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Tuesday, January 31st at Union Square in San Francisco: Massive
Demonstration to Drown Out Bush’s STATE OF THE UNION address
Saturday, February 4th: Converge in Washington D.C. at 11:00 AM at the White House for a historic demonstration in front of the White House demanding that BUSH STEP DOWN! AND TAKE YOUR PROGRAM WITH YOU!
Demonstration to Drown Out Bush’s STATE OF THE UNION address
Saturday, February 4th: Converge in Washington D.C. at 11:00 AM at the White House for a historic demonstration in front of the White House demanding that BUSH STEP DOWN! AND TAKE YOUR PROGRAM WITH YOU!
5) Sunday, January 29th, San Francisco Chapter World Can't Wait general meeting, Location To Be Announced: Agenda: ½ hour: The serious danger and tremendous opportunity at this moment. Rest of the time: organizing crews for all the logistics of January 31st’s protest. Come one! Come all! There’s something for you to do for the success of the State of the Union plans.
6) Tuesday, January 31st at Union Square in San Francisco: Massive
Demonstration to Drown Out Bush’s STATE OF THE UNION address: We will hold rallies across the country in real-time, simultaneously: Bring the noise, and drown out Bush's lies.
WE DEMAND: Bush Step Down! And take your program with you!
The agenda for 2006 must not be set by Bush, but by the people, determined to stop this whole disastrous course:
5PM Rally: Demand Bush Step Down!
6PM Drown Out Bush's Lies
7PM Topple Bush Statue
SAME DAY but earlier:
Hook-up spots: sound truck outreach to call on people to "JOIN US!"
10am at 24th and Mission and Union Square in SF
10am at UC Berkeley
12pm-3pm UC Berkeley Teach-In
7) Saturday, February 4th: Converge in Washington D.C. at 11:00 AM at the White House for a historic demonstration in front of the White House demanding that BUSH STEP DOWN! AND TAKE YOUR PROGRAM WITH YOU! Get your plane ticket now. (Buses are too slow and more expensive). Then, stay for…
8) Sunday, February 5th: 11am to 4pm WCW National Organizing Conference, Wash DC
6) Tuesday, January 31st at Union Square in San Francisco: Massive
Demonstration to Drown Out Bush’s STATE OF THE UNION address: We will hold rallies across the country in real-time, simultaneously: Bring the noise, and drown out Bush's lies.
WE DEMAND: Bush Step Down! And take your program with you!
The agenda for 2006 must not be set by Bush, but by the people, determined to stop this whole disastrous course:
5PM Rally: Demand Bush Step Down!
6PM Drown Out Bush's Lies
7PM Topple Bush Statue
SAME DAY but earlier:
Hook-up spots: sound truck outreach to call on people to "JOIN US!"
10am at 24th and Mission and Union Square in SF
10am at UC Berkeley
12pm-3pm UC Berkeley Teach-In
7) Saturday, February 4th: Converge in Washington D.C. at 11:00 AM at the White House for a historic demonstration in front of the White House demanding that BUSH STEP DOWN! AND TAKE YOUR PROGRAM WITH YOU! Get your plane ticket now. (Buses are too slow and more expensive). Then, stay for…
8) Sunday, February 5th: 11am to 4pm WCW National Organizing Conference, Wash DC
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21st Century COINTELPRO
I just spent 7 hours taking a BART and a bus from the Mission district in San Francisco to the Grand Lake Theater in Oakland.
There was a World Can't Wait fundraising event there.
When two members of the Northern California 9/11 Truth Alliance brought up the event at last Thursday's meeting, I cringed.
Ever since this fluorescent green campaign appeared I have been very very very suspicious.
I remember that these obnoxious green signs and stickers appeared in huge masses at the September 24th ANSWER rally in San Francisco.
At the time, I thought ANSWER was co-opted by the US military at its highest levels of power.
One of the biggest supporting pieces of evidence in my mind at the time was that ANSWER protests are announced MONTHS ahead of time, thereby filling up windows and street poles with ANSWER propoganda, giving the APPEARANCE that genuine, grassroots, democratically organized opposition to the war exists on a local and national scale.
