tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10896082922320320002024-03-05T15:37:00.908-08:00We the People...Preventing Truth Decay...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger170125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1089608292232032000.post-91755905460956077612017-12-16T10:33:00.002-08:002017-12-16T10:33:39.274-08:00Ajit Pai/ the FCC's FailureIt comes as an odd bit of news that the FCC, the Federal Communications Commission, whose job it is to watch over all radio, TV, and now, the Internet that that agency has handed over to commercial interests the absolute possession of the Internet. It was decided long ago, that the air waves, radio and TV all belonged to the people of America. The FCC would not own these, but would look after them and hold them in trust for the American people.<br />
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We did not know that true evil would come to -- not merely rest, but fully take up residence in the Halls of American Democracy. We could not imagine it. We might disagree with the point of view of this president or that politician but we always assumed that they were honorable men. It would be a mistake to assume honor in such men as these, now. They spit on such antiquated notions as honor.<br />
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If I were to spell it out, the Internet does not belong to the FCC, rather, the agency only holds the Internet in trust. So when did the FCC acquire ownership! Perhaps a fine legal point but not so fine that we are prevented from firing the diminutive agency head, Agit Pai. He has failed the American people in his job, which is to protect that which we own.<br />
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Why has nobody else come forward to destroy Agit Pai's wrong action. Throw him the fuck out! And all his ultra-conservative buddies at the same time. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1089608292232032000.post-69877584391831847522017-12-16T04:21:00.000-08:002017-12-16T04:21:17.182-08:00Villainy AfootThe villainy of the conservative mindset, and the conservatism of villainy, is on display right now. From Trump to the people who almost voted Roy Moore back into Congress, (aka Christians) we are watching the turn around from swampish darkness into the light of a fair and truthful, desperate-for-Justice, American voter. The election of Doug Jones is the first metaphorical sign that Americans are beginning to awaken from their Trump besotted slumber.<br />
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For that very reason, the ever villainous Mitch McConnell and his partner in crime, Paul Ryan, are prodding their colleagues in Congress to move faster in voting for the worst Tax "Reform" program ever to see the light of day. Their success will spell the undoing of America.<br />
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Needless to say, the criminality of mindset, does not begin with old Mitch. No, no, no, it begins with the billionaires; the ones who actually pay the salary of the Republican Congress's action. The Koch brothers are the treasonous power behind most, if not all the criminality. The Heritage Foundation merely a tool to promote their war on good, honest American values.<br />
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This Congress wants to take away your health care, although as far as their very own health care plan as Congressmen goes, it's the best healthcare plan ever. And after taking yours away, ask any one of them if they would care to have someone remove theirs and they would scream bloody murder.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1089608292232032000.post-30178116775591753062017-02-27T00:56:00.000-08:002017-02-27T00:56:59.327-08:00The Liar, TrumpIn the year 2016, Donald Trump conducted one of the most vile presidential campaigns in American History. His supporters adored him for precisely that. The filthier he got, the louder they cheered. Given his first month in office, it becomes very clear to those of us who value truth that he intends to establish and rule over a tyrannical totalitarian dictatorship. <br />
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This also tickles his worshipers.<br />
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Observe the loving reaction of the Conservative audience at CPAC.<br />
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Let us note at the outset, that Trump, by his own definition, is a sexual deviant. A pervert, really. And if there were any justice in America, he would be locked up in the most terrible prison and the key thrown away. And like his fellow perverts, to be found among the torturers whom Obama was too foolish to jail, The Donald is ready to let his insanity come out to play. <br />
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to be continued...Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1089608292232032000.post-9429296028867670522015-11-30T09:39:00.001-08:002015-11-30T09:41:51.558-08:00Why There Is No Longer A ChoiceThe American People must wake up and revolt against their own government or lose their country altogether. And it must be soon. The government agencies are set against the people. The recent murders by police of American citizens, black and people of color, and white, have told us what is on their agenda. A police state is what is already happening. The authoritarians will tell you that if you don't immediately obey a police officer then you must be a bad person worthy only to be shot to the death. This is a supreme violation of our United States Constitution. Then the jury members who are carefully selected by the prosecutors for their extreme conservative mindset can be counted on to return a "Not Guilty" verdict. So the justice system is another system which is constantly used in the South and Texas, against us; and now it becomes clear that our courts are easily rigged -- so we no longer have a fair and honest court system.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1089608292232032000.post-39341067811025790642015-07-23T14:59:00.003-07:002015-07-25T13:29:39.448-07:00The New Police Vow This Sacred Vow is to be repeated in unison by each and every police officer of every single police department in the United States of America and to be repeated 3 times in succession before every session of muster, and before every single training session, at each and every Police Academy every single day, or night, as the first order of business at muster, to be spoken aloud with hands over hearts the following vow:<br />
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<i>I, _______(name) do solemnly vow to protect all the citizens of the world, but in particular, those who dwell in America. I fully recognize to the depth of my immortal soul, the source of all light in the world, and before the One God, whom I adore, that each and every life, whether rich or poor, and of whatever color, gender, or age, is more precious to me than my own life. (</i>Speak the following with right hand folded in a fist to quietly, but firmly, beat the heart with the fist 3 times)<i>. I will kill myself before I allow the least harm to come to any being within my ken and/or within my power to so protect. Whatever pain I see before me I will take upon myself that the other may be healed -- whether the pain is of the body or the spirit, or the heart, of any being here and now, I vow to heal it. </i><br />
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The process of this punishment to be as follows: One bullet placed in an empty chamber of an official firing weapon; all other chambers being empty; then to spin the barrel vigorously, with full strength of the hand, for the the first offence --then to pull the trigger while aiming the weapon at my own foot. Whichever foot is healthiest. Should there be a second offense -- I will aim at my own kneecap. And after a third, if there can be such a thing, at the temple of my head.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1089608292232032000.post-35266457568568392172015-06-08T02:25:00.000-07:002015-06-08T02:25:43.824-07:00The Police State<img align="left" alt="T" src="http://dailydropcap.com/images/T-11-cap.png" title="Daily Drop Cap by Jessica Hische" />he question is not whether we will have a police state but rather how do we go about dismantling the police state we now have got. I thought this was a fairly radical position and would be a fire breathing sort of blog post. But it seems I am a step or two behind. It was easy to find videos on YouTube to support my thesis.<br />
