Thought for the day

In Afghanistan, when, on successive days in October [2001], US gunships machine-gunned and cannoned the remote farming village of Chowkar-Karez killing as many as 93 civilians, a Pentagon official was moved to respond at one point: “the people there are dead because we wanted them dead”.

(borrowed from http://williamblum.org/essays/read/concerning-september-11-2001-and-the-bombing-of-afghanistan)

That's righteousness for you !!!

Who is he to judge ???

He's the Pope, for God's sake! If he won't judge, how can anyone?

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/30/world/europe/pope-francis-gay-priests.html

Jesus said this:

Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.

-Matthew 5:17-18 KJV

The real question is this: what is the law, how shall it be fulfilled, and by whom?

Hail to thee, rich people !!!

Vulture funds crush the poor, and it's all legal:

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2013/07/2013725162151962904.html

Being a clever lawyer should not trump the needs of the many. But it does in America.

Read up all you can find on the man behind this, Paul Singer. I would say it's very instructive to do so:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Singer_(businessman)

Celebs beautify while babies die

This is America at its rotten core:

http://wtop.com/267/3406718/While-celebrities-beautify-babies-die

The ruling class and its accomplices in the one percent don't give a DAMN about what happens to you and your children.

Meet the new boss ...

... same as the old boss:

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-yellen-campaign-20130731,0,6540971.story

I keep hearing that women are smarter than men and so much more capable. Where's the proof?

I think that Ms. Yellen will do to the US what Christine Lagarde of the IMF did to Greece: bend us over and fuck us until we bleed. ANYONE could do that.

Face it: we're stuck with NSA spying

The NSA is NOT going to stop spying on us. The administration, Congress, and the Supreme Court have NO intention of stopping them, and the people are cowardly sheep addicted to the very tools of their oppression. Read the latest here:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/31/nsa-top-secret-program-online-data

http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2013/07/greenwald-nsa-surveillance-hearing-cancelled-169526.html

Manning will be jailed forever; Assange will never get to leave the embassy; and Snowden won't be killed or tortured since, like Bush, Obama ad-Dajjal will just redefine what "killing" and "torture" are (he has the power to define what the meaning of "is" is). The rest of us will soon go back to sleep, not minding the collars around our necks and the chains on our ankles.

Skip Nineteen Eighty-Four; what you need to read is Animal Farm. It gives a nearly PERFECT description of the evolution of the American political system. But don't bother unless you're into BDSM and enjoy suffering.

The new American family ???

Snooki and her tribe:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2381549/Snooki-shows-dramatic-50lbs-weight-loss-bikini-splashes-Jersey-Shore-fiance-son.html

I have only glanced at the "Jersey Shore" program a few times. The impression I got is that it's all "me, me, me" and screw everyone else; all play and absolutely no productivity.

If that's the new America, we ARE screwed ... unless the rest of the world doesn't mind paying for us to goof off all day.

What if Obama ad-Dajjal CAN'T lead ???

A very good question, asked by Ron Fournier:

http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/what-if-obama-can-t-lead-20130731

I counter with a different question: What if he really is the False Prophet? That would also explain what he is "doing" (or not doing): "leading" us down a path of destruction (and NOT leading us out of the wilderness).

Our smoke and mirrors economy

Obama ad-Dajjal and his minions are incapable of improving the economy, so they have decided to redefine it:

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-new-gdp-methodology-what-you-need-to-know-2013-07-31

We're off to see the Wizard
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
We hear he is a Whiz of a Wiz
If ever a Wiz there was
If ever, oh ever, a Wiz there was
The Wizard of Oz is one because
Because, because, because, because, because
Because of the wonderful things he does
We're off to see the wizard
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz!

Sheesh !!!

Minimum wage gibberish

Another wannabee economist telling us how "the market" should rule our lives:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/artcarden/2013/07/30/would-a-higher-minimum-wage-help-mcdonalds-workers/

The market does not care whether you live or die, prosper or starve, enjoy life or suffer; except with respect to whether money can be made from it ... by OTHER people, NOT by you. Is THAT how we want OUR world to be structured?

If we allow market states to replace nation states, we will ALL (with few exceptions) become useless eaters. What will you do THEN?

Clintonian words of wisdom

"I was one of THE stupid people who voted for Bill Clinton both times AND voted for Hillary Clinton for NY Senator. I will NEVER AGAIN, IN A MILLION YEARS AND NOT FOR LOVE OR MONEY, vote for another Clinton or support ANYTHING they do again because they have proven to have NOTHING but THE most hideous charlatans, thieves, scam artists and sickos on their side. Shame on them for maintaining an ever grotesque menagerie of filthy slags around them."