So, basically, you have MONTHS of the APPEARANCE of organized protest, and then ONE day of protest. And then the whole process repeats over again.
Since we are in the midst of another cycle like this, here's how it works.
Posters advertising the March 18th protest went up all over the city last week, the first week of January.
So we will be seeing BRIGHT YELLOW ANSWER signs all over the Bay Area for the rest of January, all of Feburary, and most of March.
Then there will be three hours of speakers, and then everyone will disburse, and then there will likely be protest announced for September again, which will be propogandized all over the city beginning in late April, early June, leaving the APPEARANCE of organized, grassroots, democratic protest for all June, all July, all August, and most of September.
This pattern seems simple enough and accurate to reality.
Basically, you have...
THREE MONTHS of APPERANCE
for every
THREE HOURS of PROTEST
That's half a day of protest every year -- with the whole society locked down in anti-war smoke and mirrors.
I must admit that ANSWER feels LESS like a mind control operation than the ISO and World Can't Wait and these two, in turn, are LESS cult-like than the Scientologists.
So here we have some order appearing.
It would help to define cult-like.
Cults PRIMARILY focus on the MORE powerful, with low cognition.
I should probably come up with a better definition, because the above would include 80% of capitalist wage workers.
Since it looks like Wall Street is the CIA, then maybe I should just let the definition stand.
I mean, most of tbe production under capitalism is totally irrational and worthless, right? Unneeded consumer goods, gadgets, appliances, etc.
So, anyway, you'll just have to figure out for yourself whether the corporation you work for is actually a CIA cult.
I'll just keep the definition for now:
Cults PRIMARILY focus on the MORE powerful, with low cognition.
So, according to this definition, here is how I would rank the anti-war groups in the Bay Area, from MOST cognition at the top, to LEAST cognition at the bottom.
1. Paradigm from California (imaginenine.com)
2. Northern California 9/11 Truth Alliance
3. Sparticist League
4. United for Peace and Justice, Not in Our Name, South Bay Mobilization
5. ANSWER
6. Lyndon LaRouche
7. International Socialist Organization (ISO), World Can't Wait
8. Scientologists
NOTES ON ABOVE LIST
1. Paradigm from California is the only group (ok, it's not much of a functioning 'group' anymore, no more than a handful now, but it was created out of a group of 11 originally) to clearly articulate how counter-intelligence programs work, AND offer a full program for public education to increase the general population's intelligence. The Marxists groups say that once we have socialism, then we'll have intelligent education, which may be true, but it's not a solution.
2. All genuine grassroots 9/11 groups that amongst themselves try to figure out what the implications are for the current political situation, (that the Bush Junta pulled off the biggest hoax in history, and is currently almost succesfully enforcing the psy-war clamps that keep almost EVERYONE spouting the idiotic 'the darkie Arabs attacked us' lie), get big cognition props from me.
Not so much that their analyses are so psychiatrically brilliant (they rarely stray outside spooky investigative journalism), but AT LEAST they have SOME sense of the relative weight of the biggest most important facts (i.e. they can tell that missing WMDs are LESS politically important than Bush Planning 9/11), which gives their mind the capacity for beginning to sense the more elaborate and high-level facts about conscious lying and heirarchical manipulation described in the Paradigm.
3. Sparticist League vies very closely in my mind for the #2 spot with the genuine 9/11 Truth Alliances. It may well be that I just put Northern CA 9/11 Truth Alliance at #2 because I work for them, and they pay me to run their email list. Bias.
The program of the International Communist League, the super organization about the Sparticists, as far as I understand it. is a REAL political program. No jokes.
Practicable for real revolutionary change, modeled after the biggest communist revolution of them all in Russia.
Organizationally, as far as I have seen, they ACT in very cult-like ways. It's quite a shame, really. Amongst the energetic youth, their rally calls at demonstrations seem closer to anarchism than Marxism -- 'fuck the system' and all the rest.
Also, I once attended one of their forums, where I questioned a fundamental tenent of their program, that real communist groups must 'militarily defend' workers oppressed by imperialism.
