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Published: Feb 26, 2012
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Post Date: 2012-02-26 09:15:13 by A K A Stone
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" Faced with defeat on all fronts, Washington planners, nonetheless, continue to uphold the delusional dream of an indefinite US stay in Afghanistan. Imperial dreams die hard." In lieu, then, of discussing Afghanistan and US militarism more broadly, the presidential campaign devolves into spectacle and triviality. Substance, where it is to be found, is limited to squabbles over who promises to cut the most from the already gutted American social safety net. The fact that the Pentagon appropriates over half the US budget (52 percent in 2011, according to the War Resisters League) in order to conduct campaigns of misery and terror abroad, leaving the hollow mantra of “shared sacrifice” in its wake at home, is beyond debate-beyond the pale. US militarism is simply an unquestionable pillar of the American way of life. Something the people of the world (from Vietnam to Afghanistan, from Iraq to Korea and beyond) have come to learn firsthand." We're getting our ass handed to us. And Clint Eastwood is our model. Pack up the band...it's now all over. Waiting for the False Flag that will project us into the Post 9/11 Shock Doctrine.
It's going to be 100 F today... And tomorrow. It will cool off to 97 by Wed. No one has to tell me, I don't have to google to know this is a Record....... It used to cost one barrel of oil to get about 100 barrels of oil out of the ground. These days one barrel only gets us 10 barrels back, and declining. And that means it's not cheap anymore.
So far, 48 NATO troops – including the three Australians killed on Wednesday – have died in 31 separate attacks. This month, during Ramadan, 11 US soldiers were killed in nine days. The high number represents 14 per cent of all combat fatalities this year and though it is still only August, the figure is already significantly higher than last year, when 31 troops died. The numbers are so high that some analysts claim they may represent the highest incidence of intentional friendly fire attacks in recorded military history...
When San Diego does this to you, you need to take the hint: ""Go ahead, nurse. Make my bed." A man's got to know his limitations and Clint Eastwood's performance at the Republican National Convention earned him notices the likes of which he hasn't received since City Heat. "Clint, my hero, is coming across as sad and pathetic. He didn't need to do this to himself. It's unworthy of him." - Roger Ebert "That was the weirdest thing I've ever seen at a political convention in my entire life." - MSNBC's Rachel Maddow "Tremendous!" - Academy Award-Winner, Jon Voight Eastwood began his career talking to trees and now he's addressing a chair. It's like watching the dummy without Paul Winchell.
I like that review best.
I like that review best. A twofer.....;}
Rachel Maddow. You are quoting a sex pervert. I think she would look good with her head removed by a sharp sword.
I think she would look good with her head removed by a sharp sword. YOu sound like Al Qaeda. But then AQ's Now our bestest buddies, huh. How do you square that?
And THIS is what I get replies to? Not the Afghans. Not Market Manipulation. Not Climate Change. HEat Records still falling today. Not Peak Oil. But Clint Fucking Eastwood losing an arguement to a chair. Election 2012 and the media: a vast rightwing conspiracy of stupid By Glenn Greenwald 31paul-ryan-with-his-wife-j-008.jpg Paul Ryan's address to the RNC contained a number of notably dubious claims, yet CNN's Wolf Blitzer chiefly admired 'his beautiful family'. Photograph: Andrew Gombert/EPA
The GOP Campaign Motto: Vote in November for Legitimate Rape.
In other words, conspiracy theories sometimes are fact. If opportunity, motive, and means are evident, don’t rule out conspiracy merely because you’ll be labeled a conspiracy theorist. English philosopher Bertrand Russell put his own spin on the horrors of uncovering the truth via thought: Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth, more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man. Small wonder, then, most refuse to think. Thinking is hard, so the majority of Americans prefer television instead. Swimming against a profoundly strong cultural current is nearly impossible, especially when the resulting discomfort threatens our own privilege. And conspiracy theories certainly threaten the ill-founded notion of American exceptionalism.
