Effort to bump 'Operation Mockingbird' from searches?

by **Hugh Manatee Wins** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 4:03 am

Operation Mockingbird was the CIA's Cold War name for infiltrating and controlling what is now called 'mainstream media.' This is something the CIA obviously doesn't want us all to know. So today's Yahoo front page had this link about "banned books," almost none of which are political and are banned for a few naughty words or 'occult' references, a perfect lure for young readers who should keep believing they are joining the army to defend a 'free press'- <a href="http://buzz.yahoo.com/buzzlog/37480/a-long-shelf-life">buzz.yahoo.com/buzzlog/37...shelf-life</a> <blockquote>Quote:<hr> the buzz log What the world is searching for... A Long Shelf Life By Vera HC Chan Fri, September 22, 2006, 3:41 pm PDT "Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing."—Harper Lee, "To Kill a Mockingbird" Compelling as they are, some folks would rather you didn't read the words above. The quote comes from a Pulitzer Prize-winning book that's been denounced for so-called racial slurs and profanity, and banished from school library shelves. Irony never ceases, nor does the impulse toward censorship. But now is a perfect time to celebrate books such as Lee's masterpiece, "Ulysses," and "Heart of Darkness." Banned Books Week is here and thumb-nosing librarians and freedom-loving bookstore owners are celebrating the 25th anniversary of reading verboten material. The American Library Association keeps an accounting of objectionable reads. We curled up with a good computer to check which forbidden pages still beckon readers and searchers. 1. "Harry Potter" (Series) (J.K. Rowling) 2. "To Kill a Mockingbird" (Harper Lee) 3. "The Color Purple" (Alice Walker) 4. "The Outsiders" (S.E. Hinton) 5. "Lord of the Flies" (William Golding) 6. "Of Mice and Men" (John Steinbeck) 7. "Goosebumps" (Series) (R.L. Stine) 8. "How to Eat Fried Worms" (Thomas Rockwell) 9. "The Catcher in the Rye" (J.D. Salinger) 10. "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" (Mark Twain) 11. "The Giver" (Lois Lowry) 12. "Brave New World" (Aldous Huxley) 13. "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" (Mark Twain) 14. "Captain Underpants" (Dav Pilkey) 15. "The Anarchist Cookbook" (William Powell) 16. "Carrie" (Stephen King) 17. "Flowers for Algernon" (Daniel Keyes) 18. "The Dead Zone" (Stephen King) 19. "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" (Maya Angelou) 20. "Go Ask Alice" (anonymous) 21. "American Psycho" (Bret Easton Ellis) 22. "The Chocolate War" (Robert Cormier) 23. "James and the Giant Peach" (Roald Dahl) 24. "The Pigman" (Paul Zindel) 25. "A Wrinkle in Time" (Madeleine L'Engle)<hr></blockquote> Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=hughmanateewins>Hugh Manatee Wins</A> at: 9/29/06 2:19 am

by **Comfortably Numb** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 4:40 am

The Giver is a very interesting book. When I was at a private school, it was required reading for the fifth grade.

by **Sepka** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 7:44 am

I never cease to marvel at Mark Twain's power to equally offend hypocrites of the left and the right. I very much doubt that he could get published by a major press today. -Sepka the Space Weasel

by **Et in Arcadia ego** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 10:49 am

"Flowers for Algernon" is another great one.. ____________________ Some are born to sweet delight, some are born to endless night.

by **sunny** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 11:03 am

Recently read Tropic of Cancer again. "They" would burn that one, given half a chance.

by **IanEye** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 11:08 am

My Father read "A Wrinkle In Time" to me when I was about eight years old. I didn't really "get" the Happiest Sadist at the time. Now, unfortunately, I feel I "get" it every time I go to CrooksAndLiars and see what passes for news these days. My dad started to read the next L'Engle book, "A Wind In The Door" to me, but he was working real hard and tired a lot when he came home and he wasn't reading the chapters at a quick enough pace, so I took it upon myself to start reading the novel on my own. Before i knew it, the novel was finished and I grabbed "Harriet The Spy" and never looked back in terms of reading, I was hooked. Sometimes I wonder how "tired" my dad really was, maybe it was just time to take the training wheels off my little brain. PS: the next book after "Harriet" was Vonnegut's "Slapstick" because I liked the clown cover. Mr. Vonnegut writes such easily digestable sentences that it was fairly easy for me to follow, but it was a crazy story for an eight year old to read, what with all of the gravity induced erections and "flying fuck at the moon"s and all.......

by **Hugh Manatee Wins** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 11:45 am

