Global warming alarmists want Americans to believe that humans are killing the planet. But Not Evil Just Wrong, a new documentary by Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney, proves that the only threats to America (and the rest of the world) are the fl awed science and sky-is-falling rhetoric of Al Gore and his allies in environmental extremism. The film warns Americans that their jobs, middle-class lifestyles and dreams for their children will be destroyed if the government rushes to judgment and imposes job-killing regulations on an economy already mired in recession.
Not Evil Just Wrong exposes the deceptions about global warming that scientists, politicians, educators and the media have been force-feeding the public for years, including fear-mongering about floods and dying polar bears. The documentary shows how environmentalists are pushing the same kind of anti-human propaganda that triggered a ban DDT and condemned millions of children to death by malaria, a story recounted in the documentary. Not Evil Just Wrong asks: Is carbon dioxide the new DDT and are we taking the same risks with our future?
“The Smoking Argus Daily” is an official affiliate and as such will host an online viewing and chat session during the worldwide premiere on Sunday, October 18 beginning at 8:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.
“Not Evil Just Wrong” looks to debunk the myths promoted by environmental extremists.
A new documentary by Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney entitled, “Not Evil Just Wrong” looks to debunk the various pseudo-scientific notions presented by global-warming profiteers, such as former Vice-President Al Gore. A man who looks to foster fear of environmental catastrophe amongst people, spinning emotionally charged fables of dying polar bears in a manner all too similar to former President George W. Bush’s smoking-gun/ mushroom-cloud analogy prior to the invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003.
The directors look to combat what they view as the environmental movement’s most powerful weapon, disinformation. Consequently, “Not Evil Just Wrong” charges headlong into debunking the claim of “scientific consensus” as well as the infamous “hockey stick graph” that attributed a supposedly unique increase in temperature during the 20th Century to the industrialization of human society. The film further tasks itself with disproving several of the environmental movement’s core talking points, from the hottest years on record myth, to the preposterous notion that Co2, i.e. oxygen to all plant life, is poison.
According to the group’s media contact Travis Swindle, the documentary will reach global saturation as a result of the thousands of planned DVD/theatrical premieres as well as the free internet streams set to commence on Sunday, October 18 at 8:00 p.m. EST. Both the documentary’s website, NotEvilJustWrong.com and several affiliates such as Andrew Breitbart’s collaborative blog project, BigHollywood.com, will host the free streams in order to provide a smooth viewing experience.
With traditional media networks continuing to hemorrhage viewers, the potential for a successful premiere of a feature-length documentary at least in part over the internet, may provide a glimpse to the thus far elusive new-media business model.
“The Century of Self: The Engineering of Consent” is the second part of the award winning documentary by British documentarian Adam Curtis. Whereas he first episode provided insight to the origin of consumerism, this second installment illustrates how in post-WWII America, many came to believe that the basic animal instincts, as theorized by Sigmund Freud, were the root cause behind the rise of Nazism. Thus, in order to prevent the “animal” ever being unleashed in the future; academics, corporations and governments sought a way to manipulate and “domesticate” the human animal.
Sigmund Freud’s daughter, Anna, and his nephew, Edward Bernays, provided the centrepiece philosophy. The United States government, corporations, as well as the C.I.A. used their ideas to develop techniques to manage and control the minds of the American people. However these were not merely a cynical exercises in manipulation, as those in with the reigns of power believed that the only way to make the world “safe for democracy” and create a stable society was to repress basic human instincts that simmered just under the surface of post-war suburbia.
“The Century of Self – Happiness Machines” is the first part of the award winning documentary by British documentarian Adam Curtis. In this first installment, Mr. Curtis examines how through the writings and philosophy of Sigmund Freud via implementation by his extended family members such as Edward Bernays, the father of “public relations” reshaped America into a land of endless consumerism. Thereby, fundamentally altering the country from a rational needs based economy into an economy built upon an individual’s emotional desires and a multitude of disposable gadgets.
If you have ever wondered where the mentality of “keeping up with the Joneses” originated or gave pause to think where does this almost addict like longing for consumable goods stem from; so much so that Americans were/are willing to plunge themselves deep into banker financed debt, this documentary might just help broaden your understanding or at least provide an alternative perspective.
