"Hijacking Catastrophe" -- please do all you can to distribute.

[understandinglife]

In the third installment of "Crushing the Coup":

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x321092

I had posted information about "Hijacking Catastrophe."

I also contacted Skinner and requested that "Hijacking Catastrophe" be hosted on the DU front page. He responded by indicating that the new "greatest page" feature would shortly be available.

It is now operating and any of you inclined to recommend this post will be helping spread an important contribution to our Nation-wide "literacy program" to inform everyone of the treacherous, treasonous actions of the Bu$h theocratic NeoCON regime.

Synopsis:

Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear, and the Selling of American Empire.

by Media Education Foundation.

"The film examines the Bush Administration’s investment in neo-conservatism, and the early, and already horrific, results. While past performance is no guarantee of future earnings, Hijacking Catastrophe shows exactly why America’s "new conservatism" is a pyramid scheme of inhumane proportions."

Hijacking Catastrophe describes the cost of empire in a way so comprehensive that it becomes clear that neo-conservatism, as a foreign policy guide, comes with a very real moral, political and financial garnishment of every American, and of American children yet unborn. The cost is shown not only as a current financial outlay or in lives unlived on the part of soldiers and marines, but in terms of an alarming debt burden, loss of domestic freedom, the growing and invasive state, a permanent tattering of the Constitution and Bill of Rights.”

Link to a Bit Torrent file is provided at:

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6895.htm

Thank you.


DO YOU ENJOY BEING A CITIZEN OF THE ROGUE SUPER_POWER?"

[Sympleesmshn]

1. I got my copy yesterday

My uncle sent it to me. I was a little surprised at first by the title but then called him and can't to find time to watch it.

[SnoopDog]

2. Just what are we all to do... god dammit....

Please, someone, tell me, tell us...

We have a president who was first 'appointed' then 'won' by fraud. (The extremely sad part is even the exit polls suggested that fuckup Bush had 48 percent of the vote...)

We have an administration who let happen/directly cause 911.

Lied about WMD and invaded Iraq.

Looted BILLIONS and BILLIONS of OUR tax dollars in the process.
To say nothing about the THOUSANDS and THOUSANDS of American and Iraqi dead and wounded.

Worst job creating president in Decades and Decades.

A president you has bleed our treasury to death - Deficit and cutting of our HUMANE support of fellow humans.

A president you has rolled back major air and water pollution controls.

A president you has LIED about the bankruptcy of Social Security.

A president who asks for 'no child left behind' and indeed 'leaves every child behind'.

Iran. Korea. Nuclear war. War in general.

How much more can we take.

This sonuvabitch is KILLING AMERICA.

Exaggerating? No, god dammit, we are being killed off as a people and as a country - financially, environmentally, ecologically, and in the hearts of men and women of all nations.

What, what the hell do we do?

When do we reach the point of... Resistance?




Edit: Thanks UnderstandingLife....for your post

[Up2Late]

4. Me, personally, I'm Praying for a massive economic collaps...

...here in the U.S., that's about the only thing that will shake all the GOP Zombies enough, to get their attention.

My advice is, if you have any money, invest it outside the U.S. monetary system, that's what the neo-Cons are doing. :hurts:

[SnoopDog]

6. No.... no, I say we take back America...now....

[Mich Otter]

5. Worst pResident Ever

If there was a real god, that god would've slapped Dumb?Yeah! upside his head soooo hard...

[Bellamia]

8. what are we to do........

We might as well dance..............I don't say this lightly, for I am saddened and frightened for our country, for the grandchildren, god, how I remember worrying if the kids would have to go to Vietnam, now it's the grandkids, off to Iraq?? What can I do? If anyone knows. please let me in on it.

[SnoopDog]

9. Dance?

Not until we take back our country.

[Peace Patriot]

18. That's a big and kinda vague task: "Take back our country."

We need to start by recovering our right to vote, state by state, county by county. (The BushCon Congress is not going to give us back that which they deliberately stole with their electronic voting scam.)

