It's Essential To Be Paranoid

Posted by khalling 10 years, 8 months ago to Culture
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Interesting interview with the head of the Guardian.
I particularly found intriguing the opening of a coffee shop to bring the blog discussions into conversations right as the news is happening. I think we're pretty successful at that in the Gulch. We not just throwing little cynical barbs out there like the comments sections of blogs. We actually discuss what's going on. I appreciate that about this site.
SOURCE URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/09/magazine/the-guardians-alan-rusbridger-its-essential-to-be-paranoid.html?smid=tw-nytimes&_r=1


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  • Posted by straightlinelogic 10 years, 8 months ago
    I like Gulch conversations because they are with people who actually think about important issues, and don't just repeat what they heard on the news or what they learned in government schools.
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    • Posted by $ jlc 10 years, 8 months ago
      I like them because they are a balm on my psyche after talking with my liberal friends. I often breathe a sigh of relief after reading some of the blogs here. Of course there are others...

      Jan
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  • Posted by mminnick 10 years, 8 months ago
    Good interview. If the British reporters are not better and the news organizations no better that the British, someone needs to turn the crank on them and the one here to get them back into the true reporters form and not just the socialist MSM form we have her and in England.
    Khalling, I agree I like the conversions and discussions we have here in the Gulch. they are usually wide open with to the point comments and opinions (often presented as fact[I'm an offender in this aspect also].
    If the MSM conducted itself in the same manner, we might have avoided several problems now facing the U.S. but that is the past. We, as a society and country, must move forward and upward.
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  • Posted by DaveM49 10 years, 8 months ago
    It's not paranoia if there truly is someone out to get you.

    The misuse of psychiatric/psychological terms has become an epidemic of sorts. I think about my grandfather, who had a garage full of coffee cans of nuts, bolts, and other parts. Some would now call him a hoarder. I think of him as self-sufficient.
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  • Posted by $ salemdp 10 years, 8 months ago
    There's never a reason to give a bureaucracy the benefit of the doubt and so we must always be paranoid. I'm learning this more and more as I've dealt with the medical establishment since my baby was diagnosed with brain cancer. The level of tyranny is ridiculous, but, of course most people don't notice because they just don't question what the docs are doing. I wish I'd realized more fully (earlier on) the necessity of an attorney to have one's child treated at a hospital.
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    • Posted by amagi 10 years, 8 months ago
      Sorry about your little one, salemdp. Yes, we should question ALL 'authorities'. I do as I learned the hard way. Those who never have
      experienced 'The Doctor's Code of Silence'
      (as was the title of a documentary some
      years ago) are lucky.
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  • Posted by johnpe1 10 years, 8 months ago
    "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean that they're not out to get you."
    As a former classification officer (top secret stuff) at a big federal site, I recoil that no one has ever said simply that Snowden violated his promise to safeguard information.
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  • Posted by illucio 10 years, 8 months ago
    Recently released FBI documents are beginning to show that not only was Hitler and Eva Braun’s suicide faked, the infamous pair might have had help from the director of the OSS himself, Allen Dulles.

    In one FBI document from Los Angles, it is revealed that the agency was well aware of a mysterious submarine making its way up the Argentinian coast dropping off high level Nazi officials. What is even more astonishing is the fact that the FBI knew he was in fact living in the foothills of the Andes.

    Who is the Mysterious Informant?

    In a Los Angeles letter to the Bureau in August of 1945, an unidentified informant agreed to exchange information for political asylum. What he told agents was stunning.

    The informant not only knew Hitler was in Argentina, he was one of the confirmed four men who had met the German submarine. Apparently, two submarines had landed on the Argentinian coast, and Hitler with Eva Braun was on board the second.

    The Argentinian government not only welcomed the former German dictator, but also aided in his hiding. The informant went on to not only give detailed directions to the villages that Hitler and his party had passed through, but also credible physical details concerning Hitler.

    While for obvious reasons the informant is never named in the FBI papers, he was credible enough to be believed by some agents.

    The FBI Tried to Hide Hitler’s Whereabouts.

    Even with a detailed physical description and directions the FBI still did not follow up on these new leads. Even with evidence placing the German sub U-530 on the Argentinian coast shortly before finally surrounding, and plenty of eye witness accounts of German official being dropped off, no one investigated.