(posted by Ban @ http://blogs.nbc12.com/decisionvirginia/2013/07/fast-terry-a-damning-but-controversial-look-at-mcauliffe.html)

Amen !!! People are known by the company they keep.

Early Christians practiced Socialism

Yesterday I listened to a program entitled "A Black Horse" by Chuck Missler. It's ostensibly about the third horse of the Apocalypse. It seemed to be spot on until Mr. Missler said the following:

"SOCIALISM IS THEFT."

I stopped the tape and threw it away. Why?

If we followed the example of the earliest Christians, we would never say something like that. They clearly were socialists, perhaps even Communists:

And all that believed were together, and had all things common;
And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need.
And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart,
Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.

-Acts 2:44-47 KJV

In addition, those who withheld their private property from the early church were put to death as an example to others:

But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession,
And kept back part of the price, his wife also being privy to it, and brought a certain part, and laid it at the apostles' feet.
But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?
Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.
And Ananias hearing these words fell down, and gave up the ghost: and great fear came on all them that heard these things.
And the young men arose, wound him up, and carried him out, and buried him.
And it was about the space of three hours after, when his wife, not knowing what was done, came in.
And Peter answered unto her, Tell me whether ye sold the land for so much? And she said, Yea, for so much.
Then Peter said unto her, How is it that ye have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? behold, the feet of them which have buried thy husband are at the door, and shall carry thee out.
Then fell she down straightway at his feet, and yielded up the ghost: and the young men came in, and found her dead, and, carrying her forth, buried her by her husband.
And great fear came upon all the church, and upon as many as heard these things.

-Acts 5:1-11 KJV

Doesn't that sound like what we are told that so-called "socialists" and "Communists" do?

There was at least ONE capitalist among the original apostles: Judas Iscariot.

Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.
Then saith one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, which should betray him,
Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?
This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein.

-John 12:3-6 KJV

His actions remind me of Obama ad-Dajjal, a capitalist sock puppet who has our bag, and who pretends to help the poor and the middle class while actually robbing all of us like a ravening wolf:

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/07/30/detr-j30.html

Of course, one can say that the early Christians believed in God while modern socialists and Communists often do not. But what is more important: praising Jesus, or doing what He said we should do?

Lies my Presidents told me

Here's a few whoppers:

(1) The federal debt has not changed in 70 days (refer to http://cnsnews.com/news/article/70-straight-days-treasury-says-debt-stuck-exactly-1669939600000000)

(2) There has not been a military coup in Egypt.

(3) The Israelis do not have nuclear weapons.

Lies (2) and (3) were told so that funding would not have to be cut off as required by federal law.

Lie (1) is being told so that you will not realize that our national economy will soon go the way of Detroit.

Those who want to be ruled by liars will never discover the truth; the truth that might set you free.

Sad, truly sad.

Fracking is a gangplank to a warm future

Here is a revealing op-ed essay in The New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/29/opinion/gangplank-to-a-warm-future.html

Apparently, Obama ad-Dajjal's war on coal is just another example of his incredible penchant for promising things he can't deliver. Shutting down coal-fired power plants will NOT save the planet. It will, however, encourage more fracking (a.k.a. methane mining).

Experts blame the problems from fracking on "leaking wells". They are ALL going to leak some day; engineered systems can NEVER be perfect, and all those holes in the ground are direct pathways from huge deposits of toxins to all of our subterranean aquifers.

Fracking is stupid. It represents a short-term gain at a potentially huge long-term cost. The nuclear industry once claimed that its electricity would be "too cheap to meter". Any positive claims about the benefits of fracking belong in the same category of wishful thinking.

Let them eat cake (if they can find it)

Another lavish vacation for Obama ad-Dajjal and his minions:

http://washingtonexaminer.com/obama-vineyard-vacation-at-7.6m-private-resort-over-75-rooms-booked-for-staff/article/2533598

This administration is the most disgusting display of selfishness I have ever seen.

By the way, this is what a "market state" does: maximize the comfort of the rich while maximizing the wretchedness of the poor. THAT is what the American ruling class has in store for you.

We are poisoning our planet

Two very revealing news reports:

http://qz.com/107970/scientists-discover-whats-killing-the-bees-and-its-worse-than-you-thought/

http://environmentaldefence.ca/prepolluted

We are poisoning our planet, and this poisoning will some day result in our extinction.

STOP fracking, and SHUTDOWN the chemical plants. The damage they cause is IRREVERSIBLE (at least within the lifespan of our species).

The real John Kerry

Read all about him @
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/07/26/what-john-kerry-really-did-in-vietnam/

He's definitely NOT a winter soldier.

Yes, Obama ad-Dajjal is responsible

Yesterday I listened to some NPR gibberish about how Obama ad-Dajjal is not responsible for any of our economic woes.

