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Americans (must) become active in "demanding" that our government open records availability to the citizens of this nation.

It is being stated by the informed that the great majority of government-records being classified under security directives, have instead been falsely classified to hide government crime, corruption, and failures.

From the research I have done, I believe this statement is (more than) highly probable. What I have discovered from hard work, is that much past corruption will become worse in the future unless citizens wake up.

American citizens need join citizen-activist organization's (look out for Corp/Gov-Astroturf organizations) and force FOI laws that will stop our government hiding their failures and crimes as National-Security.

This is an example of the simple-minded; or paid-liars, who try to denigrate (for) their master-liars.

This same method to obtain silence is what the Bush-Administration used so successfully for years, stating a complete fabrication (lie) as though it were actual fact. One other Fascist used this same technique, called lying often and continiously, until the lie is accepted as truth.

Because of the freedom found on the internat to share ideas and (real) facts (truth), today is the very reason that the FCC is being desperately used by these Corporate entities to gain control over all media sources.

Eli Lilly just 'donated' $10 million to a diabetes treatment clinic,while they sell zyprexa which increases risk of getting diabetes.
-tell the truth don't be afraid-Danny Haszard

So what are they, some kind of high priesthood?

I am not familiar with the CIPR, but the whole "industry" of public relations is built on cranking up lies to fool the public, and what this has to do with ethics is beyond me.

P.R. agencies have to talk ethics and draw the line somewhere AS PART OF THEIR P.R. PROGRAM ITSELF. Every confidence man (con man) knows this. Yeah they've got reason to be ethical: their own gain. They LOVE that blind trust stuff. Especially when it gets all cozy paternalistic and all.

If society has no blind trust in others being ethical, then the whole existence of p.r. is exposed for what it is --- a house of cards.

As for the United States, it has become a covert and reconcocted plantation of a sort (or set of them), or way too similar anyway -- with p.r. as the slave owner, fate-meisters, going around working their will upon the people, who since they are doing real jobs (instead of cranking up lies to further lucrative agendas) do not have time to stop and address the travesties.

This plantation analogy is not too far from the truth. It permeates way too much of all life. We've got way too many things like commissioners who act like they are some kind of high priesthoods, and then it ends up that they themselves are being paid off to further some agenda. This is nothing but a thinly guised plantation society going on in America any more, with the "slave owners" as fate meisters --- almost as if they are God himself. They are so delighted when they match their powers with those of God Himself.

Do we ever stop to ask ourselves why it is that someone like a state commissioner ends up in prison to begin with? Or that perhaps it is some kind of TREND to put the likes of a criminal into such lofty positions?

Now granted, this is not to mention the number of times non-criminals end up taking the blame for true criminals --- which is another (similar) story in itself of which volumes could be written --- if all truth be told.

I am quite sure that if there ever is any Judgement Day, or Day of Reckoning --- like in the afterlife, that we are going to hear beaucou (sp? --- anyway lots of) interesting stories of what REALLY happened, as opposed to what was said to have happened by entities posing as Big Brother, out to fool the public for gain and for sport and ego-poofing. Obviously there is little belief in either an afterlife (or Judgement Day) or any significance otherwise of not violating spiritual principles.

What gets me is how these people can lie about other people --- all the while hinting at being "Christian" or otherwise above reproach. And of course, what the Bible really says (as one of the Ten Commandments) is "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor." (handy convenient trans: Don't lie about others.)

Hell they wouldn't have a "business" if they could not depend upon lying about other people. Lying IS their business. That's what they get paid to do. Then they hint like oh they are in league with God Himself, and get all paternalistic like they have superior knowledge, and it is so very slave-holder like. As is convenient, the inference shifts to being a parent over a child --- this world is so pathetic and ridiculous.

This is not to mention the lack of balance of powers in a singlely-owned media state. Then that must REALLY be God himself, at the megaphone, dictating matters.

This travesty often seems tolerable from a distance, when it does not involve us personally. But I wouldn't put up with one scrap of it. I've said it before and I'll say it again: there is no end to the degree of assinity (or state of assinine) in the downward spiral of think not/know not.

In this website there is a lot of mention about the war in Iraq, perhaps because that is so obvious to so many people. And that is well and okay and very necessary. But the war in Iraq is only the tip of the iceberg as far as the general trend itself of all of this Tom Foolery of the public. It's everywhere. It's only because now it's gone to starting wars that we have to recognize this monster of a trend that we've tolerated and/or created.

Anybody who has taken an interest in Ahmad Chalabi, John Rendon, Judith Miller and their links to Paul Moran, the Australian news cameraman killed in Iraq, may be interested in my interpretation of the story – a screenplay based on the life of Paul Moran.

For more details see http://acharmedlifemovie.blogspot.com

I have also written a background article on Paul Moran’s involvement with the WMD affair. If this is of interest, email me at paulrouse@bluebottle.com for a copy.