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This one, for example, puts it out there in simple language and orderly reasoning. And this fellow made this video in 2012. Indeed we are boiling frogs!<br />
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ow that corporations have defined their long term goals, we are all in trouble. The simple reason being that corporations want to dominate all governments everywhere. That is, Capitalism has always wanted to dominate the world and can't exist or co-exist with Communism or even Socialism. It is like rabid dogs they will not stop. Especially now that they can sniff victory in the air what with Obama pushing hard for its passage and insisting that nobody read what is in it until it has passed Congress. We know that none of it does Americans any good. Indeed, the substance of the TPP seems to be Wiener Take All! <br />
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They foresee a world where corporations, like say, Monsanto, Dow Chemical, Dupont, GE, Halliburton, you name any corporation whatever size -- they can sue your local state county or city or neighborhood laws or even rules. They will have absolute power. The Corporations now seek to dominate world government forever with nary a word of dissent because after all the treaty calls for corporations to sue any government that they deem impeding in any way, their profit or even their potential profit.<br />
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This is a masterbatory fantasy cooked up either in ALEC or in a backroom somewhere. I almost wrote a "Back Alley" somewhere, as it has that low, brutish sort of mentality behind it. <br />
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So my question is why is Obama pushing this? Why is he persecuting Elizabeth Warren when she tries to talk some sense into him? <br />
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Why has Barack Obama become a <i>treasonous president</i> ready to deliver America to the corporate thugs? Either there is a lot of money behind it for him, or else they have promised that if it does not pass he along with his wife and children will be assassinated. Oh, yes! That is the way capitalism works. The corporations really are that vile. Look at Comcast, for example. <br />
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I am more disappointed than I can say. I hated the Tea Party for their unreasoning hatred of Obama. I thought they were wrong. <br />
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They were right!<br />
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Barry you're a liar and a fraud.<br />
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ight wingers bite their nails these days. If they do not bite their nails they are not at all aware of the reality of the fragility of their position. But most do know they are in trouble. That is why the Koch brothers are now spending billions on the 2016 elections. <br />
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They are afraid for their very lives. <br />
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They fear the mainstream of the voting public will do what the Greek people did. The Greeks nationalized the wealth of the elites in order to pay off the German banks. <br />
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For their part, the Germans of course want the Greeks under their thumb. They want the Greek people to live in AUSTERITY because that is the kind of harsh, limited and oppressed existence German bankers think everybody ought to live in. Except themselves, of course. German bankers sincerely believe that they and they alone should live in unspeakable luxury while the rest of the world lives on its knees. <br />
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So we can see that Angela Merkel and many of her German people actually learned nothing of humanity or charity, or even decency as a result of losing WWII. Hitler's corrupt Nazi dreams of Aryans ruling the world still survive under the surface of order and humility. If ever the will of a people were encapsulated in a metaphor, the German bankers are that metaphor. Despite the fact that in 1953 Germany begged and howled that they could not pay their debts and the Allies would have to cut the debt by 50% and more, which the Allies did; they now have the audacity to turn around and say to the Greek people that no quarter will be given and this debt must be paid in full. And <b><i>schnell!</i></b><br />
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That is a Hell of a lot of audacity! That is not mere AUDACITY! That is a form of Tyranny.<br />
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Tyranny is that form of government which seeks to control everything everyone does, says or even thinks.<br />
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Especially given that, in 1953, the Germans were heavily in debt for WWII on which they spent very heavily and still they lost. They owed huge amounts to France, Russia and the USA. And this is the part where Germany shows how ugly it truly is -- even today: But the problem is not necessarily even the bankers. It is the capitalist system. Though capitalism is now on the wane. Capitalism is worn out. <br />
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My own political system of choice is <i>Democratic Socialism</i>. Socialism is the corrective for the excesses of capitalism. The medicine, if you will. <br />
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<img align="left" alt="F" src="http://dailydropcap.com/images/F-8-cap.png" title="Daily Drop Cap by Jessica Hische" />or more than 3 decades the corporations have held the workers in their thrall; demanding that they work overtime without commensurate pay; often without pay at all; insisting that they come in on Saturdays and often, Sundays. Workers have responded with all the timidity of slaves eager to please their masters. Anything to keep their jobs from going overseas. And all too frequently the jobs went off to Asia or to privatized prisons anyway.<br />
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Sir Isaac Newton discovered that the universe obeys certain laws: According to his Third Law of Motion, every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Every pendulum swings both ways -- and the greater the arc it describes in one direction the harder and farther it will go in the other. <br />
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Physics is a verifiable way of describing how the Universe works. One thing you'll notice about the Laws of the Universe is that most of the laws work from the most gigantic events, the macroscopic level -- all the way down to the microscopic level. Even vast galaxies will obey these laws; and so it goes all the way down to the smallest atom within your being. Alchemists knew this principle in these words: <br />
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Once the iron ball of fate begins to slow in one direction and starts its fall back to center and beyond -- nothing in this world short of an act of God, or the Universe itself, or war, can stop it or even slow it down. Quite the contrary, it begins to gather force slowly and then accelerates, going even farther than it has ever gone. <br />
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And if we go beyond the Newtonian Clockwork Universe, to the Einsteinian Universe, we find other Laws at work. <i> </i>For example, we discover<i> </i>Heisenberg's Principle of Uncertainty, whereby it seems that matter itself acts one way when we observe it, and quite another when we look away.<br />