Here's an essay about some of these woes:

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/exclusive-4-5-us-face-near-poverty-no-work-0

Whatever your beliefs and delusions about responsibility, if ANY President bears ANY responsibility for our economy, then Obama ad-Dajjal is responsible for finding some FIXES. Merely constantly blaming other people is not acceptable.

Doing that is MY job.

Are you rapture ready ???

Yesterday I was watching the video "Rapture Ready" about Max Blumenthal's visit to John Hagee's Christians United for Israel Tour. You can see it @ http://youtu.be/mjMRgT5o-Ig

Max seems to think the whole thing is funny. I do not. There is much to comment on about this video and the concept of "rapture".

First, if what Max claims is true, then Pastor Hagee apparently is living a life of extreme wealth and luxury in his ministry. Such a life is completely different from what Jesus told his disciples to do.

Second, Pastor Hagee appeared to lie when Max confronted him about his statements regarding God's punishment of the Jews. A pastor should not say things he doesn't believe, and he shouldn't deny them just because a camera is pointed at him. What is said in private should be shouted from the rooftops, or not said at all.

Third, although some Christians believe that the Jews ultimately will accept Jesus as the Messiah, I have never heard a Jew say this. The Jewish Messiah will be a man and NOT a god, and he will NEVER declare himself to be God. Such a thing is IMPOSSIBLE in Judaism, as it is in Islam.

Fourth, the whole concept of "rapture" appears to be misunderstood by Christians. YES, there will be a rapture. NO, it will not save people from the tribulation.

Why do I say this? Many people think these two Biblical passages mean that people will be raptured prior to the tribulation:

For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.

-1 Thessalonians 5:9-10 KJV

Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.

-Revelation 3:10 KJV

The first passage is pretty vague, and may or may not refer to the rapture/tribulation concept. The second passage apparently DOES refer to rapture/tribulation, but it contains a serious caveat: "because thou hast kept the word of my patience". I argue STRONGLY that so-called Christians who approve of their government's persecution of Muslims and who demand that their government bomb Iran and commit other violent acts do NOT satisfy the qualification set forth in Revelation 3:10; they have NOT kept the word of His patience.

Additionally, the actual scriptural descriptions of the rapture indicate CLEARLY that it will NOT occur prior to the tribulation. Read them yourselves:

For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

-1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 KJV

Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

-1 Corinthians 15:51-52 KJV

But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.

-Revelation 10:7 KJV

The rapture will occur at the blowing of the seventh trumpet. Read what happens PRIOR to this event in the Book of Revelation, and it should be obvious to you that even those who will be raptured will either have died prior to or during the tribulation or will have been alive and present on the earth during it.

I have no doubt that God will protect His church. But there appears to be no sound scriptural basis for believing that He will rapture His church prior to the tribulation.

I can't tell you what your fate will be; only God can do that. But I will say that it appears that most of us will be subject to the tribulation. Whatever happens, DO NOT TAKE THE MARK.

And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

-Matthew 5:30 KJV

Blimps over DC ???

Here's the latest boondoggle attributed to "security":

http://www.nationaljournal.com/nationalsecurity/don-t-be-alarmed-by-the-drone-blimps-hovering-over-d-c-they-re-here-to-stop-cruise-missiles-20130726

Does ANYONE think DC is being threatened by cruise missiles? Have you seen any "swarming boats" on the Potomac?

If I didn't know better, I might start to think that the purpose of these platforms is to allow the military to hold our government hostage to their demands.

What do you think?

O is worried about the income gap ???

According to this fluff interview, Obama ad-Dajjal is now worried about the income gap in the US:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/28/us/politics/obama-says-income-gap-is-fraying-us-social-fabric.html

Does this moron even read the notes he's handed, or does he just regurgitate them mindlessly? If he's so worried about us, then why is he a sock puppet for bankgangsters and corporations?

Phony jerk.

They know much more than you think

Great essay about the NSA from James Bamford:

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/aug/15/nsa-they-know-much-more-you-think

This key prescient passage can be found near the end of the essay:

That capability at any time could be turned around on the American people and no American would have any privacy left, such [is] the capability to monitor everything: telephone conversations, telegrams, it doesn’t matter. There would be no place to hide. If this government ever became a tyranny, if a dictator ever took charge in this country, the technological capacity that the intelligence community has given the government could enable it to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back, because the most careful effort to combine together in resistance to the government, no matter how privately it was done, is within the reach of the government to know. Such is the capability of this technology…. I don’t want to see this country ever go across the bridge. I know the capacity that is there to make tyranny total in America, and we must see to it that this agency and all agencies that possess this technology operate within the law and under proper supervision, so that we never cross over that abyss. That is the abyss from which there is no return.