Instead of fiction with 'off-color words,' shouldn't Americans and their librarians have a list of 'what-They-don't-want-you-to-Know' histoy books that our public schools should educate with? (Some are in RI's Data Dump forum.) 1) War is a Racket, by General Smedley Butler >available online <a href="http://warisaracket.com/">warisaracket.com/</a> 2) Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler, by Antony Sutton <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Wall-Street-Hitler-Antony-Sutton/dp/0945001">www.amazon.com/Wall-Stree...dp/0945001</a> 3) The Secret Team: The CIA and its Allies in Control of the United States and the World, by L. Fletcher Prouty, Col. USAF (Ret.) >available online <a href="http://www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK/ST/">www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK/ST/</a> 4) The Unauthorized Biography of George Bush, by Anton Chaitkin and Webster Tarpley >available online <a href="http://www.padrak.com/alt/BUSHBOOK.html#BOOKPARTS">www.padrak.com/alt/BUSHBO...#BOOKPARTS</a>

by **FourthBase** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 12:05 pm

<blockquote>Quote:<hr>Recently read Tropic of Cancer again. "They" would burn that one, given half a chance.<hr></blockquote> That book changed my life. Specifically the first 100 pages.

by **professorpan** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 12:20 pm

No, it's not an effort to bump "Operation Mockingbird" from web searches. However, I caught the James Taylor and Carly Simon "Mockingbird" song on an oldies station this morning... clearly an attempt by the radio puppetmasters to rinse CIA/media shennanigans from my consciousness. It worked. I turned the station.

by **Hugh Manatee Wins** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 2:37 pm

"...And if that mockingbird don't sing...." lol. Yes, Prof Pan, I realize this article is noting the annual event by our info-respecting librarians who helped resist the un-Patriot Act by refusing to turn over reading lists to the FBI. <blockquote>Quote:<hr>Banned Books Week is here and thumb-nosing librarians and freedom-loving bookstore owners are celebrating the 25th anniversary of reading verboten material.<hr></blockquote> I'm more interested in keeping open the topic of Operation Mockingbird and preventing it from getting washed out online by some Disnoid drivel in pop culture or other method of keyword hijacking. Like the way the movie 'Three Days of the Condor' shadowed Operation Condor in 1975. Or the way 'The Paperclip Project' shadowed 'Project Paperclip' in 2005. You do remember how the White House and Pentagon-associated Johnson Group (much like the Rendon Group and Lincoln Group, both CIA-front PR firms) promotes a holocaust memorial documentary called 'The Paperclip Project' that conveniently upstages the US protection of Nazi war criminals called 'Project Paperclip?'  Not just an obscure documentary, oh no. About to become a part of American public school 'education.'  That Johnson Group documentary is being marketed to America's junior high and high school history teachers as a whole lesson package on the Holocaust. Personally, I don't think the CIA should teach our children history. So I expect there is somewhere a media campaign planned to keyword hijack the 'Mockingbird' in Operation Mockingbird. Perhaps waiting to be deployed opportunistically when someone opens that linguistic door for them. Now if I were the CIA (which I'm not), this is how I would obscure Operation Mockingbird with two examples of competing 'Mockingbirds.' The CIA has long been influencing many of America's publishers and gets them to put out many books for them. Just look at the front tables at Borders to see them. 1) Here is the recent best-seller about author Harper Lee I saw down at Borders called 'Mockingbird' being touted in USA Today- <img src="http://images.usatoday.com/life/_photos/2006/06/01/mock.jpg" style="border:0;"/> http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/reviews/2006-05-31-mockingbird_x.htm<blockquote>Quote:<hr>'Mockingbird' doesn't ruffle feathers Updated 6/1/2006 9:21 AM ET<hr></blockquote> The post-Katrina introspection on American race relations is the perceived catalyst for this being published now. That's a candidate from the publishing world that would target traditional older upscale reader demographics, baby boomers and older. Next, the younger reading demographic. 2) The MockingbirdFoundation is linking into the musical counter-culture charity-oriented youth who are fans of the band Phish and thus making links back to their own use of the keyword 'Mockingbird.' They spread music education and do charity work. Phish fans are much the same as Grateful Dead fans who loyally attended shows for years after the rest of the country buried the idea of San Francisco's Summer of Love. This would be a perfect candidate for being a CIA front because it targets exactly the demographic of bright young counter-culture types who might otherwise bring back 'the sixties.' This is an online only organization started in 1997 and seems to be named after a silly jamband-kind-of-song from Phish's 'Gamehendge' album about a "Magic Book" rescued by "the Famous Mockingbird." CIA media keyword searchers would jump at the chance to develop this to compete with Operation Mockingbird for the attention of counter-culture youth online. http://www.mockingbirdfoundation.org/book/<blockquote>Quote:<hr>[grants]*[donations]***[albums]*[books]*[more features]***[press]*[staff]***[about]*[home]<hr></blockquote> http://www.mockingbirdfoundation.org/about/<blockquote>Quote:<hr>Our Mission: The Mockingbird Foundation, Inc. is a non-profit organization of Phish fans, founded to raise money for charity. The original project was the compilation of the most factually accurate and delightfully literary book on Phish's music available, with contributions from as many fans as possible. The Foundation now produces a wider range of resources and diversions for fans, including a Phish cover album. No member or volunteer benefits financially from the Foundation in any way, and all proceeds from Mockingbird projects are donated to tax-exempt organizations. The Foundation's primary purpose is charitable, out of love for and thanks to Phish for their inspiring music. The Mockingbird Foundation is an unconventional organization: it has no salaries, paid staff, office space, or endowment -- thus distributing all possible funds to charity. It exists almost exlcusively online, using the Internet to avoid travel and other expenses typically associated with grant-making entities. The Foundation has earned 501(c)3 tax-exempt status from Internal Revenue Service, thus making donations tax-deductible. Such contributions to the Foundation are applied directly to the next round of regular grants in the funding cycle. <hr></blockquote> "...a wider range of resources and diversions..." Indeed. And who is on the board of directors? http://www.mockingbirdfoundation.org/about/board.html<blockquote>Quote:<hr>Charlie Dirksen is an antitrust and securities trial lawyer practicing with Gold, Bennett, Cera and Sidener in San Francisco. He has been assisting the Foundation with a wide variety of projects since 1996. He also administers electronic mailing lists for fans of guitarist Steve Kimock, for fans of improvisational music, and for those interested in Bay Area concerts. He currently serves as a Vice President of the Board, and General Counsel to the Foundation. Herschel Gelman (31 shows) graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with bachelor's degrees in computer science and electrical engineering in 1997, and currently does computer security work for the federal government. He has been involved in the online Phish community since 1993, and is a founding member of the Mockingbird Foundation. Ellis Godard (102 shows) is Assistant Professor of Sociology at California State University-Northridge, where he teaches statistics and research methods. He studies cross-cultural patterns of conflict management, and has recently published on reality shows. He has volunteered for the Phish.Net since 1991, and coordinated the production of both the Phish Companion and Sharin' in the Groove. He currently serves as Executive Director and Treasurer of the Foundation, and Executive Editor of the Companion. <hr></blockquote> Looks like some bright cultural creatives with the tech chops to set up an internet-based charity. After all, Phish's music isn't for dummies. So I'm not saying this kinda hippy charitable foundation actually is a CIA front but I am saying setting up fronts OR nurturing pre-existing organizations OPPORTUNISTICALLY with these characteristics is how the CIA has operated for decades and no doubt still does so look out for it and keep spreading the information about CIA state-controlled press called Operation Mockingbird. If the CIA was hoping to get some keyword hijacking mileage out of the existence of this Mockingbird Foundation, they must've been just as heartbroken over the demise of this hippy-friendly band as all those former Deadheads. lol. Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=hughmanateewins>Hugh Manatee Wins</A> at: 9/29/06 9:33 pm