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So what we have now is gross corruption in the Executive branch, a president who sold his soul to Wall Street and they have come to collect. The Legislative branch: both houses of Congress who despite the shrillness of the American people's protests have voted to FAST TRACK the worst piece of trade agreement ever conceived in the mind of man. Finally, there is malfeasance and misconduct, in the courts of the Justice system from the highest court in the land down to the lowest. The Department Of Justice is now so corrupt that murderers walk free; and people are sent up the river to do hard time for smoking a weed. A weed which many cultures, especially indigenous cultures, have valued over millennia for its recreational and medicinal properties. Indeed the courts have reached so abysmal a mockery of Justice that they have begun to send people to jail for no other thing than being poor. <br />
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But the pendulum has begun to reverse, inexorably, its direction. Who knows what the global cultures will look like in say, twenty years. But we do know that the plutocrats and the oligarchic families will no longer be in charge. The rich will be on the run in ways which cannot even be imagined now. <br />
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What is odd is that when you question authority you find that it cannot offer convincing argument to justify its existence. Other than that Authority justifies its existence by saying because "this is the way that it is." Or else because it has always been this way, and you need somebody to boss you around. Because man is inherently bad and you need somebody to keep you on the straight and narrow. <br />
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This is, of course, pure hogwash. <br />
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Of course, the GOP consists of nothing but Submissive Authoritarians. That to a large extent explains the inordinate popularity of such pieces of crap as Atlas Shrugged, with its cardboard characters who live one dimensional lives, and happens to be one of the worst piece of literary garbage ever written. The author, Ayn Rand, was an authoritarian of huge proportions. Nor did she live by the principles she herself espoused. After complaining about the collective, trashing any gathering of persons Submissives are easy to discern as they tend always to fight tooth and nail against any perceived criticism of their near-deified authoritarian boss. And the other gem, 50 Shades of Gray. The value of Fifty Shades book is how clearly it shows how all politics begins in the bedroom. It also explains the enchantment of the right with George W. Bush. They worshiped ol' lonesome George W. The reason for the hyper-worshipful attitudes of millions of right wingnuts, of George W Bush was that he is not a true Submissive Authoritarian. He is what the Submissives spend a lifetime searching for: A Dominant or Dom, to use the language of the Submissive, or as we know them, the Mind Slaves. These are people who cannot exist without serving a master, the more brutal, the more worshipful. <br />
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This perverted mindset begins with the abuse of children. Usually by parents -- to start with -- the perfect example being the members of The Westboro Baptist Church. Records clearly show that the children were hideously beaten most often with a leather strap by their own father. And the beatings began at an early age and continued into later teen years. while I would not suggest that all authoritarians are survivors of childhood abuse, I would say that a majority of them are. <br />
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But what we are talking about is utter abandonment of the Republicans of caring for the welfare of the people. This reckless abandonment began decades ago.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1089608292232032000.post-21530836682381461232015-01-09T04:10:00.000-08:002015-01-09T04:23:22.098-08:00Q and AAndy Warhol began by asking himself: "What do I want?" The answer was money. He made a painting of dollar bills. He gave us a new perception of reality, or, I should say, apparent reality. Andy made money hand over fist. Buckets of money.<br />
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ANDY once asked me to star in his movie. <br />
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I said No. I knew that I was not ready.<br />
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I ask myself, "What do I want?" Of course I want money. But Warhol was the first to make the quest for money into art. <br />
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I want so much more than mere money. <br />
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I want to know "Who Am I?"<br />
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And of course the answer is contained in the question: <br />
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I AM<br />
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I am the pack of cigarettes on the desk before me. I am the computer. I am the veils lifting from my consciousness. I am the brilliance beyond.the void. I am the silence of the void. <br />
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I AM the question. <br />
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I AM the answer.<br />
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I am the light. I am the dark. <br />
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I AM not kidding.<br />
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I AM speechless. <br />
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I AM the silence.<br />
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I AM the Song.<br />
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I AM the breath.<br />
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I AM everything that is not.<br />
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I AM the beginning of the universe.<br />
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I AM the end of the universe.<br />
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I AM GRACE.<br />
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I AM SPACE.. <br />
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I AM AWAKE.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1089608292232032000.post-26738710468509929552014-11-09T15:28:00.000-08:002014-11-09T15:28:51.063-08:00My Xmas WishThe party that won did not really win, except through deceit. Yet the the pundits keep chastising the GOP as if they were a beloved family member who simply erred but as soon as they see the light all will be well. <br />
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I beg to differ.<br />
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The GOP has erred too many times to the detriment of humanity. Over and over they believe they have outsmarted the rest of us. This time gerrymandering, vote suppressing and the like, cannot go unnoticed. Like recalcitrant cons, they cannot be taken back in. Not without damage to not only humanity, and the rest of the species on earth. <br />
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They are poison to the planet as a whole.<br />
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The Democrats are not much better but they win by a tiny margin.<br />
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Climate Change, no let's call it what it is: Global Warming, is all the fault of the profiteering establishment. They are holding my family -- my loved ones hostage. And even if we give in to their obscene demands we still lose just by having such monsters around. What are their demands? Cutting taxes for the rich. And raising taxes on the poor, instead. And they ask us to believe their balderdash that Trickle down economics might actually work. It has never worked. And it never will.<br />
