Thank you for stating the obvious, toylit.

Many of the resident pundits 'just don't get it'.

Here is the man to emulate and get off our duffs:

Abdul Ghaffar Khan
http://malaysiana1.blogspot.com/2008/08/khan-abdul-ghaffar-khan-muslim.html

But I could be wrong !

"Torture is inflicted with White House approval, the president lies about it and it's just another Tuesday."

...and all with the support of democratic wannabes in congress. Torture. Murder. Stealing.

I don't know who worries me most, the right wing religious fanatics on the right, or the naive, cowards on the left.

Look folks, Obama is going to win easily. Do yourself, humanity and the resistance a favor: Vote independent. Vote Nader.

For eight long years now (well, and before that, too) we've demonstrated in the streets by the millions, even partcipated in civil disobedience, written hundreds of e-mails to our Congresspeople, made phone calls, raised money, argued with our friends that they need to vote, call, take aciton and on and on.

It's not that we are not "batting our eyelashes" over this new torture memo, it's that, yes, we knew it all along and by now we also know what to expect from the corporate newsmedia.

If we ever needed (more?) proof that the MSM is only a propaganda machine, the lack of coverage of the torture memo this week is it.

Despite this discouraging situation, there is a groundswell of opposition.
The crowds at Obama rally tell us that people are NOT just taking the situation lying down. My hope is that this new mobilazation is a new conciousness that can continue to build.

Obama's campaign and grassroots supporters' efforts have only been going on for a couple of years now. If we are smart, we can help that movement to grow.

A move toward a more humane U.S.A.
What a concept!!

This article made me notice something: During the Clinton years, there was an ongoing trickle of jokes about Clinton into my in-box. It's been years since anything has come in about the Shrub. There's been lots of humour at the Shrub's expense, but you have to go to websites to find it -- it doesn't circulate the way the Clinton jokes did.

Indeed, the 911 false flag terrorism event was the most successful such endeavor of its kind. The perpetrators have managed to fully give the USA over to the dictator bush and his master cheney. Their naziesque propagandists in the corporate media deliver the message that the masters want delivered, and very little truth. All the more reason to proceed with an independent investigation to expose the real conspirators behind 911.

An OLD refrain ( in need of refurbishment )
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from last year's Naomi Klein article on CD
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DREAMER TOO -- wonderful and soulful reflection of who we really are, and how by fully experiencing our feelings we are transformed; metamorphosing FEAR through LOVE, into LOVE (and PEACE).

When you say "the only real calamity is not recognizing that we've been shocked, forgetting we're human", I realize that my understanding intellectually and my experience kinesthetically (felt) are out of alignment, and I'm thankful for friends such as you to remind me.

Although we know that the map isn't the territory, it's empowering that I've taken steps forward toward goals dimly felt along a road however sinuous, it is on the path.

I need to be with Nature.

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"It's only love and that is all why should I feel the way I do"
The Beatles "It's Only Love"

"When your world has been shattered
Ain't nothin' else matters
It ain't over - It's only love
And that's all “ yeah"
Bryan Adams "It's Only Love"

A little something to hit back with when the shock jocks shock you ..
It's only love live with Tina Turner
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZFyPSWP0zU

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Love is the antidote to fear.

Feel the fear and let it go; fill yourself with love. Loving and being loved frees your mind your heart your body and your soul; your creativity, your imagination, your passion are free to flow. Your sights can be set free of fear's constraints.

Starting from fear, reacting to fright, shaking with terror are as natural to human beings as being caressed by a gentle breeze, rejuvenated by a sudden gust, cleared and clarified by a windy day.

Shock fills us with a sense of calamity, but the only real calamity is not recognizing that we've been shocked, forgetting we're human, acting like nothing has happened when our world has been turned upside down.

See and feel the fear then see and feel beyond it.

Remember you are a human being, a simple beautiful vulnerable loving human being.

Love embraces fear then sits quietly with it till it's time for it to go. Felt fear comes and goes, felt love remains.
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1 MESSENGER OF MANY ” Synchronicity has provided me today with an empowering method forward, as you so well state, "I can only prepare myself not to become afraid to stand in truth." Below I provide the framework for our individualized preparations to battle the beast, and its favorite feeling _F_E_A_R_

SIOUXROSE ” In a another thread says, "What has it reflected back to us about ourselves"

VOX CLAMANTIS ” Also in that other thread says,"A kind of speciation is taking place in our society ¦ recognition of who we are and where we stand"

If it is to BE, it will be up to ME ¦

We are ALL suffering, through NAOMI's idea of SHOCK, which is much the same as those facing a diagnosis of CANCER, who are consumed by

DARK FEAR, and hug the pillows of their bed alone in a vain attempt to find solace and comfort - but the bed only provides a place for sleep.

We must look outside of our fetal positioning and powerlessness, to be again empowered to unwind, unravel, and open our spirits to dream and soar again.

It is through our passion to live for something (really almost anything will do) creatively laudable, from which we can start to take the little steps that eventually build into the journey and quest to discovery of new living, within and without (per Beatles) us.

This is the recommendation from the SHOCK DOC, to live our lives even larger and dream imaginary possibilities, that may very well appear penultimately as miracles and our salvation

Namaste « Presence »
« We must be the change we wish to see in the world » — Gandhi
« There is a sufficiency in the world for man’s need but not for man’s greed » — Gandhi
« We adopt the means of nonviolence because our end is a community at peace with itself » — ML King

We are Pavlov's dogs waiting for the bells to ring.

