Student Revolt at the School of Authentic Journalism and Narco News

by: Stu Piddy

Wed Feb 24, 2010 at 21:04:07 PM EST

I have recently written to students and others connected to Narco News and the School of Authentic Journalism both publicly and privately about the strong amicable associations and connections between the ICNC and right wing extremists like Michael Ledeen who has been justifiably accused as being the author of the Niger Forgeries, as he has been exposed as a forger using the same methodology in the past.

Today I read that there was an upheaval at the The School of Authentic Journalism about all the subjects that I wrote about just prior to the school opening in February.

http://narconews.com/lab/node/33

There is no mention of the upheaval in the Narco News bulletin. There is only positive news in the Narco News Bulletin about the school. Instead it's printed in some obscure website that is associated with the School.

I sent information about the queer associations publicly and  privately.  The only people that I know of who have written about these subjects are Eva Golinger a author and Venezuelan journalist who mentions the ICNC briefly as being anti-Chavez and Stephen Gowans. I discovered the connections independently and then read that Stephan Gowans had made the same discovery. His analysis is superior.

In any case, the Students attending the School of Authentic Journalism especially those from Venezuela's Telesur, wanted to know why one of the "professors" there, a Jack Duvall, had been part of an organization that attempted to overthrow the regime of Hugo Chavez in Venezuela.  

Unfiltered: Hatian People Speaking About Their Situation

by: Stu Piddy

Fri Feb 19, 2010 at 15:16:36 PM EST

Weekend Edition
February 19 - 21, 2010

Living Under Green Plastic

Voices of Haiti's Homeless

By BILL QUIGLEY

The United Nations reported there are 1.2 million people living in "spontaneous settlements" or homeless camps around Port au Prince.  Three people living in the camps spoke with this author this week, before the hard rains hit.

Jean Dora, 71

My name is Jean Dora.  I was born in 1939.  I live in a plaza in front of St. Pierre's church in Petionville [outside of Port au Prince].  I am here with twelve members of my family.  We all lost our home.

We have a sheet of green plastic to shade us from the sun.  We put up some bed sheets around our space.  

I have many small grandchildren living here with me.  My son and daughters live with here too.

My daughter will soon have a child.  She will go to the Red Cross tent when it is time for the baby to come.

I worked for the Chinese Embassy for 36 years.  I cleaned their offices.  I retired in 2007.   Until the earthquake I lived in an apartment with my family.  The building was destroyed.

At night we put a piece of carpet down on the ground.  Then we lay covers down and try to sleep.  When it rains, the water comes in.

We bring bottles to fill up with water.  But we have very little food.

There is no toilet in the park.  We must go behind the church.

My son used to work to support us.  He is a good chef.  He worked at a restaurant by the Hotel Montana.  The restaurant was destroyed.  He lost his job.  There is no work.

During all my days, I have never seen anything like this.   I am not in a good position to say what will happen next.  I think things are not going to change.  I hope things will get better.  But I don't think so.

My son has no job and he cannot help our family.  If my son is working, we can all stand up.  If he is not working, we are down.

The future is not clear.  It looks dark for us.

Nadege Dora, 28

My name is Nadege Dora.  I am 28.  I have three boys and one girl.  I am supposed to deliver my baby this month.

I now live in the plaza in Petionville with the rest of my family.  Our house was destroyed.   I used to sell bread on the street to make a little money. The father of the children does not help us.  It is as if we are not alive to him.

We are just trying to survive.  No one in our family is working.  There is no work.

If you get a ticket you can go get a bag of rice.  But I am a pregnant woman.  I cannot fight the crowds for a ticket.  I tried.  But people were squashing me and I was afraid I would get knocked down and crushed.

My niece helped a woman bring rice back from Delmas [another neighborhood outside of Port au Prince].  She shared her rice with us.  Right now we still have some rice.  But we have no oil.  No meat, no milk, nothing but rice.  We have no money to buy other ingredients.

Since the earthquake I have never eaten a full meal.