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They demand that we not take care of the poor either financially or through health programs. Paul Ryan wants to give old people $1,500 dollar vouchers to take care of all their health problems. And that includes dental. <br />
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Paul Ryan needs to be guillotined. His rotten head severed from his body. Same with Mitch McConnell. And John Boner, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Phil Gramm, the list is long but those are on the short list.<br />
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Conservatives should be gotten rid of altogether. <br />
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Removed from the planet.<br />
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They are not simply sweet people who made a series of blunders. They are absolutely certain they are right. <br />
Convinced that their way is the only way.<br />
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Well, no more.<br />
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I would like them all shot. Or better yet -- their heads lopped off.<br />
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There is a psychological principle, known as the Dunning-Kruger Effect, that says that really stupid, offensive people inevitably overestimate their skill level. They give themselves away owing to the character flaw of being louder than the rest of us. They tend to be lewd, crude and ridiculous. Along with being resolutely obstinate due to the fact that they believe themselves to be a hundred percent right about their position. As a corollary, gifted people, people with something real to offer, tend to be uncertain, equivocal, full of doubt, quiet about their achievements, truly modest folk. They truly feel that what they can so easily do is merely something which anybody can do. <br />
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Thus we can see who is not needed in civilization. The loud ones; those who are absolutely certain of their position however foul it may be in the eyes of the intelligent, are the ones who need to be removed immediately.<br />
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Those who most crave positions of power, for example, are the very people who must not ever be allowed to be near such position of power. The same with money. Take the bankers out behind the barn and shoot them. The greater the love of money the sooner they get shot.<br />
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But take them back. No, I don't think so. It's too late for that. <br />
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I am not proposing WAR!<br />
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What I am proposing is that a very quiet underground, loosely connected, plan carefully, and simply kill certain offenders off. And all on the same night. Then they all go to the airports to get on private planes and be flown to a lovely beach somewhere to live happily ever after.<br />
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And yet even as I write this I begin to understand that these tiresome noisy folk are merely the stooges for something far more sinister and destructive: The men and women who are truly evil. The Satanists, the Illuminati, who tiptoe behind the scenes -- pushing and pulling; eagerly buying off this senator and that congressman. <br />
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We must organize. <br />
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We must make lists. <br />
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Who do we kill off first? <br />
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I must stop here. After all. This is just a revenge fantasy. <br />
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But if Jesus really loved me... hmm... Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1089608292232032000.post-42200385433936865982014-09-17T13:27:00.000-07:002014-09-17T13:27:30.505-07:00Putting the Banksters Where They BelongWhy are banks involved in higher education? <br />
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In a civilized society the Federal Government's job understood properly, ought to be making higher education tuition-free for anyone who wishes to avail themselves. Banks need to stick to their job as footmen in the Temples of the Money-Worshipping Satanic Droids which all they are.<br />
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Who is there, still, who believes that banksters are models of virtue? <br />
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Anyone?<br />
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And looking back through the ages, who, among<i> <b>the</b> <b>wise</b></i><b> </b>has ever recommended the pursuit of money?<br />
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Not a one!<br />
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Given the dearth of arguments recommending banking and banksters, how is it that the Wall Streeters have earned such enormous respect in the world. After all, they dirty their hands with filthy money. Indeed, their spiritual hands are dirtier than someone who digs ditches. As it turns out, some of the most ardent proponents against legalizing marijuana are the banksters. And why? Because they enjoy laundering the immense wealth of the criminal drug cartels. The ones who drive tanks through the streets of Mexico simply to demonstrate their lawlessness, and their power, and their uncompromising ruthlessness. So it turns out that the banks are even more ruthless than the cartels. <br />
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An article in last Saturday's New York Times about how the banksters have overreached so far, so egregiously far, into our lives that I raced to the computer to see if I could convey the rage flowing through my body and mind. The sheer injustice of banksters in collusion with Congress, and other criminals in the temples of the money changers exceeds anything humanity has thus far witnessed. <br />
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Their lobbyists have outdone themselves.<br />
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In brief, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/13/business/student-loan-debt-burdens-more-than-just-young-people.html?_r=0" target="_blank">a seventy-two year old woman</a>a took out a student loan back in 1970. She didn't finish paying off the loan. But that is neither here nor there. She is not cavalier about it. Depression, alcoholism and bad luck set in. She has made attempts to pay it off. But by now, the amount has ballooned from the $3, 400 of the original amount to more than $15,000.<br />
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She despairs of ever paying off this debt. <br />
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When she received her first SSI check in the mail she saw that one fifth of the check was missing. A phone call to SSI revealed that the banks had lobbied long and hard so that literally nothing but death would stand in the way of repayment of a Student Loan. Personally, I believe that nothing but death should stand in the way of the banksters going to jail. And Jamie Dimon being one of the first to go.<br />
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My thought is that the banks need, in the first place, to go to jail for what they have done to this country. And as yet not a single one has even come to trial. Nor even a hint of a trial. And if anybody should happen to mention that nasty little fact, they are met with faces twisted into expressions usually reserved for questions like "...why is the earth so far from the sun."<br />
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But the real issue is this:<br />