I am a freelance journalist who has spent a considerable amount of time in the Middle East, and knew Paul Moran well.

So people have finally caught on that there exists a such thing as hypocrisy, and that people (eg. candidates) are not necessarily what they say they are, and that the character of people cannot necessarily be determined by the particular flags they wave.

It has been said that characterization in movies is very lacking these days compared to what it used to be. Maybe I'm overly bent on glorifying the past --- nevertheless I do find it interesting that the demise of characterization in movies (and other story telling?) has paralleled our lack of recognition (in society in general) that hypocrisy exists. People are no longer people --- they are numbers and objects, as we sink deeper and deeper into a sociopathic norm, and the hyponosis of our television sets sets in.

I heard on the news they are using a genetically altered
product in place of transfat! How do we know that is any better? It was the health zealots who called for the switch from saturated fat to trans fat in the first place. I remember the evils of butter and the virtures of margarine. (Funny how this fact gets forgotten.) These petty fears we have over food keep us from looking at the big picture. Speaking of which, let's say it does reduce heart disease. Are the food reformers also going to fix social security? All the pension funds in jeopardy? Ease consumer debt so people can start saving for retirement? Bring back high wage jobs? Or are they going to continue to nag for more spartan food restrictions so we can all live as long and as impoverished as possible?

I do think this is a bit of a stretch. We're talking about a decision about whether to accept a commercial, not a news item or a program. Every broadcaster has its own standards by which they evaluate any commercial proposed to them. And you know, rather than worrying about what their corporate parent might say, they may just feel that the commercial violates their standards of decency and fairness and might even turn off significant portion of their audience in the time period it was to run.

Rather than looking for dark conspiracies, journalistic integrity would call for asking for a comment from NBC. No sign you did that.

I have not read the Congresspedia page yet, but I will later if I have time.

But as far as corruption in high places, I am learning that it is extensive, and it reminds me of what I once heard someone say --- that quite often extremely inept people will actually climb to the top (of corporations or government or such), simply because they are good at knowing how to make it look like other peoples' good work is their own --- "stealing thunder" of a sort. Also they are "good" at making it look like their own ineptitude and other flaws are that of other people --- they know how to skirt and shirk blame, and shift facts around, or perception of facts, that is.

And, sometimes it is the people who are the best at losing jobs that learn to be the best as to how to get them, just through extensive practice at initial impressions.

Okay sometimes these corrupt people in high places have been appointed by someone, instead of having been elected. I am very curious who appoints these people, such as commissioners who end up doing prison sentences, etc. Whoever appoints them seems to be a carefully guarded secret --- nothing much is made of this aspect publicly, especially when the corruption is uncovered. But I would about bet that whoever appointed them appointed them for being assured that that person would make a good puppet or pawn --- or essentially, they knew that they could count on them to be corrupt and manipulatable.

For instance a state commissioner might be very good at using the initial presumption of the public that the commission is aloof of being inept or corrupt itself, preying upon the public's wish for a fatherly or minister-like figure to come in and comfort them. Meanwhile, such a commission does not protect the public (in the least) nor care, but rather is a pro at shooing the blame onto some totally innocent party.

Through the grapevine, I have heard of too many of these sorts of things. And it gets to be ridiculous. But I have to live in this world until I die, so what do I do? Act like it doesn't happen?

Hypocrisy is so popular as a modus operandi. It is just ridiculous that people want to live such lies. They have no concept whatever of laws or rather, the spirit of laws, or things like that it is an abomination in the eyes of God, or against spiritual principles (if they don't believe in God), to lie about other people. They have no concept whatever that "what goes around, comes around," which I believe is an old slave saying.

Which incidentally, that is what much of corruption is all about: keeping people in slavery-type situations, even if they are not obvious slaves. Well this could be discussed and pondered ad infinitum. But it all comes back to the same unfortunate truth which every con man knows, that hypocrisy not only exists but abounds. It (hypocrisy) is a very convenient lure for the lurid.

They have to have a totally innocent "Christ" type figure to presume blame upon, when the facts get the least bit complicated for busy people to understand. What it is, is like a looting of one's good character and good intentions. It is bizarre. But it happens.

Eli Lilly 3Q 10% profit rise is nearly all from psyche drugs including zyprexa.How have they schemed to squeeze more money from their zyprexa cash cow when pill production has actually gone down?

ANS-Eli Lilly profiteers have jacked up the price of zyprexa to the federal govt,from the Medicare D payouts.Eli Lilly is a big drug company that puts profits over patients.

They covered up findings that their Zyprexa has a TEN times greater risk of causing type 2 diabetes

Only 9% of Americans trust big pharma,right around the same rating as tobacco companies.

Daniel Haszard Eli Lilly zyprexa drug caused my diabetes www.zyprexa-victims.com

Here is an article by Scott Lilly on the ethics committee investigation:

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2006/10/behind_hasterts_curtain.html