I said that given the undisputed US military dominance around the world, that they could only mean 'military defense' in a symbolic way, referring to the Soviet program which was backed up by the Red Army.
But no, around seven people answered me in a row, one after the other, insisting, in almost the same words, that STILL, ACTUAL military defense is called for, and that they would send troops etc.
It seemed that most of the speakers were trying to impress their leaders with their dogmatism much more than answer the question of the questioner. (One smart, beautiful girl defended the position the best she could, and she probably answered it as well as any living Marxist, which is good, but not good enough, in the end, alas).
They are so high on the cognition ladder because SYSTEMICALLY they see through 9/11 operations, just with their geuine historical analysis of the anti-Soviet CIA Jihad in Afghanistan in the 70s/80s.
Nonetheless, they still fell for the 9/11 cover story, as far as I recall. They did NOT come out and say Bush did it, I'm sure of that. If you, reader, know better, tell me.
4. I lump all the other big anti-war groups, other than ANSWER together here, not having enough experience with the groups to give a FULL analysis of their level of co-optation and cult-like qualities.
The sense I get is that most are small, genuine anti-war groups. The REAL anti-war movement in America. They are basically cowed into submission by the ANSWER monopoly.
United for Peace and Justice TRIED to criticize ANSWER, but failed pretty miserably, as far as I can tell from the ANSWER refutation of their charges. The same would probably happen IF the 9/11 truth movement got a wider audience -- i.e. right-wingers would swoop in with even sharper accusations of mental instability, treason, inaccuracy, etc., which the 9/11 groups would not be able to formulate adequate responses to.
5. I've said enough about ANSWER already. I am trying to figure out how much of their onerous qualities come from Stalinist leftst conservatism. and how much comes from direct US military/CIA co-optation. I WISH I were clearer on this point than I am.
Both IF there is no CIA involvement, and they are just anti-democratic because of their Stalinist roots in leftist politics.
And IF there is CIA control of the group, just exactly how that works, because as far as I can tell 95%+ of the leadership are trying genuinely to end the war.
6. I originally had the ISO and World Can't Wait MORE cult-like than LaRouche, but I changed it because the LaRouche people are so much creepier FEELING than the ISO or WCW.
After going to this WCW event tonight, though -- jeez.. Something REAL fishy is going on with these folks. My best guess it that a big boost of CIA funding went into the Revolutionary Communist Party, with almost all of the leadership getting duped on the source of the funds until it was too late and the campaign was too well known publicly, and their reputations were too deeply entwined with it to disavow the ruse.
Some of their staffers exhibit really disgraceful levels of subservience and dogmatism. It has gotten to the point where seeing these people ENRAGES me, not because their anti-conversations are waste so much of the time and energy of everyone around me (which is real bad), but because it is a DISGRACE on humanity to manipulate young people and well-meaning people so shamelessly and with such degridation. That is what infuriates me most now. I feel bad for the WCW staffers.
The ISO has Campus Anti-War Network (CAN), which looks to me like it was created by the same satanic CIA imbeciles that created the World Can't Wait program. The ISO isn't as bad as CAN -- since it is only co-opted at much higher levels, the Left Gatekeeper level, leaving considerable room for cognition at the low-level, with well meaning boys and girls hawking their papers so aggressively.
7. LaRouche goes down here, because it seems that their main function is putting out weird reactionary pseudo-opposition slogans on the COVERS of their papers. I don't think they intend people to read the contents most of the time. It's just about chilling out the opposition with fresh CIA mind control slogans.
Then again, you know, I was actually reading through a whole issue, and LaRouche seems to share some of the POSITIVE aspects of political conservatism that the left lacks. Such as a realistic, numbers-based economic analysis.
Their presence anywhere gives me and 98% of everyone else the creeps, so they are pretty low on the list -- more cult-like.
8. And finally, the Einsatzgruppen of CIA mind control cults -- the Scientologists. Push FREE PERSONALITY TESTING on you, at the low-level, when you are in the street, and then they keep the virulent 9/11 disinformation for their web page.
These guys have a remarkable ability to locate any non-cult political activities going in San Francisco, and then dispatch their colored chit pushing stooges RIGHT IN FRONT of said genuine political activity.