-Senator Frank Church

We have entered that abyss. And if you read between the lines of the essay, you can discover one of the reasons Congress will continue to fund such programs even though the America people don't want them: the system gives Congress's Israeli puppet masters access to the world's communications.

When are we going to stop being Israeli stooges? Probably never.

Did Obama ad-Dajjal just tell the truth about Vietnam ???

Here's a strange report about Vietnam:

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/07/26/uh-ho-obama-says-vietnamese-dictator-inspired-by-founding-fathers/

MANY nations have been inspired by America's Founders, only to discover that our so-called legacy of liberty and freedom is a hoax. Ho Chi Minh helped us defeat Japan, and we betrayed him into the hands of the French.

(Vietnamese dictator? How many people did Richard Nixon kill? Now THERE was a ruthless dictator.)

Yes, the Vietnam War was a misunderstanding. Ho thought he could trust us, and we fucked him. He didn't understand our forked-tongue lies. However, this time the underdog fought back and showed the world that the American paper tiger could be defeated.

The most disgusting part of this episode for me is that we learned NOTHING from it. We're still believing the same fantasies and shitting on other peoples in the same manner we did back then. We have better tools of oppression at our disposal now, so I guess that makes it okay.

The Mount Rushmore of Marxism

This Mount Rushmore of Marxism is from a modern set for the opera "Siegfried" by Wagner in Bayreuth, Germany:

(see http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/bayreuth-festival-director-castorf-takes-on-wagner-ring-cycle-a-912832-2.html)

Will Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Roosevelt someday be parodied like the Big Four of Marxism? I would say it's inevitable; especially because even the United States hates them now.

Why is jubilee not being observed ???

And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubilee unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.

-Leviticus 25:10

Part of this Biblical inscription can be found on the so-called Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, PA. It refers to the practice of jubilee, which the Lord told the children of Israel to observe when they entered the Promised Land.

This practice is not being observed in Israel, the United States, or any other so-called Christian nation. Why not?

The typical answer from the Jewish perspective is that they'll start observing jubilee when Messiah comes. Clearly, however, that is NOT what the Lord commanded them to do. Failing to observe jubilee for that particular reason tells me that it will not be observed even after Messiah comes. Messiah is expected to destroy all their enemies, foreign and domestic, and to rule the nations with a rod of iron. Why release prisoners when you think you are empowered to punish and kill anyone you please? Why give back property when no earthly power can compel you to do so? The unrighteous can always devise exceptions to God's commandments.

Americans are on a punishment binge that not only is not Christian but is also quite depraved. From "three strikes" laws to indefinite detention by the military, Americans have a growing number of excuses why people must be imprisoned for life, even if they MIGHT someday commit a crime. And the bottomless pits of our wars on terror in Guantanamo Bay and Bagram Airfield are proof positive that the US has no intention of ever observing jubilee.

The Liberty Bell is cracked, and Messiah has NOT come. Did you ever consider the possibility that failure to observe the Lord's commandments is what led to this?

Did Christie drink the police state Koolaid ???

Please explain to me how following the US Constitution endangers this nation. Apparently Gov. Christie of New Jersey thinks it does:

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/07/chris-christie-rand-paul-2016-election-94789.html

It is the very actions of the US National Security State that led to 9/11 and every terrorist attack we have endured. Further empowerment of that police state will not make us safer. If that's a view that is considered "dangerous", then we are on the same road as were the German people in 1936.

When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and waving a cross. And it will be neither patriotic nor Christian.

Is the US Constitution still in effect ???

The current administration, Congress, and Supreme Court obviously think the US Constitution is now dead. Here are some glaring examples:

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/07/26/pers-j26.html

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57595529-38/feds-tell-web-firms-to-turn-over-user-account-passwords/

http://www.thenation.com/blog/175410/americans-oppose-syrian-entanglement-boehner-rejects-checks-and-balances

http://antiwar.com/blog/2013/07/25/government-were-at-war-with-redacted/

A nation that is at war with everyone, including its own citizens, has no future. Apparently that fact is of no consequence to the ruling class, whose future looks brighter every day.

Republicans AND Democrats hate our freedoms

In spite of the phony furor over NSA spying, Congress continues to fund it:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/25/democratic-establishment-nsa

Democrat phonies whined and gnashed their teeth when George W. Bush spied on Americans, but they bow down and kiss his feet when Obama ad-Dajjal does it. Ya gotta wonder why.

They hate our freedoms: the meaning of this phrase has finally been revealed.

Note well that THEIR crimes and depravities are to be protected, while our privacy will not be.

