmedia.com/chart.php

Comment by Samantha - November 26, 2007 @ 12:40 am

34.

This is a kick ass site!

Comment by David - November 26, 2007 @ 4:27 pm

35.

Here's what's ironic: you decry the mainstream media cartel enforcing
ideological conformity yet you promote the Malthusian constructs of that same
cartel, ie; Global Warming. If you Googled the Club of Rome you will see that
the same moneyed interests behind eugenics, Wall Street and big oil are
themselves promoting Global Warming as a means for the wealthy to maintain
their capital while everyone else is reduced to serfdom.

In other words, if you truly want to promote a non-slanted point of view
on the world's problems, you have to stop using the reasoning that got us here
in the first place. Ask yourself why `environmentalists' like Jacques Cousteau
advocated for 350,000 people to be killed daily to `restore the Earth to
balance.' Or why does Ted Turner feel billions of people must die for this
goal to be achieved?

Comment by A. Magnus - November 26, 2007 @ 4:52 pm

36.

the mainstream media is good for american persons leave as is

Comment by 6 - November 26, 2007 @ 5:51 pm

37.

Let all who believe and promote
the mass culling of the human
herd should set an example. Its
only fair. `You believe it, do it' yourself first. Cousteau
and his son did their part and
Ted Turner should do his. Maybe
he should show us the way on
CNN. Go Ted, great show!

Comment by Maximillian - November 26, 2007 @ 6:37 pm

38.

I broadcast on public radio for over two years.I called it very straight
up every time, stopping short of saying what I knew about the "local police"
and their criminal involvement in trafficking of children and meth (I want not
to be murdered, disappeared, etc.). I am now underground because of "certain
elements" and continue to deliver wake up encounters every day. You must
become the message.none of this is happening outside of your mental space,
however difficult it is to grasp the fact. This is war and it is heating up
every day my froggies. Remember.

Comment by Anon - November 26, 2007 @ 6:48 pm

39.

I prefer being up front and in their face.

http://www.light-to-dark.com/murdochs_enslaved_red_states.html

24/7.

Comment by Stephen Pitt - November 26, 2007 @ 6:54 pm

40.

I would like to make a correction to an error in your article that stems
from a preception based in the now dangerous and useless need to see others as
nascent peers. This is very American and has had its benefits but as they say
in Washington "9/11 has changed everything." Corporate media is not "an
elaborate and sophisticated propaganda apparatus." It seems so because you are
in denial of the fact that most Americans are intellectually retarded idiots.

Comment by Glenn McCarthy - November 26, 2007 @ 7:38 pm

41.

Donating to PBS TV is not an answer to tyrany. Criminals have taken over
the Whitehouse and the Congress. They are 99% traitors. Our Constitution is
already gone. We are now under a dictatorship and a police state. The People
just don't know. The elite are rapidly closing every door to an armed response
from the people. But that is what is going to have to happen and the elite
know it. We all need to be working at convincing our Military to fulfill their
oath to uphold the Constitution. With out the military on the side of the
people, we have no expectation but slavery. God can only help us.

Comment by Larry - November 26, 2007 @ 8:00 pm

42.

This Indian justs gets out in nature, pays his bills, and just ignores
the white folks world such as it is today only a scant 112 years after the
last of the Tribes were rounded up & put on their Reservation/Rez

Comment by ShadowDancer - November 26, 2007 @ 9:46 pm

43.

*yawn*

I am so sick of the Nazi card. How about the USSR.much, much, much
worse. In fact, didn't the acclaimed historian John Lukacs asserts that
Germany "was not a terror state"?

You want to read about "evil" and "terror," read Robert Stephan's
"Stalin's Secret War." That is real history. The Soviets and their Jewish
handlers made the Nazis look like child's play.

The US will become the USSR, not "Nazi" Germany. I pray to GOD that we
do get a Hitler as opposed to a Stalin.

I pray to GOD for that.

Comment by Emma - November 26, 2007 @ 10:30 pm

44.

Instead of complaining constantly, why don't you people join in the game
?

Buy defence stocks.
Buy oil, buy gold, silver, invest your dollars in China,, and get rich !

If you had a little money in your pockets,, maybe you wouldn't walk
around thinking all the time..

Comment by robert - November 26, 2007 @ 10:41 pm

45.

Jews control the media and the banks and profit from both sides on every
war. Jews are the parasites and destroyers of civilization since history
began. Failure to name Jews as the enemy makes the author of the "Art of
Mental Warfare" complicit in the crimes. Find out who his paymaster is.
www.Jew-Crime.com
www.PatriotMilitia.com
Name the jackals of war and profits: JEWS

Comment by PatriotMilitia.com - November 27, 2007 @ 1:12 am

46.

Blah, blah, blah. More carping and no solutions. Big Deal.NEXT!

Comment by SDGuy - November 27, 2007 @ 1:48 am

47.

[.] The Art of Mental Warfare Opening Statement: Let The Media War Begin
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48.

I for one am looking forward to the coming "Great Collapse". Yes a lot
of people are going to die but I believe a better world will rise from the
ashes. The evil forces will not win in the end, they never do. Darkness can
not stand before the Light.

Comment by ChillyDogg - November 27, 2007 @ 5:00 am

49.

The topic of CO2 is nothing but a red herring. HAARP, chemtrails, and
other weather experiments are the main factors in Climate Change and
specifically weather extremes.
Politicians who claim to be concerned about global warming must stop
this meddling with our atmosphere at once - and promote alternative energies,
like the engine tha runs on water, instead allowing its inventor to be
murdered!

Comment by Elisabeth Jenders - November 27, 2007 @ 6:07 am

50.

anthony hopkins dvd.

I Googled for something completely different, but found your page.and
have to say thanks. nice read..

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51.

The latest numbers on dead Iraqi civilians is 1.2 million. MIT and John
Hopkins University did the most comprehensive study on this.

Comment by Bob - November 27, 2007 @ 9:57 am

52.

Let's be clear who the enemies of freedom are:

http://www.light-to-dark.com/preemption.html

Comment by Stephen Pitt - November 27, 2007 @ 11:26 am

53.

i'm with chillydog on waiting for the collapse. however, i don't think
chaos will ensue as is so frequently painted by the ministry of truth et. al.

again, the issue here is as the domain name of this very site might
suggest, "mental warfare."

people are not killing each other in the streets right now, and reality
is much uglier now than it should be due to government, not a lack thereof.

when the collapse comes the world will be on our shoulders, in our
hands. what we do with it will, finally, be up to us.

the beat on the street will be determined by you, your neighbors and
extended family. do you think of them as bad people? certainly you see them in
a better light than bushco, no?

Comment by constituent - November 27, 2007 @ 11:37 am

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