They have walkie talkies to pull this off.
Hey, Gavin Newsom, if you happen to be reading this, BAN THE SCIENTOLOGISTS FROM SAN FRANCISCO -- THEY are destroying the mental climate of the streets, big time.
LaRouche too. BAN THEM.
They are pretending to be what they are not -- and confusing people thereby, making them make bad political decisions, which causes people to die. EXPOSE THEM and get rid of them.
OK, I know, since both groups are managed by the CIA, then it is out of the reach of only the most courageous (or idiotic, without the Paradigm backing him up) mayor to do so
It would take some planning -- but it could be done, and then everything in SF would be easier and opener to talk about politically -- even WITH the current level of consumer idiocy. It's not a full solution -- but it's a KEY part of the problem.
Their organization is totally illegitimate -- you need to do something about it.
Well those are my thoughts after attending this World Can't Wait event.
I have more -- like, the most dangerous thing about these synthetic opposition groups is that REAL activists get duped into working with them, and then almost ALL of the high-level value of their research, activism, and energy gets manipulatively funneled up THROUGH the front group, up to the big bullies on top.
The process is like having a huge leech stuck on the back of your neck, where, "Sure! You are free to talk at our event.".. but it all goes towards whatever idiotic slogan the group puts up (World Can't Wait, Act Now to Stop War and End Racism, Americans Coming Together, etc.), which means the big boys are lapping up the truth-finding and vitality from behind the curtain.
THAT is why the left always fails -- because all the energy and ideas that they have are sucked out of the general populace in a deceitful way, and then used to create even more APPARENTLY oppositional groups and campaigns.
workoutwell.blogspot.com
I just spent 7 hours taking a BART and a bus from the Mission district in San Francisco to the Grand Lake Theater in Oakland.
There was a World Can't Wait fundraising event there.
When two members of the Northern California 9/11 Truth Alliance brought up the event at last Thursday's meeting, I cringed.
Ever since this fluorescent green campaign appeared I have been very very very suspicious.
I remember that these obnoxious green signs and stickers appeared in huge masses at the September 24th ANSWER rally in San Francisco.
At the time, I thought ANSWER was co-opted by the US military at its highest levels of power.
One of the biggest supporting pieces of evidence in my mind at the time was that ANSWER protests are announced MONTHS ahead of time, thereby filling up windows and street poles with ANSWER propoganda, giving the APPEARANCE that genuine, grassroots, democratically organized opposition to the war exists on a local and national scale.
So, basically, you have MONTHS of the APPEARANCE of organized protest, and then ONE day of protest. And then the whole process repeats over again.
Since we are in the midst of another cycle like this, here's how it works.
Posters advertising the March 18th protest went up all over the city last week, the first week of January.
So we will be seeing BRIGHT YELLOW ANSWER signs all over the Bay Area for the rest of January, all of Feburary, and most of March.
Then there will be three hours of speakers, and then everyone will disburse, and then there will likely be protest announced for September again, which will be propogandized all over the city beginning in late April, early June, leaving the APPEARANCE of organized, grassroots, democratic protest for all June, all July, all August, and most of September.
This pattern seems simple enough and accurate to reality.
Basically, you have...
THREE MONTHS of APPERANCE
for every
THREE HOURS of PROTEST
That's half a day of protest every year -- with the whole society locked down in anti-war smoke and mirrors.
I must admit that ANSWER feels LESS like a mind control operation than the ISO and World Can't Wait and these two, in turn, are LESS cult-like than the Scientologists.
So here we have some order appearing.
It would help to define cult-like.
Cults PRIMARILY focus on the MORE powerful, with low cognition.
I should probably come up with a better definition, because the above would include 80% of capitalist wage workers.
Since it looks like Wall Street is the CIA, then maybe I should just let the definition stand.
I mean, most of tbe production under capitalism is totally irrational and worthless, right? Unneeded consumer goods, gadgets, appliances, etc.
So, anyway, you'll just have to figure out for yourself whether the corporation you work for is actually a CIA cult.
I'll just keep the definition for now:
Cults PRIMARILY focus on the MORE powerful, with low cognition.
