And, oh, so sadly true: the rise of the “National Security State” (which sounds eerily a bit like the rise of National Socialism, when one thinks about it!)–the rise of it there in Merry Ole (Imperialist Rule-the-World) England and the rise of it here in the Land of the Free (and Home of the Couch Potatoes) assures us many more years of death and destruction, war-is-hell glorification, utter loss of attenuated liberties, infantilism of the masses, and atherosclerosis among the punditocracy.

Mary, rest assured that what you saw on the telly in Britain, we did not see here! (Although we did hear that Edward Kennedy had been knighted by your fat queen–Helen Mirren notwithstanding! (We can expect the Queen to break out the seegars any day now, chomp a few like Churchie and hold up the “V” for Victory sign.)

Welcome to the New World Order (which also sounds like National Socialism!). Thanks, John Pilger, for playing Virgil to our lost-in-the-woods Dantes.

the underlying processes for such delusional evaluations are in the brain. these processes are not studied at this time or if studied, not yet discovered.

politicians also know that their country cannot do any wrongs. pols, et al, have been conditioned over a life time that their country is noble, generous, just, etc.

once conditioning is completed, most people do not ever escape it. thus, labeling these people will not help our cause.

unfortunately for us humans and our biota, a brain does not know right from wrong.
one way in which we can ameliorate this situation is to talk, educate and not blame, condemn, accuse, etc.
one cannot win hearts and minds of people by anger/hate towards people who have ben so vastly miseducated. thnx

Watching Brown in Congress yesterday receiving seventeen ridiculous standing ovations with cheerleaders Biden and Pelosi standing grinning behind him, I could see that nothing has changed. There were many references in his speech to war, the glory of dying for your country, standing together against ‘terrorism’ just as the US and UK stood together in WWII coupled with references back to his childhood at the Manse and his father’s homilies thrown in for good measure. This part of his speech seemed to have been constructed solely to bolster the military-industrial complex. We even had mention of ‘ the shining city on the hill’ but this time it was Washington and not his usual reference to Jerusalem. A reminder here that he is Patron of the British Jewish National Fund and that he will be receiving the 2009 Appeal of Conscience World Statesman Award from Rabbi Schneier!!

http://www.daylife.com/photo/0dgm1dn0PbbhH/Gordon_Brown

There were the usual throwaways at the end about climate change, the need to reform banking values (what a hope) and reducing poverty and disease in the Third World.

Blair has recently received the Dan David prize for Present Leadership together with a nice US$1 million cheque which is apparently going to his Faith Foundation. Could there be anything more ludicrous than that?

http://www.dandavidprize.org/index.php/laureates/laureates-2009/105-2009-present-leadership/242-tony-blair.html

In the meantime please join the 2,071 others to date who have signed this petition to have Brown’s predecessor Blair arraigned for his war crimes and remember that Brown, Straw, Hoon, Reid et al were members of his various Cabinets in those disastrous 11 years from 1997 – 2008.

http://www.petitiononline.com/BWCF/petition.html

How dare the farcical International Criminal Court issue arrest warrant for Sudan’s president when they do not have the spine to point the finger at the biggest war criminals: George Bush, Tony Blair, and Gordon Brown?

The people of America and Britain have some clear choices before them: Stand up to their ruling classes or face a future of fascism.