“Body of War” is a documentary by Ellen Spiro and Phil Donahue about the coming home story of twenty-five year old Iraq Veteran, Tomas Young. After being deployed in Iraq for less than a week, Tomas was inured by a stray bullet to his spine and left paralyzed. “Body of War” provides both an intimate look into Tomas’ life as he evolves into a powerfully motivating voice against the war and as he comes to terms with the complexities of his paralyzed body.
We are also provided an inside look within the halls of Congress as the drum beats for war were growing towards a deafening echo leading up to the March 2003 invasion of a sovereign nation. A nation, while led by a despicable despot, which posed no threat to our national security, contrary to the rhetoric by the Bush Administration.
In addition to the powerful story and lessons of why our nation desperately needs to return to a humble, non-interventionist foreign policy as envisioned by the founding generation, “Body of War”, provides an unforgettable 2-CD soundtrack which includes original works by Eddie Vedder, Pearl Jam, Ben Harper, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Waits, and others.
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Finally, “The Smoking Argus Daily” would like to thank “Iraq Veterans Against the War” for making this documentary available online for viewing and distribution by the new-media. If you enjoy the documentary, please consider purchasing a DVD of which “The Smoking Argus Daily” will donate 25% of proceeds directly to “Iraq Veterans Against the War” and another 25% directly to Tomas Young and his wife, Brie.*
At a time when the new administration is promising “free” government health care for all, let us not forget that this same government routinely reneges on its promises to provide quality first-rate health care for the approximate 3% of our population, the veterans, who are willing to fight and possibly die for this government’s infatuation of policing the world.
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Monsanto is the world leader in genetically modified crops (GMO’s)1, as well as one of the most controversial companies in industrial history. Since its foundation in 1901 as a chemical company founded in St. Louis, MO, Monsanto2 has been party to multiple lawsuits due to the toxicity of its products. Today it has reinvented itself as a “life sciences” “agricultural” claiming to produce products to help remake agriculture into a sustainable development model with less impact on the environment. The documentary cites numerous unpublished documents and the testimonies of victims, scientists and politicians. “The World According to Monsanto” pieces together the origins of an industrial empire, built upon lies, collusion with the American government via its bureaucracies, pressure and attempted corruption. If you enjoy this documentary, please consider purchasing the DVD online to support the documentarian and to help spread the message.
In an irony that could only come from government, Denver PBS station KBDI aired Aaron Russo’s America: Freedom to Fascism. As loyal readers of The Smoking Argus Daily know, the film is one of litany of items listed in the Missouri Information Analysis Center’s report that is considered a movie watched by homegrown radical terrorists. Additionally, during the standard PBS membership drive intermissions, Gary Franchi of RestoreTheRepublic.net is interviewed by Sherry Bernson of KBDI and speaks at length about the FEDERAL RESERVE as well as our stolen liberties at the hands of an over reaching government.
The Smoking Argus Daily, applauds the continuing effort of Mr. Franchi and KBDI for their willingness to spread a view not often expressed anywhere, let alone on government television.
Please take a moment to thank KBDI at 1-800-690-5234.
The legalized use of “enhanced interrogation techniques”, i.e. torture authorized by current and former members of the Bush Administration, as well as Vice-President Cheney and President Bush.
Our Opinion:
It is the opinion of this daily, that President Bush, Vice President Cheney, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, legal advisor to the President John Yoo, et al should all be prosecuted for War Crimes for their despicable and inhuman treatment of enemy prisoners of war under both the U.S. Uniform Code of Military Justice and Article III of the Geneva Convention as warned by the Supreme Court of the United States in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld in June of 2006. Further it is the opinion of the daily, that the aforementioned persons, accomplices, and any and all others found to be complicit with the utter perversion of the rule of law and of all that is good and decent, should be punished to the highest extent of the law up to and including capitol punishment; which we might add, would be a more humane form of punishment than what they sought to exact on enemy prisoners under their watch.
Government television, PBS, has begrudgingly agreed to air “Torturing Democracy”. However, the program will air on January 21st, 2009, one day after President Bush officially leaves office. Truth be told it should have been shown at its earliest availability, as the abuse evidenced within the documentary is enough to make one’s stomach turn, yet must be repudiated by our nation as wholly unacceptable. The evidence presented makes me ashamed to be an individual living in Neo-America. Everything our founders fought so hard to secure, has been squandered away. Not only have we allowed our inherent liberties to be legislatively curtailed in a post 9/11 world, almost silently the Bush Administration and its demented perverse sycophants, wholly jettisoned every last shred of our Republic’s decency.
