tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-342634442024-03-12T23:19:09.783-05:00Encho Blog<em>I Am The Danger</em>
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<i>“The NRA was started 1871 right here in New York
state," he said. "It was started by some Yankee generals who didn’t
like the way my Southern boys had the ability to shoot in what we call the 'War
of Northern Aggression.' Now y’all might call it the Civil War, but we call it
the 'War of Northern Aggression' down south."</i></div>
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<i>-Jim Porter, national leader of NRA Klavern</i></div>
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I am sure that I am not the only one sick to the point of
vomiting over the incessant amount of caterwauling by perpetually persecuted red
staters. These are cretins whose politicians using the wall of nullification that stifles all
progress and they hunger to drag the country back to the days prior to civil
rights advances to a time where the `colored folks' knew their place, drank
from their own water fountains, sat in the back of the bus, did not dare to
defile the decent white folk with their presence in dining establishments. Any
`uppity neegroes' who happened to complain would be dealt with in short order by local yokels very
likely finding themselves tortured, lynched or otherwise murdered for their
`transgressions' against the established white supremacist ruling order. This
spirit of the south exists to this very day. </div>
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Long aggrieved over societal progress, in addition to desegregation and civil rights another burr
in the south's ass was the hated feminist revolution/women's rights movement
that dared to offer up the heretical concept of equal rights for women. This
was a slap in the face to southern men whose strong daddy sense of self was
living in a world where the definition of a `good woman' was one who shut the fuck up,
knew her place, cooked dinner, laid on her back and was content to live a life
of subservience and deference to the lord of the `plantation' (even if said plantation was a rented single-wide trailer), or to otherwise
be barefoot, pregnant and slavishly obedient. Given the regressive hostility of
the south and the willingness of the Republican party to capitalize on southern
desire to drag the country back to the good ole' days of Jim Crow, religious
intolerance and a gross renunciation of intellectualism is only too deserving
of a descriptive term from days past be resurrected for these folk and that
word is <b>peckerwood</b>.</div>
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A peckerwood is a rural white southerner, usually poor,
under-educated or otherwise ignorant and bigoted, the term gained popularity in
the deep south during the early 20th century and was meant to be
derogatory. It is a reversal of the name of the red bellied woodpecker which
had a patch of red on the back of it's head and neck, therefore a peckerwood is
a redneck, terms that describe similar groups of people are trailer trash or
white trash but neither of those have the same effect or ring to them as
peckerwood does. The corrupt media often refers to these rancid rejects as "social conservatives" rather than what they really are which is ignorant bigots, opposed to all but their own rustic and out of touch ideas of what this country should be about and prepared to use all means to stop the coming demographic wave. </div>
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The peckerwood era in the south was a time of glory for
southerners, or at least as good as it got after General Lee's crying uncle and
throwing in the towel to the hated yankees. They still had the Negroes to kick
around and could freely exercise their domestic version of Apartheid, (`least
till dose meddlin' hippie college boys began stickin' dere Jew noses where dey
didn't belong and stirrin' up a ruckus) until that long avowed day when the
south would rise again, and rising is just what it is doing in 2013. There were
many who exalted when the Bushreich was sent packing in 2008, the so-called
social conservative<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> movement was dealt a body blow and appeared to be on the ropes
but their joy was premature. Movement conservatism and all of its social
rubbish easily found a rallying point and emerged more potent than ever and as
the country continues to be destroyed form within the lynching parties are
mustering in the halls of Congress and the shock troops are reinvigorated at
that which is most hated of all – a BLACK president. The honor of Jefferson
Davis has been impugned and them good ole boys south of the Mason Dixon Line
are a’gonna set things right again.</div>
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The nation’s first black president declared last year
that if re-elected that the white hot “fever” that has gripped Republicans,
especially southern teabaggers would break and that there would be some sort of a return
to the reality based world. Now only four plus months into that term it is apparent
that he was badly mistaken and while spending time at Harvard did not have him mingling with the northern version of the peckerwood southerners that are chock a block in Boston that he was badly wrong. This silly and naïve sort of statement has been the
hallmark of what has to be one of the most politically inept administrations in
U.S. history. The roiling cauldron of flaming resentment that was kept blazing
by large swaths of the electorate would never and I mean <b>NEVER</b> accept that an
black man would ever inhabit their precious <b>WHITE</b> House was only cranked up
several notches. The “fever” that Obama referred to is an incandescent and
newly weaponized one. Hotter than Willie Pete and more fiery than Napalm and it
burns eternally in the portion of the U.S. of A that lives behind the cornbread
curtain in the deep south. You see, the water moccasin mean, intellectually challenged
and irrationally superstitious lot have yet to make peace with the historical
fact that their side actually <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">lost</i>
the Civil War. This alone has served as a rubbed raw sore on their asses for a
century and a half and after having their noses rubbed in the shit of losing a
war over slavery a second term black president only served to rub rock salt
into that long festering wound. The pathological scorn towards the
northern states has like a precious family heirloom been passed down generationally so
now there is a birthright of animosity in the south, just think of the Israelis
and the Palestinians or any other long-running ethnic conflict. It exists right
here in the good ole U.S. of A. </div>
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These are Americans who believe that shopping at Wal-Mart is
patriotic, far too ignorant to realize that by doing so that they are
contributing to their own entrapment in the permanent underclass as well as assisting
in building China into a global economic powerhouse. Willful ignorance is both
honorable and symbolic to southern culture, what better way to renounce the
despised intellectualism of the liberal elite? While a good deal of the
harnessing of overall cultural populist resentment can be attributed to Richard
M. Nixon (currently roasting on a spit in Hades) and Spiro Agnew with their
Southern Strategy and the “they think they know better than you” rallying cry
that in recent times is shrieked from the blabbering pie hole of Sarah Palin,
the Joan of Arc of the know nothings, it was in their blood from birth. The
perpetually aggrieved southerners whose ancestors were mowed down in droves for
their treasonous war against the legitimate government have always had it in
them to rage against modernity and democracy, they hate it. Have hated it since
the day that the signature of the hallowed General Robert E. Lee was affixed to
the document of surrender at Appomattox and the confederacy was no more. The
resentment stuck in their collective craws, thicker than blackstrap molasses
through the reconstruction, the civil rights movement and now the diversifying
of the country as the second decade of the 21<sup>st</sup> century has begun.
Down in crackerland, where the stars and bars still flies (although it is
currently being subbed out for the piss yellow Gadsden flag but more on that
later) as it is displayed by the descendants of the very cannon fodder
mobilized on lies and racial hatred to fight a treasonous war against the
legitimate government of their own country.</div>
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<b>BABES IN CRACKERLAND</b></div>
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Nowhere is the peckerwood a more dominant indigenous species
than in God's own dumping ground for mass willful ignorance, deeply entrenched
racism, incestuous relationships and outright pure stone-age tribalism and
intolerance than Alabama. A state that was proud to be the home
of former justice Roy Moore and his giant stone ten commandments tablet, a
paean to the very idolatry that it specifically condemns. Moore is a man whose
favorable rating probably even surpasses that of legendary college football
coach Bear Bryant among the proud ignoramus red-staters who call that hellhole
home. Now the Yellowhammer State has a new hero in NRA (Neurotic Redneck
Assholes) Jim Porter, a serious and embittered hick who hit it big as the
nation’s pre-eminent gun pimp. He is so conservative that he would eat a
moonpie off of Rush’s hairy back. That Porter hails from Bama is no surprise, a
fitting king for a state inhabited by lardasses and dumbasses (Alabama is
always right up there when it comes to the most obese and badly educated <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>states in the U.S. according to studies).
Alabamans, like most of their other southern brethren are trapped in an endless
cycle of poverty, horn swoggled by charlatan preachers and fired up by bogus
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This is the reality of the situation: Deep South bible belt
whites, primarily poor, increasingly hostile and always Republican now own a
disproportionate amount of political power in America and they are determined
to wield it like grandaddy’s war musket. They will use it in order to drag the
country backwards through time to a dark place in our history that had
apparently been buried in the past. They seek to return to the days where the
American south was mired in the smothering blackness of a festering, hateful
and corrupt parallel universe to the more progressive states above the Mason
Dixon Line, trapped like dinosaurs in a tar pit. It was only through the
courage of the civil rights movement and federal anti-discrimination laws that
the roaring beast was able to be semi-tamed to a point where it would be able
to interact with decent folk. Home schooling which is really religious
indoctrination, think of a madrassa in every double wide will ensure that the
next generation will be every big as fucked, hopeless and mean as their predecessors.
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Hey, if you can't get to Talladega for the NASCAR race you
can always haul your fat ass, doomed brood around for dollar rides on the tilt a whirl,
cheap corn dogs, elephant ears, cotton candy and fried okra. There are ring
throwing and shooting games but nothing that would tax the mental retardation
that home schooling induces on your little progenies who will one day grow up
to be employees of the peckerwood emporium: Wal-Mart. The titanic struggle
against progressive society ensures that the ability to elect politicians who
will advocate policies to provide well-paying jobs, affordable housing, health
insurance and quality schooling is sacrificed to empower only those seeking to
transform America into a theocratic police state. The southerners are going
batshit crazy these days, the ultimate indignities of a black man in the WHITE
House and the spread of gay marriage make them fertile incubators of a sickened
and raw insurgent virus that with the help of Koch Brothers front groups and
the NRA (led of course by the Alabaman) yearns for another real shootin’ war
with the north, and in their delusional idiocy they will end up every bit as
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Now you can say one good thing about Alabama in that it’s
not Mississippi, the capital of regressive retardation and a state where the
top priority in these dismal economic days is to ban and criminalize abortion. Next
door is Louisiana where Governor Piyush Jindal’s school voucher program puts a
smiley face on slavery and transforms the Ku Klux Klan into American heroes.
Jindal, another fascist like ALL Republicans has recently called for the
imprisonment of Internal Revenue Service officials over the latest right-wing
bogus scandal and has an eye on running for President in 2016. Piyush though is
doomed by the same exact thing that drives southerners to derangement over
Obama – he is not white either, even worse he looks like a wax mannequin of Bob
Denver. Little Buddy is doomed as soon as primary season hits and the potential
Führers have to run the gauntlet of lunacy that effectively prohibits any sane
person from appearing on the presidential ticket.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Outside of certain areas in the Middle East the American Deep
South is the most god-awfully fucked up place on the entire planet.But there are parts of that country within a country that
are even more fucked up than others, but one redneck infested shithole of
ignorance and violent intent far exceeds the rest of the rising new Confederacy and it's ......</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>TEXAS</b></span></div>
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Yes, the Lone Star State is in a league of its own when it
comes to gun-totin’, bible thumpin’ chicken-fried motherfuckery and were this a
serious country the ongoing weeping and of gnashing teeth emanating from every hick politician
in the state they should not only be allowed to secede but it should be
mandatory. Then all of the other moronic, inbred, Jesus juiced, firearm
infatuated, easily duped racist shitkickers could just move there and we can
finally get mass approval for that border fence and put one up around that
lunatic colony. One condition of secession would be the removal of ALL United
States military bases, the revocation of all aid from the hated official
government and most importantly the stripping of American citizenship from all
residents of Texas, the newest country. Why on God’s green Earth should normal
and loyal Americans have to spend one penny of their hard earned money paid out
in taxes to subsidize disloyal freaks with an outsized idea of their own
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The state capital could be moved from Austin to that <a href="http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2013/01/glenn_beck_is_planning_a_2_bil.php?page=all">lunatic commune being built</a> by the monstrously insane demagogue Glenn Beck. They can
then channel their hatred of brown people into starting a war with Mexico (sans
all U.S. military personnel and hardware) where they can finally use their
precious guns for something other than waving around and otherwise serving as
penis extensions. My money is on Mexico too, give me a war between the two and
within a generation Texico would have become a civilized place, taken all of
those ridiculous and psychotic revisionist history theocratic school books and
pulped them and Espanol would be the official language of the land. This will
likely be the case anyway after the coming bitter old white redneck die off and
the crushing wave of inevitability that is otherwise known as demographics and
the United States could have a similar normal relationship like with
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Well everything is BIG in Texas as the saying goes and is
there a bigger asshole on the planet (not named Donald Trump) than newly
elected U.S. Senator Ted Cruz? The <i>Texas Zamboni</i> has it made, he is a pampered,
Harvard educated master of legal chicanery who as comedian Bill Maher recently
remarked has “learned to speak fluent shitkicker”. Cruz has become a hero to
the teabagger minions who are too fucking stupid to realize that the <i>Texas
Zamboni</i> will never actually have a chance to be the Führer that they have so
long been seeking because he really wasn’t born in America. The slimy fucker is
from Canada, the land of socialized health care, not that corporate friendly
piece of crap Obamacare that they so mobilize against but the real thing. By
the way, on the subject of which, the corporate boon that has driven the moron
minority to chewing their own hair off, urged on by nincompoops like Sarah
Palin who is quite frankly the dumbest bitch north of the Mason-Dixon line
shrieking about “death panels” what is lost on the baggers is that the
Veteran’s Administration is socialized medicine (good enough for the blessed
troops right?) the real thing too. But I digress. Ted Cruz can never be elected
president because he is foreign born, now he may not be black and easily
foisted off on the racist swine as being a secret Muslim from Canada but the
U.S. Constitution, the real thing not the select parts conveniently parsed by
the scumbaggers forbids it. You betcha there won’t be dozens of ‘protests’ in
Waffle House parking lots by bitter old bluehair chiselers holding up their
“Where’s my birth certificate” signs when it comes to the T<i>exas Zamboni</i> which
is just more of the same right-wing hypocrisy and horseshit.</div>
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<b>THE TEABAGGERS: THE 21ST CENTURY CONFEDERACY RISES</b></div>
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If there is a certain familiarity between the so-called Tea
Party and a bygone era it is because there is – the lumpen Republican
teabaggers are really a modern reincarnation of the classic Confederacy. There
are certain elements in the country who been driven right off of the mental
cliff into the abyss of insanity over the Obama’s re-election. The stars and
bars has become a stigma so for the near immediate racist backlash against
Obama the peckerwoods had to rebrand themselves and adopted the piss yellow
Gadsden flag as the new rallying symbol. This by the way is something that has
begun to be pointed out by real journalists such as Consortium News’s Robert Parry
whose recent piece entitled <a href="http://consortiumnews.com/2013/05/07/the-rights-re-branding-1860-to-1776/">The Right’s Re-Branding, 1860 to 1776</a> from which I
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The anger of Southern whites was reflected in the prevalence
of the Confederate battle flag on pickup trucks and in store windows.
Gradually, however, the American Right retreated from outright support of
racial segregation and muffled the rhetorical threats of secession. The growing
public revulsion over the “Stars and Bars” as a symbol of racism also forced
the Right to make a stylistic adjustment as well.</div>
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The Right stopped deriving its key imagery from the
embittered unreconstructed South and turned to the far more palatable era of
Lexington and Concord. Instead of highlighting slogans like “the South will
rise again,” the Right glommed onto Revolutionary War messages like “Don’t
Tread on Me,” with the elected American government placed in the role of a
tyrannical British monarch.</div>
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Though the Right’s imagery changed, the message remained the
same. From the Anti-Federalist days of 1788 through the Civil War and the
segregationist South to hatred of the first African-American president, there
was a determination to prevent the federal Republic from acting against
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Only occasionally is there a flashback to the Right’s
pro-slavery and pro-segregationist traditions, such as when the National Rifle
Association’s new president, Jim Porter, a 64-year-old Alabama attorney, is
recorded in a 2012 speech referring to the Civil War as “the War of Northern
Aggression” and calling President Obama a “fake.”</div>
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Today’s violent right-wing rhetoric is also reminiscent of
the pre-Civil War days when demagogues riled up Southern whites to defend their
“liberty” to own blacks or of the Jim Crow era when white racists swelled the
ranks of the Ku Klux Klan to terrorize blacks in defense of Southern
“heritage.”</div>
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The major difference now is that instead of waving the
“Stars and Bars” or burning crosses on lawns, today’s Right harkens back to the
Minutemen fighting the British Crown. The Right also embraces the Framers of
the Constitution as ideological brethren. All that’s required is fictionalizing
the Founding era’s real history.</div>
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There you have it. The so-called Tea Party is nothing more
than a fraud, a blatant phony foisted off on a gullible public by a corrupt
media and high-rolling funders like the Koch Brothers. There was originally a
loosely organized ‘Tea Party’ that was primarily libertarian and for the most
part was comprised of backers of Ron Paul – DURING THE BUSH YEARS. In seeing an
obvious opportunity the racist fascist right and the Republican party that is a
willing host hijacked it and used it as an exo-skeleton after Obama’s election.
Let’s face it, the extreme racism and cracker ‘Christianity’ wasn’t exactly a
big-seller with the vastly more sophisticated portion of the electorate nor the
corporations that benefit from the Republican forced austerity to loot the
taxpayers by destroying the social safety net and redistributing wealth to
political benefactors. Ever since Nixon’s infamous Southern Strategy the GOP
has been a haven for bigots, theocrats, white supremacists, outright loons and
jack-booted fascist thugs and the Tea Party brand rollout that capitalized on a
maniacal racist fueled backlash at the nation’s first black president provided
the party with a golden opportunity to hijack the spoils system. </div>
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A vomitous
wave of repugnant red-tinged slime sluiced its way into Congress in 2010 riding that pale white
horse of southern based racist resentment and cultural populism. Some of the
biggest turds in the political cesspool were shat upon the country in the
mid-term “shellacking” including scum like Florida governor Rick Scott,
Wisconsin governor and union busting Koch whore Scott Walker, the opportunistic
little twerp Marco Rubio, now a U.S. Senator from Florida and the insipid
fanatic Florida Congressman Allen West (such an embarrassment he was ousted in
2012) among others. Florida, the diseased penis of America and a state as
corrupt as any in the nation was represented well as it was teabagger heaven
and the retirement destination for bitter, bluehair fatties whose formative
years were back in the era of separate drinking fountains and restrooms for
blacks and whites, fortunately this problem will eventually resolve itself when
they take the dirt nap and are permanently removed from the voter rolls. </div>
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The 2010 mid-terms backed by the neo-Confederate teabaggers
effectively allowed for the implementation of the nullification strategy to
block any and all Obama efforts to govern. Not that this is a surprise as
nullification has long been a wet dream of the fascist fifth column that is the
extreme right and a staple of southern resentment, right up there with Jim
Crow. The irony of the Republican party of Lincoln freeing the slaves cannot be
overstated, especially now that the party is the haven for exactly the type of
moonshine swilling goons who could easily be on the payroll at the Candyland
Plantation or stalking through the north Georgia woods looking for wayward sportsmen
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">DON’T LET THE DOOR
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And of course there is the extremely popular cries for
secession, a cause that is very dear to hearts down behind the cornbread
curtain I would like to mention a wonderful and very funny book by Chuck
Thompson entitled <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Better-Off-Without-Manifesto-Secession/dp/1451616651">Better Off Without 'Em: A Northern Manifesto for SouthernSecession</a> that is near and dear to my heart. Thompson’s book is drop dead hilarious and he goes after the
varmints like liquored up hicks chasing down hapless black victims in their
pickup trucks or their daddies chasing down their sisters for sexual
gratification. Which brings to mind the old joke about the criteria for being a
virgin in Alabama is a girl who can outrun her father. He goes after just about
everything including that sacred cow SEC football
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But back to the book itself from which I will excerpt a few portions
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Interviewing some fine southern folks at a church in Mobile on Obama:</div>
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Moments later I fall into a classic southern conversation
with a balding, middle-aged, fact spewing birther named Marvin, who for thirty
minute stands next to a wife he doesn’t bother to acknowledge or introduce.
When I tell him what I’m up to, Marvin rearranges his glasses and starts
vomiting out the FOX “News” – approved righty line – Barack Obama is a liar, a
socialist, a hater of Israel, an enemy of freedom, a foreigner, the tip of the
Muslim advance into America. </div>
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The southerner’s enthrallment with war and bloodshed, his
veneration of defeat and disaster, his zeal of religious crusade, and easy
compliance with the corporate profit motive, has repeatedly dragged the nation
into unnecessary wars. Lately these gunboat exploits have led to not only the diminution
of America’s influence abroad but a paralyzing depletion of public treasuries. </div>
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Though let’s be honest, Bush would never have been elected
fucking dogcatcher without the South. How depressing that we already know what the
next Republican warmonger to sweep into power will do so on the same tarnished
epaulets of military fanaticism enabled by the outsized influence of the
southern polity on electoral America. </div>
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Michael Lind, Whitehead Senior Fellow at the New America
Foundation said it even better in a 2009 Daily Beast article: “The battle in
Washington is not between liberals and conservatives; it is between the Union
and the South. The rest of the country needs to understand…this [Republican
Party] is the party [whose] spiritual ancestors are the old Southern
conservative Democrats, like <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAcalhoun.htm">John C. Calhoun</a>, and <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USASdavisJ.htm">Jefferson Davis</a> and <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAthurmond.htm">Strom Thurmond</a> and <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAfaubus.htm">Orval Faubus</a>.” </div>
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Lind nails it. The unified southern resistance to every initiative
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<b>The persistent defiance of every Democratic attempt to deal
intelligently with national problems – be they recession, debt or childhood
diabetes – has nothing to do with political ideology, taxes, health care, or
acceptable degrees of federal authority. It has everything to do with
nullification, disruption, zealotry and division. It’s part of a time-sharpened
effort to debilitate nearly ever northern led government by injecting it with
the Seven Deadly Sins of Southern Politics: demagogic dishonesty, religious
fanaticism, willful obstruction, disregard for own self-interest, corporate
supplication, disproportionate influence, and military adventurism”</b></div>
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Thompson also gets at the ugly but true idea that the
Confederacy is embedded in what is American ‘Christianity’:</div>
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Churches in the south have always doubled as political
forums. Preachers were expected to keep up Confederate morale during the Civil
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Not only is the South the place where 50 percent of American
evangelicals live, it’s also the region from which the national movement draws
it ideas and through which most of its fame and profit are harvested. Rabid
believers are disproportionately southern – with around a third of the national
population (counting Texas), the south accounts for 55 percent of the “electronic
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Nearly every important evangelical figure of the past
century has come from the South (Californian Rick Warren being an exception). A
recent Trinity Broadcast Network program touting the national influence of
southern Christianity proclaimed that Virginia was the most important state for
“birthing national leaders on the religious front”. </div>
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Leaders like Governor Bob McDonnell, he of the forced
transvaginal ultrasounds for women who dare to exercise their reproductive
rights. Just imagine the inquisition that would ensue were the peckerwoods ever
to gain control over the entire national government, the states rights bullshit
will be a thing of the past as it is chucked into the outhouse hole in favor of
an oppressive federal government that will be embraced by the haters as they
use every post-9/11 law on the books to go after their hated enemies which
includes just about everyone. Other than themselves of course. </div>
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Better-Off-Without-Manifesto-Secession/dp/1451616651">Better Off Without 'Em: A Northern Manifesto for Southern Secession</a> is coming out in paperback in July but is currently available in
hardcover and ebook format. I would strongly encourage supporting Thompson’s
work because this one is a dandy. Just from scanning some of the “reviews” at
Powell’s it is just one more log on the fire at the KKK rally – they really do
have a big tent, all haters, scum and miscreants are always welcome there.</div>
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F' the Left and the entire north. We don't want to be
anywhere near you liberals. I have thought so for decades. What you did to this
country, beginning with the 1960s, is disastrous. the Civil Rights Act of 1964
was the beginning of the end because that law was merely thought control and
income redistribution in ambiguous language. The CRA of 1964 has nearly broke
us (welfare payments-1 Trillion since 1965), divided us (affirmative action
plus its costs), made us less free (speech codes on college campuses, private
businesses being dictated to by Government), and it created the entire racism
industry with its race pimps, race cards, resentment politics, class war
politics, and the entire bogus homosexual rights movement. The Left and its
communist economic policies will bankrupt this country like it has PIGS
(Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain). Their "safety net" is nothing
more cradle to grave support for "certain" people to get these people
to vote for the Left forever. LBJ was right: "I will have these ni--ers
voting Democrat for a hundred years." More like two hundred. This
carpetbagger and his opinions in this book can kiss my rear-end. Every
southerner I know feels the same way. Leave us the hell alone, and we will do
likewise.</div>
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Let the fuckers secede. Then let the cold civil war go hot
enter into another ill-conceived crusade of futility and doom and a new generation of gross ignoramuses can be chopped up into stupid
burger by the military of the legitimate government. Maybe they will learn
their lesson this time, contrary to the whiskey belching warbling of iconic red-state
fatso Charlie Daniels, the South is NOT going to rise again, it never did and
it never will. That is In anything other than rising obesity rates, unwed pregnancies, alcoholism and poor school test scores and trailer park meth labs.</div>
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So the Republican party/Tea Party is the modern day
incarnation of the Confederacy, any sort of corrective action to oust the
racists, crazies and religious fanatics will of course not occur because they
ARE the party. Whatever lip service is paid to immigration reform by Marco ‘Lil
Ricky’ Rubio (R) – Florida has gone over with the diehard racist haters of the
party about as well as a fart in church and similarly will rapidly dissipate as
the party leadership continues to manufacture bogus scandals in order to string
up the black man in the WHITE House. Now that the ill-conceived attempt to
Carterize Obama blew up with the botched Benghazi black op (who really did
finance that inflammatory video?) there is now an effort to transform the
arugala eating wimp into the second coming of Nixon. This is also going to go
up in their hands like the flaming bag of dogshit that it is, better just stick
to the fake Muslim, born in Kenya stuff scumbaggers, at least it fires up the
rubes and hicks and another wave of raw racial resentment may be just enough to
push the Senate into GOP control next year and the impeachment/lynching can
begin in earnest. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is the epitome of all
that is rotten in American politics, a treacherous peckerwood politician with
fewer scruples than a meth-addicted transvestite Lexington trailer park whore
swallowing redneck pork swords for the next fix. With due credit given to a
certain immensely popular with the peckerwoods <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>piece of Wasilla white trash – YOU BETCHA that
McConnell will lead the lynching party if the Republicans are able to leverage
teabagger animosity over the trumped up I.R.S. scandal into Senate control next
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The visceral and pathological hatred towards Obama cannot be
explained in any way other than it being a product of southern fried racism of
the worst type. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is as clear as night
and day and is as traditional to the American South as cornpone, moon pies and
Klan rallies.It is not like the man is some sort of a Communist. Hell, Obama
has been the most Wall Street friendly president EVER, the DOW is screeching
towards escape velocity as it looks to top 20,000. Never mind that it is all
phony and that the inevitable next crash, precipitated by the popping of the
stock bubble created by Obama’s Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is
looming. For now the corporate media is singing “Happy Days are Here Again”
while apostates like former Reagan budget director<a href="http://lewrockwell.com/stockman/stockman17.1.html"> David Stockman</a> who dare to
tell the truth are mocked and scorned. Now this new mega-million dollar churn
may give hedge fund hyenas and other financial scammers hard-ons but it means
nothing to Americans whose lives were destroyed by the housing market collapse
and were long ago downsized to tent cities, suicide rates among middle aged
people are also up. Not that the fucking retards who make up the backbone of
the peckerwood nation insurgency care that they are screwed economically, when
their bibles are bastardized to show Jesus as a violent avenger of phony
morality and they have a war on civilizations on their own soil against a
Kenyan Muslim in the White House they would happily eat dirt and like it. A Republican neo-Confederate impeachment of Obama would be the next best thing to the Rapture for the freaks. </div>
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In closing despite my loathing of those die hard
neo-Confederates in peckerwood nation I feel obligated to express my sympathy
for the plenty of good people (and there are a lot) who are trapped behind the
cornbread curtain. This must truly be a hellish existence, especially outside
of the major cities, much like being in the WWII French resistance against the
Nazis. Southerners have contributed much to what was once a decent society and
still there are many good things about the south: the late great Joe Bageant,
activist and radio host Bob Kincaid, The Drive By Truckers, deep fried catfish
and Louisiana State University football. I mean no offense to these poor souls
so please understand where I am coming from, you are in the belly of the beast
of the new Confederacy and while a serious minority, besieged on all sides by
the revolting deviltry of cracker ‘Christianity’ and teabagger nuttery you can
play the critical role in the resistance. Run for your local school boards,
political offices and call bullshit on the bigots, snake handlers and Boss Hogg
wannabe’s. As for the rest of you that I have so attacked in this piece – fuck
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<i>One would go mad if one took the Bible seriously; but to take it seriously one must already be mad</i><br />
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<i>- Aleister Crowley</i><br />
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Yesterday's <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/21/us-usa-tornadoes-idUSBRE94J0TK20130521">killer tornado </a>that ripped through an Oklahoma City suburb, killing at this minute according to online death tolls - 51 (including 20 children) will surely today be rationalized by many as being a part of "God's plan". This you see is salve to the woes and wounds of the rubes, and OKC, being the buckle of the bible belt is full of them. The charlatans, swine and run of the mill Republican bullshit pimps will be out in force today even as rescue crews continue to dig bodies out of the rubble. That much you can count on. I wonder if the ghoulish Wayne LaPierre will come out and say something insane like "if only they would have all had guns they could have stopped that tornado" or if Pat Robertson will blame it on America's growing tolerance of homosexuals to distract from the attention of his stamp of approval on adultery and I am sure that it is only a matter of time until Senator James Imhofe will find a way to blame it on Obama. Hell, the oily car-stereo thief Darrell Issa will probably try to convene another inquisition to gin up impeachment material.<br />
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Tragedy is what the tornado was, not a part of "God's plan" but it is another example of the increasingly unstable climate and the ever increasing severe weather events of recent years. Despite the millions of dollars spent by filthy capitalist exploiters on anti-climate change propaganda and bogus studies conducted by think tank employed frauds the future is filled with more killer storms so get used to it. Meanwhile, filth like the Koch brothers and the pit traders will find a way to further profit off of the coming catastrophes, that you can bet on. As for God's plan it would seem that with the prevalence of weather disasters in the American south, especially the bible belt perhaps God is more than just a bit pissed off at the foulness, hatred and lies that are a standard for modern American 'Christianity' and has decided to open his own king-sized can of whup ass on the region.<br />
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The dead kids are the sort of thing that hits one like a sucker punch, even a cynic like myself. Whether it is God or Adam Lanza the piles of dead little bodies are terrible but all too commonplace in this sad and tragic land circa 2013.<br />
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<i>“It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes
formidable”.</i></div>
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<i>- Eric Hoffer</i></div>
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Not that I care very much for John Rutherford of the
Whitehead Institute, a notorious right-wing think tank but as the old adage
goes – even a broken clock is right twice a day. In his latest piece entitled ”
<a href="http://original.antiwar.com/jwhitehead/2013/04/22/boston-strong-marching-in-lockstep-with-the-police-state/">‘Boston Strong’: Marching in Lockstep with the Police State</a>. Rutherford, who
backed that ugly tramp Paula Jones in her lawsuit against the horndog in chief
Bill Clinton cuts through the flag-swaddled dreck to call a spade a spade.
Boston was placed under MARTIAL LAW last Friday, a day that will prove to be as
dark as any in this nation’s history when all is said and done with. The
Rubicon was officially crossed on April 19, 2013 and the only thing that is
more disturbing than the massive show of paramilitary power in Beantown is the
degree that it has been accepted, just another feature of “The New Normal”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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I will now excerpt from Whitehead’s piece <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>-</div>
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Whatever the threat to so-called security—whether it’s
rumored weapons of mass destruction, school shootings, or alleged acts of
terrorism—it doesn’t take much for the American people to march in lockstep
with the government’s dictates, even if it means submitting to martial law,
having their homes searched, and being stripped of one’s constitutional rights
at a moment’s notice.</div>
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As journalist Andrew O’Hehir observes in Salon:</div>
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In America after 9/11, we made a deal with the devil, or
with Dick Cheney, which is much the same thing. We agreed to give up most of
our enumerated rights and civil liberties (except for the sacrosanct Second
Amendment, of course) in exchange for a lot of hyper-patriotic tough talk, the
promise of “security” and the freedom to go on sitting on our asses and
consuming whatever the hell we wanted to. Don’t look the other way and tell me
that you signed a petition or voted for John Kerry or whatever. The fact is
that whatever dignified private opinions you and I may hold, we did not do
enough to stop it, and our constitutional rights are now deemed to be partial
or provisional rather than absolute, do not necessarily apply to everyone, and
can be revoked by the government at any time.</div>
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Particularly disheartening is the fact that Americans,
consumed with the need for vengeance, seem even less concerned about protecting
the rights of others, especially if those “others” happen to be of a different
skin color or nationality. The public response to the manhunt, capture and
subsequent treatment of brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is merely the
latest example of America’s xenophobic mindset, which was also a driving force
behind the roundup and detention of hundreds of Arab, South Asian and Muslim
men following 9/11, internment camps that housed more than 18,000 people of
Japanese ancestry during World War II, and the arrest and deportation of
thousands of “radical” noncitizens during America’s first Red Scare.</div>
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To be a Muslim in America today it to be “Juden” in 1930’s
era Germany, <a href="http://www.boston.com/2013/04/18/malden-woman-attacked-man-accusing-muslims-marathon-bombings/goI1fmyQzBwjbt728pqqdK/story.html">already the persecution machine is ramping up</a>. It may not exactly
be September 11, <sup><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></sup>2001 but it’ll
do.</div>
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It is astonishing to witness the degree that unquestioning
American lemmings so easily acquiesce to the rapidly tightening of the iron
fist of state. This is what happens when a society is conditioned to live in
fear. There was a time not so long ago where being forced to take off one’s
shoes at an airport and being aggressively frisked by government goons would
have elicited outrage. This is no longer the land in which we dwell, the sate
and those who profit from it have seized on the September 11<sup>th</sup> 2001
events to justify any and all foreign aggression and the stripping of rights
here at home. No perceived offense is too small to add more paramiltary equipment
and training to local police forces, already augmented by the Homeland Security
Gestapo. The bad assed bogeyman Osama bin Laden may now be sleeping with the
fishes but leave it to the Neocon embeds, Dick Cheney’s stay behind network and
the ever complicit state media to ensure that there will be new arch villians
and “monsters” to arm the police against, now it is the brothers Tsarnaev who
serve as our Emanuel Goldstein. As I sit here sipping my morning cup o’ joe
there are forces desperately looking for any sort of ginned up linkage between
the Chechens who set off their dastardly shrapnel bomb at the Boston Marathon
and overseas groups, like the Manichean devil Al Qaeda. It is very, very
essential for the America that we now exist in to keep the already cowardly
public in a state of constant fear. I recall a book that I once read entitled
<a href="http://books.google.com/books/about/American_Terminator.html?id=QcwCD42m4zcC">American Terminator</a> that examined the role of Hollywood movies as an essential
propaganda tool for shaping and reinforcing the basis for a mythical American
exceptionalism and its desire for empire. The following passage is from that
book which I strongly recommend to everybody with an interest in just how
celluloid serves as a delivery device that is very useful in the indoctrination
process.</div>
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Fear is essential: ‘Be afraid, be very afraid’ is the
American condition. </div>
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To live in America is to be beset by fear, anxiety and
insecurity, to be surrounded by potential harm, enemies and evil intent. And
the wolf is always at the door. A nation of optimists is the more usual
self-representation of America. Repetitively, Hollywood films conclude with a
resolution, a rescue, and the winners ride off into the sunset or snuggle into
a warm embrace that reassures us they will live happily ever after. The
formulaic ending, however, is necessary because the plot, the narrative, is
founded on and propelled by fear and anxiety, the dark essential underpinning
of the American condition. For America fear is an original, natural condition,
the inescapable birth rite (and birth right), the inherited condition of a
fragile existence that must constantly be defended. Without fear there is no
America; constant recourse to fear is the motivating force that determines its
actions and reactions.</div>
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That was until 9/11 and the brain freezing FEAR of potential
terrorism in the USA became the ultimate talisman of the state. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Herman Goering had it absolutely correct when
he famously said:</div>
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“Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in
Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But
after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is
always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or
a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or
no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That
is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and
denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to
danger. <b>It works the same in any country</b>”</div>
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As the events in Boston have made clear, it does indeed work
the same in every country. The same propaganda and police state tactics that
worked for Adolf Hitler 80 years ago continue to be employed with great success
in a post-9/11 America.</div>
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And the public of course always buys it, quivering,
sniveling, pissing in their pants and practically screaming “please….take my
freedom away”. Already, the Boston lockdown has provided cover for the TSA (an
un-American entity that should be shredded into a million pieces and cast to
the winds so counter to the concept of freedom that it is)<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/22/travel/tsa-knives-planes/"> to revoke the recently granted permission to carry miniature pocket knives onto airplanes</a>.
Really, just how fucking stupid are Americans if they believe that something so
small as this can be used to actually highjack a plane? Americans watch too
much television and too many movies, a decade and a half ago if a potential
hijacker would have pulled out a mini-swiss army knife he would have been
laughed off the plane. But the official state conspiracy theory of September
11, 2001 has become gospel that a group of losers who were allegedly well
enough trained to take over jet airplanes with nothing but a box cutter and
then to utilize their simulator flight training to pull off precision military
daredevil piloting that even the most crackerjack pilots in the world would
have trouble with has worked. It has worked out so well that any questioning of
said official conspiracy theory is treated as a great apostasy and will have
one immediately shunned by those whose worldview has been shaped by such lurid
dramas as “Homeland” and “24”, but I am not going to go there this morning. </div>
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My oh my how the black vans will roll…</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34263444.post-40634091068523914202013-04-21T05:39:00.000-05:002013-05-21T05:47:25.298-05:00When Martial Law Came to Boston <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Quite an experience to live in fear, isn't it?