And speaking of Conspiracy. CNN for some reason thought they need to talk about the Suicide Bombing against the US Consulate 'workers' this AM. Maybe they shoulda just stayed quiet. But then they've got So Much Shite they have to stay quiet about, that it just kinda overflowed their Toilet Bowl, so: Mon Sep 3, 2012 6:17AM GMT A bomb blast near the US Consulate in the city of Peshawar in northwestern Pakistan has killed at least two Americans, and has injured two others. Since late 2009, there has been a surge in militant attacks in Pakistan and thousands more have been displaced by the wave of violence and militancy sweeping across the country. Thousands of Pakistanis have lost their lives in bombings and other militant attacks since 2001, when Pakistan entered an alliance with the US in the so-called war on terrorism. AO/HJL
It's the supreme propaganda orgy, devoted to aggressively reinforcing the claim to American exceptionalism: the belief that even when things look grim, America will forever be that special God-favored land of freedom, opportunity, and prosperity, and all citizens should therefore be deeply grateful – quietly and passively so – for the privilege of residing in such a land, no matter how wretched are their circumstances and how pervasive is the corruption. It's what inculcates many Americans to believe that they enjoy vibrant political debate and stark democratic choice, even as so many of the policies that are most consequential and destructive for their lives – the "war on drugs", the supremacy of the covert national security and surveillance states, vast inequalities in the justice system, crony capitalism that rapidly bolsters the oligarchy that owns the political process – are steadfastly ignored because both parties on those matters have exactly the same position and serve the same interests.
And conspiracy theories certainly threaten the ill-founded notion of American exceptionalism. False-flag terror attacks? Check. American government agencies buying enough ammunition to kill every citizen five times? Check. U.S. Supreme Court collaborating with the executive branch to increase corporate power? Check, since 1971 (at least). Goldman Sachs defrauding its clients with the knowledge of the Securities and Exchange Commission? Check. Civilian deaths from drones covered up? Check. The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is dead, though most Americans refuse to acknowledge that truth. But the former U.S. Marine arrested for patriotic posts on Facebook knows. After his relatively innocuous posts, he was placed in a Stalin-like mental ward. Displaying the “wrong” political view warrants the same treatment. Apparently questioning 9/11 — an obvious inside job, as anybody paying the slightest attention has known for years — makes one crazy. Or a terrorist. Or both. And if you think 9/11 wasn’t an inside job — the evidence for which is overwhelming and physically undeniable — then you believe in coincidence but not the Laws of Thermodynamics. When will your silence be met with incarceration, then torture, then early death? These United States are well down the road of tyranny, regardless the mantra of the mainstream.
It somehow manages simultaneously to be relentlessly insipid, yet genuinely destructive. As Blitzer and Burnett put it last night: "So there he is, the Republican vice-presidential nominee and his beautiful family there. His mom is up there … He's a man who says I care deeply about every single word. I want to do a good job." False Flag coming.
The two major parties pretend that so-called "entitlement" programs can be simultaneously reformed, improved, and abolished - that is, you can have your cake and eat it (with ice cream) at the same time you throw it in the garbage. Reality rejects this incoherent juggling act and proposes that Americans better just make other arrangements for old age, routine medical care, and daily bread. This implies cultural as much as economic transformation and it will occur emergently no matter what empty promises anyone makes. People who want to get food at regular intervals will have to find some way to make themselves useful to others. Medicine will return to the local clinic model and doctors will have to find another motivation for practice besides the acquisition of German automobiles. Kunstler Compare and contrast the platforms of the Republicans and Democrats with the Reality Party: The two major parties both propose that the colossal machine of everyday life in America can not only run indefinitely, but continue expanding, and include ever more member people who trade ever more schwag. All that is required, they say, is twiddling the settings of the machine, to get it back to running smoothly as it did in the good old days before the mystifying crash of 2008. They disagree slightly on which dials to twiddle. Reality knows we have entered along-term compressive economic contraction; that there is no way we can persist in the current living arrangement; and that the necessary outcome to avoid immense human suffering can be described as the downscaling and re-localizing of everything we do. The two major parties regard the rule of law as optional, especially in money matters.
Copper up on stimulus prospects after gloomy China data | DAWN ... dawn.com/.../copper-up-on...-prospects-after-gloomy... - Pakistan 20 hours ago – 12-13 meeting. In the euro zone, the manufacturing sector contracted faster than previously thought last month, despite factories cutting prices, ...