Best solution: Paper Ballots, Hand Counts (the voting and counting system should occur at human speed, be see-able by the human eye, and be understandable by ordinary citizens). Next best solution: Voter verified paper ballot (VVPB) that takes precedence over electronic tallies in any recount, open source code, no private ownership of electronic voting systems or their programming, and stringent requirements for certification and auditing of electronic voting systems.

State by state, county by county.

The Bush coup is currently involved in an all out effort to turn California "red." They just destroyed California's honest Secretary of State Kevin Shelley, who had decertified and sued the Diebold--major Bush donor--electronic voting machine company for its lies about the security of its machines, and provided Californians with a paper ballot option for the 2004 election. That is why Shelley was destroyed. They are now going to install a Schwarz-appointed Republican in that office. Following this, Schwarz is going to redistrict California--a la Tom Delay in Texas--to destroy the progressive CA legislature. (Note: Important to know--some Democrats were involved in Shelley's destruction, notably the new President Pro Tem of the Dem majority in the CA Senate, Don Perata, state Senator and majority leader Gloria Romero, and L.A. County elections chief Connie McCormack. Unfortunately, some Dems are either inexplicably suicidal on the electronic voting issue, or can't get close enough to the Bush Cartel. Trying to protect personal turf? corrupt? game players? stupid? naive? uninformed? I dunno. But it sure smells.)

All of this goes back to a meeting between Schwarz and Kenneth Lay (Enron) on May 17, 2001, at which the overthrow of the CA Democratic Party was plotted--initially to prevent Gov. Davis and Lt. Gov. Bustamante from recovering the $9 billion that Enron was stealing from Calif. That was Lay's motive. Then there is the $71 billion that energy companies have bilked California for (according to consumerwatchdog.org). And the Calpers fund--huge state employees pension fund (Schwarz just purged all the good board members). And, of course, there is the overall Bush Cartel plan to loot the U.S. blind, squeeze every last dime out of it, and destroy any and all citizen power to control what our government does and to regulate the global corporations that run our government--that are chartered here, but have long since abandoned any loyalty they may have had to the U.S.

Schwarz is not known as "The Terminator" for his role in the movie.

And why would global corporations kill the Golden Goose? Cuz they don't need us any more. They have global markets and resources to plunder. No more need for the US middle class consumer. But they do still need slave labor, cannon fodder for their oil wars, and the end of all regulation.

The key to reining this monster in is our extremely valuable vote--right at the nexus of power in the world. It's no wonder at all that they would steal it. Now we have to get it back.

DUers are currently working out a strategy to address the California situation. You can help by joining in that effort, or becoming active on election reform in your state.

Current California thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=203&topic_id=325113#325318

[FloridaCrat]

22. Resistance - Need to do something soon

May Day is May 1st and is the "workers" day in Communist bloc countries.
It's a little more than 2 months away - we could do something like blue flu
on mayday. It has to be massive and pervasive to be effective.

I'm worried May will be too late - we may have invaded Iran and
instituted an emergency draft by then.

[Up2Late]

3. Thanks

once I install bit torrent, I'll check it out:hippie:

[Wilms]

7. They didn't Hijack Catastrophe

They cause it.

Day after day.

Thanks UL.

-on edit-

Nominated for Greatest Page.

[Helga Scow Stern]

10. This is one powerful and informative movie.

[frictionlessO]

11. nominated!! and its INCREDIBLE!! very potent!! thanks UL! n/t

[Up2Late]

12. Bit Torrent Question

I Just watched the whole movie in a tiny little "Real Player" Box, I thought "Bit Torrent" was supposed make it so you can download DVD quality video?

Is "BitTorrent" or "BitTornado", or the others, are they like a plug-in for the "Real Player" or "Windows Media Player" or is it it's own player?:shrug:

[jlayson]

13. Bit torrent is

a file sharing program if you can get the link to work it'll drop it on your hard drive to copy and the quality will stay about the same

[Wind Dancer]

14. It's been on FSTV for the past month,

Dish TV - 9415

Schedule for today:

04:00:20 pm EST 02/14 Hijacking Catastrophe* TVPG
9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire: Examines how the Bush Administration used the trauma of 9/11 to advance a pre-existing agenda.