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Why is it, when with so many rip-off diploma mills, -- oh, excuse me -- they are now advertising themselves as "for-profit universities", shoveling, as they currently do, Federally subsidised tuition grants onto their plates and offering next to nothing in the way of education, that the Obama administration has not stepped up to create a program to forgive such loans in older retiree's, and to take on the banksters -- and make all higher education tuition-free? <br />
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There is the horrific story of women who thought they were working toward acquiring nursing degrees, but the only hospital they were able to visit courtesy of their online for-profit "university" was a Psychiatry Museum which belonged to the Church of Scientology. Some years ago I knew a man who was paid by The Church of Scientology to write in the dust on city buses, with his finger, this phrase: <br />
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"Psychiatry kills." Some Museum. <br />
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Too many seeking to better themselves through higher ed are being robbed by the banks and the craven bureaucrats of the federal government allow it. Why are the money-worshippers allowed this? <br />
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Let me tell you why: they've studied the techniques of the old Mafia gangsters. In fact, the old Mafia bosses would have blushed at the percentages of interest the banksters now charge for student loans. But here is the part which made me see red: banks may steal people's Social Security Insurance payments.<br />
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To be continued. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1089608292232032000.post-82279796331605517652014-09-17T13:26:00.001-07:002014-09-17T13:26:50.784-07:00Hey, America! Tear Down the FCC<br />
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Here is the real upshot of teaching children to obey authority: They get to be adults and find they cannot figure their way out of a sandbox. Case in point: Tom Wheeler, the director of the FCC, is leaning heavily toward giving Comcast the best blowjob they have ever enjoyed. Old Tom seems to be licking his lips despite what more than 3-4 million American citizens are shouting in his ear.<br />
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But so far the only thing all these people can think to do is yell a little louder! <br />
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Why?<br />
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The real solution is to demand that he lose his job. Dismantle the Federal Communications Commission. If a bureaucratic office no longer serves the needs of the people it is designed to serve, let's have a hanging. Put old Tom on the hot seat and ask him why he chooses not to listen to the people he was hired to listen to. But then Congress seems no longer disposed to ask such questions of the sock puppets of big business.<br />
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Why?<br />
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The American people know the answer but are hugely reluctant to face up to the real consequences of their timidity.<br />
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Tom Wheeler if not yet on the take is certainly drooling to taste his first real big fat dick.<br />
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Does anybody not yet know that The Congress of the United States of America is on the take.<br />
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Duh.<br />
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So Congress wishes people like Alan Grayson, Bernie Sanders, Jeff Merkley, Elizabeth Warren, and a handful of others, would dry up and blow away. Lacking that, Karl "Nazi" Rove and the Billionaires, (sounds like a rock band, doesn't it) want to knock them out of the water with money. Flooding the TV screens with their noxious commercials. <br />
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If you want Net Neutrality, don't just shout in Tom Wheeler's ear: dismantle the entire FCC! Then put it back together the way you want it.<br />
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Isn't it? Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1089608292232032000.post-24322377717609089452014-08-27T16:07:00.001-07:002014-08-27T16:24:37.505-07:00Big Money Equals Power Equals CorruptionI can only surmise how it must feel to subscribe heart and soul to a political world view which can only come into power by spending massive amounts of money and blanketing the media as the Nazi fascists did -- not so long ago. Heaven only knows the arch-conservative philosophical stance cannot win through an appeal to intelligence. It has long been said, that it is not necessary to be what Aldous Huxley, in his remarkable novel, Brave New World, termed Delta Minus's, (low scorers of IQ, i.e. janitors, etc.) in order to be conservative; but, interestingly, those with less than moderate IQ tend to be conservative. <br />
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Generally speaking, as we have seen in past presidential elections, Americans are liberal leaning toward progressive. You may argue, yes, but what about Bush/Cheney? The reality we must all face, is that the Supreme Court of the land interfered illegally in that election, (the Constitution provides only for the electorate, and the Electoral College to decide elections.) But Unconstitutional partisanship ruled the Supreme Court then -- as it does now. <br />
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If the GOP were an honest and upstanding political party, Gore would have been president. Bush/Cheney would have been out with the bums where they belonged. And more than a million of the Iraqi people's lives would have been spared; which the Bush/Cheney administration termed mere Collateral Damage. But the moneyed interests, largely oil, pushed hard behind Bush and won. <br />
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Thus did our soldiers murder whole families, innocent families, by the way, remember Falujah, where the soldiers went from house to house killing everyone in the house; Fathers, mothers, sisters, grandmothers, and children. And the American people -- still reeling from 9/11, said nothing. Like sheep set out for tigers' meals they kept largely silent simply noting what little truth was made available to them. And what lies were told to the American people by way of the Main Stream Media, were legion, and appalling, were also told to the Congress.<br />
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Remember that Bush/Cheney allowed no dead soldiers to be photographed! Journalists were forbidden to photograph those flag draped coffins. Instead, Bush said to America: <br />
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"Go shopping," he said.<br />
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The Republican Party is the party of ultimate wealth. <br />
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And whose only function is to serve the rich! Especially those who don't like to pay taxes, just as everybody must pay taxes. But they want you to pay taxes -- while they luxuriate tax-free on their yachts.<br />
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To subscribe to them is to proudly proclaim that your values are corrupt.<br />
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The Republicans may criticize Democrats, but they have nothing to offer We, the People. As I noted above, the entire pupose of the Republican Party is to serve the few, the American oligarchy. Said oligarchy was exactly what the founders of this country feared might come into being; and now it has. And now they don't want you to know their true motive, so they muddy the waters with threats of lawsuit of President Obama, and with Mitch McConnell's threat to shut down government again.<br />
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No wonder they need to spend so much money on elections. <br />
