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Nazification and Sovietization of the "Great Recession"
This entry was posted on 12/29/2009 2:35 AM and is filed under Techno fascist asshole culture, Nazification of American culture, Jobless Recovery, Economic misery The facilitators of, Assignment of Meaning, Incremental tyranny, Obfuscation, Banality as evil, Bowling Ball Economics, Sovietization of American culture.
The obfuscation of the truth about the "Great Recession" continues. And the spin transcends political parties - two party-paradigm enablers that we all are.
The misinformation of disingenuous perpetual optimism comes from both sides; it is in their marketing interest to craft a false reality. It reminds me of a cult chant - "advertise and buy; advertise and buy...." Never mind that no jobs equals no money to...advertise and buy.
The subtle and not so subtle messages ad nauseam to us working schleps is, "Everything will be fine, quit worrying. If you have to live like an alley mutt dog in a cardboard box, it is your own fault."
And then there is usually a collective-media-noise-voice suggesting, "After all you unemployed ingrates, Stocks are up, the recovery is just around the corner, we know, 'cause we important media and political pundits says so."
"Don't you unemployed out there realize you are actually patriots? We are in a jobless recovery after all. And recovery means good, so if you are unemployed, you are part of the new recovery. Celebrate your contribution to the new norm," the pundits gleefully assert.
The problem is, "jobless recovery" was a derogatory term first used during the Great Depression. But right on cue, the "new norm" apologists have taken a once negative term and obfuscated it to mean, "down is really up." Job well done, Orwellian boobs.
They really do believe we have all just fallen off a turnip-truck, as the old timers used to say. I would counter that we as the real economic foot soldiers are literally economically dying out here! But, my pleas fall on deaf ears.
I am reminded of the old Soviet construct of diagnosing political dissidents, those souls who did not buy into the banal norm of Soviet style communism, as mentally defective. As well, I am reminded of the Nazis and their pre-World-War-II incorporation of the norm of fantasy-reality into the general banal population. One could be killed for just suggesting the "new order" was not perfect. So, these ruling-class techniques of social engineering of collective ordinary norms is nothing new.
The next time we hear for the one-thousandth time on the general media platform about "the economic recovery," I just can't forget it is in their interest to have us assume "they" have the answers about our "economic hell reality." That economic hell reality that's all just in our mistaken collective minds. According to the neo-information-distribution-Soviet/Nazi-manipulation rubric, if we are living in some kind economic hell, it is after all, just a misunderstanding of our own interpretation of our daily situations. This techno-fascist neo-reality of accepting our economic race to be economic bottom feeders is the disturbing product of time-tested propaganda techniques two failed totalitarian regimes crafted to manipulate and groom a collective conscious. A sad neo-reality indeed.
Wisconsin Military Service Person Special Mention of the Week
(each week Cooldadiomedia mentions a Wisconsin service person killed in Iraq or Afghanistan)
Staff Sergeant Todd Olson, 36, died December 27, 2004, at the 67th Combat Support Hospital in Tikrit, Iraq. He had sustained wounds a day earlier from a roadside bomb detonated in Samarra, Iraq. Olson's home was in Loyal, Wisconsin. Todd was killed two weeks after his Wisconsin National Guard unit arrived in Iraq. He died on patrol when hit by the bomb in Samarra, a town north of Baghdad. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel mentioned Olson had studied finance at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse; he was married and the father of three teenage boys and a five-year-old girl; he was a member of the Loyal School Board; a loan officer at the M&I Bank in Loyal and Neillsville; a youth group leader at Trinity Lutheran Church in Loyal; and, a youth football coach. Staff Sergeant Olson joined the National Guard after he graduated from Loyal High School in 1986. He was attached to the Neillsville Unit Detachment 1, Charley Company, 1st Battalion, 128th Infantry Regiment, Wisconsin Army National Guard. They had been activated for training in Mississippi in June of 2004 and arrived in Kuwait in November. The Journal Sentinel went on to say, Olson's unit was a part of the 278th Regimental Combat Team, a combination of soldiers from the Tennessee Army National Guard and Guard members from other states. The 278th made the news a few weeks before Todd's death when a soldier in the unit asked Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld why some American military members were forced to forage in Iraqi junk yards for armor to weld to and "up-armor" their Humvees. Staff Sergeant Olson was the 33rd Wisconsin military service person from Wisconsin to die in Iraq since spring 2003.
As of this blog entry's posting date:
94,939 Iraqi civilians have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
9,347 Iraqi Security Forces have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
4,373 Americans have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
937 Americans have been killed in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
317 Coalition soldiers have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
609 Coalition soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
31,613 U.S. troops have been wounded in action in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
4,737 U.S. troops have been wounded in action in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
101 Wisconsin soldiers have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
16 Wisconsin soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
139 journalists (several nationalities) have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
17 journalists (various nationalities) have been killed in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
Wisconsin military service person special mention of the week, military casualty, and journalist casualty information sources: Committee to Protect Journalists; cnn.com; Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; washingtonpost.com; thehighground.org; Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs; iraqbodycount.org; and, icasualties.org.
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