Murder, Inc.

Charley Reese died on May 21. Here are a couple of what I consider to be his better essays:

http://www.antiwar.com/reese/reese9.html - Murder, Inc.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/reese.asp - The "final column"

RIP, Charley. We need more journalists of your caliber, but I don't think we'll ever see your like again.

Tyranny right around the corner

Barack Hussein Obama ad-Dajjal and his minions are the greatest threat to our republic in its entire history. A greater threat than George III, a greater threat than the Civil War, a greater threat than Hitler, a greater threat than Communism. He is leading us into a tyranny from which there will be no return:

http://original.antiwar.com/andrew-p-napolitano/2013/05/22/tyranny-around-the-corner/

Please, America, wake up and rein in his unconstitutional behavior, or say goodbye to your republic.

The police may not always be your friend

Police can be helpful, but they can also be lethal:

http://www.infowars.com/cops-being-trained-that-cell-phones-could-be-guns/

First they will take our guns, then they will take our cameras, then they will disappear those of us they don't like.

Desperate people do desperate things, and the police are people, too.

Why are Swedes baffled by riots?

Swedes say "they don't know why they (rioters) are doing this":

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22636288

I don't know either, but I suggest they look at the following possibilities which have led to similar behavior elsewhere:

• maybe police are not treating people with dignity and respect
• maybe people feel they have no future
• maybe people are fed up with wealth inequality
• maybe people are hungry and/or homeless
• maybe people are angry that freedom of speech, press, religion, and/or assembly have been infringed
• maybe people are mad that Sweden is helping persecute Julian Assange and in general being America's stooge

Usually governments say that such things do not excuse hooliganism and rioting, but the same governments often bomb and make war on other countries for similar flimsy pretenses.

Maybe people are just fed up with the kind of shit we are continually served by our governments, their police, and their lackeys in the MSM, who kiss the asses of the rich and powerful while ridiculing the rest of us poor slobs at the bottom.

Certain things have got lost?

Robert Redford speaks about the US at Cannes:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2013/may/22/robert-redford-america-lost-way-cannes

Dear Bob: A lot has been lost, but much of it never existed. As a film maker, you should know how smoke, mirrors, and fantasy work. All that Wizard of Oz stuff.

Why was Qaddafi killed?

Apparently he was trying to make Libya self-sufficient, which in a neoliberal world is a mortal sin:

http://poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com/2011/03/virtually-unknown-in-west-libyas-water.html

People in the US still celebrate their "independence". What a joke! The powers that be allow NO ONE to be independent. Every knee must bow to the bankgangsters.

Was Jesus the original hipster?

So says the Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn, NY:

http://animalnewyork.com/2013/new-ad-by-catholic-diocese-of-brooklyn-says-jesus-is-the-original-hipster/

Somehow I don't think that was His message at all. He was all about getting right with God, which to me is not at all what being "hip" is about.