JOHN PILGER
November 6, 2009

The Australian silence has unique features. It affects our national life, the way we see the world, and the way we are manipulated by great power which speaks through an invisible government of propaganda that subdues and limits our political imagination and ensures we are always at war - against our own first people and those seeking refuge, or in someone else's country.

Last July Kevin Rudd said: ''It's important for us all to remember here in Australia that Afghanistan has been a training ground for terrorists worldwide, a training ground also for terrorists in South-East Asia, reminding us of the reasons that we are in the field of combat and reaffirming our resolve to remain committed to that cause.''

There is no truth in this statement. It is the equivalent of John Howard's lie that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. Rudd was standing outside a church on a Sunday when he said this. No reporter challenged him. No one said: "Prime Minister, 'There is no war on terror. It's a hoax. But there is a war of terror waged by governments, including the Australian Government, in our name.'"

Over a century ago, Lord Curzon, viceroy of India, wrote: ''I confess that countries are pieces on a chessboard on which is being played out a great game for the domination of the world."

Do the young people who wrap themselves in the flag at Gallipoli every April understand that only the lies have changed? Like Kevin Rudd's stage-managed press conferences outside his church, the symbols of Anzac are constantly manipulated in this way. Marches. Medals. Flags. The pain of a fallen soldier's family. Serving in the military, says the Prime Minister, is Australia's highest calling. The squalor of war, the killing of civilians, has no reference in this higher calling. What matters is the illusion.

The aim is to ensure our silent complicity in a war of terror and in a massive increase in Australia's military arsenal, as the recent white paper calls for. The Rudd Government and the Pentagon have launched a competition to build military robots which, it is said, will do the ''army's dirty work'' in ''urban combat zones''. What urban combat zones? What dirty work? Silence.

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Source: The Age

abu_rashid wrote on Nov 7^th, 2009 at 10:19pm:

"Governments change, the lies remain the same."

James Bond - GoldenEye


paraphrasing,

The journalists may change, but the lies remain the same.






We live in a world filled with wickedness and deception.

Does the lack of  apparent  competence, and candour, of our political and community leaders surprise you?

Why should it?

Collectively,

we

elect these men.

Our leaders, are 'us'.

We, are the moral whores.

We, love lies, and we, turn away from TRUTH.

Is it so strange then, if get leaders, who are so much like ourselves?


We, hate TRUTH, and we love lies.

Why?

BLACK IS WHITE, AND WHITE IS BLACK.
UP IS DOWN, AND DOWN IS UP.





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Deuteronomy 32:1
Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.
2  My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:
3  Because I will publish the name of the LORD: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.
4  He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
5  They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation.


Isaiah 5:20
Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!


James 4:1
From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
2  Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
3  Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
4  Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.