Terror War Mumbo Jumbo

Philip Bobbitt argues most ideas about 21st-century terrorism are mistaken, and that "The wars against terror" comprise efforts against three dangers that threaten the legitimacy of the State: 1) "global, networked terrorists"; 2) "the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction"; and 3) catastrophes natural and "nonnatural." As a historian, Bobbitt understands the contemporary problem of terrorism as part of "the transition from nation states to market states." (borrowed from Wikipedia @ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terror_and_Consent:_the_Wars_for_the_Twenty-first_Century)

The legitimacy of the state is indeed threatened by several dangers, including the following:

• States are no longer concerned (if they ever were) about the welfare of their citizens;
• The ruling classes have hijacked the powers of states for their own benefit; and
• The relentless INVENTED drive to convert nation states to market states requires that state-sponsored violence be employed against anyone or anything that gets in the way of the conversion process.

Strictly speaking, the "wars against terror" are being fought against people who are what we used to be: people who love God, who love their countries, who love their traditions, and who want to live their lives in the manner they see fit. People who do not want to bow down to a single global authority of any kind.

Welfare state or market state ???

Which do we want: a welfare state or a market state? Two relevant essays, a bit lengthy but well worth your time:

http://dissidentvoice.org/2013/07/time-to-decide-concentrated-privatized-wealth-or-shared-prosperity-and-economic-democracy/

https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/kent-csi/vol44no2/html/v44i5a09p.htm

The CIA essay makes it appear that the advent of the market state is inevitable. That may be true, but it's only inevitable because that's what the ruling class wants.

Punishing a chaplain for being a Christian

Here's another sad story from contemporary America:

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2013/07/24/Military-Censors-Christian-Chaplain-Atheists-Call-for-Punishment

When the Chaplain Corps becomes just another lame supporter of military killing, they might as well not even be there. If our troops want to kill our enemies AND God at the same time, let them. But don't do it on MY dime.

Personally, I think they're making a poor choice.

Another "transparency" joke

I just figured out what "transparency" means to Obama ad-Dajjal and his minions. It means that you can go to Google Earth and see the giant facilities which are being built to spy on us:

http://www.defenseone.com/technology/2013/07/nsas-big-dig/67406/

That's a plus, isn't it? Back in the "old days" we didn't even HAVE satellite photos. Now they even tell us how big the spy computers are.

WOW !!! Now THAT'S transparency !!!

[Yes, I'm joking. Ha fucking ha.]

More "urban warfare training" in the US

Once again, the US government is conducting "urban warfare training" in another US city (Chicago). I suggest you read this entire article. It's important !!!

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/07/25/pers-j25.html

The ultimate objective of this "training" is the imposition of martial law in this country. Along with the gutting of our once powerful economy, the bankrupting of our cities and states, the trashing of our precious Constitution, the militarization of our police, and the massive purchases of assault weapons and ammunition by the government, the current situation points to EXTREMELY BAD NEWS for the American people. The ruling class is NOT going to rebuild this nation. They are going to completely destroy it, and the process is well underway.

When cowards cower, tyrants rule. If you want to accept the BS excuses this government is giving you, go ahead. Through our action or inaction, we all will get what we have earned.

The US Constitution is dead

Obama ad-Dajjal spits on the Constitution, and the House of Representatives pats him on the back:

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/07/25/lead-j25.html

Let's put this in perspective:

The Founders of America were traitors to the oaths they swore to the British crown. Their military revolution created a nation-state which benefited mainly a ruling class of bankgangsters and corporations. The rest of us got table scraps, which were quite substantial since there was an entire continent for the new nation to plunder.

The current rulers of America are traitors to the oaths they swore to preserve, protect, and defend the US Constitution. Their political revolution will create a market-state which will benefit mainly a new ruling class of bankgangsters and corporations. The rest of us will get chicken feed, if we get any food at all. The entire continent has already been strip mined, and our crumbling nation may soon lose its ability to plunder the rest of the globe.

The nominal leaders, no matter what the form of government, always are serving the ruling class and not the people. The sooner you get the American fairy tale out of your head, the sooner you'll be able to see what is going on.

This is a mafiocracy, not a democracy.

Two on food stamps for every job "created"

Obama ad-Dajjal's economy is a disaster:

http://www.cnsnews.com/mrctv-blog/gregory-gwyn-williams-jr/two-americans-added-food-stamp-rolls-every-job-administration

All he serves up is HYPE. People need jobs, and he has no clue how to deliver.

TTIF - Another "transparency" fraud

The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations are set to be another closed-door sellout of American interests:

http://www.iatp.org/files/tafta-letter-070813.pdf

When will we wake up to the fact that corporations are SCREWING us and Obama ad-Dajjal is their biggest sock puppet?

The 2016 election in a nutshell

Idiot Republicans will nominate someone like Rick Perry, who opposes abortion.

Dishonest Democrats will nominate someone like Hillary Clinton, who favors abortion.

Women will vote in record numbers, and the Democrat candidate will win in a landslide.