08:00:20 pm EST 02/14 Hijacking Catastrophe* TVPG
9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire: Examines how the Bush Administration used the trauma of 9/11 to advance a pre-existing agenda.

[EFerrari]

15. It's on Link again this evening @ 8:30 PST (please check time) nt

[keepthemhonest]

16. So who made this one

understanding life, is this Michael Moore? How was it? I probably get it soon, thanks.

[understandinglife]

17. It's by the Media Education Foundation

Here is their link:

http://www.mediaed.org/

Further info from the synopsis:

"The documentary places the Bush Administration's false justifications for war in Iraq within the larger context of a two-decade struggle by neoconservatives to dramatically increase military spending in the wake of the Cold War, and to expand American power globally by means of military force.

At the same time, the documentary argues that the Bush Administration has sold this radical and controversial plan for aggressive American military intervention by deliberately manipulating intelligence, political imagery, and the fears of the American people after 9/11.

Narrated by Julian Bond, Hijacking Catastrophe features interviews with more than twenty prominent political observers, including Pentagon whistleblower Lt. Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski, who witnessed first-hand how the Bush Administration set up a sophisticated propaganda operation to link the anxieties generated by 9/11 to a pre-existing foreign policy agenda that included a preemptive war on Iraq.

Joining Kwiatkowski in a wide-ranging, accessible, and ultimately empowering analysis of American foreign policy, media manipulation, and their global and domestic implications, are former Chief UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter, former Pentagon analyst Daniel Ellsberg, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Jody Williams, author Norman Mailer, MIT professor Noam Chomsky, Code Pink founder Medea Benjamin, defense policy analyst William Hartung, author Chalmers Johnson, and Army Special Forces Master Sergeant Stan Goff (Ret.).

At its core, the film places the deceptions of the Bush Administration within the larger frame of questions seldom posed in the mainstream: What, exactly, is the agenda that drove the administration's pre-war deceptions? How is 9/11 being used to sell this agenda? And what are the stakes for America, Americans, and the world if this agenda succeeds in being fully implemented during a second Bush term?"

Well, we are now witnessing the answers to that question.


"DO YOU ENJOY BEING A CITIZEN OF THE ROGUE SUPER_POWER?"

[Riding this Donkey]

19. Kick n/t

[Al-CIAda]

20. The Power of Nightmares- The British version of 'Hijacking"

The Power of Nightmares - Part I
Baby It’s Cold Outside”
In the past our politicians offered us dreams of a better world. Now they promise to protect us from nightmares.
The most frightening of these is the threat of an international terror network. But just as the dreams were not true, neither are these nightmares.
This is a must watch documentary - Broadcast BBC 2 10/20/04 - Written and Produced by Adam Curtis
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/video1037.htm

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The Power of Nightmares Part II
Part II: The Phantom Victory
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/video1038.htm

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And if you only had time to watch one, choose the last-

The Power of Nightmares - Part III
The Shadows In The Cave
The Power of Nightmares assesses whether the threat from a hidden and organised terrorist network is an illusion. In the concluding part of the series, the programme explains how the illusion was created and who benefits from it.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/video1040.htm

==========OR=====
BBC series – The Power of Nightmares
TV documentary that explores how the idea that we are threatened by a hidden and organised terrorist network is an illusion

part 1
baby it's cold outside
real player
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/video1037.htm

part 2
the phantom victory
real player
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/video1038.htm

part 3
the shadows in the cave
real player
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/video1040.htm
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You should also check out this site for a fantastic collection of other video as well- (Hijacking Catastrophe is among them)

http://www.thedossier.ukonline.co.uk/video_september11.htm

[paz]

21. Kick. n/t