Poet

"...and do not protest what we have become."

Thank you Mr. Pitts. I would like to point to something which might not be obvious. It's not that few people are protesting "what we have become", but that we are not protesting effectively. It's much "easier" to express our disapproval digitally through virtual communities, than it is to go analog and hit the streets.

As such, we partition that dissent to such a degree that it loses most all its effectiveness and is diminished to a point that is easily ignored by those who represent us. Our dissent becomes not much more than a pity party.

In addition to discrediting online protest, it has also become far too easy to limit communication with those who pretend to "serve" the people. For more than two days before the final vote on the "dividend payout" to bankers, the official website that serves email to our Representatives was solidly down... and I could reach no one by phone... and of course postal mail is sequestered for contamination now, so that avenue is also effectively closed to protest.

There is only one solution for real protest. We need to dust off street demonstrations and get out from behind the keyboard. All the alternatives can be "controlled", discredited or ignored.

Sioux Rose

TLC: I agree, there IS an exhaustion to it, call it DIRE news overload. We did our protest marches and wrote our letters to editors and called so-called representatives. Too many bastions of power are infiltrated by those who conform to the banality of evil, but that hardly means that awakened citizens appreciate, applaud or agree with what's going on. Events appear to have taken on their own gathering momentum. I know for the past 30 years everything I sought to teach students or share with TV/radio/media audiences was directed at exactly OPPOSED outcomes, directed at raising consciousness. MANY made efforts to bring the American citizenry to an understanding beyond that of enemies and materialism = winning the "game" of life. The power and influence of big money to own all arteries of democracy has caused what another poster referred to as form of constipation. The nation needs a metaphysical enema... it appears to be headed our way, as whatever is done to mickeymouse the DOW and the banks, you cannot make value out of what never was there in the first place. Scams R'U.S. style.

I have two images of fear, one stashed in my computer someplace and the other fresh in memory from something on TV yesterday. The first is an old photograph of some Vietnamese villagers who had been rounded up by our troops so that they could burn their village down. The faces of the villagers, men, women, children, old people, were sick with fear. They really didn't know whether they were going to live to draw another breath. The second was news footage of retirees playing some kind of lawn bowling game in Florida. They were worried about their savings and also about terrorists, though the terrorists had not yet come to take away their condos or their lemonades. The fear this author describes is largely of the second kind - American fear. Pampered poodle fear.

The villagers were probably no danger to anybody, if they were not in fact shot after the picture was taken. The retirees' fear, however, fear of perhaps in some imagined future scenario being exposed to deprivation or peril, has been by far more virulent. Hundreds of thousands of people have died violently over the past seven years because of the bad dreams of septuagenarians lost among the bunnies of Teletubbyland.

To me, there is nothing more ironic than millions of supposedly devout "Christians" living in such obvious constant fear of death and exhultation of material consumption.

It is hindsight, of course, but it is amazing to look back and realize how truly effective what happened on Sept. 11th 2001 -and more importantly the way that was "dealt with" by the Government and the Media- has been in breaking our society.

There is an apocolyptic feeling in the air. It is being stoked, seemingly purposefully, up to a bizarre and dangerous level by the Control System.

True to form, the developing American police state is also the rogue regime responsible for bringing more terror to more people than al-Qaeda could dream of.

Bush's war crimes have been the biggest possible recruitment incentive for Islamic fundamentalist terror groups.

Bin-Laden will soon miss his benefactor. But don't mourn for the Republicans. Thanks to unquestioning corporate media, they still wield plenty of fear and ignorance to hold their flock of sheeple in a corral of deception.

http://davedubya.com

"Then you look up one day and realize how profoundly that fear has changed your world. People are imprisoned without charges or access to attorneys, and it's routine. People are surveilled, their reading habits studied, their telephone usage logged, and it's commonplace."

These things are happening to Us now and We don't even bat an eyelash. These activities by the government are the beginning of a POLICE STATE. Fear is the passkey to opening up the front gates of such a society where We all walk in willingly like a flock of brainless sheep because We are afraid and We want to be protected by the government.

What kind of place are We leaving behind for Our children? A Nation or a homeland?

I noted the news that day with great sadness, but with a sense of "we already knew this." Its not that its par for the course that the US tortures, it is that we knew it - memos or not. We're all kind of waiting for the new president - seeing what kind of road we're heading down yet. We've tried to impeach Bush et al. No one listened. We hope there will be a brave prosecutor to bring criminal charges, but probably not. We march, they put us in cages and infiltrate us. Its not malaise, but exhaustion. We wait for the "peaceful" revolution of an election. Perhaps preparing ourselves for another rip-off.

Fear is the prevalent human emotion and always has been. Under all the swagger and bluster, back slapping and raucous laughter, Americans are as scared as anyone else. Life is a fearful and sometimes terrifying experience. We're getting an enormous taste of it now. The primitive acquisitiveness of The Ruling Orders will not change but for average Americans the buying of things to fill up whatever void the buying of things fills up is slowing down and slowing down drastically. What will take its place?

Although Dubya's grandpa Prescott Bush may have failed in his attempt to overthrow FDR and install a fascist US government 74 years ago, Dubya has turned the US into the most successful fascist state in history.

John McClone and Crusader Sarah will spread fascism to every corner of the globe.