When my baby comes, I will go to the Red Cross tent to have the baby.  I went there to see a Doctor.  They gave me some pills.  Those pills made me sick.

The mayor came here and asked people if we had relatives in the countryside.  They would help us go there.  But we do not want to go to the countryside.  We don't know anybody in the countryside.  We need to have a better life than this.

Depression and The American Smile

by: Stu Piddy

Tue Feb 16, 2010 at 11:50:25 AM EST

Is it due to the possibility that the United States is about to enter an economic free fall? And that once U.S. securities are no longer being purchased, the possibility of paying off the debt becomes impossible and the only specific solution to that is to inflate the dollar. Once the dollar is inflated and made worthless, it can be used to pay off debt in a very phoney way. It's the way it's been done for a long time.  

The School of Authentic Journalism

by: Stu Piddy

Tue Feb 09, 2010 at 00:07:00 AM EST

The School of Authentic Journalism is supported by Matching Grants from Peter Ackerman's International Center for Non-Violent "Conflict".  Jack Duvall who will be teaching "students" at the School is a member of the ICNC.  

Peter Ackerman is a close associate of Neo-Con Michael Ledeen. They write articles together.

Peter Ackerman is a promoter of "freedom" in the Ukraine and the Orange Revolution. The Orange Revolution was reversed this week.

Ackerman's support in 2004 for Conflict in the Ukraine based on the idea that the 2004 elections were fraudulent helped result in the installation of a capitalist, free market president Viktor Yushchenko. This week voters voted again for Viktor Yanukovych who Peter Ackerman seems to believe stole the election the first time. Did he steal the election the first time?

Jack Duvall who hob-nobs with the likes of CIA directors, neo cons and other people of the far right is a teacher there at the school, promoting and teaching the value of Conflict.

Duvall, who along with Peter Ackerman who has supported the training of Anti Chavez Venezuelans in the "art" of "Non-Violent Conflict" will be teaching young and old journalists on how to create CONFLICT in nations that Freedom House, Narco News and the ICNC feels need more freedom. Nations like the Ukraine. Nations that more often than not have an alliance with perceived antagonists of the United States. Nations like Iran,  Cuba and Venezuela.  

Assassinations Of U.S. Citizens is LEGAL: Dennis Blair

by: Stu Piddy

Thu Feb 04, 2010 at 22:14:34 PM EST

"In testimony before the House Intelligence Committee today, National Intelligence Director Dennis Blair told representatives that American citizens can be assassinated by the US government when they are oveseas.

Blair said the comments were intended to "reassure" Americans that there was a "set of defined policy and legal procedures" in place and that such assassinations are always carried out by the book."

Just don't go overseas. Well, it's no clear if you can be assassinated while in the country. Blair didn't say U.S. Citizens in America aren't being assassinated.

Mourning the Fallen

by: Stu Piddy

Wed Feb 03, 2010 at 12:12:39 PM EST

We must mourn the loss of the fallen. This past Sunday another one of our members serving the cause of freedom fell in battle in Pakistan.

Let us give pause and partake in the wonder of prayer, for prayer is our only way of contacting the Holy Father in the name of these brave soldiers of God who go into battle without question, without regret, without concern for their own safety and who simply do their job of making the world one that reflects God's image.

1¢ of Every Dollar Donated Goes to the Haitian Government. Americans are Predators

by: Stu Piddy

Tue Feb 02, 2010 at 15:42:37 PM EST

http://www.seacoastonline.com/...

AMY GOODMAN: The Associated Press reports that the Haitian government is receiving less than a penny for each dollar the United States spends on aid efforts in Haiti. Thirty-three cents of every dollar goes to the US military?
BILL QUIGLEY: Yes. Everybody who's concerned should take a look at that brief report, because a third of it goes to military response, another third of it is going through and that, that-who knows how much of that money is actually getting into the hands of Haitians? And only one cent.

http://www.democracynow.org/20...

The Big Event is Coming

by: Stu Piddy

Fri Jan 29, 2010 at 14:15:31 PM EST

This event would be much larger, I suspect than an airliner or group of airliners going down. It would be centrally located and probably larger in terms of long lasting damage than 911.