The thought occurred to me as I watched memo after memo and heard line after line of official interrogation detail, that had I been taken captive or kidnapped via a rendition, that my retaliation to such treatment would be to bash my head against the wall until I was dead. Shortly thereafter, actual film from inside Abu Ghraib shows a detainee doing exactly this after being subjected to a variety of acts no reasonably decent person could even fathom.
Many of the “enhanced interrogation techniques” come from the C.I.A.’s 1963 “KUBARK”1 manual which was so severe and inhumane that it was originally shelved. That is at least until Afghanistan, when it was dusted off and its techniques reemployed on enemy combatants. Techniques range from multiyear isolation, total sleep deprivation, water-boarding, to threats of repeatedly raping or killing one’s family members all in the hopes of obtaining a confession. In fact some of the techniques employed date back to punishments inflicted by the Spanish Inquisition as well as those of the former Soviet Union’s K.G.B.
Experienced soldiers and other military personnel will tell you, torturing only yields whatever will make the interrogator stop the abuse. Nonetheless and even though 500 of the approximately 700 to 800 detainees at Guantanamo have been released and never charged, countless were subjected to these techniques of dehumanization and legalized torture thanks to the sociopaths within the Bush Administration.
If we are to retain and restore the image of America, we must begin by forever outlawing this type of treatment in precise words so as not to give any room for a future John Yoo or Alberto Gonzales. Secondly, we must demand as decent law abiding Americans that all of those in the Bush Administration including the President, be tried and found guilty of Treason for their gross negligence both to their oaths of office and torturous war crimes; legalized, advanced, and committed on their behalf.
The film may be viewed in its entirety ahead of the scheduled January 21st, 2009 broadcast at TorturingDemocracy.org Additionally, their website has every single Presidential Directive, memo, and interrogation detail cited in the movie for your personal review.
As our Republic continues to swerve recklessly away from its Constitutional founding, the opportunity for us to salvage what so many have died for, slides further away from our grasp. Just as Winter has begun to set in across the nation, our Liberties seem to have fallen away like leaves lost into the breeze. Whether it be legalized torture or the Department of Homeland Security suspending the Constitution along the border, the country I fell in love with as a child, looks less and less like the land of the free.
Many amongst us are pinning their hopes of a better tomorrow on yet another politician who promises “change” from the status-quo and business as usual in Washington. However, within hours of the election, his “transition” website, laid out his and his enforcer’s vision of mandatory unpaid servitude for the youth of our nation. Shortly thereafter upon echoing criticism ringing across the blogosphere, they whitewashed the website and scurried their indentured labor force back under the rug. The Obama transition team decided to replace the compulsory service text with toned down verbiage so as not to cause a scandal prior to his formal coronation.
In this Winter of our discontent, there are a few sparks which seek to reignite our lost sense of self. It has for a long time now been my opinion that the planets must have aligned to have allowed such an assembly of thinkers such a Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin and the rest of the founding generation to have known to each other in order to be able to hammer out Independence and beat back tyranny. Perhaps, we may be so fortunate yet again, to recapture that spirit of ’76 with a new gathering of minds dedicated to reason and human liberty. One such intellect where parallels can be drawn is Naomi Wolf. Her latest works, “The End of America” and “Give Me Liberty” are written with such a dedication and sound resolve towards the virtues of freedom that the pages in her books seem to echo the spirit and tenacity of Thomas Paine.
In support of the ideas presented in, “The End of America”, and to help spread the word virally in the internet age, Ms. Wolf has released an online video where she covers the ten steps taken time and again, by all would-be tyrants in a closing society. The movie is available free for online viewing and is a must see for those in tune with our current state of affairs. Her content and tone is so well reasoned and articulated, even those who refuse to acknowledge the danger, must at least pause to question, what our Republic will resemble in two, five, or ten years from now.
The video can be viewed here, and please if you find her presentation to be a powerful arguement as to why we need to restore, preserve and defend our American Republic, please consider passing it along via DiGG, del.icio.us, StumbleUpon, etcetrera.