That's what it is to be a slave.<br />
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-Roy Batty</span></i><br />
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As it has been with every other aspect of the fascism that has come to this land, a sad, permanently damaged and ultimately to be damned by the judgement of history place of fear and loathing the roll out of martial law to American soil, in Boston on Friday was wrapped in the flag.The heinous and barbaric act of sheer inhumanity that precipitated it was Monday's bomb detonations at the Boston Marathon where a despicable act of criminality was perpetrated by scum. Nobody who plans and then carries out such a malicious act of cruelty is deserving of anything less than being made subject to the full fury of the law. Those were innocent people whose lives were forever ruined by those monstrous little Chechen bastards and their shrapnel bombs. People who were happy, trained at length for their race and for them it was to be a day of personal triumph and accomplishment and they were deprived of it, some will never run again. It was an act that defines the very essence of all that is diseased and wrong with the human condition and will forever live in infamy. That being said, the overreaction of authorities in rolling out a de facto state of martial law will prove to be far more damaging to this already reeling nation than anything that the brothers Tsarnaev did on that lamentable day of blood, horror and sorrow. <br />
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Just as those events of September 11, 2001 set into motion a series of actions that led to two ruinous and nationally bankrupting wars, the evisceration of American civil liberties, the unleashing of an out of control and ever expanding surveillance apparatus that has no accountability, the codifying of torture, a terminally damaged political system and a myriad of other indignities so too shall Black Friday, April 19, 2013. It was on this day that the streets of Boston and the surrounding suburbs brought to mind scenes from a certain European place in the middle of the last century, armored troops marching through civilian streets and the local citizenry stripped of their rights of freedom, prisoners within their own homes. Paramilitary forces which only in Orwellian newspeak terms can be called "police" with a straight face descended in legions with their armored vehicles, shining black body armor and of course their ever more deadly military weaponry. The city was "locked down" as the 19 year old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, badly wounded in the earlier shootout that killed his older brother was hunted down like the rabid dog that he is. The citizenry cowered as the storm troopers banged on doors, without warrants of course but such trivial matters cannot be bothered with in our dystopian police state. As Bryant so famously put it to Deckard in the movie Blade Runner - "If you're not cop you're little people" and when the scent of blood vengeance is is in the air and the jackboots are kicking at the door there really are only two options.<br />
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The media breathlessly hyped this mega-story, you would think that it was O.J. redux or at the very least another breaking news alert about Oscar Pistorious. As the old news maxim goes - when it bleeds, it leads and the bloodier the better for the carrion ensconced in their electronic nests. But this was over the top, way over the top. The freshly severed limbs of the bombing victims had yet to be fully treated when the news cycle suddenly swung into action to cover the search for the alleged perpetrators. By the time that the FBI had released the photos of the brothers the hunt was on and indeed the media found it to be good sporting fun, and very, very lucrative to the bottom line. There were times on Friday that I thought that I was watching the sequel to "The Running Man" with the way that the internet news site headlines changed the prey was being closed in on while the audience was transfixed. The one that I found particularly chilling (and more than a bit nauseating) I believe was on CNN or some other state propaganda organ and was in a huge screaming font <b>WHERE IS HE? </b>as Friday afternoon turned to evening.<b> </b>The sports websites and blogs were even in on the action, not surprising as this was the greatest game in the country for those two or so blessed days after the suspects were set upon by the black clad militarized goon squads. As of today, not one of the cowardly bitches and bastards has called the Boston response martial law, and those who have are mocked, scorned and attacked as crazies. <br />
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Typically it didn't take long for the usual vermin, the authoritarian Republicans to drop their silly post-election image makeover and slither out from under their rocks to play. The porcine Long Island bigot Peter King was practically calling for <i><b>all</b></i> Muslims to be made to wear crescent badges sewn to their clothing and herded into ghettos. Not that it bothered the insane swine when his beloved Irish Republican Army was blowing civilians including children to bits while he proudly supported them back in the 80's. Then of course there was the ubiquitous Lindsey Graham, once again venturing out of his closet to pontificate from the Sunday morning media masturbatory fests where narcissistic beltway celebrities playact as though they are really journalists rather than the sycophants and toadies that they are and always have been. Senator Graham, soon to be joined by the dyspeptic old fool John McCain will call for military tribunals and the expansion of Gitmo and it is inevitable that this latest outrageous act of violence will serve as the basis for a national 'conversation' on the use of armed drones across the fruited plain. McCain especially is a veteran media whore, the doddering and drooling buffoon has been comfortable in front of the cameras ever since he made those Commie propaganda videos to curry favor with this Vietnamese captors and his mania for revenge will soon use the Boston bombings to call for yet another war, likely Iran this time. If they have not done so already there will soon be linkages in the slimier realms for the right-wing Koched up media and blogosphere tying the bombing to Obama, likely by invoking the bogeyman Bill Ayers. Some things never change.I have already seen several stories using the bombing by the brothers Tsarnaev in order to exploit the anti-immigrant bigots that are the party base, I suspect it is only a matter of time until Rush or Glenn or Sean or Ann or any of the other turds is out there promulgating some hogwash about a linkage to gay marriage. Not to worry though, there will be plenty of company from ever feckless Democrats, quislings whose cynicism never fails to surprise when it comes to reigning in an out of control armed to the teeth national asylum.<br />
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After the killing of Tamerlan and the capture of Dzhokhar, who is being held in the state of legal limbo that now has replaced due process in this rotten land of incipient fascism it was like Christmas morning and the day after a Patriots Super Bowl win all wrapped into one. There were celebratory affairs at Red Sox and Bruins games as well as throughout the nation at sporting events, it was like another hit of that mythical narcotic post-9/11 national unity that the Neocons have long found to be far, far better than sex, a red, white and blue orgasm screamed out to the tune of the Star Spangled Banner. Obama, whose lamentable time in office has all by chiseled the Bush-Cheney abomination into stone even showed up in Beantown to make one of his fine speeches. This time unlike Sandy Hook Elementary, when another terrorist named Adam Lanza blew the guts and brains out and the limbs off of twenty small childrenchildren there WILL be action. You see, in the down the rabbit hole existential hell of the "new normal" in America any mass killing that feeds the beast and expands the police state. This is especially so if it can be used as additional justification to sell even more guns is a dead bang certainty to go over in a true bipartisan manner with the rats in the halls of our contemptible Congress. While not even watered down background checks on gun purchases with massive public support can become law a further weaponizing of the state after the Boston tragedy is certain to not only result in an immediate ratcheting down of civil liberties in the name of "safety". The rancid buzzard that is Wayne LaPierre, fresh off of the feasting on the corpses of the Sandy Hook victims to sell more guns will likely be pushing the meme that if all of the runners and spectators at the Boston Marathon had just had more guns then none of this would have ever happened.<br />
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This is a sickening time in history to be an American, our forebears would be ashamed. There is no longer such a thing as social justice as the ultra-wealthy and well-connected burrow themselves into government to ensure that the shrinking and increasingly desperate taxpayer can be shaken down to subsidize Wall Street gambling. The founding fathers, the ones who are constantly invoked by the selectively fascist shock troops of the so-called Tea Party would be aghast that that fine Constitution that they put together has been gutted as America becomes a more palatable to the eye banana republic but the ones who would be the most ashamed would be our World War II veterans. They sacrificed all to fight fascism but it is now a rising and malevolent force that only grows stronger, like a city killing hurricane.<br />
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And the fascism was on display for all to see on Friday in the streets of Boston, how much longer until it comes to YOUR city?<br />
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<i>I guess the question is, how paranoid do you want to be? How many guns does it take to make you feel safe? </i><br />
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<i>-Stephen King </i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>W</b></span>e live in a sick society. We are saturated in violence, at once a byproduct of our bloody, not to be talked about real national history as well as the electronic brain washer that is the television. How many, just think about this for awhile now... how many simulated murders does the average American child witness courtesy of the tee vee by the time he/she reaches adolescence? America has always been an overly violent country, our official history, written by the victors as always and then gussied up and given a red, white and blue coat of shellacking before being spoonfed to the lemmings while God Bless America plays in the background is rife with murder. We can of course start with the butchering of the original indigenous inhabitants in the name of greed but given the name of Manifest Destiny, a nice little nugget of propaganda before the Edward Bernays, Joseph Goebbels, Frank Luntz century. So really, when a heinous mass slaughter by a heavily armed lunatic, say in an Aurora Colorado movie theater during the debut of a new Batman movie or at Virginia Tech, Columbine and even despite it's horrific pre-Christmas timing in Newtown Connecticut one eventually becomes numb and cynical. Really, in a society that reveres gun violence, treats it as a religion actually is it ever a surprise when it does happen?<br />
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And while there is always a temporary national 'discussion' over gun control (it's way too late for that now) the inevitable happens. The murder industry dispatches their squadrons of lobbyists to cajole, bribe and intimidate our cowardly feckless political whores and the firearms and ammo manufacturers mount the inevitable public relations assaults on the body strewn beachhead of common sense to ensure that profits will never suffer. And as always the insane right-wingers are whupped into a frenzy by the fear pimps and morally bankrupt payroll propagandists the likes of Alex Jones, Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin and their ilk exhort the paranoids and freaks to go out and buy more guns and ammo as the murder industry locks in their gains after the are convinced that the big gun confiscation is coming. <br />
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Then there are the worst of the worst, takethe maniacal, unhinged ghoul that is Wayne LaPierre, Grand Poobah of the National Rifle Association (NRA). Wayne is the top pimp for the gun industry and is doing his damned level best to shrilly muster the support of the paranoid <i>Boobus Americanus</i> who has watched too many Clint Eastwood movies and whose knowledge of history has been strained through John Wayne's dirty undershorts into stockpiling guns and ammo. You see, the Kenyan in the WHITE House is coming to take the guns away, you see, it was all a U.N. communist plot, time to rouse the rabble, circle the wagons and get ready for the jack-booted big gubmint thugs soon to be landing in the very front yards of god fearin' good Americans in those sleek, silent big black helicopters. LaPierre, a man devoid either dignity or a soul recently used the national horror of the Sandy Hook massacre, a slaughter under the Christmas lights of innocent six and seven year children by a mentally ill freak with access to his equally deranged armed to the teeth survivalist mother's gun collection to shill for even more guns. He is a vulture picking the flesh from the bones of murdered children and a vile pederast who molests them while they lie in their sad little graves, lives of promise stolen away by more greed and a predilection for national fascism by a diseased fifth column that has existed for far too long.<br />
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Recently there have been some bugs put up the ass of LaPierre and the other fiends. Prolific author Stephen King came out with a wonderful little tract of an e-book simply entitled "Guns". King makes his case against the multimillion dollars of NRA/murder industry agitprop and predictably caught hell from the dirty cowards and their mindless, over-armed and always hostile as they are stupid minions. King, being a man who has made a pretty damned nice living off of selling violent stories attacks LaPierre's blaming of the mass shootings on a culture of violence, movies, mayhem and video games. I disagree with King here, the cultural aspects of violence ARE a result of media but a dumbed down, jacked up on Jesus juice, fucked over by parasitical predatory capitalism populace exposed to that garbage should not be allowed to easily and legally stock up on assault weapons. But that is beside the point because King's money paragraph is right here -<br />
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Men (it's always men) who go postal and take out as many innocents as they can may be crazy, but that doesn't mean they're stupid. The don't arrive at the scenes of their proposed slaughters armed with single-shot .22s or old-style six-round revolvers of hte sort Jimmy Cagney was waving around at the end of Public Enemy; they bring heavy artillery to the gig. Some back down, but when they don't carnage follows, the kind that gives cops and EMTs nightmares for years afterward. <b>One only wishes Wayne LaPierre and his NRA board of directors could be drafted to some of these scenes, where they would be required to put on booties and rubber gloves and help clean up the blood, the brains and the chunks of intestine still containing the poor wads of half-digested food that were some innocent bystander's last meal.</b> </blockquote>
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Wow. Do you think that would get their attention? LaPierre, a craven coward can grab a mop and clean up the mess that the product that he shills for creates when in the wrong hands, and he can bring along that mangy, putrid, draft-dodging, baby daddy has been shock rocker Ted fucking Nugent to clean up<i><b> his </b></i>vomit. <br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34263444.post-51211228546478480812012-06-11T17:50:00.003-05:002012-06-11T18:04:22.921-05:00Right-Wing Lynch Mob Closes in on Obama<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidyDuV4lcF7Rje41yf8xGR-A9e2BD71enmyK9yVUkdb8iZ8aIbUXr-vCxijqzw4AFBUL7umKdXzsGWW-fuYvfrACGH_8AUeW_ccYEuIISTfzTEB-P486FvifYnldwAyh-b6uSklA/s1600/mccain-insane.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidyDuV4lcF7Rje41yf8xGR-A9e2BD71enmyK9yVUkdb8iZ8aIbUXr-vCxijqzw4AFBUL7umKdXzsGWW-fuYvfrACGH_8AUeW_ccYEuIISTfzTEB-P486FvifYnldwAyh-b6uSklA/s400/mccain-insane.jpg" width="400" /></a></center><br />
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Barack Obama is toast, the full fury of the establishment is about to be brought down upon him as it ensures that he won't even make it until November in one piece. The latest and probably most serious threat to his lamentable presidency is the squealing of the Republican pigs for an inquisition on national security leaks alleged to have come from the White House to bolster his election chances. This is of course total bullshit and the accusers were nowhere to be found when Valerie Plame's cover was blown by the Bushreich and that scumbag Israeli fifth columnist Scooter Libby. The memory of the television mesmerized lemming flock is not long enough to recall that foul and treasonous affair, it might as well have happened in 1663 instead of 2003. This one will surely resonate though and the attacks are likely designed to offset Obama's playing the I killed the big, bad bogeyman Osama bin Laden card in the campaign. The human excrement that is the right-wing has already made hay out of delegitimizing Obama's presidency to the mouth-breathing meatheads and morons by spreading the ludicrous birth certificate propaganda, convinced chuckleheads throughout the land that the footstool for Wall Street is a socialist or commie and to some of the more demented members of the god gang that Obama is actually the Antichrist himself.<br />
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This is going to be ugly too, especially with Israeli/Pentagon stooge John McCain sliming out of his dirty hole once again to whore himself out to the media and wail for an investigation. Look for the remaining three members of the maverick circle jerk caucus, Joe Lieberman, Lindsay Graham and newly minted butt-boy Marco Rubio to join in the attack. Rubio is a real douchebag too and the Republican fascist party has big plans on marketing that greasy little turd to the growing Hispanic demographic, a smiling Ricky Ricardo type who croons sweet salsa songs while his party sends out the I.C.E. goon squads and backs a Nazi Germany style "papers please" campaign to harass and humiliate anyone with brown skin. Rubio, like the Skeletor looking criminal Governor P. Rick Scott rode the tsunami of racist demagogy into power in Florida, the diseased penis of America and will figure prominently in the coming restoration of the party to total and I mean total control. McCain has always had a burr up his puckering asshole towards Obama after being bitch slapped by the black man back in 2008 when he got his ass kicked in the general election. Never mind that his neocon inspired choice of the wild and loony Alaskan dingbat Sarah Palin conjured up images of Hitler and Hindenberg and the pit bull with lipstick would have access to the nuclear launch codes which scared the bejesus out of millions it was easier to just blame it on the black dude and Chicago politics. McCain sure didn't get his panties in a wad when Karl Rove chopped off his balls back in 2000 in South Carolina but Rove, who belongs in a federal prison for <i>his </i>role in the Plame outing is white.<br />
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This one is going to get the traction that all of the pigfuckery of the party of Reince Priebus (geez,the Third Reich would even make him tone that name down) and Karl Rove could never get the bogus Solyndra faux scandal to stick to the wall and with McCain and the rest of the swine pimping it to an eager to please their corporate bosses media it will stick to the Teflon coated shit salesman Obama too. Granted it's not the prized sex scandal because if there is one thing even the most buttfuck stupid of Americans understands it is the grave matter of someone putting Mr. Wiggly into the dirty place. Just ask John Edwards about that one, I have no idea why these idiots keep falling for the honey traps that are set for them by the garbage on the right but fall they do and are then publicly crucified for their inability to keep their dicks in their pants while demons like George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney are free to live as dignitaries and cash in on book deals and speaking gigs despite being murderous war criminals. Hey, is this a great country or what?<br />
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And with the human (and I use that word extremely loosely) oil slick that is Darrell Issa who is about as slippery as a greased hamster at Bohemian Grove ratcheting up the pressure on dirty Eric Holder, a man whose sordid past should have disqualified him from so much as cleaning the floors and toilets at the Justice Department he will do as all rats do and roll over on his boss. DOJ is a teeming sewer of some of the biggest turds in this country and has been for a damned long time now, a haven for crooked lowlifes and bottom feeders the likes of Edwin Meese, Alberto 'Torquemada' Gonzalez, Janet Reno, Michael Mukasey and John Ashcroft are the most prominent but among career officials the rot runs deeply and the place is like a snakepit without a bottom. That however is a story for another time, you can bet that Holder will squeal like the proverbial pig dipped in hot oil as the notorious partisan hack Issa and his cronies dangle the contempt and other charges over his wretched head. <br />
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<div class="MsoNormal">Not that I am any fan of Obama's, far from it, but it could get <i>much </i>worse. Ad especially ominous omen is the ongoing Project Mockingbird Washington Post celebration of Watergate and with Manchurian McCain practically jumping through flaming hoops and blowing a pea across the floor to attract the contemptible for profit media to push for a tribunal on what is going to soon be labeled in typical idiotic fashion LEAKGATE. McCain is great at these things, just ask the communist Viet Cong who easily got the "maverick" to make anti-American propaganda films while his fellow prisoners at the Hanoi Hilton got the shit stomped out of them, were starved and heinously tortured while the admiral's son cut deals with the enemy. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Despite all of his failings Obama has seriously put a burr up the ass of the establishment and they are going to bring down hell upon his head like the alternate ending of Apocalypse Now when the air cav destroyed Colonel Kurtz's compound. In 2012 blowing the president's head off in public is far too crude, they have other more sophisticated methods of assassination now.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Just my two cents</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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On Tuesday it all exploded for the Democrats, just like one of those hapless frogs that George W. Bush reputedly liked to stuff lit firecrackers up their asses and hurl in the air as a child, getting a chubby as he watched them explode into smoking balls of green and red bits. Or more appropriately like a flaming bag of dogshit parked on their doorstep on Obama’s inauguration day that has now been stomped on. In what amounts to total victory for the fascist right Americanized version of Golden Dawn the once disgraced criminal entity that is the Republican party broke the back of the left. With the rotten, cheese-eating vermin that is Wisconsin governor Scott Walker smacking down the recall and Republican scum throughout the land revitalized and backed by the bottomless coffers of the second generation Stalinists Charles and David Koch the machine is now fully set on kill and the bund halls and megachurches are rousing the rabble this very morning. The smell of fear and desperation oozes from Barack Hussein Obama’s every pore as the lynching parties salivate over the bloodletting of the next several months until he is metaphorically dragged from the WHITE House on the end of a rope behind a Ford F150 by a horde of mean-assed, juiced up rednecks looking to finally take their country back. </div>
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Walker and his minions hit the Sunday morning bloviation circuit to escalate the war on the last vestiges of labor. Indiana governor Mitch ‘son of a bitch’ Daniels pontificated from the Roger Ailes terrorist television network to call for the elimination of public sector unions. Strange or more appropriately hypocritical how the police worshipping right-wing filth salivate over stripping their beloved blue boys of their collective bargaining rights but fully emboldened by their stomping of those damnable teachers the scumbaggers are full of piss and vinegar now. The hated New Deal is about to be rolled back and social Darwinist Ayn Rand freaks like Paul Ryan won’t have to put granny before a death panel, she won’t live that long once shorn of Medicare. Romney will of course take aim at the Holy Grail in delivering to the degenerate hustlers on Wall Street all Social Security funds that they can then gamble with, can you say DOW 80,000? It will be all thanks to the television lobotomized sheep who in the words of the brilliant social critic George Carlin who “continue to elect these rich cocksuckers who don't give a fuck about them.” As for the “social conservatives” (politically correct term for ignorant hateful bigots) one can understand their motivation, the Republican fascists cynically and fully understand the powerful allure of using God to manipulate the mindless and have for the past three and a half decades used them as shock troops. Marx had it right about religion being the opiate of the masses but in his day before the advent of technology he was unable to see television becoming their black tar heroin. By mid-October the lies and hatemongering of the Republican fascist party will probably even be inserted into fucking Doritos commercials in some diabolical subliminal form. </div>
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The current savior of the week, Governor Walker himself appeared on CBS’s Face The Nation and Rick Santorum on Press the Meat. The message being pounded out that the unions are enemies of society and must be banned, cut out like a cancer along with that dangerous Islamist Commie Obama. Stomping out the gays can wait, like their role model Hitler the fascist Republicans fully understand that in order to rise to the pinnacle of power that the cooperation of big business is necessary. The Nazis were terrorizing and murdering labor unionists, socialists and the hated liberals long before they gassed the first Jew at Auschwitz. Obama will be peeled like a ripe melon over his dismal record on the economy and were it a genuine flogging it would be justified. He cut deals with the criminal scum that destroyed the economy and in their gratitude they then brought in Mitch McConnell back in early 2009 and repaid the favor by ensuring that Obama would not be able to change his mind. His administration was packed with weasels, traitors and guardians of the status quo, embedded to ensure that his tenure would be brief and when it was over the public could be counted upon to go into “blame it on the nigger” mode in restoring control over the spoils system to the same bastards who blew it all up in the first place. Geithner and Bernanke have been in the bag for the banksters and fellow mole, the longtime fixer Eric Holder has just directed his look the other way Justice Department to open what promises to be a very ugly and damaging probe into White House leaks on national security to bolster Obama’s reelection chances. The Republicans are engorged with the scent of blood and going in for the kill, the public incapable of either long term memory or the ability to question where all of the pigs were when Valerie Plame’s cover was blown and the Bushreich routinely rigged the multi-colored terror alert system by leaking ginned up information on plots for political gain. </div>
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Just checking in again folks. Due to some health problems I have been unable to write for extended periods as of late. Nothing too serious, just getting old and it sucks, a few more decades and I'll be ready for those nice new right-wing social darwinist soylent red, white and blue factories. Anyway, I am formally getting the fuck off of Blogger and will be migrating my work over to Wordpress, stay tuned for details.<br />
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Much to talk about, the latest Republican faux populist scandal about the alleged war on grizzly moms by that demonic Kenyan Muslim Commie in the WHITE House, the Secret Service literally get caught with their dicks out in Columbia and now Bill Cosby is coming out and suggesting that the <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/15/us/bill-cosby-trayvon-martin/">Trayvon Martin</a> saga is much more about the growing gun problem than race? Holy fuck, now THAT has some serious potential to get the scumbaggers up in arms, the blue helmets, Obama and a militant Negro army are coming to emasculate them by taking away their blue steel penis extensions.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34263444.post-11266012580047376912011-10-26T04:36:00.002-05:002011-10-26T06:12:48.632-05:00NIGGERHEAD<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi53FK4152HBzsDyfTED9nI12bqvBhQflVvgIumxhoAx_vz11QM0GJvjgEleq0RsiFZ7DvdxdzIGd-pWcXnBsFO7s0fEMdIuzA03EekF3kYayUiugRio2DlYMHigB9OOrRntvfl/s1600/AmConCover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi53FK4152HBzsDyfTED9nI12bqvBhQflVvgIumxhoAx_vz11QM0GJvjgEleq0RsiFZ7DvdxdzIGd-pWcXnBsFO7s0fEMdIuzA03EekF3kYayUiugRio2DlYMHigB9OOrRntvfl/s400/AmConCover.jpg" width="299" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">With a lot of blacks, there's quite a bit of resentment along with their dissent, and possibly rightfully so. But we can't all of a sudden get down on our knees and turn everything over to the leadership of the blacks. I believe in white supremacy until blacks are educated to a point of responsibility. I don't believe in giving authority and positions of leadership and judgment to irresponsible people.</span></i></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><i>- Marion Morrison (aka John Wayne) </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:DoNotOptimizeForBrowser/> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The one thing that I truly admire about Pat Buchanan is that he is unapologetic. He wears his racism, fealty to the Republican party and religious fervor on his sleeve. While the rest of the ratfuckers in the GOP Tea Party keep using the ridiculous novelty candidacy of Herman Cain as somehow being proof that they are not racist Buchanan has the balls to just tell it like it is. In the most recent issue of The American Conservative, the magazine which Buchanan was a founder the cover feature is a long essay by Ron Unz entitled <a href="http://www.theamericanconservative.com/blog/immigration-republicans-and-the-end-of-white-america-page1-003/">Republicans and the End of White America</a>. The essay while citing sources and stats in no uncertain terms advocates for the transformation of the GOP into the “white party” and slyly calls for the party platform to exist exclusively on race-baiting issues in order to capitalize on the coming demographic wave that will have the white folk as the minority in the United States by as soon as mid-century. I find it a bit ironic that the loss of the white stranglehold on this country would cause so much consternation considering that the original inhabitants were definitely not Caucasian but such truths are lost on Buchanan, Unz and the racist to the core Republican party. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Unz, another of the touted former entrepreneur GOP right-wing turds that have the great American cesspool overflowing and who is the publisher of American Conservative has a history of anti-Hispanic activism, specifically bilingualism and illegal immigrant rabble rousing. Meskin’ bashing is the new coin of the realm of the Republicans, especially the useful idiot Astroturf Dick Armey of darkness that are the teabaggers. Alabama, which one could hardly imagine being under siege by illegals recently passed a draconian style anti-immigration law that made Arizona’s ‘papers please’ state harassment of brown skinned people look like the fucking Rainbow Coalition. Let’s be honest here, the fascist Republican party is only able to exist by appealing to the lowest common denominator of racism and religious nonsense (many times simultaneously) that provide cover for their big corporate and plutocratic funders. Paymasters like the infamous Koch Brothers the mega-tax chiselers who have retrofitted 1950’s John Birch Society style nonsense about the communist conspiracy, fluoride in the water and destruction of capitalism to fit nicely with the teabaggers and their foolishness. Ironic that the Koch family fortune that keeps the machine rolling along was made by their daddy Fred building oil refineries for the vicious communist dictator Joseph Stalin but that is the way it goes with the GOP, all hypocrisy all the time. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:DoNotOptimizeForBrowser/> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The American Conservative piece is dense and well-written which wraps this racist dreck in somewhat scholarly terms but a turd is still a turd even if it’s prettied up. Unz’s cover piece is really just about promoting Buchanan’s latest book Suicide Of A Superpower. Old Pat recently wrote a screed entitled <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/d-2041-end-white-america-070000288.html">A.D. 2041: End of White America?</a> In which the author issues a Code Red to bigots, conjuring up a plethora of GOP talking points in it that will surely be the red meat shoveled into the feeding trough come next year’s campaign season. I excerpt the following pieces:</div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><blockquote class="tr_bq"><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">John Hope Franklin, the famed black historian at Duke University, once told the incoming freshmen, "The new America in the 21st century will be primarily non-white, a place George Washington would not recognize."</div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In his June 1998 commencement address at Portland State, President Clinton affirmed it: "In a little more than 50 years, there will be no majority race in the United States." The graduates cheered.</div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Census Bureau has now fixed at 2041 the year when whites become a minority in a country where the Founding Fathers had restricted citizenship to "free white persons" of "good moral character."</div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">With publication today of "Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?" this writer takes up what this portends. And while many on the left are enthusiastic about relegating the America of Eisenhower and JFK to a reactionary past, I concur with the late Clare Boothe Luce.</div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In this world, she said, there are optimists and pessimists.</div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"The pessimists are better informed."</div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What are the seemingly inevitable consequences of an America where whites are a shrinking minority?</div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">First, the end of a national Republican Party that routinely gets 90 percent of its presidential votes from white America.</div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">When Texas, where two-thirds of the newborns and half the schoolchildren are Hispanic, goes the way of California, it is the end for the GOP. Arizona, Colorado and Nevada, also critical to any victorious GOP coalition, are Hispanicizing as rapidly as Texas.</div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In every presidential election since Bush I in 1992, Hispanics have given 60-70 percent of their votes to the Democratic ticket.</div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">For Hispanics, largely poor and working class, are beneficiaries of a cornucopia of government goods — from free education to food stamps to free health care. Few pay federal income taxes.</div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Why would they not vote for the Party of Government?</div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What is happening to America is happening across the West.</div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Can Western civilization survive the passing of the European peoples whose ancestors created it and their replacement by Third World immigrants? Probably not, for the new arrivals seem uninterested in preserving the old culture they have found.</div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Those who hold the white race responsible for the mortal sins of mankind — slavery, racism, imperialism, genocide — may welcome its departure from history. Those who believe that the civilization that came out of Jerusalem, Athens, Rome and London to be the crowning achievement of mankind will mourn its passing.</div></blockquote><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Buchanan, like all of the great right-wing propagandists wraps this swill in the cloak of the great struggle of civilizations, his column’s title conjures up memories of the mass murdering Christian Anders Breivik who wrote an Atlas Shrugged sized manifesto that also used a year, 2083 in his case to <a href="http://www.opednews.com/Diary/Norwegian-Tea-Will-Anti-M-by-Ed-Encho-110731-262.html">draw attention to a darkly racist message</a>. The only way that the right-wingers, especially the thoroughly fascist Republican party can win is to play to the racists, this has been largely true since the days when LBJ ‘lost the south for a generation’ and has been getting ever more virulent since. This is a dangerous strategy now that there are the seeds of social unrest percolating thanks to the failure of the American capitalist imperialist warfare state, the GOP would gladly pour on the gasoline and strike the match. </div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Hey, this stuff plays in the south and has roused the rabble down behind the cornbread curtain ever since the Republicans seized on the volcanic eruption of white resentment courtesy of the Civil Rights Movement. Richard M. Nixon, who was the last liberal president that has presided over the United States became famous for his divisive politics, Rick Perlstein’s brilliant book <a href="http://books.google.com/books/about/Nixonland.html?id=dM_enWzoghoC">Nixonland</a>. Were every racist plank to be removed from the Republican party platform the entire fucking thing would collapse. </div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Republicans have institutionalized racism since the days of Nixon’s infamous Southern Strategy. It was a plan that sought to divide and conquer by fomenting racial enmity. It was immensely successful in charting the path to GOP power by capitalizing on the festering resentment in the deep south over their being forced to accept their ‘devils’ as equals instead of relegating them to subhuman status. The epitome of the charlatan as politician that was Ronald Reagan tapped into this when in 1980 he shamelessly pandered to the peckerwoods in Philadelphia, MS the site of the 1964 murder of three civil rights workers. The film Mississippi Burning was based on that tragic incident where animosity and raw hate combined in brutal murder that opened the eyes of a nation in torment to the cruelty and repression within. The Gipper used this carefully chosen forum to continue the sly peddling of the demagogy of race baiting that would form the cement for the next quarter century of disastrous conservative rule:</div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>"I believe in states' rights. I believe we have distorted the balance of our government today by giving powers that were never intended to be given in the Constitution to that federal establishment"</i></div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Preached doddering Dutch to the delight of hordes of sweaty, knuckle draggers assembled at the Neshoba County Fair.</div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The importance of Reagan’s speech was the inclusion of the code word ‘states rights’ being newspeak that fanned the flames of racism. The late Lee Atwater admitted as much in a 1981 interview with historian Alexander P. Lamis that was published in his book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Southern-Politics-1990s-Alexander-Lamis/dp/0807123749">Southern Politics in the 1990s</a>:</div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><blockquote class="tr_bq"><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Atwater: As to the whole Southern strategy that Harry Dent and others put together in 1968, opposition to the Voting Rights Act would have been a central part of keeping the South. Now [the new Southern Strategy of Ronald Reagan] doesn’t have to do that. All you have to do to keep the South is for Reagan to run in place on the issues he’s campaigned on since 1964… and that’s fiscal conservatism, balancing the budget, cut taxes, you know, the whole cluster…</div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Questioner: But the fact is, isn’t it, that Reagan does get to the Wallace voter and to the racist side of the Wallace voter by doing away with legal services, by cutting down on food stamps…?</div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Atwater: You start out in 1954 by saying, 'Nigger, nigger, nigger.' By 1968 you can't say 'nigger' - that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now [that] you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites.</div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I'm not saying that. But I'm saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me - because obviously sitting around saying, 'We want to cut this,' is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than 'Nigger, nigger.'</div></blockquote><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Atwater incidentally was the man who as a campaign strategist for Poppy Bush was behind the lowball sleaze of the Willie Horton commercials that helped to bring down Michael Dukakis in the 1988 election. Atwater’s protégé, the rotund fiend Karl Rove took it to the next level in knee-capping John McCain during the 2000 primaries with a South Carolina smear campaign that he had fathered a black child out of wedlock and current onslaught is exemplified by the bigots in the Tea Party with their Obama Joker minstrel posters. The racism sells with the freaks though, especially those in the south whose anger and willful ignorance have fucked their inbred families for generations. </div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In the film Mississippi Burning, Agent Rupert Anderson played by Gene Hackman, a good ole boy who had renounced the racism of his upbringing mused aloud:</div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><blockquote class="tr_bq"><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Where does it come from, all this hatred? You know, when I was a little boy... there was an old Negro farmer lived down the road from us, name of Monroe. And he was... Well, I guess he was just a little luckier than my daddy was. He bought himself a mule. That was a big deal around that town. My daddy hated that mule. His friends kidded him that they saw Monroe ploughin' with his new mule... and Monroe was gonna rent another field now that he had a mule. One morning that mule just showed up dead. They poisoned the water.</div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">After that there was never any mention about that mule around my daddy. One time we were drivin' past Monroe's place and we saw it was empty. He'd just packed up and left, I guess. Gone up North or somethin'. I looked over at my daddy's face….and I knew he'd done it. And he saw that I knew. He was ashamed. I guess he was ashamed. He looked at me and he said..."If you ain't better than a nigger, son, who are you better than?"</div></blockquote><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Buchanan is among the last of a dying breed and the dinosaur who drank Wild Turkey with Hunter S. Thompson is not going to be sucked into the tar pit without a struggle. His contemporary G. Gordon Liddy, also getting ready to pass into history was always a no bullshit guy when it came to his true sentiments as well. I especially liked the following expression of his burgeoning for a newly discovered idol from his autobiography <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Will-Autobiography-G-Gordon-Liddy/dp/0312924127">Will</a> where he speaks wistfully of how the Liddy family maid, Teresa inculcated in the young whelp an adoration of Der Führer: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><blockquote class="tr_bq"><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">One day Teresa was excited. He was going to be on the radio. Just wait till I hear him speak! Eagerly, I joined her at the Emerson [radio]. First the music, the now familiar strains of a song that started, “Die Fahne hoch…” – Raise the banner…” It was a rousing, powerful anthem the Horst Wessel song. </div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We could tell he was about to speak. The crowd could hardly contain itself. They hailed him in the huge swelling ovations that carried me along. Sieg!”someone would shout, and what seemed like all the people in the world would answer with a roar, “Heil!”. For he was their leader, Der Führer, Adolf Hitler.</div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Hitler’s voice started out calmly, in low, dispassionate tones, but as he spoke of what his people would accomplish, his voice rose in pitch and tempo. Once united, the German people could do anything, surmount any obstacle, rout any enemy, achieve fulfillment. He would lead them; there would be one people, one nation, one leader. Here was the very antithesis of fear – sheer animal confidence and the power of will. He sent an electric current through my body and, as the massive audience thundered its absolute support and determination, the hair on the back of my neck rose and I realized suddenly that I had stopped breathing.</div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div></blockquote><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Liddy’s love affair with full-blown Nazism would go on and he allegedly once arranged for a showing of Leni Riefenstahl’s famous propaganda film Triumph of the Will to fellow fascist worshippers in the White House. At least the old school guys from Nixon’s administration had a strange sort of integrity in that they are unabashed about their bigotry. Compared to the young Turks, third-rate hacks like Florida’s Senator Marco Rubio who was once a teabagger darling but has recently come under fire by the birthers about his ability to serve as president and who has come under fire for lying about his parents alleged flight from Cuba guys like Pat Buchanan and G.Gordon Liddy are giants. </div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Rubio, an anchor baby and a freak like Herman Cain, the former food service lobbyist and pizza CEO are the faces of the front of the GOP now. Herman Clown's fifteen minutes are just about over. Just go and check out some of the sentiment towards him from the hard core, sixth generation racists behind the cornbread curtain. Good show and very entertaining because this guy is so arrogant a buffoon that he doesn't even see that he is being used to minimize the exposure of the crazies like Bachmann, Gingrich and Santorum. He is like the drunk uncle who shows up at Thanksgiving and craps his pants at the dinner table and then wonders why nobody wants any sweet potato pie for dessert. </div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Jolly good show, that's all it is for Herman Clown or as he is referred over to a certain very popular heavily Republican leaning blog <i>"Herman Coon"</i>. The GOP would be like a Hezbollah suicide bomber if they actually rolled this turkey out as their candidate and they know it. Take some of these <a href="http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2011/10/09/what-are-white-supremacists-saying-about-herman-cain/">comments from the real right-wingers</a>, the ones who vote:</div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><blockquote class="tr_bq"><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">18. Why the pizza nigger can never win: His supposed rise in GOP polls is just a ploy, the result of Repubs trying to prove to their left-wing accusers that they’re not racist just because they hate Obongo; He has yet to be nationally vetted. Once he is, it will come out that he’s done the typical TNB: fathered a love child, muh diked white former employees, misused funds, committed tax fraud, etc.; He runs on being this great bidnessman … so why did the board of Godawful’s Pizza fire his nigger ass? (Plus, he was only hired so the company could qualify for fed grants requiring minority management.); The nigger had stage 4 colon and liver cancer, had surgery, but at 66 he’s basically a dead nigger walking, not healthy enough for public office; He’s way too primitive a nigger. Unlike the high yellow Harvard edumacated Obongo, the coal black cone-headed Cain went to all nigger Morehouse College. Morehouse. Can you get more nigger than that?</div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">19. You would think people would have learned by now that a nigger can’t handle the job of POTUS. If it comes down to nigger vs nigger, we will be in deep doo doo. Herman coon has its 999 plan. 9% national tax on purchased goods. This on top of your local and state tax will put everyone in the poor house. We all know that as CEO of nigger king and babydaddy pizza, it was the humans that did all the work and turned the company around. At this time we have a one drop rule nigger in the White House. If we end up with a full blown nigger in charge the entire country will end up a ghetto.</div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">20. The problem here is that the first nigger president has turned out to be such a disaster. The libs and the left and every one suffering from white mans guilt just cannot admit to it being such a bad idea. So they say it is not that he is a nigger. It is that Obongo was not up to the job. So they scramble to place another nigger in office. This they say will prove once and for all “when he wins” that they really are just like us. Problem is that the nigger will just continue to run her into the ground. Then what will they do? Four more years of closing their eyes and chanting “We are the world?” Or will some sense of sanity finally emerge from this modern day dark age?</div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div></blockquote><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Even the hard core white supremacists of the GOP base, the Neo-Nazis laugh at the stupid teabaggers. Come on, do you really think that G. Gordon Liddy would ever vote for “Herman Coon”? It does say one thing, the far right as in the REAL far right is as sick of this fucked up oligarchy as we all are and Herm Cain, Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Rick Perry and the rest of the Punch and Judy candidates in the two party game of three card monte are pretty much despised as bagmen for the plutocrats by those who know that the game has been rigged. </div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Still this is the big melting pot of America and the racist hatred has immense crossover appeal due to recent events as well as the immense structural damage to the prospects of working American families due to the class warfare that began under the sainted Reagan. The economic resentment over the gutting of the economy by outsourcing, offshoring and importing cheap labor to as the talking point goes ‘do the jobs that Americans won’t do’ has created a cottage industry for trashing Mexicans and illegal immigrants.So the time bomb that is America in late 2011, a country betrayed by it’s corrupt leaders, a failed political system and an economic disaster thanks to cancerous capitalism continues to tick. The Republicans will seek to tap into the primal animosity that is racism just long enough to regain control of the spoils system but even they won’t be able to control the rising tide of social foment. God forbid that the white folks can’t continue to be dominant in America, I find it a flaming bag of Republican hypocrisy in failing to take into account how the original indigenous inhabitants of this land were slaughtered, cheated and driven from their lands into ghettos called reservations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Pat Buchanan again is thrashing in a tar pit as he is conscious of his own extinction and no amount of race baiting is going to help, even in Chumpland you can only sell bullshit for so long until all but the dumbest of fuckers start to catch on. </div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As the man in the movie <i>No Country For Old Men</i> so eloquently put it – ‘You can’t stop what’s coming”</div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Just my two cents</div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>In the US on September 11, 2011, the 10th anniversary of 9/11, politicians and their presstitute media presented Americans with "A Day of Remembrance," a propaganda exercise that hardened the 9/11 lies into dogma.</i></div><i> </i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Ten years gone. The big lies of 9/11, that oh so glorious day in America when the reset button was flipped on over two hundred years and the country flipped full blown fascist were cemented into place forever over the weekend. One of the only institutions more respected by the star-spangled sheep than the blessed military, the National Football League played an enormous part in promulgating the <i>new normal </i>and glorifying the society changing event that has come to be justification for plunder, wars without end, a colossal police state and the undercurrent of anti-Muslim hatred that will soon lead to blood in the streets. It was a day when corporate advertising took full advantage of the exploitation of the 9/11 dead (no mention ever goes to the the tens to hundreds of thousands of foreign civilians murdered by the U.S. military and our allies in the endless and phony war on terror) and used the occasion to pimp their products. Not that this is entirely precedent setting, the Republican party was cashing in on the 'terrorist' attacks while the smell of rotting flesh still wafted in on the morning breezes in lower Manhattan. The appropriation of 9/11 by corporations is only the obvious evolution of the moral decay that has a once mighty nation up against the ropes, staggering like a punch drunk palooka and just struggling to avoid the knockout blow. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Being a football fan for years the NFL season opener had long been a festive event. There was beer, parties and barbecues followed by a day spent immersed in football. Not this year, the repulsive promotion of the new American religion of 9/11 was too much for me to take, I spent the majority of the afternoon monitoring the games on the internet. I skipped all of the pregame ceremonies, the usual pregame shows where buffoons like Terry Bradshaw (once accused of being so dumb that he couldn't spell cat if he was spotted the first two letters) and grinning shit salesman Howie Long would ensure that sports and war metaphors would become interchangeable. FOX's NFL for example had long been in the war propaganda business, Murdoch the old dog knew fully well that pushing right-wing political agendas would be his bread and butter as his cancerous media empire metastasized across the globe and he knew that faux patriotism and sports sold to the masses. It was on Veteran's Day weekend back in 2009 that <a href="http://manageableants.blogspot.com/2009/11/militarist-masturbation_09.html">FOX set up it's NFL show studios in Afghanistan</a>, with all of the assclowns who never wore the uniform in actual service were dressed up in their cammies like fake soldiers. Bradshaw looked the most ridiculous of all, like a bizarre form of movie parody of an out of touch general. Not that FOX is unique, the porcine Peter King was traveling around to NFL camps this year in his militarized motorcoach to cover the warmups to the big 9/11 kickoff party. Peter King being the prolific and long-tenured football writer for Sports Illustrated not the porcine I.R.A. terrorist sponsoring neo-McCarthyist Republican congressman from Long Island. The big 9/11 whoop de doo was the one reason why I absolutely <i><b>knew</b></i> that the NFL's labor strife would be over in time for the big games of Sunday past. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">What little football I did watch (I popped in for about ten minutes of the Steelers vs. Ravens game) made me glad that I just skipped the rest. When fuckwad CBS announcer Jim Nance took a cheap shot at Pittsburgh running back Rashard 'the Fumble Machine' Mendenhall for his <a href="http://www.edgeofsports.com/2011-05-05-618/index.html">TWITter comments expressing distaste</a> at the unseemly celebrations over bin Laden's alleged assassination. Nance even seemed to invite violence and harassment to be heaped on Mendenhall throughout the year in making the inference that he could expect to receive hostile receptions on the road. This is what happens when the official state religion of 9/11 needs to deal with heresy, it's just too primitive to go around and cut people's tongues out anymore. The games were even more overly militarized than normal, take this account from Glenn Greenwald's piece <a href="http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/09/13/rituals/index.html">The Meaning of Political Rituals Like 9/11 Day</a>:</span><br />