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Nothing the conservative can do or say can be of benefit to the American people.<br />
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Here in Oregon we have outvoted wealth and the spending of hundreds of millions of dollars, and we have elected whom we wanted. The super rich fear us, more than any other. They fear our intelligence, education, and our independence of spirit.<br />
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Let's do it again!<br />
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You may have noticed that the Congress passes any bill that is supporting the Corporations, and they pass them in both houses of Congress in a matter of days, sometimes of hours. But anything that the American people want, that for some reason despite the constant assurances that Congress is on our side, for some reason or other it just doesn't seem to happen. <br />
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So sorry, say the polititians. I wish there was something we could do but our hands are just so tied. You know how broken Washington is. And well, this is just one of those things which shows how bad things are, don'chyaknow? <br />
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So these are some things which begin to percolate as I am watching the documentary on Gene Sharp's work on How To Start A (non-violent) Revolution! It has already worked for several dozen countries. It even worked in Egypt. Trouble was that after the downfall of Hosni Mubarek, and the successful democratic election of Morsi, the people thought it was all over and they could safely go home. But they did not see that the military was waiting for their chance to fuck things up! And so now, even though the revolution non-violent, Egypt still has a tyrant government in the form of the Military Generals. First the generals questioned the results of the election. Then sensing that Morsi's government being new, was weak they marched in and arrested Morsi and simply took over whether anybody liked it or not! <br />
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So there goes the carefully worked out theories of Isaah Berlin at Cambridge University. Berlin delivered some years ago, a lecture in which he said that <i>violent revolution</i> always produces a <i>brutal dictatorship,</i> the very opposite of it's original intention. Egypt is therefore an important development in the evolution of political dissent and revolution by the oppressed peoples of the world. One must be wary of the stupids!<br />
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That would be the Koch Brothers, the Sheldon Adelsons, Karl Icahn, Jeffrey Immeult, CEO of General Electric and protege of Jack Welsch, Capitalism's most monstrous creation; Lockheed-Martin, Halliburton, Nestle, Coke, Jaime Dimon of JP Morgan Chase, Citibank, Bank of America, Eric Cantor, Paul Ryan,.. you get the picture. And that is merely the short list of persons and corporations dangerous to America. And the list would not be complete without the <i>Department of Homeland Security</i> which at last count employed more than 250,000 people. And last but by no means least, The Supreme Court's very own John Roberts' Gang of Five; all five of those justices need to be removed from office. Scalia is simply a scoundrel; Clarence Ding Dong Thomas is a liar, not very bright and a follower of Scalia, and Alito who felt the president has unlimited power until Obama got into office. Then Alito felt the president should have no power at all. Roberts himself an obviously abused little boy trying to be good and conservative at the same time. And the conservative swing voter, Kennedy. <br />
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And not only much of the corrupt judiciary, but the Executive Branch as well. Not to forget the Military. The Pentagon. Not all of these are secret agencies, granted, but all of them are ready to violate the US Constitution at a moments notice. Especially -- the above are ready to eliminate your civil rights with the greatest of alacrity. </div>
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The only thing which comes up is: the rich, the billionaires have all the money. And have bought out the Senators and House of Representatives. Obnoxious as it seems, it does explain in every way why the Democrats are so wimpy about real issues. Why they will never stand up to Wall Street. Or the Republican Party.<br />
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I grew up with a grandmother who hated FDR so badly that one could not bring up the name in her presence without it being noted that you were asking for trouble. My mother voted for Reagan. I had a very difficult time forgiving her for that. Wouldn't even speak to her for several years. </div>
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If I could overcome all of that sort of Republicanism then surely Colin Powell, who has achieved so much more in this world than I. I am a zero. Powell is a giant. So what is stopping him from doing the right thing. Namely, walk away from the Republican party. It isn't what you think it is. The GOP is now the cradle of more corruption than Powell can imagine. Dishonorable men, altogether. Liars, frauds, war mongers and mediocrities. And proud of it! <br />
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Just as I overcame the Roman Catholic Church's indoctrination. Granted, I still love a great cathedral. I just don't buy the doctrines, dogma and all the rest of the crap from the Roman Church. The Inquisition was reason enough for the Church to cease its existence and if it were in any way a decent religion it would have recognized its gross error and walked away from all spiritual claims. In my view, the Roman Church has just a little too much compassion for itself. </div>
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So much for the culture of <i>selfishness and greed.</i><br />
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The great American architect Frank Lloyd Wright put it best. Wright's observation went like this: <br />
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America is the only country in recorded history to go from <i>primitive</i> to <i>decadent</i> with no discernible intervening culture.<br />
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Well, here is a nice little word for you: COMPASSION. Chew on that one for a while. Take your time. Chew thoroughly.<br />
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Compassion is the only mode or path by which a civilization may survive.<br />
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I am not talking about Compassion as a nice little extra which may or may not enter the fabric of culture according to the whim of the individual. Quite the contrary. Without compassion as the outstanding characteristic of any given culture, it will fail sooner rather than later. Such a culture does not have a chance. <br />
History is filled with <i>fallen civilizations.</i> Indeed <i>lost </i>civilizations are more the rule than not. Even the longest lasting and highest achieving civilizations such as Egypt, China, and India, which recorded history for 4,000 years each, eventually fell to decadence. And from decadence to dust.<br />
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And those are just the civilizations which lasted long enough to be recorded or to leave behind a record of their passing. It seems the only destination of any human civilization.<br />
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If you want to make war, or exploit a people, go right ahead but keep in mind that you will ultimately fail. Or if you don't fail you will lead your tribe into failure. It is written in the DNA of Selfishness and Greed.<br />
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Medieval Christianity was correct in naming GREED as one of the 7 DEADLY SINS. <br />