So, according to this definition, here is how I would rank the anti-war groups in the Bay Area, from MOST cognition at the top, to LEAST cognition at the bottom.
1. Paradigm from California (imaginenine.com)
2. Northern California 9/11 Truth Alliance
3. Sparticist League
4. United for Peace and Justice, Not in Our Name, South Bay Mobilization
5. ANSWER
6. Lyndon LaRouche
7. International Socialist Organization (ISO), World Can't Wait
8. Scientologists
NOTES ON ABOVE LIST
1. Paradigm from California is the only group (ok, it's not much of a functioning 'group' anymore, no more than a handful now, but it was created out of a group of 11 originally) to clearly articulate how counter-intelligence programs work, AND offer a full program for public education to increase the general population's intelligence. The Marxists groups say that once we have socialism, then we'll have intelligent education, which may be true, but it's not a solution.
2. All genuine grassroots 9/11 groups that amongst themselves try to figure out what the implications are for the current political situation, (that the Bush Junta pulled off the biggest hoax in history, and is currently almost succesfully enforcing the psy-war clamps that keep almost EVERYONE spouting the idiotic 'the darkie Arabs attacked us' lie), get big cognition props from me.
Not so much that their analyses are so psychiatrically brilliant (they rarely stray outside spooky investigative journalism), but AT LEAST they have SOME sense of the relative weight of the biggest most important facts (i.e. they can tell that missing WMDs are LESS politically important than Bush Planning 9/11), which gives their mind the capacity for beginning to sense the more elaborate and high-level facts about conscious lying and heirarchical manipulation described in the Paradigm.
3. Sparticist League vies very closely in my mind for the #2 spot with the genuine 9/11 Truth Alliances. It may well be that I just put Northern CA 9/11 Truth Alliance at #2 because I work for them, and they pay me to run their email list. Bias.
The program of the International Communist League, the super organization about the Sparticists, as far as I understand it. is a REAL political program. No jokes.
Practicable for real revolutionary change, modeled after the biggest communist revolution of them all in Russia.
Organizationally, as far as I have seen, they ACT in very cult-like ways. It's quite a shame, really. Amongst the energetic youth, their rally calls at demonstrations seem closer to anarchism than Marxism -- 'fuck the system' and all the rest.
Also, I once attended one of their forums, where I questioned a fundamental tenent of their program, that real communist groups must 'militarily defend' workers oppressed by imperialism.
I said that given the undisputed US military dominance around the world, that they could only mean 'military defense' in a symbolic way, referring to the Soviet program which was backed up by the Red Army.
But no, around seven people answered me in a row, one after the other, insisting, in almost the same words, that STILL, ACTUAL military defense is called for, and that they would send troops etc.
It seemed that most of the speakers were trying to impress their leaders with their dogmatism much more than answer the question of the questioner. (One smart, beautiful girl defended the position the best she could, and she probably answered it as well as any living Marxist, which is good, but not good enough, in the end, alas).
They are so high on the cognition ladder because SYSTEMICALLY they see through 9/11 operations, just with their geuine historical analysis of the anti-Soviet CIA Jihad in Afghanistan in the 70s/80s.
Nonetheless, they still fell for the 9/11 cover story, as far as I recall. They did NOT come out and say Bush did it, I'm sure of that. If you, reader, know better, tell me.
4. I lump all the other big anti-war groups, other than ANSWER together here, not having enough experience with the groups to give a FULL analysis of their level of co-optation and cult-like qualities.
The sense I get is that most are small, genuine anti-war groups. The REAL anti-war movement in America. They are basically cowed into submission by the ANSWER monopoly.
United for Peace and Justice TRIED to criticize ANSWER, but failed pretty miserably, as far as I can tell from the ANSWER refutation of their charges. The same would probably happen IF the 9/11 truth movement got a wider audience -- i.e. right-wingers would swoop in with even sharper accusations of mental instability, treason, inaccuracy, etc., which the 9/11 groups would not be able to formulate adequate responses to.
5. I've said enough about ANSWER already. I am trying to figure out how much of their onerous qualities come from Stalinist leftst conservatism. and how much comes from direct US military/CIA co-optation. I WISH I were clearer on this point than I am.