The ruling elements of the United States will use the opportunity of this Big Event to further its agenda of complete corporate and military corporate control over domestic and foreign policy.  

This seems to be a pattern.

This movement, the final movement toward an autocratic state seems inevitable. It IS where the United States and many other nations are currently moving toward. To speed up and finalize the process for the long term, it needs a triggering event.

A movement toward authoritarian control and a desire for such an event exist side by side. It has wide public support in the USA.

Many people in the United States have adopted a suicidal attitude toward their shared collective life in the USA.  It's institutionalized in religion. That suicidal urge is not being dampened or held in check by competing ideologies to the extent it was previously. Collective sacrifice is  being more openly talked about, discussed and debated by the media in the form of God's plan, or the "end of times".

It is a physical urge no longer held in check, that seeks resolution. It is a part of American culture. It is an felt urge for self-destruction. It is an anger that seeks expression and is embedded in the American psyche and uses as a cover to disguise itself and it's terrible irrationality, a so called  Judeo-Christian  "philosophy".  

This anger is an anger turned inward. It is no mistake that Christ "sacrificed himself" for our sins (and we should be like Christ) , or that Muslims sometimes beat themselves bloody in religous ritual.  

The Case for Human Slavery: Obama's State of the Union Address

by: Stu Piddy

Tue Jan 26, 2010 at 11:23:20 AM EST

Obama will give his state of the Union Address and no one will notice what it means.

He's going to implement a "spending freeze" on many domestic programs. The military budget and homeland security will not be affected. Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are also apparently exempt from freezes at this time. But do these domestic freezes impact in any way Social Security (Lockheed Martin now runs the Social Security Program) Medicare or Medicaid? Heavily sedated American minds would like to know.

So while the publics money has been used to "save the banks" and their property and wealth diminished as a result, the next phase is to stop any increase in government spending on many domestic or public programs.

Will  Senators and Congressman have their wages frozen?

Afghan War Will Take Longer Than the Iraq War: Petraues

by: Stu Piddy

Mon Jan 25, 2010 at 10:23:42 AM EST

http://news.antiwar.com/2010/0...

As a pretentious, hate-filled, self involved blogger I reported on  a little known incident in 2005 about General Petraues. I put together a few pieces, which  reveals the following:

""If we proceed down the road we are currently on, there will be serious legal issues that will land us all in jail," Stoffel wrote in an e-mail to a senior assistant to U.S. Army Lt. Gen. David H. Petraeus, who was overseeing the task force in charge of the arms deal, according to the story."

Stoffel was murdered 8 days after sending the E-mail to General Petraeus. It must have been a coinkadink. It was the "terrorists" who killed him you see. A bunch of them got together the night before, decided to form a group, gave themselves a name and then gunned him down and disbanded, never to be heard of again immediately after. They just wanted to be terrorists that day.

Anyway,, thank God the Iraq war is over

http://www.reuters.com/article...

U.S. Government Conspires against Conspiracy Theorists

by: Stu Piddy

Fri Jan 15, 2010 at 17:53:45 PM EST

http://fto.co.za/news/barack-o...

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/pa...

Here is an article by Obama 's appointee to head the Office of Information and Regulatory affairs which sounds very much like the papal office for the Inquistion.

It's an office of propaganda and suggest that government agents acting as bloggers undermine other bloggers who suggest that the stated aims of the government are inconsistent with the actual actions of the government.

In other words, anyone suggesting a conspiracy by the government should be dealt with through an agency that is set up to conspire against the conspiracy theorists by creating doubt about the conspiracies through blogging and actual infiltration into any groups like the 911 "Truthers" to destroy their credibility.

The idea of Obama and Bush is to destroy the ideas of "conspiracy theorists" through conspiracy.

This is already happening and has been going on for a long time. It occurs on an informal basis and I'm sure it occurs as part of a government strategy as well.