Idiot Republicans !!!

Questions about voter eligibility

This story discusses voter fraud in New Hampshire:

http://www.wmur.com/news/politics/concerns-raised-about-voter-eligibility/-/9857748/21132378/-/15la6pez/-/index.html

Does it seem to you that every time this comes up it is so-called DEMOCRATS who are doing the cheating? Some role models they are.

Who is threatening Jimmy Carter ???

A new book claims that Carter is the most threatened President in recent history:

http://washingtonexaminer.com/book-jimmy-carter-targeted-by-us-and-foreign-assassins/article/2533425

Carter mainly pissed off the Israelis. It is therefore reasonable to speculate that they are behind all the attempts to kill him.

And there are some who claim that Israelis also were involved in the murder of JFK:

http://www.amazon.com/Final-Judgment-Missing-Assassination-Conspiracy/dp/0974548405

By the way, the best JFK assassination book I have read is JFK and the Unspeakable by James W. Douglas. If the author's many claims are correct, there is NO doubt that JFK was murdered by his enemies in the US government. The book assigns no direct or indirect role in the assassination to any Israelis.

NSA can't search it's own emails ???

Apparently so says the NSA itself:

http://www.propublica.org/article/nsa-says-it-cant-search-own-emails

Are these people just lying, or are they that stupid?

Did the Pentagon murder Seal Team 6 ???

And then cremate their bodies?

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/313039-congress-to-probe-lethal-seal-crash

I suspected at the time of the helicopter crash that they were killed by their own government to keep secret the details of what really happened during the Osama bin Laden raid.

Now Congress says they'll look into it. A lot of good THAT will do.

Is this another example of "the government can and does kill anyone they want"? Could be. But you have to be really paranoid to kill your own Murder Inc. personnel.

But, this is truly a paranoid government that apparently lies all the time and crucifies anyone who contradicts their lies with facts. Some examples:

• Bradley Manning allegedly released files to Wikileaks, including the video which became the "Collateral Murder" film. He is now being tried for aiding the enemy.
• The private security firm Stratfor, among other things, sent emails suggesting that bin Laden was NOT buried at sea as the government claims (see http://news.antiwar.com/2012/03/04/wikileaks-email-bin-ladens-corpse-not-dumped-at-sea/). One of the people who allegedly hacked the Stratfor servers, Jeremy Hammond, is facing a stiff prison sentence.
• And of course there is Julian Assange, whose Wikileaks organization started it all. He effectively has been jailed for life.

Obama ad-Dajjal and his minions cavalierly state that we should not be worried about their spying on us, since if we've done nothing wrong we have nothing to worry about. Why then are THEY so paranoid about leaks, if THEY have done nothing wrong?

Richard, Nick's son

Dwight David Eisenhower, the 34th President of the US, was born in Denison, Texas. Denison is across the Red River from Lake Texoma. At the northwest tip of Lake Texoma, in Oklahoma where the Washita River flows into the lake, is a place called Devils Den Park.

When his Presidency was over, Ike retired to a farm next to the Gettysburg National Military Park in Pennsylvania. His farm is close to the part of the battlefield known as the Devil's Den.

Ike had only one Vice President during his eight years in office: Richard Nixon, whose name phonetically is the equivalent of "Richard, Nick's son".

Could it be that a man born near the Devils Den, whose VP was the son of Nick, and who spent his last days near the Devil's Den actually WAS the Devil? It would not surprise me.

Ike gave the OK for the murder of Patrice Lumumba of the Congo during his last days in office and also authorized what later became the Bay of Pigs invasion.

Where was Ike on November 22, 1963? Could it be that he was involved in the assassination of JFK? If the military was involved in that murder, which is quite likely, wouldn't the senior living general at the time have been consulted as part of the plot? That too would not surprise me.

Who really was this man? And what was World War 2 and the Cold War all about?

Rand Paul ALMOST has it right

Yes, the US is NOT the world's policeman:

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/07/rand-paul-us-not-world-policeman-94580.html

But that's not what's going on.

A LAWLESS, out of control President (Obama ad-Dajjal) is exceeding his Constitutional and legal authority and is waging war on his own, for his own purposes (and those of his puppet master Israel), with OUR money and resources. This is NOT the US policing the world: this is a tyrant and his minions usurping the authority of the United States.

Congress, rein this man in ... or IMPEACH him. Stop giving us excuses. Enforce the Constitution !!!

http://thetandd.com/news/opinion/columns/congress-rises-to-protect-separation-of-powers/article_1959e002-eb62-11e2-935d-001a4bcf887a.html

ObamaDon'tCare: Coming to a clinic near you

“I’m militant about the language,” he said. “I am a tyrant.”