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<blockquote><div class="MsoNormal">Not just 9/11 Day but everything connected to it was constructed to deliver and implant a very politicized message, over and over. Consider this email I received from a friend in South Florida after he attended an NFL football game last night in Miami:</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"> <b><i>Let me describe the patriotic display at last night's NFL opener. Men with machine guns at all entrances, to scare off the terrorists. Pat down on the way in, to make sure [my wife] and I weren't carrying plastic explosives. A moving national anthem with troops out on the field spelling out U.S.A. A moving tribute to the thousands who perished in 9/11 and to our nation's brave response to that atrocity (which was, of course, the worst thing that ever happened in the history of the world). A U.S.A., U.S.A. chant. Then a Stealth B2 Bomber flew over the stadium, followed by fireworks. At half time, a US Army paratrooper squad jumped out of a plane and landed on the field. Maybe next week they'll shoot some missiles from unmanned drones.</i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Does anyone want to claim with a straight face that these ceremonies are apolitical, devoid of political messaging? Everything about 9/11 -- how it's talked about, how it's described, how it's commemorated -- is all designed to impart very specific political messages, and that's been true since the day it happened.</span></blockquote><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">The Fumble Machine wasn't the only one getting publicly pilloried, New York Times columnist and noted economist Paul Krugman drew the wrath of the establishment for <a href="http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/11/the-years-of-shame/">his dead on blog posting </a>on that holiest of days that the post 9/11 era is one of shame not valor, glory and remembrance:</span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">Is it just me, or are the 9/11 commemorations oddly subdued?</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">Actually, I don’t think it’s me, and it’s not really that odd.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">What happened after 9/11 — and I think even people on the right know this, whether they admit it or not — was deeply shameful. The atrocity should have been a unifying event, but instead it became a wedge issue. Fake heroes like Bernie Kerik, Rudy Giuliani, and, yes, George W. Bush raced to cash in on the horror. And then the attack was used to justify an unrelated war the neocons wanted to fight, for all the wrong reasons.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">A lot of other people behaved badly. How many of our professional pundits — people who should have understood very well what was happening — took the easy way out, turning a blind eye to the corruption and lending their support to the hijacking of the atrocity?</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">The memory of 9/11 has been irrevocably poisoned; it has become an occasion for shame. And in its heart, the nation knows it.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">I would disagree with Krugman on the commemorations being subdued, there was plenty of still warm bloody red chunks of meat shoveled into community troughs by the pocket media and the usual pigs lined up to eat the slop. Of course the knives were out and buried in Krugman’s back and not only from the fascist right-wingers but from the same <a href="http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/09/paul-krugman-9-11?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Motherjones%2Fmojoblog+%28MotherJones.com+%7C+MoJoBlog%29">sissified liberal suckup bloggers</a> that I have denounced for years, the ass-kissing, yuppie social climbing types typically found at Daily Kos which is about as leftist as Stalin. Rather than get off on a tangent here about the dismal state of the so-called progressive blogosphere and it's miserable failings I just will say that I have been doing this for over six years now and I have had more than my share of run ins with the foul types of cretins who sell out to achieve the coveted posting positions at the "A" list prog blogs, especially that foul orange nest of pit vipers. While I have worked with many dignified and talented people I just had to split from it all and just do my own thing. I can attest that elements of the dreck that passes for "the left" online are every bit as foul as their mouth-breathing fascist counterparts only in their own sordid little ways. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Krugman's piece drew a blistering response, how DARE he blaspheme by actually telling the truth? I mean just how fucking un-American is <i>that</i> anymore? The piece even made war criminal Donald Rumsfeld barf up his Metamucil and <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2011/09/13/rumsfeld-cancels-ny-times-subscription.html">cancel his subscription to the NYT</a>. The question goes unasked why a hardened neocon like Rummy would even have a subscription to the damned librul [sic] rag in the first place. Perhaps it has more than a little bit to do with the New York Times having played an integral part in allowing the Bushreich to lie American into attacking and invading Iraq, a country that had nothing to do with 9/11. Remember Judith Miller? She was Scooter Libby's fuck-bunny who abused her prominent position with the NYT <a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1142841531">to promote the bullshit story about Saddam's weapons of mass destruction</a>. Not that Saddam <i>didn't </i>at one time actually have WMD, shit he gassed his own people. The dirty little back story is that he got the WMD including the toxic gas from American corporations, the same corporations that good ole Rummy was shilling for when he was sent over to Iraq by Reagan back in the 1980s. <a href="http://www.gwu.edu/%7Ensarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB82/">Saddam and Rumsfeld were thick as thieves</a>, ever wonder why Hussein was tried and strung up on a murder beef that didn't include the gassing at Halabja? Sure couldn't have any of that shit about Rummy coming out in court now could we?</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">As of today Krugman is a dead man walking, he is so fat a high-value target to the filthy neo-Nazis in the Republican establishment (as well as the rats of the Democratic Obama led corporatists and Wall Street looters) that he will be the new Dan Rather. His bloody scalp will soon be brandished as a trophy, if I were Krugman I would put a lock on my hamper to prevent the underwear sniffing punk Andrew Breitbart or any of his latent pork sword swallowing acolytes from being the ones bearing the tomahawk.<br />
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The NFL while wallowing in nationalism and rolling out the military worship barely even paid homage to a true hero, formerly one of their own: Pat Tillman. Tillman left a promising career with the Arizona Cardinals to go and enlist in the Army Rangers after the American Reichstag Fire, it was the patriotic thing to do right? As so much of our current history is a perversely Bizarro reinvention of World War II strained through the electronic crackpipe that is the television Tillman was to place loyalty to country over personal fame and fortune. But 9/11 was not your grandfather's Pearl Harbor but rather the "New Pearl Harbor" of the cunning, amoral pack of jackal neocons of the Project For The New American Century. Tillman quickly realized that it was all just bullshit and had turned against the wars, who knows what he thought about 9/11 but he was communicating with Noam Chomsky and had a story to tell when he would return home - except he didn't.<br />
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From <a href="http://www.edgeofsports.com/2011-09-13-649/index.html">Dave Zirin on Tillman</a>:<br />
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<blockquote><div class="MsoNormal">In 2004, President George W. Bush appeared on the Jumbotron at Arizona’s Sun Devil stadium to address the combat death of former NFL player turned Army Ranger, Pat Tillman. Bush said: “Pat Tillman loved the game of football. Yet, as much as Pat Tillman loved competing on the football field, he loved America even more… Courageous and humble, a loving husband and son, a devoted brother and a fierce defender of liberty. Pat Tillman will always be remembered.”</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal">But Sunday--- while NFL teams around the country commemorated the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks---Pat’s name was only mentioned before the game in Arizona. In stadium after stadium, in pregame show after pregame show, as the NFL’s 9/11 commemoration strategy was rolled out with lockstep discipline, Tillman’s name was conspicuously absent.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">George W. Bush certainly got his moment in the spotlight, receiving a standing ovation by 70,000 fans at the Meadowlands. On other football fields, massive flags were unfurled, “official NFL/9/11 logos” were unveiled, soldiers were cheered, Reebok’s “We Will Never Forget” 9/11 gear was worn, and yet it was as if Pat Tillman had never existed.</span></blockquote></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Tillman was an atheist so the holy war bullshit didn’t resonate with him and one of Dick Cheney’s JSOC hit teams likely were the ones who blew his insubordinate fucking head off. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">The official story of being killed by "friendly fire" are bad enough, it puts a damper on the original 'poster boy' for American militarism in the new American century, not a thing to throw to the masses of asses on the holiest day of all. That Tillman was shot in the head at close range by his own side, his clothes and diary destroyed and a massive coverup effort undertaken speaks of even darker things. The NFL is far more interested in selling merchandise, advertising and currying the favor of powerful interests than in doing anything so gauchely unpatriotic as telling the truth, an unforgivable sin in The Homeland. </span></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><br />
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Adolf Hitler was more interested in the children who would be the future of his thousand year Reich for all that they would know would be his worldview. It is very similar her in Der Heimat. Our youngest citizens have known nothing other than the fear, fascism, hatred and perpetual warfare that were set into motion ten years ago. They will grow to adulthood in a society where airport checkpoints manned by drooling government goons and the ever present all-seeing eyes of Big Brother are a part of daily life. On Sunday they even trotted out the war criminal George W. Bush as though he were some sort of fucking dignitary despite the truth that after spending the morning of 9/11 with his nose buried in My Pet Goat and then flying around the country on Air Force One like some sort of chickenshit while the treasonous Cheney and Rummy were running the show. And when it comes to chickenshits who has anything on that diseased little turd Eric Cantor, the bespectacled Virginia Republican Majority Leader whose face looks like the logo on the New England Patriots helmet. In an act as brazenly shameless as corporations using 9/11 tributes to sell hamburgers and other crap Cantor took a break from <a href="http://www.lobelog.com/rjc-emet-eric-cantor-to-host-iranium-on-the-hill/">screening anti-Muslim propaganda films</a> on behalf of his Israeli buddies to introduce <a href="http://rules.house.gov/Media/file/PDF_112_1/Floor_Text/911RES_003_xml.pdf">HR 391 - the resolution to "Never Forget" 9/11</a>, or rather the official big lie of 9/11. In true GOP fashion it was another ghoulish use of the dead to push their decidedly fascist, anti-American political agenda. Then again, pissing on the 9/11 dead is nothing new to the Republicans who had the most kick ass club in the bag once the war criminal Bush grabbed a megaphone and climbed atop that pile of debris at "Ground Zero" while the rubble was still smoldering. As H.L. Mencken once remarked, <i>"imagine a gentleman and you will have imagined everything that he is not"</i>. <br />
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I could go on and on about the dishonor of America's behavior in the aftermath of 9/11 but what's the point? It was a lamentable display of all that his country has come to stand for that was force fed to us all last weekend, the corporate NFL's corpse humping being the cherry on top of the shit cake. Guys like Krugman and Chris Hedges had the best takes but there were many, many others who saw this travesty as the charade that it truly was. Hedges, always with a unique perspective flayed the myth by reintroducing the "jumpers" or those who perished in the World Trade Center towers but have been erased from collective memory by a treacherous media. Hedges' 9/11 10th Anniversary piece is entitled <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/09/11-7">A Decade After 9/11: We Are What We Loathe </a>and I excerpt the following: </span><br />
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<blockquote>The south tower went down around 10 a.m. with a guttural roar. Huge rolling gray clouds of noxious smoke, dust, gas, pulverized concrete, gypsum and the grit of human remains enveloped lower Manhattan. The sun was obscured. The north tower collapsed about 30 minutes later. The dust hung like a shroud over Manhattan. <br />
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I headed toward the spot where the towers once stood, passing dazed, ashen and speechless groups of police officers and firefighters. I would pull out a notebook to ask questions and no sounds would come out of their mouths. They forlornly shook their heads and warded me away gently with their hands. By the time I arrived at Ground Zero it was a moonscape; whole floors of the towers had collapsed like an accordion. I pulled out pieces of paper from one floor, and a few feet below were papers from 30 floors away. Small bits of human bodies—a foot in a woman’s shoe, a bit of a leg, part of a torso—lay scattered amid the wreckage. <br />
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Scores of people, perhaps more than 200, pushed through the smoke and heat to jump to their deaths from windows that had broken or they had smashed. Sometimes they did this alone, sometimes in pairs. But it seems they took turns, one body cascading downward followed by another. The last acts of individuality. They fell for about 10 seconds, many flailing or replicating the motion of swimmers, reaching 150 miles an hour. Their clothes and, in a few cases, their improvised parachutes made from drapes or tablecloths shredded. They smashed into the pavement with unnerving, sickening thuds. Thump. Thump. Thump. Those who witnessed it were particularly shaken by the sounds the bodies made on impact. <br />
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The images of the “jumpers” proved too gruesome for the TV networks. Even before the towers collapsed, the falling men and women were censored from live broadcasts. Isolated pictures appeared the next day in papers, including The New York Times, and then were banished. The mass suicide, one of the most pivotal and important elements in the narrative of 9/11, was expunged. It remains expunged from public consciousness. <br />
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The “jumpers” did not fit into the myth the nation demanded. The fate of the “jumpers” said something so profound, so disturbing, about our own fate, smallness in the universe and fragility that it had to be banned. The “jumpers” illustrated that there are thresholds of suffering that elicit a willing embrace of death. The “jumpers” reminded us that there will come, to all of us, final moments when the only choice will be, at best, how we will choose to die, not how we are going to live. And we can die before we physically expire.<br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">The shock of 9/11, however, demanded images and stories of resilience, redemption, heroism, courage, self-sacrifice and generosity, not collective suicide in the face of overwhelming hopelessness and despair.</span></blockquote><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Hedges’ piece evokes an account of the <a href="http://www.csun.edu/%7Eghy7463/mw2.html">Triangle Shirt Factory Fire</a>, another bit of history that has been revised to the benefit of the rapacious looter capitalist state. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Even i</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">n their gruesome war justifying lies, lies responsible now for ten years of death and torture, human misery and looting the treasury Americans love their subterfuge sunny side up. People jumping out of a burning building and going SPLAT doesn't fit that mindset, the mindset of a lemming, a lemming now in freefall down the rabbit hole, and it still doesn't understand that the rabbit hole is a grave.</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><b>The Ideological Cornerstone of Modern Republican Political Theory</b></div><br />
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Despite the trotting out of Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords last Monday night in what has to be the most cynical and shameless bit of political theater since George W. Bush landed on the aircraft carrier, the great debt ceiling crisis was the nadir of the ongoing decline of the Der Homeland. Mrs. Giffords, who was nearly murdered by a deranged little freak at a public appearance in rootin' tootin' Tuscon has been reinvented as some sort of icon of hope in the era of Obama's chump change. The shooting, of which Giffords was only one of victims (the dead included a federal judge and a nine year old girl) grabbed headlines in that the act of wanton murder went down in a Congressional district that Sarah 'lock and load' Palin's PAC just happened to have featured a gun site over in an recent solicitation for money. While Jared Loughner could never definitely be tied to the violent haters that comprise the teabaggers and fascist Republican base (and likely never will be due to his insanity) it was treated by many as a wake up call to the potential for mayhem spurred on by the general climate of anger, hatred and toxicity in American politics. <br />
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So it was <i>Gabby </i>Giffords who would provide the necessary human interest cover story for the grand scale, red white and blue, dipped in Tabasco ass-fucking delivered to America by the terrorist Republican party. A terrorist Republican party that has benefited enormously by the cover provided by their repackaged and rebranded Tea Party base, a mass of embittered pasty white folks who have meshed well with the standard collection of American Taliban religious crazies and have been able to wrap their radicalism in a Gadsden flag as some bizarre symbol of revolution against tyranny. A terrorist Republican base that is largely funded by plutocratic, anti-American tax chiselers like the Koch Brothers with their immense activist networks. A terrorist Republican party that is promoted by veteran Republican operative Roger Ailes and and the FOX news propaganda machine as well as tens of thousands of radio stations run by Christian fanatics to reach the haters. A terrorist Republican party that has been fed even more money by the vile pig Karl Rove who was able to escape prison thanks largely to the actions of the nebulous Patrick Fitzgerald to build a super money laundering machine. A terrorist Republican party that effectively has hijacked the entire fucking judicial system but especially the thoroughly polluted Supreme Court courtesy of the RATS (Roberts, Alito, Scalia, Thomas) who forever punched the ticket of American fascism with their landmark Citizen's United ruling enabling corporations to openly buy elections. A terrorist Republican party that in true fashion, our feckless quisling leader Barack Obama never fails to surrender to.<br />
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One can nearly forgive the terrorist Republican party for their blistering hatred of the American public, that is after all what they are all about and despite the cheesecloth thin facade provided by their Tea Party they wear their fascism on their sleeves. What is unforgivable is the ongoing selling out of the country by the detestable rat that is Obama, a man who is rapidly carving out a niche for himself as the worst president in American history. Were Obama to have held office during the critical years of World War II we would all be speaking German today. Other than being a cheese eating surrender monkey the terrorist Republican party have hit the mother load with Obama because their neo-Confederate, racist teabagger shock troops will <i><b>never </b></i>relent while there is a Negro in the White House. Obama can capitulate on every demand, accommodate every desire to bust the backs of the middle class by destroying the social safety net and in will NEVER be enough. The bigots will still hate him, they will hate him with a burning white hot incandescence because that is in their blood. The would only be happy were the infidel Obama to be lynched at the fifty-yard line in Lucas Oil Stadium, on national television during the halftime show of Super Bowl XLVI accompanied by a Lee Greenwood-Toby Keith duet.<br />
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Obama, is still an enigma to a large degree. His presidency, an endless series of disasters that mount by the minute has in some sort of a sick way made me wistful for Bush and Cheney, at least then I knew who the fucking enemy was. Obama has been so consistently awful that he is either a complete ignoramus or he is in on the con. The fact that he packed his administration with Wall Street insiders and the worst type of recycled Clinton era scum would seem to indicate the latter but perhaps it is even worse. What if Obama reckons himself a transformational type of reformer who is going to co-opt the greatest hits of that old fraud Ronald Reagan and change the entire system into a magical post-partisan land of milk and honey? From Obama's earliest days and his <a href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1816476,00.html">fawning admiration </a>for the Doris Keans Goodwin book on the presidency of Abraham Lincoln entitled <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_of_Rivals:_The_Political_Genius_of_Abraham_Lincoln">Team of Rivals</a> he seemed to have this wild hair up his ass about ignoring reality and building a new bipartisan coalition in a land that is arguably more divided than what even Lincoln faced. The one great problem with this is that the fascist Republican hydra would sooner see Obama tarred and feathered and then dragged down Pennsylvania Avenue behind a team of Ford F-150s than make peace. That Obama was black only made the reactionary haters and tenth generation racists in the red states hate him even more. I recall that one of the lines of attack on Obama by the fascist right-wing was that he was a disciple of the late great radical Saul Alinsky but this is now as ludicrous as the other attack line that he is a socialist. Alinsky likely wouldn't piss on Obama were he on fire today due to the Pope of Hope's history of rolling over without a fight and then giving away more than the original demands to the GOP terrorists.<br />
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With this morning's blessed (and cooked to a fine fricassee) stock markets being watched very closely by the Obama administration, the terrorist Republican party and the financial cartels that own BOTH of them to see how 'investors' react to Friday's surprise Standard and Poor downgrade of the U.S. there is yet another sense of surrealism about. The fix is already in folks, Mr. Obama and his pet Wall Street racketeer insiders Ben Bernanke and Tim Geithner will do whatever is necessary to keep the game going - get ready to become really familiar with the word austerity. The American economy will continue to crater - other than the rigged markets that have come to represent the financial health of the nation despite the inconvenient truth that they don't have dick to do with the real economy. Since the Reagan reign of greed and illusion the swine and vermin on Wall Street have pulled off the big con of convincing the average American schmuck that they have a stake in the markets and the paper dealers have used millions upon millions in advertising and propaganda to get them into the pen for the shearing. The rolling out of 401k retirement plans and other investment vehicles have provided a very nice cover for corporate plunder, the dismantling and offshoring of the American manufacturing base and the ongoing war against labor that has led to the virtual extinction of the traditional company retirement and pension plans that built what was once the strongest middle class on the planet. You can bet that no matter what the opening bell of the DJIA (Dick Jammed In Ass) triggers that the hated big gubmint will be there to bail the bankster bloodsuckers and their stock churners out again. On the backs of already busted out and desperate Americans who are still oblivious to their plight and still for the most part believe in the legitimacy of their corrupted institutions.<br />
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The mockery of a "debate" on the debt problem, and it is one hell of a fucking problem is that it has zero basis in reality because it never, ever addresses the primary reason for America's borrowing - to finance war and more war. This is where the terrorist Republican party and their mouth-breathing pasty white lynch mob will always be in the catbird seat. You see, the angry raised on John Wayne revisionist history dolts love war, especially when they don't have to fight it and even more so when the war is being wage against the dirty brown skinned devil "a-rabs" or in a previous era "gooks", they have an insatiable taste for human misery and a list of enemies that will ensure that there will never be a lack of those to wage war upon. The idiot masses are also being conned into buying the brilliant con job of destroying "entitlements" which is the word that has now come to describe Social Security and Medicare, programs that working Americans fucking PAID into for years and are now being cut to fund more war and money shuffling. The just plain mean nimcompoops who fly the Gadsden flag while manning the front lines for the terrorist Republican party are too buttfuck stupid to understand that while they are still waging cultural war against "welfare queens" and other Negroes sucking off of the big gubmint dole that the use of "entitlements' to now include programs that they themselves benefit from that they have been given the knives to cut their own throats - and their gullibility ensures that they will do just that.<br />
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The real problem in this country with money and debt is that the entire "debate" is dishonest, other than the failure to include the costs of waging endless and costly corporate wars the real menace of big gubmint run amok, the post 9/11 national security state is also never addressed. Teabaggers are perfectly down with a high-tech surveillance network unlike anything seen in human history, the state sanctioned molestation of children and bullying of old ladies wearing medical diapers by TSA Nazis and the militarizing of local police departments because after all, if you didn't do anything wrong why should you be afraid? There also can't be any form of higher taxation on the rich pigs and chiselers (or to crib from a well known amphetamine gobbling Russian emigre "looters" and "moochers") who have benefited astronomically from the three decades running class war that kicked off when Dutch Reagan fired those goddamned air traffic controllers. There is a rapidly declining tax base due to rigged laws that allow those who least deserve tax amnesty to avoid paying their fair share, millions of unemployed who can't participate in the consumer economy and the glue that holds the entire thing together is the big lie that anyone can become rich in America, thanks to our benevolent rich job creators - horseshit! Tax the fuckers until they grow hoarse from squealing and loose the RICO laws on pigs like Grover Fucking Norquist, Karl Rove and the treasonous Koch Brothers.<br />
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So as the band plays on and the continues to sink, the rails manned with angry white lumpen Republicans waving their Gadsden flags and cheering while the glorious winners of the looter capitalist class war commandeer the life boats. Never mind the rest of us who are trapped in steerage, already up to our fucking necks in water.<br />
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Nordic avenger Anders Breivik, in executing his murderous attacks last Friday in Oslo has forever had his ticked punched as a heroic figure to the extreme right-wingers of the same sort that have eaten America from within with their virulent hatred. Breivik or <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Anders <i>Behring</i> Breivik in sticking with the favored propaganda technique of the thoroughly rotten media who since the days of Lee Harvey Oswald always assign all three names to political murderers,</span> a blond-haired blue-eyed fanatic was a Christian who loved guns, hated Muslims and "cultural Marxists" slaughtered 76 people in a rampage that rocked Norway. The majority of Breivik's victims were gunned down at a government youth camp on <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Utoeya Island where the shooter, dressed as a policeman conjured up dark European memories of the Waffen SS as he carried out his executions in an icily detached militaristic manner. Using high-capacity magazines <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43933511/ns/politics-more_politics/">purchased from the U.S.</a>, the terrorist stalked and taunted his victims, laughing as he ended their lives in a hail of bullets and vengeful fury. Breivik brought to mind notorious American terrorist Timothy McVeigh when he built a massive bomb, using up to six tons of fertilizer to detonate in front of government offices near the Parliament building. Fortunately for Norway, the fertilizer bomb was not as devastating as the one that took down the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City back in 1995 or the carnage and body count would have been far worse. Breivik, like McVeigh is a Christian and this fact is downplayed in the American media in the standard cynical attempt to not have the powerful "terrorist" label applied to a non-Muslim. </span></div>
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Attributed to Breivik was <a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/article/mass-killer-andrew-berwicks-aka-anders-breivik-complete-777724-word-manifesto">a manifesto</a> that clocked in at an Ayn Randian 1,500 or so pages entitled 2<i>083: A European Declaration of Independence</i> in which the shooter railed against Muslims, Marxists and inclusive multi-culturalism which he blamed for the ruination of Europe. Sound familiar? Breivik’s misinformed, racist rage is embodied in America’s Tea Party, a post-Bush rebranding of the Republican dead-ender base, largely made up of Evangelical Christians, Breivik would have been right at home within their ranks. His “manifesto” was chock a block full of standard right-wing boilerplate, much of it plagiarized from the Unabomber Ted Kaczynski and several American neoconservative anti-Muslim hate merchants the likes of <a href="http://www.rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Horowitz_David">David Horowitz</a>, a diabolical propagandist who has been instrumental in the long-running Naziesque persecution of university and college professors and <a href="http://smearcasting.com/smear_spencer.html">Robert Spencer</a>, a Mephistophelean self-proclaimed expert on Islamic terrorism. <a href="http://original.antiwar.com/author/justin/">Justin Raimondo</a> of <a href="http://www.antiwar.com/">Antiwar.com</a> nailed Breivik and his domestic ideological allies dead on in his recent piece entitled <a href="http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2011/07/24/the-crusader/">The Crusader</a>:</div>
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It had to happen: the rise of a “counter-jihadist” terrorist outfit that is the mirror image of al-Qaeda. That it first arose in Norway, rather than, say, in the US, is just a coincidence, although I’m sure Anders Behring Breivik, the perpetrator of the Norwegian mass murder in Utoya, has his American collaborators, as he claimed in his manifesto, “2083: A Declaration of European Independence,” [.pdf] and an accompanying video. Indeed, a good many of the sources he cites in “2083″ – which is basically a compendium of previously published works by others – are American. Material from David Horowitz’s website, Frontpagemag.com, figures prominently, along with articles taken verbatim from the Horowitz-affiliated “Jihad Watch,” run by professional hater and make-believe “scholar” Robert Spencer. </div>
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Breivik’s “book” is a mishmash, half diary of his careful preparations for the attack thrown together with anti-Muslim materials and boilerplate conservative rhetoric about the importance of faith, family, and community – Breivik lifts an entire section of a screed on “Cultural Conservatism” by the late Paul Weyrich – totaling well over a thousand pages. Thankfully, we don’t have to plough through this disjointed “compendium,” as he calls it – which shows signs of being hastily thrown together in preparation for his international debut as the Norwegian Timothy McVeigh, just like his Facebook page and his Twitter account. Breivik created a much more coherent video version which gives us a lot more clues about why he murdered 90-plus (at last count) of his fellow Norwegians in the name of fighting Islam. </div>
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Breivik’s racist rage is embodied in America’s Tea Party, a post-Bush re-branding of the Republican dead- ender base, largely made up of Evangelical Christians weaned on a perversion of the teachings of Christ. Here in The Homeland the right-wing electronic sewers vomit up anti-Muslim filth on a daily basis to those seeking scapegoats for their miserably fucked up lives. Hating Muslims is to many on this great star spangled lemming farm as American as apple pie and the propaganda is reinforced by a bastardized version of Christianity that meshes perfectly with the far right policies of Israel. The weaponized death cult of the Armageddon centric, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/may/20/christian-rapture-fiction-sf-apocalypse">Left Behind</a> visions of apocalyptic doom triggering the return of a new Jesus, cleansed of his pesky liberal values such as compassion for the poor and downtrodden sells well with the same sort of rubes and haters who already eagerly embrace racism due to their mostly southern heritage. The insidious and immensely powerful Glenn Beck, fresh off of his <a href="http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/43712964/ns/today-entertainment/t/glenn-beck-warmly-received-israeli-parliament/">recent visit to Israel </a>to prep for the 2012 anti-Obama onslaught <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/07/25/beck.norway/">invoked the Hitler Youth</a> to describe the Norwegian youth camp where Breivik pranced among bullet-riddled young corpses. Not that such vileness is limited to the American extreme right and their highly paid demagogues, HBO’s Real Time With Bill Maher is a similar source of anti-Muslim propaganda, most recently when the dope-addled, oversexed host welcomed the utterly vile Ann Coulter who once stated that <i>“We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity”</i>. Demagogues like Beck and Coulter are legion and a gargantuan, well-funded fascist propaganda apparatus comprised of media outlets, think tanks, front groups and money laundering PACs ensure that the haters will have troughs of bloody meat upon which to feast, that much is a given. What is troubling though, is when the anti-Muslim bigotry gains the necessary crossover appeal that is provided by a guy like Bill Maher who cloaks his hatemongering in the guise of atheism. Real Time With Bill Maher is a sinister escalation in the propagation of the inflammatory attacks on Muslims as well as a covert vehicle for Republican and state propaganda as it masquerades as a liberal leaning program while offering forums to those whose loathsome views should discredited by any truly decent society. The tolerance of such hateful feculence only enables the violent and the murderous who will soon be delivering their vengeance upon our very own multiculturalism that they bask in the benediction of the media propagandists that they are not alone. And they shall swim in the rivers of blood as though they were frolicking naked in the fountains at Lourdes. <br />
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The pocket media, after initially and incorrectly pouncing on the events in Norway as yet another outbreak of Islamic jihadism not only cooled on the story entirely but pretty much flushed it down the memory hole in that it didn't fit the standard narrative. Breivik is just the latest example of the right-wing killer or violent freak not given the time of day in America, just like <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-07-29-church-shooting_N.htm">David Adkisson</a>, <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/12/30/national/main4691275.shtml">Bruce Pardo</a>, <a href="http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1902189,00.html">Scott Roeder</a>, <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20011219-504083.html">Byron Williams</a> and every other white man with an axe to grind with the scapegoats served up by the fascist propagandists we can't dare have the concept that white Christians engaged in acts of political murder are in fact terrorists. In the early breaking news reports multiple U.S. news outlets rushed to judgement that the terrorism was of the Islamic variety, chief offenders were the insipid Washington Post screed queen <a href="http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/rubin_jennifer">Jennifer Rubin</a> who was hired last year, as the WaPo geared up for the festival of hate that would be the 2012 presidential elections. Rubin, who previously wrote for such neocon vomitories as Commentary and Weekly Standard has been prolific, shrill and wrong during her tenure at the mockingbird's nest. On the day of the attacks Rubin like a buzzard on a corpse was out front in exploiting the dead to push her standard right-wing Israeli cant to propagate the outright lie that there was a jihadist tie, complete bullshit as could be expected from one who once wrote a fawning piece about the type of scum that Breivik was inspired by entitled <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/onward-christian-zionists">Onward, Christian Zionists</a> which slavishly honored Pastor John Hagee and his fifth column organization CUFI or Christians United for Israel. In what should be a warning shot to all on the tsunami of anti-Muslim filth that is coming for the 2012 Obama reelection campaign, CUFI has that it <a href="http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=230284">"represents the soul of the Tea Party."</a> I will speak more about the role that Israel is going to play in next year's elections later on, the important thing is to focus on the narrative as a whole and the role of anti-Muslim demagoguery as the most essential element. <br />
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Blogger extraordinaire Glenn Greenwald has written about the double-standard in the U.S. media when it comes to acts of terrorism and white extremists who are downplayed as loose cannons, lone nuts and crazies vs. the orgy of anti-Muslim hysteria that accompanies any act that plays into the larger narrative of the great war of civilizations that is sold by neocons. He blow the whistle on the shameless lies in his piece that is entitled <a href="http://www.salon.com/news/terrorism/index.html?story=/opinion/greenwald/2011/07/23/nyt">The Omnipotence of Al-Qaeda and the Meaninglessness of "Terrorism</a>" as well as in an interview with Amy Goodman on <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/seo/2011/7/26/glenn_greenwald_norway_attacks_expose_us">Democracy Now</a>. I excerpt from both below:<br />
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From <a href="http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/07/23/nyt/index.html">The Omnipotence of Al-Qaeda and the Meaninglessness of "Terrorism" </a>:<br />
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But now it turns out that the alleged perpetrator wasn't from an international Muslim extremist group at all, but was rather a <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/23/norway-attacks">right-wing Norwegian nationalist</a> with a history of anti-Muslim commentary and an<a href="http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2011/07/22/rightist-wreaks-terror-through-norway/"> affection for Muslim-hating blogs such as Pam Geller's Atlas Shrugged,Daniel Pipes, and Robert Spencer's Jihad Watch</a>. Despite that, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/23/world/europe/23oslo.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all">The New York Times is still working hard</a> to pin some form of blame, even ultimate blame, on Muslim radicals (<a href="http://letters.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2011/07/22/oslo/permalink/a3884c73991c6f29b8c58151a2bfb252.html">h/t sysprog</a>):</div>
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Al Qaeda is always to blame, even when it isn't, even when it's allegedly the work of a Nordic, Muslim-hating, right-wing European nationalist. Of course, before Al Qaeda, nobody ever thought to <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article690085.ece">detonate bombs</a> in <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/17/newsid_2514000/2514827.stm">government buildings</a> or go on indiscriminate, <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/25/newsid_4167000/4167929.stm">politically motivated</a> <a href="http://articles.cnn.com/1999-07-05/us/9907_05_illinois.shootings.02_1_illinois-drivers-license-driveby?_s=PM:US">shooting rampages</a>. The NYT speculates that amonium nitrate fertilizer may have been used to make the bomb because the suspect, Anders Behring Breivik, owned a farming-related business and thus could have access to that material; of course <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/1997-05-03/news/mn-55059_1_ammonium-nitrate">nobody would have ever thought of using that substance tomake a massive bomb</a> had it not been for Al Qaeda. So all this proves once again what a menacing threat radical Islam is.</div>
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My first reaction was to be pretty surprised about how—or not really surprised, but just struck by how intense the media coverage was and the media interest was in this attack. Obviously, it was a heinous attack. When a government building blows up, when someone goes on an indiscriminate shooting rampage aimed at teenagers, it’s horrific. And yet, at the same time, the United States and its allies have brought killing like this, violence like this, to numerous countries around the world that receives a tiny fraction of the attention that this attack received, a tiny—it prompts a tiny fraction of the interest in denouncing it and in declaring it to be evil. And it just struck me that when we think that Muslims are responsible for violence aimed at Western nations, it receives a huge amount of attention in the American media, and yet when the United States brings violence on that level to Muslim countries, kills an equal number of civilians, dozens of people killed by drone attacks and the like, and tons of people killed that way over Afghanistan over the past decade, it barely registers. I mean, an attack like this, this level of death in Iraq, for example, or Afghanistan, would barely register on the media scale.</div>
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The other aspect of it, though, is what you referenced in your question, which is, when it was widely assumed, based on basically nothing, that Muslims had been responsible for this attack and that a radical Muslim group likely perpetrated it, it was widely declared to be a "terrorist" attack. That was the word that was continuously used. And yet, when it became apparent that Muslims were not involved and that, in reality, it was a right-wing nationalist with extremely anti-Muslim, strident anti-Muslim bigotry as part of his worldview, the word "terrorism" almost completely disappeared from establishment media discourse. Instead, he began to be referred to as a "madman" or an "extremist." And it really underscores, for me, the fact that this word "terrorism," that plays such a central role in our political discourse and our law, really has no objective meaning. It’s come to mean nothing more than Muslims who engage in violence, especially when they’re Muslims whom the West dislikes.</div>
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That you would think that—you would think that in response to this attack, we would end up doing things like, for example, profiling Nordic males or tall, blond Americans, tall, blond, Nordic-looking people at airports, or would start to, for example, engage in surveillance on the communications of people who belong to right-wing groups in Europe, or you look at the people who inspire these attacks, people like Robert Spencer or Pamela Geller, people who engage in this sort of strident anti-Muslim commentary who inspired this individual. You know, we look at Islamic radicals who we allege inspire violence, such as Anwar al-Awlaki, and we target them for assassination—due-process-free killing—even though they’re American citizens. Of course, none of these measures are going to be invoked against right-wing ideologues who are anti-Muslim in nature. And you would expect that Peter King’s hearings, if he were really interested in the threat of violence or terrorism, would be expanded to include what we now know is a very real threat, and yet it isn’t, which simply underscores that those hearings, like so many of these measures done in the name of terrorism, is really just a vehicle for demonizing Muslims, restricting their rights, subjecting them to increased scrutiny. It’s about Islamophobia and not about terrorism.</div>
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The American media has reliably and dishonestly pimped the big lie of Islamic terrorism while deliberately ignoring the dangers of the fascist elements within whose delusions and fanaticism are nurtured. The parasitic Rupert Murdoch has influenced the slow societal degradation to the brink of a hot civil war by unleashing the corpulent diabolical menace to humanity that is Roger Ailes to build the Republican propaganda machine that <a href="http://gawker.com/5814150/">he conceived of during the Nixon years</a>. FOX along with the multitude of front groups and a cadre of deeply embedded operatives honeycombed throughout the media will continue to successfully promote the hatred for it is they who will reap the rewards of the coming unrest. There is neither the will nor the integrity of a corrupt Justice Department and a complicit Congress to bother to try to investigate <a href="http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2011/07/28/anders-behring-breivik-mystery-man/">where the funding comes from</a> in regards to what could be an ongoing treasonous subversion of the American political system and should be addressed as providing aid and support to real terrorists - the terrorists that are the real danger and not the phony threat of Islamic jihad. As the brilliant writer Chris Hedges put it recently in a column entitled <a href="http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/your_taxes_fund_anti-muslim_hatred_20110509/">Your Taxes Fund Anti-Muslim Hatred</a>: <br />
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The groups that Hedges identified, particularly Jihad Watch were hugely inspirational to Anders Breivik and those who run these organizations have the blood of innocents on their hands, not that any of them give a fuck about it. <br />
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And Thursday, in an amazingly fortuitous bit of serendipity the corrupt media had found (surprise-surprise) a new Muslim "terrorist" again by Thursday. <a href="http://motherjones.com/contributor/2011/07/ft-hood-soldier-connected-anti-war-group">Pvt. Nasser Abdo</a> was arrested for an alleged bombing plot at Fort Hood, TX, the second Muslim "terrorist" incident at the installation that can now be shrieked about by those same U.S. hatemongers who nurtured Breivik's animosity. Abdo has all of hallmarks of a classic patsy, he was alleged to be against war and being charged with possession of child pornography. Here in Der Heimat there is no need to construct elaborate covers because of the endemic stupidity of the American people. The bust will only serve to bury the story of the white Christian terrorist once and for all and get the narrative back on track that Muslims and ONLY Muslims can be "terrorists" here in Murka. <br />
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<b>2012: The Great Republican Crusade: </b>With the bad ass bogeyman Osama bin Laden now officially declared dead, the fascist Republican party having zero credibility on how to fix the economy other than more tax cuts for the rich and the dismantling of social programs the key to regaining the Presidency and the rest of Congress is to mobilize the shock troops and send them forth on a holy war. Christian jihadists are mobilizing; there are a good many Anders Breiviks right here in America who are just itching for the chance to bag their limit of their hated enemies. Sleeper cells of angry and violent white folks, jacked up on Jesus juice and armed to the teeth are chock a block within the Republican base, a veritable army of ideologically driven, brainwashed by years of religious and capitalist propaganda and perpetually pissed off at the "multiculturalism" that Breivik was driven by. Given the gaggle of reprehensible, full blown lying authoritarian freaks running for the Republican nomination and the potency of the raw, stripped to the bones power of sheer hatred we now are at a point where playing to the base, especially the scumbaggers has the potential to produce a series of brutal hate crimes, vandalism and organized thuggery the likes of Kristallnacht. Just this weekend the LaCrosse, Wisconsin headquarters of the activist group We Are Wisconsin, which was championing the recall efforts of the Koch Brothers backed fascist Republican state government<a href="http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/126467453.html"> was destroyed by a suspicious fire</a>. While the investigation is still in progress as to the cause of the fire would it surprise anyone if it were an act of political violence? If this is the case expect everything to immediately be taken to the next level by the loyal adherents of the fascist cancer that has eaten this country from within. <br />
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To me personally, the most shocking thing about Breivik's killing spree is that it happened in Norway and not right here in Der Homeland. There has long been a very sinister campaign to foment anti-Muslim bigotry, the coin of the realm for the neocon right-wing and their Christian Zionist brigades, this has been especially the case since 9/11, the American Reichstag Fire but has spiked with the election of Barack Obama to the presidency. While Obama has still maintained the boot-licking fealty of the United States government towards the state of Israel he has been less deferential to the war-crazed Netanyahu regime than his predecessors. With right-wing Likudniks and their neocon American fifth-column hellbent on igniting a global conflagration that will make WW II look like a skirmish by unleashing an attack on Iran they have found Obama to be a recalcitrant obstacle to their agenda and one that must be removed. It has been monumentally helpful to the Israeli extreme right to have been able to manifest it's policies within the pseudo populist pack of useful idiots that is the Tea Party who will <i>never</i> be able to accept a <b>black</b> man in the WHITE House. </div>