by **Hugh Manatee Wins** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 10:50 pm

... Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=hughmanateewins>Hugh Manatee Wins</A> at: 9/29/06 9:34 pm

by **DireStrike** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 11:31 am

I can see why Brave New World would be banned. Just replace the word "soma" with "television" and you have a perfect model of today's society. The giver too. I found it absolutely horrifying. I read about half of it in fifth grade and couldn't finish it. I'm starting to think Hugh is right about this tactic. People's minds these days run on tiny little circuits just a few seconds long, especially when they're on the net. Muddying the water like this wouldn't keep critical thinkers and us "conspiracy theorists" off the mark, but it's not supposed to be a tool for total prevention. It just confuses a segment of the masses, makes them unlikely to look into a particular topic. It's a tool for keeping things from going "mainstream". There are plenty of theories our there, and they're happy with us thinking about most of them. As long as we don't think about a certain few. That's what Brave New World was about - not control through destruction, like 1984, but through profusion. Increase the noise until the signal is lost. Protip: Look for them to turn this theory on us, if it becomes well known and if they even care about what we think. If they applied this technique to a topic that was unimportant, say something racist or otherwise divisive, some of us might latch onto that as proof that they were trying to hide it. Remember though to always think critically and you can cut right through the bullshit.

by **robertdreed** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 1:09 pm

I think you're veering dangerously close to paredolia and hebephrenia with your continual highlighting of stray data points.

by **Hugh Manatee Wins** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 1:18 pm

<blockquote>Quote:<hr>continual highlighting of stray data points<hr></blockquote> I'd call it "connecting the dots." Although I do realize many RI readers don't know the difference between... pointing at historical precedent and means/motive/opportunity patterns as signs to look out for and... "proving it."

by **robertdreed** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 1:27 pm

Dots are everywhere...His Majesty White. Human Masochist West. Hellish Mean World. Heavenly March Winter. That might seem like an egregious example. But I've seen the exact same sort of self-indulgent follies performed around here, for instance by the post claiming that Jeff Gannon and Johnny Gosch are in fact one and the same person, due to their sharing of the initials "J.G." Not to mention HMW's latest bit of "clinching evidence." Information is not "dots." It's signal and noise, existing in a ratio. And Signal is represented by the strength of the connection between dots- not the simple fact of existence of the dots themselves, which is merely Noise. Would someone kindly do me a favor, and unpack the logical leaps drawn between considering the attempts by some school districts over the years to ban the book entitled To Kill A Mockingbird from the reading lists of high school English classes, and some conjectured wider effort to excise any access to learning about Operation Mockingbird by the American public? Oh yeah, clogging search engines on the Internet...maybe Harper Lee was part of the plot, for giving her book that title in the first place. Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=robertdreed>robertdreed</A> at: 9/30/06 11:46 am

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