Was Hitler Really All that Bad?

by: Stu Piddy

Sat Jan 09, 2010 at 21:13:12 PM EST

Obama likes dogs. Special Ones for the kids.

Both Obama and Hitler are/were world leaders. World leaders have a lot in common. They all like to do the same kinds of things. Things for the people. They want to help people. They want to lead people to places, nice places, place people will like. They have done this throughout world history. People follow them because they like to go to nice places. Nice places are nice. I like nice places too.

Oliver Stone is doing a HBO mini series on Stalin, Hitler and Truman among others that gives us what he might call a under reported-history. Historical information  that isn't typically presented in schools or text.

Hitler's  name has magical properties. Jesus, Hitler and the word "Jew" also have magical properties. They are untouchable. They are words that cannot be evaluated. They are not variables, they are constants. There can be no discussion of these words and their meanings as the words themselves are ultra sensitive and cause immediate emotional reactions and defensive often contradictory verbal reports on the emotional reactions.

Who was Hitler? The most horrible, despised man to have ever lived on Earth? HIs name is used as a bludgeon. It's magical. It stops conversation. It's used as a powerful weapon by politicians and lay people alike when used to pointedly attack someone else or some  political idea or position.  But  who was he? How did he become "Hitler"?

Well as usual you can probably thank Britain and the United States for creating the situation that helped bring about his ascension to power.

Speaking on a panel at the Television Critics Tour in Pasadena Saturday, Stone even got started with this little ditty: "Hitler was an easy scapegoat."

Before anyone add the epithet of Nazi sympathizer to the filmmaker's long-accumulated list of vilifications, his collaborator on the documentary project, American University history professor Peter Kuznick, stood up quickly, attempting to re-assure TV writers that "We despise Hitler and everything he ever did, but we are going to try to explore Hitler from an historical phenomenon."

Disturbed by what he thinks is a grossly inadequate history teaching acumen in American schools and in mass media, Stone has sought to craft an alternative 10-hour crash course on the 20th century, full of what he believes are lost and under-reported crucial facts.

Obama May Be the Last American President

by: Stu Piddy

Thu Dec 31, 2009 at 14:47:05 PM EST

According to Jeremy Scahill, 70% of the Pentagon has been privatized. That means that the Pentagon is now made up of private companies who profit from war or preparation for war and the expansion of war. They are also in the business of advertising their military products as a means to security. Their products are all used in war and it is through war that greater security can be obtained.

http://rebelreports.com/post/2...

Consequently Obama is expanding war, not contracting war. And the results of these actions are like playing with big matches in a leaky gas refinery. Something might explode.

It's easy to start a war. It's not easy to stop it. Bombing Pakistan, Yemen, Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia and starting fires in Iran, Nigeria, Columbia, Venezuela can only lead to bigger and bigger explosions.

I keep on thinking about what Iv'e heard about Nostradamus and his alleged prediction of the Anti-Christ. I don't know much about Nostradamus, but I do know something about Barak Obama.

Obama is a violent man. He is entirely political. He is cold and he has no depth of feeling. He, like George Bush is disarming and shallow emotionally. Obama appears to be one of a long line of American presidents and world leaders who have been sociopaths.

Once again I will say, the purpose of a world leader is to confuse the public and keep them disarmed, off balance. They do this through simple devices like being humorous, appearing vulnerable, being self deprecatiing, and making themselves very visible when doing ordinary things. They want to show the side of them that's "just like you and me".    

The Incredible World

by: Stu Piddy

Fri Dec 25, 2009 at 16:27:41 PM EST

James Cameron's Avatar is Subversive. Encourages U.S. Military to Turn Against Itself

by: Stu Piddy

Tue Dec 22, 2009 at 16:16:20 PM EST

It suggests that the U.S. military is involved in it's many wars, it's invasions of foreign lands for profit and that it seeks to use liberal marketing through rhetoric to dampen the public's guilt that these wars are racial and for profit. In Avatar, the wars are presented as being necessary for security reasons.  