    Even More Evidence is Found:

    Along with the FBI documents detailing an eye witness account of Hitler’s whereabouts in Argentina, more evidence is coming to light to help prove that Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun did not die in that bunker.

    In 1945, the Naval Attaché in Buenos Aires informed Washington there was a high probability that Hitler and Eva Braun had just arrived in Argentina. This coincides with the sightings of the submarine U-530. Added proof comes in the form of newspaper articles detailing the construction of a Bavarian styled mansion in the foothills of the Andes Mountains.

    Perhaps the most damming evidence that Hitler did survive the fall of Germany lies in Russia. With the Soviet occupation of Germany, Hitler’s supposed remains were quickly hidden and sent off to Russia, never to be seen again. That is until 2009, when an archeologist from Connecticut State, Nicholas Bellatoni was allowed to perform DNA testing on one of the skull fragments recovered.

    What he discovered set off a reaction through the intelligence and scholarly communities. Not only did the DNA not match any recorded samples thought to be Hitler’s, they did not match Eva Braun’s familiar DNA either. So the question is, what did the Soviets discover in the bunker, and where is Hitler?

    Even former general and President Dwight D. Eisenhower wrote to Washington.

    It was not only General Eisenhower who was concerned over Hitler’s compete disappearance, Stalin also expressed his concerns. In 1945, the Stars and Stripes newspaper quoted then General Eisenhower as believing that the real possibility existed of Hitler living safely and comfortably in Argentina.

    Is it Possible?

    With all of the new found evidence coming to light, it is possible and even likely that not only did Hitler escape from Germany; he had the help of the international intelligence community. Released FBI documents prove that they were not only aware of Hitler’s presence in Argentina; they were also helping to cover it up.

    It would not be the first time the OSS helped a high ranking Nazi official to escape punishment and capture. Look at the story of Adolf Eichmann who was located in Argentina in the 1960’s.

    Did Hitler escape to Argentina? The answer is yes

    Read more: http://www.disclose.tv/news/Historians_L...
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    • Posted by Robbie53024 10 years, 8 months ago
      Why would the US hide the fact that Hitler escaped to Argentina?

      And even if so, who cares? If he had no progeny, so what?
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        Posted by illucio 10 years, 7 months ago
        So What? I´ll tell you what. If his retirement plan, prearranged and approved of course, was a bucolic life at the edge of the world, what do you suppose that means?

        I´ll give you a nice paranoid answer to that. WWII was a business ordeal, not an international conflict. After the previous world wars (the spanish revolution, WWI, the french revolution, etc) a select group of people made fortunes of war, and increased ther power and influence on both sides of the Atlantic.

        Hitler was not on his own, he was part of a scheme very much like Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden are nowadays (both alive and kickin´ it in their own retirement plans). How did the USA get out of the deppression? Well mate, through the Enterprise of War.

        Not only is war a demographic control solution, but an industry of trillions of dollars. Of course this is just the obvious, for there are more profound and controversial reasons to belic conflicts that, undoubtably, have spread out all over the world.

        If any of these wars were more than just schemes, well the button most likely would have been pushed. Why not? Because the outcome, if not tangled with during the conflicts, is already set before they even begin. Paranoid enough fot ya?

        Who´s been in every single war since WWII? You got it dude, the USA!
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        • Posted by 10 years, 7 months ago
          Illucio-Millions of people died under Stalin and Hitler.we did NOT contract with Japan to bomb Pearl Harbor. To suggest such is absurd
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          • Posted by illucio 10 years, 7 months ago
            Well, this isn´t my suggestion khalling. Apparently, it´s not a suggestion either. I am from Argentina, and we have suspected this and much more so. As a citizen of the world, I know for a fact that Hitler, Franco, Massera, Perón, Bush (x3), etc all are mere façades to much bigger pictures and schemes. None of this sounds at all absurd to me. The USA needed to get into WWII, I rest my case in all the sequals that follow. Someone´s cashing in big time with all this, and there´s always been blood on the world´s hands. Lest try to keep an open mind and avoid being fanatical. Be true only to yourself, your "country" well...that´s just fiction for all of us.
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