So says one of Obama ad-Dajjal's minions as he prepares to shove the ObamaDon'tCare Program (aka The Affordable (sic) Care Act) up our collective asses:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/24/us/politics/as-clock-ticks-fierce-turnout-effort-for-health-law.html

Does ANYONE other than them want this monstrosity?

Bad day to lie hard

I finally watched the DVD of the movie "A Good Day to Die Hard" with Bruce Willis. The man is getting too old for this stuff, and he's even younger than I.

The movie contained a glaring factual error. The characters kept referring to "weapons grade uranium" (bomb quality) at Chernobyl, and that somehow its diversion resulted in the nuclear accident which occurred there in Unit #4.

The type of reactors constructed at Chernobyl used slightly enriched uranium, NOT bomb grade. When operating they did produce plutonium, but they were NOT capable of producing enriched uranium. If there was any bomb grade uranium at the site, it had nothing to do with the reactors.

http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/Nuclear-Fuel-Cycle/Power-Reactors/Appendices/RBMK-Reactors/#.Ue6b3I3VBid

Why the movie's creators chose such an outlandish scenario is anyone's guess. I suspect that their decision may have been influenced by the hysteria over Iran's uranium enrichment program. However, it's about as believable as the claim that so-called terrorist José Padilla intended to enrich uranium by swinging a bucket at the end of a rope around his head.

We should know better than to believe this kind of baloney. But the ruling class and their accomplices in the one percent would rather dish out fantasies instead of facts, since facts and the rule of law apparently are not on their agenda.

Faster than light travel ???

This would be cool, but it probably won't happen in my lifetime:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/23/science/faster-than-the-speed-of-light.html

http://www.andersoninstitute.com/alcubierre-warp-drive.html

However, if I were a galactic regulator, I definitely would NOT let humans escape from Earth. We're like locusts, and I do not believe that the rest of the galaxy would tolerate typical human behavior.

Black Day in July (Detroit)

This 1967 song by Gordon Lightfoot is still relevant today:

http://youtu.be/DPXL3iEVnCM

Detroit sits on stolen Indian land, and the natives want it back:

http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2013/07/mohawk-nation-news-motor-city-syndrome.html

Columbus was looking for the route to China. Now that is has been found, the USA no longer serves any useful purpose for the ruling class.

Our ULTIMATE Manifest Destiny is this: We shall all be bankrupted and turned over to the natives for judgment. What goes around comes around.

O - The gift that keeps on giving

Obama [ad-Dajjal], the gift that keeps on giving -- if what you want is a State dedicated to murder across the globe, surveillance of everyone and everything, and the destruction of all those who do not belong to the ruling class.

-Arthur Silber

[borrowed from http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-splendiferous-difference-obama-makes.html]

Big Brother on steroids

Apparently the ObamaDon'tCare Program (a.k.a. the Affordable (sic) Care Act) is going to be another of Big Brother's wet dreams:

http://rare.us/story/move-over-nsa-here-comes-the-obamacare-big-brother-database/

We should have known better, but we never seem to learn.

Destroying the planet, one species at a time

So now we're trying to save rhinos?

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/07/21/ohio-zoo-tries-to-mate-rhino-siblings/

We should not have hunted and crowded them to extinction in the first place.

By the time we figure out that a single species (i.e., humans only) planet is not a workable scheme, it will be far too late to save ourselves.

God(b)less Amerika

Lil Wayne does it right:

http://youtu.be/Mzl9czR-UB0

There's a war going on out there, and Mr. and Mrs. America are just waking up to the fact that they will not be the winners this time.

Is Obama ad-Dajjal still in the closet ???

Did Obama ad-Dajjal hide his former gay lifestyle?

http://www.wnd.com/2012/09/claim-obama-hid-gay-life-to-become-president/

I have heard these allegations before. Do they matter to you? Should they matter?

Is this just another example of "Obama hating", or is it another strong indication that the MSM and the ruling class did NOTHING to properly vet Obama ad-Dajjal in the public forum before he ran for high office?

Or perhaps they knew exactly what he was or wasn't, and decided to use him to get what they wanted ... things that mainstream America would never let them have.

Could Obama ad-Dajjal have passed the security screenings to which Edward Snowden was subjected? I doubt it.

One purpose of security investigations on people in sensitive positions is to prevent a situation in which they could be blackmailed. Is blackmail the means through which the ruling class controls their puppet in the White House? Could be.

One possible reason for Obama ad-Dajjal's intolerance for leakers is that he has a lot of personal secrets to protect. Personally, I believe that individuals in our government should be subject to the same (or higher) level of surveillance than that to which they are subjecting us.

Release all his files. Let the public decide what sort of person he is. Isn't that what "democracy" is all about?

Or are we supposed to forgive everything that ruling class wannabees do, including lying for their personal benefit?