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In Obama, pretty much a feckless, worthless stooge of Wall Street looters in my opinion and by the actions of his lamentable administration has proven to be a classic villain to the fascist American right. The very fact that Obama's skin is of a darker pigmentation ensures that there will always be a driving counter-force among that certain element of the population that are hardened, multi-generational racists but when the sleazy insinuations that he is illegitimate resonates throughout the degenerate Republican party base. Note the potency of the incredibly asinine long-running farce about his birth certificate that only came to a head when the ultra-slimy opportunist pigfucker Donald Trump actually was gathering momentum as some sort of dark horse candidate with his noise pollution about said document. The one moment when Obama finally proved to have a small degree of political canniness came when he produced the birth certificate, blew up the pompous asshole Trump in a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8TwRmX6zs4">brutally mocking monologue</a> at the White House Correspondent's Dinner and for good measure announced the extra-judicial assassination of one time CIA asset Osama bin Laden the same weekend. That the entire Birther movement blew up as the carnival of idiocy that it always was and the black propaganda campaign that was being prepped and was ready to roll out with another bulk purchase extravaganza book by the loathsome ass Jerome Corsi and promoted by Joseph Farah and Fox went up like so much a bag of flaming dogshit only temporarily halted the onslaught. The armies of darkness that are the fascist shocktroops regrouped and will not so easily be chastened as they troll for killers, brutes and goons and the American Anders Breivik. <br />
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Glenn Beck pushes the narrative that <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/glenn-beck/transcript/beck-obamas-betrayal-israel">Obama has betrayed Israel</a> and as the defacto leader of the Republican fascist Tea Party movement is going to be an integral figure in mustering the troops against the infidel Obama. Beck has already been across the pond hitting the hustings over in <i>God's chosen</i> land, honing his chops for the big show next year by preaching well established lies about the <a href="http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=229501">"vaporization of Israel"</a> and accumulating the <a href="http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=228827">necessary gravitas</a> with the extremist Netanyahu-Lieberman government to mobilize the domestic fifth-column. Beck has a highly publicized, massive anti-Obama rally slated to be rolled out in the <i>holy land</i> later in August which in another of those slick Orwellian bumper sticker slogans has been dubbed Restoring Courage. The Jerusalem Beck rally that is a warmup to the many domestic Nuremberg style events is being heavily pimped by American Christian fascist groups, <a href="http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/insideisrael/2011/July/Glenn-Beck-Restoring-Courage-to-Stand-with-Israel/">notably radical cleric Pat Robertson</a> among many others. The hard core Israeli ideologues have long enjoyed a symbiotic relationship with the Religious Right, <a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,777175,00.html">just as they do with European racist groups</a> in promoting the anti-Muslim crusade. Rather than venture too deeply into the wormhole that is the long-running Israeli penetration of U.S. based religious groups, likely much of it through the head of the serpent that is <a href="http://watch.pair.com/database.html">The Council For National Policy</a> , I will save that for another time because there is plenty to be said. Rest assured, the level is ominous and represents, and I am not engaging in excessive hyperbole - <i><b>an existential threat </b></i>to whatever remains of our once vibrant democracy. <br />
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When Beck is finished polishing his act and the Republican candidates are well into their anti-Muslim rhetoric, a good deal of which is already being pushed by the likes of guaranteed losers like Herman Cain, Michelle Bachmann, Rick Santorum, Sarah Palin and their ilk look for a multi-billion dollar blitz of rancid propaganda featuring the conjured up threat of the replacement of the Constitution with Sharia Law and the Antichrist that is Barack Hussein Obama as the cat's paw of the reconstructed Islamic caliphate. Leave it to the idiot choir to foment the hatred and rouse the rabble, much like Palin did at her ugly 2008 campaign rallies where the most base instincts of the moral reprobates were sated with accusations that Obama was <a href="http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/04/palin-obama-is-palling-around-with-terrorists/">"palling around with terrorists" </a>and that sleazy l<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/erik-ose/pro-mccain-group-dumping_b_125969.html">ittle Obsession DVD was sent out in the Sunday papers of millions</a> of Americans in crucial political battleground states. Many of the same people whose work was inspirational to Anders Breivik were also associated with the Obsession DVD including David Horowitz and his malignantly depraved pals. It was no coincidence that <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-rodda/muslim-children-gassed-at_b_130076.html">Muslim children were gassed at a Dayton, Ohio mosque</a> during Ramadan during that period. The man who is likely going to benefit the most from the ongoing debt ceiling tango by leveraging his Tea Party clout to overthrow the drunken idiot John Boehner as Speaker of the House is one Eric Cantor who has much riding on the promotion of anti-Muslim sentiment. <a href="http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/11/13/israel">The rising star Cantor is the go to guy in the Republican party when it comes to promoting the interests of Israel over those of the United States</a>. Cantor not only was a co-sponsor of a Capitol Hill screening of the Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West in 2006 but recently <a href="http://www.lobelog.com/rjc-emet-eric-cantor-to-host-iranium-on-the-hill/">also promoted another propaganda film</a> by the Clarion Fund entitled <a href="http://www.iraniumthemovie.com/the-world-from-the-hill-new-iranium-film-gets-lawmakers-attention/">Iranium</a> which advocates a first strike against Iran before it is able to obtain nuclear capability. Look for this meme to be central to the 2012 Republican campaigns. Cantor is of immense value to the extremist Israeli agenda and provides a critical bridge to the Tea Party and the Republican Evangelical Christian base. Note this story from <a href="http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/cover_story/rep._eric_cantors_jewish_story/26098">The Baltimore Jewish Times</a>:<br />
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The phony grass roots Tea Party, a post -Bush re-branding of the most rotten, ignorant and vicious elements of the Republican base conjure up comparisons with the Cambodian Khmer Rouge. So intent are these white skinned crybabies at "getting their country back" from the <b>black </b>man in the WHITE House that they clamor for the destruction of the entire country, as the infamous Vietnam saying goes "we had to destroy the village in order to save it". While the actual effects of not raising the debt ceiling are unknown other than it would blow a hole in the ongoing Wall Street pillaging it would vastly affect the average American schmuck on a far greater level. Assuredly interest rates would rise which the finance industry shills say would hurt lending, as if these scumbags were in the money lending business anyway with banks and corporations hoarding cash but the trickle down effect would likely be devastating. In our uniquely American brand of fascist country trickle down economics aka cutting taxes for the rich has zero benefit for the working class. But as Bush in his waning months and then OBushma in his first two and a half years such schemes are wonderful little hooks to sell the rubes so that the gambling losses of the big Wall Street banks are socialized through government confiscation of taxpayer dollars is just one more knife in the backs of Boobus Americanus. I am amazed at how, on a weekly basis that prices at the local grocery stores continue to rise, gas prices are on the way back to 4 bucks a gallon again and the GOP pledges to focus on job creation have devolved into the standard treasonous pledges to not raise taxes on wealthy chiselers, keep the gays from getting married and out of the military, Muslim bashing and here in the diseased penis of America otherwise known as Florida - anti-bestiality laws. Not that the latter would be a necessarily bad thing were it to encourage the scumbaggers to not reproduce.<br />
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The fascist Republican party as it exists today in the advanced stages of it's mutation would be nothing more than an object of mockery were it not for the dregs of society that comprise the party base, the serious haters and jacked up on religion crusaders who are hellbent at destroying America from within. They have very serious ideas about the type of society that they desire and would use every bit of law enforcement power of the very government that they so proclaim to despise in order to ensure that their hated enemies, gays, libruls [sic], feminists, Muslims and assorted other non-white, non-Christians. The blacks can be put back in their place because Christ knows that Obama cannot be allowed to reassemble his ACORN forces to mount an assault to enslave the white race and that would happen save the useful boot licking uncle Toms like Allen West, the savage anti-Muslim bigot Herman Cain and Clarence Thomas. The teabaggers and their religious right brothers in arms though have a particular hatred for intellectualism that borders on sheer fanaticism. As I stated earlier, this sort of hard core focused rage and the need to crush all who do not conform under their jack-boots is as vigorous and as unyielding as that of the Khmer Rouge along with their <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13769.htm">Year Zero </a>social reform policy.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">When the shit does inevitably hit the fan, exactly what the fascist Republican party wants, these will be the enforcers to hunt down dissenters to the privatization of all that remains, the roads already paid for by the taxpayer will be sold to corporations and plutocrats and the tolls will be crippling to those who travel upon them. Public water systems will be hijacked by profiteers and as in Bolivia, the collection of rainwater will become against the law, the populace has already been largely converted into a nation of rats and snitches courtesy of the fear mongering after 9/11 and if you are found in violation you will be subject to having a pack of foaming at the mouth lunatics wearing tri-corner hats, Captain America costumes and waving Gadsden flags show up at your door to cart you off to the public head-sawing. This makes for one hell of a hedge for the oligarchy and their Republican stooges. And this is exactly why I have recommended that progressives start very seriously rethinking their non-violent tendencies, the street thugs will be the first to be unleashed when the whole thing implodes for the regular folks and a failure to be ready to organize and to respond appropriately will only result in your own heads becoming trophies upon the pyramids of human skulls that they will so enjoy building as a tribute to their fascist leaders.</span><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">While America continues along the evolution into an authoritarian, fascist state that stands for nothing more than eternal war, upwards redistribution of wealth and the eradication of the social safety net it is imperative that progressives understand one thing – this is and <i><b>always</b></i> has been a war. The opposition, being the thug Republican right-wing machine that has seized the levers of control of the state has realized this from the outset and their victories have been legion. Despite the premature victory celebrations and naïve triumphal spirit after the 2008 election of Barack Obama amongst the sad detritus that passes for the “left” in this new American century it should be obvious to all but the most myopic and steeped in denial that <i>nothing</i> has really changed. The Democrats, a failed and compromised political party that long ago left behind any semblance of decency, concern for the working class, liberalism and morality have after only a brief period of holding huge governing majorities capable of enacting real change crumbled, without so much as a whimper. Obama came into office, riding a wave of energized voters, a crackerjack efficient political machine and a mandate, yes a mandate to set things right after eight years of rule by the Bush-Cheney-Rove Axis of Evil. It is all gone now, timorousness (and amateurish bungling) on the part of the new president, cowardice among the Democrats in Congress and a series of mind-boggling capitulations, retreats and triangulations somehow allowed a fascist political party in the Republicans, seemingly discredited only two years earlier and on the ropes to regain the initiative and control of the government Not only did the Republicans seize control of Congress but it did so with a with a newly energized wave of monstrous animosity, racism and riding upon a pale white horse named blood revenge that the new wave was determined to leave their enemies with nothing but their eyes to cry with. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">That the fascist Republicans were able to so easily set the agenda during the first two years of the Obama administration leading up to the <i>“shellacking” </i>suffered by the Pope of Hope in November 2010 should surprise nobody. The chronically weak and pathetic leadership of the Senate by Harry Reid , the former boxer turned politician was instrumental in the failures to attain even minimal change and one has to wonder exactly <a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.php?cycle=Career&type=I&cid=N00009922&newMem=N">what forces truly drive the agenda </a>of the one time Nevada Gaming Commissioner. Obamacare, is an abject joke, a backdoor giveaway to the blood-sucking insurance industry parasites who now have the power of the state backing them to strong-arm Americans into buying their overpriced, crappy product but it is what valuable time, energy and political capital was wasted on. With the Senate already being a collection of largely corrupt, venal, pompous and entitled tools of banks, corporations, the military and in at least <a href="http://www.jta.org/news/article/2011/06/07/3088064/joe-lieberman-to-attend-beck-rally">one highly visible case Israel</a> it was simple to ensure that no meaningful health care reform would ever be created, given that the top Senator in charge of the legislation was one Max Baucus who was in the hip pocket of the health care industry it was all a charade. The selling out of America has become a bipartisan effort and campaign cash or in layman's terms bribery is the coin of the realm. With the thorough hijacking of the political system by big money, a stacked judiciary and a Supreme Court that has even less respect for the U.S. Constitution than George W. Bush with their landmark Citizen’s United decision to further enable the buying of government by plutocrats and corporations, backed by a media machine that peddles lies, sensationalism and legitimizes dangerous highly paid demagogues as though their ‘opinions’ actually are serious we simply must admit that the game has already been lost. The extreme right-wing, being big money, energy and finance cartels, avaricious corporations and their millions of shock troops brainwashed by a bizarre doppelganger dogma of Christianity along with the twenty percent or so in the society who are authoritarian personality types have near total control now and are soon coming for the rest of it. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">That the left and progressives have failed and failed miserably is not shameful, especially when understanding the decades long, enormously costly and coordinated with military style precision efforts to thoroughly destroy <b>all </b>meaningful change that has occurred in America since the early 20th Century. To comprehend the concerted effort to undermine New Deal programs and liberal ideals one must first realize that the spawn of the Robber Barons <i>never </i>went away gracefully into the good night after hard-fought and often costly in terms of life and liberty wins by organized labor. Despite the decades long onslaught of predatory capitalist propaganda the unions that helped to build this country into an economic powerhouse with a middle class that was the envy of the civilized world, a progressive education system, a mighty infrastructure and public institutions that actually acted in the interests of the American people and the betterment of the society as a whole. When you see the smoldering wreckage that we have been reduced to in 2011, thanks to he hijacking of the system by fascists, the decimation of organized labor, the assault on public education, rampant historical revisionism and the erosion of our public institutions by right-wing termites eating away from within it is hard to suppress the urge to vomit. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The war that so many denied even existed has been lost and the primary reason why it has been lost is that liberals and progressives have failed to realize that it was <b><i>always</i></b> a war in the first place. Not only a class war but also a war against American freedoms, values and basic human dignity. It took decades to destroy the country and it would be magical thinking to believe that it isn’t going to take decades to beat back the fascists and take the country back, many of us will not see the completion of this in our lifetimes but it is time to organize and to begin the formation of a resistance. The political system is no longer functional, we live in a failed state that has succumbed to the cancer of fascism, writing letters to Congress, wasting time on boycotts, engaging in internet campaigns with the self-centered, ipad wielding twerps that congregate at grand galas of collective masturbation like Netroots Nation and carrying signs in the streets does not work. It is time to fight back, as the writer and social activist Chris Hedges says: <i>“We will be saved only with the birth of a new militant radicalism, one that defies all formal power structures including the Democratic party.” </i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Make no mistake about it that the attack on progressive and traditional liberal ideals in this country has been a long running, ideologically fueled, dog eat dog jihad dating back to at least the era of the despised “class traitor” Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his New Deal policies. The pigs who run this filthy sty, many of them descended from elitist stock have opposed every bit of social and labor progress that was won at such a cost by our forebears. There were once Americans who organized and did so at great risk of injury, imprisonment and their very lives who fought to implement a system that eventually resulted in a strong middle class, largely the result of the clout of the labor unions, unions that are now in the final stages of eradication. That such progress was allowed to be rolled back to the darkest days of worker exploitation and the excess of rapacious greed that thrives in an unequal society is our enduring tragedy, that it was done without a fight is our enduring shame. Now in 2011 the final stages of the great dismantling are to borrow a treasured propaganda nugget of a corrupt media – <i><b>picking up steam</b></i>. The ongoing battle over raising the debt ceiling is garbage as is the sudden panic over the national credit card and the deficit, none of the swinish squealers who bleat in phony sanctimony about “the future of our children” gave a rat’s ass when the Bush administration had the national credit card and was maxing it out like a stoned teenager on ruinous wars, tax cuts for the rich and giveaways to the financial fraudsters whose worthless mortgage backed securities and derivative instruments blew a hole in the economy. The real goal of the “new normal” and the crushing austerity that will be enforced is to eliminate what remains of Roosevelt’s New Deal and Johnson’s Great Society programs. They are coming for Social Security and Medicare and as the brilliant social critic George Carlin pegged it dead bang in one of his most scathing rants <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acLW1vFO-2Q">The American Dream</a>:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><blockquote style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><div class="MsoBodyTextIndent2"><span style="font-size: small;">And, now, they're coming for your Social Security. They want your fucking retirement money. They want it back, so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street. And you know something? They'll get it. They'll get it all, sooner or later, because they own this fucking place. It's a big club, and you ain't in it. You and I are not in the big club."</span></div></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The intention of the fascist looter class has always been to impose a new feudalism on those who are not in “the big club”. The great wars of the 20<sup>th</sup> Century provided the oligarchy with the cover needed to dismantle dissent and movements for economic justice in this country. With the Woodrow Wilson administration determined to feed Americans into the charnel house that was Europe during World War I, a conflict that the United States had no business being involved in and that made industrialists and Wall Street speculators obscenely rich there was the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espionage_Act_of_1917">Espionage Act of 1917</a> (currently in the process of being revamped in order to use <a href="http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2010/12/julian-assage-guilty-espionage">against Wikileaks' Julian Assange</a>) and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedition_Act_of_1918">Sedition Act of 1918</a>. Promulgated by the state to stomp on criticism of the blessed war the power of the state was marshaled into also putting down the hated by the establishment American Socialists, notable Eugene Debs who was imprisoned for his blasphemy of the capitalist war machine. The laws were used to justify the rounding up, persecution and deportation of radical leftists, notably during the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer_Raids">Palmer Raids</a> by an already thoroughly rotten to the core Justice Department. The economic collapse triggered by criminal plunderers on Wall Street leading to the Great Depression eventually led to the social reforms of Roosevelt and their institutionalization. World War II, “the good war” fought by “the greatest generation” was sold as a great conflict of good versus evil for the fate of the future of human civilization itself but the war was essentially a clash of empires with the greatest spoils being won by the United States of America. Few bother to consider the hypocrisy of destroying the devil that was Hitler through an alliance with a man who was possibly an even greater tyrant, mass-murderer and evil incarnate that was Josef Stalin. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When the war was over and much to the delight of the looter class, Roosevelt finally dead, it was a seamless transition to carve up the spoils and then turn on Stalin, he was on longer useful as an ally but would provide a malevolent figurehead for the enduring menace that was Communism, a true enemy of fascism and would be used as blanket justification for the wars, witch hunts, bloated defense budgets and societal transformation until the day when the U.S.S.R. imploded. The 1950s saw the decimation of the remnants of the real left with the inspiration for <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2287994/">today's debauched harassment of Muslims</a> - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism">McCarthyism</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_McCarthy">Senator Joseph McCarthy</a> of Wisconsin (likely a personal hero of current fascist Governor Scott Walker) holding hearings, law abiding Americans being harassed into taking loyalty oaths, the carnival of perversion that was the red-baiting <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_Un-American_Activities_Committee">House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)</a> serving as a vehicle for a <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/05/e-pluribus-nixon/6765/">vicious, conniving shit named Richard M. Nixon</a> to slime his way into power by publicly kicking in the spleen of a needed blood sacrifice named <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alger_Hiss">Alger Hiss</a>. Nixon's trademark shamelessness and anti-Commie demagogy greatly contributed to the rise of a virulent, flag-swaddled fascism that was exemplified in the John Birch Society and the new wealth of the western sunbelt. This toxic movement would vomit up Ronald Wilson Reagan, the avatar of a savagely anti-American fifth column who to this day is canonized as a saint, the Lenin figurehead for the great revolution of which we now find ourselves as victims of as it nears the endgame. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The tumultuous 1960s with the heinous atrocity of the Vietnam War following the brutal and still unsolved assassination of President John F. Kennedy would prove to be a boon to the fascists, especially those that are now concentrated in the Republican party. The Civil Rights Movement would ensure that unrepentant racists, especially southerners would shun the Democratic party for generations, the chicken-fried version of bastardized Christianity would act as an accelerator and preserve the region for the GOP for going on four decades now. The antiwar movement was a bonus and during the political resurrection of Richard Nixon that culminated in his 1968 election until his fall a <a href="http://gawkernet.com/ailesfiles/ailesfiles.html">young ideological media wizard named Roger Ailes </a>would ensure that the social upheaval that marked the era would be given a black face or adorned with hippie beads and peace signs. The 1960s were going to be <i><b>the last</b></i> time that the establishment would ever be confronted with a serious threat to the status quo and the lessons of that era were well learned by the fascist right. The revolt against the war and the demand for economic and social justice just may have succeeded were it ever to be allowed to have serious leadership. The movement was efficiently and mercilessly decapitated in little more than two months in 1968 when both Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy were both conveniently taken out, victims of the same sort of “lone nut” that always is able to circumvent security, escape surveillance and show up at the exact optimal moment of opportunity when a threat to the status quo has to be eliminated. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Vietnam War, social unrest associated with it and later the Watergate scandal that brought down Nixon, the at the time high priest of politics as war set the stages for the crusade against social justice that would follow. The fascist right-wing and American big business fully understood the importance of controlling the media, <a href="http://gawker.com/5814150/">Ailes taught Nixon of the potent tool of television</a>, a medium that had yet to explode into its full potential as a method of social indoctrination and brainwashing as it did with the advent of cable and satellite technology. The 24/7, hundreds of channels television revolution would nicely coincide with the coronation of Ronald Reagan as America’s founding father, hell, how could anyone ever imagine anyone else being president? <a href="http://reclaimdemocracy.org/corporate_accountability/powell_memo_lewis.html">The Powell Memorandum</a>, which laid out the blueprint for the media takeover and establishment of propaganda organs and “policy” organizations, known as think tanks was already being implemented. The post-Vietnam era saw the creation of a legitimized network of institutions devoted solely to ensuring that corporate power and those who would be tools of the oligarchy would be served. Nixon was a master at exploiting the resentments of others, of pushing the right buttons, of lies and scurrilous attacks that pitted American vs. American that would come to define the future of American politics. I highly recommend the great book <a href="http://www.powells.com/biblio/62-9780743243025-0">Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America</a> by Rick Perlstein to those who may be interested in a fascinating chronicle of the Nixon years that birthed the present. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/heritage-foundation">The Heritage Foundation</a>, one of the most prominent of the right-wing think tanks was funded by money from Robber Baron descendent <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Richard_Mellon_Scaife">Richard Mellon Scaife</a> and the John Birch Society influenced Coors family. The Manhattan Institute was founded by longtime Wall Street/CIA/OSS figure William Casey. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Cato_Institute">The Cato Institute</a> was founded by the Koch Brothers (their great family fortune came from <a href="http://www.alternet.org/economy/146504/the_roots_of_stalin_in_the_tea_party_movement?page=entire">building oil refineries for Stalin</a>) whose longtime influence is only now finally coming to light. Cato was a part of a fascist right-wing project to clean up libertarianism, transforming it in the public eye from a loose collection of true anarchists, antiwar and anti-state, pot smoking, free spirits who had to be brought to heel to promote the true party agenda which would mirror Koch and the other plutocrats’ financial interests. These 1970s organizations joined the already established <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Enterprise_Institute">American Enterprise Institute</a>, a prolific pro-war, looter capitalist advocacy snakepit along with all of it’s Neocon spinoffs, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Hoover_Institution_on_War,_Revolution_and_Peace">The Hoover Institute</a> , <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=John_M._Olin_Foundation">The John M. Olin Foundation</a> and a myriad of others, tentacles of the fascist right-wing octopus. Rather than get bogged down in this particular area I would refer readers to the fine <a href="http://motherjones.com/politics/2004/09/republican-noise-machine">David Brock </a>book entitled <a href="http://www.powells.com/biblio/63-9780375433085-0">The Republican Noise Machine: Right Wing Media and How itCorrupts Democracy</a>. Brock heads up one of the lone the progressive counterparts in the hated <a href="http://mediamatters.org/">Media Matters for America</a>, a watchdog group so loathed by the right-wing that it has been demonized incessantly on the Rupert Murdoch terrorist FOX network. Brock by the way is no stranger to right-wing lowball dirty tactics and strategy, he was a former operative who developed a conscience and joined the battle against fascism. Brock is also gay and was ostracized by the virulent elements of the GOP who years later likely rue the day that they persecuted the wrong man. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The most dangerous as well as the most secretive of the think tanks is the <a href="http://www.alternet.org/story/21372?page=1">Council For National Policy</a>. The <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Council_for_National_Policy">CNP</a>, is where the shadow government types or to those who on the left who may be typically squeamish of such a term – the intelligence agency rogues, the ends justify the means types who waged the dirty wars against the commie devils in Southeast Asia and Central and South America joined forces with John Birch Society veterans, big Texas oil money, right-wing media moguls and Christian theocrats. Real hard-liners such as <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKsinglaub.htm">General John Singlaub</a> and <a href="http://www.gwu.edu/%7Ensarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB113/">Lt. Colonel Oliver North</a> joined other <a href="http://www.watch.pair.com/cnpdbase.html">‘luminaries’ </a>such as <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Nelson_Bunker_Hunt">Nelson Bunker Hunt</a>, the right wing beer magnate Coors Family, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Weyrich">Paul Weyrich</a>, <a href="http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Meese_Edwin_III">Edwin Meese</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Helms">Jesse Helms</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis_Schlafly">Phyllis Schafly</a>, revered by teabagger swine <a href="http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/09/16/beck_skousen">Glenn Beck’s idol Cleon Skoussen</a> and a roster of members continually updated to include influential right-wingers of the day, and movement types as John Ashcroft, Grover Norquist, <a href="http://www.alternet.org/teaparty/150868/the_devos_family%3A_meet_the_super-wealthy_right-wingers_working_with_the_religious_right_to_kill_public_education/?page=4">DeVos Family </a>members including mercenary kingpin Erik Prince, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/individuals/joseph-farah">Birther propagandist Joseph Farah</a>, <a href="http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/08/rick-santorum-google-problem-dan-savage">Rick Santorum</a> and even possibly even former DHS head Michael Chertoff the man who has been instrumental in putting <a href="http://motherjones.com/mojo/2010/01/airport-scanner-scam">naked body scanners </a>into the hands of authoritarian, sexual molester TSA goons in our national airports who was a prominent speaker at a CNP gathering in 2006 along with North, John Bolton and Robert Bork. Unfortunately, the current member list is guarded like the crown jewels themselves and the organization shuns questioners. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The fascist Republican takeover of America could not have been successful without a militant, dedicated army of activists and shock troops. Before there the phony grass roots corporate media darling Tea Party existed there was the mobilization of the true believers that are the Religious Right - America’s own Taliban. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Council_for_National_Policy">CNP</a> was founded by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_LaHaye">Reverend Timothy LaHaye</a>, the creator of the Rapture death cult bible that is the multi-million dollar franchise of the <a href="http://www.joebageant.com/joe/2005/12/what_the_left_b.html">Left Behind series</a> and eerily seems to be adaptable to promote a crusader’s view of the Middle East and the need to promote the policies of Israel and the American empire’s control of the key oil producing regions. Joining <i>Reverend Doomsday</i> LaHaye is a who’s who of Christian zealots, the late <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rousas_John_Rushdoony">Rousas J. Rushdoony</a>, widely acknowledged as the father of <a href="http://www.theocracywatch.org/">Christian Dominionism</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=James_Dobson">James Dobson</a>, Pat Robertson, <a href="http://www.joebageant.com/joe/2005/12/what_the_left_b.html">Gary Bauer</a> and <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/individuals/d-james-kennedy">D. James Kennedy</a>. The <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Council_for_National_Policy">CNP</a> and the think tank networks are little understood by most progressives and liberals who still believe that change can be effected at the ballot box, they know nothing of the organizational structure that they are up against in a war for America. The CNP by the <a href="http://www.talk2action.org/story/2008/9/1/24846/28141">way vetted and gave their blessing to Sarah Palin</a> as John McCain's 2008 Republican party presidential running mate. The Council For National Policy seems to be far more than a think tank, it smacks of being the serpent's head of a serious fifth column fascist element, the presence of Singlaub and North, both no strangers to black ops would seem to give that idea some credence, much deeper investigation of this organization needs to be undertaken, I would refer readers to this recent piece by Robert Parry: </span><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.alternet.org/module/printversion/151209">The GOP's CIA Playbook: Destabilize Country to Sweep Back Into Power</a>.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Rather than further spend time on the fascist right-wing infrastructure I am not going to bother with the thoroughly controlled and corrupt corporate media, this in and of itself presents the largest obstacle to any sort of derailing of the fascist juggernaut. Following the model established by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Coughlin">Father Charles Coughlin</a> the fascist right hit it big with Rush Hudson Limbaugh III, his hectoring demagoguery was broadcast to tens of millions at the crucial time when the early stages of Reagan’s dismantling of the system had to be sold. There was nothing like the pigman’s rubbing salt into the raw wounds of those whose farms had been busted out, whose lives who had been destroyed and who were easily duped into finding scapegoats in order to protect those who were responsible. Limbaugh bred an industry of strident electronic hatemongers who fulfilled the warning of the reviled liberal former WW II era <a href="http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_ed_encho_080306_henry_a__wallace_s_w.htm">Vice President Henry A.Wallace</a>: </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><blockquote style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><div class="MsoBodyTextIndent2"><span style="font-size: small;">The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism. They use every opportunity to impugn democracy. They use isolationism as a slogan to conceal their own selfish imperialism. They cultivate hate and distrust of both Britain and Russia. They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.</span></div></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">With the aforementioned <a href="http://reclaimdemocracy.org/corporate_accountability/powell_memo_lewis.html">Powell Memorandum </a>stressing the importance of the control of the media to control the future of America this mission has been accomplished, give a big assist to neoliberal Bill Clinton and his <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_Act_of_1996">Telecommunications Act of 1996</a> for the dismantling and consolidation spree that has allowed for the majority of Americans to be woefully under informed and mesmerized by lurid local stories foisted as great national crises while the country is gutted by the fascists. There may yet be some hope that the Rupert Murdoch media empire will take a big hit with the still breaking British hacking scandal, a rancid illustration of the collusion of government figures with kingmakers like Murdoch but despite tactics that undoubtedly pale next to what FOX and other components of the right-wing Republican machine are doing in America. With new revelations on the <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/11/us-newscorp-hacking-sept-idUSTRE76A04V20110711">attempted exploitation of 9/11 victims phone calls</a> this could be a spear jammed into the belly of the beast but it is not likely to get much play in our media. There will always be another dead child, sex scandal or ginned up terrorist plot to deliver the electronic opiate to the masses of asses, and perhaps NFL season will soon open after the union has been busted – move along, there’s nothing to see here. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The fascist right-wing and the corporate state have already won, our political system has been reduced to nothing more than political theatre and an ongoing duel between two criminal entities in the full blown fascist Republicans and the fascist lite Democrats to control the spoils system and obtain the regal privilege of being the ones that get to yoke the slaves and deliver them to the man.Were the RICO laws to ever be seriously enforced then the two money parties and their Wall Street and corporate owners would be targeted, then that would be in a society that respects the rule of law, unfortunately we don't live in one. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There is no hope to dismantle this machine, it’s even money that it will self-destruct though but not until every last bit of blood is extracted from the average American, every bone has been ground to provide sustenance to the machine and then there is the high-tech, militarized police state that has been constructed since September 11, 2001 to deal with matters once it happens. At this point it is no longer anything but a silly fantasy to expect that the system can be changed through the calculatedly eroded process that was once called democracy, too much damage has been done for too long a period. America is in a very dark place today, it is not often that I am in agreement on anything at all with the Neocons but I must say that their intellectual father <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Strauss">Leo Strauss</a> was onto something when he blamed liberal Weimar Germany and the feckless opposition to the Nazis for the horrors that would follow, he was right. Philosopher Karl Popper hit the target as well:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><blockquote style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;">“If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.” </span></div></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The time has come for progressives to realize that this is war, always has been war and their naivete to realize this has led us to this point. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Let the resistance begin. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Part III: Fighting Back</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I have long drawn much scorn from those who should have been allies during my affiliation with the 'left', those who insist on never lowering themselves to the levels of those that seek to destroy them, they would still be arguing that even as they were on the cattle cars being trucked to the gas showers. I have long advocated for a counterattack against the fascists on their own terms, they understand nothing other than raw aggression, eye for an eye, frontier style 'justice'. You cannot reason with them, especially those who are the zealots that comprise the shock troops, the brownshirts, the rabble and the street thugs. They need to be dealt with in the harshest of manner and if the time comes they need to be met with an appropriate level of violence that they themselves are fully prepared to use. There is really no other way, as an old Marxist acquaintance of mine liked to say, "you don't debate fascists, you destroy them", the fascist right, outside of their pederast style obsession with cannibalistic capitalism feared the unions because they understood this and confronted power with power. Were the <i>real </i>left still around today instead of the namby pamby collection of weaklings, sissies. utopian talkers and bleeding heart types that comprise the 'left' we would not have been overrun and crushed by sociopaths and their goons. As I previously referenced <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6750.htm">Neocon Leo Strauss</a> he did understand one thing, that you cannot negotiate with those who would just as soon use your skull for a salad bowl. I encountered this failure to come to terms with this most basic of facts in terms of our current situation far too often with those of otherwise good intent who refused to view contemporary America in historical terms, particularly in comparison with Nazi Germany. I am fully aware of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law">Godwin's Law</a> damning Nazi analogies and to me it's just more of the same lame liberal bullshit. Not only are the Nazi's the predecessors of today's American fascists, specifically those who fly the Republican party's bloody red flag perfect examples for the obvious reasons but <i>everyone</i> knows who the Nazis were and other comparisons would be wasted on ignoramuses such as those who are commonplace in Der Homeland circa 2011. Sadly too many of them are also entirely ignorant of the level of complicity that capitalist American interests including prominent industrialists and Wall Street bankers had in the building of Hitler's death machine, that is going to have to wait for another time though. </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">While I detest Neoconservatism and it's merger of worship of the warfare state, it's manipulation of religion, fear and nationalism in order to justify conquest and oppression both abroad and at home I find a good deal of merit in Strauss's argument that it was liberalism that failed to halt the Nazi horror by not confronting it on it's own remorseless rules of engagement while the movement was still nascent. Were the populist anger that was masterfully harnessed by Hitler and his minions been redirected back against his death cult with white hot vengeance how much suffering could have been averted? Human nature is not virtuous and good and beneath a very thin veneer lurks a pitch black innate need for destruction, an instinct in which survival trumps all else and the inconvenient truths of human history have proven time and again that our better angels will ultimately be overcome by our internal demons. History is also not linear, history repeats itself but never in exactly the same way and there will likely never be any sort of a murderous state that will be as ostentatious in it's cruelty and cult mentality like the Nazis ever again. But the similarities are there between Weimar Germany and the America of the new century, the economic futility, the failed political system, the eroded civil liberties, the codification of torture, the disembowelment of the Constitution, the pollution of the judiciary, the militarizing of the national mind, the need for an enemy and most importantly of all, a right-wing movement already in a high state of readiness that is only awaiting their very own </span><span style="font-size: small;">Führer.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But I Digress.....</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">With my differences with many progressives and liberals already well documented it was with much surprise that when on one of the radio shows that I listen to on a fairly regular basis, a regular caller got it. During the <a href="http://headon.headonradionetwork.com/">Bob Kincaid Show</a> on the HORN, which stands for the <a href="http://headonradionetwork.com/">Head On Radio Network</a> (brilliant radio, listen and if you like it <a href="https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_flow&SESSION=i7iHFWdUWeLoTI3DIOKstfUFZLxsTIkrzWSpMfrnMqYaI9lS6be-euWuGhq&dispatch=5885d80a13c0db1f8e263663d3faee8deaa77efc63a6eb429928d42bdf5d9d2c">please kick a few bucks into the kitty</a> for these people who <b><i>are</i></b> fighting the good fight, they need to pay the bills) on June 14th at around the 1 hr 19 min mark David in Maine, a cutting edge thinker hit the mark. David, understanding the futility of the current system, the stacking of the deck and the need for both urgency and assertiveness among progressives blew away guest host John Fox with his proposal for what he called a <i>"universal progressive discipline camp"</i>. This was sheer brilliance, what David proposed was straight out of the Republican playbook, a hiring of the finest strategic minds from around the globe, military types to instill an iron hard brand of discipline into those who would attend. David was inspired by the Louis Theroux BBC documentary entitled <i><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2011/may/22/louis-theroux-miami-mega-jail">Miami Mega Jail</a> </i>and the concept of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfCW9REH2gg">GABOS</a> an acronym for Game Ain't Based on Sympathy. GABOS is the law of the jungle, as the subheading of the Guardian article that I linked to puts it so aptly - </span><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Want the bottom bunk? All you have to do is beat another inmate half to death</i>.</span><span style="font-size: small;"> I was stunned, this concept in all of it's primitive, remorseless honesty illustrates <i><b>exactly </b></i>the strategy of the fascist Republican right-wing. It is so simple, so astonishingly eloquent in it's bumper sticker type of message that it could have been conceived by Frank Luntz (or Goebbels for that matter) himself. In the land of fuck you I got mine that is America the rich will reign and the rest of the peasants will in the streets engaging in knife fights for the daily ration of bootstraps that they are provided by their rulers. To the losers goeth the blade and to the 'winners' goeth to the for-profit prison system - GABOS be with you.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The one key aspect of <i>Miami Mega Jail</i> that David referred to was a boot camp for inmates in which hard ass military professionals are brought in to give the prisoners one last chance. David talked about how a program such as this was necessary to confront the right, it would provide "toughness" and "discipline", the sort of character traits that are absolutely critical to winning a war of attrition, building "an Army" so to speak. Mr. Fox was like most progressives more than a bit taken aback by the idea. Whether people want to admit it or not the Republicans have total control of the country now, they have utilized this very strategy, through their activist base organizations, their churches and their tea party bunds, their militias and their prayer groups they have already built an army and again, this has always been a war to them. David referenced spending some time at West Point during his call, it would take a veteran to appreciate this sort of thinking, as one who spent some time in the military myself I get it. In order to overcome a much more determined enemy, one that utilizes up to date strategy, is relentless and <i><b>absolutely</b></i> hates America as it is it is imperative to do likewise in order to combat it. He equated it with war college, but taking it to the next level.... this is a concept that I have long found alien to the 'left' with their small protests, emails, phone calls and letter writing, none of which is effective against an entrenched enemy who understands what it takes to win. There was a silence and then some fear, and it was palpable from fill-in host Fox who worried more about what Limbaugh and Beck would do were they to hear the show rather than how their ilk should be hunted down like rats. Were this a country with nads there would be a <i>Scarface</i> style hit team enroute to Limbaugh's tony Palm Beach compound to scale the walls once the shit really hit the fan, they could saw off his ugly fat fucking head and mount it on a pike like something out of <i>Lord of the Flies</i>. </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Let's face it, the 'left' as it exists now are pussies, when they chased labor out of the new 'left' they discarded their backbones. Old labor, especially returning World War II veterans who belonged to unions would make very short work of the fascists who despite their numbers, their animosity and their braggadocio are as yellow as their silly-assed Gadsden flags and most of all they are stupid and blinded by their meanness. They are pack animals who have no taste for a fair fight and their leaders know this which is why they use their media to put a certain noble sheen on proto-fascist loudmouths like the vastly overhyped Tea Party, the remains of what was once a libertarian based antiwar movement. The 'left', once again proving that the one thing that they truly understand is failure never bothered to attempt to tap into the righteous anger in this country over the offshoring of millions of American jobs, the bailouts of financial terrorists on Wall Street who destroyed the economy and <a href="http://nymag.com/print/?/news/frank-rich/obama-economy/presidents-failure/">thanks to Obama, have been allowed to go back to their looting with impunity</a>. There was a serious attempt for an alliance between progressives and principled libertarians such as those who backed Ron Paul but have been chased out of their own movement by savvy Republican operatives. Alas, it never happened as if it ever could happen. One other thing that I fell out of favor with my progressive friends for was my advocacy for just that sort of broad-based coalition, we can argue about the differences later but the first and foremost priority needed to be restoring the rule of law and destroying fascism in America. </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As the great radical Saul Alinsky once put it, <i>To fuck your enemies you’ve first have got seduce your allies. </i></span><span style="font-size: small;">Former Marine and UN weapons inspector <a href="http://www.powells.com/biblio/9781568583280">Scott Ritter, in his book Waging Peace: The Art of War for the Antiwar Movement</a> laments the demise of opposition to the wars during the Bush years, wars that continue to this day absent any form of resistance, the 'left', other than principled and consistent critics who have largely been relegated to the fringes of discourse are predictably missing in action. This from Ritter:</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></div><blockquote style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;">Bear in mind that in conflict you are in almost all occasions confronting an opponent who is determined to win as you should be. This opponent is looking for any sign of weakness on your part, and will be certain to exploit this weakness with as much decisiveness and ferocity that can be brought to bear. If you are not prepared to confront such an opponent, then don’t enter the field of battle. Conflict is not for the faint of heart. In conflict you must be prepared to knock your opponent down, and then, instead of offering a helping hand, hold your opponent down with the heel of your foot while you plunge a bayonet into his or her heart. You can be assured that your opponent would do the same to you.