Success: Manufacturing downturn eases sharply in August ... - The Guardian www.guardian.co.uk/business/feedarticle/10420513 1 day ago – The euro zone manufacturing sector contracted faster than previously thought last month, despite factories cutting prices, as core countries ... Success: Offshore Tax Havens. Success: Manufacturing ISM Misses, Third Month In Contraction Territory; Biggest Miss In Construction Spending In One year Tyler Durden's picture Submitted by Tyler Durden on 09/04/2012 10:09 -0400 Success: Highest Food Stamp Participation Ever News Success: Austerity for everyone but Military Top 1%. Success: $1.75 Quadrillion in Debt Derivatives. Success: the August Manufacturing ISM just printed at 49.6, down from July's 49.8, and well below expectations of 50. This was the third contraction in a row and joins the global PMI which as we reported yesterday now has 80% of the world in contractionary territory. Success: Iraq/the Afghans Success: 5) the failure to force the rich to take their losses and to break up the banks means that the same people who caused the 2007/8 financial crisis still control the economy and the government. 6) failure to restructure the economy to get off oil and over to an electrical economy means that the US (and the world) are caught in the oil price dilemna: any real recovery increases oil price and will be derailed by those high oil prices. 7) Europe, ex. Germany, is in recession. 8 ) the developed world is in depression, it never left depression. During depressions there are recoveries (such as they are) and recessions, but the overall economy is in depression. 9) China’s economy is slowing down. Since China is the main engine of the world economy, followed by the US, this is really bad. If it goes into an actual recession, bend over and kiss your butt goodbye. Success: Legitimate Rape.....;} Vote it November 2012.
Post Y2K. Greece is going back to the drachma, and dumping the euro. Liquidating debt, and giving Angela Merkel the finger. Can Spain and Italy be far behind? Iceland paved the way.
Obama's watch stopped on 24 May 2008, but he's been too busy smoking crack to notice.
Willard is an Olympic Gold Medal flip flopper.
Obama's watch stopped on 24 May 2008, but he's been too busy smoking crack to notice.
Re: US drought is worst since the 1950s MY EDIT: WORST EVER Post Tue Sep 04, 2012 10:14 am by mcgowanjm Picasso Moon wrote:Interesting. Just south of you, in Seattle, a friend of mine has been reporting what a hot summer it's been. It's not been hot here either. The Jet Stream and Thermohaline Conveyors like the Humboldt and the Gulfstream are the Sine Quo Nons of weather along with the Arctic. The End of Arctic Ice Melt and Major Hurricane Formation Exactly coincide at September 10. A Warm Arctic throws the Global Jet Stream completely out of whack. This year the Jet went all the way down to Texas and then straight up to the Hudson Bay. Looking for it to Reverse and go from Manitoba straight down to Texas. We're going to wobble back and forth increasingly erratically til the New Steady State presents itself. Obviously there will be a lot fewer humans around when that happens. Posts: 5079 Joined: Tue Nov 09, 2010 11:23 am Post Tue Sep 04, 2012 10:19 am by mcgowanjm Re: US drought is worst since the 1950s Post Tue Sep 04, 2012 10:19 am by mcgowanjm I've been reading 'Neven' since March. And He/They have gone from 'Dry Scientist Chatter' to 'Day After Tomorrow' rants. Just utterly amazing. Even as there is to Today Not One AP piece connecting 2012 Record Breaking Heat/Drought/Flood to Climate Change. And 8% of Record Weather articles of USSAMSM have mentioned Climate Change. where we are with regards Arctic sea ice, and where we're headed. I am asserting that 2010 was a key event, one with repercussions for the future, that will be seen in years to come as important a turning point as 2007 itself. Indeed 2010 may even have ushered in what Dr Peter Wadhams has said probably be a succession of crashes: "I think the next two or three years will see a further collapse and we'll then be encountering an Arctic ocean without sea ice in it during the summer months" BBC News 24, 19:23 27/8/12. A year ago I'd have disagreed, now I think he may be correct. neven1.typepad.com/blog/2012/09/ ... .html#more mcgowanjm Posts: 5079 Joined: Tue Nov 09, 2010 11:23 am Post Tue Sep 04, 2012 10:21 am by mcgowanjm Re: US drought is worst since the 1950s Post Tue Sep 04, 2012 10:21 am by mcgowanjm An Arctic Without Ice means the N Hemisphere Will Never have a Normal Summer again.