Regulation gone awry, again

Banks should be banks, not speculators:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/21/business/a-shuffle-of-aluminum-but-to-banks-pure-gold.html

The ruling class finds new ways to create riches everywhere but shares these riches with no one. And "their" riches detract from our ability to survive.

Reading as a form of protest

Cool story from Turkey with neat pictures:

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/inpictures/2013/06/2013624105477515.html

During my last period of employment with the environmental agency of a large state, which lasted for ten years, I don't think I met a single coworker who had read a book of substance. At least not one they were willing to talk about. Their minds were shaped by TV, video games, and social networking.

The situation here is kind of like Fahrenheit 451, except it's the people themselves who are destroying all the books; and in the US, there is no one left to put out the fire.

Further down the slippery slope

Edward Snowden's revelations have accomplished nothing, except perhaps to heighten our sense of helplessness:

http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/2013/07/yay-transparency.html

The real goal of Total Information Awareness

The unstated goal is to create an artificial intelligence that will be omniscient and omnipotent.

It also will have as many of the characteristics of God as its creators wish it to have.

As the character Root said in the TV show Person of Interest, "C’mon Harold, time to meet God".

That's where this is headed. Man (or woman) will create his (or her) own god (or goddess). And when we get to that point, what is the real God going to do?

What are WE going to do?

Obama ad-Dajjal says he cannot be challenged

The Obama administration for the first time responded to a Spygate lawsuit, telling a federal judge the wholesale vacuuming up of all phone-call metadata in the United States is in the “public interest,” does not breach the constitutional rights of Americans and cannot be challenged in a court of law.

[Borrowed from http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/07/spygate-snooping-standing/]

It is NOT in the public interest, and it DOES breach the constitutional rights of Americans.

And just WHY can't it be challenged in a court of law?

Is Obama ad-Dajjal saying that the public has no standing to sue him for injuries that directly affect them? If so, then he is saying that this is no longer a government of, by, and for the people.

Or is he merely saying that he is a tyrant who cannot be challenged in any way by any one?

This is dangerous stuff, people. Get a grip, and bring your government back under control.

IMPEACH HIM !!!

Another "troubled" judge

President Obama’s efforts to get a federal case against his administration for killing US citizens Anwar Awlaki and his son, Abdulrahman Awlaki thrown out don’t seem to be going to (sic) well, with the judge noting she was “troubled” by the administration’s claim to be able to kill citizens at will without court oversight.

Judge Rosemary Collyer appeared incredulous when asking the US Deputy Attorney General, Brian Hauck, if he was seriously suggesting that US citizens targeted by the US government for assassination overseas have “no constitutional rights,” asking how broadly this claim was extended.

Hauck insisted that the citizens theoretically have constitutional rights, but that they can’t be enforced in court before or after they are executed by the president because judges can’t second guess the president on killing people.

Collyer spurned the argument that the executive branch could provide a check on its own killings, nor did she appear impressed by Hauck’s warning that the “threat of litigation” could distract officials from ordering more killings.

[Borrowed from http://news.antiwar.com/2013/07/19/judge-troubled-by-obamas-claim-to-be-able-to-kill-citizens/]

The judge is "troubled"? Why isn't she horrified at this line of "reasoning"? Don't judges realize what's at stake here?

Biggest shit pile of the day

The “market-state” is the latest constitutional order, one that is just emerging in a struggle for primacy with the dominant constitutional order of the 20th century, the nation-state. Whereas the nation-state based its legitimacy on a promise to better the material well-being of the nation, the market-state promises to maximize the opportunity of each individual citizen.

-Philip Bobbitt

This is the kind of thinking that got us to where we are today.

The promises of nation-states were vile lies, and the worst traitors to their (the nation-states') ideals have now become the "gurus" of globalization. The promises of market states will mean one thing, and one thing only: the rich will maximize their already lavish opportunities at the expense of the remaining wretched opportunities for the poor. To think otherwise is to believe a fairy tale.

To put it another way, it's becoming an "all you can eat" world, with the rich gorging themselves on the fat while the poor only get to eat scraps (if they get to eat at all).

Here's another gem from Mr. Bobbitt:

States make war, not brigands; and the Al Qaeda network is a sort of virtual state, with a consistent source of finance, a recognized hierarchy of officials, foreign alliances, an army, published laws, even a rudimentary welfare system. It has declared war on the U.S. for much the same reason that Japan did in 1941: because we appear to frustrate its ambitions to regional hegemony.

I think that's horseshit. The so-called "terrorists" are making war on us in response to our making war on them, in that we have been stealing the wealth of their region and waging sociocide on their culture. The chief wannabee hegemon in this conflict is the emerging market state which has been masquerading as the United States of America.