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;">The American progressive movement has not always been this devoid of leadership and structure. One only need to study the life and achievements of Saul Alinsky, a Chicago-based former criminologist who revolutionized the grassroots movements of the 1950s and 1960s into genuine political movements possessing real political power.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;">Simply put, if the antiwar/peace and justice movement can attract more people to its cause than their opponents can to theirs, then the antiwar/peace and justice movement will emerge victorious. Therefore, a governing principle when waging peace is to creadt an ideological foundation that is capable of appealing to the broadest possible segment of a given democratic society.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;">If his advice is taken then what will emerge will be a diverse coalition of interests who now finally understand that the system as it exists is run by global criminals who have no loyalty to America and actively have attacked everything that was great about her while usurping our democracy and undermining our freedoms and economic prowess. Wall Street looters and industrialists have always hated America because there was a system of governance here that afforded rights to all people and not only those with money. It has been a long time coming and the time to act is yesterday.</span></div></blockquote><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sage advice from a man who is a military strategist, the type that David's in Maine's "universal progressive discipline camp" would likely welcome with open arms were it to come to fruition. Note that Ritter advocates the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_loop">OODA Loop Theory</a>, something that progressives and liberals can chew on while they ponder how they could possibly have ever <a href="http://washingtonindependent.com/54554/conservatives-find-town-hall-strategy-in-leftist-text">allowed Saul Alinsky to be stolen from them by the teabagger brownshirts</a>? Pearls before swine I guess... </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As for the progressive-libertarian joint effort, it isn't as far out as it sounds, <a href="http://washingtonindependent.com/54554/conservatives-find-town-hall-strategy-in-leftist-text">Ron Paul and Ralph Nader get it</a> as did 1960s radical activist <a href="http://reason.com/archives/2008/03/26/writer-on-the-storm">Carl Oglesby </a>but Paul is a "nutcase" despite his anti-interventionist, antiwar, pro-civil liberties, anti-Federal Reserve stance and he wants to abolish the Gestapo TSA as well. Nader is poison to the Democrats and progressives/liberals who still believe in the functioning system despite watching Bush family operatives steal the 2000 election in Florida and then have not do a goddamned thing other than jerk off and point fingers at Nader when the Supreme Court put George W. Bush into the White House. Oglesby is a "conspiracy theorist" the dreaded pejorative that is used by all establishment lackeys and those enshrouded in comfortable cocoons of denial when they dare to ask serious questions. For even suggesting such a thing, even temporarily I was shunned as a leper, mocked and derided as much for that as for my inability to suck it up, turn the other cheek and be a pacifist. I must admit that I always had a bit of sympathy for the Jack Nicholson character, Colonel Nathan Jessep in the movie <i>A Few Good Men</i>, his methods were unsound and his arrogance was his undoing but he had it right when he barked that:</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><blockquote style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;">You don't want the truth because deep down in places you don't talk about at parties, you want me on that wall, you need me on that wall. We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline.</span></blockquote><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The liberals and progressives are impotent and on the verge of extinction, of being hunted and persecuted in their own country simply because they never understood that there had to be someone on that wall to beat back the hordes. Better get a clue folks, they are closing in now.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Just my two cents</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">EE</span></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34263444.post-22732338166646055352011-07-06T04:02:00.001-05:002011-07-06T05:55:56.230-05:00The Real Reason To Damn Obama<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ56E-PZnhQQ9rA41y_yiVQ13MIiTNWIioL7S7vF8odj0t3gbeb1Kf9vbR_TJdOIe8SdO9qp3KirDYO1IjVgNjKdFzeoBZP8kQbN32cnynyQdl62c-28afTt6qDyjxvE76aoLu/s1600/Wall+Street+Youre+Safe.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ56E-PZnhQQ9rA41y_yiVQ13MIiTNWIioL7S7vF8odj0t3gbeb1Kf9vbR_TJdOIe8SdO9qp3KirDYO1IjVgNjKdFzeoBZP8kQbN32cnynyQdl62c-28afTt6qDyjxvE76aoLu/s400/Wall+Street+Youre+Safe.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>"They've got a set of Republican waiters on one side and a set of Democratic waiters on the other side, but no matter which set of waiters brings you the dish, the legislative grub is all prepared in the same Wall Street kitchen."</i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>-Huey P. Long</i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The only reason that I ever bothered with the so-called librul [sic] <i>New York Times</i>, a paper that mind you pushed as many falsehoods as others in selling the Iraq invasion was to read the regular Sunday column of Frank Rich. Rich was a prince among toads like the street pimp for globalization Thomas Friedman, the country club Jew snob David Brooks, the occasionally brilliant Paul Krugman, the bizarre Maureen Dowd and a cast of lesser bloviators. When Rich, after decades with the Times left this spring to become a regular at the less prominent <i>New York Magazine</i> I had little use for the NYT. The Times by the way despite the ongoing standard bitching and moaning from the fascist right-wing that has seized control of the media precisely because of the Hitlerian big lie of the liberal media is anything but liberal. The Times is just another propaganda organ of the status quo and like all newspapers are headed for the tar pits, shuffling off like the doomed dinosaurs that they all are. The dismal state of the media in this country is largely to blame for our collective march into the history books as an example of the latest empire to self-immolate, when news began to be managed so as to present “both sides” even when one side was obviously bullshit it ceased to be credible. The ongoing dismantling of investigative reporting, the closing of overseas bureaus and the necessity to dumb down reportage to appeal to a public (few of whom even bother to read anything) that continues to regress intellectually and the profit motive have all combined to push the newspaper industry toward it’s inevitable extinction. That however is a story for another time. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I haven’t read much from Rich until this week, just prior to the orgy of flag-sucking and raw gluttony that is the Fourth of July when he launched his own barrage of fireworks that is the dead-on piece that is entitled <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/07/04-1">Obama’s Original Sin</a>. Rich writing with his standard brilliance lays out the exact reason why Obama, despite the collection of brainless ass clowns who will spend the better part of the next year trying to out-Nazi each other to run against The Pope of Hope will likely be a one term president. Despite all of the moronic spew vomited up by the Koch Brothers funded band of costumed imbeciles that is the ridiculous Tea Party, the racist nonsense, the Israeli fifth column black propaganda about the secret Muslim horseshit and the even more absurd labeling Wall Street’s savior as some sort of Socialist or Commie the real reason why Obama is likely doomed is for his administration’s ongoing bailout and manipulating of the markets with Ben Bernanke’s funny money. Obama, from the beginning has been nothing more than a corporate media creation, a triumph of deceptive marketing right up there with the canonization of the old dunce that was Ronald Reagan and a foot stool for Wall Street’s avaricious gambling casinos. He had a historical opportunity to regulate these monstrous institutions of looter capitalist greed and failed utterly and abysmally, in the true Democratic party fashion. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Rich’s piece is about this very failure and I excerpt the following:<br />
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<blockquote><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">What haunts the Obama administration is what still haunts the country: the stunning lack of accountability for the greed and misdeeds that brought America to its gravest financial crisis since the Great Depression. There has been no legal, moral, or financial reckoning for the most powerful wrongdoers. Nor have there been meaningful reforms that might prevent a repeat catastrophe. Time may heal most wounds, but not these. Chronic unemployment remains a constant, painful reminder of the havoc inflicted on the bust’s innocent victims. As the ghost of Hamlet’s father might have it, A<b>merica will be stalked by its foul and unresolved crimes until they “are burnt and purged away.”</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin-left: 0in;">After the 1929 crash, and thanks in part to the legendary Ferdinand Pecora’s fierce thirties Senate hearings, America gained a Securities and Exchange Commission, the Public Utility Holding Company Act, and the Glass-Steagall Act to forestall a rerun. After the savings-and-loan debacle of the eighties, some 800 miscreants went to jail. But those who ran the central financial institutions of our fiasco escaped culpability (as did most of the institutions). As the indefatigable Matt Taibbi has tabulated, law enforcement on Obama’s watch rounded up 393,000 illegal immigrants last year and zero bankers. The Justice Department’s ballyhooed Operation Broken Trust has broken still more trust by chasing mainly low-echelon, one-off Madoff wannabes. You almost have to feel sorry for the era’s designated Goldman scapegoat, 32-year-old flunky “Fabulous Fab” Fabrice Tourre, who may yet take the fall for everyone else. It’s as if the Watergate investigation were halted after the cops nabbed the nudniks who did the break-in.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin-left: 0in;">Even now, on the heels of Bank of America’s reluctant $8.5 billion settlement with investors who held its mortgage-backed securities, t<b>he Obama administration may be handing it and its peers new get-out-of-jail-free cards</b>. With the Department of Justice’s blessing, the Iowa attorney general, Tom Miller, is pushing the 49 other states to sign on to a national financial settlement ending their investigations of the biggest mortgage lenders. What some call a settlement others may find a cover-up. Time reported in April that the lawyer negotiating with Miller for Moynihan’s Bank of America just happened to be a contributor to his 2010 Iowa reelection campaign. If the deal is struck, any truly aggressive state attorneys general, like Eric Schneiderman of New York, will be shut down before they can dig into the full and still mostly uninvestigated daisy chain of get-rich-quick rackets practiced by banks as they repackaged junk mortgages into junk securities.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Those in executive suites at the top of that chain have long since fled the scene with the proceeds, while bleeding shareholders, investors, homeowners, and cashiered employees were left with the bills. The weak Dodd-Frank financial-reform law that rose from the ruins remains largely inoperative, since the actual rule-writing was delegated to understaffed agencies now under siege by banking lobbyists and their well-greased congressional overlords. <b>The administration’s much-hyped Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is being sabotaged by Washington Republicans intent on blocking any White House nominee, whether Elizabeth Warren or some malleable hack, to lead it. “We can’t let special interests win this fight,” said Obama when he proposed the agency in October 2009. Well, he missed his moment to fight for both it and Warren, and the special interests won without breaking a sweat.</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Rather than purge the crash’s crimes, Wall Street’s leaders are sticking to their alibi: Everyone was guilty of fomenting this “perfect storm,” and so no one is. Too-big-to-fail banks are bigger than ever, and Masters of the Universe swagger is back. Even Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan Chase, about the only bank chief not to be caught with a suspect balance sheet or a $1,400 office trash can, has taken to channeling Schwarzman. In June, he publicly challenged Ben Bernanke about the intolerable burdens of potential regulation—this despite a 67 percent surge in JPMorgan’s first-quarter profits and a 1,500 percent raise in his own compensation from 2009 to 2010. As good times roar back for corporate America, it’s bad enough that CEOs are collectively sitting on some $1.9 trillion in cash—much of it parked out of the IRS’s reach overseas—instead of hiring. (How many jobs can you buy for $1.9 trillion? America’s total expenditure on the Iraq and Afghanistan wars over a decade has been $1.3 trillion.) But what’s most galling is how many of these executives are sore winners, crying all the way to Palm Beach while raking in record profits and paying some of the lowest tax rates over the past 50 years.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The fallout has left Obama in the worst imaginable political bind. No good deed he’s done for Wall Street has gone unpunished. He is vilified as an anti-capitalist zealot not just by Republican foes but even by some former backers. What has he done to deserve it? All anyone can point to is his December 2009 60 Minutes swipe at “fat-cat bankers on Wall Street”—an inept and anomalous Ed Schultz seizure that he retracted just weeks later by praising Dimon and Lloyd Blankfein as “very savvy businessmen.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">personal Zelig, the former Clinton Treasury secretary and Harvard Corporation stalwart Robert Rubin. In The Audacity of Hope, published in late 2006, Obama called Rubin, then busily cheerleading the excessive risk at Citigroup, “one of the more thoughtful and unassuming people I know.” Two years later, when Citi cratered and threatened to take the economy with it, Rubin demonstrated his unassuming thoughtfulness by denying that he had anything to do with the toxic investments that cost taxpayers a $45 billion bailout and 52,000 Citi employees their jobs.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">In his unseemly revolving-door career, Rubin not once but twice sped the Citi apocalypse—first in government, where he and his eventual successor as Treasury secretary, Larry Summers, championed the deregulatory policies that facilitated the consolidation of too-big-to-fail banks, and then in his $15 million-a-year role as Citi’s “guru,” where, by his own later account, he had no idea what was in the worthless paper the bank peddled to greedy dupes. You’d think Obama would have dumped him faster than he did the Reverend Wright, but that’s misreading him. Obama is preternaturally secure on thorny matters of race—as his magnificent speech on the subject made clear—and could distance himself from his preacher with no ambivalence. It’s “unassuming” braininess that’s his blind spot.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">And so a parade of Rubin acolytes entered the White House, led by Geithner, a nearly lifelong civil servant so identified with the financial Establishment that even Mayor Bloomberg mistakenly introduced him as a Goldman alumnus at a public event in New York last year. It’s Geithner’s influence on policy, however, not his persona, that proved fateful. Not until March 2010 did the White House get its first explicit, modest jobs bill through Congress.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Obama had taken office at a true populist moment that demanded more than this. People were gagging over their looted 401(k)s and underwater homes, the AIG bonuses, and the bailouts. Howard Dean rage has never been Obama’s style—hope-and-change was an elegant oratorical substitute—and had he given full voice to the public mood, he would have been pilloried as an “angry black man.” But Obama didn’t have to play Huey Long. He could have pursued a sober but determined execution of justice and an explicit, major jobs initiative—of which there have been exactly none, the too-small stimulus included, to the present day.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><b>By failing to address that populist anger, Obama gave his enemies the opening to co-opt it and turn it against him. Which the tea party did, dishonestly but brilliantly, misrepresenting Obama’s health-care-reform crusade as yet another attempt by the elites to screw the taxpayer.</b> (The Democrats haplessly reinforced the charge with marathon behind-the-scenes negotiations with insurance and pharmaceutical-industry operatives.) Once the health-care law was signed, the president still slighted the unemployment crisis. A once-hoped-for WPA-style public-works program, unloved by Geithner, had been downsized in the original stimulus, and now a tardy, halfhearted stab at a $50 billion transportation-infrastructure jobs bill produced a dandy Obama speech but nothing else.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Obama soon retreated into the tea-party mantra of fiscal austerity. Short-term spending cuts when spending is needed to create jobs make no sense economically. But they also make no sense politically. The deficit has never been a top voter priority, no matter how loudly the right claims it is. At Obama’s inaugural, Gallup found that 11 percent of voters ranked unemployment as their top priority while only 2 percent did the deficit. Unemployment has remained a stable public priority over the deficit ever since, usually by at least a 2-to-1 ratio. In a CBS poll immediately after the Democrats’ “shellacking” of last November—a debacle supposedly precipitated by the tea party’s debt jihad—the question “What should Congress concentrate on in January?” yielded 56 percent for “economy/jobs” and 4 percent for “deficit reduction.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">There’s not much Obama can do to alter the economy by 2012, given the debt-ceiling fight, the long campaign, and nihilistic Capitol Hill antagonists opposed to any government spending that might create jobs and, by extension, help Obama keep his own. But the central question before the nation couldn’t be clearer: Who pays? The taxpayers bailed out the elite; now it’s the elite’s turn to return the favor. Massive cuts to the safety net combined with scant sacrifice from those at the top is wrong ethically and politically. It is, in the truest sense, un-American. Obama knows this, and he hit a welcome note last week when he urged some higher corporate taxes for hedge funds and the like. But his forays in this direction are tentative and sporadic. You have to wonder why he isn’t seizing the moment to articulate and fight for the big picture instead of playing a lose-lose game of rope-a-dope with the Republicans on their budgetary turf.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><b>Some Obama fans think it’s tactical genius that’s holding him back—his fabled long ball. Americans are no longer as angry as they were in January 2009 so much as they are defeated, depressed, and jaded by the slow recovery and by four decades of raging inequality that tells them the deck is stacked no matter who’s in Washington. </b>Better, then, not to ruffle these still waters—or those easily rattled independents fetishized by political consultants—and instead scare seniors about imminent Medicare cutbacks and plot deep-think policy initiatives that (like health-care reform) might fix America over time. But the voters’ placidity hardly augurs well for Democratic turnout in 2012. And it may not last. All that’s required is one more economic panic to shatter the phony peace and whip the rage back to center stage, once again to the right’s advantage.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoBodyText"><b><span style="color: windowtext;">“A nation cannot prosper long when it favors only the prosperous,” Obama declared at his inauguration. What he said on that bright January morning is no less true or stirring now. For all his failings since, he is the only one who can make this case. There’s nothing but his own passivity to stop him from doing so—and from shaking up the administration team that, well beyond the halfway-out-the-door Geithner and his Treasury Department, has showered too many favors on the prosperous. This will mean turning on his own cadre of the liberal elite. But it’s essential if he is to call the bluff of a fake man-of-the-people like Romney. To differentiate himself from the discredited Establishment, he will have to mount the fight he has ducked for the past three years.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The alternative is <b>a failure of historic proportions</b>. Those who gamed the economy to near devastation—so much so that the nation turned to an untried young leader in desperation and in hope—would once again inherit the Earth. Unless and until there’s a purging of the crimes that brought our president to his unlikely Inauguration Day, much more in America than the second term of his administration will be at stake.</span></div></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The Obama presidency has been one endless series of failures, cave-ins, half-measures, broken campaign promises, capitulations and pissed away opportunities for change. The only good moment for the man who failed to close Gitmo or even better yet send Lloyd Blankfein and the rest of the Wall Street criminals there was the hit on the bad assed bogeyman of the past decade Osama bin Laden, days after a blistering dressing down of the pompous ass that is Donald Trump. Even that was a failure in that Obama failed to use the bully pulpit once again to wave our Emanuel Goldstein’s bloody scalp, perhaps it had something to do with the missing body but you get the point. That the fascist GOP is actually looking like an alternative to Obama in the form of Mitt Romney prancing about I his magic red, white and blue underwear is a stunning example of how badly that Obama has been up to this point. I really loved Rich’s line about the O-Bots, those who are the same type of apologists for Barry O. that drove the left so batshit during the Bush years. Rich wrote “ </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Some Obama fans think it’s tactical genius that’s holding him back—his fabled long ball.” To this I quote myself from a previous post entitled <a href="http://edencho.blogspot.com/2011/03/money-doesnt-talk-it-swears.html">Money Doesn't Talk: It Swears</a>:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br />
</span></div><blockquote style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">There will be no help for anybody but the pigs at Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan Chase coming from the Obama administration, face it people, the only change that the Pope of Hope really ever stood for was to provlde left cover for the gargantuan upwards redistribution of wealth. Obama is quite obviously even worse than Bush as the wars continue and mount in number (under the malarkey guise of humanitarian interventions), the torture never stops, the constitution continues to be disemboweled and the airports are filled with dooling thugs in TSA uniforms with the full blessing of the U.S. government to feel up pre-pubescent little boys and girls. Hell, Bush never could have gotten away with that one and when it comes to economic relief, Le Enfant Terrible did actually send people checks for $600. <b>I always got a sardonic little kick out of the silly liberals who only made excuses for Obama (and still do) in that he was the chess master, or Michael Jordan just studying the opposing team's defense and ready to explode at any moment into a whirling dervish of athletic daredeviltry as he broke down the formidable defense of the Bad Boys for the championship hardware. The truth, and it is as dark as the proverbial black steer's tookus on a moonless prairie night is that Obama is the chessmaster, it's checkmate for the working class and he is just like Michael Jordan, a greedy, amoral, selfish millionaire prick who once commented that "Republicans buy sneakers too" rather than doing the right thing in using his global celebrity to promote progressive social change.For some reason Jordan's famous quote conjures up one of Obama's, the one where he proclaimed that if Americans were being denied their right to collectively bargain that he would put on his own pair of comfortable shoes and join them on the picket lines. </b>This alas like so many other things (wars,closing Gitmo, renegotiating trade pacts etc) was just more of the same bullshit about hope and change marketed by Wall Street's soon to be new bagman at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><br />
</div></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Granted that Obama inherited a disaster from his predecessor but his leadership skills quite frankly suck, and I am being diplomatic here, he is a spineless weasel and just another Ivy League educated elitist who couldn’t give a rat’s ass about the little people. The image makers really hit it big with Obama, it was like the Huxtable family goes to Washington and it was lapped up by schmucks across America including this blogger who held his nose and voted for Obama instead of Nader or Cynthia McKinney. It was more the image that I saw of Hitler standing next to German Chancellor Paul Von Hindenburg that was juxtaposed with one of John McCain and Sarah Palin that sealed the deal for me personally. I wasn’t expecting much but what I didn’t expect was an escalation of the worst abuses of the Bushreich including the domestic spying, government sanctioned sexual abusers feeling up children in airports, more wars, attacks on whistleblowers and the obviously disgusting green light given to the capitalist predators on Wall Street to continue to suck the marrow from the bones of the dessicated remains of the middle class with their revolving door between government and their New York casinos. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg54cnzQ5pry0eujCSTeT4eVRrad1dUEhFpx-9z9WuXCSKyjeQFl_Ezmismiv_SbvT0mPOMrrnOWxDo6Ub7q3hUABsa5TkzdvHuO0kkC8KvskqouXFZPbXUV7hfiPPxj4wt6UV3/s1600/ObamaHype.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="137" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg54cnzQ5pry0eujCSTeT4eVRrad1dUEhFpx-9z9WuXCSKyjeQFl_Ezmismiv_SbvT0mPOMrrnOWxDo6Ub7q3hUABsa5TkzdvHuO0kkC8KvskqouXFZPbXUV7hfiPPxj4wt6UV3/s320/ObamaHype.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Obama is going to have to be slicker than a greased hamster at Bohemian Grove to beat back the Romney challenge, fuck the teabaggers, do you honestly think that the real overlords of this lemming colony would EVER let Michele Bachmann anywhere near the nuclear launch codes? Romney is perfect and despite the cries of heresy that this may elicit from my progressive and liberal friends he, a Mormon if elected president on the Republican ticket could do more damage to the culture warriors than Pat Buchanan did during his infamous call to arms at the 1992 GOP convention in Houston. A strident diatribe that was so over the top that the great departed Texas gadfly Molly Ivins once pegged dead on as “it probably sounded better in the original German”. Romney would do a good job of giving the Republicans a badly needed mange dip, spanking the ferociously superstitious Christian Right base that soaked up the former libertarian Tea Party like a mop dragged through a pool of vomit. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I have zero faith in Obama ever doing the right thing, the lack of alternatives is a damning indictment of just how badly that the American political system has failed. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Just my two cents over the mornin’ cup o’ joe</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">EE</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34263444.post-72463574110589365652011-06-29T03:23:00.002-05:002012-01-08T10:12:47.423-05:00Michele Bachmann and John Wayne Gacy’s America<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8CYL9QtYDh4DHcdqXv18RwOo-U-2w71NdEVhpLCL6lapiYDFSGka6sGE-zB0Hu13e-k5PaaJkMBtxYmiSeKMIzDsZP7qSIpunX7xx2zaR1tY_aFPuDy31mPaz818oFujXmgYp/s1600/gacyclown.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8CYL9QtYDh4DHcdqXv18RwOo-U-2w71NdEVhpLCL6lapiYDFSGka6sGE-zB0Hu13e-k5PaaJkMBtxYmiSeKMIzDsZP7qSIpunX7xx2zaR1tY_aFPuDy31mPaz818oFujXmgYp/s400/gacyclown.jpg" width="253" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><i>“That’s the kind of spirit I have, too”</i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><i><br />
</i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><i>-Moonbat Bachmann on Serial Killer John Wayne Gacy</i><br />
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<i>“They were just a bunch of worthless little queers and punks”</i><br />
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<i>Serial Killer John Wayne Gacy</i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">In one of those classic political gaffes, on the day of the media adulation that circled America’s next great heroine like fecal particles going down a swirling toilet, Michele Marie Bachmann invoked the beloved John Wayne while working the rubes in Iowa. Gushing to one of the Roger Ailes minions of the fascist FOX Republican propaganda machine, Batsy cooed that “That’s the kind of spirit I have, too”. The problem was that she was referencing not “The Duke” but the notorious fiend John Wayne Gacy who was from Waterloo where the new and improved version of Sarah Palin was giving her stump speech. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Now In any sane and decent land, a slipup like this would put an end to a political career, especially one where the candidate is already a world class “flake”. Sad to say though that this is America 2011 where ignorance and incompetence are virtues and such a statement, about a serial killer who murdered gays only further serves to validate the ‘leadership’ credentials for one among the millions of die hard freaks who worhip her and would love to see ALL gays trucked off to industrial sized gas chambers.It was a Freudian slip but in John Wayne Gacy's America it's perfectly ok to strangle fags. The media of course, made a lightning fast rush <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20075000-503544.html">to suck back up to the Moonbat</a> lest the feckless and lazy careerist stenographers have to go and get a real gig rather than writing about dead white children, right-wing scumbags and being played as the chumps that they always have been by pathological liars the likes of panty sniffer Andrew Breitbart. John Wayne Gacy is actually a perfect metaphor for so many of today's Republicans, Gacy was by most accounts a 'normal' man, respected by his neighbors and a delight to children, dressing up as a clown and making balloon animals for children, he was the proverbial Mr. White Picket Fence America, a vision that despite it's illusory quality that the GOP continues to sell to the schmucks via their multi-billion dollar media and propaganda machine.<br />
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While outwardly 'normal' by day, Gacy had a serious jones for drugs, booze, gay sex and sado-masochism more often than not ending up in his cold blooded murdering of one of his victims. As the late actor Lon Chaney once remarked, "there is nothing funny about a clown in the moonlight" and by the time that the police had done their work there were nearly three dozen bodies that were dug up on Gacy's property. He became notorious not only for his perversion and cruelty but that he was able to keep it so successfully hidden, like Adolf Eichmann John Wayne Gacy was the epitome of the banality of evil. I see a lot of this in today's slow boiling denizens of a decomposing society, there is some serious anger, pent up sexual demons and seething vengeance locked up behind closed doors in suburbia, and a centralized artery of electronic hatred and raw fantasy via cable and satellite television is piped into each and every one of those homes where there are tens of thousands if not millions of less ostentatious versions of John Wayne Gacy, coiled like rattlesnakes and ready to spring like jacks in the box whenever the tipping point is finally reached. With the full blown assault on the black man in the WHITE House fueling so much of the economic and societal misery, the Republican party, it's fanatic Christian fascist component which Bachmann represents and those who know with icy certainty exactly which buttons need to be pushed in order to elicit the desired response from what are really nothing more than lab rats the reckoning could be in the very near future. These diseased swine have as much regard for the rule of order and stability as Michele Bachmann has for the truth and like Gacy, they have a serious ax to grind. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">John Wayne Gacy was such a malevolent monster, so irredeemably evil and unremorseful for his many sins that his last words before he was executed were reportedly "You can kiss my ass". After his body was pumped full of a sufficient quantity of toxic chemicals to ensure that he had departed from this mortal coil his brain was removed to be studied by forensic pathologists for abnormalities that may have caused his inhuman tendencies and propensity for cruelty. Regarding his victims he sneeringly remarked that: “They were just a bunch of worthless little queers and punks” The raw malevolence that exists towards gays in this country is only going to be further juiced by New York's legalization of same-sex marriage, Bachmann has already promise to run on a constitutional amendment stripping what are loyal and decent Americans of this very right, what comes next is the question? Hitler was persecuting homosexuals long before he really got his ready to rumble Germans out in force rounding up Jews, he also attacked the handicapped, the unemployed, unions and real socialists lest they be around to point out that in passing off the Nazi's as National "Socialists" that they were hijacking the name to splice onto their own movement - remind anyone of the Tea Party? </div><br />
Then there is that thing about the despised and demonized religious minority, Bachmann carries within her like the gestating Alien the seeds of an anti-Muslim fury so profound and intense that once it is loosed it will roar across this land like an atomic shock wave. Look for the real ugliness to begin once the big lie of Sharia Law and the war against southern fried American Cristendom becomes integrated with her message. With the economy continuing to be squeezed to screaming by Republican fascists who are hellbent on upping the pain and rubbing the sores raw in order to regain control of the spoils system the real holy war is rapidly drawing near.<br />
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Just my two cents over the mornin' cup of joe<br />
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EE</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34263444.post-41183178800833703002011-06-25T06:34:00.007-05:002011-06-25T15:13:16.898-05:00Mad Dog Motherfucking Mean<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9-lm8Hw9vE6blYFdUCqTvD7TXGDhoQSqml5xNuNUIzxq_NJMH8hT8-kNlOTpo6S9xeXcP4FR2knaTVbc7i8qaNAIY58PqwcPyMIExDF8hitatdg7rS5vXdSuhKhVGLhqvjfop/s1600/abaddog.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="252" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9-lm8Hw9vE6blYFdUCqTvD7TXGDhoQSqml5xNuNUIzxq_NJMH8hT8-kNlOTpo6S9xeXcP4FR2knaTVbc7i8qaNAIY58PqwcPyMIExDF8hitatdg7rS5vXdSuhKhVGLhqvjfop/s320/abaddog.bmp" width="320" /></a></div><br />
<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Now remember, when things look bad and it looks like you’re not gonna make it, then you gotta get mean. I mean plumb, mad-dog mean. ‘Cause if you lose your head and you give up then you neither live nor win. That’s just the way it is.”<br />
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– Josey Wales</i></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Been awhile friends but the bad man is back, back with a vengeance and like the avenging spirit that was the famous Clint Eastwood role in High Plains Drifter I am getting ready to paint the town red. Red with pigs blood that is, of course in post-democracy America, in our all-seeing fascist surveillance society I speak in purely figurative terms, lest the midnight knock come and the jackboot of Homeland Security kick down my door. Not that those verminous, Nazi pig fucker Republicans don't all deserve Columbian neckties but I think that you get my drift.l This is what it has come to, it's nut-cuttin' time, time to throw down, stand up, be counted and dispense with whatever passes for resistance in this electronically lobotomized lemming colony. Face it, things are never going to get better for the average person in Murka, the entrenched rot of corruption is too deep, can't be easily cut out, the financial system lies in smoking ruins thanks to a gangster government and the failed political system that has facilitated it. The swine and swindlers will continue to bleed this place until there is no blood left and then it will run in the streets, likely when the fascists and their propaganda pimps begin calling for the inevitable pogroms. Any moves to somehow ameliorate the suffering, take for instance yesterday's surprise announcement of the tapping of the oil reserves to stop the psychotic speculators and their masturbatory greed will be harshly and immediately attacked by a corporate media machine determined to keep the game rigged at all costs. Enjoy today because today is the best day that you are going to have for the rest of your lives, each subsequent day will be a gradual erosion of living standards, whatever remains of your rights and one toehold deeper into the abyss. This is the new American birthright for to be an American is to be a fat bovine creature, swaddled in stars 'n stripes ensconced in front of the precious television that provides the sweet, sweet spike for tens of millions of addicts. </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I have been away from it all for awhile, just not much inclination to write much. The 'death' of our Emanuel Goldstein, Osama bin Laden felt like a good place to end it all, the closing of the circle of the big lie of 9/11 that I have railed against for the past six years since I have been doing this. I certainly did consider it and did so very seriously, there are other projects that I would like to do, maybe some fiction, a book, other forms of media but the situation is too grave and there are too few fighters. I have made the journey since mid-2005 when I first started to blog, primarily to keep my sanity as those were still the worst days of the Bushreich before the abhorrent little twit was exposed as the impotent borderline retard that he always was by the wrath of nature combined with capitalist greed that was Hurricane Katrina. Bush never was quite the same after that and it was hard to believe that the peak of the fascist right-wing freak show that was the siege over the still breathing corpse of one Terri Schiavo had only occurred a few months prior. Bush and Cheney continued to cut a category five swath of destruction through the country and the world but it was slowed and the ouster of the criminally psychotic Tom DeLay from power jammed up the machine albeit briefly. It was my outrage against the right-wing scum, the traitors that manifested itself in the Republican party that drove me to raging against the machine in the first place. </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I originally identified with the left (or the putrid excuse that passes for it these days), still having some idiotic and naive sort of faith in the Democratic party being able to provide some semblance of a return to normalcy were it to regain political power. While I am and always have been a registered independent I bought into the lesser of two evils meme, especially when the greater of the evils was just a notch below Satan. I broke into blogging at a number of liberal sites, quickly learning my lesson that intolerance and censorship was not the sole domain of the right when I ran afoul of the turds at Daily Kos, when it all comes down to it, and I have said this before Markos Moulitsas-Zuniga, who built a perfect mousetrip, somehow being trotted out as the voice of progressives and liberals is when it all comes down to it about as left as Stalin and his rotten blog is a cesspool of idiotic political correctness, elitism and bad writing. I was run out of there very quickly as have been many others with the ability to transcend the bullshit and think for themselves. I bounced around on a number of lesser blogs as a regular contributor, one a fairly prominent one run by a self-proclaimed Democrat who wears her party alliance on her sleeve. I had a chance to become more widely read had I hewed to just doing political attacks and screeds on Republican Nazis but early on I understood that the entire fucking system was rotten, I was too much of a renegade to be mainstream. I made other alliances, the people who I worked with were passionate and devoted but few were able to grasp the bigger picture, with the election of Obama in 2008 there was no longer that common enemy and the 'left', basking in their imagined triumph rapidly began to fragment into the collection of competing identity based groups that they are in order to divvy up the spoils. They did not as I warned continue to wage war against the fascists and they came to embrace the ongoing murders of civilians, brown-skinned, non-Christian ones as long as their tolerance for immorality was cloaked in humanitarian bullshit like women's rights, they became cruise missile liberals. I officially made my split from them with my blistering goodbye entitled <a href="http://manageableants.blogspot.com/2010/01/farewell-to-arms-why-i-left-left.html">A Farewell to Arms: Why I Left 'the Left'</a> from which I excerpt the following at length:</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><blockquote style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;">To HELL with the 'left'! I am finished, done, disillusioned and over it, the divorce papers have been filed and are now finalized and I am not going back. As of this day, I will no longer allow myself to be affiliated or endorse the 'left' in any way, shape or form. So long folks, it was real and it was fun but in the end it was unfulfilling and dare I say, a waste of time and effort. Is this overly harsh? Perhaps it is but the break has to be made and it can no longer be put off. I assure you, this was no hasty decision but rather something that has been a slow and agonizing process, a steady drip…drip…drip.., like Chinese water torture and suddenly the mind goes, the spirit breaks and the ugly reality of the situation cannot be denied or disguised. So to all of my good friends on the left I wish you the very best but I am no longer one of you and maybe I never was, it was never dogma to me only a desire for some sort of social fairness and a fair shot but the American left being a shell of it’s former self with labor broken and the DLC corporatists having taken over the Democratic party it has been reduced to shills for the Democrats and squabbling identity groups each with an agenda that prevents any sort of unity necessary for a mass movement for real change. Sucks but that is just the way it has to be.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;">By choosing to focus on wedge culture war issues no matter how noble the cause may, be the ‘left’ has failed abysmally in only providing gasoline on the fire that is being ignited on the extreme right and this is going to be costly in impossible to overstate terms in the future as a new, ultra-virulent strain of cult of personality, anti-intellectual, Christian fascist vengeful malignancy percolates throughout this country. There is an ideologically driven cataclysm coming and it will have every bit the force of the Nazis, Stalinists or Khmer Rouge and the gutters will be filled with blood, the streets with violence and no guarantee of personal or family safety by the law or militarized police who will protect the wealthy and elites only while the shock troops hunt down liberals, gays and today's Juden, the Muslims who have been so easily demonized by the Pentagon and the Zionists who seem to have reasserted an ugly but more subtle form of control with the newest blown out of proportion 'terrorism'. The king of the Israeli fifth column in America, Senator Joseph Lieberman will soon be using his position as head of the Senate Heimat Security Committee to launch witch hunts and hold show trials which will rival those of Stalin and McCarthy and people like you and I will be accused of being 'terrorist sympathaziers', the propagand about white al Qaida has already been getting some mileage as the creeping cat feet of fascism march onwards. Just how important are social issues when the task of rolling back American fascism renders all else irrelevant?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;">Myself and others have warned about the triumphal premature celebrations in the defeat of the extreme right, electoral victories and half measures at silly centrist governance have allowed this vicious hydra to regenerate. The failure of the ‘left’ to generate the cohesiveness necessary in order to form a viable political mass movement and the embracement (no matter how tepid by some) of the corrupted Democratic party and the amateur that is Barack Obama has set up the dominoes perfectly for the perfect storm once the economic collapse finally does occur. The plethora of gay marriage iniatives in the early days of the insipid Obama administration smacked of a sort of arrogance among limousine liberals, as though the enemy had been vanquished and it was time to exact that revenge which would both terrible and satisfying in rolling back the dark ages iniatives or the Religious Right roundheads. But that focus provided cover for the rats that are the corporatists, banksters and lobbyists that rode into power tucked away inside Obama's Trojan Horse and whose plunder and subsequent fall into public disfavor have driven Democrat and Obama's poll ratings down faster than whaleshit sinking to the bottom of the sea and allowed the American fascists to regroup and now in the aftermath of the underwear bomber false flag, with the fear fresh anew the sheeple will tolerate ANY police state measures to protect their putrid little lives as they cower and submit.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;">I have a lot of friends on the left and I mean them no malice or insult in my breaking ranks, they are good people, probably better than I in that they are pure of heart and always seek to build a better society, to nurture and to foster love instead of hate. Sadly though, in the real world butterflies, zebras, moonbeams and fairy tales are just that, illusions when confronted with an enemy that recognizes no rules, decorum, compassion or fairness and when the time comes will happily leave liberals and progressives with only their eyes to cry with..if they are even that generous. You see, my friends never understood the nature of this war, and it is war and only those of staunch spirits, strong stomachs and the righteous tenacity to climb upon that wall and fight the bastards on their own terms are ultimately going to have a chance. As the 'left' is comprised today it can be dismissed, laughed at and generally ignored by the rotten bitches, bastards and corporations that run this system and that is exactly what Rahm Emanual, his sock puppet 'boss' and the rest of the establishment are doing, they are doing. Liberals and the 'left' have this view that 'we are better than they are so we don't have to stoop to their level', but in the end they always lose.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;">As Nietzsche spoke of fighting monsters and warned of the abyss well it does look back but ultimately humanity is doomed to war, it is out nature and to deny that is the ultimate form of self denial. The best resistance against militarism, the police state and war is coming from the libertarian front, for example Justin Raimondo’s Antiwar.com, I also have long admired the Ron Paul movement for calls for ending the Federal Reserve although I have been more than a bit dismayed to see it so easily co-opted by the corporate teabaggers and the Dick Armey of Darkness, the Palinazis and the idiot buffoon racist Birthers and religious fanatic Birthers and so has one of the founders of the movement. There is however a good deal of misdirected but righteous anger out there that is too easily hijacked and misdirected into the fascist brigades that the 'left' has failed to take advantage of to bolster it's power and rally around some sort of real cause rather than the agendas of identity groups seeking government action to redress a history of injustice.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;">I have always been an independent with views more compatible with the old left, the labor left and the intense focus on social issues in which the activists ignore basic economic fairness, antiwar, pro-civil liberties matters in order to waste energy tilting at windmills. Let’s face it, no matter how moral that the crusade for gay marriage may be (basically another civil rights fight to eliminate the sad fact that in 21st century America that there are still people who are treated as second class citizens and face institutionalized persecution) – it’s a loser with large demographic blocks that nothing short of a mass die out over a period of a few decades is going to resolve and while it sucks, it's the truth, shit, millions of morons are ready to launch a civil war because the fucking President is black and until the numbers of these anachronisms are reduced America will always be defined by the hatred of the other, which of course will always be exploited for maximum political gain by fascists. The younger generations do not care about whether one is gay or straight or has a different skin color, they are far more tolerant and acceptable than their parents or grandparents but the reality is that as America is currently constituted this is a loser for the ‘left’ and energy would be better spent in fighting imperialism, economic royalism, a vast for profit prison gulag and a militarized police that is determined to keep it full.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;">Also, global warming (the carbon footprint is akin to a carbon jackboot stomping up and down on a human face while the speculators get richer than Midas), immigration ‘reform’ and the ugly sort of imperialist liberalism that supports more war, military spending and murder to promote pet causes such as women’s rights and other emotional based malarkey is just intolerable. The Empire is broke, women are oppressed by institutions within our own borders and the cycle of militarism will not be seriously challenged as long as there are cruise missile liberals determined to use force to be Team America global police. I saw an ugliness among too many liberals and progressives during the past summer’s Iranian uprising, the ‘Green Revolution’ not to be confused of course with ‘Green Shoots, or ‘Green Energy’ and the ‘left’s’ piling on the regime of the devil Ahmadinejad only served to reinforce the incessant neocon propaganda and Zionist right-wing warmongering that has the doomsday clock ticking towards World War III. In all liklihood, Israel will attack Iran at some point in the coming year, Obama's infatuation with the phony war on terror will ensure that the U.S. is sucked in which will be catastrophic but now that the antiwar movement has been marginalized by the foulness that is the Democrat party, now that Cindy Sheehan has served her purpose and been unceremoniously dumped and now that the 'left' has once again failed to mobilize around any serious issue that has crossover appeal we are all helpless to stop it.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;">I will devote my energies to trying to assist whatever remains of the antiwar movement (which isn't much after most of the larger groups were co-opted by the filthy corporatist Democrats and Raht Emanual), continue to support the abolishment (or at the least auditing) of the Federal Reserve, fight for a reigning in of excessive corporate power, rail against the abuses of civil liberties, the police state, torture and surveillance and the menace of globalization. In a sad land of ignorance and hostility that has institutionalized torture with about half the population being down with it just how long is it going to be until they actually start to torture the other half?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;">The ‘left’ is too fragmented and there are far too many internal squabbles to mount any sort of a counter-movement against this irrational, ignorant and mean army of darkness that is suckled at the teat of the imperialist warfare state and lives in a world of unreality fed by a lifetime of indoctrination to illusions and lies and I am getting off of that woebegone merry-go-round once and for all before it either kills me or drives me totally fucking batshit.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;">Loose the Rats: I remember once when I was in my early twenties, a certain restaurant that I had worked for had become so intolerable that there was a parting of the ways (mutual of course) regarding employment. Well, said restaurant naturally had a pretty high turnover rate so myself and a fellow former wage slave conspired one night over many a beer (and I must admit a bit of weed) to seek revenge against the owners. We would go in on a stealth mission and create a disturbance that would be guaran-fucking-teed to cause maximum chaos. So we went to a local pet shop and purchased two live rats which we smuggled in during peak hours in our backpacks and while we swilled a few beers in a booth in the back, ate chicken wings and were generally looked at as scum by our former co-worker wait staff we had a hard time not pissing our pants. Well, when we were finished, we paid our bills and let the rats out of the backpacks and just left the fucking place….we never knew what happened and that was the beauty of it. Maybe the rats caused a total scene and a mass evacuation and maybe business was forever wrecked for those satanic pricks who owned the goddamned place – somehow I doubt it because the damned place stayed in business. Perhaps though, the owners found the rats first before they ran off the paying customers and caused a pox of word of mouth advertising that was up there with the Bubonic Plague and changed their ways, I don’t know and shit, I really don’t know exactly were I am going with this little thread so I digress…..