The Arctic Ice might as well be gone. The New Normal....get used to it.
Better come out with a new and improved religion. One that incorporates 115 in Kansas City in July.
Iceland paved the way. With the Meme that Europe won't bother the USSA when it craters....;} Spain can't ship money out faster. $400+ Billion so far, on track for $660 Billion for the year. The GDP is $1.8 Trillion.
Anyone ever hear of Disaster Food Stamps??????? ;} Some residents can pick up food stamps starting Wednesdayadd to reading list Some hurricane victims can start picking up their disaster food stamps to help buy groceries that were lost in the storm. Residents that qualify must live in one of the 10 parishes that has been approved by the government.
Sneakypete Meets Governor Romney
Climate Change. The Most Censored Story 2012. Arctic ice melt = 20 years of CO2 emissions ""The volume of ice in the summer is only a quarter of what it was 30 years ago and that's really the prelude to this final collapse," Prof Wadhams said. Instead of being reflected away from the Earth, this energy is absorbed, and contributes to warming. Parts of the Arctic Ocean are now as warm in summer as the North Sea is in winter, Prof Wadhams said. neven1.typepad.com/blog/2...f-co2-emissions.html#more Ice Free by 2015. mcgowanjm posted on 2012-09-06 7:39:58 ET
legitimate rape. Vote Republican 2012. ;}
‘When’ is so … yesterday! Coyotes have been dropping for five years. The process has been satisfactorily papered over to a large extent. Managers have learned a lot about crisis management since 1929 and 1973 and 1987. When there are difficulties the managers know to run out the shills. The public — and markets — are credulous. They want to believe. Nobody wants a Greater Depression and will do whatever is possible to avoid one. the cost of credit … has become too high for individual buyers to afford. The speculators are victims of their own greed.
From the democratic convention when they "voted" to change the rules
Arctic Ice essentially gone now. What's left is rotten. High Pressure Stays over Greenland All Summer. Does this every year since 2007. "The Arctic sea-ice has long passed its tipping point, and so also have the other critical features in the polar north. We will soon have a very different, warmer Arctic climate with mind-boggling implications for the rate of Greenland melt, sea levels, the stability of permafrost and methane clathrates, and more extreme weather in the northern hemisphere. Welcome to the Arctic end times. www.climatecodered.org/20...predicts-arctic.html#more Three North Poles now. Axis, Magnetic, and Climatic. We can tell the children Santa lives in Greenland. Posted by: Jim Williams | September 08, 2012 at 14:40 Protege Cuajimalpa Our children have about 15 more years. More if they survive the Ice Age*. * ICe Age Theory: Kicks in as Temp Change approaches a 5oC rise over 1760 Baseline.
Doting on every word uttered and actions taken at the conventions will leave one senile. My house has been declared a convention free zone.
Almost every country in the Middle East is awash in oil, and we have to side with the one that has nothing but joos. Goddamn, that was good thinkin'. Esso posted on 2012-01-13 7:37:56 ET
The last convention I remember that was 'fun' was in Detroit at the State Fair Grounds...1980. I was there, all of 23 years of age.
It is not easy reconstructing 'molded minds'...
Now why would a teen age boy get in front of the CIA HQ in Kabul and blow himself up.... killing only street vendor teen age boys... And then the various world protaganists weigh in on the incident.....;}
www.shadowstats.com/imgs/...mp.gif?hl=ad&t=1347024005 And we can add: Social Class Warfare to Market Manipulation Climate Change Peak Oil ....;}
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Rachel Maddow. You are quoting a sex pervert.
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Greece is going back to the drachma, and dumping the euro. Liquidating debt, and giving Angela Merkel the finger. Can Spain and Italy be far behind?
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