Have you ever really been a fan of something only to find out it is a wolf in sheep’s clothing, i.e. the classic bait and switch? My partner and I enjoyed watching the original Zeitgeist last year as it railed against the establishment, the Federal Reserve, and threw a critical eye to the origins of modern religion. We applauded what seemed to be a philosophy based in challenging the status quo.
This past Summer, while leaving a comment on a friend’s MySpace profile, I stumbled across the trailer for “Zeitgeist II: Addendum”. The trailer indicated it would premiere on October 3rd, 2008 and as such I eagerly awaited its online release. However, having researched further into the Zeitgeist website, its source material, and underlying philosophical motivations, this blogger is thoroughly convinced it is yet another finely crafted slick marketing piece advocating globalism.
The Zeitgeist homepage has a link beneath the Addendum place holder image, listed as
“-IMPORTANT REFERENCE SOURCES-”. Clicking the link takes you to a page that states:
Note: We at Zeitgeistmovie.com promote the following “Zeitgeist: Addendum”
reference material because of our belief in the importance of the message. We
make absolutely no money off of sales.
Following their fervent non threatening statement of “belief in the message” the site then points viewers to “One of the Most Important Books you will ever read”, entitled “The Best that Money Can’t Buy” by, Jacque Fresco. Peter Joseph, director and producer of ZeitGeist I and II further reinforces his adamant support for the aforementioned book stating:
This book was a critical influence for Parts 3 and 4 of “ZeitGeist: Addendum”
Unfortunately, this book is nothing more than another half-ass attempt at “perfecting human society” through a “resource based economy”. This same “goal” has been advocated relentlessly by the plutocratic oligarchs in their veiled attempt to market humanity oppression, disguised in benign gift wrapping. This is the same ultimate goal as the failed “League of Nations” and its predecessor, “The United Nations” which also advocates, one world governed without borders for the benefit of humanity. (insert Kum-Ba-Yah chorus here).
Following the link to the “Venus Project”, one is taken to what looks like a Star Trek junkie’s bad acid trip, who is obviously stuck in some bizarre 1970′s science-fiction-midlife crisis. Behind the gaudy rendering of future buildings, home, bridges etc, is the real bowl of crazy behind “The Venus Project”. Clicking on the Venus Project’s statement on a “Resource Based Economy”, one is greeted by the insidious goal of the group. The 6th paragraph or setup, of the group’s statement, utterly contradicts subsequent paragraphs, stating:
We must emphasize that this approach to global governance has nothing whatever in common with the present aims of an elite to form a world government with themselves and large corporations at the helm, and the vast majority of the world’s population subservient to them. Our vision of globalization empowers each and every person on the planet to be the best they can be, not to live in abject subjugation to a corporate governing body.
However, just two paragraphs down, they state their philosophy’s mean to achieve its end:
At present, we have enough material resources to provide a very high standard of living for all of Earth’s inhabitants. Only when population exceeds the carrying capacity of the land do many problems such as greed, crime and violence emerge. By overcoming scarcity, most of the crimes and even the prisons of today’s society would no longer be necessary.
So since we as intellectual, intelligent, individuals, who do not live under rocks know; resources are already less than balanced for a population of 6.8 Billion and rising.
So how exactly does Mr. Jacque Fresco expect to “balance the carrying capacity of the land” and do away with prisons? Furthermore, how is it any different than this Council on Foreign relations globalist asshole?
Or this statement from the United Nations 1994 International Conference on Population and Development:
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With these changes, the focus of United Nations population conferences shifted from expertise to policy. In the minds of donor governments and population activists, the main purpose of population conferences became, arguably, the effort to make governments more aware of their population problems and to encourage and assist them in lowering the birthrate.
So while I am all for getting rid of the Federal Reserve and the debt based economy, challenging those in power, questioning the origins of modern religions, abolishing the Income Tax, etcetera. My philosophy does not align with yet another example of elite statism, disguised by Peter Joseph and his movie as revolutionary. My great hope is that there will be a second age of reason, whereby humanity regains its inherent rights and liberty by throwing off the oppressive hands of tyranny, not merely replacing one group of elitist plutocrats with another.
Don’t Tread on Me!
Source(s): ZeitgeistTheMovie.com – TheVenusProject.com - United Nations: 1994 International Conference on Population and Development