</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;">Maybe the moral of the pet shop rats is that it was a shock that could have actually have been naïve enough to think that such a futile and stupid act would have changed hearts and minds but that was back in the 80’s when things were different and there was still some semblance of actual fucking sanity in this rotten shell of a country, back when it was STILL POSSIBLE to avoid the coming forced anal probes by militarized Darth Vader police goons in local shopping malls. Nothing that I was ever going to do on the left, much like loosing the rats on those miserable, skinflint, authoritarian pricks who ran that shithole of an eatery was going to do a damned thing to change anything or any body, it was just plaintive wails from planet shit directed at the choir…amen.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;">So to those on the 'left' who I have joined in battle with over the years only to realize that it is ultimately a futile struggle I say good luck and may your efforts bring fruit and some degree of satisfaction so long as they do not conflict with mine. I am going it alone from this point onward, bound by no loyalty to ideology, faction or any group, that only belongs to those who are allies the bigger fight at hand now. I would implore you who are able to transcend your past prejudices, ideals and indoctrinations to become a bit less dogmatic and much more pragmatic in reaching out to those who not only can be saved but who also are trying to break free from their own conditioning.</span></div></blockquote><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Granted it was a long excerpt but it pretty much expressed my feelings at the time, for better or worse I struck out on my own. For some reason that I still can't quite understand myself I thought that I could actually work at trying to salvage some of the wretches from the media creation that is the Tea Party, really just a collection of pissed off people with reasons to be pissed off but nowhere to go thanks to the abysmal failure of 'the left' in this country that was hijacked by cynical political operatives and deep-pocketed, tax chiseling plutocrats like the Koch Brothers. Being that a good amount of the pseudo-movement, other than the re-branded browshirts of the GOP base are remnants of what used to be the Ron Paul revolution, which due to the anti-interventionist, pro-civil liberties and anti-Federal Reserve stance of Dr. Paul I long had been sympathetic to despite my loathing of libertarian economic theory. I got into this thing, writing and raising hell out of the need to stop fascism at all costs so I have always been of the opinion that a progressive-libertarian alliance would be sufficient to slow the machine, there was enough common ground and the other things could be hashed out later on after the fascist cancer was cut out. I followed up "A Farewell to Arms" with another piece entitled In <a href="http://manageableants.blogspot.com/2010/02/in-defense-of-joe-stack.html">Defense of Joe Stack</a> that ensured that the break with the 'left' would be permanent. It was about as subtle as the attack on Colonel Kurtz's compound at the end of Apocalypse Now.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I tried to work with the disaffected and even reached out to my local Glenn Beck teabagger klavern to try to talk sense but it was useless, those people are just too far gone, to propagandized, too angry and too deeply infiltrated by the dead enders of the the Republican base and the Religious Right, there is nothing left of what used to be the Ron Paul movement, like the party itself all non-adherents to the Ayn Rand doctrine of "Fuck You I'm Rich" and the Neocon dogma of imperial conquest and the sanctimonious place on the planet for the wart on the ass of humanity that is fortress Israel any who don't drink the Kool Aid have been ousted. So much for that Idea. I have only worked sparingly on writing over the past year and a half, largely out of a sense of total disillusion and the absence of any sort of organized resistance to the ongoing destruction of what remains of the country that I was born into. </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But the lone wolf thing just doesn't work that well, not when the economy continues to collapse, with an assist to a fanatical Republican party that will block any effort by the extremely disappointing Obama to mediate and somehow get people back to work. The GOP has long been a bastion of a certain fascism, at least since the end of World War II and the tracks of the oligarchs along with their descent into gangster capitalism through their affiliations with rescued Nazi war criminals, rogue intelligence networks, stone cold military psychopaths and organized crime are easily traceable for one who devotes a bit of time to the job. What is ongoing in America today is a textbook example of how the capitalist mafia, the CIA operates abroad, Robert Parry's recent piece entitled <a href="http://www.alternet.org/module/printversion/151209">The GOP's CIA Playbook: Destabilize the Country to Sweep Back Into Power</a> is a must read and I excerpt the following:</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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<blockquote style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;">Modern Republicans have a simple approach to politics when they are not in the White House: Make America as ungovernable as possible by using almost any means available, from challenging the legitimacy of opponents to spreading lies and disinformation to sabotaging the economy.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;">Over the past four decades or so, the Republicans have simply not played by the old give-and-take rules of politics. Indeed, if one were to step back and assess this Republican approach, what you would see is something akin to how the CIA has destabilized target countries, especially those that seek to organize themselves in defiance of capitalist orthodoxy.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;">To stop this spread of “socialism,” nearly anything goes. Take, for example, Chile in the early 1970s when socialist President Salvador Allende won an election and took steps aimed at improving the conditions of the country’s poor.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;">Under the direction of President Richard Nixon and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, the CIA was dispatched to engage in psychological warfare against Allende’s government and to make the Chilean economy “scream.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;">U.S. intelligence agencies secretly sponsored Chilean news outlets, like the influential newspaper El Mercurio, and supported “populist” uprisings of truckers and housewives. On the economic front, the CIA coordinated efforts to starve the Chilean government of funds and to drive unemployment higher.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;">Worsening joblessness could then be spun by the CIA-financed news outlets as proof that Allende’s policies didn’t work and that the only choice for Chile was to scrap its social programs. When Allende compromised with the Right, that had the additional benefit of causing friction between him and some of his supporters who wanted even more radical change.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;">As Chile became increasingly ungovernable, the stage was set for the violent overthrow of Allende, the installation of a rightist dictatorship, and the imposition of “free-market” economics that directed more wealth and power to Chile’s rich and their American corporate backers.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;">Though the Allende case in Chile is perhaps the best known example of this intelligence strategy (because it was investigated by a Senate committee in the mid-1970s), the CIA has employed this approach frequently around the world. Sometimes the target government is removed without violence, although other times a bloody coup d’etat has been part of the mix.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;">So, it is perhaps fitting that a comparable approach to politics would eventually come home to roost in the United States, even to the point that some of the propaganda funding comes from outside sources (think of Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s Washington Times and Australian media mogul Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp.)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;">Obviously, given the wealth of the American elites, the relative proportion of the propaganda funding is derived more domestically in the United States than it would be in a place like Chile (or some other unfortunate Third World country that has gotten on Washington’s bad side).</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;">But the concept remains the same: Control as much as possible what the population gets to see and hear; create chaos for your opponent’s government, economically and politically; blame if for the mess; and establish in the minds of the voters that their only way out is to submit, that the pain will stop once your side is back in power.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;">Today’s Republicans have fully embraced this concept of political warfare, whereas the Democrats generally have tried to play by the old rules, acquiescing when Republicans are in office with the goal of “making government work,” even if the Republicans are setting the agenda.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;">Unlike the Democrats and the Left, the Republicans and the Right have prepared themselves for this battle, almost as if they are following a CIA training manual. They have invested tens of billions of dollars in a propaganda infrastructure that operates 24/7, year-round, to spot and exploit missteps by political enemies.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;">This vertically integrated media machine allows useful information to move quickly from a right-wing blog to talk radio to Fox News to the Wall Street Journal to conservative magazines and book publishing. Right-wing propagandists are well-trained and well-funded so they can be deployed to all manner of public outlets to hammer home the talking points.</span></div></blockquote><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> It's pretty simple to see that the Republican party, which IS by definition a terrorist organization is hellbent on letting it all burn, so intent are they at mobilizing their millions of haters to defend a system that quite simply is as much a failure as the Communism that they for the better part of a half-century used to justify their plunder of nations, drug trafficking and money laundering and racketeering scams. Now fully metastasized, the menace of full blown carnivorous capitalism has come home to feed, those who really run this lunatic funhouse will continue to exploit economic misery, racism and fear using their media messaging machine and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gladio">Operation Gladio</a> style entrenched stay behind network until Americans are in the streets killing each other while they continue to suck the blood from the dessicated carcass of what used to be a land of opportunity. That day is coming, while our corporate media crawls around in the semen stained underpants of Anthony Weiner or peddles more tabloid pornography about dead children to the lemmings, electronically colonizing their brains the world is erupting outside of our borders, look at Greece, soon there will be a triggering event and the chaos will come home, progressives, liberals and non-politicized folks are going to have to make a choice, kill or be killed, it's the law of the jungle and it has been embraced by those who run it. GABOS. - Game Ain't Based On Sympathy.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Plumb Mad Dog Mean:</b> The system has failed and the day of reckoning is coming, best saddle up and get prepared lest you be destroyed by it, read some history on what happens when the thugs are unleashed. If you happen to have children ponder how you would like to see them raped in front of you, the last thing that you witness before your own murder. The armies of darkness are already connected and are awaiting their orders from their handlers on the right-wing propaganda machine, the real economic conditions continue to create misery and the always convenient scapegoats are produced.The time has come to cast aside any notions of being able to rationalize with these people because it isn't going to happen. One could always flee the country, much like the Jews who could see the writing on the wall fled Nazi Germany before Hitler's murder machine was operating at peak efficiency but that is expensive, prohibitive and let's face it, the rest of the world, save the Muslim countries is under the control of the same type of elitist rich pigs that America is and the war machine is hellbent on destroying the Muslim world as surely as the American Indians were laid to waste to make room for expansionism and capitalist greed. The time to fight is now, no more fucking around, especially with the political process - it just doesn't work!</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Embracing a New Radicalism:</b> The only way to fight back against the fascist endgame is to return to our past, prior to the "New Left" that arose out of the protest movements of the Sixties and that which to this day far too many continue to embrace despite it's outdated model. There will be no more mass protests, the days of turning out into the streets is over, the right-wing has ensured that not only will there be no media coverage but their goons ala the scumbaggers are drooling over the prospect of being unleashed, like the Rockefellers of yore who bussed in murderous freaks to break strikes so will the front groups of Koch Industries and their ilk bus in vicious haters to bust up the hated libruls [sic]. Those who cling to a resurgence of that form of mass protest are as delusional as those who still believe that change can be affected at the ballot box, While there continue to be suckups, sycophants and self-infatuated groupies who continue to buy Brand Obama and the even worse Brand Democrat a return to the radicalism of old, rather than the sign carrying, keyboard thumping ineffective form of activism that exists on the pathetic remnants of the "professional left" today. It is not effective and shooting a few marbles from a slingshot is not going to put a dent in the Deathstar that is the American fascist capitalist infrastructure, it's militarized police state, high-tech surveillance and disinformation machine and legions of trained activists and spokespeople. For what is needed, I would suggest listening to Chris Hedges, a man as reviled by the "professional left" and it's venal gatekeepers like HBO's Bill Maher and his ilk as he is by the mouth-breathing fascist droogs on the right. Hedges has always been a hero of mine and his work has continued to rise in order to address the threat that we face today. Hedges, who recently wrote a scathing book entitled The Death of the Liberal Class is taking his game to the next level, his recent work and speeches, like this one on <a href="http://www.radioproject.org/2011/06/chris-hedges-on-the-myth-of-human-progress/">The Myth of Human Progress</a> are essential for those who are serious about surviving. Hedges addresses the rancid putrescence of the failed liberal establishment and doesn't mince words:</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;">The failure of the liberal class whose role in society is designed to prevent unchecked assault by centralized power is discovering what happens when you tolerate the intolerant. Let hate speech pollute your airwaves, let corporations buy up your courts and state and federal legislative bodies, let the Christian religion be manipulated by charlatans to demonize Muslims, gays and intellectuals, discredit science, sanctify unfettered capitalism and become a source of personal enrichment, let unions wither under corporate assault, let social services and public education be gutted and stripped of funding, let Wall Street carry out fraud, deception and plunder with impunity and you roll out the welcome mat for fascism. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;">The liberal class and much of the left has busied itself with the toothless pursuits of inclusiveness, multi-culturalism, identity politics and tolerance.. a word Martin Luther King never used and forgot about the primacy of justice. We chatter about something called the American Dream now that the oligarchic elite have regained control of all of the levers of power that dream is being exposed as a cruel hoax and we are being shoved back into the cage. Slick public relations campaigns, the collapse of public education .. nearly a third of the country is illiterate or semi-literate…the rise of amoral politicians such as Bill Clinton and Barack Obama who pose as liberals while selling their souls and betraying basic liberal and democratic principles for corporate money have left us largely defenseless. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;">The last vestiges of unionized in the public sector are reduced to protesting in states like Wisconsin for collective bargaining – in short the right to ask employers for fair working conditions. This shows how far labor and the country has deteriorated and it looks as though even this basic right to ask as well as raise money through union dues has at least for the moment been successfully revoked in Madison. The Democratic party and the remnants of organized labor steered passions in Wisconsin away from a general strike where workers should have gone to tepid attempts to recall legislators. The public debate meanwhile dominated by corporate controlled systems of information, ignores the steady impoverishment of the working class and absence of legal and regulatory mechanisms to prevent our reconfiguration into a neo-feudal society. The airwaves are saturated with good looking and charming corporate apologists. They ask us why public sector employees have benefits sneeringly called entitlements while non-unionized and working class people are denied and the argument is ingenious, it pits desperate worker against desperate worker in a mad scramble for scraps. It is of course the wrong question, why we should ask don’t working men and women have health insurance, pension plans, job protection and living wages and until we again speak in the language of open class warfare, grasping as those who went before us did, that the elite will always promote itself at our expense, we are doomed to a 21<sup>st</sup> century serfdom. The elite with no check left on their greed and criminality are gorging on money, while they are slashing basic services, budgets for schools, fire fighters and assistance programs for children and the elderly so WE will pay for the fraud they committed when they wiped out 14 trillion dollars of housing wealth, wages and retirement savings. </span></div></blockquote><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span><br />
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</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hedges is reviled by the same type of vapid, self-righteous cretins who I chose to disassociate myself from when I left 'the left', I refuse to be a "team player" in the "post-partisan era" and for those who would crucify one as myself on the cross of political correctness for my rhetorical flourishes - they can go and fuck themselves. I have been called everything: whack job, fascist, misogynist, Jew hater, homophobe, heretic and reactionary, coming from feckless weaklings with no stomach for the rough stuff I suppose that is a badge of honor. Being that I am now totally dispensing of all bullshit let it be known that first and foremost that I fucking hate everybody, spare me the pox of political correctness that is what drove me away from the butterflies, moonbeams, zebras and fairy tales crowd in the first place. Others should shun those who would negotiate with fascists who should be destroyed and tolerate the most intolerant in order to wear their high-hats, they would be arguing that "they are better than that" by not engaging those who wish to destroy them while they are in the cattle cars being trucked off to the gas chambers and forced labor camps.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">So, it is with this that I now return to my roots, a rhetorical bomb-thrower hellbent on engaging and destroying the fascists, collateral damage be damned. Time to get plumb mad dog motherfucking mean because you don't bring a protest sign to a knife fight. </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal"><i>The man who boasts that he habitually tells the truth is simply a man with no respect for it. It is not a thing to be thrown about loosely, like small change; it is something to be cherished and hoarded and disbursed only when absolutely necessary. The smallest atom of truth represents some man's bitter toil and agony; for every ponderable chunk of it there is a brave truth-seeker's grave upon some lonely ash-dump and a soul roasting in Hell</i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i> H. L. Mencken</i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">I would have to say that in my opinion the greatest thing about the officially announced death of our very own Emanuel Goldstein, Osama bin Laden is the sheer joy of watching the Republicans having to eat their own shit. There is something wonderful about the super-sized helping of humble pie served up with one of those nice little toothpick American flaggie things planted in the middle of their slab now that the rotten fascist fifth columnists and neocons have been robbed of the most kick ass club in the bag, their shameless exploitation of the ‘terrorist’ attacks of 9/11/01 for political gain. The GOP has utterly terrorized the rubes, suckers and suburban Sally soccer moms for nearly a decade now, fundamentally altering the country in the process. You can bet the house on it that the fear and terror cards along with the inevitable Obama is a secret Muslim who along with buddies Bill Ayers and Louis Farrakhan attended wild drug fueled orgies where satanic ritual sacrifices were held were key components of their 2012 strategy. Remember the wild rumors about Hillary's secret lesbian trysts in the White House and the Christmas tree adorned with crackpipes and dildos? That one was a children's bedtime story compared to the volcanic eruption of lies, filth and toxic spew that the Koch Brothers money was funding this time around. The narratives were already well under way and likely were very costly, direct mailings, whisper campaigns, retainers for think tank scum like Dinesh D'Souza and his ilk for their libelous bulk purchased books all are going to have to be scrapped because in less than a week it is all gone, it went up like a bag of flaming dogshit. To all those who have been justifiably revolted by this all too predictable heinous tactic of assassination though black propaganda and a corrupt media that amplifies and disseminates it just enjoy the sweet schadenfreude along with a side of delicious irony. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Bin Laden is dead! The release of this week's latest edition of <i>Time Magazine</i>, the official 'news' magazine for the establishment with the evil one's stock picture with the traditional red <b>X</b> though it ensures that despite the caterwauling of the squealing little swine birthers, degenerate America hating pigs like Orly Taitz, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and the rest of the neocon propagandists the official account is now locked down by the impenetrable firewall of conventional wisdom. Sure they can warble about having to see the pictures like the hilariously desperate Sarah Palin (perhaps she can finagle some sort of trade bartering beaver shots of Bristol for the pics of the now dead bin Laden) who still doesn't understand that her political career is over and that she is well into her next phase of being a gross parody of herself, not that she wasn't <b><i>always</i></b> a parody from the git go. Yes, they are going totally batshit over in the big carnival tent of the Republican party, barker in chief Donald T.Rump can now focus on selling tickets to the feces eating contest in the geek section. It is astonishing to behold, the party of shoot first ask questions later is bemoaning the capping of the unarmed uber terrorist and in what is the most hilarious thing of all the corporate media is <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/osama-bin-laden-killing-legal-international-law/story?id=13538365">now suddenly concerned about international law</a> and did the execution of Osama violate it. Hell, that one is hilarious, nearly spit coffee on the keyboard when I read that. Just where in the fuck was the corporate media and the concern for international law when George W. Bush launched his illegal wars, bombed the shit out of civilians, presided over a vile and sadistic regime that made torture an official U.S. policy or for that matter when Obama continued to endorse predator drone strikes on civilian weddings? Double standards and it shows just how rotten to the core that the consolidated and interlocking media in this country has become. Oh, and now here's a real knee-slapper, the Republican whiners, continuing with their well-established culture of victimhood are pissy that none of the credit for taking out bin Laden is being given to Dubya or to his immoral and illegal torture programs. But at least it's consistent since they never saw fit that there should have been any of the blame assigned to him despite the damned inconvenient fact that the 9/11 events occurred during <i><b>his</b></i> watch. Perhaps there can be a commemorative edition of <i>My Pet Goat</i> issued in order to honor Bush for his heroism on that morning. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">It is pretty obvious that the story of bin Laden's assassination by Seal Team 6 is the official story of the state and it is already being reinforced with the same type of groupthink promulgated by the corporate media that followed the original attacks. While the release of any actual photos of the body have been nixed by Obama on the grounds of national security the government has <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/05/07/pakistan.bin.laden.intelligence/index.html?hpt=T2">released bin Laden home videos</a> that are making their way about the internet and media megaphones today. The post death storyline goes to great lengths to play down the mythic capacity of the man once built up to be the baddest motherfucker in the valley of the shadow of death. There have been stories describing bin Laden as "unkempt", "bored", "shabby", "frail" and "weary". There have been stories on the <a href="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/andrewmcfbrown/100086338/the-intriguing-contents-of-osama-bin-ladens-medicine-cabinet/">contents of his medicine cabine</a>t, did he have eczema or some other skin condition? Was he using a form of Viagra? Xanax? Interestingly enough nothing seems to have been found that would indicate treatments for kidney failure. The official propaganda gains new layers by the day, this from an article in <i>Time's Special Report</i> issue:<br />
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So he wasn't in a cave after all. Osama bin Laden, master marketer of mass murder, loved to traffic in the image of the ascetic warrior-prophet. In one of his most famous videotapes, he chose gray rocks for a background, a rough camo jacket for a costume and a rifle for a prop. He portrayed a hard, pure alternative to the decadent weakness of the modern world. Soft Westerners and their corrupt puppet princes reclined in luxury and sin while he wanted nothing but a gun and a prayer rug. The zealot travels light, his bloodred thoughts so pure that even stones are as cushions for his troubled sleep. <br />
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Now we know otherwise. Bin Laden was not the stoic soldier that he played onscreen. The exiled son of a Saudi construction mogul was living in a million-dollar home in a wealthy town nestled among green hills. He apparently slept in a king-size bed with a much younger wife. He had satellite TV. This, most of all, was fitting, because no matter how many hours he spent talking nostalgically of the 12th century and the glory of the islamic caliphate, bin laden was a master of the 21st century image machine.</blockquote><br />
The deconstruction of the uber-fiend, peddled for years, most relentlessly by the insidious Bush regime to hold political power and justify their wars and associated criminality was well under way. The Republican party owned 9/11, wielded it as a trusty bludgeon and used it without mercy as they eviscerated the United States Constitution, turned torture into the guiding principle of national policy, looted the treasury and doled out ever more lucrative contracts to mercenaries and private war profiteers on the taxpayer dime. Whenever it was questioned one of those timely bin Laden videos or tapes just happened to pop up, up went the color-coded terror alert and the nuisance of having to come up with answers went away. For example when Osama bin Laden just happened to pop up on a video four days or so before the 2004 elections it provided a ringing endorsement for the terrorism of Bush and Cheney and with a bit of help in Ohio courtesy of Karl Rove's election stealing machine the king was coronated anew for four more years of hell. The Republicans seized bin Laden and along with him the mythic menace of the destroyer of worlds, it was as though George W. Bush had pulled the magical sword Excalibur from the stone of the smoking rubble of the World Trade Center and the use of the tragedy for political expedience was already official policy while the rotting flesh of the victims still hung heavy in the lower Manhattan air.<br />
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<blockquote>No Hollywood filmmaker ever staged a more terrifying spectacle than 9/11, which bin Laden conjured from a few box cutters and 19 misguided martyrs. When the Twin Towers collapsed, he became the real-life answer to the ruthless, stateless and seemingly unstoppable villains of James Bond fantasy. It was necessary then, to find him and render him mortal again, reduce him to mere humanity - not just as a matter of justice but as a matter of self-defense. </blockquote><br />
And it has been done, Barack Hussein Obama has stolen away the mighty sword while at the same time the Mighty Wurlitzer of the pocket media not only ensures that the truth of the death of the evil one will be that of the official story of the state but that the original dogma of the attacks themselves would be reinforced for all time. With the establishment of the official historical account (which as the maxim goes, written by the victors and sanitized to omit the dirt) not only does the questioning of <i><b>any</b></i> part of the 9/11 story become intolerable by bin Laden himself is being body scrubbed with his past CIA association being denied by think tank hacks like Peter Bergen in his prominent WaPo piece entitled <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/five-myths-about-osama-bin-laden/2011/05/05/AFkG1rAG_story.html?hpid=z2">Five Myths about Osama bin Laden</a>. The usual gaggle of reliable neocon stooges like <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Charles Kra<i><span style="font-style: normal;">ü</span></i>thammer patting themselves on the back while trumpeting the great success of the phony war on terror, the sadists and authoritarian freaks on the right-wing decrying any criticism of torture, in Time's case <a href="http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2069673,00.html">making apologies for the ugly Americans</a> celebrating the demise of the bogeyman with their idiot "USA,USA,USA" chants and viciously cracking down on those who happen to wander off the star spangled lemming farm. Take for example Pittsburgh Steelers running back whose most recent claim to fame was a key fumble during the Super Bowl that pretty much sealed his team's doom. Both barrels were turned on Mendenhall this week for his daring to use TWITter to weigh in on the orgy of glee during the national barbecuing of bin Laden's ass - </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">"those of you who said you want to see Bin Laden burn in hell and piss on his ashes, I ask how would God feel about your heart?... What kind of person celebrates death?". For this the man was descended upon as if by a biblical plague of flesh-eating bats by the pocket media kingmakers, flag-sucking drones and assorted other imbecilic dwellers of the most befouled gutters of the mind. Were this a more primitive (or in our case futuristic) society, Mendenhall would have been quickly an ruthlessly hunted down, his tongue ripped out with fire heated iron tongs and his wayward fingers chopped off so as to never again engage in such heresy as well as to sent an example for others. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">We have been here before, any dissent from the Bush administration's blatant usage of the 9/11 event for reasons of politics and settling an old score with Saddam Hussein were affixed with the scarlet letters of traitor and anti-American. This is just the reverse form of the same primitive defense of the official religions. When it comes to doubts about the ceremonies, false idols and totems any who dare to utter the blasphemies must be dealt with summarily and with extreme prejudice. Any really serious examination of the scaly underbelly of the angry beast with millions of electronic eyes that is the <b>Homeland</b> in the new American century must be taken with a familiarity of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_Cave">allegory of Plato's cave</a>. Once you have been outside don't even bother to venture back to try to enlighten the other slaves for ye shalt be damned for your efforts if not drawn and quartered by a team of Clydesdales. </span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>Horror and moral terror are your friends. If they are not, then they are enemies to be feared.</i></div><i> </i><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">Maybe the real truth of the bin Laden story is that his former sponsors and associates within the American establishment finally just wanted to write the end to his story, tie up that last loose end because to do anything else would ensure a demise, sucked under in the quicksand bog of the wars without end. Obviously spooked by the recent Standard and Poor downgrade of the U.S. debt perhaps it was just an acknowledgement of that which is obvious in that the wars, especially the bottomless money pit in Afghanistan are destroying the country in ways that bin Laden or any other foreign enemy ever could. The bin Laden execution brings to mind the scene from the classic film <i>Apocalypse Now</i> when finally reaching the river's end Captain Willard is delivered to the compound of Colonel Kurtz who had <i>gone rogue</i> and was as a result marked for death by his own country's military leadership in order to terminate his command:</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">Willard: I was sent on a classified mission, sir.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Kurtz: It's no longer classified, is it? What did they tell you?</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Willard: They told me that you had gone totally insane, and that your methods were unsound.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Kurtz: Are my methods unsound?</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Willard: I don't see any method at all, sir.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Kurtz: I expected someone like you. What did you expect? Are you an assassin?</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">Kurtz: You're neither. You're an errand boy, sent by grocery clerks, to collect a bill.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Osama bin Laden was never going to stand trial, not in this Empire, not with what he knew. Despite the best efforts of the professional propagandists and spin doctors to downplay his longtime involvement as a valuable instrument of U.S. policy, most notably with the Mujahadeen in the proxy war against the Soviets back in the Reagan years in Afghanistan. What is now existent in popular culture as a noble effort, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Wilson%27s_War">Charlie Wilson's War</a> for example with the all-American Tom Hanks playing the flamboyant Texan Republican who used his seat in the U.S. Congress to promote arming Islamic radicals, a Reagan pet project right up there with letting good ole Ollie North run guns and drugs to fund arming the Latin American death squads. Were bin Laden to have a forum the potential revealing of such a duplicitous history could prove to be immensely embarrassing and in our sugar-coated, sanitized and flag-draped narrative we couldn't possibly admit to colluding with criminals, dictators, Nazi war criminals or Muslim fanatics in order to further an agenda largely dictated by corporations and plutocrats. Best to just send in the hit squad and be done with it, if that's what actually happened. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Media analyst Danny Schecter puts it well in his piece <a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=24662"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Nailing Osama Bin Laden: Was it a military or amedia operation? Why now? </span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal">I have always personally believed that he was dead, at least since shortly after the towers fell and I have never been convinced that he played anything more than an ancillary role in the 9/11 attacks. The attacks as they occurred couldn’t have been carried out by anything less than a multi-national alliance of serious and I mean stone cold professional military personnel, intelligence pros, mole networks largely compartmentalized to provide plausible denial and government officials with the clout to influence both the behind the scenes preparatory work as well as the following cover-up. The weakest part of the entire story to me has always been Osama bin Laden and his flight-simulator trained Islamic fundamentalist fanatics like Mohammad Atta, Ninjas with box-cutters who could overwhelm a multi-trillion dollar intelligence colossus, circumvent the entire national air defense command, dupe U.S. allies and their intelligence services and then pull off with crackerjack precision three daredevil direct hits on U.S. buildings with such damage being done to the structures as to defy the basic laws of physics. Americans are stupid though and swallowed it all, rolled over and gave up their rights and begged for more tyrannical enslavement as their tax dollars were funneled to private military contractors (mercenaries) and private intelligence firms operating with impunity, zero oversight and no loyalty except to the bottom line. Maybe in the movies Bruce Willis can assemble a crew of losers, party freaks, misunderstood geniuses and hard-assed oil patch roughnecks who could be trained by NASA in less than two weeks to go into space and destroy a killer asteroid but this is reality and when something smells like bullshit there is a 99.9 % chance that it IS bullshit. </div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">The entire official story of 9/11 is one big lie but it is now a lie that like the assassination of President Kennedy will live on while any naysayers will be stigmatized and ghettoized in the predictable manner that "conspiracy theorists" are always treated by a corrupt state seeking to keep its skeletons in the closet with the doors nailed shut. What is now occurring is the death of the 9/11 Truth Movement, as the national wound that was ripped open on that Tuesday morning in 2001 begins to scab over there will be no tolerance for those who continue to pick at it. Already in the days after the big announcement there is a real chill in the air and the establishment is in all likelihood implement the <a href="http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/01/15/sunstein">Cass Sunstein plan </a>to "cognitively infiltrate" groups that question the official government fairy tale of 9/11. Personalities who had previously done much good work in investigating 9/11, for example alternative media firebrand Alex Jones has essentially discredited himself through his willingness to feast upon the fruit of the poisoned tree that was the finally and hopefully permanently discredited Birther movement (which smelled like an Israeli black propaganda campaign from the get go) and as a result of this been immersed in a vat of horseshit. While playing fast and loose with themes friendly to the Council For National Policy like global warming denial and pandering to bigots for ratings by demonizing Meskins any of Jones' skepticism at the serendipitous death of bin Laden is easily mocked despite the legitimacy of such questions. There are others as well calling bullshit on the bin Laden murder and they will surely face immense difficulty and much scorn in pursuing this line of skepticism. My personal advice is that it just isn't worth it, there are too many other areas that are in more need of serious attention than wailing away at the tar baby that is Osama bin Laden. Again, where is the body? Why the changes of story? Why now? I defer to recent work by Paul Craig Roberts <a href="http://www.lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts304.html">The Agendas Behind the bin Laden News Event</a> and Russ Baker <a href="http://whowhatwhy.com/2011/05/05/more-questions-on-bin-laden/">More Questions on bin Laden</a> for provocative reading and unlike Alex Jones they have not self-immolated. </span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">This may sound like a cop out but as far as I am concerned an official admission that the man is dead works fine for me, whether it happened last weekend or nine years ago is at this point moot to me. </span>In the end what is most important is that we are able to exit the bizarre, down the rabbit hole because it just may end up being a grave, parallel universe that we were catapulted into when the planes hit the building on September 11, 2001. That will have to suffice right now for nothing will ever have even the remotest chance of returning to a state of semi-normality or what is going to pass for that unless we are able to get some closure and an escape from the neocon Republican fear mongering that has mired us in unwinnable, bankrupting and immoral wars of occupation based on lies. Barring a real investigation into the 9/11 attacks, which by the way is <b>NEVER</b> going to happen, I personally think that it is best to just accept the official story of Osama bin Laden’s death as it has been put forth by the state and it’s organs. Face it, the story may have that now familiar rottenness about it but it’s just time to move on beyond the horrors of the last decade. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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Now that the death of Osama bin Laden, allegedly the kingpin of the 'terrorist' attacks on September 11, 2001 that threw the United States into a bizarre parallel universe where war became peace and lies became conventional wisdom in a land where a choking, always present fear was the coin of the realm has been announced, it is a strange period, an interregnum. It is like that certain 'moment of clarity' that alcoholics occasionally experience, the one time that they can emerge from their disease, see the wreckage of their lives and be shocked into corrective action. In any sane country this could be a moment to reflect upon what we have become, all as the neocon tools and their propaganda have insisted has been justified on the existence of this evil evil man. We have had our civil liberties shredded, the Constitution has been gutted, the insane doctrine of preventative war has led to a Middle East and parts of Eurasia aflame, the bodies of both the guilty and the innocent can be stacked more than halfway to Jesus. We have seen our airports turned into abominable places where law abiding citizens are treated with suspicion, ruled over by drooling TSA government thugs, forced to remove our shoes, march silently through the naked body scanners promoted by the corrupt former head of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff, the 'pat downs', a grossly Orwellian term that in true American style puts a nice sugar coating on sexual assault have become more aggressive, children are felt up in front of their parents, potentially causing lasting psychological damage and if anyone dares to complain about it, the TSA has now come out and stated that they would be targeted for even <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2011/TRAVEL/04/15/tsa.screeners.complain/">more harassment</a>. <br />
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Police departments have been militarized under the guise of fighting terrorism, a term that has over the last decade morphed into something as vague as to label legitimate political dissent as terror. The country has established a vast network of secret torture gulags or black sites, extraordinary rendition (or kidnapping) is standard operational procedure. Torture by the way now is the official law of the land, thanks to a sadistic gang of psychopaths in positions of power and assisted greatly by foreign media mogul Rupert Murdoch, whose state favored, right-wing propaganda machine FOX polluted millions of minds with their insipid torture promoting series 24 featuring America's favorite Nazi Jack Bauer. We are <i><b>all </b></i>spied on constantly, arms of the national security state such as the NSA are out of control and engage in data-mining and predictive analytic patterning that comes very close to Philip K. Dick's Minority Report and the Department of Pre-Crime, if not official government entities then the spying is farmed out to the private intelligence firms that have raged through the nation like a mutant form of kudzu, all of it is being funded on the backs of the taxpayers who are forced to pay for our own enslavement. Chances are that if you live in a major city you have at least one <a href="http://www.aclu.org/technology-and-liberty/whats-wrong-fusion-centers-executive-summary">fusion center</a> where military, big government and local police intersect to spy on you. Habeas corpus is a thing of the past now and any American could find themselves scooped up and disappeared, just like in Stalin's Russia or in Hitler's Nazi Germany, totalitarian states that were built on the big lie of protecting the people from terror.<br />
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What truly bothered me yesterday was the outpouring of national bloodlust over the 'death' of Osama bin Laden. There were parties, fans at sporting events chanted <a href="http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/baseball/mlb/05/02/phillies.bin.laden.ap/index.html?eref=sihp">USA! USA! USA!</a>, the media was filled with slavering platitudes and other dreck celebrating the death of the evil one, even Sports Illustrated got in on the national orgy of vengeance slaked with ace football writer Peter King (not the I.RA. terrorist supporting, anti-Muslim wanna be McCarthy from Long Island who shamelessly used the news to deliver a kick to the hated Obama and to <a href="http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/peter-king-claims-key-bin-laden-information-came-through-waterboarding/story-e6frfku0-1226049116254">endorse torture</a>) leading off his <a href="http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/writers/peter_king/05/01/mmqb/index.html">weekly column</a> with a bit of red, white and blue rah rah. There were homages paid to national unity anew, just like that warm feeling of a national mob mentality that largely existed after 9/11 itself, never have I seen such an orgy of rapturous glee over an assassination. It could be that this is just a cathartic moment, one where a people beaten into submission by fear and yoked by a fanatical government hellbent on creating a police state finally rid themselves of both their demon and the fear that has enslaved them while they were beggared, ripped off and foreclosed upon to finance the hunt for the national villain .<br />
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More likely though it will be something far darker as things in the new American century have a tendency to be. The renewed <i>unity </i>comes at a time of severe economic privation, an increasingly restive populace fed a constant stream of anti-Muslim propaganda to dehumanize 'the enemy' and a fascist political party in the Republicans that is looking for that man on the white horse, desperately seeking to return to power in order to force their dystopian vision of a society upon others and now there is a police state infrastructure to back it up. The past week may have beaten back the more vile elements when Obama produced his long form birth certificate and newly minted GOP gladiator Donald Trump was publicly ridiculed but the bin Laden death (sans body as it may be) could rather than provide the aforementioned catharsis could instead go the other way and serve to justify all that has taken place since the day the planes hit the buildings. It is already being spun that the fascist, surveillance, torture state was instrumental in bagging the bad ass bogeymen, as the end justifies the means and the wars could despite the looming bankruptcy of the country be expanded rather than winded down now that bin Laden is officially deceased. <br />
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The beast has been loosed and now it has acquired a taste for blood....<br />
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EEUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34263444.post-41460721348880737722011-04-06T06:26:00.002-05:002011-04-06T17:00:00.688-05:00April Fools: The Tea Party Jumps the Shark<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht1BBWHWCBNz7huZcdOzGL1WfUBncLxO2fWRsemBhqbfH1XyNpMfHsNItBgkts_RI8-EGmMYCUE5sdqY50757e_1ngS4NbOUORzio9_sGkDfulO4VbkjTtG-nNC105L2PtF1h4/s1600/April+Fools+3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht1BBWHWCBNz7huZcdOzGL1WfUBncLxO2fWRsemBhqbfH1XyNpMfHsNItBgkts_RI8-EGmMYCUE5sdqY50757e_1ngS4NbOUORzio9_sGkDfulO4VbkjTtG-nNC105L2PtF1h4/s1600/April+Fools+3.jpg" /></a></div><br />