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Milton Friedman was one of the most influential economists of the latter 20th Century. Friedman came out of the Chicago School of Economics, at the University of Chicago, when the department was headed by one Friedrich von Hayek, who, himself, came out of the so-called Austrian School. Friedman was so important an economist, hawking as he did, Capitalism with a big C. <br />
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One of Donahue's questions had to do with Greed. Friedman came back quick and asked Donahue "Do you know anybody who isn't greedy, Phil?" And when Donahue had no quick and easy answer, Friedman followed it up with this: "Of course you don't. Greed is a universal human trait. And everybody has it." Friedman touted greed as if it were a virtue to be cultivated. <br />
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But history has posted its warning over and over again. Now America must choose which path it wants to take. The naked greed of Wall Street and the oppression from the Fascism which comes naturally from all the wealth being held by 1% of 1% of the population. And really the proportion is considerably smaller. <br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Very quietly, first Reagan, then GHW Bush, and then GW Bush castrated the FCC. George W Bush placed Colin Powell's son as its Chairman; of which there is no more loyal Right Wing extremist!) So the Right Wing marched in and said all media can be owned by whoever wants to buy it. Whereas originally, one could only own one or two sources of media in a single community, now you can own it all. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Right Wingers snapped it all up during that window known as the Bush administration. And that is why Warren Buffet famously has said that "...America is definitely engaged in class warfare..." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And all of the owners and publishers of media, <b>The Suits</b>, are members of the Tribe of Righties. They know all about the who, what, why, and where, in fact, responsibility for 9/11 and more, much more, lies. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">You know how it goes. Now, after more than fifty years some <i>real information</i> is leaking out about the JF Kennedy and Robert Kennedy assassinations, as well as the death of Lee Harvey Oswald, and Jack Ruby, not to mention Sirhan Sirhan, and even the CIA agents who were photographed at each of those assassinations. It is also true that such information can be found on the Internet. Now do you begin to understand why Comcast, and Verizon and any of the large corporations are so hell bent on acquiring the exclusive ownership of the Internet? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Today, all American based multinational corporations are Fascistic in their corporate culture. Big Agra, Big Pharma, Big Oil, Coal, and so on. All of them are anti-American liars! Oh, yes, Fox News! Populated entirely by LIARS! I will talk more about Fox's disposition toward lying outright, bald faced lying. And makes no bones about it! They lie the way you drink coffee in the morning. Of course, they are owned by one Rupert Murdoch, who, although one of the worst criminals in the world, is still strolling the boulevards and most likely will never be brought to trial. Rupert Murdoch has powerful protectors in Congress. </span><br />
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There is an old but notorious joke which my brother brought back from Mississippi's U of M where he went to school. Seems there's a little black man minding his own business and a bunch of white crackers come along and begin to harass him. Finding he does not respond to their abuse, they challenge him to a fight. After some time he finally agrees, very quietly, to fight against their champion who turns out to be twice his size. They bet big money on their guy and against the small black guy. The crackers are smiling wide as the white bully advances. But the black man lashes out and with one punch knocks the big guy clean out. He turns to the white men and asks for his winnings. But the crackers yell, "No, no, that wasn't enough. We really meant two out of three times." and stuff like that.<br />
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This second match they tie the black man's hands behind his back and then sound the bell. As the giant approaches, the black man, left with only one defense, kicks the giant in the cajones and the guy falls to the ground convulsing. The black man hops over to the white crackers and asks for his winnings; but once again the whiteys scream and yell and demand one more fight. <br />
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This time they bury the black man in the ground up to his neck and pack the ground tight. Then instead of a white man they release 6 mad dogs to run at the black man's head. But as the dogs run up to him he somehow is able to bite each of the dogs' testicles clean off and all of the dogs whimper and die. But the white men keep their distance and shake their fists, yelling, "Fight Fair, Niggah!"<br />
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If you guessed that the white crackers represent the Republicans you would be getting my meaning.. <br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1089608292232032000.post-41781208046924962922013-11-14T03:57:00.000-08:002013-11-14T03:57:14.317-08:00<br />
<img align="left" alt="A" src="http://dailydropcap.com/images/A-6-cap.png" title="Daily Drop Cap by Jessica Hische" />fter years of consideration, meditation and deepest mentations, I must at last, if I am to be honest, say that the GOP and the values of the vast majority of its adherents, admirers who so self-identify with its principles that they count themselves as one among many, beings afflicted with the painful conditions of poverty, and addiction, just as the poor do; in fact, the poor are so confused by their own lack of information, despite plenty of opportunities for access to important information which might bring happiness that they constantly walk this path harming themselves unable to stop.<br />
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Certainly they are not possessed of happiness now, and have little chance of finding it. They are like beings who are tortured by so deep an itch that when they come to their moment of wealth, instead of enjoying it, they scratch the itch in so frenzied a manner (which in itself leaves little opportunity for and peace and joy.) But instead, the poor and the wealthy alike are fed wrong information by the moneyed conservativeist purview, who are the root cause of all problems on earth.<br />
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The problem is that in lifetime after lifetime they never find happiness and have no way of handling their misery other than with overindulgence. Much as one would like to have compassion for them the reality is that drag down civilization. Having accrued large amounts of wealth, they feel it is their right to therefore wreak their own reflection on the planet. Unhappily their reflections are ugly and devoid of grace and goodness.<br />
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When most our paths have been smoothed, especially by wealth, based on what we know of samsara, or the Matrix, the smoother the pathway the more rot is crumbling the roadway from underneath, even as we travel.<br />
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So what is the answer?<br />
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As the Buddha said:<br />
Stop doing evil. <br />
Do only what is good.<br />