Both IF there is no CIA involvement, and they are just anti-democratic because of their Stalinist roots in leftist politics.
And IF there is CIA control of the group, just exactly how that works, because as far as I can tell 95%+ of the leadership are trying genuinely to end the war.
6. I originally had the ISO and World Can't Wait MORE cult-like than LaRouche, but I changed it because the LaRouche people are so much creepier FEELING than the ISO or WCW.
After going to this WCW event tonight, though -- jeez.. Something REAL fishy is going on with these folks. My best guess it that a big boost of CIA funding went into the Revolutionary Communist Party, with almost all of the leadership getting duped on the source of the funds until it was too late and the campaign was too well known publicly, and their reputations were too deeply entwined with it to disavow the ruse.
Some of their staffers exhibit really disgraceful levels of subservience and dogmatism. It has gotten to the point where seeing these people ENRAGES me, not because their anti-conversations are waste so much of the time and energy of everyone around me (which is real bad), but because it is a DISGRACE on humanity to manipulate young people and well-meaning people so shamelessly and with such degridation. That is what infuriates me most now. I feel bad for the WCW staffers.
The ISO has Campus Anti-War Network (CAN), which looks to me like it was created by the same satanic CIA imbeciles that created the World Can't Wait program. The ISO isn't as bad as CAN -- since it is only co-opted at much higher levels, the Left Gatekeeper level, leaving considerable room for cognition at the low-level, with well meaning boys and girls hawking their papers so aggressively.
7. LaRouche goes down here, because it seems that their main function is putting out weird reactionary pseudo-opposition slogans on the COVERS of their papers. I don't think they intend people to read the contents most of the time. It's just about chilling out the opposition with fresh CIA mind control slogans.
Then again, you know, I was actually reading through a whole issue, and LaRouche seems to share some of the POSITIVE aspects of political conservatism that the left lacks. Such as a realistic, numbers-based economic analysis.
Their presence anywhere gives me and 98% of everyone else the creeps, so they are pretty low on the list -- more cult-like.
8. And finally, the Einsatzgruppen of CIA mind control cults -- the Scientologists. Push FREE PERSONALITY TESTING on you, at the low-level, when you are in the street, and then they keep the virulent 9/11 disinformation for their web page.
These guys have a remarkable ability to locate any non-cult political activities going in San Francisco, and then dispatch their colored chit pushing stooges RIGHT IN FRONT of said genuine political activity.
They have walkie talkies to pull this off.
Hey, Gavin Newsom, if you happen to be reading this, BAN THE SCIENTOLOGISTS FROM SAN FRANCISCO -- THEY are destroying the mental climate of the streets, big time.
LaRouche too. BAN THEM.
They are pretending to be what they are not -- and confusing people thereby, making them make bad political decisions, which causes people to die. EXPOSE THEM and get rid of them.
OK, I know, since both groups are managed by the CIA, then it is out of the reach of only the most courageous (or idiotic, without the Paradigm backing him up) mayor to do so
It would take some planning -- but it could be done, and then everything in SF would be easier and opener to talk about politically -- even WITH the current level of consumer idiocy. It's not a full solution -- but it's a KEY part of the problem.
Their organization is totally illegitimate -- you need to do something about it.
Well those are my thoughts after attending this World Can't Wait event.
I have more -- like, the most dangerous thing about these synthetic opposition groups is that REAL activists get duped into working with them, and then almost ALL of the high-level value of their research, activism, and energy gets manipulatively funneled up THROUGH the front group, up to the big bullies on top.
The process is like having a huge leech stuck on the back of your neck, where, "Sure! You are free to talk at our event.".. but it all goes towards whatever idiotic slogan the group puts up (World Can't Wait, Act Now to Stop War and End Racism, Americans Coming Together, etc.), which means the big boys are lapping up the truth-finding and vitality from behind the curtain.
THAT is why the left always fails -- because all the energy and ideas that they have are sucked out of the general populace in a deceitful way, and then used to create even more APPARENTLY oppositional groups and campaigns.
workoutwell.blogspot.com
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