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</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It is exactly as I predicted. The gaggle of angry Americans suffering from collective insanity, willful ignorance and a raw and seething fury over the audacity of a black man being elected President are being thrown under the bus by their cynical Republican saviors. It was always ludicrous to the nth degree that the assclowns, haters, perverts, greedballs and rubber fetus crowd of the Republican base could hope that a re-branding along with the hijacking of a libertarian based pro-American values movement would end up as anything but a mockery. The other day when a few hundred (a generous count from eyewitnesses accounts) pasty white fat old people, a pack of costumed loons dressed up like Captain America or in the ridiculous colonial American garb gathered in the rain to listen to the rancid Rand Paul and moonbat Michelle Bachmann wail in ginned up outrage outside of Congress that the movement had truly jumped the shark. While the majority of the cretins don't get it yet they are as radioactive as Fukashima and as they have slowly evolved into a gross parody of themselves the only aspiring politicians still attracted to the lamentable overly hyped Astroturf uprising are egomaniacs and charlatans like newly minted champion of the Birthers that is the aggravating and slimy parasite named Donald Trump. I can hardly wait until next year when the greatest freak show on the planet will descend upon the Tampa Bay area when the Republican National Convention comes to town. It's gonna be the biggest magnet for the deranged this area has seen since the great angry hordes descended on Pinellas Park to gang rape the brain dead living corpse that was Terri Schiavo.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The teabaggers never would have been taken seriously to begin with were not the establishment plutocrats enamored with the idea of fielding their very own <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturmabteilung">Sturmabteilung</a> to bully, intimidate, harangue and mislead as they acted to put the post-Bush disgraced GOP back into power. The Dick Armey of Darkness was an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gladio">Operation Gladio</a> style stay-behind network to sabotage any meaningful effort at systemic reform that would potentially rollback fascist right-wing gains of the past three decades. With a corrupt media spinning ever increasingly insane demand by the scumbaggers into a wag the dog style of populist uprising the useful idiots served their purpose in returning Republicans to power in 2010. The big assists must be given to not only corporate propaganda organs like Murdoch's Wall Street Journal, in which NO serious challenge to the power structure would ever be referred to in such reverence as the tea party but to the raw cynicism and gross fecklessness of the Obama administration which alienated the traditional Democratic party base and kept them home in droves on election day. Now that the Koch Brothers have their hand picked governors in place in numerous states where whatever remains of the regulatory structure and social safety net will be destroyed with extreme prejudice the buffoonish teabaggers are going to understand exactly what happens when such a collection of vicious goons lose their usefulness to the party leadership - just think <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Long_Knives">Night of the Long Knives</a>.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I happen to actually know several of the suckers who suddenly, after years of George W. Bush racking up the national credit card with not a peep became shrieking, talking point spewing deficit hawks, howling about how Barack Obama's wee wee isn't circumcised which proved he was a secret Muslim/Commie out to send forth his militant black army ACORN to enslave the good ole white working folks. They began to harp on the Kenyan anti-colonialist worldview of Obama, raved about death panels, unions and did their damned level best to pour as much money into Glenn Beck's bank account by buying his ghostwritten tripe that subsidizes his millionaire faux populism. When I asked one about how could he possibly compare and contrast the reputed Kenyan anti-colonialism of Obama with the anti-colonial worldview of the Founding Fathers that they so like to selectively quote he got that thousand yard stare and quickly changed the subject to George Soros. One has to have somewhat of a sick sense of humor to remain sane in this rotting empire these days, were those who actually subscribed to the horseshit peddled by the Koch Brothers network of think tanks, extreme radical Christian domination of the churches and are convinced that we are engaged in a steel cage death match crusade to halt the coming of Sharia law and the Islamic caliphate not legion they would be easier to dismiss. Now that they are being peeled off of the Republican elephant's ass like blood-sucking leeches they are only going to become more desperate. How long will it be until some freak Christian group or militia sets off a mass casualty attack here in the USA? Of course it isn't terrorism if the white people do it, like the white supremacist yahoo who left a backpack bomb along a Martin Luther King day parade route in Spokane . The enablers of the angry white army who benefit from using them as droogs sure has zero interest in examining the threat of domestic white terrorism. But Herr Liebermann and the Irish Republican Army supporting turd Peter King preside from on high against the hated scapegoated Muslims.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Never have I seen such a credulous collection of saps in my lifetime. The teabaggers will believe anything which they hear from the payroll propagandists, haters, fifth-columnists and demonic false prophet preachers with their slime campaigns out to paint Obama as an anti-American at best and the Antichrist himself at worst. </span><span style="font-size: small;">Now this may seem sick but I have this twisted little fantasy, I wish that Obama did have a huge nefarious conspiracy to rid America once and for all of Raptureheads, Teabaggers, Deathers, red state fascists and assorted outher dumbasses. I would love it if he had the balls to just give the order to round up and relocate these vicious swine to some sort of reeducation camps, if they could be saved great, do the necessary lobotomies and send them back into society to pick beans and clean toilets, the jobs that after all 'Americans just won't do' according to the talking points. And if not just march them into an industrial sized Soylent Green style meatgrinder and puree their asses up into a fine pulp (omitting the children from their dead-ender loser parents of course whose removal from their lives would free them from a lifetime of willful ignorance and bible study) mix it with plenty of bean sprouts, soy sauce and water chestnuts and sell it to the Chinese as egg roll stuffing or something. Baby Trig Palin and his football shaped head could be auctioned off on EBay to some </span><span style="font-size: small;">high-rolling d</span><span style="font-size: small;">egenarate Asian cocksuckers like the ones in Faces of Death who revel in eating fresh monkey brains directly out of the poor creature's skull. Sadly, given the pathological nature of American corporations to trade shit and shinola back and forth it would all likely end up as 2.99 per pound sausage on a stick at your local big blue smiley Wal-Mart superstore. Christ only knows what sort of raw agricultural waste and human sewage ends up being made into coleslaw at their delis. Just don’t gas them in the camps, it may spoil the flavor of their diseased flesh that could otherwise be passed off to the Meskin’ hating Becker bottom feeders as chorizo sausage in their frozen breakfast burritos.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Of course the sheer hypocrisy has contributed much to the downfall of the teabaggers, while howling and dancing around like a bunch of buffoons waving their Gadsen flags about the evils of the deficit, the needed purity rituals to take <i><b>their </b></i>country back and the growth of big government they are truly full of shit. Were the teabaggers concerned about big government and the deficit they would surely call for the immediate end of the imperialism of the Military Industrial Corporate Complex which these diseased, death worshipping bumpkins just adore, hell, carpet bombing sand niggers is nearly as good as NASCAR. The big government that they denounce with bogus passion that is only outwardly projected self-loathing (deservedly) is just fine with them as long as it consists of a gargantuan police state apparatus that they can one use to round up gays, libruls [sic], Muslims and illegal immigrants. A police state that has a high tech capability to allow the bible thumping prudes and ignoramuses to spy on the private behavior of others, and the more that it is about sex the better because with the crowd there is nothing that has more clarity than the two ideas of the vengeful bloodthirsty omnipotent God and that poking Mr. Wiggly into the dirty place isn't anything that Jesus would approve of. Which just doesn't seem so outrageous to them when it is pederast priests and pedophile preachers doing the poking. The lack of outrage towards Wall Street also defines the scumbagger schmucks, were they anything less than the malleable dolts and dupes that they always have been they would be marching with pitchforks and torches towards the swanky headquarters of Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Citi and Bank of America and storming the barricades of the corrupt high-rolling swine responsible for the economic collapse. It is a strange dichotomy that the dumb bastards regularly rail against teachers and their weakened unions but have zero qualms about the oligarchy grinding their bones to make their bread but you just can't put lipstick on a pig or polish a turd, the Tea Party is what it is, the dregs of American society and the product of the war against the public education system. I really makes one wonder whether the early 20th Century elite just may have been onto something when they championed eugenics (yes, Hitler actually got a good deal of his ideas from the USA) and sterilization to keep the mentally inferior from reproducing. In retrospect, just how many of these fucking flag-waving borderline retards would have been born had that idea gotten more traction in it's time?</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I will be watching with much interest to see if the Republican dog is wagged by the Tea Party tail will have the gonads to actually shut down the government this week. The orange man John Boehner is feeling the heat as the angry army is getting more restive by the day that there hasn't been legislation to make Obama cough up his birth certificate and is backed into a corner now. Any capitulation would potentially doom this career hack and allow an ambitious little pit viper like Eric Cantor to harness the uncontrollable monster of the cultural populist uprising that has been fed by the Kochs and their ilk. The latest jagoff to overstate his importance is some nitwit from Wisconsin named Paul Ryan who yesterday rolled out a budget proposal to cut over 4 trillion from big gubmint spending over the next decade. Of course military spending is ok as are tax cuts for the rich but anything that helps the poor is of course under the ax. Ryan, like so many of these other right-wing pigfuckers looks amazingly like a Nazi, just check out some old WWII footage and you will notice that there is an amazing resemblance between nearly all of these dipshits and their historical predecessors, just slap a Colonel Klink hat on Ryan and he'd fit right in. The GOP budget, with the typical Orwellian sounding name <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703806304576242612172357504.html">The Path to Prosperity</a> is being touted by the moneychanger's gospel that is Murdoch's Wall Street Journal, then again so was the Tea Party and all of the other frauds.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Me, I say shut it down too. Let these pasty fat haters practice what they preach and not receive their medicare and social security checks, see how popular that the Beckers find that one. Boehner, Ryan and their ilk may find out very quickly that the Tea Party platform can be easily converted into a gallows.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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<em>Barack promised change -- and sure enough, things changed for the worse</em><br />
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<em>-Joe Bageant</em><br />
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It was with immense sadness that I discovered that Joe Bageant had succumbed to cancer and departed this mortal coil the weekend prior to last. I was a huge fan of Joe's, his writings, especially in recent years as the obvious decline and fall of America into fascist third world status accelerated were poetic, mournful, darkly funny and dead on. He will be missed, as <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:DoNotOptimizeForBrowser/> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]-->Hunter S. Thompson once wrote,<i> “the tribe is smaller by one, the circle is one link shorter and the enemy jacks up the odds by just a little bit more"</i>.<br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">I doubt that Joe would have been much of a fan of my style of writing, perhaps he would have been repulsed at my vitriol, my lack of compassion and my taste for the fresh blood of the jugular, when dealing with the filthy and deranged pigs who run this sty one must confront them on their own levels and even take it up a notch, the old Untouchables saying comes to mine about pulling a gun if the other guy pulls a knife. Joe Bageant wasn't about that, he was a damned decent and compassionate man, possessed of the sort of the wisdom of the elders that is treasured in honorable societies unlike this diseased rollerball rink of carnivorous rat-fuckers. His writing of why the poor, white working class and what drove them to continue to vote against their own economic self interests was never judgmental and since Joe came from that place his understanding and his eloquence were his great gift. Nowhere did Joe Bageant do this than with his book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Deer-Hunting-Jesus-Dispatches-Americas/dp/030733936X">Deer Hunting With Jesus</a>, I would recommend it to everybody. His last book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Rainbow-Pie-Redneck-Joe-Bageant/dp/192164091X">Rainbow Pie</a> will soon be available domestically as well and I hope that it sells like crazy so that more people can be exposed to his great work and in some way become enlightened. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">I really wanted to do a long tribute to Joe, but somehow anything that I were to write about the man would not do him justice, therefore I have decided to excerpt some of my favorite bits of his work as my own way to honor him, his loss is all of our loss and in a land where losing is the norm it is only a matter of time until there will be nothing left to lose. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">Two hundred years ago no one would have thought sheer volume of available facts in the digital information age would produce informed Americans. Founders of the republic, steeped in the Enlightenment as they were, and believers in an informed citizenry being vital to freedom and democracy, would be delirious with joy at the prospect. Imagine Jefferson and Franklin high on Google. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The fatal assumption was that Americans would choose to think and learn, instead of cherry picking the blogs and TV channels to reinforce their particular branded choice cultural ignorance, consumer, scientific or political, but especially political. Tom and Ben could never have guessed we would chase prepackaged spectacle, junk science, and titillating rumor such as death panels, Obama as a socialist Muslim and Biblical proof that Adam and Eve rode dinosaurs around Eden. In a nation that equates democracy with everyman's right to an opinion, no matter how ridiculous, this was probably inevitable. After all, dumb people choose dumb stuff. That's why they are called dumb. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">But throw in sixty years of television's mind puddling effects, and you end up with 24 million Americans watching Bristol Palin thrashing around on Dancing with the Stars, then watch her being interviewed with all seriousness on the networks as major news. The inescapable conclusion of half of heartland America is that her mama must certainly be presidential material, even if Bristol cannot dance. It ain't a pretty picture out there in Chattanooga and Keokuk.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The other half, the liberal half, concludes that Bristol's bad dancing is part of her spawn-of-the-Devil mama's plan to take over the country, and make millions in the process, not to mention make Tina Fey and Jon Stewart richer than they already are. That's a tall order for a squirrel brained woman who recently asked a black president to "refutiate" the NAACP (though I kinda like refutiate, myself). Cultural stupidity accounts for virtually every aspect of Sarah Palin, both as a person and a political icon. Which, come to think of it, may be a pretty good reason not to "misunderstimate" her. After all, we're still talking about her in both political camps. And the woman OWNS the Huffington Post, fer Christsake. Not to mention a franchise on cultural ignorance. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Cultural stupidity might not be so bad, were it not self-reproducing and viral, and prone to place stupid people in charge. All of us have, at some point, looked at a boss and asked ourselves how such a numb-nuts could end up in charge of the joint.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">From: <a href="http://www.joebageant.com/joe/2007/07/the-ants-of-gai.html">The Ants of Gaia</a></div><div class="MsoNormal"> </div><div class="MsoNormal">The most dangerous question in the world</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Yet, I dare say that comfort is not the most important thing in most American lives. It is just the only thing we are offered in exchange for our toil and the pain of ordinary existence in such an age. Consequently, it is all we know. Meaningless work, then meaningless comfort and distraction in the too-few hours between sleep and labor. But we settled for that and continue to do so. The day will never come when we stand around the office water cooler and ask one another: "Why in the hell are we even here today?" It's the most dangerous question in America and the Western world.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Some few of us are in a hellish limbo, simply waiting for total collapse because it is easier to rebuild from nothing than to change billions of minds not even remotely concerned with the looming catastrophe. A minority of the world, the six percent called America, suffers the mass self-delusion of endless plentitude. A much larger portion is less concerned with the moral aspects of consumption because they are brutally engaged in trying to find enough to eat and a drink of clean water. So plentitude on any terms looks damned good. Escape to America because those fuckers over there don't seem to be suffering at all.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">From: <a href="http://www.joebageant.com/joe/2006/02/welcome_to_midd.html">Welcome to Middle Class Lockdown</a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal">Now it took me one helluva long time to claw my redneck self into the middle class and it took me even longer to figure all this out about its inauthenticity. Always one to fuck up right in front of the whole damned world, I loudly declared American middle class life to be a crock of shit and vowed to kiss it off. Go someplace simpler. Run nekkid in the surf in Saint Kitts or smoke pot in Belize. Catch my own damned salmon on the Galician Coast. But whoaaa hoss! This bad news just in: Not only do you have to buy your way into the American middle class through forceful consumption of the lifestyle, but you have to buy your way out of it. I'm serious. Buy your right to live in poverty. Let's say you've managed to get your kids through college one way or another, usually via a second mortgage and loans, and you decide like I did to say: Fuck this. I've done right by my family. Now I've got high blood pressure, a bad back, and a million other stress ailments. I'm overweight and have terrible lungs. Now I want to escape the ever rising cost and stress of playing the game, the grinding chase after enough net worth to feel safe about such things as health care and a safe place to shit. Spend a few years in some warm place blinking at blue, unpolluted sky before I go tits up. To my mind, these are completely understandable sentiments for any reasonable person. But, alas dear hearts, the American middle class is a lockdown facility. One that takes a lot of cash bribes and blackmail payoffs to break out of.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Now making complicated plans just to croak has always seemed rather excessive to me. Millions manage to do it without much planning or the need for highly paid experts. I don't care about financial planners or plans for elder care and such crap in my old age. I'm willing to die wretchedly and maybe even unnecessarily, if doing it the right way means blowing a couple hundred thousand dollars I do not have to buy few extra months drooling and talking out of one side of my mouth following that stroke I so richly deserve, given my debauched life. To hell with health care as we know it in America, which is to say as a tool used to blackmail every working person in this country. Better to work less, own less and escape the plague of blackmailers.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">You would think owning jack shit and expecting nothing would allow a guy slightly more freedom from toil, would you not? Yet, even though I never wish to own a car again, or ever own another house, don't care about clothes, could easily live on grains, fruits and vegetables, and am willing to work maybe 20 hours a week at some mindless occupation so long as it does not contribute to the world's misery and doesn't require heavy lifting or good memory, and willing to live in the tiniest of rooms, it's still impossible to do so inside this nation, once you've signed the middle class blood oath. Even if I managed to talk my wife into such a life, this is the one thing I am not free to do in the good old land of the free. In this country, buster, you keep paying the going rate, even if you don't care about going. Like the Cajuns say, you will know when you are dead because the bills will quit coming in.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">From: <a href="http://www.joebageant.com/joe/2005/05/carpooling_with.html">Carpooling With Adolf Eichmann</a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">One of the most unsettling things about this country is that the following people are considered perfectly sane by American standards: Dick Cheney, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Deepak Chopra, Bill Clinton, Oprah Winfrey, Pat Robertson, Grover Nordquist, and Michelle Malkin. See anybody in that list even remotely normal? Every one of them lives in an egomaniacal la-la-land of his or her imagination and manages to get paid to do it. Believe me when I say that just about any face you see on your television or in the newspaper is a nutjob. I used to interview such freaks for a living. Of course, given that American journalists and interviewers have become mindless suck-asses, I understand that I may have a credibility problem here. But onward!</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"Adolf Eichmann was thoughtful, orderly, and unimaginative. He had a profound respect for system, for law and order. He was obedient, loyal, a faithful officer of a great state. He served his government very well. The sanity of Eichmann is disturbing. We equate sanity with a sense of justice, with humaneness, with prudence, with the capacity to love and understand other people. We rely on the sane people of the world to preserve it from barbarism, madness, and destruction. And now it begins to dawn on us that it is precisely the sane ones who are the most dangerous."</i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>- Thomas Merton, Raids on the Unspeakable</i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Any culture that spends as much money as we do on ugly cars, fast food and liposuction cannot possibly be sane. Certainly we are not paying attention to cause and effect. Then I consider those Australian aborigines who ritualistically smash their cranks with a heavy rock and conclude that we Eurotrash hog thieves have come at least a little way in the last few hundred years. Despite the aboriginals' eco-friendly grasp of nature and the planet, we have an edge when it comes to male puberty. There is a certain element of national sanity in a country that grasps the post-pubescent male advantages of football over a heavy rock.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Unfortunately, our national sanity is of the thoroughly dangerous sort -- the Third Reich sort. Remember that even Adolf Eichmann was determined to be completely sane by a panel of medical experts. At least as sane as you and me and if you would like to be excluded from this comparison, you may be excused. Like the other good Nazis, ole Eich would have easily made a respected member of American society today, probably as a Republican judicial nominee. He would have fit quite well into a nation of Americans going about its daily business caring for and protecting the homeland's security and profitability. Eichmann slept well at nights, the same as most of us, unaffected in appetite. He would have made a good carpooler, telling us all about the kids and grandkids as we commute the monotonous asphalt strips to and from our jobs, creating the paper work and the information product, the plastics and the commerce of the fatherland, that great sprawling circuit board one sees from airplanes. Like Eichmann, we are efficient, productive, and most terribly of all, untroubled by guilt. Oblivious as gravestones. Sane.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"> </div><div class="MsoNormal"> Joe Bageant's essays <a href="http://coldtype.net/joe.html">are available in a nice .pdf format here</a> - please take the time to read them and pass them on, his work is important and the greatest honor that one could pay to Joe Bageant would be to turn on as many people as possible to it. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Adios Joe, you will be missed.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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As the cancer that is looter capitalism continues to devour America in order to perpetuate it's necessity to show continuous growth as we now enter the final monopoly stages it would be wise to realize that none of this were to have happened had our society not glorified the rich, condemned the poor and become damned by greed and lack of compassion. The zero sum game that is big time American capitalism (which is not to be confused with free enterprise) the decades of pillage and conquer abroad not nearly enough to feed the insatiable rapacious monster which is fueled by pure greed has come home to roost. I am often reminded of that old Stephen King story <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivor_Type">Survivor Type</a> where the dude is marooned on a barren and deserted island with nothing but a gargantuan amount of heroin and has to amputate parts of his body to eat in order to survive. This is the late stage of capitalism, the one that those foul devils Karl Marx and Vlad Lenin as well as every influential thinker with any common sense warned about. This is the continuation of the vaunted ownership society....they own your ass!<br />
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Forget the mass hallucination that was George W. Bush's ownership society, the miraculous run up in home prices where the average shmoe could dream of becoming a real live real estate kingpin like the noxious Donald Trump by flipping houses just like the big boys. With the glorious magic of ever increasing property values Americans could just take out huge home equity lines of credit and live beyond their wildest means, filling their McMansions with shit that they couldn't afford using money that they didn't have, all of which debt was then being packaged off into derivitives, what the exalted high priest of the temple of American mammon <a href="http://harpers.org/archive/2010/01/0082783">Warren Buffett aka the Oracle of Omaha</a> once himself called <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/2817995.stm">financial weapons of mass destruction</a>. The big banks couldn't lend money fast enough, with shoddier standards or any foresight of what might happen were the party to stop, largely because the loans were being pureed and repackaged into mortgage backed paper (more like toilet paper) that was immediately sold to investors while the con artists who created it were also using credit default swaps to bet against it. The pigs were gorging themselves in an unprecedented orgy of greed, corporations were getting fat while using the relatively new practice of offshoring to divest themselves of jobs for Americans in favor of lower paid workers in India and other locales and manufacturing was being systematically dismantled in favor of using plants in China. All of it was great until the waning days of the Bush administration when the shit hit the fan and the whole thing blew up.<br />
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While phony conservative pundits foist off the blame for the economic collapse on the usual bogeyman black people for taking out loans that they couldn't afford to pay back, a fake narrative that the racist white trash teabaggers gobbled up like frosted bullshit biscuits it was just another big lie. It would be far more accurate to point the finger at the pasty white social climbers who turned into wheeler dealers as they churned housing, taking out risky loans (which the Wall Street temples of avarice pumped out with full knowledge of their toxicity) to plunk down on skyrocketing properties which they briefly held before selling to the next schmuck. It was only a matter of time until the music stopped and a good many of the greedy bitches and bastards were left without chairs, any sane person could see that it wasn't real. Then there were the TV addled dopes, the Boobus Americanus who actually bought their dream homes, mini-mansions in exurbia with polished marble countertops, more rooms that they needed and had to be furnished by maxing out the plastic and the two and three car garages in which they could park their SUVs. It was of course a massive disaster waiting to happen and when it all came crashing down former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson (also former CEO of Goldman Sachs) went on bended knee to Congress to get a one of those nice taxpayer funded bailouts for all of his criminal buddies on Wall Street. Then came TARP (interesting acronym for something used to cover up a massive swindle) which both Bush and Obama signed off on and in layman's terms dry-fucked millions of Americans in the ass so that the banksters could continue to get their bonuses and the revolving door between Washington and Wall Street could keep spinning. Matt Taibbi has done a great job of muckraking journalism on the gross plunder and pillage that Wall Street, especially Goldman Sachs (or as I refer to them, the Great Satan) engaged in for <i>Rolling Stone</i> magazine. Taibbi's work is must reading for those seeking to understand how viciously the anal rape of America by the big banks has been, see <a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=14637">The Great American Bubble Machine</a> or the book <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/book/176128/griftopia-by-matt-taibbi/9780385529952/">Griftopia </a>for his writing on the crime of the century. <br />
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For awhile though it actually looked like there could be systemic change, had Obama had any balls he would have ordered the nationalization of the big banks, the liquidation of all derivatives and appointed a Wall Street crime czar with endless resources, subpoena power and a mandate to thoroughly cleanse the system. Back in early 2009 the financial racketeers were on the ropes, AIG executives were <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/21/activists-protest-bonuses_n_177669.html">besieged by protesters </a>at their homes, CNBC con-artist Jim "Mad Money" Cramer was being publicly pilloried and left-gatekeeper Bill Maher went on HBO and suggested that hanging two randomly picked bankers by the big board at the New York Stock Exchange with their balls in their mouth would set a good example. Then something happened, the tide turned <b><i>in favor </i></b>of the big banking racketeers who had bamboozled Americans by the millions to buy their yachts, only in America could something this obscene happen, a land where cunning hatchetman CEO's are treated as gods and decades of incessant propaganda have effectively brainwashed a population that while incapable of understanding the most basic concepts of incremental losing into actually thinking that one day they too can be rich!<br />
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The bankster pushback actually started with CNBC's greasy little pimp Rick Santelli went off on camera in the <a href="http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1039849853">much hyped rant</a> on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange that effectively co-opted the former libertarian tea party movement and brought it under Republican/Koch Brothers control. That would have serious implications later on with the mass counterattack by big business as they had in the blink of an eye with a big assist from FOX an army of angry, ignorant, racist fatties to mobilize as brownshirts against any sort of serious reform efforts. It has always amazed me (but not really) how so many could be so easily duped into action against their own economic self-interests, in a historical sense the Tea Party (just a rebranding of the die hard haters of the GOP base post-Bush) is on the side of the British Monarchy although rich in irony it is far beyond their comprehension. The next step of the bankster's Battle of the Bulge was the <a href="http://www.infowars.com/citigroup-inspired-bear-market-suckers-rally/">'leaked' internal memo</a> by Citi's Vikram 'the bandit' Pandit that things really aren't that bad after all which put a floor on the stock market plunge. Then came the 60 Minutes appearance of Ben Bernanke, Obama's re-appointed Bush holdover Fed Chairman that there were marvelous <b><span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="color: lime;">"GREEN SHOOTS"</span> </span></b>of an economic recovery already popping up, Bernanke's jacking off of the public was followed by Tim Geithner's obviously rigged stress tests of the banks. Lost in all of the hype and propaganda was another critical part of the effort to deceive the sheep into lining up for another shearing at the Wall Street casino tables, the Financial Standards Accounting Board (FASB) quietly <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=awSxPMGzDW38">changed the mark-to-market rules</a> so that the worthless toilet paper mortgage backed securities could now be valued at whatever the pit bosses desired. The hustle had been pulled off, soon the media was focusing on the staged Tea Party bund rallies against Obamacare (really a massive giveaway to the insurance parasites) and Bernanke was <a href="http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1946375_1947251_1947520,00.html">crowned as Time's Man of the Year</a> (now changed to person of the year thanks to the political correctness Nazis).The greedheads got bailed out, the taxpayers got the shaft and the looting spree was back on. To borrow a great analogy from gadfly Webster Tarpley (which I paraphrase) in reference to the bailout - <i>when Dracula is sucking the blood out of a victim the thing to do is to pull him off and drive a stake through his heart but the Obama administration is trying to save the victim by giving Dracula a blood transfusion and hoping that it would flow back into the victim</i> or something along those lines, I don't have the exact wording. <br />
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Now two years after the Santelli dog and pony show, the Citi memo and <b style="color: lime;">GREEN SHOOTS</b> the economy is still a disaster, the dollar is in freefall, Bernanke has the printing presses set on ramming speed and there are widespread flareups of unrest largely thanks to food prices sent into the stratosphere by pigs who speculate in commodities. Look for matters to only get worse too, it's now obvious that the Japanese government has been lying about the massive humanitarian catastrophe thanks to TEPCO's Fukashima radioactive meltdown which I strongly suspect is motivated by the need to keep the global derivatives casino open for business and there is austerity coming to America along with a failed political system that has neither the will nor the desire to treat the rapidly metastasizing capitalist cancer. Food prices are about to explode her in Der Heimat thanks to gas prices well on the way to 4 bucks a gallon and yet another ruinous and expensive war. As Hunter S. Thompson once wrote: <i>"<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">In a nation run by swine, all pigs are upward-mobile and the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together: Not necessarily to Win, but mainly to keep from Losing Completely".</span></i><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><i>Advertising signs they con</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>You into thinking you’re the one</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>That can do what’s never been done</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>That can win what’s never been won</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Meantime life outside goes on</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>All around you</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br />
</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>-Bob Dylan</i></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">A good while back at my local grocery store I noticed that there was a big sign with red letters taped to the front of the service desk that emphatically stated: WE NO LONGER ACCEPT ROLLED CHANGE. It was more than a bit sad to think that things were so bad with rising costs and declining incomes that people were having to pay for food using scavenged rolls of pennies but some enterprising genius was going around down here in the diseased penis of America formally known as Florida putting in these machines that converted such coinage to an easy to use debit card – for a fee of course. When I first saw this new phenomenon the big economic collapse of 2008 was still in the future, there was still much hot air in the housing bubble, the cruel practice of ruthless real estate developers buying up trailer parks and then kicking retirees off of them was in full swing as was the conversion of shitbox apartments to 120,000 + per unit condos. The retirees, a good many of the likely stunned at the sucker punch given that they had played by the rules all of their lives but now found themselves homeless and today quite possibly without their pensions as the looting spree escalates were early victims in the enormous fleecing of the past five years. Now, wherever these old folks may be and that is presuming that they are still alive the coming threats to Medicare and Social Security are just over the horizon. The politically connected criminals on Wall Street need the money to gamble with, the new wave of Koch Brothers backed fascist governors such as Scott Walker, Rick Scott, Rick Snyder and John Kasich have taken the class war to the next level and there are more wars coming, you can count on that.<br />
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There will be no help for anybody but the pigs at Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan Chase coming from the Obama administration, face it people, the only change that the Pope of Hope really ever stood for was left cover for the gargantuan redistribution of wealth upwards. Obama is quite obviously <b><i>even </i></b>worse than Bush as the wars continue and mount in number (under the malarkey guise of humanitarian interventions), the torture never stops, the constitution continues to be disemboweled and the airports are filled with dooling thugs in TSA uniforms with the full blessing of the U.S. government to feel up pre-pubescent little boys and girls. Hell, Bush <b><i>never</i></b> could have gotten away with that one and when it comes to economic relief, Le Enfant Terrible did actually send people checks for $600. I always got a sardonic little kick out of the silly liberals who only made excuses for Obama (and still do) in that he was the chess master, or Michael Jordan just studying the opposing team's defense and ready to explode at any moment into a whirling dervish of athletic daredeviltry as he broke down the formidable defense of the Bad Boys for the championship hardware. The truth, and it is as dark as the proverbial black steer's tookus on a moonless prairie night is that Obama is the chessmaster, it's checkmate for the working class and he <i><b>is</b></i> just like Michael Jordan, a greedy, amoral, selfish multimillionaire prick who once commented <i>"Republicans buy sneakers too" </i>rather than doing the right thing in using his global celebrity to promote progressive social change.For some reason Jordan's famous quote conjures up one of Obama's, the one where he proclaimed that if Americans were being denied their right to collectively bargain that he would put on his own pair of comfortable shoes and join them on the picket lines. This alas like so many other things (wars,closing Gitmo, renegotiating trade pacts etc) was just more of the same bullshit about hope and change marketed by Wall Street's soon to be new bagman at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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People,at least those with jobs, are having to dig deeper these days, much deeper now that oil prices are setting records, food prices are spiking although the masses of asses don't really get it yet because of the latest bit of trickery in <a href="http://www.cnbc.com/id/42315625">hiding food costs in smaller containers and overinflated bags</a> and the dollar is dropping like a bag of shit dropped from a tall building. Of course the official government line is that inflation is not a problem but most lies are of course comprised of half-truths mixed with outright lies and and one of the great lies is that core inflation doesn’t include either food or energy costs, it's right up there with capitalism and democracy being interchangable.There is no real argument that can be made that financial sector hasn't been gamed to the point of collapse by the economic chicanery of the same sort of scoundrels who George Washington once referred to as a “squadron of corrupt paper dealers" and Frankin D. Roosevelt called out the same unscrupulous bandits as “economic royalists”. There are of course other more profane things we can call them the pack of greed-headed traitors who sold out America for chump change like unscrupulous slumlords bleeding a depressed property before dumping it to find more suckers to leech off of but it was America’s delusional worship of such rapacious, monstrous psychopaths that allowed the grand fucking to occur.</div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">For every fucker there must be at least one fuckee and in a country in which the idolization of money and wealth for the sake of the worship of false gods as Donald Trump, J.R. Ewing Jack Welch there is no shortage of either. With the rise of Reagan and the rolling out of that shining gold plated calf Americans lined up to suck it’s poisonous cock, maxing out the credit cards, being sucked into debt slavery by a sham system set up for that express purpose and by withdrawing into self-contained atmospheres of toxic greed and covetousness while ignoring those things that really and truly matter in order to pursue that cheap television electronic crack high of the pursuit of the mythical American dream. The greatest bait and switch in American history was that period after the <a href="http://www.reclaimdemocracy.org/corporate_accountability/powell_memo_lewis.html">Powell Memorandum</a> laid out the game plan for the Reagan juggernaut that would destroy the unions, gut the regulatory agencies for fun and profit and produce a mutant generation that now believed that the path to success and prosperity came courtesy of the lottery and grotesquely insidious scams like winning it big on <i>Who Wants to be A Millionaire</i> or getting the chance to lick Donald Trump's balls for a shot at the big time in <i>The Apprentice</i> rather than the unspoken traditional pact of loyalty and hard work between employee and employer mapped out a path to prosperity and created a middle class that was the envy of the world and made dreams possible of a unique national destiny to change the world for the better. Then the festering nest of fascist vipers that has always existed in this country hijacked that dream and turned it into a nightmare.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">We are now reaping reaping the whirlwind for a quarter century of disastrously corrupt and fundamentally flawed economic philosophy rot from the demonic little gnome Milton Friedman and the amphetamine jacked goddess of greed Ayn Rand that rode in on Reagan's coattails, or maybe it was the opposite but make no mistake, the average American will be the one left holding the proverbial flaming bag of dogshit while the looters have finished strip-mining the land and will laugh all the way to their offshore tax shelters and foreign banks. Americans have been indoctrinated to blame themselves for their lack of wealth and to view the poor as lazy lepers and the wealthy as superior human beings.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Howard W. Campbell Jr. from Kurt Vonnegut’s classic <i>Slaughterhouse Five</i>:</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><blockquote><div class="MsoNormal">America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the American journalist Kin Hubbard “It ain’t no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.” It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by the American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters. The meanest eating or drinking establishment, owned by a man who is himself poor, is very likely to have a sign on its wall asking this cruel question: “If you’re so smart, why ain’t you rich?” There will also be an American flag no larger than a child’s hand glued to a lollipop stick and flying fom the cash register.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal"><blockquote>Americans, like human beings everywhere believe that many things are obviously untrue. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact hard money is to come by, and therefore those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves. This inward blame has been a treasure for the rich and powerful, who have had to do less for their poor, publicly and privately, than any other ruling class since, say Napoleanic times. Many novelties have come from America. The most startling of these, a thing without precedent, is a mass of undignified poor. They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.</blockquote><br />
When elevating the moneychangers to revered figures Americans have bought the disinformation funded by the plutocrats decades long spending spree on think tank 'experts', news manipulation and balls out bribery of public officials to rig the game for the rich. In a decomposing corpse of a once vibrant economy it is only natural that the biggest maggots eat the best. Donald Trump is a shining example, more visible than the rank and file crooks and robbers who don't happen to be household names like Lloyd Blankfein, Dick Fuld, Ken Lewis and Jamie Dimon the mouthiest multi-millionaire in America is the one who is king. For all of his millions one would figure that a pathologically vain egomaniac like 'The Donald' could at least afford a decent rug to put on his head, so much for the beautiful rich. And now Trump is ready to make a presidential bid in 2012, he is already invoking the Birther bullshit to appeal to the peckerwoods and if he has any serious political sense soon will start dropping his g's to appeal to the dumber than dogshit red state fascists. He will need someone with clout for V.P. though, likely the moonbat Michelle Bachman who can mobilize brigades of the fucked over by the system but too ignorant to blame it on anyone but the niggers and A-rabs of teabaggers. Sarah Palin has for the most part been kicked to the curb like yesterday's garbage after her idiotic "blood libel" response to the Tuscon shooting where she portrayed herself as the real victim, not Congresswoman Gibson, a federal judge and a handful of others including a nine-year old girl who were murdered. Just imagine President Trump, Vice President Bachmann now <i><b>that </b></i>would be something for it would once and forever strip the veil of legitimacy from the gangster fascist state that is America and it's population of fear-filled, overfed and undereducated nitwits, it would be there for the entire world to see.<br />
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I often reference the work of Chris Hedges, a man who I feel is the moral beacon of these heinous times. His latest piece, <a href="http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_collapse_of_globalization_20110328/">The Collapse of Globalization</a> truly sums up the hopeless mess that is America in terminal decline and I excerpt the following below::<br />
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<blockquote><div class="MsoNormal">We are seduced by this childish happy talk. Who wants to hear that we are advancing not toward a paradise of happy consumption and personal prosperity but a disaster? Who wants to confront a future in which the rapacious and greedy appetites of our global elite, who have failed to protect the planet, threaten to produce widespread anarchy, famine, environmental catastrophe, nuclear terrorism and wars for diminishing resources? Who wants to shatter the myth that the human race is evolving morally, that it can continue its giddy plundering of non-renewable resources and its profligate levels of consumption, that capitalist expansion is eternal and will never cease?</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Dying civilizations often prefer hope, even absurd hope, to truth. It makes life easier to bear. It lets them turn away from the hard choices ahead to bask in a comforting certitude that God or science or the market will be their salvation. This is why these apologists for globalism continue to find a following. And their systems of propaganda have built a vast, global Potemkin village to entertain us. The tens of millions of impoverished Americans, whose lives and struggles rarely make it onto television, are invisible. So are most of the world’s billions of poor, crowded into fetid slums. We do not see those who die from drinking contaminated water or being unable to afford medical care. We do not see those being foreclosed from their homes. We do not see the children who go to bed hungry. We busy ourselves with the absurd. We invest our emotional life in reality shows that celebrate excess, hedonism and wealth. We are tempted by the opulent life enjoyed by the American oligarchy, 1 percent of whom control more wealth than the bottom 90 percent combined.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The celebrities and reality television stars whose foibles we know intimately live indolent, self-centered lives in sprawling mansions or exclusive Manhattan apartments. They parade their sculpted and surgically enhanced bodies before us in designer clothes. They devote their lives to self-promotion and personal advancement, consumption, parties and the making of money. They celebrate the cult of the self. And when they have meltdowns we watch with gruesome fascination. This empty existence is the one we are taught to admire and emulate. This is the life, we are told, we can all have. The perversion of values has created a landscape where corporate management by sleazy figures like Donald Trump is confused with leadership and where the ability to accumulate vast sums of money is confused with intelligence. And when we do glimpse the poor or working class on our screens, they are ridiculed and taunted. They are objects of contempt, whether on “The Jerry Springer Show” or “Jersey Shore.”</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The incessant chasing after status, personal advancement and wealth has plunged most of the country into unmanageable debt. Families, whose real wages have dropped over the past three decades, live in oversized houses financed by mortgages they often cannot repay. They seek identity through products. They occupy their leisure time in malls buying things they do not need. Those of working age spend their weekdays in little cubicles, if they still have steady jobs, under the heels of corporations that have disempowered American workers and taken control of the state and can lay them off on a whim. It is a desperate scramble. No one wants to be left behind.</div></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div></div><div class="MsoNormal">Where are the role models? Our history has been scrubbed and sanitized by the economic royalists and the fascists to eliminate any mention of true heroes of the working class and of a real democratic society. The vast majority of those compliant little consumers that have for too long been churned out by a starved for funds and battered into submission school public school system that has been turned into a nationwide network of drone factories (one of the only things that we mass produce in America anymore) have never heard of those who sacrificed for those things that came to be taken to granted to the point where they are now being taken away.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Where is there any mention given of <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAdebs.htm">Eugene Deb</a>s or of <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAhillJ.htm">Joe Hill</a> or of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Alinsky">Saul Alinsky</a> or of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Harris_Jones">Mother Jones</a>? What about <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler">General Smedley D . Butler</a> who called out the blood barters with his tract <a href="http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.pdf">War Is A Racket</a> and his exposure of the Business Plot where wealthy traitors schemed about a coup against FDR? What is taught about Huey Long? I mean other than the widely accepted narrative of a power mad, corrupt tyrant instead of the man who scared the living shit out of the elitist establishment with his <a href="http://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth.php">"Share Our Wealth" </a>program that made the New Deal look like Reaganomics. Long stood up to entrenched interests and the moral rottenness of looter capitalism, he built roads, bridges, hospitals and schools as well as provided free textbooks and he even dared to take on the almighty Rockefellers and Standard Oil. Long railed against institutionalized corruption with his “every man a king” type of populism and he was making dangerous noises about running for president. The ending of the Huey Long story is all too predictable and familiar: he was of course assassinated.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">And what of Hellen Keller? The little girl who overcame blindness and deafness and whose struggles with her handicaps are taught to American children as an example of how to overcome adversity as they are indoctrinated to the lies of a society that demands sacrifice and backbreaking work from the lesser classes as unquestioning slaves to the whims of the modern pharaohs on Wall Street. She has been sanitized, turned into a Horatio Alger version of the little engine that could while her later life as a social activist goes ignored. Hellen Keller would grow up to be a champion of women’s suffrage, she would join the Industrial Workers of the World and to help to found the American Civil Liberties Union. She was a socialist who dared to speak out against the power base and their exploitation and for that sin her life has been through revisionist history turned into a perverse fairy tale and yet another myth to bolster the system that would make slaves of us all. The little engine that could was very quickly uncoupled from the rest of the train once the narrative switched tracks from one of inspirational value to one of social justice.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">And there are others, there are many others who risked all to end child labor, to fight for equality and the forty-hour work week and unemployment protection and workers rights, workplace safety and a right to basic human decency but they go largely unheard of. A good and easy to read book about the working class American labor movements that I recommend is Sharon Smith’s <a href="http://www.haymarketbooks.org/pb/Subterranean-Fire-A-History-of-Working-Class-Radicalism-in-the-United-States">Subterranean Fire</a> because let’s face it, it is a hell of a rock that has to be rolled up that hill and education is necessary in order for the deprogramming to occur. Official history is always written by the victors rather than the vanquished and because most of lying is through omission the banishment of American progressives from our history is a calculated and cynical effort to distort and distract until the final goal of a massive redistribution of wealth upwards and offshore has been completed and the country has been bankrupted and beggared by the economic royalists. Then the looters will either retreat behind the walls of their gated communities, hire private security firms for protection from the unwashed masses or flee this goddamned husk of a once great economic power altogether, their loyalty has always been to green and gold rather than red, white and blue.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">With the American elevation of greed to a virtue and pigs like Trump and his ilk given adulation and honor instead of the shunning that they would receive by a sane society it is evident that the situation that we currently find ourselves in is in fact a prolonged, self-inflicted suicide. <br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Kirstie Alley glided across the dance floor, shaking her stuff, her gracefulness belied her girth and made her the early favorite to become the new avatar of all that is right in America, <i>Dancing With the Stars</i> is finally back. ABC, learning a lesson after last season’s near fiasco when waves of Teabagger activists stormed the online polls and nearly voted Bristol Palin America’s as favorite dancing queen, potentially alienating millions of non-Sarah Palin worshippers. The redultant big ratings turd that would have been floated in the punchbowl had the less talented teenage birther of bastards been allowed to steal the title. Opting for a lineup of less politically divisive ‘stars’ this time around DWTS gave Americans just the sort of sweet, sweet spike of mental morphine delivered digitally through the electronic crackpipe. The two-minute hate directed at whore-mongering cokehead Charlie Sheen has abetted for at least the time being, Obama’s new war and the nuclear travesty in Japan stealing most of the airplay. Americans love this stuff, it’s one hell of a distraction, I am waiting for some savvy entrepreneur to contract out to the oligarchy and start manufacturing giant balloons of Sheen’s head to fill with helium and fly in front of gas station price signs. Such is life on the big star spangled lemming farm , where the inhabitants graze away placidly in front of their big screen living room gods while awaiting the big culling of the herd. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ordinary Americans you see can't be bothered with the reality of the corporate wars waged under the big lie of spreading democracy and taking the fight to those who hate us for our freedoms and way of life. Truth is that we really aren't as free as advertised (just take a good look around someday) nor is U.S. democracy any other thing than what H.L. Mencken once remarked as that </span><span style="font-size: small;"><i>"every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods"</i>. Democracy in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heimat">Der Heimat</a> today is voting on American Idol and Dancing With the Stars, the<i><b> real</b></i> elections are nothing other than a Hobson's choice between two compromised, corrupted and amoral charlatans who were chosen precisely because of these traits by the oligarchy. Elections in American you see are a win-win situation for the pigs that run the system, given a false sense of legitimacy by a naive, childlike belief that change can still be realized at the ballot box/electronic voting machine when the entire democratic process is an illusion in itself. Sure there are the standard cultural populist issues that pollute the ballot and ensure that the most enormously stupid and hateful among us show up in sufficient numbers so as to make it a good show but when it all comes down to it there is no substantial difference between America's two rotten and irredeemably debased and venal political parties. There is really no substantive differences in the policies of the state itself no matter which party 'wins' control over the spoils system, the corporate giveaways only accelerate, impoverishing millions in the process, the police state continues to metastasize as the cancer on a once much more free society that it is and most importantly of all ...the wars continue. Not that Americans want to hear about them rather than the standard idiotic jingoist hogwash smothered in patriotic bullshit, there are dancing and talent contests to watch, ballgames to enjoy and the daily Vulcan style mind meld with their beloved telescreens to continue uninterrupted by any sort of reality lest their exoskeleton of denial be punctured. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkRUmpMe7jY20Gr4Ol2ir82driv6zgZRLUcnnnX3uqDroeFpejXkb14pl7yTCXlT0UDHIUW48roS0rJtvMErKzGAXUjowmiPeFeojKdJHBvvEUIFdiwXE6I8MrieD0VGZVS2OU/s1600/Warplane.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkRUmpMe7jY20Gr4Ol2ir82driv6zgZRLUcnnnX3uqDroeFpejXkb14pl7yTCXlT0UDHIUW48roS0rJtvMErKzGAXUjowmiPeFeojKdJHBvvEUIFdiwXE6I8MrieD0VGZVS2OU/s320/Warplane.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Death Came From The Skies:</b> In Kurt Vonnegut’s classic novel <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slaughterhouse-Five">Slaughterhouse Five </a>the author uses the books of a fictional science fiction writer named Kilgore Trout to insert social commentary into his overall story. One of ‘Trout’s’ tales addressed the strange contradictions of a society that will accept with open arms one who kills civilians with state sanction during wartime while ostracizing one for silly, superficial reasons:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>This, too, was the title of a book by Trout, The Gutless Wonder. It was about a robot who had bad breath, who became popular after his halitosis was cured. But what made the story remarkable, since it was written in 1932, was that it predicted the widespread use of burning jellied gasoline on human beings. It was dropped on them from airplanes. Robots did the dropping. They had no conscience, and no circuits which would allow them to imagine what was happening to the people on the ground.</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/03/21-7">The Body Baggers of Iraq</a> is just awesome in it's sustained intensity and you will never see anything even remotely resembling something like this in even the most 'liberal' bastions of the corporate propaganda system that serves as the media here in Fortress USA. I excerpt the following from that piece:</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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<blockquote><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The unit processed about half a dozen suicides. The suicide notes, she said, almost always cited hazing. Women, she said, were constantly harassed, especially sexually, but it often did not match the systematic punishment and humiliation meted out to men who were deemed to be inadequate Marines. She said that Marines who were overweight or unable to do the physical training were subjected to withering verbal and physical abuse. They were called “fat nasties” and “shit bags.” The harassed Marines would be assigned to other individual Marines and become their slaves. They would be sent on punishing runs in which many of them vomited. They would be forced to bear-crawl—walk on all fours—the length of a football field and back. This would be followed by sets of monkey fuckers—bending down, grabbing the ankles, crouching down like a baseball catcher and then standing up again—followed by a series of other exercises that went on until the Marines collapsed.</i></span></blockquote></div><blockquote><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><br />