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And do not think that because you wish to do good things that the Universe will let you. No. It takes a million small things, before you are allowed near the big things. Until they fully understand the terror of their situation they will continue to avoid it --- until one day they die and all of that energy goes to the moon.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1089608292232032000.post-23563593293090455452013-11-10T00:17:00.001-08:002013-11-10T00:20:50.776-08:00SSI & Transitioning from Type Zero Civilization to Type One<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<img align="left" alt="W" src="http://dailydropcap.com/images/W-9-cap.png" title="Daily Drop Cap by Jessica Hische" />e need to expand Social Security and not reduce it, nor privatize it so that Wall Street criminals who wait like jackals can devour it. President Obama seems always ready to cut Social Security before the Republican Leadership even asks for it. </div>
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If he does it even one more time, I, for one, will be happy to see him impeached. He seems always ready to dance to the tune of the War Profiteers. (Doesn't anybody see war profiteering as a bad thing anymore?) The Military Industrial Complex is an abomination. And those work work there need to seek more gainful employment. Otherwise, they, too, the little guys are enemies of humanity. </div>
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They are pawns in the corporate zero sum game of backward looking exploitation of planetary resources. They are why we live in what is now being called the Type Zero Civilization and the little guys who work for them are willingly participating in the ruination of this planet for all time. </div>
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Renowned scientist Michio Kaku, who has written extensively popularizing advanced ideas in physics, discusses, in the video below, the three major stellar civilizations. What is a Type One Civilization; a Type Two Civilization through Type Three Civilization? And where do we here on this planet fit in? </div>
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Our global civilization exploits our own natural resources a million times faster than they can be replaced. </div>
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We are therefore a Type Zero Civilization. </div>
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We are not even close to being a Type One Civilization.</div>
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Please play the video and listen carefully as Kaku discusses the various stellar and interstellar civilizations. You will begin to see how today's orgy of greed for money and power is not merely holding back this country, but is criminally endangering our planet and destroying humanity's bid for survival. </div>
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It is obvious that such an accomodation as Social Security is actually a step along the way toward the transition from a near-jungle mentality which some are pleased to call <i>civilization</i> here on earth, to a Type One Civilization. And so is Solar Energy, Wind Power, Geothermal energy, and the like. And the consumption of natural resources such as oil and coal for burning to create energy are a fool's way to a destitute planet. </div>
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This old school animalistic King of the Hill, chest beating, sort of civilization is a long ago worn out model worthy only of being dropped into the sewer of the legion of already dead planets.</div>
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Take, for example, a criminal outfit such as BP who has already fouled one previously beautiful ocean, not to mention the other oil and gas and coal corporations, and tell me why they are they not in jail? I know the usual answer. They are the rich and powerful corporations; and people like me are considered outsiders --- to say the least, if not total lunatic fringe, wishing for Utopia. </div>
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The problem is that there isn't any more time to waste indulging the conservatives their ancient and not very satisfactory vision of civilization. We are so much closer to extinguishing the possibility of human life surviving on this planet than conservatives can imagine. They think there is all the time in the world and even if we do fuck things up badly and we already have done, some ingenious soul of a scientist or conservative engineer will come along and fix everything. </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1089608292232032000.post-41192762831291800142013-11-05T00:45:00.003-08:002013-11-05T00:45:44.994-08:00Edward Snowden, Barak Obama, and the TPPThe Obama White House has confirmed that there will be no pardon for Edward Snowden despite the fact that he did the American people a big favor when he blew the Whistle on the NSA's secret surveillance of the American people. White House officials are calling his actions unlawful and suggesting that he should come back to this country so they can brand him as a traitor and then murder him. Just a little vengeance; that's all they want. Seems awfully unreasonable of Ed boy to not give them their Dog and Pony Show.<br />
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Well, in a word --- no.<br />
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What the American people see is that Snowden really is a hero no matter how hard the Republicans try to paint him with the "traitor" brush. No doubt should he return of his own free will, they will dig up many other and far more odious actions from his "past". It is just the way they operate when they've been caught with their pants down and their hands in the cookie jar. Look at the legislators who wear the biggest, and ugliest snarls on their public faces. Most are Republicans. Lindsay Graham, for one, can't seem to keep his mouth shut about just about everything anyway. Then there's the ever treacherous Diane Feinstein, who is ostensibly a Democratic Senator. What a blessing it would have been for Americans if only Feinstein had been replaced in the last election by her much more liberal opponent. Indeed, I think of Feinstein as a DINO, (Democrat In Name Only) the Democratic counterpart of the Republican RINO. <br />
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Given all of this, our Democratic president should have been, if not ecstatic, then certainly happy to have discovered the top secret programs which the NSA lied about so blatantly. First, James Clapper lied to the United States Congress during their investigation of said surveillance, saying that there were no such programs; and when it was no longer possible to lie about it, then he lied about how very effective those secret programs <i>which didn't exist</i> really were. And rather than being punished for lying outright to Congress, which carries a very heavy punishment and is properly called <i>contempt</i>, he's been kicked upstairs, instead, to a more responsible position, which, by the by, gives him total oversight of the secret federal agencies, such as the NSA, CIA, and the FBI, and more. <br />
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How do we know this?<br />
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Because we know that President Obama has promised him that position of Surveillance of the American People Czar.<br />
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Now, we arrive at the bigger questions; namely,<br />
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why did Obama make such a promise to Clapper. <br />
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And why does the president and the Congressional Republicans want to wreak vengeance on such a little guy by the name of Edward Snowden?<br />
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Could it be that they are, collectively, the traitors to We, The People of these United States? Could it be, unthinkable as it sounds on the surface, the very traitor which they accuse him of being?<br />
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And how does the TPP, the Trans Pacific Partnership enter into this? <br />
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There will be more of this essay soon.<br />
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