Just an update to bring attention to an unsual occurence last friday night
July 14, '06 at the Herbst theatre in San Francisco.
John Rendon of the Rendon Group came out from "behind the curtain". His seminar is sponsored by Stewart Brand, former Ken Kesey "merry prankster", futurist, and founder of the late 60's "Whole Earth Catalogue".
John Rendon took questions from the audience after his low key, 30 min. talk.
Since this "news" will most likely attract the interest of an extremely limited audience of TFPers, (you know who you are...) I'll limit this to a post of the link that contains Stewart Brand's synopsus of what John Rendon said during his July 14 "seminar" titled:
http://www.prwatch.org/node/4954#comment-1036
"Long-term Policy to Make the War on Terror Short"
....and a few other "tidbits":
and pre-seminar July 10 background on Rendon's seminar:
http://www.prwatch.org/node/4954
and a reaction to Stewart Brand's synopsus that subtely ponders whether Brand has spent a long career working secretly for "the company".
Behind the techo-hippie curtain
http://www.prwatch.org/node/4954#comment-1033
Here is a report on the "seminar" from an angry, purported eyewitness:
Quote:
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/200...5/18288216.php
.....Stewart Brand introduced Rendon and mentioned that five of the board members on his Long Now Foundation had worked with Rendon and that Rendon's presence always seemed to make meetings run more smoothly. It was a very friendly intro. Rendon, surprisingly, only spoke for 30 minutes maximum and then the questions and answers began.
For someone who specializes in PR, his talk was remarkably unimpressive, but he did make a few key points.
Whoever writes "the history of 9/11 and the War on Terrorism" in the next few years that gets disseminated to the current/future generations will determine how long the "War on Terror" will last.
He urged that the US follow a "soft policy" rather than a "hard policy" to win over public support in the US and abroad- earmarking more resources towards "education" and "health." (I wonder what his position is on eliminating 90% of the world's population through man-made viruses, so heartily endorsed by the mad scientists in Austin last spring (Meeting Dr. Doom.)
Then came the many questions, some excellent, many challenging the war on terrorism, and the events of September 11th. Brand read the questions, and acknowledged who wrote them. I believe he even read mine in its entirety which went something like this-
"Since the US government has lost its credibility, and most people believe that the Administration is criminal, would the impeachment of Bush/Cheney redeem the US in the eyes of the world, if we also changed from the destructive global domination policy we're on?"
Brand bundled the question with some others and Rendon had greater and greater difficulty in responding.
He refused to answer questions about Chalabi, and on one side of his mouth he said that his firm only gave out "truthful, accurate, information" and from the other side of his mouth that his work was "classified" and he could not "compromise his oath" and talk about anything regarded as secret.
His worst moment was when asked about the agenda behind the War on Terrorism which he has been paid between 50-100 million dollars to sell to the American people- he could give absolutely no reason for it- except that soldiers had been convinced that there was a reason to die for (most of them have been sold on Fox News lies that Hussein did 9-11).
There was a bit of heckling and comments, questions, noise directly from the audience, when Brand was too soft on him.
I was sitting in the middle of the second row and when they utterly faltered on stage about 9/11, I felt compelled to clarify reality for them and yelled-
"9/11 was an inside job! It's not a War on Terrorism; it's a "War of Terrorism" against the American people and the world. Bush and Cheney should be impeached, go to jail and we should redirect resources from killing and controlling people towards healing."
Brand and Rendon looked extremely distressed by my outburst and tried to change the subject as soon as possible.
Apparently, the numbers in the audience were not nearly as important to them as to the numbers of people the event would reach via the internet, the whole thing- video and audio will be available online.
When it comes to facts and spin, it does seem pretty obvious that the US Government, Rendon, the transnational elite, have already lost the war for public opinion. Almost every move that they make worsens the situation for the planet's inhabitants and destroys whatever husks of legitimacy/credibility that they cling to, with the help of a bought off press. I wonder if Rumsfeld will bring down the internet, try to cut off "global communications" because the irrepressible discourse between people noting reality and ripping apart the government lies, propaganda, spin are such a powerful threat to them. (Pentagon document outlines plan to take down global communications)
Brand at least hinted that those in power were nuts and might have deceived themselves with their own propaganda, and <b>queried Rendon on how dissenting views of reality might pierce through the powerholders psychological barriers. Rendon hinted that they weren't open to threats upon their "self delusion/officially approved worldview/description of the world that they were trying to force on the rest of the world."</b>
Oddly enough, Rendon said he was an optimist and that he could imagine world peace. I rather doubt, though, that I would buy his "peace" anymore than I am buying the wars which he has been promoting these past twenty years.
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I'll update this when a transcript or podcast of the July 14 Rendon appearance is available:
http://www.longnow.org/projects/seminars/
Was John Rendon paid by the "company" to speak publicly and answer questions, or is he trying to rehablitate his own "cred" in S.F., of all places?
I suspect the former reason was what "incentivized" him to speak publicly.