</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>“They make these Marines do what they call ‘bitch’ work,” Goodell said. “They are assigned to be someone else’s ‘bitch’ for the day. We had a guy in our platoon, not in Iraq but in California, and he was overweight. He was on remedial PT, which meant he went to extra physical training. When he came to work he was rotated. One day he was with this corporal or this sergeant. One day he was sent to me. I had him for an hour. I remember sending him outside and making him carry things. It was very common for them to dig a hole and fill it back up with sand or carry sand bags up to the top of a hill and then carry them down again.”</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><br />
</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The unit was sent to collect the bodies of the Marines who killed themselves, usually by putting rifles under their chins and pulling the trigger.</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><br />
</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>“We had a Marine who was in a port-a-john when he blew his face off,” she said. “We had another Marine who shot himself through the neck. Often they would do it in the corner of a bunker or an abandoned building. We had a couple that did it in port-a-johns. We had to go in and peel and pull off chunks of flesh and brain tissue that had sprayed the walls. Those were the most frustrating bodies to get. On those bodies we were also on cleanup crew. It was gross. We sent the suicide notes home with the bodies.”</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><br />
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</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>“In the seven-ton truck the [body of the] assistant driver, who was in the passenger seat, was trapped in the vehicle,” she said. “All of his body was in the vehicle. We had to crawl in there to get it out. It was charred. Pineda and I pulled the burnt upper torso from the truck. Then we removed a leg. Some of the remains had to be scooped up by putting out hands together as though we were cupping water. That was very common. A lot of the deaths were from IEDs or explosions. You might have an upper torso but you need to scoop the rest of the remains into a body bag. It was very common to have body bags that when you picked them up they would sink in the middle because they were filled with flesh. The contents did not resemble a human body.”</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><br />
</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The members of the mortuary unit were shunned by the other Marines. The stench of dead flesh clung to their uniforms, hair, skin and fingers. Two members of the mortuary unit began to disintegrate psychologically. One began to take a box of Nyquil tablets every day and drink large quantities of cold medicine. He was eventually medevaced out of Iraq.</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><br />
</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>“Our cammies would be stained with blood or with brains,” she said. “When you scoop up the meat it often would get on the cuffs of our shirts. You could smell it, even after you took off your gloves. We weren’t washing our cammies everyday. Your cuff comes to your face when you eat. Physically we were stained with remains. We had a constant smell like rotten meat, which I guess is what it was since often the bodies had been in the sun and the heat for a long time. The flesh had gone bad. The skin on a body in the hot sun slides off. The skin detaches itself from the layer beneath and slides around on itself.”</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><br />
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</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>“His neck was as wide as his bloated head, and his stomach jutted out like a barrel,” she writes in the book. “His testicles were the size of cantaloupes. His face was white and puffy and thick. Not fat, but thick. It was unreal. He looked like a movie prop, with thick, gray, waxy skin and the thick purple lips. We couldn’t stop looking at these bodies because they were so out of proportion and so disfigured and because, still, they looked like us.”</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><br />
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</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>“I had this feeling that something awful had occurred,” she said. “The way he had come in and stiffened he had this look to his face that made my stomach curl. It looked angry. Often expressions on bodies would look fearful and hurt. The faces looked as though they had received death. But this face looked like he had given death.” </i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">To borrow from the Marine Corps vernacular referenced in the Hedges' piece one could accurately peg the majority of Americans as "shit bags", "fat nasties", "money fuckers" and "slaves" so worthless and pathetic they have been during the rise of the fascist state. More of the lemmings here in God's chosen land of plenty pour our their emotions in acts of lunacy like mourning the death of multi-millionaire movie stars like Elizabeth Taylor, a woman who lived the good life and through her the inhabitants of idiot nation lived vicariously, just as they do when it comes to all of the false idols that they sanctimoniously deify while the wallow in the shame, cowardice and willful ignorance that passes for their pitiful little lives. I remember back in the days after the prior vainglorious Emperor George W. Bush unleashed the full fury of the Military Industrial Congressional Complex on Saddam Hussein's Iraq back in 2003, at that time gas was still cheap, the grand fraud of the Wall Street housing bubble was years from reaching critical mass and piggish and still traumatized by the 'terrorist' attacks on 9/11 were braying for blood. The roads were filled with mega-sizes SUV's and goddammit if there wasn't one of those idiotic fucking yellow ribbon magnets on the ass end of each one. It was futile trying to convince the average American dumbass that their over-consumption of the precious black gold was what our heroic military 'heroes' were being sent into the meat-grinder to kill, be maimed for life or die for. Back in that day those who dared to question were shouted down as "traitors", "terrorist-appeasers", "enemies of the state" and the worst of all pejoratives..."unpatriotic" back when it was scary to dissent against Bush's maniac crusades for neocon doctrine. Those were disturbing times for those of us who were only starting to come to the realization (as with me) that it was all bullshit, before the early internet insurgents....after years of relative 'peace' it was a total war of civilizations. Eventually though the truth became to seep out, the internet gave many of us a place to organize and educate ourselves and the always greed-crazed corporate carnivores latched onto the wars as another marketing tool. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The wars have not only not been televised to Americans but are now shamelessly used by corporations who equate patriotic fervor with profits. The participation of national restaurant chains like Outback Steakhouse in Operation Homefront are cynically used to sell steaks and blooming onions to blooming idiots (I wonder how that meat would taste if Chris Hedges' piece were slipped into the menus), Wal-Marts are festooned in the red-white and blue despite an inventory of poorly constructed garbage made in China and "support the troops" has become a guaranteed money maker to lure consumers. The worst offenders of course is FOX and nothing is more indicative of their cheerleading for murder than the NFL coverage, take for example the use of Veterans Day weekend in 2009 to promote the 'patriotism' of the foreign pig Rupert Murdoch. FOX's pregame show was held on a set in Afghanistan (see <a href="http://manageableants.blogspot.com/2009/11/militarist-masturbation_09.html">Militarist Masturbation</a>) where ex jocks and grinning shit salesmen like Howie Long and Terry Bradshaw immersed the FOX brand in the sort of glorification of the war machine that would do Leni Riefenstahl proud. There is no important football game that doesn't feature a tax dollar wasting flyover and this year's Super Bowl in Jerry Jone's gauche Texas temple of avarice was vomit inducing so soaked in red-meat flag waving and war worshipping hyperbole was it. It goes over real well with those who in the true modern American way love to park their fat asses on their couches in front of their big screen televisions and cheer for others to die just as long as they don't have to do the fighting.</span><br />
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<blockquote><span style="font-size: small;">You can always hear the people who are willing to sacrifice somebody else’s life. They’re plenty loud and they talk all the time. You can find them in churches and schools and newspapers and legislatures and congress. That’s their business. They sound wonderful. Death before dishonor. This ground sanctified by blood. These men who died so gloriously. They shall not have died in vain. Our noble dead.</span><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;">Did anybody ever come back from the dead any single one of the millions who got killed did any one of them ever come back and say by god I’m glad I’m dead because death is always better than dishonor? Did they say I’m glad I died to make the world safe for democracy? Did they say that I like death better than losing liberty? Did any of them ever say it’s good to think I got my guts blown out for the honor of my country? Did any of them ever say look at me I’m dead but I died for decency and that’s better than being alive? Did any of them ever say here I am I’ve been rotting for two years in a foreign grave but it’s wonderful to die for your native land? Did any of them say hurray I died for womanhood and I’m happy see how I sing even though my mouth is choked with worms?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">Eight years to the day after the abortion that was George W. Bush dialed up the attack on Iraq Mr.Obama took time off from his NCAA tournament bracket and green-lighted the attack on the devil Col. Gadhafi who like the earlier version of the "New Hitler", Saddam Hussein is killing his own people. Now there is change that you can believe in! Never mind the blatant hypocrisy of <i><b>not</b></i> launching a similar attack in support of those seeking 'democracy' in Bahrain courtesy of our great friends in the House of Saud (the irony that 15 of the alleged 19 September 11th 'hijackers came from Saudi Arabia is lost on the American sheeple) seeking to preserve their tyrannical and corrupt regime. Now that the warfare state has become the preeminent power in America, only nosing out the genocidal Wall Street speculators whose taste for rotting flesh that they can pick for their daily sustenance and who right now are in an orgy of mania on the level of hardened pederasts as they rut with each other in the commodities pits <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-21/gasoline-heating-oil-futures-gain-on-air-strikes-against-libya.html">placing futures bets on crude</a>. The D.J.I.A. (Dick Jammed In Ass) was up 178 points today despite the lack of positive real economic news that benefits the ordinary fucked-over schmuck who is now left to contemplate the coming of five-dollar a gallon gasoline and has yet to get a handle on the accompanying hyper-spike in food prices that will follow like a category five blast of an economic hurricane after the initial tidal surge. In a bit of news that I find both somewhat encouraging for a bizarre reason and terrifying the first signs of violence and rage connected to double digit food inflation manifested itself at a San Antonio, Texas area Taco Bell where a customer named Ricardo Jones <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1368540/Fast-food-rage-Taco-Bell-customer-brandishes-guns-burrito-price-increase--ends-SWAT-team-shoot-out.html">went batshit over a price hike</a> on his bag of Beefy Crunch Burritos and engaged in a potentially deadly standoff with local police after he fired an assault rifle at police. Such incidents are to be expected in a culture where gun violence is revered but somehow it seems to be crossing a line when an extra 3.50 tacked onto a bag of burritos could lead to a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7hTvLfifb4">Heat style shootout</a> with the blue boys. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Think that Obama is going to save you from the rapacious looter capitalist flesh-eaters? Think again, not only is the Pope of Hope now a real live War President but he got the message from the 2010 elections that anything other than boot-licking obedience to the banksters, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce outsourcing pimps and the rest of the corporate pigs will not be tolerated. Look for Obama to assume the traditional position for commander in chief when it comes to the finance oligarchs, assume the position of footstool and don't ever think of fucking with them again and they will be very kind to his reelection campaign. Barry O. is assured of another term for his willingness to have all of America take a haircut so that the Wall Street casinos can have plenty of comp chips to gamble with. Not even Wall Street and the Chamber are insane enough to tolerate even in moments of amusement the possibility of a Sarah Palin presidency leaving the rapidly fading star of the scumbaggers to embark on some sort of world tour to pitch the virtues of entrenched American stupidity, gross ignorance and xenophobia, today's stop will be in Israel where she will do Wasilla style crack-ho style lapdances for Bibi Netanyahu who likely only is going to spare the time wasted in bothering with her out of some sense of honor among thieves and a gift to his most reliable fifth-columnist William Kristol. Hell, Bibi entertained Fred Fucking Thompson in the run-up to the 2007-2008 GOP primaries so maybe hosting Palin is for sheer entertainment value, it has to be more exciting than trying to converse with a cadaver like that marble-mouthed lug of a bad actor.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">The most disgusting thing of all regarding Obama and his wars, both in terms of military ordnance dropped on civilians and the ongoing war on civil liberties at home is just how down with it all that the liberals are with it all. Liberals, especially liberal Democrats LOVE war, as long as it can be wrapped up in some sort of a self-righteous humanitarian guise.The Libyan adventure gives them one that they can line up and salute for. It has been a long and sad regression on the 'left' since Rahm Emanuel and the conniving Democrats were able to successfully ostracize the anti-war movement back in the run-up to the Pelosi-Reid majority in 2006. Not only was impeachment of the Bushreich war criminals off the table but the law was laid down that any such criticism of the wars was taboo. Afghanistan was embraced by the Democ<b>rats</b> as 'the good war' while the Iraq debacle was chained to Bush's neck like an albatross. Cindy Sheehan was excommunicated after she served her purpose to the corrupt and cynical DLC/Corporatist Democ<b>rats</b>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MoveOn.org_ad_controversy">MoveOn.org was bitch-slapped</a> after they dared to question the motivations of the great General Petraeus and the assemblage of sycophants and travelers the likes of Ariana Huffington, Cyber Stalin Markos Moulitsas Zuniga and their ilk all fell into line and for the sake of political (and lucrative career enhancing) expedience all learned how to just stop worrying and love the bomb. Obama was elected in a landslide, reneged on his implied promises to close Guantanamo Bay, restore accountability and the rule of law and draw the wars down and the useful idiots on the 'left' all got onboard. Whether it was the silence over matters that would have in years past had them screaming for Bush's head on a pike or a rethinking of antiwar stances to now make supporting the obviously neocon ginned up Iran Green Revolution or biting on the bait of Time Magazine's cover of the Afghan woman with her nose cut off (see above picture) the once pacifist 'left' became apologists for Obama's murderous actions. Even Code Pink renounced their principles and <a href="http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2009/10/08/code-yellow/">whored out to the war machine</a> once their guy had the keys. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">And today as the bombs and cruise missiles continue to rain down on Libya there is more of the same sort of fatheaded liberal apologists, whether it be the insipid Bill Press who is on Sirius/XM morning drive time radio with the daily DNC talking points or the <a href="http://antiwar.com/radio/2011/03/20/juan-cole-20/">windbag Juan Cole on Antiwar.com Radio</a> the support for this latest filthy, anti-constitutional attack on a country that didn't do one goddamned thing to threaten America was as vomitous as it was definitive as to the true character of the state worshipping hypocrites that they are. Chris Hedges pegged the liberals dead on for the cheese-eaters that they have become, first in his savage and dead bang diatribe <i><a href="http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/liberals_are_useless_20091206/">Liberals are Useless</a></i> and later on in his book <i><a href="http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/the_death_of_the_liberal_class_20101029/">The Death of the Liberal Class</a></i>. Hedges, who has come to be the moral voice of these most immoral and diseased of times hits it spot on again in his recent piece <i><a href="http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/power_concedes_nothing_without_a_demand_20110314/">Power Concedes Nothing Without a Demand</a></i> that speaks to the abject failure of American liberal institutions as they have been subverted with nary a whimper by a decades running coordinated and now unstoppable fascist/militarist element juggernaut:</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The liberal class has busied itself with the toothless pursuits of inclusiveness, multiculturalism, identity politics and tolerance—a word Martin Luther King never used—and forgotten about justice. It naively sought to placate ideological and corporate forces bent on the destruction of the democratic state. The liberal class, like the misguided democrats in the former Yugoslavia or the hapless aristocrats in the Weimar Republic, invited the wolf into the henhouse. The liberal class forgot that, as Karl Popper wrote in “The Open Society and Its Enemies,” “If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.” </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal">Why is it that there is never any money to find socially beneficial programs, education, the rebuilding of a crumbling infrastructure, renewable energy programs or anything that is useful to actual human beings in America but there is always money for war? This speaks to a deep cancer in our society, our precious green and camouflage clad ‘heroes’ have been glorified through movies, television shows, print media, toys and video games that worship war. Ike knew what the hell he was taking about when he warned of the rise of the Military Industrial Complex and the accompanying costs to a society that at the time was filled with wonderful capability, economic and scientific advantage and a gold plated reputation coming out of World War II that was only beginning to be tarnished by the rise of the CIA, the brutal public murder of President Kennedy and the subsequent Vietnam War. Something went terribly awry in America around the time of the JFK killing and the same institutional elements behind that coup d'etat are still calling the shots. All else is subservient to the agenda of the American war machine, </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">As if any more confirmation that Obama was just a lightweight version of Lyndon Baines Johnson without the social programs was needed the attack on Libya makes any more argument on that one moot. Mr. Obama was nowhere to be seen in Madison during the mass protests that none of the corporate media deemed worthy of coverage, choosing instead to focus on created news like a few dozen or so geriatrics, losers and deluded and easily duped freaks flying Gadsen flags and wearing those faggy Revolutionary War style wigs and tri-color hats descending on town hall meetings to vent their frustration at the mythical death panels that in real life reside inside insurance claims departments. He will however be seen pimping his manhood over the ongoing attacks on Libyan civilians. Hey, Bill Clinton bombed the shit out of Belgrade and contributed to the starvation and misery of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi children with his bombings and sanctions, cruelty that his own Secretary of State Madeline Albright went on <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4PgpbQfxgo">60 Minutes to obscenely justify as acceptable</a>.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">I have to agree with Chris Hedges, Liberals ARE Useless....take my word for it, I ran with the pack for long enough before I was shunned as a leper for daring to say the obvious that if it was wrong under Bush, then it is also wrong under Obama. But being excommunicated from the world of the dueling cults of the jackass and the elephant is just fine with me. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">The corporate media on Sunday sought to play on both the gullibility, the emotions and the misplaced sense of patriotism of the public when launching this bullshit biscuit into the lemming feeding trough. Gadhafi said the strikes were a confrontation between the <a href="http://www.examiner.com/top-news-in-san-francisco/gaddafi-calls-countries-who-attacked-him-the-new-nazis">Libyan people and "the new Nazis," </a>and promised "a long-drawn war."</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>"You have proven to the world that you are not civilized, that you are terrorists -- animals attacking a safe nation that did nothing against you," Gadhafi said in a televised speech.</i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The Colonel might just be onto something there. The Homeland (formerly the USA) is currently engaged in an endless series of wars of conquest, employs a blitzkrieg style of attack strategy (shock and awe) in the initial attacks of target countries, is currently engaging in a campaign of ruthless persecution of a religious minority (the anti-Muslim hysteria), runs a gulag of secret prisons and torture facilities, has a government that not only spies on ordinary citizens but encourages them to spy on each other and rat out disloyal or bad citizen type behavior, employs a kangaroo court justice system in which ordinary citizens can be brought up on vague charges (terrorism) or just disappeared (the stripping of Habeas Corpus) and disappeared. All of this is facilitated by a pack of vicious thugs who worship state power (teabaggers and Christian Zionists) and was set into motion by a modern day Reichstag Fire (9/11). Then there is that magnificently efficient system of state propaganda in the corporate media that Herr Goebbels would have been proud of. In Der Heimat versus Hitler’s Nazi regime though at least the trains ran on time and the German infrastructure was the advanced envy of the world, so much that Eisenhower modeled the intrastate highway system after it. Today, in 2011 the roads are pocked with automobile chewing potholes and other defective surfaces, the bridges are crumbling and even when the government tries to do something to shore it up and look to the future as in the national high-speed rail initiatives American Nazi apparatchik in waiting like Florida Governor Rick Scott turns town the money in order to nurture the hatred of his own personal S.A. the teabaggers. Make no mistake, with the coming wave of hyperinflation and dollar devaluation there is going to be plenty of opportunity for the real goons to assert themselves after Obama’s piss-warm and utterly feckless regime which has failed to change anything falls and then the pogroms will begin. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">When taking into consideration the OSS/CIA (Wall Street’s enforcement arm) post-WW II <a href="http://www.gwu.edu/%7Ensarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB146/index.htm">assimilation of thousands of Nazis</a>, including serious war criminals into the service of American finance capitalism under the guise of waging the Cold War it’s apparent that the Third Reich didn’t really lose the war, it just changed venues. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Let me get this out of the way right out of the gate, I am personally very ambivalent towards the work of talk radio firebrand and documentary filmmaker Alex Jones. I have followed his work on and off for a good number of years now and am still not completely sure of what drives him, who backs him and what his true motivations are. His radio show and films are a mixture of contradictory ideas that while highly informative too often rely on standard Bircher style anti-United Nations conspiracies, illegal alien (translation: Mexican) bashing diatribes, global warming denial and wild-assed tirades against fluoride in water, chem.-trails in the sky and pseudo-religious hogwash not to mention the tolerance of idiotic Birther nonsense. Jones also was one of the earliest promoters of the <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/barackobama/5973064/Barack-Obama-Joker-socialism-poster-denounced-as-racist.html">Obama 'Joker' minstrel show poster</a> which he of course denies as being racist despite it's obvious intention to resonate with a certain black-hating, southern-fried, white-power element. Too bad, because there is much great information mixed in as well, a borderline anarchist view of a society that truly deserves rebelling against and spot on attacks on the loss of civil liberties that were it not for the inclusion of the aforementioned dubious material would surely garner the Austin, TX flamethrower one hell of a lot of crossover appeal. While I am but an armchair quarterback when it comes to these things, I consider much of the work of Alex Jones to be cutting-edge and brilliant but just as much to be counter-productive. I admit that Jones is first and foremost one hell of a showman, his rants are volcanic and put other hosts to shame. While pigs like Rush Limbaugh and stone-greedy charlatans like Glenn Beck fill their diatribes with standard Republican party establishment tripe, dog whistle terms, cynical glorification of the system that made <b><i>them</i></b> into millionaires, dumb it down for the easily duped cretins and wrap it all up in a big star, spangled package of pure unadulterated horseshit, Jones dares to be intellectual in a country that is increasingly hostile to thinkers. Not that I would compare Alex Jones to the less than dynamic duo frontmen for the cult of angry white dittohead dopes, he is far too anti-establishment in his denunciations of the rapidly closing iron fist that is the American police state, neocons, the dumbing-down of society, endless war and other things that are held so dear by the sanctioned propaganda mouthpieces for the establishment. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Alex Jones is now becoming more prominent thanks to not only the hosting of the now infamous interview with America’s public enemy number one Charlie Sheen but also in appearing in the snakepit that is the popular women’s talk show <a href="http://theview.abc.go.com/">The View</a> that has an audience of millions. During the appearance, much to the chagrin of has-been Whoopi Goldberg, never-will be Elizabeth Hasselbeck and the queen herself Barbara Walters (who looked like she was about to have an aneurysm<b>) </b><a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/alex-jones-culture-jams-the-view.html">Jones was wonderfully off subject</a>. He defended Sheen but continued to plug his website<a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_62969204"> </a><a href="http://www.infowars.com/">http://www.infowars.com/</a> and interject relevant comments about the police state, George W. Bush’s by proxy murder of millions in his illegal wars, WTC7 and the TSA goons whose state-sanctioned sexual molestation is a brilliant example of just how far America has fallen. Jones also was featured in a recent <i>Rolling Stone</i> piece by Alexander Zaitchik entitled <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/talk-radios-alex-jones-the-most-paranoid-man-in-america-20110302?asid=98b65563">The Most Paranoid Man in America</a> which despite the typical corporate media smear tactics, straw men and innuendo wasn’t nearly as vicious as the normally expected knee-capping of one who dares to ask the forbidden questions. Jones himself commented on the article during a fairly recent show and while not praising the piece didn’t condemn it either. Of course the article resorts to the standard mockery and denunciation of crazy “conspiracy crank” ideas but so it goes in a nation of sheep where the truth is a horrifying thing that is deserving of shunning and were we living in either a more primitive or advanced society Jones would have his tongue cut out by the high priests of the temple. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Jones can preach it though, like an apocalyptic prophet with doomsday rolling in, the day of reckoning for the sins of elite, the moneychangers and the war pimps for which we all will be bathed in the blood tide for, if not for our own moral shortcomings but for our collective failure to stop any of it. Launching into darkly funny rants invoking pop culture, history, political theory, scientific terminology, fire, brimstone and extrapolation his style isn’t for everyone, especially not for the squeamish or politically correct. The problem with Jones is that he does want to tie it <i><b>all</b></i> together into one gigantic global conspiracy and that makes him susceptible to being less logical and more biased in building the case to support his own research and conclusions. That is why the globalists, right-wing bogeymen like the deep-pocketed George Soros and the even more reviled Al Gore are such key pieces in the puzzle that Jones is assembling, their purported involvement in the use of the carbon taxes to enslave humanity conveniently ignores real scientific evidence of global warming in favor of a Koch Brothers friendly plan to keep their energy businesses running in full profit mode. Jones, while he doesn’t overtly use the Bircher’s grand global Communist conspiracy terminology directly often parrots the language, features far too many <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Council_for_National_Policy">Council For National Policy (CNP)</a> friendly guests and lays off serious criticism of big Texas oil and energy, the latter possibly being the prudent thing to do if based in Austin and within easy reach of the Texas mafia.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Where the Birchers and others on the intellectual (versus the delusional neocon) spectrum of the <i>right</i> get it wrong is that they misinterpret the work of the influential historian <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carroll_Quigley">Carroll Quigley</a> , especially in the seminal <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/4047296/Carroll-Quigley-Tragedy-and-Hope-A-History-of-The-World-in-Our-Time">Tragedy and Hope</a>. In the book, his masterpiece Quigley writes of the behind the scenes power elite behind the curtain influence of 'round table' groups that gather in secret and exert their influence over the publicly visible elements of the state. The Birchers and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleon_Skousen">Cleon Skoussen</a>, who is <a href="http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/09/16/beck_skousen">an idol of Glenn Beck</a> (who pimps Skoussen's manifesto <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Five_Thousand_Year_Leap">The Five Thousand Year Leap</a>) get it wrong with Quigley in interpreting the work as referring to global communism and socialism as the New World Order when in fact the groups that Quigley wrote about were primarily agents of global finance capital, the same global bankers that Jones so often condemns. Quigley himself disputed the interpretation of Tragedy and Hope by Skoussen who incidentally was an early member of the <a href="http://watch.pair.com/cnpdbase.html">Council For National Policy</a>. The problem with these types of analyses is that they too often focus on the influence of the old Eastern establishment, transnational types, particularly the Rockefellers, the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Council_on_Foreign_Relations">Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) </a>and the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Trilateral_Commission">Trilateral Commission</a> but at the same time pay no mind to the influential role of the powerful interests that rose out of the western states and the sunbelt, primarily big energy and defense, the new money. While I agree with them to some extent about the dangers of the rising police state bent on human enslavement through debt, global government (although corporate is conveniently omitted) and in the case of the Rockefellers and the other big wheels, the creation of a system of control that as Jones and others extrapolate to include embedded microchips (this is coming folks) and a taste for eugenics (Hitler got his ideas from the American elite) and ultimately a massive culling that will lead to the depopulation of the planet. What I take issue with is the idea that the threat from the "globalists" pales in comparison to that posed by their U.S. counterparts, particularly emanating out of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Council_for_National_Policy">Council For National Policy</a> and the predominant influence of powerful Evangelical Christians who have slowly and largely off the radar hijacked the American political system and to a good extent elements of the military. Not a good thing when a cancerous anti-Muslim/Islam bent is eating the country from within as a cancer, when bankrupting wars of imperial conquest are ongoing in Muslim countries and the crusader mentality is encouraged. The war of civilizations plays directly into the ideology of tens of millions of American Evangelicals hellbent on seeing the apocalypse in their lifetime so that they can be Raptured up to sit at the foot of God's throne while the rest of us eat each other. This is very scary stuff and whenever any of it seeps out as to the religious motivations behind the wars the messenger must instantly be discredited, <a href="http://www.alternet.org/media/150129/pulitzer_prize_winner_seymour_hersh_and_the_men_who_are_trying_to_paint_him_as_crazy">note the brutal pillorying of Seymour Hersh</a> over a recent speech when he spoke of JSOC (Joint Special Operations Command), the Knights of Malta and the deeply entrenched Christian crusader mentality in the military. But Jones doesn't go there which is one very serious problem that I have with him, he is not covering the BIG picture only selective elements, all of which are compatible with the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Council_for_National_Policy">Council For National Policy</a> agenda.</span><br />
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Home life was intellectual, but not overtly political. "My parents were careful not to give me political views almost as an experiment to see what I'd turn into," he says. "The closest thing to a childhood political training was some neighbors who were members of the John Birch Society. They'd come over for dinner and I'd be exposed to those ideas, starting at around age two."</blockquote>
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The most enduring influence, though, was a 1971 bestseller he found on his father's bookshelf: None Dare Call It Conspiracy. Authored by Gary Allen, a spokesman for the John Birch Society, the book provided the cornerstone for New World Order conspiracies. According to None Dare, the federal income tax is nothing but a plot by a cabal of megarich "insiders" who work to suck the middle class dry and transfer its wealth to the Ford and Rockefeller foundations. As a teenager, Jones read the book twice. "It's still the easiest-to-read primer to the New World Order," he says.</blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Hey, it's not that the Birchers are bad people; they are for the most part loudly pro-American patriots, they just have a different view on many things but to ignore the fact that despite their more outrageous histrionics there is much common ground on a good many issues of great importance. I have myself on several occasions worked jointly with the organization on issues of agreement and unlike say MoveOn.org or other political action groups, I always get a return letter from my so-called Congressional representatives when using the JBS activism tools. Like all organizations, they continue to evolve but their focus on communism as the ultimate menace was and is wrong and is reflective of the formation of the JBS during the Cold War era when paranoia first became a virtue in America although of life as it is post 9/11 . For the record though, the JBS in it's current incarnation is far more outspoken and progressive on civil liberties issues than either the Bush or Obama administrations. It is just that they are misguided and far too overly concerned with the external threats than those that are internal and have overwhelmed the traditional, reality-based conservatism of the past.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">As for civil liberties this is where Alex Jones is the most effective, in attacking the vile transformation of what used to be the land of the free and the home of the brave into some bastardized version of Oceania, Stalinist Russia and Nazi Germany called The Homeland.There is no more of a passionate and ardent defender of American civil liberties on air than Alex Jones, and truthfully that sucks because it is due to problematic and uncompromising stances on such issues as illegal immigration abortion (Jones is against it), failing to denounce the Tea Party movement after it had obviously been infiltrated and compromised by Neocon Republicans, Koch Brothers style global warming denial and a certain dark xenophobia relating to Mexicans (he accused Grindhouse spin-off flick<i> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0985694/">Machete</a></i> director Robert Rodriguez of <a href="http://www.infowars.com/new-film-machete-to-provoke-race-war/">fomenting a race war</a>) he would have such crossover appeal that he would become a very dangerous man to the oligarchy. The one thing that this pathetically impotent, broken down and busted out lemming colony desperately needs (absent a functional political system) is a libertarian - progressive-green alliance that could find enough common ground to pose a serious and highly motivated threat to the current corrupt system. Jones, a libertarian who is a huge supporter of the former insurgent Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul, a man whose anti-interventionist, pro-civil liberties, anti-torture, anti-Federal Reserve and pro-America views make him anathema to the Neocon controlled GOP has gained much clout with thinking progressives for his principled stance on what ails America. Paul recently joined with the hated bogeyman of establishment Democrats, Ralph Nader in an alliance against the corporate warfare state so there is potential. Were Jones to reign in his tirades in order to appeal to a wider audience and using his skills as a showman and filmmaker he would be formidable indeed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>The Rolling Stone</i> piece is actually about as fair a bit of writing about a guy with the controversial nature of Alex Jones is going to get in a major American publication. Certainly not a cowardly knee-capping, the article portrays Jones' family life as being very normal, he "dotes" on his wife and children, "cracks jokes with his young staff" and is according to the author "shockingly sincere" in everything that he says. And the article makes it a point to emphasize that Jones has no tolerance for racism (Obama Joker posters and unruly Meskins [sic] aside) and is against the sort of anti-Semitism that is exemplified in many of the more extreme elements of the far-right. With any attacks on the Neocons and their insatiable bloodlust for global hegemony often resulting in knee-jerk and libelous accusations of anti-Semitism from the normal William Kristol, Israel Lobby and Alan Dershowitz influenced winged-monkeys it is important that one be wary of being accused as being nothing more than a 'Jew hater'. Zaitchik's piece makes a point of mentioning that Jones' wife is of Jewish descent and I have on occasion when listening to his show often heard him respond to callers (more than a few so over the top that they are likely some of those <a href="http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/hmm-prominent-conservative-radio-host">paid actors who read scripts</a> on radio shows) denouncing Jews in a harsh manner, this is good currency to have considering the highly coordinated activist presence of movement conservatives. And as for the ultra-slick, multi-millionaire, fish-belly white faux populist spokesman for the corrupted beyond redemption Tea Party that is Glenn Beck, a<a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/glenn-becks-shtick-alex-jones-got-there-first-20110304"> followup bit on how Beck has stolen from Jones</a>, changed the message to one of partisan politics and deception and helped to build a proto-fascist army of American brownshirts who with the help of the vast right-wing conspiracy network of think tanks, front groups and local bunds of haters that <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1358675/Wisconsin-Capitol-protests-Tea-Party-takes-70-000-pro-union-demonstators.html">can be bussed in to any hotspots</a>, like they were to Madison, Wisconsin during the rebellion against Governor Scott Walker. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">While in recent years Alex Jones has disproportionally focused his energy on attacking Obama, who has now proven that he really isn't the second coming of anything other than the Bushreich, only a smoother, better packaged version of it (as I write this the teflon-coated bullshit salesman is preening and prepping for his very own war on Libya) - he was critical of Bush as well. While some of his newest films <i>The Obama Deception</i> and <i>The Fall of the Republic</i> are denounced by the pathetic excuse for the left as sinister propaganda it would be a nice bit of context were an earlier Jones film also be referenced. In <i>9/11: The Road to Tyranny</i> there is an extended segment on the <a href="http://www.infowars.com/print/Bush/grandfather_helped_nazi.htm">Bush Family Nazi history</a>, bizarre ceremonies at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohemian_Grove">Bohemian Grove</a> , an annual gathering for the elite located in the northern California forest and outstanding coverage of the Nuremberg style rally in 2004 New York City that was the Republican Party convention, a production that would have done Leni Riefenstahl proud. So Jones does denounce the entire rotten system despite the earlier mentioned policy omissions, he also regularly ridicules the idiotic notion that Osama bin Laden and al-CIAda have become convenient bogeymen to be dragged out to justify every Draconian assault on civil liberties and war crime committed by the empire. It was Alex Jones who correctly called the 9/11 'terrorist' attacks before they took place and on July 25th, 2001 and according to Zaitchik "became the only radio host in America to begin his September 11th broadcast with a tirade against the U.S. government", now that's chutzpah! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">It was in high school that Jones discovered a corrupt, <i>Blue Velvet</i> underbelly to his town. At weekend parties, he watched as off-duty cops dealt pot, Ecstasy and cocaine to his friends. "A truck would appear, sometimes with a guy still in uniform inside," Jones recalls. "Then, on Monday, they'd have D.A.R.E. and drug-test us for football." Jones, a young varsity lineman, did not appreciate the irony. "I was like, 'You want to drug-test me, when I know you're selling the stuff?' I called them the mafia to their face. At the time, I didn't know anything about CIA drug-dealing."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">As one who regularly researches “conspiracies” and other manifestations of the deep state it is very easy to become cynical once exposed to the established patterns of gross amorality, cloak and dagger operations and raw corruption as is embodied in the global elite but especially in the ruling oligarchy here in the U.S.A. That being said, once one really <b><i>gets it</i></b> about the way that things truly work, has been exposured to the darkest aspects of all of the dirty little secrets of how elements of the U.S. government operate, the sordid alliances with mobsters, drug dealers, dictators and stone crazy maniacs it takes a certain type to not openly reject it all as lunacy, that is how successful that the indoctrination is. It is just way too much of a mindfuck for the average American to understand such grotesque perversions of the white-picket fence illusions of virtue and decency. America is <b><i>always</i></b> the good guy, a God kissed land of greatness, opportunity and righteousness, the global cop and the blessed spreader of that great myth that is democracy for that is the narrative that they have been weaned upon since their earliest days of cognition. When the curtain is pulled back exposing the horrors of imperialist exploitation, big financial cartel monetary chicanery, arms and drugs trafficking to fund off the books black operations, the destabilization of legitimate foreign governments, assassinations, death squads, CIA mind control experiments, false flag terror attacks, propaganda, mind controlled assassins, ginned up wars for profit, institutional corruption and a myriad of other gross transgressions by the powerful against the powerless is truly understood. When one realizes that conspiracies are the normal way of doing business then the indoctrination is broken and the mind freed from it’s red, white and blue chains. Not everyone can do it, it takes courage, an understanding that one will be forever shunned by those stills staring at the shadows on the wall of the cave and the fortitude to not give a damn. That is one hell of a big rock to roll in a society where critical thinking is discourage, conformity is demanded and those who dare to not fall in line will become pariahs. You see, once one gets a true glimpse behind the façade of our Potemkin Village on the primrose path to perdition then it is virtually impossible to look at anything the same way ever again. That is way too much for a people mesmerized by falsehoods spewed from the pocket media on their big screen electronic crackpipes that feed them the steady methadone of celebrity, reality tv, nonsensical millionaire worship, desensitizing faux murders on ultra-violent cop worshipping epics, lurid sex, war glorification, meaningless sports contests, potty humor that infantilizes the mind and other rot that has replaced reality in 2011. Simply put, there are alternate realities in post 9/11 America, only one of which is real and that one is Jones’ “global Stasi Borg state” </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">In my own opinion, Jones comes across as a true patriot albeit one who should lay off the caffeine and take a more methodical and reasonable approach. Rather than try to tie it up in one big long-term global plot by ruthlessly efficient, eugenics obsessed elite that spans centuries and is in the final stages of their “Endgame” he should focus with laser precision on all that has gone so horribly wrong in America and has flipped the country fascist and about three moves shy of being branded, yoked and sold to the man. I really prefer to look at how author Peter Dale Scott describes it in his foreword the 2008 update of his book <a href="http://www.maryferrell.org/wiki/index.php/The_War_Conspiracy">The War Conspiracy</a>:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">“Thus I looked at these repeated-rule breakings together under the rubric “war conspiracy,” a clumsy term which in retrospect could have been improved on. At the time I made it clear that I was not pointing to some single group of guilty plotters, but to a “syndrome” of sustained collusion and deceit. I likened the process to a “floating crap game”, in which the players (and dealers) change, but not the motive of gain. This analogy in retrospect seems absurdly linear. I had stumbled, almost by accident, on a far more pervasive process of subversion of public order. Today I talk instead of a dominant mindset, one found in various power centers: the military, intelligence agencies, the media, and even universities. </span><br />
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