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The CIA holds sway at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting? The Carlyle Group and George Soros push their philosophies at the Nation?

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Is it true? Is everybody owned and co-opted? Every opinion washed and sanitized - On the Left?

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t hate “foundations,” I do like Bill Moyers, and I do think Noam Chomsky has made more than his fair share of good points in his long career.

But I do know from personal experience that the “lefty” media has its biases and limits, and those gags run silent and deep. That is, “approved-liberal-think” silences anybody and any story that tests the rather Utopian, often light-weight, quasi-religious beliefs of the self-proclaimed “liberal media” in the US and Europe:

“Capitalism must Go! Down with corporations! Up with Sisterhood! Aids drugs for Africa! Gay rights (and Hiv tests!!) The US is the cause of all problems in history!! [Oppressed pseudo-minority group] Rights!! NOW!!!”

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McCain offers his service – and seems 1,000 times less insane than our current president.

(All quotes are paraphrases from memory of having just listened).

John McCain gives a very strong, but un-florid speech to a crowd that has not always loved him. An earthy speech, with blessedly few “Amen” choruses and “Can I get a witness!” lines, of the kind that mark the rhetoric since Reagan (Clinton, Bush).

He even threw cold water in the audience’s face at one point, declaring the “Latina daughter of migrant workers,” to be a “US Citizen.”

Uh-huh. Pulling that in St. Paul, in Rush Limbaugh’s den? That is a maverick.
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A hollow and unconvincing Democratic convention (but not for lack of production); A more than occasionally hollow and unconvincing Presidential candidate … An incredibly hollow and totally unconvincing Vice Presidential pick…

And McCain wins it:

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Cedu survivors, grads and escapees - tell me if this looks familiar?
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Brochures, circa 2000, for the Cedu Schools. (click to enlarge).

I invite you to look at the glossy images below, and compare that with the testimonials from ex-Cedu (and Cedu-type) schools, listed at Cafety.org [here and here] and Fornits.com.

In the forums at Cafety and Fornits, ex-students, and a few staff and parents, share stories of invasive and abusive programs, run by untrained and often dangerous individuals, whose primary qualification for working with troubled youth (or young people sent away by wealthy, but irresponsible parents), is that they were and are extremely troubled themselves.

But in the brochures?
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Putin’s Russia invades, bombs, bisects and terrorizes a sovereign nation.

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Twenty Questions on Ethics and Standards for the New York Times.

In 2005, I was interviewed by New York Times reporter Janny Scott about the Incarnation Children’s Center (ICC) scandal. My investigation had revealed that orphaned children were being used in taxpayer and Pharma–funded drug studies in a Catholic orphanage in New York City.
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Yes, the New Yorker, the favored journal of nearly 2,000 gin-sipping upper East Side Manhattanites, shocks the world by printing something that can be understood by the average American.

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– “You need to make sure your child can speak Spanish“

Pandering. Missing the point. Getting the realpolitik entirely wrong. Sounding like the Holy Harvard man that I hoped he wasn’t…And to think I sort of liked the guy.

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The Cedu Schools put their students through at least nine overnight and/or multi-day “emotional growth experiences.” Graduates and survivors of the schools can tell you the unbelievable details – or you can read them about some of them here.

Below find the scripts, by which former drug addicts, alcoholics, criminals and drop-outs put the children of middle and upper class neglectful parents through the 60s-70s mind-warps they invented.

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We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;

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Published at GNN, June 2008

- An orphan in New York City receiving Aids drugs - was he ever really infected?

The World Health Organization confesses that 25 years of international Aids projections and programs were based on fear, not evidence. But they still want you to believe them.

It is official: Aids is not explicable by sexual transmission. There is no heterosexual Aids pandemic, and further, there will be no heterosexual Aids pandemic.

“Threat of world Aids pandemic among heterosexuals is over, report admits”, The Independent announced on Sunday, June 8, 2008, mimicking what I have been reporting for years (and what some of my colleagues have been reporting for decades).

No, really. But take it from someone you trust, Dr. Kevin de Cock of the World Health Organization: “[T]here will be no generalised epidemic of Aids in the heterosexual population outside Africa.”

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The mainstream medical community is beginning to understand the limits of the Aids venture into Africa. Persons who are serious about improving the lives of the poorest in the world are thinking twice about the monies spent on the Aids campaign.

There is a call for the permanent disbanding of the United Nations Aids division, in order to re-focus efforts on the myriad of problems that plague Africans: Lack of food, water, work, safety, and basic medical care for malaria, tuberculosis, and dysentery.

The writing is on the wall for UNAIDS

By Roger England, chairman, Health Systems Workshop, Grenada
The British Medical Journal

HIV exceptionalism is dead—and the writing is on the wall for UNAIDS. Why a UN agency for HIV and not for pneumonia or diabetes, which both kill more people? [….]

UNAIDS should be closed down rapidly, not because it has performed badly given its mandate, which it has not, but because its mandate is wrong and harmful. Its technical functions should be refitted into WHO, to be balanced with those for other diseases.

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A couple years ago, in the San Francisco branch of Whole Foods Market, off of steep and divisionary slope of Van Ness Blvd, I picked up a flat package containing a fistful of cold, cooked white rice, and a few pieces of bloody tuna thrown this way and that. I brought it to the help desk, and asked, “What is this?”

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Clinton tells the press, ‘Drop out? But the ‘hope’ man hasn’t been assassinated yet! Just give it a month!’:

“My husband [Nepotism-Monarchy Alert!] did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June, right? We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California. I don’t understand it,” she said.

- ‘Die, Black Man, Die,’ says Hilly, on the trail. Hope dies last, indeed!
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