The International Center for Non-Violent Conflict is all about Violence and War

by: Stu Piddy

Tue Dec 08, 2009 at 18:16:47 PM EST

(Peter Ackerman top, Michael Ledeen bottom)

Another associate of the International Center for Non-Violent Conflict responded to my diary pointing out the association of Peter Ackerman founder of the ICNC to Michael Ledeen who is a Neo-Con accused of the Niger Forgeries which led to war with Iraq and many other known forgeries, listed below. Here is the response from a ICNC associate. The ICNC and Peter Ackerman are funders of Narco News.

"Dear Mr. Piddy: Like Stephen Zunes, I've also worked with ICNC, and I'm afraid that Mr. Ackerman writing a single op-ed with someone is zero evidence of any relationship with the co-author beyond the words in the article. If all the scholars and pundits who'd ever co-written op-eds were to be held responsible for the other writings and doings of their co-authors, all of them would eventually be responsible for everything that any of them were doing, which of course is impossible. Zunes actually did a trenchant article on why this kind of logic ("X knows Y who knows Z, so X is responsible for what Z does") doesn't hold water:

http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/56...

Let me respond by saying the following:

Mr Ackerman has written at least 2 articles with Michael Ledeen, not one. Here's the second.

http://www.iranvajahan.net/cgi...

Here Mr. Ledeen calls Mr. Ackerman his friend.

"My friend Peter Ackerman will delight in these pictures;  he has long been an advocate of non-violent revolution.  As I have." Michael Ledeen

http://pajamasmedia.com/michae...

Michael Ledeen refers to his friend Peter Ackerman often as  illustrated in this comment for the American Enterprise Institute

"As Peter Ackerman reminds me, just because the opposition isn't using guns, the confrontation is not less conflictual. The goal is to bring down the regime and that will take discipline, courage, and very large numbers." Michael Ledeen

http://www.aei.org/article/22711

Michael Ledeen and Peter Ackerman are friends and they have a common political point of view. That is why they write articles together, refer to themselves as friends and appear on the same boards together.

PNAC/CIA Connections at NARCO NEWS and the The School for Authentic Journalism

by: Stu Piddy

Mon Nov 30, 2009 at 21:27:46 PM EST

PNAC is the Project for a New American Century. Peter Ackerman is the founder and source of all funding for the ICNC, a  group that funds Narco News.

Al Giordano wrote a response to a diary on Narco News and it's involvement with Jack Duvall and Peter Ackerman who have both been board members with former CIA chief and PNAC spokesman James Woolsey at Freedom House and The Arlington Insitute:

Obama is a President of Terror and War, not Peace

by: Stu Piddy

Sun Nov 29, 2009 at 20:03:32 PM EST

The increase in troops in Afghanistan does not reflect a reduction of troops in Iraq. Along with the troop increases will be the invisible private contractors who continue to devour the public's wealth while avoiding their attention.  

Narco News - CIA Connections

by: Stu Piddy

Mon Nov 16, 2009 at 20:12:57 PM EST

http://www.authenticjournalism...

CODE PINK TURNS PRO WAR

by: Stu Piddy

Wed Oct 07, 2009 at 18:55:42 PM EDT

The anti-war group Code Pink, which rose to prominence with high-profile protests against the Iraq and Afghanistan wars over the past seven years, is softening its stance against the war in Afghanistan over concerns that a troop withdrawal could harm women's rights in the country.

"We would leave with the same parameters of an exit strategy but we might perhaps be more flexible about a timeline," Code Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin told the Christian Science Monitor. "That's where we have opened ourselves ... to some other possibilities. We have been feeling a sense of fear of the people of the return of the Taliban. So many people are saying that, 'If the US troops left the country, would collapse. We'd go into civil war.' A palpable sense of fear that is making us start to reconsider that."

http://rawstory.com/2009/10/re...

The last vestiges of any kind of morality, any kind of anything are quickly disintegrating as the U.S. continues its metamorphosis from butterfly to worm into a full fledged fascist state.

The mindless American liberal now throws his lot in with Obama, a man destined to become the greatest WAR president in history.